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Friday, January 27, 2012

27 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Sheikhs fall in love with renminbi
    China and Qatar have been taking virtually opposite positions apropos events in Libya and Syria. Yet, they do not seem to be deterred by this little difference and are bonding in a big way in economic cooperation to mutual benefit. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who visited Doha last wee ...
  • In the Age of Robotic Weapons
    U.S. and NATO soldiers and contractors greatly outnumber the Taliban, whose sandals and weapons are from the past century. Still, with the most sophisticated arsenals ever deployed, why are U.S. generals saying that less than 30,000 Taliban fighters, for almost a decade, have fought the U.S. led ...
  • What is SOPA and Why Won't it Work?
    SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act. The name may sound nice, but here are some choice comments from Wikipedia.
  • Flog off UK Parliament, subsiding into the Tha ...
    Taxpayers face a £1 billion bill to shore up the Houses of Parliament against chronic subsidence, which is already causing Big Ben to lean alarmingly. The problem is so severe that MPs are even being asked to consider the radical proposal of selling off the historic building and moving into n ...
  • Journo interrogates ECB on Irish debt liability
    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 uninsured creditors. The bureaucrat mouths bland reassurances, then asserts (despite all appear ...

Independent - London

  • 'I pray for justice for my son,' says retired ...
    Allen Stanford's mother says she will not stop fighting to prove her son's prison beating left him too damaged to defend himself against fraud charges.Related StoriesThree bodies found after building collapses in Rio de JaneiroArgentina hits back over FalklandsHas Jamie won? US school meals to i ...
  • Kenyan minister resigns after charges over ele ...
    Kenya's finance minister has stepped down after being charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his alleged role in the violence that consumed the country after the last elections. Related StoriesEgypt's generals laid on a celebration – but the people jus ...
  • Settlers who went too far - even for Netanyahu
    Itai Harel gazed across at the rocky wilderness of the Judaean Mountains and urged us to "look at all this wonderful, empty land all the way from Jerusalem, waiting for its sons to come to build and live in it". It was one of the few moments that Mr Harel, a 38-year-old social worker, turned ly ...
  • 'Free' Libya shamed by new torture claims
    The moral authority of Libya's new government was called into question by two international aid groups yesterday as confidence begins to falter that the National Transitional Council, backed by Western governments in last year's civil war, can deliver on its promises to deliver freedom and demo ...
  • Mutiny quelled in Papua New Guinea
    The government in Papua New Guinea has halted a mutiny by rebel soldiers and regained full control of its main military barracks, the country's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, said last night.Related Stories36 stranded whales die in New ZealandWeb tycoon Mr Dotcom denied bailPM Gillard jostled on ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US deploys 15,000 troops to Kuwait as tensions ...
    The US Department of Defence have deployed 15,000 troops to the Middle Eastern state of Kuwait as tensions with Iran escalate over US and EU sanctions in response to Iran's defiance to halt its nuclear programme, which claimed to have produced its first nuclear fuel rod earlier this month. On Mo ...
  • George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
    'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.' Plus, an exclusive interview with IMF chief Christine Lagarde, who issues a dire warning for Europe. You know George Soros. He's the investor's investor - the man who still holds the record for making more m ...
  • US: New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bills Th ...
    Since the 1970s, New Hampshire police have operated under a progressive policy for handling domestic violence cases that has saved countless lives. Under current law the presumption is that an arrest will be made when police observe evidence of abuse. They have a large degree of discretion and d ...
  • US: Earthjustice Coalition Sues Navy- Training ...
    Wildlife protection agency challenged for not doing its job. San Francisco, California - A coalition of conservation and American Indian groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions from U.S. ...
  • US: Cost, Need Questioned in $433-Million Smal ...
    A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. Washington - Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncerta ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Advice for the Liberals . . .
    GOOD ADVICE from CalgaryGrit: "Advice from South of the Border". How the Liberals can learn from Obama — if only the back-room wizards would pay attention. I sure hope that the party chimps that clustered around Ken Dryden and the rest of the Liberal insiders have been sacked. In talking to them ...
  • The art of death . . .
    THE BONES OF WAR, indeed. That's the article title at WEB URBANIST: "The Bones of War: Haunting Skeleton Photography" When Francois Robert unexpectedly acquired a human skeleton in the 1990s, he knew he had to do something wonderful with it. Several years later when the economy collapsed and ...
  • A bit rich, dontcha think?
    Steph Harper. "To be sure, our government has no grand scheme to repeal or to unilaterally rewrite the Indian Act," Harper said in his opening speech. "After 136 years, that tree has deep roots. Blowing up the stump would just leave a big hole." This, from a man who seems quite comfortable with ...
  • Follow the money . . .
    WHILE WE WAIT FOR STEVIE and the chiefs to get really going, check out WIRED's accounting of who spends how much to advertise on Google. According to John C. Abell's article, "Who Buys All Those Google Ads? An Infographic Breakdown",  Google cleared $37.9 billion in 2011 revenue, which eq ...
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    Revolting.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's Hayes Contradicts Reality To Claim Sever ...
    Fox News contributor Stephen Hayes claimed that it's "nonsense" for the Obama administration to argue that it "didn't really appreciate the depths of the problems the country faced when we came into office." In fact, measures of the recession in 2009 understated its depth, and subsequent revisi ...
  • Media Myth That Cutting Taxes Boosts Reve ...
    CBS treated claims from Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney that the tax cuts they have proposed would increase federal tax revenue as an open question. In fact, the myth that tax cuts increase revenues has been flatly rejected by economists across the ideological spectrum, including Romney adviser a ...
  • Daily Caller Now Publishing Anti-Isla ...
    The Daily Caller's Guns and Gear section recently featured two op-eds authored by retired Major General Jerry Curry. In previous statements Curry has raised questions about President Obama secretly being a Muslim, demanded that Obama release his long-form birth certificate or resign, and de ...
  • STUDY: The Press And The Pipeline
    A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents. Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue. Pro-pipeline vo ...
  • Right-Wing Media Launch Predictable Attacks On ...
    Right-wing media have responded to President Obama's State of the Union speech with predictable attacks, calling it "class warfare" and claiming it was "transparently partisan."Right-Wing Media Predictably Respond To Obama's Speech By Crying "Class Warfare" Doocy: Obama Used "Warren Buffett's ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Obama, Healthcare, And Progressive Critics
    It is hard to read Remedy and Reaction, Paul Starr's remarkable chronicle of the hundred-year effort to legislate universal health insurance in the United States, without recalling Robert Gibbs's tortured quip that Democrats who've denounced the Obama White House for having knuckled under to Rep ...
  • Why Obama Defaulted in his 'State of the Union'
    In his State of the Union address two years ago, in 2010, President Obama kept alive faltering hopes for our fraudulent and now broken political system by appealing movingly to Republicans for bipartisanship and civility. As Ryan Lizza reminds us in a New Yorker article that "everyone" is disc ...
  • The writing has always been on the wall
    The human body is an amazing creation. It's not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar signaling system exists in political bodies. Those tasked with reading the signals--be they individuals, p ...
  • Social Conservatism May Be Wrong, But It's Not ...
    Two days ago Dissent magazine ran my warning that we critics of the racism in Republican presidential campaigns should beware of compounding that scourge by reinforcing Republicans' social-conservative claim on "whiteness." But that's precisely what's reinforced in a January 15 New York Times, e ...
  • Perry's Greatest Hits! Gone but not Forgotten

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Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • US joins efforts for space 'code of conduct'
    Calls are being answered for an international code of conduct to govern off-world exploration practices. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stated...
  • Kennedy UFOs and backwards encryption
    Is there a hidden message about UFOs in secret White House recordings of President John F Kennedy ? Audio analyst Jon Kelly seems to think so. He beli...
  • Bank robber shoots his own foot
    A lookout for a bank robbery in Brazil managed to shoot himself in the foot during the ill-fated raid. Three men burst in to a bank in northern Parana...
  • Archaeopteryx had black feathers
    Scientists have been able to determine that the feathered dinosaur archaeopteryx had black feathers. The discovery of archaeopteryx was one of the mos...
  • Blood bubbles out of drains in Polish town
    Residents of Koscierzyna were shocked when blood started bubbling up from beneath manhole covers. The police were called in to investigate what had so...

Grassroots

Climate

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

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Booman Tribune

  • GOP Hates Citizens United, Too
    Recently, some Republicans have begun to reconsider the merits of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Just yesterday, John McCain said this: "As you know, I think the outside super PACs and others is so disgraceful that I'm ashamed of the United Stat ...
  • Death of Hipster
    Some junk e-mail I received today (also available here): AMERICANS ELECT NAMED SXSW AWARD FINALIST Innovative Technology Acknowledged for New Way to Pick a President WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 26, 2012 - AmericansElect.org has been selected as a 2012 Interactive Awards Finalist in the exp ...
  • GOP Debate Thread
    Document the atrocities. Discuss
  • Question: Iran, Israel, the US and War
    Having read the entire NYT article by the Israeli journalist, Ronen Bergman, discussed by BooMan here, I was struck by his report of the extraordinary comments the outgoing head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, made to a group of Israeli journalists in Late 2010 or early 2011 (Mr. Bergman is unclear ...
  • Before St. Ronnie
    I had almost forgotten that the Drudge Report exists. But it has some rather embarrassing anti-Reagan quotes that Newt Gingrich made while the Gipper was trying to run the country. In context, the quotes undermine Gingrich's constant refrain that he worked with Ronald Reagan, made his policies ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Jaipur's Elephant Festival: One Jumbo Sized Be ...
    An amazing festival in India in which elephants are decorated in body paint, jewels and velvets... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Surprisingly Sociable Lives of Sharks
    Despite their image as bloodthirsty predators, sharks are actually social animals capable of bonding with each other and even humans. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When Agricultural Landscapes Become Patchwork ...
    Agricultural fields can bear a stunning resemblance to patchwork quilts – at least, when viewed from the air – as these 15 examples show! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysterious Origins and Traditions of the C ...
    Lion Dances have been used for centuries to bring in the New Year and celebrate new ventures, but nobody knows for sure how they began. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 11 Hottest Links of the Week
    What does a nuclear detonation look like up close? Just how big are the world's largest ships? Find out this and more in this week's collection of link-y goodness! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Panel Urges 'Urgent' Solution on Nuclear Waste
    A special panel warns that if a disposal site is not expedited, the federal government will foot ever-greater related expenses -- and lose face with its citizens and the international community.
  • They've Done It Again: An Albatross Chick
    For the second time, an endangered short-tailed albatross couple have produced a chick on United States soil.
  • Apple, Electronics and Environmental Ills
    Environmental groups say that while multinational corporations like Apple are trying to improve conditions, thousands -- or perhaps tens of thousands -- of smaller companies are cutting corners and dumping hazardous chemicals in rural areas and even near densely populated areas.
  • Apple in China: Taking Readers' Questions
    The pace of innovation in high technology carries a price: difficult, even toxic conditions for workers assembling electronics in China, according to employees, worker advocates and documents.
  • On Our Radar: A Beached Whale
    An examination of the whale's ribs and vertebrae indicates that it was probably struck by a large vessel in a coastal shipping lane.

Dot Earth News

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

Daily Censored

  • Star Wars: a false flag story; US-Iran (1953-1 ...
    video here. A false flag attack is when a nation attacks in disguise. The purpose is to fool the public who otherwise wouldn’t support a criminal War of Aggression. The desired outcome for false flag attacks is control over other governments and their resources. The brilliant 10-minute video fro ...
  • CUBA: LOOKING BACK AND AHEAD
    By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés In 2012, the White House will focus on the most important of international and national issues: the re-election of the President. US-Cuba policy will fall into “Next Year’s” box – or the year after that. The National Security staff reverts to its familiar posi ...
  • 2-minute video: USS Enterprise false flag targ ...
    video here. Iran’s nuclear energy and medical isotopes are all legally accounted for in IAEA inspections with zero evidence of unlawful use of nuclear material or technology; President Obama leads the lies of “Iran’s weapons” for another criminal war. Mr. Obama also leads the lies that Iran’s pr ...
  • Students facing class shortages at the public ...
    Elizabeth Bucher, 19, who is attending a California community college in Sonoma County (Santa Rosa Junior College), did all she could to get into Biology 2.1 this semester, the last class she needed to transfer to UC Davis.  The problem is that the classes were full and the seats were not availa ...
  • HADITHA MASSACRE: HOW THE WUTERICH TRIAL LET U ...
    By Kathleen Barry After the 2005, Haditha massacre in Iraq, Frank Wuterich who took command of his unit when his commanding officer was killed by a roadside bomb said that he did what he was trained to do.  His words were those of a remorseless killer, which is how he was trained to be a [...]

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  • News you may have missed #671
    German 'spies' detained in Pakistan. Was poet Pablo Neruda murdered? Britain's secret mission to beat Gaddafi.
  • Jordan issues ‘immediate travel ban&#821 ...
    The former director of Jordan’s powerful intelligence service has been barred from leaving the country and has had his personal and family assets frozen, according to reports from the Middle Eastern country. General Mohammed Dahabi assumed command of Jordan’s General Intelligence Department (GID ...
  • Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou’s indictment made ...
    On Monday, the United States Department of Justice charged former Central Intelligence Agency officer John Kiriakou with leaking classified government information to reporters and deceiving a CIA review board. What exactly happened?
  • Revealed: German spy agency monitors leftwing ...
    Well over a third of leftwing German parliamentarians are currently being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, according to a government report released on Sunday.
  • News you may have missed #670: Analysis edition
    Some argue US DHS should change intelligence mission. Not-so-covert Iran war buys West time but raises tension. Inside Mossad's war on Tehran.

War is a Crime.org

  • Four Congress Members Write to President Press ...
    Lee: National Strength Tied to Economic Strength  Members join Lee in penning letter to President asking for restraint on military spending Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) issued the following statement in response to the Pentagon’s preview of the 2013 budget request: ...
  • Panetta: Military Spending Is Going Up
    On Thursday, Leon Panetta held a press conference announcing what he called "cuts" to military spending.  The first question following his remarks pointed out that the "cuts" are to dream budgets, while the actual spending will be increased over Panetta's 10-year plan.  Is there any ye ...
  • Obama Re-Occupying "Our Little Brown Brothers" ...
    From Democracy Now: The United States could be expanding its military presence in the Philippines as part of the Obama administration’s avowed intent to focus on the Asia-Pacific. According to the Washington Post, the White House and the Philippine government are resuming talks in Washington tod ...
  • A Call for Nationwide Response to Entergy Nucl ...
    http://ReplaceVY.org Entergy Nuclear of Lousiana is giving those of us who care about our futures a golden opportunity to exercise our power. This multi-national corporation is a poster boy for the callous pursuit of profit at the expense of health, safety and even state sovereignty.   read ...
  • U.S. Public Favors Cutting Military Spending
    By Steven Kull, World Public Opinion .org This article was originally published in tandem with an article by R. Jeffrey Smith on IWatch, a publication of the Center for Public Integrity. What do average Americans say when they are faced with the budget tradeoffs on national security that policym ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents ...
    by Alison Weir, January 25, 2012 On Jan. 13 the Atlanta Jewish Times featured a column by its owner-publisher suggesting that Israel might someday need to “order a hit” on the president of the United States. In the column, publisher Andrew Adler describes a scenario in which Israeli Prime Minist ...
  • Optimum vitamin D blood saturation reduces all ...
    by: John Phillip (NaturalNews) The importance of vitamin D for human health has been the topic of extensive research over the past decade. Suboptimal levels of the prohormone are known to compromise immunity, cardiovascular health, bone health and normal metabolism. The result of a new meta-anal ...
  • DNA sample to be taken from students before al ...
    by: Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) Standardized testing is a common method by which colleges and universities evaluate the competency of applying high school students. But an increasing amount of students are cheating on such tests, which has caused lawmakers in New York to consider actually harv ...
  • Oklahoma lawmaker wants to stop Pepsi from usi ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews) In order to simulate various flavors in processed foods, some food manufacturers are actually using aborted fetal cells to test and produce these artificial chemical enhancers that millions of Americans consume every single day. Concerned about the ethical and mor ...
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    By Les Visible Mushroom memories, toadstool realities, munchkin mentalities, in a soft stool parade and don’t drink the brown lemonade. Don’t drink the brown lemonade. The cultures sitting on a bench at the Altamont Arcade, checking out the underage with the eyes of an Israeli sniper ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Seung-Yong Song’s Multi-Tasking Chair Lets You ...
    Even though a chair’s main purpose is to provide a platform for sitting, we all use them in an array of different ways. Designed for hiding, climbing, storing and even drying clothes, Seung-Yong Song‘s ‘Object Collection’ is a series of chairs with an added function. Made ...
  • Tomas Alonso’s A Side Table Saves Space by Col ...
    Designed for small spaces and easy portability, designer Tomas Alonso‘s A Side Tables can be folded flat in just seconds. Made from powder coated steel, ash and laminated plywood, these collapsible round tables come in two different handy sizes. And with one brightly colored leg and a simp ...
  • Architect Michael Maltzan’s “Lens” Wins St. Pe ...
    Read the rest of Architect Michael Maltzan’s “Lens” Wins St. Petersburg Pier Competition Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "clean energy", architecture competitions, big, bjarke ingels, florida, green architecture, landscape design, Lens, Micheal Maltza ...
  • U.S. Department of Energy Announces the 2013 S ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced the location of the 2013 Solar Decathlon – as well as the 20 lucky teams who will be competing for green design glory! After being kicked off the National Mall last year, organizers scrambled to find a back up location – and they&#8217 ...
  • Gorgeous Green-Roofed Cliff Home Sits on the W ...
    Read the rest of Gorgeous Green-Roofed Cliff Home Sits on the Water’s Edge in Gig Harbor, Washington Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", cliff house, eco design, eco home, gig harbor, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green home, ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop with Ey ...
    Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how ...
  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.
  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...
  • A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
    If you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.
  • The New Improved Heckling of Movies
    If you're willing to watch a movie DVD on your computer (instead of your TV), then you can use the new Rifftrax Player app to simultaneously play the DVD and the usually hilarious Rifftrax audio, which is like sitting in an audience of hecklers.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Spiders Hunt With 3-D Vision
    Jumping spiders' keen vision makes them the cats of the invertebrate world, but scientists have puzzled over how their miniature nervous systems manage such sophisticated hunting behavior. A new study fills in a key ingredient: an unusual form of depth perception.
  • Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists ...
    Last January, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnston's big idea: to make the first interactive marine science textbook. Frustrated by the experience, Johnston set out to create open-source software to publish the book himself.
  • iPad Textbooks: Reality Less Revolutionary Tha ...
    Much as tablet computers went mainstream in the iPad's wake, Apple's latest educational project heralds an age of tablet-based textbooks. But will kids really learn more and better on tablets? That's far from clear.
  • Human Nature and the Neurobiology of Conflict
    Areas of inquiry once reserved for historians and social scientists are now studied by neuroscientists, and among the most fascinating is cultural conflict: Why do different groups behave differently? Why can't we all get along? Science alone won't provide the answers, but it can offer new insig ...
  • New Satellite Takes Spectacular High-Res Image ...
    NASA released this incredible new image of the Earth, taken by the agency's recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP.

PakAlert

  • Persian Gulf Option One: A False Flag
    “Remember the Maine!”, was the cry back in 1898 from William Randolph Heart’s New York Journal – a forerunner the modern Murdoch press. Then, some 274 men lost their lives as a result of the explosion which sunk the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. Hearst even told a story of how the enemy had plante ...
  • Opening A New Theater of War In The North Amer ...
    State of Emergency Communique #1: America, Canada, and Mexico are financially and mentally colonized nations. But financial fraud and media propaganda are no longer enough to keep the people down. Due to the political awakening across the continent the need for the boots has come.
  • Whistleblower: Monsanto Wants to Kill The Bees ...
    Soon to be whistleblower who worked for Monsanto will be releasing documents detailing how Monsanto planned to kill off bee colonies in order to introduce a “new and improved” species of bee that will only pollinate Monsanto crops
  • Video: Anonymous ‘threatens’ to take down Face ...
    Following a massive attack waged Thursday on several government and entertainment industry websites, hacktivists with Anonymous continued their assault over the weekend, momentarily taking CBS.com offline.
  • Elites Pushing Class Warfare is Just Another F ...
    Why is it when the rich super class speaks about class warfare, the downtrodden applaud? When billionaire Warren Buffett said, "There's class warfare all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning," the struggling middle class treated him like one of them, as ...

Andy Worthington

  • How the National Defense Authorization Act All ...
    While I was in the US two weeks ago, for the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, there was great deal of understandable outrage amongst activists — both those on the left, and libertarians — because of outrageous provisions in ...
  • Video: Tunisian Freed from Guantánamo Calls fo ...
    To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, both Al-Jazeera and the Guardian turned their attention to the fate of the five Tunisians still held in Guantánamo, who I wrote about almost exactly a year ago, after the unexpected fall of t ...
  • Please Call for the Closure of Guantánamo By S ...
    It’s three years since President Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Remind President Obama of his promise. Sign the petition on the White House’s “We the People” website urging him to honor his promise. 25,000 signatures are needed by February 6 to secure a response, so ...
  • Read the Center for Constitutional Rights&#821 ...
    In December, I was privileged to work with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights on three reports about Guantánamo that were published to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, 2012, and released at a press conference in Washington D.C. that I reporte ...
  • Video: US Protests on the 10th Anniversary of ...
    In the final article following my 12-day visit to the US to join protestors calling for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of its opening, I’m posting below three videos by filmmaker Ed Haas of the protests in Washington D.C. on the ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Birther Farce Proceeds in Georgia, Minus Pres ...
    Adding an extra layer of surreality to the already farcical Georgia proceedings regarding President Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office, neither the defendant nor his counsel appeared at this morning’s hearing before an administrative law judge. Yesterday, Georgia Secretary of State Br ...
  • Online ‘Hit List’ Targets Liberals
    Anti-liberal propaganda has been ramping up for years. Former Fox News host Glenn Beck, who was cited as an inspiration for at least three rightwing extremists accused of committing or plotting violence, called himself a “progressive hunter” and attempted to rebrand Hitler as a leftist. Anti-Mus ...
  • Mistrial Declared in Case of Antigovernment Ac ...
    The second trial of self-described Oath Keeper Charles Dyer, who is accused of raping his 7-year-old daughter in 2010, came to an abrupt end on Tuesday when a judge declared a mistrial after discovering the district attorney’s office had improper conduct with jurors. District Attorney James Walt ...
  • Hate Group Founder’s Post on Homeland Security ...
    How could the founder of a virulently racist, anti-Semitic group whose leaders urge violence against whites and the police be appointed to a Dallas group that advises elected leaders on how to improve homeland security? That’s the burning question, as the Dallas County Commission cancelled a vot ...
  • Alaska Militiamen Again Charged With Murder Co ...
    Like this winter’s near-record snowfall in Alaska, federal criminal charges keep piling up against imprisoned militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox. With six additional federal charges filed in a superseding indictment just last Friday, the trial for Cox and Alaska Peacemaker Militia co-defendant ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Study: Potential Hazards of Nanotechnology Not ...
    Not enough is known about the potential hazards of nanotechnology, and millions of dollars more a year are needed to study the potential health and environmental effects of it, said the National Research Council yesterday. The panel's findings come from a study sponsored by the EPA.photo: EM ...
  • Calamitous Night Raids Continue as Torch Passe ...
    US forces have begun training Afghan soldiers to take over the much contested 'night raids' in Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been a continuous opponent of night raids as civilian causalities are more than common during such operations. In a period of 10 months in 2010/20 ...
  • US-Backed Libyan Militias Accused of Widesprea ...
    Two separate reports this morning shine a troubling spotlight on torture - some resulting in death - being carried out 'by officially recognized military and security entities as well by a multitude of armed militias operating outside any legal framework' in post-Gaddafi Libya. ...
  • Iran 'Ready for Talks'
    Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country was ready to sit down for negotiations with the West. Agence France-Presse reports: "They have this excuse that Iran is dodging negotiations while it is not the case...," the Iranian leader was quoted as saying by state medi ...
  • Egyptian Youth Vow to Sit-In Until Military Ru ...
    A day after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to Tahrir Square to commemorate the one year anniversary of the uprising that led to Hosni Mubarak's ouster, many of those same youth say they will reinvigorate their revolutionary efforts by once again staging rallies and sit-ins until the ...

Lifehacker

  • Best Tax Preparation Tools? [Hive Five Call Fo ...
    It's tax preparation season, and while you're busy collecting receipts and waiting on your employers to send over your W-2 forms, now's the time to figure out the best way to prepare and file your taxes this year. Do you buy an application to ...
  • Remains of the Day: Twitter Lays Groundwork to ...
    Twitter adopts nation-by-nation content controls, the EU signs ACTA, and the FBI looks for new ways to watch social media. More »
  • Tiles Keeps Your Open Windows and Shortcuts Or ...
    Windows: Tiles is a new application from Stardock, makers of our favorite desktop organizer, Fences, that keeps your open windows organized in a Metro-style thumbnail view in your sidebar, so you can focus on just the windows you need. Mo ...
  • What Are the Worst Mistakes You Can Make Onlin ...
    The internet is great but it's complex, and it can be easy to make some dumb mistakes even when you're smart enough to catch them most of the time. We want to know what common but mistakes you've made, have seen others make, or worry about ma ...
  • Daily App Deals: Get WeatherPro for Android fo ...
    The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Gulf of Mexico oil spill: BP loses bid to make ...
    Judge rules contractors Transocean and Halliburton are not liable for compensation but they still face fines and lawsuitsA US federal judge has told BP that contractors Transocean and Halliburton do not have to help pay compensation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill because they are protected ...
  • Cocaine seized at UN in New York
    Drugs placed in a white bag in apparent attempt to disguise shipment as an official diplomatic pouch posted from MexicoA shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the United Nations's mail intake centre, a New York Police Department spokesman said on Thursday.Paul Brown ...
  • RBS risks row over 'unacceptable' Stephen Hest ...
    Bank heads for political storm with award of 3.6m shares to chief executive despite widespread oppositionRoyal Bank of Scotland stoked a political row on Thursday night after it announced it had awarded its chief executive, Stephen Hester, a bonus worth almost £1m.The payment was derided as "utt ...
  • Lynette White police corruption trial evidence ...
    Documents thought to have been shredded, leading to collapse of case against eight former police officers, discoveredImportant documents thought to have been shredded by detectives, which led to the collapse of the multi-million pound Lynette White police corruption trial, have been found.Eight ...
  • Newt Gingrich sets his sights on Florida's Lat ...
    Republican presidential candidate is looking to persuade the state's Cuban population that he hasn't gone soft on the CastrosRepublican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made a short stop at the Versailles coffee shop in Miami's Little Havana recently. It has a reputation for good pastries an ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • New IRS regulation is no help to whistleblowers
    On January 23, 2012, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a final regulation that reflects a 1996 law making payments for emotional distress damages taxable as income. The new regulation, cited as 26 CFR 1.104-1(c), makes clear that settlements and awards are taxable unless they are "a ...
  • Interns play vital role in whistleblower advocacy
    Our work for whistleblowers benefits indispensably from the work of generous and dedicated interns. Here is our intern class for the Spring semester of 2012.  Standing are Dasha, Kelly, Lauren, Jerry, James and Nichole. Seated are Chris, Cara Nora and Monique.  Thank you all.  
  • 7 Ways the Grimm Act Will Help Wall Street Steal
    Corporate criminals rejoice. The Grimm Act packs seven deadly punches for whistleblowers. This law would make it more difficult for employees to report Wall Street corruption, Ponzi schemes, and other fraud – not easier. What happened to Congress fighting fraud? The leadership in the Hous ...
  • OSHA sides with former pilot who blew the whis ...
    Last week, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered AirTran Airways to reinstate a whistleblower pilot and pay more than $1 million in back pay and compensation. The pilot worked at AirTran Airways which is now a subsidiary of Southwest Airlin ...
  • Dr. Coleman-Adebayo on C-SPAN this weekend
    You can catch Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's lecture at the Mid-Manhattan Library on C-Span/Book TV starting tomorrow. Called No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph, the lecture draws on her book, NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA.  You can read our coverage of he ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Twitter Decides To Censor Locally, Rather Than ...
    Twitter just announced that it has set up the ability to block content on a country specific basis (e.g., if Germany demanded some content be taken down, Twitter can now just have that content blocked in Germany). I know some people saw this and got upset about "censorship!" but looking at the ...
  • DailyDirt: Looking For Science Projects...
    Lots of companies are trying to encourage budding scientists to test out their wacky ideas. We've covered some of the more well-known contests before, but here are a few not-as-widely-publicized challenges for young scientists out there. BioCurious and Assay Depot have a opened up a challen ...
  • European Parliament Member Marietje Schaake Ex ...
    As we've been discussing, there's been a lot of misinformation flying around concerning ACTA -- especially in the EU, where it has not yet been officially voted on. While we've tried to explain some of the problems with the agreement, there is still plenty of confusion over what to do about it. ...
  • Court Finds Copyright Trolling Lawyer Evan Sto ...
    Remember Evan Stone? He's one of a "new breed" of copyright trolling lawyers, who has been trying to sue large groups of John Does based on IP addresses, claiming they infringed on a client's work. Of course, the end game of these lawsuits is not to actually take these people to court, but to ...
  • Polish Politicians Don Guy Fawkes/Anonymous Ma ...
    There's been lots of talk today about how various EU governments are agreeing to sign ACTA (which still needs to be ratified by the EU Parliament). It's gotten the most attention in Poland, where there were mass protests -- but the government there still signed. Of course, not everyone in the ...

VacTruth

  • Gardasil: Big Pharma Killing Us Softly
    With complete disregard for the welfare and safety of the people who take their products, the pharmaceutical industry has made a habit of putting profits above all else. Now, as if we have learned nothing from history, the drama is unfolding yet again, this time with Gardasil.
  • Radical Idea: Paper Suggests Forcing Your Chil ...
    The suggestion of mandating participation in medical trials has no place in a free society. It ought to go where it rightly belongs – in the trash along with their vaccines.
  • Premature Babies Used As Lab Rats In Manipulat ...
    A vaccination trial on premature babies funded by GlaxoSmithKline...just by reading this study through anyone with an ounce of sense can see that it is weighted in favor of the researchers.
  • Excuse Me Waiter – There’s a Fly i ...
    We can laugh at the waiter’s reply to our complaint about the fly in our soup: “- Never mind, it won’t eat much!” However it is no joke that vaccines may contain residue from insect cells, yeast, mouse brains, tissue from pigs, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, calf lymph, hens’ eggs, chick embryos ...
  • Should New “Smart Pill” Be Able To ...
    Shortly there will be a ‘smart pill’ that will be able to transmit information about your body’s insides to a patch on your arm with the information being collected via a Bluetooth connection. Then, here’s another question for the smart pill developers: Can your ‘smart pill’ track vaccines too?

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The Arab Spring, U.S. foreign policy, the Stat ...
    Issandr El Amrani writes: I’d like to touch upon America and Egypt, because I’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing in American newspapers about the future of that relationship and a sense of misplaced buyers’ remorse about the Egyptian revolution – misplaced because the US had little ...
  • The Adelson axis of influence
    Neocon Zionist casino boss, Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, are the money behind Newt Gingrich — and a prime force in the colonization of Greater Israel. Muckety has created a useful graphic to show the many strands of the Adelson empire. muckMapWidth="645"; muckMapHeight="500"; muck ...
  • Sopa and Pipa: they’ll be back
    Bill McGeveran writes: At the end of a Hollywood blockbuster, when the vanquished villain declares that he should have won and that we haven’t seen the last of him, we all know what it means: the sequel is coming. So, Hollywood’s top lobbyist, former Senator Chris Dodd, followed a fa ...
  • Music: Oumou Sangare and Béla Fleck
    Oumou Sangare and Béla Fleck perform her song, “Djorolen”. This is a clip from the terrific film, Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart, in which Fleck journeys through Africa tracing the roots of the banjo.
  • Christian Parenti: Big storms require big gove ...
    At some basic level, climate change shouldn’t be hard to grasp.  Fossil-fuel burning — the essence of our civilization since the industrial revolution — dumps prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.  As it happens, 2010 was another banner year ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry denial b ...
    Readers may recall when I took OMSI to task for being debate deniers. That didn’t work out so well for OMSI what with the negative publicity and the packed room last night. Wish I could have been there. If anyone … Continue reading →
  • Legal exemplars cited in Michael Mann’s ...
    Mann alludes to his “dirty laundry” which cannot come out, requesting his correspondent to not pass the email or the data attached to it to anyone else (PE-22). The Environmental Law Center of the American Tradition Institute PRESS RELEASE For … Continue reading →
  • What in the world is going on with global temp ...
    Multiple indicators show global temperatures headed down this month, and fast. by Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow As shown above (see the datapoint in the square box), the UAH AMSU daily temperatures are the coldest for the globe at 600mb … Continue reading →
  • Frequency of strong Florida hurricanes decreas ...
    The next time some alarmist caterwauls about hurricanes becoming worse and more frequent due to global warming, show them this study. Noting that “the brief observational record is inadequate for characterizing natural variability in hurricane activity occurring on longer than … Continue r ...
  • First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude &#8 ...
    Guest post by David Archibald Predicting the amplitude of Solar Cycle 24 was a big business. Jan Janssens provides the most complete table of Solar Cycle 24 predictions at: http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/SC24.html Prediction activity for Solar Cycle 24 seemed to have peaked … Continue ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • An RNA Switch for Stem Cells
    RNA molecules have long been known for their role in translating genes to proteins inside a cell, but more recently, scientists have found large numbers of RNA molecules that don’t code for proteins but seem to have other cellular roles. Most research in mammals has focused on tiny RNA mol ...
  • Trial Shows Blockbuster Potential for Blood Cl ...
    An experimental pill to prevent blood clots exceeded already high expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday. The study was featured at the European Society of Cardiology in Paris and simultane ...
  • Portfolio Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet at Lowering ...
    A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-l ...
  • Bran, soy help cut cholesterol
    Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit ...
  • Gene Therapy Works for ‘Bubble Boy&#8217 ...
    Nine years after getting gene therapy for a rare, inherited immune system disorder often called “bubble boy disease,” 14 out of 16 children are doing well, researchers report. The children were born with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). They got an experimental gene t ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Hollywood, SOPA and the AMC Pacer model
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postIn the middle of 2010 I wrote a post titled “ACTA and the Overblown Threat of Piracy” that discussed the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA is basically an attempt by legacy media companies to leverage ...
  • New single: "Traktor" by Francis
    “I Was Never Bored at All” from Francis made my best of 2010 list.  Petter Nygårdh from the group sends word of their new single, “Traktor.”  Give it a listen at Spotify or Soundcloud.  Or both! (The B-side contains a Simian Ghost remix.)
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, 22, of Willis, TX.Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, 25, of Colonia, NJ.Marin ...
  • Partial transcript, Up with Chris Hayes - Sund ...
    I wanted to write about SOPA this week and thought Chris Hayes had a very nice segment on it. Since MSNBC doesn’t provide transcripts of his show I had to provide my own - which crowded out the blogging time. I’ll do a SOPA post next week, referencing this as needed.I did my best t ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Neil I. Turner, 21, of Tacoma, WA.Army Pfc. Michael W. Pyron, 30, of Hopewell, VA.Army Pfc. ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Bill Gates Cheerleads for Modified Foods
    Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates talks to ABC News' Bill Weir. Click here to read this article
  • Don't Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight ...
    It's worth a long night's conversation over your beverage of choice to explore the history of how becoming institutionalized affected the course of the civil rights and women's movements, among others. Was the radical spirit of each distracted or stifled? Each of those movements came out of the ...
  • Cornucopia and OCA Slam Industry and USDA for ...
    The Cornucopia Institute, an organic industry research and watchdog organization, announced it has formally requested the USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate corruption at its National Organic Program resulting in the use of illegal synthetics in organic food and then allowin ...
  • We Have the Right to Know About Dioxins in our ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Beyond 'Free' or 'Fair' Trade: Mexican Farmers ...
    Tio Joel rode his small donkey down the dirt road to his greenhouse to show us his solution to keeping small farmers on their land in southern Mexico. At about seventy years old, he could handle a machete or lift a 20-kilo sack of compost as easily as any of us, though the brace he wore around h ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Dignity of Work
    The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.
  • Third Time’s the Charm? The 2012 Arsenic Roundup
    The ban, if enacted, would help to curb the ongoing problem of arsenical drug use by the poultry industry, and associated public health risks to poultry consumers.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The New York Times Ode to Foxconn and Anti-Emp ...
    Control frauds occur when the persons who control a seemingly legitimate entity use it as a weapon to defraud. Anti-employee control frauds defraud the workers. Apples audit showed endemic anti-employee control fraud by its suppliers. Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   N ...
  • Mass psychogenic illness or brain damage of un ...
    When vaccines are administered to groups, the physical reactions of the recipients may be similar, causing a form of mass reaction, the mechanism for which is the same as that for mass reactions from other causes Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Why Yogurt Isn't Healthy for You
    Think all yogurt is the same? Think again! Read about the health dangers of preservatives in yogurt and the yogurt you should be eating instead! Submitted by Jaime A. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Heroes
    Torture, secrecy, genocide, and lies : history in the raw Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Back to a Non-Resilient Future
    The failure to match growth in our dependence on electric power with appropriate investment in the resilience of the infrastructure is a political one. End of January The Islay Energy Trust will publish outline plans for Community Energy Cooperative Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cul ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • LAPD and Special Forces Conduct Military Maneu ...
    ShareThisLAPD and Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In the Skies Above Downtown LA --The LAPD said the purpose of the training was in part to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments. 25 Jan 2012 The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operati ...
  • CIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe
    ShareThisCIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe 26 Jan 2012 A CIA operative's unusual [and illegal] assignment inside the New York Police Department is being cut short after an internal investigation that criticized how the agency established its unprecedented collaboration with city ...
  • Anti-Islam documentary producer was arrested f ...
    ShareThisJingoistic sociopaths in bed with Ray Kelly and the NYPD: Anti-Islam documentary producer was arrested for impersonating Secret Service agent 26 Jan 2012 The producer of the controversial anti-Islam documentary featuring Ray Kelly and shown to NYPD recruits was once arrested for imperso ...
  • Bird flu mutation studies dangerous
    ShareThisBird flu mutation studies dangerous 25 Jan 2012 A scientist researching a potentially highly lethal airborne version of the H5N1 bird flu virus said on Wednesday he must be allowed to pursue his studies if deadly pandemics are to be prevented. Despite declaring last week a 60-day morato ...
  • Prime Minsiter Julia Gillard escorted by riot ...
    ShareThisPrime Minsiter Julia Gillard escorted by riot police amid angry Australia day protests in Canberra [] 26 Jan 2012 Police were forced to escort Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard from a restaurant near Parliament House in Canberra on Australia Day, when protesters surrounde ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Thoughts from a Dustoff Pilot
    26 January 2012 I am a Dustoff pilot (Instructor pilot) with over 1000 hours of combat time, and over 300+ combat medevac missions under my belt.  In 2004 (Iraq) we flew single ship, responding to thousands of medevac 9-line calls.  Not one helo shot down, but we sure got shot at a lo ...
  • A Young Iranian Woman Writes
    25 January 2012 A young Iranian woman has written to me off and on for a couple of years.  Yesterday she sent a note. I responded in part with a few questions: What do young Iranians think about our government and about the Iranian government?  Also, do you think there will be war? ...
  • Messages from Joint Chiefs of Staff
    23 January 2012 The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) provided a document to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) about MEDEVAC issues in Afghanistan.  The document was provided with no cover or signature page.  Congressman Todd Akin (MO-2), a senior HASC member, received that document ...
  • Time to Leave Afghanistan
    21 January 2012 This war is going to turn out badly. We are wasting lives and resources while the United States decays and other threats emerge.  We led the horse to water. Importantly, there is no value in pretending that Pakistan is an ally. We should wish the best of luck to the Afghan ...
  • All In: The Education of General David Petraeus
    Dear Friends and Family, After three years of effort, the day has nearly arrived!  My book, "All In:  The Education of General David Petraeus," written with Vernon Loeb, will be released in just one week.  I’ll soon appear on Fox and Friends, CNN,  Jon Stewart's “The Daily S ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Second Circuit allows Ecuador court's $18 bill ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Thursday lifted [opinion, PDF] an injunction won by Chevon Corporation [official website] to block enforcement of what the US oil company claims is a fraudulent, multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador for polluting t ...
  • Minnesota high court upholds mandatory DNA sam ...
    [JURIST] The Minnesota Supreme Court [official website] ruled Wednesday that a Minnesota statute requiring people convicted of crimes to submit a DNA sample does not violate [opinion, PDF] the Fourth Amendment [text] right to unreasonable search. The Minnesota law [text], which was enacted in 20 ...
  • Iraq to take legal action over Haditha killings
    [JURIST] A media adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official website, in Arabic; JURIST news archive] said Thursday that the government will take legal action on behalf of the victims of the November 2005 Haditha killings [JURIST news archive], in which 24 Iraqi civilians were kill ...
  • UN rights chief concerned over Libya torture a ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] addressed [statement] the UN Security Council Wednesday, expressing concern over alleged current human rights violations in Libya. Pillay first noted that the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) [official websit ...
  • South Carolina appeals order blocking portions ...
    [JURIST] South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson [official website] has filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] asking the court to overturn the decision to block provisions of the state's new controversial immigration law [SB 20]. The state is as ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Ronen Bergman Predicts 2012 Israeli Attack on Iran
    Ronen Bergman’s front page NY Times Magazine feature story this week is important, but for all the wrong reasons.  It is important not because it offers clarity or insight into urgent matters of the day, except possibly in a negative sense.  In it, we hear of all the common delusions and m ...
  • First Contribution to Foreign Policy in Focus
    Thanks to Paul Mutter for suggesting to the editors of Foreign Policy in Focus that they invite me to submit a piece on Iran.  An Alternative to War With Iran was published earlier today.  It argues that western policy toward Iran has only an appearance of a diplomatic track.  Both the diplomati ...
  • Reporters Without Borders Ranks Israel 97th in ...
    Reporters Without Borders has published its annual ranking (full report here) of world nations by their level of press freedom.  Israel, that bastion of western democracy and values in the midst of the “hellhole” that is the Middle East (or in Ehud Barak’s vivid image, the &#82 ...
  • PM’s Chief of Staff Investigates Sara Netanyah ...
    It just goes to show you. It’s always something! Those were the immortal words of Rosanna Rosannadana on Saturday Night Live decades ago. And they ring true for Israeli politics today. The Israeli headlines are full of a story claiming that Natan Eshel, Bibi’s chief of staff, was sus ...
  • NYPD Lies Through It’s Teeth About Involvement ...
    The NYPD has gotten itself wound up in knots over all the lies it’s told about its involvement in the anti-Muslim film, Third Jihad. The film was produced by the Clarion Fund, an offshoot of the pro-settler group, Aish HaTorah. When Arab police officers complained to a Village Voice column ...

If Americans Knew

  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
  • How to Contact the US Government and Media
    Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
  • Remember Rachel Corrie
    On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
  • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
    Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Zeega + Localore = Innovative Local Storytelli ...
    Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media stations should be supported for year-long projects to transform the industry. Localore is a new $2 million national competition produced ...
  • Knight Lab to Help Illinois Publishers Cover C ...
    When it comes to the mission of journalism, it's hard to imagine any function more fundamental than providing people with the information they need to choose their elected representatives. That's why the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, announced this week, will f ...
  • ScraperWiki Lets You Make Magic Out of Web Data
    There's a wonderful magic wand that every member of a digital newsroom wants to get their hands on. Take control and you can work wonders, untangle the world wide web of information, and even decrease your workload to fit in that extra cup of coffee. "What is this wand?" you ask, and "How can I ...
  • Pew Report: Tablet Ownership Doubles. What's L ...
    The shift from print to mobile reading went into overdrive this holiday season, with ownership of e-readers like the Kindle and tablets like the iPad doubling in a single month. A new survey-based study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that the percentage of adults ow ...
  • How to Create a Minimalist Map Design With Ope ...
    Mapping can be as much about choosing what data not to include as to include, so you can best focus your audience on the story you are telling. Oftentimes with data visualization projects, the story isn't about the streets or businesses or parks, but rather about the data you're trying to layer ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Defense Edge - Pentagon Overtakes State De ...
    The current Defense Department budget again makes the DOD the premier funder of security assistance to foreign countries, giving it more than double the comparable budget of the agency popularly associated with America’s foreign aid, the State Department.The $17 billion Pentagon aid budget for t ...
  • Obama and Israel - Despite Obama's Lofty Rheto ...
    In his State of the Union address, President Obama used the allusion that the tide of war is receding in the Middle East, suggesting that the U.S. has strengthened its position in that vital and volatile part of the world. He is wrong. The United States is receding from the Middle East, but the ...
  • Mideast Peace on Edge - Palestinians Again Sab ...
    The Palestinians continued their long history of sabotaging peace talks on Wednesday, January 25, when they unilaterally declared recent negotiations in Amman a failure and walked out. Naturally, the Palestinians were quick to blame Israel for their own unwillingness to negotiate. Official ...
  • Obama and Israel - Iron Clad isn’t Necessarily ...
    “Our iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history.”  -- President Barack ObamaThis 19 word sentence contained within the 6992 word State of the Union address, President Barack Obama practically singled out Israel a ...
  • The Arab Fall - As The Brotherhood Takes Offic ...
    The Egyptian Parliament re-opened this week with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge and the Salafists in second place. Googling liberals were far behind. It is not surprising as the vast majority of Egyptians are rural, poor, and religious, but since majority rule should never be confused with dem ...

High Country News

  • Beauty and the Beast
    Photographers and artists -- and scientists, too -- discover that a terrible beauty can be found in ravaged industrial regions.
  • Feeding the deer
    A rural Californian doesn't apologize for feeding the deer that hang out near his mountain home.
  • Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming
    The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.
  • Detente in the rancher v. environmentalist gra ...
    Buying out grazing permits from willing ranchers could help solve conflicts over grazing on public lands.
  • Picking ranchers' brains, from Colorado to Mon ...
    Colorado State University professor Maria Fernandez-Gimenez researches traditional ecological knowledge to better understand how ranchers learn and adapt management practices, form their attitudes and opinions on environmental change, and interact with their neighbors and resource scientists.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Holy COW!! Federal Workers/ Retirees Owe Almos ...
    Here's a great idea that may help both the unemployment problem, the deficit and, as the President would make sure at least one group pays it's fair share of taxes. And I am sure it would be a bi-partisan policy. The idea is simple force the 279,381 delinquent tax payers who work for the feder ...
  • Interview With Mark Levin About “Ameritopia: T ...
    My friend John Hawkins the superstar blogger had a chance to sit down with the Great One, about his new book “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America" (I purchased the book on Saturday and so far its great!). Here are some excerpts from the interview. It really is bizarre that we live in a so ...
  • Analyzing Obama's Strange SOTU Foreign Policy ...
    By Barry Rubin In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, patriotism, and love of the armed forces while trying to highlight his foreign policy achievements. Among his points: “The United States [is] safer and more respected around ...
  • Emergency Tip Jar Request
    PLEASE Help My Laptop is Dying!! In the past week my computer needed emergency rehab 3x. HP tech services have been very nice, but they have only come up with temporary solutions. This laptop is on life support, unfortunately a new one is not in the family budget. I Need To Replace Th ...
  • Buffet and Secretary Take Their Act On The Road
    Warren Buffet and his secretary going on a press tour to help  Barack Obama sell the country on the "Buffet rule" video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Buffett’s secretary since 1993, Debbie Bosanek, sat next to her boss just hours after being invited by the ...

The Real Agenda

  • Elites Culpan al Capitalismo por la Crisis Fin ...
    El mismo grupo de corporatistas que usan, abusan y profanan el capitalismo y que crearon la actual crisis ahora sostienen que un sistema centralizado controlado por ellos mismos es la única manera de salir de la crisis. Esta es la Tecnocracia global. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 26 de ene ...
  • Dikembe Mutombo caught in gold-smuggling scandal
    by Joseph Bamat AFP January 26, 2012 Former NBA basketball star Dikembe Mutombo has been accused of playing a leading role in a failed gold-smuggling operation in his native Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last year. While the botched plan to illegally fly $10 million worth of gold out of the ...
  • South Sudan to Shut Down Oil Production
    Reuters January 26, 2012 South Sudan said on Friday it was preparing to gradually shut down oil production within two weeks after Sudan said it had started seizing southern oil to compensate for what it said were unpaid transit fees. Sudan and South Sudan are locked in a row over sharing oil rev ...
  • Amnesty says pro-Gaddafi detainees tortured
    AFP January 26, 2012 Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said Thursday fighters loyal to ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have been tortured in militia-run detention centres. Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders suspended operations for similar reasons. Several loyalists of slai ...
  • Elites Culpam o Capitalismo pela Crise Financeira
    O mesmo grupo de corporatistas que usaram, abusaram e profanaram Capitalismo para trazer a crise atual agora alegam que um sistema centralizado controlado por eles é a única maneira de sair da crise. Esta é a Tecnocracia Global. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 26 janeiro 2012 Não há dúvida d ...

Wind Watch

  • Aid for turbine victims sought
    Brown Co. panel: State should pay medical bills for those near wind farm Wisconsin should pay the medical bills of Brown County residents who were made ill by industrial wind turbines, some county supervisors say. Saying the state allowed “irresponsible placement” of industrial wind ...
  • Wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles
    A controversial wind farm proposed near Red Wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades. U.S. Fish and Wildlife offi ...
  • Birds at risk from South Florida ‘wind f ...
    Splattered birds make going green a tough sell. The risk of birds flying into fast-spinning blades atop wind-catching turbines the size of the Statue of Liberty threatens to torpedo a proposed “wind farm” that could produce non-polluting energy on the edge of the Everglades. The same ...
  • Farm federation wants block on wind power
    Plans to dot Ontario’s countryside with wind turbines should be shelved, says the province’s largest agricultural organization. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is calling on the government to properly address a range of concerns, including the health effects of turbines, before ...
  • State board deals potentially fatal blow to Fi ...
    Last April, Maine’s largest wind energy developer, First Wind, trumpeted a multimillion-dollar deal that would pay for the company’s ambitious plans to erect more wind turbines throughout Maine and the Northeast. But the Maine Public Utilities Commission dealt a potentially fatal blow to the dea ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...
  • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Fear ...
    On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it! ...

The Freeman

  • We’re the Economy They Want to Manage
    In his State of the Union speech President Obama said: Tonight, I want to . . . lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last. . . . Considering that an economy (a free one, that is) is just people engaging in exchanges for mutual benefit, it defies blueprinting, which sounds omi ...
  • Is It a Tax or Not?
    In his State of the Union speech the other night President Obama said: Right now, our most immediate priority is stopping a tax hike on 160 million working Americans while the recovery is still fragile. People cannot afford losing $40 out of each paycheck this year. There are plenty of ways to g ...
  • Fed: Rates Will Stay Low through 2014
    “The Federal Reserve, declaring that the economy would need help for years to come, said Wednesday it would extend by 18 months the period that it plans to hold down interest rates in an effort to spur growth.” (New York Times) Illogic 101: Artificially low interest rates helped prod ...
  • Geithner Foresees His Departure from Treasury
    “Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner says he’s ‘confident’ he won’t be serving a second term, even if President Obama is reelected.” (Los Angeles Times) No point in celebrating; someone else will take his place. FEE Timely Classic “Of, By, and For the ...
  • The Problem with Privatization
    If the goal is efficiency in delivering the goods, private ownership is a necessary but not a sufficient condition.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
    1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...
  • The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
    I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do. Grow the economy sustainably, help the ...
  • The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
    I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do.  Grow the economy sustainably, help the downtrodde ...
  • Ron Paul Hysteria
    So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...
  • Ron Paul Hysteria
    So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Welcome Back, Britain! Why The U.K. Doesn't Ne ...
    To some, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to demur from the new euro rescue plan has made the U.K. irrelevant on the world scene. Yet by moving away from the euro zone, Cameron did something more than reaffirm Britain’s opposition to a German-led Europe: He asserted Britain’s gre ...
  • Housing Affordability and Public Policy
    Nothing in the world today affects citizens more directly than the home in which they live.  And when it comes to housing no piece of recent research opens more interesting avenues of investigation than the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. Individuals and families acr ...
  • Britain Fears a Developer’s Charter
    The UK Government’s Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced that there were only 127,780 new housing completions last year in Britain. British house building activity is down to levels of after the First World War, when reliable industrial records began, and still fa ...
  • The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as ...
    Mitt Romney’s collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 financial meltdown that resulted in both the wave of populist anger now being channeled by Romney’s Republican competitors ...
  • Preserving the "Ideal of a Property Owning Dem ...
    Demographia and Performanceurbanplanning.org  have just released the 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with an introduction by Professor Robert Bruegmann of the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History. The Survey is unique in ...

GM Watch

  • Questions over reporting of GM feed studies
    NOTE: Under the headline "Genetically Modified Food Safe, Animal Study Suggests" Science Daily reports on how "no adverse health effects" were found in 3 feeding studies on pigs fed GM maize.  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120124140103.htm The researchers conducted "short-term (3 ...
  • The mother of all herbicide marketing plans
    Dow and Monsanto Team Up On the Mother of All Herbicide Marketing Plans Tom Philpott Mother Jones, January 25 2012  http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/dows-new-gmo-seed-puts-us-agriculture-crossroads During the late-December media lull, the USDA didn't satisfy itself with green lightin ...
  • Pushing back against Gates propaganda
    NOTE: See also 'Gates Foundation Swimming Against a Tide of Informed Opinion'. http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13481 --- --- Genetically Engineered Crops Will Not Feed The World CFS, January 25 2012 http://truefoodnow.org/2012/01/25/genetically-engineered-crops-will-not-feed-t ...
  • Golden lies - the golden rice project
    NOTE: A well written and highly readable report. Download it here:http://foodwatch.de/foodwatch/content/e10/e1026/e49180/e49227/2012_gen-reis_englisch_final_ger.pdf --- --- Golden Lies: The Seed Industry's Questionable Golden Rice Project Test Biotech, 18 January 2012 http://www.testbiotech.de/e ...
  • Super crop or super flop?
    1.Expert complains to PM on biotech bill 2.Super crop or super flop? --- --- 1.Expert complains to PM on biotech bill Rashme Sehgal Deccan Chronicle, December 31 2011 http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/expert-complains-pm-biotech-bill-704 New Delhi - Renowned biologist and for ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Man Without A Plan
    Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes.  Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give ...
  • Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
    Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
  • America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
    When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve?  Of course it would.  By going into large amounts of debt, it is possible to live a lifestyle that you can't really afford, at least for a while.  But if you keep racki ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...

Desertification

  • Moringa could help arid nations to fight food ...
    Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106539 Miracle Tree is Like a Supermarket By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) – When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. … Continue reading →
  • Are these five media innovations really workin ...
    Read at : Five Media Innovations that Help Feed the Planet “Worldwatch researchers offered a diverse selection of sustainability posts last week. In this one, we discussed five media innovations that are working to reduce hunger around the world. In … Continue reading →
  • High-tech versus low-tech agriculture (The Sea ...
    Read at : http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017322825_apusfoodandfarmgates.html Gates defends focus on high-tech agriculture By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press KIRKLAND, Wash. — Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for ...
  • Desertification of deserts (Google / Coursewor ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.coursework.info/International_Baccalaureate/Geography/Desertification_of_Sahara_and_Gobi_deser_L937308.html Desertification of Sahara and Gobi desert Desertification of Sahara and Gobi desert The planet Earth has many ecological problems, ...
  • Save the Barind region from the grip of desert ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://theindependentbd.com/paper-edition/metropolitan/others/91565-save-barind-region-from-desertification.html ‘Save Barind region from desertification’ RAJSHAHI, JAN 24: General Secretary of Rajshahi District Awami League, Member of Parliament Om ...

The Paper Trail

  • Gingrich's health center was power player in a ...
    Newt Gingrich’s Washington-based advocacy on behalf of a broad array of health care interests has been far more extensive than the Republican presidential candidate has acknowledged, a review by the Center for Public Integrity has found.
  • Federal report slams record of putting youth i ...
    A new report released by the National Institute of Corrections slams the U.S. record of sending juveniles to adult prison, and lists multiple reform ideas for federal, state and local leaders to consider. In the 1990s, nearly every state in the country took steps to make it easier to try minors ...
  • Puncturing the hot air balloons on defense spe ...
    In November, when lawmakers were discussing the defense budget, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a dire warning: In a letter to Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, he wrote that a threatened deep reduction — about $1 trillion over the next decade — would create “an unacceptable risk in ...
  • Does the public favor defense budget cuts?
    What do average Americans say when they are faced with the budget tradeoffs on national security that policymakers face today? When polls ask in the abstract about defense spending, Americans are often reluctant to cut it. However when Americans are asked to consider the deficit and presented w ...
  • Federal regulators have failed to act on toxic ...
    Despite growing fears over the health effects of a chemical found in many baby bottles and a host of other products, federal regulators have done little to protect the public, according to a new report from a nonprofit research group.

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Riot in Victorian prison in response to declin ...
    fulham prison rioters.jpg Fulham Prison, near Sale in south-eastern Victoria, was locked down for 3 days following a riot on January 18, in which about 30 prisoners refused to return to their cells, a ...
  • 'A Superb Start?'? I Doubt It!
    Antifa.jpg The EDL claim they are off to a 'superb start.' Antifascists, however, think rather differently. ‘Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! The English Defence Lea ...
  • Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics or Popular ...
    The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis. Many imagine the economic crisis forced up a spontaneous gathering of forces of a new generation. In Atlanta, that new gathering really only lasted for a few days ...
  • Protest at Roche Against Dismissal and Shady P ...
    rochesm.png The ZSP takes the pharmaceutical giant to task for denying workers their basic rights. On January 20, the ZSP organized a protest at the headquarters of Roche Poland ...
  • The Bloody Utopia of JSTREET
    A look at the true nature of the rise of the self proclaimed 'liberal Jewish Lobby' in the U.S.A. or really should we say Zionism-lite. The rallying cry of JSTREET seems to be gathering up an increasing numbers of support ac ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • And a LITTLE CHILD Shall Lead Them!
    “Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” “Whosoever shall humble himself as THIS LITTLE CHILD, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18: 3-4 Here’s why the Master spoke this Truth – just listen ...
  • Why is Edom (Modern-day Israel) so AFRAID of Iran?
    Check it out, folks.   We are talking FREE ENERGY (plasma cold fusion) from Iranian Labs. Here is the Edomite’s PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, and his BIO!!!  Mr. Keshe has even developed a FLYING SAUCER for the Iranian Air Force: http://keshefoundation.com/en/media-a-papers/keshe-news/185-was-u ...
  • More Edomite Atrocities
    This is yet another example of Edomite-sponsored genocide. Try not to weep, my friends.  Imagine – 50,000 innocent children: And finally, THIS: Is it Nothing to You? Another Hero Falls Ricky Lavallie: 1960-2012 By Kevin D. Annett     Ricky Lavallie is dead. He was a 51 year old n ...
  • Michael King (aka Martin Luther King) A RED ED ...
    The “Story Behind the Story” of Martin Luther King is a story of Edomite (Jewish) Hegelian Dialectic in action.  A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK case, actually. It’s the story of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement today.  Edomite agitators funding stooges to “protest” ...
  • Another Christian “Red” (Edomite) ...
    REFLECTING ABSENCE “Reflecting Absence”.  That’s the “official name” given by Israeli citizen and “architect” Michael Arad to the 9-11 memorial in New York.   Is this monument to death harmless and meaningless, or is it a very real and conscious effort b ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • احمدی نژاد: هيچ مشکلی در اقتصاد کشور وجود ندارد
    در حالی که بازار ارز و طلا در ايران به شدت آشفته شده و قیمت کالاهای اساسی در حال افزايش است، محمود احمدی نژاد، رييس جمهوری اسلامی ايران روز پنجشنبه گفت: «به عنوان مطلع می گويم هيچ مشکلی در اقتصاد کشور وجود ندارد و ما از ثبات اقتصادی برخورداريم.»read more
  • Iran’s Crisis: The Saudis in the Catbird Seat
    How wonderful it must look from Riyadh: With Iran’s customer base crumbling under threat of U.S. legal action and EU sanctions, and the Iranian rial losing value faster than a Las Vegas condo, the “Kingdom” finds itself, once again, in an enviable situation
  • IRI says: Eleven Iranian citizens were kidnapp ...
    The official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday, quoting an Iranian official. "Their bus was on its way ... to Damascus when it was attacked in the central regions of Syria and 11 passengers were abducted," Iranian pilgrimage official Massoud Akhavan was quoted as saying by IRNA, ...
  • اصغر فرهادی را شلاق بزنید ؛ دل بعضی ها خنک می شود!
     در چنین جمع پرستاره ای، مدونا - که مولانای ما را به جهان شناسانده است - نام اصغر فرهادی را اعلام می کند و جایزه را به اصغر فرهادی می دهد. اصغر فرهادی هم آمد و خیلی مختصر اما درجه یک و عالی حرف زد .read more
  • Nuclear row: Iran President Ahmadinejad offers ...
    Iran is ready to revive talks with the West but tougher sanctions will not force it to give into demands over its nuclear programme, its president says. On Monday, the EU banned new oil contracts with Iran, saying it was not confident Tehran's nuclear plans were "exclusively peaceful&quot ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The World Economic Forum Weighs In
    Leaders from 2008 World Economic Forum This is the second of two posts on Global Risks 2012, a discussion document the global elite is considering this week at the World Economic Forum meets in Davos Switzerland. How Global Risks 2012 Came to Be Written The World Economic Forum ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
    2010 Protest at World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum Weighs In A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents to be used when world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January25-29. The document is called Global Risks 2012 (ht ...
  • Preparedness: A Good Alternative to Denial
    Community garden in New York City Book Review-Part VI Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Fleeing Vesuvius finishes with an Epilogue (Part 7), in which different authors give practical suggestions about preparing for the eventual collapse of our present ...
  • The Recipe for Change in a Post-Carbon World
    http://transitionculture.org/ Book Review-Part V (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 5 and 6 of Fleeing Vesuvius are entitled “Changing the Way We Live” and “Changing ...
  • Surviving the Collapse – Possible Strat ...
    Biochar pellets Book Review-Part IV (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 3 and 4 of Fleeing Vesuvius, “New Ways of Using the Land” and “Dealing with Climate Change,” focus mainly on  local and national strategie ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Too many debates spoil the party
    Debates. Lots of debates. Enormous numbers of debates. Debate-o-rama, debate-ilicious. And another one coming Thursday!Yes, there have been plenty of debates this year, enough that we’ve heard calls to eliminate some of them next time around. For the cable networks, the debates provide high-prof ...
  • Don’t wish for a Newt nomination
    Republicans are worried sick about Newt Gingrich’s ascendance, while Democrats are tickled pink.Yet no responsible Democrat should be pleased at the prospect that Gingrich could get the GOP nomination. The future of America is too important to accept even a small risk of a Gingrich presidency.Th ...
  • Scary movie: Commander in chief Gingrich
    Presidential campaigns offer an opportunity to compare what the candidates say on the trail with what the job requires in the White House. With regard to foreign policy in 2012, the issue of Iran offers a case in point. In recent weeks, the United States and the Islamic Republic have once again ...
  • Salman Rushdie, back on trial
    The Jaipur Literature Festival is a remarkable thing. It calls itself “the greatest literary show on earth.” In many ways, it is. Over 70,000 people show up. It’s organized by writers, not event managers. It’s free. Great crocodiles of school children in winter blazers crowd its sessions. Turban ...
  • Big government, our one shot against crazy storms
    Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic drought there killed half a billion trees, touched off wildfires that burned four million acres, and destroyed or damaged thousands of hom ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • DSM ventures into ethanol
    Is it just the blog's imagination or are there seem to be more and more chemical companies venturing into advanced ethanol production, the recent one being DSM? Let's see our list here:
  • Advanced biofuels could create millions of job ...
    A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance - launched during World Economic Forum at Davos - estimates the socioeconomic prospects of deploying advanced biofuels in eight of the highest agricultural-producing regions in the world, i.e. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, EU-27, India, Mexic ...
  • Is PV Solar Energy a Success Story in Germany?
     German households and businesses are increasingly concerned and upset with the rising cost of electricity as a result of the energy policies pursued by their government. Whereas some people felt good about closing down nuclear plants, the estimates of capital and other costs of doing so ar ...
  • Changing the tone of the Climate Change discourse
    In a short article on the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, Keith Kloor compares online climate change discourse to a "roller derby" and a "street fight"
  • U.S. Government Downgrades Projections for Coa ...
    Current proposed and forecasted coal-fired capacity in the U.S., as projected by the Energy Information Administration’s scenario in 2011.

EU Times

  • Massive US Troop Movements In California Raise ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Ministry of Defense circulating in the Kremlin today states that Russian Military Officials were rebuffed by NATO yesterday after questions were raised regarding massive troop and war equipment movements in the United States region of California and said to in ...
  • Sumatran Elephant on brink of Extinction
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned that the Sumatran elephant could be extinct in less than 30 years as half of the species’ population has been lost in one generation. According to a statement issued by WWF, an estimated number of 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants are alive that is ...
  • Big Holes in Big Bang Theory
    Big Bang scientists extrapolate a hypothetical scenario from a few facts. Yes, some galaxies are expanding, moving further away, but this is not the case with the entire universe. There are galaxies in the universe running perpendicular to the rest of the galaxies. That’s contrary to Big B ...
  • Isfahan, Kyoto named sister cities
    Iranian historical city of Isfahan and Japan’s Kyoto have been named sister cities on the sidelines of the meeting held at the Japanese cultural week in Isfahan. While Iran and Japan have many common beliefs in culture such as hospitality, patience, respecting family and friendly manner, t ...
  • McDonalds Employee Films Mouse in Bag of Buns
    A Mouse can be seen going buck wild in a bread bag at McDonalds. Despite this unsanitary event, according to the former McDonald’s employee Karruim Demaio, bosses at the West Oak Lane branch in Philadelphia ordered workers to brush off the droppings and serve the buns to unsuspecting custo ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • A Look at the New Pentagon
    While we don’t have a lot of hard budget numbers to look at just yet, this afternoon’s briefings by senior Pentagon officials give us a somewhat better idea of what the U.S. military of the next decade and beyond might look like. For fiscal 2013 the Pentagon is asking Congress for $525 billion— ...
  • Demi Moore Can Whip-It. Whip-It Good.
    Ok, that was in bad test; I apologize. Sort of. Here’s a little something fun to ponder….. What if the split of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher had nothing to do with his roaming penis and everything to do with her being a crazy whip-it freak? Stranger things have happened, ya know. It could very
  • Justin Bieber Will Perform At Michael Jackson ...
    Teen dream Justin Bieber is one of the performers confirmed to sing at the Michael Jackson tribute concert later today. The special show will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood and will see the Biebz joined by Smokey Robinson, as well as the late King of Pop’s three children. ...
  • Newt Gingrich, CNN's Wolf Blitzer To Face Off ...
    WASHINGTON -- CNN giveth. Will it now taketh away? A week ago, the network's half-hearted questioning of Newt Gingrich about his married life allowed the former speaker to go on a righteous anti-media tear that helped him win the South Carolina primary. Tonight, one week later, Gingrich is faci ...
  • Noteworthy Developments in the Alleged Iranian ...
    As with many stories, especially those involving âallegedâ terrorism operations conducted by the nations on the list of our to-be invaded-occupied nations it is important to pay specific attention to the context, and other ancillary and related details and facts

Groklaw

  • Microsofts first quarterly payment to Nokia: $250M
    Nokia's earnings report today sheds new light on its partnership with Microsoft - confirming that the company sold more than 1 million Windows Phones in the fourth quarter, and disclosing that Microsoft made its first quarterly "platform support payment" to Nokia, totaling $250 million.... I ...
  • PDFpen and iCloud
    Last March, I wrote "Would anyone be surprised if future versions of Mac OS X made additional features and APIs available only to App Store apps?" and was immediately called out for "blatant FUD." Less than a year later, not only has this has come to pass, but people seem to be treating it as ex ...
  • Smartphone statistics and market share
    IDC expect total smartphone sales in 2011 to reach 472 million across the globe, rising to 982 million in 2015. They say 118 million smartphones sold worldwide in Q3 2011. - Email Marketing Reports
  • Ordinary Plain Meaning: Defining Terms in a Pa ...
    As a result of the Phillips case and more recent decisions, dictionaries and treatises will still be able to be used in interpreting claims, but intrinsic evidence, namely the claims, the specification and the prosecution history, are of primary importance. The focus must always be on what one ...
  • Meet Ye Olde 19th Century GIF Machine, The New ...
    Forget about electricity, running water, modern sanitation and food preservation; what did people do before GIFs? Well, it turns out that some were busy entertaining themselves with stereoscopes, instruments that allowed people to view 3D images from two slightly different photographs superimpos ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Why the cleantech boom went bust
    Solyndra panels Wired Due to a confluence of factors—including fluctuating silicon prices, newly cheap natural gas, the 2008 financial crisis, China’s ascendant solar industry, and certain technological realities—the clean-tech bubble has burst, leaving us with a traditional energy infrastructu ...
  • Do you have a world-changing idea, asks Gates ...
    Bill Gates previews his fourth annual letter and invites students around the world to submit their own letters addressing what they think is the world’s most pressing issue. Students can submit their letters to annualletter@gatesfoundation.org through February 2nd, 2012. The Gates Foundat ...
  • Governor Brown endorses Bay Delta Conservation ...
    aquafornia.com Gov. Brown strongly endorsed and supported the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in his State of the State address. He says it will ensure water for 25 million Californians and agriculture as well as protecting the Delta ecosystem and its abundant fish and wildlife. These often are cont ...
  • Class war coming to the US says George Soros
    Billionaire speculator George Soros survived Nazism and Communism and says our current “situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career.” “At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he says… He doesn’t just mean it ...
  • Eric Schneiderman to head new mortgage agency
    The Battle About Money, after 1570. Pieter van der Heyden, Netherlandish (Metropolitan Museum) Here’s what the LA Times has to say about Mr. Schneiderman: Schneiderman has been one of the most aggresssive state attorneys general in investigating the actions of financial firms and others le ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Getting my frock on
    I've decided to set my sights for Bike Wise month high in 2012 and take on that doyen of the cycling world, Hutt South MP Trevor Mallard in a head to head challenge.
  • Govt asking the wrong questions on child abuse
    The Green Paper for Vulnerable Children should be focused on how to address the root causes of child abuse and neglect - poverty and inequality.
  • Easy to to have your say on EEZ Bill
    Submissions for the Government’s new bill regulating the Exclusive Economic Zone close this Friday and we need as many as possible to help improve this law.
  • Labour Should Join Call for Immediate Moratori ...
    Today Labour renewed its call for an investigation into hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, and its implications for New Zealand. Considering Labour’s concerns, they should commit to backing the call for an immediate moratorium, the only way we can safeguard our rights to clean water and air an ...
  • General debate, January 25, 2012

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Using Primitive Wisdom to Radically Improve Yo ...
    By Dr. Mercola In the 1900s, Dr. Weston A. Price did extensive research on the link between oral health and physical diseases. He was one of the major nutritional pioneers of all time, and his research revealed native tribes that still ate their traditional diet had nearly perfect teeth and ...
  • Can This Mineral Improve Hearing Loss?
    By Dr. Mercola The mineral zinc has received some attention as of late because it appears to help fight the common cold when taken at the onset of symptoms. However, new research has shown another potential use in regard to idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, also known as SSNHL. ...
  • Is Nerve Damage The Rule, Not the Exception Wi ...
    By Dr. Mercola Spending on cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins increased by $160 million in 2010, for a total spending of nearly $19 billion in the U.S., the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics reported in their Use of Medicines in the United States: Review of 2010. In all, more tha ...
  • New Evidence Refutes Fraud Findings in Dr. Wa ...
    By Dr. Mercola In February 1998, the Lancet published Dr. Andrew Wakefield's case series of a group of autistic children with gastric problems, which has become one of the most controversial studies in medicine because part of the patients' story included regression after receiving the MMR va ...
  • 213 Women Who Took This Suffered Permanent Dis ...
    By Dr. Mercola Naomi Snell, a 28-year-old woman in Melbourne, Australia, is leading a class-action civil lawsuit against drug maker Merck after suffering autoimmune and neurological complications following injections with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. After receiving the first of three doses of ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another 'f ...
    Boa Sr died exactly two years ago. She was the last member of the Bo tribe. © Anvita Abbi/Survival Two years after India’s Andaman Islands lost the last speaker of ‘Bo’, a leading linguist has warned the Jarawa could face a similar fate unless the road running through their reserve is close ...
  • German travel industry warns Samburu eviction ...
    A Samburu girl from Kenya. The tribe has suffered violent evictions. © Adrian Arbib/Survival The German travel industry has called on Kenya to find a solution to the recent evictions of the Samburu tribe, and warned its position as a tourist destination could be damaged. Germans currently s ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • I saw my mother gasping just to breathe - and ...
    My mother died not long ago of a totally preventable illness: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is caused by smoking.
  • The First Nations: a time for trust, and for a ...
    It must have occurred to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that it would be bad optics, both at home and abroad, for him to take off halfway through Tuesday's Crown-First Nations summit in Ottawa for the World Economic Forum in Davos.
  • Editorial: CAQ offers new approaches, but ill- ...
    With Gilles Duceppe's decisive declaration that he will not attempt a political comeback, it is now clear that barring some unforeseeable event, Pauline Marois will lead the Parti Québécois into the next provincial election.
  • Canada's tradition of helping refugees is unde ...
    The recent Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ministerial meeting was the largest conference on refugees and stateless people in its history. The UNHCR sought to recommit and re-engage the support of member states for key legal treaties, including the 1951 Refugee Conven ...
  • Griffintown is a chance to beat banal development
    Several years ago, the city of Montreal might have felt it had no choice but to grab the first offer that came its way to redevelop Griffintown.

Food World Order

  • Taco Bell joins other fast-food heavyweights v ...
    from ap: Taco Bell, the fast-food chain that caters to late-night snacking, is making a play for the breakfast crowd. The Mexican-style restaurant chain introduced a breakfast menu Thursday at almost 800 restaurants, mostly in nearly a dozen Western states. The rollout adds to the scramble among ...
  • You have the right to know what's in your food
    from brasschecktv.com: Genetically modified organisms (GMO's) are now the majority of foods that line grocery store shelves and produce aisles. More is known everyday about the harmful effects they are having on laboratory animals, livestock, and even humans. Counties all over the world are reje ...
  • Wary, Japanese Take Food Safety Into Their Own ...
    from nytimes: Critics say farm and health officials have been too quick to allow food to go to market without adequate testing, or have ignored calls from consumers to fully disclose test results. And they say the government can no longer pull the wool over the public’s eyes, as they contend it ...
  • Giffords winds up congressional duties with Fo ...
    from tucsonsentinel.com: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' last official act in her district was not a rousing speech to political supporters, nor a tearful resignation. Rather, she took a quiet tour of the good works others are doing in her honor. In what her office said was her final Tucson act as ...
  • Food Waste Denounced by Ministers as Almost 1 ...
    from businessweek: Food waste was denounced by farm ministers and policy makers gathered in Berlin as almost 1 billion people in developing countries go hungry. Consumers in rich countries dispose of 220 million metric tons of food waste every year, equal to the entire food output of sub-Saharan ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Man Without A Plan
    Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes.  Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give ...
  • Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
    Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
  • America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
    When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve?  Of course it would.  By going into large amounts of debt, it is possible to live a lifestyle that you can't really afford, at least for a while.  But if you keep racki ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Fifteen Years Later... French Cops Question Br ...
    Oh, leave it alone. It was a tragic accident. It was a drunk driver. You're obsessed. These - and others like them - are statements that this blog author has regularly got used to hearing since 31st August 1997 when Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in Paris. Since then, much to the anno ...
  • Retro Quote of the Day: For Defenders of the C ...
    "Let me remind you of our judges' oath as well: 'I do swear that I will well and truly serve our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth the Second in the office of a justice of the High Court, and I will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm without fear or favour, aff ...
  • Dear Gibraltar: 'Hain'... it's Turkish for 'tr ...
    So there we were... fiddling round with Google Translate - looking up the word 'traitor' in a multitude of different languages, as one does. Lo and behold, what does Google Translate tell me is the Turkish word for 'traitor'..? Apparently, it's 'hain'. Which is quite funny, as 'traitor' ...
  • Quote of the Day: 24th January 2012
    "Satan Sarkozy" - Turkey's Sozcu newspaper H/T: Daily Mail
  • BREAKING: Rand Paul detained by TSA agents for ...
    More on this as it develops. Major news story. RT have just 'tweeted': "Rand Paul detained by TSA officials at Nashville Int Airport. Ron Paul tweeted his son got detained for refusing full body pat down #news" More as it happens. This should be big on Alex Jones tonight. 5pm our time. ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Nuvola Player Might Just be the Perfect Replac ...
    Nuvola Player is so unlike any of the music players for Linux we have featured here so far. What Nuvola Player does is, it runs web interface of cloud music service in its own window and provides deep integration with the Linux desktop (system tray, Ubuntu sound menu, dock menu and notificat ...
  • 4 New Professionally Done Ubuntu Adverts[Official]
    Canonical is slowly stepping up its marketing pitch. When you look back at the history of Ubuntu, you will see that Canonical has invested almost nothing into any sort of serious Ubuntu promotional activities yet. But that is changing. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin release, which is only ...
  • Temple Run for Android Arriving on Feb 2012
    Temple Run is a hugely popular endless-running game which was released for iPhone and iPad in August 2011. Temple Run has already been downloaded more than 20 million times now and there are about 7 million daily active users. It is now the number one free app for iOS platform. Imangi Studios, ...
  • 3 Nice Blender Made Games for Linux
    Blender is known for its 3D creation capabilities worldwide and is widely used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications and games with cutting edge computer graphics. Quite a number of videos and animated movies have already been created using Blender and we hav ...
  • Android 4.0 ICS Inspired GNOME Shell Theme
    More GNOME Shell themes for ya. Following is one of the most distinctive GNOME Shell theme I have seen so far. This particular GNOME Shell theme, aptly named as Ice Cream Shell, is inspired from the latest version of Android OS called Android 4.0 codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. To put it lightly ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents ...
    by Alison Weir, January 25, 2012 On Jan. 13 the Atlanta Jewish Times featured a column by its owner-publisher suggesting that Israel might someday need to “order a hit” on the president of the United States. In the column, publisher Andrew Adler describes a scenario in which Israeli Prime Minist ...
  • Optimum vitamin D blood saturation reduces all ...
    by: John Phillip (NaturalNews) The importance of vitamin D for human health has been the topic of extensive research over the past decade. Suboptimal levels of the prohormone are known to compromise immunity, cardiovascular health, bone health and normal metabolism. The result of a new meta-anal ...
  • DNA sample to be taken from students before al ...
    by: Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) Standardized testing is a common method by which colleges and universities evaluate the competency of applying high school students. But an increasing amount of students are cheating on such tests, which has caused lawmakers in New York to consider actually harv ...
  • Oklahoma lawmaker wants to stop Pepsi from usi ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews) In order to simulate various flavors in processed foods, some food manufacturers are actually using aborted fetal cells to test and produce these artificial chemical enhancers that millions of Americans consume every single day. Concerned about the ethical and mor ...
  • Don’t Smoke the Brown Naugahyde
    By Les Visible Mushroom memories, toadstool realities, munchkin mentalities, in a soft stool parade and don’t drink the brown lemonade. Don’t drink the brown lemonade. The cultures sitting on a bench at the Altamont Arcade, checking out the underage with the eyes of an Israeli sniper ...

Veterans Today

  • The VA in 3D: Examiner Examined (Part 6)
    Captain May, I am writing for The Washington Examiner, and have come across your posts on the Veterans Today website. I can hardly believe the treatment you have endured, and wish to expose the abuse veterans receive from Veterans Administration hospitals. — Sincerely, Samantha Gilman, Opinion Page
  • Tidbits: What is Being Held Back from You
    Out there somewhere is a photograph of Osama bin Laden and George H. W. Bush, shaking hands in the White House. It exists.
  • Exposing the Child Support Myth
    Last weekend I was standing in the checkout line at our local Wal-Mart when I overheard a conversation between the cashier and a customer.
  • New York Veteran Benefits from Excelsior Educa ...
    The New York VFW's educationpartnershipwithExcelsiorCollege, forged in early 2011 to help engage younger veterans with the VFW, has begun to show results for VFW members seeking to complete college degrees.
  • Excelsior VFW Partnerships Expanding to California
    VFW spouses and domestic partners are also eligible for Excelsior degree programs, with reduced tuition and fees under new statewide education partnership

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: January 27, 2012
    ==== Pentagon To Unleash Special Operations Troops Worldwide No To NATO: Ukrainians Protest Arrival Of U.S. Warship Post-NATO War: Libya Teeters On Edge Of Civil War Mongolia: Strategic U.S. Ally Between China And Russia U.S. Regaining Military Foothold In The Philippines No Unilateral Concessio ...
  • U.S. Prepares For Global Unmanned Warfare
    Voice of Russia January 26, 2012 The U.S. prepares for unmanned warfare Boris Volkhonsky* Edited by RR ==== First of all, a network of special operation bases and the use of drones signify that the U.S. would be able to attack any adversary anywhere, not bothering too much about whether they are ...
  • ASEAN And SCO: Eurasian, Asia-Pacific Security ...
    Jakarta Post January 27, 2012 ASEAN and SCO: Same traditions and missions Vitaly Vorobyev* Edited by RR ==== Non-bloc approaches, equality, transparency, collective principles, non-confrontation and supremacy of universal rules of international law are the pillars of such an architecture. Creati ...
  • Stop NATO news: January 26, 2012
    ==== Russia: U.S. Uses Global Missile Shield To Boost Leadership Status Georgia’s Saakashvili In U.S. On Obama’s Invitation Georgian Defense Chief Hails NATO Role In Military Buildup Afghan War: Georgia To Almost Double NATO Contingent ==== Russia: U.S. Uses Global Missile Shield To ...
  • NATO’s Lost Cause: Specter Of Defeat, An ...
    Arab News January 26, 2012 NATO’s lost cause in Afghanistan Osama Al Sharif The specter of defeat, another Vietnam-like scenario, is looming large Edited by RR NATO’s war in Afghanistan will go down in history as a big flop — one that the politicians had failed to end and the generals were unabl ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Update: Obama in Georgia Court on Citizenship ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas January 26, 2012 Alas, today our fearless leader, the POTUS himself, Barak H. Obama is set for trial today in a Georgia courtroom. At this time we are trying to obtain all of the details and we will be updating you throughout the day (within this article). The chal ...
  • UT Researchers Develop Predator-Like Cloaking ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas January 26, 2012 The 1987 film Predator starring Jessie Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Kevin Peter Hall was a one of a kind for its time. In the film, the Predator (an alien hunter race) had a suit which allowed the hunter to cloak itself by bend ...
  • VIDEO: Military Helicopters Conduct Covert Exe ...
    Five black helicopters conduct special ops in LA Steve Watson Infowars.com January 26, 2012 Video was captured last night of five military helicopters buzzing over downtown LA, conducting what the LAPD has described as a special ops urban warfare drill. The footage, captured by CBS Los Angeles, ...
  • Obama to Ignore Order to Appear in Atlanta Court
    White House Dossier By Keith Koffler January 26, 2012 President Obama will ignore an order by an Atlanta judge to appear in court Thursday for a hearing in a case challenging his qualifications under the Constitution to be president. According to the White House, Obama will continue with his cur ...
  • He’s Back: Internet Censorship Must be Stopped
    The Intel Hub By Chris Pratt January 26, 2012 After failing to get COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) passed in 2010, he is back again this year with PIPA (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and the Theft of Intellectual Property Act). Do not forget PIP ...

FRS

  • Nepal: Land to the Peasants, or returned to t ...
    [Feudal landlords and reactionaries have always and everywhere claimed that revolutionary land reform--the seizure of lands for cultivation by landless peasants--is not an expropriation for liberation, but is a criminal theft by undeserving peasants.  It was shocking when the Maoist party in Nep ...
  • Australian PM stumbles before rowdy protest crowd
    The Associated Press:  Australian prime minister stumbles as riot police escort her through 200 angry protesters, January 26, 2012 Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard is escorted out for safety by body guards and police through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australi ...
  • A closer look: Obama’s hypocritical cla ...
    [A comment from Revolutionary Frontlines:  "Capitalist Crisis and Empire Quandary leads to media hyperbole, political hypocrisy, empty promises and false claims of better days ahead" Barack Obama, the political leader of US imperialism, is heading into a re-election campaign with growing discont ...
  • On the “State of the Union” addres ...
    Glen Ford, interviewed on the Real News Network: “Obama defends Iraq war saying it made the US safer and more respected” Bio — Glen Ford is a distinguished radio-show host and commentator. In 1977, Ford co-launched, produced and hosted America’s Black Forum, the first nat ...
  • Critics of the State of Obama speech say &#822 ...
    by Laura Flanders, on the Counterpunch blog The grades for the president’s State of the Union are in and the critics have been kind. In fact, it’s chilling to see just how few hits the President takes for couching his entire address in unqualified celebration of the US military. Speaking of the ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

Popsci - Science

  • Video: Researchers Produce the First High-Qual ...
    Hacking the electron microscope Proteins are like the workhorses of genetic biology, but they can be notoriously difficult to study. Their structure has everything to do with their function--and sometimes dysfunction--which has far-reaching implications in health and medicine. That’s why it’s s ...
  • The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other S ...
    At the sunset of Newt Gingrich’s putative presidency, the moon would be the 51st state, colonized by permanent American settlers. Tourists would honeymoon in low-Earth orbit, space factories would manufacture goods in microgravity, and America would have a rocket powerful enough to send us to Ma ...
  • Video: New Quantum Dot Tech Could Boost Curren ...
    Current optical communications schemes rely on a narrow 1.55 micron wavelength band of about 10 terahertz, a band in which optical signals can be well controlled and loss of signal/data is fairly low. But to open up optical networks to the high data load of the future, we need to open up the spa ...
  • How Men Can Decode Women's Menstrual Cycles
    The clues are in her voice “Are you on your period?” It’s a question most women have been asked at one point or another by their boyfriend or spouse during a disagreement. It turns out that some men actually can tell when it’s a woman’s time of the month—and it’s not because of bratty behavior. ...
  • Making the Blackest of Black Materials
    "We made carbon nanotubes that are blacker than anything else." Our material absorbs more than 99 percent of visible and ultraviolet light and 98 percent of infrared light. It’s at least 10 times as good at capturing light as black paint, so we can use it in telescopes, where stray light can co ...

Veterans Today

  • The VA in 3D: Examiner Examined (Part 6)
    Captain May, I am writing for The Washington Examiner, and have come across your posts on the Veterans Today website. I can hardly believe the treatment you have endured, and wish to expose the abuse veterans receive from Veterans Administration hospitals. — Sincerely, Samantha Gilman, Opinion Page
  • Tidbits: What is Being Held Back from You
    Out there somewhere is a photograph of Osama bin Laden and George H. W. Bush, shaking hands in the White House. It exists.
  • Exposing the Child Support Myth
    Last weekend I was standing in the checkout line at our local Wal-Mart when I overheard a conversation between the cashier and a customer.
  • New York Veteran Benefits from Excelsior Educa ...
    The New York VFW's educationpartnershipwithExcelsiorCollege, forged in early 2011 to help engage younger veterans with the VFW, has begun to show results for VFW members seeking to complete college degrees.
  • Excelsior VFW Partnerships Expanding to California
    VFW spouses and domestic partners are also eligible for Excelsior degree programs, with reduced tuition and fees under new statewide education partnership

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Fact-Checking Obama: GM World's #1 Automaker?
    Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was your typical flag-waving, USA #1 cheerleading exercise. It's to be expected with these kinds of events, to be fair. Particularly notable on the trade end though was Obama declaring the creation of a "Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with inv ...
  • Goin' Down: Those Crappy US Airlines, Cruise Lines
    For those of you who remember your high school literature, Charon in Dante Alighieri's Inferno was the ferryman of Hades who transported the souls of the dead across the river Styx on a journey to farther reaches of the underworld. In today's international political economy, you can argue that A ...
  • RIP Japanese Trade Surplus, 1981-2010
    There's grim news care of Reuters in anticipation of Japan's release of trade figures tomorrow. The country is expected to have run a trade deficit for the first time in nearly 30 years in 2011. Worse, prospects are for it continuing to do so in the near future despite the (hopefully) one-time ...
  • Allah & Moolah: Muslim Brotherhood Meets IMF
    Elected with a convincing majority, Muslim Brotherhood-linked legislators under the Freedom and Justice Party umbrella are now the forces to be reckoned with in Egypt. It will be fun to see how Yanqui hypocrites of the "elections are great...except when you elect Hamas" variety will respond if a ...
  • Axis of Upheaval: Iran-Russia Trade in Own Monies
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper. Vladimir Putin: They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. Factually speaking, the ongoing long-term devaluation trend of the dollar is not in dispute. However, America #1 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Man Without A Plan
    Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes.  Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give ...
  • Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
    Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
  • America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
    When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve?  Of course it would.  By going into large amounts of debt, it is possible to live a lifestyle that you can't really afford, at least for a while.  But if you keep racki ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Massive US Troop Movements In California Raise ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Ministry of Defense circulating in the Kremlin today states that Russian Military Officials were rebuffed by NATO yesterday after questions were raised regarding massive troop and war equipment movements in the United States region of California and said to in ...
  • Sumatran Elephant on brink of Extinction
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned that the Sumatran elephant could be extinct in less than 30 years as half of the species’ population has been lost in one generation. According to a statement issued by WWF, an estimated number of 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants are alive that is ...
  • Big Holes in Big Bang Theory
    Big Bang scientists extrapolate a hypothetical scenario from a few facts. Yes, some galaxies are expanding, moving further away, but this is not the case with the entire universe. There are galaxies in the universe running perpendicular to the rest of the galaxies. That’s contrary to Big B ...
  • Isfahan, Kyoto named sister cities
    Iranian historical city of Isfahan and Japan’s Kyoto have been named sister cities on the sidelines of the meeting held at the Japanese cultural week in Isfahan. While Iran and Japan have many common beliefs in culture such as hospitality, patience, respecting family and friendly manner, t ...
  • McDonalds Employee Films Mouse in Bag of Buns
    A Mouse can be seen going buck wild in a bread bag at McDonalds. Despite this unsanitary event, according to the former McDonald’s employee Karruim Demaio, bosses at the West Oak Lane branch in Philadelphia ordered workers to brush off the droppings and serve the buns to unsuspecting custo ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-01-25 #WikiLeaks News: New details about ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News The activation of WikiLeaks’ social network Friends of WikiLeaks is to happen very soon ...
  • A proposal for governance: Groups and individuals
    TweetThis article is a continuation of the ideas begun in A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world There are two underlying concepts which must be universally accepted for the current system to function. These two concepts are that groups may act as individuals and individuals may act as ...
  • 2012-01-23 #WikiLeaks News: Julian #Assange t ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News WikiLeaks issued a Press Release announcing the launch of a global television series in ...
  • A proposal for governance: Privacy and Transpa ...
    TweetThis article is a continuation of the ideas begun in A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world It was agreed by most of the world in the past that privacy was a basic individual right. All individuals are private individuals, only their actions which affect public life are of public ...
  • 2012-01-22 Chronology of charges the US govern ...
    TweetThis is a chronological list of charges against Bradley Manning alleged by the US government. They are derived from the July 5, 2010 original charge sheet and the March 1, 2011 charge sheet. The charges from the original charge sheet are below in italics, and grouped beneath corresponding ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • National Fish, Wildlife & Plants Climate Adapt ...
    Please visit the website for The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy,  learn about this project, read the Public Review Draft and weigh in with your comments. The following is a very brief excerpt: From the Arctic to the Everglades, impacts like rising sea levels, war ...
  • She’s Alive . . .
    She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage, agonizing conclusions.
  • Man Swarm: the slaughtering of the world’s wil ...
    By Frosty Wooldridge A book review: Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman Part 1 of 5: Humans devastating habitat and poisoning it The Bible said, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it and take dominion over all living things on land and in the seas.”At the time ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Piety, ...
    Perhaps the two topmost organizing dares before the wilderness and wildlife network today are to grow our web of friends among those who are politically middle-of-the-road or even slightly to the right, and among those in small towns and the hinterlands.  Too often we think the only field where ...
  • Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)
    Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James on Vimeo. Is fear of the “Dirty Oil” label behind Canada’s tarring of Artist’s European tour? What lengths will the Canadian Government go to ensure that oil from the Alberta Tar Sands is not labelled “dirty”? Watch this video abo ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • ACTA... EU Signs Global Internet Censorship T ...
      Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October. ~ Rady Ananada read more
  • Like It Or Not You WILL Expose Your Past! ... ...
      Facebook's Timeline - a new look for people's Profile pages which exposes their entire history on the site - will become mandatory for all users. The 'new look' has been voluntary up until now... related articles read more
  • WATCH Live Stream of Final Florida Debate ~ Ja ...
      The four remaining republican presidential candidates will face off in Jacksonville, Florida tonight at 8pm ET. read more
  • Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty... Worse Th ...
      White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users. (Obama and his attorney ref ...
  • 'Not Much Difference Between Obama and Romney' ...
      If you are an American under the age of 30, you have probably figured out by now that the entire economic system is stacked against you.  The way that our economy is structured today is ridiculously unfair to younger Americans.  read more

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Your Survival Books?
      What are some of the survival preparedness books that you have on your bookshelf? Regardless of the specific sub-category, we would be curious to know some of your favorites, even related novels or reference books that would be useful during times when or after TSHTF. Add your comment on ...
  • And So It Begins, The Dollar’s Demise
    Have you heard much of this in the main-stream news? Do you understand the implications? In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading. In the most profound financial change in ...
  • 5 Best Weather Radios for 2012
    The top 5 best weather radios for 2012, (popular, with the least number of bad reviews coupled with the number of good reviews) as measured from Amazon statistical data are as follows… # 1 First Alert Public Alert Radio # 2 Sangean CL-100 Table Top Weather Radio # 3 Midland WR-120B NOAA We ...
  • String of Rotten Luck? Try This To Help
    Guest post: by ‘Be informed’ One bad incident after another seems to be hitting you, it’s unsettling, it’s eerie, it’s messing up your life. All sorts of superstitious thoughts could be floating through your mind, including the possibility that you did something and ...
  • Sell-by, Use-by, Dates
    Most canned food products have a “for best quality use by” date stamped on the top or bottom of the can. “Expiration” dates are rarely found on canned food. The general rule of thumb is that as long as the can is intact, not rusty and not bulging, the food is probably OK. ...

Fast Company

  • Spotify Growing By 8,000 Subscribers Per Day, ...
    Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, the Financial Times reports. That may sound like an impressive milestone for the popular on-demand music service, but how impressive is it really? Only about 64 days have elapsed since Spotify announced it reached 2.5 million subscribers in Novem ...
  • Disaster Alerts Help Google Grow Its Competiti ...
    Google's new Public Alerts are a continuation of the role Google took in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. However, instead of simply providing ad-hoc portals to collated and relevant data post-disaster, Google's Crisis Response Team, a new release says, will work to ...
  • MasterCard Emerging Payments Chief Hints Apple ...
    "We're rapidly moving to a world beyond plastic," says Ed McLaughlin. "In many ways, plastic is just convenient packaging." McLaughlin heads up emerging payments at MasterCard, and he's tasked with thinking big on the future of transaction technology. His group has dreamed up loads of creati ...
  • Showtime's David Nevins On What It Takes To Ma ...
    Showtime won big at the Golden Globes, taking home three awards, including best drama series for "Homeland." Nevins spoke with Fast Company about the rapidly changing world of cable TV and how he stays on top in a world where audience tastes evolve at an ever-accelerating pace.In the early '90s, ...
  • Rhapsody Nabs Napster International To Battle ...
    "When it comes to competing against Spotify," says Rhapsody president Jon Irwin, "the name of the game is: Go big, or go home." To this end, the popular subscription-music service, which boasts more than 1 million paying subscribers in the U.S., today expands overseas with the acquisition of ...

Jadaliyya

  • الثورة المصرية فى مرآة التاريخ
    عندما يُؤرَخ للثورة المصرية التي تحلّ ذكراها الأولى فإن أقرب ما قد توصف به هو أنها كانت "ثورة الأطراف المهمّشة" Peripheries’ Revolution . فمن أطلق شرارة الثورة ودفع ثمنها، ولا يزال، هي تلك الكتلة "الحرجة" التي عاشت عقوداً على الهامشيْن السياسي والاجتماعي للدولة المصري ...
  • In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material After ...
    A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you are in ...
  • A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Ti ...
    [This timeline is part of a series entitled "Free at Last? Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak." Click here to read Part 1.] JANUARY   26: Protesters marching from Tahrir Square towards state television building in Maspero to demand media reform. Protesters marc ...
  • الثورة السورية نحو مزيد من التعقيد: تصريحات بر ...
    [نشرت هذه المقالة لأول مرة باللغة الإنجليزية على صفحات جدلية تعقيباً على المقابلة التي أجرتها ”وول ستريت جورنال“ مع رئيس المجلس الوطني الإنتقالي برهان غليون. ترجم المقالة إلى العربية يوسف حداد.] فلنضع جانباً مواقفه الإشكالية إزاء ايران وحزب الله، ولنطرح السؤال التالي: ما هي مصلحة رئي ...
  • Video: The Revolution Lives on in Marches Thro ...
    The revolution lives on in marches throughout Cairo, 25 January 2012.  

mediagazer

  • CBS Snags FNC Producer for 'CBS This Morning' ...
    Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: CBS Snags FNC Producer for ‘CBS This Morning’ Team  —  As CBS beefs up its coverage of the 2012 presidential election, they're adding a producer to Washington's “CBS This Morning” team.  Jenna Gibson is not just any prod ...
  • The Problem with the Daily Mail's Latest Inter ...
    Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA: The Problem with the Daily Mail's Latest Internet Brag  —  Contrary to what is being widely reported, London's Daily Mail is not the world's most read English-language newspaper site.  It's apparently beating NYTimes.com only because the UK publ ...
  • Techmeme has redesigned. Drudge Report is now ...
    Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: Techmeme has redesigned.  Drudge Report is now indisputably the web's ugliest news site  —  In the beginning, links on web pages were underlined, because that let us know they were links.  And it was good.  But all those underlined wor ...
  • Greg Kelly, 'Good Day New York' co-host accuse ...
    Richard Huff / NY Daily News: Greg Kelly, ‘Good Day New York’ co-host accused of rape, ‘has requested some time off’: station  —  Unclear how long NYPD commissioner's son will be off the air  —  Co-hosts Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly of &l ...
  • Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Anal ...
    Daniel Frankel / paidContent: Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Analysts ‘Bullish’ Again  —  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) stock jumped over 20 percent, with a number of equity analysts bumping up the movie rental company's price target following its better-than-expec ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • AC MILAN'S TEVEZ D-DAY LOOMS
    AC Milan will make a final decision regarding the signing of Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez on Friday, according to club vice-president Adriano Galliani. The Italian champions are hoping to land the...
  • Obama to propose tax credit for natgas tr ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday will propose a tax break for commercial trucks that run on natural gas, building on his promise to support U.S. shale gas development, senior administration officials said. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Obama acknowled ...
  • Tevez decision due on Friday January 26, ...
    AC vice-president Adriano Galliani says the club will make a final decision on signing Carlos Tevez from Manchester City on Friday. The Tevez saga has rumbled on throughout the transfer window, with Inter Milan and Paris Saint Germain...
  • We will respect Cardiff - Gerrard
    10:45, Jan 26 2012 Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is looking forward to leading out the side at Wembley for the first time but has cautioned against complacency. The Reds drew 2-2 with Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester City...
  • Wayne Rooney relishing Manchester United' ...
    After beating Manchester City and Arsenal in their last two away games, United head to Liverpool on Saturday for an FA Cup fourth-round tie. It is the first of two meetings with the Merseyside giants, whom they also face at Old Trafford in the Premier League on February 11, a fixture that is ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/25/12 - 40 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org – UPDATED: 40 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption – 40 US states have exceptions to allow underage consumption of alcohol under certain circumstances including medical, educational, or religious purposes. 10 states and the District of Columbia allow n ...
  • 1/25/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with five new questions on credit cards, government bailouts, outsourcing jobs, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and ta ...
  • 1/19/12 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Histori ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Historical Timeline - Our timeline traces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its related history from the development of the earliest known human society in the Middle East in 10,000 BC all the way to the present day. Read a ...
  • 1/4/12 - Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overa ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overall Harm - Marijuana ranked #8 out of 20 drugs in overall harm according to a study in The Lancet, a British peer-reviewed medical journal. Alcohol ranked #1 in overall harm and harm to others. Crack cocaine had the high ...
  • 1/3/12 - Should insider trading by Congress be ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - UPDATED: Should insider trading by Congress be allowed? - Read pro and con arguments from Newsweek Senior Editor Daniel Gross (pro), US Senator (D-NY) Kirsten Gillibrand (con), Cato Institute Director Jim Harper (pro), Hoover Institution Research Fellow Peter Schweize ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Revolutionary science
    This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
  • Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
    In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
  • Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
    FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
  • Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
    The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...
  • Discovery Reinvented? The Promise of European ...
    Next Thursday, the Policy Centre is holding an event in Brussels…   Chaired by Martin Porter, Managing Director, Edelman | The Centre  & Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh   Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 12.00 to 17.30, followed by a drinks reception The Centre is hosting ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Haunted Hastings Castle.
        October 14th, 1066 AD. 700 Norman ships appear in the choppy waters of the English Channel, make their way onto the beaches and an army disembarks. Some 4500 infantry and 1700 archers form lines. William the Conqueror would earn his moniker here as he faced roughly 8,000 soldiers u ...
  • The Goodyear Inflatable Plane.
      New thinking was welcome in the military aviation business, especially after World War II and into the Cold War. Goodyear had spent plenty of time making blimps and transports for the US Army. Now that those technologies were on the wane, and they wanted to build a rubber airplane, and in ...
  • Christmas Gun Ads.
                  Source: Boingboing
  • The Douglas XB-42 Mix Master.
        In 1944, a single Douglas XB-42 Mix Master flew. With dual pusher propellers, the experimental plane  handled fairly well. It  had all the speed of a Mosquito Fighter Bomber but more armament and greater payload.  Not too much later one set a speed record by flaying from Long Beach ...
  • Do Countries Even Matter?
      Are Countries Passé?   In 1945 at the end of WWII, there were approximately 71 sovereign nations. Today there are 205 nations.   Recently Scottish news agencies announced a movement afoot that would bring independence to Scotland from its august ties to the United Kingdom’s mona ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Gunfight at the GOP Corral
    “… I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. [...] Gingrich served as Speaker from 1995 to 1999 ...
  • The 0.1% at WEF are talking about jobs, taxes ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I included something about this yesterday, but it’s worth further consideration. One take on the World Economic Forum, from the originators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Adbusters, “Capitalisms’ Cinderella’s Bal ...
  • Hillary Clinton has Attended Last SOTU as Obam ...
    “I think after 20 years — and it will be 20 years — of being on the high wire of American politics and all of the challenges that come with that, it would be probably a good idea to just find out how tired I am.” – Secy. Hillary Clinton I tweeted about this likeliho ...
  • Newt Gingrich Lied – John King Vindicated
    Newt Gingrich’s campaign admitted Wednesday night the former House speaker was inaccurate when he claimed his team offered several witnesses to ABC News to refute statements made by Gingrich’s second wife in a controversial interview aired last week. [...] On Wednesday, however, the ...
  • Obama to Panetta: ‘Good job tonight’
    Statement by Secretary Panetta on Hostage Rescue Operation in Somalia Last night U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted, by order of the President of the United States, a successful mission in Somalia to rescue two individuals taken hostage on October 25, 2011. Ms. Jessica Buchanan, an America ...

Hudson New York

  • British Organization Backing Religious Intolerance
    It is a year since the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was gunned down by his own close protection officer in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. A secular politician who championed women's rights and tried to reform the country's repressive religious
  • European Court of Human Rights Protects Arch-T ...
    The radical Islamic cleric – an iconic figure to the Jihadists and widely believed to have been right hand to Osama Bin Laden in Europe -- Abu Qatada (original name, Omar Othman) won his appeal at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights on
  • UN Cyprus Talks Yield No Result
    Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders on Tuesday wrapped up two days of United Nations-mediated talks on reuniting their ethnically divided island, but a Greek Cypriot source said there had been no concrete results. Hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban
  • Turkish Women Victims of "Permitted" Rape
    At the beginning of the New Year, as reported in the daily newspaper Haber Türk (Turkish News) of January 6, 2012, E.D., a 25-year old man in the northwestern Turkish city of Bolu, took his 11-year old "wife," Z.Ç., to the hospital because she suffered
  • The New Hypocriritcal Stance of of Mahmoud Abbas
    The Palestinian Authority has expressed outrage over the arrest of Hamas officials in the West Bank by the Israel Defense Forces -- even though the Palestinian Authority itself has also been arresting Hamas supporters in the West Bank. The Palestinian

Urban Survival

  • Gold Wakes Up
    From an intraday low around $1,655 yesterday to to a whopping $1,728.20 (so far) this morning, yeah, I’d day gold is doing something.  Since this is so “in your face” we begin today with the observation that gold and silver … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Time Slips and Dream Times
    Oh, this one is a dandy report of  WuJo-like happenings: Hi GU- Thanx 4 your news-I can’t afford subscribing but I do visit 4 days a week and send your link to pertinent others-and good luck with your wallstreet gambling … Continue reading →
  • The Great Dichotomy
    Reader Note:  This morning’s report is a posted early – and a bit short, to, come to think of it.  Taking G2 to the airport…been a fun visit, but he’s anxious to get back to the big city, for heaven … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Noticing Colours
    In our every-so-often tromp down to the martial arts platform where hard science meets hot anomalies, we have a reader who sends this… I have, and believe me when I say the flat screen works fine, noticed NOTHING but blue … Continue reading →
  • The Bitter Harvest at Davos
    Ain’t it rich?  (I love lousy word plays on Monday).  I mean after putting on a decades-long press for global corporate domination, the folks at helm of some of the world’s largest pools of money are meeting at the World … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Ohio Coal Closures: A business decision that p ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Good news for human health and a clean energy economy out of Ohio today: an announcement that FirstEnergy is closing units at six of the nastiest coal plants in the nation. Four of t ...
  • Be a Part of PACE
    Alisa Valderrama, Finance Analyst, New York Beginning today, an innovative energy-smart finance program for homeowners – called Property Assessed Clean Energy or PACE – has a chance for revival. Over the next 60 days (until March 26th, 2 ...
  • Offshore Drilling Plans Endanger Arctic Ocean, ...
    Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney and Director, Ocean Initiative, New York  In Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, President Obama declared that his administration would open 75 percent of American offshore oil and gas resources to drilling ...
  • U.S. Leadership on Water: Only the Sum of Its ...
    Heather Allen, International Advocate, Washington, DC In his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama spoke about economic equity and fairness.  There may be no greater inequity among people than the disparity regarding ...
  • With World Water Day just two months away, U.S ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. With just two months before World Water Day on March 22, NRDC, CARE & WaterAid in America have published our annual report about how the United States is doing in implementing the recommendations we ma ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry today’s recap is just a straight copy of yesterday’s content on the news feed, but my day job is continuing to demand all my attention from the time I wake up until I fall asleep… Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, January 24, 2012: 4 East Haven CT cops arrested on multiple charges, allegedly routinely conspired to deprive rights, excessive force [0] cour.at/xxo96L Ada Co ID deputy on leave af ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, January 23, 2012: California state trooper was convicted of murder for fatally shooting her husband during an alleged drunken dispute [0] lat.ms/zJXxWe Lincoln RI cop c ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 01-21 ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of January 21-22, 2012: Austin TX police allegedly kept a citizens panel ruling that a fatal shooting incident by a cop violated policy a secret while they continued to justify that ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, January 20, 2012: Seattle WA police seem to have an ace in the hole in their effort to stop the DOJ from forcing them to stop committing civil rights abuses in the form of a [...]

Total Collapse

  • Massive US Troop Movements In California Raise ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Ministry of Defense circulating in the Kremlin today states that Russian Military Officials were rebuffed by NATO yesterday after questions were raised regarding massive troop and war equipment movements in the United States region of California and said to in ...
  • US Deploys 15,000 Troops To Kuwait As Tensions ...
    The United States is not at war with Iran yet, but just in case,the Pentagon says they want to be prepared. To do so, the Department of Defense has dispatched 15,000 troops to the neighboring nation of Kuwait. Gen. James Mattis, the Marine Corps head that rules over the US Central Command, won a ...
  • Google to track users… like never before!
    In a move that has triggered outrage, Google has announced plans to bring all data collected from users’ separate accounts on its sites into a combined profile. Besides raising dubious questions about privacy, this offer is one you… cannot refuse. The changes will take effect on March 1. Before ...
  • FBI would like to follow you on Facebook and T ...
    The FBI has got tired of monitoring social media sites manually and wants to reinvent the process. So, soon your posts may instantly light up on a map as a big red dot if considered suspicious, marking the location of the ‘bad actor.’ “Social media has become a primary source of intelligen ...
  • Iran definitely closing Strait of Hormuz over ...
    Tensions in the Gulf could reach a breaking point as a senior Iranian official said Iran would “definitely” close the Strait of Hormuz if an EU oil embargo disrupted the export of crude oil, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. The announcement came in response to a decision by the Europe ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    22 European states have signed up for ACTA, but the battle isn’t lost just yet. Google+ is now available to teens, with safety improvements. Israel and Iran are in a...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple has a blockbuster quarter, UK mobile operator O2 leaks customers’ phone numbers to websites they access, and Obama’s State of the Union address is a Twitter hit. It’s all...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Anonymous hacks the FTC. London will get Internet on the Tubes…sort of. Julian Assange is going to host a talk show. But who would actually want to end their career...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Tumblr.com is about to get better when it comes to discovery. Google might be selectively censoring some of its Blogger blogs. YouTube has hit 4 billion daily page views. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Megaupload is down and the Department of Justice is behind the act. So Anonymous decided that the DOJ’s site should go down too. Turnabout, eh? Google+ tops 90 million active...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Logging of primary rainforests not ecologicall ...
    Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds the capacity of forests to regenerate timber stocks and substantially increases the risk of outright clearing for agricultural and industrial plantations, argues a trio of scientists writing in the jo ...
  • U.S. media favored Keystone pipeline in coverage
    A new report by Media Matters finds that U.S. TV and print media were largely biased toward the construction of TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline, which the Obama administration recently turned down. The report finds that guests and quotes were largely in favor of the pipeline in addition to ne ...
  • California city bans bullfrogs to safeguard na ...
    Santa Cruz, California has become the first city in the U.S. to ban the importation, sale, release, and possession of the American bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana). Found throughout Eastern and Central U.S., the frogs have become an invasive threat to wildlife in the western U.S. states and Canada.
  • Protecting original wetlands far preferable to ...
    Even after 100 years have passed a restored wetland may not reach the state of its former glory. A new study in the open access journal PLoS Biology finds that restored wetlands may take centuries to recover the biodiversity and carbon sequestration of original wetlands, if they ever do. The stu ...

Sierra Express

  • AML restores life to Bendugu
    Recuperating Paramount Chief Alimamy Kulio Jalloh II of Samaia Bendugu, Tonkolili district, who returned home from the United States following a successful one-year-long major surgery at the Washington DC Memorial Hospital, said his wellbeing was that of his people. “I am particularly grateful t ...
  • Agriterra spells out ambitious plans for Sierr ...
    Negotiations are already underway to secure a 15-acre site in the new airport development zone close to the capital Freetown, while advanced discussions are also taking place to acquire a cocoa plantation in the south-east of the country. Food producer Agriterra this morning said it plans to exp ...
  • Political violence: Charles Margai’s Plan B?
    Sierra Leone’s political make-up has over the years been dominated by a selected few. The coming of President Koroma in 2007 was therefore seen as a big blow to those who think, power should always remain in their hands. And because the people of Sierra Leone have again, demonstrated their readi ...
  • ICC’s Pre-trial Chamber endorses indictments o ...
    A message to Sierra Leonean politicians:The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) today welcomed the January 23 decision of the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to approve the indictments of four Kenyans for their alleged role in the post December 2007 elect ...
  • Sierra Leone Conference starts on Monday
    A three day meeting to chart the next 50 years forward begins at the Miatta Conference Centre Monday 30 January, 2012. After over five months of both nationwide and international consultations and deliberations among Sierra Leoneans from all walks of life, the much anticipated Sierra Leone Confe ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • No part for public opinion in China farm sale ...
    Public opinion will play no part in the decision on whether ministers approve of the sale of 16 Crafar farms to Shanghai Pengxin company, Prime Minister John told reporters today.He said a decision was imminent, today or tomorrow.In...
  • Decision due on Crafar farms tonight or tomorrow
    A ministerial decision on the sale of 16 farms to China's Shanghai Pengxin is due late tonight or tomorrow, the High Court in Wellington heard today.Yesterday cabinet briefly discussed the Overseas Investment Office's recommendation...
  • Raw milk plan better deal for farmers - PM
    Government proposals on raw milk regulation will help independent suppliers compete with Fonterra and not end up hitting local farmers in the pocket Prime Minister John Key believes.The Government has released for public consultation...
  • Govt deaf to Fonterra on forced milk sales
    Fonterra's cost of complying with special regulation is "significantly outweighed'' by the benefits of its privileged position in the New Zealand dairy market, agriculture ministry officials have concluded.But Fonterra says the...
  • Crafar farm bid decision close
    The Overseas Investment Office now says it will make a decision whether or not to approve Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms before the January 31 deadline for the deal set by receiver Michael Stiassny.Should...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk in Poland — interview with a Po ...
    Polish raw milk vending machine manufacturer Konrad Pszowski came to our attention through comments he posted on the Bovine. We thought, as a maker of raw milk automats, he could fill us in a little on the under-reported raw milk scene … Continue reading →
  • Controversial Toronto backyard chicken growers ...
    From David Rider, in the Toronto Star: “Trish Tervit is a friendly mom, an executive with a buzzing iPhone and an outlaw urban farmer collecting eggs on borrowed time. Her hens — Pippi, Mabel and Elli — peer through a … Continue reading →
  • Will organic farmers be “left behind&#82 ...
    From The Call of the Land blog: “When Stewart Brand spoke at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in mid-January, he broadcast a vision of a Genetically Modified (GM) future toward which he felt we should all be charging with bright-eyed enthusiasm. “Get out … Continue reading →
  • Portland shows the way with raw milk sales all ...
    From Emily Parkhurst on The Forecaster.net: PORTLAND — Customers at the city’s farmers markets may soon be able to buy unpasteurized local milk, hard cider, beer and wine to go with their fresh vegetables, meats and baked goods. City Councilors … Continue reading →
  • About psychopathic personalities
    Is the fact that many psychopaths gravitate to positions of power part of the reason why we’re so seldom governed “as if people mattered”? From the Lyme Disease Sentinel blog: “Narcissists, sociopaths, or psychopaths come from all walks of life, … Continue reading & ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Cameron Rebukes Euro Leaders at Davos, Calls F ...
    Bickering in Davos at the World Economic Forum has taken center stage as U.K. Prime Minister Cameron rebukes euro leaders over crisis David Cameron has delivered a firm rebuke to Germany at the World Economic Forum, calling on Berlin to contribute significantly more resources and guarantees to ...
  • Steen Jakobsen on Maximum Intervention "Now is ...
    Steen Jakobsen, chief economist for Saxo Bank in Denmark has some interesting thoughts to share on gold an metals in an email update that just came in. Steen writes ... Interesting session with Fed yesterday! Both the ECB and the FED have now clearly showed that the changed board of direc ...
  • Chart of the Day: Central Bank Balance Sheet a ...
    Here is an interesting chart by Peter Garnry, an Equity Strategist at Saxo Bank in Denmark. The race is on to see which central bank can load up its balance sheet with the most garbage the fastest. Reader Scott says ... Lemme see here, the EFSF was, once upon a time, going to l ...
  • Merkel Casts Doubt on Saving Greece, Insists E ...
    Amazingly, smack in the midst of deal to save Greece from bankruptcy, the ECB not only insists on taking no losses on Greek bonds its holds, it wants a profit on them because it bought them at what seemed at the time to be a substantial discount. The discount was imaginary. The bonds were tradin ...
  • Chart of the Day: Apparel Import Data in Squar ...
    Here is a chart of apparel trends sent to me last week by reader Tim Wallace. click on chart for sharper image Wallace Writes .... Dear Mish As I have been saying over the past several months there is a tremendous unit drop going on in the import apparel industry, but it i ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...
  • The Federal Debt & A New Way to Control It
    Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul Can Work Only for a While Debt owed by the United States federal government has risen sharply in recent years.  The worst recession since the Great Depression played a role in that increase, to be sure.  But the federal debt has been growing considerably faster t ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Burning Spear Live Welcome to Soothing the Beast. All week we work, stay involved, fight and just try to survive and come to grips with everything in this world around us. We need a break and that’s what this segment is all about. At Boiling Frogs Post when Saturday night rolls around it&# ...
  • Why the Military Industrial Complex Supports O ...
    Video- Sibel Edmonds Interview: RT I was scheduled for an interview on the latest developments on the Turkish-Syria topic, however, they had a last minute change and suddenly I was facing questions regarding the latest exposé on Bahrain-Washington Times. If you look carefully you’ll see my eye-b ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Blogging Canadians

  • EI financing agency spends millions doing noth ...
    So much for being fiscally responsible! Maybe the reason the number of Service Canada's E.I. offices is being slashed by over 80% is to pay for this boondoggle. EI financing agency spends millions doing nothing - Politics - CBC News: Backlogged by Design Conservative ridings benefit from.. ...
  • Parliament in Review: November 18, 2011
    Friday, November 18 saw two pieces of legislation discussed. And the contrast couldn't have been much more stark between an opposition effort to develop better legislation, and a government focused on nothing more than sticking to talking points regardless of whether they made the slightest sens ...
  • The One-For-One Rule an Over-Simplified Approa ...
    President of the Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement Minister Tony Clement's released their new One-For-One rule on Jan 18th.  Put simply the press release is announcing that the federal government plans to treat regulations like trading cards. This means that regulato ...
  • Floor-crossing heart-switching mind-changers
    John L. is my best friend And I believe with all my heart In this man's vision for our land. I'm thrilled to be a part Of positive change. John L., you know, is dead. I must confess: at heart My views are not the ones he had And I'm no more a part Of positive change.
  • Council of Canadians sponsored Trudeau’s BC sp ...
    Besides the obvious hilarity of having the son of a multi-millionaire speaking at an event co-hosted by Occupy Kelowna, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau was also here in the Okanagan at the request of the organized labour-backed group, Council of Canadians. “We have a government right now that&#8 ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • HRW accuses UAE of rights violation
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of violating civil rights and suppressing freedom of expression in the country.
  • Saudi forces kill another protester
    Saudi security forces have shot dead another protester in the town of Awamiyah in the east of the country, as anti-regime demonstrations continue in the kingdom, Press TV reports.
  • Yemenis call for Saleh prosecution
    Anti-regime protesters have taken to the streets across Yemen calling for the prosecution of embattled ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh, Press TV reports.
  • Israeli army to force back draft dodgers
    The Israeli military is planning to “return” hundreds of female draft dodgers who have evaded serving in the army due to religious grounds.
  • 'Bahraini protester dies in prison'
    The Bahraini government says a teenage protester has died in police custody, despite activists' reports that the boy was crushed to death by a police patrol.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • The Hope and Change Dog and Pony Show
    With vague allusions to populist promises and admonition of his stubborn Republican opposition, the Great Capitulator ramped up his act like it was 2008 all over again. Memories of that agonizingly nauseating year abounded as mainstream liberals sang his praises. Among others, Michael Moore, of ...
  • U.S. Probe of Border Attack Hardened Pakistani ...
    IPS — The Pakistani military leadership’s response to the U.S. report on its helicopter attack on two Pakistani border posts November 26 assailed the credibility of the investigation by Air Force Brig. Gen. Steven Clark and expressed doubt that the attack could have been “accidental& ...
  • Why All the Robo-signing?
    The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the “robo-signing” scandal.  The scandal involves employees signing names not their own, under titles they di ...
  • Occupying Libido: Negotiating a Landscape of H ...
    When Bill Clinton and his scary, scary libido stalked the public realm, Republicans warned his presence was so anathema to all things holy that his hot breath served to salt the wings of choirs of angels. Yet Newt Gingrich’s booty calls are forgivable. Stones shall not be cast. His transgr ...
  • Sanctimonious Hypocrites Can’t Diminish the W ...
    Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.) praised Joe Paterno and ordered flags on all state buildings to fly at half-staff for four days. That would be the same Tom Corbett who had said he was “personally disappointed” in Joe Paterno for not doing more to alert authorities in the Jerry Sandusky case, while ackn ...

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