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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, January 27, 2012

27 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: Plan for Popular Presidential Vote Quiet ...
    Unlike many of the younger democracies around the world, the United States still does not elect its president by popular vote. Indeed, a majority of U.S. citizens elected Al Gore to be president in 2000, but because the U.S. elects its presidents by way of a convoluted system called the ...
  • U.S.: Forced Marriages Still an Ugly Secret
    Two years ago, 40-year-old Vidya Sri decided to leave the devastating marriage her parents had forced her into nearly two decades ago. Alone for the first time, she began an earnest quest for support groups, women's organisations or service providers who might help her in the healing pro ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.
  • ZIMBABWE: To Yuan or Not to Yuan, That is the ...
    From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds - the Chinese finger is now in virtually every Zimbabwean pie.
  • PAKISTAN: Violence, Death Stalk Child Domestic ...
    "He was a happy child, my younger brother," Mohammad Ramzan, 18, reminisced, his voice steeped in sadness.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Halt in Iran oil could push crude up 30%: IMF
    Summary: WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Wednesday that global crude prices could rise as much as 30 per cent if Iran halts oil exports as a result of United States (US) and European Union (EU) sanctions. source: Reutersread more
  • US, Israel Agree: Iran Not Building Nukes
    Summary: Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world should simply cripple Iran’s economy and inflict severe pain on its civilian population or launch a preemptive war to destroy its nuclear capabi ...
  • ‘Iranian MPs mulling plan to cut oil exports t ...
    Summary: TEHRAN - The Iranian parliament is discussing a plan calling for a halt to Iran’s oil exports to the European countries that voted for sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, MP Nasser Soudani has announced. source: Tehran Timesread more
  • Syrian Snapshot I: A View From the Capital
    Summary: What do the majority of Syrians want? That is still the million dollar question, and the answer appears to shift with each major development – sometimes with optimism, usually with pessimism. If I were to wager on the outcome of this crisis though, I would firmly place my bets on the ...
  • STOP THE WAR BEFORE IT STARTS - EMERGENCY PROT ...
    Summary: Hands off Iran and Syria 2 - 4pm, US Embassy Grosvenor Square London W1K 2 Called by Stop the War Coalition. Supported by UNITE the Union, War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention on Iran, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Goldsmiths St ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Search for Earth's Twin Getting Hot! --NASA An ...
    NASA's Kepler mission has discovered . These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one planet that transits, or passes in front of, the star. Such systems...
  • New Discovery: Why the Most Massive Galaxies i ...
    By studying how distant starburst galaxies are clustered together, astronomers have found that they eventually become so-called giant elliptical galaxies -- the most massive galaxies in today's universe. The galaxies are so distant that their light has taken around ten...
  • Richard Dawkins: "On Life in the Universe" (To ...
    It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in...
  • "The Earth Strain" --Could NASA's 'Curiosity' ...
    Michael Crichton would have loved this: Bacteria common to spacecraft may be able to survive the harsh environs of Mars long enough to inadvertently contaminate the Red Planet with terrestrial life, "If long-term microbial survival is possible on Mars, then...
  • World's Most Powerful Laser Unlocks Clues to E ...
    Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. This feat takes scientists a significant step...

Natural News

  • Bioregional herbalism -- a more sustainable mo ...
    Simply substituting echinacea for flu shots or arnica cream for Ben-Gay can still leave you hooked into the unhealthy and consumerist mainstream model of health. If you want to develop a truly holistic sense of health, learn to experience both yourself and the plants...
  • Mercury detox and cutting edge science
    Mercury poisoning is a serious threat. A lack of knowledge about heavy metal toxicity could be the greatest danger to your life. Educate yourself about Methylmercury, Inorganic Mercury and Ethylmercury - as fast as possible. The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents "Mercury...
  • High fructose corn syrup linked to cardiovascu ...
    Adolescents who consume foods and beverages containing high fructose corn syrup already have, present in their blood, evidence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes according to a recent study. The results of the new study, to be published in February...
  • Unborn babies at risk of arsenic poisoning
    New scientific evidence has emerged, linking rice to harmful levels of arsenic. A recent study coming from Darmouth University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds new light on arsenic sources in the diets of healthy pregnant women...
  • Bilberries promote gastrointestinal health
    Eating bilberries will reduce intestinal inflammation and alleviate the effects of colitis. These are the results of the experiments conducted by a team of scientists led by Professor Gerhard Rogler from University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. Bilberries, or huckleberries...

Threat Level

  • Symantec: We Didn’t Know in 2006 Source Code W ...
    Anti-virus giant Symantec clarifies that it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced a breach at that time.
  • Eight Reasons Anonymous Should Welcome Glenn B ...
    Oh, Glenn Beck. It seems that Beck has put in an application to join Anonymous. But mere words fail. The only thing you can say about about this video is WAT? WTF does this even mean? Our heads are hurting, here at Wired. Blogs are cogitating about this move by Beck and the possible hellfile [...]
  • The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life ...
    Since the shutdown of Megaupload, stories have erupted about the life and exploits of the company’s founder, a self-styled “Dr. Evil” of file sharing. Kim Dotcom’s opulent digs, high-end cars, fondness for models and other Bond-villain-esque behaviors have been splashed across websites and have ...
  • Railroad Association Says Hack Memo Was Inaccurate
    A government memo saying a railway was hacked in a targeted attack has numerous inaccuracies, according to a spokeswoman for the Association of American Railroads.
  • Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake ...
    Buoyed by the success of the anti-SOPA protests and riled by the shutdown of Megaupload, Anonymous has launched a worldwide campaign of attacks against governments it thinks have overstepped their mandate.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Did Romney's $45 Million '08 Campaign Loss Red ...
    When it comes to paying his taxes, Mitt Romney may not have broken the rules; he just plays by a different set of them. His sub-15 percent effective tax rate revealed that Romney used his carried interest exemption, not-so-blind trusts, Cayman Islands investments and Swiss Bank accounts to his ...
  • The GOP Misstate of the Union
    The least surprising element to Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was the Republican talking point that the President's policies have "made our economy worse." Speaker John Boehner regurgitated that point five times during his pre-buttal on Fox News Sunday before concluding last ni ...
  • Team USA Goalie Tim Thomas Snubs President Obama
    On Monday, goaltender Tim Thomas of the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins became just the latest high profile athlete to snub President Obama by refusing to attend a White House ceremony honoring his team. Nevertheless, Thomas' insult to the presidency is unique. After all, Thomas is the firs ...
  • Newt Gingrich's Big Idea
    "Where's the beef?" With that sound bite, Walter Mondale deflated the insurgent bid of the "candidate of new ideas" Gary Hart for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination.* Twenty-eight years later, rising Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich may be about to have his own "where's th ...
  • Romney Plays the Victim Card
    Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary by playing the victim card. Now, Mitt Romney hopes to win the Republican nomination by doing the same thing. But while Gingrich's ploy of portraying himself as the latest conservative target of a liberal "elite" media assault is always a winner with ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • BEST Global Warming iPhone & iPad App — Just S ...
      If you’re not familiar with the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study, here’s the quick summary: A ‘global warming skeptic’ who was convinced, somehow, that climate scientists who had been studying global temperatures for the last several decades hadn&#8 ...
  • BPA Linked to Obesity & Linked to Behavior Pro ...
      BPA has come into the public consciousness now. If you haven’t yet heard about it, though, take a scroll through our BPA tag or the BPA tag of sister site Eat Drink Better. Adding on to all we already know about the risks of BPA (which is still [...]
  • Guerrilla Gardeners Get Stealth Bond Kit
      I wrote about “Guerrilla Gardening” & “seed bombs” nearly two years ago on sister site Green Living Ideas. I loved this concept from the second I heard about it. Basically, it combines child-like fun and imagination with activism with gardening. What’s n ...
  • Bicycle Umbrella Jousting (VIDEO)
    Too funny.  
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Parliamentary #rhinohea ...
    In a matter of hours, the highly anticipated Parliamentary discussion about South Africa’s horrific rhino situation will commence in Cape Town. Public hearings on potential solutions to the country’s rhino crisis are expected to begin Thursday at 9:30 AM SAST. The Department of Envi ...

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Axis of Logic

  • WAR FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!!! Diebold accidently ...
    Editorial Comment: For the last 10 years Axis of Logic has consistently boycotted US national elections. Do not participate in the fraudulent 2012 elections in the United States.  Do not give credibilty to a false democracy. Your most powerful vote is abstention. Vote on your feet. Vote on th ...
  • Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Cris ...
    New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform Source: Real News...
  • Tariq Ali: Obama’s Expansion of Af-Pak War "Ha ...
    Editorial comment:The video attached contains about 45 minutes of pre-election talk. If you prefer to avoid that, move forward to 45+ minutes into the video, where Tariq Ali comes in.  - SON Amid ongoing U.S.-Pakistani tensions and fears of a military coup in Pakistan, we are join ...
  • Nigeria violence: Scores dead after Kano blast ...
    Co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday killed about 150 people, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured. A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings, passport offices and ...
  • BFP Breaking News: The New Desperate Concoctio ...
    War Architects Have Written a New Script- This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fa ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Rape the Sluts" Bill Back in Kentucky Lege
    By @KYYellowDog What is it about "forced penetration of the vagina is rape" that these don't motherfuckers understand? Never mind; they understand it perfectly. Go watch these perverts debate this thing. The mere thought of forcing uterine cameras deep into crying, protesting women seeking abor ...
  • Of the NRA, a strained-to-the-breaking-point A ...
    By @BGinKC Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli has devoted a great deal of time over the last three years to reducing suicides in the Army, the Army Reserves and the National Guard. He's worked diligently at it, and the process has been transparent and thorough. And yet, the numbers s ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Union Label"
    By @KYYellowDog Listen up, children: not so long ago the question wasn't "is it made in America;" the question was "is it made by American union members." The competition 30 years ago wasn't between slave labor in Asia and wage-slave labor in America; it was between non-union labor in the Caroli ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD Who had Wednesday in the @NewtGingrich gets all weird pool? You won. "Newt Gingrich took the opportunity of being on Florida's space coast to revisit one of his favorite topics: space exploration. ... "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and i ...
  • I used to think we were better than this, but ...
    By @BGinKC Yesterday the FBI, the investigative arm of the Justice Department, arrested four East Haven, Connecticut police officers for singling out Latino members of the community for harrassment, bullying and abuse. Known as "Miller's Boys," they worked the four-to-midnight shift in the blue- ...

Care 2

  • Mr. 13.9%
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ban Tiger Farm Cruelty---Video
    Short (not graphic) video from the TigerTime organization dedicated to: Stop the Poaching / Slaughter Stop the Trade in body parts Save the tiger Submitted by Kenneth L. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Save Georgia Freshwater Turtles ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Tell the Georgia Department of Natural Resources that you support their proposes restrictions on turtle harvesting Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Teardrop protein has jaws to chew up harmful b ...
    Washington, Jan 20 - Lysozymes, antiseptic proteins in our teardrops, have jaws that latch on and chomp through rows of cell walls of harmful bugs like someone hungrily devouring an ear of corn. Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Whalers...YESTERDAY
    Never before has the Japanese whaling fleet abandoned one designated whaling survey area for another. Sea Shepherd has apparently seriously disrupted the Japanese whaling plan for this season and has cost them Submitted by THE Phoenix to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Live Blogging the GOP Debate, CNN, 8 p.m. ET ( ...
    Update: Ever notice that Mitt Romney is the only candidate who sings the national anthem, along with the performers? And — get this — Callista Gingrich, a music major who sings these days in her Washington, D.C. Catholic church, stood silent with a stern look, as if she was bored by ...
  • Too Many Monkeys, Not Enough Bread
    I love Monkey Bread! Do you know what Monkey Bread is?  I’d never heard of it until last year, then my wife brought home a box of Monkey Bread that you can pop into the microwave and four minutes later enjoy a little taste of Heaven!  Mmmmm… Monkey Bread! It’s just a big pull-a ...
  • Gingrich Going Down
    He’s melting. The avalanche has started. Newt Gingrich is setting himself on fire. The list is long and will grow in the coming days. Remember Newt’s indignant put down of John King for having the audacity to ask about his 2nd ex-wife’s charge that Newt wanted an open marriage. ...
  • Republican Adolescents + Open Thread
    What is behind this tectonic shift in GOP presidential primary polls from Mitt Romney to Newt Gingrich? Testosterone and impatience. Republican voters’ fantasies are skipping the primaries and fast-forwarding to the mano a mano battles next fall. Their testosterone-fueled “wet dreams ...
  • John Kiriakou, Former CIA Officer Indicted
    John Kiriakou is in a world of trouble for allegedly exposing the name of an undercover CIA officer and the name of a separate CIA officer, who was not undercover but was working on a classified project. He was indicted this week by Pat Fitzgerald and faces some serious jail time. The right wing ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Third Annual 'Green Screen' shows environmenta ...
    Third Annual 'Green Screen' shows environmental films NorthJersey.com (press release) 2011 Sundance Film selection, "The Last Mountain," (95 minutes, PG) explores the destructive coal mining practice known as Mountain Top Removal (the blasting away of mountains using explosives ...
  • Judge Chambers blocks health studies from mine ...
    Judge Chambers blocks health studies from mine permit case Charleston Gazette A federal judge has sided with Alpha Natural Resources in the company's effort to keep testimony about West Virginia University studies linking mountaintop removal to birth defects and cancer among coalfield reside ...
  • Environmental groups press for ban on mountain ...
    Environmental groups press for ban on mountain top removal mining The Tennessean (blog) The Sustainable Tennessee Coalition, an effort backed by the Tennessee Environmental Council and Tennessee Conservation Voters, presented a legislative agenda Wednesday that calls on lawmakers to pass a bill ...
  • Study Finds Surface and Mountaintop Removal Co ...
    Between The Lines Study Finds Surface and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Degrades Water Quality Between The Lines In December, an article appeared in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that exposes the impact of surface and mountaintop removal coal mining on water q ...
  • United Mountain Defense Hosts Teach-In Tomorro ...
    United Mountain Defense Hosts Teach-In Tomorrow Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog) By Cari Wade Gervin Who doesn't want to learn more about mountaintop removal coal mining practices? Well, now you can! Tomorrow, during lunch, United Mountain Defense is hosting a teach-in about MTR outside the Gay ...

Memeorandum

  • 4 Sentences: Why Tonight's Debate Matters (Ron ...
    Ron Fournier / 2012 Decoded: 4 Sentences: Why Tonight's Debate Matters  —  Florida is a must-win state for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.  The race is tied.  Debates matter.  That makes tonight a must-win debate.  —  If you want to know more about ...
  • Egypt Bars Sam LaHood From Leaving (New York T ...
    New York Times: Egypt Bars Sam LaHood From Leaving  —  Sam LaHood, son of the transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, and other American employees of the International Republican Institute were prevented from flying out of Egypt last week.
  • Gingrich: Gay Marriage a 'Perfect Example of W ...
    Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch: Gingrich: Gay Marriage a ‘Perfect Example of What I Mean by the Rise of Paganism’  —  Yesterday, Newt Gingrich held another conference call for Religious Right supporters, seeking to mobilize them ahead of the Republican primary in Fl ...
  • Romney tax returns detail funds not identified ...
    Los Angeles Times: Romney tax returns detail funds not identified in ethics forms  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks under a sign during a campaign event at Paramount Printing in Jacksonville, Florida.  (Chip Somodevilla/Ge ...
  • Santorum Says Glitter Bombers Are The "Radical ...
    Rosie Gray / Politics: Santorum Says Glitter Bombers Are The “Radical Left”  —  The real intolerance, Sanoturm says, comes from the glitter-bombers.  —  An Occupy protester throws glitter onto former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum as he signs autogra ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Chinese waste: the burning issue
    The state remains unprepared for the pollution and protests its ambitious garbage-incineration plans could generate, writes Yu Dawei.Since early 2008, China has seen a frenzy of investment in controversial garbage-incineration plants. In the words of Zhang Yi, head of the Shanghai Environmental ...
  • Living landscape
    As the need to reduce the amount of energy and materials used in manufacturing processes becomes more urgent, architects and engineers should look for inspiration in nature, writes Michael Pawlyn.At the start of the industrial revolution, people were scarce and resources were abundant. Today, th ...
  • Dominating the urban horizon
    Skyscrapers are costly to erect and permits are tough to get, so why do architects keep trying to go higher? Tall buildings have always been about ego, say Edwin Heathcote and Ed Hammond.Cass Gilbert, architect of New York’s early 20th-century Woolworth Building, called skyscrapers “ ...
  • Food versus water in Colorado
    High commodity prices are complicating aquifer protection in the San Luis Valley, which – like northern China – faces a groundwater crisis. Brett Walton reports. At an average altitude of 2,350 metres, Colorado’s San Luis Valley, in the western United States, is the n ...
  • What the smog can’t conceal
    The air quality crisis confirms China’s once-bold environment ministry has become sluggish, weak and bureaucratic, writes Chu Long.Since the autumn, a series of polluted “hazes” in cities across China – and discussion of that now ubiquitous term for fine particulate matte ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Woman Who Would Say that Air Force Chief of St ...
    On February 14, Scott Air Force Base in Illinois will be holding its annual National Prayer Breakfast. The guest speaker this year will be Esther Jungreis, a Holocaust survivor who founded the international Hineni movement in 1973 to discourage intermarriage and Jewish participation in cults, ac ...
  • Conservatives Use Creationist Playbook to Atta ...
    The overwhelming scientific evidence that says humans are causing the warming of the planet has emerged as the new battlefield in middle and high schools in the U.S.
  • Hansel and Gretel and Israel/Palestine
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Craig Wiesner Children have been told horror stories for as long as storytelling has existed. Should a child become traumatized hearing a story like Hansel and Gretel, where the witch plans to throw the children into the oven to make a nice meal, parents can tell ...
  • The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice ...
    Written by Pamela Merritt for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. A task force in North Carolina recently ruled that survivors of that state’s eugenics program should be paid $50,000 each in financ ...
  • Arizona Unbound: Educators, Librarians, Writer ...
    What happens in Arizona doesn’t stay in Arizona. As Tea Party state education chief John Huppenthal retreats into his office after an embarrassing national media tour on Arizona’s extremist Ethnic Studies crackdown, and Tucson Unified School District administrators continue their sli ...

Threat Level

  • Symantec: We Didn’t Know in 2006 Source Code W ...
    Anti-virus giant Symantec clarifies that it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced a breach at that time.
  • Eight Reasons Anonymous Should Welcome Glenn B ...
    Oh, Glenn Beck. It seems that Beck has put in an application to join Anonymous. But mere words fail. The only thing you can say about about this video is WAT? WTF does this even mean? Our heads are hurting, here at Wired. Blogs are cogitating about this move by Beck and the possible hellfile [...]
  • The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life ...
    Since the shutdown of Megaupload, stories have erupted about the life and exploits of the company’s founder, a self-styled “Dr. Evil” of file sharing. Kim Dotcom’s opulent digs, high-end cars, fondness for models and other Bond-villain-esque behaviors have been splashed across websites and have ...
  • Railroad Association Says Hack Memo Was Inaccurate
    A government memo saying a railway was hacked in a targeted attack has numerous inaccuracies, according to a spokeswoman for the Association of American Railroads.
  • Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake ...
    Buoyed by the success of the anti-SOPA protests and riled by the shutdown of Megaupload, Anonymous has launched a worldwide campaign of attacks against governments it thinks have overstepped their mandate.

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • A "Silver Bullet" for Salmonella Cantaloupe - ...
    Not sure about Listeria. According to the USDA, the use of hot water as a method to decontaminate cantaloupe is more effective than various other washing and physical treatments tested to date.  The work presented in a USDA article demonstrates the utility of surface pasteurization to grea ...
  • MA: Ooops, No Brucellosis in Human or Raw Milk
    Food Safety News reports, a Massachusetts resident who first tested positive for brucellosis has now been confirmed to not have the infection, according to an email from the assistant commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR). "While initial test results did ...
  • Listeria Risk: Deli Turkey & Ham Footlong San ...
    On January 25, 2012, it was announced that Anytime Deli Turkey & Ham Footlong Sandwiches are being recalled due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The sub sandwiches were distributed on January 2nd and 3rd to convenience stores in Florida and South Georgia. The sandwiches b ...
  • Criminal Indictments in Food Cases - "Rare as ...
    Well, if asked that’s what I would have said. Matt Campbell of the Kansas City Star reported this morning that two executives of now bankrupt, Hitchin Post Steak Co., were indicted Wednesday on charges of selling misbranded and adulterated poultry products across the country. Craig Cunni ...
  • Settlements Reached in E. coli O157:H7 Cases I ...
    So, how useful is this information?  This is from an actual case: At first glance, it appeared that the E. coli O157:H7 infections experienced by two young girls whose parents retained us in 2010 were simply part of a small cluster of cases occurring in two California Counties. Both girls ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: CARB's latest ZEV revision could add 1 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding meetings that could put the hammer down on getting more zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) on the road - or so it seems at first glance. CARB, which always looks far down the road, is discussing ...
  • Report: GM CEO stands up for Chevy Volt in D.C ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric What a surprise. Today's Congressional hearing over the Chevrolet Volt fire and the resulting investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration turned out to be contentious. The hearing took pla ...
  • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV to Torra ...
    Torrance, CA is going to the front of the line. Honda has delivered its first Fit EV to the city government Friday as part of an EV demonstration program that will include an unspecified number of the little electric vehicles in tests before the consumer launch in limited markets (read: Calif ...
  • Detroit: Mercedes-Benz says E-Class hybrid mak ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury In between debuting the Smart for-us and SL on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show today, Mercedes-Benz thought it right to bring out two brown cars that are actually green: diesel and gasoline flavors of the E-Class hybrid. ...
  • Detroit: XC60 Plug-In Hybrid shows where Volvo ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Technology, Crossover, Volvo, Electric, Luxury Volvo has made it a point to emphasize - surprise - the safety of its plug-in vehicles at recent auto shows. Now, at the Detroit Auto Show, the Swedish automaker has showed off the XC60 Plug-In Gasoline Hyb ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • "Obama’s Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victim ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008. Among the populist pledges rolled out in the speech was tough talk against the too-big-to-fail banks that have funded his campaigns ...
  • Read Chapter 1 of "Glock: The Making of Americ ...
    On Thursday, we’ll speak with Paul M. Barrett, author of "Glock: The Making of America’s Gun," which tells the story of the American gun market as reflected by an Austrian six-cylinder revolver, tracing how it has become a weapon of choice on both sides of the law, in the ...
  • The Egyptian Revolution: One Year Later
    On the first anniversary of the Jan. 25th protests in Tahrir Square, we’ll speak to Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous live from Cairo. We will also air an excerpt of the new HBO documentary, "In Tahrir Square," featuring Sharif. We’ll talk to the filmmak ...
  • 2011 Oscar Nominees Include Docs on Iraq Veter ...
    Nominations were announced today for the 84nd annual Academy Awards. In the documentary feature category, three films featured on Democracy Now! received nods: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front tells the story of environmental activist, Daniel McGowan. Click here to s ...
  • "The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History" By A ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan An unprecedented wave of online opposition to the SOPA and PIPA bills before Congress shows the power of a free internet. Today marked the largest online protest in the history of the internet. Websites from large to small "went dark" in prote ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Transcript of 1.12.12 Precious Metals Market R ...
    A transcript of the January 12, 2012 Precious Metals Market Report is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Okay. Well, let’s start just with the current market and then let’s head into 2011 and take a look at what happened last year. Franklin: Well, the cur ...
  • The Summers Memo
    By Ryan Lizza – The New Yorker 23 Jan 12 In a piece this week on Barack Obama’s shift from idealism to pragmatism, I describe an important fifty-seven-page document from Lawrence Summers to President-elect Barack Obama dated December 15, 2008: Marked “Sensitive and Confidential,” the docum ...
  • Fed Expects to Keep Interest Rates Near Zero
    By Don Lee The Federal Reserve announces a subdued outlook for growth in the U.S. economy, as well as its intention to keep short-term interest rates near zero through late 2014. The Federal Reserve said it is likely to leave short-term interest rates at rock-bottom levels at least through late ...
  • Bernanke Makes Case for More Bond Buying
    Photographer: Zhang Yan/Xinhua/eyevine/Redux By Caroline Salas Gage and Craig Torres Ben S. Bernanke laid the groundwork for a third round of large-scale asset purchases should unemployment remain higher than the Federal Reserve would like while inflation falls below a newly-established target. ...
  • All The World’s Gold
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Are Europe’s rulers copying the policies ...
    Summary:  There are two paths for Europe. The path it is on, leading to a painful future and fundamental change.  And the other path, with unknown risks and pain — but offering the potential for a better future.  The path chosen by Europe’s leaders reveals much about them.  The outco ...
  • Bernard Finel examines American Delusions
    Summary: Today guest author Bernard Finel discusses one of the major themes of the FM website:  our broken thinking (aka dysfunctional observation-orientation-decision-action loop).  This was originally posted at his website on 17 January 2012. “American Delusions” by Bernard Finel O ...
  • American faux history: why did the South leav ...
    Summary:  The history of the State-sponsored oppression of Black Americans (1776-1964) is the story about one of our two great national sins.  Rather than confess and repent, many Americans prefer to take refuge in lies (the other, our treatment of Native Americans, is resolved by amnesia).  How ...
  • American faux history: could we have avoided t ...
    Summary:  The campaign of Ron Paul reminds us of two of the three great lies that comprise such a large fraction of American history: slavery, stealing land from the Indians, and the role of government in US economic development.  These not only exacerbate divisions in our society but provide a ...
  • George Orwell sends us a note, giving some per ...
    Summary:  None of our problems are unique.  Even the problems of Empire, and the distorting effect of global power on our minds.  Today we have some insights from George Orwell, examining the effect of cancerous nationalism on a nation’s thinking. Here is an excerpt from “Notes on Na ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • iPhones, Drones and Nuclear Weapons
    On Tuesday, Apple released its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, which comprised fourteen weeks and ended on December 31, 2011. The company earned record quarterly revenues of $46 billion, largely due to the thirty-seven million new iPhones  sold in that quarter—an increase ...
  • Pentagon Budget Delays Significant Decisions o ...
    HMS Vanguard launches US-supplied Trident II D5 SLBM off Florida in October 2005. (Image Source: FAS.org.) Today, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta issued a whitepaper outlining the budgetary implications of the Obama administration’s new defense strategic guidance and Congressionally-mandated ...
  • New Syria Resolution Might Back Russia into th ...
    The diplomatic gambit to press Bashar al Assad just got a little more interesting. You may recall that the Security Council has been paralyzed on Syria because of a split between Russia and the West.  That may soon change. Reuters is reporting that the the “P-3″ are working with Qata ...
  • Robotic Planes: Harbinger of Robotic Weapons?
    LA Times' latest article on drones raises the spectre of "robot weapons" in relations to the X-47B, Northrup Grumman's new drone prototype with the ability to fly solo - part of an ongoing force restructuring as the US military cuts back significantly on human personnel. read more
  • New Sanctions Aimed at Averting Wider Conflict
    European countries are imposing unprecedented sanctions against Iran in part in hopes of preventing an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear installations that could further destabilize the Middle East and wreak havoc on the global economy. The decision Monday by the European Union to phase out purc ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Unleash the Newt
    Those who felt let down by Newt Gingrich’s muted performance at Monday night’s debate—and, really, who among us did not?—should expect to get their money’s worth tonight. Live from Jacksonville at 8 p.m., it’s Wolf Blitzer’s turn to be Newt’s media-elite piñata (and, happily, audience reactions ...
  • Space Case
    COCOA, FLORIDA—Newt Gingrich took to the stage with an extra spring in his step yesterday. The presidential candidate has drawn many large crowds in Florida since his shocking South Carolina victory, but it was clear that this was something different from his standard stump speech. "What I'd li ...
  • Gingrich's Debate Pledge
    Survey a room of Newt Gingrich supporters and one main common theme always arises; they eagerly await the general election when Gingrich will easily waltz past Barack Obama in every debate. Newt has always thought highly of his skill at the podium. Throughout the fall and winter his stump speec ...
  • The Inside Track
    Early in the new HBO series Luck, a gangster’s chauffeur-cum-bodyguard, Gus Demitriou (Dennis Farina), goes to L.A.’s Santa Anita racetrack with his boss, Chester “Ace” Bern-stein (Dustin Hoffman), and makes a bet on a long shot. When the horse comes in, Gus clutches his winning ticket and says ...
  • Romney Donates to Anti-Gay Groups
    As it turns out, Mitt Romney’s donations in 2010 and 2011 include a non-trivial gift to several organizations that could be charitably described as viciously anti-gay: The Human Rights Campaign points out a report by CNN that says Romney’s charitable foundation gave at least $35,000 to antigay ...

Buzzflash

  • Occupy Wall Street is Alive and Well: The 99% ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT You may not think that you've heard a lot from the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement lately, but you have. That's because the OWS campaign, although truncheoned and pepper sprayed out of its encampments, has profoundly influenced the presidential ca ...
  • Avoiding a Catastrophic War with Iran
    NATHANIEL BATCHELDER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Pray cooler heads will guide America in the dialogue and decision-making over Iran's position in the world. Iran does not have nuclear weapons, and there is no certain evidence that such a program is under way. Certainly Iran has the right to the p ...
  • Obama's State of the Union: the Good, the Bad ...
    STEFANIE PENN SPEAR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT President Obama's State of the Union address could perhaps best be described as the good, the bad and the ugly. Obama wants to generate American-made energy and set a clean energy standard that encourages investment in renewable energy and energy eff ...
  • When is Opinion Just Disrespect?
    Body It seems it isn't enough to have a political opinion and to exercise freedom of speech without spending inordinate amounts of cash or to ignore the parts of the Constitution that don't fit an ideological profile. Thus the Supreme Court and other supporters of unfettered gun rig ...
  • Is Coca-Cola Propping Up Swaziland's Dictator?
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTread more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Shape of snowflakes
    On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...
  • The Northern Lights are in my mind
    I’ve not yet seen the Aurora borealis, nor the Aurora australis, but they’re always on my mind. I am sure they’re amaaazing and wunderfuuul. This week a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun stimulated the earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field to produce some marvellou ...
  • Is antioxidant luteolin an anticancer super-nu ...
    A flavonoid compound found in fruit and vegetables, luteolin, was recently hailed as an anticancer supernutrient by the tabloid media. Aside from the fact that over-dosing on antioxidants could be detrimental to one’s front-line immune response to pathogens, the research was purely laborat ...
  • Cornstarch monsters on a speaker cone
    Sometimes an old viral video needs another airing. In this video from about three years ago, a mixture of corn starch poured into a speaker cone is vibrated at 30 Hz using a signal generator and the video shot at 30 frames per second (coincident timing with the speaker frequency). Corn starch is ...
  • Visceral manipulation
    My gut feeling is that visceral manipulation is yet another sCAM practice based on falsehoods, an economy of truth, and, basically, lies. Science-based medicine gives us the low down: “I think we can reasonably assume that any abdominal manipulation sufficient to disrupt adhesions would ri ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • NLGSF Asks Federal Court to Certify Class Acti ...
    In a filing today, a team of National Lawyers Guild attorneys asks the federal court to allow a law enforcement misconduct lawsuit against the Oakland Police and Alameda County Sheriff to proceed as a class action.read more
  • Navy Training Blasts Marine Mammals With Harmf ...
    A coalition of conservation and American Indian groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington.read more
  • Range of Experts Agree: Primary Battle on Immi ...
    While economic issues are of paramount importance to Latino voters, just like all Americans, the issue of immigration remains a defining, threshold issue for this fast-growing group of voters.  The hardline immigration stances abounding in the Republican primary season are putting Latino vo ...
  • Freedom to Marry Pushes for Marriage in Maine
    Today, Maine supporters of the freedom to marry will deliver more than 100,000 signatures to the Secretary of State putting forward a ballot measure that, if passed by voters in November, would end same-sex couples’ exclusion from marriage.  Below is a statement from Evan Wolfson, fou ...
  • High and Rising Levels of Low-wage Work Remain ...
    A new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that countries can succeed in reducing low pay, if they take the right steps.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Obama's Flawed Thinking on Education
    Anthony Cody In President Obama's State of the Union address, he repeated a familiar refrain about the importance of teachers.read more
  • Don't Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight ...
    Harriet Barlow 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 ...
  • Stress Testing Geithner and Busting Up BofA
    Mary Bottari Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in the State of the Union this week President Obama struck some of his most populist themes yet. He wants to tax millionaires, bring back manufacturing and prosecute the big banks.read more
  • Socialized Medicine: A Republicans' Veterans E ...
    Ben Adler The last two debates have made one aspect of Republican ideology abundantly clear: they think socialism is terrific and they are pledging to increase it. That’s not always the case: socialized medicine, for example, is an un ...
  • What About the State of Our Planet, Mr. President?
    Will Allen Ronnie Cummins In his state of the union address this week, President Obama talked about the American promise -  the promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to rai ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • California professor under attack for opposing ...
    Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 25 January 2012 The well-funded Israel lobby continues to wage attacks against university faculty, staff and students who engage in Palestine solidarity activism. One professor talks about why he refuses to be silent despite the threats against him, and why he thi ...
  • "We won't be silenced," say students arrested ...
    Yara Sa'di 24 January 2012 Three Palestinian students at the College of Engineering in Jerusalem have been put under house arrest for a week after calling for a boycott of a speech by Israeli President Shimon Peres.
  • Interview: rapper Sphinx on why Egypt uprising ...
    Alexander Billet 24 January 2012 Hesham Alofoq (aka Sphinx) of the Egyptian hip-hop group Arabian Knightz speaks to The Electronic Intifada about the history of hip-hop in Egypt and the Middle East, the future of the Egyptian uprising, and the role that music plays in the revolt.
  • Medicines in Gaza are hostage to political riv ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 23 January 2012 Gaza health facilities continue to suffer shortages of medicines and equipment because of rivalry between Palestinian political parties, as well as the siege Israel has imposed on the Strip.
  • Hebron woman goes on hunger strike over settle ...
    Mya Guarnieri Hebron 23 January 2012 Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has risen 40 percent since 2010, and 165 percent since 2009, according to the UN. Protesting a wave of settler attacks on her home and property, one elderly Palestinian woman in Hebron went on h ...

The Wonk Room

  • Hey Conservatives, Hollywood Knows Patriotism ...
    This is a standard, but silly, argument from Big Hollywood about how the entertainment industry hates the troops: But patriotism doesn’t sell, right? If it did, Hollywood would be inundating movie theaters with pro-troop films and other tales of American soldiers in heroic action. “Red Tails” al ...
  • NYPD Commish Apologizes To ‘Members Of T ...
    New York City Policy Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly offered a written apology for his appearance in a film deemed by critics, including the Center For American Progress in its “Fear, Inc.” report, to promote Islamophobia. Kelly appeared in the film, called the Third Jihad, whi ...
  • How A Do-Nothing Congress Would Raise Mitt Rom ...
    Since Mitt Romney revealed his 13.9 percent tax rate this week, attention has been focused on the preferential tax treatment of money made from investments and capital gains rather than wages and earnings, which lets many wealthy Americans pay lower taxes than middle class families. In the State ...
  • Romney Omitted Funds Held In Offshore Tax Have ...
    A now-closed Swiss bank account and at least 23 investment funds listed in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R) recently released tax returns were not listed in his most recent financial disclosure forms, which are required to run for office. Among the unlisted funds were 11 based i ...
  • Comparative Effectiveness Chief: Coverage Deci ...
    Sarah Kliff has a fascinating interview with Joe Selby, the man in charge of running the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The Institute is an independent body established by the Affordable Care Act that will study the comparative effectiveness of different drugs and treatments. It&# ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Austerity and Waste
    It is dogmatism. Cut taxes on corporations and the wealthiest for over a decade. Pretend not to notice the lack of a corresponding increase in investment in the economy. Cut public services and pretend not to notice the increase in homelessness and misery. Globalize and automate jobs away and pr ...
  • http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/2012/01/so-stephen-harper-convened-summit-with.html
    So, stephen harper convened a summit with leaders from Canada's First Nations communities in order to be able to insult them and ignore them. Here's SOME of the insulting stuff: Phillip said the prime minister basically told chiefs that he couldn’t just focus on their issues because he had to ...
  • NGO's and Canadian Mining Companies
    At the beginning of the month, at a loss for anything productive to say, I posted a link to the "Bad-Ass Honey-Badger" video on YouTube. Well, today, commenter "sailsmart" replied that I should write about how the harpercons are giving money to NGO's like PLAN, the World University Service Canad ...
  • Gingrich Upsets Romney in North Carolina Primary
    And I couldn't give a flying fuck about it. Matt Taibbi has confessed to enjoying the low comedy of the North Carolina primary, but I'm still in the same mood he was in on January 3rd at the beginning of the Iowa primary. This is a stupid, meaningless waste of time. This is a pointless contest b ...
  • Farm Labour Abuses
    Canada's marketing boards are squeezing Canadian consumers dry (or so the argument goes) because it's possible to pay less for farm produce in the USA. The fact that lower prices for food often times stems from abusive conditions, corporate farms pumping the earth full of poison, and exploitativ ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canadian International Auto Show ready to roll
    Forget the groundhog and the boys of summer. The true harbinger of spring is auto show season. The North American International Auto Show, in Detroit, was a few weeks back and Toronto’s Canadian International Auto Show is a couple of weeks down the road
  • Is Canada the world's human dumping ground?
    Is the Canadian much touted notion of tolerance, a myth or an idealized vision of a much darker and unpalatable reality? An article which looks into an issue which has been under the radar screen for far too long.
  • Ontario courthouse evacuated, Shafia trial delayed
    This morning the Kingston, Ontario courthouse hosting the Shafia murder trial was evacuated. While social media is buzzing that the building was cleared because of a bomb threat that has yet to be confirmed by the police.
  • Subway announces 600 new stores, 6,000 new job ...
    Subway announced Thursday morning that the multi-national sandwich corporation will establish 600 new stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. This latest endeavor is expected to create nearly 6,000 jobs.
  • Winnipeg Humane Society seizes 79 dogs from br ...
    People are being warned not to do business with puppy mills after one of the largest seizures of animals in Manitoba history was carried out.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • New defence agreement with the U.S.
    Another defence cooperation agreement between the Canada and the United States is signed.
  • Deportation: The cheap road to “justice& ...
    The Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which seeks both to bar the entry of war criminals into Canada and to facilitate their prosecution, entered into force twelve years ago. Four departments and agencies of the government are tasked with implementing the war crimes law: the Canadian B ...
  • Canada, Russia, spies, and the Arctic
    A Canadian naval officer is charged with spying. Will this increase tensions with Russia?
  • Stop Harper’s pro-war lobby and the stealth fi ...
    More than 1,500 people answered the Ceasefire.ca annual New Year’s Day member survey and contributed 200 comments.
  • Maritime helicopter procurement flounders
    Before the F-35 fiasco, there was the Maritime Helicopter Program, another disastrous, wasteful military procurement program. Whatever happened to that program? As David Pugliese reported earlier this month (“Sikorsky hasn’t paid $8M fine for late helicopter delivery,” Ottawa Citizen ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Marijuana Doesn’t Harm Lung Function, Study Found
    January 11, 2012 Associate Press By Lindsey Tanner “No one is telling you that smoking a fat blunt is good for you, but research is clearly showing that marijuana isn’t nearly as bad as some people make you believe.  Nobody can overdose from pot – it’s virtually impossibl ...
  • Snoop Dogg’s Marijuana Drug Bust Highlights Id ...
    January 11, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “Everyone knows the War on Drugs is a failure. So we do we keep fighting it? Oh yeah, it makes a lot of people money and it’s one easy way for them to control you.” –KTRN Snoop Dogg has been busted with marijuana possession at a ...
  • Farmers Sue MF Global CEO Over Lost Billions
    January 11, 2012 ABC News By Cindy Galli Montana farmers have filed a class action suit against former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, charging that the failed financial firm run by Corzine stole millions from their accounts to pay off its spiraling debts, and that Corzine’s “single ...
  • President Of Argentina Latest Victim Of False ...
    January 11, 2012 Natural News By Johnathan Benson “Early cancer detection is a joke.  They WANT to find cancer.  It makes them money – and lots of it.”  –KTRN Health authorities are constantly haranguing the public to get screened for breast, prostate, cervical, colorecta ...
  • Lessons in American History: Scapegoating – Ir ...
    January 12, 2012 Veterans Today By Gordon Duff Some time ago, during the Clinton administration, I learned that a group of Israeli/American extremists in Washington were planning on forcing the US to invade Iran. Some of these people worked with friends in the White House, some being taped by th ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • David Camerons Falkland War?
    By Dark Politricks It seems that the current war of words between David Cameron and Argentinean Prime Minister Cristina Kirchner over the Falkland Islands has been complicated even further by US involvement. A large Pentagon linked American energy company has chosen to step into the age old conf ...
  • Exposing the Child Support Myth
    By Jere BeeryThursday, January 26th, 2012 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. The two women obviously knew one another and began talking like they were very good friends. The Cashier asked the ...
  • Rash of ‘Occupy’ arrests tank America’s annual ...
    In the wide world of reporting, the nation of Finland is the very best place to be a journalist — or Norway (they’re tied for first). But in the United States, press freedoms are gradually sinking into the mire, and with them, so too goes the nation’s placement on the annual &# ...
  • VIDEO: Military Helicopters Conduct Covert Exe ...
    Five black helicopters conduct special ops in LA Steve Watson Prisonplanet.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 Angel ...
  • The Hope and Change Dog and Pony Show
    Dissident Voice Article By Matt Reichel 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 p ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Libya: Detainees tortured and denied medical c ...
    Dandelion Salad MSF UK 26/01/2012 Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata. MSF teams began working in Misrata’s detention ce ...
  • Ralph Nader: Obama is committed to projecting ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Jan 25, 2012 democracynow.org – Responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address, longtime consumer advocate and former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader says Obama’s criticism of income inequality and Wall Street excess fail to live u ...
  • Obama’s “State of Delusion Address&#8221 ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 25 January 2012 From beginning to end, Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was replete with delusion and falsifications. His promise of building an “America that lasts” was predicated on a sentimental, but utterly disingenuous no ...
  • Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig on The Corpor ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 24, 2012 OccupyTVNY on Jan 24, 2012 On January 20th, occupiers across the country rallied together in protest against the insidious influence of the corporations over the judiciary. Shortly before the rally in Foley Square, New York CIty, La ...
  • President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Ad ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert PBSNewsHour on Jan 24, 2012 President Obama delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Watch President Obama Deliver the 2012 State of the Union Address *** Transcript: The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Relea ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Ben White: “Anti-Semitism” smear is about targ ...
    Despite the focus on my new book and writing, this was not about me; it is all about targeting a Palestinian citizen who is determined to use the legal means available to her in order to fight for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian leader Barghuti demands 1967 borders
    Marwan Barghuti: "The conflict will be finished the moment the Israeli occupation ends, and there is a full withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a Palestinian state is established... I call on the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • South Korea looking to buy Israel’s Iron Dome ...
    South Korea has offered to buy a significant quantity of Israeli-made weapons and defense systems, including the anti-rocket Iron Dome system, if Israel agrees to purchase South Korean fighter... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Journalist Chris Hedges sues Obama Admin over ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Human Rights Watch reports ‘serious violations ...
    Annual report lists Israel's blockade of Gaza Strip, settlement expansion in West Bank, and home demolitions in East Jerusalem; report also accuses Hamas for carrying out judicial executions and for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • This Marine Algae Found to Protect Against Dru ...
    Spirulina is a microalgae that exhibits potent dietary antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic properties. A new study investigated whether it could provide protection against liver damage induced by the drug cisplatin. The study examined mice that were given cisplatin.  Their ...
  • New Study Shows Memory and Alzheimer's Impacte ...
    A new study has demonstrated that the brains of animals exhibit important protein changes following whole body exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields.  These fields are similar to the kind of microwave radiation emitted from cell phones, portable phones, WiFi and wireless comput ...
  • Non-Stick Pans Found to Reduce Vaccine Effecti ...
    The more children are exposed to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), the less likely they are to have a good immune response to vaccinations, according to new research.  The finding suggests that the chemicals can affect children’s immune system enough to make them more vulnerable to infectiou ...
  • USDA New Rules for School Meals Major Step Bac ...
    Under new standard issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, school meals will have to offer fruits and vegetables to students every day.  Meal programs will also have to reduce sodium, saturated fat and trans fats, offer more whole grains, and offer fat-free or low-fat milk va ...
  • FDA Warned on Dangers of Salt Restriction
    The Weston A. Price Foundation has warned the U.S. FDA that plans for salt restriction pose a health threat to all Americans.  Neither history nor scientific evidence supports the notion that salt consumption should be reduced. Research has shown that any intake less than about one and one ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Mark Wu Responds to Scott Kennedy
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I want to thank Scott Kennedy for his insightful comments. Kennedy’s work has been instrumental in increasing our understanding o ...
  • A Response to Mark Wu by Scott Kennedy
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Scott Kennedy, associate professor of Political Science and East Asian Languages & Cultures and director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business at Indiana University, responds to Mark Wu, Antid ...
  • Antidumping in Asia’s Emerging Giants by Mark Wu
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, describes his recently published article, Antidumping in Asia’s Emerging Giants. This article is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juri ...
  • David Sloss Responds to Carlos Vázquez
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I appreciate Professor Vázquez’s thoughtful response to my article, Executing Foster v. Neilson: The Two-Step Approach to Analyzi ...
  • A Response to David Sloss by Carlos Vázquez
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Carlos Vázquez, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center responds to David Sloss, Executing Foster v. Neilson:The Two-Step Approach to Analyzing Self-Executing Treaties. This post is part of the Third Harvard Internation ...

Public News Service

  • Ayuda gratuita al llenar declaración de i ...
    Ayuda gratuita al llenar declaración de impuestos para muchos arizonianos Phoenix, AZ – Ya tenemos encima la temporada de impuestos, y el llenado de la declaración puede ser una tarea confusa y cara. Pero hay ayuda gratuita para los arizonianos, a través de la Fundación ...
  • Free Tax Filing Help for Many Arizonans
    Free Tax Filing Help for Many Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Tax season is upon us – and filing tax returns can be can be a confusing and expensive proposition. But there is free help for Arizonans through the AARP Foundation. Sites around the state will open next week, staffed by trained v ...
  • "Muchas Gracias," President Obama
    "Muchas Gracias," President Obama Phoenix, AZ - After last week's announcement of a ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, a Latino nonprofit group is taking to the airwaves to thank President Obama for his support of the ban. Comments from Mi Familia Vota (me fa-MEAL-yah VOH-tah) Exec ...
  • Arizona Marks King Day With Celebrations and S ...
    Arizona Marks King Day With Celebrations and Service Phoenix, AZ – It took five years of political battles, boycotts, marches and demonstrations before Arizona voters adopted a Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. Twenty years later, a leader in that fight says the holiday is evolving. Commen ...
  • Taking to the Skies to Combat Global Warming
    Taking to the Skies to Combat Global Warming Phoenix, AZ - International air carriers serving Phoenix and Tucson, such as American and United, are dealing with tougher air-pollution standards for their European flights, with an eye toward curtailing global warming. Comments from Martin Wagner, m ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Calls On EPA Not To Bac ...
    Much Needed Inventory Would Identify Animal Factories’ Locations and Manure Management Practices, Allowing EPA To Begin Assessing Scope of National Threat To Water and Food Supplies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted comments strongly criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EP ...
  • Genetically Engineered Crops Will Not Feed The ...
    The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion ...
  • California Bill to Label GE Fish Fails
    AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...
  • Dow Chemical requests unprecedented USDA appro ...
    Dow Chemical is currently requesting an unprecedented USDA approval: a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological ...
  • FDA Bans Extra-Label Use Of Cephalosporin Drugs
    EXTRA-LABEL BAN A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MORE ACTION STILL NEEDED   The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for pre-releasing its long awaited prohibition on the extra-label use of cephalosporin drugs i ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The antiwar movement must rise again. Now!
    Sorry that many of our “progressive” friends did not like this article. One reason: It glorifies Ron Paul. This Rigid DOGMA will end in division, and 4 = more years of WAR and Debt. IF you are sincere about saving the social programs you so dearly love (so much so that you will co si ...
  • PNAC, JINSA, CFR, Zio-Con Elliot Abrams goes a ...
    We are NO FANS of Reagan (Poppy Bush). Though this War Pig makes Newt out to be the liar he is, it is almost an endorsement; considering the source. What does it mean in terms of the 2012 (s)election? Clearly it means that Mitt is a more committed Zionist than Newt (though Newt is trying [...]
  • OUTRAGE: Feds Spend $1.6 Million to Restore “L ...
    By John Hill StandWithArizona.com   On the heels of victory against the racist “La Raza” ethnic studies program in Tucson, Arizona, this shocking item from San Diego shows how far we have yet to go to Defund La Raza and its divisive, anti-American influence in America. At a time of record d ...
  • Obama’s “Impressive” List of ...
    Sent by a friend: A very impressive list of accomplishments for Barrack Hussien Obama! First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. First President to preside over ...
  • Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After ...
    He gets his “compensation” but yet no one is being held accountable for this obvious miscarriage (er, abortion) of “justice”! AND… Before you Moms against “drunk” driving get up our ass, it should be noted that this man did NOT actually hit anything. His ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Platform Update: subscriptions, searc ...
    Developers can now request permission to access lists of users’ subscribers and who they subscribe to via the Graph API. Facebook announced this and a few other changes in a blog post Wednesday. With read permissions for subscriptions, apps can … Continue reading →
  • Facebook career postings: engineering, ad ops, ...
    Facebook posted engineering, ad and user operations, sales, technical and marketing jobs to the company’s Careers Page and LinkedIn feed this week. The company also changed the category of Platform & Product Marketing to just plain Marketing, in addition to adding several jobs in this ...
  • Facebook hires and departures: counsel, editin ...
    Facebook hired the former social media director from Bloomberg to work as its managing editor this week, according to the company’s Careers page and LinkedIn feed this week. Positions for privacy counsel, product counsel and head of BI engineering disappeared from the Careers page. It &#82 ...
  • Facebook gaining edge with journalists using s ...
    Facebook’s heavy push of the subscribe feature has apparently paid off as thousands of journalists enabled subscribers after its launch in September, according to a note on the Journalists + Facebook page. The social network’s outreach among public figures and … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at GREE International, Inc., Spooky Cool Labs, Tapjoy, LolGames, TubeM ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israelis bulldoze Palestinian home without war ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...
  • Stop Britain’s pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.
  • The ongoing war against truth
    Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...
  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.
  • Israeli's demographic-cultural barriers to peace
    Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel's demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can establish roots, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental a ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “COWARDICE, n. A charge often leveled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These ‘cow ...
  • Systemic Indoctrination & the Culture of Outso ...
    Sibel Edmonds on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock This morning I was interviewed by Ernest Hancock. There are a few things I like about Ernest’s show: long enough to really cover the subjects, daring and bold, flexible enough to get into unexpected topics spontaneously, and its abil ...
  • Coleen Rowley: A Rainy Day in DC, Marching to ...
    “The US Government Seems to Have Given Up on Ever Righting Itself” Coleen Rowley was in DC last week, and I missed her visit again. She came all the way from Minneapolis to participate in the March on January 11and stand in solidarity with others who have not given up the fight- the vigilance; n ...
  • “Fukushima, Passamari, Spring” – By G. K ...
    This intriguing beautiful poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by G. Karl Marcus: Fukushima, Passamari, Spring Bow-legged two-legged, leaning on his hoe peers for garlic, late beneath the plum. Cuffs unbuttoned cut the wind like wings. He veers a stretch of sky between limbs and bed, tally ...
  • 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&# ...

Afro Spear

  • About Africa
    “The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...
  • Boko Haram: The New (Black) African Al-Qaeda?
    I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...
  • “The US Plan to Destabilize Sudan” ...
    As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. To start with, the US pays the salaries for the Sudan Peoples L ...
  • The Spell of the Albino
    From Aljazeera English: Africa Investigates  
  • sat’day riddymz
    Daude and Carlinhos Brown interpreting Pata Pata. Saludos, Ana

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Living on Thin Ice
    The climate crisis is also causing momentous changes in remote regions far from major population centers, in places like Antarctica, Greenland and the North Polar Ice Cap. Some of the most dangerous changes in our climate system are the ones that often receive the least attention.
  • Why No Responsible Democrat Should Want Newt G ...
    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.
  • How Obama can win big
    If the president runs as the champion of patriotic capitalism and Made in America jobs and works his heart out to bring the next Morning in America while his opponents act like the "hope America fails" party that has bet its ranch that the American economy fails -- Obama will win, by a knockout.
  • The High Cost of Allowing Health Insurers to C ...
    Wendell Potter cdontinues to hold the Administration's feet to the fire as it implements the Affordable Care Act
  • What Would Peter Zenger Say: We are the Champ ...
    America has slipped 27 places to rank number 47th in press freedom. Thank our nation's police, and the Homeland Security Gestapo who prompted them to assault and arrest journalists in the Occupation sweeps, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Switchboard

  • Solar is Ready for Prime Time in New York
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City What's the wait?  New York needs to take the next step to invest in solar. Policies such as the New York State renewable portfolio standard (RPS) have done a lot to bring new renewables l ...
  • NRDC in the News 1/25: Clean energy policy, fr ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke responded to President Obama’s State of the Union remarks in USA Today, saying home-grown energy sources certainly are preferable to imports… Huffington Post Green and e ...
  • State of the Union: Clean Energy Bridges Parti ...
    Christina Angelides, Federal Policy Advocate, Air & Energy Program, New York Among the national priorities highlighted in President Obama’s State of the Union speech, few garnered as strong a positive reaction from voters as his plan to reform ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Equality Does Not Depend On Biology
    Cynthia Nixon’s recent comments are very wise: Regarding her late-in-life sexual orientation switch, the “Sex and the City” star said: I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And ...
  • This Is All Because Dana Milbank Didn’t ...
    Shorter Verbatim Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE): Contraception “is unrelated to the basic needs of health care.”
  • Foreign Entanglements Episode Two
    Matt Duss vs. Daveed Gartentstein-Ross. Here they discuss the SOTU: Matt talks with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross about foreign policy in the State of the Union. Will America miss the boat on the Arab Spring? Is Obama’s triumphalism over Al Qaeda premature? Also, the simmering crisis in the Stra ...
  • How White Are You?
    It’s hard not to be bouncing off the ceiling for the chance to make fun of Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. I really need a comedy fix right now and this could be the funniest book of the year. The only problem with Murray is that he&#82 ...
  • The Fourth Amendment and the Surveillance State
    I have some follow-up thoughts to the GPS surveillance decision handed down by the Supreme Court earlier this week. The first major takeaway from the case is that Sonia Sotomayor was one of the best decisions Obama has made so far: The split on the Court Monday, in essence, focused on which of t ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in ...
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...
  • Safety of Nanotechnology Should Be Comprehensi ...
    A U.S. scientific panel is calling for a systematic study of the growing use of nanomaterials in industry, saying little is known about the risk of the microscopic particles increasingly being used in everything from cosmetics to clothing and paint. The National Research Council (NRC), part of t ...
  • For the Electric Car, A Slow Road to Success
    The big electric car launches of 2011 failed to generate the consumer excitement that some had predicted. But as new battery technologies emerge and tougher mileage standards kick in, automakers and analysts still believe that electric vehicles have a bright future. BY JIM MOTAVALLI
  • A Snowy Owl Boom is Hitting the Northern U.S. ...
    Wildlife experts say an unprecedented number of snowy owls have ventured south into the northern U.S. this winter, a spike that may be driven by a dearth of Wikimedia Commons A snowy owl food in the Arctic. From Seattle to Boston, bird-watchers have spotted the owls — marked by bright whi ...
  • Interview: Monitoring Grim Rise In the World’s ...
    Last year was the worst year for ivory seizures since an international ivory ban went into effect in 1989. During 2011, authorities seized more than 23 tons of ivory, Tom Milliken which represented about 2,500 individual elephants killed. At the forefront of efforts to track this grim ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Eurozone Crisis: Talks Between Greece And Bond ...
    Talks between the Greek government and its private sector creditors appeared to be on the verge of breaking down on Friday, as the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which is negotiating on the behalf of bondholders, said that it was taking "a pause for reflection." Eurozone leaders, Gree ...
  • The Euro Circus Continues: S&P downgrades Fran ...
    Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the government debt of France, Austria, Italy and Spain, but maintained Germany’s at the coveted "AAA" level. The cuts, which eliminated France and Austria’s triple-A status, deal a heavy blow to the currency union’s ability to fight off a worsenin ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline’s eugenics vaccine experiments ...
    GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for irregularities during lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008 that allegedl ...
  • Friday the 13th to Occur 3 Times, 13 Weeks Apart
    It’s not just the Mayan calendar that’s raising 2012 worries-our own calendar is stoking fear, too. This year, there are three Friday the 13ths, compared to the usual two. That last happened in 2009. What’s even stranger is that exactly 13 weeks pass between the first and second occurrence, and ...
  • It doesn’t get more clear than this: Schools a ...
    Schools are being turned into prisons as children are subjected to increasingly sophisticated surveillance and security measures, according to a report. Researchers found the widespread use of CCTV, ID cards, electronic registration systems, fob-controlled gates and fingerprint technology as sch ...

Russia Today

  • ACTA: prosecution for communication?
    The ACTA copyright protection treaty, which has recently been signed in Poland, represents outdated copyright legislation that could lead to punishment just for an act of communication.
  • Wrong addressee? Large stash of cocaine arrive ...
    Police in New York have seized two bags containing 16 kg of cocaine at the UN’s mail center. The unusual shipment had been sent from Mexico City and apparently was not intended to end up at the global organization’s...
  • Medical aid group wraps up work over torture i ...
    International medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres is suspending its mission in the prisons of the Libyan city of Misrata, claiming detainees are being repeatedly tortured and denied urgent medical help.
  • One killed as masked men attack school in Russ ...
    Seven people have been attacked while playing volleyball in a school in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria republic in Russia’s North Caucasus. At least one person has reportedly been killed during the...
  • 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...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • FAQ # 2: What about the planes that slammed in ...
    Written by Adam Taylor [Response to attempted debunking of this article] ae911truth.org Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:21 We first frame the issue by noting that the answer to this question does not negate the evidence that the Towers were destroyed through controlle ...
  • FAQ #9: Why does AE911Truth Represent Only a S ...
    Written by John-Michael Talboo ae911truth.org Wednesday, 14 December 2011 16:03 Q. Isn’t it true that the signatories at AE911Truth represent only a small percentage of all architects and engineers worldwide? Regardless of the hundreds of architects and engineer ...
  • FAQ # 8: What Caused the Ejections of Dust and ...
    Written by AE911Truth [Including contributions by John-Michael Talboo] Thursday, 08 December 2011 13:36 Images like this one reveal that the squibs were not merely puffs of air, as they have the same hue and consistency as pulverized solid building materials ...
  • Please Read What I Actually Wrote Before Sayin ...
    James B. of Screw Loose Change recently commented on my FAQ article posted at AE911Truth and, surprise surprise, he wasn't very impressed. He says the claims in my article are "ironic (and moronic)," but the real irony here is that he clearly didn't carefully read what I wrote. So, what are Jame ...
  • JREFers acknowledge the nanothermite hypothesi ...
    It seems after almost three years, the debunkers are finally putting up. Chris Mohr has found a scientist willing to independently test the findings of Harrit et al: Here is my official request for funds to analyze the WTC dust. To summarize, after three months of investigating this, the best pe ...

Fooducate

  • Fuel for Your Car, Fuel for Your Body?
    This picture was taken at a Shell Gas Station in the San Francisco area. Just a friendly reminder from the convenience store inside to fuel up on sugars and fats as you’re fueling your car. While automobiles can consume only one type of fuel, humans are a much more complex machine. We can ...
  • Instead of New Pop-Tart Flavors, How About Pop ...
    It’s always interesting to see what commercials will air during “The Biggest Loser”. Last night, Pop Tarts grabbed our attention with their new “Wildlicious” line of toaster pastries: Buckle up and unwrap a fusion of fruit flavor. Cherry, orange, strawberry, raspber ...
  • What to Eat With Braces
    Hi folks, My son just got braces and we’d like your advice on foods to eat in the first few days and then going forward for the next 9-12 months. The Orthodontist said that the teeth and gums will be sore and sensitive for a few days, so liquids will play a big role in [...]
  • Strange Fruit. What’s a Persimmon?
    The recipe we posted yesterday included persimmons. A comment by one of the readers bluntly asked – “This might sound goofy, but what are persimmons?” Here’s the answer: Persimmons are a fruit that can be likened to a cross between a tomato and an orange. The fruit, when ...
  • Superbowl Snacks: Persimmon-Avocado Nachos [Re ...
    To counter our processed-food bashing and ensuing depression, we like to showcase healthy, tasty recipes here on Fooducate. With the Superbowl coming up, you may be tempted to Dorito-fy your household. STOP! We want to show you how easy and fun it is to prepare finger foods that are both tasty a ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle leftover chips?
    Mari has emailed asking about leftover chips – as in English chips eaten hot, thick fries not potato chips/crisps – saying her family nearly always have “eyes bigger than their bellies” when they order fish’n'chips and end up with some leftovers: Good thick chips no ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old toaster oven?
    Joel has an old toaster oven and would like ideas on how he can reuse or recycle it: My wife just bought a new toaster oven. The previous one had problems in her eyes, because the spring-loaded door didn’t work as smoothly as when new, and the unit, after three years, had a couple unsightliness ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old cast iron ca ...
    Good friend (and bully ;) ) of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su has emailed with a question: Me again! With an actual, proper reuse question! My much used enamelled, cast iron casserole dish has died. Proper died, a large section of the enamel has come off the bottom & I dropped the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leached wood ash le ...
    Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle water from a conden ...
    We’ve had an email from Mark: What is the best way to recycle small quantities of hot water from a condenser tumble dryer? I know i could pour it down the toilet, put it on the garden etc, but what are the economical benefits of reusing this clean water. Can it be used (when cold) [...]

Age of Autism

  • Autism: The Disease of A Thousand Cuts
    By Lisa Goes This was a tragic week for children. The poor families in LeRoy keep getting the same routine from their local doctors and health department. They simply have stress and that stress has caused their "conversion disorder." Now...
  • Jackie Fletcher of UK Vaccine Safety Group JAB ...
    Yesterday BMJ posted some of a letter that Jackie wrote to the journal but we thought AoA readers might like the opportunity to real the whole thing. We mark in bold the passages left out in BMJ on-line RE: Wakefield...
  • Neurologist Mechtler Blames Post 9/11 World fo ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Neurologist Laszlo Mechtler of the (Scratch and) Dent Neurology Clinic where the Leroy NY girls have been diagnosed with Conversion Disorder seems to blame the stress of the post 9/11 world in The Week, a UK publication....
  • AofA Science Summary: Mechanisms of aluminum a ...
    Mechanisms of aluminum adjuvant toxicity and autoimmunity in pediatric populations Mechanisms of aluminum adjuvant toxicity and autoimmunity in pediatric populations (HERE) L Tomljenovic1 and CA Shaw2 1Neural Dynamics Research Group, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of ...
  • Autism Today and Post DSM5
    Managing Editor's Note: Couldn't resist. Color me retro. And visual. Below the video clips are some of the comments I've been reading on websites and blogs from coast to coast on the prospect of DSM-5 changes from our neighbors, fellow...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • US Housing data points to slowdown in sales
    Reuters – Signed contracts for the sale of existing U.S. homes retreated from a 1-1/2-year high in December and demand for home loans fell last week, pointing to a moderation in home sales after recent hefty gains. But the reports on Wednesday did not change perceptions that a nascent reco ...
  • China’s New Strategic Target: Arctic Minerals
    TheChinaMoneyReport – As policymakers in Washington focus on China’s expanding presence in Africa and growing assertiveness in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean region, Danish diplomatic assistance is opening the gate for China to establish a strategic foothold in the Arctic. Read article
  • IMF warns over risk of Iran oil price shock
    BBC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of a 20-30% oil price spike if Iranian exports are disrupted. The IMF warned that if the West imposed financial sanctions on Iran, it would be tantamount to an oil blockade, and the shock to the market could be as bad as from Libya&#82 ...
  • Google announces privacy changes across produc ...
    Washington Post – Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web. The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine. Read Article
  • Japanese cabinet kept alarming nuke report sec ...
    Japan Times – he government buried a worst-case scenario for the Fukushima nuclear crisis that was drafted last March and kept it under wraps until the end of last year, sources in the administration said Saturday. After the document was shown to a small, select group of senior government ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • From lack to abundance
    Today, Selvi is extremely pleased with the construction of the water tap at her home! Now, she collects enough water for her family without any difficulty.
  • Give a Recurring Gift
    Thirsting to make a DIFFERENCE this year? Sign up for a recurring donation. Every month you can transform the life of someone without safe water.
  • Reflections on Haiti, what comes next
    January 12th marks the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti, leaving widespread destruction in and around Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of people died and over a million were left homeless. One can still see the legacy of the earthquake with rubble and tent ...
  • Thank You
    Your support has made a difference in the lives of people around the world this year.
  • Atseda's story of hope
    Thirteen-year-old Atseda is lucky. Her friends in neighboring villages walk miles to collect dirty water each day. But not Atseda. Thanks to donors like you, she has clean water from a well right by her home.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Cell 36: Palestinian children locked in solit ...
    Cell 36 in Al Jalame prison, northern Israel, is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks. Submitted by Christine Linley to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PLEASE SIGN! The US May Be Pushing SOPA on Ca ...
    After killing the SOPA & PIPA bills in the US, the wave of protests may be circumvented by U.S. lobby efforts to send SOPA to Canada. Canada's bill C-11 could end up with SOPA-like rules, having the same/ similar effect on Internet & freedom of speech. Submitted by Susan V. to World  | ...
  • Affidavit accuses Prime Minister's Office of t ...
    In a sworn affidavit released Tuesday to The Canadian Press, Andrew Frank says he was told by his supervisor at ForestEthics that a PMO official had referred to their organization as an "enemy of the state." Submitted by Lynn Squance to World  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...
  • Gaza builders lead economic recovery with som ...
    Israel maintains there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while its critics claim otherwise. This is an interesting article about the construction boom in Gaza. Submitted by Fred H. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Natural History Museum attacked over links to ...
    The Independent reported on a letter sent by prominent UK academics and intellectuals to the Museum of Natural History regarding its research collaboration with Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories. Submitted by Christine Linley to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • School lunches get healthy makeover from USDA ...
    US Department of Agriculture unveils new guidelines with double the fruits and veggies (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.
  • Federal Register: Pediatric Medical Devices; P ...
    The FDA is reopening until March 5, 2012, the comment period for the notice entitled Pediatric Medical Devices; Public Workshop; Request for Comments that appeared in the Federal Register of Tuesday, November 1, 2011 (76 FR 67463).
  • Excel Life Sciences Joins DATATRAK's Connect P ...
    CLEVELAND, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DATATRAK International, Inc. (OTCQX: DATA), a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced the newest member of its Connect Partner Program, Excel Life Sciences (ELS)....
  • Drug discovery: Chemical beauty contest
    Most drug candidates fail clinical trials, in many cases because the compounds have less than optimal physico-chemical properties. A new method for assessing the 'drug-likeness' of compounds might help to remedy the situation.
  • Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship
    astroengine writes "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter (PDF) to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Why? Well, a variety of 'shipwr ...

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • "Jewish state" is euphemism for Jewish fascism
    By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine Benyamin Netanyahu, the notorious liar-prime minister of the apartheid Zionist regime, has been regurgitating his characteristic racist venom of late. He has been quoted as saying that the root-cause of the Palestinian question is "the persistent Palesti ...
  • Handbook on Israeli Apartheid
    by Stephen Lendman In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the global BDS movement - for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights" for Occupied Palestinians, Is ...
  • Israel crushing middle-class Palestinians
    Khaled Amayreh in Hebron The slow economic collapse being witnessed across the occupied territories, while worsening now, is inevitable so long as Palestinians languish under occupation. With high consumer prices, static or dwindling salaries, rising unemployment and over-taxation, many ordi ...
  • Anti-Syrian Pack Journalism
    by Stephen Lendman When America wages war or plans it, major media scoundrels cheerlead in lockstep. Incendiary managed news follows. Truth and full disclosure lose out. As a result, readers and viewers are uninformed. Imperial Washington gets free reign to keep ravaging the world one co ...
  • Israel Claims Syria/Hamas-Connected Terror Cel ...
    by Stephen Lendman Here we go again. We've seen it before strategically timed. Weigh all Israeli claims skeptically. On its face, this one lacks credibility. Cui bono? Not Syria embroiled for months battling an externally generated insurgency and threats of foreign intervention. Why pr ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • What economic recovery?
    We've all heard political leaders boast that the Canadian economy has fully recovered from the recession and that the recession was not as severe in Canada as in other countries. It turns out that both of those claims are false because they don't take population growth into consideration. Canad ...
  • Infographic visualizes rising income inequalit ...
    Income inequality has been getting worse in Canada, rising at a faster pace than it has been in the U.S. The inequality is being driven by what’s happening at the very top of the income spectrum: the richest of the rich are breaking away from the rest of us. CCPA's latest infographic illustrate ...
  • University students more than repay tuition co ...
    Our new study released today shows that BC university graduates fully repay the cost of their tuition through taxes after graduation. University graduates in most cases earn more than those without degrees, and therefore pay more taxes. If post-graduation taxes were considered as tuition payment ...
  • Infographic: Canada's CEO Elite 100
    CBC Radio’s weekly series, Type A released a comprehensive infographic based on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' recent report, Canada’s CEO Elite 100: The 0.01%.  Click the image on the right to view infographic in full.   For more information, read the original re ...
  • Hard at work on our 2012 Alternative Provincia ...
    CCPA-NS, along with our partners, is currently working on the 11th annual Alternative Provincial Budget.  This flagship document demystifies the budgeting process, making provincial finances accessible to all Nova Scotians.  Look for its launch in March. Nova Scotia Alternative Provin ...

World Wide Hippies

  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) No, we do NOT hate the ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies - I watched the SOTU speech- BRAVO! The President’s speech was masterful. He turned every bogus Republican talking point around and took them away from them. Pretty smart! So, today, what were they left with? We hate rich people. Nope we don’t. People just ...
  • Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another ‘f ...
    Worldwidehippies,.survivalinternational.org - 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 closed. Professor Anvita Abbi specializes in endangered languag ...
  • Google goes to the dark side
    By Raakhee Mirchandani,bostonherald.com - Privacy, please! In the ongoing battle between digital devotees and the e-altars they worship at, Google’s aggressive changes to its privacy policy could quickly turn everyone’s favorite company into Public Enemy No. 1. “Google’s Broken Promise: The End ...
  • Old Lady Advice
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies- I am perfectly aware of my age. I am 49-teen and holding. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Twice in one week, I’ve been called a “middle aged woman.” And I was called that by young females. I scratched my head and wonder ...
  • Managed Capitalism in Three Acts
    by Mixt Green Leo- Capitalism is going on about 300 hundred years old, with the Industrial Capitalism we’re most familiar with dominating for about the last half of that. As an economic system capitalism has shown itself to be significantly unstable – since the demise of the Second Bank of the U ...

FourWinds10

  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ...
  • Environmental Devastation: The Gulf Oil Spill ...
    While the Japanese nuclear crisis might upstage the Gulf crisis, it hasn't gone away. As the Wall Street Journal notes today: Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency… compared the contamination of seawater by the Fukushima complex with an oil spill in the G ...
  • 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
    The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 9 – Energy Tradeo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...
  • Are President Obama’s Policies Causing U.S. Oi ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my r ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]
  • Venture Socialism?
    Join the forum discussion on this post With the recently announced foreclosure of Vinod Khosla venture Range Fuels, followed by the fire sale of Range Fuels’ assets to Vinod Khosla venture LanzaTech, I have been getting a lot of calls from reporters wanting to discuss exactly what happene ...
  • The Carbon Emissions Quandary – R-Squared Ener ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • From Baselines to Enrichment: The Seven Golden ...
    Tags: enrichment, learning, teachingby: Jackie Gerstein
  • PBS KIDS Lab
    Tags: math, PBS, science, KIDS, activities, apps, elementaryby: Fred Delventhal
  • geteach.com
    Comments:Very cool site providing Google Earth in two side-by-side windows allowing for compare/contrast activities.  - Dean MantzTags: googleearth, Earth, dualscreen, teacherweb, geographyby: Dean Mantz
  • The Cost of Technology Over The Decades [infog ...
    Tags: cost, technology, infographicby: Dean Mantz
  • TumbleBooks - eBooks for eKids!
    Comments:TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. - Carolyn RainsTags: ebooks, audiobooks, literacy, books, interactive, kids, children, readingby: Carolyn Rains

Rodale News

  • The Real Reason to Ditch Dry Cleaning
    The industrial solvent used in the majority of American dry cleaners has always been risky business. Perchloroethylene is suspected of causing cancer, kidney and liver damage, and nervous system problems and, given its widespread use—more than 500 million pounds are produced in the U.S. each ye ...
  • Michael Pollan's Least Favorite Foods
    Nowadays, even Sherlock Holmes would have trouble navigating the supermarket in search of truly healthy food. Marketing claims, labels, and ingredient lists are confusing—and that's just the point. Food corporations want to keep you baffled and tricked into thinking sugar-packed, salt-loaded, p ...
  • 9 Toxic Kitchen Rip-Offs
    The kitchen is often the heart of the home, a bustling place to enjoy a good meal and mingle. But many common convenience foods, drinks, and gadgets found in the kitchen could be putting your health at risk. In fact, just last month, researchers found evidence that bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemic ...
  • Why You Need To Eat More Fat (In the Winter)
    It’s the middle of winter, and for many of us, that means we’re craving carbs. Potatoes, pastas, pastries—it all sounds good right about now, and with the summer and swimsuits months away, it can be easy to give in to those cravings. But letting our excuses win does more than just sabotage the ...
  • How 300 Chemicals Can Infiltrate Your Baby's N ...
    Good indoor air quality is crucial for a healthy home. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemicals in gas form that can cause respiratory irritation, and even cancer, and make your hormones to go out of whack, can waft out of furniture and cabinetry glues, carpet adhesives, furniture finishes, ...

big think

  • Celebrity Chef Superfriends Vs. Hunger
    Q. How do you raise money for charity in the midst of a recession? A. Go for the gut, and take small donations.  This is the powerful strategy behind Food and Wine Magazine’s initiative Chefs Make Change, a loose coalition of ten superstar chefs, each of whom supports or runs a charitabl ...
  • Moving a Cemetery: How to Drag Higher Educatio ...
    Our university system is bloated, inefficient, too expensive, and increasingly out-of-sync with a digital society and global economy. Dr. Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard, is on a mission to change the way we think about higher education. In his new ... ...
  • Now in Fashion: Invisibility Cloaks
    An invisibility cloak? That sounds like science fiction. Until now. Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin unveiled the results from an experiment in which they were able to conceal a three-dimensional object from microwaves by covering it with a plasmonic material that disguises light ...
  • You Don't Need an MBA to Invent a New Business ...
    Watch an extended version of our interview with Lynda Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com: What's the Big Idea? Lynda Weinman quite literally wrote the book on web design. She was 28 years old and managing a failing retail store when she first saw a computer, w ...
  • Election Notes: Mitt Is Still the Favorite
    The chance that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee fell since last week after Newt Gingrich beat him by 12 points in Saturday’s South Carolina primary. After the primary, Romney fell behind Gingrich in the polls both nationally and in Florida, where the next primary is being held. While ...

Information Liberation

  • "This was my 'draw a political cartoon' assign ...
    An awesome drawing by redditor webslingga via r/pics...
  • Marine to serve no time for killing 24 Iraqi c ...
    A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 was demoted but will serve no time behind bars, a judge ruled, as locals in Iraq condemned the light sentence. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who led an eight-man squad whose other members ...
  • The Invisible Economy
    Robert Neuwirth is a journalist who is preoccupied with this question: What do people do when the state has made satisfaction of their wants, their natural desire to improve their lives, almost impossible? Neuwirth would almost certainly not pose ...
  • No Trial, No Doctor, No Judge: Man Held in Sol ...
    A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico's Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was arrested in August of 2005 for driving while intoxic...
  • Los Angeles mayor signs porn star condom requi ...
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Porn actors in Los Angeles will have to use condoms on the set as a condition of obtaining a film permit under a first-in-the-nation requirement quietly signed into law by the mayor, and a nearby community was considering a si...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Shape of snowflakes
    On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...
  • The Northern Lights are in my mind
    I’ve not yet seen the Aurora borealis, nor the Aurora australis, but they’re always on my mind. I am sure they’re amaaazing and wunderfuuul. This week a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun stimulated the earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field to produce some marvellou ...
  • Is antioxidant luteolin an anticancer super-nu ...
    A flavonoid compound found in fruit and vegetables, luteolin, was recently hailed as an anticancer supernutrient by the tabloid media. Aside from the fact that over-dosing on antioxidants could be detrimental to one’s front-line immune response to pathogens, the research was purely laborat ...
  • Cornstarch monsters on a speaker cone
    Sometimes an old viral video needs another airing. In this video from about three years ago, a mixture of corn starch poured into a speaker cone is vibrated at 30 Hz using a signal generator and the video shot at 30 frames per second (coincident timing with the speaker frequency). Corn starch is ...
  • Visceral manipulation
    My gut feeling is that visceral manipulation is yet another sCAM practice based on falsehoods, an economy of truth, and, basically, lies. Science-based medicine gives us the low down: “I think we can reasonably assume that any abdominal manipulation sufficient to disrupt adhesions would ri ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Primitive Attraction: Magnetized Moon Rock Poi ...
    The moon of today is a static orb with little to no internal activity; for all intents and purposes it appears to be a dead, dusty pebble of a world. But billions of years ago the moon may have been a place of far more dynamism--literally. [More]
  • Race and Religion at the Ballot Box: Building ...
    The color of a candidate’s skin failed to sway voters to depress the lever for either Obama or McCain in the 2008 election, immediate analyses of that contest seemed to suggest. Some pundits hailed it as the first postracial election. [More]
  • Children May Be Exposed to Higher Chemical Con ...
    Children living near DuPont’s plant in West Virginia are exposed to much higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers, according to a newly published study. [More]
  • Has Petroleum Production Peaked, Ending the Er ...
    Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil pla ...
  • Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves?
    Time and again humans have domesticated wild animals, producing tame individuals with softer appearances and more docile temperaments, such as dogs and guinea pigs. But a new study suggests that one of our primate cousins--the African ape known as the bonobo --did something similar without huma ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Pictou Landing Votes "NO"
    Band Votes Resoundingly Against Taking Provincial Hush Money Members of the Pictou Landing Indian Band in Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia, have voted resoundingly, 119-20, against accepting the provincial government's offer of $3 milli ...
  • Mort de Farshad Mohammadi sous les balles de l ...
    Cet article est une version plus complète d’un texte initialement rédigé pour être publié dans 2 quotidiens montréalais. La Gazette a publié une version ayant connu plusieurs modifications de la lettre d’opinion qui leur a été soumise. Pour lire la lettre ouverte publiée dans l&rsquo ...
  • TOK’NI:KON THAT’S IT!
    MNN.  Jan. 25, 2012.  That dance between Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his top Indian CEO, Shawn Atleo, at the phony First Nations Summit in Ottawa sends the same old “we’re-gonna-get-dem-Injuns&r ...
  • CAW Takes Direct Action Against Caterpillar In ...
      CAW Takes Direct Action by holding up a train on route for delivery. Jan 25th 2011. Occupy Media and The Indignants Media. Please check out http://www.youtube ...
  • Occupy Toronto may have a Permanent Home?
    On January 17th Stop the Cuts, Respect Toronto, Occupy Toronto and a plethora of unions and grassroots organizations gathered at Toronto City Hall to protest proposed budget cuts. During the rally Occupy Toronto set up a number of tents i ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Thomas Friedman and the hangman
    David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...
  • Barack Obama: a parenthesis between Bush and G ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWho knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics? Maureen Dowd - New York TimesWhy does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Christian Science MonitorGingr ...
  • Goodbye to Etta James
    Too many leaving too fast! DS
  • SOPA + PIPA (additional reading)
    David Seaton's News LinksIf nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself ...
  • Iran's bomb... the bottom line
    David Seaton's News LinksThe selling point of starving or beating Iran into submission is that if they had an atomic bomb they would use it to attack Israel, who has at least 200 such weapons. The idea being that Iran is planning to turn Israel, its Jewish inhabitants and a considerable numbe ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Voting Newt Off the Island Turns Out to be Sur ...
    It's sort of fascinating watching the Republican establishment finally go nuclear on Newt Gingrich. As near as I can tell, pretty much everyone who actually served with or alongside Newt in the 90s hates his guts. But as long as he was just writing books and doing think tanky stuff, they were ...
  • Newt Finally Fesses Up to Brazen Debate Lie
    One week ago today, CNN's John King asked Newt Gingrich if it was true that in 1999 he asked his then-wife Marianne Gingrich for an open marriage so that he could continue having an affair with his girlfriend Callista. On national TV, in front of a huge audience, here was his answer: N ...
  • Chart of the Day: The Great Depression Repeats ...
    Via Paul Krugman, this is kind of fascinating. Jonathan Portes provides us with this chart, which shows the trajectory in Britain of both the Great Depression and the current Great Recession. The red and black lines at the bottom are the ones to look at: Now, there's a bit of cherry picking ...
  • Romney Strays From the Pure Faith
    James Pethokoukis is pretty upset that President Obama is coming around to the idea of mass refinancing of mortgages, and I'm upset too. The difference is that he's upset Obama is thinking about this at all while I'm upset that Obama didn't think harder about it three years ago. But now there' ...
  • Peak Gingrich Now A Historical Fact
    So, how about that Newt Gingrich fellow? He's down, he's up, he's down, he's up, and now he's down again. Quite frankly, you'd almost think he had some kind of fundamental stability problem. Of course, I guess what he really has is a Super-PAC problem. Spend a gazillion dollars telling voters ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Following genetic footprints out of Africa
    A new study, using genetic analysis to look for clues about human migration over sixty thousand years ago, suggests that the first modern humans settled in Arabia on their way from the Horn of Africa to the rest of the world. read more
  • Survey suggests family history of psychiatric ...
    A hallmark of the individual is the cultivation of personal interests, but for some people, their intellectual pursuits might actually be genetically predetermined. Survey results published by Princeton University researchers in the journal PLoS ONE suggest that a family history of psychiatric c ...
  • Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram re ...
    In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast cancer. read more
  • Believing the impossible and conspiracy theories
    Distrust and paranoia about government has a long history, and the feeling that there is a conspiracy of elites can lead to suspicion for authorities and the claims they make. For some, the attraction of conspiracy theories is so strong that it leads them to endorse entirely contradictory belief ...
  • Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor
    The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body. read more

unEarthed

  • The End of America’s Coal Era?
    The Economist magazine sees a trend When an environmental organization tells you the age of coal is over, it’s fair to dismiss that as mere wishful thinkin ...
  • Amazing Yosemite Time-Lapse Video
    Jaw-dropping beauty from the comfort of your desk The Hetch Hetchy Valley. (Photo: Sam Edmondson) Everyone knows that Yosemite National Park is one of America ...
  • 'If a Tree Falls' Earns Oscar Nomination
    Documentary on Earth Liberation Front challenges viewers If I told you there was a great new film featuring pitched battles deep inside thick forests, massive ex ...
  • Monday Reads: The Fine Particulate Matter Edition
    When PM2.5 levels got 'crazy bad' Beijing is under all that smog... somewhere... A sight for sore lungs. (William Veerbeek) Just in time to ring in ...
  • Stand With Donna And All the People of Appalachia
    The story of one woman's fight to save her homeland To date, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried more than 2,500 miles of streams and leveled an area of Appalachia bigger than the state of Delaware. Perhaps even scarier ...

Brave New Climate

  • Saludos desde Mataelpino
    I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...
  • Burning energy questions – ERoEI, desert ...
    Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re  at it again, this time for ...
  • Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the g ...
    I have published a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy with the title “Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the greenhouse problem? The affirmative case” (currently online first, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.041 — it will appear in the print version, with v ...
  • The nuclear fission ‘Flyer’
    Below is the foreword I wrote, on invitation of Chuck Till and Yoon Chang, for the book “Plentiful Energy” (I included a shorter version in my review of the book on Amazon). In this short essay, I draw an analogy between the IFR and the Wright brothers’ 1903 ‘ ‘Flye ...
  • Plentiful Energy – The book that tells t ...
    Yesterday the hard copy of the book “Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor” (CreateSpace, Dec 2011, 404 pages) arrived in the post. It is wonderful to see it in print, and now available for all to enjoy and absorb. I was honoured to play a small part in its ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]
  • Met A Wonderful Republican Yesterday – Not!
    Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]
  • The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
    No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...
  • Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
    Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Is Arabic truly an official language in Israel?
    The CEO of the state-owned Israel Railways has rejected calls for announcements of upcoming train stations to be made in Arabic, in addition to Hebrew and English By Issa Edward Boursheh Regrettably, the CEO of Israel Railway has chosen to ignore calls for train stations to be announced in Arabi ...
  • Equality in action: A conversation at the chec ...
    After we finished our visit to the tense West Bank city of Hebron, we made our way to Sderot, an Israeli town on the Gaza border. With me was Shira Nesher, an Israeli peace activist who used to be a guide in the Israeli IDF, during her military service. Both of us were leading a [...]
  • Could it be the start of an Ethiopian Winter?
    For the young Ethiopians who began to speak up last week, the frustration is terrific. The test will come in the coming months as the young activists, like the summer protest leaders, try to figure out what comes next. By Don Futterman One week ago, a new generation of young Ethiopian Israelis m ...
  • Who can travel from the Gaza Strip to the West ...
    Soccer players yes, poets nein The people of Gisha NGO translated their table showing who can and who can’t travel from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Here it is.   Note that for a person to be allowed to travel from the Strip in the first place, the IDF and the ISA (Shin [...]
  • Right-wing group, Jerusalem Post launch public ...
    NGO Monitor tries to silence us by going after our donors. Supporting +972 is the best response!  By Noam Sheizaf   Dear Readers, +972 Magazine is at the center of a negative piece published today in the Jerusalem Post. According to the piece, a right-wing watchdog group called NGO Monitor ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Habeas Corpus- The Most Important Legal Concep ...
    From Jeff Deitrich: Habeas corpus, hocus pocus, whatever. Most Americans haven’t the slightest idea what this arcane Latin term might mean or why it might be important to them, but it is the reason why most of the cases against Occupy Los Angeles are being dismissed. It is also the reason ...
  • US PRESIDENT Targets US Citizens For Murder, A ...
    The President of the United States has participated in the murder of a United States citizen….and there is a long and growing list of other targets of assassination.  Are you on the list?  Will they come and grab me out of my home under the NDAA, torture me and kill me? This is real, it&#8 ...
  • NYTIMES- OBAMA’S FRAUDCLOSURE “INV ...
    I didn’t always used to be such a skeptic. I wasn’t always so cynical.  But then I wasn’t always so immersed in lies and fraud and scams all day long.  And what hope is there for this nation if the figurehead in charge is permitted to boldly and brazenly lie, lie, lie?  Apparen ...
  • BankofAmerica- Silencing Critics, Mafiaoso-style
    In yet another disturbing example of how the banks are above the law and law enforcement, there are allegations that Bank of America is blackmailing its victims, then fighting disclosure of their wrongdoing from law enforcement….that’s right they’re actually going into court an ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • Coffee as Currency
    This week I tweeted that I’d be heading out to the ElectroMotive line to stand with the workers in their …Continue reading »
  • We Want In
    The Nation magazine recently asked 16 activists and economists the following relevant question: “If you had the ability to reinvent …Continue reading »
  • We Shall Overcome
    It was an unusual journey, decades long, and accomplished in about an hour. The setting of St. Paul’s Cathedral in …Continue reading »
  • The City We Dream Of
    The following is my column for the London Free Press on the day of the massive Electro Motive rally in …Continue reading »
  • The New Iron Curtain
    Can capitalism be remade? Undoubtedly, but first we must dispose of its most frequent apologia that not all business is …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Can't These Two Subway Posters Settle It Witho ...
    Sure, we all love the sight of Kate Beckinsale in a skin-tight bodysuit waving around a pair of guns, but what did the poor little child in the neighboring poster ever do to merit such terror? Thankfully, friend of Consumerist, book designer Chad W. Beckerman was on hand to catch this horrifyi ...
  • House Republicans Are In Favor Of Ads That Mak ...
    Tossing that box of Lucky Charms back on the shelf at the grocery store after your kid tried to sneak it into the cart is going to be a lot harder, if House Republicans have their way. They're on the side of food companies that don't want the White House telling them to stop marketing sugary ce ...
  • Guess What, FedEx Driver? No One At A U.S. Arm ...
    A FedEx driver who apparently was never trained in the "don't ever, ever say the word bomb on the job" is facing a felony terrorism charge, after he allegedly joked that a package was "probably a bomb" at a U.S. Army base. Since 9/11, one might think the average citizen has realized that bomb ...
  • You're Probably Not Shocked To Hear That Ticke ...
    Breaking news: Going to the most anticipated game in the NFL season isn't going to come cheap. Once you're over the shock, you should know that if you're still trying to get tickets to this year's Super Bowl in Indiana, they'll cost you anywhere from about $2,800 to about $,3600. CNNMoney says ...
  • FTC Finally Permanently Shuts Down Fake News S ...
    It was nine months ago that the Federal Trade Commission announced its crackdown on companies that created sites aimed to look like news reports that were really just advertisements for supplements and other weight loss products made from acai berries. Now, as part of a settlement agreement, si ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Julian Assange to Host Talk Show: Daily Whistl ...
    The New York Times: Assange to Host Conversations on TV Show Photo Courtesy of flickr user Espen Moe WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange is slated to host a talk show beginning in March on the RT Network. The program, set for 10 episodes that run 30 minutes apiece, will focus on conversations with ...
  • BP Whistleblower Alleges Falsified Cleanup Dat ...
    Times-Picayune (LA): Fired BP Worker Files Whistleblower Suit Summary: A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower suit against the major oil company, claiming that he was fired after reporting to federal overseers that his superiors were falsifying data to make Mississippi beaches appear c ...
  • CIA Whistleblower's Wife Ousted While on Mater ...
    According to the reports in today's Washington Post, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pushed out career analyst Heather Kiriakou, wife to John Kiriakou, the former CIA employee who has the dubious distinction of being the sixth person in history charged under the Espionage Ac ...
  • Mahmoud Mohieldin and the Perfect Crime
    "The perfect crime is the one that's not illegal." – Greg Palast, Vultures' Picnic World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCThe year 2011 was a long one of indecision between the new government in Egypt and the international financial Institutions (IFIs) over new loans. Because lending from the ...
  • Yet Another 'Leaker' Charged Under Espionage A ...
    Los Angeles Times: Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Disclosing Classified Information Summary: Yesterday, the Obama administration charged another ‘leaker’ under the Espionage Act. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was charged with disclosing classified information to journalists and could face deca ...

UK Progressive

  • Hazing or Hate Crime?
    Robert Champion, Jr.’s murder may never be solved. Those who struck the fatal blows may never disclose whether they used the guise of hazing as an accidental homicide to cover up an intended hate crime. Champion was an unusual student to be at one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universit ...
  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 2 – The Poli ...
    For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Tweet of the Day: @seyyedreza for tonight, the egyptia ...
  • Scottish (Welsh?) Devolution or High Street Re ...
    On Monday the ominous release arrived, “story embargoed until 00:00, January 25th.” The big hush-hush story? Yesterday several Welsh Government officials trekked to Caerphilly to visit High Street stores and unveil another new initiative. The months in the making report was launched ...
  • Awkward Family Photos: Mitt Laundry
    Mitt Romney’s hurdle in winning the love/respect/admiration/fear of his party can be summed up in one photo: It was taken by his son, Tagg (doesn’t Sarah Palin have a kid with that name?) and put on Twitter this week. It’s of Romney and his wife Ann, presumably in a hotel basement, side-by-side ...
  • Day of Celebration, Remembrance and Warning: T ...
    While crowd estimation skills have never been the Revolution’s planners’ strong suit, it is clear a huge crowd showed up yesterday and overnight, virtually filling Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate January 25th and the start of 18 days of revolution in Egypt that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Global Cooling Coming? Archibald uses solar an ...
    David Archibald, polymath, makes a bold prediction that temperatures are about to dive sharply (in the decadal sense). He took the  forgotten correlation that as solar cycles lengthen and weaken, the world gets cooler. He refined it into a predictive tool, tested it and published in 2007. His pa ...
  • New element Governmentium: heaviest known and ...
    New Element Discovered The CSIRO announced the discovery of a perverse, perplexing atom The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together b ...
  • Dr David Evans: The Skeptic’s Case
    A new brief summary of the reasoning and evidence behind the skeptics case. –Jo ——————————————— The Skeptic’s Case Who Are You Going To Believe – The Government Climate Scientists Or The Data? Guest P ...
  • 2011 was 51st warmest year in Australia!
    Despite all the headlines we see, 2011 in Australia was remarkable for its extraordinary averageness. It is a rare year that is more average than 2011 was. (This email was spotted on it’s way to various government officials. No, Steve, isn’t expecting them to reply. – Jo) &#821 ...
  • The Doomsians are Panixilated
      Oil on Canvas George Crie (cropped). "Panic Attack or Anxiety PTSD" Neosurrealismart.com.   I just love some of these terms. Verity Jones (Diggingintheclay) and E. Michael Smith (Chiefio, see the postscript) are rolling on a neologistic wave, and they’re generating some ...

ReNew America

  • Fact-checking president Obama's State of the U ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - What we witnessed Tuesday night on Capitol Hill was the oratorical version of a typical White House late Friday afternoon document dump that one would expect on a Friday afternoon (i.e., when forced to reveal bad news, the Obama White House releases a blizzard of paper ...
  • Obama's audacity of deceit
    (Frank J. Gaffney Jr.) - Knowing President Obama's Alinskyite proclivities, his third State of the Union address -- coming as it did amidst a re-election campaign -- could have been predicted to be filled with lofting, sometimes inspiring but routinely bait-and-switch rhetoric...
  • Former ambassador Bolton: Obama says one thing ...
    (Newsmax) - President Barack Obama has one remarkable ability that few presidents ever have emulated, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said on Wednesday: the ability to say something with a straight face when he really thinks exactly the opposite...
  • The Republican debt follies
    (Joseph Farah) - You probably heard the news that House Republicans voted overwhelmingly last week to oppose another $1.2 trillion hike in the debt limit. Why would 240 Republican House members vote to oppose a hike in the debt limit this month when only 22 of them opposed a hike in the debt lim ...
  • Georgia warns Obama of 'peril' of ignoring eli ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - The state of Georgia is warning Barack Obama of the "peril" of simply ignoring today's hearing on his eligibility to be on the 2012 presidential election ballot in the state...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?
    Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard ...Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Come ...
  • The Final Four Republican Candidates
    The leader of the free world has enough power to cause TEOTWAWKI via bad policy or religious motivation. And Obama might be out-voted just before the Mayan calendar ends in December. Even for those who ...The Final Four Republican Candidates is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Ron Pau ...
  • Elaine Morgan on Aquatic Apes
    Ever wondered why we are hairless compared to other apes? Or why our tears are salty? Or even why we have breasts? Elaine Morgan has devoted decades to the topic of Aquatic Apes, and I’ve been ...Elaine Morgan on Aquatic Apes is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Rapid Darwinian ...
  • Wired & The Science of Doomsday
    After all the poorly written 2012 news items of recent weeks, Wired has come out with an excellent article on the scientific possibilities of doomsday. I’ve summarized their list and added my comments: SuperVolcano Wired: Yellowstone’s giant volcanic crater ...Wired & The Sc ...
  • Some 2012 Survival Vehicles
    This Top 10 list is actually from a car site, but everybody is talking about 2012 this month… 1. Knight XV - fully armored, hand built luxury SUV 2. Pirate 4×4 – not much luggage space! 3. TRAX ...Some 2012 Survival Vehicles is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:eBoo ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Actor James Farentino dies at 73
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Farentino, who played more than 100 roles in TV, film and on stage, has died at age of 73, a family spokesman said on Wednesday.
  • EBay bans Paterno memorial service ticket sales
    EBay Inc will not allow the sale of tickets on its site to Joe Paterno`s memorial service, a company spokeswoman said, even as at least one ticket was listed for auction on the site with a recent bid in excess of USD66,000 (42,275.17 pounds).
  • 'American Idol' debut hits sour note
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The audience for 'American Idol' dropped by some 18 percent to 21.6 million viewers when the TV singing contest returned for its 11th season, according to early ratings figures on Thursday.
  • Amanda Holden - Amanda Holden Gives Birth Afte ...
    Amanda Holden is in a stable condition after giving birth to a baby-girl but has spent three days in a critical condition in hospital The Britains Got Talent judge 40 was treated in intensive care after checking into a hospital in London on Monday 23 J...
  • 'American Idol' Aspen auditions: Live blog
    Join *Digital Spy* for tonight's round of American Idol auditions.

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Independent Libyan Fact-Finding Mission
    The mission of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), investigated alleged widespread international law violations since mid-February 2011. Its mandate included investigating those committed ...
  • US Electoral System, or Freedom House Up To It ...
    What is the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher? A good teacher is at least the one who is able to solve the task he gives to his students. That is why I have always been puzzled by the fact that while “introducing democracy” all over the world Americans are evading this [...]
  • What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
    The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Since th ...
  • Touch Iran in a War, You Will Hear Russia and ...
    Despite the areas of difference and the rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, Russian and Iranian ties are increasing. Both Russia and Iran share many commonalities. They are both major energy exporters, have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus, oppose NATO’s missile shield, and want to ...
  • Wise Bear on the Mountaintop
    At the regularly scheduled briefing in October 2011, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Liu Weimin said that “China has no intention nor energy to seek global leadership.” I need to make it very clear that I sympathize with the Chinese government’s position. Maybe in the future the internatio ...

BlogHer

  • What We End Up Saying When We Point Fingers
    Chances are if you caught the news this morning you saw the picture of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pointing her finger at President Obama as they stood near Air Force One in Phoenix on Wednesday. They were both smiling in the photo, but the body language that stands out is her finger wagging at h ...
  • You Need Pinterest. I'll Bet You A Bubble Bath ...
    Welcome to BlogHer.com's Pinterest edition, where our community is sharing how incredibly effective this new site is for sharing terrific, image friendly ideas online. Think Flickr meets Twitter meets Your Blog -- and all the traffic that would entail. Hi everyone, Once upon a time, I abruptl ...
  • NaBloPoMo February 2012 Badges
    The official badge for February. NaBloPoMo February 2012 Copy the code and add it to ...
  • NaBloPoMo February 2012 Writing Prompts
    If you're participating in NaBloPoMo in February -- or even if you're not! -- here are some prompts to get you going. Writing prompts appear here nightly, Monday to Friday (weekends are for free-writing!) Melissa writes Stirrup Queens and Lost and Found. Her novel about blogging is Life from Scr ...
  • Join Us for Daily Blogging with February's NaB ...
    It's that time again; time to commit to posting every day for a full month by joining in with NaBloPoMo. The point? Well, beyond the endurance factor -- of becoming a writing athlete -- there's the benefit from daily writing. I use it as a way to warm up before getting into book writing. And ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Obama EPA pushes state, company to reduce impa ...
    Here in West Virginia, most political leaders can’t say enough nice things about CONSOL Inc.’s plan for the Buffalo Mountain Surface Mine, a project associated with construction of the much-touted King Coal Highway from Bluefield to Williamson. But officials from the U.S. Environment ...
  • WVDEP ‘clarifies’ Prenter water st ...
    Following up on a tip from a Coal Tattoo reader, I passed a question on to state officials about the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection’s study of the water in the Prenter area of Boone County … here’s a press release that resulted from that reader’s careful eye ...
  • MSHA announces results of latest inspection blitz
    The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 321 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 10 coal mines and three metal/nonmetal mines last month. The coal mines were issued 174 citations and 19 ord ...
  • Judge Chambers blocks health studies from case
    In a much-followed motion on a major permit challenge, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers has refused to allow citizen groups to argue that the federal Army Corps of Engineers wrongly failed to consider the growing scientific evidence that links living near mountaintop removal mining operati ...
  • State of the Union: Not much about coal
    President Obama didn’t have much to say about coal during last night’s State of the Union address. But he did talk just a bit about a few things that certainly impact the coal industry. Here are the excerpts: The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a compreh ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Great Impressions
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  • Human Memory Schema: is_real ; is_dream ; is_f ...
    A while back I posted about having experiences through books. I was thinking again about this today and was imagining a rock-climbing experience. I myself have never been rock climbing, but I have a feeling of it from a few things. I do, however, remember reading The Eiger Sanction in my teens, ...
  • Extending Burp Suite to solve reCAPTCHA | Web ...
    By extending the Burp Suite and integrating it with a CAPTCHA solving farm you can enable the automated bypassing of CAPTCHA within all burp tools; seamlessly replacing all CAPTCHA with their correct solutions. via idontplaydarts.com One of the coolest Burp extensions I’ve ever seen. Poste ...
  • New Malware Protection Using Big Data Analytic ...
    One of the more interesting features is called File Trajectory. This tracks file movement within the enterprise, allowing organizations to identify the entry point and propagation path of malware. As you see from the below display, you have a list of every endpoint that has touched a particular ...
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Fitwatch

  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...
  • Resist plainclothes cops
    More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...
  • Plainclothes cops spotter card
    SPOTTER CARD PLAINCLOTHES PDF - please copy and distribute freely. We must remember these faces and not allow them near our protests again!
  • Plainclothes Police and “Agents Provocat ...
    FITwatch have been inspired by the amount of people taking an interest in the policing operations on November 9th. FITwatch recognise critical enagagement with policing strategy as being crucial to our success as a protest movement. However, FITwatch wanted to flag one particular area of concern ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Julian Assange to launch talk show
    Worldwidehippies,RT news – London, UK Basically we knew that Assange wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen. The show is going to be broadcast exclusively on RT. It is going to focus of course on Assange’s favorite topic, controversy. You say 2011 was Assange ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) No, we do NOT hate the ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies - I watched the SOTU speech- BRAVO! The President’s speech was masterful. He turned every bogus Republican talking point around and took them away from them. Pretty smart! So, today, what were they left with? We hate rich people. Nope we don’t. People just ...
  • Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another ‘f ...
    Worldwidehippies,.survivalinternational.org - 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 closed. Professor Anvita Abbi specializes in endangered languag ...
  • Google goes to the dark side
    By Raakhee Mirchandani,bostonherald.com - Privacy, please! In the ongoing battle between digital devotees and the e-altars they worship at, Google’s aggressive changes to its privacy policy could quickly turn everyone’s favorite company into Public Enemy No. 1. “Google’s Broken Promise: The End ...
  • Old Lady Advice
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies- I am perfectly aware of my age. I am 49-teen and holding. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Twice in one week, I’ve been called a “middle aged woman.” And I was called that by young females. I scratched my head and wonder ...

reference frame

  • Al Gore expects to see thin ice in Antarctica
    After the successful 24 hours of virtual reality – Al Gore's online project in Fall 2011 that was watched by dozens of people in the whole world, mostly by the readers of WUWT, the world's most followed climate website – Al Gore has prepared another fascinating event that deserves to be promo ...
  • Mayan "end of the world": in 2116
    But it gets repeated every 394.3 years Czechia may be the most atheist nation in the world but be sure that it doesn't prevent the Czechs from believing any kind as well as all kinds of superstitious crap you may think of. In fact, it's plausible that the almost complete absence of Chris ...
  • Sustainable conference in Rio finds AGW panic ...
    Reuters: Environmentalists throwing global warming under the bus Twenty years ago, Rio de Janeiro organized the Eco [June] 1992 Earth Summit which created the Convention on Biological Diversity and, more importantly, The Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The latter b ...
  • Some Boston Bruins meet Obama
    I must admit that during the 6 years in Greater Boston, I have never attended an ice-hockey match. After all, my Boston patriotism was very limited. If New York Rangers (then) with Jaromír Jágr came to Boston, be sure that I would root for the victory of the guests. Of course, an even mo ...
  • Armenian genocide: Turkey doesn't belong to Europe
    The French lawmakers passed a bill that makes it illegal to deny the Armenian Genocide. Nicolas Sarkozy's signature was considered to be a formality; a week ago, most French senators in a committee voted against the bill because it violates the freedom of speech. They were overruled on Monday ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I found a way to join EVIL facebook without jo ...
    I went and dun done it. I created a facebook fan page. facebook may be evil incarnate but I am now on there. A few years ago I joined as a member and quickly obtained thousands of friends. Then one day I woke up and found out that my account was suspended because I did [...] Related posts: How ...
  • Insider Leaks Illumicorp Recruitment Video to ...
    This is a leaked video straight from an insider who may or may not already have been assassinated for releasing this. I am risking my life by posting this but for the greater good it must be done. This video reveals the Illuminati operating plan to lead to complete world domination. Creeps you o ...
  • My cuz put out a new video today… Eat your hea ...
    Yeah my cuz put out a new video today. It is a remake of the Bruno Mars’ The Lazy Song. I am sure that you will agree with me that my cousins version is superior to the original:     Ultimate Party Animal Costume Adult Standard Ape mask Beverage belt Ultimate Party Animal shirt Bermud ...
  • The Mad Ape’s Retirement Plan: AMAZON AFFILIATE
    Yeah I have an retirement plan that is sure to make me live in comfort for the rest of my days… Follow my checklist and you can do it to: Register as an Amazon Affiliate: Check Find a product niche that fits your blogging niche: Check Make sure that it is expensive so you can [...] Relate ...
  • My site appears to be caught up in the crossfi ...
    I apologize for the lag in the site tonight. It looks like there may be a DDOS attack underway on many sites across the Web. Since my site is hosted on GoDaddy.com it has been caught in the crossfire. Hopefully this will be rectified quickly. I have sent a support ticket to GoDaddy. Hopefully th ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Lilyhammer’ sets new NRK record
    A new television series starring Steven Van Zandt finally started running in Norway on Wednesday, after a lot of local media hype and unexpected delays. The show, called "Lilyhammer," ended up being watched by nearly a fifth of the country's entire population, and Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) of ...
  • Talks continued in child welfare case
    Norwegian authorities confirmed that negotiations were continuing to find a solution in a child welfare case that's sparked international media attention, but said no agreement had been reached or affirmed by the court involved. The case involves two small children, both citizens of India, who ...
  • Bombed buildings’ fate still unclear
    Norway's government leaders haven't been able to agree on what should be done with their offices that were bombed and badly damaged in last summer's terrorist attack on government headquarters in Oslo. Now they're seeking input from the public on several proposed alternatives. Top officials o ...
  • Search ends for men missing in storm
    Three Icelandic fishermen remained missing and were presumed dead on Thursday after their boat sank in stormy seas about 270 kilometers northwest of Norway's West Cape at Stad on Wednesday. The storm, meanwhile, halted helicopter traffic to several oil rigs in the North Sea. Search and rescue o ...
  • High-speed trains ‘may be profitable’
    Pressure is growing in favour of building new high-speed train lines around Norway, and a long-awaited report released Wednesday didn't put the brakes on support. The report concluded a high-speed network could be profitable, at least from an operational standpoint. That would only happen, th ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • My First Week at Thailand’s Newest Permacultur ...
    by Theron Beaudreau In a rural village at the Southwest corner of the Isaan Plateau, just over an hour drive south of Thailand’s second largest city, Korat, a band of tenacious permaculturalists have just arrived at the site of their new home. Over the course of the next year, infrastru ...
  • Holistic Management Training in Northern NSW
    What better way to become more of a danger to the modern realm of earth destruction and technological torment than to team up Permaculture knowledge with Holistic Management training. Teaming HM with Permaculture has an exceptionally powerful effect on building soils, repairing large lands ...
  • Call for Volunteers – Regional Permaculture Co ...
    The Permaculture Research Institute Turkey is planning to host three prominent events in summer 2012. First a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course will be organized in Istanbul on 30 June — 12 July, 2012; held by two legendary trainers, Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. Following th ...
  • Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed A ...
    by Mike Ludwig, Truthout For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops. Now, their worst fears could be coming true: under a new two-year pilot program at the USDA, regulators a ...
  • Anonymous Took Down Monsanto Website
    It’s not as good as seeing all of Monsanto’s plants and chemicals getting taken ‘offline’, but at least I can get a little mischevious pleasure from learning that Monsanto has been on the hit-list of the Anonymous team. The following video apparently shows how Monsanto w ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Inside Orleans Parish Prison, By Rosana Cruz
    From the Bridge the Gulf blog: In a letter to the editors of the Times-Picayune this month, New Orleans resident Mona Castillo wrote that the key to decreasing crime is to make prison "less comfortable." She wrote, "At the present time, jails are more like hotels. Many prisoners live better ...
  • Possible MLK Day Hate Crime Against Civil Righ ...
    Family member had been founder of Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice The following article was originally published by journalist Pete Tucker at TheFightBack.org: Growing up in a civil rights family in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Chuck Hicks remembers the constant threats. “We ...
  • New Orleans Filmmakers Are Hit of Sundance Wit ...
    A new film by a collective of filmmakers based in New Orleans has emerged as one of the major success stories at this year's Sundance Film Festival with their new film that shines a light on the issues faced on Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Variety, the insider journal of the film industry, has named ...
  • Ten Steps for Radical Revolution in USA, By Bi ...
    “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967 One. Human rights must be taken absolutely seriously. Every single person is entitled to dignity and human rig ...
  • Dick Gregory vs. BP
    Journalist Pete Tucker, blogging at TheFightBack, reports that Gulf Coast residents have a new ally in the struggle for justice after the BP Drilling Disaster: Legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory. The original report is posted below. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory wasn’t thrown beh ...

Information Underground

  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Nixon mentions how Jews are "natural born spies," and particularly is amazed at how the do it out of "arrogance [and]...idealism." See the below material for what I contend is a good example of the same: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yT ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Interesting Coincidences [From Wikipedia] On October 10, 1973, Vice President Agnew resigned and then pleaded no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme in which he accepted $29,500 in bribes while governor of Maryland. Accord ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    The problem with the US is that it is just too big to get everyone on board like Iceland, which obviously is smaller and didn't have its nationality bred out of them. Good that some people are at least thinking in this direction though.Statistics: Posted by maz — Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:52 pm
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    I agree. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPyE6f7GnQStatistics: Posted by Whaler — Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:00 pm
  • Social Engineering • Re: Germany's ZOG: 'Suck ...
    Michael K. wrote: Perhaps the moral and genetic degradation experienced as living in industrial filth and malnutrition and low-level metal poisoning made all the people crazy. I think with Germans... it is just Beer, Blondes and a lack of proper justice... that can make them crazy... whether ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in ...
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...
  • Safety of Nanotechnology Should Be Comprehensi ...
    A U.S. scientific panel is calling for a systematic study of the growing use of nanomaterials in industry, saying little is known about the risk of the microscopic particles increasingly being used in everything from cosmetics to clothing and paint. The National Research Council (NRC), part of t ...
  • For the Electric Car, A Slow Road to Success
    The big electric car launches of 2011 failed to generate the consumer excitement that some had predicted. But as new battery technologies emerge and tougher mileage standards kick in, automakers and analysts still believe that electric vehicles have a bright future. BY JIM MOTAVALLI
  • A Snowy Owl Boom is Hitting the Northern U.S. ...
    Wildlife experts say an unprecedented number of snowy owls have ventured south into the northern U.S. this winter, a spike that may be driven by a dearth of Wikimedia Commons A snowy owl food in the Arctic. From Seattle to Boston, bird-watchers have spotted the owls — marked by bright whi ...
  • Interview: Monitoring Grim Rise In the World’s ...
    Last year was the worst year for ivory seizures since an international ivory ban went into effect in 1989. During 2011, authorities seized more than 23 tons of ivory, Tom Milliken which represented about 2,500 individual elephants killed. At the forefront of efforts to track this grim ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Vets have Shiga making strong bid for trip to ...
    The Shiga Lakestars sit three games behind the first-place Ryukyu Golden Kings in the Western Conference standings, and the 17-9 club has demonstrated it has a legitimate shot at reaching the Final Four for the first time. Led by veteran Julius Ashby, Ray Nixon, Josh Peppers, Dionisio Gomez, B ...
  • 'J. Edgar'
    Now here's a counterintuitive marketing strategy: Put heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio on your poster, shot in unflattering white light, looking old, jowly and snarling. Presumably the promoters of "J. Edgar," director Clint Eastwood's biopic of long-time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, know what they ...
  • Florence exorcises her lungs
    Sat in a respectably upmarket restaurant and bar hidden away in the South London suburb of Camberwell, Florence Welch appears somewhat beleaguered. Welch may be in her hometown, but today is all about toil: she has spent hours surrounded by management, press agents and a team of make-up artist ...
  • It takes more than two to tango
    The tango has the reputation of being a dance of passion and love, with couple's bodies embraced tightly to one another as they move across the floor as one. The Min-On Concert Association will showcase the dance — a stalwart of Argentinian culture — as the "Dramatic Tango: Flag Be ...
  • Barca tops Madrid again to advance
    Pedro Rodriguez and Daniel Alves scored first-half goals, and Barcelona held off the defending Copa del Rey champion with a 2-2 tie Wednesday night that gave the Blaugrana a 4-3 aggregate win. Real Madrid, which has won only once in its last 14 games against its rival, looked dejected as playe ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Race To The Trough: What Did Corporate Tax ...
    The CLC today celebrated Corporate Tax Freedom Day – defined as the day on which corporations have paid their share of all government taxes.  It featured a race of mechanical pigs to a trough full of cash – with the pigs wearing the colours of leading Canadian corporations with large ...
  • Meet François Legault, possibly the next premi ...
    Some major turn-rounds are radically changing the political situation in Québec. Even from within the province, things remain unclear and it all changes very quickly. Within the span of a few months, a party was born, the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), a major crisis has shaken the Parti québéco ...
  • Job Vacancies vs. Unemployment
    Progressive economists have advocated expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to boost demand and create jobs, given the high rate of unemployment. By contrast, employers and conservative commentators complain of unfilled vacancies and labour shortages, emphasizing policies to increase labour ...
  • Corporate Taxes and Investment in Ontario
    Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Finance released the Ontario Economic Accounts for the third quarter of 2011. As The Globe reported, business investment was less than impressive: . . . investment in machinery and equipment fell slightly by 0.2 per cent between June and September, 2011, promptin ...
  • The Cuts Behind the Curtain
    Today, the CCPA released a study I authored titled: The Cuts Behind the Curtain: How federal cutbacks will slash services and increase unemployment.  The report examines all three waves of federal government cutbacks starting with the 2007-2010 strategic reviews, but also projecting the effects ...

ReDress

  • Israelis bulldoze Palestinian home without war ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...
  • Stop Britain’s pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.
  • The ongoing war against truth
    Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...
  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.
  • Israeli's demographic-cultural barriers to peace
    Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel's demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can establish roots, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental a ...

Physics Today

  • Flooding as a result of climate change predict ...
    Nature: According to a study released yesterday by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, severe flooding will be the most urgent problem the country could face as a result of climate change. The study examines 100 potential consequences of climate change for the UK in a nu ...
  • Researchers hide 3D object with "plasmonic cloak"
    Daily Mail: Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have succeeded in cloaking a three-dimensional object. According to their results published today in the New Journal of Physics, the group used plasmonic metamaterials to hide an 18-cm cylindrical tube illuminated by microwave radiatio ...
  • India's former top space scientist accused of ...
    Financial Times: Madhavan Nair, former head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has been banned from government employment because of allegations that he was involved in the underpriced leasing of space spectrum to the private sector, write James Fontanella-Khan and James Lamont fo ...
  • No plutonium reactor at Sellafield
    Guardian: General Electric (GE) Hitachi's plan to build a sodium-cooled, plutonium-burning fast reactor at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site has been rejected by the UK government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Known as PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module), the new de ...
  • China's scientific progress hampered by cultur ...
    Nature: Although China is second only to the US in number of scientific papers produced, the quality of its research needs to improve, writes Peng Gong of Tsinghua University in China and the University of California, Berkeley. In his Nature opinion piece, Gong maintains that the problem is due ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

  • Nuclear Power Plants Threaten Drinking Water f ...
    “San Diego is the 6th Largest Region in the Country to Have Drinking Water Sources Located Within 50 Miles of a Nuclear Plant The drinking water for 2.3 million people in California could be at risk of radioactive contamination from a leak or accident at a local nuclear power plant, says a ...
  • Sharing The Benefits Of Large Dams
    “It’s been nearly 50 years since the Akosombo dam was built in Ghana in 1965, flooding the lands and homes of 80,000 people, creating the largest manmade lake in the world, and securing Ghana’s electricity supply. Since then, west African countries have built more than 150 large dams. Like ...
  • Wasting the Wastewater
    “Each day, American municipalities discharge enough treated wastewater into natural sources to fill Lake Champlain within six months. Growing pressure on water supplies and calls for updating the ancient subterranean piping infrastructure have brought new scrutiny to this step in the treat ...
  • Drought, high feed costs prompt program to hel ...
    “A lengthy drought that has scorched Oklahoma pastures and sent the price of hay skyrocketing has led to sharp spike in the number of cases of livestock being abandoned or neglected. While most of the cases involve horses, there also have been reports of malnourished goats and sheep, offic ...
  • Looking At A New Strategy To Save The Sacramen ...
    “Water supply, flood control, and environmental management are fundamental challenges for the western United States. California’s unique development patterns, with nearly 20 million of its residents living in water starved southern California, has resulted in a system of water transfers and aque ...

D. Kucinich

  • WE N.E.E.D. JOBS NOW
    Cleveland, Ohio (January 26, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for the immediate enactment of policies to reverse a disturbing rise of poverty rates in Cuyahoga County. “‘America is back,’ said President Obama at the State of the Union address. We are seeing good signs, ...
  • Keystone XL Would Raise Gas Prices, Study Conf ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (January 26, 2012) – Researchers at the Cornell University Global Labor Institute recently published a report that confirms Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) analysis of the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on Ohio. According to the report (PDF), the Keystone XL pipeline wou ...
  • Will MetroHealth Fight For Revenue Or Send Us ...
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) released this statement following news reports that the MetroHealth System posted a $2.7 million loss for 2011: “Today’s news should be a sticker shock for the people of Cuyahoga County. MetroHealth continues to see increases in ‘uncompensated care’ which a ...
  • Kucinich Personally Tells President Obama: We ...
    Washington D.C. (January 25, 2012) – At last night’s State of the Union Address, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was able to speak with President Obama about Cleveland’s need to replace the I-90 Innerbelt Bridge. Kucinich spoke to the President as the President left the House floor. The Pre ...
  • Kucinich Staffer to Testify on Uncompensated C ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that his lead staff member on the investigation of uncompensated care in Northeast Ohio, Stephen T. Inchak, will deliver testimony entitled “A Comparison of Uncompensated Care Provisions by Major Health Systems in Cuyahoga County” to the Health, ...

Authentically Wired

  • …Whenever we put anyone on a pedestal ex ...
      …Whenever we put anyone on a pedestal expect them to fall … … Paterno was merely human … he ascended to great heights and like Humpty Dumpty … he fell from great height … … Loyalty … yes … but if he was champion of men many claim him t ...
  • … If you are the least bit surprised the ...
      … If you are the least bit surprised then indeed you have drank far too much of the FED and our government’s Kool-Aid …   The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks 01-21-2012  •  www.theeconomiccollapseblog.com  In recent days, the f ...
  • … Likely SOPA & PIPA will be reincarnate ...
    … Likely SOPA & PIPA will be reincarnated under new monikers … spun differently and Congre$$ will yield to the highe$t bidder …   Congress Shelves (But Does Not Kill) SOPA and PIPA 1-22-2012  •  Free Patriot Press Mass action on January 18, 2012 won a small v ...
  • But tru$t us the “chemtrail$”
      … But tru$t us the “chemtrail$” our government is dispersing daily over the USA will not make “road-kill” out of you … Tru$t us it’s SAFE … Mon$anto and Union Carbide and Dow have all a$$ured us it won’t harm you  …  Corporate America ha$ your back &#8230 ...
  • When I read articles like I find I am inclined ...
    … When I read articles like I find I am inclined to suggest this information is certainly food for thought but inasmuch as “we” are no longer an agrarian nation nor do we currently possess the knowledge or skill to discern GMO seed from that once provided to us by “mother-earth” … wh ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • 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 ...
  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...
  • Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?
    Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...
  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • 'Flesh-eating' bug case causes concern
    A patient in Palmerston North is the latest in New Zealand to be treated for a rare and potentially lethal "flesh-eating" bug.MidCentral District Health Board this morning confirmed a patient had been admitted to Palmerston North...
  • Study seeks to discover why West Coast seal nu ...
    A study is underway to try and find out why the West Coast fur seal population is declining.Massey University researcher Laureline Meynier spent the first week of this year armed with giant butterfly nets and shields, gluing six...
  • Controversial plan taps volcano heat for green ...
    Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this year to demonstrate new technology they hope will boost a green energy sector yet to live up to its promise.They...
  • Sleep after quakes can cement negative memories
    Sleep experts in quake-shaken Canterbury have backed the findings of a US study that has found sleeping after a traumatic event like an earthquake cements - and could even amplify - negative emotional memories.In experiments by...
  • Sir Peter Gluckman: Science key to richer country
    New Zealand's export economy has been dominated by its primary industries, commodities and tourism, but in the 21st century most strategic thinkers would accept that science and knowledge-based innovation is central to a better and...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • First Moonbase Primary Open Thread
    Will Gingrich fly us to the Moon?  Will Romney continue the paddling of Newt's plump ass he delivered in the last debate?  Will Santorum froth?  Will Wolf Blitzer give any air time to [OTHER CANDIDATE]?  Some recent coverage might help you puzzle out these and other questions:  ...
  • Late-Breaking Debate Open Thread! Florida! Kni ...
    Comment away, commenters!
  • Oklahoma Moves to Ban "Food or Products Which ...
    A new Oklahoma bill would ban "the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human fetuses." Seriously. Oklahomans can thank state senator Ralph Shortey for introducing this vital bill. Shortey has also introduced some other unconventional bills, like expandin ...
  • Kurt Loder on The Grey and Man on ...
    What will it take to finally bring humankind together, writes Kurt Loder, to unite us all in respect and appreciation and a sense of shared purpose? How about a pack of vicious wolves intent on tearing us to bloody shreds? Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan’s new deep-freeze ...
  • Indiana About to Become the 23rd State in the ...
    After weeks of tantrums and hissy fits by Democrats, the Republican-controlled Indiana House last night passed, 54-44, a right-to-work bill that will make it illegal for unions to collect mandatory dues from non-members, a big blow to the ability of unions to collect funds and sway el ...

Mercury Rising

  • Long-rumored, now at hand
    “A bravado performance.” –Eliot Spitzer talking about the State of the Union, accidentally speaking truth on Countdown Robert Fisk, London Independent: In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan ...
  • Amy Koch: My Dimmesdale’s No Longer A Se ...
    Former Minnesota State Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, who resigned that post after admitting to an “inappropriate relationship” with a male Senate staffer widely suspected to be Michael Brodkorb, dropped a small hint earlier this week as to her Dimmesdale’s identity: She [Amy ...
  • The Field Guide to Minnesota Republican Factio ...
    Reblogged from Mercury Rising 鳯女: There have been some changes in the statuses of various figures mentioned in the first edition of the Field Guide, so I figured it was time for a new edition. Some may wonder why I see the Brodkorb-Koch imbroglio as just another phase of the Fall of the House of ...
  • The Field Guide to Minnesota Republican Factio ...
    Reblogged from Mercury Rising 鳯女: There have been some changes in the statuses of various figures mentioned in the first edition of the Field Guide, so I figured it was time for a new edition. Some may wonder why I see the Brodkorb-Koch imbroglio as just another phase of the Fall of the House of ...
  • Best comic lines of today
    From Hadley Freeman, The Guardian: If you’ve been wondering where Palin has disappeared to, I can reveal the truth: Gingrich has eaten her. And by eating her, he has absorbed her shtick…. … Perhaps Gingrich shouldn’t be so coy. While one could point out the inherent ridic ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Reptilian Evolution?
    Researchers at the University of Sidney in Australia have concluded that rising global temperatures have increased the brain functions of lizards. Quicker response times in simple learning tests have been recorded when these tiny lizards are exposed to higher temperatures. This has lead to some ...
  • Superfluid Hologram
    “What is the internet?,” asks one of the now-hilarious VHS-era videos sampled in the opening sequence of the recent collage-umentary INTERNET RISING For the next hour, the filmmakers take us on a far-ranging journey through innumerable perspectives on that basic question, from technogurus (Kevin ...
  • A Society Based on an Open Heart
        The following is excerpted from The Buddha Walks Into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation, available from Shambhala Publications.    read more
  • Fight Big Brother ACTA
    [Action Alert] • The fight to preserve our online freedom is a seemingly never-ending one. With all the controversy surrounding SOPA and PIPA, you may not have heard of ACTA, or "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement," which threatens the basic infrastructure of the Internet as we kn ...
  • This Week on Evolver Planet Radio
    Evolver Planet Radio, where world-changing ideas come together:  this weekly show talks about the shift in consciousness, models and practices for change, experiences with spiritual awakening and how the practical can create the ideal. Evolver Planet Radio is the perfect frequency at which to tr ...

Desertification

  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.
  • ARGENTINA: In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far Mor ...
    Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.
  • Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
    Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.
  • KENYA: Thirsty Eucalyptus Good for Absorbing C ...
    On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years.
  • AFRICA: Watermelon Farming in a Drought
    On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung'u's homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.

Automatic Earth

  • January 25 2012: Occupy Your Own Space
    Dorothea Lange PlantationJune 1937"Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi" Ilargi: For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable to either incumbent politicians or wannabe leaders (unless they’re extremists, perhaps), let alone to t ...
  • January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...
  • January 19 2012: Don't Be Fooled : Nothing's P ...
    National Photo Co. Bond Vault 1914"Treasury Department, Office of Comptroller of Currency -- bond vault. Contains bonds to the value of $900 million securing government deposits and postal savings fund" Ilargi: Double treat today: a thourough big picture interview with Nicole by KMO at C-Realm, ...
  • January 16 2012: Quo Vadis, Britannia?
    Howard Hollem George Lane April 1942"George Lane, served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Seven of his nephews are ...
  • January 14 2012: Housing and Oil: Dark Invento ...
    National Photo Co. Ingenious cheat February 13, 1922"Washington, D.C., Unidentified woman demonstrating an ingenious Prohibition-era fashion accessory, the cane-flask" Ilargi: I'd like to try a little intellectual exercise. There were two pieces in my mailbox this week that concerned posts at Na ...

Press TV

  • Argentine senate censures British PM
    Argentina's Senate has censured British Prime Minister David Cameron for his remarks regarding the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands.
  • US general: Iran war 'really destabilizing'
    Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey has said that military conflict with Iran would be “premature” and have deeply destabilizing effects on world security and economy.
  • Nigerian union to stop oil production
    A major oil workers' union in Nigeria has vowed to shut down all oil and natural gas production in the country if the government will not restore fuel subsidies.
  • 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.
  • Pentagon announces spending cuts
    The Pentagon has announced plans to cut military spending by 487 billion dollars over the next decade as part of efforts to shore up US ailing economy.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • thepoliticalnotebook:According to a video po ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: According to a video posted to YouTube, the Free Syrian Army now has its own all-female brigade of fighters, named Khawla Bent Azour (alternatively spelled Bint Al-Azwar) after a famous female warrior poet of the 7th century. The brigade has been formed in the city of Der ...
  • New York GrittyTime Square circa 1987,...
    New York Gritty Time Square circa 1987, pre-Disney-fication. Thanks Animal!
  • latimes:New drone has no pilot anywhere, so ...
    latimes: New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many. Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: ...
  • latimes:Tanzania’s Hadza group sheds light o ...
    latimes: Tanzania’s Hadza group sheds light on ancient social networks: The Hadza, who live primitively in Tanzania, have social networks similar to modern ones. People prefer the company of those with attitudes similar to their own, a study finds. A team of researchers has mapped out the rel ...
  • kateoplis:cursivebuildings:I wrote an essa ...
    kateoplis: cursivebuildings: I wrote an essay (published here) for The Huffington Post concerning my long-simmering collaboration w/an experimental group at the New York Public Library that peaked today w/the launch of the Stereogranimator, a website application that lets anyone explore & sha ...
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