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Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

• Somali pirates kidnap American writer
  When an award-winning Californian surf journalist called Michael Scott Moore decided to take a break from the business of catching waves, he told friends that he intended to visit Somalia to write a book about the country's headline-prone professional pirates.Related StoriesKenyan minister resig ...
• Rupert Cornwell: Why Gingrich scares the party ...
  If you're a devotee of the chaos theory of politics, imagine what might happen if Newt Gingrich wins in Florida on Tuesday.
• Is Sarkozy about to throw in the towel?
  President Nicolas Sarkozy will be fighting for his political life when he makes a live appearance on French TV tonight. Some senior figures within his own party fear that he has already lost all chance of winning the two-round presidential election in April and May. There is speculation – possi ...
• Brazilian bikini makers respond to growing pop ...
  Bathers at Piscinao de Ramos, an artificial lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are among those benefiting from the growing number of bikini manufactuers offering a wider range of sizes.Related StoriesA special delivery for UN headquarters in New YorkHillary Clinton 'ready for a rest'Bellicose Romne ...
• Spend now to speed growth, Germans told
  Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, yesterday heaped more pressure on Germany over its handling of the eurozone crisis, effectively calling on Berlin to increase state spending in order to restore growth to the rest of the single currency bloc. Her words came as the ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• NOW Libyans are being tortured to death - than ...
• Admittedly Illegal Genetically Modified Soil F ...
  There is a call for a near-future investigation of illegal synthetics being used in organic food which have been corruptly approved by corporations gaming the system. The United States National Organic Standards Board, a panel that advises the USDA Secretary on all things organic related, was th ...
• Kermadec Islands - Earthquake Magnitude 6.2
  Date-Time Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 17:42:53 UTC Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 05:42:53 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 29.344°S, 177.424°W Depth 28 km (17.4 miles) Region KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND Distances 47 km (29 miles) E of Raoul ...
• No Need to Panic About Global Warming
  There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy. Editor's Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article: A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anyth ...
• Solar Eclipse over the USA
  Mark your calendar. On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It's an annular solar eclipse--the first one in the USA in almost 18 years. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is not quite wide enough to cover ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Wente suggests you read the psuedo-science of ...
  The woman really needs to hire a research assistant who can click on and read the results of any one of these links. Unlike Wente's fawning over Charles Murray's latest piece of fiction based on fantasy, others have already relegated it to the irrelevant bin. Good party game; no place in the l ...
• Robbing seniors to pay the well-to-do
  Greg nails it. The Harper agenda to carry out "pension reform" because the population of seniors in Canada threaten to undermine the economy is based solely on ideological propaganda and not an analysis of the facts. For one thing, most of these PMO talking points are propaganda utilizing grad ...
• Oppression is eternal . . .
  Bad Hair Day: Execution of the Czech 'heretic' Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, anonymous woodcut, 1415 ©AKG-images THE NEW HUMANIST is a delightful site, at the other end of the intellectual rainbow from the GOP and its chimps, and well worth a visit anytime. Currently, there's a fascinati ...
• Putting the boots to granny (updated)
  If the priorities of the Harper government aren't fairly clear by now you, you've been living under rock. Everything is driven by the ideology espoused in this Harper speech. Now, Harper is going to start executing the agenda everyone on the right said he didn't have. You know - the hidden one ...
• Just wondering...
  Does it always take a lethal mill fire before the minister will leap into action to help displaced mill-workers? I only ask because between 2000 and 2010 the Canadian forest industry lost 144 900 direct jobs, hitting fully two-thirds of the forest-dependent communities in the country. I wonder ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox Breathlessly Attempts To Smear Obama As An ...
  Fox figures have suggested that President Obama is anti-Catholic or anti-religion following the administration's recent decision requiring church-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance plans that cover contraceptives for women. But polling has shown that a majority of Catholics ha ...
• Conservative Media Recklessly Distort Volt Safety
  Conservative media have misrepresented the results of Chevy Volt crash tests, claiming the batteries "blow up" and are a "fire trap," and suggesting that fires have occurred spontaneously during use. In fact, fires only occurred after crash tests and regulators concluded an inquiry after findin ...
• Fox's Hayes Contradicts Reality To Claim Sever ...
  Fox News contributor Stephen Hayes claimed that it's "nonsense" for the Obama administration to argue that it "didn't really appreciate the depths of the problems the country faced when we came into office." In fact, measures of the recession in 2009 understated its depth, and subsequent revisi ...
• Media Myth That Cutting Taxes Boosts Reve ...
  CBS treated claims from Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney that the tax cuts they have proposed would increase federal tax revenue as an open question. In fact, the myth that tax cuts increase revenues has been flatly rejected by economists across the ideological spectrum, including Romney adviser a ...
• Daily Caller Now Publishing Anti-Isla ...
  The Daily Caller's Guns and Gear section recently featured two op-eds authored by retired Major General Jerry Curry. In previous statements Curry has raised questions about President Obama secretly being a Muslim, demanded that Obama release his long-form birth certificate or resign, and de ...

Global Research.ca

• FEBRUARY 4: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION. STOP THE ...
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• Global Research's New Online Store: Request fo ...
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• SUPERPOWER: Behind the Scenes of America’s Nat ...
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• HAITI'S "DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP": Bill Clinto ...
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• How the Banks Broke the Social Compact, Promo ...
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TPM Cafe

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• New film 'We are Nabi Saleh' offers a 'portrai ...
• UN official urges Israel to end home demolitio ...
  The United Nations humanitarian envoy in the Palestinian territories called on Friday for Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian homes. "Israel as the Occupying Power has a fundamental ...
• Israel proposes West Bank barrier as border ( ...
  Israel is proposing to essentially turn its West Bank separation barrier into the border with a future state of Palestine, two Palestinian officials said Friday, based on their interpre ...
• Tanaiste renews Gaza blockade call (The Irish ...
  Speaking this afternoon, Mr Gilmore said it was dispiriting to see how little change there had been in Gaza since the end of the Israeli military operation there three years ago. "What I have seen today has reinforced my belief that it is utterly unjust as well as counterproductive to subject Ga ...
• Fact check: Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich blam ...
  Once again, the subject of Palestine and the Palestinians took center stage at the Republican presidential debate in Florida last night. In response to a question from a Palestinian-Ame ...

Water - AlterNet

• State Of The Union: President Obama Blames Con ...
  Here's the problem with Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy.
• Fracking's "Little Revolution": How ...
  Consider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water.
• Sugar High: The Dark History and Nasty Methods ...
  Sugar is now 20 percent of the American diet, but it's not just our health that suffers from its pervasiveness.
• Despite Obama's Decision on Keystone Pipeline, ...
  Obama's rejection of the pipeline won't stop tar sands oil from flowing, or even keep it out of the United States.
• 3 Ways Laws Are Stacked to Favor Fracking Comp ...
  The U.S. legal system is strongly biased in favor of economic growth, even if it harms human health and the environment.

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

• Elderly couple buzzed by UFO during drive
  Bruce and Priscilla Wetherill were terrified when a saucer shaped object hovered inches above their car. The couple had been driving home between Gain...
• Mystery blue jelly balls fall from the sky
  Dorset residents were perplexed when a torrent of blue jelly balls rained down from the heavens. Former aircraft engineer Steve Hornsby described how ...
• Researchers 'cloak' a 3-dimensional object
  New research has rendered a 3D object invisible to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. There have been significant advances in the d...
• NASA takes new 'blue marble' photograph
  NASA has used a new satellite to take a stunning update to the famous 'blue marble' Earth photograph. The new satellite is designed to take amazing hi...
• Ghost captured on film before demolition
  Demolition workers managed to photograph a ghostly figure in a window at an old Victorian guesthouse. For many years, Frances Grimshaw worked the fron...

Grassroots

• US Aid to Ethiopia Supports Forced Relocations ...
  ethiopia_huts.jpg The issue of land grabs remains a critical threat to human rights, forcing millions of people off the land to make way for large-scale industrial farms. Land grabs in Ethiopia are not only threatening to dislocate farmers ...
• Sharing Knowledge and Power: Brazil-Africa lea ...
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• Recovery in Haiti starts at the community level
  haiti201005-142.jpg Haitians, whether in Haiti or the diaspora, will always remember where they were on January 12, 2010, when tragedy shook us to our core. Devastating images emerged from Port-au-Prince after the earthquake that brought to ...
• Support for Haiti that never trickled down
  Subheadline:  Where Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Bill Quigley is Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a la ...
• Recovery in Gaza -- Garden by Garden
  Subheadline:  Reflections three years after Operation Cast Lead parc_urban_garden.jpg Three years ago today, on December 27, 2008, the Israeli Defense Force launched Operat ...

Climate

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

GreenBiz

• University of Vermont Offers Online Course on ...
  Lauded for its green practices and curricula, the University of Vermont has developed a certificate program to enable other colleges to integrate sustainability into their operations.
• The Economic Risks of a Water Constrained World
  Our over-leveraged global water position is fundamentally unsustainable, and the business community is already feeling the pain.
• Inside Kohl's Green Energy Leadership
  At the GreenBiz Forum this morning in Minneapolis, Tari Emerson, Kohl's director of energy and capital projects, walked through how the retailer has become the nation's largest corporate solar panel owner, and how other companies can get started.
• Digging in to the Whole 'O' of Sustainability ...
  Jerry Lynch, Chief Sustainability Officer at the food giant, talks about the company's 2015 sustainability goals, their relationship with their brands, the issues surrounding food waste, and much more.
• Toxic Chemical Pollution Up 16% in 2010, Drive ...
  The metal mining sector pushed disposal and other releases ot toxic chemicals and metals up 16 percent in 2010, following years of decline.

Duly Noted

• Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
  After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
• Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
  A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
• India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
  A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.
• Europe can’t put out the blaze
  As Italy surpasses Greece as the biggest threat to the euro zone, European finance ministers meeting in Brussels struggle to put out the spreading flames.
• Democracy and Chaos are both Greek
  It's not exactly ???? (chaos) out there, but Greek Prime Ministers Papandreou's experiment in ?????????? (democracy) has sent the whole euro zone project into a new, risky phase.

Booman Tribune

• Seeing Through Palin
  I can't keep up with Sarah Palin anymore. Am I correct that she hasn't officially endorsed anyone? She's just speaking out against making a rush to judgment in favor of Romney, right? You know, tell me if I'm wrong. I could write a Facebook letter to the Tea Party faithful, too, not that ...
• It's Much Simpler
  Professor John Pitney expends a lot of words in explaining why Gingrich would lose to Obama if they held a bunch of Lincoln-Douglas style debates. Some of his reasoning is simply argumentative or purely speculative, and most of it is beside the point. In any such series of debates, Obama would ...
• Some Music
  The video sucks and the audio could be better, but it's the only version I could find, and I felt like posting it. Lyrics. Pirates was such a great album. Discuss
• Open Thread
  I've got a bit of writer's block this morning. I thought Mitt Romney actually had a great debate last night, which I'm not very happy about. He finally learned how to act more like a man than a weasel, and that makes him dangerous. What's on your mind this morning? Discuss
• Whither Paulism?
  I wonder if Ron Paul will simply go away after his campaign finally ends. He's retiring from Congress, so he won't have that platform anymore. He's 76 years old, so I don't see him running for president again. He doesn't seem the type to work in the media or to become a regular guest. The Re ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Jaipur's Elephant Festival: One Jumbo Sized Be ...
  An amazing festival in India in which elephants are decorated in body paint, jewels and velvets... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 25 Most Colorful Sea Slugs on Earth
  Regaled in a breathtaking mix of bold and vibrant colors, and appearing in a variety of shapes and sizes, the sea slugs known as nudibranchs fascinate and delight! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
• The Surprisingly Sociable Lives of Sharks
  Despite their image as bloodthirsty predators, sharks are actually social animals capable of bonding with each other and even humans. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Agricultural Landscapes Become Patchwork ...
  Agricultural fields can bear a stunning resemblance to patchwork quilts – at least, when viewed from the air – as these 15 examples show! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Mysterious Origins and Traditions of the C ...
  Lion Dances have been used for centuries to bring in the New Year and celebrate new ventures, but nobody knows for sure how they began. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The Drug War's Invisible Victims
  Women bear the burden of the violence that is convulsing Mexico.
• Scotland Rallies Anew Around Cries for Secession
  The trumpets of Scottish independence are sounding again in Scottish Parliament.
• The West Judges Iran by Not One, But Two Doubl ...
  Iran scores low on the West's unspoken rationality and ethics indexes.
• Will the GOP Own Its Position on Israel-Palestine?
  The Republican National Committee adopted a resolution that's pro Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories and con an Israel-Palestine two-state solution.
• Egypt and the Islamists
  The victory of Islamists in Egypt is a victory for democracy.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Brazil nabs notorious drug lord
  Drug lord on country's list of most wanted criminals has been captured while on holiday in Sao Paulo.
• Arab League suspends Syria mission
  Pan-Arab bloc says an escalation in violence and "critical deterioration" in the country led to the decision.
• Deadly blaze strikes Peru drug clinic
  At least 26 killed in private drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre where some patients were locked in rooms.
• Kazakh opposition speakers jailed for rally
  Government hands out more than two-week sentences after unauthorised protest in Almaty against the government.
• UK police arrest four more Murdoch staffers
  Current and former employees of Sun tabloid arrested in investigation into whether police were paid for information.

Green Inc. - NYT

• New York's Fracking Deliberations Inch Along
  A meeting with an advisory panel is deferred, suggesting that the decision-making process will not be rushed in coming months.
• Racing Up (and Down) the Performance Index
  In the latest Environmental Performance Index, Switzerland is at the top, Russia is much closer to the bottom and the United States has failed to gain much ground.
• When Marine Mammals Become Food
  Rising human consumption of marine mammals in tropical regions poses a threat to animals like the dugong, which is similar to a manatee, and the Atlantic humpback dolphin, researchers write.
• On Our Radar: 6 More Coal Plants to Close
  FirstEnergy says it would not be cost-effective to install scrubbing technology at aging plants to meet new federal emissions rules.
• Reaping a Bonus From Cap-and-Trade
  Rather than imposing higher costs on consumers and businesses, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowered their bills.

Dot Earth News

• A Legal Defense Fund for Climate Scientists
  Climate scientists get new allies in their fights for fairness in document probes and legal challenges.
• The State of the Union, With the Future in Mind
  President Obama's third State of the Union address is built around themes related to long-term prosperity.
• If a Tree Falls, Maybe it Can Win an Oscar
  A film chronicling a violent strain of environmentalism is up for a big award.
• Beyond Hype, a Closer Look at New York's Choic ...
  New Yorkers debate next steps on the fate of the state's vast natural gas resource.
• Tallying Disasters and Gauging a Greenhouse Impact
  An environmental scientist explains the challenges in efforts to gauge global warming through disaster patterns.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• For-Profit Colleges: Separate but not equal an ...
  School segregation and the doctrine of separate but equal were the law of the land until 1954 when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v Board of Education: We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facili ...
• 1917: J.P. Morgan bought US media to be 1%’s l ...
  video here. Congressman Oscar Callaway lost his Congressional election for opposing US entry into WW 1. Before he left office, he demanded investigation into JP Morgan & Co for purchasing control over America’s leading 25 newspapers in order to propagandize US public opinion in favor of his ...
• Valkyrie: movie for US military today to arres ...
  with movie scene here. Valkyrie opens with the Nazi soldier’s loyalty oath; identical in effect to the 2003-altered US Army Soldier’s Creed: “I will always place the mission first” (as dictated by the leader/fuehrer). The historical hero, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, writes in his ...
• Star Wars: a false flag story; US-Iran (1953-1 ...
  video here. A false flag attack is when a nation attacks in disguise. The purpose is to fool the public who otherwise wouldn’t support a criminal War of Aggression. The desired outcome for false flag attacks is control over other governments and their resources. The brilliant 10-minute video fro ...
• CUBA: LOOKING BACK AND AHEAD
  By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés In 2012, the White House will focus on the most important of international and national issues: the re-election of the President. US-Cuba policy will fall into “Next Year’s” box – or the year after that. The National Security staff reverts to its familiar posi ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• U.N. Considers Syria Intervention
• GOP Reps. Go After DC Abortions Again
• Spike Lee's Co-Writer: Nothing Happens Unless ...
• Union Membership Sees Slight Boost In 2011 Aft ...
• Twitter To Start Censoring Tweets In Individua ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Good News and Bad News about GDP Growth
  Americans are in for a long, hard slog.
• Cuba: Looking Back and Ahead
  In the first entry on a two-part series, we look at how Cuban leaders could forge a new environmental mission in 2012.
• Unconventional Wisdom: The President Talks Abo ...
  Thanks to the persistence of the Occupy movement and Romney's tin ear, President Obama devoted much of his State of the Union address to the damage extreme inequality wreaks on our democracy.
• Tax-Haven Abuse Film Hits the Fast Lane
  "We're Not Broke," the new documentary about tax-dodging corporations, premiered at Sundance.
• The State of the 99 Percent
  The Occupy movement is clearly affecting political rhetoric... but what about real action?

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #673
  Canada arrest shows spy times have changed in Russia. US court upholds S. Korean ex-spy's asylum ruling. Kiriakou's wife resigns from CIA.
• News you may have missed #672
  Russian military intelligence to 'change tactics'. Norway spy chief quits in secrecy gaffe. Review of Australia's spy community released.
• News you may have missed #671
  German 'spies' detained in Pakistan. Was poet Pablo Neruda murdered? Britain's secret mission to beat Gaddafi.
• Jordan issues ‘immediate travel ban&#821 ...
  The former director of Jordan’s powerful intelligence service has been barred from leaving the country and has had his personal and family assets frozen, according to reports from the Middle Eastern country. General Mohammed Dahabi assumed command of Jordan’s General Intelligence Department (GID ...
• Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou’s indictment made ...
  On Monday, the United States Department of Justice charged former Central Intelligence Agency officer John Kiriakou with leaking classified government information to reporters and deceiving a CIA review board. What exactly happened?

War is a Crime.org

• 15 Things More Important Than Newt's Sex Life ...
  1. A war on Iran could kill us all. President Obama said in the State of the Union: "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.  But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible . . . if Iran ...
• ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA
    ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA - by Stephen Lendman   Internet freedom's on the line. SOPA and PIPA threatened Net Neutrality and free expression. So does ACTA. More on it below.    For now, the largest online protest in Internet history got Congress to abandon SOPA an ...
• Forecasting Economic Decline
    Forecasting Economic Decline    by Stephen Lendman   Economic analyst Harry Dent's 2009 book, titled "The Great Depression Ahead" became a national bestseller. He predicted the current crisis and worse ahead.   read more
• Department of Justice Blurts Out Truth About A ...
  From Washington Post: Investigators initially focused on the wrong man, then had to pay him a nearly $6 million settlement. In 2008, they accused another man, Bruce E. Ivins, who killed himself before he could go to trial. Now, in the latest twist, the government has argued against itself. In ...
• Help California Pass Single-Payer Healthcare o ...
  Have Everyone You Know in California Call These Senators! The California Senate is just 2 votes short to pass its single payer health care bill, SB 810 - the California Universal Healthcare Act, before the end of this legislative session on Tuesday. Four Democratic Senators have not voted either ...

Grist - News

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

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• What's With All The T-Shirt Controversies?
  Should obnoxious t shirts be protected under the first amendment?
• Converse Challenges Artists to 'Get Inspired'
  Rubber Tracks Recording Studio Has Designs on Art
• Solar Storm Ignites Northern Lights
  This week, the Sun spewed a blast of radiation and charged plasma towards Earth in a mass that traveled at 630 miles per second.
• Corporations: How a Lawyers Wet Dream Became a ...
  Super Hero Corporations Eternal Life, Magically Shields Its Owners from Liability, Unhampered in Pursuit of Profit
• A.J. Foyt Hospitalized for Infection
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Time - Top Stories

• Why Facebook, Twitter and Google Are in a Soci ...
  Google's growing struggle with Facebook and Twitter for advantage in the social networking space erupted into public view Tuesday after the search giant's competitors unveiled a new tool
• At Davos, Why Is No One Talking About the Poor?
  Unfair trade practices and poor working conditions in the developing world, issues that dominated the WEF agenda a decade ago, haven't been raised at all.
• In Florida, a Gloomy Gingrich is Slip-Sliding Away
  Listen to Gingrich's gloomy tone on the campaign trail, and you may get a sense that the apocalypse is nigh.
• Fashion Friday: Downton Abbey Jewelry and a Wi ...
  TIME's Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion
• Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number ...
  Honestly, little Oliver's a bit dull. The novel's best side is its dark side, and Dickens knew it.

Digg Green

• An exquisite Mexico beach, cursed by plastic
  Just off a rutted dirt road, a beach as white as flour pops into view from behind a wall of sea grape and rustling palms. Pelicans slice over turquoise waters, and not a single person stirs the quiet.
• Two crescents: Venus and the Moon (Pic)
• How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies y ...
  Puffer fish, or fugu, is well-known for being a dish that stands a good chance of killing the person it's served to. But people still eat it — partly because some people like living life on the edge, but mostly because all people like getting high.
• Seven dead. 73 seconds after launch. This day ...
  On January 28th, 1986, the Challenger space shuttle broke apart over the coast of Florida and ended the lives of all seven crew members. A subsequent investigation determined that an O-ring failure on one of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, coupled with extremely cold weather around the time ...
• Planet Aurora Borealis

Invisible Opportunity

• Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic ...
  In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the “pollutant” carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific “hereti ...
• To Choodle into the Armageddon Sunset
  By Les Visible As they crank up the inevitable engines of war in search of deeper darkness, the brainwashing continues apace; not that it’s all that hard to wash a fundie’s brain, since that system already functions like sending a tank top to the dry cleaners. The flavor of the month ...
• NATO’s Grisly Crimes in Libya: Extensive Evide ...
  by Farirai Chubvu While Charles Ray – the US envoy here [Zimbabwe] – portrays himself as the face of the free world, a champion of human rights and democracy, and has been vociferous about his country’s role in the Libyan invasion, it turns out that just like Vietnam and other ...
• Oz Concern About Mossad Death Squads
  Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter “friendly” countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Je ...
• Tidbits: What is Being Held Back from You
  By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Let’s start this out with an attention grabber. Out there, somewhere is a photograph of Osama bin Laden and George H. W. Bush, shaking hands in the White House. It exists. There is this and more, so much more, that would make America’s heads spin. The actual trained ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• California Supreme Court Could Make Game-Chang ...
  The court granted review for two rulings that dealt major blows to the medical pot industry, and has the opportunity to lay the foundation for future regulation.
• The Dangerous Panic Over Painkillers
  The media trumpets a crisis in Rx painkiller addiction, but only 1% of patients get hooked. The result? Doctors treat patients like addicts, while addicts escape responsibility.
• Can a Strong Coalition of Pot Activists Define ...
  A coalition of advocates has filed a statewide medical marijuana regulation initiative aimed at ending the years-long confusion over what is and what is not allowed.
• Laughing at Pot Advocates? What's so Funny Abo ...
  Despite progress in the mainstream, there is a tragic tendency among the press to burst out laughing at the idea of fixing our disastrous drug laws.
• Where do the GOP Candidates Stand on Drug Poli ...
  The battle for the Republican nomination has moved to Florida, which also happens to be a key battleground in an entirely different fight: the $15bn war on drugs.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Erin Brockovich to Investigate Disturbing Tour ...
  Erin Brockovich, the famed environmental activist, is researching a new, rather disturbing Tourette-like illness affecting more than a dozen teens in Leroy, New York. What started as a seemingly isolated case with one teenage girl several months ago has spread to affect 17 students, 15 of whom a ...
• DIY: How to Make Homemade Organic Cheese Crackers
  Want to introduce your kids to baking and avoid spending money on store-bought snacks? Here’s a recipe that’s fun, relatively easy, and is guaranteed to be a hit with the kids. These homemade organic cheese crackers are of course fresher than the ones you might find at the supermarke ...
• Japanese Textile Mills Are Back in Action Afte ...
  Japan has suffered through 2011′s devastating tsunami and earthquake and in the wake of the clean-up, the country wants to be clear – their legendary textile mills have made a comeback.  Fukushima Senkou, a low impact yarn company that uses eco-friendly dyes, was adversely affected b ...
• Joel Cooper Creates Stunning Origami Art From ...
  Read the rest of Joel Cooper Creates Stunning Origami Art From Simple Sheets of Paper Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3d paper sculptures, eco design, eco-art, folded paper, green art, green design, handpainted paper, joel cooper, origami, origami art, origami joel, pa ...
• Amazing Stork Nest Farm Features a Gigantic Wo ...
  Read the rest of Amazing Stork Nest Farm Features a Gigantic Woven Bird Nest Riding Arena Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", arena, czechoslovakia, Daylighting, eco design, farm renovation, farmstead, green architecture, Green Building, green d ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Solar-Storm-Fueled Auroras Make for Awesome Ba ...
  The sun is waking up. After several quiet years, it bombarded the Earth with a one-two punch of solar storms this week, which generated consecutive nights of spectacular auroras.
• How to Deploy Your Drogue from a DIY Space Capsule
  What a great week! I managed to finish the basic seating structure completely, now only awaiting ergonomic foam build up and coating. But, even better Claus Nørregaard and I managed to perform the first two tests of the drogue separation system for space capsule Tycho Deep Space. If you have no ...
• Galaxy Formation on a Benchtop
  Astrophysicists have simulated the magnetism of newborn galaxies using carbon rods and lasers in a small laboratory setup.
• Stone Age Social Networks May Have Resembled Ours
  Ancient Stone Age humans may have paved the way for their modern brethren -- us -- to cooperate with each other by developing the first sets of what are now-common social characteristics.
• 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.

PakAlert

• RIP: Obama Puts ‘Final Nail’ In US Coffin
  Having lived through the many frightful decades of a Cold War that was born in the aftermath of World War II that saw tens-of-millions die for ideologies they could barely name, let alone know the cause and history of, the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought great relief to many, but for th ...
• US and Israel revive largest joint anti-missil ...
  Israeli and American officials put plans for a massive missile drill mysteriously on this month, but now the exercise, originally slated for this spring, will be scheduled for October 2012.
• Europe is developing an asteroid shield… but i ...
  Scientists are trying to find a way to protect Earth from the giant rocks which travel around the Milky Way. Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project, which will look for a way to protect earth from the space rocks, is expected to take three years to complete. ...
• Iran will stop EU oil exports this week
  An Iranian lawmaker says entering into oil war with Iran will bring European Union member states to their knees as Tehran will prevent the export of even one drop of oil.
• Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Says GMO Crops Ne ...
  Bill Gates, the heavy Monsanto investor who purchased 500,000 shares of the biotech giant in 2010, has been touting Monsanto’s genetically modified creations as a tool that is necessary to prevent starvation in poor nations. The same poor nations where thousands of farmers routinely commit suici ...

Andy Worthington

• Center for Constitutional Rights: New Videos P ...
  In the long struggle to close Guantánamo, protests took place in Washington D.C. and across America on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, and the newly established “Close Guantánamo” campaign (of which I am a member of the steering committee) launched a ...
• How the National Defense Authorization Act All ...
  While I was in the US two weeks ago, for the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, there was great deal of understandable outrage amongst activists — both those on the left, and libertarians — because of outrageous provisions in ...
• Video: Tunisian Freed from Guantánamo Calls fo ...
  To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, both Al-Jazeera and the Guardian turned their attention to the fate of the five Tunisians still held in Guantánamo, who I wrote about almost exactly a year ago, after the unexpected fall of t ...
• Please Call for the Closure of Guantánamo By S ...
  It’s three years since President Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Remind President Obama of his promise. Sign the petition on the White House’s “We the People” website urging him to honor his promise. 25,000 signatures are needed by February 6 to secure a response, so ...
• Read the Center for Constitutional Rights&#821 ...
  In December, I was privileged to work with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights on three reports about Guantánamo that were published to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, 2012, and released at a press conference in Washington D.C. that I reporte ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Near-Extinct Monkeys Found in Colombian Park
  A new population of one of the world's rarest primates has been found in a Colombian park, conservationists announced today.
• Death Valley's Big Bang: Volcano "Potentially ...
  It may be barren, but California's Ubehebe Crater is anything but dead, according to a new study.
• Green Moves: Medellin Cable Cars, San Francis ...
  Two cities renowned for hilly terrain and cable cars share in international prize for sustainable transport.
• Second Try: LanzaTech Grabs Failed Biofuel Ref ...
  A new chapter begins in the effort to brew advanced biofuel in the “Million Pines City” of Soperton, Georgia, with a startup's purchase of a failed U.S. government-backed biorefinery.
• Injections Could Lift Venice 12 Inches, Study ...
  Pumping billions of gallons of water under the sinking Italian city could save it from worsening floods as seas rise, a new study says.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Utah Republican AG Derides ‘Help’ From Nativis ...
  It’s long been something of a mystery how conservative Republicans can expect to keep winning elections when so many of them spend their time dissing Latinos, a critical and rapidly growing portion of the electorate. Indeed, many Latino rights organizations argue persuasively that it was Latino ...
• Nativist Leader Recasts Immigration Fight as R ...
  After nearly shutting down at the end of 2011 due to financial difficulties, William Gheen’s Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) re-launched earlier this month, announcing plans to “deploy” exciting new strategies against “illegal alien supporters” and their evil co-conspirators in gove ...
• Mistrial in Child Rape Case of Antigovernment ...
  DUNCAN, Okla. — The second trial of self-described Oath Keeper Charles Dyer, who is accused of raping his 7-year-old daughter in 2010, came to an abrupt end on Tuesday when a judge declared a mistrial after discovering the district attorney’s office had improper conduct with jurors. District Att ...
• Birther Farce Proceeds in Georgia, Minus Pres ...
  Adding an extra layer of surreality to the already farcical Georgia proceedings regarding President Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office, neither the defendant nor his counsel appeared at this morning’s hearing before an administrative law judge. Yesterday, Georgia Secretary of State Br ...
• Online ‘Hit List’ Targets Liberals
  Anti-liberal propaganda has been ramping up for years. Former Fox News host Glenn Beck, who was cited as an inspiration for at least three rightwing extremists accused of committing or plotting violence, called himself a “progressive hunter” and attempted to rebrand Hitler as a leftist. Anti-Mus ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

• Huge Protest in Pakistan Against US Drone Attacks
  Over 100,000 Pakistanis rallied in Karachi Friday afternoon to protest US drone strikes on their country. The demonstrators also demanded that the Pakistani government continue the blockade on the NATO supply route to Afghanistan. The Times of India reports: ...
• Occupied: Japanese Nuclear Foes Defy Order to ...
  Japanese anti-nuclear protesters defied a government order Friday to vacate the area in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki. Protesters have been occupying the Ministry grounds since Sept. 11, 2011. The Japan Times reports Saturday: Antinuclear acti ...
• Women of FEMEN Crash "Gangsters Party in Davos"
    The Associated Press reports: read more
• What Military Austerity? A Shift in Spending, ...
  The Pentagon released its latest budget request outline on Thursday in what was proposed as a paring down of defense spending; however, as many are now examining, the proposal aims to make cuts in certain areas, but it would actually increase baseline spending over a 10-year period. The proposal ...
• Public Eye Awards: Mining Giant Vale and Barcl ...
  Brazilian mining giant Vale and UK-based Barclays bank were given the dubious honor of being the top vote-getters in this year's survey asking participants to name the world's most destructive international corporations. The results of the survey are gathered by The Public Eye, an effort ...

Lifehacker

• This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
  Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iOS 5 Is Finally Here (iPhone, iOS) iPhone-hacking group Chronic Dev Team just released the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. We've explained why a tethered jailbreak can be such a hassle, which is w ...
• Manage Roommate Logistics with Shared Google D ...
  Privacy issues aside, we're fans of most Google services. If you have a roommate, sharing editable documents and calendars is a great way to collaborate on expenses, chores, and when you're having guests over. More » ...
• Repurpose an Old Ladder Into a Pot Rack [Repur ...
  Have an old wooden ladder that has seen better days? You can change it into a pot rack by hanging it horizontally from the ceiling and adding pot hooks (standard hardware store s-hooks work fine for this). More » ...
• Make Your Own Rice Milk
  Lots of people these days avoid dairy and instead reach for alternatives to milk. We've covered making your own soy milk and almond milk in the past; if you prefer rice milk you can make your own by blending rice, water, and a sweetener. ...
• Use Colorblind Assistant to Identify Whatever ...
  Windows: If you're colorblind or just need to constantly know what colors are on your screen the free program Colorblind Assistant might be for you. The program tells you whatever color is displayed at the current location of your mouse/trackp ...

Water Privatization

• Privatization of Electricity Delivery in Ghana
  From: Kwaku A. Danso [mailto:dansojfk@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:17 AM To: Abeeku Brew-Hammond (Prof); Tony Aidoo (Dr.); Mustapha Ahmed (Hon.Dr); Sherry Ayittey (Hon) Cc: 'glu-ghana-leadership-forum@googlegroups.com' Subject: Electricity Privatization in Ghana Let me ch ...
• Talking water at Davos
  Water is becoming an increasingly important topic at the World Economic Forum. This week, a new private-public partnership, the Water Resources Group, was launched with the goal of helping developing countries implement water management reforms.
• Briefing Note Details Threat to Water Services ...
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO-- - The Council of Canadians and Canadian Union of Public Employees are releasing a briefing note on recently leaked documents related to ongoing Canada-European Union trade negotiations.The ...
• New leaked Canada-EU trade documents show Cana ...
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 26, 2012) - Leaked documents related to the ongoing Canada-European Union trade negotiations show that Canada and the provinces have failed to protect drinking water and wastewater services from trade rules that would encourage and lock in privatization, say t ...
• New leaked Canada-EU trade documents show Cana ...
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO-- - Leaked documents related to the ongoing Canada-European Union trade negotiations show that Canada and the provinces have failed to protect drinking water and wastewater services from ...

Guardian

• Labour scorns Cameron's 'happiness' agenda
  Shadow health secretary warns David Cameron against middle class aspirations at a time when people are strugglingAndy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, says the government's goal of measuring happiness is in danger of promoting "middle-class" materialistic aspirations and ignoring the u ...
• Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses i ...
  US writers attack conditions at Foxconn plant and call for consumers to actApple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of its iPhones and iPads.The company's public image t ...
• 'Human safaris' in India: tour operators face ...
  Two men are in court after the Observer investigation into tourist visits to view tribes peopleBritish and international tour operators have been warned that they will face prosecution if they continue to offer "human safaris" to India.Three Indian tour operators have already been charged in con ...
• Tobacco giant JTI quizzed over shipment to Syr ...
  Firm behind leading UK brands confirms that EU fraud agency is investigating link to tyrant's cousin Rami MakhloufA tobacco giant behind three of the UK's leading brands is under investigation after millions of its cigarettes were shipped to a firm linked to a billionaire accused of playing a k ...
• Out of Afghanistan: incredible stories of the ...
  The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new lifeBehind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone ...

McClatchey

• Brazilian leader under pressure on rights ahea ...
  SAO PAULO ? Dilma Rousseff arrives in Cuba on Monday on her first visit there as Brazil's president, and she's facing pressure to take a stronger and more public stance…Click to Continue »
• Romney, Gingrich battle in Florida ahead of ke ...
  ORLANDO, Fla._ With Florida's pivotal Republican primary four days away, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich spent Saturday dueling across the state, trying to convince voters their opponent is unfit to…Click to Continue »
• With violence rising, Arab League suspends Syr ...
  The Arab League suspended its Syria observation mission Saturday, saying it was too dangerous to continue, as battles between security and opposition forces raged just outside the capital, Damascus.Click to Continue »
• Romney, Gingrich battle in Florida ahead of ke ...
  ORLANDO, Fla ? With Florida's pivotal Republican primary four days away, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich spent Saturday dueling across the state, trying to convince voters their opponent is unfit…Click to Continue »
• Commentary: We can't ignore North Korean suffering
  If North Korea's unending economic failures did not exact so great a price in lives ? more than 1 million deaths from starvation in the '90s, with a repeat of…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Karzai thanks Britain for sacrifice
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has thanked the British people for the sacrifices they have made for the benefit of his nation. He was speaking after bilateral talks at Chequers with Prime Minister ...
• The Place of Women in the Afghanistan Peace Pr ...
  Women have taken on an increasingly active role in Afghan society in recent years - holding elected offices, working outside the house, and sometimes running their own ...
• UK 'will continue' with Afghan mission
  © REUTERS/Pool Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that the UK will maintain its support for Afghanistan until, and beyond, the 2014 deadline for troop withdrawals. Speaking at a press ...
• Taliban Tries Softer Look, But Can it Be Trusted
  Jan. 24, 2012: A former Taliban militant, left, shakes hands with a police official during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Baghlan, north of Kabul, ...
• Embolden Taliban try to sell softer image
  Jan. 24, 2012: A former Taliban militant, left, shakes hands with a police official during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Baghlan, north of Kabul, ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Senator Ron Wyden's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of ...
  When Mike asked if I'd be willing to write this week's "Favorite Techdirt Posts of the Week," I'm fairly certain he thought I’d say no. He noted how busy I must be -- which is true -- but in a display of his trademark humility, he said he could think of a number of reasons that a U.S. Se ...
• Knowledge Is A Universal Natural Resource -- A ...
  One of the more important points in understanding some of the fights over the ridiculousness of today's copyright and patent laws is to recognize how knowledge (information) is a natural resource. It is the input that makes other great things. Economist Paul Romer's famous research really sho ...
• Apparently, If Your Domain Has 'Dirt' In The N ...
  Back in 2010, we wrote about an attempt to sue the website TheDirty.com for libel... in which the lawyer for the site accidentally sued a different site, called TheDirt.com. This resulted in some hilarity with a bogus default judgment and plenty of confusion. We joked how, given the similariti ...
• Security Theater... Or Why I Had To Go Dumpste ...
  We've had plenty of stories about the ridiculousness of security theater at airports, but it's been spreading elsewhere as well. Last week, I was in Washington DC from Monday through Thursday, for a few things (mostly related to the SOPA/PIPA debate). On Thursday morning, I took part in a pres ...
• DailyDirt: Faster Food, Faster!
  There are a lot of food options out there, and fast food is certainly one of the more popular choices for people on the go. Not surprisingly, though, fast food establishments usually don't have the best reputation for healthy dining, but some of them are trying to change their image. Here are ju ...

VacTruth

• Repeal HPV Vaccine for Girls—Not a Dream: Comm ...
  Finally some legislators have come to their senses about the obviously dangerous HPV vaccines!
• The Gloves Are On For Dr. Andrew Wakefield
  The ‘gloves’ are on with Dr. Andrew Wakefield in one corner, and Brian Deer, the British Medical Journal (BMJ), and Dr. Fiona Godley in the other corner! Andrew Wakefield, as plaintiff is not about to take the destruction of his reputation lying down.
• Gardasil: Big Pharma Killing Us Softly
  With complete disregard for the welfare and safety of the people who take their products, the pharmaceutical industry has made a habit of putting profits above all else. Now, as if we have learned nothing from history, the drama is unfolding yet again, this time with Gardasil.
• Radical Idea: Paper Suggests Forcing Your Chil ...
  The suggestion of mandating participation in medical trials has no place in a free society. It ought to go where it rightly belongs – in the trash along with their vaccines.
• Premature Babies Used As Lab Rats In Manipulat ...
  A vaccination trial on premature babies funded by GlaxoSmithKline...just by reading this study through anyone with an ounce of sense can see that it is weighted in favor of the researchers.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• War Plan Against Syria: ‘Made in London’
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 6, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1
• Until Obama Is Removed, We Are on the Edge of War
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 6, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1
• LaRouche Emergency Broadcast: Dump Obama; Brin ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 6, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1
• Economics for the Future of Mankind: Self-Deve ...
  By Michelle Fuchs and Sky Shields Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 6, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1
• War Danger Still Remains: Watch for the Unexpected
  EIR News Service press release.

War in Context

• An oral history of Occupy Wall Street
  Vanity Fair: On September 17, several hundred people marched to an empty square in Lower Manhattan—a place so dull that the bankers and construction workers in the neighborhood barely knew it was there—and camped out on the bare concrete. They would be joined, over the next two months, by thousa ...
• How the Inquisition ignited the modern police ...
  Cullen Murphy writes: On a hot autumn day in Rome not long ago, I crossed the vast expanse of St Peter’s Square, paused momentarily in the shade beneath a curving flank of Bernini’s colonnade and continued a little way beyond to a Swiss Guard standing impassively at a wrought-iron gate. He exami ...
• Music: Habib Koité — Sirata
• Debate: The UN should admit Palestine as a ful ...
  An edited version of this debate can be heard on this NPR page.
• Video: Atheism 2.0
  The Guardian: “My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins,” says Alain de Botton. “The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves and we’re not joining that nonsense.” In his new book, Reli ...

Watts Up With That?

• Tamino Once Again Misleads His Followers
  Guest post by Bob Tisdale My blog post October to December 2011 NODC Ocean Heat Content Anomalies (0-700Meters) Update and Comments was cross posted by at WattsUpWithThat here. (As always, thanks, Anthony.) Starting at the January 27, 2012 at 8:44 am … Continue reading →
• Open Thread Weekend
  Away from net for awhile, climbing radio station tower. Anything goes within site policy.
• Giant Veil of “Cold Plasma” Discov ...
  From National Geographic: Clouds of charged particles stretch a quarter the way to the moon, experts say. Clouds of “cold plasma” reach from the top of Earth’s atmosphere to at least a quarter the distance to the moon, according to … Continue reading →
• Major x class solar flare
  Blogging from my phone Check WUWT Solar Reference Page Updated: It was an X1.7 class eruption,  it does not appear to be headed towards Earth. JTF
• Alaska On The Rocks
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach From the “weather is not climate” department, the sea ice is in early and thick in Alaska. It makes me shiver just to look at the picture. They had to use an icebreaker to get … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Six Questions About Fracking Only An 'Ecofasci ...
  Plausible questions about fracking impacts that so far have not been publicly addressed
• Weekday Vegetarian: Herbed Sun-dried Tomato an ...
  With a minimum of effort you can have a delicious loaf of bread for brunch.
• Winners of the WWF Video Competition: Not 'Mur ...
  'The Runner' and 'Life. Nature. You.' beat out 'Murmuration' and 200 others. Worth watching. They're short.
• IDS12: Philippe Starck Integrates iStuff Charg ...
  We love designs that serve multiple functions, and sorta like this integration of an LED lamp and an iPhone Charger. But I wish it did more.
• Online Activism Forces Break in Official Silen ...
  Citizen persistence at measuring and publicizing pollution levels results in a major turnaround by Beijing.

Biosingularity

• Brain Shrinkage Linked to Smoking, Obesity, Di ...
  People who smoke, are overweight, and have other health problems in middle age may be at increased risk of developing signs of brain shrinkage and diminished planning and organization skills as they age, new research indicates. Other health problems linked to brain shrinkage and mental decline i ...
• Colon Cleansing May Be Risky, Study Finds
  Colon cleansing, promoted as a natural way to boost well-being, has no proven benefits and may be risky, according to a new report. Ranit Mishori, MD, a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, looked at studies that evaluated colon hydrotherapy or irrigation. She also ...
• Disease-causing tangle could spawn new materia ...
  When most people hear the word amyloid, they immediately think of Alzheimer’s disease. And indeed, it was in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients that these dense protein masses were first identified. But it turns out that besides playing a role in a number of diseases, amyloids also p ...
• Recognizing voices depends on language ability
  Distinguishing between other peoples voices may seem like a trivial task. However, if those people are speaking a language you dont understand, it becomes much harder. Thats because you rely on individuals differences in pronunciation to help identify them. If you dont understand the words they ...
• How memory is lost: Loss of memory due to agin ...
    Yale University researchers can’t tell you where you left your car keys — but they can tell you why you can’t find them A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and ...

CFACT

• Hybrids not just for small cars anymore
• Improving air quality helps Americans breathe easy
  Air quality has improved so much that Clean Air Act actually saved lives over its first 20 years
• The New Detroit Lions?
• Follow me to a bridge by a river...
• Hype over population bomb fizzling out

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia’s Chicherova Grabs Gold in Golden High Jump
  Russia’s Anna Chicherova has won the Golden High Jump competition in Belgium’s Antwerp, clearing 6 feet, 6 3/4 inches to defeat Olympic champion Tia Hellebaut of Belgium, the competition website reported.
• Arab League’s Syria Mission May Resume, Says i ...
  The Arab League observer mission to Syria has been postponed temporarily, the mission head, General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa Al-Dabi, stressed in an interview with Egyptian news portal Al Ahram on Sunday.
• Tourist Killed in Egypt Resort Robbery
  A French tourist has been killed and a German national has been wounded in an attack by a group of gunmen on a currency exchange office in the popular Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
• Iran May Ban All European Goods Import - TV
  The Iranian government may ban imports of all products from Europe as an answer for the European Union which voted against oil imports this week, Iranian Press TV channel reported on Saturday.
• Over 20 Killed after Fire in Peru's Rehabilita ...
  At least 22 people killed and 10 injured after strong fire in a rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Peruvian capital of Lima, Peru's mass media reported on Saturday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian Space Freighter Docks with ISS
  The Progress M-14M space freighter launched on Thursday docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday
• International Space Station
• Launch of Space Station Crew Faces Delay
  The launch of a Soyuz capsule carrying the new International Space Station (ISS) crew may be postponed over faults in the capsule’s assembly, a source within the Russian space industry told RIA Novosti on Friday.
• Election Commission Head Urged to Cut Beard ov ...
  The Russian Communist Party presented a pair of scissors to Central Election Commission head Vladimir Churov on Friday, calling on him to live up to his promise and get rid of his beard following reports of mass fraud in December parliamentary elections, Communist lawmaker Anatoly Lokot said.
• Roscosmos Launches Cosmonaut Recruitment Drive
  Russia’s state space agency Roscosmos has launched a cosmonaut selection competition, Roscosmos said on its web site on Friday.selection

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• What About the State of Our Planet, Mr. President?
  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 raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement.Click here to read this article
• The Great Escape: Gene-altered crops grow wild
  Throughout North Dakota, little yellow flowers dot thousands of miles of roadsides. These canola plants, found along most major trucking routes, look harmless. But they are fueling a controversy: They prove that large numbers of genetically modified plants have escaped from farm fields and are n ...
• Methane Releases in the Arctic Ocean and Tundr ...
  Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, but it also has an awesome power to really get people worked up, compared to other equally frightening pieces of the climate story.Click here to read this article
• Some Wash. Wheat Farmers Throw Support Behind ...
  YAKIMA, Wash. - Some Washington state wheat farmers have thrown their support behind legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified foods, giving food safety advocates fresh hope that lawmakers also will get behind the bill.Click here to read this article
• Monsanto Shareholders Reject Study on Crop Risks
  ST. LOUIS - Shareholders of Monsanto Co. on Tuesday voted down a proposed study of how the company's genetically engineered crops, or GMOs, may pose financial and legal risks to the seed giant. They also reelected four of the company's directors and approved compensation packages during the annu ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Dignity of Work
  The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.
• Third Time’s the Charm? The 2012 Arsenic Roundup
  The ban, if enacted, would help to curb the ongoing problem of arsenical drug use by the poultry industry, and associated public health risks to poultry consumers.
• SPRAWL: A Six-Letter Word with a Four-Letter W ...
  Sprawl can be bad, and it can be necessary, depending on the source and the treatment of the land. As the human population grows, how do we reclaim the word sprawl?
• Decline in U.S. Meat Consumption: Public Healt ...
  According to USDA estimates, per capita meat consumption in the United States nearly doubled between 1930 and 2007. On average, each American today eats about 200 pounds of meat per year, or almost nine ounces per day—roughly twice the global average. With a few exceptions, intake has been on a ...
• When Is Enough Enough?
  If one does not have limits—and indeed, all of life is based on limits, whether the free-market economists and politicians want to admit it or not—one can never arrive and find fulfillment.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State ex ...
  Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State exclusive. Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State exclusive
• BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search o ...
  BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search of cold case bodies. BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search of cold case bodies
• St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged ...
  St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged child sex offender. St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged child sex offender
• Global cooling killing millions of bats
  Global cooling killing millions of bats. Global cooling killing millions of bats
• Megaupload empire crumbles, owner arrested in NZ
  Megaupload empire crumbles, owner arrested in NZ. Megaupload empire crumbles, owner arrested in NZ

My Care2 Picks

• Canada's PM Harper Threatens De-Funding Charit ...
  The Harper Government is privately threatening Canadian charities that are helping people participate in the public hearings about Enbridges western pipeline and supertanker project. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Environmental Impacts of Road Salt
  Approximately five million tonnes of road salts are applied to Canadian roadways every year. A comprehensive assessment of road salt application by Environment Canada has led to the recommendation that they be added to the list of toxic substances Submitted by John Farnham to Environment   ...
• A new Reserve currency to challenge the dollar ...
  I speculated that an unintended consequence of QE had been to spur several countries to think very seriously of how they could replace the dollar as their settlement currency for international deals. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Forging the American Garrison State by Privati ...
  Galbraith defined a predator state as a coalition of relentless opponents of the regulatory framework on which public purpose depends Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Natural Gas: Avoidable Health Hazard
  If you value your health, don't burn gas indoors. Natural gas has caused more cases of environmental illness than any other substance, even than pesticides. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• Announcement!
  Due to a computer virus – System Check – I will be offline for the most part trying to repair my computer. This is a particularly nasty virus that takes out all anti-virus protection as well as malware and spyware protection. It also hides your files. Here is a bit about it: System C ...
• TS Radio with Special Guest Dave Hodges
  Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us to give an update on the Gulf Coast disaster, and fill us in on the massive corruption of UN Agenda 21's ICLEI local branches.
• Aluminum + Fluoride = Alzheimer’s and Dementia
  Fluoride “enhances the bio-availability of aluminum,” allowing it to cross the blood-brain barrier easier, thus making it more toxic.
• Nevada County’s Sustainable Food and Farm Conf ...
  Local farmer's conference to promote back to the earth, natural farming techniques.
• Why PIPA/SOPA and the DNS are a Joke!
  VIDEO - Must see to understand the background and implications of SOPA and PIPA.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Yemen president arrives in US
  ShareThisYemen president arrives in US 29 Jan 2012 The Yemeni President Dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is in the United States for medical treatment. He arrived on Saturday and is expected to stay for an unspecified time although the Yemeni Embassy in Washington told CNN he would return to Yemen ...
• Fitch downgrades credit ratings of five EU nations
  ShareThisFitch downgrades credit ratings of five EU nations 27 Jan 2012 Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of five euro currency countries - Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Cyprus, contending they lack financing flexibility in the face of the regional debt crisis. I ...
• Doctor who led us to bin Laden was CIA agent, ...
  ShareThisDoctor who led us to bin Laden was CIA agent, says US --Imprisoned CIA asset ran fake health scheme to get DNA evidence that al-Qa'ida leader was in house 29 Jan 2012 The United States has confirmed publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor long suspected of 'collecting vital ...
• Police use tear gas on Oakland Occupy protesters
  ShareThisPolice use tear gas on Oakland Occupy protesters --Police declared 'unlawful assembly' after marchers tore down perimeter fences at vacant Henry Kaiser Convention Center 28 Jan 2012 Oakland police used tear gas and "flash" grenades Saturday to break up an estimated 2,000 Occupy proteste ...
• Fmr. Homeland Security Sec Ridge calls for Reg ...
  ShareThisFmr. Homeland Security Sec Ridge calls for Regime Change in Iran 28 Jan 2012 "Regime change, regime change, regime change." That is what Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge (R-Bush/Home Depot wh*re) said Saturday in an interview with Fox News, referring to the Obama Administ ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• British Officer Slams US Army on Growing MEDEV ...
  28 January 2012 While reading traffic in a closed forum between current and former military officers, I stumbled across this message from a British officer.  I’ve known him since the Iraq days, and he’s also served in Afghanistan.  He’s an honest and very smart officer, and so I pay c ...
• Another Dustoff Pilot says Delays Costing Lives
  (The following letter appeared on the Army Times website.) DEADLY DELAYS “What the hell happened to Medevac, sir?” That was a question an angry sergeant asked me as I was eating chow last February at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq. I didn’t understand the question or the anger in his voi ...
• MEDEVAC Links
  27 January 2012 The MEDEVAC issue continues to grow.  There have been many articles and it's becoming difficult to keep up.  The Joint Chiefs of Staff is preparing something for Congress.  My guess based on conversations is that JCS will try deflection and will not solve the issu ...
• Thoughts from a Dustoff Pilot
  26 January 2012 I am a Dustoff pilot (Instructor pilot) with over 1000 hours of combat time, and over 300+ combat medevac missions under my belt.  In 2004 (Iraq) we flew single ship, responding to thousands of medevac 9-line calls.  Not one helo shot down, but we sure got shot at a lo ...
• A Young Iranian Woman Writes
  25 January 2012 A young Iranian woman has written to me off and on for a couple of years.  Yesterday she sent a note. I responded in part with a few questions: What do young Iranians think about our government and about the Iranian government?  Also, do you think there will be war? ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Six Questions About Fracking Only An 'Ecofasci ...
  Plausible questions about fracking impacts that so far have not been publicly addressed
• Weekday Vegetarian: Herbed Sun-dried Tomato an ...
  With a minimum of effort you can have a delicious loaf of bread for brunch.
• Winners of the WWF Video Competition: Not 'Mur ...
  'The Runner' and 'Life. Nature. You.' beat out 'Murmuration' and 200 others. Worth watching. They're short.
• IDS12: Philippe Starck Integrates iStuff Charg ...
  We love designs that serve multiple functions, and sorta like this integration of an LED lamp and an iPhone Charger. But I wish it did more.
• Online Activism Forces Break in Official Silen ...
  Citizen persistence at measuring and publicizing pollution levels results in a major turnaround by Beijing.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burma ‘ready for ethical investment’: Suu Kyi
  Opposition leader tells World Economic Forum that Burma would benefit from 'ethical, new and innovative investment'
• Troops deployed to guard China pipeline
  Burmese soldiers withdrawn from Kachin state seen in convoys heading to areas through which the Shwe pipeline will pass
• Veterans of 1990 polls to re-register
  Shan National League for Democracy one of three parties who won seats in the 1990 elections now preparing return to politics
• Win Maw: ‘Prison became my studio’
  Win Maw was arrested in November 2007 after shooting footage of the September 2007 monk-led uprising that featured in the Oscar-nominated Burma VJ. The DVB video journalist spent more than four years in jail before his release in January, having already survived a six-year term between 1996 and ...
• Future of UN probe into Burma in doubt
  Political reforms in Burma prompt retreat over support from Britain, US and others for inquiry into crimes committed by Burmese regime

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Building a home the green way
  How to be green and stay sane - why we must build to better standards.
• Green Philosophy by Roger Scruton: review
  Roger Scruton's new polemic sets out to reclaim the environmental agenda for the Right. Louise Gray is convinced.
• Albatross boosted by Climate Change, study sug ...
  Climate Change may have helped boost survival chances of endangered albatrosses, scientists believe.
• Councils fail to understand green energy, repo ...
  Councils and other social landlords are being 'greenwashed' into spending large sums of money on technology to cut energy bills despite having little understanding of how it works, a study has found.
• Carbon emissions to block next ice age
  Carbon dioxide emissions will delay the arrival of the next ice age, according to a new study.

National Geographic | Environment

• Near-Extinct Monkeys Found in Colombian Park
  A new population of one of the world's rarest primates has been found in a Colombian park, conservationists announced today.
• Death Valley's Big Bang: Volcano "Potentially ...
  It may be barren, but California's Ubehebe Crater is anything but dead, according to a new study.
• Green Moves: Medellin Cable Cars, San Francis ...
  Two cities renowned for hilly terrain and cable cars share in international prize for sustainable transport.
• Second Try: LanzaTech Grabs Failed Biofuel Ref ...
  A new chapter begins in the effort to brew advanced biofuel in the “Million Pines City” of Soperton, Georgia, with a startup's purchase of a failed U.S. government-backed biorefinery.
• Injections Could Lift Venice 12 Inches, Study ...
  Pumping billions of gallons of water under the sinking Italian city could save it from worsening floods as seas rise, a new study says.

Jurist - Legal Research

• BP ordered to share partial liability with Tra ...
  [JURIST] Judge Carl Barber of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] Thursday issued an order [text, PDF] that British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] will be held liable for a portion of the damages owed by Transocean [corporate website] stemming from ...
• Guatemala court orders ex-dictator to stand trial
  [JURIST] Guatemalan Judge Carol Flores ruled Thursday that ex-dictator Rios Montt must stand trial for charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. The judge heard the prosecutor's initial statements Wednesday and decided Thursday that the evidence was sufficient to go to trial. Montt is bei ...
• US lawmakers request information on new Google ...
  [JURIST] US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) [official website; press release] and seven other lawmakers Thursday sent a letter [text, PDF] to Google CEO Larry Page [NYT backgrounder] containing 11 questions regarding consumer privacy rights as affected by Google's new privacy policies [corpo ...
• Libya torture causing prisoner deaths: AI
  [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] Thursday reported the recent deaths of several Libyan detainees who were apparently tortured while in custody [press release]. The deaths come amid allegations of widespread torture and ill-treatment of detainees accused of being pro-Gaddafi ...
• Chevron officials to face criminal charges in ...
  [JURIST] Brazil prosecutors plan to file criminal charges, in addition to the $11 billion civil suit, against Chevron [corporate website] officials for the 2,400 barrel oil spill [Global Voices backgrounder] off the coast of Brazil in the Campos Basin in November. Brazilian officials state that ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
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• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• Links for 2012-01-27 [Digg]
  What Spencer Ackerman Doesn’t Know about the Pro-Israel Crowd Could Fill a Book (or More) « Tikun Olam Liberal Zionists attempt to restrict debate & protect right-wing pro-Israel bullies
• What Spencer Ackerman Doesn’t Know about the P ...
  What Spencer Ackerman doesn’t know about the pro-Israel crowd would fill a reservoir the size of Central Park. He’s taken to the neocon funded Tablet (“Tabloid”) Magazine to propound his critique of progressive Jewish rhetoric in the debate over the nature of Israel. And ...
• Adelson Casino Empire Investigated for Mob Tie ...
  The Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice have been investigating allegations of ties between Sheldon Adelson’s Macau casino and Chinese organized crime rings and prostitution for the past year. ABC News reports a former Sands Casino executive has charged that the As ...
• Links for 2012-01-26 [Digg]
  An Alternative to War with Iran This is my first essay published at Foreign Policy in Focus: With diplomacy getting short shrift, Western containment of a nuclear Iran may be the only alternative to war in an increasingly militaristic climate.
• Gingrich and Adelson Promise After Settling We ...
  I live for nights like tonight.  Newt Gingrich earlier today in an appearance in Florida (home of the space industry) promised that if elected president he’d establish a lunar colony by 2020.  But not just any colony, it will, by God, be AMERICAN.  Did you hear that?  And once it gets 13,0 ...

If Americans Knew

• Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
  Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
• Beware of the BBC
  Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
• Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
  And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
• New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
  International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
• How to Contact the US Government and Media
  Contact information for the U.S. government and media.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• Israel and Palestine - A Return to Andalusia
  The collapse of Israeli-Palestinian agreements from the 1993 Oslo Accords until today stems from the fact that both Israeli and U.S. leaders ignore the real root of the conflict. The heart of the conflict is the denial of the existence—not the size—of any non-Muslim entity on land, that, in the ...
• Film Review - W./E.: Wallis Simpson was Not As ...
  The Wikipedia entry for Madonna lists no fewer than ten professions to describe her ‘occupation’. Well, here is number 11: self-appointed Promoter of the Cause for the Canonization of St. Wallis of Baltimore. W./E. is not a film about Wallis Simpson; rather it is a film by a woman obsessed ...
• Palestine on Edge - Are the Rights of Palestin ...
  Discrimination against women is common in Palestinian society and institutionalized by Palestinian authorities in the territories, particularly in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Physical violence, including spousal abuse, employment prejudice and education inequities are just some of the ways that Pa ...
• America on Edge - Don’t Write Off America in 2012
  One of the staples of 2011 punditry has been the “decline” of the United States. See Google’s 190,000,000 results in 0.26 seconds for “U.S. decline in power.”China in particular, pundits say, is about to eat our economic lunch, and all that’s left for us is to figure out how to slide gracefully ...
• Inside Latin America - China's Great Challenge ...
  Does China represent an economic and political threat to the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere? Four experts describe the playing field faced by the United States in Latin America, a region that has been traditionaly where the U.S. has exercised economic, commercial and military leadership.&nb ...

High Country News

• Beauty and the Beast
  Photographers and artists -- and scientists, too -- discover that a terrible beauty can be found in ravaged industrial regions.
• Pity the Sacketts? Not much
  An Idaho couple are getting a lot of sympathy because the EPA has halted construction of their planned home on a wetlands, but if the agency would be more open with the facts, it would come out looking better.
• Feeding the deer
  A rural Californian doesn't apologize for feeding the deer that hang out near his mountain home.
• Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming
  The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.
• Detente in the rancher v. environmentalist gra ...
  Buying out grazing permits from willing ranchers could help solve conflicts over grazing on public lands.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Global Cooling? Bering Sea Ice is Screwing Up ...
  Where's Al Gore now that we need him.  After all there is more bad news for the global warming hoaxers, the Arctic is not getting warmer as they promised, its getting colder. So cold that the ice in the Bering Sea has started to build up much earlier than normal. Making it harder to harvest ...
• Ron Paul's Former Associates Say He Knew About ...
  There is plenty of proof that Ron Paul knew what was in his bigoted newsletters, his defense of their content in 1996, interviews where he explained their content, hand-written letters asking for money etc. But none of this satisfied his loyal cult-like followers so here are some more facts for ...
• Newbusted: Experts Predict $5.00/Gallon Gas Fo ...
  Now here is a scary prediction, according to Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, experts are now predicting that gasoline prices will reach record levels in 2012, perhaps over $5.00/per gallon. That is going to royally screw up family vacations for this coming summer...well except for the family that ...
• Israel is NOT About To Attack Iran, Neither i ...
  By Barry Rubin The radio superhero, The Shadow, had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men’s minds like anything that has to do with Jews or Israel. This year’s variation on that theme is the idea that Israel is about to attack Iran. Such a claim repeatedly appears in the ...
• Holy COW!! Federal Workers/ Retirees Owe Almos ...
  Here's a great idea that may help both the unemployment problem, the deficit and, as the President would make sure at least one group pays it's fair share of taxes. And I am sure it would be a bi-partisan policy. The idea is simple force the 279,381 delinquent tax payers who work for the feder ...

The Real Agenda

• No Need to Panic About Global Warming
  There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy. So why are they chemtrailing everyone? Wall Street Journal January 28, 2012 Editor’s Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the ...
• Twitter Admite Públicamente que Censura Mensajes
  “Esta es una buena cosa para la libertad de expresión, la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas”, dice el Consejero Legal de Twitter Alexander Macgilliviray Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 28 de enero 2012 Twitter, la herramienta predilecta de los disidentes y activistas de tod ...
• Twitter Admite que Censura Mensagens de Usuários
  “Isso é uma coisa boa para a liberdade de expressão, a transparência e a responsabilidade”, diz o advogado do Twitter,  Alexander Macgilliviray Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 28 de janeiro de 2012 Twitter, uma ferramenta de escolha para os dissidentes e ativistas de todo o mundo ...
• Twitter Admits it’s Censoring Messages
  “This is a good thing for freedom of expression, transparency and accountability,” says Twitter Council Alexander Macgilliviray AP January 28, 2012 Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveilin ...
• Ron Paul: Diplomatic Relations with Cuba Now
  by Alana Semuels LA Times January 27, 2012 Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people’s positions have changed dramatically over the last few years. Paul said that Cuba isn’t going to inva ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Alternative-Energy Subsidies Lose Favor as Ind ...
  “Assisted by technological innovation and years of subsidies, the cost of wind and solar power has fallen sharply — so much so that the two industries say that they can sometimes deliver cleaner electricity at prices competitive with power made from fossil fuels. At the same time, wind and ...
• Subsidized Battery Firm Fails
  “Ener1, an electric car battery company that the Obama administration awarded a $118 million stimulus grant to expand its operations, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday after being unable to repay pressing debts.” (Washington Post) Picking losers. FEE Timely Classic ...
• The Chimera of Tax Fairness
  Let’s hear no more about tax fairness, unless it’s to point out that fairness is approached as tax rates move toward zero.
• We’re the Economy They Want to Manage
  In his State of the Union speech President Obama said: Tonight, I want to . . . lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last. . . . Considering that an economy (a free one, that is) is just people engaging in exchanges for mutual benefit, it defies blueprinting, which sounds omi ...
• Is It a Tax or Not?
  In his State of the Union speech the other night President Obama said: Right now, our most immediate priority is stopping a tax hike on 160 million working Americans while the recovery is still fragile. People cannot afford losing $40 out of each paycheck this year. There are plenty of ways to g ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• South Carolina primary a test of Tea Party's s ...
  Tea Party activists and conservatives are putting their hopes in the South Carolina primary to push the 2012 presidential race to the right. But the state may also be a symbol of the Tea Part ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Tax policy widens gap between ...
  A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service documents the growing gap between rich and poor -- and how U.S. tax policy is deepening the divide.
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• Shadowy group behind attacks on climate scient ...
  In a case hinging on a state's right to regulate corporate campaign contributions in a post-Citizens United world, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that the Americ ...
  
• A Gulf chorus fights BP's PR war
  While BP is running ads touting its Gulf cleanup, the major media and politicians are ignoring the voices of residents who have a different story to tell. Will this be the year they'r ...
  
• In 2012, Occupiers continue to fight for progr ...
  As 2012 dawns, the protest that began in September against the "captains of finance" who nearly destroyed the nation's economy promises to shape the political dialog ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• Can Iran close down the Strait of Hormuz?
  The ayatollahs' armoury is dwarfed by the US. But attempts to close oil lanes could lead to conflict, says Con Coughlin.
• China begins scramble for Afghanistan's oil re ...
  China began the scramble for Afghanistan's untapped oil reserves yesterday by announcing an exploration contract with Kabul - the first such international agreement in decades.
• The owl who flew 2,000 miles - but finally arr ...
  Exhausted and a hundred miles from land, a migrating owl made a wise move - he landed on a North Sea gas rig.
• Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollut ...
  Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair.
• New Zealand: oil leaks and cargo topples off s ...
  Fears stricken cargo ship may break up and cause environmental disaster.

Ian Welsh

• Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
  Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
• The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
  1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...
• The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
  I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do. Grow the economy sustainably, help the ...
• The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
  I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do.  Grow the economy sustainably, help the downtrodde ...
• Ron Paul Hysteria
  So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• America’s Demographic Future
  Perhaps nothing has more defined America and its promise than immigration. In the future, immigration and the consequent development of what Walt Whitman (1855: iv) called “a race of races” will remain one of the country’s greatest assets in the decades to come. At a time when anti-immigra ...
• Welcome Back, Britain! Why The U.K. Doesn't Ne ...
  To some, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to demur from the new euro rescue plan has made the U.K. irrelevant on the world scene. Yet by moving away from the euro zone, Cameron did something more than reaffirm Britain’s opposition to a German-led Europe: He asserted Britain’s gre ...
• Housing Affordability and Public Policy
  Nothing in the world today affects citizens more directly than the home in which they live.  And when it comes to housing no piece of recent research opens more interesting avenues of investigation than the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. Individuals and families acr ...
• Britain Fears a Developer’s Charter
  The UK Government’s Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced that there were only 127,780 new housing completions last year in Britain. British house building activity is down to levels of after the First World War, when reliable industrial records began, and still fa ...
• The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as ...
  Mitt Romney’s collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 financial meltdown that resulted in both the wave of populist anger now being channeled by Romney’s Republican competitors ...

GM Watch

• Monsanto targeted in Cambridge protest
  1.Bio-tech firm the target of protest 2.Monsanto joins flight of biotech firms from Europe NOTE: See also the pictures on Facebook from the protests around Monsanto's annual shareholders' meeting in St. Louis earlier this week: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.239576616117628.54871.1823 ...
• Monsanto targeted in Cambridge protest
  1.Bio-tech firm the target of protest 2.Monsanto joins flight of biotech firms from Europe NOTE: See also the pictures on Facebook from the protests around Monsanto's annual shareholders' meeting in St. Louis earlier this week: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.239576616117628.54871.1823 ...
• Bayer and the holocaust
  NOTE: Today is Holocaust Memorial Day yet many people remain unaware of the key role of companies like Bayer and BASF in Hitler's crimes, including the holocaust. Their role was so critical that it led the Chief Prosecutor at Nuremburg to warn: "These companies, not the lunatic Nazi fanatics, ar ...
• Bayer and the holocaust
  NOTE: Today is Holocaust Memorial Day yet many people remain unaware of the key role of companies like Bayer and BASF in Hitler's crimes, including the holocaust. Their role was so critical that it led the Chief Prosecutor at Nuremburg to warn: "These companies, not the lunatic Nazi fanatics, ar ...
• Questions over reporting of GM feed studies
  NOTE: Under the headline "Genetically Modified Food Safe, Animal Study Suggests" Science Daily reports on how "no adverse health effects" were found in 3 feeding studies on pigs fed GM maize.  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120124140103.htm The researchers conducted "short-term (3 ...

spiked

• The Obamas: from ‘Yes we can!’ to ...
  Jodi Kantor’s gossipy account of America’s first couple reveals their struggle to adjust to the anti-climatic reality of government.
• Venice: a shifting metaphor for the human cond ...
  In this extract from his new book, Dominic Standish explores how Venice has gone from symbolising brash human vision to being viewed as a victim of eco-degradation.
• There’s more to progress than biology
  Steven Pinker’s new book certainly does much to suggest that humanity is progressing rather than regressing. It’s puzzling then that he gives people so little credit.
• Don’t lobby the Lords. Demolish it instead
  It is unseemly for so-called progressives to bow and scrape before the second chamber, pleading with it to punish the Lib-Cons.
• The roots of the riots: found in translation
  Forget British TV’s feeble attempts to explain urban disarray - look to Scandinavian drama instead.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Am ...
  A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all ...
• If The Economy Is Improving….
  Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buy ...
• The Man Without A Plan
  Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes.  Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give ...
• Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
  Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
• America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
  When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...

Desertification

• Children shouldn’t have to starve to death (Th ...
  Read at : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/world-failed-to-heed-early-warning-system-on-famine/article2305753/ World failed to heed early warning system on famine Children shouldn’t have to starve to death to galvanize the international community into action. And yet that ...
• The world’s donor nations now face another cri ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/worldview/will-west-africas-drought-be-a-repeat-disaster/article2317080/ Will West Africa’s drought be a repeat disaster? geoffrey york Johannesburg— Globe and Mail Update After thousands died n ...
• Significantly worsening hunger levels througho ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.christianaid.org.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/january-2012/christian-aid-responds-worsening-sahel-hunger-crisis.aspx Christian Aid responds to worsening Sahel hunger crisis With seven million people across five West African c ...
• The coming crisis in the Sahel (Google / Peopl ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.peopleandplanet.net/?lid=30205&topic=27&section=33 COMMENTARY: World must wake up to the coming crisis in the Sahel Posted: 23 January 2012 Author: Malcolm Potts If forecasters could draw isobars outlining human suffe ...
• Nearly half Niger’s population does not have e ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94713 NIGER: Thousands of villages hit by severe food shortages NIAMEY, 24 January 2012 (IRIN) – Nearly half Niger’s population does not have enough to eat and the government says it is facing a grain shortfall of … Continue read ...

The Paper Trail

• Watchdog groups call on Newt Gingrich to discl ...
  Public interest groups on Friday called on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to make public a full list of health care companies that paid his Washington think tank for advice as far back as 2003.“Gingrich has been unapologetic about his work so I can’t imagine why it would be a pr ...
• Coast to coast, questions over student interro ...
  As police presence and student suspensions have grown in schools, so has the volume of a debate over what rights parents have to be aware their children are being questioned or participate in the disciplinary process.  
• Weekly Watchdog 1/26/12
  Free-for-all in southern Pacific decimates fish stocksAsian, European and Latin American fleets have devastated fish stocks in the southern Pacific, once among the world’s richest waters, a new investigation by the Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found. Governm ...
• Raging against the foreclosure machine
  Like millions of stories from the great recession, this one begins with homeowners struggling to keep up with a mortgage payment they simply couldn’t afford.
• Loophole in Senate bill may create nuclear risks
  In the post 9/11 world, the threat of a nuclear bomb being fabricated and used by terrorists is real. Now a group of nuclear experts has told Congress that a loophole in a bill meant to limit the use of bomb-grade uranium in medical isotopes could undo years of work to curb the risk of such mate ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• Beneficiary bashing targets the sick
  winz.jpg The new National government is set to attack beneficiaries with a complete overhaul of how the social welfare system operates in New Zealand. While most beneficiaries w ...
• Poland: Mass Protests Against ACTA
  hatethestate.png For the past week, protests have taken place across Poland against ACTA in dozens of cities. Many thousands have hit the streets despite the bitter cold to show ...
• Riot in Victorian prison in response to declin ...
  fulham prison rioters.jpg Fulham Prison, near Sale in south-eastern Victoria, was locked down for 3 days following a riot on January 18, in which about 30 prisoners refused to return to their cells, a ...
• 'A Superb Start?'? I Doubt It!
  Antifa.jpg The EDL claim they are off to a 'superb start.' Antifascists, however, think rather differently. ‘Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! The English Defence Lea ...
• Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics or Popular ...
  The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis. Many imagine the economic crisis forced up a spontaneous gathering of forces of a new generation. In Atlanta, that new gathering really only lasted for a few days ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• ZOMBIES Rise and Vote for NEWT in the Palmetto ...
  Ron Paul holds a rally in South Carolina, and there is standing room only.   Gingrich schedules a rally, and it is cancelled due to lack of support.  Yet days later, he supposedly “Wins” the primary caucus????   What gives?  What’s the “Story Behind the Story?” This ...
• More Messages from Little Ones!
  Again, remember the counsel of Jesus found in Matthew 18 – to be HUMBLE as a LITTLE CHILD. Heaven is a very real place, as taught by these innocent ones:  
• Righteous Blood Part VII: The Seeds of Civil W ...
  In 1913 America, many Civil War veterans were still living, and many of them met at Gettysburg as friends and brothers – in remembrance of the conflict only 50 years earlier.  The video below is a poignant walk down America’s History lane. What made millions of countrymen with many C ...
• And a LITTLE CHILD Shall Lead Them!
  “Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” “Whosoever shall humble himself as THIS LITTLE CHILD, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18: 3-4 Here’s why the Master spoke this Truth – just listen ...
• Why is Edom (Modern-day Israel) so AFRAID of Iran?
  Check it out, folks.   We are talking FREE ENERGY (plasma cold fusion) from Iranian Labs. Here is the Edomite’s PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, and his BIO!!!  Mr. Keshe has even developed a FLYING SAUCER for the Iranian Air Force: http://keshefoundation.com/en/media-a-papers/keshe-news/185-was-u ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Roberta Jamieson
  Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.
• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
• Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
  Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
  Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
• Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
  Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

• Ron Paul is Nibbling at Romney’s Heels
  The Republican race for president is a two man contest between Romney and Paul.
• We Can't Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
  It is crazy to extend the payroll tax cut at this time.
• Obama is Correct But for the Wrong Reason
  President Obama is right: it will take more than one president to fix our economy.
• Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
  If I didn't know better I'd swear Washington is out to destroy Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the ...
  NATO's invasion of Libya was about corporatism, not the safety of the Libyan people.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• U.S. Legal Justifications for Nuclear Weapons ...
  The United States makes a weak case for the possession and use of nuclear weapons.
• The West Judges Iran by Not One, But Two Doubl ...
  Iran scores low on the West's unspoken rationality and ethics indexes.
• Putting a Country on a Leash: Iran and Uranium
  Perhaps the only way for the West to keep an eye on Iran's uranium enrichment program is to stop objecting to its continuation.
• An Alternative to War with Iran
  With diplomacy getting short shrift, Western containment of a nuclear Iran may be the only alternative to war in an increasingly militaristic climate.
• Cold Comfort for Egypt
  The majority won by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's parliamentary elections presents its ruling junta with challenges.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• VIDEO: Iran oil embargo: what consequences for ...
  Europe is weaning itself off Iranian crude after the EU adopted an embargo on oil coming from the Islamic Republic. It now has to find other sources to meet its energy needs. Next, Egypt commemorates one year since the January 25th mass protests that kicked off its revolution. Finally, he was ju ...
• اوباما هنوز با آنها است!!!????
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• Call for Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Mideast
  Turki said establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone “deserves everybody’s attention and energy, more so than other activities which we see unfolding, whether it is redeployment of fleets in the area, whether Iranian or American or British or French, whether it is the sanctions efforts against Ir ...
• اپوزیسیونِ خارج از کشور و شاهزاده
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• 'Iranians must be encouraged to bring down the ...
  "Iran is the most corrupt country in the world," Peres continued.

Most Revolutionary Act

• The TB Vaccine Americans Never Heard Of
  Tuberculosis Ward (This is the first of two blogs exploring why the US is the only country – besides the Netherlands – that doesn’t vaccinate against tuberculosis) One side of the vaccine controversy Americans are extremely unlikely to hear about concerns the safest, cheapest ...
• The World Economic Forum Weighs In
  Leaders from 2008 World Economic Forum This is the second of two posts on Global Risks 2012, a discussion document the global elite is considering this week at the World Economic Forum meets in Davos Switzerland. How Global Risks 2012 Came to Be Written The World Economic Forum ...
• Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
  2010 Protest at World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum Weighs In A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents to be used when world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January25-29. The document is called Global Risks 2012 (ht ...
• Preparedness: A Good Alternative to Denial
  Community garden in New York City Book Review-Part VI Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Fleeing Vesuvius finishes with an Epilogue (Part 7), in which different authors give practical suggestions about preparing for the eventual collapse of our present ...
• The Recipe for Change in a Post-Carbon World
  http://transitionculture.org/ Book Review-Part V (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 5 and 6 of Fleeing Vesuvius are entitled “Changing the Way We Live” and “Changing ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• The grim future of campaign finance
  It's not even the general election season, and we're already seeing the electoral process dominated by super PACs, funded with unlimited donations and protected by a paper-thin veil of "independence."The super PACs operating in the GOP primary have managed to delay disclosing their donors until ...
• GOP race-baiting masks class warfare
  It's commonplace to note that Newt Gingrich's dog-whistle appellation that Barack Obama is the “food stamp president” is both racist and politically cynical. But the stereotyping of black government dependency also serves the strategic end of discrediting the entire social safety net, which most ...
• The current crop of GOP liars
  Americans are still struggling to come to terms with the loss they felt as the wackier GOP candidates fell by the wayside. For pure entertainment value, the mendacity they offered on the campaign trail couldn't be beat.Who can forget Herman Cain worrying about how China, a member of the club for ...
• The U.S. economy: Still staggering forward
  On Friday, the U.S government released its first guess at the rate of U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2012: 2.8 percent. How one feels about this -- complacent, discouraged or ecstatic --  depends entirely on the context.Complacency: 2.8 percent economic growth is enough to keep u ...
• Immigration rattles the Republicans
  In the past 48 hours, immigration politics and the fight for the Latino vote hijacked the 2012 campaign. First came Wednesday’s tarmac dust-up between President Obama and Republican Gov. Jan Brewer during the first of three stops the president made this week to Southwestern states with significa ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Surprise inspections for retirement homes just ...
  Inspections will help ensure good care but more has to be done to ensure the needs of all seniors are met.
• Stephen Harper needs to spell out his plans fo ...
  Prime Minister should speak to Canadians, not business leaders in Davos.
• World’s media have been captured by a Lego spa ...
  The imagination and ingenuity of Canadian youth is demonstrated through an unlikely figure — a Lego man in space.
• Mayor Rob Ford gets a history lesson on Joseph ...
  We compare dictator Joseph Stalin and Ward 22 Councillor Josh Matlow. Guess which one counts among history’s greatest monsters?
• Canada’s First Nations came away with little f ...
  Shawn Atleo may have been willing to give Ottawa the benefit of the doubt that change is on the way, but other leaders weren’t so sure.

Energy Collective

• Ener1 Is No Solyndra
  The losers in the Ener1 bankruptcy are those who invested in the common stock of Ener1. Their loss is unfortunate, but hardly novel among investors who buy high risk-high reward technology stocks. Their loss is of no consequence to U.S. taxpayers, whose $110 million grant was never intended to ...
• Is Warren Buffet’s Utility Betting On Clean En ...
  Warren Buffet’s utility subsidiary, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, has made a number of large investments in renewable energy over the past few years. But the famed investor doesn’t exactly make environmentalists jump for joy. Buffett’s take on climate change has been schizophrenic, to put it kindly.
• Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable w ...
  A recently published report by the UN Industrial Development Organization addresses the role of industrial energy efficiency in sustainable industrial development.
• Solar is Ready for Prime Time in New York
  What's the wait?  New York needs to take the next step to invest in solar.
• ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Preview
  In about a month, D.C.’s Gaylord National Conference Center will be teeming with energy researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, and a couple of wild Bills.

EU Times

• Clashes leave eight dead in Somaliland
  At least eight people have been killed after troops from the self-declared republic of Somaliland launched an attack on local militiamen in the Buhodle district, Press TV reports. The conflict erupted on Thursday as Somaliland forces launched an attack against bases of militia fighters, who have ...
• Syria rebel fighters take control of Damascus ...
  A massive demonstration has shaken the Damascus suburb of Saqba, that has fallen under the control of the Free Syrian Army. RT’s Sara Firth traveled to the rebel-controlled area to explore how the fighters managed to overcome superior forces. ­Clashes between Assad’s armed forces and the Free Sy ...
• Official conclusion of Phobos Ground crash sho ...
  The interdepartmental committee, which investigates the reasons of the breakdown of Russia’s Phobos Ground spacecraft, presented the basic version of the accident. Sources at the space industry told Interfax said that, most likely, the spacecraft did not enter the departure trajectory to M ...
• US and Israel revive largest joint anti-missil ...
  Israeli and American officials put plans for a massive missile drill mysteriously on this month, but now the exercise, originally slated for this spring, will be scheduled for October 2012. The drill, which will also signal a surge of American troops to Israel by the thousands, will mark the big ...
• Russia rules out UN resolution on Syria
  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says Moscow will not support a Western-Arab drafted UN Security Council resolution on Syria. Moscow says the new draft, due to be discussed on Friday, does not take into account the Russian position on Syria. The draft proposed by the US, its Weste ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• [Tip] Fix Installous API Error (API Unavailabl ...
  Most of the people are complaining about  Installous API Error (API Unavailable) when they try to access Installous on their jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Installous API error (API Unavailable)  is a temporary issue and usually indicates heavy loads on Installous servers. The only opti ...
• Jeffrey Lord Takes Elliot Abrams To Task Over ...
  Yesterday Elliot Abrams was part of a calculated effort against one of the GOP primary candidates whose last name wasn’t “Romney.” It’s typical in any primary, but what wasn’t typical was that in this republican primary, the information was misconstrued and presented a false narrative to readers
• Appleâs mobile web share reportedly slid in Q4 ...
  Although  Apple outsold all Android vendors in the fourth quarter , the Cupertino-based company’s share of mobile internet usage is reportedly beginning to slide. An analysis of last year’s Internet usage shows that in the United States, the proportion of Android mobile web visitors overtook A ...
• The Artist Blooper Reel Should Win All The Awards
  The Artist is again up for three big prizes at this weekend’s SAG Awards (it should be four, but Uggie continues to be snubbed). TheFABlife, meanwhile, is up against our Best Week Ever siblings for the Most Artist -Loving Blog Award. That we just made up. They had the edge with this silly Jean ...
• Kourtney & Kim Take New York Finale Preview: T ...
  Cue the drama music, listen to the serious voiceover and get the tissues ready, folks: the fairy tale is about to end for Kim Kardashian. On this Sunday's finale of Kourtney & Kim Take New York , Kim will finally face the harsh truth about her two-month marriage to Kris Humphries. "It's har ...

Groklaw

• Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House, likely ...
  Chopra told the Post in an email: "After an incredible three years as the nation's first chief technology officer, I am returning to my home state of Virginia to continue my work using innovative new technologies and platforms to improve healthcare, education and energy - and to grow the jobs an ...
• How OpenFlow Changes Networking
  OpenFlow is a new standard made for virtualized server environments. It is a software-defined way of controlling network traffic, completely changing their architecture. BigSwitch, one of the early players, shows us at the Valley View Whiteboard. - InformationWeek
• Nokia Numbers Show Microsofts Mobile Madness
  Nokia said it "sold" 1 million Lumia devices in the quarter (in quotations because there is no easy way to tell how many units actually made it to consumers or are simply idling in channel inventories). That means every Windows Phone 7 device Nokia shipped in Q4 cost Microsoft $250, minus th ...
• U.S. government invalidates potent Rambus patent
  The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp, Hewlett-Packard and others has been declared invalid, according to legal documents....The Barth patents had been used to accuse a long list of tech companies of infringement, ear ...
• FBI releases plans to monitor social networks
  Lynch [EFF] says that many people post to social media in the expectation that only their friends and followers are reading, which gives them "the sense of freedom to say what they want without worrying too much about recourse," says Lynch. "But these tools that mine open source data and presuma ...

WideShut

• RBS Chief Gets £1 million Bonus After We Baile ...
  RBS chief Stephen Hester has the gall of paying himself a £1 million bonus, from a bank that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the tax payer.
• UK Backed Al Qaeda Torturing Libyan Citizens
  Aid organisations reveal damning evidence of torture by Libyan rebels; UK Government buries head in the sand. Why did this all happen?
• Iranians Suffering From Afghan/US Opium Cultiv ...
  Are US troops helping to addict Iranians to Opium as part of the destabilization campaign?
• Zionist Casino Kingpin Is Gingrich’s Top ...
  Newt Gingrich accepts record donation from Jewish Casino mogul, does this explain his pro-Zionist policies and speeches?
• Foundation Makes Killing From 9/11 Memorial
  9/11 Memorial Foundation robs tax payer's money for ludicrous salaries, and then can't even finish museum in time.

Politics in the Zeros

• Water Authority addicted to growth now has rev ...
  The powerful Southern Nevada Water Authority, a direct competitor for Colorado River water against the behemoth Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, has a massive revenue shortfall and may have to raise water rates to meet it. This will certainly infuriate their water customers. ...
• Greece will default
  Bankster thugs have nearly succeeded in destroying the European economy and the Eurozone. Because it’s all about them and not taking a haircut on the garbage bonds they sold and the dicey loans they made. Now Greece is about to blow up. ‘There is no European emergency plan’ Ge ...
• “No evidence” that wind turbine syndrome actua ...
  Think Progress A new study released this week by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection finds that “there is no evidence for a set of health effects…that could be characterized as ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome.’” The supposed health impacts pushed by wind oppo ...
• Magnetic soap? Why it could be a good idea
  Magnetic soap (Credit: Image courtesy of Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)) It may sound silly at first, but the discovery of magnetic soap could lead to a way to reclaim soaps used in industry and in disasters like oil spills. Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, compose ...
• Romney’s UBS account–doing business with Holoc ...
  UBS tried to deep six documents of holocaust victims’ bank accounts, so why did Romney park his money there? Am I the only person in the world that this has occurred to? Mitt Romney had a $3 million dollar account in UBS (United or Union Bank of Switzerland).  Why would he leave his money ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Must-Watch Video on How Military Robots Are C ...
  U.S. marine veteran Josh Rushing explains how the 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots used by the U.S. military are changing warfare as we currently know it, with major implications for the future of human rights.
• The Honey You Should Never Buy - It May Be Tai ...
  By Dr. Mercola Bees have been dying off around the world for more than a decade now, a phenomenon that has been named "Colony Collapse Disorder," or CCD. The U.S. and the U.K. both reported losing a third of their honeybees in 2010. Italy lost half. The die-offs have spread to China and In ...
• Research From 100 Countries Proves This Strong ...
  By Dr. Mercola In 2011, it was estimated that nearly 1.6 million people would be diagnosed with cancer, and more than 570,000 would die of the disease. With an epidemic such as this, virtually every safe preventive strategy available deserves attention. But when a simple, and virtually free ...
• Using Primitive Wisdom to Radically Improve Yo ...
  By Dr. Mercola In the 1900s, Dr. Weston A. Price did extensive research on the link between oral health and physical diseases. He was one of the major nutritional pioneers of all time, and his research revealed native tribes that still ate their traditional diet had nearly perfect teeth and ...
• Can This Mineral Improve Hearing Loss?
  By Dr. Mercola The mineral zinc has received some attention as of late because it appears to help fight the common cold when taken at the onset of symptoms. However, new research has shown another potential use in regard to idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, also known as SSNHL. ...

JAMA

• Africa: A Practical Guide for Global Health Wo ...
• Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thor ...
• Children's Upper and Lower Limb Orthopaedic Di ...
• QuickStats: Health Care Visits* for Children A ...
• Childhood Asthma [JAMA Patient Page]

Survival - tribal peoples

• Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another 'f ...
  Boa Sr died exactly two years ago. She was the last member of the Bo tribe. © Anvita Abbi/Survival Two years after India’s Andaman Islands lost the last speaker of ‘Bo’, a leading linguist has warned the Jarawa could face a similar fate unless the road running through their reserve is close ...
• German travel industry warns Samburu eviction ...
  A Samburu girl from Kenya. The tribe has suffered violent evictions. © Adrian Arbib/Survival The German travel industry has called on Kenya to find a solution to the recent evictions of the Samburu tribe, and warned its position as a tourist destination could be damaged. Germans currently s ...
• Further threats as Guarani Indians remember mu ...
  Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen © Survival Guarani Indians in Brazil have come under further threat since gunmen murdered their leader Nísio Gomes last November. The Guarani of Guaviry community have reported that a non-indigenous man who claimed to be employed by a local ...
• ‘Evidence of attack’ discovered where Indian c ...
  An Awá man whose uncontacted relatives were victims of an alleged attack by loggers © Survival An investigation into the reported killing of an uncontacted Indian child by loggers, has uncovered disturbing ‘evidence of an attack’ deep in the Amazon forest. The findings suggest loggers were ...
• Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
  Vehicles queue to enter the Jarawa reserve along the Andaman Trunk Road © G Chamberlain/ Survival The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival International – but the problem has continued. On January 11, 2010, Survival wrote to the Lieut ...

Montreal Gazette

• Women left out at Davos
  The goal of meeting a minimum quota for women at the annual meeting this week of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has not been crowned with success.
• The payoff of daring to dream big dreams
  Both are observing their 50th anniversary this year: Place Ville Marie was inaugurated in September 1962, three months after the Champlain was opened to traffic.
• And furthermore .
  As I was driving home last Friday I heard the radio announcer say that gasoline prices would be going up that evening to $1.399 per litre ($5.22 U.S. per U.S. gallon at today's exchange rate). That was strange, because normally the prices go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They never go up on a Fr ...
• Canada's MPs and their well-padded pensions
  Two words come to mind when a taxpayer's attention is drawn to the fattened pension scheme with which members of Parliament have endowed themselves at our expense: daylight robbery!
• From Toronto, a model for restaurant inspection
  Montreal fancies itself a great city for restaurant dining, and rightly so. But good as it is, it could do with some improvement.

Food World Order

• on corbett report radio - jan26
  On Thursday nights, media monarchy joins corbett report radio live on republic broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health ... this week we disgust fetal food, wary waste, school lunch and more... previous: jan19 episode
• 1/26 binge & purge: lunch change, single strains
  32 million reasons to cheer the USDA: Video: School Meals Changes to Fight Obesity* U.S. food-stamp program shouldn't be political toy* Video: First Lady visits Tampa grocery store* Why You Absolutely Must Personally Treat Your Own Water* Video: Bill Gates Talks About Modified Foo ...
• Taco Bell joins other fast-food heavyweights v ...
  from ap: Taco Bell, the fast-food chain that caters to late-night snacking, is making a play for the breakfast crowd. The Mexican-style restaurant chain introduced a breakfast menu Thursday at almost 800 restaurants, mostly in nearly a dozen Western states. The rollout adds to the scramble among ...
• You have the right to know what's in your food
  from brasschecktv.com: Genetically modified organisms (GMO's) are now the majority of foods that line grocery store shelves and produce aisles. More is known everyday about the harmful effects they are having on laboratory animals, livestock, and even humans. Counties all over the world are reje ...
• Fetus to Feed Us? OK Senator Says No to Aborte ...
  Oklahoma lawmaker wants to stop Pepsi from using aborted fetus cells in soda flavoring research* from naturalnews.com: In order to simulate various flavors in processed foods, some food manufacturers are actually using aborted fetal cells to test and produce these artificial chemical enhance ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Am ...
  A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all ...
• If The Economy Is Improving….
  Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buy ...
• The Man Without A Plan
  Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes.  Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give ...
• Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
  Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
• America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
  When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...

CASSE

• Why Do We Assume More Equals Better?
  Count Chocula (or at least the people who give him a voice) are working off an untested assumption.
• Technological Progress for Dummies, Part II
  Brian Czech explains the nuts and bolts of technological progress and why it won't solve the dilemma of growth.
• Technological Progress for Dummies
  Part 1 of Brian Czech's explanation of why we can't rely on technological progress to overcome the limits to economic growth.
• There’s Hope for a New Economy in the New Year
  Brent Blackwelder believes 2012 will be the year we break free from the "global suicide pact" of continuous growth.
• Rio+20 Needs to Address the Downsides of Growth
  Herman Daly succinctly sums up the steady-state perspective in his suggestion for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

The Talking Clock

• Yes, you did - you invaded Athens!
  No bombs, no tanks, no funny walks. No visible foreign troops on the streets. And while many of we opponents of the anti-democratic European Union have made fair mileage of WWII rhetoric, is what is happening in Greece that far removed from what happened in Poland in 1939..? It is a classi ...
• And lead us not into Congo, but deliver us fro ...
  So, there are always two sides to a story. So some not totally convincing saying that I vaguely remember being told as a child states, anyway. The Daily Express has an article today highlighting vast expenditure at taxpayer expense as the European Union swans it's way around the world, poking ...
• Fifteen Years Later... French Cops Question Br ...
  Oh, leave it alone. It was a tragic accident. It was a drunk driver. You're obsessed. These - and others like them - are statements that this blog author has regularly got used to hearing since 31st August 1997 when Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in Paris. Since then, much to the anno ...
• Retro Quote of the Day: For Defenders of the C ...
  "Let me remind you of our judges' oath as well: 'I do swear that I will well and truly serve our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth the Second in the office of a justice of the High Court, and I will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm without fear or favour, aff ...
• Dear Gibraltar: 'Hain'... it's Turkish for 'tr ...
  So there we were... fiddling round with Google Translate - looking up the word 'traitor' in a multitude of different languages, as one does. Lo and behold, what does Google Translate tell me is the Turkish word for 'traitor'..? Apparently, it's 'hain'. Which is quite funny, as 'traitor' ...

Facing South

• South Carolina primary a test of Tea Party's s ...
  Tea Party activists and conservatives are putting their hopes in the South Carolina primary to push the 2012 presidential race to the right. But the state may also be a symbol of the Tea Part ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Tax policy widens gap between ...
  A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service documents the growing gap between rich and poor -- and how U.S. tax policy is deepening the divide.
  ...
  
• Shadowy group behind attacks on climate scient ...
  In a case hinging on a state's right to regulate corporate campaign contributions in a post-Citizens United world, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that the Americ ...
  
• A Gulf chorus fights BP's PR war
  While BP is running ads touting its Gulf cleanup, the major media and politicians are ignoring the voices of residents who have a different story to tell. Will this be the year they'r ...
  
• In 2012, Occupiers continue to fight for progr ...
  As 2012 dawns, the protest that began in September against the "captains of finance" who nearly destroyed the nation's economy promises to shape the political dialog ...
  

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Gold-coated ant wields microcog
  Don't fear, ants haven't started constructing micromachines: this cog-wielding insect has been sealed in golden armour after death
• Today on New Scientist: 27 January 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: arsenic life does not exist after all and repeated drought in east Africa may prompt aid rethink
• Cane toads lose their killer touch in east Aus ...
  Australia's native species die when they eat poisonous cane toads – but not the blue-tongue lizards of eastern Australia
• The science of the golden spider-silk cape
  A spider-silk cape that took one million spiders to make is a stunning example of nature's beauty, but silk has more to offer than a flashy outfit
• Today on New Scientist: 26 January 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: a DIY smear test, sky shimmers after solar storm and dating in the multiverse

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• UNIVERSITY THREATENS HÖRMANN WITH LEGAL ACTION ...
  *Economics University Professor Franz Hörmann faces legal action over Holocaust denial *Vienna Economics University says it will suspend Hörmann if remarks questioning Holocaust are authentic *Is Hörmann a Globalist provocateur designed to discredit the sound money movement? Vienna Economics Uni ...
• VIENNA CHAMBER OF DOCTORS ARE NAZIS SAYS HEALT ...
  Austrian health economist Ernest Pichlbauer has called the Vienna Chamber of Doctors Nazis on his facebook page with refreshing honesty. http://derstandard.at/1326503857555/Nach-Aerztekammer-Diskussion-Die-Kammer-sind-echte-Nazis “Ever heard about psycho terror and the suppression of free speech ...
• EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty
  IF THE BIRDFLU 666 BLOG IS EVER TAKEN DOWN WITHOUT DUE JUDICIAL PROCESS, THEN CHECK OUT MY FOURTH EMPIRE BLOG SPOT FOR UPDATES.   Rady Ananda Prisonplanet.com January 27, 2012 Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Minis ...
• 50,000 GERMANS NOW SUFFER FROM NARCOLEPSY &#82 ...
  *ONE IN SIX VICTIMS DIAGNOSED WITH SLEEPING DISORDER IN GERMANY IS A CHILD *AVERAGE AGE OF VICTIM IS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 *NARCOLEPSY IS AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE CAUSED BY ADJUVANT, CONFIRMS AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITY,  PREDICTED BY DR REBECCA CARLEY IN 2009 A staggering 50,000 Germans now suffer from the sl ...
• Why I will be suing the Austrian government al ...
  One element I will emphasise in my claim for damages against the Austrian government is the psychological distress I have been forced to suffer. In February 2010, I twice came close to being confined by a researcher employed by the Austrian government, who works for one of the most notorious res ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic ...
  In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the “pollutant” carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific “hereti ...
• To Choodle into the Armageddon Sunset
  By Les Visible As they crank up the inevitable engines of war in search of deeper darkness, the brainwashing continues apace; not that it’s all that hard to wash a fundie’s brain, since that system already functions like sending a tank top to the dry cleaners. The flavor of the month ...
• NATO’s Grisly Crimes in Libya: Extensive Evide ...
  by Farirai Chubvu While Charles Ray – the US envoy here [Zimbabwe] – portrays himself as the face of the free world, a champion of human rights and democracy, and has been vociferous about his country’s role in the Libyan invasion, it turns out that just like Vietnam and other ...
• Oz Concern About Mossad Death Squads
  Israeli death squads have been authorised to enter “friendly” countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia. Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Je ...
• Tidbits: What is Being Held Back from You
  By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Let’s start this out with an attention grabber. Out there, somewhere is a photograph of Osama bin Laden and George H. W. Bush, shaking hands in the White House. It exists. There is this and more, so much more, that would make America’s heads spin. The actual trained ...

Veterans Today

• Shameless chutzpah: Could it work for Muslims Too?
  If shameless chutzpah pays off for Jews, why not for Muslims too?
• Profile of a Rogue State
  America's unmatched globally. However, pound for pound, based on size, its policies, and regional threat, Israel stands out.
• West Underestimates Moral Strength Of Iran, At ...
  The west underestimates the true moral strength of Iran at its own peril for Iran’s character and ancient Persian roots will not cave in to demonization, fear and sanctions and are far more likely to follow the words of their greatest poet, Rumi.
• Washington’s War of Sanctions against Iran
  By Ismail Salami Washington’s double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well. Goaded by Washington, EU foreign ministers decided on January 23 to impose a ...
• Israel: End of a Dream
  Certain wars are slow. So slow, that the results of their single battles are reported with intervals of years between them. So slow, that if not actively searching for them, these results would probably pass unperceived. Recently, I reported on a setback suffered by Berkeley’s Jewish community i ...

electric politics

• Nuclear Nihilism
  Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...
• One of Our Other Cold Wars
  As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...
• Seeking Economic Truth
  John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...
• Accelerated Ideas
  When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...
• Codebreaker
  In celebration of Veterans Day, here's a question: What if the U.S. had lost the battle of Midway? Mercifully, we'll never know. But the U.S. victory could not have happened without the codebreaking skill and the unflinching courage — a relentless determination to be heard — of Joe R ...

PR News

• Caribou Coffee taps Ruder Finn as AOR
  MINNEAPOLIS: Caribou Coffee has selected Ruder Finn as its AOR following a competitive selection process.
• Visit Florida hires Ketchum as AOR
  TALLAHASSEE, FL: Visit Florida has hired Ketchum as its PR AOR. Ketchum previously worked with the state tourism organization after the BP oil spill affected the Gulf Coast in 2010.
• Davos chief extends olive branch to Occupy pro ...
  Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, reportedly invited members of the "Occupy" movement to meet with him this weekend to talk about their concerns.
• Economic, trust issues dominate Davos discussion
  The European debt crisis, high unemployment in the US, and a lack of trust between consumers, governments, and businesses are topics dominating the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
• Cohn & Wolfe launches multicultural practice
  NEW YORK: Cohn & Wolfe has revamped its four-year-old multicultural division with an expanded Latino and multicultural practice called Infuse.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• History being made in Alberta: Picket-line pre ...
  Picket-line counter posts site where locals & outfitter continue to hold back clear-cutting in Castle protected area Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition Sierra ...
• Will Alison Redford's Clearcuts Crush Bear Cub ...
  WildCanada Conservation Alliance Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition Alberta Wilderness Association 25 Jan 2012 ...
• History being made in Alberta as for 14th day, ...
  Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition Sierra Club Canada 25 Jan 2012 BEAVER MINES: A rotating picket-line maintained by outdoor enthusiasts an ...
• Environment groups ask Federal Court to force ...
  Ecojustice Pembina Institute Alberta Wilderness Association 25 Jan 2012 EDMONTON — Enviro ...
• It's Now or Never for the Castle
  Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Take action TODAY to stop logging of Alberta's Castle Special Management Area, and support its permanent protection. The Castle was announced as a protected area in 1998 ...

Stop NATO

• Iran The Target: Pentagon Seeks New Superbomb
  RT January 28, 2012 US toothless against Iran rock: Pentagon seeks new superbomb Having considered the toughness of the rock-hidden Iranian nuclear facilities, America’s Nutcracker military command has decided to save jaw and develop a new conventional superbomb, since the US still plans to do t ...
• Asia Challenges U.S., NATO Over Iran
  Voice of Russia January 28, 2012 Asia challenges US, Europe over Iran Konstantin Garibov China, India and Turkey have warned that they won’t support a ban on Iranian oil imports and will prevent the US from blocking oil supplies from Iran. Japan and South Korea are planning to follow suit. Europ ...
• The War Against Iran Is Already Underway
  Strategic Culture Foundation January 27, 2012 The Conundrum of Iran Leonid Slavin ==== If the conflict with Iran takes the shape of a protracted bombing campaign and comes as a prologue to the occupation of the country, the US will need to strengthen its positions in adjacent regions, meaning th ...
• Stop NATO news: January 28, 2012
  ==== New U.S. Army Stresses Space, Interceptor Missile, Cyber Capabilities Canadian Troops, 155-Vehicle Convoy Head To Arctic NATO’s Afghan War Distribution Network And The Baltic States NATO Requirements: Baltic Lands Forces Integrated Into Danish Division NATO Allies To Observe U.S.-Sout ...
• Most Significant Shift In U.S. Military Policy ...
  Daily Pioneer January 26, 2012 America reinvents policies to meet new challenges Mayuri Mukherjee By scripting the most dramatic shift in its foreign and defence policies since the end of the Cold War, the US prepares to confront a new world order ==== In the last two decades since, Washington, ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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Intel Hub

• ACTA: the Legislation that Makes SOPA and PIPA ...
  The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie January 28, 2012 First off, the most important thing to point out is that the United States already signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, at a ceremony last year along with several other nations. That’s right, with ...
• Pentagon Wants Commando “Mothership” in Middle ...
  Madison Ruppert | The Navy will be converting an old warship which was going to be decommissioned into a floating staging base for commando operations. The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie January 28, 2012 The Pentagon is now pushing to send a massive floating base ...
• Nano Particle Evidence Shows Fukushima Might B ...
  Shepard Ambellas | Nano particle evidence from Fukushima could link to depopulation conspiracy. The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas January 28, 2012 Evidence from the Fukushima Diachi disaster yields results that show a ”natural weaponization” of nanno particles related to the inncod ...
• It Is Time To Legalize All Drugs
  Amir Alwani | I have a right to ingest/smoke whatever I want and to explore the contents of “my own mind” in the process, so long as I am not hurting anyone else, even if it kills me.  This is a human right, albeit one that few people think of. The Intel Hub Amir Alwani January 28, 2012 Opi ...
• Greece Makes Progress in Talks With Creditors
  New York Times | Charles Dallara, head of the Institute of International Finance, arrived to meet with the nation’s prime minister. New York Times January 28, 2012 LONDON — Greece once again appears on the verge of reaching a deal with its private sector creditors on how much of a los ...

FRS

• Interview with “China Labor Watch” ...
  January 26, 2012 Questions for Li Qiang of China Labor Watch By DAVID BARBOZA, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/q-and-a-with-li-qiang-of-china-labor-watch/?hp Li Qiang, 39, is the founder of China Labor Watch, a nonprofit group in New York City that seeks to improve labor conditions i ...
• Obama Blew a Kiss to Apple
  by Jeff Ballinger, Workers Rights Consortium President Barack Obama blew a kiss to Apple in the State of the Union speech, praising the entrepreneurial spirit of its founder, the late Steve Jobs, as the cameras panned to his widow in the audience. Obama’s timing couldn’t be weirder. In the last ...
• Nepal: Land to the Peasants, or returned to t ...
  [Feudal landlords and reactionaries have always and everywhere claimed that revolutionary land reform--the seizure of lands for cultivation by landless peasants--is not an expropriation for liberation, but is a criminal theft by undeserving peasants.  It was shocking when the Maoist party in Nep ...
• Australian PM stumbles before rowdy protest crowd
  The Associated Press:  Australian prime minister stumbles as riot police escort her through 200 angry protesters, January 26, 2012 Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard is escorted out for safety by body guards and police through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australi ...
• A closer look: Obama’s hypocritical cla ...
  [A comment from Revolutionary Frontlines:  "Capitalist Crisis and Empire Quandary leads to media hyperbole, political hypocrisy, empty promises and false claims of better days ahead" Barack Obama, the political leader of US imperialism, is heading into a re-election campaign with growing discont ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• Kentucky Educational System vs. Creationist Th ...
  Governor Beshear pushes for new cuts to the education system budget in his $19 billion plan but leaves the tax break of a controversial Creationist theme park alone.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Jan 26, 2012
• The Five-Second Rule Works for Hearts, Too
  My two year old drops strawberries, medics drop hearts. Either case, the five-second rule works. Thank goodness for the sake of Erika Hernandez.Contributor: Satchel Ford Published: Jan 26, 2012
• House Republicans Question Safety of Chevy Vol ...
  House Republicans railed against the Obama Administration Wednesday during a hearing on General Motor’s Chevy Volt, after a probe conducted by the federal auto safety agency ruled that the electric cars’ batteries are not prone to causing fires.Contributor: Brian Koenig Published: Jan 26, 2012
• Rand Paul 'Detained' at Nashville Airport, Ref ...
  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. was reportedly detained Monday morning when he refused a fully body pat-down after an abnormality was found in a full body scanner.Contributor: Brian Koenig Published: Jan 23, 2012
• Will Stephen Colbert Affect the South Carolina ...
  How will Stephen Colbert's call to vote for Herman Cain affect the South Carolina Primary?Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Jan 21, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Growing Snow to Help Predict Avalanches
  Ed Adams, an engineering professor at Montana State University, used to study avalanches from inside a fortified shack. He would attach his shack to a boulder on a mountain, set small explosives in the snowpack, and trigger an avalanche, surrounding the shack. “Once snow gets on the ground, it’s ...
• The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
  This week's image roundup is a particularly good one: the best "blue marble" picture we've ever seen, a video of the aurora resulting from the biggest solar storm in seven years, a foldable car, a stunning green-energy art installation, blah, blah, blah. All great. But what we really want to tal ...
• Images of the Week, January 23-27, 2012
• Study Shows Females Can Delay the Aging of Spe ...
  A new study, led by Dr. Klaus Reinhardt at the University of Sheffield, shows that females of some species can prolong the lifespan of ordinarily short-lived sperm cells by days, months, or even decades, waiting for the optimal time to use it. The study could have some big implications for the g ...
• Building a Vertical Farm in an Old Chicago Mea ...
  Growing kale and tilapia--and brewing beer--in an abandoned stretch of Chicago Recently I had the opportunity to visit The Plant, Chicago's first vertical farm. This claim depends on your definition of vertical farm, of course, because The Plant isn't the sort of futuristic vegetation-filled sk ...

Veterans Today

• Shameless chutzpah: Could it work for Muslims Too?
  If shameless chutzpah pays off for Jews, why not for Muslims too?
• Profile of a Rogue State
  America's unmatched globally. However, pound for pound, based on size, its policies, and regional threat, Israel stands out.
• West Underestimates Moral Strength Of Iran, At ...
  The west underestimates the true moral strength of Iran at its own peril for Iran’s character and ancient Persian roots will not cave in to demonization, fear and sanctions and are far more likely to follow the words of their greatest poet, Rumi.
• Washington’s War of Sanctions against Iran
  By Ismail Salami Washington’s double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well. Goaded by Washington, EU foreign ministers decided on January 23 to impose a ...
• Israel: End of a Dream
  Certain wars are slow. So slow, that the results of their single battles are reported with intervals of years between them. So slow, that if not actively searching for them, these results would probably pass unperceived. Recently, I reported on a setback suffered by Berkeley’s Jewish community i ...

War is Business

• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
• New U.S. Nuke Facility Shows One Way Military ...
  Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?
• U.S. Military Manufacturers Move South Of The ...
  Buy maquiladora Buy maquiladora • Read more at The World
• U.S. Activists Sue For Info On Private Drones ...
  Buy private registration Buy private registration • Read more at EFF
• Qatar Welcomes Taliban Office (Aggregated)
  Buy bulletproof glass Buy bulletproof glass • Read more at EurasiaNet

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• East versus West: Let the battle commence!
  For the first time this winter, after a relentless spell of westerly winds, many areas are expected to see a general change to colder conditions as we head through the weekend and into next week. As the colder air becomes established it will be competing with milder air from the Atlantic. Wher ...
• Will we see the Northern Lights again tonight?
  The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...
• Will winter pass us by this year?
  As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...
• 2011 - 9th warmest globally on satellite record
  The Global temperature in December, according to the UAH satellite measure, showed little change from the previous month with an anomaly of +0.127C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.380C abov ...
• Gales continue to batter Britain
  The Met Office have again warned of severe gales into this evening and overnight across much of Eastern England from the Pennines to the coast, and the Scottish Borders to the Wash. Gusts could reach 70mph in more exposed areas. This comes hot off the heels of yesterday's storm, more powerful ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Yay! Our LSE IDEAS, World's 4th Best Uni Thinktank
  Well here's a nice bit of news concerning LSE IDEAS, the research centre I am associated with. The good folks at the University of Pennsylvania Think Tank and Civil Societies Program recently came out with the 2011 edition of their authoritative report on the world's leading thinktanks. To my pe ...
• Fact-Checking Obama: GM World's #1 Automaker?
  Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was your typical flag-waving, USA #1 cheerleading exercise. It's to be expected with these kinds of events, to be fair. Particularly notable on the trade end though was Obama declaring the creation of a "Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with inv ...
• Goin' Down: Those Crappy US Airlines, Cruise Lines
  For those of you who remember your high school literature, Charon in Dante Alighieri's Inferno was the ferryman of Hades who transported the souls of the dead across the river Styx on a journey to farther reaches of the underworld. In today's international political economy, you can argue that A ...
• RIP Japanese Trade Surplus, 1981-2010
  There's grim news care of Reuters in anticipation of Japan's release of trade figures tomorrow. The country is expected to have run a trade deficit for the first time in nearly 30 years in 2011. Worse, prospects are for it continuing to do so in the near future despite the (hopefully) one-time ...
• Allah & Moolah: Muslim Brotherhood Meets IMF
  Elected with a convincing majority, Muslim Brotherhood-linked legislators under the Freedom and Justice Party umbrella are now the forces to be reckoned with in Egypt. It will be fun to see how Yanqui hypocrites of the "elections are great...except when you elect Hamas" variety will respond if a ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Am ...
  A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all ...
• If The Economy Is Improving….
  Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buy ...
• The Man Without A Plan
  Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes.  Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give ...
• Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
  Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
• America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
  When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
  When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
• October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
• New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
  June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
• November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
  Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...
• Want to get your zine, pamphlet, or poster out ...
  Welcome to Olympia SDS, we've been throwing down since 2006, played a pivotal role in Port Militarization Resistance, and occupied the offices o...

E U Times

• Clashes leave eight dead in Somaliland
  At least eight people have been killed after troops from the self-declared republic of Somaliland launched an attack on local militiamen in the Buhodle district, Press TV reports. The conflict erupted on Thursday as Somaliland forces launched an attack against bases of militia fighters, who have ...
• Syria rebel fighters take control of Damascus ...
  A massive demonstration has shaken the Damascus suburb of Saqba, that has fallen under the control of the Free Syrian Army. RT’s Sara Firth traveled to the rebel-controlled area to explore how the fighters managed to overcome superior forces. ­Clashes between Assad’s armed forces and the Free Sy ...
• Official conclusion of Phobos Ground crash sho ...
  The interdepartmental committee, which investigates the reasons of the breakdown of Russia’s Phobos Ground spacecraft, presented the basic version of the accident. Sources at the space industry told Interfax said that, most likely, the spacecraft did not enter the departure trajectory to M ...
• US and Israel revive largest joint anti-missil ...
  Israeli and American officials put plans for a massive missile drill mysteriously on this month, but now the exercise, originally slated for this spring, will be scheduled for October 2012. The drill, which will also signal a surge of American troops to Israel by the thousands, will mark the big ...
• Russia rules out UN resolution on Syria
  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says Moscow will not support a Western-Arab drafted UN Security Council resolution on Syria. Moscow says the new draft, due to be discussed on Friday, does not take into account the Russian position on Syria. The draft proposed by the US, its Weste ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Independent UN expert calls on Brazil to suspe ...
  An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged Brazilian authorities to suspend evictions from the Pinheirinho settlement in São Paulo and find durable solutions with residents.
• Haiti: UN opens probe into cases of alleged ch ...
  The United Nations announced today that it is investigating two cases of sexual exploitation of children allegedly committed by its police personnel in Haiti.
• UN rights chief speaks out against US failure ...
  The United Nations human rights chief today spoke out against the failure by the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to ensure accountability for serious violations - including torture - that took place there.
• El Salvador must address social inequality to ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today on El Salvador to address its socio-economic inequalities and advance rule of law reform to ensure its citizens can experience positive and tangible results from the peace process that was initiated 20 years ago at the end of its civil war.
• Guatemala ratifies UN-backed treaty banning nu ...
  Guatemala has ratified the United Nations-backed international treaty banning nuclear tests, bringing the number of State parties to 156.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Five Lit ...
  Ten years ago at the end of a three-week trip in Argentinean Patagonia and the rain-soaked, glacier-whittled southern Chilean coast, I took a nasty fall.   After flying home to New Mexico, my back, which had never bothered me before, grew steadily worse over the coming months.  I soon had to sto ...
• Public Pressure Exposes Prime Minister Harpers ...
  Issues such as proposals to build the Keystone and Enbridge “Gateway” Pipelines, intended to carry Tarsands oil out of Canada, are receiving growing public scrutiny, and that often exposes bias or applies public pressure on isolated elitists, as some of our Federal, Provincial, and State politic ...
• National Fish, Wildlife & Plants Climate Adapt ...
  Please visit the website for The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy,  learn about this project, read the Public Review Draft and weigh in with your comments. The following is a very brief excerpt: From the Arctic to the Everglades, impacts like rising sea levels, war ...
• She’s Alive . . .
  She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage, agonizing conclusions.
• Man Swarm: the slaughtering of the world’s wil ...
  By Frosty Wooldridge A book review: Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman Part 1 of 5: Humans devastating habitat and poisoning it The Bible said, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it and take dominion over all living things on land and in the seas.”At the time ...

Asia Sentinel

• 'Cap-and-Trade' in China
  • (http://twitter.com/share) As the US dithers, other countries make combating climate change a goal
• Apple's Unused Cash Pile
  • (http://twitter.com/share) US$97 billion could be put to better use than sitting in the Cupertino vaults
• Raw Materials Shock Coming From China?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Ratio of raw materials usage to GDP could start to level
• An Indonesian Throwback?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A dedicated, honest politician
• Modern South Korea's Spiritual Core
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Shamans at work in an industrial society

We Know the Lies

• China... Nuclear Accident???
    China has moved swiftly to deny it has become the latest nation to experience a nuclear accident, after claims that it was forced to shut down its newest nuclear reactor last year. ~ David Eimer in Beijing - related articles read more
• Fukushima... Nano Particle Evidence Indicates ...
    Evidence from the Fukushima Diiachi disaster yields results that show a ”natural weaponization” of nanno particles related to the inncodent, signifying the potential for a previously planned event. ~ Shepard Ambellas - Video read more
• EXPOSED!... FEMA Camp Rendition Hub Confirmed ...
    Part 1 of 2 On the Thursday evening edition of Infowars Nightly News, Alex Jones featured photo evidence of a FEMA rendition facility located at the airport in Los Angeles. ~ Kurt Nimmo - Videos read more
• Globalism 101... The Destruction of Our Jobs, ...
    Henry Ford's Highland Park, MI Plant As most Americans stand around waiting for the U.S. economy to return to "normal", there is a never ending parade of jobs, businesses and wealth heading out of the United States.  The jobs and businesses that are leaving are gone for good and ...
• Are You Safe?... Is it Time to Move Away from ...
    Cleveland, Ohio As the U.S. economy falls apart and as the world becomes increasingly unstable, more Americans than ever are becoming "preppers".  It is estimated that there are at least two million preppers in the United States today, but nobody really knows. ~ Video  read ...

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

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

Fast Company

• This Week In Bots: Roboplayers, Robodancers, R ...
  Would you love your Roomba more if it had rat-like whiskers? How about if it saved people's lives in post-disaster situations? Yeah, us too.RobohockeyTeaching robots to play sports is a clever way to advance the science of robotic movements, environment sensing, and artificial intellgence all in ...
• Jon Rubinstein, Force Behind TouchPad, WebOS, ...
  Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and the man behind WebOS, has left HP.It's hard to imagine that only about 19 months ago, HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion and brought on Rubinstein to reinvigorate the company. In that short span, HP embarked on an aggressive plan to produce smartpho ...
• Artists: SoundExchange Has Free Money For You, ...
  Since its inception, SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty payments from digital music services like Pandora, has brought in more than $900 million--$292 million of which it collected last year alone. But how much of a cut does SoundExchange take for itself? Nothing, other than f ...
• Gravitational Pol: What President Gingrich And ...
  Newt Gingrich's bold plans for a moon base dominated last night's GOP debate. If he did get elected president--it could happen!--here's how Newt's bigger take on innovation and science would change America.Newton Leroy Gingrich--Newt to you and me--would most certainly write this post differentl ...
• Make Room At The Meeting Table--For Your Customer
  Do your customers really trust your company? Ask yourself: If you were the customer, would you trust your company?  A few years ago I was hired to deliver a talk to some big corporate customers of Siemens AG. We gathered in a fine hotel near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for a user confere ...

Jadaliyya

• Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A ...
  On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied Territories, who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel or to residents of East Jerusa ...
• ديناميتان للثورة السورية: المستقبل في الحاضر
  لم يعد هناك أدنى شك في أن النظام السوري سائر نحو السقوط، وأن الأمور تتجه بثبات إلى نقطة الانكسار التي يبدأ عندها بالانهيار النهائي. واضح أكثر فأكثر أنه يفقد ثقته بالجيش النظامي، ويعجز بصورة مضطردة عن التحكم بديناميات تفتته، وأن ضرباً من توازن القوى يتحقق لعناصر «الجيش الحر» في مواجهة قوى ...
• الثورة المصرية فى مرآة التاريخ
  عندما يُؤرَخ للثورة المصرية التي تحلّ ذكراها الأولى فإن أقرب ما قد توصف به هو أنها كانت "ثورة الأطراف المهمّشة" Peripheries’ Revolution . فمن أطلق شرارة الثورة ودفع ثمنها، ولا يزال، هي تلك الكتلة "الحرجة" التي عاشت عقوداً على الهامشيْن السياسي والاجتماعي للدولة المصري ...
• In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material After ...
  A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you are in ...
• A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Ti ...
  [This timeline is part of a series entitled "Free at Last? Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak." Click here to read Part 1.] JANUARY   26: Protesters marching from Tahrir Square towards state television building in Maspero to demand media reform. Protesters marc ...

mediagazer

• NBC News Asks Romney Campaign to Remove Ad (Je ...
  Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus: NBC News Asks Romney Campaign to Remove Ad  —  4:29 p.m. |  Updated TAMPA, Fla. - NBC News is asking that the Romney campaign remove from its ads any references to material from the network in response to a new commercial that consists almost ...
• Voters to Press: Tell Us Where the Candidates ...
  Erika Fry / CJR: Voters to Press: Tell Us Where the Candidates Stand  —  In South Carolina, readers look to local papers for the basics  —  One of the main media frames for the 2012 presidential campaign is the way in which media frames are changing.  And th ...
• UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff (Tim Ca ...
  Tim Castle / Reuters: UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff  —  (Reuters) - Police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid and a policeman on Saturday in a probe into suspected payments by journalists to officers for information, poli ...
• Twitter to Roll Out More Brand Pages for Adver ...
  Cotton Delo / AdAge: Twitter to Roll Out More Brand Pages for Advertisers Who've Committed $25K  —  New Pages Next Week Restricted to Those Buying Promoted Tweets, Trends  —  Twitter will start rolling out more brand pages next week for some brands and partners w ...
• Letter to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dors ...
  Reporters Without Borders: Letter to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey urging him not to cooperate with censors  —  Reporters Without Borders has written to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey voicing deep concern about yesterday's announcement that Twitter will introduc ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Azarenka routs Sharapova to win Australia ...
  Victoria Azarenka routed Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 to win the Australian Open women's title and secure the No. 1 ranking on Saturday night, all in her first Grand Slam final. The 22-year-old Belarusian dropped her opening service game and was down 2-0 after a nervous start before winning 12 o ...
• How brain keeps memories alive for decade ...
  Washington, Jan 28 (ANI): Scientists, including Indian-origin researchers, have found that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories. Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called "synapses". Neuroscientists at the Stowers Institute f ...
• Liverpool is Man U's main rivals: Ferguso ...
  London, Jan 28(ANI): Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Liverpool is still their main rival despite Manchester City's growth in recent years. Acknowledging Manchester City's progress in recent times,...
• Team India official denies reports on Dra ...
  Adelaide, Jan 28 (ANI): Indian cricket team's media manager GS Walia has said at Adelaide Oval that no senior player within the squad will be retiring in the wake of the 4-0...
• Brussels muscles in: Cameron WON'T block ...
  David Cameron has effectively watered down his opposition to a new EU deal to prop up the euro, to the anger of Tory MPs. As Brussels demanded yet more cash from the taxpayer to save the single currency, the Prime Minister agreed that the European Court of Justice could be used to enforce li ...

no frakking consensus

• Medical Journals Spearhead Climate Lynch Mob
  Why are the editors of leading medical journals trying to suppress climate free speech? Since this isn't their area of expertise how dare they harass those with a different point-of-view?
• Green Energy: the Auditor Isn’t Impressed
  A report by the Auditor General of a Canadian province highlights the dark side of green energy.
• IPCC Scientists – Guests of the Environm ...
  A powerful lobby group supplied their meeting space, helped with their travel documents & subsidized their meals. Top IPCC scientists went along for the ride.
• The Pipeline, the Jobs, & the Media
  Why do journalists never doubt green groups?
• Free Speech is Not Negotiable: Stop SOPA
  The vibrant, international climate skeptic community owes its existence to the Internet. We must defend it.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
• Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
  BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
• Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
  CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
• Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
  WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
• Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
  CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...

TruthNews Australia

• Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
  Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...
• Iraq: The legacy of deception and its costs
  Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a "Real Politik" vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace---with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion's ...
• I’m gonna stand my ground and I won&#821 ...
  Tonight I am joined by lawyer and human rights advocate Rochelle Macredie. In the show we take a look at some of the major breaking stories in the news and Rochelle gives her analysis of what is required to roll back the march towards war and tyranny which we see unfolding across the world rig ...
• Obama Signs the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act
  Obama signing the National Defense Appropriations Act Tonight we look at a variety of local and international stories, with a focus on the ominous passing of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA). The Act allows for the military detention of American citizens without due process, abou ...
• 2012: what’s in store?
  Tonight I am joined by psychologist Karla Cryer as we look forward to the coming "Year of the Dragon" and try to anticipate what is likely to unfold on the world stage. Some topics we address include the  familiar, such as the looming attack on Iran, global financial collapse and the Nann ...

Beacon

• CEO Note: Why Are Our Leaders Still Telling L ...
  © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. If you watched this week’s State of the Union address, you may have heard President Obama announce that he was opening 75 percent of our “potential offshore oil and gas resources.” The good news is that this isn’t news; it’ ...
• Join Us for SeaBlue on March 3
  Looking for an excuse to celebrate the oceans this winter? Look no further. On March 3, we are holding our inaugural SeaBlue benefit event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and you are invited! SeaBlue will feature a musical performance by The Honey Brothers with Oceana Ambassador Adrian Grenier, ...
• Marine Monday: Olive Sea Snake
  An olive sea snake in Australia. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] When you think of ocean animals, snakes are not usually the first thing to come to mind, but they live as comfortably underwater as they do on the ground. Today’s Marine Monday features one of these swimming snakes, the olive sea ...
• Another Victory: Protecting Sea Lions in the P ...
  A steller sea lion. © Oceana Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I’m pleased to report two victories this week for some of the oceans’ most threatened creatures. First, Oceana and its allies won protections for endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles with the establishment of the first ...
• Victory! Pacific Leatherbacks Gain Protected H ...
  This leatherback will now have a safe haven in the Pacific. [Photo credit: NOAA] As of today, the ocean’s largest sea turtle now has 41,914 square miles of Pacific Ocean it can call its own. Oceana has been working for five years to protect habitat critical to the survival and recovery of th ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• The Bonney Gull.
    Leonard Warden Bonney was a stubborn man. I guess it could be said that few things worth note have ever been created that were not otherwisee attached to a fairly healthy ego. Desite the scientific evidence to the contrary, Bonney was certain that actual flight would be best accomplished ...
• The De Bruyere C1.
    In many ways the invention of its designer, Marcel de Bruyere, the De Bruyere C1 is a preview things to come in the future of air combat. I think about the A-10: engines in the back, radical design, unimpeded cradle for a gun in the front. Heavy gun made for anti armor role. In [...]
• Haunted Hastings Castle.
      October 14th, 1066 AD. 700 Norman ships appear in the choppy waters of the English Channel, make their way onto the beaches and an army disembarks. Some 4500 infantry and 1700 archers form lines. William the Conqueror would earn his moniker here as he faced roughly 8,000 soldiers u ...
• The Goodyear Inflatable Plane.
    New thinking was welcome in the military aviation business, especially after World War II and into the Cold War. Goodyear had spent plenty of time making blimps and transports for the US Army. Now that those technologies were on the wane, and they wanted to build a rubber airplane, and in ...
• Christmas Gun Ads.
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Taylor Marsh

• Sarah Palin Isn’t Who She Used to Be
  Sarah Palin rose to power in Alaska by taking on Republicans in her own state on ethics. It’s the very thing Tom Brokaw is talking about regarding Newt Gingrich in the Romney ad above, though Brokaw, and NBC are protesting, so I have no idea if the video will be available by the time you [...]
• A Mitt Romney Moment: Fannie and Freddie
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Ever put a fortune into a company and then not know it? In the CNN Thursday debate, Mitt Romney claimed he had no idea of his investment involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When confronted by Newt Gingrich over the fact that Romney ...
• Google’s New ‘Privacy’ Policy
  Don’t. Track. US. It’s in response to Google’s new (ahem) privacy policy, which lands March 1, 2012. Meanwhile, after Twitter announced it would agree to censoring tweets in some countries, a boycott call broke out. This post has been updated.
• Queer Talk: Mayors for Marriage Equality
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Freedom to Marry, an organization working for marriage equality, recently announced a new campaign: Mayors for the Freedom to Marry. About 100 mayors – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – have signed on. The cam ...
• Dash of Dan: Black Bottom Brownies
  On the Dash of  Dan Facebook page, I posted a poll, asking how people like their brownies. I find people fall into three categories, chewy, fudgy, or cakey. What I like about this recipe, it’s mostly things you have already on hand in the kitchen and it takes a regular brownie and makes it a [...]

Hudson New York

• Europeans Increasingly Converting to Islam
  Irish actor Liam Neeson says he is thinking about becoming a Muslim after undergoing a spiritual awakening in Turkey. Neeson, who was born into a Roman Catholic family in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, told the London-based newspaper The Sun that he was
• Islamists Take Over Tunisia
  In the aftermath of the Tunisian Jasmine revolution, Salafists, as in Egypt, are taking advantage of the new freedoms to be a threat to the growth of democracy. Islamist groups are now flourishing and are trying to transform Tunisia into an Islamic
• Bangladesh: Heaven for Child and Women Hunting
  Malik 42, a rickshaw-puller, described to his wife Anwara, "If we send our daughter to Middle East, the land of the Emirs, all of our stresses and adversities will fade away. She will get an attractive job over there. A very reliable, kind and rich man
• Amnesty International Says French Genocide Bil ...
  Human rights group Amnesty International has criticized a bill passed this week in French Parliament to criminalize denial of the 1915 killing of Armenians in Anatolia as genocide, saying the legislation violates freedom of expression. "This bill, if
• British Organization Backing Religious Intolerance
  It is a year since the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was gunned down by his own close protection officer in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. A secular politician who championed women's rights and tried to reform the country's repressive religious

Urban Survival

• Name that Phenom: Confusonomics?
  Maybe the top is in…Don’t look now, but if someone tells you they know what’s ahead for the economy, look ‘em bang in the eye and tell them “You’re full of crap.”  NO ONE total understands the dynamics in play … Continue reading →
• Coping: We Do What?
  As you may know, I belong to a couple of professional associations related to news writing.  Not that it will help, coming from a radio background where the printed word is just there for hints about what kinds of noises … Continue reading →
• Gold Wakes Up
  From an intraday low around $1,655 yesterday to to a whopping $1,728.20 (so far) this morning, yeah, I’d day gold is doing something.  Since this is so “in your face” we begin today with the observation that gold and silver … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Time Slips and Dream Times
  Oh, this one is a dandy report of  WuJo-like happenings: Hi GU- Thanx 4 your news-I can’t afford subscribing but I do visit 4 days a week and send your link to pertinent others-and good luck with your wallstreet gambling … Continue reading →
• The Great Dichotomy
  Reader Note:  This morning’s report is a posted early – and a bit short, to, come to think of it.  Taking G2 to the airport…been a fun visit, but he’s anxious to get back to the big city, for heaven … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• War is Big Business
  Wars are much more than to make profits, they... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Bob Chapman : Davos is just another Biblderber ...
• Bob Chapman : Davos is just another Biblderber ...
• Bob Chapman : Davos is just another Biblderber ...
• Bob Chapman : Davos is just another Biblderber ...

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• NY Solar Jobs Act will improve air quality and ...
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City  By reducing New York’s reliance on fossil fuel based energy generation, the New York Solar Jobs Act (NYSJA) will result in $158 million to $226 million in total public health benef ...
• Report Announces Top 10 Species Imperiled by F ...
  Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC When we turn on the heat in our homes or start our cars, most of us don’t think about the creatures that may be harmed as a result.  But the fact is that oil, gas, and coal extraction is o ...
• The Ugly Side of Globalization in the New York ...
  Linda Greer, Director, Health and Environment Program, Washington, D.C. This week, the New York Times week published articles about Apple Computer ( here and here) which paint a grim picture about the prospects that manufacturing will ever move back ...
• Refining RGGI: States are helping improve an a ...
  Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York Who doesn’t want more good things? And by good things, here’s some of what I mean: pollution cuts that help protect the health of our children and of our increasingly fragile atmosp ...
• Last Week in Whales: Mass Stranding of Dolphi ...
  Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales last week (or close to it). Okay, let’s start with some dolphin news. The big news last week was the mass stranding of dolphins that continued ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Outage
  Sorry for the lack of a news feed recap for Friday, January 27. I had to walk to work 3 times for emergency issues and didn’t get much of a chance to track reports, let alone do a recap, until nearly midnight and was too tired to do it by then. On top of [...]
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, January 26, 2012: San Bernardino CA settles suit for $575k to the family of a man who was shot to death after a police chase. The city blamed the judge in that case for admitting [...]
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Sorry today’s recap is just a straight copy of yesterday’s content on the news feed, but my day job is continuing to demand all my attention from the time I wake up until I fall asleep… Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, January 24, 2012: 4 East Haven CT cops arrested on multiple charges, allegedly routinely conspired to deprive rights, excessive force [0] cour.at/xxo96L Ada Co ID deputy on leave af ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, January 23, 2012: California state trooper was convicted of murder for fatally shooting her husband during an alleged drunken dispute [0] lat.ms/zJXxWe Lincoln RI cop c ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  The head of the UFC says that Anonymous’ actions might very well cause SOPA to resurface. The FBI is looking for someone to build it a monitoring tool for Twitter....
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  22 European states have signed up for ACTA, but the battle isn’t lost just yet. Google+ is now available to teens, with safety improvements. Israel and Iran are in a...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple has a blockbuster quarter, UK mobile operator O2 leaks customers’ phone numbers to websites they access, and Obama’s State of the Union address is a Twitter hit. It’s all...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Anonymous hacks the FTC. London will get Internet on the Tubes…sort of. Julian Assange is going to host a talk show. But who would actually want to end their career...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Tumblr.com is about to get better when it comes to discovery. Google might be selectively censoring some of its Blogger blogs. YouTube has hit 4 billion daily page views. You...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Solar can deliver in FiTs and starts
  Mattew Wright In the Icy German Winter, during the 12 days of Christmas, the Germans installed more than 3 gigawatts of solar PV – a sum that is nearly ten times our Federal Goverment’s entire target for big solar. To much fanfare the Labor Government has been announcing, and re-announ ...
• Australian Car Manufacturing must go electric
  Australian car manufacturing to become extinct unless we shift to electric vehicles. "The Australian car manufacturing industry will suffer a "Kodak moment" (they announced bankruptcy this week) if it fails to shift from polluting internal combustion engines (ICE) to efficient electric engines, ...
• Losing farmland to fossil fuels
  Matthew Wright Climate spectator reports:Today, across NSW, farmers are participating in wind projects by co-locating wind turbines on their land. Just 2,000 modern 7.5MW on-shore wind turbines would provide enough electricity to power more than half of NSW. The NSW government is opposed to w ...
• Piers Akerman's call for apartheid era coal to ...
  Piers Akerman (Daily Telegraph Jan 20,2012) is calling for Coal-to-Liquids to be deployed in Australia. Coal to liquids is the technology choice of desperate regimes including the Nazis in Germany during WWII and the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is highly polluting and has only ever be ...
• Solar programs pay for themselves and reduce t ...
  This is an updated version of what was published in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Solar energy benefits the state by providing electricity at much cheaper rates than those of traditional sources, writes Matthew Wright. It may appear counter-intuitive, but getting millions of solar panels ont ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Sinar Mas Group seeks 'backdoor' public listin ...
  Sinar Mas Group, an Indonesia-based conglomerate, is working on a deal to list its Indonesian coal assets on the Singapore Exchange by swapping shares with a small forestry firm that is already listed on the stock market, reports Reuters. The move would enable Sinar Mas Group to more easily rais ...
• Group releases photos of Borneo rainforest to ...
  The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has released a set of photos from a visit to a contested area of forest set to be converted for oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo.
• Palm oil does not meet U.S. renewable fuels st ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled on Friday that palm oil-based biofuels will not meet the renewable fuels standard due to carbon emissions associated with deforestation.
• 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 ...
• Levi's new forest policy excludes fiber from s ...
  Levi Strauss & Company had issued a new policy that will exclude fiber from controversial sources from its products. The move will effectively bar Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) as a supplier, according to the Rainforest Action Network, a green group that is campaigning to reform APP's sourcing practic ...

Sierra Express

• President Koroma leads Sierra Leone’s delegati ...
  His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma is leading Sierra Leone’s delegation to the 18th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union which commenced today 28th January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo: President Koroma welcomed by the Sierra ...
• Salone Conference: Transform or die!
  Thus, to help doctor Sierra Leoneans of our never ending illnesses, another conference but this time, the very first development conference aimed at charting the next fifty years forward has been convened.
• How do you solve a problem called “Balotelli”?
  The enigma that has gripped English football in the Premier League this season has been anything but controversy free. There have been many eye catching issues ranging from the Suarez race saga, the alleged John Terry racial slur, right down to the debatable suspensions of prominent footballers ...
• Bringing Kono into Sierra Leone’s political ce ...
  The 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary elections witnessed a dramatic twist in Sierra Leone political set-up with the removal from power of a ruling party by an opposition party.  Berewa’s chances of winning those elections were slim, taking into account the manner in which he was catapulted in ...
• Hon JB Dauda woos Georgian investors to Sierra ...
  Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon.  Joseph Bandabla Dauda on Friday 27th January 2012 extended an invitation to Georgian investors to invest in Sierra Leone as the latter is now a destination for foreign business outfits. Hon. Dauda extended the invitation to the Geo ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Crafar farm sale: Readers reaction
  An overwhelming majority of nzherald.co.nz readers are railing against the just-approved sale of the Crafar farms to a Chinese Government-backed investment group.Shanghai Pengxin's bid for the 16 Crafar farms was approved by Land...
• Dairy boom pushes trade account to surplus in ...
  New Zealand reported a trade surplus in December as exports of milk powder, butter and cheese reached records.The trade balance was a surplus of $338 million in the month of December, Statistics New Zealand said. This compared to...
• Blocking Crafar sale 'unlawful' - Key
  Prime Minister John Key says the Government did not have any valid reasons to refuse approval for the Chinese bid from Shanghai Pengxin to buy the 16 Crafar farms - and blocking it may have broken the law.The ministers responsible...
• No part for public opinion in China farm sale ...
  Public opinion will play no part in the decision on whether ministers approve of the sale of 16 Crafar farms to Shanghai Pengxin company, Prime Minister John told reporters today.He said a decision was imminent, today or tomorrow.In...
• Decision due on Crafar farms tonight or tomorrow
  A ministerial decision on the sale of 16 farms to China's Shanghai Pengxin is due late tonight or tomorrow, the High Court in Wellington heard today.Yesterday cabinet briefly discussed the Overseas Investment Office's recommendation...

The Bovine

• Revisiting the “Rawsome Three” case
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: Whatever happened to the Rawesome Three (James Stewart, Sharon Palmer, Victoria Bloch)? Whatever happened to the felony case against the Rawesome Three? Whatever happened to Rawesome Food Club? We know the … Continue reading →
• One of Canada’s “big three” ...
  CTV, Global News, Yahoo and Canadian Press are reporting that Saputo dairy has recalled a type of milk product sold in both Ontario and Quebec because it may have been contaminated with a cleaning agent. Apparently you can be too … Continue reading →
• One of Canada’s “big three” ...
  CTV, Global News, Yahoo and Canadian Press are reporting that Saputo dairy has recalled a type of milk product sold in both Ontario and Quebec because it may have been contaminated with a cleaning agent. Apparently you can be too … Continue reading →
• Still hope for herdshares in California?
  From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “There are any number of reasons why the negotiations over herdshares taking place in California—between owners of small dairies and the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture– over the last few … Continue reading →
• Still hope for herdshares in California?
  From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “There are any number of reasons why the negotiations over herdshares taking place in California—between owners of small dairies and the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture– over the last few … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Greeks Reject German Plan for EU Budget Commis ...
  Europe has been on the "verge" of a deal for two weeks. However, a deal is meaningless if Germany insists on budget controls. Actually a deal now is meaningless even if Germany does back down because at some point Greek politicians will have had enough. Here are the latest stories. Yahoo! F ...
• Triumph of One and the Price of Arrogance; Mer ...
  The arrogance of French president (soon to be ex-president) Nicolas Sarkozy is about to bite the Eurocrat nanny-zone officials big time. In December, Sarkozy insisted on a financial transaction tax and other concessions that the UK alone would not sign. In what was billed as a triumph of 26 ...
• Bickering Over Who's at the "Three-Speed" Euro ...
  Last month, in an effort to snub the British and prime minister Cameron who would not go along with the Tobin Tax concept, French president Nicolas Sarkozy forced through a rule change that excluded non-euro member nations from sitting at the table. This move has ruffled the feathers of Po ...
• Capital Account: Snow stories from Davos and " ...
  I was on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster once again on Friday. She was covering the economic forum in Davos so the interview was with Demetri Kofinas. I come in about the 17 minute mark. Link if video does not play: Snow stories from Davos and "muddle-through" economics with Mish ...
• Prepare for Greece to Leave Eurozone; German G ...
  Prepare for Greece to exit the Eurozone. Germany has made a request that in my opinion practically guarantees that outcome. The Financial Times has a pair of articles on the matter but the conclusion above is mine. German Government Calls for Greece to Cede Sovereignty to Eurozone "Budget C ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Gingrich Promises The Moon as the 51st State: ...
  A Brilliant Statement from a Not-So-Brilliant Man A few days ago presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told the people of Florida about his plans for a permanent colony- base on the Moon, and promised to work toward turning the satellite into the 51st US state. I, and many others, including our lea ...
• Mr. Obama, How About Sanctions – No Fly ...
  Let’s Make This Principled & Consistent; Let’s Go to War with All! Our nation is famous for many things. Things that it is known for. Things that in one way or another represent it. Things that become synonymous with America or being Americans. Our foreign policy and our presidents are no ex ...
• The EyeOpener- Police State Gadgets & the Tech ...
  Taser: Popular Technology of Pain Compliance in Law Enforcement The popular conception of the police state, derived mainly from works of science fiction, revolves heavily around the deployment of exotic technologies for keeping the populace firmly under the thumb of an authoritarian government. ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The American Empire, In Their Own Words This episode takes a critical look at the development of the American Empire during and after World War II, using official State Department documents, formerly top secret documents from the Council on Foreign Relations, and other official sources. Comparin ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Rob Almeida Discusses Shipbuilding with Joe Re ...
  At this year’s Surface Navy Association National Symposium in Washington, DC, I sat down for a chat with Joe Rella, Chief Operating Officer and President of Austal USA Shipbuilding. RA: [...]
• Cargo Ship Strikes Kentucky Bridge, Bridge Col ...
  A bridge in western Kentucky has partially collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship Thursday night.  According to officials, two spans of the U.S. 68/KY 80 bridge over Kentucky [...]
• Should Petrobras be Fined $33,750,000 for this ...
  Based on the precedent that Brazilian authorities have set with the astronomical fines recently charged to Chevron, the answer is yes.   Dow Jones reports on an oil spill from [...]
• How Global Logistics Is Working in Partnership ...
  More than 250 million people each year are affected by natural disasters. The annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980 as a result of climate change, [...]
• US District Judge Rules in Transocean’s Favor, ...
  U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled yesterday that Transocean’s contract with BP, while drilling the Macondo Well, shielded Transocean from any pollution-related claims resulting from the largest accidental oil spill [...]

Blogging Canadians

• Akaash Maharaj: Resistance is Not Futile
  In my first broadcast of 2012 for TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that in any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws.
• What Stephen Harper DID NOT Tell Delegates At ...
  Canada's PM Harper spoke to delegates at the elitist Davos conference in Switzerland today. Here are a couple of key points that he DID NOT make in his speech: 1) When the free-market tanked due to capitalist greed, it was wage earning Canadian workers (paying taxes) who bailed out the auto ind ...
• EI financing agency spends millions doing noth ...
  So much for being fiscally responsible! Maybe the reason the number of Service Canada's E.I. offices is being slashed by over 80% is to pay for this boondoggle. EI financing agency spends millions doing nothing - Politics - CBC News: Backlogged by Design Conservative ridings benefit from.. ...
• Parliament in Review: November 18, 2011
  Friday, November 18 saw two pieces of legislation discussed. And the contrast couldn't have been much more stark between an opposition effort to develop better legislation, and a government focused on nothing more than sticking to talking points regardless of whether they made the slightest sens ...
• The One-For-One Rule an Over-Simplified Approa ...
  President of the Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement Minister Tony Clement's released their new One-For-One rule on Jan 18th.  Put simply the press release is announcing that the federal government plans to treat regulations like trading cards. This means that regulato ...

Press TV - Middle East

• Yemen's Saleh arrives in New York
  Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh has arrived in New York for medical treatment amid calls for him to face trials at home.
• 'Syria regrets suspension of AL mission'
  The Syrian government says it regrets the Arab League's decision to suspend the activities of its observer mission in the country.
• 'Islamic Awakening influences world'
  The Islamic Awakening is 'at its very beginning' and not simply limited to Arabs but influencing uprisings across the globe, an international lawyer tells Press TV.
• 'Lebanon monitoring border with Syria'
  A security official says Lebanon's northern border with Syria is under control of Lebanese security forces after reports about the possible relocation of five abducted Iranian engineers from Syria to Lebanon.
• 'UN must free Iranians taken in Syria'
  A Damascus-based political thinker has condemned the recent abduction of several Iranian pilgrims in Syria by unknown armed gangs, stressing that the United Nation must secure their release, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

• And Here’s the Mutiny…
  I promised you. And here’s the party it turned into. So sing the New Pornographers, and so sounds in my head, as I consider the third party option that dangled brightly for but a moment. I’m talking about the Justice Party and their candidate for president, Rocky Anderson. Yes, the Justice Party ...
• The Fruit That Did Not Fall
  Cuba found itself forced to fight for its existence against an expansionist power located a few miles off its coast that had declared the annexation of our island and that believed our destiny was to fall into their lap like a piece of ripe fruit. We were condemned to cease to exist as a nation. ...
• Are You Still Eating Butterball Turkeys?
  “People love turkey. We love turkey, too,” says the corporate website for Butterball, the nation’s largest vertically integrated turkey producer. Butterball is certified by the British Retail Consortium, says the site, on “300 elements related to food safety and quality, ...
• Ethnic Studies: Class Dismissed
  Class consciousness is knowing which side of the fence you’re on. Class analysis is knowing who is there with you. America has finally developed a movement for social change that seems conscious of political economic divisions that transcend race, sex or other very serious but sometimes overstre ...
• He’s Back: Leery of Leahy
  After failing to get COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) passed in 2010, he is back again this year with PIPA. Do not forget PIPA is the son of COICA.  Back then (2010) while the Vermont ACLU was nominating Senator Patrick Leahy as the Civil Libertarian of the Year, the na ...

Destructionist

• NOVO: Gingrich was a lobbyist – Document ...
  Novo Nordisk viewed Republican presidential hopeful New Gingrich as a lobbyist in Washington, according to the Danish company’s 2009 annual report in which Novo’s membership of Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation is listed as “costs for lobbyism”. Gingrich has come under attack as he ...
• It’s Time for Americans to ‘Stand ...
  Let your voice be heard. Stand up now before all is lost. http://youtu.be/11xEag661Ag
• European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA ...
  This is interesting. Kader Arif, the “rapporteur” for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA. A rapporteur is a person “appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue.” However, it appears his investigation of ACTA didn’t make him v ...
• EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty
  Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October. This signing ceremony merely formalized the EU’s adopti ...
• Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than ...
  Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight ...
  
  

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  Spain Suspends Subsidies for New Renewable Energy Power Plants

  Bloomberg

  Spain halted subsidies for renewable energy projects to help curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed by the state that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2011. “What is today an energy problem could become a ...

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  Renewables From Vestas to Suntech Plan Profits Without Subsidy

  Bloomberg

  Photo: Ken James/Bloomberg Renewable energy companies are approaching the point where they can generate electricity at a price competitive with fossil-fuels without subsidies, the biggest wind and solar manufacturers said. Suntech Power Holdings Co.

  EPA Rejects Palm-Oil Based Biodiesel for Renewable Fuels Program

  Bloomberg

  The Environmental Protection Agency said that biodiesel made from palm oil doesn't meet the requirements to be added to its renewable fuels program because its greenhouse-gas emissions are too high. In a regulatory filing today, the EPA said that ...

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  Dubai seeks renewable power sources for the future

  The National

  So it is not surprising that the rise of renewable energy has not gone unnoticed. Quick to search out a profit, Dubai is also no slouch when it comes to finding savings. Alternative energies, not so long ago considered the preserve of palm tree-hugging ...

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  State finds no ecology obstacles to new NY bridge

  CBS News

  (AP) WHITE PLAINS, NY — A new Tappan Zee Bridge would do no lasting harm to the water quality of the Hudson River and might even improve air quality in the area, a state analysis says. However, nine homeowners in South Nyack, including two in a ...

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  Country Ecology: Red-bellied woodpecker

  Conway Daily Sun

  Dave Eastman also broadcasts “Country Ecology” four times weekly over WMWV 93.5 fm. As Vice President of the Lakes Region Chapter/ASNH, he welcomes you to monthly programs at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. Contact him at: cebirdman@hotmail.com.

  "Magnificent Animals": Why Sharks Are Good for the Ocean and Us

  Patch.com

  An interview with David "Dovi" Kacev, a Doctoral student in ecology at SDSU-UC-Davis who is carrying out research on sharks in San Diego and Baja California. By Serge Dedina Dovi Kacev grew up in South Africa and San Diego. A longtime La Jolla surfer, ...

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  Natural Power widens Ecology offerings through partnership with Welsh firm ...

  RenewableEnergyWorld.com

  By Emilia Coverdale | 2012-01-27 05:56:43.0 January 2012 - UK Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has signed a framework agreement with Welsh based ecology consultants, Ecology Matters. This agreement widens Natural ...

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  Rethinking water: Growing population, limited supply mean costs destined to ...

  Austin American-Statesman

  By November, the water in Lake Travis had dropped to about 54 feet below its full level, where it remains today. The drought has shrunk not only drinking water supplies but the recreation business on Lake Travis, as was evident in July on the ...

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  Living with Water: A look at Devils Lake

  WDAY

  Devils Lake, ND (WDAY TV) -- We continue our Living With Water special, a Forum Communications project. The next five weekends, both our broadcast and print divisions will look at flooding. Tonight, the history of Devils Lake. Devils Lake, ND (WDAY TV) ...

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  Beer for the water board

  Wicked Local

  By Erin Dale According to reports, during Monday night's meeting at the town water plant, which was posted as an official meeting both on the Town Hall board and online, the commission discussed their plans for a new water department contract.

  Water Witch Hose Co. Annual Dinner Dance

  Danbury News Times

  The Water Witch Hose Co. No. 2 dinner-dance was held at the Candlewood Inn Friday, January 20, 2012. Photo: Carol Kaliff / CT The Water Witch Hose Co. No. 2 dinner-dance was held at the Candlewood Inn Friday, January 20, 2012.

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