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Scoop - NZ

• Review: 'Obama, The Lone Ranger'
  how the cultural influences and global underpinnings of Barack Obama's diverse upbringing in Indonesia and Hawaii created the president America needed for the multipolar world of the 21st century. Written by a cultural psychologist, it uses anthropological, political and genealogical perspectiv ...
• Catastrophe for the young American worker
  Talks of recovery fall on confused ears as many young college graduates compete for fewer jobs with higher amounts of student debt.  In the last decade college graduates have encountered the highest tuition increases ever while getting a lower return on their investment once they enter into the ...
• New Era in American Health Care?
  Health care spending in 2009 and 2010 grew at the slowest rates in 50 years. This startling news, published in an article by staff of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Health Affairs, was largely attributed to the shrinking economy.1 Loss of jobs and insurance, slow growth ...
• When Bankruptcy Codes Conflict ..
  Last week we witnessed lawyers dueling in the bankruptcy court on the details of exactly what code of law supports customer priority in liquidation of the parts of MF Global Holdings, and gosh!….is the Holdings is even a broker ? Why are lawyers debating these questions at this late date? ...
• Inside the Costa Concordia
  Since Saturday, Italian teams of divers have been looking for survivors in the submerged section of the wrecked cruise ship the Costa Concordia.

Independent - London

• Hague plea to UN over Syria unrest
  Foreign Secretary William Hague has called on the United Nations to support moves led by the Arab League to bring a peaceful resolution to unrest in Syria.
• Divers search sunken freighter for missing crew
  A team of divers is to search the wreck of a freighter which sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast for its eight missing crewmen.Related StoriesCosta Concordia search abandonedJudge in the dock to defend himself over Franco investigationScores die as eastern Europe freezesWaltz and all: Far right ha ...
• Pakistan's security services accused of aiding ...
  The Pakistani security services are directly assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan and have direct influence over its leadership, according to a leaked report.Related StoriesCue the flowers: Suu Kyi hits the campaign trailJapan's population to fall by third in 50 yearsMan killed wife 'for bearing ...
• Romney strolls to victory over Gingrich in Florida
  Mitt Romney regained his footing as the clear front-runner in the Republican nomination race after sweeping to a victory in yesterday’s primary election in Florida, thumping his main rival Newt Gingrich.Related StoriesMeet the Mascho-Piro tribe of Peru ... but do they want to meet the modern wo ...
• Dirty fight sees Romney emerge as clear-cut fa ...
  Mitt Romney regained his footing as the clear front-runner in the Republican nomination race after sweeping to a victory in yesterday’s primary election in Florida and walloping his main rival Newt Gingrich.  With most returns counted, Mr Romney had 46 per cent over 32 per cent for Mr Gingrich. ...

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. 
• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.

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

• Gluten and Your Broken Heart
  Heart disease kills almost a million people every year in the U.S. Whole grains are often recommended as a means to help lower cholesterol. Unfortunately, for many, this advice is horrible. 3 million people in the U.S. (that we know of) have gluten sensitivity. For these people, gluten in gr ...
• Gary Taubes on "Why We Get Fat"
  Ten years ago, science writer Gary Taubes exercised an hour a day. He avoided fat in his diet, never even using milk in his oatmeal. But he kept gaining weight. As an experiment, the self-described carnivore tried the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet - eating bacon and eggs for breakfa ...
• NASA Probe Discovers 'Alien' Matter From Beyon ...
  For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today (Jan. 31). This so-called interstellar material was spotted by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a spacecraft ...
• Homeless Hard Hit as Death Toll From Severe Co ...
  Kiev, Ukraine - Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap, and some analysts blame a Soviet-era legacy of viewing the homeless as those who need to be punished instead of helped. Temperatures have plunged to minus 27 C (minus 17 F) in some areas. At least 58 people ha ...
• US deficit tops $1 trillion 4 years in a row
  A new budget report released Tuesday predicts the U.S. government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September, a slight dip from last year but still very high by any measure. A previous estimate was for $973 billion. The Congressional Budget Office [CBO] report a ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Dream life . . .
  EXCELLENT! Cartoon Brew is a fine site for classic animation aficionados. As Jerry wrote: Here’s the perfect film for me to post in the middle of the night. Andres Tapeton’s graduation film from the Classical Animation program at the Vancouver Film School. It’s quite a trip.
• Ya gotta wonder . . .
  WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE of Noah's house? Somehow, he remembered cockroaches and black flies, and a couple of Sasquatch to make up for it, I guess. Then there's bed bugs. Way to go, Noah.
• Aislin . . .
• 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 ...

Media Matters for America

• Bogeyman: Fox News Attacks Progressives With F ...
  Fox News personalities have repeated numerous falsehoods about activist Saul Alinsky, including that he was a "Marxist" and that he dedicated his book Rules for Radicals "to Lucifer." Fox has used this false image of Alinsky to attack President Obama and other progressives.Fox Portrays Alinsky ...
• Fox Regularly Uses The "Racial Code Words" Den ...
  Fox News contributor Juan Williams recently wrote that "[t]he language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message," citing such phrases as "entitlement society," "food stamp president," and "amnesty" for ...
• Don't Believe Fox's Hype: Ener1&nbsp ...
  Fox News figures have been hyping the bankruptcy filing of high-tech battery manufacturer Ener1, blaming President Obama for its financial problems and claiming the case is "another Solyndra," referring to a solar panel company that went bankrupt last year. But experts have said the case is "no ...
• The Journal Hires Dentists To Do Hear ...
  After reportedly rejecting a climate change essay by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences in 2010, the Wall Street Journal has published a flawed op-ed by 16 scientists and engineers instructing public officials not to fight manmade global warming. But most of these individuals do no ...
• Right-Wing Media Have Been Beating The Drums O ...
  Despite a long history of scapegoating lower-income families and those in need, media conservatives continuously attack President Obama's proposals by shouting "class warfare." In fact, the majority of Americans support reforms that would address systematic inequality.Right-Wing Media Drum Beat ...

Global Research.ca

• FEBRUARY 4: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION. STOP THE ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Global Research's New Online Store: Request fo ...
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• Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of ...
  The end of Iranian oil exports to the E.U. and the decline of the euro will directly benefit the U.S. and its dollar.
• VIDEO: The Great Internet Wars Have Begun!
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The American Economy is "Dead": The Illusion o ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Don't Fix What Isn't Broken
  Presentation by Reed Hundt, January 31, 2012, Capitol Hill About the spectrum bill passed by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology: I'm here not to praise it but to hope that you bury it on this side of the Hill. I don't think it would pass on a clear ...
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• 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 ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Another day in the annexation: two Palestinian ...
  A few weeks ago, I covered the confiscation of land from two Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Expropriating from Al- Isawiyah and Al-Tur, the land was re-zoned by the Jerus ...
• Israel needs a few more lessons in apartheid ...
  Zionism did not merely pave paths of ethnic discrimination in the occupied territories. Discrimination against civilians exists in every corner of the country. Research institutes and t ...
• PA slams Israel settlement plans (Ma'an News ...
  The Palestinian Authority on Monday condemned Israel's decision to offer financial incentives to encourage Israelis to move to settlements in the occupied West Bank. Some 70 settlements ...
• Water Writes in Gaza (newamericamedia.org)
  The Maia Mural Brigade brought artists from The Estria Foundation's Water Writes Project and The Break the Silence Mural Project to travel to Palestine and collaborate with local artist ...
• Divestment debate continues (Natasha Weaser, ...
  The campaign calls on Stanford University to divest from eight specific companies: Ahava, Motorola, Roadstone Holdings, Riwal, Lockheed Martin, Mekorot, Caterpillar and Veolia Transport ...

Water - AlterNet

• Was Lou Gehrig's ALS Caused by Drinking Water?
  A toxic molecule found in pond scum may trigger neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Parkinson's. A group of scientists could hold the key to a cure.
• 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.

Public Citizen in Texas

• A Texas town runs out of water, will we see more?
  Spicewood, Texas, a small community on Lake Travis, is precariously close to becoming the state’s first community to run out of drinking water during this historic drought.  On Monday, under dark clouds and with rain falling, Spicewood got its first delivery of 8,000-gallons of water after ...
• Texas Coalition for Affordable Power Release R ...
  Texas Coalition for Affordable Power’s (TCAP) report on electric deregulation in Texas says the industry has failed to deliver, while industry and agency critics find fault with the reports price and reliability comparisons. Texans have paid higher prices for power that is less reliable – ...
• 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• New data suggests no warming for 15 years
  Global warming has been called in to question after the release of new Met Office temperature data. In contrast to the idea that man-made global warmi...
• Man jailed over lightsaber attack
  A man in Oregon was arrested after attacking customers in a toy store with two lightsabers. The 33-year-old Jedi entered the Toys R Us store with a li...
• Radiation blamed for Russian probe failure
  Russian space officials have claimed that cosmic radiation was to blame for the demise of Phobos-Grunt. The ill-fated spacecraft was launched last yea...
• Would we ever be able to share the world ?
  What would the world be like if humans were not the only sentient, intelligent species to exist today ? In a world where racism and discrimination is ...
• Haverhill college offers ghost hunting course
  New England Ghost Project executive director Ron Kolek is offering the six-week course to enthusiasts. Entitled "Paranormal CSI - Ghost Hunting 101", ...

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

• New York Times Reporter Finds a Story H ...
  You might not be seeing a lot of evidence of this yet, but there's a very strong likelihood that, as the year progresses, mainstream political journalists will settle on what Bob Somerby famously called "a story they like" -- a story that offers a comforting narrative, facts be damned. The stor ...
• The Ghost of Vince Foster Says Goodbye
  Oh, good. Dan Burton is retiring. Now he can dedicate more time to shooting watermelons in his backyard. I had forgotten about his proposal to build a transparent bullet-proof shield around the House chamber. I guess he took a look at Congress's approval numbers. He was also a major pimp fo ...
• Sitting it Out Isn't An Option
  Maybe it's because the blogosphere is only really two presidential elections old, or maybe it's just an inalterable characteristic of the left, but I hope one day we are collectively experienced enough to absorb the futility of which Bob Cesca speaks: It always happens. When Republicans are i ...
• More Like This
  This was clever. If women need to pay for a sonogram before getting an abortion then men can pay for a rectal exam before they get their boner pills. It's actually better than what I would have suggested, which is a mandatory x-ray of their testicles. Discuss
• Don't Go, Newt
  Steve M. is worried that Gingrich's extreme clownishness is not so much damaging Romney as it is making him look reasonable and presidential by comparison. There's something to that. Before I talk about that, though, I'd like to attempt to ease Steve's mind a bit by pointing out that the Gallu ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 11 Coolest Links of the Week
  Talk about a long innings! These creatures really had some staying power! This and much more coolness besides... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Hottest Links of the Week
  From a game of deadly hot potato to a stroll through London's heart of darkness (with some nice stuff in between, honest!)... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Malaysia's Taman Negara: The Oldest Rainforest ...
  Taman Negara in Malaysia is famous as the world's oldest rainforest. Within its lush confines live a peaceful people in harmony with thousands of species... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• 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 ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The Sick Man of North America
  My modestly priced new ebook covers the worsening health of U.S. foreign policy and the efforts to revive the patient.
• The Next Marx
  The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.
• We're America and We'll Breach Whatever Perime ...
  TomDispatch tries to get us to see things from Iran's point of view.
• A Year after Tahrir
  The Arab revolts disrupted a dispiriting pattern in the Arab world, and these political and intellectual challenges continue to resonate.
• Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Fac ...
  The U.S. nuclear-weapons program is awash in nuclear-warhead triggers.

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

• Arab League calls for UN action on Syria
  Security Council debates draft resolution calling for Assad to step aside, but Russian opposition could block UN role.
• Romney targets Obama after Florida win
  Former Massachusetts governor takes a big step toward becoming Republican challenger to US President Barack Obama.
• Protests in Senegal turn violent
  At least one killed after police clash with protesters during an anti-government rally in the capital Dakar
• Egypt Islamists stop protest against military
  Dozens wounded as Muslim Brotherhood supporters block path of liberal protesters calling for end of military rule.
• Eurozone unemployment hits record high
  Joblessness across Europe continues to rise as EU leaders look to use untapped funds to help revive economic growth.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Quakes and U.S. Reactors: An Analytic Tool
  A computer model traces geologic faults east of Denver, opening the way for an analysis of reactors' vulnerability to shaking.
• Is Your Building Gobbling Energy?
  A new map gives New Yorkers a relative idea of how much energy the buildings in their neighborhoods are consuming -- and what it's being used for.
• On Our Radar: Barrier Urged to Halt Asian Carp
  Other suggestions include placing barriers in five locations near Lake Michigan and a "mid-system" option that would come close to restoring a natural divide between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, broken more than a century ago. The Army Corps of Engineers has said that as many as 10 invas ...
• In the Little Ice Age, Lessons for Today
  A new study underlines just how rapidly the global climate can be altered by a change of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, and for how long.
• An E-Waste Depot for Brooklyn
  A warehouse on President Street in the Gowanus section will start accepting unwanted electronics today.

Dot Earth News

• Climate Researchers Get Their Wall Street Jour ...
  A long list of climate scientists clarifies why experts are worried about unabated greenhouse gas emissions.
• Story Collider: Where Science is a Story Well Told
  A performance project conveys the stories behind the scientific process.
• Scientists Challenging Climate Science Appear ...
  An economist decries the misinterpretation of his work on the economics of climate policy.
• Study Finds 50-Year Burst of Tropical Eruption ...
  A new study shows how a short-term burst of volcanic eruptions triggered a long-lasting Northern Hemisphere cool spell.
• An Extraordinary Aurora Borealis
  An amazing Arctic aurora display as particles flowing from the sun interact with the high layers of the atmosphere.

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

• Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher exp ...
  with NEW PuppetGov video here. “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to ...
• At for-profit colleges the poor pay more
  Kaplan University  charges the following populations different amounts for a 180 quarter unit Bachelor of Science degree: $30,000 for active duty military, $41,000 for veterans, $50,000 for international students and $68,000 for low income Title IV eligible students.   Why do the poor pay m ...
• 4-minute video: US war-murders end with US War ...
  video here. Dr. Dahlia Wasfi’s 4-minute speech powerfully communicates what US wars are: criminal Wars of Aggression. The US mass-murders of millions of our brothers and sisters ends when critical mass of Americans understand and demand the arrests and removal from power of US War Criminals. The ...
• Portland Police Confiscate Childhood Dream
  When he was a kid, Dan Kaufman had a vision: A sound system on a tricycle. It seemed like a silly notion, but it had a powerful effect on him. He had no idea if such a thing was possible, but – what a dream it was. Dan grew up – well, sorta – and [...]
• How an economics teacher frames Occupy’s econo ...
  with video here. (adapted from Open proposal for US Revolution: end unlawful wars, parasitic/criminal economics; a call for Americans to lawfully, non-violently, and literally turn around/revolve from the 1% crimes that kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions of the 99%’s dollars) I’m g ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US lawmakers seek Google answers on privacy
• Costa Concordia Disaster: Search For Missing H ...
• What Would it Cost to Deport All Undocumented ...
• Treasury To Probe Freddie Mac's Investments
• PHOTOS: How Occupy Oakland Tried to Outmaneuve ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Sick Man of North America
  My modestly priced new ebook covers the worsening health of U.S. foreign policy and the efforts to revive the patient.
• The Next Marx
  The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.
• A Better Way of Measuring Progress in Maryland
  GDP doesn't measure most of what's necessary for a good life.
• The Lineup: Week of Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2012
  Donald Kaul unveils his new Super PAC in this campaign finance special edition.
• Immobility Nation
  For most people facing poverty today in the United States, the concept of America as the land of opportunity is just a fable.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #675
  US "has engaged in cyberwarfare". Philippines studying US offer to deploy spy planes. Canadian intelligence spied on constitutional expert.
• Analysis: Why is Israel so chatty about a poss ...
  This past Sunday, Israeli intelligence expert Ronen Bergman published an extensive cover story in The New York Times Magazine, titled simply: “Will Israel Attack Iran?”. He answers his question in the affirmative, saying that “after speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the mil ...
• News you may have missed #674
  Lebanese ex-general gets prison sentence for spying for Israel. US may share intelligence with Nigeria. Afghan jailed for 16 years for spying for Iran.
• Ex-KGB spy Litvinenko was working for MI6 when ...
  Confidential documents leaked to the British press show that a leading medical examiner wants to reinspect the 2006 death of a former Soviet intelligence officer, in light of new revelations.
• 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.

War is a Crime.org

• A Crazy Republican Attack That Obama Himself A ...
  Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President of the United States.  And then imagine President Barack Obama almost immediately agreeing with them.  I can think of two ways ...
• This Is Your NDAA on Gitmo
• How They Are Lying Us into a War on Iran
• Can This Be for Real? A Prosecution of Bankste ...
  From WSJ: Federal prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against former Wall Street traders alleging they misstated the value of mortgage bonds, an issue central to the 2008 financial crisis, according to people familiar with the matter. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office is planni ...
• Audio: On Air Discussion of Populist Activism ...
  From Political Analysis on the Progressive Radio Network. LISTEN: mp3. read more

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

• The Best Places to Live With an IT Degree
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• Mobile Security & Privacy Concerns
  The mobile industry will see a lot more enforcement on the mobile security and privacy fronts this year regarding mobile payments, coupons and apps.
• Sony Walkman Z: Sony's Answer To Apple's iPod
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• $16,000,000,000,000 And Growing! Wake Up People!
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Time - Top Stories

• No Joke: Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Raises $1 ...
  Mockery or not, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow is laughing all the way to the bank.
• Google's New Privacy Policy: What You Need to Know
  Last week, Google announced new privacy standards that essentially created a single, unified policy across all of its properties
• Occupy D.C. Protesters on Eviction Threat: 'We ...
  pirits were high among defiant Occupy D.C. protesters early Tuesday morning; despite a Monday deadline that prohibited any camping equipment on two Washington parks, the group is still camping out in McPherson Square
• Pet Lovers for Obama: The President's Latest C ...
  The best attacks are cast with humor
• How Burmese Pythons Are Devouring the Everglades
  A new study published in this week's Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences suggests just how big a threat the invasive Burmese pythons have become.

Digg Green

• Marijuana Mouth Spray: Will Cancer Pain Reliev ...
  The medical marijuana drug Sativex, which could be approved in the United States as a treatment for pain relief, has little potential for abuse, experts say.
• Solar Tiles Vs. Solar Panels
  Thanks to photovoltaic technology, any sunny rooftop can be converted into a solar power generator. As solar technologies improve, product designs are becoming less and less obtrusive --- your roof can still look like a roof, even as it pulls in the wattage. Solar panels and solar roof tiles are ...
• Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior i ...
  Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Reclaimed Wastewater for Drinking: Safe But St ...
  A new report highlights advancements in reclamation technology and predicts growth in treatment programs, if people can get beyond ick factor.
• Incredible image appears to show massive black ...
  Rather than being a massive vacuum in the universe, the eerily dark 'hole' in this photograph is known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud.

Invisible Opportunity

• Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around ...
  by Wealth Wire – Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 While President Obama’s supporters hailed his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as the end of the war in the Middle East, behind the scenes the Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands located just south of the Str ...
• Manifesto for a World Gone off its Meds
• Decriminalization is a Farce, It’s Time ...
  Amir Alwani, Contributing Writer Activist Post 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 basic human right, albeit one that few people think of. Imagine [...]
• Forget global warming – it’s Cycle ...
  By David Rose The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year tempe ...
• Israel Went Too Far
  • American officials irked at brazen Zionist assassinations • Mini-state’s false flag terrorism puts Americans in danger By Ralph Forbes—AFP Southern Bureau Over the weekend of Jan. 14-15, the White House announced it was abruptly canceling the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to Israel in ...

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

• Why is Obama So Chicken, Unwilling to Even Ad ...
  Pot policy questions were front-and-center in the White House's "Your Interview With the President" YouTube campaign, but Obama refused to acknowledge them.
• 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.

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

• Amazing Cathedral Made From 55,000 LEDs Rises ...
  Read the rest of Amazing Cathedral Made From 55,000 LEDs Rises at Belgium’s Festival of Lights Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: belgium light festival, cathedral made from LEDs, cathedral of lights, eco design, ghent festival, green design, LED bulbs, LED Cathedra ...
• 14 Eco-Friendly Lingerie Gifts for a Red-Hot V ...
  Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s time to start planning your oh-so-special evening. May we suggest adding a little eco spice to your heart-filled holiday? Roses may be nice and chocolates may be tasty, but these 14 sexy sustainable skivvies will really light your f ...
• Montreal’s Snow Village is a Wintery Hotel and ...
  Read the rest of Montreal’s Snow Village is a Wintery Hotel and Bar Made Entirely From Ice Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amarula Ice Bar, Biosphere Environmental Museum, Chef Eric Gonzalez, eco design, green design, Hotel de Glace, ice hotel, Ice Palace, igloo, ...
• POLL: Would You Boycott Apple Products Until T ...
  Apple has been in hot water ever since a long and detailed New York Times report came out highlighting abuses and environmental hazards during the manufacture of its products in China. From chronically overworked employees and extremely hazardous working conditions to overcrowding in dormitories ...
• Compact Bike Helmet by Agence 360 Folds Up to ...
  While cycling is undoubtedly fun and a great way to keep fit, we all know dangerous it can be if you don’t take safety precautions — yet so many cyclists still don’t wear their helmets! A common excuse is that they are such a pain to carry around, but perhaps this neat fold-up ...

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

• Time in Space May Alter Astronauts’ Genes
  Spending long periods at low gravity may alter genes, suggests a new experiment involving a magnet-powered trick used on Earth to simulate weightlessness in space.
• Help Astronomers Use an Asteroid to Calculate ...
  This week, there will be a faint, new object in the night sky: the asteroid 433 Eros. Anyone planning to train their binoculars or telescope on the asteroid should also consider participating in a crowdsourcing effort that will use the passage of Eros to precisely calculate the size of the Solar ...
• Gorilla Grins Hint at Origin of Human Smiles
  Gorillas use human-like facial expressions to communicate moods with one another, and two of the expressions -- both of which resemble grinning -- could show the origins of the human smile.
• Two Cute: Den Camera Shows Baby Bears’ Birth
  Thanks to fiber-optic camera technology, you can watch real-time footage of a black bear and her cubs from their den in northern Maine.
• Drug-Resistant Bugs Found in Organic Meat
  If you're paying premium prices for pesticide- and antibiotic-free meat, you might expect that it's also free of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Not so, according to a new study.

PakAlert

• Oh Beautiful For Chemtrailed Skies
  Don’t ya just love the new paradigm? I mean, it has so much to offer! New skies, integrated circuits into human chemistry, molecularly altered fake food, plants and animals, and remote control war against anyone who challenges it. Wow!
• Proof That The “New World Order” Has Been Plan ...
  I have to admit I was a bit skeptical when I fisrt starting watching this Video, but in the first minute this Video had my complete and undivided attention. It is scarey to listen to this man speak, it's as though he is reading todays headline news. Very Erie.
• Video: 666 The Mark Of The Beast, RFID Chips F ...
  First it was cattle. Then it was pets. Then Mexicans. Now the tribal areas of Pakistan where the CIA is equipping Pakistani tribesmen with secret transmitters to call in air-strikes targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants.
• Navy unveils new missile capable of destroying ...
  The Royal Navy has revealed details of a new air defence system capable of destroying enemy missiles travelling at supersonic speeds.
• Aether Flow — The True Electric Current?
  Could it be that the flow of aether in the form of electric field is the true "electric current", and electron flow is only a byproduct? Some researchers, including potentially Nikola Tesla, seem to think so!

Andy Worthington

• Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners ...
  Ten years ago, foreign prisoners, seized in other countries, began to arrive in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Some were held in a secretive part of the prison, and had often passed through other secret facilities in Afghanistan or elsewhere. The majority of these prisoners ende ...
• The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles & ...
  Please support my work! Since March 2006, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist. For three years, I focused on the crimes of ...
• UN Human Rights Commissioner Criticizes Obama ...
  On Monday, marking the third anniversary of President Obama’s failed promise to close the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo within a year, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed what a UN news release described as “deep disappointment” ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pythons Eating Through Everglades Mammals at " ...
  Invasive Burmese pythons are likely behind "dramatic" declines of the swamp's mammals—from rabbits to bobcats—new research suggests.
• 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.

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

• WND ‘Comedienne’ Warns of ‘Liberal’-Infested G ...
  In recent weeks, a Microsoft cell phone app that helps people use GPS to avoid high-crime areas has prompted a nationwide discussion about race, class and prejudice. Some praise the “avoid the ghetto app,” as the product has been unofficially dubbed, as a handy safety measure. Others worry it wi ...
• Ex-Gay Advocates: ‘Change’ Depends on the Defi ...
  It depends on what your definition of is … is. We all recall President Bill Clinton’s parsing of words during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Now, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), composed of psychoanalysts and other therapists who believe that gay m ...
• WND Promotes Anti-Abortion Film for Black Hist ...
  Taking a break from its usual offerings of “birther” propaganda, gay-bashing, and End Times prophecy, Joseph Farah’s online publication WorldNetDaily (WND) is promoting a new film, “Gates of Hell,” a propaganda piece supporting the Christian right notion that abortion is a vicious plot to destro ...
• IRS Sends ‘Sovereign’ Inmate $327,456, But Not ...
  Everyone has heard of jailhouse lawyers. How about a jailhouse accountant – an antigovernment “sovereign citizen” doing time in New York – who got a $327,456 tax return from the IRS? Ronald Williams not only filed 12 fraudulent tax returns for himself while behind bars, he also reportedly helped ...
• Suspect in N.J. Synagogue Arsons Apparently Pl ...
  A Jewish community center in Paramus, N.J., apparently was a potential target of a 19-year-old New Jersey man arrested for two synagogue firebombings, authorities say.  In one of those bombings, a rabbi and eight members of his family narrowly awoke in time to escape their burning living quarter ...

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

• Unplanned Shutdown of California's San Onofre ...
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• Scientists: Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico Dyi ...
  A recent television commercial from British Petroleum portrays a healthy coast along the Gulf of Mexico. In the commercial, the beaches are clean, the water is clear, the birds are oil-free. BP community outreach figure Iris Cross says that "All beaches and waters are open - for everyone to ...
• Palestinian Prisoner Reaches 46th Day of Hunge ...
  A Palestinian prisoner held in Israel has reached his 46th day on hunger strike. Adnan Khader, 34, is protesting his detention of which he is being held without trial or charge. Israeli officials are calling it 'administrative detention'. ...
• US Media Gobble Up US/Israel Case Against Iran
  On the same day that US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced that 'Iranian officials... are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States." and a day after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned "time was running out" for an attack on Iran ...
• Israeli President Peres: "No Option Should Be ...
  Israeli politicians continue hinting at military action against Iran. Speaking at a conference today, Israeli President Shimon Peres said "no option should be ruled out in our dealing with the Iranian danger."Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 26, 2012 (photo: Remy Steine ...

Lifehacker

• Remains of the Day: MegaUpload User's Data is ...
  MegaUpload's user's data is safe for two more weeks, Google begins redirecting Blogspot blogs to country-specific URLs, and Google defends the consolidation of its privacy policies. More »
• Thunderbird 10 Fixes Add-On Compatibility, Add ...
  Windows/Mac/Linux: Thunderbird, our favorite Windows and Linux email client, updated today with a few new features sure to make browsing your email more convenient, including keyboard shortcuts and search in the context menu. More &ra ...
• "Order is Never Observed; It Is Disorder ...
  This quote comes from author and magician Eliphas Levi, and points to both a fortunate and unfortunate reality: you don't really get anywhere by doing what you're expected to do. More »
• Daily App Deals: Get BestRoute Pro for Android ...
  The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »
• Most Popular Tax Preparation Tool: TurboTax [H ...
  Tax time is upon us, and while your W-2s and 1099s are on their way to your inbox as you read this, it's time to start thinking about the tool you'd like to use to file your returns. Earlier in the week, we asked you which tool you preferred ...

Water Privatization

• Research and Markets: Strategic Analysis of th ...
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Strategic Analysis of t
• Maynilad service connections reach 1M
  Maynilad Water Services, Inc. recently connected its one millionth water service account, raising its total number of service connections nearly by half since it changed owners five years ago.
• Waterworks, Thessaloniki port in privatization ...
  Athens Water Supply and Sewage Co SA (EYDAP) said a 27-percent stake owned by the Greek state was transferred to the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), which is overseeing a program of state asset sales, the Athens-based company said on Monday in a filing to the city’s bourse.
• Uganda: Early Inquest Needed for National Water
  Monitor (Kampala)-For quite some time, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation - NWSC - was used as a preacher's pulpit by its managers and the government to demonstrate how a public enterprise can be successful in delivering a common service to citizens at minimum costs.
• 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 ...

Guardian

• Taliban will take over from US and Nato in Afg ...
  Document based on interrogations of Taliban and al-Qaida detainees says Pakistan is backing the resurgent movementA secret US military report says the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after Nato-led forces withdraw from the country.The document, seen by the ...
• Ministers accused of 'negligence' for ruling o ...
  Lobbying group representing many of capital's biggest employers says expanded Heathrow is 'only credible option'A commission of influential London business leaders has denounced the coalition as "negligent" for ruling out a third runway at Heathrow, and called on them to reconsider all the optio ...
• Julian Assange enters final stage of extraditi ...
  WikiLeaks founder's legal team goes before supreme court in London to fight deportation to SwedenWikileaks founder Julian Assange is to enter the final stage of his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex crime allegations.After failing to persuade a magistrates ...
• Welfare reform: Labour widens attack on househ ...
  Labour calls for localised benefit cap and better regulation of profiteering landlords ahead of key Commons voteLabour has widened its attack on the government's £26,000-per-household benefit cap ahead of a key Commons vote on Wednesday and called on the Liberal Democrats to back plans to lower ...
• Mitt Romney reclaims position as GOP frontrunn ...
  Romney cruises to double-digit win over Newt Gingrich and re-establishes himself as favourite to win Republican nominationRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the crucial Florida primary, crushing his main rival Newt Gingrich and re-establishing himself as the part ...

McClatchey

• Obama's supporters deliver $40 million in camp ...
  President Barack Obama's campaign reported Tuesday that it raked in nearly $40 million in the last three months of 2011 and closed the year with $82 million in cash, aided…Click to Continue »
• U.S., allies mount pressure on Syria at U.N.
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led a high-wattage diplomatic push Tuesday to persuade the U.N. Security Council to endorse an Arab plan for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down,Click to Continue »
• Egypt's crackdown on U.S. groups finds support ...
  The scenario is familiar to Egyptian political activists: Authorities harass pro-democracy groups, raid their offices, ban employees from travel and threaten criminal charges to smear them as foreign agents.Click to Continue »
• French decision to accelerate exit causes some ...
  The announcement by France last week that it would speed up the exit of its troops from Afghanistan has been greeted with a mixture of cynicism, disbelief and concern by…Click to Continue »
• University of South Carolina film clip feature ...
  If you want to see some actual footage of the Tuskegee Airmen featured in the recent move "Red Tails," go online to the University of South Carolinas Moving Image Research…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Former US Officials See War 'Fatigue&#039 ...
  The United States has been in Afghanistan for more than 10 years now. In 2001 it led an international coalition that ousted the Taliban from power. Washington is also contributing some 90,000 troops t
• Sixty die in Pakistan army and Taliban clashes ...
  PARACHINAR, PAKISTAN // Fighting between soldiers and Taliban militants over a strategic mountaintop in northwestern Pakistan has killed more than 60 people, a government official said yesterday. ...
• A teen's quest to help educate women in A ...
  Alaina Podmorow explains how she was moved by a speech made by journalist Sally Armstrong, who told of the reality of how women and young girls are treated in ...
• US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,766
  As of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at least 1,766 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
• Four French troops killed by Afghan soldiers
  Four French soldiers were shot dead and 16 were wounded by a member of the Afghan army in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a Nato spokesman and Afghan officials said. "A man wearing Afghan army ...

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

• Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
  TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...
• 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 ...

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

• How Patents Have Held Back 3D Printing
  The purpose of the intellectual property system that we have is to promote the progress. When there is strong evidence that certain elements of it hold back the progress, it seems like something that should be explored. Glyn recently wrote about the plans to make 3D object plan files available ...
• Why Can't Europe Just Forget The Ridiculous Id ...
  We've talked about what a dumb idea a "right to be forgotten" is in the past, and yet, Europe keeps looking into just such a law. A leaked copy of the EU's new Data Protect Directive includes a clear "right to be forgotten" initiative: To strengthen the 'right to be forgotten' in the online ...
• Warner Bros. Just Keeps Pushing People To Pira ...
  Sometimes you really have to wonder about some legacy entertainment industry execs and their thought process. Warner Bros. is the most aggressively stupid when it comes to willfully going against what consumers want and pushing them to pirate instead. It, among the big Hollywood studios has be ...
• Pro-SOPA Folks Push Fact-Challenged Op-Eds
  It seems that, in the wake of the big protests that helped shelve (for now, at least) SOPA and PIPA, the pro-SOPA folks have started pushing people to write op-eds in various publications about how important SOPA/PIPA are -- while simultaneously dismissing the concerns of those who opposed the b ...
• Author Jonathan Franzen Thinks That Ebooks Mea ...
  It's sometimes entertaining to see people who have lived in a particular world for a long time get totally freaked out by new technologies. Such is the case of famed author Jonathan Franzen who seems absolutely horrified by the concept of ebooks. Why? Because digital just doesn't feel permane ...

VacTruth

• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for January
  Apparently PFCs are making vaccines ineffective... and another child dies from a hypersensitivity reaction to a vaccine. That and more with the top 5 stories for January.
• OSHA’s Interesting ‘Take’ on Vaccinations
  OSHA document states, "...reliance on a mandatory influenza vaccination policy may provide healthcare workers, health care facility management and patients with an unwarranted sense of security and result in poor adherence to other infection control practices that prevent all types of infections."
• 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.

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

• The LaRouche Show, January 28, 2012
  Onward to Mars—Our Outreach to the Stars!
• I Keep a Promise Made on September 30: The Mys ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 20, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 3
• Labor Faces Decimation, Not Recovery, Under Obama
  By Paul Gallagher Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 20, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 3
• Bankrupt British Empire Keeps Pushing To Overt ...
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 20, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 3
• London’s Hand Behind Drive for World War III E ...
  By Nancy Spannaus and Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 20, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 3

War in Context

• The Pentagon pitches its new strategic narrative
  Allen Ruff and Steve Horn write: A proposal for a new “grand strategy,” aimed at mobilizing broad domestic support for a decades-long projection of U.S. global power, is currently receiving considerable attention among an expanding circle of foreign policy planners, think-tank academics, public- ...
• World lacks enough food, fuel as population so ...
  Reuters reports: The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday. As the world’s population looks set to grow to n ...
• Video: Wade Davis on “The Wayfinders”
• Music: Nitin Sawhney — Street Guru
• Michael Klare: No exit in the Persian Gulf?
  When it comes to U.S. policy toward Iran, irony is the name of the game.  Where to begin?  The increasingly fierce sanctions that the Obama administration is seeking to impose on that country’s oil business will undoubtedly cause further problems for its economy and further pain ...

Watts Up With That?

• Jim Hansen’s balance problem of 0.58 watts
  From NASA Goddard, Jim Hansen reports on his balance problem: Earth’s Energy Budget Remained Out of Balance Despite Unusually Low Solar Activity A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity — not changes in … Continue reading →
• Quote of the week – always happy to help
  At WUWT, one thing we pride ourselves in is helping visitors learn about the issues and the science, even if those visitors should already know what these things mean. Take for example, Michael Tobis proprietor of “Only In it for … Continue reading →
• Part 2 of Tamino Once Again Misleads His Disciples
  Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post is a continuation of my post Tamino Once Again Misleads His Followers, which was cross posted at WattsUpWithThat here. There Tamino’s disciples and his other followers, one a post author at SkepticalScience, have generally … Continue reading →
• A Japanese Puzzle
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A reader who posts under the name “tokyoboy” sent a link to a very interesting sea level record from the Japanese Meteorological Agency. It covers the period 1906–2010, and when I first saw it I … Continue reading →
• A great development but how will the Governmen ...
  This seems like an eco-dream come true, a car the runs on air developed in India. I’ve seen stories on this since 2008, but have yet to see the car hit market. Now the claim is in August 2012. I … Continue reading →

treehugger

• How Important Will Fracking Be To Voters Durin ...
  Most US voters are ambivalent about fracking, which is an issue in only a handful of states, and the President owns strategy.
• Chilean Glacier Ice Heist Lands Thieves in Hot ...
  Authorities say that this is the first case they've seen involving hot ice.
• Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Installs Solar Panels ...
  The leader of one of the world's wealthiest oil states beats Obama to the punch in putting solar panels on his roof.
• Senators Backing Keystone XL Bill Received $22 ...
  44 senators signed on to support a new bill that would push through the Keystone XL. And guess what? 44 senators got millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the oil industry.
• Despite $41 Billion in Profits Last Year, Exxo ...
  What gives? After all, corporations are people, right?

Biosingularity

• Scientists Help Pinpoint Cause of Stress-Relat ...
  Working closely with a team of researchers from Duke University, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have helped identify a molecular pathway that plays a key role in stress-related damage to the genome, the entirety of an organism’s hereditary information. ...
• Chromosomes and Cancer
  Aneuploidy—when the cells of an organism contain more or fewer than the standard number of chromosomes for its species—is found in greater than 90 percent of all human cancers. But how exactly it relates to cancer, and whether it is a cause or merely a consequence of genomic instability, has lon ...
• Watching the Protein Tango
  A new microscope has allowed researchers to watch molecules move within a cell on a millisecond-by-millisecond time scale for the first time. The novel method, which combines two preëxisting microscopic techniques, opens a window onto cellular processes that had previously been undetectable, unv ...
• Study: Obese People Live as Long as Slimmer People
  Obese people who are otherwise healthy live as long as normal-weight people, new research from Canada suggests. Some obese but healthy people actually are less likely to die of heart problems than normal-weight people who have some medical conditions, the researchers found. “You shouldn&#8 ...
• Study identifies fish oil’s impact on co ...
  The study was led by Lori Daiello, PharmD, a research scientist at the Rhode Island Hospital Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center. Data for the analyses was obtained from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a large multi-center, NIH-funded study that fo ...

CFACT

• Not much pop to corn controversy
• The icky problem of sewage treatment
• CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
• Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
• Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia Believes Syria Consensus in UN Possible ...
  The UN Security Council should reach consensus on a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Syria, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said on Tuesday.
• Russian FM to Wind up Asia Pacific Tour with F ...
  The town of Nadi in the republic of Fiji will be the last stop on Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s Asia-Pacific tour.
• Clinton Rules Out Libyan Scenario in Syria
  U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton on Tuesday dismissed Russia’s fears that a “Libyan scenario” could repeat in Syria.
• Russia’s UN Envoy Urges Start of Inter-Syrian ...
  Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, on Tuesday urged the parties to the Syrian conflict to start dialogue.
• Patriarch Kirill to Hold Liturgy on Enthroneme ...
  Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who was enthroned as head of the Russian Orthodox Church three years ago, will on Wednesday hold a divine liturgy in downtown Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, the patriarchal press service reported.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia May Run Repeat Mission to Phobos
  Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia’s space agency said on Tuesday.
• Engine Failure Behind Meridian Satellite Crash
  The crash of Russia’s Meridian communication satellite late last year was caused by the destruction of one of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket’s engines, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Tuesday.
• Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash
  Space radiation triggered a glitch in the on-board computer system causing the recent crash of Russia’s Mars probe, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
• Launch of Space Station Crews Delayed 45 Days
  The launch of two new crews to the International Space Station (ISS) will be postponed by about 45 days over the need to build a reserve capsule, a Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) official said on Tuesday.
• Surkov Appointed Deputy Chairman of Govt. Inno ...
  Vladislav Surkov, Russian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of innovations and science, has been appointed deputy chairman of the government’s modern technologies and innovation commission.

Pruning Shears

• 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 1st Lt. David A. Johnson, 24, of Horicon, WI.Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Singer, 23, of Temecula, ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Monsanto's New Seeds Could be a Tech Dead End
  When I wrote recently about the next generation of genetically engineered seeds, I was in truth referring to the next next generation. The fact is that the next actual generation of seeds is already out of the lab and poised for approval by the USDA.Click here to read this article
• Hidden Risk: Mercury Pollution's Costs to Wild ...
  Mercury pollution - nothing to worry about if I don't live in the rural Northeast and don't eat tons of fish, right?Click here to read this article
• Petition Tells Obama: 'Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto'
  A two-year-old Food and Drug Administration appointment is stirring up online protests once more. Click here to read this article
• PH Officials Look Forward to Mass Adoption of GMOs
  Genetically altered crops with multiple genes from other organisms are expected to increase in number as more Filipino growers adopt them.Click here to read this article
• Antibiotics Prove Powerless as Super-Germs Spread
  Antibiotics were once the wonder drug. Now, however, an increasing number of highly resistant -- and deadly -- bacteria are spreading around the world. The killer bugs often originate in factory farms, where animals are treated whether they are sick or not.Click here to read this article

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

• Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book
  Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book. Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book
• 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

My Care2 Picks

• The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
  Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
  Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...
• USS Enterprise false flag target for US crimin ...
  US wars are not even close to lawful. The two-minute video explains the possible false flag attack target of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to start war on Iran. ( More credible since it's a 'two-fer one' deal poisoning like DU ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
• Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning ...
  Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |  ...
• 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

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 ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Taxpayers still owed $132.9B from bailout: report
  ShareThisTaxpayers still owed $132.9B from bailout: report 26 Jan 2012 A government watchdog says U.S. taxpayers are still owed $132.9 billion that companies haven't repaid from the financial bailout, and some of that will never be recovered. The bailout launched at the height of the financial c ...
• Karzai 'to hold peace talks with Taliban in Sa ...
  ShareThisKarzai 'to hold peace talks with Taliban in Saudi Arabia' 30 Jan 2012 The Afghan government will hold talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia, opening up an alternative avenue to peace negotiations between the insurgent group and the United States, according to reports. The Taliban, whic ...
• Eurozone unemployment at new record high
  ShareThisEurozone unemployment at new record high 31 Jan 2012 Unemployment in the 17-nation eurozone ended 2011 at 10.4 per cent, a new record high for the single currency since its launch at the start of 1999, official figures showed today. Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the rate in ...
• WikiLeaks's Assange Sued on Eve of U.K. Extrad ...
  ShareThisWikiLeaks's Assange Sued on Eve of U.K. Extradition Appeal 31 Jan 2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who will ask the U.K. Supreme Court tomorrow to block his extradition to Sweden in a rape case, was sued by the British law firm he hired after his 2010 arrest. Finers Stephens Innoc ...
• WikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say
  ShareThisWikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say 31 Jan 2012 Julian Assange's investors are in the process of purchasing a boat to move WikiLeaks' servers offshore in an attempt to evade prosecution from U.S. law enforcement, FoxNews.com has learned. Multiple sources within the hacker co ...

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

• Important Letter from Gold Star Mother
  31 January 2012 A Gold Star Mother is one who lost a child in service of the United States.  Ms. Keyko Clark-Davis is a recent Gold Star Mother.  I was present when her son Chazray was mortally wounded.  We have communicated many times.  Chazray’s mother is strong and inspir ...
• 13 Military Pilots Rebuke the Joint Chiefs of ...
  An overview of harmful Army medical evacuation practices not endorsed by other service branches, and a response to official arguments defending this policy provided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC). 30 January 2012 Introduction Michael Yon is a c ...
• 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 ...

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

• How Important Will Fracking Be To Voters Durin ...
  Most US voters are ambivalent about fracking, which is an issue in only a handful of states, and the President owns strategy.
• Chilean Glacier Ice Heist Lands Thieves in Hot ...
  Authorities say that this is the first case they've seen involving hot ice.
• Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Installs Solar Panels ...
  The leader of one of the world's wealthiest oil states beats Obama to the punch in putting solar panels on his roof.
• Senators Backing Keystone XL Bill Received $22 ...
  44 senators signed on to support a new bill that would push through the Keystone XL. And guess what? 44 senators got millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the oil industry.
• Despite $41 Billion in Profits Last Year, Exxo ...
  What gives? After all, corporations are people, right?

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Budget revamp targets health, military
  Education and health sectors could see dramatic increase in spending but additional money also proposed for Burma's military
• Burmese banks to start SE Asia services
  Four privately-owned banks to open money exchange services in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to help flows of remittances
• UN envoy to press govt on Kachin
  Tomas Quintana arrives in Rangoon tonight and will raise the need for further aid to 70,000 Kachin displaced by ongoing fighting
• ‘No nuclear trade with N Korea’: T ...
  President tells Singaporean paper that claims Burma has attempted to buy nuclear weapons from North Korea are 'unfounded'
• EU keeps the pressure up on Burma
  EU leaders say benchmarks still remain for further lifting of sanctions as British PM David Cameron talks of possible visit to Burma

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

• Pythons Eating Through Everglades Mammals at " ...
  Invasive Burmese pythons are likely behind "dramatic" declines of the swamp's mammals—from rabbits to bobcats—new research suggests.
• 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.

Jurist - Legal Research

• HRW urges India to prosecute border soldiers f ...
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] on Monday urged [press release] the Indian government to prosecute Border Security Force (BSF) [official website] soldiers that it has long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the Bangladesh border. HRW's plea comes in response to ...
• France lawmakers seek ruling on genocide denia ...
  [JURIST] A French genocide denial ban [materials, in French] passed last week [JURIST report] stalled on Tuesday after two groups of French politicians challenged the law's constitutionality. The opposition groups, which include members in both the Senate and the National Assembly, gathered the ...
• Spain judge Garzon defends Franco-era probes
  [JURIST] Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] took the stand in his second trial [JURIST report] before the Spanish Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday and defended his investigation into war crimes allegedly committed under Francisco Franco [BBC b ...
• Haiti ex-president Duvalier will not face tria ...
  [JURIST] Haiti's Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean ruled Monday that former president Jean-Claude Duvalier [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] will not stand trial for crimes against humanity, including torture, false imprisonment, rape and murder during his reign between 1971 and 1986. J ...
• ICTY war crimes suspect Seselj demands compens ...
  [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] announced Monday that former Serb nationalist politician and war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj [official website, in Serbian; JURIST news archive] is suing ICTY for USD $2.6 million in damages due t ...

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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Tikun Olam

• Israeli Film Depicts Iranian First-Strike Nuke ...
  The Israeli power of delusion is evident in this short film called, The Last Day, which purports to film the last moments of an Israeli family before Iran drops a nuclear bomb on Israel and obliterates it. The film, created by Ronen Barany, is shot in faux-documentary style with lots of shots of ...
• Israel’s Drone Crash and the Perils of Reporti ...
  Above is my latest appearance on Tzinor Layla (starting at around 2:30) in which I discuss the crash of the drone inside Israel two days ago. I’ve spent the past day or so trying to make sense of the duelling stories of the crash. My Israeli source said that the unmanned aircraft was forei ...
• Likely Hezbollah Drone Explodes at Secret Isra ...
  An exclusive report from a confidential highly-placed Israeli source says that a booby-trapped drone crashed and exploded at the top-secret Israeli airbase Sdot Micha.  Sdot Micha (also profiled here) is the home of the Israeli missile arsenal including its long-range Jerichos capable of strikin ...
• Israeli Intelligence Pimps Discredited Iranian ...
  Accompanying the covert war between Iran and the west is a sideline industry consisting of all manner of spies, exiles, and others with mixed motives regarding this confrontation.  There are supposed Iranian dissidents who’ve escaped, made their way to the west, and been taken into the bos ...
• 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

If Americans Knew

• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

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

• TileMill Now Lets You Design Maps for the Web ...
  TileMill, the free and open-source design studio for creating beautiful web maps, is now available for download on Windows. With the latest release, the map-making tool is fully operational on the three leading operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Windows still dominating the marketp ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• Inside India - Hindu Radicals Revoke Tolerance ...
  It was a day of terror for Christians at St Joseph University Institute in Anekal, near Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. More than 100 members of radical anti-Christian Hindu groups, assailed the campus on January 30, using as a pretext their belief that India's national flag had not ...
• Edge of Asia - Asian Nations Increasingly Leer ...
  America's strategic interests in Asia go hand in hand with democratic values. Not by accident, all of our formal security allies in Asia -- Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand -- are democracies. And events are trending further in this direction.Taiwan recently conducted ...
• The 2012 Vote - Romney Appears Confident of Pr ...
  After days of often bitter campaigning, Republican voters in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida are choosing their favorite candidate to run for president. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney expressed confidence before voting started. The Florida Republican primary election on Tuesday ...
• The Iranian Threat - Israel Isn’t Going to Att ...
  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 media. Some have criti ...
• The Iranian Threat - Israel and the US Perspec ...
  The kerfuffle over the postponement of the highly touted "Austere Challenge 12" joint US-Israel military exercise is over.  Officials in both countries are now on the same page:  it was a "joint decision" having nothing to do with finances, Iran or politics, just "technical issues."&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

• Sorry Ron-ulins U.S. Policy Had NOTHING To Do ...
  By Barry Rubin Presidential candidate Ron Paul has said repeatedly that Iranians hate America because of its role in the 1953 coup overthrowing Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh. Like his frequent claims that the September 11 attack was a response to a supposed decade-long ...
• Newsbusted Exclusive: President Obama To Impos ...
  In a strange follow-up to his State of the Union Address President Obama has announced a surcharge on the incomes of National Hockey League goalies.  The President claims that it is only fair that goalies pay more as they are part of the"haves" of society.  When asked about the new tax ...
• New Studies Say "Global Warming" Ended 15 Year ...
  Someone please tell Al Gore to sit down, this "ain't" gonna be pretty. Two pieces of bad news were released earlier this week that put a dent into the argument that global warming was "settled science."Actually, allow me to put it a different way. Two studies were released that corroborate the s ...
• CBO Study: Federal Workers Compensated MUCH Be ...
  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a study telling American's if they want a raise they should go work for the federal government, because federal workers are compensated much better than those in the private sector.  The CBO did an apples to apples comparison of federal an ...
• Why Syria’s Regime Is Surviving The Revolution
  by Barry Rubin Despite what is now the longest-running revolution in Middle Eastern history, the Syrian regime will probably be in power on December 31, 2012. I don’t say that because it’s what I want to happen — Syria’s revolution is more democratic-minded than those in Libya or Egypt ...

The Real Agenda

• Scientific Evidence shows Dangers and Ineffect ...
  By L. Alan Sroufe NYTimes.com January 31, 2012 Three million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they considered absolutely essent ...
• Cancer causing Dioxin in Meat, eggs and Dairy
  by Cassandra Anderson NaturalSociety January 30, 2012 Dioxin is the most toxic man-made chemical known regarding damage to health and the environment.  The EPA has withheld a study about dioxin for decades in order to protect large industries that produce dioxin while manufacturing herbicides an ...
• Ron Paul to Win more Delegates than Gingrich a ...
  Christian Science Monitor January 31, 2012 This week, Ron Paul is likely to win more delegates to the 2012 GOP convention than either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. In fact, he’s likely to win more delegates than Gingrich and Santorum combined. “Hold it”, you’re saying, “How can that be? Rep. P ...
• Foro Social Mundial llama a Protestar contra e ...
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 30 de enero 2012 ¿Qué es lo que las élites en Davos, Suiza tienen en común con los favorecidos del soborno estatal (Estado Benefactor) en las naciones del tercer mundo? Por lo menos un par de cosas. Ambos se han beneficiado enormemente del capitalismo, sin emb ...
• Third World Welfare Recipients to Protest &#82 ...
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda January 30, 2012 What do the elites meeting in Davos, Switzerland have in common with the welfare state recipients in the third world nations? At least a couple of things. Both have immensely benefited from capitalism, yet both groups point to it as an evil sys ...

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
• 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
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

• Federal Pay Higher than Private-Sector Pay, CB ...
  “Buoyed by generous benefit packages, federal workers earn significantly better compensation than similarly educated workers in the private sector, according to a report released Monday from Congress‘ chief scorekeeper that threatens to reignite at the national level last year’s state batt ...
• State Income Taxes to Be Targeted
  “A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative’s dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes.” (Washington Times) But beware of what takes their place. FEE Ti ...
• Bill Advances to Outlaw Congressional Insider ...
  “The Senate on Monday cleared the way for debate on a measure to ban insider stock trading by members of Congress.” (Buffalo News) But it should be legal for the rest of us FEE Timely Classic “Inside Insider Trading” by Warren C. Gibson
• Income Uptick Gives Hope on Economy
  “Americans’ incomes rose last month by the most in nine months, a hopeful sign for the economy after a year of weak wage gains. But consumer spending was flat.” (Associated Press) Reading tea leaves FEE Timely Classic “Comparing the Great Depression to the Great Recession ...
• Catholic Groups Object to Obamacare Contracept ...
  “This month the Obama administration, citing the medical case for birth control, made a politically charged decision that the new health care law requires insurance plans at Catholic institutions to cover birth control without co-payments for employees, and that may be extended to students ...

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

• Texas court voids conviction in child death case
  The Ernie Lopez case highlights the growing international controversy over the reliability of the science used to prosecute cases of fatal child abuse and sexual assault.
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• Dumping dioxin on Dixie
  As the Environmental Protection Agency readies a long-awaited report on a class of health-damaging pollutants known as dioxins, we look at the biggest industrial dioxin sources in the U.S. -- ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The truth behind Gingrich's f ...
  With Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich erroneously claiming that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history,&q ...
  
• How to rein in Big Money's influence?
  The two-year anniversary of Citizens United -- and Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC -- have pushed the issue of money in politics into center stage. The question now: How best to reign in B ...
  
• Actual winner unclear in Supreme Court's rulin ...
  Last week's ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...
  

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 ...
• 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 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 ...

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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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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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

• Making Room for the Old and the New Economies
  The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the Great Plains Democrats, much as California’s 2010 Democratic landslide assured that Republicans are soon to become endangered species in place ...
• How Libraries and Bookstores Became the New Co ...
  Bookstores and libraries have long played a central role in fostering a deeper appreciation of knowledge, and in lifelong learning. Increasingly, these places are also filling another critical need in our communities, by providing a haven for those seeking a communal connection in an ever-more i ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Forty years with glyphosate
  Forty Years with Glyphosate by András Székács and Béla Darvas Department of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Analysis, Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/forty-years-with-glyphosate Chapter 14 EXTRACT: 6. Adverse env ...
• Philanthropy is the enemy of justice
  Philanthropy is the enemy of justice Robert Newman The Guardian, 27 January 2012  http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/philanthropy-enemy-of-justice?cat=commentisfree&type=article *The world's poor are not begging for charity from the rich – they're asking for justice and fairness ...
• Philanthopy is the enemy of justice
  Philanthropy is the enemy of justice Robert Newman The Guardian, 27 January 2012  http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/philanthropy-enemy-of-justice?cat=commentisfree&type=article *The world's poor are not begging for charity from the rich – they're asking for justice and fairness ...
• 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 ...

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

• 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying A ...
  Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global e ...
• Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
  How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is ...
• Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free ...
  Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients?  It may be hard to believe, but it is true.  Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans inf ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• Hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel : use bot ...
  Building towers of recycled bottles and/or pots offers fantastic opportunities to grow fresh food with a minimum of water and fertilizer. One can grow at home, in cities and villages, all kinds of vegetables and herbs. Bottle towers are a … Continue reading →
• Children under five and pregnant women will be ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/one-million-children-in-the-sahel-at-risk-of-severe-acute-malnutrition-by-spring One million children in the Sahel at risk of severe acute malnutrition by spring Source: member // Action Against Hunger ...
• Irrigation Improvement and Groundwater Conserv ...
  Read at : http://www.technogreencorp.com/projects_yemen_groundwater_soil_conservation.htm#a3 Republic of Yemen – Groundwater & Soil Conservation Project The Republic of Yemen, a country dependent on its agriculture industry faced serious economic collapse as the water necessary, after ...
• To generate high-resolution groundwater potent ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/news-archive/soc_0032.html Combating drought in the Horn of Africa Source: UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector UNESCO began mapping groundwater this January in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, in order t ...
• Infrared camera to see how drought affects pla ...
  Read at : http://icardablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/hot-shot-a-camera-that-measures-drought-tolerance/ Hot-Shot! A camera that measures drought tolerance ICARDA scientists use the infrared camera to see how drought affects plant physiology. The one thing dryland farmers fear, above all else, is ...

The Paper Trail

• Pro-Romney 'super PAC' brings total haul to $3 ...
  Mitt Romney cemented his position as the favorite to win the GOP nomination with a first-place finish in Florida Tuesday thanks in no small part to an outside spending group that raised $30 million last year, more than the campaigns of any one of his rivals."Restore Our Future" raised nearly $18 ...
• Democratic super PACs can't keep up with GOP
  A handful of Democratic super PACs and nonprofits reported raising together just over $19 million last year, a paltry sum compared to the leading GOP groups.The groups formed last year to help President Barack Obama win a second term and improve Democrats’ congressional fortunes,The total is bas ...
• Super PAC roundup
  Midnight Jan. 31 was the deadline for super PACs and campaigns to file their end-of-the-year financial disclosure statements with the Federal Election Commission. Watch this space as iWatch News investigates and reports on the latest filings.For a quick summary of the presidential candidates, cl ...
• Pro-Gingrich super PAC reports $2.1 million in ...
  Winning Our Future, the super PAC associated with former Newt Gingrich and credited with keeping his campaign alive, raised $2.1 million in 2011, according to a report filed Tuesday night with the Federal Election Commission.The group is best known for its top patron, casino owner and billionair ...
• Crossroads groups raise whopping $51 million i ...
  Super PAC American Crossroads and its sister organization raised more than $51 million last year with more than 60 percent of the total flowing into Crossroads GPS, the nonprofit arm that is not required to report its donors.American Crossroads, a super PAC that reports to the Federal Election C ...

backofthebook.ca

• Brian Brennan
  Brian Brennan is an Irish-born writer who has lived and worked in Canada since 1966. He makes his home in Calgary, Alberta, where he has worked as a journalist and author, publishing eight books of biography and social history including The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story (2008), How t ...
• 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 ...

libcom

• You can’t arrest the whole Valley – support th ...
  Valle2.jpg How to support the NO TAV activists arrested on January 26. Support the campaign or, even better, write to them! To keep up-to-date with the NO TAV defendants’ solida ...
• Building the Red Army: The Death and Forbidden ...
  copsmoveout.jpeg A report on the J28 "move-in day" in Oakland, first published at Viewpoint. “Don’t fuck with the Oakland Commune.” Words which will live forever in hi ...
• Cape Towns: Attempt to Occupy Rondebosch Common
  Yesterday more than forty people were arrested in a major police operation to prevent the occupation of the Rondebosch Common in an elite suburb of Cape Town - the most unequal city in South Africa, which has now surpassed Brazil as the most unequal country ...
• Nizhny Novgorod criminal case – Interview with ...
  On April 26, 2011, in the morning, six young people were arrested by Center “E” detectives (so-called “Anti-Extremist” cops). Five anti-fascists of Nizhny Novgorod were subject to home-searches. One of the flats was stormed by OMON (Special Police Squad) ...
• 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 ...

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

• Righteous Blood Part VIII – CONTINUED &# ...
  These are the other 4 of the “Top 6″ Edomite Experiments against HUMANITY that was edited and “lost” from my earlier post. #3. LSD SPRAYED ON FRENCH VILLAGE —1951 This “incident” was blamed on “ergot poisoning” in the Edomite-controlled Press ...
• Joseph Smith’s First-born Son – &# ...
  THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY OF JOSEPH SMITH, JR. The year was 1828, the place, Harmony, Pennsylvania – the month was June.   Joseph Smith, Jr. – the founding “prophet” of Mormonism was eagerly awaiting the birth of his First-born Child.  Smith had “prophesied” ...
• Righteous Blood Part VIII – UNCLE SAMAEL ...
  Let’s recap the Edomite story so far. First, the twin sons of the biblical Isaac, (son of the Patriarch Abraham) namely Esau (aka Edom or “Red”) the firstborn develops the ultimate example of sibling rivalry against his twin Jacob (aka Israel).   They even fight each other vici ...
• 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:  

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

• Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
  Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
• Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
  Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
• The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
  Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
• NAGUIB SAWIRIS
  Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
• Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
  In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

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

• Is Obama Attempting to Buy Votes from College ...
  The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.
• 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.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• We're America and We'll Breach Whatever Perime ...
  TomDispatch tries to get us to see things from Iran's point of view.
• Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Fac ...
  The U.S. nuclear-weapons program is awash in nuclear-warhead triggers.
• 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.

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

• Iran launches TV channel in Spanish
  Iran has launched an international-facing Spanish language TV channel. read more
• Imagining a “Clean Break” with Israel…Over Iran
  The real reason Washington wants regime change in Iran is that, in the most mass-based, genuine revolutionary upheaval in the modern history of the Muslim world, the Iranian people overthrew the brutal U.S.-imposed regime of the Shah in 1979. This deprived the U.S. of the services of the “Gendar ...
• يک زندانی معلول قرار است فردا در ملاعام در کرج ...
  بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر ودمکراسی در ايران"انتقال زندانی سيامک آرمين به سلولهای انفرادی بند 1 زندان گوهردشت کرج برای اجرای حکم ضدبشری اعدام در ملاعام. read more
• At Low Point, Leader's Popularity Ebbs
  Despite appearing to be solidly in control of the Islamic Republic, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now faced with the acerbic tongue of the Iranian population. More than ever -- in the streets, in taxis, in private conversations, and in public expressions -- his words, dictates, and e ...
• گشت زنی شبانه روزی پلیس فتا در اینترنت
  سردار هادیانفر درآمد سالیانه مجرمان اینترنتی را 105 میلیارد دلار اعلام کرد

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
  (This is the second of two blogs exploring why the US is the country – besides the Netherlands – that doesn’t vaccinate against tuberculosis) Sadly the vast majority of Americans – including many doctors – are unaware there is a safe, effective and inexpensive vac ...
• 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...
• 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 ...

Salon

• Holder on Assange prosecution: “We will ...
  "Slavery by Another Name," a documentary based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The story was new to me: Between the Emancipation Proclamation and the beginning of World War II, tens of thousands of African-Americans ...
• Who’s afraid of industrial policy?
  President Obama’s emphasis in his State of the Union message on revitalizing American manufacturing has led to predictable attacks by critics that he is practicing “industrial policy.”  This criticism is largely limited to the libertarian right, which has watched in dismay as Mitt Romney denounc ...
• Where does the anti-SOPA movement go next?
  The last few weeks have witnessed a remarkable convergence of conflicts over copyright: the arrest of Megaupload mastermind “Kim Dotcom” in New Zealand, an unprecedented show of unity among Internet giants such as Wikipedia and Google to fight anti-piracy legislation in Congress, and similar pro ...
• D.C. lobbyist aids Rep. McKeon’s wife
  Could an effort to lift his wife's political aspirations land the powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in hot water? Recent disclosures reveal that a federal lobbyist with ties to Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., the senior member of the committee overseeing the Pentagon ...
• The biggest risk to the economy
  Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos a few days ago, said the “critical risks” facing the American economy this year were a worsening of Europe’s chronic sovereign debt crisis and a rise in tensions with Iran that could stoke global oil prices.What about ...

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

• Catholic schools fail to support gay students ...
  The Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ new policy on anti-homophobia clubs does nothing to actually support gay students.
• Police had a tip that Robert Pickton was a ser ...
  The Robert Pickton inquiry is shedding important light on how police bungled a serial killer investigation.
• Canada’s latest “honour killing” case raises t ...
  Reviewing the Shafia family “honour killing” case, Canada’s child-protection services need to ponder whether anything more might have been done by the officials who dealt with the fa ...
• Toronto welcomed more hotel visitors in 2011 t ...
  Yes, the weather is bleak and antics at city hall are depressing, but Toronto has been deemed one of the most exciting places to visit in 2012. Could the tourists be right?
• Canada’s sensational “honour” trial ends in fi ...
  Mohammad Shafia’s “sick” concept of family honour has no place in a civilized society.

Energy Collective

• PACE Solar Financing Shows Signs of Life
   Communities and homeowners have more reason to be optimistic about solar financing.
• Why the Clean Energy Sector Has “Rolling Uncer ...
  If the 2008 financial crisis was a swift punch to the face for the clean energy industry — and for the whole energy sector — the global uncertainty of 2011/2012 is more like a rolling series of blows to the body. In both cases, the sector continues to stand back on its feet. But it’s still going ...
• Super Hot Salt: The Newest Energy Storage Inno ...
• How Smartphones Can Help You Make the Right En ...
   In a recent blog post, Penni McLean-Conner of NSTAR, highlighted the tremendous innovation spurred on by the new EISA standards enacted on January 1.
• Worst. Transportation Bill. Ever.
  Partisanship is the reason for constant gridlock in Congress. One exception has been the issue of transportation. NRDC is on the record -- analyzing and critiquing yet supporting -- the bipartisan federal transportation bill that passed the Senate Environment and Public Works ...

EU Times

• The Cancer Industry Doesn’t Want a Cure, Even ...
  A safe and effective cure for cancer has been discovered with a drug that was once used for unusual metabolic problems. Yet, the cancer industry shows no interest with following up on dichloroacetate (DCA) research from University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, reported in 2007. That’s because ...
• US nuclear submarine and destroyer enter Red Sea
  Two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf. ­The ships’ passage was a major operation for th ...
• Britain to send war message to Argentina
  In a bid to secure its last outpost in South America, the British government is to deploy its most sophisticated warship to the occupied Falkland Islands to give a clear war message to Argentina. The Ministry of Defense revealed that destroyer HMS Dauntless will sail to the South Atlantic in ord ...
• Merkel to sway China against Iran
  Despite Beijing’s outright refusal to join the EU and US-sponsored unilateral sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arranged a visit to China to convince the country to reduce Iranian oil import. A German government source told a news briefing on Tuesd ...
• US vs Iran, coming this May!
  Depending on how soon military contractors can get to work on a massive US Navy “mother ship,” a colossal sea vessel could be stationed outside of Iran as early as this May. At a Department of Defense briefing at the Pentagon this weekend, authorities confirmed that the USS Ponce, a massive mari ...

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

• Will Ron Paul win more delegates this week tha ...
  This week, Ron Paul is likely to win more delegates to the 2012 GOP convention than either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. In fact, heâs likely to win more delegates than Gingrich and Santorum combined. âHold itâ, youâre saying, âHow can that be? Rep. Paulâs polling in single digits in Florida. ...
• Samsung faces antitrust investigation in Europ ...
  The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has opened a formal investigation into Samsung’s competitive practices. The Commission will assess whether the Korean manufacturer “used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, ...
• Paula Abdul & Nicole Scherzinger Have Been FIR ...
  So … you know how last year former American Idol judge Simon Cowell was all excited about his new competitive singing reality show The X Factor and he was all excited about bringing on board judges Paula Abdul , Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones to the show? Yeah, that’s over because all ...
• Steve Jones, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul: ...
  Simon Cowell is no stranger to retooling staff on his popular talent competition shows, and rumors have circulated for months that The X Factor host Steve Jones' head was on the chopping block. Now, as expected, Jones has been fired. Surprisingly, it seems he'll be joined on the unemployment li ...
• Super Bowl: Our Patriots page gets makeover fo ...
  Providencejournal.com's New England Patriots page is stepping up for the big game Sunday with more news, more video, more polls and more stats. Our five-member team of writers and photographers will be covering the Super Bowl scene on the field and on the streets of Indianapolis this week. We'l ...

Groklaw

• Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbi ...
  You know how Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969? Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5 megabytes each) for storage. When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their root filesystem) they le ...
• Talks Consider Access to Megaupload Files
  "It is entirely in the hands of the government whether they want to free up the funds so that Megaupload could pay for bandwidth and hosting costs and make consumer data available," Mr. Rothken said. "At this point, we are still cautiously optimistic that we will be able to reach an agreement." ...
• Time to update copyright law?
  The effect of this dramatic lengthening of copyright has come at a large cost with little benefit: older works cannot be used productively by motion picture companies, authors and artists. Many owners of copyrighted works cannot even be located. And remote heirs, such as grandchildren and great- ...
• FCC Overhauls Telephone Subsidy for the Poor, ...
  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved an overhaul to its Lifeline program, which subsidizes telephone service for poor people, with the goals of saving money and allowing the subsidy to go toward broadband service. The FCC on Tuesday voted to make several changes to the program ...
• German court upholds ban of Samsung's older tablet
  A higher regional court in Duesseldorf, Germany, said on Tuesday that Samsung may not sell the older version of its Galaxy tablet in Europe's biggest economy.... It redesigned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market only and named it Galaxy Tab 10.1N to get around the sales ban. Apple challen ...

WideShut

• EU Fiscal Treaty Forces People To Pay For Euro ...
  If failing EU countries can't balance the books, they'll be fined by the European Court of Justice. Debt slavery is here.
• Full Spectrum Dominance, Iran & Syria: Jan 30, ...
  Keelan recaps the week's news: Lies against Iran, Opium cultivation, Jewish lobby funding Gingrich and the truth about Syria.
• West Pushes UN To Force Assad Out Of Syria; Wh ...
  Officials in New York to push for UN resolution in Syria, when evidence shows it's the West providing arms to the rebels causing the violence.
• After Public Backlash Hester Rejects £1 millio ...
  Hester rejects £1 million bonus to pacify the public, but root cause of the financial crisis will never be addressed.
• 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.

Politics in the Zeros

• How the 1% works. Lightsquared wants GPS exemp ...
  This is the attitude of the 1%. Screw everyone and everything but us. And we don’t care who gets hurt as long as we billionaires make more money. A multi-billion dollar gamble by Lightsquared is about to become worthless. The FCC has said that their wireless would interfere with GPS. So no ...
• Alan Lomax recordings go digital, a national t ...
  Alan Lomax traveled the country for decades recording blues, gospel, folk, zydeco, jazz, country, bluegrass, and more. Read Write Web says he “was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both.” Now, thousands of hours of his audio recordin ...
• CalPERS earned just 1.1% in 2011
  The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced a disappointing 1.1% return on their investments for calendar year 2011. By their own estimates, they need to average 7.75% a year to meet current and future obligations to its about 1 million members and 500,000 retire ...
• Freeway Blogger climate change contest. Win $1 ...
  The Freeway Blogger is giving cash prizes for slogans about climate change, which he will then post hundreds of times near freeways Just finished up my West Coast Tour, posting 120+ signs between Seattle and San Diego and looking forward to doing it again. This time I’d like to focus on c ...
• Scanners: not just for airports any more
  Customs and Border Protection used backscatter vans, like the one above, at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Customs and Border Protection) As part of its ongoing investigation of body scanners, ProPublica has written about their proliferation as law enforcement agencies arou ...

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

• Government stuck in the ‘80s on the minimum wage
  Sometime around now, Cabinet will be undertaking its annual review of the minimum wage, which currently stands at a lowly $13 an hour. My bet is that we will see another effective nil increase, with the minimum wage being adjusted upwards no more than the level of inflation over the past year. T ...
• General debate, January 31, 2012
• Children’s privacy rights at risk
  The Green Party supports NZEI’s call for schools not to share their  Nationals Standards information because it could lead to the publishing of league tables that unfairly rank schools and infringe on pupils’ privacy. Schools must protect this information from publication because once it is cent ...
• Energy Strategy to Worsen Energy Outlook
  The Ministry of Economic Development have released their Energy Outlook for New Zealand and it should be a wake-up call for the Government. The report projects New Zealand’s future energy supply, demand, prices and greenhouse gas emissions but the major challenges identified in it are at odds wi ...
• 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.

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

• The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
  Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
• 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• $29 Billion Reasons to Lie About Cholesterol
  $29 Billion Introduction from 29billion on Vimeo.By Dr. Mercola Millions of people around the world take medications known as statins to lower their cholesterol. The current value of the cholesterol-lowering drug industry is estimated at around $29 billion -- and this is clearly a conservati ...
• Use This Superfood to Help Remove Mercury From ...
  By Dr. Mercola Have you noticed that practically every day a new story comes out in the media about the toxic side effects of living in the modern world? Chemical and heavy metal dangers seem to be lurking everywhere you turn in the 21st century! Pesticides coat much of our fresh food supp ...
• Banned in Germany, But You're Probably Still E ...
  By Dr. Mercola Monsanto, the world leader in genetically modified (GM) crops and seeds, has been named the worst company of 2011 by Natural Society -- for "threatening both human health and the environment." I couldn't agree more. I have long designated Monsanto the most dangerous corporatio ...
• Monsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India
  By Dr. Mercola The government of India has made it very clear that they will not tolerate Monsanto's attempts to commercialize on their indigenous knowledge, a practice known as biopiracy. India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), a government agency, is suing Monsanto, the world leader ...
• Breast Cancer and Heart Attacks: A Deadly Side ...
  By Dr. Mercola Calcium is one of the most popular dietary supplements on the market, largely because of the widely circulated mantra that mega-doses of this mineral are essential for building and maintaining healthy bones. As a result, many people believe that taking a calcium supplement is ...

JAMA

• Prostatitis [JAMA Patient Page]
• Pox: An American History [Book and Media Reviews]
• Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile ...
• Improving Medical Outcomes: The Psychology of ...
• Netter's Anatomy Atlas for iPad [Book and Medi ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Up close one year later: startling new photos ...
  Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Survival International has released close-up pictures of uncontacted Indians, exactly a year after aerial photos from Brazil astonished the world. The new photogra ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Should we call it 'honour killing'?
  The extensive media coverage of the Shafia trial and convictions raises important questions about how violence against women is framed in the media. Just as a photograph is framed by the photographer, so is the media's framing of a particular issue; the focus of our attention is on what is in th ...
• The lessons we can learn from the Shafia case
  The ending of the trial in which three members of the Shafia family were found guilty of murdering four other members of the family was mercifully brief: just two days of jury deliberation.
• Why the Pink Ribbon campaign matters
  Léa Pool's documentary film Pink Ribbons, Inc., which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall and opens in Canadian theatres Friday, is critical of the pink-ribbon campaign associated with the fight against breast cancer.
• 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.

Food World Order

• UN Claims World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel as Pop ...
  from firstpost.com: The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a UN report warned on Monday. As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly ...
• Florida food stamp bill is latest attempt to r ...
  Should You Be Allowed to Buy Junk Food With Food Stamps? from sodahead.com: The U.S. is simultaneously low on jobs and incomes, and consuming large amounts of unhealthy food. You might think the problems would be mutually exclusive, but according to Florida senator Ronda Storms, health is a pr ...
• 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 ...

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

• 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying A ...
  Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global e ...
• Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
  How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is ...
• Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free ...
  Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients?  It may be hard to believe, but it is true.  Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans inf ...
• 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 ...

CASSE

• The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons
  Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior -- assumptions familiar to students of economics.
• 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.

The Talking Clock

• While Cameron bullshits, Merkel reveals the gr ...
  Let us start this open accusation of "bullshit" by listening to the Bullshitter-In-Chief, our Prime Minister David Cameron: Sterling stuff. Standing up for the national interest! Veto! Action if not in the British interest! Rule bloody Britannia! Except... Except Germany's Angela Merk ...
• Dear Greece (and Ireland, Portugal, Spain and ...
  The Telegraph has put online a leaked draft version of a new EU fiscal treaty. Over the weekend, Greece has made angry sounds about the German threat of invading Athens with it's number crunchers. A threat to national sovereignty and identity, the Greeks have complained. And we agree wi ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 29th January 2012
  First month of 2012 almost over and done with, already. If those supposed Mayan prophecies are accurate, we're all a month closer to extinction or whatever it is might or might not happen. Any rune stones in this week's Sunday's to signpost the way? One thing that won't bring about the annihi ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• Texas court voids conviction in child death case
  The Ernie Lopez case highlights the growing international controversy over the reliability of the science used to prosecute cases of fatal child abuse and sexual assault.
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• Dumping dioxin on Dixie
  As the Environmental Protection Agency readies a long-awaited report on a class of health-damaging pollutants known as dioxins, we look at the biggest industrial dioxin sources in the U.S. -- ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The truth behind Gingrich's f ...
  With Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich erroneously claiming that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history,&q ...
  
• How to rein in Big Money's influence?
  The two-year anniversary of Citizens United -- and Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC -- have pushed the issue of money in politics into center stage. The question now: How best to reign in B ...
  
• Actual winner unclear in Supreme Court's rulin ...
  Last week's ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...
  

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

• Today on New Scientist: 31 January 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: why you think your team is the best and self-portraits of a declining brain
• Herd of ivory elephants reveals illicit trade ...
  Ranks of ivory elephants in a Cairo shop show how the illegal tusk trade remains strong despite a 20-year ban
• Light test for laser-guided bullet
  Bad aim? US government engineers have invented laser-guided bullets that could ensure you never miss a shot
• Today on New Scientist: 30 January 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: White House pressure on Gulf oil leak figures alleged and bulletproof skin stops a speeding gunshot
• 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

Tech Drive In

• Unity 5.2 Released, Brings in Multi-Monitor Su ...
  Unity 5.2 is released and it brings in some much needed features to Ubuntu's Unity shell. The new upgraded Unity comes with multi-monitor support and there is this tiny little Unity launcher related hack that is going to make the lives of so many Ubuntu users a wee bit easier.  ...
• KDE's "Spark" Tablet Promises a Truly Open Future
  If the near domination of Linux at CES 2012 wasn't good enough news for you, this little tablet from KDE is definitely going to make you happy. Out of the blue, lead KDE hacker Aaron Seigo announced to the world the imminent launch of Spark tablet running KDE's brand new Plasma Active de ...
• Linux at CES 2012: Everything You Need to Know
  Linux has been gaining some serious mileage over the years. Linux and other high-end Open Source software like Blender are not some hobbyists-only stuff anymore and the whole technology world is slowly starting to realize the positive and unbiased influence Open Source and Linux has on everyth ...
• 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 ...

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

• Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around ...
  by Wealth Wire – Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 While President Obama’s supporters hailed his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as the end of the war in the Middle East, behind the scenes the Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands located just south of the Str ...
• Manifesto for a World Gone off its Meds
• Decriminalization is a Farce, It’s Time ...
  Amir Alwani, Contributing Writer Activist Post 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 basic human right, albeit one that few people think of. Imagine [...]
• Forget global warming – it’s Cycle ...
  By David Rose The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year tempe ...
• Israel Went Too Far
  • American officials irked at brazen Zionist assassinations • Mini-state’s false flag terrorism puts Americans in danger By Ralph Forbes—AFP Southern Bureau Over the weekend of Jan. 14-15, the White House announced it was abruptly canceling the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to Israel in ...

Veterans Today

• 9/11 – Urban Renewal With a Twist?
  I was born in Staten Island Hospital and grew up on the southeast shore of that island when its waters were clean and teemed with fish including porgies, weakfish, bluefish, striped bass and big sharks. Our island, a burough of New York City, had clean beaches,dense woods, farms, unspoiled lakes ...
• Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa’id Naffa
  Israel reveals its rogue credentials daily. In mid-July 2010, its Knesset stripped MK Hanin Zoabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla bringing vital aid to Gaza.
• Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies
  Determining "best evidence" depends on "integrating individual professional expertise with the best available documentary and scientific evidence."
• PACT – The Pioneering Future of VA Healt ...
  In support of VA’s Universal Health Care Services Plan to redesign health care delivery, San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) has implemented Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT).
• Madigan Hospital Psychiatric Team Altered Sold ...
  The Army is reviewing the actions of a Madigan Army Medical Center psychiatric team that reversed the diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers previously found to have post-traumatic stress disorder.

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

• Merck hires McCann unit as respiratory AOR
  NEW YORK: Merck has hired Interpublic Group's McCann HumanCare as AOR for its respiratory franchise for consumer advertising and communications.
• Atkins taps MWW as AOR
  DENVER: Weight-loss company Atkins Nutritionals has selected MWW Group as its AOR to re-educate consumers about its low-carbohydrate food program.
• EPA re-ups with Vocus
  WASHINGTON: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to forgo an RFP process and grant a sole-source contract to Vocus to support its current PR software package.
• Huntsworth suffers $4.7M reorganization charge
  LONDON: Holding company Huntsworth is nearing the end of a rebudgeting process that will result in a one-time restructuring cost of about $4.7 million, the company said Tuesday.
• Blaze PR adds SnoBar to client roster
  LOS ANGELES: Frozen cocktail company SnoBar has hired Blaze PR to raise awareness of its brand and to assist with market expansion.

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

• Anatomy Of NATO Attack On Pakistan
  Pakistan Observer January 31, 2012 Review of NATO attack Asif Haroon Raja* Edited by RR Apache helicopters F-18s It will be recalled that in order to multiply pressure on Pakistan, the western border was deliberately heated up by Pakistan’s strategic partners sitting in Kabul. Between May ...
• Obama-Saakashvili Meeting: Iran War Base In Re ...
  Voice of Russia January 31, 2012 Georgian-American homage Natalya Kovalenko ==== [A] reason to befriend Tbilisi is a possible military aggression against Iran. In this case, the US could use Georgian territory for the deployment of US aircraft. The US would not even have to ask Georgia, as exper ...
• U.S. War Against Iran: More Combat Fatalities ...
  Voice of Russia January 31, 2012 US keeps up sabre-rattling show for Iran Andrei Ptashnikov News from Washington proves that the US is serious about its plan to carry out a military operation against Iran. Announcer: Washington has repeatedly threatened Iran on the highest level. US Defense Mini ...
• Stop NATO news: January 31 II
  ==== Obama Praises Georgia As Model Democracy, NATO Partner White House Meeting: U.S. Supports Georgia’s NATO Membership NATO, U.S. Experts To Visit Azerbaijan U.S. Military Delegation To Hold Talks In Kyrgyzstan Afghan War: NATO Loses 34 Soldiers This Month ==== Obama Praises Georgia As M ...
• White House Recruits South Caucasus Allies For ...
  Times.am (Armenia) January 30, 2012 US held discussions with Azerbaijan about its relations with Iran: Is the USA looking for a platform? Edited by RR U.S. charge d’affaires to Azerbaijan Adam Sterling announced that the U.S. understands Azerbaijan’s special position on Iran due to the geo ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
  The Economic Collapse Blog January 31, 2012 How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up? Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out o ...
• Former Haitian President Duvalier to Face Corr ...
  The Intel Hub - Jean-Claude Duvalier will not face charges for the serious human rights violations.
• Opposition Leader Wants Syrian President and H ...
  Infowars - Founding member of the Syrian National Council calls for murder of Bashar al-Assad and his family.
• UFO Found at Bottom of Baltic Sea?
  Huffington Post - A Star Wars type object found in the Baltic Sea.
• Ultrasound Zap May Be New Form of Birth Control
  ABC - A couple zaps to the testicles might be the future of contraception.

FRS

• Afghanistan: The path from home
  Out of Afghanistan: incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe The country is so dangerous it’s no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new life by Caroline Brothers, The Observer, Sunday 29 January 2012 Behind the security bars of a spartan ...
• Emirates ‘has security links with Israel ...
  [This is an interesting story from UPI about the economic and military ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates--a rare subject for news reports in the US press.  But don't congratulate UPI for their investigative prowess--a critical read of the article will also find this disingenuous s ...
• Rich Greeks balk at financial aid for homeland
  ["National unity" and "patriotic sacrifice" are urged upon the masses everywhere, as the crisis continues to deepen.  But these words are rejected by the rich, as they and their bank deposits are taken to Swiss banks and other shelters.  Here, that attitude of the Greek bourgeois toward "saving ...
• Going Underground in Hard Times
  [As countries across the world sink deeper into capitalist crisis, and relief, though promised, only leads to more "austerity" measures--cuts in basic services, growing unemployment, higher taxes--growing numbers have moved to the "informal", "underground", "grey market" economy, outside of offi ...
• Ice News–News from the Nordics: “C ...
  30 January 2012 Residents of a wealthy Stockholm suburb have complained to the police about a tour agency’s plan to run ‘high-society safaris’ in their neighbourhood. The bus trip, organised by Allt åt Alla (Everything for Everyone), aims to debunk the myth that Sweden is a classless nation by d ...

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

• Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
  A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
• Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
  While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
• Ron Paul Packs Them In In Maine
  Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012
• Demi Moore Call -- Example of 911 System Succe ...
  The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012
• Rick Santorum's Campaign: What's Wrong With Th ...
  Although Rick Santorum has a political messsage that appeals to a portion of the electorate, he can't get it to the electorate because of a lack of money. Why does the electorate follow the candidate who carries the glitter of the green?Contributor: Hugh Houchin Published: Jan 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Translating Brain Waves to Reconstruct Sounds ...
  Researchers see a way to eavesdrop on our brains As you listened to your colleagues’ conversations at work today, or to a podcast on the train home, or to your personal trainer shouting lift, your brain completed some complex tasks. The frequencies of syllables and whole words were decoded and ...
• Handheld Pathogen Sensor Could Diagnose HIV in ...
  Two techs are better than one Working with support of the Bill & Medlinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenge to develop field-worthy point-of-care diagnostics for the developing world, a couple of Cornell researchers are mashing up their individual inventions to create a handheld pathogen d ...
• Gallery: The Best Way to Unbuild a Dam
• The Best Way to Unbuild a Dam
  What it takes to mend a dammed-up ecosystem In 2010, engineers in the U.S. dismantled 60 dams, helping to reclaim rivers for wildlife. Most of these dams were small, though; removing large ones poses a much bigger challenge. In September, the National Park Service started the largest-ever dam-r ...
• Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible ...
  On March 31, 2009, a panel of scientists and civil servants met to assess the risk presented by a recent series of tremors in the Abruzzo region of Italy. They concluded that a major seismic event was unlikely. Soon thereafter, Bernardo De Bernardinis, the vice-director of Italy’s Department of ...

Veterans Today

• 9/11 – Urban Renewal With a Twist?
  I was born in Staten Island Hospital and grew up on the southeast shore of that island when its waters were clean and teemed with fish including porgies, weakfish, bluefish, striped bass and big sharks. Our island, a burough of New York City, had clean beaches,dense woods, farms, unspoiled lakes ...
• Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa’id Naffa
  Israel reveals its rogue credentials daily. In mid-July 2010, its Knesset stripped MK Hanin Zoabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla bringing vital aid to Gaza.
• Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies
  Determining "best evidence" depends on "integrating individual professional expertise with the best available documentary and scientific evidence."
• PACT – The Pioneering Future of VA Healt ...
  In support of VA’s Universal Health Care Services Plan to redesign health care delivery, San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) has implemented Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT).
• Madigan Hospital Psychiatric Team Altered Sold ...
  The Army is reviewing the actions of a Madigan Army Medical Center psychiatric team that reversed the diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers previously found to have post-traumatic stress disorder.

War is Business

• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• 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

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

• Lamborghini Aventador, US-Subsidized Supercar
  Now for one of my occasional Robb Report impersonations--albeit with an IPE twist. (We've got style, baby.) In 1998, Lamborghini became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Audi AG, which in turn is a luxury brand of the almighty Volkswagen Group--the real largest automaker in the world. What if the Ge ...
• 2012: Year of the Dragon, Year of the Renminbi!
  A week ago today, the Chinese and their vast diaspora celebrated Chinese New Year. As it so happens, it also ushered in the Year of the Dragon. Famously the most auspicious of characters, this too may be the year that the PRC powers-that-be become serious about internationalizing the RMB with th ...
• Long Time Coming: Int'l Derivatives Court, No ...
  Here's something that I found in the LSE employee newsletter, of all places. Given the often legalistic culture of Western economies, it is no surprise that they prefer the settlement of economic disputes in formal fora. The WTO's dispute settlement mechanism exemplifies that for trade. Meanwhil ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying A ...
  Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global e ...
• Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
  How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is ...
• Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free ...
  Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients?  It may be hard to believe, but it is true.  Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans inf ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Cancer Industry Doesn’t Want a Cure, Even ...
  A safe and effective cure for cancer has been discovered with a drug that was once used for unusual metabolic problems. Yet, the cancer industry shows no interest with following up on dichloroacetate (DCA) research from University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, reported in 2007. That’s because ...
• US nuclear submarine and destroyer enter Red Sea
  Two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf. ­The ships’ passage was a major operation for th ...
• Britain to send war message to Argentina
  In a bid to secure its last outpost in South America, the British government is to deploy its most sophisticated warship to the occupied Falkland Islands to give a clear war message to Argentina. The Ministry of Defense revealed that destroyer HMS Dauntless will sail to the South Atlantic in ord ...
• Merkel to sway China against Iran
  Despite Beijing’s outright refusal to join the EU and US-sponsored unilateral sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arranged a visit to China to convince the country to reduce Iranian oil import. A German government source told a news briefing on Tuesd ...
• US vs Iran, coming this May!
  Depending on how soon military contractors can get to work on a massive US Navy “mother ship,” a colossal sea vessel could be stationed outside of Iran as early as this May. At a Department of Defense briefing at the Pentagon this weekend, authorities confirmed that the USS Ponce, a massive mari ...

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

• Former Haitian leader must face charges for hu ...
  The United Nations today voiced its concern at reports that former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier may not face charges relating to the serious human rights violations that took place during his 15-year rule, while stressing that justice must be ensured for the victims.
• 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.

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

• Myanmar and the Road to Reform
  • (http://twitter.com/share) President pledges comprehensive transformation
• The Waking Dragon: Rise of the New China
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Is there a future China as a superpower?
• Elections and Ethnic Politics in India
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Are parties converging in Uttar Pradesh?
• China Courts the Middle East
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Thirsty for oil, China spurns the West’s call for sanctions on Iran
• Indonesia Scraps Crucial Port Project
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Tenders for the Tanjung Priok port are dropped

We Know the Lies

• 400 MILLION Acres of Farm Land Poisoned by Mon ...
    Dioxin is the most toxic man-made chemical known regarding damage to health and the environment. The EPA has withheld a study about dioxin for decades in order to protect large industries that produce dioxin while manufacturing herbicides and pesticides, plastics, chlorine, bleach, a ...
• LIVE Coverage... Florida GOP 2012 Presidential ...
    The Republican presidential candidates are now focusing on Florida. Watch the primary results and reactions tonight...  most result coverage should begin when polls close at 7:00 PM read more
• CDC Protects DARPA... 'Nanoworms are a Delusion'
    Imagine having the mental prowess to be able to create living filaments heretofore unknown, that can reproduce themselves, some of which come with identifying letters embossed on them, and then to make them extrude from beneath your skin, all against your conscious will. ~ Ra ...
• The Mystery of Chronic Pain
    We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of chronic ...
• S T R E S S... The First Mental and Emotional ...
    How can you live a stress-free life and prevent cancer and other health problems? By learning to manage your cortisol stress hormone levels and by putting the mental/emotional stress in your life in the proper perspective. ~ Dr. Keith Nemec ~ See chart read more

Tarpley

• Who Will Stop Obama’s Aggressive War on ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 29, 2012 [download video] The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology. T ...
• 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]

Modern Survivalism

• They Are More Powerful Than Governments
  You may never have heard of them. The ISDA, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, is an organization more powerful than any nation government, and is apparently about to redefine ‘sovereign default’. Why are they so powerful? Because they represent (their members consi ...
• Some Of The First Preps To Disappear
  Following the onset of a regional (or wider) disaster, if and when it becomes known that the disaster is going to last for a week or more, many or most items will disappear from store shelves. It is a given that food of all varieties will be one of the first things to go. But [...]
• 5 Steps To Financial Survival
  Stop Borrowing. Stop the bleeding. Regardless of your current debt, you must (I mean, must) stop sinking further in debt. You will not be able to change anything until you stop spending borrowed money. Period. It is THE most important thing to do first. Trim Your Budget. Simplify the budget anal ...
• 4 Criteria For A Successful Survival Food Supply
  Variety is the spice of life When building your food storage supply, DO NOT put all your eggs in one basket. By that I mean don’t simply go out and buy bags of beans and rice and call it good. Although many good emergency food supplies contain a healthy proportion of foods like beans and [...]
• Survival Food, Creature-Critter Soup
  Guest post: by Christine Coburn Scenario: The SHTF 3 months ago and the grid has been down with no end in sight. You had 3 full months of canned food put up for your family which now you are down to items like vegetables, barley, flour, etc. All of the Vienna sausages, tuna and canned [...]

Fast Company

• Fast Talk: How This Tattoo Artist Became A Tec ...
  Meet Fred Giovannitti, whose ability to tease designs out of people's brains proves useful in two very different pursuits: tattoo artistry and environmental engineering.Fred Giovannitti is that rarity: a man who divides his time between two extremely disparate careers. Giovannitti makes his livi ...
• Would President Romney Be Good For Tech, Scien ...
  What would President Mitt do for science, technology, and startups in America? And would he use his missionary zeal to drive policy in these directions?Willard Mitt Romney is 64, an age when many of us start thinking about retiring, picking up golf, spending time with the grandkids, and reminisc ...
• Strive For A Meritocracy, And Never Settle For ...
  I remember the first time I heard the term "meritocracy."I was playing baseball on a junior-league team, and our coach (the father of one of my teammates) told us that the team would function as a "meritocracy." We were told that this meant that the players that were the most deserving would get ...
• Brand This Way: 3 Road-Tested Marketing Moves ...
  There is much the corporate world can learn from this 25-year-old diva, whose talent for building a brand might even surpass her formidable performing chops. On July 12, 2011, Lady Gaga’s private jet touched down on Australian soil. She was in town to promote her new album. The only formal gig ...
• Record For Most Records Reported In A Single S ...
  How does a tiny upstart in the feats industry disrupt Big Record? With face rakes, a hot pink monkey suit, unicycles, hula hoops, and a Rola Bola, of course! Go inside RecordSetter.com's latest smash.

Jadaliyya

• Adalah on Jadaliyya!
  Adalah has been at the forefront of promoting and defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) for over fifteen years. Its work includes challenging discriminatory and racist laws against Palestinian citizens of Israel, advocating for basic ...
• Knowledge and Power in Algeria: An Interview w ...
  It is still very possible to work on Algeria without ever passing through the Contrôle Passeport in Algiers. For a host of reasons—archival, bureaucratic, historical and, perhaps, psychological—Algeria remains on the margins of its own historiography. Arriving in September, I expected to ...
• The Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Ci ...
  Raneen, a thirty-six-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to thirty-nine-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married in 1999, and have three children. They lead a normal family life, with one ...
• The Transformation of the Syrian Revolution: A ...
  In this Al-Jazeera English interview, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad addresses the impending UN Security Council vote regarding Syria. He posits that the Syrian revolution is undergoing a transformation "from a legitimate domestic fight against dictatorship to someting far more c ...
• This is Damascus
  Never has Damascus been so gloomy. A quiet sadness hovers over the streets and alleys. The voices of people are strangulated, broken, and oppressed. The sound of a guilty conscience rings in their remorseful voices. The sound of death drowns out all other noise, creating a miserably hus ...

mediagazer

• Big Media Is About To Pull The Plug On Newt Gi ...
  John Ellis / BuzzFeed: Big Media Is About To Pull The Plug On Newt Gingrich  —  The suits are taking charge, and they're killing the travel budgets.  Sorry Newt, Rick, Zeke!  —  Gingrich is about to lose his pack.  —  It's January 31st and it ...
• Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on r ...
  Josh Halliday / Guardian: Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream  —  The chief executive of one of the fastest-growing startups on the internet says he lied about his age and experience to woo clients  —  David Karp, the founder of the b ...
• The New Yorker's David Remnick: Paper Magazine ...
  Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: The New Yorker's David Remnick: Paper Magazines Are “Pretty Good Technology”  —  Quality long-form writing has a place in the Internet age, says the New Yorker editor David Remnick — and it's worth paying for.  —  Asked ...
• A new iPad app that promises a future for long ...
  Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: A new iPad app that promises a future for long-form journalism  —  Longform.org, one of the growing breed of aggregators and social sites spreading multi-thousand-word journalism around the web, announced today that it will debut an iPad app tomorr ...
• Village Voice To Stop Suing Over 'Best Of' Lis ...
  Jeff Roberts / paidContent: Village Voice To Stop Suing Over ‘Best Of’ Lists  —  The Village Voice is giving up on a scheme to force rivals to pay for permission to use the phrase “best of.”  —  The one-time counter culture icon set off sn ...

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

• Chrysler 300, Fiat 500 among Mopar 75th a ...
  By Bryce G. Hoffman The Detroit News Comments Mopar's Chrysler 300 sedan (Mopar) Chrysler Group LLC celebrated the 75th anniversary of its aftermarket parts division, Mopar, today by unveiling four new special edition Mopar vehicles at its engineering lab in Center Line. The new vehicles, wh ...
• Air NZ boss: Branson's not head hunting m ...
  Air New Zealand boss Rob Fyfe, who will step down later this year, has poured cold water on speculationhe has been head-hunted for a rolein Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. "I think that [speculation] must only emanate from the fact that Richard Branson was down here a few months ago and ...
• Kim Kardashian Flashes Major Cleavage On ...
  The Kardashians already went topless to promote their new denim line, and it looks like they'll be turning up the heat with their upcoming swimsuit collection as well. On Jan. 30 Kim Kardashian flashed some major cleavage to her 12.8 million Twitter followers, giving them a sneak peek into t ...
• EU Investigates Samsung For Possible Brea ...
  Get Technology Alerts Sign Up Submit this story digg reddit stumble By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics breached antitrust rules by accusing rivals such as Apple of infringing its technology patents, a tactic used by other companie ...
• The risks of over-abusing antibiotics
  The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized the medical treatment of bacterial infections and considerably increased life expectancy of the population. But despite how useful they are, we must still be very careful not to abuse these medications so as not to throw off the balance of the bact ...

no frakking consensus

• What Pachauri Means by ‘Sustainable’
  For the head of the IPCC, sustainable is just another word for a global anti-poverty campaign. Which means that organizations such as his own TERI institute, in poor countries such as India, receive lots of funding.
• Pachauri’s 5-Star Sustainability Summit
  If you were hosting a sustainability conference that criticized energy-intensive lifestyles and over-consumption, would you do it at a five-star hotel?
• 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.

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

• 1/26/12 - 16 States with Pending Legislation t ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...
• 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 ...
• 1/25/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary ...
  2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart - See Gary Johnson (Libertarian), the five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum), and Barack Obama's positions on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.
• 1/25/12 - Credit cards
  2012election.procon.org - Are credit cards good for America? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue.

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

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Watch ‘Big Miracle" and Help the Oceans
  © Oceana Last week we had a great time at the Washington, DC premiere of “Big Miracle,” the true story of an activist who spearheads an international effort to save three gray whales trapped in the ice in northern Alaska. The film stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski (“The Office”) and Oc ...
• Marine Monday: Tasseled Wobbegong
  Image via Wikimedia Commons. Some sharks are fearsome predators, all sharp teeth and angular fins. These are the sharks that inspire epic monster movies and give the word “shark” its fearsome connotations. And then there are sharks that look like a pile of seaweed. The tasseled wobbegong is ...
• CEO Note: The Real Economics of Offshore Drilling
  © 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’s sim ...
• 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, ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• An Open Letter To Apple.
  First of all I am writing this on a MacBook Pro. The first computer I ever bought was an Apple. It was the colorful and cool iMac that looked like a cross between a Volkswagen Super Beetle and the Japanese monster Gamera. I loved it. The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh II, [...]
• 1956 Was The Type of Year That Scared Everyone.
  1956 was the sort of year that scares people to their core. Not just evangelicals or conspiracy theorists, or preachers or scientists. 1956 is the kind of year that scares everyone. The seeds of the world today were planted in 1956 in ways we have rarely paid attention to.     Morocco ...
• 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

• Komen Move to Defund Planned Parenthood Not a ...
  Planned Parenthood confirms that Komen is the first, and only, organization to cut off funding since the Congress began debating the issue in earnest last winter. Komen said it could not continue to fund Planned Parenthood because it has adopted new guidelines that bar it from funding organizati ...
• CNN: Romney ‘Shellacks’ Gingrich in Florida
  Update: Introduced by Ann Romney, who is the best thing in the campaign, Mitt Romney finally decided to make a speech talking to the conservative base. It was exactly what he needed to do and it was good for him. Unfortunately, he couldn’t resist using the word “appease,” as we ...
• Nancy Reagan Rejects Newt’s ‘Legitimate Heir’ ...
  …and so continues Newt Gingrich’s very bad day. He can take heart on one thing. DNI James R. Clapper Jr. has added fuel to Gingrich’s Iranian rhetorical fire, which will make the Republicans day. From the Washington Post today: U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is pr ...
• Leaked Syrian Report at Foreign Policy
  “What I saw was a humanitarian disaster. The regime is not just committing one war crime, but a series of crimes against its people,” said Malek. “The snipers are everywhere shooting at civilians. People are being kidnapped. Prisoners are being tortured and none were released.& ...
• Mitt’s ‘America the Beautiful’ Moment
  A confident Mitt Romney sings “America the Beautiful,” and very recently Obama riffed on Al Green. More and more polls show two things: (1) tonight Mitt Romney will win Florida and (2) Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum will combined get more votes. – Erick Erickson There’s ...

Hudson New York

• Muslims Declare Jihad on Dogs in Europe
  A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are "unclean" animals, and some say the call to ban them in Holland and elsewhere represents an
• London School of Economics Passes Anti-Blasphe ...
  The London School of Economics [LSE] Student Union has passed a mtion effectivly making it impossible for students on campus to criticize Islam. The LSE has arecently been embroiled in another scandal on campus - notably the shutting down of a
• How To Turn Around An Economy
  The eurozone, the group of European Union countries using the euro as their currency, remains a crisis zone. But there is also good news. Ireland, one of the countries hit most severely by the crisis, has clearly begun to reverse its economic fortunes.
• Hamas and Islamic Jihad: An Unholy Marriage?
  The Palestinians' two most radical groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have launched talks aimed at merging under one organization. This is, of course, bad news for moderate Palestinians who believe in the two-state solution and peace with Israel. It is
• Do Football Players Study For Finals?
  December is the month of bowls, football bowls -- some of them with obscure names and others quite familiar such as the Cotton Bowl, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. Christmas has become as much a football festival as a time for religious reflection and

Urban Survival

• S&P Housing: Price Slide Resumes
  Just in from Case-Shiller/S&P: New York, January 31, 2012 – Data through November 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed declines of 1.3`% for both the 10- … Continue reading →
• Coping: Living Through an Earthquake
  We begin the “softer side” of this news this morning with a report from a reader who just lived through this earthquake in Peru: Hi George. I sent you an earthquake statistic analysis a couple of years ago; this just … Continue reading →
• The One Number that Matters
  We burrow into another Monday with all the zest and vigor of an aged and lame elephant, since plodding along slowly with a few investments and slow decision-making seems to work.  Still holding to our gold decision (2001) and silver … Continue reading →
• Coping: Web Bot Runs: FRH2020
  Delayed by the snowstorm up in the Pacific Northwest which brought down internet connectivity at Clif’s place for more than a week, the latest data set should be available for download later today from his site, so check back later … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

• Marc Faber : Bernanke cannot print Gold |MAR ...
• Marc Faber : Housing is bottoming out |MARC ...
• Marc Faber : Housing is bottoming out |MARC ...
• Marc Faber : Housing is bottoming out [del.ici ...
  Marc Faber : Housing is bottoming out
• Marc Faber : Housing is bottoming out |MARC ...

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

• GOP Leadership Wants to Drill Here, There, and ...
  Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC On Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee will mark-up three bills that would require the Administration to drill, baby, drill, and use the revenues from the expanded drilling to fund the t ...
• Is the Tide Turning for Home Rule in Pennsylva ...
  Daniel Raichel, Legal Fellow, New York Just a few short months ago, the prognosis for the longstanding right of Pennsylvania municipalities to protect the health and property of their residents from fracking activities, or indeed any oil or gas dril ...
• The Electric Car and the New Normal
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC About halfway between St. Louis and Chicago, nestled in the fertile corn and soybean fields of Illinois, a quiet electric car revolution is sprouting up in the town of Norma ...
• Officially Listed as Endangered, Sturgeon Are ...
  Brad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York Our oceans are home to any number of remarkable, even bizarre, creatures. Today, one of the country’s largest—the Atlantic sturgeon—has officially been protected under the Endangered Species A ...
• Studying Separation: New analysis points to ne ...
  Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois No big decision is made overnight.  And many of the biggest take years to come together…  before finally, at a critical moment, all of the necessary pieces fall in ...

Injustice Everywhere

• It’s nice to know…
  That these jokers will be making $300k off of my hard work.
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, January 30, 2012: Oakland CA cop shown on video beating an occupy protester with a baton after throwing him on the ground, right after that another cop points out the person recordi ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 01-27 ...
  I’m afraid to say that, once again, work completely dominated my weekend, and I mean completely. So it was incredibly difficult to stay on top of the news feed. I have a backlog of reports I’ll try to work through as I can today, but here are the few reports I’ve been able to [...]
• 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 [...]

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 ...
  Apple names a new SVP of Retail. A study shows that only 27% of Twitter users tweeted over 3 months. EU antitrust is probing Samsung, rubber gloves not included. You...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Thailand welcome’s censored Twitter with open (or closed?) minds. A couple of Twitter users were barred from entering the US, after saying that they were coming to have a good...
• 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...

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 )

• Belgium to source only RSPO-certified palm oil ...
  Belgium will source only palm oil certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) by 2015 under a pledge by an alliance of major processors, manufacturers, and industry associations, reports the RSPO.
• Wall Street Journal under attack for climate o ...
  The Wall Street Journal is under attack for publishing an op-ed attacking climate science last Friday, while turning down another op-ed explaining climate change and signed by 255 researchers with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which was eventually published in the journal Science. The o ...
• Forgotten species: the wild jungle cattle call ...
  The word "cattle," for most of us, is the antithesis of exotic; it's familiar like a family member one's happy enough to ignore, but doesn't really mind having around. Think for a moment of the names: cattle, cow, bovine...likely they make many of us think more of the animals' byproducts than th ...
• Rainforests store 229 billion tons of carbon g ...
  Tropical rainforests store some 229 billion tons of carbon in their vegetation — about 20 percent more than previously estimated — finds a new satellite-based assessment published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The findings could help improve the accuracy of reporting CO2 emis ...
• Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Mon ...
  The world's second largest mining company, Vale, has been given the dubious honor of being voted the world's most awful corporation in terms of human rights abuses and environmental destruction by the Public Eye Awards. Vale received over 25,000 votes online, likely prompted in part by its stake ...

Sierra Express

• Press statement from the Sierra Leone Society ...
  The SLSW views with concern the recent publication by Sierra Express Media of allegations by unknown residents of KGVI Memorial Home about “Inhuman and degrading living conditions at the Kissy Home”. The Society wishes to state categorically that such are unfounded and untrue. The management of ...
• President Koroma heightens national development
  President Koroma, Tuesday 31st insisted all (Sierra Leoneans) should together support development and transformation of Sierra Leone. At the opening of a three day conference on development and transformation held at the Miata Conference Hall, Youyi Building, Freetown, President Koroma, in no do ...
• Koroma’s Diary: Infrastructure in his diary
  Sorry to divert you a bit to this topic. I did promise to take you through President Koroma’s wholesome involvement in the electricity deal that paves way to what we now call a regular power supply system in the country. I think there is wholesome deficit in the area of infrastructure, which I n ...
• SLPP Councillor elects imprisonment
  The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) councillor elect for Ward 369 Constituency 104, Mohamed Kanu Mansaray (in photo), Tuesday 31st was refused bail and taken to Pademba prison shortly after appearing before Magistrate K. Kamanda of Court 2 to answer to police charges. The accused, who a few d ...
• Mr. Idiot: Development, transformation – good ...
  Mr. Idiot wants all know it that his blessed hands are on … and on crews at the secretariat of the Sierra Leone Conference on Development and Transformation.  (Photo: Ibrahim Samura, editor) You surprise em! Need not at all. For who knows the Idiot will tell it that he was groomed to preac ...

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• 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

• Continuing raw milk production in the face of ...
  David E. Gumpert’s latest post over on The Complete Patient blog brings to mind Bill Marler’s reference to him as “the pope of raw milk”. The way David spells it out, the heretic farmers of raw milk are like the … Continue reading →
• Bollywood star washes with raw milk
  Just in case anyone thought that the idea of using raw milk products for skin care purposes was some kind of made-up fantasy, here’s a story from India about a beautiful film star sharing her skin care and beauty secrets: … Continue reading →
• “It’s milk, Jim, but not as we kno ...
  Thursday’s story about the raw milk vending machines in Poland attracted quite a lot of interest among Bovine readers. In fact it was the top story of the week with 1,383 page views as of Sunday morning. Which brings us … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Greece Prime Minister Calls "Crisis Meeting" ...
  Things are going so well in Greece (just one step away from a deal for weeks on end), that Greek officials attack EU and IMF as debt talks stall Greek officials launched a vociferous behind the scenes attack on European Union and International Monetary Fund negotiators as talks in Athens over ...
• Cameron Announces "Open Door" Policy Welcoming ...
  In a move sure to raise the ire of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron says French banks would come to Britain to avoid tax. In comments aimed squarely at Nicolas Sarkozy after the French president reportedly criticised British industry, Cameron said the conc ...
• Privatizing of Gains and Socializing of Losses ...
  I am a fan of Michael Hudson. I was pleasantly surprised to see him on Capital Accounts with Lauren Lyster a few days ago. Capital Account is produced by RT. That stands for Russia Today. I have numerous emails criticizing me for being on "Russia TV". Let's take a look at what Wi ...
• Euro Area Unemployment Rate Up 0.2 Percentage ...
  Courtesy of a Barclays Capital email here are the latest unemployment numbers in Europe. Euro Area: +0.2 to 10.4% based on slight upward revisions in November, September, August. This was the 8th consecutive rise. Austria 4.1% unchanged Belgium: 7.2% unchanged Finland 7.6% unchanged ...
• CNBC's Best Alternative Financial Websites; St ...
  Best Business Blogs 2011 Strategist News presents the Best Business Blogs 2011 This is our third year publishing this ranking. The business blogs field is getting more competitive than ever! Seth Godin continues to dominate the business blogosphere, while Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble st ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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• BFP Exclusive: NATO Member Turkey to Train Lib ...
  Harvesting the Fruits of “Regime Change” in Libya In the last few decades one never-changing modus operandi in our imperial pursuits and operations overseas has been the formation, financing, training, control and domination of our target countries’ military force. Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Tunisi ...
• Why the Military Industrial Complex Supports O ...
  Video- Sibel Edmonds Interview: RT I was scheduled for an interview on the latest developments on the Turkish-Syria topic, however, they had a last minute change and suddenly I was facing questions regarding the latest exposé on Bahrain-Washington Times. If you look carefully you’ll see my eye-b ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...
• Who Does NED Work For?
  The Government Funded National Endowment for Democracy The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is frequently described as a ‘private, not-for-profit foundation.’  At least, at its website, NED acknowledges funding from the US Congress.  In NED’s latest IRS Form 990 filing, over $135 million o ...

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

• MARAD Transfers Ex-Hawaiian Superferries to U. ...
  The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has announced the transfer of the ex-Hawaiian superferries to the U.S. Navy, finally recouping a fraction of the money that the U.S. government [...]
• Maersk Line Sets New Executive Management Team
  With Maersk Line’s new CEO, Søren Skou, now in place, the world’s largest container shipping company has announced a nearly complete overhaul of its executive management team.  Check out what has [...]
• The Earth as Abstract Art: Astrium Captures th ...
  It’s a bit like the Hubble Space Telescope, however in this case the camera points toward Earth. The engineers at Astrium, pioneers in Earth observation and geo-information services, clearly have [...]
• Oil Spill in Brazil’s Santos Basin, Petrobras’ ...
  Petrobras announces that at 8:30 A.M. this Tuesday (January 31), a rupture was detected in the production column of FPWSO Dynamic Producer, which is anchored about 300 kilometers off the [...]
• Brazilian Iron Ore Giant Gets the Short End of ...
  BEIJING (Dow Jones)–China’s Ministry of Transport Tuesday said that it has tightened control over a new breed of super-sized iron ore freighters stopping at Chinese ports, requiring a more stringent [...]

Blogging Canadians

• Gordon V Jackson: the corporate tax cut myth
  Apparently Stephen Gordon is having a hard time figuring out where Andrew Jackson, the chief economist for the CLC, got the bizarre idea that: The argument for corporate income tax cuts has been that increased after-tax corporate profits would be … Continue reading →
• Migration update: RPPE.ORG is up.
  As this blog has migrated over to its own domain and server I will not be accepting any new comments.  For those who have made comments over the past couple of weeks please go here   www.rppe.org and make your … Continue reading →
• On unequalization
  As usual, the Cons' latest attack on social programs - this time the Old Age Security which has played a key role in lifting Canadian seniors out of poverty - is supposedly based on some inescapable lack of fiscal capacity to provide a reasonable standard of living. But the truth is that there's ...
• "He who plays around with pensions ........ "
  "He who plays around with Old Age Security Pension May walk away .... with broken political fingers."
• 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.

Press TV - Middle East

• 11 Iranian pilgrims kidnapped in Syria
  At least eleven Iranian pilgrims have been kidnapped on a road between the Syrian city of Hama to the capital, Damascus, Press TV reports.
• 'KSA-backed groups stoke Syria unrest'
  Russia has accused Saudi-backed Salafist groups of inciting the Syrian unrest and warned against foreign interference in the internal affairs of Syria.
• Russia, China oppose anti-Syria draft
  Russia and China have rejected a potential UN Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution against Syria proposed by undemocratic Arab states and backed by Western powers.
• UN Security Council holds talks on Syria
  The United Nations Security Council has convened again to discuss a draft resolution on Syria backed by a number of Western and Arab countries, Press TV reports.
• Bahrainis rally against job dismissals
  Sacked Bahraini employees have demonstrated in the capital city of Manama against the government demanding return to their jobs, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• Get ready, get set, go!
  2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
• 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 ...

Dissident Voice

• Is Israel on the Road to “Self-destruction”?
  One very well informed and courageous Israeli who thinks the answer is “Yes” is Merav Michaeli, a radio and television presenter who also writes for Ha’aretz. She is completely without fear when it comes to telling it like it is. On 2 January this year, for example, she wrote: “The Israeli gover ...
• Drones Over Iraq: When is a Pullout not a Pullout?
   … the enduring power of our moral example, America is back. — President Obama, State of the Union address, 24 January 2012 First the world was sold imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq with General Colin Powell, at the United Nations in February 2003, asserting: My colleagues, every st ...
• The Arab Spring: Fears and Hopes
  The optimism generated by the Arab spring is now giving way to anxieties about where these changes are taking Arab societies.  The idealism of the young in their millions for a dignified life where human rights are respected, where the rulers serve the people instead of enslaving them, is being ...
• Science v. Lies: Imagining a “Clean Break” wi ...
  A recent column by the always insightful Ray McGovern succinctly demonstrates the problem. The world of science acknowledges matter-of-factly that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. There is simply no evidence for one. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, staffed by speciali ...
• Eyes Wide Shut: With EU Oil Ban U.S. Calls the ...
  When the European Union declared on Monday that it will impose an oil embargo on the Islamic Republic, it set the stage for a new escalation of the Western-created crisis over claims that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama d ...

Destructionist

• “Change Da Channel” Blowin’ ...
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• “Change Da Channel” Blowin’ ...
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• SOPA & ACTA: The Total End of Internet Freedom ...
  On the Monday, January 30th edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with GCN radio host and privacy activist Katherine Albrecht. She has authored and co-authored six books, including the award-winning bestseller Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move wit ...
• SOPA & ACTA: The Total End of Internet Freedom ...
  On the Monday, January 30th edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with GCN radio host and privacy activist Katherine Albrecht. She has authored and co-authored six books, including the award-winning bestseller Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move wit ...
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  Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. Resumes Completion of Canton ...

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  DALLAS, Jan 31, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. /quotes/zigman/593525 AVRW +6.33% , announced it is resuming work on its ethanol plant located in Canton, Illinois. In September 2011, the Company announced a ...

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  Maine renewable energy referendum pushed back year

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  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A coalition that's pushing for a referendum to set a state minimum for renewable energy in Maine fell short of the voters' signatures needed by Monday's deadline to force a November vote. While Maine Citizens for Clean Energy ...

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  Renewable Energy Mergers and Acquisitions Surge 40% in 2011

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  By Andrew Burger | January 31st, 2012 1 Comment Merger and acquisition activity in the renewable energy sector surged 40% in 2011, reaching a record-high $53.5 billion, according to global consultancy PwC, which has been producing an annual review of ...

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  Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC Reports Q1 Fiscal 2012 Earnings

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  30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- On January 30, 2012, Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC ("SIRE") announced its unaudited financial results for the first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2012 ended December 31, 2011. SIRE reported a net income of $8995321, ...

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  Deep-sea Fish Communicate by Sound

  FishChannel.com

  The importance of sound in the ecology of both freshwater and marine systems is poorly understood. At this point, in fact, most of our work consists of making careful observations, which of course is the first step in the scientific process.

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  Charisma Ecology to build 13 new Resorts in Ethiopia

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  Charisma Ecology plans to build resorts in pristine wilderness areas that, although spectacular were seen by only few because of their location. Formed five weeks ago, they plan to build first class cultural resorts in 13 different places.

  Separating the Chicago Area Waterway System is an Important Step to Protect ...

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  "Separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River Basin is a key step to protect both the ecological and economic value of the Great Lakes. More than 30 million people live in the Great Lakes Basin and rely on its abundance of freshwater, ...

  New Ecology Grants Aimed At Restoring Wetlands

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  The Department of Ecology has secured nearly $6 million in federal grant money to protect and restore wetlands and habitat in Puget Sound. The Department received a total of seven grants to fund projects in five counties including Whatcom.

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  Texas town relying on tanker trucks for water

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  By Will Weissert and Ramit Plushnick-Masti AP / January 31, 2012 SPICEWOOD, Texas—Tanker trucks loaded with water have become the lifeline for a Texas lakefront village that came precariously close to becoming the state's first community to run out of ...

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  Water bills to rise by inflation-busting 5.7% hitting families with additional ...

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  The hike is 0.5 percentage points above inflation and comes as water companies prepare to invest as much as £22billion pounds over the next five years. But Ofwat insists that it would have been worse had it not challenged the companies' proposed bill ...

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  Water Power: Out with the New, In with the Old

  CleanTechnica

  Water power has been fairly invisible in recent years as wind and solar have stolen the spotlight, but I think we're going to see a lot more attention put on it soon (and have already begun seeing that in 2012). We're planning a “water power” page for ...

  Zimbabwe rations water to poor after typhoid spell

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  Nation Newsday > News > Nation Zimbabwe rations water to poor after typhoid spell Published: January 31, 2012 9:57 AM By The Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe - (AP) -- Zimbabwean authorities say they are making sure poor townships get uninterrupted ...

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