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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

1 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • India rebuffs US on Iran
    Summary: WASHINGTON: India's seniormost cabinet minister pushed back against the United States on Sunday, rejecting pressure from Washington to curtail oil imports from Iran and disapproving American political rants against outsourcing of jobs. source: Times of Indiaread more
  • HIGHLY INFORMED WESTERNERS AND IRANIANS KNOW T ...
    Summary: It is possible that there will another round of nuclear discussions between the P5+1 and Iran in the near future. Given the extent to which Israel, the United States, and America’s European partners are ratcheting up tensions over the nuclear issue, one hopes that additional talks w ...
  • IAEA Inspectors Free to Inspect All Nuclear Sites
    Summary: The visit was being loudly welcomed by top Iranian officials, with their nuclear chief saying that the inspection would finally end international allegations that the program was anything but a legal, civilian program. Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi added that the IAEA inspectors ...
  • The Arab Spring: Has Iran Passed its Peak of P ...
    Summary: The Islamic Republic's environment is rumbling. The upheaval in the Arab neighborhood, introducing the “Arab Spring” and shaking countries from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, has been “springing” for more than a year and nobody seems to know how incisively the political map will ...
  • What You Can Do to Stop a Catastrophic War aga ...
    Summary: Here is an Action Plan for you to help to defeat the western belligerent loses-lose strategy and promote the peaceful win-win strategy; the aim is to raise awareness and mobilise the public, and bring a motion against sanctions and war on Iran in the House of Commons to defeat the cu ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Gain a healthy balance with Ayurveda
    Re-boot your health in 2012 by letting go of the allopathic medical model of waiting until illness occurs and then treating it. Instead, learn to enhance and encourage health with Ayurveda. A different health paradigmMost people from western industrial societies first...
  • Processed meat once again linked to huge incre ...
    Daily breakfasts with bacon or sausage are still common for many who haven't become vegetarians. Just think about the amount of breakfast burritos and McMuffins sold. Indulging in other processed meats such as lunch and dinner sausages, pepperoni pizzas, salami and corned...
  • Statins increase diabetes in postmenopausal wo ...
    The result of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that statin use in postmenopausal women significantly increases the risk of developing diabetes. In spite of this damning evidence, researchers do not recommend that the American Diabetes Association...
  • Home births have increased by nearly 30 percen ...
    More parents are taking control of their birthing options by choosing home births, says a new study from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Statistics released in late January say home births in the United States have risen by nearly 30 percent between...
  • American Board of Radiology clamps down on ram ...
    Memorizing board certification test questions and relaying them to other doctors soon to take the test themselves has become common practice among radiology doctors seeking to become board certified. But the American Board of Radiology (ABR), as well as a number of educational...

Threat Level

  • Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Count ...
    Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countr ...
  • Megaupload Server Purge Delayed
    A scheduled purging of Megaupload’s data was tentatively shelved Tuesday to give its millions of account holders an opportunity to attempt to retrieve their content from the file-sharing service whose, top officials were indicted on criminal copyright charges.
  • Carder Forced Gang Members to Have Sex to Weed ...
    The mastermind of a carding gang in Georgia devised a novel way for weeding out undercover Feds from his operation - he forced members to have group sex, according to a local police detective who helped bust the ring.
  • New Mobile-Phone Privacy Law Proposed
    Rep. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) unveiled draft legislation Monday requiring mobile-phone carriers to reveal if they are employing tracking software such as Carrier IQ.
  • CIA Claims Publication of Bin Laden Death Phot ...
    The Central Intelligence Agency says releasing images of a dead Osama bin Laden “could trigger violence, attacks, or acts of revenge against the United States.”

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Governors Seek to Slash Taxes as Budget Cu ...
    On Monday, the New York Times claimed that many of the Republican governors who swept to power on 2010 "are adopting decidedly more moderate tones as they begin their sophomore year in office." But that premature conclusion was belied by the AP, which on the same day reported that "many have tr ...
  • Low Capital Gains Taxes Fuel Inequality, Not I ...
    Behind almost all of the disturbing issues raised by Mitt Romney's jaw-dropping tax returns stands one largely unchallenged conservative article of faith. Much lower tax rates for capital gains than income earned through labor, conservatives claim, spur investment, catalyze economic growth and ...
  • Meet the Party of American Capitalism
    President Obama, Mitt Romney has declared repeatedly, "believes America should become a European-style welfare state." While Newt Gingrich warned of the Democrats' "secular-socialist machine," Rick Santorum insisted "President Obama is for income equality. That's socialism. It's worse yet, it's ...
  • Did Romney's $45 Million '08 Campaign Loss Red ...
    When it comes to paying his taxes, Mitt Romney may not have broken the rules; he just plays by a different set of them. His sub-15 percent effective tax rate revealed that Romney used his carried interest exemption, not-so-blind trusts, Cayman Islands investments and Swiss Bank accounts to his ...
  • The GOP Misstate of the Union
    The least surprising element to Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was the Republican talking point that the President's policies have "made our economy worse." Speaker John Boehner regurgitated that point five times during his pre-buttal on Fox News Sunday before concluding last ni ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • 30 US Corporation Spent More on Lobbying than ...
    The News: Elizabeth Warren was on The Daily Show with John Stewart last week discussing how 30 profitable U.S. corporations — including GE, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Verizon and Dupont — spent more money  on lobbying in 2011 than on taxes, and the fact that 29 of them paid no taxes at all in ...
  • Bill Gates Missteps on Climate & Food
    Bill Gates was obviously an important technology pioneer. Unfortunately, his inclination to be a biotechnology pioneer, in the hopes of helping humanity ‘adapt’ to the effects of global warming, is a BIG misstep. I’ve probably written on this in the past—I’ve certai ...
  • Cycling For Everyone — an Expose: Organically ...
    Seamlessly Integrated Bike Flow “Cycling is part of everyone’s life, because it was made part of everyone’s life.” This film, Cycling for Everyone, is a light, moving record of health and happiness. The film shows Amsterdam as a place where sharing the road is easy and safe. ...
  • Types of Green Energy Stickers
    Sustainability and eco-friendly products are becoming a big seller in today’s economy thanks to the greater demand by a more informed and concerned customer base. But many who want to switch to a greener way of living don’t understand the use of certain information indicators, such a ...
  • Ocean Hotspots and Strengthening Winds Driving ...
    Oceanographers from across the world have identified a series of ocean hotspots that have been generated by strengthening wind systems across the planet that are successfully pushing oceanic current polewards, well beyond their known boundaries. The hotspots – locations where the temperatu ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • A young country on the move - NICARAGUA - la j ...
    In Nicaragua the support of the country's youth for the Frente Sandinista has played a decisive role in the country's development under the government of President Daniel Ortega. In this video, young people at grass roots talk about why they identify with the Frente Sandinista. En Nicaragua e ...
  • Axis of Logic Reader, Joseph responds with res ...
    Editor's Note: Axis Reader Joseph comments on the article we re-published yesterday - The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran | Media Critiques |Axisoflogic.com - LMB How saddening... Many of us in the U.S. (the people working day to day) see ourselves slipping down this well-oil ...
  • Giving Voice to US/Israeli Threats Against Ira ...
    Editorial As most readers know, the drumbeat for war on Iran has been building over the last several years in both, the imperial and alternative media. Our question is: if the US/Israeli regime plans to attack, why threaten and not simply do it. The writer of the article below t ...
  • The New York Times and the drive to war agains ...
    31 January 2012 The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year. The article, written by Ronen Bergman, a prominent Isr ...
  • Antibiotics Prove Powerless as Super-Germs Spr ...
    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. The ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD For #shame, #KomenFoundation. You made us choose, and you lose. "Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the country's best-known and best-funded breast cancer organization. Known for it's iconic pink ribbon and annual Race for the Cure event, the organization has invested nearly $2 billion in ...
  • Occupy the Food Supply
    By @KYYellowDog This is why I'm not worried about the "future of the Occupy movement." Occupy is here to stay, because Occupy has given us a way to fight back. Everywhere the One Percent is abusing, exploiting and generally making life more difficult for the 99 Percent, protesters now have a way ...
  • Catholic Bishops Hypocrites in Birth Control C ...
    By @TedFrier Everything you need to know about the Holy Crusade being waged by the Catholic bishops against President Obama over health insurance coverage for birth control can be found in the fact that one of the loudest voices attacking the President for his "War" on Catholicism is the same gu ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Draft Dodge ...
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  • Bullet-to-the-Head Budget Cuts
    By @KYYellowDog Deborah Yetter at the Courier makes a point that needs to be repeated forcefully and frequently: state budget cuts in social services cost not only human lives, but tax dollars. Services for elderly and disabled Kentuckians are facing another round of budget cuts over the next tw ...

Care 2

  • Blue Whales Keep Getting Bigger
    It's easier to grow bigger in the sea with the water holding up your weight, say researchers. Submitted by Brit Valdes-pages to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tigers thriving in Ramnagar Forest Division, U ...
    WWF-Indias conservation initiatives document areas tigers Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Obama's Forest Service Weakens National Forest ...
    The U.S. Forest Service today released a new proposal for the nation's 193-million-acre national forest system that will weaken rules protecting fish and wildlife from logging, livestock grazing, mining and off-road vehicles Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-i ...
  • Towards Zero Poaching of Tigers! VIDEO!
    Poaching is devastating the wild tiger population. If we are ever to realize the recovery of this magnificent species, we must stop poachers in their tracks now. Zero Poaching is more than a slogan; it is a target that we have to aim our efforts towards Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&n ...
  • Protect Moapa Indian Reservation: Shut Down th ...
    Instead of investing in old, outdated technology at Reid Gardner the PUC should invest in clean energy that doesn't make people sick -- like wind, solar, and geothermal electricity and energy efficiency technology. Investments like these will save lives Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbsp ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Exit Polling Coming Any Time Now …
    Fox News Network is revealing its first exit findings right now – 6:01 p.m. document.write(''); Thanks to Townhall.com for the nifty app. PLEASE share any exit poll results you hear about in the comments below! Thanks! YOUR TURN!
  • Voting ABO is a bad idea
    In the real world, there never is the “right” candidate. Why? Because they don’t exist. I think I came to this realization only recently. What can I say? And since I have a lot of years on my tires, it apparently takes a long time to figure out that all of my crushes (asexual) ...
  • Building Women–Lego Style
    Women have come a ways in the last century, but the media can’t take any credit—usually quite the contrary. And look what Lego is doing to address the aspirations of women—Going backwards. New studies reveal that media sexism was the major factor in dooming Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008. Th ...
  • “No Talking Points”: CNN’s Don Lemon
    Who knew that CNN’s Don Lemon had it in him. Lemon, the anchorman’s anchorman, invariably appropriate, nary a hair or word out of place, and therefore, to this viewer, usually a boring snooze. Damn, Don Lemon. Was that really you? After all, Lemon is one of the anchorman Ken dolls, p ...
  • This is HuffPo? Really? + OPEN THREAD
    I was just surfing the newsy websites, looking to see what’s going through the heads of the pundits and bloggers, when I can across an interesting headline: “Newt Gingrich Campaign Leaking Hot Air Ahead Of Florida Primary, GOP Insiders Say.” OK, looks interesting, I thought as ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Social networking meets politics - Park Record
    Social networking meets politics Park Record Those discussing gun control meet in one room, mountaintop removal folks meet in another room, and pro-life arguments meet in another room. And moving in between all the groups is as easy as the click of a button. "I wanted to better inform peopl ...
  • Environmental Group Ranks South's Most Endange ...
    Environmental Group Ranks South's Most Endangered Places Our Amazing Planet by OurAmazingPlanet Staff - Jan 31, 2012 02:58 PM ET Fracking, mountaintop removal and offshore oil drilling are just a few of the top concerns facing the southern United States in 2012. To call attention to these pr ...
  • What Is “Open” and “Transparent” Obama Adminis ...
    Global Warming (blog) What Is “Open” and “Transparent” Obama Administration Hiding on Stream Buffer ... Global Warming (blog) by William Yeatman on January 31, 2012 While environmentalists loathe coal in general, they hate especially coal produced via mountaintop removal mining. Unfortunately fo ...
  • Worth a drive to Knoxville: Barbara Kingsolver ...
    Worth a drive to Knoxville: Barbara Kingsolver and Kathy Mattea Mountain Xpress ... shared Appalachian heritage and casts a spotlight on mountaintop removal mining, a controversial practice that has destroyed over 500 mountains across Appalachia and presents a looming threat to Tennessee's m ...
  • Save mountains in Tennessee, Virginia - TriCit ...
    Save mountains in Tennessee, Virginia TriCities.com Our Tennessee legislature will reconvene soon and legislation to allow continued Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) will be reintroduced, unless the citizens of this state make their opposition to this practice clear to our representatives, senat ...

Memeorandum

  • EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney to Receive Secret Servi ...
    Emmanuel Dunand / ABCNEWS: EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney to Receive Secret Service Protection  —  TAMPA - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been informed that it will start receiving Secret Service protection on Thursday, two campaign sources and a senior Republican tell ABC News ...
  • Democratic groups rake in $19 million in 2011 ...
    Wallacegw / CNN: Democratic groups rake in $19 million in 2011  —  (CNN) - Six groups supporting Democratic candidates announced on Tuesday that their combined 2011 fundraising topped $19 million, according to one of the groups, American Bridge 21st Century.  —  ...
  • Palin: Romney's $17 million in ads bought 'som ...
    Justin Sink / Ballot Box: Palin: Romney's $17 million in ads bought ‘some false narrative’ in Florida  —  Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said that Mitt Romney's aggressive campaign spending allowed him to buy a “false narrative” that p ...
  • In new 'Fast and Furious' report, Democrats cl ...
    Mike Levine / Fox News: In new ‘Fast and Furious’ report, Democrats clear Justice appointees of wrongdoing  —  Democrats investigating the failed gun-running probe known as “Operation Fast and Furious” are laying the blame at the feet of officials in Ariz ...
  • President Obama, First Lady and VP Biden to Ne ...
    William Thomas Cain / ABCNEWS: President Obama, First Lady and VP Biden to Net $5.3M in One-Day Haul  —  President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are all stumping for cash at fundraisers today - expected to raise at least $5.3 million combined for ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Tuesday, January 31, 2012 19:58:02 UTC Wednesday, February 1, 2012 06:58:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 172.50 km (107.19 mi)
  • M 6.3, near the coast of central Peru
    Monday, January 30, 2012 05:11:00 UTC Monday, January 30, 2012 12:11:00 AM at epicenterDepth: 39.20 km (24.36 mi)
  • M 5.0, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    Sunday, January 29, 2012 21:54:20 UTC Sunday, January 29, 2012 06:54:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.2, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    Sunday, January 29, 2012 21:43:25 UTC Sunday, January 29, 2012 06:43:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
  • M 5.0, Kyushu, Japan
    Sunday, January 29, 2012 18:18:24 UTC Monday, January 30, 2012 03:18:24 AM at epicenterDepth: 67.60 km (42.00 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Thorns in the African dream (1)
    Chinese companies are facing problems on the ground in Africa as they ignore local politics and stir hostilities. Wang Xiaojuan opens a two-part article.The importance of Africa to China is easily understood: it offers a huge market, rich supplies of natural resources and raw materials and cheap ...
  • “We should look behind the curtain”
    State-owned companies are pushing for a “Great Leap Forward” in dam building. But Chinese NGOs can hold them to account, environmentalist Yu Xiaogang tells Isabel Hilton. Yu Xiaogang is director of the NGO Green Watershed, based in the city of Kunming, in south-west China. A vet ...
  • China's carbon tax is very real
    An incendiary Wall Street Journal article has accused Beijing of trying to dupe the world with a smokescreen carbon levy. The author is plain wrong, write Yang Mingche and Yang Fuqiang.The news that China may very soon introduce a carbon tax has caused a stir. Of the many articles to address the ...
  • Chinese waste: the burning issue
    The state remains unprepared for the pollution and protests its ambitious garbage-incineration plans could generate, writes Yu Dawei.Since early 2008, China has seen a frenzy of investment in controversial garbage-incineration plants. In the words of Zhang Yi, head of the Shanghai Environmental ...
  • Living landscape
    As the need to reduce the amount of energy and materials used in manufacturing processes becomes more urgent, architects and engineers should look for inspiration in nature, writes Michael Pawlyn.At the start of the industrial revolution, people were scarce and resources were abundant. Today, th ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Count ...
    Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countr ...
  • Megaupload Server Purge Delayed
    A scheduled purging of Megaupload’s data was tentatively shelved Tuesday to give its millions of account holders an opportunity to attempt to retrieve their content from the file-sharing service whose, top officials were indicted on criminal copyright charges.
  • Carder Forced Gang Members to Have Sex to Weed ...
    The mastermind of a carding gang in Georgia devised a novel way for weeding out undercover Feds from his operation - he forced members to have group sex, according to a local police detective who helped bust the ring.
  • New Mobile-Phone Privacy Law Proposed
    Rep. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) unveiled draft legislation Monday requiring mobile-phone carriers to reveal if they are employing tracking software such as Carrier IQ.
  • CIA Claims Publication of Bin Laden Death Phot ...
    The Central Intelligence Agency says releasing images of a dead Osama bin Laden “could trigger violence, attacks, or acts of revenge against the United States.”

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Towards a Policy of Secrecy or Transparency in ...
    Is there a good reason to keep a companies name secret when it is linked to a foodborne illness outbreak? I have a great deal of respect for Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, Deputy Director of the Division of the CDC that is charged with prevention and control of foodborne, waterborne and fungal infectio ...
  • Sharon Jones, Listeria Cantaloupe Victim No. 3 ...
    People should not die from eating cantaloupe.
  • Despite Denials by the Family Cow, PA and MA H ...
    According to press reports, the number of people confirmed sickened by raw milk from a Franklin County Pennsylvania store is on the rise. Last week, the Pennsylvania and Maryland State Health Departments issued an advisory that raw milk sold by The Family Cow store in Chambersburg may contain h ...
  • CDC, FDA and 10 State Health Departments still ...
    In journalism, the “Five Ws and one H” – Who, What, When, Where, Why and How are regarded as the basics of information gathering for news. Perhaps, it is time to do a little journalism? Who became Ill?  A total of 68 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmo ...
  • What is Utah and New Hampshire Agriculture afr ...
    This past week, I read Utah’s S.B. 34 titled “Production and Sale of food in Utah Revisions,” along with its New Hampshire counterpart, H.B. 1650-FN, called “Commerce in Food in New Hampshire.”  As any lawyer would, I immediately asked myself, “what are t ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Bob Lutz: Hey right-wingers, stop atta ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric In the wake of last week's bruising hearing on Capitol Hill about the safety of the Chevrolet Volt (which itself followed an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that concluded plug-in veh ...
  • A word on Nissan Leaf sales, orders and reserv ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric What's up with the sales, orders and reservations of the Nissan Leaf? The Japanese automaker loudly trumpeted the 20,000 reservations it originally collected back in September, 2010 and Nissan's Mark Perry recently told AutoblogGreen that, ...
  • Official: Chevrolet introduces new Ecologic wi ...
    Filed under: Etc., Chevrolet At the Washington Auto Show today, Chevrolet introduced a sticker. Okay, the new Ecologic environmental labels that will be coming to all new Chevy vehicles - starting with the 2013 Sonic - is a lot more than just an adhesive piece of paper. Last year, the EPA re ...
  • Report: CARB's latest ZEV revision could add 1 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding meetings that could put the hammer down on getting more zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) on the road - or so it seems at first glance. CARB, which always looks far down the road, is discussing ...
  • Report: GM CEO stands up for Chevy Volt in D.C ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric What a surprise. Today's Congressional hearing over the Chevrolet Volt fire and the resulting investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration turned out to be contentious. The hearing took pla ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Watch Democracy Now! Intv. With Spanish Judge ...
    Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón is known for ordering the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and seeking to indict members of the Bush administration for their role in torturing prisoners. Now, Garzón himself is facing a trial in Madrid, after right-wing groups objected to his investigat ...
  • From the Archive: Newt Gingrich Outraged Over ...
    Newt Gingrich’s attacks on reporters who’ve asked him tough questions during the 2012 Republican presidential primary may sound familiar to Democracy Now! listeners and viewers. Watch the video above to see Amy Goodman question Gingrich about the GOP’s "war on women,&quot ...
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal Transferred Out of Solitary Co ...
    The Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections tells Democracy Now! it has transferred Mumia Abu-Jamal out of solitary confinement and into general population. The move comes seven weeks after Philadelphia prosecutor Seth Williams announced he would not pursue the death penalty against the imprisoned jo ...
  • Documentarians Take On Power and Corruption: A ...
    Democracy Now! just returned from Park City, Utah, where we covered the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary track for the third year in a row. While there we spoke with Cara Mertes, who oversees the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program and Fund. In this interview, she de ...
  • "Obama’s Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victim ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008. Among the populist pledges rolled out in the speech was tough talk against the too-big-to-fail banks that have funded his campaigns ...

Suzie-Q

  • Mitt Romney Wins: Florida Primary Results 2012
    Mitt Romney Wins: Florida Primary Results 2012 Huff Post- Posted: 1/31/12 08:00 PM ET  |  Updated: 1/31/12 08:08 PM ET Mitt Romney was projected the winner of Tuesday’s presidential primary election in Florida by the Associated Press. The former Massachusetts governor was running ahea ...
  • Just For Fun!
  • Much Unsaid As Romney Cites His Tie To Mexico
    Much unsaid as Romney cites his tie to Mexico By  Michael Kranish Globe Staff   January 31, 2012 MIAMI – Mitt Romney, who rarely discusses his ancestry, has repeated a striking comment in Florida in recent days to soften his rhetoric about immigration and woo the crucial Hispanic voting bl ...
  • Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, ...
    Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks On Mitt Romney Huff Post- Posted: 1/31/12 12:00 AM ET  |  Updated: 1/31/12 09:13 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle. Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal wee ...
  • GOP Seeks Big Changes In Federal Prison Sentences
    GOP Seeks Big Changes In Federal Prison Sentences NPR- by Carrie Johnson January 31, 2012 Every year, federal judges sentence more than 80,000 criminals. Those punishments are supposed to be fair — and predictable. But seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court threw a wrench into the system by rul ...

Solari

  • The Coming Tech-led Boom
    Three breakthroughs are poised to transform this century as much as telephony and electricity did the last. By Mark P. Mills and Julio M. Ottino In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession. Nineteen more followed—along with a century of phenomenal economic growth. Ameri ...
  • Wegelin Clients Pulled $4 bln, Prompting Sale- ...
      By Reuters   Clients pulled some 4 bln Sfr of wealth in short time   Ex-UBS CEO Gruebel: More US attacks on Swiss banks likely   Gruebel: Solution to US tax row will likely be pricey   ZURICH, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The break-up of Switzerland’s oldest ban ...
  • Audit: U.S. Defense Department Can’t Acc ...
    By CNN’s Josh Levs The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing Iraq with a complete list of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, according to two new government audits. The reports come from the office of ...
  • Money From MF Global Feared Gone
    By Scott Patterson and Aaron Lucchetti Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered, according to people familiar with the investigation. As th ...
  • This Is Europe’s Scariest Chart
    Youth Unemployment Across Europe % [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Bing West tells us about “Grit, Strategy ...
    Summary:  Today we have a review of what seems likely to be a major genre of military literature for the next generation, if our experience in Vietnam repeats itself — why we lost in Afghanistan, and how we could have won.  It’s a well-researched, thoughtful book, reviewed by a top p ...
  • Where to go for information about our conflict ...
    Summary:  Our conflict with Iran is complex, multidimensional, with deep roots in history.  On the FM website we’ve provided a series of posts examining aspects of this conflict, each with summaries (and links) to primary sources and expert analysis.  This is especially important since so ...
  • WPR: “Counterinsurgency in the Post-COIN ...
    Summary:  A special issue of World Politics Review reveals the key problems facing the US military.  They provide little meaningful analysis, let alone solutions.  But these articles provide a start for the necessary reevaluation of our fantastically expensive military, foundation for our mad an ...
  • Some foes of the Republic revealed themselves ...
    Summary:  The Republic is dying, its foundation whittled away by a thousand cuts during the past century.  Now its enemies become bolder, assaulting its heart and core.  Sometimes they win; sometimes they fail but prepare the way for the next assault.  Now we must become bolder.  As a sign of ou ...
  • Some foes of the Republic revealed themselves ...
    Summary:  The Republic is dying, its foundation whittled away by a thousand cuts during the past century.  Now its enemies become bolder, assaulting its heart and core.  Sometimes they win; sometimes they fail but prepare the way for the next assault.  Now we must become bolder.  As a sign of ou ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Iran Pushes Back on EU Sanctions
    Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of the most important developments reported in Iran on January 31 regarding Iran’s response to EU sanctions and the IAEA inspectors. Iran’s Oil Minister, Rostam Ghasemi, announced that Iran is working on a plan to stop exporting oil to “some countries, ...
  • CIA Drones Emerge from the Shadows
    U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Pakistan in the years after 9/11 focused primarily on law enforcement and intelligence exploitation through arrest and interrogation—including torture—of suspected terrorists. According to the State Department’s report, Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2002, ...
  • US Intelligence Assessment of Iran’s Nuclear P ...
    DNI James Clapper Testifies at Jan. 31 Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing The United States’ intelligence community’s judgments on Iran’s nuclear program have not fundamentally changed from those revealed in its controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate. In presenting the inte ...
  • As Diplomats Gather at the UN, Russia Still a ...
    As you’ve probably read, diplomatic heavyweights are gathering at the United Nations today for a Security Council meeting on Syria. France’s foreign minister Alain Juppe, UK Foreign Minister William Hague, Hillary Clinton and others are meeting to discuss a new draft resolution on Sy ...
  • 2010 Average American Weekly Income: $1,200. W ...
    Public support for the Afghanistan war is at an all-time low. According to the most recent PEW poll, a majority of Americans (56%) want to bring the troops home as soon as possible. Only 38%  want to maintain troop levels “until the situation has stabilized”. When the poll was conducted back in ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Hurricane Mitt Flattens Newt in Florida
    Mitt Romney and the Republican elite unleashed their full arsenal against Newt Gingrich in Florida—and it paid off big. In a near-total reversal of the results in South Carolina ten days earlier, the former Massaschusetts governor won an emphatic, double-digit victory on Tuesday.  With a five-t ...
  • Gingrich Campaigns Until the Last Minute
    CELEBRATION, FLORIDA—A candidate's election-day schedule can sometimes be as good a predictor of the results as polling. This is the case with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on Florida primary day. Romney, whom polls forecast will walk away with a large victory today, hosted an early morning ral ...
  • From Sea to Shining Sea?
    If you’ve been listening to the pundits, you might think that the only open question in Florida tonight is whether Mitt Romney will croon America the Beautiful in his victory speech.  After that, it’ll be a rose-pedal path to the nomination for the man who establishment-bombed and super PAC-ed  ...
  • When Semantics Mute Substance
    Iowa Congressman Steve King would be a great guest if I ever get to make my surefire TV hit "Lawmakers Say the Darndest Things." King rarely misses an opportunity to make an over-the-top or exceedingly controversial statement. There was the time he said Barack Obama's policies come down on "the ...
  • It's a Toss-Up for Gabby Giffords's Seat
    Before the horrific shooting last year that left her struggling to stay alive, U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords shocked politicos as one of the only Democrats to keep a Republican-leaning seat in the wake of the 2010 Tea Party wave. While her colleagues lost seats in droves and her party lost ...

Buzzflash

  • Why Is the GOP the Party of Hate and Bitterness?
    STEVE JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT South Carolina. The first state to pass an Ordinance of Secession, on December 20, 1860. Lincoln had been elected President. He would not be inaugurated until March 4, 1861. He had declared frequently in his campaign that he had no intention of attemptin ...
  • Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions
    BILL QUIGLEY AND SAM SCHMITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net w ...
  • We Should Not Be Looking to Our Past; We Shoul ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Today's political enthusiasts specialize in fuzzy thinking extraordinaire, an intellectual haven where people can't differentiate between opinion and partisan rhetoric. Recently someone told me the flap over goalie Tim Thomas' refusal to attend a White House ...
  • Birther Queen Orly Taitz, the Mad Woman from M ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The birther movement is back, and its goal is trying to get President Obama knocked off the fall ballot in as many states as possible. Sound preposterous? Well, the movement may be, but the strategy is for real. Look at what is happening in Georgia ...
  • 15 More Important Things Than Newt's Trading i ...
    David Swanson for BuzzFlash at Truhtout While Newt is Bed Hopping and Dishing Out Demagoguery, the World is Burning 1. A war on Iran could kill us all. President Obama said in the State of the Union: "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no optio ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...
  • Post mortem breast implants
    When you leave your body to medical science you might imagine some marvellous discovery among your organs and tissues that leads researchers to the wondrous discovery of a universal anticancer drug or something equally stupendous. In reality, it can be a much more mundane, especially for any wom ...
  • Deodorants still don’t cause breast cancer
    It was perhaps inevitable that a paper published in the journal Journal of Applied Toxicology that showed parabens (a preservative used in underarm deodorants and countless other products) to be present in breast cancer tissue samples would be grabbed by the tabloids and others and turned into t ...
  • Alchemist Chemistry News
    The Alchemist learns how to manipulate tiny polystyrene beads with a set of micro-tweezers this week and spots the smoking gun in forensics using capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity. In the world of chemophobia has asked why parabens are still the focus of research int ...
  • Shape of snowflakes
    On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Public Citizen Urges Senate to Prohibit ‘Congr ...
    The Senate should vote this week to prohibit congressional insider trading but should reinstate a provision addressing political intelligence that has been stripped from the bill under consideration, Public Citizen told senators today.read more
  • NRDC: House Transportation Bill Is No Jobs Bill
    House Republican leaders today introduced their version of a transportation bill, under the guise of so-called jobs legislation.  But by loading the bill up with extreme provisions, GOP leaders are showing they’re more interested in scoring political points than in fixing our roads, i ...
  • Center for Constitutional Rights Condemns Obam ...
    In response to the Obama administration’s decision to admit  interim Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the U.S.read more
  • Rare Southern California Flying Squirrel, Thre ...
    In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued an initial positive decision to protect the San Bernardino flying squirrel under the Endangered Species Act due to threats from climate change and habitat destruction. The Service ...
  • New Report Urges EPA to Abandon Proposed Air P ...
    The long-term health of national parks, wilderness areas and wildlife refuges across the eastern U.S. states, and of the communities that depend on them, could be in jeopardy if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempts some of the oldest and highest polluting coal-fired power plants fro ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Taxing the Rich Won't Help the Poor
    Ted Rall Reacting to and attempting to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street movement, President Obama used his 2012 State of the Union address to discuss what he now calls "the defining issue of our time"--the growing gap between rich an ...
  • Monsanto Returns to the Scene of the Crime
    Scott Edwards Whenever I hear the name Monsanto I can’t help but think about one of the greatest environmental crimes in the history of the United States. Back in 1935 Monsanto bought out a small chemical company located in Anniston, ...
  • Keep the Tax Bill Clean: Republicans Should No ...
    Frances Beinecke House Republicans are once again talking about weighing down the tax relief bill with riders designed to force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and block clean air standards. But, even these lawmakers seem to recogn ...
  • The Next Marx: We Stand at the Verge of a New ...
    John Feffer Lenin graces the cover of a recent issue of The Economist. The Financial Times is running an entire series on the “crisis in capitalism.” Francis Fukuyama, a recovering neoconservative, makes a plea in Foreign Affair ...
  • Hormuz-Mania: Why Closure of the Strait of Hor ...
    Michael T. Klare Ever since December 27th, war clouds have been gathering over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow body of water connecting the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean and the seas beyond.  On that day, Iranian Vice President M ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • New Education About the Blue Planet Project an ...
    Anil Naidoo of Canada's Blue Planet Project Talks with Sharon Kleyne about Maude Barlow and Water Access as a Human Right.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 Sharon Kleyne, host of the Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water syndicated radio talk show, recently interviewed Anil Naidoo of Cana ...
  • A Negotiated End to the Water Wars Is Near
    Many of us remember the film “Chinatown,” starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, which was based in part on real events that fostered water wars when William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests to secure water rights in Northern California.
  • ALEX HILDEBRAND
    Alex Hildebrand passed away at his rural south Manteca home Monday surrounded by what he loved and fought passionately for - his family, farming, and water.
  • Germany: Four-person water charge in Berlin is ...
    GERMAN HOMEOWNERS have a long list of bills to pay every month, starting with water and refuse charges and ending with bills for cleaning the street (dirt and snow) and even lighting the street lamp outside their door.
  • Allen Bushnell, Fish Rap: Bay still crawling w ...
    Allen Bushnell Fish Rap Sand dabs and mackerel took top billing again this week for local fishing, along with a steady catch of Dungeness crab.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Islamic aid to Gaza grows, despite restrictions
    Gaza Strip 30 January 2012 Despite movement and access restrictions on humanitarian staff and supplies, and obstacles to the transfer of funds into Gaza, the number of Islamic organizations working with the vulnerable in Gaza is actually increasing.
  • West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount di ...
    Joe Catron Gaza City 30 January 2012 A married couple, both former political prisoners from the occupied West Bank, recount their years in detention from Gaza, where the husband was deported to following last October’s prisoner swap.
  • Palestinian families denied rights by Israel's ...
    Charlotte Silver 27 January 2012 An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo.
  • Demanding justice for Yousef, a quiet boy kill ...
    Bekah Wolf 27 January 2012 One year after a 17-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli settlers as he farmed with his father in his West Bank village, his killers remain unpunished.
  • California professor under attack for opposing ...
    Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 25 January 2012 The well-funded Israel lobby continues to wage attacks against university faculty, staff and students who engage in Palestine solidarity activism. One professor talks about why he refuses to be silent despite the threats against him, and why he thi ...

The Wonk Room

  • L.A. Times Explains U.S. ‘Seems to Have ...
    U.S. Heat Records Demolish Cold Records 13th Month in a Row; January Ending With Incredible Ratio of 27.5 to 1 in Lower 48 For reasons that no major U.S. news outlet can apparently explain, it has been really, really warm in the middle of winter over much of the country.  How warm is it?  It [...]
  • It’s Cold In Alaska, So Sarah Palin Asks ...
    In a post on her Facebook page, former Alaska governor and former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin noted that Alaska school children don’t get out of school until temperatures drop below -55 degrees fahrenheit. Putting up a photo of her son doing chores in -20 degree weather, Pa ...
  • Jonathan Franzen’s Mixed Messages On Boo ...
    Jonathan Franzen has been in the news lately for saying two things. First, he told attendees at the Hay Festival that e-readers are a threat to our society: Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in [...]
  • GOP Declares Obama Plan That Taxes Banks To He ...
    With the housing crisis still strangling a full economic recovery, President Obama used his State of the Union speech last week to call for further assistance to homeowners who have been able to stay current on their mortgages. The loosely-outlined plan would allow homeowners to refinance their ...
  • ACA Will Likely Boost Florida’s Health S ...
    Republican presidential candidates have been peddling promises to overturn the ACA in an effort to secure votes in the primary elections, and their message has struck a chord in Florida — the state that’s leading the effort in challenging the constitutionality of the law. But as Mark ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Rob Ford's low-hanging fruit
    It's easy to write a blog post when your target is so grotesquely stupid. When he was first elected, Rob (coward) Ford announced that he was going to kill the long-delayed public transportation expansion "Transit City." In return for keeping his suffering suburbanite constituents waiting in the ...
  • If it was an "honour killing" ...
    Shouldn't whoever did it acknowledge their deed fearlessly and suffer the consequences with pride?
  • Ezra Levant: An Enemy of Canada
    Wingnut welfare recipient Ezra Levant has a new book coming out. It's called The Enemy Within. It's not an autobiography however. The slime-ball has decided to return once again to his masturbation fantasies about torturing young Muslim males. That's right. Levant's moved on from Maher Arar t ...
  • harper's Standing in the Polls
    Via "Northern Reflections" we get Susan Riley's "harper wins when voters snooze." She says some interesting things. She mentions harper's numerous fuck-ups, lies and demonstrations of hypocrisy, notes how none of these penetrate the thick skulls of his supporters and then: What about everyone el ...
  • Long Day
    I was going to type something offensive about Patrick Ross for shits n' giggles (as Austin Powers once put it) but I thought better of it. Then one thing led to another and I'm typing a post for the day at 11:44 pm. I think I'll watch a documentary about telescopes instead.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Toronto Councillor Joe Mihevc: Transit City is ...
    Did Mayor Rob Ford overstep the rules of Toronto when he became mayor by stopping Transit City? The question is being raised by City Councillor Joe Mihevc about the cancelling of Transit City without council's approval.
  • Leno and Seinfeld battle at the Super Bowl
    Two titans will do battle at this year’s Super Bowl game, but we are not talking about the Giants and the Patriots. Automotive enthusiasts Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld will go head-to-head for the chance to own the first Acura NSX supercar.
  • Anthony Spencer murder case heats up in Toronto
    This weekend the streets of Malvern in Toronto were littered by bullets with three drive-by shootings. The police have made two arrests, now it's time for the witnesses to talk.
  • Justin Bieber-signed car goes for $40,000 in c ...
    Not long before bidding was to end, the car signed by Justin Bieber and put up for a charity auction at last got a reasonable bid on Friday. The car was sold for $40,000, with the money going to renovate a skateboard park in his Canadian hometown.
  • Bank Study: Majority of Canadians were on budg ...
    A new published study shows that a strong majority of Canadians were able to stay on budget during their holiday spending bonanza. Almost one-third went over their budget by an average of $467, up $38 from a year ago.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • F-35 price tag still climbing?
    The probable price tag for the F-35 fighters the Harper government insists on buying continues to climb. The government has continued to maintain despite all evidence that Canada will pay no more than $16 billion to own and operate the proposed fleet of 65 F-35s, but outside estimates have run a ...
  • Business ethics meet Gadhafi’s Libya
    Canada’s largest engineering firm, Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin has come under criticism for its operations in Libya. A recent story by Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith revealed close ties between the Canadian engineering company and Col. Gadhafi’s son Saadi before the regime collapsed. ...
  • New defence agreement with the U.S.
    Another defence cooperation agreement between the Canada and the United States is signed.
  • Deportation: The cheap road to “justice& ...
    The Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which seeks both to bar the entry of war criminals into Canada and to facilitate their prosecution, entered into force twelve years ago. Four departments and agencies of the government are tasked with implementing the war crimes law: the Canadian B ...
  • Canada, Russia, spies, and the Arctic
    A Canadian naval officer is charged with spying. Will this increase tensions with Russia?

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Obama, DNC Amass $240 Million Campaign War Chest
    January 16, 2012 USA Today By Fredreka Schouten “It’s going to be hard to defeat the guy who as all the money in the world. Obama is like the Yankees of politics.” –KTRN President Obama and the Democratic Party have raised more than $240 million for his re-election, swamp ...
  • The Greatest Conspiracy Of Them All
    January 16, 2012 The Dollar Vigilante By TDV “Like stereotypes, conspiracies exist because there is some truth to them. Perhaps many of them are the truth.” –KTRN I’m reading an interesting book by Gary North called, “Conspiracy: A Biblical View”. I generally like reading Gary ...
  • Escaping the Criminal Caste System in the US
    January 16, 2012 The Dollar Vigilante By TDV “The War on Drugs has failed – everybody knows this. Prohibition does not work.” –KTRN Looks like the Netherlands has a unique crime problem – it doesn’t have enough criminals! According to ncl.nl, “The Dutch justice ministry h ...
  • Ron Paul – America’s Last Chance
    January 16, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Craig Roberts America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect Ron Paul President, or they can descend into tyranny. Why is Ron Paul America’s last chance? Because he is the only candidate who is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by [...]
  • 10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of T ...
    January 16, 2012 Washington Post By Jonathan Turley “Wouldn’t it be amazing if we were really free? –KTRN Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • NYPD Does It Again – Ray Kelly’s Hate Monger O ...
    By Gordon DuffTuesday, January 31st, 2012 The Mossad Specializes in Giving FBI and Secret Service Badges Out to Friends NYPD’s Arab Hate Indoctrination Class Filmaker Phony Fed   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   The story was broken in the New York Post, the Murdoch rag and immedi ...
  • Matthews: Romney is ‘one of the bad guys’
    Mitt Romney may have won the Florida Republican presidential primary, but Chris Matthews is still not a fan. The MSNBC host argued on Tuesday that the candidate couldn’t connect with the American people because his wealth meant he did not have a “yearning to do better.” “ ...
  • Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher exp ...
    Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher explains By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com Constitutional governmen ...
  • Biased? Paid Media Partners Praise Vaccine, GM ...
    When Does Sponsored Positive, Uncritical Coverage of Controversial Global Medical, Food Programs Become a Conflict of Interest? Aaron Dykes Infowars.com January 31, 2012 Reports commonly say Bill Gates– through his philanthropic foundation work– is ‘saving lives’ and &#82 ...
  • 9/11 – Urban Renewal With a Twist?
    By Stewart OgilbyTuesday, January 31st, 2012 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 clea ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Exclusive: Why is there so much apathy or host ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) January 31, 2012 Be it articles by Chris Hedges, myself, Philip A. Farruggio, Gunther Ostermann, other writers, or even when Lo herself posts a documentary having anything to do with relig ...
  • Drones: When is a Pullout not a Pullout? by Fe ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 31 January 2012 “ … the enduring power of our moral example, America is back.” (President Obama, State of the Union address, 24th January 2012.) First the world was sold imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, General C ...
  • The Nature and Effects of Imperialism by Fazal ...
    by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published on imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com January 31, 2012 Multidimensional and complex nature and effects of imperialism on democracy, society, nature, and human nature “At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man ...
  • Richard Wolff: Replace Capitalism
    Dandelion Salad joefriendly on Jan 27, 2012 Economics Professor Richard Wolff details the problems of capitalism and urges our recognizing its obsolescence and replacing it with institutions that truly serve the people. Talk at Church of All Souls in New York City, January 24, 2012. Camera, audi ...
  • Parasite Capitalism: Human Awakening Calling T ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 27 January 2012 Listen to this fable. A man was lying in bed, tired and tormented. Tired because it was the early hours and yet he could not sleep; tormented because the cause of his tiredness was a mosquito, lurking somewhere in the ...

Your New Reality

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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...
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    Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...
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    Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • The Palestine Nakba: decolonising history
    Rashid Khalidi: 'This book is the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis available of the catastrophe that befell Arab Palestine and its people in 1948, known as the nakba. It shows how the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Gideon Levy: God rules all in 2012 Israel, eve ...
    From Jenin to Hebron, we are in the West Bank above all because the majority of Israelis believe that it is not only the land of the patriarchs, but that this fact gives us a patrimonial right to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jewish Voice for Peace statement on BDS
    JVP has grown dramatically in size and influence in the past two years. As part of the ongoing assessment sparked by this growth, JVP reviewed its BDS policy. On the basis of an organization-wide... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Leandros Fischer: Left Zionism exposed
    Herein lies the Zionist left’s main international success: namely the framing of the conflict as being about war and peace between two equal parties, ‘two peoples who fight for the same territory’,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Remembering Howard Zinn
    We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • French Rafale Wins Indian Fighter Tender – Ind ...
    France’s Dassault Rafale has won a $10 billion tender for 126 fighter aircraft from the Indian Air Force, NDTV reported on Tuesday, quoting unnamed Air Force sources.
  • Russia to Modernize 30 Tu-22M3 Bombers by 2020
    About 30 Tu-22M3 strategic bombers from Russia's Long Range Aviation fleet will be modernized by 2020, Russian Air Force spokesman Col. Vladimir Drik said on Tuesday.
  • Armored Vehicles to Blend with Traffic
    Russia's Interior Troops, whose duties include dispersing mass protests, will switch to a new type of armored vehicle that allows for swift deployment, the force’s commander said on Tuesday.
  • Russia to Sell 60 Armored Vehicles to Indonesia
    Russia is set to sell up to 60 infantry fighting vehicles to Indonesia in a deal worth more than $100 million, the Izvestia newspaper cited an unnamed military source as saying on Tuesday.
  • U.S. Police to Buy Izhmash Shotguns
    Izhmash, the manufacturer of the legendary Kalashnikov AK-47, will supply Saiga-12 semi-automatic smoothbore shotguns to a number of police forces in the U.S., Izhmash reported on its web site on Tuesday.

NewsWise

  • Many Children With Liver Transplants From Pare ...
    Physicians at three transplant centers have found in a pilot study that a majority of children who receive liver tissue from a parent can eventually stop using immunosuppression (anti-rejection) medications safely. These drugs, which tamp down natural immune function, have been linked to a bevy ...
  • Arthritis and Cholesterol Drugs Well Tolerated ...
    Research from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey on the FDA-approved drugs Celebrex(r) and Lipitor(r) -- used respectively for arthritis pain and lowering cholesterol -- shows that these drugs are well tolerated in the treatment of recurrent prostate cancer. Preliminary results from an ongoing P ...
  • Breast Cancer Survivors Use At-Home Method t ...
    NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is the first hospital in the New York metro area to offer breast cancer survivors an at-home method for tissue expansion in preparation for breast reconstruction surgery. Patients use a remote control to gradually create a space wi ...
  • Gene Mutation Linked to Inappropriate Lipid Bu ...
    A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of California at San Francisco has discovered that the mutation of a gene encoding a ketone body transporter triggers accumulation of fat and other lipids in the livers of zebrafish.
  • Einstein Promotes Head of Communications and M ...
    Communications and marketing strategist Paul Moniz has been named managing director of communications and marketing at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University after a successful three-and-a-half-year run as a director in the College of Medicine's Philip and Rita Rosen Departmen ...

Natural Health News

  • Is this Better than Drugs for Neck Pain?
    A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that when it comes to neck pain, the best medicine is no medicine.  The study tracked patients with recent-onset neck pain who were treated using either medication, exercise, or a chiropractor.  After 12 weeks, the pati ...
  • The Vitamin D Partner that Helps You Avoid Aut ...
    A new study suggests that vitamins A and D can work together to combat autoimmune disorders.  The activated forms of both vitamins were found to suppress the development of Th17 cells, which produce a number of inflammatory chemicals, including interleukin-17.  When the two vitamins we ...
  • Incredible Examples of Chiropractic and Animal ...
    Parker’s animal chiropractic program is improving quality of life for man’s best friends (and cats too!) Cash Cash was in pain. He could still walk around, but it hurt. Cash, once a free-wheeling dachshund mixed with some cocker spaniel (and maybe a little beagle) was now in a bad way – and th ...
  • Why Are More than One in Ten Americans at Risk ...
    According to a new government report, more than 13% of American adults were treated for mental illness in 2010.  People aged 18 to 25 were more than twice as likely to experience problems or undergo treatment than those aged 50 and older. Women were also more likely to have undergone treat ...
  • The Hidden Key to Optimal Brain Performance
    A growing body of research shows that your gut affects many more bodily functions than digestion.  In fact, the function of your gut is linked to bone formation, learning and memory, and even conditions such as Parkinson's disease. Disruptions to stomach or intestinal bacteria can prompt ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • How Drones Help Break the Monopoly of States
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro This op-ed from today’s NYT reinforces a new orientation towards Mass Atrocity Response Operations (the name of a project founded by Sarah Sewall out of the Kennedy School that is enjoying some traction with the Obama Administration).  Drones can be deployed ...
  • What if Nuclear Proliferation Reduces the Inci ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Political scientist James Fearon has posted (complete with graphs) the results of his own study of whether nuclear states are more or less likely to engage in war in the years following their acquisition of  nuclear weapons.  Here’s his bottom line ...
  • Julian Arato on the Eurozone Crisis and the Ge ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Continuing our series of posts related to Eurozone governance issues, I have invited Julian Arato to offer the following two part comment on the role of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in the EZ crisis and its resolution.  The first part of ...
  • Chevron Ecuador Dispute Heats Up
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford This week was a blockbuster one in the ongoing battle between Chevron and Ecuador. On Wednesday, the arbitral tribunal adjudicating Chevron’s BIT claim issued an Interim Award ordering Ecuador “to take all measures at its disposal to suspend or cause ...
  • Mark Wu Responds to Scott Kennedy
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I want to thank Scott Kennedy for his insightful comments. Kennedy’s work has been instrumental in increasing our understanding o ...

Public News Service

  • Nation’s Forests to be Restored Under Ne ...
    Nation’s Forests to be Restored Under New Planning Rule PHOENIX - Endangered animals, outdoor recreation and the timber industry could peacefully coexist in Arizona's national forests under new management guidelines proposed by the Obama administration. The first "forest planning rule" up ...
  • Study Finds Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in R ...
    Study Finds Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Retail Pork PHOENIX - A serious antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA is becoming more prevalent in retail pork products, researchers say. David Wallinga, senior adviser on science, food and health at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Pol ...
  • AZ Housing Crisis Opens a Unique Job Market
    AZ Housing Crisis Opens a Unique Job Market PHOENIX – Arizona real estate developers were selling houses as fast as they could build them – until the bottom fell out of the market. Now, hundreds of new homes and condos stand empty, threatened with decay and vandalism. What can prope ...
  • "Muchas Gracias", President Obama
    "Muchas Gracias", President Obama PHOENIX – La semana pasada se anunció la restricción a la explotación de una nueva mina de uranio cerca del Gran Cañón. Con tal motivo, un grupo latino sin fines de lucro transmite por la radio un mensaje al Presidente Obama, agra ...
  • Arizona Scores Well On Taxpayer ‘Money-B ...
    Arizona Scores Well On Taxpayer ‘Money-Back Guarantees’ PHOENIX - Arizona stacks up well against other states when it comes to making sure taxpayer-funded economic development subsidies for businesses actually create good-paying jobs. The finding is in a new report from the organizat ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Support a Palestinian Family Fighting to Stay ...
    Reprinted with permission from Mondoweiss. Written by Udi Aloni, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board. There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legisl ...
  • Winter at Salem: Music Center Annual Concert & ...
    The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...
  • Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh fr ...
    As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...
  • Six Common Misconceptions About Gaza That Are ...
    Reposted with permission from www.gazagateway.org In sixth place: “The civilian closure has been lifted and only security restrictions remain”. Gaza is not as isolated from the rest of the world as it was a few years ago, but it is still cut off from the West Bank and it’s hard to find convi ...
  • IDF Investigations: Will There Be Justice for ...
    IDF policy requires a criminal investigation be launched immediately when military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories cause death. But a defective system essentially ensures that the investigation will not be conducted in a fair and impartial manner, enabling soldiers to contin ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • I Am the 0.00000000143%
    I am an individual. I am unique. I am the smallest minority. I am one out of seven billion or so. That’s approximately 0.00000000143%. I am approximately the 0.00000000143%, and I am still significant. I matter. I have as much right to exist in this world as anyone else. I have as much rig ...
  • Fed Members Laughed As Housing Bubble Grew
      CNBC It was good times at the Federal Reserve five years ago: Low interest rates instituted by then-Fed Chief Alan Greenspanhad housing prices booming, the stock market was rising and Fed members were—literally—laughing their way to the…well, central bank. AP Alan Greenspan History ...
  • Tazed again – Park Ranger uses weapon on ...
      SF Chronicle A Montara man walking two lapdogs off leash was hit with an electric-shock gun by a National Park Service ranger after allegedly giving a false name and trying to walk away, authorities said Monday. The park ranger encountered Gary Hesterberg with his two small dogs Sunday af ...
  • PayPal co-founders fund pro-Paul Super PAC
      (Reuters) – Co-founders of online U.S. payment service PayPal, now owned by eBay Inc, donated to the Super PAC funding group supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the group Endorse Liberty disclosed on Tuesday. PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek and Scott ...
  • False Flag? Israeli Subs Capable of Setting St ...
    By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info January 31, 2012 Note: The purpose of this never-before-published information in this article is to describe a possible scenario involving a false flag attack that may trigger a war with Iran. We are not in the business of predicting events; therefore, this is ...

The Air Vent

  • Getting Warmer
    Change you can believe in.  I’ve wondered often why the assumption of a large Climate Science™ body is so against warmer weather.  As many here are noting, I do understand that CO2 will absolutely warm the planet.  Still I am more skeptical than many as to whether that warmi ...
  • Getting Warmer
    Change you can believe in.  I’ve wondered often why the assumption of a large Climate Science™ body is so against warmer weather.  As many here are noting, I do understand that CO2 will absolutely warm the planet.  Still I am more skeptical than many as to whether that warmi ...
  • Sea Ice 2012
    I have reworked my sea ice code to account for leap years and to make it easier to read.  It wasn’t a terribly easy process but it was useful.   Here I will present some plots of sea ice trend as derived from the gridded satellite data.  The purpose of this was to verify their accuracy [...]
  • Sea Ice 2012
    I have reworked my sea ice code to account for leap years and to make it easier to read.  It wasn’t a terribly easy process but it was useful.   Here I will present some plots of sea ice trend as derived from the gridded satellite data.  The purpose of this was to verify their accuracy [...]
  • Circular Reasoning on Rectilinear Propagation ...
    I’ve been spending time working on improved sea ice code.  Anthony Watts asked for something and Steve McIntyre helped find the right R function to get it going. I want to also overlay SST data as well as flow direction in the videos. Hopefully it will lead us to some statistical analysis. ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook promotes Timeline heavily ahead of IP ...
    Facebook and marketing agency Definition 6 have released Timeline Movie Maker, an app that compiles users’ photos, videos and other Facebook activity to create a short personal video. The app is another example of the unique tactics the social network … Continue reading →
  • Facebook gives users option to hide Ticker
    Some Facebook users are seeing a new option to hide Ticker, the real-time activity feed in the right sidebar of the homepage. Although the feature can be distracting, it is a key component of the new Open Graph ecosystem that … Continue reading →
  • Games, mobile, Adele, Adidas, Google, ‘The Sim ...
    This week games grew quite a bit on our list of Facebook pages with the most new Likes. With the social network removing app profile pages on Wednesday, many game pages are being consolidated and seeing massive single-day spikes. A … Continue reading →
  • Inside Social Apps 2012 is in One Week
    February 8 – 9, 2012 | San Francisco     Inside Social Apps 2012 comes to San Francisco in one week! If you haven’t registered yet, $549 early registration prices are still in effect through February 1st (on-site passes are … Continue reading →
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Vitrue, ...
    Vitrue, TBG Digital and Wildfire hired account, search and social and business development personnel this week. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Democratic elections in the Middle East: why t ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the historical, cultural and political reasons behind the triumph of Islamist parties in democratic elections in Tunisia and Egypt, and the ignorance, the stereotyping and the shallow, inaccurate analyses of the phenomenon displayed by US media and politicians.
  • Israelis bulldoze Palestinian home without war ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...
  • Stop Britain’s pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.
  • The ongoing war against truth
    Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...
  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #73
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Shahid Buttar This is Part I of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. Shahid Buttar joins us to discuss the continuous erosion of our civil liberties from illegal domestic surveillance to Guantanamo, NDAA and its discretionary detention provision autho ...
  • Power, Propaganda, and Purpose in American Dem ...
    Democracy of the Few, by the Few, for the Few with the ‘Consent’ of the many By Andrew Gavin Marshall One central facet to the development of the modern institutional society under which we live and are dominated today, was the redefining of the concept of ‘democracy’ that took place ...
  • Help Us Challenge the Main & Quasi-Alternative ...
    How We Differ from the Rest & Why We Need ‘You’ If a few years ago someone had told me that I was going to start a blog, gather a team of like-minded irate partners, expand, and turn the site into an alternative news and information site with daily news, top-notch editorials, independent ana ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” – Banker James Paul International Newsworthy Worries Mount over Blowback of Attack on Iran NATO Urges Iran to En ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Power, Propaganda, and Purpose in American Democracy This podcast examines a concept of power that emerged in the early 20th century United States, born of social unrest and elite fears of revolution, this new conception sought to redefine democracy for the 20th century. That new definition was ...

Afro Spear

  • Byts and Bytes
    His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men
  • About Africa
    “The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...
  • Boko Haram: The New (Black) African Al-Qaeda?
    I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...
  • “The US Plan to Destabilize Sudan” ...
    As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. To start with, the US pays the salaries for the Sudan Peoples L ...
  • The Spell of the Albino
    From Aljazeera English: Africa Investigates  

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Military Industrial Complex at 50
    Exclusive to OpEdNews.com Excerpt from new book "The Military Industrial Complex at 50"
  • Four Favorite Ways to Suffer
    We have, among many choices, four favorite ways to suffer. We can engorge ourselves at the trough of human misery through feelings of deprivation, helplessness, rejection, and criticism. Chances are good that when we're miserable, we're entangled in one or more of these negative emotions.
  • An Ominous Foreboding, Israel vs Iran
    According to Ronen Bergman an analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, writing yesterday in the NY Times magazine, says Israel will attack Iran in 2012. Former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence service Meir Dagan says the Iranian threat is not imminent and a military strike catastr ...
  • Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions
    Test your social justice knowledge with these 13 questions.
  • Why do 99% of reporters cover 1% of the news?
    Last week's "dust-up on the tarmac" between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama typifies the kind of pack conformity coverage that fills wide swaths of the 24-7 news hole. These stories provide easy conflict but little content. They are grist for punditry but contain few calories. And in ...

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 ...
  • Keep the Tax Bill Clean: Republicans Should No ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City House Republicans are once again talking about weighing down the tax relief bill with riders designed to force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and block clean air standards. But, even these ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Tonight’s Analysis This Afternoon
    I think Jamelle has all the essential points down in advance of the Florida results being announced. I think most people are going to accept what should have been obvious as soon as Rick Perry (the one candidate who could have been a conservative alternative to Romney with enough establishment s ...
  • They can (mostly) hear those whistles blowing. ...
    Juan Williams wrote a column on conservative dog-whistles in which he points out the obvious: The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” ...
  • Labor Notes
    A lot of interesting things under the radar right now: 1. It looks like Minnesota is going to have a right to work a person to death law on the ballot this fall. A right-wing legislator is introducing this bill. Republicans control both houses of the Minnesota legislature. If the bill can pass b ...
  • Is the Federal Government Too Generous To Work ...
    The Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that poorly educated government workers make more than they would in the private sector. That’s hardly surprising. What’s equally unsurprising is that pro-business writers are saying that government workers make too much money ...
  • The Extinction of Megaupload
    Although SOPA and PIPA were defeated for now, the corporate-government attack on file sharing continues unabated. Most significantly was the government shutdown of Megaupload a couple of weeks ago. Regardless of an overarching bill ending filesharing, the media companies are using their full pow ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • India: Grain Turns To Gold
    Consider what life was like in Kotrakund village located in Boipariguda block of Odisha's Koraput district. Mukta Pradhani, 40, a widow from this village, had a family land holding that amounted to about two acres of un-irrigated land.
  • Bruce Edwin In the News
    Levine Breaking News interviews film producer Bruce Edwin in a rare interview.
  • Regime Violence Kills Hundreds of Civilians in ...
    She noted that the violence has escalated to the point that the Arab League has had to suspend its monitoring mission. She added that the regime has failed to meet its commitments to the Arab League to halt its acts of violence,
  • Americans Break Off Conventional Arms Control ...
    She cited that last fall, the U.S. government decided that it needs to take action. She said together with a group of other Treaty signatories-NATO allies and partners Moldova and Georgia-we agreed to halt implementation of the Treaty with Russia.
  • 7 Iranian Armed Quds Force Members Captured In ...
    The Quds Force team leader, Sajjad Amiran, said in the video that they acted under the direction of the Assad regime's own security forces, to kill civilian men, women and children in Homs.

environment 360

  • A Vast Canadian Wilderness Poised for a Uraniu ...
    Canada’s Nunavut Territory is the largest undisturbed wilderness in the Northern Hemisphere. It also contains large deposits of uranium, generating intense interest from mining companies and raising concerns that a mining boom could harm the caribou at the center of Inuit life. BY ED STRUZIK
  • Wide Variety of Threats Wiping Out World’s Big ...
    A litany of environmental threats, from forest fragmentation and logging to climate change and disease, are wiping out the world’s biggest trees, according to a published report. In forest ecosystems worldwide, research shows that giant trees have become particularly vulnerable to a changing env ...
  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in ...
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...
  • Fishing ‘Free-for-All’ Decimating South Pacifi ...
    Years of lax oversight, corruption, and political rivalry have allowed industrial fishing fleets from Asia, Europe, and Latin America to decimate fish stocks across the southern Pacific, a “free-for-all” that has pushed one Getty Images A Peruvian fishmeal factory critical species to the ...
  • President Obama Calls For ‘All-of-the-Above’ E ...
    President Obama called for a comprehensive energy policy that would boost production of offshore oil and increase unconventional drilling for natural gas, while also building new clean energy projects on federal land and revising regulations to promote the growth of wind, solar, and other renewa ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Neptune in Pisces 2012-2025, An Ideal Time For ...
    The planet Neptune will be in the sign of Pisces from February 3, 2012 to 2025. Neptune takes about 164 years to make a complete cycle, spending about thirteen years in each sign. Neptune is considered the modern day ruler of the planet Pisces so it will have truly come home after its long journ ...
  • Update on the Unexplained Object at Bottom of ...
    A team of salvage divers has discovered an unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden. "This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the amateur treasure hunters. Sonar readings ...
  • Vatican is shaken by corruption scandal
    An Italian television investigation has revealed that a deputy governor of the Vatican was transferred last year against his will after complaining about irregularities in the awarding of contracts. The programme showed letters from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano informing Pope Benedict that he h ...
  • Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Tower Of Babel Is Prett ...
    If you live in London you’ll know that 2012 is the year that your journey to work will get significantly more dramatic, at least between the months of July and August, due to a tiny little low-key event known as the Olympic Games. It’s got something to do with running and swimming and stuff—and ...
  • Trafalgar Square Illuminated by Giant Sun - Cu ...
    Just like the lyrics to the Beatles song, it’s been a long, cold lonely winter — but it’s looking a little brighter in London, thanks to an art installation by public art group Greyworld. The artists hoisted a 2.5-ton man-made sun over London’s Trafalgar Square, filling the morning sky with the ...

Russia Today

  • Syria's fate on the line at UNSC meeting
    A major diplomatic battle over the fate of Syria has begun at the United Nations, with Russia and China the only Security Council members challenging the UN's right to ‘meddle’ in sovereign states’ internal problems.
  • ‘EU crisis entering chronic phase’
    Monday's EU summit saw the Czech Republic become the second state to pull out of the budget discipline pact. But with the European Central Bank's mint working flat out, the EU crisis is still deepening, says analyst...
  • Iran sanctions bring political unity but econo ...
    Any economic losses from the EU’s oil embargo on Iran are outweighed by the benefits of the new sense of European unity ushered in by the sanctions. That’s the view of MEP Martin Callanan of the UK Conservative Party.
  • Assad will die like Gaddafi – Syrian opposition
    A leading member of the Syrian opposition has threatened President Assad, his British wife and three children with a bloody Gaddafi-esque end. Meanwhile, the West continues to push for a resolution to help the Syrian...
  • ‘Syria on its knees – prelude to NATO invading ...
    The idea of the Syrian opposition dancing to a foreign tune has been floated by John R. Bradley, author of the book, After the Arab Spring. He says NATO members are committed to toppling the regime and will make Iran...

Not My Tribe

  • Occupy Denver tells DPD to GET BACK!
    Denver occupiers took to the streets last night in solidarity with OCCUPYs nationwide to protest the brutal January 27 clampdown on an attempted squat in Oakland, California. My favorite chant of the evening was “THEY SAY GET BACK, WE SAY FUCK THAT!” but by the march’s end it w ...
  • Occupy Wall Street mentor Adbusters issues lat ...
    Vancouver’s Adbusters Magazine sent the initial callouts to occupy Wall Street, to be the natural successor to unfinished revolutions in Tahrir Square and Madrid. Quickly enough it escaped their grasp. Adusters has issued two dozen “Tactical Briefings” since before September 17 ...
  • Ft Carson conducts pro forma town hall to clea ...
    OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- Ft Carson’s environmental PR team held what’s called a “draft Environmental Assessment,” prerequisite to their addition of a Combat Aviation Brigade to America’s “Best Hometown in the Army”. Except for a car-dealer and realtor ...
  • Israel- Should a nation of land thieves really ...
    Robert Fantina asks this question and answers it well in his excellent commentary Stolen Land- Israel, Settlements and Democracy The green on the maps above represent the original land that Palestinians had for their people back in 1946, now being rapidly stolen away by others up to the year 200 ...
  • Occupy Nigeria- Inspiration for all of Africa
    Per wikipedia, Occupy Nigeria is a protest movement that began in Nigeria on Monday, 2 January 2012 in response to the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government of President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday, 1 January 2012. I believe that Occupy Nigeria actually began much sooner than this, but ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • About that Plastic Used to Package Your Food
    Plastic is everywhere:  In our homes, in our schools, in our kids’ toys, even in the pens we inadvertently chew on. Plastic is also in landfills. About 85% is never recycled! Plastic is how the food industry packages a sizeable percentage of our food. Have you ever noticed the markings on the pa ...
  • Carbs: The Good, the Bad, and the Debatable
    A recent article in the Chicago Tribune, Good Carb, Bad Carb, caught our eye because of its title “Good Carbs, Bad Carbs”. Carbohydrates, to remind you are one of the three macronutrients making up almost all foods, alongside with fat and protein. Over the years both fats and carbs h ...
  • Food Safety: Even Salt Gets Recalled by the FDA!
    This is a guest blog post by Olivia Ho, M.S., R.D. It’s only January but we’re already seeing a long list of food recalls on the FDA’s website foodsafety.gov. Here are some examples, thankfully non are too major: - M.E. Thompson’s deli turkey and ham - Winn-Dixie Stores’s bean ...
  • Three Easy and Healthy Superbowl Snacks for th ...
    This is a guest blog post by Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD Getting your fruits and vegetables may be the last thing on your mind on Superbowl Sunday. Don’t give it another thought. These winning munchies are so delicious that your family and friends may forget they’re good for you, too. Serve the dips ...
  • Sixty Percent of Consumers Worldwide Are Confu ...
    Nielsen recently surveyed over 25,000 people around the globe to learn about healthy eating trends. The marketing research firm published a report earlier this week,with some interesting findings. The most interesting for us is how confused people are by nutrition labels, with 6 out of 10 people ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic handicap ca ...
    Ages and ages ago on the Suggest An Item page, Carolyn asked about reusing handicap parking tags – but I missed it until Raynor recently comment last week. Sorry – not sure how it slipped by me! Anyway, better late than never, Carolyn asked: Every two years my husband’s blue handicap ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leftover chips?
    Mari has emailed asking about leftover chips – as in English chips eaten hot, thick fries not potato chips/crisps – saying her family nearly always have “eyes bigger than their bellies” when they order fish’n'chips and end up with some leftovers: Good thick chips no ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old toaster oven?
    Joel has an old toaster oven and would like ideas on how he can reuse or recycle it: My wife just bought a new toaster oven. The previous one had problems in her eyes, because the spring-loaded door didn’t work as smoothly as when new, and the unit, after three years, had a couple unsightliness ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leached wood ash le ...
    Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle water from a conden ...
    We’ve had an email from Mark: What is the best way to recycle small quantities of hot water from a condenser tumble dryer? I know i could pour it down the toilet, put it on the garden etc, but what are the economical benefits of reusing this clean water. Can it be used (when cold) [...]

Age of Autism

  • Open Letter to the Town of Leroy, NY: Learn Le ...
    By Kevin Barry TOWN OFFICIALS: LISTEN TO AFFECTED FAMILIES, BE PUBLIC AND TRANSPARENT WITH ENVIRONMENTAL TEST RESULTS & DON’T OFFER RIDICULOUS EXPLANATIONS BLAMING THE INJURED. The heavy rains and flooding in August and September 2011 may have lead to a...
  • Sir Crispin Davis and James Murdoch No Longer ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports that James Murdoch, son of beleaguered media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose empire is embroiled in scandal, has stepped down from the GlaxoSmithKline board. See WSJ online HERE. In addition, Sir Crispin Davis, former Chief Executive...
  • Tics and Toxins: Just Before Mystery Illnesses ...
    By Dan Olmsted LEROY, N.Y., January 30 -- New playing fields, including one for girls' softball, were completed the year before the outbreak of tics and other ailments began afflicting girls at Leroy Junior/Senior High School. Aerial photographs compiled by...
  • The Situation Room: Autism, Vaccines, and Agen ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We're proud to welcome Dan Burns as our newest Age of Autism Contributing Editor. Dan has an adult son with autism named Ben, and his perspective and writing style are a great addition to our content. Welcome,...
  • National Autism Association & AutismCollege.co ...
    National Autism Association & AutismCollege.com To Offer Free Online Safety Conference San Diego, CA – The National Autism Association and AutismCollege.com are teaming up in February to offer a free web conference for caregivers of those diagnosed with an Autism...

Global BDS Movement

  • Point Counterpoint: Aim to Promote Human Right ...
    Coming together to push forward an inclusive movement that supports nonviolent action to promote the human rights of the Palestinian people, because only full respect for these rights can lead to peace.
  • Stop the Jewish National Fund Greenwashing
    The Jewish National Fund has designated Sunday 5th February as ‘Green Sunday’, when it encourages people to donate money to ‘plant trees in Israel’.
  • Divestment debate continues
    Stanford Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER) hosted a divestment campaign event Wednesday evening in the Oak Lounge at Tresidder, attended by approximately 30 Stanford students, affiliates and community members
  • Jewish Voice for Peace Statement on BDS
    JVP has grown dramatically in size and influence in the past two years. As part of the ongoing assessment sparked by this growth, JVP reviewed its BDS policy.
  • Palestinian youth and students condemn UK stud ...
    Palestinian student and youth condemn UK student activists for their participation in pro-Israel tour that included a visit to an illegal settlement

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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Pacific Mackerel Stocks That Feed Farmed Salmo ...
    NPR – Farmed salmon, that ubiquitous pink fish decorated with ribbons of fat, can thank the forage fish of the southern Pacific ocean – like anchovy and jack mackerel – for their calorie-rich diet. Indeed, more than 5 pounds of jack mackerel typically can go towards raising one pound of fa ...
  • Australia: Big banks on notice over downgrade
    Herald Sun – Australia’s major banks have been placed on “negative” ratings watch amid renewed concerns about their reliance on global funding markets. Fitch Ratings last night warned the banks had “weaker funding profiles” than global peers with similar credi ...
  • Julian Assange’s extradition battle ente ...
    Guardian – He has been described as everything from Messianic visionary to terrorist, courageous battler for government accountability to sexual abuser. So why not chatshow host? That is the latest surprise incarnation announced by Julian Assange, who last week revealed his next step, afte ...
  • Settlers who went too far – even for Net ...
    Independent – As it is, the demolition of three houses here resulted in a series of “price tag” attacks by settlers, which included vandalised and burned mosques in several Palestinian villages. (Migron settlers are adamant none of them took part.) The Netanyahu government has ...
  • Fighting Escalates in Syria as Opposition Reje ...
    NY Times – As Syrian forces pushed rebels back from strongholds near Damascus on Monday, some of the world’s top diplomats converged on the United Nations to try to press President Bashar al-Assad to leave office through a Security Council resolution. Much of the attention focused on Russi ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
  • Luxury with an ecosan toilet
    Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.
  • From lack to abundance
    Today, Selvi is extremely pleased with the construction of the water tap at her home! Now, she collects enough water for her family without any difficulty.
  • Give a Recurring Gift
    Thirsting to make a DIFFERENCE this year? Sign up for a recurring donation. Every month you can transform the life of someone without safe water.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam t ...
    A crafty state senator has done something so wonderful that we should all be cheering while simultaneously smacking our foreheads, because why didn't we think of this earlier? The hero in question is Virginia senator Janet Howell. The Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   No ...
  • 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 Haaretz. She is completely without fear when it comes to telling it like it is. On 2 January this year, f Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World ...
  • The Canada Party--America But Better
    As so many C2 members enjoyed the other Canada Party video I thought I'd add this one as well. So with a little humor from our northern neighbors who also laugh at their own faults here it is. Submitted by Dandelion G. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Take Down The Tea Party Ten: Unfit to serve
    Every one of these actual, elected representatives to the United States Congress have voted to redefine rape, to gut the Clean Air Act, to reject the science of climate change, to let women die, and to abolish Medicare. Racist, sexist, anti science, crazy Submitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics ...
  • Jimmy Carter unveils truth about Israel
    And the truth shall set them free. Wake Up America. Submitted by Barbara W. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • India: Grain Turns To Gold
    Consider what life was like in Kotrakund village located in Boipariguda block of Odisha's Koraput district. Mukta Pradhani, 40, a widow from this village, had a family land holding that amounted to about two acres of un-irrigated land.
  • Bruce Edwin In the News
    Levine Breaking News interviews film producer Bruce Edwin in a rare interview.
  • Regime Violence Kills Hundreds of Civilians in ...
    She noted that the violence has escalated to the point that the Arab League has had to suspend its monitoring mission. She added that the regime has failed to meet its commitments to the Arab League to halt its acts of violence,
  • Americans Break Off Conventional Arms Control ...
    She cited that last fall, the U.S. government decided that it needs to take action. She said together with a group of other Treaty signatories-NATO allies and partners Moldova and Georgia-we agreed to halt implementation of the Treaty with Russia.
  • 7 Iranian Armed Quds Force Members Captured In ...
    The Quds Force team leader, Sajjad Amiran, said in the video that they acted under the direction of the Assad regime's own security forces, to kill civilian men, women and children in Homs.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Profile of a Rogue State
    by Stephen Lendman America's unmatched globally. However, pound for pound, based on size, its policies, and regional threat, Israel stands out. Daily, its crimes against humanity continue. On January 23, Jerusalem police arrested two Palestinian officials, Khaled Abu Arafeh and Mohammed ...
  • Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies
    by Stephen Lendman Consensus 9/11 seeks "best evidence" proof to dispel official story falsehoods. It's founded on: "(1) The opinions of respected authorities, based on professional experience, descriptive studies, and reports of expert committees. (2) Physical data in the form of p ...
  • Can Occupy Save Labor? The People United Will ...
    By Kevin Zeese The labor movement has been in decline for decades, while more than one-third of employed people belonged to unions in 1945, union membership fell to 24.1% of the U.S. work force in 1979 and to 13.9% in 1998. Today, including all workers public and private, 11.4% are union membe ...
  • Europe's Losing Game
    by Stephen Lendman Partnering with America has consequences. Europe's paying by shooting itself in the foot. On January 23, EU representative for foreign and security affairs, Catherine Ashton, broke the news. She announced an "unprecedented" anti-Iranian oil embargo, effective July 1 ...
  • CDC calls Morgellons’ nanoworms a delusi ...
    By Rady Ananda 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. [Image] ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Resources on pension reform and Old Age Security
    Last week Prime Minister Harper signaled possible cuts to Canada's pension programs, namely Old Age Security benefits for middle- and lower-income seniors. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has produced several resources on pension reform, including analysis of the possible plan to rai ...
  • What economic recovery?
    We've all heard political leaders boast that the Canadian economy has fully recovered from the recession and that the recession was not as severe in Canada as in other countries. It turns out that both of those claims are false because they don't take population growth into consideration. Canad ...
  • Infographic visualizes rising income inequalit ...
    Income inequality has been getting worse in Canada, rising at a faster pace than it has been in the U.S. The inequality is being driven by what’s happening at the very top of the income spectrum: the richest of the rich are breaking away from the rest of us. CCPA's latest infographic illustrate ...
  • University students more than repay tuition co ...
    Our new study released today shows that BC university graduates fully repay the cost of their tuition through taxes after graduation. University graduates in most cases earn more than those without degrees, and therefore pay more taxes. If post-graduation taxes were considered as tuition payment ...
  • Infographic: Canada's CEO Elite 100
    CBC Radio’s weekly series, Type A released a comprehensive infographic based on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' recent report, Canada’s CEO Elite 100: The 0.01%.  Click the image on the right to view infographic in full.   For more information, read the original re ...

World Wide Hippies

  • China, Thailand Welcome Twitter’s Censorship P ...
    By RFE/RL – Thailand and China have welcomed Twitter’s controversial new censorship policy. Thailand’s Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said on January 30 that Twitter ‘s new policy was a “constructive” development and praised the website for “coop ...
  • Photos Of The Week
    Copyright (c) 2011. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Brand-O
    By Dr. Woody ,Worldwidehippies – It’s funny how what look like choices often aren’t, innit? You go to make groceries and you find shelf upon shelf upon shelf full of ‘different’ products which, after you remove the packaging, are functionally indistinguishable from ...
  • Mysterious Illness Plagues Teens
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies- A mysterious illness seems to be plaguing and growing in a number of teens in LeRoy, NY. Most who attend LeRoy High School. The illness that produces Tourette’s like symptoms has risen to 17 and has medical professionals baffled. The illness was thoug ...
  • The Luck of the Irish: Occupy Ireland, The Gif ...
    by Cathleen Falsani.sojo.net - Oh, how I love the Irish. Sure, I’m biased, being half a Celt myself with legion cousins still living on the old sod. (Shout out to the Bradys and Caffreys in Ballyjamesduff!) As a self-confessed Gaelophile, I’ve been following the various Irish Occupy ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Refinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices an ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the East Coast. Some of those closures have been on the East Coast. Others &# ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 9 – Energy Tradeo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...
  • Are President Obama’s Policies Causing U.S. Oi ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my r ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]
  • Venture Socialism?
    Join the forum discussion on this post With the recently announced foreclosure of Vinod Khosla venture Range Fuels, followed by the fire sale of Range Fuels’ assets to Vinod Khosla venture LanzaTech, I have been getting a lot of calls from reporters wanting to discuss exactly what happene ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Grossest Things You're Eating
    Unfortunately, gross food has become the norm in most supermarkets, with packaged food ingredient lists reading more like chemistry homework than something you'd want your family to eat. But in many cases, marketers have figured out a way to keep toxic additives and disease-promoting food packa ...
  • Company Fined for Selling Deadly Birdseed
    A chemical company that sells bird feed sold 73 million bags of insecticide-tainted wild bird food from 2005 to 2008. A federal court plea agreement document filed recently ruled that Scotts Miracle-Gro, the company behind many chemical-based weed killers and fertilizers for lawns and gardens, ...
  • The Real Reason to Ditch Dry Cleaning
    The industrial solvent used in the majority of American dry cleaners has always been risky business. Perchloroethylene is suspected of causing cancer, kidney and liver damage, and nervous system problems and, given its widespread use—more than 500 million pounds are produced in the U.S. each ye ...
  • Michael Pollan's Least Favorite Foods
    Nowadays, even Sherlock Holmes would have trouble navigating the supermarket in search of truly healthy food. Marketing claims, labels, and ingredient lists are confusing—and that's just the point. Food corporations want to keep you baffled and tricked into thinking sugar-packed, salt-loaded, p ...
  • 9 Toxic Kitchen Rip-Offs
    The kitchen is often the heart of the home, a bustling place to enjoy a good meal and mingle. But many common convenience foods, drinks, and gadgets found in the kitchen could be putting your health at risk. In fact, just last month, researchers found evidence that bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemic ...

big think

  • Can Nike Fuel a Mobile Health Revolution?
    The mobile health revolution, which started and took off in overseas emerging markets, is rapidly making its way to the U.S. The past few months have brought a surge of new innovations - the FitBit Ultra, the Jawbone UP and now the Nike+ FuelBand, all of which attempt to combine fitness track ...
  • What Makes Online Dating Work (or Not)?
    What's the Latest Development? A new dating website run by the former president of the Onion wants to make online matchmaking more personal and less gimmicky. The site will take lessons from social media, allowing its users to interact in real time about things that interest them. Users ...
  • Our Two Tribes: David Brooks Weighs in on Char ...
    David Brooks has weighed in Charles Murray’s controversial (but undeniably engaging) Coming Apart.  That’s appropriate, of course, because Murray’s description of our meritocratic elite depends so much on Brooks’ earlier description of our bourgeois bohemians. Brooks’ judgment on Murray: ...
  • Surveillance Cameras to Gather Shopping Data
    What's the Latest Development? That surveillance camera over your shoulder, once there exclusively to protect you and the shops around it, could be being used to gather a wealth of consumer data. New software, designed so that it cannot identify single individuals, can process raw footag ...
  • Why Smokers Can't Get a Date
    My son told me yesterday that he doesn’t think he will be dating this year since he refuses to date any girl who smokes. He is in grade 7. I wonder if the group of girls that I see collected outside of his school in the morning having one more smoke before the school day begins realize that beca ...

Information Liberation

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  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →
  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →
  • Waste Not, Want Not
    A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →
  • A Few Days Yet
    G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →
  • Merry Christmas To All
    That’s it from me this year folks. LibertyGibbert will be officially closed from Friday, 16th December till Thursday, 5th January. You’ll still be able to access all articles in the archive, and comment if you like, but all posts will … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...
  • Post mortem breast implants
    When you leave your body to medical science you might imagine some marvellous discovery among your organs and tissues that leads researchers to the wondrous discovery of a universal anticancer drug or something equally stupendous. In reality, it can be a much more mundane, especially for any wom ...
  • Deodorants still don’t cause breast cancer
    It was perhaps inevitable that a paper published in the journal Journal of Applied Toxicology that showed parabens (a preservative used in underarm deodorants and countless other products) to be present in breast cancer tissue samples would be grabbed by the tabloids and others and turned into t ...
  • Alchemist Chemistry News
    The Alchemist learns how to manipulate tiny polystyrene beads with a set of micro-tweezers this week and spots the smoking gun in forensics using capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity. In the world of chemophobia has asked why parabens are still the focus of research int ...
  • Shape of snowflakes
    On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Toronto In Review: January 2012
    Ford loses power, union shakeups, G20 prisoner news, police continue to go unpunished Toronto Police have been “cleared” yet again, by Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, of responsibility for killing a Toronto resident ...
  • Carpenter's Union and Allies Picket Airport Ho ...
    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Members of the Carpenter’s Union and the Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council staged an early-morning picket of Le Germain Group/ATL Hotels new hotel construction site at the Halifax International Airport. The construction site, managed by Marco Grou ...
  • Carpenter's Union and Allies Picket Airport Ho ...
    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Members of the Carpenter’s Union and the Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council staged an early-morning picket of Le Germain Group/ATL Hotels new hotel construction site at the Halifax International Airport. The construction site, managed by Marco Grou ...
  • Occupy The Family Portrait
    One Occupier Reflects on Occupy Nova Scotia I remember receiving the text from my brother. It said that there were strangers breaking into our house. I raced home to find that a mob of armed thugs, in matching gang clothing, had kidnapped a ...
  • Occupy The Family Portrait
    One Occupier Reflects on Occupy Nova Scotia I remember receiving the text from my brother. It said that there were strangers breaking into our house. I raced home to find that a mob of armed thugs, in matching gang clothing, had kidnapped a ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The sustainable future beckons: an all purpose ...
    David Seaton's News Linksphoto credit to जरा खाजवा की डोक For me this image is pure poetry, it suggests so many things about our world and even about our human nature: the smile of the driver, the people riding snug and dry in the cab, the no nonsense expression on the little bullock's face. ...
  • Thomas Friedman and the hangman
    David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...
  • Barack Obama: a parenthesis between Bush and G ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWho knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics? Maureen Dowd - New York TimesWhy does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Christian Science MonitorGingr ...
  • Goodbye to Etta James
    Too many leaving too fast! DS
  • SOPA + PIPA (additional reading)
    David Seaton's News LinksIf nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Throws Planned ...
    Planned Parenthood has been thrown under the bus by an unexpected group: The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic ...
  • Are Eyes Really a Window Into the Soul?
    Here's something to take our minds off politics for the next few hours as we await word from Florida about just how badly Mitt Romney and his George-Soros-Goldman-Sachs-New-York-Washington-establishment-money-power has crushed Newt Gingrich's people power in today's primary. It comes from a bi ...
  • Reining in Super PACs Won't Be Easy
    Adam Skaggs writes that Congress needs to do something about the tsunami of money coming into campaigns via supposedly independent Super PACs: Super PACs make a mockery of the idea of independence. As Elizabeth Drew wrote recently in the New York Review of Books, today, the “connectio ...
  • Is Nine Months Long Enough for Evangelicals to ...
    Apropos of my post this morning suggesting that Republicans unhappy with the current presidential field will come around, here is Rick Perlstein: I've never been impressed with the argument that Mitt Romney makes for a weak Republican nominee because conservatives don't like him. That's not ...
  • Republicans Don't Like Their Candidates Much A ...
    Steve Benen, posting from his new home at Rachel Maddow's online presence, suggests that at this point in the primary process Republican voters ought to be getting happier with their candidates: And yet, as the Pew Research Center found, rank-and-file Republicans are finding themselves less ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 300: This Is Sparta
    Topics: *There were issues with saving the show so audio quality is lower than normal* Kriss, Kev & Karen list out different people and things that they want to Sparta Kick The list include: George Lucas Nurses People who don’t tip Tyler Perry Wire Bras and many more Share with your f ...
  • IC 299: Racial Free Agent
    Topics: Red Tails is not a good movie Black people’s fear of not supporting Kriss wants to be traded in the racial draft Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe Jay-Z inspires black fathers? Feminista Jones on Open Marriages and relationship advice MLK on a strip club flyer Great moments in White P ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Mark Wahlberg
    Mark Wahlberg is one of today’s biggest action movie stars, but as he sees it, his heroism doesn’t end at a film’s credits. Instead, he fancies himself a real badass off screen, too. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, Wahlberg says that world history would have been d ...
  • IC 298: Nuking Bridges
    Topics: Brian White wants you to watch shitty movies Quality over Quantity when it comes to black movies Bad movies don’t put good actors on SOPA: Why old people shouldn’t make laws Keep your kids off of social media Share with your friends:
  • IC 297: Twinkies
    Topics: Great sports last night Fuck those kind of fans Patriots are so disrespectful MJ was an asshole Drake’s Tattoos Amber Rose, succeeding at doing nothing Companies promoting the fact that they finally got it right When trolling goes wrong Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.
  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.
  • The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
    After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.
  • Warming puts species on collision course
    Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.
  • The world’s New Year’s resolution: ...
    Tense negotiations in South Africa in December laid a path for controlling greenhouse gas emissions across the world, and with those emissions and average temperatures controlling for short-term fluctuations reaching highs in 2010, we should encourage and help efforts to make controls law.

e!Science News

  • Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on ...
    Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers. read more
  • New species of ancient crocodile discovered
    A University of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The extinct creature, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today's crocodiles. Its discovery provides scientists with additional information about t ...
  • Gene mutation in autism found to cause hyperco ...
    New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) might help explain how a gene mutation found in some autistic individuals leads to difficulties in processing auditory cues and paying spatial attention to sound. read more
  • Scripps Research team proves plausibility of n ...
    For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such thinking. Now a group from The Scripps Research Institute has proven an al ...
  • Partisans not locked in media 'echo chambers,' ...
    Despite the fears of some scholars and pundits, most political partisans don't avoid news and opinion sources that contradict their own beliefs, according to a new study. read more

unEarthed

  • Groups Demand That Navy Change Sonar Testing
    Whales, other creatures imperiled by Navy's insensitivity Grey whales are among the creatures threatened by sonar testing. Environmental groups and some ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: The Proof is in the Water
    Coal ash leaching into water in North Carolina Last week we announced our intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency to force the release of lon ...
  • Big News for Our National Forests
    Their water protections are strong, wildlife safeguards need to be stronger Today, the Obama administration’s Forest Service revealed final rules for manag ...
  • Friday Finds: All the Climate Scientists’ Men
    Green seas, climate change horticulture, mercury meddles with melody Photo courtesy of AJC1 Conspiracy theorists descend on Florida climate change plan Plan ...
  • The End of America’s Coal Era?
    The Economist magazine sees a trend When an environmental organization tells you the age of coal is over, it’s fair to dismiss that as mere wishful thinkin ...

Brave New Climate

  • Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
    Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...
  • The folly of making perfection the enemy of ex ...
    Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...
  • Saludos desde Mataelpino
    I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...
  • Burning energy questions – ERoEI, desert ...
    Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re  at it again, this time for ...
  • Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the g ...
    I have published a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy with the title “Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the greenhouse problem? The affirmative case” (currently online first, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.041 — it will appear in the print version, with v ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • A death wish for my family gets me thinking
    Are right-wingers necessarily more violent than left-wingers? Some might think the answer is obvious. Others might think that it’s a question I shouldn’t even ask to begin with. Anyway, I don’t intend to crack it in this post. This one’s just going to be questions, thoughts and ...
  • Towards Israeli elections: What will the next ...
    I have a piece on Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel on the next elections in Israel, scheduled for the end of 2013 but more likely to take place in the coming year. The bottom line: Of all the major parties, none is expected to run in the next elections under a peace platform. Labor&#82 ...
  • Junk the term ‘Israel-Firster’
    American Jewish liberals who use it do so in bad faith, and what they mean by the term is not what Americans hear Even though the term “Israel-Firster,” taken literally, is a fair, accurate description of any number of American Jews – those whose main concern in American politi ...
  • Love letter to dance: Eyal reveals genius in & ...
    Black clothes? Nude clothes? In the program notes for Sharon Eyal and Guy Behar’s House, which recently premiered together with Yasmeen Godder’s The Toxic Exotic Disappearing Act, there were two costume categories listed. Designer of black clothes…so and so. Designer of nude clothes…somebo ...
  • US queer activists slam Israel ‘pinkwash ...
    A group of American academics and artists who identify as part of the LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) community recently released an open letter and petition endorsing the Palestinian call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel. The group, which inc ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • How Bad “Law” From Florida is (try ...
    We all know Florida is developing some….ahhh, interesting “legal” theories.  One notable new legal concept from the Sunshine State is called, “there’s no such thing as forgery, we call it “surrogate signing” down here” (except that wait a minute is ...
  • BOMBSHELL- This is Why The State Attorney Gene ...
    We should all be aware that Attorney Generals from across the country are under tremendous pressure to cave into the banksters and sign off on a secret deal/bribe/extortion.  How do we know that this is a secret deal/bribe/extortion occurring from the White House all the way down to the states? ...
  • The Funniest, Most Bestest Article Yet…s ...
    MATT TAIBBI     Scridb filter
  • Freddie Mac, Betting Against The American Peop ...
    Sigh…. FREDDIE MAC BETS AGAINST aMERICA Scridb filter
  • Jesus Christ- The Original Occupied Protester.
    Forget what you know about Christianity from Sunday school and church.  If you’re not down with the whole Jesus as religion thing, don’t worry, I ain’t preaching here.  What I want you to recognize, all of us, is that despite what churches and religion have done to this guy nam ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Democracy At Work
    In many ways citizens deliberating with citizens is a lot more rare than we think. It happens in coffee shops …Continue reading »
  • On Being Seen
    “Will we be seen, by others I mean?” I looked by at the man who had just asked the question, …Continue reading »
  • The Best Hope for Business is the Business of Hope
    The news is coming in fast and furious. More layoffs. Jobs vanishing altogether. Record profits. Increased employer/employee tensions.  Then from …Continue reading »
  • Coffee as Currency
    This week I tweeted that I’d be heading out to the ElectroMotive line to stand with the workers in their …Continue reading »
  • We Want In
    The Nation magazine recently asked 16 activists and economists the following relevant question: “If you had the ability to reinvent …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    I’m writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as it’s the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck i ...
  • Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
    Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can pr ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
  • “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
    As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →
  • Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the ...
     [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Indian MMRCA: Dassault’s Rafale dumps it ...
    Finally the lowest bidder for the Indian $10.4 billion MMRCA contract has been announced and it seems that the French dumped their prices for the Rafale to beat the Eurofighter by $4-5 million per aircraft
  • No need to panic about global warming
    There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
  • Humans as paradox
    "Man. ... He lives as if he is never going to die and then dies never having really lived" - Dalai Lama
  • Swedish Social Democrats implode as Juholt resigns
    I have long felt that Håkan Juholt was inappropriate as the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats. But what was most disturbing - in this time of transparency - was the opaque manner of his being "appointed and anointed" as leader of the party.
  • The dark side of the sun in Germany
    The costs of subsidizing solar electricity have exceeded the 100-billion-euro mark in Germany, but poor results are jeopardizing the country's transition to renewable energy.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • So Do Those Headlight Restoration Kits Actuall ...
    If, like me, you're a regular watcher of basic cable programming (yay for House marathons on a dreary Sunday!), you've probably seen the ads for those kits that promise to restore car headlights that have fogged over or dulled from oxidation. They promise to clear up that haze quickly and cheap ...
  • Republicans: Expect Legal Challenges To Richar ...
    Republican senators have a buzzy little bee in their collective bonnets over the appointment of Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. See, they're mad that President Obama took it upon himself to finalize the deed while the Senate was in recess, and say hi ...
  • Senators Push Legislation To Make Dollar Coin ...
    The fight over whether or not the dollar should be printed or minted continues. The latest volley of cannon fire in favor of the dollar coin came from Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Arizona's John McCain, who earlier today introduced the Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings ...
  • Amazon Wants To Make Sure Your Tiny Purchase H ...
    Heaven forbid a four-pack of valve caps, weighing maybe about an ounce, not have enough room during shipping to spread out, breathe and generally feel the calming effects of roomy comfort. That must have been the thought process when Amazon decided to send Tara her purchase in a huge box inste ...
  • Should Libraries Let People Look At Porn In Th ...
    There is much discussion in the Seattle area today after a mom claims that while on a visit to her local library with her two young daughters, she spied a man viewing hardcore porn on a computer with a screen that was facing out to the rest of the library. And when she complained about it to th ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Conflict of Interest in Management of Spanish ...
    Inter-American Development BankAnonymous whistleblowers report that the management of the Framework General Fund for Spanish Cooperation (FGE) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is weakened by a conflict of interest. The whistleblowers produced evidence, some of which was published in ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour stops at Auburn Un ...
    WRBL (GA): The American Whistleblower Tour stops at Auburn University Yesterday, GAP's American Whistleblower Tour continued with its first stop of 2012, at Auburn University. The stop featured prominent whistleblowers Sherron Watkins (Enron scandal) and Kenneth Kendrick (peanut butter/Salmon ...
  • If Mitt Romney Believes in Whistleblowers, Wha ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user nmfbihopIn last Thursday's Republican presidential debate, it was refreshing to see a candidate use the term "whistleblower" as the standard for accountability and conflicts of interest. Stated former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, in referencing former House Speaker ...
  • 'On The Media' Revisits the WPEA: Daily Whistl ...
    On The Media: Tom Devine on Whistleblower Protections Summary: GAP’s Tom Devine appeared on this past weekend's episode of On The Media (OTM) to discuss the state of federal whistleblower protections. This segment aired one year after GAP teamed with OTM to reveal which sen ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour Coming to Auburn U ...
    Tour Stop Featuring Prominent Whistleblowers Set for Monday The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is excited to announce the continuation of its successful program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, with the first 2012 stop set for Auburn Universit ...

UK Progressive

  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 7 – The Worl ...
    For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Monday, 31 January 2011 Tweet of the Day: @SherineT‎ visited prison in Cairo wher ...
  • By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn
    by Lois Beckett, ProPublica An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world’s most popular consumer ele ...
  • The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012 and Wh ...
    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 abou ...
  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 6 – A Show o ...
    For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Sunday, 30 January 2011 Tweet of the Day: : @GMubarak‎ Reports we asked @Aljazeer ...
  • Did the U.S. Play a Role in Jamaica’s 2010 Mas ...
    To what extent, if any, did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) participate in the slaughter of scores of Kingston, Jamaica’s, Tivoli Gardens residents on May 24th, 2010? The community was run by drug lord Christopher (Dudus) Coke, a self-proclaimed “president” wanted in the U.S. for ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • On misanthropology
    misanthropology (from Urban Dictionary): the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of hatred in humans misanthropology-the opposite of optimistology. Lost word, sighted on the Neologism thread at (Diggingintheclay) that inspired The Doom ...
  • Is this the beginning of the Euro-Spring? The ...
    From the Facebook page: Movimento-de-Forconi During the last couple of weeks, truck-drivers in an advanced western region with 5 million people have blockaded roads and ports protesting at the sudden 40% rise in the fuel price (due to taxes) which is wiping out their business. The fishermen join ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
    Put those “other comments” and news here. Thanks! Jo Rating: 8.3/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 8.3/10 (4 votes cast)
  • Global Cooling Coming? Archibald uses solar an ...
    David Archibald, polymath, makes a bold prediction that temperatures are about to dive sharply (in the decadal sense). He took the  forgotten correlation that as solar cycles lengthen and weaken, the world gets cooler. He refined it into a predictive tool, tested it and published in 2007. His pa ...
  • New element Governmentium: heaviest known and ...
    New Element Discovered The CSIRO announced the discovery of a perverse, perplexing atom The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together b ...

ReNew America

  • Santorum's 3-year-old daughter taken to Childr ...
    (Philadelphia Inquirer) - The 3-year-old daughter of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was admitted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Saturday and the candidate canceled his Sunday-morning campaign events to be at her side...
  • Allen West to Obama: 'Get the hell out of the ...
    (Patriot Update) - Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) had a strong message Saturday for President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "Get the hell out"...
  • Forget global warming -- it's 'Cycle 25' we ne ...
    (London Daily Mail) - 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...
  • Global warming's 'dirty laundry'
    (Washington Times) - Those who say man alone is responsible for overheating the planet frequently dismiss any role the sun might play. As can be seen in an ongoing freedom-of-information lawsuit leveled against the University of Virginia (UVA), sunshine is precisely what the heralds of climate c ...
  • University blasted for intolerance of Christianity
    (WorldNetDaily) - The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a trial at the district level for a graduate level counseling student who was dismissed from her program for asking that a client with "gay" issues be referred to another counselor because as a Christian she could not affirm tha ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Trailer: The Carrington Event
    The above trailer is for a TV series in development. Here’s the official synopsis for The Carrington Event: Joseph Carrington runs an organic mini-farm on the outskirts of a large, southern town. His rustic lifestyle means ...Trailer: The Carrington Event is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Emergency Light Bulb + Funny Video
    I think this is a great product – it’s an LED bulb that has a battery inside, meaning you get 7 hours of light when your power is out – and it doubles as a ...Emergency Light Bulb + Funny Video is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Funny 2012 Cartoon Video Patrick Ger ...
  • X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worry!
    There are several doom’n'gloom news services out there that report every solar flare as if it will cause the end of the world. SpaceWeather.com has informed us: Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, ...X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worr ...
  • Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?
    Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard ...Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Come ...
  • The Final Four Republican Candidates
    The leader of the free world has enough power to cause TEOTWAWKI via bad policy or religious motivation. And Obama might be out-voted just before the Mayan calendar ends in December. Even for those who ...The Final Four Republican Candidates is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Ron Pau ...

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.
    ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • Newt Gingrich, Bought and Paid for?
    Much has been made in the GOP campaign of Mitt Romney and his alleged tax shelters in foreign banks, and rightly so. If there is even a hint of impropriety it is an important issue for voters to consider. In the... read more
  • Nicole Scherzinger to leave X Factor
    by Alice Monroe - X Factor shake-up: Nicole Scherzinger will not be part of the second series this fall, nor will Paula Abdul or Steve Jones LOS ANGELES, CA -- Former Pussycat Dolls' singer Nicole Scherzinger will not continue in her role as judge on the U.S. X Factor in the next ...
  • Jennifer Lopez unsure on marrying again
    REUTERS - Three-times married Jennifer Lopez said on Monday she doesn't know if she'll wed again after splitting up with her Latin pop singer husband Marc Anthony last year.
  • Apple iPad: Happy 2nd Birthday
  • China's reality lost in translation, Davos told
    Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 26, 2012 The West has a skewed view of China which Beijing has to fix if it wants a better reception when it goes shopping abroad, business and political leaders said at the Davos forum Thursday. 'The problem in non-Chinese public opinion is that there's ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Missile Defense Deadlock: What Will It Lead To?
    Moscow does not intend to propose any initiatives on missile defense, which the U.S. could interpret as concessions. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio station. He emphasized the negotiations on this subject proceed with difficulty, b ...
  • Libyan Oil Infrastrusture Assets Seized By the ...
    The unexpectedly quick EU consent to take immediate sanctions against Iran “coincided” with seizure of Libyan oil terminals. To certain extent the negative affect of expected oil shortage for European economy could be minimized in case the utmost is done to boost the Brega and Ras-La ...
  • Looking For Ways to Make Anti-Syrian Aggressio ...
    The recent weeks events in Syria give rise to new apprehensions. Thanks to Russia’s efforts the situation in Syria was not formally included into the agenda of the UN Security Council session that took place on January 24, so the issue was considered indirectly. The official agenda was “The situ ...
  • «Shoot First, Ask Questions Later»
    The news of a plea deal for US Marine Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich charged in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 neither caused a sensation nor even grabbed the headlines for a considerable period of time in the US media and the Internet. Initially, Wuterich faced three m ...
  • Independent Libyan Fact-Finding Mission
    The mission of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), investigated alleged widespread international law violations since mid-February 2011. Its mandate included investigating those committed ...

BlogHer

  • Susan G. Komen Strips Planned Parenthood of Fu ...
    When I first heard that the link Susan G. Komen Foundation was screwing over Planned Parenthood , I didn’t believe it. The nation’s most famous breast cancer charity was cutting off its funding to Planned Parenthood because of a right-wing, anti-abortion Congressman? It sounded absurd. It sound ...
  • NaBloPoMo Soup: Add Your February Posts
    You have posts and we want to read them. This is a way for people to post a link to their daily February NaBloPoMo posts that they publish on their personal blogs. Please use the linky feature below daily to add your post, and peruse the ones already entered in order to find great things to read ...
  • Love and Happiness: How Love Can Keep You Happy
    Question:  How can having more love in my life help me feel happier? Short Answer:  Before we can experience unconditional love from others, we first should nurture this in oursel ...
  • Tracking my Progress
    When I started Ashley's 5K program four weeks ago, I really only had one goal for myself. If I was going to run, I was going to run the entire distance. Now, I wasn't crazy enough to think I could actually run without stopping, so I worked out a system. Anytime I needed to walk I would turn a ...
  • Apparently I'm Unemployed
    I remember when I left my job in the broadcasting world to stay at home with my oldest son. The first time I had to fill out a form and leave the employer field blank, it felt... weird. I felt so much connection to JDaniel4's Mom in a recent post. She shared about all of the work she does, all o ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • MSHA announces next phase of ‘Rules to L ...
    Here’s today’s announcement from MSHA: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today launched the third phase of an outreach and enforcement program designed to strengthen efforts to prevent mining fatalities. “Rules to Live By III: Preventing ...
  • Will W.Va. prepare for a post-coal future?
    Gazette photo by Chip Ellis We’ve written before about the proposal from the good folks at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy for a long-term trust fund to prepare our state for the day the coal and natural gas run out … well, today, the center has a new report out that d ...
  • Gov. Tomblin’s mine safety bill finally ...
    Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin waves to the crowd Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 prior to delivering his state of the state address at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) UPDATED: The state mine safety office’s spokeswoman, Leslie Fitzwater says today: The WVOMHS&T report [on the ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 27, 2012
    In a Monday Jan. 23, 2012 photo, Sheila Combs, president of the Upper Big Branch Mining Memorial Group, looks over a sign showing what the Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial will look like in Whitesville, W. Va. Media outlets report that work began Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 on a memorial for 29 min ...
  • Former foreman sues Patriot in methane test sc ...
    The Associated Press is reporting on this, having picked up the story from the Morgantown Dominion Post: An ex-mine foreman who admitted faking safety inspection reports is suing Patriot Coal Corp. and the Federal No. 2 mine bosses who he claims pressured him to falsify data. John Renner is awai ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Terror Defense Based on Resilience Rather than ...
    America is wide open and trusting. This won’t, and shouldn’t, change. The idea of stopping terrorist attacks from occurring is simply foolish in this light, as it’s just too easy to walk into a mall and cause havoc. The message to terrorists (heard by the American people) shoul ...
  • Mormons and Politics | Salon
    Romney avoids mentioning it, but Smith ran for president in 1844 as an independent commander in chief of an “army of God” advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government in favor of a Mormon-ruled theocracy. Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. C ...
  • Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejud ...
    As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brai ...
  • On Customer Service
    I think a lot about customer service. Or, what I really mean is that I get angry a lot about customer service. I’m not speaking of the declining competence of tech support for a phone or Internet service, but more about things like restaurants or coffee shops, i.e. places that are supposed ...
  • Great Impressions
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentNew Headz Up App | SNLAn Intro to DubstepThe Samsung Smart WindowHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Mysterious Illness Plagues Teens
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies- A mysterious illness seems to be plaguing and growing in a number of teens in LeRoy, NY. Most who attend LeRoy High School. The illness that produces Tourette’s like symptoms has risen to 17 and has medical professionals baffled. The illness was thoug ...
  • The Luck of the Irish: Occupy Ireland, The Gif ...
    by Cathleen Falsani.sojo.net - Oh, how I love the Irish. Sure, I’m biased, being half a Celt myself with legion cousins still living on the old sod. (Shout out to the Bradys and Caffreys in Ballyjamesduff!) As a self-confessed Gaelophile, I’ve been following the various Irish Occupy ...
  • Weird Going 14
    When The Going Gets Weird #14 by Mikel K Anna didn’t go. She didn’t go. She didn’t go, so I took her inside, and just as she got to the entrance to The Love Porch, she let go with two hefty craps. Why does this dog do me this way? ——————&#821 ...
  • Music training has biological impact on aging ...
    medicalxpress – Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first to provide biological evidence that lifelong musical experience has an impact on the agin ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: Occupy protests gear up ...
    By Elizabeth Flock,washingtonpost. - After a winter lull at Occupy camps around the country, protesters in Oakland, Calif., Washington D.C. and New York City appear to be gearing up for another fight as spring temperatures are on the horizon. At the Occupy Oakland camp, protests turned violent S ...

reference frame

  • CMS sees a hint of a 700 GeV hadrino
    Or is it a shadron or NLSP? Eva Halkiadakis of my graduate Alma Mater, Rutgers, has presented the newest results of the CMS searches for physics beyond the Standard Model: Update on Searches for New Physics in CMS: Seminar web page, poster, PDF, videoYes, the number of female experim ...
  • Britain, Czechia resist euro cartel treaty
    The eurozone has agreed to establish a fiscal union and all other EU countries except for Britain and Czechia have joined this ill-conceived plan. The countries essentially agreed to pay a fine, 0.1% of the GDP, if they fail to have an essentially balanced budget (less than 0.5% of GDP). ...
  • Alarmists hysterically react to WSJ op-ed
    After the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed signed by 16 prominent scientists that has urged the politicians and policymakers to stop panicking about "global warming" and start to review the money flows directed to climate change alarmism and that has warned about the striking similarity ...
  • HadCRUT3: 2011 was 12th warmest year
    The dataset produced at the center of the Climategate scandals, HadCRUT3 (weather stations), differs from UAH AMSU (satellites), RSS AMSU (satellites), and GISS (weather stations). If you click at the previous links, you will see that unusual coalitions have developed: both GISS (weathe ...
  • Spain abolishes subsidies for new renewable en ...
    Benny Peiser has pointed out the following good news coming from Bloomberg: Spain Suspends Subsidies for New Renewable Energy Power PlantsSpain is finally doing something about its fiscal sustainability. The state-backed borrowings that funded ludicrous (i.e. "renewable") sources of energy ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)
    Somehow ya know that I had to blog this one. Bananas are my staple! In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits ‘trapped’ overseas and the gloomy State of the Stiff Upper Lip as UK family debt ...
  • @MaxKeiser & @StacyHerbert give me an ounce of ...
    A while back Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert sent me 1 ounce of silver after I was the 1000 commentator in a blog article on their site.  This is not just any silver coin. This is the prized Silver Keiser. I didn’t even know that I had won until Stacy informed me by email, asking [...] Relat ...
  • Sometime Today or Tommorrow I Top 3 Million Lo ...
    Yessiree either later on today or early tomorrow, I should top the 3 million loons served mark on MadApeTV. That is over 3 million human beans that have had The Mad Ape seed embedded into their consciousness. If you are reading this then you may or may not have been counted. You see I do [...] ...
  • Planet X Appears in Fredericton
    I was out doing some sunset photography and when I got home and downloaded my photos…..BAM. This was in it. Planet X aka Nibiru has appeared. I took this with my Nikon 3000 DSLR camera. This photograph was not retouched or altered in any way. The version you see here is a jpeg because RAW ...
  • A YouTube Copyright scam that may be stealing ...
    The Making of a Viral Video This will be a long an detailed blog entry, so grab a banana, sit back, and learn about a potential scam running on YouTube right now. This scam is so simple that it is scary, and YouTube does not seem to give a shit. Back in March 2011 I [...] Related posts: PayPal ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Olsen heir plans new Munch gallery
    Norwegian philanthropist Petter Olsen, who inherited part of a shipping fortune along with a vast collection of paintings by Edvard Munch, seems keen to share his valuable collection with the public. He plans to open a private Munch gallery on his rural estate south of Oslo. Newspaper Østland ...
  • Moose meat peddled in Germany
    Among the various Norwegian products on offer at a major food exposition in Germany last week was moose meat, specifically moose burgers, which disappeared almost as quickly as promoters could fry them up and serve them. "Moose (called elg in Norwegian) is exotic in Germany, and we see that i ...
  • Activists seek Eurovision conscience
    Norway's chapter of the Helsinki Committee, known for its advocacy of human rights and democracy, has asked the singers and musicians taking part in this year's Eurovision Song Contest to pay attention to what's happening in Azerbaijan, which will host this year's show. The country, run by a dic ...
  • Editor’s note: Ice freezes updates
    It's been another challenging winter in Norway and even though we haven't had the brutally cold temperatures of the past two years, the street and sidewalks can be hazardous. They can quickly get covered with slippery snow and ice, something the editor of this site painfully experienced first ha ...
  • Official apology for Jewish deportation
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg issued a formal apology on behalf of the Norwegian government on Friday for what he called the "brutal" and shameful deportation of Norway's Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II. The apology came on Holocaust Day, and ahead of what will be the 70th anniver ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Update on Permaculture Pygmies – Introducing S ...
    We built a solar oven made out of cardboard, and showed the pygmies how to purify water through a solar disinfection unit (the SODIS System). We also showed them how to make a filter with a bucket full of sand, gravel and active carbon. by Xavier Fux Who said last days weren’t productive? ...
  • 2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to ...
    by Janet Larsen and Sara Rasmussen The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic c ...
  • Community Design Template for 25-500 Families
    Introduction Back in 2008 I spent 6 weeks in Venezuela. I have a Venezuelan friend who believes as I do that permaculture could and should be a driving force for positive change. We both also believe that the Bolivarian Revolution, championed most famously by the charismatic and controversial ...
  • Permaculture and Wall Street — We Must Tackle ...
    I admire the efforts of the permaculturists at the Occupy Wall Street camp, and I think, judging by his statement way back in 1983 (see below), that Bill would admire them also. Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food’s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The w ...
  • Imaginary Friends
    The weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail and other papers don’t appear to exist. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. The talented line-up of weather forecasters at ‘Positive Weather Solutions’ Click for lar ...

Pointman's

  • If all else fails, just intimidate them.
    Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...
  • Oh, what a wonderful MSM.
    I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...
  • They’re just words.
    If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...
  • Green Myths : There’s only one evil species on ...
    I am not a religious man. For a number of reasons, some intellectual but mostly personal, I don’t even believe in a God but I acknowledge the overall good religion has done in the world, as well as the bad. A religion is after all a man-made thing directed by human beings and will therefore&#160 ...
  • 2011 and climate alarmism.
    We’re nearly at year’s end and in the fight against climate alarmism, it can only be called a vintage year. This was supposed to be the year when they thought they would regain the initiative but it’s only served to confirm how jaded people are with it all. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Event was in ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Big Freedia And The Week New Orleans Took Over ...
    Last week, New Orleans rapper Big Freedia made her national television debut on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Freedia, who has been quickly taking the nation by storm, performed two songs "Excuse," and "Na Who Mad." Although the network appearance was Freedia's national television debut, she showe ...
  • Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions, ...
    Note: See below for quiz answers. Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Question Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net worth of wh ...
  • Community Profile: Betty Wells Allen
    From our friends at VOTE-NOLA: Some members join VOTE out of a sense of social responsibility or a personal mission. For Betty Wells Allen it was all of these forces combined with the joy of helping ex-offenders understand how to thrive in society. “My son was convicted with a life sentence [for ...
  • Inside Orleans Parish Prison, By Rosana Cruz
    From the Bridge the Gulf blog: In a letter to the editors of the Times-Picayune this month, New Orleans resident Mona Castillo wrote that the key to decreasing crime is to make prison "less comfortable." She wrote, "At the present time, jails are more like hotels. Many prisoners live better ...
  • Possible MLK Day Hate Crime Against Civil Righ ...
    Family member had been founder of Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice The following article was originally published by journalist Pete Tucker at TheFightBack.org: Growing up in a civil rights family in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Chuck Hicks remembers the constant threats. “We ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • A Vast Canadian Wilderness Poised for a Uraniu ...
    Canada’s Nunavut Territory is the largest undisturbed wilderness in the Northern Hemisphere. It also contains large deposits of uranium, generating intense interest from mining companies and raising concerns that a mining boom could harm the caribou at the center of Inuit life. BY ED STRUZIK
  • Wide Variety of Threats Wiping Out World’s Big ...
    A litany of environmental threats, from forest fragmentation and logging to climate change and disease, are wiping out the world’s biggest trees, according to a published report. In forest ecosystems worldwide, research shows that giant trees have become particularly vulnerable to a changing env ...
  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in ...
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...
  • Fishing ‘Free-for-All’ Decimating South Pacifi ...
    Years of lax oversight, corruption, and political rivalry have allowed industrial fishing fleets from Asia, Europe, and Latin America to decimate fish stocks across the southern Pacific, a “free-for-all” that has pushed one Getty Images A Peruvian fishmeal factory critical species to the ...
  • President Obama Calls For ‘All-of-the-Above’ E ...
    President Obama called for a comprehensive energy policy that would boost production of offshore oil and increase unconventional drilling for natural gas, while also building new clean energy projects on federal land and revising regulations to promote the growth of wind, solar, and other renewa ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • In Defense of Cassandra (Updated)
    There are reasons to be worried about America's relative decline.
  • Money Changes Everything
    Money won it for Mitt, but it won’t make GOP voters show up to the polls in November, says Paul Begala.
  • Did Romney Clinch It?
    Daily Beast contributors weigh in on Romney’s convincing Florida win.
  • It's Over for Newt
    Eventually, this is going to get embarrassing—and Newt will drop out, probably sooner rather than later.
  • Romney Romps in Florida
    A huge victory cements the ex-governor’s path to the GOP nomination. Howard Kurtz on whether a wounded Gingrich can stay in the hunt.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Despite first loss in 30 years, Nintendo is st ...
    Late last month, Nintendo signaled that for the first time in more than 30 years it was posting an annual loss — of $845 million — something that until recently had seemed virtually impossible. For three decades, Nintendo has been the company people associate with video games. ...
  • Bettman will keep shootout
    The NHL emerged from the lockout with a new look, including a bold new way to determine a winner for each regular-season game. Plenty of skepticism from the purist wing of the sport surrounded the introduction of the shootout. Grumbling about using a skills competition — akin to a home r ...
  • Dragon wins ski costume contest
    A group of eight skiers who performed a dragon dance while sliding down a mountain slope won a costume contest for skiers and snowboarders at a resort on Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture on Sunday. While descending, the group led by Masahiro Kadoki, 43, from Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, he ...
  • Rangers reward Washington with two-year extension
    Ron Washington felt he was the right guy for the job when the Texas Rangers hired him as their manager, despite his inexperience in that role and the rebuilding effort that was just getting started. "I knew that through time things would fall into place," Washington said Monday after getting a ...
  • Temp agency taps cellphones for fast job assig ...
    As cellphones evolve into ever more versatile information tools, one job placement agency has taken the initiative to use the handsets' GPS functions to quickly match workers with temporary jobs. The service enables restaurants and convenience stores, for example, to hire workers on short noti ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • GDP Turns Negative
    Statistics Canada reported today that the economy shrank in November for the first time in six months. This decline was driven by reduced energy production, which partly reflected maintenance shutdowns in the oil patch and unusually mild weather. While those factors may not affect future economi ...
  • Low Income and the Age of Eligibility for OAS
    To reprise a now topical earlier blog,  hiking the age of eligibility for OAS will have the biggest impact by far on future seniors who are in low income. Many if not most of this group are unable to work due to disability or ill health. If the age of eligibility for OAS and GIS [...]
  • AFB Economist Roundtable
    The CCPA organized a very successful economist roundtable yesterday on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.  The event was titled “The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada Escape a Lost Decade?”.  MPs from all parties were invited as were members from a wide variety of civil society organization ...
  • Odious profits and the Enbridge pipeline
    Two obvious but generally unstated details about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline are climate change and that oil and gas companies stand to make mega-profits. An honest appraisal of the project would be something like, “yes, putting in the pipeline will facilitate even more greenhou ...
  • Raising The Retirement Age Is The Wrong Way To ...
    Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement (OAS/GIS) benefits is the worst possible way to deal with the retirement income security crisis facing Canadians. Experts such as former Assistant Chief Statistician Michael Wolfson project that one half of all midd ...

ReDress

  • Democratic elections in the Middle East: why t ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the historical, cultural and political reasons behind the triumph of Islamist parties in democratic elections in Tunisia and Egypt, and the ignorance, the stereotyping and the shallow, inaccurate analyses of the phenomenon displayed by US media and politicians.
  • Israelis bulldoze Palestinian home without war ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...
  • Stop Britain’s pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.
  • The ongoing war against truth
    Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...
  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.

Physics Today

  • Polaris may be losing mass each year
    Science: A new analysis of observations made over the last 160 years suggests that Polaris, also called the North Star, is losing nearly the equivalent of Earth's mass, or just under one millionth of its own mass, every year. Hilding Neilson of the University of Bonn in Germany and colleagues st ...
  • New cell-development technique may obviate nee ...
    BBC: Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in converting mouse skin cells into "neural precursor" cells, which can develop into three types of brain cell. The group's findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may be important f ...
  • Little Ice Age may have been triggered by volc ...
    Daily Mail: A study by University of Colorado scientists has found that four massive tropical volcanic eruptions between AD 1275 and 1300 may be responsible for the Little Ice Age that cooled Earth for hundreds of years, writes Rob Waugh for the Daily Mail. Gifford Miller and colleagues, whose p ...
  • Quantum physics may lead to secure cloud computing
    Gizmag: With the rising popularity of "cloud computing"—the sharing of resources, software, and information over the internet—security is a growing concern. To preserve privacy while users interact with remote computing centers, researchers in Austria have combined quantum computing ...
  • Via synthetic shield, artist explores human de ...
    New Scientist: Jalila Essaïdi, a "bioartist" in the Netherlands, recently worked with an international team to blend spider silk with human skin to try to produce a bulletproof material. The project, called 2.6g 329m/s, involved a Utah State University team, which genetically engineered go ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Water Wars Flood L.A. Central Basin
    “The Current Court Ruling On Jan. 18, 2012 the State Appellate Court ruled that the trial court: 1) had authority to allocate future storage in the Central Basin; 2) had jurisdiction over water transfers between the Central and nearby West Coast Basins; and 3) was not prohibited from appoi ...
  • Remedies for water famine for 2020
    “With Bangalore bursting at its seams with the increasing population, the power shortage, bad civic conditions and the water shortage have posed a major question about the functioning of corporation bodies. “Discussing the daunting question of water availability in the city — the Ban ...
  • Google Brings Water Data to Life
    “Fusion Tables, which was developed by Google engineers using sample research data about the global fresh water crisis provided by the Pacific Institute and Circle of Blue, is specifically designed to unlock a treasure trove of facts, trends, and scientific findings that until now have bee ...
  • Raiding the Bread Basket: Use and Abuse of the ...
    “A fleck of phosphorus fertilizer costs a farmer almost nothing. “But that half pinhead per gallon can cost society millions in lost recreational value and cleanup costs,” said Downing, an Iowa State University professor whose water-monitoring group tests 137 Iowa lakes.  &#822 ...
  • China Cadmium Spill Threatens City Water Supplies
    “SHANGHAI—China’s environmental authorities were redoubling efforts Monday to prevent a spill of toxic cadmium from further tainting water supplies of cities downstream. Official reports have provided little information about the exact cause of the spill, whose impact was first seen ...

D. Kucinich

  • Innerbelt Bridge Delay Unacceptable; Fight for ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after an advisory board to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) voted on a priority list which delays the replacement of the Innerbelt Bridge for 11 years. “Today’s action demonstrates a disturbing ignorance about ...
  • Historic Endorsement: Chicago Teachers Support ...
    Washington D.C. (January 27, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today thanked the 29,000 members of the Chicago Teacher’s Union for their historic endorsement of H.R. 2990, The National Employment Emergency Defense (NEED) Act. “I thank the Chicago teachers for the hard work they do ever ...
  • WE N.E.E.D. JOBS NOW
    Cleveland, Ohio (January 26, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for the immediate enactment of policies to reverse a disturbing rise of poverty rates in Cuyahoga County. “‘America is back,’ said President Obama at the State of the Union address. We are seeing good signs, ...
  • Keystone XL Would Raise Gas Prices, Study Conf ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (January 26, 2012) – Researchers at the Cornell University Global Labor Institute recently published a report that confirms Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) analysis of the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on Ohio. According to the report (PDF), the Keystone XL pipeline wou ...
  • Will MetroHealth Fight For Revenue Or Send Us ...
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) released this statement following news reports that the MetroHealth System posted a $2.7 million loss for 2011: “Today’s news should be a sticker shock for the people of Cuyahoga County. MetroHealth continues to see increases in ‘uncompensated care’ which a ...

Authentically Wired

  • Jury nullification … know it … use it
        … Despite what the John Robert’s corporate owned U.S. Supreme Court says … “we” (the people) as JURORS are the SUPREME LAW of the land …   Jury nullification occurs in a trial when a jury reaches a verdict contrary to the ju ...
  • … Tell me what do you NOT understand &#8 ...
    … Tell me what do you NOT understand … you are a representative of the people … you are a public servant … you serve at our pleasure … You are not God …   Don ‘Tequila’ Shooter: ‘We don’t need no stinkin’ testimony on the bud ...
  • … Why do they NOT have to report ALL gif ...
    … Why do they NOT have to report ALL gifts regardless of size and who gave the gift … Fiesta Bowl scandal spurs gift ban proposals   By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Fiesta Bowl scandal has prompted two state lawmakers to plan legislation that would include an ...
  • to treat you as chattel and a slave
      … You can only get a raise in pay providing you allow Arizona’s government to treat you as chattel and a slave …   … And Brewer had the audacity to wag her finger at the President of the United States …   Filed under: Blogroll
  • … That just ain’t going to happen ...
      … Secrecy and behind closed doors is the SOP mode of Arizona government operations so why would anyone think the manner in which we KILL those sentenced to death would be disclosed and made transparent to you and me …   … That just ain’t going to happen  &#8230 ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Dolphin's death reignites calls for set net ban
    Conservationists angered by the death of a Maui's dolphin in a set net off the Taranaki coast want the practice banned to save the world's rarest dolphin.Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) spokesman Scott Gallacher yesterday said the...
  • Tubby tabby gets first knee replacement
    Because Cyrano weighs more than 20 pounds, amputating his cancer-weakened leg was out of the question. So the tubby tabby's owners turned to doctors and engineers at North Carolina State University to get him back into mice-catching...
  • 'Flesh-eating' bug case causes concern
    A patient in Palmerston North is the latest in New Zealand to be treated for a rare and potentially lethal "flesh-eating" bug.MidCentral District Health Board this morning confirmed a patient had been admitted to Palmerston North...
  • Study seeks to discover why West Coast seal nu ...
    A study is underway to try and find out why the West Coast fur seal population is declining.Massey University researcher Laureline Meynier spent the first week of this year armed with giant butterfly nets and shields, gluing six...
  • Controversial plan taps volcano heat for green ...
    Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this year to demonstrate new technology they hope will boost a green energy sector yet to live up to its promise.They...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • L.A. Times Gets Its Cheops Busted, Sides with ...
    Just yesterday we listened in as California Gov. Jerry Brown made some truly bizarre arguments for maintaining the state’s high-speed rail initiative despite warnings from every expert analyst, objections from two-thirds of the state’s population, opposition from governments and re ...
  • Newt Gingrich Goes "Grassroots," Director of N ...
    The upside of Newt Gingrich's imminent loss in Florida? Now he can become an edgy, grass-roots candidate. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that Iran is upping its spying and its support for terrorism. Clapper also said the country has the capacit ...
  • Gingrich Staffers Attack Ron Paul Supporter in ...
    Yahoo News reports that Newt Gingrich staffers stomped on the flip-flop-wearing feet of a sign-toting Ron Paul supporter in Windermere, a small town outside of Orlando: Noticing the awkward optics, Gingrich aides and security personnel swarmed Dillard, trying to intimidate him i ...
  • A Trip Is Ruined, but Marilyn Monroe Is Safe
    BBC News reports that two British tourists were stopped at Los Angeles International Airport last week and barred from visiting the U.S. because one of them joked on Twitter that he planned to "destroy America" (meaning have a good time) and dig up Marilyn Monroe's remains (a Family ...
  • Ronald Bailey on Scientific Censorship and Avi ...
    Recently, two research teams announced that they had created strains of the avian flu virus that were transmissible between mammals. In the wild, this virus has killed about 60 percent of the 600 people who caught it. Today, based on fears of bioterrorism, the U.S. National Scientific ...

Mercury Rising

  • The budget
    To no one’s surprise, if you do not tax the rich, the budget remains in massive deficit. CBO explains here
  • They Made Sure Everyone Knew Convicted Killer ...
    …yet when a locally-prominent Republican gets noticed nationally for doing something similarly wrong, his party ID is tucked away. I was reminded of that when I saw the teaser for a Huffington Post story: “Politician Arrested for 1979 Murder”. When I read the story, I noticed t ...
  • A basket case of sick puppies
    Carl Hiassen, The Guardian: The Florida Republican primary: a basket case of sick puppies Between Mitt hoping Fidel Castro will ‘self-deport’ from the planet and Newt’s moon shot, it’s a weird GOP race. But this is Florida … In the debates, Romney doesn’t twit ...
  • More on Oakland mass arrests
    Figuring out exactly what happened is going to take some time. However, one key piece of information is this from the NYTimes: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Oakland Police Department to consult with a court-appointed monitor before all major decisions, bringing the department one step c ...
  • Shh! Don’t Let On That The Freeloading 1 ...
    The exercise today for you, the reader, is to connect the dots between the following stories and bits of information: – The real news (and the motivation for the otherwise-inexplicably-appropriate move by the usually-1%-loving French leader) is buried at the end of this Bloomberg article o ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Transformational Entertainment
    GATE, the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, is a nonprofit professional membership community dedicated to fostering the creation, development and distribution of entertainment and media that enlighten, inform and transform our world. read more
  • Crafting Our Activism
    With the mainstream excesses of Valentine’s Day 2012 approaching, Craftivists are cleverly fusing their love for hand-crafting goods with their compassion for those suffering in the world. Sarah Corbett’s London-based Craftivist Collective is a hub of international creativity, inspiring the tran ...
  • Ecstasy and the Escaton
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  • Magic Antidepressants
    Continued studies on the effect magic mushrooms have on the brain are showing that psilocybin, the active ingredient of psychedelic mushrooms, affects key parts of the brain in ways that relate to depression and anxiety disorders. read more
  • 2012: Between Critical and Visionary Thinking
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Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

  • January 31 2012: Goal-Seeked Analyses for Gold
    Unknown Dreaming of great fortunes 1858California gold miner joining the British Columbia goldrush Ashvin Pandurangi: After the Fed’s latest announcement on January 25, in which the central bank said very little more than the obvious ("exceptionally low" fed funds rate at least through late 201 ...
  • The Report That Will Blow Up The Eurozone
    Jack Delano Hot Sugar January 1942Guanica, Puerto Rico. "Burning a sugar cane field. This process destroys the leaves and makes the cane easier to harvest" Ilargi: No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin ...
  • January 25 2012: Occupy Your Own Space
    Dorothea Lange PlantationJune 1937"Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi" Ilargi: For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable to either incumbent politicians or wannabe leaders (unless they’re extremists, perhaps), let alone to t ...
  • January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...
  • January 19 2012: Don't Be Fooled : Nothing's P ...
    National Photo Co. Bond Vault 1914"Treasury Department, Office of Comptroller of Currency -- bond vault. Contains bonds to the value of $900 million securing government deposits and postal savings fund" Ilargi: Double treat today: a thourough big picture interview with Nicole by KMO at C-Realm, ...

Press TV

  • 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.
  • Envoy nixes chance of hit on Iran N-sites
    Iran's Ambassador to Italy Mohammad Ali Hosseini has downplayed the prospect of a US-Israeli venture to launch a military strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities.
  • Pakistan dismisses leaked NATO report
    Pakistan has dismissed as “frivolous” a leaked NATO report on Islamabad helping Afghan Taliban, saying Pakistan is “committed to non-interference in Afghanistan."
  • '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.
  • Iran builds advanced aircraft black box
    Iran has launched the production line of a new domestically-developed version of black box for its fighter jets and military helicopters, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: ...
    This morning CBO released the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022.  Each January, CBO prepares “baseline” budget projections spanning the next 10 years. Those projections are not a forecast of future events; rather, they are intended to provide a benchmar ...
  • How Does the Compensation of Federal Employees ...
    The federal government employs 2.3 million civilian workers, or 1.7 percent of the U.S. workforce, in over 700 occupations and spent about $200 billion in fiscal year 2011 to compensate them. Recently, concern about the federal budget and about equity between the public and private sectors has f ...
  • Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects ...
    In the past two decades, Medicare’s administrators have conducted demonstrations to test two broad approaches to enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in Medicare’s fee-for-service program. Disease management and care coordination d ...
  • Raising the Ages of Eligibility for Medicare a ...
    Raising the ages at which people can begin to collect Medicare and Social Security benefits would be one way to lower federal outlays, raise revenues, and reduce long-term fiscal imbalances. A CBO issue brief released today reviews how ages of eligibility affect beneficiaries under current law a ...
  • Do Public-Private Partnerships Build Roads Mor ...
    Currently, the federal government and state and local governments face calls for more and better highways but confront budgetary constraints in providing them. Some analysts have suggested that public-private partnerships might supply at least a portion of that capacity by providing additional f ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...

Nick Turse

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    kateoplis:  Patrick Brown, Trading in Extinction
  • "For as long as I’ve been in politics, 14 year ...
    “For as long as I’ve been in politics, 14 years, journalists call me and ask if this is the...
  • thedailywhat:Eye Of Newt of the Day: Rude Mu ...
    thedailywhat: Eye Of Newt of the Day: Rude Music Inc, a company owned by founding Survivor member Frank M. Sullivan III, has filed a lawsuit against Newt Gingrich, seeking to bar the presidential candidate from using the band’s biggest hit, “Eye of the Tiger,” at campaign rallies, as well as d ...
  • Twitter Map of NYCThe sharp eye of Marina Gal ...
    Twitter Map of NYC The sharp eye of Marina Galperina at Animal brings you Eric Fischer’s Twitter traffic map of New York.  Galperina writes, “This is New York, with New Yorkers’ trips routed and their geotag density mapped out in “10000 points, 30000 vectors.” What do we learn? Broadway is ‘the ...
  • From IRIN:One of the key moments in the build ...
    From IRIN: One of the key moments in the build-up to the 25 January uprising and the overthrow of Egypt’s former President Mubarak was the alleged beating to death of a young man, Khaled Said, by police in Alexandria - an event which galvanized Egyptians around the issue of police brutality ...
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