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Friday, February 10, 2012

10 February - RSSnapShot! Pt I

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Canada allows spy agency to use info obtained through torture.  

( Interesting. We have just gone through the nonsense of allegations that those tortured yield anything but drivel for the past 10 years south of the 49th;  now we have to contend here with illegal compliance with a policy that serves to generate institutional false witness. Urgent necessity is the spurious premise for the TV show '24' - not for actual operational concerns. 

How does one file criminal charges against purported representatives of the Crown, anyway ? Not that moral turpitude does not seem to be treated as a job requirement.  )

Sharp decline in smoking rate among German teens Deutsche Welle 

Scoop - NZ

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    Link to report below (pdf) .. to make the case for regime change in Syria, the League, currently chaired by Qatar and politically dominated by the US-aligned Gulf monarchies, had to terminate its own observer mission and squelch its report. The report was suppressed because the 166-member obse ...
  • Franco's victims testify in Garzón trial
    In a case brought by the fascist Falange and the fascist trade union Clean Hands (Manos Limpais), Garzón is accused of abusing his judicial power by launching an investigation into the crimes committed during the Civil War (1936-1939) and the dictatorship that continued until Franco’s death in 1 ...
  • Animated: The rise of high frequency trading
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  • Challenging Falkland War Myths
    .. over the Falklands, no one in the UK can claim geographical ties. Instead, leaders here insist that the islanders have the right to self-determination, however much that impacts on the UK. In contrast, Scotland's right to self-determination is not as clearly stated. The impact on the rest of ...

Independent - London

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    Shoulders hunched and their gaze fixed ahead as they hurry through the winding streets, the men of this western Damascus suburb move quickly and quietly as they head to Friday prayers.Related StoriesSyria sinks deeper into the bloodbathBritain compiles dossier of rights abuses in SyriaAleppo be ...
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Innovation Canada

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Unexplained Mysteries

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    Scientists are considering the concept of mind-controlled weapon system and drone interfaces. A study conducted for Britains national academy of scie...
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  • Cave paintings dated back 42,000 years
    Early paintings of seals found in the Cave of Nerja in Spain are thought to be the oldest ever found. The discovery is based on new dating tests condu...

Grassroots

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Climate

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GreenBiz

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Environmental Graffiti

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    Daily Bell: Is the New World Order becoming a reality? David Icke: Yes, it is becoming a reality by the day, quite demonstrably. The projections of the plans that were in my books in the 1990s, like And the Truth will set you Free, which I wrote in 1994, are playing out on the television [...]
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    Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post The British Daily Mail published a stunning admission by “US officials” that Israel is indeed funding, training, arming, and working directly with US State Department listed terrorist organization, the People’s Mujahedin of Ira ...
  • Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
    by: TA Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many Eur ...
  • Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran&#8 ...
    By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Updated: 11:14 a.m. ET — Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s l ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Dublin’s Beautiful 3 Mews Houses Weave Natural ...
    Read the rest of Dublin’s Beautiful 3 Mews Houses Weave Natural Daylight and Lush Gardens Into Its Industrial Aesthetic Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", 3 mews, Dublin, eco apartments, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, gre ...
  • Formafantasma Crafty Vessels are made from Flo ...
    Using sustainable design as a bridge between craftwork and the industry, this collection of earthy vessels combines low-impact materials and old world techniques to create durable, functional objects. Designed by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma, the Autarky Vessels are hand ...
  • DIY: Six Homemade Sweet Treats for Your Valentine
    Read the rest of DIY: Six Homemade Sweet Treats for Your Valentine Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Agave Kiss, Chocolate Covered Apple, Chocolate Spoons, diy valentine's day gifts, green valentines day, Heart Shaped Toaster Pastries, homemade sweet treats, how to ideas ...
  • China’s Yanqing Ice Festival is a Giant Glowin ...
    Read the rest of China’s Yanqing Ice Festival is a Giant Glowing City of Frozen Water Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: china ice city, Chinese ice city, Harbin International Ice Festival, Harbin International Ice Festival ice sculptures, ice buildings, ice city, i ...
  • The New GeoSpring is GE’s Most Efficient Hybri ...
    Today GE announced the launch of GeoSpring, its most energy-efficient hybrid-electric hot water heater. They also announced the opening of their new GeoSpring manufacturing facility in Lousiville, KY, which is part of GE’s commitment to invest $1 billion and create more than 1,300 new U.S. ...

Pogue's Posts

  • The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
    If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.
  • Things That Were Once Amazing
    David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...
  • Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop with Ey ...
    Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how ...
  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.
  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Stunning New 3-D Moon Map Made From Lunar Data
    Thanks to a new 3-D map of the moon, earthbound viewers can see its landscape with a clarity that only Apollo's astronauts have previously enjoyed.
  • U.S. Space Science Confronts New Economic Reality
    Astronomers are worried. It's not some new unexplained mystery of the universe or the upcoming launch of a space telescope that is unnerving them, though. The problems they currently face are much more down-to-Earth -- and the future of space exploration hangs in the balance.
  • Origami Robots Run Only on Air
    Powered by nothing more than puffs of air, robots molded from paper and silicone rubber can bend, twist, grip and even lift more than 100 times their weight.
  • Black Hole Eats Asteroids, Burps Out X-Rays
    The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may be constantly snacking on asteroids. A new study finds that an asteroid at least 12 miles wide falling into the black hole would account for the regular bright x-ray flares seen through telescopes.
  • European Cave Spiders Produce Super-Stretchy Silk
    European cave spiders (Meta menardi) protect their growing offspring using the most stretchable egg sac silk ever found.

PakAlert

  • The incredible tsunami of ‘wave’ clouds that t ...
    At first glance, it may appear as though tsunami is poised to crash over the Florida coastline. But much to the relief of Panama City residents, this breath-taking series of photographs shows a natural phenomenon far less destructive - waves of clouds.
  • Iran sent pink drone to Obama
    After tough sanctions imposed by the United States and the West, Iran has given into the demands of President Obama, well some demands. Iran is returning the RQ-170 drone that was hacked back in December of last year.
  • Congress OKs 30,000 flying drones spying on Am ...
    It's the most benign thing in the world. In fact, it's a concept whose time has come and it will only help protect us and keep us safe. Naturally, there's nothing to worry about because there won't be any abuse of the technology. After all, spy drones are already being used around the U.S.; what ...
  • Mainstream Reports: The U.S. and Israel Suppor ...
    The Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK) … along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation.
  • Outrageous: Agent Orange Maker Monsanto Seeks ...
    Vietnam here we come! At least that is what biotech giant Monsanto is saying. The multinational agricultural corporation most known for creating the hazardous chemical Agent Orange, which led to thousands of deaths and birth defects due to its widespread use within the country, is now attempting ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Close Guantánamo: End Ten Years of Inju ...
    During my ten-day US tour last month to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, all the events I took part in, and the TV and radio interviews I undertook, were worthwhile, enjoyable, and an opportunity to provide important information an ...
  • An Update on the Plight of Former Guantánamo P ...
    Last week, I wrote about the plight of Abdul Aziz Naji, an Algerian, held in Guantánamo for eight years, who had been cleared for release from Guantánamo by the US authorities, but was repatriated against his will in July 2010. Three weeks ago, Naji, who is also an amputee, and in ill health, wa ...
  • Three UK Protests to Mark the 10th Anniversary ...
    February 14 marks the 10th anniversary of the arrival at Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, who is now the last British resident in the prison, but was once one of 15 British citizens and residents held at Guantánamo. Shaker’s story is one that I have told and retold over the years, including in ...
  • Life After Guantánamo: The Suffering of the Ui ...
    The story of Guantánamo’s Uighurs has always been one of monstrous injustice — as well as a monstrous failure of intelligence, and an equally monstrous failure when it comes to the US government taking responsibility for its own mistakes. This is not a unique occurrence in Guantánamo ...
  • Video: Guantánamo Panel Discussion in Washingt ...
    Yesterday, I posted a short video of a speech I gave on January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, prior to a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash) at ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Largest White Supremacist Site May Have Been H ...
    Stormfront.org, the largest white nationalist web forum in the world with a claimed 240,000 registered members, may have been hacked earlier this week. The website, run by former Alabama Klan leader Don Black out of his West Palm Beach, Fla., home, is up again today, but its look is much simplif ...
  • Father in Apparent Murder-Suicide was ‘C ...
    Last week, police made a startling announcement in their investigation of a fire that killed a father and son in their rural West Virginia mobile home in January. They revealed that David Hutzler, 56, and his 9-year-old son James, known as “Mack,” were each shot in the head before the trailer bu ...
  • CPAC Lineup Includes Hate Group, ‘Patriot’ Leaders
    The American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was dealt a blow last year when several organizations withdrew over the inclusion of a gay conservative group, GOProud, on its roster of sponsors. Having officially banished all gays who so much as make a peep abou ...
  • Nativist ‘Environmentalists’ Enraged at Exclus ...
    Anti-immigrant extremists are furious over a decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to exclude Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a nativist organization masquerading as an environmental group, from its annual meeting. In a press release this we ...
  • Immigrant-hating ‘Environmentalists’ Enraged a ...
    Anti-immigrant extremists are furious over a decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to exclude Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a nativist organization masquerading as an environmental group, from its annual meeting. In a press release this we ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Eastward No! Enviros Warn of Tar Sands Heading ...
    With the Keystone XL pipeline on hold (for now) and the fight for the 'Northern Gateway' tar sands pipeline in full swing in western Canada, producers of tar sands oil and pipeline operators continue to look for ways to get Alberta's oil resources.  Environmentalists and clean w ...
  • Anonymous Hits CIA Website
    The hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have taken the CIA's website down this afternoon. RT reported this afternoon: At approximately 3.10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN. #UMAD?#Anonymous" ...
  • People Show Support for Ousted Maldives Presid ...
    Ex-President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives received wide popular support from thousands of people who took to the street to protest his ouster in a military coup earlier this week.  Meanwhile, the US government backtracked on its recognition of the new government after criticism by Nashee ...
  • Report: Saudi Arabia Says Will Buy Nuclear We ...
    A report today from the Times UK indicates the Saudi Arabia would seek to buy nuclear weapons "the next day" if Iran were to test an a-bomb, and would move towards a military nuclear program as "it would be completely unacceptable to have Iran with a nuclear capability and not the ...
  • 'Hose Streets? Our Streets!' Belgian Firefight ...
    In a great reversal from most recent street protests, Belgian firefighters today, who were out in force to voice their opposition to government proposed cuts to their retirement plans, turned their firehoses on the prime minister's office.Belgian police get wet as they guard the entrance to ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • TVO Makes a splash with the World Premiere of ...
    More water week programming and online features include The Agenda with Steve Paikin, the Canadian premiere of White Water, Black Gold documentary, and Allan Gregg in Conversation online Water Week mini ...
  • Haridopolos: Privatization of prisons would di ...
    By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Tuesday a hotly debated plan to privatize prisons in 18 South Florida counties would die in a tie vote, if he allowed a showdown on it now.
  • Haridopolos: Privatization of prisons would di ...
    By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Tuesday a hotly debated plan to privatize prisons in 18 South Florida counties would die in a tie vote, if he allowed a showdown on it now.
  • Florida prison privatization stalls in legislature
    TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A proposal to privatize at least 26 prisons in south Florida is facing stiff opposition in the Florida Senate and may not have the votes to pass, the chamber's president and chief backer said on Tuesday. With the chamber split evenly on the issue, Senate Pres ...
  • Florida prison privatization stalls in Legislature
    Tallahassee, Florida (Reuters) - A proposal to privatize at least 26 prisons in south Florida is facing stiff opposition in the Florida Senate and may not have the votes to pass, the chamber's president and chief backer acknowledged on Tuesday. With the chamber split evenly on the issue, Sen ...

Guardian

  • Strip the wealthy of higher-rate pensions tax ...
    Ahead of budget, Treasury chief secretary pushes Lib Dem agenda of fairer deal for people on lower and middle incomesProposals for wealthier savers to be stripped of higher-rate tax relief on pensions have been put forward by Danny Alexander, the Treasury chief secretary, in comments likely to b ...
  • Argentina accuses UK of deploying nuclear weap ...
    Row escalates as Argentinian foreign minister lodges formal protest with UN, but Britain insists militarising claim is 'absurd'Argentina has accused Britain of deploying nuclear weapons near the Falkland Islands and "militarising" the south Atlantic.The Argentinian foreign minister, Héctor Timer ...
  • Victoria Beckham: behind the scenes with the q ...
    From pop star to designer: the reinvention of Victoria Beckham. Exclusive interview by Jess Cartner-MorleyHere's the thing about Victoria Beckham: of any celebrity I have ever encountered, she is the one who in real life is least like her public image. The character of Victoria Beckham is so wel ...
  • Greece crisis reaches boiling point as Athens ...
    • Finance minister says Greece must decide by Sunday • Street violence returns as ministers call bailout terms 'extortion' • Merkel warns of default's 'uncontrollable consequences'Greece is facing an acute political and social crisis this weekend as the bankrupt state prepares to decide whether ...
  • David Cameron ready to force through NHS reforms
    No 10 attacks Tory blog critical of reforms and claims there is little serious dissent towards Andrew Lansley's health billDavid Cameron is said to be willing to endure three final months of political controversy to push the health bill through parliament, but is convinced there is no serious di ...

McClatchey

  • U.S. officials: Al Qaida behind Syria bombings
    WASHINGTON ? The Iraqi branch of al Qaida, seeking to exploit the bloody turmoil in Syria to reassert its potency, carried out two recent bombings in the Syrian capital, Damascus,Click to Continue »
  • Obama budget projects $1.3 trillion deficit th ...
    President Barack Obama expects the federal budget deficit to reach $1.33 trillion this year, administration officials said Friday evening, the fourth straight year of trillion-dollar deficits.Click to Continue »
  • Chavez has opponent in Venezuela election
    Once jailed governor hopes to give Hugo Chávez a run for the presidency Henrique Capriles, the energetic governor of Venezuelas Miranda state, is leading the polls for Sundays opposition primary…Click to Continue »
  • Border inspectors ensure a sweetheart’s f ...
    Days before the most romantic holiday of the year, the temperature in the chilled warehouse hovers at 57 degrees as sharp-eyed specialists inspect the tables of flowers and plants that…Click to Continue »
  • Requirements for consumer health-insurance sum ...
    The Obama administration has unveiled final regulations detailing the new summaries that the 2010 federal health law requires health insurance plans to give to consumers to help them make informed…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblowers Risked Careers for Mortgage Set ...
    Chalk up another top news story to the whistleblowers. Today, federal and state officials announced a $25 billion landmark settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wro ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner and Lindsey Williams discuss the updates in the FDA whistleblower illegal surveillance case, including Senator Grassley’s biting letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg dema ...
  • Senator Grassley's Ten Scathing Questions for ...
    Amid this week’s media frenzy, Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a scornful letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg about the FDA’s targeted whistleblower surveillance program. If you missed the original story about the FDA’s illegal spy operation, you can catch up by r ...
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...
  • U.S. Air Force receives Whistleblower Retaliat ...
    This week, the U.S Office of Special Counsel (OSC) presented their report regarding the allegations made by four whistleblowers about retaliation at U.S Port Mortuary in Dover, Delaware's Air Force Base. The report reviewed events that occurred over a 17 months period in 2009 and 2010. It conclu ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • No title
    Steve Worona has a great post pointing out how the record labels have a clear cognitive dissonance (the ability to hold two totally conflicting ideas in your head at the same time -- and argue for both of them) when it comes to the question of whether or not an iTunes purchase represents a "sale ...
  • SOPA Strikedown Aftermath: Old Media Cannot Te ...
    As the political victory from the SOPA strikedown sinks in, reflections over old media's role take its place. We know that old media -- unidirectional media such as TV, newspapers, radio -- barely covered SOPA at all. We also know that this has political reasons, as their owners didn't want to d ...
  • Always A Gatekeeper: RIAA Backs .music Proposa ...
    For years there have been a few efforts underway to try to create a .music top level domain. While I'm not totally convinced such a TLD really is needed, it's been interesting to watch the RIAA's allergic reaction to the general idea. About a year ago, we wrote about how the RIAA was complaini ...
  • Park Ranger Tases Guy Walking Dogs Without A Leash
    In the latest example of questionable taser use, a man walking his two dogs off-leash at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was tased in the back by a park ranger, who was apparently trying to make an example of him. The problem was that the guy, Gary Hesterberg, was walking the dogs at Ra ...
  • If The RIAA Wants To Talk About Misinformation ...
    We already walked through the ridiculousness of RIAA boss Cary Sherman claiming that the reason SOPA/PIPA were defeated was because of a "misinformation" campaign on the part of some tech companies. Tons of folks who have followed the RIAA for years probably broke out in open laughter when we s ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • India explores economic opportunities in Iran, ...
    The New York Times reports: India emerged as a major new irritant on Thursday in Western efforts to isolate Iran, announcing that it was sending a large trade delegation there within weeks to exploit opportunities created by the American and European antinuclear sanctions that are increasingly d ...
  • How to engage Iran
    Hossein Mousavian writes: Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, two major schools of thought have influenced Iran’s foreign policy toward the United States. The first maintains that Iran and the United States can reach a compromise based on mutual respect, noninterference in domestic affairs, ...
  • Tehran can limp along under sanctions, but ord ...
    Michael Theodoulou reports: International sanctions targeting Iran’s oil exports are inflicting economic pain but may well fail to force Tehran to compromise on its nuclear ambitions and could even make the regime more intransigent, analysts said. The unprecedented measures could also boom ...
  • Palestinian intellectuals to Syrian regime: No ...
    Muhammad Idrees Ahmad writes: This is an English translation, courtesy of Wadiqratiya, of a joint statement by Palestinian intellectuals offering their solidarity to the Syrian people and applying for for membership to the newly established Syrian Writers Union. It is our honor, as Palestinian w ...
  • Afghan-Pakistan cricket match a break from war
    AFP reports: Excitement was building in cricket-loving parts of Afghanistan ahead of their historic one-day international against Pakistan in Sharjah on Friday – even among Taliban insurgents. “I am personally a fan of cricket, I will follow this match closely,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujah ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Argo Notes Part 2
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following on my previous post, “Jason and the Argo Notes”, just a couple of graphs in passing: Figure 1. Argo surface temperatures, northern hemisphere. Colors show the latitude of the floats, from red at the … Continue reading →
  • 2010 Snowmageddon explained, sans global warmi ...
    The 2010 Snowmageddon event was quickly seized upon in an NYT op-ed by global warming zealot Al Gore as yet more proof of…climate…warming…mumble.. something. Yet in this NASA article highlighting a new peer reviewed paper, global warming/climate change isn’t even … ...
  • Friday Funny – carbonated drink stands i ...
    We all know how the warmists like to avoid debating at all costs. In this case, the easily agitated to effervescence – blow your top Romm was aptly represented at a “Drinks and Debate” in Washington, DC by the perfect … Continue reading →
  • Windfarm noise – Renowned acoustician de ...
      Tricks are used to allow wind farms too close to habitations In an email replying to the European Platform against Windfarms (EPAW), world-leading specialist in low-frequency sound Professor Henrik Moller of Aalborg University denounces the improper acoustic measurements carried … C ...
  • Jason and the Argo Notes
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Like Jason, I proceed into the unknown with my look at the Argo data, and will post random notes as I voyage. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Portfolio Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet at Lowering ...
    A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-l ...
  • Bran, soy help cut cholesterol
    Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit ...
  • Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin ...
    A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored by a professor at the University of California, Merced. The study, “A Route to Enantiopure R ...
  • A novel mechanism that regulates pro-inflammat ...
    Discovery has implications for autoimmune diseases, HIV infection and possibly in cancer as a biomarker and in the development of new treatments New research led by Derya Unutmaz, MD associate professor, the Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Microbiology at NYU School of Medicine and Mark ...
  • Lab-Grown Disks May Cure That Aching Back
    Squishy, doughnut-shaped disks can make the difference between a pain-free, active lifestyle or years of back discomfort. When the disks that normally cushion each vertebra in the spine start to degenerate, due to aging or injury, nerves can be pinched and movement impeded. But degenerating disk ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russians to Rally for Kuril Islands in Far East
    An authorized rally supporting Russia’s position that the South Kuril Islands belong to the country will be held on Saturday in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of the Sakhalin Region in Russia’s Far East, a spokesman for a labor union association said.
  • Austria Takes Control in Davis Cup Tie
    Austria took charge of its Davis Cup tie with Russia on Friday after Andreas Haider-Maurer gave the hosts a 2-0 lead with a straight-sets win over Alex Bogomolov Jr.
  • Main News of February 10
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Majority of Brits Support 'No-Fly Zone' in Syr ...
    The majority of Brits are against any military operations in Syria but agree that a "no-fly zone" be introduced to protect civilians from possible air attacks, according to a survey published on Friday by YouGov.
  • I Got Tactics Right in Melzer Defeat - Kunitsyn
    Russian tennis player Igor Kunitsyn had the right tactics to face Austria’s Jurgen Melzer in the Davis Cup but tired in the final set, he said on Friday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Diversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
    Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2012 selections: Hannah’s Blog Under The LobsterScope The Adventures of Fat Cat and Everyman! The Confluence FALKLANDS Elle Varner - Conversational LushI&#8 ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army 1st Lt. David A. Johnson, 24, of Horicon, WI.Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Singer, 23, of Temecula, ...
  • Hollywood, SOPA and the AMC Pacer model
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postIn the middle of 2010 I wrote a post titled “ACTA and the Overblown Threat of Piracy” that discussed the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA is basically an attempt by legacy media companies to leverage ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • The Frog of War: Atrazine
    Darnell lives deep in the basement of a life sciences building at the University of California-Berkeley, in a plastic tub on a row of stainless steel shelves. He is an African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, sometimes called the lab rat of amphibians. Like most of his species, he's hardy and long-l ...
  • Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press ...
    Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, recently unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, reveal how the global chemical company's PR team investigated the press and spent millions to spin news coverage and public perceptions in the face of growing concerns about p ...
  • Bill McKibben: Climate Denial Is Creating "The ...
    If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet - as we shall see - it's unfortunately largely invis ...
  • Testing Expert Says Labeling GMOs Does Not Inc ...
    Prof. Chris Viljoen from the GMO Testing Laboratory at the University of the Free State in South Africa recently wrote a piece in BusinessDay countering false claims that mandatory labeling requirements for genetically-modified (GM) foods increase food costs. According to his analysis, mandatory ...
  • Trader Joe's Signs on to Fair Food Agreement f ...
    This has been a long time coming, but today the Coalition for Immokalee Workers, which has been working for the rights of farm workers, announced that Trader Joe's has agreed to take part in CIW's Fair Food Program to support the rights of Florida's tomato growers.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Do Farmers Benefit from Biofuels?
    Biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol, offered the promise of large financial returns to both the farmer and to the rural community. How have the small-scale farmers fared against the land barons?
  • Liturgies of Sufficiency: Individual versus Co ...
    If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.
  • Biofuels: Innovations Needed
    Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Political Climate
    You likely know climate change is a political football, even if only from ridiculous seeming pronouncements. And scientists are respected - so they make good cover for politicians to use them as sock puppets. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Thirst
    I was thinking of our drinking water shortage ever increasing and reflecting on an old story about CIDA drilling wells in the Sahel and causing desertification. So I explored as the muse led. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • War Crimes Tribunal finds Bush and Blair are w ...
    five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Scientists: Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico Dyi ...
    "Unusual Mortality Event" contradicts BP's portrayal of health of Gulf. Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network says the blame belongs to the BP spill. Submitted by Judy C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
    Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Virus That Ate Farm Wars
    It started out just like any other day. Birds singing, horses whinnying, children dancing, you get the picture. A nice day... until it happened.
  • WAR FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!!! Diebold accidently ...
    Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election. Satire.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel's Mossad trained assassins of Iran nucl ...
    ShareThisIsrael's Mossad trained assassins of Iran nuclear scientists, report says 09 Feb 2012 Mossad officials are training Iranian dissident activists [?] to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, a NBC News report citing U.S. officials said on Thursday. The report noted, however, that Washin ...
  • 'Anonymous' hacker group threatens 'reign of t ...
    ShareThis'Anonymous' hacker group threatens 'reign of terror' against Israel 10 Feb 2012 The hacker group "Anonymous" released a video Friday threatening to begin a 'reign of terror' against Israel, in the latest round of cyber warfare between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli hackers. The video, ...
  • Hacking off the Feds: Anonymous intercepts FBI ...
    ShareThisHacking off the Feds: Anonymous intercepts FBI conference call about...themselves 03 Feb 2012 In an audio recording made and posted online by the internet hacktivists Anonymous, a number of Federal agents both in the US and the UK can be heard discussing ways to apprehend members of the ...
  • Fukushima No. 2 plant was 'near meltdown'
    ShareThisFukushima No. 2 plant was 'near meltdown' 10 Feb 2012 The Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant was "near meltdown" after being hit by tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, according to the head of the plant. The No. 2 plant, on the border of Naraha and Tomioka to ...
  • LAPD Pioneers High-Tech Crime-Fighting 'War Room'
    ShareThisLAPD Pioneers High-Tech Crime-Fighting 'War Room' --RACR relied upon during recent Occupy LA showdown and arrests 08 Feb 2012 The LAPD is fighting crime from a high-tech war room that gives it eyes all over the city. The surveillance hub is now a model for police forces around the world ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • 17 Members of Congress Want Answers on MEDEVAC
     
  • Contempt of and for Congress?
    US Military Forges Ahead with Deadly Deceptions Dhaka, Bangladesh 05 February 2012 The US military is toying with American lawmakers. Based on two key documents submitted to individual Members of Congress and the House Armed Services Committee, by both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Army, ...
  • Crucifixion of Common Sense
    03 February 2012 Nobody crucifies common sense like the US Army.  During my morning search for anything MEDEVAC related, several new stories emerged, including one with these illustrative quotes from a Soldier returning from Iraq: “You have to land where you never had to land before,&nbsp ...
  • The Army MEDEVAC Scandal: Report of Conspiracy
    02 February 2012 An Army officer writes: The Army is not resisting Dustoff policy change because our leadership honestly believes the current policy is superior, but rather because of AMEDD's [Army Medical Department] protectionist attitude toward "their" Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopters. I'm an ac ...
  • Important Letter from Gold Star Mother
    31 January 2012 A Gold Star Mother is one who lost a child in service of the United States.  Ms. Keyko Clark-Davis is a recent Gold Star Mother.  I was present when her son Chazray was mortally wounded.  We have communicated many times.  Chazray’s mother is strong and inspir ...

The Killing Train

  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
  • An interview for occupy Toronto
    Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
  • The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
    The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma ‘struggling’ with tourism boom
    Official from tourism association warns of embarrassment if country cannot accommodate soaring numbers of visitors
  • Exiles emotional upon return to Burma
    Members of the Vahu Development Institute who fled Burma after 1988 arrive in Rangoon for the first time in decades
  • Fighting breaks out in Shan state
    Shan troops exchange fire with three Burmese battalions northwest of Tachilek only weeks after both sides agree a ceasefire
  • Monk Gambira taken by police
    Dissident monk taken in early hours of Friday morning for questioning over forced entrance to monasteries since January release
  • David Tharkabaw, KNU: ‘Treacherous offer ...
    Since news reports emerged on 12 January of an historic ceasefire agreed between the Burmese government and the opposition Karen National Union, rumours have circulated of disagreement in the ranks of the Karen army, which has been battling the central government for more than six decades. Membe ...

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Virginia senate approves bill allowing adoptio ...
    [JURIST] The Virginia Senate [official website] approved a bill [text, PDF] Wednesday that would allow private adoption agencies to refuse placement to families if the agency, or anyone affiliated with it, disagrees with the proposed placement based on religious beliefs. Effectively, this bill w ...
  • Uganda to drop death penalty from bill crimina ...
    [JURIST] Ugandan MP David Bahati announced on Friday that clauses mandating the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" would be dropped from the controversial bill that would criminalize homosexuality. The bill was reintroduced [JURIST report] to the Parliament of Uganda [official website] ...
  • UN rights office expresses concern over deaths ...
    [JURIST] Amerigo Incalcaterra, the regional representative for South America [official website, Spanish] from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website], expressed concern [press release, Spanish] Tuesday over the violence in prisons in South America after ...
  • Lawyer for 9/11 suspect challenges government ...
    [JURIST] James Connell, defense lawyer for suspected 9/11 [JURIST backgrounder] conspirator Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday challenging an order for military officials to read all legal correspondence between th ...
  • Senate panel approves bill to televize Supreme ...
    [JURIST] The Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] on Thursday voted 11-7 [CSPAN video] in favor of a bill [S 1945 text, PDF] that would allow televising of US Supreme Court [official website] proceedings. Currently, only few citizens can hear the proceedings in person, and audio recordi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • IDF Promotes Disgraced Commander to Prestigiou ...
    Let it not be said that the IDF doesn’t learn from its mistakes and draw the proper conclusions.* The new deputy commander of Israel’s “depth command,” designed to take the battle to the enemy far from Israeli territory, is Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch (Hebrew). In 2006, he comm ...
  • Major Study Finds No Muslim-American Terror Menace
    Will someone tell Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, David Yerushalmi, and Gates of Vienna they might as well close up shop.  A new study reported by the NY Times‘ Scott Shane confirms what most of us knew all along.  The alleged phenomenon of Muslim-American terror is largely concocted from thei ...
  • U.S. Officials Confirm Mossad-MEK Covert War A ...
    MSNBC finally confirms possibly one of the worst kept secrets of the war between Israel and Iran: that the Mossad has recruited, trained, equipped and directed a domestic terror campaign against Iran’s nuclear program using the personnel of the Mujahadeen al-Khalq (MEK): Two senior U.S. of ...
  • Paul Auster’s Moral Ambivalence on Israel
    In light of the argument between Tayyip Erdogan and Paul Auster about the relative freedoms of Turkey and Israel, I thought it would be instructive to quote from a Hebrew language profile of Auster published (of all places) in Yisrael HaYom.  Unfortunately, the original interview was in English ...
  • U.S. Most Powerful Bunker Buster Cannot Destro ...
    Leon Panetta revealed to the Wall Street Journal that the U.S.’ most powerful bunker buster has failed tests designed to prove it could penetrate and destroy Iran’s most hardened nuclear facility in Fordow: Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Knight-Mozilla Partnership Morphs into Knight- ...
    Change is awesome -- it's a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it's with real excitement that today I'm announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. Before we get to the changes, some quic ...
  • TileMill Now Lets You Design Maps for the Web ...
    TileMill, the free and open-source design studio for creating beautiful web maps, is now available for download on Windows. With the latest release, the map-making tool is fully operational on the three leading operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Windows still dominating the marketp ...
  • Zeega + Localore = Innovative Local Storytelli ...
    Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media stations should be supported for year-long projects to transform the industry. Localore is a new $2 million national competition produced ...
  • Knight Lab to Help Illinois Publishers Cover C ...
    When it comes to the mission of journalism, it's hard to imagine any function more fundamental than providing people with the information they need to choose their elected representatives. That's why the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, announced this week, will f ...
  • ScraperWiki Lets You Make Magic Out of Web Data
    There's a wonderful magic wand that every member of a digital newsroom wants to get their hands on. Take control and you can work wonders, untangle the world wide web of information, and even decrease your workload to fit in that extra cup of coffee. "What is this wand?" you ask, and "How can I ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Syria - Assad Would Cross a Red ...
    Israel has sternly warned embattled Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad against transferring his stockpile of unconventional weapons, long-range missiles and advanced anti-aircraft weapons to the Hezbollah terrorist organization. A transfer of chemical weapons would be tantamount to a declaration o ...
  • South of the Border - Mexico's Economy and Pol ...
    A new study reconfirms what many people know from first-hand experience: Mexican workers' purchasing power has plummeted since the turn of the century. In a just-released report, the economics department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) documented the number of hours the lo ...
  • America on Edge - Companies Fail to Exhibit So ...
    Whether eliminating child labor, creating environmentally friendly technology or working against all forms of corruption, many corporations fail to become socially responsible despite promises to change, a new University of Michigan study found. In an article recently published in the Ameri ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Besides the Hormuz Strait ...
    Considerable attention is being given to Iranian threats to block the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large proportion of the world’s petroleum sails. The U.S Energy Information Administration estimates that “almost 17 million barrels in 2011, up from between 15.5-16.0 million bbl/d in 2009-20 ...
  • Edge of Aging - Fruit Flies Make up for Advanc ...
    Male fruit flies find romance with female flies coated with pheromone, regardless of age, thus shedding light on the aging process, according to research at the University of Michigan. Beauty is more than skin deep, at least for fruit flies studied in new research that demonstrates how age- ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Paul Ryan At CPAC-Its All About Defeating Obam ...
    There's no other way to say it Paul Ryan got screwed. Last night he delivered a wonderful address at CPAC, but it was during the Presidential Banquet, not before the entire conference. And as my daughter said, the banquet could not have been as well attended as past years, because I wasn't singi ...
  • Contemporary Leftism And Islamism-Ideological ...
    By Barry Rubin Here’s a fascinating exchange telling us not only about the contemporary state of Islam, Islamism, and the political issues involving them but also the debates and conflicts shaping Western civilization today. It also taught me about the common theme between revolutionary Is ...
  • CPAC-Day One Meet the Bloggers
    Welcome to CPAC. For the past 24+ hours I have been blogging from the Bloggers Lounge at the Marriott Wardman Hotel, home of CPAC 2012. What has made the 2012 version of CPAC even more special is the fact that my daughter Alexa is with me. As the week goes on, I will share some of the sight ...
  • Why I Support Rick Santorum For The GOP Nomination
    Long-time readers of this site know I have never endorsed a candidate during the primary season. I do criticize and applaud individual actions of individual candidates when it is warranted and recommend readers stay away from certain candidates who are totally unacceptable (like Ron Paul).  ...
  • The Mainstream Media Goes Bonkers: An Israel-A ...
    By Barry Rubin For the second time in a few months we have seen a crazy global Israel-About-to-Attack-Iran Story. I don't want to go into all of the details but this tale is an example of how the media has just lost it completely due to a combination of laziness (reporters don't real ...

The Real Agenda

  • Corruptocracia no Brasil pede ao Twitter Censu ...
    A tirania fora de controle no Brasil quer impedir os condutores de alertar outros motoristas sobre blitz e bloqueios inconstitucionais nas estradas. Enquanto isso, a corrupção do governo em todos os estratos continua impune. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 09 fevereiro de 2012 A pedido de um ...
  • US Marines proudly pose with Nazi SS Flag
    by Julie Watson Associated Press February 10, 2012  The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jew ...
  • Iran, China, Russia, Pakistan vs US and Israel
    PressTv February 10, 2012 The Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain has reiterated his country’s support for the Islamic Republic of Iran in case of an Israeli regime’s attack. Wajid Shamsul Hasan told the British The Sun newspaper that “Pakistan would be left with no option but to support Iran ...
  • Europe to Save its Banks, not Greece
    by Floyd Norris NYTimes February 10, 2012 It now appears that Europe is prepared to pay what it needs to pay to save its banks. But not to rescue Greece. Once again, there is optimism that a new round of European talks are going to result in an announcement of a Greek bailout. On Thursday, [...]
  • Corruptocrazy in Brazil asks Twitter to Censor ...
    The out-of-control tyranny in Brazil wants to prevent drivers from warning other drivers about unconstitutional police check points and road blocks. Meanwhile, government corruption on all strata goes on unpunished. by Stan Lehman Associated Press February 9, 2012 A request for an injunction to ...

Wind Watch

  • 101 Tories revolt over wind farms
    David Cameron has been hit by a major protest by Conservative MPs over the Government’s backing for wind farms, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. A total of 101 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind tu ...
  • Obama admin sweats legal response as turbines ...
    MOUNT STORM, W.Va. — Turn the final bend on Route 42 as it snakes up Mount Storm and a towering turbine appears, its blades swooshing in the winter gusts. Dozens more of these giants crown this remote mountain ridge 150 miles west of Washington, D.C. Dominion and Shell WindEnergy’s N ...
  • Aid for wind turbine victims sought
    Brown Co. panel: State should pay medical bills for those near wind farm Wisconsin should pay the medical bills of Brown County residents who were made ill by industrial wind turbines, some county supervisors say. Saying the state allowed “irresponsible placement” of industrial wind ...
  • What you can’t hear can hurt you
    When American noise expert Robert Rand turned up to work in Maine, in the US northeast, in April to investigate the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents he was literally blown away. Not only did Rand’s readings confirm many fears in the community, he claims to have become an unwitti ...
  • Wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles
    A controversial wind farm proposed near Red Wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades. U.S. Fish and Wildlife offi ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Honesty Is Not the Best Political Policy
    An honest statist would just say: “Let’s have the government levy a tax on men to pay for women’s birth control.” The transfer program wouldn’t be buried in the employer-based insurance system. It would be open for all to see — which is why it’s not done ...
  • Pondering the Imponderable about Contraception
    If Woman A pays for Woman B’s birth control and Woman B pays for Woman A’s birth control, does each get free birth control?
  • Mortgage-Relief Scheme Finalized
    “As state and federal authorities announced the details of their $26 billion mortgage settlement with big banks on Thursday, millions of American homeowners were hoping that this time they would finally get relief.” (New York Times) In fact the program is a favor to banks that should ...
  • Trade Deficit Up
    “The U.S. trade deficit widened in December after exports rose at half the pace of imports.” (USA Today) “Nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade.” –Adam Smith FEE Timely Classic “The Balance-of-Payments Deficit: Not to Worry” ...
  • Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
    It makes no sense to talk about insuring against the eventuality that a particular person will reach child-bearing age and use contraception.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Feds block South Carolina's a ...
    When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won't have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice&# ...
  • Mothers, grandmothers speak out about children ...
    A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of childr ...
  • EPA faces lawsuit over coal-ash rule delay
    More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue t ...
  • Romney bites the government hand that has fed ...
    The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of su ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
    Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
  • Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
    Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
  • The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
    1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...
  • The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
    1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...
  • The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
    I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do. Grow the economy sustainably, help the ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Sex, Singles And The Presidency
    By all accounts both President Barack Obama and his likely challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are ideal family men, devoted to their spouses and their children. But support for the two men could not be more different in terms of the electorate’s marriage and family status. ...
  • Time to Rethink This Experiment? Delusion Down ...
    The famous physicist, Albert Einstein, was noted for his powers of observation and rigorous observance of the scientific method. It was insanity, he once wrote, to repeat the same experiment over and over again, and to expect a different outcome. With that in mind, I wonder what Einstein wou ...
  • Debating Higher Ed: STEMs, Skills, Humanities, ...
    Forget about all the perceived problems with the American higher education system, and ponder these two numbers: 12.8 million and 3.4 million. The first is the estimate of Americans actively looking for work and unemployed. The second is the number of job openings in the U.S. as of the ...
  • How Lower Income Citizens Commute
    One of the most frequently recurring justifications for densification policies (smart growth, growth management, livability, etc.) lies with the assumption that the automobile-based mobility system (Note 1) disadvantages lower income citizens. Much of the solution, according to advocates of ...
  • New Urbanism vs. Dispersionism
    The Florida real estate developer, unburdened of state regulatory agencies, may now focus his efforts on pleasing the investment community and the local market.  I recently played the role of real estate developer interviewing two consultant teams vying to help me create a new fictional comm ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto's great expectations
    Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results) Elliott Negin Huffington Post, 10 February 2012  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/monsantos-great-expectati_b_1267494.html With apologies to Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday was this week, it's the best of times and the w ...
  • Eat it up Monsanto
    NOTE: Welcome to the world of the pro-GM elite where the administrations of US presidents pursue aggressively pro-GM policies while the Obamas and the Bushes plant organic gardens in the White House and have organic kitchen policies!  http://tiny.cc/FtdQg According to Jeffrey Smith, "Even at Mo ...
  • GM crops: Follow the money
                                      GM crops: Follow the money EurActiv, 10 February 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/gm-crops-follow-money-analysis-510724 Supposedly objective scientific and economic assessments of the benefits of genetically modified crops are often biased by the fact they are ...
  • Gates and the millions funding geoengineering
    NOTE: At first glance this may appear to have nothing to do with genetic engineering but in fact it provides another good example of Bill Gates' ideological commitment to top-down high tech "solutions". Rather than promoting technological solutions which tackle the fundamentals of climate change ...
  • Gates and the millions funding geoengineering
    NOTE: At first glance this may appear to have nothing to do with genetic engineering but in fact it provides another good example of Bill Gates' ideological commitment to top-down high tech "solutions". Rather than promoting technological solutions which tackle the fundamentals of climate change ...

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Cryptogon

  • South Korea: Dr. Smartphone?
    Not The Onion: Check. Not April 1: Check. Via: Reuters: Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer. A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institu ...
  • James Cameron Buys Farms, Plans to Move Family ...
    Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to a ...
  • Pay Fee to Jump to Front of Line at San Franci ...
    Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Frequent travelers who use San Francisco International Airport once again will be able to get through security a little faster with the return of a fee-based pre-screening program approved by the Airport Commission Tuesday. The CLEAR program, operated by a private c ...
  • Surveillance Video Becomes a Tool for Studying ...
    Via: Technology Review: Software mines security footage to help business owners see what people do once they’re inside the store. The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pag ...
  • Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
    Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech ...

The Economic Collapse

  • This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like ...
    Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...
  • 10 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...
  • Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramati ...
    If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...
  • Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now ...
    Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...
  • The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm U ...
    The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financ ...

Desertification

  • Responses to help pastoralists and farmers get ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94826 SENEGAL: Drought response slowed by election fever DAKAR, 10 February 2012 (IRIN) – While it is clear that Senegal was one of the eight Sahelian countries to be hit by poor rains in 2011, unlike most of … Continue reading & ...
  • Desertification in Botswana (Google / ibotswana)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ibotswana.co.bw/news/inews/item/11406-desertification-a-cause-for-concern-in-botswana.html Desertification a Cause for Concern in Botswana BY MOTHUSI JOWAWA The majority of the land surface in Botswana is constituted for by the desert whi ...
  • The poor performance of farmers and the conseq ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201202062298.html Africa: Former President Kufuor Scolds African Governments By Laud Nartey, 6 February 2012 Former president John Agyekum Kufour has blamed the poor performance of farmers and the consequent devastating ...
  • “The Future We Want” : UNCSD &#821 ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=475332&Itemid=1 Rio+20 a Long Way yo Green Economy The start of 2012 marked the beginning of the negotiations around the final document to be approved by the United Natio ...
  • Desertification (Google / Franciscans for Ecology)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://ecolfran.wordpress.com/ Desertification Desertification describes a global problem that affects and threatens the soil.  It is degradation of land and vegetation, erosion and loss of fertile land.  The United Nations Convention to Combat Dese ...

The Paper Trail

  • DOE needs better risk management
    An outside consultant hired by the White House to assess the Department of Energy’s hot-button green energy loan program suggests the agency hire a “chief risk officer” to better track companies backed by taxpayer-funded loans.“To enhance the independence of the oversight function, DOE should cr ...
  • CPAC panel: ‘Celebrate’ Citizens United ruling
    Anonymous political speech. Foreign money in U.S. elections. The proliferation of super PACs. How grave a threat do any of things pose to American democracy?
  • LA school abuse investigation runs into immigr ...
    It’s made national headlines, and now the sordid story of alleged lewd and bizarre conduct by a Los Angeles teacher includes another sensitive dimension: immigration status.
  • Los Angeles moves haltingly toward ending fine ...
    LOS ANGELES — Fifteen-year-old Juan Carlos Amezcua was just five minutes late for school, and already at the corner by Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles when a school police cruiser’s siren went off last Nov. 16.The consequences of what happened next — handcuffing, allegations of rou ...
  • Update: Calif. budget crunchers hear youth-pri ...
    Players in the fight to shut down — or keep open — the last of California’s state-run youth prisons are meeting this week where the action is: Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Finance, where the nitty-gritty of state budgeting gets done. Struggling with the costs of incarceration generally, Cali ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The book is back
    A message from backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher: Astute readers of backofthebook.ca will have noticed that our metabolism has slowed of late — we’ve been posting less often. This follows a deleriously busy spring and fall, when our traffic skyrocketed (especially for our pieces on ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    Continued from page 3 The end, when it came, was not pretty. Union bargainer Dave Coles met behind closed doors in June 2000 with senior company executives and came back with two offers from the employer that might have been drafted in Hades. The first involved continuing to bargain until all th ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    Continued from page 2 Local television and radio reporters gave the lockout plenty of coverage. So did the rival Calgary Sun, which distributed an edition of the paper wrapped in what appeared to be a Herald front page. “I always pray for opportunity,” said Sun publisher Les Pyette. The Herald o ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    Continued from page 1 After months of lunchtime discussions in the Herald cafeteria, the journalists made the first move. One employee talked to the Teamsters Union but was told the union had no interest in organizing the Herald newsroom without an assurance that at least 40 per cent of the 160 ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to” jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged ...

libcom

  • Victory in less than a week for newly reformed ...
    solnet.jpg Collective direct action against a letting agent succeeds in the full refund of an illegal administration fee. Glasgow Solidarity Network has demonstrated how direct ...
  • Salute to proletarians in struggle in Syria, E ...
    Hello Libcom! Here is text of solidarity with insurgents in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia and all over the world. Feel free to distribute, comment, critisize it. We ask for people who could translate it in Arabic language. Class Solidarity with insurgents... ...
  • Belgrade Six case: Appeal from Serbia for inte ...
    On February 8th, 2012, there will be a renewed trial against four members of the Serbian Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI), as well as two unaffiliated Belgrade anarchists, as part of the fabricated legal case of the Belgrade Six (BG6). ...
  • Autonomy, Consensus, and Revolution: Call for ...
    246_capitalism_is_the_crisis_logo1.jpg Autonomy, Consensus, and Revolution: In the process of consensus, the voices of the oppressed can be stifled, as well as those of the Third Worlds. In this ...
  • Arizona Set to Abolish Public Unions
    For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. Arizona sate employees’ unions were caught off guard this week with news that the state’s republican controlled senate was passing a series of bills which, amongst other provisions, would ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Edomite Internet Trolls
    There can be no doubt that this blog has upset the Edomite Jew overlords con-troll-ing Planet Earth.   I have been trolled and the world is being conned! A “Humanist Psycho-babbler” lackey named Mike Lewinsky has publicly accused me of plagiarism.  No, to be more exact, this sacrosan ...
  • Edomite Forbidden Archeology
    What happens when an archeologist finds an artifact that disproves a widely accepted “scientific theory” such as evolution?   Simple, make the artifact disappear, and if the archeologist cries foul, black list him/her and teach them a lesson.  If the archeologist continues to spout o ...
  • Propaganda and Fear Mongering Against Iran Acc ...
    Iran.  The hated and evil empire – the primal enemy of Edomite “Israel”.   What better time for Israel to attack Iran than their blessed festival of “Purim”. You see, the Edomite God Mammon has promised his people victory if the attack comes during “Purim&#822 ...
  • Edomite Advertising
    Are you tired of all those Big Pharma ads – you know, the ones that promote the miracles of  a wide variety of chemical drugs?  Billions of dollars are spent by Big Pharma to pre-condition the Goyim mind to desire their miracle pills.   Of course, the FDA requires the caveat:  ASK YOUR DOC ...
  • Righteous Blood Part IX – “Transce ...
    The ancient story of  enmity between Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) is ongoing to this very day!!  All of the “righteous blood” spilled because of this incredible feud via their abominable World Wars, assassinations, murders, and massive invasions into the human body, yet cries unto ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Solar Power – Will the USA ever catch Europe? ...
    Europe has historically been a long way ahead of the USA, with over 45GW peak capacity as of 2011 compared to the USA’s figure of 2.6GW. Last week, the Solar Power Generation USA conference was held in Las Vegas, and Shayle Kann, director of research at Green Tech Media declared that the “U.S. s ...
  • Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Needs
    Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...
  • Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
    Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...
  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran sanctions disrupt food imports
    Iran sanctions disrupt food imports (Reuters) 9 February 2012 KUALA LUMPUR/TEHRAN - More evidence emerged of the crippling impact of new sanctions on Iran, with international traders saying Tehran is having trouble buying rice, cooking oil and other staples to feed its 74 million people week ...
  • Iranian Movie ‘A Separation’ Gets Oscar Buzz, ...
    Masoud Dehnamaki, Ekhrajiha’s director and a pro-regime filmmaker, is known in Iran as formerly a radical Islamist journalist and a pressure-group leader in the crackdown on Iranian democratic and secular uprising in late 1990s. He is a man who is not only suspicious about any recognition for Ir ...
  • Iran: U.S., Israel highly vulnerable to retali ...
    Iran's ambassador to Russia, Seyyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi, said on Wednesday that his country is capable of striking U.S. forces anywhere in the world if it is attacked.
  • Iranian Opposition Group Calls For Silent Rallies
    "Because of all these issues, we need to change the situation and bring people to the scene so that their voices of protest can be heard by the establishment," Arjomand said.
  • رئیس جمهور اسرائیل خطاب به مردم ایران: مجبور ن ...
    شیمون پرز، رئیس جمهور اسرائیل امروز چهارشنبه ۱۹ بهمن (۸ فوریه) در یک سخنرانی در پارلمان این کشور مستقیما در مورد دشمنی ایران و اسرائیل با مردم ایران سخن گفت. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Origins of the Club of Rome
    Famous Diagram from Limits to Growth (This is the second of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carrol ...
  • Me and the Club of Rome
    Bethnal Green tenements in 1973 (This is the first of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley ...
  • The Mayor Who Said No to the Feds
    Wes Uhlman - Seattle Mayor 1969-1978 In my last post I wrote about the apparent defect in integrity and moral courage that plagues most American corporate and political leaders. This hasn’t always been the case. With the steady erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights over the las ...
  • Victory for the Neptune Network
    At Sellafield blocking plutonium shipment (This is the second of two posts about Neptune Network, a group organized by Norwegian business executives, and their campaign to shut down a nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK.) The MOX reprocessor at Sellafield closed August 3rd, after Japan (foll ...
  • The CEO Who Chained Himself to a Bridge
    Stordalen chained to the bridge (This is the first of two posts about Neptune Network, a group organized by Norwegian business executives, and their campaign to shut down a nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK.) The man in the photo is Petter Stordalen, and he’s a billionaire Norwegian p ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 'Gratitude'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...
  • 'Gratitude' Audio
  • Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...
  • Democratic National Committee Chairwoman decli ...
    OccupyTheIowaCaucuses.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, January 01, 2012 Contact : Stephen Toothman 515-480-5682 stoothman@yahoo.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday people Occupy the Caucus extended an invitation to Democratic National Committee Chairwoma ...
  • Listen to Michael Moore Read 'Gratitude,' the ...
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Salon

  • Can the 1 percent accept “enough”?
    Of all the no-no's in contemporary America -- and there are many -- none has proven more taboo than the ancient doctrine of dayenu. Translated from the original Hebrew, the word roughly means "It would have been enough." The principle is that a certain amount of a finite resource should satisfy ...
  • The neocons’ big Iran lie
    In February 2003, less than a month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Gen. Eric Shinseki told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers” would be required to occupy Iraq in order to stabilize it in the wake of an invasi ...
  • The foreclosure deal: Every little bit counts
    The first thing to understand about Thursday's much ballyhooed $26 billion foreclosure fraud settlement between five big banks, the federal government and 49 states is that it is nowhere near as big of a deal as it is being made out to be. You can safely ignore the claim that the torturously neg ...
  • Reason vs. hysteria in the birth control debate
    On Wednesday night we reached the high and the low, so far, in the debate over the Obama administration's requirement that Catholic institutions that employ non-Catholics include contraception coverage in their health insurance policies.The high, in terms of reason and clarity, came from famed a ...
  • Facebook’s threat to a poor Silicon Vall ...
    EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A baby blue billboard displaying a giant thumbs-up hand, the iconic Facebook “Like” symbol, stands on the corner of Willow Road and the 84 freeway, facing Menlo Park. It marks the entrance into the new campus of Facebook, the Internet giant that just recently filed for ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • "We don’t say safety when we’re talking Vermon ...
    Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s operating license would have expired on March 21, 2012, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the license to 2032. Vermont’s legislature and a vocal part of the state’s population don’t like the idea of Vermont Yankee’s continued ...
  • New nuclear era begins after approval of Vogtl ...
    How much “new” nuclear and how soon? Those are the front-of-mind questions for nuclear and many cleaner energy advocates with today’s U.S. government approval of the construction and operation of two new nuclear power reactors by Southern Company in Georgia using the “AP1000″ design by Westingho ...
  • Why Are Gasoline Prices So High in February?
    US gasoline prices are setting records for this time of the year, with the current price apparently the highest ever for February, at least in nominal dollars. In fact, the monthly average US retail price for unleaded regular has set new records every month since last October.
  • NRC issues licenses for Southern’s Vogtle project
    By a 4-1 vote, the agency opens the door to $14 billion in new construction of two Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors
  • A set-aside for the EU ETS?
    Interest in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is high at the moment in the European Parliament. MEPs are being asked to support a key amendment to the proposed Energy Efficiency Directive which will see the removal (set aside) of a substantial number of allowances from the Phase III auctions ...

EU Times

  • Mars Radar finds Clues of Primordial Ocean on ...
    The MARSIS radar on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has found evidence of a large body of water that once covered part of Mars. The study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that the ESA research team used two years of MARSIS data to comp ...
  • Chevrolet cars Banned in Egypt for having Cros ...
    One of the spiritual leaders of Egypt issued a fatwah (law, regulations) which banned Muslims from driving Chevrolet vehicles. According to the new law, Muslims must not drive Chevrolet cars because the logo of the company is a Christian cross. The religious law, which bans the use of the cars m ...
  • Syria: White House preaches peace as Pentagon ...
    The White House is saying “no” to arming opposition and other military involvement in the Syrian conflict – for the moment. Pentagon and US Central Command launched a review of US military capabilities in case that “no” turns a “yes.” ­The backdoor for military action was ajar with State Departm ...
  • Argentina plans to take islands dispute with U ...
    Argentina says it will file a formal complaint with the United Nations over Britain’s “militarization” of the disputed Malvinas (Falklands) Islands. Amid growing tensions between Buenos Aires and London, Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday criticized Britain for milita ...
  • WHO declares war on Cancer
    “Together it is possible” was the theme for the World Cancer Day 2012 – however, cancer kills millions of people every year and up to a third of cases can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle, according to statistics released by the World Health Organization. Let us then, togeth ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Heading To CPAC 2012!
    I will be en route to Washington DC from KCI early Thursday morning for my third CPAC in a row.  I hope to be able to set up shop in the bloggers lounge by 10:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. at the latest. CPAC 2012 will be especially jam-packed weekend because it is an election year, but this time, I’ve ta ...
  • Knicks Vs. Wizards Recap: Jeremy Lin Goes Off, ...
    The Washington Wizards fell victim to the Jeremy Lin show. Hard to really come away from this game with any other conclusion. Lin showed the world again why he's legitimate, and the Knicks completely picked the Wizards apart in the pick and roll in winning, 107-93. It ended up being one of the ...
  • Don’t call it a beta: Microsoft to unveil Wind ...
    Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows 8 release for public testing will be unveiled at a press event in Barcelona on February 29, tying in with the Mobile World Congress occurring at the same time, the company announced today. Originally referred to as the Windows 8 beta, the release will instead be ...
  • Path-ological: In 2010, founder Dave Morin sai ...
    Dave Morin circa 2010 It’s the privacy snafu that will not die. A day after a developer discovered that Path was storing users entire address books on its servers, the startup seemed to have defused the incident by apologizing and deleting all the personal data it had stored
  • Cisco Reports: It's Getting Better
    Networking giant Cisco Systems just reported its earnings for the quarter and they’re better than expected. Profits were 47 cents on a per-share basis on sales of $11.5 billion. It also boosted its dividend payment to shareholders to eight cents a share, which if memory serves is double the pri ...

Groklaw

  • Mark Zuckerberg Accidentally 'Endorses' Romney
    The accidental endorsement occurred on Zuckerberg's Facebook page. Here's how it occurred, as Gawker explains it: Zuckerberg had clicked the "Like" button on a Facebook update posted by Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo, who pointed out that the "ROMNEY" all-caps logo bore an uncanny resembl ...
  • Hinkmond Wong's Weblog: Android not based on Java
    For the other commenter who thinks Android is "based on Java", you are incorrect. While it is true that the programming language for Android is the Java programming language, the Android platform itself uses the Dalvik virtual machine and processes Dalvik bytecode, not Java bytecode, so the Andr ...
  • Jury rules that Eolas's "interactive web" pate ...
    An East Texas patent case that has attracted the attention of the technology world came to a screeching halt Thursday as the jury ruled that the key patent in the case is invalid. Eolas, a patent troll that has been shaking down technology companies for the better part of a decade, now faces the ...
  • Patents for Humanity Announced at White House ...
    I had the honor of being invited to the White House today for the Innovation for Global Development Event, which was held in support of the President's commitment to using harness the power of innovation to solve long-standing global development challenges. As a part of this event, David Kappos ...
  • In re Google
    Although the court's affirmance of the district court's refusal to protect this communication under the attorney-client privilege is fact-specific (and nonprecedential), the opinion nevertheless provides a useful short primer on attorney-client privilege issues in the context of activities perfo ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Foreclosure fraud: forgery charges against Doc ...
    Linda Green's changing signature (Source: Washington Post 23 Sep 2010) Last week a Missouri grand jury handed up an 136-count indictment accusing DocX  of forgery. DocX, a now-closed unit of Lender Processing Services of Jacksonville, Florida, was one of the largest companies that provided h ...
  • Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF offi ...
    In a letter obtained by Reuters on Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused the officials of “…blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty.”
  • Doctor Hedges misdiagnoses the Decline of Occupy
    The police have raided many of the encampments across the country. Protests and actions called by Occupy are declining in number, with reduced participation. Workers and marginalized people, like the homeless, who were initially drawn to Occupy have, in many instances, departed. It is discouragi ...
  • Run-of-the-river hydropower
    Chief Joseph Dam, WA. Run-of-the-river hydropower. No sizable reservoir. Wikimedia Commons Small hydro may have a promising future, especially run-of-the-river hydropower. Dams are not needed, eliminating the major problems of destruction of habitat and large areas by flooding plus the inevitabl ...
  • Google Adwords tips for local businessses
    A client is a violin teacher in Santa Monica CA. She gets steady business from the Google Adwords campaign I manage for her. Here’s how I keep costs down and results up. First, use Google Search only. She doesn’t need Display Network ads, which can get very expensive and aren’t ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
  • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
    It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
  • 2012: A good year to boycott Sabra (& Shatila) ...
    I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the September 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As some of you may know, my company, Just World Books, will soon be publishing a reissued version of former WaPo journo Jon Randal's classic 1 ...

frogblog

  • Syria – and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’: & ...
    In the first question time of the 50th Parliament I challenged the Foreign Minister about the NZG policy on the Syrian crisis.  He delivered the ‘bipartisan’ foreign mantra that the Government condemned the killings in Homs, regretted the Security Council veto, and supported a transition to a de ...
  • Christchurch’s assets could be next on Govt ch ...
    Two patsy questions by National MPs of Local Government Minister Nick Smith in Parliament this week (on increases in council debt and rates since the Local Government Act 2002) combined with Earthquake Recovery Minister, Gerry Brownlee’s recent overwrought criticism of Mayor Parker and Christchu ...
  • Can’t or won’t?
    On Tuesday, Steven Joyce, Minister of Economic Development and Science and innovation, wrote about the ‘you cant’s’ of our country, in an opinion piece in the NZ Herald. Feeling that perhaps I am one of those people he criticises as ‘people who in the one breath chant "more jobs, more jobs" and ...
  • General debate, February 10, 2012
  • Unemployment: one step forward, two steps back
    Hot on the heels of yesterday’s minimum wage increase announcement – of a paltry 50c an hour – comes the December 2011 Household Labour Force Survey quarterly report . On the face of it, the statistics indicate a steady decrease in unemployment – and no doubt John Key’s government wi ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why Did MS Drug Kill Eleven People?
    By Dr. Mercola When you take drugs for multiple sclerosis (MS), you may very well be trading MS for another set of health problems, including paying the ultimate price: death. Health agencies from multiple countries, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medi ...
  • Drug Firm Agrees to Pay One Billion Dollars in ...
    By Dr. Mercola A nearly decade-long civil investigation into the fraudulent marketing of Johnson & Johnson's antipsychotic drug Risperdal may soon be coming to a close, with the drug giant agreeing to pay more than $1 billion to the United States and individual states to resolve the matte ...
  • Iodine is Important but a New Study Shows Too ...
    By Dr. Mercola Iodine is a vitally important nutrient that is detected in every organ and tissue. Along with being essential for healthy thyroid function and efficient metabolism, there is increasing evidence that low iodine is related to numerous diseases, including cancer. Worldwide, it's ...
  • Sidestep These Veggies - Even if They're Organic
    By Dr. Mercola Videos like the two featured above have started making the rounds online, raising questions about what exactly that plastic-looking "peel" found on some fresh produce might be. Let me preface this article by saying that I do not have the answer, but I will present a couple ...
  • Don't Eat it: Linked to Cancer and Gets into Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola In November 2011, about 250 Boulder County residents attended a public meeting to discuss the planting of GM (genetically modified) crops on county-owned land. Their turnout, together with an anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) recommendation from the county's Food and A ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Judges allow Indians to remain on ancestral land
    Guarani girls © Survival Judges in Brazil have allowed a Guarani community to stay on its ancestral land, which it reoccupied having been forced to live in a makeshift camp for over a year and a half. The judges have suspended an eviction order which threatened to force the Indians to leav ...
  • Two dead and 40 injured in Panama police attack
    A Ngobe-Buglé boy is wounded after clashes with police in Panama © Survival A week-long protest ended violently on Sunday after police moved in on a group of Ngobe-Buglé Indians in the Chiriquí province of western Panama. Protestors had blockaded part of the Pan-American Highway, the main ...
  • Six men face charges for Guarani murders in le ...
    Genivaldo Vera's mother next to his tomb. He was killed by gunmen in 2009. © Public Ministry, MS/ Survival Six men are being brought to trial for the murder of two Guarani Indians who were killed in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state in 2009. The case has been described as ‘an importan ...
  • Illegal loggers seized days after photos of un ...
    Illegal logging threatens Peru's uncontacted Mashco-Piro.  © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú National Park, just days after the world caught its first detailed glimpse of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe. The discovery followed Surv ...
  • UK MPs call for end to ‘human safaris’ as new ...
    Jarawa girls. Newly released videos show Jarawa women being ordered to dance. © Survival The ‘human safaris’ scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe’s reserve. ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 2/9 Binge & Purge: #Seasick, Yet Still Docked
    Wal-Mart's new labels tell shoppers what's "Great For You"* Gates and the millions funding geoengineering* Junk foods still plentiful at elementary schools* 20 Foods to Give you Energy & 30 Famous Food Quotes* Taco Bell Should Learn From Long History of Outbreaks* While govt d ...
  • Global food prices up in Jan, snap 6-month dow ...
    from reuters: Global food prices rose in January for the first time in six months and may show another rise for February, as concern about bad weather in main growing regions boosted grain and vegetable oil values, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday. January's increase was not expe ...
  • #Audio: #Cargill set to exploit #Stevia worldwide
    from confectionerynews.com: John Fry, principal consultant to Cargill Health and Nutrition spoke to ConfectioneryNews.com shortly after his presentation on stevia at ProSweets’ Conference on Ingredients in Cologne, Germany. Fry said that stevia confectionery in the US had not really taken off, b ...
  • Bread Beats out Chips as Biggest Salt Source
    Potato chips, pretzels, and popcorn - which we think of as the saltiest foods in our diet - are only No. 10," said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden.
  • Monsanto Practically a Government Agency
    from brasschecktv.com: With the revolving door that is the relationship between Monsanto and various federal regulatory agencies, we might as well call Monsanto a part of the administration. President Obama has appointed the worst man possible to the top position at the Food and Drug Administrat ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like ...
    Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...
  • 10 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...
  • Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramati ...
    If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...
  • Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now ...
    Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...
  • The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm U ...
    The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financ ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • How's that European unity going, Rumpy Pumpy? ...
    Go on... call English and British opponents of the (unlawful here) European Union names. Feel free. Call us racist, xenophobic, Little Englanders who have crawled out from under a rock. Go ahead. Water off a duck's back, these days. Only, whilst those of us who care about democracy and freedo ...
  • Gay rights campaigners go 'right', the 'right' ...
    Quite hilariously from a political left-right perspective, an American court has thrown out a Californian ban on gay marriage ruling that the ban is unconstitutional. As a pro-constitution blogger and as a libertarian, we applaud the court for their verdict. However, we are quite aware tha ...
  • Quote of the Day: 7th February 2012
    We recently posted a provocative opinion piece saying that politicians should shut (the f***) up if they were not prepared to do something about it. So we were heartened that one of our closest and dearest friends in the blogosphere - Witterings from Witney - seems to have come to a similar c ...
  • May she defend our laws? Only with our help.
    Daniel Hannan MEP marked this sixtieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the House of Windsor with a blog post entitled: "May she defend our laws and ever give us cause…" Unfortunately, a promising sounding blogpost contained not one single reference to any of the laws that ou ...
  • Shock as Monckton and Gore debate the climate...
    On the day that Windy Miller stepped down as Chief Government Gaia Worshipper, it seems Gore has sensationally agreed to debate Monckton on the climate. Well, that's what this satirical clip says it is... and how we laughed:

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Feds block South Carolina's a ...
    When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won't have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice&# ...
  • Mothers, grandmothers speak out about children ...
    A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of childr ...
  • EPA faces lawsuit over coal-ash rule delay
    More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue t ...
  • Romney bites the government hand that has fed ...
    The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of su ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • No More Dodge Windows in Unity? Global Menu to ...
    Unity redefined Ubuntu over the years. But big changes don't happen overnight and Unity still is a work in progress. Many features introduced in Unity, like Global Menu, is not really a popular functionality, especially among desktop users. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is coming up and Canonical is doing ...
  • Boomerang GTK 3.0 Theme + Faience GNOME Shell ...
    Good theme combinations are always nice to have. If ANewStart + AwOken GNOME Shell theme combination was a bit flamboyant, this one is more simpler, prefect for everyday use. Boomerang is a beautiful new GTK 3.0 theme made for GNOME 3.2 (Gnome Shell, Gnome Classic Fallback & Unity) an ...
  • Beware: "Glassy" Future Ahead
    Corning Incorporated may not be a familiar name to you, but Gorilla Glass should be. A good majority of today's high-end touch-screen smartphones comes with Gorilla Glass which acts as a scratch resistant and durable cover glass. Phones that comes with it include blockbusters like Samsung Gala ...
  • Marlin File Browser is Evolving Pretty Nicely
    Most long term Ubuntu users here must have been familiar with the now defunct Nautilus-Elementary project. The project's lead, nicknamed ammonkey, is now working on a full blown Nautilus-Elementary inspired file browser for Linux called Marlin. Marlin is supposed to become the default file bro ...
  • Unity Concept Mockup for Ubuntu 12.10 Done Right
    We have featured quiet a huge cache of Unity mockups before but this one is quite unlike anything I have seen so far. This is perhaps the most comprehensive mockup of future Ubuntu Unity I have seen in a while. Without much ado, let's watch the video.  Unity in Ubuntu 12. ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Check this blog every Friday
    Please check this blog on Fridays for a  regular update from now on.
  • GREEK POLICE THREATEN TO ARREST TROIKA AS BUDG ...
    *GREEK POLICE SAY THEY WILL ARREST TROIKA FOR JEOPARDISING SURVIVAL OF GREEK PEOPLE AND UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY *WILDCAT STRIKES AND SIT INS IN PROTEST AT NEW AUSTERITY MEASURES *EU TRIES TO COMPEL ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO SIGN UP BEFORE ELECTIONS: END OF DEMOCRACY The Greek police force is seekin ...
  • Why we should have the right to choose our med ...
     Comment by Ray Weisling I read your posting about vitamins and other nutritional approaches to health care, citing the work of Lilly Gschwendtner. This is just the veritable tip of the iceberg. Many have travelled this path before and have suffered the fate of rigorous orthodox medical authorit ...
  • The Kampusch kidnapper: Murder?
    By Allan Hall, Daily Mail  The man who took Natascha Kampusch from a Vienna street when she was just a schoolgirl and kept her captive for nearly nine years in a secret dungeon – may have been murdered, it was claimed today. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098857/Was-Natascha-Kamp ...
  • Medical experiments on people still possible i ...
    Medical experiments on people in Austria can still be carried out as long as a person with the authority of a guardian signs  permission, admits an expert in the ORF. http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2520523/

Invisible Opportunity

  • 9/11 Incontrovertible Proof the Government is ...
  • David Icke on Terrorism, ‘Totalitarian T ...
    Daily Bell: Is the New World Order becoming a reality? David Icke: Yes, it is becoming a reality by the day, quite demonstrably. The projections of the plans that were in my books in the 1990s, like And the Truth will set you Free, which I wrote in 1994, are playing out on the television [...]
  • US Implausibly Denies Role in Israeli Terror S ...
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post The British Daily Mail published a stunning admission by “US officials” that Israel is indeed funding, training, arming, and working directly with US State Department listed terrorist organization, the People’s Mujahedin of Ira ...
  • Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
    by: TA Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many Eur ...
  • Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran&#8 ...
    By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Updated: 11:14 a.m. ET — Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s l ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
    Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
  • Whither Korea?
    The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...
  • Nuclear Nihilism
    Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...
  • One of Our Other Cold Wars
    As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...
  • Seeking Economic Truth
    John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Russia And Syria: Laboratory For Testing Adven ...
    Moscow Times February 8, 2012 Russia Gets Bad Rap Over Syria By Sreeram Chaulia* ==== Those who berate Russia for being an openly acknowledged supplier of weapons to the Assad regime ignore the fact that the rebel Free Syrian Army is being clandestinely armed and financed by the authoritarian Ar ...
  • How the Arab League Has Become a Tool of Weste ...
    Global Research February 9, 2012 How the Arab League Has Become a Tool of Western Imperialism By Finian Cunningham NATO-UAE Relations and the Way Forward in the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 29-30, 2009 It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of cla ...
  • Syria: New American Eisenhower Doctrine In The ...
    Voice of Russia February 10, 2012 A new version of the Eisenhower Doctrine and U.S. policy in Syria Alexey Pilko ==== There’s little doubt that after the neutralization of Syria, a military operation against Iran would be only a matter of time. And taking Bashar out of the game would allow the U ...
  • Syria: Preventing War
    RT February 10, 2012 Syria: War prevented Edited by RR ==== [T]he reported “hundreds of Syrian activists” would have no particular reason or opportunity for being in Libya. Which means that the assault against the Russian diplomatic mission was a special operation pulled off by Western secret se ...
  • Stop NATO news: February 10, 2012
    ==== NATO Air Strike Killed Eight Afghan Children: Karzai Another U.S. Drone Strike Kills Three In Pakistan Pentagon Budget To Fund First NATO Global Hawk Drones Argentina Appeals To UN Over British Military Buildup In South Atlantic Leading U.S. Officials Flock To Bulgaria Amid Mideast War Thre ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Nuclear Madness: Despite Meltdowns, Accidents, ...
    Tony Muga - On Thursday, February 9th, 2012 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of two new nuclear power plants in the face of overwhelming evidence that not only should new permits be denied, but that current plants should be carefully and systematically shut down and d ...
  • Dad Punishes Facebook Post with 8 Bullets to D ...
    MSNBC February 10, 2012 A video purporting to be the work of an angry father teaching his daughter a lesson by shooting bullets through her laptop is the viral video of day. The father, who identifies himself as Tommy Jordan, says his daughter broke ground rules when using Facebook, and posted d ...
  • US Implausibly Denies Role in Israeli Terror S ...
    Tony Cartalucci - The Daily Mail published a stunning admission by “US officials” that Israel is indeed funding, training, arming, and working directly with US State Department listed terrorist organization, MEK
  • The American Police State Takes a Major Step F ...
    Madison Ruppert - On February 8, 2012, the President of the United States of America was presented with H.R.658, also known as the “FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act.” On February 3 the House agreed to the conference report with a vote of 258-169 and on February 6, ...
  • Fox Business News Axes Freedom Watch
    Was Judge Andrew Napolitano cutting to close to the bone for the establishment? Steve Watson Infowars.com February 10, 2012 The Fox Business Channel has cancelled one of the only shows on the entire Fox News network that was in any way informative or watchable - Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew N ...

FRS

  • The Occupy Oakland Move-In Assembly: Statement ...
    February 7, 2012, by the Occupy Oakland Move-in Assembly: We are writing in regards to any misconceptions you may have regarding last Saturday’s (1/28) Move-In Day to reclaim the unused Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. We have had to brave a heavy campaign launched by the city and the mainstre ...
  • The Occupy Oakland Move-In Assembly: Statement ...
    February 7, 2012, by the Occupy Oakland Move-in Assembly: We are writing in regards to any misconceptions you may have regarding last Saturday’s (1/28) Move-In Day to reclaim the unused Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. We have had to brave a heavy campaign launched by the city and the mainstre ...
  • Nepal: Disqualified combatants disrupt retire ...
      [Frontlines editorial comment:   A noted Black writer/poet in the US, Langston Hughes, once penned these lines on the frustrations of the denied and delayed.  It is appropriate to the events in Nepal today.  “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester ...
  • Nepal: Disqualified combatants disrupt retire ...
     [Frontlines editorial comment:   A noted Black writer/poet in the US, Langston Hughes, once penned these lines on the frustrations of the denied and delayed.  It is appropriate to the events in Nepal today.  “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester l ...
  • Arizona: In the Shadow of the Klan
    THE BURNING Of THE BOOKS,  by Bertolt Brecht When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge Should be publicly burned and on all sides Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books To the bonfires, a banished Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the Burned, was shocked to fin ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Not Facebook… Ziobook
    This is to the ZioNazi's at ZioBook. For all the good people posting the truth and getting their accounts deleted, go fuck yourself. For all the ZioTrolls coddled and sheltered in their Ziobook home, go fuck yourself again. A person should use Ziobook only as required, then treat it like a so ...
  • PRESS RELEASE: Ofcom Bans Press TV in the UK & ...
    OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement:
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Is Romney’s Nomination All but Assured?
    Why Mitt Romney is on track for the GOP nomination.Contributor: Jared Feldman Published: Feb 04, 2012
  • Groundhog Day 2012: Punxsutawney Phil Has Comp ...
    The Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce announces that Groundhog Day 2012 is a bust for spring lovers. Punxsutawney Phil was coaxed out of its burrow at 7:25 a.m. and delivered a wintery prediction. Do fellow groundhogs concur?Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Feb 02, 2012
  • Susan G. Komen Foundation Quits Planned Parent ...
    Since 2005, the breast cancer charity donated money to Planned Parenthood. On Jan. 31, the Susan G. Komen Foundation ended the alliance.Contributor: Alethea Pape Published: Feb 01, 2012
  • President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
    For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
    A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, February 6-10, 2012
    We've been obsessed with fun this week. Ogling the most amazing and groundbreaking playgrounds we've ever seen, playing with great new videogame technology, learning about a Teutonic revolution in board games, and wasting time with the PopSci Flash Arcade (curated by our friends at Kill Screen). ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, F ...
    There are lots of amazing images in this week's roundup; there's the likely discovery of a massive former ocean on Mars, there's a purple squirrel, there's an incredible augmented reality project, and lots more. But we can't stop looking at--and thinking about--the noble Cyber Woman With A Corn. ...
  • Images of the Week, February 6-10, 2012
  • A Smartphone That Detects Whether Its User Is ...
    “Siri, how do I feel right now?” Apple’s automated assistant might not be so perceptive as to know, but your smartphone may soon be able to assess your mood and determine if you are suffering from symptoms of depression. Researchers at Northwestern University are creating a kind of virtual thera ...
  • Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth
    Otavia antiqua could be the earliest human ancestor, predating the previous earliest known animal by tens of millions of years. Our earliest evolutionary ancestor may have been found in the form of microscopic sponge-like organisms recently discovered inside extremely ancient African rocks. If ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Met Office global forecasts too warm in 11 out ...
    Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...
  • First widespread snow of winter on its way
    It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...
  • East versus West: Let the battle commence!
    For the first time this winter, after a relentless spell of westerly winds, many areas are expected to see a general change to colder conditions as we head through the weekend and into next week. As the colder air becomes established it will be competing with milder air from the Atlantic. Wher ...
  • Will we see the Northern Lights again tonight?
    The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...
  • Will winter pass us by this year?
    As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Asian Values 2012: Dr Mahathir Kicks West's Hiney
    To say that I am ambivalent about still-controversial former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad is an understatement. On one hand, his time in office was accompanied by economic gains that were among the best in our region of Southeast Asia. On the other hand, he has had a penchant fo ...
  • Kagan the American Exceptionalist Versus Math
    It appears that Robert "Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus" Kagan is set to come out with yet another of these eminently dispensable books on why America remains the indispensable nation. (I partly blame deforestation on this cottage industry of delusional Americans thinking they ...
  • Poland's Bid to Become a European Big Beast
    There is much discussion about an "EMU-lite" being the likely result of current crises in the Eurozone. When all is said and done, what will supposedly remain in the eurozone are traditionally strong economies that were among the earliest joiners such as Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Yet ...
  • Fat Chance Saloon: Japan Joining the TPP PTA
    This WSJ headline is somewhat misleading: the US government would dearly love Japan to join its effort to expand the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and in the process create bandwagon effects to persuade others to follow. Yet, at the same time, many American manufacturers remain leery about Jap ...
  • Choking Iran: Asian Dealings & Its IMF Membership
    It may be a surprise to some readers that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of the World Bank and the IMF. Not that it's benefited much in the way of funding from either lender in recent times--it's not received any World Bank loans since Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005, f'rinstance. I ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like ...
    Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...
  • 10 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...
  • Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramati ...
    If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...
  • Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now ...
    Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...
  • The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm U ...
    The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financ ...

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E U Times

  • Mars Radar finds Clues of Primordial Ocean on ...
    The MARSIS radar on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has found evidence of a large body of water that once covered part of Mars. The study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that the ESA research team used two years of MARSIS data to comp ...
  • Chevrolet cars Banned in Egypt for having Cros ...
    One of the spiritual leaders of Egypt issued a fatwah (law, regulations) which banned Muslims from driving Chevrolet vehicles. According to the new law, Muslims must not drive Chevrolet cars because the logo of the company is a Christian cross. The religious law, which bans the use of the cars m ...
  • Syria: White House preaches peace as Pentagon ...
    The White House is saying “no” to arming opposition and other military involvement in the Syrian conflict – for the moment. Pentagon and US Central Command launched a review of US military capabilities in case that “no” turns a “yes.” ­The backdoor for military action was ajar with State Departm ...
  • Argentina plans to take islands dispute with U ...
    Argentina says it will file a formal complaint with the United Nations over Britain’s “militarization” of the disputed Malvinas (Falklands) Islands. Amid growing tensions between Buenos Aires and London, Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday criticized Britain for milita ...
  • WHO declares war on Cancer
    “Together it is possible” was the theme for the World Cancer Day 2012 – however, cancer kills millions of people every year and up to a third of cases can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle, according to statistics released by the World Health Organization. Let us then, togeth ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality &#821 ...
    Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...
  • Towards Deception and Denial: Vatican PR Parad ...
    Vatican PR is in overdrive again, trying to ensure there is no possibility of any unauthorised commentary of the so-called “Global Summit on Sexual Abuse” this week, other than their own carefully manipulated spin. Surprisingly, Vatican PR has finally realised how little credibility ...
  • You Ensured We Never Had A Chance
    This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...
  • More Damning Evidence Vatican Couldn’t G ...
    The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...
  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...

WL Central

  • Election Year Venezuela: It’s Washington vs. t ...
    Tweet Authored by Nikolas Kozloff As the Venezuelan presidential election approaches in October, Washington is undoubtedly hoping that Hugo Chávez will go down to stinging electoral defeat and that the populist leader’s geopolitical alliance will crumble and come to an ignominious end. Of partic ...
  • 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 2
    TweetDuring the second and final day of the U.K. Supreme Court's hearings on Julian Assange's extradition, Matrix Chambers attorney Clare Montgomery offered her rebuttal to arguments made yesterday by Assange's counsel. (Dinah Rose is representing Assange in his fight against extradition to Swed ...
  • PCO WTF – Inside Canada's WikiLeaks Task Force
    TweetAuthored by Joe B. Today I received another large stack of LEGAL from the Privy Council Office regarding WikiLeaks. Back in July of 2011, I wrote about the DFAIT WTF, where I got the e-mails from the various diplomats who headed the WikiLeaks Task Force in Canada. Unlike the PCO, DFAIT gave ...
  • 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 1
    Tweet At Day 1 of the Julian Assange extradition hearing On the night before the hearing began, one dedicated Assange supporter in London told me that she planned to arrive at Court by 6 a.m., ahead of the throngs that she expected based on the turnout at Assange's hearing last November. No doub ...
  • 2012-01-25 #WikiLeaks News: New details about ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News The activation of WikiLeaks’ social network Friends of WikiLeaks is to happen very soon ...

U N News

  • Ban urges dialogue in dispute over Falkland Is ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced hope that Argentina and the United Kingdom can avoid escalating their dispute over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and resolve their differences through dialogue.
  • Wave of prison deaths in South America sparks ...
    A senior United Nations human rights official has voiced concern over a wave of violence inside prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates have been killed in the past two weeks in four separate countries.
  • Haiti making progress on rule of law, but face ...
    Haiti has made some progress in restoring the rule of law, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country said today, citing as examples the appointment of the president of the highest appellate court and the upcoming establishment of the supreme cou ...
  • Criminal violence taking rising toll in Caribb ...
    An increasing crime rate is threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, states a new United Nations report that calls for the right mix of policies and programmes to tackle the problem.
  • UN-backed census aims to improve lives of Domi ...
    A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
  • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
    This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
  • Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
    Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...
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  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Five Lit ...
    Ten years ago at the end of a three-week trip in Argentinean Patagonia and the rain-soaked, glacier-whittled southern Chilean coast, I took a nasty fall.   After flying home to New Mexico, my back, which had never bothered me before, grew steadily worse over the coming months.  I soon had to sto ...

Asia Sentinel

  • The End of Duch
    • (http://twitter.com/share) Could the tribunal spur a Cambodia renaissance?
  • Hong Kong's "Election"
    • (http://twitter.com/share) As Chief Secretary Henry Tung’s candidacy fades, the oligarchs try to prop him up
  • Must Have Red Wine of the Lunar Year
    • (http://twitter.com/share) Our Wandering Palate gets into the Black Water Dragon’s Lair for Pegasus Bay Pinot Noir Prima Donna 2009 – Waipara Valley, South Island, New Zealand )and also goes ...
  • Debt and Demography
    • (http://twitter.com/share) Getting older doesn’t necessarily mean getting better, at least for countries
  • The Rights of Women
    • (http://twitter.com/share) The Gender Agenda: Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girls

We Know the Lies

  • Foreclosure 'Deal' Designed to Spur U.S. Home ...
      The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely. read more
  • Mythbusters Banned From Talking About RFID Chi ...
      Host Adam Savage of Mythbusters tells how Visa, Mastercard, and Discover had the Discovery Channel put the kibosh on an episode that would have revealed just how “trackable and hackable” the RFID chips found in many credit cards are. It’s a telling example of how corporate advertiser ...
  • FDA is Knowingly KILLING You With Aspartame!
      InfoWars Nightly News reporter Darrin McBreen unveils the hoax around Aspartame, marketed in a wide-array of products as a safe sugar substitute, but in reality a dangerous, artificial compound that should be avoided. ~ Video read more
  • A Baffling Case... What Really Happened to D.A ...
      STATE COLLEGE, Penn.—Nearly seven years ago, Ray Gricar—Centre County, Pa.’s District Attorney for two decades—vanished into thin air. According to law enforcement officials, he hasn’t been seen since. Yet, is this official verdict accurate, or does the missing D.A.’s disappearance h ...
  • Sheriff Mack... "It's A Miracle!"
      I'm not convinced that divine intervention was involved, however the first County Sheriff Project event in Las Vegas on January 30th was an unexpectedly huge success. One hundred fifteen Sheriffs and Deputies registered for the event, and approximately sixty of them stood together i ...

Tarpley

  • Occupy Wall Street Should Oust Facilitators, M ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is faced with anti-war protesters who also condemn the assassinations of Iran’s high profile nuclear scientists. An analyst believes that warmongering groups in Wall Street provoke wars in the ...
  • Report from Iran Under the Shadow of War
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 5, 2012 Webster Tarpley reporting from Tehran, Iran [download audio]
  • Who Will Stop Obama’s Aggressive War on ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 29, 2012 [download video] The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology. T ...
  • Media Interviews
             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  >  >| page: 1 of 10   total items: 99 Statistics for Suicide, Domestic Violence, Crime Reveal Tragedy of Overstretched and Demoralized US Military After a Decade of Multiple Wars PressTV – January 21, ...
  • To Avoid War, Russia and China Must Announce T ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 17, 2012 recorded on January 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is working hard to persuade other countries to obey its domestic law on sanctioning the Iranian Oil industry. Many experts believe that the US will face strong res ...

Modern Survivalism

  • 37 Popular Amazon Survival Preparedness Items
    The following is a list of the most popular survival-preparedness things from Amazon.com that were sought after during the past year through various references and links on Modern Survival Blog.com posts and articles. These 37 items offer a glimpse into the average cross-section of folks prepare ...
  • A Washboard is a Great Survival Prep Item
    About two years ago Ken purchased a washboard. “We’ll be able to keep clothes clean if the power goes out”, he said. It was made out of a wooden frame with it’s steel ridges to ‘wash’ your clothes on. I don’t know if any of you have ever used a washboard ...
  • Know Multiple Routes ‘Out’
    How many driving routes do you know from your place of work to home? How many driving routes do you know should you have to evacuate from your city or town or workplace? How many roads along these routes are major roads traveled by the majority of others? Why is this important? Because during a ...
  • Survival Kits
    “The idea behind having emergency kits is to have at a moments notice, the basics for survival.” … a quote from Emergency Essentials. A common survival kit is a 72-hour survival kit, kept in your car as well as your home in a location where it can easily be accessed. A survival ...
  • Organization, A Survival Skill
    I recently used a survivor skill to the maximum. As many of you know, Ken and I have recently moved several weeks ago. My skill that rose to the surface was ‘organization‘. I have always been an organized person in pretty much every aspect of my life. When it came to packing up the h ...

Fast Company

  • This Week In Bots: Dogs Of War
    Alpha Dog: Goes "Hi Ho," Romps Over HillsIf you're any sort of fan of robotics, you'll know about Boston Dynamics' Big Dog and Alpha Dog--research prototype robots that will be used to inform the design of a genuine military support quadruped robot. Now DARPA has just taken Alpha Dog out into th ...
  • If Your Customers Are Poised For Revolt, It's ...
    Two thousand years before smartphones, Plato suggested that excessive democracy would lead directly to tyranny, because sooner or later the majority will choose to trample the rights of the minority. One indication of the wisdom of Plato’s teachings is that all Western “democratic” governme ...
  • 8 Reasons Your Social Initiative Will Fail
    Social is one of the hottest trends in enterprise software, and many companies are considering rolling out products and services that make it easier for employees to share information with each other and communicate with customers and suppliers. Social software covers a lot of ground, but in ...
  • YouTube And Shiva Rajaraman Bring Intelligent ...
    How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations? In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue, we chat with Shiva Rajaraman, Group Product Manager for YouTube."On YouTube, our top querie ...
  • Staying Competitive In A Customer-Centric World
    I stopped asking my students to write essays years ago. When I required them, I was shocked to find nearly half of the papers had been plagiarized! These young college undergrads, studying entrepreneurship, could not understand why copying text from a Google search and pasting it into a paper as ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt's Other Revolution: Modernizing the Mili ...
    The Egyptian military produces a staggering array of manufactured goods: kitchen cutlery, flat-screen televisions, agricultural and household chemicals, refrigerators, industrial machinery, railway cars, and election booths. And while many of the military’s factory webpages make a concer ...
  • While You Were Sleeping, Again
    Another early morning in Baba Amr, another late night here. My plan is to write a simple post from a few reports on the day’s events in Homs, the fifth consecutive day of shelling in Baba Amr. Keeping an eye on Skype and Twitter and my ears tuned in to Omar Shakir’s livestream broadcast, ...
  • الأبعاد المسكوت عنها في الأزمة بين القضاة وال ...
    كانت مناقشة مشروع تعديل قانون السلطة القضائية مناسبة لحلقة جديدة من مسلسل الصراع القديم المتجدد بين جناحي العدالة. البداية جاءت تزامنا مع اجواء ثورة 25 يناير 2011 والرغبة في تدعيم دولة القانون حيث شكل رئيس مجلس القضاء الأعلى لجنة لإعداد مشروع قانون السلطة القضائية. وبعدما انتهت اللجنة من ...
  • خريطة مسيرات وزارة الدفاع الجمعه 10 فبراير 2012
  • A Changing American Context? Reflections on Tw ...
    Nelly Hanna, Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Raouf `Abbas Hamid and `Asim el-Dessouky, The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952. Translated from the Arabic by Amer Mohsen with Mon ...

mediagazer

  • Does Time Magazine Think Americans Are Stupid? ...
    L.V. Anderson / Slate: Does Time Magazine Think Americans Are Stupid? … - Obama Just Pulled a Fast One on Republicans With His Contraception Compromise  — Is One of the Most Influential Pastors in the U.S. Too Involved in His Flock's Sex Lives?  - Lithwick: Prop 8 R ...
  • Patch Would Like its Journalists to Let it Spe ...
    Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire: Patch Would Like its Journalists to Let it Speak For Them  —  Patch's request to its hundreds of local editors not to comment on Jim Romenesko's reporting on Patch is just the latest example of a big media company trying, and failing, to control ...
  • New revenue threat looms as newspapers' legal ...
    Rick Edmonds / Poynter: New revenue threat looms as newspapers' legal notice franchise comes under fresh pressure from cash-strapped states  —  State and local governments are almost as pressed as newspapers these days to shave expenses in the face of falling revenues.  &md ...
  • A Painterly World Press Photo Winner (Lens)
    Lens: A Painterly World Press Photo Winner  —  A thin man rests his head on the shoulder of a burqua-clad woman, the pair collapsed together against a wall.  The expression on her face can't be seen.  But her body language - right arm wrapped tightly around his neck, l ...
  • Bay Citizen, Center for Investigative Reportin ...
    Ashwin Seshagiri / MediaShift: Bay Citizen, Center for Investigative Reporting Plan to Merge.  Now What?  —  The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting, two non-profit organizations based in the Bay Area, announced formally Tuesday that they intend to merge. ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Barcelona Refuse to Surrender Title to Re ...
    Madrid. Despite Real Madridâs seven-point lead in La Liga, Barcelona defender Gerard Pique says that the title race is not over and they will fight to the end and make it as difficult as possible for their bitter rivals. While the Catalan side have come out on top when they have faced Real s ...
  • FBI files show Steve Jobs was considered ...
    WASHINGTON — FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him. In the FBI documents released Thursday, many of those who knew Jobs praised him, speaking highly of Jobs' chara ...
  • Giggs signs new deal
    Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has put pen to paper on a new one-year contract to extend his remarkable career at Old Trafford. The Welshman's deal had been set to expire in the summer but he indicated recently that he had no intention of hanging up his boots. United have now confir ...
  • Mata targets Olympic role
    Juan Mata has set his sights on playing at both Euro 2012 and the Olympics this summer after settling in quicker than expected at Chelsea. Mata made the move to Stamford Bridge from Valencia in August and, although the Blues have...
  • Greek actions fail to impress
    BRUSSELS - Just hours after Greece gave in to painful new job and spending cuts, European ministers declared Thursday that Athens didn't go far enough and demanded more within a week in exchange for a (euro) 130 billion ($170 billion) bailout to stave off bankruptcy. The ministers gave the d ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/8/12 - Candidate Finances
    2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances –The five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum) have raised $98,252,290 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $128,353,560 million, and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has raise ...
  • 2/6/12 - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto C ...
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto Contador Found Guilty - A two-year investigation into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ended on Feb. 3, 2012 with no charges filed by federal prosecutors. On Feb. 6 ...
  • 2/2/12 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts abou ...
    2012election.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts about US Presidential Elections - Did you know that a presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history, or that every US President since 1852 has been either a Republican or a Democrat? ...
  • 1/26/12 - 16 States with Pending Legislation t ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...
  • 1/25/12 - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
    2012election.procon.org - Should the government continue to fund Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. While none of the candidates are clearly Pro, three are Not Clearly Pro or Con, and four are Con.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Farm life and the Immune System
    Immunological diseases, such as eczema and asthma, are on the increase in westernised society and represent a major challenge for 21st century medicine. A new study has shown, for the first time, that growing up on a farm directly affects the regulation of the immune system and causes a reductio ...
  • Mathematics in US after Fall of Communism
    The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those scholars’ differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new research by University of Notre Dame Economist K ...
  • What the Dickens
    Sales of Charles Dickens’s books in his lifetime ON THE death of Charles Dickens in 1870 the Times lamented, “The loss of such a man is an event which makes ordinary expressions of regret seem cold and conventional”. It was the prodigious popularity of his work that went furthest to explai ...
  • Man as Machine
    A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human. Max Byrd Once or twice a year France’s National Museum of Technology, on the nondescript rue Vaucanson in Paris, announces a special demonstration. On the second floor, at the en ...
  • Smell Test
    After a lifelong curiosity about the prohibition against pork, one writer finds a satisfying answer—in the writings of the late Christopher Hitchens Shmarya Rosenberg In case you don’t know, pigs aren’t kosher. It is a statement so axiomatic that for most Jews, making it is akin to saying the sk ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
  • Revolutionary science
    This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
  • Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
    In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
  • Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
    FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
  • Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
    The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • 2RSR Breakfast Mayhem with Jack and Hereward - ...
    Today we bring you an hour of unedited mayhem with Jack Frost and Hereward Fenton on Radio Skid Row 88.9 FM Sydney, recorded on 2 February 2012. The show includes a long interview with Craig Isherwoord - Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council, as well as banter, phone calls and robust deb ...
  • The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
    Anti-ACTA protest in the Polish Parliament Just when you thought you could relax, after the defeat of the SOPA/PIPA bills in the US, another freedom-crushing legislation rears its ugly head. It's an international treaty called ACTA, which Australia signed back in September 2011. From the Dep ...
  • What Caused the Ejections of Dust and Debris i ...
    Q: What caused the "squibs"? Could they have been just puffs of dust being pushed out of the Towers by falling floors? Are they visual evidence of explosive charges? A: The isolated ejections 20-60 stories below the demolition front appear to be composed of pulverized building materials, incl ...
  • Thomas Kean: “aftershocks” from pl ...
    This muddle headed, government-appointed chair of the 9/11 Commission does not even know what his government found to be the cause of the collapse of WTC 7. For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of the "official" 9/11 narrative. The ignorance and impudence of this man is breathtaking. H ...
  • Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
    Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...

Beacon

  • Last Chance to Register for the World Oceans S ...
    Happy Friday, all! We just wanted to remind you about the The Economist's fast-approaching World Oceans Summit where 200 global leaders, including our CEO Andy Sharpless, will discuss the future of our oceans. The summit, which takes place in Singapore from Feb. 22-24, will offer a robust ex ...
  • What’s Scarier Than a Shark? Lots of Things.
    This stonefish is far scarier than your average shark. If you think that sharks are the scariest creatures in the sea, this post may surprise you. As we've discussed in the past, the majority of shark attacks are caused by only three species (white, tiger, and bull), yet there are more than ...
  • Sperm Whales Prefer Squid to Plastic Bags
    © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Plastic is one of the most common pollutants that end up in the ocean, but the properties that make it ideal for shopping make it deadly to marine life. Plastics are durable and do not decompose easily, which means they can stay in the ocean for decades. And because ...
  • Oregon Senate Passes Bill to Create Marine Res ...
    Oregon's Otter Rock. © Oceana/Will Race Today the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 1510, which brings Oregon’s first network of marine reserves and marine protected areas off the Oregon coast one step closer to implementation. An ecologically significant network of marine reserves and protec ...
  • More than 100 Dolphins Beached in Cape Cod
    © Oceana/Jesus Renedo More than 100 dolphins have beached themselves in Cape Cod, Massachusetts this winter, and no one knows why. In the northeastern United States, it’s normal for about 230 animals to beach themselves over the course of a year. But this year, 129 common dolphins have been ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • New Country: South Sudan.
    South Sudan split from Sudan on November 9th, 2011. It is recognized by the United Nations and represents the further splitting of countries that has gone on unabated since World War II. The Capitol city is Juba. To the south is Ethiopia, and Kenya, and Uganda. The Congo and the Central African ...
  • Early Vertical Take Off Aircraft.
          Ryan engineers knew the Fireball had a thrust to weight ratio of 1, and so wondered whether it would fly if it was launched in a configuration as a tail sitter. The X-13 Ryan Vertijet flew once properly vertical, hovered and landed.     The French developed their o ...
  • In The Mid 11th Century, Europe Was A Boiling ...
      Herod and Solomon’s Temples are trod upon, the Jews are sent into diaspora. Christ is killed. Mohammed has ascended. The remnants of the Roman Empire have been split into the Holy Roman Empire in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire in the East. Most of Europe is a complicated bloody m ...
  • The Ever Increasing Militarization Of America.
      Todd Purdum writes in Vanity Fair about something that I have stared in the face for a few years and have been reticent to talk about. I am a part of it. The subject is the hyper militaristic state that America has become. It began in the late 1980s and was completed after the [...]
  • The Convair XF-92A.
      The XF-92 was an early American delta wing experimental aircraft. It was first created as a super fast interceptor. But later became a testbed, one that led to the development of a whole fleet of American delta winged fighters: the F-102, the F-106, and the B-58 Hustler. Like the BAC Ligh ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Are Conservative Men Prepared for the 21st Cen ...
    Clearly, Rick Santorum is not. The cultural war religious conservatives are stirring up is about women’s freedoms, but it is also about equality, competency and economic opportunity. From Politico: “Look, I want to create every opportunity for women to be able to serve this country, ...
  • Pres. Obama: No Compromise on Free Contracepti ...
    Pres. Obama felt forced to compromise and personally address the furor surrounding his contraceptive mandate for all women, because religious conservatives wanted a fight about religious freedom where none existed and election year politics made it possible. He made a serious faith-based effort ...
  • White House Contraceptive Compromise Announcem ...
    **UPDATED** As Rick Santorum takes to the stage to give his speech, with Mitt Romney following close behind, the White House has scheduled their announcement, which I wrote yesterday would be coming before the end of Friday. It’s set for 12:15 p.m. [update] What is being reported and what ...
  • Political choices people don’t want to make
    Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. What this series has been about, in a broad, diverse and occasionally rambling sort of way: I think two parties = too few choices. I think the Two Party Front for the Oligarchy, the Duopoly, the Corporate Parties, whateve ...
  • Pres. Obama Knew Firestorm Was Coming on Contr ...
    “… I think women should be deacons as well as men. …But if the federal government, if the Justice Department offers a mandate ordering Southern Baptists to make women deacons, I would be the first to say get the hell out of our business.” – Joe Scarborough (9 Februa ...

Hudson New York

  • The Problem of Sharia Law in Britain
    On many occasions James Madison warned of the power of an "ecclesiastical establishment." Britain now is confronted by such a threat. The estimated Muslim population in Britain is now 2.9 million, nearly five percent of the total population, and an
  • For Palestinians, No Arab Spring
    At a time when Arab heads of state are facing popular uprisings demanding reforms and democracy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has secured himself yet another job: Prime Minister. Earlier this week, Palestinians were surprised to hear
  • Al-Qaeda Takes Over East Africa
    Al-Qaeda is expanding its presence in Africa. The Islamist terrorist group hopes to find in the African continent new safe havens from which to attack Western interests and build logistical bases. Al-Qaeda is already present in the North Africa and in
  • Turkey Calls for International Conference on Syria
    Turkey plans to hold an international conference on Syria with regional players and world powers to increase pressure on Syria. "Countries that are concerned with the situation in Syria have to find a solution. We are determined to establish a
  • Qatar Financing Wahhabi Islam in France, Italy ...
    The Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar says it plans to invest €50 million ($65 million) in French suburbs that are home to hundreds of thousands of disgruntled Muslim immigrants. Qatar says its investment is intended to support small businesses in

Urban Survival

  • Greek Bailout in Limbo
    Yeah, I know, you thought Limbo was in the Caribbean, or on cruise ships, but it’s late in the week, and creativity burns low, so go with me on this.  The reason for the limbo label is that violence is … Continue reading →
  • George on Marketing: Selling the Fear
    Yesterday I was complaining about the (create employment, pander to fear) planes to launch up to 30,000 drones over the USA in the next seven years but this morning we’ve come across a report about how the Los Angeles Police … Continue reading →
  • The Exciting Game of “Dough-Go”
    Word that a national settlement is near on the recent – years long – problems in the mortgage industry can be taken with a grain of salt, I’m afraid.  While it’s perhaps a good thing that New York and California … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With “Drones Disease” and ...
    Scared of Bird Flu?  Clogged arteries?  Hemorrhoids? Tell you doctor, this could be a sign of a serious condition stuff?  Well, we’ve got one more to add to the pile this morning:  Drones Disease. Although it’s not a disease recognized … Continue reading →
  • March to War: 25 to Go?
    “That’s be two eggs, over easy, hash browns, bacon, and oh, yeah, a side of global thermonuclear war…”  That seems to be the menu this morning as global forces are being put into place for a huge showdown in early … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • CBO Concludes that Oil Shale Fail Equals Trans ...
    Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC CBO Scores Oil Shale Revenues at Zero As Congress heads to a vote on Speaker Boehner’s proposal to fund the nation’s transportation and infrastructure needs by generating revenues via increased oi ...
  • NRDC in the News 2/9: Christie's auction benef ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Christie’s annual Green Auction was highlighted in Reuters, citing NRDC as one of four environmental groups expected to gain millions in proceeds toward water conservation projects. This story ...
  • NRDC in the News 2/10: Keystone XL study falls ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Anthony Swift spoke to Huffington Post about the State Department Inspector General Report, which found that the environmental impact study of the Keystone XL pipeline had fallen short of providing a ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Michael Moure, the CO of HidroAysén, presented the latest proposal for HydroAysén’s transmission line construction to the Council of Puerto Mont. Moure made light of c ...
  • Clearing Up the Record on Solar Energy on Publ ...
    Johanna Wald, Senior Attorney, San Francisco This week, Los Angeles Times published the first article of a long-awaited series about the impacts of large scale-solar projects on the Mojave Desert. Unfortunately, the first story failed to provide a f ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Someone sent me an email telling me about the above video which I thought was very well made, taking our “If you see something, film something” idea and keeping it moving forward. I’m impressed. Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Miscon ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 9, 2012: Memphis TN cop gets 8 years for shooting himself in a bid to get the attention of an underage girl he liked then falsely accusing the teen’s relative of sh ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry this daily recap is a bit late, we had another site outage last night that occurred before I was ready to publish the update. Anyway, here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, February 8, 2012: 2 Mason OH cops are the ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 6, 2012: Cincinnati OH cop who refused to give a statement to investigators about why he shot an unarmed man to death is now the subject of a lawsuit over that shooting inci ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-04 ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 4-5, 2012: A new video is contradicting New York NY cops version of the fatal shooting of a teen in the Bronx. The video shows the teen calmly walking into his home despi ...

Total Collapse

  • Iran cuts off Internet access
    Iran has cut off access to the Internet, leaving millions of people without access to email and social networks. A source inside the country confirmed this morning that Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo email are no longer available. Ditto for Facebook. So far, the government has not made any announceme ...
  • Russia accuses West of arming Syrian rebels wa ...
    Without specifying which nations he is accusing, Moscow’s deputy FM says Western countries are arming and advising rebels, says Russia will take “drastic measures” if West keeps pushing issue at UN Security Council. Russia said on Friday that the West was stoking the conflict i ...
  • Congress Approves 30,000 Spy Drones Over Ameri ...
    Once again, another shocking story that threatens the personal privacy of US citizens has been kept from us by our politicians and the mainstream media. Did you know that a bill, HR 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, has just passed both the House and the S ...
  • Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig
    It’s official. Monsanto Corporation is out to own the world’s food supply, the dangers of genetic engineering and reduced biodiversity notwithstanding, as they pig-headedly set about hog-tying farmers with their monopoly plans. We’ve discovered chilling new evidence of this in ...
  • US military forces around Iran portend imminen ...
    A former US official says Washington is deploying military forces around Iran and calling off its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to prepare for a strike on Iran. “Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran,” Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury du ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Pinterest is accused of spamming users’ friends, Google’s Motorola Mobility deal looks set to be approved, and Apple is busy picking apps to demonstrate when it launches the iPad 3....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Google’s cloud file storage called Drive appears to be launching soon. Samsung avoided a German shutdown of sales on its reformed Galaxy 10.1N tablet. It looks like the the iPad...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Path uploads your address book to its servers without permission, Flickr shuts down an app that’s trying to poach its users, and Sky News imposes strict rules on tweeting journalists....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    We get some potential details about the forthcoming Apple iTV. Brazil is suing Twitter and India is going after Google and Facebook. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Netflix releases its first original content, the Super Bowl smashes a Twitter record and one Russian mobile operator has encouraged its customers to compete to be the ultimate 3G data...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • ABC RN Drive: PANEL DISCUSSION: SOLAR POWER
    From ABC Radio National Drive Listen Here [Waleed Aly] 19 minutes past the hour, your're on RN Drive, Waleed Aly with you, its time for our Wednesday Panel. Do you have Solar Power at home? Lots of Australian homes now do have rooftop solar panels now, thanks partly due to government subsidies ...
  • NSW and QLD governments must halt all gas mini ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09 Feb 2012 Beyond Zero Emissions is calling for a complete cessation of CSG mining and exploration activities across NSW and QLD following the verified leak of toxic chemicals into the environment at a NSW CSG field owned by SANTOS. "All CSG activities must stop to protect ...
  • ABC: Germany has the wind at its back
    THE recent clinching of a $1.9 billion Australian defence contract by the Germans illustrates to carbon price knockers that they need look no further for proof that an economy which relies on renewable energy can outsmart one dependent on fossil fuels. Germany's electricity sector delivers 21 pe ...
  • Flagship projects are duds
    Ferguson run Flagships has picked losers not winners. Feed-in tariffs have been shown time and again to be the superior market based policy instrument for getting the best renewable energy deployed. However, if the government chooses to use grant mechanisms, the Department of Resources Energy an ...
  • Reneweconomy: A Leaf to hide Australia’s peak ...
    Fortunately for the Federal Government, it can use a “Leaf” to hide its growing embarrassment at being exposed for suppressing its own report warning of sharp declines in global oil production in five years time. In 2009, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese’s Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancie ...
    Three thousand years ago (around 1000 BCE) several large sections of the Congo rainforest in central Africa suddenly vanished and became savannah. Scientists have long believed the loss of the forest was due to changes in the climate, however a new study in Science implicates an additional culpr ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Tropical ecologist: Australia must follow U.S. ...
    Australia should join the widening effort to stamp out illegal logging, according to testimony given this week by tropical ecologist William Laurance with James Cook University. Presenting before the Australian Senate's rural affairs committee, Laurance argued that the massive environmental and ...
  • Opposition rising against U.S. Arctic drilling
    Drilling in the Arctic waters of the U.S. may become as contested an issue as the Keystone Pipeline XL in up-coming months. Scientists, congress members, and ordinary Americans have all come out in large numbers against the Obama Administration's leases for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort S ...
  • Majority of protected tropical forests "empty" ...
    Protected areas in the world's tropical rainforests are absolutely essential, but one cannot simply set up a new refuge and believe the work is done, according to a new paper in Bioscience. Unsustainable hunting and poaching is decimating tropical forest species in the Amazon, the Congo, Southea ...

Sierra Express

  • Inconsistency… Fadika tells Court “Aziz stabbe ...
    Lansana Fadika, Wednesday 8th , told the High Court that he was intentionally wounded by Abdul Aziz Carew; a complete disagreement to what he earlier told SLBC TV, “I was wounded by one of Aziz’s boys not him at all.” As he testified before high court Wednesday 8th, Fadika said that he was at Fo ...
  • For salary cut – SLBC threatens protest
    Editors, producers, presenters, etc., all workers of Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) have threatened strike action due to an uncalled-for reduction of their February salaries upwards.  (Photo: Director General SLBC, Gbanagbome Hallowell) Disclosures are that salaries of recently emp ...
  • Sierra Leone Police Press Release
    The attention of the Sierra Leone Police has been drawn to a press statement issued by Brig. Retired Julius Maada Bio, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) presidential nominee for the 2012 presidential election. The statement claims among other things that certain political parties have embar ...
  • Koroma’s approach on macro economic stability
    President Koroma rose to power at a time the whole world was reeling under economic pressure in a meltdown, worse described as credit crunch. The global economies suffered stagnation with little left to wonder as to what it would become of least developed countries like Sierra Leone, in the worl ...
  • More winners with Airtel Friendzy
    Airtel on Thursday 9th February at their head office announced Friendzy lucky winners for the trip to England and the trip to watch the Africa Nation’s Cup final. Corporate Affairs Manager June Rose Johnson said that Airtel delivers promises to their valued customers.  She also stated that Airte ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra picks NZX to run farmer share scheme
    Dairy farming cooperative Fonterra will use the NZX to operate the Fonterra shareholders' market as part of Trading Among Farmers (TAF) scheme, NZX said today.The market will be a platform where Fonterra farmer shareholders will...
  • Milk inquiry to continue
    Parliament's commerce committee has decided to re-adopt an inquiry into the price of milk that will stretch from the farm gate to the retailer. Last year the committee, then chaired by Lianne Dalziel, launched a broad-based inquiry...
  • Fonterra takes another look at share trading
    Dairy co-operative Fonterra is recommending a change to its plans for share trading in a bid to allay concerns from its farmer owners.Fonterra is planning a capital structure change - given 89.85 per cent support by farmers - aimed...
  • $1-a-litre deal's 'amazing' response
    The boutique grocery store that dropped the price of its milk to make a point has sold thousands of bottles at $1 a litre - and is now promising to keep milk cheaper than in supermarkets for the rest of the year.Nosh Food Market...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra must be a champion i ...
    NZ dairy company Fonterra is at risk of being outclassed on its own home turf if it doesn't rapidly develop a strategy to launch high-quality New Zealand brands into the fast-growing Chinese markets.It's hard to credit why Fonterra...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt’s “leave to appeal ...
    This just in from Karen Selick, Michael’s lawyer: I have been getting Google Alerts today saying that Bayshore Broadcasting and the Winnipeg Free Press have published info saying that Michael’s date for leave to appeal to the Ontario Court of … Continue reading →
  • New Hampshire may drop licensing requirements ...
    From Dan Flynn, on Food Safety News: As early as next week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives will likely be deciding whether the “Live Free or Die” state should allow unlicensed “homestead” food and on-farm sales of raw milk. … Continue reading →
  • Government misleads citizens about the law &#8 ...
    From the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a story titled “Trent Hills v. Bacher — Government misleads citizens about the law”: Kelly and Shawn Bacher reside in the small Ontario town of Campbellford (population about 3,000), part of the municipality of Trent … Continue r ...
  • Federal judge prohibits Amish dairy farmer Dan ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-year undercover investigation of a Maryland food club has led a federal District Court judge to impose a permanent injunction against the Pennsylvania Amish farmer … Continue readi ...
  • Security theatre in the Canadian courts
    By Karen Selick, from The National Post, where it was titled “Your Honour what’s with the bulletproof glass”: I happened to catch a few moments of Sun News TV the day that the Kingston, Ont., courthouse was shut down due to … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Petroleum 3-Month Rolling Average Turns Sharpl ...
    On February 6, I noted (with huge thanks to reader Tim Wallace) a Huge Plunge In Petroleum and Gasoline Usage. Tim used weekly numbers, which show, much week-to-week volatility. Instead, I proposed using rolling three-month averages, compared to the same three months in prior years. To ...
  • Suspended: Michael Pettis - China Financial Ma ...
    I am saddened to report that Michael Pettis' site China Financial Markets has been blocked. The link redirects to a site with a one line message "This Account Has Been Suspended". When I have more details, I will post them. This is really a shame because Pettis is invariably a great read. ...
  • Merkel's Official Denial "I will have no part ...
    Germany's "Official Denial" If you seek confirmation that Germany is actively trying to force Greece out of the Eurozone, strong evidence appears in the form of an "Official Denial" Please consider Merkel Says Won't Force Greece Out of Euro German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tue ...
  • Japan Machine Orders Drop 7.1%, Exports Down 3 ...
    Bloomberg reports Japan Machine Orders Fall More-Than-Estimated 7.1% as Yen Climbs Japan’s machinery orders fell at the fastest pace in three months in December as a faltering global economy and gains by the yen dimmed the outlook for exporters. Bookings, an indicator of capital spending, ...
  • Consumer Credit "Demolishes Expectations" Real ...
    Joe Weisenthal writing for Business Insider reports Consumer Credit Demolishes Expectations, Grows $19 Billion. It's hard to think that the economy is going into any kind of recession with numbers like these. For the second straight month we just got a HUGE number on consumer credit Consu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Revisiting 9/11 with a Bit of Accounting
    The Big Picture vs. Drowning in Superficial Details Surrounded by Smoke & Mirrors This morning Asia Times showcases a fairly decent article on 9/11, revisiting one of its many still-unanswered questions: ‘Was Saudi Arabia Involved?’ The article revisits the cases of hijackers Khalid al-Midha ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to ...
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    BFP Nightly Quote “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” –Ernest Hemingway International Newsworthy Embassies in I ...
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    Fiscal Austerity or Social Genocide? In light of the current global economic crisis, there is a question that should be asked and discussed in regards to what our leaders are telling us is required to solve the crisis: what is fiscal austerity? We are told that “fiscal austerity” mea ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword.The other is by debt.” –John Adams  International Newsworthy Britain Had to Plead with US to Take Part in Iran Flotilla Iran Turns Tables on European Embargo War on Iran: Gulf Crisis Ripp ...

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

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Pro-, anti-Assad clashes in Lebanon
    At least three people have been injured after groups supporting and opposing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad clashed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
  • Bahrainis hold mass anti-regime demo
    Thousands of Bahrainis have joined an opposition-organized protest rally near the capital, Manama, to demand reform and an end to crackdown on protests.
  • Saudi troops attack Awamiyah protest
    Saudi security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the eastern part of the country, injuring at least two demonstrators and killing one in Awamiyah.
  • At least 28 killed in deadly Syria blasts
    At least 28 people have been killed in two huge explosions targeting compounds belonging to security forces in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
  • Israel's general strike enters third day
    The general strike in Israel has entered its third day after negotiations between labor representatives and Israeli authorities failed.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
    Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
  • Get ready, get set, go!
    2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
  • Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
    I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
  • What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
    One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...
  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...

Dissident Voice

  • We Need More Poets
    Writer Don DeLillo once wrote that reading poetry makes us conscious of breathing. I can’t imagine a better way to put it. The first time I fell in love, really fell in love, it was not with a girl or a woman. It was with a smattering of words here and there on a page. [...]
  • Speed Freaks Must Die
    The United Nations has just released a report, “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: a Future Worth Choosing.” Authored by the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, it states that the planet is on the brink, devastated, thanks to unchecked exploitation. To avert environmental, economic, soci ...
  • Ich Bin Ein Berliner
    Some years ago the American writer Jack Hitt made a clever, off-beat observation.  He suggested that if African Americans seriously wished to defuse or neutralize the remaining iconic influence of the confederate flag (which not only is still found throughout the Deep South, but is proudly displ ...
  • Debt, Creditors and the Social Failure of the EU
    The movement to occupy on behalf of the ninety-nine percent has flagged, but the wealthiest one percent have not relented in their campaigns to enrich themselves at the expense of others. This was made clear in the recent World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. The tone was set by Canada’s ...
  • Labor Pains: A Fable for Our Times
    Once, many years ago, in a land far away between two oceans, with fruited plains, amber waves of grain, and potholes on its highways, there lived a young man named Sam. Now, Sam was a bright young man who wanted to work and save money so he could go to school and become an electrician. [...]

Destructionist

  • Globalist Campaign Calls for Abolishment of Co ...
    The global elite will not rest until they have revoked the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. Over the last few years, they have engaged in a concerted attack on our founding documents and time-honored ideals. On Tuesday, the New York Times continued this tren ...
  • Bird numbers drop around Fukushima
    Bird populations near Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have dropped more than expected from a related analysis of the Chernobyl disaster, scientists say. Researchers counting birds at 300 locations in Fukushima prefecture from 15 to 30 miles from the Fukushima nuclear power complex dam ...
  • Bill Clears Path For 30,000 Surveillance Drone ...
    A bill passed in by Congress this week paves the way for the use of surveillance drones in US skies. The FAA predicts that by 2020 there could be up to 30,000 drones in operation. Once signed by president Obama, the FAA Reauthorization Act allows for the FAA to permit the use of drones and de ...
  • Ron Paul places second in Minnesota caucus
    GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Ron Paul had his best night of the year in Minnesota on Tuesday, beating Mitt Romney for a strong second-place showing and proving he can expand his base of support from four years ago. Coming off an underwhelming third-place finish in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, the re ...
  • FBI: Paying Cash For a Cup of Coffee a ‘Potent ...
    An FBI advisory aimed at Internet Cafe owners instructs businesses to report people who regularly use cash to pay for their coffee as potential terrorists. The flyer, issued under the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program, lists examples of “suspicious activity” and then encourage ...

 

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White House Pitches Renewable Energy
Wall Street Journal
By RYAN TRACY WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is attempting to persuade US corporations about the benefits of investing in renewable energy in an effort to help the industry after a government grant program expired. The Department of Energy-led ...
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Alliant Seeks Renewable Energy Unit Buyer, Lowers Forecast
Bloomberg
(LNT) will seek a buyer for RMT after reporting losses widened more than ninefold last year at the unit, which designs and builds renewable-energy projects. The board decided earlier this month that it will sell the business in 2012, the Madison, ...
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Scottish renewable energy industry dismisses Donald Trump attack
The Guardian
The renewable energy industry has dismissed as "trumped-up nonsense" an attack by Donald Trump on Scottish wind energy projects. But the Scottish government has declined to respond directly to the billionaire's stinging criticism of Alex Salmond's ...
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Flathead Electric to Purchase Renewable Energy from Stoltze Lumber
Flathead Beacon
(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), 02-09-12 Continuing its push to use local sources of renewable energy, the Flathead's primary energy provider has agreed to purchase electricity produced from a biomass facility at a lumber ...
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Department of Ecology looking into leak at DOE site
KNDO/KNDU
A spokesperson from Washington State Department of Ecology Radioactive Waste Program has confirmed there was a radioactive reading found near a concrete box containing radioactive waste. It was discovered on February 6th during a routine survey done by ...
UW Ecology Students Hold Inaugural Symposium
University of Wyoming News
February 10, 2012 — University of Wyoming students with a passion for ecology will present their work during the first Ecology Student Symposium Friday, Feb. 17, from noon-6:30 pm at the UW Berry Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Feds OK glacier walk despite ecological concerns
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The minister said construction will be largely on an existing parking lot and won't disrupt the ecology. He said Parks Canada will monitor the project for any environmental problems. "The government of Canada's determination was made after a robust and ...
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 Ben Franklin Transit officials to challenge
TheNewsTribune.com
The agency wants a second opinion, claiming all of the state Department of Ecology's concerns already had been addressed or were overstated. "We thought it was kind of harsh," said Dick Ciccone, the agency's manager of fleet, facilities and special ...
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Vladimir Putin receives first sample of Lake Vostok water
Fox News
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yury Trutnev, who was in Antarctica for the historic moment the lake was breached, arrived at a meeting with Putin on Friday and presented him with some of the water, the Ria Novosti news agency reported.
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American Water's 2011 Fourth Quarter And Year-end Conference Call Scheduled ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
By Business Wire 02/10/12 - 09:20 AM EST American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) announced today that it intends to release its final 2011 fourth quarter and year-end financial results after the market closes on Friday, February 24, 2012.
Buckeye says NJ terminal deal gives access to water
Reuters
The Perth Amboy terminal is located on the Arthur Kill, the body of water separating New Jersey from the Borough of Staten Island, a part of New York city. Buckeye on Friday said it will pay $260 million in cash for the terminal and expects the deal to ...
GE GeoSpring Water Heater The New American Pride
EarthTechling
by Beth Buczynski, February 10th, 2012 Today marks the opening of GE Appliances' newest manufacturing facility–a state-of-the-art, revamped factory in Louisville, Kentucky, designed to produce highly-efficient hybrid water heaters.
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