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Sunday, February 12, 2012

12 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Feed returns at Opit's LinkFest! RSS on My Opera


Sidebar returns on water and environmental topics at bottom

Scoop - NZ

  • Qatari/UK special forces in Homs
    British and Qatari special operations units are operating with rebel forces under cover in the Syrian city of Homs just 162 kilometers from Damascus ..
  • Arab League Syria Report spikes stereotypes
    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
    .. some people are making a huge pile of cash from HFT .. or it would not be done. You can watch an animated GIF that chronicles the rise of the HFT Algo Machines from January 2007 through January 2012 by clicking on the link. The GIF starts out slow and boring, but watch the progression t ...
  • 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

  • New Maldivian leader expands his cabinet
    The Maldives' new President expanded his cabinet yesterday, to strengthen the coalition government that has ruled the Indian Ocean nation since former leader Mohamed Nasheed's resignation last week sparked a political crisis. Related StoriesEU free-trade pact moves closerPakistan Prime Minister ...
  • UN must send in troops now, says Arab League
    Leaders of the Arab League called for a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping force for Syria yesterday, saying the country's neighbours could no longer stand by and watch the bloodshed.Related StoriesBriton held in CairoA nation pays its dues to Nelson MandelaTwo foreigners arrested as Egypt cracks down o ...
  • A nation pays its dues to Nelson Mandela
    As South Africa marks the 22nd anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, President Jacob Zuma has said a complete new series of banknotes will be issued, all bearing the anti-apartheid leader's image.Related StoriesBriton held in CairoUN must send in troops now, says Arab LeagueTwo f ...
  • Greek MPs warned of catastrophe as Athens erup ...
    Violence and looting engulfed central Athens last night as the Greek parliament passed a highly divisive austerity and debt-relief bill, which the government hopes will help save Greece from a disorderly bankruptcy and a potential exit from the eurozone.Related StoriesAt least 7 dead in Kosovo ...
  • Two foreigners arrested as Egypt cracks down o ...
    The Egyptian authorities intensified their crackdown on foreigners at the weekend, arresting an Australian journalist and an American student and accusing them of trying to bribe civilians to join a strike.Related StoriesBriton held in CairoUN must send in troops now, says Arab LeagueA nation pa ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Rare Spectacle - Whales, Dolphins Play in Ha ...
    Images produced by the National Center for science Literacy, Education and Technology (NCSLET) showed a rare from of interaction in the wild between two species. Bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales were captured playing in Hawaiian waters. According to a paper published in the Aquatic Mamm ...
  • Liberal Constipation: Conservatism Thrives on ...
    There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood. Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as th ...
  • US: Cop allegedly pulled gun on pregnant woman ...
    Police in Kendall County, Illinois said Friday that they were investigating whether an off-duty officer drew his firearm and pointed it at a pregnant woman because she had more items than Walmart recommends for self-checkout lanes. Nicole Thurmond and husband Jason were reportedly checking out ...
  • People Power! Europeans Protest Controversial ...
    Tens of thousands of people marched in protests in more than a dozen European cities Saturday against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom. Some 41,000 people rallied in Germany, including 16,000 in Munich and 10,000 in Berlin, against the Anti ...
  • US: Community Takes Stand on San Onofre Nuclea ...
    Laguna Beach will back San Clemente's appeals to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure that San Onofre doesn't replicate last year's disaster in Fukushima, Japan. The City Council on Tuesday voted 4 to 1 to send a letter to the commission requesting the resolution of public concerns befor ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Bee battering . . .
    BEE COLONY COLLAPSE is scary — without pollination, food becomes a problem. GRIST is concerned with how we live, proclaiming itself to be a "Beacon in the Smog". Well, there's a report by Tom Philpott that's rather disturbing, "Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own sc ...
  • Marketing mishaps . . .
    CRACKED IS DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT, which helps with these trying times. Danny Gallagher has an entertaining post, "The 5 Least Surprising Toy Recalls of All Time". #5. The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids Doll#4. Kinder Chocolate Eggs#3. Sky Dancers#2. The Easy Bake Oven#1. Lawn Darts or Jarts What ...
  • Perspectives . . .
    HOW WE SEE TIME depends on how we live. Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
  • Be creative . . .
    BE CREATIVE, AND HELP Jaimie Mantzel: he needs a name for his spider-toy. 
  • China-Canada circular logic
    MoS nails it. That's why Harpo has gone to China to ink all those deals, so the Chinese will give us the money we need to buy airplanes to defend ourselves against the Chinese.  And China gets the Canadian fuel it needs to run those aircraft carriers and ice breakers that we need the figh ...

Media Matters for America

  • "Deadbeat Bailout": Right-Wing Media Attack St ...
    Right-wing media have responded to the $25 billion foreclosure settlement between banks and government authorities by attacking struggling homeowners who could potentially benefit from the deal -- calling it a "deadbeat bailout" -- and by whitewashing banks' alleged foreclosure malpractice. Thi ...
  • Myths And Facts About Electric Cars
    As automakers are starting to bring electric vehicle (EV) technology into the mainstream, conservative media outlets have repeatedly misled consumers about electric cars by trying to paint them as environmentally harmful and unsafe, among other false claims.CONSERVATIVE MEDIA OUTLETS ARE CAMPAI ...
  • New Polls Showing Catholic Support For Contrac ...
    New polls released this week indicate that a majority of Catholics believe that employers should provide health care plans that cover contraception. This further undermines right-wing media claims that President Obama has declared "war on Catholics" or a "war on religion" because of his adminis ...
  • Hannity's "War On Religion" Campaign Undermine ...
    Continuing a Fox News campaign to portray President Obama as anti-Christian, Sean Hannity claimed the administration's requirement that insurers cover contraception for women was part of a "war on religion." That criticism is undermined by the fact that a majority of Catholics believe insurance ...
  • Right-Wing Media Aren't Concerned About Helpin ...
    As income disparities continue to increase, and the effective tax rate paid by the rich remains at historic lows, right-wing media figures work hard to make sure none of that changes. They routinely attack the poor and programs designed to assist them, while simultaneously extolling the rich an ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Do Voters Care About America's Global Image?
    A recent post over at The Economist's Democracy in America blog says the Syria showdown at the UN between the US, Russia, and China demonstrates a crucial yet underappreciated success of Obama foreign policy: Ten years back, America often found itself isolated, struggling to pull together "co ...
  • Israel Firster First Used by Brandeis Presiden ...
    For the past month or so there has been a series of coordinated attacks on me, my employer Media Matters and the Center for American Progress for labeling those who place the interests of Israel over the United States "Israel Firsters." This piece by Spencer Ackerman was accompanied by an illust ...
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  • Why the Yale Quarterback's Rhodes Fumble Wasn' ...
    Although this column is about how Yale handled its star quarterback Patrick Witt's pass on a Rhodes Scholarship interview, it's really about what the business-corporatization of old American colleges has done to republican leadership training. It's about what former Harvard College Dean Harry Le ...
  • Some Ironies in Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Me ...
    There are delicious ironies in "How to Win Female Votes: What Obama Can Learn From Elizabeth Warren," a terrific piece just posted by Paul Starobin in The New Republic. Starobin reflects on Warren's message in her U.S. Senate campaign against Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who took the la ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • A little bit of rain, a little less drought?
    While only 23 percent of Texas remains under “exceptional” drought, 90% of the state is still under some level of drought in spite of the recent rains many parts of the state have experienced.  But we can’t get cocky, as the U.S. seasonal drought outlook indicates most of Texas ...
  • The task force responsible for revamping U.S. ...
    Among the recommendations for managing the current stockpile of spent nuclear fuel — approximately 65,000 tons of waste stored at about 75 operating and shut-down reactor sites around the country — is a plan to move the waste to temporary storage sites. Public Citizen rejects this plan. In the a ...
  • California nuclear plant may have leaked radio ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that a “small” amount of radioactive gas may have leaked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The San Onofre plant is on the Pacific Ocean coast near San Clemente north of San Diego. It consists of two uni ...
  • A Texas town runs out of water, will we see more?
    Spicewood, Texas, a small community on Lake Travis, is precariously close to becoming the state’s first community to run out of drinking water during this historic drought.  On Monday, under dark clouds and with rain falling, Spicewood got its first delivery of 8,000-gallons of water after ...
  • Texas Coalition for Affordable Power Release R ...
    Texas Coalition for Affordable Power’s (TCAP) report on electric deregulation in Texas says the industry has failed to deliver, while industry and agency critics find fault with the reports price and reliability comparisons. Texans have paid higher prices for power that is less reliable – ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Scientists investigate egg-laying rooster
    A rooster on a small farm in China has made headlines after it mysteriously started to lay eggs. The bird's owner said that the rooster had started to...
  • UFO conference celebrates 21st year
    The International UFO Congress will be taking place from 21st - 26th this month in the Phoenix area. The conference is the largest of its kind anywher...
  • Why do plants never get sunburn ?
    A 15 year study has finally determined why plants don't suffer from sunburn despite constant exposure. A team in Glasgow has discovered that plants ar...
  • Are house cat feces making people crazy ?
    Are parasites from cat droppings living in your brain and influencing the way you think and behave ? This is the startling conclusion by Czech scienti...
  • Astronaut feels toll of space on his body
    A former astronaut is undergoing a battery of tests to understand how space has changed his eyesight. As humanity moves toward a spacefaring future, o...

Grassroots

  • Haitian leaders call for land and housing rights
    639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...
  • Ex-Haitian Dictator will not be tried for huma ...
    2785349288_8fd8b11a14_m.jpg Since returning from exile last year, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been treated like an old friend by Haitian President Michel Martelly, rather than a brutal dictator responsible for the de ...
  • Violence continues in Honduras, agro-fuels pla ...
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  • Food and Climate Change
    Subheadline:  How the industrial food system heats up the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to suppo ...
  • US Aid to Ethiopia Supports Forced Relocations ...
    ethiopia_huts.jpg The issue of land grabs remains a critical threat to human rights, forcing millions of people off the land to make way for large-scale industrial farms. Land grabs in Ethiopia are not only threatening to dislocate farmers ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • Steven Chu Takes on 'Vampire Slayer' Role in C ...
    New energy efficiency standards proposed by the Department of Energy this week would cut the vast amounts of energy wasted by appliances that aren't even in active use.
  • How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges ...
    A relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest.
  • The Major Dividends Cities Reap from Investing ...
    A new report shows that U.S. cities can save billions in costs -- while cleaning waterways and green neighborhoods -- by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure.
  • What Will It Take to Power the US Military wit ...
    Just how much energy does the U.S. military use, what the costs in dollars and the risk to soldiers, and how can they all be reduced? The American Council On Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy are working with the Defense Department to answer those questions.
  • University of Vermont Offers Online Course on ...
    Lauded for its green practices and curricula, the University of Vermont has developed a certificate program to enable other colleges to integrate sustainability into their operations.

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • Stupid Bitter People
    I am troubled by stupid people: The share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households, the bottom fifth, has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published last year. And as more middle-class families like the ...
  • Goodbye, Whitney
    I want to remember her young, smiling, happy, and optimistic. I'll try to remember her like that. Goodbye, Whitney. Discuss
  • We Take Care of Our Own
    I hope you've had a chance to see Bruce Springsteen's newest single. Here's the video: Springsteen, it seems to me, is Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Cash all wrapped up into one. But he really isn't quite as anti-establishment as his mentors. That's probably why I love him the b ...
  • Eyes on the Wrong Prize?
    Last night, BooMan reassessed the Republican race: For the first time, I am beginning to think that Romney might actually lose the nomination and that Santorum might win it. And, even worse, I am beginning to think that Santorum is a much stronger candidate against Obama than Romney. I thi ...
  • Progressive Politics in PA
    I spent today attending the Pennsylvania Progressive Summit 2012 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. It was an opportunity for me to meet the head of Democracy for America, Jim Dean. We had lunch together at the Reading Terminal Market. He's a very impressive guy, but our lunch wasn't real ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Wouldn't you check to see that this person is okay. Well, in fact it's a sculpture – one of a series that's been causing quite a stir... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Hottest Links of the Week
    We're big fans of repurposing here at EG, so what better way to kick off this week's roundup than with the story of a train that's been converted into a cafe? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Giant Western Gray Whale Floats Down the River ...
    A strange sight greeted Londoners this week – one that was tied up with saving the critically-endangered western gray whale from a new and perilous threat... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Most Incredible Airplane Graveyards on Earth
    Ten incredible airplane boneyards – the places where old military planes and airliners alike go to die... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Ancient Lake Bed that Rewrote Human History
    In the otherwordly sand dunes surrounding an ancient dry lake bed, prehistoric human remains have been found that challenge our understanding of human history. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • States Sue E.P.A. Over Delayed Soot Rules
    Eleven states argue that drafting new rules in vital to public health. But the Obama administration faces pressure from Republican critics who say that tighter air pollution rules could hurt the economy.
  • On Our Radar: Trump Assails Wind Farm
    The Scottish government is on the outs with Donald Trump, having proposed an offshore wind farm in view of his luxury golf resort.
  • The Forensics of Snake Venom
    Genetic analysis of venom allows Indian investigators to determine whether it came from an endangered cobra, helping them to prosecute traffickers.
  • Nuclear Power vs. Natural Gas
    One of the biggest risks the Southern Company faces in embarking on a big nuclear project is that natural gas will remain far more affordable.
  • A Carbon Allowance in Every Pot
    A researcher proposes that the distribution of personal carbon allowances and shorter working hours be embraced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and equitably.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • 1% US banks gamble $5 million per US household ...
    Reuters and wanttoknow.info provide prima facie evidence that the US 1% runs Wall Street as rigged-casino gambling to transfer wealth from the 99% to themselves. The amount of money fraudulently gambled is not millions of dollars, not billions, not even tens of trillions, but over five hundred t ...
  • The Covert NATO War Against Syria
    People may have noticed that the official narrative concerning Syria changes on a daily basis – except for continuing to heap contempt and scorn on the Russians and Chinese for their Security Council veto. To be frank, this veto makes more and more sense as events on the ground unmask US culpabi ...
  • A Good Lie Has An Element Of Truth In It.
    “The problem by now is familiar to most. Politicians have expanded the safety net without a commensurate increase in revenues, a primary reason for the government’s annual deficits and mushrooming debt. In 2000, federal and state governments spent about 37 cents on the safety net from every doll ...
  • The BBC “News Fixing” Scandal and ...
    The Independent just announced that British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) would be running an apology worldwide for airing documentaries produced by a public relations firm.  The anticipated apology resulted from last year’s reporting in The Independent on this pecuiar BBC practice.  A sp ...
  • To Date, the Grim Old Party Has Done Nothing b ...
    by S. Paul Forrest AmericaRevealed.org The phrase snake oil is as a derogatory term used to describe quackery; the promotion of fraudulent or unproven medical practices. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with questionable and/or unverifiable quality or benefit.  By ext ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • War Propaganda in the Anti-War Punditry
    To the Charlottesville Daily Progress To the Editor: "Headed to another Persian Gulf War" is a helpful column in that it seeks to avoid a war on Iran, but unhelpful in that it makes that war just a little bit more likely.  Don Nuechterlein claims to know the motivations of our two preside ...
  • Iran's Historic Anniversary
      Iran's Historic Anniversary   by Stephen Lendman   February 11 marked the 33rd anniversary of Iran's 1979 revolution. It ended a generation of repressive rule under Washington's installed Reza Shah Pahlavi.   In late 1947, Iran demanded more revenue from its own oil. B ...
  • The BBC "News Fixing" Scandal and Dead Babies
    The Independent just announced that British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) would be running an apology worldwide for airing documentaries produced by a public relations firm.  The anticipated apology resulted from last year's reporting in The Independent on this pecuiar BBC practice.&n ...
  • Khader Adnan's Heroic Struggle for Justice
      Khader Adnan's Heroic Struggle for Justice   by Stephen Lendman   Saturday marked his 56th hunger striking day. "My dignity is more precious than food," he said. He's willing to die courageously defending it.   He's protesting his lawless detention and treatment by rep ...
  • Hose streets? Our streets! Belgian firefighter ...
    Associated Press in Brussels guardian.co.uk,  Firefighters hose down the prime minister's office Link to this video Several hundred Belgian firefighters have broken through police lines in Brussels and hosed down the prime minister's office in protest at the government's tougher reti ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Watery Alien Planets Might Be Stripped Dry by ...
    Some otherwise habitable planets might have their water stripped away by gravity, scientists say.
  • Opening of Antarctic's Lake Vostok May Reveal ...
    Russian scientists opened a frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, after drilling down and finally reaching the surface of 20-million-year-old Lake Vostok, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon. The gigantic buried freshwater reservoir could harbor life from Eart ...
  • Darwin's Papers Show the Evolution of His Ideas
    Just in time for Charles Darwin's 203rd birthday on Sunday, the American Museum of Natural History is unveiling the first phase of its online Darwin Manuscripts Project.
  • Walney offshore wind farm is world's biggest ( ...
    The Walney wind farm on the Irish Sea--characterized by high tides, waves and windy weather--officially opened this week. The farm is treated in the press as a very big deal as the Walney farm is presently the biggest offshore wind farm in the world...
  • Long stint in space permanently altered astron ...
    It’s not really why he signed up to be an astronaut, but like it or not, Mike Barratt and his eyes have become a science project. The eye charts he reads, the red drops that turn his eyes yellow and the ultrasounds being performed on him could determine whether he or any other astronaut ever jo...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Six Flags over Nukeville, Opening Soon
    By Les Visible If you support these people then you might as well be holding the gun yourself. That’s how karma works. If you’re in the cheering section then you might as well be suited up and on the field. The cheerleaders have two duties as far as I know of. One is the work [...]
  • Texas AG: Big Pharma Bribes Forced Teens To Be ...
    By Alexander Higgins Texas attorney general has filed charges against Big Pharma for bribing officials to implement an elaborate scheme to fraudulently diagnose and medicate teenagers for mental illness. According to a former Pennsylvania Inspector General’s Agent, a pharmaceutical industry-spon ...
  • Digging Deeper Into Who Controls The World
    Susan Jennings Activist Post As we delve deeper into world control, more information arises that helps us understand the current global situation. Many people are unaware of the interconnectedness between the largest global companies. Eighty percent of the world’s wealth appears to be earn ...
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  • 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 [...]

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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

  • 6 DIY Valentine’s Day Cards To Make for Your T ...
    Looking for the right way to tell your special someone what you really think of them? Forget the store-bought Valentine’s Day cards and stationary, and make your own DIY V-Day card. Nothing says “I love you” like a personalized, hand-made card. Need a bit of inspiration for how ...
  • Assembly New York’s Minimalist Womenswear Take ...
    Assembly New York debuted its minimalist new womenswear collection in an understated venue in the Lower East Side at New York Fashion Week. The Fall/Winter 2012 collection, designed Greg Armas and Claire Lampert, features simple, androgynous looks with a mix of high-waisted pants, floor-length t ...
  • John Patrick Organic Crafts a Beautiful Vision ...
    John Patrick of Organic never ceases to impress us with his take on eco-fashion. For his Fall/Winter 2012 collection presented at New York Fashion Week, he had a very specific inspiration, a photo by 19th century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron,  “A Beautiful Vision, Julia Duck ...
  • 6 Amazing Treehouse Beds That Make Bedtime Magical
    What could possibly be cooler than living in a treehouse?  A warm and comfy treehouse bed in your very own room!  Not only does this make your child’s room feel magical, but lofted beds are a great use of space – store clothes or toys underneath! Check out our round-up of 6 amazing t ...
  • Gretchen Jones is in a Dark Place for Fall 201 ...
    Gretchen Jones plays with the power of light and dark during her Fall/Winter 2012 collection at New York Fashion Week.  In mourning because of the recent loss of her father, Jones held her show in a dark, cavernous venue where the models stepped out of shadows.  The looks were gorgeous as always ...

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

  • Amazing Videos of Earth at Night from Space
    While you're curled up comfy in your bed each night, the crew of the International Space Station is getting unrivaled views of our planet. For anyone wishing they could see what the astronauts see, here are recent videos of the Earth at night taken from space.
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Scientists Warn Supervolcano Will Destroy U.S
    Some of the world's smartest geophysicists aren't sleeping well anymore. Perhaps their dreams are filled with nightmares—if so, it wouldn't be surprising since what they thought they knew about volcanoes wasn't quite right. But now they know the truth—the terrifying reality—supervolcanoes are ac ...
  • Obama Signed Executive Order Declaring War On Iran
    On February 5, 2012, President Obama invoked the NDAA, which authorizes the use of military force, and issues an executive order declaring the “threat” of Iran a National Emergency. The video below shows this issuance of President Obama executive order which declares Iran’s threat to cut off oil ...
  • Monsanto Employees Don’t Even Eat GMOs
    There's a story doing the rounds again, about how Monsanto, one of the world’s largest profiteers of genetically engineered (GE) food, banned GE food from its own corporate canteens! Monsanto had its pants pulled down by Friends of the Earth in 1999, who revealed that the company was refusin ...
  • Successful US-Israel radar test launches US mi ...
    A successful joint exercise carried out Friday, Feb. 10, demonstrated the interoperability of the US Aegis and Israel's Arrow 4 ballistic missile defense systems and, most importantly, of their two radars, the US AN/TPY-2 X-band and Israel's EL/M-2080 Super Green Pine, debkafile's military sourc ...
  • How to Trigger an Ice Age the Easy Way, Killin ...
    The secret to killing billions and billions of people without being too obvious about it, is to make it difficult or impossible to grow enough food to feed them. Geological history demonstrates that the best way of doing this -- short of a global thermonuclear war -- is by triggering a global ic ...

Andy Worthington

  • Save the NHS: The Most Damaging Week Yet for t ...
    Those of us who have been deeply troubled by the Tory-led government’s Health and Social Care Bill, since it first came under intense scrutiny a year ago, have sought nothing less than for the entire project to be scrapped. A thorough “top-down reorganisation,” despite a promis ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • Noose, Threats at Wisconsin College Found to b ...
    Authorities in Kenosha County, Wis., are recommending criminal charges be filed against a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Parkside student who confessed to what initially appeared to be hate crimes. Khalilah N. Ford of Louisville, Ky., “confessed Friday evening when presented with evidence p ...

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

  • Fears Growing as Fukushima Reactor Temperature ...
    Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has said today that the temperature inside the No. 2 reactor in the Fukushima nuclear power plant had risen to 82C, a high since the reactor had attained a cold shutdown in December, raising concerns that the plant is no longer stable. Kyodo news reports: ...
  • 'Despair' in Greece as Germany Says: Cut More
    As the Greek parliament debates the final austerity deal required by its creditors, thousands of riot police have been unleashed on protesters demanding an end to the harsh cuts pushing the country toward turmoil. The scenes both outside and inside the parliament building have turned fiery, with ...
  • Tens of Thousands Across Europe Protest Agains ...
    Thousands of protesters have gathered across Europe to protest the controversial treaty known as ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Thousands braved cold temperatures in rallies across European cities. Reuters reports: read more
  • Thousands March Against Nuclear Power in Japan
    Thousands of people are demonstrating today in Japan against nuclear power. The Associated Press reports that people are worried about the restarting of reactors that had stopped since the Fukushima disaster. Agence France-Presse reports on the protesters: ...
  • Is 'Prescription for Disaster' Our 'Most Optim ...
    New climate information from French scientists indicate that global warming of 2 C is the "most optimistic" scenario. Yet this is the amount of warming James Hansen has referred to as a "prescription for disaster." read ...

Lifehacker

  • Five Best Movie Recommendation Services [Hive ...
    Whether you're planning a dinner and a movie with a special someone for Valentine's Day, or you just like to read up on what's worth seeing before you spend your hard earned cash on a theater experience, you have plenty of options to read up ...
  • Use Sugru to Fix a Leaky Hose [Sugru]
    It is frustrating to find a leak in a water hose. Depending on the size of the leak, you could be wasting up to a hundred dollars worth of water during the average year. Fortunately you can use a sachet of Sugru to repair just about any type o ...
  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    PaperKarma Stops Junk Mail with a Snap of a Photo (iOS/Android/WP7) iOS/Android/WP7: Nobody likes junk mail, but if you're too lazy to go through and unsubscribe to everything individually, PaperKarma is a new app that only requires you to take a picture of the offending mail to ...
  • Top 10 Downloads That Enhance Windows' Built-I ...
    Windows has a ton of great utilities, and while we can't live without some of them, there's a special place in our heart for programs that merely improve Windows, rather than adding new software. Here are our top 10 apps that take Windows' bui ...
  • Store Spaghetti in Pringles Cans [Clever Uses]
    If you buy spaghetti, linguine, or other long pastas in bulk it can be difficult to find a good way to store the excess once you open the large package. Tall thin Pringles brand potato chip cans excel at this use. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • Asheville water debate: rumors of privatizatio ...
    Who gets the water? The League of Women Voters will host a forum on a state study that could result in legislation stripping Asheville of its water system.
  • University of Alberta in hot water for Nestle ...
    University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is facing heat for the decision to give an honorary degree to the CEO of controversial global food giant Nestle Corporation, the world's largest producer of bottled water and promoter of water privatization.
  • University of Alberta in hot water for Nestle ...
    University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is facing heat for the decision to give an honorary degree to the CEO of controversial global food giant Nestle Corporation, the world's largest producer of bottled water and promoter of 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.

Guardian

  • Grammy awards 2012 – live coverage
    Live coverage of the 2012 Grammy awards as the death of Whitney Houston looms over the 54th ceremony in Los Angeles. Live blogging: Brian Braiker and Joshua Alston11.32pm: Brian– Paul McCartney: LL Cool J's homie. And, Joshua, here's an LL Cool J chaser for his admittedly anodyne performance ton ...
  • Henrique Capriles to face Hugo Chávez in Venez ...
    Governor of Miranda province wins opposition nomination and targets discontent with Chávez's 'socialist revolution'A youthful state governor is set to give Hugo Chávez a tough battle for Venezuela's presidency after sweeping the opposition nomination in primary elections.Henrique Capriles, 39, c ...
  • Bali bombings: 'Demolition Man' trial begins
    Umar Patek accused of making explosives used in 2002 blasts and leaving trail of terror from Indonesia to PakistanThe trial has begun in Jakarta of the top suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings: a militant known as Demolition Man for his expertise with explosives.Umar Patek is being tried for his ro ...
  • News Corp may face US inquiry after Sun arrest ...
    Alleged bribery in Britain could fall foul of US law as editor Dominic Mohan tries to rally staff at embattled tabloidRupert Murdoch's News Corporation faces the increased prospect of a full-blown inquiry by US authorities as part of the continuing investigation into alleged bribery of public of ...
  • Greece approves austerity cuts to secure euroz ...
    MPs in Athens approve severe budget cuts imposed by the EU after rallies against the bill erupt in street violenceGreece enacted billions of euros in spending cuts and fresh austerity measures last night in a volatile parliamentary vote aimed at avoiding default on its national debt and keeping ...

McClatchey

  • Arab League seeks joint U.N peacekeeping force ...
    CAIRO ? The Arab League voted Sunday to seek a joint U.N. peacekeeping force for Syria as regional diplomats met in Cairo to discuss their dwindling options for stopping the…Click to Continue »
  • Manufacturing rebounds, but is it a renaissance?
    HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. ? Don't tell Michael W. McLanahan that manufacturing in the United States is dead. His family-owned, privately held company has made mineral processing and farm equipment since its…Click to Continue »
  • After Hu, what? Pivotal visit for likely Chine ...
    WASHINGTON ? Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States on Monday for a high-profile visit where he'll be feted as if he were the president of China_…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Government endeavors are wasteful ...
    Tuesday's weird, doesn't-really-count Missouri presidential primary came in the middle of Missouri's weird, doesn't-really-count winter, two facts that help illustrate Helling's first axiom of politics and government, which may be…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Wall St. talks marriage equality b ...
    As the 9th Circuit Court was striking down Proposition 8, the chairman of Goldman Sachs, probably the nation's most powerful investment bank, was taking an out-front stand in favor of…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

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Sometimes we have comments that win the funniest or most insightful race by wide margins, but usually there are a few clustered at the top. This week, the most insightful comment was so far above the rest of the pack that it may be the largest "lead" I've seen. And, the number two comment als ...
  • Mighty Buzzard's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of Th ...
    It's been a heck of a busy month or two for copyright. We've had SOPA and PIPA. We've had the organization of a grassroots campaign against them. We had a significant number of serious heavyweights of the Internet join in. And now we have nations around Europe bailing on ACTA over protests o ...
  • Iranian Filmmaker Banned From Filmmaking... Ma ...
    A little over a year ago, I asked how long it would be until we had a full, professional quality feature film filmed entirely with smartphones. This one doesn't completely qualify, but it is quite interesting. Ross Pruden points our attention to the story of This Is Not A Film, the documenta ...
  • TuneCore: RIAA Has Become A Part Of The Proble ...
    For many years, I've used TuneCore as one of the key examples of the new generation of middlemen who served as enablers rather than gatekeepers for artists. The company has a clear record of really helping tons and tons of artists make money from their music in ways that were entirely impossib ...
  • If Google Is Serious About Reforming Patent Me ...
    We've discussed in the past the fact that Google has never used patents offensively. That is, while it has many patents, it has never (that anyone can point to) used them to threaten another company to force them to pay up. Instead, it has only used them defensively. Over the summer, Google ...

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

  • Is this how Newsweek hopes to get raised from ...
    Newsweek’s current cover looks like a promotion for a Glenn Beck special: The War on Christians. No doubt the magazine’s editors thought they could get away with such a provocative headline because the byline lends it a token of authority. Were this declaration to come from Beck or a ...
  • Iran warns Hamas against any ‘compromise’ with ...
    AFP reports: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Palestinian movement Hamas against any “compromise” in its fight against Tehran’s nemesis Israel, his official website reported. “Always be wary of infiltration by compromisers in a resistance organisation, which will gradually ...
  • U.S. government looks to mine social media to ...
    The Associated Press reports: The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Hundreds of intelligence analysts a ...
  • Video: Syrian soldiers defect to fight against ...
  • Myth debunked: Palestinian textbooks don’t tea ...
    Daoud Kuttab writes: Apologists for Israel’s continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, repeatedly put forward to justify military rule, is that Palestinians teach their chi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Argo and the Ocean Temperature Maximum
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It has been known for some time that the “Pacific Warm Pool”, the area just northeast of Australia, has a maximum temperature. It never gets much warmer than around 30 – 31°C. This has been … Continue reading →
  • Fogageddon
    I suppose if  I truly want to take the weekend off, I’ll have to ditch my smartphone. These photos from the Facebook page of the Panhandle Helicopter Service in Panama City Beach, Florida, have been making the rounds today, erroneously … Continue reading →
  • Open thread weekend
    I’m taking a blog holiday this weekend. Right now I’m watching the History channel 2 (H2) while some off the rails eco-scientist explains to us why we are all going to die because of “what might happen if a gigantic … Continue reading →
  • Quantifying the Solar Cycle 24 Temperature Decline
    Guest post by David Archibald Three wise Norwegians – Jan-Erik Solheim, Kjell Stordahl and Ole Humlum – have just published a paper entitled “The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24”. It is available online … Continue reading →
  • New WUWT Feature – Scafetta’s fore ...
    I have a new feature page on WUWT that highlights the work of Nicola Scafetta and his solar-lunar cycle forecast model as it compares to the IPCC forecasts and global temperature reality using HadCRUT surface temperature data. Working with Dr. … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Filling without drilling
    Researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered a pain-free way of tackling dental decay that reverses the damage of acid attack and re-builds teeth as new. The pioneering treatment promises to transform the approach to filling teeth forever. Tooth decay begins when acid produced by bacte ...
  • Decision making changes with age — and a ...
    We make decisions all our lives—so you’d think we’d get better and better at it. Yet research has shown that younger adults are better decision makers than older ones. Some Texas psychologists, puzzled by these findings, suspected the experiments were biased toward younger brains. So ...
  • Scientists Reengineer an Antibiotic to Overcom ...
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have successfully reengineered an important antibiotic to kill the deadliest antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The compound could one day be used clinically to treat patients with life-threatening and highly resistant bacterial infections. Th ...
  • An RNA Switch for Stem Cells
    RNA molecules have long been known for their role in translating genes to proteins inside a cell, but more recently, scientists have found large numbers of RNA molecules that don’t code for proteins but seem to have other cellular roles. Most research in mammals has focused on tiny RNA mol ...
  • Trial Shows Blockbuster Potential for Blood Cl ...
    An experimental pill to prevent blood clots exceeded already high expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday. The study was featured at the European Society of Cardiology in Paris and simultane ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Greek Parliament Approves Austerity Plan
    Greece’s parliament has approved austerity measures requested by the Eurozone and the International Monetary Fund to secure a 130-billion euro ($170bln) bailout to avoid default, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Monday.
  • Putin Pledges Double Salaries for Teachers, Do ...
    The average salaries for lecturers, teachers, doctors and cultural workers will be doubled by 2018, Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said in a new article published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily on Monday.
  • Finnish Defense Minister to Visit Russia
    Finland’s Defense Minister Stefan Wallin will pay an official visit to Moscow on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
  • Main news of February 12
  • Syria Rejects Arab League Resolution
    Syria on Sunday rejected an Arab League resolution calling for a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping force in the country and tightened economic sanctions on Damascus, Al Arabiya television reported.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • American Airlines Exposes Bushs Big Lie: Fligh ...
    American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...
  • Economics Lesson 1
    Consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money. Emperor has no cloths. Submitted by Michael Dewey to World &nbs ...
  • 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
  • The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
    Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...

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

  • Anonymous invites CIA, others to its weekend party
    ShareThisAnonymous invites CIA, others to its weekend party 11 Feb 2012 Anonymous is having a busy weekend. The loose-knit hacking collective, which last week scored a coup against the FBI, claimed yesterday to have taken down the CIA's Web site, in what appeared to be a distributed denial of se ...
  • Computer hacker Gary McKinnon's treatment 'bar ...
    ShareThisComputer hacker Gary McKinnon's treatment 'barbaric' 11 Feb 2012 The mother of computer hacker Gary McKinnon has delivered letters and poems to Downing Street to mark the 10th anniversary of her son's arrest. Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of hacking US military co ...
  • Romney edges Paul in Maine caucuses
    ShareThisRomney edges Paul in Maine caucuses 11 Feb 2012 Mitt Romney 'wins' the Maine caucuses with 39% of the vote. Ron Paul has 36% of the vote. [Note: Faux News 'lost' Ron Paul's audio, when Paul was speaking in Portland, ME. It seems that Faux News 'loses' Paul's audio *every time.* There's ...
  • Syrian general gunned down in Damascus
    ShareThisSyrian general gunned down in Damascus 11 Feb 2012 A Syrian general was gunned down in the heart of the capital on Saturday as fresh violence flared in several cities. An "armed terrorist group" assassinated Brig. Gen. Issa al-Kholi, a military physician who was the director of Hamish H ...
  • Romney edges Santorum in CPAC vote
    ShareThisRomney edges Santorum in CPAC vote 11 Feb 2012 Mitt Romney has won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll of conservative activists. The former Massachusetts governor is favored as the Republican presidential nominee by 38 percent of the 3,408 respondents. Rivals Rick Santoru ...

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

  • A Matter of Trust
    11 February 2012 Going unarmed into combat is a bad idea.  Going unarmed while wearing a Red Cross to alert the enemy that you are defenseless is dumb.  A commander who forces his troops to do this without good cause is at best incompetent. US Army commanders do this every day in Afg ...
  • 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 ...

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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves first n ...
    [JURIST] The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) [official website; press release] voted Thursday to issue the first US license for a new nuclear power plant in over 30 years. In a 4-1 vote the NRC approved an application by Southern Company [corporate website] for an issuance of two Combined Co ...
  • Groups petition Supreme Court to overturn Mont ...
    [JURIST] American Tradition Partnership, Montana Shooting Sports Association [advocacy websites] and Champion Painting have petitioned the US Supreme Court [official website] to reverse the decision by the Montana Supreme Court [official website] in Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Montana ...
  • Apple sues Motorola in federal court over pate ...
    [JURIST] Apple [corporate website; Bloomberg backgrounder] brought suit against Motorola Mobility [corporate website; Bloomberg backgrounder] in the US District Court for the Southern District of California [official website] on Friday seeking an injunction to stop Motorola from bringing patent ...
  • UN concerned over prosecution of Spain judge G ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday expressed its concern over the trial of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile], which involve his investigations of acts that occurred during the Spanish Civil War. Spokesperson for the OHC ...
  • Federal appeals court refuses to reconsider Te ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] on Friday denied a request [press release] filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) [advocacy website] to hold an en banc hearing to reconsider a challenge to a Texas law that requires doctors to perform a sonogra ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Im Tirzu Sues Israeli Peace Activists for Call ...
    Im Tirzu’s Ronen Shoval is one of the most litigous far-right activists in Israel.  He’ll sue anyone for anything.  He’s threatened Hebrew Wikipedia if they called the group “right-wing,” to which the editors unfortunately caved (here’s the Hebrew Wikipedia ar ...
  • 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 ...

If Americans Knew

  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...

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 Digital Edge - Internet Protests Could Be ...
    The political realities of Capitol Hill have recently gotten tossed head-over-heels. And a successful model for the future use of Internet-based “People Power” in Congress has emerged.The story begins with the average American feeling pretty disconnected from his or her government. Everyone know ...
  • Academia on Edge - Why Yale Fumbled its Quarte ...
    Until quite recently, Yale star quarterback Patrick Witt’s decision of last November 13 to decline a Rhodes scholarship interview, in order to lead his team against Harvard in New Haven on November 19, the only day Rhodes was willing to interview him in Atlanta, seemed the result of his straight ...
  • International Relations - How the Arab Spring ...
    U.S.-Turkish relations entered into a tumultuous period with the beginning of Iraq War in 2003. This difficult phase in bilateral ties appears to have ended with the beginning of the Arab Spring.Until recently, disagreements on a number of issues—such as how to deal with Iran’s nuclearization—un ...
  • Destination Edge - From Byzantine to Bauhaus: ...
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we have attempted to identify some of the most striking buildings in the Holy Land. There is more than enough to choose from, as modern Israel's architecture is an eclectic mix of the ancient to the avant-garde. 1. The International YMCA, JerusalemPhoto ...
  • The Afghan War - Obama Moves toward a Distant ...
    U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta suggested last week that the United States could wrap up combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2013, well before the longstanding 2014 deadline when full control is to be ceded to Kabul. Troops would remain in Afghanistan until 2014, as agreed upon at ...

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

  • You're Welcome Rick Santorum! (Senator Takes ...
    Granted it's the PPP poll but there has to be some sort of connection, this blog endorses Rick Santorum on Thursday and Senator Santorum takes a 15% lead nationally on Saturday (for those of you who have never read this site before I am not serious), nevertheless it is big news. According ...
  • CPAC-Meet The Presidental Candidates And Breit ...
    Arguably today's CPAC lineup was the best of the three day Conference,  all three conservative Presidential candidates addressed the CPAC Conference as did Ann Coulter telling us to vote for Romney, Laura Ingram telling us not to vote for Romney, Allen West once again demonstrating why I ca ...
  • Newsbusted: Chris Matthews Recovering From Coma
    In breaking news from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, word has leaked out that MSNBC's Chris Matthews is recovering from the 8-year-long coma he evidently suffered through  during the Bush Administration. Apparently he was roused from the Coma by a tingle down his leg. Other stories co ...
  • 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 ...

The Real Agenda

  • Europeans protest against ACTA Censorship
    Agence France Presse February 11, 2012 More than 3,000 Bulgarians rallied in Sofia, kicking off a series of European protests on Saturday against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom. Rallies were also beginning to get under way elsewhere across ...
  • Catholic Bishops Reject Obama’s Eugenics ...
    A rule is not a law, and the catholic bishops have learned to differentiate between the two. Government cannot impose its beliefs on free people. by Louise Radnofsky Bloomberg February 11, 2012 Catholic bishops said Friday night that they would not support the Obama administration’s propos ...
  • Marines de EE.UU. orgullosamente posan con Ban ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 10 de febrero 2012 La Infantería de Marina el jueves, una vez más intentócontrolar el daño causado por una fotografía de un equipo de francotiradores de la marina en Afganistán posando delante de una bandera con el logo de la policía Nazi SS – una unidad ...
  • Irán, China, Rusia, Pakistán frente a EE.UU. e ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 10 de febrero 2012 El Alto Comisionado de Pakistán en Gran Bretaña ha reiterado el apoyo de su país a la República Islámica de Irán en caso de ataque del régimen israelí. Wajid Shamsul Hasan le dijo al periódico británico The Sun que “Pakistán no tiene o ...
  • 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 ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind industry’s extensive lobbying to pr ...
    The full extent of lobbying by Britain’s wind industry to preserve subsidies while getting thousands of new turbines built can be revealed. The intensive lobbying – both to construct wind farms and to maintain generous subsidies – comes amid growing unease over an industry adding to the bu ...
  • Green energy has residents seeing red; Turbine ...
    A thick fog has settled in on Green Mountain in Keyser, W.Va. “I can’t live with this. You can’t sleep.” All day, people keep pointing into the trees, telling us there’s something in the fog. “It’s just rumbling the whole mountain.” And then, just ...
  • Report: Fishermen’s Energy offshore wind ...
    Electricity generated by an Atlantic City offshore wind farm proposal would cost $11,237 per kilowatt hour, making it the most expensive offshore wind power in the world, according to a consultant’s report done for state regulators. The report by David E. Dismukes, associate director of Louisian ...
  • Proposed windmills would be state’s tall ...
    An Antrim wind project will be the tallest in the state and may power as many as 13,000 New Hampshire homes if a state committee determines it belongs on Tuttle Hill. Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of Delaware, last week submitted its formal application to build a 30 meg ...
  • Blue Knob firefighters respond to wind mill fire
    At 07:01 Blair County 911 alerted the Blue Knob VFD for a Wind Mill fire at the Allegheny Wind Farm in Juniata Township. Engine/Tanker 86-21, Tanker 86-22, Brush 86-71, Squad 86-41, and Special Unit 86-42 all responded on the call under the direction of Assistant Chief 86-04 (Walters). The burni ...

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
  • 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
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    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Obama’s “Accommodation” on C ...
    President Obama tells us that through his “accommodation” on the contraception controversy he’s avoided “choos[ing] between individual liberty and basic fairness for all Americans.” How so? By ordering insurance companies to give away birth control pills.
  • 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” ...

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

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Next Steps for Greeks after the Austerity Bill ...
    Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Geography of Investment Grade Wines
    The world produces more than eight billion gallons of wine each year (including those Algerian reds that taste like lighter fluid). All fifty American states, including Alaska, have thriving local wine industries. The eastern end of Long Island now looks like the Médoc, and one reason that the ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • Slavery in Monsanto's cornfield
    1.Argentina: Slavery in Monsanto's cornfield 2.Amyris, extreme GM biofuels firm, nosedives  --- --- 1.Argentina: Slavery in Monsanto's cornfields Richard Brenneman eats shoots n leaves, January 19 2012 http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/argentina-slavery-in-monsantos-cornfields/ T ...
  • GM toxic soy protest
    NOTE: Good video of the 'GM toxic soy is not responsible' protest here: http://t.co/X33VU2EA Updated press release below. --- --- Over 25.000 people tell Ahold: stop misleading consumers http://www.toxicsoy.org/toxicsoy/news/Artikelen/2012/2/9_Over_25.000_people_tell_Ahold__stop_misleading_consu ...
  • GM toxic soy protest
    NOTE: Good video of the 'GM toxic soy is not responsible' protest here: http://t.co/X33VU2EA Updated press release below. --- --- Over 25.000 people tell Ahold: stop misleading consumers http://www.toxicsoy.org/toxicsoy/news/Artikelen/2012/2/9_Over_25.000_people_tell_Ahold__stop_misleading_consu ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

spiked

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

  • Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
    In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Many and varied ways to reduce water consumpti ...
    Read at : http://www.ehow.com/list_7228211_five-ways-conserve-water-desert.html Five Ways to Conserve Water in the Desert By Lenna Allen, eHow Contributor Water is one of earth’s most precious resources, and nowhere is there more awareness of its scarcity that in desert environments. For p ...
  • Using solar energy to prevent desertification ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.hanwha-solarone.com/en/news/company-news/company-news-017 Hanwha is preventing desertification using solar energy in China Hanwha announced on September 14th that it signed an agreement with China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Lingw ...
  • Using solar energy to prevent desertification ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.hanwha-solarone.com/en/news/company-news/company-news-017 Hanwha is preventing desertification using solar energy in China Hanwha announced on September 14th that it signed an agreement with China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Lingw ...
  • Green investments are falsely upheld as climat ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.bbqonline.co.za/articles/other/498-land-grabs Land grabs False climate change solutions hurt Africa In the trend of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, green investments such as the production of agrofuels an ...
  • Green investments are falsely upheld as climat ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.bbqonline.co.za/articles/other/498-land-grabs Land grabs False climate change solutions hurt Africa In the trend of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, green investments such as the production of agrofuels an ...

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

  • Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of ...
    Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us know what is all about. The problem arises why folks opt for rave clothing even if there are so many choices obtainable. The answer is Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us ...
  • EDL Latest!
    griffin white pride.jpg The far right make a hames of things. Again! Crivvens, Jings, and Help Ma Boab! Whit a mess! The Infidels and English Defence League demonstration agains ...
  • 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). ...

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

  • More Mitten Mammonism Manifested! (Another Red ...
    Who is Robert Kagan PhD?  A most intriguing “America in Jeopardy” question-answer!  ” Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” says Goyim Gomer Pyle!  Robert Kagan is a bloodline Edomite “Jew” who co-founded the PNAC.  You know, the “Project for a New American Cent ...
  • 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
    Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.

Scotts Contracting

  • New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy
    Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy has just finished the New Web Site http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com, in partnership with the New Google Small Business Promotion. If you’re looking for high quality and personal service, you’ve come to the right place. At Scotts Contracting w ...
  • 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 ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Club of Rome and the New World Order
    Lyndon LaRouche (This is the third 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 describes t ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
    RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
  • '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 ...

Salon

  • The case for a global currency
    In the age of globalization, what does it mean, really, to be from one country and not another? We have some easy answers, along the lines of language, shared history, cultural references, and geography. I grew up cheering for the Red Sox, not the Hiroshima Carp, so that adds to my American-ness ...
  • Female soldiers fight the brass ceiling
    Having dragged its feet for almost two full decades on letting openly gay citizens serve in the military, the Defense Department is now “evolving” on women in combat. Those sex roles move at a geological pace, don’t they?On Thursday, the Pentagon released a report allowing a trickle more of estr ...
  • Catholic tribalism and the contraceptive flap
    The resolution to the contraception contretemps seems mainly designed to do one thing: mollify the Catholics who defied the U.S. Conference of Bishops to support the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Church leaders are unlikely to officially back this so-called accommodation – the White House isn't c ...
  • The two Americas clash at CPAC
    The two Americas came face to face briefly Friday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. While several thousand conservatives thronged the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, several hundred progressive unionists marched up to the hotel's entrance, banging drums, ...
  • A birth-control compromise could divide the right
    Call it the Taco Bell frontier. When President Obama personally announced today that the foretold compromise on contraceptive coverage would involve insurers' directly offering no-co-pay contraception to women whose employers object, he wasn't trying to placate the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bi ...

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

  • Good Long-Term Outlook for Wind Power Bodes We ...
    Long term, therefore, the outlook for wind energy is good—as is the outlook for the electricity storage technology necessary to balance wind's inherently variable nature. As electricity costs begin to rise, power purchasers will find the long term, stable electricity prices that wind proje ...
  • Arctic Oil Drilling Threatens Polar Bear Birth ...
    Up in the frozen arctic, where polar bear rule over a biogem world, massive oil drilling plans threaten the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Shell, the oil behemoth that made $4.8 billion in profits last quarter, intends to boost those numbers by drilling in the Bea ...
  • "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.

EU Times

  • Surgeon says human body did not evolve
    He then addressed Darwinism’s inability to account for the all-or-nothing structure of cellular systems, including the human body. As a medical doctor, Kuhn not only knows the general arrangement of the human body’s visible parts, he also understands the interrelated biochemical syst ...
  • New bill to allow 30,000 drones to fill Americ ...
    The US Congress has passed a bill which approves government’s deployment of up to 30,000 spy drones in the country’s airspace by 2020, raising serious concerns about the ensuing privacy infringement. The bill, which facilitates the government use of unmanned spy planes in US airspace, requires t ...
  • Planned US Internet Blackout On March 8 Raises ...
    A disturbing Ministry of Trade report circulating in the Kremlin today is raising serious concerns over the United States plan to shut down significant parts of the Internet on 8 March in a move many Russian experts warn could be a prelude to massive attacks against the growing number of disside ...
  • CIA spy sentenced for stealing Russian rocket ...
    A former chief test engineer of Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, who was exposed as a CIA agent, has been sentenced to 13-year prison term. He admitted selling top secret data on Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles to the US. Ex-Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nesterets was found guilty of trea ...
  • Santorum accuses Obama of abandoning Israel fo ...
    Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has criticized the administration of Barack Obama for what he calls choosing Iran over Israel in fear of losing Iranian oil. “We’re (the US government) throwing Israel under the bus because we know we’re going to be dependent upon OPEC [the Org ...

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

  • New Citizens United sequel [Updated]
    The lawyers who pursued the case that led to the Supreme Court's controversial ruling in 2010 freeing corporations to spend heavily on political campaigns asked the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a Montana Supreme Court ruling [PDF] that they argued defies the Court's decision. The state ...
  • PissedConsumer.com: Ascentive v. Opinion Corp.
    I try to tread lightly with respect to blogging about cases I'm involved with, but there's not much question that the December 13, 2011 Eastern District of New York opinion in Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp., 2011 WL 6181452 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 13, 2011) - in which my firm represents defendants - is ...
  • Openmoko is dead, long live the Openmoko ...wi ...
    In this issue there is a dedicated section to hardware. There has been no such section in the Community Updates mainly because after the 2008 launch of Neo FreeRunner, there hasn't been continuation to the Openmoko Inc's pioneering phone hardware with (mostly) CC-BY-SA schematics, 100% free soft ...
  • Iran partially blocks encrypted network traffic
    Update 2011-02-10 18:05 UTC: We are working on making our obfuscating proxy more stable and easier to deploy. If you can compile code, following these directions will help. We're also working on Amazon EC2 instances of obfsproxy for point and click deployment.- TorProject
  • Iran reportedly blocking encrypted Internet tr ...
    According to the Washington Post, Internet users are increasingly seeing the error message "According to computer crime regulations, access to this Web site is denied." The Post's bureau chief in Tehran, Thomas Erdbrink, says that software Iranians use to bypass Iran's firewall recently stopped ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Lest we forget
    Today is the seventy-fifth (75th) anniversary of the United Auto Workers sit-down strike against General Motors in Flint Michigan.
  • Liberals and election disorder
    Doug Henwood in FacebookJudging from my extensive social media research, liberals have totally forgiven Obama everything. I’d expected this would happen, but not until spring. They’re about two months ahead of schedule. I’ve already read three times this morning that “ele ...
  • The Founders’ Fear
    I’m so old I can remember when the reichwing freaked out over the prospect of a Catholic Democrat President who would do the Pope’s bidding. Now not only do we have two Nazi candidates openly declaring their intent to do the Pope’s bidding but three and a half of the five “credible” candidates o ...
  • Google Ad Preferences
    Tell Google what types of ads you prefer to view with Google Ad Preferences or opt out completely like I’ve done.
  • The weekly TSA report
    Parade de Cirque (Circus Sideshow), 1887-88. Georges Seurat, French (Metropolitan Museum)Here is what’s on the TSA’s list of accomplishments for the period between January 30th and February 5th, 2012. 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints 17 firearms found at che ...

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

  • Hidden "Agent Orange" Chemical They Want to Sn ...
    By Dr. Mercola Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War. During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundreds of thousands of Vietnames ...
  • This Common Medical Mistake Speeds Your Aging ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior scientist at MIT where she's conducted research for over three decades, and has published hundreds of papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. She also has an undergraduate degree in biology from MIT, and a minor in food and nutritio ...
  • Kills More People Than Heart Disease or Cancer ...
    By Dr. Mercola The latest data on the leading causes of deathi in the United States has been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report, which is based on 2010 data, lists the 10 leading causes of death as follows: Diseases of the heart Can ...
  • Take 4-8 mg of this to Help Avoid Getting Sick ...
    By Dr. Mercola Travel can increase the stress on your immune system, even if it's for fun. If you're not careful, you may come home from your trip with an unwelcome memento - like a cold or flu. Some people even expect to get sick during a trip. But it doesn't have to be that way! It's ver ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

  • Inching Toward a Serogroup B Meningococcal Vac ...
  • Does This Patient Have an Infection of a Chron ...
    Context Chronic wounds (those that have not undergone orderly healing) are commonly encountered, but determining whether wounds are infected is often difficult. The current reference standard for the diagnosis of infection of a chronic wound is a deep tissue biopsy culture, which is an invasive ...
  • Risk of Intussusception Following Administrati ...
    Context Current rotavirus vaccines were not associated with intussusception in large prelicensure trials. However, recent postlicensure data from international settings suggest the possibility of a low-level elevated risk, primarily in the first week after the first vaccine dose. Objective To ex ...
  • Association Between Age at Diagnosis and Disea ...
    Context In addition to classic tumor-related prognostic factors, patient characteristics may be associated with breast cancer outcome. Objective To assess the association between age at diagnosis and breast cancer outcome in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer ...
  • Cefpodoxime vs Ciprofloxacin for Short-Course ...
    Context Although fluoroquinolones remain the most reliable urinary antimicrobial, resistance rates have increased and effective fluoroquinolone-sparing antimicrobials are needed. Objective To determine whether cefpodoxime is noninferior to ciprofloxacin for treatment of acute cystitis. Design, S ...

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

  • I love golf, but I play softball
    Golf is in my blood. I have been a fan for a long time. I have volunteered at almost every major golf event that has come to this province.
  • Uncomfortable truths and misplaced priorities
    Robert Dutil, Quebec's publicsecurity minister, has called for a Sûreté du Québec investigation into the leak of information in the case of a retired Montreal police officer who attempted to peddle the force's list of informers to criminal elements.
  • A seven-year battle for public accountability
    With a minimum of grace and not a word of regret, the city of Montreal said this week that it would "respect the decision" of Quebec's access-to-information commission ordering it to retrieve long-secret financial records from the organizing committee of the World Aquatics Championships in 2005.
  • Tuition hikes are especially hard on female st ...
    Viviane Namaste is a professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Gabrielle Bouchard is a student at the institute and a representative of Concordia's Women's Studies Students' Association.
  • We must all do our part to fight climate change
    A recent survey by a leading polling firm found that four out of five Quebecers are of the opinion that their province should be a continental, even global, leader in the fight against climate change.

Food World Order

  • Indiana's Amish food markets seeing growth
    from wsbt.com: Even though Schmucker's Produce Farm and Greenhouse has been in business since 1964, it doesn't have a sign on the property, something not uncommon among Amish-owned businesses. Many do little or no advertising, and a few don't have phones. But lately, more people have been findin ...
  • America's 'Food Stamp Nation' continues to grow
    from thestar.com: In what is clearly the country’s most troubled period in modern times, a Food Stamp Nation-within-a-nation is swelling to proportions that seemed unthinkable five years ago. In 2006, there were 26.7 million people on food stamps in America. By September 2011, that number had gr ...
  • Episode008 - Organics to You
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week James Evan Pilato guest hosts the show and covers Organics to You, seed catalogs, headlines, updates and more... ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
    In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Arrests for treason threatened. Greece today.. ...
    UKIP's Godfrey Bloom has repeatedly made calls for the architects of the great Eurozone misery to be arrested and flung into a jail cell where they belong. Many of us, meanwhile, have long lists of political Quislings and traitors who we would like to see pay the full judicial price for their ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

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

  • Six Flags over Nukeville, Opening Soon
    By Les Visible If you support these people then you might as well be holding the gun yourself. That’s how karma works. If you’re in the cheering section then you might as well be suited up and on the field. The cheerleaders have two duties as far as I know of. One is the work [...]
  • Texas AG: Big Pharma Bribes Forced Teens To Be ...
    By Alexander Higgins Texas attorney general has filed charges against Big Pharma for bribing officials to implement an elaborate scheme to fraudulently diagnose and medicate teenagers for mental illness. According to a former Pennsylvania Inspector General’s Agent, a pharmaceutical industry-spon ...
  • Digging Deeper Into Who Controls The World
    Susan Jennings Activist Post As we delve deeper into world control, more information arises that helps us understand the current global situation. Many people are unaware of the interconnectedness between the largest global companies. Eighty percent of the world’s wealth appears to be earn ...
  • 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 [...]

Veterans Today

  • Tangled Knot of Kashmir
    Pakistan commemorates Kashmir solidarity day on 5 February every year to demonstrate their unequivocal support for the valiant struggle of the Kashmiri people in achieving their legitimate right to self -determination.
  • Khader Adnan’s Heroic Struggle for Justice
    Saturday marked his 56th hunger striking day. "My dignity is more precious than food," he said. He's willing to die courageously defending it.
  • Information Overload
    Six months ago, I wrote about Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, which looks at a world with "too much change in too short a period of time".
  • California – Orange County Deputy Murder ...
    Unarmed “Perfect Marine,” Nursing Student Gunned Down by Rogue, Racist Cops from Right Wing Community   “They would take their Bibles and walk around the track in the morning,” Cox said. He said Loggins’ wife usually accompanied them but is pregnant and was una ...
  • Will the Media Report If Obama is Assissinated ...
    In case you missed it – The Atlanta Jewish Times publisher Andrew Adler, in an editorial on Jan. 13, suggested that Israel’s Mossad should consider assassinating President Barack Obama. Author, Michael Collins Piper correctly predicted that western media would stop reporting the story that ...

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

  • Soft And Not-So-Soft Power: U.S. Picks Off Chi ...
    Press Trust of India February 12, 2012 China getting wary of allies: Chinese media ==== “A former staunch ally to China, Myanmar has also changed its attitude towards the US Last year,” it said pointing out the rapid pace at which Naypyidaw opened up to US after Secretary Hillary Cli ...
  • Expanding Pakistan-Russia Partnership Within S ...
    Pakistan Today February 12, 2012 Engaging Russia By Qudssia Akhlaque A move in the right direction ==== Pakistan considers Russia as an engine for increased economic growth and a factor of peace and stability in the SCO region. Both the countries seem equally keen to broaden and diversify mutual ...
  • Stop NATO news: February 12, 2012
    ==== Turkey: NATO Could Its Invoke Its Article 5 For War Against Syria NATO Ground Forces Operational Headquarters To Be Built In Turkey CNN Poll: Should NATO Intervene In Syria? Pentagon To Upgrade 30,000-Pound Earth Penetrator Bombs NATO ABM: New-Generation Russian Radar Put On Combat Duty NAT ...
  • UN’s Syria Vote: Kings And Ex-Colonial P ...
    Newsclick February 8, 2012 UN’s Syria Vote: Kings and Ex-Colonial Powers “Championing” Democracy Prabir Purkayastha Edited by RR ==== The irony of the Gulf monarchies fighting for “democracy” is not lost on the people. Neither is an Iraqi- or Libyan-style military intervention for bringing ...
  • Syrian Crisis: No Role For Russia In Western M ...
    Tehran Times February 11, 2012 Russia supporting Syria to retain foothold in Middle East    Mahmoud Shouri The diplomatic row between the West and Russia over Syria at the United Nations Security Council is a clear indication of Syria’s strategic importance for Moscow. By protecti ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • The Coming World Government
    Adrian Salbuchi - We see ever-growing violence, war, outright lies, invasions, false flags, social upheavals, poverty, ruin and the death of millions… The world’s become a pretty dangerous and pitiful place to live in, and it only gets worse…Which leads us to the obvious question: Why? Why is a ...
  • The Intel Hub’s Globalist Agenda Annihil ...
    The Intel Hub - The outlook for 2012 and beyond looks grisly as protests and riots ensue worldwide. The once docile populace is now starting to rouse after being prodded into near submission and backed into a corner by ominous oligarchs who strive to set policy throughout the world. It is up to ...
  • Black Helicopters Sightings In Chicago Reporte ...
    The Intel Hub February 12, 2012 An anonymous tip received by the Intel Hub has continued to highlight claims from millions of Americans that unmarked black helicopters have invaded their cities. The latest tip can be read in full below: I live about 20 minutes southwest of Chicago in town called ...
  • The Secret Behind Whitney Houston’s Death
    Infowars.com February 12, 2012 Her tragic death, like those of Elvis and Michael Jackson, could have been avoided.
  • Mindless Cops Serve Masters While Hosed By Gan ...
    The Intel Hub - A gang of firefighters mad about their retirement plans hose mindless cops protecting the Prime Minister out side his office in Brussels.

FRS

  • Why Was No One Punished for America’s &# ...
    [Imperialist wars and occupations always operate with absolute impunity for the war crimes committed against civilian victims.  Imperialist wars attempt to win allies and supporters by concealing their imperialist interests behind banners of "democracy" or "human rights" or "freedom" for the tar ...
  • Nepal: Prime Minister Bhattarai plans to retu ...
     Baidya faction demands PM’s resignation by POST B BASNET, Republica KATHMANDU, Feb 10: The Maoist radical faction has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai over the cabinet decision on Thursday to ditch the plan to legalize land transactions effected under the arbit ...
  • Nepal: Prime Minister Bhattarai plans to retu ...
     Baidya faction demands PM’s resignation by POST B BASNET, Republica KATHMANDU, Feb 10: The Maoist radical faction has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai over the cabinet decision on Thursday to ditch the plan to legalize land transactions effected under the arbit ...
  • Greek anger boils over as country faces bankruptcy
    Several people have been arrested in Athens amid a two-day strike over austerity measures. Msnbc.com’s Dara Brown reports. By msnbc.com staff and news services ATHENS — Black-masked protesters threw Molotov cocktails, stones and bottles and police fired teargas during clashes in cent ...
  • Greek anger boils over as country faces bankruptcy
    Several people have been arrested in Athens amid a two-day strike over austerity measures. Msnbc.com’s Dara Brown reports. By msnbc.com staff and news services ATHENS — Black-masked protesters threw Molotov cocktails, stones and bottles and police fired teargas during clashes in cent ...

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

  • House Republicans Question Safety of Chevy Vol ...
    House Republicans railed against the Obama Administration Wednesday during a hearing on General Motor’s Chevy Volt, after a probe conducted by the federal auto safety agency ruled that the electric cars’ batteries are not prone to causing fires.Contributor: Brian Koenig Published: Jan 26, 2012
  • Final 45 Hours of Secretly Taped John F. Kenne ...
    Listen to what President Kennedy discussed before leaving for Dallas on November 21, 1963. Hot topics included the Vietnam War and 1964 re-election campaign. These secret tape recordings came from the last few months of his presidency.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jan 25, 2012
  • Harvard University Studies the Placebo
    Harvard studies new information on the placebo effect.Contributor: Daniel J. Vest Published: Jan 24, 2012
  • The End of the Kodak Legacy
    These are a few final words highlighting a national legacy to photography and film and it's many accomplishments.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Jan 24, 2012
  • Abortion Activists Rally on the 39th Anniversa ...
    Sunday, January 22, 2012 marked the 39th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision made by the Supreme Court.Contributor: R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen Published: Jan 23, 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

  • Tangled Knot of Kashmir
    Pakistan commemorates Kashmir solidarity day on 5 February every year to demonstrate their unequivocal support for the valiant struggle of the Kashmiri people in achieving their legitimate right to self -determination.
  • Khader Adnan’s Heroic Struggle for Justice
    Saturday marked his 56th hunger striking day. "My dignity is more precious than food," he said. He's willing to die courageously defending it.
  • Information Overload
    Six months ago, I wrote about Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, which looks at a world with "too much change in too short a period of time".
  • California – Orange County Deputy Murder ...
    Unarmed “Perfect Marine,” Nursing Student Gunned Down by Rogue, Racist Cops from Right Wing Community   “They would take their Bibles and walk around the track in the morning,” Cox said. He said Loggins’ wife usually accompanied them but is pregnant and was una ...
  • Will the Media Report If Obama is Assissinated ...
    In case you missed it – The Atlanta Jewish Times publisher Andrew Adler, in an editorial on Jan. 13, suggested that Israel’s Mossad should consider assassinating President Barack Obama. Author, Michael Collins Piper correctly predicted that western media would stop reporting the story that ...

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

  • Revisiting WWII, or When Adidas Made Bazookas
    This coming week I am going to discuss European economic integration in class. As most of you can recite from memory, the European Union got its start as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) back in 1952. However, the political logic of the ECSC is a bit more obscure. While you will appr ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
    In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Surgeon says human body did not evolve
    He then addressed Darwinism’s inability to account for the all-or-nothing structure of cellular systems, including the human body. As a medical doctor, Kuhn not only knows the general arrangement of the human body’s visible parts, he also understands the interrelated biochemical syst ...
  • New bill to allow 30,000 drones to fill Americ ...
    The US Congress has passed a bill which approves government’s deployment of up to 30,000 spy drones in the country’s airspace by 2020, raising serious concerns about the ensuing privacy infringement. The bill, which facilitates the government use of unmanned spy planes in US airspace, requires t ...
  • Planned US Internet Blackout On March 8 Raises ...
    A disturbing Ministry of Trade report circulating in the Kremlin today is raising serious concerns over the United States plan to shut down significant parts of the Internet on 8 March in a move many Russian experts warn could be a prelude to massive attacks against the growing number of disside ...
  • CIA spy sentenced for stealing Russian rocket ...
    A former chief test engineer of Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, who was exposed as a CIA agent, has been sentenced to 13-year prison term. He admitted selling top secret data on Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles to the US. Ex-Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nesterets was found guilty of trea ...
  • Santorum accuses Obama of abandoning Israel fo ...
    Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has criticized the administration of Barack Obama for what he calls choosing Iran over Israel in fear of losing Iranian oil. “We’re (the US government) throwing Israel under the bus because we know we’re going to be dependent upon OPEC [the Org ...

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

  • 2012-02-11 Food vs. Fertility, Part I: Bisphen ...
    TweetChemical structure of BPA A host of manufactured chemicals in the food and water supply is wreaking havoc on our health. One common characteristic among the effects of many of these substances is a decrease in fertility, accompanied by a rise in afflictions affecting the reproductive sys ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • No Trust in Our High Court Judges... Again
      Justice in this country is a seething cauldron of deceit and corruption working to promote all that is diametrically opposed to good... ~ Jerry McConnell read more
  • Proof... The FDA Couldn't Care Less About Your ...
      The stated mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to protect and promote public health through the regulation of everything from food products to pharmaceutical drugs. ~ Anthony Gucciardi read more
  • 'We're the Government... You Can Trust Us' ~ R ...
      While much has been made recently of the President's unconstitutional appointment of Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), lost in the hubbub has been any discussion of the unconstitutionality of, or the need for, the CFPB itself. ~ Ron Pa ...
  • Abortion in America... 19 Facts That Should Ma ...
      Every single day, a silent horror kills more Americans than were killed on 9/11.  Every single year, this silent horror kills about as many Americans as have been killed on all the battlefields in all of the wars in U.S. history combined. read more
  • Obama Signed Executive Order Declaring War On Iran
      On February 5, 2012, President Obama invoked the NDAA, which authorizes the use of military force, and issues an executive order declaring the “threat” of Iran a National Emergency. The video below shows this issuance of President Obama executive order which declares Iran’s threat to cut ...

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

  • Start Prepping with Grocery Store Sales
    In today’ economy we are often hearing from readers that are having trouble ‘prepping’. They are trying to make ends meet and can’t figure out a way to stock up and become prepared with their own supplies. Over the years, I have found that many people simply do not know h ...
  • Stunning USA Lights At Night Video Shows Vulne ...
    As the International Space Station zooms across the planet at 17,227 miles per hour at an altitude of 200 miles, it captures amazing images of our planet from a perspective rarely comprehended by most people living on the surface. The imagery shown in the video below was stitched together from p ...
  • ‘Teach’ Yourself Survival Skills
    So many times when I talk to people, be they friends or family or someone I just met, I am sometimes complimented on something I made, and they almost always follow with a , “Oh, I could never do that.” or “Oh, I don’t know how to do that.” For example, someone may ...
  • Disaster Preparedness Binder
    Evacuate – Are you ready? The knock comes at your front door. A fireman tells you that you have 20 minutes to evacuate. The wild fire has been burning for several hours now and is headed your way. Panic sets in. What should you take with you? Fires, floods, hurricanes, the list goes on. At ...
  • Survive Anything
      [sponsored] This letter could be the difference between your family living and dying. You see, when most people think “prepared” they think Boy Scouts and special forces soldiers. The real survival experts. To be honest, there is only a handful of survival experts in the world. These guys ...

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

  • What Is Cultural Terrorism?
    As a well disciplined anthropologist I have learned to be weary of the word “culture.” In fact, it is difficult for me to write the word without using scare quotes. But after Lebanese BDS activists scored an important victory last month, the word has been everywhere in my online universe ...
  • The Israeli Position Toward the Events in Syria
    PNN/ Policy Analysis Unit- ACRPS Israel's stake in what takes place in Syria stems from geographic proximity, the ongoing official state of war between the two countries, Syria's demands to recover the Golan, and Israel's fear that events in Syria could lead to the collapse of the ...
  • Post-Elections Egypt: Revolution or Pact?
    For many people, it is compelling, if not intuitive, to think of Egypt’s parliamentary elections as a logical extension of what Egyptians started on 25 January 2011. Elections, the conventional reasoning goes, are a critical step in Egypt’s transition toward a democratic form of governan ...
  • On Vetoes, Negotiations, and Syria: RT Intervi ...
    In the below interview with Russia Today, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses developments in Syria with a particular eye to the maneuvering of key international players. He highlights the fact that much of the violence in Syria stems from the fact that the Asad regime has refuse ...
  • 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 ...

mediagazer

  • Twitter Breaks News of Whitney Houston Death 2 ...
    Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: Twitter Breaks News of Whitney Houston Death 27 Minutes Before Press  —  Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston's death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter, reported by a man who tweeted the news out to ...
  • A High-Tech War on Leaks (Adam Liptak/New York ...
    Adam Liptak / New York Times: A High-Tech War on Leaks  —  BACK in 2006, before the Obama administration made leak prosecutions routine, a panel of three federal appeals court judges in New York struggled to decide whether a prosecutor should be allowed to see the phone records ...
  • Acta protests: Thousands take to streets acros ...
    Dave Lee / BBC: Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe  —  Marchers in London gathered outside British Music House, home to several major rights holders  —  Thousands of people have taken part in co-ordinated protests across Europe in opposition t ...
  • The Piracy Problem: How Broad? (New York Times)
    New York Times: The Piracy Problem: How Broad?  —  When Fred Wilson, a prominent New York venture capitalist who has backed Twitter and Zynga, wanted to watch the Knicks game last month, he got an unpleasant surprise.  Time Warner Cable was not showing the game because of a ...
  • Amazon, Up in Flames (David Streitfeld/Bits)
    David Streitfeld / Bits: Amazon, Up in Flames  —  “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever,” George Orwell wrote in “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”  In “Animal Farm,” he concluded that revoluti ...

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

  • Suarez-Evra tensions explode again
    SIR Alex Ferguson branded Luis Suarez a "disgrace" as the racism feud between Manchester United and Liverpool exploded once more in a stormy Premier League clash at Old Trafford. Two goals from Wayne Rooney saw United score a 2-1 victory which sent the champions back to the top of ...
  • MS Dhoni steers India in nail-biting fini ...
    By CricketCountry Staff Adelaide: Feb 12, 2012 Indian captain MS Dhoni steered India to a nail-biting finishas the visitors won the fourth One-Day International (ODI) against Australia at Adelaide Oval on...
  • Long Distance Relationships May Benefit F ...
    Get Science Alerts Sign Up Submit this story digg reddit stumble By: Francie Diep Published: 02/11/2012 11:34 AM EST on InnovationNewsDaily It's 2025 and your boyfriend has been temporarily posted to Tokyo, while you're still stuck in the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. How will you keep ...
  • Analysis: Obama pitches middle while GOP ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The past week's dustup over contraception underscored President Barack Obama's early advantage in one important area: working to attract independent voters without alienating his Democratic base. His Republican rivals, meanwhile, are forced to keep emphasizing their conser ...
  • China's Li Na to play at Dubai Duty Free ...
    Dubai: Li Na, first Chinese player to really make a mark on women's tennis, will be one of the biggest attractions at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships when play gets under way at the Dubai Tennis Stadium on February 20. She will join world number one Victoria Azarenka, defending cham ...

no frakking consensus

  • Closed Minds at the IPCC
    A Dutch professor has examined a draft of the upcoming IPCC report. He says it has been written by people who start from the assumption that dangerous, human-caused global warming has been proven.
  • The Royal Society’s Joyride
    In recent years the world's oldest science academy has been taken for a joyride. Three centuries of neutrality have been impulsively abandoned - in the name of fighting climate change.
  • Scientific Consensus, Leadership & Stephen Sch ...
    Is it any wonder that young climate scientists behave badly? Their elders set the example - by hurling insults at dissenters.
  • Bob Carter: A Geological Perspective
    A climate debate that includes Al Gore’s climate ideas - but not Bob Carter’s - is no debate at all.
  • Proselytizing to Toddlers
    Many jurisdictions frown on advertising that is aimed at children. But UNESCO says nursery schools should teach kids about sustainable development.

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
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

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 - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary ...
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart - See Gary Johnson (Libertarian), the five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum), and Barack Obama's positions on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.

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 ...
  • The Tenth Man
    The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy|December 19 By the time Christopher Hitchens died last week at the age of 62, the arc of his intellectual career was so notorious, ingrained ...

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

  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
  • Indian?s fight against child marriage in focus ...
    ABU DHABI - The spotlight was once again on India at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, courtesy a British filmmaker. Kim Longinotto in “Pink Saris” depicted the evils of child marriage and the caste conflict in the interiors of northern India - and a woman’s fight to bring about ch ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • 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

  • Axel von dem Bussche Tried To Kill Hitler With ...
    In 1937, Axel von dem Bussche was 18 but after proper schooling entered the German Army as an officer. During those lean times, it was a logical choice. Nazis had resources and jobs when others were still suffering. He joined enthusiastically but secretly was aghast at the activities of the Nazi ...
  • The Silbervogel, Or Silverbird, A Supersonic S ...
      The Sanger Silverbird was a revolutionary design for a jet powered super sonic plane that could deliver a nuclear bomb to America from stratospheric altitudes. Upwards of 80,000 feet. It had an engine cooling system that circulated the jets own fuel to keep temperatures down. The plane wa ...
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • The Weekend Pres. Obama Gave Women Their Own S ...
    But the reality of life here is that Mr. Gulbranson and many of his neighbors continue to take as much help from the government as they can get. When pressed to choose between paying more and taking less, many people interviewed here hemmed and hawed and said they could not decide. Some were red ...
  • Elizabeth Warren’s First Test
    Pres. Obama’s $26 billion mortgage settlement with the nation’s five largest banks is a paltry sum. However, next to the tobacco settlement, it’s the biggest in history. If you read on the subject, let alone watch Dylan Ratigan who talks about a $13 trillion hole, this seems not even ...
  • Saturday Night at the Movies, Cult Classic Bou ...
    Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48. HuffPost, which is particularly good with celebrity items, is updating with details. What a voice she once had. It’s always a tragedy when someone dies young. But to those who have been given so much, dying young seems even worse, especially when ...
  • Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll
    Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential straw poll with 38 percent of the vote, finishing with a single-digit lead over runner-up Rick Santorum, who pulled 31 percent support. Newt Gingrich was a distant third, with 15 percent, followed by Ron Paul, with 12 percent. [...] For the first time, CPAC ...
  • Mitt Romney Minute: He Supported Contraception ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. From PlumLine’s twitter feed at CPAC: Santorum backer Foster Friess: “A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Hi, Mitt!” A too funny video from American Bridge titled “ ...

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

  • First Ever Criminal Trial of Asbestos Magnate ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Today, I am pleased to have a guest blogger, Dr. Barry Castleman, a world-renowned asbestos public health expert, report from Italy on this historic criminal trial. Here's his report: Tomo ...
  • 'Tilting at windmills': new documentary on win ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Documentaries present stories and dilemmas that use a variety of available media and first-hand interviews from real-life events. The recently released documentary, "Windfall," gives "us a fir ...
  • Demolishing Public Participation and Environme ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a whol ...
  • 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 10, 2012: Culpepper VA cop’s version of why he shot unarmed 54yr-old female motorist to death contradicted by witness [4] on.wusa9.com/ye2thV 6 Philadelphia PA cops su ...
  • 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 ...

Total Collapse

  • Arab League calls on UN to send Troops to Syria
    The Arab League has drafted a resolution on Syria that calls on the United Nations Security Council to send an “international peacekeeping force” into the country. Source.
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Leaf to hide Australia’s peak oil embarrassment
    Matthew Wright 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 In ...
  • Gas emissions up to seventy times worse - imme ...
    Unconventional gas emissions up to seventy times worse than industry claims - immediate moratorium a must Real time air sampling of gas fields in the US has shown leakage rates of up to over seventy times greater than the rates assumed by industry and accepted by government in Australia. The stu ...
  • 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 ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • 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 ...
  • Green groups: government moving too slowly on ...
    Three environmental groups have submitted a letter to British Columbia Premier, Christy Clark, to ask the government to speed up the process of implementing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, which is meant to ensure 70 percent of old-growth forest is maintained.
  • Another food crisis looming in Africa: nearly ...
    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have warned that South Sudan is facing a food crisis and that immediate action is needed to stave off a disaster. Currently 4.7 million people do not have enough to eat in South Sudan, while one million of these face se ...
  • More big companies disclosing impacts on forests
    More companies are reporting on the impact of their operations on global forests, finds a new report. Eighty-seven global corporations disclosed their "forest footprint" in 2011, according to the third Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD), which asks companies to report on their impact on forests b ...
  • Vampire and bird frogs: discovering new amphib ...
    In 2009 researchers discovered 19,232 species new to science, most of these were plants and insects, but 148 were amphibians. Even as amphibians face unprecedented challenges—habitat loss, pollution, overharvesting, climate change, and a lethal disease called chytridiomycosis that has push ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone’s Usman Boie Kamara: I’m neither ...
    The embattled former presidential flagbearer aspirant, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara has broken his silence on his position as to whether he has defected to the ruling All People’s Congress following Maada Bio’s appointment of Dr. Kadi Sesay as running mate. He spoke to a gathering of family members ...
  • My experience during four weeks in Sierra Leon ...
    Since Ernest Bai Koroma took over the reins of government in 2007, nearly everyone was called upon, at one point or the other, directly or indirectly, to make available their talent and expertise towards the socio-economic development of Sierra Leone.  After eleven years away from Sierra Leone, ...
  • Multipartyism in Sierra Leone
    To simply put it (for us the ‘laymen’), multipartyism is that (political) system lawfully involving more than one party in the running of a country. If my memory serves me right, the political scientists (or who/whatever they may be called) say multipartyism, among others, entrenches accountabil ...
  • Sierra Leone appreciation/thanksgiving day in ...
    The theme of the Thanksgiving prayers is of varied purposes.  The goal of the organizers is to pray for a peaceful Sierra Leone, bring into focus the need to foster the spirit of peace and harmony among Sierra Leoneans, to ask the Almighty God to instill peace among our various ethnic groups, an ...
  • Presidential Task Force in Port Loko
    Agriculture has been identified as vital for the development and transformation of Sierra Leone. To address this problem, President Ernest Bai Koroma in 2008 established a Task Force of which he is Chairman to tackle and address the myriad challenges facing the sector. On Tuesday 7th February, t ...

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

  • Udder hysteria over raw milk dangers?
    From the Hanover Evening Sun: “As we sat down here to write, we were all ready to pour ourselves a nice tall, cold one. A big glass of raw milk. Surely, something that nutritious and natural couldn’t really be harmful. … Continue reading →
  • The American way of eating — is all that ...
    From Powell’s Books.com “What if you cant afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldnt escape as she watched the debate about Americas meals unfold, one that urges us to pay foods true cost—which is to … Continue reading &# ...
  • Speculators don’t take kindly to limits ...
    From Edward Miller, on Civil Eats, where it’s  titled “The Empire Strikes Back”: “On December 2, 2011, two of Wall Street’s top lobby groups launched an assault on a newly reinstated “position limits” regulation, which aims to curb speculation in … Continue reading ...
  • Date set for raw milk appeal hearing
    From Tracey Richardson in the Owen Sound Sun Times: “Durham-area raw milk producer Michael Schmidt’s case will have a hearing in the Ontario Court of Appeal in April. Lawyer Karen Selick said a hearing has been granted in Toronto on … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Athens Burning: Tens of Banks in Flames After ...
    The Financial Times reports Athens passes demanded austerity bill. Greek lawmakers on Thursday approved a tough austerity package aimed at averting a default, but the vote was overshadowed by violent street protests in central Athens and dozens of arson attacks against shops and banks. ...
  • China Instructs Banks to Roll Over $1.7 Trilli ...
    A few years ago local Chinese municipalities had little debt. Today they have a $1.7 trillion mountain of it, nearly all of it financing economically non-viable projects in the name of "stimulus". The proposed "solution" of course is to roll the debt over, while adding still more to the de ...
  • Obama Seeks to Prove He is More Like Romney; O ...
    Inquiring minds are reading Obama budget seeks to boost trade enforcement, ratchet pressure on ChinaPresident Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at ...
  • “Student Loan ‘Debt Bomb"; Obama's Misguided ...
    It's interesting to watch some of the terms bandied about in headline news. For example, the LA Times headline reads S&P says student loan debt could be next financial bubble. Next? Could Be? What with the word "next"? Also what's with the words "could be"? Without a doubt student ...
  • Violent Protests in Greece; 6 Cabinet Members ...
    Imagine you are asked to sign a document but three pages were missing. Further imagine the documents you were asked to sign were written in English but you only speak Greek. Would you sign? That is exactly the predicament Greek officials were placed in by the Troika. Here is the story sent ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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  • 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
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gCaptain

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    I had heard rumors in the past that some ships had outfitted their rec rooms with pool tables, but I never quite believed it.  Why the heck would you put [...]
  • Qatar Increases Stake in LNG Carriers
    Milaha, previously known as Qatar Navigation, today announced that its fully-owned subsidiary, Qatar Shipping Company, has signed an agreement to increase its stake in two LNG carriers. Qatar Shipping Company, [...]
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    RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Fresh from winning one of the world’s single-largest orders for drilling rigs, investment company Sete Brasil plans to spend $27 billion over the next eight years [...]
  • DSME and China’s Rilin Group to Jointly Invest ...
    SEOUL (Dow Jones)–South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (042660.SE) and China’s Rilin Group will jointly invest in constructing an industrial complex in North Korea’s Hwanggeumpyong special economic district, The Dong-AIlbo [...]
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    SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–The Asian fuel oil market is likely to consolidate with a bullish stance next week; traders say the product’s spreads look appealing after the recent correction. However, a [...]

Blogging Canadians

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    The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyo ...
  • Seniors Occupy Conservative MP Offices To Prot ...
    "Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-called “Blue-Grey” Alliance entered and stayed in the constituency offices of 20 MPs in the pro ...
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Press TV - Middle East

  • Al-Qaeda urges regime change in Syria
    Al-Qaeda’s number one, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has called on anti-government elements in Syria to push for regime change in the country as the Arab League (AL) vows to boost support for the Syrian opposition.
  • ‘Israel Judaizing al-Quds, West Bank’
    The UN says Israel is dispossessing the Palestinians in the Tel Aviv-occupied territories as well as the members of its Arab minority of their residences through a ‘strategy of Judaization.’
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    Saudi protesters have held a demonstration in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province to call for an end to the rule of the Al Saud family, Press TV reports.
  • ‘UN must send military into Syria’
    The Arab League has drafted a resolution on Syria that calls on the United Nations Security Council to send a joint UN-Arab League force into the country.
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    Israel has significantly increased human rights violations against the Palestinian residents in the West Bank city of al-Khalil, a new report says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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  • 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 ...
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    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

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    Those expert in the field of human rights lead charmed and dangerous lives.  Sometimes, they also find themselves in the dock, grilled for their efforts and persecuted for their inclinations.  In the case of the famed human rights warrior, the Spanish High Court Judge Baltasar Garzón, a dramatic ...
  • We Need More Poets
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  • Speed Freaks Must Die
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  • 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 ...

Destructionist

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  • S&P downgrades 34 Italian banks
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    Whitney Houston Water Found in Her Lungs
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