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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

12 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Canada's Tough New Crime Bill May Violate Chil ...
    As the Senate debates the merits of the Canadian government's newly-passed omnibus crime bill, organisations across the country have raised serious issues with the legislation, particularly when it comes to amendments relating to the treatment of young offenders.
  • MALDIVES: Paradise on a Knife's Edge
    The short, one-minute video is grainy but the poor picture quality makes the scene no less chilling. Shot from a balcony, it shows the recently ousted Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed walking out of a building, pleading with military officers to stop rioting police.
  • Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War S ...
    An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in ...
  • KYRGYZSTAN: Efforts to Tackle Bride Kidnapping ...
    Legislation designed to discourage the controversial practice of bride kidnapping fizzled recently in Kyrgyzstan's parliament.
  • Burma in the Throes of Change – Part II
    As 'positive' news flows out of Burma - release of political prisoners, ceasefire talks in ethnic areas, increased freedom, formation of labour unions – people inside the country and exiles have been in heated discussion. What does 'reform' entail and are the changes going to be full ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Sanctions Could Not Force Iran to Negotiate
    Summary: Interview with Peter Jenkins, the former British Ambassador to IAEA. source: irdiplomacy.irread more
  • Israeli State Sponsored Terrorism using MKO
    Summary: On January 11, 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a blast in Tehran. Two assassins on a motorcycle were seen placing a bomb on his vehicle. Ahmadi Roshan was the latest victim in the series of attacks against scientists working with the Iranian nu ...
  • How to Engage Iran
    Summary: Two schools of thought dominate Iran's foreign policy-making; the first holds that Iran and the United States can reach a compromise through negotiations, the second that Washington is not a reliable partner. By pushing new sanctions and reneging on engagement, Washington has proved ...
  • World Net Daily Pushes blatant Iran Lies
    Summary: Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and political columnist on Iran issues, discusses the latest anti-Iran talking point from World Net Daily and serial propagandist Reza Kahlili (“Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel“); what Alireza Forghani, the blogger in que ...
  • Demonstrations in over 80 cities and 6 countri ...
    Summary: Anti-war organizations from across the United States and 6 other countries came together on Saturday, Feb. 4, to protest the rising crescendo of threats against Iran. In more than 30 states and 80 cities, large and small, groups joined forces to raise four key demands. "No war, no sa ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Sunday's 'Comment of Day': "Humans May be One ...
    "I believe that an advanced species would probably try to dominate the cosmos. I also believe that advanced intelligence would be AI, and their ability to obtain energy and mass would be far greater than any biological system. In addition,...
  • Weekend Feature: Opening of Antarctic's Lake V ...
    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...
  • Saturn's Enceladus/Part 2 --Does it Harbor a V ...
    NASA and ESA researchers have been debating whether Saturn's tiny moon, Enceladus, harbors a vast underground ocean. New evidence suggests that Enceladus has an ocean that is probably seltzer-like and could be friendly to microbial life. In 2005 NASA's Cassini...
  • Milky Way's Stellar Halo --Filled with Stars ...
    The Milky Way's ancient stars once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of...
  • NewsFlash: A Gigantic Comet-like Dwarf Galaxy ...
    A UCLA team has used a unique telescope to discover a previously unknown companion to the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 (image below), which is some 12.5 million light years from Earth. The newly discovered dwarf galaxy had escaped even the...

Natural News

  • Cultivating postnatal Qi to manage allergies
    It's allergy season. People are sneezing, wheezing and rubbing their itchy eyes. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, an estimated 50 million Americans suffer from allergies. That is one out of every five Americans. Allergies account for more than...
  • New lavender oil clinically proven to relieve ...
    Lavender essential oils have been used in European hospitals, mainly France, for treating burns. But that is not the only application of lavender that has proven itself. Insomnia and anxiety relief are the most common uses aside from burns. The herb's Latin title...
  • Green tea helps maintain functional ability an ...
    Green tea has long been hailed as a cardio-protective beverage due to its ability to lower levels of oxidized LDL cholesterol, an established heart disease risk factor. It has also been shown to promote brain health because the active compound, EGCG (Epigallocatechin...
  • Shock study shows Himalayas and nearby peaks h ...
    Man-made climate change theory proponents frequently cite claims that ice caps and glaciers all around the world are melting at an alarming rate because of excess carbon dioxide (CO2). But new research published in the journal Nature reveals that, contrary to popular...
  • Ron Paul stands up for raw milk and Health Fre ...
    In a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul spoke on Health Freedom and the Constitutional rights of Americans to buy and sell natural food, like raw milk, which hasn't been tainted with chemicals, hormones, or cooked until completely...

Threat Level

  • The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s Evolution, ...
    Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.
  • Occupy DC Evicted From a Winter of Communal Di ...
    After months of tolerating and even defending Occupy DC, park police swept in with a SWAT team and bulldozer. Wired's Quinn Norton was on the ground - literally - as the police evicted a camp that was full of life.
  • Bill Opening Supreme Court to Cameras Heads to ...
    The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings.
  • Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim t ...
    After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas -- named after the Irish word for knowledge -- may be finished.
  • A Texas Jury Now Deliberating Who, if Anyone, ...
    The fate of the openness of the interactive web is now in the hands of a jury in Texas, weighing testimony from the Web's early pioneers about the validity of a patent claim on features such as embedded video. A loss means that nearly every major U.S. website could owe thousands to millions of d ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Five Things I Found Caught in the Safety Net
    The American social safety net is back in the news, and not just because Mitt Romney acknowledged, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." This week, the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University revealed that a third of Americans now receive Medicaid, food stamps or other means-b ...
  • Closing the Health Insurance Income Gap
    A new study this week from the Commonwealth Fund confirmed the shocking gap between lower and higher income Americans when it comes to health insurance coverage. While only 12 percent of families making $89,400 a year (or four times the federal poverty rate for a family of four) was uninsured a ...
  • Will GOP Candidates Back 'Tebow Bill' for Home ...
    This week, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a "Tebow bill" allowing home-schooled children to participate in sports and other activities at public schools. For the Republican presidential candidates, the Tebow bill is a two-fer that lets them score points with evangelical voters while rid ...
  • Romney's New Message: I Care
    Back in 1992, President George H.W. Bush tried to counter to the growing perception that he was an aloof, out-of touch patrician utterly detached from the economic struggles of the American people. But his laughably awkward pronouncement to voters, "Message: I care," only served to confirm thei ...
  • The Heritage Foundation's 'Government Dependen ...
    For decades, the conservative Heritage Foundation has provided a thin academic veneer to the Republican project of dismantling the post-New Deal social safety net. Last year, for example, Rep. Paul Ryan tried to sell his draconian budget plan by citing a comically flawed Heritage analysis decla ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Help Name a Baby Polar Bear! (Photos & Videos ...
    The Toronto Zoo has a baby polar bear! And possibly even more exciting news is that you can help to name it! Isn’t that cool? There’s a simple form to submit your idea for a name on a Toronto Zoo page for the polar bear cub.
  • Dutch Kids Ride Bicycle-Bus to School!
    A bicycle bus! I have to admit, I didn’t see one of these when I lived in the Netherlands! (For a bunch of photos of the cool things I did see, however, check out this bicycle photo tour of Groningen.) The Dutch company De Café Racer developed this fun bicycle-bus, a good [...]
  • Bikes Belong Helping 6 Cities Build Protected ...
    Really, I’m not sure why bike companies don’t invest more money in bicycle infrastructure—it’s advertising gone wild! Communities can easily value and trust bike companies that do so, and the companies can even stick permanent advertising along the routes! Well, I don&#8 ...
  • Bike-Sharing World Map Hits 2 Million… Hits (V ...
    The most comprehensive map of bike-sharing programs in the world (and it is comprehensive!) hit 2 million total views this last week. After taking a few years to reach its first 1 million, it got to 2 million in just another 11 months. Screenshot of the map above. The person behind [...]
  • Europe Dropping GMOs; Walsanto (Walmart & Mons ...
    1. The big food news of the week comes to us via sister site Eat Drink Better: apparently, GMO crops are being pulled out of Europe! “BASF and Monsanto pulled GMO crops from Europe and have announced they will only sell them in the United States and Asia,” Becky Streipe writes. [... ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Opposition Primaries Held With Support From Th ...
    Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S. Political parties in Venezuela are preparing for an intense electoral calendar in 2012 and 2013. On February 12, for the first time in history, several of the parties opposed to the current government will hold primaries to choose ca ...
  • Connect-the-Dots: Holistic Weltanschauung - W ...
    “What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!” - Sherlock Holmes Far more disconcerting than the recent closings of big chain bookstores is the wave of destruction and censorship of books and informat ...
  • Targetting Iran - Featured
    In addition to sanctions and a series of state-sponsored acts of terrorism and sabotage directed against the people and the nation of Iran, the U.S. and Israel are threating Iran with unprovoked aggression. Iran is unfairly accused of having an “ambition” to develop nuclear weapons and posin ...
  • TARGETTING IRAN: The Dogs of War are off the L ...
    Israel to the US: 'We'll Give You the War, You Give Us the Cannon Fodder" In meeting rooms in London, Tel Aviv and Washington the dice have been thrown: snake eyes. Flashback, 1963: When John F. Kennedy decided not to escalate the soon-to-be disastrous ...
  • Britain’s Secret Proxy War in Syria - Syria
    The UK has been instrumental in consolidating relations between the disparate and isolationist opposition groups in Syria—not because the British elite want genuine democracy, of course, but because Syria’s President Assad would not acquiesce to the neo-liberal economic policies of the Broader M ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Teresa Hensley (D): Missouri's 4th Congression ...
    By @MBersin Previously: Teresa Hensley (D) to challenge Vicky Hartzler (r) in the 4th Congressional District (January 19, 2012) Teresa Hensley (D) - 4th Congressional District: the paperwork is in, and it's on (January 30, 2012) Campaign Finance: Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) - FEC January 31 Year-End ...
  • From Protection to Protest: An Iraq Veteran Oc ...
    By @KYYellowDog You may have seen this young man interviewed on Countdown; here is the original article that led to that interview. Derek McGee in The Nation: In late September 2001, I was living in a tent in Lower Manhattan with the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, a reserve unit just outside the c ...
  • Of Course They Want More; They're Winning
    By @KYYellowDog In the course of a week, birth control has gone from a non-issue as acceptably mainstream as rock'n'roll to An Existential Threat to Our Most Basic Liberties. And not by accident. David Atkins asks When Will They Ever Learn?: From the "nobody could have predicted" files: The nati ...
  • Let's hear it for the Law of Unintended Conseq ...
    By @BGinKC The Law of Unintended Consequences is a term that is thrown around a lot, but it is rarely defined, since it isn't a black-letter law but a "natural" one, so let's start by giving it a working definition. In a nutshell, it states that the actions of people and groups, and especially t ...
  • The Price of Denying Climate Change
    By KYYellowDog Zandar has the headline of the month. "All Hot, No Cattle" Once again the inconvenient specter of climate change rears its ugly head deep in the heart of you-know-where as year number two of the Lone Star State's worst drought in a century is forcing cattle ranchers to drive their ...

Care 2

  • Wolf poachers should pay the price ! UPDATE !
    You did it! Thank you. At 10:30 last night, by a unanimous vote of 97 to 0, SHB 2365 passed out of the House. It included the Lytton amendment which restored the $4k fine for poaching a wolf in in our state. Your actions helped Washington's wolves! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • 10 Reasons You Should Become Self-Sufficient
    We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at large has undergone a similar transformation as the promise of easier work has created a migration to big cities. Submitted by Tim Tyler to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it! ...
  • Bill Moyers: Where the Right Went Wrong
    Among the people who saw this crisis coming was the conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, the supply-side champion who wrote the manifesto for the Reagan Revolution. Bartlett became a senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House--> Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note- ...
  • UpDate. The Fight Begins In Michigan
    For over two decades, Donal OLearys experiments have been found by The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to be in serious violation of the Animal Welfare Act (USA). The PCRM has asked federal regulators to investigate the private la Submitted by Kathy Chadwell to Animals &nbs ...
  • Romney Wins Tiny in Maine
    See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Whitney Houston, 1991 Super Bowl + Open Thread
    This video reminds us of Whitney Houston’s extraordinary ability to sing a song that professional artists agree is a daunting challenge. Thank god, these days, we can watch a video recorded in 1991, seven or more years before the necessary technical breakthroughs. This video transports us ...
  • C’Mon Santorumites, Tell Us
    Would a supporter of Rick Santorum please stand up and explain why we should take this guy seriously? I do not get it. Yes, Rick is a nice guy (as long as you are not a homosexual), but he has been a creature of Washington, DC for more than 20 years and, despite giving lip [...]
  • Enthusiasm — Not Recently
    The Obama re-elect has energy, talent, great visuals from 2008 (this mash-up [SEE VIDEO BELOW] is a treat of before the crash of 2008), and the incumbency — and that is plenty to overwhelm a fractured and disconsolate GOP. The Romney campaign crack-up is undeniable even to those in the par ...
  • Is Obama Going to Empower Al Qaeda in Syria?
    Democrats and Republicans are largely an unprincipled lot who care only about holding power and reaping the rewards that come from being in charge. No? Then how do you explain the Democrats sudden enthusiasm for using U.S. military Special Ops forces and the President’s own death squad? Su ...
  • Rick Santorum: Chauvinist, Homophobe, Clueless
    Now I know for sure that Republicans want President Obama to be re-elected and are doing everything in their power to help him in his quest for a second term. Why else would anyone give the odious ex-Senator Santorum air time, or votes? Apparently, he just moved into second place nationally, the ...

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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop removal affects all - Huntington H ...
    Mountaintop removal affects all Huntington Herald Dispatch Mountaintop removal isn't just about pretty mountains. It's about peoples' lives. It's about poisoned water and air. It's about children with cancer and working people dying prematurely. Whether you live in Huntington ...
  • Coal River Tree-sitter Sentenced To 7 Days In ...
    Coal River Tree-sitter Sentenced To 7 Days In Jail It's Getting Hot In Here She stood up to King Coal to defend the mountain and stop mountaintop removal. Last summer, she sat, along with Becks Collins, in the tree to stop the blasting for a month before coming down. Their banners read “Stop Str ...
  • A look at Griffith's record - TriCities.com
    A look at Griffith's record TriCities.com Morgan Griffith has voted; to remove spending to ensure the safety of water from mountain top removal; against setting limits on the amount of sewer pollutants put into the Chesapeake Bay (refused to fund); to ban government websites for children abo ...
  • Accused tree sitter pleads no contest - Beckle ...
    Accused tree sitter pleads no contest Beckley Register-Herald s Bee Tree Surface Mine in August 2011 to protest the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. Marfork Coal is a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources. Conspiracy charges against MacDougal were dropped, and she was remanded to the ...
  • Protesters rally against mountaintop mining - WDRB
    Protesters rally against mountaintop mining WDRB (WDRB) -- Protesters frustrated by the lack of action in Frankfort to stop mountaintop removal gathered in the state Capitol Rotunda Thursday. They protested the devastation they claim is caused by the removal of coal from the tops of mountains in ...

Memeorandum

  • News Analysis: Big Data's Impact in the World ...
    Steve Lohr / New York Times: News Analysis: Big Data's Impact in the World  —  GOOD with numbers?  Fascinated by data?  The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.  —  Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to joi ...
  • Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston ...
    Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston's Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism  —  I don't even know what to say about this any more.  There's a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread o ...
  • Can the Working Class Be Saved? (Ross Douthat/ ...
    Ross Douthat / New York Times: Can the Working Class Be Saved?  —  CHARLES MURRAY'S “Coming Apart,” the book that's launched a thousand arguments this winter, is a brilliant work with an exasperating conclusion.  What's brilliant is Murray's portrait, rich in da ...
  • 'This Week' Transcript: Jack Lew, Paul Ryan an ...
    ABCNEWS: ‘This Week’ Transcript: Jack Lew, Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum  —  Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum on “This Week” (ABC News)  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone.  Many of you have been following that bre ...
  • Rep. Ron Paul not conceding Maine vote (Josh L ...
    Josh Lederman / Ballot Box: Rep. Ron Paul not conceding Maine vote  —  Rep. Ron Paul is not conceding the GOP's Maine caucuses, which state party officials and major networks called Saturday for rival Mitt Romney.  —  With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Romne ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Love story of the black-necked crane
    With this tale of loss, narrated through a series of drawings, Tashi Sange explores people’s relationship with nature in the shifting climate of China’s far western plateau.Tashi Sange is a Buddhist khenpo (scholar) at Baiyu Monastery in Golog, Qinghai, and the founder and head of t ...
  • “Who are these people now?”
    Tibetan herders are struggling to adjust to sedentary life on the edge of the city of Golmud. Xia Liwei visited one family and listened to their story.Fifty-eight-year-old Sonka never dreamed he might one day leave his ancestral village of Cuochi, on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, and move to the ou ...
  • Hard times for eco-migrants
    As China seeks to protect a delicate corner of Qinghai, 50,000 herders have been moved off the grasslands. Ill-prepared for urban life, they face a bleak future, write Guan Guixia and Suonan Wangjie.The Sanjiangyuan – or “Three Rivers Source” – region of Qinghai, western ...
  • Slideshow: Sanjiangyuan’s changing face
    As global warming and economic development alter landscapes and lives in western China, Hashi Tashidorjee has been out with his camera. Here he shows chinadialogue the results, kicking off a special series of articles on the region.The Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai–Tibet plateau conta ...
  • A Canadian pipe-dream?
    Canada’s prime minister is on his way to Beijing to stoke interest in the country’s oil sands, but China would be wise to keep a safe distance, writes Angela Merriam.Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, arrives in Beijing tomorrow with a very specific goal: to secure a mark ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s Evolution, ...
    Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.
  • Occupy DC Evicted From a Winter of Communal Di ...
    After months of tolerating and even defending Occupy DC, park police swept in with a SWAT team and bulldozer. Wired's Quinn Norton was on the ground - literally - as the police evicted a camp that was full of life.
  • Bill Opening Supreme Court to Cameras Heads to ...
    The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings.
  • Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim t ...
    After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas -- named after the Irish word for knowledge -- may be finished.
  • A Texas Jury Now Deliberating Who, if Anyone, ...
    The fate of the openness of the interactive web is now in the hands of a jury in Texas, weighing testimony from the Web's early pioneers about the validity of a patent claim on features such as embedded video. A loss means that nearly every major U.S. website could owe thousands to millions of d ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Transparency and the Publisher
    After Food Safety News broke the story that Taco Bell was the mysterious "Restaurant Chain A" linked to a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states, ABC Evening News praised Food Safety News for shining light on this story and the issue of the government's lack of transparency whe ...
  • We should be getting Hepatitis A vaccines - es ...
    Yesterday it was a Boise, Idaho Cheesecake Factory restaurant that had an employee test positive for Hepatitis A while he or she worked, presenting a risk of infection to restaurant customers.  The Boise employee apparently was not involved in food preparation however, so the risk of infect ...
  • Boise Hepatitis A Risk at Cheesecake Factory
    An employee at the Cheesecake Factory on Milwaukee Avenue in Boise Idaho may have exposed some diners at the restaurant to Hepatitis A between December 13, 2011 and January 22, 2012 according to the Central District Health Department. The employee who was confirmed to have Hepatitis A wasn't in ...
  • Campylobacter Update: Edwin Shank's Family Cow ...
    According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the total number of Campylobacter cases linked to raw milk produced Edwin Shank’s Family Cow Dairy has hit 60 total cases. The per State breakdown is: 51 in Pennsylvania 4 in Maryland 2 in New Jersey 3 in West Virginia
  • Another Mystery Leafy Green Recall - 228,360 L ...
    Thanks to the Bug Lady for outing another time where the FDA seems to think that we do not need to know.  As she said, leading the list of Class 1 Food recalls in the Enforcement Report for February 8, 2012 is the following item: PRODUCT:  Robert’s S 1 cut leaf spinach; “C ...

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2012 Toyota Prius C [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, First DrivesBaby Of The Family Will Play A Big Role Toyota's new 2012 Prius C doesn't look like a math problem, but that's what it is. Hidden behind its attractive hatchback body and Toyota Synergy Drive hybrid powertrain, the Prius C is just a b ...
  • Breaking: Tesla Model X revealed
    Filed under: SUV, Tesla, Electric Here it is, the Tesla Model X, the CUV prototype version of the Model S. We'll have more details live from California soon, but here's what we know at the moment. The Model X can hit 0-60 in 4.4 seconds, will cost around the same as the Model S, and it has ...
  • Official: Toyota prices 2012 Prius C under $19K*
    Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota During the Detroit Auto Show, Toyota said the new Prius C would start at under $19,000. Today, we learn that this is like a lesson from Obi-Wan: what Toyota told us was true, from a certain point of view. The base level Prius C One's MSRP is indeed $18,950, but ...
  • Report: Bob Lutz: Hey right-wingers, stop atta ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric In the wake of last week's bruising hearing on Capitol Hill about the safety of the Chevrolet Volt (which itself followed an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that concluded plug-in veh ...
  • A word on Nissan Leaf sales, orders and reserv ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric What's up with the sales, orders and reservations of the Nissan Leaf? The Japanese automaker loudly trumpeted the 20,000 reservations it originally collected back in September, 2010 and Nissan's Mark Perry recently told AutoblogGreen that, ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • "America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out." By ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against President Barack Obama. Archbishop Timothy Dolan appealed to church members, “Let your elected leaders know that you want religious liberty and rights of conscience restor ...
  • Part 2: “Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away ...
    Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key leaders of the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew U.S.-b ...
  • Amy Goodman Appears on MSNBC's "Up w/ Chris Hayes"
    Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman joined a 2-hour panel of journalists, analysts and academics on MSNBC’s "Up w/ Chris Hayes" to discuss topics of the day, ranging from the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood reversal to the Republican Primaries. From the &qu ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 2/5 ...
    Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday, February 5th from 8 -10am EST .
  • "Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God." By Amy ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida. After he and the pro-Romney super PACs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in a state where nearly half the homeowners are underwater, he ...

Suzie-Q

Solari

  • Final National Bank Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
    By Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. Who Is Participating By now you have heard that the attorneys general of all US states, save Oklahoma, have entered into a national federal/state settlement with the following five major mortgage lending institutions: Ally Financial (formerly GMAC) Wells Fargo Bank o ...
  • Critics Slam SSL Authority for Minting Certifi ...
    A subordinate certifcate issued by Trustwave was used to monitor people accessing SSL-protected services on a customer’s internal network By Dan Goodin The so-called subordinate root certificate allowed the customer to issue SSL credentials that Internet Explorer and other major browsers ...
  • Transcript of Catherine’s 2.02.2012 Interview ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s February 2, 2012 interview of Jon Rappoport is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Freedom is the most desirable state for me. Being free is more important than being alive. I’d rather be dead than be a slave. I truly have ...
  • President Obama Banks at JP Morgan Chase Priva ...
      Barack Obama (D-Ill)   Net Worth: From $2,802,012 to $11,830,000   Assets: 8 totaling $2,802,012 to $11,830,000   Income: 5 totaling $358,334 Personal finance profiles of recent years view here. Jp Morgan Chase Checking Account (S) page three Related [...]
  • Looks Like Romney Banks at Bank of America
    Personal finance profiles of recent years view here. Bank of America page 71 Willard M. Romney – 2011 Tax Return Related reading: Wall Street Investing in Romney The Washington Post (20 July 11)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Rolling Stone releases Colonel Davis’ re ...
    Summary:  Rolling Stone has posted the not-yet-declassified report by Daniel L. Davis (Lt Colonel, US Army).  It deserves your attention. (1)  The Rolling Stone article “The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read“, 10 February 2012 — Excerpt: Davis last month submitted th ...
  • A Recipe for Change – a review of &#8220 ...
    Summary:  Innovations in military technology are central to the US way of war, and has been since WWII.   Such innovations have a had a fascinating history.  Such as the HMS Warrior, making obsolete much of the skills and traditions of the UK navy — and so fiercely resisted by its officers ...
  • The quiet sun is getting a lot of attention. W ...
    Summary:  Skeptic websites are agog with confident statements that solar cycles drive much of the decadal variation in Earth’s climate.  Not only is there no clear physical mechanism, but recent analysis suggests that the historical correlation might not exist as well.  Both questions lie ...
  • What can climate scientists tell us about the ...
    Summary:  This is a review of the climate science literature, giving a perspective different than that shown us by the news media.  This is just a selection from the vast, rapidly growing body of research on the frontiers of knowledge about this vital subject.  This is the fifth in a series of p ...
  • Iran: War Drums Beating
    Summary:  Here we repost an article by retired GOP operative Mike Lofgren giving perspective on the looming war with Iran.  He also sees the current situation as similar in some ways to that of Europe in early July 1914.  It’s a disturbing analogy.  As is the obvious similarities between t ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Safe Haven Plan in Syria
    The Economist‘s proposal for Syria shows just how powerless the international community is: “Far better to attack Mr Assad’s regime where it is vulnerable—by peeling away his support, both at home among Syria’s minorities and abroad, especially in Russia, its chief defender on the UN ...
  • Afghanistan: End Game or No Game?
    Last week was another roller coaster ride for international politics. Violence in Egypt; looming civil war in Syria; and threats and counter-threats over Iran's nuclear intentions reverberated around the international security community intensifying the gathering sense of impending disaster. rea ...
  • How to Respond to a Changing World: Stimulant ...
    Mitt Romney’s foreign policy platform rests on the notion that he will ensure another “American century,” and he has criticized Obama by saying the president “fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-American century.” That formulation has drawn a sharp response over the last ...
  • Close Air Support and Drones
    Yesterday, Marcy Wheeler wrote a post pointing out that two of the six Americans confirmed killed by drone strikes were servicemen, a pair of Marines killed during a close air support mission (the other four are Anwar al Awlaki, targeted directly for assassination in a drone strike, and three ot ...
  • Afghanistan in Transition, Civilians in Armed ...
    Earlier this month, I spent a week at NATO with eight other bloggers, attending briefings on issues as varied as the mission in Afghanistan and cyber security. Unfortunately, most of those briefings –the interesting ones in particular– were on background only, but here’s a round-up o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Santorum Takes It to the Top
    (Jamelle Bouie/The American Prospect) For a while now, I’ve been convinced of Mitt Romney’s eventual triumph in the Republican presidential primary. It’s not that he was the most well-liked or conservative candidate—we have years of evidence to show that neither is true—but that he was ...
  • State of the Week
    Each Friday—well at least most Fridays—I'm going to sum up the big news happening in states around the country. To make it more interesting, I'm naming a State of the Week where the biggest news came from. See something that's missing? Tell me: arapoport@prospect.org or on Twitter @RaRapoport. ...
  • I'm One of You—Really!
    You have to imagine that Mitt Romney gave himself quite the pep talk this morning before his big Conservative Political Action Conference speech in Washington. Where his address at the 2008 CPAC signaled the end of his campaign, this afternoon he needed to jumpstart his 2012 run, especially sin ...
  • More on political opinions of U.S. military
    Following up on this and this, Paul Gronke writes: There is a fairly active literature on attitudes of military personnel. The bulk of the literature has come out of sociology, much of it inspired by the pioneering work of Morris Janowitz (Chicago) and Charles Moskos (Northwestern, passed awa ...
  • A Super Bowl for the People
    Somehow Madonna pulled off an amazing feat during the Super Bowl: bringing gay culture and aggressive female sexuality into the heart of masculinity’s holiest of days without anyone seeming to care. While the cheerleading segment was embarrassingly silly, I otherwise have to disagree with Tom C ...

Buzzflash

  • America's Diplomatic War Against a Nicaraguan- ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTread more
  • Republicans Specialize in Hypocrisy and Phony ...
      ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There must be a way for decent behavior and intelligent thought to prevail rather than mindless hate-inducing political matches. The worst kind of vitriol and arrogance was in full cry at CPAC's claque these past several days. Seizing upon every poss ...
  • If Men Got Pregnant, Congress Would Have Made ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's been said that if men got pregnant - instead of women - the Congress would have long ago made abortion legal and contraceptives plentiful and diverse. As BuzzFlash at Truthout noted yesterday, sex is no crime: "Just because some Americans hav ...
  • When It Comes to Sex, There Is a Plan B
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When it comes to sex, there is a Plan B. In a surge of recent moves that appear to accommodate the realities of living in a contemporary world - and not the mythical Ozzie and Harriet past (that was really just a Hollywood television fantasy) - th ...
  • Is Santorum Running to Position Himself for 2016?
    STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Rick Santorum had a "good day" on February 7, 2012. He won three non-binding "primaries" in two caucus states, Minnesota and Colorado, and what is described as a "beauty contest" in Missouri. While he got close to 140,000 votes in the latter, his ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...
  • Testing times, but no pardon for Turing
    UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...
  • 10 out of 10 for boron’s coordinated effort
    A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. I asked theoretical chemist Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, ...
  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 61 Homes Demolished in Gaza: Hundreds Homeless
    As the Israeli-led blockade of Gaza continues, hundreds of Palestinians were evicted from their homes and their houses were destroyed this week.  Barbara Lubin, Founder and Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), and Dr.read more
  • EPA Lists Dry Cleaning Chemical Likely Carcinogen
    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has declared tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, a chemical used by many dry cleaners, a “likely human carcinogen.” "The evidence against this ubiquitous dry cleaning chemical piled up for years, like dirty laundry in the corner of the room, ...
  • EPA Lists Dry Cleaning Chemical Likely Carcinogen
    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has declared tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, a chemical used by many dry cleaners, a “likely human carcinogen.” "The evidence against this ubiquitous dry cleaning chemical piled up for years, like dirty laundry in the corner of the room, ...
  • “Witness Bahrain” Launched One Year After Star ...
    AP is reporting: “Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain are streaming toward a site they seek to occupy for the one-year anniversary of their uprising in the Gulf kingdom.” The Bahrani regime has been denying visas to media and human rights workers ahead of the a ...
  • “Witness Bahrain” Launched One Year After Star ...
    AP is reporting: “Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain are streaming toward a site they seek to occupy for the one-year anniversary of their uprising in the Gulf kingdom.” The Bahrani regime has been denying visas to media and human rights workers ahead of the a ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Punishing Protest, Policing Dissent: What is t ...
    Erik Hoffner This year promises to be another historic year of people calling for change worldwide. Citizens took to the streets for a wide variety of reasons, from the Wisconsin Capitol to D.C., which hosted many actions last year includin ...
  • An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I was not raised in any religion, nor do I follow any religious practices now.  I don’t believe in God as a benevolent white man in the sky, nor do I believe that one needs to sit in a particular buil ...
  • Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War S ...
    Gareth Porter An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of ...
  • Natural Gas and the News: Fracking Messages ‘ ...
    Miranda Spencer When it comes to natural gas extraction via “fracking,” TV journalism has some serious competition: energy industry commercials. Like ads for political candidates that run concurrently with broadcast news coverag ...
  • Still Hungry in America
    Marian Wright Edelman “There were some times where, you know, we wouldn't have that much food, and I would tell my mom, ‘I'm not hungry, don't worry about it,’ and I lost a lot of weight. I remember I used to b ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Vang Vieng, Laos: backpacker mecca turned disa ...
    VANG VIENG — The idea is captivating. People are driven two miles upriver, then float down the Nam Song on inflated inner tubes, stopping to party hard along the way. But the reality differs. read more
  • Meet the 2012 TCC Board
    The Topanga Community Club (TCC), built and maintained for 50 years by a crew of dedicated volunteers, is one of the oldest organizations in the Canyon that has united this community for many years.
  • Weekend Guide, Feb. 9-12, 2012
    BLIND PILOT: Mr. Smalls, Fri. 8 p.m. $13.50-$16; 1-866-468-3401. MR. GREENGENES: Altar Bar, Fri. $15-$20; 1-877-435-9849. OLD BABY: 31st Street Pub, Fri. 10 p.m. $6; 412-391-8334.
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy, Groton Public Libra ...
    Groton - Avalonia Land Conservancy and the Groton Public Library have organized a five-part series of programs over the next four months to highlight the importance of water and water protection.
  • Comprehensive water plan for Alabama needed
    Springville — Last Thursday “Friends of Big Canoe Creek” hosted Mitch Reid from the Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA) to speak about the growing need for a comprehensive water plan in the state of Alabama.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship ...
    Bekah Wolf 9 February 2012 Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada. ...
  • Debut novel unflinchingly portrays Palestinian ...
    Maureen Clare Murphy 9 February 2012 In Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It, 27-year-old twin misfits Iman and Rashid Mujahed try to find belonging in a contemporary Gaza groaning under Israeli siege and air strikes, and street battles between competing political factions.
  • Putting the spotlight on London university's l ...
    Hilary Aked London 8 February 2012 Students at the London School of Economics protest the university’s ties to the Technion — Israel’s Institute of Technology — which has inextricable links to Israel’s weapons industry.
  • Is 17-year-old girl Cast Lead's latest victim?
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 7 February 2012 Seventeen-year-old Haneen Abu Jalala died last month at an Israeli hospital from what her family says were complications from white phosphorous fired at their home three years ago.
  • Stealing Palestine's resources is illegal, des ...
    Charlotte Silver Ramallah 7 February 2012 Israel’s illegal acts of resource pillaging in the occupied West Bank are “benefitting” the Palestinian population, according to the Israeli high court.

The Wonk Room

  • 2012 Grammys Liveblog
    8:02: Bruce Springsteen is probably the only man in America in his sixties who can get late-in-life dual ear piercings and not have it be labeled a midlife crisis. 8:01: The Boss wants to know if America is alive out there. This is probably the wrong live crowd to be asking that, but an interest ...
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman: Keystone XL ‘Sounds ...
    This week, the U.S. Senate is considering whether to add language forcing approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to major transportation legislation. In a C-SPAN interview on Friday, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), the chair of the Senate energy committee, indicated his support for the constr ...
  • How You Can Help Michael Mann, Author of the M ...
    The most vindicated climate scientist in America, Michael Mann, has published an excellent new book.  So of course the climate science disinformers have launched an attack on the book and on the positive reviews on Amazon.com. So here are 3 things you can do for Mann: Buy and read his book, The ...
  • GOP Continues To Oppose Contraception Coverage ...
    The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops almost immediately rejected a compromise on requiring contraception coverage that the Obama administration announced on Friday, and Republicans have continued to attack the accommodation. Under the compromise, religious institutions will not be required to ...
  • Joe Nocera Still Doesn’t Get It On Keystone XL
    Our guest blogger is Ed Dolan, an economist and author of TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch), a book that outlines the libertarian case for a cleaner environment. Joe Nocera replies to his Keystone XL critics in “The Politics of Keystone, Take 2” in Saturday’s New York Times. ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Do Yah Think???
    Hah! Both the Toronto Star and the stephen harper-endorsing joke of a newspaper, the Glib & Stale have articles about the working poor this weekend! Here's the story on a Metcalfe Foundation study on Toronto's working poor by Laurie Monsebraaten in The Star: The legions of Toronto area work ...
  • A Great Day!
    It isn't like stopping a war, or housing the homeless, or anything like that. But I have to credit TTC Chair Karen Stintz and Toronto City Council for standing up to the imbecilic coward Rob Ford and his stupid "plan" to bury the Eglinton LRT line. For posterity's sake I'll describe it simply: ...
  • You Lost Ford! You Lost Big! Deal With It.
    Seriously you cowardly, stupid fuck! You LOST! It's over. Shut the fuck up. No. No. No. It's over. You lost. And it feels good to say that.
  • S'more Canadian Feminist Values
    Yes. Yesterday i was waxing patriotically about Canada's vastly superior pro-woman culture by pointing to the (perhaps criminal) lack of resources devoted to finding a mass murderer of women in downtown Vancouver. I neglected to mention two further examples of our pro-ogynist culture that were ...
  • Canadian Values
    Man oh man. When I think about repressive, anti-female cultures, ... like the patriarchal nonsense of Afghanistan, that made a creep like Mohammad Shafia think that his daughters' and his first wife's lives are worth less than his trumped-up "honour." Or those sickos, the man and his family memb ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • A summer of popular and classical music at the ...
    Summer is a great season for enjoyment of the beaches and outdoor activities, but also an excellent opportunity for domestic and international visitors to attend various artistic and cultural activities in the Chilean resort city of Viña del Mar.
  • The Ellen DeGeneres, JCPenney affair shows wor ...
    Here's the deal in a nutshell: JCPenney recently announced the hiring of popular talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson. Nothing unusual there, companies often hire spokespersons.
  • Madonna forgives M.I.A. for finger, world keep ...
    While headlines seem to be falling on the side of singer Madonna remaining angry with singer M.I.A. for flipping the bird at the Super Bowl half-time show, Madonna forgives her.
  • U.S. issues widest travel warning to Mexico si ...
    As spring break gets closer, the U.S. State Department advised Wednesday that United States citizens should avoid all "non essential" travel to 14 of 31 Mexican states.
  • Old Man Winter makes triumphant, vengeful retu ...
    Gone are the days we have been used to: mild temperatures, no snow on the ground and moments of sunshine. Old man winter returned to the Greater Toronto Area this weekend with a blast of snow and freezing cold temperatures.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Staples testifies on DND spending
    Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence on Thursday, 9 February 2012 on the subject of Canadian defence policy and military spending.
  • Byers & Webb: F-35 a costly mistake
    Michael Byers and Stewart Webb argue that the Harper government should consider alternatives to the planned F-35 fighter-bomber purchase.
  • Unbalancing refugee reform
    When the Balanced Refugee Reform Act came up for discussion in parliament in 2010, the then-minority Harper government was forced to compromise with the opposition parties in order to get the legislation passed. But that was then. It looks like those compromises may be about to be revisited.
  • Return of the five o’clock follies
    More happy-talk about the war in Afghanistan.
  • Where are the helicopters?
    More details have emerged about the controversial Maritime Helicopter Program, which looks more and more like a money pit.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • We’re Number One in the World in Putting Peopl ...
    January 27, 2012 Buzz Flash By MARK KARLIN “Land of the free … yeah right.”  –KTRN One thing that the GOP doesn’t bring up much anymore is crime. In the ’70s and ’80s, crime was one of the biggest red-meat issues that the Republicans demagogued about. An ...
  • Soros Warns of ‘Riots,‘ ’Brutal’ Clampdowns & ...
    January 27, 2012 Yahoo News By The Blaze George Soros is no stranger to Blaze readers. The billionaire currency speculator and philanthropist has long been in the news, especially since the fateful day in 1992 when he helped crash England’s economy. In fact, since that day, he has been com ...
  • Toxic Chemical Formaldehyde Found In Common Pe ...
    January 27, 2012 Natural News By Danna Norak “As much as you try, it’s nearly impossible to not consume some type of toxin and here is a perfect example how we are all bombarded with garbage every day.” –KTRN Formaldehyde is one of the most toxic chemicals that can invade ...
  • Polish Town In Shock As Blood Bubbles From Drains
    January 27, 2012 The Telegraph By Matthew Day After bubbling out through holes in the covers, the blood formed a river of red that flowed along a road in the Polish town forming large bloody puddles. An investigation revealed that the blood had come from a meat processing plant and had seeped on ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    January 27, 2012 The Economic Collapse By TEC Either way you look at it, the United States is in serious trouble.” –KTRN If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve? Of course it would. By going into large amounts of ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Greek riots escalate as parliament passes aust ...
    The Greek parliament in the early hours of Monday voted its approval of a harsh new austerity plan in exchange for new loans from foreign lenders. The vote was not even close, with 199 members of parliament voting in favor, 74 against, and 27 abstaining. The two major parties in the ruling coali ...
  • Ron Paul campaign implies foul play in Romney ...
    In the wake of would-be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s victory in Saturday’s Maine caucuses, the Ron Paul campaign is raising implications of foul play. According to the official tally, with 84% of the votes counted, Romney took 39% of that vote, defeating Paul by a ...
  • Video: Athens on fire as mass protest turns vi ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com At least ten buildings went up in flames as the riots engulfed the center of the Greek capital. A three-story corner building believed to be a home appliances store was severely damaged by fire. Among other buildings damaged were a cinema, a bank, a mobile phone dealershi ...
  • Why Are We Fighting On the Same Side with Al Q ...
    Why Are We Fighting On the Same Side with Al Qaeda? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com The U.S. Is On the Same Side as Al Qaeda In Syria Reuters notes that the leader of Al Qaeda – Ayman al-Zawahri – is backing the Syrian rebels, and asking his followers to fight the Syrian govern ...
  • Lieberman: Time for U.S. to arm ‘brave’ Syrian ...
    Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said Sunday that the United States should provide medical aid, training and arms to those seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad. “The reality on the ground is since the U.N. resolution was vetoed by Russian and Iran [sic], the Assad government has begun to kill its ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Blocking ...
    by Bruce Gagnon Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes February 11, 2012 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 shows this issuance o ...
  • An American “Cultural Revolution” ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 7, 2012 You all recall what happened in China during the 60s and 70s? They had this ‘Cultural Revolution‘ whereupon: “The Revolution was launched in May 1966. Mao alleged that bourgeois elements were entering the government and society ...
  • Syria: CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage by Felic ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 7 February 2012 “’The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950.) For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in ...
  • Chris Hedges: Obama Has Broken Almost Every Ca ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 7, 2012 MOXNEWSd0tCOM on Feb 7, 2012 February 07, 2012 Russia Today News http://MOXNews.com Chris Hedges: Obama Has Broken Almost Every Campaign Promise He Made In 2008 Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in La ...
  • Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come to Lebanon? ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon February 10, 2012 During a workshop at the American University of Beirut last year on the subject of the right to  work and to purchase a home for Palestinian refugees, a young business major from the Christian village of  Bikerki ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gideon Levy: Mount Hermon’s pure snow can’t hi ...
    We managed to delete Mount Hermon's original, Syrian name as if it had never existed. Precious few Israelis have ever heard the name, or are aware of the 200 towns and villages that were obliterated... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • HRW to Israel: charge or free Palestinian hung ...
    Sarah Leah Whitson: "Israel should end, today, before it's too late, its almost two-month-long refusal to inform [Khader] Adnan of any criminal charge or evidence against him." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth de ...
  • Daoud Kuttab: Myth debunked – Palestinian text ...
    American politicians appear to be using precious little long-term thinking when it comes to Israel and Palestinians. Falsehoods declared on national television about textbooks are debunked by no one... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Moshé Machover: Netanyahu’s war wish
    One thing is beyond any doubt: a major aim of Israel’s foreign policy is the overthrow of the Iranian regime. What is not generally understood are the motives behind this aim, and the present Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Marian Houk: Ethnic Cleansing continues – Isra ...
    Michael Sfard: “It’s the first report of its kind which, looking from a bird’s-eye view, sees not just demolitions, not just loss of residency, and not just discrimination between Jewish and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Researchers Develop Method to Examine Batterie ...
    Researchers at Cambridge University, Stony Brook University, and New York University have developed methodology, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to examine batteries without destroying them. Their technique creates the possibility of improving battery performance and safety by serving ...
  • A Mitosis Mystery Solved: How Chromosomes Alig ...
    Although the process of mitotic cell division has been studied intensely for more than 50 years, Whitehead Institute researchers have only now solved the mystery of how cells correctly align their chromosomes during symmetric mitosis.
  • New Research Reveals How Protein Protects Cell ...
    A novel discovery by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and colleagues reveals a mechanism by which the immune system tries to halt the spread of HIV. Harnessing this mechanism may open up new paths for therapeutic research aimed at slowing the virus' progression to AIDS. The study appear ...
  • Loyola University Chicago to Honor Nursing Alumni
    The Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing will honor two alumni at the Fourth Annual Alumni Awards Brunch this Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Lake Shore campus. There will be a Mass at 10:30 a.m. in the Madonna della Strada Chapel at 6453 N. Kenmore Ave., followed by the brunch a ...
  • 2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to B ...
    The 2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize has been announced, and the $50,000 prize will go to co-winners William C. Harris of North Carolina State University, for "Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union," (Kansas) and Elizabeth D. Leonard of Colby College, for "Lincoln's Forgotten Ally ...

Natural Health News

  • Why Are Officials Now Recommending HPV Vaccine ...
    If there were any doubt left that U.S. vaccine recommendations are excessive, officials are now promoting universal HPV vaccination for boys in order to prevent genital warts.  The efficacy, safety and duration of the vaccine are all unknown, and the warts only have serious effects on about ...
  • Do You Have ANY Idea How Absurd U.S. Farm Subs ...
    U.S. farmers have been subsidized in one form or another for more than 200 years.   In 1862, the practice was expanded when congress passed the Homestead Act, known as the Morrill Act, which granted 160 acres of government land to those who wanted to begin farming or ranching. Between ...
  • HFCS Can Play Havoc with Your Body's Metabolism
    Fructose can activate taste cells found on your pancreas, a reaction that can increase your body’s secretion of insulin.  This could be a concern for people prone to diabetes. Experiments showed that fructose activates the same proteins in pancreatic cells that your tongue uses to taste sw ...
  • The Toxic Truth About Sugar -- is it Really a ...
    Dr. Robet Lustig, arguably the number one enemy of the sugar lobby, has published a well written article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature arguing that sugar is a poison.  He believes that the negative health effects of sugar consumption can no longer be ignored, any more th ...
  • Flu Vaccines Negatively Impact Children
    A number of parents whose children developed narcolepsy following swine flu vaccination say the children are now beginning to fall behind at school.  The children developed the condition after vaccination with pandemrix in 2009 and 2010. Narcolepsy is a disabling neurological disorder char ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Response to Dapo Akande — Part I
    by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Dapo Akande takes me to task today at EJIL: Talk! for my position on drone strikes directed at combatants attending a funeral or helping the wounded.  I will address his curious reluctance to address the text of the Rome Statute in Part II of my response; in th ...
  • NBC: Israel and MEK Responsible for Murdering ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller That’s the conclusion drawn in this blockbuster report — which, precisely because it is a blockbuster that makes Israel and the MEK’s vast number of Democratic and Republican supporters in the U.S. look bad, has been basically ignored i ...
  • Syria, Intervention, and Recognition
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. It is becoming increasingly likely that Russia and China are going to block just about any resolution on Syria coming out of the Security Council, regardless of whether it is meaningful or not.  They aren’t going to support a resolution t ...
  • Harold Koh’s Keynote Speech at University of V ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Harold Koh’s keynote address today at the University of Virginia conference did a nice job surveying the legal landscape from the Legal Adviser’s perspective. He divided the conflicts into four categories: non-conflicts, soft conflicts, hard conflicts, and harde ...
  • International Labor Organization Rules Against ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The case involves Luis Moreno-Ocampo's decision to remove Ekkehard Witkopf, then a Senior Trial Lawyer with the OTP, from Lubanga.  The following paragraphs from the ILO's judgment best summarize what happened: On 15 December 2008 the Deputy Prosecutor informed  the  com ...

Public News Service

  • “Green School” Movement Blossoming ...
    “Green School” Movement Blossoming in Arizona PHOENIX - Thanks in part to a combination of federal, state, and local initiatives, the so-called "Green School" movement is helping more and more Arizona kids discover a love of science, technology, engineering, and math. The National Wi ...
  • Is 'Genetically Modified' the Future of Our Food?
    Is 'Genetically Modified' the Future of Our Food? PHOENIX, Ariz. - The proliferation of genetically-modified foods has put agriculture at a crossroads in Arizona and around the country, and some say it is also putting food safety at risk. Andrew Kimbrell, founder of the Center for Food Safety, ...
  • Report: Arizonans Near Bottom of “Rainy ...
    Report: Arizonans Near Bottom of “Rainy Day” Rankings PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizonans, on average, have far fewer financial and educational assets than most other Americans, according to a new national survey. The nonprofit Corporation for Enterprise Development's "Assets and Opportunitie ...
  • Se expande a nivel estatal programa de informa ...
    Se expande a nivel estatal programa de información para personas mayores PHOENIX, Ariz. - Las personas de edad mayor tendrán a su alcance un recurso de información sobre el Social Security, Medicare y la ley conocida como Affordable Healthcare Act (Acta del Cuidado de Salud de Baj ...
  • Nation’s Forests to be Restored Under Ne ...
    Nation’s Forests to be Restored Under New Planning Rule PHOENIX - Endangered animals, outdoor recreation and the timber industry could peacefully coexist in Arizona's national forests under new management guidelines proposed by the Obama administration. The first "forest planning rule" up ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...
  • Consumer Groups Petition FDA to Ban GE Salmon ...
    Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) sal ...
  • Center for Food Safety Calls On EPA Not To Bac ...
    Much Needed Inventory Would Identify Animal Factories’ Locations and Manure Management Practices, Allowing EPA To Begin Assessing Scope of National Threat To Water and Food Supplies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted comments strongly criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EP ...
  • Genetically Engineered Crops Will Not Feed The ...
    The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion ...
  • California Bill to Label GE Fish Fails
    AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • All Curled Up
    This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers.   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel  
  • 2012 Global Energy Prize Now Accepting Nominations
    The Global Energy Prize annually rewards innovation and solutions in global energy research and its concurrent environmental challenges.
  • Environmental News 22/12/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • One Moment Meditation
    Tips to take a moment for yourself This a great video for everyone who feels like they have no time to meditate. All you need is a 'moment', if you know what to do.Watch and try it for yourself! Video found on the Padre Ralph blog.   
  • Landowners Block CSG Project
    Last week, landowners from communities across the Liverpool Plains literally blocked the CSG Project!

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Se ...
    Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...
  • Sheldon Adelson has already bought a politicia ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina primary victory has brought onto the spotlight his campaign’s main benefactor, Sheldon Adelson. Relatively to his wealth and the manner in which he has acquired it, Adelson has managed to stay away from the limelight – despite his quoted bragging ...
  • Support a Palestinian Family Fighting to Stay ...
    Reprinted with permission from Mondoweiss. Written by Udi Aloni, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board. There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legisl ...
  • Winter at Salem: Music Center Annual Concert & ...
    The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...
  • Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh fr ...
    As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • BLOOD BYTES WORLD #5 – Jack Blood Interv ...
    DAVID ICKE (davidicke.com) 1st Interview of 2012. How deep does the rabbit hole go? David discusses his new book” “Remember who you are”, reflecting on his 2011 world tour, occupy movement.  What is Consciousness, fear based mind control?  //  Self imposed thought camps…n ...
  • Police union demands info on 9/11 toxic debris
    NEW YORK (WABC) — New York City’s police union is demanding more information about the effects of toxic debris from the 9/11 attacks. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association called on the city to release all data about officers who suffered cancer after responding at the World T ...
  • Judge Napolitano: How to get fired from Fox Bu ...
  • ‘Anonymous’ hacker group threatens ...
    The hacker group “Anonymous” released a video Friday threatening to begin a ‘reign of terror’ against Israel, in the latest round of cyber warfare between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli hackers. The video, which was posted on YouTube in the early hours of the morning, blamed Israel for committi ...
  • Greek MPs pass austerity plan amid violent pro ...
    Greece’s parliament has passed a controversial package of austerity measures, demanded by the eurozone and IMF in return for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout to avoid default. Coalition parties expelled over 40 deputies for failing to back the bill. The vote came amid some of the wors ...

The Air Vent

  • Questions and Motives – The Pendulum Swings
    We have often discussed the motives of government employed Climate Scientists™ and the biases which sort their views.   The blog is called noconsensus after all.   However, we have not spent time discussing motives of skeptics – which appropriately have little consensus.  One of the main c ...
  • IPCC Draft Law
    A US based attorney has written in to the Blackboard on the basics of Copyright law as it pertains to the continuing releases of IPCC drafts.  It is unclear to me who could claim damages from the release but this gives some idea of how the process would proceed legally were the IPCC silly enough ...
  • Bias In Arctic Satellite Sea Ice Trend
    I wrote recently that I wanted to check local regions of inland lakes to look for bias in the sea ice satellite record.   Satellites are not long lived creatures.  They are built of lightweight materials very carefully constructed to survive in incredibly harsh environments.  The result is desig ...
  • Comparison of Northern Hemisphere Perennial an ...
    We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]
  • Comparison of Northern Hemisphere Perennial an ...
    We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Feb. 6 to Feb. 12. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Feb. 6 Emerging paid iOS apps: Tank Hero, The … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Atari, Spooky Cool Labs, Lolgames, GREE International, Inc., King.c ...
  • Facebook roundup: code, IPO, Super Bowl, WashPo
    Facebook to release C++ library – ZDNet reported that Facebook may open source one of its C++ libraries, the code is used heavily on the platform’s back-end systems. Facebook, Calif. teacher pension fund at odds – Because of Facebook’s corporate … Continue reading →
  • Facebook IPO filing includes $100M discrepancy
    There is a $100 million discrepancy between what Facebook earned in payments revenue and what it paid out to developers, according to revenue figures in its IPO filing last week. In the filing it says, “In 2011, our Platform developers … Continue reading →
  • Facebook tests ‘Add to Map’ prompt on place pages
    Some users are seeing an “Add to Map” button in the top corner of Facebook pages associated with an address. The feature encourages users to make a post that will show on their map and Timeline. Users can set indicate … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Republican presidential candidate Rick Santoru ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...
  • Britain helps Israeli water thieves
    Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.
  • UK, US condemn murder in Syria, condone murder ...
    Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".
  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...
  • Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reac ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Geopolitical Stakes in Nigeria—Part I: The ...
     What’s in the Store for the 5th Largest Supplier of Oil to the United States? By William Engdahl Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the governm ...
  • BFP Follow UP: Noteworthy Developments in the ...
    Israel’s Shimon Peres Salutes Azerbaijan while the Story-Line Keeps Getting Murkier Last week Boiling Frogs Post broke the newly brewing story-line in the war propaganda against Iran involving an alleged Iranian terror plot in Azerbaijan. Yesterday we had a follow up on the emerging ‘alleged’ de ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus International Newsworthy Iranian Energy Poses Asian Dilemma Iran Banned from Trading Gold & Silver Saakashvili & Obama Plotting Attack on Iran US Sees Iran’s Neighbor Azerbaijan ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the [...]
  • BFP Developing Story: War on Iran Propaganda’s ...
    From Supposed Assassination Plot against Saudi Diplomat to Supposed Assassination Plot against Israeli Diplomat Last week we broke the newly brewing story-line in the war propaganda against Iran here at Boiling Frogs Post. The new scenario was originated, disseminated and promoted by a known mem ...

Afro Spear

  • The Day My Heart Broke
    Rest in Peace My Beautiful Diva!
  • “Certain Signs of Societal Decline&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few of the scenes caught on video across ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men
  • About Africa
    “The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...
  • Boko Haram: The New (Black) African Al-Qaeda?
    I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The United Nations: Advancing, Promoting and P ...
    The United Nations and the positive work it has done in the area of human rights.
  • What The Hell, L.L? Musical Exclusion Is Not Cool
    Protests Are Planned Sunday At the Grammy Awards Against the Exclusion of 31 Categories of Music. Is It Racial? News Dissector Danny Schechter reports.
  • Mark Twain's Mysterious Misery Machine
    Perhaps Twain's most significant insight in The Mysterious Stranger is the idea that truth about human nature is not as pleasant as we would like. That in itself is not a popular or pleasant idea. That resistance may account, in part, for why the novel is one of his least popular books.
  • Duplicitous Mortgage Settlement Deal
    What major media scoundrels call relief is, in fact, business as usual coverup and fraud. Ellen Brown 's important writing explained.
  • Murdering Khadar Adnan
    Adnan's a political prisoner hunger striker against gross Israeli repression and injustice. Two previous articles discussed his case and grave health condition after 55 days without food.

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 ...
  • "Green Button" project is breath of fresh air. ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC My electricity bill looks like it was designed to confuse customers.  I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling this way.  Fees with seven decimal places, a "multiplier," ...
  • California to Strengthen Measurement of Agricu ...
    Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco Earlier this week, California’s Office of Administrative Law disapproved proposed agricultural water measurement regulations that would have exempted major water users in Califor ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Whitney Houston, Again
    (Since everyone’s complaining about Rob’s Whitney Houston post, I thought I’d write a proper one.) Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1985 with her self-titled LP which had four number one hit singles on it, including “The Greatest Love of All,” “Yo ...
  • Birther Precedents
    I was doing some rather pointless research on Chester A. Arthur this morning. On his Wikipedia page, I found this: William Arthur’s frequent moves would later form the basis for accusations that Chester Arthur was not a native-born citizen of the United States. After Arthur was nominated f ...
  • Signs of Impending Environmental Apocalypse
    This ain’t good: A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of dollars. And you thought Santorum was gross. But seriously, what gives? First, ...
  • It Was Strictly a Tuba Raid
    Read about the new crime wave sweeping America’s tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames. But they didn’t touch the computer or the projector or even ...
  • But I’m Not Getting Money From the &#822 ...
    Shorter Tom Maguire: “If you arbitrarily define government programs that benefit you as not being part of the “safety net,” then people who complain about government spending while benefiting from government entitlements aren’t hypocrites.”

Desert Research Institute

  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.
  • Experience of a Visiting Scholar
    What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
  • DRI Scientist Earns Fifth Patent
    Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.
  • Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
    Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...

Earth Techling

  • No Waves, No Problem For PowerBuoy
    Ocean Power Technologies' autonomous PowerBuoy successfully powers offshore security and monitoring equipment, even when the New Jersey sea goes calm.
  • Sound In A Sack From House Of Marley
    The House of Marley's Bag of Rhythm boasts high quality sound, convenient portability and philanthropy, all in one sustainably-sourced package.
  • Consumers Have Range Of EV Issues, Survey Says
    A survey by Consumer Reports finds that as cars that plug in enter the market, 87 percent of consumers have some concern about them, led by range anxiety.
  • Reading, Writing And … Wind?
    The KidWind Project is seeking educators for a training seminar in Bar Harbor, Maine, that will give them the tools to bring wind education into the classroom.
  • Solar Shades Transit Agency From Energy Costs
    In Santa Clara County, Calif., three photovoltaic parking canopies are providing the transit agency 2.1 megawatts of power, with big costs savings expected.

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
  • A Letter from the Responsible Drilling Allianc ...
    Responsible Drilling Alliance Newsletter Fooled Again Februrary 2nd, 2012  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear RDA Members,   Minus a last minute miracle, an incredible shift in the course of the future of Pennsylvania is about to occur. With the Governor set to unveil his vers ...
  • Corbett Administration Cuts Funds
    I heard this piece from State Impact PA (WITF/NPR) this morning on my drive to work. Corbett wants to make decisions about gas drilling based on facts, not emotional…and then his administration goes and cuts the funding for research that provides just the sort of facts he is talking about. ...
  • It’s Like We’re Losing Our Love…
    This video documents Simona Perry’s research on the emotional and traumatic effects of the natural gas drilling, specifically in Bradford County, PA. http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=689293c50f404f12b8c628b8f2285780

News Blaze

  • Demetrius 'The Matador' Andrade Destroys Herna ...
    The 23-year-old from Providence went to Hernandez' (30-11, 17 KOs) body in the opening round and then opened-up in the second, dropping Angel once and then again for good at 1:39 as referee Steve Smoger waved off the count and declared the outcome
  • AUVSI Urges Congress For Continued Reliance on ...
    Unmanned systems have proven their operational value in both military and humanitarian operations in the past few years, showing that they excel in tackling dull, dirty, dangerous and difficult missions, often more effectively and inexpensively than
  • Venezuela's Opposition Parties Hold Primaries ...
    Political parties in Venezuela are preparing for an intense electoral calendar in 2012 and 2013.
  • Do You Know Why The Mafia Grew Strong in America?
    Drawing from his own experience as a newspaper hawker on the streets of Manhattan, Marbrook brings to life in Saraceno a Mafia very different from the popular version.
  • New Social Security Judges Have Critical Role
    Langevin described his path from recovery as a high school student in Warwick to Rhode Island College. The support he received from his family and community inspired him to run for public office at the state and then the federal level.

environment 360

  • Wastewater Reuse Could Increase U.S. Supplies ...
    Advanced treatment of municipal wastewater could increase available water supplies in the U.S. by 27 percent, according to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences. Of the 32 billion gallons of municipal wastewater discharged each day nationwide, about 12 billion gallons of effluent i ...
  • Early Humans Played Role in Deforestation of C ...
    A new study says that the activities of early humans — and not simply a dramatic shift in climate — played a significant role in transforming the ancient rainforests of Central Africa into savanna. In an analysis of sediment cores taken from the mouth of the Congo River, a team of scientists fou ...
  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off B ...
    A coalition of European companies today opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest offshore wind project to date. The Walney Wind Farm, located nine miles (15 kilometers ...
  • On the Road Back to Rio, Green Direction Has B ...
    Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken ...
  • Glaciers, Ice Caps Losing 150 Billion Tons of ...
    A new analysis of global satellite data has found that the world’s glaciers and ice caps — excluding Antarctica and Greenland — lost about 150 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2010, adding about 0.4 millimeters to global sea rise annually. Using data from the twin Gravity Recovery a ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Sugge ...
    The general image of a retirement age at 65 is problematic according to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. In an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter, (see article here) Reinfeldt argues that a working life could as well continue until an age of 75. This in order to uphold the desireble pensio ...
  • Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
    February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important reco ...
  • The Good Death: Making Death Part of Your Life
    Fear the reaper? Most of us do. But there’s help! Since January 2011, a ’death insider’ has been breaking down the mysterious world of death, dying, and what happens to our bodies and remains once we’ve shuffled off this mortal coil. The business of funerary rites and procedures, dating back as ...
  • World Trade Centre rebuilding cost balloons to ...
    Navigant Consulting says the Port Authority is a dysfunctional organization that has let the World Trade Centre rebuilding project’s costs get out of control. The estimated cost has gone from $US11 billion in 2008 to $US14.8 billion now. NY Governor Cuomo and NJ Governor Christie ordered the rev ...
  • Nobody Leaves the Facebook: photos still viewa ...
    Three years after the issue first came to light, it appears photos on Facebook that users have deleted aren’t actually off the server, a website has learned. Writers at the technology blog Ars Technica found that even when they deleted photos, the image file stayed on Facebook’s server and was s ...

Russia Today

  • Russian superlaser to be as good as H-bomb
    Russia has launched a $1.5 billion project to create a high-energy superlaser site which designers pledge will be the best in the world. Capable of igniting nuclear fusion, the facility will be used both for...
  • Greek police fire tear-gas at protesters (VIDE ...
    Riot police in full gear including gas-masks have resorted to extreme measures after the rally against anti-austerity measures in front of the Greek parliament turned violent.
  • Arab League calls for joint UN-Arab peacekeepi ...
    The Arab League has agreed to call on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for Syria. The group also wants more international support for the opposition and hopes to pile more...
  • Rising to its feet: Japan before & after (AMAZ ...
    With the powerful earthquake and tsunami hitting Japan last year, the country seemed to be devastated and almost beyond recovery. Still, 11 months on, the Japanese have made amazing progress in raising their lives and...
  • Lenin’s birthplace: City of high fliers
    The birthplace of communist leader Vladimir Lenin, the city of Ulyanovsk, is now known as “Russia’s Aviation Capital”, making passenger planes and teaching the pilots of tomorrow.

Not My Tribe

  • SS/$$/??
  • Repulsive liberal ‘progressive’ hy ...
    ‘Beyond that, Obama has used drones to kill Muslim children and innocent adults by the hundreds. He has refused to disclose his legal arguments for why he can do this or to justify the attacks in any way. He has even had rescuers and funeral mourners deliberately targeted. As Hayden said: ...
  • NATO troops kill 8 children in Afghanistan
    How long will the US and European populations sit back passively allowing their governments’ troops to kill children repeatedly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa? Here is the latest atrocity by US/ NATO troops… NATO airstrike killed eight children: Karzai
  • Berthers
    Apparently it’s not enough to decry the illegitimate hegemony of the Federal Reserve, we have to fear that we wear its brand. Specifically it’s being alleged our birth certificates –the originals, not our copies– carry a mysterious red number that corresponds to a fixed p ...
  • Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
    Want to protest our corporate government’s determination to foist the catastrophic Keystone XL Pipeline unto our precariously climate? Here’s a great slogan: TAR SANDS = DIRTIEST OIL ON EARTH. More below: TAR SANDS KILL, PIPELINES SPILL. And the definitive: THE XL PIPELINE IS “ ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • "Strange Sounds" DEBUNKED and EXPLAINED
  • What Does a Building "Engulfed" in Fire Look Like?
    Here is a building engulfed in fire. And here is a building covered in dust and smoke due to negative air pressure. Now, which one looks more like WTC7 on 9/11? Related Info: Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC 7
  • Strange Meeting at Don't Attack Iran Campaign ...
    Video description: At the launch of the UK Don't Attack Iran Campaign on 28 January 2012, held at a rally outside the US Embassy in London, actor Roger Lloyd Pack gave a powerful reading of Strange Meeting by First World War poet Wilfred Owen, one of the most famous anti-war poems ever written. ...
  • Corbett Report Radio 060 -- A Violation of Tru ...
    Howard Cohen of Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth discusses his forthcoming feature film, "A Violation of Trust." Set to star veteran Hollywood actors Ed Asner, Woody Harrelson, Daniel Sunjata, Michele Phillips, and more, "A Violation of Trust" dramatizes the first day of a new presidential inve ...
  • Petition: 9/11 First Responders Need Cancer Tr ...
    Add Cancer To The James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act Video by Jon Gold, author of "The Facts Speak for Themselves." Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog has suggested that the health problems of the first responders might just be another "Gulf War Syndrome." Nope Pat, the ...

Fooducate

  • The Not So Real Bacon Shake from Jack-in-the-Box
    Just when you thought the everything bacon trend was over, fast food chain Jack in the Box is introducing the Bacon Milkshake. For a limited time only, of course. Yes, it’s for real. Not the bacon, the shake. Well, the bacon shake, but it has nor real bacon, even though you’d be incl ...
  • An Awesome Portion Control Trick For Homemade ...
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl So, you like to bake – but you have a problem. Yes, I know that problem well. You bake a couple dozen cookies and then they stare at you from wherever you have put them. Haunting you…… Just one more, you say, as you eat [...]
  • Yay! Trans-Fat Down 58% in a Decade
    The CDC released a study showing that the level of trans-fatty acids in the blood of white adults has decreased 58% between the years 2000 and 2009. The CDC’s National Biomonitoring Program measures the presence of 450 different chemicals in human blood. Trans-Fat is just one of them. This ...
  • How Healthy is Coconut Water?
    Another lawsuit filed against a food manufacturer for bogus health claims ended recently with in a settlement. Vita Coco, a brand of coconut water that is supposedly “super hydrating,” ”nutrient packed” and “super water”, could not support these claims scienti ...
  • Is Walmart’s New Nutrition Label Really “Great ...
    Yesterday, Walmart announced the launch of its new nutrition labeling system called “Great for You”. Starting this spring, a small selection of Walmart’s private label products – Great Value – will be decorated with this healthy seal of approval. This is not the fir ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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. ...

Greg Palast

  • The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention
    by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...
  • Queen of Angels' Condoms
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny. Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital. Dr. Kolodny was Jewish. Last night, I heard Sena ...
  • Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the G ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...
  • Romney's Billionaire Funder ThreatensBBC Inves ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash - update Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. The call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer. ...
  • Palast on C-Span's BookTV
    Check out CSPAN TV schedule listings here. From CSPAN- Greg Palast presents his investigation of the BP oil spill and talks about the corruption he says permeates the oil industry, the financial sector, and government. This event, held at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Maryland, is hosted ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Reduce This: How can I revamp an old kitchen s ...
    Yesterday, I posted a question from James, asking for ways to reuse or recycle a whole kitchen, because he’s getting a new one. Thanks to everyone that has commented about that! At the bottom, I mentioned reducing is the most important part of the recycling triangle. James already seems qu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a whole kitchen?
    I’m back post-lurgy and I thought I’d post this great question from James – asking how to recycle a whole kitchen: We shall be replacing our kitchen in the next few months. The present one is 15 years old and is perfectly serviceable. I don’t want to “skip” it ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle margarine tub lids/ ...
    Whitney has emailed us, asking about margarine tub lids: i’m trying to do my part and make sure that i recycle everything that i can, or at least find a way to reuse it. i recycle my #5 containers of cream cheese, margarine, etc, but have nothing to do with the lids, which even if [...]
  • Listed buildings & green issues: what are your ...
    (This isn’t strictly a recycling issue but I was thinking about it the other day and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter!) A few miles down the road from me is a village called Saltaire. It is a Victorian model village founded by a local mill owner (Sir Titus Salt) so his [...]
  • How can I reuse/use up really, really old coff ...
    I mentioned in passing on my simple/frugal living blog that we’re having our kitchen ceiling replastered at the moment. Ahead of the plasterer starting on Monday, we had to tidy off all the work surfaces and tops of cupboards – quite a challenge for hoarders like us with many, many c ...

Age of Autism

  • I Promise You
    By Cathy Jameson How well do you know the people in the autism community? How much do you think they do for their child? I invite you to come take a peek at what might be going on just a...
  • Mother Issues Tearful Plea to County Officials ...
    Managing Editor's Note: As far as we've come with overall autism awareness, the reality for day to day living for our loved ones as they grow older is grim. Ben (in the story below) has Asperger's syndrome. My children have...
  • "Hacker's Disease" or "A Little Bit Autistic" ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Last week we ran a post from a police officer who is also an autism Dad on autism and police interaction with those on the spectrum. Here's a pressing question asked by a blog site called Naked...
  • The Appeal of Prof John Walker-Smith Against t ...
    On Monday the appeal begins of Prof John Walker-Smith against the decisions of the GMC as one of the three doctors in the Wakefield case. It should be stressed that Prof Walker-Smith’s appeal is purely on his own behalf and...
  • The Death of Public Discourse and the Heavy Sn ...
    By Louis Conte “WARNING: This Site is Hazardous to Those Who Promote Censorship” It is becoming apparent that all of the internet activity around vaccines and autism is frustrating those who support the “scientific consensus” that there is no connection...

Global BDS Movement

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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Maldivians call on U.N. help
    Reuters – Maldivians hope the United Nations will help resolve its political crisis as the new government tightens security in the capital. Read article
  • Pakistan: Second US drone strike in 2 days; 3 dead
    CBS – A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region, killing three suspected militants in the second such attack in as many days, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The back-to-back strikes could be an indication the drone program is picking up ...
  • US admits Israel is arming and training terror ...
  • Police forces on alert over deadly million-vol ...
    Daily Mail – Police forces across Britain have been warned to beware of a flood of high-powered stun guns disguised as mobile phones which are being smuggled into the country. Operated by pressing a button on the side of the device, the weapons can disable victims with a million-volt charg ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – European ...
    AFP – 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, again ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
  • Worms, leeches long gone
    A stream full of worms, leeches and waterborne disease was their only option. But thanks to your generosity, the community of Mezegaguf recently got a new well! Today, moms like Akberet Naizgi no longer have to worry about their kids getting sick from the water.
  • Luxury with an ecosan toilet
    Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.
  • From lack to abundance
    Today, Selvi is extremely pleased with the construction of the water tap at her home! Now, she collects enough water for her family without any difficulty.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Petition to Clinton and Ashton: Demand Pardon ...
    Two Swedish journalists, 29-year-old Johan Persson and 31-year-old Martin Schibbye, were arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison in Ethiopia while reporting on human rights issues according to The Guardian, a leading British newspaper. Submitted by Ola H. to World  |   Note- ...
  • Syrian army launches dawn attack on Homs
    Activists in Syria say government security forces this morning launched a fresh bombardment of the central city Homs, with at least 12 people killed. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Local women part of a climb to end slavery
    It is a crime so often hidden from view, one that the world largely ignores. It is stated on occasion in terms of human trafficking, but its real name is slavery and it directly affects the lives of untold millions. And it was the desire Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |  &nbsp ...
  • UGANDA: Rural Womens Banks Ease Tough Times
    For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot afford the interest rates charged by commercial banks. But six women-led Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &nbsp ...
  • 'I will be the first woman president of Mexico ...
    It is possible. Submitted by Glenn Byrnes to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Demetrius 'The Matador' Andrade Destroys Herna ...
    The 23-year-old from Providence went to Hernandez' (30-11, 17 KOs) body in the opening round and then opened-up in the second, dropping Angel once and then again for good at 1:39 as referee Steve Smoger waved off the count and declared the outcome
  • AUVSI Urges Congress For Continued Reliance on ...
    Unmanned systems have proven their operational value in both military and humanitarian operations in the past few years, showing that they excel in tackling dull, dirty, dangerous and difficult missions, often more effectively and inexpensively than
  • Venezuela's Opposition Parties Hold Primaries ...
    Political parties in Venezuela are preparing for an intense electoral calendar in 2012 and 2013.
  • Do You Know Why The Mafia Grew Strong in America?
    Drawing from his own experience as a newspaper hawker on the streets of Manhattan, Marbrook brings to life in Saraceno a Mafia very different from the popular version.
  • New Social Security Judges Have Critical Role
    Langevin described his path from recovery as a high school student in Warwick to Rhode Island College. The support he received from his family and community inspired him to run for public office at the state and then the federal level.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Walmart Recalls Cruller Bakery Pastries Due To ...
    Walmart recalled its eight-count packages of Cruller bakery pastries because the common name of milk was not listed following sodium caseinate, a milk derivative, on the ingredient label. People who have milk allergies that do not recognize sodium caseinate as a milk derivative run the risk of s ...
  • Cod Fishermen’s Alarm Outlasts Reprieve ...
    Fishermen and federal officials are grappling with bleak prospects in the cod industry.
  • A 2008 E-Mail at the Heart of a Hacking Scandal
    Discovered just three months ago, an e-mail from June 2008 sent to James Murdoch discussed in frank terms the potentially disastrous scale of phone hacking at News International.
  • News Analysis: Big Data’s Impact in the ...
    For those who can make sense of the explosion of data, there are job opportunities in fields as diverse as crime, retail and dating.
  • Hip Dysplasia Can Be Reliably Diagnosed By Ult ...
    Developmental dislocation (dysplasia) of the hip (DDH) is a common congenital condition in which a child's upper thighbone is dislocated from the hip socket. The condition can be present at birth or develop during a child's first year of life. Plain radiography (X-rays) has long been the gold st ...

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • America's Sham Economic Recovery
    by Stephen Lendman Official government data are manipulated. Credibility's entirely lacking. Reported good news is hype. Grim underlying reality is suppressed. The monthly Labor Department jobs report is typical. Progressive Radio News Hour regular economist Jack Rasmus calls the latest ...
  • 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. A special ...
  • Is Wordpress Free, Priceless or Both?
    Or How Wordpress Doesn’t Make Money “WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” Matt Mullenweg Click here to watch a video about the inventor with the cherubic face of ...
  • Murdering Khader Adnan
    by Stephen Lendman Adnan's a political prisoner hunger striker against gross Israeli repression and injustice. Two previous articles discussed his case and grave health condition after 55 days without food. Irish republican/British MP Bobby Sands lasted 66 before expiring at age 27. Global mar ...
  • Labor Pains: A Fable for Our Times
    by Walter Brasch Once, many years ago, in a land far away between two oceans, with fruited plains, amber waves of grain, and potholes on its highways, there lived a young man named Sam. Now, Sam was a bright young man who wanted to work and save money so he could go to school and become an ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable: Can Can ...
    As part of the consultations undertaken in preparation of our forthcoming Alternative Federal Budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted an economic roundtable, The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada Escape a Lost Decade? on January 26, 2012. The event brought together sever ...
  • Old Age (In)Security
    Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for their retirement with benefits from the Canada or Quebec Pension Plan, a workplace pension if they’re lucky enough to have one, and private savings. But now Pr ...
  • Saskatchewan Labour wins Essential Services Ch ...
    Saskatchewan's labour movement won a significant victory yesterday as Justice Dennis Ball ruled that Bill 5, The Public Service Essential Services Act (PSES) violated the constitutional right to strike and bargain collectively as upheld in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  ...
  • Lessons from London, Ontario: The crackdown on ...
    Electro-Motive/Caterpillar's decision to lock out its London, Ontario workers on January 1st, demanding workers accept a 50% pay cut or lose the plant altogether, brings into focus a theme that is unfolding in 2012: The crackdown on middle class work in Canada. The CCPA's Trish Hennessy has wri ...
  • Every Tool Shapes the Task
    The speed and breadth of technological change and how it plays out in education is creating many battles. The Winter 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves -- Every Tool Shapes the Task identifies some of these areas of conflict and how they play out in schools and for students and teach ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies: Politics with Boris Rasin
    ========================================================================= To see more of Boris Rasin work visit; http://www.flickr.com/photos/58551403@N06/ or just click on an Image. Boris Rasin is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist. He has shown his paintings, drawings, installations and public ...
  • Food Fight!!!!!
    I don’t get it. People are more concerned with who is sleeping with whom than about the food that they put in their mouth. Monsanto has been pushing their GMO food on the world for a long time. On Facebook, in emails, and elsewhere, people have been made aware of the concerns regarding these cro ...
  • Carry “MoonBeams in a Jar” and Support Citize ...
    Worldwide Hippies takes no corporate money. Please show your support, Donate or visit our store. So we can keep up the ‘Howl’ for  Peace and Justice “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Hand Made – Dichroic glass is b ...
  • Can you identify me?
    Worldwidehippies – I’m not very happy. On February 10, 1997, I was found dead in the hills behind the Desert Crossing Shopping Center, in Palm Desert, CA. It appears I had contusions to my legs and head. Here is my 411: When I was found I was approximately 40 to 55 years old. I was [...]
  • EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Blogger Andrew Breitbart to O ...
    by Emily Crockett,campusprogress.org - Conservative blogger-star Andrew Breitbart lashed out at Occupy protesters outside of CPAC, the mass annual gathering of conservatives, in Washington, DC on Friday night. Campus Progress reporter Emily Crockett was on the scene and captured video of Breitba ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Peak Oil & Carbon Emissions — R-Squared Energy ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on about peak oil and carbon trading markets. Some of the topics discussed are: Whether peak oil has been discredited Recent media headlines on peak oil (or lack thereof) Why I t ...
  • Confused about Energy and Power?
    Join the forum discussion on this post When I recently solicited feedback for topics to cover for my upcoming book, several people requested that I discuss the difference between energy and power. Just two weeks ago Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is on the House Committee on Scienc ...
  • Electric Cars & Overpopulation — R-Squared Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on the future of electric cars, and the global population, which many feel is the root of so many problems. Some of the topics discussed are: When electric cars might be expected t ...
  • Refinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices an ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the East Coast. Some of those closures have been on the East Coast. Others &# ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 9 – Energy Tradeo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Voicethread 4 Education - Classroom Partners
    Comments:Wiki provides numerous connections to other educators on a global scale looking to connect and collaborate on Voicethread projects.  - Dean MantzTags: voicethread, collaboration, wiki, education, web2.0, networkingby: Dean Mantz
  • The Best Education Apps at FETC -- THE Journal
    Tags: apps, FETC, The Journal, education, mobilelearningby: Dean Mantz
  • Tabletquiz - Personalized Quiz and Survey Apps
    Comments:Create multimedia quizzes/surveys for mobile devices (1 free in current beta incarnation, but users can contact developers to request more). - Randy RodgersTags: quiz, apps, survey, iPad, quizzes, assessment, personalized, surveysby: Randy Rodgers
  • Checkthis
    Comments:Extremely easy website creation tool. Include images, video, social widgets, surveys, more.  - Randy RodgersTags: web2.0, tools, publish, website, publishing, webby: Randy Rodgers
  • dotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book
    Comments:Web-based tool that lets any web page be converted into e-books; compatible with iDevices or Kindle. - Randy RodgersTags: epub, ebooks, conversion, ebook, ipad, tools, kindle, dotepubby: Randy Rodgers

Rodale News

  • 4 All-Natural Air Fresheners
    We're a good month or so away from spring—and spring flowers and fresh spring air. If you're anything like me, your house is starting to take on all the smells of a winter full of cooked dinners, soggy boots, and a few too many people cooped up inside for far too long. Rather than pull out the ...
  • 5 Disturbing Side Effects of Soda
    If you've been reading health magazines and websites for any length of time, you've read a litany of reasons why soda is bad for you. It's nothing but sugar water. It's devoid of any nutritional value. It leads to obesity and diabetes. But we've dug up nine other disturbing facts about what sod ...
  • Why You Need to Switch Deodorants
    The next time you reach for that stick of roll-on deodorant, consider this: A recent study in the Journal of Applied Toxicology found that chemicals commonly used in deodorants were showing up in breast-cancer tumors, leading the authors to suspect that they may play some role in the developmen ...
  • 5 New Ways to Avoid the Supermarket
    The local food movement is on fire, and farmers and innovative small businesses are making it easier than ever to feed your family without even setting foot in a box store or supermarket. (By staying out of places crammed with packaged foods, you'll be more likely to avoid toxic food additives. ...
  • Is Your Office Making You Sick?
    When you think air pollution, you probably think smokestacks in remote countries—not the furniture in your office, right? Well, get this: Thirty Boston office workers in buildings that were new, recently renovated, or had no recent construction, had perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs—toxic chemi ...

big think

  • How to Become More Creative
    What's the Latest Development? First, stop searching for the creativity formula. When Steve Jobs was designing Pixar's office space, the computer graphics company he founded between gigs at Apple, he wanted to locate the building's only bathrooms in a center atrium, forcing people to int ...
  • Sleepy or Drunk? You're Ready to Problem Solve!
    What's the Latest Development? In a scientific study, college students were asked to solve a brain teaser early in the morning and late at night to measure problem solving abilities relative to alertness levels. Prior to answering the riddle, most students self-identified as night owls, ...
  • How Positive Thinking Keeps You Healthy
    What's the Latest Development? It is no coincidence that you feel more energetic and relaxed when you are thinking positively, or that you feel lazy and tired if you are thinking negatively. Hormones secreted by the body, which are then carried into the blood stream, greatly affect how w ...
  • Why Our Brains Love Powerful Music
    What's the Latest Development? Thanks to his research into the emotional content of music, British psychologist John Sloboda might say he has a unique understanding of tonight's Grammy awards. In a study, Sloboda asked music lovers to identify the parts of a song they thought to be the m ...
  • Women Would Lead a More Peaceful World
    What's the Latest Development? Were more women in positions of political power, the Earth would be a more peaceful place, says former secretary of defense Joseph Nye. Referencing Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's latest book, Nye says women's evolutionary role in society has emphasize ...

Information Liberation

  • Las Vegas DUI Checkpoint Refusal
    Here I am rolling through a DUI checkpoint. Refusing to answer their questions, I'm eventually freed. Sorry for the steering wheel in the way, I'm not a professional photographer obviously. - timf343...
  • Debt Slavery: 30 Facts About Debt In America T ...
    When most people think about America's debt problem, they think of the debt of the federal government.* But that is only part of the story.* The sad truth is that debt slavery has become a way of life for tens of millions of American families.* Over ...
  • What Will Jesus Do?
    Like all wars, the one the Feds wage on our freedom of movement groans with ruined lives, human agony, and casualties. Many of those horrors are on display at the airports, as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sexually ass...
  • "Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy" and Why Peac ...
    Glenn Greenwald is one of my very favorite writers, and my favorite left-liberal blogger hands-down. I am always reluctant simply to link to his newest post, but every single one is well worth reading. His newest on *Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy* ...
  • The Great Monetary Debate
    When National Public Radio airs a segment on the gold standard, you know that the debate over the quality of money has reached the point where it can no longer be ignored. Another sign came last month when Newt Gingrich, who has never shown the sligh...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →
  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →
  • Waste Not, Want Not
    A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →
  • A Few Days Yet
    G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...
  • Testing times, but no pardon for Turing
    UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...
  • 10 out of 10 for boron’s coordinated effort
    A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. I asked theoretical chemist Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, ...
  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Senators Consider Banning Automatic Media Shar ...
    It's been a long day at work. You walk in the door, drop your bag and turn on your computer. You start a playlist on Spotify. Bon Jovi roars, "It's my life, it's now or never ..."  Facebook pops up, "Would you like to share this song with your friends?" You c ...
  • Is Cadmium as Dangerous for Children as Lead?
    It’s a heavy metal. It’s linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed. [More]
  • Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Tim ...
    Years of shifting and smoothing Georgia red clay paid off today, as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to allow construction of two new nuclear reactors  (pdf) at the Plant Vogtle nuclear power station near Augusta. Atlanta–based utility giant Southern Co. will soon ...
  • Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms Reversed in Mice
    A nearly 13-year-old skin cancer drug rapidly alleviates molecular signs of Alzheimer's diseas e and improves brain function, according to the results of a new mouse study being hailed as extremely promising. Early-stage human clinical trials could begin within months. [More] ...
  • Widespread Plasticizer Clouds Doping Tests of ...
    In the race to catch drug cheats, sports officials are turning to more sophisticated tests. Since cheaters are rarely caught red-handed, scientists devised a plan to catch them with the packaging inside their bodies. But a plasticizer is so ubiquitous in people that it has clouded the result ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • A Radical History of the New Jewish Agenda
    Interview with Ezra Nepon Ezra Nepon is a Philadelphia-based activist and author who is currently raising money to publish a popular history book of the New Jewish Agenda. New Jewish Agenda was a national organization that existed in the Un ...
  • Where It Goes, Somebody Knows...
    Pictou County Watershed Coalition gets conflicting stories as to final resting place of Boat Harbour dredge Pictou, Nova Scotia – The Abercrombie Point Pulp and Paper Mill in Pictou, Nova Scotia, has woven itself a tangled web indeed. ...
  • Endangered Turtles and Sharks Lose Out in MSC ...
    For immediate release 9 February 2012 HALIFAX—Sustainable seafood advocates were disappointed by yesterday’s decision to allow the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to eco-certify the Canadian longline swordfish fishery that is responsible for high bycatch of sharks and endangered sea ...
  • Trans People Excluded from Transportation By H ...
    The Harper govenments ammendment states that "5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if … (c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents" The Harper governm ...
  • Seniors battle Lions' 45% rent hike
    EAST VANCOUVER - Residents at the Mount Pleasant Lions Manor are fighting a 45% rent hike that could leave them homeless. Seniors at the housing complex held a press conference today on their fight against the non-profit Mt Pleasant Housing Society (which owns the building and is run by the Lion ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A poem for ex-Judge Baltasar Garzón
    ex-judge, Baltasar GarzónTerrible crimes were committed during and after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, is on trial for da ...
  • Santorum, Mitt and Newt... Decline and Fall... ...
    "Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas of their free-born ancestors." Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"David Seaton's News LinksUnder Richard Nixo ...
  • Iran... is a trap being set?
    If the United States and/or Israel finally do attack Iran, as it now appears inevitable, they may end up falling into a trap laid by Russia and China. "Garden Airplane Trap" Max Ernst - Art Institute of Chicago The Americans know Iran did not bring the RQ-170 down because their intelligence agen ...
  • The sustainable future beckons: an all purpose ...
    David Seaton's News Linksphoto credit to जरा खाजवा की डोक For me this image is pure poetry, it suggests so many things about our world and even about our human nature: the smile of the driver, the people riding snug and dry in the cab, the no nonsense expression on the little bullock's face. ...
  • Thomas Friedman and the hangman
    David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Conservative Id, Part 347
    LA Times columnist Steve Lopez visits a living room full of conservatives in California's Central Valley: Obama is a socialist, said Ray Vercammen. He may be faking his so-called Christianity, said Sam Ackerman. And he wouldn't be much of a public speaker if not for TelePrompTers, said Lo ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 10 February 2012
    Today, both cats grace the same frame, one looking in and the other looking out. In this photo, the cats are a metaphor for Man's ineluctable failure to appreciate his place in the world. One's nature wants to be in, the other's nature wants to be out. In five minutes, their roles will reverse ...
  • Angels Are Now Waltzing on the Edge of a Healt ...
    Well, we now have the details of the "accommodation" that President Obama has made over the contraception issue. Institutions affiliated with the Catholic church will be able to opt out of contraceptive coverage completely, so the bishops are said to be completely satisfied. The LA Times ...
  • The Employment Picture Remains Murky and Hard ...
    Paul Krugman says that although the employment picture is looking up, it still has a ways to go. To illustrate this, he displays a chart showing the employment-population ratio for prime age workers age 25-54: I agree that this is a telling statistic. It really does indicate that we haven't ...
  • Drone Attacks Are Popular Because They're Bett ...
    As you may recall, I think one of the most important questions you should ask yourself when you ponder public policy is, "Compared to what?" Michael O'Hare asks this question regarding drone attacks: I think our emotional reaction to stuff like this depends a lot on what alternatives we ins ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 303: From Ascots to Niggas
    Topics: Whitney Houston’s death Live Tweeting grief The fan guilt Uncouth niggas in the movie theaters Madonna’s geriatric Super Bowl Show Roland Martin gets himself into trouble Share with your friends:
  • The Problem with the Roland Martin Suspension
    Roland Martin is an ass.  He’s brash and flat out annoying.  Even worse, he’s woefully unqualified for his job as a political pundit on CNN and because of that, very bad at his job.  I mean the man has a Master’s Degree in Christian Communication at a non-accredited school yet he’s on CNN weighi ...
  • IC 302: Don’t @ My Prophetess
    Topics: George Romero’s birthday Fast Zombies are cheating Eddie Long is a “King” The pedophile burrito Juanita Bynum & the $5000 pen Fuck your murderous family member Roseanne Barr is running for President Share with your friends:
  • IC 301: The Urban Radio Fluff Job
    Topics: Its Black History Month and Kriss & Kev don”t care Don Cornelius goes to the big soul train in the sky Kriss realizes he may be a sociopath February movie rundown Every role for a young black actor comes to Bow Wow first Arizona wants to allow guns on campus Drake apologizes t ...
  • IC 300: This Is Sparta
    Topics: *There were issues with saving the show so audio quality is lower than normal* Kriss, Kev & Karen list out different people and things that they want to Sparta Kick The list include: George Lucas Nurses People who don’t tip Tyler Perry Wire Bras and many more Share with your f ...

Simple Climate

  • Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears
    Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.
  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...
  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.
  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.
  • The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
    After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.

e!Science News

  • Domestic consumption main contributor to Afric ...
    In the five countries studied in the report "Where are WEEE in Africa?" (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria), between 650,000 and 1,000,000 tons of domestic E-waste are generated each year, which need to be managed to protect human health and the environment ...
  • Sleep breathing machine shows clear benefits i ...
    Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea had substantial improvements in attention, anxiety and quality of life after treatment with positive airway pressure (PAP) -- a nighttime therapy in which a machine delivers a stream of air through a mask into the nose. read more
  • Drug halts organ damage in inflammatory geneti ...
    A new study shows that Kineret (anakinra), a medication approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, is effective in stopping the progression of organ damage in people with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID). This rare and debilitating genetic disorder causes persiste ...
  • Curry spice component may help slow prostate t ...
    Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a study from researchers at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center suggests. read more
  • Grass to gas: UGA researchers' genome map spee ...
    Researchers at the University of Georgia have taken a major step in the ongoing effort to find sources of cleaner, renewable energy by mapping the genomes of two originator cells of Miscanthus x giganteus, a large perennial grass with promise as a source of ethanol and bioenergy. read more

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: Dumping A Civil Rights Issue
    One town’s Tr-“ash” is no one’s treasure The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sitting on a proposed coal ash standard for nearly 15 months. Without environmental standards for protection from this toxic waste, 54 re ...
  • Friday Finds: McDonalds’ Pink Slime Problem
    Chemical list limbo, idle air pollution laws, green coup Photo courtesy of Calgary Reviews. McDonald’s takes pink slime goop out of burgers It’s ...
  • Obama 'Promise' Keeps Arctic Drilling On Table
    President may be open to Shell promises it can clean up oil spill On backing down, backing away, and backing into a corner . . . President Obama’s stateme ...
  • Think the Weather's Getting Crazier? You're Right
    Last year saw many extreme events, and there's much more to come I'm going to stand back and just give you a taste of a report from the Earth Policy Institu ...
  • Times Columnist Spouts Keystone Nonsense
    Ignores the fundamental problems with the pipeline project Pipes for Keystone. Courtesy ecowatch.org The New York Times describes Joe Nocera as a business col ...

Brave New Climate

  • 100% renewable electricity for Australia – the ...
    Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE. For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE. By Peter Lang. Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 4 ...
  • Open Thread 21
    The previous Open Thread has gone past is off the BNC front page, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard [...]
  • Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
    Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...
  • The folly of making perfection the enemy of ex ...
    Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...
  • Saludos desde Mataelpino
    I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Psycho CPAC Anyone?
    Man, I watched clips of the freak show at this year’s CPAC. Why don’t they just call it the Obama hatefest? Where is Politifact anyway? I don’t think one single fake conservative said one single thing that was true from all the coverage I watched. Man, what a bunch of lying cry ...
  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]
  • Met A Wonderful Republican Yesterday – Not!
    Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]
  • The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
    No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Averting doomsday: My obsession with stopping ...
    Imagine: Israel is cranked up to bomb a country that likely has chemical and biological weapons to go with its missiles. Imagine: It is planning a future of one such ‘pre-emptive’ war after another.  I’ve been preoccupied for several years with the prospect that Israel would bo ...
  • Border Police enter Issawiya in East J’l ...
    Israeli border police (Magav) injured three Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya today, according to village sources. Magav also arrested two Palestinian residents of Issawiya, including lawyer Shireen al Issawi.  For reasons that were not immediately clear, borde ...
  • IDF brigadier-general to soldiers: No missiles ...
    In a meeting with reserve soldiers under his command, Brigadier General Aharon Haliva, the commander of a reserve division, said that the summer tent protest has hurt the army’s ability to conduct training. According to a report in Israel Defense, Haliva said: Because you went out to prote ...
  • West Bank village A-Dik joins anti-occupation ...
    Joining other West Bank villages such as  Bil’in, Ni’ilin, Ma’asara, Nabi Saleh, Beit Umar and Walajeh – where demonstrations have become part of daily life –  the residents of A-Dik invited Israeli activists to join them in first unarmed, popular, demonstration aga ...
  • Anemones in full bloom in the south
    It’s that time of year. Mid-February, after the big rains. The anemones (Kalaniyot in Hebrew) are in full bloom. These were taken today in the Shokeda forest, between Gaza and Sderot.  

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Max Gardner’s Foreclosure Defense Comes ...
    If you’re an attorney, you need the Max Gardner’s Seminar Coming to Orlando in March! Scridb filter
  • The Attorney General Selltlement(sellout)- End ...
    For those of us that have been fighting the banks and all their lies, forgery, fraud, surrogate signing, ghost signing, notary fraud, the AG settlement chaos is a rather fitting “end” to this whole stinking saga. The mighty AGs themselves are now victims of the very conduct we’ ...
  • The Attorney General Settlement is a Sellout&# ...
    From Naked Capitalizm: You know it’s bad when banks are the most truthful guys in the room. Remember that historical mortgage settlement deal that was the lead news story on Thursday? It has been widely depicted as a done deal. The various AGs who had been holdouts said their concerns had been s ...
  • The Nation’s Attorney Generals: All Vict ...
    Remember the headlines last week?  All the breathless headlines about the “Historic $25 Billion Settlement With The Banks”?  Well, have a seat folks.  This one is going to knock you on your collective arses…. THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT WITH THE BANKS! YOU’VE ALL BEEN LIED TO. ...
  • “WIZARD BEHIND THE CURTAIN(c)” is ...
    “Wizard Behind the Curtain” and “Robo Signer” (copyright Matt Weidner, ha ha) My friend Stopa did a post tonight on a phenomena we’ve been kicking around for several months now…it’s the fact that Americans are being sued by zombies…entities that ha ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Shadowlands
    Progressive democracy has been perhaps the most stable of political systems in world history. It has guided and empowered the …Continue reading »
  • Reborn
    Sometimes communities aren’t ready for the changes being thrust upon them. Stuck in the traditional way of doing things, they …Continue reading »
  • Grief, Generosity, and a Galvanizing of Commun ...
    What began as a brief comment ended up as a unique citizen exercise. Ed Jackman (look for him in the …Continue reading »
  • “A Remarkable Change in Man”
    Being with the ElectroMotive workers on Saturday, the day following the announcement of that plant’s official closing, had an odd …Continue reading »
  • An End and the Beginning
    Well, it’s over. Tears filled our eyes this morning as my wife and I heard that Caterpillar had finally made …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
    “Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
  • Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
    Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology &#8211 ...
  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Citibank May Have Double-Charged Customers Usi ...
    Whoopsadaisy! Citigroup has accidentally been charging many customers more than what they owe for months, with some of them not even realizing it was going on until the bank sent out a notification. Cit's bill-pay app for iPads was the culprit in many cases, charging customers twice what they o ...
  • Going To The Movies Is The Most Expensive It's ...
    All the whizbang 3-D hoopla IMAX excitement at movie theaters is coming at a hefty price, as the National Association of Theatre Owners says the average ticket price was at a record high in 2011. The average price for a movie ticket in the United States hit $7.93 last year, four cents up from ...
  • Groupon Figures It's Not Important To Use A Ph ...
    What started as casual curiosity about a Groupon deal for a photographer in the Dallas area offering boudoir photo sessions turned into a full-fledged fight when a group of photographers realized the company had stolen an image from one of them. Because of course, don't you want to see an examp ...
  • White House Tweaks Rule Requiring Employers To ...
    Late last month, the Obama administration angered some people when it announced that all employers -- regardless of their stance on birth control -- would need to provide insurance that covers female preventative care. Today, the President said his people had come up with a compromise that he b ...
  • Study: Driving While Stoned Is Very Dangerous, ...
    You might have a friend -- or you might even be that person -- who swears that they actually drive better after smoking a bit of marijuana (I believe the kids call it "reefer"); that it clears their head and helps them focus. But a new study confirms what many people had probably already guesse ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Media Advisory: Jesselyn Radack, Tom Drake to ...
    Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack at the Ridenhour AwardsThis coming Monday, February 13, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Tom Drake will speak at Americans Who Tell the Truth: Ethics, Integrity and the Law, a “Foun ...
  • IRS Settles Whistleblower Suit: Daily Whistleb ...
    Government Executive: IRS Settles Whistleblower Suit, Special Counsel Reports Summary: The IRS has settled a whistleblower case that accused an agency contractor of mismanagement. The case could impact future cases “involving the rights of employees to use government email to report problems.” ...
  • Surveillance Slippery Slope: FDA Monitors Empl ...
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted to monitoring the personal e-mail accounts of whistleblowers communicating with Congress. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it monitored the personal e-mails of employees who had concerns about unsafe medical d ...
  • PwC Escapes the Selective Sanctions Process at ...
    According to reliable (whistleblowing) sources, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has a long history of shielding major Argentine firms from public exposure for corrupt or fraudulent practices in Bank operations. Take the case of a Pricewaterhouse Coopers chapters in the US (PwC US) and ...
  • "We Meant Well" Author Peter Van Buren on Puni ...
    State Department whistleblower Peter Van Buren writes in TomDispatch today about the escalating retaliation taken against him since he wrote a book about massive reconstruction fraud in Iraq: We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds ...

UK Progressive

  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt – Epilogue
    It took the USA 11 years from 1776 to their constitution being written and enacted in 1787. Egypt has had one year and there have many highs and lows over that period.  Wael Ghonim has written a book I highly recommend Revolution 2.0 which is a compliment to this work. We pick up the action [...]
  • Has Environmentalism Become An Institution?
    Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who seemed filled with a sense of duty to set me and my “environmental agenda” straight. Mr. “X”, wrote: “Dear Ms. Fills, I am not surprised, that there are people like you, who for their own personal benefits, love to spread doomsday predicti ...
  • From Gung-Ho to Uh-Oh: Charting the Government ...
    by Lena Groeger, ProPublica Fracking has only recently become a household word, but government involvement with the drilling technique goes back decades. President Obama haschampioned the potential of natural gas drilling combined with more regulation. While there has been mounting evidence of w ...
  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 18 – The Day ...
    For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Friday, 11 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @Ghonim Welcome back Egypt #Jan25 The ...
  • Starving the Beast
    by Robert Hunziker With the onset of a reinvigorated U.S. economy, suddenly riding high on an unprecedented sea of liquidity, thanks to the Federal Reserve Bank, and punctuated by a renaissance of employment, up 243,000 jobs in January, it is probable Republican campaign tacticians will be force ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Don’t forget to vote in the 2012 bloggies
    It’s your chance to guide the internet traffic to your favourite sites. Don’t miss it! Look out for Tallbloke, Australian Climate Madness, Watts Up (x 2), Climate Audit as well as JoNova.Click here to find out how it works. Click here to go straight to the voting page which closes o ...
  • We are winning eh? Part 4 (or so)
    The collapse of the Man-Made Myth continues apace. You may not read headlines as such (at least not in major dailies) but all the signs are there. People who we never would have imagined speaking against the Big Scare Campaign are now doing so. Key glaciers are not melting and corals are happy. ...
  • When your subsidies undermine your subsidies
    For forty years people have tried to get Solar to work, now the worst possible thing for the industry has occurred: The Left are serious about trying to help it. The Large Scale Solar Subsidies are bountifully generous on an unprecedented scale that involve taxing everything else that moves, but ...
  • GetUp-poplexy! Scared of Monckton, Mannkal, Bo ...
    Thank you GetUp! Australians are finally talking about how they can get more media competition and how we can lift media standards. Read on to see Moncktons reply, and the call for interest Spot those afraid of free speech. ... Gina Rinehart merely buys 13% of  Fairfax, and the GetUp-union-funde ...
  • “Cooking the books” Monckton repli ...
    When Christopher Monckton debated at the National Press Club in Canberra last July, he showed exactly why the fans of a man-made catastrophe are so frightened of free speech and open debates. With no slides nor images, in a single hour he still changed the opinions of fully 9% of the audience , ...

ReNew America

  • Poll: Santorum takes first national lead
    (The Hill) - Rick Santorum has taken the lead nationally in the Republican presidential race for the first time, a new poll showed. Less than a week after besting Romney in primary contests in three states, Rick Santorum has a 15-point lead on the former Massachusetts governor, according to a na ...
  • End of the Constitution
    (Washington Times) - Is America sliding toward autocratic rule? This is the essential question of Barack Obama's presidency. Mr. Obama vowed to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Despite his incompetence and economic failure, the president is making good on his central promise: the des ...
  • 'To stop the multiplication of the unfit'
    (Michelle Malkin) - If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up...
  • Time for a Romneycare mea culpa
    (Dr. Milton R. Wolf) - Conservative voters have a message for the Republican establishment: Not so fast. The Washington-knows-best GOP insiders who gave us John McCain, George W. Bush, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush are now pushing Mitt Romney. Conservative voters are pushing back. Hard...
  • Hell no, I won't pay for abortions
    (Joseph Farah) - I don't know about you, but I'm about to engage in an act of civil disobedience. With the announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services that it will require all employers to provide health insurance to their employees that includes coverage for abortion-inducing ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • USA Govt: Mega Snitch List
    I’ve mentioned previously how survivalists could show up on government radar if store owners decide that buying supplies with cash is suspicious – the purchaser could be a terrorist! As it happens, there are 25 ...USA Govt: Mega Snitch List is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
  • Galactic Centre to Erupt in 2013
    At the heart of every galaxy there is thought to be a supermassive black hole. Our black hole is known as Sagittarius A*, and as far as these go, it is very quiet. But that ...Galactic Centre to Erupt in 2013 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Our Galactic Centre: “enormous ene ...
  • What If Money Goes 100% Digital?
    The long term trend is obvious to any Sci-Fi fan – one day all transactions will be cashless. We might even have a universal currency known as credits! There are some indications in Europe that the ...What If Money Goes 100% Digital? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Power Gr ...
  • Fox: Cashing in on 2012
    There’s an interesting article over at Fox News, although I’m not sure “cashing in” is fair – Americans are heading south for 2012, and businesses are accommodating them.  Perhaps it is Fox who are cashing ...Fox: Cashing in on 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku
    Suspected on killing a couple and a police officer, before being gunned down was Drew Ryan Maras, an author who was working on a book covering conspiracy theories and 2012 when he died. BlogTalkRadio are replaying ...Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku is a post from: 2012 Blog Related ...

Facing South

  • Actual winner unclear in Supreme Court's rulin ...
    Last week's ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Feds block South Carolina's a ...
    When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won't have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice&# ...
  • Mothers, grandmothers speak out about children ...
    A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of childr ...
  • EPA faces lawsuit over coal-ash rule delay
    More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue t ...
  • Romney bites the government hand that has fed ...
    The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of su ...

One News Page

  • Dhoni, Gambhir bat for Yuvi's quick recovery a ...
    India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and opener Gautam Gambhir on Sunday longed for Yuvraj Singh's quick recovery and hoped the left-hander would overcome health issues and make a strong comeback. Reported by Rediff.com 12 minutes ago
  • Adele wins three early Grammys, Foo Fighters five
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British soul singer Adele won three early Grammys on Sunday, including best pop solo performance for her song 'Somebody Like You,' in a show that began on a somber note with a prayer for late pop superstar Whitney Houston. Reported by Reuters India 30 minutes ago
  • Commonwealth questions leadership change in Ma ...
    MALE (Reuters) - The Commonwealth is sending a team to the Maldives to investigate why the first democratically elected president of the Indian Ocean nation has suddenly been replaced, the 54-nation group said on Sunday. Reported by Reuters India 30 minutes ago
  • Grammys fashion ranges from surreal to sublime
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The show must go on. Despite Whitney Houston's shocking death a day earlier, music stars came out to celebrate Sunday's Grammy Awards with typical red carpet flash and over-the-top fashion. Reported by Reuters India 33 minutes ago
  • Arabs back Syria opposition; Homs bombardment ...
    CAIRO/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs on Monday after Arab countries called for U.N. peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad. Reported by Reuters India 35 minutes ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Petrodollar Pumping US Policy on Iran, Backfir ...
    As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous eff ...
  • The Tug of War in Moscow
    For a month, Moscow was bracing itself for the February 4 Rally. It was pre-planned and prepared by the anti-Putin pro-Western liberal opposition. Despite sub-zero Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Centigrade) arctic frost, the organizers hoped to break their pre-Christmas record and gather a huge cr ...
  • Oil war in South Atlantic: Great Britain vs. L ...
    Buenos-Aires and other cities of Argentina have many monuments dedicated to the officers and men, who died on the Malvinas Islands. Hundreds of shields along the Argentinean roads carry a single line: Las Malvinas son Argentinas (Las Malvinas belong to Argentina). All the participants of that wa ...
  • US Ambassador’s Silicone Brains
    On Monday January 30, 2012 a leading Russian TV channel showed an unexpectedly significant interview with Michael McFaul, the recently appointed US Ambassador to Russia. Why ‘unexpectedly’? Because the host of the show was Vladimir Pozner, patriarch of the Soviet/Russian television widely known ...
  • What the Taliban Readiness to Talk Means for A ...
    The Taliban spokesman’s announcement that the Taliban are prepared to open an office in Doha Qatar and to hold talks with the Americans at that site has been the headline story in the international media for the last few days. The fact that this very spokesman, commenting on the disgusting video ...

BlogHer

  • Treat Yourself for Valentine's Day
    This Valentine’s Day, take some time out to show some TLC to the most important person in your life — you!Schedule a relaxing massage, sleep in, or try a new look. Whether you’re staying in for a romantic evening or heading out for a night on the town, Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to pamp ...
  • Using Public Wi-Fi. How to Protect Yourself.
    Welcome to part three of "Be Smart, Secure and Safe. A Guide to Managing Your Online Privacy."As bloggers, entrepreneurs, social media and online marketers it's often we connect to public Wi-Fi to get work done, catch-up on Twitter and other things. Free Wi-Fi hotspots are more common these days ...
  • Are You Spending More Than You Think on Blogging?
    It's tax season and your mind is probably on how much you've earned and how much you owe from your blogging endeavours, but have you ever taken a moment to work out how much you spend in order to write? Book bloggers have to purchase books, entertainment bloggers take themselves to the movies, ...
  • Jeremy Lin and Lindspiration
    Good morning! I work in TV and when a few of my coworkers who know about this blog told me there's some guy Jeremy Lin stealing my Lindspiration thunder (ha ha ha), I had to find out who and what they were talking about! So, I turned on the KNICKS game last night and watched it start to finish, ...
  • I Will Dance with Ellen, and I Will Shop at JC ...
    I had lunch with a friend a few weeks ago. She was struggling with legal difficulties years after an adoption, with health insurance woes because of a budget-cut job loss a year ago, with money hemorrhaging everywhere. Problems many of us have, but in her case each of those particular problems w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Feb. 10, 2012
    In this photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, and provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, workers load coal onto a train in Jiujiang, east China’s Jiangxi Province. The Nanchang Railway Administration and Shanghai International Port (Group) Company have given priority to coal trans ...
  • Where did Gov. Tomblin get miner drug-testing ...
    We all know that the official federal investigation of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster didn’t fine that drugs or alcohol had anything to do with the April 5, 2010, explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners. And it’s clear that separate reports by independent investigator ...
  • State’s energy spin ignores the coming c ...
    It’s fascinating — but also terribly depressing — to watch the taxpayer-funded publicists in West Virginia government promote the state’s energy industries. Their statements often have such little connection to reality. Take this morning … there I was, innocently ch ...
  • Update: Arch says mining not imminent at Blair ...
    Arch Coal hasn’t responded to my requests for comment about what’s going on down at Blair Mountain, but they did apparently provide a statement to the folks at E & E’s Greenwire … here’s what is being reported by that subscription-only publication: Arch spokeswo ...
  • What’s going on at Blair Mountain?
    Well, the folks at the Sierra Club just issued a press release headlined, “Is Arch Coal About to Mine Historic Blair Mountain? Local and National Groups Rally to Townspeople’s Defense.” They say: Residents of Blair, West Virginia have noticed increased activity from mining company Ar ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Building the Ideal 100-word Password List
    There’s some phenomenal password research here from clarkson.edu that talks about common passwords found during Internet attacks. I’ve taken those entries and put them into a single list here on Github, and I will soon be adding the abridged rockyou list (once I get their permission) ...
  • Interactive Animation Brings Starry Night to Life
    via thenextweb.com Stunning. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentInteractive map of U.S. migration patterns | Boing BoingAirbnb is Social TimesharingElection Issues Infographic | TheNextWebThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraThe MacTard Satisfa ...
  • Dirbuster Configuration
    Dirbuster is a tool used to help discover content on a target website during an assessment. It does so by making a massive number of requests for directories to a given site and documenting the responses. Here are a few options I like to set when using the tool: Enable the following of redirects ...
  • UserAgentString.com – List of User Agent Strings
    008ABACHOBotAccoona-AI-AgentAddSugarSpiderBotAnyApexBotArachmoB-l-i-t-z-B-O-TBaiduspiderBecomeBotBeslistBotBillyBobBot via useragentstring.com Just to start at the top… Great resource. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentThe 100% Easy-2-Read Standard &# ...
  • A Creative Song
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSeriously Fast LyricsIf China Attacks America (A Must See)Hitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5Gingrich Supporting ObamaCare in May 2009David Simon on the End of the American Empire

Fitwatch

  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...
  • Resist plainclothes cops
    More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Blogger Andrew Breitbart to O ...
    by Emily Crockett,campusprogress.org - Conservative blogger-star Andrew Breitbart lashed out at Occupy protesters outside of CPAC, the mass annual gathering of conservatives, in Washington, DC on Friday night. Campus Progress reporter Emily Crockett was on the scene and captured video of Breitba ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    Worldwide Hippies – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Worldwide…
    Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe housands of people have taken part in co-ordinated protests across Europe in opposition to a controversial anti-piracy agreement. Significant marches were held in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agre ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Singing superstar Whitney Houston dies at 48 LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48. The 48-year-old singer ...
  • I’ve been protesting for 70 years – I&#8 ...
    By John Catt,guardian.co.uk – Having listened to arguments for and against my judicial review against the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Metropolitan police on Thursday – who branded me a “domestic extremist”, placed me on a database and secretly recorded my activ ...

reference frame

  • Magic 4D: a great comedy
    Just ten days ago, you could have read about Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists". Because this is another blog entry about a play in the Pilsner Chamber Theater, you must start to think that I am the ultimate theater addict. In order to preserve this generous and precious belief of yours, ...
  • Gell-Mann on LHC, supersymmetry and SUSY rumors
    If you have 16 minutes, you may watch Murray Gell-Mann who was interviewed by CERN's Paolo Catapano on January 23rd. Click here if you see no video above. Gell-Mann talks about the likelihood of the Higgs mechanism, importance of beauty in physics, the role of it in knowing th ...
  • Jason Mraz, Al Gore's new friend
    Jason Mraz is an American singer and songwriter. The music isn't quite my cup of tea but I think it's good. This YouTube video with his song (which I've heard before) has attracted 120 million viewers: that's quite something. I don't remember seeing a number over 100 million for quite some ti ...
  • Greece's bankruptcy loses taboo status
    In recent years, Greece has been a major source of negative energy in the world's markets. Greece became a textbook example of the pernicious influence of any left-wing ideology, a proof of an inevitable outcome of any policies that codify well-being as a human right and put it above the prin ...
  • Willis Eschenbach and Argo on warmest oceans
    It's not shocking that 31 °C is the highest ocean surface temperature you may get Willis Eschenbach has performed a very interesting analysis of the ocean temperature data from Argo, a system of floating probes. Jason and the Argo Notes (WUWT)Here you can see the surface temperatu ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • You’re a slave to money then you die
    Pre-VEVO play count: 22581204 Music video by The Verve performing Bitter Sweet Symphony. Video Rating: 4 / 5 ‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life Trying to make ends meet You’re a slave to money then you die I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been d ...
  • Morality is legislated. Prisons over-populated ...
      I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation. Sure I have human form walking erect and opposing digits, but my mind is upside down. I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world. And I see the world around me like a mad collective dream. A ...
  • My thoughts on smoking: The mass murder of my ...
    After visiting the hospital last night I have come to the conclusion that anyone profiting from the production, distribution, and sale of tobacco are part of Big Tobacco and are murdering scum. Why do I think this? Big tobacco murdered my father Big tobacco murdered my Grampy George Big tobacco ...
  • Site is back after server crash
    I apologize to everyone for the crash. The server went down at 2:03 EST and I did not catch it until 5:20 AM. I did a reboot and all appears to be fine now. Related posts: My site appears to be caught up in the crossfire of a DDOS Attack I apologize for the lag [...] Related posts: My site app ...
  • Shining the Light on a Triple Meltdown at Fuku ...
    Thinking of traveling to Japan? You may want to reconsider. The situation is worse than the government, media, or TEPCO will leave you to believe. From the dumping of radioactive water into Tokyo Bay, to releasing radioactive steam into the atmosphere, the closer you get to source the more hot p ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • The Enemy Within: EPA's War with the White House
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Since she assumed the position of administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency early in 2009, Lisa P. Jackson has done more than any previous EPA chief to reform how the government... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Don't Let Your Child Be a Back Seat Smoker
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Many parents who don't smoke - and have raised their kids to do the same - might be surprised to learn that their offspring could be secondhand-smoking a pack a week. Roughly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  • Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Marine brass wants to limit Camp Lejeune water ...
    By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fraccidents
    Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Palace dinner for princess’ 80th
    Norway’s Princess Astrid celebrated her 80th birthday on Sunday and her younger brother, King Harald, invited family and friends for what officials called a “private” dinner party at the Royal Palace in Oslo. Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon were among those e ...
  • Tooji was the people’s favorite
    A young man whose family came to Norway as refugees from Iran, won an overwhelming victory at the annual Norwegian national song contest Melodi Grand Prix on Saturday night. Tooji Keshtkar will now represent Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in May. The singer, who performs simply as “ ...
  • Breivik committed for examination
    The Oslo City Court (Tingrett) ordered confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik to submit to a new psychiatric examination on Friday. Meanwhile, police sought the removal of a court-appointed attorney in the case, for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media. Breivik had refused ...
  • Analysts praise DNB’s results
    Norway’s biggest bank, DNB, reported more strong profits this week and analysts were unusually enthusiastic. Reactions like “Buy!,” “Home run!” and “Very strong!” were among those quoted by newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) on Friday. Investors also react ...
  • Coke invests, but lays off hundreds
    Coca-Cola Norge plans to lay off nearly half of all its employees in Norway next year, after it revamps its bottling operations and turns over beverage delivery to grocery wholesalers. Coca-Cola is investing heavily in the re-tooling, but as many as 500 workers will lose their jobs. A decline in ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • International Permaculture Convergence 10, Jor ...
    Andy Goldring, the Coordinator/CEO of the Permaculture Association (Britain) attended the International Permaculture Convergence 10 (IPC10) in Jordan. He was there alongside hundreds of others, including Permaculture’s founding father Bill Mollison. Andy reviews an event which is acknowled ...
  • ReOccupy Portugal
    I have seen a possibility and a lot of factors that are working in favor of this possibility, so it has motivated me to start working on my idea. It’s about collaboratively re-occupying and regenerating abandoned rural land, starting here, where I am in Portugal. Since I know of no other c ...
  • Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Arusha ...
    Learn the concepts of sustainable living and improved self-reliance through foodwatershelter’s Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course. Join USA based instructor Steve Whitman and a team of local teachers in Arusha, Tanzania between the 4th to 15th June 2012 for this incredible opp ...
  • First Annual International Development Permacu ...
    Editor’s Note: As well as the course below, I should mention, in case you missed it, that Warren Brush will also be teaching at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm in NSW, Australia in July. Find out more here. Quail Springs Permaculture launches Permaculture Design Certification Course for In ...
  • ReOccupy Portugal
    I have seen a possibility and a lot of factors that are working in favor of this possibility, so it has motivated me to start working on my idea. It’s about collaboratively re-occupying and regenerating abandoned rural land, starting here, where I am in Portugal. Since I know of no other c ...

Pointman's

  • Being you.
    We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more
  • How policies get dropped and positions reversed.
    Political policy changes constantly in a democracy. It does so primarily in response to the changing concerns of its electorate, because by addressing these concerns, politicians hoping to gain office naturally expect to attract votes by catering to these concerns. When the economy is prosperous ...
  • If all else fails, just intimidate them.
    Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...
  • Oh, what a wonderful MSM.
    I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...
  • They’re just words.
    If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Sentencing in Noose Incident at Louisiana Midd ...
    Three men, aged 21 - 25, were sentenced today in an incident in which they sought to intimidate African American children away from attending a school in Morehouse Parish, LA. The school had recently seen increased enrollment by Black students because of a new busing policy. In other news, the ...
  • Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate P ...
    “Corporations are people, my friend.” - Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda i ...
  • Big Freedia And The Week New Orleans Took Over ...
    Last week, New Orleans rapper Big Freedia made her national television debut on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Freedia, who has been quickly taking the nation by storm, performed two songs "Excuse," and "Na Who Mad." Although the network appearance was Freedia's national television debut, she showe ...
  • Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions, ...
    Note: See below for quiz answers. Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Question Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net worth of wh ...
  • Community Profile: Betty Wells Allen
    From our friends at VOTE-NOLA: Some members join VOTE out of a sense of social responsibility or a personal mission. For Betty Wells Allen it was all of these forces combined with the joy of helping ex-offenders understand how to thrive in society. “My son was convicted with a life sentence [for ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    In what appears to be a case of some sort of kike Fatwa, a New York man was set on fire by a brainwashed teenage Hasidic Jew over his attempt to break free of the mind control of the Synagogue both had once attended. The man, Aron Rottenberg alleged in his court case that this had occurred at t ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Anonymous explains the Illuminati protocols iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F4L6LbwHWY I like what I am seeing from Anonymous lately.Statistics: Posted by Whaler — Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:18 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Dear Lindsey, I will answer you and I apologize for it seems that I have offended you. You rightly wonder: Every fucking time something wonderful comes our way, almost everyone in this "movement" has to have something negative to say, or to down-play the hoped-for out-come. Why can ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Site ONE, JUST ONE, sentence that was in-correct and not something that any of us WISHES that we could say to the demons walking-on-two-legs with millions of people listening or reading. YOU CAN'T. Every fucking time something wonderful comes our way, almost everyone in this "movement&quo ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    You're kidding me right? I can smell gefilte fish from over here Statistics: Posted by maz — Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:38 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Wastewater Reuse Could Increase U.S. Supplies ...
    Advanced treatment of municipal wastewater could increase available water supplies in the U.S. by 27 percent, according to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences. Of the 32 billion gallons of municipal wastewater discharged each day nationwide, about 12 billion gallons of effluent i ...
  • Early Humans Played Role in Deforestation of C ...
    A new study says that the activities of early humans — and not simply a dramatic shift in climate — played a significant role in transforming the ancient rainforests of Central Africa into savanna. In an analysis of sediment cores taken from the mouth of the Congo River, a team of scientists fou ...
  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off B ...
    A coalition of European companies today opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest offshore wind project to date. The Walney Wind Farm, located nine miles (15 kilometers ...
  • On the Road Back to Rio, Green Direction Has B ...
    Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken ...
  • Glaciers, Ice Caps Losing 150 Billion Tons of ...
    A new analysis of global satellite data has found that the world’s glaciers and ice caps — excluding Antarctica and Greenland — lost about 150 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2010, adding about 0.4 millimeters to global sea rise annually. Using data from the twin Gravity Recovery a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • ‘Whitney’s Dead’
    Allison Samuels, who interviewed Houston many times, was at the Beverly Hilton, where the troubled singer was found.
  • 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
    Santorum won’t compromise on contraception, Palin isn’t wowed by Romney, McConnell reaches across the aisle & more.
  • Whitney’s No. 1 Hits
    Watch video of the legendary singer’s chart toppers, from ‘Saving All My Love for You’ to ‘Exhale.’
  • Whitney’s Violent Love Match
    A look at Houston’s 15-year marriage to Bobby Brown and its devastating toll on her career. By Chris Lee
  • How Drug Laws Killed Whitney
    American’s insane substance laws played a primary role in Houston’s downward spiral.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Takanashi takes 2nd to tie personal best at Wo ...
    Japan's Sara Takanashi tied a personal World Cup best in finishing second at a meet in Slovenia on Saturday. The Winter Universiade gold medalist landed jumps of 82.5 and 82 meters on the normal hill in Ljubno to score 245.2 points. American Sarah Hendrickson claimed her fifth win of the seaso ...
  • Mother arrested for death of infant son
    A 39-year-old mother in Kobe was arrested Sunday for allegedly trying to strangle her 5-month-old son, who was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, police said. Yoriko Sugino, a flight attendant, was initially suspected of attempted murder but police changed the charge to murder due t ...
  • Disruption of KDDI's mobile mail service affec ...
    KDDI Corp., the operator of au mobile phone services, said Sunday the data communication disruption the previous night has affected up to 6.15 million cellphones and smartphones. The incident, in which the proprietary ezweb e-mail service was disrupted from around 8:35 p.m. Saturday until befo ...
  • Pachinko firms said to have failed to declare ...
    Tax authorities claim that about 40 corporate groups running pachinko parlors across Japan failed to declare over ¥100 billion in total taxable income with back taxes amounting to several billion yen, sources close to the matter said Sunday. The authorities found out the income disparity ...
  • Tateishi tells Kitajima to bring it on for Oly ...
    Ryo Tateishi laid down the gauntlet to two-time double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima after obliterating the field in the men's 200-meter breaststroke at the national short-course championships on Sunday. Tateishi, who broke Kitajima's record in the 100 breaststroke a day earlier, won in 2 m ...

Alexander Higgins

  • URGENT: RON PAUL Needs 1000′s of PA Sign ...
    Ron Paul needs his supporters to activate in PA immediately to gather enough delegate signatures or there will be NO RON PAUL, it is as simple as that.
  • US NGO Workers Indicted For Plotting To Overth ...
    Egypt sends the U.S. an official indictment of over 100 pages charging arrested NGO workers with illegally funneling funds to rig elections, incite unrest, and overthrow the government.
  • As War Looms Iran Hits Kill Switch, Cuts Acces ...
    Iran has hits their internet kill switch, cutting access to millions of people, in an effort to prevent a psychological warfare campaign ahead of an imminent U.S. invasion.
  • Texas AG: Big Pharma Bribes Forced Teens To Be ...
    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.
  • CCHR: Over 20 Millions Kids Bogusly Labeled Wi ...
    A CCHR reports finds that over 20 million kids & adolescents have been labeled with “mental disorders” that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. See Also: Texas AG: Big Pharma Bribes Forced Teens To Be Fraudulently Medicated CCHR: Psychiatry—Labeling Kids with Bogus &#82 ...

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Ontario’s Mining Tax Barely Scratches the Surface
    This table displays the mining taxes and royalties paid for minerals – including coal, but excluding oil and gas – to Canada’s major mining jurisdictions in 2010. The ideal would be to compare these charges with economic rent, which varies by mine and is difficult to calculate. Howev ...
  • Comparing two carbon bombs: LNG plants vs Enbr ...
    With the spotlight on the federal government’s aggressive push to export tar sands bitumen via the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, and from there by tanker on to China, the BC government reclaimed some attention on the energy file when it released its Natural Gas Strategy la ...
  • Canada’s Incredible Shrinking Population?
    On CTV yesterday, human resources minister Diane Finley said (45 seconds into this interview): “As we go forward, we’re going to have three times the expense in Old Age Security as we do now, but we’re only going to have half the population to pay for it.” That sounds pretty scary. If the total ...
  • The OAS Eligibility Age and Employment
    It is argued that eligibility for OAS/GIS discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working to avoid labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so-called dependency ratio. But the fact of the matter is that 65 is not the trigger for retirement that ...
  • Caterpillar: The moth flying too close to the ...
    We treated them like royalty. We rolled out the tax cut red carpet. In fact our Prime Minister made a special stop at the London, Ontario Electro-Motive (EMT) plant in 2008, touting the $5 million in tax cuts we gave EMT. It was all part of the ‘tax cuts create jobs’ rhetoric that Ca ...

ReDress

  • Republican presidential candidate Rick Santoru ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...
  • Britain helps Israeli water thieves
    Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.
  • UK, US condemn murder in Syria, condone murder ...
    Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".
  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...
  • Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reac ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.

Physics Today

  • Harvard conference aims to revolutionize unive ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: Despite greater insights into how people learn, old habits still govern a great deal of college and university instruction. Part of the problem, according to Carl Wieman, a Nobel physicist and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology ...
  • US ship's good deed could cause delays for Arc ...
    Science: The US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, which works most of the year for the scientific community, was about to head to dry dock at the end of its 2011 run when it was called back into action. A freak storm in November left the Alaska settlement of Nome icebound, and the Healy helped break ...
  • Smallest room-temperature IR laser
    BBC: Nanoscale lasers that operate at room temperature and in the IR waveband have been built by Mercedeh Khajavikhan of the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues. Almost all lasers need a certain amount of energy input—the threshold—before the light waves they prod ...
  • Japanese universities beginning to consider en ...
    Nature: Research universities in Japan are starting to look to the West and its philanthropic tradition to help ease their monetary difficulties. Although funded by the government, Japan's universities have become cash starved, writes David Cyranoski for Nature. Recently, Japan's internationall ...
  • Two new nuclear reactors approved in US
    Physics Today: Today the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted in favor of granting a construction license for two nuclear reactors to be built in Georgia. As reported in the New York Times yesterday, the license will be the first to be issued since the Three Mile Island accident in 1978. In an ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Water Wars: The drive to develop and consume ...
    “Every morning at sunrise, Sutas Kom Sri casts his net into the river out of faith. As the fog unveils the horizon, the Mekong River looms before him, luring him into the richness of its waters. But like other fishermen in this part  of   the  Mekong   in north east Thailand, his daily cat ...
  • Can Coca-Cola Keep Growing?
    “Coca-Cola is a $156 billion nonalcoholic-beverage kingpin that sold more than $46 billion worth of drinks around the world in 2011. As if it needs underscoring, that’shuge. So when it comes to the future for Coca-Cola, is growth still possible? “If you tuned into Coke’s ...
  • US approves first new nuclear plant in a gener ...
    “U.S. regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years, despite objections of the panel’s chairman who cited safety concerns stemming from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 t ...
  • Will Ancient Mega Lake Bring Peace To Sudan?
    “At least 300,000 people died and almost three million were displaced by the Darfur conflict in Sudan. Egyptian-American geologist Farouk El-Baz believes that limited access to water is one of the root causes of this conflict. Doctor El-Baz is director of Boston University’s center for rem ...
  • Disinformation Floods Delta Water War
    “Gov. Jerry Brown declared the “drought” over in 2011. Yet water rates have risen anyway across the state as a result of the bogus “drought.” In the Feb. 6 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, NRDC attorney Doug Obegi said there are three “facts” and three “myths” about the Sacramento Del ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Announces Victory in Saving $1.1-1.5 ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (February 10, 2012) – The City of Cleveland can continue to receive $1.1-1.5 million in federal funding to remove lead paint from homes if it meets performance benchmarks, thanks to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Kucinich discussed the need and circumstances personally with ...
  • Finding Solutions for the Inner Belt Bridge
    Congressman Steve LaTourette (R-OH) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) were joined this morning by Mayor Frank Jackson and Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Jerry Wray to announce a possible solution to get the second part of the Inner Belt Bridge back on track.  ODOT announced la ...
  • Kucinich Protects Jobs and Workers’ Rights
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Department of Labor announced the Final Rule reforming the H-2B Guestworker system in the United States. “Today, after a three-year investigation and three Congressional hearings, American workers will no lo ...
  • Kucinich: Mortgage Foreclosure Fraud Settlemen ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement in response to news reports that a $25 billion settlement between the government and mortgage servicers over the banks’ and servicers’ widespread mortgage foreclosure-related fraud has been finalized. “For millions of Americans ...
  • Kucinich, Portman Unite Ohio Delegation to Pro ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) joined Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) this morning to organize and unite the Ohio delegation to protect Ohio’s  military and civilian Defense personnel in the forthcoming Base Realignment and Closure process.  Ohio has 42,950 direct jobs at major installa ...

Authentically Wired

  • … The results may surprise you …
    … The results may surprise you … Here are some surprising results of a new study on the health impacts of smoking cannabis that were just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Video:   …. U. of Alabama: Health Impacts of Cannabis Smoke Filed under: Blogroll
  • … Before you drink this “kool-aid” just skip t ...
    … Before you drink this “kool-aid” just skip to the bottom of and note who wrote this article … Yes there are charlatans in the personal growth field … Five lies personal growth gurus love to tell Friday, February 10, 2012 by: Mike Bundrant  …  Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034926_perso ...
  • Introducing the government’s newest unpaid spy ...
    … This is not anything that FoxyNew$ and corporate interest$ want you to be aware of … be afraid … be very afraid … Introducing the government’s newest unpaid spy: YOU 02-09-2012  •  www.sovereignman.com/Simon One of the most terrifying aspects of George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 was his descri ...
  • … TRIBLER … what is it … ? Internet pirates wi ...
    … TRIBLER … what is it … ? Internet pirates winning the war on SOPA with “Tribler” Published: 10 February, 2012, 00:30 Download - Tribler  …  www.tribler.org/       Filed under: Blogroll
  • … SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE … IS IT … Boosts ...
    … SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE … IS IT … Boosts Your Youth Hormone by 771% in Just 20 Minutes Posted by: Dr. Mercola | February 10 2012 .. http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/02/10/phil-campbell-interview.aspx?e_cid=20120210_FNL_art_1 WATCH VIDEO HERE … http://www.youtube.co ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...
  • Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?
    Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...
  • Environmental news in review: Keystone pipelin ...
    November 2011 was a big month for environmental news stories. Topping the list was the Obama Administration's decision to delay the controversial Keystone pipeline which would have carried tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast. The scheme was vehemently opposed by environmental groups whic ...
  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Lung problems made worse by soft drinks
    People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.University of Adelaide researchers found...
  • Dogs trump chimps in smart stakes
    Man's best friend could also be his smartest after scientists concluded dogs can outsmart chimpanzees.With their human-like brains, chimps have long been rated high on the intelligence scale, but German experts found dogs were better...
  • NZ bids for super telescope role
    Earthquake prediction will be a step closer if New Zealand wins a bid for the largest radio telescope ever built.A joint New Zealand and Australian consortium is bidding against a southern African group for the right to host the...
  • No way of stopping leak of deadly new flu viru ...
    The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a devastating pandemic has admitted the information "is going to get out" eventually.Professor Paul Keim, chairman of the...
  • Cancer hope in fish research
    New Zealand scientists have shown how infections trigger the development of new blood stem cells, a breakthrough that could lead to the development of drugs to treat cancer and infections.The Auckland University research, published...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • How Solar Power Can Pay Off Debts
    Boulder City, Nevada has found a new way to pay off its debt: solar power. The city is home to not only Hoover Dam, but two of the largest solar power plants in the United States, Copper Mountain Solar I (58 megawatts) and Nevada Solar One (65MW). Both solar facilities are leased on ...
  • Did the Drug War Make it Any Easier for Whitne ...
    Pop star Whitney Houston is dead at the age of 48. While the official cause of death has not yet been announced, she had a long history of drug problems and was in and out of rehab over the years and it's likely that substance abuse played some role. As USA Today reminds us [In ...
  • Jimmy McMillan Annoys Everyone At CPAC
    Washington, D.C. - Former New York gubernatorial fringe candidate Jimmy McMillan stormed into the CPAC Bloggers Lounge on Saturday and began yelling about bailouts and housing and how everything is unfair. McMillan is one of those side shows you really should ignore, but he made that ...
  • Even Though Paul Is Not At CPAC His Presence I ...
    Washington, D.C. – In previous years Ron Paul supporters have dominated the annual Conservative Political Action Conference by gobbling up booth space and flooding the place with flyers. Paul’s organization helped bring his supporters to CPAC in droves by paying their way just so they ...
  • Mitt Romney Wins the CPAC Presidential Straw P ...
    According to The Washington Times: Mr. Romney won 38 percent of the straw poll, which counted the votes of 3,408 activists gathered for the Conservative Political Action Conference, which ran from Thursday through Saturday at a hotel in Washington. Mr. Santorum was second w ...

Mercury Rising

  • Birth Control: What the GOP’s Pet Bishop ...
    Here’s some of what the GOP-allied US branch of the world’s largest organized group of pedophile enablers doesn’t want you to know: There’s this: Catholic health group says it backs Obama compromise on birth control policy (That would be the Catholic Health Organization, ...
  • Murdoch’s Sun dimmed by bribery scandal
    David Batty, Damien Pierce, and agencies; The Guardian The Sun has been plunged into crisis following the arrest of five of its most senior journalists, including the deputy editor, over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials. The five Sun journalists are understood ...
  • The triumph of the fascist undead
    Once upon a time there were parties that called themselves fascist. One of those was the government of General Francisco Franco. After they had won the war, they killed over 100,000 people in cowardly ways. Mass executions. The Catholic Church was complicit with the regime (see here and here). I ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

  • Halfway Between Hope & Hopelessness
    In this playful clip from the film, "Prague Gnosis", Ram Dass and the late Terence McKenna have a conversation about the evolution of consciousness, psychedelic revelations, the future as an "archaic recursion", the "lineage of miracles" and the benefits of existing ...
  • Sweet Toxins
    Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis, the authors of "Public Health: The Toxic Truth About Sugar," have proposed that sugar should be regulated in the same manner that alcohol and tobacco are, due to its various health risks.   read more
  • Look Back At the Way We Came: A Talk With Jose ...
      The following is an interview with Joseph Marshall, author of The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage: Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and Arrow, available from Sounds True.   read more
  • Luv Songs in Los Angeles
    Luv Songs is an intimate evening of poetry and music featuring original works by LuvAmp artists, plus special guests reading Rumi's mystical love poems.  Artists include Miranda Rondeau, Lili De La Mora, Tony Moss, Dylan James Nyrne, Sunny Solwind, Sam Babayan, Christo Pellani, and Daniel ...
  • A Growing Revolution
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Desertification

  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.
  • ARGENTINA: In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far Mor ...
    Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.

Automatic Earth

  • The Automatic Earth on the move
    At around 6 PM EST, Sunday, February 5, The Automatic Earth will move to its new site, TheAutomaticEarth.orgThe Blogger site, where you are right now, will eventually be closed. The comments section will be closed immediately.After 4 years at Blogger, we feel it's high time for us to widen our s ...
  • January 31 2012: Goal-Seeked Analyses for Gold
    Unknown Dreaming of great fortunes 1858California gold miner joining the British Columbia goldrush Ashvin Pandurangi: After the Fed’s latest announcement on January 25, in which the central bank said very little more than the obvious ("exceptionally low" fed funds rate at least through late 201 ...
  • The Report That Will Blow Up The Eurozone
    Jack Delano Hot Sugar January 1942Guanica, Puerto Rico. "Burning a sugar cane field. This process destroys the leaves and makes the cane easier to harvest" Ilargi: No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin ...
  • January 25 2012: Occupy Your Own Space
    Dorothea Lange PlantationJune 1937"Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi" Ilargi: For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable to either incumbent politicians or wannabe leaders (unless they’re extremists, perhaps), let alone to t ...
  • January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...

Press TV

  • DRC plane crash kills presidential aide
    A plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed five people, including President Joseph Kabila’s close aide, and seriously injured the country's finance minister.
  • 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.
  • UK tax credit ‘bombshell’ hits families
    More than 200,000 families could lose almost £4,000 a year because of UK government changes to the working tax credit system coming into force in April, warns the MP for Leeds West.
  • British transport staff to walk out
    Britain’s transport staff are to hold demonstrations on Tuesday against the coalition government plans to close all 39 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) regional offices.
  • Greek MPs approve new austerity bill
    The Greek parliament has approved a controversial bill, which includes a new round of austerity cuts, despite days of protests against the prospect.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
  • Tax Expenditures Have a Major Impact on the Fe ...
    Do you receive a tax deduction for the interest paid on your mortgage or for the taxes you pay to your state and local governments? Would you think about those deductions in the same way if instead of seeing a reduction in taxes for those items the federal government instead simply sent you a ch ...
  • How Would Some Changes to Current Law Affect t ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on our annual Budget and Economic Outlook, which was released on Tuesday. As I did in my testimony before the House Budget Committee, I highlighted many of the points that were included in Tuesday’s blog post. In today’s pos ...

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Shuvo, 7, works at a metal workshop which make ...
    Shuvo, 7, works at a metal workshop which makes propellers for ships at a shipbuilding yard next to Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 10, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
  • Firefighters aim colored water at a target dur ...
    Firefighters aim colored water at a target during the annual fire drill competition in Mumbai January 9, 2012. Firefighters in Mumbai took part in the annual competition to enhance their emergency response during fire incidents. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
  • A teacher adjusts the finger placement of a fe ...
    A teacher adjusts the finger placement of a female violin student at the Kabul Music Academy January 7, 2012. In Afghanistan’s sole music academy, students learn how to play traditional and western instruments as part of a government initiative to relieve the pains of decades of war through ...
  • Bashar Stencil by El Teneen. Next to it, reads ...
    Bashar Stencil by El Teneen. Next to it, reads ‘The People Want the Downfall of the Regime’ words made famous in Tahrir. Sighted on July 25th, 2011. The graffiti has since been painted over. Thanks suzeeinthecity!
  • Relatives and friends of a two-year-old child ...
    Relatives and friends of a two-year-old child and her grandmother who died in a landslide carry their coffins to a cemetery past houses destroyed by heavy rains, in the town of Sapucaia, 65 miles (104 km) northeast of Rio de Janeiro January 10, 2012. Thirteen bodies were found and another n ...
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