14 February -RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Why Reformers Misunderstand Their Own Research

The students current test score trajectories are based on the sum of their in-school and out-of-school experiences, not just that teacher's skill. The human observers are just trying to evaluate that teacher's instruction, and it constitutes only about 15 to 20% of the students' outcomes. The question which the TNTP should ask is whether the test score trajectories of students from the entire district provide evidence for evaluating the value-added of teachers in schools where it is harder to raise student performance.

Secondly, why would the TNTP think that such a finding has anything to do with the policies they advocate? The question is whether test score growth models are valid enough for high stakes decisions. 

Why would an educator commit to the toughest schools if he or she faced a 20% or a 10% or 25% chance EACH YEAR of being subject to humiliation, constant stress, and perhaps dismissal due to circumstances beyond their control? How many teachers per hall need to be inaccurately charged as ineffective before the morale of the entire building is compromised?

 

BBC are Corporate-Paid Propagandists

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) "will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients which it featured in its programming."

BBC's "Secret Pakistan," for example, literally attempted to rewrite 10 years of history where Pakistan, rather than Al Qaeda or "Bin Laden" was retrospectively made responsible for the ongoing violence in Afghanistan and the death of Western troops.

( I'd love some Pakistani intel on this one....having the old belly laugh that Land Destroyer is bitching about the Beebs ditching the old Al Qaeda and Bin Laden disinformation scams and showing itself for a continual liar. Why complain? They are framing lies being debunked, after all.

Nowhere in sight is the story of corporate connections and foreign government paid mercenaries - oops, contractors - assassinating people and blowing things up. Libya should have made things so much clearer. Not to mention Western troops might not be shot at if they belonged there.  Their presence alone is an incitement to violence - and wearing uniforms affects that not at all except to heighten their differences. )

Alex Jones - on raw milk, adulteration of foods....and false flag attack to come in Strait of Hormuz as pretext for wider war

And I hadn't bothered exMI for a while 

No really? I'm shocked!

A new classified report leaked to the BBS (sigh, that really shouldn't happen) reports that the Taliban is receiving support form the ISI in Pakistan. And this is big news why? Despite the Pakistani objections that has been clear since day one. I knew it back when I was interrogating people in Afghanistan. Every Afghan sheepherder, thief, and insurgent knew it. Hell the commanders of the US forces knew it. but can anyone do anything about it? No......

And people wonder why Iran wants nukes too.

opit said...
"And people wonder why Iran wants nukes too."

That's an often cited factoid. Problem is, I see negative support for the proposition.

When I was a boy, the Cuban Missile Crisis had the world on edge. Where today the U.S. wants to site missiles where the Soviet Occupation of Europe was stopped amid assurances that this would not happen, back then nukes were in Turkey. The Soviet, of course, counter deployed the same in Cuba ( Yes, it had already started at the time of the Blockade. )
Forward almost 2 decades. Ex playground of United Sugar Cuba is under sanctions still. Former CIA installed dictator the Shah of Iran leaves the country and heads to hospital out of the country. Reagan arranges for the subsequent occupation of the U.S. embassy in Iran to drag on, embarrassing Carter and throwing the U.S. election. ( Subsequently we learned of the Iran Contra arms trading scheme. )
And suddenly the U.S. tosses its bought and paid for arrangements to supply several nuclear power generation systems to its star colony. Iran - like Cuba - turns to Russia for assistance.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/index.htm

Here's where things turn severely sideways. Think Tank Rand comes out with a foreign policy to demonize pacifists and disarmament proponents by systematically turning a convention to limit proliferation against its signatories - which include Libya,Iran,Iraq and North Korea.

Check out my comment after "One Month to Act" http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/04/4-april-morning-op-eds.html

CASMII has many accounts of the constant lies about the danger of Iran. Never mentioned is Russia's determination to protect its client state from harassment and its interest in selling reactors.
The deal with India, for instance -outside the NPT - started as an offer of 1 reactor. Russia offered 4, and Indians were gung-ho. Arms sales were included in the confirmed deal for 2 reactors from the U.S.

Let's look at it. Iran is making up for being screwed around on power plant purchases while the U.S. puts sanctions on oilfield maintenance equipment. And Russia is supposedly incapable of making sure it does not create a threat in its back yard.
Iran is scary : it might make a nuke !
The Onion : Iran is afraid the U.S. will make its 8500th nuke !

I can't top that.

 

Syria

So why hasn't the West intervened in Syria? Well there are a lot of different reason but the biggest in probably fear. Not fear of what Syria could do to them but fear of the chaos that could, and probably would, erupt all over the area. Add tot hat the rather serious logistical problems and the simple fact that more nations are interested in continued stability than they are in keeping some protesters alive and you have a potent mix of "Stay Away!"

opit said...
Notes I'm reading suggest Turkey is tapped for the operation. And worries about destabilization are almost funny.Do you recall that document from the NSA on Post Saddam Iraq : Desert Crossing wargame ? Or have you completely managed to ignore the plain statement of intent on the website of Program for a New American Century ? i.e. Decapitation of governments in an arc of oil bearing nations in the Middle East.
Rewriting the Map of the Middle East is old news. It is happening now.

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  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• China's Xi for co-operation with US
  Trading kind words, Obama and China's leader-in-waiting also spoke directly about human rights and foreign crises.
• Eurozone ministers cancel Greece debt meeting
  Decision follows demands by eurozone members that country detail how it intends to cover its $428m budget gap.
• Senegalese troops 'killed in attack'
  Military sources blame suspected separatist fighters for deaths of three soldiers in troubled Casamance region.
• Bangkok blast leaves attacker wounded
  Officials seize explosives after Iranian man carrying grenades seriously wounds himself and four civilians.
• Romania struggles to meet power demand
  Freezing weather pushes up household consumption, forcing nation to limit power supplies to industries and halt export.

Green Inc. - NYT

• From 9/11, a Lesson on Whales, Noise and Stress
  A brief halt to shipping after the terrorist attacks appears to have lowered whales' stress levels, an ocean experiment suggests.
• On Our Radar: V-Day Advice
  Environmentally conscious couples may want to consider the source of the flowers, chocolates and cards they buy on Valentine's Day.
• Obama's Wish List for Energy
  The proposed $27.2 billion budget request for the Department of Energy is mostly about nuclear weapons, including nonproliferation and cleanup efforts.
• A Street View for Rivers
  Two surfers embark on a five-year Internet project to document the state of the nation's rivers with a view from the waters. One aim is to show pollution levels.
• Will Hurricanes Topple U.S. Wind Turbines?
  Of the offshore sites where wind power is being considered or developed, Galveston County in Texas was the riskiest, followed by Dare County in North Carolina, researchers found.

Dot Earth News

• The Innovator's Challenge: Moving From Idea Ne ...
  An analyst focused on the roots of innovation weighs an effort to turn fungi and farm waste into profits that fit on a finite planet.
• A Young Green Innovator Turning Fungi into Job ...
  A young inventive engineer explains how he and a partner build a 40-person (and growing) company from observations of mushrooms growing on wood chips.
• On Home Runs and Steroids, Heat and CO2
  An artist and scientist collaborate in using a baseball metaphor to explain the impact of greenhouse gases on climate.
• Other Voices: The Emptied Forests of Sarawak
  The world's richest forest, in plant species, loses its animals to unchecked hunting and surrounding development.
• Obama Pushes for Investing in Young, Inquiring ...
  President Obama welcomes dozens of young achievers in science and technology to the White House.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Washington Post pays ex CEO $20 million, then ...
      On Feb 8, 2012  the Washington Post announced buyouts for up to 48 newsroom staff as a cost cutting measure. This came  right after the Post paid out $20 million to ex Kaplan CEO Jonathan Grayer in Nov 2011 as part of a 2008  severance package.   Following Grayer’s tenure at ...
• NGOs Explain Away Egyptian Indictments
  The Arab Spring opened on the road in Tunisia before hitting the big time in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. The workers of the unofficial Egyptian union movement had fought the neoconservative run government of Hosni Mubarak for years. This was their moment. Unfortunately, there were others presen ...
• 3-minute video: Obama rejects dogmatic, narrow ...
  video here. “Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” – Tacitus, Agricola, (98), ch. 30. Translation: “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” &#8211 ...
• Rotten to the (Common) Core
  If insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results, then South Carolina is about to join much of the nation in education policy that can only be called insanity. The current accountability era was spurred by A Nation at Risk, and despite that report being flawed an ...
• A modest proposal: update US Bill of Rights to ...
  Credit to the incisive Video Rebel – home here; my contribution is adding a few links and minor edits. Of course, Occupy’s endgame is not to surrender  the US Constitution, but to demand arrests of the criminal 1% attempting to destroy it. When education like Video Rebels causes critical m ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Independent Voters Swing to Obama
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Populism and Pain in Obama's 2013 Budget Proposal
  Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly from a budget proposal where Obama is letting the 1 percent off rather easy, while the rest of us, especially the poor, shoulder the pain.
• Letter from Okinawa
  There is perhaps more common ground between Okinawans and Marines than either Washington or Tokyo imagines.
• The Lineup: Week of Feb. 13-19, 2012
  Bartlett Naylor calls on the government to fulfill a commitment to curb reckless behavior on Wall Street.
• The Real Social Security Crisis
  It may be difficult to face facts in an election year, but the fact is that Social Security retirement benefits are just too low.
• Bill Moyers Leans on IPS Work to Ask: "Who Shi ...
  Sam Pizzigati's Too Much newsletter highlighted by long-standing commentator.

IntelNews

• Turkish intel officer arrested for abducting S ...
  There seems to be no end in sight to the troubles of Turkey’s spy service. According to reports from Ankara, an employee of the country’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) has been arrested for orchestrating the abduction of a leading Syrian military defector, who had sought refuge in Turkey.
• News you may have missed #679
  New spy chief in Libya. Anonymous hackers release German classified information. Did Chinese espionage lead to F-35 delays?
• Research: Spies increasingly using Facebook, T ...
  During the past four years, this blog has reported several incidents pointing to the increasing frequency with which spy agencies of various countries are utilizing social networking media as sources of tactical intelligence. But are we at a point where we can speak of a trend? In other words, i ...
• News you may have missed #678
  Russia 'exposed 199 spies' last year. Germany expels four Syrian diplomats. Turkey summons spy chief over talks with Kurds.
• Has China’s most famous police official defect ...
  There are rumors that China’s most famous law enforcement official may have tried to defect to the United States, after Chinese police surrounded a US consulate in Southwest China.

War is a Crime.org

• Video: Teena & Ed Cardoni Fight Back Against t ...
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• Letter from Okinawa
  By John Feffer, FPIF Dear Mom: I haven’t written much from Okinawa. I’m sorry about that. I guess maybe you were expecting lots of exciting war stories from your son the Marine. But honestly, the most exciting thing we’ve done is put in a sea wall over by the Torii Beach shoreline and then take ...
• Why Did Petraeus Fire the Auditor Charged with ...
  The story which reared its head then dropped off the radar in summer of 2010 is still alive: that the major source of funding for the Taliban is likely the Department of Defense itself, estimated around $400 million per year, which is funneled to Afghan "security" companies as "protection paymen ...
• Jump Back! It's Time for UNAC! See you there!
  Build the Movement to Stop Sanctions and Intervention Against Iran! Defend the Egyptian Spring from the U.S.-backed Military Regime!   Attend the United National Antiwar Coalition Conference, March 23-25, 2012, Stamford, CT (Click the link at the bottom of the email to register for the conf ...
• Jill Stein Answers the "Are You Afraid of Romn ...
  From the NY Times: Q. What do you think of Mitt Romney? A. He responds to his electorate. When he’s running in Salt Lake, he’s anti-abortion. When he’s running in Massachusetts, he’s pro-abortion. He responds to his electorate, broadly, except that he remains basically pro-business in a very nar ...

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

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Digg Green

• Artificial Glaciers Water Crops in Indian High ...
  A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or "artificial glaciers," to get through the dry spring months.
• Brain Scans Could Reveal If Your Relationship ...
  When you're in the early stages of falling in love, you might hide it from friends and family. But you can't hide it from neuroscientists. By charting brain activity with an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine, scientists can spot telltale regions of your brain glowing joyously ...
• Nasa plots deep-space base beyond the dark sid ...
  The U.S. space agency is forming a team to draw up in depth plans for the outpost, to be parked at a spot in space known as the Earth-moon libration point 2 (EML-2).
• The Rock Record Got a Bad Rap: Fossil Diversit ...
  A new study shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the record of fossil diversity probably isn't distorted by the imperfection of the geologic record.
• Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?
  Scientists lead many powerful countries, including China and Germany, but they have never gotten a political foothold in the United States.

Invisible Opportunity

• Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
  by James Φοίνιξ The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he’ll shut his far ...
• Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France
  By Marion Douet PARIS Reuters – A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant MonsantoMON.N guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides.In the first such case heard in court in France, grain grower Paul ...
• The Currency of Lies on the Information Highway
  By Les Visible When a new age comes into being, new powers attend it in the collective consciousness, for the purpose of demonstration. Those new powers are starting to manifest in a small portion of the population at this time. To what degree it will finally come, in the short term, is unknown ...
• The Group Consciousness, Telepathic Resonance
  By Les Visible I was thinking about the bad guys and the good guys and the various ways in which whatever is coming could go down and it was then that the telepathy and resonance factor came together in my mind and I saw what was coming. This whole transition process, which is coming by [...]
• IRAN: Follow the Money (with Foster Gamble)

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• 13 States Working Towards Smart, Sane Marijuan ...
  State legislatures have convened or are convening all around the country, and once again this year, marijuana decriminalization or legalization are hot topics at the statehouse.
• Virgin Group Mogul Richard Branson Joins the M ...
  Some people might think that drug policy reform is a fringe issue. But reformers have won plenty of mainstream support, and achieved international victories.
• Will Frustrated Moms and Cops End the Drug War?
  It will be moms who come to rescue their children from the deadly grip of prohibition, and police against the drug war are eagerly ready to support them in this quest.
• The 10 Most Seductive Drugs -- And Their Fasci ...
  A brief journey through time, from ancient Sumeria to modern New Jersey, uncovers the mysterious origins of the world's most beloved substances.
• Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixat ...
  At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Takanori Aiba’s Amazing Bonsai Tree Castles ar ...
  Read the rest of Takanori Aiba’s Amazing Bonsai Tree Castles are Miniature Living Worlds Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bonsai castles, bonsai diorama, bonsai tree, eco design, green design, house plant, sustainable design, Takanori Aiba, terrarium
• Plantagon Breaks Ground on its First ‘Plantscr ...
  Several years ago a Swedish-American company called Plantagon unveiled plans for a series of massive skyscraper greenhouses that stood to transform urban farming in large cities. While the spiraling vertical farms seemed too good to be true at the time, Plantagon just broke ground on its very fi ...
• 14 Red-Hot Eco Lingerie & Sustainable Skivvies ...
  Valentine’s Day is today, and it’s almost time to kick offyour oh-so-special evening. May we suggest adding a little eco spice to your heart-filled holiday? Roses may be nice and chocolates may be tasty, but these 14 sexy sustainable skivvies will really light your fire. Be kind to t ...
• Sexy & Sustainable Men’s Undies for Valentine’ ...
  Nothing kills the mood faster than a pair of dingy tightie-whities, so boys, make sure your underwear game is fresh for Valentine’s Day! We’ve got a lineup of eco-friendly boxers, briefs and everything in between to keep you looking hot for your beau, so check them all out here. READ ...
• Spiraling Tower of 15,000 Books Celebrates Abr ...
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Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• New Quantum Record: Physicists Entangle 8 Photons
  Physicists have created a "Schrödinger cat" state using pieces of light called photons. The researchers entangled eight photons together in a move that might bring control to quantum physics experiments where only problems existed before.
• Plants Use Body Clocks to Prepare for Battle
  Researchers have discovered that while plants might look fairly inactive in the day, they are surreptitiously preparing for battle with hungry insects.
• President’s 2013 Budget Hits Planetary Science ...
  The president's 2013 budget, released Feb. 13, asks for modest increases to some federal science agencies but trims funding to NASA. The request also takes a deep bite out of Mars and outer-planet science exploration.
• Time-Lapse Starscape Videos Show Heavens in Motion
  The night sky seems unchanging to the naked eye, but beauty is hidden beyond the limits of unaided human perception. As Earth rotates, the sky moves, revealing astronomical events that only time-lapse photography -- a series of exposures lasting for minutes apiece -- can truly capture.
• Animal-Made ‘Art’ Challenges Human Monopoly on ...
  Art is usually considered a uniquely human ability, but that may not be true. Given the opportunity, animals like chimpanzees and gorillas and elephants produce abstract designs that arguably rise to artistic level.

PakAlert

• US Admiral warns Iran: We are ready today
  The commander of the US Navy base in Bahrain has warned that US forces are prepared for a strike against Iran over the country’s nuclear program.
• Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in ...
  In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. The grain grower, Paul Francois, says he developed neurological problems such as memor ...
• Australia lines up with US for war with China
  An Australian defence posture report, released last week, is the latest sign of the Obama administration’s reckless and aggressive push against China on all fronts—diplomatic, economic and military.
• False Flag? Israel Blames Iran for Convenient ...
  it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it wo ...
• Nuclear 9/11 Planned For 6/22/2012?
  The false flag attacks of 9/11 were used to trick America into war. Further staged events would be very useful in justifying new wars against Iran and Syria.

Andy Worthington

• George W. Bush’s Torture Program Began T ...
  Last month was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, and as this year progresses it is appropriate to remember that there will be other grim 10-year anniversaries to note. Last week, one of those 10-year anniversaries passed almost unnoticed ...
• Who Will Rid Us of This Callous Government, As ...
  Last month, while I was in the US for 12 days to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the prison’s opening, I was actually pleased to be away from the UK, not because I wanted to be away from my family, or my friends, but because I needed a break [...]
• New “Close Guantánamo” Campaign Be ...
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• Greek Despair: Will the EU and the Bankers Fin ...
  “Despair has enveloped Greece. This weekend the bankrupt nation, for that is what it is, began negotiating the latest act of a drama that many fear will end in catastrophe — financially, socially and politically.” These are the opening words of an article for the Observer by He ...
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Environment _ National Geographic

• Life on Earth Began on Land, Not in Sea?
  The first cellular life on Earth probably arose in a vat of volcanic mud akin to Darwin's idea of a "warm little pond," a new study says.
• Amid U.S.-China Energy Tension, "Clean Coal" S ...
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• Shark-Attack Deaths Highest in 19 Years—Travel ...
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• U.S. Oil Fields Stage "Great Revival," But No ...
  The shale boom centered in North Dakota lifts U.S. oil production, but the unexpected resurgence won't lessen petroleum's cost.
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• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
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• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

• Trial Begins for Hutaree Militia Members Accus ...
  A jury in Detroit today began the task of attempting to determine whether a heavily armed Christian militia group was embarking on an armed confrontation with the federal government or merely living in a fantasy world of “recreation” and protected free speech. Seven members of the Hutaree militi ...
• Beck Ridicules Cop-Killing Movement as Insigni ...
  There’s stupid, and then there’s really stupid. Finally, there’s blind, leaden stupidity, a quality personified in great detail by the loathsome Glenn Beck last week. Beck has long been aware of his own ridiculous qualities, telling The New York Times for a major 2009 profile that he was a mere ...
• Largest White Supremacist Site May Have Been H ...
  Stormfront.org, the largest white nationalist web forum in the world with a claimed 240,000 registered members, may have been hacked earlier this week. The website, run by former Alabama Klan leader Don Black out of his West Palm Beach, Fla., home, is up again today, but its look is much simplif ...
• Father in Apparent Murder-Suicide was ‘C ...
  Last week, police made a startling announcement in their investigation of a fire that killed a father and son in their rural West Virginia mobile home in January. They revealed that David Hutzler, 56, and his 9-year-old son James, known as “Mack,” were each shot in the head before the trailer bu ...
• CPAC Lineup Includes Hate Group, ‘Patriot’ Leaders
  The American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was dealt a blow last year when several organizations withdrew over the inclusion of a gay conservative group, GOProud, on its roster of sponsors. Having officially banished all gays who so much as make a peep abou ...

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

Common Dreams -News

• 'Climate Deniers' Follow 'Creationists' to Und ...
  The Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a “global warming curriculum” for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as “a major scientific controversy,” accor ...
• Anonymous Targets US Tear Gas Maker, Marking B ...
  As the streets of Bahrain filled with tear gas during two days of intensified protests and a continued government crackdown this week, a group of hackers retaliated. Anonymous, a prominent hacktivist organization, took down the website of Combined Systems Inc., the Pennsylvania-based manufacture ...
• McDonald's Move to Ban Pig Gestational Crates ...
  Yesterday fast food giant McDonald's announced that it would be phasing out the use of gestational crates for pigs. But animal advocates note that the company has far to go towards animal welfare. A joint statement from the Humane Society of the United States and McDonald's stated yester ...
• Greeks Worry That a Future of Austerity is No ...
  On Sunday, February 12, 2012, the people of Greece, in massive demonstrations, expressed their anger against the terms of the new loan agreement being forced upon Greece by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Eurozone finance ministers canceled a me ...
• Occupy Protesters Sue NYC over Pepper Spray In ...
  Two protesters who were pepper sprayed by Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna of the NYPD last fall during a peaceful march against Wall Street crimes and corporate greed, have sued the city for damages. read more

Lifehacker

• Fitness Buddy Is a Comprehensive Exercise Plan ...
  Android and iPhone: We've looked at how to turn your Android or iPhone into a personal trainer, but Fitness Buddy is an app that covers most of your basis in one sweep. It not only provides instructions for over 1700 exercises, but also plans ...
• What We Use: Alan Henry’s Favorite Gear and Pr ...
  This week we're sharing the hardware, software, tips, and tricks, that keep our blogging wheels spinning. Today, I'm running through my favorite gear, gadgets, apps, devices, and tricks to stay productive when I'm on, and to have fun when I'm ...
• Ask and Answer Questions About Home Automation ...
  Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hi ...
• Keep Your Relationship Strong with a Shared To ...
  Here's a great relationship hack that emphasizes partnership and thoughtfulness (cornerstones of a lasting relationship)—and also helps get those pesky chores done. The Parent Hacks blog suggests busy couples work off the same to-do list ...
• The Best Wallpaper Manager for Windows [Window ...
  Windows' built-in wallpaper switcher is okay, but not spectacular. If you'd like to beef up your rotating wallpaper, John's Background Switcher gives you tons of options for doing so, and at no cost. More »

Water Privatization

• Residents pack forum on Asheville water system ...
  Another public forum and a state meeting on the Asheville water system’s fate are happening this month. Losing Control of our Water What: A forum by Mountain Voices Alliance on the future of the water system.
• Residents pack forum on Asheville water system ...
  Another public forum and a state meeting on the Asheville water system’s fate are happening this month. Losing Control of our Water What: A forum by Mountain Voices Alliance on the future of the water system.
• Asheville water debate: rumors of privatizatio ...
  Who gets the water? The League of Women Voters will host a forum on a state study that could result in legislation stripping Asheville of its water system.
• University of Alberta in hot water for Nestle ...
  University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is facing heat for the decision to give an honorary degree to the CEO of controversial global food giant Nestle Corporation, the world's largest producer of bottled water and promoter of water privatization.
• University of Alberta in hot water for Nestle ...
  University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is facing heat for the decision to give an honorary degree to the CEO of controversial global food giant Nestle Corporation, the world's largest producer of bottled water and promoter of water privatization.

Guardian

• Obama friendly but firm as Xi Jinping visits t ...
  Chinese vice-president visits Washington for official meeting as US gets first look at man who will succeed leader Hu JintaoBarack Obama has warned Beijing that it has to play by the same rules as other major powers within the world economy at a meeting with vice-president Xi Jinping, who is exp ...
• Hiya pupils, please avoid slang, ta
  Sheffield Springs academy asks students to stop using slang words inside the school gates to improve employabilityA secondary school has instructed its pupils to stop using slang words such as hiya, cheers and ta, to enhance their prospects of landing a top job.Sheffield Springs academy, which i ...
• Sinai explodes into violence after years of ch ...
  Egypt's Bedouin accused of looting resorts, bombing pipelines and abducting foreigners in post-Mubarak security vacuumAhmed Abdo was still asleep in his hut at the gate of the Aqua-Sun beach resort on Egypt's Red Sea coast when 20 masked men carrying guns burst in.Abdo, 30, and his two colleague ...
• How secret renditions shed light on MI6's lice ...
  Little-known clause lets secretary of state authorise UK's spies to commit crimes abroadIn fiction, James Bond drew quite judiciously upon his licence to kill, bumping off just 38 adversaries in a dozen Ian Fleming novels. In each case, the individual received his or her just deserts.In real lif ...
• News Corp inquiry team defends policy over pol ...
  Management and standards committee dismisses claims it is revealing names of officers who lunch or drink with journalistsThe News Corporation team responsible for investigating alleged illegal payments by Sun journalists has defended its activities, dismissing as a "complete red herring" the cla ...

McClatchey

• Along with love, Valentine’s Day means bi ...
  If you pay attention to the Twittersphere, Hallmark Cards invented Valentines Day to sell cards. Wrong by about three centuries.Click to Continue »
• Facebook dad - yes, THAT one - is ready to 'mo ...
  Tommy Jordan, the North Carolinay father who responded to his teen-age daughter's Facebook rant with an eight-minute YouTube rant of his own, says he is preparing to "move on" with…Click to Continue »
• Colleges nurture Generation Z entrepreneurs
  A Friday night consisting of pizza and beer might not sound very exceptional in the life of the average college student. But for the residents of Duke's InCube living community,Click to Continue »
• Proposal would prohibit foreign laws in South ...
  A long list of S.C. lawmakers plan to send a message to Palmetto State courts: Don't apply foreign laws here. A proposed law, which a House panel will consider later…Click to Continue »
• Capriles ‘not scared’ as he prepares ...
  Henrique Capriles Radonski, the 39-year-old governor of Miranda state, prides himself on never having lost an election. But as he takes on President Hugo Chávez in the Oct. 7 presidential…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• NATO Admits Afghan Children Killed In Operation
  The U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan has conceded that several children died during a military operation in the northeastern province of Kapisa, but says it's not clear if NATO was to ...
• Panetta cautious on release of Guantanamo Taliban
  WASHINGTON -; Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he will not approve the release of any Taliban from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison as part of Afghan peace talks unless he's sure ...
• Combined Force Captures 2 Taliban Leaders
  From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 14, 2012 An Afghan and coalition security force captured two Taliban leaders and a suspected ...
• So, How Was Afghanistan
  Welcome back! Wow, I almost didn't recognize you. How long has it been? It seems like forever since you left for Afghanistan. What a lucky guy, getting to take so many exotic trips halfway ...
• MacKay secures German staging base for post-Af ...
  Defence Minister Peter MacKay and his German counterpart, Thomas de Maiziere, hold a news conference at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa on Feb. 14, ...

Futurismic

• New Economies
  Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
• Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
    The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
• Out of Destruction, Transformation?
  Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
• Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
  My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...
• A chat with Eric Drexler
  Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Variety Drops Its Insane Lawsuit Against The B ...
  For a few years now, we've covered the rather insane lawsuit filed by Daily Variety (owned by Reed Elsevier) against the band, The Vandals because of an old version of an album cover that parodies Daily Variety's logo. Years ago, when the band originally planned this album, it was threatened by ...
• US Begins Process Of Forcing Extreme IP Enforc ...
  We've noted a few times recently that over the last few years WIPO has at least appeared to be more receptive to views from developing nations that strict copyright and patent enforcement could do a lot more damage than good. There are actually tons of compelling economic evidence that developi ...
• UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Doma ...
  Last year, we wrote about how the UK was following in the footsteps of the US's Homeland Security/ICE domain seizures. As we noted, the process there is even less rigorous than in the US -- often without a court being involved at all. Law enforcement just had to ask, and Nominet would take dow ...
• Disney And Warner Bros. Prepare To Fight Over ...
  You may recall a lawsuit we wrote about last year, involving some questions about which parts of The Wizard of Oz movie were public domain, and which were still under copyright. It's a bit confusing. The books are public domain, having first started being released in 1899. No doubt about that ...
• Why Music Is Not A Product & Three Reasons Why ...
  Perhaps the biggest illusion in content-centric industries is the belief that the content itself is the main product. For the end-consumer, music is not a product or a service. End-consumers rarely pay for music. They put down money for copies of music, such as CDs, sheet music or music dow ...

VacTruth

• How the Medical Profession Covered Up Vaccine ...
  New papers reveal medical professionals covered up vaccine injuries and relabeled it 'Child Abuse.'
• GMOs Need Identification Everywhere
  Even though this web site is devoted to vaccine safety information, an issue that may have equal or unknown impacts on vaccines is nanotechnology, which affects every aspect of modern day life.
• Wakefield–Hero or Villain–Decide For Yourself!
  Mainstream media, supported by large pharmaceutical companies, label Dr. Andrew Wakefield a villain. Evidence shows the true story...
• Formaldehyde in Vaccines: A DNA Adduct?
  Formaldehyde in vaccines is injected into your child. Before you consider another vaccine for your child, consider this important information...
• What, if any, Parallels Are There Between BP’s ...
  Big Pharma has stealth-like protection and freedom from legal and financial liabilities from harming anyone with vaccines, all while they keep making more vaccines with more mandates for their use.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Worse than Goebbels: British Lies Exposed in A ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LPAC-TV Weekly Report: The Economics of Extinc ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Sky Shields, and Ben Deniston Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 3, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 5
• Feb. 6 Lyndon LaRouche Webcast To Be Crucial A ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Upcoming Lyndon LaRouche Webcast Scheduled
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche PAC Weekly Reports Feature Breakthrou ...
  EIR News Service press release.

War in Context

• The Israeli leadership is at war with itself o ...
  Yossi Melman writes: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and former Mossad chief Meir Dagan have a lot in common. They are both chubby and in their late sixties. They are both war heroes, decorated generals. And each rose to the highest positions in the Israeli defense establishment. But don’t m ...
• Unfazed by U.S. sanctions, India to step up ti ...
  The Times of India reports: Unfazed by US sanctions and Israel linking Tehran to the attack on an Israeli embassy car here, India is set to ramp up its energy and business ties with Iran, with a commerce ministry team heading to Tehran to explore fresh business opportunities. The team is expecte ...
• Explosions in Bangkok but no known target
  The New York Times reports from Bangkok: A series of explosions rocked a residential neighborhood here on Tuesday, leading Thai authorities to a cache of bombs in a rented house and the capture of two men identified in Thai media reports as Iranians. A third suspect was being sought. Witnesses s ...
• Anonymous movement claims attack on U.S. tear ...
  The Associated Press reports: The website of a U.S. company whose tear gas has been used against demonstrators in Egypt is the latest to be broken into by the Anonymous movement, hackers claimed Tuesday. In a statement posted to the Internet, hackers accused Combined Systems of being war profite ...
• Noam Chomsky: Hegemony and its dilemmas
  Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.  They offered an artist’s impressions ...

Watts Up With That?

• Sea level still not cooperating with predictions
  The university of Colorado has recently updated their sea level graph from the TOPEX satellite data. The 60 day smoothed trend is still stalled and shows no rise over what was seen since the peak in mid 2010: Data Raw … Continue reading →
• Homeland Security takes on The Carrington Event
  While we worry about future threats like global warming, and present threats like Iran’s escalating nuclear program, the sun’s propensity for belching out monstrous solar flares (like the Carrington event of 1859) could almost instantly create a world without modern … Continue ...
• Quote of the week – “The Noble Sav ...
  Dr. David Deming has an interesting essay on the logical flaws in modern environmentalism that are rooted in a meme known as “The Noble Savage”. Excerpt (with my bolded quote) below: All of this would be of academic interest only, … Continue reading →
• A fish story from Antarctica
  From Yale University: Fish of Antarctica threatened by climate change A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their “anti-freeze” proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed … Continue reading →
• Oh, Canada!
  From Penn State: Environment Canada cuts threaten science, international agreements Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in th ...

treehugger

• A Self-Sufficient, Solar-Powered Barge and Hou ...
  This live-aboard Dutch barge in London can cruise using nothing but the power of the sun. And it may be for sale too!
• Happy Valentine's Day, Big Oil. Love, the GOP. ...
  One Congressional staffer has some fun with a bill that's stuff with goodies for the oil industry.
• Canada's Tar Sands: So Destructive It Makes It ...
  A Reddit user who quit his job at the Alberta tar sands project shares a video that demonstrates the devastation he was no longer willing to be complicit in causing.
• Hilly San Francisco to Get Shared Electric-Bikes
  Do you live in San Francisco? If so, make sure to keep an eye out for new electric bikes that will be deployed by City CarShare!
• Weekday Vegetarian: Red Mjadara
  Delicately spiced, this makes a wonderful dish for mid-winter.

Biosingularity

• An RNA Switch for Stem Cells
  RNA molecules have long been known for their role in translating genes to proteins inside a cell, but more recently, scientists have found large numbers of RNA molecules that don’t code for proteins but seem to have other cellular roles. Most research in mammals has focused on tiny RNA mol ...
• Trial Shows Blockbuster Potential for Blood Cl ...
  An experimental pill to prevent blood clots exceeded already high expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday. The study was featured at the European Society of Cardiology in Paris and simultane ...
• Portfolio Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet at Lowering ...
  A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-l ...
• Bran, soy help cut cholesterol
  Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit ...
• Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
  Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Circus Lions No Longer Stranded on Russian Border
• Police Detain Twenty Protesters in Moscow
  Twenty protesters were detained at an unauthorized rally in front of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in downtown Moscow on Tuesday
• Russia Launches Dutch Telecoms Satellite
  A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying the Dutch SES-4 (NSS-14) telecoms satellite lifted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan after a series of delays caused by technical problems
• Twenty Injured as Gas Cylinder Explodes in Sou ...
  Twenty people were injured on Tuesday in Volgograd when a gas cylinder exploded in a café in the southwest Russian city’s center
• Main news of February 14
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia Launches Dutch Telecoms Satellite
  A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying the Dutch SES-4 (NSS-14) telecoms satellite lifted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan after a series of delays caused by technical problems
• Russian Cosmonaut Recruitment Drive Lures 43 A ...
  Only 43 people applied for the first open cosmonaut selection drive in the history of the Russian space industry a month before the deadline, recruiters said at a press conference on Tuesday.
• ESA’s Vega Launcher Lifts Off from Kourou
  Europe’s new launch vehicle, Vega, debuted at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Monday, the European Space Agency’s representative in Russia, Rene Pichel, said.
• Putin Gets Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake Water Sample
  Russia’s Natural Resource Minister Yury Trutnev on Friday handed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin a water sample from the pristine icebound Lake Vostok that had been hidden in the Antarctic for millions of years.
• Russia Set to Build World’s Most Powerful Lase ...
  Russia is set to build the world’s most powerful dual-purpose laser station at the approximate cost of 45 billion rubles ($1.5 billion), a Russian nuclear official said on Thursday.

Pruning Shears

• Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
• Diversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
  Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...
• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...
• Blogroll Amnesty Day
  Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2012 selections: Hannah’s Blog Under The LobsterScope The Adventures of Fat Cat and Everyman! The Confluence FALKLANDS Elle Varner - Conversational LushI&#8 ...
• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army 1st Lt. David A. Johnson, 24, of Horicon, WI.Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Singer, 23, of Temecula, ...

Organic Consumers.org

• After Disclosure of Sierra Club's Gifts From G ...
  The recent disclosure of the Sierra Club's secret acceptance of $26 million in donations from people associated with a natural gas company has revived an uncomfortable debate among environmental groups about corporate donations and transparency.Click here to read this article
• Local Chapter of Organic Food Group Comes Out ...
  Following is a resolution recently approved by the Athens Area Chapter of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm AssociationClick here to read this article
• Whole Foods or Half Foods?
  As we all know, Whole Foods has taken over as the central provider of supposedly safe and nutritious food for urban consumers in the U.S. While Whole Foods' advertising touts their importance in the safe food movement that is sweeping the country; their product line remains somewhat sketchy. As ...
• Monsanto Court Case Stirs French Pesticide Debate
  A legal battle pitching a French farmer against the world's largest seed company could lend weight to health claims against pesticides if a court finds on Monday that Monsanto was at fault in a case of chemical poisoning.Click here to read this article
• Have Bees Become Canaries In the Coal Mine? Wh ...
  It's often said that we have bees to thank for one out of every three bites we take of food. In addition to producing honey, honeybees literally criss-cross the United States, pollinating almonds, oranges, melons, blueberries, pumpkins, apples, and more.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• Food Movement Tsunami: U.S. Mayors Ride the Wave
  The mayors may not have started the revolution, but they don’t want to be left behind by it, either.
• 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Breaking News: NZ airport in health lockdown a ...
  Breaking News: NZ airport in health lockdown after flight from Japan. Breaking News: NZ airport in health lockdown after flight from Japan
• Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book
  Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book. Feminists plan pigtail protest over Prosser book
• Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State ex ...
  Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State exclusive. Investigate magazine breaks Church vs State exclusive
• BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search o ...
  BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search of cold case bodies. BREAKING NEWS: Police dig up house in search of cold case bodies
• St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged ...
  St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged child sex offender. St John’s Ambulance promotes award for alleged child sex offender

My Care2 Picks

• American Airlines Exposes Bushs Big Lie: Fligh ...
  American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...
• Economics Lesson 1
  Consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money. Emperor has no cloths. Submitted by Michael Dewey to World &nbs ...
• War Crimes Tribunal finds Bush and Blair are w ...
  five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
  Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
  Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• The Virus That Ate Farm Wars
  It started out just like any other day. Birds singing, horses whinnying, children dancing, you get the picture. A nice day... until it happened.
• WAR FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!!! Diebold accidently ...
  Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election. Satire.
• Announcement!
  Due to a computer virus – System Check – I will be offline for the most part trying to repair my computer. This is a particularly nasty virus that takes out all anti-virus protection as well as malware and spyware protection. It also hides your files. Here is a bit about it: System C ...
• TS Radio with Special Guest Dave Hodges
  Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us to give an update on the Gulf Coast disaster, and fill us in on the massive corruption of UN Agenda 21's ICLEI local branches.
• Aluminum + Fluoride = Alzheimer’s and Dementia
  Fluoride “enhances the bio-availability of aluminum,” allowing it to cross the blood-brain barrier easier, thus making it more toxic.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Anonymous sets its sights on Greece
  ShareThisAnonymous sets its sights on Greece --Flashpoint of bankster oppression 13 Feb 2012 Hacktivist group Anonymous has turned its attentions to Greece's political dysfunction. The online protests follow mass popular protests that began when the country announced severe austerity measur ...
• Tepco Says Faulty Gauge Behind Temperature Ris ...
  ShareThisTepco Says Faulty Gauge Behind Temperature Rise in Fukushima [LOL!] 13 Feb 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it concluded a faulty gauge showed the temperature in one of the damaged reactors at its Fukushima nuclear station rose to levels above safety limits. One of three thermometers ...
• Police: American claiming to be diplomat detai ...
  ShareThisPolice: American claiming to be diplomat detained at Pakistan airport for bullets in luggage --Officer: Suspect had 13 bullets in his luggage 14 Feb 2012 A police officer says an American citizen has been detained at an airport in northwestern Pakistan after bullets were found in his lu ...
• Guantanamo mail screeners ordered to keep mum
  ShareThisGuantanamo mail screeners ordered to keep mum --Mail screeners are mostly Pentagon contractors 14 Feb 2012 Mail inspectors at the Guantanamo prison camp will be held in contempt of court if they disclose the contents of attorney-client mail without permission, the chief judge in the U.S ...
• U.S. Navy: Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in ...
  ShareThisUS trolling for its next false flag in the Gulf, already projecting blame for tactics that the US has used and will use: U.S. Navy: Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in Gulf 12 Feb 2012 Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attack ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Tippity Top General Lies to Congressman (in wr ...
  14 February 2012 Happy Valentine’s Day.  It isn’t Valentine’s for those who will get hit with bullets or bombs today.  And it will happen.  So let’s get down to business. The top officer in the US Military is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  The Chairman is the p ...
• New Britches: Part II
  13 February 2012 Our Soldiers’ pants have been falling apart.  In August 2011, I wrote about this from Afghanistan.  The news was picked up widely.  My dispatch shows photos of Soldiers with blown out trousers. Combat is a fully engaging endeavor.  Many troops go without un ...
• A Matter of Trust
  11 February 2012 Going unarmed into combat is a bad idea.  Going unarmed while wearing a Red Cross to alert the enemy that you are defenseless is dumb.  A commander who forces his troops to do this without good cause is at best incompetent. US Army commanders do this every day in Afg ...
• 17 Members of Congress Want Answers on MEDEVAC
   
• Contempt of and for Congress?
  US Military Forges Ahead with Deadly Deceptions Dhaka, Bangladesh 05 February 2012 The US military is toying with American lawmakers. Based on two key documents submitted to individual Members of Congress and the House Armed Services Committee, by both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Army, ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• A Self-Sufficient, Solar-Powered Barge and Hou ...
  This live-aboard Dutch barge in London can cruise using nothing but the power of the sun. And it may be for sale too!
• Happy Valentine's Day, Big Oil. Love, the GOP. ...
  One Congressional staffer has some fun with a bill that's stuff with goodies for the oil industry.
• Canada's Tar Sands: So Destructive It Makes It ...
  A Reddit user who quit his job at the Alberta tar sands project shares a video that demonstrates the devastation he was no longer willing to be complicit in causing.
• Hilly San Francisco to Get Shared Electric-Bikes
  Do you live in San Francisco? If so, make sure to keep an eye out for new electric bikes that will be deployed by City CarShare!
• Weekday Vegetarian: Red Mjadara
  Delicately spiced, this makes a wonderful dish for mid-winter.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• EU development chief fuels race to Burma
  Andris Piebalgs voices concern that EU-based companies will act 'conservatively' over investing in Burma, to Europe's detriment
• No end in sight
  Refugees who have fled the war in Kachin state continue to be holed up camps along Burma’s northern border, where aid supplies are low. While China has denied recent reports of a flood of refugees across its border, many are known to have sought shelter close to the Chinese towns of Ruili ...
• World Bank warned on approach to Burma
  Civil society must be at forefront of country's development, Human Rights Watch says prior to key World Bank meeting on Burma
• Talks fail as Rangoon strikers push on
  Attempts by Burma's labour department to mediate fail as strike by up to 2,000 factory workers in former capital enters second week
• EU says Burma reforms ‘sustainable’
  EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs says 'no one doubts' sincerity of government, but urges continued scrutiny of reforms

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Windfarms: An ill wind of change?
  As the world's biggest windfarm opens off Cumbria, Christopher Middleton investigates the turbine boom.
• Building a home the green way
  How to be green and stay sane - why we must build to better standards.
• Green Philosophy by Roger Scruton: review
  Roger Scruton's new polemic sets out to reclaim the environmental agenda for the Right. Louise Gray is convinced.
• Albatross boosted by Climate Change, study sug ...
  Climate Change may have helped boost survival chances of endangered albatrosses, scientists believe.
• Councils fail to understand green energy, repo ...
  Councils and other social landlords are being 'greenwashed' into spending large sums of money on technology to cut energy bills despite having little understanding of how it works, a study has found.

National Geographic | Environment

• Life on Earth Began on Land, Not in Sea?
  The first cellular life on Earth probably arose in a vat of volcanic mud akin to Darwin's idea of a "warm little pond," a new study says.
• Amid U.S.-China Energy Tension, "Clean Coal" S ...
  China's next president visits the White House amid tension on energy. But U.S.-China collaboration is emerging on projects to clean up coal.
• Shark-Attack Deaths Highest in 19 Years—Travel ...
  Though down in the U.S., shark-attack deaths rose worldwide, perhaps due to increased tourism on far-flung shores, experts say.
• U.S. Oil Fields Stage "Great Revival," But No ...
  The shale boom centered in North Dakota lifts U.S. oil production, but the unexpected resurgence won't lessen petroleum's cost.
• Russian Scientists Breach Antarctica's Lake Vo ...
  Russian scientists have confirmed that they have breached the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica—a first.

Jurist - Legal Research

• NJ Senate votes to approve same-sex marriage
  [JURIST] The New Jersey Senate [official website] on Monday voted 24-16 to approve the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act [text, PDF], a bill which, if enacted, would legalize same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder] in the state. Under the bill, marriage would be defined as the "legal ...
• Tunisia court drops charges against former PM ...
  [JURIST] A Tunisian court on Tuesday dropped charges against former Libyan prime minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi [JURIST news archive] for illegally entering the country, but the former figurehead under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] remains in jail until ...
• China court indicts top fugitive on bribery ch ...
  [JURIST] A local Chinese court in Xiamen on Monday indicted Lai Changxing [CNTV backgrounder] on charges of bribing Chinese government officials and running a Xiamen-based network that smuggled large quantities of goods during the 1990s. As chairman of the Yuanhua Group in Xiamen, Lai allegedly ...
• Ninth Circuit hears education challenge to CA ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Monday heard oral arguments from minority student advocates who urged the court to reconsider California's voter-approved ban on affirmative action based on race or gender preferences in education and state hiring. The ...
• UN rights chief again urges referral of Syria ...
  [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive], in a speech [text] to the UN General Assembly on Monday, called for the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. Pillay urg ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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Tikun Olam

• Israeli Targets Hit in Coordinated Terror Attacks
  Normally, I’d have a post about this important story already published.  But Muhammad Sahimi and I have wanted to partner on a joint op ed for some time and this presented a great opportunity.  So we’re submitting it and hoping it will be accepted for publication. What follows will b ...
• India, Iran’s Top Oil Customer, Rejects U.S. O ...
  It is a truth universally acknowledged that the west’s oil embargo against Iran will bring that country to its knees.  Among other related truths: Iran’s economy derives much of its revenue from oil sales; oil sanctions will cripple Iran; all Iran’s previous customers will aban ...
• Im Tirzu Sues Israeli Peace Activists for Call ...
  Im Tirzu’s Ronen Shoval is one of the most litigous far-right activists in Israel.  He’ll sue anyone for anything.  He’s threatened Hebrew Wikipedia if they called the group “right-wing,” to which the editors unfortunately caved (here’s the Hebrew Wikipedia ar ...
• IDF Promotes Disgraced Commander to Prestigiou ...
  Let it not be said that the IDF doesn’t learn from its mistakes and draw the proper conclusions.* The new deputy commander of Israel’s “depth command,” designed to take the battle to the enemy far from Israeli territory, is Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch (Hebrew). In 2006, he comm ...
• Major Study Finds No Muslim-American Terror Menace
  Will someone tell Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, David Yerushalmi, and Gates of Vienna they might as well close up shop.  A new study reported by the NY Times‘ Scott Shane confirms what most of us knew all along.  The alleged phenomenon of Muslim-American terror is largely concocted from thei ...

If Americans Knew

• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
• International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
  Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Ushahidi's 'Disruptive Deployers': The People ...
  One spark and it happens: An individual or a team of people create a deployment using Ushahidi or Crowdmap. Their motivation and the inspiration are telling tales. These citizens, diaspora and a global community collaborate near and far to make change happen. Motivated often by the simple act of ...
• Spending Stories Makes Progress Toward Fiscal ...
  The people have a right to know, but sometimes they're a bit too busy to find out for themselves. Informed citizens have both the need and the desire to know about public affairs, whether public or of a more private nature. For as long as there has been democracy, there's also been a free pr ...
• Knight-Mozilla Partnership Morphs into Knight- ...
  Change is awesome -- it's a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it's with real excitement that today I'm announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. Before we get to the changes, some quic ...
• TileMill Now Lets You Design Maps for the Web ...
  TileMill, the free and open-source design studio for creating beautiful web maps, is now available for download on Windows. With the latest release, the map-making tool is fully operational on the three leading operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Windows still dominating the marketp ...
• Zeega + Localore = Innovative Local Storytelli ...
  Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media stations should be supported for year-long projects to transform the industry. Localore is a new $2 million national competition produced ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Space - Hubble Zooms in on a Magni ...
  Thanks to the presence of a natural “zoom lens” in space, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest “magnified” galaxy yet discovered.This observation provides a unique opportunity to study the physical properties of a galaxy vigorously forming stars when the un ...
• The Digital Edge - Wireless Will Redifine the ...
  Over the next five years, wireless connectivity to mobile devices and the Internet will redefine the mainstream products within the home audio market. Despite differences in capabilities, form factors, and usage scenarios, a variety of home audio products will all increasingly incorporate wirele ...
• The Race for Solar - European Research Project ...
  A three-year European research project aims to push solar-cell efficiency towards 25 percent and reduce power conversion losses by 20 percent.The project is set to meet Europe’s 2020 climate targets and general energy policies.The ERG program is set to improve the efficiency of solar cells, devi ...
• The Battle for Syria - Opportunities Aplenty f ...
  In an eight-minute video clip titled "Onward, Lions of Syria" disseminated on the Internet Feb. 12, al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri expressed al Qaeda's support for the popular unrest in Syria. In it, al-Zawahiri urged Muslims in Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan to aid the Syrian rebels battlin ...
• The Edge of Molecular Science - Hydrogen From ...
  A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). This technique holds ...

High Country News

• When an avalanche comes calling
  Some backcountry skiers are triggering avalanches without regard for those who might be skiing below them.
• Nothing to lose but your leash
  When did human beings become slaves to their dogs, required to take them everywhere, even cross-country skiing?
• The education of an oyster farmer
  If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters.
• The postal service is slipping away
  A great nation needs a great postal system -- even if it doesn't quite pay for itself
• Can snowshoe hares outrace climate change?
  The seasonal coat changes of snowshoe hares may provide wildlife biologists with clues about how wild animals evolve in response to climate change.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Newsbusted: Obama To Require Kosher "Meals on ...
  Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller has learned that President Barack Obama is going to require that all Kosher Meals On Wheels programs add Ham to their menus.  Citing the commerce clause of the constitution as well as the separation of Church (Synagogue) and state, Obama will claim that non-Jew ...
• Where's Dick Lugar???? GOP Senator Doesn't Liv ...
  Senator Richard Lugar (R-In) is nearing the end of his sixth term as Senator of Indiana. During the past thirty-five years the Senator has learned much about himself and put that education to work for his constituents.  One of those valuable pieces of learning may be that he doesn't reall ...
• With Friends Like Obama and The PA--Israel Doe ...
  "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is t bring them the real facts." --Abraham Lincoln By Barry Rubin President Barack Obama is campaigning on the claim that he is Israel's great friend d ...
• Obama's Budget Proposal "Liar Liar Pants on Fire"
  The President's life after the White House should be very long and filled with good health and happiness--it should also start as quickly as possible. Having no idea what he wishes for his post-presidency occupation I feel compelled to pass this warning along. Do not under any circumstances buy ...
• CPAC 2012 Wrap-Up: It Was All About The "Visio ...
  Last Wednesday I began my annual sojourn from the safety of Long Island to the most dangerous part of the country,  Washington DC. Many an honest person has entered the DC Beltway, only to return without their conscience, heart and/or memory of why they went there in the first place. I w ...

The Real Agenda

• Bank-owned Moody’s downgrades Italy, Por ...
  Moody’s.com February 2012 As anticipated in November 2011, Moody’s Investors Service has today adjusted the sovereign debt ratings of selected EU countries in order to reflect their susceptibility to the growing financial and macroeconomic risks emanating from the euro area crisis an ...
• Agent Orange en los Alimentos
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 12, 2012 Agent Orange fue creado por Monsanto y Dow Chemical para destruir la jungla en Vietnam durante la guerra. Durante este tiempo, millones de galones de este químico tóxico fue rociado sobre árboles y plantas lo cual dejó miles de vietnamitas en ...
• Agent Orange in your Food
  by Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola.com February 11, 2012 Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War. During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundr ...
• What’s Killing Central Americans by the ...
  All that doctors can do at this point is speculate about the cause of thousands of unexplained deaths from a mystery disease. Associated Press February 11, 2012 Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country’s ...
• Irã, China, Rússia, Paquistão contra EUA e Israel
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 11 de fevereiro de 2012 O Alto Comissariado do Paquistão na Grã-Bretanha reiterou o apoio do seu país à República Islâmica do Irã em caso de ataque do regime israelense. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, disse ao jornal britânico The Sun que “o Paquistão não tem outr ...

Wind Watch

• Wind industry’s extensive lobbying to pr ...
  The full extent of lobbying by Britain’s wind industry to preserve subsidies while getting thousands of new turbines built can be revealed. The intensive lobbying – both to construct wind farms and to maintain generous subsidies – comes amid growing unease over an industry adding to the bu ...
• Wind farms not welcome in Shellharbour
  Wind farms will not be welcome anywhere in Shellharbour after the city’s council decided to oppose future developments and to make its views known to the State Government. Mayor Kellie Marsh used her casting vote to pass the motion on Tuesday night, with support from her Liberal colleague Paul R ...
• Second developer dumps wind turbine project
  BLISSFIELD — A second developer involved in a wind-turbine project proposed for southern Lenawee County has bailed out. juwi Wind USA, the Colorado-based domestic subsidiary of a German company, has terminated a study of the 493-foot towers’ potential impact on aviation at Toledo Express Airport ...
• Wind farm bid sees farmers’ tempers flare
  A group of Erris landowners have reacted angrily to a planning application for a wind-farm in Cordoverry. Just before Christmas, the newly-formed Cordoverry Wind Farm Ltd lodged a planning application with Mayo County Council for a 10-turbine windfarm covering 190 hectares. The proposed wind far ...
• Proposed windmills would be state’s tall ...
  An Antrim wind project will be the tallest in the state and may power as many as 13,000 New Hampshire homes if a state committee determines it belongs on Tuttle Hill. Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of Delaware, last week submitted its formal application to build a 30 meg ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• Obama Send $3.8 Trillion Budget to Congress
  “Unveiling a $3.8 trillion election-year federal budget loaded with deficits, tax increases and hundreds of billions of dollars in new stimulus spending, President Obama said Monday that his plan will ‘restore an economy where everybody gets a fair shot.’” (Washington Times) And the ...
• Payroll-Tax-Cut Extension Won’t Be Offset
  “House lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to weigh a proposal by GOP leaders to extend the 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation’s $15 trillion-plus debt instead of scrounging around the budget f ...
• Obama Sends Budget Plan to the Hill
  “President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and edu ...
• Catholic Officials Say No to Obama “Accommodation”
  “President Obama’s effort to accommodate the Catholic Church by altering his administration’s rule on birth control coverage has not appeased the church, congressional Republicans or GOP candidates trying to take his job next year.” (USA Today) Can he square the circle? F ...
• Obama’s “Accommodation” on C ...
  President Obama tells us that through his “accommodation” on the contraception controversy he’s avoided “choos[ing] between individual liberty and basic fairness for all Americans.” How so? By ordering insurance companies to give away birth control pills.

Teaching Online Journalism

• Learning how to blog — the right way
  Even though the media world is smitten with Pinterest, the newest pretty thing, that old standard of social media — blogging — is far from dead and gone. Blogs are still used for all kinds of professional journalism, from breaking news updates to analysis and backgrounders. Blogs are ...
• Classroom helpers for j-school
  In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
• 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
  For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
• Getting that first job in journalism
  Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
• 5,000 followers on Twitter
  Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
  With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Charles Hendry: North Sea oil industry in inde ...
  The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.
• Can Iran close down the Strait of Hormuz?
  The ayatollahs' armoury is dwarfed by the US. But attempts to close oil lanes could lead to conflict, says Con Coughlin.
• China begins scramble for Afghanistan's oil re ...
  China began the scramble for Afghanistan's untapped oil reserves yesterday by announcing an exploration contract with Kabul - the first such international agreement in decades.
• The owl who flew 2,000 miles - but finally arr ...
  Exhausted and a hundred miles from land, a migrating owl made a wise move - he landed on a North Sea gas rig.
• Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollut ...
  Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair.

Ian Welsh

• Next Steps for Greeks after the Austerity Bill ...
  Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...
• Next Steps for Greeks after the Austerity Bill ...
  Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...
• Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
  Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
• Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
  Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
• The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
  1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Special Report: Census 2011: Urban Dispersion ...
  Canada now has fastest-growing population in the G-8 (Note 1), according to the results of the 2011 census, released last week. Canada's growth rate from 2006 to 2011 exceeded that of the United States by nearly one-third and is nearly one half greater than just a decade ago. The population ...
• The Geography of Investment Grade Wines
  The world produces more than eight billion gallons of wine each year (including those Algerian reds that taste like lighter fluid). All fifty American states, including Alaska, have thriving local wine industries. The eastern end of Long Island now looks like the Médoc, and one reason that the ...
• Sex, Singles And The Presidency
  By all accounts both President Barack Obama and his likely challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are ideal family men, devoted to their spouses and their children. But support for the two men could not be more different in terms of the electorate’s marriage and family status. ...
• Time to Rethink This Experiment? Delusion Down ...
  The famous physicist, Albert Einstein, was noted for his powers of observation and rigorous observance of the scientific method. It was insanity, he once wrote, to repeat the same experiment over and over again, and to expect a different outcome. With that in mind, I wonder what Einstein wou ...
• Debating Higher Ed: STEMs, Skills, Humanities, ...
  Forget about all the perceived problems with the American higher education system, and ponder these two numbers: 12.8 million and 3.4 million. The first is the estimate of Americans actively looking for work and unemployed. The second is the number of job openings in the U.S. as of the ...

GM Watch

• Conflicts on the menu- new report
  Food safety decided by industry-linked experts and industry data? Corporate Europe Observatory and Earth Open Source Press release: 14 February 2012 Brussels - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) comes under attack in a new report published today by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and ...
• The threat of GM alfalfa- new video
  From Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)  Dear Friends  The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network has posted a 3-minute action-packed educational video on genetically modified alfalfa. Please post and share! While the video concludes with the need to take a ...
• Brazilian beekeeping industry wants to control ...
  NOTE: The first item is the English translation of the Portuguese original (item 2) EXTRACT: "We will be requiring the mapping of the use of genetically modified products and fight for the preservation of areas free from transgenic products, such as the semiarid Brazilian Amazon and other regio ...
• Scientists warn of "genetic modification tread ...
  EXTRACT: In response to the increasing number of weeds resistant to current applications, companies are developing new generations of seeds genetically modified to resist multiple herbicides. This continual insertion of more genes into crops is not a sustainable solution to herbicide resistance, ...
• Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning
  Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning Reuters, February 13 2012  http://www.pretorianews.co.za/monsanto-guilty-of-chemical-poisoning-1.1233287 A French court on Monday declared US biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other ...

spiked

• The real reason we should cut aid to India
  When Britain begs India to keep taking handouts, you know aid is more about nourishing soulless Westerners than feeding hungry Southerners.
• Climate-change alarmism: fuelled by fantasy
  As a study of the state of the world’s glaciers indicates, climate catastrophists are still making it up as they go along.
• The biggest problem with Qatada? He’s in ...
  Abu Qatada has been incarcerated for nine years, and not once has he been found guilty of anything illegal.
• ‘Anti-racist’ censorship that shou ...
  When Manchester police can confiscate the Red Issue fanzine over a ‘potentially offensive’ joke, it is time to stand up for free speech in football.
• Man of the people versus The Man
  That the state thought a jury would favour the taxman against Harry Redknapp shows just how deluded it is.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• A Warning Sign For The World
  Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...
• 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of Ame ...
  Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Ne ...
• Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
  In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...
• This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like ...
  Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
  What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...

Desertification

• TOP UN OFFICIALS TO TRAVEL TO NIGER AS NEW FOO ...
  New York, Feb 14 2012  5:05PM Two top United Nations officials will travel later this week to Niger, where 5.4 million people are struggling to get enough to eat, part of a wider emergency affecting at least 10 million people … Continue reading →
• UN PARTNERS TO IMPROVE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FO ...
  New York, Feb 14 2012 11:05AM A new partnership involving the United Nations will ensure the rapid dissemination of weather updates from African meteorological experts to disaster managers in vulnerable communities. Pedro Basabe, the head of the UN International Strategy … Continue reading ...
• A Green Revolution for trees (Agricultural Bio ...
  Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2012/01/a-green-revolution-for-trees/ A Green Revolution for trees by LUIGI Prof Roger Leakey, sometime of ICRAF (among other places), where he pioneered tree domestication in support of rural livelihoods, and now Vice Chairman of the International Tree Foundati ...
• How to solve global hunger and malnutrition (A ...
  Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2012/02/how-to-solve-global-hunger-and-malnutrition/ by JEREMY There’s been a whole lot of noise lately about how to feed 9 billion people well, much of it adopting ammunition of silver. Organics can do it. GMOs are essential. Women farmers. Microdoses of &#8230 ...
• Saving the Life-Giving Soils of the World (Goo ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://earthaction.typepad.com/earthaction_email_archive/2012/02/youre-invited-to-a-free-virtual-forum-on-desertification-and-citizen-action.html First Invitation to Participate in a Free Virtual World Community Forum on Desertification & Citize ...

The Paper Trail

• Teen killers get inconsistent sentences
  Shrewsbury teen Valerie N. Hall pushed her mother down a flight of stairs in 2000, smashed her head in with a hammer and left Kathleen Thompsen Hall to die while she went for a ride with her boyfriend.
• Data: Huge jump in Florida's homeless school-a ...
  New data analysis by investigative reporters in Florida shows a huge jump in children’s poverty in a state hard hit by foreclosures and unemployment.  According to our colleagues at the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, “homelessness among school-age children soared from 30,878 in the ...
• Four Cabinet members willing to help Democrati ...
  At least four Cabinet members appear ready and willing to answer President Barack Obama’s call to help fill the coffers of Democratic outside spending groups, which have to date been badly outgunned by better-funded Republican organizations.After previously denouncing the so-called “super PACs” ...
• Asbestos deaths bring 16-year sentence
  In a case followed around the world, two former executives of a Swiss building-products conglomerate were convicted in Italy Monday of causing the asbestos-related deaths of more than 3,000 people.Each defendant — Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny, former owner of the Eternit conglomerate, a ...
• Pentagon misreports or ignores long-term weapo ...
  The Obama administration’s 2013 defense spending plan, detailed as part of its overall new federal budget, includes $178.8 billion to buy new weapons, ranging from jet fighters and artillery to naval cruisers and satellite systems.

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• New labour reforms hit Spain
  reforma.jpg Spain’s new conservative government has begun to attack workers´ rights with a serious of brutal reforms. On February 10, the government of Mariano Rajoy passed a se ...
• Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of ...
  Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us know what is all about. The problem arises why folks opt for rave clothing even if there are so many choices obtainable. The answer is Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us ...
• EDL Latest!
  griffin white pride.jpg The far right make a hames of things. Again! Crivvens, Jings, and Help Ma Boab! Whit a mess! The Infidels and English Defence League demonstration agains ...
• Victory in less than a week for newly reformed ...
  solnet.jpg Collective direct action against a letting agent succeeds in the full refund of an illegal administration fee. Glasgow Solidarity Network has demonstrated how direct ...
• Salute to proletarians in struggle in Syria, E ...
  Hello Libcom! Here is text of solidarity with insurgents in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia and all over the world. Feel free to distribute, comment, critisize it. We ask for people who could translate it in Arabic language. Class Solidarity with insurgents... ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!! STUNNING EDOMITE CONFESS ...
  This video is AMAZING – it sums things up pretty well.  First, it shows why Judge Napolitano was fired from Edomite Ruppert Murdoch’s FOX NEWS! But this video is even more stunning in what it shows at the 7:15 mark!   It shows a clip from the BRITISH BROADCASTING coverage on Septembe ...
• A Lunatic Goy Video Goes Viral – When wi ...
  This youtube video generated well over 2 million hits.   Why?  Because it sums up quite nicely the FRUSTRATIONS of the helpless GOY.   (Goy = the Human Cattle of the Edomite Overlords.) So, why do I call him and millions of “middle” Americans just like him  “lunatic’?  Th ...
• The Clone Speaks About the Drone!
  WARNING!   THE VIDEO BELOW IS OFFENSIVE AND MOST DISTURBING! (Just like this entire blog space!)  Liberals and Edomites will hate it! It explains the answer to the question: How do you know Obama is lying?   Answer:  Because his lips are moving.  How do you know Romney is lying?  Same answer &#8 ...
• Strange Boxes on the Beach – Are They Ti ...
  More strange metal boxes along coastal beaches – UFO’s, or What? By Dave Masko on 2012-02-08 BRAY’S POINT, Ore. – They can’t be moved; even when yanked by a four-wheel drive truck pulling on heavy chains tied around these humming metal boxes that are still appearing as of Feb. 8 up a ...
• Edomites For Dummies! Another Website of Tru ...
  Who are the Edomites?  What exactly is Edom which is Esau?   WHO are the Synagogue of Satan? Who are the Semites (the descendants of Noah’s son Shem) and who are the Kenites and Edomites?  In other words, who are God’s Chosen People, and who are God’s Accused People? My “ ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
  Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.
• Rt. Hon. John Turner (Former PM and Liberal Le ...
  Canada's 17th Prime Minister and former leader of the Liberal Party joins Peter to talk about his legacy and the challenges facing his party today.
• Samantha Nutt, doctor and author (Oct 22, 2011)
  Dr. Nutt discusses the challenges of delivering aid effectively.
• Dr. Ann McKee, Neuropathologist, Bedford VA Me ...
  Peter is in the lab with Dr. Ann McKee, one of the key researchers in degenerative brain disease, and finds out what she's learning from the head trauma suffered by fallen former athletes.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (O ...
  Peter sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney about the growing concern over the financial crisis in Europe and what it could mean for Canada.

Scotts Contracting

• New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy
  Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy has just finished the New Web Site http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com, in partnership with the New Google Small Business Promotion. If you’re looking for high quality and personal service, you’ve come to the right place. At Scotts Contracting w ...
• Solar Power – Will the USA ever catch Europe? ...
  Europe has historically been a long way ahead of the USA, with over 45GW peak capacity as of 2011 compared to the USA’s figure of 2.6GW. Last week, the Solar Power Generation USA conference was held in Las Vegas, and Shayle Kann, director of research at Green Tech Media declared that the “U.S. s ...
• Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Needs
  Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...
• Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
  Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...
• Recycling is not just for Cans
  Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...

The View From Abroad

• Is Obama Attempting to Buy Votes from College ...
  The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.
• Ron Paul is Nibbling at Romney’s Heels
  The Republican race for president is a two man contest between Romney and Paul.
• We Can't Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
  It is crazy to extend the payroll tax cut at this time.
• Obama is Correct But for the Wrong Reason
  President Obama is right: it will take more than one president to fix our economy.
• Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
  If I didn't know better I'd swear Washington is out to destroy Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Letter from Okinawa
  There is perhaps more common ground between Okinawans and Marines than either Washington or Tokyo imagines.
• Nuclear Pit Boondoggle at Los Alamos Temporari ...
  The new federal budget calls for Los Alamos's new "nuclear pit" facility to be postponed for five years.
• Angelina Jolie Makes Her Own "Hotel Rwanda" Ab ...
  Though failing to generate buzz, Angelina Jolie's film about Bosnia deserves to be widely viewed.
• Rolling Out the Red Carpet for the Second Comi ...
  A nuclear holocaust: it is written.
• Lady Gaga Unwittingly Serves the Cause of Arms ...
  Rep. Edward Markey is sponsoring a bill calling for deep nuclear-weapons cuts.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• VIDEO: Iran exile uses web comic to tell story ...
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• Thailand blasts: 'Iranian' bomber injured in B ...
  A man thought to be Iranian has had both legs blown off after attempting to throw a bomb at police in the Thai capital, Bangkok, officials said. read more
• The Russian veto: saying “no” is not a policy
  Why did they do it? This is the question that many in the Middle East are asking about Russia’s veto of a United Nations’ Security Council resolution on Syria. In itself, the veto is neither here nor there. The uprising in Syria is unlikely to end because of it. Even if President Bashar al-Assad ...
• برافراشتن پرچم شیر و خورشید بر سردر ورودی سفار ...
  خبرگزاری آذربایجان،گزارش ویژه : ساعاتی پیش مطلع گشتیم  تعدادی از جوانان وطن پرست و وطن دوست ایرانی با حضور در مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی در شهر لندن ضمن پائین کشیدن پرچم جمهوری اسلامی از سردر ورودی سفارتخانه پرچم ملی شیر و خورشید نشان کشورمان را بر بلندای  سردر  ورودی این سفارت خانه برافراشته اند.
• نقش اولاف پالمه سنتر در اپوزيسيون سازی برای آي ...
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Most Revolutionary Act

• The Club of Rome and the Sustainability Movement
  Club of Rome member David Korten (This is the final of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll ...
• The Club of Rome and the New World Order
  Lyndon LaRouche (This is the third of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley describes t ...
• The Origins of the Club of Rome
  Famous Diagram from Limits to Growth (This is the second of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carrol ...
• Me and the Club of Rome
  Bethnal Green tenements in 1973 (This is the first of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley ...
• The Mayor Who Said No to the Feds
  Wes Uhlman - Seattle Mayor 1969-1978 In my last post I wrote about the apparent defect in integrity and moral courage that plagues most American corporate and political leaders. This hasn’t always been the case. With the steady erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights over the las ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
  Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
• THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
  RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
• 'Gratitude'
  Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...
• 'Gratitude' Audio
• Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...

Salon

• America’s billionaire-run democracy
  Watching what’s happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship Costa Concordia founder and sink slowly into the sea off the coast of Italy, as the passengers, shorn of life vests, scramble for safety as best they can, while the captain trips and falls conveniently into a waiting lif ...
• The bishops go off the deep end
  Just as I was publishing my post about Catholic tribalism on Friday, predicting that the brilliant White House "accommodation" on contraception wouldn't mollify the U.S. Conference of Bishops, the bishops released a statement that made them seem, well, mollified, at least a little. The new Healt ...
• Whose Wisconsin recall is it?
  The Scott Walker recall is already historic.  Last month, organizers submitted signatures from over a million Wisconsinites, the largest portion of an electorate to ever petition for recall of a United States governor.  The total – nearly double the number required – means near-certain certifica ...
• Can Greece thwart a complete meltdown?
  BERLIN, Germany — Amid growing unrest, Greece’s government has finally approved tough austerity measures, yet it is far from certain if the deal will be enough to avert disaster.As lawmakers in Athens debated a bill Sunday that would impose yet-more severe austerity on the country, outside the p ...
• Inside Syria’s whirlwind of war
  The situation in Syria is deteriorating.On Sunday, the Arab League announced that it had formally decided to “open channels of communication with the Syrian opposition and offer full political and financial support, urging (the opposition) to unify its ranks” and to “ask the UN Security Council ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Ontario must weed out elderly drivers who are ...
  More needs to be done to get unfit motorists off Ontario’s roads, especially seniors who are losing their cognitive power yet insist on driving.
• In Syria, pressure from the Arab League and Tu ...
  At the UN, the Arab League is pushing Syria’s Bashar Assad to step aside.
• Ontario government should back Toronto City Co ...
  Light rail vs. subway? Ontario’s provincial government needs to stop waffling and support Toronto city council’s decision.
• Toronto police need to improve the way they de ...
  Toronto police need better training in how to avoid using lethal force on the mentally ill.
• Stephen Harper’s scary scenario about Old Age ...
  Is Canada’s OAS program “unsustainable?” Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page doesn’t think so.

Energy Collective

• Why Is the Nissan Leaf Selling Faster than the ...
  With the high gas prices we are facing today, the popularity of the fuel-efficient car is seeing its inevitable increase. Two of the fiercer competitors of this type of car are the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf, both released within days of each other in December 2010. Although the Volt ...
• Bill McKibben Talks Keystone XL on the Colbert ...
  Environmental Activist and 350.org Founder Bill McKibben had a lot to be excited about when he walked onto the Colbert Report last night.
• New Data: Nuclear Down, Carbon Intensity Up in ...
  Japan's nuclear power fleet has sat idle since a powerful earthquake struck the nation in March 2011, driving a sharp increase in fossil fuel imports and a spike in the nation's carbon intensity, new data shows. Together, these changes have battered Japan's trade balance, increased the carbon in ...
• Greener Leases Lead to Energy Transparency - a ...
  What does green leasing have to do with energy efficiency? Bringing energy transparency into the leasing process will help tenants and landlords alike better measure, and manage, their energy use.
• Biofuels: Value vs. Volume
  I was only partially surprised to read in MIT's Technology Review that Amyris, a biotechnology company developing renewable diesel and jet fuel from sugar cane, was backing away from the biofuel market to pursue more lucrative products.

EU Times

• Ron Paul could be the real winner of Maine caucus
  The mainstream media reported Mitt Romney the victor of the Maine caucus on Saturday, claiming another win for the frontrunner who had slipped in standing behind Rick Santorum during the previous week’s contests. Then again, when you ignore an entire county, it’s easy to come out on top. News st ...
• Russia to defend its borders with S-400 systems
  The long-range missile for Russia’s state-of-the-art S-400 Triumf (Triumph) anti-aircraft complex is to be created this year. “As a matter of fact, we are at the stage when the development of the missile is about to be completed. I believe that the task will be accomplished in 2012,& ...
• US Navy: Iran prepares suicide boats in Persia ...
  A top US commander says that the Iranian military has beefed up its naval forces in the Persian Gulf by increasing submarines and preparing suicide boats. “They have increased the number of submarines… they increased the number of fast attack craft,” the head of the US Fifth Fl ...
• Israeli embassies in Georgia, India targeted i ...
  The Israel embassies in India and Georgia have been targeted by bomb attacks, with one bomb going off in New Delhi and injuring two people, and the second device in Tbilisi defused. In New Delhi, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when an embassy car exploded. The woman succeeded in get ...
• Obama to Tax the Rich by 2013
  President Barack Obama revealed his 2013 budget early Monday, and in a brief address managed to summarize his plan in just three little words: tax the rich. Attempting re-election while America continues to see a worsening inequality gap and unfavorable employment numbers, President Obama once a ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Credit Suisse Bets Taking Losses Now Will Pay ...
  Reuters Credit Suisse emerged in better shape than most rivals from the 2008 financial crisis, and has long touted its focus on boosting capital to meet more stringent regulatory demands as a strong point. So the Swiss bankâs unexpected CHF637 million ($700 million) fourth-quarter loss came as ...
• Best-Dressed at amfAR Gala Event – Heidi Klum, ...
  AmfAR gala isn’t really a glam event but it has become traditional to make impressive appearances on its red carpet. Among the attendees at the charity gala in support of AIDS research were models, actresses, singers, designers and everyone who is ready to help to make this world better. Heidi ...
• Magic take out Heat thanks to Dwight Howard, 3 ...
  The Miami Heat didn't get their 6-game road trip off to a very good start last night, losing to the host Orlando Magic 102-89. The Heat fell behind by 17 in the first half, only to claw their way back into the game, trimming the lead down to 3 by halftime. After briefly trailing by 1 point, Mia ...
• Apple's Next iPad Will Not Pack a Quad-Core Pr ...
  Hot on the heels of yesterday's news about an alleged back cover for the next iPad (call it iPad 2S, iPad 3, iPad HD, really) comes a report claiming that the processor which will be powering the tablet will not be a quad-core one, as previous rumors indicated. A "Retina" display of 2048x1536 r ...
• Senate Democrats Say Obama ‘Reinforced’ His St ...
  Senate Democrats Say Obama ‘Reinforced’ His Stance on Contraception Mandate at Democratic Retreat ABC News Obama Promises Dems to Keep Boot on Neck of Catholic Church Barack Obama promised fellow democrats today in a closed door meeting that he would continue to keep his boot on the neck of the ...

Groklaw

• One Reason Why The USPTO Granted Stupid Inter ...
  We already reported on the surprising but good news ruling out of East Texas, that Eolas' crazy patents were judged invalid by the jury. However, Alex Howard's writeup about the ruling includes a crazy tidbit that came out during the short trial that deserves separate attention: "One intere ...
• SOPA and the Future of Internet Governance
  I'm not aware of any SOPA supporter who argues that SOPA actually does provide foreign website operators with a meaningful opportunity to be heard, before a neutral magistrate, in an adversarial proceeding and in a forum that can lawfully assert jurisdiction over him and/or his property before d ...
• Some comments on the heated debate on SFC/Busy ...
  People who claim that GPL enforcement is scaring away companies from using Linux and/or other Free Software also have to be careful in what they say. If a commercial entity enters a new market (let's say Android Tablets), then there is a certain due diligence required before entering that market ...
• Patent Office Proposes New Trial Procedures
  The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act created the board to cut down on patent litigation in civil courts. Under the act, board rulings are only allowed appeals in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. One of the mai ...
• Unsung Heroes of Linux, Part One
  Everyone knows and loves Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, the creator of Ubuntu Linux, is pretty famous. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GPL, is equal parts famous and infamous. But surely there is more to Linux and Free/Op ...

WideShut

• Syria & The NWO, MI6′s License To Kill, ...
  NEWS HEADLINES: February 14, 2012.
• Anglo American Establishment Demand UN Take Ac ...
  Obama and Cameron discuss sending UN Troops to Syria, to end the violence their own agencies are fostering.
• Syria’s Not So Spinning Spin Doctor: Feb ...
  Topics: Assad's factual spin doctor, next round of Quantitative Easing, Greek police waking up, and slave labour hits the UK.
• Fascist Government Providing Corporations Free ...
  Unions speak out against Government policy that allows retail giants to employ jobseekers without paying them.
• Greek Police Fight For Sovereignty; Will Arres ...
  Greece's largest police Union send letters warning they'll arrest officials for eroding sovereignty.

Politics in the Zeros

• Capital gains. Political losses
  In 1996, the Los Angeles Times called me a “P.R. Guru” and whether it was true or not, the accusation took on a life of its own and people began to believe it. Whatever one believes to be true becomes binding upon them and determines the outcome of their behavior. So since then I’ve ...
• Grammy Awards eliminates Roots Music. ‘A way t ...
  The music business is stuck in a tar pit of their own makingRoberto Lovato, head of Latino advocacy group Presente.org on the Grammy Awards eliminating categories.What do you make of the Recording Academy’s decision to eliminate 31 categories?At the end of the day, this was about greed. Secondly ...
• Doctor Hedges misdiagnoses the Decline of Occu ...
  Curiously, both Hedges and those who practice violent Bloc tactics want to impose their approach on everyone else. In this, they are reverse sides of the same coin.Only through an emphasis upon the most rigorously inclusive, anti-authoritarian practice can the participants within Occupy induce t ...
• Occupy Wall Street. Open Spaces
  OWS Open Space CommonsI finally made it to my first Open Space event. What a breath of fresh air. In recent weeks we have reduced the number of decision-making meetings and opened up space for different types of meetings/events, like Open Spaces where we foster dialogue rather than focus on maki ...
• Gunwalking known outside of ATF
  Other law enforcement agencies, to their credit, actively tried to stop the gunwalking.“In 2009, 2010, I became aware that ATF was walking guns into Mexico,” Coulson said. “I also learned that Homeland Security Investigations, then ICE, actually interceded on more than one occa ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

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

frogblog

• General debate, February 14, 2012
• Government needs to rethink National Standards ...
  In 2002, then US President George W Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 into law. No Child Left Behind was the US equivalent of the National Standards that New Zealand’s National-led Government has imposed on primary and intermediate schools – in fact it was the model upon which Nat ...
• Syria – and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’: & ...
  In the first question time of the 50th Parliament I challenged the Foreign Minister about the NZG policy on the Syrian crisis.  He delivered the ‘bipartisan’ foreign mantra that the Government condemned the killings in Homs, regretted the Security Council veto, and supported a transition to a de ...
• Christchurch’s assets could be next on Govt ch ...
  Two patsy questions by National MPs of Local Government Minister Nick Smith in Parliament this week (on increases in council debt and rates since the Local Government Act 2002) combined with Earthquake Recovery Minister, Gerry Brownlee’s recent overwrought criticism of Mayor Parker and Christchu ...
• Can’t or won’t?
  On Tuesday, Steven Joyce, Minister of Economic Development and Science and innovation, wrote about the ‘you cant’s’ of our country, in an opinion piece in the NZ Herald. Feeling that perhaps I am one of those people he criticises as ‘people who in the one breath chant "more jobs, more jobs" and ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Major Cause of Breast Cancer Almost Everyo ...
  By Dr. Mercola The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) secretly monitored the personal e-mail of nine whistleblowers—its own scientists and doctors—over the course of two years. The monitored employees had warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unaccept ...
• The Latest Risky Fad to Hit Your Child's Pedia ...
  By Dr. Mercola The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is now giving their seal of approval for physicians, particularly pediatricians, to offer vaccinations to parents and close family members of babies who are too young to receive the immunizations themselves. They also suggest giving it ...
• How Doctors Do Harm
  By Dr. Mercola It’s a widely held tenet in our society that if you get sick, you should visit your doctor to “get well.” But many physicians are relatively clueless about “wellness care,” they are in the business of disease treatment. This is why the vast majority of physicians’ visits end ...
• This Trick May Force Your Body to Burn 400-500 ...
  By Dr. Mercola For a number of years, scientists have been studying "brown fat."  Brown fat is a heat-generating type of fat that burns energy instead of storing it, and this may have important implications when it comes to weight loss. Human newborns have a supply of brown fat to ke ...
• Hidden "Agent Orange" Chemical They Want to Sn ...
  By Dr. Mercola Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War. During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundreds of thousands of Vietnames ...

JAMA

• Henoch-Schonlein Purpura [JAMA Patient Page]
• The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and ...
• Diagnostic Ultrasound [Book and Media Reviews]
• Geriatric Rheumatology: A Comprehensive Approa ...
• Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector [Book an ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Land mine kills elderly Indian man in Colombia
  Jiw Indians in Colombia have been systematically forced from their homes by armed groups © Survival An elderly Indian man has been killed by a land mine in the Mapiripán district of central Colombia. Juan Bautista Ladino, a member of the displaced Jiw tribe (also known as the Guayabero), w ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Today, let's think about caring and ...
  It's Valentine's Day. Canadian men will be outspending Canadian women by a ratio of $3 to $1 today on flowers, chocolate and cards.
• I love golf, but I play softball
  Golf is in my blood. I have been a fan for a long time. I have volunteered at almost every major golf event that has come to this province.
• Uncomfortable truths and misplaced priorities
  Robert Dutil, Quebec's publicsecurity minister, has called for a Sûreté du Québec investigation into the leak of information in the case of a retired Montreal police officer who attempted to peddle the force's list of informers to criminal elements.
• A seven-year battle for public accountability
  With a minimum of grace and not a word of regret, the city of Montreal said this week that it would "respect the decision" of Quebec's access-to-information commission ordering it to retrieve long-secret financial records from the organizing committee of the World Aquatics Championships in 2005.
• Tuition hikes are especially hard on female st ...
  Viviane Namaste is a professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Gabrielle Bouchard is a student at the institute and a representative of Concordia's Women's Studies Students' Association.

Food World Order

• Questions about raw milk? Ask a farmer.
  from brasschecktv.com: Whether you like raw milk or not, it has been part of mankind's diet for thousands of years, which is why I find it suspicious when the government insists that you can only drink a particular form of milk in which the nutrients have been destroyed. I recently heard that th ...
• Cod Fishermen’s Alarm Outlasts Reprieve on Cat ...
  from nytimes.com: Fishermen and federal officials grappled Friday with the increasingly bleak prospect of finding some way for the historic New England cod industry to avoid collapse amid troubles with the health of Gulf of Maine cod. Their meeting came in the week after regional regulators boug ...
• Indiana's Amish food markets seeing growth
  from wsbt.com: Even though Schmucker's Produce Farm and Greenhouse has been in business since 1964, it doesn't have a sign on the property, something not uncommon among Amish-owned businesses. Many do little or no advertising, and a few don't have phones. But lately, more people have been findin ...
• America's 'Food Stamp Nation' continues to grow
  from thestar.com: In what is clearly the country’s most troubled period in modern times, a Food Stamp Nation-within-a-nation is swelling to proportions that seemed unthinkable five years ago. In 2006, there were 26.7 million people on food stamps in America. By September 2011, that number had gr ...
• Disaster Cooking 101: How to cook after a cata ...
  from grist.org: This is about as far away from the dry, cracked soil of a Texas cattle ranch as it gets: Fifth Avenue, New York City. At a seminar that cost $225 a head, a small selection of guests learned about the impact of 2011′s record number of billion dollar disasters — there were 12, incl ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• A Warning Sign For The World
  Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...
• 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of Ame ...
  Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Ne ...
• Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
  In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...
• This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like ...
  Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
  What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...

CASSE

• Rescuing Obama from the Slippery Slope
  Is anyone else ready for some refreshing honesty from the President regarding economic growth and the environment?
• Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still ...
  Of course, it's better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich -- GDP growth and free trade -- no longer apply.
• The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons
  Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior -- assumptions familiar to students of economics.
• Why Do We Assume More Equals Better?
  Count Chocula (or at least the people who give him a voice) are working off an untested assumption.
• Technological Progress for Dummies, Part II
  Brian Czech explains the nuts and bolts of technological progress and why it won't solve the dilemma of growth.

The Talking Clock

• Beware Evil EU Empire, We Are All Greek Now
  In the late 1930's, as well as fighting Nazi Germany, we from these Great British Isles departed in not insignificant number to the shores of Spain to join the international brigades fighting the Spanish Civil War against Franco's troops, in the name of democracy: It was that fact which dri ...
• Greece: How the BBC and Sky conspired - yet fa ...
  There is a funny little chap, calls himself 'Foreign Secretary', who flies around the world imposing no-fly zones and regime change in the name of 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'. Despite repeatedly pushing him about this matter via Twitter (where he tends to ignore those of us who p ...
• Arrests for treason threatened. Greece today.. ...
  UKIP's Godfrey Bloom has repeatedly made calls for the architects of the great Eurozone misery to be arrested and flung into a jail cell where they belong. Many of us, meanwhile, have long lists of political Quislings and traitors who we would like to see pay the full judicial price for their ...
• How's that European unity going, Rumpy Pumpy? ...
  Go on... call English and British opponents of the (unlawful here) European Union names. Feel free. Call us racist, xenophobic, Little Englanders who have crawled out from under a rock. Go ahead. Water off a duck's back, these days. Only, whilst those of us who care about democracy and freedo ...
• Gay rights campaigners go 'right', the 'right' ...
  Quite hilariously from a political left-right perspective, an American court has thrown out a Californian ban on gay marriage ruling that the ban is unconstitutional. As a pro-constitution blogger and as a libertarian, we applaud the court for their verdict. However, we are quite aware tha ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 14 February 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: falling in love makes men broody, the dark side of the love hormone and erotic perfume tempts big cats
• Heart struck by CERN proton beams for Valentin ...
  Physicists at the CERN particle accelerator got romantic with protons to create a romantically geeky Valentine's day image
• Today on New Scientist: 13 February 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Earth Summit doomed to fail, anti-ageing Chinese medicine, seven equations that rule your world, and more
• Google Earth spots fish farms from the air
  Keeping track of thousands of fish farms is a slippery task – enter the eagle eye of Google Earth
• Today on New Scientist: 10 February 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice and first Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain

Tech Drive In

• System76's First Ever Video Ad Released
  Canonical recently upped its marketing pitch by releasing a slew of ads featuring Ubuntu. System76 has joined the fray and has just now released a small commercial (more like a teaser video), again featuring an Ubuntu powered desktop from its inventory. If you are not familiar, System76 is ...
• Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Review: Unusually Bug-Ridden
  Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" Alpha 2 is here and we are yet another release close to perhaps the most important Ubuntu ever. I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 ever since its first alpha was released and I have been closely following the developments. At the moment, Ubuntu 12.04 is far from sta ...
• No More Dodge Windows in Unity? Global Menu to ...
  Unity redefined Ubuntu over the years. But big changes don't happen overnight and Unity still is a work in progress. Many features introduced in Unity, like Global Menu, is not really a popular functionality, especially among desktop users. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is coming up and Canonical is doing ...
• Boomerang GTK 3.0 Theme + Faience GNOME Shell ...
  Good theme combinations are always nice to have. If ANewStart + AwOken GNOME Shell theme combination was a bit flamboyant, this one is more simpler, prefect for everyday use. Boomerang is a beautiful new GTK 3.0 theme made for GNOME 3.2 (Gnome Shell, Gnome Classic Fallback & Unity) an ...
• Beware: "Glassy" Future Ahead
  Corning Incorporated may not be a familiar name to you, but Gorilla Glass should be. A good majority of today's high-end touch-screen smartphones comes with Gorilla Glass which acts as a scratch resistant and durable cover glass. Phones that comes with it include blockbusters like Samsung Gala ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
  by James Φοίνιξ The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he’ll shut his far ...
• Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France
  By Marion Douet PARIS Reuters – A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant MonsantoMON.N guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides.In the first such case heard in court in France, grain grower Paul ...
• The Currency of Lies on the Information Highway
  By Les Visible When a new age comes into being, new powers attend it in the collective consciousness, for the purpose of demonstration. Those new powers are starting to manifest in a small portion of the population at this time. To what degree it will finally come, in the short term, is unknown ...
• The Group Consciousness, Telepathic Resonance
  By Les Visible I was thinking about the bad guys and the good guys and the various ways in which whatever is coming could go down and it was then that the telepathy and resonance factor came together in my mind and I saw what was coming. This whole transition process, which is coming by [...]
• IRAN: Follow the Money (with Foster Gamble)

Veterans Today

• Getting information to Veterans
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will host an information fair Thursday, Feb. 16, in partnership with Greenfield Community College's VetNet, GCC's organization for student Veterans.
• With LOVE To Vets with PTSD
  "I have seen way too many OD’s from alcohol, but I have never seen an OD from cannabis. My opinion is that cannabis is a hell of a lot better than alcohol, Valium, or any synthetics because it is natural.”-John Fleming, MD.
• U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt is For Israel’ ...
  Many Americans know that despite the economic depression Americans are suffering under, the politicians in Washington are still sending well over $3 BILLION tax dollars every year to the Jewish state of Israel.
• Kids Eating Rats for Dinner
  - To six year old little girl..."How did you feel about having to eat rats?"..."Sad", she said.
• Tribalism, Racism and Projection – Part 1
  “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin

electric politics

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

PR News

• Gibbs & Soell promotes Lambert to CEO
  NEW YORK: Gibbs & Soell will promote agency president Luke Lambert to the role of president and CEO on March 1.
• Omnicom PR revenue up slightly in fourth quarter
  NEW YORK: Omnicom Group reported $310.6 million in PR revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 3.9% compared with the prior year. PR accounted for 8.1% of the holding company's Q4 revenue.
• Arkansas transit agency seeks PR Firm
  NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR: The Central Arkansas Transit Authority has released an RFP for an agency to create a comprehensive PR plan.
• Thomson Reuters acquires RedEgg
  NEW YORK: Thomson Reuters has acquired RedEgg, a media intelligence platform company.
• ZRLIgnition snags Iowa contract
  URBANDALE, IA: The state of Iowa has hired ZRLIgnition of Des Moines to create a campaign highlighting the benefits of universities located there.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Help Stop Clear-Cutting in Castle— "Alberta's ...
  Sierra Club Canada Clear-cutting has begun in Castle Use Your Leverage as a Visitor or Voter to Stop Clear-Cutting in Castle Protected Area - "Alberta's Costa Rica" It's URGENT you act because Spray Lake Sawmill' ...
• Approval of Jasper Development Ignores Public ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Bow Valley Naturalists 9 Feb 2012 ...
• Job Opportunity: Conservation Volunteers Inter ...
  Position:  Conservation Volunteers Intern Organization:  The Nature Conservancy of Canada ...
• Pembina reacts to new joint oilsands monitorin ...
  Pembina Institute 3 Feb 2012 EDMONTON — Jennifer Grant, director of the Pembina Institute’s oilsands program, made the following statement in response to the n ...
• Beyond Monitoring— Responsible Management Need ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 3 Feb 2012 Today, forty five years after the first tar sands mines started, the federal government has finally taken steps to introduce credible monit ...

Stop NATO

• Thailand: U.S. Touts Asia-Pacific Military Pre ...
  Xinhua News Agency February 14, 2012 US touts Asia-Pacific military presence with Cobra Gold By Yang Dingdu ==== Myanmar is reportedly seeking participation in Cobra Gold. It may take years for Myanmar to become a participant of the exercise as it has to be involved as an observer first. Cobra G ...
• Kosovo Serbs Between Pristina, Belgrade And Br ...
  Voice of Russia February 14, 2014 Kosovo Serbs between Pristina, Belgrade and Brussels Pyotr Iskanderov The referendum held on 14-15 February in four northern Kosovo municipalities on non-recognition of the Albanian authorities in Pristina might escalate the situation in the region still further ...
• West May Strike Iran By Summer: Russian Milita ...
  RT February 14, 2012 West may strike Iran by summer – Russian Gen-Staff Chief Robert Bridge ==== If Makarov is correct in his estimations, the situation in the region – overwhelmed as it is with political crises and war – could spin rapidly out of control. Indeed, some are warning that an ...
• Stop NATO news: February 14, 2012
  ==== Pentagon: Obama Asks Congress For $613 Billion Defense Budget U.S. Special Operations Command Wants Operations In Asia, Africa, Latin America Russia To Deploy New Air Defense Systems On Border China Opposed To Expanding U.S. Military Presence In Asia-Pacific NATO Strengthens Ties With Armen ...
• Drones And New U.S. Global War Policy
  Pravda.Ru February 13, 2012 Drones and the new U.S. war policy By Luis Beaton* ==== Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Palestine, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, among other states, have suffered from incursions by espionage or attacks from drones. For ex ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Incompetence, Amnesia or Both? AP Reporters Co ...
  The Intel Hub By Tony Muga February 14, 2012 ‘Selective amnesia’s the story…’ ~ from the song ‘Hangar 18′ by Megadeth. On the Fox TV show ‘Fringe’, FBI agents are constantly seen dealing with the super-unknown: time warps, doppelgangers, men-in-bla ...
• News Brief Podcast: FBI Labels 9/11 Truthers A ...
  The Intel Hub News Brief - In the wake of the 25 flyers that were sent out to state and local law enforcement that labeled everyday activities as possible signs of terrorism, much uproar has been made about a particular section in one of the documents.Today The Intel Hub News Brief released a p ...
• False Flag? Examining the Attacks on Israeli T ...
  Madison Ruppert - In this article we will also be looking at the possible motives for the attacks, if the attacks came out of Iran as individuals like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have claimed, or if indeed they were false flag attacks carried out by Israel itself.
• Armageddon Averted? Nukes ‘On Board&#821 ...
  Russia Today - There are claims in the Russian media; the country was within a hair’s breadth of a disaster comparable to Chernobyl a few weeks ago. It is alleged a strategic missile-carrying sub was on fire for more than a day with its entire arsenal aboard. According to Kommersant-Vlast magaz ...
• The 72 Threat Fusion Centers Were Designed To ...
  Video Rebel Blog - There are 72 Threat Fusion Centers. 50 state based and 22 urban centers set up during the Bush presidency in cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.

FRS

• Arundhati Roy: Foreword to “Scripting t ...
  “….But Anuradha was different”– by Arundhati Roy That is what everyone who knew Anuradha Ghandy says. That is what almost everyone whose life she touched thinks. She died in a Mumbai hospital on the morning of 12 April 2008, of malaria. She had probably picked it up in the jungles of ...
• The Announcement that launched The People&#821 ...
  March Along the Path of People’s War! (thenextfront.com, a revolutionary Maoist website in Nepal, has posted the first announcement of the People’s War (from the time of its launching 17 years ago).  The Next front commented about the challenge this posting gives to those who aim to contin ...
• India: Punjab – a report on Jan Myrdal’ ...
  February 12, 2012 “The Political organization has the Central Role in Raising the Consciousness of People” by Buta Singh, Sanhati In America, and especially in Europe, the class consciousness of people has taken a downturn and this is the cause for domination of bourgeois ideology and in organiz ...
• Greece: as politicians trash wages, pensions, ...
  Greece approves spending cuts as protesters riot The legislation features about $4 billion in severe budget trims, including 15,000 job reductions this year alone. Furious crowds chant outside Parliament, and several Athens buildings are set on fire by Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times–R ...
• Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
  For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
• Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
  A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
• Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
  While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
• Ron Paul Packs Them In In Maine
  Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012
• Demi Moore Call -- Example of 911 System Succe ...
  The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Video: McSweeney's and the Stanford MRI Lab Ho ...
  McSweeney's, purveyor of pretty books, magazines, and short-form web comedy, teamed up with the Stanford MRI Lab for a short film, featured in McSweeney's newest Wholphin DVD quarterly, and it is appropriately themed for a certain pink-hued February day. Seven contestants face off in a "love com ...
• Say 'I Love You Very Little' With the World's ...
  Nanolove In one of those scientific breakthroughs that makes John McCain want to strangle an experimental cocaine-addled monkey, researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK have created the world’s smallest atomic valentine, measuring just five nanometers by three-and-a-half nanometer ...
• The Boy Who Played With Fusion
  Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one “Propulsion,” the nine-year-old says as he leads his dad through the gates of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “I just want to see the propulsion stuff.” A young woman guides their group toward a full-s ...
• How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel Fro ...
  And just how much fuel is that? It’s been nearly a full month since the Costa Concordia ran aground just off the Tuscan island of Giglio, and after two weeks of delays salvage workers yesterday began pumping operations aimed at recovering most of the half million gallons of fuel aboard the bad ...
• Frozen Fruit Flies Come Back to Life
  Feeding flies a "cryoprotectant" can save them from the cold A larval fruit fly is hatched in the year 2011 and frozen while still pupating, half its body water solidified in frigid temperatures. After spending many generations in a state of suspended animation, the wee Drosophila melanogaster ...

Veterans Today

• Getting information to Veterans
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will host an information fair Thursday, Feb. 16, in partnership with Greenfield Community College's VetNet, GCC's organization for student Veterans.
• With LOVE To Vets with PTSD
  "I have seen way too many OD’s from alcohol, but I have never seen an OD from cannabis. My opinion is that cannabis is a hell of a lot better than alcohol, Valium, or any synthetics because it is natural.”-John Fleming, MD.
• U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt is For Israel’ ...
  Many Americans know that despite the economic depression Americans are suffering under, the politicians in Washington are still sending well over $3 BILLION tax dollars every year to the Jewish state of Israel.
• Kids Eating Rats for Dinner
  - To six year old little girl..."How did you feel about having to eat rats?"..."Sad", she said.
• Tribalism, Racism and Projection – Part 1
  “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin

War is Business

• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
• New U.S. Nuke Facility Shows One Way Military ...
  Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?
• U.S. Military Manufacturers Move South Of The ...
  Buy maquiladora Buy maquiladora • Read more at The World
• U.S. Activists Sue For Info On Private Drones ...
  Buy private registration Buy private registration • Read more at EFF

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Not-So-Still Life: A Greek Riot Scene
  I'm a bit strapped for time today so here's something that captures the moment in Greece. On Facebook, my Greek friends have been posting these sorts of riot pictures and videos for several years now. I suppose it's conventional scenery when the IMF is called into action. Whether the IMF's prese ...
• Revisiting WWII, or When Adidas Made Bazookas
  This coming week I am going to discuss European economic integration in class. As most of you can recite from memory, the European Union got its start as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) back in 1952. However, the political logic of the ECSC is a bit more obscure. While you will appr ...
• Asian Values 2012: Dr Mahathir Kicks West's Hiney
  To say that I am ambivalent about still-controversial former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad is an understatement. On one hand, his time in office was accompanied by economic gains that were among the best in our region of Southeast Asia. On the other hand, he has had a penchant fo ...
• Kagan the American Exceptionalist Versus Math
  It appears that Robert "Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus" Kagan is set to come out with yet another of these eminently dispensable books on why America remains the indispensable nation. (I partly blame deforestation on this cottage industry of delusional Americans thinking they ...
• Poland's Bid to Become a European Big Beast
  There is much discussion about an "EMU-lite" being the likely result of current crises in the Eurozone. When all is said and done, what will supposedly remain in the eurozone are traditionally strong economies that were among the earliest joiners such as Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Yet ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• A Warning Sign For The World
  Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...
• 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of Ame ...
  Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Ne ...
• Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
  In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...
• This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like ...
  Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like?  Just look at Greece.  Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false pros ...
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
  What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy gove ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Fifth Estate's Spring 2012 issue (#386) now av ...
  The Fifth Estate has always proudly displayed the FBI’s description of this publication as “supporting revolution everywhere.”...
• Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
  When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
• October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
• New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
  June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
• November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
  Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...

E U Times

• Ron Paul could be the real winner of Maine caucus
  The mainstream media reported Mitt Romney the victor of the Maine caucus on Saturday, claiming another win for the frontrunner who had slipped in standing behind Rick Santorum during the previous week’s contests. Then again, when you ignore an entire county, it’s easy to come out on top. News st ...
• Russia to defend its borders with S-400 systems
  The long-range missile for Russia’s state-of-the-art S-400 Triumf (Triumph) anti-aircraft complex is to be created this year. “As a matter of fact, we are at the stage when the development of the missile is about to be completed. I believe that the task will be accomplished in 2012,& ...
• US Navy: Iran prepares suicide boats in Persia ...
  A top US commander says that the Iranian military has beefed up its naval forces in the Persian Gulf by increasing submarines and preparing suicide boats. “They have increased the number of submarines… they increased the number of fast attack craft,” the head of the US Fifth Fl ...
• Israeli embassies in Georgia, India targeted i ...
  The Israel embassies in India and Georgia have been targeted by bomb attacks, with one bomb going off in New Delhi and injuring two people, and the second device in Tbilisi defused. In New Delhi, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when an embassy car exploded. The woman succeeded in get ...
• Obama to Tax the Rich by 2013
  President Barack Obama revealed his 2013 budget early Monday, and in a brief address managed to summarize his plan in just three little words: tax the rich. Attempting re-election while America continues to see a worsening inequality gap and unfavorable employment numbers, President Obama once a ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• TheGlobalSquare: Call for coders
  TweetSubmitted by The Global Square TheGlobalSquare aims to be the first massive decentralized social network in the history of the Internet. We are aware of the difficulties we must overcome, but we believe the Internet Community has reached a point where such an initiative is possible. It is ...
• 2012-02-13 Athens burns: has #Greece entered i ...
  Tweet (Photo by Real Democracy GR – MultiMedia Team ) Greece’s political establishment trembles as banks and government offices burn amid violent anti-austerity riots. Has the country finally reached a tipping point? Exactly ten years ago, the crisis-ridden country of Argentina spiraled into a ...
• 2012-02-11 Food vs. Fertility, Part I: Bisphen ...
  TweetChemical structure of BPA A host of manufactured chemicals in the food and water supply is wreaking havoc on our health. One common characteristic among the effects of many of these substances is a decrease in fertility, accompanied by a rise in afflictions affecting the reproductive sys ...
• Election Year Venezuela: It’s Washington vs. t ...
  Tweet Authored by Nikolas Kozloff As the Venezuelan presidential election approaches in October, Washington is undoubtedly hoping that Hugo Chávez will go down to stinging electoral defeat and that the populist leader’s geopolitical alliance will crumble and come to an ignominious end. Of partic ...
• 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 2
  TweetDuring the second and final day of the U.K. Supreme Court's hearings on Julian Assange's extradition, Matrix Chambers attorney Clare Montgomery offered her rebuttal to arguments made yesterday by Assange's counsel. (Dinah Rose is representing Assange in his fight against extradition to Swed ...

U N News

• Security Council ambassadors begin official vi ...
  A Security Council delegation kicked off its mission to Haiti today as the country begins its painstaking transition towards reconstruction, job creation and capacity building following the devastating earthquake two years ago.
• Ban urges dialogue in dispute over Falkland Is ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced hope that Argentina and the United Kingdom can avoid escalating their dispute over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and resolve their differences through dialogue.
• Wave of prison deaths in South America sparks ...
  A senior United Nations human rights official has voiced concern over a wave of violence inside prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates have been killed in the past two weeks in four separate countries.
• Haiti making progress on rule of law, but face ...
  Haiti has made some progress in restoring the rule of law, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country said today, citing as examples the appointment of the president of the highest appellate court and the upcoming establishment of the supreme cou ...
• Criminal violence taking rising toll in Caribb ...
  An increasing crime rate is threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, states a new United Nations report that calls for the right mix of policies and programmes to tackle the problem.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Tibet Unrest Gains Momentum
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Instability peaks as Beijing cracks down
• India and the Politics of Aid
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Loss of a major combat fighter jet contract stirs anger in Westminster
• The Rising Danger of Urban Floods
  • (http://twitter.com/share) World Bank says it will probably get worse
• The Aging of Asia
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Isolation, poverty loom for an aging population
• Tensions between Myanmar's Hardliners and Liberals
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Reform process finely balanced

We Know the Lies

• Navy Seals Warn... 'False Flag To Be Blamed On ...
    Appearing on the Alex Jones Show on Monday, Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner said Navy Seals have told him military action against Iran is forthcoming and will be preceded by a false flag attack. Beginning at 8 minutes and 57 seconds in the first video clip above, Asner said Ir ...
• The Death Of Detroit ... 20 Things You Need to ...
    Detroit's once beautiful United Artists Theater. Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it ...
• The List of 75 US Senators Who Voted To Let 30 ...
    The House and Senate voted for the passage of the FAA bill that funds 30,000 drones to surveil Americans knowing that the majority are to be armed initially with shotgun tasers. Two Americans a week die from tasers so these are lethal weapons. These drones can easily be equipped with ...
• Whitewash... The G-man, the Child Molester and ...
    Why would Penn State’s Board of Trustees appoint former FBI Director Louis Freeh to lead its internal investigation of the child molestation scandal? To orchestrate another high-level cover-up? read more
• Pennsylvania... Two Butler County People Dead ...
  The Butler County story is extremely sad... Kim McEvoy wrote her governor “Since the fracking and flaring have begun, the air quality has deteriorated. We can’t play outside without getting a headache or a sore throat”. ~ Kim Triolo Feil - See Related article read more

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• It’s Almost Garden Time Again
  It’s mid-February, and many of us are thinking about or are already doing something about this years spring garden. Now is a good time to begin gathering the supplies that you will need to get started indoors. Why not challenge yourself this year and germinate your own seeds indoors? I kno ...
• Estate Sales Are Great Prepping Venue
    This morning as I was tidying up the bedroom, placing our Martha Washington bedspread neatly in its place, I realized how many quality items we’ve gathered over the years that cost us very little. Why? They were purchased at estate sales or garage sales. For those of you that don&#8 ...
• Reader Questions?
  msb-note We would like to involve you, the Reader, more! So, we’re asking you to chime in with your questions, any questions, ideally relating to the general topics covered in this blog or anything to do with survival preparedness — and when we get enough of them we’ll do our b ...
• Some Of My Basic Survival Reference Books
  Today I thought I would share some of my survival books. My books are a little different than Ken’s as they pertain to household matters such as cooking, gardening, sewing, quilting etc. Ken’s pertain to alternative energy, survival methods, firearms and tools! Generally speaking, wh ...
• One Passenger Quarantines International Flight
  image: TVnz A passenger on a flight from Japan to New Zealand commented to the flight crew of noticing other passengers with flu-like symptoms, sounding the alarm and prompting a quarantine when the flight landed some hours later. As it turns out, there were approximately 70 Japanese ‘home ...

Fast Company

• What To Do If Your Employees Are Sucking The L ...
  Are you feeling exhausted these days? Have you considered resigning from the company you founded? Welcome to the “Vacuum Club,” where employees suck the life out of their companies. The end result can be devastating for businesses.I recently facilitated a session at a Family Business Center, whe ...
• Google-Motorola Deal Approved, Hulu's Original ...
  Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Inkling Tackles Apple's iBooks Author App. Inkling, a startup centered on e-publishing, has just launched Inkling Habitat as a direct rival to Apple's own free (and slightly controversial) e-book publishing app for the iPad. I ...
• The Great iPad Mini Adventure!
  According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working with its Eastern suppliers to design and test a smaller version of the iPad hardware. People supposedly with intimate knowledge of the situation say it's going to have a screen size around 8 inches, compared to the 9.7 inches of the current ...
• Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer Re ...
  User experience is a priority that should, in some way, find a home within the design of any new-media strategy. This is part one of a limited series on the need for brands to employ UX in new-media strategies to improve customer experiences and engagement.With the explosion of social media ...
• Fast Talk: With Meeteor, Facebook-Stalk For Th ...
  Meet Chris Lee, cofounder of Meeteor, which leverages Facebook as a networking tool. Here's how to access "the network you may not even know you have."Chris Lee is the cofounder of the Seattle-based Meeteor, which scours your social graph in search of second- and third-degree connections to peop ...

Jadaliyya

• (Un)Historic Errors: Bahrain One Year On
  On the eve of the first anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, it might be time to step back from our usual celebration of the opposition’s “good fight” and take a more critical look at its discourse to date. So enamored was the world with the fact that a wealthy Gulf Arab state was abo ...
• Political Movements in Bahrain: Past, Present, ...
  One year ago, online activists called for a "February 14 Revolution" on the tiny island of Bahrain. Although the ongoing mass protests might come as a surprise for some, political movements in Bahrain and the wider Arabian Gulf have a long history that stretches back a hundred ...
• في بلاد العجائب
  أنا من المنامة، من الجفير تحديداً. نعم، مركز الأسطول الأميركي الخامس دائماً، وعاصمة الثقافة العربية هذا العام. وبعد أن كنت «الخائن» الذي يتفنن مكارثية السلطة في تلوينه «إيرانياً، صفوياً، مجوسياً» في أشهر قانون الطوارئ «العربي». وبحسب الغرض السياسي للسلطة بدأت أطرافها تنسبنا للأجندة الأمي ...
• لن أخون وطني
  بمَ يمكن أن يشهد مثقف خارج طائفته، وخارج نظامها السياسي الحاكم عليها بالموت؟ أتحدث عن المنامة هنا بما هي واجهة للسلطة السياسية التي أسندت إليها مهمة الاحتفال بعاصمة الثقافة العربية. أنا مثقف معارض لهذا النظام السياسي، ومعارض برسالتي الثقافية التي أجدها تتمثل في توسيع مساحة الحرية: حرية ا ...
• Palestine Diaries
  When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay,” why, would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no mistaking her disapproval. Looking at my US passport, she wanted to know about my family tree: m ...

mediagazer

• UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators ...
  Ernesto / TorrentFreak: UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers  —  Founded in 2008, RnBXclusive.com quickly became one of the most popular R&B / hip hop blogs.  With over a quarter million fans on Facebook it was the go-to destination for man ...
• Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker ...
  Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker for His Raid on Yahoo  —  Here's Dan Loeb's formal declaration of war against the old guard at Yahoo, along with his list of allies.  —  The activist shareholder wants four of Yahoo's board s ...
• Some best-guesses about what BuzzFeed is up to ...
  Tom McGeveran / Capital New York: Some best-guesses about what BuzzFeed is up to, and why it is in fact about Arianna, a little  —  In all the conversation about BuzzFeed, two questions and answers get repeated over and over again.  But I don't think the answers have been q ...
• One more executive leaves LoveFilm amid rumors ...
  Anna Heim / The Next Web: One more executive leaves LoveFilm amid rumors of Amazon's new streaming service  —  LoveFilm's CTO Mike Blakemore is leaving the online film and TV streaming and DVD rental company to join Guardian's digital development team, the British newspaper has ...
• Murdoch puts top lawyer on Sun case (Financial ...
  Financial Times: Murdoch puts top lawyer on Sun case  —  The media magnate has put his top lawyer on to News Corp's internal affairs committee as he comes under fire from his own reporters

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• TransCanada aims for 2015 Keystone XL sta ...
  The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is expected to come into service a bit later than previously expected, TransCanada Corp. said Tuesday as it reported stronger fourth-quarter results and hiked its dividend by five per cent. The Calgary-based pipeline and utility giant is now aiming ...
• The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes ...
  iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Feb. 13, 2012: Top Songs: 1. "We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monae)," Fun. 2. "Stronger (What Doesn't...
• Obama to tout American manufacturing in W ...
  MADISON, Wis. — President Barack Obama will try to use his Wednesday visit to a Milwaukee padlock manufacturer to highlight an improving economy and showcase companies that are bringing jobs back to the U.S., even though the Wisconsin company's success isn't reflective of the state. FI ...
• Yahoo-Alibaba talks called off after snag ...
  (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc and its Asian partners, China's Alibaba and Japan's Softbank Corp, have called off talks over a tax-free sale of the U.S. company's prized Asian...
• Lowry Park Zoo welcomes two baby penguins
  By Marissa Lang, Times Staff Writer Marissa LangTampa Bay Times...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
• Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
  For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
  Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

• 2/8/12 - Candidate Finances
  2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances –The five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum) have raised $98,252,290 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $128,353,560 million, and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has raise ...
• 2/6/12 - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto C ...
  sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto Contador Found Guilty - A two-year investigation into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ended on Feb. 3, 2012 with no charges filed by federal prosecutors. On Feb. 6 ...
• 2/2/12 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts abou ...
  2012election.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts about US Presidential Elections - Did you know that a presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history, or that every US President since 1852 has been either a Republican or a Democrat? ...
• 1/26/12 - 16 States with Pending Legislation t ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...
• 1/25/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary ...
  2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart - See Gary Johnson (Libertarian), the five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum), and Barack Obama's positions on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Judging Books by Their Covers
  C. Max Magee … we thought it might be fun to compare the U.S. and U.K. book cover designs of this year’s Morning News Tournament of Books contenders. Book cover design never seems to garner much discussion in the literary world, but, as readers, we are undoubtedly swayed by the little bill ...
• Christian Jihad
  Patrick Allitt Is it true that the Bible teaches peace and the Koran war? Only if you approach the books selectively, taking the gentlest of Jesus’ teachings and setting them against the harshest of Muhammad’s. Philip Jenkins’s challenging new book Laying Down the Sword shows that the Bible cont ...
• Why Are Men So Violent?
  Why Are Men So Violent? Jesse J. Prinz It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world’s homicides and start all of the wars. But why? A recent article in a prominent science journal contends that evolution has shaped men t ...
• Daddy Issues
  Why caring for my aging father has me wishing he would die Sandra Tsing Loh Recently, a colleague at my radio station asked me, in the most cursory way, as we were waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, how I was. To my surprise, in a motion as automatic as the reflex of a … Read&# ...
• Poverty as Destiny
  Isaac Chotiner … a Mumbai garbage-sorter takes the witness stand to defend the honor of his dead wife. A trial is being held to determine whether the defendant beat, and drove to suicide by self-immolation, the woman everyone in Annawadi calls The One Leg. After an argument with her neighb ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Marine Monday: Valentine's Edition
  A Spanish dancer's eggs, also known as a "sea rose." [Via Wikimedia Commons] Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day! Here on land, we give our sweethearts flowers to show our love. But what is the undersea equivalent of a rose? To answer that question, we’ve chosen three undersea creatures who seem ...
• Last Chance to Register for the World Oceans S ...
  Happy Friday, all! We just wanted to remind you about the The Economist's fast-approaching World Oceans Summit where 200 global leaders, including our CEO Andy Sharpless, will discuss the future of our oceans. The summit, which takes place in Singapore from Feb. 22-24, will offer a robust ex ...
• What’s Scarier Than a Shark? Lots of Things.
  This stonefish is far scarier than your average shark. If you think that sharks are the scariest creatures in the sea, this post may surprise you. As we've discussed in the past, the majority of shark attacks are caused by only three species (white, tiger, and bull), yet there are more than ...
• Sperm Whales Prefer Squid to Plastic Bags
  © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Plastic is one of the most common pollutants that end up in the ocean, but the properties that make it ideal for shopping make it deadly to marine life. Plastics are durable and do not decompose easily, which means they can stay in the ocean for decades. And because ...
• Oregon Senate Passes Bill to Create Marine Res ...
  Oregon's Otter Rock. © Oceana/Will Race Today the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 1510, which brings Oregon’s first network of marine reserves and marine protected areas off the Oregon coast one step closer to implementation. An ecologically significant network of marine reserves and protec ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Even The Civil War Couldn’t Stop Joseph ...
    Joseph Forrest loved Elizabeth Ehrhart. They lived in Macon County, Illinois before the Civil War. In those days when the life expectancy of a person was far shorter than we enjoy today, it was not unusual for courting couples to begin romance before the age of consent, and simply date an ...
• Eberhard von Breitenbuch’s Attempt On Hi ...
  Eberhard von Breitenbuch was a cavalry officer cast in the die of Prussian horse handlers who achieved the rank of Rittmeister, or cavalry master in the Wehrmacht. He served on the Russian front in Army Group Center. He was a subordinate and admirer of General Geunter Fluge and Field Marshall Er ...
• Axel von dem Bussche Tried To Kill Hitler With ...
  In 1937, Axel von dem Bussche was 18 but after proper schooling entered the German Army as an officer. During those lean times, it was a logical choice. Nazis had resources and jobs when others were still suffering. He joined enthusiastically but secretly was aghast at the activities of the Nazi ...
• The Silbervogel, Or Silverbird, A Supersonic S ...
    The Sanger Silverbird was a revolutionary design for a jet powered super sonic plane that could deliver a nuclear bomb to America from stratospheric altitudes. Upwards of 80,000 feet. It had an engine cooling system that circulated the jets own fuel to keep temperatures down. The plane wa ...
• New Country: South Sudan.
  South Sudan split from Sudan on November 9th, 2011. It is recognized by the United Nations and represents the further splitting of countries that has gone on unabated since World War II. The Capitol city is Juba. To the south is Ethiopia, and Kenya, and Uganda. The Congo and the Central African ...

Taylor Marsh

• Secy. Clinton’s Strength at State Seen in Obam ...
  Provides $51.6 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an increase of 1.6 percent, or $0.8 billion over the 2012 enacted level when including Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) resources. Within tightly capped budget ...
• It Could Be Worse
  Clint Eastwood called it. The Good Guys have won a couple. I like it. By Good Guys I mean the American people, which includes determined stiffs like Attorney General Beau Biden, then there is A.G. Eric Schneiderman and A.G. Koster of Missouri. Attorney General Chris Koster recently announced a 1 ...
• Thinking for ourselves: An Obama fundraiser an ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The only way I know to work my way toward an informed way to do my own thinking includes paying attention to context and connections. If I don’t see the ways, for example, the LGBT equality movement and the Occupy mov ...
• Another Big Obama Win, Republicans Cave on Pay ...
  House GOP leaders announced Monday they were putting forward a “backup plan” that would extend the payroll tax cut for ten months, while cleaving it from a similar extension of unemployment insurance benefits and what’s known as the “doc fix,” a measure needed to pr ...
• Dem Lawmaker: Obama Budget Nervous Breakdown o ...
  **UPDATED** “This budget is a nervous breakdown on paper,” said Cleaver during an interview on CNN’s “Starting Point” Monday morning. “We’re still in a recession, we’re still struggling. Unemployment is still too high,” he said. – The H ...

Hudson New York

• Antisemitism in the Media
  Helen Thomas, dubbed "the First Lady of the Press", was a renowned veteran reporter, "a trusted source" on White House politics, and for decades, considered a public opinion-maker, when on May 27, 2010, she made anti-Semitic remarks: she wanted Jews to
• Islam Looms in French Elections
  With just ten weeks to go until the first round of presidential elections in France, Islam and the question of Muslim immigration has become a central issue in the campaign. France, home to between five and six million Muslims, has the largest Muslim
• Greece: The Euro Should Never Have Happened
  The front page of last Thurday's Greek newspaper Demokratia was clear: "Dachau!" it headlined over the paper's full length. Also on the front page was a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform. Demokratia is a right-wing newspaper.
• NATO to Iran: Don't Worry about Missile Shield ...
  In an exclusive interview with Today's Zaman in Brussels last week, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen added his voice to the growing regional controversy over the nascent missile defense system, telling Iranians they have no reason to be
• Jordan' s King Abdullah needs to wake up - Fast
  Facing growing criticism over lack of reforms and transparency, Jordan's King Abdullah has announced an unprecedented crackdown on corruption, sending a number of his former top government officials to prison. But the clampdown has only increased the

Urban Survival

• Proof of the Second Depression
  Writer Katie Hill has found what seems to escape the Washington intelligentsia’s ken:  Proof that the Second Depression is in full swing.  Her article here gives important context to a “non-economic” story that outs the truth.  You see, back in … Continue r ...
• Coping: Honoring Our Elders
  What ever happened to it? I mean seriously, it seems like the older folks in society just don’t get the kind of respect they deserve.  Yet they all have lots of wisdom because no matter how smart, or not, you … Continue reading →
• Grand Master’s Monday
  “OMG, what’s he off on now?” you’re wondering as you contemplate another week on the treadmill at work.  Oh…err…just trying to find the right bit from my past that sets a mental framework for assembling all the days seemingly disjointed … Continue r ...
• Coping: Data Gap Ahoy!
  Well, well, well…seems another one of those news items predicted by the “rickety time machine” is about to fall into our laps.  A reader sends this: “Happy Monday, George! Whilst the bread and circus of the Grammy show was being … Continue reading →
• Greek Bailout in Limbo
  Yeah, I know, you thought Limbo was in the Caribbean, or on cruise ships, but it’s late in the week, and creativity burns low, so go with me on this.  The reason for the limbo label is that violence is … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• USA economy is based on thin air!
  Paul Craig Roberts : China is more capitalist... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• PRESIDENT MAKES SOME TOUGH CHOICES FOR EPA BUD ...
  Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC The President’s FY13 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency is essentially the same level as last year but there are increases in the budget for truly high priority activities that ...
• Wake of the Flood
  Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Shortly after I moved to New York last August the city was hit by an earthquake, a hurricane, and an October snowstorm. These kinds of things aren’t supposed to happen in ...
• House Transportation Bill Split Into Three Par ...
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Mirroring the record-setting 18-hour, 100+ amendment markup in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the House Rules Committee posted almost 300 amendments ...
• Cleaning up the garbage of LA's dirty waste ha ...
  Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Yesterday, during a marathon hearing that went past 5:30pm, the Los Angeles Board of Public Works took a huge step to a more sustainable future.  You can read abou ...
• They're giving away free water: capturing rain ...
  Noah Garrison, Project Attorney, Santa Monica When I boarded my plane Monday morning in Portland, Oregon it was (not surprisingly) raining.  When I landed in Los Angeles a few hours later, it was raining.   It was raining most places I fle ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 13, 2012: Seattle WA laughs as he tells a reporter that they do discipline officers sometimes, but not in this case, in a report about a cop caught on dashcam telling two i ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-11 ...
  Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 11-12, 2012: South Beloit IL settles suit for unspecified sum to cuffed woman tased & choked on video, two officers and their police chief were criminally charged for ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 10, 2012: Culpepper VA cop’s version of why he shot unarmed 54yr-old female motorist to death contradicted by witness [4] on.wusa9.com/ye2thV 6 Philadelphia PA cops su ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Someone sent me an email telling me about the above video which I thought was very well made, taking our “If you see something, film something” idea and keeping it moving forward. I’m impressed. Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Miscon ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 9, 2012: Memphis TN cop gets 8 years for shooting himself in a bid to get the attention of an underage girl he liked then falsely accusing the teen’s relative of sh ...

Total Collapse

• Moscow warns against US warships
  Russia would respond if the United States deploys warships in the Black Sea or Arctic, Russian Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said Tuesday. “In a case where such (Aegis anti-missile system-equipped) ships appear in the Barents Sea,or in the Black Sea for instance, we will likel ...
• Iranian boats shadow U.S. ship through Strait ...
  The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, shadowed by Iranian patrol boats. But there were no incidents on Tuesday as the Lincoln’s battle group crossed through the narrow strait, which Iran has threatened to close in retaliation for tighter ...
• Syrian defector: Assad using chemical weapons
  Assad’s forces used nerve gas in Homs under Iranian, Russian supervision, Syrian army defector says Non-conventional war in Syria? Security forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have been using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels, under the supervision of Iranian and Russian experts, a ...
• A fatal attack on Israelis abroad could spark ...
  This time, no one was killed although an Talya Yehoshua- KIoren, wife of the Defense Ministry representative in India, and three others were injured by a sticky bomb planted on her Innova SUV in New Delhi Monday, Feb. 13, at almost exactly the same time as a similar device was safely defused in ...
• Israel Places Ships in Position for Attack on Iran
  Israel has dispatched a number of naval vessels – under cover – into the Arabian Sea, and they are moving into its northern regions, just off of Iran, a U.S. intelligence source has reported in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The Israeli vessels have been positioned at the mouth of the Gulf of Oman, ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  The iPad 3 is on its way in March. 1 billion smartphone users will be roaming the world by 2016. Twitter’s forcing employees to hold most of their stock, to...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Anonymous pokes its head in to Greece, rips down a few posters from the Internet in the process. MySpace nabbed 1 million new users recently. Reddit takes a stand against...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Pinterest is accused of spamming users’ friends, Google’s Motorola Mobility deal looks set to be approved, and Apple is busy picking apps to demonstrate when it launches the iPad 3....
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Google’s cloud file storage called Drive appears to be launching soon. Samsung avoided a German shutdown of sales on its reformed Galaxy 10.1N tablet. It looks like the the iPad...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Path uploads your address book to its servers without permission, Flickr shuts down an app that’s trying to poach its users, and Sky News imposes strict rules on tweeting journalists....

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan n ...
  The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...
• BMW Edge, VIC: The Great Australian Home Retro ...
  Watch an average Australian house transform into a zero-carbon, low-energy, high-performance home before your eyes! Based on the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, due for release in May 2012.   Date: Sunday 19 Feb 2012 Time: 1 - 2.30pm Place: BMW Edge, Federation Square, VIC Cost: Free
• A Leaf to hide Australia’s peak oil embarrassment
  Matthew Wright Fortunately for the Federal Government, it can use a “Leaf” to hide its growing embarrassment at being exposed for suppressing its own report warning of sharp declines in global oil production in five years time. In 2009, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese’s Bureau of In ...
• Gas emissions up to seventy times worse - imme ...
  Unconventional gas emissions up to seventy times worse than industry claims - immediate moratorium a must Real time air sampling of gas fields in the US has shown leakage rates of up to over seventy times greater than the rates assumed by industry and accepted by government in Australia. The stu ...
• ABC RN Drive: PANEL DISCUSSION: SOLAR POWER
  From ABC Radio National Drive Listen Here  [Waleed Aly] 19 minutes past the hour, your're on RN Drive, Waleed Aly with you, its time for our Wednesday Panel. Do you have Solar Power at home? Lots of Australian homes now do have rooftop solar panels now, thanks partly due to government sub ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Washing clothing pollutes oceans with billions ...
  Washing synthetic clothes—such as nylon, polyester, and acrylic—is polluting the oceans with billions of microplastics: plastics that measure less than one millimeter. It may sound innocuous, but research has shown that these microplastics are accumulating in marine species with unkn ...
• Photos of the day: Sumatran tigers celebrate V ...
  The Sumatran tigers at the London Zoo received an early Valentine treat of pillows scented with Calvin Klein's Obsession. "Tigers are territorial creatures and these strong smells encourage their natural scent-marking behaviors by making them rub themselves against the perfumed hearts," Zookeepe ...
• The camera trap revolution: how a simple devic ...
  I must confess to a recent addiction: camera trap photos. When the Smithsonian released 202,000 camera trap photos to the public online, I couldn’t help but spend hours transfixed by the private world of animals. There was the golden snub-monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), with its unmistak ...
• We Were an Island: The Maine Life of Art & Nan ...
  We dream to make a difference yet how many of us can say we are the difference that impact others, much less we are the difference that impacts others while accompanied by our life’s partner, our loved one, our soul mate, our spouse?
• Tiny tarsier makes big, ultrasonic noise
  The Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta), a 5-inch tall Southeast Asian primate, has long resembled a ventriloquist's doll. It would open its mouth as though chattering away, but researchers heard nothing. Now, a new study in Biology Letters has found out why: the Philippine tarsier communicate ...

Sierra Express

• ACC empowers students and instructors of SLOIC ...
  The Anti-Corruption Commission in its resolve and commitment to educate the public on the downside of corruption and enlist the masses in the anti-graft crusade, on Friday 10th February, 2012 empowered students and Instructors of the Sierra Leone Opportunity Industrialization Centre (SLOIC) to f ...
• Campaign for equality certify Calaba town youths
  More than 15 youths from the Calaba town Progressive Youth Organisation (CPYO) have received certificates after a week-long training on project writing and community development among other things. The training which was facilitated by the Goodwill Ambassador of Calaba town Murtala Mohamed Kamar ...
• Sierra Leone Students Union in China (SLSUC)
  Re: A response to claims of national party politics and financial fraud in the Union’s management Beijing-China, 13th February 2012 – The attention of the Sierra Leone Students Union in China has been drawn to an article written by David Marcus Margai with a misleading headline: “Cor ...
• Our failed and vulnerable economy
  Sierra Leone’s economic tragedy is not that we are poor; the tragedy is that we lack a ruling class that is committed to overcoming our state of poverty.  Real politics here has little to do with social and economic reconstruction.  The observation of the assassinated South African writer Ruth F ...
• Thousands rally in solidarity with Middle East ...
  Thousands of people rallied in cities across the world today to demand respect for human rights in the Middle East and North Africa as part of a global day of action organized by Amnesty International. Activists, trade unionists, students and Amnesty International supporters gathered in countrie ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Fonterra recalls butter after metal found
  Fonterra has recalled two of its butter products and is investigating, after two customers each found metal objects in their butter.A recall was issued last night for Mainland Salted Butter 500g with a best before date of 10 January...
• Fonterra picks NZX to run farmer share scheme
  Dairy farming cooperative Fonterra will use the NZX to operate the Fonterra shareholders' market as part of Trading Among Farmers (TAF) scheme, NZX said today.The market will be a platform where Fonterra farmer shareholders will...
• Milk inquiry to continue
  Parliament's commerce committee has decided to re-adopt an inquiry into the price of milk that will stretch from the farm gate to the retailer. Last year the committee, then chaired by Lianne Dalziel, launched a broad-based inquiry...
• Fonterra takes another look at share trading
  Dairy co-operative Fonterra is recommending a change to its plans for share trading in a bid to allay concerns from its farmer owners.Fonterra is planning a capital structure change - given 89.85 per cent support by farmers - aimed...
• $1-a-litre deal's 'amazing' response
  The boutique grocery store that dropped the price of its milk to make a point has sold thousands of bottles at $1 a litre - and is now promising to keep milk cheaper than in supermarkets for the rest of the year.Nosh Food Market...

The Bovine

• B.C. raw milk activist launches civil suit
  From Home on the Range Farms.com: VANCOUVER – another front in the fight for freedom of choice with respect to food has opened with the latest salvo from Gordon Watson, a co-founder and shareholder in the Our Cows herdshare in … Continue reading →
• Raw milk debate at Harvard Feb 16th
  From Natural News.com: “(NaturalNews) Demand for raw milk in the U.S. is soaring, and federal and state regulators are having an increasingly difficult time trying to fend off scrutiny of their outmoded, disproven propaganda about the so-called benefits of pasteurization. … Continue ...
• Monsanto convicted of chemical poisoning in Fr ...
  From Anthony Gucciardi on the Activist Post: “In a major victory for public health, and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. The grain … Continue readin ...
• Amish raw milk dairyman Dan Allgyer shuts down ...
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has decided to shutter his farm, ending his ordeal with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Justice Department. He made his decision after … Continue reading →
• Canada endorsing terminator seeds?
  From Greenpeace: “A document leaked to the ETC group reveals that Canada is going to the UN to promote “terminator” technology: genetically engineered (GE) seeds designed to grow crops which can’t reproduce. These “suicide seeds,” designed solely to protect th ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Ceridian Fuel Index Down 1.7% from December, D ...
  In a video, Ed Leamer, Chief PCI® economist hypothesizes "delay in trucking activity". Chief PCI® economist, Ed Leamer, explains the disappointing month-over-month and year-over-year numbers for the January PCI in the face of other indicators that suggest that the economy is turning around. In ...
• Time For Some Honesty: No One Gives a Rat's As ...
  It's high time for some honesty. No one cares about Greece, except Greeks. Greece is a mere 2% of Eurozone GDP.. All this fantasyland talk of Armageggon if Greece exits the euro is total nonsense. The world will not end when Greece defaults. Indeed, the world might breathe a sigh of relief ...
• Japan Announces $130 Billion QE Program, One P ...
  Japan's 4th Quarter GDP Unexpectedly Contracts at 2.3% Annualized Rate The Financial Times reports Japan’s GDP shrinks in fourth quarterFebruary 13, 2012 Japan’s economy shrank for the third time in four quarters between October and December, after floods in Thailand damaged productio ...
• Cracks in Agreement in Greece, Finland, German ...
  The latest Greek deal is unraveling in multiple places already. The EMU wants to hold it together but can't. Cracks are wide, deep, and widening. Greek Party Leader Might Seek to Renegotiate Terms Social unrest harms hopes of Greek reform Sunday’s explosion of street violence in Athens ...
• Obama Proposes Massive Tax Hikes, Still Comes ...
  President Obama made a pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Instead it exceeded a trillion dollars for four straight years. Indeed, the president could not even make a pledge made in September to reduce the deficit to $956 billion. Finally, just to keep the defici ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Breaking News: The New Desperate Concoctio ...
  War Architects Have Written a New Script- This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fantastical ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  Dear Boiling Frogs Post Readers & Supporters: Every weeknight we’ve been presenting to you ‘BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials,’ a thorough round up of international and national news, select editorials, videos and podcasts. We have been consistent in providing you with balanced select ...
• Podcast Show #73
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Shahid Buttar This is Part I of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. Shahid Buttar joins us to discuss the continuous erosion of our civil liberties from illegal domestic surveillance to Guantanamo, NDAA and its discretionary detention provision autho ...
• Power, Propaganda, and Purpose in American Dem ...
  Democracy of the Few, by the Few, for the Few with the ‘Consent’ of the many By Andrew Gavin Marshall One central facet to the development of the modern institutional society under which we live and are dominated today, was the redefining of the concept of ‘democracy’ that took place ...
• Help Us Challenge the Main & Quasi-Alternative ...
  How We Differ from the Rest & Why We Need ‘You’ If a few years ago someone had told me that I was going to start a blog, gather a team of like-minded irate partners, expand, and turn the site into an alternative news and information site with daily news, top-notch editorials, independent ana ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• APM Terminals CEO Kim Fejfer Sees Opportunity ...
  Expected trade growth in India will however, require $20 billion in new investments Mumbai, India– With a population of 1.2 billion and the world’s third-largest economy, India remains significantly underrepresented [...]
• Bulk Carrier Docks in Fukushima, Delivers 63,0 ...
  The 87,000 DWT NYK-operated bulk carrier, Shirakumo, arrived at the port of Soma’s wharf No. 5 in Fukushima prefecture on February 9. Shirakumo is the first coal carrier to berth at the wharf [...]
• 13 Ships, $1.7 Billion in New Orders Placed YE ...
  South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and China’s STX Offshore and Shipbuilding had a heck of a day yesterday with 13 new shipbuilding orders placed. HHI won orders for 4 [...]
• Mercy Ships – A Vessel of Hope and Healing
  - by Nancy Predaina, Mercy Ships Editor Imagine a ship that sails into the poorest nations on earth to deliver world-class health care.  Now imagine that the health care is [...]
• Port of Hamburg Regains Market Share, Views Po ...
  The Port of Hamburg regains market shares and foresees a positive annual balance on total seaborne cargo throughput… In 2011, Germany’s largest universal port achieved a seaborne cargo throughput totalling [...]

Blogging Canadians

• Obamacare, birth control, and religious freedoms
  The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyo ...
• Seniors Occupy Conservative MP Offices To Prot ...
  "Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-called “Blue-Grey” Alliance entered and stayed in the constituency offices of 20 MPs in the pro ...
• In 2004 Conservatives Accused Paul Martin Of P ...
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• John Baird's response to the Israel/Iran conflict
  Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird Right now, we have one sovereign United Nations member making explicit overtures about launching a unilateral military attack on another sovereign United Nations member. It isn't just rhetoric, there is a nontrivial possibility that this might actually occu ...
• Kudos to Stephen Woodworth

Press TV - Middle East

• Main power plant shuts down in Gaza
  The only power plant in the Gaza Strip has stopped generating electricity due to lack of fuel, causing serious difficulties for the Palestinian residents of the area, Press TV reports.
• Israeli planes violate Lebanese airspace
  Four Israeli reconnaissance planes have entered Lebanese airspace in violation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, Press TV reports.
• Armed groups threaten Syrians in Homs
  Public transportation has become risky in the western Syrian city of Homs as unknown armed groups threaten vehicles carrying passengers in the area, Press TV reports.
• ‘Bahraini king acts like Israeli regime’
  The Bahraini government under the rule of the Al Khalifa family behaves like the Israeli regime, a political analyst tells Press TV.
• China committed to prevent war in Syria
  Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has announced his country is committed to preventing war and chaos in the crisis-hit Syria.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

• Liberal Citizenship, not “Jewish Identit ...
  An abiding feature of the Palestine question in the United States since 1967 has been a “Jewish left,” which combines Jewish affirmation with criticism of Israel’s occupation of the territories it conquered in that war. A 1973 anthology of writings from the “Jewish radicalism” movement stated: I ...
• The Empire Strikes Back
  If you’re looking for evidence of just how confident, militant, and insufferably arrogant companies have become in recent years, look no further than the phenomenon of the lockout.  A lockout is where a company closes its doors, refusing to allow its union employees to return to work until they ...
• The Labor Movement and the Democrats
  New anti-union legislation was passed by Congress earlier this month despite a Democratic majority in the Senate and Barack Obama in the White House. It’s one more indication that America’s unions are over a barrel. The leadership of the Democratic Party — which is dependent on union ...
• Iran Escalation: All the Elements for War Are ...
  With all the bluster of late in Western media that President Obama is assiduously working to “restrain” Israel from launching a preemptive attack on Iran, recent developments should put paid the lies of this dog-and-pony show. Last Sunday during an interview with NBC News, the presid ...
• Prophetic Politics: Charting a Healthy Role fo ...
  Does God take sides in the elections? Is there a voters’ guide hiding in our holy books? Should we pray for electoral inspiration? Secular people tend to answer an emphatic “NO” to those questions, as do most progressive religious folk. Because religious fundamentalists so often present an easy- ...

Destructionist

• Fukushima Reactor Temperature Surpasses 752 De ...
  Over 400 Degrees Celsius Pretending that the Fukushima reactors achieved a state of “cold shutdown” was a political – rather than scientific - decision. Tepco itself said the state of cold shutdown could only continue so long as the temperature within the nuclear reactors stayed below 100 ...
• Obama To Unleash “Ministry of Truth Team ...
  The Obama campaign is to “educate” and deploy what it describes as “truth teams” to ensure that any attacks on the president’s record are feverishly countered in the run up to the general election. ABC News reports that teams of Obamanoids will be launched initially in 13 “swing states,” incl ...
• Paul Campaign Points To Anomalies In Romney Ma ...
  The Ron Paul 2012 campaign has pointed to anomalies in Saturday’s announcement of the Maine caucuses results, as Mitt Romney was declared the winner with Paul in second by the slimmest of margins. The official tally in Maine has 84% of the votes counted so far. Romney took close to 39% of tha ...
• BBC forced to issue global apology in paid-for ...
  The BBC will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients which it featured in its programming. BBC ...
• Monsanto Creates Genetically Modified Food For ...
  COMMENT: Monsanto staff won’t eat it, but the general public is subjected to GMOs without informed consent via labeling, or warnings about tests that demonstrate danger of organ failure, sterility and cancer. There’s a story doing the rounds again, about how Monsanto, one of the world’s large ...

 

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