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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

14 February -RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Scientists Find Link Between La Niña and ...
    Weather patterns could have an influence on the spread of epidemics like that of the H1N1 influenza virus, initially known as swine flu, which broke out in Mexico and the United States in 2009.
  • TRINIDAD: Training the Leaders of "Generation ...
    With climate change advancing to the forefront of the most urgent issues facing the islands of the Caribbean, young people – who arguably have the most to gain and lose in future scenarios – are becoming increasingly engaged in charting a path to environmental sustainability.
  • Latin American Migrants Flee Crisis in Spain
    "What on earth is happening to Spain?" asks Hernán Bocchio, a 43-year-old Argentine architect with three children who has been unemployed for four years and is considering a job offer from Brazil.
  • EUROPE-INDIA: Trade Deal Threatens 'Pharmacy o ...
    Behind closed doors, a trade deal affecting a fifth of the world's population has been quietly in the works for years.
  • Bombardment of Syrian City Continues
    Syrian troops have shelled the central city of Homs for a 10th day, opposition activists say, amid suggestions by the U.N.'s human rights chief that the U.N. Security Council's failure to pass a resolution condemning Syria has encouraged the government to intensify its attacks on civilians.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran: Nuclear facilities immune to cyber attacks
    Summary: A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Israel and Proxy Terrorism
    Summary: There has been a movement afoot to "de-list" the M.E.K.--to remove it from America's list of terrorist groups on the grounds that it has renounced violence and, anyway, hasn't killed an American in a long time. This argument gets made mainly by Americans who support bombing Iran or e ...
  • U.S. Officials Must Cut Ties with Confirmed Ir ...
    Summary: Washington, DC - In light of confirmation by U.S. officials that the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) continues to engage in terrorism, despite the groups claim to have renounced violence, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) calls on all former officials who have taken part in the ME ...
  • Iran summons Azeri envoy over Mossad allegations
    Summary: Iran's state-run news agency says the country's foreign ministry has summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador to protest alleged Israeli intelligence activity in the oil-rich Caucasian state. source: Associated Pressread more
  • Sanctions Could Not Force Iran to Negotiate
    Summary: Interview with Peter Jenkins, the former British Ambassador to IAEA. source: irdiplomacy.irread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Violent Birth of the 13-Billion-Year-Old G ...
    When the Milky Way first formed, thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are perhaps 200 remaining, with most destroyed over the eons by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center. The surviving clsuters are...
  • Image of the Day: Antarctic's South Pole Teles ...
    Since 2007 University of Chicago researchers have used the South Pole Telescope in their attempt to help solve the cosmological mystery of dark energy. Little is known about this force, other than that it works against gravity and appears to...
  • "No Empty Space in the Universe" --Dark Matter ...
    New research concludes that instead of "edges," galaxies have long outskirts of dark matter that extend to nearby galaxies and that the intergalactic space is not empty but filled with dark matter.Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the...
  • Image of the Day: A Spectacular 20,000-Year-Ol ...
    Thought to be about 20,000 years old — middle-aged for a such a structure — the W44 supernova remnant is located 9,800 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) not only detected W44, it actually...
  • Monday's 'Comment of the Day': "On Fermi's Par ...
    "While all this conjecture may be entertaining, a few conclusions may be drawn: 1. If we are here.... and smart, chances are that others are here, and smarter! 2. Biology is a good starting block for intelligent life, but as...

Natural News

  • Whole Fraud: Exposing the myth of so-called 'n ...
    On Jan. 31, organic and natural foods giant Whole Foods Market (WFM) once again attacked http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com Organic Consumers Association, the nation's leading watchdog on organic standards, as being too "hard-line" for insisting that retailers like WFM...
  • Matrix Assessment Profile (MAP) helps reveal s ...
    Whether you are suffering from depression, anxiety, stress, fibromyalgia, arthritis, osteoporosis, artificial sweetener disease, IBS, nicotine addiction, mood swings, migraine headaches, lack of energy, or you just have a long list of chronic symptoms and no definitive...
  • Sugar sweetened drinks increase heart disease ...
    The result of a research study released by the American Heart Association's (AHA) Scientific Sessions provides evidence that women drinking two or more sugary drinks a day may increase waistline size and risk of heart disease, even if they don't gain weight. Heart disease...
  • Missouri teen murders neighbor child in cold b ...
    Now-18-year-old Alyssa Bustamante of St. Martins, Mo., recently apologized before a court for viciously murdering then-nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten, her neighbor, back in 2009 simply for the thrill of it. According to reports, Bustamante, who regularly attended a Mormon...
  • What is a direct democracy? Learn how We the P ...
    "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." That quote is attributed to Victor M. Hugo, a French poet, playwright, novelist and advocate of the Romantic movement - an artistic and intellectual movement during...

Threat Level

  • AP Sues Aggregator Over ‘Parasitic Business Model’
    The Associated Press is suing a paid news subscription company, alleging Tuesday the repackaging of the wire service's news content is based on a "parasitic business model." The suit blasts the Meltwater Group of San Francisco, saying the 10-year-old company's subscription service charges a fee ...
  • Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for T ...
    TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.
  • Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake, Fueling a Cybe ...
    The hype around computer security and Congress' rush to pass new legislation echoes the misinformation that led to the war in Iraq, according to two computer security experts from George Mason University.
  • Privacy Tool Lets Users Quickly Rank Websites ...
    A new tool and web site launched today purports to clear some of the fog around the issue of online privacy. PrivacyChoice has analyzed more than a thousand of the most trafficked web sites to score them on a scale of 1 to 100 in their collection and use of personal data, as well as the collecti ...
  • Congress Left in Dark on DOJ Wiretaps
    A Senate staffer was tasked two years ago with compiling reports for a subcommittee about the number of times annually the Justice Department employed a covert internet and telephone surveillance method known as pen register and trap-and-trace capturing. But the records, which the Justice Depart ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Caves to Its Own Demand That Tax Cuts Neve ...
    On Monday, House Republican leaders announced they would support the extension of the payroll tax cut without a corresponding "offset" in other federal spending. While that new approach is designed to tie Democrats' hands on passage of continued unemployment benefits and the so-called Medicare ...
  • Remembering Bush's Broken Promise to Cut the D ...
    Among the predictable Republican reactions to the President's proposed 2013 budget is the refrain that "Obama has failed to keep a 2009 promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term." Just days after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a CPAC audience that President Ob ...
  • Five Things I Found Caught in the Safety Net
    The American social safety net is back in the news, and not just because Mitt Romney acknowledged, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." This week, the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University revealed that a third of Americans now receive Medicaid, food stamps or other means-b ...
  • Closing the Health Insurance Income Gap
    A new study this week from the Commonwealth Fund confirmed the shocking gap between lower and higher income Americans when it comes to health insurance coverage. While only 12 percent of families making $89,400 a year (or four times the federal poverty rate for a family of four) was uninsured a ...
  • Will GOP Candidates Back 'Tebow Bill' for Home ...
    This week, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a "Tebow bill" allowing home-schooled children to participate in sports and other activities at public schools. For the Republican presidential candidates, the Tebow bill is a two-fer that lets them score points with evangelical voters while rid ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Message of the Day: Love
    Dandelion Salad Message of the Day http://shalomplace.com/seed Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. - G. K. Chesterton *** (What would this mean for you this day?) Meditation on the ...
  • Is New York City Trying to Hide Its Homeless?
    The city works hard to get chronically homeless people off the streets, but ignores those in shelters who still need permanent housing.
  • Does College Make Us Less Equipped to Change t ...
    Some of the things we learned back at the Big U don't work at all on the political street.
  • Bahrain: A Forgotten Arab Spring by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything February 12, 2012 “This is about whether this council, during a time of sweeping change in the Middle East, will stand with peaceful protesters crying out for freedom, or with a regime of thugs with guns that tramples human ...
  • Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky: With Liberty ...
    Dandelion Salad www.c-spanvideo.org Oct. 29, 2011 Former constitutional rights lawyer, Glenn Greenwald contends that the United States has a two-tiered judicial system, one for the “haves”and one for the “have-nots.” Mr. Greenwald presents his argument by tracing the evol ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • I
      Climate science, though it tells us what we might not like to hear, is extremely, extremely valuable. Thousands of extremely intelligent, hard-working, honest, and love-worthy climate scientists study and do research on the climate every day so that we can all live in a safer, more enjoy ...
  • On Valentine’s Day, Americans Show They Don’t ...
      Well, actually, the day before Valentine’s Day. 350.org and others were working to get half a million people, within 24 hours, to sign a petition to their Senators telling them to reject the sneaky effort to revive Keystone XL pipeline. The effort started yesterday at noon, but th ...
  • Chocolate-Covered Strawberries Threatened by G ...
    I couldn’t help but notice that two of the hottest Google searches today are chocolate-covered strawberries and Nevis, an island in the Caribbean Sea. Both, it’s important to note, are threatened by global warming and climate change. Nevis Threatened by Global Warming & Climate ...
  • Free Ecards | Valentine’s Day Cards
      Looking for good, free ecards for Valentine’s Day? I thought so. Below are a handful of sites with free Valentine’s cards that I think you and your special friend will love. Last year, I wrote two posts on free Valentine’s ecards. The best sites for such cards are the s ...
  • Monsanto Busted for Chemical Poisioning
    Monsanto is anything but your friendly mom-&-pop corporation. The GMO and chemical agribusiness giant seems to get off on putting farmers out of work, turning farmers into indentured servants, and claiming patents on life and on the ability to grow food. There’s hardly a positive adjec ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Canada's mining boom leaves natives in the col ...
    Editor's Commentary: Many Canadians like to pretend that we don't really have a problem with natives, they have a problem with us. But this article hits the nail squarely on the head - Canada has mistreated its native population since white people first arrived here (even if you leave aside...
  • Cutting US aid to Egypt? Think again ... - Wor ...
    The multi-month row between the US and Egypt’s military junta has reached serious levels in recent weeks, as top US officials have openly threatened to revoke all aid from the junta to punish it for charging Americans with illegally peddling political influence ahead of the parliamentary electio ...
  • Caterpillar Closes Canadian Plant to Take Adva ...
    Caterpillar is moving to newly "Right-To-Work" Indiana, offering rock-bottom wages and searching for anti-union managers. Is the US the new source for cheap labor? Caterpillar announced Friday it would close its London, Ontario, locomotive plant after 465 workers there refused to grant conc ...
  • Opposition Primaries Held With Support From Th ...
    Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S. Political parties in Venezuela are preparing for an intense electoral calendar in 2012 and 2013. On February 12, for the first time in history, several of the parties opposed to the current government will hold primaries to choose ca ...
  • Connect-the-Dots: Holistic Weltanschauung - W ...
    “What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!” - Sherlock Holmes Far more disconcerting than the recent closings of big chain bookstores is the wave of destruction and censorship of books and informat ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Voter ID Laws Can't Stop Actual Voter Fraud
    By @KYYellowDog That isn't speculation; we have actual empirical evidence now. From Think Progress: In an effort to prove that the myth of widespread voter fraud is just that, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union has offered to pay $1,000 for a single example of voter impersonation. T ...
  • Still Greedy Bastards at Davos
    By @KYYellowDog Yes, the world's obscenely wealthy were all a-flutter about restiveness among the peasants, and eager to figure out how to make it stop. Until somebody mentioned higher taxes. No surprise: they only started caring about income inequality when it started hitting them in the wallet ...
  • Health Care Reform? If You Say So.
    by @TomBales1 There's been a lot of back and forth over the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 which while it is considered "landmark" legislation by many for others, like yours truly, it has been more of a landmine than a landmark.  The division is of course, between those who now at leas ...
  • Disenfranchisement: Not Just For the Poor and ...
    By @KYYellowDog The Repug War on Democratic Voters is a fucking Hydra: every disenfranchisement trick you stop creates five new tricks. Are demographic trends of increasing minorities turning repugs into an endangered species? Just draw insane districts that combine all the minorities into the f ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Too Many Ma ...
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Care 2

  • A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream, a 2 ...
    On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became a filmmaker. It was around ten in the morning and the first-ever roll of Kodak 16mm film for my first-ever movie was loaded into my friend's camera to shoot the very first scene of 'Roger & Me.' I had no--> Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture ...
  • Installment Loan Glossary for Those Who Need Cash
    This glossary of lending and finance terms will help you understand installment loans and borrowing in general. You may be familiar with many of these terms from your experience with other forms of lending such as home loans and auto loans. Submitted by Jerrah Xander to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
  • Take Action: Start Controlling Equine Breeders ...
    The Equine Breeding Certification (EBC) program is a program designed by Cheyenne Little. It requires people to go through a certification program before they can breed their horse. It will prevent unwanted horses. Submitted by Kat Head to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • Knocked Up: Republican Presidential Candidates ...
    Back in the good old days, a kinder, gentler Republican Party, seeking to punish women who dared to have sex for the pleasure of it, targeted only those who accidentally got pregnant -- by forcing them to bring their fetuses to term. Today, it seems,--> Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Cultu ...
  • Why Payment Plans Charge Interest
    Consumers who need financial help in emergency situations do not have the cash they need to cover expenses. To help out, lenders offer loans that allow people to borrow money, and then pay it back over time. Submitted by Alex J. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Happy Valentine’s Day
    The times may not always be so happy, but we hope you have pockets–the larger the better–of love and laughter in your lives. We at No Quarter wish our readers a good day that preferably includes chocolate. HAPPY VALENTIINES DAY!!!
  • Israel vs. Iran–State Sponsors of Terrorism
    That will get the juices flowing. Let’s start with the facts. Over the past two years, Iranian scientists believed to be working on Iran’s nuclear program have been assassinated. Let’s take out the word, “Iranian.” If you woke up tomorrow and learned that American n ...
  • Is Interpol a Saudi Agent to Enforce Sharia?
    Hamza Kashgari, a Saudi citizen, faces a death sentence for the audacious act of questioning his own belief in the Prophet Muhammed and Allah. The Herald Sun, among others, reports the story: MALAYSIAN authorities have deported a young Saudi journalist accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad o ...
  • Taxing Uber
    What is not obvious is how this scale of extravagant consumption translates into the political conversation. The Anthony Pritzker fortune (LA pile below) that contributes to the LA home that appears as a New Age institute in the video, that includes a bowling alley and a toy store, what is the p ...
  • Whitney Houston, 1991 Super Bowl + Open Thread
    This video reminds us of Whitney Houston’s extraordinary ability to sing a song that professional artists agree is a daunting challenge. Thank god, these days, we can watch a video recorded in 1991, seven or more years before the necessary technical breakthroughs. This video transports us ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Penn group urges students to withdraw from PNC ...
    Penn group urges students to withdraw from PNC accounts The Daily Pennsylvanian By Sarah Smith · February 14, 2012, 8:30 pm The Penn Community Against Mountain Top Removal celebrated Valentine's Day a little differently by continuing their ongoing activism. The student group launched a campa ...
  • Activists Lobby Capitol Opposing Mountaintop R ...
    Activists Lobby Capitol Opposing Mountaintop Removal, Supporting Renewable Energy WFPL by Erica Peterson on February 14, 2012 Environmental activists are urging state lawmakers to stop supporting mountaintop removal coal mining and throw their weight behind renewable energy legislation. Today is ...
  • More Than 1000 Lobby Capitol Opposing Mountain ...
    More Than 1000 Lobby Capitol Opposing Mountaintop Removal, Supporting ... WFPL by Erica Peterson on February 14, 2012 Environmental activists are urging state lawmakers to stop supporting mountaintop removal coal mining and throw their weight behind renewable energy legislation. Today is “I Love ...
  • Hundreds decry mountaintop removal at Capitol ...
    State-Journal.com Hundreds decry mountaintop removal at Capitol rally Lexington Herald Leader Speakers and many at the rally bemoaned mountaintop removal. Several carried signs that read, "There is No Planet B," "Savor Our Streams," and "Topless Mountains Are Obscene.&qu ...
  • 4 Dirty Stocks to Avoid - Motley Fool
    4 Dirty Stocks to Avoid Motley Fool In today's edition, James discusses an area of investing that socially responsible investors should avoid: mountain top removal. While the US energy grid is very reliant on coal, this particular form of mining has a series of negative environmental ... an ...

Memeorandum

  • Panetta doubts Israel has decided on Iran atta ...
    CBS News: Panetta doubts Israel has decided on Iran attack  —  Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey testify before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing at the Senate Dirksen Office Building in Washington Feb. 14, 2012.&nbsp ...
  • Santorum's big government parochialism (Philip ...
    Philip Klein / Campaign 2012: Santorum's big government parochialism  —  Rick Santorum has surged back into contention for the Republican presidential nomination because of persistent reservations among conservatives about Mitt Romney.  But those on the right who embrace Sa ...
  • Poll: Obama holds edge over GOP hopefuls (Bria ...
    Brian Montopoli / CBS News: Poll: Obama holds edge over GOP hopefuls  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  President Obama holds a significant lead over each of his potentia ...
  • Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Caf ...
    Sara Burrows / Carolina Journal Online: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets”  —  State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead  —  RAEFORD — A preschooler at West Hoke Element ...
  • The George Washington Candidate (Patrick Caldw ...
    Patrick Caldwell / American Prospect: The George Washington Candidate  —  For a time, it looked as though Newt Gingrich would be the Romney alternative that the religious right and Tea Partiers would coalesce around.  Now Rick Santorum has taken that spot after a string of ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    Tuesday, February 14, 2012 23:39:16 UTC Tuesday, February 14, 2012 09:39:16 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.2, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Tuesday, February 14, 2012 22:34:39 UTC Wednesday, February 15, 2012 07:34:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 18.60 km (11.56 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Tuesday, February 14, 2012 18:07:55 UTC Wednesday, February 15, 2012 05:07:55 AM at epicenterDepth: 26.60 km (16.53 mi)
  • M 5.1, Baja California, Mexico
    Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:09:28 UTC Tuesday, February 14, 2012 02:09:28 AM at epicenterDepth: 31.10 km (19.32 mi)
  • M 6.4, Solomon Islands
    Tuesday, February 14, 2012 08:19:58 UTC Tuesday, February 14, 2012 07:19:58 PM at epicenterDepth: 54.70 km (33.99 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Long trudge to a cleaner Lake Tai
    China has spent billions of yuan trying to cleanse its third largest lake, where decades of pollution have brought ecosystems to the brink. But problems persist, report Liang Guorui and He Hanfu.Taihu Lake is China’s third-largest freshwater lake and one of its most important water resourc ...
  • Fresh approach to Hong Kong’s air
    Bleak new statistics on pollution in China’s richest city show government efforts have failed to attack the most serious threats to public health. There is a better way forward, writes Mike Kilburn.The last few days of the Year of the Rabbit marked a watershed in Hong Kong’s ongoing ...
  • Love story of the black-necked crane
    With this tale of loss, narrated through a series of drawings, Tashi Sange explores people’s relationship with nature in the shifting climate of China’s far western plateau.Tashi Sange is a Buddhist khenpo (scholar) at Baiyu Monastery in Golog, Qinghai, and the founder and head of t ...
  • “Who are these people now?”
    Tibetan herders are struggling to adjust to sedentary life on the edge of the city of Golmud. Xia Liwei visited one family and listened to their story.Fifty-eight-year-old Sonka never dreamed he might one day leave his ancestral village of Cuochi, on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, and move to the ou ...
  • Hard times for eco-migrants
    As China seeks to protect a delicate corner of Qinghai, 50,000 herders have been moved off the grasslands. Ill-prepared for urban life, they face a bleak future, write Guan Guixia and Suonan Wangjie.The Sanjiangyuan – or “Three Rivers Source” – region of Qinghai, western ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Letting the 1% Off Easy: Populism and Pain in ...
    The Obama budget is as much a campaign statement as it is a blueprint for where and how to spend -- or not to spend. And he's letting the 1 percent off easy.
  • Republicans Want to Put Your Boss Between You ...
    Whether it’s birth control or other essential health services, Republicans are pushing a radical proposal that puts your boss between you and your doctor — and in your bedroom.
  • The Cost of Contraception in Insurance Plans: ...
    Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. In 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services examined the issue of just how much it costs insurance compani ...
  • Why I Skipped Mass Today: A Practicing Catholi ...
    Written by Anonymous for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Reproductive health politics are controversial enough, but they are even more so for a family of practicing Catholics. My spouse begged ...
  • 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.

Threat Level

  • AP Sues Aggregator Over ‘Parasitic Business Model’
    The Associated Press is suing a paid news subscription company, alleging Tuesday the repackaging of the wire service's news content is based on a "parasitic business model." The suit blasts the Meltwater Group of San Francisco, saying the 10-year-old company's subscription service charges a fee ...
  • Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for T ...
    TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.
  • Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake, Fueling a Cybe ...
    The hype around computer security and Congress' rush to pass new legislation echoes the misinformation that led to the war in Iraq, according to two computer security experts from George Mason University.
  • Privacy Tool Lets Users Quickly Rank Websites ...
    A new tool and web site launched today purports to clear some of the fog around the issue of online privacy. PrivacyChoice has analyzed more than a thousand of the most trafficked web sites to score them on a scale of 1 to 100 in their collection and use of personal data, as well as the collecti ...
  • Congress Left in Dark on DOJ Wiretaps
    A Senate staffer was tasked two years ago with compiling reports for a subcommittee about the number of times annually the Justice Department employed a covert internet and telephone surveillance method known as pen register and trap-and-trace capturing. But the records, which the Justice Depart ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Federal inspectors (USDA) told to ignore moldy ...
    Chris Ingalls of Seattle’s King 5 News does a great job of telling a story where once again, one agency (USDA) charged with food safety is ignoring it to move product along and also not communicating with another agency (FDA) which is also charged with food safety. ...
  • 65 Campylobacter Case Now Linked to Your Famil ...
    Pennsylvania Department of Health reported an additional five Campylobacter cases have been confirmed linked to raw milk produced by the Your Family Cow dairy.  The total now stands at 65 the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday. The latest breakdown of illnesses by state are: ...
  • Transparency and the Publisher
    After Food Safety News broke the story that Taco Bell was the mysterious "Restaurant Chain A" linked to a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states, ABC Evening News praised Food Safety News for shining light on this story and the issue of the government's lack of transparency whe ...
  • We should be getting Hepatitis A vaccines - es ...
    Yesterday it was a Boise, Idaho Cheesecake Factory restaurant that had an employee test positive for Hepatitis A while he or she worked, presenting a risk of infection to restaurant customers.  The Boise employee apparently was not involved in food preparation however, so the risk of infect ...
  • Boise Hepatitis A Risk at Cheesecake Factory
    An employee at the Cheesecake Factory on Milwaukee Avenue in Boise Idaho may have exposed some diners at the restaurant to Hepatitis A between December 13, 2011 and January 22, 2012 according to the Central District Health Department. The employee who was confirmed to have Hepatitis A wasn't in ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

Solari

  • Jo Kline Cebuhar on Health Care Proxies
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I know talking about sickness and death may not seem like the most energizing topic for this Thursday night, but this one is really important! What Jo Kline Cebuhar writes and teaches can save our time, money, heartache, and may even save our life or the life of someon ...
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    “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” ~ Vince Lombardi Related reading: Vince Lombardi Wikipedia 3 Golden Tips Of Success From Vince Lombardi The Millionaire Secrets (25 July 11)
  • Start-Ups Look for a Shortcut From Farm to Table
    By Jessica E. Vascellaro Silicon Valley start-ups are trying to re-create the milkman. A host of new tech companies are creating ways to buy food directly from local food producers, cutting out grocery stores and some of the middlemen. They are also providing new services to educate consumers a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • 450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet – The Pe ...
    Summary:  While the evidence accumulates that we’re accomplished little in Afghanistan, we continue to pour vast sums into building bases there.  Perhaps in time to be abandoned like the vast bases in Iraq, also built at great cost.  Meanwhile components of our vital infrastructure rots aw ...
  • 450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet – The Pe ...
    Summary:  While the evidence accumulates that we’re accomplished little in Afghanistan, we continue to pour vast sums into building bases there.  Perhaps in time to be abandoned like the vast bases in Iraq, also built at great cost.  Meanwhile components of our vital infrastructure rots aw ...
  • How to evaluate a comment seriously. How to k ...
    Summary:  How can one determine the reliability of a correspondent whom one does not know?  Here are some guidelines, drawing on my experience replying to the majority of the 19 thousand comments on the FM website, plus many hundreds of long email discussions about its contents.  Please post in ...
  • How to evaluate a comment seriously. How to k ...
    Summary:  How can one determine the reliability of a correspondent whom one does not know?  Here are some guidelines, drawing on my experience replying to the majority of the 19 thousand comments on the FM website, plus many hundreds of long email discussions about its contents.  Please post in ...
  • Rolling Stone releases Colonel Davis’ bl ...
    Summary:  Rolling Stone has posted the not-yet-declassified report by Daniel L. Davis (Lt Colonel, US Army).    It deserves your attention, as it attacks a core element of our increasingly militarized government:  the integrity of our senior generals — leaders of one of the most-respected ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Iran Denies Involvement in Attacks Against Isr ...
    Ramin Mehmanparast, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, dismissed Israel’s claims about Iran’s involvement in attacks against Israeli embassies in India and Georgia. On Monday, according to the official website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Mehmanparast labeled the explosions as the ...
  • As Athens Burns: Is the Cure Worse than the Di ...
    Greece produces a mere 2.6 percent of the Eurozone’s GDP but remains front and center in the Eurozone crisis and the larger debate over the proper role of austerity and government spending in resolving the West’s economic woes. Sunday night, Greek parliamentarians overwhelming accept ...
  • The Case for US Foreign Aid
    Yesterday, the Obama administration released its highly anticipated $3.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2013, and will begin the process of obtaining Congressional approval for how to allocate and disperse government funds, domestically and abroad. The proposal calls for $43.4 billion ...
  • 7 Twitter Users Who Brought Us the #Feb14 Bahr ...
    It’s been exactly one year since #Feb14 became the online rallying cry for the uprising in Bahrain. Thousands gathered in Manama’s Pearl Roundabout to protest a political system ruled by the same monarchy for hundreds of years. Activists sought to make Pearl Roundabout the small Gulf ...
  • On Paradigms Mattering in International Relations
    Interesting results from the TRIP survey on IR scholars: It turns out that in the case of using military force against Iran, thirty percent of self-identified realists advocate the use of force in the event that Iran acquires a nuclear weapon. This is substantially higher than the number for lib ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Married to Obama
    Last Thursday evening, President Obama raised a tidy $1.4 million for his re-election campaign at a private Washington fundraiser hosted by a lesbian couple from Chicago. The event inspired an unusually tart headline at ABC News: “Obama, No Same-Sex Marriage Supporter, Solicits Cash at Home of ...
  • Virginia House Passes Personhood Bill
    Republican delegate Bob Marshall says critics are overstating things when it comes to the personhood bill he is sponsoring in Virginia. Opponents of his bill have argued that not only does the measure grant legal protections to all fetuses beginning at conception, but it could also be construed ...
  • The George Washington Candidate
    For a time, it looked as though Newt Gingrich would be the Romney alternative that the religious right and Tea Partiers would coalesce around. Now Rick Santorum has taken that spot after a string of victories in primaries last week and a huge rise in national polls. In a new ad, Santorum challe ...
  • Comedian In Chief
    Public Policy Polling has been a boon for political journalists over the past few years, partially for their extensive and accurate numbers—they were the only ones noting the rise of Rick Santorum in Minnesota last week—but also for their sense of humor. In addition to surveying the major polit ...
  • Republicans' Deceptive Payroll Tax Compromise
    Republicans finally came to their senses yesterday and realized they were waging a losing battle with their opposition to a payroll tax extension. The two-month extension Congress passed in December was set to expire by the end of this month, and Republicans were adamant that any further extens ...

Buzzflash

  • The Globalization of Big-Brother Electronic Su ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The concern over nations becoming "big brother" surveillance states is alive and well in Canada. Canada, that bastion of civility, open-mindedness and personal rights? Yes, unless you don't follow foreign affairs, our neighbor to the north has been ...
  • Authoritarian Right Wingers Want Government to ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There have been a few surveys over the years that reportedly conclude that many conservative voters, in general, have lower IQs than liberals. This pattern most recently became a renewed topic of self-congratulation on progressive sites due to a rec ...
  • Reducing Support for Education Undercuts Ameri ...
    MARISA BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On October 20, 2011, after five months as an unemployed college graduate with a music degree, I read the news about Congress rejecting a bill that would have supported education. Republican Mitch McConnell, one of the main advocates for the bank bailouts ...
  • Maui Wind Farms Set a Towering Example of Ener ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT You may get a chance to spot them as you fly into the Kahului Maui airport: They climb the backside of Pali's coastal slope above Ma'alaea, those towering wind turbines that generate an astounding amount of energy, up to 30 megawatts from pollution-les ...
  • Don’t Let Occupy Oakland’s ‘Black Bloc’ Aliena ...
    BILL BRKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Last week, in the face of mounting pressure, the Oakland City Council "rejected a call for a police crackdown on future demonstrations," the East Bay Express, a local weekly newspaper reported. Sponsored by Councilmembers by Councilmembers Ignacio De La Fu ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Open science – just do it
    The idea of open science means different things to different people, but primarily it is about community, the scientific community and beyond. At a time when commercial publishers are coming under increasing pressure there are boycotts and rebellions and the new wave of open access publishers ar ...
  • Cambridge students to grill Sciencebase
    Once again, I’ll be attending the annual media careers event at Cambridge University, where students and alumni get a chance to chat with members of the media about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. The February 20 ...
  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...
  • Testing times, but no pardon for Turing
    UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Happy Valentine’s Day: We’re Breaking Up. Stud ...
    Three major student activist organizations recently passed resolutions to move their money from banks implicated in predatory lending, student loan profiteering, and right-wing political activities.read more
  • 50 Organizations Present Letter to Congress Re ...
    Reflecting the millions of Americans concerned about the undue influence wielded by corporations and wealthy special interests in our democracy, 50 organizations have jointly signed and presented a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees requesting ...
  • Amnesty International Urges China to Avoid For ...
    A group of 21 North Koreans must not be forcibly repatriated by the Chinese government, Amnesty International said amid reports they are being held in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun for being in the country illegally en route to South Korea. The group has reportedly been told the Chi ...
  • Tensions High on Bahrain Anniversary
    Today marks one year since Bahraini protestors took to the streets to demand free and fair elections. The Feb. 14, 2011 protests were met with a brutal crackdown by the Bahraini regime that has since killed, detained, and tortured peaceful protestors. Human Rights First has learned that Bahraini ...
  • Six US Citizens Arrested in Bahrain, To Be Dep ...
    Six US Citizens were arrested by Bahraini security forces in Manama on Tuesday during a peaceful protest on the way to the Pearl Roundabout. Protesters had marched into the city center to reestablish a presence of nonviolent, peaceful protest on the one year anniversary of the Arab Spring uprisi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Tapping a Pipeline of Grassroots Energy
    Brooke Jarvis In the latest act of what has become a long political saga, Senate Republicans are trying to bypass the permitting process altogether and pass a law mandating the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which w ...
  • Don't Be Stupid, Cupid: How to Show Your Love ...
    Annie Leonard For holidays tainted by commercialism, Valentine's Day gives Christmas a run for the money—big money. The National Retail Federation estimates Americans will spend $17.6 billion on Valentine's gifts this year, in ...
  • Russia’s Winter of Discontent
    Adam Federman In just under two months Russia’s increasingly diverse opposition movement has held three larger than expected rallies in the center of Moscow. Each one has defied expectations. The first, held one week after disputed pa ...
  • In Afghanistan: 'Absence of Success on Virtual ...
    Tom Engelhardt In Afghanistan, “victory” came early -- with the U.S. invasion of 2001.  Only then did the trouble begin.www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" width="250" height="354" />By S ...
  • Hegemony and Its Dilemmas
    Noam Chomsky Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.  Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely t ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Study: St. Johns River can handle pumping
    PALATKA – Environmental regulators in Palatka said Tuesday that a four-year study concludes that significant amounts of water can be pumped out of the St. Johns River to support population growth in Central Florida without harming the river's health in North Florida.
  • Social media: Technology for today's logger
    While the 63rd annual Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference celebrated moving “Back to Our Roots” as the official theme during a fourth year of severe economic recession, Etna rancher Jeffrey N. Fowle encouraged conference attendees to stretch their communication skills to include social media netwo ...
  • Alabama appeals water wars ruling to US Suprem ...
    Alabama has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling that supported metro Atlanta's right to take water from a disputed reservoir that serves as the main water source for roughly 3 million people.
  • Water Wars: State Snow Pack Could Break the Wr ...
    Click here to view the full photogallery. A helpful tipster sends us word today of line graphs bearing bad news about the current water content of the California snow pack. The graphs have lines for the current year, wet and...
  • David Benda: Fairgrounds board ready to pick n ...
    It will be close to a race-day decision.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Gazans shocked at home demolitions ordered "by ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 13 February 2012 Gaza City residents in the coastal Hamami neighborhood are outraged after the Gaza government bulldozed their houses to make way for a major infrastructure project.
  • Educators can't stay silent about Israeli apar ...
    J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Robin D.G. Kelley, Bill V. Mullen, Nikhil Pal Singh and Neferti Tadiar 13 February 2012 US academics recently returned from a fact-finding delegation describe the daily ritual of subordination, humiliation and suspicion endured by Palestinians living under Israeli occu ...
  • Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship ...
    Bekah Wolf 9 February 2012 Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada. ...
  • Debut novel unflinchingly portrays Palestinian ...
    Maureen Clare Murphy 9 February 2012 In Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It, 27-year-old twin misfits Iman and Rashid Mujahed try to find belonging in a contemporary Gaza groaning under Israeli siege and air strikes, and street battles between competing political factions.
  • Putting the spotlight on London university's l ...
    Hilary Aked London 8 February 2012 Students at the London School of Economics protest the university’s ties to the Technion — Israel’s Institute of Technology — which has inextricable links to Israel’s weapons industry.

The Wonk Room

  • Maryland House Committees Advance Marriage Equ ...
    The Maryland House Judiciary and Health & Government Operations Committees both voted today to advance the marriage equality bill. Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is concerned that there are not yet enough votes for the bill to pass the full House, but this is still an important step for the ...
  • Rep. Joe Walsh: If I Were Speaker, We’d ...
    Tea Party firebrand Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) is apparently unsatisfied with the number of meaningless symbolic votes Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is holding, saying in a recent interview that he would prefer to repeatedly waste the House of Representatives’ time by voting to repeal the Afforda ...
  • Heartland Documents Reveal Fringe Denial Group ...
    Racing around the internet are some internal documents that appear to be from the Heartland Institute, a relatively obscure hard-core anti-science think tank. As DeSmogBlog explains, “An anonymous donor calling him (or her)self ‘Heartland Insider’ has released the Heartland Ins ...
  • Rand Paul Throws Judicial Filibuster Tantrum O ...
    As Travis Waldron explained this morning, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) put a hold on a transportation bill that has broad bipartisan support in an attempt to force the Senate to enact his preferred policy on aid to Egypt. Although Paul’s tactic cannot prevent the widely supported bill from passin ...
  • 800,000 Signatures Against Keystone XL Deliver ...
    In 24 hours, the 99 percent flooded the U.S. Senate with more than 800,000 messages opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This afternoon, 781,000 of the signatures to the Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline emergency petition were hand-delivered to the U.S. Capitol in boxes of 20,000 names each ...

thwap's schoolyard

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  • Something Important and Something Stupid
    First of all, I'll talk about the stupid stuff. It's just been rattling around in the cavernous empty space of my mind for the past week or so. How monumentally stupid and hypocritical it was for those Conservative Party of Canada scum to jump on the "It Gets Better" bandwagon. I mean, what coul ...
  • Do Yah Think???
    Hah! Both the Toronto Star and the stephen harper-endorsing joke of a newspaper, the Glib & Stale have articles about the working poor this weekend! Here's the story on a Metcalfe Foundation study on Toronto's working poor by Laurie Monsebraaten in The Star: The legions of Toronto area work ...
  • A Great Day!
    It isn't like stopping a war, or housing the homeless, or anything like that. But I have to credit TTC Chair Karen Stintz and Toronto City Council for standing up to the imbecilic coward Rob Ford and his stupid "plan" to bury the Eglinton LRT line. For posterity's sake I'll describe it simply: ...
  • You Lost Ford! You Lost Big! Deal With It.
    Seriously you cowardly, stupid fuck! You LOST! It's over. Shut the fuck up. No. No. No. It's over. You lost. And it feels good to say that.

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Digital Journal

  • CIHI reports demand for donated organs outpace ...
    A newly released report on organ donation says that the demand in Canada for organs needed for transplant is higher than the supply.
  • Rick Nash to Toronto Maple Leafs rumour gets n ...
    Here we go again with the Rick Nash to the Toronto Maple Leafs rumor. It made the rounds two weeks ago but there seemed no substance. As of Feb. 14 however, there either is substance or too much is being made of comments Nash made to a Columbus paper.
  • Preventing the collapse of one of the world’s ...
    Differing criteria on the application of Interim Measures as a provisional approach for the management of pelagic fisheries in the Eastern Pacific pending the ratification of an International Convention may risk the survival of valuable fish stocks.
  • Small plane crash in Montreal leaves pilot dead
    A plane crash occurred early this morning near St. Hubert Airport, south of Montreal. The crash victim is a 25-year-old male flight instructor. The pilot was flying a Cessna 150, a small aircraft.
  • Lady Gaga news: kisses a Beatle, tweets on Ade ...
    Lady Gaga may have been shutout at the 54th Grammy Awards in L.A. Sunday but she's not being mean-spirited about it. She's moved on by tweeting her praise of the night's big winner, Adele, and by focusing on her 'Born This Way' foundation.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • $21 for a bag of concrete
    Big-ticket items such as the planned F-35 purchase tend to get the headlines, but smaller examples of wasteful military spending are also important.
  • Staples testifies on DND spending
    Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence on Thursday, 9 February 2012 on the subject of Canadian defence policy and military spending.
  • Byers & Webb: F-35 a costly mistake
    Michael Byers and Stewart Webb argue that the Harper government should consider alternatives to the planned F-35 fighter-bomber purchase.
  • Unbalancing refugee reform
    When the Balanced Refugee Reform Act came up for discussion in parliament in 2010, the then-minority Harper government was forced to compromise with the opposition parties in order to get the legislation passed. But that was then. It looks like those compromises may be about to be revisited.
  • Return of the five o’clock follies
    More happy-talk about the war in Afghanistan.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Leaked Documents Reveal US Diplomats Actually ...
    February 2, 2012 Natural News By Anthony Gucciardi “Should anyone be surprised by this? Of course Monsanto has infiltrated the government. How else have they gotten away with it for so long?” –KTRN Biotech giant Monsanto has been genetically modifying the world’s food sup ...
  • USDA Forces Whole Foods To Accept Monsanto
    February 2, 2012 Eating Right Diet By Dr. Robert Ciprian “How could the USDA be supporting Monsanto?  Click here to read an article we posted today that will give you the answer.”  –KTRN There has been a lot of confusion about what is going on with Monsanto corporation and Whol ...
  • Politics Is A Matter Of Life And Death (Times ...
    February 2, 2012 The Money Cage By Larry Bartels That’s the message I take from a recent book by James Gilligan, a psychiatrist at New York University. In Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others, Gilligan documents a striking statistical connection between changing rates of violent d ...
  • British Tourists Imprisoned And Deported From ...
    February 2, 2012 RT By RT “Homeland Security obviously has no sense of humor.”  –KTRN If the decomposed corpse of Marilyn Monroe is robbed from the grave, the terrorists have won. Authorities in America take threats seriously, and when it comes to Hollywood royalty nearly 50 ye ...
  • Journalists Under Fire in 2012
    February 2, 2012 Diatribe Media By Aaron Cynic “Freedom of the press? Far from it.” –KTRN Reporters Without Borders released its 10th annual Press Freedom Index, which found that while 2011 may have been Time Magazine’s “Year of the Protester,” it was also the year of governmen ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Financial Oligarch Power Raping Greece
    By Stephen LendmanTuesday, February 14th, 2012 by Stephen Lendman   On February 12, Greece’s banker controlled parliament passed sweeping austerity measures on top of multiple previous rounds. New ones include: sacking 15,000 public workers in 2012 and 150,000 by 2015; slashing privat ...
  • Poll: Catholics approval of Obama mostly uncha ...
    Catholics approval of President Barack Obama has remained relatively unchanged despite facing harsh opposition from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops over new contraception rules. A survey released Tuesday by Gallup found that 46 percent of Catholics approved of Obama last week. A week pri ...
  • Gov. Christie: Same sex marriage bill ‘a good ...
    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday said he would stand by his vow to veto legislation that would allow same sex couples to marry. On Monday, the New Jersey Senate passed the bill by a 24 to 16 vote. “Yesterday was a good bunch of theater, but that?s all it was,” Christie s ...
  • Another War on the Cheap
    By Phillip GiraldiTuesday, February 14th, 2012 As a former intelligence officer, I am acutely aware of how easy it is to create and spread disinformation. Journalists are frail creatures with big egos who want to get an important story that no one else has. What could be better than to get somet ...
  • Pretext For War: String of Global Bombings Bla ...
    Bangkok joins the list of cities playing host to “Iranian” bombings Tony Cartalucci Prison Planet.com Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Not even 24 hours have passed and “Thai officials” have already determined not only that Bangkok’s bomb blasts were the work of Iranians, ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Message of the Day: Love
    Dandelion Salad Message of the Day http://shalomplace.com/seed Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. - G. K. Chesterton *** (What would this mean for you this day?) Meditation on the ...
  • Bahrain: A Forgotten Arab Spring by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything February 12, 2012 “This is about whether this council, during a time of sweeping change in the Middle East, will stand with peaceful protesters crying out for freedom, or with a regime of thugs with guns that tramples human ...
  • Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky: With Liberty ...
    Dandelion Salad www.c-spanvideo.org Oct. 29, 2011 Former constitutional rights lawyer, Glenn Greenwald contends that the United States has a two-tiered judicial system, one for the “haves”and one for the “have-nots.” Mr. Greenwald presents his argument by tracing the evol ...
  • U.S. Prepares Georgia for New Wars in Caucasus ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism February 10, 2012 On January 30 President Barack Obama met with his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili in the Oval Office at the White House for an unprecedented private meeting between the h ...
  • Discussing the way forward for Occupy
    Dandelion Salad Editorial SocialistWorker.org February 8, 2012 Our movement needs to use every opportunity to build resistance to the agenda of the 1 percent–whether that means bigger struggles or smaller ones. THE OCCUPY encampments of last fall are nearly all gone–cleared, often br ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Debate about Iran strategy he ...
    In Israel, the debate over whether to attack Iran has seen the political leadership of the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, and the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, face a resistant security... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: Mount Hermon’s pure snow can’t hi ...
    We managed to delete Mount Hermon's original, Syrian name as if it had never existed. Precious few Israelis have ever heard the name, or are aware of the 200 towns and villages that were obliterated... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • HRW to Israel: charge or free Palestinian hung ...
    Sarah Leah Whitson: "Israel should end, today, before it's too late, its almost two-month-long refusal to inform [Khader] Adnan of any criminal charge or evidence against him." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth de ...
  • Daoud Kuttab: Myth debunked – Palestinian text ...
    American politicians appear to be using precious little long-term thinking when it comes to Israel and Palestinians. Falsehoods declared on national television about textbooks are debunked by no one... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Moshé Machover: Netanyahu’s war wish
    One thing is beyond any doubt: a major aim of Israel’s foreign policy is the overthrow of the Iranian regime. What is not generally understood are the motives behind this aim, and the present Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • High Population Density Greatest Risk Factor f ...
    Water-associated infectious disease outbreaks are more likely to occur in areas where a region's population density is growing, according to a new global analysis.
  • Justin Bieber 'Dream Date' Shines Light on Rar ...
    A six year old Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center patient, who has been diagnosed with a rare brain tumor went on a "dream date" with Justin Bieber, thanks in part to a Facebook campaign to have her meet the pop star. As important as the date itself, however, is the attention it has ...
  • Story Tips From the Department of Energy's Oak ...
    Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla used the computing power of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer, America's fastest, to study the effects of adding oxygen, sulfur and hydrogen to nanoribbons made of boron nitride. An upgrade is transforming Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar superc ...
  • Antibiotics Ineffective for Most Sinus Infections
    Antibiotics that doctors typically prescribe for sinus infections do not reduce symptoms any better than an inactive placebo, according to investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
  • Short-Term Exposure to Most Major Air Pollutan ...
    Short-term exposure (for up to 7 days) to all major air pollutants, with the exception of ozone, is significantly associated with an increased risk of heart attack, according to a review and meta-analysis of previous studies appearing in the February 15 issue of JAMA.

Natural Health News

  • Simple Diet Change that Can Massively Improve ...
    A group of psychiatric and medical conditions, previously thought to be separate ailments, could all be signs of one illness, which is sometimes called Affective Spectrum Disorder (ASD).  Forms of ASD include such problems as major depressive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disord ...
  • What Mystery Disease is Killing Thousands in C ...
    An epidemic with unknown causes is having a devastating effect on the Pacific coast of Central America.  It has killed more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000, and has struck thousands of others with chronic kidney disease. Many of those who have succumbed to the il ...
  • Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France
    A French court has ruled that the biotech company Monsanto is guilty of the chemical poisoning of a French farmer.  The case was the first of its kind in France, and the judgment could become a precedent for other health claims regarding pesticides. Grain grower Paul Francois said he suffe ...
  • Is Cancer An Ancient Survival Program Unmasked?
    Since the National Cancer Act was passed in 1971, over a hundred billion dollars has been spent by the U.S. government in an attempt to eradicate cancer.  Trillions of dollars more have been spent by the cancer patients themselves.  But even after four decades of full-scale war against ...
  • The Surprising Factor that Radically Increases ...
    New research seems to show that women find men with healthy skin tones more attractive than men with masculine faces.  Previous studies had suggested that heterosexual women tend to be more attracted to men with distinctively masculine features -- prominent cheek bones, heavy brows, and a d ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Syria and the Overlapping Consensus
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. David Rieff has an interesting – and somewhat polemical – article in the latest Foreign Policy.  Rieff, you will recall, was an early supporter of intervention, a policy position no doubt influenced by his time spent in Bosnia which culmi ...
  • Apple and Human Rights: Could the Market Work?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro For those of you no longer getting the New York Times in print, this was the lead story in today’s paper.  (Somewhat weirdly, it shows up on the webpage as a blog post.)  Apple’s signing on to Fair Labor Association standards and auditing is probably t ...
  • Conference on Forensic Evidence in the Fight A ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson If you are around Washington DC this week on Wednesday and Thursday, you might want to (advance) register and attend a major human rights conference at my school, Washington College of Law, American University, “Forensic Evidence in the Fight Again ...
  • Dan Joyner: Why I Won’t Attend the Jessup Comp ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest post by Dan Joyner, Professor of Law at the University of Alabama.  Our thanks to him for contributing it.] So, as you probably guessed from the title of this post, it’s going to be a bit of a rant. But this has been festering inside me for the p ...
  • A Response to Dapo Akande — Part I
    by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Dapo Akande takes me to task today at EJIL: Talk! for my position on drone strikes directed at combatants attending a funeral or helping the wounded.  I will address his curious reluctance to address the text of the Rome Statute in Part II of my response; in th ...

Public News Service

  • Report Shows Super-Rich are Giving More
    Report Shows Super-Rich are Giving More PHOENIX - "The super rich grew more charitable last year, as public opinion of them became less so," according to a report compiling the donations of the nation's wealthiest givers. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list shows the top 50 most generou ...
  • Is 'Genetically Modified' the Future of Our Food?
    Is 'Genetically Modified' the Future of Our Food? PHOENIX, Ariz. - The proliferation of genetically-modified foods has put agriculture at a crossroads in Arizona and around the country, and some say it is also putting food safety at risk. Andrew Kimbrell, founder of the Center for Food Safety, ...
  • Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable?
    Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable? PHOENIX - A petition from consumer group Public Citizen says Bank of America is so big and frail that regulators should dismantle it before its problems provoke a crisis. The economists, law professors and former regulators behind the call say there is ...
  • Report: Arizonans Near Bottom of “Rainy ...
    Report: Arizonans Near Bottom of “Rainy Day” Rankings PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizonans, on average, have far fewer financial and educational assets than most other Americans, according to a new national survey. The nonprofit Corporation for Enterprise Development's "Assets and Opportunitie ...
  • Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow i ...
    Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow in Arizona and New Mexico PHOENIX - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico continued to rise last year. State and federal biologists found at least 58 wolves in their latest count, up from 50 the previous year and 42 in ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • A Plea to the World from the Principal of a Pa ...
    In November we reported with joy about the new school structure at Susiya (Susya). (see also an earlier report here). Only a few weeks later, the Occupation regime’s fraudulently named “Civil Administration” handed down demolition orders to the school. In a rare direct expres ...
  • Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Se ...
    Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...
  • Sheldon Adelson has already bought a politicia ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina primary victory has brought onto the spotlight his campaign’s main benefactor, Sheldon Adelson. Relatively to his wealth and the manner in which he has acquired it, Adelson has managed to stay away from the limelight – despite his quoted bragging ...
  • Support a Palestinian Family Fighting to Stay ...
    Reprinted with permission from Mondoweiss. Written by Udi Aloni, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board. There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legisl ...
  • Winter at Salem: Music Center Annual Concert & ...
    The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • An Important Article on Taxes
    This article on taxes states the truth about Obama’s plans and where America is truly at.  There are too many lies by our politicians these days and the ‘rich don’t pay enough’ is the biggest. If you are an Obama voter, at least do yourself the favor of being educated on ...
  • Industrial Destruction Advocates
    Another 501C working for you. As insane as it can be, they are openly advocating working with mid-east countries for oil instead of our friends to the North.  It isn’t like the oil won’t be burned.  It will be burned by China, while US dollars go to the middle east. Our brilliant cli ...
  • Sea Ice, Hudson Bay Region
    Sea ice area, Hudson bay-ish.  From the gridded daily data. Even though the peaks and valleys are near square waves, warming is causing a statistically significant decline in annual NET area. Besides statistically measurable, the slope is alarmingly fast. It’s time to invest in the new Day ...
  • Questions and Motives – The Pendulum Swings
    We have often discussed the motives of government employed Climate Scientists™ and the biases which sort their views.   The blog is called noconsensus after all.   However, we have not spent time discussing motives of skeptics – which appropriately have little consensus.  One of the main c ...
  • IPCC Draft Law
    A US based attorney has written in to the Blackboard on the basics of Copyright law as it pertains to the continuing releases of IPCC drafts.  It is unclear to me who could claim damages from the release but this gives some idea of how the process would proceed legally were the IPCC silly enough ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook tweaks requirements for app activity ...
    Facebook has quietly changed the conditions that determine whether an app is eligible to be shown as a Sponsored Story, according to the Ads API documentation. The change reduces the amount of time required for a user to engage with … Continue reading →
  • Facebook management applications Shoutlet, Vit ...
    As more brands turn to third-party social media management tools, companies like Shoutlet and Vitrue continue to add new features and integrate more services into their applications. Both companies released significant product updates in the past week making them worth … Continue reading & ...
  • UNO, Intel, Adele, Whitney Houston, more on th ...
    UNO topped our list of fastest growing Facebook pages this week, perhaps in part because of what we mentioned last week, that app profile pages were removed on Feb. 1, spurring consolidation of some game pages. Musicians were also popular, given … Continue reading →
  • Platform update: ‘read’ action, pay dialog, be ...
    Facebook announced a number of platform changes in blog posts on Friday. Open Graph ‘Read’ action now available – Facebook enabled its built-in “read” action in the Open Graph Tool. Developers can use this function for news or blog apps, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook prompts page owners to invite email c ...
    Some page owners are seeing new prompts to invite email contacts to Like their pages. The feature, which was previously buried under the Resources section of the “Edit Page” dashboard, is now included in the admin module on pages (see … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Exclusive: U.S. Transit Hub-Base in Kyrgyz ...
    “A Nazi & a Drug Lord in Charge of Police in Osh?” Today Turkish Weekly ran an investigative piece on the newly appointed chief of police in Osh-Kyrgyzstan. The new police chief Suyun Omurzakov, who used to be a deputy minister of interior, has been known as a highly influential drug lord, a ...
  • Truly Independent News- Information Is A Colle ...
    The Only Way to Remain Corporate-Free & Nonpartisan Every time I read lines pertaining to this ludicrous and completely illogical expectation that everything on the Internet should be free I am tempted to sit down and write a lengthy analysis of the illogical and ludicrousness of this unfort ...
  • “Sky Collapses on the Passamari” – By G. Karl ...
    Sky Collapses on the Passamari Winter sky drapes the land, like a canopy dropped by unseen hands upon a cage. Farm ground blurs between houses at an imprecise place, over the creek,  beyond my neighbors’ spruce.  Past what we can see spreads the topography of an uncertain age. Fence posts ...
  • Gingrich Promises The Moon as the 51st State: ...
    A Brilliant Statement from a Not-So-Brilliant Man A few days ago presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told the people of Florida about his plans for a permanent colony- base on the Moon, and promised to work toward turning the satellite into the 51st US state. I, and many others, including our lea ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Hugh Masekela & His Band I saw Hugh Masekela many many years ago at a small jazz club and was blown away by his music and his sound. His trumpet playing is incredible and I’ve been a fan of his for forty years. I will be seeing him again this February in Worcester, MA and [...]

Afro Spear

  • Happy Valentine’s Day
  • The Day My Heart Broke
    Rest in Peace My Beautiful Diva!
  • “Certain Signs of Societal Decline&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few of the scenes caught on video across ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men
  • About Africa
    “The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • This isn't your average oil pipeline. Keyston ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. Yesterday and today, the offices of Congress are being flooded with messages from hundreds of thousands of Americans opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. After just 24 hours, almo ...
  • President's Budget: A Welcome Commitment to Cl ...
    Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation Today, the Obama Administration released its annual budget proposal, outlining  spending priorities for the upcoming year. For supporters of renewable energy, it demonstr ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Disaster Averted: John Nance Garner and the ...
    When discussing the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 last weekend, I noted John Nance Garner’s support for using soldiers to bust the strike. It reminded of just how awful Garner was. And how close we were to a Garner presidency in 1940. We remember that Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedente ...
  • Dear Republicans–Please Keep Focusing on ...
    The brilliance of the Republican strategy to go all in with the Catholic bishops on denying birth control to women is paying off major dividends. If you are a Democrat. A new poll shows absolutely no drop in support for Obama among Catholics after 2 weeks of birth control dominating the news. Th ...
  • LEAVE TUCKER ALONE!
    Lemieux claims that Tucker Carlson’s investigation into MMFA found no evidence worthy of being called such, but he is wrong. For example: During the 2008 presidential campaign, for example, author Jerome Corsi wrote a highly critical book about the Democratic candidate, titled “The Obama N ...
  • “He’s a prophet and a pusher, a li ...
    Shorter pretty much the entire Republican Party:  ”Barack Obama is a big government big spending liberal who will take away your government-provided healthcare.”
  • Tucker, Still Drowning in the Great Sewer of FAIL
    Former failed television host and current failed editor Tucker Carlson has an EXCLUSIVE EXPOSE of the most powerful institution in the country, Media Matters for America. Like his silly Journalist hacking, which produced “revelations” (people who write about politics for a living exp ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Federal financial regulatory agencies argue fo ...
    Financial regulatory agencies and the Food and Drug Administration asked Congress for budget increases in fiscal year 2013, while other regulatory agencies proposed modest decreases in funding.
  • Judge certifies class of cleaning workers misc ...
    A Boston federal judge has certified as a class a broad swath of purported franchisees of cleaning company Coverall North America Inc. who are suing the company for misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees.
  • 'The Walking Dead' spawns contract dispute
    Comic book artist Tony Moore has sued Robert Kirkman, an executive producer of The Walking Dead TV series, claiming he was tricked into signing a 2005 agreement and has been denied an accounting to determine his share of the show's profits.
  • DOJ pitches budget that focuses on financial fraud
    The U.S. Justice Department's proposed 2013 budget includes bolstering the ranks of prosecutors across the country to step up civil and criminal enforcement in the financial and mortgage fraud arena.
  • The 2012 Forecast
    With storm clouds in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S., which Washington practices will flourish and which will fail this year? We asked three D.C. managing partners.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Reliance on ‘Virtual Water’ Puts Some Nations ...
    A new study calculates that about one-fifth of all water goes toward the production of crops and commodities for export, part of a global phenomenon known as “virtual water” that researchers say could place pressure on finite water supplies in some nations. Using Click to enlarge Arjen Hoeks ...
  • Unique Antarctic Fish Threatened by Warming So ...
    A unique group of fish that has evolved to live in Antarctic waters thanks to “anti-freeze” proteins in their blood and body fluids is threatened by rising temperatures in the Southern Ocean, according to a new Yale University An Antarctic notothenioids study. Yale University researchers s ...
  • Student Push for Ban on Plastic Water Bottles ...
    Student groups on some college campuses are pushing their schools to ban the sale of plastic water bottles, a campaign that so far has prompted more than 20 colleges and universities to impose partial or complete bans. The bottled water industry has responded with a sarcastic video criticizing t ...
  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off B ...
    A coalition of European companies today opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest offshore wind project to date. The Walney Wind Farm, located nine miles (15 kilometers ...
  • On the Road Back to Rio, Green Direction Has B ...
    Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • A Tale of Two Countries: Bahrain and Libya
    Society-wide, violent social upheavals triggered throughout the Muslim World were dubbed an “Arab Spring” by the Western governments. But when comparing Libya and Bahrain, the full force of US and European...
  • Obama pinches China over human rights
    US President Barack Obama warmly welcomed Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to the Oval Office on Tuesday. But etiquette did not keep him from raising a sensitive human rights issue with the Chinese leader-in-waiting.
  • Peacekeeping déjà vu: Arab League pushes Syria ...
    A case is being built to justify a Libya-style military intervention in Syria, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The FM warned against attempts to exclude Damascus from international peace efforts.
  • (Un)friendly dictatorship puzzle: US democracy ...
    Washington has been arming Bahrain’s ruling dynasty against protesters, and now demanding that the “dictator must go” in Syria. Why such a difference? Right – Bahrain hosts the US' Fifth Fleet, the “free world” defender...
  • 'Lay down your arms!' Anonymous attacks US tea ...
    Hackers have sent a sweet Valentine to an American weapons manufacturer, knocking out its website. The group says it was an act of retaliation for the company’s arming of security forces against pro-democracy protests...

Not My Tribe

  • Colorados’s Libertarian tax evader crusa ...
    Denver American Civil Liberties Union lawyer failed to keep Libertarian tax cheat and slum lord, Doug Bruce, from deservedly heading into jail for 6 months for his tax evasion. Doug Bruce is the Libertarian big time ideologue now famous for authoring the TABOR Amendment legislation, which has he ...
  • Israel vows to “settle the score” ...
    Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has vowed to “settle the score” for an explosives incident in Bangkok, where an Iranian man blew his legs off with a grenade while trying to evade capture. Are they suggesting a rival of Iran sacrifice his legs in retaliation?
  • Abajo y a la Izquierda esta el Corazon
    OCCUPY COLO. SPRINGS will be occupying the 3rd UCCS OWS symposium this Wednesday to challenge the straw man argument that Latinos are underrepresented in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Nationwide, OWS may be white and middle class, but in the context of the outcry for global democracy, isn&#82 ...
  • Who in the world really suffers from PTSD?
    … PTSD has become the designer ‘mental illness’ for the Pentagon and Washington elites who design the multitude of US wars abroad in foreign lands. As a result, the corporate US media works full time to convince the American public that only US soldiers as agents carrying out t ...
  • The liberal mind while drinking Obama flavored ...
    Liberal Hypocrisy on Obama Vs Bush – Poll

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Evidence Based "Conspiracy Theories" Beat Auth ...
    Considering the documentation of corruption in political, corporate and military (intelligence) circles it is irrational to exclude the consideration of high level conspiracy when evaluating the causes of recent conflicts. To a priori exclude a conspiracy hypothesis is naive and illogical. Inde ...
  • "Strange Sounds" DEBUNKED and EXPLAINED
  • What Does a Building "Engulfed" in Fire Look Like?
    Here is a building engulfed in fire. And here is a building covered in dust and smoke due to negative air pressure. Now, which one looks more like WTC7 on 9/11? Related Info: Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC 7
  • Strange Meeting at Don't Attack Iran Campaign ...
    Video description: At the launch of the UK Don't Attack Iran Campaign on 28 January 2012, held at a rally outside the US Embassy in London, actor Roger Lloyd Pack gave a powerful reading of Strange Meeting by First World War poet Wilfred Owen, one of the most famous anti-war poems ever written. ...
  • Corbett Report Radio 060 -- A Violation of Tru ...
    Howard Cohen of Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth discusses his forthcoming feature film, "A Violation of Trust." Set to star veteran Hollywood actors Ed Asner, Woody Harrelson, Daniel Sunjata, Michele Phillips, and more, "A Violation of Trust" dramatizes the first day of a new presidential inve ...

Fooducate

  • Romantic, Affordable & Healthy Valentines Day Idea
    Good morning and Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you planning to blow loads of $$$ as a token of you love? Will you go to a five star restaurant? The Beatles once sang “Can’t Buy me Love”, but these days it seems Valentine’s Day is all about buying more and more and more ...
  • The Truth About Chocolate Health Benefits
    Valentine’s Day is a big annual chocolate-fest, driving about 5% of annual chocolate sales. As with wine, chocolate is much more than a food, it is an art form. And in the past few years, chocolate has become synonymous with health benefits. “It’s got antioxidants,” and t ...
  • The Not So Real Bacon Shake from Jack-in-the-Box
    Just when you thought the everything bacon trend was over, fast food chain Jack in the Box is introducing the Bacon Milkshake. For a limited time only, of course. Yes, it’s for real. Not the bacon, the shake. Well, the bacon shake, but it has nor real bacon, even though you’d be incl ...
  • An Awesome Portion Control Trick For Homemade ...
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl So, you like to bake – but you have a problem. Yes, I know that problem well. You bake a couple dozen cookies and then they stare at you from wherever you have put them. Haunting you…… Just one more, you say, as you eat [...]
  • Yay! Trans-Fat Down 58% in a Decade
    The CDC released a study showing that the level of trans-fatty acids in the blood of white adults has decreased 58% between the years 2000 and 2009. The CDC’s National Biomonitoring Program measures the presence of 450 different chemicals in human blood. Trans-Fat is just one of them. This ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle old PVC pipes?
    We’ve had an email from Madhvi asking : how can I creatively recycle old PVC pipes? We’ve covered some reuses for guttering and drainpipes – which are increasingly plastic these days – but I thought it was worth asking Madhvi’s question because PVC pipes come in all ...
  • Reduce This: How can I revamp an old kitchen s ...
    Yesterday, I posted a question from James, asking for ways to reuse or recycle a whole kitchen, because he’s getting a new one. Thanks to everyone that has commented about that! At the bottom, I mentioned reducing is the most important part of the recycling triangle. James already seems qu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a whole kitchen?
    I’m back post-lurgy and I thought I’d post this great question from James – asking how to recycle a whole kitchen: We shall be replacing our kitchen in the next few months. The present one is 15 years old and is perfectly serviceable. I don’t want to “skip” it ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle margarine tub lids/ ...
    Whitney has emailed us, asking about margarine tub lids: i’m trying to do my part and make sure that i recycle everything that i can, or at least find a way to reuse it. i recycle my #5 containers of cream cheese, margarine, etc, but have nothing to do with the lids, which even if [...]
  • Listed buildings & green issues: what are your ...
    (This isn’t strictly a recycling issue but I was thinking about it the other day and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter!) A few miles down the road from me is a village called Saltaire. It is a Victorian model village founded by a local mill owner (Sir Titus Salt) so his [...]

Age of Autism

  • Love and Autism
    By Kim Stagliano There's (a love) life beyond little boxes of Valentines and a sack full of red dye laden candy arriving from school with a child today. Many of our kids are growing into teens and adults. Some are...
  • Oklahoma City Sees Autism Population Triple in ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Anne Dachel is a tireless advocate for people with autism and Asperger's. Below is her comment. Please subscribe to her newsfeed at AnneDachel.com Oklahoma City teachers work to transition autistic students to regular classrooms The number of...
  • Jo Ashline on Autism and the Adult Child: Hono ...
    Managing Editor's Note: It's encouraging to read more posts from around the country on the fears we face as our kids on the spectrum grow older. I once heard adulthood referred to as "When the school bus stops coming to...
  • Professor John Walker Smith Beings Appeal Agai ...
    Today Professor John Walker-Smith begins his appeal against the General Medical Council's (GMC's) determination that he is guilty of serious professional misconduct and that he should lose his license to practice. The case is heard by Justice Mitting in Court...
  • I Promise You
    By Cathy Jameson How well do you know the people in the autism community? How much do you think they do for their child? I invite you to come take a peek at what might be going on just a...

Global BDS Movement

  • Commemorating Palestinian Land Day: Join the B ...
    The BDS Global Day of Action on 30 March coincides with Palestinian Land Day
  • BDS proposal wins big at Occupy Oakland
    Participants of the Occupy Oakland movement voted to back the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement during a regular general assembly (GA) meeting Oscar Grant plaza
  • Veolia treats wastewater from Modi’in Illit se ...
    Recent research shows that Veolia is involved in “new” Israeli projects in the occupied West Bank. Veolia Water Israel provides services to Modi’in Illit, and Veolia Transportation Israel operates bus lines that run through Palestinian land.
  • No title
    BDS National Committee S. on Dipity.
  • Short history of BDS in France
    As 2012 begins, a French activist looks at the short history of the French BDS movement, which mobilized in the wake of the Israeli assalt on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead

Farm Wars

  • The Union – The Business Behind Getting High | ...
    History of marijuana prohibition. Excellent documentary!
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Israel spy networks near Iran an open secret
    YnetNews – Is there a Mossad base near Iran? The London Times published Sunday an interview with a man claiming to be an Azerbaijan-based agent of Israeli intelligence agency, who confirmed the existence of such a base. The man, identified in the article as “Shimon,” told the p ...
  • Japan Must Monitor China’s Naval Reach: Report
    Defense News – Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea could soon be replicated in neighboring waters, a Japanese government-backed report said Feb. 10 amid rising regional nervousness about China’s intentions. Tokyo should pay close attention to any indication that its giant neighb ...
  • NATO still considering Israeli participation in op
    Jerusalem Post – NATO said on Friday that it is still considering an Israeli request to contribute missile ships to a naval operation in the Mediterranean Sea, despite opposition by Turkey. NATO’s announcement came in response to an exclusive Jerusalem Post report that Turkish opposition h ...
  • Ghost towns of Fukushima
  • Moody’s rating agency places UK on negat ...
    BBC – The UK has been warned its credit rating may be cut in future, potentially increasing borrowing costs. The statement from the Moody’s ratings agency followed concerns about the possible impact of the eurozone crisis on the UK’s growth prospects. It put the UK on “ne ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Turkish student village may herald thaw in tie ...
    A small event on Monday in eastern Turkey, less than an hour's drive from the Iranian border, signaled a lull in the hostility that has been characterizing Israel-Turkey relations for over three years. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Al Qaeda Paradox: Freedom Fighters Who Hate us ...
    Were we lied to about 9/11, lied to about Libya & Syria, or perhaps both? Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 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. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-i ...
  • Israel blames Iran for attacks on its diplomat ...
    So what else is new? Submitted by Glenn Byrnes to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Bills Introduced in House to Repeal Indefinite ...
    Two bills have been introduced to amend the NDAA to make it clear that Americans cannot be detained indefinitely and denied their Constitutional Rights. HR 3676 has 54 co-sponsors and HR 3785 has 3. Submitted by Norm C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • '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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • 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 ...
  • HEART IS THE MASTER / MIND THE SERVANT
    Allen L Roland A heart grounded Warrior The Japanese symbol of love is a replica of the heart’s dominance ~ for the mind is always looking for answers that the heart already knows. Armed with this innate compass, synchronistic heart felt events and relationships offer clues that our live ...
  • The Force isn’t with you... ‘Israe ...
    By Dr Saeb Shaath On the morning of Sunday Jan 29, an ‘Israeli’ Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UVA), the Heron TP (also known as the IAI Eitan) crashed during a joint operation by the ‘Israeli’ military and the company responsible for the drone’s development, near the Te ...
  • NATO's Secret War on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They're also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment. "These reports confirm unequivocally (they're illegally) interfer ...
  • Promoting War, Spurning Peace
    by Stephen Lendman US and Israeli agendas need enemies. Both pursue rogue state policies. They defy international laws and conventions, applying rule of law standards to others, not themselves. Their interests alone matter, no matter the toll on others. When enemies don't exist, they're inven ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • As the Cookie Crumbles: Judas Priests
    By Dr.Woody,Worldwidehippies – The hierarchy of the Roman church is up in arms about Obambster’s efforts to curry favor with women voters in this election year by making a symbolic gesture meant to ensure that female employees of even institutions, such as the Church, which claim so- ...
  • Arctic warms to highest level yet as researche ...
      Jeremy Hance ,mongabay.com - Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet. According to recent data by NASA, average Arctic temperatures in 2011 were 2.28 degrees Celsius (4.1 degrees Fahr ...
  • It’s Valentine’s Day, Love It (Or ...
    By Eugen Tomiuc,rferl.org - Heart-shaped chocolates in heart-shaped boxes. Pink Cupids on heart-shaped greeting cards. Lip-shaped pillows. Silky lingerie. It’s Valentine’s Day, and shop windows, billboards, and television ads remind you of it wherever you go. Or so it seems. Valentin ...
  • Genetically Modified Organisms Updates: Monsan ...
    Monsanto Guilty Of Poisoning French Farmer France Bids Monsanto A Hearty Au Revoir By Nate Holl,  greenchipstocks.com - Natural Society named Monsanto the World’s Worst Company last year, and this peddler of pesticides might defend its title in 2012. On Monday a French court declared the U ...
  • Greece Poverty-Fueled Unrest; More Fuel, More ...
    Worldwidehippies - RT news – Yet another wave of credit rating downgrades has hit the EU – with Moody’s, one of the big three raters, slashing the scores of Italy, Spain and four other nations. This as the bloc labors to erect a debt-barrier around Greece, amid hopes that extre ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Butanol & Natural Gas Reserves — R-Squared Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about butanol and natural reserves. I had intended to discuss the Open Fuel Standard when talking about butanol, but ultimately did not. I will get to that in an upcoming episode. Som ...
  • No Free Lunch in Our Energy Options
    Join the forum discussion on this post Land Usage and Wildlife vs. Carbon Emissions If I had to describe the theme of my upcoming book with just one phrase, it would be “There is no free lunch in our energy options.” Sometimes the costs are obvious, as when an oil spill occurs or a ...
  • Peak Oil & Carbon Emissions — R-Squared Energy ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on about peak oil and carbon trading markets. Some of the topics discussed are: Whether peak oil has been discredited Recent media headlines on peak oil (or lack thereof) Why I t ...
  • Confused about Energy and Power?
    Join the forum discussion on this post When I recently solicited feedback for topics to cover for my upcoming book, several people requested that I discuss the difference between energy and power. Just two weeks ago Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is on the House Committee on Scienc ...
  • Electric Cars & Overpopulation — R-Squared Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on the future of electric cars, and the global population, which many feel is the root of so many problems. Some of the topics discussed are: When electric cars might be expected t ...

Discovery Educator Network

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

Rodale News

  • Factory-Farming Exposed in Prime-Time Grammy C ...
    Chipotle, a burrito chain that sources sustainable ingredients, put its money where its mouth is on Sunday night. Known more for its mouthwatering burritos and less for its focus on sustainable ingredients, the company exposed factory-farming practices in a commercial that aired Sunday night d ...
  • 11 Surprising Sex-Drive Killers
    Feeling a little lackluster in the libido department this Valentine's Day? You're not alone. Americans' sex drives are plummeting, thanks to many chemicals and ingredients added to our food, medicines, shower gels, and even sex toys! Get your hormones back on track and rev up your sex drive by ...
  • 4 All-Natural Air Fresheners
    We're a good month or so away from spring—and spring flowers and fresh spring air. If you're anything like me, your house is starting to take on all the smells of a winter full of cooked dinners, soggy boots, and a few too many people cooped up inside for far too long. Rather than pull out the ...
  • 5 Disturbing Side Effects of Soda
    If you've been reading health magazines and websites for any length of time, you've read a litany of reasons why soda is bad for you. It's nothing but sugar water. It's devoid of any nutritional value. It leads to obesity and diabetes. But we've dug up nine other disturbing facts about what sod ...
  • Why You Need to Switch Deodorants
    The next time you reach for that stick of roll-on deodorant, consider this: A recent study in the Journal of Applied Toxicology found that chemicals commonly used in deodorants were showing up in breast-cancer tumors, leading the authors to suspect that they may play some role in the developmen ...

big think

  • Don't Unplug from the Web. Learn to Plug In Be ...
    What's the Latest Development? Too much Internet can be a bad thing. But completely unplugging is no longer realistic. So rather than cut yourself off for an arbitrary three days, or whatever length of time it may be, start plugging in better. Social media director Alexandra Samuel offer ...
  • Xi Jinping: From The Oval Office To The Basket ...
    It may be a day dedicated to love. But for Xi Jinpin, China’s presidential heir apparent, it is a day dedicated entirely to business...and basketball. Trade deficits, currency devaluations and human rights issues are the topics dominating the dialogue between President Obama and Xi Jinpin ...
  • Google's Gay Valentine
    To commemorate Valentine's Day Google altered its logo today by embedding an animated video of a cute love story. Most of the video depicts a guy and a girl romance, but it ends with a collage of many different couples, including a frog and a princess, an alien squid and an astronaut as well as ...
  • Would Gamifying School Reform Increase Urgency?
    There is no shortage of effort in the United States today to infuse school leadership teams with the knowledge, skills and abilities to create improvements in schools. But one example is the work being taken on in several states to have schools embrace six design principles, known as “critical . ...
  • Disrupting Education: There Are No Boundaries ...
    It used to be that if you went to an elite school you didn't have access to the best minds unless you were physically in their presence. That is not the case anymore, Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Montgomery Brown recently told Beet.TV.  Since its launch in 2008, Big Think has so ...

Information Liberation

  • U.S. media takes the lead on Iran
    Many have compared the coordinated propaganda campaign now being disseminated about The Iranian Threat to that which preceded the Iraq War, but there is one notable difference. Whereas the American media in 2002 followed the lead of the U.S. governme...
  • Baltimore Cops Threaten to Arrest Citizen for ...
    Via Carlos Miller: Less than 24 hours after Baltimore police received a general order that they must allow citizens to record them in public, officers threatened to arrest a man for doing just that. But they insisted that it wasn*t the a...
  • Cop Kills Unarmed Children's Volunteer Worker, ...
    A female 54-year-old unarmed children's volunteer worker sitting in a parking lot was killed after cops were called because she was heard "arguing loudly." The officer who responded killed the woman and concocted an elaborate tale of the woman c...
  • Why Are Government Bureaucrats Turning America ...
    I*m sorry to put it in such a crass way, but that is exactly what they are doing. Ever since the September 11th attacks, these power-grabbing scoundrels have been putting policies in place that were planned well before 9/11, searching us, trackin...
  • Obama: Lets Debase Our Coinage Even Further to ...
    Via BusinessInsider: As a means of saving money, this is one of Obama's proposed cuts in his budget. ---- SAVINGS: INCREASED FLEXIBILITY FOR THE U.S. MINT IN COINAGE Department of the Treasury The Budget proposes to provide the Mint with...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Open science – just do it
    The idea of open science means different things to different people, but primarily it is about community, the scientific community and beyond. At a time when commercial publishers are coming under increasing pressure there are boycotts and rebellions and the new wave of open access publishers ar ...
  • Cambridge students to grill Sciencebase
    Once again, I’ll be attending the annual media careers event at Cambridge University, where students and alumni get a chance to chat with members of the media about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. The February 20 ...
  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...
  • Testing times, but no pardon for Turing
    UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Why Did Europe's Danube River Freeze?
    Just how extraordinary has this winter been in Europe? The Danube river has frozen, for one. [More]
  • In the Andes, Extreme Cold Extracts Bitter Toll
    EL HIGUERON, Peru – Carlos Cruz Chanta lives just off a rutted dirt road, almost lost in the mist, outside this village on a steep ridge of jungle-covered mountains. Like his neighbors, he makes his living raising livestock and growing corn, fruit, beans, and coffee. [More] ...
  • Red Sea: Sounding Radar Buoys Evidence Mars On ...
    In the eyes of many planetary scientists, the surface of Mars's northern hemisphere has long looked like it once contained an ocean. Now it is "sounding" that way, too. [More]
  • Senators Consider Banning Automatic Media Shar ...
    It's been a long day at work. You walk in the door, drop your bag and turn on your computer. You start a playlist on Spotify. Bon Jovi roars, "It's my life, it's now or never ..."  Facebook pops up, "Would you like to share this song with your friends?" You c ...
  • Is Cadmium as Dangerous for Children as Lead?
    It’s a heavy metal. It’s linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Rally Shuns Sham Inquiry on Missing Women
      VANCOUVER - An all-day rally against the Missing Women Inquiry occupied the intersection of Georgia and Granville  - one day before the annual Women's Memorial March. A circle of more than 100 people held quilt pieces bearing the names of missing and murdered women in BC. Memoria ...
  • No Love on Valentine's: Palestine Activists pr ...
      Palestinian rights activists took to the streets of Vancouver on Sunday, February 12, 2012 for an early Valentine's Day greeting to Lavan Vancouver, bringing hearts, balloons, flowers - and the Apartheid Wall of No Love.   Watch the video: http://youtu.be/eGnbyVHeiCw   Lavan ...
  • "Hey, Do You Use The Internet?"
    Concordia Students Protest Bill C-11, The Canadian Version of SOPA On Febuary 10th Nadim Kobeissi, a  Concordia University student organized a demonstration against Bill C-11, which resembles that of SOPA in United states. The bill enf ...
  • Tensions Flare over Vancouver-owned Mine in Oaxaca
    Three dead and community divided over Fortuna Silver's gold and silver project It's been almost three years since hundreds of Zapotec community members took direct action to temporarily shut down Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver' ...
  • The Wheels on the Bus...
    As City Buys Anti-Striker Ads, ATU Prez Suggests Arbitration Halifax - With ATU local 508 out on strike, and CUPE 227, representing the Halifax Regional Water Commission employees, in a legal strike position, a solidarity rally wa ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A Valentine story
    David Seaton's News Links I thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz.This all happened when I was a little kid.  My stepfather was a docto ...
  • A poem for ex-Judge Baltasar Garzón
    ex-judge, Baltasar GarzónTerrible crimes were committed during and after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, is on trial for da ...
  • Santorum, Mitt and Newt... Decline and Fall... ...
    "Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas of their free-born ancestors." Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"David Seaton's News LinksUnder Richard Nixo ...
  • Iran... is a trap being set?
    If the United States and/or Israel finally do attack Iran, as it now appears inevitable, they may end up falling into a trap laid by Russia and China. "Garden Airplane Trap" Max Ernst - Art Institute of Chicago The Americans know Iran did not bring the RQ-170 down because their intelligence agen ...
  • The sustainable future beckons: an all purpose ...
    David Seaton's News Linksphoto credit to जरा खाजवा की डोक For me this image is pure poetry, it suggests so many things about our world and even about our human nature: the smile of the driver, the people riding snug and dry in the cab, the no nonsense expression on the little bullock's face. ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Will Piracy Ruin Hollywood?
    Gabriel Rossman suggests that although piracy has had little effect on the quantity and quality of music, it will probably have a bigger effect on movies: In the music industry the ratio of promotion to production costs is about 10:1....This means that over the long-run a drop in music reve ...
  • Shrinking the Big Banks Down to Size
    I liked Felix Salmon's response to an Andrew Ross Sorkin column about whether the Volcker Rule — which is intended to prevent commercial banks from making speculative trades on their own account — will hurt the economy: If and when prop trading leaves the big banks, those b ...
  • Down With the White Pages!
    Brad Plumer, responding to a Clark Williams-Derry philippic against the white pages, says: In the age of Google and unlisted cell phones, paper phone directories are being used less and less: One Gallup survey found that, in 2008, just 11 percent of households actually relied on them. Yet t ...
  • Local Projects Should Be Funded Locally
    Tyler Cowen points us to Ed Glaeser, who has a bunch of advice about infrastructure spending. I don't agree with all of it, but some of his suggestions seem pretty sound. For example: DE-FEDERALIZE TRANSPORT SPENDING: Most forms of transport infrastructure overwhelmingly serve the residents ...
  • Noise, Traffic, and Congestion
    Ryan Avent wants to know why there are so many damn restrictions on putting up new buildings: Our first question should be: is there some very compelling reason not to allow private actors to engage in mutually beneficial transactions? If a developer wants to buy a piece of land and erect a ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Report seeks to integrate microbes into climat ...
    The models used to understand how Earth's climate works include thousands of different variables from many scientific including atmospherics, oceanography, seismology, geology, physics and chemistry, but few take into consideration the vast effect that microbes have on climate. Now, a new report ...
  • ORNL explores proteins in Yellowstone bacteria ...
    Studies of bacteria first found in Yellowstone's hot springs are furthering efforts at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center toward commercially viable ethanol production from crops such as switchgrass. read more
  • Noncoding RNAs alter yeast phenotypes in a sit ...
    Personal change can redefine or even save your life -- especially if you are one of a hundred yeast cell clones clinging to the skin of a grape that falls from a sun-drenched vine into a stagnant puddle below. By altering which genes are expressed, cells with identical genomes like these yeast c ...
  • Chemists mimic nature to design better medical ...
    Over their 3.8 billion years of evolution, living organisms have developed countless strategies for monitoring their surroundings. Chemists at UC Santa Barbara and University of Rome Tor Vergata have adapted some of these strategies to improve the performance of DNA detectors. Their findings may ...
  • Motherhood 'detrimental' to women's scientific ...
    Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children – not because their performance is devalued or they are shortchanged during interviewing and hiring, according to a new study at Cornell University. r ...

unEarthed

  • Monday Reads: The Amorous Arctic Caribou Edition
    Oil pipelines + caribou = lots of baby caribou? One fishy equation Baby caribou: "Pipelines make us do what?" Utukok Uplands, Western Arctic, Alaska (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Dumping A Civil Rights Issue
    One town’s Tr-“ash” is no one’s treasure The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sitting on a proposed coal ash standard for nearly 15 months. Without environmental standards for protection from this toxic waste, 54 re ...
  • Friday Finds: McDonalds’ Pink Slime Problem
    Chemical list limbo, idle air pollution laws, green coup Photo courtesy of Calgary Reviews. McDonald’s takes pink slime goop out of burgers It’s ...
  • Obama 'Promise' Keeps Arctic Drilling On Table
    President may be open to Shell promises it can clean up oil spill On backing down, backing away, and backing into a corner . . . President Obama’s stateme ...
  • Think the Weather's Getting Crazier? You're Right
    Last year saw many extreme events, and there's much more to come I'm going to stand back and just give you a taste of a report from the Earth Policy Institu ...

Brave New Climate

  • The Grattan Report on low-emissions energy tec ...
    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). Wood, A, T. Ellis, D. Mulloworth, and H. Morrow (2012) No Easy Choices: Which Way to Australia’s Energy Future. Technology Analysis. Grattan Institute, Melbourne. This report is a valuable addition to the litera ...
  • 100% renewable electricity for Australia – the ...
    Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE. For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE. By Peter Lang. Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 4 ...
  • Open Thread 21
    The previous Open Thread has gone past is off the BNC front page, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard [...]
  • Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
    Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...
  • The folly of making perfection the enemy of ex ...
    Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Dear liberal American Jews: Please don’t ...
    This letter is to you. You know who you are, but I can’t say your names. You don’t want to say what you think in public, in the United States of America, home of free speech. You are an American Jew, you are liberal, you believe in universal equality, minority, human and civil rights. You [...]
  • On Wislawa Szymborska: A poet dies, a war is born
    By Dahlia Shaham The morning I saw the obituary for Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet and Nobel Laureate, I was in a hotel room in Munich. I put the newspaper down on the small desk and left the hotel to attend the Munich Security Conference. Participation in this conference is limited to the ...
  • Study: Settler violence is structural, not a & ...
    A study conducted by the Washington-based Palestine Center documents settler violence and helps explain how it has been allowed to flourish. A new study will be released this week on the growing occurrence of Jewish settler violence against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Ba ...
  • Five comments on the (troubling) situation
    What does the appointment of Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i to ambassador of China really mean? Why is Yair Lapid whining? Which is the most interesting political teaming-up so far? What is one of the main goals of the war on Iran campaign? And what do we know of Netanyahu’s crime sol ...
  • In New Delhi, Tbilisi: What goes around, comes ...
    Once again, there’s a taboo against stating the obvious. It’s an open secret, and a source of great Israeli satisfaction, that the Mossad killed Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh four years and a day ago, and that the Mossad was behind a half-dozen killings of Iranian nuclear scientis ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Good Love – A Valentine
    In so many ways it’s hard to be good these days. I don’t mean telling the truth, getting the kids …Continue reading »
  • Something We Can’t Do Alone
    My city of London, Ontario has been through enough in these last few years, I believe, to qualify as a …Continue reading »
  • Shadowlands
    Progressive democracy has been perhaps the most stable of political systems in world history. It has guided and empowered the …Continue reading »
  • Reborn
    Sometimes communities aren’t ready for the changes being thrust upon them. Stuck in the traditional way of doing things, they …Continue reading »
  • Grief, Generosity, and a Galvanizing of Commun ...
    What began as a brief comment ended up as a unique citizen exercise. Ed Jackman (look for him in the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...
  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

  • Jaguar Land-Rover soars even higher with Tata ...
    Tata Motors Ltd. beat market estimates with a 41% rise in quarterly consolidated net profit, helped by robust sales at its U.K.-based Jaguar Land Rover unit. Net profit at Jaguar Land Rover soared 57% in the October-December period to GBP440 million, while sales surged 41% to GBP3.75 billion.
  • Now China gears up for the shale gas revolution
    The Chinese are now jumping onto the shale gas band-wagon and are looking to acquire fracking technology.
  • 6,000 generations since Out of Africa
    So I have started a new blogsite called 6,000 Generations to provide an outlet for my speculations about individuals from my Ancestral Generations (AG's).
  • Following Indian MMRCA success, Dassaut’ ...
    After its success in the Indian MMRCA competition, Dassult's Rafale is tipped to also win the Brazilian contract for 36 aircraft against the Swedish Gripen and the US F18.
  • “The enemy of my enemy …” ma ...
    Al-Qaeda has come out in strong support of the Syrian opposition and becomes a strange bedfellow for the US and Western European nations who have aligned themselves more agains President Assad than for anybody in particular. Just how the US and France and UK and others will now be reconciled wit ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Judge Really Thought No One Would Catch Her Di ...
    Silly judge, the law is for everyone, not just the plebeians you rule over on a daily basis. A Pennslyvania Magisterial District judge was totally busted for dismissing her own parking violations, which she racked up with her BMW. The state's attorney general says she'll face criminal charges ...
  • New App Will Make It Easy To Delete Your Ex Fr ...
    Though you might be loving the one you're with this year, by the time Valentine's Day 2013 comes around, your lovey wovey snuggle pie might become "that jerk who broke my heart into a million pieces and ruined love forever." But with a new smartphone app called Remove, you won't need to even ch ...
  • Family Resorts To Public Humiliation To Stop T ...
    What's a parent to do with a sticky-fingered teenager who keeps stealing things from other family members? For one Memphis family, the answer was to make that teen stand on a busy street corner holding up a "I steal from my family" sign. As if being gawked at by passersby isn't humiliating a e ...
  • Don't Fall Into The Credit Card Balance Transf ...
    If you're holding a hefty balance on your credit card at a double-digit interest rate, it might be tempting to apply for that new credit card promising you 0% interest on balance transfers for anywhere from 12 to 18 months. While it's definitely a sound idea to pay less interest, don't be tempt ...
  • Report Predicts Mankind's Greatest Nightmare, ...
    Good thing we all have those emergency underground bunkers that don't use any machines or computers whatsoever because robots are about to take over the world. Well, at least the robopocalypse is starting, as a report says mobile devices will outnumber humans in 2012. Cisco's prediction is in ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • "Operation Dark Heart" a Case Study for Needed ...
    Courtesy of the US ArmyTony Shaffer's best-selling Operation Dark Heart is a three-fer for whistleblowers. It is a page turning war story that the Army Times dubbed "big screen material." It illustrates how a holistic intelligence and battle strategy can make the difference between victory and d ...
  • Ship-Dumping Cases Increase, Due to Whistleblo ...
    Courtesy of Fotopedia user Ingrid TaylarThe New York Times: With Tips from Whistleblowers, More Hands on Deck in Pollution Cases Summary: Government prosecutors seeking to go after ships who pollute the ocean are being aided by whistleblowers. Many maritime workers have evidence of wrongdoing, ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour Visits Tulane Univ ...
    The GAP program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, comes to Tulane University on Tuesday, February 28. This Tour stop will feature a panel presentation by prominent national and New Orleans-based speakers discussing how whistleblowers promote transparency and ...
  • Nazi Flag Whistleblower Comes Forward: Daily W ...
    Mother Jones: Exclusive – Marines Nazi-Flag Whistleblower Comes Forward An Iraq war veteran and Loyola University history professor has come forward as the individual who reported that a military platoon was using a Nazi “SS” flag as its standard. He learned that this was not an isolated inci ...
  • Underground Parking Garages & Olive Garden: Co ...
    The media is feeling the chilling effect from the Obama administration's record-breaking number of Espionage Act prosecutions against so-called "leakers," who are usually whistleblowers. The New York Times reported this weekend on what I've chronicled since the first of ...

UK Progressive

  • Dogs Against Romney Speak Out!
    Today is a big night for the dogs, and at the Westminster Dog Show, Dogs Against Romney will be making their stand. I stand with them. Romney is the candidate of the 1 percent (of humans). He has been known to treat workers like dogs (when he fires them to make money in what Rick Perry called &# ...
  • Please Make the GOP Car Crash Either Speed Up ...
    When economist Paul Krugman suggested the only way for one of the four remaining GOP candidates to win the Presidential nomination was with a tinfoil hat on their head and Thomas Friedman, darling of the right claims “the GOP is not Conservative, it’s Radical,” I laugh. On the ...
  • New Arrests in Murdoch Bribery Scandal Raise Q ...
    by Lois Beckett, ProPublica This weekend, five more journalists from a Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid were arrested as part of an ongoing bribery investigation. The arrested journalists, all from the The Sun, were later released, and have yet to be charged with any crimes. (As the Wall Str ...
  • Colorado Redistricting Had Inside Help
    by Lois Beckett, ProPublica A version of this story was published in The Denver Post. Colorado was supposed to be an exception to the bitter fights over gerrymandering that define redistricting in much of the nation. Unusually, the Democratic governor gave up the chance to stack the map-drawing ...
  • Kamala Harris: Foreclosure Settlement Scores P ...
    On Friday, a day after announcing one of the largest settlements in California’s history, Kamala Harris spoke to the California Democratic Party’s African American Caucus, which was meeting in San Diego at the Party’s convention. Greeted with a standing ovation, the first black attorney general ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The Big-Freeze: Thousands trapped in Europe as ...
    And who wants Global Warming when you can face avalanches, deep snow, and record cold? How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity? What’s happening in Europe and Russia over the last two weeks is not just your average cold- ...
  • Toxoplasmosis: could that latent infection aff ...
    This is disturbing news. What if eating undercooked meat, gardening, or having a cat could give you an infection which stayed with you for life, nested in cysts in your brain? Worse, those cysts somehow affected your personality, possibly putting you at increased risk of suicide, schizophrenia, ...
  • Don’t forget to vote in the 2012 bloggies
    It’s your chance to guide the internet traffic to your favourite sites. Don’t miss it! Look out for Tallbloke, Australian Climate Madness, Watts Up (x 2), Climate Audit as well as JoNova.Click here to find out how it works. Click here to go straight to the voting page which closes o ...
  • We are winning eh? Part 4 (or so)
    The collapse of the Man-Made Myth continues apace. You may not read headlines as such (at least not in major dailies) but all the signs are there. People who we never would have imagined speaking against the Big Scare Campaign are now doing so. Key glaciers are not melting and corals are happy. ...
  • When your subsidies undermine your subsidies
    For forty years people have tried to get Solar to work, now the worst possible thing for the industry has occurred: The Left are serious about trying to help it. The Large Scale Solar Subsidies are bountifully generous on an unprecedented scale that involve taxing everything else that moves, but ...

ReNew America

  • Santorum: 'It takes a family' (AND a military ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The candidacy of Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination is scoring big time as I write. (Who knows if that will be the case by the time you read this?) The book on the former Pennsylvania senator, we are repeatedly informed by the media, is that he is ...
  • The era of persecution has begun
    (Alan Keyes) - "... it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself ...
  • Obama's divide-and-conquer strategy
    (Joseph Farah) - Barack Obama is a not only an abortion zealot, he's also a fascist control freak -- determined to make government the ultimate arbiter of morality on all matters political and economic...
  • An Obama backlash on religious liberty
    (David Limbaugh) - As God's instrument, Moses parted the Red Sea. Well, it appears President Barack Obama has a different idea. With a wave of his hand, he's going to reunite our bitterly divided political waters on the hottest of hot-button issues. Don't get me wrong; Obama's conscious effort t ...
  • The GOP race gets messy
    (Jonah Goldberg) - Okay, I give up. About a week ago, I wrote a column making a case for Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. My argument was aimed at fellow conservatives who just can't get their minds -- or at least their hearts -- around a Romney candidacy. The details aren't important right now ( ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • World’s Smallest Survival Pod
    From Japan of course. Only $4000. They have hundreds of pre-orders, but I couldn’t find out how I could get one – the manufacturer is Cosmo Power, but their website is in Japanese… The craft is 1.2 ...World’s Smallest Survival Pod is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
  • Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert
    Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence (more at Wikipedia). There is a lot of evidence that epigenetic modifications ...Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert is a post from: ...
  • USA Govt: Mega Snitch List
    I’ve mentioned previously how survivalists could show up on government radar if store owners decide that buying supplies with cash is suspicious – the purchaser could be a terrorist! As it happens, there are 25 ...USA Govt: Mega Snitch List is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
  • Galactic Centre to Erupt in 2013
    At the heart of every galaxy there is thought to be a supermassive black hole. Our black hole is known as Sagittarius A*, and as far as these go, it is very quiet. But that ...Galactic Centre to Erupt in 2013 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Our Galactic Centre: “enormous ene ...
  • What If Money Goes 100% Digital?
    The long term trend is obvious to any Sci-Fi fan – one day all transactions will be cashless. We might even have a universal currency known as credits! There are some indications in Europe that the ...What If Money Goes 100% Digital? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Power Gr ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Third phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh today
    Polling for the third phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections for 56 seats in 10 districts on Wednesday will decide the fate of three cabinet ministers, a minister of state, 29 sitting MLAs and 14 former ministers. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago
  • Spl squad, local police in prostitution bust d ...
    The special squad of the west region police and the Vakola police have come out with conflicting claims regarding a prostitution racket they busted in a joint operation on Monday. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
  • Jilted lover attacks girl with razor
    A 28-year-old man attacked a girl in her teens who he claimed to be his former girlfriend with a razor in south Kolkata on Valentines Day on Tuesday. Reported by Indian Express 4 hours ago
  • World’s seven wonders losing their glint
    With new and varied foreign destinations promoting their tourism and air travel getting relatively cheaper, the seven wonders could have dropped low on a traveller’s priority list. Reported by IndiaTimes 6 hours ago
  • May deploy scientists elsewhere: Russia
    We cannot allow our scientists to remain idle endlessly, said Alexander M Kadakin Reported by Indian Express 7 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Moscow and the Formation of The New World System
    Some bet, as it used to be, that a change in the Russian stance towards the Arab Region will occur and will be similar to what had taken place concerning the Iraqi or Libyan affair. However, a insightful analysis of the Russian stance will rule out such a notion for the following considerations: ...
  • Putin: Democracy in Making
    Democracy in the West has been long in making and we cannot point on a single person in any of the countries whom we would credit for having brought about democracy. We can only look at a long, and troublesome, history of social competition which has resulted in a state of affairs we call democr ...
  • US, Iran Keeping Up Belligerent Rhetoric
    According to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation is scheduled to revisit Iran from February 21-22. He said, “These cooperations between Iran and the IAEA can lead to the agency’s better understanding of the peacefu ...
  • Petrodollar Pumping US Policy on Iran, Backfir ...
    As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous eff ...
  • The Tug of War in Moscow
    For a month, Moscow was bracing itself for the February 4 Rally. It was pre-planned and prepared by the anti-Putin pro-Western liberal opposition. Despite sub-zero Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Centigrade) arctic frost, the organizers hoped to break their pre-Christmas record and gather a huge cr ...

BlogHer

  • Change Makes My Heart Happy
    I love Valentine's Day. We don't do the traditional romantic dates and gifts in our house. It is a family celebration that consists of a pink and red dinner and gifts, cards, and treats that magically appear at the door.  By magically I mean someone sneaks out through the garage, rings the ...
  • Trusting One Another
    [Editor’s Note: This post is today’s featured entry in the Journey to Motherhood with Ricki Lake story contest. Find out how to submit your story and see the video message from Ricki here -- you could win a wonderful prize package! -- Jenna] As they laid our beautiful baby girl on my chest, I ...
  • What are You Supposed to Do with the C-Panel?
    If you sign up for a web hosting account, you get this nice letter back from the hosting company that tells you all about how to connect to your server and where to find your C-panel. If you're a little new at the whole web hosting thing, you may wonder what in the name of cyberspace you are sup ...
  • A Red Velvet Cake for Valentine's Day
    [Editor's Note: Today's the final day of our 14-day celebration of chocolate, and our party's going to culminate with this amazing, heart-shaped, cocoa-riffic red velvet cake from Sprinkle Bakes. It's a perfect dessert to show how much you love all the people in your life. Happy Valentine's Day! ...
  • Making Exercise a Habit
    Welcome to this week's Inspiration to Fitness post. I'm proud of myself and all of you for following along with Ashley and I for the last 6 weeks! Well, there's only one week left in the whole inspiration to fitness program... phew! Which means I'll have a week to work off all the bites I'l ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Telling the truth about W.Va. mineral taxation
    The good folks over at the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy just posted a fascinating new item on their blog. It’s headlined, “Getting the Story Right: Mineral Taxation in Wyoming and West Virginia” and it concludes: West Virginia’s mineral property and severance ...
  • What’s going on with MSHA’s UBB in ...
    Leave it to NPR’s Howard Berkes to work Super Bowl champions, Olympic medalists and mine disaster investigators into the same little piece of journalism. As Howard reported yesterday on NPR’s Two-Way blog: Super Bowl and World Series champions do it. Olympic athletes do it. War heroe ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller wins race to criticize Obama ...
    Well, it appears we have a winner in the race among West Virginia’s congressional delegation to be the first to issue a statement criticizing the Obama administration’s funding of the so-called “clean coal” programs within the U.S. Department of Energy. I have to admit be ...
  • Update on Blair Mountain mining activities
    In the absence of any additional information — any information, actually — from the folks at Arch Coal, I thought I would pass along a report just in from Brandon Nida at the Friends of Blair Mountain. Here it is: Developments at Blair Mountain (Feb. 13 2012) This report is a write-u ...
  • President Obama’s budget and coal
    President Barack Obama speaks about the “Community College to Career Fund” and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) I’ve really been interested in cruising around on the great interactive map on ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Applying Fundamentals to Health and Informatio ...
    Image by pshan427 In both health and information security it’s easy to become conceptually constrained by external advice, recommendations, and standards. The numbers of entities available to tell you what you should–or mus–do is legion, and such wisdom is often coupled with di ...
  • Judge Napolitano Speaks Stunning/Obvious Polit ...
    via youtube.com This is brilliant. But it shouldn’t be. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentFox News’ Judge Napolitano Speaking in Support of WikileaksThe Political Missing QuadrantNew Headz Up App | SNLSeriously Fast LyricsA Creative Song
  • Overeating Damages Your Memory
    They were investigating mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which can be an early sign of dementia. Research, presented at a conference, claimed a high calorie diet was linked to having twice the risk of MCI, compared with a low calorie diet. via bbc.co.uk So poor memory means less working memory, ...
  • Building the Ideal 100-word Password List
    There’s some phenomenal password research here from clarkson.edu that talks about common passwords found during Internet attacks. I’ve taken those entries and put them into a single list here on Github, and I will soon be adding the abridged rockyou list (once I get their permission) ...
  • Interactive Animation Brings Starry Night to Life
    via thenextweb.com Stunning. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentInteractive map of U.S. migration patterns | Boing BoingAirbnb is Social TimesharingElection Issues Infographic | TheNextWebThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraThe MacTard Satisfa ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Vatican Press Office Crucifies the Messenger: ...
    Worldwidehippies – Vatican City, 14 February 2012 (VIS) – Given below is the text of a note written by Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Frederico Lombardi S.J. and released late yesterday afternoon by Vatican Radio, concerning the recent leaking of a series of Vatican documents. &# ...
  • Hippie Digest for Tuesday
    Key moment in Gastown’s history Story of Stan Douglas’s work and the riot it depicts at centre of new book BY DANA GEE, THE PROVINCE - On a hot August night just over four decades ago, the Downtown East-side (DTES) erupted when police descended upon a group of hip-pies. The Gastown R ...
  • Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless
    By Chris Hedges,Truthdig - There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. It goes like this. Physically eradicate the insurgents’ logistical base of o ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    Banking for pot shops eyed in Colorado DENVER (AP) — Medical marijuana is legal in 17 states, but the industry has a decidedly black-market aspect — it’s mostly cash-only. Banks won’t touch pot money. The drug is illegal under federal law, and processing transactions or investments w ...
  • A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream, a 2 ...
    by: Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com | Op-Ed - On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became a filmmaker. It was around ten in the morning and the first-ever roll of Kodak 16mm film for my first-ever movie was loaded into my friend’s camera to shoot the very first scene of ‘Roger & ...

reference frame

  • Some alarmists are waiting for skeptics to die off
    Willie Soon has pointed out a new conflict in between two groups of climate change alarmists. What do they disagree about? One group led by David Roberts of Grist argues that the alarmists should wait for all the climate skeptics to die off; another group, represented by Crikey, claims t ...
  • Cold fusion colloquium at CERN
    On Thursday, March 22nd, the CERN Colloquium between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm will be dedicated to a very, very unusual topic: cold fusion. The title is Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR): click for descriptionand the talk will be presented b ...
  • Magic 4D: a great comedy
    Just ten days ago, you could have read about Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists". Because this is another blog entry about a play in the Pilsner Chamber Theater, you must start to think that I am the ultimate theater addict. In order to preserve this generous and precious belief of yours, ...
  • Gell-Mann on LHC, supersymmetry and SUSY rumors
    If you have 16 minutes, you may watch Murray Gell-Mann who was interviewed by CERN's Paolo Catapano on January 23rd. Click here if you see no video above. Gell-Mann talks about the likelihood of the Higgs mechanism, importance of beauty in physics, the role of it in knowing th ...
  • Jason Mraz, Al Gore's new friend
    Jason Mraz is an American singer and songwriter. The music isn't quite my cup of tea but I think it's good. This YouTube video with his song (which I've heard before) has attracted 120 million viewers: that's quite something. I don't remember seeing a number over 100 million for quite some ti ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Monday Morning Rant: The Greece Pit and mind-d ...
    The Greek Situation is precarious to say the least. There is an unelected global banker, as leader, dictating to the Greek people how their day-to-day lives will change, for the worse, at the hands of austerity. Can you really blame them for this? There is no mandate for the Greek fire sale, thu ...
  • A Greece Fire: Greece burns. Troika was the match.
    Live from the Greek front in the Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) the city of Athens is on fire thanks to the corporate coup of Greek sovereignty. What you are witnessing WILL be coming to North America as austerity measures are enforced on us. Watch live streaming video fro ...
  • You’re a slave to money then you die
    Pre-VEVO play count: 22581204 Music video by The Verve performing Bitter Sweet Symphony. Video Rating: 4 / 5 ‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life Trying to make ends meet You’re a slave to money then you die I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been d ...
  • Morality is legislated. Prisons over-populated ...
      I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation. Sure I have human form walking erect and opposing digits, but my mind is upside down. I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world. And I see the world around me like a mad collective dream. A ...
  • My thoughts on smoking: The mass murder of my ...
    After visiting the hospital last night I have come to the conclusion that anyone profiting from the production, distribution, and sale of tobacco are part of Big Tobacco and are murdering scum. Why do I think this? Big tobacco murdered my father Big tobacco murdered my Grampy George Big tobacco ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Heartbroken skier wins reprieve
    Top skier Kristin Størmer Steira has had a tough year so far, candidly admitting that a nine-year romance broke up just after New Year and she hasn’t had much appetite since. She lost so much weight that she wasn’t allowed to compete recently, but now she’s won permission to ra ...
  • Skiers back in World Cup lead
    Norwegian ski queen Marit Bjørgen remained a favorite in the race for the Nordic skiing World Cup this year after scoring two more victories over the weekend. Meanwhile, biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his first World Cup event in more than a year, and was jubilant as well. Bjørgen took ...
  • Orderuds withdraw new trial request
    Two of Norway’s most famous convicted murderers, Per and Veronica Orderud, have withdrawn a motion their lawyers filed seven years ago asking for a new trial. They haven’t given up on getting their convictions reversed, though, and instead link the withdrawal to frustration over how ...
  • Farmers ridiculed over hotel boycott
    Norway’s large and powerful farmers’ lobby, Bondelaget, was a subject of public ridicule on Tuesday, after news broke that its chapter in Oppland County was moving its annual meeting out of a hotel at Hafjell because the hotel serves milk from the upstart Q-Dairy. The farmers prefer ...
  • Work rules issue splits government
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is facing another thorny issue that’s dividing the three-party coalition government he leads. His two government partners won’t back the latest EU directive on rules for temporary workers, while he supports it and thus may need to turn to opposition pa ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Why Would You Attend the PRI’s Teacher Trainin ...
    In November of 2011 I was participating in a class as a student at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm in NSW, Australia. It was the PDC Teacher Training Course taught by Geoff and Nadia Lawton. Five weeks later my wife and I were on a plane to Yemen to assist in teaching a Permaculture [...]
  • 2nd National Sustainable Food Summit, Sydney, ...
    Editor’s Note: I would encourage all well-spoken permaculturists who can make it to Sydney for this event to go along and contribute your thoughts — to help show how permaculture can shift our planetary orbit onto a safer trajectory…. What: 2nd National Sustainable Food Summit ...
  • International Permaculture Convergence 10, Jor ...
    Andy Goldring, the Coordinator/CEO of the Permaculture Association (Britain) attended the International Permaculture Convergence 10 (IPC10) in Jordan. He was there alongside hundreds of others, including Permaculture’s founding father Bill Mollison. Andy reviews an event which is acknowled ...
  • ReOccupy Portugal
    I have seen a possibility and a lot of factors that are working in favor of this possibility, so it has motivated me to start working on my idea. It’s about collaboratively re-occupying and regenerating abandoned rural land, starting here, where I am in Portugal. Since I know of no other c ...
  • Permaculture Design Certificate Course, Arusha ...
    Learn the concepts of sustainable living and improved self-reliance through foodwatershelter’s Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course. Join USA based instructor Steve Whitman and a team of local teachers in Arusha, Tanzania between the 4th to 15th June 2012 for this incredible opp ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • What Does Gender Have To Do With Housing? By S ...
    From the Bridge The Gulf website: This article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork: Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housi ...
  • For Volunteers in New Orleans: Principles of P ...
    More than six years after Hurricane Katrina, volunteers are still coming to New Orleans from across the US. We appreciate the solidarity, but we also think it is important to be conscious of the limits of volunteerism. In that spirit, we believe it is useful to republish this 2007 letter, origin ...
  • How Much is a Black Vote Worth? Who Wants to B ...
    On May 10, 1994 former political prisoner Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was elected the first Black President of South Africa. I remember seeing a newspaper photograph of three elderly South African women. Two of them struggled as they carried the third woman between them by her arm pits, for ...
  • Sentencing in Noose Incident at Louisiana Midd ...
    Three men, aged 21 - 25, were sentenced today in an incident in which they sought to intimidate African American children away from attending a school in Morehouse Parish, LA. The school had recently seen increased enrollment by Black students because of a new busing policy. In other news, the ...
  • Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate P ...
    “Corporations are people, my friend.” - Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda i ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imh1a1vz_kA Even the best of the goyim shall be killed. Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:32 pm
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: OWS & the pl ...
    Let's take advantage of the posted Email Addresses and BLITZ these guys with Emails. Let them know that WE KNOW and that people like these low lifes will not get away with their disinfo for not long. We need lists of shills to round up when we, or if we ever, get power back. These guys know t ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://hope-of-israel.org/i000109a.htm The JEWISH ORIGINS of the Hapsburg [Holy Roman Emperors] line can be clearly seen on the tombstone of Emperor Rudolf I -- located in the Cathedral of Speyer, Germany. The tombstone has a life-sized portrait of the emperor engraved in it, surrounded by ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWslbLYjzhg Here we go again, another Jew telling the world about the *TRICK" jews use when it comes to the HolohoaxStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:51 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Anonymous didn't make the video. They just brought it to a potentially huge and untapped audience by putting their stamp of approval on it. Statistics: Posted by Whaler — Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:34 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Reliance on ‘Virtual Water’ Puts Some Nations ...
    A new study calculates that about one-fifth of all water goes toward the production of crops and commodities for export, part of a global phenomenon known as “virtual water” that researchers say could place pressure on finite water supplies in some nations. Using Click to enlarge Arjen Hoeks ...
  • Unique Antarctic Fish Threatened by Warming So ...
    A unique group of fish that has evolved to live in Antarctic waters thanks to “anti-freeze” proteins in their blood and body fluids is threatened by rising temperatures in the Southern Ocean, according to a new Yale University An Antarctic notothenioids study. Yale University researchers s ...
  • Student Push for Ban on Plastic Water Bottles ...
    Student groups on some college campuses are pushing their schools to ban the sale of plastic water bottles, a campaign that so far has prompted more than 20 colleges and universities to impose partial or complete bans. The bottled water industry has responded with a sarcastic video criticizing t ...
  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off B ...
    A coalition of European companies today opened a 367-megawatt wind farm off the British coast, a massive project that developers say will power as many as 320,000 households annually and is the world’s largest offshore wind project to date. The Walney Wind Farm, located nine miles (15 kilometers ...
  • On the Road Back to Rio, Green Direction Has B ...
    Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Problem, the Solution, the Woman
    From creating a safe haven for refugees to shattering female stereotypes, our picks of inspiring women who have found solutions for some of today’s most challenging problems.
  • In Praise of the Mexican Hairless Dog
    Much like single people on Valentine's Day, the Xoloitzcuintli (aka: the Mexican Hairless Dog) has long suffered from a lack of love and affection from dog owners and breeders.
  • You Read it First on FrumBeast
    On February 13, I described how Mitt Romney's "Severely Conservative" line would be used by his opponents:
  • Can Santorum Really Challenge Romney?
    Every candidate this season has had a turn to surge, sometimes even twice. That's the narrative now explaining Rick Santorum, rising in the polls once again and plotting a serious challenge to Mitt Romney in upcoming primaries. Santorum argues he's the last candidate standing between M ...
  • Obama Generation Lost?
    With promises of change unfulfilled, half of CPAC attendees were college students. By Mark McKinnon.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Ortiz will have to make do with $14.5 million
    David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox avoided salary arbitration by agreeing Monday to a one-year contract worth $14,575,000. The deal for the slugging designated hitter was midway between the $16.5 million he asked for last month and the $12.65 million submitted by the Red Sox, which ...
  • Documentary on Fukushima town is screened at B ...
    A documentary about residents forced to evacuate from their town, home to part of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, was recently screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. "I hope no one in the world will have an experience like ours again," Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of Futab ...
  • Senior talks on Aussie FTA get under way
    Senior government officials from Japan and Australia began a four-day meeting Tuesday in Tokyo to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, with the outcome likely to set the tone for separate consultations on Tokyo's future participation in U.S.-led trans-Pacific free-trade talks scheduled for ...
  • Wanted suspect identified in fatal eatery shooting
    Police continued their manhunt Tuesday for a 65-year-old man wanted in the fatal shooting the previous day of a 62-year-old man in a restaurant in Togane, Chiba Prefecture. Witnesses said Chong Yong Bom, who also goes by the Japanese name Tomio Ishikawa, fled with the gun after shooting Yoshia ...
  • Store debuts Zambia bamboo bikes
    A bicycle shop in Tokyo's Harajuku district has started selling bikes with bamboo frames made in Zambia, hoping riders hop on. F.I.G bike's Harajuku branch earlier this month began selling the unique Zambikes, produced by social venture firm Zambikes established by Americans and local people i ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Ten Points on Recession, Deficits, and Austeri ...
    Ontario public service advocates and providers are becoming increasingly and rightfully alarmed about the direction of provincial finances, in the run-up to tomorrow’s public release of the Drummond Commission report, and a subsequent provincial budget that looks to be painfully austere. T ...
  • In the Wake of the Crisis: Bully Capitalism
    A shorter version of this article appears today at Economy Lab, the Globe and Mail’s on-line business feature.  Capitalism has entered an ugly new era, one that may work well for the shareholders of world, but not for the rest of us. I couldn’t help but notice that, on the very same ...
  • Rags, Meet Riches: Celebrating the growing gap ...
    I have to admit that lately I’ve been thinking maybe some of us in the 99% have been just a teensy bit unfair. And it hurts—really hurts—to say this, but I’m wondering if the CCPA also bears some responsibility for inflaming that whole “don’t hate me because I’m beautiful—sorry, I mean incredibl ...
  • Ontario’s Mining Tax Barely Scratches the Surface
    This table displays the mining taxes and royalties paid for minerals – including coal, but excluding oil and gas – to Canada’s major mining jurisdictions in 2010. The ideal would be to compare these charges with economic rent, which varies by mine and is difficult to calculate. Howev ...
  • Comparing two carbon bombs: LNG plants vs Enbr ...
    With the spotlight on the federal government’s aggressive push to export tar sands bitumen via the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, and from there by tanker on to China, the BC government reclaimed some attention on the energy file when it released its Natural Gas Strategy la ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Russian team reaches isolated Antarctic lake
    Nature: Lake Vostok, the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes buried under the surface of Antarctica, has been breached by the Russian Antarctic research program. The almost 3800 meters of ice overlying the lake give a continuous paleoclimatic record of the past 400 000 years. The Vostok dr ...
  • Black hole may be devouring asteroids
    National Geographic: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, produces bright x-ray and IR flares that are as much as a hundred times brighter than the black hole's more typical output of radiation. Kastytis Zubovas of the University of Leicester in the UK and col ...
  • Europe's new Vega rocket completes flawless fi ...
    BBC: The Europan Space Agency's (ESA) Vega rocket, a four-stage vehicle built to carry satellites of 2.5 tons or less, completed its first mission on Monday in about 70 minutes. It carried nine payloads, including the LARES (Laser Relativity Satellite) craft, which is designed to study frame-dr ...
  • Post-Fukushima cleanup is well-funded but confused
    New York Times: The Japanese government has begun issuing contracts to rehabilitate the area most exposed to contamination from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant last March. The decontamination effort has already drawn criticism. Three construction companies with no expertise in ...
  • Open-access debate continues with new bill in ...
    Science: Whether scientific papers funded with taxpayer money should be made available online for free has been the subject of an ongoing debate among members of Congress, universities, and publishers. Last week lawmakers reintroduced a proposal to make such papers free on the internet. The Fede ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Fracking: A cure or a curse?
    “A race is on to extract natural gas from vast swathes of the US. But is hydraulic fracking the cure for an energy-hungry country or a fatally flawed process that will have disastrous consequences for people and the environment? Estimates of vast deposits of shale gas under US soil have le ...
  • Texas Water District Acts to Slow Depletion of ...
    “The new rule issued by the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District, based in Lubbock, declares that water pumped in excess of the “allowable production rate” is illegal. In Texas, a bastion of the free-market Tea Party, such a rule is hard to fathom.  Most of the state abides ...
  • Thirsty Gulf Country Quits Exports of Precious ...
    “Dubai’s water scarce neighbor Abu Dhabi recently announced that it has banned all groundwater exports, Gulf News reports. Established yesterday at a Ministerial Service Council meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahya ...
  • China detains Korean ship over Yangtze chemica ...
    “A Chinese maritime court on Saturday ordered the detention of a South Korean cargo ship over a chemical leak that polluted the Yangtze River, contaminating drinking water in parts of Jiangsu province, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The country’s second water pollution sca ...
  • Group kicks off campaign to put desal before S ...
    “SANTA CRUZ – Organizers of a ballot measure designed to put a planned desalination plant to a vote are set to begin circulating petitions around the city. “About 100 people attended a kickoff party Sunday for a drive to place a measure on the November ballot that would require ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich, LaTourette Work With the National Fe ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Steve LaTourette (R-OH) today began working directly with the National Federation of the Blind to address potential concerns regarding legislative language in an amendment to the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012. “We contacted the Nat ...
  • Kucinich Supports Effort to Bring WTO Case Aga ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) joined Congressman Gary Peters (D-MI) and 25 other Members of Congress today in sending a letter to President Obama requesting that he initiate a World Trade Organization dispute against China for unfairly penalizing imports on American vehicles with engine cap ...
  • Kucinich to MetroHealth Search Committee: New ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who works closely with Cuyahoga County health care systems to ensure the needs of our community are met, today wrote to the MetroHealth CEO Search Committee urging the selection of a candidate that “embodies the mission of MetroHealth.” The text of the letter ...
  • Honoring Johnny Kilbane
    100th Anniversary Celebration of the World Featherweight Championship Fight of Johnny Kilbane Cleveland’s Only Boxing Champion Cleveland, Ohio (February 14, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will host an event in honor and memory of Johnny Kilbane, Cleveland’s Boxing Champi ...
  • Kucinich Rallies Red Cross Workers
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will this morning rally with Red Cross workers, Teamsters Local 507 to unite in their contract dispute. Kucinich has vowed to assist the workers, pledging to bring their fight to Washington D.C.  Hundreds of workers and supporters are expected to rally a ...

Authentically Wired

  • … What and this is supposed to be a surprise … ...
    … What and this is supposed to be a surprise … I don’t think so …   In Orwell’s Newspeak: “Isolation” Means Mandatory Military Service For All 02-13-2012  •  L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise  The drumbeat to enslave us never lets up. A few years ago, in my essay ...
  • … GREEN made simple …
     … GREEN made simple …   DIY Worm Compost Bin     WATCH VIDEIO HERE … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlmvJ1t42Q8&feature=player_embedded Worms can compost kitchen scraps and shredded paper much faster than the aerobic compost process utilized in most commercial backyard compost bins. A vermi ...
  • … Now the 90 nincompoops in our Arizona State ...
    … Now the 90 nincompoops in our Arizona State Legislature want to further restrict our right to be heard and to vote … Are we really going to allow this to happen …? Bill would restrict recall elections Associated Press   PHOENIX (AP) — A bill pending in the Legislature would change the way reca ...
  • … Hold it “partner” you’re in Russell Pe ...
      … Hold it “partner” you’re in Russell Pearce country now and we don’t take prisoners … gotcha …   Innovative Apps: Rat Out Your Neighbor Anonymously 02-13-2012  •  appadvice.com  The town of Gilbert, Arizona, just released its first app which is described in iTunes as a “Citizen Engageme ...
  • And who control$ the FBI … damn sure not you o ...
    … And who control$ the FBI … damn sure not you or me …  A$k Mon$tanto/Blackwater/Xe … Infragard – The FBI’s War On YOU !!!!!!! HTS 020908 p1 02-13-2012  •  YouTube.com    America’s Infrastructure (Utilities) is now controlled by the FBI  WATCH VIDEO HERE … http://www.youtube.co ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...
  • Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?
    Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...
  • Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in th ...
    Researchers have garnered further evidence for a smoking gun behind the fall of the great Maya civilization: deforestation. At the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, climatologist Ben Cook presented recent research showing how the destruction of rainforests by the Mayan ultimately led ...
  • Palm oil, pulp companies commit to zero-tolera ...
    Two Indonesian plantation companies have signed an agreement to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans and other protected species. The agreement was brokered by the Indonesian government between Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), a non-profit with operations in Central Kalimantan ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • International flu expert warns against complacency
    An Otago University-educated international flu expert is warning public health officials not be complacent about new viruses that could spread from animals to humans.The call comes after a health scare at Auckland Airport yesterday...
  • Lung problems made worse by soft drinks
    People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.University of Adelaide researchers found...
  • Dogs trump chimps in smart stakes
    Man's best friend could also be his smartest after scientists concluded dogs can outsmart chimpanzees.With their human-like brains, chimps have long been rated high on the intelligence scale, but German experts found dogs were better...
  • NZ bids for super telescope role
    Earthquake prediction will be a step closer if New Zealand wins a bid for the largest radio telescope ever built.A joint New Zealand and Australian consortium is bidding against a southern African group for the right to host the...
  • No way of stopping leak of deadly new flu viru ...
    The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a devastating pandemic has admitted the information "is going to get out" eventually.Professor Paul Keim, chairman of the...

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
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      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • ObamaCare vs. Consumer-Driven Care
    A fair amount of evidence suggests that consumer-driven health plans, which typically pair high-deductible insurance with health savings accounts (HSAs), offer one of the most promising mechanisms for controlling the growth of health insurance premiums as well as overall health spe ...
  • Top 1 Percent Pay 37 Percent of Income Taxes
    Tax cheat Tim Geithner, the only member of the Obama economic brain trust who has not yet been fired, testified to the Senate Finance Committee today in favor of the president’s proposed trillion-dollar-deficit budget.  Geithner, a Dartmouth man esteemed more for his tennis skil ...
  • Wende Museum: An Archive of the Cold War
    "The fall of the (Berlin) Wall only occurred 20 years ago. It's very recent, but it's very important, perhaps one of the most important historical events of our age," says Justinian Jampol, the founder and Executive Director of the Los Angeles-based Wende Museum. The We ...
  • Trial Begins for the Hutaree Militia
    The latest trial in what seems like an endless series of ginned-up "domestic terror threats" is under way now in Detroit. Let's check in with some details. From the Huffington Post, summing up the charges and the defense's basic line: The seven are charged with conspiring to c ...
  • Gene Healy on Rick Santorum, Enemy of Libertar ...
    In a Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon in Harrisburg last summer, Santorum declared, "I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement." In that regard, writes Gene Healy, Santorum has a pretty imp ...

Mercury Rising

  • Virginia passes medical rape bill
    You want an abortion? You have to consent to a vaginal ultrasound first. Heard on TRMS. Outsourced to SouthernVADem. This is rape, using unwilling medical staff to perform the humiliation on behalf of the legislature, at the cost of the medical insurance system/taxpayer/patient.
  • Recall first, prosecute second? Or prosecute f ...
    Ernest Canning, Bradblog (via t/o) A recall from his position as Wisconsin’s governor could ultimately be the least of Gov. Scott Walker’s worries, if a criminal complaint quietly moving forward in the Badger State court system continues on its current trajectory. At the moment, Walk ...
  • Red State Moochers
    Paul Krugman has reproduced an excellent chart from Aaron Carroll of the Incidental Economist (new, improved chart here), which shows how much more conservative states get from the federal government than they give in taxes (transfers/taxes). If you want it in bar chart form, Krugman has the inv ...
  • Happy Valentine’s Day
    I like to rag on Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its stepchildren, PBS and NPR. Occasionally they do something that justifies their existence. The following are some excerpts, via DemocracyNow, of American stories of the kind we used to hear on The American Experience. There are a number ...
  • Taking a Rasor to military costs
    It should scandalize all of us, whether hawks or peaceniks. Defense contractors are making enormous profits because there are no effective cost controls in place. They tell the government to pay so-and-so much, and the government does–without even checking that the exp. They are endangerin ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Ancient History Rocks
    World-renowned authority on ancient mysteries Graham Hancock joins rock'n'roll band Turbowolf to explore their mutual interest in the unresolved questions troubling the mainstream historical myths of our planet. read more
  • Esoteric Voices 8: Consciousness After Death
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  • Energy and Our Energetic Fields
      The following is excerpted from Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life, available from Sounds True. read more
  • The Electric Jesus Hits the Road
    For those of you on the West Coast, I invite you to celebrate the release of my debut book, The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic. These Evolver gatherings will feature aliens, ayahuasca, and chakra activations -- oh my!  ---- read more
  • Occupy Facebook
    Facebook, currently worth over $75 billion, seems to be morphing into a more pernicious version of television, with in-your-face advertising filling the screen and disrupting social interactions such as personal chats, event planning, or the infamous habit of singles everywhere: “facebook stalki ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • Anonymous hacks tear gas company
    Hackers of the Anonymous movement say they have conducted a cyber-action against a US security company whose tear gas has been used against Egyptian demonstrators.
  • Pentagon backs Obama’s spending plan
    Pentagon has backed the US President Barack Obama's military spending plan, which features a shift in strategic focus to the Asia Pacific region.
  • Dead can vote in US
    A new study by the Pew Center on the States has found that one out of every eight voter registrations in the United States is invalid.
  • Iranian discovers nanoscale energy source
    Iranian researcher Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh has discovered a new power source for energy storage and power generation.
  • Pakistan gives NATO access to airspace
    The government of Pakistan says it is temporarily allowing NATO to use the country’s airspace to deliver perishable supplies to troops in Afghanistan.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
  • Tax Expenditures Have a Major Impact on the Fe ...
    Do you receive a tax deduction for the interest paid on your mortgage or for the taxes you pay to your state and local governments? Would you think about those deductions in the same way if instead of seeing a reduction in taxes for those items the federal government instead simply sent you a ch ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...

Nick Turse

  • Rare photos from Homs, SyriaA damaged armoure ...
    Rare photos from Homs, Syria A damaged armoured vehicle belonging to the Syrian army is seen in a street in Homs January 23, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
  • Wounded Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) ...
    Wounded Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) veterans march during Independence Day ceremony in Juba July 9, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
  • South Sudanese wait outside their tent at Anda ...
    South Sudanese wait outside their tent at Andalus camp during a visit by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in Khartoum, Sudan January 11, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
  • Required reading: An important piece by Eric S ...
    Required reading: An important piece by Eric Schmittt, Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker in today’s New York Times on the push to give America’s elite Special Operations forces a larger role around the world. “It would…,” the trio write, “allow the Special Operations forces to expand their presen ...
  • How many military bases in Afghanistan?Back i ...
    How many military bases in Afghanistan? Back in early 2010, I got the military to count up its whole inventory of bases in Afghanistan and was floored by the total — nearly 400!  With talk by the Obama administration of drawdowns, withdrawals, and shifting the fight to special operations forces ...

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    AMES, Iowa, Feb 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Renewable Energy Group, Inc. /quotes/zigman/8136142/quotes/nls/regi REGI +0.42% today announced that it will release financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011 after the market closes on ...
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    Ecology seeking public comment on King County's shoreline master program
    Tukwila Reporter
    The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on King County's shoreline master program. The updated program, adopted by the County Council in 2010, requires Ecology approval under the state Shoreline Management Act. Upon approval ...
    Department of Ecology Looking to Hire Teens For Litter Cleanup
    KXLY Spokane
    The Department of Ecology in Eastern Washington plans on hiring about 118 teens this summer to help clean up area roadsides, parks and recreation areas for their Ecology Youth Corps. In past years, DOE has been able to hire more teens, but they've had ...
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    Oroville fire among Ecology fines
    The Wenatchee World Online
    By KC Mehaffey OLYMPIA — An man who officials say was illegally burning plastic, electronic equipment and other garbage outside of Oroville last spring, was fined $7870 by the state Department of Ecology. Two other North Central Washington businesses ...
    Anthem College-Phoenix Wins National Ecology Grant
    PR Web (press release)
    Anthem College applied for the $500 grant with the help of ecology instructor Tina Salata after reviewing a student poll in which 80% expressed a high level of interested in expanding recycling opportunities on campus. “The goal for this grant is to ...
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    Falls Church explores sale of water system
    Washington Post (blog)
    By Fredrick Kunkle Falls Church's City Council wants to see whether a private or public utility, including Fairfax Water, would be interested in purchasing the city's water and sewer systems, city officials said Tuesday. In a unanimous decision, ...
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    Well Water Study
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