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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.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

16 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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House Democrats walk out of one-sided Hearing on contraception
The morning panel at the hearing consisted exclusively of men from conservative religious organizations.


White Grandfather Detained While Walking With Black Granddaughter
 
Secrecy surrounds conference to train cops on 'Political Violence'
The terrorism conference is being sponsored by the Middle Tennessee U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Nashville Joint Terrorism Task Force, and is being held at the offices of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on February 27 and 28. Additional partners include the FBI’s Continuing Education and Professional Development Unit, the Tennessee Office of Homeland Security, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and the American Muslim Advisory Council.

Islamophobes rule blogosphere but reason isn't dead yet
Iran 'shadow war' intensifies, crosses borders

Texting Affects Ability to Interpret Words

Scoop - NZ

  • Goff: Finance, food, & force in US foreign policy
    In 1983, I was in Guatemala.  I was there when General Mejia-Victores led a coup d’etat against Efrian Rios-Montt’s regime.  In 1985, I was in El Salvador, at the same time that President Duarte’s daughter Inez Guadalupe was kidnapped by the FMLN and exchanged for a number of prisoners. In neith ...
  • Looting the Greek Working Class
    Could this be the fate of Aotearoa ? A social counter-revolution is taking place which was barely conceivable a few years ago. Broad layers of the population are being condemned to poverty, unemployment, sickness and even death to secure the profit demands of the international financial arist ...
  • AFJ: Truth, lies and Afghanistan
    I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, tr ...
  • The Dark Face of Google
    A thorough, serious analysis of what’s behind the Universe of Google and the Metadata Industry. In recent years, Google has established itself as a major point of Internet access. We have progressively adapted to its sober, reassuring interface and its advertisements (discretely off to the side ...
  • 9/11: Was Saudi Arabia involved?
    Author Lawrence Wright has speculated that, so desperate was the CIA to get a source inside al-Qaeda, the agency shielded the aspiring terrorists while it tried to recruit them. In his book The Looming Tower, Wright also suggests a more serious possibility: lacking any domestic jurisdiction, the ...

Independent - London

  • Honduras blaze prisoners 'not charged'
    Many of the prisoners in a Honduran jail where fire killed more than 350 inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to a Honduran government report. Related StoriesHonduras prison fire kills more than 350 inmatesGuatemalan leader: the only way to beat gangs is to legalise dr ...
  • EU seeks to defuse Greek debt row
    The EU has sought to defuse the row between Greece and some eurozone countries over its bailout bid. Related StoriesGreece spiralling into catastrophic depressionWho says 18 month-old is too young to vote?Russian youth group outlives its usefulnessHistory against Sarkozy as he starts re-electio ...
  • British police assist Thai murder inquiry
    British police are to fly out to Thailand to help local officers finally catch the killer of a student who was murdered 12 years ago. Related StoriesBirthday turns into memorial for North Korean leader Kim Jong-iliPads seized in copyright rowItalian ship fires on fishing boat off Indian coast15 ...
  • Maldives leader agrees to early election
    A top Indian diplomat says the new president in the Maldives has agreed to hold early elections to break a political impasse after his predecessor resigned.Related StoriesBirthday turns into memorial for North Korean leader Kim Jong-iliPads seized in copyright rowItalian ship fires on fishing bo ...
  • UN sees possible crimes against humanity in Syria
    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian regime of potential crimes against humanity as activists reported fresh violence in Daraa, the city where the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted 11 months ago.Related StoriesOil pipeline attacked in HomsIran steps up nuclear operat ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Nuclear Truckers in America: Warheads on 18 Wheels
    Big rigs with bombs are secretly cruising the interstate near you. But how safe are they from terrorists or accidents? "Is that it?" My wife leans forward in the passenger seat of our sensible hatchback and points ahead to an 18-wheeler that's hauling ass toward us on a low-country stretch of S ...
  • US, North Carolina: State Inspectors Searching ...
    A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements. In fact, all of the students in the NC Pre-K program classroom at West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford had to accep ...
  • New Zealand Mum: Prostitution to Pay for Studies
    A solo mum who wants to study so she can get off welfare says she has had to turn to prostitution to pay for childcare and transport to the course. Tania Wysocki, a 38-year-old mother of two preschoolers at Paerata near Pukekohe, advertised herself on a website two weeks ago in a last-ditch eff ...
  • Don't mess with Texas: U.S. court blocks Keyst ...
    Washington - A Texas family farm has won a temporary restraining order to block TransCanada Corp. from building the Keystone XL pipeline through its property, accusing the company of dealing in bad faith and withholding vital information about the project. Lawyers for TransCanada and the Craw ...
  • US Texas: Austin Police Department and 'Babysi ...
    A few years back Grits posed the question, "Is babysitting while white reasonable suspicion for police questioning?" after my granddaughter and I were detained and questioned at length in my neighborhood on suspicion of some nefarious deed (it was never quite clear what). In that incident, the p ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • F-35: "No plan B"?
    What do you mean, "no plan B"? Other allies, such as Australia, have placed orders for Super Hornets -- the newer, beefed up version of the CF-18 -- to hedge against F-35 delays. It's not necessary for Canada to go down that road, said a high-level defence official, who spoke on condition of an ...
  • The unbearable heaviness of being a Con
    It sometimes ain't easy trying to install authoritarian rule in Canada. If you're Harper or a minion, you open yourself up to all sorts of problems. Propose a sweeping electronic snooping bill, and people don't cower in fear but tell you where you can stick that bill. Comparing innocent citizen ...
  • The base . . .
    POOR, WHITE AND REPUBLICAN: a comment from George Packer, published by the New Yorker. PLEASE read it. F.D.R. called him “the forgotten man,” but that was long ago. By 1972, he was a member of the silent majority and had become a Democrat for Nixon (he wore a hard hat with an American-flag stic ...
  • Cheap thrills . . .
    HOMELAND SECURITY loves body scanners. According to Jalopnik, that's how the security staff gets their jollies. Erin Gloria Ryan's report, "TSA Agents Singling Out Sexy Women For Multiple Body Scans" is rather disturbing. Travel is enough of a hassle, now, women are being sexually assaulted in t ...
  • OK, this is your brain on drugs
    And this is a Harper Conservative's brain on pure room air   Now read Cathie ... Then Kadie.

Media Matters for America

  • Obama Administration Considers Strategic And R ...
    Right-wing media are attacking the Obama administration for reportedly considering options for cuts to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But experts have said that the United States should significantly reduce its nuclear arsenal, which was built up to fight the Cold War.AP: The Obama Administration Is ...
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    Fox News figures have responded to President Obama's proposed budget by calling for more spending cuts. However, economists agree that immediate spending cuts would harm the economic recovery.Fox Figures Call For More Spending Cuts Varney: Claim That Cutting Spending Would Hurt Economy Is "The ...
  • Right-Wing Media Rope Bush-Appointed Judge Int ...
    Right-wing media outlets are suggesting that a recent decision by Obama-appointed Judge Sue Myerscough dismissing a case that sought to overturn Illinois' ban on publicly carrying firearms is evidence of President Obama's "assault on the Second Amendment." But the Supreme Court has not ruled on ...
  • Obama's Birth Control Policy Has Support From ...
    Following the announcement by President Obama that his administration will ensure that women have access to insurance coverage for birth control while accommodating employers who object to providing birth control, Catholic hospitals and other institutions have said that they support the policy. ...
  • "Deadbeat Bailout": Right-Wing Media Attack St ...
    Right-wing media have responded to the $25 billion foreclosure settlement between banks and government authorities by attacking struggling homeowners who could potentially benefit from the deal -- calling it a "deadbeat bailout" -- and by whitewashing banks' alleged foreclosure malpractice. Thi ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Ten Deep Thoughts on the All-Male Panel on my ...
    House Oversight Committee Chairman, master car thief and generalcriminal Darrell Issa held a hearing today on the Obama administration's new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Claiming that the the hearing was "not abo ...
  • Fareed Zakaria Rips Apart Pro-Iran War Arguments
    Writing in today's Washington Post, columnist Fareed Zakaria does a terrific job destroying some arguments for war with Iran. He does it by, of all things, citing history. First, Zakaria takes apart the argument, often made by Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, that the "window" to ...
  • Do Voters Care About America's Global Image?
    A recent post over at The Economist's Democracy in America blog says the Syria showdown at the UN between the US, Russia, and China demonstrates a crucial yet underappreciated success of Obama foreign policy: Ten years back, America often found itself isolated, struggling to pull together "co ...
  • Israel Firster First Used by Brandeis Presiden ...
    For the past month or so there has been a series of coordinated attacks on me, my employer Media Matters and the Center for American Progress for labeling those who place the interests of Israel over the United States "Israel Firsters." This piece by Spencer Ackerman was accompanied by an illust ...
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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Help us Protect Big Bend and the Guadalupe Mou ...
    Big Bend. The Guadalupe Mountains. Everything about them is iconic…everything but the air pollution that obscures the scenic viewscapes. Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are increasingly under attack from air pollution known as haze from coal plants and refineries. The Clean ...
  • INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACU ...
    Thirty-seven clean energy groups submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors.  If you would like to sign on as ...
  • INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACU ...
    Thirty-seven clean energy groups submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors.  If you would like to sign on as ...
  • Solar Reaches Major Employer Status in Austin, ...
    A survey done by Solar Austin at the beginning of 2012 shows there are at least 615 full-time solar energy jobs in Austin.  These jobs include manufacturing, R&D, solar installation, financial and engineering consultants.  Adding standard jobs multipliers the total direct and indirect employ ...
  • Even a few days of air pollution may trigger a ...
    According to an MSNBC article, even short-term exposure to air pollution — just a day or a week in some cases — may kick off a heart attack or stroke according to two new studies.  The studies reveal that the risk of heart attack or stroke can jump after high-pollution days, especial ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Did President Eisenhower meet with aliens ?
    A former Pentagon consultant has claimed that Eisenhower attended secret meetings. According to Timothy Good, Eisenhower was said to have attended thr...
  • Mysteries of 'mummified mermaid'
    University students are attempting to get to the bottom of a hoaxed mermaid made in the 19th century. Known as the Buxton Mermaid, the creation is com...
  • Rare white black bear captured on camera
    A rare white North American black bear was spotted recently in British Columbia, its only known habitat. From a distance the white North American blac...
  • Did life really begin in the oceans ?
    A controversial new theory suggests that life might have actually developed in freshwater ponds. It has long been thought that the first life forms on...
  • Man digs basement using model diggers
    A Canadian man has spent the last 15 years digging out his basement using model construction vehicles. An average of 8-9 cubic yards are moved each ye...

Grassroots

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

Climate

GreenBiz

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Booman Tribune

  • On Operation Hilarity
    In theory, Mitt Romney could regain his lead against Obama among independents as quickly as he lost it. But I don't think that is likely to happen. Romney's plunge isn't related to any particular gaffe. More than anything, it's a demonstration that familiarity can breed contempt. The more pe ...
  • Losing Their Touch
    The Republicans are losing the battle over contraception in a big way. They've lost their way on the optics. They seem incapable of anticipating our side's tactics. And they're making unforced errors. This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa ...
  • OMG! Al Qaeda Terrorist Gets Fair Trial!
    Yes, the worst thing possible has happened. A known Al Qaeda terrorist (the infamous underpants bomber) will be sentenced by a US Federal Judge for his crime after he was given his due process rights by our Federal Justice System. What's worse is that US Military Commission established by Cong ...
  • Serious Question
    If questioning the use of birth control is taking the Culture War to 10, how can the wingnuts get this thing to 11? Discuss
  • The Republican Farm Team
    Charles R. Pierce - whose ability to combine thoughtfulness and snark has made him one of my more favorite political writers in legacy media the last couple of years - has a post surveying a few of the nuttier Republican-proposed laws now in play at various state legislatures. He makes a useful ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Amazing Giant Hearts Found in Nature
    With Valentine’s Day upon us, our minds flutter away with Cupid and turn to thoughts of love. Check out these giant hearts, as painted by Mother Nature... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Baby Lizards That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
    Babies of all kinds tend to have a cuteness factor, but baby lizards get an A+ in being adorable. Just check out these pics, while learning something too! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Weird World of Animal Mating
    Each species of animal has different mating rituals. Some are more than a little bit odd, and others are downright deadly... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Wouldn't you check to see that this person is okay. Well, in fact it's a sculpture – one of a series that's been causing quite a stir... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Hottest Links of the Week
    We're big fans of repurposing here at EG, so what better way to kick off this week's roundup than with the story of a train that's been converted into a cafe? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Skywriting With an Airliner
    Testing the Boeing 787, engineers draw up a flight path that spells out "787" and then the company's logo. The dimensions of the writing were such that no one on the ground could read it.
  • On Our Radar: Climate Change and Curriculums
    Efforts to undermine climate-science instruction are beginning to spread across the country, defenders of science education say, and they fear a long fight similar to that over the teaching of evolution in public schools.
  • New York Plans Faster Sewage Alerts
    In a pilot program, environmental officials will install remote sensors at five places where sewage can enter the city's waterways so that bathers and skiers are not caught unaware.
  • Tracking How the World Guzzles Water
    Globally, agriculture accounts for 92 percent of all freshwater use, a new study shows.
  • Heartland Institute Under Scrutiny
    The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit in the climate change denial camp, says that a leaked online document that purportedly details its strategic plans is a fake. But it acknowledges that some of documents aired online were stolen from the institute.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Rise of the Facebook Killers! SocialNetwork-in ...
    Rise of the Facebook-Killers by Nick Pinto- New York - Village Voice: .... Moglen said, Mark Zuckerberg had harnessed the energy of our social desires to talk us into a swindle. "Everybody needs to get laid," Moglen said. "He turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human per ...
  • Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
    It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...

Daily Censored

  • “Our Struggle Has Become Reality,” Thousands ...
    By Megan Whelan Thursday, January 26, 7:00 am, hundreds of community activists and human rights defenders gather outside Guatemala City’s national court to witness former dictator Efraín Rios Montt testify on the gross military atrocities and human rights violations that occurred during his de-f ...
  • JOBS, what about those jobs?
    We have about 27 million people between the ages 18 to 24.  I cannot find current statistics, but articles in the past few years have shown that half of the kids never make it through high school.  Half of those who do are not proficient in reading and math. Six years ago, in Atlanta, I [...]
  • Washington Post pays ex CEO $20 million, then ...
        On Feb 8, 2012  the Washington Post announced buyouts for up to 48 newsroom staff as a cost cutting measure. This came  right after the Post paid out $20 million to ex Kaplan CEO Jonathan Grayer in Nov 2011 as part of a 2008  severance package.   Following Grayer’s tenure at ...
  • NGOs Explain Away Egyptian Indictments
    The Arab Spring opened on the road in Tunisia before hitting the big time in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. The workers of the unofficial Egyptian union movement had fought the neoconservative run government of Hosni Mubarak for years. This was their moment. Unfortunately, there were others presen ...
  • 3-minute video: Obama rejects dogmatic, narrow ...
    video here. “Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” – Tacitus, Agricola, (98), ch. 30. Translation: “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” &#8211 ...

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  • News you may have missed #680
    Did Pakistani ex-leader know bin Laden's hideout? Sweden expels Rwanda diplomat for spying. Mossad continues to use foreign passports.
  • Spy activity heats up in Berlin, recent arrest ...
    During the Cold War, Berlin was considered one of the world’s paramount intelligence hotspots —a gathering place for spies from Western Europe, the Soviet bloc, America, and beyond. But recent developments in the German capital show that the city’s illustrious espionage heritage is far from over.
  • Israeli-Iranian ‘dirty war’ nearin ...
    The ongoing intelligence war between Israel and Iran appears to be reaching unprecedented levels following the exposure earlier this week of a simultaneous bombing campaign against Israeli targets in Europe and Asia.
  • Turkish intel officer arrested for abducting S ...
    There seems to be no end in sight to the troubles of Turkey’s spy service. According to reports from Ankara, an employee of the country’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) has been arrested for orchestrating the abduction of a leading Syrian military defector, who had sought refuge in Turkey.
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    New spy chief in Libya. Anonymous hackers release German classified information. Did Chinese espionage lead to F-35 delays?

War is a Crime.org

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  • Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote Control
        Washington DC, Saturday, April 28 Register here! The peace group CODEPINK, the legal advocacy organization Reprieve, and the Center for Constitutional Rights are hosting the first international drone summit. We are bringing together drone-strike victims, human rights ...
  • A Festival of Conscience in New York
    Festival of Conscience is being run in conjunction with the play, "Another Life", about the collective trauma post-9/11, greed, war and the ensuing U.S. torture program. Both events are produced by Theater Three Collaborative, Inc. in residence at the Irondale Center, Fort Greene, Br ...
  • Congress Gets Briefed on Radical New Idea As A ...
    Washington D.C. (February 16, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday hosted a briefing regarding the status of diplomatic negotiations with Iran to prevent war and to address Iran’s nuclear program. Kucinich welcomed Dr. read more
  • Spreading Democracy in Yemen
    From Jeremy Scahill: read more

Grist - News

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

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Sean Avery Turns Shattered CDs Into Astounding ...
    Read the rest of Sean Avery Turns Shattered CDs Into Astounding Animal Sculptures Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: animal sculptures, cd sculptures, cd sulptures, cds, eco-art, green art, old cds, recycled art, Recycled Materials, sean avery, shattered cd animal sculptu ...
  • Switzerland to Launch Self-Destructing “Janito ...
    In the last century earthlings have launched innumerable satellites into the atmosphere – most of which are still floating around messing with operational equipment circling the Earth. Fortunately, Switzerland just announced plans to launch a satellite in the next three to five years that ...
  • Ecouterre Shares the Hottest Eco Fashion Shows ...
    Read the rest of Ecouterre Shares the Hottest Eco Fashion Shows from New York Fashion Week Fall Winter 2012 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Ali Hewson, assembly, Bono, Costello Tagliapietra, eco-fashion, EDUN, Ethical Fashion, Fall/Winter 2012, faux fur, green fashion, ...
  • Pharox Announces Affordable LED Bulbs That Cos ...
    Energy efficient LED light bulbs just got a lot more accessible and affordable with Lemnis’ Pharox LED bulbs! The lighting company has just release three new Pharox LED bulbs, one of which comes with the alluring pricetag of $4.95! The 200-Lumen Pharox BLU has an estimated lifespan of 10 y ...
  • GREEN GUIDE TO PREFAB: Siting Your Home to Max ...
    In the last two installments of our Green Guide to Prefab series on Inhabitat we highlighted the history of prefab design and the evolution of mobile homes into modular prefabricated homes. Within the last ten years, consumers have come to expect a new level of design quality in prefab homes, an ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Apple's Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like ...
    Apple's Mountain Lion operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what's on the iPhone/iPad. Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly a ...
  • The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
    If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.
  • Things That Were Once Amazing
    David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...
  • Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop with Ey ...
    Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how ...
  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Behind the Scenes at Giant Keck Telescopes
    A behind-the-scenes look at how one telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory, produces its superb space images.
  • Eagle Cam Returns: New Chicks Coming Soon
    The Decorah Bald Eagle Cam, last year's runaway internet sensation, is back! And mom's about to lay her eggs.
  • Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire
    The afternoon of May 6, 2010 was among the strangest in economic history. Starting at 2:42 p.m. EDT, the Dow Jones stock index fell 600 points in just 6 minutes. Its nadir represented the deepest single-day decline in that market’s 114-year history. By 3:07 p.m., the index had rebounded. T ...
  • Odd Black Hole Is Last Survivor of Its Galaxy
    The Hubble space telescope has spotted a supermassive black hole floating on the outskirts of a large galaxy. The location is odd since black holes of this size generally form in the centers of galaxies, not their edges. This suggests that the black hole is the lone survivor of a now-disintegra ...
  • World’s Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar
    Researchers have recently discovered four new chameleon species, which rank among the world's tiniest reptiles. Adults of the smallest species are just over an inch from snout to tail.

PakAlert

  • Israel Exploits Holocaust, Diplomat Attacks in ...
    Binyamin Netanyahu wasted little time exploiting two attacks on Israeli embassies in India and Georgia and a similar attack in Bangkok yesterday. He carefully packaged them together with the unsubstantiated accusation that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon as part of the ongoing propaganda eff ...
  • FBI: 9/11 Truthers Should Be Treated As Possib ...
    In the last few weeks the FBI, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, have sent out 25 flyers that label normal everyday activities as possible terrorist indicators.
  • Massive sunspot that has DOUBLED in size in re ...
    A massive double-barrelled sunspot that has doubled in size in the past few days could now send a series of solar flares towards Earth. Though the severity of the disruption is yet unknown, some scientists are predicting the spot could send off medium-scale solar flares. These could cause ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock. Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans are doing just ...
  • 25 Signs That The Nazification Of America Is A ...
    The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of today are going to absolutely shock many of you. Most Americans simply have never learned what ...

Andy Worthington

  • 10 Years in Guantánamo: British Resident Shake ...
    Originally posted on the “Close Guantánamo” website, and written by Andy Worthington. Ten years ago, on February 14, 2002, Shaker Aamer, a British resident, and originally one of 16 British prisoners in Guantánamo, arrived in Camp X-Ray, the rudimentary prison in the grounds of the U ...
  • “It’s a Disgrace”: Guantánam ...
    Below, I’m pleased to cross-post an interview conducted by phone with the journalist Brad Jacobson during my recent visit to the US to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s brutal and lawless “war on terror&#8 ...
  • George W. Bush’s Torture Program Began T ...
    Last month was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, and as this year progresses it is appropriate to remember that there will be other grim 10-year anniversaries to note. Last week, one of those 10-year anniversaries passed almost unnoticed ...
  • Who Will Rid Us of This Callous Government, As ...
    Last month, while I was in the US for 12 days to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the prison’s opening, I was actually pleased to be away from the UK, not because I wanted to be away from my family, or my friends, but because I needed a break [...]
  • New “Close Guantánamo” Campaign Be ...
    The new “Close Guantánamo” website, an initiative I was involved in launching last month, with a petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, has now entered a new phase — presenting the prisoners’ stories, as told by their attorneys — wh ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Arizona Murder Suspect Uses ‘Sovereign’ Langua ...
    A man accused of twin murders in a Phoenix suburb and facing a possible death sentence used language in his initial court appearance mimicking false legal theories advanced by antigovernment “sovereign citizens.” Michael Lee Crane, 31, is charged in Maricopa County with two counts of first-degre ...
  • Man With Bombs Arrested as Kansas Anti-Immigra ...
    A man whose pickup truck contained several homemade anti-personnel bombs was arrested yesterday in a tunnel leading to the Kansas Capitol in Topeka on the same day that hearings on controversial anti-immigrant immigration opened, The Associated Press reports. The man, who police declined to iden ...
  • Arizona Murder Suspect Uses ‘Sovereign’ Langua ...
    A man accused of twin murders in a Phoenix suburb and facing a possible death sentence used language in his initial court appearance mimicking false legal theories advanced by antigovernment “sovereign citizens.” Michael Lee Crane, 31, is charged in Maricopa County with two counts of first-degre ...
  • A New Sheriff Loses His Compass: Muslims are n ...
    Editor’s Note: This post was written for Hatewatch by Jim Cavanaugh, the recently retired Special Agent in Charge of the Nashville, Tenn., office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives. It’s a response to a story today about a sheriff in Tennessee planning training by an a ...
  • Progressive Faith Group to MSNBC: Stop Hosting ...
    A progressive religious group on Tuesday delivered to MSNBC 20,000 signatures from people who want the cable news channel to stop inviting Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins to serve as a guest commentator on its programs. Faithful America began the petition drive about a month ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Wikileaks Banned From UN Conference on Wikileaks
    WikiLeaks has lodged a strong protest with the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) for “banning’’ it from an international conference it is hosting at its headquarters in Paris on the impact of the whistleblower website’s activities. ...
  • Israel To Demolish Palestinian Solar Energy Pr ...
    A sustainable energy program in 'Area C' of rural West Bank is being threatened by Israeli authorities. The program, which recently installed solar panels and wind turbines in 16 communities, is providing 1,500 Palestinians with electricity -- who were formerly without reliable energy.(P ...
  • Transcanada Pushes Eminent Domain for Its Tar ...
    The battle over the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline continues in the US Senate where Republican senators are trying to find a way to force White House approval of the project, including attaching a measure to the federal transportation bill this week or by tying future oil sales from the Stra ...
  • Austerity in Greece: The 'Shock Therapy' Kill ...
    As Greek officials continue negotiations with their creditors over further austerity measures demanded to receive a bailout package, years of harsh cuts have been steadily unraveling Greek society with soaring unemployment, increasing homelessness and financial insecurity. France 24 reports that ...
  • 'I Don’t Know Why I Signed': ACTA Support Tanks
    Support for the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) continues to wane this week as the Netherlands have imposed delays on ratification, joining the list of countries that have begun to back down on the agreement.(Photo: Reuters) ...

Lifehacker

  • Tame Your Laundry Chaos with a DIY Laundry Bas ...
    If your laundry room is an eyesore, this easy DIY project can help you tidy everything up. It turns laundry baskets into slide-out drawers. You can adapt this project from blogger Ana White to store other things like recycling, toys, etc. ...
  • What We Use: Whitson Gordon's Favorite Gear an ...
    This week we're sharing the hardware, software, tips, and tricks, that keep our blogging wheels spinning. Today, I'm running through my favorite gear, apps, hacks, and tips that keep me a productive blogger by day and dragon slayer by night. ...
  • Ask and Answer Questions About Stocking a Home ...
    Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hi ...
  • Make the Most of Your Tiny Kitchen [Crowdhacker]
    Does your soup run into your salad? Tired of "stuff towers" (cutting boards on top of mixing bowls on top of toasters)? Is your kitchen just too damn small? No need to knock down walls. It's time to upgrade the way you cook in limited space. Q ...
  • How to Get the Best Features of Mac OS X Mount ...
    This morning, Apple announced the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion, is scheduled to be available at the end of summer. It's filled with cool new features, but who wants to wait until this summer to get them? Here's how you can ...

Water Privatization

  • General Electric's Privatization of Water
    Investment banker Goldman Sachs has famously been described by the Rolling Stone’s business writer Matt Taibbi (July 2009) as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” So it’s a good idea to take notic ...
  • Global Studies Lecture Series: The Politics of ...
    Water issues remain one of the major challenges in our contemporary world. The crisis of water commonly understood as water scarcity is currently recognized more as a crisis of governance. Admittedly, water is a transnational resource and impacts of the processes of globalization and transnation ...
  • Residents pack forum on Asheville water system ...
    Another public forum and a state meeting on the Asheville water system’s fate are happening this month. Losing Control of our Water What: A forum by Mountain Voices Alliance on the future of the water system.
  • Residents pack forum on Asheville water system ...
    Another public forum and a state meeting on the Asheville water system’s fate are happening this month. Losing Control of our Water What: A forum by Mountain Voices Alliance on the future of the water system.
  • Asheville water debate: rumors of privatizatio ...
    Who gets the water? The League of Women Voters will host a forum on a state study that could result in legislation stripping Asheville of its water system.

Guardian

  • Porto v Manchester City – live!| Tom Bryant
    • Press F5 to refresh this page or use our auto-refresher • Click here for all tonight's latest scores • Send your thoughts to tom.bryant.casual@guardian.co.uk • Or hit Tom up on Twitter40 min: Nasri clips a long free-kick into the box. Baloteeli gets under it but can't nudge it goalwards. Inci ...
  • Tighten fracking regulations, scientists urge ...
    Influential group calls on regulators to ensure safe handling of toxic fluids used in controversial hydraulic fracturingAn influential group of scientists has urged US officials to step up their policing of shale gas operations and to consider stronger regulations to reduce environmental and hea ...
  • Treasury investigates 4,000 civil service jobs ...
    Positions in Whitehall and quangos come under scrutiny after discovery of salary payments made direct to private companiesA Treasury review into the extent to which Whitehall staff channel salaries into tax-efficient private companies is looking at more than 4,000 postings across Whitehall and i ...
  • Eurozone crisis: Greek government claims EU ba ...
    Budget cuts found in Athens to save Greece from defaulting on its debtsHopes are rising that the European Union will agree a fresh €130bn (£108bn) bailout on Monday to save Greece from defaulting on its debts after politicians in Athens said they were close to a deal with their single currency p ...
  • Disabled people face unlimited unpaid work or ...
    Mental health groups and charities attack plans drawn up by Department for Work and PensionsSome long-term sick and disabled people face being forced to work unpaid for an unlimited amount of time or have their benefits cut under plans being drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions.Menta ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: We can't ignore China's human righ ...
    China's one-party government is undergoing a leadership change, and both the United States and China have an interest in building constructive relationships.Click to Continue »
  • S.C. bill seeks to keep some crime details fro ...
    A bill introduced in the S.C. House would give police, prosecutors and sheriffs broad freedom to keep secret any and all crimes and arrests from the public, critics say.Click to Continue »
  • Zumba on the move in the fitness world
    On a rooftop parking lot, with temperatures in the chilly low 50s, a crowd of all ages shimmied and shook, sweated and smiled as DJ Francis played an eclectic mix…Click to Continue »
  • Restore Act measure to boost BP cleanup could ...
    The House is expected to vote later today on an amendment pushed by Gulf State lawmakers to dedicate 80 percent of the fines collected from the BP oil spill to…Click to Continue »
  • Iran's newest nuclear advances could stoke ten ...
    Nuclear advances trumpeted Wednesday by Iran were not unexpected and their announcement may have been driven by domestic Iranian politics, but they still could add to tensions over that country's…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC amicus brief urges broad protection under SOX
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center filed an amicus, or fiend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its case of Wiest v. Lynch, Case No. 11-4257. The main issue is whether the Court should adopt the ARB's broad "reasonable belief" standar ...
  • New York Times editorial supports FDA whistleb ...
    In today's editorial, the New York Times expresses concerns about the targeted surveillance of whistleblowers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The editorial recounts the claims made by six scientists and physicians who raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of devices appro ...
  • Whistleblowers Risked Careers for Mortgage Set ...
    Chalk up another top news story to the whistleblowers. Today, federal and state officials announced a $25 billion landmark settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wro ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner and Lindsey Williams discuss the updates in the FDA whistleblower illegal surveillance case, including Senator Grassley’s biting letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg dema ...
  • Senator Grassley's Ten Scathing Questions for ...
    Amid this week’s media frenzy, Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a scornful letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg about the FDA’s targeted whistleblower surveillance program. If you missed the original story about the FDA’s illegal spy operation, you can catch up by r ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • TSA Insists That It Doesn't Pick Hot Women Out ...
    The TSA apparently has heard enough of various claims that its agents have been giving... um... "special attention" to attractive women making their way through airport security, and has issued a clear denial that the TSA ever focuses on looks, rather than security. In the specific case they're ...
  • Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN ...
    UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, is hosting a conference about The Media World after Wikileaks and News of the World. Sounds like it could be an interesting event, but one organization not happy about it... is Wikileaks. Seeing as it was a conference ...
  • Directors Guild Boss Insists That Everyone Aga ...
    We're still waiting for the supposed "new tone" of the conversation from Hollywood following its failed attempt to expand copyright/anti-piracy laws for the 16th time in the last 3 decades. There were some early claims that the widespread protests had made Hollywood realize that rather than pas ...
  • RIAA/IFPI Explored Possible Lawsuit Against Go ...
    Over the years we've seen a few lawsuits against Google because companies are upset that they don't rank high enough in search results. Those companies seem to think there's some sort of legal right to being ranked where they want to be ranked. Pretty much all of those lawsuits have resulted i ...
  • How Do We Know That Piracy Isn't Really A Big ...
    One of the positive outcomes of the debate that has raged around SOPA/PIPA is that more people have looked at the facts, rather than listened to the rhetoric, surrounding piracy. In particular, the copyright industries' hitherto unchallenged claim that piracy is destroying their business is fin ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Ari Berman: The politics of the super rich
    America has a serious air pollution problem. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is hell-bent on fixing it. “Air pollution,” in this case, doesn’t mean CO2, methane, or anything else in the poisonous cocktail of gases helping warm our planet. Jamieson, a University of Pennsylvania communica ...
  • New NYT Jerusalem bureau chief guilty of not b ...
    Since the departing New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner clearly is a Zionist, I guess some observers thought that being a Zionist must have become a job requirement. The Washington Free Beacon thus reports with deep concern: The New York Times’ incoming Jerusalem bureau chi ...
  • Can Obama avert war with Iran?
    Gareth Porter writes: President Barack Obama has finally begun in recent months to signal to Israel that the United States would not get involved in a war started by Binyamin Netanyahu without US approval. If it is pursued firmly and consistently through 2012, the approach stands a very good cha ...
  • Iran seems an unlikely culprit for the attacks ...
    Arshin Adib-Moghaddam writes: Let’s assume that sections of the military and security apparatus in Iran are responsible for the string of bombings in Georgia, Thailand and India. What would be the motive? The argument that Iran is retaliating for the murder of five civilian nuclear scienti ...
  • Video: Robert Fisk — Arab League using war in ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Not quite Friday Funny– “Fakegate& ...
    Josh from CartoonsbyJosh.com writes: Another ‘Gate’ – but this one turned round and bit the owner. Leo Hickman and co at the Guardian thought they had a bona fide leak of incriminating information on the funding of climate skeptics by … Continue reading →
  • The Anatomy of a Global Warming Smear
    Guest post by Alan CarubaFull disclosure: Years ago I received a small stipend from The Heartland Institute to help cover the costs of writing articles regarding the global warming hoax, well before it was exposed in 2009 when emails between … Continue reading →
  • Notes on the faked Heartland document
    As a follow up to the post Notes on the Heartland Leak, I’ve prepared some notes on the PDF document “2012 Climate Strategy” that Heartland says in their press release is a fake among the other documents distributed. They say … Continue reading →
  • Some notes on the Heartland Leak
    Heartland has yet to produce a press release, but I thought in the meantime I’d share some behind the scenes. If/when they do, I’ll add it to this post. UPDATE: 11:45AM -The press release has been added below – Anthony … Continue reading →
  • If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale Many visitors here and at WattsUpWithThat will remember that a little over three years ago I published my first posts that illustrated how the process of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) created what appeared to be … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • A drug that activates only your father’s ...
    Anyone who’s passed basic biology knows that we get one copy of a gene from our mother, a second from our father. But few people realize that not all of these genes end up being treated equally. Imprinted genes are expressed from only the maternal or paternal allele, rather than both. And, ...
  • Elephant’s sixth ‘toe’ disco ...
    A mysterious bony growth found in elephants’ feet is actually a sixth “toe”, scientists report. For more than 300 years, the structure has puzzled researchers, but this study suggests that it helps to support elephants’ colossal weight. Fossils reveal that this “pre ...
  • The computer assisted design (CAD) tools for d ...
    The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed CAD-type models and sim ...
  • Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill
    Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]
  • Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold
    Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold – YouTube.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Cosmonauts Go on 6-Hour Spacewalk
    Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to carry out tasks under the Russian space program, Russian Mission Control said.
  • Russia Launches Dutch Telecoms Satellite
    A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying the Dutch SES-4 (NSS-14) telecoms satellite lifted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan after a series of delays caused by technical problems
  • Russian Cosmonaut Recruitment Drive Lures 43 A ...
    Only 43 people applied for the first open cosmonaut selection drive in the history of the Russian space industry a month before the deadline, recruiters said at a press conference on Tuesday.
  • ESA’s Vega Launcher Lifts Off from Kourou
    Europe’s new launch vehicle, Vega, debuted at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Monday, the European Space Agency’s representative in Russia, Rene Pichel, said.
  • Putin Gets Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake Water Sample
    Russia’s Natural Resource Minister Yury Trutnev on Friday handed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin a water sample from the pristine icebound Lake Vostok that had been hidden in the Antarctic for millions of years.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget a ...
    An anonymous donor calling him (or her)self "Heartland Insider" has released the Heartland Institute's budget, fundraising plan, its Climate Strategy for 2012 and sundry other documents (all attached) that prove all of the worst allegations that have been levelled against the organization.Click ...
  • Downwind: Big Ag at Your Door
    BLACHLY, Ore. - Dan and Maya Gee left the congestion and pollution of Chicago, hungering for a cleaner life. They began an organic farming operation in the Oregon Coast Range, an area west of Eugene noted for its spectacular beauty and rugged mountains, towering Douglas fir and Sitka spruce.Cli ...
  • Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixat ...
    Broken promises are nothing new in Washington, DC. Yet even by the Beltway’s jaded standards, President Obama’s role reversal from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker is remarkable.Click here to read this article
  • 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.Click here to read this article
  • Warning: Antidepressants May Lead to Suicidal ...
    Thoughts of suicide are disturbingly common among Americans, which is detailed in the report, the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), newly released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Food Movement Tsunami: U.S. Mayors Ride the Wave
    The mayors may not have started the revolution, but they don’t want to be left behind by it, either.
  • Do Farmers Benefit from Biofuels?
    Biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol, offered the promise of large financial returns to both the farmer and to the rural community. How have the small-scale farmers fared against the land barons?
  • Liturgies of Sufficiency: Individual versus Co ...
    If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.
  • Biofuels: Innovations Needed
    Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.
  • Dignity of Work
    The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
    Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...
  • USS Enterprise false flag target for US crimin ...
    US wars are not even close to lawful. The two-minute video explains the possible false flag attack target of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to start war on Iran. ( More credible since it's a 'two-fer one' deal poisoning like DU ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning ...
    Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Canada's PM Harper Threatens De-Funding Charit ...
    The Harper Government is privately threatening Canadian charities that are helping people participate in the public hearings about Enbridges western pipeline and supertanker project. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Facebook Disables CLG Editor's Account Name, C ...
    ShareThisFacebook Disables CLG Editor's Account Name, Claiming It Is 'Illegitimate' --'The name you entered was not approved by our system.' 17 Feb 2012 Facebook has decided that 'Lori Price Legitgov,' the personal Facebook account title of the Editor-in-Chief of Citizens for Legitimate Governme ...
  • Heightened Security in U.S. Over 'Iran Threat'
    ShareThisHeightened Security in U.S. Over 'Iran Threat' 14 Feb 2012 With Iran allegedly striking out at Israeli citizens and Jewish targets around the world, Israeli and American security officials in the U.S. are on high alert. "We expect it and we are ready," one senior Israeli official told A ...
  • Gay marriage bills head toward votes in New Je ...
    ShareThisGay marriage bills head toward votes in New Jersey, Maryland 15 Feb 2012 Bills to permit gay marriage in New Jersey and Maryland face key legislative debates and votes on Thursday, highlighting a hot-button issue that is one of several social matters gaining prominence in the election y ...
  • Washington Gov Signs Gay Marriage Bill Into Law
    ShareThisWashington Gov Signs Gay Marriage Bill Into Law 13 Feb 2012 Gov. Chris Gregoire handed gay rights advocates a major victory Monday, signing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh in the nation to allow gay and lesbian couples to we ...
  • Atheist family sues to get 'Under God' strippe ...
    ShareThisAtheist family sues to get 'Under God' stripped from Pledge of Allegiance 15 Feb 2012 The parents of three students in the Acton-Boxborough School District filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of the words "under God" from the pledge. "Every day these kids go to school and the pledge is ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Department of Army Monitoring MEDEVAC Articles
    15 February 2012 The following message was issued behind closed doors by the Department of Army (DA).  It pertains to media coverage of the MEDEVAC debacle.  There is no foul in monitoring the articles, but the inside glimpse is interesting. TAMPA TRIBUNE COVERS MEDEVAC STORY WITH LO ...
  • Tippity Top General Lies to Congressman (in wr ...
    14 February 2012 Happy Valentine’s Day.  It isn’t Valentine’s for those who will get hit with bullets or bombs today.  And it will happen.  So let’s get down to business. The top officer in the US Military is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  The Chairman is the p ...
  • New Britches: Part II
    13 February 2012 Our Soldiers’ pants have been falling apart.  In August 2011, I wrote about this from Afghanistan.  The news was picked up widely.  My dispatch shows photos of Soldiers with blown out trousers. Combat is a fully engaging endeavor.  Many troops go without un ...
  • A Matter of Trust
    11 February 2012 Going unarmed into combat is a bad idea.  Going unarmed while wearing a Red Cross to alert the enemy that you are defenseless is dumb.  A commander who forces his troops to do this without good cause is at best incompetent. US Army commanders do this every day in Afg ...
  • 17 Members of Congress Want Answers on MEDEVAC
     

The Killing Train

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

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • HRW calls for reduction of Latin America priso ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Thursday called for the reduction of overcrowding [press release] to improve poor prison conditions in Latin America following a prison fire in Honduras. The fire occurred this past Tuesday and killed more than 300 inmates while injuring do ...
  • Oklahoma senate passes bill granting personhoo ...
    [JURIST] The Oklahoma Senate [official website] on Wednesday voted to pass a bill [SB 1433 text; materials] that defines life as beginning at the moment of conception. The bill passed 34-8 and will advance to the State House for consideration. If passed, the bill would effectively ban abortions ...
  • Judge to set verdict date Egypt ex-president M ...
    [JURIST] Judge Ahmed Refaat will set the date to announce his verdict in a court session next Wednesday in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile, JURIST news archive], the judge told the court Thursday. Mubarak's lawyers will have their opportunity to make thei ...
  • Colorado senate to consider civil union bill
    [JURIST] The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] on Wednesday voted 5-2 [materials] to approve a proposed civil union bill [SB12-002 text, PDF], referring it to the Colorado Senate [official website] for a full vote. The bill gives same-sex couples the "all legal benefits, pro ...
  • UN Secretary General urges Syria to stop alleg ...
    [JURIST] United Nations (UN) [official website] Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon [official profile] Thursday called on Syria to end to violence against civilians and possible crimes against humanity [press release]. During a speech in Vienna, Austria, the Secretary General said he had urged Syrian ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Pro-Israel Media Mafia Attempts to Force Twitt ...
    Three little Jewish Twitter monkeys (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil) are very unhappy that Jodi Rudoren, the NY Times’ incoming Israel bureau chief, is sharing tweets with Israel critics like Ali Abunimah and Phil Weiss.  The monkeys are Marc Tracy of the neocon Tablet Magazine, ...
  • New Israeli English Language Rightist News Site
    I’ll bet if I asked you what Israeli journalism needed more than anything, the first thing out of your mouth would be: we need yet another English language clone of the Jerusalem Post (Hebrew). I knew we’d see eye to eye on that one. Yes, Israel already has one English language Likud ...
  • Israel-Iran Confrontation Enters Dangerous New ...
    With today’s news that apparent Iranian bombmakers accidentally exploded their laboratory in a rented Thai home, and yesterday’s news of simultaneous attacks on Israeli targets in Georgia and India, Iran is bringing its confrontation with Israel into a dangerous new phase.  Until now ...
  • Bronner Leaving as NY Times Israel Corresponde ...
    I’ve got to say this is one of the more puzzling journalistic assignments I’ve come across in a while.  The NY Times tweeted earlier today that Ethan Bronner was leaving as Israel correspondent.  I don’t know if this was a regular reassignment (I believe they rotate approximate ...
  • Israeli Targets Hit in Coordinated Terror Attacks
    Normally, I’d have a post about this important story already published.  But Muhammad Sahimi and I have wanted to partner on a joint op ed for some time and this presented a great opportunity.  So we’re submitting it and hoping it will be accepted for publication. What follows will b ...

If Americans Knew

  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data! (Beta ...
    We're excited to, for the first time, put PANDA into users' hands! After roughly six months of development, we are releasing our first beta version. This release implements nearly all of our "must have" features. We've written several times (1, 2, 3) about specific parts of PANDA in developme ...
  • Ushahidi's 'Disruptive Deployers': The People ...
    One spark and it happens: An individual or a team of people create a deployment using Ushahidi or Crowdmap. Their motivation and the inspiration are telling tales. These citizens, diaspora and a global community collaborate near and far to make change happen. Motivated often by the simple act of ...
  • Spending Stories Makes Progress Toward Fiscal ...
    The people have a right to know, but sometimes they're a bit too busy to find out for themselves. Informed citizens have both the need and the desire to know about public affairs, whether public or of a more private nature. For as long as there has been democracy, there's also been a free pr ...
  • Knight-Mozilla Partnership Morphs into Knight- ...
    Change is awesome -- it's a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it's with real excitement that today I'm announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. Before we get to the changes, some quic ...
  • TileMill Now Lets You Design Maps for the Web ...
    TileMill, the free and open-source design studio for creating beautiful web maps, is now available for download on Windows. With the latest release, the map-making tool is fully operational on the three leading operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Windows still dominating the marketp ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Tragic Edge of Art - Whitney Houston Remem ...
    Whitney Houston, who died February 11 in Beverly Hills, California, is being remembered across the globe as a trailblazer.  Here's a look back at her rise to superstardom and the songs that made her one of pop music’s most celebrated divas. Among all of Houston’s groundbreaking achievements ...
  • The Digital Edge - Low-Cost Android Smartphone ...
    The Android OS has taken the smartphone world by storm. In just two years, Android has become the top smartphone OS worldwide. In the US, Android reached #1 in smartphone OS sales because wireless operators that did not carry the iPhone chose Android as their smartphone solution. Yet, the Androi ...
  • The Euro on Edge - Doubts Grow Over Austerity ...
    With the European Union demanding more spending cuts from Greece in return for billions of dollars in bailout funds, doubts are growing over whether more austerity is the right solution for Athens. Some analysts and politicians suggest that a once worst-case scenario, Greece leaving the eurozone ...
  • The Digital Edge - FCC Sends Wireless Broadban ...
    Wireless broadband company LightSquared’s fast-tracked approval process came to a screeching halt late Tuesday when the Federal Communications Commission decided to “indefinitely suspend” its conditional waiver to operate.The decision came in the wake of a second government study confirming the ...
  • The Tragic Edge of Art - In Whitney Houston's ...
    American music and movie star Whitney Houston died February 11 in Los Angeles at the age of 48. Although she was known to struggle with drug and alcohol abuse, the cause of her death is still to be determined. Meantime, her body was flown to her home town in New Jersey for burial. And fans have ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Maxine Waters & Sheila Jackson Lee: Dumb, Dumb ...
    My old boss Loretta used to say it over and over until  it was riveted into my brain. "Jeff" she would say, "It's easy dealing with stupid people, and it's easy dealing with nasty people, but I can't deal with people who are both stupid AND nasty. That is a deadly combination!" I can't he ...
  • Liberals Rats Fleeing The Middle East Ship
    By Barry Rubin What’s so terrible about the ideological/agenda-based domination of the mass media and academia is that people don’t ask critical questions that undermine their political positions. Here’s one: The Egyptian government says it will put on criminal trial 16 people who di ...
  • What to Do About Syria
    By Barry Rubin There is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something relatively low-cost and ineffective, indeed, precisely what the Syrian opposition is requesting. Forget about major military intervention, w ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama To Require Kosher "Meals on ...
    Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller has learned that President Barack Obama is going to require that all Kosher Meals On Wheels programs add Ham to their menus.  Citing the commerce clause of the constitution as well as the separation of Church (Synagogue) and state, Obama will claim that non-Jew ...
  • Where's Dick Lugar???? GOP Senator Doesn't Liv ...
    Senator Richard Lugar (R-In) is nearing the end of his sixth term as Senator of Indiana. During the past thirty-five years the Senator has learned much about himself and put that education to work for his constituents.  One of those valuable pieces of learning may be that he doesn't reall ...

The Real Agenda

  • Despite fraud, Ron Paul Owns the GOP Election
    by Grace Wyler Business Insider February 16, 2012 By now, it is clear that the Maine caucuses were a complete mess. Evidence is mounting that Mitt Romney’s 194-vote victory over Ron Paul was prematurely announced, if not totally wrong. Washington County canceled their caucus on Saturday on accou ...
  • Iran, Hezbollah not a Threat to US, says Napol ...
    by Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com February 16, 2012 Despite all the hype drummed up by the establishment media about a scary Iranian or Hezbollah attack on “soft targets” in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has admitted there is no specific threat facing the country. House Homelan ...
  • Hasta la Vista Euro, Hello Peseta!
    Spanish village goes back to peseta by Lee Moran Mail Online February 15, 2012 A Spanish town is looking to the past to safeguard the future of its ailing economy by reintroducing  the peseta. Fed up with the failing euro, rebellious locals in Villamayor de Santiago have reverted to using the ol ...
  • In the US government decides what your childre ...
    by Mike Adams Natural News February 15, 2012 First it was the TSA searching your underpants at the airport, claiming to be protecting you from “terrorists.” Now a local elementary school in North Carolina issearching the homemade lunches of schoolchildren with the goal of forcing chi ...
  • Your Internet History out in the Open
    If you appreciate privacy, anonymity and safety, you are in the wrong universe. by Daisy Luther Inalienable Yours February 15, 2012 What if there was a little box that could be placed in your home that could….. …. track every Google search that you ran? …. see who you email? &# ...

Wind Watch

  • U.S. probes golden eagles’ deaths at DWP ...
    The toll makes the Pine Tree site in the Tehachapi Mountains among the deadliest in California’s wind farm industry. Activists say birds’ behavior should be studied before erecting more sites. Two more golden eagles have been found dead at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Powe ...
  • Wind industry’s extensive lobbying to pr ...
    The full extent of lobbying by Britain’s wind industry to preserve subsidies while getting thousands of new turbines built can be revealed. The intensive lobbying – both to construct wind farms and to maintain generous subsidies – comes amid growing unease over an industry adding to the bu ...
  • Green energy has residents seeing red; Turbine ...
    A thick fog has settled in on Green Mountain in Keyser, W.Va. “I can’t live with this. You can’t sleep.” All day, people keep pointing into the trees, telling us there’s something in the fog. “It’s just rumbling the whole mountain.” And then, just ...
  • Report: Fishermen’s Energy offshore wind ...
    Electricity generated by an Atlantic City offshore wind farm proposal would cost $11,237 per kilowatt hour, making it the most expensive offshore wind power in the world, according to a consultant’s report done for state regulators. The report by David E. Dismukes, associate director of Louisian ...
  • Moratorium placed on wind farms
    The Sweetwater County Commissioners approved a nine-month moratorium on Commercial Wind Farm Tuesday morning. Eric Bingham, director of land use in the county’s planning and zoning department, said the moratorium would allow the department time to bring county regulation on par with state wind f ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Poverty Rates for Old and Young Diverge
    “[A] national trend [has emerged] over the past three decades as child poverty steadily rises and poverty among seniors, aided by social programs, steadily drops ” (USA Today) Nothing a freed market couldn’t fix. FEE Timely Classic “Government Is No Friend of the Poor” by ...
  • Minimum-Wage Fight Arises in Home Health Care
    “Home health care companies are leading the fight against an Obama administration proposal to require them to pay their workers the minimum wage, despite data showing that the industry was one of the few nationally to maintain profits during the worst of the recession.” (USA Today) M ...
  • Pets, Vets, and Borders
    The artificial political boundaries humans draw virtually disappear when it comes to nonhuman beings that not subject to citizenship rules.
  • Pets, Vets, and Borders
    The artificial political boundaries humans draw virtually disappear when it comes to nonhuman beings that not subject to citizenship rules.
  • Obama’s “Dead” Budget Garners Kudos, Criticism
    “Although President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget was dead even before it was delivered Monday to Congress, it drew plenty of comment on Capitol Hill.” (USA Today) Government budgets are political documents based on wishful assumptions. FEE Timely Classic “Budget-Cutting R ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Best social media tools for journalists
    What are today’s most popular social media tools? I proposed a short list on the Social Journalism Educators group on Facebook: Twitter Tumblr Pinterest Storify Instagram YouTube WordPress You’ll note (if you roll over and read the tooltip) that none of the links above go ...
  • Learning how to blog — the right way
    Even though the media world is smitten with Pinterest, the newest pretty thing, that old standard of social media — blogging — is far from dead and gone. Blogs are still used for all kinds of professional journalism, from breaking news updates to analysis and backgrounders. Blogs are ...
  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...

Facing South

  • Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal
    A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious health impacts of a particularly destructive form of coal mining.
    A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious ...
  • Can labor organize the unemployed?
    Efforts to organize the jobless are underway in Atlanta and other communities across the U.S., but they face challenges -- including people's resistance to identifying as unemployed.& ...
  • A Valentine for the Gulf
    Gulf Coast advocates are asking fellow Americans to show some love for the region by supporting the RESTORE Act, which would direct penalties for the BP oil disaster back to stricken communit ...
  • Wage war: Employers stealing millions from US ...
    A new study finds that wage theft is a shockingly common problem -- and a growing number of states and local communities are looking for solutions.
    A new study f ...
  • Watering down the STOCK Act
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would not allow his colleagues to vote on a stronger version of a law banning insider trading by members of Congress, instead offering a substitute t ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Di ...
    President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant political force well on its way to surpassing Hollywood and even Wall Street as the business bulwark of the Obama Democratic P ...
  • Arlington and Shenzhen: A Tale of Two Cities
    Seven thousand miles separate Arlington, Virginia and Shenzhen, China. Two continents apart, these two cities could not be more different. Yet they are similar, geopolitically and globally. The characteristics of today’s globalization have united and connected cities like Arlington and Shenzhen ...
  • Why Downtowns Fail and How They Can Come Back
    To many Florida developers in the last decade, downtown condo towers seemed to make a lot of sense. They were sold as the logical locale for active seniors and millennials, great affordable starter homes, and best of all, investments.  Reinvigorating downtowns became fashionable currency in ...
  • Special Report: Census 2011: Urban Dispersion ...
    Canada now has fastest-growing population in the G-8 (Note 1), according to the results of the 2011 census, released last week. Canada's growth rate from 2006 to 2011 exceeded that of the United States by nearly one-third and is nearly one half greater than just a decade ago. The population ...
  • The Geography of Investment Grade Wines
    The world produces more than eight billion gallons of wine each year (including those Algerian reds that taste like lighter fluid). All fifty American states, including Alaska, have thriving local wine industries. The eastern end of Long Island now looks like the Médoc, and one reason that the ...

GM Watch

  • USAID workshop concludes children need educati ...
    EXTRACTS: Prof James Ochanda of the University of Nairobi admitted that what was missing was public education to clear doubts in people's minds about the impact of genetically modified products in addressing food shortages in the country. Teaching on genetically modified crop production technol ...
  • Canadian farmer warns of GM dangers
    Canadian farmer warns of GM dangers Stephanie Anderson The Canberra Times, February 17 2012 http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/canadian-farmer-warns-of-gm-dangers-20120216-1tbtr.html Financial ruin and loss of organic agriculture will be part of the future Australia if genetically modifie ...
  • Food safety agency faces fresh criticism
    Food safety agency's reliability faces fresh criticism EurActiv, 15 February 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/food-safety-agencys-reliability-faces-fresh-criticism-news-510827 The EU agency charged with reviewing the safety of biotech crops, food and fertilisers has "frequent conflicts of inter ...
  • Food safety agency faces fresh criticism
    Food safety agency's reliability faces fresh criticism EurActiv, 15 February 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/food-safety-agencys-reliability-faces-fresh-criticism-news-510827 The EU agency charged with reviewing the safety of biotech crops, food and fertilisers has "frequent conflicts of inter ...
  • Food safety agency faces fresh criticism
    Food safety agency's reliability faces fresh criticism EurActiv, 15 February 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/food-safety-agencys-reliability-faces-fresh-criticism-news-510827 The EU agency charged with reviewing the safety of biotech crops, food and fertilisers has "frequent conflicts of inter ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans ...
  • A Warning Sign For The World
    Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...
  • 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of Ame ...
    Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Ne ...
  • Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
    In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...

Desertification

  • “Drones” in agriculture (IFAD)
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2012/02/growing-role-of-drones-in-agriculture.html The growing role of “drones” in agriculture Posted by Robert W. Meins For those who follow my work on the topics of remittances, migration and development a warning; for once you will hear nothin ...
  • In the drylands, future depends on supporting ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/01/plant-biodiversity-drylands/ Keep Plant Life Diverse to Buffer Against Warming Planet Green Prophet If you are of the 41 percent that lives in drylands, your future depends on supporting plant biodiversity. An international team of researchers includ ...
  • New green habitable environments in the desert ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/02/architectural-environment-desert/ Architectural Symposium to Discuss Green Habitable Environments in the Negev Desert Karen Chernick Environmentalists agree that dense urban living is more eco-friendly (just ask Tel Aviv city architect Yoav David), b ...
  • Agricultural policy-making : Kenya’s past poli ...
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=59558?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29 Agricultural policy-making in sub Saharan Africa: Kenya’s past policies Authors: G. Raphael Publisher: Tegemeo Ins ...
  • A non- leguminous plant (Alnus nepalensis) can ...
    Read at : http://www.ecosensorium.org/2012/01/innovation-in-agriculture-by-angami.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ecosensorium+%28ECOSENSORIUM.ORG%29 An innovation in agriculture by Angami Tribals of Nagaland So far, we are well acquainted that the legumin ...

The Paper Trail

  • FACT CHECK: Gunning down the truth in Michigan
    With Rick Santorum polling well in Mitt Romney’s birth state, a high-stakes TV shootout has broken out in Michigan. But some shots are off the mark.An amusing Santorum ad features a Romney look-alike machine-gunning mud at a cardboard cutout of Santorum. But the ad slings a little mud of its own ...
  • Weekly Watchdog 2/16/12
    State CorruptionCrooked politics is a state government specialty. Just look at Illinois. But what about the other 49 states? We’re undertaking an unprecedented look at transparency and accountability in the upcoming State Integrity Investigation.Unlike previous rankings, the investigation does n ...
  • PAC profile: House Majority PAC
    Supports: Democratic House members and candidates Principals: Alixandria Lapp, Candace Bryan Abbey More...
  • PAC Profile: American Bridge 21st Century
    Supports: Democratic Party Principals: David Brock, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Rodell Mollineau More...
  • PAC profile: Majority PAC
    Supports: Democratic Senate members and candidates Principals: Susan McCue, Monica Dixon, Harold Ickes, Jim Jordan More...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists need your solida ...
    Friends and comrades! We, the anti-fascists and anarchists of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), appeal to concerned people around the world. The political police (the Center for Combating Extremism or Center “E”) have fabricated a criminal case against our comra ...
  • New labour reforms hit Spain
    reforma.jpg Spain’s new conservative government has begun to attack workers´ rights with a serious of brutal reforms. On February 10, the government of Mariano Rajoy passed a se ...
  • Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of ...
    Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us know what is all about. The problem arises why folks opt for rave clothing even if there are so many choices obtainable. The answer is Coats sale all over the world.Greater part of us ...
  • EDL Latest!
    griffin white pride.jpg The far right make a hames of things. Again! Crivvens, Jings, and Help Ma Boab! Whit a mess! The Infidels and English Defence League demonstration agains ...
  • Victory in less than a week for newly reformed ...
    solnet.jpg Collective direct action against a letting agent succeeds in the full refund of an illegal administration fee. Glasgow Solidarity Network has demonstrated how direct ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Don't Bomb Iran, Contain It (Like the USSR)
    Forget for a minute that there is no clear evidence that Iran has decided to build nuclear weapons, let alone even the slightest indication that Iran is prepared to commit national suicide by using any possible weapon it develops. Focus only on the fact that these senators are seeking to rule ou ...
  • حال و هوای شهر قم در "روز ولنتاین"
    به گزارش قم نیوز، مراسم "روز ولنتیاین" یا "روز عشق" سال هاست که در کشور ما هم رواج یافته است. مراسم این روز که در فرهنگ سده های میانه و سپس فرهنگ مدرن غربی بعنوان روز "ابراز عشق" شناخته می شود، در روز ۱۴ فوریه هر سال برگزار می شود.read more
  • برنامه تلوزیونی جبهه ملی ایران;جایگاه پرویز ثا ...
    کتاب «در دامگه حادثه»، که در آن عرفان قانعی‌فرد، محقق تاریخ معاصر به گفت‌وگو با پرویز ثابتی، حقوق‌دان و از مقام‌های سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت پیش از انقلاب اسلامی، ‌پرداخته، به تازگی منتشر شده است. پرویز ثابتی، حقوق‌دان و مدیر کل نهم سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت پیش از انقلاب سال 57 در ایران، در سال ۱۳۱ ...
  • Iran's censors wage web war against Ahmadineja ...
    Iranread more
  • Tuesday blast 'not linked to terrorism, Hezbollah'
    Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapha, who is in charge of security affairs, told the House of Representatives yesterday that the explosions had been caused by bombs that were intended to kill individuals, not a large group of people. He said the men involved in the explosions were n ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Why the US Wants Regime Change in Syria
    (This is the second of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking aren’t unarmed protestors. Th ...
  • The Covert US War Against Syria
    The body of Brig Gen Dr Issa al-Kholi (This is the first of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking ar ...
  • The Club of Rome and the Sustainability Movement
    Club of Rome member David Korten (This is the final of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll ...
  • The Club of Rome and the New World Order
    Lyndon LaRouche (This is the third of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley describes t ...
  • The Origins of the Club of Rome
    Famous Diagram from Limits to Growth (This is the second of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carrol ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • House Republicans lose their will to fight
    Have House Republicans lost their mojo? That's the first conclusion that jumps to mind when attempting to read the tea leaves of the current negotiations over extending the payroll tax cut. On Tuesday, the most popular word used to describe the House GOP's purported decision to abandon requiring ...
  • When Iran and Israel were friendly
    The explosions in Bangkok on Tuesday that destroyed an Israeli diplomat's car escalated the already-dangerous situation between Iran and Israel. Israel’s defense minister connected the attacks with others on Israeli embassy personnel in India and Georgia. “Israel will act methodically and take s ...
  • Occupy defends the Volcker Rule
    As the Occupy the SEC march made its way past the Goldman Sachs building in New York City on Monday night I looked up from the near-constant tweeting I do at these events just in time to see a man in a top-shelf suit rush past us holding a bottle of champagne. I imagined him looking at the 100-p ...
  • Obama to unions: See you later
    On Tuesday President Obama signed a bill that will make it harder for workers to form a union.  This bill, the FAA Reauthorization Act, passed Congress last week despite an outcry from major unions.  Dozens of House Democrats voted for it, as did most Democratic senators.To appreciate what that ...
  • The threat to Mexico’s machismo culture
    MEXICO CITY — At El Mirador, a cantina frequented by Mexico’s political and economic elite, you can see a fine selection of spirits and a menu that features dishes like pickled pigs’ feet and beef tongue tacos.But what you won’t see are women.El Mirador, a relic from the country’s machista past, ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • New Budget Reflects Inefficient Energy Priorities
    An editorial in today's New York Times praising the energy priorities included in the President's latest budget is little more than a rubber stamp of a set of policies in serious need of rethinking.
  • Has Russia turned off the tap on Europe?
    A worrying trend is occurring as wholesale energy prices are on the rise again. In fact this time the wholesale prices for gas and electricity have reached a 6 year high. The London stock market has shown an increase of 28% taking it up to $520 per 1000 cubic metres.
  • Edward Davey opens world’s biggest offshore wi ...
    Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has demonstrated the coalition’s support for renewable energy in opening the world’s biggest offshore windfarm located near Walney in Cumbria. The site comprises 102 turbines, enough to power 320,000 homes, and sits alongside 60 ot ...
  • New grid under-sea cable to connect England an ...
    While politicians talk of Scottish independence from England, a world-beating €1.1 billion contract has today been announced to make the two countries even more interconnected.
  • Czechs temper their nuclear ambitions
    An ambitious plan to build five nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic worth an estimated $28 billion has been scaled back to just two units.

EU Times

  • How a dose of Aspirin can help to halt Cancer
    The humble painkiller aspirin could be the secret weapon to beat cancer after scientists discovered it can stop tumours spreading. The revolutionary finding solves the mystery of how the over-the- counter wonder drug works to halt the disease in its tracks. The breakthrough by experts in Austral ...
  • Greek pensioners take to streets over cuts
    In Greece, angry pensioners have once again taken to the streets in the capital Athens to protest against the government’s tough spending cuts. The pensioners gathered to express opposition with lawmakers’ decision to slash another 325 million euros in wages, pensions, and jobs, as demanded by t ...
  • 300k farmers hope for lawsuit against Monsanto
    Around 300,000 organic farmers think that Monsanto, the biotech giant known for genetically modifying Mother Nature’s handwork for profit and pushing over the little guys all the while, is pretty seedy. Now a judge in New York is debating if Monsanto’s questionable methods will go before a jury. ...
  • West may strike Iran by summer – Russian ...
    Russia’s top military boss says an attack against Iran, which the west suspects of developing nuclear weapons, could begin as early as summer. Thus far, tensions between Tehran and the west have been confined to the battlefield of heated rhetoric. Russia’s highest ranking military officer, howev ...
  • Eastern Europe calls on Iran not to stop oil e ...
    A senior Iranian lawmaker says a number of Eastern European countries have called on the Islamic Republic not to approve a bill which will stop the country’s oil exports to the European Union member states. Member of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Mohammad-Karim ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Senators Promise War With 'Nuclear Capable' Ir ...
    A bipartisan coalition of senators essentially promised Thursday that the U.S. would take military action against Iran if they become capable of producing nuclear weapons. Just don't ask them to define "capable." Thirty-two senators have signed on to sponsor the six-page resolution that "reject ...
  • Nasrallah reiterates his support for Assad's m ...
    Hamas might be getting nervous about publicly supporting a regime that murders thousands of its own Arabs, but Hezbollah has no such compunctions : Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah defended Thursday President Bashar Assad and said Israel sought any system of government in Syria other than ...
  • Hillary Clinton is tackling climate change whe ...
    By Sarah Laskow Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with EPA’s Lisa Jackson and a handful of international diplomats, has had enough of climate inaction. She announced a new initiative this morning to start attacking “short-lived climate pollutants”  – otherwise known as “everything exce ...
  • Ajax 0-2 Manchester United: Europa League High ...
    Man United eased past Ajax to take a commanding lead into the second leg at Old Trafford. Free goal alerts on your iPhone or iPod Ajax 0-1 Man United (Young) szólj hozzá: Ajax 0-1 MU Ajax 0-2 Man United (Hernandez) szólj hozzá: ajax vs man u2 Full Highlights Ajax Amsterdam 0-2 Manchester United ...
  • Kevin Costner & Modern West Launch Spring Tour
    Kevin Costner photo courtesy of Universal Republic/Universal Records South. Kevin Costner and his band, Modern West , are hitting the road again. The band will launch their tour on March 28 in Lakeland, Florida. The U.S. leg will wrap with a show in Nashville on April 14 with two Canadian dates ...

Groklaw

  • Social networks cannot be forced to filter con ...
    The highest court on the continent, the European Court of Justice, ruled this morning that social networks cannot be compelled to install filters, monitoring or blocking systems to prevent the illegal trading of music, films, and other copyrighted material. [PJ: From the ruling: "Consequently, i ...
  • Proview says any ban of iPad exports hard to i ...
    A debt-laden Chinese technology firm seeking to ban all shipments of Apple's popular iPad tablet into and out of the country has been told that China's customs authorities are unlikely to intervene in the trademark battle. Proview Technology, the Chinese company embroiled in a legal battle with ...
  • Securing Corporate Data in a Law Office's Comp ...
    "Attackers go where the money is," says Friedberg. These days, law firms should assume that hackers will infiltrate their network, and they should identify which digital assets are most at risk and put the most security around those areas, he says...."The issue ends up being that the lawyers are ...
  • ATandT Must Let Beastie Boy Vote on Net Neutra ...
    The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance had found in past years that similar net-neutrality proposals fell under the category of day-to-day business operations and that companies could exclude them from shareholder voting. With the agency changing its position, the previous exclusion no longer ...
  • Jonathan Schwartz unveils startup, talks about ...
    The answer was quite unlike what Schwartz had done before: a subscription-based health care site that would allow customers to keep track of the medical needs of the people for whom they care. The concept may sound simple, but the need is significant, said Schwartz, who has two kids and two pare ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Community radio shows by Polizeros contributors
    Ten Bears co-hosts Breakfast in Bend on KPOV 88.9 High Desert Community Radio, Friday morning 7-8 AM PT. Bend OR.Wake up to Breakfast in Bend, our very own local morning show. Hear interviews, news, talk and music with hosts Tristan, Thom, and Phil – providing a community perspective you c ...
  • A Zinn moment, or two
    “For decades now right-wing dogmatics have been working furiously at turning this broad mass of America into a nation of imbeciles, because imbeciles are so easily manipulated and controlled. The cultivation of ignorance goes hand in hand with the propagation of evil — and of course the squadron ...
  • Income inequality in the early 20th century (a ...
    COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Weinstock; Lennon; Garretson; Walsh, Chairman; Commons; Ballard; Delano; Mrs. Harriman. Harris & Ewing, Photographer 1913 (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Beverly Gage, associate professor of 20th-century U.S. history ...
  • Greece is heading towards revolution. Bankster ...
    John Paulson says Greece may default, causing Euro breakup. He manages a $23 billion hedge fund and says a Greece default could happen by the end of March.“We believe a Greek payment default could be a greater shock to the system than Lehman’s failure, immediately causing global econ ...
  • World headquarters. Morris Consulting
    The Kokopelli coffee mug is a crucial part of the business plan.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
    The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
  • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
    It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...

frogblog

  • MMP review – Make it More Proportional
    This week the MMP Review was launched by the Electoral Commission, meaning our voting system is now open for public discussion and input. Through a submission process we all get the chance to have a say on how our voting system works and what we’d like to see changed. You can make a submission o ...
  • Public services will suffer from another slash ...
    There were no big surprises in yesterday’s Budget Policy Statement. Throughout its first term, National campaigned on an agenda of tax cuts, public sector cuts, and welfare reforms. This budget year, and for the next three years, things will be no different. In fact for the public sector, just a ...
  • Living within the donut of social and environm ...
    George Monbiot poses an interesting question in the wake of an Oxfam report: Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice? It’s a big question especially in New Zealand where dairy intensification, increasing fishing and drilling and mining for resources are presented as necess ...
  • Non-Aggression and the UN Charter: Govt Now Ag ...
    Something useful emerged from Question Time in Parliament yesterday, in response to my question of the Foreign Minister about intervention in Syria. Knowingly or otherwise, the Government pledged never to use force without an authorising resolution from the UN Security Council. They will be fore ...
  • Good, bad, and ugly: Exide to close
    I feel quite conflicted about the announcement that Exide will close its controversial battery recycling facility in Petone next month because the Government is exporting lead batteries overseas and depriving them of business. On the one hand, the plant has a shocking history of resource consent ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Vitamin that has Been Shown to Dramaticall ...
    By Dr. Mercola Did you know that in northern countries, which have dark, cold winters, couples are less likely to conceive during the winter, whereas conception rates peak in the summer? There are a number of reasons wh ...
  • Cancer Alert: Beware of These 5 Home Appliances
    By Dr. Mercola Alasdair Philips is qualified in both Electrical- and Electronic Engineering, as well as Agricultural Engineering. In 1998, he started the British organization Power Watch, which is committed to uncovering the specific details of how electromagnetic fields (EMFs) affect our he ...
  • Why Are More than One in Ten Americans at Risk ...
    By Dr. Mercola Thoughts of suicide are disturbingly common among Americans, which is detailed in the report, the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), newly released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. While one in five Americans experienced some ...
  • 26 out of 54 People Who Avoided These Foods Go ...
    The average non-vegetarian stores between 2,000 and 3,000 picograms of B-12 per day. B-12 helps change homocysteine into methionine. When this does not happen, homocysteine levels increase, which recent research has associated heart disease and deterioration of the arteries and nerves. Alth ...
  • The Major Cause of Breast Cancer Almost Everyo ...
    By Dr. Mercola The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) secretly monitored the personal e-mail of nine whistleblowers—its own scientists and doctors—over the course of two years. The monitored employees had warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unaccept ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival urges UN to end Andamans scandal
    India's Supreme Court ordered sections of the Andaman Trunk Road to be closed in 2002 © Ariberto De Blasoni/Survival Five years after the UN first called on India to close the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), Survival is urging the organization to bring an end to human safaris by speaking out ...
  • Brazilian indigenous organization wins prestig ...
    Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for a meeting at Bismark to discuss their land claims, Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival Brazilian organization CIR- Indigenous Council of Roraima (Conselho Indígena de Roraima)- has won the Spanish government’s Bartolomé de las Casas awa ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Justin Trudeau, the MP with his foot in his mouth
    For Justin Trudeau, being his father's son is both a blessing and a curse.
  • What Justin Trudeau said
    Last March, Justin Trudeau demanded an apology from the federal government for using the term "barbaric" when describing honour killings. Is there another word?
  • Justin Trudeau, the MP with his foot in his mouth
    It's a blessing in that it assures him media coverage and public attention that he wouldn't get if his name were Justin Jones. But it's a curse in that it causes him to be held to a dauntingly high standard, and amplifies the embarrassment whenever he falls short of the expectations his famous n ...
  • A single transportation agency? Good idea
    London, England, population 8.6 million, the financial hub of Europe, has a single agency to implement and manage its transportation services.
  • Editorial: Thin edge of wedge to unaccountable ...
    Federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has tarred anyone opposed to the federal government's impending "lawful-access" legislation as someone who favours the rights of child pornographers and organized crime ahead of those of lawabiding citizens.

Food World Order

  • Kellogg's to buy Pringles from P&G for $2.7b
    from reuters: Kellogg Co agreed to buy Pringles potato chips from Procter & Gamble Co for $2.7 billion in a cash deal that will nearly triple the cereal maker's international snack business. The transaction will also let household goods maker P&G finally leave the food business after its ...
  • Questions about raw milk? Ask a farmer.
    from brasschecktv.com: Whether you like raw milk or not, it has been part of mankind's diet for thousands of years, which is why I find it suspicious when the government insists that you can only drink a particular form of milk in which the nutrients have been destroyed. I recently heard that th ...
  • Cod Fishermen’s Alarm Outlasts Reprieve on Cat ...
    from nytimes.com: Fishermen and federal officials grappled Friday with the increasingly bleak prospect of finding some way for the historic New England cod industry to avoid collapse amid troubles with the health of Gulf of Maine cod. Their meeting came in the week after regional regulators boug ...
  • Indiana's Amish food markets seeing growth
    from wsbt.com: Even though Schmucker's Produce Farm and Greenhouse has been in business since 1964, it doesn't have a sign on the property, something not uncommon among Amish-owned businesses. Many do little or no advertising, and a few don't have phones. But lately, more people have been findin ...
  • America's 'Food Stamp Nation' continues to grow
    from thestar.com: In what is clearly the country’s most troubled period in modern times, a Food Stamp Nation-within-a-nation is swelling to proportions that seemed unthinkable five years ago. In 2006, there were 26.7 million people on food stamps in America. By September 2011, that number had gr ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans ...
  • A Warning Sign For The World
    Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...
  • 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of Ame ...
    Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Ne ...
  • Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
    In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • And now they demand that the Greeks ask for pe ...
    Poor Greece. Standard of living in decline. Unelected Puppet Prime Minister. The nation which gave us democracy has little democracy of it's own. People driven to suicide. Governed by the EU/ECB/IMF and Berlin. And now their own Government demands that they ask for permission to protest. A ...
  • Nigel Farage - tough talk with Alex Jones
    Nigel Farage was a guest on the Alex Jones show last night. Here is that interview. And it is an epic: Just hours before, Nigel had given an interview to RT in which he accused the EU of using Greece as a "sacrifice"...
  • Greek Solidarity: Europe-wide 'We're All Greek ...
    We warned yesterday that this would happen. Too late, evil EU... it is happening. Demonstrations in a number of European capitals are being planned for this Saturday, 18th February under the unifying message of "We're All Greek Now!"... just as we predicted yesterday. Planned participating ...
  • Nigel Farage: I would have been on the streets ...
    Nigel Farage has spoken in the belly of the beast that is Brussels this morning. Well actually, it was Strasbourg but we haven't thought of a description for the EU's pointless second 'Parliament' building yet. As you would expect from Farage - a powerful orator at the best of times - he does ...
  • Beware Evil EU Empire, We Are All Greek Now
    In the late 1930's, as well as fighting Nazi Germany, we from these Great British Isles departed in not insignificant number to the shores of Spain to join the international brigades fighting the Spanish Civil War against Franco's troops, in the name of democracy: It was that fact which dri ...

Facing South

  • Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal
    A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious health impacts of a particularly destructive form of coal mining.
    A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious ...
  • Can labor organize the unemployed?
    Efforts to organize the jobless are underway in Atlanta and other communities across the U.S., but they face challenges -- including people's resistance to identifying as unemployed.& ...
  • A Valentine for the Gulf
    Gulf Coast advocates are asking fellow Americans to show some love for the region by supporting the RESTORE Act, which would direct penalties for the BP oil disaster back to stricken communit ...
  • Wage war: Employers stealing millions from US ...
    A new study finds that wage theft is a shockingly common problem -- and a growing number of states and local communities are looking for solutions.
    A new study f ...
  • Watering down the STOCK Act
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would not allow his colleagues to vote on a stronger version of a law banning insider trading by members of Congress, instead offering a substitute t ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Google Chrome to Phone Android App is Insanely ...
    If SwipePad proved really useful to you all, here is another unique app for Android that can further simplify and add value to your day-to-day smartphone use. Google Chrome to Phone is an official Google Inc. made app for Android which lets you send links, maps or phone numbers from your Googl ...
  • System76's First Ever Video Ad Released
    Canonical recently upped its marketing pitch by releasing a slew of ads featuring Ubuntu. System76 has joined the fray and has just now released a small commercial (more like a teaser video), again featuring an Ubuntu powered desktop from its inventory. If you are not familiar, System76 is ...
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Review: Unusually Bug-Ridden
    Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" Alpha 2 is here and we are yet another release close to perhaps the most important Ubuntu ever. I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 ever since its first alpha was released and I have been closely following the developments. At the moment, Ubuntu 12.04 is far from sta ...
  • No More Dodge Windows in Unity? Global Menu to ...
    Unity redefined Ubuntu over the years. But big changes don't happen overnight and Unity still is a work in progress. Many features introduced in Unity, like Global Menu, is not really a popular functionality, especially among desktop users. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is coming up and Canonical is doing ...
  • Boomerang GTK 3.0 Theme + Faience GNOME Shell ...
    Good theme combinations are always nice to have. If ANewStart + AwOken GNOME Shell theme combination was a bit flamboyant, this one is more simpler, prefect for everyday use. Boomerang is a beautiful new GTK 3.0 theme made for GNOME 3.2 (Gnome Shell, Gnome Classic Fallback & Unity) an ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Easter Bunny, Jesus Jerky on a Gone Dead Ameri ...
    By Les Visible I can feel the bottled outrage over my telepathic landlines, picking my way through the politically correct landmines, in search of one temporary piece of sane and sober Earth to stand on. Tiny nano-tech gerbils are having a rave in my colon, which leads to that uneasy, wish to be ...
  • U.S. schoolchildren now subjected to sack lunc ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) First it was the TSA searching your underpants at the airport, claiming to be protecting you from “terrorists.” Now a local elementary school in North Carolina is searching the homemade lunches of schoolchildren with the goal of forcing ...
  • Study shows impact of electric cars is worse t ...
    By Damien Gayle They have been heralded as the environmentally friendly solution to getting around, especially in towns and cities. But new research in China shows that electric cars have an overall impact on pollution that could be more harmful to health than conventional vehicles. A study of p ...
  • Rothschilds Want Iran’s Banks
    By Pete Papaherakles Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? As tensions are building up for an unthinkable war with Iran, it is worth exploring Iran’s banking system com ...
  • Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
    by James Φοίνιξ The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he’ll shut his far ...

Veterans Today

  • Sin City Law Firm Harbors Pedophile
    The state of Nevada has been labeled the most dangerous state in the entire country with a crime rate 24% higher than the national average. In 2008, Nevada had the third highest murder rate, and the highest rate of robbery and motor vehicle theft in the nation. Las Vegas, Nevada has the nickname ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    The National Guard has set up a toll-free, peer-to-peer counseling hotline to provide Guard members and all reserve component members the ability to speak with counselors on the phone or online.
  • Prisoners Filing Grievances Tossed In Solitary ...
    There are nearly 25,000 inmates being held in solitary confinement in the U.S., some of them put there for filing grievances or lawsuits, “The Catholic Worker” reports.
  • Water Terrorism by India to Overawe Pakistan
    The majestic and ravishing landscape of the Kashmir Valley is so enchanting that whosoever happens to visit it gets spell-bounded and overawed by its natural beauty and longs to revisit it.
  • Nine VA Staffers on Federal 100
    Nine employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould, are among the top 100 leaders in the IT industry, according to the “Federal 100” created by Federal Computer Week.

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • The Way Of All Empires: Will U.S. Ever Accept ...
    China Daily February 16, 2012 Will US ever accept the truth? By Wang Yusheng ==== The disintegration of the Soviet Union was the first opportunity for the US to meet the worldwide demand for peace and development and set a global trend of mutually beneficial cooperation and non-confrontation. Bu ...
  • Anticipating Attack On Iran, Russia Makes Mili ...
    The Hindu February 16, 2012 Attack on Iran not far off, says Russian General Vladimir Radyuhin ==== …Russian military bases in the Caucasus – in Armenia, South Ossetia and Abhazia – had been put on combat alert. Military experts speculate that the U.S. may carry out strikes at Iran f ...
  • West Must Observe Democracy In Global Affairs, ...
    China Daily February 16, 2012 Respect for different viewpoints By He Wenping Western countries should observe democracy in international relations and their media does not speak for everyone ==== Ignoring China’s past history of vetoes, though far less than those of the United States, they ...
  • After NATO’s War On Libya, Nation Turned ...
    Voice of Russia February 16, 2012 Libyan militias “torture detainees to death” Vladimir Gladkov ==== The Western sponsors of this violent democratization prefer to hush up the fact that the crimes are being committed by no one but rebel militias who now control much of the country. [M]ilitias ke ...
  • Annus Horribilis: NATO Bombed Libya To The Sto ...
    RT February 16, 2012 Price of ‘freedom’: Libya’s annus horribilis Elena Ostroumova Edited by RR The NTC will distribute cash to all Libyan families in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Libyan revolution. This comes as a standoff between those in power, lawless militias and former Ga ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • UCBerkeley Whistle-blowers conference to suppo ...
    WHISTLEBLOWERS to OCCUPY THE TRUTH #TRUTHCON Open Space Whistleblower and Transparency Conference February 17-19, Berkeley On the weekend of February 17, 2012, an unusual mix of notable experts from surprisingly disparate backgrounds will meet at UC Berkeley for a three-day conference. The confe ...
  • UCBerkeley Whistle-blowers conference to suppo ...
    WHISTLEBLOWERS to OCCUPY THE TRUTH #TRUTHCON Open Space Whistleblower and Transparency Conference February 17-19, Berkeley On the weekend of February 17, 2012, an unusual mix of notable experts from surprisingly disparate backgrounds will meet at UC Berkeley for a three-day conference. The confe ...
  • Arundhati Roy: Foreword to “Scripting t ...
    “….But Anuradha was different”– by Arundhati Roy That is what everyone who knew Anuradha Ghandy says. That is what almost everyone whose life she touched thinks. She died in a Mumbai hospital on the morning of 12 April 2008, of malaria. She had probably picked it up in the jungles of ...
  • Arundhati Roy: Foreword to “Scripting t ...
    “….But Anuradha was different”– by Arundhati Roy That is what everyone who knew Anuradha Ghandy says. That is what almost everyone whose life she touched thinks. She died in a Mumbai hospital on the morning of 12 April 2008, of malaria. She had probably picked it up in the jungles of ...
  • The Announcement that launched The People&#821 ...
    March Along the Path of People’s War! (thenextfront.com, a revolutionary Maoist website in Nepal, has posted the first announcement of the People’s War (from the time of its launching 17 years ago).  The Next front commented about the challenge this posting gives to those who aim to contin ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Dedicated to Brother Khader Adnan – Wher ...
    Brother Khader, Like so many before you, and surely many more to come, between death with honour or life without it, you have chosen the former. Nothing but love and respect to you my brother, and to all the brothers and sisters of this world who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who resist th ...
  • Not Facebook… Ziobook
    This is to the ZioNazi's at ZioBook. For all the good people posting the truth and getting their accounts deleted, go fuck yourself. For all the ZioTrolls coddled and sheltered in their Ziobook home, go fuck yourself again. A person should use Ziobook only as required, then treat it like a so ...
  • PRESS RELEASE: Ofcom Bans Press TV in the UK & ...
    OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement:
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • FYI: Do Competitive Eaters Have Unusual Stomachs?
    Yes. Marc Levine, the chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has found that a competitive eater’s stomach works more like an expanding balloon than a squeezing sac. For his study, Levine recruited a professional eater, then ranked among the top 10 ...
  • Video: Watch Kink Instability Corkscrew a Jet ...
    Instability begets instability. At least, that’s the lesson learned from a couple of Caltech researchers studying the way magnetic field lines break and reconnect. Such magnetic breakage and reconnection at some scales can be quite violent, like when the sun’s magnetic field lines snap and toss ...
  • FYI: What Is the Oldest Toy in the World?
    The National Toy Hall of Fame awarded “oldest toy” to the stick. Edward Bleiberg, a curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum, says that Neolithic balls made from mud are probably out there, but in any case it would be difficult to determine if they were playthings. In 2004, archaeologists ...
  • World's Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar
    This little chameleon is one of four miniature lizards identified in Madagascar, adding to our growing list of amazingly teeny animals. The one on the match in this picture is a juvenile, but even the adults max out at 30 millimeters. They're the smallest lizards in the world, and some of the sm ...
  • Compound Reinvigorates Classic Antibiotics In ...
    A new drug compound can recharge a class of antibiotics used to fight superbug bacteria, improving the antibiotics’ effectiveness 16-fold. It’s another volley on the part of humans in the ongoing battle between new drugs and bacterial resistance. This new compound doesn’t fight the bacteria itse ...

Veterans Today

  • Sin City Law Firm Harbors Pedophile
    The state of Nevada has been labeled the most dangerous state in the entire country with a crime rate 24% higher than the national average. In 2008, Nevada had the third highest murder rate, and the highest rate of robbery and motor vehicle theft in the nation. Las Vegas, Nevada has the nickname ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    The National Guard has set up a toll-free, peer-to-peer counseling hotline to provide Guard members and all reserve component members the ability to speak with counselors on the phone or online.
  • Prisoners Filing Grievances Tossed In Solitary ...
    There are nearly 25,000 inmates being held in solitary confinement in the U.S., some of them put there for filing grievances or lawsuits, “The Catholic Worker” reports.
  • Water Terrorism by India to Overawe Pakistan
    The majestic and ravishing landscape of the Kashmir Valley is so enchanting that whosoever happens to visit it gets spell-bounded and overawed by its natural beauty and longs to revisit it.
  • Nine VA Staffers on Federal 100
    Nine employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould, are among the top 100 leaders in the IT industry, according to the “Federal 100” created by Federal Computer Week.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • The Race is On to Succeed Zoellick at World Bank
    I have to run but it's going to be very interesting going with the current World Bank President Robert Zoellick indicating that he is about to resign his post. The search is on for a successor with the US naturally in the vanguard. However, given the controversy of yet another European succeedin ...
  • TPP is Ludicrous: US Auto, Canadian Agri Edition
    Here are two more examples of the rather enormous roadblocks to the US government attempting to expand an APEC PTA to counterbalance growing Chinese trade dominance in the region. In their own ways, they are rather ludicrous examples of how Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) enlargement is infeasib ...
  • Day's EU Analogy: Greece 2012 = Versailles 1919
    My oh my. There appears to be some sort of competition going on among journalists to make the most outlandish analogy between what's going on with Greece in the EU and a historical European moment best forgotten. A few weeks ago we had the FT's Wolfgang Munchau likening events in today's Europe ...
  • Not-So-Still Life: A Greek Riot Scene
    I'm a bit strapped for time today so here's something that captures the moment in Greece. On Facebook, my Greek friends have been posting these sorts of riot pictures and videos for several years now. I suppose it's conventional scenery when the IMF is called into action. Whether the IMF's prese ...
  • Revisiting WWII, or When Adidas Made Bazookas
    This coming week I am going to discuss European economic integration in class. As most of you can recite from memory, the European Union got its start as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) back in 1952. However, the political logic of the ECSC is a bit more obscure. While you will appr ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans ...
  • A Warning Sign For The World
    Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...
  • 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of Ame ...
    Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.  The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Ne ...
  • Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless ...
    In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • How a dose of Aspirin can help to halt Cancer
    The humble painkiller aspirin could be the secret weapon to beat cancer after scientists discovered it can stop tumours spreading. The revolutionary finding solves the mystery of how the over-the- counter wonder drug works to halt the disease in its tracks. The breakthrough by experts in Austral ...
  • Greek pensioners take to streets over cuts
    In Greece, angry pensioners have once again taken to the streets in the capital Athens to protest against the government’s tough spending cuts. The pensioners gathered to express opposition with lawmakers’ decision to slash another 325 million euros in wages, pensions, and jobs, as demanded by t ...
  • 300k farmers hope for lawsuit against Monsanto
    Around 300,000 organic farmers think that Monsanto, the biotech giant known for genetically modifying Mother Nature’s handwork for profit and pushing over the little guys all the while, is pretty seedy. Now a judge in New York is debating if Monsanto’s questionable methods will go before a jury. ...
  • West may strike Iran by summer – Russian ...
    Russia’s top military boss says an attack against Iran, which the west suspects of developing nuclear weapons, could begin as early as summer. Thus far, tensions between Tehran and the west have been confined to the battlefield of heated rhetoric. Russia’s highest ranking military officer, howev ...
  • Eastern Europe calls on Iran not to stop oil e ...
    A senior Iranian lawmaker says a number of Eastern European countries have called on the Islamic Republic not to approve a bill which will stop the country’s oil exports to the European Union member states. Member of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Mohammad-Karim ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • At end of Haitian visit, Security Council focu ...
    Police reform and the living conditions of Haitians who remain displaced after the January 2010 earthquake were the focus of the final day of the Security Council's four-day visit to the impoverished Caribbean country.
  • After prison blaze kills hundreds in Honduras, ...
    A United Nations human rights official today called on Latin American countries to tackle the problem of prison overcrowding in the wake of an overnight fire at a jail in Honduras that killed hundreds of inmates.
  • UN expert urges Honduras to protect human righ ...
    Human rights defenders in Honduras continue to suffer extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment as well as harassment and stigmatization, an independent United Nations expert says, calling on the Central American country's Government to establish a protection p ...
  • Ban hails Latin American nuclear weapon-free z ...
    On the 45th anniversary of the treaty that created a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the pact as an example of how regional initiatives can advance global norms on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the peaceful use ...
  • Security Council ambassadors begin official vi ...
    A Security Council delegation kicked off its mission to Haiti today as the country begins its painstaking transition towards reconstruction, job creation and capacity building following the devastating earthquake two years ago.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
    The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
  • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
  • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
    This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
  • Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
    Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...
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Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • E-Cigarette Warning!
      Florida man loses teeth and part of his tongue! ~ Video read more
  • Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy!
      CRIMINALS WANTED! The nation’s largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state governments to buy up their penitentiaries and manage convicted criminals at a cost-savings. But there’s a catch... the states must guarantee that are there are enough prisoners to ensure th ...
  • U.S. Prison Industrial Complex... The Business ...
      A new report from Chris Kirkham for Huffington Post, reinforces my treatment of his previous article which covered news that Florida would privatize 20% of their prisons, following the trend taken by other states. ~ Joe Wright read more
  • Anonymous Threatens to Shut Down the Whole Int ...
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  • Nuclear Truckers... Warheads on 18 Wheels
      At a cost of $250 million a year, nearly 600 couriers employed by this secretive agency within the US Department of Energy use some of the nation's busiest roads to move America's radioactive material wherever it needs to go... read more

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Top-5 Things For Survival Preparedness
    Assuming that you are currently living somewhat ‘normally’, that is, you have shelter and the typical things one has today, then the top five things you could own for survival preparedness can be found in the following list. 1. good quality water filter 2. food storage 3. defense 4. ...
  • When Will The Currency Crack and Collapse?
    Given the trigger event about to take place, that is, the ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) declaring the Greece ‘credit event’ to not be a default, but instead a 30% ‘haircut’ (or thereabout), we wonder when the rest of the main-stream will catch on ...
  • MREs
    MRE. Meal Ready To Eat, a US military precooked ration pack used to feed soldiers who are currently engaged in ongoing missions. Just like regular meals, these military MREs are packed with vitamins and minerals enough to nourish and replenish the body. To preserve the quality and freshness of t ...
  • ‘Basic’ Skills Are Lacking in Youn ...
    Okay, I might as well tell you all right now…I need to vent. So here it is, straight from yesterday’s grocery store adventure. Ken and I decided to do our weekly grocery store run and we were both gathering items to help speed the process. At one point, I asked Ken to go and get [...]
  • 2-Million Visitors Milestone
    We have crossed another milestone here at Modern Survival Blog.com having reached our 2 millionth visitor sometime around 6PM Eastern on Feb-14,2012! This most recent million milestone took just half the time as our first million, and we are very happy for the continuing growth of our website an ...

Fast Company

  • Fast Talk: Why Fashion Designers Need To Embra ...
    Meet Jean-Paul Cauvin, a French fashion veteran and self-proclaimed non-geek who nonetheless saw the need to follow fashion's technological future.Jean-Paul Cauvin calls himself the binôme, or right-hand man, of the French designer Julien Fournié. Following his advice, Fournié recently teamed up ...
  • Mobile Payments For Everyone! Barclays Pushes ...
    Barclays bank, which already intertwines NFC chips and antennas into its banking cards in the U.K., has just taken a page out of Apple's book and released a new mobile app that should shake up the U.K. financial game.Pingit is a smartphone app that lets anyone with a Barclays account and a cell ...
  • Why Pinterest Is So Addictive
    I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest. If you are still among the uninitiated, the social platform for collecting, sharing, and commenting on of photos of personal passions is uniquely engaging, absorbing, and addictive. The human instinct to collect things--be it ...
  • Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress ...
    The House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Counterintelligence and Intelligence was not pleased. (Insert "angry" emoticon here.)At a Congressional hearing this morning that veered into contentious arguments and cringe-worthy moments, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spilled the beans ...
  • Employee Perks That Don’t Work
    Over much of the last decade or two, the subject of work-life balance has been a hot topic in the business world. Such well-respected businesses as Google, Apple, and Microsoft have invested heavily in a variety of initiatives to help create a healthy, balanced lifestyle for their employees. &nb ...

Jadaliyya

  • New Texts Out Now: Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama ...
    Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, editors, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent. Special issue of SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE (December 2011). [SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE is a publication of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia Univers ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Pascale Ghazaleh, Held in T ...
    Pascale Ghazaleh, editor, Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World. Cairo and New York: American University of Cairo Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this book? Pascale Ghazaleh (PG): This book brings together articles written by scholars from different ...
  • Jadaliyya Launches Syria Page
    Jadaliyya annouces the soft launch of its new Syria Page. You can access the page here. Similarly structured to our Egypt Page, the Syria Page will feature articles about Syria written by those on the ground in Syria as well as outside observers. If you are interested in contri ...
  • Is It Time to Intervene in Syria? NPR Discussi ...
    Syria's civilian death toll is now estimated at over 6000 people, as tanks and machine guns continue to bombard residential neighborhoods. Some 25,000 civilians have managed to flee to destinations including Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. Meanwhile, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has an ...
  • Sowing the Seeds of Dissent: Economic Grievanc ...
    Over the past ten months, the international community has gazed awestruck at how Syria’s uprisings have swept through a nation once viewed as pacified by a repressive regime. An analysis solely focusing on the brutality of the Asad regimes, however, elides some of the economic roots ...

mediagazer

  • Anthony Shadid, A New York Times Reporter Dies ...
    Rick Gladstone / New York Times: Anthony Shadid, A New York Times Reporter Dies in Syria  —  Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning newspaper correspondent whose graceful dispatches for both The New York Times and The Washington Post covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict a ...
  • Murdoch arrives in London to quell staff backl ...
    Reuters: Murdoch arrives in London to quell staff backlash  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch flew in to London on Thursday to address growing anger at his newspaper business and seek to reassure journalists of his commitment to their work.  —  Murdoch arrived at Lut ...
  • Pat Buchanan Is 'Departing' MSNBC: I Was 'Blac ...
    James Crugnale / Mediaite: Pat Buchanan Is ‘Departing’ MSNBC: I Was ‘Blacklisted, But Not Beaten’  —  Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan is out at MSNBC, writing in The American Conservative that “My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come ...
  • Apple and the New York Times not meshing (Erik ...
    Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Apple and the New York Times not meshing  —  The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro scores the access coup of the week, maybe month.  An exclusive interview with Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook yields insight on how the company is migrati ...
  • Jeremy Lin Is Shopping a Memoir. Start the Bid ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Jeremy Lin Is Shopping a Memoir.  Start the Bidding!  —  Jeremy Lin.  Image by Getty Images via @daylife  —  There aren't a lot of 23-year-olds who could get a million dollars for writing a book about a life mostly spent st ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Budget 2012: Levy basic customs duty on c ...
    Tweet NEW DELHI: FICCI in its pre-budget memorandum has given the following recommendations for the cement industry: >> There is surplus capacity of cement in the country and cement market is on bearish trend therefore excise duty rate should be reduced for the growth of cement industry. For ...
  • Winter zoo visits get children and adults ...
    Our great parks systems began over 100 years ago when people first noticed an increase in sedentary behavior. At the time, Toledo was in its prime. Every weekend the people of Toledo would gather at Walbridge Park to walk, picnic and play. Slowly the idea grew to add a zoo. Today the Toledo ...
  • Male breast cancer awareness in Atlanta
    We normally think of breast cancer as a woman’s disease, but men can also develop breast cancer. The incidence of male breast cancer is lower than in females, but the disease is as serious in men as it is in women. Because breast cancer isn’t as common in men, males are not usua ...
  • Obesity and eating disorder prevention: A ...
    Those of you who read my articles on a regular basis may have noticed a theme in the types of topics I cover. Some of you may have even perceived a discrepancy in the topics I advocate for. You may ask how I can promote positive body image at the same time as recommending calorie labeling a ...
  • Tips to prevent tooth decay in children
    The risk of tooth decay rises as we age. By age 17, nearly 80 percent of youths will have experienced at least one episode of tooth decay, making cavities one of the most commonly experienced diseases among American children. In fact, the occurrence of tooth decay rises rapidly as our childr ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/14/12 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in the Congressional Insider Trading Debate - Did you know that US Senators' average annual stock performance beat the market average by approximately 12.3%, that members of Congress must post their financial disclosure reports online, ...
  • 2/8/12 - Candidate Finances
    2012election.procon.org - Candidate Finances –The five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum) have raised $98,252,290 cumulatively, while Democratic President Barack Obama has raised $128,353,560 million, and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has raise ...
  • 2/6/12 - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto C ...
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto Contador Found Guilty - A two-year investigation into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ended on Feb. 3, 2012 with no charges filed by federal prosecutors. On Feb. 6 ...
  • 2/2/12 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts abou ...
    2012election.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts about US Presidential Elections - Did you know that a presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history, or that every US President since 1852 has been either a Republican or a Democrat? ...
  • 1/26/12 - 16 States with Pending Legislation t ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Fields Apart
    By Sam Kean “Shut up and calculate!” As physics became more mathematical and abstract during the past century, that phrase—first uttered by physicist David Mermin—became its mantra. Indeed, the more that physicists stopped worrying about what their complicated equations meant and simply ran the ...
  • Farm life and the Immune System
    Immunological diseases, such as eczema and asthma, are on the increase in westernised society and represent a major challenge for 21st century medicine. A new study has shown, for the first time, that growing up on a farm directly affects the regulation of the immune system and causes a reductio ...
  • Mathematics in US after Fall of Communism
    The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those scholars’ differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new research by University of Notre Dame Economist K ...
  • What the Dickens
    Sales of Charles Dickens’s books in his lifetime ON THE death of Charles Dickens in 1870 the Times lamented, “The loss of such a man is an event which makes ordinary expressions of regret seem cold and conventional”. It was the prodigious popularity of his work that went furthest to explai ...
  • The Tenth Man
    The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy|December 19 By the time Christopher Hitchens died last week at the age of 62, the arc of his intellectual career was so notorious, ingrained ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • We Will Not Be Scanned requests your feedback ...
    Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means ...
  • Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
    Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...
  • Iraq: The legacy of deception
    Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a "Real Politik" vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace---with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion's ...
  • I’m gonna stand my ground and I won&#821 ...
    Tonight I am joined by lawyer and human rights advocate Rochelle Macredie. In the show we take a look at some of the major breaking stories in the news and Rochelle gives her analysis of what is required to roll back the march towards war and tyranny which we see unfolding across the world rig ...
  • Obama Signs the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act
    Obama signing the National Defense Appropriations Act Tonight we look at a variety of local and international stories, with a focus on the ominous passing of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA). The Act allows for the military detention of American citizens without due process, abou ...

Beacon

  • The Incredible Journeys of Sea Turtles
    A green sea turtle munches on lettuce in rehab. © Oceana/Cory Wilson When sea turtles are sick or injured, they can spend a few weeks or months recovering in sea turtle rehabilitation or research centers. The turtles are released back into the wild as soon as they have recovered enough so tha ...
  • Fund-racing: Join Team Oceana in Miami!
    Winter, with its short days, sleet-filled commutes and cacophony of coughs and sneezes, is an energy-sapping exercise in patience, but Oceana – in addition to protecting sea turtles, sharks, corals and the like – has just the right medicine to carry you into the Spring with health and vigor…tr ...
  • Marine Monday: Valentine's Edition
    A Spanish dancer's eggs, also known as a "sea rose." [Via Wikimedia Commons] Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day! Here on land, we give our sweethearts flowers to show our love. But what is the undersea equivalent of a rose? To answer that question, we’ve chosen three undersea creatures who seem ...
  • Last Chance to Register for the World Oceans S ...
    Happy Friday, all! We just wanted to remind you about the The Economist's fast-approaching World Oceans Summit where 200 global leaders, including our CEO Andy Sharpless, will discuss the future of our oceans. The summit, which takes place in Singapore from Feb. 22-24, will offer a robust ex ...
  • What’s Scarier Than a Shark? Lots of Things.
    This stonefish is far scarier than your average shark. If you think that sharks are the scariest creatures in the sea, this post may surprise you. As we've discussed in the past, the majority of shark attacks are caused by only three species (white, tiger, and bull), yet there are more than ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Dreams Of Space Is A Great Blog! You Must Visi ...
              “A simple book covering all aspect of space travel including history, physics, U.S. and Russian space efforts, building a space station, manned exploration of the Moon, and exploration of the planets. It has wonderful paintings of all these things devotin ...
  • Great Swedish Military Recruitment Commercial
  • The Dubats.
      Every nation in Europe had holdings in Africa at one time, and almost none of it benefited the occupied. The Roman model of Auxiliary regiments made of locals adapted by the modern Roman Benito Mussolini. Colonel Bechi, at Mussolini’s behest raised a regiment of soldiers loyal to Italy to ...
  • Even The Civil War Couldn’t Stop Joseph ...
      Joseph Forrest loved Elizabeth Ehrhart. They lived in Macon County, Illinois before the Civil War. In those days when the life expectancy of a person was far shorter than we enjoy today, it was not unusual for courting couples to begin romance before the age of consent, and simply date an ...
  • Eberhard von Breitenbuch’s Attempt On Hi ...
    Eberhard von Breitenbuch was a cavalry officer cast in the die of Prussian horse handlers who achieved the rank of Rittmeister, or cavalry master in the Wehrmacht. He served on the Russian front in Army Group Center. He was a subordinate and admirer of General Geunter Fluge and Field Marshall Er ...

Taylor Marsh

  • What Did Mitt Romney Do During Baptism Convers ...
    When asked by Newsweek if he has done baptisms for the dead—in which Mormons find the names of dead people of all faiths and baptize them, as an LDS representative says, to “open the door” to the highest heaven—he looked slightly startled and answered, “I have in my life, but I ...
  • America is a Woman
    **updated** The bishops’ opposition to contraception is not an argument for a “conscience exemption.” It is a way of imposing Catholic requirements on non-Catholics. This is religious dictatorship, not religious freedom. – Contraception Con Men, by Garry Wills Mama’s pleased. This wh ...
  • Republicans Wield Chimichanga Against Obama Camp
    The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos. – Dana Milbank But not to fear, the RNC Latino brigade is here. Jim Messina shouldn’t apologize. He should be fired for such an outrage. And, no, this story wasn’t featured on The Onion. It actual ...
  • It’s the economy, and the “stupid” thing is th ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. You know how you can hear and use a term so often that you don’t really think about what it means? “The economy,” as a term, is like that. It’s referenced and used frequently with qualifiers like “downturn” and “recov ...
  • The Rick Santorum Sexual Inquisition & Our Med ...
    Despite the deep divide between some religious leaders and government officials over contraceptives, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll found most voters support the new federal directive that health insurance plans provide coverage for birth control. – New York Times/CBS Poll The Dai ...

Hudson New York

  • Freedom of Expression, UN Human Rights Council
    Part 1: Overview and Background: 1) By any objective standard, Israeli democracy is as robust and pluralistic as any in the world. There are no restrictions on any form of protest or advocacy, including very fierce and unpopular criticism of the
  • UK: Islamist Intimidation Shuts Down Free Speech
    These have not been good times for free speech in the UK. Islamist students and cowardly student bodies – which, ironically, would identify themselves as liberal and progressive – have clamped down on the right of secular and atheist societies to voice
  • Turkey Sticks with Iran Oil after Saudi Talks
    Turkey has no plans to cut its imports of Iranian oil, remaining a rare loyal customer of Tehran despite rising pressure from international sanctions and initial signals it may buy more Saudi oil, Turkish and Saudi sources told Reuters. The sources said
  • Who are America's Reliable Allies?
    In a quickly changing world, it is important to ask which countries the United States can always count on in times of crisis. Recent events have shortened that list considerably. India has long claimed to be a reliable ally, but it is now undercutting
  • The Disquieting Treatment of Christians by the ...
    In the voluminous commentaries on the Middle East today very little attention has been given to the sad fate of Christians in the Arab and Muslim countries. Even less attention has been paid to the contrast between the treatment of Christians in Israel

Urban Survival

  • Global Markets, Moody’s Blues
    The past 24-hours have not been good for the bullish case.  To be sure, Greece hasn’t fallen apart, yet the fact of the paperwork not being up to snuff has resulted in Greece being blamed for everything from my eczema … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Oregon’s Oddities
    A couple of readers have told me to go look at the magnetometers of HAARP because they have been jittering down into the -500 nT area over the past couple of days, and as one reader opined: “Someone is going … Continue reading →
  • Proof of the Second Depression
    Writer Katie Hill has found what seems to escape the Washington intelligentsia’s ken:  Proof that the Second Depression is in full swing.  Her article here gives important context to a “non-economic” story that outs the truth.  You see, back in … Continue r ...
  • Coping: Honoring Our Elders
    What ever happened to it? I mean seriously, it seems like the older folks in society just don’t get the kind of respect they deserve.  Yet they all have lots of wisdom because no matter how smart, or not, you … Continue reading →
  • Grand Master’s Monday
    “OMG, what’s he off on now?” you’re wondering as you contemplate another week on the treadmill at work.  Oh…err…just trying to find the right bit from my past that sets a mental framework for assembling all the days seemingly disjointed … Continue r ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Two new reports on "Drilling Dysfunction"
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A new report from the Democratic members of the House Natural Resources Committee has found that federal enforcement of oil and gas rules appears to be almost non-existent. According to the repo ...
  • Latin America's sustainable energy future can ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Environment ministers from 31 Latin American and Caribbean countries meeting in Quito, Ecuador highlighted the importance of renewing high-level political will on sustainable development at the ...
  • More on the new US/UNEP Initiative to Cut Shor ...
    Rich Kassel, Senior Attorney and Director, Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project, New York City Just this morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled a new international program to cut black carbon, methane, hydroflourocarbons and other s ...
  • Let Loose the Defenders of Mercury Poisoning
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. If your neighborhood utility industry lobbyist looks a little more harried than usual, it’s because today, February 16th, is yet another reminder to power companies that they, l ...
  • White House Budget Proposal Threatens Cuts to ...
    Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney and Director, Ocean Initiative, New York When President Obama released his budget proposal to Congress this week, his message to Congress was clear: “[Create] an economy that is built to last.” Unfortunately ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 15, 2012: White Plains NY police sued by family of 68-year-old man who was shot to death by cops who allegedly harassed him and used a racial slur in attempt to force him ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, February 15, 2012: Orange Co CA deputy is investigated after fatally shooting an unarmed veteran as he climed into his SUV where his 2 young daughters were sitting in the back seat. ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 13, 2012: Seattle WA laughs as he tells a reporter that they do discipline officers sometimes, but not in this case, in a report about a cop caught on dashcam telling two i ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-11 ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 11-12, 2012: South Beloit IL settles suit for unspecified sum to cuffed woman tased & choked on video, two officers and their police chief were criminally charged for ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 10, 2012: Culpepper VA cop’s version of why he shot unarmed 54yr-old female motorist to death contradicted by witness [4] on.wusa9.com/ye2thV 6 Philadelphia PA cops su ...

Total Collapse

  • BREAKING NEWS: Mossad deputy targeted in Spain ...
    The deputy chief of Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, has been targeted in a car bomb in Spain, a report says. Source.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Iran cuts oil export to 6 Europ ...
    In response to the latest sanctions imposed by the EU against Iran’s energy and banking sectors, the Islamic Republic has cut oil exports to six European countries. Iran on Wednesday cut oil exports to six European countries including Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Portugal. ...
  • Moscow warns against US warships
    Russia would respond if the United States deploys warships in the Black Sea or Arctic, Russian Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said Tuesday. “In a case where such (Aegis anti-missile system-equipped) ships appear in the Barents Sea,or in the Black Sea for instance, we will likel ...
  • Iranian boats shadow U.S. ship through Strait ...
    The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, shadowed by Iranian patrol boats. But there were no incidents on Tuesday as the Lincoln’s battle group crossed through the narrow strait, which Iran has threatened to close in retaliation for tighter ...
  • Syrian defector: Assad using chemical weapons
    Assad’s forces used nerve gas in Homs under Iranian, Russian supervision, Syrian army defector says Non-conventional war in Syria? Security forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have been using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels, under the supervision of Iranian and Russian experts, a ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple unleashes OS X Mountain Lion to develpers, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean could be coming this summer, and the European Court of Justice has ruled that businesses cannot be required...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple’s iCloud hits 100 million users, Android accounted for 50% of smartphone sales in Q4 of 2011, and Google+ for iOS gets a much-requested feature. It’s all in today’s Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    The iPad 3 is on its way in March. 1 billion smartphone users will be roaming the world by 2016. Twitter’s forcing employees to hold most of their stock, to...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Anonymous pokes its head in to Greece, rips down a few posters from the Internet in the process. MySpace nabbed 1 million new users recently. Reddit takes a stand against...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Pinterest is accused of spamming users’ friends, Google’s Motorola Mobility deal looks set to be approved, and Apple is busy picking apps to demonstrate when it launches the iPad 3....

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • NGO: Thailand must list rosewood under CITES
    In order to save its remaining forests, Thailand must list rosewood under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) this year, according to a new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Illegal logging and smuggling of rosewood is being driven by incre ...
  • Republic of the Congo expands park to protect ...
    The Republic of the Congo has expanded its Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park by 37,295 hectares (144 square miles) to include a dense swamp forest, home to a population of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) that show no fear of humans. Known as the Goualougo Triangle, the swamp forest is also home to ...
  • What a Bornean elephant wants: more protected ...
    Forest fragmentation and destruction is imperiling the Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis), according to a new paper published in PLoS ONE. Using satellite collars to track the pachyderms for the first time in the Malaysian state of Sabah, scientists have found that the elephants are e ...
  • Heartland Institute threatens to sue journalis ...
    The Heartland Institute, a conservative advocacy group, is threatening to sue journalists, bloggers, and activists who reported on internal documents that detail the group's fundraising efforts and lay out a new program to replace climate change education in schools with curriculum meant to inst ...
  • Paper giant hammered on forest certification c ...
    Beleaguered paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper was sharply criticized Wednesday for its claims that its operations are certified sustainable by independent auditors. WWF said its survey of certifiers and certification schemes shows that none apply to 'the most controversial operations' of APP's suppl ...

Sierra Express

  • SJSS Alumni Association USA and Canada aids in ...
    Recently, St Joseph’s Secondary School Alumni Association of USA and Canada, after conducting a video documentary on the condition of the school held a major fundraising campaign named ‘Operation Sponsor a Chair.’  Due to their hard work, dedication, and effort in making members, family, friends ...
  • Is Julius Maada Bio refusing to answer police ...
    The brutality and savagery of the past 11 years of a destructive war in Sierra Leone will not permit any patriotic and peace- loving Sierra Leonean to wish for a repeat of such a sadistic period of Sierra Leone’s history. Sierra Leoneans would prefer to live with their poverty in peace than live ...
  • Serial London sex offender Mohammed Kendeh dep ...
    A serial sex offender who attacked 11 women in five years has been deported to his native Sierra Leone, the Home Office has said. Mohammed Kendeh, 25, of Peckham, south London, admitted indecently assaulting 11 women between 2002 and 2007. In 2007 a judge said he could not be deported due to hum ...
  • President Koroma’s resume for reelection: Case ...
    Despite critics’ debates among Diasporas around the world concerning the awesome contributions of President Ernest Bai Koroma’s administration in Sierra Leone, I have seen that there is much more ongoing progress in Sierra Leone today than at any other time in recent history. Judging by all perf ...
  • World Bank & DFID support government programs ...
    The World Bank and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) have again lent their support to Sierra Leone’s unprecedented opportunity for transformation and sustained growth, by making available the sum of thirty four million United States dollars ($34M) to the Presid ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Receivers closed to rival Crafar bids
    Receivers for the Crafar dairy farms are refusing to consider rival bids, including one from former owner Allan Crafar, until the Overseas Investment Office and Government reconsider Shanghai Pengxin's offer.The OIO and ministers...
  • PM backs MPs over Crafar decision
    Prime Minister John Key today backed his government ministers whose decision to allow the Crafar farms sale has been embarrassingly overturned.The High Court stunned the Government yesterday by sending the decision back to officials...
  • Bernard Hickey: Crafar decision - an overspend ...
    Finally, someone has staged an intervention to confront New Zealand Inc's addiction to living beyond its means through selling assets to foreigners and borrowing money from foreigners.For decades we have spent more than we earned...
  • World dairy prices slip 3pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products sold on Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform fell 3 percent to a two-month low in the latest auction. The GDT-TWI Price dropped to US$3,545 per metric tonne from US$3,666 at the last sale a fortnight ago....
  • John Armstrong: Crafar - a rout of huge propor ...
    Welcome to John Key's nightmare. Yesterday's High Court ruling putting the kybosh (at least for now) on the sale of the Crafar farms to Chinese interests may well be the most intractable problem he is likely to face as Prime Minister.Yesterday's...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk rally in Wisconsin Feb. 22nd
    From the Wisconsin Raw Milk Association: On Wednesday February 22, 2012 everyone is invited to help with The Raw Milk Lobby Day at the Capitol. YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT IS NEEDED FOR SB108, THE RAW MILK BILL. The Wisconsin Raw … Continue reading →
  • Corporate lovebirds of the mutant corn
    One could write an entire blog consisting of nothing but Monsanto stories, they’re so “in the news” these days. This piece dates back to Valentines Day (earlier this week on Feb. 14th), thus the “romantic” theme. From Anna Ghosh on … Continue reading →
  • Trent Hills wants to rule the roost — ba ...
    From John Campbell in the Northumberland News: TRENT HILLS – The waiting game has ended for a Campbellford couple who keep chickens in their backyard. The municipality has made good on its threat to charge Kelly and Shawn Bacher with … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk freedom riders plan a 2-day event Mar ...
    From the Raw Milk Freedom Riders website: “Join the RAW MILK FREEDOM RIDERS and Farm Food Freedom Coalition for an incredible two-day event Thursday, MARCH 1 and Friday, MARCH 2, 2012 in Sauk County, Wisconsin. DAY ONE: Rights Workshop Thursday, March 1, 2012 2:00 PM-5:30 PM followed &#823 ...
  • State agent inspects kids’ bag lunches
    What’s the take home lesson here? They’re teaching kids it’s normal for government to interfere in the minutae of your life and to tell you what you may and may not eat. From Sara Burrows, in the Carolina Journal Online: … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • European Car Sales Plunge: Portugal -47.4%, Fr ...
    Please consider auto sales numbers from a Google Translation of  the article Portugal leads drop in car sales in Europe. Portugal -47.4% France -20.7% Italy -16.9% Belgium -16% Cyprus -17% Greece -13.3% Germany -.4% UK unchanged Spain +2.5% Ireland +1.5% Central and Eas ...
  • US Housing Starts, Permits Up Modestly From De ...
    Housing starts are near three-year highs, but that is in comparison to extremely weak numbers for the past few years. Builders began just 430,900 single-family homes last year, the fewest on records dating back a half-century. Moreover, home prices are still dropping. Yet, signs of a botto ...
  • 24% of Small Businesses Not Hiring Because The ...
    The question of the day is "Why Aren't Small Businesses Hiring?" Most of the answers should be obvious, but let's take a look at a recent Gallup Poll on Hiring to confirm.85% of those surveyed -- are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing so include not needing additional employees; w ...
  • Farage: Globalist Troika Driving Greece Toward ...
    European parliament member Nigel Farage blames Troika for the violence and destruction in Greece. Link if video does not play: Farage: Globalist Troika Driving Greece Towards Violent Revolution "Violence and destruction in Greece that you saw on Sunday is being caused directly b ...
  • Obama Wants Cheaper Pennies and Nickels; Why N ...
    Thanks to the Fed, pennies and nickels are now nearly worthless, except en masse, and except for the metal content of them (at least for now). Please consider Obama wants cheaper pennies and nickels. The U.S. Mint is facing a problem -- especially during these penny-pinching times. It turn ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical an ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley International Newsworthy Chief: Sanctions to Hit EU Buyback Firms Iran Well Prepared for the Worst Pentagon Seeks ...
  • 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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Blogging Canadians

  • How The Conservative Party Fought The Canadian ...
    "From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and insults, but we will vote with pride." Shouts, screams, desk-banging - even obscene gestures ...
  • As Canadians Lose Control Of The Internet To T ...
    Available without a warrant Under the new bill, the six identifiers of telecommunications subscribers that police, intelligence and Competition Bureau officials can obtain without a warrant from their telecommunications service provider are: Name. Address. Telephone number. Email address. Inte ...
  • Obamacare, birth control, and religious freedoms
    The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyo ...
  • Seniors Occupy Conservative MP Offices To Prot ...
    "Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-called “Blue-Grey” Alliance entered and stayed in the constituency offices of 20 MPs in the pro ...
  • In 2004 Conservatives Accused Paul Martin Of P ...
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Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • “So Long America”: Only Truthful Mainstream Ne ...
    Judge Andrew Napolitano signed off on Freedom Watch this week with a salute and a promise to keep “defending freedom– everyone’s freedom, whenever I can,”, following the announcement that the show has been axed by Fox Business News. The Judge closed the last edition of Freedom Watch in the sa ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock. Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans are doing just ...
  • Fukushima Reactor Temperature Surpasses 752 De ...
    Over 400 Degrees Celsius Pretending that the Fukushima reactors achieved a state of “cold shutdown” was a political – rather than scientific - decision. Tepco itself said the state of cold shutdown could only continue so long as the temperature within the nuclear reactors stayed below 100 ...
  • Obama To Unleash “Ministry of Truth Team ...
    The Obama campaign is to “educate” and deploy what it describes as “truth teams” to ensure that any attacks on the president’s record are feverishly countered in the run up to the general election. ABC News reports that teams of Obamanoids will be launched initially in 13 “swing states,” incl ...
  • Paul Campaign Points To Anomalies In Romney Ma ...
    The Ron Paul 2012 campaign has pointed to anomalies in Saturday’s announcement of the Maine caucuses results, as Mitt Romney was declared the winner with Paul in second by the slimmest of margins. The official tally in Maine has 84% of the votes counted so far. Romney took close to 39% of tha ...

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