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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

16 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Military Fills the Cracks in Sri Lanka – ...
    On the eve of the Feb. 27 Human Rights Council Session in Geneva, during which human rights advocates had hoped the issue of alleged wartime abuses in Sri Lanka would finally be put to rest, the Sri Lankan government announced its appointment of a five-member court of inquiry to investig ...
  • SRI LANKA: Terrorists Out, Army In – Part 1
    With the Feb. 27 session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) looming on the horizon, human rights watchdogs are making yet another push to get Sri Lanka onto the agenda – and once and for all settle the issue of alleged wartime abuses that the government continues to ...
  • Pakistani-Americans Await Changes to India's D ...
    "Imagine you have dual nationality, say Haiti and the United States. You go to apply for a visa at a foreign embassy in Washington, but are told that you can't use your U.S. passport unless you renounce your Haitian nationality. If you don't, you must apply and travel using your Haitian pa ...
  • CUBA: Oil Drilling Opens Up New Possibilities
    The search for oil in Cuba's Gulf of Mexico waters, launched by the Spanish firm Repsol, has triggered speculation about future prospects for Cuba and the possibility of this country one day making the transition from importer to exporter of crude.
  • Trial Sheds Light on Trafficking of Women in A ...
    A high profile trial for trafficking of women is giving the public a clearer picture of how sex trafficking rings operate in Argentina, with victims who are even forced, eventually, to become victimisers.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US hypocrisy in admitting Mossad/MKO behind as ...
    Summary: On Thursday of last week, two senior US officials confirmed to NBC News that the MKO has been collaborating with Israel’s Mossad in carrying out the assassination of Iranian professors and researchers. This development is very significant for the US has not only admitted that the MKO ...
  • India to step up ties with Tehran; unfazed by ...
    Summary: Unfazed by US sanctions and Israel linking Tehran to the attack on an Israeli embassy car here, India is set to ramp up its energy and business ties with Iran, with a commerce ministry team heading to Tehran to explore fresh business opportunities. source: The Economic Timesread more
  • Turkey stays loyal to Tehran, does not plan to ...
    Summary: Turkey has no plans to consider alternative oil suppliers, and will continue to import fuel from Iran. Ankara officials disapprove of the EU and US embargo against Tehran, which they see as ‘Western economic bullying.’ source: RTread more
  • EU’s Catherine Ashton has received Iran’s lett ...
    Summary: "I can confirm High Representative Ashton received the letter from Dr. [Saeed] Jalili today," Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for Ashton, told Yahoo News Wednesday. "We are carefully studying the letter and consulting with our E3+3 partners" on their response. source: Yahoo Newsrea ...
  • Iran seems an unlikely culprit for the attacks ...
    Summary: It is politics that will prevail over the truth in this case; the Netanyahu administration will attempt to exploit the situation in order to make the case for increasing sanctions against Iran. Undoubtedly, it will attempt to derail Iranian-Indian relations, which has been a primary ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Atacama Desert's "Extreme Microbial Oasis" --A ...
    Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analysing individual particles of...
  • Beyond DNA! Prions Point to a New Form of Evol ...
    In 2010 scientists from the Scripps Research Institute showed for the first time that 'lifeless' organic substances with no genetic material — prions similar to those believed responsible for Mad Cow disease and similar, rare conditions in humans — are...
  • The Unidentified Object of Galaxy M82 (Today's ...
    M82, a starburst galaxy was previously believed to be an irregular galaxy. In April 2010, radio astronomers working at the Jodrell Bank Observatory of the University of Manchester reported an unknown object in M82. The object has started sending out...
  • The Great Eruption of Eta Carinae --One of the ...
    Eta Carinae, one of the most massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy, unexpectedly increased in brightness in the 19th century. For ten years in the mid-1800s it was the second-brightest star in the sky. (Now it is not even...
  • Image of the Day: "The Dark Clouds of Taurus"
    This image from the (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile (APEX) telescope, of part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long, where newborn stars are hidden, and dense clouds of...

Natural News

  • California family ambushed by school officials ...
    A Sacramento, Cal., family was recently bombarded by a news crew from KXTV News 10 and several officials from the Natomas Unified School District (NUSD) in Sacramento County for not vaccinating their daughter. Cayleh Morrison was one of several students in her neighborhood...
  • Numerous chemicals linked to difficulty losing ...
    As the old thinking goes, obesity is linked to improper diets, too much food, and not enough exercise. And while the old thinking may not be inaccurate, it also doesn't tell us the whole story. Scientists today are finding more and more evidence that chemicals in our...
  • Parasitic fly creates "zombie bees" -- a new f ...
    Researchers at a California university have found a parasitic fly which causes honeybees to become disoriented and abandon their hives before dying, behavior which made one of the researchers compare them to zombies. Scientists believe this may be a contributing factor...
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society ignores nutritional ...
    (NaturalNews)It's not just the cancer industry that keeps you away from non-pharmaceutical and non-invasive treatments that actually work for complete recovery or reversal. The Multiple Sclerosis Society works with Big Pharma and the AMA (or whatever national doctor's union) to make...
  • Sulfur in broccoli and other cruciferous veget ...
    Our mothers were right. Broccoli is good for us, but possibly in ways our mothers never knew. Health practitioners and fitness experts around the world have heralded the benefits of broccoli for decades. Scientists have long demonstrated the antioxidant properties of...

Threat Level

  • McCain: Cybersecurity Bill Ineffective Without ...
    After three years of haggling to produce bipartisan cybersecurity legislation that addresses the security of the nation's critical infrastructure systems, the Senate finally got a bill this week that seemed destined to actually pass.
  • Secret Service Seizes JotForm.com, Nuking Mill ...
    Jotform.com, the domain name of a business providing hosting for online forms, has been seized by the Secret Service, essentially gutting the company’s business.
  • Lawmaker Demands DHS Cease Monitoring of Blogs ...
    Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) said Thursday she wants the Department of Homeland Security to cease its social-media and news-monitoring operation.
  • TSA Denies it Targets Attractive Female Passen ...
    Responding to complaints from female airline passengers that they were singled out for body scans by airport security agents for their looks, the Transportation Security Administration has denied that its agents target women who are attractive. In a blog post published late Wednesday, a TSA work ...
  • MP3 Reseller Accuses Capitol Records of Sabotage
    A one-of-a-kind startup enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files is accusing Capitol Records of trying to sabotage its business, records obtained by Wired show.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Gallup Aids GOP by Misrepresenting Poll on Sma ...
    In a new Gallup poll released Wednesday, small business owners revealed that the lack of need for new employees (76 percent), worries over revenue (71 percent) and concern about the state of the U.S. economy (66 percent) were the top three reasons for not hiring new workers. But you'd never kno ...
  • GOP Caves to Its Own Demand That Tax Cuts Neve ...
    On Monday, House Republican leaders announced they would support the extension of the payroll tax cut without a corresponding "offset" in other federal spending. While that new approach is designed to tie Democrats' hands on passage of continued unemployment benefits and the so-called Medicare ...
  • Remembering Bush's Broken Promise to Cut the D ...
    Among the predictable Republican reactions to the President's proposed 2013 budget is the refrain that "Obama has failed to keep a 2009 promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term." Just days after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a CPAC audience that President Ob ...
  • Five Things I Found Caught in the Safety Net
    The American social safety net is back in the news, and not just because Mitt Romney acknowledged, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." This week, the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University revealed that a third of Americans now receive Medicaid, food stamps or other means-b ...
  • Closing the Health Insurance Income Gap
    A new study this week from the Commonwealth Fund confirmed the shocking gap between lower and higher income Americans when it comes to health insurance coverage. While only 12 percent of families making $89,400 a year (or four times the federal poverty rate for a family of four) was uninsured a ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: 54 Rhinos Killed in 6 W ...
    South African National Parks (SANParks) has confirmed that at least 54 of the country’s rhinos have been killed since the start of 2012. Of these, 26 were massacred in the famed Kruger National Park. Although five arrests were reportedly made earlier this week [...]
  • Weather Underground Utilizes Massive Network o ...
    The commercial weather service Weather Underground was launched back in 1995 and has for the longest time used information from the US National Weather Service (NWS). However, Weather Underground has now launched the use of new and proprietary forecast model that they have dubbed BestForecast. ...
  • Grim Statistics Follow January 2012
    Every month the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration release a series of highlights depicting the state of the previous months climate. January 2012s statistics have been released, and the lead story for many is that it was the 19th warmest January on record at 12.39°C (54.30°F), w ...
  • Top Clean Energy News: World’s Largest Offshor ...
    I want to start covering clean energy news much more here on Planetsave, but as they say, “so much to do, so little time.” Also, since we cover that extensively on sister site CleanTechnica, I just sort of assume you all can easily pop over there and subscribe to that page for [...] ...
  • German “Green Guru” far from an Actual Green Guru
      When I first read news last week about “Germany’s Al Gore” turning around on global warming and saying he doubts it, I knew, there’s no way someone as informed as Gore on global warming would all of a sudden become confused about its validity. I ran across the sto ...

Water Quality - WordPress

  • Plant Bowen
    Plant Bowen, Euhuralee GA The Water Wars portion of the 2.8 Project has acknowledged some of the oth
  • Hells Gate Dredging News Story
    This was a few years ago but the link is still active. Great little project we conducted in Lewistio
  • Baltimore's Healthy Harbor
    via Healthy Harbor :: Healthy Harbor News. Why not indeed? I had the good fortune to attend the kick
  • Supreme Court Hears Sackett Case
    We’ll probably have more on this later today or tomorrow, but for those interested in how it w
  • January 2012 monitoring
    The morning of January 7, 2012. A beautiful day – sunny, air temp of 13 C (55 F)…and unf

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • What goes around comes around: Leaked emails e ...
    Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science Libertarian thinktank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry, papers suggest The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working t ...
  • Confined to cuts - Canada
    Thousands of Ontarians will likely sleep fitfully tonight, knowing their fate is in the hands of Don Drummond. Others will sleep like babies, knowing the powerful ex-banker can do them no harm. Drummond's long-awaited report, unveiled February 15 at Queen's Park, lays out a deficit-shrinkin ...
  • Here's what we get from global warming - Envir ...
    A (nearly) complete list of things caused by global warming. Or at least a list of links to articles that blame these things on global warming. You decide the truth for yourself. See http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm for links to each of the following: Afghan poppies destroye ...
  • Canada's mining boom leaves natives in the col ...
    Editor's Commentary: Many Canadians like to pretend that we don't really have a problem with natives, they have a problem with us. But this article hits the nail squarely on the head - Canada has mistreated its native population since white people first arrived here (even if you leave aside...
  • Cutting US aid to Egypt? Think again ... - Wor ...
    The multi-month row between the US and Egypt’s military junta has reached serious levels in recent weeks, as top US officials have openly threatened to revoke all aid from the junta to punish it for charging Americans with illegally peddling political influence ahead of the parliamentary electio ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "The Clampdown"
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by Alexm799: "Clampdown" is a single and a song by The Clash, on the album London Calling. The song began as a instrumental track called "Working and Waiting". It is sometimes called "Working for the Clampdown" which is the main lyric of the song, and also the title prov ...
  • Citizens United: A Very Catholic Ruling
    By @TedFrier (NOTE: This is based on an earlier post). It's mystifying that liberal Catholics like E.J. Dionne are unable to see that the plutocratic malevolence they deplore in the Citizens United case and the priestly absolutism they defend in the most recent dispute over birth control are one ...
  • Taking Coal Hybrid
    By @KYYellowDog If we can't kill coal-burning power plants outright, maybe we can hybridize them out of existence. Carl Franzen at TPM: A coal-fired electrical plant in Tucson, Ariz., is going green - or at least "greener" - partnering with a French, state-owned nuclear company to install a sola ...
  • Soccer Rioters Could Restore Democracy in Egypt
    By @KYYellowDog You never know what's going to seize the popular imagination and inspire broad political movements. An impoverished peddlar committing suicide in Tunisia. Two girls getting pepper-sprayed in New York City. A middle-aged woman keeping her seat on a bus. A soccer riot in Egypt. Dav ...
  • Raping to Win the War on Women
    By @KYYellowDog No, not metaphorical rape: literal, physical, actual forced penetration. Soldiers rape in wartime because rape is an enormously effective tactic. It demoralizes not just the victims, but families, communities, and eventually the enemy's armed forces. So no surprise that in the re ...

Care 2

  • Puppies Chase Man (Video)
    I never thought I'd be jealous of someone being chased by a pack of animals! Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Accelerated Learning ! Please Click to help su ...
    Of the millions of children around the world who never get the chance to attend school, two thirds are girls. Most live in poverty, working to support their families at the expense of their own education Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Tony Burke: Stop miners from ca ...
    With the region currently being considered for World Heritage and National Heritage listing, we have written to Australian Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke requesting urgent intervention to ensure that high natural and cultural values are not destr Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyl ...
  • Ban Bangladesh Coal Mine and Save Precious Lan ...
    One of the worlds poorest countries, Bangladesh, is now facing the possibility of bulldozing thousands of acres of agricultural land in order to create one of the largest open-pit coal mines on the planet. This would displace 40,000 people, Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |  &nbs ...
  • Noam Chomsky: speech "Crisis and Hope: Theirs ...
    This is a product of radical changes in the economy since the 1970s. It initiated a process in which an out-of-control financial sector is eating out the modern market economy from the inside, just as the larva of the spider wasp eats out the host. Submitted by Dandelion G. to Business  |& ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Change in Commenting Policy
    There are a substantial number of people who have taken advantage of my open commenting policy and have grossly abused the system. Therefore, going forward, if you want to comment you will have to register a verifiable email with Disqus. If you don’t like it, tough. This will smoke out the ...
  • Iran and Al Qaeda–Pure Horseshit
    Leave it to the neocons to serve up manure and call it chocolate mousse. They are out now with the specious claim that Al Qaeda and Iran have “an operational” alliance and are working hand-in-glove. Here’s the leak to Sky News: Iran and al Qaeda’s core leadership under Ay ...
  • Obama Shooting America and the World in the Foot
    Those bothered by the wild cheering emanating from Obamanation celebrating the flaccid economic recovery should have some peace in the coming months. For starters the global economic slowdown has started. One of the early canaries desperate for oxygen is the port of Shanghai: The shipping specia ...
  • Obama’s Spec Ops Leakathon
    Two articles out this week purporting to take you inside the Special Ops world. I would love to refute these pieces in detail but, to do so, would require divulging classified info. So I will do what I can. What you should understand is that the information in these pieces ultimately was fed to ...
  • I’ve Got A Baaaad Feeling About This
    Remember the original Star Wars movies?  In the very first one, “Episode IV: A New Hope,” this line is said twice, which made it funnier for some reason.  And then it became a running joke that someone would say that line, or variations on it, in subsequent Star Wars movies. “I ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmental Organizations Seek 25% Renewable ...
    Environmental Organizations Seek 25% Renewable Energy Generation From TVA By 2020 The Chattanoogan One of those seven advantages of renewable energy to which Morgan refers is related to coal mining: "Renewables don't require us to use destructive extraction methods such as mountaintop r ...
  • Will Natural Gas Become the 'Achilles' Heel' o ...
    Will Natural Gas Become the 'Achilles' Heel' of Our Country? Huffington Post ... stop the Keystone XL pipeline and nearly 2000 people in Frankfort, Ky., called for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining that same day, it was clear that Obama's energy plan does not align with t ...
  • Mining-health link not so clear, new study say ...
    Mining-health link not so clear, new study says Charleston Gazette A new industry-funded report disputes a series of West Virginia University studies that linked mountaintop removal to premature deaths, but also says coal mining's role in public health problems in the coalfields remains uncl ...
  • Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal Facing South Environmental advocates have launched a new mapping tool that shows the health damage done to Appalachian communities by mountaintop removal coal mining. Appalachian Voices launched "The Human Cost of Coal ...
  • Governor gets pinwheeled - State-Journal.com
    State-Journal.com Governor gets pinwheeled State-Journal.com By Lauren Hallow Mickey Inez, right, Thomas Madison, center, and Lisa Abbott carry the “mountain” as they protest mountaintop removal Tuesday at the Capitol. The mountain, covered by pinwheels, was placed on the Governor's Mansion ...

Memeorandum

  • Wow, Did Foster Friess Really Say That? (Updat ...
    Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic: Wow, Did Foster Friess Really Say That?  (Updated)  —  Foster Friess, the conservative financier behind Rick Santorum's super-PAC, was on MSNBC's “Andrea Mitchell Reports” a few minutes ago.  Mitchell asked him whether he w ...
  • Santorum's federal tax returns show his wealth ...
    Jeremy Lin / Associated Press: Santorum's federal tax returns show his wealth has risen rapidly since Senate defeat in 2006  —  WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum grew wealthy over his four years working as a corporate consultant and media commentator after leaving the Senate in 2 ...
  • The Long Slog: Projecting the Republican Race ...
    Sabato's Crystal Ball: The Long Slog: Projecting the Republican Race Through June  —  Had evangelical Christians had their way in 2006's Pennsylvania Senate election, then-Sen. Rick Santorum (R) would have been reelected in a landslide: among the quarter of the electorate that i ...
  • Santorum Supporter Stuns Andrea Mitchell With ...
    Alex Alvarez / Mediaite: Santorum Supporter Stuns Andrea Mitchell With Memories Of How ‘The Gals’ Used Bayer Aspirin As Contraception  —  Foster Freiss, the very wealthy business man backing Rick Santorum's campaign efforts, appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports Thur ...
  • Rush Limbaugh backs Chris Christie's Whitney H ...
    Mj Lee / Politico: Rush Limbaugh backs Chris Christie's Whitney Houston flag tribute  —  Rush Limbaugh defended New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's plan to order flags in his state to be flown at half-staff on the day of the late singer Whitney Houston's funeral, as he briefly dipp ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Offsetting conflict-mineral guilt
    Consumers who don’t want the metals in their mobile phones and laptops to help fund wars and rights abuses are protesting with the very technology that they hope to improve. Kate Dailey explains. “Conflict minerals” that help fuel war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D ...
  • Megacities and lifestyle changes
    As huge new metropolises take shape, mostly in Asia, urbanisation is becoming a defining 21st-century social trend. Paul Webster and Jason Burke examine how Chengdu and Delhi are facing the future.Amid a clutter of 24-hour arc lights, gigantic cranes and dumper trucks, a behemoth is rising out o ...
  • Long trudge to a cleaner Lake Tai
    China has spent billions of yuan trying to cleanse its third largest lake, where decades of pollution have brought ecosystems to the brink. But problems persist, report Liang Guorui and He Hanfu.Taihu Lake is China’s third-largest freshwater lake and one of its most important water resourc ...
  • Fresh approach to Hong Kong’s air
    Bleak new statistics on pollution in China’s richest city show government efforts have failed to attack the most serious threats to public health. There is a better way forward, writes Mike Kilburn.The last few days of the Year of the Rabbit marked a watershed in Hong Kong’s ongoing ...
  • Love story of the black-necked crane
    With this tale of loss, narrated through a series of drawings, Tashi Sange explores people’s relationship with nature in the shifting climate of China’s far western plateau.Tashi Sange is a Buddhist khenpo (scholar) at Baiyu Monastery in Golog, Qinghai, and the founder and head of t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Exposed: Leak of Documents Shows How Leading L ...
    Information published by DeSmogBlog reveals that the Heartland Institute keeps prominent skeptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from the carbon industry.
  • Birth Control Blasphemy: Contraceptive Hysteri ...
    Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The United States Congress is in the grip of contraceptive hysteria, and there are no signs of early recovery. Far r ...
  • A Christian Conservative in Every Bedroom? Ric ...
    Santorum's vision for America would combine a moralistic theocracy with free-market capitalism and perpetual war.
  • The Cost of Contraception in Insurance Plans: ...
    Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. In 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services examined the issue of just how much it costs insurance compani ...
  • Why I Skipped Mass Today: A Practicing Catholi ...
    Written by Anonymous for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Reproductive health politics are controversial enough, but they are even more so for a family of practicing Catholics. My spouse begged ...

Threat Level

  • McCain: Cybersecurity Bill Ineffective Without ...
    After three years of haggling to produce bipartisan cybersecurity legislation that addresses the security of the nation's critical infrastructure systems, the Senate finally got a bill this week that seemed destined to actually pass.
  • Secret Service Seizes JotForm.com, Nuking Mill ...
    Jotform.com, the domain name of a business providing hosting for online forms, has been seized by the Secret Service, essentially gutting the company’s business.
  • Lawmaker Demands DHS Cease Monitoring of Blogs ...
    Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) said Thursday she wants the Department of Homeland Security to cease its social-media and news-monitoring operation.
  • TSA Denies it Targets Attractive Female Passen ...
    Responding to complaints from female airline passengers that they were singled out for body scans by airport security agents for their looks, the Transportation Security Administration has denied that its agents target women who are attractive. In a blog post published late Wednesday, a TSA work ...
  • MP3 Reseller Accuses Capitol Records of Sabotage
    A one-of-a-kind startup enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files is accusing Capitol Records of trying to sabotage its business, records obtained by Wired show.

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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak - ...
    A.  The outbreak’s “rogue elements”: the actions and inaction of others in the supply chain, and third parties, in bringing heavily contaminated fruit to market. Jensen Farms’ inexcusable failures were its own, and certainly nobody will convince a jury that Jensen ...
  • At 76 Shankstead EcoFarm - The Family Cow Tops ...
    According to press reports, raw milk produced at The Family Cow farm is the source of the most severe outbreak of sickness linked to raw milk in Pennsylvania in five years. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported on Wednesday reported five more confirmed cases of campylobacteriosis, brin ...
  • Perhaps the FSIS Inspectors just didn't have t ...
    So, really, who would even want to inspect Tripe, Feet and Uteri? FSIS announced today that JAA Meat Products Corporation, a Maywood, Calif. establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of meat and poultry products because they may have been produced without the benefit of federal inspect ...
  • E. coli O26 Linked to Jimmy Johns Sprouts in I ...
    Jimmy Johns - It is time to stop with the sprouts. The CDC just reports a total of 12 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli STEC O26 have been reported from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Arkansas ( ...
  • The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak - ...
    The FDA’s Investigation at Jensen Farms On September 10, 2011, with Colorado state officials, the FDA conducted an inspection at Jensen Farms and collected multiple samples, both product and environmental, for laboratory testing.  Of the 39 environmental swabs collected from within t ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Obama's proposed budget calls for uppi ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to try and get a million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015. In his State of the Union address in 2011, he repeated that number and proposed turning the $7,500 tax credit into a point-of-purchase rebate. ...
  • First Drive: 2012 Toyota Prius C [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, First DrivesBaby Of The Family Will Play A Big Role Toyota's new 2012 Prius C doesn't look like a math problem, but that's what it is. Hidden behind its attractive hatchback body and Toyota Synergy Drive hybrid powertrain, the Prius C is just a b ...
  • Breaking: Tesla Model X revealed
    Filed under: SUV, Tesla, Electric Here it is, the Tesla Model X, the CUV prototype version of the Model S. We'll have more details live from California soon, but here's what we know at the moment. The Model X can hit 0-60 in 4.4 seconds, will cost around the same as the Model S, and it has ...
  • Official: Toyota prices 2012 Prius C under $19K*
    Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota During the Detroit Auto Show, Toyota said the new Prius C would start at under $19,000. Today, we learn that this is like a lesson from Obi-Wan: what Toyota told us was true, from a certain point of view. The base level Prius C One's MSRP is indeed $18,950, but ...
  • Report: Bob Lutz: Hey right-wingers, stop atta ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric In the wake of last week's bruising hearing on Capitol Hill about the safety of the Chevrolet Volt (which itself followed an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that concluded plug-in veh ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • "The Afghan War’s Nine Lives" By Amy Goodman
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike. They were in the Najrab district of Kapisa province in eastern Afghanistan. Most were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 14. ...
  • "America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out." By ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against President Barack Obama. Archbishop Timothy Dolan appealed to church members, “Let your elected leaders know that you want religious liberty and rights of conscience restor ...
  • Part 2: “Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away ...
    Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key leaders of the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew U.S.-b ...
  • Amy Goodman Appears on MSNBC's "Up w/ Chris Hayes"
    Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman joined a 2-hour panel of journalists, analysts and academics on MSNBC’s "Up w/ Chris Hayes" to discuss topics of the day, ranging from the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood reversal to the Republican Primaries. From the &qu ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 2/5 ...
    Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday, February 5th from 8 -10am EST .

Suzie-Q

  • Foster Friess, Rick Santorum Super PAC Backer, ...
    The Huffington Post Luke Johnson First Posted: 02/16/2012  2:36 pm Updated: 02/16/2012  4:35 pm Foster Friess, a top donor to a Rick Santorum-aligned super PAC, dismissed the importance of his candidate’s stances on social issues in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Thursday, ...
  • Jobless Claims At Lowest Since Obama Took Office
    Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:28 EST Raw Story   By- David Ferguson The number of people seeking unemployment benefits has fallen to its lowest since March of 2008, the Associated Press reported Thursday morning. The national economy added 243,000 jobs in January, lowering the employment rate to ...
  • While He Was A Senator, Rick Santorum Voted Wi ...
    February 15, 2012 Addicting Info  By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Rick Santorum is currently the poster boy for conservatism and the candidate leading the national polls among Republicans. Every day, Romney gets a little weaker, and Santorum gets a little stronger. And that makes him a threat to be the ...
  • Get Ready For A Huge Obama Backed Manufacturin ...
    February 15, 2012 Politicususa  By Ray Medeiros President Obama has made it his priority to invest in America, specifically in manufacturing and infrastructure. His 2013 budget, which will most likely be opposed by every Republican calls for $350 billion in short-term measures for job growth, an ...
  • CNN Poll: Obama approval rating back to 50% mark
    CNN PoliticalTicker… February 15th, 2012 04:00 PM ET 3 hours ago Posted by CNN Political Unit Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama’s approval rating is back to 50% for the first time in more than eight months, and he currently holds an edge against all the remaining Republ ...

Solari

  • ‘Cash Mobs’: Flash Mobs go to Bat ...
    By msnbc.com staff and NBC News Emery’s 5 & 10 is believed to be oldest family-owned five-and-dime store in the U.S. But the store is struggling, the victim — like its neighboring businesses — of the economy and a bridge construction project that has diverted traffic away and turned t ...
  • You are American, I am Iranian…
    Related reading: Marjane Satrapi Wikipedia Marjane Satrapi – Books The Guardian Book LIst Random House
  • Government Benefits Map
    The share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, more than doubled over the last four decades, rising from 8 percent in 1969 to 18 percent in 2009. View interactive map Related reading: Geography of Government Benefit Persp ...
  • Willie Nelson and 300,000 Other Activists Sue ...
    Singer, songwriter and American poet Willie Nelson. By Jane Ayers, Nation of Change Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it would become for our cherished family farmers in America. Nelson, President of Farm Aid, has recently called for the ...
  • Greece Won’t See a Cent of the Great Bail-out
    Here was the real face of the Greek people: workers and students, … By Andrew Lilico Over the weekend, the Greek parliament voted to accept Europe’s latest demands for spending cuts and tax rises and other reforms and retrenchments. The aim was to make it marginally less implausible that G ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Israel leads America on a march to war. A mar ...
    Summary:  After five years of laughing at the rumors of war with Iran, I’ve changed my tune.  We can only guess at such things, but there’s considerable evidence that Israel plans to attack Iran this year unless Iran abandon’s it development of atomic power (legitimate under IA ...
  • The key to modern American politics: the Righ ...
    Summary:  During most of American history those on the right wing of our political spectrum posed no threat and contributed to our national dialog.  Something has changed.  More economics stress, demographic evolution, and an increased rate of social change have both mobilized and destabilized t ...
  • The key to modern American politics: the Righ ...
    Summary:  During most of American history those on the right wing of our political spectrum posed no threat and contributed to our national dialog.  Something has changed.  More economics stress, demographic evolution, and an increased rate of social change have both mobilized and destabilized t ...
  • 450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet – The Pe ...
    Summary:  While the evidence accumulates that we’re accomplished little in Afghanistan, we continue to pour vast sums into building bases there.  Perhaps in time to be abandoned like the vast bases in Iraq, also built at great cost.  Meanwhile components of our vital infrastructure rots aw ...
  • 450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet – The Pe ...
    Summary:  While the evidence accumulates that we’re accomplished little in Afghanistan, we continue to pour vast sums into building bases there.  Perhaps in time to be abandoned like the vast bases in Iraq, also built at great cost.  Meanwhile components of our vital infrastructure rots aw ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Iran Is Not Cuba
    Scrolling through news, especially news posted in America, I could think that it's time for me to stock up on canned food and check that my family's Israeli government-issue gas masks are working. The news suggests that Israel's air force is sure to attack Iran's nuclear facilities this year, pe ...
  • Doing Your Homework on Nuclear Weapons Policy
    This guest post by Stephen Young, senior analyst in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. It is reposted from AllThingsNuclear.org. The Pentagon is working on finalizing nuclear weapons policy options for the president, who is preparing to make decisions that will s ...
  • Identity and the Nation-State – Once More With ...
    Dani Rodrik has a good post over at Project Syndicate arguing for the continued relevance of the nation state. He argues that despite the current prominence of international and super-national economic and political institutions, and despite levels of inter-cultural communication beyond the most ...
  • Defense Spending, Special Operations and Secrecy
    After the release of the Pentagon’s core budget request of $525 billion for fiscal year 2013, pundits are picking the winners and losers. While the defense budget has increased by 45 percent from $365 billion in 2001, the Obama administration’s current proposal is only a 1 percent reduction from ...
  • Iran Responds to P5+1 Offer for New Talks
    Image Source: The Guardian Iran’s formal response to the P5+1 expressing a willingness to discuss its nuclear program helps pave the way for the first such meeting in over a year. The two sides should now work to begin sustained negotiations aimed at ensuring that Iran meets its nonproliferati ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Gal Pals
    On a day when Slate’s David Weigel announced the birth of a “kinder, gentler” Rick Santorum—asserting that “his culture war talk is softer, more implied”—the former senator’s super PAC sugar daddy demonstrated that he definitely didn’t get the memo. On MSNBC, Foster Friess left host Andrea Mitc ...
  • Romney's Trouble On The Ground
    I've been arguing over the last few days for journalists to be wary of the Santorum bubble, which I think will pop before it amounts to much, despite the current bounce in the polls. But Nate Silver raised an important point I missed earlier this week: It is not clear, however, how much emphasi ...
  • Iran Is Not Cuba
    Scrolling through news, especially news posted in America, I could think that it's time for me to stock up on canned food and check that my family's Israeli government-issue gas masks are working. The news suggests that Israel's air force is sure to attack Iran's nuclear facilities this year, p ...
  • Round Two in the Repro-Rights Fight
    We've had a fun-filled few weeks in the repro-rights battles, haven't we? For one thing, Susan G. Komen revealed itself to be anything but politically neutral by trying to sidle out of funding Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screenings—and in the process, publicized the fact that PP is the w ...
  • Pre-Abortion Sonograms Make Their Way Into Law
    The Virginia Legislature has been busy passing legislation to limit abortion and promote pro-life agendas. I wrote Tuesday how the state House passed a bill changing the legal definition of "person" to include fetuses starting at conception. But the body also passed a measure requiring women se ...

Buzzflash

  • The GOP and Change: On the Separation of Churc ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For years progressives in the United States have been stating the Republicans and their platform simply don't change over time. That back to the time of Reagan and in certain respects back to Hoover and even before him to McKinley, the GOP has bee ...
  • Mitt Romney's Own Private McCarthy
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT From creating the racist Willie Horton ad that sunk Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign to heading up the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future, Larry McCarthy is the GOP's go-to guy for negative campaign advertising. If Mitt Romney is going to survi ...
  • The Globalization of Big-Brother Electronic Su ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The concern over nations becoming "big brother" surveillance states is alive and well in Canada. Canada, that bastion of civility, open-mindedness and personal rights? Yes, unless you don't follow foreign affairs, our neighbor to the north has been ...
  • Authoritarian Right Wingers Want Government to ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There have been a few surveys over the years that reportedly conclude that many conservative voters, in general, have lower IQs than liberals. This pattern most recently became a renewed topic of self-congratulation on progressive sites due to a rec ...
  • Reducing Support for Education Undercuts Ameri ...
    MARISA BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On October 20, 2011, after five months as an unemployed college graduate with a music degree, I read the news about Congress rejecting a bill that would have supported education. Republican Mitch McConnell, one of the main advocates for the bank bailouts ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Science, spectroscopy and stuff
    My latest SpectroscopyNOW column goes live today. Four items: Cheminformatics and TB, laser spectroscopy and graphene, ‘shroom doom and enmeshed drugs. Multivariate statistical data processing has been used to create a model from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data of metabol ...
  • Open science – just do it
    The idea of open science means different things to different people, but primarily it is about community, the scientific community and beyond. At a time when commercial publishers are coming under increasing pressure there are boycotts and rebellions and the new wave of open access publishers ar ...
  • Cambridge students to grill Sciencebase
    Once again, I’ll be attending the annual media careers event at Cambridge University, where students and alumni get a chance to chat with members of the media about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. The February 20 ...
  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Jersey Legislature Passes Marriage Bill
    Today the New Jersey Assembly passed A. 1, the freedom to marry bill that could make New Jersey the eighth state in the nation to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. On Monday, the state Senate approved the legislation by a bipartisan vote of a 24-16. Evan Wolfson, founder an ...
  • Right Wing Republicans Launch Another Attack O ...
    After the several Members of Congress announced their intention to file Resolutions of Disapproval aimed at stopping implementation of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule change impacting union elections, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), iss ...
  • Fourth Legislative Attack on Grand Canyon Uran ...
    The fourth legislative attempt to block the Obama administration’s ban on new uranium development across 1 million acres of public land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park died Tuesday night when the House rules committee ruled it out of order. The amendment was sponsored by the same th ...
  • House Oversight Holds One-Sided Hearing on Con ...
    The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee essentially held a hearing today on contraception. At the heart of the discussion is a new rule from the Department of Health and Human Services that ensures women will have insurance coverage for birth control. Late last week the Obama adminis ...
  • IOC Rejection of Dow Concerns Leaving Toxic Le ...
    It is extremely disappointing that Olympic organizers continue to side with Dow Chemical Company while refusing to listen to legitimate concerns over the company's sponsorship of the London games, Amnesty International said today. On February 16th, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) r ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Freedom of and From Religion
    Bill Moyers read more
  • New Economy Transformation: Obama Budget Won't ...
    Miriam Pemberton The last decade’s surge in military spending has pushed military contracting deeper into the foundations of our economy. Reversing this process, and transferring the savings to support the green economy, are necessary ...
  • The .0000063% Election: The Politics of the Su ...
    Ari Berman At a time when it’s become a cliché to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation -- drawing long overdue attention to the struggles of the 99% -- electoral politics and the 201 ...
  • Honduras in Flames
    Dana Frank Tuesday night, February 14, at least 357 prisoners died in a fire at La Granja penitentiary in Comayagua, Honduras, in one of the worst prison fires in the past century. The fire, though, is only the latest deadly outcome of the ...
  • Still No End to 'Too Big to Fail'
    William Greider When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in the summer of 2010, the Obama administration made happy talk about putting an end to “too big to fail” banks. Hold the champagne. The Federal Reserve B ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Ricochet: Water wars
    The recent and relentless escalation of oil costs in the world market has shocked governments and shook even the most stable economies. The dependence of the world on the fluid called oil has shaped international political structures and created new economic powers. Because of that dependence, o ...
  • Study: St. Johns River can handle pumping
    PALATKA – Environmental regulators in Palatka said Tuesday that a four-year study concludes that significant amounts of water can be pumped out of the St. Johns River to support population growth in Central Florida without harming the river's health in North Florida.
  • Study: St. Johns River can handle pumping with ...
    PALATKA – A four-year study concludes that significant amounts of water can be pumped out of the St. Johns River to support population growth in Central Florida without harming the river in North Florida, environmental regulators said Tuesday.
  • Social media: Technology for today's logger
    While the 63rd annual Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference celebrated moving “Back to Our Roots” as the official theme during a fourth year of severe economic recession, Etna rancher Jeffrey N. Fowle encouraged conference attendees to stretch their communication skills to include social media netwo ...
  • Alabama appeals water wars ruling to US Suprem ...
    Alabama has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling that supported metro Atlanta's right to take water from a disputed reservoir that serves as the main water source for roughly 3 million people.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
    Nehad Khader Washington, DC 16 February 2012 Protests in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan made his plight impossible to ignore.
  • Israeli forces destroy "the only place for chi ...
    Josie Shields-Stromsness East Jerusalem 15 February 2012 Israeli bulldozers demolished the only community center and refuge for Palestinian children in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
  • Raed Salah deportation case disintegrates in U ...
    Asa Winstanley London 15 February 2012 The judge heading the panel assessing whether Palestinian civil rights leader Sheikh Raed Salah can be deported from the UK has cast serious doubt on the British government’s case. A final verdict is expected in the next two weeks.
  • Gazans shocked at home demolitions ordered "by ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 13 February 2012 Gaza City residents in the coastal Hamami neighborhood are outraged after the Gaza government bulldozed their houses to make way for a major infrastructure project.
  • Educators can't stay silent about Israeli apar ...
    J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Robin D.G. Kelley, Bill V. Mullen, Nikhil Pal Singh and Neferti Tadiar 13 February 2012 US academics recently returned from a fact-finding delegation describe the daily ritual of subordination, humiliation and suspicion endured by Palestinians living under Israeli occu ...

The Wonk Room

  • New York Times Reporter Anthony Shadid Dead in ...
    Anthony Shadid, who won Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting on the American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2004 and 2007, died earlier today after a fatal asthma attack he suffered while reporting in Syria. The photographer who was working on him on his assignment, Tyler Hicks, carried Shadid& ...
  • Water-Gate: Texas State Report on Dealing with ...
    Texas Comptroller water-planning report also fails to brings up the growing role of natural gas fracking Ironically, the cover of a major Texas report on drought and water planning points out that it’s been “dry” and “hot” and implies humans have some control over t ...
  • George Clooney Gets It Right on Celebrities an ...
    George Clooney was the actor who irritated me most in 2011: I thought The Descendants was a less-revealing-than-it-thought-it-was celebration of rich people, and the Ides of March fundamentally misunderstood the dynamics of politics, and was weirdly smug about that ignorance. But I think he gets ...
  • The Testimony About Birth Control Republicans ...
    House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) held a hearing today about the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees, but they prevented women from testifying on the issue. Democrats had invited San ...
  • Heartland’s Classroom Climate Polluter: ...
    David Wojick, the coal-industry analyst that Heartland Institute plans to pay to develop a K-12 curriculum “teaching the controversy” on manmade climate change, explained to the Associated Press why he wants to teach children that the fact of manmade global warming should be question ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Violence "Discrediting" Occupy Wall Street?
    There's a lot that I agree with in this Chris Hedges essay: "Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless" but a lot that I disagree with as well: How do we fight back? We do not have the tools or the wealth of the state. We cannot beat it at its own game. We cannot ferret out infiltrators. The le ...
  • Posted Without Comment
    Here
  • Something Important and Something Stupid
    First of all, I'll talk about the stupid stuff. It's just been rattling around in the cavernous empty space of my mind for the past week or so. How monumentally stupid and hypocritical it was for those Conservative Party of Canada scum to jump on the "It Gets Better" bandwagon. I mean, what coul ...
  • Do Yah Think???
    Hah! Both the Toronto Star and the stephen harper-endorsing joke of a newspaper, the Glib & Stale have articles about the working poor this weekend! Here's the story on a Metcalfe Foundation study on Toronto's working poor by Laurie Monsebraaten in The Star: The legions of Toronto area work ...
  • A Great Day!
    It isn't like stopping a war, or housing the homeless, or anything like that. But I have to credit TTC Chair Karen Stintz and Toronto City Council for standing up to the imbecilic coward Rob Ford and his stupid "plan" to bury the Eglinton LRT line. For posterity's sake I'll describe it simply: ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canadian webseries pokes fun at 'Sports Talk R ...
    A new Canadian web series that makes sport of sports radio talk shows is online and getting some serious hits. Writer and producer of 'Sports Talk Radio', Jason Bryden says that what got him interested in creating such a show was his love of talk radio.
  • Charlie Sheen bashes Two and a Half Men - then ...
    Charlie Sheen has responded to a letter from lawyers of his former show that says he must stop using photos of 'Two and a Half Men' by saying rude things about 'Two and a Half Men'. He is also, to avoid a lawsuit, going to stop using the photos.
  • Canadian NDP MP checks his hair, falls asleep ...
    A new video uploaded to YouTube is making the rounds this week. The video shows New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Jonathan Genest-Jourdain checking out his hair and apparently falling asleep during a House of Commons session.
  • Hyundai drives away with two Canadian Car of t ...
    Hyundai was the big winner at the opening of the Canadian International Auto Show after being selected as the overall Canadian Car of the Year and the Best New Design for 2012. Volkswagen took the Best Utility Vehicle of the Year award.
  • NBA: Spurs withstand late charge from Raptors
    A day after Lin-sanity captivated the city, Toronto Raptors picked up the pieces after back-to-back heartbreaking losses to push another of NBA’s best to the limit.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • On the road to war with Iran?
    Former Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren warns that fear of an Iranian "Islamic Bomb" may be pushing the U.S. towards war with Iran.
  • $21 for a bag of concrete
    Big-ticket items such as the planned F-35 purchase tend to get the headlines, but smaller examples of wasteful military spending are also important.
  • Staples testifies on DND spending
    Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence on Thursday, 9 February 2012 on the subject of Canadian defence policy and military spending.
  • Byers & Webb: F-35 a costly mistake
    Michael Byers and Stewart Webb argue that the Harper government should consider alternatives to the planned F-35 fighter-bomber purchase.
  • Unbalancing refugee reform
    When the Balanced Refugee Reform Act came up for discussion in parliament in 2010, the then-minority Harper government was forced to compromise with the opposition parties in order to get the legislation passed. But that was then. It looks like those compromises may be about to be revisited.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Obama’s CFPB: A Soviet Era Bureaucracy Run by ...
    February 6, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Not only was Obama’s appointment of Richard Cordray to the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional, but the newly minted federal leviathan itself is in direct violation of Constitution, specifically the Tenth Amendment. In Ja ...
  • Senate To Vote On Bill That Could Kick TSA Out ...
    February 6, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “Don’t hold your breath on this one. It’s been a long time since the Senate did anything right.” –KTRN Following House approval of the measure on Friday, the Senate is set to vote today on legislation that would allow ...
  • 8.3% Unemployment Lie
    February 6, 2012 USA Watchdog By Greg Hunter “They are lying to you again. Did you really expect anything else?” –KTRN The most recent unemployment number is a total lie, and that lie was repeated all over the mainstream media (MSM). Two sins were committed here, and I don’t kn ...
  • Law Enforcement Websites Under Attack By Hackers
    February 6, 2012 CNS News By Associated Press “Go Anonymous, go. They should be given a medal for bravery.” –KTRN Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed ...
  • China Buying Record Amounts Of Gold
    February 6, 2012 Forbes By Gordon G. Chang This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms. Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • “Lehman 2.0″ Imminent Warns John Taylor
    Zero Hedge Thursday, February 16, 2012 By John R. Taylor, Jr. Chief Investment Officer FX Concepts Lehman 2.0 Global investors either have extremely short memories or they are far too concrete, as my wife the psychologist would say. Saying that Greece is not a bank but a country means nothing. A ...
  • WATCH LIVE: House Republicans hold hearing on ...
    House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) holds hearing about the Obama administration’s birth control mandate. Watch this live video from U.S. House, broadcast Feb. 16, 2012.   Link to this post!
  • Greek Cuts Drama: Healthcare doomed, army booms
    Russia Todayyoutube.com The human cost of EU-mandated austerity in Greece is being felt like never before. Cuts and slashes in spending have left hospitals short of medicine, workers short of cash and many ill Greeks out of luck. But, as RT’s Jacob Greaves reports, the NATO chief’s v ...
  • Free Syrian Arms: US gives guns to Al-Qaeda pr ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com The conflict in Syria is intensifying and the UN is unable to agree on a solution to end the bloodshed. Meanwhile, US politicians are calling to arm opposition forces, amid suspicions the US may already be supplying weapons through its Arab allies. In spite of the fears t ...
  • High-Tech Trickery in Homs?
    By Veterans TodayThursday, February 16th, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: You can believe whom you will but… I go along with history. Who benefits? And, who has done what and employed what tactics in what appear to be similar circumstances involving overthrow, destruction of governments, and reg ...

Dandelion Salad

  • We need more leaders like Ernest Shackleton by ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) February 15, 2012 Ernest Shackleton went to Antarctica in 1901, 1908, 1914, and 1922, when that was the last place anyone would ever want to go. He was a British explorer that insisted on ...
  • US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from regime forces firing birdshot and teargas into homes and at cars. Reports ...
  • Michael Hudson: The Greek Experiment
    with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com February 14, 2012 Michael Hudson: Greek crisis used to find out how far finance can drive down wages and privatize The Greek Experiment Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Profess ...
  • Greece: From Despair to Resistance by Panagiot ...
    Dandelion Salad Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/ by Panagiotis Sotiris Socialist Project | The Bullet February 14, 2012 On Sunday 12 February 2012 the people of Greece, in demonstrations and street fights all over the country expressed in a massive, collectiv ...
  • Message of the Day: Love
    Dandelion Salad Message of the Day http://shalomplace.com/seed Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. - G. K. Chesterton *** (What would this mean for you this day?) Meditation on the ...

Your New Reality

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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...

Wired - 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Yitzhak Laor: In the recovery room
    The blogosphere is a salient expression of this hermetically closed system, but so-called empowerment workshops can also be considered a ridiculous extension of the cage [the Internet and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Haaretz: Israel’s academy for occupation
    Construction of the new cultural auditorium in Ariel, taking students on tours of the West Bank, and now the plan to turn the 'university center' in Ariel into a full-fledged university, are erasing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Debate about Iran strategy he ...
    In Israel, the debate over whether to attack Iran has seen the political leadership of the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, and the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, face a resistant security... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: Mount Hermon’s pure snow can’t hi ...
    We managed to delete Mount Hermon's original, Syrian name as if it had never existed. Precious few Israelis have ever heard the name, or are aware of the 200 towns and villages that were obliterated... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • HRW to Israel: charge or free Palestinian hung ...
    Sarah Leah Whitson: "Israel should end, today, before it's too late, its almost two-month-long refusal to inform [Khader] Adnan of any criminal charge or evidence against him." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth de ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • International Experts Clarify Hormonal Changes ...
    Published simultaneously today in four top-tier journals, a new report provides a framework within which physicians and researchers can systematically and consistently identify the different reproductive stages women go though from adolescence to menopause and beyond. The report, named STRAW+10, ...
  • Physician Reminders Don't Improve Care for Kid ...
    Highlights: 1) Certain treatment reminders meant to improve primary care physicians' prescribing habits for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are ineffective. 2) Nearly 20% of people over the age of 65 years have CKD, and primary care physicians care for the vast majority of them. 3) A ...
  • Patient Education Classes May Reduce Dispariti ...
    Highlights: 1) Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for kidney failure patients, but blacks are less likely to receive kidney transplants than whites. 2) Kidney failure patients--particularly blacks and those living in poor neighborhoods--who take part in an education program are mo ...
  • In Sickness and in Health: Study Documents the ...
    The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives -- but what about when it's both?
  • UIowa Career Fair Sees Surge in Number of Empl ...
    Businesses may be in a hiring mood if the numbers at this month's University of Iowa spring job and internship fair are any indication. More than 130 employers are recruiting at the fair this spring, up from 108 last year.

Natural Health News

  • Feds Shut Down Amish Raw Milk Farm
    After a two year long fight, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has succeeded in shutting down the business of Daniel Allgyer, an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk from his Pennsylvania farm to Washington DC area customers. The FDA began investigating Allgyer’s Rainbow Acres Farm i ...
  • Stranger Than Fiction -- School Deems Child's ...
    An Ohio preschooler was given chicken nuggets for lunch when a state worker decided that the homemade lunch she had brought did not have enough nutritional value.  The preschooler’s packed lunch, which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips, was de ...
  • Why is Medical Fraud Everywhere?
    There has been growing concern over fraudulent medical research.  It has reached the point where there are now internet websites which exist solely to cover retractions in medical journals. According to Pharmalot: “An episode [of 60 Minutes] featured the spectacular crash-and-burn inciden ...
  • Why is the FDA Ignoring Its Own Scientists' Wa ...
    More than two years ago, the FDA convened its second scientific advisory panel on dental amalgam.  For the second time, the scientists told the FDA that amalgam use in children, pregnant women, and hypersensitive adults needs to stop.  Not a single panelist agreed with a 2009 ...
  • Do You Suffer From Electron Deficiency Syndrome?
    Emerging scientific research is beginning to reveal an overlooked environmental factor that can greatly affect your health -- direct physical contact with the vast supply of electrons on the surface of the Earth. Modern lifestyle tends to separate humans from such contact, and this could be a ma ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Conspiracy and the New Hamdan Argument
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. I have written before about the Government’s new position in the Hamdan case.  As you will recall, Hamdan was convicted by a military commission for providing material support, sentenced to five and a half years, and released for time ser ...
  • Bleg: What Is EU Law on Greece (Possibly) Leav ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson One issue I don’t understand in the Greece-Eurozone crisis is the legal basis on which Greece can either be forced out of the Eurozone, or else can leave it voluntarily.  I’d be grateful if someone knowledgeable could explain in the comments, ...
  • Vacancy: ICJ Law Clerks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The ICJ has asked us to post the following job announcement for law clerks at the ICJ — which are, needless to say, among the very best positions available to a young international lawyer. Vacancy announcement Date of issuance: 8 February 2012 Dead ...
  • Syria and the Overlapping Consensus
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. David Rieff has an interesting – and somewhat polemical – article in the latest Foreign Policy.  Rieff, you will recall, was an early supporter of intervention, a policy position no doubt influenced by his time spent in Bosnia which culmi ...
  • Apple and Human Rights: Could the Market Work?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro For those of you no longer getting the New York Times in print, this was the lead story in today’s paper.  (Somewhat weirdly, it shows up on the webpage as a blog post.)  Apple’s signing on to Fair Labor Association standards and auditing is probably t ...

Public News Service

  • "Pocket Pet" Trend Concerns Animal Rights Groups
    "Pocket Pet" Trend Concerns Animal Rights Groups PHOENIX - "Pocket pets" sound like the latest toy craze for children - but these animals are real, and so are the concerns about keeping them as pets. The term is used to describe ferrets, sugar gliders, chinchillas and other hand-held, furry ani ...
  • Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable?
    Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable? PHOENIX - A petition from consumer group Public Citizen says Bank of America is so big and frail that regulators should dismantle it before its problems provoke a crisis. The economists, law professors and former regulators behind the call say there is ...
  • Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow i ...
    Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow in Arizona and New Mexico PHOENIX - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico continued to rise last year. State and federal biologists found at least 58 wolves in their latest count, up from 50 the previous year and 42 in ...
  • Representantes de pequeños negocios a D.C ...
    Representantes de pequeños negocios a D.C. para proteger la cuenca del Río Colorado PHOENIX – Esta semana una delegación de representantes de pequeños negocios que dependen del Río Colorado para sostener empleos relacionados con el turismo y la recreación via ...
  • Small Business Reps Travel to DC to Protect Co ...
    Small Business Reps Travel to DC to Protect Colorado River Flows PHOENIX - Small-business people who depend on the Colorado River to support tourism- and recreation-related jobs traveled to Washington this week, promoting ideas to fix the imbalance between water supply and demand in the seven-st ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Press Release: “The Jack Blood Show&#822 ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2.16.12 News Analyst, Personality, Jack Blood to Begin New Morning Radio Show Contact: Jack Blood jackblood@hotmail.com Jack Blood, known as one of the most successful and well known alternative Radio Personalities over the last 10 years, is making his return to the ...
  • Will Ferrell to co-host $35,800-a-plate dinner ...
      The Blaze Many conservatives may love films like Old School, Anchorman, Elf and Talladega Nights, but may not be happy to learn that the star of those films is strongly supporting the reelection of Barack Obama. Ferrell contributed political donations to Howard Dean during the 2004 campai ...
  • Democrats Pile on Maine GOP ELECTION Fraud &#8 ...
    “Its not who votes that counts… Its who counts the Votes” – Josef Stalin Sorry for the Maddow clip – She IS doing fair work here, but ONLY to discredit the Republican Party for fellow Fabian Obama. All Motives aside… Its a HUGE story that FOX and CNN are not c ...
  • Gingrich supporters organize to vote for Ron P ...
    This is without a doubt the strangest “selection” of my lifetime… Herman Cain Forums We received an email from a Gingrich supporter group called Newt Gingrich 360 and here is what it said. An e-mail from Newt Gingrich 360, a grassroots website unaffiliated with the Gingrich cam ...
  • Glenn Beck: Fox News told me to shut up Host c ...
      WND Did Fox News try to censor Glenn Beck before the media giant left the cable network last year? The answer is yes, according to Beck, who made the disclosure this week on his new television program on GBTV.com.  Beck was discussing comments made by longtime PBS news commentator Bill Mo ...

The Air Vent

  • Hey Media – Skeptics are Scientists Too
    I suppose I’m old enough not to be surprised by the behavior of the media anymore, but this garbage coverage of the Heartland scandal  has done it again.  The media has flatly ignored that the point of the funding for SKEPTICS was to put the temperature data on line.   That’s it!!  P ...
  • Advocacy Groups Hide the Decline
    The Heartland institute has released a statement on the stolen documents which include funding of Anthony Watt’s temperature project among other things.   If you want to see the difference between skeptics of climate change and advocacy groups, this section of the press release pretty well ...
  • Advocy Groups Hide the Decline
    The Heartland institute has released a statement on the stolen documents which include funding of Anthony Watt’s temperature project among other things.   If you want to see the difference between skeptics of climate change and advocacy groups, this section of the press release pretty well ...
  • Ostracize and Conquer
    An important story has broken in the mainstream media.  Anthony Watts received a 44,000USD pledge to put temperature data on line in an easy to access format.  His intent is apparently to make the data easily available to the public.   The media reports are centered on the Heartland institute&#8 ...
  • Ostracize and Conquer
    An important story has broken in the mainstream media.  Anthony Watts received a 44,000USD pledge to put temperature data on line in an easy to access format.  His intent is apparently to make the data easily available to the public.   The media reports are centered on the Heartland institute&#8 ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook tests ‘suggested guests’ for events
    Some Facebook users now see a “suggested guests” module on events they plan to attend. Suggested guests are listed on the right side of the event page along with an invite button. Facebook seems to serve suggestions based on interests … Continue reading →
  • Facebook starts verifying popular accounts
    Facebook will allow a small number of public figures to verify their accounts beginning today, a spokesperson from the company confirms. Users with verified accounts will appear more often in “People To Subscribe To” recommendations on the site, but unlike … Continue reading →
  • Facebook hires and departures: legal, privacy, ...
    Facebook’s Careers page this week shows that the company removed a listing for IP counsel, as well as engineering positions in search, ads and several data center positions in Oregon and North Carolina. According to Facebook’s LinkedIn feed, the company hired its Lead Privacy … ...
  • Facebook career postings: engineering, mail, s ...
    Facebook expanded its engineering offerings this week, posting positions for a mail, game, prepaid card partnership and several search engineering positions, according to its Careers page. Other positions included data center jobs, partnership, account management and support staff. The company&# ...
  • Timeline coming soon for businesses
    Facebook plans to convert business pages to the new Timeline format as early as the end of February when the company will host an invitation-only marketing conference in New York City, according to AdAge. Marketers have been dreaming up ways … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Time for Jewish activists to shun their racial ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers how racially-driven Zionists and Jewish lobbies abuse the term "racism" and have turned "anti-racism" into a tool to silence criticism of Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism. He argues that rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Israeli propagan ...
  • Republican presidential candidate Rick Santoru ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...
  • Britain helps Israeli water thieves
    Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.
  • UK, US condemn murder in Syria, condone murder ...
    Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".
  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP 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 ...
  • Media Belligerence against Ron Paul Reaches a ...
    Revealing Desperation of the Establishment’s Jokers Update: Well, we did it. iWatch News corrected the order. Now Ron Paul is third from the top-as he should always have been. Not only that, they were ‘forced’ to correct the numbers as well, and use the correct quarter.The only thing ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Israeli Hanging Judge Sentences Khader Adnan t ...
    On Monday, military Judge Moshe Tirosh rejected Adnan's appeal as expected. Israel wants him dead. In his 59th day without food, his life hangs by a thread.
  • Breaking the Glass: Beyond the Cataloguing of ...
    The media are misinforming -- miseducating -- the American people in the most egregious way, preparing them for yet another pointless war of aggression and domination that will only degrade their own lives, and kill thousands of innocent people ... now what?
  • The Key to Getting the Relationship and Love Y ...
    Improve your relationships today with this essential, yet simple, question.
  • US Secret Armies Gear Up for Global War
    Dispatching elite killer squads to every corner of the globe & deploying special operations forces in over 75 countries, ranging from the Dominican Republic & Peru to the Philippines, Yemen, Somalia & central Asia is not the behavior of a nation with peaceful intentions.
  • Can Obama avert war with Iran?
    There is still time for Obama to repair the damage and to return to the policy he had begun developing in December. But unless Obama warns Netanyahu publicly that an attack against US wishes would indeed mean he is on his own, the chances of deterring him and avoiding war with Iran will be sharp ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Hacktacular Doesn’t Even Begin Describin ...
    Noted VERY SERIOUS POLITICAL WEBSITE (TM) Politico only employs the finest reporters. Take its political reporter Donovan Slack. In reporting on Obama’s visit to Wisconsin today, she determined to show Obama’s bias toward unions: WH flies labor flag in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE — It’ ...
  • Gary Carter, 1954-2012
    R.I.P. Great gallery of rare photos here. I wrote a bit about the Kid when he received the diagnosis last year. He was a really great one; his career was a little short because he was worked so hard in Montreal, but at his peak he was one of the greatest catchers ever. I’m glad [...]
  • Aspirin Between the Knees
    Santorum’s billionaire supporter Foster Friess on contraception: Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly. No, this was contraception back in your day: Condom wrapper, Texas, 1910.
  • The best Simpsons episodes
    In honor of the show’s 500th episode, the Guardian conducted a reader poll to pick the top ten, all of which not surprisingly came from the program’s first decade (yes I too haven’t seen an episode in many years). A few personal favorites: Tree house of Horror VII: Kodos: It&#8 ...
  • It titillates your angry parts.
    One of y’all sent me an email asking why I didn’t argue with Jeff Goldstein anymore. I replied that I just haven’t thought about him in a long time, but that maybe I should take a look around his site … which immediately reminded me exactly why I haven’t thought abo ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Federal financial protection bureau proposes r ...
    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Feb. 16 proposed rules to supervise large debt collectors and credit reporting agencies, the first time that the billion-dollar industries would be subject to federal oversight.
  • 10th Amendment applies to criminal justice, too
    Returning routine drug laws to state and local government is both sound policy and would be faithful to the U.S. Constitution. It should be an area where all Americans can find consensus.
  • Maryland lawmaker proposes penalty for law clinic
    The University of Maryland would have to pay as much as $500,000 toward the legal expenses incurred by a farm's owners while fighting a lawsuit brought by the school's environmental law clinic under legislation proposed by a Republican state lawmaker.
  • 'Growing tide' of defeat for state wage-and-ho ...
    A class action alleging that truck drivers in California have been deprived of their meal and rest periods is pre-empted by a federal law regulating the transportation industry, a federal judge ruled on Feb. 8.
  • In House hearing, experts disagree on constitu ...
    In a hearing that at times felt more like a law school seminar, members of the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 15 quizzed a panel of legal experts on the constitutionality of four recess appointments made by President Barack Obama last month.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ...
    Before joining the Tribunal, Judge Joensen was Judge at the Danish High Court, Eastern Division, in Copenhagen since 1994. He served as an international judge for the UNMIK in Kosovo from 2001 to 2002. Judge Joensen has been the chairperson of the t
  • More Than 70 Teachers Participate in Reduced G ...
    NASA Associate Administrator for Education and two-time space shuttle astronaut Leland Melvin also participated in some of the flights and shared first-hand with the participants his experiences in astronaut training.
  • Kosovo Celebrates Its National Day
    She says Kosovo may be a young country, but it is holding a promising future. She stresses that the United States is committed to supporting an independent, sovereign, multiethnic Kosovo.
  • New Forests Announces Launch of Forest Carbon ...
    New Forests expanded to the United States in 2007 in response to the growing demand for specialist investment management services for land-based environmental markets, including wetland mitigation banking, species mitigation banking, and forest carb
  • Life Gets Difficult Without a Ration Card in I ...
    A few huts away from Harlal and Tulsibai live Ratni Bhil and her sister, Nari Bhil. They are fortunate to have youth on their side, being in their late 20s. But their lives too are circumscribed by the fact that their husbands work as bonded laboure

environment 360

  • Endangered Freshwater Dolphins To Be Protected ...
    The government of Bangladesh has created three new wildlife sanctuaries for the endangered Ganges River and Irrawaddy freshwater dolphins, the last two remaining species of freshwater dolphins in Asia. WCS A Ganges River dolphin Working with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
  • New U.S.-Led Program Targets Reductions in Soo ...
    With efforts to curb global carbon dioxide emissions stalled, a group of nations, including the U.S., will unveil a new program to cut other pollutants that contribute to global warming. The program, called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, will focus ...
  • Electric Vehicles in China Pollute More Than G ...
    The use of electric cars in China produces more particulate matter pollution than gasoline-fueled vehicles, according to a new study. In an analysis of five vehicle technologies in 34 major Chinese cities, U.S. researchers found that the power generated to run electric cars produces significantl ...
  • Can Smarter Growth Guide China’s Urban Buildin ...
    The world has never seen anything like China’s dizzying urbanization boom, which has taken a heavy environmental toll. But efforts are now underway to start using principles of green design and smart growth to guide the nation’s future development. BY DAVID BIELLO
  • Wastewater Reuse Could Increase U.S. Supplies ...
    Advanced treatment of municipal wastewater could increase available water supplies in the U.S. by 27 percent, according to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences. Of the 32 billion gallons of municipal wastewater discharged each day nationwide, about 12 billion gallons of effluent i ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Psychedelic Cult That Thrived For Nearly 2 ...
    The cult of Demeter and Persephone allowed anyone in society to enter, as long as the individual spoke Greek and never committed murder. The individual’s station in life did not matter — slaves, women, and the poor could enter into the group and access the fellowship and secret knowledge of the ...
  • NATO Air Strike Kills Group of Afghan Children
    NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said they found the bodies of dead children after a coalition air strike that has enraged the Afghan government. Gov’t officials showed gruesome photographs of eight dead boys, and said seven of them had been aged between six and 14, while one had been around 18 ye ...
  • These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever
    According to new dating tests, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. They are seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain. And they may change our ideas about humanity’s evolution.
  • Iceland Loch Ness Monster cameraman says his f ...
    The Worm is one of many in Norse mythology and not directly related to Loch Ness in any way; but the Nessie connotations and the high quality of the video have seen the story sweep the globe this week. Now the amateur cameraman responsible for the footage, Hjörtur E. Kjerúlf, has said “This is a ...
  • Clever Canines: Germany’s educated dogs
    One of the leading German intellectuals of the early 1900s was Rolf, a resident of Mannheim. With his superior intelligence, he successfully dabbled in mathematics, ethics, religion and philosophy. He speculated about the Urseele, the original soul of God, and his stipulation that every animal s ...

Russia Today

  • UN passes Syria resolution calling on Assad to ...
    The UN General Assembly has passed the new draft resolution on Syria with 137 in favor, 12 against and 17 abstaining, Russia, China voted against it.
  • Thai police: Iranians were hunting down Israel ...
    The Iranians who accidentally set off two bombs in Bangkok on Tuesday were conspiring to assassinate Israeli diplomats, say Thai police. Israel connects the incident with recent attempts on the lives of Israeli envoys...
  • Womb outsourcing: The West turns to India for ...
    Economic and legal issues are pushing hundreds of western couples to look overseas when considering surrogate motherhood, and India has become the number one most affordable surrogacy destination.
  • Pro-Assad Imam shot dead in Damascus
    A leading religious figure has been assassinated in the conservative Midan area of the Syrian capital Damascus. RT`s Maria Finoshina reporting from the scene says the imam was shot five times.
  • US double standards: indirectly arming Syrian ...
    The conflict in Syria is intensifying and the UN is unable to agree on a solution to end the bloodshed. Meanwhile, US politicians are calling to arm opposition forces, amid suspicions the US may already be supplying...

Not My Tribe

  • A case of the neighbor from Hell
    If you have ever kept a cat for a pet, you probably already know that some people just hate them. Why? we will never quite know….but they do. See Man suspected of killing, eating cats
  • Colorados’s Libertarian tax evader crusa ...
    Denver American Civil Liberties Union lawyer failed to keep Libertarian tax cheat and slum lord, Doug Bruce, from deservedly heading into jail for 6 months for his tax evasion. Doug Bruce is the Libertarian big time ideologue now famous for authoring the TABOR Amendment legislation, which has he ...
  • Israel vows to “settle the score” ...
    Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has vowed to “settle the score” for an explosives incident in Bangkok, where an Iranian man blew his legs off with a grenade while trying to evade capture. Are they suggesting a rival of Iran sacrifice his legs in retaliation?
  • Abajo y a la Izquierda esta el Corazon
    OCCUPY COLO. SPRINGS will be occupying the 3rd UCCS OWS symposium this Wednesday to challenge the straw man argument that Latinos are underrepresented in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Nationwide, OWS may be white and middle class, but in the context of the outcry for global democracy, isn&#82 ...
  • Who in the world really suffers from PTSD?
    … PTSD has become the designer ‘mental illness’ for the Pentagon and Washington elites who design the multitude of US wars abroad in foreign lands. As a result, the corporate US media works full time to convince the American public that only US soldiers as agents carrying out t ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • Evidence Based "Conspiracy Theories" Beat Auth ...
    Considering the documentation of corruption in political, corporate and military (intelligence) circles it is irrational to exclude the consideration of high level conspiracy when evaluating the causes of recent conflicts. To a priori exclude a conspiracy hypothesis is naive and illogical. Inde ...
  • "Strange Sounds" DEBUNKED and EXPLAINED
  • What Does a Building "Engulfed" in Fire Look Like?
    Here is a building engulfed in fire. And here is a building covered in dust and smoke due to negative air pressure. Now, which one looks more like WTC7 on 9/11? Related Info: Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC 7
  • Strange Meeting at Don't Attack Iran Campaign ...
    Video description: At the launch of the UK Don't Attack Iran Campaign on 28 January 2012, held at a rally outside the US Embassy in London, actor Roger Lloyd Pack gave a powerful reading of Strange Meeting by First World War poet Wilfred Owen, one of the most famous anti-war poems ever written. ...

Fooducate

  • Kellogg’s Buys Pringles. New Savory Cereals On ...
    The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are reporting that Kellogg’s is buying Pringles from current owner Proctor and Gamble. The deal, worth $2.7 Billion dollars, will see P&G completely divest itself from food brands. Pringles, the potato snack known for its iconic shape and tubu ...
  • Product Review: Nature’s Path Love Crunch Prem ...
    We were recently contacted by Nature’s Path, maker of organic cereals, granolas, and other goodies. The  Love Crunch Granola line has undergone a makeover and we were sent a sample for review. From the company: Like all Nature’s Path products, Love Crunch Granolas are USDA certified organic, whi ...
  • Romantic, Affordable & Healthy Valentines Day Idea
    Good morning and Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you planning to blow loads of $$$ as a token of you love? Will you go to a five star restaurant? The Beatles once sang “Can’t Buy me Love”, but these days it seems Valentine’s Day is all about buying more and more and more ...
  • The Truth About Chocolate Health Benefits
    Valentine’s Day is a big annual chocolate-fest, driving about 5% of annual chocolate sales. As with wine, chocolate is much more than a food, it is an art form. And in the past few years, chocolate has become synonymous with health benefits. “It’s got antioxidants,” and t ...
  • The Not So Real Bacon Shake from Jack-in-the-Box
    Just when you thought the everything bacon trend was over, fast food chain Jack in the Box is introducing the Bacon Milkshake. For a limited time only, of course. Yes, it’s for real. Not the bacon, the shake. Well, the bacon shake, but it has nor real bacon, even though you’d be incl ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Foreign sex offender finally deported after hu ...
    Telegraph – Among the victims of Kendeh, 25, was the woman who clashed in public with Ken Clarke over his controversial remarks about rape last year. Kendeh was removed to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone in West Africa, on Sunday evening, the Home Office announced. Previously, he had ...
  • Kabul experiences coldest weather, biggest sno ...
    Washington Post – The Afghan capital has been experiencing its worst cold-snap and heaviest snows in at least 15 years, the National Weather Center said Wednesday. The cold, combined with about 19.6 inches (50 centimeters) of snow, has caused power blackouts and iced over most of the capit ...
  • Iran loads ‘first domestically-made nucl ...
    BBC – Tehran says it has used domestically-made nuclear fuel in a reactor for the first time, and also unveiled more efficient enrichment centrifuges. State TV showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspecting the rods as they were loaded into a reactor. Read article
  • Global power gone
    UPI – For centuries, much of the global landscape and seascape was dominated by a single power — e.g., Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, the United States — and recent would-be masters of the universe didn’t last long. Read article
  • China Defense Budget to Double by 2015: Report
    International Business Times – China’s defense budget is set to double by 2015, which will be more than the combined spend of all other key defense markets in Asia Pacific, a global think tank has said. According to IHS, China’s defense spending will hit $238.2 billion in 2015, which ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Just a Bluff? Fears Grow of Israeli Attack on Iran
    JERUSALEM -- For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent -- an action that many fear might tri Submitted by O O O O to World  |&n ...
  • Israeli court grants reprieve to abandoned Pal ...
    Israel once again proves that it is a true democracy, whose courts guarantee Palestinian rights, even in the face of a terrorist threat that no other country on earth must endure. Submitted by Fred H. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • UGANDA: Rural Womens Banks Ease Tough Times
    For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot afford the interest rates charged by commercial banks. But six women-led Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &nbsp ...
  • 'I will be the first woman president of Mexico ...
    It is possible. Submitted by Glenn Byrnes to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 18+ Syria Field Hospital Massacre - Assad Sold ...
    Assad against unarmed civilians at a Field Hospital in Baba Amr in Homs City on February 6, 2012 The Baathist Army of Dictator Bashar Assad is slaughtering thousands of people throughout our nation and the whole world is watching it happen on Youtube. Ou Submitted by Wendy Ruth Wyatt to World & ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ...
    Before joining the Tribunal, Judge Joensen was Judge at the Danish High Court, Eastern Division, in Copenhagen since 1994. He served as an international judge for the UNMIK in Kosovo from 2001 to 2002. Judge Joensen has been the chairperson of the t
  • More Than 70 Teachers Participate in Reduced G ...
    NASA Associate Administrator for Education and two-time space shuttle astronaut Leland Melvin also participated in some of the flights and shared first-hand with the participants his experiences in astronaut training.
  • Kosovo Celebrates Its National Day
    She says Kosovo may be a young country, but it is holding a promising future. She stresses that the United States is committed to supporting an independent, sovereign, multiethnic Kosovo.
  • New Forests Announces Launch of Forest Carbon ...
    New Forests expanded to the United States in 2007 in response to the growing demand for specialist investment management services for land-based environmental markets, including wetland mitigation banking, species mitigation banking, and forest carb
  • Life Gets Difficult Without a Ration Card in I ...
    A few huts away from Harlal and Tulsibai live Ratni Bhil and her sister, Nari Bhil. They are fortunate to have youth on their side, being in their late 20s. But their lives too are circumscribed by the fact that their husbands work as bonded laboure

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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) ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The New York Times: America's Unofficial Propa ...
    by Stephen Lendman For over a century, The Times played America's lead role disseminating state/corporate propaganda duplicitously. Its daily diet features managed, not real, news, information and analysis. Readers don't get what they pay for. They're cheated on what matters most. ...
  • Of Uncertain Futures: As We Are Not Yet One
    by Jan Lundberg photo by Jan LundbergAs the modern age accelerates its downward spiral toward an uncertain outcome, we are divided in our outlooks and fears. Yet, if we examine them, and if enough of us have a dialogue resulting in action, we might discover our apparent weaknesses in such ...
  • Direct Fossil Fuel Subsidies Worldwide: Half a ...
    Culture Change, Lester Brown, Jan Lundberg Here are disturbing numbers from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, by Lester R. Brown, and its excerpt "Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate" r ...
  • Financial Oligarch Power Raping Greece
    by Stephen Lendman On February 12, Greece's banker controlled parliament passed sweeping austerity measures on top of multiple previous rounds. New ones include: sacking 15,000 public workers in 2012 and 150,000 by 2015; slashing private sector wages by 20%; lowering monthly minimum ...
  • Iran Falsely Charged with India and Georgia At ...
    by Stephen Lendman Last October, Iran was falsely charged with a fake terror plot that didn't pass the smell test. At best, it resembled a bad film script too implausible to believe. Tehran was bogusly blamed for plotting to kill Saudi Arabia's US ambassador. According to spurious accusatio ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Drummond Commission report: countering cutback ...
    Amidst the release of the Drummond Commission report, CCPA  Research Associate Jim Stanford gives us ten macroeconomic factoids to keep in mind as we counter the overarching claim that Ontario just can’t afford our already-stretched network of public services. You can read Ten Points on Re ...
  • Is the free trade debate back on the agenda?
    CBC Radio's The House did a segment last Saturday (Feb. 11) on the Harper government's bilateral free trade strategy and specifically its approach to China. CCPA's Scott Sinclair was on a panel with Bay St. trade lawyer Lawrence Herman. For those who are interested, the podcast can be found he ...
  • The ugly new face of capitalism
    A halting and fragile "recovery" from the biggest global economic meltdown since the Great Depression has seen the growth of the ugliest side of capitalism. In the Wake of the Crisis: Bully Capitalism, by CCPA's Armine Yalnizyan, is a must-read piece documenting the new snatch-and-grab business ...
  • Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable: Can Can ...
    As part of the consultations undertaken in preparation of our forthcoming Alternative Federal Budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted an economic roundtable, The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada Escape a Lost Decade? on January 26, 2012. The event brought together sever ...
  • Old Age (In)Security
    Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for their retirement with benefits from the Canada or Quebec Pension Plan, a workplace pension if they’re lucky enough to have one, and private savings. But now Pr ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmage ...
    Worldwidehippies,Nasa. By Christina Coleman - In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence off of major roads. Hundreds of thousands ...
  • Struggling to get by in South Bronx, America&# ...
    Worldwidehippies,RT news – Welcome to the South Bronx. Graffiti, garbage, a daily fight for dignity. It is the poorest district in America. Just a 20-minute ride from the wealth of Manhattan, this is the stop for those whose life is largely a struggle. A staggering quarter of a million peo ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: Occupy Wall Street&#8230 ...
    By  Peter Prime,policymic.com - On September 17, 2011, a group of young people occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district. Shortly thereafter, their oft-repeated slogan of being the “99%” started to ricochet in the news media. The heavy news coverage has allowed their slogan to ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Seattle Arrest Questions Cops’ Use of Dash Cams Two friends who had planned to visit a Seattle sports bar claim they ended up being kicked, arrested at gunpoint and held in jail for several hours by a cop who said he intended to “make stuff up.” Part of the arrest of Josh Lawso ...
  • White Grandfather Cuffed For Walking With Blac ...
    by Ruth Manuel-Logan,newsone.com – Scott Henson (pictured), a self-described White Texas redneck, was cuffed last Friday by a swarm of policemen, because he was walking his Black 5-year-old grandchild down the street. The Austin resident spoke to NewsOne about how he was accosted by police ...

FourWinds10

  • 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
    The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

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

Rodale News

  • Pesticide Company Convicted of Poisoning Farmer
    As the organic market surges, chemical farming faces mounting problems. The latest industrial farming setback comes with a French court's conviction of Monsanto—the chemical giant that sells genetically engineered seeds, Roundup, and other pesticides—of poisoning a farmer. The court found St. ...
  • Why Every Sickroom Needs a Dog
    Scientists are just starting to unlock the magnificent ways that pets can help improve human health. And while the science isn't there yet to confirm that pets can help people dealing with cancer, research projects are in the works. Looking at people with other types of diseases, researchers h ...
  • 7 Things You Need to Start Buying Organic
    Organic is alive and well. In fact, shoppers are expanding their organic intentions beyond the produce aisle. Take red meat, for instance. As news reports of recalls and ammonia injected into factory-farmed meat spread, sales of organic beef jumped nearly 50 percent in 2011. Opting for organic ...
  • Factory-Farming Exposed in Prime-Time Grammy C ...
    Chipotle, a burrito chain that sources sustainable ingredients, put its money where its mouth is on Sunday night. Known more for its mouthwatering burritos and less for its focus on sustainable ingredients, the company exposed factory-farming practices in a commercial that aired Sunday night d ...
  • 11 Surprising Sex-Drive Killers
    Feeling a little lackluster in the libido department this Valentine's Day? You're not alone. Americans' sex drives are plummeting, thanks to many chemicals and ingredients added to our food, medicines, shower gels, and even sex toys! Get your hormones back on track and rev up your sex drive by ...

big think

  • Elie Wiesel Calls on Mitt Romney to Renounce ' ...
    Earlier in the week, Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor found out that his name and the names of his father and grandfather were on a genealogical list kept by the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. Wiesel, and his family members had been selected to receive posthumous ...
  • Truth or Truthiness? How Wikipedia Decides.
    What's the Big Idea? What Wikipedia is not, according to Wikipedia: a paper encylopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought. A soapbox. A means of self promotion. A link dump, social network, blog, textbook, manual, guidebook, newspaper, or crystal ball. It is also not a burea ...
  • Nano-Material Makes Spray-On Antennae
    What's the Latest Development? A small Utah company has seen the future of wireless data transfer and it comes in a spray can. ChamTech Operations has developed a mixture made of nanoparticles that can be sprayed on any vertical surface, from a light pole to a tree, to create powerful an ...
  • The Heartland Institute and "Climate DenialGate"
          This space recently offered some thoughts about “The Ethics of Climate Change Denial”. The basic case was that denial which arises out of the innate subconscious urge we all have to adopt views that agree with our tribe, because of the importance of social cohesion, does not seem unethical ...
  • Should We Cancel Black History Month?
     Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman wants to cancel Black History Month. “Isn’t segregation by month still segregation?” is a question Tilghman examines in his documentary More Than A Month that airs tonight on PBS. I’ve been wrestling with the same question this month myself, wondering if I may ...

Information Liberation

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

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Science, spectroscopy and stuff
    My latest SpectroscopyNOW column goes live today. Four items: Cheminformatics and TB, laser spectroscopy and graphene, ‘shroom doom and enmeshed drugs. Multivariate statistical data processing has been used to create a model from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data of metabol ...
  • Open science – just do it
    The idea of open science means different things to different people, but primarily it is about community, the scientific community and beyond. At a time when commercial publishers are coming under increasing pressure there are boycotts and rebellions and the new wave of open access publishers ar ...
  • Cambridge students to grill Sciencebase
    Once again, I’ll be attending the annual media careers event at Cambridge University, where students and alumni get a chance to chat with members of the media about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. The February 20 ...
  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Microchip Implant Gives Medication On Command
    For people who face frequent needle jabs to treat chronic conditions, a new technology is on the horizon that might make treatment a lot less painful. [More]
  • How the First Plant Came to Be
    Earth is the planet of the plants--and it all can be traced back to one green cell. The world's lush profusion of photosynthesizers--from towering redwoods to ubiquitous diatoms--owe their existence to a tiny alga eons ago that swallowed a cyanobacteria and turned it into an internal solar ...
  • Deadly Alcohol Needs Global Regulation, Health ...
    When considering the world's worst killers, alcohol likely doesn't come to mind. Yet alcohol kills more than 2.5 million people annually, more than AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis. [More]
  • World's Tiniest Chameleon Discovered
    A species of chameleon small enough to easily perch on a match head has been discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar, a group of scientists has announced. [More]
  • Leaked: Conservative Group Plans Anti-Climate ...
    Leaked documents from the free-market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change . [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • "We've Shut it Down"
    Head of Quebec Women's Federation on the blockade of the Montreal Stock Exchange Hundreds of people participated in a major action in Montreal this morning, shutting down the Montreal Stock Exchange, the heart of the city's financi ...
  • Tuesday CKUT OTH and NSN: Interview with Brid ...
    Bridget Tolley, co-founder of Families of Sisters in Spirit, a non-profit group meant to support the families of missing or murdered Aboriginal women and girls. Since 2005, the project has gathered statistical information on violence against Indigenous women, revealing shocking trends and rates ...
  • Tuesday CKUT OTH and NSN: Interview with Miche ...
    Michele Audette is the president of Quebec Native women. Michele speaks about the role Quebec Native Women has played in advocating for the rights of Native women in Canada and challenging sexism and racism. This report originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour and Native Solidarity News on Tu ...
  • Big pharma and porn
    Retired biology professor Renate Klein from the University of Melbourne, Australia describes the deep involvement of the pharmaceutical industry in the promotion and acceptance of porn sex as "normal" sex. As a feminist critic, Klein persuadingly argues the harmful effects of porn on w ...
  • Tuesday OTH and NSN: Interview with Sue Martin ...
    Sue Martin,the other co-founder of Families of Sisters in Spirit, speaks to Blueprint Project about her experience losing her daughter to domestic violence.   This report originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour and Native Solidarity News on Tuesday, Febuary, 14th, 2012, 17-19h.  

David Seaton's News Links

  • Meditations on America and the the Flight of t ...
    David Seaton's News LinksJust the other day I saw a well-known documentary, "Food Inc", which shines a light on the physically and morally toxic American food industry. I found myself getting very depressed about all the young people, especially poor, young people developing diabetes. Full ...
  • Homage to the people of Greece - Αφιέρωμα στου ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, on Wednesday went so far as to suggest Greece might postpone its elections and install a technocratic government free of all political parties, similar to Italy, to ensure that the bail-out programme is implemented. Financi ...
  • A Valentine story
    David Seaton's News Links I thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz.This all happened when I was a little kid.  My stepfather was a docto ...
  • A poem for ex-Judge Baltasar Garzón
    ex-judge, Baltasar GarzónTerrible crimes were committed during and after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, is on trial for da ...
  • Santorum, Mitt and Newt... Decline and Fall... ...
    "Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas of their free-born ancestors." Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"David Seaton's News LinksUnder Richard Nixo ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Better Grad Students, Please
    Thoreau complains about a grad student in his upper division biophysics class: One of the problems involves the entropy change from evaporating a cubic centimeter of water. She asked me how she’s supposed to know the number of atoms in a cubic centimeter of water. Um, this is basic ...
  • Why I Don't Want Target To Know Quite So Much ...
    Charles Duhigg has a fascinating story in the New York Times Magazine this week that's all about the way retailers use data mining and microtargeting to sell you more stuff. Among other things, he tells the story of how Target exploited a pile of clever statistical relations to predict when wo ...
  • Liberal Lunch Nazis Force Innocent Little Girl ...
    Have you been following the great North Carolina school lunch totalitarianism story? Me neither. But as near as I can tell, a little girl who was enrolled in Raleigh's "More at Four" Pre-K program came to school a few days ago without any milk, so someone — teacher's aide? cafeteria work ...
  • Welfare vs. Tourism in the Sunshine State
    Mike Konczal says the illustration on the right is his favorite graph of the week. It's based on data from the Welfare Transition program in Florida and it shows two things. The line shows tourism revenue: high in winter, lower in spring, and lower still in summer. Obviously the tourism indust ...
  • Maybe a Majority of Americans Really Are Conse ...
    Today I defend Marco Rubio and Politifact. But Rubio more than Politifact. Last weekend Rubio gave a speech at CPAC and said, "The majority of Americans are conservatives." Politifact checked up on this: The Gallup Poll has been regularly asking Americans about their political ideology sin ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 304: Yall Ain’t Shit
    Topics: Batman & Robin could have been worse Fuck Cyclops & Superman Kinect Porn Linsanity & Tebow Time Black people can’t be racist Reexamining the Roland Martin issue Fuck hypocrites Twitter…sometimes I don’t have time for this shit Share with your friends:
  • IC 303: From Ascots to Niggas
    Topics: Whitney Houston’s death Live Tweeting grief The fan guilt Uncouth niggas in the movie theaters Madonna’s geriatric Super Bowl Show Roland Martin gets himself into trouble Share with your friends:
  • The Problem with the Roland Martin Suspension
    Roland Martin is an ass.  He’s brash and flat out annoying.  Even worse, he’s woefully unqualified for his job as a political pundit on CNN and because of that, very bad at his job.  I mean the man has a Master’s Degree in Christian Communication at a non-accredited school yet he’s on CNN weighi ...
  • IC 302: Don’t @ My Prophetess
    Topics: George Romero’s birthday Fast Zombies are cheating Eddie Long is a “King” The pedophile burrito Juanita Bynum & the $5000 pen Fuck your murderous family member Roseanne Barr is running for President Share with your friends:
  • IC 301: The Urban Radio Fluff Job
    Topics: Its Black History Month and Kriss & Kev don”t care Don Cornelius goes to the big soul train in the sky Kriss realizes he may be a sociopath February movie rundown Every role for a young black actor comes to Bow Wow first Arizona wants to allow guns on campus Drake apologizes t ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Inspired by gecko feet, UMass Amherst scientis ...
    For years, biologists have been amazed by the power of gecko feet, which let these 5-ounce lizards produce an adhesive force roughly equivalent to carrying nine pounds up a wall without slipping. Now, a team of polymer scientists and a biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have di ...
  • Successful human tests for first wirelessly co ...
    About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's body. This week, the MIT researchers and scientists from MicroCHIPS Inc. reported that they have su ...
  • Scripps research scientists create molecular m ...
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, collaborating with members of the drug discovery company Receptos, has created the first high-resolution virtual image of cellular structures called S1P1 receptors, which are critical in controlling the onset and progression of multiple s ...
  • Faculty retention proves a major challenge for ...
    Attracting and retaining the world's brightest students is on the mind of every university official. But a new, unprecedented study in the journal Science suggests leaders in higher education face an understated, even more pressing challenge: the retention of professors. read more
  • An 'immortal' devil's genome and the secrets o ...
    Researchers reporting in the February 17th issue of the Cell Press journal Cell have sequenced the complete genome of one immortal devil. The genomes of the Tasmanian devil and its transmissible cancer may help to explain how that cancer went from a single individual to spreading through the pop ...

unEarthed

  • Thousands Join Florida Anti-Slime Brigade
    Huge tide of support for Obama to keep state's water clean Toxic algae choking Florida waterway A big thank you to the more than 16,000 people who have s ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Simplot's Fish Story
    Two-headed fish, selenium, mining and coal ash Two-headed trout from selenium-impacted stream. Photo from J.R. Simplot Company Study. Truth is stranger than ...
  • Monday Reads: The Amorous Arctic Caribou Edition
    Oil pipelines + caribou = lots of baby caribou? One fishy equation Baby caribou: "Pipelines make us do what?" Utukok Uplands, Western Arctic, Alaska (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Dumping A Civil Rights Issue
    One town’s Tr-“ash” is no one’s treasure The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sitting on a proposed coal ash standard for nearly 15 months. Without environmental standards for protection from this toxic waste, 54 re ...
  • Friday Finds: McDonalds’ Pink Slime Problem
    Chemical list limbo, idle air pollution laws, green coup Photo courtesy of Calgary Reviews. McDonald’s takes pink slime goop out of burgers It’s ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Ca ...
    Editor's Note: History should record that the birth of the 99% Movement was on September 17, 2011. That was when the movement became a household name known to the masses. However, the 99% Movement was conceived exactly two years ago, with the release of an online report and call to action title ...
  • Get Ready for OWSnews.org
    Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...
  • Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on ...
  • Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland
    By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...
  • Marine Down in Oakland – “We&#8217 ...
    Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...

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  • News of Palestinian children killed in crash m ...
    By Fady Khoury Ten Palestinians were killed today (Thursday) – nine of which were children – and dozens more injured when a bus crashed into a truck on the road between Qalandiya and the Adam settlement, near the northern border between Jerusalem and the West Bank. The bus – which wa ...
  • LIVE: Frontline Club debate on art and politics
    The English National Opera is staging The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams’s opera about the Achille Lauro hostage crisis. Ever since its premiere in 1991, the opera has been accused of “glorifying” and “romanticising” terrorism, and, almost inevitably, anti-Semitis ...
  • On anti-normalization: Joint Israeli-Palestini ...
    Despite the fact that the Israeli-Palestinian organization he co-heads is considered a “normalizer,” the writer says he understands where anti-normalizers are coming from, but nonetheless argues that curtailing joint activism will only cause harm to the shared caused of ending occupa ...
  • In flinching move, Finkelstein slams boycott m ...
    American political scientist and author of the “Holocaust Industry,” Norman Finkelstein - known for his outspoken criticism of Israel and advocacy of Palestinian rights – showed his own fear of the paradigm shift  in discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when he called ...
  • Response to Cat Power cancellation – acc ...
    By Rachel Canar The scathing critique by Mairav Zonszein and Assaf Shatil of Chan Marshall/Cat Power’s cancellation of her February 12 scheduled performance in Tel Aviv was so ideological that it missed the point. Chan/Cat explained her reason for cancelling the show  in a tweet she sent on Febr ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • I Lost A Trial Today, The Law In Florida- A Th ...
    I’m licking deep and painful wounds from a foreclosure trial I lost yesterday.  My pain is real not just for my homeowners but for every American and most especially for the absolute destruction and desecration of the Rule of Law. It bothered me most to hear an attorney argue (successfully ...
  • 84% of Foreclosures Have Clear Violations of L ...
    Today’s New York Times features an article that details a survey which found that 84% of foreclosures filed in San Francisco had clear violations of law and that 2/3rds of them contained at least 4 violations of law.  While that survey is California, I believe similar numbers exist in Flor ...
  • OUTRAGE! FL HOUSE REMOVES UNFAIR FORECLOSURE A ...
    Florida’s House Judiciary Committee was originally scheduled to hear debate and take public participation about the absurd and obscene changes to Florida’s foreclosure laws. The cynic (or the realist) finds it quite disturbing that this bill was removed from the committee agenda afte ...
  • THE LATEST VERSION OF FLORIDA’S FRANKENS ...
    The Florida Legislature is intent on trampling the rights of everyday Floridians in their mad rush to turn over Florida’s homes to the banksters and all their buddies. We all thought these elected officials, who theoretically serve the voters and citizens of Florida, were going to take pub ...
  • Federal Judge Slams Deutsche Bank, American Ho ...
    How are they able to just skate away from all of this? Why does our court system continue to tolerate it? Tarantola Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Speaking Up for Community
    London, Ontario faced a sobering occurrence this past week that reminded us that, on occasion, struggling for citizen’s rights has …Continue reading »
  • Good Love – A Valentine
    In so many ways it’s hard to be good these days. I don’t mean telling the truth, getting the kids …Continue reading »
  • Something We Can’t Do Alone
    My city of London, Ontario has been through enough in these last few years, I believe, to qualify as a …Continue reading »
  • Shadowlands
    Progressive democracy has been perhaps the most stable of political systems in world history. It has guided and empowered the …Continue reading »
  • Reborn
    Sometimes communities aren’t ready for the changes being thrust upon them. Stuck in the traditional way of doing things, they …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • CFPB Seeking To Get Credit Bureaus & Debt Coll ...
    Now that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finally has a director, Richard Cordray, it's making some big moves to bring in debt collectors and credit bureaus under the umbrella of industries they want to supervise. The Washington Post says the CFPB proposed the rule today, asking for th ...
  • Mars Is Going To Snatch That King-Sized Candy ...
    Okay fine, Mars isn't going to run up to you and steal your candy, but the makers of Snickers bars and other tasty treats are going to stop selling chocolate products that have more than 250 calories per portion. So that means no more king-sized Snickers, Twix, 3 Musketeers, Mars, Milky Way and ...
  • The First Ski-Thru Starbucks Keeps Snow Bunnie ...
    How many times have you been shooting down a ski slope, totally shredding some awesome powder (if that's a thing?) and thought, "Man, I could really go for a latte right about now"? Enough people have felt that way, apparently, as Starbucks has opened its first ski-thru location. OnTheSnow.com ...
  • Faulty Battery Likely To Blame For Electric Ci ...
    Puffing away on an electric cigarette is viewed by many as a healthier option than the traditional tobacco smoke stick, but in the case of one Florida man the e-cigarette turned out to be pretty darn dangerous to his health too, after it exploded in his mouth. ABC News says the man is now reco ...
  • Women In Need Of More Cash Simply Bleach A Few ...
    Boston cops are on the lookout for two women who they say have been particularly clever with a bit of counterfeiting. The suspects were able to get past the iodine pen test by simply bleaching some $5 bills and reprinting them into $100 bills. Since the paper was legit, the iodine pen indicate ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Will the Obama Administration Allow Courts to ...
    American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer writes in Huffington Post about the upcoming deadline in the lawsuit challenging the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which legalized unprecedented levels of government surveillance on Americans. . . . the admi ...
  • "Traitor: The Whistleblower and the 'American ...
    As GAP Communications Director for the last seven years, I've heard about more than my fair share of travesties and wrongdoing within the federal government. But the evidence that whistleblowers relay to us involving defense, war and intelligence – the travesties that are committed, the wrongdoi ...
  • Jimmy John's Whistleblowers Go to Trial: Daily ...
    Minnesota Daily: Jimmy John's Case Is Heard in Court Summary: Two Jimmy John's franchise owners went to trial on Tuesday and Wednesday at the National Labor Relations Board for firing six whistleblowers last year after they organized against company policies that allegedly force employees to w ...
  • Justice Department Gets Richly-Deserved Secrec ...
    Citing the Obama administration Justice Department's war on whistleblowers as one of many examples of excessive secrecy, the National Security Archive at George Washington University awarded the 7th annual Rosemary Award (named for Nixon tape-eraser secretary Rosemary Woods) to the Dep ...
  • Whistleblowers Expose Moldy Applesauce: Daily ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user elidukeUSDA Whistleblowers Expose Moldy Applesauce Summary: USDA inspectors stationed at a fruit processing plant in Washington state have stepped forward and blown the whistle, reporting chilling concerns of moldy applesauce being shipped into commerce from a form ...

UK Progressive

  • 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. If you don’t know what solitary can be like, Associate Editor Jim Reagan of the “Worker” explains it “consists of prisoners bei ...
  • Op-Ed: Bill Gates Favors The Death Panel and V ...
    When Bill Gates, founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides vaccines to third world countries, promoted decreasing the population of the world and favoring the ‘death panel’, it shocked many people. Bill Gates believes that “instead of spending millions of dollars on old pe ...
  • Obama Housing Plans vs. Reality
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica The Obama administration has recently unveiled a string of proposals to help struggling homeowners and get the housing market back on its feet— part of the administration’s “We Can’t Wait” election year to-do list. Of course, the White House has made big promises befo ...
  • CPAC Tips: How to Win Friends and Influence
    by Kim Barker, ProPublica The big Republican names were all at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., last week: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Sarah Palin. The three-day conference, known as CPAC and ...
  • Republicans: The Severe Conservatives
    Part of being a Democrat is acting like you’re losing even when you’re winning. Part of being a Republican is acting like you’re winning even when you’re losing. The phrase “silent majority,” that brilliant bit of Nixonian rhetoric, is a way to augment Republican numbers and voices. “Nearly all ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • UPDATE: Heartland Documents Stolen and key one ...
    Major embarrassment for Joe Romm, and DeSmog and their unthinking fans. In the hours after the ClimateGate emails were released, skeptics asked about their authenticity (as we are want to do). In the hours after the Heartland Documents (including at least one complete fake) were released, the co ...
  • Logic-gate: The Smog blog exposes irrational r ...
    The Climate Change Scare Machine Chart The believers of man-made-weather-disasters are wetting themselves with excitement. It painful to watch grown men drool. Poor things, they were really wounded by Climategate, and they’ve been waiting, praying that some day someone would level the play ...
  • Crikey: Believers waiting for skeptics to die? ...
    Believers in man-made-catastrophe can’t win over skeptics with evidence and reason. Instead the peak “believers” intellectual strategy is to hope the oldies might die off in time to save the planet: Death isn’t an option: climate change activists aren’t waiting for deniers to d ...
  • The Big-Freeze: Thousands trapped in Europe as ...
    And who wants Global Warming when you can face avalanches, deep snow, and record cold? How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity? What’s happening in Europe and Russia over the last two weeks is not just your average cold- ...
  • Toxoplasmosis: could that latent infection aff ...
    This is disturbing news. What if eating undercooked meat, gardening, or having a cat could give you an infection which stayed with you for life, nested in cysts in your brain? Worse, those cysts somehow affected your personality, possibly putting you at increased risk of suicide, schizophrenia, ...

ReNew America

  • A Tea Party Senate takeover
    (Michelle Malkin) - The tea party isn't dead. It's just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right in ...
  • Priests for Life group sues U.S. over contrace ...
    (Bloomberg News) - A Christian organization called Priests for Life sued the Obama administration, saying its mandate that insurance providers cover birth control violates the organization's religious and free-speech rights...
  • Arab like me
    (Lee Habeeb) - There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who don't. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter. I am not proud to say that. Arabs will not like me for admitting it. But it is true. And it is something I wish the Obama administra ...
  • As China goes geriatric, we have the advantage
    (Washington Times) - Washington is all abuzz about China's heir apparent, Vice President Xi Jinping, arriving in town Tuesday. Even the Pentagon is rolling out the red carpet for the man who will rule the country that may soon topple U.S. primacy in Asia. Indeed, China is ramping up a military t ...
  • Abortion's hard-case exceptions
    (Ken Connor) - When it comes to the hot-button issue of abortion, there are some questions that make even the staunchest pro-lifer uncomfortable: What do you say to the woman who finds herself pregnant due to rape? What do you do with the adolescent girl who is impregnated by her father, brother ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Not All Bunkers Cost $1 Million
    SouthernPrepper1 is one of the best survivalists on YouTube. Nothing fancy, but lots of basic, real information and experiences. Here he shows us bunker which he has stored some supplies in. For many scenarios a bunker does not need to protect you long-term, but rather for just a few days. And i ...
  • Super-Rugged Smart Phones
    A global SHTF event is unlikely to leave us with mobile phone services in the long-term. But smart phones are more than just phones, and they can be very useful even without the phone aspect. Primarily, you can store ebooks on them – just make sure that the books are actually on your phone ...
  • World’s Smallest Survival Pod
    From Japan of course. Only $4000. They have hundreds of pre-orders, but I couldn’t find out how I could get one – the manufacturer is Cosmo Power, but their website is in Japanese… The craft is 1.2 ...World’s Smallest Survival Pod is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
  • Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert
    Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence (more at Wikipedia). There is a lot of evidence that epigenetic modifications ...Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert is a post from: ...
  • USA Govt: Mega Snitch List
    I’ve mentioned previously how survivalists could show up on government radar if store owners decide that buying supplies with cash is suspicious – the purchaser could be a terrorist! As it happens, there are 25 ...USA Govt: Mega Snitch List is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...

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 ...

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Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Women's Networking Groups~ or~ Do Men Do That?!
     I believe in networking, especially with other women. Great to meet other entrepreneurial and creative women, get new ideas, etc, plus it gets me out of my basement studio and out into public.  This morning it was a brand new group, first get-together, in the studio of a fun photograp ...
  • Cajun Spice Mix
    [Editor's Note: Let the good times roll with this fantastic homemade spice blend! It marries Cajun flavors and is great to keep on hand to boost the flavor of lots of dishes. --Genie] Cajun Spice Mix Recipe One way to keep our taste buds happy and satisfied without feeling like they are depri ...
  • Business Advice That Might Convince You to Att ...
    Talk to any successful person, and I’d place money that they would have something to say about the person or people who helped them get where they are today. Whether directly or indirectly, no one really sails a ship to success island alone. That’s why BlogHer Entrepreneurs is awesome for those ...
  • Setting Your Fears Aside to Pursue Your Education
    Between her family and career, Debra Epply's life seemed way too busy to go back to school. But she discovered a way to make it all work. Her advice? Do it now! "You have a job. You have a family. If I can do, you can do it. Don't take 9 years to think about it like I did. There were times when ...
  • Debt Consolidate & Settlement: Worth It?
    What is the difference between debt consolidation and debt settlement? In a debt consolidation, you would consolidate several of your loans into one loan and one monthly payment. This process may lower your interest rate and extend the life of the loan, thereby giving you a lower monthly repayme ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Doctors Now ‘Firing’ Patients Who ...
    For many years government and health officials have been trying to push vaccination on the people. While childhood vaccine exemption rateshave been increasing, we have been seeing an overall increase in the amount of people receiving the ...
  • Collecting rainwater now illegal in many state ...
    Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly ...
  • Year in review: 37 communities vote to end art ...
    A total of 37 communities vote to end artificial water fluoridation in 2011. Is your community on that list? With all the toxins in today’s drinking water it should be. ~ Health Freedoms The year 2011 ...
  • True fact: A common ingredient in commercial b ...
    Did you know that most breads you eat have been derived from human hair? It’s true! ~ Health Freedoms If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient ...
  • Explosive reports reveal HFCS in processed foo ...
    Why has the FDA ignored the fact that mercury, an element that is highly toxic in all forms, was found in a large number of brand-name processed foods? Specifically, the mercury content was found to ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Corps brings back streamlined strip-mine permits
    There’s been an interesting development this week on mountaintop removal that I’m not sure most people have caught onto yet … Here’s the press release issued yesterday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced today revised an ...
  • W.Va. Sen. Manchin ‘grills’ Secret ...
    I was getting a little worried that maybe Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., wasn’t feeling well. Really. I mean, he let Sen. Jay Rockefeller get out the door first in the race to criticize coal’s treatment in President Obama’s new budget proposal for the 2013 financial year. But I sho ...
  • Will West Virginia lead on coal-mine safety?
    Pam Napper, mother of deceased coal miner Josh Napper, holds Josh’s daughter Jenna Leigh Napper, 20 months, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at a candlelight vigil in Cabin Creek, W.Va. Josh Napper was among the 29 miners killed, along with his uncle Timmy Davis Sr. and his cousin Cory Davis at an ...
  • Does the coal industry’s new report &#82 ...
    As noted last night in Coal Tattoo’s comments section, a Yale University researcher hired by the National Mining Association has published the first peer-reviewed paper that offers a response to the 20 papers that West Virginia University’s Michael Hendryx has produced over the last ...
  • Goodwin turns up the heat on UBB security chief
    We broke the story last night on the Gazette’s website about U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin taking the highly unusual step of asking for the maximum possible jail sentence — 25 years in prison — for Hughie Elbert Stover, the former Massey Energy security chief convicted for lying ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Sam Harris on Free Will
    via youtube.com Obvious to me. Nonsense to others. Fascinating to me, that it’s nonsense to others. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSam Harris Answers Reddit’s QuestionsHarris Gives The Single Best Summary of Why Religious Belief is HarmfulJud ...
  • The Problem With Daniel Dennett’s Free Will
    Before going into my qualms with Daniel Dennett’s capability/evitibility-based free will, I want to point out that most supporters of Daniel Dennett’s brand of free will don’t realize that he agrees that we don’t have my brand of free will. What brand is that you ask? The ...
  • Sandcat Penetration Testing Oriented Browser | ...
    This first Sandcat Browser release includes the following pen-test oriented features:Live HTTP Headers Request Editor extension Fuzzer extension with multiple modes and support for filters JavaScript Executor extension — allows you to load and run external JavaScript files Lua Executor ext ...
  • Android.Bmaster Exploits root access to connec ...
    This Malware is estimated to affect between 10,000 and 30,000 phones on any given day. The malware, mostly found on Chinese phones, works by using GingerBreak, a tool that gives users root access to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. RootSmart is designed to escape detection by being named “com ...
  • Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work | The New Yorker
    Although the findings did nothing to hurt brainstorming’s popularity, numerous follow-up studies have come to the same conclusion. Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, has summarized the science: “Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of fa ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • The Global Criminalizing of Homelessness, Part ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN – Two independent United Nations human rights experts today issued a joint call on Hungary to revise recent laws that criminalize homelessness and potentially imprison those living on the streets.“People who have no choice but to live on the street are now in danger of ...
  • Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmage ...
    Worldwidehippies,Nasa. By Christina Coleman - In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence off of major roads. Hundreds of thousands ...
  • Struggling to get by in South Bronx, America&# ...
    Worldwidehippies,RT news – Welcome to the South Bronx. Graffiti, garbage, a daily fight for dignity. It is the poorest district in America. Just a 20-minute ride from the wealth of Manhattan, this is the stop for those whose life is largely a struggle. A staggering quarter of a million peo ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: Occupy Wall Street&#8230 ...
    By  Peter Prime,policymic.com - On September 17, 2011, a group of young people occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district. Shortly thereafter, their oft-repeated slogan of being the “99%” started to ricochet in the news media. The heavy news coverage has allowed their slogan to ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Seattle Arrest Questions Cops’ Use of Dash Cams Two friends who had planned to visit a Seattle sports bar claim they ended up being kicked, arrested at gunpoint and held in jail for several hours by a cop who said he intended to “make stuff up.” Part of the arrest of Josh Lawso ...

reference frame

  • CMS hangout
    The CMS Collaboration organized its first hangout via Google+: The selection of beverages and babes wasn't too wide. Instead, the event was a video conferencing session with a physicist in the CMS cavern, 110 meters beneath the ground, and laymen on the other side of the cable. ...
  • Heartland Institute and skepticism: is that a ...
    Some people have obtained several documents from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian/conservative U.S. think tank. These documents show that the folks in the Heartland Institute are climate skeptics who are working to help other climate skeptics, especially among the scientists. Many ...
  • Some alarmists are waiting for skeptics to die off
    Willie Soon has pointed out a new conflict in between two groups of climate change alarmists. What do they disagree about? One group led by David Roberts of Grist argues that the alarmists should wait for all the climate skeptics to die off; another group, represented by Crikey, claims t ...
  • Cold fusion colloquium at CERN
    On Thursday, March 22nd, the CERN Colloquium between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm will be dedicated to a very, very unusual topic: cold fusion. The title is Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR): click for descriptionand the talk will be presented b ...
  • Magic 4D: a great comedy
    Just ten days ago, you could have read about Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists". Because this is another blog entry about a play in the Pilsner Chamber Theater, you must start to think that I am the ultimate theater addict. In order to preserve this generous and precious belief of yours, ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Politician acquitted of sexual assault
    Trond Birkedal, the former top politician who was the Progress Party’s candidate for mayor of Stavanger, was acquitted on Thursday of charges he’d sexually assaulted minors under the age of 16. He was convicted, though, of secretly filming young naked men in his home and acquiring nu ...
  • Man held in teenage refugee’s death
    UPDATED: Police in Rogaland, western Norway, had one man in custody on Thursday and may charge others as well in the death of a teenager at the Dale Asylum Center Wednesday night. The teenage boy from Iran died after being stabbed in the chest. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that several ...
  • Cleared contractor sues for damages
    Harald Langemyhr, a building contractor recently acquitted on charges of defrauding the City of Oslo and the state on nursing home construction projects, now says he plans to sue the city and state for more than NOK 200 million. He claims the public sector must compensate him for losses he&#8217 ...
  • Robbery victim invited to Parliament
    A young Norwegian man who was the victim of a brutal robbery in Oslo last fall was a guest of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) on Thursday, when politicians planned to grill Norway’s Justice Minister over a wave of street crime in recent months. Sturla Nøstvik was walking home to his ...
  • Oil divides industry in two
    Norway’s booming oil industry has left the rest of its industrial base divided into two camps. They consist of those companies that make it possible to extract and produce oil and gas, and all the companies not tied to oil that now are struggling to survive. Norway’s traditional fore ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • USAID to Incorporate Permaculture in Aid Work
    USAID Permaculture Technical Brief (580kb PDF) The growing food crisis has struggled to stay in the headlines since being highlighted broadscale in the mainstream media back in 2008, but it moves apace regardless, and I can assure you it [...]
  • The Heartland Institute Exposed
    Misrepresenting climate science: Cherry-picking data for political purposes The Heartland Institute, as many readers will know, has been at the centre of efforts to cloud the issues and science surrounding climate change for years now. (Before that, they were at the centre of efforts to cloud ...
  • GE Eucalyptus Trees Approved by the USDA
    The GE Tree Company ArborGen has been given permission by the USDA to plant huge plantations of genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees across seven states in the southern U.S. — Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. These states are very well ...
  • Invasive Trees in Colorado, Part I
    A brief discussion on the merits of Ghetto Palm (Ailanthus altissima) by Mike Wood First, so we know what we’re talking about, see the Wikipedia entry on the ‘Tree of Heaven’ here. This tree is considered to be an invasive species in Colorado, and no doubt in other places. Our ...
  • War Made Easy: 50 Years of Deception and Media ...
    War Made Easy: 50 Years of Deception and Media Spin Duration 1:13 — Narrated by Sean Penn Many permaculturists would agree that one of, if not the, worst aspects of our modern ‘civilised’ civilisation is centralisation. Centralisation equates to decisions made without o ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Message to Occupy Prisons Protests, By Robert King
    The below message, from Robert King, a former New Orleans Black Panther and member of Angola Three, was recently published in the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three newsletter. First of all I would like to applaud and salute those in the Occupy movement for focusing on the hideou ...
  • Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist An ...
    I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I learned about the incredibly egregious law HB 56 and I l ...
  • What Does Gender Have To Do With Housing? By S ...
    From the Bridge The Gulf website: This article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork: Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housi ...
  • For Volunteers in New Orleans: Principles of P ...
    More than six years after Hurricane Katrina, volunteers are still coming to New Orleans from across the US. We appreciate the solidarity, but we also think it is important to be conscious of the limits of volunteerism. In that spirit, we believe it is useful to republish this 2007 letter, origin ...
  • How Much is a Black Vote Worth? Who Wants to B ...
    On May 10, 1994 former political prisoner Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was elected the first Black President of South Africa. I remember seeing a newspaper photograph of three elderly South African women. Two of them struggled as they carried the third woman between them by her arm pits, for ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yes Travis, I get it. The "bovine automatons" view is congruent to the Talmudic goyim idea, so we must be careful not to get too jaded, lest we unconsciously or otherwise, join them in being haters. One thing I have observed is that there is enough polarization in America to cause, w ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    mgt23 wrote: good to see u around travis. i believe the phrase mindless bovine automatons rings a bell. Good to see we are all aroundStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:28 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHSv1as ... Uwj7W3RrZg Just WATCH IT. LINDSEYStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:10 pm
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Margaret Thatcher’s Part in the Sinking of the General Belgrano By T Stokes on December 24, 2011 T Stokes – December 23, 2011 The new film about British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep glosses over one of the most important aspects of her premiership. The documents ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Michael K. wrote: There can't be too many people choosing to watch this movie since: 1.) The full length movie is free on You Tube, and 2.) The official website of the movie has an activist section on how to get this movie to play in your town. I hope that you are not under the impression t ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Endangered Freshwater Dolphins To Be Protected ...
    The government of Bangladesh has created three new wildlife sanctuaries for the endangered Ganges River and Irrawaddy freshwater dolphins, the last two remaining species of freshwater dolphins in Asia. WCS A Ganges River dolphin Working with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
  • New U.S.-Led Program Targets Reductions in Soo ...
    With efforts to curb global carbon dioxide emissions stalled, a group of nations, including the U.S., will unveil a new program to cut other pollutants that contribute to global warming. The program, called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, will focus ...
  • Electric Vehicles in China Pollute More Than G ...
    The use of electric cars in China produces more particulate matter pollution than gasoline-fueled vehicles, according to a new study. In an analysis of five vehicle technologies in 34 major Chinese cities, U.S. researchers found that the power generated to run electric cars produces significantl ...
  • Can Smarter Growth Guide China’s Urban Buildin ...
    The world has never seen anything like China’s dizzying urbanization boom, which has taken a heavy environmental toll. But efforts are now underway to start using principles of green design and smart growth to guide the nation’s future development. BY DAVID BIELLO
  • Wastewater Reuse Could Increase U.S. Supplies ...
    Advanced treatment of municipal wastewater could increase available water supplies in the U.S. by 27 percent, according to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences. Of the 32 billion gallons of municipal wastewater discharged each day nationwide, about 12 billion gallons of effluent i ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • Romney on Birth Control
    Romney strongly endorsed: "greatly expanded programs of providing adequate family planning services to all those who want but can't afford them."
  • China, Trade Warrior
    Mitt Romney in today's Wall Street Journal takes a hard line on China:
  • Values Collapsing Worldwide
    If "values" determine people's attachment to the labor force, then lousy values are breaking out all over:
  • Is Decline Optional?
    Robert Kagan posted a letter to the editor in the Financial Times, replying to Ed Luce's comment on Kagan's essay about the non-inevitability of US economic decline.
  • 3 Must Reads
    Adventures, of sorts: an updated version of Jane Eyre, the gimlet musings of Robert Walser’s Berlin, and a woman who swims in Ireland with fantastical results.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Hamilton tries counseling after slip
    Josh Hamilton is undergoing counseling individually and with his wife in the aftermath of his alcohol relapse, and the Texas Rangers slugger said he is "doing things right a day at a time." In an exclusive interview Wednesday with Pastor James Robinson on Glenn Beck's live streaming video netw ...
  • Karaoke box caters to shy soloists
    A karaoke booth for single-person use in Tokyo is offering shy customers a place where they can sing without worrying about what others may think. The One Kara karaoke box near JR Kanda Station opened in November with 24 private booths, each about 2 sq. meters in size, where customers can sing ...
  • 'Water for Elephants'
    What is it about Robert Pattinson that makes him slightly annoying? Despite his 18-carat movie-star status built on his vampire role in the "Twilight" series, despite the rumor that he's slated as the next Brad Pitt (er, really?) and has the lanky, boyish charm to back it up, Pattinson remains s ...
  • Rare Tohoku debris disposal test starts
    The city of Shimada in Shizuoka Prefecture on Thursday began incinerating tsunami debris from Tohoku on a trial basis to check radiation levels and assess the potential risk to local residents. If municipal authorities confirm radiation levels are within a safe range, the city will formally ag ...
  • Yokohama event to become meeting place for per ...
    The performing arts are taking over Kanagawa Prefecture's capital for a weeklong event called TPAM in Yokohama. The event hopes to foster an atmosphere where participating artists can interact with one another to exchange ideas and network. TPAM has a lot to offer art lovers across the city. T ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Cone of Silence Descends on Federal Cuts
    The federal government has further lowered its “cone of silence” over the implications of federal cuts today.  Treasury board has instructed all departments to remove any implications of the latest $8 billion in cuts from their “Reports on Plans and Priorities” (RPP). The ...
  • Statistics For Democracy
    Statistics Canada is sometimes unfairly blamed for decisions made pursuant to budget cuts and to political direction, most notably in the decision to replace the long form Census with a much less reliable Household Survey. But the agency deserves tremendous credit for the decision, implemented j ...
  • Drummond: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    The Drummond Commission reported today. The Good While the McGuinty government prevented the Commission from considering tax rates, it proposes some sensible measures to raise revenue. Chapter 18, “Revenue Integrity,” recommends combating corporate tax avoidance and cracking down on the undergro ...
  • Master of Allusion
    Stockwell! It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face and I was wondering how life outside of politics was treating you. So, imagine my great pleasure when I came across your column on the CBC website: “Avoid the trap of the income ‘gap’.” Noting the deliberate use of quotation marks, I had to ...
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    Ontario public service advocates and providers are becoming increasingly and rightfully alarmed about the direction of provincial finances, in the run-up to tomorrow’s public release of the Drummond Commission report, and a subsequent provincial budget that looks to be painfully austere. T ...

ReDress

  • Time for Jewish activists to shun their racial ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers how racially-driven Zionists and Jewish lobbies abuse the term "racism" and have turned "anti-racism" into a tool to silence criticism of Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism. He argues that rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Israeli propagan ...
  • Republican presidential candidate Rick Santoru ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...
  • Britain helps Israeli water thieves
    Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.
  • UK, US condemn murder in Syria, condone murder ...
    Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".
  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...

Physics Today

  • European satellite to test Einstein's gravitat ...
    National Geographic: On Monday the European Space Agency launched a low-cost space probe into Earth orbit. LARES (Laser Relativity Satellite) is designed to measure frame dragging, or the distortion of spacetime caused by the rotation of a massive object, such as Earth. The probe, a solid metal ...
  • Researchers find flaw in public key encryption
    New York Times: Arjen K. Lenstra of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, James P. Hughes of California, and their colleages have discovered a weakness in the public-key cryptography algorithm used worldwide for online shopping, banking, and other secure internet services. The a ...
  • Iran announces first domestically made nuclear ...
    BBC: For the first time, Iran has used nuclear fuel made in one of its own uranium enrichment facilities. The country began working toward nuclear self-sufficiency two years ago, after the collapse of a deal to procure reactor fuel from abroad. The facility at Natanz houses newer enrichment cent ...
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    BBC: X-ray studies conducted by Jong Seto of the University of Konstanz and colleagues have identified the structural origin of sea urchin spines' strength. The spines are made up of two forms of calcium carbonate: 92% is in calcite crystals, and the remaining 8% is in a form that lacks any crys ...
  • What would a nuclear blast do to your home town?
    Daily Mail: The cold war is over, and the possibility of nuclear Armageddon is no longer the potent threat it once was. However, the approximately 23 000 nuclear warheads still in existence are a potential danger, albeit a less immediately compelling one. For those curious about what the ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

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    “I repeat that the wall on the Zimbabwean side is weak and requires anchoring and this is being attended to. It is something that is high on the agenda because without the dam wall you really have nothing,” “Mangoma said. The Kariba dam on the Zambezi River is one of the larges ...
  • Is Nevada Coal Plant an Example of Environment ...
    “For almost 50 years, the Moapa Piaute Band has been living near one of the dirtiest coal plants in the nation, getting exposed to dangerous levels of noxious gases, coal ash, and water pollution. However, they haven’t seen the economic benefits they were promised – or any of the electrici ...
  • Uganda Hydropower Plant Plan Hits Funding, Tec ...
    “Plans by Uganda to start building the planned 700 MW Karuma hydropower project this year have been thrown into jeopardy, following disagreements with would-be financiers over the design and capacity of the plant. Days after the East African nation abolished subsidies in the energy sector, ...
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    “A race is on to extract natural gas from vast swathes of the US. But is hydraulic fracking the cure for an energy-hungry country or a fatally flawed process that will have disastrous consequences for people and the environment? Estimates of vast deposits of shale gas under US soil have le ...
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    “The new rule issued by the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District, based in Lubbock, declares that water pumped in excess of the “allowable production rate” is illegal. In Texas, a bastion of the free-market Tea Party, such a rule is hard to fathom.  Most of the state abides ...

D. Kucinich

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    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement concerning FirstEnergy’s plan to close several Ohio power plants. “Last month, FirstEnergy decided to close six of their highest-cost, highest-polluting coal-burning power plants, which FirstEnergy used mostly in the peak ...
  • Kucinich Hosts Briefing on Diplomatic Options ...
    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. Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, to discuss the diplom ...
  • Kucinich Talks Solutions to Primary Care Shortage
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) met with leaders in the medical and education communities today to discuss the primary care physician shortage in the nation and in Cleveland. Only about 3% of each graduating class of medical school students will go into primary care. The remainder will go int ...
  • Kucinich Vows to Fight for NASA and the Glenn ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today met briefly with National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator General Charles Bolden and discussed the need to protect NASA’s budget. Kucinich also welcomed to the U.S. Capitol Astronauts Cady Coleman, Ron Garan and Mike Fossum, who recentl ...
  • Workers Thank Kucinich for Efforts to Protect Jobs
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today met with workers from the Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). The workers from DFAS thanked Congressman Kucinich for his efforts to protect jobs and workers from unfair and discriminat ...

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    .. . Duh … What the hell took them so long … isn’t this really a no brainer …? Feds approve ban on cruise ship sewage discharge “This is a great day for the California coast, which is far too precious a resource to be used as a dumping ground,” said Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo [...]
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    … Oh … WOW … what a message … 20 separate damages to our shared environment and EPA slaps their dirty hand for $75,000 per incident … Golly  do you think Union Pacific can afford that …? Union Pacific to pay $1.5M settlement in oil spill  February 10, 2012 …http://www.ncbr.com/article/20120210/N ...
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    Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot…? At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … February 8, 2012 ...
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    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
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    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
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    People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.University of Adelaide researchers found...
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    Man's best friend could also be his smartest after scientists concluded dogs can outsmart chimpanzees.With their human-like brains, chimps have long been rated high on the intelligence scale, but German experts found dogs were better...
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    Earthquake prediction will be a step closer if New Zealand wins a bid for the largest radio telescope ever built.A joint New Zealand and Australian consortium is bidding against a southern African group for the right to host the...

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Hit & Run | Reason

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    Chuck Norris and R. Lee Ermey want you to save the Second Amendment. Or else. The two actors have been starring in videos for "Trigger the Vote," a voter registration campaign. Sponsored by the National Rifle Association, Trigger the Vote is aimed at youth voters (well, figurativ ...
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    In my column yesterday, I cited President Obama's proposal to increase the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts as evidence that he is less than fully committed to making the "hard choices" and "difficult decisions" he says are necessary in light of "the fiscal realities we ...
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    A question arises from the recent controversy between President Obama and the Catholic Church that aches for an answer, writes Sheldon Richman. If a Catholic institution should not be forced to pay for contraception because it regards birth control as morally repugnant, why should any ...
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    Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is bucking the neighborhood hegemon:  "We are not doing what the United States says, we are doing what we have to do," said Perez, who was elected on promises of an "iron-fist" approach to rampant crime and surprised observers by proposing ...
  • Watergate's Deep Throat: Maybe Not So Heroic A ...
    Reason Contributing Editor and Deputy Most Interesting Man in the World Glenn Garvin has a fine piece up at the Miami Herald about a new book by Max Holland called Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat. The upshot? That the image of Felt as a high-minded truth-teller is wrong, ...

Mercury Rising

  • Nanotechnology applied to repairing/killing ca ...
    Elizabeth Lopatto, Bloomberg: Scientists have created a robot made entirely from DNA that can be instructed to find diseased cells in the body and deliver a payload to kill or reprogram them, according to a study from Harvard University. The robot was constructed by folding DNA strands into a sh ...
  • Burnt sacrifices to the war on some drugs
    DemocracyNow: JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to Honduras, where a fire swept through an overcrowded prison Tuesday night and killed more than 350 inmates. It’s the world’s deadliest prison fire in a century. According to the Associated Press, most of the inmates who died had never been charged, let ...
  • Meet Angela Merkel, Dale Carnegie graduate
    Eleni Chrepa, Bloomberg: Greek President Karolos Papoulias slammed Germany’s finance minister for recent comments about his country as stalled bailout talks stoked tensions between Greece and the northern European countries funding its rescue. “I don’t accept insults to my country by Mr. Schaeub ...
  • Contrary To GOP Bloviating, Keystone XL Won&#8 ...
    Just in case you were wondering whether John Boehner’s bill to “force” Obama to build the Keystone XL Right! Now! was serious legislation or political theater, now you know — it’s theater: The Calgary, Alberta-based company said Tuesday in an earnings release that i ...
  • A spear through the Heartland
    Thanks to Quentin Compson on Eschaton, in comments. Documents from the Heartland Institute reveal its donors. Its “policy positions, strategies and budget distinguish it clear[ly] as a lobby firm that is misrepresenting itself as a ‘think tank’ Based on these documents, Joe Rom ...

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Desertification

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    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
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    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
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    Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • ‘Iran unlikely to strike unless hit’
    A senior US intelligence official has admitted that if attacked, Iran will respond but is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict.
  • UK fears losing interest by Scot split
    British Prime Minister, fearing to lose interests at international level, has once again raised the rhetoric of the dispute over the Scotland’s independence by pledging to fight “head, heart and soul” to prevent the split of the United Kingdom.
  • 'West after political realignment in Iran'
    Iran has unveiled a number of nuclear achievements which include loading domestically-made nuclear assemblies into Tehran's Research reactor, a new generation of centrifuges and a 50-percent increase in the production of enriched uranium.
  • UK to deploy more officials to Malvinas
    Britain has taken yet another controversial measure to provoke the outrage of Argentina, as it is to deploy the first British minister to the disputed Malvinas Islands.
  • 'Resistance guards region against Israel’
    Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the movement will not abandon resistance, which he says protects the whole region from Israeli schemes.

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