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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

18 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Rinehart pens universes worst poem
    Australia's richest person, the mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has been ridiculed for penning an anti-government poem that rhymes "rampant tax" with "political hacks" and pleads for "special economic zones". The poem, a sort of ode to mining titled "Our Future", has been engraved on a plaque f ...
  • Graeber: anthropologist, anarchist, financial ...
    .. I’ve heard Graeber explain his anarchism as, at least in part, informed by what he saw in Madagascar. In villages where the state had retreated and pulled out its resources almost completely, communities were basically left to govern and provide for themselves. It was anarchism by state negl ...
  • Chomsky: US 'Losing' the world, Part 2
    In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere.  In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itself from western domination, another serious loss. The region has moved towards integration, ...
  • UK unemployment @ 17yr High !
    The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, accused Osborne of complacency as the latest snapshot of the labour market by the Office for National Statistics showed the unemployment rate stuck at a 17-year high of 8.4% in the three months to December and the number of women claiming unemployment benefits at ...
  • Google under fire for 'secret' relationship wi ...
    The group asked Issa to investigate contracts at several U.S. agencies for Google technology and services, the "secretive" relationship between Google and the U.S. National Security Agency, and the company's use of a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration airfield in California. F ...

Independent - London

  • China urges end to Syrian violence
    A Chinese envoy visiting Damascus has called on all sides in Syria to stop the violence.Related StoriesAmerican reporter Anthony Shadid dies in SyriaTanks shell Homs after UN voteA journalist who risked all to cover Middle East hotspotsSyrians flee their homes amid fears of ethnic cleansingHague ...
  • Pope creates 22 new cardinals
    Pope Benedict XVI is bringing 22 new Catholic churchmen into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor.Related StoriesLebedev blames government for police raid on his Moscow bankGerman President quits in loan scandalDutch prince fights for life after being buried in avalancheEvery ...
  • Hague 'new Cold War' fear over Iran
    Iran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into "a new Cold War" with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today.Related StoriesAmerican reporter Anthony Shadid dies in SyriaTanks shell Homs after UN voteA journalist who risked all to cover Middle East hotspotsSyrians fle ...
  • Washington bomb plot foiled by FBI posing as a ...
    A terror suspect was arrested in Washington DC yesterday as he prepared to launch what he thought would be a lethal suicide attack on the US Congress.Related StoriesUnderwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab begins life termThe $88m apartment: now the oligarchs take ManhattanDrug smugglers make ...
  • Cameron hails new era of Franco-British milita ...
    At a meeting in Paris yesterday, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed that Britain and France would strengthen their military and nuclear co-operation, create a joint command and control centre for armed operations, and speed the development of a new generation of battlefield drones.Related ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US: UFO inspired metal boxes still vex experts ...
    Metal boxes still vex experts while someone is taking the boxes away Florence, Oregon: There are many theories about strange metal boxes that started appearing along Oregon and West Coast beaches last week; while Feb. 15 brings new but vague answers. In a world where people see lots of strange ...
  • A Conservative Explains Why Right-Wingers Have ...
    A former Republican Senate Congressional staffer on why right-wingers think people without insurance deserve to die. Although Mitt Romney used the word "conservative" 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference, the audience he used this word t ...
  • Roundup in City-dwellers' Urine
    Studies have already found Monsanto's toxic herbicide Roundup in groundwater, in streams, and even in the rain and air of US agricultural areas. It's been found in our blood and even crosses the placental barrier to enter our unborn fetuses. So are we surprised that a German university study has ...
  • Answer to Shocking 'Faster-Than-Light' Particl ...
    Vancouver, British Columbia - Physicists stunned the world last year by announcing they'd seen signs that particles called neutrinos were traveling faster than light - a feat thought to be proven impossible by Einstein. Ever since, other researchers have been racing to try the experiment on ...
  • Are Statins Worth the Risk?
    Cholesterol lowering drugs called Statins generated $34 billion in sales in 2007 and have raked in over a quarter of a trillion dollars since they were introduced two decades ago. A new study reported in the NY Times links the use of statins with a higher risk of developing diabetes. This is jus ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dots
    Connect them. This dot, then to this dot, then to this dot. And off in the periphery Vic Toews, under the guise of administering "public safety" has you expecting to believe a great many things which, when held to the light, are unbelievable. Also too, he's claiming he wasn't aware of the pr ...
  • Big Victor . . .
  • The most dangerous legislation ever placed bef ...
    And if you don't recognize what Vic Toews was (and still is) attempting to do, you're not paying attention. Toews had (and still has) every intention of sending "inspectors" into your Internet Service Provider to dig up anything and everything without need for reasonable suspicion of a crime an ...
  • Sheep, look up . . .
  • Investigate what?
    I tend to agree with pogge. There is nothing that has been posted on Twitter about Vic Toews that wasn't already a matter of public record. His demand for an investigation, (and the releasing of the Harper party's howler monkey in residence, John Baird), is nothing more than an attempt to distra ...

Media Matters for America

  • Why The Right Is Wrong About Saving Detroit
    An emerging myth being pushed by the right contends that federal spending to rescue GM and Chrysler was unnecessary, and that the companies instead should have gone through a "traditional" bankruptcy. In fact, economists at the time explained that frozen credit markets made private financing fo ...
  • Economists Shoot Down WSJ's Claim Tha ...
    The Wall Street Journal attacked a congressional deal to extend unemployment insurance, arguing that jobs are now "easier to find" and that additional benefits would delay workers' re-entry into the workforce. But economists agree that at this point in the economic recovery, it is "vital" to ex ...
  • Fox News Resumes Perennial Gas Price Charade
    As the employment outlook improves, Fox News is advising Republicans to focus on blaming President Obama for rising gasoline prices -- a claim with no relation to economic fact.Fox News Talkers Converge On Highly Misleading Talking Point   Fox Blames Obama For Change In Gas Prices From Ja ...
  • Obama Administration Considers Strategic And R ...
    Right-wing media are attacking the Obama administration for reportedly considering options for cuts to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But experts have said that the United States should significantly reduce its nuclear arsenal, which was built up to fight the Cold War.AP: The Obama Administration Is ...
  • Fox Figures Argue For Harmful Spending Cuts
    Fox News figures have responded to President Obama's proposed budget by calling for more spending cuts. However, economists agree that immediate spending cuts would harm the economic recovery.Fox Figures Call For More Spending Cuts Varney: Claim That Cutting Spending Would Hurt Economy Is "The ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Desp ...
    Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to b ...
  • A plan to teach climate change skepticism in s ...
    The other day at a dinner party I sat across from a climate scientist (seriously, a professor at a major university in the earth sciences department), who commented that his trips to the Artic this summer were somewhat daunting.  When I asked him who were all these folks Governor Perry said were ...
  • Help us Protect Big Bend and the Guadalupe Mou ...
    Big Bend. The Guadalupe Mountains. Everything about them is iconic…everything but the air pollution that obscures the scenic viewscapes. Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are increasingly under attack from air pollution known as haze from coal plants and refineries. The Clean ...
  • INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACU ...
    Thirty-seven clean energy groups submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors.  If you would like to sign on as ...
  • INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACU ...
    Thirty-seven clean energy groups submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors.  If you would like to sign on as ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Mystery of Devil's Hole
    A mysterious bottomless pit in the Pacific Northwest has been the subject of stories for decades. The mere existence of the hole is a matter of much c...
  • Will animals evolve human defenses ?
    The most dangerous predator to ever walk the planet is mankind - but what can animals do in defense ? Throughout history predators and prey have been ...
  • Google developing driverless cars
    Google is looking towards a future where cars can run us about without even needing a driver. The internet giant has been lobbying in Nevada to allow ...
  • 'Ghost nun' caught on camera ?
    Jonathan Curran captured something unusual in a photograph at The Long Walk in Galway, Ireland. The local photographer had taken 13 shots of the area ...
  • Grant Wilson to leave Ghost Hunters
    TAPS co-founder Grant Wilson has announced that he will be leaving Ghost Hunters in May this year. "While paranormal investigating has always been and...

Grassroots

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

Climate

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • Guardian Fail
    If you like keeping track of these things, Bloomberg News managed to note that recent attacks on Israeli diplomats came chronologically after the assassination of several Iranian scientists, while the Guardian couldn't be bothered by such details. Here's the Guardian: But in other parts of t ...
  • Casual Observation
    The conservative members of the Supreme Court should be forced to sit in a dark room and watch the entire Deadwood series until they internalize the meaning of especially vulnerable to continued efforts of corporate control to the detriment of democracy and the republican form of government. Yes ...
  • Views of The Boss
    I gotta go get The Boss's new album. It sounds fantastic. Indeed, it is as angry a cry from the belly of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie, a thundering blow of New Jersey pig iron down on the heads of Wall Street and all who have sold his country dow ...
  • Stupid Whiners
    One of the more tiresome things is the rant we always hear from a-holes who get fired for making offensive remarks in our media. It's always the same. They claim that people are taking away their First Amendment rights. It may have seemed otherwise for the last decade, but Patrick Buchanan ne ...
  • Casual Observation
    I said last night that we might top out at 38 states, but 35 states will do. The GOP is starting to feel it. And this must have them quaking in their boots. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • When Old Soda Cans Blossom into Beautiful Flowers
    Buying cut flowers never has to be a guilty pleasure again with these amazingly life-like recycled flowers, made from old soda cans! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Most Incredible Tank Graveyards on Earth
    Where do old tanks go to die? Wherever they were last used and dumped, is the answer in many cases. Join us on a tour of the world's most amazing tank cemeteries... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Amazing Giant Hearts Found in Nature
    With Valentine’s Day upon us, our minds flutter away with Cupid and turn to thoughts of love. Check out these giant hearts, as painted by Mother Nature... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Changing Symbolism of the Heart Shape Thro ...
    The history of the heart icon dates all the way back to cro-magnon times, and has a long and varied history in becoming one of the most recognised symbols on Earth today. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • Baby Lizards That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
    Babies of all kinds tend to have a cuteness factor, but baby lizards get an A+ in being adorable. Just check out these pics, while learning something too! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Shellfish Ban Off Long Island
    No clam fishing will be allowed in part of the bay because of state concerns about water quality.
  • A 'TouchĆ©!' From Climate Scientists
    Researchers pointedly assert that when scientists' e-mails were stolen, the Heartland Institute chose to distort what was in them. Now the institute finds that some of its own internal documents have been leaked.
  • In Marine Wildlife Preserves, a Balancing Act
    Bangladesh is creating two dolphin preserves, in a country where officials say wildlife conservation will have to be balanced with the demands of a growing human population.
  • A Different Kind of Beekeeping Takes Flight
    More and more people are raising stingless, or meloponine, bees, which produce a broad variety of honey, some of it with medicinal uses.
  • Interior Approves Shell's Arctic Oil-Spill Res ...
    Shell has proposed drilling up to six wells in the Chukchi Sea during the next two summer open-water seasons about 70 miles off the coast. The Obama administration says Shell has assured ready availability of a capping stack and an oil collection system should a spill occur.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Why everyone should Occupy US 1% corporate med ...
    “We denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakne ...
  • THE SYRIAN DILEMMA
    Saul Landau How to evaluate events in Syria and what to do? Syria borders on Turkey (north), Iraq (east), the Mediterranean (west), Lebanon (south and west), Israel (Golan Heights) and Jordan (south). Unlike the “humanitarian” intervention in Libya — now edging toward chaos  — outsid ...
  • IN HONOR OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WISCONSIN U ...
    IN HONOR OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WISCONSIN UPRISING February 11, 2011 WISCONSIN:  THE NEW FLORIDA AND OHIO?  Sheila Parks, Ed.D. In the 2000 presidential election, Florida needed Katherine Harris (then Florida Secretary of State), Jeb Bush, the Supreme Court Justices – and the connection ...
  • How a government teacher proves Occupy’s claim ...
    “Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.–Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a ...
  • “Our Struggle Has Become Reality,” Thousands ...
    By Megan Whelan Thursday, January 26, 7:00 am, hundreds of community activists and human rights defenders gather outside Guatemala City’s national court to witness former dictator EfraĆ­n Rios Montt testify on the gross military atrocities and human rights violations that occurred during his de-f ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #682
    Is there a Mossad base near Iran? Analysis: CIA report on Soviet bioweapons still secret. US official says Iran unlikely to strike first.
  • News you may have missed #681
    Mossad 'bolsters activity in Tunisia'. US 'used quake' to send Special Forces into Pakistan. Russian officer convicted of spying for CIA.
  • News you may have missed #680
    Did Pakistani ex-leader know bin Laden's hideout? Sweden expels Rwanda diplomat for spying. Mossad continues to use foreign passports.
  • Spy activity heats up in Berlin, recent arrest ...
    During the Cold War, Berlin was considered one of the world’s paramount intelligence hotspots —a gathering place for spies from Western Europe, the Soviet bloc, America, and beyond. But recent developments in the German capital show that the city’s illustrious espionage heritage is far from over.
  • Israeli-Iranian ‘dirty war’ nearin ...
    The ongoing intelligence war between Israel and Iran appears to be reaching unprecedented levels following the exposure earlier this week of a simultaneous bombing campaign against Israeli targets in Europe and Asia.

War is a Crime.org

  • Norman Solomon
  • Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria
      Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria   by Stephen Lendman   On February 4, Russia and China vetoed the Arab League's one-sided Syria resolution (SC/10536). It illegitimately called for Assad to step down.    Under international law, no nation or combination thereof, may i ...
  • Solidarity with Khader Adnan
      Solidarity with Khader Adnan   by Stephen Lendman   Day 62 and counting. Adnan's hunger strike continues. On February 15, Israel let his wife Randa see him for the second time.    read more
  • Still Locked Away in GuantĆ”namo
    Words of a man cleared for release - yet still locked away in GuantĆ”namo: "Please torture me the old way. Here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks.”   Shaker [Aamer] also explained that he "does not expect President Obama to do anything better than his predeces ...
  • We Shut Down the Military Recruiting Stations
    Yesterday, approximately fifty people including students from Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) along with members of Occupy Wall Street, Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League and World Can't Wait shut down three military recruiting stations that are situated within one block from ...

Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

  • NASA: The Conditions for the Emergence of Life ...
    ased on evidence, what we do have is, unequivocally, the conditions for the emergence of life were present on Mars — period, end of story,” according to Michael J. Mumma, a senior scientist for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who led one of three teams that have made s ...
  • The Boy Who Played With Nuclear Fusion
    Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one
  • Can't get enough sleep? You could be at risk f ...
    We already know that not getting enough sleep can be bad for you. And now there's another reason to worry if you're getting sleep-deprived: People who have trouble sleeping may be at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's Disease later on.
  • Saturn's Titan: Clues to the Origins of Life i ...
    Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," according to Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "We are carbon-based life, and understanding how far along the chain of complexity towards life that chemistry can go ...
  • Tackling Climate Change Requires Looking Beyon ...
    A new international coalition will work to get countries on board with simple and inexpensive climate fixes that could have an outsized impact.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Media Ignores Santorum’s Support For Accused C ...
    Paul Joseph Watson   Monday, January 9, 2012 While the establishment media has ceaselessly smeared Ron Paul for the controversial content of decades-old newsletters that were not even written by him, the comparatively shocking scandal of Rick Santorum having sponsored alleged child molester ...
  • Rick Santorum: North Dakota is in the cross-ha ...
    By Juan Cole GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned North Dakota on Wednesday that it was in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack. Among the news about Iran that had Americans thinking about that country was an announcement that Iran is making its own nuclear fuel and using it for a react ...
  • Panetta: Iran is Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
    by John Glaser, February 16, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that Iran is enriching uranium in a peaceful nuclear program but that Tehran has not decided to develop an atomic bomb. Top U.S. military and intelligence officials gave separate testimonies in congressional hearings ...
  • Rick Santorum: The Pro-Life-Pro-Death Candidate
    By Keith Johnson But is Santorum really pro-life? Well, that depends. If you’re still in the womb of an American citizen, then yes. Aside from that—well, I think comedian George Carlin put it best: ”If you’re pre-born you’re fine. If you’re preschool you’re fucked. Conservatives don’t give a shi ...
  • Feds succeed in destroying entire business of ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It is with much sadness that we report the two-year war waged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has been a success. The Washington Times and others are now reporting that, following a ruling ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • GREEN GUIDE TO PREFAB: Siting Your Home to Max ...
    In the last two installments of our Green Guide to Prefab series on Inhabitat we highlighted the history of prefab design and the evolution of mobile homes into modular prefabricated homes. Within the last ten years, consumers have come to expect a new level of design quality in prefab homes, an ...
  • Sean Avery Turns Shattered CDs Into Astounding ...
    Read the rest of Sean Avery Turns Shattered CDs Into Astounding Animal Sculptures Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: animal sculptures, cd sculptures, cd sulptures, cds, eco-art, green art, old cds, recycled art, Recycled Materials, sean avery, shattered cd animal sculptu ...
  • VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews Metropol Parasol A ...
    Read the rest of VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews Metropol Parasol Architect Juergen Mayer H. Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", architecture modeling technology, Deconstructivism, digital modeling technology, Erich Mendelsohn, german architects, ge ...
  • EDUN’s Fall 2012 Line Goes “Safari Punk” at Ne ...
    Just a couple days ago ethical fashion label EDUN showed off its Fall/Winter 2012 collection to crowd of teeth-chattering guests at Hudson River Park’s Pier 57 for New York Fashion Week. Debuting their “Safari Punk” line, designers Ali Hewson and Sharon Wauchob of EDUN created ...
  • Telesar V is a Groundbreaking Telexistance Robot
    The groundbreaking Telexitstance Robot Telesar V from researchers at Japan’s Keio University could bring us a step closer to a real out of body experience. The creators of Telesar V claim that the robot avatar can not only accurately mimic the movements of its operator, but also transmit b ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Are HAARP Frequency Pulse-Waves Driving People ...
    It's said that sounds can heal, soothe the heart of the most savage beast, sometimes bring on love. But sound can also kill, destroy, and maim. Certain sounds can even drive humans mad—like the insistent, relentless infrasonic sound attacking the people of Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Woodland, ...
  • Russia closely monitoring Iran situation: Russ ...
    Moscow is making preparations to respond to a possible Israeli or US military strike against Iran in 2012, report says. According to World Tribune, the Kremlin has ordered the military to draft options for a Russian response to any foreign attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
  • 300k farmers hope for lawsuit against Monsanto
    Around 300,000 organic farmers think that Monsanto, the biotech giant known for genetically modifying Mother Nature’s handwork for profit and pushing over the little guys all the while, is pretty seedy.
  • Obama Media begin the Faking of Obama Poll Numbers
    In order to sway the vast majority and growing number of Americans who have finally faced up to the fact that Obama is purposefully trying to destroy the United States of America, the Obama Media have begun their side of the Obama syndicate’s overall strategy of lying to us. Polls now show 50% ...
  • Japan warns Israel against attacking Iran
    Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has warned Israel against the ramifications of launching a military strike on Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Andy Worthington

  • Please Sign the E-Petition Urging the UK Gover ...
    Please sign the e-petition (British citizens and residents only). On Tuesday, on the 10th anniversary of the arrival at GuantĆ”namo of Shaker Aamer, the last the British resident in the prison, his family and his lawyers in London launched an e-petition on the government’s website, entitled ...
  • 10 Years in GuantĆ”namo: British Resident Shake ...
    Originally posted on the “Close GuantĆ”namo” website, and written by Andy Worthington. Ten years ago, on February 14, 2002, Shaker Aamer, a British resident, and originally one of 16 British prisoners in GuantĆ”namo, arrived in Camp X-Ray, the rudimentary prison in the grounds of the U ...
  • “It’s a Disgrace”: GuantĆ”nam ...
    Below, I’m pleased to cross-post an interview conducted by phone with the journalist Brad Jacobson during my recent visit to the US to campaign for the closure of GuantĆ”namo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s brutal and lawless “war on terror&#8 ...
  • George W. Bush’s Torture Program Began T ...
    Last month was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at GuantĆ”namo, and as this year progresses it is appropriate to remember that there will be other grim 10-year anniversaries to note. Last week, one of those 10-year anniversaries passed almost unnoticed ...
  • Who Will Rid Us of This Callous Government, As ...
    Last month, while I was in the US for 12 days to campaign for the closure of GuantĆ”namo on the 10th anniversary of the prison’s opening, I was actually pleased to be away from the UK, not because I wanted to be away from my family, or my friends, but because I needed a break [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Man Arrested With Explosives Near Topeka Capit ...
    Investigators with the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) will seek criminal charges against a Florida man who was detained Wednesday after explosive material was found in his pickup truck, which was parked near the state Capitol in Topeka. The suspect, detained in a publicly accessible tunnel on the C ...
  • Anti-Immigrant Theocrat Repeats Lies About Disease
    A recent fundraising letter from the Conservative Caucus Foundation bears an interesting warning for subscribers: Not only are “illegal aliens” “stealing American jobs,” “DEMANDING amnesty” and having “jackpot babies” so they can “get on the welfare gravy train” – they’re also endangering U.S. c ...
  • Arizona Murder Suspect Uses ‘Sovereign’ Langua ...
    A man accused of twin murders in a Phoenix suburb and facing a possible death sentence used language in his initial court appearance mimicking false legal theories advanced by antigovernment “sovereign citizens.” Michael Lee Crane, 31, is charged in Maricopa County with two counts of first-degre ...
  • Man With Bombs Arrested as Kansas Anti-Immigra ...
    A man whose pickup truck contained several homemade anti-personnel bombs was arrested yesterday in a tunnel leading to the Kansas Capitol in Topeka on the same day that hearings on controversial anti-immigrant immigration opened, The Associated Press reports. The man, who police declined to iden ...
  • Arizona Murder Suspect Uses ‘Sovereign’ Langua ...
    A man accused of twin murders in a Phoenix suburb and facing a possible death sentence used language in his initial court appearance mimicking false legal theories advanced by antigovernment “sovereign citizens.” Michael Lee Crane, 31, is charged in Maricopa County with two counts of first-degre ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Pakistan Vows To Stand with Iran if US, Israel ...
    A clear message has been given to the United States through the tripartite summit of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan that Pakistan will support Iran in case of any possible aggression against it. Moreover, Pakistan has clearly affirmed that the US will not be allowed to set up any airbases in Pak ...
  • 'We Are All Greeks Now' Rallies in Europe, US
    Rallies are being held today, Saturday, February 18th, in capitals around the world to show support for the people of Greece as they face drastic austerity measures. The show of solidarity is in response to the "dictatorship of the financial markets and the troika: EU, ECB and IMF, who have ...
  • Obama DOJ Tries to Insulate Warrantless Wireta ...
    The government today asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge the constitutionality of a law that gives the government unprecedented authority to monitor international emails and phone calls by Americans, according t ...
  • Anonymous Hacktivists Step Up Anti-ACTA Offensive
    Today, Internet activist group Anonymous once again took down several US government websites, including the US Federal Trade Commission, replacing their content with a message demanding that major countries kill the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). RT reports: ...
  • Willie Nelson Joins 300,000 Activists in Suit ...
    Willie Nelson joins a plaintiff group of over 300,000 members in a lawsuit against big-ag giant Monsanto challenging the company's patents on genetically modified seed. Democracy Now! reports today: read more

Lifehacker

  • Make Your Own Ghee [DIY]
    Ghee (clarified butter) is a staple of Indian cuisine and is also encountered in many other world diets. Many claim that ghee can have health benefits but others avoid it since it contains cholesterol and is a saturated fat. To make ghee, butt ...
  • The Line Between Frugality and Deprivation is ...
    For some, washing and reusing plastic freezer bags is a good way to save money, but others consider it an extreme measure. Ditto making your own cleaning products or drying clothes on a line. Personal finance weblog Mr. Money Mustache maintain ...
  • DriverIdentifier Checks for Driver Updates, Of ...
    Windows: DriverIdentifier is a desktop/webapp hybrid—install the program then launch it to scan your system for all device drivers then the program checks to see if there are new drivers available for your hardware on the web and these r ...
  • Create Temporary Seating for a Party with Buck ...
    If you're having lots of people over to your home and feel like you don't have enough seating you can make a temporary lounge seat from 4-5 gallon plastic buckets, a tablecloth or sheet, and large cushions such as couch or futon cushions. ...
  • Top 10 Downloads That Enhance Mac OS X's Built ...
    Mac OS X has a ton of great features, but there's always room for improvement. Many developers have felt the same and created a bunch of great apps to enhance OS X's capabilities. Here are our top 10 apps that can power up your Mac to the ne ...

Water Privatization

  • More protections offered against water privati ...
    The environmental group Mountain Voices Alliances is putting on a forum intended to look at the future of Asheville’s water system. Panelists include N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt; and City Councilman Jan Davis.
  • More protections offered against water privati ...
    The environmental group Mountain Voices Alliances is putting on a forum intended to look at the future of Asheville’s water system. Panelists include N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt; and City Councilman Jan Davis.
  • General Electric's Privatization of Water
    Investment banker Goldman Sachs has famously been described by the Rolling Stone’s business writer Matt Taibbi (July 2009) as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” So it’s a good idea to take notic ...
  • Global Studies Lecture Series: The Politics of ...
    Water issues remain one of the major challenges in our contemporary world. The crisis of water commonly understood as water scarcity is currently recognized more as a crisis of governance. Admittedly, water is a transnational resource and impacts of the processes of globalization and transnation ...
  • Residents pack forum on Asheville water system ...
    Another public forum and a state meeting on the Asheville water system’s fate are happening this month. Losing Control of our Water What: A forum by Mountain Voices Alliance on the future of the water system.

Guardian

  • Fasting can help protect against brain disease ...
    Claim that giving up almost all food for one or two days a week can counteract impact of Alzheimer's and Parkinson'sFasting for regular periods could help protect the brain against degenerative illnesses, according to US scientists.Researchers at the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore sai ...
  • Michael Gove under pressure over anti-gay sex ...
    Education secretary says Equality Act does not extend to school curriculum – allowing faith schools to use homophobic materialMichael Gove, the education secretary, is at the centre of an escalating row over how faith schools discuss homosexuality in sex education classes.The TUC has accused Gov ...
  • David Cameron's policy guru tells Gove: fly Vi ...
    Steve Hilton advises education secretary that he should choose Richard Branson's 'upstart' airlineSteve Hilton, the prime minister's director of strategy, has found himself embroiled in a corporate war after privately describing British Airways as "fat cats" and urging a cabinet minister to "fly ...
  • So what is it about Carlisle that makes it Bri ...
    The city has been named the most contented place in Britain. Residents say the reasons for their happiness go much deeper – it's all about peopleHere's a question it seems worth travelling the length of the country to ask: do we laugh because we are happy, or are we happy because we laugh?Keith ...
  • French parties target London expats in bid for ...
    New overseas constituency sees political parties crossing the channel to woo votersIn the window of Librairie La Page, a French bookshop in London's South Kensington, a board game is on display. Packaged in hues of red, white and blue, it is called Elisez-moi (Elect Me) and the cover features a ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Some lies around Deep Throat exposed
    Kids say the darndest things. Speaking to a college journalism class last week, I learned the students had recently seen the All The Presidents Men , the film noir tale…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Jack Ambramoff advising on ways to ...
    If you want learn how to protect a bank, you ask a famous bank robber like Willie Sutton. If you want to know how to clean up Washington, you ask…Click to Continue »
  • Casino mogul Adelson donates another $10 milli ...
    Casino owner Sheldon Adelson is expected to send another $10 million donation within days to the outside group that's provided life support to Newt Gingrich's beleaguered presidential campaign, say fundraisers…Click to Continue »
  • Alleged 9/11 facilitator makes new bid to aver ...
    Lawyers for a Pakistani man accused of wiring money used in the Sept. 11 attacks argued in a memo Friday that, because the alleged terrorist was accused of a lesser…Click to Continue »
  • Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether a l ...
    Fake hero Xavier Alvarez lied to his fellow Californians. He never rescued an American ambassador. He was never a Marine. Most definitely, contrary to what told a Southern California audience,Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • No SOX protection for contractor's employees, ...
      On February 3, 2012, two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the SOX whistleblower claims of Jackie Lawson and Jonathan Zang. The case is Lawson v. FMR, LLC, Case No. 10-2240 (1st Cir. 2012). To justify this dismissal, the two judge majority held that the ...
  • NWC amicus brief urges broad protection under SOX
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center filed an amicus, or fiend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its case of Wiest v. Lynch, Case No. 11-4257. The main issue is whether the Court should adopt the ARB's broad "reasonable belief" standar ...
  • New York Times editorial supports FDA whistleb ...
    In today's editorial, the New York Times expresses concerns about the targeted surveillance of whistleblowers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The editorial recounts the claims made by six scientists and physicians who raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of devices appro ...
  • Whistleblowers Risked Careers for Mortgage Set ...
    Chalk up another top news story to the whistleblowers. Today, federal and state officials announced a $25 billion landmark settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wro ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner and Lindsey Williams discuss the updates in the FDA whistleblower illegal surveillance case, including Senator Grassley’s biting letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg dema ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Killer Cool's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week had a lot of articles that I really enjoyed. Between great articles, and good articles that spawned great comments, I had a hard time keeping this post short enough to keep anyone's attention. So, let's get to the week. First, I really liked Monday's article about DRM lock-in. I a ...
  • Getting Past The Uncanny Valley In Targeted Ad ...
    A few years back we talked about how the concept of the "uncanny valley" could be applied to targeted advertising. Of course, the general concept of the uncanny valley is usually discussed in the field of robotics. It's the notion that people are comfortable with robots that clearly look like ...
  • Shining Light On ACTA's Lack Of Transparency
    One of the key problems with ACTA is the lack of transparency during its negotiation. That this is becoming a big issue in Europe is shown by the fact that the European Commission has tried to dispose of the question twice -- first in its "10 myths about ACTA", which I discussed recently on Tech ...
  • Pro Tip: Even If Someone Has Faked A Damaging ...
    You may have heard that the Heartland Institute had some internal documents leaked recently, and noted the irony of the situation. If you don't know, Heartland is well-known in certain circles for its efforts to disprove that smoking causes any harm, as well as its efforts to deny climate chang ...
  • DailyDirt: I'd Like My Drink Sonicated, Not St ...
    Chemists routinely use equipment like rotary evaporators, centrifuges, and ultrasonicators to extract, separate, and mix various chemicals in the lab. But, the same equipment can also be used to prepare unique and tasty drinks. Why settle for ordinary? Classic beverages are getting a makeover th ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Natl Day in Support of Prisoners
    Apologies for falling off the map again. I have just about dug myself out of a hole and should be back on a posting schedule (fingers crossed) next week. In the meantime, one of the things keeping me busy has been the Criminal Injustice Committee of Occupy. Our Wells Fargo boycott website is up ...
  • Protest Tomorrow!!!
    Sorry I’ve been missing in action for a bit. Lots going on. I’ll fill you in soon. But if you are in the DC area, come out to Tivoli Square tomorrow for an anti-prison protest. I’ll be there. More info here
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...
  • Shoot the Messenger
    Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a post about Ron Paul the other day. He featured a clip of Paul talking about the civil war. In the clip, Tim Russert asks Paul about his statement that “Abe Lincoln should never have gone to war. There were better ways; there were better ways of getting rid of slave ...
  • Please Don’t Come
    I’m hearing various rumors that occupiers are planning to descend on the capital for national actions. I don’t want to belabor the points I made in my previous post about activism in DC, but I just have to plead with you. Please don’t come. For the first time since I have been ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Top Ten Things Heartland Institute Will Do Wit ...
    I couldn’t think of a way to easily excerpt this excellent piece of satire, so I’ll just repost it with apologies in advance and ask WUWT readers to go to wendymcekroy.com and give her props. My hat is off to … Continue reading →
  • Christy on Sierra Snowfall over the last 130 y ...
    Better late than never, we got a little bit busy this week. Image above from data supplied by Dr. John Christy and rendered by the San Francisco Chronicle from their story here. An excerpt: John Christy, the Alabama state climatologist … Continue reading →
  • Almost belated birthday wishes to Willis Esche ...
    So much has been going on this week, and today especially,  that I almost forgot that Willis Eschenbach has a very special birthday today. Since Willis contributes a great deal here, I want to give him my thanks and well … Continue reading →
  • The DeSmoggers are crashing and burning
    Well, the DeSmog Blog “coup” is going down, oh the humanity. There’s a scathing second writeup at The Atlantic by Megan McArdle (as if the first wasn’t enough) that takes the DeSmoggers to task. Note to Hoggan and crew – … Continue reading →
  • Berkeley Earth releases new version of the BES ...
    Berkeley Earth has just released a new version of the Berkeley Earth dataset, which is more comprehensive than the version released in October 2011, and fixes some bugs in the initial release.  You can access the new dataset here: www.BerkeleyEarth.org/data.The … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • ‘Panic button’ could help cancer d ...
    Stressed yeast cells frantically reshuffle their chromosomes in a desperate last bid to find a combination that survives. This “panic” response enables them to rapidly evolve resistance to drugs. The discovery might also apply to cancer, because cancer cells often have abnormal numbe ...
  • From whales to earthworms, the mechanism that ...
    Mice don’t have tails on their backs, and their ribs don’t grow from lumbar vertebrae. And for a good reason. EPFL scientists have discovered the mechanism that determines the shape that many animals take – including humans, blue whales, and insects. Why don’t our arms grow from the middle of ou ...
  • Researchers Use Sugar to Halt Esophageal Cance ...
    Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett’s dysplasia, making it much easier to detect and remove these cells before they develop into esophageal cancer. ...
  • Why aging arteries lose stretch
    Researchers Find Unique Protein Organization In Arteries Associated with Cardiovascular Disease. Knowledge could assist in tissue replacements, treatments for high blood pressure and diabetes. ..Human arteries – some smaller than a strand of hair – stiffen as a person ages. This stiffening is a ...
  • Scientists Create World’s Tiniest Ear
    Have you ever wondered what a virus sounds like? Or what noise a bacterium makes when it moves between hosts? If the answer is yes, you may soon get your chance to find out, thanks to the development of the world’s tiniest ear. The “nano-ear,” a microscopic particle of gold tra ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Putin Supporters Hold Rallies All Over Russia
    Thousands supporters of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin participated on Saturday in demonstrations supporting the sustainable development of Russia. People went out to streets in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Volgograd, etc.
  • LIVE: Whitney Houston Funeral
    Live coverage of the funeral services for Whitney Houston will begin on en.rian.ru at 8 p.m. on February 18. The funeral services will take place at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey.
  • Medvedev has 1Mln Twitter Followers
    Number of Twitter followers of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev exceeded one million, wrote Medvedev on his Twitter account on Saturday.
  • Dereck Chisora Slaps Vitali Klitschko in Face
    WBC heavyweight world champion Vitali Klitschko got a slap in the face from British Dereck Chisora on the official pre-match weigh-in on Friday.
  • The colors and masks of the Rhine Carnival
    The traditional Rhine Carnival week kicked off with the famous "Women's Thursday" in the west of Germany.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Correction: Boulder County Agrees To Allow Som ...
    CORRECTION: This article replaces an erroneous report that Boulder had banned GMOs on public land. Thank you to those of you from Boulder who alerted us to the mistake. Click here to read this article
  • Many Processed Foods are Made with a Coal Tar ...
    Would you knowingly feed your children an ingredient derived from coal tar? That's exactly what you may be doing, if you let them eat any orange or yellow artificially-colored products including sodas, cheese-flavored products, flavored chips, pickles or a myriad of other foods and beverages.Cli ...
  • US, EU Sign Historic Agreement on Organic Foods
    A historic agreement has been signed between the US and Europe which will strongly advance the world's largest organic food markets.Click here to read this article
  • Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-M ...
    The fine folks at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, known for their brilliant sketchnote animations of talks by prominent authors and scientists, recently launched a competition, inviting emerging filmmakers to bring RSA talks to life in fresh ways.Click here to read this article
  • Court Holds Factory Farm Accountable for Water ...
    In a precedent-setting decision earlier this month that received scant national coverage, a federal district court judge in Washington state ordered a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation), also known as a factory farm, to monitor groundwater, drainage, and soil for illegal pollution resu ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Faith and the Future
    As we all know the picture is not pretty. Numerous spiritual traditions have taught that we must tend and care for the Earth. And while those traditions and practices entirely make sense for the common good, we have for the most part ignored them.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Reports Shed Light on Iran Sanctions and US's, ...
    The anti-Iran campaign has a great deal to do with the fortunes of the world's largest oil companies, rather than with nuclear threats to either Israel or the United States. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Political Climate
    You likely know climate change is a political football, even if only from ridiculous seeming pronouncements. And scientists are respected - so they make good cover for politicians to use them as sock puppets. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Thirst
    I was thinking of our drinking water shortage ever increasing and reflecting on an old story about CIDA drilling wells in the Sahel and causing desertification. So I explored as the muse led. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • American Airlines Exposes Bushs Big Lie: Fligh ...
    American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...
  • Economics Lesson 1
    Consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money. Emperor has no cloths. Submitted by Michael Dewey to World &nbs ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
    ShareThisNYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast --Detectives trawled Muslim student websites every day and, although professors and students had not been accused of any wrongdoing, their names were recorded in reports prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. 18 Feb 2012 The New ...
  • US, Israeli cyber attack on Press TV fails
    ShareThisUS, Israeli cyber attack on Press TV fails 18 Feb 2012 A cyber attack by US and Israeli hackers against the website of Iran's English-language 24-hour news channel, Press TV, has failed to take down the website. According to the Press TV report, the attack against the website took place ...
  • Iran claims its navy enters Mediterranean as t ...
    ShareThisIran claims its navy enters Mediterranean as tensions with Israel grow 18 Feb 2012 Iran's navy claimed its warships entered the Mediterranean on Saturday to show its might to regional countries, as a high-level American official was due to arrive in Israel. The claim, released through t ...
  • Facebook hacker jailed for eight months
    ShareThisFacebook hacker jailed for eight months --His crime [sic] was unearthed in a routine security review by the website and on June 2 he received a knock on the door from the FBI. 17 Feb 2012 A student who hacked into Facebook has been jailed in the in the "most extensive and grave" case of ...
  • Iranian naval ships enter Mediterranean via Suez
    ShareThisIranian naval ships enter Mediterranean via Suez 18 Feb 2012 Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. "Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Thursday) following permission from ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • 66 is not 59
    17 February 2012 The Army campaign around the MEDEVAC continues to unravel.  They’ve tried just about everything short of assassination and witchcraft to freeze the growing stampede.  In the beginning, they claimed that my accounts of the failed MEDEVAC were completely wrong.  An ...
  • Department of Army Monitoring MEDEVAC Articles
    15 February 2012 The following message was issued behind closed doors by the Department of Army (DA).  It pertains to media coverage of the MEDEVAC debacle.  There is no foul in monitoring the articles, but the inside glimpse is interesting. TAMPA TRIBUNE COVERS MEDEVAC STORY WITH LO ...
  • Tippity Top General Lies to Congressman (in wr ...
    14 February 2012 Happy Valentine’s Day.  It isn’t Valentine’s for those who will get hit with bullets or bombs today.  And it will happen.  So let’s get down to business. The top officer in the US Military is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  The Chairman is the p ...
  • New Britches: Part II
    13 February 2012 Our Soldiers’ pants have been falling apart.  In August 2011, I wrote about this from Afghanistan.  The news was picked up widely.  My dispatch shows photos of Soldiers with blown out trousers. Combat is a fully engaging endeavor.  Many troops go without un ...
  • A Matter of Trust
    11 February 2012 Going unarmed into combat is a bad idea.  Going unarmed while wearing a Red Cross to alert the enemy that you are defenseless is dumb.  A commander who forces his troops to do this without good cause is at best incompetent. US Army commanders do this every day in Afg ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • New Jersey governor vetoes same-sex marriage bill
    [JURIST] New Jersey Governor Chris Christie [official website] conditionally vetoed [statement, PDF] a bill legalizing same-sex marriage [Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act, PDF] and called for a voter referendum to decide the issue, rather than the state legislature [official website ...
  • India court confirms charges against Mumbai te ...
    [JURIST] A New Delhi court on Saturday confirmed the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) [official website] charges against US citizen David Headley and eight others, including Canadian citizen Tahawwur Rana, for their roles in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news ...
  • Maryland House of Delegates passes same-sex ma ...
    [JURIST] The Maryland House of Delegates [official website] on Friday passed a bill [HB 438 text] that would allow same-sex couples to legally marry within the state. The bill passed by a 72 to 67 vote and is set to move on to the Senate [WP report], where it must pass to receive the governor's ...
  • UN General Assembly passes resolution condemni ...
    [JURIST] The UN General Assembly [official website] voted on Thursday to condemn Syria [JURIST news archive] through a non-binding resolution [press release]. The resolution supports a plan [text, PDF, in Arabic] advanced by the Arab League [official website] that aims to bring the situation in ...
  • Canada high court dismisses appeal on student ...
    [JURIST] The Canada Supreme Court [official website] on Friday dismissed an appeal [opinion] from Catholic parents who hoped to exempt their children from attending religious courses as part of a mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture Program (ERCP) [official profile] in Quebec. The parents argu ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Understanding Iran
    In times of deep crisis like this, it’s more important than ever to understand the thinking and priorities of one’s adversary, in this case Iran.  I don’t use “adversary” at all personally, but in the sense of that country being at odds with one major power in the r ...
  • Pro-Israel Media Mafia Attempts to Force Twitt ...
    Three little Jewish Twitter monkeys (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil) are very unhappy that Jodi Rudoren, the NY Times’ incoming Israel bureau chief, is sharing tweets with Israel critics like Ali Abunimah and Phil Weiss.  The monkeys are Marc Tracy of the neocon Tablet Magazine, ...
  • New Israeli English Language Rightist News Site
    I’ll bet if I asked you what Israeli journalism needed more than anything, the first thing out of your mouth would be: we need yet another English language clone of the Jerusalem Post (Hebrew). I knew we’d see eye to eye on that one. Yes, Israel already has one English language Likud ...
  • Israel-Iran Confrontation Enters Dangerous New ...
    With today’s news that apparent Iranian bombmakers accidentally exploded their laboratory in a rented Thai home, and yesterday’s news of simultaneous attacks on Israeli targets in Georgia and India, Iran is bringing its confrontation with Israel into a dangerous new phase.  Until now ...
  • Bronner Leaving as NY Times Israel Corresponde ...
    I’ve got to say this is one of the more puzzling journalistic assignments I’ve come across in a while.  The NY Times tweeted earlier today that Ethan Bronner was leaving as Israel correspondent.  I don’t know if this was a regular reassignment (I believe they rotate approximate ...

If Americans Knew

  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Psychology - Babies Know What’s Fair
    “That’s not fair!” It’s a common playground complaint. But how early do children acquire this sense of fairness? Before they’re 2, says a new study. “We found that 19- and 21-month-old infants have a general expectation of fairness, and they can apply it appropriately to different situations,” s ...
  • The Race for Biofuel - UMass Amherst Chemical ...
    A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a small molecule that behaves the same as cellulose when it is converted to biofuel. Studying this ‘mini-cellulose’ molecule reveals for the first time the chemical reactions that take place in wood and prairi ...
  • The Race for Batteries - Sandia National Labor ...
    Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries.The research, published in Dalton Transactions, might lead to devices that can help economically ...
  • Edge of Medicine - Nanoparticles May Enhance C ...
    A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.The work blazes a path for furth ...
  • The Edge of Ecology - Phytoplankton Key to a H ...
    Maria (Maite) Maldonado, Canada Research Chair in Phytoplankton Trace Metal Physiology at The University of British Columbia, has made understanding the intricacies of marine phytoplankton her life's work. These tiny, single-celled algae, which act as a natural sponge for carbon dioxide and are ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted Exclusive: President Obama Modeling ...
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... Ever wonder where Barack Obama got his crazy economic policies from? Many people think they came from progressive politicians and unions, but according to this scoop from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, Obama has modeled many of his eco ...
  • What is Russia Doing in the Middle East?
    By Barry Rubin The transition to democracy and capitalism has not been kind to Russia. It sank from superpower to sideshow internationally. The country is hurting and stagnant; it has no sense of purpose or goals; and Russia is in the hands of a ruthless dictator who knows how to use natio ...
  • "The Kid" Died Yesterday, May He Rest in Peace
    The NY Mets didn't always suck, back in 1986 they won 108 games in the regular season and had the best team in baseball. They could have been one of the greatest teams in baseball history, if some of their superstars such as Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry choose drugs over their baseba ...
  • Three Cheers For MSNBC-Buchanan is Gone, He Wh ...
    It's not very often that I feel the urge to complement the progressive news network MSNBC. They have finally rid themselves of the bigoted, anti-Semitic Pat Buchanan. Buchanan called it the New Blacklist. My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoya ...
  • Maxine Waters & Sheila Jackson Lee: Dumb, Dumb ...
    My old boss Loretta used to say it over and over until  it was riveted into my brain. "Jeff" she would say, "It's easy dealing with stupid people, and it's easy dealing with nasty people, but I can't deal with people who are both stupid AND nasty. That is a deadly combination!" I can't he ...

The Real Agenda

  • US Unemployment Highest Since Great Depression
    by Alex M. Parker USNews&World Report February 16, 2012 After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget Office noted in a report issued today. And, despite some recent good n ...
  • Bill Gates Favors Death Panels and Vaccines fo ...
    by Theodora Filis UK Progressive February 16, 2012 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 ...
  • Documents Detail a March 23 Greek Default Plan
    Government to Freeze Bank Accounts, Eliminate Euro, Restrict Capital Flow by Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com February 16, 2012 That a default in Europe is coming has never been the question. For the astute observer the only thing at issue is how and when it will happen.  While the mainstream financial me ...
  • World Bank Depopulation Plans Make Sense Now
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 16, 2012 Sometimes reality can stare you in the face, but you can’t see it. This is true today more than ever, even for those who fancy themselves as having an understanding of reality. The clearest example is with the masses, that seem to live i ...
  • Despite fraud, Ron Paul Owns the GOP Election
    by Grace Wyler Business Insider February 16, 2012 By now, it is clear that the Maine caucuses were a complete mess. Evidence is mounting that Mitt Romney’s 194-vote victory over Ron Paul was prematurely announced, if not totally wrong. Washington County canceled their caucus on Saturday on accou ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbine critics rip state report
    BOURNE — One after another, residents from towns across the southeastern part of the state stood up in Bourne High School Thursday night and said they didn’t buy a state-sponsored report that found no direct health effects from the operation of wind turbines. “Please do not tell us t ...
  • U.S. probes golden eagles’ deaths at DWP ...
    The toll makes the Pine Tree site in the Tehachapi Mountains among the deadliest in California’s wind farm industry. Activists say birds’ behavior should be studied before erecting more sites. Two more golden eagles have been found dead at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Powe ...
  • Wind industry’s extensive lobbying to pr ...
    The full extent of lobbying by Britain’s wind industry to preserve subsidies while getting thousands of new turbines built can be revealed. The intensive lobbying – both to construct wind farms and to maintain generous subsidies – comes amid growing unease over an industry adding to the bu ...
  • Green energy has residents seeing red; Turbine ...
    A thick fog has settled in on Green Mountain in Keyser, W.Va. “I can’t live with this. You can’t sleep.” All day, people keep pointing into the trees, telling us there’s something in the fog. “It’s just rumbling the whole mountain.” And then, just ...
  • Report: Fishermen’s Energy offshore wind ...
    Electricity generated by an Atlantic City offshore wind farm proposal would cost $11,237 per kilowatt hour, making it the most expensive offshore wind power in the world, according to a consultant’s report done for state regulators. The report by David E. Dismukes, associate director of Louisian ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Oil Sanctions on Iran Could Backfire
    “President Barack Obama hopes the toughest sanctions ever imposed on Iran will squeeze its oil exports — all without scaring markets, crimping growth, impoverishing ordinary Iranians or antagonizing allies. The geopolitical equivalent of threading a needle is made even more difficult ...
  • Obama Export Policy Plays Favorites
    “Air India got U.S. government support and used it to vanquish the competition. With the help of cheap loans backed by American taxpayers, the airline bought Boeing 777s — which were manufactured in the United States by American workers — and then launched nonstop service between New York ...
  • It’s Not about Contraception
    When you bake a bad ingredient into a cake, no matter how nicely you decorate it, the cake will still be bad.
  • Poverty Rates for Old and Young Diverge
    “[A] national trend [has emerged] over the past three decades as child poverty steadily rises and poverty among seniors, aided by social programs, steadily drops ” (USA Today) Nothing a freed market couldn’t fix. FEE Timely Classic “Government Is No Friend of the Poor” by ...
  • Minimum-Wage Fight Arises in Home Health Care
    “Home health care companies are leading the fight against an Obama administration proposal to require them to pay their workers the minimum wage, despite data showing that the industry was one of the few nationally to maintain profits during the worst of the recession.” (USA Today) M ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
  • Best social media tools for journalists
    What are today’s most popular social media tools? I proposed a short list on the Social Journalism Educators group on Facebook: Twitter Tumblr Pinterest Storify Instagram YouTube WordPress You’ll note (if you roll over and read the tooltip) that none of the links above go ...
  • Learning how to blog — the right way
    Even though the media world is smitten with Pinterest, the newest pretty thing, that old standard of social media — blogging — is far from dead and gone. Blogs are still used for all kinds of professional journalism, from breaking news updates to analysis and backgrounders. Blogs are ...
  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Local Chambers of Commerce: Not Born for Ourse ...
    Most people are more interested in organized crime than in organized business. Chambers of commerce do not often attract headlines except for the occasional, inevitable dustup with a public authority.  For that reason, this April’s 100 year anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Chamber of C ...
  • President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Di ...
    President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant political force well on its way to surpassing Hollywood and even Wall Street as the business bulwark of the Obama Democratic P ...
  • Arlington and Shenzhen: A Tale of Two Cities
    Seven thousand miles separate Arlington, Virginia and Shenzhen, China. Two continents apart, these two cities could not be more different. Yet they are similar, geopolitically and globally. The characteristics of today’s globalization have united and connected cities like Arlington and Shenzhen ...
  • Why Downtowns Fail and How They Can Come Back
    To many Florida developers in the last decade, downtown condo towers seemed to make a lot of sense. They were sold as the logical locale for active seniors and millennials, great affordable starter homes, and best of all, investments.  Reinvigorating downtowns became fashionable currency in ...
  • Special Report: Census 2011: Urban Dispersion ...
    Canada now has fastest-growing population in the G-8 (Note 1), according to the results of the 2011 census, released last week. Canada's growth rate from 2006 to 2011 exceeded that of the United States by nearly one-third and is nearly one half greater than just a decade ago. The population ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto influence on the EU?
    1.Monsanto influence on the EU? 2.A (former) Monsanto Minister of Agriculture in Romania --- --- 1.Monsanto influence on the EU? 1. The current EU Agri Commissioner is Romanian 2. The new Romanian Minister of Agriculture (Stelian Fuia) (since Feb 2012) has worked directly for Monsanto and agroc ...
  • Bt protein toxic to human cells- new research
    NOTE: The newly published paper in the Journal of Applied Toxicology can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jat.2712/abstract --- --- Genetically engineered maize: New indication of health risks Test Biotech & CRIIGEN, 17 February 2012 http://www.testbiotech.org/en/node/62 ...
  • USAID workshop concludes children need educati ...
    EXTRACTS: Prof James Ochanda of the University of Nairobi admitted that what was missing was public education to clear doubts in people's minds about the impact of genetically modified products in addressing food shortages in the country. Teaching on genetically modified crop production technol ...
  • Canadian farmer warns of GM dangers
    Canadian farmer warns of GM dangers Stephanie Anderson The Canberra Times, February 17 2012 http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/canadian-farmer-warns-of-gm-dangers-20120216-1tbtr.html Financial ruin and loss of organic agriculture will be part of the future Australia if genetically modifie ...
  • Food safety agency faces fresh criticism
    Food safety agency's reliability faces fresh criticism EurActiv, 15 February 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/food-safety-agencys-reliability-faces-fresh-criticism-news-510827 The EU agency charged with reviewing the safety of biotech crops, food and fertilisers has "frequent conflicts of inter ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

  • Solar drip irrigation (Atea y Sublevada)
    Read at : http://ateaysublevada.over-blog.es/article-la-tecnica-de-riego-del-goteo-solar-kondenskompressor-99349836.html La tƩcnica de riego del goteo solar (kondenskompressor) Fuente: http://www.sitiosolar.com/el%20goteo%20solar.htm El goteo solar es un sistema de riego muy eficiente, sencillo ...
  • Making compost in Zambia for We Forest (WeFore ...
    Read at : Facebook Morag Embleton It’s a busy day for WeForest’s unique organic farming training and reforestation programme in Kamfinsa, Zambia. This exciting unique program provides male and female prisoners at Zambia’s largest prison with valuable skills to help … Cont ...
  • Low-tech limiting of evaporation (Willem Van C ...
    Here is a nice idea for low-tech limiting of evaporation : cover the soil with newspaper and the cover the newspaper with a mulch layer of soil.  The newspaper will keep more water around the roots.
  • “Some” risk of shortages of fresh ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215143003.htm Climate Change May Increase Risk of Water Shortages in Hundreds of US Counties by 2050 ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2012) — More than 1 in 3 counties in the United States could face a “high” or “extreme” &# ...
  • How droughts and heat waves affect grass growt ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215155300.htm Time of Year Important in Projections of Climate Change Effects On Ecosystems ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2012) — Does it matter whether long periods of hot weather, such as last year’s heat wave that gripped the U.S. &#823 ...

The Paper Trail

  • Adelson expected to give another $10 million t ...
    Another $10 million donation is expected to arrive within days from casino owner Sheldon Adelson to the outside group that’s provided life support to Newt Gingrich’s beleaguered presidential campaign, say fundraisers with ties to the multibillionaire.The $10 million infusion from Adelson would b ...
  • Follow the money with iWatch News
    The Center for Public Integerity's iWatch News is offering a variety of ways to follow the money this election cycle, particularly the flood of funds that have come in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision. Get breaking news from iWatch staff on Twitter at @iWatch and follow po ...
  • Dutch Parliament debates ICIJ’s Pacific overfi ...
    Dutch Parliament debates ICIJ’s Pacific overfishing investigation
  • FACT CHECK: Pro-Romney super PAC hits Santorum ...
    Pro-Romney forces are looking beyond Michigan, hammering Rick Santorum in four other states with a new TV ad making some misleading claims.The ad claims Mitt Romney turned around Massachusetts’ finances without raising taxes, when in fact he raised hundreds of millions in new government “fees” w ...
  • New ways to connect with 'Consider the Source'
    With the GOP presidential nomination heading full bore toward the convention and key Democratic operatives scrambling to herd high-dollar donations to their super PACs, the race for outside money is all systems go.At iWatch News, reporters for our Consider the Source series have been keeping a w ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Greece shows us how to protest against a faile ...
    6471082257_883d5cef63_z.jpg Autonomist Marxist John Holloway writes in praise of the reaction of the working class in Greece against the imposition of austerity measures. I do n ...
  • Court out! Racist groups try to use court case ...
    A look at far right groups Like the British National Party and English Defence League trying to piggyback onto court cases to get publicity, whether those involved want them to or not. A parasite is an unwelcome entity and it attaches ...
  • Attack on electricians' contracts wobbles as B ...
    8531.jpg Sparks are celebrating a major breakthrough in their battle to stop a co-ordinated attempt by some of Britain's biggest construction firms to deskill their jobs and impose pay cuts of up ...
  • Tesco's secret workfare
    Tesco.png Furious shoppers are threatening to boycott Tesco after their use of forced labour schemes came to light yesterday. An advert on the Jobcentre Plus website is calling ...
  • Tesco's secret workfare slaves
    Tesco.png Furious shoppers are threatening to boycott Tesco after their use of forced labour schemes came to light yesterday. An advert on the Jobcentre Plus website is calling ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • “Fraud College” 101: “Don&# ...
    This is BEYOND BIZARRE!   It’s beyond the old adage: “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black!”  It’s the LDS (Mormon) Church counseling people about how to identify a CON!! Check this story out:  http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53514946-79/fraud-church-utah-lds.html.csp Mich ...
  • MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!! STUNNING EDOMITE CONFESS ...
    This video is AMAZING – it sums things up pretty well.  First, it shows why Judge Napolitano was fired from Edomite Ruppert Murdoch’s FOX NEWS! But this video is even more stunning in what it shows at the 7:15 mark!   It shows a clip from the BRITISH BROADCASTING coverage on Septembe ...
  • A Lunatic Goy Video Goes Viral – When wi ...
    This youtube video generated well over 2 million hits.   Why?  Because it sums up quite nicely the FRUSTRATIONS of the helpless GOY.   (Goy = the Human Cattle of the Edomite Overlords.) So, why do I call him and millions of “middle” Americans just like him  “lunatic’?  Th ...
  • The Clone Speaks About the Drone!
    WARNING!   THE VIDEO BELOW IS OFFENSIVE AND MOST DISTURBING! (Just like this entire blog space!)  Liberals and Edomites will hate it! It explains the answer to the question: How do you know Obama is lying?   Answer:  Because his lips are moving.  How do you know Romney is lying?  Same answer &#8 ...
  • Strange Boxes on the Beach – Are They Ti ...
    More strange metal boxes along coastal beaches – UFO’s, or What? By Dave Masko on 2012-02-08 BRAY’S POINT, Ore. – They can’t be moved; even when yanked by a four-wheel drive truck pulling on heavy chains tied around these humming metal boxes that are still appearing as of Feb. 8 up a ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Missouri’s Climate: News, Building Codes ...
    Midwest has experienced rising average temperatures with the largest warming seen in the winter months. The growing season has been extended by one week because of earlier last spring frosts and precipitation has become more frequent including increased instances of heavy downpours. Since the 19 ...
  • New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy
    Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy has just finished the New Web Site http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com, in partnership with the New Google Small Business Promotion. If you’re looking for high quality and personal service, you’ve come to the right place. At Scotts Contracting w ...
  • Solar Power – Will the USA ever catch Europe? ...
    Europe has historically been a long way ahead of the USA, with over 45GW peak capacity as of 2011 compared to the USA’s figure of 2.6GW. Last week, the Solar Power Generation USA conference was held in Las Vegas, and Shayle Kann, director of research at Green Tech Media declared that the “U.S. s ...
  • Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Needs
    Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...
  • Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
    Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Anthony Shadid yearned for home
    Anthony's Shadid's now unbearably poignant book, "House of Stone," opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of  the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington Post in the summer of 2006, he arrived in the devastated Lebanese town of Qana ...
  • When I was captured by Gadhafi’s forces
    There is a single main highway along which lies every major city between the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the east and the capital Tripoli in the west. It snakes along the coast and passes through Ajdabiya, Brega, Sirte and Misrata, cities made world famous by months of back and forth, and de ...
  • Rush Limbaugh, secret Democrat
    I've decided Rush Limbaugh must be a closeted Democrat. I can't think of any other reason he would be leading the Republican Party over a political cliff by advising that they double down on the culture wars.With new poll data showing that President Obama is quickly gaining ground among women vo ...
  • Anthony Shadid, the best of his generation
    WARSAW, Poland — I woke up this morning to the news that Anthony Shadid has died — apparently of an asthma attack — while on assignment in Syria. Whether you knew his byline or not, the loss is incalculable.I can speak in absolutes about the quality of his work. No one reported the Middle East w ...
  • Secret papers turn up heat on global-warming d ...
    With Al Gore way down in Antarctica inspecting melting glaciers, and America’s unusually mild winter providing a respite from seasons of freakish droughts, floods, Nome-style whiteouts and the hurricane that ravaged Vermont, the issue of man-caused global warming has been out of sight and mind.B ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Is It a Jungle Gym or an Electric Charging Sta ...
    Public electric vehicle charging stations are starting to pop around Houston and other cities in a noticeable fashion. According to eVgo, nine are currently operational around town (six of which are in parking lots of Walgreens stores).
  • Germany and UK have greatest deficit of EU car ...
    Figures show that the UK and Germany have the largest deficit of allowances to pollute under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), meaning they have to purchase more to meet their obligations.
  • UK & France in major nuclear reactor deal
    Two French nuclear giants, EDF and Areva, and Rolls-Royce, the flagship nuclear firm in the UK, are signing deals worth {l}500 million ($791 million) to build new nuclear reactors in the UK
  • Adjusting the EU Energy Efficiency Target
    There are intense negotiations underway in Brussels and Strasbourg as the EU Parliament heads towards a key committee vote on the Energy Efficiency Directive at the end of this month. All this has come about because of concerns that Europe will not meet the third leg of its well known 20-20-20 b ...
  • How Energy Innovation Can Help the US Job Market
    For a long time ‘clean’ and ‘green’ marked the forward trend in the energy industry. Then came the quest for ‘smart’ energy. And now ‘innovation’ is the buzzword.It’s easy to see why. As Americans, we believe our ability to innovate sets us apart in today’s international market. Sure China can m ...

EU Times

  • World’s smallest chameleon found in northern M ...
    Scientists say a chameleon species that has been recently discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar is the smallest of its kind ever found. A team of scientists has found four new chameleon species in northern Madagascar including Brookesia micra, which is small enough to easily perch on a matc ...
  • Iran unlikely to strike unless hit: US intelli ...
    A senior US intelligence official has admitted that if attacked, Iran will respond but is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict. “Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz at least temporarily, and may launch missiles against United States forces and our allies in the region if it is attacked,” U ...
  • Russia Would Use Nukes to Stave Off Threats
    Russia would use nuclear weapons in response to any imminent threat to its national security, Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said on Wednesday. “We are certainly not planning to fight against the whole of NATO,” Makarov said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio, “b ...
  • Professors discover nanoscale energy source
    Australian professor Michael Strano and Iranian associate professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh have discovered a new power source for energy storage and power generation. Associate Professor Kalantar-Zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne, and M ...
  • Professors discovers nanoscale energy source
    Australian professor Michael Strano and Iranian associate professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh have discovered a new power source for energy storage and power generation. Associate Professor Kalantar-Zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne, and M ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • News: whitney houston laid to rest in hometown ...
    Pallbearers carry Whitney Houston’s casket to a hearse outside New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J. On Saturday (Feb. 18), Whitney Houston was celebrated in a homegoing ceremony filled with fond memories and moving songs and expressions as family, friends and fans said goodbye to the 48-year ...
  • BOBBY BROWN Kicked Out Of WHITNEY HOUSTON&#821 ...
    According to the latest celebrity news , BOBBY BROWN got kicked out of WHITNEY HOUSTON Ć¢s funeral after he got into a dispute with the people in charge of seating arrangements… Bobby , who was very distraught when he learned of Whitney ‘s shocking, untimely death , was reportedly asked to leave ...
  • Comment on Gay-Hating “Progressives” Out Congr ...
    The gay-hating left outed Sheriff Paul Babau tonight. It’s their favorite sport. The “progressive” Phoenix New Times reported: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Me ...
  • Kevin Costner Gives Tearful Eulogy at Whitney ...
    Kevin Costner was one of the few people invited to speak today at Whitney Houston’s funeral. Costner, who starred with the late singer in the hit movie “The Bodyguard,” told the people gathered at theƂ New Hope Baptist Church about Whitney’s humility, her talent, and how the God will wonder how ...
  • Apple Replacing iChat by the Messages Beta
    Apple Replacing iChat by the Messages Beta Apple has introduced the Messages Beta so Apple users can get a taste of what’s coming in OS X Mountain Lion. When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work. And Messages brings iMessage to the Mac — just like on ...

Groklaw

  • Two justices suggest Citizens United ruling sh ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court majority had said such independent spending did not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. In Friday's order, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer said the upheaval in the world of campaign finance since the Citizens United decision does no ...
  • What the new Windows logo looks like...
    The new Windows logo looks like 4 bluescreens of death. #justsayin ur1.ca/886l0 - Jan Wildeboer, Twitter
  • Suing Facebook Is Kind of a Bummer, Plaintiff Says
    Fraley agreed to lend her name to the lawsuit, which was first filed in California state court and removed to federal court in San Jose in March 2011, because she didn't want Facebook using her image and name to advertise products to her Facebook connections without her permission, she said in c ...
  • How To Make the 23" Android MegaPad
    A few months ago I published a video showing me using my home-made 23" Android tablet, which got a bit of attention and made people wonder how it was made. A lot people made plausible guesses - that it was a staged video, that it ran android-x86, etc, but few made the right guess so I wanted to ...
  • Message to Certificate Authorities about Subor ...
    Earlier today [17th] we sent an email to all certificate authorities in the Mozilla root program to clarify our expectations around certificate issuance. In particular, we made it clear that the issuance of subordinate CA certificates for the purposes of SSL man-in-the-middle interception or tra ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • It makes a difference
    I was out in the pickup the other day when I noted a rather small, perhaps two by three inch, bumper sticker in the window of a jacked-up, de-engineered suburban assault vehicle with tires the size of Volkswagons and a hood ornament the perfect rendition of the human female reproductive system, ...
  • Sheriff Paul Babeu and his gay ex-lover
    wikimedia commonsPinal County AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu says he did not threaten his Mexican ex-lover with deportation and, oh yeah, he’s gay.“I am gay,” Babeu said, but the charges against me are “completely false.”While it’s remarkable to see a Republican figure of na ...
  • Obama’s proposed transportation bill. Will Cal ...
    dailyreporter.comPresident Obama has put forward an ambitious, wide-ranging $476 billion program to fund transportation for six years. He says it can be paid for with the “peace dividend” from ramping down the Iran and Afghanistan wars. The Senate and House are currently debating their own much ...
  • TSA: another week in the news
    Packing peanut butter, ca. 1915. Photo: Detroit Publishing Co (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. )Those rascals at the TSA haven’t updated their Week at a Glance feature yet (I think the unfortunate individual responsible for the task is out sick or on va ...
  • LED light bulbs for just $4.95
    The 200-Lumen Pharox BLU LED light bulb has an estimated lifespan of 10 years, paying for itself in no time!

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • 97% of Terminal Cancer Patients Previously Had ...
    Do you have a chronic degenerative disease?  If so, have you been told, "It's all in your head?" Well, that might not be that far from the truth… the root cause of your illness may be in your mouth. There is a common dental procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is completely s ...
  • These Foods Have 'Invisible Thorns' Which Can ...
    By Dr. Mercola "You are what you eat" is one of the most profound and instructive sayings ever to be passed down to us through the ages, and thanks to an explosion of exciting new research into the way that food directly affects your genes, it can no longer be written off as merely a metaphor ...
  • Pasta, Not Bacon, Makes You Fat. But How?
    By Dr. Mercola Even though the low-fat craze has ended and more people are embracing healthy fats in their diet, there's still a sizable group that has not heard the news yet … Eating fat will not make you fat as quickly as eating carbs will. This, in a nutshell, is what you need to recogni ...
  • This Forbidden Indulgence Could Actually Spare ...
    By Dr. Mercola Salt has long been a treasured staple for humans across the globe. In ancient times, salt was literally worth its weight in gold, as African and European explorers would trade an ounce of salt for an ounce of gold. Roman soldiers were also paid in salt, hence the modern wor ...
  • Eat 15g or Less of This Daily to Help Slim You ...
    By Dr. Mercola In today's world it's more difficult than ever to keep your weight under control, as evidenced by the fact that over 2/3 of all American adults are now overweight or obesei, as are one in three children. Part of the blame rests with the processed food corporations that spend ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival urges UN to end Andamans scandal
    India's Supreme Court ordered sections of the Andaman Trunk Road to be closed in 2002 © Ariberto De Blasoni/Survival Five years after the UN first called on India to close the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), Survival is urging the organization to bring an end to human safaris by speaking out ...
  • Brazilian indigenous organization wins prestig ...
    Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for a meeting at Bismark to discuss their land claims, Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival Brazilian organization CIR- Indigenous Council of Roraima (Conselho IndĆ­gena de Roraima)- has won the Spanish government’s BartolomĆ© 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 MapiripĆ”n 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-BuglĆ© 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-BuglĆ© Indians in the ChiriquĆ­ province of western Panama. Protestors had blockaded part of the Pan-American Highway, the main ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The Gazette's view, in short
    In the last federal election campaign, the Conservatives said that if they were elected, they would scrap the long-gun registry. They were, and they have.
  • The CAQ has yet to earn official-party standing
    The speaker applied the standing rule that in order to get official recognition and the perks that come with it, a party must have at least 12 MNAs in its ranks, or have captured at least 20 per cent of the popular vote in the previous provincial election.
  • Another Opus abyss? Quite the opposite
    Last month, Andy Riga, The Gazette's transportation reporter, wrote on this page about his surreal odyssey through two transit agencies to get a damaged Opus card replaced ("Into the Opus abyss," Jan. 23). This week, Riga lost his Opus card. And not only that; he realized that he had registered ...
  • What's in a street name?
    It's plausible that the change in Richmond St.'s name was done at the request of Canada Post. However, if the majority of citizens in the area protested the name change and were proud of the historic significance of the name Richmond, surely a better solution could have been used.
  • Gary Carter: The Kid who made Montreal smile
    Even so, his premature death at age 57 has an unreal quality to it. It almost feels like the death of youthful exuberance itself.

Food World Order

  • Episode009 - Updates and Sproutbreaks
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week we cover Fukushima updates, buyouts, sproutbreaks and more... Episode009: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous ...
  • 2/16 Binge and Purge: Arsenic and Old Taste
    Video: Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations of Arsenic* PDF: 'Arsenic, Organic Foods, and Brown Rice Syrup'* Europe and US reach organic trade deal* PDF: 'EU and US agree to Historic New Partnership on Organic Trade'* Organic Farmer Prince Charles on Changing Our Faulty Food Sys ...
  • Kellogg's to buy Pringles from P&G for $2.7b
    from reuters: Kellogg Co agreed to buy Pringles potato chips from Procter & Gamble Co for $2.7 billion in a cash deal that will nearly triple the cereal maker's international snack business. The transaction will also let household goods maker P&G finally leave the food business after its ...
  • Questions about raw milk? Ask a farmer.
    from brasschecktv.com: Whether you like raw milk or not, it has been part of mankind's diet for thousands of years, which is why I find it suspicious when the government insists that you can only drink a particular form of milk in which the nutrients have been destroyed. I recently heard that th ...
  • Cod Fishermen’s Alarm Outlasts Reprieve on Cat ...
    from nytimes.com: Fishermen and federal officials grappled Friday with the increasingly bleak prospect of finding some way for the historic New England cod industry to avoid collapse amid troubles with the health of Gulf of Maine cod. Their meeting came in the week after regional regulators boug ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • F*** the BBC & Sky - let's go LIVE to Syntagma ...
    The brave, heroic and charming team of StopCartelTV are now broadcasting live from Athens. Just unmute to experience real Greek life, direct from Syntagma Square. This post will remain up while transmission is live.
  • Greece, the birthplace of democracy... and the ...
    Throughout this week, we've been paying particular attention to continuing developments in Greece. We care passionately about the plight and suffering of the Greek people; we deplore the chemical weapons which are used to repress democratic demonstrations of the Greek people's opposition to w ...
  • And now they demand that the Greeks ask for pe ...
    Poor Greece. Standard of living in decline. Unelected Puppet Prime Minister. The nation which gave us democracy has little democracy of it's own. People driven to suicide. Governed by the EU/ECB/IMF and Berlin. And now their own Government demands that they ask for permission to protest. A ...
  • Nigel Farage - tough talk with Alex Jones
    Nigel Farage was a guest on the Alex Jones show last night. Here is that interview. And it is an epic: Just hours before, Nigel had given an interview to RT in which he accused the EU of using Greece as a "sacrifice"...
  • Greek Solidarity: Europe-wide 'We're All Greek ...
    We warned yesterday that this would happen. Too late, evil EU... it is happening. Demonstrations in a number of European capitals are being planned for this Saturday, 18th February under the unifying message of "We're All Greek Now!"... just as we predicted yesterday. Planned participating ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Cross Browser Script to Download YouTube Video ...
    Back in the day, downloading YouTube videos (and anything that run on Flash) was simple as anything (at least in Ubuntu). It is not so anymore. But there is this really useful script to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu running Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera without much trouble and in a deep ...
  • Cerberus: Brilliant Anti-Theft Android App tha ...
    Cerberus may not be a name many have heard of. It is one of those apps that never comes up in searches. But I think, Cerberus seriously is *the* best anti-theft android app available in the Android Market. Features supported by this little app is simply mindblowing. Seriously folks, Cerberus i ...
  • Google Chrome to Phone Android App is Insanely ...
    If SwipePad proved really useful to you all, here is another unique app for Android that can further simplify and add value to your day-to-day smartphone use. Google Chrome to Phone is an official Google Inc. made app for Android which lets you send links, maps or phone numbers from your Googl ...
  • System76's First Ever Video Ad Released
    Canonical recently upped its marketing pitch by releasing a slew of ads featuring Ubuntu. System76 has joined the fray and has just now released a small commercial (more like a teaser video), again featuring an Ubuntu powered desktop from its inventory. If you are not familiar, System76 is ...
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Review: Unusually Bug-Ridden
    Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" Alpha 2 is here and we are yet another release close to perhaps the most important Ubuntu ever. I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 ever since its first alpha was released and I have been closely following the developments. At the moment, Ubuntu 12.04 is far from sta ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • HOPES GROW OF GREEK COUP TO OVERTHROW BANKSTERS
    *Shock and consternation after German Finance Minister calls for Greece to postpone elections in April and install a technocratic government *Greek President rejects aggressive German power grab over country; “default better than a German pistol at head” *Hopes grow that the Greek army will over ...
  • Check this blog every Friday
    Please check this blog on Fridays for a  regular update from now on.
  • GREEK POLICE THREATEN TO ARREST TROIKA AS BUDG ...
    *GREEK POLICE SAY THEY WILL ARREST TROIKA FOR JEOPARDISING SURVIVAL OF GREEK PEOPLE AND UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY *WILDCAT STRIKES AND SIT INS IN PROTEST AT NEW AUSTERITY MEASURES *EU TRIES TO COMPEL ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO SIGN UP BEFORE ELECTIONS: END OF DEMOCRACY The Greek police force is seekin ...
  • Why we should have the right to choose our med ...
     Comment by Ray Weisling I read your posting about vitamins and other nutritional approaches to health care, citing the work of Lilly Gschwendtner. This is just the veritable tip of the iceberg. Many have travelled this path before and have suffered the fate of rigorous orthodox medical authorit ...
  • The Kampusch kidnapper: Murder?
    By Allan Hall, Daily Mail  The man who took Natascha Kampusch from a Vienna street when she was just a schoolgirl and kept her captive for nearly nine years in a secret dungeon – may have been murdered, it was claimed today. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098857/Was-Natascha-Kamp ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Media Ignores Santorum’s Support For Accused C ...
    Paul Joseph Watson   Monday, January 9, 2012 While the establishment media has ceaselessly smeared Ron Paul for the controversial content of decades-old newsletters that were not even written by him, the comparatively shocking scandal of Rick Santorum having sponsored alleged child molester ...
  • Rick Santorum: North Dakota is in the cross-ha ...
    By Juan Cole GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned North Dakota on Wednesday that it was in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack. Among the news about Iran that had Americans thinking about that country was an announcement that Iran is making its own nuclear fuel and using it for a react ...
  • Panetta: Iran is Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
    by John Glaser, February 16, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that Iran is enriching uranium in a peaceful nuclear program but that Tehran has not decided to develop an atomic bomb. Top U.S. military and intelligence officials gave separate testimonies in congressional hearings ...
  • Rick Santorum: The Pro-Life-Pro-Death Candidate
    By Keith Johnson But is Santorum really pro-life? Well, that depends. If you’re still in the womb of an American citizen, then yes. Aside from that—well, I think comedian George Carlin put it best: ”If you’re pre-born you’re fine. If you’re preschool you’re fucked. Conservatives don’t give a shi ...
  • Feds succeed in destroying entire business of ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It is with much sadness that we report the two-year war waged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has been a success. The Washington Times and others are now reporting that, following a ruling ...

Veterans Today

  • A Story That Needs Retelling
    I have a story to tell. This story has been told before. It can be found in several places on and off the internet, but not enough people have read it. If they have, it hasn't sunk in.
  • Buchanan Get’s It Wrong (Video)
    Rarified Atmosphere of “Washington Insiders” Hides Reality from Buchanan   …by  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor   First of all, I am a fan of Pat Buchanan. I respect his view, see him as the last of the real conservatives and also know he is one of my readers. Pat speaks ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    Veterans facing criminal charges who are in need of mental health or substance use treatment may be eligible for Veterans Treatment Court, if they live in one of the growing number of communities where these courts exist.
  • UVA Students Go on Hunger Strike for Living Wage
    After years of dialogue with administration, marches, rallies, petitions, and public resolutions, the Living Wage Campaign of U.Va. began a Hunger Strike on Feb. 18th to urge U.Va to enact a living wage policy.
  • VT Weekend Concerts – Rock and Roll Classics
    First up tonight are the Rolling Stones, U2 and Fergie at the Rock and Roll Hall or Fame in 2009.

electric politics

  • The Color of Authority
    We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
  • How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
    Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
  • Whither Korea?
    The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...
  • Nuclear Nihilism
    Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...
  • One of Our Other Cold Wars
    As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: February 18, 2012
    ==== U.S. Drone Attacks Kill Sixteen In Northwest Pakistan Pakistani President Pledges Support To Iran Against Foreign Aggression Afghan War: NATO Loses 41 Soldiers So Far This Year NATO Helicopter Crashes In Afghanistan U.S. To Deploy Interceptor Missile Destroyers To Spain Georgia: NATO Corner ...
  • U.S. Special Forces To Expand Global Operations
    The Philippine Star February 18, 2012 US Special Forces want wider global operations By Satur C. Ocampo ==== In the past decade, 80 percent of SOFs have been deployed in the Middle East — the rest are scattered thinly in over 70 countries around the world. As of now, the Socom has about 66,000 c ...
  • Pakistan To Oppose U.S. Attack On Iran
    RT February 17, 2012 Pakistan allies with Iran against US ==== The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, joining another US battle group already positioned in the region headed by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Yet another aircraft c ...
  • China, Russia Won’t Allow Further Transf ...
    Global Times February 18, 2012 China unwavering on Syria in new UN vote ==== Western powers are privileged to interpret interests and ethics at their own will due to their obvious dominance of public opinion. They label the 12 countries who voted differently to them at the UN as being “une ...
  • Libya Reprise: Former Mideast Colonial Powers ...
    RT February 17, 2012 Friendly advice: France, UK to command ousting of Assad? ==== Britain and France may send military advisors to teach the Syrian insurgents combat tactics, communication and other skills needed to attack governmental forces. Earlier unconfirmed reports said that British milit ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Mindenhall Royal Air Force Base Possibly Condu ...
    The Intel Hub - Mindenhall RAF in the UK quite possibly might house a massive chemtrail operation as uncovered by Harold Saive.
  • Exclusive Interview With Sheriff Mack – ...
    The Intel Hub - An Exclusive Interview with Sheriff Richard Mack who is running for Congress against SOPA and TSA supporter Lamar Smith.Smith was one of the MAIN backers of the internet censorship bill.
  • Michael Murphy on Chemtrails, Depopulation, an ...
    Bob Tuskin - On Thursday February 16th, Michael Murphy joined the Bob Tuskin Radio Show for a special transmission regarding the ongoing chemtrail/geoengineering operations taking place throughout the world. Topics covered include his upcoming new documentary, "Why in the World Are They Sprayin ...
  • Report: Insider Documents Detail a March 23 Gr ...
    Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com February 17, 2012 That a default in Europe is coming has never been the question. For the astute observer the only thing at issue is how and when it will happen. While the mainstream financial media and government officials have tried to spin this story as one that involve ...
  • Mountain Man Scares Owners of Remote Utah Cabins
    Associated Press February 17, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — He’s eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanis ...

FRS

  • Arraignment date set for Peace Prize nominee B ...
    WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Army announced that a formal arraignment date has been set for PFC Bradley Manning. The arraignment has been scheduled for 01:00 PM EST, February 23, 2012 at Fort Meade, Maryland. This arraignment will set the dates for a series of hearings on pre-trial motions ...
  • Sudan police raid campus, arrest hundreds of a ...
    Fri Feb 17, 2012 KHARTOUM Feb 17 (Reuters) – Sudanese police arrested hundreds of students in a pre-dawn raid on a major university’s dormitories on Friday, activists said, in a crackdown on a campus that has been at the centre of recent anti-government protests. The University of Kh ...
  • Nearly 400 prisoners burned to death–Fam ...
    [The prisoners were locked in, and guards fired on them as the flames consumed the prison and the prisoners.  The firemen could not get entry for over an hour.  The effect of the total disregard for human life was mass murder, the largest in history of prisons. -- Frontlines ed.] Fri Feb 17 2012 ...
  • Nearly 400 prisoners burned to death–Fam ...
    [The prisoners were locked in, and guards fired on them as the flames consumed the prison and the prisoners.  The firemen could not get entry for over an hour.  The effect of the total disregard for human life was mass murder, the largest in history of prisons. -- Frontlines ed.] Fri Feb 17 2012 ...
  • Manila gets second U.S. Coast Guard ship
    by Staff Writers, UPI Manila, Philippines, Feb 16, 2012 The Philippines navy soon will receive its second decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard ship amid concern that the move sends the wrong signal to China. Final U.S. approval for the sale of the USCGC Dallas, a Hamilton class cutter, is under way a ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Harvard University Studies the Placebo
    Harvard studies new information on the placebo effect.Contributor: Daniel J. Vest Published: Jan 24, 2012
  • The End of the Kodak Legacy
    These are a few final words highlighting a national legacy to photography and film and it's many accomplishments.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Jan 24, 2012
  • Abortion Activists Rally on the 39th Anniversa ...
    Sunday, January 22, 2012 marked the 39th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision made by the Supreme Court.Contributor: R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen Published: Jan 23, 2012
  • Remembering Joe Paterno
    Joe Paterno was once the face of Penn State and one of the most respected coaches in all of football, both collegiate and professional. His life was filled with innumerable successes that have been overshadowed in recent months by controversy. He died SContributor: Paul Rados Published: Jan 2 ...
  • How Newt Gingrich Won South Carolina
    The ground is shifting beneath the feet of the Republican candidates, and Mitt Romney is in danger of falling through the cracks. In a stunning turn-around, Newt Gingrich stole the South Carolina primary from Romney in short order.Contributor: Giuseppe Giannet Published: Jan 22, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Images of the Week, February 13-17, 2012
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, F ...
    Happy Valentine's Week! Have a space rose. Or a cube that tells you the weather outside by touch, that's a good gift, right? Or the tiniest most adorable chameleon ever found, or...you know what, just click through and check out the most amazing images of the week. They are, as the headline sugg ...
  • Depression Can Be Diagnosed With a Blood Test
    The jury is still out, in many respects, on exactly what depression is and how it should be treated, but clinically speaking it is usually diagnosed in a psychological rather than a physiological manner--that is, via a questionnaire that is given to patients rather than by some method of empiric ...
  • Tonight, We'll Be at Star Talk Live With Neil ...
    Neil de Grasse Tyson's ever-entertaining podcast, Star Talk, is recording another live episode tonight, here in New York. He'll be joined by comedian Eugene Mirman and other guests--past guests have included comedians Kristen Schaal and John Hodgman, actor Alan Alda, and astronaut Mike Massimino ...
  • FYI: Do Competitive Eaters Have Unusual Stomachs?
    Yes. Marc Levine, the chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has found that a competitive eater’s stomach works more like an expanding balloon than a squeezing sac. For his study, Levine recruited a professional eater, then ranked among the top 10 ...

Veterans Today

  • A Story That Needs Retelling
    I have a story to tell. This story has been told before. It can be found in several places on and off the internet, but not enough people have read it. If they have, it hasn't sunk in.
  • Buchanan Get’s It Wrong (Video)
    Rarified Atmosphere of “Washington Insiders” Hides Reality from Buchanan   …by  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor   First of all, I am a fan of Pat Buchanan. I respect his view, see him as the last of the real conservatives and also know he is one of my readers. Pat speaks ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    Veterans facing criminal charges who are in need of mental health or substance use treatment may be eligible for Veterans Treatment Court, if they live in one of the growing number of communities where these courts exist.
  • UVA Students Go on Hunger Strike for Living Wage
    After years of dialogue with administration, marches, rallies, petitions, and public resolutions, the Living Wage Campaign of U.Va. began a Hunger Strike on Feb. 18th to urge U.Va to enact a living wage policy.
  • VT Weekend Concerts – Rock and Roll Classics
    First up tonight are the Rolling Stones, U2 and Fergie at the Rock and Roll Hall or Fame in 2009.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • 3 Cheers for Austerity: Iceland is Investment ...
    Well here's a just reward for a nation sanely adjusting to the age of austerity. While no longer AAA USA is busy gorging on yet more costly giveaways costing hundreds of billions of dollars--it's an election year, duh--another of the countries hardest hit by the 2007/08 global financial crisis i ...
  • The Race is On to Succeed Zoellick at World Bank
    I have to run but it's going to be very interesting going with the current World Bank President Robert Zoellick indicating that he is about to resign his post. The search is on for a successor with the US naturally in the vanguard. However, given the controversy of yet another European succeedin ...
  • TPP is Ludicrous: US Auto, Canadian Agri Edition
    Here are two more examples of the rather enormous roadblocks to the US government attempting to expand an APEC PTA to counterbalance growing Chinese trade dominance in the region. In their own ways, they are rather ludicrous examples of how Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) enlargement is infeasib ...
  • Day's EU Analogy: Greece 2012 = Versailles 1919
    My oh my. There appears to be some sort of competition going on among journalists to make the most outlandish analogy between what's going on with Greece in the EU and a historical European moment best forgotten. A few weeks ago we had the FT's Wolfgang Munchau likening events in today's Europe ...
  • Not-So-Still Life: A Greek Riot Scene
    I'm a bit strapped for time today so here's something that captures the moment in Greece. On Facebook, my Greek friends have been posting these sorts of riot pictures and videos for several years now. I suppose it's conventional scenery when the IMF is called into action. Whether the IMF's prese ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • World’s smallest chameleon found in northern M ...
    Scientists say a chameleon species that has been recently discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar is the smallest of its kind ever found. A team of scientists has found four new chameleon species in northern Madagascar including Brookesia micra, which is small enough to easily perch on a matc ...
  • Iran unlikely to strike unless hit: US intelli ...
    A senior US intelligence official has admitted that if attacked, Iran will respond but is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict. “Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz at least temporarily, and may launch missiles against United States forces and our allies in the region if it is attacked,” U ...
  • Russia Would Use Nukes to Stave Off Threats
    Russia would use nuclear weapons in response to any imminent threat to its national security, Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said on Wednesday. “We are certainly not planning to fight against the whole of NATO,” Makarov said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio, “b ...
  • Professors discover nanoscale energy source
    Australian professor Michael Strano and Iranian associate professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh have discovered a new power source for energy storage and power generation. Associate Professor Kalantar-Zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne, and M ...
  • Professors discovers nanoscale energy source
    Australian professor Michael Strano and Iranian associate professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh have discovered a new power source for energy storage and power generation. Associate Professor Kalantar-Zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne, and M ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Will the US and PH extend and expand military ...
    TweetThe RP-US Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA), a 10-year old military pact that requires the Philippines to service the logistics needs of the US military when they are in the country, is set to expire by November 2012. The MLSA, along with the VFA and MDT, is a vital cog in the perm ...
  • Investigation into Polish CIA prison moved to ...
    TweetThe investigation, which had been active since 2008, has been moved from Warsaw to Krakow, several Polish news outlets report. According to Piotr Kosmaty, the spokesperson of the Prokuratura Apelacyjna Krakow, the case files have already arrived. He declined to comment on the reasons behind ...
  • TheGlobalSquare: Call for coders
    TweetSubmitted by The Global Square TheGlobalSquare aims to be the first massive decentralized social network in the history of the Internet. We are aware of the difficulties we must overcome, but we believe the Internet Community has reached a point where such an initiative is possible. It is ...
  • 2012-02-13 Athens burns: has #Greece entered i ...
    Tweet (Photo by Real Democracy GR – MultiMedia Team ) Greece’s political establishment trembles as banks and government offices burn amid violent anti-austerity riots. Has the country finally reached a tipping point? Exactly ten years ago, the crisis-ridden country of Argentina spiraled into a ...
  • 2012-02-11 Food vs. Fertility, Part I: Bisphen ...
    TweetChemical structure of BPA A host of manufactured chemicals in the food and water supply is wreaking havoc on our health. One common characteristic among the effects of many of these substances is a decrease in fertility, accompanied by a rise in afflictions affecting the reproductive sys ...

U N News

  • UN expert calls on Uruguay to provide access t ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on Uruguayan authorities to implement measures to provide access to health and sanitation to its poorest and most marginalized communities.
  • UN voices concern over alarming pattern of vio ...
    The United Nations today voiced concern over the recent wave of violence in Latin American prisons, citing overcrowding, a lack of access to basic services, judicial delays, and excessive pre-trial detention as some of the causes which have worsened conditions in detention facilities.
  • At end of Haitian visit, Security Council focu ...
    Police reform and the living conditions of Haitians who remain displaced after the January 2010 earthquake were the focus of the final day of the Security Council's four-day visit to the impoverished Caribbean country.
  • After prison blaze kills hundreds in Honduras, ...
    A United Nations human rights official today called on Latin American countries to tackle the problem of prison overcrowding in the wake of an overnight fire at a jail in Honduras that killed hundreds of inmates.
  • UN expert urges Honduras to protect human righ ...
    Human rights defenders in Honduras continue to suffer extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment as well as harassment and stigmatization, an independent United Nations expert says, calling on the Central American country's Government to establish a protection p ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
    Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
  • Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
    The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
  • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
  • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
    This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
  • Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
    Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Hedge Funds in Education?... It’s All About th ...
      Nearly twenty years ago I attended the Model Schools Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Education futurist Bill Dagget gave a sobering talk in which he warned attendees to beware of  business getting into education, as it was the last vestige they had yet exploited. ~ Kevin Corb ...
  • Ron Paul... The Movie
      Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. ~ Documentary read more
  • Homeschooling... 54 Benefits Enjoyed by Parent ...
      Parents, is homeschooling the right choice for you and your children? Maybe you think you don’t have the time to homeschool because you work. Perhaps you don’t have confidence in your ability to teach your kids because you never took “teaching” ...
  • Scientists Under Attack
      GMOs exposed!... Author and journalist Jeffery Smith exposes GMOs, the dangers surrounding GMOs, who's behind it and why... ~ Documentary read more
  • US Military Issues Warning to Ron Paul Supporters!
      This was posted on the RON PAUL IS THE CHOICE OF THE TROOPS Facebook event page by Kevin Audrain, who claims to be active duty Navy and was leaked to me by multiple unconfirmed sources. ~ Adam Kokesh - See e-mail read more

Tarpley

  • US, NATO Ram Anti-Syrian Resolution Through UN ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 17, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The UN General Assembly has adopted an anti-Syria resolution that was drafted by the Arab League and backed by the United States and the United Kingdom. On Thursday, 137 members of the UN voted in favor of t ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Should Oust Facilitators, M ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is faced with anti-war protesters who also condemn the assassinations of Iran’s high profile nuclear scientists. An analyst believes that warmongering groups in Wall Street provoke wars in the ...
  • Report from Iran Under the Shadow of War
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 5, 2012 Webster Tarpley reporting from Tehran, Iran [download audio]
  • Who Will Stop Obama’s Aggressive War on ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 29, 2012 [download video] The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology. T ...
  • Media Interviews
             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  >  >| page: 1 of 10   total items: 99 Statistics for Suicide, Domestic Violence, Crime Reveal Tragedy of Overstretched and Demoralized US Military After a Decade of Multiple Wars PressTV – January 21, ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Obama Plan To Destroy 2nd Amendment?
    Reader Question: The NRA has recently announced Obama has plans to destroy the 2nd amendment by taking everyone’s firearms if he is elected to a second term. What would you do if this should happen? Would you roll over for and submit to the government’s illegal action, take up those ...
  • Whole Grains, Spices and Herbs: Survival Foods
    About a week ago I was looking through the course booklet for our local adult education classes.  In fact, I even touched upon how I thought they are a nice way to ‘teach’ yourself some survival skills such as cooking, woodworking, CPR etc. in my post, ‘Teach’ Yourself Su ...
  • A Good Solar Power Battery Charger
    This solar powered battery charger, Solar 11-in-1 Battery Charger, looks to be a great preparedness item to have for all typical consumer-size batteries. I have two solar chargers that look nearly identical to this one (except for the built-in meter gauge) which I purchased years ago. They are s ...
  • Stay Prepared If You Intend To Stay Behind
    Guest post: by Adam, from Australia Preparation is essential if you intend to stay and defend during a disaster. I recently had first hand experience of the importance of good preparation if you intend to stay put during a disaster. The small isolated town which I live, in remote rural Queenslan ...
  • ‘Compassion’ Is Also a Survival Skill
    So, let me start by saying that appearances can be very deceiving. Here is a little story that I have to share that will confirm what I just said about appearances being deceiving. As many of you are aware, Ken and I have recently moved. As we are getting settled, I think about what we’ve ...

Fast Company

  • The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Catch up on the stories readers deemed most clickworthy this week from Fast Company, Co.Design, Co.Create, and Co.Exist. This week, we revealed our annual Most Innovative Companies list. You devoured it, like you do each year. (And why wouldn't you? It's a roadmap to the future of business.) The ...
  • This Week In Bots: Boldly Pounding Fists Where ...
    Oribital gestures, child-like androids, robotic spacecraft--it's all in our robotic roundup. Far out.Bot Vids: RomeoAledbaran Robotics, best known for the pint-sized Nao research bot, have released the first clip of their Romeo project. This machine is way more sophisticated than Nao, is said to ...
  • Apple, Google, Facebook, And Amazon Compete In ...
    Google's getting into hardware to take on Apple. And Apple could be planning a smaller iPad, to edge out Amazon's Kindle Fire. Facebook filed a whopping big S-1 for an IPO this year, while Amazon pondered a retail store. It's clear the Great Tech War of 2012 is going strong, and India is one of ...
  • If Your Company's Culture Needs A Shot In The ...
    Steal this idea: At method, we have a special--and easy to replicate--way of keeping corporate culture humming even as the company grows. In 2005, a mutual friend introduced me to the lads at innocent. For those unfamiliar with innocent, think of them as the British Odwalla. But cooler. We often ...
  • What "Wizard101" Gave Up To Break Into China: ...
    The family-friendly online game Wizard101 is bigger than World of Warcraft and poised to grow even quicker as it spreads to China. But creators KingsIsle are making quite a few changes and installing esoteric systems so the Chinese government will let them play there. It might not have the imm ...

Jadaliyya

  • "Violating Sacred Values" in Morocco: Free Spe ...
    A simple caricature by a cartoonist and a four-minute video featuring an activist expressing his dissent are arguably some of today’s most common mediums for political expression. In post-constitutional reform and post–parliamentary-election Morocco, sharing a political cartoon and criti ...
  • Our Friend Anthony Shadid's Stories
    I feel like I need to write the stories, he would say, or the stories will not get told. And so often Anthony Shadid did write the stories no one else would—the stories from Iraq, from Lebanon, from Libya, from Syria. In the end, he died on a dirt road in Syria, carried by a fellow journ ...
  • Struggles That Fueled a Revolution
    Bulaq: Among the Ruins of an Unfinished Revolution. Directed by Matteo Keffer. UK/Italy/Egypt, 2011. “Bread, freedom, and social justice” has been one of the most memorable chants from Egypt’s year of mass protests. Although world and Egyptian media have been fixated on the symbolic Tah ...
  • Immunity, Accountability, and the Arab Uprisin ...
    On 14 February 2012, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat participated in an American University Law School's 2012 Founders' Celebration entitled "The Impact of the Arab Spring Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa: Building the Rule of Law and the Role of the Interna ...
  • Anthony Shadid is No Longer With Us
    Anthony was a dear friend and colleague to so many of us at Jadaliyya. We are shocked and devastated by this loss. We have very little to say at this point, except to offer our deepest condolences to his family. Jadaliyya Editors   From the New York Times (Thursday Evening): ...

mediagazer

  • Postscript: Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012 (Steve C ...
    Steve Coll / The New Yorker Blog: Postscript: Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012  —  Anthony Shadid's third book, “House of Stone,” is due to be published in several weeks.  It is described by the publisher as a “a memoir of home, family and a lost Middle East.&rdq ...
  • NYT reconsiders Sunday Review cartoon solicita ...
    Jim Romenesko: NYT reconsiders Sunday Review cartoon solicitation  —  Earlier this month I posted an item about the New York Times “insulting” editorial cartoonists by asking them to submit spec drawings, for which they'd get only $250 if accepted.  —&nbsp ...
  • Qwikster Rebaptized: Netflix's Name Game With ...
    Tim Carmody / Epicenter: Qwikster Rebaptized: Netflix's Name Game With Disc-Only Subscriptions  —  Here's a new post title from Netflix's company blog that wouldn't have made sense five years ago, or even last July: “Now you can sign up directly for a DVD only plan.” ...
  • Microsoft mulls plan for new music service (ex ...
    Greg Sandoval / CNET: Microsoft mulls plan for new music service (exclusive)  —  The software maker has discussed with some of the major record companies about creating a music service to serve Xbox as well as an upcoming Windows-based phone.  —  Microsoft is in ...
  • Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Fr ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy  —  NEW YORK — Military strikes expected!  Weapons inspectors called in!  A murky al Qaeda connection!  And Cheney says time's up for Ira...  Wait.  Haven't ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • When diabetes impacts the eye
    “Laughter is the best medicine, unless you're diabetic; then insulin comes pretty high on the list.” Jasper Carott Diabetes mellitus is a growing problem in India. With an estimated 50.8 million people living with diabetes, India has the largest diabetic population. In a diabetic ...
  • Donovan - This could be goodbye
    Loan star Landon Donovan admits an FA Cup date with Blackpool on Saturday could mark his final outing in an Everton shirt. The USA international is set to bring the curtain down on a second stint with the Toffees this weekend. With the new MLS season fast approaching, the experienced forward ...
  • Russell Brand 'dating Mexican painter fol ...
    Russell Brand is reportedly dating a Mexican painter. The comedian, who filed for divorce from Katy Perry in December, is said to have met Oriela Medellin Amieiro at a yoga class. The 25-year-old was spotted at her LA apartment earlier this week after spending the night at Brand's, but admit ...
  • Katy Perry gets her biggest Billboard deb ...
    Katy Perry's latest single is on track to become her biggest Billboard debut ever, following impressive first week sales. 'Part of Me', which was released on Monday (February 13), is heading for debut digital sales of between 400,000 and 420,000 by Sunday (February 19), Billboard reports. Th ...
  • Bipasha Basu: 'I am scared of kissing on ...
    Bipasha Basu has revealed she is scared of kissing on screen. According to Masala.com, the 33-year-old actress said that, while she has filmed intimate scenes in films such as Jism, Raaz and Race, she isn't comfortable with kissing co-stars. "I am scared of kissing on screen. It nerves me to ...

no frakking consensus

  • Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee
    The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri's sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?
  • Closed Minds at the IPCC
    A Dutch professor has examined a draft of the upcoming IPCC report. He says it has been written by people who start from the assumption that dangerous, human-caused global warming has been proven.
  • The Royal Society’s Joyride
    In recent years the world's oldest science academy has been taken for a joyride. Three centuries of neutrality have been impulsively abandoned - in the name of fighting climate change.
  • Scientific Consensus, Leadership & Stephen Sch ...
    Is it any wonder that young climate scientists behave badly? Their elders set the example - by hurling insults at dissenters.
  • Bob Carter: A Geological Perspective
    A climate debate that includes Al Gore’s climate ideas - but not Bob Carter’s - is no debate at all.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/17/12 - "Did You Know?” Little Known Facts a ...
    2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...
  • 2/17/12 - Embargo against Cuba
    2012election.procon.org - Should the US continue to support the embargo against Cuba? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Paul is Con. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, and Obama are Pro, and Johnson is Not Clearly Pro or Con.
  • 2/17/12 - Right to health care
    2012election.procon.org - Should all Americans have a right (be entitled) to basic health care? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Obama is Pro. Paul and Johnson are Con, and the other four candidates are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
  • 2/17/12 - Access to social services
    2012election.procon.org - Should illegal immigrants have access to social services such as Medicaid, welfare, or public education? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. None of the candidates are Pro. Paul and Santorum are Con, and Obama, Gingrich, Roemer, Romney, and ...
  • 2/17/12 - Draft and national service
    2012election.procon.org - Should the US require mandatory national service in the form of a draft or required civil service? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. None of the candidates are Pro. Obama, Paul, Gingrich, and Romney are Con.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The brainstorming myth
    Jonah Lehrer In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was widely regarded as the most innovative firm on Madison Avenue. Born in 1888, Osborn had spent much of h ...
  • Fields Apart
    By Sam Kean “Shut up and calculate!” As physics became more mathematical and abstract during the past century, that phrase—first uttered by physicist David Mermin—became its mantra. Indeed, the more that physicists stopped worrying about what their complicated equations meant and simply ran the ...
  • Judging Books by Their Covers
    C. Max Magee … we thought it might be fun to compare the U.S. and U.K. book cover designs of this year’s Morning News Tournament of Books contenders. Book cover design never seems to garner much discussion in the literary world, but, as readers, we are undoubtedly swayed by the little bill ...
  • Christian Jihad
    Patrick Allitt Is it true that the Bible teaches peace and the Koran war? Only if you approach the books selectively, taking the gentlest of Jesus’ teachings and setting them against the harshest of Muhammad’s. Philip Jenkins’s challenging new book Laying Down the Sword shows that the Bible cont ...
  • Why Are Men So Violent?
    Why Are Men So Violent? Jesse J. Prinz It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world’s homicides and start all of the wars. But why? A recent article in a prominent science journal contends that evolution has shaped men t ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Debunking the real 9/11 myths
    Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other plac ...
  • We Will Not Be Scanned requests your feedback ...
    Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means ...
  • Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
    Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...
  • Iraq: The legacy of deception
    Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a "Real Politik" vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace---with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion's ...
  • I’m gonna stand my ground and I won&#821 ...
    Tonight I am joined by lawyer and human rights advocate Rochelle Macredie. In the show we take a look at some of the major breaking stories in the news and Rochelle gives her analysis of what is required to roll back the march towards war and tyranny which we see unfolding across the world rig ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Sometimes An Artist Joins The Army. Neil Leinwohl.
    I used to work for Neil Leinwohl, a creative director/art director at Korey Kay in New York. In the ensuing years, I have discovered that he is far more than an advertising art director. He served in Vietnam with the 34th and 79th Engineers and was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Br ...
  • America’s First Submarine Was Invented D ...
        Early Submarine Design And Development In The 18th Century.   Lenoardo Davinci sketched his idea for a submersible vehicle in the 16th century. He was of course a major visionary and his vision came to life when Cornelius Drebbel built a prototype that rode around under the waves o ...
  • Dreams Of Space Is A Great Blog! You Must Visi ...
              “A simple book covering all aspect of space travel including history, physics, U.S. and Russian space efforts, building a space station, manned exploration of the Moon, and exploration of the planets. It has wonderful paintings of all these things devotin ...
  • Great Swedish Military Recruitment Commercial
  • The Dubats.
      Every nation in Europe had holdings in Africa at one time, and almost none of it benefited the occupied. The Roman model of Auxiliary regiments made of locals adapted by the modern Roman Benito Mussolini. Colonel Bechi, at Mussolini’s behest raised a regiment of soldiers loyal to Italy to ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Mitt Romney Minute: Romney Spokeswoman Says ‘I ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The Mormon Church apologized Tuesday for a “serious breach of protocol” after it was discovered that the parents of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized as Mormons. The church also acknowledged ...
  • Queer Talk: From Chris Christie, Sam Arora, Ba ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The latest round of marriage equality stories includes appearances by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Maryland House Delegate Sam Arora (Dem), President Obama via Jay Carney, and Bill Clinton. Yesterday the Maryland H ...
  • Mitt Romney is Struggling Because GOP Primary ...
    Politico’s Maggie Haberman asks the question I’ve been answering for weeks, which also shines klieg lights on Mitt Romney’s problem: Will women vote for Rick Santorum? Of course they won’t, which is just one reason Romney is the only choice for Republicans, but he’s ...
  • What Rick Santorum Looks Like When He’s In His ...
    A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and ...
  • The “right to be secure” doesn’t mean what it ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Bill of Rights, Amendment IV: Right of search and seizure regulated: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violate ...

Hudson New York

  • A New Year of "Dhimmitude" for Egypt's Copts
    For Egypt's Christian Copts, the New Year began with threats that their churches would be attacked during Christmas mass (celebrated on January 7). Because many people were watching what might happen—several Coptic churches were previously attacked,
  • The Rapper Who Defied the King of Morocco
    His stage name is L7a9ed (read L'haqed) meaning the outraged. But his real name is Mouad Belghouat, a 24 year old rap singer from one of the poorest slums of Casablanca, who recently became known for having criticized the Kingdom of Morocco. His lyrics
  • Obama Blames the Banks
    Speaking from the White House on Feb. 9th, Obama, assuming the air of a headmaster of boarding school, wagged his finger and proceeded to upbraid the "abusive" banks for their "irresponsible" and "reckless" policy of duping hapless blacks and other
  • UNRWA: What US Taxpayers Are Paying For
    A comprehensive paper on the "Right of Return" as the central theme in all of UNRWA education, affecting 500,000 Arab pupils, was presented to the US Congress on January 26, 2012 by Dr. Arnon Groiss, a senior official of the Voice of Israel Arabic
  • First Islamic Version of Facebook Aims to Crea ...
    "Salamworld," a pioneering global Islamic social network that aims to create a "halal" environment for Muslims on the Internet, recently held its first global summit in Istanbul with the participation of 250 people from 40 countries. "The content that is

Urban Survival

  • CPI – CP Owed
    “Yee-haw, git a long little wage slave!” The old joke set up goes “I have good news for you, and I have bad news for you… which do you want first?”  Times up: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Wireless ADS-B and Flying Notes
    OK, we start this morning with a shameless plug for the folks up at Adventure Pilot/ iFlyGPS up near McKinney, Texas.  They have started shipping the upgraded version of their iFlyGPS called the iFly 720. The thing which makes this … Continue reading →
  • Global Markets, Moody’s Blues
    The past 24-hours have not been good for the bullish case.  To be sure, Greece hasn’t fallen apart, yet the fact of the paperwork not being up to snuff has resulted in Greece being blamed for everything from my eczema … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Oregon’s Oddities
    A couple of readers have told me to go look at the magnetometers of HAARP because they have been jittering down into the -500 nT area over the past couple of days, and as one reader opined: “Someone is going … Continue reading →
  • Proof of the Second Depression
    Writer Katie Hill has found what seems to escape the Washington intelligentsia’s ken:  Proof that the Second Depression is in full swing.  Her article here gives important context to a “non-economic” story that outs the truth.  You see, back in … Continue r ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC in the News 2/17: Protect the Arctic, Mr. ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Seattle Times published Frances Beinecke’s op-ed, which called upon President Obama to uphold his vow to stand up to Big Oil and protect the Arctic from drilling; the op-ed was strategicall ...
  • EPA taking the right approach in investigating ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There is a recent report that EPA is conducting a "multi-media" investigation into the environmental impacts from Marcellus Shale operations in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The&nbs ...
  • Event examines how to make LA a mobile city again
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica This fall I taught a class at UCLA Law school, and was surprised to hear that many of the students did not plan to stay in LA after graduating.  When asked why, ...
  • Why Are Some Coastal Republicans Protecting Bi ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC As the transportation bill saga continues, yesterday the House passed a bill by a vote of 237-187 (H.R. 3408—formerly known as H.R. 3410) that would devastate our oceans and coasts.  The H ...
  • Continuing Opposition to H.R. 1837
    Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco Yesterday, after minimal notice, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 1837 (Nunes).  Over the coming days, my colleagues and I will be blogging (again) about this rad ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 17, 2012: Wichita KS police are being urged by residents to change their policy allowing cops to speed without lights or sirens after a 12-year-old girl was fatally struck b ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, February 16, 2012: Scottsdale AZ cop investigated for 6th fatal shooting where he killed an unarmed man while he held his young grandson. [0] http://bit.ly/xV1XEi St Paul MN settle ...
  • Outage
    Sorry for the lack of a daily report for Thursday, my laptop suffered a fatal hard drive crash last night. I’ll try to get things running again as soon as I can.
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 15, 2012: White Plains NY police sued by family of 68-year-old man who was shot to death by cops who allegedly harassed him and used a racial slur in attempt to force him ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, February 15, 2012: Orange Co CA deputy is investigated after fatally shooting an unarmed veteran as he climed into his SUV where his 2 young daughters were sitting in the back seat. ...

Total Collapse

  • Battlefield USA 2012: Gerald Celente predicts ...
    In 2012 America will become a battlefield of the will of the people against the will of the government, proclaims Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the Trends Journal. The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global and that is evidence that “people a ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Mossad deputy targeted in Spain ...
    The deputy chief of Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, has been targeted in a car bomb in Spain, a report says. Source.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Iran cuts oil export to 6 Europ ...
    In response to the latest sanctions imposed by the EU against Iran’s energy and banking sectors, the Islamic Republic has cut oil exports to six European countries. Iran on Wednesday cut oil exports to six European countries including Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Portugal. ...
  • Moscow warns against US warships
    Russia would respond if the United States deploys warships in the Black Sea or Arctic, Russian Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said Tuesday. “In a case where such (Aegis anti-missile system-equipped) ships appear in the Barents Sea,or in the Black Sea for instance, we will likel ...
  • Iranian boats shadow U.S. ship through Strait ...
    The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, shadowed by Iranian patrol boats. But there were no incidents on Tuesday as the Lincoln’s battle group crossed through the narrow strait, which Iran has threatened to close in retaliation for tighter ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Foxconn gives another raise to its workers, amid Apple’s investigations. Yelp is raising a $100 million IPO. Intellectual Ventures is back to the trolling of patents, to nobody’s surprise. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple unleashes OS X Mountain Lion to develpers, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean could be coming this summer, and the European Court of Justice has ruled that businesses cannot be required...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple’s iCloud hits 100 million users, Android accounted for 50% of smartphone sales in Q4 of 2011, and Google+ for iOS gets a much-requested feature. It’s all in today’s Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    The iPad 3 is on its way in March. 1 billion smartphone users will be roaming the world by 2016. Twitter’s forcing employees to hold most of their stock, to...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Anonymous pokes its head in to Greece, rips down a few posters from the Internet in the process. MySpace nabbed 1 million new users recently. Reddit takes a stand against...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

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

Sierra Express

  • Ian Hughes – blogs ‘elections matter’
    “Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth their vote has as much weight as that of any CEO, any member of congress, or any president.” Barbara Boxer Like many Sierra Leoneans I follow preparations for the ...
  • ECOWAS sponsors AMLD free movement of persons ...
    The Alliance for Migration, Leadership and Development (AMLD) has launched the capacity building of actors in intra-regional Management of the free movement of persons and rights of residence and establishment within The Economic Community of African States (ECOWAS) in Dakar Senegal. (Photo: Hea ...
  • SLAJ calls for withdrawal of two SLBC Board me ...
    Freetown – The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists has expressed serious concern over the continued membership of two people on the Board of Trustees of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation. At a General Meeting held at its headquarters today, SLAJ resolved that Easmon Ngakui who repres ...
  • SJSS Alumni Association USA and Canada aids in ...
    Recently, St Joseph’s Secondary School Alumni Association of USA and Canada, after conducting a video documentary on the condition of the school held a major fundraising campaign named ‘Operation Sponsor a Chair.’  Due to their hard work, dedication, and effort in making members, family, friends ...
  • Is Julius Maada Bio refusing to answer police ...
    The brutality and savagery of the past 11 years of a destructive war in Sierra Leone will not permit any patriotic and peace- loving Sierra Leonean to wish for a repeat of such a sadistic period of Sierra Leone’s history. Sierra Leoneans would prefer to live with their poverty in peace than live ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Pengxin given chance to improve bid
    Chinese firm Shanghai Pengxin's chances of gaining Overseas Investment Office approval for its bid for the Crafar farms have been boosted as the office says the company can tweak the offer to make it more acceptable.This week, in...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Crafar wrangle opens whole ca ...
    Sir Michael Fay has wasted no time in proving just why Justice Forrie Miller's decision on the Crafar farms has resulted in a "buggers' muddle".The Fay consortium yesterday said it would inject $4 million more than Shanghai Pengxin...
  • Fay group doesn't budge on Crafar bid, promise ...
    The Crafar Farms Independent Purchaser Group (CFIPG), the rival bidder for the Crafar family farms led by former investment banker Michael Fay, won't raise its $171.5 million offer for the land but is promising to spend $18 million...
  • Receivers closed to rival Crafar bids
    Receivers for the Crafar dairy farms are refusing to consider rival bids, including one from former owner Allan Crafar, until the Overseas Investment Office and Government reconsider Shanghai Pengxin's offer.The OIO and ministers...
  • PM backs MPs over Crafar decision
    Prime Minister John Key today backed his government ministers whose decision to allow the Crafar farms sale has been embarrassingly overturned.The High Court stunned the Government yesterday by sending the decision back to officials...

The Bovine

  • Harvard raw milk debate Feb 16th
    David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “It’s a tad awkward writing an assessment of a debate in which I was a participant…so here are a few random reactions to the raw milk debate at Harvard Law School Thursday … Continue reading →
  • Feds shut down Amish raw milk farm
    From Stephen Dinan in the Washington Times: “The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel … Continue reading →
  • CDC refuses to name restaurant chain blamed fo ...
    From Barry Estabrook on Politics of the Plate: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) handling of a recent investigation into a salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states—sending more than 20 to the hospital—had all the elements of … Continue reading &# ...
  • Big dairy on the defensive?
    From Andy Bellatti on Grist.org: There was a time, not too long ago, when American’s milk options were limited to various forms of cow’s milk (i.e. full-fat, reduced-fat, skim, lactose-free). But times have changed. Soy was the first non-dairy milk to … Continue reading →
  • Abolish the food industry?
    From Raj Patel, in The Atlantic: “In the fall of 2008, San Francisco polished its progressive credentials by banning something. From October 1, 2008, the sale of cigarettes was prohibited in certain places. You could still buy them in convenience … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • China Exports "Grim"; Bad Loans Rise in Fourth ...
    Given the previous misguided stimulus efforts in China, it is not surprising to discover Chinese Banks’ Bad Loans Rise in Fourth Quarter. Chinese commercial banks’ bad loans increased in the fourth quarter of last year, highlighting pressures the lenders face in maintaining asset quality as th ...
  • Battle Over EU Airline Tax Risks "Carbon Trade ...
    Led by the US and China, 26 nations are now protesting the EU's airline carbon tax, and a outright Carbon Trade War Edges Nearer. An alliance of countries opposed to a carbon tax on airlines is threatening to tear up trade deals with the European Union and impose new taxes on EU carriers, in a ...
  • German President Resigns; Major Embarrassment ...
    The German presidency is little more than a symbolic position, nonetheless, the announcement by German President Christian Wulff that he will resign is a major embarrassment to German Chancellor Angela Merkel who hand-picked Wulff as president. Spiegel Online reports Wulff Announces He Will ...
  • Gallup Reports Unemployment in February Increa ...
    The latest Gallup survey finds U.S. Unemployment Increases in Mid-February The U.S. unemployment rate, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, is 9.0% in mid-February, up from 8.6% for January. The mid-month reading normally reflects what the U.S. government reports for the entire m ...
  • About That "Increase" in Spain's January Car Sales
    Earlier today I posted some numbers on European Car Sales. Here they are again. Portugal -47.4% France -20.7% Italy -16.9% Belgium -16% Cyprus -17% Greece -13.3% Germany -.4% UK unchanged Spain +2.5% Ireland +1.5% My friend Bran (who lives in Spain) writes ... Hello Mis ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical an ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley International Newsworthy Chief: Sanctions to Hit EU Buyback Firms Iran Well Prepared for the Worst Pentagon Seeks ...
  • BFP Exclusive: U.S. Transit Hub-Base in Kyrgyz ...
    “A Nazi & a Drug Lord in Charge of Police in Osh?” Today Turkish Weekly ran an investigative piece on the newly appointed chief of police in Osh-Kyrgyzstan. The new police chief Suyun Omurzakov, who used to be a deputy minister of interior, has been known as a highly influential drug lord, a ...
  • Truly Independent News- Information Is A Colle ...
    The Only Way to Remain Corporate-Free & Nonpartisan Every time I read lines pertaining to this ludicrous and completely illogical expectation that everything on the Internet should be free I am tempted to sit down and write a lengthy analysis of the illogical and ludicrousness of this unfort ...
  • “Sky Collapses on the Passamari” – By G. Karl ...
    Sky Collapses on the Passamari Winter sky drapes the land, like a canopy dropped by unseen hands upon a cage. Farm ground blurs between houses at an imprecise place, over the creek,  beyond my neighbors’ spruce.  Past what we can see spreads the topography of an uncertain age. Fence posts ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
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    US Ecology Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results
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    Water bill passes committee, heads to full House
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