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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, February 18, 2012

18 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ENVIRONMENT: Weed Threatens Indian Rhino's Las ...
    While shoot-at-sight orders are now effectively keeping rhinoceros poachers at bay, an aggressive weed is threatening the one-horned ungulate in one of its last retreats - the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in eastern Assam state.
  • MIDEAST: After 25 Years, Cinema Comes to Divid ...
    Palestinians in East Jerusalem can once again go to the movies, after Al Quds Cinema reopened its doors this week after being closed for 25 years. Organisers say this signals the rebirth for Palestinian arts and culture in the city.
  • MALAYSIA: ‘Cowgate' Turns Opposition Fodder
    With the 83-million-dollar ‘cowgate' scam refusing to die down, a shadow hangs over Prime Minister Najib Razak's plans to call elections ahead of April 2013, when they are due.
  • U.S.: Amid Escalating Israel-Iran Tensions, a ...
    After weeks of rapidly escalating tensions, particularly between Israel and Iran, signs emerged this week both here and in Tehran that serious negotiations over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme may soon get underway.
  • Community Radio Stations Divided Over Law in Chile
    Community radio stations in Chile continue to call for a legal framework that would allow them to operate without restrictions, because although a specific law was passed nearly two years ago, it has not yet entered into effect.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • INTERVIEW WITH CLINTON BASTIN: Iran Has a Nucl ...
    Summary: Clinton Bastin Clinton Bastin was responsible for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)’s reprocessing of plutonium, and plutonium scrap operations, plutonium-238 production, transuranic materials processing, tritium and deuterium production for weapons programs, radioactive waste ...
  • Saudi Arabia Worried with an Upset of the Bala ...
    Summary: It is not only the balance of power, but also the balance of threat that Saudi Arabia is trying to preserve. Interview with Ali-Akbar Assadi. source: irdiplomacy.irread more
  • Israel Vying for War: Attacking Iran Will Not ...
    Summary: On April 10, 2002, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons, “Saddam Hussein's regime is…developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked.” If history ever repeats itself, it does so only when we fail to learn its important ...
  • Panetta: Iran is Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
    Summary: Top U.S. military and intelligence officials gave separate testimonies in congressional hearings on Thursday regarding Iran, and while they all reiterated the consensus that Iran’s nuclear program is purely civilian in nature, they also kept up the tough talk, hoping to satisfy hawks ...
  • US, Iran inching toward talks
    Summary: On the whole, these testimonies must be seen as a comprehensive assurance being held out to Tehran that there are, after all, enough folks in Washington who haven't lost their sanity through all these months of shadow-boxing and grandstanding in the US-Iran standoff. source: Asia ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Three very easy tips on using yoga to de-stres ...
    Many people miss out on the benefits of yoga because they think these benefits are only accessible to a few lucky people. If you think yoga is only for people who are younger than you, or to those lucky enough to have loads of free time, or only for individuals with...
  • When the change you need to make is obvious to ...
    Mike, you're breathing right in my face. Can you back off, please? My wife doesn't mince words, thank goodness. I was leaning down to look at her computer screen and, apparently, invaded her space. She asked me to have a look, though. What gives? An image came to...
  • Homeland Security monitoring web for anti-gove ...
    How out-of-hand has the "war on terror" become? So much so that now, the Department of Homeland Security has taken to monitoring social media Web sites trolling for would-be terrorists, as if the world's most dangerous killers were Tweeting their plans. Only, DHS...
  • Use fiber-rich, vegetable-based diet for fibr ...
    Up to 77 percent of women have fibroids, according to "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibroids." Many women have them and never know, but they can cause symptoms that significantly lower your quality of life. Eating the right foods helps to shrink fibroids by...
  • Health freedom victory: Bolivar, Missouri ends ...
    Health freedom efforts have sealed yet another win, this time in Bolivar, Mo., where the Bolivar Board of Aldermen recently voted to stop fluoridating the city's water supply. The Bolivar Herald-Free Press reports that Mayor John Best cast the tie-breaking vote in favor...

Threat Level

  • Goldman Sachs Code-Theft Conviction Reversed
    A federal appeals court on Friday reversed the conviction of a former Goldman Sachs programmer sentenced to eight years for stealing the bank’s high-speed trading software.
  • Anonymous Promises Regularly Scheduled Friday ...
    Anonymous, a group not known for discipline, is giving itself a weekly deadline, a new attack every Friday. Following the Tuesday compromise of the website of tear gas maker Combined Systems, Inc., the Antisec wing of Anonymous struck a Federal Trade Commission webserver which hosts three FTC we ...
  • Feds Seize $50 Million in Megaupload Assets, L ...
    The authorities said Friday they have seized $50 million in Megaupload-related assets and added additional charges in one of the United States’ largest criminal copyright infringement prosecutions. Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered last month and its top officials in ...
  • Feds Urge Court to Reject Laptop Decryption Appeal
    The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case. Colorado federal authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2 ...
  • Google Busted With Hand in Safari-Browser Cook ...
    Google intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them, in the latest privacy debacle for the search and advertising giant.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Death of a GOP Talking Point on Tax Cuts
    As the Republican Party waged its all-out attack in 2010 to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, the GOP's number two man in the Senate provided the talking point to help sell the $70 billion annual giveaway to America's rich. "You should never," Arizona's Jon Kyl declared, "have to offs ...
  • Gallup Aids GOP by Misrepresenting Poll on Sma ...
    In a new Gallup poll released Wednesday, small business owners revealed that the lack of need for new employees (76 percent), worries over revenue (71 percent) and concern about the state of the U.S. economy (66 percent) were the top three reasons for not hiring new workers. But you'd never kno ...
  • GOP Caves to Its Own Demand That Tax Cuts Neve ...
    On Monday, House Republican leaders announced they would support the extension of the payroll tax cut without a corresponding "offset" in other federal spending. While that new approach is designed to tie Democrats' hands on passage of continued unemployment benefits and the so-called Medicare ...
  • Remembering Bush's Broken Promise to Cut the D ...
    Among the predictable Republican reactions to the President's proposed 2013 budget is the refrain that "Obama has failed to keep a 2009 promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term." Just days after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a CPAC audience that President Ob ...
  • Five Things I Found Caught in the Safety Net
    The American social safety net is back in the news, and not just because Mitt Romney acknowledged, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." This week, the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University revealed that a third of Americans now receive Medicaid, food stamps or other means-b ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Politics & Activism News (Democrats Stand Up t ...
      Democrats Stand Up to House GOP Senate Democrats have stood up to the constant assault on the environment a bit and told the House GOP to “stop polluting [a] middle-class tax bill with poison pills,” as Brad Johnson of Think Progress writes. “Instead of finding commons ...
  • “Occupy Koch Town” Event in Wichita This Weekend
      Occupy activists fed up with the Koch Brother’s insane control over government are gathering this weekend in Wichita, Kansas for a series of events concerning energy, environmental, and climate policies. The series of events is being termed “Occupy Koch Town” since Koc ...
  • Despite Bio-Terror Fears, Editor of ‘Science’ ...
    BREAKING NEWS – Readers of Planetsave will recall my November 23 post on two recent experiments (one in the US and one in the Netherlands) with an altered strain of type A H5N1 (‘Avian flu’ virus) which made it more transmissible by also making it airborne (see:
  • Michael Mann Interview — Love It (VIDEO)
      One of the world’s leading climate scientists, Dr. Michael Mann, was recently interviewed by the good folks at the UK’s Guardian. It’s a great interview, and not just because I <3 climate scientists. Mann is truly a great communicator, and he makes very clear that ...
  • Methyl Iodide (Carcinogenic Strawberry & Tomat ...
      Yes, we know that methyl iodide, a popular pesticide for use on tomatoes and strawberries, is carcinogenic (meaning it causes cancer). What you may not know is that it seems to have been approved illegally. More from sister site Eat Drink Better: Methyl iodide is one of the worst [...] ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Israel needs a history lesson - Iran/Persia
    We are hearing a new concept these days in discussions about Iran — the zone of immunity. The idea, often explained by Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, is that soon Iran will have enough nuclear capability that Israel would not be able to inflict a crippling blow to its program....
  • What goes around comes around: Leaked emails e ...
    Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science Libertarian thinktank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry, papers suggest The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working t ...
  • Confined to cuts - Canada
    Thousands of Ontarians will likely sleep fitfully tonight, knowing their fate is in the hands of Don Drummond. Others will sleep like babies, knowing the powerful ex-banker can do them no harm. Drummond's long-awaited report, unveiled February 15 at Queen's Park, lays out a deficit-shrinkin ...
  • Here's what we get from global warming - Envir ...
    A (nearly) complete list of things caused by global warming. Or at least a list of links to articles that blame these things on global warming. You decide the truth for yourself. See http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm for links to each of the following: Afghan poppies destroye ...
  • Canada's mining boom leaves natives in the col ...
    Editor's Commentary: Many Canadians like to pretend that we don't really have a problem with natives, they have a problem with us. But this article hits the nail squarely on the head - Canada has mistreated its native population since white people first arrived here (even if you leave aside...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Best of the Arts and Crafts Shows
    By @KYYellowDog If you're looking for an excuse to visit Kentucky, here it is: Kentucky's Arts and Crafts Shows are among the best in the nation. From the Kentucky Tourism Cabinet: Kentucky's crafts festival season is fast approaching. The Bluegrass state is known as one of the top states for ha ...
  • Because It Cannot Be Said Often or Strongly Enough
    By @KYYellowDog Digby: Here's the thing that is instinctively obvious to any normal person: the women are being forced to undergo a physically invasive procedure they do not want and which has no medical purpose by state actors for political reasons. It's like something out of the inquisition. N ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "America First"
    By @KYYellowDog Great reminder that conservatives and repugs have always been anti-american, un-democratic fascists at heart. And have always cynically used jingoism to hide it. Uploaded by Pehuen003
  • War on Public Employees Also the War on Women
    By @KYYellowDog As it is the war on African-Americans. Motherfuckers have spent the last 40 years building a steep slope back to the Dark Ages, and now they're rolling the boulder of American civilization to the top to send it crashing down to a place where only the 1 percent of the 1 percent wi ...
  • "Manufacturers Are Hiring"
    By @KYYellowDog You neglected to mention, Mr. President, that Boeing is building the Dreamliner in a union plant in Washington state only because the National Labor Relations Board put the kibosh on Boeing's plan to transfer the work to a non-union, low-pay, no-benefits plant in South Carolina. ...

Care 2

  • Ban Use of Steel-Jaw Traps in Nebraska ! PLEAS ...
    In December 2011, a mountain lion was caught in a legally set steel-jaw trap. The trapper called authorities, but the female mountain lion was too hurt and had to be euthanized. Nebraskan mountain lions were eradicated in 1890 and currently have only a Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Romney's Vulture Capitalist
    See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Speak up for conservation first in the Peel ! ...
    The Peel River watershed is one of the largest and most beautiful intact natural areas left in North America, and its the cultural homeland of four First Nations Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop Killing Pit Bulls Before Attempting To Ad ...
    Despite Tennessee not having any BSL Memphis Animal Shelter has been killing most pit-bull's without ever putting them up for adoption. It's high time people realized it's not the breed, but those who've bred them that need to change. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals  |  &nbsp ...
  • Santorum Froths Lies Over Millionaire's Remarks
    See 1st Comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The FBI’S Latest Muslim Terrorist Sting
    FBI did it again. Undercover agents persuaded a mentally challenged Sunni muslim from Morocco, to carry out a suicide bombing of the U.S. Capitol. Fox News is already wetting itself over this and drawing possible ties to Iran. Megan Kelly is proving her vacuous mental capabilities right now on a ...
  • Republican Obama Derangement Syndrome
    Hopefully you can remember the crazy days of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Outrage over the polices and actions of Bush was so deep and so widespread that Democrats and Independents wanted anything but Bush. The biggest concern was the debacle in Iraq. Taking this country to war without cause and l ...
  • Change in Commenting Policy
    There are a substantial number of people who have taken advantage of my open commenting policy and have grossly abused the system. Therefore, going forward, if you want to comment you will have to register a verifiable email with Disqus. If you don’t like it, tough. This will smoke out the ...
  • Iran and Al Qaeda–Pure Horseshit
    Leave it to the neocons to serve up manure and call it chocolate mousse. They are out now with the specious claim that Al Qaeda and Iran have “an operational” alliance and are working hand-in-glove. Here’s the leak to Sky News: Iran and al Qaeda’s core leadership under Ay ...
  • Obama Shooting America and the World in the Foot
    Those bothered by the wild cheering emanating from Obamanation celebrating the flaccid economic recovery should have some peace in the coming months. For starters the global economic slowdown has started. One of the early canaries desperate for oxygen is the port of Shanghai: The shipping specia ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Should Arch Coal Be Allowed to Destroy Histori ...
    Should Arch Coal Be Allowed to Destroy Historic Blair Mountain Battlefield ... AlterNet (blog) St. Louis-based Arch Coal reared its head as the king of hubris a year ago, refusing to pay an extra 55 cents a ton for coal in order to meet proper EPA and Clean Water Act standards for a controversia ...
  • Environmental Organizations Seek 25% Renewable ...
    Environmental Organizations Seek 25% Renewable Energy Generation From TVA By 2020 The Chattanoogan One of those seven advantages of renewable energy to which Morgan refers is related to coal mining: "Renewables don't require us to use destructive extraction methods such as mountaintop r ...
  • Will Natural Gas Become the 'Achilles' Heel' o ...
    Will Natural Gas Become the 'Achilles' Heel' of Our Country? Huffington Post ... stop the Keystone XL pipeline and nearly 2000 people in Frankfort, Ky., called for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining that same day, it was clear that Obama's energy plan does not align with t ...
  • A new battle for Blair Mountain - Socialist Wo ...
    A new battle for Blair Mountain Socialist Worker Online In spite of company buyouts, thug intimidation and coal-sponsored politicians, the people of Appalachia have spent the past few decades organizing around defeating mountain top removal (MTR) mining, a process in which entire mountain summit ...
  • Mining-health link not so clear, new study say ...
    Mining-health link not so clear, new study says Charleston Gazette A new industry-funded report disputes a series of West Virginia University studies that linked mountaintop removal to premature deaths, but also says coal mining's role in public health problems in the coalfields remains uncl ...

Memeorandum

  • Tesco asks government to change flagship joble ...
    Shiv Malik / Guardian: Tesco asks government to change flagship jobless scheme  —  Work experience programme must be voluntary, says major employer amid complaints it is profiting from forced labour  —  The Department for Work and Pensions has come under pressure ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: 2ND N.C. MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTER'S SCH ...
    Madeleine Morgenstern / TheBlaze.com: EXCLUSIVE: 2ND N.C. MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTER'S SCHOOL LUNCH REPLACED FOR NOT BEING HEALTHY ENOUGH  —  North Carolina officials have said there was a misunderstanding when a preschooler's homemade lunch was sent home for not meeting certain nutri ...
  • Gay marriage advances in Maryland, vetoed in N ...
    Alice Popovici / Reuters: Gay marriage advances in Maryland, vetoed in New Jersey  —  (Reuters) - Maryland's House of Delegates approved by a razor-thin margin a measure on Friday that would allow same-sex couples to marry, putting it on the road to joining six other states wher ...
  • Rick Santorum: Will women vote for him? (Alexa ...
    Alexander Burnsand Maggie Haberman / Politico: Rick Santorum: Will women vote for him?  —  Democrats have an unexpected new foil in their effort to label the GOP as hostile to women: Rick Santorum.  —  After hammering away for a year at the message that Republica ...
  • Brokest Nation In History Fusses Instead About ...
    Mark Steyn / Investor's Business Daily: Brokest Nation In History Fusses Instead About Sex  —  Have you seen the official White House version of what the New York Times headline writers call “A Responsible Budget”?  My favorite bit is Chart 5-1 on Page 58 of the ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Molucca Sea
    Saturday, February 18, 2012 22:58:47 UTC Sunday, February 19, 2012 06:58:47 AM at epicenterDepth: 42.80 km (26.59 mi)
  • M 5.3, Tonga
    Saturday, February 18, 2012 19:15:22 UTC Sunday, February 19, 2012 08:15:22 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.10 km (21.19 mi)
  • M 5.1, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
    Saturday, February 18, 2012 04:50:22 UTC Saturday, February 18, 2012 02:50:22 PM at epicenterDepth: 71.60 km (44.49 mi)
  • M 5.3, offshore Oaxaca, Mexico
    Saturday, February 18, 2012 01:34:23 UTC Friday, February 17, 2012 07:34:23 PM at epicenterDepth: 29.70 km (18.45 mi)
  • M 5.3, western Xizang
    Friday, February 17, 2012 15:44:25 UTC Friday, February 17, 2012 11:44:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 42.80 km (26.59 mi)

China Dialogue

  • A way out for Canada’s seals
    Relentless campaigning by Chinese animal-rights activists may have sealed the fate of the North American seal hunt, writes Xu Nan.Chinese animal rights activists gathered earlier this month in Beijing to reiterate a message to the world: China will continue to say “No!” to Canadian s ...
  • Offsetting conflict-mineral guilt
    Consumers who don’t want the metals in their mobile phones and laptops to help fund wars and rights abuses are protesting with the very technology that they hope to improve. Kate Dailey explains. “Conflict minerals” that help fuel war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D ...
  • Megacities and lifestyle changes
    As huge new metropolises take shape, mostly in Asia, urbanisation is becoming a defining 21st-century social trend. Paul Webster and Jason Burke examine how Chengdu and Delhi are facing the future.Amid a clutter of 24-hour arc lights, gigantic cranes and dumper trucks, a behemoth is rising out o ...
  • Long trudge to a cleaner Lake Tai
    China has spent billions of yuan trying to cleanse its third largest lake, where decades of pollution have brought ecosystems to the brink. But problems persist, report Liang Guorui and He Hanfu.Taihu Lake is China’s third-largest freshwater lake and one of its most important water resourc ...
  • Fresh approach to Hong Kong’s air
    Bleak new statistics on pollution in China’s richest city show government efforts have failed to attack the most serious threats to public health. There is a better way forward, writes Mike Kilburn.The last few days of the Year of the Rabbit marked a watershed in Hong Kong’s ongoing ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Goldman Sachs Code-Theft Conviction Reversed
    A federal appeals court on Friday reversed the conviction of a former Goldman Sachs programmer sentenced to eight years for stealing the bank’s high-speed trading software.
  • Anonymous Promises Regularly Scheduled Friday ...
    Anonymous, a group not known for discipline, is giving itself a weekly deadline, a new attack every Friday. Following the Tuesday compromise of the website of tear gas maker Combined Systems, Inc., the Antisec wing of Anonymous struck a Federal Trade Commission webserver which hosts three FTC we ...
  • Feds Seize $50 Million in Megaupload Assets, L ...
    The authorities said Friday they have seized $50 million in Megaupload-related assets and added additional charges in one of the United States’ largest criminal copyright infringement prosecutions. Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered last month and its top officials in ...
  • Feds Urge Court to Reject Laptop Decryption Appeal
    The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case. Colorado federal authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2 ...
  • Google Busted With Hand in Safari-Browser Cook ...
    Google intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them, in the latest privacy debacle for the search and advertising giant.

Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak - ...
    This list is not intended to be an exhaustive review of the many failures, violations, and non-compliances that a rigorous audit should have identified.  Again, the condition of Jensen’s facility on review by the FDA and Colorado State officials simply cannot be reconciled with the gl ...
  • Food Safety - Do Not be a "Penny Wise and a Po ...
    We should consider saving the U.S. Department of Agriculture's  Microbiological Data Program.
  • The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak - ...
    As has been widely reported, Jensen Farms facility was audited by Primus Labs’[1] agent Bio Food Safety on July 25, 2011, mere days before the first illness was reported.  Auditor James Dilorio gave the facility a “superior” rating, and a score of 96%, noting that many of ...
  • Complete Patient outs Claravale Farm as Source ...
    Social media will one day win a Pulitzer for giving people information long before the mainstream media (including, Food Safety News) even wakes up.  Thanks to the folks (Pope David) at Complete Patient for doing such a public service.  Here are some hot comments on what appears to be ...
  • So, does the CDC not like Jimmy John's Sandwic ...
    Or, is it hopefully something else? First, lets be clear, confidential patient information should never be disclosed absent the patient agreeing to it.  And, second, a report should not be issued if there is no outbreak linked to a product and/or manufacturer.  However, once an outbre ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Anthony Shadid, 43, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Mid ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack today while covering the conflict in Syria. One of the most celebrated journalists covering the Middle East, Shadid, 43, had been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the ...
  • "The Afghan War’s Nine Lives" By Amy Goodman
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike. They were in the Najrab district of Kapisa province in eastern Afghanistan. Most were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 14. ...
  • "America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out." By ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against President Barack Obama. Archbishop Timothy Dolan appealed to church members, “Let your elected leaders know that you want religious liberty and rights of conscience restor ...
  • Part 2: “Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away ...
    Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key leaders of the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew U.S.-b ...
  • Amy Goodman Appears on MSNBC's "Up w/ Chris Hayes"
    Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman joined a 2-hour panel of journalists, analysts and academics on MSNBC’s "Up w/ Chris Hayes" to discuss topics of the day, ranging from the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood reversal to the Republican Primaries. From the &qu ...

Suzie-Q

  • Afternoon Jukebox: Wichita Lineman
    Hello Koch boys!! See ya on my line… Domain Name (Unknown) IP Address 146.209.159.# (KOCH INDUSTRIES) ISP KOCH INDUSTRIES Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : Kansas City : Wichita Lat/Long : 37.7521, -97.2782 (Map) Language unknown Operating System Un ...
  • Record 19 Reporters, Media Execs Join Team Obama
    February 17, 2012 12:52pm The Examiner- Washington by- Paul Bedard For some Washington reporters and media execs, cheering their team from the sidelines just isn’t good enough: Tugging on a red, white and blue Team Obama jersey is the answer. That’s the case for a whopping 19 journalists and med ...
  • Foster Friess, Rick Santorum Super PAC Backer, ...
    The Huffington Post Luke Johnson First Posted: 02/16/2012  2:36 pm Updated: 02/16/2012  4:35 pm Foster Friess, a top donor to a Rick Santorum-aligned super PAC, dismissed the importance of his candidate’s stances on social issues in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Thursday, ...
  • Jobless Claims At Lowest Since Obama Took Office
    Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:28 EST Raw Story   By- David Ferguson The number of people seeking unemployment benefits has fallen to its lowest since March of 2008, the Associated Press reported Thursday morning. The national economy added 243,000 jobs in January, lowering the employment rate to ...
  • While He Was A Senator, Rick Santorum Voted Wi ...
    February 15, 2012 Addicting Info  By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Rick Santorum is currently the poster boy for conservatism and the candidate leading the national polls among Republicans. Every day, Romney gets a little weaker, and Santorum gets a little stronger. And that makes him a threat to be the ...

Solari

  • CME Said to Bid for London Metal Exchange as N ...
    By Matthew Leising and Agnieszka Troszkiewicz CME Group Inc. (CME) has made a bid for the London Metal Exchange as the world’s largest metals futures market plans a meeting next week to consider offers, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Continue reading the article . . .
  • Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry?
    By Sid Perkins The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of all fresh water used annually. Those are the conclusions of the most comprehensive analysis to date of global water use, which also finds tha ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison f ...
  • Transcript of the 2.09.12 Precious Metals Mark ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s February 2, 2012 interview of Jon Rappoport is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: As you can see from the new cartoon that we have on the blog and on the homepage, I’m in Pleasanton in the San Francisco Bay Area. And Fran ...
  • Trustee’s Summary of What Happened at MF ...
    News Release February 8, 2012 STATUS UPDATE FROM THE OFFICE OF JAMES W. GIDDENS, TRUSTEE FOR THE LIQUIDATION OF MF GLOBAL INC., CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE’S INVESTIGATION HIGHLIGHTS Trustee’s summary of what happened at MF Global in the last week of operation: “The investigatio ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The promise: We’re from America and we& ...
    Summary:  Other than the lucrative oil contracts signed, what have we accomplished by intervening in Libya?  Good intentions are not enough, especially when the likely consequences are ugly.  At some point there will be “a banquet of consequences” for our wars.  It might result from our ma ...
  • Even in our plutocracy, journalism still lives ...
    Summary:  Journalism in a plutocracy is reporting of court news by courtiers.  Boot-licking of the powerful by the ambitious.  But there is always a remnant.  One such is Glenn Greenwald at Salon.  His recent reporting on the pre-attack-on-Iran propaganda has been essential reading for citizens. ...
  • A look at the world as it is, not as we’ ...
    Summary:  The news media usually report accurately, more or less.  Often they prefer to act as stenographers for governments and corporations.  Sometimes the logical thread linking events — the narrative — is obscure, hidden in the noise.  Today we look at three examples of hidden hi ...
  • Israel leads America on a march to war. A mar ...
    Summary:  After five years of laughing at the rumors of war with Iran, I’ve changed my tune.  We can only guess at such things, but there’s considerable evidence that Israel plans to attack Iran this year unless Iran abandon’s it development of atomic power (legitimate under IA ...
  • The key to modern American politics: the Righ ...
    Summary:  During most of American history those on the right wing of our political spectrum posed no threat and contributed to our national dialog.  Something has changed.  More economics stress, demographic evolution, and an increased rate of social change have both mobilized and destabilized t ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • How to Be a Good Realist
    I'm going to delve clumsily into IR Theory here, so I'd be grateful to get some feedback on the question of the 'Realist' minimum. In a fascinating post recently on US-China relations, Stephen Walt wrote: "First, as a good realist, I think that the basic state of Sino-American relations will be ...
  • In the Aftermath of Libya: A Chance to Define ...
    Libya, in the words of the Obama Administration, was a “time-limited, scope-limited” engagement enacted under the responsibility to protect doctrine. After decades of dealing with Qadhafi’s nepotism and secret police, I hope that Libyans will be able to move towards a participatory democracy (an ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Future of Energy-Dominated Foreign Policy
    Since almost every government in the world values economic prosperity as a national interest, energy is a key determinant of foreign policy. Of the BRIC countries, Brazil’s and Russia’s growth are dependent on energy exports while China’s and India’s rise are dependent on ...
  • Iran-Drumbeat Watch: 'A Scary Club of Warmongers'
    Last week I mentioned Mike Lofgren's observations on the strange media-political history of the "Iran threat." The world is full of, ummm, imperfectly governed states, at least two of which actually have nuclear weapons: North Korea and Pakistan. But discussions of a potential nuclear weapon in ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T-ing Teachers?
    U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan took to The Daily Show Thursday night to discuss and defend his agency's latest initiative: Project RESPECT. The project looks a lot like 2009's Race to the Top, a chance for states (and in this case school districts) to compete for big grants if they off ...
  • The Fashion Week Bill of Rights
    At the height of the 1990s supermodel boom, Linda Evangelista famously said of herself and her catwalk colleagues, “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000.” While Evangelista and her cohort, which now includes household names like Gisele Bundchen and Heidi Klum, commanded six-figures for ...
  • Potpourri
    The story behind the fMRI of that fish. Via Henry. Ben Bernanke’s speeches are more powerful than Barack Obama’s. Brendan Nyhan on media coverage of Romney. Yahoo! forecasting model predicts Obama victory. Hat tip to Daniel Lippman. Uncle Sam needs scientists. Social science job markets. Chicag ...
  • What Real Class Warfare Looks Like
    So it looks as though Republicans are going to cave on the extension of the payroll tax cut, pretty much the only tax cut they don't like, seeing as it doesn't do much for the wealthy. But on their way to that capitulation, they made sure they could exact a price: drug testing of people applyin ...
  • Charles Portis's Guide to the GOP
    Does today's Republican Party baffle you? Then I can help. A too-little-known book called Masters of Atlantis explains absolutely everything: They're Gnomons. Gnomons, every last one. While this is an inflammatory charge, I don't think I'm being reckless. If Masters of Atlantis can be trusted—a ...

Buzzflash

  • Voters This Year Should Be Afraid, Be Very Afr ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Don't you see how they look down on you, the political elites" says Rick Santorum in his best revival tent, Elmer Gantry manner. The ominous tone of his message and his manner should serve as a warning to people who cherish real freedom of expression and re ...
  • When It Comes to Unions, the Republican Party ...
    When it comes to the harsh treatment of and low pay for working people, the Republican Party leadership resembles the former Soviet Union Politburo. BuzzFlash at Truthout has discussed before how iconic GOP figures such as Ronald Reagan heaped praise on the Solidarity Union in the years l ...
  • Is the Republican Party a Last-Stand Contingen ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "GOP Priorities out of touch with Americans," crowed an email BuzzFlash at Truthout received today from the Democratic House Leadership Office. Call it a partisan claim (we get similar boasting emails from the GOP leadership), but the facts of a new ...
  • The GOP and Change: On the Separation of Churc ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For years progressives in the United States have been stating the Republicans and their platform simply don't change over time. That back to the time of Reagan and in certain respects back to Hoover and even before him to McKinley, the GOP has bee ...
  • Mitt Romney's Own Private McCarthy
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT From creating the racist Willie Horton ad that sunk Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign to heading up the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future, Larry McCarthy is the GOP's go-to guy for negative campaign advertising. If Mitt Romney is going to survi ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dis ...
    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.read more
  • Progressive Democrats of America Joins the 99% ...
    Progressive Democrats of America is joining the 99% Spring. This spring we will help train 100,000 people across the country to participate in sustained non-violent, direct action in the spirit of Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez and other movement leaders. We will stand with the ...
  • Will Chevron Case Take Down Trade Pact ‘Invest ...
    An unprecedented ruling today, in which an investor-state international arbitral tribunal initiated by Chevron ordered the Ecuadorian government to interfere in the operations of Ecuador’s independent court system on behalf of the oil giant, provides a chilling glimpse of how corporations ...
  • Will Chevron Case Take Down Trade Pact ‘Invest ...
    An unprecedented ruling today, in which an investor-state international arbitral tribunal initiated by Chevron ordered the Ecuadorian government to interfere in the operations of Ecuador’s independent court system on behalf of the oil giant, provides a chilling glimpse of how corporations ...
  • New Jersey Legislature Passes Marriage Bill
    Today the New Jersey Assembly passed A. 1, the freedom to marry bill that could make New Jersey the eighth state in the nation to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. On Monday, the state Senate approved the legislation by a bipartisan vote of a 24-16. Evan Wolfson, founder an ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • In the Name of Religion
    Bill Schubart Whether I am ushered into the next world by a choir of cherubs or a bevy of trident-bearing imps, or whether I just compost quietly in nature’s great recycling system is not a matter on which I spend a great deal of thou ...
  • Out of the Mouths of Babes...
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez In her new book, Joining the Resistance, distinguished psychologist Carol Gilligan shows that as girls and boys mature, they lose touch with the instinctive, joyful, totally honest voice they were born with. To ...
  • Banana Republic Legacy Thrives in Today’s Lati ...
    Michelle Chen The term “banana republic” has become a cliche to describe economic imperialism throughout history, but the legacy of colonialism persists in Latin America today. The tradition of predatory capitalism echoed in the ...
  • Another March to War?
    Matt Taibbi As a journalist, there’s a buzz you can detect once the normal restraints in your business have been loosened, a smell of fresh chum in the waters, urging us down the road to war. Many years removed from the Iraq disaster, ...
  • Higher Tuition and Higher Education
    Christopher Brauchli He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. —James Bryant Conant, Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary [1936]read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Gaza families recount terror of latest air strikes
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 17 February 2012 Israeli airstrikes early Thursday morning injured six persons, including rescue workers. Meanwhile, area residents say this is not the first time they have been subjected to Israeli strikes.
  • Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
    Nehad Khader Washington, DC 16 February 2012 Protests in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan made his plight impossible to ignore.
  • Israeli forces destroy "the only place for chi ...
    Josie Shields-Stromsness East Jerusalem 15 February 2012 Israeli bulldozers demolished the only community center and refuge for Palestinian children in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
  • Raed Salah deportation case disintegrates in U ...
    Asa Winstanley London 15 February 2012 The judge heading the panel assessing whether Palestinian civil rights leader Sheikh Raed Salah can be deported from the UK has cast serious doubt on the British government’s case. A final verdict is expected in the next two weeks.
  • Gazans shocked at home demolitions ordered "by ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 13 February 2012 Gaza City residents in the coastal Hamami neighborhood are outraged after the Gaza government bulldozed their houses to make way for a major infrastructure project.

The Wonk Room

  • Catching Up On The Current State Marriage Equa ...
    This three-day weekend seems like an apropos time to reflect on all the many recent advances in legal recognition for same-sex couples. Here is a break-down of where things stand in each of the states we’ve been following this year: Legislation WASHINGTON: With Gov. Chris Gregoire’s ...
  • Supreme Court Stays Montana Decision Undermini ...
    Late last year, the Montana Supreme Court handed down a decision that was widely viewed as openly defying the U.S. Supreme Court’s election-buying decision in Citizens United. Last night, the U.S. Supremes issued an entirely unsurprising order staying that decision. As a result, Montana wi ...
  • Climate Scientists Slam Heartland for “S ...
    Scientists Who Had Emails Stolen Ask Heartland Institute to End Assault on Climate Science Heartland Institute documents revealed plans to dupe children and ruin their future, as Climate Progress reported earlier this week. Now, seven leading climatologists victimized by the Climategate email th ...
  • House Passes Section of Transportation Bill Co ...
    In its latest transportation bill, the House of Representatives gave a big valentine gift to Big Oil by Jessica Goad, cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green This week, the House of Representatives passed part of the behemoth transportation bill it is considering over the next month on a 237-187 v ...
  • Climate Scientists To Heartland Institute: Sto ...
    Climate scientists like Michael Mann, Ben Santer, and Kevin Trenberth, whose emails were stolen by a hacker and then distorted by the Heartland Institute in the Climategate smear campaign, have written an open letter to the Heartland Institute following its own inadvertent leak of documents, say ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Dalton "Shock Doctrine" McGuinty
    It's nice of Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty to be so obvious. I mean, I already knew that he had an unhealthy contempt for democracy and human rights when he skulked around in the dead of night to remove our Charter Rights at the behest of the thuggish Toronto Police Service Chief Bill ...
  • Violence "Discrediting" Occupy Wall Street?
    There's a lot that I agree with in this Chris Hedges essay: "Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless" but a lot that I disagree with as well: How do we fight back? We do not have the tools or the wealth of the state. We cannot beat it at its own game. We cannot ferret out infiltrators. The le ...
  • Posted Without Comment
    Here
  • Something Important and Something Stupid
    First of all, I'll talk about the stupid stuff. It's just been rattling around in the cavernous empty space of my mind for the past week or so. How monumentally stupid and hypocritical it was for those Conservative Party of Canada scum to jump on the "It Gets Better" bandwagon. I mean, what coul ...
  • Do Yah Think???
    Hah! Both the Toronto Star and the stephen harper-endorsing joke of a newspaper, the Glib & Stale have articles about the working poor this weekend! Here's the story on a Metcalfe Foundation study on Toronto's working poor by Laurie Monsebraaten in The Star: The legions of Toronto area work ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Forced OxyContin removal in Canada makes mass- ...
    Forcing Oxycontin off pharmacy shelves will force in a public health disaster that authorities may not be prepared to handle, addiction experts warn.
  • Librarian discovers Jorge Luis Borges note tuc ...
    A librarian's routine day at work took an exciting turn when he discovered a surprise tucked between the pages of a dog-eared copy of Plato's "Republic": a greeting card signed by famed author Jorge Luis Borges.
  • NBA: Bobcats snap long losing streak against R ...
    After an emotional week and three tough losses against two of NBA’s better teams and sensation Jeremy Lin, a match against last place Charlotte Bobcats would have been either the win to reward Toronto Raptors’ great play or the perfect letdown game.
  • NHL dealing starts with Montreal sending Hal G ...
    He is not the most mobile of NHL defenceman but he's a 6'7" experienced NHL'er and not the player you let go when making a run for the play-offs. Not unless you've decided it's not your year and it's time to become a seller.
  • Video: Girl falls on live TV while texting
    The video of a girl who fell during a live broadcast was recently uploaded on YouTube and has gone viral. The incident was captured in the background of a live news broadcast on CBC.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Please renew your support for 2012!
    If you would gladly give $7 each month to stop Harper’s stealth fighters, click here. New monthly donors will receive a free copy of the revised edition of Speaking Out Louder: Ideas that Work for Canadians by Jack Layton (a $30 value).
  • Tortured policy
    Public Security Minister Vic Toews has directed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to accept -- "in exceptional circumstances" only of course -- information obtained through the use of torture.
  • On the road to war with Iran?
    Former Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren warns that fear of an Iranian "Islamic Bomb" may be pushing the U.S. towards war with Iran.
  • $21 for a bag of concrete
    Big-ticket items such as the planned F-35 purchase tend to get the headlines, but smaller examples of wasteful military spending are also important.
  • Staples testifies on DND spending
    Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence on Thursday, 9 February 2012 on the subject of Canadian defence policy and military spending.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Maddow: ‘Republicans are becoming split’ on so ...
    MSNBC host Rachel Maddow observed Friday evening how the Republican Party may have a growing schism in their views on social issues, especially in regards to same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. Maddow discussed former Vice President Dick Cheney’s pushing marriage equality to pass in Marylan ...
  • Keiser Report: Rich guys totally observe you ( ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the riches made monitoring the population and the pittance paid for agreeing to be monitored. The also discuss the Serious Organised Crime Agency threatening to monitor Stacy for following a link while Max en ...
  • Escobar: ‘Al-Qaeda agents worm into Syri ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com The EU states are calling for creating humanitarian corridors in Syria, which some fear could open the door to foreign intervention. But Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says it’s already underway. RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com RT on Facebook http://w ...
  • VT Weekend Concerts – Rock and Roll Classics
    By Jim W. DeanSaturday, February 18th, 2012 The Best of the Best from Jim’s Gems … by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor   Bono and Mick – "Still Crazy After All These Years" Welcome back to Weekend Concerts. I have dug out some of my Rock and Roll picks, going back to Decembe ...
  • 9/11 laugh riot?
    By Kevin BarrettSaturday, February 18th, 2012 The power of inappropriate laughter I visited Washington DC last Wednesday and Thursday. Enver Masud, a retired international consulting engineer and author of 9/11 Unveiled, met’me at Reagan National. He lives very close to the the airport &#8 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Moyers and Company: Decoding the Campaigns
    Dandelion Salad Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com February 17, 2012 We’re saturated with deceptive political advertising — aided and abetted now with spending by citizens, corporations and super PACs that seems to know no bounds. Add to that relatively cheap “buys” on the media landscap ...
  • Chris Hedges and David Zucchino On War Reporting
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 15, 2012 uncjschool on Feb 15, 2012 War correspondents Chris Hedges and David Zucchino, a 1973 graduate of the UNC journalism school, had a discussion with UNC J-school students on Feb. 13, 2012, in Carroll Hall. Hedges spoke later that even ...
  • Chris Hedges and David Zucchino On War Reporting
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 15, 2012 uncjschool on Feb 15, 2012 War correspondents Chris Hedges and David Zucchino, a 1973 graduate of the UNC journalism school, had a discussion with UNC J-school students on Feb. 13, 2012, in Carroll Hall. Hedges spoke later that even ...
  • We need more leaders like Ernest Shackleton by ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) February 15, 2012 Ernest Shackleton went to Antarctica in 1901, 1908, 1914, and 1922, when that was the last place anyone would ever want to go. He was a British explorer that insisted on ...
  • US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from regime forces firing birdshot and teargas into homes and at cars. Reports ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Richard Falk: Saving Khader Adnan’s life is sa ...
    The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze. Khader Adnan is entering his 61st day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison, being held under an administrative detention order without... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Al Jazeera: Hundreds of Palestinians join hung ...
    Coverage of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel under administrative detention, as his hunger strike enters its 61st day. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mo ...
  • Yitzhak Laor: In the recovery room
    The blogosphere is a salient expression of this hermetically closed system, but so-called empowerment workshops can also be considered a ridiculous extension of the cage [the Internet and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Haaretz: Israel’s academy for occupation
    Construction of the new cultural auditorium in Ariel, taking students on tours of the West Bank, and now the plan to turn the 'university center' in Ariel into a full-fledged university, are erasing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Debate about Iran strategy he ...
    In Israel, the debate over whether to attack Iran has seen the political leadership of the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, and the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, face a resistant security... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russia Lays Down New Corvette for Pacific Fleet
    The Amur Shipyard in Russia’s Far East has started the construction of a new Steregushchy class corvette for the Russian Pacific Fleet
  • Russian Mi-17s Enter Service with Indian Air Force
    The Indian Air Force has put into service the first batch of 80 Mi-17V-5 tactical transport helicopters under a $1.3 billion deal, Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Friday.
  • New Russian Tank to Appear in 2013
    Russia will complete the first prototype of the new Armata main battle tank by 2013 and begin production and deliveries to the Russian Armed Forces in 2015, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and the CEO of tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod Oleg Sienko told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Lent ...
  • Mistral Warships for Russia to Get Russian Wea ...
    The Mistral class amphibious assault ships built in France for the Russian Navy will be equipped with Russian-made weaponry, Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Thursday.
  • Iran's nuclear program

NewsWise

  • Let's Go! Exploring Engineering Day Arrives Fe ...
    In celebration of National Engineers Week, the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host its annual Exploring Engineering Day event on Saturday, Feb. 18. Racing robots, clever computing, radical radiation, material mysteries, logistical LEGOs, smart lighting, slime time ...
  • FSMB Announces Opioid Prescribing Initiatives
    Multi-level advocacy effort aimed at addressing issue of opioid abuse.
  • UCLA Discovery that Migrating Cells "Turn Righ ...
    What if we could engineer a liver or kidney from a patient's own stem cells? How about helping regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis? A new UCLA study bring scientists a little closer to these possibilities by providing a better understanding how tissue is form ...
  • Is Clot-Busting Drug Safe for Kids with Strokes?
    New research looks at whether clot-busting drugs can safely be given to children who have strokes. The research was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012.
  • African-Americans More Likely to Develop Hyper ...
    Racial disparities in hypertension control account for nearly 8,000 preventable deaths annually among African-Americans, making increased blood pressure control among African-Americans a "compelling goal," reported Lisa M. Lewis, PhD, RN, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in th ...

Natural Health News

  • One of Biggest Medical Frauds Ever?
    This episode of 60 Minutes details one of the biggest medical research frauds ever.  Anil Potti's research at Duke University was touted as a revolution in cancer research.  But his work was found not just to be wrong, but actually fraudulent -- a blatant deception foisted upon despera ...
  • Be Careful More Vaccine Mandates Coming Soon
    By a 7-1 vote, the Colorado Board of Health has approved a plan that would require health care workers to receive flu shots.  The plan will be phased in over 3 years. The plan sparked a debate about civil rights at the state capital. Bonnie Guzman, a Denver nurse, insisted vaccinations sho ...
  • How Sleeping Can Affect Your Immune System
    It's well known that lack of sleep can increase your chances of getting sick.  A new study shows just how direct that connection is. The research found that the circadian clocks of mice control an essential immune system gene that helps their bodies ward off bacteria and viruses.  Whe ...
  • Breaking News: Monsanto Shareholder Meeting I ...
    In the videos above, activist Adam Eidinger proposes a GMO shareholder resolution at Monsanto's 2012 annual shareholder meeting.   He tries to make the board and shareholders more aware of the dangers of Monsanto’s pesticides and GMOs, the company's questionable practices, and the grow ...
  • Feds Shut Down Amish Raw Milk Farm
    After a two year long fight, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has succeeded in shutting down the business of Daniel Allgyer, an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk from his Pennsylvania farm to Washington DC area customers. The FDA began investigating Allgyer’s Rainbow Acres Farm i ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Chevron Strikes Back
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Chevron strikes back, and the pro-Ecuador NGOs are not happy about it. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — An “order” issued Thursday from a private investor arbitration panel purporting to freeze a nine-year environmental litigation ...
  • American Bar Association’s 7th Annual Homeland ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku [Vince Vitowsky has asked me to post this announcement from Joe D. Whitley about an upcoming ABA two-day event that might interest readers.] Thursday, March 22, 2012-Friday, March 23, 2012 Capital Hilton 1001 16th Street NW Washington, District of Columbia, United Sta ...
  • Virginia Journal of International Law Launches ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku [The good folks at VJIL asked that I pass the following announcement along] Now in its fifty-second year, the Virginia Journal of International Law is the oldest continuously published, student-edited law journal in the United States. The Journal addresses issues such ...
  • Conspiracy and the New Hamdan Argument
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. I have written before about the Government’s new position in the Hamdan case.  As you will recall, Hamdan was convicted by a military commission for providing material support, sentenced to five and a half years, and released for time ser ...
  • Bleg: What Is EU Law on Greece (Possibly) Leav ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson One issue I don’t understand in the Greece-Eurozone crisis is the legal basis on which Greece can either be forced out of the Eurozone, or else can leave it voluntarily.  I’d be grateful if someone knowledgeable could explain in the comments, ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Valerie Taylor Urges Protection of Coral Sea
    The Coral Sea may be the world's last great tropical ocean ecosystem where a highly protected marine national park on a very large scale could be established and effectively managed.
  • Skipjack Tuna caught from 'Free Schools' more ...
    As a result of the free school fishery’s certification, 30% of the skipjack caught in the PNA fishery, and 16% of the skipjack caught in the WCPFC convention area is eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel.
  • Bright Coloured Lorikeet
    The Lorikeet is a small parrot and can be found in the Australasian region. Most of these birds have bright rainbow coloured plumage, which makes them beautiful to look at! Photo by: Alexandra Meusel
  • What's on 16 January 2012
    20 January is Chinese New Year! This day is being celebrated everywhere across most cities in Australia. In Sydney, Belmore Park becomes a feast of colours and flavours as the Lunar New Year celebrations begin. Get out and revel in the entertainment, parades and the array of flavours to enjoy ...
  • Blooming Tree
    After being burned, this tree is regenerating life, showing off these beautiful little bright red flowers. Isn't nature amazing?!  Photo by: Alexandra Meusel

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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!

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Rick Santorum Endorses Assasinating ANYONE Who ...
    “Pro Life” GOP “Front-Runner” Rick “Frothy” Santorum says its OK to kill Americans Citizens, ergo its OK to assassinate ANYONE who doesn’t go along with US/ UK / Israel.  DO YOU FEEL SAFER NOW??      
  • Willie Nelson Joins Suit Against Agro Giant Mo ...
    The singer Willie Nelson has joined with 300,000 other activists in a lawsuit against the U.S. agricultural giant Monsanto, citing the company’s practice of suing small farmers whose fields have been contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds. The suit was filed as part of the “ ...
  • He Works Hard for the Money (no pun intended&# ...
    San Francisco Women Get Cheeky With Barack Obama: Two women have photos snapped where they appear to be getting a little extra piece of the President. CBS   Sometimes it costs more than a lot of money to get elected as the President of the United States of America. President Barack Obama kn ...
  • Secrecy OR Privacy? Tempers Flare As Whitney H ...
    As Who’s Who Of Hollywood Arrives, The Taxpayer Wonders Why Not Us, Too? NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Whitney Houston’s family held a private viewing Friday at the Whigham Funeral Home in advance of the pop icon’s funeral this weekend. LIVE VIDEO: Click Here to watch live video of the funer ...
  • Getting Inside the Business of Making Sky Dron ...
    The usual Suspects do not Like “competition”. “Competition is a SIN” said John D Rockefeller. Trust us, they believe it, and have pissed those beliefs down the food chain. So when creative entrepreneurs want to get into the “security” / surveillance / aero-pho ...

The Air Vent

  • The Cotton War
    Doug Cotton continues to spam Leonard Weinstein’s thread which changed topic hundreds of comments ago.  Leonard is a lot of trouble as a guest post as Climategate 1 broke here on his thread as well.  It seems my poor moderation has led to some very powerful threats from Douglas. Time to wa ...
  • Sea Ice Area vs Latitude
    I’m not sure the best way to present these results but I’ll start with just the photos.   I was curious how the sea ice looked by latitude band.  We know from previous posts that there is a minimum sea ice level which contains some noise bias. This post shows sea ice area in each deg ...
  • Hey Media – Skeptics are Scientists Too
    I suppose I’m old enough not to be surprised by the behavior of the media anymore, but this garbage coverage of the Heartland scandal  has done it again.  The media has flatly ignored that the point of the funding for SKEPTICS was to put the temperature data on line.   That’s it!!  P ...
  • Advocacy Groups Hide the Decline
    The Heartland institute has released a statement on the stolen documents which include funding of Anthony Watt’s temperature project among other things.   If you want to see the difference between skeptics of climate change and advocacy groups, this section of the press release pretty well ...
  • Advocy Groups Hide the Decline
    The Heartland institute has released a statement on the stolen documents which include funding of Anthony Watt’s temperature project among other things.   If you want to see the difference between skeptics of climate change and advocacy groups, this section of the press release pretty well ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: fellowship, Africa, sharehol ...
    Facebook announces 2012 fellows - Facebook announced 12 picks for its Fellowship Program this week. The company had about 300 applicants for the positions which include a year’s worth of tuition, a $30,000 stipend, $5,000 for travel and $2,500 for a computer. … Continue reading →
  • Brighter Option combines Page Insights, Ads AP ...
    Facebook Ads API partner Brighter Option announced an update to its Social Ads Manager tool that makes ad creation and optimization more efficient. Most notably, the company now integrates the Page Insights API to help businesses choose effective ad creative … Continue reading →
  • Santorum gains most new fans; Gingrich gets Ti ...
    Rick Santorum continues to gain more new Facebook Likes per day than other Republican primary candidates. His page averaged more than 2,600 new fans per day, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. Santorum also has a very high ratio … Continue reading →
  • Tabs, Jewels of the Amazon, Walmart, Angry Bir ...
    Page tab and other page applications were popular on our list of emerging apps by monthly active users, there were a group of games led by Jewels of the Amazon, an app from Walmart and Angry Birds, too. The apps … Continue reading →
  • Facebook tests ‘suggested guests’ for events
    Some Facebook users now see a “suggested guests” module on events they plan to attend. Suggested guests are listed on the right side of the event page along with an invite button. Facebook seems to serve suggestions based on interests … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Abolishing the Palestinian Authority an urgent ...
    Jeff Halper calls for the abolition of the Palestinian National Authority, which he argues is nothing but a smokescreen to enable Israel to ethnically cleanse itself while the world and Palestinian quislings are preoccupied with the pursuit of the mirage of a two-state solution, something in fac ...
  • Israel and the paths to national suicide
    Uri Avnery argues that Israel, through its unwillingness to reach a just accommodation with the Palestinians, its ticking bomb of rapidly multiplying parasitic Orthodox Jews, who do not work and are not equipped for the modern age, and its growing unattractiveness as a place to live, may be head ...
  • Time for Jewish activists to shun their racial ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers how racially-driven Zionists and Jewish lobbies abuse the term "racism" and have turned "anti-racism" into a tool to silence criticism of Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism. He argues that rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Israeli propagan ...
  • Republican presidential candidate Rick Santoru ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...
  • Britain helps Israeli water thieves
    Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Why Washington Wants ‘Finito’ with Putin
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    What is the Nature of Power? How does power function? What are the effects of power? Is it necessary? This episode seeks to introduce the listener to some thoughts on the concept of power, in both the concentration of it on one hand, and the lack of it on the other. Power can be concentrated [...]
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The EyeOpener- National Security Letters
    Eviscerating the Constitution Since 1978 The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of ...

Afro Spear

  • A Thought on Abortion
    “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It h ...
  • “Africa needs to sign a new social contr ...
    Jean Russeau wrote in Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” To free himself, Russeau suggests that man must gain security and a measure of freedom from action, in exchange for surrender of rights and property to the general will. This is not the language of complian ...
  • Happy Valentine’s Day
  • The Day My Heart Broke
    Rest in Peace My Beautiful Diva!
  • “Certain Signs of Societal Decline&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few of the scenes caught on video across ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Looming Catastrophe: Demise of the Ogallala A ...
    The implications of the depletion of the Ogallala for mid-western farmland and the U.S. food supply are dire. It could also be a catastrophe for the geographic cohesion of the country.
  • Apple's China Comes Home to Haunt Us
    If the habits required of Apple's workforce in China are to be emulated, the U.S. military, or perhaps our outsized prison system, should become the essential schooling system for American workers to better compete with the properly disciplined assemblers of iPhones in China.
  • A Call to Action
    Do we realize we are seeing history made right before our eyes?
  • Rick Santorum The Enabler and Catholic Church ...
    Santorum thinks he knows what is best for all women, Catholic or otherwise, but has yet to be the protector he claims to be.
  • Earned Sick Days in Philladelphia
    Forty percent of workers receive no paid sick days. This creates a health problem for other employees and the customers they serve. What can activists do about this problem?

Switchboard

  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • FDA continues to favor BPA industry as NRDC aw ...
    Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health The FDA kicked off a 60-day comment period today on the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) request to ban BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups. This is a step in the right direction but it isn't nearly e ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile A glimmer of hope for renewable energy in Chile as recent studies show that the cost of green energy has been cut in half over the past two years. The price decline is a result of manufac ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • This Is An Easy One
    Ta-Nehisi Coates points us to this President’s Day question, and also gives us the right answer. I’ve discussed this before, but Grant is extremely underrated. Teaching the Presidency this semester, I spent some time with my students going over this handy sortable list of presidentia ...
  • Let’s Make a Sandwich
    A little morning deliciousness for you, from 1950 and via the American Gas Association. America’s finest food from America’s finest era of cooking.
  • Poulos, Through the Simpsons
    Now this is first-rate commenting.
  • Everyday Graces
    Karen Santorum, wife of everyone’s favorite man, edited a lovely-looking book entitled Everyday Graces: A Child of Good Manners. Forward by Joe Paterno. A child of good manners accepts the abuse he or she is receiving for the sake of Penn St. football.
  • The Guyanas and Suriname
    I’m sick and tired of trying to meet our commentariat’s demands for more posts about Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. To shut you all up about these vital nations, I’m linking to Colin’s post about the forgotten South American nations and why their histories are so di ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Intellectual Property: A Special Report
    The America Invents Act shifts the U.S. from a system where a patent is awarded to the first person who comes up with an invention to one where it's awarded to the first person who files a patent application.
  • E-Discovery: A question of costs
    A discovery order in October against KPMG LLP hit the defense bar like a tire iron?the accountancy firm said the expense might run to $100 million dollars. To critics, the order was emblematic of out-of-control electronic discovery costs that litigants are using to bludgeon the opposition into s ...
  • Litigation Boutiques Hot List
    Our first Litigation Boutiques Hot List features 10 small firms that take second place to no one in courtroom skill. These are the firms important clients turn to for state-of-the-art advocacy in bet-the-company cases.
  • THE PRACTICE: Statistical evidence: not all th ...
    It is questionable whether courts should remain wary about it, given that some of the concepts are straightforward.
  • OPINION: Primaries, constitutional nationalism ...
    The Tea Party is just the latest movement to argue the modern administrative state is an unconstitutional aberration.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Ten African Countries Receive Access to Low-Co ...
    The company's efforts are part of Business Call to Action (BCta). The BCtA is a global initiative that encourages private sector efforts to fight poverty, supported by several international organizations including the UN Global Compact.
  • Is The World Increasingly Dependent on Space S ...
    He notes that the benefits derived from space assets permeate almost every aspect of the lives worldwide. He adds space systems enable personal communications devices; facilitate the operations of global markets; enhance weather forecasting and envi
  • EPA Issues New Permit for Stormwater Discharge ...
    The 2012 construction general permit (CGP) is required under the Clean Water Act and replaces the existing 2008 CGP, which expired on February 15, 2012.
  • American Deplomats Represent The Diversity of ...
    She stresses that in the context of international organizations, the American diplomats work in places such as New York or Geneva to ensure that U.S. interests are advanced at the United Nations and in other international organizations whenever and
  • New Global Initiative to Reduce Short-Lived Cl ...
    A Senior Administration Official today states that the coalition will focus efforts on reducing black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and methane.

environment 360

  • Dutch Scientists Report Conversion of Plants i ...
    Dutch scientists say they have developed a process that uses nanotechnology to convert plant matter into the basic components of plastics, an innovation that could ultimately provide an alternative to oil-based plastics in the manufacture of thousands of everyday products. Using a catalyst made ...
  • Large Area of New Guinea Stripped of Protectio ...
    More than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land in Indonesian New Guinea — including 350,000 hectares of carbon-storing peatland — was stripped of its protected status to facilitate the expansion of a View images Mongabay/Google Earth The MIFEE project government-based agribusiness ...
  • Endangered Freshwater Dolphins To Be Protected ...
    The government of Bangladesh has created three new wildlife sanctuaries for the endangered Ganges River and Irrawaddy freshwater dolphins, the last two remaining species of freshwater dolphins in Asia. WCS A Ganges River dolphin Working with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
  • New U.S.-Led Program Targets Reductions in Soo ...
    With efforts to curb global carbon dioxide emissions stalled, a group of nations, including the U.S., will unveil a new program to cut other pollutants that contribute to global warming. The program, called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, will focus ...
  • Electric Vehicles in China Pollute More Than G ...
    The use of electric cars in China produces more particulate matter pollution than gasoline-fueled vehicles, according to a new study. In an analysis of five vehicle technologies in 34 major Chinese cities, U.S. researchers found that the power generated to run electric cars produces significantl ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Confirmed: Fukushima disaster contaminated oce ...
    The mainstream media has said absolutely nothing about this development, continuing its pattern of downplaying news involving Fukushima, radiation or the flawed structure of nuclear power plants. This is hardly surprising, given that many of the largest media outlets (such as NBC and MSNBC) are ...
  • "Monsignors’ mutiny" revealed by Vatican leaks
    Call it Conspiracy City. Call it Scandal City. Call it Leak City. These days the holy city has been in the news for anything but holy reasons. "It is a total mess," said one high-ranking Vatican official who spoke, like all others, on the condition of anonymity. The Machiavellian maneuvering and ...
  • Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Sugge ...
    The general image of a retirement age at 65 is problematic according to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. In an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter, (see article here) Reinfeldt argues that a working life could as well continue until an age of 75. This in order to uphold the desireble pensio ...
  • Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
    February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important reco ...
  • The Good Death: Making Death Part of Your Life
    Fear the reaper? Most of us do. But there’s help! Since January 2011, a ’death insider’ has been breaking down the mysterious world of death, dying, and what happens to our bodies and remains once we’ve shuffled off this mortal coil. The business of funerary rites and procedures, dating back as ...

Russia Today

  • Humanitarian corridors in Syria: way out of cr ...
    Europe seeks to bring relief to the Syrian people by creating humanitarian corridors, a seemingly noble idea aimed at winning Russian and Chinese support in the UN Security Council. But some are calling the plan a wolf...
  • Iran to conduct joint exercises with Syria?
    An Iranian flotilla has arrived in a Syrian port to provide maritime training to the country’s navy, media reports. It’s only the second time Iranian warships have sailed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.
  • Iran ‘may trigger new Cold War’: Talks carrot ...
    The US and EU indicated “careful optimism” on possible renewal of talks with Iran over its controversial nuclear program. Meanwhile the UK has accused the Islamic Republic of provoking a nuclear arms race and a new cold...
  • Iran cornered with key ally Syria on the brink?
    There are no signs of an end to the violence in Syria, Iran’s key ally in the region, with the West keen to change the Tehran-friendly regime. A noose is being drawn, but experts fear it may leave Iran compelled to act.
  • Italian police seize fake bonds worth a third ...
    A huge batch of fake US Treasury bonds worth some $6 trillion – more than a third of the US national debt – has been seized by Italian police. Eight Italians have been arrested and accused of a large-scale international...

Not My Tribe

  • The irony of seeing a wage slave dressed up as ...
    …Every year at this time we see a motley crew of bedraggled lower echelon wage slaves forced to be circus clowns in the name of what???? ‘LIBERTY’? I don’t think so! It simply would be more dignified and more real about how these poor unfortunate souls must actually feel ...
  • Unsustainable Al Gore and the Democratic Party
    A recent news clip caught my eye… It stated ridiculously that Al Gore takes aim at "unsustainable" capitalism right there at Reuters International! I learned that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore supposedly wants ”an overhaul of capitalism which he says has turned many of t ...
  • What threat is Iran to Israel?
    A good question to ask,,, What threat is Iran to Israel? …’It is no secret that the state of Israel was created through the expropriation of the Palestinian land by terrorizing and evicting them from their homes—750,000 in the initial 1948 raid alone. Nor is it a secret that Israel h ...
  • A case of the neighbor from Hell
    If you have ever kept a cat for a pet, you probably already know that some people just hate them. Why? we will never quite know….but they do. See Man suspected of killing, eating cats
  • Colorados’s Libertarian tax evader crusa ...
    Denver American Civil Liberties Union lawyer failed to keep Libertarian tax cheat and slum lord, Doug Bruce, from deservedly heading into jail for 6 months for his tax evasion. Doug Bruce is the Libertarian big time ideologue now famous for authoring the TABOR Amendment legislation, which has he ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • How did Arsenic Get into Organic Baby Formula?
    A report published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is calling for tight government standards on Arsenic levels in food. This, after tests have shown high levels of the dangerous toxin in ORGANIC BABY FOOD. This is doubly worrying: How does such a toxin get into formula ...
  • Processed vs. Whole Food: A Stomach’s Perspect ...
    Food for thought – presented by Stefani Bardin at  TEDxManhattan 2011. Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App  RSS Subscription or  Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate
  • Kellogg’s Buys Pringles. New Savory Cereals On ...
    The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are reporting that Kellogg’s is buying Pringles from current owner Proctor and Gamble. The deal, worth $2.7 Billion dollars, will see P&G completely divest itself from food brands. Pringles, the potato snack known for its iconic shape and tubu ...
  • Product Review: Nature’s Path Love Crunch Prem ...
    We were recently contacted by Nature’s Path, maker of organic cereals, granolas, and other goodies. The  Love Crunch Granola line has undergone a makeover and we were sent a sample for review. From the company: Like all Nature’s Path products, Love Crunch Granolas are USDA certified organic, whi ...
  • Romantic, Affordable & Healthy Valentines Day Idea
    Good morning and Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you planning to blow loads of $$$ as a token of you love? Will you go to a five star restaurant? The Beatles once sang “Can’t Buy me Love”, but these days it seems Valentine’s Day is all about buying more and more and more ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Survival urges UN to end Andamans scandal
    India's Supreme Court ordered sections of the Andaman Trunk Road to be closed in 2002 © Ariberto De Blasoni/Survival Five years after the UN first called on India to close the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), Survival is urging the organization to bring an end to human safaris by speaking out ...
  • Brazilian indigenous organization wins prestig ...
    Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for a meeting at Bismark to discuss their land claims, Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival Brazilian organization CIR- Indigenous Council of Roraima (Conselho Indígena de Roraima)- has won the Spanish government’s Bartolomé de las Casas awa ...
  • Land mine kills elderly Indian man in Colombia
    Jiw Indians in Colombia have been systematically forced from their homes by armed groups © Survival An elderly Indian man has been killed by a land mine in the Mapiripán district of central Colombia. Juan Bautista Ladino, a member of the displaced Jiw tribe (also known as the Guayabero), w ...
  • Judges allow Indians to remain on ancestral land
    Guarani girls © Survival Judges in Brazil have allowed a Guarani community to stay on its ancestral land, which it reoccupied having been forced to live in a makeshift camp for over a year and a half. The judges have suspended an eviction order which threatened to force the Indians to leav ...
  • Two dead and 40 injured in Panama police attack
    A Ngobe-Buglé boy is wounded after clashes with police in Panama © Survival A week-long protest ended violently on Sunday after police moved in on a group of Ngobe-Buglé Indians in the Chiriquí province of western Panama. Protestors had blockaded part of the Pan-American Highway, the main ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Rally this Wednesday on West Virginia Capitol ...
    On Wednesday, February 22 at 10am on the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol, families, military members, health care professionals, and legal experts will gather to affirm that vaccination choice is a fundamental human and civil right. They will...
  • The Canary Party on Leroy NY Neurological Illness
    While some canaries fall silent, such as those injured by vaccines and diagnosed with autism, the warnings of other canaries can be heard loud and clear – their vocal tics and anguished stories resonating over the airwaves and in cyberspace....
  • You're Invited: Long Beach California Fundrais ...
    You are cordially invited to attend the Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield Legal Defense Fund Event When: Friday, March 2, 7:00 - 10:30pm Where: Hyatt Regency, 200 South Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA In his first public appearance since filing the...
  • Tics and Toxins: Evidence Points to Environmen ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill As the white-hot glare of attention begins to pull away from the outbreak of tics among students at LeRoy Junior/Senior High School in Western New York, most medical and media sources appear to have...
  • No More PDD - A Video Glimpse Post DSM-5?

Global BDS Movement

  • Naples, Italy Stands For Palestinian Rights
    The Italian Coalition Stop That Train celebrates the news that the City Council of Naples, Italy has approved a motion condemning Pizzarotti for its involvement in the Israeli high-speed train cutting through the occupied Palestinian territories
  • Commemorating Palestinian Land Day: Join the B ...
    The BDS Global Day of Action on 30 March coincides with Palestinian Land Day
  • Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Fre ...
    the Conservative government plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism
  • BDS proposal wins big at Occupy Oakland
    Participants of the Occupy Oakland movement voted to back the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement during a regular general assembly (GA) meeting Oscar Grant plaza
  • Veolia treats wastewater from Modi’in Illit se ...
    Recent research shows that Veolia is involved in “new” Israeli projects in the occupied West Bank. Veolia Water Israel provides services to Modi’in Illit, and Veolia Transportation Israel operates bus lines that run through Palestinian land.

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • India: Soon, govt will keep track of where eve ...
    Indian Express – The government is looking to track all mobile phone users. As per amendments made to operators’ licences, beginning May 31, operators would have to provide the Department of Telecommunications real-time details of users’ locations in latitudes and longitudes. Documents obt ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – SOPA bil ...
  • Africa: Highest-Ever Levels of Multi-Drug-Resi ...
    All Africa – Hot on the heels of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought comes a WHO study showing the highest levels yet of drug-resistant TB. Following the dramatic new figures on malaria deaths from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in S ...
  • Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan to Meet to Discuss ...
    IsraelNationalNews – At a time that the United States is trying to squeeze Iran and isolate her, Pakistan is doing the opposite. Pakistan has invited Iran and Afghanistan to a trilateral meeting on February 16 to discuss the situation after the departure of United States and NATO forces fr ...
  • UK: Secret nuclear risk report lost by official
    Telegraph – A secret report detailing weaknesses at one of Britain’s biggest nuclear power plants has been lost by a health and safety official. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Just a Bluff? Fears Grow of Israeli Attack on Iran
    JERUSALEM -- For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent -- an action that many fear might tri Submitted by O O O O to World  |&n ...
  • Israeli court grants reprieve to abandoned Pal ...
    Israel once again proves that it is a true democracy, whose courts guarantee Palestinian rights, even in the face of a terrorist threat that no other country on earth must endure. Submitted by Fred H. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Petition to Clinton and Ashton: Demand Pardon ...
    Two Swedish journalists, 29-year-old Johan Persson and 31-year-old Martin Schibbye, were arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison in Ethiopia while reporting on human rights issues according to The Guardian, a leading British newspaper. Submitted by Ola H. to World  |   Note- ...
  • Syrian army launches dawn attack on Homs
    Activists in Syria say government security forces this morning launched a fresh bombardment of the central city Homs, with at least 12 people killed. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Local women part of a climb to end slavery
    It is a crime so often hidden from view, one that the world largely ignores. It is stated on occasion in terms of human trafficking, but its real name is slavery and it directly affects the lives of untold millions. And it was the desire Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |  &nbsp ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Ten African Countries Receive Access to Low-Co ...
    The company's efforts are part of Business Call to Action (BCta). The BCtA is a global initiative that encourages private sector efforts to fight poverty, supported by several international organizations including the UN Global Compact.
  • Is The World Increasingly Dependent on Space S ...
    He notes that the benefits derived from space assets permeate almost every aspect of the lives worldwide. He adds space systems enable personal communications devices; facilitate the operations of global markets; enhance weather forecasting and envi
  • EPA Issues New Permit for Stormwater Discharge ...
    The 2012 construction general permit (CGP) is required under the Clean Water Act and replaces the existing 2008 CGP, which expired on February 15, 2012.
  • American Deplomats Represent The Diversity of ...
    She stresses that in the context of international organizations, the American diplomats work in places such as New York or Geneva to ensure that U.S. interests are advanced at the United Nations and in other international organizations whenever and
  • New Global Initiative to Reduce Short-Lived Cl ...
    A Senior Administration Official today states that the coalition will focus efforts on reducing black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and methane.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital Earns Continued Cer ...
    The Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS), an independent state agency responsible for overseeing and coordinating all emergency medical services throughout the state, has re-designated The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) as a Level IIIC Perinatal Referral Center for Ma ...
  • AAFP Leaders Launch 'Full-court Press' on Capi ...
    AAFP leaders returned to Capitol Hill this week, where they continued to press Congress and the Obama administration for a repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and greater support for family medicine training programs. During a series of Feb. 13-14 meetings with a key House member ...
  • GAVISCON EXTRA STRENGTH (Aluminum Hydroxide An ...
    Updated Date: Feb 17, 2012 EST
  • Disentangling motor execution from motor image ...
    Amputees can move their phantom limb at will. These ‘movements without movements’ have generally been considered as motor imagery rather than motor execution, but amputees can in fact perform both executed and imagined movements with their phantom and they report distinct perceptions ...
  • Butterfly Wings Inspire New Type of Heat Sensor
    Scientists at the research arm of General Electric have developed a heat sensor that consists of wings of the Morpho butterfly coated with single-walled carbon nanotubes. The device detects mid-wave infrared light with a precision of less than 0.06° C at a rate of about 40 Hz. GE believes ...

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Most Colossal Failure of Nerve in Human Hi ...
    Steven Earl Salmony By 'kicking all cans down the road' and confronting no present dangers, perhaps the human community is about to come face to face with the worst of two worlds: the results of a human population explosion and a human population crash. The leviathan-like size of the human po ...
  • Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans
    by Stephen Lendman Money power runs America. So do lobbies representing all corporate and other interests. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) represents dozens of influential companies. They include Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Bell Hell ...
  • Deepening Greek Tragedy
    by Stephen Lendman Greece is banker occupied. Ordinary people have no say. Parliamentarians get orders and obey. Despite multiple painful austerity rounds, Troika power demands more - the IMF, EU and European Central Bank (ECB). Money power dictates bankers get paid first. People needs are sa ...
  • Out of Control Violence in Libya
    by Stephen Lendman Wherever NATO intervenes, massacres, mass destruction, and unspeakable horrors and human misery follow. Once Africa's most developed country, Libya today's a ravaged, out-of-control charnel house. Tens of thousands died. Multiples more were injured, made homeless, and forcib ...
  • Banker Occupied Europe and America
    by Stephen Lendman Money power rules. Across Europe and America, governments follow banker diktats. They demand economies and people suffer to assure they're paid. Money power in private hands and democracy can't co-exist. It buys what it wants at the expense of government of, by and for the ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • State of the Inner City Report 2011
    Neo-Liberalism:  What a difference a Theory Makes "We need to say no to the neoliberal fatalism that we are witnessing at th end of this century, informed by the ethics of the market, an ethics in whih a minority makes most profits against the lives of the majority....." To see the full r ...
  • Drummond Commission report: countering cutback ...
    Amidst the release of the Drummond Commission report, CCPA  Research Associate Jim Stanford gives us ten macroeconomic factoids to keep in mind as we counter the overarching claim that Ontario just can’t afford our already-stretched network of public services. You can read Ten Points on Re ...
  • Is the free trade debate back on the agenda?
    CBC Radio's The House did a segment last Saturday (Feb. 11) on the Harper government's bilateral free trade strategy and specifically its approach to China. CCPA's Scott Sinclair was on a panel with Bay St. trade lawyer Lawrence Herman. For those who are interested, the podcast can be found he ...
  • The ugly new face of capitalism
    A halting and fragile "recovery" from the biggest global economic meltdown since the Great Depression has seen the growth of the ugliest side of capitalism. In the Wake of the Crisis: Bully Capitalism, by CCPA's Armine Yalnizyan, is a must-read piece documenting the new snatch-and-grab business ...
  • Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable: Can Can ...
    As part of the consultations undertaken in preparation of our forthcoming Alternative Federal Budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted an economic roundtable, The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada Escape a Lost Decade? on January 26, 2012. The event brought together sever ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Bernie Sanders Defending Women’s Rights (Video)
    Worldwidehippies - Sen. Bernie Sanders yesterday defended President Obama’s plan to require insurance coverage of contraceptives for women. “In Vermont and around the country, there is growing anger that members of Congress, mostly men I should add, are trying to roll back the clock on women&#82 ...
  • I Propose Penis Probes for Misogynists
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies- Republicans misogynists and women haters are hoping to keep women barefoot and pregnant with their ridiculous issue surrounding “personhood.” Leave it to the Republicans to bring up issues surrounding abortion and birth control during an electio ...
  • Hippie Digest Saturday
    The freak survivor Delinquent, hippie, Black Panther, disco king, production genius, guitar god, alcoholic, drug addict, cancer survivor and author – that’s a 17-word race through the remarkable life of Nile Rodgers. With his sonic partner, the late Bernard Edwards, the native New Yo ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: NYCLU Contesting Trespas ...
    NYCLU – The New York Civil Liberties Union yesterday requested permission to file a brief with New York City Criminal Court arguing that trespassing and other charges against a demonstrator arrested at Zuccotti Park during the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment should be dismiss ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds POTENZA, Italy (Reuters) – Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in Switzerland, and arrested eight Italians accused of international fraud and other financi ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Is It a Virus or Allergies?
    February is usually prime time for flu season, but this year, allergies are taking center stage. An unusually mild winter has brought on one of the earliest allergy seasons ever recorded. "We're seeing springtime pollen starting in early February, which is very unusual," says Stanley Fineman, M ...
  • Pesticide Company Convicted of Poisoning Farmer
    As the organic market surges, chemical farming faces mounting problems. The latest industrial farming setback comes with a French court's conviction of Monsanto—the chemical giant that sells genetically engineered seeds, Roundup, and other pesticides—of poisoning a farmer. The court found St. ...
  • The 10 Most Toxic Cars on the Road
    The average American spends 1.5 hours a day in the car. According to a new report released by the Michigan-based Ecology Center, that's 1.5 hours spent possibly inhaling flame retardants, hormone-disrupting plasticizers, and lead. In its annual automotive test, the group tested dozens of cars f ...
  • Why Every Sickroom Needs a Dog
    Scientists are just starting to unlock the magnificent ways that pets can help improve human health. And while the science isn't there yet to confirm that pets can help people dealing with cancer, research projects are in the works. Looking at people with other types of diseases, researchers h ...
  • 7 Things You Need to Start Buying Organic
    Organic is alive and well. In fact, shoppers are expanding their organic intentions beyond the produce aisle. Take red meat, for instance. As news reports of recalls and ammonia injected into factory-farmed meat spread, sales of organic beef jumped nearly 50 percent in 2011. Opting for organic ...

big think

  • Why Are Sea Otters Becoming Shark Bait?
    There's been an alarming spike in lethal shark attacks on sea otters by sharks off California's Central Coast, and no one seems to know why. While attacks by sharks -- mostly Great Whites -- accounted for approximately 10 percent of sea otter deaths in the 1990s, today that number is 30 percent ...
  • Gay Marriage: Who Decides Rights? (A Big Think ...
    In the past month, the debate over whether to legalize gay marriage has become front page news due to legislative battles in Washington, New Hampshire, New Jersey and now Maryland. The issue only promises to further heat up as a legal fight may go to the Supreme Court.  This raises the q ...
  • Can Blood Tests Diagnose Depression?
    What's the Latest Development? The way we diagnose depression is changing in the laboratory and the physician's clinic. New blood tests purport to correctly diagnose depression by measuring biological markers like inflammation and neural development. Meanwhile, the nation's leading autho ...
  • How Time of Day Affects Your Health
    What's the Latest Development? By studying proteins essential to our immune system, researchers have concluded that the time of day may be an important factor in determining the risk of getting an infection. The protein TLR9 plays an crucial role in detecting infections by spotting the . ...
  • Nanorobots Order Cancer Cells to Commit Suicide
    What's the Latest Development? Harvard researchers have created a nanorobot made of DNA strands that can deliver molecular messages to specific cells in the body, such as cancer cells, even ordering them to commit suicide. The robot is made of DNA in the shape of two half-barrels connect ...

Information Liberation

  • Killer on the Loose: Grandpa 'Armed' With Baby ...
    Scottsdale Police Officer James Peters, a former SWAT operative previously involved in six fatal officer-involved shootings, killed John Loxas II Tuesday night (February 14) while the 50-year-old grandfather was holding a baby. Although police "co...
  • How an Attractive, Undercover Cop Posed as a S ...
    Working at the Drug Policy Alliance for the last twelve years I have read and heard countless stories of people having their lives ruined because of our country's cruel war on drugs. Last weekend, the nationally syndicated show This American Life hig...
  • Seattle Police Vindictively Take Dash-Cam Vide ...
    When a Seattle attorney recently made a public records request for two dash-cam videos which involved clients he was representing, the Seattle police astonishingly filed a lawsuit against him to prevent the dash-cam videos from being released. ...
  • Non-Compliance In Action: Bar Patrons Ignore A ...
    Here's a good demonstration of the power of non-compliance. A gun-wielding armed robber (symbolizing the government) attempts to rob some bar patrons (tax slaves) and they simply ignore him until he goes away. Here's the full story from Gizmodo...
  • 25 Signs That The Nazification Of America Is A ...
    The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day.* In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete.* The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of today are going to absolutely shock many of you.*...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Servitude Of Convenience
    Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →
  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →
  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →
  • Waste Not, Want Not
    A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Autism Signs Appear in Brains of 6-Month-Old I ...
    The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impact of the disorder on children. [More]
  • California Seismologist Testifies Against Scie ...
    The courthouse in L’Aquila, Italy, on February 15 hosted a highly anticipated hearing in the trial of six seismologists and one government official indicted for manslaughter over their reassurances to the public ahead of a deadly earthquake in 2009 (see  "Scientists face trial ov ...
  • Microchip Implant Gives Medication On Command
    For people who face frequent needle jabs to treat chronic conditions, a new technology is on the horizon that might make treatment a lot less painful. [More]
  • How the First Plant Came to Be
    Earth is the planet of the plants--and it all can be traced back to one green cell. The world's lush profusion of photosynthesizers--from towering redwoods to ubiquitous diatoms--owe their existence to a tiny alga eons ago that swallowed a cyanobacteria and turned it into an internal solar ...
  • Deadly Alcohol Needs Global Regulation, Health ...
    When considering the world's worst killers, alcohol likely doesn't come to mind. Yet alcohol kills more than 2.5 million people annually, more than AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • National Emergency in Honduras: The Comayagua ...
    A NATIONAL EMERGENCY The day that the President made his first cabinet changes, using football terms and scoring "goals" against rival factions within the National Party, was the same day that the national director of prisons talked about the unsafe nature of these facilities on a radi ...
  • Indigenous Leadership Vital to Stopping Tar Sa ...
    By Erika Del Carmen Fuchs Toronto, February 16. Community activists, environmentalists, First Nations and NGO organizers came together in Toronto to discuss strategies for social movements to work together to build a more environmentally j ...
  • Hold Up. There's No Hold Up
    10 minutes max, says ATU prez Ken Wilson, as union offers to have management-driven Access-A-Buses leave on time HALIFAX - It would appear that many Haligonians have fallen for the Chronicle Herald's headline “Union Vows to Hold U ...
  • Out of Sight: Policing Poverty in Victoria, Co ...
    Cuts to health services and income supports for people living in poverty, including those with disabilities involving mental health and illicit drug use, have contributed to a situation where police now act as de facto “first responders” to health-related issues on city streets. The ...
  • Algonquins of Barriere Lake protest Indian Act ...
    The Algonquins of Barriere Lake (ABL) travelled to Ottawa on Jan. 24 to protest Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada’s decision to depose their traditional government. In August 2010, the Canadian government imposed elections under Section 74 of the Indian Act on the small re ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 17 February 2012
    Spring is approaching, and after a bit of rain last weekend the weather has been lovely here in Southern California. On the left, after rolling around in the sun for a while, Domino poses with one of our legion of concrete rabbits. On the right, Inkblot is eating....something. Marian told me wh ...
  • Barack Obama's Hardline Turn on Medical Mariju ...
    Over at Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson has a good piece about the Obama administration's sudden about-face on medical marijuana. Initially they made soothing noises and announced that they wouldn't target pot dispensaries that complied with state law. Then, last year, everything changed: The rev ...
  • Mitt Romney's Bank-Friendly Plan to Save Detroit
    Last year I took a long look at Mitt Romney's position on the auto bailout and concluded that he was kinda sorta right to say that Obama's eventual plan was close to the one he had previously recommended. Romney seems bound and determined to make me regret ever writing that, but so far I haven' ...
  • Quote of the Day: Negative Campaigning in Vene ...
    From Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, upon learning that his opponent in October's election will be Henrique Capriles Radonski: Now we have the loser, welcome! We're going to pulverise you. You have a pig's tail, a pig's ears, you snort like a pig, you're a low-life pig. You're a pig, don't try ...
  • Why Can't Republicans Figure Out How to Hold a ...
    Adam Sorensen on the embarrassing spectacle of the Republican caucuses so far: Sure it took a month to declare the actual winner of the Iowa caucuses, tallies from eight precincts were lost altogether and vote counting in Nevada dragged on for days, but you can’t really understand the de ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Population and climate raise tropical cyclone ...
    Higher population will mean more people and property are in the way of tropical cyclones made more intense but less frequent by climate change, say Bruno Chatenoux from the Global Change and Vulnerability Unit at the United Nations Environment Program and colleagues.
  • Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears
    Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.
  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...
  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.
  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.

e!Science News

  • Researchers develop better control for DNA-bas ...
    A North Carolina State University chemist has found a way to give DNA-based computing better control over logic operations. His work could lead to interfacing DNA-based computing with traditional silicon-based computing. read more
  • A single protein helps the body keep watch ove ...
    Some 90 percent of people are exposed to the Epstein Barr virus (EBV) at some point in their life. Even though it is quickly cleared from the body, the virus can linger silently for years in small numbers of infected B cells. According to researchers at Children's Hospital Bostonand the Immune D ...
  • UCLA discovery that migrating cells 'turn righ ...
    What if we could engineer a liver or kidney from a patient's own stem cells? How about helping regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis? A new UCLA study bring scientists a little closer to these possibilities by providing a better understanding how tissue is form ...
  • Nasty 'superbug' is being studied by UB resear ...
    University at Buffalo researchers are expressing concern about a new, under-recognized, much more potent variant of a common bacterium that has surfaced in the U.S. read more
  • Georgia Tech develops braille-like texting app
    Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Mobile gadget users might also be enabled to text while walking, watching TV or socializing without taking their eyes off what they’re doing. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Images of snowy Hebron
    Photos by Fayez Imad Hashlamon The forecast promised snow on the highlands today, and many were excited. Jerusalem is gorgeous in the snow, which falls there about once every two years. Coastal Israelis flock there when this happens, causing traffic jams that often render the white city inaccesi ...
  • TA councilman calls for separate buses for &#8 ...
    A Tel Aviv city councilman is appealing to the state to allocate separate buses for African refugees and migrant workers, according to an article published on Mynet on Thursday Last week, Tel Aviv City Councilman Binyamin Babayoff (Shas) sent a letter to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, Minister of Tr ...
  • NYTimes new J’lem bureau chief accused o ...
    The demand that the New York Times new Jerusalem bureau chief – who has yet to take up her post here –  be “unbiased” towards the Netanyahu government is the height of ‘chutzpah’ Jeffrey Goldberg, the former IDF prison guard and self-appointed gatekeeper of all things Jew ...
  • Hundreds attend Bil’in’s 7th annua ...
    Israeli police and army mount a massive operation to stop Israelis from reaching the special Friday protest, marking seven years of popular and joint struggle in Bil’in By Haggai Matar In the beginning there were engineers, soldiers and bulldozers. It was after the International Court of L ...
  • Ex-political prisoner shares journey though Is ...
    There were 4,937 political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers in November 2011 according to Adameer, a Palestinian non-governmental organization. Yazan Abdulhadi was one of them before he was released on November 28, 2011, between the two swaps of the deal between Israel and Hama ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • North-East Irrigation Scheme opened
    The Federal Minister for Water Tony Burke and the Minister for Primary Industries and Water Bryan Green today officially opened the first water scheme in the North-East under Tasmania's irrigation development plan.
  • Improving groundwater knowledge in Victoria
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell and Member for Ballarat, Catherine King, congratulated Southern Rural Water on today's launch at Bungaree of its new groundwater atlas.
  • Traversing Antarctica: the Australian experience
    A rare collection of Antarctic artefacts will be on display for the first time as part of a national touring exhibition celebrating Australia's connection with the icy continent.
  • Caring for our Country funding to protect Aust ...
    The Gillard Government will fund a further 43 projects across the nation to protect Australia's natural environment through the open call component of Caring for our Country.
  • Gillard Government acts to protect the Coral Sea
    The Gillard Government announced today the proposed establishment of the world's largest marine protected area in the waters of the Coral Sea that fall within Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • America is Being Stolen, One Piece of Land At ...
    A sane person would think that if parties were going to be throwing  millions of people out of their homes and into the streets, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in the process and performing the single largest transfer of real property in the United States of America since the Louisia ...
  • Yes, A Thief Can Use Courts To Steal A Home In ...
    Can a Thief Really Steal A Home In Florida? Years ago, I asked the question, “Judge just who are you giving that house away to?”  As I watched judges granting foreclosure judgments one after the other to alphabet soup or vaguely identified plaintiffs, I was deeply disturbed that none of us, incl ...
  • The Banking Crisis Represents The Destruction ...
    From New Deal 2.0, an essay by Bruce Johnson: Banks are demonstrating that if you have enough money and influence, you’re not expected to follow the same laws as everyone else. For several years, I have been writing that extreme economic inequality is among the most destructive forces in a socie ...
  • Florida’s 2012 Foreclosure Reforms are A ...
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  • BALDERRAMA BANKRUPTCY OPINION- CAN A THIEF REA ...
    The party claiming to be holder in due course has the burden of establishing each statutory requirement by a preponderance of the evidence.26 A key factor is whether Deutsche received the note (and related mortgage) in good faith. The trustee argues the last-minute appearance of the second allon ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Community At the Speed of Light
    The rather plot-driven democracy we have been used to for decades is quickly giving way to a new dynamic of …Continue reading »
  • Speaking Up for Community
    London, Ontario faced a sobering occurrence this past week that reminded us that, on occasion, struggling for citizen’s rights has …Continue reading »
  • Good Love – A Valentine
    In so many ways it’s hard to be good these days. I don’t mean telling the truth, getting the kids …Continue reading »
  • Something We Can’t Do Alone
    My city of London, Ontario has been through enough in these last few years, I believe, to qualify as a …Continue reading »
  • Shadowlands
    Progressive democracy has been perhaps the most stable of political systems in world history. It has guided and empowered the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

War Resisters League

  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
  • “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
    As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →

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.

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Time Warner Cable & MSG End Squabble, Allow Kn ...
    While New York Knicks fans have been enjoying the sudden success of point guard Jeremy Lin, a lot of them haven't actually been able to watch the games on TV thanks to a lengthy dispute between Time Warner Cable and the MSG Network. But now they won't need to wait for the highlights on the even ...
  • I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Twitter Accoun ...
    The whole idea behind I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is supposed to be that this yellow, smushy spready product you put on bread and spray on vegetables (which is kind of weird, right?) is so ridiculously akin to the real thing, that you just cannot believe it's not butter. Someone should've t ...
  • DC Driver's "NO TAGS" Vanity Plate Leads To $2 ...
    Usually when someone regrets getting a vanity plate it's because they picked a stupid pun or dated pop culture reference. But one driver's attempt at license plate levity has him regretting his decision to the tune of $20,000 in parking tickets that aren't even his. For 25 years, the Washingto ...
  • Florida Police Bust Garages For Illegal Tows, ...
    Here's a helpful hint to anyone wishing to run a million-dollar insurance scam -- don't post pictures on Facebook of you and your friends waving wads of cash. The owners of five body shops in Florida were arrested earlier this week, charged with illegally towing cars that had been in accidents ...
  • Keep Those Worst Company In America Nomination ...
    It's only been a few days since we first asked you to send us your nominations for this year's Worst Company In America tournament and already we've been inundated with responses. But there is still plenty of time left to rally your friends, family, neighbors and random strangers to include you ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblowers Convene This Weekend at UC-Berkeley
    This weekend, University of California-Berkeley will be celebrating President's Day by celebrating whistleblowers. Seems apropos, no? After all, most government whistleblowers are patriotic civil servants who are extremely dedicated to the welfare of our country, and blow the whistle at great pe ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour Coming to Rutgers- ...
    Tour Stop features Dr. Susan Wood, Cathy Harris, Ken Kendrick (Washington, DC) – On February 22, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) brings its program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, to Rutgers-Newark. The stop will feature prominent whistleblower ...
  • Citigroup Settles for $158 Million: Daily Whis ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user AranamiProPublica: How Citibank Dumped Lousy Mortgages on the Government Summary: Citigroup will pay $158 million to settle a suit over bad loans the bank passed on to the federal government to insure. The case was first brought by a whistleblower who said the company a ...
  • Will the Obama Administration Allow Courts to ...
    American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer writes in Huffington Post about the upcoming deadline in the lawsuit challenging the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which legalized unprecedented levels of government surveillance on Americans. . . . the admi ...
  • "Traitor: The Whistleblower and the 'American ...
    As GAP Communications Director for the last seven years, I've heard about more than my fair share of travesties and wrongdoing within the federal government. But the evidence that whistleblowers relay to us involving defense, war and intelligence – the travesties that are committed, the wrongdoi ...

UK Progressive

  • How Citibank Dumped Lousy Mortgages on the Gov ...
    Citigroup agreed yesterday to pay $158 million to settle a lawsuit over bad loans that the bank passed on to the Federal Housing Administration to insure. The whistle-blower who originally brought the case, Sherry Hunt, an employee of Citi’s mortgage department, said the company actively u ...
  • The GOP Death March
    In a sign of how far the conservative movement has fallen, Mitt Romney, the Jay Gatsby of the 2012 campaign, told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) the magnificent lie that he was a “severely conservative” governor of Massachusetts. The CPAC delegates then voted for Romney as t ...
  • Perhaps the Most Dangerous Black Gay Man
    Cleo Manago is despised by some in the LGBTQ community. Descriptors like “homo demagogue,” contrarian, separatist, and anti-white are just a few that can be expressed in polite company. But to a nationwide community of same-gender loving (SGL), bisexual, transgender and progressive heterosexual ...
  • Prisoners Filing Grievances Tossed in Solitary ...
    There are nearly 25,000 inmates being held in solitary confinement in the U.S., some of them put there for filing grievances or lawsuits, “The Catholic Worker” reports. If you don’t know what solitary can be like, Associate Editor Jim Reagan of the “Worker” explains it “consists of prisoners bei ...
  • Op-Ed: Bill Gates Favors The Death Panel and V ...
    When Bill Gates, founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides vaccines to third world countries, promoted decreasing the population of the world and favoring the ‘death panel’, it shocked many people. Bill Gates believes that “instead of spending millions of dollars on old pe ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Bob Carter wins the cartoon war :-) A very swe ...
    Thank you DeSmog! Without FakeGate we would not have had this cartoon. (Readership est 850,000) Cartoon by John Spooner. The Age. The Age                 John Spooner: The Age Gallery     Spooner:  Nat.Lbrary collection On Wednesday I mentioned the Carter/Flannery disparity in wages: And if Bob ...
  • UPDATE: Heartland Documents Stolen and key one ...
    Major embarrassment for Joe Romm, and DeSmog and their unthinking fans. In the hours after the ClimateGate emails were released, skeptics asked about their authenticity (as we are want to do). In the hours after the Heartland Documents (including at least one complete fake) were released, the co ...
  • Logic-gate: The Smog blog exposes irrational r ...
    The Climate Change Scare Machine Chart The believers of man-made-weather-disasters are wetting themselves with excitement. It painful to watch grown men drool. Poor things, they were really wounded by Climategate, and they’ve been waiting, praying that some day someone would level the play ...
  • Crikey: Believers waiting for skeptics to die? ...
    Believers in man-made-catastrophe can’t win over skeptics with evidence and reason. Instead the peak “believers” intellectual strategy is to hope the oldies might die off in time to save the planet: Death isn’t an option: climate change activists aren’t waiting for deniers to d ...
  • The Big-Freeze: Thousands trapped in Europe as ...
    And who wants Global Warming when you can face avalanches, deep snow, and record cold? How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity? What’s happening in Europe and Russia over the last two weeks is not just your average cold- ...

ReNew America

  • Pro-Gingrich super PAC to get $10 million boos ...
    (Newsmax) - Newt Gingrich's struggling campaign is about to get a big boost from a billionaire casino mogul. Sheldon Adelson plans to give $10 million to Winning Our Future, a super PAC supporting Gingrich, CBS News and CNN reported Friday. The new gift is on top of $11 million Adelson and his f ...
  • Blessed by 'Proclaiming Justice to the Nations'
    (Joseph Farah) - Shabot shalom, y'all! I am here in the country music capital of the world this weekend to be honored by one of my favorite organizations -- Laurie Cardoza-Moore's "Proclaiming Justice to the Nations," a staunch antidote to the virulent mental illness known as anti-Semitism...
  • Terror suspect arrested near U.S. Capitol
    (Washington Times) - A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday on accusations he planned to detonate a suicide bomb in the U.S. Capitol before undercover agents thwarted him through a lengthy sting operation, the Department of Justice said...
  • House votes to kick-start Keystone XL and open ...
    (Human Events) - The House Thursday passed an energy measure to fund highway and transportation projects that also included contentious language to kick-start the Keystone pipeline and open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling...
  • A Tea Party Senate takeover
    (Michelle Malkin) - The tea party isn't dead. It's just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right in ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • New Sinkholes in Mexico and China
    These were found at Andrey Eroshin’s blog: Mexico 10.02.12. Massive sinkhole a diameter of 25 meters and a depth of 40 meters was formed in the middle of a field of three communities Buen Abrigo, Coyote and Los Ángeles near the city of Matamoros. China 09.02.12. Near reservoir Nans ...
  • Not All Bunkers Cost $1 Million
    SouthernPrepper1 is one of the best survivalists on YouTube. Nothing fancy, but lots of basic, real information and experiences. Here he shows us bunker which he has stored some supplies in. For many scenarios a bunker does not need to protect you long-term, but rather for just a few days. And i ...
  • Super-Rugged Smart Phones
    A global SHTF event is unlikely to leave us with mobile phone services in the long-term. But smart phones are more than just phones, and they can be very useful even without the phone aspect. Primarily, you can store ebooks on them – just make sure that the books are actually on your phone ...
  • World’s Smallest Survival Pod
    From Japan of course. Only $4000. They have hundreds of pre-orders, but I couldn’t find out how I could get one – the manufacturer is Cosmo Power, but their website is in Japanese… The craft is 1.2 ...World’s Smallest Survival Pod is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
  • Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert
    Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence (more at Wikipedia). There is a lot of evidence that epigenetic modifications ...Epigenetics Update / Supervolcano Alert is a post from: ...

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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • «Arab Spring» Export to China: US Stakes On Ti ...
    At the 48 Munich security conference China’s Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said that ‘China is committed to giving back to Asia with its own development and plays a major part in upholding peace and stability in the region.’ In response US senator John McCain decided to put the ...
  • Moscow and the Formation of The New World System
    Some bet, as it used to be, that a change in the Russian stance towards the Arab Region will occur and will be similar to what had taken place concerning the Iraqi or Libyan affair. However, a insightful analysis of the Russian stance will rule out such a notion for the following considerations: ...
  • Putin: Democracy in Making
    Democracy in the West has been long in making and we cannot point on a single person in any of the countries whom we would credit for having brought about democracy. We can only look at a long, and troublesome, history of social competition which has resulted in a state of affairs we call democr ...
  • US, Iran Keeping Up Belligerent Rhetoric
    According to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation is scheduled to revisit Iran from February 21-22. He said, “These cooperations between Iran and the IAEA can lead to the agency’s better understanding of the peacefu ...
  • Petrodollar Pumping US Policy on Iran, Backfir ...
    As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous eff ...

BlogHer

  • Online Connections: I'm Not Alone
    Amy Gahran from Contentious shares the many instances in which online connections have enriched her life in personal ways. She cites a recent Pew study to back up her position, but I think you'll find you agree with her reasoning even without the research proof. She starts her story this way: So ...
  • Who Are You Beyond Your Work?
    I've been mulling this question over quite a bit in the last week. I was trying to figure out - what is that catchy post title that bridges the gap between the public tragedies like the death of Whitney Houston and our everyday lives? While I don't have a catchy title, I do believe the essence o ...
  • Why and How to Sharpen Your Knives
    [Editor's Note: When was the last time you got your knives sharpened? It's a really important step to keeping your kitchen running smoothly—a good sharp knife will speed your cooking process and actually keep you safer in the kitchen. Learn more in this informative post! --Genie] 5 Reasons ...
  • The "Safe Haven" of Sports
    Locally, there is a story about a girls' basketball coach who was fired for verbally abusing his players. Demoralizing them, insulting them, and demeaning them. Nationally there is the Penn State saga. While this abuse was physical/sexual, the result is identical because the abused student/athle ...
  • Women Entrepreneurs: Alice Wang of SparkBox
    A former investment banker, entrepreneur Alice Wang watched her extended family grow in size with the arrival of three babies. She found it inspiring to see how the families experienced parenthood, and subsequently, how quickly the children got sick of toys. She thought there had to be a better ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Why do 53% of autistic children have rh negati ...
    One of the most misinterpreted terms out there is “rhesus disease”. It is not a disease, but rather an incompatibility causing danger to the rh positive child in the rh negative mother’s body. The common remedy ...
  • Doctors Now ‘Firing’ Patients Who ...
    For many years government and health officials have been trying to push vaccination on the people. While childhood vaccine exemption rateshave been increasing, we have been seeing an overall increase in the amount of people receiving the ...
  • Collecting rainwater now illegal in many state ...
    Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly ...
  • Year in review: 37 communities vote to end art ...
    A total of 37 communities vote to end artificial water fluoridation in 2011. Is your community on that list? With all the toxins in today’s drinking water it should be. ~ Health Freedoms The year 2011 ...
  • True fact: A common ingredient in commercial b ...
    Did you know that most breads you eat have been derived from human hair? It’s true! ~ Health Freedoms If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Feb. 17, 2012
    Paramilitary policemen guard a tunnel entrance at the Hongfa Coal Mine where 15 miners were killed and three others hurt when the mine carriages they were in plunged into a tunnel,  in Nanyang township, Leiyang city, in southern China’s Hunan province, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.  (AP Photo) ...
  • Corps brings back streamlined strip-mine permits
    There’s been an interesting development this week on mountaintop removal that I’m not sure most people have caught onto yet … Here’s the press release issued yesterday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced today revised an ...
  • W.Va. Sen. Manchin ‘grills’ Secret ...
    I was getting a little worried that maybe Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., wasn’t feeling well. Really. I mean, he let Sen. Jay Rockefeller get out the door first in the race to criticize coal’s treatment in President Obama’s new budget proposal for the 2013 financial year. But I sho ...
  • Will West Virginia lead on coal-mine safety?
    Pam Napper, mother of deceased coal miner Josh Napper, holds Josh’s daughter Jenna Leigh Napper, 20 months, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at a candlelight vigil in Cabin Creek, W.Va. Josh Napper was among the 29 miners killed, along with his uncle Timmy Davis Sr. and his cousin Cory Davis at an ...
  • Does the coal industry’s new report &#82 ...
    As noted last night in Coal Tattoo’s comments section, a Yale University researcher hired by the National Mining Association has published the first peer-reviewed paper that offers a response to the 20 papers that West Virginia University’s Michael Hendryx has produced over the last ...

Daniel Miessler

  • My Friend’s Every Day Carry System
    via youtube.com My good friend Ken is doing a new video blog and is covering his Every Day Carry (EDC) system for his first installment. Check it out if you have an interest in concealed carry; Ken is the type who does massive amounts of research before he decides a direction to go with his [...]
  • Cowbird : A Digital Storytelling Platform
    Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, focused on a deeper, longer-lasting, more personal kind of storytelling than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the Web. Cowbird allows you to keep a beautiful audio-visual diary of your life, and to collaborate with others in documenting the ove ...
  • Sam Harris on Free Will
    via youtube.com Obvious to me. Nonsense to others. Fascinating to me, that it’s nonsense to others. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSam Harris Answers Reddit’s QuestionsHarris Gives The Single Best Summary of Why Religious Belief is HarmfulJud ...
  • The Problem With Daniel Dennett’s Free Will
    Before going into my qualms with Daniel Dennett’s capability/evitibility-based free will, I want to point out that most supporters of Daniel Dennett’s brand of free will don’t realize that he agrees that we don’t have my brand of free will. What brand is that you ask? The ...
  • Sandcat Penetration Testing Oriented Browser | ...
    This first Sandcat Browser release includes the following pen-test oriented features:Live HTTP Headers Request Editor extension Fuzzer extension with multiple modes and support for filters JavaScript Executor extension — allows you to load and run external JavaScript files Lua Executor ext ...

Fitwatch

  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Bernie Sanders Defending Women’s Rights (Video)
    Worldwidehippies - Sen. Bernie Sanders yesterday defended President Obama’s plan to require insurance coverage of contraceptives for women. “In Vermont and around the country, there is growing anger that members of Congress, mostly men I should add, are trying to roll back the clock on women&#82 ...
  • I Propose Penis Probes for Misogynists
    By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies- Republicans misogynists and women haters are hoping to keep women barefoot and pregnant with their ridiculous issue surrounding “personhood.” Leave it to the Republicans to bring up issues surrounding abortion and birth control during an electio ...
  • Hippie Digest Saturday
    The freak survivor Delinquent, hippie, Black Panther, disco king, production genius, guitar god, alcoholic, drug addict, cancer survivor and author – that’s a 17-word race through the remarkable life of Nile Rodgers. With his sonic partner, the late Bernard Edwards, the native New Yo ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: NYCLU Contesting Trespas ...
    NYCLU – The New York Civil Liberties Union yesterday requested permission to file a brief with New York City Criminal Court arguing that trespassing and other charges against a demonstrator arrested at Zuccotti Park during the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment should be dismiss ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds POTENZA, Italy (Reuters) – Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in Switzerland, and arrested eight Italians accused of international fraud and other financi ...

reference frame

  • America's 19 most charitable corporations
    As a part of the "DenierGate", green activists at Think Progress have created a list of 19 most charitable corporations in America (using the Heartland Institute documents). These great companies have donated several pennies and – in some cases even several dollars – to the Heartland Institut ...
  • Tevatron: CDF may reveal 3-sigma 125 GeV Higgs ...
    Almost half a year after its demise, the Tevatron still seems to be intellectually alive. The CDF Collaboration plans to publish several papers. One of them is a new high precision measurement of the W-boson and top-quark masses. Another one might be a 3-sigma evidence supporting a Hig ...
  • When the captain (pilot) passes away
    Commercial aircrafts are usually piloted by two men and it is so for a good reason. On Wednesday, captain Mr Jaroslav Váňa (58), a great and beloved pilot and a lover of his old Škoda 120 car, almost completed his routine flight from Warsaw to Prague flawlessly. However, when he began to ...
  • LHC: rumor about stop squark signal
    Update: Note that on February 14th, there's been a CERN/ATLAS seminar (webcast was on air) that could have been relevant for the rumor but it wasn't: it only presented results that had already been released which contain no BSM signals Another update: one of my Massachusetts sources told ...
  • CMS hangout
    The CMS Collaboration organized its first hangout via Google+: The selection of beverages and babes wasn't too wide. Instead, the event was a video conferencing session with a physicist in the CMS cavern, 110 meters beneath the ground, and laymen on the other side of the cable. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • ANONYMOUS – The Illuminati Song
    Anonymous Speaks. We have a voice. Two Anonymous emcees.. If you believe in our message, please share it with as much people as possible on all of the social networking sites. DOWNLOAD SONG FREE HERE: (Thanks to supporters, now unlimited downloads!) http://www.mediafire.com/?o4l2dard8w1i80e or h ...
  • @OpenMedia_ca: Stop Online Spying
    Canadians if you value your online privacy you had better get with the program of trying to stop it. Your forefathers fought for your freedoms. Now it is up to you to keep them. Fight for what is right! Related posts: SOPA is the End Game: Entertainment Industry is 100% responsible for the Onlin ...
  • Monday Morning Rant: The Greece Pit and mind-d ...
    The Greek Situation is precarious to say the least. There is an unelected global banker, as leader, dictating to the Greek people how their day-to-day lives will change, for the worse, at the hands of austerity. Can you really blame them for this? There is no mandate for the Greek fire sale, thu ...
  • A Greece Fire: Greece burns. Troika was the match.
    Live from the Greek front in the Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) the city of Athens is on fire thanks to the corporate coup of Greek sovereignty. What you are witnessing WILL be coming to North America as austerity measures are enforced on us. Watch live streaming video fro ...
  • You’re a slave to money then you die
    Pre-VEVO play count: 22581204 Music video by The Verve performing Bitter Sweet Symphony. Video Rating: 4 / 5 ‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life Trying to make ends meet You’re a slave to money then you die I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been d ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Feather bouquets support women’s health programs
    Women all over Norway planned to once again be selling colourful bouquets of feathers and birch twigs during the weekend, part of an annual fundraising drive to raise money for women’s health programs. The bouquets are called fastelavnsriset, and they’ve been sold in Norway since 194 ...
  • Princess promotes new angel book
    Norway’s Princess Martha Louise had been staying out of the media spotlight for a while, but re-emerged this week when a new museum exhibit opened in honor of her parents, King Olav and Queen Sonja. And by Friday she was getting publicity after contributing to yet another book on angels. S ...
  • By:Larm festival sets new records
    Norway’s capital wasn’t being overrun only by snowboarders this weekend, as they competed in their own World Championships in the hills above the city. Thousands of music lovers, performers and music industry officials were also in Oslo for the annual music festival called “by: ...
  • Reaction mixed to spending cut call
    A call by Norway’s central bank boss to spend less of the country’s vast oil revenues is being greeted by decidedly mixed reaction. At the very least, it looks set to spark more debate on how much should be spent or saved of the wealth pumped out of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Ø ...
  • Two held in teenage refugee’s death
    UPDATED: Police in Rogaland, western Norway, had one man in custody on Thursday, had arrested another by Friday and were seeking two others as well in the death of a teenager at the Dale Asylum Center Wednesday night. The teenage boy from Iran died after being stabbed in the chest. Norwegian Bro ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Funding Sought for Permaculture Film – The Chi ...
    Gillian Leahy (a documentary maker) and Terry Leahy (permaculture researcher) are making a film about the Chikukwa project in Zimbabwe. This is a feel good story out of Africa. For the last 20 years an amazing permaculture project has been working in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the C ...
  • Global Economy Expanded More Slowly than Expec ...
    by Brigid Fitzgerald Reading, Earth Policy Institute The global economy grew 3.8 percent in 2011, a drop from 5.2 percent in 2010. Economists had anticipated a slowdown, but this was even less growth than expected, thanks to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, unrest in oil-producing countries, ...
  • USAID to Incorporate Permaculture in Aid Work
    USAID Permaculture Technical Brief (580kb PDF) The growing food crisis has struggled to stay in the headlines since being highlighted broadscale in the mainstream media back in 2008, but it moves apace regardless, and I can assure you it [...]
  • The Heartland Institute Exposed
    Misrepresenting climate science: Cherry-picking data for political purposes The Heartland Institute, as many readers will know, has been at the centre of efforts to cloud the issues and science surrounding climate change for years now. (Before that, they were at the centre of efforts to cloud ...
  • GE Eucalyptus Trees Approved by the USDA
    The GE Tree Company ArborGen has been given permission by the USDA to plant huge plantations of genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees across seven states in the southern U.S. — Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. These states are very well ...

Pointman's

  • Fakegate.
    I’ve been watching the developments following the publication of the Heartland documents, what’s now very appropriately become known as Fakegate. As usual, the propaganda organ of climate alarmism, otherwise known as the mainstream media, has been very quick off the mark to circulate any materia ...
  • Being you.
    We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more
  • How policies get dropped and positions reversed.
    Political policy changes constantly in a democracy. It does so primarily in response to the changing concerns of its electorate, because by addressing these concerns, politicians hoping to gain office naturally expect to attract votes by catering to these concerns. When the economy is prosperous ...
  • If all else fails, just intimidate them.
    Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...
  • Oh, what a wonderful MSM.
    I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Lindsey, I agree with you about Bill Cooper. I can never understand why jew wise people lionize this guy. I can only think that it has something to do with his spat with Jones. Cooper was an Evangelical Christian, perhaps he bought into the jews as the 'Chosen People' spiel.Statistics: Posted by ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Why don't people have more to say about these very serious and very important revelations about two of the most "revered" religious-figures in modern-times? I would have expected many more responses and in-sights than are here. LINDSEYStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Sat Feb 18, 2 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    MIND RAPE OF THE BLACK DIVA, WHITNEY HOUSTON & RE-IMAGING BLACK MOTHERHOOD & BLACK MESSIAH FOR A LUCIFERIAN NEW WORLD ORDER As the case of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston has become more valuable to the ILLUMINATI dead than alive. It has been widely reported this evening on Saturday ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Whitney Houston was probably an MKULTRA "Diamond" Presidential model. WHITney HOUSton = WHIT(E) HOUS(E) = anagram: We shit on N-youth http://www.flashmagonline.net/blog/7692 ... n-diamond/ Whitney Houston, The broken diamond February 17, 2012 ...becoming a choir singer while sti ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It's revealing watching these two clowns go at it. Rense's latest cheerleader, Paul Drockton, refers to Rense's work as a "product." A parapraxis? Rense.com is still ranked 6,272 in the world without Makow. Contrary to what Henry would like people to believe. Jeff Rense still puts ou ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Dutch Scientists Report Conversion of Plants i ...
    Dutch scientists say they have developed a process that uses nanotechnology to convert plant matter into the basic components of plastics, an innovation that could ultimately provide an alternative to oil-based plastics in the manufacture of thousands of everyday products. Using a catalyst made ...
  • Large Area of New Guinea Stripped of Protectio ...
    More than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land in Indonesian New Guinea — including 350,000 hectares of carbon-storing peatland — was stripped of its protected status to facilitate the expansion of a View images Mongabay/Google Earth The MIFEE project government-based agribusiness ...
  • Endangered Freshwater Dolphins To Be Protected ...
    The government of Bangladesh has created three new wildlife sanctuaries for the endangered Ganges River and Irrawaddy freshwater dolphins, the last two remaining species of freshwater dolphins in Asia. WCS A Ganges River dolphin Working with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
  • New U.S.-Led Program Targets Reductions in Soo ...
    With efforts to curb global carbon dioxide emissions stalled, a group of nations, including the U.S., will unveil a new program to cut other pollutants that contribute to global warming. The program, called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, will focus ...
  • Electric Vehicles in China Pollute More Than G ...
    The use of electric cars in China produces more particulate matter pollution than gasoline-fueled vehicles, according to a new study. In an analysis of five vehicle technologies in 34 major Chinese cities, U.S. researchers found that the power generated to run electric cars produces significantl ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Mickelson retains Northern Trust lead
    Phil Mickelson wasn't at his best Friday at Riviera. Two shots at least helped him stay in the lead. Despite having only two birdie chances inside 15 feet, Mickelson holed out from the eighth fairway for eagle and chipped in for birdie on the par-3 16th. That carried him to a 1-under 70 and a ...
  • Nuke crisis caused by Japan, not quake: Kan
    Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan has admitted that Japan was woefully unprepared for last year's nuclear disaster and suggested that the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant should not have been built so close to a tsunami-prone coastline. In an exclusive interview, Kan acknowledged flaws in the auth ...
  • Fuji Heavy bot R&D funds 'misused'
    A former Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. manager is suspected of illegally diverting around ¥200 million from funds allocated for research and development of robots commissioned by the government and industry bodies, according to sources. Fuji Heavy has set up an in-house panel to thoroughly i ...
  • Aussie FTA said still far off as talks end
    A four-day meeting between Japan and Australia on reaching a bilateral free-trade agreement ended Friday in Tokyo, with officials saying the two sides addressed a wide range of areas, including agricultural products, automobiles and energy. The outcome of the bilateral trade negotiations is ex ...
  • Jackson named Bengals assistant
    Former Oakland Raiders coach Hue Jackson has been hired as an assistant with the Cincinnati Bengals. On the staff with Cincinnati from 2004-06, Jackson will help with the secondary and special teams, and work closely with the position coaches for both slots, Mark Carrier and Darrin Simmons, re ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
    The United Steelworkers union made the following submission to the Government of Canada earlier this week. Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union and a CCPA research associate. The United Steelworkers union welcomes the opportunity to comment on Canada’s proposed entry into ...
  • EI Shrank by 100,000 in 2011
    Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance rose by 4,230 in December, a month in which unemployment rose by 6,100. The proportion of unemployed workers receiving benefits remained below 39% (i.e. 544,720 beneficiaries out of 1.4 million unemploye ...
  • Deflating Drummond
    Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices jumped in January (by 0.4% or 0.5% seasonally-adjusted), offsetting the drop in December. As a result, the annual inflation rate is now 2.5% and the Bank of Canada’s core inflation rate is 2.1%. Monetary Policy Both measures are well within t ...
  • Cone of Silence Descends on Federal Cuts
    The federal government has further lowered its “cone of silence” over the implications of federal cuts today.  Treasury board has instructed all departments to remove any implications of the latest $8 billion in cuts from their “Reports on Plans and Priorities” (RPP). The ...
  • Statistics For Democracy
    Statistics Canada is sometimes unfairly blamed for decisions made pursuant to budget cuts and to political direction, most notably in the decision to replace the long form Census with a much less reliable Household Survey. But the agency deserves tremendous credit for the decision, implemented j ...

ReDress

  • Abolishing the Palestinian Authority an urgent ...
    Jeff Halper calls for the abolition of the Palestinian National Authority, which he argues is nothing but a smokescreen to enable Israel to ethnically cleanse itself while the world and Palestinian quislings are preoccupied with the pursuit of the mirage of a two-state solution, something in fac ...
  • Israel and the paths to national suicide
    Uri Avnery argues that Israel, through its unwillingness to reach a just accommodation with the Palestinians, its ticking bomb of rapidly multiplying parasitic Orthodox Jews, who do not work and are not equipped for the modern age, and its growing unattractiveness as a place to live, may be head ...
  • Time for Jewish activists to shun their racial ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers how racially-driven Zionists and Jewish lobbies abuse the term "racism" and have turned "anti-racism" into a tool to silence criticism of Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism. He argues that rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Israeli propagan ...
  • Republican presidential candidate Rick Santoru ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents "a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face" trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, "the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at ho ...
  • Britain helps Israeli water thieves
    Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water's complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements.

Physics Today

  • Programmable pharmacy on a tiny chip
    Chronicle of Higher Education: An implanted chip that can deliver precise, regular doses of medication over a period of several months has just passed its first human trial. About the size of a pacemaker, the device is implanted just under the skin in a procedure that takes about 30 minutes and ...
  • US joins move to reduce short-lived pollutants
    New York Times: Impatient with the pace of international climate change negotiations, a small group of countries have started a program to reduce emissions of short-lived pollutants that cause a disproportionate amount of global warming. Soot, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons account for 30&ndash ...
  • UK and France sign nuclear cooperation deal
    BBC: This week the UK and France signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in the development of civil nuclear energy. In the wake of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster less than a year ago, both countries have pledged to work more closely in such areas as education and training, R&D ...
  • Ancient building sites reveal sophisticated ac ...
    Science: Prehistoric peoples may have had a sophisticated understanding of acoustics, according to researchers who presented their findings today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Miriam Kolar of Stanford University has been studying Chavín ...
  • Leaked documents give inside look on Heartland ...
    The Guardian: Confidential documents leaked from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank, reveal details of the organization's strategy on climate change says the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg. Heartland has been a significant promoter of climate change skepticism, and the leaked docum ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Obsolescence Management Tools
    by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...
  • B. Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should s ...
    by johnscarbrough (Posted Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:06:40 GMT) This game is disgusting really
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by albertodegama (Posted Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:08 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Properties...
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Peakwater

  • Chinese dam triggers earthquake, rattles Hong Kong
    “Zhong Yijun, the vice director of the Guangdong Provincial Seismological Bureau, told China News Service (Zhongguo xinwen she), today’s earthquake in Hong Kong was caused by the filling of the Xinfengjiang reservoir. The magnitude 4.8 quake, which hit at 2:34 AM local time, occurred in He ...
  • Tibetan Village Stops Mining Project Near the ...
    “A Nu Challenge Looms for Ethnic Groups After the villagers of Abin successfully canceled the mining project near the Nu River in January, they claimed the mountain itself had played a role. In these remote regions of western China, where many non-Han ethnicities reside, traditional views ...
  • EPA fails to defend Clean Water Act
    “The organizations, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Florida Clean Water Network, and the Androscoggin River Alliance, say EPA is ignoring blatant violations of this important protection and thereby encourages states to violate it, pointing to two recent cases: ...
  • Kariba Dam Wall On Zimbabwe Side Risk Collapsi ...
    “I repeat that the wall on the Zimbabwean side is weak and requires anchoring and this is being attended to. It is something that is high on the agenda because without the dam wall you really have nothing,” “Mangoma said. The Kariba dam on the Zambezi River is one of the larges ...
  • Is Nevada Coal Plant an Example of Environment ...
    “For almost 50 years, the Moapa Piaute Band has been living near one of the dirtiest coal plants in the nation, getting exposed to dangerous levels of noxious gases, coal ash, and water pollution. However, they haven’t seen the economic benefits they were promised – or any of the electrici ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Votes to Extend Middle Class Tax Cut, ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting to protect the middle class, Americans in need of work and federal employees. Kucinich voted in favor of the Conference Report on H.R. 3630, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Create Act. “H.R. 3630, the Mid ...
  • Corporation Fact Check: FirstEnergy – “Pants-o ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement concerning FirstEnergy’s plan to close several Ohio power plants. “Last month, FirstEnergy decided to close six of their highest-cost, highest-polluting coal-burning power plants, which FirstEnergy used mostly in the peak ...
  • Kucinich Hosts Briefing on Diplomatic Options ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday hosted a briefing regarding the status of diplomatic negotiations with Iran to prevent war and to address Iran’s nuclear program. Kucinich welcomed Dr. Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, to discuss the diplom ...
  • Kucinich Talks Solutions to Primary Care Shortage
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) met with leaders in the medical and education communities today to discuss the primary care physician shortage in the nation and in Cleveland. Only about 3% of each graduating class of medical school students will go into primary care. The remainder will go int ...
  • Kucinich Vows to Fight for NASA and the Glenn ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today met briefly with National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator General Charles Bolden and discussed the need to protect NASA’s budget. Kucinich also welcomed to the U.S. Capitol Astronauts Cady Coleman, Ron Garan and Mike Fossum, who recentl ...

Authentically Wired

  • .. . Duh … What the hell took them so long … i ...
    .. . Duh … What the hell took them so long … isn’t this really a no brainer …? Feds approve ban on cruise ship sewage discharge “This is a great day for the California coast, which is far too precious a resource to be used as a dumping ground,” said Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo [...]
  • … As “big pharma” and their corporate allie$ o ...
    … As “big pharma” and their corporate allie$ own our Congre$$ … Court$ … Office of Pre$ident … what change do you actually see them making to serve and protect you and me…  How the Death of Whitney Houston, and Countless Others, Could Have Been Prevented Drug poisoning is now the leading cause o ...
  • … Oh … WOW … what a message … 20 separate dama ...
    … Oh … WOW … what a message … 20 separate damages to our shared environment and EPA slaps their dirty hand for $75,000 per incident … Golly  do you think Union Pacific can afford that …? Union Pacific to pay $1.5M settlement in oil spill  February 10, 2012 …http://www.ncbr.com/article/20120210/N ...
  • why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixat ...
    Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot…? At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … February 8, 2012 ...
  • leaving you and me to pick up the tap
    … Powerful message unfortunately corporate owned John Roberts U.S. Supreme Court will allow these same corporations to go bankrupt leaving you and me to pick up the tap both financially and environmentally … Landmark Montana Supreme Court ruling states polluters can be held accountable decades l ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Felling chilly? Try a rom-com
    They are supposed to warm the heart. But we don't just watch romantic comedies when we're feeling blue - we also pick them when we're cold, claim researchers.In an experiment, they found viewers subconsciously chose to watch love...
  • International flu expert warns against complacency
    An Otago University-educated international flu expert is warning public health officials not be complacent about new viruses that could spread from animals to humans.The call comes after a health scare at Auckland Airport yesterday...
  • Lung problems made worse by soft drinks
    People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.University of Adelaide researchers found...
  • Dogs trump chimps in smart stakes
    Man's best friend could also be his smartest after scientists concluded dogs can outsmart chimpanzees.With their human-like brains, chimps have long been rated high on the intelligence scale, but German experts found dogs were better...
  • NZ bids for super telescope role
    Earthquake prediction will be a step closer if New Zealand wins a bid for the largest radio telescope ever built.A joint New Zealand and Australian consortium is bidding against a southern African group for the right to host the...

Truth Survival + RSS

  • NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND VISITORS
    As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Russian City Bans Protests Held by Toys
    Political activism has reached new heights (well, technically new lows) in Russia: Colorful little plastic geegaws have entered the arena of conflict. Russian authorities banned public demonstrations by groups of dolls, action figures, and toys, with special disdain for those not ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Negative Versus Positive Rights
    What we have in the debate over employer-provided contraception is a clash not between two liberty interests, but rather between two rights-claims – one negative, the other positive. All that is required for the exercise of a negative right (to self-ownership and, redundantly, libe ...
  • Where Dr. Paul's Inflation Might Be
    Shikha Dalmia asked earlier today: "Where is Dr. Paul's Inflation?," focusing on the most recent measures of core CPI rise, which are not alarmingly high. Economist Bob Murphy explained a few months back from a roughly Paulite perspective why he and others fear that the stunning ris ...
  • Casino Mogul Gives Gingrich PAC Another $10 Mi ...
    PAC for dark horse candidate Newt Gingrich receives another $10 million from Sheldon Adelson.  19 journalists have quit their jobs in order to work for Obama. Obama administration refuses to defend law blocking benefits for gay soldier couples.   FBI gives man fake bomb, ...
  • Tim Cavanaugh Talks Green Lobby On Russia Toda ...
    Reason managing editor Tim Cavanaugh will talk about the green lobby with Kristine Frazao today on Russia Today's Evening News with Kristine Frazao.  Topics:  Why isn't the Keystone pipeline in Pennsylvania?  Is the Green Lobby a special interest?  How many more Solyndr ...

Mercury Rising

  • Heartland stabbed anew
    Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian: The Heartland Institute, the libertarian thinktank whose project to undermine science lessons for schoolchildren was exposed this week, faces new scrutiny of its finances – including its donors and tax status. The Guardian has learned of a whistleblower complain ...
  • Finally!
    Pat Buchanan is gone from MSNBC. MSNBC president Phil Griffin said of Buchanan’s departure: I don’t think the ideas that he put forth are appropriate for national dialogue on MSNBC. Gee, Phil, what took you so long to figure this out?
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Your impression that Alex spends most of his time in the window hammock watching CAT-TV is entirely correct.
  • Nanotechnology applied to repairing/killing ca ...
    Elizabeth Lopatto, Bloomberg: Scientists have created a robot made entirely from DNA that can be instructed to find diseased cells in the body and deliver a payload to kill or reprogram them, according to a study from Harvard University. The robot was constructed by folding DNA strands into a sh ...
  • Burnt sacrifices to the war on some drugs
    DemocracyNow: JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to Honduras, where a fire swept through an overcrowded prison Tuesday night and killed more than 350 inmates. It’s the world’s deadliest prison fire in a century. According to the Associated Press, most of the inmates who died had never been charged, let ...

Reality Sandwich

  • The Prepping Pyramid
      The term "prepping" refers to the process by which you incrementally increase your level of preparedness for emergency/disaster on a continuum from short-term self-reliance to long-term self-sufficiency. The term "preps" can be defined as tangible items or systems ...
  • The Recovery of the Human
      The following originally appeared on The Archdruid Report.   The myth of the machine has implications that go well beyond the usual terms of discussion in the peak oil scene. One of those implications unfolds from the way that so many people who are concerned about peak oil fi ...
  • ALT.OSCAR 2012
    Come to Kostume Kult's 7th annual Oscar night event in the city, supported by Reality Sandwich and Flavorpill. read more
  • Esoteric Voices 8: Consciousness After Death
    Sorry, flash is not available. read more
  • Energy and Our Energetic Fields
      The following is excerpted from Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life, available from Sounds True. read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • Israeli helicopter attacks Gaza City
    An Israeli Apache helicopter has fired a missile at the Zaytoon neighborhood of southeastern Gaza City and drones are flying over the area.
  • ‘Britain is happy with DR Congo crises’
    A British writer has condemned the UK government for financing the mounting humanitarian crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the civilians have remained the victims of mass killings, severe torture, and widespread rape.
  • PM proud of UK role in deadly Libya war
    British Prime Minister has once again considered NATO-led military intervention in Libya as a success, apparently failing to notice that imposing war in the country to change the regime of Muammar Gaddafi cost thousands of lives and plunge Libya’s economy into decline.
  • IRGC to begin new drills in central Iran
    Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are to launch new military drills codenamed “Val Fajr” in the Markazi Desert near the city of Yazd.
  • 'Syria has right to target US spy drones'
    A new report has revealed that the US military has dispatched a number of unmanned military and intelligence drones for operations in Syrian skies.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Supporters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) block ...
    Supporters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) block a street during a protest in Reef Damascus, north of Damascus, early February 4, 2012, against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces attacking the town of Homs. More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Ho ...
  • Half-naked activists from Ukrainian women’s ri ...
    Half-naked activists from Ukrainian women’s rights movement Femen, demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Zurich, February 1, 2012. Femen activists staged a protest on Wednesday to draw attention on the political situation in Belarus before the Ho ...
  • A protester clashes with riot police outside t ...
    A protester clashes with riot police outside the Greek parliament in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the square outside Parliament as a parliamentary debate began, with more arriving constantly. As the crowds grew, a few hundred an ...
  • "If they really wanted to win here, they’d kee ...
    “If they really wanted to win here, they’d keep us here indefinitely” -...
  • In this Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 photo, Syrian reb ...
    In this Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 photo, Syrian rebels gather in an alley as they secure a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. President Bashar Assad’s government vowed Sunday to continue its crackdown on a nearly 11-month-old uprising that has become one of the deadliest of the Arab Spring. The graf ...
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