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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • Inside Story: Climate Scientists Under Siege
    It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann’s account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public. His story of that campaign, and his own journey from naive computer geek to battle-hardened climate ninja, seems overwrought, maybe even paranoi ...
  • Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: With Robots
    In the agency’s $2.8 billion budget for 2013, unveiled on Monday, they’ve allotted $7 million for a project titled “Avatar.” The project’s ultimate goal, not surprisingly, sounds a lot like the plot of the same-named (but much more expensive) flick. According the agency, “the Avatar program w ...
  • Dennis Ross Shoots Down War With Iran
    Back in 2007, during a similar outbreak of overheated rhetoric about war against Iran—at that time, Vice President Dick Cheney was pushing behind the scenes for a unilateral American strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities—a subversive report National Intelligence Estimate by the US intelligenc ...
  • Google Busted With Hand in Safari Cookie Jar
    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. ...snip... I would expect a new round of calls for hearings and perhaps ...
  • Chomsky: US 'Losing' the world, Part 1
    At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of president John F Kennedy's decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries ...

Independent - London

  • Eurozone governments agree second Greece bail-out
    Eurozone governments finally came to the rescue of Greece today, approving a second massive bail-out after months of wrangling and a last round of more than 12 hours of talks in Brussels.Related StoriesSarkozy hits below the belt as race for Elysée hots upFormer dissident lands German presidenc ...
  • Eurozone governments agree second Greece bailout
    Eurozone governments finally came to the rescue of Greece today, approving a second massive bail-out after months of wrangling and a last round of more than 12 hours of talks in Brussels.Related StoriesSarkozy hits below the belt as race for Elysée hots upFormer dissident lands German presidenc ...
  • I may have fallen asleep, says driver in coach ...
    The driver of the British coach that crashed while carrying schoolchildren home from an Italian ski trip has admitted to French investigators that he may have dozed off at the wheel.Related StoriesFormer dissident lands German presidencyPoll predicts first-round Putin victoryTymoshenko's daught ...
  • After the rage, the resignation: Greeks confro ...
    Greeks feel angry and resentful but also resigned as they wait for the rescue package that will determine their future to be agreed in Brussels. Their sense of resignation comes from the knowledge that Greece's influence on the final shape of the bailout is limited. Street protests have died awa ...
  • Poisoned spring: revolution brings Tunisia mor ...
    Want to remember what Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was like? Just walk down the Avenue Habib-Bourguiba – until a few weeks ago still cordoned off by armoured vehicles and barbed wire – and drop by your local bookshop for Z's wonderful Révolution! Des années mauves à la fuite de Carthage. Z always pa ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US: Rick Santorum Sings The Praises Of Income ...
    Rick Santorum has said a lot of dumb things in his feeble existence. He has pushed extreme religious views, accused President Obama of wanting to exterminate religious people and he has made many hateful statements about women and the LGBT community. Santorum has largely avoided making as many g ...
  • US: Senators Ramp Up Fear Mongering To Try To ...
    We're still waiting for any actual evidence that this new cybersecurity bill is really necessary. An actual description of the real problem being dealt with would be a good start. Instead, we just get pure fear mongering. While some Senators are asking supporters of the bill to slow down and car ...
  • 'Hundreds gather' in China after monk's self-i ...
    Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in China's southwest to hold a vigil for a young Buddhist monk who set himself on fire, a rights group said, in the latest self-immolation to hit the country. The 18-year-old monk, identified as Nangdrol, set himself alight Sunday in Sichuan province's Rangtang co ...
  • US: In labored clarification, Fox contributor ...
    Appearing on the Fox News show America's News HQ, contributor Liz Trotta attempted to clarify remarks she made earlier this month that became fodder for The Daily Show, during which host Jon Stewart summarized that she did not want the military helping women who've been "raped too much." Unfor ...
  • Santorum uses Hitler analogy to describe Obama
    Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday likened the upcoming U.S. election to World War II. While the candidate's comments to a packed First Redeemer Church in Cumming, Georgia were somewhat vague, NBC news noted that he "seemed to compare President [Barack] Obama to [Adolph] ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Vancouver police "heart" Vic Toews
    OK... this is rich. The Vancouver police department announced Monday its support for federal cybercrime legislation that critics say would give police extensive access to information about your activities on the Internet. Vancouver police Deputy Chief Warren Lemcke, who is also co-chair of the ...
  • And the Chief arrives with both barrels smokin ...
    If you're not a veteran you may not understand this. If you're a veteran and you've never made an application to Veterans Affairs Canada, you too may not understand this. But if you've made a claim, based on real service related issues, you'll know all about it. A review of Veterans Affairs Cana ...
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    GREENPEACE AGAINST THE MONSTERS. Anatolij Pickmann is a fine illustrator. According to Lauren Davis at io9, "Stylized Greenpeace posters pit David against mecha-monster Goliaths". No foolin'. Check out the rest of 'em. Your Prius may make you feel sanctimonious when you see a giant Hummer SUV, ...
  • Another day in the fantasy of Harper fiscal pr ...
    Greg Weston pulls another Harper-floated piece of waste off the surface. A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent more than $1.1 million in the past two years, but has yet to mediate anything. At the same tim ...

Media Matters for America

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

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TPM Cafe

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

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

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

Climate

  • Climate Change May Increase Risk of Water Shor ...
    (VietNamNet/Xinhuanet) More than one third of the counties in the U.S. could face a "high" or "extreme" risk of water shortage due to climate change by 2050, according to a study published last week.
  • Climate Change Killing Mighty Trees in Alaska, ...
    (AP) U.S. Forest Service researchers have confirmed what has long been suspected about a valuable tree in Alaska's Panhandle: climate warming is killing off yellow cedar.
  • Texas Has Lost 5.6 Million Trees in Cities to ...
    (Austin American-Statesman) Texas Forest Service researchers said the current drought claimed the lives of about 5.6 million trees in cities, or roughly 10 percent of the state's urban forests, in the agency's first attempt at coun ...
  • Drought Fears for Britain Prompt Water Summit
    (BBC News) The British environment secretary is to meet water companies, farmers and wildlife groups amid fears that parts of Britain may face the worst drought since 1976.
  • Biomass Isn't Carbon Neutral, Study Finds
    (UPI) A study conducted for the National Wildlife Foundation and the Southern Environmental Law Center concluded that using wood for large-scale power plants could lead to higher levels of atmospheric carbon for the next half centur ...

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Booman Tribune

  • In Response to BooMan
    A few days ago, I wrote that I don't believe it's possible for President Obama to win a massive, LBJ-size election victory in November -- a blowout of a size BooMan thinks is conceivable. Today BooMan responded to me in a post called "Why I'm Bullish," and then explained why he thinks the stat ...
  • Let's Look at Mississippi
    In 2008, John McCain carried Mississippi with 56% of the vote to Obama's 43%. This was a significant improvement over 2004, when Kerry was beaten 59%-40%. You can examine where Obama did better or worse than Kerry by comparing the 2004 and 2008 exit polls. One obvious area is among women. In ...
  • Causing Confusion and Delay
    The disorder and confusion in the Republican ranks is getting harder and harder to ignore. It's at the point now that Establishment Republicans are actually beginning to hope for a contested convention in Tampa so that some alternative to Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul can be put on the t ...
  • Santorum: Liberals are Anti-Science, Not Me
    There are days I wonder if Santorum has a speechwriter or if the crazy stuff that keeps flowing out of his mouth is really all his own invention. Actually, that's not true. I don't wonder about this at all. No speechwriter would be that stupid. In any case, Here's Ricky making his case tha ...
  • Why I'm Bullish
    I think Steve M. is concerned that I've lost my mind and am guilty of engaging in some irrational exuberance about Obama's chances of winning a landslide reelection. I want to make clear that when I talk about Obama winning 35 or 38 states, I am not making a prediction. I'm talking about a pote ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Hottest Links of the Week
    Assassin-slaying, sharks, a little bit of love and more! Ten hot links! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 11 Coolest Links of the Week
    From a real life ghost fleet to a Lego Star Destroyer, it's one cool collection of links! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When Old Soda Cans Blossom into Beautiful Flowers
    Buying cut flowers never has to be a guilty pleasure again with these amazingly life-like recycled flowers, made from old soda cans! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Most Incredible Tank Graveyards on Earth
    Where do old tanks go to die? Wherever they were last used and dumped, is the answer in many cases. Join us on a tour of the world's most amazing tank cemeteries... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rats! Clever, Caring and Incredibly Cute
    Rats have gotten a bad reputation over the years, but even if you've never fancied having one as a pet, these adorably cute fellows might just change your mind! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
    BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...
  • Rise of the Facebook Killers! SocialNetwork-in ...
    Rise of the Facebook-Killers by Nick Pinto- New York - Village Voice: .... Moglen said, Mark Zuckerberg had harnessed the energy of our social desires to talk us into a swindle. "Everybody needs to get laid," Moglen said. "He turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human per ...
  • Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
    It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...

Daily Censored

  • Judge Absolves NJ Christie Political Target
    “This case hopefully will stand a long time for the proposition that federal prosecutors can’t come into a locality and selectively target local candidates -- thereby disrupting local elections with a federal political agenda.”
  • Occupy brief: Common Sense resources to end 1% ...
    Occupy’s mission includes public education and civic participation to reveal the 1%’s crimes centering in war and money, end the crimes through arrests of the criminals, and enact policies for 100% of Earth’s inhabitants. This brief explains, documents, and proves objective and independently ver ...
  • Why everyone should Occupy US 1% corporate med ...
    “We denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakne ...
  • THE SYRIAN DILEMMA
    Saul Landau How to evaluate events in Syria and what to do? Syria borders on Turkey (north), Iraq (east), the Mediterranean (west), Lebanon (south and west), Israel (Golan Heights) and Jordan (south). Unlike the “humanitarian” intervention in Libya — now edging toward chaos  — outsid ...
  • IN HONOR OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WISCONSIN U ...
    IN HONOR OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WISCONSIN UPRISING February 11, 2011 WISCONSIN:  THE NEW FLORIDA AND OHIO?  Sheila Parks, Ed.D. In the 2000 presidential election, Florida needed Katherine Harris (then Florida Secretary of State), Jeb Bush, the Supreme Court Justices – and the connection ...

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  • Turkey denies reports of intelligence officers ...
    The Turkish government has denied reports in the Israeli media that dozens of Turkish intelligence officers have been arrested and are under interrogation in neighboring Syria.
  • Analysis: The How and Why of Modern Assassinations
    In an interview I gave this past weekend to "The Journal", one of Ireland’s most popular newsmagazines, I noted that the use of targeted assassinations as a means of achieving broader political goals is, of course, not new. But there are definite trends that we have been able to see developing d ...
  • News you may have missed #682
    Is there a Mossad base near Iran? Analysis: CIA report on Soviet bioweapons still secret. US official says Iran unlikely to strike first.
  • News you may have missed #681
    Mossad 'bolsters activity in Tunisia'. US 'used quake' to send Special Forces into Pakistan. Russian officer convicted of spying for CIA.
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    Did Pakistani ex-leader know bin Laden's hideout? Sweden expels Rwanda diplomat for spying. Mossad continues to use foreign passports.

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Grist - News

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

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    Maybe, but it’s going to take a long time.
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    The detection of scattered light from exoplanets gives direct access to physical conditions and composition of their atmospheres. Currently, most scattered light experiments focus on nearly edge-on, transiting systems.
  • Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived
    Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently froze ...
  • Scientists Launch Rocket Into Aurora
    A two-stage Terrier-Black Brant rocket arced through aurora 200 miles above Earth as the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén resonator (MICA) mission investigated the underlying physics of the northern lights. Stage one of the rocket has just separated and is seen falling back to Earth.
  • Snuffbox and Rayed Bean Mussels: Freshwater Sp ...
    Two colorfully named freshwater mussels received protection under the Endangered Species Act this week: the snuffbox and rayed bean. As NG Freshwater Fellow Sandra Postel has pointed out before, freshwater mussels as a group are among the most critically endangered species in North America.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Under the Big Tent in the Circus of Appetite a ...
    By Les Visible I’ve mentioned ‘endurance’ before. Sometimes, you just have to go through things. There’s no alternative to slogging through the peat bogs of residual karma and the environmental constipation of strangled force, surrounding one, as you try to find a dry hum ...
  • Media Ignores Santorum’s Support For Accused C ...
    Paul Joseph Watson   Monday, January 9, 2012 While the establishment media has ceaselessly smeared Ron Paul for the controversial content of decades-old newsletters that were not even written by him, the comparatively shocking scandal of Rick Santorum having sponsored alleged child molester ...
  • Rick Santorum: North Dakota is in the cross-ha ...
    By Juan Cole GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned North Dakota on Wednesday that it was in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack. Among the news about Iran that had Americans thinking about that country was an announcement that Iran is making its own nuclear fuel and using it for a react ...
  • Panetta: Iran is Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
    by John Glaser, February 16, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that Iran is enriching uranium in a peaceful nuclear program but that Tehran has not decided to develop an atomic bomb. Top U.S. military and intelligence officials gave separate testimonies in congressional hearings ...
  • Rick Santorum: The Pro-Life-Pro-Death Candidate
    By Keith Johnson But is Santorum really pro-life? Well, that depends. If you’re still in the womb of an American citizen, then yes. Aside from that—well, I think comedian George Carlin put it best: ”If you’re pre-born you’re fine. If you’re preschool you’re fucked. Conservatives don’t give a shi ...

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    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Marubeni to Build New Floating Wind Farm Off t ...
    Japan looks set to see a new floating wind farm built off the coast of Fukushima, according to a number of recent news reports. Trading company Marubeni plans to develop the wind farm, and the process is set to start next month. The development comes after the near-shore wind farm Kamisu withsto ...
  • Rick Santorum Says President Obama Holds “Eart ...
    Former Senator Rick Santorum said yesterday that he thinks President Obama “elevates the Earth above man,” and should rethink his dedication to “radical environmentalists.” Santorum has recently come into the political spotlight thanks to his steady rise up the Republican ...
  • A2′s Stackable ‘Street’ Shelving Units Lets Yo ...
    Give your books and plants a happy home in one of A2‘s stackable ‘Street‘ storage units. The Street system consists of four parts, including a frame, a house, and a high and low unit. The units can be combined in a variety of ways, and with more than one system stacked together ...
  • The Wooden Åsta Stool is a Simple Seat Inspire ...
    Designer Karin Ekwall created the clever Åsta stool, a portable seat that mixes the traditional Scandinavian furniture and history of joinery into a nostalgic and aesthetic piece of carpentry. The stool is made entirely of wood — absolutely no screws or nails are needed to put it together. ...
  • Mandy Barker’s SOUP Photographs Bring Awarenes ...
    Read the rest of Mandy Barker’s SOUP Photographs Bring Awareness to Ocean Trash Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco-aware art, environmental destruction, environmental photography, garbage patch, mandy barker, North pacific Garbage Patch, ocean trash, soup photog ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Test tube burgers could hit kitchens this year ...
    The world’s first test-tube burger will be ready to eat within months. It will look, feel and, it is hoped, taste, like a regular quarter-pounder, its creator Mark Post told the world’s premier science conference. He plans to unveil the hamburger in October - and hopes celebrity chef Hesto ...
  • Iran to unleash ‘God’s vengeance’ against pote ...
    Iran has started a massive training exercise to protect its “nuclear centers” from potential air strikes. The four-day drill will unite missile defense systems, radars and interceptor planes in southern Iran.
  • FEMA looking to track nationwide news coverage ...
    For some people, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is just that – an agency that manages emergencies, or at least tries to, and often screws it up.
  • WE ARE THE NEW WORLD ORDER
    Well folks they are in the final phase of realizing their goal of creating the world government, not our government nor any nations government, but a world government whereas there will be not one sovereign nation on earth. All nations and the people of them will be disarmed and at the mercy of ...
  • Silencing the Critics
    In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI–the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”–called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.”

Andy Worthington

  • Three New UK Screenings of “Outside the ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Document ...
    In the whole sordid ten-year history of Guantánamo, one of the most distressing events, which has never been adequately investigated, involves the deaths of three prisoners on the night of June 9, 2006. According to the authorities, the deaths were the result of a coordinated suicide pact, but t ...
  • “Brought to Justice? — The Indefin ...
    Last month, when I was in the US to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison, I paid a visit, during my 30-hour visit to San Francisco and the Bay Area, to KPFA in Berkeley for an interview on “The Mor ...
  • Please Sign the E-Petition Urging the UK Gover ...
    Please sign the e-petition (British citizens and residents only). On Tuesday, on the 10th anniversary of the arrival at Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last the British resident in the prison, his family and his lawyers in London launched an e-petition on the government’s website, entitled ...
  • 10 Years in Guantánamo: British Resident Shake ...
    Originally posted on the “Close Guantánamo” website, and written by Andy Worthington. Ten years ago, on February 14, 2002, Shaker Aamer, a British resident, and originally one of 16 British prisoners in Guantánamo, arrived in Camp X-Ray, the rudimentary prison in the grounds of the U ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Occupy Movement Targets Corporate Interest Gro ...
    A coalition of Occupy groups, led by Occupy Portland in Oregon, is calling on people "to target corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)" with direct actions and public events later this month. ...
  • 'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World to Meltd ...
    "The current system is broken," says Bob Watson, the UK’s chief scientific advisor on environmental issues and a winner of the prestigious Blue Planet prize in 2010. "It is driving humanity to a future that is 3-5°C warmer than our species has ever known, and is eliminat ...
  • 'It's Going to Be War': First Nations Battle C ...
    The indigenous First Nations of Canada, along with environmentalists and civil society groups, are gearing up for an epic battle as the oil giant Enbridge continues to press for its 'Northern Gateway' pipeline that would transport tar sands oil from Alberta to the coast of British Columb ...
  • US/UK Military Chiefs Urge Against 'Destabiliz ...
    Senior military officials from both the US and the UK took to prominent media outlets over the weekend to publicly warn against an Israeli strike on Iran. * * * Appearing on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, responded to a question ...
  • Australian Cancer Survivor Fights to Stop Gene ...
    In Australia today, a cancer survivor and a consumer organization have taken four biotech companies to court over a patent related to a human gene linked to breast and ovarian cancers. On Monday, an Australian Federal Court began hearing the landmark case brought by the Brisbane woman, Yvonne D& ...

Lifehacker

  • Smartphone Holders, Alcohol Intake, and Touchp ...
    Readers offer their best tips for storing your phone in the kitchen, keeping track of how many drinks you've had, and getting more control over your touchpad. More »
  • VLC 2.0 Brings a Library Interface to Macs, Ex ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC, one of our favorite video players, has just updated with experimental support for Blu-Ray discs, not to mention a seriously overhauled interface for Mac users. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Senators Probe Twitter Pol ...
    Twitter gets a letter from two senators, Google puts more Plus in their search page, and Microsoft discovers Google is dodging IE's privacy controls along with Safari's. More »
  • ChargeBar Gives You a Closer Look at Your Andr ...
    Android: Android's default battery icon is pretty small, and doesn't give you a good idea of how much battery you have left. ChargeBar puts a thin line at the top of your menu bar, giving you a much more accurate representation of your battery ...
  • How Do You Make Your Personal (or Professional ...
    We've highlighted both the best personal landing pages and professional nameplate sites. We've even created our own. Despite all the different options, you have to do a bit of work to set your page apart from all the others. We want to know ...

Water Privatization

  • Businesses: mixed view on Asheville water' ...
    The water debate will be featured in two upcoming meetings. What: A forum by environmental group Mountain Voices Alliances on the water system’s future. Panelists include N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt; and City Councilman Jan Davis.
  • Businesses: mixed view on Asheville water' ...
    The water debate will be featured in two upcoming meetings. What: A forum by environmental group Mountain Voices Alliances on the water system’s future. Panelists include N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt; and City Councilman Jan Davis.
  • More protections offered against water privati ...
    The environmental group Mountain Voices Alliances is putting on a forum intended to look at the future of Asheville’s water system. Panelists include N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt; and City Councilman Jan Davis.
  • More protections offered against water privati ...
    The environmental group Mountain Voices Alliances is putting on a forum intended to look at the future of Asheville’s water system. Panelists include N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt; and City Councilman Jan Davis.
  • General Electric's Privatization of Water
    Investment banker Goldman Sachs has famously been described by the Rolling Stone’s business writer Matt Taibbi (July 2009) as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” So it’s a good idea to take notic ...

Guardian

  • Syrian troops fire on Damascus protesters
    Syrian forces open fire with live ammunition on demonstrators in Damascus overnight as unrest spreads in the capitalSyrian forces opened fire with live ammunition on demonstrators in Damascus overnight, wounding at least four people, according to activists, as unrest continued to spread in the c ...
  • Dozens of children die in Afghanistan cold
    Heaviest snowfall and coldest winter for 15 years claims the lives of more than 40 people, most of them childrenMore than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan's coldest winter in years.The government has recorded 41 deaths from freezing in three pro ...
  • Eurozone reaches deal on second Greece bailout ...
    Eurozone finance ministers approve rescue package deal worth €130bn after 14 hours of negotiations in Brussels Deal reached on Greece - as it happenedEurozone finance ministers have finally approved the terms of a second rescue package for Greece worth €130bn (£108bn), which should avert the ri ...
  • Nick Clegg to offer 'neet' solution for unempl ...
    £126m scheme seeks to encourage employers to take on young people not in education, employment or trainingNick Clegg will vow to deal with the "ticking time bomb" of teenagers who are not in work, school or training.The deputy prime minister is due to announce on Tuesday a £126m scheme to get 1 ...
  • Honduras prison fire relatives storm morgue fo ...
    Police used teargas to turn people away from the morgue after they demanded the return of the remains of loved onesHundreds of relatives of inmates who burned or suffocated to death when a fire raged through a Honduran prison forced their way into a morgue on Monday to demand the remains of love ...

McClatchey

  • Cuban archbishop evacuates Ladies in White fro ...
    The archbishop of Cubas second-largest city helped evacuate 14 women dissidents who had sought refuge at the El Cobre Basilica amid reports that police were waiting nearby to beat them,Click to Continue »
  • Bomber at Afghan checkpoint kills girl when ho ...
    A suicide car bomber killed an Afghan police officer and a young girl Monday in the restive southern city of Kandahar, local officials said. A second police officer and three…Click to Continue »
  • Yemenis fear there'll be no change with new pr ...
    When voting ends here Tuesday in early presidential elections, there's no doubt that something historic will have taken place: Ali Abdullah Saleh, who's ruled here for 33 years, no longer…Click to Continue »
  • Mexican prison melee said to be cover for gang ...
    Prison guards apparently let inmates who belonged to the brutal Los Zetas gang bludgeon to death scores of rivals from the Gulf Cartel during a weekend riot, while other Zetas…Click to Continue »
  • Iraq officials: Violence drops as al Qaida gro ...
    The departure of al Qaida-affiliated fighters from Iraq to join the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria has had one benefit, Iraqi officials say: Violence has dropped in…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Obama, Karzai discuss Afghan reconciliation wi ...
    US President Barack Obama has spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over ways to reconcile with same elements of the Taliban, including his last week's meeting with Pakistani and Iranian leaders.
  • Afghan turncoats target NATO
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen in Afghan police uniforms opened fire on NATO troops on Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing an Albanian soldier, officials said.A second Albanian and another ...
  • NATO orders probe of Quran disposal in Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; The commander of international troops in Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into what NATO says was improper disposal of a large number of Islamic religious materials, ...
  • Talk of peace stirs up Qaida-Taliban tensions
    NATO combat troops would withdraw in 2014 opened the door to a possible return to power for the Taliban. But Washington has conditioned peace on the Taliban cutting all ties with ...
  • Afghan militants kill four on spying charges
    Taliban rebels beheaded four civilians for allegedly spying for the government in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, authorities said.

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Jeremy Lin Joins The Linsanity Trademark Scrum ...
    This one was probably inevitable after the reports broke of two random trademark applications for "Linsanity" -- the phrase popularly associated with unexpected sports phenom Jeremy Lin. It appears that Lin has filed for his own trademark on the term. Again, this isn't surprising, but I actual ...
  • Why You Should Regret LightSquared's Setbacks
    LightSquared is a new wireless carrier that has been trying to launch a wholesale 4G network across the USA. Funded by private equity firm Harbinger Capital, it sought to re-purpose satellite communication frequencies to build a nationwide cellular-satellite hybrid network, and then re-sell the ...
  • DailyDirt: Educational Materials
    The education industry is experiencing some disruptive events -- with public school budgets getting huge cuts and all sorts of new initiatives to try to identify why some schools are better than others (attempting to replicate the successes). There aren't any magic-bullet solutions, but there ar ...
  • Universal Music Album Recalled... For Infringi ...
    Probably the most aggressive major record label, when it comes to supporting ridiculously overaggressive attacks on infringement and things like taking down websites, would be Universal Music -- the company whose ex-CEO once gleefully declared to the world that he was too clueless to hire someon ...
  • How To Turn A Legitimate Buyer Into A Pirate I ...
    As we've mentioned before, it's interesting to watch copyright issues break into the mainstream and get attention from bigger and bigger sources. This time, Matthew Inman used his famous (and widely read) webcomic The Oatmeal to recount the moral quandary he was placed in when trying to watch Ga ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Statement by The Heartland Institute on Gleick ...
    (Received via email direct from Heartland president Bast in advance of their website posting, see Gleick’s statement/confession here – Anthony) FEBRUARY 20, 2012: Earlier this evening, Peter Gleick, a prominent figure in the global warming movement, confessed to stealing electronic & ...
  • BREAKING: Gleick Confesses
    UPDATE: 715PM PST Heartland advises me they will issue a statement soon. Stay tuned. UPDATE2: 725PM PST This post will likely go through many revisions as we learn more, I’ll timestamp each.- Anthony UPDATE3: 8:15PM I have received the Heartland … Continue reading →
  • New paper: A high-resolution surface mass bala ...
    Uh, oh. Another talking point bites the dust. Leif Svalgaard writes in to tell me of a significant new paper. While Gore, Hansen, Branson, and a gaggle of hangers on just finished a publicity stunt tour of Antarctica to tell … Continue reading →
  • Flanders fearful flooded fields
    From the University of British Columbia,  David Flanders is trying to scare Canadians over sea level rise. Only one problem, the math doesn’t work. Preparing for the flood: Visualizations help communities plan for sea-level rise Researchers at the University of … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Quote of the Week: “I have received, monsieur, your new book against the human race. I thank you for it…no one has ever employed so much intellect in the attempt to prove us beasts. A desire seizes us to walk … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Monsanto's Minions Attack CA's Right to Know A ...
    You can't argue with consumers' right to know what's in our food. That's why 9 out of 10 people support labels for genetically engineered food. But, money talks, and companies like Monsanto that have gotten rich hiding GMOs in our food are already on the attack in California, where a movement t ...
  • Study Says Insecticide Used with GM Corn Highl ...
    An insecticide used as a seed treatment on genetically modified corn and other crops has been found to be highly toxic to honey bees, according to a study published recently in the journal PLoS ONE.Click here to read this article
  • Genetically Engineered Maize: New Indication o ...
    Insecticidal Bt toxins such as those produced in genetically engineered plants can be detrimental to human cells. This is a result of recent research led by researchers at the University of Caen (France). Their experiments showed that toxins produced in, for example, the genetically engineered m ...
  • Stand with Farmers vs Monsanto
    On January 31, 2012, 55 farmers and plaintiffs traveled to Manhattan to hear oral arguments regarding Monsanto's motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) vs. Monsanto. At the heart of the lawsuit is the threat that family farmers face due to genetic tre ...
  • Research Is Not Showing that GMOs Are Harmless
    A few years ago I started experiencing a sharp metallic taste in my mouth. It was alarming. I explored the internet and found little news except that it was not an uncommon experience, a definite cause could rarely be found -but usually it would disappear in a few months. Such a horrible taste.C ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Faith and the Future
    As we all know the picture is not pretty. Numerous spiritual traditions have taught that we must tend and care for the Earth. And while those traditions and practices entirely make sense for the common good, we have for the most part ignored them.
  • Food Movement Tsunami: U.S. Mayors Ride the Wave
    The mayors may not have started the revolution, but they don’t want to be left behind by it, either.
  • Do Farmers Benefit from Biofuels?
    Biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol, offered the promise of large financial returns to both the farmer and to the rural community. How have the small-scale farmers fared against the land barons?
  • Liturgies of Sufficiency: Individual versus Co ...
    If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.
  • Biofuels: Innovations Needed
    Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • War Crimes Tribunal finds Bush and Blair are w ...
    five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Scientists: Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico Dyi ...
    "Unusual Mortality Event" contradicts BP's portrayal of health of Gulf. Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network says the blame belongs to the BP spill. Submitted by Judy C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
    Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...
  • USS Enterprise false flag target for US crimin ...
    US wars are not even close to lawful. The two-minute video explains the possible false flag attack target of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to start war on Iran. ( More credible since it's a 'two-fer one' deal poisoning like DU ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Angry Afghans Protest Quran Disposal at US Base
    ShareThisAngry Afghans Protest Quran Disposal at US Base 21 Feb 2012 Police say more than 2,000 angry Afghans are protesting the improper disposal of Qurans and other Islamic religious materials at an American air base north of Kabul. The demonstrators are shouting "Die, die, foreigners!" They s ...
  • Report: U.S. officials say Israel would need a ...
    ShareThisReport: U.S. officials say Israel would need at least 100 planes to strike Iran 20 Feb 2012 Israel will need to use at least 100 planes and fly more than 1,000 miles above unfriendly airspace should it decide to attack Iran, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing the assessment o ...
  • Ultrasound Abortion Bill Nears Vote in Virginia
    ShareThisUltrasound Abortion Bill Nears Vote in Virginia 21 Feb 2012 A bill requiring a woman to get an ultrasound before having an abortion is poised to pass Virginia's legislature this week, placing it on track to be signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell (R). The bill, which could pass the Rep ...
  • Eurozone seals second Greek bailout after tort ...
    ShareThisEurozone seals second Greek bailout after tortuous talks 21 Feb 2012 Euro zone finance ministers sealed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout for Greece on Tuesday to avert a chaotic default in March after persuading private bondholders to take greater losses and Athens to commit to ...
  • Iraq: Sunni vice president pledges to fight arrest
    ShareThisIraq: Sunni vice president pledges to fight arrest 20 Feb 2012 Iraq's Sunni vice president asked for popular support Monday to fight government charges that he commandeered death squads and said he would continue to defy arrest with the help of the nation's powerful Kurds in a showdown ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • PowerPoint Ranger
  • A Hypothetical Interview General Martin Dempse ...
    18 February 2012 General Martin Dempsey is the highest-ranking member of the US military.  He directly advises the President.  Lieutenant General John Campbell is Chief of Army Operations.  A bigwig.  Both men have publicly supported keeping Red Crosses on MEDEVAC helicopter ...
  • 66 is not 59
    17 February 2012 The Army campaign around the MEDEVAC continues to unravel.  They’ve tried just about everything short of assassination and witchcraft to freeze the growing stampede.  In the beginning, they claimed that my accounts of the failed MEDEVAC were completely wrong.  An ...
  • Department of Army Monitoring MEDEVAC Articles
    15 February 2012 The following message was issued behind closed doors by the Department of Army (DA).  It pertains to media coverage of the MEDEVAC debacle.  There is no foul in monitoring the articles, but the inside glimpse is interesting. TAMPA TRIBUNE COVERS MEDEVAC STORY WITH LO ...
  • Tippity Top General Lies to Congressman (in wr ...
    14 February 2012 Happy Valentine’s Day.  It isn’t Valentine’s for those who will get hit with bullets or bombs today.  And it will happen.  So let’s get down to business. The top officer in the US Military is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  The Chairman is the p ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN SG welcomes Somalia constitutional conferen ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Sunday applauded the Somali parties [statement] who have reached a "crucial political agreement" on Friday at the Garowe II Constitutional Conference [Garowe Online report]. According to Ban, the agreement provides the steps that So ...
  • Latvia voters reject referendum to add Russian ...
    [JURIST] Latvian voters on Saturday rejected Russian [press release] as a second official state language in Latvia [official website]. Preliminary results from the national referendum show that 74.8 percent of voters rejected adding the Russian language with only 24.88 percent in favor of having ...
  • Chief Guantanamo judge protects confidentialit ...
    [JURIST] A chief US military tribunal judge has ruled that the content of attorney-client mail inspected at the Guantanamo Bay prison is confidential and may not be released. Judge James Pohl made the decision earlier this month in the case of suspected USS Cole [JURIST news archive] bomber Abd ...
  • Israel Supreme Court to hear prisoner hunger s ...
    [JURIST] The Israeli Supreme Court [official website] announced Monday that it will hear the hunger strike case of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, despite a military judge rejecting his appeal in early February. Since his December arrest in the West Bank, Adnan has refused food [AP report]. T ...
  • Myanmar monk faces new criminal charges after ...
    [JURIST] Myanmar police on Sunday charged a rebel Buddhist monk for occupying a government-closed monastery, only a month after he was given amnesty and released from prison [JURIST report]. Shin Gambira, who was among 130 political prisoners freed last month following a presidential pardon, is ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Adelson Set to Pump Another $10-Million into G ...
    CNN is reporting that the Gingrich campaign expects another $10-million gift from Sheldon Adelson to his campaign, allowing him to be competitive in the Super Tuesday round of Republican primaries.  Adelson has already given him $11-million.  Along with $6-million he gave to Gingrich in the year ...
  • Understanding Iran
    In times of deep crisis like this, it’s more important than ever to understand the thinking and priorities of one’s adversary, in this case Iran.  I don’t use “adversary” at all personally, but in the sense of that country being at odds with one major power in the r ...
  • Pro-Israel Media Mafia Attempts to Force Twitt ...
    Three little Jewish Twitter monkeys (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil) are very unhappy that Jodi Rudoren, the NY Times’ incoming Israel bureau chief, is sharing tweets with Israel critics like Ali Abunimah and Phil Weiss.  The monkeys are Marc Tracy of the neocon Tablet Magazine, ...
  • New Israeli English Language Rightist News Site
    I’ll bet if I asked you what Israeli journalism needed more than anything, the first thing out of your mouth would be: we need yet another English language clone of the Jerusalem Post (Hebrew). I knew we’d see eye to eye on that one. Yes, Israel already has one English language Likud ...
  • Israel-Iran Confrontation Enters Dangerous New ...
    With today’s news that apparent Iranian bombmakers accidentally exploded their laboratory in a rented Thai home, and yesterday’s news of simultaneous attacks on Israeli targets in Georgia and India, Iran is bringing its confrontation with Israel into a dangerous new phase.  Until now ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Prehistoric Edge - Penn Researcher Helps D ...
    Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. A new study by University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn and colleagues presents a reconstruction of this fossilized forest, lending insight into t ...
  • Europe on Edge - Eurozone Ministers Approve Gr ...
    Eurozone finance ministers have approved a fresh $171-billion (130 billion euros) bailout for Greece, after more than 13 hours of tense negotiations in Brussels. The bailout will reduce Greece's government debt from around 160 percent of the country's gross domestic product to just over 120 perc ...
  • The 2012 Vote - White House, Republicans Tipto ...
    Corporate tax reform is creeping back into the picture, although experts predict the election will chase the issue off the agenda this year. Congressional Republicans and the White House are flirting with plans to overhaul the corporate tax system. But any perceived progress is expected to stall ...
  • The 2012 Vote - House GOP Hopes ‘Solyndra econ ...
    One year after it began, House Republicans are not letting up in their investigation of the $535 million loan guarantee to the failed solar firm Solyndra. Though the probe has not uncovered evidence of cronyism at the White House, the GOP sees an election-year advantage in pummeling President Ob ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Red Cross Negotiating H ...
    The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is trying to broker a humanitarian cease-fire in Syria, as government tanks and troops mass around the opposition stronghold of Homs after bombarding the city for more than two weeks. ICRC chief spokeswoman Carla Haddad said Monday the Geneva- ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Mildest Muslim Liberalism Becomes a Capita ...
    “A merchant in Baghdad…sent his servant to market….The servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace…I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me….Lend me your horse, and…I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent h ...
  • Why Are These Jewish Foundations Funding Antis ...
    What do Barbara Streisand, Pritzker Family, Jewish Communal Fund and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston have in common?  Along with other Jewish related charitable foundations they are all helping to fund the Antisemitism of Media Matters for America (MMFA). T ...
  • The Hamas Split and the Palestinian Political Mess
    By Barry Rubin There’s a serious split in Hamas reflecting the growing civil war among Islamists along Sunni-Shia lines. Each side is radical but the fact that they’re fighting among themselves weakens both of them. The issues involved are tactical, not strategic. Indeed, what is ir ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: President Obama Modeling ...
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... Ever wonder where Barack Obama got his crazy economic policies from? Many people think they came from progressive politicians and unions, but according to this scoop from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, Obama has modeled many of his eco ...
  • What is Russia Doing in the Middle East?
    By Barry Rubin The transition to democracy and capitalism has not been kind to Russia. It sank from superpower to sideshow internationally. The country is hurting and stagnant; it has no sense of purpose or goals; and Russia is in the hands of a ruthless dictator who knows how to use natio ...

The Real Agenda

  • O Legado da Medicina Moderna: Doenças Incuráveis
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 20 de fevereiro de 2012 A natureza sempre encontra uma maneira de evoluir e sobreviver. O que poderia estar pensando em um ser humano, quando cría um produto farmacêutico a fim de “erradicar” um vírus ou bactéria? Os seres humanos não sabem o sufic ...
  • La Herencia de la Medicina Moderna: Enfermedad ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 20 de febrero 2012 La naturaleza siempre encuentra una manera de evolucionar y sobrevivir. ¿Qué podría estar pensando un ser humano, cuando un producto farmacéutico se crea con el fin de “erradicar” a un virus o una bacteria? Los seres humanos no s ...
  • U.S. “slipping into a fascist system”
    by David A. Lieb Associated Press February 20, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned the U.S. is “slipping into a fascist system” dominated by government and businesses as he held a fiery rally Saturday night upstaging established Republican Party banquets a short di ...
  • The Heritage of Modern Medicine: Incurable Disease
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 20, 2012 Nature always finds a way to evolve and to survive. What could a human be thinking when a pharmaceutical is created in order to “eradicate” a virus or a bacteria? Humans don’t know nearly enough about microorganisms, how they ...
  • Iran Cuts Oil Supply to UK and France
    Reuters February 19, 2012  Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped &#8 ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Collectivism as Apartism
    Perhaps the secret of the classical liberalism that undergirds the free society is that it doesn’t ask us to agree on a endless laundry list of priorities in order to belong to the Great Society.
  • Talk about Raising the Minimum Wage Worries Sm ...
    “The [New York] State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently announced that they wanted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, or roughly $17,000 a year. It would be a 17 percent increase, and the first since the previous federal increase, th ...
  • Patent Wars Turning into Patent Reviews
    “Google and Yahoo are among companies that are expanding the use of a strategy to fight patent suits that shuns the courtroom in favor of government reviews. The battlefield opened last year when the two Internet giants, hit with a lawsuit demanding royalties by Paul G. Allen’s Interval Li ...
  • Population Growth Slows with Recession
    “The U.S. population is growing at the slowest rate since the Great Depression after two decades of robust increases…. Although the economy has improved, the downturn’s effect on birth and immigration lingers.” (USA Today) One downside of the downturn. FEE Timely Classic &#8220 ...
  • Oil Sanctions on Iran Could Backfire
    “President Barack Obama hopes the toughest sanctions ever imposed on Iran will squeeze its oil exports — all without scaring markets, crimping growth, impoverishing ordinary Iranians or antagonizing allies. The geopolitical equivalent of threading a needle is made even more difficult ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
  • Best social media tools for journalists
    What are today’s most popular social media tools? I proposed a short list on the Social Journalism Educators group on Facebook: Twitter Tumblr Pinterest Storify Instagram YouTube WordPress You’ll note (if you roll over and read the tooltip) that none of the links above go ...
  • Learning how to blog — the right way
    Even though the media world is smitten with Pinterest, the newest pretty thing, that old standard of social media — blogging — is far from dead and gone. Blogs are still used for all kinds of professional journalism, from breaking news updates to analysis and backgrounders. Blogs are ...
  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Sewage
    Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
  • The Musical Chairs Economy
    Ok, for some time, folks have been after me for a formal economics post.  What’s going to happen in the future in the US? The answer, for around the next 5 to 6 years, maybe longer, is the musical chairs economy.  Let’s lay out the basics. Oil and Gasoline consumption in the US has b ...
  • Next Steps for Greeks after the Austerity Bill ...
    Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...
  • Next Steps for Greeks after the Austerity Bill ...
    Ok, another austerity package just passed.  That’s the bad news, but amidst the bad news there is some good news.  More than 40 MPs were expelled from the PASOK and ND parties, two from LAOS—those MPs need to form a new, explicitly anti-austerity, pro-default government.  Odds are good the ...
  • Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
    Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Unintended Consequences of the Neo-Traditional ...
    Since the early 20th century, the almost universal adoption of the automobile by US residents has had a profound impact on how we plan and design communities. The widespread use of the auto not only spurred development outside of traditional urban centers, it minimized the need to blend mult ...
  • Orléans, Ontario: A Franco-Ontarian Suburb
    In a mere forty years Orléans has gone from an overwhelmingly French-speaking village to a suburb of Ottawa where scarcely one-third of the population has French as its mother tongue. Nonetheless, the French presence remains vibrant and local francophones are exceptionally dedicated to pre ...
  • Local Chambers of Commerce: Not Born for Ourse ...
    Most people are more interested in organized crime than in organized business. Chambers of commerce do not often attract headlines except for the occasional, inevitable dustup with a public authority.  For that reason, this April’s 100 year anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Chamber of C ...
  • President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Di ...
    President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant political force well on its way to surpassing Hollywood and even Wall Street as the business bulwark of the Obama Democratic P ...
  • Arlington and Shenzhen: A Tale of Two Cities
    Seven thousand miles separate Arlington, Virginia and Shenzhen, China. Two continents apart, these two cities could not be more different. Yet they are similar, geopolitically and globally. The characteristics of today’s globalization have united and connected cities like Arlington and Shenzhen ...

GM Watch

  • EU's Chief Scientist talking nonsense
    1. GM debate in Europe based on 'emotion, not evidence' 2.Sir David King's pro-GM lobbying EXTRACTS: The evidence base to support greater use of genetically modified crops and animals – developed over a period of 50 years in America – must be acknowledged... the new European Union chief scienti ...
  • EU's Chief Scientist talking nonsense
    1. GM debate in Europe based on 'emotion, not evidence' 2.Sir David King's pro-GM lobbying EXTRACTS: The evidence base to support greater use of genetically modified crops and animals – developed over a period of 50 years in America – must be acknowledged... the new European Union chief scienti ...
  • Ugly facts about Bt cotton yields
    Bt Cotton, Remarkable Success, and Four Ugly Facts Glenn Davis Stone Field Questions, February 12 2012 http://fieldquestions.com/2011/09/11/new-gm-grass-unregulated-and-unstudiable/ Of all the crops and countries in GMO controversies today, few are as important than Bt cotton in India. GMO deba ...
  • Ugly facts about Bt cotton yields
    Bt Cotton, Remarkable Success, and Four Ugly Facts Glenn Davis Stone Field Questions, February 12 2012 http://fieldquestions.com/2011/09/11/new-gm-grass-unregulated-and-unstudiable/ Of all the crops and countries in GMO controversies today, few are as important than Bt cotton in India. GMO deba ...
  • CSPI wars with other activists
    1.CSPI wars with other activists over petition to remove Michael Taylor from FDA 2."The Food Police?" CSPI Got Big Bucks to Flack for GM Foods --- --- 1.CSPI wars with other activists over petition to remove Michael Taylor from FDA Monica Eng Chicago Tribune, February 17 2012 http://www.chicagot ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In ...
    The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.  The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming.  Most of us recognize that the character ...
  • The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It ...
    Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month?  If it does, you are certainly not alone.  There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat.  In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...
  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans ...
  • A Warning Sign For The World
    Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...

Desertification

  • The splendour of nature (Judit Verween / Wille ...
    This is not a posting about desertification, although it might get your attention. Most of us don’t see the small wonders in nature around us. Take for instance the flowers of the White Deadnettle (Lamium album L.).  What a beauty … Continue reading →
  • Super Sand to clean water (Treehugger)
    Read at : http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/super-sand-cleans-dirty-drinking-water-with-graphite-waste.html “Super Sand” Cleans Dirty Drinking Water with Graphite Waste Jaymi Heimbuch Billions of people lack access to clean drinking water and researchers are constantly searc ...
  • Plastic bottles for reforestation (Gamrupa / L ...
    The use of plastic bottles for reforestation : http://containergardening.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/plastic-bottles-for-growing-and-planting-saplings-drawings-by-liesbeth-ormel-captions-by-willem-van-cotthem/ Plastic bottles for growing and planting saplings (Drawings by Liesbeth ORMEL / Captions ...
  • 9.820 million saplings of different species (G ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=141172 Tree plantation campaign starts Peshawar—The Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2012 kick off in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday (Today) in which 9.820 million saplings of different species would be planted ...
  • 9700 postings on this blog for 1.115.000 visit ...
    It is difficult to deny that I feel proud tonight, registering that posting No. 9700 appeared on this blog. This signifies that it became one of the most comprehensive “libraries”  on drought, desertification, poverty and sustainable development. Together with my … Continue rea ...

The Paper Trail

  • Pro-Santorum super PAC gets $1 million donation
    A Louisiana energy executive has made a $1 million contribution to a super PAC supporting the surging campaign of Rick Santorum, according to disclosure records released Monday.The donation came from William J. Dore of Louisiana, president of Dore Energy Corp.
  • Casino king provides 84 percent of funds for p ...
    Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his family have pumped $11 million into the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC “Winning Our Future,” about 84 percent of the $13.1 million the group has raised so far.And that doesn’t include the additional $10 million sources say the multibillionaire is expected to ki ...
  • Pro-Romney super PAC adds $6.6 million to coffers
    The super PAC that has played a pivotal role in keeping Mitt Romney's presidential campaign going raised an impressive $6.6 million in January, bumping its total haul to $36.8 million since its founding last year."Restore our Future" has raised six- and seven-figure donations from a relatively s ...
  • PayPal co-founder gives $1.7 million to pro-Ro ...
    Texas congressman Ron Paul may be running in fourth place in the most recent national polls for the Republican presidential nomination, but he's first in the heart of PayPal founder and hedge fund manager Peter Thiel.With a $1.7 million donation in January added to the $900,000 he's already give ...
  • ANALYSIS: Taking the initiative in a struggle ...
    The biggest applause line Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) got at a gathering of Democratic Party activists last week came when she endorsed a ballot initiative to give the California Insurance Commissioner power to reject excessive health insurance rate increases.Consumer advocates there deci ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Occupy Pisa: Via La Pergola evicted, the occup ...
    Pzza Dante3.jpg For background info and context on the Occupy Pisa past successes read this old article here. February 15th: only two days after the launch of the new campaign t ...
  • Ongoing solidarity with the NO TAV arrestees ( ...
    419896_10150634192739904_640784903_8923440_943185093_n.jpg Update on the NO TAV arrestees and how to support them. Includes updated address list to write to activists still in prison. ...
  • International Solidarity for EULEN-ABB Strikers
    arton.png February 17th was the International Day of Action for the EULEN-ABB strikers in Cordoba. The struggle continues as they fight for their reinstatement, the right to strike and money owed. ...
  • Greece shows us how to protest against a faile ...
    6471082257_883d5cef63_z.jpg Autonomist Marxist John Holloway writes in praise of the reaction of the working class in Greece against the imposition of austerity measures. I do n ...
  • Court out! Racist groups try to use court case ...
    A look at far right groups Like the British National Party and English Defence League trying to piggyback onto court cases to get publicity, whether those involved want them to or not. A parasite is an unwelcome entity and it attaches ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • Adding Support for Deck Rail
    Fixing Deck Rails on Porches, Decks, etc One of my latest repair projects: The 2nd Floor deck support rail was leaning away from the building creating a Safety Issue for anyone who leaned on the Support Rail. I used a Ratcheting Tie Down Strap to pull the deck support rail straight.  (In the fol ...
  • Spray Insulation~Deal of the Week
    If you have ever wanted to super insulate your home or business against the cold and heat and protect the bank account from the rising costs of our Electricity Rates – Ameren UE and New Gas Rate Hikes – Laclede Gas. The following offer I received from a couple of my Spray Insulation ...
  • Rock Wall Foundation Repair and Waterproofing
    Rock Foundation Repair Suggestions for Water Proofing a Stone Foundation Always Inspect for Mold Growth on the Foundation Wall Close Up View of Mold Growth After Treatment See Photo Below Find the Bad Spots Gently Remove any loose materials. Paying close attention to leave any Structural Rocks i ...
  • Missouri’s Climate: News, Building Codes ...
    Midwest has experienced rising average temperatures with the largest warming seen in the winter months. The growing season has been extended by one week because of earlier last spring frosts and precipitation has become more frequent including increased instances of heavy downpours. Since the 19 ...
  • New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy
    Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy has just finished the New Web Site http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com, in partnership with the New Google Small Business Promotion. If you’re looking for high quality and personal service, you’ve come to the right place. At Scotts Contracting w ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran’s rope a dope
    The process suits Iran fine. It gives “hostile powers” something to chew on while Iran does what it wants. It also enables US and European leaders to tell their respective publics that they are “doing something” about the threat that Iran poses. And it helps Russia and China to claim that, becau ...
  • Eight Baha'is arrested in Mashad
    Islamic Republic security forces have arrested eight Baha’i youth at a craft show held at the home of a Baha’i citizen in Mashad. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that on Friday, security forces raided the home of a Baha’i citizen where a craft show was being held. The re ...
  • اخباروگزارشات کارگری۲۹بهمن ماه۱۳۹۰
    - اگر دستمزد 330 هزار تومانی سه برابر هم شود دردی از ما کارگران دوا نخواهد شد - دست یک کارگر زیر دستگاه پرس له شدread more
  • VIDEO:Zakaria: Israel, don't strike Iran
    We are hearing a new concept these days in discussions about Iran — the zone of immunity. read more
  • Mossad better check its sources before backing ...
    The Iranian spy is just a fable, an imaginary parallel to the Egyptian Ashraf Marwan, Gamal Abdel Nasser's son-in-law and the man who gave Israel Anwar Sadat's secrets. (Marwan died in mysterious circumstances in June 2007, falling from the fifth floor of his London apartment. )

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Politics of Hemp
    How to distinguish industrial hemp (the first plant) (This is the first of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) For nearly four decades, industrial hemp advocates have extolled the virtues of hemp ...
  • Israel as Collateral Damage (in a War With Iran)
    US troops land in Israel for Austere Challenge 12 What do Austere Challenge 12, Theater Iran Near Term, Global Strike 2003, Vigilant Shield 07, and Concept Plan 8022 all have in common? They are all names of Pentagon war games simulating an attack on Iran. Most military war games are conducted i ...
  • Why the US Wants Regime Change in Syria
    (This is the second of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking aren’t unarmed protestors. Th ...
  • The Covert US War Against Syria
    The body of Brig Gen Dr Issa al-Kholi (This is the first of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking ar ...
  • The Club of Rome and the Sustainability Movement
    Club of Rome member David Korten (This is the final of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • The end of the for-profit prison era?
    Early this year, the United Methodist Church Board of Pension and Health Benefits voted to withdraw nearly $1 million in stocks from two private prison companies, the GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).The decision by the largest faith-based pension fund in the United States ...
  • Hypnotized into an endless dirty war
    If in the year 2000 the U.S. president had told the American people that the government would soon begin using robot planes to track people, including U.S. citizens, all over the world, and would reserve to itself the right to kill them without trial, it is safe to say there would have been an e ...
  • America’s last hope: A strong labor movement
    The fate of the labor movement is the fate of American democracy. Without a strong countervailing force like organized labor, corporations and wealthy elites advancing their own interests are able to exert undue influence over the political system, as we’ve seen in every major policy debate of r ...
  • He was our eyes
    I was stunned and saddened to learn of the death of Anthony Shadid, the great New York Times reporter who covered the Middle East. Shadid was quite simply the best mainstream reporter working the most important foreign beat in the world. From his superb coverage of Iraq to his groundbreaking rep ...
  • Anthony Shadid yearned for home
    Anthony's Shadid's now unbearably poignant book, "House of Stone," opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of  the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington Post in the summer of 2006, he arrived in the devastated Lebanese town of Qana ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Innovations in Electricity Business Models Mus ...
    Distributed generation (DG), distributed energy resources (DER), and microgrids are business model innovations that disrupt the existing supply chain of remote, centralized generation sources and long distance transmission of electricity.  Distributed generation includes renewable energy so ...
  • The Cost of $100 Crude
    In an interview with Austrian newspaper Kurier at the end of the month, OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem al-Badri went so far as to declare that “$100 a barrel doesn’t hurt the world economy at all.” As oil consuming nations struggle to climb out of global recession, does $100 per barrel con ...
  • A Renaissance for NiMH?
    The truth about NiMH battery technology may have less to do with conspiracies and technological obsolescence than with money. It takes a lot of money to play the R&D game in advanced automotive batteries. And it takes even more to build, manage and prosecute a portfolio of battery patents. ...
  • 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.

EU Times

  • Iran cuts off oil supplies to Britain, France
    The move was confirmed by the country’s Oil Ministry, with the spokesman saying that Iran will be “selling its oil to new customers”. The decision is not expected to have a big impact, as France only bought three percent of its oil − 58,000 barrels a day − from the Islamic republic last year, an ...
  • Iran, Russia naval presence in Syrian waters m ...
    A senior Iranian lawmaker says the presence of Iranian and Russian naval forces in Syria’s coastal waters is a clear warning to the US to refrain from any possible military adventurism. “The United States should take Iran’s warning about [refraining from any possible] military intervention ...
  • Strauss-Khan to be questioned on French &#8216 ...
    Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Khan is to be question as a suspect for his participation in an alleged illegal prostitution ring in northern France. Police will question Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday for allegedly participating in a ring that organized sex parties at ...
  • How the government reads your emails without a ...
    Worried that the US government might be able to read your emails? Don’t be — they already can! The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the feds to come clean on why — and what — they do with the personal correspondence of its citizens. The ACLU has filed request under the US Freedom of [...]
  • 30 Kenyan civilians killed on Somali border
    The Al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab militant group is suspected of having killed at least 30 Kenyan civilians since Kenya’s government sent troops into southern Somalia to fight against the militants, Press TV reports. Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said on Saturday that the killings are believ ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Tech at Night: Napolitano lies. Free Press lie ...
    Happy Monday. Wait, Monday, good? Well, it was for me. I hadn’t been properly rested in two weeks thanks to CPAC, weekend travel, and catch up work after. You want to know how desperate the Obama/Reid Democrats are to pass that cybersecurity bill? Janet Napolitano is lying about the ACLU to try ...
  • Proview willing to talk to Apple to settle the ...
    There’s a ray of hope for Apple which is caught up in the iPad trademark dispute with Proview technology in China. According to the latest reports , Proview has indicated that it’s willing to talk to Apple and settle the dispute
  • In defense of Rick Santorum: no matter what Ob ...
    This election will be about the future of America. Do Americans want a nation flooded with food-stamps and welfare payments, a European-style decline, and an out-of-control president who flouts the very Constitution upon which he took an oath to uphold? Or do they want a return to founding prin ...
  • Rajon Rondo suspended two games for hitting re ...
    Rajon Rondo Apparently pretty good at dodgeball Rajon Rondo of the Boston Celtics has been suspended two games without pay for throwing a ball at an official and striking him in the chest,it was announced today by Stu Jackson,NBA Executive Vice President Basketball Operations. The incident occu ...
  • Rihanna, Chris Brown: Birthday Cake (Remix)
    Rihanna and Chris Brown reunite in song  You’d think that after everything they’ve been through Rihanna would stay far, far away from Chris Brown. He’s got a girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, but that hasn’t stopped the rumors of Rihanna and Chris hooking up . They’ve tweeted silly notes back and ...

Groklaw

  • Microsoft: Google bypassed privacy settings in ...
    Update: Lorrie Faith Cranor, Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, emailed me to tell me that she and her students alerted Microsoft to this potential P3P-centric privacy breach in 2010. Here's a paper she and som ...
  • About Gatekeeper
    In Mountain Lion, you, the user, have three options: 1. You can let anything run on your system, whether or not it is signed. This is the Mac OS of today. It's like having a jailbroken iPhone. 2. You can allow only Mac App Store apps to run on your system. This is the most secure option, but y ...
  • Keeping these data-hungry technology companies ...
    I have some sympathy for the app developers. They're working in an ecosystem where they have an incentive to collect as much data as possible from users, because they'd prefer to make money from advertising than by trying to charge end users for what they provide. But they don't usually give us ...
  • Open Season on Open Standards
    The increasingly heated debates about the traditionally dull area of computer standards is testimony to the rise of open source. For the latter absolutely requires standards to be truly open - that is, freely implementable, without any restrictions - whereas in the past standards were pretty muc ...
  • The iPad trademark follies: Apple legal strike ...
    The letter, signed by the Beijing-based firm King & Wood, concludes with a threat: "On behalf of Apple, we formally reserve all rights to take further legal action against any individuals and entities for any damages that may result from defamatory statements and unlawful actions intend ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is Romney 2012 like Hillary 2008?
    Her candidacy was inevitable until it wasn’t. The same may be happening with Romney too.
  • Stock trading bots trade on stories written by ...
    What could possibly go wrong with stock trading software reacting to news stories written by software?This adds a layer of variability in market dynamics which make some completely unpredictable feedback loop imminent: because if a robot is reacting to a headline written by itself (and it is onl ...
  • Solyndra and gun-walking links
    The Republicans will certainly attempt to make Solyndra and gun-walking major campaign issues. The gun-walking was a deranged idea and in my opinion those responsible should go to prison. At least 300 are dead in Mexico and the weapons used to kill them were allowed to be smuggle into the Mexico ...
  • Concentrated solar power that runs on air
    Reflected heat from the sun powers an air turbine in the tower. Sweet. This is a genuine innovation in concentrated solar power. The power is completely clean. Other types of CSP use water or natural gas to power the turbines. But this technique uses no natural resources at all.The business plan ...
  • New NASA map measures trees in the forest
    Global map of forest height produced from NASA's ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors. The map will advance our understanding of Earth's forest habitats and their role in Earth's carbon cycle. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)A new high-resolution map created by scientists at NASA&#821 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Aspirational beneficiaries get shut down and s ...
    Last week, the Associate Minister for Social Development, Chester Borrows, told the House and by virtue of that the whole country that beneficiary Tania Wysocki of Pukekohe was getting “the equivalent of a salary of $43,000 a year plus her entitlement to 20 hours’ early childhood education” and ...
  • General debate, February 20, 2012
  • MMP review – Make it More Proportional
    This week the MMP Review was launched by the Electoral Commission, meaning our voting system is now open for public discussion and input. Through a submission process we all get the chance to have a say on how our voting system works and what we’d like to see changed. You can make a submission o ...
  • Public services will suffer from another slash ...
    There were no big surprises in yesterday’s Budget Policy Statement. Throughout its first term, National campaigned on an agenda of tax cuts, public sector cuts, and welfare reforms. This budget year, and for the next three years, things will be no different. In fact for the public sector, just a ...
  • Living within the donut of social and environm ...
    George Monbiot poses an interesting question in the wake of an Oxfam report: Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice? It’s a big question especially in New Zealand where dairy intensification, increasing fishing and drilling and mining for resources are presented as necess ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Dr. Oz Show: My Latest Jaw Dropping Interview
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Oz invited me back to New York to tape another segment for his show. The show, which will mark my fourth appearance as a guest, will be airing today, Tuesday February 21. Check the schedule for your area in this link. We talked about a number of interesting topics, bu ...
  • The Cruel Science Experiment They Want to Forc ...
    By Dr. Mercola A paper published by the American Medical Association's Virtual Mentor is concerned that current enrollment in vaccine trials is extremely low.1 The proposed solution? Creating a federal law that would force each individual to make a "mandated choice" to participate in vacc ...
  • This Popular Beverage Can Increase Your Stroke ...
    By Dr. Mercola Diet soda is often perceived as being "healthier" than regular soft drinks because it contains artificial sweeteners in lieu of sugar, and therefore has no calories. Many conventional nutritionists will even go so far as to recommend diet soda as a sensible beverage choice. S ...
  • The Sweet Golden Treat That Can Help Wipe Out ...
    By Dr. Mercola Honey was a conventional therapy in fighting infection up until the early 20th century, at which time its use slowly vanished with the advent of penicillin. Now the use of honey in wound care is regaining popularity again, as researchers are determining exactly how honey can h ...
  • This Revolting Practice Targets Poor Unsuspect ...
    By Dr. Mercola One of the most frustrating characteristics of multi-national drug corporations is their commitment to the corporate mantra of maximizing profits for their shareholders at any cost, including that of human lives. The testing of dangerous drugs and vaccines on children is an ar ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

  • Toward a better refugee-determination system
    Canada has a long-standing and well-deserved reputation as a place of refuge for people fleeing persecution in their homelands.
  • The future of the monarchy: which option do yo ...
    Our montrealgazette.com poll attracted 2,236 votes. Results are posted below. We invited readers to post comments as well, and offered prizes for the best ones. The top prize, a signed cartoon by The Gazette's Aislin showing Queen Elizabeth II with U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, went to Craig M ...
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    In the last federal election campaign, the Conservatives said that if they were elected, they would scrap the long-gun registry. They were, and they have.
  • The CAQ has yet to earn official-party standing
    The speaker applied the standing rule that in order to get official recognition and the perks that come with it, a party must have at least 12 MNAs in its ranks, or have captured at least 20 per cent of the popular vote in the previous provincial election.
  • Another Opus abyss? Quite the opposite
    Last month, Andy Riga, The Gazette's transportation reporter, wrote on this page about his surreal odyssey through two transit agencies to get a damaged Opus card replaced ("Into the Opus abyss," Jan. 23). This week, Riga lost his Opus card. And not only that; he realized that he had registered ...

Food World Order

  • FDA to Review Safety of Aeroshot's Inhalable C ...
    from ap: U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New Y ...
  • All Hail the Mardi Gras King Cake!
    from latimes: At first sight, it comes across as, well, a little unusual. A large wreath-shaped cake bedazzled in vibrant shades of purple, green and gold — there's nothing subtle about it. It might be flavored simply with a touch of cinnamon sugar, or maybe it's decked out with any of a number ...
  • State Agent Inspects Bag Lunches, Makes Kids E ...
    School, not parents, will decide what children eat* from brasschecktv.com: A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.
  • Episode009 - Updates and Sproutbreaks
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week we cover Fukushima updates, buyouts, sproutbreaks and more... Episode009: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous ...
  • 2/16 Binge and Purge: Arsenic and Old Taste
    Video: Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations of Arsenic* PDF: 'Arsenic, Organic Foods, and Brown Rice Syrup'* Europe and US reach organic trade deal* PDF: 'EU and US agree to Historic New Partnership on Organic Trade'* Organic Farmer Prince Charles on Changing Our Faulty Food Sys ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In ...
    The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.  The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming.  Most of us recognize that the character ...
  • The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It ...
    Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month?  If it does, you are certainly not alone.  There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat.  In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...
  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans ...
  • A Warning Sign For The World
    Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • BREAKING: Spanish cops in Valencia in new chem ...
    Not yet fully corroborated through photo or video, but claims are circulating widely on social media that riot police in Valencia, Spain have just deployed chemical weapons against student protesters. We're updating as we get more detail, but we've been told on social media that many students ...
  • In the name of all humanity, stop gassing the ...
    Another Sunday passes then in which tens upon tens of thousands of people peacefully assembled and demonstrated in Syntagma Square, Athens. Not broadcast on British TV news screens, of course, Hellenic people were joined in solidarity again by thousands of viewers on the internet who witnesse ...
  • Greece: Watch Syntagma Sunday Live, here
    Another huge turnout expected in Syntagma Square today as Greece - or the Hellenic people anyway - continue to struggle for their dignity and democracy against the foes of the EU/ECB/IMF... and their own government. Courtesy of StopCartelTV - incredible heroes - here is LIVE bilingual coverag ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 19th February 2012
    With so much attention and focus on Greece this week, we've kinda left the insignificant twerps who call themselves MPs at Westminster off the hook somewhat. So, what better vehicle than our Sunday paper review to cast a beady eye over what they're up to? Let us begin, however, by exclaiming: ...
  • F*** the BBC & Sky - let's go LIVE to Syntagma ...
    The brave, heroic and charming team of StopCartelTV are now broadcasting live from Athens. Just unmute to experience real Greek life, direct from Syntagma Square. This post will remain up while transmission is live.

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • KeepScreen: Free Android App You Can't Afford ...
    KeepScreen for Android is an incredibly useful application. KeepScreen gives you the ability to block screen timeout when predefined applications are active. It may sound simple to you, but from the perspective of a pretty heavy Android user, I would say this makes the app a serious must- ...
  • VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" Released, Install in Ubunt ...
    VLC 2.0 has just released with PPA support for Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04. VLC 2.0, codenamed "Twoflower", comes with a rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU. VLC 2.0 can be downloaded and installed from official Videolan stable daily PPA. Here is ho ...
  • Cross Browser Script to Download YouTube Video ...
    Back in the day, downloading YouTube videos (and anything that run on Flash) was simple as anything (at least in Ubuntu). It is not so anymore. But there is this really useful script to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu running Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera without much trouble and in a deep ...
  • Cerberus: Brilliant Anti-Theft Android App tha ...
    Cerberus may not be a name many have heard of. It is one of those apps that never comes up in searches. But I think, Cerberus seriously is *the* best anti-theft android app available in the Android Market. Features supported by this little app is simply mindblowing. Seriously folks, Cerberus i ...
  • Google Chrome to Phone Android App is Insanely ...
    If SwipePad proved really useful to you all, here is another unique app for Android that can further simplify and add value to your day-to-day smartphone use. Google Chrome to Phone is an official Google Inc. made app for Android which lets you send links, maps or phone numbers from your Googl ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Under the Big Tent in the Circus of Appetite a ...
    By Les Visible I’ve mentioned ‘endurance’ before. Sometimes, you just have to go through things. There’s no alternative to slogging through the peat bogs of residual karma and the environmental constipation of strangled force, surrounding one, as you try to find a dry hum ...
  • Media Ignores Santorum’s Support For Accused C ...
    Paul Joseph Watson   Monday, January 9, 2012 While the establishment media has ceaselessly smeared Ron Paul for the controversial content of decades-old newsletters that were not even written by him, the comparatively shocking scandal of Rick Santorum having sponsored alleged child molester ...
  • Rick Santorum: North Dakota is in the cross-ha ...
    By Juan Cole GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned North Dakota on Wednesday that it was in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack. Among the news about Iran that had Americans thinking about that country was an announcement that Iran is making its own nuclear fuel and using it for a react ...
  • Panetta: Iran is Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
    by John Glaser, February 16, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that Iran is enriching uranium in a peaceful nuclear program but that Tehran has not decided to develop an atomic bomb. Top U.S. military and intelligence officials gave separate testimonies in congressional hearings ...
  • Rick Santorum: The Pro-Life-Pro-Death Candidate
    By Keith Johnson But is Santorum really pro-life? Well, that depends. If you’re still in the womb of an American citizen, then yes. Aside from that—well, I think comedian George Carlin put it best: ”If you’re pre-born you’re fine. If you’re preschool you’re fucked. Conservatives don’t give a shi ...

Veterans Today

  • 9/11: Planes/No Planes and “Video Fakery ...
    by Jim Fetzer   Perhaps no question within the scope of 9/11 research generates as much heat and as little light as questions that have arisen over the role of the aircraft on 9/11, which has come to be known by the name of “planes/no planes” and of “video fakery”. W ...
  • DEAD MARINE FALSELY ACCUSED OF FELONIES (PART I)
    Marine Corps attempts to cover up murder by calling a decorated Marine Colonel ‘a crook and felon.’   (IRVINE, CA) – The Marine Corps want to great lengths to keep the media out of the  investigation into the death of Colonel James E. Sabow. The last thing the Corps wanted was an investiga ...
  • Pat Buchanan avoids 9/11 truth, gets fired anyway
    Actually, there IS one good thing about Pat Buchanan getting fired from MSNBC: Anybody who's managed to engineer an ebola virus that only kills MSNBC executives and pundits will no longer have to feel guilty about using it.
  • Escalating Syrian Tensions
    For nearly a year, externally generated violence wracked Syria. Dirty Western hands planned and implemented it. Rogue regional despots were enlisted for support.
  • Child Protection Services Deserve Millstone Di ...
    All I did was have a video of Brian Gerrish speaking placed at the end of a recent, somewhat silly column and you alert readers filled the response section with eye-opening, important information.

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO: February 20, 2012
    ==== Russia Vows Response To U.S.-NATO Global Missile Shield Growth Of Conflicts Near Russian Border Demand Army Development Obama Names High-Grade Enforced New Ambassador To Georgia Afghanistan-Iran-Pakistan Summit: No Foreign Intervention In Region Libyan Regime Deploys Army Amid Clashes In So ...
  • NATO’s Double Game In Libya Under UN Cov ...
    Pakistan Observer February 20, 2012 NATO double game in Libya under UN cover revealed Suitcase size drones played decisive role Akhtar Jamal Islamabad: A Canadian newspaper has revealed an account of NATO’s double-game in Libya and disclosed how the NATO countries collaborated with each other to ...
  • Balochistan: U.S. Prepares Yugoslav Model For ...
    The Frontier Post February 19, 2012 Foreign meddling in Baloch affairs Minahil Adeel ==== It would not be an overestimation if it were to be said that the so-called “Baloch sympathizer” Mr. Rohrabacher has actually drawn the attention of the US’ master planner, the CIA, to gear up the project of ...
  • Syria Crisis, Arab Spring Revive Cold War Alig ...
    Gulf News February 17, 2012 Arab Spring revives Cold War alignment Anti-US powers lean towards an alliance to prevent Washington from taking advantage of the Syrian crisis By Marwan Kabalan ==== The Russian-Chinese co-ordination on many world issues, including in the UN Security Council, makes i ...
  • Sharp Practices In UN Over Syria Aimed At Russia
    Strategic Culture Foundation February 18, 2012 UN Cardsharps or Bloodthirsty Resolution Alexander Mezyaev Edited by RR ==== Probably the next step against Syria would be an attempt to refer the “case” to the International Criminal Court. It would be another challenge for Russia, for ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • The Arab Awakening – Tweets from Tahrir
    [New mobile communication technologies such as twitter have been extremely useful for youth, students, and many petty-bourgeois activists in the "Arab Spring" and its many spin-offs in North Africa and in the MiddleEast.  These communication tools have also been recounted as essential instrument ...
  • French steel workers occupy ArcelorMittal plant
    February 21, 2012 FLORANGE, France (Reuters) – Workers at an idled Arcelor  Mittal steel plant in northeast France occupied the site Monday, seeking to put their plight on the political map ahead of a presidential election where industrial decline is a central theme.Some 200 workers invaded mana ...
  • February 23: International protests at the ar ...
    23 Feb: Vigil at US Embassy, London as Bradley Manning is Arraigned in US WISE Up for Bradley Manning | 20.02.2012 Thursday 23 February, 5pm – 6pm:  Stand in solidarity with Bradley Manning in London as he is arraigned for Court Martial in the US. The Vigil will take place at the hour ...
  • Arab Spring and Imperialism
    [The "Arab (and North Africa) Spring" enters its second year, where in country after country the complex interplay of domestic people's movements, regional alliances, and imperialists (of both the crisis-driven old variety, and newbies making new global assertions)--are hellbent on asserting ver ...
  • Occupy movement stages day of protests at US p ...
    Joined by the three hikers detained in Iran, activists point to overcrowding and inhumane conditions in US prison system by Ryan Devereaux,guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 February 2012 Occupy demonstrators participated in a nationwide day of action to protest against the US prison system on Monday, wi ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • FYI: Will People Ever Evolve Out of Craving Un ...
    Maybe, but it’s going to take a long time. For the past 200,000 years or so, fatty and sugary foods were hard for humans to come by and well worth gorging on. Fats help maintain body temperature, sugars provide energy, and craving such food is hardwired: Eating fats and sugars activates reward c ...
  • Images of the Week, February 13-17, 2012
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, F ...
    Happy Valentine's Week! Have a space rose. Or a cube that tells you the weather outside by touch, that's a good gift, right? Or the tiniest most adorable chameleon ever found, or...you know what, just click through and check out the most amazing images of the week. They are, as the headline sugg ...
  • Depression Can Be Diagnosed With a Blood Test
    The jury is still out, in many respects, on exactly what depression is and how it should be treated, but clinically speaking it is usually diagnosed in a psychological rather than a physiological manner--that is, via a questionnaire that is given to patients rather than by some method of empiric ...
  • Tonight, We'll Be at Star Talk Live With Neil ...
    Neil de Grasse Tyson's ever-entertaining podcast, Star Talk, is recording another live episode tonight, here in New York. He'll be joined by comedian Eugene Mirman and other guests--past guests have included comedians Kristen Schaal and John Hodgman, actor Alan Alda, and astronaut Mike Massimino ...

Veterans Today

  • 9/11: Planes/No Planes and “Video Fakery ...
    by Jim Fetzer   Perhaps no question within the scope of 9/11 research generates as much heat and as little light as questions that have arisen over the role of the aircraft on 9/11, which has come to be known by the name of “planes/no planes” and of “video fakery”. W ...
  • DEAD MARINE FALSELY ACCUSED OF FELONIES (PART I)
    Marine Corps attempts to cover up murder by calling a decorated Marine Colonel ‘a crook and felon.’   (IRVINE, CA) – The Marine Corps want to great lengths to keep the media out of the  investigation into the death of Colonel James E. Sabow. The last thing the Corps wanted was an investiga ...
  • Pat Buchanan avoids 9/11 truth, gets fired anyway
    Actually, there IS one good thing about Pat Buchanan getting fired from MSNBC: Anybody who's managed to engineer an ebola virus that only kills MSNBC executives and pundits will no longer have to feel guilty about using it.
  • Escalating Syrian Tensions
    For nearly a year, externally generated violence wracked Syria. Dirty Western hands planned and implemented it. Rogue regional despots were enlisted for support.
  • Child Protection Services Deserve Millstone Di ...
    All I did was have a video of Brian Gerrish speaking placed at the end of a recent, somewhat silly column and you alert readers filled the response section with eye-opening, important information.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Risk of drought restrictions spread
    Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...
  • Met Office global forecasts too warm in 11 out ...
    Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...
  • First widespread snow of winter on its way
    It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...
  • East versus West: Let the battle commence!
    For the first time this winter, after a relentless spell of westerly winds, many areas are expected to see a general change to colder conditions as we head through the weekend and into next week. As the colder air becomes established it will be competing with milder air from the Atlantic. Wher ...
  • Will we see the Northern Lights again tonight?
    The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Pro Death: US Congress Ponders Aborting Ex-Im Bank
    A running thread throughout this blog's history has been that Americans are not the most cosmopolitan of people. Witness, inter alia, the racist-protectionist treatment of Dubai Ports World, the inability of 90% of their youth to find Afghanistan on a map of Asia despite their government squande ...
  • Ranking World's Largest Container Port Operators
    Among my most searched-for posts over the years this blog has been in operation have been those concerning the world's busiest ports [1, 2]. Truly, one of the underappreciated facets of globalization has been the expansion of facilities to standardize shipping merchandise throughout the world. B ...
  • Egypt's Beer- & Bikini-Approving Muslim Brothe ...
    I suppose that attracting tourists is generic task for governments the world over nowadays. There is also a certain amount of homogenization involved in tourism with providing amenities that punters now expect unless you're offering ecotourism or frontier tourism options where roughing it out is ...
  • 3 Cheers for Austerity: Iceland is Investment ...
    Well here's a just reward for a nation sanely adjusting to the age of austerity. While no longer AAA USA is busy gorging on yet more costly giveaways costing hundreds of billions of dollars--it's an election year, duh--another of the countries hardest hit by the 2007/08 global financial crisis i ...
  • The Race is On to Succeed Zoellick at World Bank
    I have to run but it's going to be very interesting going with the current World Bank President Robert Zoellick indicating that he is about to resign his post. The search is on for a successor with the US naturally in the vanguard. However, given the controversy of yet another European succeedin ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In ...
    The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.  The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming.  Most of us recognize that the character ...
  • The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It ...
    Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month?  If it does, you are certainly not alone.  There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat.  In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...
  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...
  • Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Thing ...
    You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans ...
  • A Warning Sign For The World
    Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt b ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Iran cuts off oil supplies to Britain, France
    The move was confirmed by the country’s Oil Ministry, with the spokesman saying that Iran will be “selling its oil to new customers”. The decision is not expected to have a big impact, as France only bought three percent of its oil − 58,000 barrels a day − from the Islamic republic last year, an ...
  • Iran, Russia naval presence in Syrian waters m ...
    A senior Iranian lawmaker says the presence of Iranian and Russian naval forces in Syria’s coastal waters is a clear warning to the US to refrain from any possible military adventurism. “The United States should take Iran’s warning about [refraining from any possible] military intervention ...
  • Strauss-Khan to be questioned on French &#8216 ...
    Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Khan is to be question as a suspect for his participation in an alleged illegal prostitution ring in northern France. Police will question Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday for allegedly participating in a ring that organized sex parties at ...
  • How the government reads your emails without a ...
    Worried that the US government might be able to read your emails? Don’t be — they already can! The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the feds to come clean on why — and what — they do with the personal correspondence of its citizens. The ACLU has filed request under the US Freedom of [...]
  • 30 Kenyan civilians killed on Somali border
    The Al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab militant group is suspected of having killed at least 30 Kenyan civilians since Kenya’s government sent troops into southern Somalia to fight against the militants, Press TV reports. Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said on Saturday that the killings are believ ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
    Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...
  • Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality &#821 ...
    Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...
  • Towards Deception and Denial: Vatican PR Parad ...
    Vatican PR is in overdrive again, trying to ensure there is no possibility of any unauthorised commentary of the so-called “Global Summit on Sexual Abuse” this week, other than their own carefully manipulated spin. Surprisingly, Vatican PR has finally realised how little credibility ...
  • You Ensured We Never Had A Chance
    This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...
  • More Damning Evidence Vatican Couldn’t G ...
    The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...

WL Central

  • 2012-02-18 #WikiLeaks News Update: #OccupyUNES ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 442 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 439 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 636 days. News: UNESCO held a 2-day conference entitled, “The Media World after WikiLeaks a ...
  • Venezuela and Election 2012
    TweetBy Nikolas Kozloff As the presidential election nears, Republicans are relying on their usual fear-mongering tactics by playing on supposed external threats such as Iran. Already it seems such a strategy seems to have moved Obama to the right with the president going out of his ...
  • Don't Shoot the Messenger: Wikileaks Assange & ...
    TweetThe Wikileaks Assange and Democracy Public Forum held at the University of Technology, Sydney on Friday February 17 attracted over 400 people who packed the aisles and spilled out into the corridors. Chaired by Australian journalist and broadcaster Mary Kostakidis, speakers at the forum in ...
  • Revolutionary Journalism in a Time of Universa ...
    Tweet Image Credit: Original Image - Time Cover Image "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" Dec. 13, 2010 Modified by idlewild606 WikiLeak's rise to prominence as the world's first stateless media organization has carried it into the center of a massive storm of controversy. On one hand Wi ...
  • Will the US and PH extend and expand military ...
    TweetThe RP-US Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA), a 10-year old military pact that requires the Philippines to service the logistics needs of the US military when they are in the country, is set to expire by November 2012. The MLSA, along with the VFA and MDT, is a vital cog in the perm ...

U N News

  • UNESCO chief deplores slayings of another two ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murders of two Brazilian journalists earlier this month and called for thorough investigations of the killings.
  • UN expert calls on Uruguay to provide access t ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on Uruguayan authorities to implement measures to provide access to health and sanitation to its poorest and most marginalized communities.
  • UN voices concern over alarming pattern of vio ...
    The United Nations today voiced concern over the recent wave of violence in Latin American prisons, citing overcrowding, a lack of access to basic services, judicial delays, and excessive pre-trial detention as some of the causes which have worsened conditions in detention facilities.
  • At end of Haitian visit, Security Council focu ...
    Police reform and the living conditions of Haitians who remain displaced after the January 2010 earthquake were the focus of the final day of the Security Council's four-day visit to the impoverished Caribbean country.
  • After prison blaze kills hundreds in Honduras, ...
    A United Nations human rights official today called on Latin American countries to tackle the problem of prison overcrowding in the wake of an overnight fire at a jail in Honduras that killed hundreds of inmates.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Terminally Ill Patients With Six Months or Mor ...
      Terminally ill people face being forced to work to keep their benefits under draconian new Government plans, it was revealed yesterday... Cancer patients who have more than six months to live could have to do work experience or see their payments slashed under the scheme by Work and ...
  • Michelle Obama Takes Aspen Ski Vacation a Mont ...
      In January 2009, before the president signed his failed $787 billion stimulus bill into law, Barack Obama lectured America saying... "Everyone must sacrifice for the greater good... Everyone must have some skin in the game." Everyone except Barack and Michelle Obama. ~ Jim Hoft - Video ...
  • Senators Up To Their Fear Mongering Tricks Try ...
      We're still waiting for any actual evidence that this new cybersecurity bill is really necessary. An actual description of the real problem being dealt with would be a good start. Instead, we just get pure fear mongering. read more
  • United States Constitution Online. A Line by L ...
      "If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll have to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot." read more
  • Has Ron Paul Made His Choice for Vice Presiden ...
      Stay tuned...  There's a surprise announcement at the end! ~ Video read more

Tarpley

  • Iran Cuts Oil to UK, France; Multilateral Init ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today February 18, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • World Crisis Radio Special Broadcast
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 18, 2012 World Crisis Radio Broadcast: Iran Offers Negotiations; Panetta Admits Tehran Has No Nuclear Weapons Program; Al Qaeda Leads NATO’s Syrian Death Squads vs. Assad; US Mounts False Flags; General War in Sight [download audio]
  • US, NATO Ram Anti-Syrian Resolution Through UN ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 17, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The UN General Assembly has adopted an anti-Syria resolution that was drafted by the Arab League and backed by the United States and the United Kingdom. On Thursday, 137 members of the UN voted in favor of t ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Should Oust Facilitators, M ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is faced with anti-war protesters who also condemn the assassinations of Iran’s high profile nuclear scientists. An analyst believes that warmongering groups in Wall Street provoke wars in the ...
  • Report from Iran Under the Shadow of War
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 5, 2012 Webster Tarpley reporting from Tehran, Iran [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • Disaster and Emergency, What’s The Diffe ...
    The difference between disaster and emergency is fairly big, although an emergency situation can certainly feel like a disaster to those involved. Disaster is defined as a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction; a sudden or great misfortune or failure. Emergency is d ...
  • Bleach, Definition, and a few Uses
    We bleach our clothes. We bleach our teeth. We bleach our bathroom sinks and toilets etc. But…what is bleach? According to Dr. Laundry on the Clorox website: “The active ingredient in household bleach is sodium hypochlorite, which is derived from salt.  In fact, Clorox is headquarter ...
  • Dehydrated vs. Freeze Dried Foods
    We are sometimes asked, what is the best food for my survival storage, dehydrated or freeze dried? Let’s start with a basic understanding of what each process does to the food. Dehydration simply means, the process of removing water from a substance or a compound. This is something you can ...
  • Proof Of Magnetic Pole Shift (Reversal)
    Image credit: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center Pole Reversal evidence is clearly shown in NOAA’s new data from the National Geophysical Data Center, named “EMAG2″ Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid (2-arc-minute resolution). The map colors represent the direction of magnetism of ...
  • Obama Plan To Destroy 2nd Amendment?
    Reader Question: The NRA has recently announced Obama has plans to destroy the 2nd amendment by taking everyone’s firearms if he is elected to a second term. What would you do if this should happen? Would you roll over for and submit to the government’s illegal action, take up those ...

Fast Company

  • Culture Vs. Strategy Is A False Choice
    Strategy seems to have fallen on hard times. In his recent Fast Company piece “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch,” author Shawn Parr joins a long list of commentators, psychologists, authors, and consultants who’ve used that dietary line to argue that company culture is a greater determinant of su ...
  • Allow Cookies: Girl Scouts Enter The Digital E ...
    In the 21st century, Girl Scouts from all over the world can get together in the virtual realm to do good and learn skills for success. Here's how CEO Ana Maria Chavez is helping organize new digital troops. When Ana Maria Chavez was a 10-year-old growing up in Eagle, Arizona, her friend came to ...
  • In Defense Of The Not-So-Lean Startup
    Last year, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, it was impossible to escape the concept of the "Lean Startup"--especially the great ideas espoused by the preeminent thought leader on the topic, Eric Ries.Hundreds, if not thousands, of entrepreneurs embraced these tenets and joined the "Lean Start ...
  • Confidence, Conviction, Communication: 3 Ways ...
    Last month, I wrote an article about what large, established companies could learn from startups--lessons on remaining nimble and creatively driven at any stage or size. As the founder of a branding and design consultancy that works almost exclusively with startups, but also having spent years i ...
  • The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Catch up on the stories readers deemed most clickworthy this week from Fast Company, Co.Design, Co.Create, and Co.Exist. This week, we revealed our annual Most Innovative Companies list. You devoured it, like you do each year. (And why wouldn't you? It's a roadmap to the future of business.) The ...

Jadaliyya

  • Syria’s Islamic Movement and the Current Upris ...
    In one of his recent papers, Steven Heydemann writes that the attempts of the forces behind the Syrian uprising and the Syrian National Council (SNC)  to define themselves as the pre-eminent nationalist force in the country risk backfiring. [1] This is because they face a regim ...
  • Remembering Anthony Shadid
    His Untimely Death Silences One of the Best Middle East Reporters.  We at MEI, along with the global Middle East studies community, mourn the loss of the brilliant, gifted Anthony Shadid, whose reporting of the Middle East over the past two decades enlightened all of us.  Per ...
  • Saving Khader Adnan's Life Saves Our Own Soul
        The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze as Khader Asnan enters his 63rd day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison being held under an administrative detention order without trial, without charges, and without any indication of the evidence against him. ...
  • نداء الأسير خضـر عدنـان إلى العالم
    نحوعمل تضامني دولي ينطلق في يوم الأسير الفلسطيني (17 نيسان/ أبريل) " أؤكد على أن إضرابي عن الطعام، ليس من أجل قضيتي كفرد، إنما من أجل قضية أبناء شعبي، ومئات الأسرى الإداريين المحرومين من أبسط حقوقهم". هكذا كتب الأسير خضر عدنان، في رسالة مناشدة أطلقها من على سرير مستشفى ...
  • حين يكون الكوكب بأسره ضد الثورة
    "لقد رأيت الشجرة، لكن الجذور في مكان آخر." (مثل هندي) إنّ الصورة المهيمنة اليوم حول الثورة السورية والتي يتمّ إغراقنا فيها، سواء عبر أبواق النظام السوري أو عبر القنوات الغربية و العربية "المعادية" له مثل "الجزيرة" وأبواقها في العالم العربي، هي أنّ العالم ين ...

mediagazer

  • Tweeting a War: How One Journalist Is Using Tw ...
    Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: Tweeting a War: How One Journalist Is Using Twitter in Afghanistan  —  Journalists are using Twitter more and more these days, even in an unlikely place: Afghanistan.  —  With about a million active Internet users out of a total popu ...
  • The Pirate Bay could be blocked in UK (Josh Ha ...
    Josh Halliday / Guardian: The Pirate Bay could be blocked in UK  —  Filesharing site unlawfully shares copyrighted music, says UK high court  —  The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has come a step closer to being blocked in the UK after the high court ruled th ...
  • News of the World alleged hacking suspect plea ...
    Guardian: News of the World alleged hacking suspect pleads guilty to conspiracy  —  Private investigator, who allegedly hacked former army spy's computer for newspaper, admits illegally obtaining confidential information in separate case  —  A man at the centre o ...
  • Jonathan Gold Is Leaving the L.A. Weekly (Sara ...
    Sarah Fenske / Squid Ink: Jonathan Gold Is Leaving the L.A. Weekly  —  ​Yes, it's true.  The Weekly's longtime food critic, Jonathan Gold, has accepted a job with the L.A. Times.  He'll be leaving here in a few weeks.  —  We're sad to see him go, ...
  • Is Twitter a newspaper, or is it the phone com ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Is Twitter a newspaper, or is it the phone company?  —  Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network?  Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that T ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Arsenal's Bacary Sagna looking for reacti ...
    The right-back still holds hope that the side can qualify for next season's Champions League, despite an inconsistent season and a result against their rivals will be a huge help Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Arsenal £23.00 Draw £34.00 Tottenham £2 ...
  • Medvedev Meets With Opponents
    By RICHARD BOUDREAUX Enlarge ImageClose MOSCOW—In his first meeting with leaders of the large rallies challenging Russia's leadership, President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday gave them seats on a Kremlin panel that will weigh political reforms but warned that their main demands were unacce ...
  • Charlottesville snow day: what to do?
    Snow in Charlottesville this weekend may have caught some travelers unawares. Temperatures this winter have oscillated between warm and warmish, with only a couple truly cold spells. This weekend gave Charlottesville a late Sunday night dusting of 1-3 inches of snow. While not known for it&r ...
  • Ky. fairgrounds seeking luxury hotel
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky State Fair Board is seeking proposals for a luxury hotel that they say would lure more large conventions and trade shows to the area. Fair board President Harold Workman told The Courier-Journal that he believes the economy is righting itself enough that ...
  • Mating tests begin on Edinburgh's giant p ...
    Zoo-keepers are collecting urine and vaginal samples from female panda Tian Tian, whose name means Sweetie, to check her oestrogen levels. Female pandas are only interested in mating for three days a year and Tian Tian is expected to be in heat at some point between the start of March and ea ...

no frakking consensus

  • Gleick Speak
    Peter Gleick issues a statement about the Heartland documents.
  • Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee
    The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri's sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?
  • Closed Minds at the IPCC
    A Dutch professor has examined a draft of the upcoming IPCC report. He says it has been written by people who start from the assumption that dangerous, human-caused global warming has been proven.
  • The Royal Society’s Joyride
    In recent years the world's oldest science academy has been taken for a joyride. Three centuries of neutrality have been impulsively abandoned - in the name of fighting climate change.
  • Scientific Consensus, Leadership & Stephen Sch ...
    Is it any wonder that young climate scientists behave badly? Their elders set the example - by hurling insults at dissenters.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Fields Apart
    By Sam Kean “Shut up and calculate!” As physics became more mathematical and abstract during the past century, that phrase—first uttered by physicist David Mermin—became its mantra. Indeed, the more that physicists stopped worrying about what their complicated equations meant and simply ran the ...
  • Why Are Men So Violent?
    Why Are Men So Violent? Jesse J. Prinz It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world’s homicides and start all of the wars. But why? A recent article in a prominent science journal contends that evolution has shaped men t ...
  • Daddy Issues
    Why caring for my aging father has me wishing he would die Sandra Tsing Loh Recently, a colleague at my radio station asked me, in the most cursory way, as we were waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, how I was. To my surprise, in a motion as automatic as the reflex of a … Read&# ...
  • Poverty as Destiny
    Isaac Chotiner … a Mumbai garbage-sorter takes the witness stand to defend the honor of his dead wife. A trial is being held to determine whether the defendant beat, and drove to suicide by self-immolation, the woman everyone in Annawadi calls The One Leg. After an argument with her neighb ...
  • Literally figuratively
    All patriotic Americans ought to stand up and say enough is enough. We need a law to put a stop to this literally-abuse. A. Barton Hinkle … Literally? Yikes. The last time a Cat-5 hurricane made landfall in the United States was seven years ago, when Katrina slammed into New Orleans. Tuesd ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • The $28m pantomime of airport body scanners
    No cost-benefit analysis was conducted before the government’s decision to impose body scanning on international passengers departing the country, the government has revealed. On Sunday Transport Minister Anthony Albanese announced that a $28 million program to install scanners at intern ...
  • Debunking the real 9/11 myths
    Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other plac ...
  • We Will Not Be Scanned requests your feedback ...
    Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means ...
  • Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
    Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...
  • Iraq: The legacy of deception
    Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a "Real Politik" vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace---with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion's ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Behemoth Steel Forges That Once Made Bombers.
    Boing Boing is my favorite blog. Recently they featured a piece about the huge forging presses that once made heavy bombers and gigantic transports in the United States. This is from an article from The Atlantic Magazine and it is about the mammoth machines we created to make the machines we use ...
  • The Soviet Sigma 4 SAM Interceptor, The First ...
      1934 to 1936. One of the first, if not the first airplane designed without a rear vertical stabilizer was the Sigma 4 SAM. “M” stands for the designer, Aleksandr Moskalyev who was unconstrained by the trends of his day and used an incredibly agile imagination to come up with b ...
  • The Ant-25 Was A Giant.
    It had a wingspan of 112 feet. Fully loaded it weighed 17,000 pounds. It flew almost 7000 feet in the air.   The year? 1937.   Few historians have paid attention to the advanced aircraft designs that came out of the Soviet Union prior to and during World War II. The fact of the matter ...
  • Sometimes An Artist Joins The Army. Neil Leinwohl.
    I used to work for Neil Leinwohl, a creative director/art director at Korey Kay in New York. In the ensuing years, I have discovered that he is far more than an advertising art director. He served in Vietnam with the 34th and 79th Engineers and was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Br ...
  • America’s First Submarine Was Invented D ...
        Early Submarine Design And Development In The 18th Century.   Lenoardo Davinci sketched his idea for a submersible vehicle in the 16th century. He was of course a major visionary and his vision came to life when Cornelius Drebbel built a prototype that rode around under the waves o ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Taking a ‘Wrecking Ball’ to Religious Conserva ...
    “We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christan ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we ...
  • Pentagon Budget 2013 Broken Down by Winslow Wh ...
    Winslow Wheeler is one of a very determined band of defense experts who have been diligently deciphering and challenging the Pentagon budget, expenditures and priority for years. I’ve cited Wheeler many times before, who has been a guest writer around here as well (here, here, here, here, ...
  • Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball” is angry, ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. A tweet from Think Progress: “Gingrich talking about ‘vulture capitalism’… that would not have happened without #ows’ – Springsteen http://thkpr.gs/yh0NKe …” I’ve not heard any cuts from Springsteen’ ...
  • Rick Santorum: Prenatal Screenings ‘More Often ...
    Let Rick Santorum talk, then package his hyper Christian chatter in 30-second spots, that should be the Romney campaign’s strategy. From CNN: “One of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing in every insurance policy in America,” Santorum, a conservative Roman Catholi ...
  • Romney Still Trails in Michigan
    THE MITT ROMNEY CRISIS transcends the seven straight national polls showing Rick Santorum in the lead. It goes beyond the embarrassing reality that the son of an auto executive and two-term governor has been behind in every Michigan poll conducted since Groundhog’s Day. Even more devastating for ...

Hudson New York

  • "Caliphate Conference" Seeks to Islamize Europ ...
    A Muslim fundamentalist group is organizing a conference focused on turning Austria and other European countries into Islamic states. The "Caliphate Conference 2012" will be held on March 10 in the Austrian town of Vösendorf, situated just south of
  • How Come No One Wants to Help Gaza?
    Who is stopping the Palestinians from turning the Gaza Strip into the Middle East's Hong Kong? Is it Israel, the Palestinians themselves or the Arab countries? In the past few weeks, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has visited a number of Arab and
  • No One Should Pray for a Crisis, Erdogan Says
    Turkey's top institutions are not in a crisis but are instead working together in harmony, the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday in his first comments on the fight over an attempt to probe top spy officials, and his first remarks since
  • China Lacking "Mandate of Heaven"
    A large and multifaceted crisis is unfolding in China. The world's most important rapidly-developing economy is running out of clean fresh water. As things get worse, this crisis will lead to an increase in global food prices, to a slowdown in China's
  • Turkey Passes Bill to Shield Agents from Prose ...
    Turkey's parliament on Friday passed a controversial bill to shield intelligence agents from prosecution after several refused a prosecutor's summons over their contacts with Kurdish rebels. Parliament hastily passed the bill, backed by the ruling

Urban Survival

  • Take the Day Off Day
    This is a National Holiday…for a lot of people – mostly government workers, seems, since everyone I know is working. This is also my birthday so if I seem a little more sour than usual, it’s because I’m older than … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Sunday Banking
    I bet you didn’t think the National Bank of Dad was open on Sundays.  Well, as a matter of fact, it is…and still doing our dead-level best to teach people how not to roll over and get completely screwed by … Continue reading →
  • CPI – CP Owed
    “Yee-haw, git a long little wage slave!” The old joke set up goes “I have good news for you, and I have bad news for you… which do you want first?”  Times up: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Wireless ADS-B and Flying Notes
    OK, we start this morning with a shameless plug for the folks up at Adventure Pilot/ iFlyGPS up near McKinney, Texas.  They have started shipping the upgraded version of their iFlyGPS called the iFly 720. The thing which makes this … Continue reading →
  • Global Markets, Moody’s Blues
    The past 24-hours have not been good for the bullish case.  To be sure, Greece hasn’t fallen apart, yet the fact of the paperwork not being up to snuff has resulted in Greece being blamed for everything from my eczema … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Transforming a derelict city building into ver ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Aspiring interior designer Lucie Sadakova has come up with a striking concept to bring more green space and nourishment into a scruffy part of London.  And, despite being ...
  • Protesters to Keystone XL Pipeline: Don't Mess ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campa ...
  • NRDC in the News 2/17: Protect the Arctic, Mr. ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Seattle Times published Frances Beinecke’s op-ed, which called upon President Obama to uphold his vow to stand up to Big Oil and protect the Arctic from drilling; the op-ed was strategicall ...
  • EPA taking the right approach in investigating ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There is a recent report that EPA is conducting a "multi-media" investigation into the environmental impacts from Marcellus Shale operations in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The&nbs ...
  • Event examines how to make LA a mobile city again
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica This fall I taught a class at UCLA Law school, and was surprised to hear that many of the students did not plan to stay in LA after graduating.  When asked why, ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    A couple things before I start today… First, I just found out that the person who inspired me to create this site has retired his amazing Simple Justice blog. I know it will be sorely missed not just by me, but by many many people out there. Yet I’m sure that he’ll keep doing [...]
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-18 ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 18-19, 2012: Tennessee prosecutors have dismissed 95 cases involving a trooper who is being sued and was fired for letting a man he chased burn to death in a car crash. [ ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 17, 2012: Wichita KS police are being urged by residents to change their policy allowing cops to speed without lights or sirens after a 12-year-old girl was fatally struck b ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, February 16, 2012: Scottsdale AZ cop investigated for 6th fatal shooting where he killed an unarmed man while he held his young grandson. [0] http://bit.ly/xV1XEi St Paul MN settle ...
  • Outage
    Sorry for the lack of a daily report for Thursday, my laptop suffered a fatal hard drive crash last night. I’ll try to get things running again as soon as I can.

Total Collapse

  • 6,000 British tanks and other military vehicle ...
    For the first time since the Second World War, the Ministry of Defence is considering sending a vast fleet of fighting machines towards the Rhine. However, rather than a strategic manoeuvre, the move has been prompted by budget cuts, which have led to plans to sell off the MoD’s complex at Ashch ...
  • Billions of Engineered Nanoparticles in Foods ...
    Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought. A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering and th ...
  • Iran war will push Middle East into turmoil: China
    The Chinese government says Beijing is against a military strike against Iran amid increasing war threats by the US and Israel. “We always oppose the use or the threat of use of force in handling state-to-state relations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Monday. H ...
  • Assassination Of Pope Warned Imminent As Vatic ...
    A disturbing Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the warning letter delivered to Chinese State Authorities this past November by Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the Archbishop of Palermo, stating that Pope Benedict XVI would be assassinated during this year is, indeed, a “valid threat.” According to ...
  • North Korea reportedly readies forces for atta ...
    South Korean troops began a live-fire artillery exercise Monday near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, despite the North’s threats of retaliation, officials said. Military officials said the “routine” drill of one to two hours, their second this year, would involve self-propelled ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    The Pirate Bay could be blocked by UK ISPs, another Kuwaiti citizen is jailed for his tweets, and Google appears to be turning Latitude into a Foursquare rival with the...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Foxconn gives another raise to its workers, amid Apple’s investigations. Yelp is raising a $100 million IPO. Intellectual Ventures is back to the trolling of patents, to nobody’s surprise. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple unleashes OS X Mountain Lion to develpers, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean could be coming this summer, and the European Court of Justice has ruled that businesses cannot be required...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple’s iCloud hits 100 million users, Android accounted for 50% of smartphone sales in Q4 of 2011, and Google+ for iOS gets a much-requested feature. It’s all in today’s Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    The iPad 3 is on its way in March. 1 billion smartphone users will be roaming the world by 2016. Twitter’s forcing employees to hold most of their stock, to...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Renewistan or Carbonopia: where would you rath ...
    Published last November, Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and the planet made some fundamentally important points: that solutions to climate change must allow for economic development in poorer countries; that a large part of the solution is a ...
  • Alcoa: seeing through the carbon tax doomsday ...
    When Alcoa's Point Henry workers met the Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday they should have advised her to call the aluminium company's bluff and dismiss its blatant rent seeking tactics. Just over 12 months ago, the company's majority owner, Alcoa Inc of the US, declared the Australian ope ...
  • Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan n ...
    The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...
  • A Leaf to hide Australia’s peak oil embarrassment
    Matthew Wright Fortunately for the Federal Government, it can use a “Leaf” to hide its growing embarrassment at being exposed for suppressing its own report warning of sharp declines in global oil production in five years time. In 2009, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese’s Bureau of In ...
  • Gas emissions up to seventy times worse - imme ...
    Unconventional gas emissions up to seventy times worse than industry claims - immediate moratorium a must Real time air sampling of gas fields in the US has shown leakage rates of up to over seventy times greater than the rates assumed by industry and accepted by government in Australia. The s ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Climate scientist admits to deceptively obtain ...
    Climatologist Peter Gleick with the Pacific Institute has admitted to obtaining documents from the conservative advocacy group, the Heartland Institute, through a fake name and leaking them to the press.
  • Majority of protected tropical forests "empty" ...
    Protected areas in the world's tropical rainforests are absolutely essential, but one cannot simply set up a new refuge and believe the work is done, according to a new paper in Bioscience. Unsustainable hunting and poaching is decimating tropical forest species in the Amazon, the Congo, Southea ...
  • Madagascar - The Last Inheritor of Gondwana: D ...
    Madagascar split from the supercontinent of Gondwana about 150 million years ago. As a result, most of the living creatures in Madagascar are unique to the ecosystems in the island. Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana is a documentary that does an excellent job of showing Madagascar&#8217 ...
  • NASA map reveals the heights of the world's fo ...
    The height of a forest is important in a number of different ways. First the taller a forest, the more likely there are important niche habitats in the canopy providing homes to unique species. In addition, a forests' height says something about its ability to sequester carbon: the taller a fore ...
  • Six nations, including U.S., set up climate in ...
    With global negotiations to tackle carbon emissions progressing interminably, nations are seeking roundabout ways to combat global climate change. U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, announced in India last week a new six nation initiative to target non-carbon greenhouse gases, including s ...

Sierra Express

  • Usu Boie crowned ‘Father of Fambul’ in Sierra ...
    Saturday 18th February, 2012, saw hundreds of market women and youths from thirty-three market centers in the Western Area, Freetown, swarm the Wilkinson Road residence of former Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) flagbearer-aspirant, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara in a surprise visit to declare suppo ...
  • Assassins attack Afsatu Kabbah
    Armed men Monday 13th, 3 a.m. attacked the home of a popular female politician, Afsatu Kabbah (in photo), at Femi Turner Drive Goderich with intent to ‘harm’ or ‘assassinate’ her. Police sources say the attackers gained access into the house using an iron bar to cut down steel metals on a window ...
  • Bio damned police… says he has enough evidence
    “The police have no reason asking me to make a statement to them. They’ve had written statements of happenings in Moyamba, Zimmy, Kenema and other areas in the southeast of Sierra Leone,” Maada Bio said. “I have enough evidence to prove that the governing APC party has had restless moments deplo ...
  • Political attack: too bad though
    Following the President’s pronouncement that his government has never held captive any political detainee, recent arrests of politicians of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) seem to contradict the avowed declaration. In recent times, a pro-APC party organization name tagged ...
  • President Koroma asked for UN’s envoy withdrawal
    A small West African country with a violent history browbeats the mighty UN – Sierra Leone is regarded as model of post conflict reconstruction. An 11-year civil war that left some 50,000 dead by 2002 was overcome with the help of blue-hatted UN peacekeepers. In 2007 power changed hands in ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

  • Heroism, a uniquely human trait — the Ve ...
    From the “Free the Animal” blog: “….Here’s a few select quotes from the previously linked post at Natural Food. The DATCP brought in the armed deputies for 6 hours to lock it up and take evidence. That does not stop Vernon. … Continue reading →
  • “LIKE” the new “Support Vern ...
    Verner Herschberger seems to be the man of the hour these days on the North American raw milk scene. Now that Amish dairyman Dan Allgyer has (quite understandably) thrown in the towel after years of harassment over supplying raw milk … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk survey now open for input — a c ...
    Article by Raoul Bedi of the Vedic Harmony Centre (www.biofield.ca ) Rob Bright has graciously offered to donate time and expertise to develop the first of a number of Raw Milk Surveys using SurveyMonkey . Raoul Bedi , Margo McIntosh, … Continue reading →
  • Deadline Tuesday — Telling the EPA to di ...
    From Credo Action: “Since 2006, U.S. honey bee populations have been in precipitous decline, with some estimates suggesting losses as high as 30% per year.1 While that’s terrible, the problem is far greater than just the destruction of a species. Without … Continue reading →
  • Occupy activist raises questions at 2012 meeti ...
    From Anthony Gucciardi, on Natural Society.com: “In an exciting act of grassroots resistance to Monsanto and their GMOs that are ravaging the planet, activist Adam Eidinger has infiltrated a Monsanto shareholder meeting and posted the video up on Youtube. Eidinger discusses … Continu ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Meaningless Greek Deal Supposedly Reached; Dea ...
    Reuters reports Deal reached on second Greek bailout package Euro zone finance ministers struck a deal early on Tuesday for a second bailout program for Greece that will involve financing of 130 billion euros and aims to cut Greece's debts to 121 percent of GDP by 2020, EU officials said. ...
  • Disability Fraud Holds Down Unemployment Rate; ...
    Looking for another reason for an artificially low unemployment rate? Consider disability fraud, people claiming disabilities they do not have such as mental illness. Prior to the great recession 33% of applicants claimed mental illness. The number is 43% now. There was fraud before, o ...
  • Why Greece Must Exit the Eurozone, How it Will ...
    Several people have asked me about statements I have made that "Greece is in a hopeless situation until it exits the Eurozone." Actually Greece is in a horrific condition whether or not it exits the Eurozone as the Troika literally destroyed Greece (perhaps purposely to protect French and ...
  • Warmongering Insanity: Canada Wants Military B ...
    It's time to bring home the troops, all of them, from every country where they do not belong (which is everywhere but home). Instead, I am saddened to report a WTF moment on warmongering insanity: Canada wants military base in Germany Canada plans to set up a military base in Germany unde ...
  • Ron Paul Blasts Santorum's "Atrocious" Liberal ...
    Ron Paul went after Santorum, on Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". "His voting record is ... from my viewpoint, an atrocious voting record -- how liberal he's been in all the things he's voted for over the many years he was in the Senate and in the House," Paul said. ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Italy and India Stand Off Over M/V Enrica Lexi ...
    Tensions are escalating between Italy and India over who exactly holds jurisdiction over last weeks incident involving the killing of two Indian fisherman by Italian guards onboard the M/V Enrica [...]
  • China’s Dongfang Shipbuilding Works Through Fi ...
    View Larger Map LONDON (Dow Jones)–Dongfang Shipbuilding Group Company Ltd (DFS.LN), said Monday that the company’s 49%-owned shipbuilding associate, DFS Shipbuilding, continues to have discussions with its banks and the local provincial authorities in Yueqing [...]
  • Somali Pirates Hijack UAE-Owned Vessel Loaded ...
    Somali pirates have hijacked the UAE-owned M/V Savina-Fahad, Somalia Report has confirmed citing a Somali businessman in Dubai and a local pirate source. According to the report, the M/V Savina-Fahad [...]
  • AIS Track Data Reveals Drunken Ship Driving by ...
    Musta been a heck of a night for the master of the Danica Hav before he pulled out of the Swedish port of Varberg. A few hours later he was [...]
  • BMT Subsidiary to Design Wind Farm Support Ves ...
    BMT Group said Monday that its subsidiary, BMT Nigel Gee, will provide the design for eight new Windfarm Support Vessels to be constructed by the Australian shipbuilder, Strategic Marine. The [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • Hey John Baird ... PROBE What?
    John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record?? -Ottawa Citizen seems to be a bit of a player in this Conservative 'outrage'. -Gutter politics you say? CREEKSIDE
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    "From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and insults, but we will vote with pride." Shouts, screams, desk-banging - even obscene gestures ...
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    Available without a warrant Under the new bill, the six identifiers of telecommunications subscribers that police, intelligence and Competition Bureau officials can obtain without a warrant from their telecommunications service provider are: Name. Address. Telephone number. Email address. Inte ...
  • Obamacare, birth control, and religious freedoms
    The Obama administration has recently adopted a very narrow definition of religious exclusions in the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The effect of this is that ostensibly religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities would be required, along with everyo ...
  • Seniors Occupy Conservative MP Offices To Prot ...
    "Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-called “Blue-Grey” Alliance entered and stayed in the constituency offices of 20 MPs in the pro ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Palestinians rally to back hunger striker
    Palestinians have held protest rallies across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in support of Palestinian activist Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 65 days in an Israeli jail.
  • Yemen polls open with 1 pres. candidate
    Voting has begun in Yemen’s presidential election with only one candidate on the ballot amid the opposition’s call for the downfall of the entire regime.
  • Blackouts continue in Gaza Strip
    The Gaza Strip has been experiencing blackouts of up to 18 hours a day for almost a week since Gaza’s only power generating plant stopped operating last Tuesday, Press TV reports.
  • Turkey’s Kurd MPs begin hunger strike
    MPs of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have begun a two-day hunger strike to protest recent detentions, Press TV reports.
  • 'Certain states against reform in Syria'
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused certain states of blocking attempts to end months of unrest in the country and preventing it from treading the path of reforms.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Cynthia McKinney Tells It Like It Is
    I grew up in New York City, and have traveled and lived in different parts of the world, including about 18 years in the “Peachtree State” of Georgia. For almost as long as I lived there, I’d heard of Cynthia McKinney—the first African-American woman to represent Georgia in the U.S. House of Rep ...
  • We Don’t Deserve Another Planet
    I’m scared. I worry a lot. I’m afraid for our future. I’m afraid for our species. I’m afraid of our species. Homo Sapiens corrupt or foul any ecosystem that lies in the path of their economic interests. Homo Sapiens marginalize and/or exterminate almost every species of fellow inhabitant that it ...
  • Why Did the US Invade Iraq and Afghanistan?
    A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has nothing to gain and all to ...
  • Furnishing War With Iran at Any Cost
    It took all of one hour after simultaneous attacks targeted Israeli diplomats on Monday in New Delhi and Tbilisi, Georgia for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude his investigation.  As Netanyahu thundered with typical bravado: “Iran is behind these attacks.  It is the biggest e ...
  • JINSA: Strengthening Israel by Promoting Syria ...
    On February 17, subscribers to the mailing list of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) received a message entitled “Want to Know What’s Going On in Syria?” inviting them to a special conference call briefing from Farid Ghadry, co-founder of The Reform Par ...

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