21 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Paper Industry Decimating Indonesia's Tigers
  The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous communities, is threatened by the "world's fastest deforestation rate", caused by none other than the pulp and paper industry, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
• Community Station in Mexico Conquers Airwaves ...
  It's always cold in this city in Mexico's Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 2,400 metres above sea level, at the foot of the Popocatépetl volcano.
• ECONOMY-EU: Portugal, Greece Pose Risk of Cont ...
  The flood of economic woes devastating Greece and Portugal are evidence that the German prescription imposed by a troika of multilateral creditors is not working, and that both countries are heading into a blind alley, says economics professor Mario Olivares.
• Survivors Recall the Horrors of Auschwitz
  Igor Malitski, an 87-year-old professor of mechanical engineering from Ukraine, stands in the snow underneath a metal gate. He is wearing a thick winter jacket and big plastic headphones. A blue and white cap covers his head.
• Imagining a Better World Is First Step to Sust ...
  Humanity's failure to halt the deepening planetary emergency of climate change, extinctions of species and overconsumption of resources is a failure of imagination and mistaken beliefs that we act rationally.

My AntiWar

• Iran Oil Embargo Sends US Gas Prices Soaring
• Closing Hormuz Will Halve Iraq Oil Exports: Ba ...
• Saudis Vow ‘Iron Fist’ Against Pro ...
• Gunmen in Afghan Police Uniforms Kill NATO Soldier
• Resentment Festers in Ranks of Afghanistan&#82 ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• House of Commons' motion to rule out use of fo ...
  Summary: The first major crack in the western alliance against Iran has now surfaced in the UK's House of Commons by a rebellious Conservative back bencher who has for the first time in a western country proposed a motion against the hawkish western Iran policy. The anti-war groups activists ...
• 'India's decision to import Iran oil a slap on ...
  Summary: India, which relies on Iran for 12 per cent of its oil imports, has refused to scale it down. source: Hindustan Timesread more
• John Baron MP secures House of Commons debate ...
  Summary: John Baron MP has secured a House of Commons full-day debate on Monday (20th February) on Iran. John has tabled a motion calling on the Government to rule out the use of force and to redouble diplomatic efforts in order to reduce tensions. He intends to divide the House to test the v ...
• The Assassination of Iranian Scientists: In Wh ...
  Summary: The well-documented pattern of Israel’s policy of targeted killings shows that the assassination of Iranian scientists is neither the first nor the last of Israel’s acts of terrorism. It also shows that the claim that Iran’s nuclear program presents an “existential” threat to Israel ...
• Paul: U.S. "Slipping Into A Fascist System"
  Summary: Ron PaulPaul staged his rally near the nation's World War I museum, asserting that the U.S. got off track about 100 years ago during the era of President Woodrow Wilson, who led the nation through World War I and unsuccessfully advocated for the nation's involvement in a forerunner o ...

The Daily Galaxy

• From the 'X-File' Dept: Michio Kaku --"Civili ...
  "What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilization millions of years...
• "Dark Stars" of the Early Universe --Were The ...
  Dark matter stars: not an attempt to destroy the rebels in Star Wars IX, but gigantic stars fueled by the annihilation of dark matter. The "dark star" hypothesis proposes that the very first stars, formed when the universe was far...
• Detecting Atmospheres of Alien Planets --Refle ...
  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. "We know of many other planets that do not transit their...
• Primodial Black Hole Relics from the Big Bang ...
  Scientists looking to capture evidence of dark matter -- the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe -- have unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is...
• Probing the Mystery of Dark Matter Stars --In ...
  Identifying the dark matter of the Universe is one of the most intruiging problems of modern cosmol- ogy and particle physics. Several Experiments are underway around the world, including tests to detect dark matter candidates known as Weakly Interacting Massive...

Natural News

• Reducing your exposure to airborne environment ...
  In our everyday life we are exposed to a staggering variety of environmental airborne toxins. Toxin inhalation is perhaps the most insidious form of chemical exposure since we don't really think about it. In fact, we probably don't think about it because we subconsciously...
• Can raw foods aid breast cancer treatments and ...
  When it comes to women's health issues, breast cancer will rise toward the top of any list regardless of the factors being considered. It is no doubt that breast cancer is an ugly disease that statistically affects someone that everyone knows. Over the span of a lifetime...
• FDA assault on Amish raw milk mirrors Spanish ...
  Today's regulatory climate of cruel intolerance towards raw milk, home-grown foods, and various other fruits of one's labor that exist outside the corporate food structure is eerily similar to the climate Native Americans faced when the Spanish Conquistadors first arrived...
• Vaccine exemptions: Do they really put non-vac ...
  Parents who exercise a vaccine exemption for their children are often ridiculed for putting their own children and others at risk. However, legally and medically, unvaccinated children do not pose a significant health risk to themselves or anyone else. Alternative vaccine...
• U.S. meat supply widely contaminated with mad ...
  Mad cow disease is a progressive brain-wasting disease. It is caused by a type of defective protein known as a prion and cannot be cured. The factory farming practices of feeding animals the nervous tissue of other animals first caused the ballooning spread of mad cow...

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

• Eric Cantor Unveils the GOP's Con JOBS Act
  For the perpetual tax-cutters of the Republican Party, last week's surrender on the payroll tax cut extension for 160 million working Americans was an especially damaging one. While tried if untrue GOP talking points that "tax cuts pay for themselves" and "never need to be offset" were thorough ...
• Conservatives Go Both Ways on Rising Health C ...
  For years, conservatives have warned that rapidly rising health care costs require the United States to repeal the Affordable Care Act, gut Medicaid and privatize Medicare. Now, the American Enterprise Institute cheerfully insists, the recent slowdown in that rate of the growth argues for preci ...
• Death of a GOP Talking Point on Tax Cuts
  As the Republican Party waged its all-out attack in 2010 to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, the GOP's number two man in the Senate provided the talking point to help sell the $70 billion annual giveaway to America's rich. "You should never," Arizona's Jon Kyl declared, "have to offs ...
• Gallup Aids GOP by Misrepresenting Poll on Sma ...
  In a new Gallup poll released Wednesday, small business owners revealed that the lack of need for new employees (76 percent), worries over revenue (71 percent) and concern about the state of the U.S. economy (66 percent) were the top three reasons for not hiring new workers. But you'd never kno ...
• GOP Caves to Its Own Demand That Tax Cuts Neve ...
  On Monday, House Republican leaders announced they would support the extension of the payroll tax cut without a corresponding "offset" in other federal spending. While that new approach is designed to tie Democrats' hands on passage of continued unemployment benefits and the so-called Medicare ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The Trippy Soviet SF Art Of Nikolai Lutohin
  The tumblr YUGODROM has been posting a lot of art by Yugoslav-born Soviet illustrator Nikolai Lutohin recently.  Take a look at this:
• Black History Special: Jazz Legend Randy Westo ...
  In a Black History Month special, today we spend the hour with the legendary pianist and composer Randy Weston. For the past six decades, Weston has been a pioneering jazz musician incorporating the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa. His most famous compositions include "Little Niles," "Blue Mose ...
• Headlines for February 20, 2012
  Report: U.S. Taxpayers Will Subsidize Mortgage Settlement, U.S. and British Officials Urge Israel to Back-off on Iran Attack, Bahraini Govt Deports Four More Human Rights Observers, Palestinian Prisoner Risking Death on 65th Day of Hunger Strike, Report: NYPD Spied on Muslim College Students Thr ...
• So They Let Me Into The Government Last Tuesday
  Which was very interesting, actually. I don’t believe I’m allowed to mention why I was there, but I can assure you that it had nothing to do with national security or any actual function of government.  You are all safe. It was all part of An Interesting Thing that an old acquaintance of mi ...
• Acts of Love by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Feb. 20, 2012 Love, the deepest human commitment, the force that defies empirical examination and yet is the defining and most glorious element in human life, the love between two people, between children and parents, between friends, betw ...

Consortium News

• Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
• Lieberman Edges US to War with Iran
• Theocracy Comes to Virginia
• Triumphalism Over Talking
• Which Way for the Occupy Protests?

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Summit on CoreChange in Cincinnati
    Something powerful, something new under the sun happened in Cincinnati this weekend. A three day summit on changing Cincinnati in fundamental ways, an effort to rethink our city with an eye toward creating a just, community-oriented, sustainable city. This conference was the brain child ...
• Japanese Whaler’s Injunction Against Sea Sheph ...
    Editor’s Note: I just received the following press release from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society—looks like some positive developments in the fight to stop the killing of endangered whales: Judge vows to examine the legality of ICR’s whaling operations February 20, 2012 ...
• 100-Year-Old from France Sets World Cycling Re ...
    100-year-old Robert Marchand has set a world cycling record for a one-hour event by cycling 24.251 kilometers around an indoor track in Aigle, Switzerland. “I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to,” Marchand said. Naturally. “I’m not playing at being ...
• ExxonMobil Gets Record €3.3-Million Penalty fo ...
    ExxonMobil either slipped up big time recently by not reporting approximately 30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its Scottish Fife Ethylene Plant. As a result, the oil giant has been hit with a record €3.3-million fine (€3,296,600 to be exact). The fine came from the S ...
• “I’m glad I don’t live in James Delingpole’s w ...
    That’s the first line to a truly excellent piece on New Statesman that I ran across last week. The piece is hilarious, insightful, and will hopefully help a bit to bring some sense to the countless individuals confused by Delingpole’s drivel. Here are the first two paragraph ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• The Ultimate Example of Preventive Medicine
  The Ultimate Example of Preventive Medicine By Bill Weir, Nikki Battiste & C. Michael Kim | This
• Weather can affect city water's quality
  Tracey Wolfe, City of Meadow Lake’s waterworks manager, is requesting aeration units as part of 2012
• Lessons Learned: Analyzing a Complex Multi-Sit ...
  This article, written by Edwin Roehl, CTO (primary) and John Cook, CEO (secondary) of Advanced Data
• A view from a pothole
  So, all the sleepy Rip Van Winkles in Glenwood and Carbondale are waking up all blinky and wondering
• Access to improved water source and satisfacti ...
  Abebaw, D., Tadesse, F. and Mogues, T., 2011. Access to improved water source and satisfaction with

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Why I’m Suing Barack Obama by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jan. 16, 2012 Image by Shrieking Tree via F
• What Would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Do Abou ...
  Image via Wikipedia by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer January 12, 2012 Would he impose s
• Heroes By Gary Corseri
  By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 8, 2012 Image by Collin David Anderson via F
• Rumor and Anger Mount in Libya by Franklin Lamb
  by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Tripoli, Libya January 14, 2012 This observer was s
• Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com January 15, 2012 An electronic database

Axis of Logic

• Spain barter economy wins followers in grip of ...
  Reuters - It's 10.30 on a chilly winter's morning in central Madrid and retailer Emanuela Scena is opening up for business. Her shop is one of several offering second-hand goods that have sprung up in Spain's capital during the economic crisis and is packed to the rafters with clothes, books, ...
• US sends drones over Syria as fighting spreads ...
  20 February 2012 US military officials confirmed Saturday that US drones are flying over Syria, as fighting spreads inside the country and US officials discuss military or “humanitarian” intervention to topple Syrian President Bashar al Assad. The drone flights, which flagrantly violate S ...
• The great milk robbery - World Food & Water
  Editor's Comment: Although Venezuela is not mentioned among the countries listed in this summary, the battle for food sovereignty wages hot and heavy in this South American country. The Nestlé Corporation serves as an example. Misión AgroVenezuela is a bold and powerful program advanced by the C ...
• Obama hails record GM profits. The wage-cutter ...
  20 February 2012 President Barack Obama has taken credit for the record-setting profits of General Motors this week, after the largest US automaker reported it raked in $7.6 billion for 2011, the most ever, fueled largely by its North American operations, which accounted for $7.2 billion of ...
• The “Global Crises of Capitalism”; Whose Crise ...
  Editor's Comment: The iconoclast delivers another "uncomfortable" treatise that is guaranteed to shake if not demolish the feel-good assumptions of the Center-Left and Left who wishfully believe that capitalism is in crisis. Providing ample evidence he argues with impeccable logic that the capit ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• A Death in Western Kentucky
  By @KYYellowDog Western Kentucky is the most conservative section of the Commonwealth. No Democratic statewide candidate can ever be assured of victory until the late returns come in from the counties west of Louisville. But deep in the heart of conservative Western Kentucky, Hopkinsville is ral ...
• The I.W.W. Fight for Free Speech
  By @KYYellowDog February 19th marked the 100th anniversary of the great fight by the International Workers of the World to establish Free Speech Rights in San Diego. It is a timely reminder that union fights have never been about just pay and benefits, but about forcing the plutocracy to recogni ...
• Who You Gonna Call?
  By @KYYellowDog Again, Occupy steps up to do the hard political work no one else wants to tackle. Digby: OWS Gets Wonky Here's a fascinating interview by Mike Konczal with one of the writers of the Occupy SEC comment letter that's been getting so much praise. I think it's significant for a coup ...
• Reason number 3497 that Rick Santorum creeps m ...
  By @BGinKC Has anyone else had more than enough of Rick Santorum's pious nonsense? I know I reached that point long ago, back when he was a Senator, before his theocratic tendencies helped him get kicked to the curb in an 18-point loss in 2006, but apparently there is still a market for the cons ...
• Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: Get Up, Stand Up
  By @KYYellowDog Thanks to commenter Prup (aka Jim Benton) for the recommendation. Uploaded by Rastavibe13: Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times) Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth I know you don't know what life is really ...

Care 2

• National Nest Box Week
  The natural nest sites on which many of our bird species depend, such as holes in trees and buildings, are fast disappearing as gardens and woods are tidied and old houses are repaired. Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Stunning face hidden for thousands of years: W ...
  Encased in soil, this extraordinarily delicate face emerges into the sun for the first time in thousands of years. The wooden sarcophagus was unearthed by archaeologists at the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan, Egypt. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech  |   Note ...
• Help me to plant 1000 trees!
  I have set out on a quest to plant 1000 trees using my butterfly points! I am currently at 269, and would really appreciate your help. William K. Submitted by Eco M I A MoonWalk Again to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• TAKE ACTION! SIGN! Animals Petition: Dan Richa ...
  CA Fish & Game Comm. Pres. Daniel R. Walker killed this mountain lion in Idaho (it's illegal in his home state) & flaunted the image over the internet. We believe Walker is unfit to serve as a steward of California wildlife. HELP CALL FOR HIS REMOVAL NOW! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nb ...
• Dan Richards the wonderboy
  "I'm glad it's legal in Idaho," said Richards, who is a life member of the National Rifle Association. most outspoken advocate for expanding hunting, often clashing with environmental and animal welfare groups. Submitted by Maria Elena Gonzalez to Animals  |   Note-it!  | ...

Smirking Chimp

• The Big Picture: Too Big for CNN
• Cartoon for February 20th, 2012: Forgeries of ...
• Who Are The Citizens of Berkeley, California?
• To My Mother
• Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Uncle Sam, Global Ga ...

Paul Krugman

• Hoover/Brüning 2012
  Obsessing over deficits while the economy implodes.
• Mean Versus Median, Illustrated
  The rich are different from you and me.
• Straight Talk and Shifting Windows
  Harsh words can be useful.
• The Irish Success Story
  Feel that austerity working!
• Blast From My Past
  Same as it ever was.

No Quarter

• Santorum Foot Shooting Underway
  Can’t wait for Wednesday night’s debate. Santorum will be standing in the middle next to Mitt Romney. In previous contests Saint Rick sat in the peanut gallery and took potshots. He has never been given much time to hang himself. That changes on Wednesday. Rick and his team are a liv ...
• Is Santorum Peaking?
  While this chart (from TPM poll tracker) only applies to Michigan Republican voters, it struck me as fairly reflective of the national sentiment towards the various Republican candidates over the last few months… Do you notice a little downward turn at the top of Santorum’s meteoric ...
• Obama’s Economy–Miracle or Debacle?
  Set aside for a moment your personal feelings about Barack Obama. (That means you too PPAA and Marvin Marks). Let’s take an objective look at what is going on in the economy. I will make this real simple–if there is a genuine, strong economic turnaround this year, which means 350,000 ...
• Santorum’s Coming Ass Kicking
  This is not a question of “IF,” but “WHEN.” In previous debates, Santorum was considered a sidelight. Always stuck at the end of the stage and not treated as a serious candidate. Remember when Newt and Herman were once in that position? When they get moved to the center t ...
• Viral Email – Romney’s Character
  There’s an email making the rounds, gone viral, as they say.  This email tells a story, verified by both Snopes and PolitiFact, of how Mitt Romney and his associates joined together to find the daughter of one of his partners when she was missing.  The result was that she was found in bad ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

• UA budget proposal elicits student leader reac ...
  UA budget proposal elicits student leader reactions The Daily Pennsylvanian ... Penn Community Against Mountain Top Removal — calls upon the Office of the Executive Vice President to condition the renewal of Penn's contract with PNC upon the bank's commitment to issue a plan for reducing ...
• "The Hand of Man": Powerful New Music Video Ca ...
  "The Hand of Man": Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia's Grief Over ... Huffington Post (blog) As millions of pounds of explosives from mountaintop removal strip mining operations continue to devastate historic mountain communities in central Appalachia, a powerful new mus ...
• 'The Last Mountain' to screen tonight at New A ...
  Louisville.com 'The Last Mountain' to screen tonight at New Albanian Brewing Company [Movies] Louisville.com by Allan Day If you haven't heard about mountaintop removal, then you just aren't paying attention. In a time when all sorts of environmental issues are receiving constant ...
• Green Around the Hills: MTR like a Ponzi schem ...
  Green Around the Hills: MTR like a Ponzi scheme Elizabethton Star By Staff Reports By Jennie Young An apt metaphor for the 500 Appalachian mountaintops already destroyed by mountaintop removal mining could be “Ponzi scheme.” A Ponzi promises, shows a degree of success, and then fails. Before eac ...
• Green Action protests Arch Coal practices - St ...
  Student Life Green Action protests Arch Coal practices Student Life “In recent weeks it's become evident that Arch Coal is moving towards mountaintop removal coal mining which is super destructive, so we're moving in solidarity with West Virginia with regards to our board of trustees,” s ...

Memeorandum

• Supreme Court to decide on right to lie about ...
  David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court to decide on right to lie about military honors  —  Justices will take up the case of Xavier Alvarez, who falsely told a California water board meeting that he had received the Medal of Honor.  —  Mary and Chuck ...
• Court action could prolong health care fight ( ...
  Joan Biskupic / USA Today: Court action could prolong health care fight  —  WASHINGTON - Next month's challenge to the Obama-sponsored health care law could affect the care available to most Americans, alter the balance of power between Washington and the states and remain a fla ...
• Europe Reaches a Greek Deal (Wall Street Journal)
  Wall Street Journal: Europe Reaches a Greek Deal  —  BRUSSELS—Euro-zone finance ministers early Tuesday agreed to an ambitious €130 billion ($172.1 billion) rescue deal that will see Greece's private creditors take an even larger loss in order to put the debt-laden co ...
• Study: Negative campaign ads much more frequen ...
  T.W. Farnam / Washington Post: Study: Negative campaign ads much more frequent, vicious than in primaries past  —  If you thought you were living through a particularly nasty presidential primary, turns out you were right.  —  Four years, ago, just 6 percent of c ...
• Santorum's controversial comments meet critici ...
  KPLC-TV: Santorum's controversial comments meet criticism … Rick Santorum is leading the polls, but making waves with comments over the weekend.  (Source: NBC) … NEW YORK (NBC) - Santorum's pitched himself as the most conservative candidate in this race, but critics argue his ...

Energy & Environment News

• Settlement Talks Pick Up Ahead of BP Oil Spill ...
  BP and other defendants are stepping up negotiations in an effort to avoid potential liabilities that some experts have estimated at $40 billion.
• Mexico and U.S. Agree on Oil and Gas Developme ...
  The accord along the maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico would potentially open more than a million acres to deepwater drilling.
• Dot Earth Blog: Peter Gleick Admits to Decepti ...
  A climate scientist admits that he used false pretenses to obtain documents from a group fighting climate action.
• Green Blog: A 'Touché!' From Climate Scie ...
  Researchers pointedly assert that when scientists' e-mails were stolen, the Heartland Institute chose to distort what was in them. Now the institute finds that some of its own internal documents have been leaked.
• Green Blog: A Shellfish Ban Off Long Island
  No clam fishing will be allowed in part of Hempstead Bay because of state concerns about water quality.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, Tonga region
  Monday, February 20, 2012 23:54:20 UTC Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:54:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 34.40 km (21.38 mi)
• M 5.1, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
  Monday, February 20, 2012 20:59:08 UTC Tuesday, February 21, 2012 06:59:08 AM at epicenterDepth: 176.80 km (109.86 mi)
• M 5.3, offshore Chiapas, Mexico
  Monday, February 20, 2012 19:09:43 UTC Monday, February 20, 2012 01:09:43 PM at epicenterDepth: 63.40 km (39.39 mi)
• M 5.0, Kashmir-Xinjiang border region
  Monday, February 20, 2012 14:18:03 UTC Monday, February 20, 2012 10:18:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.0, Kashmir-Xinjiang border region
  Monday, February 20, 2012 13:59:23 UTC Monday, February 20, 2012 09:59:23 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• Seeing China’s pollution from space
  US scientists have used satellite data to assess a decade’s worth of PM 2.5 levels. Angel Hsu, one of the team, explains what they found.The Great Wall may not, after all, be visible from space – but Chinese air pollution is. My team of researchers at Yale and Columbia Universit ...
• A way out for Canada’s seals
  Relentless campaigning by Chinese animal-rights activists may have sealed the fate of the North American seal hunt, writes Xu Nan.Chinese animal rights activists gathered earlier this month in Beijing to reiterate a message to the world: China will continue to say “No!” to Canadian s ...
• Offsetting conflict-mineral guilt
  Consumers who don’t want the metals in their mobile phones and laptops to help fund wars and rights abuses are protesting with the very technology that they hope to improve. Kate Dailey explains. “Conflict minerals” that help fuel war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D ...
• Megacities and lifestyle changes
  As huge new metropolises take shape, mostly in Asia, urbanisation is becoming a defining 21st-century social trend. Paul Webster and Jason Burke examine how Chengdu and Delhi are facing the future.Amid a clutter of 24-hour arc lights, gigantic cranes and dumper trucks, a behemoth is rising out o ...
• Long trudge to a cleaner Lake Tai
  China has spent billions of yuan trying to cleanse its third largest lake, where decades of pollution have brought ecosystems to the brink. But problems persist, report Liang Guorui and He Hanfu.Taihu Lake is China’s third-largest freshwater lake and one of its most important water resourc ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Aerial Surveillance, Snipers, Face Masks: Chic ...
  Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch.
• Renewables Are a Reality: How We Can Ditch Fos ...
  Amory Lovins explains his plan for transforming our energy, transportation and industry sectors while at the same time growing our economy and cutting dirty fossil fuels.
• Why Everything You've Been Told About Dieting ...
  US scientists say they have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity.
• Should Arch Coal Be Allowed to Destroy Histori ...
  Arch coal may be planning mining and mountaintop removal operations within the boundaries of one of the most important labor and civil rights monuments in the nation.
• The Scarlet Ultrasound: State-Sanctioned Rape ...
  Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Research and common sense both tell us that mandatory ultrasounds cannot be what proponents claim they are, a harmless attempt to ...

Threat Level

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

Equality Trust

• Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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  Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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  Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• 1 year ago Marler Clark donated $10,000 to the ...
  We are now in the middle of yet another Jimmy John's sprout outbreak.  And, just over a year ago we posted this Press Release: Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, announced today that it is pledging $10,000 to the International Sprout Growers Association (ISGA) to assist in the develop ...
• An Open Letter Regarding An Internet Smear of ...
  We the undersigned are writing to offer another perspective on Michael Taylor, the deputy commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration, and the subject of a petition that SignOn.org, which is sponsored by MoveOn.org, is circulating on the Internet. The petition attacks Taylor based ...
• Idiopathic Vertigo and The Meating Place
  I have a routine when I am home on the Island (which is not that often). I get up early and make the coffee – OK, after I turn on the computer and check my email for the latest food safety disaster.  Last Friday when I was about to take my first sip, the room started spinning like I ...
• The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak - ...
  Hopefully, Parts 1 through 5 showed that there was plenty of blame to go around to farmers, shippers, brokers, auditors, retailers and the government, and that with just some simple precautions and focus, this outbreak would never have occurred. On December 8, 2011, the CDC determined that dead ...
• Well, Perhaps Jimmy John's, a.k.a. restaurant ...
  One Jimmy John's sprout outbreak was listed by the CDC in 2009 as "restaurant chain (Chain A)." Multistate Jimmy John's Restaurants Raw Clover Sprouts 2011 12 Sickened - On February 15, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control announced an ongoing investigation into illnesses linked to the consum ...

AutoblogGreen

• Chicago: U.S. Army's CERV puts a machine gun o ...
  Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Military It used to be that we couldn't even find a picture of the U.S. Army's Clandestine Extended Range Vehicle (CERV), but times have changed. At the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, the Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) ...
• Report: Obama's proposed budget calls for uppi ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to try and get a million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015. In his State of the Union address in 2011, he repeated that number and proposed turning the $7,500 tax credit into a point-of-purchase rebate. ...
• First Drive: 2012 Toyota Prius C [w/video]
  Filed under: Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, First DrivesBaby Of The Family Will Play A Big Role Toyota's new 2012 Prius C doesn't look like a math problem, but that's what it is. Hidden behind its attractive hatchback body and Toyota Synergy Drive hybrid powertrain, the Prius C is just a b ...
• Breaking: Tesla Model X revealed
  Filed under: SUV, Tesla, Electric Here it is, the Tesla Model X, the CUV prototype version of the Model S. We'll have more details live from California soon, but here's what we know at the moment. The Model X can hit 0-60 in 4.4 seconds, will cost around the same as the Model S, and it has ...
• Official: Toyota prices 2012 Prius C under $19K*
  Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota During the Detroit Auto Show, Toyota said the new Prius C would start at under $19,000. Today, we learn that this is like a lesson from Obi-Wan: what Toyota told us was true, from a certain point of view. The base level Prius C One's MSRP is indeed $18,950, but ...

Rafe's Radar

• Facebook, the Timeline, and the difference bet ...
  An update to the otherwise great Pixable photo viewing app illustrates that not all Timeline verbs should be streame ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: LightSquared and the sp ...
  How do you throw away $4 billion? Buy spectrum you can't use. That seems to be what LightSquared did. The company bought access to a chunk of spectrum, and planned to create a new wholesale wireless network. But the FCC this week said, sorry, your planned use of your spectrum intereferes ...
• Startup Secret 36: You're big. But not that big.
  Sure, you can leave the company you started too early. But if you're not careful, you can also hold on to it for too ...
• Clik: The future of remotes, in an alternate r ...
  A new consumer electronics remote control technology gives smartphone users the fastest possible way to pair their s ...
• Privacy dilemma for developers: Apple to the r ...
  Thanks to Path's giant mistake, Apple is finally going to update how it protects users' contact lists. ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

• David Koch: ‘No Stopping Union Power&#82 ...
  Think Progress reporter Lee Fang interviewed David Koch in a sidewalk ambush last year. February 20, 2012 10:00 AM Crooks and Liars  By- Susie Madrak Boy, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree, huh? What a swell family those Kochs are: Billionaire David Koch has vowed to defend Wisconsin ...
• Billionaire Romney Donor Uses Threats To Silen ...
  Friday, Feb 17, 2012 2:02 PM UTC Salon  By Glenn Greenwald Frank VanderSloot is an Idaho billionaire and the CEO of Melaleuca, Inc., a controversial billion-dollar-a-year company which peddles dietary supplements and cleaning products; back in 2004, Forbes, echoing complaints to government agenc ...
• Obama Payroll Tax Cut: President Finally Score ...
  By ANDREW TAYLOR 02/18/12 06:47 AM ET Associated Press  via: Huff Post WASHINGTON — The $143 billion payroll tax cut won by President Barack Obama may be the last significant measure he receives from a deeply divided Congress that promises to only get more polarized as Election Day approac ...
• Afternoon Jukebox: Wichita Lineman
  Hello Koch boys!! See ya on my line… Domain Name (Unknown) IP Address 146.209.159.# (KOCH INDUSTRIES) ISP KOCH INDUSTRIES Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : Kansas City : Wichita Lat/Long : 37.7521, -97.2782 (Map) Language unknown Operating System Un ...
• Record 19 Reporters, Media Execs Join Team Obama
  February 17, 2012 12:52pm The Examiner- Washington by- Paul Bedard For some Washington reporters and media execs, cheering their team from the sidelines just isn’t good enough: Tugging on a red, white and blue Team Obama jersey is the answer. That’s the case for a whopping 19 journalists and med ...

Solari

• Money & Markets – Week of 2.19.12
  Pressed by Unrest and Money Woes, Egypt Accepts I.M.F. Loan The New York Times (19 Feb 12) CME Said to Bid for London Metal Exchange as NYSE Explores Possible Offer Bloomberg (17 Feb 12) Most-Hated ’11 Stocks Burn Short Sellers in ’12 Yahoo Finance (17 Feb [...]
• Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 2.19.12
  Mortgage Settlement – Five Big Banks Finally Reached a Deal With Government Authorities Financial Perspectives (20 Feb 12) HUD’s Donovan Tells Remarkable Whoppers About Settlement to Mortgage Investors Naked Capitalism (15 Feb 12) Foreclosure Abuse Rampant Across U.S., Experts Say Reute ...
• Geopolitical – Week of 2.19.12
  Another March to War? Rolling Stone Politics (17 Feb 12)
• Science & Technology – Week of 2.19.12
  Microchip Successfully Delivers Bone-loss Drug: Study Yahoo News (16 Feb 12) Wolves Besiege Armenian Villages – Can’t Find Food Due to Deep Snow Ice Age Now (17 Feb 12) Solar Highways
• Life – Week of 2.19.12
  Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work YouTube (1 Feb 12)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Why Right-Wingers' Hatred of Modern Women Is G ...
  Conservatives are going wildly off-message when it comes to the fight over contraception.
• Why Is the ACLU Helping the Richest Americans ...
  For decades, people inside and outside the ACLU have tried to get its board to moderate its campaign finance views, and new facts on the ground give them more ammunition.
• Aerial Surveillance, Snipers, Face Masks: Chic ...
  Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch.
• 4 States Where Right-Wingers Are Promoting Sho ...
  The birth control skirmish is not the only regressive, anti-woman, anti-science battle being waged in this country.
• Backfired! 4 Ways the Ohio GOP Tilts Voting Ru ...
  When it comes to gaming voting rights, the Ohio GOP has become the gang that couldn't shoot straight.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• Europe passes the last exit. A great crisis l ...
  Summary:  Today Europe’s leaders have the last opportunity to avoid a great crisis.  Will they continue to demand increasing austerity of the Greek people, pushing them further on a path devoid of hope and leading to poverty and political collapse?  Or will they realize the folly of their ...
• The Fight for Islamic Hearts and Minds
  Summary: As our long war with Islamic nations spreads, its worth a moment to see beyond the fear and lies which clog the news media.  Today we look at one of the many books which accurately describes our relations with the Islamic peoples. The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles K ...
• Question time on the FM website
  Brought back by popular request!  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! (1)  Some quotes to start the debate “There’s class warfare, all right, but i ...
• The promise: We’re from America and we& ...
  Summary:  Other than the lucrative oil contracts signed, what have we accomplished by intervening in Libya?  Good intentions are not enough, especially when the likely consequences are ugly.  At some point there will be “a banquet of consequences” for our wars.  It might result from our ma ...
• Even in our plutocracy, journalism still lives ...
  Summary:  Journalism in a plutocracy is reporting of court news by courtiers.  Boot-licking of the powerful by the ambitious.  But there is always a remnant.  One such is Glenn Greenwald at Salon.  His recent reporting on the pre-attack-on-Iran propaganda has been essential reading for citizens. ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• In Defense of Particularism in American Foreig ...
  [This is a cross-posting from Dart-Throwing Chimp.] I've just finished reading John Lewis Gaddis's terrific biography of George Frost Kennan, a towering figure in American foreign policy after World War II whom Henry Kissinger described as "one of the most important, complex, moving, chall ...
• The Real Defense Budget
  photo credit:  Reuters While everyone knows that the defense budget is large -- even in the numbers that the public sees as the formally admitted figures by the Department of Defense -- the truth is that when one scratches beneath the bureaucratic veneer, national security spending is much ...
• You Might Have Missed: Al-Qaeda, Post-Qaddafi ...
  “The Nutrition Puzzle: Why Do So Many People in Poor Countries Eat So Badly—And What Can Be Done About It?” The Economist, February 18, 2012. Even where there is enough food, people do not seem healthier. On top of 1 billion without enough calories, another 1 billion are malnourished in the se ...
• How to Be a Good Realist
  I'm going to delve clumsily into IR Theory here, so I'd be grateful to get some feedback on the question of the 'Realist' minimum. In a fascinating post recently on US-China relations, Stephen Walt wrote: "First, as a good realist, I think that the basic state of Sino-American relations will be ...
• In the Aftermath of Libya: A Chance to Define ...
  Libya, in the words of the Obama Administration, was a “time-limited, scope-limited” engagement enacted under the responsibility to protect doctrine. After decades of dealing with Qadhafi’s nepotism and secret police, I hope that Libyans will be able to move towards a participatory democracy (an ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• New Blog to Transform American Politics, Say O ...
  Beginning today, I'll be one of the Voices featured here on prospect.org, which means that all my writing going forward will be collected in this space (although my posts on the campaign will still appear in Vox Pop as well). Those of you familiar with the work I've done here at TAP over the la ...
• Why Tuesday?
  A readers points me to the group, Why Tuesday, that wants to move Election Day to a more convenient time.  They write: Today, we are an urban society, and we all know how hard it is to commute to our jobs, take care of the children, and get our work done, let alone stand on lines to vote. Indee ...
• The Bible Eruption
  As we’re freshly reminded by the Presidents' Day debut of Clinton, a PBS documentary on the Man from Hope, one big question clouded his 1992 primary campaign: When would the “bimbo eruption” come? (Thanks to Gennifer Flowers, it came early in the process; thanks to Hillary’s “stand by your man” ...
• Foxconn Tiptoes Out of The Jungle
  Foxconn Technology—responsible for assembling iPhones, Xbox 360s, and Dell computers—announced a 25 percent pay raise for its employees at Chinese factories on Saturday. News of the raise comes after weeks of increased scrutiny of the working conditions at the plants, which together employ 1.2 ...
• Happy Presidents' Day!
  We'll be updating Vox Pop with new posts throughout the day, but expect it to be a little lighter than usual, it being a federal holiday and all. We'll be back in full force tomorrow though, getting excited for Wednesday's debate (the first one in 33 days ... not that we've been counting), and ...

Buzzflash

• The Case for Requiring Members of Congress to ...
  MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In case you missed it, the Republicans in Congress got the Democrats to agree to drug testing many applicants for unemployment compensation. In return, the Democrats got the Republicans to sign off on an extension of unemployment benefits this year, althou ...
• The Definition of Insanity: Deregulating Over ...
  PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A cynic might argue that business leaders and their friends in Congress weren't expecting different results.read more
• Voters This Year Should Be Afraid, Be Very Afr ...
  ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Don't you see how they look down on you, the political elites" says Rick Santorum in his best revival tent, Elmer Gantry manner. The ominous tone of his message and his manner should serve as a warning to people who cherish real freedom of expression and re ...
• When It Comes to Unions, the Republican Party ...
  When it comes to the harsh treatment of and low pay for working people, the Republican Party leadership resembles the former Soviet Union Politburo. BuzzFlash at Truthout has discussed before how iconic GOP figures such as Ronald Reagan heaped praise on the Solidarity Union in the years l ...
• Is the Republican Party a Last-Stand Contingen ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "GOP Priorities out of touch with Americans," crowed an email BuzzFlash at Truthout received today from the Democratic House Leadership Office. Call it a partisan claim (we get similar boasting emails from the GOP leadership), but the facts of a new ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Lies, damned lies and statistics
  It’s a cliche…the headline, I mean. Many of us, on reading yet another statistic from a government department, a merchant banker or a scaremongering tabloid health story, recognise that statistics are anything but infallible, they are malleable, they can be manipulated to any given e ...
• Filling up on Sciencebase
  Grab Sciencebase. There are now several more ways you can get more Sciencebase goodness than there were just a could of years ago when I first compiled this post. I updated the tumblr account for the site, we saw the launch of Google+, I’ve expanded Facebook activity considerably and passe ...
• Science, spectroscopy and stuff
  My latest SpectroscopyNOW column goes live today. Four items: Cheminformatics and TB, laser spectroscopy and graphene, ‘shroom doom and enmeshed drugs. Multivariate statistical data processing has been used to create a model from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data of metabol ...
• Open science – just do it
  The idea of open science means different things to different people, but primarily it is about community, the scientific community and beyond. At a time when commercial publishers are coming under increasing pressure there are boycotts and rebellions and the new wave of open access publishers ar ...
• Cambridge students to grill Sciencebase
  Once again, I’ll be attending the annual media careers event at Cambridge University, where students and alumni get a chance to chat with members of the media about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. The February 20 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Candlelight Vigil and March Delivers a Message ...
  Parents and community supporters will hold a candlelight vigil this afternoon in Lake View to protest planned school closures. Sixteen public schools are currently slated for closure and “turnaround.”read more
• Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dis ...
  The government today asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge the constitutionality of a law that gives the government unprecedented authority to monitor international emails and phone calls by Americans.read more
• Progressive Democrats of America Joins the 99% ...
  Progressive Democrats of America is joining the 99% Spring. This spring we will help train 100,000 people across the country to participate in sustained non-violent, direct action in the spirit of Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez and other movement leaders. We will stand with the ...
• Will Chevron Case Take Down Trade Pact ‘Invest ...
  An unprecedented ruling today, in which an investor-state international arbitral tribunal initiated by Chevron ordered the Ecuadorian government to interfere in the operations of Ecuador’s independent court system on behalf of the oil giant, provides a chilling glimpse of how corporations ...
• Will Chevron Case Take Down Trade Pact ‘Invest ...
  An unprecedented ruling today, in which an investor-state international arbitral tribunal initiated by Chevron ordered the Ecuadorian government to interfere in the operations of Ecuador’s independent court system on behalf of the oil giant, provides a chilling glimpse of how corporations ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The Radical Center We Don't Need
  Robert Kuttner Tom Friedman of the New York Times is at it again, claiming that what America needs to fix our economic and political mess is a radically centrist third party. Radical in this case means conservative when it comes to belt-tig ...
• The Definition of Insanity: Deregulating Over ...
  Paul Buchheit A cynic might argue that business leaders and their friends in Congress weren't expecting different results.read more
• A Tale of Two Voyages and the Global Color Line
  Joseph Nevins The tragic running aground of the Costa Concordia and dramatic images of the massive luxury cruise ship keeled over off the coast of Tuscany, Italy in mid-January made for intense media coverage. With 17 confirmed fatalities a ...
• Calling on President Obama: Be Our Warrior for ...
  Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Although most Americans think of Presidents’ Day mainly in terms of sales on home appliances and electronics, as well as a welcome mid-winter day off, it’s worth stopping to think for a moment about ...
• “We Are Drowning” On A Road To Nowhere: New Wa ...
  Danny Schechter “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Water Wars

• Melanie nominated for a Matilda
  USQ graduates have proved once again they’re the shining stars on the Queensland theatre scene with several performers nominated for Matilda Awards.
• Renée Thompson's book lifts fine drama fro ...
  "The Plume Hunter " by Renée Thompson is deceptive. Yes, it's a well-researched historical novel about the devastating business of pluming – killing birds for their feathers.
• Ricochet: Water wars
  The recent and relentless escalation of oil costs in the world market has shocked governments and shook even the most stable economies. The dependence of the world on the fluid called oil has shaped international political structures and created new economic powers. Because of that dependence, o ...
• Study: St. Johns River can handle pumping with ...
  PALATKA – A four-year study concludes that significant amounts of water can be pumped out of the St. Johns River to support population growth in Central Florida without harming the river in North Florida, environmental regulators said Tuesday.
• Study: St. Johns River can handle pumping
  PALATKA – Environmental regulators in Palatka said Tuesday that a four-year study concludes that significant amounts of water can be pumped out of the St. Johns River to support population growth in Central Florida without harming the river's health in North Florida.

WordPress | Economics

• Charitable Giving and Obama's Budget
  Barry talks with Rick Dunham, from Dunham and Company, about changes propsed by President Obama
• [DM] "Some population-related links"
  I’ve a post up at Demography Matters linking to a variety of population-related blog posts, ev
• Death Star Construction Costs of the Day
  Death Star Construction Costs of the Day: Economics blog Centives devoted a recent post to one of th
• The Inevitable America
  The Inevitable America Inevitably the current trends in the job market will continue until the deman
• I Don't Pay Movement
  There is a growing movement in Europe at the moment called I Don’t Pay! This post will be most

Electronic Intifada

• East Jerusalem cinema reopens after 25 years
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 20 February 2012 Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem can once again go to the movies, now that Al Quds Cinema has reopened its doors after being closed for 25 years.
• Gaza families recount terror of latest air strikes
  Rami Almeghari Gaza City 17 February 2012 Israeli airstrikes early Thursday morning injured six persons, including rescue workers. Meanwhile, area residents say this is not the first time they have been subjected to Israeli strikes.
• Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
  Nehad Khader Washington, DC 16 February 2012 Protests in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan made his plight impossible to ignore.
• Israeli forces destroy "the only place for chi ...
  Josie Shields-Stromsness East Jerusalem 15 February 2012 Israeli bulldozers demolished the only community center and refuge for Palestinian children in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
• Never mind Johnny Rotten, real punks boycott I ...
  Alexander Billet Chicago 20 February 2012 Working with the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, Punks Against Apartheid follows a firm tradition of anti-racism within the punk movement.

The Wonk Room

• Confusing Climate Study Actually Makes Strong ...
  In the world we must strive to achieve, however difficult or implausible it may seem today, there is no place for a major expansion of the tar sands Climatologist Andrew Weaver asks me to direct folks to this website and this video, ”in case the tar sands piece that Neil [Swart] and I publ ...
• World’s Worst Elected Official Makes the Case ...
  Oakland County Executive calls “Sprawl” the American Dream by Christopher Mims, reposted from Grist. “Well, let me state it unequivocally: I love sprawl,” says L. Brooks Patterson, county executive of Oakland County, Mich. “I need it. I promote it. Oakland County can’t get enough of ...
• How To Be as Persuasive as Abraham Lincoln: St ...
  President’s day 2012 is another reminder of Obama’s ongoing failure to be the rhetorically inspiring leader that climate hawks had hoped for. So here’s some material from my forthcoming book on messaging. I think science has mostly told us what it can about the urgent need to a ...
• How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges ...
  I have one word for you — scalability by Ned L. Harvey, reposted from the Rocky Mountain Institute If you’ve have heard about Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute’s roadmap for a secure, renewable energy future, and are like almost everyone with whom I have talked about i ...
• Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign&#8 ...
  Another Key Denier Tactic: Creation of “Front Groups” by Donald A. Brown, reposted from the Penn State Climate Ethics Blog I. Introduction. This is the second entry in a series looking at the climate change disinformation campaign through an ethical lens. The first entry explained: ( ...

thwap's schoolyard

• It's all in the framing ...
  http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/20/europe-financial-greece.html http://leninology.blogspot.com/2012/02/scenes-from-class-struggle-in-greece.html
• Dalton "Shock Doctrine" McGuinty
  It's nice of Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty to be so obvious. I mean, I already knew that he had an unhealthy contempt for democracy and human rights when he skulked around in the dead of night to remove our Charter Rights at the behest of the thuggish Toronto Police Service Chief Bill ...
• Violence "Discrediting" Occupy Wall Street?
  There's a lot that I agree with in this Chris Hedges essay: "Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless" but a lot that I disagree with as well: How do we fight back? We do not have the tools or the wealth of the state. We cannot beat it at its own game. We cannot ferret out infiltrators. The le ...
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  First of all, I'll talk about the stupid stuff. It's just been rattling around in the cavernous empty space of my mind for the past week or so. How monumentally stupid and hypocritical it was for those Conservative Party of Canada scum to jump on the "It Gets Better" bandwagon. I mean, what coul ...

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Digital Journal

• Animal welfare group proposes bill of rights f ...
  A coalition of scientists, ethicists and animal welfare groups is proposing a bill of rights for dolphins. The group says dolphins are so intelligent that they should be thought of as "non-human persons" and given due protection under law.
• Santorum spokeswoman calls Obama policies 'rad ...
  Rick Santorum's new campaign spokeswoman, Alice Stewart apparently didn't get the memo that said they were leaving all the gaffes to the candidate himself. She topped Santorum's recent blunder with one of her own, later saying she "misspoke."
• Hilton Hotel guests denied refund after Whitne ...
  Reports say some guests staying at The Beverly Hilton on the weekend of singer Whitney Houston's death in a hotel suite there have asked for refunds due to the attendant uproar. It appears the hotel has refused.
• Health Canada warning: Do your kids have these ...
  Health Canada's latest announcement has parents on high alert: two children's playset toys manufactured in China are said to contain dangerously high levels of lead.
• Goalie up for grabs: Detroit Red Wings put Ty ...
  With the return from injury of Detroit Red Wing starter Jimmy Howard it became the proverbial numbers game and, after a stellar run by Joey MacDonald, the number for goalie Ty Conklin is up. Conklin has been put on waivers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Promote peace and stop paying for war with Con ...
  Conscience Canada is a group of people who want to know that all the funds that we, as citizens, turn over to government will be used only for peaceful purposes.
• Vic Toews is watching you
  Public Safety Minister Vic Toews took a break last week from his busy schedule of tracking down terrorist environmentalists, expanding the prison system, and approving information swaps with torturers to put Bill C-30, the disingenuously named Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, bef ...
• Please renew your support for 2012!
  If you would gladly give $7 each month to stop Harper’s stealth fighters, click here. New monthly donors will receive a free copy of the revised edition of Speaking Out Louder: Ideas that Work for Canadians by Jack Layton (a $30 value).
• Tortured policy
  Public Security Minister Vic Toews has directed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to accept -- "in exceptional circumstances" only of course -- information obtained through the use of torture.
• On the road to war with Iran?
  Former Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren warns that fear of an Iranian "Islamic Bomb" may be pushing the U.S. towards war with Iran.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• ‘Iran is already a nuclear power’
  Russia Todayyoutube.com The US and Britain are warning Israel not to attack Iran‘s nuclear facilities… saying new sanctions need time to work. Tehran, currently being visited by UN inspectors, denies accusations it’s developing atomic weapons. But Israel — which also accu ...
• Cynthia McKinney Tells It Like It Is
  Dissident Voice Article By Gary Corseri 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 re ...
• SOPA author demands ISPs keep user data for 18 ...
  Lawmakers in the U.S. and Canada are considering two different, yet distinctly similar bills that critics say would forever end the concept of online privacy. Both bills promise enhanced protections for children targeted by child pornographers on the Internet by mandating that Internet service p ...
• Big Sis Hires Hundreds Of Security Guards To P ...
  Move follows controversy over armed guards placed outside Florida Social Security office Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, February 20, 2012 The Department of Homeland Security has hired hundreds of security guards to protect scores of government buildings across the country as the fe ...
• Thai Muslim Leader: Mossad’s MEK Responsible f ...
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com February 20, 2012 As officials in Thailand paraded suspects accused of attacking Israeli diplomats in Bangkok before the corporate media, new details have emerged about the attack and the group responsible for them. Bomb suspect Mohammad Hazaei. Is he a MEK operative trai ...

Dandelion Salad

• Karzai Demand on Night Raids Snags U.S.-Afghan ...
  by Gareth Porter and Shah Nouri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS Feb. 20, 2012 WASHINGTON/KABUL, Feb 20, 2012 (IPS) – Nearly a year after the Barack Obama administration began negotiations with the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a U.S. military presence in ...
• Exclusive: The god of this world: Money by Sha ...
  by Shawn S. Grandstaff Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 20, 2012 Sometimes to know what love is you got to know what it’s not. A conspiracy is just the label they use to cover up truth in order to maintain the delusional mentality of reality but with half-truths, which are whole lies, ...
• How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street by Elle ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com February 20, 2012 In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greider wrote in The Nation on February 15th: Financial market cynics have assumed all along that Dodd-Frank did not end “too big to fail” ...
• Acts of Love by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Feb. 20, 2012 Love, the deepest human commitment, the force that defies empirical examination and yet is the defining and most glorious element in human life, the love between two people, between children and parents, between friends, betw ...
• Ralph Nader: Who Runs The World? (1998)
  Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader midwestrenew on Feb 15, 2012 Take a step back in time with us to the 9th Annual Energy Fair in Amherst, WI, and watch the full Keynote Speech from American political activist Ralph Nader. Energy Fair 1998 Keynote Speaker Ralph Nader see The Age of Stupid (2009) C ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Disease-Fighting Secrets of Genetically Modifi ...
  New strategies to alter the genes of mosquitoes hold promise for fighting the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. This gallery of GM mosquitoes covers some of the latest research.
• The Inside Story on 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 p ...
• Crab Nebula’s Pulsar May Be Fast Particle Acce ...
  A "light cylinder" in the heart of the Crab Nebula may feed the mysterious, particle accelerator-like behavior of the nebula's rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar.
• Ancient Galaxy Collision Created Enormous Stel ...
  New simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars surrounding a distant galaxy formed when two equal-sized galaxies collided.
• Video: Behind the Scenes at Giant Keck Telescopes
  A behind-the-scenes look at how one telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory, produces its superb space images.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Israeli High Court of Justice schedules hearin ...
  Israel’s High Court of Justice scheduled a petitions hearing regarding the case of Khader Adnan on Thursday, 23 February 2012. The High Court of Justice was provided with a detailed medical report... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Continuing the Palestinian struggle: an interv ...
  For over 50 years, Fouzi El-Asmar has been one of the most important public intellectuals of the Palestinian liberation struggle. He is most well-known as the author of the landmark autobiographical... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• West Bank outposts spreading into Area B, in v ...
  Settlers from West Bank outposts have taken control of land in Area B and are thus in breach of the 1995 Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, says Dror Etkes, an anti-settlement... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Richard Falk: Saving Khader Adnan’s life is sa ...
  The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze. Khader Adnan is entering his 61st day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison, being held under an administrative detention order without... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Al Jazeera: Hundreds of Palestinians join hung ...
  Coverage of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel under administrative detention, as his hunger strike enters its 61st day. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mo ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Air Force to Receive New Attack Aircra ...
  The deliveries of new close air support aircraft to the Russian Air Force will start by 2020
• Iran Launches 4-Day Air Defense Drills
  Iran launched on Monday four-day air defense drills to train protection of important national facilities, primarily nuclear facilities, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
• India to Buy 71 More Russian Helicopters
  The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to procure 71 more Mi-17 V5 helicopters, including 12 for the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Business Standard daily reported on Monday.
• Kyrgyzstan Wants U.S. out of Manas in 2014
  The Kyrgyz president reiterated on Monday that the United States must withdraw all its troops from the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan when the current lease agreement expires in the summer of 2014.
• Putin Warns Against Defense Contract Gouging
  Any attempts to overprice arms and military equipment delivered under government defense contracts will be relentlessly suppressed, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

NewsWise

• Mother's Migraine May Increase Baby's Risk of ...
  New research suggests that mothers who experience migraine may be more likely to have a baby with colic than mothers without a history of migraine. Colic is defined as excessive crying in an otherwise healthy infant. The research was released today and will be presented at the American Academy o ...
• Guideline: Monitoring Spinal Cord During Surge ...
  The American Academy of Neurology is issuing an updated guideline that recommends monitoring the spinal cord during spinal surgery and certain chest surgeries to help prevent paralysis, or loss of muscle function, related to the surgeries. The guideline, which was developed with the American Cli ...
• Simple "Frailty" Test Predicts Kidney Transpla ...
  A simple, 10-minute bedside assessment conducted prior to surgery appears to be the best method yet for predicting which kidney transplant patients will do well with their new organs, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
• Babies' Colic Linked to Mothers' Migraines
  A study of mothers and their young babies by neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that mothers who suffer migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than mothers without a history of migraines.
• More Grapes, Less Wrath: Hybrid Antimicrobial ...
  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team of researchers has found a way to ensure that your evening glass of wine will continue to be available, despite the potential attack of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), a bacterium that causes Pierce's Disease and poses a significant threat to the California wine indust ...

Natural Health News

• New Research Shows GMOs are Far More Dangerous ...
  Some disturbing new research is showing that genetically modified (GM) crops with "stacked traits" (multiple GM traits in one plant, such as both having resistance to glyphosate-herbicide and producing Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal toxins) could be far more dangerous to human health than p ...
• What I Said on the Dr. Oz Show that Really Sho ...
  Last week, Dr. Oz invited me to New York to tape another segment for his show, and we talked about a number of interesting topics.  But when we talked about mercury detoxification and how one could use chlorella for it, he asked me what the most common sources were. I explained that three o ...
• Can Probiotics Prevent the Development of Celi ...
  Celiac disease is caused by intolerance to gluten. Both environmental factors and the composition of the bacteria in your gut may have critical roles in the onset of celiac disease. Researchers recently created a mouse model for celiac disease to study the influence of probiotics on the develop ...
• This Type of Exercise Can Actually Make You Sm ...
  Mounting evidence is showing that regular exercise can help prevent a host of cognitive impairments and enhance your brainpower. Researchers recently examined more than 100 studies on the topic, and discovered that both resistance training and aerobic exercise provide mental benefits, but in di ...
• What Food to Take Before Bed to Dramatically I ...
  A recent study looked at the role of protein in modulating post-exercise overnight recovery. The researchers assessed the impact of protein ingestion immediately prior to sleep on digestion, absorption kinetics, and protein metabolism. 16 healthy young males were asked to perform resistance exe ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Georgetown Symposium: Corporate Responsibility ...
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Just a quick note to flag an upcoming symposium at Georgetown Law on Corporate Responsibility under the Alien Tort Statute. It’s scheduled for all day March 27, 2012.  Here’s a quick description of the event: Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation has ...
• Georgetown Symposium: Corporate Responsibility ...
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Just a quick note to flag an upcoming symposium at Georgetown Law on Corporate Responsibility under the Alien Tort Statute. It’s scheduled for all day March 27, 2012.  Here’s a quick description of the event: Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation has ...
• U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WW II
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A fascinating chart, courtesy of Juan Cole at Informed Comment: I don’t have any grand political points to make — other than to point out that Canada better watch its back.
• U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WW II
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A fascinating chart, courtesy of Juan Cole at Informed Comment: I don’t have any grand political points to make — other than to point out that Canada better watch its back.
• AlphaDogs, Cheetah-bots, and Mecha-Avatars
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Three quick updates from the “robots and warfare” side of things (largely culled from recent Danger Room posts that caught my eye and I wanted to point out to Opinio Juris readers). I have previously posted about Big Dog, the four-legged beast of bur ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – February 21
  1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. 1919 – Kurt Eisn ...
• Troops March on White House for Ron Paul
  Ron Paul’s consistently strong anti-war message is one that resonates with many U.S. troops today. Hundreds of active duty troops, veterans, and Paul supporters marched from the Washington Monument to the White House this afternoon. Sick of fighting seemingly never-ending wars overseas, tr ...
• The Jack Blood Show – February 20 2012
  Monday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Welcome Back Jack! Jacks’s Special guest in the second hour was Wendy from Hutaree.
• SOPA author demands ISPs keep user data for 18 ...
  Lawmakers in the U.S. and Canada are considering two different, yet distinctly similar bills that critics say would forever end the concept of online privacy. Both bills promise enhanced protections for children targeted by child pornographers on the Internet by mandating that Internet service p ...
• Virginia House Passes NDAA-Nullifying Bill; Ot ...
  Hello? Texas? Hello? Buller? So only Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are on the ballot in VA. One is for the NDAA, one is against it. Who should win that election in “reality” – Oh… That’s right. Sorry. As Karl Rove once said, “WE Control Reality”…. &#160 ...

The Air Vent

• Peter Gleick – Confessions of an Activist
  During the followup to the Heartland institute document release, some bloggers had deduced that government funded activist Peter Gleick had a hand in the mess.  His 501C is powered by government taxpayer cash, which is fine, except that he is an activist which uses the money to fund political me ...
• Warning – Anti-Science “Data&#8221 ...
  Sea ice by latitude video.   Layman Lurker was able to use online tools to establish that the only perennial sea ice exists above about 72 degrees latitude.  This leaves a small 18 degree circle at the north pole for the multi-year sea ice to exist.   I wanted to confirm this fact before moving ...
• The Cotton War
  Doug Cotton continues to spam Leonard Weinstein’s thread which changed topic hundreds of comments ago.  Leonard is a lot of trouble as a guest post as Climategate 1 broke here on his thread as well.  It seems my poor moderation has led to some very powerful threats from Douglas. Time to wa ...
• Sea Ice Area vs Latitude
  I’m not sure the best way to present these results but I’ll start with just the photos.   I was curious how the sea ice looked by latitude band.  We know from previous posts that there is a minimum sea ice level which contains some noise bias. This post shows sea ice area in each deg ...
• Hey Media – Skeptics are Scientists Too
  I suppose I’m old enough not to be surprised by the behavior of the media anymore, but this garbage coverage of the Heartland scandal  has done it again.  The media has flatly ignored that the point of the funding for SKEPTICS was to put the temperature data on line.   That’s it!!  P ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
  A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Feb. 13 to Feb. 19. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Feb. 13 Ski On Neon provides stylized, retro-themed evolution … Continue reading →
• More media sites integrate Open Graph as socia ...
  MSNBC.com, The Daily Show, The Huffington Post, MTV News and other media companies launched Open Graph integrations last week to enable site visitors to share their activity back on Facebook. With the announcement of the new apps, Facebook revealed statistics … Continue reading →
• Games, birthdays, WashPo, Pinterest, Scribd, m ...
  Hidden Chronicles led our list applications growing by monthly active users. There were also a few birthday calendar applications, Yahoo, the Washington Post Social Reader, Pinterest, Scribd, tab apps and more. Titles on our list gained the most monthly active … Continue reading →
• New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at SponsorPay, GREE International, Inc., Social Point, King.com, Atari ...
• Facebook Roundup: fellowship, Africa, sharehol ...
  Facebook announces 2012 fellows - Facebook announced 12 picks for its Fellowship Program this week. The company had about 300 applicants for the positions which include a year’s worth of tuition, a $30,000 stipend, $5,000 for travel and $2,500 for a computer. … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

• Ten questions Britain's William Hague won't an ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that behind British Foreign Secretary William Hague's extraordinary and otherwise inexplicable hostility towards Iran may lie the desire to preserve the imbalance of power in the Middle East so that Israel remains the dominant military force.
• Palestine: a story that needs retelling
  Paul J. Balles retells the story of Palestine, reminding us in brief and simple terms of the the basic, undeniable facts of the world's worst, most obdurate and premeditated injustice.
• Abolishing the Palestinian Authority an urgent ...
  Jeff Halper calls for the abolition of the Palestinian National Authority, which he argues is nothing but a smokescreen to enable Israel to ethnically cleanse itself while the world and Palestinian quislings are preoccupied with the pursuit of the mirage of a two-state solution, something in fac ...
• Israel and the paths to national suicide
  Uri Avnery argues that Israel, through its unwillingness to reach a just accommodation with the Palestinians, its ticking bomb of rapidly multiplying parasitic Orthodox Jews, who do not work and are not equipped for the modern age, and its growing unattractiveness as a place to live, may be head ...
• Time for Jewish activists to shun their racial ...
  Gilad Atzmon considers how racially-driven Zionists and Jewish lobbies abuse the term "racism" and have turned "anti-racism" into a tool to silence criticism of Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism. He argues that rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Israeli propagan ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “You can’t say civilization don’t advance…in every war they kill you in a new way.” –Will Rogers International Newsworthy Israel: We Can Hit All of Iran’s Nuclear Sites US Push to Arm Israel Panetta: ‘Israel to Strike Iran in Apri ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “There is one modern political writer who saw very clearly that military centralization is helpful in undermining a federal republic. His name was Adolf Hitler. Chapter 10 of Volume II of Mein Kampf, which is devoted to an indictment of German Federalism as an obstacle to ...
• The Decision-Makers-of-Wars & ‘You’
  It is More Like ‘Them’ vs. ‘You’ The Decision-Makers-of-Wars have decided to end one in 2013. That is, after twelve years, after they made the decision to make that war in the first place. No talk of terrorists, wins, or liberation – no more. At least on that one. Same as the other one. Th ...
• National “Defense” & the Departmen ...
  Time to Rename the Defense Department the War Department? The U.S. Congress created the Department of War in 1789.  One hundred and sixty years later, in 1949, it became the Department of Defense.  The various factors involved in the name change likely included fatigue with death and destruction ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “Every war in which the United States has engaged since 1815 was waged in the name of democracy. Each has contributed to that centralization of power which tends to destroy that local self-government which is what most Americans have in mind when they acclaim democracy.&# ...

Afro Spear

• A piece of heaven in a world of hell
  As I was watching this documentary on Liberia, I though to myself: “here we go again, white people showing the worst of Africa, disease, death, crime, corruption, prostitution, cannibalism, civil war, dirt, filth, despair, hopelessness etc.” I almost turned it off but as I continued ...
• A Thought on Abortion
  “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It h ...
• “Africa needs to sign a new social contr ...
  Jean Russeau wrote in Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” To free himself, Russeau suggests that man must gain security and a measure of freedom from action, in exchange for surrender of rights and property to the general will. This is not the language of complian ...
• Happy Valentine’s Day
• The Day My Heart Broke
  Rest in Peace My Beautiful Diva!

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• 500 U.S. Deaths From Police Tasers; Amnesty Ca ...
  The latest decedent was unarmed. And that is not uncommon...
• Depleting the Seas of Fish
  International ecologists and economists believe "the world will run out of seafood by 2048" if current fishing rates continue.
• Israeli Torture: Accountability Denied
  The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI) "believes that torture and ill-treatment of any kind and under all circumstances is incompatible with the moral values of democracy and the rule of law."
• Buterball Employees Arrested for Cruelty to An ...
  I will always applaud the animal groups who seek to make conditions better for our farm animals. They are living, breathing creatures as we. They deserve compassionate treatment at all times
• Back of Envelope Calculations on the Effect of ...
  Price elasticity of demand is "a measure of responsiveness of the quantity of a good or service demanded to changes in its price." Using projections of the effect of sanctions on Iranian oil exports, we calculated that the effect would be seemingly small from the simple drop in production, thoug ...

Switchboard

• The Race to the Rio+20 Earth Summit speeds up ...
  Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC I am in Nairobi this week for the the United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”) Governing Council.   It is in part a celebration of the 40th anniversary of ...
• 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 allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a ne ...
• Event examines how to make LA a mobile city again
  Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica This fall I taught a class at UCLA Law school, and was surprised to hear that many of the students did not plan to stay in LA after graduating.  When asked why, ...
• NRDC in the News 2/17: Protect the Arctic, Mr. ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Seattle Times published Frances Beinecke’s op-ed, which called upon President Obama to uphold his vow to stand up to Big Oil and protect the Arctic from drilling; the op-ed was strategicall ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• More on Romney’s Inevitability
  Sabato et al have broken down the rest of the GOP primary race by date, delegate, and demographics.  A couple thoughts: 1. Colorado notwithstanding, I have trouble seeing the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West states as tossups.  Romney is going to have strong support from Mormons all over the ...
• Conservative women are more than just “h ...
  Somehow I missed the fact that a group of C-List conservative bloggers turned on themselves over the issue of propriety at CPAC. At the same event in which this high-minded little event took place, it was reported that the female attendees “looked like two-bit whores.” That’s a ...
• “Lager’s amber fluid mild/gives he ...
  I happened across this image while reading Daniel Okrent’s fantastic Last Call, a history of the Prohibition movement that I assigned to an upper-division course largely out of an interest in remedying my own failure to devote much time at all to the political and cultural economies of boo ...
• Paging Jack Cashill. Jack Cashill. Paging Jack ...
  Jack Cashill’s annoyed that Media Matters for America (MMFA) “intimidate[d] editors into not assigning Deconstructing Obama for review.” His evidence? To date, even though my thesis is widely accepted on the right, not a single conservative publication has reviewed it, not even ...
• Conservertarianism: Still Dead
  Great catch by Susan of Texas, as Megan McArdle shares some thoughts about abortion regulation in a comments thread. [via Mr. Bogg.] Let’s start with this: I think that abortion should be legal, but I also think that it should be a last resort, and I’m all for the government using an ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Mexican Sports Car Takes An Electrifying Turn
  Mexican automaker Mastretta strikes a deal with Korea-based Leo Motors to develop an electric MXT with big power and long range.
• Solar Innovators Grow In SunShot Incubator
  The U.S. Department of Energy announces $12 million in funding for its SunShot Incubator, which supports the commercialization of solar energy technologies.
• World’s Greenest Supercomputer Heads Down Under
  IBM's Blue Gene/Q, ranked as the world's most energy efficient supercomputer, is headed to Australia to aid in research into life-threatening diseases.
• Solar Barge: The Comforts Of Home, On Water
  An innovative 1.7 kilowatt-rated solar array powers both cruising and a remarkable range of household appliances, carbon-free, on the stylish Bauhaus Barge.
• Texas Research Lab Not The Usual Energy Hog
  A neurological research institute in Texas grabs LEED Gold for a green design that results in using 35 percent less power than a typical lab.

National Law Journal | U.S.

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

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• US Committed to Promote American Investment in ...
  He states as always the United States has a huge bilateral agenda with Russia which means so there's a lot of business to conduct between two countries.
• California Tax Reference Guide Makes Estimatin ...
  To help make the reporting process more convenient, the BOE, working with the California Franchise Tax Board, has made available an easy-to-read reference guide, the Use Tax Lookup Table.
• Attorney General Says Open Carry Lawsuit Shoul ...
  Curiously, the City Attorney who has previously stated that California law does not apply to his city because of its status as a 'Charter City' now claims that he is required to enforce subsection (e) of the statute under California law.
• Nearly 400 Camp Ashraf Residents Arrive At Cam ...
  Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the United States commends the Iraqi government for its facilitation of a secure and peaceful relocation process and its willingness to invest significant resources in that regard.
• US-China Trade Relations Take New Turns Toward ...
  This type of trade cooperation embodies a diverse investment mode and signals a new trend in the Sino-US economic and trade relations.

environment 360

• NASA Photo Shows Shrinking Lake in Southern Sa ...
  A new photo taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station shows the extent to which Lake Fitri, a terminal lake in the southern Sahara Desert in Chad, has diminished as a consequence of Click to enlarge NASA Lake Fitri climate change. In the photo, which was taken in January ...
• ‘Mobile’ Marine Reserves Needed To Protect Far ...
  U.S. scientists say the creation of “mobile” marine reserves reflecting the migratory nature of far-ranging species will be needed to prevent the extinction of some vulnerable species. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Larry Crowder, direc ...
• Interview: A Clean Energy Guru Presents His Ma ...
  For four decades, Amory Lovins has been a leading proponent of a renewable power revolution that would wean the U.S. off fossil fuels and usher in an era of Amory Lovins energy independence. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses his latest book, Reinventing Fire, which ...
• Dutch Scientists Report Conversion of Plants i ...
  Dutch scientists say they have developed a process that uses nanotechnology to convert plant matter into the basic components of plastics, an innovation that could ultimately provide an alternative to oil-based plastics in the manufacture of thousands of everyday products. Using a catalyst made ...
• Large Area of New Guinea Stripped of Protectio ...
  More than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land in Indonesian New Guinea — including 350,000 hectares of carbon-storing peatland — was stripped of its protected status to facilitate the expansion of a View images Mongabay/Google Earth The MIFEE project government-based agribusiness ...

Red Ice Creations

• "Monsignors’ mutiny" revealed by Vatican leaks
  Call it Conspiracy City. Call it Scandal City. Call it Leak City. These days the holy city has been in the news for anything but holy reasons. "It is a total mess," said one high-ranking Vatican official who spoke, like all others, on the condition of anonymity. The Machiavellian maneuvering and ...
• Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Sugge ...
  The general image of a retirement age at 65 is problematic according to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. In an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter, (see article here) Reinfeldt argues that a working life could as well continue until an age of 75. This in order to uphold the desireble pensio ...
• Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
  February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important reco ...
• The Good Death: Making Death Part of Your Life
  Fear the reaper? Most of us do. But there’s help! Since January 2011, a ’death insider’ has been breaking down the mysterious world of death, dying, and what happens to our bodies and remains once we’ve shuffled off this mortal coil. The business of funerary rites and procedures, dating back as ...
• World Trade Centre rebuilding cost balloons to ...
  Navigant Consulting says the Port Authority is a dysfunctional organization that has let the World Trade Centre rebuilding project’s costs get out of control. The estimated cost has gone from $US11 billion in 2008 to $US14.8 billion now. NY Governor Cuomo and NJ Governor Christie ordered the rev ...

Russia Today

• Afghan outrage over US Koran burning
  Violent protests have broken out by the US military base in Bagram after US troops improperly disposed of Korans confiscated from inmates. NATO commander issued an official apology in an attempt to quell public outcry. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Late-learner Latvia plans to join eurozone ami ...
  Latvia is willing to pay its share in any future bailouts of indebted euro nations, maintaining plans to join the monetary union by 2014. Euroskeptics say the step would be nothing short of economic suicide for Riga. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Gastronauts: NASA’s Hawaiian Mars diet experiment
  NASA is lining up humans to eat space food on Hawaii in a mission-to-Mars simulation. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Afghan spy plan: Every soldier an informer
  The Afghan government is embarking on a plan to spy on its own soldiers, with a view to curbing Green-on-Blue attacks by Afghan servicemen on their coalition compatriots according to an article published by the Wall... Read Full Article at RT.com
• America’s crusade ‘utterly utopian’ - Pat Buchanan
  Islamic wars have brought questionable benefit to the US over the last 20 years, former US presidential advisor Pat Buchanan, author of Suicide of a Superpower, shared with RT. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• If an Israeli preemptive strike against a perc ...
  If preemptive war was not against international law, wouldn’t Iran have a good case to launch a preemptive strike on Israel, with all the threats Israel and the US are making against Iran? And while the USG deliberates about how difficult hitting Iranian sites would be, how Iran’s in ...
• Yum!
  Where’s the beef at? Gosh, it’s right here, Big Dave! Test-tube meat to be available this fall!
• Question for the Green Cities Coalition: How & ...
  My friend Lotus has a few words for the Green Cities Coalition, the so-far irrelevant activist hub which purports to speak for the region’s environmentalists. One of their number will be debating a fracking proponent on Thursday, where the public will see firsthand whether the GCC is a fig ...
• Capitalist barbarism on display in Florence, C ...
  By now, the propaganda machine in capitalist society world wide has begun its coverup of the real truth about the Honduran prison gulags. Almost 360 burned alive in a fire at a prison system where it WAS NOT the first time the Honduran police authorities have burned prisoners alive, hundreds who ...
• Religious Discrimination passed off as ‘ ...
  Throughout the US, we have religious discrimination against Muslims by the police being passed off as being a pragmatic application of maintaining ‘National Security’ when it is not. The most recent example of persecution against Muslims being the news coming out about the New York C ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

• BPA Update: French Ban Upsets Our USDA
  It seems European lawmakers are more in tune with their constituency than Congress. After reviewing the French Food Safety Authority (ANSES) report on Bisphenol-A (BPA), the French parliament issued a ban effective January 2014. (Reminder: BPA  is a chemical compound used as a building block of ...
• 10 Tips to Better Understand Omega-3
  Omega-3 has been a hot buzzword in the food space for the better part of the last decade. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that omega-3 is important for a healthy diet. But not all omega-3′s are created equal. Which means you may be buying a product fortified with omega-3 that has alm ...
• What George Washington Didn’t Know About Cherries
  Happy Presidents Day folks! Lots of friends from abroad are jealous of us for the great long holiday weekends we as a nation have put together during the year. So if you are off work today to celebrate Presidents’ Day, make the best of it. One of the legends around our founding president w ...
• http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Fooducate/~3/4DcQ0gtXcfw/
  Strong4Life, the childhood obesity initiative of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, is back with another youtube video meant to cause a commotion. In the clip, a heart attack victim in his early 30′s is wheeled into a hospital emergency room, while his life of poor food choices flashes befo ...
• How did Arsenic Get into Organic Baby Formula?
  A report published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is calling for tight government standards on Arsenic levels in food. This, after tests have shown high levels of the dangerous toxin in ORGANIC BABY FOOD. This is doubly worrying: How does such a toxin get into formula ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle a unwanted solid de ...
  Kathryn has emailed us asking about reuses for a solid deodorant bar: I recently bought a solid deodorant from Lush (this one). It smells nice, but it’s not right for me. Other than using it to keep my sock drawer fresh, could I do anything else with it? The ingredients are listed as inclu ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old PVC pipes?
  We’ve had an email from Madhvi asking : how can I creatively recycle old PVC pipes? We’ve covered some reuses for guttering and drainpipes – which are increasingly plastic these days – but I thought it was worth asking Madhvi’s question because PVC pipes come in all ...
• Reduce This: How can I revamp an old kitchen s ...
  Yesterday, I posted a question from James, asking for ways to reuse or recycle a whole kitchen, because he’s getting a new one. Thanks to everyone that has commented about that! At the bottom, I mentioned reducing is the most important part of the recycling triangle. James already seems qu ...
• How can I reuse or recycle a whole kitchen?
  I’m back post-lurgy and I thought I’d post this great question from James – asking how to recycle a whole kitchen: We shall be replacing our kitchen in the next few months. The present one is 15 years old and is perfectly serviceable. I don’t want to “skip” it ...
• How can I reuse or recycle margarine tub lids/ ...
  Whitney has emailed us, asking about margarine tub lids: i’m trying to do my part and make sure that i recycle everything that i can, or at least find a way to reuse it. i recycle my #5 containers of cream cheese, margarine, etc, but have nothing to do with the lids, which even if [...]

Age of Autism

• Autism Diagnosis Age
  By Anne Dachel The latest discovery about autism is being covered everywhere in the news. New research from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has found signs of brain development problems in babies as young as six months using...
• Lewis Carroll Revisited
  For Liam and G., Warrior Cousins By Adriana Gamondes My nephews are amazing kids. They’re funny, they stand up for others who are less able to, they understand things most adults can’t fathom and our twins love them. One reason...
• Lady of the House
  Managing Editor's Note: That photo will be familiar to fans of BBC TV. It's Keeping Up Appearances' Hyacinth Bucket (that's Boo-kay!) answering the phone with her standard "The Boo-Kay residence. The LADY of the house speaking!" Not to be confused...
• Rally this Wednesday on West Virginia Capitol ...
  On Wednesday, February 22 at 10am on the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol, families, military members, health care professionals, and legal experts will gather to affirm that vaccination choice is a fundamental human and civil right. They will...
• The Canary Party on Leroy NY Neurological Illness
  While some canaries fall silent, such as those injured by vaccines and diagnosed with autism, the warnings of other canaries can be heard loud and clear – their vocal tics and anguished stories resonating over the airwaves and in cyberspace....

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Spider Goats, Bullet-proof Skin, Meat from a P ...
  What do all of these things have in common? How about the obscenely rich profiting off of the masses with their experiments in engineering humanity?
• “Why in the World are They Spraying” Official ...
  An investigative documentary into one of the many agendas associated with chemtrail/geoengineering programs, "weather control." Trailer
• Genetically Engineered Bt Protein Toxic to Hum ...
  Experiments showed that toxins produced in, for example, the genetically engineered maize MON810, can significantly impact the viability of human cells.
• Genetically Engineered Trees – The Increasing ...
  Must-see full length documentary.
• Plastic Grass, GMO Ink, Nuclear Energy and Hum ...
  I can’t wait to pay to drink my own urine – sorry, purified waste water - while “green” mega-corporations pollute the water around me with toxic sludge from belching smokestacks.

Open Your Eyes News

• Recession Looms as Growth Slows in Developed C ...
  CNBC – Economic growth in developed economies almost ground to a halt in the last three months of 2011, with the U.S. driving what growth there was, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Gross domestic product (GDP) in the 34 economies in the OECD, ...
• Hepatitis C deaths up, baby boomers most at risk
  AP — Deaths from liver-destroying hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers especially should take heed – they are most at risk. Federal health officials are considering whether anyone born between 1945 and 1965 should get a one-time blood test to check if their li ...
• Egypt presidential election: Decision on date ...
  BBC – Egyptian election officials have failed to confirm the date of the first presidential election since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. An election commission briefing only expressed hope the process could be over by the end of May. Read article
• Syrian gunmen kill judge and prosecutor
  Guardian – Gunmen in Syria have staged an ambush that killed a senior state prosecutor and a judge in an attack that suggests armed factions are growing bolder and more co-ordinated in their uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime. The roadway killings on Sunday in an opposi ...
• Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Afr ...
  Guardian – Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior offic ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Thousands rally across country to remember mur ...
  Thousands of people across Canada spent Valentines Day remembering Aboriginal women who have either gone missing or have been murdered. Rallies were held in major centres with families and organizations demanding that police and government do a better Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to World &n ...
• Protest At Saudi Arabian Embassy In Washington ...
  Ethiopian-Americans and friends of Ethiopia are organizing a protest outside the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington DC on Feb. 21, 2012. The purpose of the Protest is to demand the release of Ethiopians who are unjustly detained by the Saudi Arabia Govern Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to World & ...
• Coptic church in Egyptian village threatened a ...
  Two thousand Muslims surrounded a church, threw stones and Molotov cocktails, and set vehicles on fire. They demanded that the priest release a girl who had allegedly converted to Islam and was kidnapped by her parents. While the allegations proved false Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to World &n ...
• Obama Should Go Solar
  See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Obama's Policies Are Working
  See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• BLM Seeks To Increase Solar and Wind Energy On ...
  The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced plans to identify public lands in Arizona that would best suit wind and solar power development. read more
• Borrego Solar Systems Closes Financing For Six ...
  Solar developer Borrego Solar Systems Inc. has secured $47 million in new funding. read more
• San Diego Gas and Electric to Add 300 MW of Re ...
  San Diego Gas & Electric has jumped into its first new renewable energy contracts of 2012 with commitments to purchase a combined 300 MW from two new projects. read more
• SunPower Sues Rival SolarCity Over 'Stolen' Co ...
  In what is being described as symptomatic of the “cutthroat” world of solar energy, San Jose-based SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA) sued SolarCity on Monday, Feb. 13, for reportedly accepting what it knew were stolen documen ...
• Energy Conversion Devices Files Bankruptcy
  For the solar energy industry, it seems like the bad news just keeps on coming. read more

News Blaze

• US Committed to Promote American Investment in ...
  He states as always the United States has a huge bilateral agenda with Russia which means so there's a lot of business to conduct between two countries.
• California Tax Reference Guide Makes Estimatin ...
  To help make the reporting process more convenient, the BOE, working with the California Franchise Tax Board, has made available an easy-to-read reference guide, the Use Tax Lookup Table.
• Attorney General Says Open Carry Lawsuit Shoul ...
  Curiously, the City Attorney who has previously stated that California law does not apply to his city because of its status as a 'Charter City' now claims that he is required to enforce subsection (e) of the statute under California law.
• Nearly 400 Camp Ashraf Residents Arrive At Cam ...
  Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the United States commends the Iraqi government for its facilitation of a secure and peaceful relocation process and its willingness to invest significant resources in that regard.
• US-China Trade Relations Take New Turns Toward ...
  This type of trade cooperation embodies a diverse investment mode and signals a new trend in the Sino-US economic and trade relations.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Science Podcast, 18 February 2012 - AAAS Meeti ...
  Life in the Pressure Cooker: Evolution at the Bottom of the Ocean
• Podcast: Oceans of the Future
  Will there be fish on the menu 100 years from now?
• Care For Kidney Disease Patients Not Improved ...
  Laboratory-based treatment reminders meant to improve physicians' prescribing habits for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may not be effective, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN)...
• Dental floss vs. water pick: Which is better?
  Standard dental floss is generally considered the most effective tool for cleaning between the teeth.
• As climate change increases forest fires, smok ...
  Satellite images, air quality measurements and smoke forecasting models are useful tools to help individuals and public health professionals prepare for smoke episodes in areas at risk from forest fire smoke, according to University of British Columbia re

Common Dreams

• 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& ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: What is Lent and why do peopl ...
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• ExamineReligion: Embracing Obedience http://t. ...
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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.

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• The “Global Crises of Capitalism”; ...
  James Petras Introduction From the Financial Times to the far left, tons of ink has been spilt writing about some variant of the “Crises of Global Capitalism”. While writers differ in the causes, consequences and cures, according to their ideological lights, there is a common a ...
• How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street
  by Ellen Brown In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greider wrote in The Nation on February 15th: Financial market cynics have assumed all along that Dodd-Frank did not end “too big to fail” but instead created a charmed circ ...
• Romney, Severely Awful
  Joel S. Hirschhorn There are many, many reasons to have low regard for Mitt Romney. All but the totally delusional correctly see him as disingenuous, dishonest, devious and devoid of an authentic set of core beliefs. He is a shill for corporate and rich elites. He is the phony smiling, pe ...
• Political Prisoners in America's Gulag
  by Stephen Lendman With around 2.4 million incarcerated, America has by far the world's largest prison system. Two-thirds in it are Black or Latino. Most held are non-violent. Over half are for drug related charges. Around 75% are Blacks or Latinos. On all charges, many are persecuted politic ...
• Solidarity with Khader Adnan
  by Stephen Lendman Day 62 and counting. Adnan's hunger strike continues. On February 15, Israel let his wife Randa see him for the second time. She said "(h)is health has drastically deteriorated from the last time I saw him" a week ago. "I expect the worst. He insists on continuing with the ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• As The Cookie Crumbles: Zodiacal King Cake
  By Dr.Woody,worldwidehippies – Got a little bit of the lagniappe fo ya cher! on this Mardi Gras day. Down in the Carneval towns–New Orleans, Mobile, Rio, you know?–there’ll have been a LOT of astrological imagery attendant on the festivities, through the parades and pagea ...
• (Pittsburgh in my 60s) DAMN!
  By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – There, I’ve got my swearing in. I’m trying very hard for it to be the only swear word in this ramble. I just don’t know where to begin-nope, second thought- yes, I DO! I want to say to EVERY republican voter in those states that gave Santorum their ...
• Hippie TV News and Stuff w/the WWH News Team ( ...
  In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Ed Croft; Mikel K. Poet Mikel K Minute Nibiru Magick This week;Afghanistan the new economic model for the US. The doc gets a little silly. Ed croft has some fo ...
• Native Americans Get the Last Laugh on Governm ...
  by Lawrence Meyers,biggovernment.com –   In a ruling that I’ve followed closely because of my interest in the short-term cash advance industry, a Colorado court has sided with Native American tribes allowing them immunity to subpoenas issued by the state Attorney General.  This is, of cour ...
• Living savvy: Making use of what you already have
  By BY RACHEL HARDY ,For the Avalanche-Journal -Frugal living is more than just couponing and searching for sales. It can be about using what you have instead of buying something new, or selling what you have in order to trade up to something new. For instance, I have an old vacuum cleaner.Well, ...

FourWinds10

• SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
• STORMTROOPER: THE MILITARY'S WAR ON THE EARTH
• The BP spill in the Gulf: One year later
    (NaturalNews.com) - It's been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and rightfully so, if for no other reason than because, one year later, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmare gift that keeps on giving, some experts are saying. The Deepwater ...
• Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
• 'On The Beach'
  1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Welcome to the New and Improved Design
  Recent visitors to R-Squared will notice a distinct new look to the site that impacts all of Consumer Energy Report. This is a result of some long overdue upgrades, and I would like to detail some of the changes for readers. Some of the code in the previous site was unnecessarily complex. This m ...
• Butanol & Natural Gas Reserves — R-Squared Ene ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about butanol and natural reserves. I had intended to discuss the Open Fuel Standard when talking about butanol, but ultimately did not. I will get to that in an upcoming episode. Som ...
• No Free Lunch in Our Energy Options
  Join the forum discussion on this post Land Usage and Wildlife vs. Carbon Emissions If I had to describe the theme of my upcoming book with just one phrase, it would be “There is no free lunch in our energy options.” Sometimes the costs are obvious, as when an oil spill occurs or a ...
• Peak Oil & Carbon Emissions — R-Squared Energy ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on about peak oil and carbon trading markets. Some of the topics discussed are: Whether peak oil has been discredited Recent media headlines on peak oil (or lack thereof) Why I t ...
• Confused about Energy and Power?
  Join the forum discussion on this post When I recently solicited feedback for topics to cover for my upcoming book, several people requested that I discuss the difference between energy and power. Just two weeks ago Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is on the House Committee on Scienc ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Pennsylvania – DEN Blog Network
  Tags: petec12, peteandc, denby: Michelle Krill
• Cybraryman Internet Catalogue
  Tags: flipped, FlippedClassroom, classroom, flip, flipped classroom, cybraryman, resourcesby: Carolyn Rains
• National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaurs
  Comments:Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has created this engaging virtual dinosaur dig. - Dean MantzTags: dinosaurs, fossils, interactive, science, virtual, palebiologyby: Dean Mantz
• GOOD.is | Where Is the Next Generation of Inno ...
  Tags: infographic, infographics, inventors, informationby: Dean Mantz
• Infographic: The Digital Classroom | TeachThought
  Tags: infographic, digitalclassroom, infographics, TeachThoughtby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Arsenic in Organics: Where the News Reports We ...
  "Arsenic in Organic Baby Formula!" "Organic Food Source of Arsenic!" Headlines like these were not uncommon last week after a college study found high levels of the dangerous element in some organic cereal bars and baby formulas containing organic ingredients. The culprit? Brown rice syrup, a c ...
• Is It a Virus or Allergies?
  February is usually prime time for flu season, but this year, allergies are taking center stage. An unusually mild winter has brought on one of the earliest allergy seasons ever recorded. "We're seeing springtime pollen starting in early February, which is very unusual," says Stanley Fineman, M ...
• Pesticide Company Convicted of Poisoning Farmer
  As the organic market surges, chemical farming faces mounting problems. The latest industrial farming setback comes with a French court's conviction of Monsanto—the chemical giant that sells genetically engineered seeds, Roundup, and other pesticides—of poisoning a farmer. The court found St. ...
• The 10 Most Toxic Cars on the Road
  The average American spends 1.5 hours a day in the car. According to a new report released by the Michigan-based Ecology Center, that's 1.5 hours spent possibly inhaling flame retardants, hormone-disrupting plasticizers, and lead. In its annual automotive test, the group tested dozens of cars f ...
• Why Every Sickroom Needs a Dog
  Scientists are just starting to unlock the magnificent ways that pets can help improve human health. And while the science isn't there yet to confirm that pets can help people dealing with cancer, research projects are in the works. Looking at people with other types of diseases, researchers h ...

big think

• Killing Ethically, Pt. 1: Why Killing Must Be ...
  Killing can be sign of compassion or malice. This means when discussing killing, I will be using the word in a neutral way: it is taking an action (often deliberately) to end the life of a biological organism. This means we kill plants and people, chrysanthemums and coma-patients, for good and b ...
• Ask a Buddhist: My Boss is Stressing Me Out!
  Your shoulders bunch. Your jaw clenches. “No!No!No!No!” screams a voice inside your head. "Hello!!" you hear yourself saying – just a little too brightly – "How are you?"  This sort of reaction to the sight of your boss (or spouse, or anybody at all) might have some real history behind i ...
• Piercing the Romantic Illusion
  Like many people, I had my most powerful experience of romantic love during my adolescence. I was sixteen years old, and living in Rome at the time. I met a young Italian woman two years my senior and soon fell head over heels into the overwhelming ecstasy and unbearable longing of the romantic ...
• Science Fiction and the Technology of Irony
  Working for Big Think fired my imagination. As a writer, I couldn’t have asked for a job that provided more and stranger ideas to play with. This was true of all the topics and disciplines the site covers, but particularly so of the sciences. I’ll never forget listening to Biotechonomy CEO Juan ...
• Climate Scientists Rallied to the Edge and Beyond
  Peter Gleick, a water and climate analyst at the Pacific Institute and member of the National Academies, has admitted in a blog post at the Huffington Post to having obtained and forwarded to journalists the leaked documents from the Heartland Institute. Andrew Revkin has more discussion at Dot ...

Information Liberation

• 25 Signs That The Nazification Of America Is A ...
  The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day.* In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete.* The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of today are going to absolutely shock many of you.*...
• No One Should Be Forced to Act Against His Con ...
  A question arises from the recent controversy between President Obama and the Catholic Church that aches for an answer: If Catholic institutions have a right to abstain from paying for what morally offends them, why don*t the rest of us? The initi...
• Democracy Is Destroying Your Wealth and Freedom
  Although almost every democratic country suffers from bloated government, over-regulation, heavy taxation and enormous public debts, few people see a causal connection between these problems and the democratic system itself. For many, the soluti...
• Kurt Haskell Exposes Government False Flag Ope ...
  Every victim of a crime in Michigan is entitled to make a statement in open court regarding the impact of the crime on their life. The statement is limited to the victim*s physical, emotional and financial well being as it relates to the crime. Keep ...
• Amerika: Land of The Snitch [Comedy Sketch by AJ]
  Alex Jones does an hilarious parody sketch mocking the FBI memos saying people who pay with cash and care about privacy are terrorists....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Lies, damned lies and statistics
  It’s a cliche…the headline, I mean. Many of us, on reading yet another statistic from a government department, a merchant banker or a scaremongering tabloid health story, recognise that statistics are anything but infallible, they are malleable, they can be manipulated to any given e ...
• Filling up on Sciencebase
  Grab Sciencebase. There are now several more ways you can get more Sciencebase goodness than there were just a could of years ago when I first compiled this post. I updated the tumblr account for the site, we saw the launch of Google+, I’ve expanded Facebook activity considerably and passe ...
• Science, spectroscopy and stuff
  My latest SpectroscopyNOW column goes live today. Four items: Cheminformatics and TB, laser spectroscopy and graphene, ‘shroom doom and enmeshed drugs. Multivariate statistical data processing has been used to create a model from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data of metabol ...
• Open science – just do it
  The idea of open science means different things to different people, but primarily it is about community, the scientific community and beyond. At a time when commercial publishers are coming under increasing pressure there are boycotts and rebellions and the new wave of open access publishers ar ...
• Cambridge students to grill Sciencebase
  Once again, I’ll be attending the annual media careers event at Cambridge University, where students and alumni get a chance to chat with members of the media about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. The February 20 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

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

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Traitement psychiatrique forcé
  Une recherche sur les ordonnances de traitement et d’hébergement en santé mentale a été dévoilée le 9 février 2012. L'enquête a été menée en 2009 par deux chercheurs de l'UQAM, Marcelo Otero et Geneviève Kristoffersen-Dugré. En général, toute personne a le droit de décider si elle ...
• "My Sudbury is a Green City" was the message ...
  Citizens fill Council Chambers “How do you see Sudbury in twenty years?”  Put another way, “what type of city do you want to live in?”   These are the questions residents of Greater Sudbury are being ...
• Issac Saney's Lessons from Cuba: Race and Revo ...
  The second lecture in the James Robinson Johnston Lecture Series took place Wednesday, February 15th at Dalhousie University in Halifax with “Race & Revolution: Lessons from Cuba”, a talk by well known scholar and author Isaac Saney. Dr. Afua Cooper, the current James Robinson Jo ...
• Tough Times for the Posties
  1st Vice President of CUPW Nova Local on the plight of Halifax's postal workers A proud single mother of five, union activist Donna Mendes has been a postal worker for 14 years and an active shop steward on the work floor for more than ...
• The P Word
  David Heap, Canadian Boat to Gaza member, comes to town; media cowers Canadian Boat to Gaza Steering Committee member David Heap was in Halifax on Wednesday, February 15th, to discuss the ongoing efforts of the Flotilla movement to break Is ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• In Which I Finally Learn What Women are For
  A few days ago James Poulos wrote an essay in the Daily Caller titled "What Are Women For?" After I saw it linked for the tenth or twelfth time I finally clicked through to see what all the clamor was about, and I'm not being snarky when I say that I simply couldn't figure out what he was gett ...
• Choosing the Right Article is Sometimes Harder ...
  Suzy Khimm asks: Should we have a FDA for financial products? You'll have to click the link to get Suzy's take on this question. My question is different: should it be "a FDA" or "an FDA"? If you mentally spell out the acronym, it's properly "a Food and Drug Administration." But if you m ...
• Rick Santorum Thinks Prenatal Testing is a Lib ...
  Harold Pollack is no longer amused by Rick Santorum. Here is Santorum this weekend: One of the things that you don't know about ObamaCare in one of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing. Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that ...
• Not Every Lapse in Judgment Deserves the Death ...
  Courtesy of the Daily News, the poor schmoe who wrote last week's Headline of the Century explains himself: The ESPN editor fired Sunday for using "chink in the armor" in a headline about Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin said the racial slur never crossed his mind — and he was devastated ...
• My Crystal Ball Says the Keystone XL Pipeline ...
  The LA Times reports that Canadians are getting uncharacteristically pissed off at us American types: The prime minister is talking about being "held hostage" by U.S. interests. Radio ads blare, "Stand up to this foreign bully." A Twitter account tells of a "secret plan to target Canad ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Babies' colic linked to mothers' migraines
  A study of mothers and their young babies by neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that mothers who suffer migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than mothers without a history of migraines. read more
• Penn researcher helps discover and characteriz ...
  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 ...
• High definition polarization vision discovered ...
  Cuttlefish have the most acute polarization vision yet found in any animal, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered by showing them movies on a modified LCD computer screen to test their eyesight. read more
• Home visits for asthma: A win for both patient ...
  Nearly 1 in 10 children have asthma, according to government statistics, and in low-income parts of Boston, nearly 16 percent of children are affected. A program called the Community Asthma Initiative (CAI), developed and implemented in 2005 by clinicians at Children's Hospital Boston, demonstra ...
• Traitorous immune cells promote sudden ovarian ...
  Aggressive ovarian tumors begin as malignant cells kept in check by the immune system until, suddenly and unpredictably, they explode into metastatic cancer. New findings from scientists at The Wistar Institute demonstrate that ovarian tumors don't necessarily break "free" of the immun ...

unEarthed

• Friday Finds: Colleges Pull All-Nighter On Bot ...
  Strawberry pesticide ban, explosive ag waste, greening Guantanamo Photo courtesy of shrff14 College students crush plastic water bottles, industry wines As ...
• Victory Stands For The Roadless Rule
  Last, best wild national forest lands shielded from development A grizzly bear taking a stroll in Yellowstone National Park. (Terry Tollesfbol / USFWS) Nearl ...
• Clinton Acts To Reduce Global Warming Pollutants
  Controlling methane, soot and others can reduce warming by a third Black soot on snow (NASA) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with EPA administrator ...
• Monterey County Says No To Methyl Iodide
  California counties ban methyl iodide as the state awaits court’s decision This week, Monterey County, California gave a better-than-roses Valentine’s Day ...
• Thousands Join Florida Anti-Slime Brigade
  Huge tide of support for Obama to keep state's water clean Toxic algae choking Florida waterway A big thank you to the more than 16,000 people who have s ...

Brave New Climate

• IFR FaD 10 – Metal fuel and plutonium
  Over the next few months I will publish four extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the ...
• The Grattan Report on low-emissions energy tec ...
  Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). Wood, A, T. Ellis, D. Mulloworth, and H. Morrow (2012) No Easy Choices: Which Way to Australia’s Energy Future. Technology Analysis. Grattan Institute, Melbourne. This report is a valuable addition to the litera ...
• 100% renewable electricity for Australia – the ...
  Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE. For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE. By Peter Lang. Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 4 ...
• Open Thread 21
  The previous Open Thread has gone past is off the BNC front page, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard [...]
• Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
  Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• BREAKING: PMO says Khader Adnan to stop hunger ...
  By Noa Yachot and Mairav Zonszein The Prime Minister’s Office reported on Tuesday that Khader Adnan, now on the 66th day of his hunger strike, will call off his protest in a deal that will see him released on April 17. Ofir Gendelman from the PMO tweeted, “#khaderadnan announced that ...
• Administrative arrests: Months or years withou ...
  At any given moment, hundreds of Palestinians are held by Israel without charges or trial. Of the Palestinians currently under administrative arrest, 88 have been held for more than a year. One has been held for more than five years. Some advocacy groups and Israeli officials have recently claim ...
• Price tag attack on J’lem church provoke ...
  By: Marc Gopin and Aziz Abu Sarah Yesterday, Pastor Chuck Kopp of the Baptist Church in West Jerusalem woke up to find his church vandalized. The Jerusalem Post reported that police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld suspects that Jewish extremists are responsible for the act. According to the Post, Rose ...
• Alone in Berlin – part II: A powerful me ...
  (Berlin, GERMANY) – I saved the Holocaust memorial in Berlin for my last day there. There are two sections to the area: the rectangular stones on top, and a museum underneath. As I approached the memorial, I noticed some bright red balloons. I ventured into the memorial, searching for them ...
• Cyber-defamation of dead Palestinian children ...
  A tragic accident causing the death of ten Palestinian children brought out the hateful side of Israeli Internet readers. This should be a wake-up call; the answer is not to conceal such speech from the public domain, rather to delegitimize it. By Ido Liven Rarely does my Facebook news feed keep ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Government thanks outgoing Bureau of Meteorol ...
  The Australian Government has thanked Dr Greg Ayers for the major national and international contributions he has made as Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, following the announcement of his intention to resign due to ill health.
• Development pressures on Great Barrier Reef t ...
  One of the world's most treasured icons - the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - will undergo a joint assessment to ensure future development along Queensland's coastline is well-planned and its unique values are protected.
• Further extension to koala threatened species ...
  Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced a further 10 week extension to the due date for his decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.
• Statement on announcement by Ta Ann Tasmania
  The Australian and Tasmanian governments are implementing an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) in response to rapid change and major problems in the industry, which had shed thousands of jobs in recent years as a result of changes in the market for forest timber.・ゑ｣ｰ
• Caring for our Country to support 43 projects ...
  43 groups from across Australia will benefit from increased support from the Gillard Government under Caring for our Country.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Fraudclosure Is An Iceberg, Meanwhile in Flori ...
  The people in power do not grasp the depth of the anger and resentment all across America, nor do they understand the unintended consequences of how they are responding to the sundry crimes and indignities of the fraudclosure and banking crisis.  I know Florida’s legislators think they are ...
• The Banking Community Doesn’t Even Suppo ...
  From HousingWire: But even to some in the mortgage industry, the Passidomo bill overreaches, said J.T. Smith, chief investment officer of the Florida-based boutique investment bank Aristar Funding Corp. Smith said speeding up the process for abandoned properties made sense, but foreclosing on th ...
• HEY, All you deadbeat homeowners, GET OUT NOW, ...
  Apparently, some of the main drivers behind Florida’s abysmal economic condition are deadbeat homeowners, abandoned homes clogged up courts.  I even heard specific mention that foreclosures and abandoned homes represent public safety concerns.  Hummmmm. On the other hand, all the problems ...
• DOER ALERT, CALL WELLS FARGO CEO JOHN STUMPF D ...
  Who says the banks are totally unresponsive to calls and request for action.  I just spoke directly with Stumpf’s office. They promised me they were carefully examining the file of Patricia Martin and that they were considering all the calls….. MORE HERE Scridb filter
• OUTRAGE! FLORIDA LEGISLATORS MOVE TO SHEILD TH ...
  At a time when citizens all across this country are more distrustful of their government than ever before, Florida’s Legislature is giving us even more reason to be distrustful. WITH A BILL THAT GRANTS THEM ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM COURT TESTIMONY! I was in Tallahassee when this absurd and o ...

abelard - news

• on greece and eu victimisation | politics eu n ...
  Poor Greece, damned if it stays in the euro, 'aban-damned' if it doesn't.
• socialism in government cartel 'schools' | beh ...
  Another part of why English/British education had been going down the chute.
• obama actively *wants* to weaken america | pol ...
  Obama wants to cut military spending, while Iran rushes to arm the fundies - appeasement rides again.
• teaching and on teaching and learning maths | ...
  The difference between understanding what's happening in the real world and learning by rote.
• is ahminastraightjacketorshouldbe a new hitler ...
  Arbitrary, harsh, emotionally cold, single-minded to the superiority and dominance of his country and preferred 'race' do you think? Like who else?

The Parallel Parliament

• Right to Community – Increasingly Alone
  When aspiring Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke at an economic club in Detroit last week he revealed just …Continue reading »
• Community At the Speed of Light
  The rather plot-driven democracy we have been used to for decades is quickly giving way to a new dynamic of …Continue reading »
• Speaking Up for Community
  London, Ontario faced a sobering occurrence this past week that reminded us that, on occasion, struggling for citizen’s rights has …Continue reading »
• Good Love – A Valentine
  In so many ways it’s hard to be good these days. I don’t mean telling the truth, getting the kids …Continue reading »
• Something We Can’t Do Alone
  My city of London, Ontario has been through enough in these last few years, I believe, to qualify as a …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
  Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
• Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
  Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• “Peak Oil” hypothesis is following ...
  The hypothesis that world crude oil production is almost at its "peak" and will soon begin an irrevocable long-term decline has been laid to rest in the highly productive shale oil formations of North Dakota. "Peak Oil" will also have to be postponed just as "peak gas" has disappeared into the d ...
• Jaguar Land-Rover soars even higher with Tata ...
  Tata Motors Ltd. beat market estimates with a 41% rise in quarterly consolidated net profit, helped by robust sales at its U.K.-based Jaguar Land Rover unit. Net profit at Jaguar Land Rover soared 57% in the October-December period to GBP440 million, while sales surged 41% to GBP3.75 billion.
• Now China gears up for the shale gas revolution
  The Chinese are now jumping onto the shale gas band-wagon and are looking to acquire fracking technology.
• 6,000 generations since Out of Africa
  So I have started a new blogsite called 6,000 Generations to provide an outlet for my speculations about individuals from my Ancestral Generations (AG's).
• Following Indian MMRCA success, Dassaut’ ...
  After its success in the Indian MMRCA competition, Dassult's Rafale is tipped to also win the Brazilian contract for 36 aircraft against the Swedish Gripen and the US F18.

Left Foot Forward

• Chris Grayling should respond to criticism of ...
  Izzy Koksal debunks Chris Grayling’s defence of workfare - or rather, his attacks on the critics of workfare.
• Tory support down as Cameron gets an “earful” ...
  The political cost of the health and social care bill to the Conservatives grew today with a new poll revealing a four-point drop in support in the past month.
• Reeves: “We must ensure we pass the test of fi ...
  Rachel Reeves will echo Ed Balls and Ed Miliband's recent calls for "fiscal credibility" being key to Labour "earning people's trust back" in a speech tomorrow.
• Liberal intervention shouldn’t be confined to ...
  The Fabian Society’s James Hallwood argues for a worldwide responsibility for liberal intervention.
• If Liz Truss wants to be more like Germany, sh ...
  Alex Hern shows Liz Truss the piece of data she seems to be ignoring in her attempts to become more like Germany.

Consumerist

• A Trick To Tell You When And How To Flip Your ...
  You're supposed to flip and rotate your mattress periodically to keep it from getting lopsided, but it's easy to forget about the chore. It helps to find a method that helps you keep track of when you last flipped it and which way you're supposed to plop it next. Household Management 101 offer ...
• Smooth Out Dry, Scaly Skin On Elbows And Knees
  Cold temperatures and dry air can leave your elbows and knees discolored and as rough as sandpaper, especially if you spend a lot of time outdoors. But there are home remedies you can try to spring yourself from the prison of chapped skin around your joints. Daily Glow recommends combining chi ...
• Finally Fix That Obnoxious Wobbly Wooden Chair
  It's easy to forget about a wobbly chair until a visitor gets stuck with it and highlights your incompetence with an offhand remark. If you've got a chair like that but have never mustered the time or will to fix it, maybe learning about how it's done will give you the encouragement you need. ...
• What To Look For In A Toothbrush
  There are better ways to shop for toothbrushes than color, price or most convincing marketing buzzword on the packaging. We recommend taking advice from a dental insurer, figuring that those in that line of work would rather take your premiums while subsidizing as few root canals and cavity fil ...
• If You Really Need To Win The Lottery, You Pro ...
  You don't need to be a financial genius to realize that lottery tickets are a poor investment. Players plunk down a little bit of money in exchange for short-lived, long shot dreams of wealth. While indulging the urge to buy a ticket won't kill most budgets, the regular, compulsive act of gambl ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• The Gas Wars
  Nothing drives voter sentiment like the price of gas – now averaging $3.56 a gallon, up 30 cents from the start of the year. It’s already hit $4 in some places. The last time gas topped $4 was 2008. And nothing energizes Republicans like rising energy prices. Last week House Speaker John Boehner ...
• The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the Fore ...
  by Blair Hickman, ProPublica The housing crisis in the U.S. has been going on nearly five years, with still regular revelations about misdeeds by banks and others. Here’s our roundup of standout reporting on the crisis. Lucrative fees may deter efforts to alter loans, The New York Times, July 20 ...
• Op-Ed: CIA Drone Strikes Targeting Funerals, E ...
  Ignoring the possibility that emergency responders rushing to the aid of Middle East drone-strike victims may be medical personnel, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) operators have also marked them for death. The CIA has also been targeting the funeral services of the alleged suspects it mur ...
• Manufacturing Illusions
  Suddenly, manufacturing is back – at least on the election trail. But don’t be fooled. The real issue isn’t how to get manufacturing back. It’s how to get good jobs and good wages back. They aren’t at all the same thing. Republicans have become born-again champions of American manufacturing. Thi ...
• The Monday Line: Westminster Tories and Welsh ...
  Forget Meryl Streep, iron-coated PM David Cameron is now desperate to deflect any negative attention his party’s crippling austerity is having on the UK economy. So we see classic magician’s misdirection instead: a squabble with Argentina over The Falklands(!), threats to the very existence of t ...

NewsAlert

• Some Doubt A Settlement Will End Mortgage Ills
  The New York Times
• School protestors take complaints to Mayor Ema ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times reports:Hundreds of anti-school closing protestors marched past Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house Monday, holding candles and wearing stickers over their mouths saying “silenced.” Organizers charged the mayor and schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard had ignored their cries to halt sch ...
• Leaked Memo Blows The Lid Off Of The Entire Gr ...
  The Business Insider
• Holder tells Congress the Obama administration ...
  The Daily Caller
• Phillips Curve : The observation that inflatio ...
  Khan Academy explains the establishment propaganda of the "imagined" relationship between inflation and unemployment.

JoNova

• Gleik admits his guilt – deception used ...
  BREAKING: Peter Gleick admits  admits he’s the one who assumed a false identity and emailed Heartland so he could steal their private documents. His apology marks, finally, a small turning point in the PR scandal and ethical vacuum. His answer doesn’t quite put all the pieces togethe ...
• Satire is a beautiful thing: The FakeGaters ar ...
  It’s sad to watch the implosion of a Nobel Cause. Well it would be… But then DeSmog thinks providing fake documents “is in the public interest”. (Is there is a shortage of false and misleading articles around? Who knew?) This particular parody refers to Charles Johnson (w ...
• Heartland sends out first legal notice about s ...
  Let the games begin. As promised, Heartland want justice, starting with the removal of all the fake and alleged documents. DeSmog have overplayed their hand. –Jo Support The Heartland Institute today (Go on, fake smears like the DeSmog one, are designed to intimidate donors, we can rise a ...
• Bob Carter wins the cartoon war :-) A very swe ...
  Thank you DeSmog! Without FakeGate we would not have had this cartoon. (Readership est 850,000) Cartoon by John Spooner. The Age. The Age                 John Spooner: The Age Gallery     Spooner:  Nat.Lbrary collection On Wednesday I mentioned the Carter/Flannery disparity in wages: And if Bob ...
• UPDATE: Heartland Documents Stolen and key one ...
  Major embarrassment for Joe Romm, and DeSmog and their unthinking fans. In the hours after the ClimateGate emails were released, skeptics asked about their authenticity (as we are want to do). In the hours after the Heartland Documents (including at least one complete fake) were released, the co ...

ReNew America

• The Pat Buchanan firing: validating every ster ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Patrick J. Buchanan has been fired by MSNBC. For years, the longtime author/columnist/commentator had served as that network's lone conservative voice...
• 'Contracepting' a campaign
  (Gary Bauer) - Iran is showing new signs of belligerence, home foreclosures are rising again and the president has just released a budget that adds to the country's already stifling debt. So what are Democrats and the liberal media focused on months ahead of a crucial election? Contraceptives, o ...
• Santorum draws 74 percent in Akron GOP straw poll
  (Cincinnati Enquirer) - Speaking to his largest crowd yet in his two-day swing through Ohio, presidential candidate Rick Santorum captured 74 percent of the vote at the annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Summit County Republican Party -- and that was before people heard what he had to say...
• Conservatives must remain united
  (David Limbaugh) - A strong move is on to demonize and marginalize social conservatives, a move that originates from the political left but is being aided by some on the right, a move that is based on assumptions that better describe the leftist accusers than they do their targets...
• A fatal tweet
  (Washington Times) - In America, sending the wrong tweet can mean embarrassment, ostracism or losing your seat in Congress. In Saudi Arabia, it can cost you your head. Hamza Kashgari is a 23-year-old journalist who wrote for the daily al-Bilad in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• False Flag Damage Control
  It is well known that governments do their best to hide news they would rather we didn’t hear. Sometimes they pass laws at midnight before a public holiday. Sometimes they make bigger news to drown out the embarassing news… The News They Don’t Want You To Hear During the tria ...
• New Sinkholes in Mexico and China
  These were found at Andrey Eroshin’s blog: Mexico 10.02.12. Massive sinkhole a diameter of 25 meters and a depth of 40 meters was formed in the middle of a field of three communities Buen Abrigo, Coyote and Los Ángeles near the city of Matamoros. China 09.02.12. Near reservoir Nans ...
• Not All Bunkers Cost $1 Million
  SouthernPrepper1 is one of the best survivalists on YouTube. Nothing fancy, but lots of basic, real information and experiences. Here he shows us bunker which he has stored some supplies in. For many scenarios a bunker does not need to protect you long-term, but rather for just a few days. And i ...
• Super-Rugged Smart Phones
  A global SHTF event is unlikely to leave us with mobile phone services in the long-term. But smart phones are more than just phones, and they can be very useful even without the phone aspect. Primarily, you can store ebooks on them – just make sure that the books are actually on your phone ...
• World’s Smallest Survival Pod
  From Japan of course. Only $4000. They have hundreds of pre-orders, but I couldn’t find out how I could get one – the manufacturer is Cosmo Power, but their website is in Japanese… The craft is 1.2 ...World’s Smallest Survival Pod is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...

Facing South

• North Carolina convenience-store chain targete ...
  The largest independent convenience-store chain in the Southeast, Kangaroo is under fire for refusing to meet with advocates for the farmworkers who pick the tobacco it sells.
  ...
  
• VOICES: Considering BP's history of violence
  A judge has decided that BP's history of safety problems won't be admissible in the upcoming trial for its Gulf oil spill. While that may be legally justifiable, it's ...
  
• VOICES: Privatizing America for their majesty, ...
  On an island off the coast of Florida, the billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries recently gave an order to push the privatization of schools, prisons and anything else standing in the w ...
  
• Art Pope turns up in climate disinformation exposé
  Internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute, a leading player in the climate disinformation campaign, show that the group is counting on continuing support from the North Carolin ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A budget for the 99 percent?
  A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President Obama released this week.
  A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President O ...
  

One News Page

• Delhi's killer roads: Recalling some major acc ...
  With two more men crushed in the capital Tuesday morning by a speeding car, a day after a ghastly Lamborghini crash claimed the life of a young real estate tycoon, Delhi continues to register a high number of deaths on roads. Here are some major accidents that took place in the capital in 2012 . ...
• One lakh devotees worship god Shiva in Bangalore
  An estimated one lakh people from 60 countries assembled at the Art of Living (AoL) international centre on the city’s outskirts Monday to worship Hindu god Shiva on the occasion of the deity’s night-long festival. Reported by IndiaVision 1 hour ago
• Bihar asks Mauritius to set up medical college
  The Nitish Kumar government has offered the Mauritius government a proposal to set up a medical college hospital at Mairwa in Siwan district, according to state Health minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• More Kingfisher flights cancelled, airline CEO ...
  At least 30 flights of Kingfisher Airlines were cancelled on Tuesday morning as the top brass of the cash-strapped carrier was set to appear before aviation regulator DGCA to explain reasons for large-scale disruptions in schedules. Reported by IndiaVision 1 hour ago
• 7 lessons for investors as stock market rallies
  In case you have missed the bus again -- like retail investors in the stock markets often do -- here's what you must keep in mind even as the stock market rally continues. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• US-NATO Support Al Qaeda-Affiliated Rebels in ...
• Greek Austerity Measures: Healthcare Doomed, A ...
• Top 10 Reasons Wars Can End
• GMOs and Free Speech: Scientists Under Attack ...
• The Hijacking of Libya (Trailer)

Daily Tech

• Scientists Cook Up 1-Atom Transistor, 12-Atom ...
  Scientists push electronics down to picometer electronics
• John Glenn Celebrates Bittersweet 50th Anniver ...
  While the 50-year anniversary is a milestone, Glenn is frustrated that NASA currently doesn't have a way for American astronauts to go to the ISS
• Analysis: Neonode Patented Swipe-to-Unlock 3 Y ...
  Sorry Apple, you did not invent swipe to unlock
• Quick Note: Cheaper Nook to Compete with Amazo ...
  New Nook will be released in two days
• 2/20/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Monday

Oriental Review

• Churchill’s Shadow in the UN
  In his time then Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill proved the fact that a gap between a public politician and a public call girl could be narrowed to minimum. Winston himself often deserted one party for another watching how the wind was blowing and trusting his own feelings. He ...
• «Arab Spring» Export to China: US Stakes On Ti ...
  At the 48 Munich security conference China’s Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said that ‘China is committed to giving back to Asia with its own development and plays a major part in upholding peace and stability in the region.’ In response US senator John McCain decided to put the ...
• Moscow and the Formation of The New World System
  Some bet, as it used to be, that a change in the Russian stance towards the Arab Region will occur and will be similar to what had taken place concerning the Iraqi or Libyan affair. However, a insightful analysis of the Russian stance will rule out such a notion for the following considerations: ...
• Putin: Democracy in Making
  Democracy in the West has been long in making and we cannot point on a single person in any of the countries whom we would credit for having brought about democracy. We can only look at a long, and troublesome, history of social competition which has resulted in a state of affairs we call democr ...
• US, Iran Keeping Up Belligerent Rhetoric
  According to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation is scheduled to revisit Iran from February 21-22. He said, “These cooperations between Iran and the IAEA can lead to the agency’s better understanding of the peacefu ...

BlogHer

• Danica Patrick to Debut at 2012 Daytona 500
  The 54th running of the Daytona 500 kicks off the 2012 Sprint Cup series and the start of a new season of stock-car racing.  Forty-three of the top drivers in the world will compete in “The Great American Race,” NASCAR's biggest, richest and most prestigious event. While the Daytona 500 is ...
• For Your Consideration: The “Best Pictures” fo ...
  I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s Academy Awards season. Offered for your consideration: the greatest family films to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Easy? Not really. You probably won’t be surprised to hear that not many family films have won Best Picture. But every so often, a family pictur ...
• Moroccan Butternut Squash and Chickpea Tagine ...
  One thing I think is so fun about meatless recipes is that they often make use of interesting ingredients or cooking methods from places around the world where cooking without meat is common. Don't be scared by the word tagine in this Moroccan Butternut Squash and Chickpea Tagine from Closet Coo ...
• Google Chrome Now Available for Android Phones
  Android enthusiast Spydergrrl is excited about getting Google Chrome on her Android device. She can tell you the great things about it, and what to watch out for. Here are some of the high points: Well, it's about time. Google finally launched Chrome for Android devices. Which. is. awesome. ...
• Cosmetic Dermal Fillers: Don’t Mess with My Em ...
  I used to think dermal fillers & injectables were cosmetic candy and admittedly, I’m no stranger to cosmetic surgery, though I’ve never had work done on my face. But I caved. It was a week before my wedding and I wanted to look perfect in every way, so I did it; I had cosmetic dermal filler i ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

• The DODO iPad Case
  Inspired. Related ContentDODOCASEiPad 2 Graphics Much Faster Than iPad 1, Motorola XoomIs it becoming cool to not capitalize story titles?Genetically There Are Only Three Types of PeopleThe Original Occupy Wall Street Protester
• Do Things; Tell People | Carl Flax
  You would not believe how much opportunity is out there for those who do things and tell people. It’s how you travel the entreprenurial landscape. You do something interesting and you tell everyone about it. Then you get contacts, business cards, email addresses. Then you get contracts, jo ...
• Jobs Made Apple Great by Ignoring Profit | Reuters
  I have come to the conclusion that what has made Apple so different is that instead of having a profit motive at its core, it has something else entirely. Many big companies like to pretend this is the case — “we put our customers first” — but very few truly live by that mantra. When [...]
• Notice: Hacker Dojos Aren’t Factories for “Ide ...
  Hacker Dojos are really great local groups found in high-tech areas that get many people together and have them code–or learn to code–together. The idea is that you describe your strengths and interests, and the organizer pairs people up to work on projects. The problem is that some ...
• My Friend’s Every Day Carry System
  via youtube.com My good friend Ken is doing a new video blog and is covering his Every Day Carry (EDC) system for his first installment. Check it out if you have an interest in concealed carry; Ken is the type who does massive amounts of research before he decides a direction to go with his [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• As The Cookie Crumbles: Zodiacal King Cake
  By Dr.Woody,worldwidehippies – Got a little bit of the lagniappe fo ya cher! on this Mardi Gras day. Down in the Carneval towns–New Orleans, Mobile, Rio, you know?–there’ll have been a LOT of astrological imagery attendant on the festivities, through the parades and pagea ...
• (Pittsburgh in my 60s) DAMN!
  By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – There, I’ve got my swearing in. I’m trying very hard for it to be the only swear word in this ramble. I just don’t know where to begin-nope, second thought- yes, I DO! I want to say to EVERY republican voter in those states that gave Santorum their ...
• Hippie TV News and Stuff w/the WWH News Team ( ...
  In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Ed Croft; Mikel K. Poet Mikel K Minute Nibiru Magick This week;Afghanistan the new economic model for the US. The doc gets a little silly. Ed croft has some fo ...
• Native Americans Get the Last Laugh on Governm ...
  by Lawrence Meyers,biggovernment.com –   In a ruling that I’ve followed closely because of my interest in the short-term cash advance industry, a Colorado court has sided with Native American tribes allowing them immunity to subpoenas issued by the state Attorney General.  This is, of cour ...
• Living savvy: Making use of what you already have
  By BY RACHEL HARDY ,For the Avalanche-Journal -Frugal living is more than just couponing and searching for sales. It can be about using what you have instead of buying something new, or selling what you have in order to trade up to something new. For instance, I have an old vacuum cleaner.Well, ...

reference frame

• CDF at 10/fb sees nothing in diphoton Higgs decays
  As I told you on Saturday morning, the CDF Collaboration at the defunct Tevatron collider was going to publish a result on the Higgs physics that is based on 10 inverse femtobarns of their data. Here is the paper: Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson Decaying Into Photons at CDF Using 10 ...
• Peter Gleick: AGW warrior who stole identity
  Peter Gleick, a self-described co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California, is a hardcore climate fearmonger. This blog has emphasized for years that he is an example of the Nazi-driven jerks without a gl ...
• A black hole story of a YouTube millionaire
  The silly video above is the first YouTube video posted by your humble correspondent that has surpassed 1 million views. I have no idea why. I don't know where the people come from. The video was created by NASA. The animation is an artist's creation, based on an actual picture of ...
• QC UCSB expert: quantum computing may be 5 yea ...
  Vancouver is hosting the annual meeting of the AAAS, an organization of left-wing scientists whose aim is to promote and politically abuse science. AAAS has also played quite some role in the promotion of the global warming hoax. Despite the annoying political background of this b ...
• Google Earth: could not write myplaces.kml
  Tons of computer users have experienced the same problem as I did. They installed Google Earth, created lots of bookmarks for places before they exited Google Earth and got the messages that the myplaces.kml file could not be written down; writing to myplaces.kml.tmp instead. I haven't f ...

Tatumba 2.0

• WATCH LIVE: In Defiance of Commanders, Active ...
  Live broadcast ended at 4:38 PM EST. This was a historic event and it took the alternative news media to cover it. I will add video as people upload it to YouTube. TMA WATCH LIVE This top one is the best coverage: Broadcasting live with Ustream Video streaming by Ustream Live stream by Ustream V ...
• Peel A Banana Like A Monkey
  I would like to show you how to properly peel a banana because chances are that you have been doing it wrong your entire life. I’m gonna teach you how to peel a banana like a monkey, so pay attention human. Video Rating: 4 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Baby [...] Related p ...
• ANONYMOUS – The Illuminati Song
  Anonymous Speaks. We have a voice. Two Anonymous emcees.. If you believe in our message, please share it with as much people as possible on all of the social networking sites. DOWNLOAD SONG FREE HERE: (Thanks to supporters, now unlimited downloads!) http://www.mediafire.com/?o4l2dard8w1i80e or h ...
• @OpenMedia_ca: Stop Online Spying
  Canadians if you value your online privacy you had better get with the program of trying to stop it. Your forefathers fought for your freedoms. Now it is up to you to keep them. Fight for what is right! Related posts: SOPA is the End Game: Entertainment Industry is 100% responsible for the Onlin ...
• Monday Morning Rant: The Greece Pit and mind-d ...
  The Greek Situation is precarious to say the least. There is an unelected global banker, as leader, dictating to the Greek people how their day-to-day lives will change, for the worse, at the hands of austerity. Can you really blame them for this? There is no mandate for the Greek fire sale, thu ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Speaking for the NYPD spokesman on a Muslim su ...
• Andrew Cuomo's promise to fix redistricting is ...
• Adam Hock fights Pierre Casiraghi in a nightcl ...
• Grimm says the 'Times' has an anti-Catholic, a ...
• The Phenomenal Handclap Band host a rousing ho ...

Views & News from Norway

• Bernhoft wins Statoil stipend
  Jarle Bernhoft, a singer and songwriter from Nittedal just north of Oslo, is having a great year so far after winning yet another major prize at the annual by:Larm music festival over the weekend. Bernhoft was named Årets Spelleman (Artist of the Year) and best male artist of the year last month ...
• Children burned down church
  The 116-year-old Rørvik Church in the county of Nord-Trøndelag survived World War II but not the weekend game of two young boys who admitted to playing with fire in the church’s cellar. They ended up burning down the church on Saturday night. The two boys, who haven’t been publicly i ...
• Vizrt sets new revenue record
  Bergen-based graphics firm Vizrt set a new revenue record last year and now looks forward to another year of major news events that are likely to provide more demand for its content production tools. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported that Vizrt, short for “Visualization in Real Tim ...
• Police raid ‘organized’ doping ring
  Norwegian police have mounted what’s being called the country’s largest doping raid ever, arresting more than 10 persons and jailing six after a lengthy investigation. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported that the alleged doping ring appears to be based in Trondheim. DN publishe ...
• Probe continues into train accident
  Officials at state railway NSB are investigating why one of the brand new trains in its major new upgrade program was traveling at a speed far too high for the tracks where it was on a test run last week. The high speed caused the train to derail, injuring all five persons on board and [...]

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Time for Change is Now!
  What is happening in the world today and how can people help themselves, each other and the planet, so that the future will look bright again. by Zaia Kendall I would like to start off by saying how much I love Australia. The people are great, there is a lot of opportunity here for everyone an ...
• Roundup in City-Dwellers’ Urine
  Studies have already found Monsanto’s toxic herbicide Roundup in groundwater, in streams, and even in the rain and air of US agricultural areas. It’s been found in our blood and even crosses the placental barrier to enter our unborn fetuses. So are we surprised that a German universi ...
• April 2012 Permaculture Design Certificate (PD ...
  A PRI Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course is approaching. Starting on the 8th of April, 2012 it will run for two intensive weeks at PRI Australia’s demonstration site, Zaytuna Farm, The Channon, NSW. As students of Zaytuna Farm you will be taught and shown examples of designing f ...
• Applied Watershed Restoration Expert Coming to ...
  It is with great excitement that RegenAG announces an upcoming series of Applied Watershed Restoration courses in NSW and QLD with acclaimed watershed restoration and erosion control expert Craig Sponholtz, of Dryland Solutions. We’ve managed to haul Craig out to Australia for a couple of ...
• Funding Sought for Permaculture Film – The Chi ...
  Gillian Leahy (a documentary maker) and Terry Leahy (permaculture researcher) are making a film about the Chikukwa project in Zimbabwe. This is a feel good story out of Africa. For the last 20 years an amazing permaculture project has been working in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the C ...

Pointman's

• Fakegate and post-modern journalism.
  Fakegate has been a very public reverse for climate alarmism. Instead of being a successful smear of the Heartland Institute and other parties, it’s likely to be viewed in retrospect as a turning point in the manner in which the mainstream and online media covers dissenting institutions and voic ...
• Fakegate.
  I’ve been watching the developments following the publication of the Heartland documents, what’s now very appropriately become known as Fakegate. As usual, the propaganda organ of climate alarmism, otherwise known as the mainstream media, has been very quick off the mark to circulate any materia ...
• Being you.
  We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more
• How policies get dropped and positions reversed.
  Political policy changes constantly in a democracy. It does so primarily in response to the changing concerns of its electorate, because by addressing these concerns, politicians hoping to gain office naturally expect to attract votes by catering to these concerns. When the economy is prosperous ...
• If all else fails, just intimidate them.
  Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_AHJQiMxIwStatistics: Posted by Rockclimber — Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:05 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Interesting that Rivero has quit Rense Radio and is now back on RBN.Statistics: Posted by maz — Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:18 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  A buddy of mine many years ago came up with the Benjamin Freedmen audios and Rense refused to run with them and we woke up with Psychopath Smith in France #Justsayin Not bad, Rense gets 1/2 million and talks about and of course really important to rense UFOs Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Mon ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Hey is there a version of this YouTube video without the FOX segment, just the Sabrosky quote?Statistics: Posted by maz — Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:32 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  zionist juice wrote: oops.. i didn't know that about ayn rand though. for shame. and to think i read her books when i was 19. i already moved past the childishness of objectivism but i didn't know she was such a filthy zio-lover as well. There's an excellent thread on Rand here on this forum ...

TVNZ

• EU seals new Greek bailout to avoid default
  Euro zone finance ministers have sealed a 130-billion-euro bailout for Greece.
• Halal slaughter becomes political issue in France
  A TV documentary's revelation has stirred a political storm in France.
• Gillard has words with Rudd backer MP
  The Prime Minister's ministerial colleagues are urging her to end a leadership crisis.
• Romney trains fire on Santorum to open key week
  Presidential candidate Mitt Romney trained fire at Rick Santorum in a crucial week of campaigning.
• Mexican drug gang plotted prison fight
  Members of the Zetas drug cartel plotted a prison escape and killed 44 members of a rival gang.

environment 360

• NASA Photo Shows Shrinking Lake in Southern Sa ...
  A new photo taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station shows the extent to which Lake Fitri, a terminal lake in the southern Sahara Desert in Chad, has diminished as a consequence of Click to enlarge NASA Lake Fitri climate change. In the photo, which was taken in January ...
• ‘Mobile’ Marine Reserves Needed To Protect Far ...
  U.S. scientists say the creation of “mobile” marine reserves reflecting the migratory nature of far-ranging species will be needed to prevent the extinction of some vulnerable species. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Larry Crowder, direc ...
• Interview: A Clean Energy Guru Presents His Ma ...
  For four decades, Amory Lovins has been a leading proponent of a renewable power revolution that would wean the U.S. off fossil fuels and usher in an era of Amory Lovins energy independence. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses his latest book, Reinventing Fire, which ...
• Dutch Scientists Report Conversion of Plants i ...
  Dutch scientists say they have developed a process that uses nanotechnology to convert plant matter into the basic components of plastics, an innovation that could ultimately provide an alternative to oil-based plastics in the manufacture of thousands of everyday products. Using a catalyst made ...
• Large Area of New Guinea Stripped of Protectio ...
  More than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land in Indonesian New Guinea — including 350,000 hectares of carbon-storing peatland — was stripped of its protected status to facilitate the expansion of a View images Mongabay/Google Earth The MIFEE project government-based agribusiness ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• 911essentials.com
  Lists media debunker sites Tags: truth alternative_media nwo
• Site Map for the 15th Field Artillery Regiment
  Tags: field artillery site
• ICECAP
  Tags: Global_Warming science environment
• UFO Digest provides video proof of ufos, alien ...
  Tags: ufo website newsfeed paranormal
• Truth Control | What They Didn't Teach You In ...
  Tags: Aliens Conspiracies Truth

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Righteous Rick His Own Worst Enemy
  Despite his complaints, Santorum is the one who focused on secondary issues like Obama’s theology and home schooling, says Michael Medved.
• Mitt’s Go-To Attack Guy
  Restore Our Future’s tough strategist talks to Lloyd Grove about the super PAC’s battle to help Romney beat Santorum in Michigan.
• Disney’s Quarter-Billion-Dollar Movie Fiasco
  Hollywood insiders say 'John Carter' is doomed, spelling trouble for studio boss Rich Ross. By Chris Lee.
• Pakistan Ambassador’s Bold Defense
  Can New Pakistan Ambassador Sherry Rehman mend ties with Washington with a new openness about what’s destroying relations? By Eleanor Clift.
• A Messy Campaign Is No Bad Thing
  A brokered GOP convention and a third-party candidate are not reasons to fret, writes Mark McKinnon.

Loonwatch

• Jewish Extremists Target Palestinian Church, S ...
  Racist graffiti has been sprayed on a church in Jerusalem on Monday in the third such incident in the past month in the city.
• Mosque in Belgium Targeted for Second Time
  A mosque in Belgium has been the target of a racially-motivated attack for the second time in less than a year.
• Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT! for America Meet ...
  Brigitte Gabriel linking up with the British Freedom Party.
• Geert Wilders’ Hate: Not Just for Muslim ...
  Wilders has a new enemy in sight: Eastern and Central Europeans.
• NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
  Police are spying on Muslim students without warrant or reason.

Energy News

• NHK: 42% of residents’ radiation exposur ...
• Anonymous Fukushima Employee: Workers were dro ...
• Experts particularly concerned about weight of ...
• Telegraph: US gov’t was secretly plannin ...
• WSJ: Striking fact that many of Fukushima&#821 ...

Japan Times

• Debris disposal test gives low cesium level
  The city of Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, said Monday that an incineration test performed on tsunami debris from Iwate Prefecture generated ash with radiation levels well under the government's safety limit. The city said the concentration of radioactive cesium in the ash was 64 becquerels per ...
• Fuji Heavy says ¥106 million taken
  Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. said Monday it has lodged a criminal complaint with police against a former manager suspected of misappropriating about ¥106 million of company money. The 57-year-old former manager of the Clean Robot Division allegedly illegally diverted funds allocated for res ...
• Red Wings set new record with 23rd straight wi ...
  The Detroit Red Wings are losing track of how many games in a row they've won at home. Detroit won its 23rd straight at Joe Louis Arena, setting an NHL multiple-season mark for home dominance by holding on to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 Sunday.
• Spurs draw with third-tier Stevenage
  Premier League title contender Tottenham was held to a 0-0 draw in the F.A. Cup by third-tier side Stevenage on Sunday, while Liverpool and Stoke advanced to the quarterfinals with few problems. Spurs had a goal by Louis Saha ruled out because of offside but were largely frustrated by an organ ...
• Tokyo: What animal do you think of when you th ...
  Kevin McQueenieEnglish teacher, 33 (Scottish)A penguin. Anyone who's watched a nature documentary and then been on a train during rush hour will understand this metaphor. Ikumi HaneFashion industry, 24 (Japanese)Japan reminds me of a dragon. It's a classic Asian symbol and since last March, Ja ...

Alexander Higgins

• Videos – Ongoing Brutal Police Beatings ...
  Spain streets have been ravaged for hours now with police rampaging through the streets and engaging in indiscriminate brutal beatings of innocent bystanders.
• Facebook Wants Your Gov’t ID! They Alre ...
  Facebook is rolling out a new data collection program which forces you to upload your government ID by claiming your account has been tampered with.
• Media Blackout As Military & Vets For Ron Paul ...
  A massive march of veterans and military personnel marched on the Whitehouse to rally support for Ron Paul in this epic video which erupts into chants of "End The Fed"
• LA gas prices surge above $5 on Iran oil cuts ...
  Los Angeles becomes the first US city to hit gas prices of an all-time record high of over $5.00 a gallon following the Iran cutting oil supplies to Europe.
• Twitter Trends Topped By Protest Against MSM B ...
  Twitter users unite to shine light on the corporate media blackout over Israel's illegal detention of Khader Adnan, making the story top Twitter's trending list.

Macleans - Central

• NDP leadership: Toward a Topp-Mulcair alliance?
  How intriguing Daniel Leblanc’s new Globe story on the NDP leadership campaign is. Here...
• The case for Peggy Nash
  The text of a note sent to supporters today by Nash campaign manager Riccardo...
• The case for Brian Topp
  Brian Topp draws perhaps the most profound compliment of the NDP leadership race to...
• The GOP is hurting and it’s their own fault
  Normally, the primary season is a time to debate ideas, strengthen candidates, and look...
• Where do we draw the line?
  Kris Kotarski makes an important observation: what Vic Toews said last Monday wasn’t without...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Drummond Misdiagnoses Ontario’s Economy
  The Harvard International Review has posted an interview with Don Drummond. I have posted the following response: It is good Drummond confesses that his free-market policy prescriptions failed to improve productivity, but old habits apparently die hard: “We have an Employment Insurance scheme th ...
• McGuinty’s Business Tax Breaks
  An interesting nugget in last week’s Drummond report is Table 11.1, an updated version of Table 2 from “Ontario’s Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth” (2009). It provides a sectoral breakdown of the McGuinty government’s recent business tax breaks: HST input tax credits, cutting the corporate income ta ...
• Trans-Pacific Partnership
  The United Steelworkers union made the following submission to the Government of Canada earlier this week. Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union and a CCPA research associate. The United Steelworkers union welcomes the opportunity to comment on Canada’s proposed entry into ...
• EI Shrank by 100,000 in 2011
  Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance rose by 4,230 in December, a month in which unemployment rose by 6,100. The proportion of unemployed workers receiving benefits remained below 39% (i.e. 544,720 beneficiaries out of 1.4 million unemploye ...
• Deflating Drummond
  Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices jumped in January (by 0.4% or 0.5% seasonally-adjusted), offsetting the drop in December. As a result, the annual inflation rate is now 2.5% and the Bank of Canada’s core inflation rate is 2.1%. Monetary Policy Both measures are well within t ...

ReDress

• Ten questions Britain's William Hague won't an ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that behind British Foreign Secretary William Hague's extraordinary and otherwise inexplicable hostility towards Iran may lie the desire to preserve the imbalance of power in the Middle East so that Israel remains the dominant military force.
• Palestine: a story that needs retelling
  Paul J. Balles retells the story of Palestine, reminding us in brief and simple terms of the the basic, undeniable facts of the world's worst, most obdurate and premeditated injustice.
• Abolishing the Palestinian Authority an urgent ...
  Jeff Halper calls for the abolition of the Palestinian National Authority, which he argues is nothing but a smokescreen to enable Israel to ethnically cleanse itself while the world and Palestinian quislings are preoccupied with the pursuit of the mirage of a two-state solution, something in fac ...
• Israel and the paths to national suicide
  Uri Avnery argues that Israel, through its unwillingness to reach a just accommodation with the Palestinians, its ticking bomb of rapidly multiplying parasitic Orthodox Jews, who do not work and are not equipped for the modern age, and its growing unattractiveness as a place to live, may be head ...
• Time for Jewish activists to shun their racial ...
  Gilad Atzmon considers how racially-driven Zionists and Jewish lobbies abuse the term "racism" and have turned "anti-racism" into a tool to silence criticism of Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism. He argues that rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Israeli propagan ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

• Obsolescence Management Tools
  by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...
• B. Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should s ...
  by johnscarbrough (Posted Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:06:40 GMT) This game is disgusting really
• 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
  by albertodegama (Posted Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:08 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...
• FF News: President Abdulla on Properties...
  by requintn (Posted Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:34:59 GMT) doudoune homme moncler "Bingjie populaires vêtements d'hiver!" - Ville Bingjie Down.Geo Bas et à la mode, avec la tendance du dialogue, afin de répondre aux besoins modernes de différents secteurs depuis des décennies avec d'excellents résul ...
• FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
  by footprints888 (Posted Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:02:33 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...

Peakwater

• L.A. Blasts California in Owens Lake Water War
  “Los Angeles’ water wars continue, with the city suing the state in Superior Court, claiming that the state’s demand for dust abatement at Owens Lake could cost taxpayers $1.5 billion. The City of Los Angeles challenges the validity of Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control ...
• Jordan’s Green Fairytale- ‘Once Up ...
  “According to the WHO, Jordan has one of the lowest water resource availability per capita in the world. By the year 2025, if current trends continue, per capita water supply is expected to fall from the current 200 cubic meters per person to only 91 cubic meters, putting Jordan in the cat ...
• SYRIA: Insecurity makes drought-hit farmers ev ...
  “Instability in Syria has aggravated an already vulnerable situation for tens of thousands of farmers and herders affected by recurrent drought, but only a fraction of them have received assistance because of chronic “serious underfunding” of humanitarian programmes in Syria, the UN Food a ...
• Snuffbox and Rayed Bean Mussels: Freshwater Sp ...
  “Although they have long served as an important food source for a wide variety of animals (including people), freshwater mussels are highly sensitive to poor water quality and large-scale changes in the flows of rivers. As we have altered and polluted rivers, freshwater mussels, which live ...
• Viewpoints: $11 billion water bond should be r ...
  “The Bee’s Feb. 5 editorial, “Water bond will sink if it stays bloated,” was accurate when it described the $11.14 billion water bond as an albatross that voters need to put out of its misery. But there’s an even more efficient and practical course of action that wo ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• … Who the hell do you think pay$ … it’s you an ...
  … Who the hell do you think pay$ … it’s you and me … “stupid” … Did you really think the bankster gangsters were going to lose even one dime …?   Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement: Who Pays? Taxpayers?   02-19-2012  •  by Amanda Lang  Taxpayers to pay banks ‘incentive’ to write mortgag ...
• … An intriguing story line and quite possibly ...
    … An intriguing story line and quite possibly extremely valid … Greed Kills 02-19-2012  •  by Curt Day …  Read Full Story This Fall, we will be electing, from a self-limiting pool of 2 candidates, the President of the United States. We will either choose the Republican “Greed Gone Wild&# ...
• … What it is just might surprise you ..
  … What it is just might surprise you .. The Sweet Golden Treat That Can Help Wipe Out Deadly MRSA Posted By Dr. Mercola | February 20 2012  …http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/20/the-natural-way-to-speed-wound-healing.aspx?e_cid=20120220_DNL_art_1 Story at-a-glance C ...
• … If it is our desire to shame, blame, point f ...
  … If it is our desire to shame, blame, point fingers there are more than enough culprits to go around … including the guy looking back at you in the mirror … NDAA Is Now Law, and Libertarians Are Now Anti-Government Extremists!   by Gary D. Barnett …Recently by Gary D. Barnett: The Department of ...
• … The graphs provided in the article make wrap ...
  … The graphs provided in the article make wrapping one’s brain around the numbers a bit more possible … a most intriguing article … World’s fastest computer: 10 quadrillion calculations per second by Terrence Aym … Created on: February 19, 2012  … http://www.helium.com/items/2294123-worlds ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
  American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
• Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
  Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
• Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
  A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
• The dark side of new species discovery
  Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
• Matt Miller: don't oversimplify issues in envi ...
  Matt Miller is director of communications for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, a position he’s held for ten years. He is responsible for the chapter’s publications and digital media. He writes for the Conservancy’s blogs Cool Green Science and Idaho Nature Notes. He has also co ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Scientists to revisit Pink and White Terraces
  The scientists who discovered remnants of the Pink and White terraces last year are heading back to Lake Rotomahana to find out more.Scientists plan to build on information they gathered last year, in a 10-day project starting in...
• Felling chilly? Try a rom-com
  They are supposed to warm the heart. But we don't just watch romantic comedies when we're feeling blue - we also pick them when we're cold, claim researchers.In an experiment, they found viewers subconsciously chose to watch love...
• International flu expert warns against complacency
  An Otago University-educated international flu expert is warning public health officials not be complacent about new viruses that could spread from animals to humans.The call comes after a health scare at Auckland Airport yesterday...
• Lung problems made worse by soft drinks
  People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.University of Adelaide researchers found...
• Dogs trump chimps in smart stakes
  Man's best friend could also be his smartest after scientists concluded dogs can outsmart chimpanzees.With their human-like brains, chimps have long been rated high on the intelligence scale, but German experts found dogs were better...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

• Ira Stoll on Why Capitalism Is Here to Stay
  At the height of the financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009, a wave of articles declared the end of capitalism. A half-dozen reporters writing about the issue called Allan Meltzer, who since 1957 has been teaching about capitalism at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Fiv ...
• Romney Up But Santorum Not Down in the Wolveri ...
  Public Policy Polling, the polling outfit that last week had Mitt Romney 15 points behind Rick Santorum in Michigan, one of Romney’s multiple home states, now has him behind by “only” four points. This is certainly hopeful for the Romney camp because a Michigan loss will essentially ...
• Steven Greenhut on Pro-Union Activism by Calif ...
  California Attorney General Kamala Harris is a close ally of the public sector unions, who are doing all they can to stop the state's burgeoning pension reform movement. So when the group California Pension Reform submitted two voter initiatives that would rein in the unsustainable co ...
• Protect the Dead; Screw the Living (Definitely ...
  Problem: Fearing criminal charges, people sometimes move the bodies of friends or acquaintances who die of drug overdoses, complicating official investigations. Solution: Make it a crime to move the bodies. An Illinois bill sponsored by state Rep. Dan Beiser (D-Alton) would make "un ...
• Joshua Swain and Katherine Mangu-Ward on How t ...
  When Spc. Mark Grapin returned from a tour of duty in Iraq with the Army National Guard in 2011, he promised his sons—Sean, 9, and Eric, 11—that he would build them a tree house before he shipped out again. Grapin, who lives in Fairfax County, outside Washington, D.C., called the coun ...

Mercury Rising

• Don Lemon: Why Aren’t Gay GOP Candidates ...
  Whenever a closeted gay GOP officeholder, candidate, or prominent operative is suddenly forced out of the closet by some act of malfeasance or other scandal, the Republican Noise Machine immediately kicks into high gear, frantically accusing anyone and everyone who dares discuss said GOPer&#8217 ...
• Heartwarming story
  Go read Diane.
• Yes, Folks, Nader Really Did Want Bush To Win ...
  It never fails. Mention the documented fact that Nader wanted Bush to win in 2000 for the same reason that the German Communists wanted Hitler to win in 1933-34 — because they both thought that getting an unapologetic Fascist in control would soon cause such untold suffering that the masse ...
• Riddle Me This, Climate Change Denialists
  In the wake of news about how the Heartland Institute serves as a cash and other payoffs conduit between anti-environmental climate change denialists and the rich industrialists that support them, the appearance of this graphic in my mailbox was quite apropos. If anyone can tell me its origin, I ...
• A very difficult concept: violence breeds violence
  That’s certainly not a difficult concept for me nor probably for our readers. But for the State Department and our media apparatchiks? It might as well be quantum physics. Mark Engler, Dissent Mag (via t/o) Honduras has become a human rights disaster. The country now has the world’s highes ...

Reality Sandwich

• 2012: Time For Change in Boston
    Evolver has been toiling away in the heart of Puritanical New England to chip away at rigid tradition and routine. This week, on Wednesday, February 22nd, Evolver Boston will be bridging the rift between new ideas and long standing practices with a screening of 2012:Time For Change and ...
• The Prepping Pyramid
    The term "prepping" refers to the process by which you incrementally increase your level of preparedness for emergency/disaster on a continuum from short-term self-reliance to long-term self-sufficiency. The term "preps" can be defined as tangible items or systems ...
• The Recovery of the Human
    The following originally appeared on The Archdruid Report.   The myth of the machine has implications that go well beyond the usual terms of discussion in the peak oil scene. One of those implications unfolds from the way that so many people who are concerned about peak oil fi ...
• ALT.OSCAR 2012
  Come to Kostume Kult's 7th annual Oscar night event in the city, supported by Reality Sandwich and Flavorpill. read more
• Ancient History Rocks
  World-renowned authority on ancient mysteries Graham Hancock joins rock'n'roll band Turbowolf to explore their mutual interest in the unresolved questions troubling the mainstream historical myths of our planet. read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

• Afghan protesters rap Qur’an burning
  Large numbers of people have turned up for angry demonstrations in Afghanistan after US-led forces in the war-wracked country burned copies of the Holy Qur’an, Press TV reports.
• Iran to boost presence in int'l waters
  Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says Iran will continue boosting its presence in the international waters, dismissing remarks by the officials of the Israeli regime on the arrival of two Iranian naval ships in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Union extends Frankfurt airport strike
  Germany’s GdF union for air traffic workers has announced an extension of its strike until the end of the week, causing further air traffic disruptions at the country’s largest airport.
• US gas prices up after Iran oil ban
  In the wake of a surge in oil prices following an Iranian decision to halt oil exports to French and British companies, gasoline prices are heading towards highs in the US market.
• 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.

SciDev.net

• LED lights brighten prospects for jaundice tre ...
  LED lights, which are more effective than conventional treatments for jaundice in infants, will soon be rolled out in the developing world.
• WMO weather information system improves access ...
  The World Meteorological Organization is offering improved access to data for decision-makers in developing countries.
• Telling good universities from the bad
  Pakistan’s universities need to have academic freedom to excel, rather than churn out fake research papers, says Pervez Hoodbhoy.
• Guyana: native people develop plan to protect ...
  The indigenous Wapichan people of Guyana have proposed a plan to the government to protect more than one million hectares of pristine tropical forest.
• Lack of expertise blamed for Bolivia's lithium ...
  Critics blame Bolivia's lack of scientific and technical expertise for delays in exploiting its vast natural reserves of valuable lithium.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
  The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
• Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
  Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
• Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
  A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...
• A Diode for light
  For many years engineers have wanted to use light instead of electricity to build circuits with. It moves slightly faster, but more importantly signals can pass one another without interfering. This l...
• The coldest point water can remain a liquid ha ...
  If you ask any group of school children what temperature does pure water freeze at and you will normally get the answer 0 degrees celsius, which is the standard answer and it is the temperature below ...

Nick Turse

• A monk prays for a dead man in the station hal ...
  A monk prays for a dead man in the station hall of the Shanxi Taiyuan Train Station in Shanxi, China, November 25, 2011. A monk who was waiting for the train performed a religious ceremony for the man, who was found dead, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Asianewsphoto
• An anti-government protester takes photos with ...
  An anti-government protester takes photos with a mobile phone as he stands on a fence during a rally to demand that Yemen’s outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh be tried in Sanaa December 30, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
• Siberian tigers approach a keeper’s car as the ...
  Siberian tigers approach a keeper’s car as they wait to be fed at the Siberian Tiger Forest Park in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, December 27, 2011. More than 800 Siberian tigers are currently living in the park, which is also a breeding centre for this endangered species, local med ...
• Which Pentagon Budget Numbers Are Real? You De ...
  Which Pentagon Budget Numbers Are Real? You Decide!: When the Pentagon announced its 2013 budget...
• Fist fighters battle during the Musangwe, an a ...
  Fist fighters battle during the Musangwe, an age old tradition where men and boys display their fighting skills, at Gaba Village in Limpopo province, South Africa, December 22, 2011. The annual Venda fist-fighting run by community leaders, attracts hundreds of men who engaged in several wee ...

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