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Thomas Paine

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Friday, February 24, 2012

24 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Wanted: Climate-Smart Agriculture
    As the links between food security and climate change become increasingly inextricable, the necessity for sustainable agriculture is now a universal concern.
  • BRAZIL: A Curse on Hydropower Projects in the ...
    "Perhaps it's the curse of Rondônia," joked Ari Ott, referring to teething troubles with the first turbine of the Santo Antônio hydroelectric plant which was intended to kick off a new cycle of huge power projects in Brazil's Amazon jungle region.
  • COTE D'IVOIRE: Illicit Timber Trade Exposes th ...
    Environmental groups in Côte d'Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of wood from the African gum tree is exposing the north of the country to the encroaching desert. The NGOs are calling on the authorities to take firmer action against the illicit timber traders – who alleged ...
  • Q&A: 'Malaysians Must Vote Out Corruption, Racism'
    Malaysia's charismatic opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is tapping the spirit of the Arab Spring to end the 55-year unbroken rule of the United Malay National Organsiation (UMNO) and its allies in the Southeast Asian nation.
  • Despite War Drums, Experts Insist Iran Nuclear ...
    Amid the persistent beating of war drums, an influential international conflict prevention group is insisting that a deal between Western countries and Iran on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme can still be reached.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Putin says West seeking 'regime change' in Iran
    Summary: "Under the guise of trying to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction... they are attempting something else entirely and setting different goals -- regime change," news agencies quoted Putin as saying. "We have such suspicions," said Putin. "And we are trying to take a st ...
  • Iran warns UNSC against Zionist regime’s immu ...
    Summary: ISLAMABAD, Feb 24 (APP): Iran’s Representative to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaee in a letter to the rotating head of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) cautioned against the immunity of Israel in continuing its crimes throughout the world. source: Associated Press of ...
  • Diplomatic Miscalculations and the Threat of W ...
    Summary: Shirin Shafaie presents an exclusive interview with Peter Jenkins regarding Iran’s nuclear issue and the failure of Western diplomacy in dealing with it. Mr. Jenkins was the UK Permanent Representative to the IAEA in Vienna from 2001 to 2006. This is the first of three parts. sour ...
  • Iran denies link to Azarbaijan terror suspects
    Summary: Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi brushes aside threats by the United States and its allies against Tehran, stressing that Iran will never waver in the face of threats by any country, particularly the US. source: ABNA.coread more
  • Deconstructing Lieberman’s Iran Resolution
    Summary: The president and the defense secretary were both talking about nuclear weapons, not the nuclear-weapons capability that the resolution emphasizes. The two are vastly different. Any state that uses nuclear technology has the potential for making nuclear weapons. The main point is to ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Overeating doubles risk of memory loss and cog ...
    Compelling research will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting to explain how overeating may double the risk of memory loss, or mild cognitive impairment (MCI), among people aged 70 and older. Cognitive decline threatens the very nature...
  • Violent crime in D.C. spikes by 40 percent in 2012
    Planning on visiting the nation's capital anytime soon? You might want to rethink your trip or, at least, where you plan to stay and visit. That's because http://www.washingtontimes.com, over the same period last year. That figure includes twice as many armed robberies...
  • Health basics: What is nutritional yeast?
    (NaturalNews)Nutritional yeast is an excellent vegetarian source of almost all B complex vitamins. Vegetarians and vegans should include it in their diet. It contains an abundance of all amino acids to form a complete protein. The B vitamins in abundance include B1 (thiamin),...
  • Parsley is an effective antioxidant, diuretic, ...
    Parsley, that little piece of leafy green garnish that seems to decorate every plate in restaurants all across the U.S., is actually a serious herb which packs a powerful punch. Most people smile and ask sheepishly, "Are we supposed to eat it?" If it is certified organic...
  • Coconut oil may be able to reverse the progres ...
    Reliable conclusions about the causes of Alzheimer's disease remain elusive, and effective drugs to treat the disease remain equally scarce. An actual pharmaceutical cure seems as close to becoming reality as a cure for cancer (i.e. nowhere in sight). Yet a Florida doctor...

Threat Level

  • Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drives Is Un ...
    Forcing a criminal suspect to decrypt hard drives so their contents can be used by prosecutors is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self incrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
  • Publisher Drops Ownership Claims to Time-Zone Data
    The publisher of a database chronicling historical time-zone data is dropping its copyright infringement suit against two researchers who repurposed the information into a free-to-use database relied on by millions of computers. The data, which basically spells out past and future times anywhere ...
  • White House Privacy Bill of Rights Brought to ...
    The White House announced Thursday a new “Consumer Bill of Rights” for online privacy and that the net’s biggest online ad networks that build profiles will respect a “Do Not Track” setting in browsers.
  • Court OKs Taking DNA From Felony Arrestees
    A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a voter-approved measure requiring California authorities to take a DNA sample from every adult arrested on felony accusations in the Golden State.
  • Cops Trolled Driver’s License Database for Pic ...
    A former female police officer, suspecting randy colleagues were abusing Minnesota’s driver’s license database to look her up, discovered that 104 officers in 18 different agencies across the state had accessed her driver’s license record 425 times, using the state database as their person ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 50 Years Later, Time for the Kennedy Doctrine ...
    Back in 2007, Bush press secretary Dana Perino famously admitted her total ignorance of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Now as they ratchet up their rhetoric towards Iran, Perino's conservative allies seem to have forgotten the lessons of that critical Cold War confrontation. Then as now, many ...
  • Desperate Romney Adopts Dole's Failed Across-t ...
    Last year, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney unveiled a plan to extend the Bush tax cuts, eliminate the estate tax and slash corporate taxes. But that proposal, one which would deliver 60 percent of its benefits to the top one percent of taxpayers while draining $6.6 trillion from the U.S. Treasury o ...
  • Gas Prices Rising Despite Surge in U.S. Produc ...
    With their presidential primary process devolving into a farce, Republicans are turning to rising gas prices to bludgeon President Obama. While Newt Gingrich thundered that "gasoline prices are unacceptable," Rick Santorum charged that "We need a president who is on the side of affordable energ ...
  • SuperPAC-Men Playing for Billion Dollar Paydays
    As a quick glance at January's presidential fundraising numbers confirms, the unlimited cash flowing into SuperPACs is fundamentally distorting the 2012 election. The millions flowing into conservative SuperPAC coffers are not only far outpacing the GOP candidates' own campaigns, but continuing ...
  • 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 ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: US Busts Rhino Horn Smu ...
    Great news! The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has cracked a major international rhino horn trafficking ring and arrested several people across a dozen states. The undercover investigation called “Operation Crash” also resulted in the seizure of 20 rhino horns, over $1 mill ...
  • Obama Admin Continues (Increases) Monsanto-Fri ...
      Not good news on a day when I’m also reporting on a new study regarding the negative health effects of Monsanto corn and an effort in the EU, led by France, to get GMOs banned from the small but intelligent continent. Ah, if only we had the [...]
  • France Asks EU to Ban Monsanto’s GM Corn
      Following up on the news that genetically modified (GM) corn is potentially harmful to human cells (according to a new scientific study on the matter), France has formally asked the EU to ban Monsanto’s GM corn (though, it seems to not be because of this new study, but other matte ...
  • “America Will do What’s Right…”
      Inspired by the 70 year-old Winston Churchill quote: “In the long run, Americans will always do the right thing — after exploring all other alternatives.” Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page…
  • Native American Youth Sues Governor Janice Bre ...
      Anyone who has looked into the matter honestly knows that global warming and climate change severely threaten young generations. As reported a few times previously, some members of that young generation are pushing for action now, through legal action. One such story is of an 11-year ol ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Riots follow Qu'Ran burnings by US - World News
    Two NATO soldiers were shot and killed Thursday by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform who had joined protesters objecting to Qur'an burnings that took place at a U.S. base earlier in the week, says Reuters news agency, quoting Western military sources. An Afghan official said two proteste ...
  • Don't panic as power shifts from US to China - ...
    On Feb. 15, just as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping arrived in the United States for a four-day visit, U.S. President Barack Obama told an audience of American workers in Milwaukee, "Manufacturing is coming back!" Coming back from China, that is. But while the Master Lock Company of Milwa ...
  • Cash Of The Titans: Against The Noxious Fantas ...
    The concept of endless economic growth, accepted as sacrosanct by both U.S. mainstream political parties, and internalized as the dominant mode of mind by the general population of the corporate/consumer state is mirrored in the exponential mathematics of a malignancy. Cancer, if given voic ...
  • Neil Young. Change your mind. - World View
    Organized by musician Neil Young and his wife, Pegi, the Bridge School Benefit Concert is an annual, all acoustic, non-profit charity event held every October at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. All proceeds directly benefit the operations of The Bridge School. The Bridge ...
  • Tightening the hatches in Canada - Featured
    Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada – our equivalent to North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader’. And Stephen Harper is a control freak. He is legendary for preventing other elected officials from his own Conservative Party from speaking independently, from sharing their own opinions outside o ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • We're Number One!
    By @BGinKC O what I wouldn't give to be down in the middle of this state ranking, like we tend to be on the ones that rank the states by some sort of positive metric. But no such luck this time artound, not where meth lab seizures is concerned. In that regard, we're not just number one this year ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Love Me, I' ...
    By @KYYellowDog Yes, children, once upon a time - not so long ago - people were proud to call themselves liberals, although their actual actions did not always reflect actual liberal values. We have the same problem today, although because of the movement of the Overton window a few light-years ...
  • A Dose of Right Wing Hypocrisy, Up Close and P ...
    By @TedFrier In a lengthy and interesting response to my post yesterday about the hypocrisy that is endemic to right wing conservatism, reader AfterTheCharge gently chided me for not thinking more like a conservative. He pointed out, for example, that: Conservatives aren't hypocrites by nature a ...
  • Watered-Down Mandatory Rape Bill Still Monster ...
    By @KYYellowDog Because the debate now is not how to make abortions easy, frequent and free; not about how to keep decisions about abortion between a woman and her doctor; not about how to promote contraception to prevent abortion; not about how to minimize the ridiculous and unnecessary obstacl ...
  • I'm Sad To Say Obama Is Pandering On Corporate ...
    The fundamental dishonesty of the Mainstream Media business press tends to come out at times like this, as President Obama is proposing a cut in the U.S. corporate tax rate, down from the stated "35%" down to 28%. Unfortunately, this is when the fundamental dishonesty of many politicians comes o ...

Care 2

  • Google Earth to be extended under water with p ...
    . Submitted by mick cave to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 2/24/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, including an Ed Schultz video, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stand Up for Science -- Admit Climate Change i ...
    Climate change is real and scientists warn that its impacts are only going to get worse. In fact scientists are in near unanimous agreement on the threat of global warming and man's significant impact on it. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Giant's Causeway Golf Comp ...
    The Giant's Causeway, a stretch of bizarre volcanic rock formations, is one of Ireland's top tourist attractions. Situated at the very top of Northern Ireland, thousands of tourists a year visit the Giant's Causeway for the wild scenery. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |  & ...
  • Please Do Not Euthanize Tony ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Over the past three months Tony, a friendly healthy-minded canine who was raised as more of a family member than a pet, has been in the pound because he was wrongfully accused of killing the small pet of his neighbor. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  & ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • How Much Longer Do we Have to Wait?
    Republicans can’t seem to make up their minds as to which of the four will stay on board. Which little piggy do you think will leave next? If I were the betting type I would say only Mitt Romney has a chance of giving Obama a good run, if there is any money left in [...]
  • Here a Troll, There a Troll, Everywhere a Trol ...
    In the sport of fishing, trolling is the practice of dragging baited lines behind a slow-moving boat.  I guess this gives fish the illusion that the bait is swimming, thus alive.  The fisherman is pulling the hook along, hoping something takes the bait.  If he’s getting lots of bites, he m ...
  • Don’t Break Down in Chi Town!
    Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch’s The Scream came to mind as I read how Chicago treats its mentally ill. That city doesn’t seem to be a place that cares much about its people or its politics. Turns out Chicago is closing half of its mental health facilities and cutting the budget for mental ...
  • The Debate Is Finally Here! Yippee!
    Tune in to the 20th debate on CNN at 8 p.m. ET. You’ll never believe who the host is … yup, John King. I can’t wait to hear his first question this time. Are there Vegas odds on who he’ll call on first? Surely not Gingrich (?). Quite possibly Santorum, I’m guessing. ...
  • Pro Life Hypocrisy?
    Conservatives claim to believe that the power of government should be limited when it comes to personal privacy. At least that is what I believe. Conservatives bristle justifiably at the intrusion of TSA agents groping one’s crotch at an airport security checkpoint. So here comes Virginia ...

Futurismic

  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mountaintop removal offends my core - Natural ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal offends my core Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) As many of my readers may know, I grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains, which had everything to do with my eventually finding a career in environmentalism. I've had ...
  • BofA must come clean on coal - Charlotte Busin ...
    BofA must come clean on coal Charlotte Business Journal 10 article, “Rainforest Action Network is taking on coal, BofA,” correctly reported the environmental group has launched a campaign urging Bank of America “to stop financing coal companies that use mountaintop removal to mine the resource. ...
  • White Star Holler: Powerful New Music Video Ca ...
    White Star Holler: Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia's Grief Over ... AlterNet (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 music video released ...
  • Here is What You Say - Fenceviewer
    Here is What You Say Fenceviewer The whole world is watching, and I am calling on your corporation to do the right thing and stop the destruction of Blair Mountain, along with all other mountains and communities in Appalachia. Mountaintop removal mining is wrong and harmful to the ...
  • UA passes resolution against mountaintop remov ...
    UA passes resolution against mountaintop removal The Daily Pennsylvanian The resolution, authored by the Penn Community Against Mountaintop Removal, passed with a vote of 20-4, with two abstaining. Mountaintop removal is a method of mining that involves removing the tops of mountains to obtain t ...

Memeorandum

  • Asian American Journalists Association release ...
    Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News: Asian American Journalists Association releases guidelines on Jeremy Lin media coverage  —  Given the media's “Linsanity” surrounding Jeremy Lin, perhaps this was inevitable.  —  Following (justified) outrage over sever ...
  • Rick Santorum winning more support from Republ ...
    Rick Santorum / Washington Post: Rick Santorum winning more support from Republican women  —  Much of the talk has centered around past speeches and interviews, in which Santorum declared that birth control doesn't work and that it “is harmful to women” and the count ...
  • Flashback: DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Rails A ...
    ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Flashback: DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Rails Against Bush For $3-Gallon Gas...
  • Dem Pollster: Voters Don't Think America's Bac ...
    Josh Kraushaar / 2012 Decoded: Dem Pollster: Voters Don't Think America's Back  —  Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg is out with a must-read polling memo this morning, which offers some eye-opening advice to President Obama and his re-election team.  After testing sever ...
  • Seven states sue over contraception mandate (S ...
    Sam Baker / The Hill: Seven states sue over contraception mandate  —  Seven state attorneys general sued the Obama administration Thursday over its order requiring some religious employers to cover birth control in their employees' healthcare plans.  —  In the su ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, southern Sumatra, Indonesia
    Friday, February 24, 2012 14:13:01 UTC Friday, February 24, 2012 09:13:01 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.3, northern Colombia
    Friday, February 24, 2012 13:43:17 UTC Friday, February 24, 2012 08:43:17 AM at epicenterDepth: 169.10 km (105.07 mi)
  • M 5.0, Leyte, Philippines
    Friday, February 24, 2012 05:42:31 UTC Friday, February 24, 2012 01:42:31 PM at epicenterDepth: 98.30 km (61.08 mi)
  • M 5.1, Kermadec Islands region
    Thursday, February 23, 2012 18:26:24 UTC Friday, February 24, 2012 06:26:24 AM at epicenterDepth: 43.90 km (27.28 mi)
  • M 5.0, offshore Chiapas, Mexico
    Thursday, February 23, 2012 14:09:15 UTC Thursday, February 23, 2012 08:09:15 AM at epicenterDepth: 60.60 km (37.66 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Scientists and citizens
    Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports.What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in sou ...
  • Bear battle in China
    In the latest animal welfare row, traditional medicine lobbyists and anti-cruelty campaigners have been trading bitter blows over the treatment of bears. Zhang Ke reports.China’s long-running and vicious debate over the extraction of bile from live bears has escalated to new levels followi ...
  • Stalled bid to cut car fumes
    Sub-standard fuel from major oil companies is blocking Beijing’s efforts to introduce tighter pollution controls. Du Yueying and Xu Nan report.China’s efforts to cut vehicle pollution have hit a roadblock. The introduction of tighter exhaust controls has once again been postponed. An ...
  • Chasing data in China’s provinces
    The first independent review of provincial-level environmental data highlights a plethora of challenges to transparency in China, writes Angel Hsu, introducing the second of two new studies.China’s environmental data has created many international headlines in recent months, particularly i ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Why Romney's "Self-Deportation" Idea ...
    Some spectators in the audience giggled at Romney's answer. "Self-deportation," however, is no joke. It amounts to laws that harm undocumented immigrants and Latinos.
  • Special Needs Students Shut Out of NYC Schools ...
    A new mandate in New York City was meant to ensure a place for special needs students at local public schools. So why are they still being shut out?
  • Lady-Parts, the Church and Planned Parenthood: ...
    Written by On The Issues Magazine for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Originally written by Sara Benincasa for On The Issues Magazine; cross-posted with permission. I’m a comedian, not a ...
  • Sensationalizing Drug Use in Pregnant Women: H ...
    Written by Marianne Møllman for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Well before anyone could be certain of how Whitney Houston died, several news outlets rushed to describe her as a “cr ...
  • Climate Deniers Challenge Teaching of Science ...
    Leaked documents reveal a right-wing think-tank's plans to undermine the teaching of climate science -- and defund public education in the process.

Threat Level

  • Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drives Is Un ...
    Forcing a criminal suspect to decrypt hard drives so their contents can be used by prosecutors is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self incrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
  • Publisher Drops Ownership Claims to Time-Zone Data
    The publisher of a database chronicling historical time-zone data is dropping its copyright infringement suit against two researchers who repurposed the information into a free-to-use database relied on by millions of computers. The data, which basically spells out past and future times anywhere ...
  • White House Privacy Bill of Rights Brought to ...
    The White House announced Thursday a new “Consumer Bill of Rights” for online privacy and that the net’s biggest online ad networks that build profiles will respect a “Do Not Track” setting in browsers.
  • Court OKs Taking DNA From Felony Arrestees
    A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a voter-approved measure requiring California authorities to take a DNA sample from every adult arrested on felony accusations in the Golden State.
  • Cops Trolled Driver’s License Database for Pic ...
    A former female police officer, suspecting randy colleagues were abusing Minnesota’s driver’s license database to look her up, discovered that 104 officers in 18 different agencies across the state had accessed her driver’s license record 425 times, using the state database as their person ...

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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

  • Six State Outbreak of Shiga Toxin-producing E. ...
    A total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Michigan (2), Arkansas (1), and Wisconsin (1). Among persons for whom information is availab ...
  • Pennsylvania Family Cow Raw Milk Dairy Sickens ...
    New Jersey Department of Health reported that it currently has two residents that are ill in connection to a major outbreak caused by the consumption of raw milk from a Pennsylvania farm, Family Cow Dairy. Currently 78 people in four states have become ill with campylobacteriosis, a gastrointes ...
  • Mr. President, Senators, Congress Members, and ...
    Each of the above died because they ate a listeria-tainted cantaloupe in the United States of America in 2011.  And, these are only my clients, not all of the 36 who died. To the growers, shippers, brokers, auditors and retailers who supplied those cantaloupes in the summer of 2001, shame ...
  • Three Lawsuits a Day Keep Customers Away - Tac ...
    Taco Bell - “Mexican-style fast-food restaurant chain” - Salmonella Outbreak A 22-year-old Oklahoma woman who says she contracted salmonella after eating at Taco Bell has sued the fast-food company. Leah Smith claims she became sick while attending a University of Oklahoma football ...
  • Hey, CDC, the Cantaloupe Listeria Death Count ...
    Yesterday I wrote “The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak - My View Part 6 – Conclusion.”  This was my conclusion to a six part series on the deadly listeria cantaloupe outbreak.  At the time that the CDC completed its investigation in early December 2011, only ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Newt Gingrich: "You cannot put a gun r ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Government/Legal, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Looks like Newt Gingrich is getting into the right-wing, "let's-all-hate-on-the-Chevrolet-Volt" bandwagon. During a campaign stop at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, the trailing Republican candidate s ...
  • Report: Tesla Roadster facing 'brick' battery ...
    Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Safety, Technology, Tesla, Electric Here's a new worry for electric car owners: bricking your new, expensive ride. Using a word taken from the computer world, to "brick" an EV means to make your electronic device inoperable. In the case of an EV, it w ...
  • Report: Paice drags Hyundai, Kia into long-run ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Technology, Hyundai, Kia, Toyota With all the news coming out recently about the small claims lawsuit over the Honda Civic Hybrid, readers may have forgotten the name behind a long-running legal issue over Toyota's hybrid system: Paice. The latest development is ...
  • 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Jazz Legend Randy Weston: The Complete Democra ...
    Our full 78-minute interview with pianist and composer Randy Weston. Includes extended performances of many of Weston’s most famous songs: "High Fly," "Blue Moses," "African Cookbook," "In Memory Of," "The Healers," "African Lady,&quo ...
  • "New Obama Campaign Co-Chair: 'The President I ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Those four words headline the website of the organization Progressives United, founded by former U.S. Sen., and now Obama campaign ad ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • How the GOP Primary Became A Contest Among Ame ...
    Gawker-  By Mobutu Sese Seko Feb 23, 2012  2:05 PM The after effects of the Citizens United ruling shouldn’t shock anyone. Corporations were granted the ability to spend ungodly sums on campaigns, and guess what they’re doing? They’re spending ungodly sums on campaigns. There i ...
  • The Gang That Couldn’t Bomb Straight
    Robert Scheer | TruthDig | February 23, 2012 Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life and their positions on the social issues alienating most moderates, the leading Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have returned to the elixir of warmongering ...
  • Obama Holds Lead Against Republican Opponents, ...
    By LAURIE KELLMAN and JENNIFER AGIESTA 02/22/12 08:03 AM ET Associated Press  via:  Huff  Post WASHINGTON — A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months befo ...
  • Two Charts That Should Terrify Republicans
    February 20, 2012,  4:52 AM TPM Brian Beutler     If Republicans seem spooked to you these days, here’s why. President Obama’s political comeback over the past several months aligns neatly with when he began more aggressively attacking the GOP and politicking for economic growth and equality bac ...
  • Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In ...
    Posted: 02/21/12 10:37 AM ET  |  Updated: 02/21/12 04:27 PM ET Huff Post  By- Mike Sacks WASHINGTON — Affirmative action is heading back to the Supreme Court, and this time its prospects for survival are poorer than ever. The Court announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to hear a cha ...

Solari

  • Book Review: Farrell on the Breakaway Civilization
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Dr. Joseph P. Farrell’s new book, Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations is highly recommended. Farrell connects the dots between Nazi operations, technology and funds laund ...
  • Catherine Hosts Thrive Showing in Ojai – ...
    Join us for a special showing of the documentaryTHRIVE – What on Earth Will It Take? SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 4:00PM at the Ojai Playhouse Theater, 145 E. Ojai Avenue, and organic dinner at The Ojai Art Center! Catherine Austin Fitts will be hosting this Special Community Event sponsored by Tra ...
  • Solari Special Report: Foreign Investment Fili ...
    A new Solari Special Report, Foreign Investment Filing Requirements – 2011. By Carolyn A. Betts Excerpt: Given the flurry of regulatory activity in 2010 and 2011 surrounding filing requirements for US holders of foreign investments, we thought a review of the current US Treasury and IRS fi ...
  • Software Startups Reaped Lions Share of Ventur ...
    By Peter Delevett Maybe they should start calling it Software Valley. Venture capitalists, who provide much of the funding that keeps startups growing, poured twice as much money into software companies in the last quarter of 2011 than into any other sector. Venture firms nationwide put $1.8 b ...
  • Hidden “Agent Orange” Chemical The ...
    By Dr. Mercola Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War. During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture were sprayed on trees and vegetation, and the aftermath left hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese sic ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Wave goodby to Greece. All the paths that lie ...
    Summary:  This week Europe’s leaders faced a choice somewhat similar and perhaps equally momentous as America’s leaders faced in 1787.  But this week they chose a path that looks punitive and short-sighted, pursuing European unification but likely to generate discord and eventually f ...
  • Realism and Realpolitik – Setting the Co ...
    Summary:  Today we have a brilliant work by Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) discussing America’s place in the world, and recommending what should be our grand strategy to best adapt to the inevitable changes that lie ahead in this century.  It’s deserves some attention as an altern ...
  • Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
    Summary:  Americans increasingly live in a world bordered by our amnesia.  Our past lost, replaced by myths.  Our recent history largely forgotten, replaced by a vague jumble of half-remembered events.  To tell the story of our past decade requires someone with a clear understanding of geopoliti ...
  • Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
    Summary:  Americans increasingly live in a world bordered by our amnesia.  Our past lost, replaced by myths.  Our recent history largely forgotten, replaced by a vague jumble of half-remembered events.  To tell the story of our past decade requires someone with a clear understanding of geopoliti ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The European Union and the Syrian Gridlock
    The United Nations account of the 8317 dead and counting in Syria is disturbing, even more so as the international community remains divided and actions to curb violence have proved unsuccessful. In this apparent gridlock, the European Union has adopted a hard-pressed and steady posture against ...
  • What's the Matter With Martin Dempsey?
    Over at Foreign Affairs, Micah Zenko and I have a new piece that makes the somewhat obvious and yet counter-intuitive point that for all the doom-saying and threat-mongering of foreign policy elites . . . the world today (and the United States) is actually pretty safe: The world that the United ...
  • Afghan Outrage: Burned Books, Mayhem, and Mass ...
    At least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded so far in a series of riots across Afghanistan reacting to news that some Islamic religious materials were burned along with the trash by American troops. President Obama this morning added his "deep regret" and "sincere apo ...
  • Drone Airlift?
    Juan Cole: Well, I hate those US drones when used for purposes of warfare. But here is a Gandhian use for them. Let us defy the Syrian regime’s misuse of its sovereignty to murder its own citizens by using drones for supply airdrops.The US military was thinking already in 2009 of using drones to ...
  • Khamenei Rejects Constitutional Oversight
    A cleric close to conservative Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, an influential member of the Assembly of Experts, has stated that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei violated the Assembly’s constitutional right to monitor the Leader’s performance. According to BBC Persian Service, Abbas Nabavi, Head of t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • State of the Week
    Each Friday—well at least most Fridays—I'm going to sum up the big news happening in states around the country. To make it more interesting, I'm naming a State of the Week where the biggest news came from. See something that's missing? Tell me: arapoport@prospect.org or on Twitter @RaRapoport. ...
  • The Prospect Goes to the Oscars
    Have you made your Oscar picks for this Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast yet? No fear, we've collected all our reviews of this year's nominated films so you can cram before the big show, and pass off Tom Carson's less-than-effusive thoughts on Midnight in Paris as your own (if you so choose). ...
  • Halftime
    The latest episode of Vox and Friends, The American Prospect podcast, is up and ready for listening. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and give us a review! When you mix vintage video game systems with Daft Punk, amazing things happen. Former Prospect editor Mark Schmitt has a great review of Geof ...
  • The Obama-ization of Everything
    For the last few years, liberals have been pointing out that conservatives radically shifted their opinions about certain ideas once those ideas were embraced by Barack Obama. The two biggies are an individual mandate for health insurance, which was conceived by conservatives at the Heritage Fo ...
  • The Court That Walks Off Cliffs
    Affirmative Action: Perhaps the defining characteristic of the Rehnquist Court was a certain last-minute reticence. On issue after issue—the Commerce Power, abortion, even the long-standing conservative desire to do away with Miranda v. Arizona—the Court would walk up to the edge of the abyss, ...

Buzzflash

  • 10 Reasons the GOP Wants to Ditch the Constitution
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT One of the great ironies of the Republican Party right wing -- which is to say the current crop of GOP presidential contenders -- is their alleged reverence to the Constitution and the "Founding Fathers."  But, many of their more provocative public s ...
  • Eleven Questions for Sen. Santorum
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is steadily climbing the GOP polls (even though his standing versus President Obama is dismal). He may even win in Michigan, one of the several home states of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Wh ...
  • Global Corporations Know No National Boundarie ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Global corporations and the super rich know no national boundaries; while working class people and the poor of the world face walls. To be accurate, there are some barriers that multinational companies confront to expanding in a few countries, but the ...
  • Saying No to Militarism
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT No mail on Saturday, maybe, but small-town police get armored personnel carriers? Let's take a moment - in the context of these bitter times, and President Obama's recent austerity budget proposal - to celebrate the questions the residents of Keene, N. ...
  • What an iPad Really Costs
    LINDA GIBSON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Between a factory tour by ABC's "Nightline" and an investigation by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), it might appear that something is actually being done to help the subsistence-wage Chinese workers at Foxconn who make products for Apple, Hewlett Packard, ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • How glaucoma medication works
    I recently wrote about the diagnosis of glaucoma and readers were then asking about how their eye drops for the condition work. The raised pressure within the eye that defines glaucoma and can cause optic nerve damage can be lowered through surgery problematic cases that do not respond to drugs ...
  • A real life Periodic Table
    One of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, Theo Gray, owns a home made, wooden periodic table table with compartments underneath every element label, with samples, if you’re a chem geek you’ll have probably seen it before. Gray built and populated the wooden PT in his free time. Kir ...
  • Feeling fine for Fenland findings
    Well, I’ve fasted overnight, urinated into a plastic vial, donated half a dozen shots of blood, been exposed to X-rays, had height (just under 6 foot), weight and waist & hips measured (not telling), body fat determined (somewhere between the “average” man at 18–24%), bloo ...
  • Faster than light? Jim’s shorts are safe
    When physicists announced they’d detected sub-atomic particles, neutrinos, that were travelling at speeds beyond the speed of light in a vacuum, there was a media feeding frenzy. Most scientists assumed it was a glitch and Jim Al-Khalili said he’d eat his shorts on live TV if faster ...
  • Detecting glaucoma
    I had my eyes tested a couple of weeks ago, ended up with new reading glasses (did I already say? Means I’m going to have to change my avatar again). Anyway, I have a close relative with glaucoma so the optician/ophthalmologist usually does a pressure test on my eyes. She uses a non-contac ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Steps in to Block South Carolina’s Discri ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of South Carolina today asked a federal court to block South Carolina’s discriminatory voter identification law that would keep minorities and others from exercising their right to vote.  read more
  • NYT Lets Unnamed Officials Smear Critics as 'T ...
    In two stories this month, New York Times journalists allowed anonymous government officials to smear critics as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers--a shocking violation of the paper's explicit rules against allowing anonymity to be a cover for attacks. read more
  • Poland Must Investigate Its Role in US Secret ...
    Poland must cease hiding behind state secrecy and allow a fully transparent investigation into its role in U.S.-led rendition and secret detention programs, Amnesty International said. The call came after the Polish prosecutor general changed the prosecutor in charge of an investigation into the ...
  • The Food Movement Speaks With one Voice: Occup ...
    On February 27, an unprecedented alliance of more than 60 Occupy groups and 30 environmental, food and corporate accountability organizations have joined together for Occupy our Food Supply, a global day of action resisting the corporate control of food systems.read more
  • The Food Movement Speaks With one Voice: Occup ...
    On February 27, an unprecedented alliance of more than 60 Occupy groups and 30 environmental, food and corporate accountability organizations have joined together for Occupy our Food Supply, a global day of action resisting the corporate control of food systems.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Drumbeat of War with Iran Has a Familiar Ring
    Simon Tisdall The drumbeat of war with Iran grows steadily more intense. Each day brings more defiant rhetoric from Tehran, another failed UN nuclear inspection, reports of western military preparations, an assassination, a missile test, o ...
  • Celebrating 'All That We Share'
    Jay Walljasper Annie Leonard Annie Leonard is one of the most articulate, effective champions of the commons today. Her webfilm The Story of Stuff has been seen more than 15 million times by viewer ...
  • Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson
    Rethinking Schools Editorial “Banned in Tucson.”read more
  • Marriage Equality and the Civil Rights Inheritance
    Gary Younge In the small hours of 11 July 1958, three policemen entered the home of Mildred and Richard Loving, in Central Point, Virginia and found them in bed. When Richard pointed to his marriage certificate indicating that Mildred was ...
  • Screwed Unemployed Workers and Rising Concentr ...
    Greg Kaufmann Congresswoman Barbara Lee, co-chair of the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, voted against the recent extension of unemployment benefits because it shortened the maximum number of weeks a jobless worker could qualify. &ldqu ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Peace, Justice, Sustainability, Technology and ...
    A historic gathering of distinguished scientists, leaders, and humanitarians will speak to the most important scientific, social, and spiritual questions of our time in the Southern California town of Carlsbad next month. The Day 2 (Sunday) afternoon and evening speakers list, which includes ret ...
  • Water Wars: Niles Amended Complaint Against Gl ...
    Attorneys representing the village of Niles in their ongoing dispute over water with the village of Glenview, attempted unsuccessfully to file an amended complaint yesterday (Tuesday) in Cook County court.
  • USQ graduate vies for award
    USQ graduate Melanie Zanetti has proven she is one of the shining stars of the Queensland theatre scene – she has been nominated for a Matilda Award.
  • As water wars rage, state may step in
    St. Johns Water Management District may lose even more authority over local decisions, some fear Conflicts involving Central Florida's water supply are heating up even as the Legislature considers ways to impose further controls on the state's regional water regulators.
  • Keep water districts, county tells Legislature
    Alachua County commissioners on Tuesday pushed back against a move to centralize control of the state's water management districts in Tallahassee.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • "UN must prosecute Israel for war crimes," say ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 24 February 2012 Michael Mansfield, a juror for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, talks about the tribunal’s shadow report documenting Israel’s apartheid policies that tears apart Israel’s report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimina ...
  • Radio station aims to empower Palestinian women
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Ramallah 23 February 2012 Nisaa FM is an almost entirely female-run Palestinian radio station based in Ramallah and the only radio station in the Middle East devoted solely to women’s issues.
  • Court gives Israel "licence to pillage" West B ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 22 February 2012 JERUSALEM (IPS) - After a recent Israeli high court decision allowed Israeli companies to maintain quarrying and mining activities in the occupied West Bank, human rights activists say the decision has opened the door to Israel’s pillagin ...
  • Stop the JNF campaign makes steady gains as Is ...
    Asa Winstanley London 22 February 2012 Because of the efforts by Palestine solidarity activists to expose the colonization project of the Jewish National Fund, 2012 could perhaps be the organization’s last year holding charity status in the UK.
  • Vital health services under threat in Gaza pow ...
    Gaza City 21 February 2012 An energy crisis is currently hitting the Gaza Strip’s public services hard and could lead to a severe humanitarian crisis if a sustainable solution is not found soon.

The Wonk Room

  • Fewer Americans Received Life-Saving Cancer Sc ...
    Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., and studies have showen that colonoscopies can help prevent people dying from colon cancer. But the recession of 2008/2009 forced Americans to cut back on health care costs and as a result 500,000 fewer people with insur ...
  • Georgia Senate Majority Leader & President Pro ...
    The Constitution provides that acts of Congress “shall be the supreme law of the land” which is why states do not have the power to ignore federal law. Nevertheless, five Georgia state senators — including Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R) and senate President Pro Tempore Tommie Williams (R) ...
  • Kansas Conservatives Move Bill That Raises Tax ...
    In what one state Democrat has called “Robin Hood in reverse,” Kansas’ tax committee this week approved a bill that would cut taxes on the wealthiest Kansans to the tune of $1,500, while raising taxes on those residents making less that $25,000 per year. About half a million of ...
  • Heartland Institute: Keep Climate Denial Out o ...
    Climate Reality Project rolls out new campaign to keep climate denial out of school curriculum by Maggie L. Fox, Climate Reality Project Do you think schools should teach our children that climate change isn’t real? Of course not. But the Heartland Institute, an organization well-known for givin ...
  • How to Fix the MPAA Rating System After the &# ...
    After the MPAA refused to change the rating on Bully, a documentary about the impact of vicious anti-gay harassment on teenagers, from an R to a PG-13, Harvey Weinstein, whose company is releasing Bully, has suggested that it might be time for him to depart the MPAA. Weinstein is a showman par e ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • How to Win an Election
    Don't pull stupid stunts like calling your opponents' supporters and lying and telling them that the polling location or date had changed. Instead, put together a platform and honestly argue it in the face of others doing the same thing. Why is this so hard for some people to understand? Polit ...
  • Another Quick Post About Ecological Inevitability
    First a mention of an important book: Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - "[N]o system or machinery or economic doctrine or theory stands on its own feet: it is invariably built on a metaphysical foundation, that is to say, upon man's basic outlook on life, its meaning and ...
  • Ecological Collapse and the GDP
    Here's a link to an article calling for a new way to measure the economy: "Perpetual Growth Myth leading world to meltdown:experts" In the face of an "absolutely unprecedented emergency", say the [...] past winners of the Blue Planet prize – the unofficial Nobel for the environment – society h ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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

  • Canadian arms (and principles) sold
    Figures tabled in parliament confirm that Canadian arms sales to Saudi Arabia skyrocketed last year, with more than $4 billion in sales approved to the Middle East monarchy.
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Bell Rings for Bond Bubble
    February 13, 2012 321 Gold By Michael Pento They always tell you no one rings a bell when a market top or bottom is reached. But a bell is now ringing for the end of the thirty-year bull market in U.S. debt. And ironically, the bell ringer is our very own U.S. Treasury! The U.S. [...]
  • DARPA Set to Drop Computer “F-Bombs” to Spy on ...
    February 13, 2012 Activist Post By Nicholas West It’s bad enough that drones have been welcomed by Congress into American skies, as well as already being used around the planet to conduct surveillance and bomb select countries from remote locations. The latest proposed addition to the dron ...
  • Needless Diabetes-Linked Antibiotic Prescripti ...
    February 13, 2012 Activist Post By Anthony Gucciardi “Antibiotics do way more harm than good. You should only take them if you want a candida overgrowth.” –KTRN Antibiotics are not only breeding illness among the population, but are also so vastly over-prescribed that it is cos ...
  • Egypt: US-funded Agitators on Trial
    February 13, 2012 Activist Post By Tony Cartalucci AP reported that US General Martin Dempsey has met directly with the military leaders of Egypt to discuss an Egyptian “crackdown on Western-funded pro-democracy groups.” Threatened with a cut-off from US aid, the Egyptian military is ...
  • Following Image of ‘Alien Craft’ on Mars, NASA ...
    February 13, 2012 Dateline Zero By D.E. Paine “This shouldn’t surprise anyone. NASA is part of the defense department. They are NOT a civilian space agency. Don’t be fooled.” –KTRN NASA is pulling the plug on a mission to Mars; and, what’s more, the space agency has ...

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

  • All New Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kil ...
    Jordan Robertson Bloomberg Businessweek Friday, February 24, 2012 With the rollout of the Windows 8 operating system expected later this year, millions of desktop and laptop PCs will get kill switches for the first time. Microsoft (MSFT) hasn’t spoken publicly about its reasons for including thi ...
  • Romney stages campaign event in virtually empt ...
    By Grace Wyler Mitt Romney ”unveiled” his economic plan ? again ? to about 1,200 members of the Detroit Economic Club this afternoon. For a speech about taxes, that’s a pretty good turnout. So good, in fact that the campaign had to find a bigger venue. Their solution? Ford Fiel ...
  • Teachers: how are you teaching US War Crimes, ...
    Teachers: how are you teaching US War Crimes, destruction of US Constitution? By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com We teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right means that one’s life cannot be taken ...
  • Letting It Come Down
    Dissident Voice Article By Brian Littlefair People talk about collapse like it’s a bad thing. The Department of Homeland Security flags the word collapse itself for surveillance. But collapse makes the world go round. Anyone trained as a technocrat can tell you it’s a simple matter o ...
  • Karen Santorum: Rick’s campaign is ‘God’s will’
    The wife of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that God is responsible for her husband’s recent surge in popularity. “I personally think this is God’s will,” Karen Santorum told GBTV’s Glenn Beck on Thursday. “I think He has us on a path. And ...

Dandelion Salad

  • History of Capitalism in the United States: Ex ...
    Dandelion Salad Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. “Let your life be a counter- friction to stop the machine.” — Henry David Thoreau ClassWarFilms on Feb 13, 2012 A brief and cru ...
  • Rick Rozoff: NATO vs The 1st Amendment + Qur’a ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism February 22, 2012 MiloWolf on Feb 18, 2012 This video shows the early stages of the growing Chicago movement against the newly minted extraordinary police powers ordinance (dubbed the “sit down and ...
  • Syria and the media: “Activists say&#823 ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info,17 February 2012 22 February 2012 Every time I read a BBC news piece about events in Syria it invariably includes the following phrase (emphasized): “Troops are shelling intensively parts of the Syrian city of Homs, activ ...
  • Syrian Resolution: Shows World’s Nation ...
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything February 20, 2012 Not much reported in the MSM was that Bolivia, Belarus, Ecuador, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, the DPRK, and Cuba, joined with Russia and China in voting down on the Saudi penned UN General Assembly ...
  • 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 ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Calling Chicken Little: Clouds Getting Lower
    Chicken Licken was right, the sky really is falling. NASA satellite data has shown that the Earth's cloud tops have been lowering over the last decade.
  • Easily Pronounced Names May Make People More L ...
    Though it might seem impossible, and certainly inadvisable, to judge a person by her name, a new study suggests our brains try anyway. The more pronounceable a person's name is, the more likely people are to favor her.
  • Tar Pit Tour: The Ice Age Miracle From Miracle ...
    For more than a century, scientists have excavated fossils from the La Brea tar pits. It's a paleontological treasure chest, a snapshot of the late Pleistocene and Ice Age California. That picture is growing sharper by the day as paleontologists dig into Project 23, a huge cache uncovered almost ...
  • Physicists Pinpoint W Boson, Narrow Search for ...
    Scientists have produced the most precise measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson. It will help them search for the elusive Higgs boson, the discovery of which would be an epoch-making event.
  • Wired Opinion: The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks
    Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission for the moon. Decades ago, after NASA’s best and brightest brought back 850 pounds of rocks from their lunar journeys, the U.S. gave them away as "goodwill" gifts to the world’s nations. Then many of them disappeared, stolen or lost in the aftermath of political t ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • US refuses to grant visa to Israeli MK due to ...
    National Union MK Michael Ben Ari believes he was barred from US for being a member of far-right Kach organization, says in response that this type of 'US blindness' is what brought about the 9/11... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish ...
    It is doubtful whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has expressed great concern over the fate of Migron's residents, has heard of Tha'lah. Unfortunately for the village's residents, Tha'lah... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • USACBI: Scholars in solidarity with Khader Adn ...
    The following statement will be distributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Israeli officials, and the US State Department urging immediate action for the freedom of Khader Adnan. ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Poland Scraps ‘Wasteful’ Warship Project
    The Polish government has terminated a warship building project seen as a drain on the nation’s resources, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday.
  • No Unilateral Disarmament for Russia - Putin
    Russia will not take any unilateral steps on nuclear disarmament, because any moves toward disarmament need to be general and comprehensive, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
  • Russia Stands by Nuclear Weapons
    Russia will not give up its nuclear weapons until it develops conventional weapons with comparable effect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
  • Sukhoi to Remain Top Combat Aircraft Seller Un ...
    Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft maker will remain among the top three exporters of fighter jets until at least 2015, the Moscow based Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT) said on Friday.
  • Indonesia Tests Own Bombs for Sukhoi Fighter
    Sukhoi fighter jets from the Indonesian Air Force have successfully tested two types of bombs developed and built by domestic manufacturers, Indonesia’s Tribunnews said on Friday.

NewsWise

  • Babson College Establishes Babson Entrepreneur ...
    Babson College has established the new B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action(r)) Challenge.
  • Cancer Therapy More Potent When It Hits Two Ta ...
    Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found--work that may improve the effectiveness of combination treatments that include drugs ...
  • Are You Making Your Spring Allergies Worse?F ...
    Read about the five things you might be doing that are actually making your spring allergy symptoms worse.
  • Study IDs New Marine Protected Areas for Madag ...
    A new study uses a scientific methodology for establishing marine protected areas in Madagascar that offers a "diversified portfolio" of management options - from strict no-take zones to areas that would allow fishing.
  • Experts Address Cancer Prevention During Natio ...
    March is National Nutrition Month(r). "Get Your Plate in Shape" is the national theme for this year's month-long reminder that good nutrition is essential for your heath. Experts from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey will be available to discuss the importance of a healthy diet and its role i ...

Natural Health News

  • The Myth of the Eight-Hour Sleep
    A growing body of evidence, garnered from both science and history, is beginning to suggest that the eight-hour sleep cycle may not be most natural arrangement for humans after all.  One experiment conducted in the 1990s, for example, seemed to indicate that when completely left to their ow ...
  • Why Will Genetically Modified Crops Get Approv ...
    Under new U.S. Department of Agriculture rules, companies like Monsanto that create genetically modified crops will get speedier regulatory reviews of their GMO products.  The new rules will cut the time needed to approve biotech crops in half. One way the USDA plans to speed up approvals ...
  • CDC Cherry Picks Data to Make Case Against Raw ...
    Authors affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are claiming that the rate of disease outbreaks caused by unpasteurized milk products was 150 times greater than outbreaks linked to pasteurized milk.  But according the Weston A. Price Foundation, the CDC manipulated and cherry ...
  • Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
    In this video commentary, Barbara Loe Fisher examines the threat to philosophical exemptions to vaccination by interviewing the parents of seven-year old Kaylynne.   Kaylynne was a healthy seven year old living in Vermont who died within 92 hours of a routine flu shot in December 2011. ...
  • Why is the Head of FDA Food Safety Tied to Mon ...
    A growing number of internet petitions are calling for Mike Taylor, the head of food safety at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to be fired.  Mike Taylor’s employment history includes alternating work for the U.S. government and the Monsanto corporation. Taylor, sometimes called “Mon ...

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

  • Self-Execution Beyond Treaties
    by Steve Vladeck Just two days ago, in his dissent in Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Chief Justice Roberts argued that Medicaid beneficiaries should not be able to pursue injunctive relief under the Supremacy Clause against California state officials alleged to ha ...
  • Medellin’s Mischief, or Does International Law ...
    by Chimene Keitner Hathaway, McElroy, and Solow offer an overview of attempts to enforce treaties directly in U.S. courts, as well as a typology of underappreciated modes of treaty enforcement, which they label indirect, defensive, and interpretive. In so doing, they enable us to better apprec ...
  • Medellín’s Influence on the Judicial Applicati ...
    by David Sloss It is a privilege to comment on the excellent article by Professor Hathaway and her co-authors entitled “International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in U.S. Courts” (“IL at Home”). The article makes several important contributions to the growing body of scholarship on the dome ...
  • John Bellinger Comments on “International Law ...
    by John Bellinger by John Bellinger As a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, both while I was Legal Adviser and under Harold Koh, Oona Hathaway has made very useful contributions to the work of the Legal Adviser’s office, especially on treaty issues. “In ...
  • Sovereign Debt and Collective Action Clauses
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column yesterday made an interesting comparison between sovereign bonds and corporate bonds.  It pointed out that although in ordinary times, developed country sovereign debt is typically ...

Public News Service

  • More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborh ...
    More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborhoods PHOENIX, Ariz. - A new KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released today shows the number of children living in high-poverty communities has increased by 25 percent over the last decade. ...(Read More)
  • Consumer Groups: Medical Devices Need More Ove ...
    Consumer Groups: Medical Devices Need More Oversight PHOENIX - People might be surprised to learn that the medical devices surgically implanted in their bodies are subject to almost no government regulation, testing or monitoring. The Consumers Union is one group looking to change that. Patient ...
  • Would You Consider a Final Resting Place Below ...
    Would You Consider a Final Resting Place Below the Sea? PHOENIX, Ariz. - It's a long way from their home, but ocean-loving Arizonans may want to consider a final resting spot three miles off the coast of southern Florida. Forty feet below the surface is a man-made, pristine reef where several ti ...
  • Groups Sue EPA to Force Updated Air Pollution ...
    Groups Sue EPA to Force Updated Air Pollution Standards PHOENIX – Maricopa County's regional dust-control plan is supposed to mitigate pollution in metro Phoenix. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delayed implementing stronger standards to help stop pollution in the region. ...
  • Report: Beware the Prison-Industrial Complex
    Report: Beware the Prison-Industrial Complex PHOENIX - Arizona's private prisons are unneeded, unsafe and waste millions of taxpayer dollars, according to a new report from the Arizona branch of the American Friends Service Committee. The report cites a new 2,000-bed private prison contained in ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Strike ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Wind power tax credits not renewed. Industry l ...
    inhabitat.comCongress failed to renew wind power tax credits last Thursday. The effects on the fast-growing wind energy industry are expected to be devastating, including major layoffs and delayed or cancelled projects.  The current income tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour of wind power ...
  • Over Under Sideways Down. Yardbirds (live)
    With some guy named Jimmy Page on guitar.
  • Miscanthus. 12x more ethanol per acre than corn
    Wikimedia commonsA breakthrough by CoolPlanet Biofuels claims that an advanced bioenergy crop, giant Miscanthus, allows them to create upwards of 4,000 gallons of cellulosic gasoline per acre, about 12-times better than corn ethanol. That means more fuel from less land.
  • Protest neo-Nazis in Glascow
    Radical Glasgow blogIt would appear that the Scottish Defence League (SDL) intend to hold a “static” demonstration somewhere in the centre of Glasgow on Saturday February 25. It is up to the Glasgow citizens to turn up in their hundreds and show their disgust and hatred of this fasci ...
  • The reasons behind Detroit’s decline
    Pete Saunders at Urbanophile details why, among all US cities, Detroit fell so fast and so hard.Detroit was unique in putting all its eggs in the corporate caretaker basket. Once the auto industry became established in Detroit, political and business leaders abdicated their responsibility on sou ...

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

  • Marvel Comics to US gov’t: mutants are n ...
    Art Imitates Life… Radiolab covers the strange saga of Marvel Comics’s fight against the US customs authority over whether X-Men dollies were “dolls” or “toys” — the difference being that dolls (which are defined as characters that represent humans) are ...
  • Argentine advice for Greece: ‘Default Now!’
      Here in Argentina, when we watch the terrible things that are happening today in Greece, we can only exclaim, “Hey!! That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002…!” ­A decade ago, Argentina too went through a systemic Sovereign Public Debt collapse resulting in social turmoi ...
  • Former World Bank Prez makes a Stunning Confession
    THE VIDEO EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE, BUT FOR DIFFERENT REASONS… THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK, JAMES WOLFENSOHN, MAKES STUNNING CONFESSIONS AS HE ADDRESSES GRADUATE STUDENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. HE REVEALS THE INSIDE HAND OF WORLD DOMINATION FROM PAST, TO THE PRESENT AND INTO THE F ...
  • You Dont wanna know about this…
    Too Late…. Now you KNOW! What will you do? Look around – What do you really See? A Robots Rebellion….
  • This is what the Elite think of you – Yo ...
    Welcome to the Matrix where you are nothing more than a battery.   Minister praises plan to heat swimming pool from fires of crematorium A money-saving plan to heat a swimming pool with energy from the cremation of dead bodies has been backed by a senior Government minister. A swimming pool ...

The Air Vent

  • My warning about Gleick to the NCSE
    I have been debating whether to post this email exchange with the NCSE.   In light of the recent Gleick burnout, it seems worthwhile.  Readers will recall that I posted on Gleick’s attack on conservative political candidates on behalf of his tax-free 501c3 company. Advertising for or again ...
  • Comet Gleick
    The Peter Gleick story continues on.  An anonymous reader left a link to a Washinton post article indicating that the FBI has been contacted on the matter.  Whether they react may be the subject of a “high level directive” at this point. The only people who compare this to Climategat ...
  • North Pole Sea Ice – Trend Problems
    While everyone watches in awe as comet Gleick smashes into the Lunar bedrock, I have returned my tired head to the sea ice data.  We are slowly stepping toward an improved understanding of sea ice melt here.  To that end I have been working on improved graphics.  In my long-term self employment, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fan Appz launches Social Database
    Social media marketing platform Fan Appz announced a feature this week to help companies gather information about their fans that can then be applied to other marketing efforts. With the new Social Database, marketers can begin to create individual customer … Continue reading →
  • Tabs, Lucky Cruise, RaceTown, video, greetings ...
    Tabs were a big part of our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Games, greetings, friend and video apps were also popular. The apps grew from between 120,000 and 430,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data … Continue reading →
  • Cover photos roll out to more groups
    Many Facebook groups got an update Wednesday night that displays members’ profile pictures in the header and allows admins to add a cover photo like they can on Timeline. When we first saw this feature three weeks ago, the top … Continue reading →
  • Facebook allows advertisers to target broad ca ...
    Advertisers can now target Facebook users by broad category and precise interests at the same time using the Power Editor tool, according to a company spokesperson. We’ve also learned this is available to Ads API partners. In the traditional self-serve … Continue reading →
  • Facebook acquires talent behind brand marketer ...
    Facebook “acq-hired” a co-founder of viral brand marketing agency Momentus Media, which was behind campaigns for Levi’s, LMFAO and Taio Cruz. Chris Turitzin will be joining the Facebook growth, engagement and mobile team while Momentus itself continues on under co-founder &#823 ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Ameri ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Pale ...
  • Reality and the Senate Intelligence Committee
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by failing to participate in national politics, citizens abdicate their potential influence to those who do act politically and that these could be "thugs in suits" with hidden agendas and judgments that are skewed by interest lobbies that hold the purse strings to ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • AntiWar.Com Joins MSM to Attack Independent Re ...
    Going on Record on AntiWar.Com’s Labeling & Censoring Game, Using MSM’s Favorite ‘Radical,’ ‘Anti-Semite’ & ‘9/11 Kook’ Labels The followers of Boiling Frogs Post know where I stand on responding to petty attacks, name-calling, and false-labeling geared towards our articles, analyses and ...
  • Russia Today: Obama’s Record as the Wors ...
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  • Punishing the Population: The American Occupat ...
    “The legacy of creating strong central states with powerful and ruthless U.S.-trained national police and military forces” By Andrew Gavin Marshall A brief glance at the early 20th century American occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic tell us a great deal about America’s role in the wo ...
  • The EyeOpener- TSA: Tyrants Sucker America
    Of all of the myriad agencies, bureaucracies, laws and legislation that have sprung up to oppress the American citizenry in this age of the unending war against an abstract noun, perhaps none have garnered as much ire and opprobrium as the innocuously named Transportation Security Administration ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay International Newsworthy Azerbaijan Claims More Iranian Terror Plot without Citing Evidence-D ...

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

  • From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear folly
    Profit motives are driving the push to develop lands that, according to scientists, can never be inhabited safely again. And profit motives are driving an even more demented plan on a state-by-state level, astoundingly, to ship American schoolchildren into these no-go areas.
  • Jesus Christ, America: Get Control of Your Wom ...
    I don't know about you, but I've certainly found the rising autonomy and equality of women this last century to be troubling in the extreme. It's clearly been wrecking American society. Fortunately, somebody is finally doing something about it, and not a moment too soon, either. Indeed, there ...
  • State Senator Ted Lieu Introduces Bill to Bloc ...
    In response to complaints from residents and the Coalition for Economic Survival that more and more landlords are requiring rental payments be made only online, Sen. Ted W. Lieu today announced introduction of a bill that would ensure residents can continuing paying with check or money order.
  • Corporations Don't Need a Tax Cut, So Why Is O ...
    he federal budget deficit is ballooning, and in less than a year, major cuts are scheduled to slice everything from prenatal care to Medicare. So this would seem to be the ideal time to raise corporate taxes -- or at the very least close corporate tax loopholes without lowering corporate rates.
  • A Government War
    We are a sick society which is cutting itself out of self esteem issues. The idea that the banks were handed fourteen trillion dollars and made whole while millions of honest hard working Americans were backhanded revolts me, we already know how Mitt Romney's dog must have felt, we are treated n ...

Switchboard

  • Can Entrepreneurs Save the Climate?
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Entrepreneurs have to be optimists. They invest their energy, time, and money based on their vision for the future. Many times their optimism isn’t justified and their ent ...
  • Mountaintop removal offends my core
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   As many of my readers may know, I grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains, which had everything to do with my eventually finding a career in environmentalism.  I&rs ...
  • Canada's Pro-Oil Lobbying Efforts: On the Wron ...
    Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco The European Union failed to achieve a decisive vote today on its Fuels Quality Directive and will need to revisit the issue in June of this year, after an i ...
  • NRDC in the News: Supporting supply chain tran ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a Washington Post story on natural gas industry donors to environmental groups, Frances Beinecke underscored NRDC’s policy against accepting polluter donations, and Jenny Powers explained th ...
  • Mexico takes action against climate change. Wh ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Mexico is emerging as a regional leader in Latin America in the fight against climate change with two new initiatives to cut greenhouse gas pollutants and promote clean energy. By reducing shor ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • He Laughed at Accidental Sirens That Broke the ...
    Mittens: dead wrong on the auto bailout, and consequently prone to lying about it.
  • This Day in Labor History: February 24, 1912
    On this date in 1912, the police force of Lawrence, Massachusetts brutally beat a group of children and their mothers as the children attempted to board a train to stay with union supporters in Philadelphia. This tactic, which had brought much attention to the textile workers’ cause, infur ...
  • Whoops
    Ryan Braun’s suspension has been overturned. As is generally the case with drug warriors, MLB is furious that pesky things like “due process” and “checks to ensure that evidence is reliable” are getting in the way of a good witch hunt. Anyway, given this kind of att ...
  • It is entirely appropriate to post photographs ...
    You probably thought this was about some other sexist academic, but it’s actually about Vincent Hendricks, a philosopher who posted this on his website. Unlike that other sexist academic, Hendricks at least had the decency to retract the fruit of his poor judgment and issue a formal apolog ...
  • Food Trucks
    I don’t agree with all of Yglesias’ analysis here on cities regulating food trucks out of business, but the overall point is fairly sound. In the comment section for my post on Cleveland the other day, I suggested that cities trying to revitalize themselves need to spend more time cr ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Warming Climate Caused ‘Dwarfing’ of Earliest ...
    A new study suggests that the earliest known horse species shrank significantly in size over a 135,000-year span as a consequence of a warming climate. Using geochemical testing and measurements of fossilized teeth dating back more than 50 million years, U.S. researchers found that a 30-percent ...
  • Conservationists Launch Drone to Monitor Fores ...
    A coalition of scientists and environmental advocacy groups has developed a camera-equipped drone they say could become a key conservation tool for monitoring WATCH VIDEO: View from a conservation drone forest loss and endangered wildlife. The coalition — which includes The Orangutan Conse ...
  • Pollutants from Tar Sands Sites Comparable to ...
    The amounts of pollution produced by tar sands excavation sites are comparable to those of a medium-sized city or a large power plant, according to a new study by Environment Canada, the nation’s environmental agency. Using satellite remote sensing observations, scientists found elevated levels ...
  • 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 due to dry conditions. In the Click to enlarge NASA Lake Fitri photo, which was taken in January, the muddy ye ...
  • ‘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 ...

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

  • Extraordinary threat? Obama prolongs Libyan sa ...
    Gaddafi’s gone but the Libyan threat remains. That is what President Obama thinks anyway as he told congress the sanctions his administration slapped on Libya in 2011 will remain in place for another year. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • EU to freeze Syrian Central Bank assets Feb 27
    The European Union plans to freeze the assets of the Syrian Central Bank starting next Monday, declared French Foreign Minister Alan Juppe, as quoted by Reuters. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Head in sand: UK recognizes Syrian rebels
    Britain will recognize the Syrian National Council as a "legitimate representative of the Syrian people," Foreign Secretary William Hague said in the run-up to the "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunisia. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Between a rock and a holy place: Palestinians ...
    Police have used stun grenades and tear gas against Palestinians who were throwing stones at tourists visiting the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest Islamic site. Twenty-six people were wounded in the clashes. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Google’s prying eyes to get closer
    The countdown is on for Google to make controversial changes to its site that have privacy campaigners up in arms. All of their users’ personal data will be gathered and stored in personal profiles for use at Google’s... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Ron Paul and Glenn Beck- these 2 are from the ...
    This week while leaving a concert where I sat behind the Occupy Colorado Springs table talking to people about what Occupy stands for, I ran into two former Occupy people now very much withdrawn from the Occupy Movement in order to more consistently campaign for Libertarian Ron Paul. I greeted t ...
  • The US War against Syria is part of the ongoin ...
    The US pretends to be part of a ‘liberation movement’ against Assad of Syria but supports the one candidate/ one party dictatorships of Bahrain, where the US Navy fleet docks, and Yemen, which is part of US ally Saudi Arabia’s hunting to kill, Shia Muslims battlefield. Apparent ...
  • U.S.A. Use of Torture on P.O.W.’s Should ...
    The U.S. has a long history of torturing its P.O.W.’s. The use of torture on P.O.W’s is used by many other countries. However it is denied by many U.S. authorities or government officials that it is being used; when in fact it is used frequently. The definition of torture put simply ...
  • The Colorado Springs Occupy Movement needs to ...
    ‘The U.S. government and the American commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan apologized after Afghan laborers found charred copies of the Koran while collecting rubbish at the sprawling Bagram Airbase, about an hour’s drive north of Kabul.’ See Reuters Six killed, many wou ...
  • The Democrats propose to tax corporations even ...
    In typical double speak method, the Democratic Party Obama Administration is proposing to supposedly raise corporate tax revenues by actually lowering them! The tax rate for corporations is now at 35% with numerous loopholes out of actually paying that, so Obama has come along with a proposal to ...

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

  • SuperKids Nutrition – A Shared Vision for a He ...
    This is a guest blog post by  Melissa Halas-Liang, MA RD CDE Today’s children are at an ever increasing risk of becoming overweight and obese and developing related diseases like diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and certain cancers. Here’s my story, and how I am hope to help the next ...
  • The Incredible Shrinking Candy from Mars
    Mars, the candy maker, not the planet, is trying to do its share to help America lose some weight. While it won’t go to the extreme of making Kale Kandy bars, the company announced last week that it will be discontinuing its King size Snickers Bar (540 calories) by the end of 2013. In fact ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Guard post to protect Peru’s uncontacted Mashc ...
    Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Residents living close to the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe – whose photos went viral last month – will build a guard post to protect both the Indians and locals fr ...
  • Clampdown on sacred ritual as Vedanta mine app ...
    A Dongria boy stands in front of Niyamgiri, where the tribe will hold its festival. © Lewis Davids/Survival Security forces are cracking down on the Dongria Kondh tribe as they prepare for a religious festival this weekend at the top of India’s most contentious mountain. Hundreds are deter ...
  • Survival uncovers shocking human rights abuses ...
    Two Karo by Ethiopia's Omo River. It is crucial to their way of life. © Survival Survival has uncovered shocking new evidence of human rights abuses against tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, as government efforts to develop lucrative sugar cane plantations in the region intensify. Bull ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • 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. ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle poker/betting chips?
    Inma has emailed us about betting chips: Hi! I’ve found a lot of chips to bet, and I wonder if anyone has some use for them. There was a fad for playing poker with betting chips a few years ago and all the shops were stacked full of them as cheap/easy Christmas presents – so [...]
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Introducing MAPS: The Medical Academy of Pedia ...
    By Teri Arranga An important movement has been initiated that holds great promise for the future of autism prevention and recovery. The Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS) has as its mission to “provide education and long-term support for...
  • Scientists with Starving Brains
    By J.B. Handley Like clockwork, a few times a year, a profoundly asinine study will appear in a scientific journal somewhere ostensibly “further refuting” the hypothesis that vaccines are causing all this autism. Recently, our minds were subjected to ad...
  • The Thinking Moms Revolution. Because TMR Know ...
    Thinking Moms' Revolution What began as a collective journey Of stories across the globe From Autism to recovery, and with whatever happens in between A tight-knit group of parents were drawn to support each other Traveling the Autism journey While...
  • American Association for Advancement on Scienc ...
    By Anne Dachel Feb. 16-18, the American Association for the Advancement of Science held their annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada. It got a tiny bit of coverage but nothing from the mainstream press in the U.S. The Irish Times had...
  • The Walker-Smith Appeal, the British Media and ...
    By John Stone Sarah Boseley (centre in the photo) is the senior Guardian newspaper journalist who wrote on the occasion of the UK General Medical Council’s findings against Dr Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues Prof John Walker-Smith and Prof Simon...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Farmer Faces Possible 3-year Prison Term for F ...
    Food sovereignty activists from around North America will meet at this tiny town on March 2, 2012 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, who has a court hearing that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land him in prison for ...
  • Blind, Footless Chickens for Future CAFOs
    This new supposedly "humane" CAFO method requires rendering the chickens blind by "removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken" so that "its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Bradley Manning defers plea after being formal ...
    Guardian – Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of being the source of the biggest leak of US state secrets in history, was on Thursday formally charged with aiding the enemy, during the first day of his court martial. If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of life in milita ...
  • Win for anti-vaccine group over website warnin ...
    The Australian – AN anti-vaccine group has won its case against the health care watchdog after the group was ordered to warn that its website “should not be read as medical advice”. The NSW Supreme Court on Friday ruled the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) had no jurisd ...
  • New York police ‘spied on’ New Jer ...
    BBC – New York City police secretly collected information on Muslim communities in nearby Newark, New Jersey, police records have shown. Read article
  • How YOU can help Open Your Eyes News
    Send us links to pertinent mainstream news articles that you spot Follow us via Twitter, become a fan onFacebook, subscribe to our  Podcast channel and encourage your friends to do the same Join our mailing list and receive our comprehensive weekly news review e-mail Post comments on the Open Yo ...
  • Oil Gains in London as German Business Confide ...
    Bloomberg – Crude oil advanced to its highest in more than nine months in London after a German report showed business confidence in Europe’s biggest economy rose more than economists had forecast. Read Article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Conference Call: March
    Hear about India and World Water Day
  • 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.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Girls are the Answer... And so are YOU - The P ...
    Canada's Because I am a Girl initiative seeks to unleash the power of Canadian girls, women -- and everyone who matters to them -- to claim a brighter, safer future for girls in the developing world. Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish ...
    Eight people, including children, were thrown out of their shabby hut and left without a roof over their heads on a rainy winter night. The sheep pen was destroyed, and buried underneath it were 15 lambs and a dovecote. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • 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 ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Arsenal's plan to stop Gareth Bale, Villa ...
    ZonalMarking.net's Michael Cox uses the StatsZone app – from FFT and Opta, available now – to preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action... Sunday’s North London derby is the biggest Premier League fixture of the weekend, with Tottenham threatening to finish above Arsena ...
  • 'Friends of Syria' ready ultimatum for As ...
    TUNIS, Tunisia—The United States, Europe and Arab countries were set Friday to back a proposal for Syria's president to step aside and allow in humanitarian assistance to end a brutal crackdown against opponents. American, European and Arab officials are meeting in a major internationa ...
  • Torres dropped by Spain February 24, 2012
    Fernando Torres has been dropped from the Spain squad for next week's friendly against Venezuela. GettyImagesFernando Torres has not been in good form • The Euro 2008 and 2010 World Cup-winning striker has been struggling for form at Chelsea, netting just four times in all competition ...
  • Obama vows to tap new energy sources
    Washington, February 24: US President Barack Obama Thursday vowed to keep developing new sources of energy, blaming instability in Middle East and increasing demand from emerging markets for the recent gas price hike. According to the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), the US average retail ...
  • John Abraham: 'Actors don't need to lead ...
    John Abraham has claimed that actors do not need to lead a glamorous lifestyle to show off their wealth. The actor most recently appeared in the action film Desi Boyz with Akshay Kumar. Abraham told The Times of India: "I know everyone makes a big deal about stardom, but I lead a very simple ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Postal Service Cuts a Path to Privatization, s ...
    A US Postal Service plan announced Thursday to cut nearly 35,000 jobs and close nearly half of its regional processing centers will be disastrous for the US public and will lead to further privatization of the parcel delivery industry, say critics. ...
  • Monsanto Reaches 'Agent Orange' Settlement Wit ...
    Reports indicate that Monsanto has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by US residents who say they were poisoned by chemicals used in the manufacturing of the Agent Orange in their town of Nitro, West Virginia. The Guardian reports: ...
  • Green Group Sues State Department for Not Disc ...
    Environmental group Friends of the Earth, represented by Earthjustice, sued the State Department yesterday to gain access to communications between the department and lobbyists who pushed for approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The group explains: ...
  • Outrage Fuels Continued Protest in Afghanistan
    Afghan citizens took to the streets again on Friday, making it the fourth day of protests following evidence that US officials had burned Korans at the Bagram airfield base outside of Kabul.  Deaths were again reported in clashes between outraged Afghans and security forces. The Irish Times ...
  • Number of Children Living Amid Poverty Has Sur ...
    Nearly 8 million children in the United States were living in high-poverty areas in 2010—about 1.6 million more than there were just ten years ago—according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization whose primary mission is to foster public ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Small-Scale Renewable Energy In Developing Cou ...
  • Vermont Leaders Back Away from Renewable Energ ...
    Vermont leaders finally backed away from renewable energy goals, as have Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, etc. The main reason is the lack of federal subsidies for the huge capital outlays required to obtain just a little of variable, intermittent, high-cost energy (3-5 times NE annual aver ...
  • Wind Power In Trouble on Two Fronts
    Wind power is being squeezed on two fronts. Natural gas prices remain low, limiting the financial incentive to install wind capacity. Meanwhile, the Chinese government continues limit the supply of rare earth elements (REE), and the magnets required for wind turbines use sizable quantities of tw ...
  • China Doesn’t Need to Innovate
  • How should climate change be taught?
    The external release of documents relating to the activities of the Heartland Institute has raised many questions, but an important issue that is now in the open again relates to the teaching of climate change in schools. How should this be handled and what should be taught? Is there justificati ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires - Top fund ...
    by: Greg Palast Paulson made $1.5 Billion on auto-bailout and 3.7 Billion on foreclosures.Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government's 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, "nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors to his ...
  • Interfaith coalition urges politicians to stop ...
    Mary Shaw If you've been following the 2012 presidential campaign season at all, you're probably aware that religion is playing a big part in it. Combine a widespread distrust of Mitt Romney's Mormonism with Rick Santorum's rabid Catholicism and the still-ongoing whisperings about President Ob ...
  • Lynne Stewart Appeal for Justice
    by Stephen Lendman Lynne was wrongfully indicted, convicted, sentenced, and given a far harsher one unjustifiably on appeal. On February 29, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit arguments will be presented. She won't be there, but hopes massive support will turn out for her at the: US C ...
  • Hamas's Iran connection
    Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah Ismail Haniyeh delivers his speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, on SaturdayAccording to many Palestinians, Iran manipulates the Palestinian cause, rais ...
  • Tribalism, Racism and Projection – Part 2
    By Gilad Atzmon Racism is a big word with some very bad connotations. Being accused of racism is one of the most hurtful and potentially damaging labels around. And yet, how many ‘racists’ really think in ‘biological determinist’ terms? How many ‘racists’ ou ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • New Brunswick needs to change direction
    A new study from UNB-SJ economist Roderick Hill and CCPA-NS researcher Jason Edwards outlines why New Brunswick should move toward a more progressive tax structure.  The report, titled New Brunswick at a Crossroads: Progressive Income Tax, a Clear Choice, estimates that the province could g ...
  • America or Sweden: Which would you choose?
    Ask Americans, as Micheal I. Norton and Daniel Ariely did in this study, to build their ideal system of wealth distribution and they choose something that looks very different than the United States. They build a system that looks a lot more like Sweden. See this interactive infographic. Perhaps ...
  • Deconstructing Drummond
    In response to the February 15 Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services report – widely referred to as the Drummond report after its author, retired banker Don Drummond – the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted a public meeting, entitled Deconstructing Drummond, in Toro ...
  • Iglika Ivanova dissects BC Budget 2012
    The BC budget was released today, and Iglika Ivanova posted her analysis on Policy Note as soon as she got out of the budget lockup. The government claims it had no choice but to present an austerity budget. Iglika begs to differ.
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • A motorbike journey for peace and positive change
    By Nitesh Square,thenews.com.pk - The motorbike trip we are planning to undertake from Mumbai to Paris next month was sparked off by a discussion in the mountains of Sandakphu, West Bengal in September 2011. I had joined a group of friends doing a 110-mile Himalaya race there, and two of them, P ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) Like water from a faucet
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies.com – My thoughts lately haven’t been like a steady drip, drip, drip from a leaky sink. No, my brain has been more of a steady gush that threatens to overflow the basin and flood the room. I’d like to take a pipe wrench to my mind and just shut it off ...
  • What Happens in the Aurora
    From: Andy Soos, ENN - An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere. The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and sol ...
  • Comments to the Editor: Barton (Bart) Turner c ...
    On The Mississippification of America; Mississippi today has more elected black officials than any other state. Yes there are racists abundant in the Republican party, but to pretend that the Democrat party is not also infested is silly. There is a growing number of inter-racial couples in the S ...
  • From Assange to its suspected informer… ...
    Weak-a-link: From Assange to its suspected informer From rt.com/news-After being held in custody for an unprecedentedly long period of 19 months, Bradley Manning now faces trial. Accusations include aiding the enemy and giving out US military secrets to Wikileaks. The Nobel Peace Prize nominee i ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How To Kill The Global Warming Cause
    First There Was Climategate, Now There’s Gleickgate In 2009, shortly before the Copenhagen summit on climate change, a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. was hacked. Numerous communications from climate scientists were released to the public, ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Secret Way to Stop Heart Disease
    Keeping your cholesterol and blood pressure in check, exercising, and eating a well-balanced diet are common tips your physician recommends to prevent heart disease. Now, doctors have a new one to add to the list—avoiding canned soup. Most canned foods and baby formulas, along with cash-registe ...
  • The Positive Side of Fast Food
    When you're looking for things to complain about, fast-food joints offer a seemingly never-ending list: Excess sugar, fat, and salt, calorie counts that will blow your mind, genetically engineered oils and other questionable ingredients, and animal welfare concerns, to name a few. But many com ...
  • 45 Good Reasons to Ditch Junk Food
    Sodium, trans fats, hidden calories, genetically modified ingredients: Those are all good reasons to give up processed junk. And if you need one—or 45—more, there are phosphates, food additives that doctors are linking to higher rates of chronic kidney disease, weak bones, and premature death. ...
  • The Most Toxic Thing Your Neighbors May Be Using
    Your neighbors and nearby businesses could have an impact on your child's cancer risk, according to a series of new studies looking at common types of driveway sealant. Kids living near blacktop treated with coal-tar sealant, a toxic compound more commonly used in the Midwest, the South, and t ...
  • The 5 Worst Sweeteners to Have in Your Kitchen
    At this point, it's common knowledge that too much sugar bad for us. In fact, some doctors even think we should regulate them like we do alcohol. But given all the marketing hype behind different "natural" alternatives, it's hard to know which sweeteners really are the best. Complicating matter ...

big think

  • Is the Corporation a Dying Business Model?
    What's the Latest Development? A California investment firm that generously funds startups has created a wide community of professionals which, by combining the intellectual resources of many small companies, could replace our corporate model of business. Called Y Combinator, the firm's ...
  • Into the Snake Pit: The US and Restructuring t ...
    The closest thing the US has to a "Yemen Czar" is John Brennan, President Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser, and so when he speaks on Yemen - as he did recently - it is a good idea to pay attention. On Monday, the eve of Yemen's one-man elections, Brennan was in Sanaa, and during ...
  • Why School Won't Prepare You to Be an Entrepreneur
    What's the Latest Development? Jay Goltz is a successful owner of five Chicago businesses and when he sat down to list the attributes he has seen in similarly successful entrepreneurs, he saw tension between higher education and the skills needed to start a business. Business school may ...
  • “It’s a Wonderful Life:”…or, What If Second-Wa ...
    War is hell. The culture war is no exception—and the funny bone is usually the first casualty. The recent talk about abortion and contraception got me thinking, what would the world look like, if second-wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s had never happened? I (humorously) revise the classic .. ...
  • How to Use Facebook to Find Business Leads
    What's the Latest Development? Understanding how to use Facebook to find new customers is not obvious. Here are some tips: Goal number one is getting people to "like" your page because very few users will make a point of visiting your profile directly. Instead, they will interact with yo ...

Information Liberation

  • Nuclear Hypocrisy
    Republican presidential candidates and officials in the U.S. government from the president on down have turned up the rhetoric against Iran. In his State of the Union address, Barack Obama stated, *America is determined to prevent Iran fro...
  • Man drowned in shallow lake after firefighter ...
    A man who fell into a lake drowned after firefighters called to the scene said they could not enter the water if it was higher than ankle deep for health and safety reasons, an inquest has been told. Simon Burgess, a 41-year-old charity shop worke...
  • The Fear of Gold
    I was on a panel at the recent California Investment Conference in Palm Springs and the question was asked, "What percentage of your portfolio should be in gold bullion?" The first panelist answered 20%. The second panelist said, up to 3...
  • Stupid Rule; Stupid Republicans
    One of the stupidest, most asinine, and most evil things that Americans will encounter this tax season is the gift tax. According to the IRS: The gift tax is a tax on the transfer of property by one individual to another whil...
  • Ron Paul Highlights in 2/22/2012 Presidential ...
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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

  • How glaucoma medication works
    I recently wrote about the diagnosis of glaucoma and readers were then asking about how their eye drops for the condition work. The raised pressure within the eye that defines glaucoma and can cause optic nerve damage can be lowered through surgery problematic cases that do not respond to drugs ...
  • A real life Periodic Table
    One of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, Theo Gray, owns a home made, wooden periodic table table with compartments underneath every element label, with samples, if you’re a chem geek you’ll have probably seen it before. Gray built and populated the wooden PT in his free time. Kir ...
  • Feeling fine for Fenland findings
    Well, I’ve fasted overnight, urinated into a plastic vial, donated half a dozen shots of blood, been exposed to X-rays, had height (just under 6 foot), weight and waist & hips measured (not telling), body fat determined (somewhere between the “average” man at 18–24%), bloo ...
  • Faster than light? Jim’s shorts are safe
    When physicists announced they’d detected sub-atomic particles, neutrinos, that were travelling at speeds beyond the speed of light in a vacuum, there was a media feeding frenzy. Most scientists assumed it was a glitch and Jim Al-Khalili said he’d eat his shorts on live TV if faster ...
  • Detecting glaucoma
    I had my eyes tested a couple of weeks ago, ended up with new reading glasses (did I already say? Means I’m going to have to change my avatar again). Anyway, I have a close relative with glaucoma so the optician/ophthalmologist usually does a pressure test on my eyes. She uses a non-contac ...

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

  • Deadly Duo: Mixing Alcohol and Prescription Dr ...
    The mystery of Whitney Houston's death will not be solved for several weeks, as the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office awaits a full toxicology report. But many experts speculate that the singer's tragic demise involved a deadly cocktail of alcohol and prescription drugs, includin ...
  • First Horses Shrunk by Warming Climate
    The first horses in North America would not have been able to hold their own in the Triple Crown . At just about 5.6 kilograms the Sifrhippus sandrae hoofed onto the scene some 56 million years ago about the size of a small dog. [More]
  • Scary Stuff: Fright Chemical Identified in Inj ...
    There's a scene in Pixar's Finding Nemo when Dory, a yellow-finned regal tang, injures herself in a tug-of-war over a snorkel mask. A tiny plume of blood curls away from Dory's face into the water around her, where it is sucked into the nostrils of Bruce, a "vegetarian&quo ...
  • New Family of Limbless Amphibians Discovered i ...
    From Nature magazine. [More]
  • Dual Interpretations: Milky Way's Outer Fringe ...
    It's well known that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, a swirl of stars in an extended, many-armed disk . But the structure of the galaxy is far from two-dimensional. Above and below those familiar spiral arms is a lesser-known feature, a spherical swarm of stars that makes up a halo around ...

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

  • It’s Official
    Leaked documents reveal Harper government’s active targeting of anti-oil sands organizations Documents obtained by the Climate Action Network via access to information legislation reveal that the Harper government drew up lists of “ad ...
  • CBC misrepresenting Quebec student strike?
    CBC coverage of Quebec student protests in downtown Montreal today is driven by a painfully obvious bias against the student strike. News reports via CBC have consistently failed to scrutinize violent police actions against striking students, and the station's coverage bends toward the auste ...
  • Power Behind the Throne
    Robocalling & US-Style Campaigning in Toronto Toronto - Concerns released today by Elections Canada about campaign tactics are part of a growing trend of political accusations - many of which have a Toronto connection. Edmonton-based co ...
  • Huffington Post Quebec: The 'progressive' alte ...
    Just a few weeks ago, the Huffington Post Quebec was born, an all-French language, Quebec-based version of the extremely-popular blog and news site founded by Arrianna Huffington. The HuffPo as styled itself as a populist, left-of-centre o ...
  • Philippine Mining Climate: Canada Connection
    PHILIPPINE MINING CLIMATE: The Canada Connection February 2012. MANILA, Philippines. – The defeat in parliament of private members Bill C-300 on Corporate Accountability on Mining, Oil, &am ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
    David Seaton's News LinksBetween the civil war in Syria, for that is what it is, and the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran, which would set the region -- at the very least -- ablaze, and probably start off a chain of events that could tip the whole world into full-scale depression, we have ple ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 24 February 2012
    This week doesn't really have a theme. Just a couple of cats enjoying the nice weather. On the left, Domino is rolling around in the sunshine and peering out from behind a potted plant on the patio. On the right, Inkblot obviously has some serious business on his mind as he strides purposefull ...
  • Obama Takes on the Private Equity Industry
    As we all know, corporations are allowed to deduct the interest they pay on loans from their taxable income. This often makes borrowing a more attractive way of raising money than an equity offering. Barack Obama would like to put debt and equity on a more even footing, so he's proposing to re ...
  • Barack Obama Has Consistently Defended Religio ...
    Is President Obama waging a war on religion? Just typing the words is enough to make slitting my wrists seem like a fairly reasonable life choice. But Steve Chapman, obviously a stouter man than me, takes the time to dissect just how dumb this argument is: Amid all the uproar, it's easy to ...
  • Republicans Determined Not to Get Fooled Again
    Steve Benen points out that the Republican candidates are finally talking about the Bush years. But they aren't big fans: We've reached the point in Republicans politics at which GOP candidates are considered too liberal if they sided with the Bush/Cheney administration on most key areas of ...
  • Santorum: Higher Education a Plot to Seculariz ...
    So here's a dilemma: yesterday I suggested that Rick Santorum's candidacy was useful for the spotlight it shined on the movement conservative id, something that America might do well to confront directly. So does this mean I should highlight (as a public service, of course) every outlandish pa ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Lou Dobbs Thinks The Lo ...
    Lou Dobbs has a long history of being an idiot.  From race-baiting to flat out bigoted statements, particularly aimed at Latinos to his ridiculous attacks against the “Liberal media” and Liberals “War on America”.  I mean he’s become a cornucopia of ratchet rightwin ...
  • IC 305: Team Rick vs Team Shane
    Topics: Kriss & Kev take sides on The Walking Dead Team Rick vs Team Shane Poor Worf Ben Sisko, one of the greatest starship captains ever Lent and what we’re giving up Sharing too much on the Internet Don’t want your grieving judged, don’t put your grief on display Frankl ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A rainbow for the palm of your hand
    University at Buffalo engineers have developed a one-step, low-cost method to fabricate a polymer with extraordinary properties: When viewed from a single perspective, the polymer is rainbow-colored, reflecting many different wavelengths of light. read more
  • Metal nanoparticles shine with customizable color
    Engineers at Harvard have demonstrated a new kind of tunable color filter that uses optical nanoantennas to obtain precise control of color output. read more
  • Aircraft of the future could capture and re-us ...
    Tomorrow's aircraft could contribute to their power needs by harnessing energy from the wheel rotation of their landing gear to generate electricity. They could use this to power their taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use their jet engines. This would save on aviation ...
  • Aircraft of the future could capture and re-us ...
    Tomorrow's aircraft could contribute to their power needs by harnessing energy from the wheel rotation of their landing gear to generate electricity. read more
  • Mechanism behind capacitor's high-speed energy ...
    Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly. Their findings could lead to much more powerful and efficient electric cars. read more

unEarthed

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

  • OccuPodcast: 99% Movement Call to Action &#821 ...
    OccuPodcast with host Dennis Trainor, Jr: Two years ago, David DeGraw called for the 99% to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms. This past week, AmpedStatus published a two-year anniversary edition of his report, complete with some personal history and context f ...
  • 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 ...

+972

  • High Court reaffirms settlements are integral ...
    The High Court of Justice re-validated a law defining the demolition of settlements as “traumatic” – and denying claims that demolition of Palestinian houses is just as bad. A couple of years ago I was asked to participate in a televised debate (Hebrew) with a right-wing conscientiou ...
  • Knesset passes draft law to criminalize paying ...
    Spearheaded by Kadima Cabinet member Orit Zuaretz, a draft law was recently passed making the solicitation of a sexual act a criminal offense. First brought to the table in 2009, this law received its first green light on the path to becoming official. Under this law, first time offenders will b ...
  • Israel’s one-state justice
    Retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levi was always considered a ‘conservative’ and ‘rightwing’ judge – but a closer reading of his verdicts reveals the constitutional basis for a ‘one state justice.’ By Itamar Mann Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmond ...
  • What the Adnan affair tells us about the occup ...
    The Khader Adnan hunger strike affair showed the true face of all of the Israelis involved in the occupation, from its enablers in the courts to the Israeli mob. Khader Adnan became a Palestinian national hero two days ago, and rightly so. He brought the Netanyahu government, as well as the Isra ...
  • Don’t fight Apartheid Week: Responding to Haar ...
    I love Bradley Burston’s writing. He is clever and passionate, and more often than not, he is upset by the same things I am. But I found his post on Apartheid Week deeply misguided, both morally and politically. Briefly, Burston claims that “Apartheid Week” is both a political ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Recycling plant to improve Victorian surf coa ...
    Construction began today on the $42 million Black Rock Recycled Water Plant, which will significantly improve the Victorian surf coast growth corridor long-term water security.
  • Targeted Water Purchase Initiative in Southern ...
    A new, strategic water purchase initiative will be conducted by the Gillard Government in the southern connected system of the Murray Darling Basin from 27 February, 2012.
  • 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.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • WHISTLE BLOWER INFORMATION- Are the fraudclosu ...
    Oh, it hardly seems like it’s worth it sometimes, but let me just toss one more up onto the woodpile…. MANDELMAN And while you’re at it, make sure you call Wells Fargo about Patricia Martin Scridb filter
  • Amerika, Why Can’t We Jail Bankers?
    We’re coming up on four years since the financial crisis of 2008 nearly took this nation over the edge.   But just as the jalopy called our nation’s financial system started to fly off into the abyss, the banker elites and their hand-picked handmaidens at all levels of government stepped in and ...
  • Congress Writes To Bondi- Don’t Fritter ...
    Members of Congress write to Bondi about the sellout money.  Problem is THE SETTLEMENT AIN’T SIGNED, THERE AIN’T NO DEAL And if it gets done….what will Florida’s Legislature have to say about the money? Mortgage_Settlement_Bondi_02-22-12   Scridb filter
  • Cooking The Books, Lying To Courts, Investors, ...
    We all know exactly what is happening now.  Our entire nation and particularly our nation’s court system has become nothing but a big, fat steaming pile of lies.  I recently lost a trial where one of the themes was, “Even if he can prove fraud, the lies and the fraud and the forgery ...
  • A Foreclosure Trial Transcript, Evidentiary Ob ...
    I want to share with the class a transcript of a foreclosure trial where defense counsel rattles off the evidentiary objections, many of which were properly sustained by the judge. Servicers have a very real problem proving their cases over proper and clear evidence objections….they just c ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Right to Community – The Meddling Factor
    For the American colonies life was becoming increasingly frustrating. The denigration they experienced from their political masters in England was …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – The Humiliation Factor
    I passed Vic Toews in Centre Block early in my parliamentary tenure, said “hi,” and received a nasty scowl in …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

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

  • What’s New in Swine Flu – Three Novel Viruses
    Since August, the CDC has reported three novel influenza A virus variants (H3N2v, H1N1v, H2N2v) that have infected humans in the U.S., for a total of 14 cases. All three viruses originated in swine herds.
  • The Air Down There: Dairy Ops in Yakima Valley ...
    The study measures the density of airborne pollutants in homes close to dairy operations, and the pollutants include ammonia, particulate matter (PM), or dust, and ammonia. Many airborne contaminants are unregulated, and the exposure effects are unknown.
  • 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?

k2p blog

  • Insurance Companies and alarmism
    Insurance companies are in the business of making perceived risk seem much larger than the actual risk. Based on a request for investigation from JunkScience.com, Nature has forced MIT’s Kerry Emanuel to disclose his employment with insurance companies as a conflict of interest.
  • Richard Lindzen’s address at the UK Hous ...
    Lindzen- " ..unprecedented climate catastrophes are not on the horizon though in several thousand years we may return to an ice age"
  • Spending billions for no return: AGW alarmism ...
    Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmism is leading to the waste of trillions in pursuing political goals which go against common sense.
  • Fakegate: Climate Alarmists reduced to forgery ...
    Peter Gleick continues in the tradition of global warming activists in fudging cheating and lying. He goes further and adds forgery to the list.
  • Indian PM’s science advisor admits plagi ...
    The Prime Minister's Science Advisor Professor CNR Rao has admitted and apologised for his plagiarism but has gotten away without the paper written under his supervision being retracted. No action is being taken against the students being blamed for the plagiarism.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Cops Called To Florida Mall To Prevent Yet Ano ...
    Crazed consumers fairly foaming at the mouth over a new release from Nike which was timed to celebrate the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, had to be subdued by cops in riot gear at one Florida mall Thursday night. This isn't the first time a shoe has stirred up such extreme reactions, of course, ...
  • Which Are The Most Frugal Coupon Crazy Cities ...
    No need to pick up your scissors and start a fight with other coupon-clippers over which city is the best at cutting costs of all the places in the United States -- a new set of rankings has done all the comparing for you. It looks like Midwestern and Southern shoppers are the most fanatical ab ...
  • Yes, Televisions Are Pretty Much Disposable Now
    It seems like an ancient, lost world now, but there was once a time when people bought electronics or appliances, and when they broke down, they hired someone to repair the item and kept using it. This may not sound weird and obsolete to you or to me or to reader Donna. Toshiba, on the other ha ...
  • Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
    Here are thirteen of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or just plain neatness. (#2 - JoelZimmer) (#3 - Vileinist) (#4 - Scoboco) (#5 - kakissel) (#6 - Ryan.Paul) (#7 - David Blackwell.) (#8 - K ...
  • Your Annual New T-Mobile Phones Were Just A Be ...
    Every year since 2007, Jim and his wife have celebrated the arrival of their federal income tax refund by going to the T-Mobile store, renewing their contract, and picking out shiny new phones at the new-contract discount. Year after year, they've done this, even though they're renewing the 2-y ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Jake Tapper Grills WH Press Secretary Over Esp ...
    ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper (middle) grills WH Press Secretary on whistleblower charges.Yahoo News: Jay Carney and Jake Tapper Clash over ‘Aggressive’ Reporting Summary: On Wednesday, ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper grilled White House Press Secretary Jay Carn ...
  • Note to White House's Jay Carney: Get Your Fac ...
    White House Press Secretary had an almost unbelievably lame non-response when ABC's Jake Tapper asked how the Obama Administration squared lauding freedom of the press and internet freedom abroad while engaging in a record-setting campaign to silence "leakers" a.k.a. sources a.k.a. whi ...
  • Bradley Manning Faces Arraignment Today: Daily ...
    RT: Tides Are Changing for Whistleblowers in the US Summary: Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, will have his arraignment today at 1 p.m. He faces 22 charges and a possible life sentence if convicted. GAP National Security & Human Rights Dir ...
  • GAP Speaks at Syracuse University: Daily Whist ...
    WRVO NPR News: Tom Devine on The Campbell Conversations Summary: GAP Legal Director Tom Devine appeared at Syracuse University last week as a part of the American Whistleblower Tour to talk about the challenges whistleblowers face, the limited protections they currently have, an ...
  • "Whistleblowers Improvement Act" Nothing of th ...
    RT America: Whistleblowers Improvement Act to Weaken Whistleblowers’ Rights? Summary: GAP’s National Security & Human Rights Counsel Kathleen McClellan discusses the Obama administration’s six Espionage Act prosecutions of whistleblowers (more than all other presidents combined), and legis ...

UK Progressive

  • Corporations Don’t Need a Tax Cut, So Why Is O ...
    The Obama administration is proposing to lower corporate taxes from the current 35 percent to 28 percent for most companies and to 25 percent for manufacturers. The move is supposed to be “revenue neutral” – meaning the Administration is also proposing to close assorted corporate tax loopholes t ...
  • New York Court Affirms Towns’ Powers to Ban Fr ...
    by Lena Groeger, ProPublica In a decision that could set a national precedent for how local governments can regulate gas drilling, a New York state court yesterday ruled for the first time that towns have the right to ban drilling despite a state regulation asserting they cannot. At issue was a ...
  • Egyptian Military Plays Leverage Card Over Mus ...
    Interesting developments coming from Egypt indicating the possibility of tension between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Today, the High Administrative Court has ruled that the voting system that elected the new parliament was unconstitutional. This shows the uncertain legal situation i ...
  • Exterminate the Government?
    A brutal, take-no-prisoners war, camouflaged as a populist movement, is being waged against the government of the United States of America. The Field Marshall in charge of operations is Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform (Founded-1985), one of America’s most power ...
  • The GOP’s Big Investors
    Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel, or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They’re running for the Republican nomination for president. I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney are r ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Malcolm Turnbull Flashback 2009: Conservatives ...
    This is so apt this weekend.  The Ghost-of-Malcolm-Turnbull-leadership is channeling a message for the Labor Party. Listen carefully to him and do … the opposite. Turnbull’s uncanny ability to get it 100% wrong From reporting by Richard Black (BBC) Friday 27th November 2009 The issue ...
  • Phase change: Australian politics turns liquid
    Who says it’s only Rudd versus Gillard? Abbott came from nowhere. Australia may have a new Prime Minister as soon as next week. Former PM, Kevin Rudd has just resigned from his Foreign Ministership so he’s going to challenge the current PM, and it could be any day. Here in Australia ...
  • Is stealing OK? Alarmist climate scientists do ...
    The Guardian: Gleick apology over Heartland leak stirs ethics debate among climate scientists Whoops. Suzanne Goldenberg unwittingly exposes how empty the Ethics Vault is in establishment climate science. Peter Gleick used a false identity to steal documents, and released them without permission ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Mainstream media Santorum's Super PAC -- and t ...
    (Bryan Fischer) - The mainstream media, as obtuse as they are, do not realize that they are playing right into Rick Santorum's hands. They are doing a better job than Santorum ever could of getting his message of unapologetic social conservatism out to the American public. The mainstream media h ...
  • The effrontery of Rick Santorum
    (Rich Lowry) - The media has unleashed the hounds on Rick Santorum. He was last seen a step ahead of the braying pack, trying to explain that he hadn't accused President Barack Obama of being a crypto-Muslim. The former Pennsylvania senator criticized the president's environmentalism as represen ...
  • Santorum: I will defend the 2nd Amendment
    (Rick Santorum) - Santorum: I fully support the 2nd Amendment rights of gun owners in the United States, and completed the Gun Owners of America 2012 Presidential Candidate survey. You can download the survey and read my responses here...
  • Parental outrage forces Houston school to drop ...
    (The Blaze) - The people have spoken in Houston and forced a school to change a its decision to use an over-the-top poem praising President Obama...
  • The high priests of eco-destruction
    (Michelle Malkin) - Rick Santorum is right. Pushing back against Democrats' attempts to frame him as a religious menace, the GOP presidential candidate forcefully turned the tables on the White House: "When it comes to the management of the Earth, they are the anti-science ones"...

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

  • Tortuguero Monument 6 – The Full Story
    For a very long time the Mayan doomsday meme revolved around the extraordinary idea that an ancient culture would have a calendar that ended in the distant future. A future we live in… In recent months archaeologists and the media have spun the attention towards Tortuguero Monument 6, t ...
  • More Mayan Pyramids in the USA?
    It’s not hard to make the link. In the early first century, Mayan civilization was on the decline, and up in the USA earthern mounds were being built – and corn was introduced. That the structures were not as elaborate suggests that it was only working class Mayans that fled. Ar ...
  • Farewell Thumb Knuckle / Prepper Declared Insane
    Doomsday Preppers (currently screening on NatGeo in the USA) is reality TV, so of course it includes some drama. And what happened to Tim Ralston certainly wasn’t scripted: Meanwhile, David Sarti, who also appeared on the show, has been declared insane. Yet it might all come down to his ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Kerala cops to search Italian ship for weapons ...
    The ship, which had been berthed at the out of port area, is being brought to the oil terminal to enable the search. Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
  • Married woman gang-raped in Indore
    A 30-year-old woman was gang-raped by eight persons, including a cop at Anmol Dhaba on Wednesday night. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
  • CBI searches home of Delhi ACP, books him in a ...
    Weeks after an Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police was transferred and an inquiry ordered against him in connection with a land scam that took place in an area under his jurisdiction, the CBI on Thursday conducted searches at his residence and office. Reported by Indian Express 3 hours ago
  • Quran burning: Death toll rises to 24 in anti- ...
    The protests flared after Friday prayers, where mullahs condemned 'Infidels' for the desecration of Islam`s holy book. Reported by Zee News 4 hours ago
  • Folk singer raped
    A local folk singer was allegedly raped by four men in a field in Dandupur village in Mahrua area here, police said on Friday. Reported by Zee News 6 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

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

  • Flower Power Eggs Make Breakfast Beautiful
    Flower Power Eggs—Bell Pepper Ring Molds for Sunny Side Up Eggs! For those of you alive in the 1970′s, travel back in time with me for just a minute. Remember “Flower Power?” This was a slogan of the anti-war protest raging in the country when I was a teen. That is exactly what these egg ...
  • Moms Strut Their Stuff on the Runways at Fashi ...
    Celebrities, social media superstars, and top bloggers -- who just happen to be moms -- strutted their way down the runway at the first ever Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show! fashion show held at Lincoln Center on the last day of New York's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. The show, the brainchild of ...
  • I Want to Keep Going!
    Health journal: this is week 7 of BlogHer's Inspiration to Fitness program and our last official meeting. Are you sad? I am a little, but you are probably sick of me going on about my failures of the previous week.. :) I am down 7 pounds and 4 inches. I wish it was more, but I'll take it. I'm ...
  • Saint Training: A Heartfelt Journey of a Young ...
    Mary Clare O’Brien has one goal for her future: to become a saint. When she prays to God, she makes deals with Him in exchange for the things her family really needs –- money to pay the bills, her brother to be safe as he has been drafted for the war in Vietnam, and for the new baby her mother ...
  • OMG! Onesies Are a Gateway Drug for Grandmas
    Something weird has happened now that I'm going to be, OMG, a grandmother -- I've started shopping. Or feeling compelled to shop. It's kind of scary because I do not like to shop. I'm not talking about buying the crib and the bedding, that's a given -- I'm talking about the urge to buy every cut ...

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

  • ‘Tepid’ state UBB report points to ...
    Family members of the coal miners killed in the April 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine leave after a meeting where state mine safety officials released the results of their investigation into the explosion. Gazette photo by Chris Dorst. I spent a long time trying to come up with one g ...
  • Alpha takes $745M ‘goodwill impairment&# ...
    We haven’t seen any comments from our friends at Alpha Natural Resources on yesterday’s release of the state report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. So we still don’t know if Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield thinks the deaths of 29 coal miners on April 5, 2010, was — as ...
  • Breaking news: Upper Big Branch superintendent ...
    We broke the news earlier this morning on the Gazette’s website that federal prosecutors have charged one of the superintendents of the Upper Big Branch with conspiracy in what appears to be the next step toward moving up the chain of Massey Energy management personnel that played a role o ...
  • What to look for in state’s Upper Big Br ...
    On Thursday, the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training will issue the report of its investigation of the April 5, 2010, explosion that killed 29 coal miners at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Will there be any news in it? That’s a perfectly reasonab ...
  • 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) ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How to Convince Someone Evolution is True | Reddit
    He permitted her to persist with the illusion that evolution and creation are competing hypotheses, when in fact they are entirely independent concepts that have nothing to do with one another. She needs to understand why creation doesn’t belong in a science classroom. The fact that she th ...
  • Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Yea ...
    Seth Weintraub, a blogger for 9 to 5 Google, who first wrote about the glasses project in December, and then discovered more information about them this month, also said the glasses would be Android-based and cited a source that described their look as that of a pair of Oakley Thumps.They will a ...
  • S for Lisp | George Watsky
    via youtube.com Enjoy. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSeriously Fast LyricsA Creative SongNew Headz Up App | SNLHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)
  • I Pray Every Night For an Obama vs. Santorum P ...
    Moderate Republicans in this country need to see how ridiculous Santorum looks when compared to someone who is both reasonable and compassionate. They need to be embarrassed. I want them to physically cringe every time Santorum opens his silly face to speak. I want them beaten into submission by ...
  • Sqlmap Plugin for BurpSuite | BugBlog
    Once you may have loaded the plugin, use it is very simple. Just have to click the right mouse button over the url you want to test with sqlmap and you will have the option popup: via blog.buguroo.com Win. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentBeerSec.org: Abus ...

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

  • Revolution 99 Updates: The Media Will Try To D ...
    Occupy Wall Street’s National General Assembly BY ALLISON KILKENNY,inthesetimes.com – – General assemblies were one of the biggest attractions at the first-ever Occupy camp when it still existed at Zuccotti Park. The G.A., as it became known, was truly a surreal sight: hundreds of in ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    Physically disabled protesters clash with riot police in Bolivia Dozens of disabled people have clashed with police in Bolivia during a protest calling for higher state subsidies. Several protesters were hurt as they tried to break through a police cordon in the country’s main city of La P ...
  • A motorbike journey for peace and positive change
    By Nitesh Square,thenews.com.pk - The motorbike trip we are planning to undertake from Mumbai to Paris next month was sparked off by a discussion in the mountains of Sandakphu, West Bengal in September 2011. I had joined a group of friends doing a 110-mile Himalaya race there, and two of them, P ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) Like water from a faucet
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies.com – My thoughts lately haven’t been like a steady drip, drip, drip from a leaky sink. No, my brain has been more of a steady gush that threatens to overflow the basin and flood the room. I’d like to take a pipe wrench to my mind and just shut it off ...
  • What Happens in the Aurora
    From: Andy Soos, ENN - An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere. The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and sol ...

reference frame

  • Brian Cox misunderstands locality, Pauli exclu ...
    It's very refreshing to agree with Sean Carroll (and a guy named Tom Swanson) on something. Brian Cox wanted to use quantum mechanics to defend the Gaia religious proposition that "everything is connected with everything else" (the last sentence of the video above). I am convinced ...
  • Clouds falling by 44 ± 22 meters per decade
    Dozens of media outlets (let me pick IB Times as an example of a good story) inform us about a new paper by Roger Davies and Matthew Molloy of New Zealand, Global cloud height fluctuations measured by MISR on Terra from 2000 to 2010 (Geophysical Research Letters, abstract)A satellite uses s ...
  • RSS: temperature trend in the last 15 years is ...
    We've been emphasizing for a few years that in the last decade, the global warming trend wasn't statistically significant and according to most datasets, it was actually negative: linear regression produces a cooling result. Global warming as seen in Versoix, Switzerland in James H ...
  • CDF: W-boson mass is 80.387 GeV
    Speedy neutrinos are so yesterday, as Katie Yurkewicz said. What is hot today is the new accurate W-boson mass as measured by the CDF at the Tevatron. A special seminar is beginning right now, at 10 a.m. Chicago Winter Time. Watch it live here. Direct link to Flash. However, you m ...
  • Blogspot.com.au etc.: how to prevent redirecting
    Google began to redirect the blogspot.com traffic to specific national locations. So far, three nations are affected: Australia: motls.blogspot.com.au New Zealand: motls.blogspot.co.nz India: motls.blogspot.in New countries are likely to be added into this list soon. The purpose ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Revealing the contents of the Wikileaks Insura ...
    Within the past 48 hours Wikileaks tweeted that they have made their most recent ‘insurance’ file available for download. It is encrypted but I figured out what is in it. How? The White Hats. They told the world with release of The White Hat Report  #1 and#2 back in November 2010. Th ...
  • @Wikileaks insurance file contents to be revea ...
    I have discovered the contents of the Wikileaks insurance file and will reveal them at exactly 08:00h UTC-4hr. The contents have been hiding in plain view since November of 2010, yet the public is too stupid to realize it. Also, I do not understand how the more popular alternative media sites ha ...
  • Forget the loons Fulford and Wilcock. The Whit ...
    The following story may or may not be a work of fiction. One thing for sure is that portions of the story are true and as time goes on we will know how much is fact and how much is fantasy. If true humanity is in grave danger and I am going to do my [...] Related posts: Proof that we could be ...
  • Fukushima Flu Update: Tokyo’s contamination is ...
    Yep. Back when Chernobyl happened  1.48 million Bq/m was considered a death sentence, hence evacuations took place. Bring that forward to today and a level of 1.50 million Bq/m, which will kill, is considered safe. Don’t worry people, Japan is safe, the fish are safe to eat. Anne Coulter s ...
  • Establishment Media Ignores Massive Ron Paul V ...
    http://www.RonPaul.com – Please like, share, subscribe & comment! Video by http://www.youtube.com/user/TokenLibertarianGirl 2/20/2012 Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, sound money, and a pro-America foreign policy ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Nobel leader hangs on to Peace Prize
    Thorbjørn Jagland, the often embattled head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, firmly rejects any speculation that its awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize will revert to Swedish control. “This is a non-existent debate,” Jagland told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Friday. Jagland stress ...
  • Families trapped in car for 15 hours
    Two adults and three children ended up spending 15 hours inside one of their cars after the Norwegian mountain highway where they were driving was blocked first by one avalanche and then by another.  The two cars were hemmed in by the snow and ice that covered state highway RV13 near Røldalsvatn ...
  • Swedes in Oslo hail new new royal heir
    With thousands of Swedes living and working in Norway, the Swedish Embassy in Oslo quickly put out a congratulatory protocol that non-Swedes as well could sign following the birth of a new heir to the Swedish throne. Sweden’s ambassador to Norway, Ingrid Margaretha Hjelt af Trolle, reporte ...
  • Dairy giant sours its own image
    UPDATED: Norway’s large and powerful dairy cooperative Tine, bashed for failing to produce enough butter last year, now risks angering Norwegian consumers and its own farmer-members once again. It recently made an attempt to further block cheese imports, to protect its own products and hig ...
  • Norwegians defy Greek turmoil
    Vacationing Norwegians don’t seem concerned about the political unrest and debt crisis in Greece. They’re booking Greek holidays like never before. Hotel prices at many popular areas in Greece have fallen by as much as 20 percent and Norwegians clearly recognize a bargain when they s ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Perennial Staple Crops of the World
    This article reviews perennial staple crops, a little-known group of species with tremendous potential to address world problems. Ricardo Romero of Las Cañadas in perennial staple food forest featuring peach palm, macadamia, air potato, banana, and perennial beans. Perennial Staple Cr ...
  • Permaculture Goes to the White House… With You ...
    I’ve got some incredible news to share with you! The permaculture initiative that I facilitate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) has been selected by the White House as a finalist for the Campus Champions of Change Challenge award! This means we are in the final round and th ...
  • Robert Burns’ TEDx Talk and His WWOOFing Exper ...
    Aloha. This is an introduction to my TEDx talk and my WWOOFing experience here at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm at The Channon, NSW, Australia. I came here the day after Christmas 2011. I knew about Geoff Lawton and Zaytuna Farm from my time in Hawaii on an organic, educational farm there where ...
  • The Simpler Way
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth Introduction by Samuel Alexander Beyond our basic material needs for food, clothing, and shelter, how much is enough? In particular, how much money and how many possessions do we really need to live well and to be fre ...
  • Floating Solar Panel System Developed in Italy
    An Italian company has developed a working, cost-efficient floating solar panel system which rotates in order to capture more of the sun’s energy. Scintec, led by executive manager, Professor Marco Rosa-Clot developed the FTCC or the Floating Tracking Cooling Concentrator system. The ...

Pointman's

  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Father Coughlin's radio programs you say? I'll start promoting your channel as soon as you post the link, Father Coughlin is my all time favourite father, even beating out my very own and by a fair margin! Good Job Lindsey.Statistics: Posted by GordZilla — Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:41 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It was announced on Charley Giuliani's show that I am now proud to announce my video YouTube channel "ExposeTheZionists" that will feature the very best audio-files, interviews, and radio-shows from the past and present dealing with jewish/zionist crimes and documenting the evidence as ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.trueactivist.com/10-excellen ... tack-iran/ 10 Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran February 23, 2012 | Filed under: News,War | Posted by: TA By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. 1. ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcHEA8pibI David Epstein A Columbia political science professor has been charged with having a sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter, the Columbia Daily Spectator reports. David Epstein, 46, was charged Thursday with one count of third-d ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    LordLindsey wrote: You are "mis-informed" as Purim 2012 falls-on sun-down of March 6 and lasts until March 8... which just-so happens to be when the feds shut-down MILLIONS-UPON-MILLIONS of servers across America and/or the world. LINDSEY Got that date from Iraqwar.ru, usually a re ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Warming Climate Caused ‘Dwarfing’ of Earliest ...
    A new study suggests that the earliest known horse species shrank significantly in size over a 135,000-year span as a consequence of a warming climate. Using geochemical testing and measurements of fossilized teeth dating back more than 50 million years, U.S. researchers found that a 30-percent ...
  • Conservationists Launch Drone to Monitor Fores ...
    A coalition of scientists and environmental advocacy groups has developed a camera-equipped drone they say could become a key conservation tool for monitoring WATCH VIDEO: View from a conservation drone forest loss and endangered wildlife. The coalition — which includes The Orangutan Conse ...
  • Pollutants from Tar Sands Sites Comparable to ...
    The amounts of pollution produced by tar sands excavation sites are comparable to those of a medium-sized city or a large power plant, according to a new study by Environment Canada, the nation’s environmental agency. Using satellite remote sensing observations, scientists found elevated levels ...
  • 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 due to dry conditions. In the Click to enlarge NASA Lake Fitri photo, which was taken in January, the muddy ye ...
  • ‘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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Rabbi Boteach schools Michael Coren
    It would appear that the bush-leaguers at SUN TV are once again abusing their guests. In the wake of some forgettable broadcaster’s pummelling of Margie Gillis, Michael Coren has now taken the opportunity of an interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ostensibly about his new book Kosher Jesu ...
  • Snoop dogs
    By Alison@Creekside So remember how the Cons withdrew their just-tabled internet surveillance bill, the Lawful Access Act, on Feb 14 and replaced it an hour and 15 minutes later with the identical but renamed Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act , a bill which mentions neither childre ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • The Tax-Plan Sham
    Stop pretending that companies actually pay 35 percent—or that reform has a chance. By Eric Alterman.
  • Prada and Gucci Dazzle At Milan Fashion Week
    Milan Fashion Week Sees Jil Sanders Return, Prada’s Intellect and Gucci’s Fierce Femininity
  • Could Mitch Daniels Still Run for President?
    Jim DeMint, the impassioned Tea Party leader in the Senate, sees only one possible outcome of a race dogged by weak candidates and unenthusiastic voters: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. "He’s the only one who could make it happen," DeMint told an audience in Georgia on Thursday, referr ...
  • Syrians Prepare for Next Phase in Revolt
    ‘Friends of Syria’ met in Tunisia on Friday to discuss a solution to the ongoing crackdown.
  • Obama's Fantasy Energy Plan
    I had a friend, now dead. who worked for West German intelligence debriefing East Bloc defectors.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Eyeing Euro 2012 role, Pearce downplays Englan ...
    Staking his claim to stay in charge of England until Euro 2012, interim coach Stuart Pearce urged fans to be more realistic about the team's prospects of ending a 46-year title drought. Since Pearce was part of the side which reached the 1996 European Championship semifinals, the furthest Engl ...
  • Daio Paper feud grows with plan to build diape ...
    Daio Paper Corp. will build a disposable diaper plant in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, in a move expected to escalate the feud between the papermaker's management and its founding family, sources said Friday. The construction plan is seen as management's attempt to distance itself from the ...
  • Tiger, Ishikawa eliminated early in Match Play
    The roar resonated across Dove Mountain from fans packed around the 18th green as Tiger Woods, needing a birdie on the last hole to stay in his match, hit a shot that dropped out of the Arizona sky and landed 5 feet from the hole. That was followed by silence.
  • Skipper Collins expects Mets to surprise people
    New York Mets manager Terry Collins anticipates Johan Santana will be ready for Opening Day. And despite drastic payroll cuts, he says the team will be a lot better than people think. As pitchers and catchers reported Tuesday, Collins said the Mets might find their own Jeremy Lin. Collins said ...
  • Austerity — we've embraced it in the cou ...
    Austerity. It's a word steeped in meaning. No one is more aware of a stagnant economy than the Japanese people, who are spending less and learning to relish cheap, imported goods. "Maybe Japanese people will start moving back to the countryside," says an American friend of mine, referring to t ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Disastrous Consequences of the Omnibus Cri ...
    Canada is one Senate vote away from becoming the most regressive Western democracy on criminal justice.  That unenviable position has most recently been occupied by the United States.  But even though some of the most conservative Republicans are now arguing against over-incarceration, Canada co ...
  • New Brunswick Government Policies Regressive a ...
    In September 2010, New Brunswick voters elected a majority Conservative government, led by David Alward.  Since being elected, this government has pursued the twin illusions of low taxes and public service cuts.  These strategies have served only to undermine the province’s ability to invest in ...
  • Federal cuts may lead to 116,000 jobs lost: Ne ...
    The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) today came out today with their own GDP and jobs impact estimates from the $8 billion in federal cuts.  They project 116,000 jobs lost and a $10 billion hit to the national economy. Readers will recall that I made my own estimates of job ...
  • Internet snooping law needs more than cosmetic ...
    The just introduced Internet snooping legislation is causing concern among some mainstream Conservative government supporters.  Since its introduction on Valentine’s Day, it has been questioned, denounced, and/or criticized well beyond the privacy, human rights and civil liberties communities.  ...
  • Drummond, Deconstructed
    In the Commission report that bears his name, and in all of his media appearances since its release, Banker Don Drummond has ably played the disinterested expert, taking no pleasure in sharing the “gloomy message” he has for Ontario. From the way most TV hosts and journalists have rushed forward ...

ReDress

  • The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Ameri ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Pale ...
  • Reality and the Senate Intelligence Committee
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by failing to participate in national politics, citizens abdicate their potential influence to those who do act politically and that these could be "thugs in suits" with hidden agendas and judgments that are skewed by interest lobbies that hold the purse strings to ...
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Moderate drought was downfall of the Maya
    BBC: From about AD 250 to 800, Mayan civilization, which thrived in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala, developed a culturally sophisticated empire made up of several independent city-states. Between AD 800 and 900, however, large-scale architectural construction ceased and the civilizati ...
  • Space travel can affect astronauts' sense of t ...
    NPR: After a few days in space, astronauts start craving spicier food, and researchers are looking into the reason why. Jean Hunter, a food engineer at Cornell University, says that space travel can cause humans to lose their sense of smell. That loss, says Michele Perchonok, the head of NASA's ...
  • US Republican presidential candidates maintain ...
    InsideClimate News: Despite the fact that 98% of climate scientists, some of them members of the US Republican Party, are convinced of human-induced global warming, none of the current Republican presidential candidates appears to support the scientific consensus. In fact, such support has been ...
  • Ocean current spurred faster rotation of Earth
    National Geographic: For about two weeks in November 2009, Earth took 0.1 millisecond less to make one complete rotation on its axis. A study by Steven Marcus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California indicates that a slowdown in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current was strong enough to mak ...
  • CERN issues statement about OPERA neutrino result
    CERN: The press office of CERN issued the following statement today about last year's finding by the OPERA collaboration that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light: The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible eff ...

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

  • Ethiopia dam project rides roughshod over heri ...
    “Thousands of semi-nomadic tribespeople are being forcibly moved from their traditional lands in southern Ethiopia to make way for European and Indian sugar cane and biofuel plantations, according to testimonies collected by Survival International researchers. Agricultural developments alo ...
  • 3 Years Of Drought, And It Could Get Worse
    “A SEVERE drought exacerbating water shortages and hindering agricultural production in southwest China’s Yunnan Province could get worse as there is little prospect of rain any time soon, the country’s weather authority said yesterday. Most areas in Yunnan will have sunny and ...
  • SDF battle heat, water shortage in Juba
    “A Ground Self-Defense Force unit dispatched to South Sudan to assist U.N. peacekeeping operations is living under severe conditions, including extreme heat, a shortage of water and malaria fears. “I wake up many times because of the heat and mosquitoes,” Maj. Nobuyoshi Matsuza ...
  • Mexico’s Water War
    “It isn’t just tourists who won’t drink the water in Mexico. It’s nearly everyone, making the country one of the most valuable markets in the world for beverage companies. Mexicans are the world’s biggest drinkers of soda, putting away 166 liters of the bubbly stuff per person in 2010, and ...
  • New York Town’s Ban on Gas Fracking Upheld by ...
    “A central New York town can block natural-gas drilling after a state judge, in the first test of local laws, upheld the Town of Dryden’s ban on hydraulic fracturing. State Supreme Court Judge Phillip Rumsey in a ruling released yesterday said the town’s zoning amendment on gas drilling wa ...

D. Kucinich

  • Good News for Workers at Cooper Tire; Tentativ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after workers and management at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company came to a tentative agreement to end the lock out. “Collective bargaining works. It works for the people, it works for workers, it works for the economy and i ...
  • Kucinich Applauds Obama Administration’s Effor ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (February 23, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the Obama Administration announced plans to spend about $50 million this year to protect the Great Lakes from Asian Carp, an invasive species.  “I applaud the Obama Administra ...
  • Proposed Incinerator Permit Application Reject ...
    Today the United States Environmental Protection Agency informed the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) that the proposed permit for the trash incinerator in Cleveland did not protect public health and the environment enough to be considered legal.   Congressman Dennis Kucinich ...
  • Kucinich: Administrator Bolden’s Visit Highlig ...
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