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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

26 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Germany's Carthaginian terms for Greece
    The last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secured better terms than shattered Greece last week. The US, Canada, Britain, France, Greece, and other signatories at the London Debt Agreement of 1953 granted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a 50pc haircut on all German debt, worth ...
  • Social Media "Tactical Intelligence Collection"
    A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports: We e ...
  • Inside Story: Climate Scientists Under Siege
    It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann’s account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public. His story of that campaign, and his own journey from naive computer geek to battle-hardened climate ninja, seems overwrought, maybe even paranoi ...
  • Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: With Robots
    In the agency’s $2.8 billion budget for 2013, unveiled on Monday, they’ve allotted $7 million for a project titled “Avatar.” The project’s ultimate goal, not surprisingly, sounds a lot like the plot of the same-named (but much more expensive) flick. According the agency, “the Avatar program w ...
  • Dennis Ross Shoots Down War With Iran
    Back in 2007, during a similar outbreak of overheated rhetoric about war against Iran—at that time, Vice President Dick Cheney was pushing behind the scenes for a unilateral American strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities—a subversive report National Intelligence Estimate by the US intelligenc ...

Independent - London

  • Extradited Briton in high-security Texas jail
    The family of retired businessman Christopher Tappin are due to hear from him today for the first time since he was extradited to Texas on Friday to face charges that he tried to obtain missile parts to sell to Iran.Related StoriesOrange jumpsuit for nine-year-old who's accused of shooting girlR ...
  • Mandela 'comfortable at home' after surgery
    Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital yesterday after exploratory keyhole surgery for a long-standing abdominal complaint.Related StoriesMandela released from hospital after exploratory surgerySuicide attack on Nigerian church kills threeMove to disqualify Mugabe deniedJeers and boos for ...
  • Even I get things dead wrong on occasion, admi ...
    They call him the "Sage of Omaha", but Warren Buffett doesn't always get things right. Just ask Warren Buffett.Related StoriesOrange jumpsuit for nine-year-old who's accused of shooting girlRomney fumbles his way forwardTwo die after fire in polar research stationExtradited Briton in high-secur ...
  • Suicide attack on Nigerian church kills three
    A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives outside a large church yesterday, killing three people and wounding 38 in the central Nigerian city of Jos, where hundreds have died in religious and ethnic violence.Related StoriesMandela released from hospital after exploratory surgeryMandela 'comf ...
  • Kennedy is charged after tussle with nurses
    The son of the murdered US Senator Bobby Kennedy is facing criminal charges after a confrontation with two nurses as he tried to take his newborn baby for fresh air, his lawyer said yesterday. Related StoriesOrange jumpsuit for nine-year-old who's accused of shooting girlRomney fumbles his way f ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Depleted Uranium In America's Wars
    A prominent investigative journalist says the United States is using illegal weaponry - particularly depleted uranium - during its wars in the Middle East. Interview with Gareth Porter, investigative journalist.
  • Polls show minority in US and Israel favor mil ...
    (Preface: Roubini says that attacking Iran would lead to global recession. The IMF says that Iran cutting off oil supplies could raise crude prices 30%. War with Iran would kill the American economy. and see this and this). So yes, this is a newsworthy economic and financial story. The America ...
  • Indefinite detention and torture: NDAA in action
    The National Defense Authorization Act took affect less than a month ago and already the US government is making use of the controversial law. Musa'b al-Madhwani is the first Guantanamo Bay prison to feel the effects of the new law that President Obama at one point vowed to veto. The NDAA allows ...
  • The girl killed by Barack Obama - she never sa ...
    Barack Obama says the drone attacks he authorises are targeted only at named people on a list of active terrorists who are a direct threat to America. The facts tell a different story.
  • Max Keiser: Greek economy destroyed by Weapon ...
    Greece is being pressured to give all control of the Greek budget to the European Union, which it says threatens its national sovereignty. Behind it all is a network of interlinked private financial interests which is using banking instruments to terrorise whole populations into submission.

The Galloping Beaver

  • How can you tell when the Harperites are behav ...
    When the crew at Balloon Juice notices. Welcome to the world stage.
  • Uh, Dean?
    Are you sure you want to open this door? Because there's one or two interesting stories floating around your riding about the sorts of things you've been up to. Wow, their spin control on this thing is pathetic.
  • Politics
    I think that the social operating system we're running on doesn't really have a lot of space for deeper or longer-term contextual awareness. So much is here and now, with a bit of reference to the future, and less to the past. And I'm not talking about the immediate text-book past, Harper's 1812 ...
  • Heads up . . .
    IF YOU USE GOOGLE — its security rules and regs are changing. Why should you care? Well, according to WIRED, now's the time to get rid of your search history. Go visit and find out more, before you wish you had. Or not. If you've been to Google's homepage lately — and the chances you have are as ...
  • "Smattering" of F-35
    The Oxford English dictionary on my mac defines smattering as "a slight superficial knowledge of a language or subject" or "a small amount of something". Smattering is the description of the applause CBC describs Airshow Mackay receiving when he announced to a room full of military and connected ...

Media Matters for America

  • Conservative Media Still Deny Fact That Unempl ...
    Right-wing media have spent the week attacking Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett for her accurate claim that unemployment insurance stimulates the economy. The claim that unemployment benefits don't provide an economic boost is a conservative myth that right-wing media have regularly pushed.Jarrett ...
  • Brent Bozell Now Making Up Oil Statistics
    During a discussion of gasoline prices, frequent Fox News guest Brent Bozell claimed that U.S. oil production has fallen under President Obama. In reality, the opposite is true: after increasing every year since 2009, oil production is at an eight-year high; gas prices continue to rise because ...
  • How The Right Redefines "Fairness" To Push Tax ...
    The re-emerging right-wing myth that low-income Americans aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes relies on flawed data: a report from the Heritage Foundation highlighting the fact that nearly half of Americans pay no federal income tax. In fact, while nearly half of Americans pay little to n ...
  • Why The Right Is Wrong About Saving Detroit
    An emerging myth being pushed by the right contends that federal spending to rescue GM and Chrysler was unnecessary, and that the companies instead should have gone through a "traditional" bankruptcy. In fact, economists at the time explained that frozen credit markets made private financing fo ...
  • Economists Shoot Down WSJ's Claim Tha ...
    The Wall Street Journal attacked a congressional deal to extend unemployment insurance, arguing that jobs are now "easier to find" and that additional benefits would delay workers' re-entry into the workforce. But economists agree that at this point in the economic recovery, it is "vital" to ex ...

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TPM Cafe

  • The Unapologetic Republicans
    I'm sorry, but the apology controversy is a sorry-**sed sorry affair (latest coverage here and here). If this is going to be taken seriously as campaign issue, it needs to be looked at from both directions. The Republicans shouldn't get a free pass to put the president on the defensive. We need ...
  • Smothering Iran Diplomacy With Support
    When you boil it down, much of the recent right-wing commentary on Iran consists of variations on the theme of just how futile diplomacy is. President Obama's handling of Iran has been subject to intense cross-pressures --and plenty of second-guessing -- at every step along the way. And now, hav ...
  • Has Iran Decided to Build the Bomb?
    Senator Lindsey Graham is convinced the goal of Iran's nuclear program is military, and the contrast between Graham's certainty and the more judicious view of President Obama's director of national intelligence highlights critical points for a peaceful resolution of the issue -- or a war. Hat ti ...
  • Ten Deep Thoughts on the All-Male Panel on my ...
    House Oversight Committee Chairman, master car thief and generalcriminal Darrell Issa held a hearing today on the Obama administration's new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Claiming that the the hearing was "not abo ...
  • Fareed Zakaria Rips Apart Pro-Iran War Arguments
    Writing in today's Washington Post, columnist Fareed Zakaria does a terrific job destroying some arguments for war with Iran. He does it by, of all things, citing history. First, Zakaria takes apart the argument, often made by Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, that the "window" to ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • 2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts bo ...
    While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out pow ...
  • A temporary victory for private property rights
    Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline ...
  • TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Desp ...
    Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to b ...
  • A plan to teach climate change skepticism in s ...
    The other day at a dinner party I sat across from a climate scientist (seriously, a professor at a major university in the earth sciences department), who commented that his trips to the Artic this summer were somewhat daunting.  When I asked him who were all these folks Governor Perry said were ...
  • Help us Protect Big Bend and the Guadalupe Mou ...
    Big Bend. The Guadalupe Mountains. Everything about them is iconic…everything but the air pollution that obscures the scenic viewscapes. Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are increasingly under attack from air pollution known as haze from coal plants and refineries. The Clean ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • The myth of the eight-hour sleep
    Should we really be sleeping for eight hours non-stop or might it not be as healthy as it seems ? New evidence suggests waking up in the middle of the...
  • Giant lobster fished up in Maine
    A 27-pound lobster the size of a small child has been caught after becoming trapped in a shrimp net. Nicknamed 'Rocky' and measuing 40 inches the huge...
  • Annual UFO conference held in Arizona
    Thousands of UFO fanatics congregated near Scottsdale for the annual International UFO Congress. Attendees were treated to exhibits of alleged alien e...
  • Mind-controlled skateboard developed
    A mobile app studio has invented a skateboard that takes commands direct from the rider's brainwaves. Called the 'Board of Imagination' the device is ...
  • 'Vampire' pterosaur fed on dinosaur blood ?
    A prehistoric species of flying reptile might have feasted upon the blood of large dinosaurs. Jeholopterus was an unusual pterosaur in that it possess...

Grassroots

  • Successful Steps toward Food Sovereignty
    mozambique200811-small.jpg From all corners of the world, small farmers, indigenous peoples and human rights activists have been percolating solutions upward to advance their rights to land, water and food. With 2011 behind us, Grassroots I ...
  • Haitian leaders call for land and housing rights
    639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...
  • Ex-Haitian Dictator will not be tried for huma ...
    2785349288_8fd8b11a14_m.jpg Since returning from exile last year, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been treated like an old friend by Haitian President Michel Martelly, rather than a brutal dictator responsible for the de ...
  • Violence continues in Honduras, agro-fuels pla ...
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  • Food and Climate Change
    Subheadline:  How the industrial food system heats up the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to suppo ...

Climate

  • Lord Stern Warns Climate Change Critics
    (Express & Star) Flawed economic arguments against tackling climate change are being used to slow the move to low-carbon growth, Lord Nicholas Stern, a leading economist, has warned.
  • China Sets Up First Renewable Energy Think Tank
    (China Daily) China has established its first national think tank on renewable energy to conduct research and develop programs and policies, as part of the country's effort to deal with climate change and carbon emissions.
  • Kerry, Brown Call for Extension of Wind Energy ...
    (The Boston Globe) A dozen US Senators, including John Kerry and Scott Brown, are urging government officials to reauthorize a tax credit for wind energy projects that is set to expire at the end of the year.
  • First Nation Loses Bid to Take Shell Oil Sands ...
    (PostMedia News) An Alberta First Nation that says its treaty rights were violated when the province granted oil sands leases to Shell Canada has lost its bid to take the case to the country's top court.
  • Pollution from Tar Sands Sites Comparable to M ...
    (Yale Environment 360) 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.

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Booman Tribune

  • Choose Your Headline Carefully
    So, this happened: Offered without comment. Discuss
  • I'm Still in Ricky's Camp
    I have the worst head-cold of my life. It's almost a joke. Now I know what it's like to be a mouth-breather. I did note that Kathleen Parker appeared on Meet the Press this morning and said (paraphrasing), "I think we are all unanimous that Mitt Romney is a dork. I think we have to think abo ...
  • Global Warming Means Extinct Birds
    We all know how some people love animals more than -- well than real people. Even conservatives and Republicans have a soft spot for their pets and songbirds (Mitt Romney excluded). Yet, a warming climate caused by our continued reliance on fossil fuels will lead to the extinction of hundreds ...
  • Demolishing Bin-Laden's Hideaway
    The Pakistan government has bulldozed Usama bin-Laden's compound under cover of night. I have mixed feelings about that. Part of me fancied that I might one day visit Pakistan and take a gander at the place the world's most wanted criminal lived for years without detection. Even so, the same ...
  • Afghan War Still Pointless
    I'm guessing that it's pointless to try to convince any Afghans that we're there to help while we're burning Korans. That's why stuff like this happens: As deadly violence spilled into a fifth day in Afghanistan on Saturday, two American service members were shot dead inside the Afghan Inter ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Incredible Pics of Animal Treehuggers
    Being a 'treehugger' isn't just a human thing! As these fantastic images demonstrate, animals hug trees too — and for all sorts of reasons. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 17 Spectacular Pictures of Siberia's Altai Mou ...
    In the autumn of 2011, photographer Andrew Kudrin visited the stunning and ecologically diverse Altai mountains, returning with these jaw-droppingly beautiful photographs read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • Spider Vs Wasp: A Deadly Battle in Pictures
    Captured in a series of fascinating images, a battle between a spider and a wasp is hard-fought indeed... but who will be the victor? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • BASE Jumping from the Top of Shanghai's Jin Ma ...
    Most of us would get sweaty palms just looking down from an 88-story tower, but for some daring BASE jumpers the Jin Mao super skyscraper offers the chance to fly... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Can Wind Power Be the Answer to Our Energy Nee ...
    Wind power shows promise, but is it really the answer to our energy needs? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • 3-minute video: CIA Director admits manipulati ...
    video also here. This “emperor has no clothes” conclusion is obvious upon inspection of what the six US mega-m ...
  • 2-minute video: FOX edits, fakes applause for ...
    The 2-minute video is a public meeting of former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton responding to a US war veteran’s question. The video shows that FOX then edits-out the audience response to replace it with applause from a different person’s question. The proof is that the applause ...
  • 29-second Orwellian video: FOX News: “US ...
    video here. This is Orwellian language in action. Mr. Carlson states that because the US has moral authority (we’re the good guys) and do not seek hegemony, the US can destroy Iran (and all its people?) in a pre-emptive strike because they’re evil (the bad guys). This “good/bad ...
  • Teachers: how do you teach US War Crimes, dest ...
    with video here. 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 by tyrannical government. The two-minute video is Defense Secretary Panetta claiming US law al ...
  • The Persecution of Judge Garzon
    Saul Landau On September 11, 1973 (28 years before the World Trade Center-Pentagon attack), General Augusto Pinochet, leading a gang of treasonous officers, ordered Chilean air force jets to fire missiles at the Presidential Palace. By the end of the day Pinochet had seized power in a bloody, US ...

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    Abkhazia President survives assassination attempt. Groups object to CIA declassification charges. Fallout from Syrian colonel’s abduction in Turkey.
  • US Special Forces now fighting the LRA in four ...
    American troops fighting one of Africa’s most notorious rebel groups are now officially stationed across four African countries, a move that highlights the expansion of Washington’s military presence in the continent.
  • News you may have missed #684
    Pakistan sacks health workers who helped CIA locate bin Laden. Estonia arrests couple for spying for Russia. KGB defector talks to British newspaper.
  • WikiLeaks document to expose Swedish Foreign M ...
    International whistleblower website WikiLeaks says it intends to publish a classified document that allegedly exposes Sweden’s current Foreign Minister as a spy for the United States.
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    Walesa scorns new claims he was communist informant. Israeli embassy in Singapore dismisses Barak assassination plot. Moves to question Turkish spy chiefs quashed.

War is a Crime.org

  • In NYTimes: "The Most Expensive Technological ...
     http://nukefree.org/editorsblog/nuclear-power-con-new-york-times read more
  • Pentagon Thinks The End of the Year May Be the ...
    From the Telegraph: Reflecting Pentagon fears that the US could be sucked into a war by the end of the year, the Central Command told Congress that it wanted the new systems in place by the autumn.
  • Koran Burning: Dehumanizing Muslims
      Koran Burning: Dehumanizing Muslims   by Stephen Lendman   Despite constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom, America consistently violates fundamental rights, including respecting all faiths equally.   read more
  • Brutal Bahraini State Terror
      Brutal Bahraini State Terror   by Stephen Lendman   For over a year, Saudi and Al-Khalifa monarchy security forces terrorized nonviolent protesters. Thousands braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture and disappearances.   read more
  • War Criminals March 2012 Appearances and McChr ...
    The war criminals are picking up their touring in March:  Bush, Rice, Rove and Yoo are all on the speaker circuit.  So is McChrystal and there's already a big protest planned when he speaks in Baltimore on 3/27.CA and FL are going to be busy, busy - so take a look.  Indianapolis, ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Venus, Jupiter, moon offer dazzling night show
    Stargazers of the world are getting a treat this weekend. On Saturday and again Sunday, Venus, Jupiter and Earth's moon converge for a brilliant night show. Venus and Jupiter already are lining up in the western sky. In mid-February, the two planets were 20 degrees apart from a viewing perspecti ...
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  • A tornado as big as the Earth? Yep, and there' ...
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    Slowing down neutrinos, speeding up genomes, shaking the Moon, and making a single atom transistor. It's been quite a week, science-wise.

Invisible Opportunity

  • US spy agencies see no evidence of Iranian nuc ...
    US intelligence analysts believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported Saturday. The report comes a day after the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that Iran had accelerated its nuclear program, with the country having incr ...
  • Farmer Faces Possible 3-year Prison Term for F ...
    Customers and Other Supporters Stand with Farmer! Submitted by Kimberly Hartke The FDA reign of terror against family farms who are serving the needs of private buying clubs is culminating in one Wisconsin farmer facing federal charges. Citizens deserve the freedom to choose, and are staging an ...
  • H5N1 Bird Flu Effects Downplayed as WHO Calls ...
    Tim McCoy Activist Post A new study was released that shows the United Nation’s prediction that the H5N1 bird flu kills nearly 60% of infected people may be overblown and this type of flu may only have a 1% death rate. The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) counted 586 cases of H5N1 ...
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  • U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a B ...
    By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nucl ...

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    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • VIDEO: Costello Tagliapietra’s Dazzling Fall 2 ...
    We were seeing stars at Costello Tagliapietra’s Fall/Winter 2012 debut at New York Fashion Week, and not just because the clothes were so lovely. The brazen yet feminine line was awash with abstract prints, bold solids, and plenty of sophistication, but we also spoke to CosTag fans like Susan Sa ...
  • DIY: How To Make Easy Homemade Baked Apple Chips
    Looking for a sweet, nutritious and tasty snack to munch on? Instead of stocking up on store-bought goodies, try your hand at baking a batch of some easy-to-make and scrumptious baked apple chips. All you need are some organic apples and some cinnamon and nutmeg (or any other spice). Then, after ...
  • Artist Creates Gigantic Winter Crop Circles Ju ...
    Read the rest of Artist Creates Gigantic Winter Crop Circles Just by Walking in the Snow! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: crop circles, eco design, eco-art, ephemera, ephemeral art, green design, Les Arcs, Mont Blanc, Simon Beck, snow art, snow artist, snow circles, sn ...
  • Fashion Writer Jenni Avins Trapped, Skinned, a ...
    Fashion writer Jenni Avins made a splash at New York Fashion Week this year with her a red fox-fur vest. The shocking part of the piece was that she had trapped, skinned, and sewed the vest all herself.  This got us thinking – is it more humane to wear fur if you actually do the hunting an ...
  • PHOTOS: LivingHomes Debuts Affordable New C6 P ...
    Read the rest of PHOTOS: LivingHomes Debuts Affordable New C6 Prefab Home starting at $179,000 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bill McDonough, Brad Pitt, cradle to cradle certified homes, Eco Architecture, green architecture, green design, Green prefab, leed platinum a ...

Pogue's Posts

  • More on OnLive Desktop – Readers' Questi ...
    Following Thursday's column, more information about OnLive Desktop, the app that turns an iPad into a blazing-fast Windows machine.
  • What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
    ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.
  • Apple's Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like ...
    Apple's Mountain Lion operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what's on the iPhone/iPad. Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly a ...
  • The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
    If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.
  • Things That Were Once Amazing
    David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Watch a Live Feed of This Weekend’s Spectacula ...
    Get ready for some awesome planetary alignment action this weekend. The moon, Venus, and Jupiter – the three brightest objects in the night sky – will be putting on a dazzling celestial show shortly after sunset both Feb. 25 and 26, coming together in a tight triangle. And if you can't see it wh ...
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Secret £14million Bible in which ‘Jesus predic ...
    A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI is claimed to want to see the 1,500-year-old book, which many say is the Gospel of Barnabas, that has been hidden by the Turkish st ...
  • Pumping arms: Pentagon’s bigger stick to beat Iran
    Pentagon wants $100 million extra to be prepared for a war with Iran. The money, requested from the Congress, is to beef up US military presence in the Persian Gulf and rapidly upgrade weapons to more effectively combat Iranian armed forces.
  • CIA Admits Using News To Manipulate The USA
    This is an old clip showing admittance of the CIA that they use the mainstream media to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of American citizens in the USA. This has not changed much in 60 years. It is good to know what happened in the past, it may be happening again in our reality today. ...
  • Documents show DHS lied to Congress about Big ...
    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has been leading a valiant effort to reveal the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Big Brother policies which include spying on Americans’ activity on social networks, especially people who express dissenting opinions.
  • State Department Uses ‘Nuclear Option’ Propaga ...
    Yesterday, the State Department "quietly" warned that Syria's nuclear weapons program "may still be in operation" and their other suspected WMDs threaten the region. In other words, the final push for another war is being sold using the same marketing strategy that's been proven to work time an ...

Andy Worthington

  • After a Wonderful Visit to Kuwait, New Plans t ...
    Now that my first ever visit to Kuwait has come to an end — in which I was involved in events and discussions designed to raise the profile in Kuwait, and internationally, of the two remaining Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah — I feel as though I have been a ...
  • As the Underwear Bomber Receives a Life Senten ...
    Last Thursday, February 16, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” received a life sentence in a courtroom in Detroit. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, had tried and failed to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, receiving serious burns when the bo ...
  • In Kuwait, Looking for American Justice &#8212 ...
    Greetings from Kuwait, where the weather is fresh and warm, and the people are very friendly. Although I have been studying Guantánamo and the “war on terror” for the last six years, this is my first visit to the Middle East, and I’m here to play whatever part I can to secure t ...
  • US Military Attorney Compares Rationale for &# ...
    Last month, when I visited the US to campaign for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy flying from city to city and from event to event that I did not have time to take in — and in some cases to cross-post — articles of interest [...]
  • Three New UK Screenings of “Outside the ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Alaska Birther Launches ‘Sovereign’ Attack on ...
    An Alaska man who is challenging President Barack Obama’s eligibility for office on the grounds that the president is a “mulatto” based his complaint on an argument common to the neo-Confederate and antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movements, Hatewatch has learned. In a complaint filed Tuesday ...
  • After Debate With SPLC, a Professor Offers a B ...
    Apparently, it’s a lot easier to declare victory than to actually win it. At least that’s my takeaway from a comment today from Vanderbilt University law school professor Carol Swain, who I debated, along with two others, this Tuesday at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention in Na ...
  • Reality Show Celebrates Hate Group Leader as A ...
    In a move that is sure to endear it permanently to America’s nativist extremist demographic, the Outdoor Channel last night featured hate group leader Glenn Spencer on “Border Battles,” a recently debuted reality show about “what it takes to protect our nation’s borders from drug smuggling, ille ...
  • Nativist Lawyer Kris Kobach Plays Dumb About H ...
    Anti-immigrant law drafter extraordinaire Kris Kobach continues to play dumb about the racist organization bankrolling his efforts, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and its founder John Tanton. In a piece published by Salon yesterday, Kobach, who is also the Kansas secretar ...
  • One-Time Rising Nativist Star Arrested for Ass ...
    A judge in Georgia has denied bail for William Dustin Gold, a one-time rising star in anti-immigrant circles, following his arrest last week on charges he stabbed a 38-year-old reality TV producer with whom he was working. Producer Marcus Fox had been shooting a commercial with Gold for several ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Huge Anti-Putin Human Chain Protest Encircles ...
    Just a week before Russia's election, tens of thousands of anti-Putin protesters formed a continuous human chain stretching 10 miles around the center of Moscow on Sunday afternoon. * * * Agence France-Presse reports: read more
  • Drone Makers Cash In as Other Nations, US Poli ...
    Before the September 11th attacks, the US military had only about 50 combat drones. Now that number has grown to over 7,500 as the remotely-controlled aircraft have been deployed across the globe in America's endless war on terrorism. The military-industrial complex is rushing to cash in as ...
  • US Supreme Court to Weigh Foreigners' Suits vs ...
    The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute and a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against the responsible individuals. Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off over whether foreign victims of war c ...
  • In Their Own Words: Occupy Oakland According t ...
    Journalists constantly struggle to go beyond the official spin and report on a deeper level about government actions. It's a daily fight, one in which we need to be ever diligent against getting snowed by officials and falling into the role of stenographers rather than independent reporters. ...
  • In Their Own Words: Occupy Oakland According t ...
    Journalists constantly struggle to go beyond the official spin and report on a deeper level about government actions. It's a daily fight, one in which we need to be ever diligent against getting snowed by officials and falling into the role of stenographers rather than independent reporters. ...

Lifehacker

  • DIY Magnetic Ironing Mat [DIY]
    Ah, ironing boards. They serve their function, but it seems to take as much time to get them out and put them away than you spend ironing a shirt or other garment. If you have basic sewing skills you can make an ironing mat that magnetically a ...
  • Play Old DOS Floppy Disk Games on Your Android ...
    Most retro gamers use emulators to play old school games on their Android device, but iIf you still have your old floppy disk games and a USB floppy drive ($11 at Amazon) you can play them on your Android tablet directly using an Android app ...
  • "Does anyone have any recommendations for ...
    Does anyone have any recommendations for watching a video with a friend over the web? I need a new video card and I'm interested in the GeForce 560 or 560 Ti. Is the price difference justified? Is there a better way to pull info from a Goo ...
  • Remove Stuck-On Rice From Your Pot with Soap a ...
    When you overcook your rice and the entire bottom of the pan is covered with burned grains of rice you you can soak it in water but that really doesn't achieve much. Culinary weblog Chow.com instead suggests pouring a small dab of dishsoap, a ...
  • Use a Camera to Check the Accuracy of Your Wri ...
    Electronics project site Hackhut user Badwolf recently bought several cheap mechanical watches from eBay. Inexpensive mechanical watches are known to gain or lose some time each day and he wanted an easy way to see how accurate his watches we ...

Water Privatization

  • Candidate for water-sewer board withdraws her name
    A candidate for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority board withdrew from consideration for the position in the wake of comments she made earlier this week to City Council about privatizing the troubled authority, a city spokeswoman said.
  • Ravenstahl withdraws sewer authority nominee
    Two days after an awkward confirmation interview with city council, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today withdrew his nomination of Darlene Williams Yanakos to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.
  • Residents use public hearing to decry Ashevill ...
    FLETCHER — Residents from around Buncombe and Henderson counties spoke out Thursday against the idea of the state stripping Western North Carolina’s biggest city of its water system in order to regionalize it.
  • Residents use public hearing to decry Ashevill ...
    FLETCHER — Residents from around Buncombe and Henderson counties spoke out Thursday against the idea of the state stripping Western North Carolina’s biggest city of its water system in order to regionalize it.
  • Does anyone really know enough?
    It concerns me that I do not know enough about the P3 water project to make an informed decision. Even more troubling, I wonder if Abbotsford council knows enough about it.

Guardian

  • Oscars 2012: live coverage of the Academy Awar ...
    Didn't get an invite to this year's Oscars? Neither did Xan Brooks, but you can watch the 84th Academy Awards along with him here. The action begins at 11.15pm GMT as he casts his eye over the red carpet. Then from 1.15am it's down to business with the ceremony itself1.01am: Reeling from his alt ...
  • Syria votes on new constitution as shelling of ...
    Referendum to clear way for multi-party elections derided by critics in Syria and beyond as violent crackdown continuesSyrians have taken part in a referendum to clear the way for multi-party elections that could see Bashar al-Assad entrenched as president until 2028, in a vote widely dismissed ...
  • Julia Gillard defeats Kevin Rudd in Labor lead ...
    Gillard remains as Australian prime minister after seeing off party room challenge by 71 votes to 31Julia Gillard will remain as Australia's prime minister after winning the resounding backing of her Labor party colleagues in a leadership ballot against Kevin Rudd. The party room voted 71 to 3 ...
  • The schools crusade that links Michael Gove to ...
    The education secretary has close ties to Rupert Murdoch and would be a key figure if he attempts to move into the UK schools marketOn a freezing November day in 2010, the education secretary, Michael Gove, turned out in east London to inspect a desolate stretch of dockside ground near City airp ...
  • Welfare to work project in crisis, Lib Dem min ...
    Nick Harvey's leaked letter highlights concerns over funding and fears that private sector will 'cherry pick' charitiesA funding crisis has developed in the government's main welfare to work initiative which demands an urgent review of its organisation and supply chain, the defence minister Nick ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan violence expected to taper off
    U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said Sunday he's hopeful that a directive from Afghan President Hamid Karzai for calm will be heeded as violence in the country continued for a sixth ...
  • Seven US troops wounded in grenade attack as A ...
    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- A protester was killed and seven US soldiers were wounded Sunday in a grenade attack on their base in a sixth day of anti-American protests, police said, as President Hamid ...
  • Romney worries about transition in Afghanistan
    Mitt Romney says the decision to pull international military personnel from Afghan ministries is "an extraordinary admission of a failure" to establish strong ties for a successful ...
  • Afghan Grenade Wounds American Soldiers as Rio ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan - A grenade thrown by Afghan protesters wounded at least six American service members in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, as new details emerged in the ...
  • Death toll climbs on Day 6 of Afghan rage over ...
    Thousands of Afghans have stormed a UN compound in Kunduz province, as protests over the recent Koran burning in Bagram rage throughout Afghanistan. By the fifth day of anti-American demonstrations ...

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Andrew Dubber's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The ...
    My criteria for "favorite Techdirt blog posts of the week" are necessarily shaped by what I do for a living. As the leader of an MA in Music Industries at Birmingham City University, it's important for me to understand the key issues shaping the sector in the digital age. Especially since I'm al ...
  • Reductio Ad Absurdum: Eternal Copyright Is Cra ...
    A ton of folks have sent in Adrian Hon's brilliant satirical "modest proposal" for eternal copyright. If you haven't yet read it, you should. Here's a snippet: But what, I ask, about your great-great-great-grandchildren? What do they get? How can our laws be so heartless as to deny them the ...
  • UK Labour Party: Let's Just Get On With Kickin ...
    As Techdirt reported at the time, the UK's Digital Economy Bill was rammed through Parliament, without proper scrutiny or even much democratic process, in the dying hours of the previous government. Since then, the implementation of the Digital Economy Act has moved forward relatively slowly. ...
  • Crony Capitalism: Big Companies Sponsor Fancy ...
    We've talked about the ridiculous Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations, which are being held with incredible levels of secrecy, and which appear to include a wishlist of every copyright reform change that Hollywood wants, with little to no public scrutiny. The USTR, who's in c ...
  • MIPCube Looking For Startups Disrupting The Vi ...
    For a few years now, we've been attending and/or partnering with Midem, the big music industry conference. The same folks are now also doing MIPCube, a similar conference focusing on TV and video. We're partnering with them on their MIPCube Labs event, similar to the equivalent program at Mide ...

VacTruth

  • ‘Legal’ Kidnapping By The State To ...
    Vaccine injured children are being taken from their parents. Authorities take the children under the pretense of child abuse.
  • Horse Contraceptive Vaccine: Is Human Immunoco ...
    Several entities began working on a contraceptive vaccine to control wild horse populations. Is human immunocontracption Next?
  • Autism – and a Different Vaccine
    If a relatively uncontroversial vaccine like the rabies vaccine can cause autism, isn’t it just possible that shooting tiny babies and young children full of vaccines—many at the same time when no one has ever conducted a study to prove that it’s safe to do so—could also cause autism?
  • 3 Powerful Facts Discovered About Suppressed C ...
    Vaccines with a cancer-causing virus were left on the shelf because YOU, the person into whom they would be injected, would lose confidence in the vaccine program!
  • The Varied Types of Vaccines
    There are seven types of vaccines. After reading this article, you may arguably know more than your MD on the topic.

BroadSnark

  • On Porn Stars and Seamstresses
    I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview.  It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Holy crap. How have I not put up a TYMHM since January 10th. I seem to have lost a month of my life somewhere along the way. As you must have gathered from the couple posts I have put up, one of the things keeping me busy is the Criminal INjustice Committee of occupy. We [...]
  • Natl Day in Support of Prisoners
    Apologies for falling off the map again. I have just about dug myself out of a hole and should be back on a posting schedule (fingers crossed) next week. In the meantime, one of the things keeping me busy has been the Criminal Injustice Committee of Occupy. Our Wells Fargo boycott website is up ...
  • Protest Tomorrow!!!
    Sorry I’ve been missing in action for a bit. Lots going on. I’ll fill you in soon. But if you are in the DC area, come out to Tivoli Square tomorrow for an anti-prison protest. I’ll be there. More info here
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • The Skeptics Case
    Who Are You Going To Believe – The Government Climate Scientists or The Data? By Dr David M.W. Evans (republished here with permission, PDF link below) We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest … Continue reading →
  • Rio+20 meets Agenda 21
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the rent-seekers, money-hungry NGOs, grifters, post-normal “scientists”, con-men, Eurotrash, Ameritrash, and the usual camp followers are gearing up again for another monumental waste of money. This time, it’s for the upcoming extravagarbon ...
  • Quote of the week – bonus edition
    I said in my earlier QOTW that: I’ve seen lots of quotes this week, many surrounding the Gleick Fakegate affair. I was basically saying that there were so many to choose from in this target rich week, it was a … Continue reading →
  • Wild about grains and global warming
    This makes me wonder, since most of the world’s food supply is from cultivated grains, as opposed to wild ones, and since yields have been increasing thanks to selective breeding programs, fertilizer use, and better farming practices, where’s the problem? … Continue reading →
  • Gleick declares in Mann’s book review (a ...
    From Amazon’s list of Gleick book reviews here Must read — for the real history of the climate debate and the war by deniers, February 8, 2012 This review is from: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill
    Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]
  • Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold
    Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold – YouTube.
  • Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents d ...
    Faster, longer, further… fatter? Knocking out a particular gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as normal. Knocking out the same gene in fat cells allows the animals to put on weight without developing type-2 diabetes.The discoveries could lead to new treatments for diabetes or for invigora ...
  • Scientists trains computer to evaluate breast ...
    Since 1928, the way breast cancer characteristics are evaluated and categorized has remained largely unchanged. It is done by hand, under a microscope. Pathologists examine the tumors visually and score them according to a scale first developed eight decades ago. These scores help doctors assess ...
  • Red Wine Ingredient Resveratrol Mimics Calorie ...
    The red wine ingredient resveratrol mimicked the metabolic effects of dieting and exercising in obese men, a small study found. Although it didn’t lead to weight loss, a daily 150-milligram dose of resveratrol lowered blood pressure as well as blood glucose levels and liver fat in obese me ...

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
    Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
  • Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I&#8 ...
  • Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
  • Diversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
    Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Shrimp's Carbon Footprint Is 10 Times Higher T ...
    "Shrimp lovers don't need to crash a fancy party to enjoy premium, seasoned-to-perfection shrimp," announced a Taco Bell press release last year. The chain was heralding its "Pacific Shrimp Taco," which featured a half-dozen "premium shrimp" for just $2.79.Click here to read this article
  • How To Occupy Cargill
    If you can't physically occupy a Cargill facility (see below), here is a quick and easy way to make a big difference just by picking up the phone. If you'd like to go into greater detail beyond the script, check out our new Cargill factsheet.Click here to read this article
  • Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America ...
    In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation's two leading producers of agrochemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the use of the herbicide 2,4-D, one half of the infamous defoliant Agent Orange, which was used by American forces to clear jungle during the Vi ...
  • Living Off the Land in Maine, Even in Winter
    It was early February, when the 10-hour day returns here on the 44th parallel, and Barbara Damrosch could see it in the brighter green leaves of her tatsoi and spinach growing in the unheated greenhouse attached to the house she shares with her husband, Eliot Coleman, at Four Season Farm.Click h ...
  • Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds ...
    At a forum of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome today, Microsoft founder Bill Gates pressed the need for genetically modified seeds in the developing world, and the need for a "digital revolution" to meet the needs of the world's farmers. Gates' claims that genet ...

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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Corporate Climate Coup
    How did scientific speculation so swiftly erupt into ubiquitous intimations of apocalypse? These are not hypothetical questions but historical questions, and they have answers. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • WE ARE THE NEW WORLD ORDER
    Thanks be to the traitors, moles, deceivers and manipulators and all their tools such as the many false flag operations like the 93 world trade center bombing, the underwear bomber and even today with the foiled attack on the U.S. Capitol where there is a Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...
  • Lhasa Lockdown and Tibetan disappearences
    Lhasa consists of approximately 1.2 million Chinese and approximately 200,000 Tibetans. The majority of these Tibetans live in an area which is now almost entirely enclosed by military compounds with walls between 10-16 feet; some with barbed wire. Submitted by Rex K. to World  |  &n ...
  • "Salt: This Forbidden Indulgence Could Actuall ...
    High-quality salt is actually essential for life,Salt has been vilified as a primary cause of high blood pressure and heart disease. These latter claims have failed to be proven conclusively, as have the purported benefits of a low-salt diet. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness &nbsp ...
  • CIA Drone Attacks Murder Civilians, Rescuers, ...
    Obama recently defended his controversial "drone campaign" in Pakistan as a "targeted, focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists," adding that it "has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties." Now, a shocking new report not o Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • 2012 Seed Lady Calendar
    Download a free, printable 2012 Seed Lady Calendar to help keep track this growing season!
  • The Candidate Interview Process
    People elected to hold public office are employees. Of whom? We the People. Therefore, every meeting with these people should be conducted as a job interview. YOU are the prospective employer, and they are approaching YOU for a job. It is your responsibility to carefully consider their qualifica ...
  • 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?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • UK prepares for military strike against Iran: ...
    ShareThisUK prepares for military strike against Iran: The Sun 26 Feb 2012 The United Kingdom has reportedly drawn up plans to send hundreds of troops and an extra nuclear submarine to the Persian Gulf amid escalating war threats against the Islamic Republic. "MoD planners went into overdrive at ...
  • WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails f ...
    ShareThisWikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from STRATFOR 26 Feb 2012 Today (27 Feb) WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and ...
  • 'US to announce aerial blockade on Syria'
    ShareThis'US to announce aerial blockade on Syria' 25 Feb 2012 The Pentagon is readying for the possibility of intervention in Syria, the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Saturday, citing a US military official. According to the official, the intervention scenario calls for the establishment o ...
  • Anonymous claims hacking of Ontario police chi ...
    ShareThisAnonymous claims hacking of Ontario police chiefs' website 25 Feb 2012 A cyber attack on the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police's website has only bolstered the organization's support for the government's controversial online surveillance bill, a spokesman said Saturday. The associ ...
  • Bin Laden's compound demolished
    ShareThisBin Laden's compound demolished 26 Feb 2012 The security forces along with the local administration on Sunday completed demolishing the compound, where Al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US seals raid on May 2, 2011. According to residents, the demolition team cond ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Our Weak Government Must Stop Apologizing for ...
    27 February 2012 The recent Koran-burning in Afghanistan has again inspired lunacy and murder.  And while the US civilian and military leadership burdened by their oleaginous apologies tumbles down a moral stairwell, Afghan security forces continue to murder American and Coalition troops.& ...
  • White Birds in a Red War
    25 February 2012 An Army Dustoff pilot studying his art ran across some interesting passages.  The book DUST OFF: ARMY AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION IN VIETNAM mentions machine guns, missiles, Geneva Conventions, and painting MEDEVAC helicopters white so that the enemy could identify them. Excer ...
  • Army Dustoff Medics Unprepared
    “After more than 9 years of conflict and more than 40 AAR’s recommending the evolution of MEDEVAC to current civilian standards, no institutional change has been made. Continuing the legacy model has resulted and continues to result in documented sub-optimal outcomes and increased deaths among p ...
  • PowerPoint Ranger
  • A Hypothetical Interview General Martin Dempse ...
    18 February 2012 General Martin Dempsey is the highest-ranking member of the US military.  He directly advises the President.  Lieutenant General John Campbell is Chief of Army Operations.  A bigwig.  Both men have publicly supported keeping Red Crosses on MEDEVAC helicopter ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Syria holds constitutional referendum
    [JURIST] Syria held a referendum Sunday to vote on a new constitution [text]. The gesture towards the opposition by President Bashar al-Assad [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] has widely been seen as an empty one, with much of the international community calling it a "sham" [AP report]. The vot ...
  • US lawmakers to appeal Defense of Marriage Act ...
    [JURIST] Lawyers for the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group notified the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Friday that they plan to appeal the ruling earlier this week in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] that the Defense ...
  • Federal judge dismisses challenge to Google pr ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed [opinion, PDF] a suit on Friday from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [advocacy website], a consumer privacy group, asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] to ...
  • Italy court dismisses Berlusconi corruption case
    [JURIST] A Milan court on Saturday dismissed corruption charges against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, [Guardian backgrounder; JURIST news archive], finding that the statute of limitations had expired. Berlusconi was on trial for allegedly bribing his British tax lawyer, David ...
  • Maine to put same-sex marriage referendum on N ...
    [JURIST] A pro-same-sex marriage group in Maine, EqualityMaine [advocacy website], has gathered enough signatures to place a same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive] referendum on the November ballot. The question reads: "Do you favor a law allowing marriage licenses for same-sex couples that pro ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel’s Sole ‘Responsible ...
    The titular head of the leading Mizrahi political party, Shas, has publicly stated his opposition to an Iran attack (Hebrew).  Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is not just the spiritual leader of Orthodox Mizrahi Jews, he’s also the godfather of its political movement.  His senior cabinet representative ...
  • Hamas Turns Against Syria
    Hamas, which made its home in Syria for well over a decade, has finally turned on its former master, Bashar al-Assad.  Hamas’ senior Gaza leader, Ismail Haniya, threw his support to the Syrian opposition: A leader of Hamas spoke out against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Friday, thr ...
  • Links for 2012-02-24 [Digg]
    Palestinian Hunger Striker Wins Victory in Battle of Wills With Israeli Army | Truthout Khader Adnan wins major victory against IDF & Occupation with help of social networks
  • Pro-Settler House Members Engel, Nadler, and H ...
    Not to be outdone by Ariel Sharon, who provoked an entire Intifada by forcing his way onto the Temple Mount, nor by Moshe Feiglin, who provoked wholesale Muslim riots in the past two weeks with provocative flyers calling for destruction of the Muslim sacred mosques there, Congressmembers Jerrod ...
  • New Truthout Story: Khader Adnan Ends Hunger S ...
    I published a post here very briefly a few days ago and several of you saw it and wondered where it went after I took it down.  I submitted the post, Palestinian Hunger Striker Wins Victory in Battle of Wills With Israeli Army,  to Truthout, where it’s now been published (publication here ...

If Americans Knew

  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How Spending Stories Fact Checks Big Brother, ...
    This piece was co-written with Eric King, human rights and technology adviser at Privacy International, and comes as Privacy International launches a new data release about companies selling surveillance technologies. Today, the global surveillance industry is estimated at around $5 billion a ...
  • Knight Lab's Election Project Mines Social Med ...
    CongressionalPrimaries.org, the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, went live officially this week. The site demonstrates several technologies that enhance coverage of this year's congressional primary elections in Illinois -- while also providing components that pub ...
  • Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data! (Beta ...
    We're excited to, for the first time, put PANDA into users' hands! After roughly six months of development, we are releasing our first beta version. This release implements nearly all of our "must have" features. We've written several times (1, 2, 3) about specific parts of PANDA in developme ...
  • Ushahidi's 'Disruptive Deployers': The People ...
    One spark and it happens: An individual or a team of people create a deployment using Ushahidi or Crowdmap. Their motivation and the inspiration are telling tales. These citizens, diaspora and a global community collaborate near and far to make change happen. Motivated often by the simple act of ...
  • Spending Stories Makes Progress Toward Fiscal ...
    The people have a right to know, but sometimes they're a bit too busy to find out for themselves. Informed citizens have both the need and the desire to know about public affairs, whether public or of a more private nature. For as long as there has been democracy, there's also been a free pr ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Analysis of Adoption - 92 Percent of Famil ...
    Two separate surveys six years apart have been used to analyse the level of satisfaction with adoptions in Andalucía. The study shows that 77.7 percent of families are happier after the process and variables that make it more difficult have been identified, such as the age of the children w ...
  • The Race for Fuel - Green Fuel versus Black Gold
    A life cycle assessment of growing crops for fuel as opposed to refining and using fossil fuels has revealed that substitution of gasoline by bioethanol converted from energy crops has considerable potential for rendering our society more sustainable, according to a Japanese study published in t ...
  • The Race for Light - Light-Emitting Nanocrysta ...
    A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported this week in the online Nature Communications, is a step toward biomedical devices with active components ma ...
  • BB&T a Good Bank But Treating Its Customers Li ...
    I also disagree with Erwin Kayton, the vice president of at BB&T, who defended BB&T (see BB&T On-Line Site Treats Its Customers Like Children, Action Line, February 15, 2012). He defended them wrongly. I am a customer and I know they are a good bank. But beyond my relationship banker ...
  • Iran's Nukes - Aligning the Planets and the We ...
    Israel, the United States, and Europe share grave concern over the Iranian theocracy's politics and its serial use of violence in pursuit of its goals. The Islamic Republic formally declared war on the west and is the major state sponsor, funder, and trainer of terrorism, including plotting terr ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • PETA: We'll Kill Your Cat (And Your Little Dog ...
    It seems that PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, isn't all that it is cracked up to be. According to the The Center for Consumer Freedom , this group which is fiercely anti-fur, eating meat, using animals in entertainment acts, etc., killed a staggering 95.9 percent of the a ...
  • Arab News Service Says US About To Intervene i ...
    The Pan-Arab news service Asharq Al-Awsat claims the United States is preparing plans to intervene in Syria to prevent the Bashir government from attacking its civilian population. According to a US Military source NATO plans to begin with establishment of a secure zone to provide shelter for Sy ...
  • No Debate In Arabic-Speaking Universe: Only On ...
    A couple enters a diner. Man: What have you got? Waitress: Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam, ...
  • Marco Rubio Scares The Hell Out of the Left
    The song may say you only hurt the one you love, but in politics you hurt the one who gives you nightmares and Marco Rubio makes democrats wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming at the top of their progressive lungs.  Anybody who articulates  conservatism as well ...
  • Is Egypt about to Elect an Islamist President?
    By Barry Rubin Registering to run for president of Egypt will begin March 10. The military moved it up from April 15 to show that it is handing over power to the civilians. As I’ve said before, I’ve never seen any evidence that the army is not going to turn over control of the country to a ...

The Real Agenda

  • The BP Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: An Explosive D ...
    Most of the oil that began to flow into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico did not come from Leaks 1 and 2, but from a third Well that BP hid from the public record. The 3rd Well, research shows, could have been blown out by an explosive detonation. by Luis R. Miranda The [...]
  • World Bank proposes global coalition to &#8220 ...
    Agence France Presse February 24, 2012 The World Bankwas on Friday to propose a coalition of governments, global organisations and other groups to protect the oceans, aiming to raise $1.5 billion in the next five years for the purpose. World Bank president Robert Zoellick was to tell a global co ...
  • Pasteurized milk 150 times more contaminated w ...
    by Mike Adams Natural News February 24, 2012 The vaccine-pushing, disease scare-mongering agency known as the CDC has put out a stunning piece of propaganda attacking fresh milk (raw dairy), claiming it is “150 times more dangerous” than pasteurized milk. This is all part of their an ...
  • Democídio: Quando o Governo Mata os seus Cidadãos
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 23 de fevereiro de 2012 Quando alguns livros de história são escritos eles costumam citar ameaças já enfrentada pela humanidade, e muitas vezes falam da guerra, fome, desastres naturais, e assim por diante, mas aqueles que escrevem livros de história sempre es ...
  • Democidio: Cuando el Gobierno Mata a sus Ciuda ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 23 de febrero 2012 Cuando los libros de historia son escritos ellos frecuentemente citan las amenazas más temidas por la humanidad, y suelen mencionar la guerra, el hambre, los desastres naturales, y así sucesivamente, pero los que escriben libros de historia ...

Wind Watch

  • Bald eagles win a round against Red Wing wind farm
    Bald eagles won an unexpected victory Thursday when Minnesota regulators delayed a wind farm near Red Wing for at least a year because the developer failed to produce an adequate plan to protect America’s national symbol and other flying creatures. Local residents who have been fighting th ...
  • Another setback for wind power: Turbines, trim ...
    A plan to build eight power-generating wind turbines on bogs in Wareham was whittled to two smaller wind machines over the past 16 months due to opposition from neighbors, but apparently those concessions still weren’t enough. In the latest example of how alternative-energy projects are meeting ...
  • Merritt Township rejects permit that would hav ...
    MERRITT TOWNSHIP— Community members and other interested parties packed a township hall and waited until shortly before midnight to hear the Merritt Township Planning Commission reject NextEra Energy’s request for a special use permit that would have brought nine wind turbines to the area. ...
  • Wind turbines threaten swans, says bird expert
    Industrial wind farms encroach on Tundra swan habitat, specialist claims A waterfowl specialist says wind turbines could spell danger for Tundra swans and the economy in Lambton County. Dr. Scott Petrie said building industrial wind farms in Grand Bend, Ont., will scare the birds from their annu ...
  • Wind farm near Anne Murray’s summer home ...
    HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s songbird is choosing fight over flight in her lengthy battle against a wind farm near her summer home. Anne Murray has written a letter to Premier Darrell Dexter, saying the proposed development is “deeply disturbing” and has no place in Pugwash, N ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Number of People Living on $2 a Day Doubles
    “The number of families living on $2 or less per person per day for at least a month in the USA has more than doubled in 15 years to 1.46 million.” (USA Today) Politicians love the poor — they have made so many of them. FEE Timely Classic “Scratching By: How Government Cr ...
  • Obama Proposes Privacy Bill of Rights
    “The White House today unveiled a ‘Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights’ intended to serve as a guideline for new legislation to protect people’s online privacy. The Privacy Bill of Rights outlines what types of information Internet companies may collect, how that information may be used, ways ...
  • Do Ends Justify Means?
    If “goods” are incommensurable, then one of them cannot be said to be “greater” than others. Thus acting for the “greater good” is without meaning.
  • Who Killed Michael Jackson?
    The blog WhyQuit.com asks: “How should your family describe your cause of death? Was it suicide, murder, an accident or stupidity?” Playing Russian roulette, engaging in extreme sports, taking large doses of soporific drugs, and many other activities fit each of these options. When do we blame s ...
  • The Buffett Rule Will Create Jobs?
    In the Raleigh News and Observer last fall, David McAdams, associate professor of economics at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, claimed—contrary to even Keynesian economics—that President Obama’s proposed tax on millionaires would create jobs. The so-called Buffett rule, named after b ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Definition: Social media
    I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

  • BP trial: in numbers
    As the "trial of the century" gets under way in New Orleans, with BP and some of its suppliers in the dock over its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, here are some of the numbers.
  • London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hija ...
    A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.
  • September 11: A Saudi family, a Florida villa ...
    Whether the September 11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they received support from a network of co-conspirators in the United States, remains one of the unanswered questions of the world's most devastating terrorist attack.
  • Charles Hendry: North Sea oil industry in inde ...
    The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.
  • Can Iran close down the Strait of Hormuz?
    The ayatollahs' armoury is dwarfed by the US. But attempts to close oil lanes could lead to conflict, says Con Coughlin.

Ian Welsh

  • Justified Pessimism
    is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
  • Justified Pessimism
    is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
  • Sewage
    Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
  • Sewage
    Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
  • The Musical Chairs Economy
    Ok, for some time, folks have been after me for a formal economics post.  What’s going to happen in the future in the US? The answer, for around the next 5 to 6 years, maybe longer, is the musical chairs economy.  Let’s lay out the basics. Oil and Gasoline consumption in the US has b ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The State of the Anglosphere
    The world financial crisis has provoked a stark feeling of decline among many in the West, particularly citizens of what some call the Anglosphere: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. In the United States, for example, roughly 73 percent se ...
  • The Growth In Science & Research Occupations
    Local economic developers and policy pundits often point to scientific and research jobs as an important part of regional economies and a critical driver of innovation for the nation's economy. As we continue to filter through the data in our latest release (built on nearly 90 federal and stat ...
  • Clues from the Past: The Midwest as an Aspirat ...
    This piece is an except from a new report on the Great Lakes Region for the Sagamore Institue. Download the pdf version for the full report including charts and maps on the region. The American Great Lakes region has long been a region defined by the forces of production, both agricultural a ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Moscow's Auto-Oriente ...
    Moscow is bursting at the seams. The core city covers more than 420 square miles (1,090 kilometers), and has a population of approximately 11.5 million people. With 27,300 residents per square mile (10,500 per square kilometer), Moscow is one percent more dense than the city of New York, thou ...
  • Unintended Consequences of the Neo-Traditional ...
    Since the early 20th century, the almost universal adoption of the automobile by US residents has had a profound impact on how we plan and design communities. The widespread use of the auto not only spurred development outside of traditional urban centers, it minimized the need to blend mult ...

GM Watch

  • GM corn varieties popping with news
    1.Genetically modified corn varieties are popping with news 2.NRDC Lawsuit Seeks to Ban Agent Orange Ingredient from Weed and Feed Products --- --- 1.Genetically modified corn varieties are popping with news Monica Eng Chicago Tribune, February 23, 2012 http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/foo ...
  • Wanted: scientific integrity on GMOs
    Wanted: scientific integrity on GMOs Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Ground Truth, 23 February 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/wanted-scientific-integrity-gmos As reported in this week's UK Guardian, Nina Federoff spoke about threats to science at a meeting of 8,000 professional scientists. The former Bush ...
  • Wanted: scientific integrity on GMOs
    Wanted: scientific integrity on GMOs Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Ground Truth, 23 February 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/wanted-scientific-integrity-gmos As reported in this week's UK Guardian, Nina Federoff spoke about threats to science at a meeting of 8,000 professional scientists. The former Bush ...
  • 'Criminally irresponsible' not to explore GM
    EXTRACTS: [MP George Freeman said] ...with developing nations such as the USA, China, Brazil and Argentina rapidly investing in the sector... it would be "madness" for Britain to be left behind.  MEP Stuart Agnew... said, "Ten years ago, only a few farmers were brave enough to trial GM sugar be ...
  • 'Criminally irresponsible' not to explore GM
    EXTRACTS: [MP George Freeman said] ...with developing nations such as the USA, China, Brazil and Argentina rapidly investing in the sector... it would be "madness" for Britain to be left behind.  MEP Stuart Agnew... said, "Ten years ago, only a few farmers were brave enough to trial GM sugar be ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In ...
    How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...
  • 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop ...
    The global financial system is not a game of checkers.  It is a game of chess.  All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...
  • 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In ...
    The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.  The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming.  Most of us recognize that the character ...
  • The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It ...
    Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month?  If it does, you are certainly not alone.  There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat.  In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...
  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...

Desertification

  • Feed the Future : that sounds like a symphony ...
    Read at : http://allafrica.com/stories/201202241317.html United States Department of State (Washington, DC) Email Print Share West Africa: U.S., U.N. Agencies Respond to Potential Food Crisis in Sahel By Charlene Porter, 23 February 2012 ……………………&# ...
  • Humanitarian response to an emerging food secu ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201202241317.html West Africa: U.S., U.N. Agencies Respond to Potential Food Crisis in Sahel By Charlene Porter, 23 February 2012 Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the European Union (EU ...
  • A Choice of Containers to Grow Plants – ...
    Interested in food production in containers  to solve the hunger problem or to alleviate malnutrition ? Please check my latest video : http://youtu.be/FPgZK2XbUSU A Choice of Containers to Grow Plants – Part 2 There are numerous types of containers in … Continue reading →
  • UN-BACKED FORUM TO DISCUSS EARLY ACTION AHEAD ...
    New York, Feb 24 2012  4:05PM Government representatives, climatologists, agricultural experts, disaster risk managers and others will gather in Rwanda next week to discuss early action in case of a possible third consecutive year of drought in the Horn of … Continue reading →
  • UN FOOD RELIEF AGENCY PARTNERS WITH HUNGER GAM ...
    New York, Feb 23 2012  6:05PM The United Nations food relief agency <”http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/world-food-programme-and-feeding-america-partner-hunger-games“> announced today its partnership with the producers of the upcoming film The Hunger Games

The Paper Trail

  • Restore Our Future raises funds in lap of luxury
    They say it takes money to make money. And supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential bid have shelled out more than $20,000 to hold fundraising events for their super PAC at some pretty luxurious spots, according to an iWatch News analysis of campaign finance reports fil ...
  • New York: Police data shows excessive student ...
    New York City police data released this month shows that officers arrested about five students per day last fall, and ticketed about nine. That’s excessive, and a sign that too many students, especially ethnic minority males, are getting pulled into the criminal justice system, civil rights grou ...
  • FACT CHECK: Cloudy contraception costs
    Is the Obama administration correct when it claims its contraception mandate will be “cost neutral” for insurance companies? Or are the critics right when they say Catholic institutions will pay a hidden cost in the form of higher premiums when their insurers are required to give “free” contrace ...
  • Lure of lobbying still strong for House staffers
    A new study finds that nearly 400  House staffers have moved from Capitol Hill to K Street in recent years, suggesting that recent efforts to curb the revolving door between lawmaking and lobbying are having limited effect.At least 378 of the 5,710 staffers working on the House side of the Hill ...
  • Top fundraiser for Romney super PAC gets a $1. ...
    A super PAC supporting Mitt Romney has paid one of the Republican candidate’s veteran fundraisers a fee of $1.9 million for his work during a period when the super PAC raised about $24 million, according to new FEC filings.The fee went to Podium Capital Group — a company that the super PAC’s tre ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape
    By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have emerged over the last day to defend his “interview” of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a pile of ironic quotation marks beside me when I write about SUN TV.) Some of them arrived here ...
  • Harper’s implausible deniability
    By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • The CNT mobilises across the country against l ...
    cnt-(2).jpg Statement from the Secretariat of the CNT on the recent demonstrations and protests against the government's new labour reforms. The Confederation believes that ...
  • Griffin's weak End!
    fats.jpg Dear, oh dear! The far-rights much anticipated 'race war' has failed to ignite. Again! It has been a dreadful weekend for Nick Griffin, the BNP, the English D ...
  • The predictable rise of a red bourgeoisie: the ...
    nepal-peoples-liberation-army-warrior.jpg Reflections on the recent evolution of Maoism in Nepal. Disarmament, the Party elite rob the rank'n'file, more strike bans, luxury man ...
  • Workers occupy factory in Chicago
    AmYRtFiCAAAv_uH.jpg News, Twitter and on-the-ground updates from the occupation of Serious Materials in Chicago. Workers with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of ...
  • Interview of Campaign to Defend Khimki Hostage ...
    TerraSelvaggia is an Italian eco-anarchist paper, which made this interview with Russian Campaign to Defend Khimki Hostages last September. Paper issue came up some time ago after the usual delays, so now it is time for online publication. Keep in mind, tha ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • USS Liberty – OPERATION CYANIDE – ...
    This BBC documentary on the USS Liberty attack BY EDOMITE ISRAEL in 1967 is incredible.   It is a must-watch, for if ever there was a “high crime” of treason against America – this was it!!!!! As you watch this video, take note.  This was not an American-made documentary.   As ...
  • Film Footage of “UFO” in New Mexic ...
    I have had a number of “informants” (worker’s at Utah’s Hill AFB) tell me “off the record” that the USAF have deployed large “saucer” craft rigged with invisibility RFR “cloaks” since the late 90′s.   They supposedly are based in ...
  • “Fraud College” 101: “Don&# ...
    This is BEYOND BIZARRE!   It’s beyond the old adage: “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black!”  It’s the LDS (Mormon) Church counseling people about how to identify a CON!! Check this story out:  http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53514946-79/fraud-church-utah-lds.html.csp Mich ...
  • MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!! STUNNING EDOMITE CONFESS ...
    This video is AMAZING – it sums things up pretty well.  First, it shows why Judge Napolitano was fired from Edomite Ruppert Murdoch’s FOX NEWS! But this video is even more stunning in what it shows at the 7:15 mark!   It shows a clip from the BRITISH BROADCASTING coverage on Septembe ...
  • A Lunatic Goy Video Goes Viral – When wi ...
    This youtube video generated well over 2 million hits.   Why?  Because it sums up quite nicely the FRUSTRATIONS of the helpless GOY.   (Goy = the Human Cattle of the Edomite Overlords.) So, why do I call him and millions of “middle” Americans just like him  “lunatic’?  Th ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Large Majority of Voters Believe Israel Will S ...
    High percentages of US voters believe that Iran is actively pursuing production of nuclear weapons, Israel will attack Iran and the US will join Israel in military action, a new IBOPE Zogby survey finds. Similarly large percentages of respondents believe attacks on Iran could lead to high fuel p ...
  • Iran elections underscore split between leader ...
    after years of frustration in their quest for more personal liberties, better relations with the West and adherence to the rule of law, many members of the ignored middle class are considered more likely to stay home........ read more
  • Iranian Authorities Introduce Uniforms For Fem ...
    TEHRAN -- Iranian authorities are introducing uniforms for female civil servants as of March 21, the start of the Persian new year. Iranian news agencies report that the uniforms will be designed according to religious and cultural criteria, and that the main colors of the clothing will be navy ...
  • اتهامات سپاه پاسداران علیه بی‌بی‌سی فارسی
    سپاه پاسداران ایران در اطلاعیه‌ای، جزئیات آنچه را که "عملیات چشم روباه"، مربوط به فعالیت‌های بی‌بی‌سی فارسی در ایران خوانده، منتشر کرده است. read more
  • '100-Percent Iranian' Kentucky Fried Chicken O ...
    Amid growing tension between the United States and Iran and sanctions that ban U.S.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill
    (This is the last of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) Hemp as a Tobacco Replacement Crop With recent the recent anti-smoking movement and declining cigarette use among Americans, many tobacco f ...
  • Killing the Hemp Industry: Another Corporate C ...
    Henry Ford in his hemp plantation (This is the second of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill, sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) The Decline of Hemp Hemp first began losing ground in 1850 to cheaper substitutes made of cotton, ...
  • The Politics of Hemp
    How to distinguish industrial hemp (the first plant) (This is the first of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) For nearly four decades, industrial hemp advocates have extolled the virtues of hemp ...
  • Israel as Collateral Damage (in a War With Iran)
    US troops land in Israel for Austere Challenge 12 What do Austere Challenge 12, Theater Iran Near Term, Global Strike 2003, Vigilant Shield 07, and Concept Plan 8022 all have in common? They are all names of Pentagon war games simulating an attack on Iran. Most military war games are conducted i ...
  • Why the US Wants Regime Change in Syria
    (This is the second of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking aren’t unarmed protestors. Th ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Santorum’s JFK story makes me want to th ...
    "We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak ...
  • Rick Santorum’s home-school hokum
    As the Los Angeles Times recently noted, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is probably "the most prominent home-schooler in America." Indeed, the fact that Santorum's seven kids have largely been educated at home (two of them are now adults) is a key aspect of Santorum's appeal to ...
  • America’s endless apocalypse
    Few of us can clearly make out the form of history until it is well behind us. That helps us understand why we still have not settled on a common name for the decade now receding behind us. How others will look back on this time is beyond our knowing or influence, of course, but future historian ...
  • How to make Occupy catch on
    Were history a guide to today’s politics, progressives would be redoubling their efforts to turn  the still-unraveling crisis of capitalism into an opportunity for system-changing reform. Certainly they would be doing everything within their power to combat the logic of austerity and entitlement ...
  • The billion-dollar battle over premenstrual di ...
    For about five to seven days of every month, a woman may as feel as though she were a different person. A person she doesn’t like. Things come out of her mouth that she normally wouldn’t say, cruel things, directed at the people she loves. A soundtrack of self-loathing thoughts loop in her head. ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Protesters to Keystone XL Pipeline: Don't Mess ...
    As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campaign to stop the massive $7 billion project. In Texas, landowners are locking arms to fight wo ...
  • Innovation vs. Invention: NAATBatt White Paper ...
    As a recent corporate advertising campaign (by Dow Chemical) points out, there is a difference between invention and innovation. Getting the balance right between the two is a tricky thing. DOE support for new invention is important. Developing new technologies that might reduce the cost of h ...
  • How To Use Energy Management Systems
    There’s no doubt retail Facility and Energy Managers are upping the bar with respect to how they operate their facilities efficiently.  But how do they find ways to operate their facilities smarter?
  • 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 ...

EU Times

  • US spooks say no Iranian nukes
    Iran’s alleged nuclear ambition may be high in the headlines. The US intelligence community, whose job is to assess the threat, is skeptical about it. Same as it has been for five years. The latest report accusing Iran of trying to make a nuclear weapon came Friday from the UN’s nuclear watchdog ...
  • US pressures India to give up Iranian oil
    “Anyone but Iran,” is what the United States is telling India, as America attempts to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its oil needs. There are currently no sanctions that would restrict India from continuing to do business with Iran, but any disruption in their relationship could cause ...
  • North Korea vows to launch ‘sacred war&# ...
    North Korea has threatened to stage a ‘sacred war’ over US-South Korean annual joint military exercises next week, denouncing the drill as a ‘silent declaration of war’. The North’s National Defence Commission (NDC) described the exercise as “unpardonable war ...
  • Belarus fights Europe to retain death penalty
    Belarusian MPs have blasted a recent resolution of the European Parliament on death penalty in Belarus as an attempt to interfere in the country’s internal affairs. ­The Belarusian parliamentary commission on international affairs has issued an official statement saying that the European Parliam ...
  • NIE report shows US knows Iran not after nucle ...
    Despite the recent US and Israeli hype created around Iran’s nuclear program, a report by American intelligence agencies indicates that Tehran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. The most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program “represents the consensus of 16 US intelligence agencies,” the ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • News on Samsung Galaxy Beam
    This year’s Mobile World Congress event is due to kick off tomorrow on 27th February through to 1st March. Plenty of new forthcoming devices will be announced and shown off in the flesh, one being from Samsung in the shape of the new Galaxy Beam running with Android. Samsung over the last year ...
  • Tony Raines and the Daytona NASCAR Dads Car
    When we had Front Row Motorsports ‘ driver Tony Raines live On Pit Row Tuesday , the team knew they were in the race but still lacked sponsorship for the Daytona 500 . Tony told us that he thought he’d heard of some interest, but didn’t know - or didn’t divulge - who had the dough. Turns out Re ...
  • Samsung unwraps the Galaxy Tab 2 Series 7.0 an ...
    The press announcements are coming full steam as Mobile World Congress 2012 kicks off. First up, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Series which includes a 7-inch and 10.1-inch slate. The entire line will be available in 3G and Wi-Fi versions; 3G models will include quadband HSPA+ 21 Mbps support (850/90 ...
  • Santorum Way Ahead in Tennessee
    A new Vanderbilt University poll in Tennessee finds Rick Santorum leading the GOP presidential primary with 33%, followed by Mitt Romney at 17%, Ron Paul at 13% and Newt Gingrich at 10%. That said, an additional 27% "either said they wouldn't vote for any of the four major remaining candidates, ...
  • Mitt To Get a Union Welcome at the Daytona 500
    The Daytona 500 will run later today and Mitt Romney is planning to attend.  He'll get a welcome from his union buddies : In advance of this year's Daytona 500, one of America's favorite past times, UAW is taking their message to the track and to the air. With 31 of 43 cars racing tomorrow made ...

Groklaw

  • MPEG LA offers patent license for 3D video
    MPEG LA, an organization that licenses digital video technology patents on behalf of their owners, has announced terms for using a 3D video encoding technology called MVC.... Google is trying to promote a royalty-free video codec called VP8 that competes with H.264, but MPEG LA is investigating ...
  • Job Hunting in the Internet Age (Mike Junge, G ...
    Steven Cherry: You have a really cool story in the book about a guy who was maybe the most prepared you'd ever seen, and he walked into the interview with a portfolio book. And you know, I think about that as something that, you know, art, you know, graphic designers bring a portfolio, sometimes ...
  • Los Angeles Times to begin charging for online ...
    The Los Angeles Times will begin charging readers for access to its online news, joining a growing roster of major news organizations looking for a way to offset declines in revenue. Starting March 5, online readers will be asked to buy a digital subscription at an initial rate of 99 cents for ...
  • Mozilla to challenge big players in mobile web
    Mozilla's vision is to develop a phone that would run apps within the phone's browser, and that would not be limited to a specific operating system, such as Google's Android, Apple's iOS or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. The project is code-named "Boot to Gecko," (a name based on a component of it ...
  • Apple forced to suspend push email service in ...
    Earlier this month a German court ruled that Apple's push technology infringed a Motorola Mobility patent. Apple says it believes Motorola Mobility's patent are invalid and is appealing the decision. - BBC News

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Super PACs: who, where and what?
    The Magnifying Glass, ca 1775. Toriyama Sekien, Japanese (Metropolitan Museum)ProPublica has a couple of useful ways of watching where Super Pac money is coming from and where it’s going. To find out who the top 10 donors in each of the 12 largest PACs are, look here. For where (and how) t ...
  • Geothermal heating and cooling in Canada
    Wind and solar technologies may hog the spotlight (and subsidies) in Ontario, but behind the scene geo-exchange heating and cooling systems are being quietly deployed by the thousands across the province every year.Geothermal heating and cooling is one of the oldest and most reliable renewable e ...
  • Passage
    We had a memorial service for my stepmother today. She died last week at the age of 90. There were 150 people there. I can truthfully say that everyone who knew Mollie liked her. She had an infectious sense of humor, was a talented and professional artist,and will be missed.I mentioned to one of ...
  • Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley (1965)
    He was one of the true links between blues and rock & roll.
  • GPS jamming and spoofing
    High tech thieves are already jamming and spoofing GPS signals on stolen trucks. Stock trades have a timestamp based on GPS signals and could be manipulated.They say this hasn’t happened yet but how would they know?

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • General debate, February 25, 2012
  • Crafar saga will keep Govt busy for 2012
    The Overseas Investment Office’s habit of rubber stamping applications to buy New Zealand land finally met a brick wall with the recent High Court decision regarding the Crafar farms. The Crafar Farms went bust a few years ago and are now being sold by receivers Korda Mentha on behalf of Austral ...
  • Are asset sales a Dunne deal?
    I was interested to hear a new community group is challenging Peter Dunne to use his crucial vote to halt the unpopular state asset sales. Do you think it’s a Dunne deal or will Dunne back-down to keep our assets?
  • Mad monorail proposal in Southland tussock gra ...
    Various alternate routes to Milford Sound have been proposed over the years to solve the perceived problem of travel time to, and congestion at Milford Sound. They include the train tunnel, the highway from Haast and the gondola. Two new proposals now seek concessions from the Department of Cons ...
  • Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace take action agains ...
    Lucy Lawless, the ‘warrior princess’ and Greenpeace activists have boarded a drilling rig in Taranaki to stop it sailing to the Arctic to commence an exploratory oil drilling programme. What do you think?

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Silent Time Bomb on Your Plate - When Will ...
    By Dr. Mercola The "faster, bigger, cheaper" approach to food is slowly draining dry our planet's resources and compromising your health. The Earth's soil is depleting at more than 13 percent the rate it can be replaced. The documentary "FRESH" celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business ...
  • FDA's Outrageous New Claim: Your Body Is a Dr ...
    By Dr. Mercola Adult stem cells (as opposed to embryonic stem cells, which are at the heart of the stem cell controversy) are a truly exciting part of the future of medicine, with seemingly limitless potential for anti-aging, arthritis and far more... But the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio ...
  • He Murdered a Friend After Taking This Best-Se ...
    By Dr. Mercola A Canadian judge has ruled that a teenage boy murdered his friend because of the effects of Prozac. The ruling will not be appealed. The decision has revived the debate regarding the widespread prescription of antidepressants to young people. Justice Robert Heinrichs ru ...
  • Change
    This short, award winning film shows how multiple lives can be affected with just one dollar -- and the right person.
  • Chiropractors and Exercise Are Better than Dru ...
    By Dr. Mercola Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and "disabling".i Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type of pain according to the American Pain ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The Gazette's view, in short
    No matter who is found responsible for the so-called Robocall phone scandal with which the Conservative Party of Canada has denied links, deliberately misinforming voters of changes in addresses of polling stations is clearly dirty politics - illegal, too. Political "black ops" don't just underm ...
  • Digital medical records and the right to opt out
    On March 30, the Quebec government will start bringing in a system of electronic health records - nearly two years after it first promised they would be in use. Every Montreal resident registered with Quebec's health-insurance plan will automatically be included in the new electronic database - ...
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    No matter who is found responsible for the emerging phone scandals with which the Conservative Party of Canada has denied links, deliberately misinforming voters is clearly dirty politics - illegal, too. Political "black ops" don't just undermine voter confidence in the electoral process, they u ...
  • Fight over tuition hike is about more than pri ...
    If this new round of student unrest in Quebec over rising tuition looks like a rerun of a familiar movie, that's because it is. We've seen this script, these street demonstrations, before. But repeated viewing sparks a revelation - how this shouldn't be seen as an issue of pure principle anymore ...
  • Why it isn't easy to expose payoffs to doctors
    When The Gazette first published stories in late 2010 about patients making cash payments to doctors to get fast-track access to health care in the public sector, Quebec Health Minister Dr. Yves Bolduc said he had never heard of such bribery practices in his 26 years in practice.

Food World Order

  • Japan's nuclear crisis goes much further than ...
    from reuters: On a hillside in northern Japan, wind turbines slice through the cold air, mocking efforts at a nearby industrial complex to shore up the future of the demoralized nuclear power industry. The wind-power farm at Rokkasho has sprung up close to Japan's first nuclear reprocessing pl ...
  • Syria’s Chaos Reaches Its Kitchens
    from themedialine.org: Syria’s turmoil is showing signs of reaching the country’s kitchens as disruptions in transportation and trade sanctions are conspiring to shrink supplies and boost prices at a time when harvests are constrained by poor weather. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Orga ...
  • #Audio: Episode010 - Arctic Flowers, Brand Battles
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Arctic flowers, brand battles, inhalant amusements and more... Episode010: MP3/Feed\Arc ...
  • #Video: Episode010 - Arctic Flowers, Brand Battles
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Arctic flowers, brand battles, inhalant amusements and more... Previous: Episode009 - U ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Authorisation, Animals, Amusement
    France asks EU to suspend GM crop authorisation* Boulder works to ban GM crops on county-owned land* Texas students boycott school lunch after learning concept in history class* Chipotle Makes Delicious Food, Fights For Animals?* Swiss food giant Nestle predicts tough year, posts ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In ...
    How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...
  • 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop ...
    The global financial system is not a game of checkers.  It is a game of chess.  All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...
  • 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In ...
    The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.  The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming.  Most of us recognize that the character ...
  • The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It ...
    Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month?  If it does, you are certainly not alone.  There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat.  In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...
  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Ahhh. So there was more to 7/7 than some lunat ...
    '9/11 was an inside job' - a familiar refrain to those of us who have a bit more imagination than to believe that three steel framed buildings, one of which was not hit by an aeroplane, can just dissolve into their own footprint - something that has never happened before, never happened since, a ...
  • Lord James of Blackheath: Outing a $15 trillio ...
    Conservative life peer Lord James of Blackheath got to his feet in the House of Lords seven days ago... to raise the small issue of, what he suggests, is a $15 trillion fraud. Here is the speech he gave: ...and here is the speech, forever, on Hansard. So, what the hell is going on her ...
  • Live, once again, to Syntagma Square... WATCH ...
    Here we go again then - live to Syntagma Square, Athens; courtesy of StopCartelTV. Unmute to listen (bilingual Greek/English commentary), hover mouse over screen for full screen option, video up thoughout live streaming broadcast. Alternative camera views from Zougla online here.
  • Spain reacts to police brutality against students
    Compare and contrast... In Britain, when a newspaper vendor dies on the streets, we all go back to mindless drivel such as X Factor... In Spain, when police get aggressive with demonstrating students, the whole country seems to make it's feelings known. The clip above - from this evenin ...
  • BREAKING: Spanish cops in Valencia in new chem ...
    Not yet fully corroborated through photo or video, but claims are circulating widely on social media that riot police in Valencia, Spain have just deployed chemical weapons against student protesters. We're updating as we get more detail, but we've been told on social media that many students ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Unofficial r/Linux Distro Survey 2012 Puts Ubu ...
    'Which is the most popular Linux distro' is a question that has been raging like for ever. Ubuntu remained on top of the charts ever since its official launch in 2004. But the resurgence of Linux Mint as DistroWatch's most popular distro has stirred up a lot of debates. Redditor TyIzaeL conduc ...
  • 6 Best Reddit Apps for Android
    I don't think there is anybody here who haven't heard about Reddit before. Founded in June 2005, Reddit gradually won over the tech-savvy internet crowd leaving the once prominent Digg.com in shambles. 2011 was an year of explosive growth for Reddit. In December 2011 alone, reddit served a mas ...
  • CyanogenMod 9's New Boot Animation Looks Fabulous
    CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) is gearing up for its next major release which is supposed to bring the goodness of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to one of the most popular ROMs out there. Following is the new boot animation for upcoming CM9 and it looks fabulous.  Reworked ...
  • 10 New Features Added to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise ...
    I had a less than ideal experience with Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2. But two recent updates have resolved almost all the issues I had with Ubuntu 12.04. A lot of new features and minor UI improvements keeps on coming in. Let's make of list of them all, shall we? So here is a quick roundup of everythi ...
  • KeepScreen: Free Android App You Can't Afford ...
    KeepScreen for Android is an incredibly useful application. KeepScreen gives you the ability to block screen timeout when predefined applications are active. It may sound simple to you, but from the perspective of a pretty heavy Android user, I would say this makes the app a serious must- ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • GREEKS FIRST TO GET SWINE FLU JAB AND TROIKA A ...
    As the media in Sweden discusses the damage done by the mass swine flu vaccine campaign in 2009, it is worth remembering that Greece was the first country to annouce mandatory swine flu jabs for all 12 million citizens . “We decided that the entire population, all citizens and residents, w ...
  • SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NARCOLEPSY IN SWEDEN
    Thirty-three cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Skåne in Sweden after Sweden’s massive vaccination campaign against swine flu in 2009. http://www.thelocal.se/39192/20120219/ Swedish doctor Steffan Sylvan said that themass swine flu vaccine campaign had led only to side effects, call ...
  • Sodium bicarbonate: a cure for cancer and othe ...
     Cancer is one the most deadly diseases, and yet a simple cure for cancer identified by Italian doctor Tulio Simoncini has been buried by the medical establishment. Simoncini discovered that sodium bicarbonate can prevent cancer. Soda neutralizes high levels of acidity in our body and so creates ...
  • HOPES GROW OF GREEK COUP TO OVERTHROW BANKSTERS
    *Shock and consternation after German Finance Minister calls for Greece to postpone elections in April and install a technocratic government *Greek President rejects aggressive German power grab over country; “default better than a German pistol at head” *Hopes grow that the Greek army will over ...
  • Check this blog every Friday
    Please check this blog on Fridays for a  regular update from now on.

Invisible Opportunity

  • US spy agencies see no evidence of Iranian nuc ...
    US intelligence analysts believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported Saturday. The report comes a day after the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that Iran had accelerated its nuclear program, with the country having incr ...
  • Farmer Faces Possible 3-year Prison Term for F ...
    Customers and Other Supporters Stand with Farmer! Submitted by Kimberly Hartke The FDA reign of terror against family farms who are serving the needs of private buying clubs is culminating in one Wisconsin farmer facing federal charges. Citizens deserve the freedom to choose, and are staging an ...
  • H5N1 Bird Flu Effects Downplayed as WHO Calls ...
    Tim McCoy Activist Post A new study was released that shows the United Nation’s prediction that the H5N1 bird flu kills nearly 60% of infected people may be overblown and this type of flu may only have a 1% death rate. The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) counted 586 cases of H5N1 ...
  • Fluoride is Toxic Waste (LITERALLY)
  • U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a B ...
    By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nucl ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • America Agonistes
    The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
  • The Color of Authority
    We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
  • How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
    Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
  • Whither Korea?
    The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...
  • Nuclear Nihilism
    Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: February 26, 2012
    ==== NATO Air Raid Kills, Injures Seven Afghan Civilians Afghan War: Seven Americans Wounded In Attack On NATO Base Afghan Intelligence Officer Killed U.S. Military Advisers: Reports Afghanistan: NATO Orders Personnel Withdrawn From Ministries Lithuania: NATO Commanders Inspect Afghan War Traini ...
  • Stop NATO news: February 25, 2012
    ==== Syria: Clinton Calls China, Russia “Despicable,” Demands Regime Change Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Capital U.S. Increases Military Presence In Strait Of Hormuz Kyrgyz President: U.S. Air Base Should Not Be Used Against Iran U.S. Leads Airborne Exercise In Mali Saakashvili ...
  • Pentagon Demands $100 Million More For War Wit ...
    RT February 25, 2012 Pumping arms: Pentagon’s bigger stick to beat Iran ==== The planned upgrade comes on top of the nearly $82 million program to improve the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, the largest bunker-buster bomb deployed by the Pentagon. The weapon may be used against Iranian fortified si ...
  • “Friends Of Syria” Contradiction I ...
    Voice of Russia February 25, 2012 In search of Syria’s true friends Polina Chernitsa ==== “One should take into consideration that every country, Russia included, is subject to serious pressure. We are dealing with a powerful political union between leading NATO member-states and the ...
  • NATO, GCC-Led Arab League “Friends&#8221 ...
    Voice of Russia February 25, 2014 West, AL ‘friends’ with Syria? Igor Siletsky ==== US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said shortly before the ‘Friends of Syria’ forum that if they failed to pressure Assad into leaving office, the US would consider other options and a m ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Exclusive: Chemtrail Whistle Blower Speaks, Part 1
    Luemas of People Beyond | About 4 years ago, through a series of synchronistic events, I ran into a very informed man. He had family involved high up in the alphabet soup agencies and showed me so much involving this delicate issue. He found out that I was awake to the NWO which prompted ...
  • Koran Burning: Dehumanizing Muslims
    The Intel Hub By Stephen Lendman February 26, 2012 Despite constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom, America consistently violates fundamental rights, including respecting all faiths equally. More than other ethnic/religious groups, Western discourse portrays Muslim/Arabs stereotypically as ...
  • Brutal Bahraini State Terror
    The Intel Hub By Stephen Lendman February 26, 2012 For over a year, Saudi and Al-Khalifa monarchy security forces terrorized nonviolent protesters. Thousands braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture and disappearances. Washington’s very much involved. Bahrain& ...
  • Spoiling for War on Syria
    The Intel Hub By Stephen Lendman February 26, 2012 Nearly a year ago, Western-backed insurgent violence erupted. Heavily armed foreign fighters supplemented internal ones. Al Qaeda’s very much involved. Russian and Chinese peace initiatives are spurned. Washington, rogue NATO partners, and ...
  • ‘Houston Tranquility Base Here’ &# ...
    The Intel Hub Research Division | Even to this day, by selectively providing false color and enhanced imagery or otherwise anything but raw images in full color, the controversy continues - what is NASA hiding?

FRS

  • Syria Crisis: Hamas Ditches Assad
    [In a move that indicates both the declining prospects for the Syrian Assad regime, as well as the growing role of the Saudi regime in post-Mubarak Arab alignments, Hamas--which is also busily retooling its relations with the Fatah forces and the Palestine Authority as a whole--has made a signif ...
  • Syria Crisis: Hamas Ditches Assad
    [In a move that indicates both the declining prospects for the Syrian Assad regime, as well as the growing role of the Saudi regime in post-Mubarak Arab alignments, Hamas--which is also busily retooling its relations with the Fatah forces and the Palestine Authority as a whole--has made a signif ...
  • As police stalk and harass Muslims, notorious ...
    [Ethnic and racial profiling has always been a central feature of US economics, politics, culture, and forceful repression.  From Africans on slave plantations, to American Indian wars and displacement, to the "Chinese Exclusion Act" the pattern is unbroken.  80 years ago this month, 500,000 Mex ...
  • As police stalk and harass Muslims, notorious ...
    [Ethnic and racial profiling has always been a central feature of US economics, politics, culture, and forceful repression.  From Africans on slave plantations, to American Indian wars and displacement, to the "Chinese Exclusion Act" the pattern is unbroken.  80 years ago this month, 500,000 Mex ...
  • A Year After: The February 20 Protest Movement ...
    Feb 21 2012 by Mohamed Daadaoui On the one-year anniversary of the February 20 protest movement in Morocco, (henceforth referred to as Feb. 20), the kingdom boasts relatively meager political progress. Despite the much-vaunted reforms and constitutional changes, Morocco has reinvigorated its sta ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
    This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...
  • Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
    This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...
  • Dedicated to Brother Khader Adnan – Wher ...
    Brother Khader, Like so many before you, and surely many more to come, between death with honour or life without it, you have chosen the former. Nothing but love and respect to you my brother, and to all the brothers and sisters of this world who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who resist th ...
  • Dedicated to Brother Khader Adnan – Wher ...
    Brother Khader, Like so many before you, and surely many more to come, between death with honour or life without it, you have chosen the former. Nothing but love and respect to you my brother, and to all the brothers and sisters of this world who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who resist th ...
  • Not Facebook… Ziobook
    This is to the ZioNazi's at ZioBook. For all the good people posting the truth and getting their accounts deleted, go fuck yourself. For all the ZioTrolls coddled and sheltered in their Ziobook home, go fuck yourself again. A person should use Ziobook only as required, then treat it like a so ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
    A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
    While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
  • Ron Paul Packs Them In In Maine
    Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012
  • Demi Moore Call -- Example of 911 System Succe ...
    The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012
  • Rick Santorum's Campaign: What's Wrong With Th ...
    Although Rick Santorum has a political messsage that appeals to a portion of the electorate, he can't get it to the electorate because of a lack of money. Why does the electorate follow the candidate who carries the glitter of the green?Contributor: Hugh Houchin Published: Jan 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • February's huge temperature contrast
    Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
  • Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
    The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...
  • Risk of drought restrictions spread
    Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...
  • Met Office global forecasts too warm in 11 out ...
    Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...
  • First widespread snow of winter on its way
    It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Japan Ponders Limits of National Superindebtedness
    That Japan owes over twice its annual output has been a favourite storyline for assorted end-of-the-world-economy cultists in triggering the next round of global financial meltdown. Nevermind that such predictions have proven woefully inaccurate given the yen strengthening to all-time highs in r ...
  • PIIGs in a Blanket: IMF & Reverse Robin Hood
    I've often harped on the idea that Europe's troubled PIIGS nations shouldn't be receiving IMF funding since the nature of their woes do not primarily deal with balance-of-payments woes the institution was meant to address. Greece simply borrowed too much. Ireland overcommitted to guaranteeing it ...
  • Onshoring--You Macho Enough to Make in the USA?
    I have to run so this will be a quick if interesting one: Remember during the 2004 American presidential elections when John Kerry was inveighing against outsourcers with talk about "Benedict Arnold corporations"? What we now have is an interesting Reuters article that takes this line of argumen ...
  • Pro Death: US Congress Ponders Aborting Ex-Im Bank
    A running thread throughout this blog's history has been that Americans are not the most cosmopolitan of people. Witness, inter alia, the racist-protectionist treatment of Dubai Ports World, the inability of 90% of their youth to find Afghanistan on a map of Asia despite their government squande ...
  • Ranking World's Largest Container Port Operators
    Among my most searched-for posts over the years this blog has been in operation have been those concerning the world's busiest ports [1, 2]. Truly, one of the underappreciated facets of globalization has been the expansion of facilities to standardize shipping merchandise throughout the world. B ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In ...
    How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...
  • 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop ...
    The global financial system is not a game of checkers.  It is a game of chess.  All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...
  • 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In ...
    The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.  The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming.  Most of us recognize that the character ...
  • The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It ...
    Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month?  If it does, you are certainly not alone.  There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat.  In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...
  • 20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker
    Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family.  Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore.  Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US spooks say no Iranian nukes
    Iran’s alleged nuclear ambition may be high in the headlines. The US intelligence community, whose job is to assess the threat, is skeptical about it. Same as it has been for five years. The latest report accusing Iran of trying to make a nuclear weapon came Friday from the UN’s nuclear watchdog ...
  • US pressures India to give up Iranian oil
    “Anyone but Iran,” is what the United States is telling India, as America attempts to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its oil needs. There are currently no sanctions that would restrict India from continuing to do business with Iran, but any disruption in their relationship could cause ...
  • North Korea vows to launch ‘sacred war&# ...
    North Korea has threatened to stage a ‘sacred war’ over US-South Korean annual joint military exercises next week, denouncing the drill as a ‘silent declaration of war’. The North’s National Defence Commission (NDC) described the exercise as “unpardonable war ...
  • Belarus fights Europe to retain death penalty
    Belarusian MPs have blasted a recent resolution of the European Parliament on death penalty in Belarus as an attempt to interfere in the country’s internal affairs. ­The Belarusian parliamentary commission on international affairs has issued an official statement saying that the European Parliam ...
  • NIE report shows US knows Iran not after nucle ...
    Despite the recent US and Israeli hype created around Iran’s nuclear program, a report by American intelligence agencies indicates that Tehran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. The most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program “represents the consensus of 16 US intelligence agencies,” the ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • WL press release: The Global Intelligence Files
    TweetOn the 27th of February 2012, Wikileaks released the following statement: "LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from bet ...
  • 2012-02-26 On the political expediency of the ...
    TweetRight now in Australia, the governing Labor party is embroiled in a leadership contest that 'is shaking the nation'. Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd face off for the Prime Minister of Australia tomorrow, Monday, by internal caucus vote. The media commentary is homogenous: Australians are tired ...
  • 2012-02-24 #WikiLeaks News Update: #Manning's ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 448 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 445 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 642 days. News: Bradley Manning had his arraignment on February 23, which lasted 45 minute ...
  • 2012-02-23 Transcript of Bradley Manning's Arr ...
    TweetThis transcript was taken by hand at Bradley Manning's arraignment on February 23, 2012 at 1:00 p.m., Fort Meade, MD. Please send corrections to carwinb@hushmail.com. Bradley Manning's arraignment was held in same court room as his Article 32 Pretrial Hearing. You can read transcripts fr ...
  • 2012-2-24 Anti-WikiLeaks Australian Prime Mini ...
    TweetAustralia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has resigned as Foreign Minister and will challenge currrent PM Julia Gillard on Monday for leadership of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The vote provides an opportunity for Rudd to exact revenge on his former deputy and the "faceless" party f ...

U N News

  • Haitian premier's resignation sparks concern f ...
    The chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) today expressed his deep concern following the resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, just four months after his appointment.
  • Mexico: UN human rights office voices alarm af ...
    The United Nations human rights office has called on Mexican authorities to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the killing over the weekend of 44 inmates at a prison in the country's north, apparently by members of an organized criminal group.
  • UNESCO chief deplores slayings of another two ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murders of two Brazilian journalists earlier this month and called for thorough investigations of the killings.
  • UNESCO chief deplores slayings of another two ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murders of two Brazilian journalists earlier this month and called for thorough investigations of the killings.
  • UN expert calls on Uruguay to provide access t ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on Uruguayan authorities to implement measures to provide access to health and sanitation to its poorest and most marginalized communities.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Whitney Houston and the 2012 Grammy Awards Meg ...
      The 2012 Grammy Awards took place in a horrible context... the wake of the sudden, mysterious death of Whitney Houston. The show went on nevertheless... but not without a great deal of strange symbols and events that made one thing very clear...  There is a definite dark side to the ...
  • Audio Confirmation... Obama Stayed At The Same ...
      What are the odds of catching our Obama in the same hotel at exactly the same time Whitney Houston dies? The corporate media says... nothing. Was the media told to keep quiet and not expose Obama's hotel visit? A very evil thing happened this night... You decide... ~ Video read more
  • The Secret History of Western Education ~ Char ...
      While serving as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan, Charlotte Iserbyt discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to ...
  • An “Establishment Trick”... Says Insider About ...
      Former Ron Paul staffer Lew Rockwell says that talk of an alliance between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul is an “establishment trick” to smear Paul by making him appear as a sell out. ~ Paul Joseph Watson - Video read more
  • Fluoride + Codex + USA Land Taken for Agenda 2 ...
      click lower right corner for full screen Fluoride, Codex Alimentarius and Agenda 21... Videos read more

Tarpley

  • Hillary Clinton’s “Enemies of Syri ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A political analyst says the Friends of Syria conference expected to be held in Tunisia’s capital Tunis aims at creating a scenario in Syria similar to the one, which materialized in Libya. What follows is a ...
  • FALSE FLAG ALERT – Syrian Sources Warn: ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 23, 2012 A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad’s forces. These children are already dead, and ...
  • A New Anti-Imperialist Bloc of Nations Convene ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 23, 2012 originally posted on PressTV on Feb.18, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The US tries to break up existing countries and turn them into “rump states”, such as Libya that is descending into chaos, an analyst tells Press TV re ...
  • Color Revolutions, Destabilizations, Media Lie ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Radio 786 – Editor’s Roundtable February 20, 2012 Tarpley on Radio 786, a community FM Moslem broadcaster in Cape Town, South Africa [download audio]
  • Iran Cuts Oil to UK, France; Multilateral Init ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today February 18, 2012 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • Wyoming Exploring Doomsday Scenario
    The state of Wyoming is working towards establishing a task force to explore the ramifications of a United States collapse. They are considering that in such an event, that they will issue new alternative currency, implement their  own military draft, raise a standing army, and even acquire an a ...
  • Ten Items for Your Home With No Power
    In today’s world, so many of us have become used to a relatively ‘cushy’ life. We can set our coffee pots to have the coffee made and ready for us when we wake up. We blow dry our hair and many of us have electronic toothbrushes to assist us in the physically exerting task of [...]
  • Moving Boxes for Storage or Shipping
    “Moving Boxes” in the context of cardboard boxes that you would or could use for storage or for literally moving your ‘stuff’. What are the best moving boxes? How about boxes that are strong enough to hold what’s inside! Recently, while we were in the process of mov ...
  • Storage Containers for Emergency Preparedness
    Storage Containers go hand in hand with emergency preparedness. Preppers collect all sorts of survival gear and survival food, and they (we) need storage solutions. Storage containers fulfill that need! Over the years I have settled upon a variety of methods for food storage and survival supplie ...
  • Coconut: Healthy Survival
    Reader Question: Wondering what you think, re: coconut bars ( right from grocery store, etc), as inclusion in survival food? It seems coconut is very good for you, they are high calorie, easy to eat/carry. Have never seen them listed (regular reader), but wondered, if they would be a good inclus ...

Fast Company

  • The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, Tweeting, Facebooking, Pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network.This week's stories ranged from superficial networking tips, to innovative "sock" weaves used in designing Nike’s newest shoes, to a powerful short film on how ...
  • One Way Google Might Crash Cable's Party
    Is Google Fiber a Trojan Horse? While it doesn't take much for Google to make headlines, this week's news that it filed applications to operate a video service in Kansas City was much more than your average "Hey look what Google did" story. From the release of Google TV to its recent YouTube red ...
  • Apple And Foxconn's Ethics Hit Your Gadget Prices
    Last week Foxconn pushed its starting salaries up from 900 yuan ($143) to 1,800 yuan per month, the latest and biggest in wage upticks that began in 2010. Foxconn did this for one main reason: international attention focused on the firm and associated ethical questions surrounding its treatment ...
  • This Week In Bots: Dino Robots, Fish Robots, A ...
    Let's do the weekly electric boogaloo through a menagerie of mechanical wonderthings. No humans required. Bot Vid: Truss-ClimberCornell boffins have put together an autonomous truss-climbing robot. It's not something you'll find navigating the inner clothing of William Shatner, instead being a ...
  • Amazon Goes To Brazil
    Amazon's gearing up a Brazilian launch for the Kindle this summer. Their strategy? Sell their product for far cheaper than the local competition, take a hit in import duties, and watch the profits roll in.The Amazon Kindle is an ubiquitous piece of tech in the United States, Canada, and Europe. ...

Jadaliyya

  • Islamophobia For Office
                   
  • Debating Tactics: Remember to Ask, "What Works?"
    Our tactical debates should solve protesters’ problems, instead of dividing movements. In the midst of Yet Another Tactical Debrief, this time on the recent Move-In-Day-turned-street-semi-battle-then-mass-arrest at Occupy Oakland, I ended up tossing out on Twitter a cluster of successfu ...
  • في الشبّيحة والتشْبيح ودولتهما
    خرجت من سورية، ولا فخر، كلمة الشبيحة إلى العالم ولغاته، بينما كان المسمى يخرج إلى "الشارع" السوري كالجنّي، يروع ويقتل، ويكره ويقذع في البذاءة. "يُشبّح". ودخلت اللغة العربية ذاتها كلمة لم تكن معروفة خارج سورية، بل لم تكن معروفة في سورية نفسها على نطاق واسع. ولم تلبث أن ...
  • An Elegy Out of Stories
    When my close friend of nearly two decades, the celebrated New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, died suddenly last week of an asthma attack while crossing the border from Syria into Turkey, the plethora of tributes to him over the course of the next day helped me overcome the shock. S ...
  • When the Entire Planet is Against the Revolution
    "I have seen the tree, but the roots are elsewhere." - Indian proverb. Whether from the helms of the Syrian regime or through the "opposed" western media such as Al Jazeera and its helms in the Arab world, the hegemonic representation of the Syrian revolution is th ...

mediagazer

  • What's Wrong With Sensationalist Media (Fred W ...
    Fred Wilson / A VC: What's Wrong With Sensationalist Media  —  Check out this email I got from a major media company this past week: … Not interested in The Academy For Software Engineering, HackNY, TechStars NYC, or Angel List, which is where the money seems to be flowin ...
  • Is linking just polite, or is it a core value ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism?  —  Late last week, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler broke the news that Apple was buying an app-discovery service called Chomp — although he didn't say where that news came from, just that it ...
  • WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Re ...
    Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free  —  Are you used to using Google as a way around the Wall Street Journal's paywall?  Think again.  The WSJ has been holding back stories available through Google's “Fir ...
  • BBC News app launches globally for large-scree ...
    Paul Sawers / The Next Web: BBC News app launches globally for large-screen Android tablets  —  On the same day BBC Worldwide announced that its global iPlayer app was booming in Australia, the BBC's commercial arm has revealed that its News app has launched internationally for ...
  • It's a trend: Newspaper buildings are worth se ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: It's a trend: Newspaper buildings are worth selling  —  Digital First Media CEO John Paton pronounced about a year ago that newspaper content “has finally found its value in the marketplace and that value is about zero.”  Newspaper buil ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Kerry Katona: "I have found my prince"
    Kerry Katona has revealed that she is the happiest she has ever been. The Celebrity Big Brother star, who has described boyfriend Steve Alce as "the one", once again stated her intention to get married to the artist, who recently moved into her Surrey home. "I have kissed a good many frogs. ...
  • Mourinho wary of Rayo threat February 26, ...
    Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is expecting his injury-hit squad to be fully tested by derby rivals Rayo Vallecano this weekend. GettyImagesThe depth of Jose Mourinho's squad will be...
  • Man United Keen On £38m Rated ‘New ...
    Old Trafford boss keen on Colombian. Free Goal Alerts on your iPhone or iPod Man United eye ‘South American Cristiano Ronaldo’ James Rodriguez Manchester United are monitoring Porto star James Rodriguez, the player known as the South American Cristiano Ronaldo, according to repor ...
  • Adam Sandler gets record Razzies nominati ...
    Adam Sandler has received a record 11 nominations for this year's Razzies. Adam Sandler The actor has been put forward for several dubious honours at the ceremony, which celebrates the worst films of the past year in a spoof to the Oscars. His nominations include Worst Actor for both 'Jack a ...
  • The art of flower arrangement
    FLOWERS are one of God’s creations that embellish our surroundings. They bring color and vibrancy to our homes, gardens, and altars. Flowers can be arranged in different ways to create style and design. In early times, the Chinese and Japanese were fond of flowers. It was the Chinese who sta ...

no frakking consensus

  • Peter Gleick – Then and Now
    Eleven years ago Peter Gleick was declaring that the debate is over. Now he says other people are preventing it from taking place.
  • Opinion Disguised as Science
    Iowa scientists have signed a letter about climate change. News reports don’t mention their activist leanings.
  • Gleick Speak
    Peter Gleick issues a statement about the Heartland documents.
  • Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee
    The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri's sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?
  • Closed Minds at the IPCC
    A Dutch professor has examined a draft of the upcoming IPCC report. He says it has been written by people who start from the assumption that dangerous, human-caused global warming has been proven.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Silencing The Critics
    In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were ...
  • The $28m pantomime of airport body scanners
    No cost-benefit analysis was conducted before the government’s decision to impose body scanning on international passengers departing the country, the government has revealed. On Sunday Transport Minister Anthony Albanese announced that a $28 million program to install scanners at intern ...
  • Debunking the real 9/11 myths
    Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other plac ...
  • We Will Not Be Scanned requests your feedback ...
    Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means ...
  • Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
    Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...

Beacon

  • World Bank Launches Global Partnerships for th ...
    © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Today the World Bank announced a new international alliance called the Global Partnerships for the Oceans and we are excited to announce our involvement! It’s a collaborative partnership in every sense with many of the world’s top conservation organizations, private ...
  • Oregon House Approves Marine Reserves, MPAs
    Oregon's Otter Rock. © Oceana/Will Race Great news! Today the Oregon House passed a bill making Oregon’s first network of marine reserves and marine protected areas (MPAs). The bill, which Oceana has been actively supporting, now goes to the governor’s desk for a signature. The bill cal ...
  • The Incredible Journeys of Sea Turtles
    A green sea turtle munches on lettuce in rehab. © Oceana/Cory Wilson When sea turtles are sick or injured, they can spend a few weeks or months recovering in sea turtle rehabilitation or research centers. The turtles are released back into the wild as soon as they have recovered enough so tha ...
  • Fund-racing: Join Team Oceana in Miami!
    Winter, with its short days, sleet-filled commutes and cacophony of coughs and sneezes, is an energy-sapping exercise in patience, but Oceana – in addition to protecting sea turtles, sharks, corals and the like – has just the right medicine to carry you into the Spring with health and vigor…tr ...
  • Marine Monday: Valentine's Edition
    A Spanish dancer's eggs, also known as a "sea rose." [Via Wikimedia Commons] Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day! Here on land, we give our sweethearts flowers to show our love. But what is the undersea equivalent of a rose? To answer that question, we’ve chosen three undersea creatures who seem ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Gloster IV Float Plane.
      The British were among the first pioneers of flight along with the French, the Italians and the Americans. England is, of course, a large island surrounded by oceans. Thusly, the British had led the world in naval power. Therefore it made sense that the British would also be among the fir ...
  • The Bell X-16, The Plane That Never Was.
      First of all the Bell X-16 was never completed. Competing against Fairchild and Martin Aircraft, Bell won the contract. Although wind tunnel test and materials tests went favorable, the fact is that the first one was 80% finished when the United States Air Force cancelled it in favor of t ...
  • The Bell X-2, The First Plane To Go Three Time ...
    The Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier. Although highly advanced , the United States was still looking to develop another test bed that would go even faster and solve problems with flight at higher speeds. The first problem that needed to be solved was the thermal barrier. Extreme heat resulted fr ...
  • The Mig 8 “Utka”.
      Not every MIG was a fighter aircraft. One in particular was single engine high wing forward canard aircraft covered in cloth and configured with a pusher propeller. The idea was to discover the aeronautical characteristics of a forward canard on supersonic aircraft. The Mikoyan i Gurevich ...
  • Despite Treaties To Reduce Nuclear Stockpiles, ...
      The National Nuclear Security Administration is a government agency whose job is to secure the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. It is also the overseer for weapons development. The problem here is that the NNSA is a lot like Congress and lobbying firms. One hand washes the other, an ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Mitt Romney Minute: Just a Couple of Cadillacs ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I think we can use Britney Spear’s anthem “Oops I did it again” as Mitt Romney’s theme song. Mitt was declared the “winner” of the nasty Wednesday debate but as usual Mitt creates a self-inflicted ...
  • Queer Talk: Obama administration and “gay righ ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Before getting to the Obama administration: Thursday, the Maryland Senate followed the House’s earlier approval of a bill making marriage of same gender couples legal. From Keen News: The Maryland Senate … gave ...
  • Dash of Dan: Mini Chocolate Oreo Cheesecakes
    Cheesecake. One of my favorite shows (ever) is the “Golden Girls.” Whenever the girls reminisce or have a group pow-wow, cheesecake is the immediate vicinity. And just like that, problems were solved and good times ensued. But you don’t always have the time to make a cheesecake ...
  • Political Junky Fun, with Amy and Seth
    How was your week? Have some fun this weekend. Anyone planning to watch the Oscars? I fell in love with “Hugo.” …out of the love between a father and his daughter, quite lovely.
  • SuperPACs and “dancing with the devil”
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intac ...

Hudson New York

  • Friends Seminary Plays Bait and Switch on Anti ...
    The Friends Seminary of New York, which invited the notorious anti-Semite, Gilad Atzmon, to one of its classes, and assigned its students to read his hate-filled writings, has now backed out of an agreement to invite me to the school to talk to the
  • Abbas's Peace Process
    Who says there are no peace talks going on in the Middle East? The peace process is underway in the Middle East, but not between Israel and the Palestinians. The only peace talks that are taking place these days are between the Palestinian Authority and
  • Britain Launches War on Multiculturalism
    The British government has unveiled a new "integration strategy" designed to "champion a united British identity." The new policy will require immigrants seeking admission to live in the United Kingdom to learn English and adhere to "mainstream" British
  • The Egyptian Bearded Police
    "I Am a Bearded Police Officer" is the name of the new coalition established by the group of Egyptian police officers who asked the Ministry of Interior to grow beards to follow in the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad. The Saudi-owned media outlet
  • CPJ Slams Legal Treatment of Scribes in Turkey
    A recent analysis published on the Web site of Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, slammed the treatment of journalists in Turkey, saying that many journalists -- especially Kurdish and leftist sympathizers -- face extremely harsh legal treatment.

Urban Survival

  • Life’s a Gas Dept
    $5 gas, to be more precise.  While there are millions of barrels parked on oil tankers, the middle east war fears are being stoked to keep the profits up for the people in the energy business, no doubt so they … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With a Root Canal
    Yes, that abscess under tooth #29 is doing much better, thank you.  And, yes, I read every email sent in by concerned readers about NOT getting a root canal, but we need to have us a little discussion here about … Continue reading →
  • March to War and Collapse (yawn…)
    Yep, still on schedule for the world to fall apart in the March>May period, and this morning’s headlines sure don’t give us much reason to back away from that expectation.  True, the jobless filings were holding at four-year lows in … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Thursday at the WuJo
    Here’s a dandy to start off our quest for the truth, which last we heard lived on a side street between Reality Avenue and Woo-Woo Drive… “Well Mr. Ure isn’t this peculiar, I was leaving the YMCA, I looked to … Continue reading →
  • Idiots Ahoy!
    Call the Nobel Committee!  In Monday’s column, I explained the hard lesson about lifestyle and loans from the National Bank of Dad.  As luck would have it, this morning serves up the important lesson that…you’re going to love this….Idiocy is … Continue rea ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Wildlife Services: Does Killing Coyotes Do Any ...
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago This week Ken Cole at The Wildlife News made an important connection: last year Wildlife Services (a federal agency we’ve written a lot about here at Switchboard) had to truncate its ...
  • Join the conversation about how to fix LA's tr ...
    Morgan Wyenn, Project Attorney, Santa Monica Anyone that has ever tried to drive, bus, walk, bike, or otherwise get around Los Angeles probably had at least one complaint about our city’s horrible traffic, inadequate public transit system, and ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Civil unrest continues in Chile as protests in the Aysén region turned violent this week. Local constituents and non-governmental organizations continued protesting in Aysén ...
  • NRDC in the News 2/24: Atrazine risks, suing t ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Andrew Wetzler was quoted extensively in a Good Housekeeping article about the health and environmental risks of atrazine, a gender-bending weed killer commonly used on agricultural crops and found i ...
  • Mexico's Senate joins the list of groups quest ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC  We can now add Mexico’s Senate to the list of entities scrutinizing the proposed Cabo Cortés mega-tourism complex. The head of Mexico’s Environment Ministry, Juan Rafae ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 24,2012: Hamilton MA police sgt critically injured a Beverly MA cop when he shot him several times then he fatally shot self as police closed in on him. [0] wapo.st/xdENj0 H ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, February 23, 2012: Philadelphia PA cop convicted of 1st degree murder for shooting neighbor to death, manditory life sentence [0] bit.ly/zmBKVo Toronto ON police officer charged w/ ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 22, 2012: UC Davis CA sued by students & alumni alleging civil rights violations involving an infamous videotaped pepperspray incident. [0] http://lat.ms/zcYt58 Santa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    My apologies for the slow news feed today, a busy day at work combined with me not feeling well again made it difficult to track reports. Hopefully we’ll catch up with any we missed tomorrow. With that said, here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Miscon ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    A couple things before I start today… First, I just found out that the person who inspired me to create this site has retired his amazing Simple Justice blog. I know it will be sorely missed not just by me, but by many many people out there. Yet I’m sure that he’ll keep doing [...]

Total Collapse

  • Iran stops oil flow to Greece – report
    Iran has denied shipment of crude oil to Greece, following similar moves against Britain and France. The moves are pre-emptive to a set of sanctions imposed by the EU, which forbids buying oil from Iran after several months of grace period. The first oil tanker denied loading of the expected 500 ...
  • Start of Foreign Intervention in Syria
    Under the protection of the United States, Turkey, Britain, France, Italy, Qatar and the UAE, the first Red Cross convoys reached Homs Friday, Feb. 24. They began evacuating untreated injured victims and bringing medical aid to the city devastated and beleaguered by Bashar Assad’s troops. This I ...
  • Report: More Than 100,000 Americans Are Domest ...
    Concerns over martial law in America on a par with Islamic extremism An L.A. Times report which characterizes the Sovereign Citizen movement as “a major threat” on a par with Islamic extremism infers that “more than 100,00 Americans” are domestic terrorists as a result of their affiliation with ...
  • Putin pledges 400 ICBMs for Russia in 10 years
    Russia’s armed forces will receive over 400 modern intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), more than 100 military spacecraft and over 2,300 new tanks within the next 10 years, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said. Earlier media voiced fears that by 2020, Russi ...
  • The Catholic Wing of Libertarianism
    The Jesuits were never true Catholics. Jesuits are part of a long-term Illuminati Jewish plot to infiltrate and subvert Catholicism from within, even though most Jesuits are probably not aware of it. Indeed, Lew Rockwell is right: the Salamancan Jesuits, AKA the Illuminati, were behind modern Li ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple acquires Chomp to improve app discovery, Google sells its stake in 4G firm Clearwire, and MATTER clearly matters as it raises money on Kickstarter to support long-form journalism. It’s...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Google backs ‘Do Not Track’, Twitter speaks out on French parody censorship complaints and Google adds artificial language Esperanto to its Translate product. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    LinkedIn hits 1 million users in Indonesia. Apple is addressing environmental concerns for its Chinese manufacturers. Google+ brand pages are growing at a staggering rate. You can catch The Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    LinkedIn hits 1 million users in Indonesia. Apple is addressing environmental concerns for its Chinese manufacturers. Google+ brand pages are growing at a staggering rate. You can catch The Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    The Pirate Bay could be blocked by UK ISPs, another Kuwaiti citizen is jailed for his tweets, and Google appears to be turning Latitude into a Foursquare rival with the...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Brace for an electric shock
    Germany's 37 million households will soon be paying half as much on their annual electricity bills as Australian households. An average German household pays just $1060, or about $88 a month, for electricity to run their computers, lights and other household appliances, while an Australian ...
  • House swap: I’ll take wind turbines over a coa ...
    Wind turbines. You either love them (like 75 per cent of us), or hate them (15 per cent). Or, you couldn’t care less. Coal mines: you either love them, like those who reap their profits (20 per cent), or you hate them (80 per cent), like those who have to live near them. The problem of differing ...
  • Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan n ...
    The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...
  • Alcoa: seeing through the carbon tax doomsday ...
    When Alcoa's Point Henry workers met the Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday they should have advised her to call the aluminium company's bluff and dismiss its blatant rent seeking tactics. Just over 12 months ago, the company's majority owner, Alcoa Inc of the US, declared the Australian ope ...
  • Renewistan or Carbonopia: where would you rath ...
    Matthew Wright Published last November, Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and the planet made some fundamentally important points: that solutions to climate change must allow for economic development in poorer countries; that a large part of the soluti ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Scientists create high resolution, 3D maps of ...
    A team of scientists has created the first high resolution maps of remote forests in Madagascar. The effort, which is written up in the journal Carbon Balance and Management, will help more accurately register the amount of carbon stored in Madagascar's forests, potentially giving the impoverish ...
  • Palm oil firm pays 'precedent-setting' fine fo ...
    A subsidiary of agribusiness giant Cargill has paid a $1 million fine for clearing land for oil palm outside its concession, a move that could set an important precedent for palm oil developers operating in Indonesia, according to Greenomics-Indonesia, a Jakarta-based environmental group.
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • Scientists discover deadly new sea snake
    Scientists in Australia have discovered a species of sea snake in estuaries of the Gulf of Carpenteria in northern Australia. The snake is described in the current issue of Zootaxa.
  • Feds bust rhino horn traffickers
    Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested seven people on charges of trafficking endangered rhino horn in the United States, reports the Department of Justice and Department of the Interior. The arrests were made in ...

Sierra Express

  • Stories from Lakka Beach
    Stories from Lakka Beach – a documentary by Daan Velthuizen and nominated for Best Dutch Documentary at IDFA’11, is about the power of stories, starring Abubakar Turay, Alpha Cole, Aminata Shylon, Isaac Douglas, Mohamed Conte.  It is about a carver, a local politician, a fisherman, t ...
  • In human development, Africa makes slow progress
    For some African countries, there is cheery news in the 2011 Human Development Report.* Published by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), it ranks countries according to three measures of human development: life expectancy, education and income. In both Kenya and Nigeria extreme poverty has decl ...
  • Mattsson back to lead Sierra Leone for Sao Tom ...
    Swedish coach Lars Olof Mattsson has returned as head coach of Sierra Leone. He now has the approval of both the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) and the government. His previous stint in charge was marred by controversy because the SLFA felt Mattsson had been imposed on them by the Spor ...
  • ACC sensitizes staff of the provincial adminis ...
    The Southern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday 23rd February, 2012 held a fruitful meeting with senior and junior staff of various ministries, departments and agencies including drivers and cleaners of the Provincial Administration in the region. The thrust ...
  • Georgia Southern University Students Visit Sie ...
    Ten Students from Georgia Southern University, Georgia, United States of America were thoroughly briefed by home-based staff of the Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington DC February 23, 2012 about Sierra Leone’s Foreign Policy relating to Regional and Sub-regional obligations, under the current lea ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • The lousy summer that saved NZ
    It put a dampener on the holidays but all this rain is pumping much-needed millions into the economy. From his office window, Bruce Wills sees the ears of sheep poking above a paddock of grass growing faster than it can be eaten....
  • Dairy investors seek $25m to buy big SI farms
    Pastoral Dairy Investments, a specialist investment fund led by New Zealand's dairy industry and investment figures, launched an initial public offer yesterday aimed at raising a minimum of $25 million for the purchase of South Island...
  • $75m dairy IPO launched, Unlisted listing flagged
    Pastoral Dairy Investments, a company associated with farm management firm MyFarm, plans to raise at least $75 million by selling shares to the public and tapping high-wealth individuals to invest in dairy farms.PDI will offer 25...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Crafar farms saga set to run ...
    Shanghai Pengxin yesterday jumped into the PR war by labelling an offer by the Sir Michael Fay-led consortium for the 16 Crafar farms as a "phantom bid" which would result in fewer economic benefits to New Zealand than its own conditional...
  • A2 trebles profit and eyes UK, Irish markets
    A2 Corporation has more than trebled its profit as it looks to start selling its milk in the UK and Ireland this year.Net profit for the six months ended December 31 was $3.1 million compared with $894,000 the previous year, with...

The Bovine

  • Diet for a smaller planetary population?
    From Concerned Citizen, on the Lyme Disease Sentinel blog: “We are being told by government to eat low fat, low salt,high grain, low or NO meat and other animal products. We are being conditioned to think that animal foods are … Continue reading →
  • Remarkable Swiss government report just releas ...
    From Dana Ullman, in the Huffington Post: “The Swiss government has a long and widely-respected history of neutrality, and therefore, reports from this government on controversial subjects need to be taken more seriously than other reports from countries that are … Continue reading & ...
  • Vaccination choice movement growing in West Vi ...
    From Augie, at the Journal of Natural Food and Healing: “The vaccination choice movement is growing fast. Today, I was at a Gun Show and spoke to many young fathers and mothers–some pregnant and some holding babies or had them … Continue reading →
  • Info Wars deconstructs the CDC’s latest ...
  • Farmer faces a possible 3-year prison term for ...
    From Liz Reitzig at the Farm Food Freedom Coalition Baraboo, WI—Food sovereignty activists from around North America will meet at this tiny town on March 2 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, who has a court … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • German Interior Minister Says EU "Should Creat ...
    It is possible if not likely we have to suffer through at least 11 more Groundhog days as Greece sets March 8 deadline for investors in bond swap. Greece has set a March 8 deadline for investors to participate in its unprecedented bond swap aimed at sharply reducing its debt burden, according ...
  • Bill to Destroy California Businesses Introduc ...
    The gall, arrogance, and stupidity of public union pandering has reached new heights. A senate bill sponsored by written by Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles seeks to force businesses with five or more employees to create personal defined benefit plans, managed by CALPers. The Sacramento B ...
  • 160 German Tax Collectors Volunteer to "Help" ...
    Goodness gracious, how gracious! The German business weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported Saturday that Germany offers to send tax men to Greece The German government is prepared to send 160 financial experts to Greece to help the country overhaul its tax collection, the business weekly Wirtschaft ...
  • Stockton California, Population 292,000, Takes ...
    Bondholders of Stockton, California debt are about to be punished as City Manager Takes Steps Toward Bankruptcy. Stockton, California, may take the first steps toward becoming the most populous U.S. city to file for bankruptcy next week because of burdensome employee costs, excessive debt and ...
  • ECRI Sticks with Recession Call on CNBC; More ...
    ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan sticks with his recession call. This time his call is based on coincident indicators as the following video shows. CNBC has an interesting feature where you can click on any snip of generated text and it will take you to that spot in the interview. However, d ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Developing Story: Azerbaijan Hub for Mossa ...
    To-Be-NATO Ally Azerbaijan Proves its NATO-Worthiness Today Iran’s foreign ministry summoned Azerbaijan’s ambassador to rebuke him for Azerbaijan’s alleged link to Mossad operations against the Iranian government. Earlier today, the London Times reported that Israel’s Mossad ha ...
  • BFP Sunday Poetry: Waiting for the Signal
    Waiting For The Signal These pages that bring us together are the fire in the cave above the stream, no dream we move in and out of, faceless, expendable, waiting for a burst of wings to spill our pooled bones like coins over the chilled and silent ground we fell in love with so long [...]
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Curtis Mayfield This week’s music pick, Diamond in the Back, is from the incredible Curtis Mayfield. This song was remembered more for its “Gangsta Lean” line and it’s cool funky rhythm. It was, however, an anthem for being thankful for what you’ve got. That said, i ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • U.S. Navy Orders JHSV 8 and 9 from Austal
    Austal said today that the U.S. Navy has exercised contract options calling for the construction of the two additional Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSVs) worth an added $320 million.  The [...]
  • Deepwater Horizon Civil Trial Postponed
    The civil trial over the Deepwater Horizon disaster has been postponed until March 5 to give BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) and lawyers representing those who say they were injured by [...]
  • Crew Boat Runs Aground Near Houston, Injuries ...
    A crew boat carrying a four man crew ran ground on the Sabine jetties near Houston Port Arthur, TX early Friday causing various injuries to the crew and an oil [...]
  • Greenpeace Says “Save the Arctic” from the Cro ...
    Seven Greenpeace protesters, including Hollywood star Lucy Lawless, managed to make their way on board the Shell-contracted Noble Discoverer in New Zealand’s Port Taranaki this past Thursday morning and climb [...]
  • Go Big or Go Home…ExxonMobil Announces Massive ...
    HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) said Friday it plans spend a record $37 billion annually in capital projects for the foreseeable future, becoming the latest oil giant to [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • Canadian Federal Member of Parliament / Public ...
    As Mr. Toews is so eager to insert his former mistress into this debate, we find it only appropriate to name her: Stacey Meek. #victoews by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (AnonsOfCanada) on Twitter February 20, 2012
  • WELCOME To Stephen Harper's neo-Canada!
    Canada under Conservatives not what it used to be by Joan Baxter "It is interesting that Laurent Le Pierrès seems to believe Canada hasn’t fundamentally changed, and he can still look his "country in the mirror" ("Justin jumps in where angels fear to tread," Feb. 17 column). I was also happy to ...
  • Hey John Baird ... PROBE What?
    John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record?? -Ottawa Citizen seems to be a bit of a player in this Conservative 'outrage'. -Gutter politics you say? CREEKSIDE
  • "Most Reavers"
    Blocked paths and robbery by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog February 15, 2012 In the old days reavers known as "highwaymen" would block roads with downed trees so they could rob travelers. Some of the intended victims didn't submit so easily, an ...
  • How The Conservative Party Fought The Canadian ...
    "From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and insults, but we will vote with pride." Shouts, screams, desk-banging - even obscene gestures ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Syrian president votes in landmark polls
    Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has cast his ballot in a landmark referendum on a new constitution he had proposed in his efforts to enable implementation of reforms in the country, Press TV reports.
  • Turkish demo slams US anti-Syria policy
    Turkish protesters have held a demonstration near the Syrian border to condemn the United States for its policies against the Damascus government.
  • Yemenis demand US envoy expulsion
    Yemeni protesters have held demonstrations in several cities to demand US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein leave the country, Press TV reports.
  • Abbas slams Israel's heinous crimes
    Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas says Israel uses “heinous methods and policies” to erase the Arab, Islamic and Christian character of East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
  • 'Israel, Azerbaijan to sign arms deal'
    Israeli military officials say the Tel Aviv regime plans to sign a major arms deal worth USD 1.6 billion with Azerbaijan.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Debating Violence in the Occupy Movement
    The term “diversity of tactics” is used to distinguish direct tactics that include property damage and armed retaliation against the police from nonviolent direct action and extremist tactics such as planting bombs and armed insurrection. By now several thousands progressives and liberals have r ...
  • Labor and the 1%: Oscar is Not Hollywood&#8217 ...
    On February 27th, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) will send over 130,000 mail-in referendum ballot packages to their respective members. The members will have a seemingly simple task — to mark their ballots Yes or No. &#8220 ...
  • Cuba Sets a Global Example for the Achievement ...
    In an all day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro. Those attending were invited participants for the Intellectual Encounters for Peace and the Preservation of the Environment ...
  • Missing Foundations
    Americans are living on borrowed time, economically. Like air conditioners, copper pipes and aluminum siding of a foreclosed home, what remains of our prosperity will be violently stripped away. There is no economic recovery because the foundations for such are simply not there. Jobs still leave ...
  • What is Iran’s Supreme Leader’s Game?
    We interrupt this program to ask the supreme war-or-peace question; what game is Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really playing? A recurrent theme among the lively Iranian global diaspora is that the Supreme Leader is the perfect US/Israel asset – as he incarnates Iran ( ...

Destructionist

  • Report from Tokyo: 6.5 microSv/h at Japan’s bu ...
    On 2/21~23/2012, a Twitter user measured the radiation level at Tokyo station and it turned out to be 2.94~6.5 microSv/h. [...] 1m height from the ground : 6.5~4.8 microSv/h 1.8m height from the ground : 3.0~4.2 microSv/h The reason of this high level of contamination is assumed to be b ...
  • U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
    WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb. Recent assessments b ...
  • ANONYMOUS – JOIN US IN OPERATION “ ...
    With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of 'piracy' and 'conspiracy' the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies' lobbyists. The only way is to hit them w ...
  • All New Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kil ...
    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 this capability in Windows 8 beyond a cryptic warning that it might b ...
  • Report: U.S. bolsters defenses in Gulf amid Ir ...
    In an effort to counter any Iranian effort to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. is increasing both its sea- and land-based defense assets in the area, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to the report, the U.S. military has informed Congress o ...

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Welch supports Weinberger plan for energy efficiency, renewable energy
vtdigger.org
by Press Release | February 26, 2012 Burlington, VT – Today, Miro Weinberger, Democratic nominee for mayor, announced on the grounds of the Burlington Electric Department (BED) an energy efficiency, renewable energy plan for Burlington. Cong.
Renewable energy riding high
BusinessGhana
The frantic pace at which China is expanding its push for renewable energy reflects its commitment to the reduction of carbon emissions as it strives for a more balanced growth model that is not reliant on costly imports of fossil fuels.
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Xena: Renewable Energy Warrior Princess
Energy Matters
"We need to start switching over to renewable energy now; we don't have to go to the ends of the earth to suck out every last drop of oil." New Zealand born Lawless has been actively involved with Greenpeace for some years and became a Greenpeace ...
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NRG Energy and MidAmerican Renewables: Agua Caliente Project Takes Solar ...
Power Engineering Magazine
NRG Energy, Inc. and MidAmerican Renewables have announced that their 290-megawattAC Agua Caliente solar project has earned two top solar project awards. In a release, the companies said that the Yuma County, Ariz., photovoltaic power project being ...
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Human Habitat

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Country Ecology: Bald eagle recovery: Why aren't they nesting yet in the ...
Conway Daily Sun
Dave Eastman also broadcasts “Country Ecology” four times weekly over WMWV 93.5 fm. As Vice President of the Lakes Region Chapter/ASNH, he welcomes you to monthly programs at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. He is available at: cebirdman@Hotmail.com ...
Ecology must pay $101000 for records request violations
Yakima Herald-Republic
The state Department of Ecology is seeking to fine Double H farms $165000 for what it calls illegal dumping. But the agency's failure to follow state records law in the case has resulted in it owing $101000 in penalties and attorney fees.
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Ecology, Coast Guard, Seattle, King County and BNSF Railway responding to oil ...
Access Washington
SEATTLE – The state Department of Ecology (Ecology), US Coast Guard, the Seattle Fire Department, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) and BNSF Railway (BNSF) are responding to an oil spill at the company's railroad yard at Interbay in Seattle.
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Ecology oil spill rule advisory group to meet Feb. 23 in Lacey
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – A special advisory committee providing informal comment and recommendations to help the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) update and improve the state's oil spill readiness – or contingency – plan rule will meet in Lacey on Thursday, ...
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Water Power

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Water for the Bay Area
New York Times
17): With California's arid climate and growing population, fights over water have become a way of life and water storage a growing necessity. As if on cue to remind us, this year our state is experiencing one of the driest seasons on record.
Boil water advisory for Canton after water main break
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By Fran Jeffries Residents in the city of Canton are being asked to boil their water until further notice after a water main break Sunday. The water main break is affecting areas west of I-575, including downtown Canton and an area from Highway 140 ...
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Funding for beach water testing in jeopardy
WPTV
The Obama administration has proposed eliminating funding for testing water quality at the nation's beaches, removing most of the money Florida has relied on to detect elevated bacteria concentrations at 48 beaches in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade ...
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Water conservation order lifted in Cayuga County
NewsChannel 9 WSYR
AUBURN, NY - The Water Conservation Order issued by the Cayuga County Health Department is no longer in effect. The water conservation crder was for city of Auburn residents and those residents downstream of Auburn who use water supplied by the City's ...
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