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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, February 26, 2012

26 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Rural Women Are Leading the Way – Will t ...
    Agriculture currently provides a livelihood for roughly 1.3 billion smallholder farmers and landless workers, of which nearly half – close to 560 million – are women.
  • NGOs Urge "Solution from Within" for Somalia
    While the international community discusses Somalia's future in London and Brussels, European and Somali non-governmental organisations are calling for a radical shift from a military to a humanitarian approach as the only solution to the country's war-torn condition.
  • Misrata Rebuilds, Slowly
    This week more than half the residents eligible to vote in Libya's embattled coastal city of Misrata cast their ballots for local council representatives in their first democratic election in decades.
  • Rural Women in Latin America Face Myriad Hurdles
    "Sometimes I think of giving it all up," Aura Canache, a small farmer in Venezuela, told IPS. "My neighbours get loans and aid, but I never have. The farm assistance plans are for men, although there are many women living off the countryside too."
  • SPAIN: Demonstrators Protest Bank Bailouts and ...
    Demonstrators in nearly two dozen cities in Spain raised their voices Friday to protest against the use of public funds to bail out banks while the budgets for basic services like education and health are being slashed.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • Sunday's 'Comment of the Day': Michio Kaku on ...
    'I don't believe for a second that highly sophisticated technological advancement (like interstellar travel) will make us less predators towards others.' "Yes, technological progress per se does not change our primitive instincts of aggressiveness, anger and domination. But evolution is...
  • Image of the Day: Gigantic Cosmic Bubbles
    This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631 as seen edge-on from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (shown in blue and purple) provide the first unambiguous evidence for a halo of...
  • Comment of the Day: Michio Kaku on Intelligent ...
    "As one commenter smartly points out: 'I see most commenters above are confusing predator with carnivore. Humans are omnivores, but we are still predators. Dr. Kaku is making a reasonable, but presently untestable assumption that intelligence arises from predatory behavior.'...
  • Weekend Debate: What Do You Think?
    "Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space, they're going to be descended from predators." - Michio Kaku "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us...
  • Weekend Feature: "Coming of Age in the Young U ...
    This gorgeous island universe just begs the question: "are we alone?" With an estimated 200 billion galaxies in the known Universe, we think not. Well, perhaps in the Milky Way. NGC 7331, 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation...

Natural News

  • Ron Paul says America is 'slipping into a fasc ...
    You may have grown weary of listening to the candidates vying for our nation's highest office in November, so I completely understand if you have all but tuned out the rhetoric and noise coming from the campaign trail. But sometimes those who seek to lead us say something...
  • Seven things your psychiatrist doesn't want yo ...
    The information in this article comes from my personal experience as a licensed mental health counselor. One of my missions as a member of the mental health underground, a secret society of rogue mental health types, was to infiltrate the massive system created by the...
  • How to grow big, fat happy worms and beautiful ...
    Good soil is crucial to a productive garden. Healthy soil will contain live microbes that are mostly dormant when soil is the typical, neglected landscape. Microbes rapidly propagate when soil is nurtured by controlling moisture and organic matter or compost. To get...
  • The myth of the 'low-fat' diet, and why consum ...
    Many people today still adhere to the misguided belief that nearly all fats are bad, and that the best way to stay slim and healthy is to cut fats, whenever possible, from your diet. On the contrary, fats are an absolutely vital component of any healthy diet as they...
  • Evidence shows diet soda is not a healthy weig ...
    Artificially sweetened drinks are often promoted as healthy alternatives for weight loss and diabetes because they are low in calories and don't contain sugar. However, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that these diet sodas are harmful to human health. According...

Threat Level

  • Scorned Attorney Threatens to Take Down Lawyer ...
    A Florida lawyer unhappy with poor reviews posted in an online attorney review site is threatening legal action to shutter the LawyerRatingz.com site. In response to the threatened legal action, the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a federal judge Thursday to declare the website immune from ...
  • Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drives Is Un ...
    Forcing a criminal suspect to decrypt hard drives so their contents can be used by prosecutors is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self incrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
  • Publisher Drops Ownership Claims to Time-Zone Data
    The publisher of a database chronicling historical time-zone data is dropping its copyright infringement suit against two researchers who repurposed the information into a free-to-use database relied on by millions of computers. The data, which basically spells out past and future times anywhere ...
  • White House Privacy Bill of Rights Brought to ...
    The White House announced Thursday a new “Consumer Bill of Rights” for online privacy and that the net’s biggest online ad networks that build profiles will respect a “Do Not Track” setting in browsers.
  • Court OKs Taking DNA From Felony Arrestees
    A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a voter-approved measure requiring California authorities to take a DNA sample from every adult arrested on felony accusations in the Golden State.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Crashes and Burns Pandering at NASCAR's ...
    Just two days out from the all-critical Michigan primary, Mitt Romney headed to Florida Sunday to make a pre-race appearance at the Daytona 500. But for Romney, the trip wasn't just an obligatory pilgrimage to woo the conservative fans who booed Michele Obama and Jill Biden at another event las ...
  • Romney and Santorum Run Away from Social Secur ...
    During last week's Republican debate in Mesa, Arizona, GOP co-frontrunners Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney claimed "courage" and "resolute" as the single words which respectively best described them. If so, the two rivals might want to take a look back at their records on Social Security. After ...
  • 50 Years Later, Time for the Kennedy Doctrine ...
    Back in 2007, Bush press secretary Dana Perino famously admitted her total ignorance of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Now as they ratchet up their rhetoric towards Iran, Perino's conservative allies seem to have forgotten the lessons of that critical Cold War confrontation. Then as now, many ...
  • Desperate Romney Adopts Dole's Failed Across-t ...
    Last year, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney unveiled a plan to extend the Bush tax cuts, eliminate the estate tax and slash corporate taxes. But that proposal, one which would deliver 60 percent of its benefits to the top one percent of taxpayers while draining $6.6 trillion from the U.S. Treasury o ...
  • Gas Prices Rising Despite Surge in U.S. Produc ...
    With their presidential primary process devolving into a farce, Republicans are turning to rising gas prices to bludgeon President Obama. While Newt Gingrich thundered that "gasoline prices are unacceptable," Rick Santorum charged that "We need a president who is on the side of affordable energ ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Noam Chomsky: Education For Whom and For What? ...
    Dandelion Salad Arizona on Feb 17, 2012 Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist, spoke at the University of Arizona on Feb. 8, 2012. His lecture, “Education: For Whom and For What?” featured a talk on the state of higher education, followed by a q ...
  • Exclusive: Blowback and the Religious Right by ...
    by Shawn S. Grandstaff Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 24, 2012 I really do care about the direction this country is heading and the way the church is trying to fix it. These are just some thoughts to think on and issues that should be of concern to us as believers when dealing with a [...]
  • The sheep look down By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation 22 February 2012 The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner’s remarkably prescient ‘science fiction’ novel, first published in 1972 concerns the destruction of the entire environment in the US a ...
  • Sibel Edmonds: Obama administration charges a ...
    with Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 22, 2012 RTAmerica on Feb 22, 2012 From Thomas Drake to Bradley Manning, many whistleblowers have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Last week the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Spons ...
  • Moyers and Company: Poet Christian Wiman on Lo ...
    Dandelion Salad BillMoyers.com February 24, 2012 Bill Moyers has a moving conversation with acclaimed poet and Poetry Magazine editor Christian Wiman about how finding true love and being diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer reignited his religious passion as well as his creative exp ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Dr. Michael Mann on “The Climate Wars” (Interview)
      Dr. Michael Mann is one of the top climate scientists in the world. As such, Dr. Mann is also a top target of attack for global warming deniers threatened by the reality of global warming and climate change or fooled by industries and politicians trying to confuse the public on this [.. ...
  • Child IQ Possibly as Influenced by Chemical Ex ...
      Three common environmental chemicals– lead, organophosphate pesticides and methylmercury– may have effects on children’s IQ in the overall population to the impacts of major medical conditions such as preterm birth or ADHD – two of the most prevalent in U.S. children. ...
  • Confusionist Lawyer Writes in Forbes to Defend ...
      Ah, wonderful to see a lawyer getting on Forbes to discuss global warming and the odd “scientific ” agenda of an institute perhaps best known for trying to convince us that smoking is completely safe. Of course, we’ve written on the Heartland Institute leak numerous tim ...
  • Heartland Institute’s Law Firm Doesn’t Line Up ...
      Continuing on with the Heartland Institute hypocrisy and conspiracy agenda stories, here’s an interesting find by Richard Littlemore of DeSmog Blog: Levenfeld Pearlstein, the law firm that has stepped up to pass on complaints about the publication of leaked Heartland Institute docu ...
  • Heartland Department of Education (Climate Rea ...
      Check out this great video challenging, through clever wit, the Heartland campaign to fund the spread repeatedly debunked arguments against the scientific consensus on global warming in public schools: Thank you, Climate Reality Project!

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Two Bubbles That Went Pop - United States
    Reflections on the Manipulation of Populism Long after its leading encampments have been torn down – often with brute force and (educationally enough) by predominantly by Democratic mayors and with the approval and involvement of a Democratic White House – the populist Occ ...
  • France to EU: Stop Monsanto's Corn - Environme ...
    France has asked the European regulators to suspend the authorization to plant Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) MON810 corn. France's ecology minister says the decision is based on studies showing GM crops "pose significant risks for the environment." Agence France-Presse re ...
  • Riots follow Qu'Ran burnings by US - World News
    Two NATO soldiers were shot and killed Thursday by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform who had joined protesters objecting to Qur'an burnings that took place at a U.S. base earlier in the week, says Reuters news agency, quoting Western military sources. An Afghan official said two proteste ...
  • Don't panic as power shifts from US to China - ...
    On Feb. 15, just as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping arrived in the United States for a four-day visit, U.S. President Barack Obama told an audience of American workers in Milwaukee, "Manufacturing is coming back!" Coming back from China, that is. But while the Master Lock Company of Milwa ...
  • Cash Of The Titans: Against The Noxious Fantas ...
    The concept of endless economic growth, accepted as sacrosanct by both U.S. mainstream political parties, and internalized as the dominant mode of mind by the general population of the corporate/consumer state is mirrored in the exponential mathematics of a malignancy. Cancer, if given voic ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Factory With Nine Lives
    By @KYYellowDog Or perhaps it should be The Workers Who Wouldn't Give Up. Regardless, it's yet another small but significant victory for labor when labor refuses to give in. And when the 99 Percent join them in solidarity. Jane Slaughter at Labor Notes: Members of the United Electrical Workers w ...
  • "All-of-the-above strategy" Guaranteed to Fail
    By @KYYellowDog Sigh. We know what you think you're doing, Mr. President. But while you're trying - and failing - to outflank repugs who have no right flank, just insanity to infinity, civilization speeds closer to a climate catastrophe dystopia. Full transcript here.
  • GOP Spirals Into Black Hole of Irrelevancy
    By @TedFrier Ever since Southern reactionary conservatism overwhelmed the Republican Party a decade ago, the GOP has been like one of those giant Black Holes in space that suck all matter and light into a vortex of doom that spirals in on itself in ever-narrowing circles until the universe itsel ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: The Ghost of ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by MsBrucejuice on Jul 14, 2009: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - The Ghost Of Tom Joad at Staples Center in Los Angeles on October 23/1999
  • Your Freakazoid Government at Work
    By @KYYellowDog So, in order to avoid the dreaded "does not work and play well with others" mark on their next evaluation - and to get a dry biscuit and greasy sausage in lieu of the raises they're been denied for the past 10 years - state employees will troop to Frankfort to pay obeisance to an ...

Care 2

  • Open Thread - 2/26/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, one of which links to one of Kit's news items here, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Thank Assemblyman Joseph Lentol ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    A 5449 is a dangerous piece of legislation that would allow any animal perceived to be in psychological pain to be immediately killed, making New York the first state to have a law of this kind. Provisions in this bill also severely limit rescue groups Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Free the Traveling Circus Dolphins in Indonesi ...
    In Indonesia there are three companies which have traveling dolphin shows. More than 72 dolphins are kept in inhumane conditions and forced to participate in dangerous acts. One of their performances is making a dolphin jump through a ring a flaming fire Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |& ...
  • Fight Idaho Legislatures Proposal to Use Dogs ...
    The recovery of wolf populations in North America has been seen as nothing short of a small miracle. However, the lives of wolves and their domestic counterparts are now threatened by a new law in Idaho. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
  • Ban the Cruel and Futile Fox Penning in Virgin ...
    Fox penning is an appalling sport practiced in Virginia, it involves capturing these keen animals from the wild, transporting them, and releasing them into enclosures where they are mauled alive by dogs. This sport is inhumane on so many levels, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &n ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Santorum’s Misidentification * Open Thread
    From “Santorum benefits from mistaken religious identity,” an original op-ed written for the Associated Press by Rachel Zoll, AP Religion Editor: Peter Wehner, a Republican who served three presidential administrations, most recently under George W. Bush, said in an article about San ...
  • Another Visit with “Ulsterman” and “White Hous ...
    A few months ago, I wrote a series of articles (you’ll find the links below) about a blogger who calls himself “Ulsterman,” and a recurring feature of his blog, interviews with a mysterious long-time Democratic operative, known only as “White House Insider.”  WHI po ...
  • Burn Desecrated Korans?
    The Obama Administration–from CENTCOM to the White House–has botched the entire response to the report that Korans taken from prisoners suspected of terrorism were burned. I don’t care whether this was intentional or a mistake. The Administration should have kept its damn colle ...
  • The Great Rant
    I love this guy! He starts out quiet, BUT THEN… He speaks for me! How about you?
  • It’s hard to vote in a caucus state … (+ Open ...
    I got an e-mail from Romney’s headquarters about my state’s caucus. Good. ALSO GOOD, particularly since I had some key questions: Included in the e-mail was, “If you have any questions, or if would like to volunteer to help our campaign, don’t hesitate to call us at (xxx) ...

Futurismic

  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
  • Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
      The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
  • Out of Destruction, Transformation?
    Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
  • Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
    My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • New Folk Music Video On Impact of Mountain Top ...
    ThinkProgress New Folk Music Video On Impact of Mountain Top Removal ThinkProgress By Stephen Lacey on Feb 25, 2012 at 10:07 am The Ohio-based folk band Magnolia Mountain has just released a new music video documenting the environmental and human impact of mountaintop removal coal mining. The so ...
  • Mountaintop removal offends my core - Natural ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal offends my core Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) As many of my readers may know, I grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains, which had everything to do with my eventually finding a career in environmentalism. I've had ...
  • BofA must come clean on coal - Charlotte Busin ...
    BofA must come clean on coal Charlotte Business Journal 10 article, “Rainforest Action Network is taking on coal, BofA,” correctly reported the environmental group has launched a campaign urging Bank of America “to stop financing coal companies that use mountaintop removal to mine the resource. ...
  • White Star Holler: Powerful New Music Video Ca ...
    White Star Holler: Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia's Grief Over ... AlterNet (blog) As millions of pounds of explosives from mountaintop removal strip mining operations continue to devastate historic mountain communities in central Appalachia, a powerful new music video released ...
  • Here is What You Say - Fenceviewer
    Here is What You Say Fenceviewer The whole world is watching, and I am calling on your corporation to do the right thing and stop the destruction of Blair Mountain, along with all other mountains and communities in Appalachia. Mountaintop removal mining is wrong and harmful to the ...

Memeorandum

  • Afghan police hunt for colleague suspected of ...
    Guardian: Afghan police hunt for colleague suspected of shooting US officers  —  Abdul Saboor Salangi, 25, wanted in connection with killings that prompted mass pullout of Nato advisers from Kabul ministries  —  Afghan police are searching for a 25-year-old polic ...
  • Daytona 500: Rick Santorum sponsors car (Politico)
    Politico: Daytona 500: Rick Santorum sponsors car  —  If Tony Raines prevails at Sunday's Daytona 500, one will also be able to count that as a victory for GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum.  —  The Santorum campaign is one of the sponsors for Raines's No. ...
  • Reagan shooter John Hinckley wishes he could c ...
    Associated Press: Reagan shooter John Hinckley wishes he could change ‘would-be assassin’ image  —  WASHINGTON — The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan more than 30 years ago said he would like to be known as something other than a would-be assassin. ...
  • Rick Santorum: JFK's 1960 Speech Made Me Want ...
    ABCNEWS: Rick Santorum: JFK's 1960 Speech Made Me Want to Throw Up  —  GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said today that watching John F. Kennedy's speech to the Baptist ministers in Houston in 1960 made him want to “throw up.”  —  “To say ...
  • Santorum says he 'almost threw up' after readi ...
    Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post: Santorum says he ‘almost threw up’ after reading JFK speech on separation of church and state  —  Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Sunday defended a statement he made last October in which he said that he “almost threw u ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Scientists and citizens
    Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports.What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in sou ...
  • Bear battle in China
    In the latest animal welfare row, traditional medicine lobbyists and anti-cruelty campaigners have been trading bitter blows over the treatment of bears. Zhang Ke reports.China’s long-running and vicious debate over the extraction of bile from live bears has escalated to new levels followi ...
  • Stalled bid to cut car fumes
    Sub-standard fuel from major oil companies is blocking Beijing’s efforts to introduce tighter pollution controls. Du Yueying and Xu Nan report.China’s efforts to cut vehicle pollution have hit a roadblock. The introduction of tighter exhaust controls has once again been postponed. An ...
  • Chasing data in China’s provinces
    The first independent review of provincial-level environmental data highlights a plethora of challenges to transparency in China, writes Angel Hsu, introducing the second of two new studies.China’s environmental data has created many international headlines in recent months, particularly i ...
  • Seeing China’s pollution from space
    US scientists have used satellite data to assess a decade’s worth of PM 2.5 levels. Angel Hsu, one of the team, explains what they found.The Great Wall may not, after all, be visible from space – but Chinese air pollution is. My team of researchers at Yale and Columbia Universit ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Scorned Attorney Threatens to Take Down Lawyer ...
    A Florida lawyer unhappy with poor reviews posted in an online attorney review site is threatening legal action to shutter the LawyerRatingz.com site. In response to the threatened legal action, the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a federal judge Thursday to declare the website immune from ...
  • Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drives Is Un ...
    Forcing a criminal suspect to decrypt hard drives so their contents can be used by prosecutors is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self incrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
  • Publisher Drops Ownership Claims to Time-Zone Data
    The publisher of a database chronicling historical time-zone data is dropping its copyright infringement suit against two researchers who repurposed the information into a free-to-use database relied on by millions of computers. The data, which basically spells out past and future times anywhere ...
  • White House Privacy Bill of Rights Brought to ...
    The White House announced Thursday a new “Consumer Bill of Rights” for online privacy and that the net’s biggest online ad networks that build profiles will respect a “Do Not Track” setting in browsers.
  • Court OKs Taking DNA From Felony Arrestees
    A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a voter-approved measure requiring California authorities to take a DNA sample from every adult arrested on felony accusations in the Golden State.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Why Jimmy John Liautaud Stopped Selling Sprout ...
    So says Jimmy himself: “I agree wich ya, we no longer serve sprouts, sprout supplies were inconsistent.” I guess so. Multistate Jimmy John's Restaurants Raw Clover Sprouts 2011 14 Sickened (possibly 19) - On February 15, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control announced an ongoing ...
  • Three Days to the Michigan Republican Primary ...
    Romney does not seem like a sprout eater, but he might change his mind on that. Santorum likely thinks that sprouts are from the devil, and they likely are. Gingrich does not look like he eats many vegetables. Paul on the other hand, I could see eating sprouts as he swigs a large glass of raw ...
  • Aging of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Co-Morbid ...
    Special Concerns of the Elderly The occurrence of bacterial infection is a function of several major variables: (1) the virulence of the bacterial pathogen, that is, its ability to cause severe disease; (2) how the pathogen is transmitted to the “host”—for example, whether it ...
  • Six State Outbreak of Shiga Toxin-producing E. ...
    A total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Michigan (2), Arkansas (1), and Wisconsin (1). Among persons for whom information is availab ...
  • Pennsylvania Family Cow Raw Milk Dairy Sickens ...
    New Jersey Department of Health reported that it currently has two residents that are ill in connection to a major outbreak caused by the consumption of raw milk from a Pennsylvania farm, Family Cow Dairy. Currently 78 people in four states have become ill with campylobacteriosis, a gastrointes ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Newt Gingrich: "You cannot put a gun r ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Government/Legal, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Looks like Newt Gingrich is getting into the right-wing, "let's-all-hate-on-the-Chevrolet-Volt" bandwagon. During a campaign stop at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, the trailing Republican candidate s ...
  • Report: Tesla Roadster facing 'brick' battery ...
    Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Safety, Technology, Tesla, Electric Here's a new worry for electric car owners: bricking your new, expensive ride. Using a word taken from the computer world, to "brick" an EV means to make your electronic device inoperable. In the case of an EV, it w ...
  • Report: Paice drags Hyundai, Kia into long-run ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Technology, Hyundai, Kia, Toyota With all the news coming out recently about the small claims lawsuit over the Honda Civic Hybrid, readers may have forgotten the name behind a long-running legal issue over Toyota's hybrid system: Paice. The latest development is ...
  • Chicago: U.S. Army's CERV puts a machine gun o ...
    Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Military It used to be that we couldn't even find a picture of the U.S. Army's Clandestine Extended Range Vehicle (CERV), but times have changed. At the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, the Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) ...
  • Report: Obama's proposed budget calls for uppi ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to try and get a million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015. In his State of the Union address in 2011, he repeated that number and proposed turning the $7,500 tax credit into a point-of-purchase rebate. ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Jazz Legend Randy Weston: The Complete Democra ...
    Our full 78-minute interview with pianist and composer Randy Weston. Includes extended performances of many of Weston’s most famous songs: "High Fly," "Blue Moses," "African Cookbook," "In Memory Of," "The Healers," "African Lady,&quo ...
  • "New Obama Campaign Co-Chair: 'The President I ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Those four words headline the website of the organization Progressives United, founded by former U.S. Sen., and now Obama campaign ad ...
  • Anthony Shadid, 43, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Mid ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack today while covering the conflict in Syria. One of the most celebrated journalists covering the Middle East, Shadid, 43, had been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the ...
  • "The Afghan War’s Nine Lives" By Amy Goodman
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike. They were in the Najrab district of Kapisa province in eastern Afghanistan. Most were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 14. ...
  • "America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out." By ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against President Barack Obama. Archbishop Timothy Dolan appealed to church members, “Let your elected leaders know that you want religious liberty and rights of conscience restor ...

Suzie-Q

  • Jan Brewer Endorses Mitt Romney, Then Disrespe ...
    February 26, 2012 Addicting Info  By- Wendy Gittleson In an interview today, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer endorsed Mitt Romney for President. And for the second time in a month, she publicly disrespected the President. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Brewer said of Romney, ”He handles himself very very ...
  • Koch Brother Admits Buying Wisconsin Governor ...
  • How the GOP Primary Became A Contest Among Ame ...
    Gawker-  By Mobutu Sese Seko Feb 23, 2012  2:05 PM The after effects of the Citizens United ruling shouldn’t shock anyone. Corporations were granted the ability to spend ungodly sums on campaigns, and guess what they’re doing? They’re spending ungodly sums on campaigns. There i ...
  • The Gang That Couldn’t Bomb Straight
    Robert Scheer | TruthDig | February 23, 2012 Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life and their positions on the social issues alienating most moderates, the leading Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have returned to the elixir of warmongering ...
  • Obama Holds Lead Against Republican Opponents, ...
    By LAURIE KELLMAN and JENNIFER AGIESTA 02/22/12 08:03 AM ET Associated Press  via:  Huff  Post WASHINGTON — A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months befo ...

Solari

  • Catherine on Living in Faith – 3.1.12
    < By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday night, I want to talk about the big issues –  freedom, leadership, law and love. In the following weeks, I will lead two Solari Reports about rebuilding our economy. On March 15th, “The Comfort Calls Story,” an interview with entre ...
  • Book Review: Farrell on the Breakaway Civilization
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Dr. Joseph P. Farrell’s new book, Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations is highly recommended. Farrell connects the dots between Nazi operations, technology and funds laund ...
  • Catherine Hosts Thrive Showing in Ojai – ...
    Join us for a special showing of the documentaryTHRIVE – What on Earth Will It Take? SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 4:00PM at the Ojai Playhouse Theater, 145 E. Ojai Avenue, and organic dinner at The Ojai Art Center! Catherine Austin Fitts will be hosting this Special Community Event sponsored by Tra ...
  • Solari Special Report: Foreign Investment Fili ...
    A new Solari Special Report, Foreign Investment Filing Requirements – 2011. By Carolyn A. Betts Excerpt: Given the flurry of regulatory activity in 2010 and 2011 surrounding filing requirements for US holders of foreign investments, we thought a review of the current US Treasury and IRS fi ...
  • Software Startups Reaped Lions Share of Ventur ...
    By Peter Delevett Maybe they should start calling it Software Valley. Venture capitalists, who provide much of the funding that keeps startups growing, poured twice as much money into software companies in the last quarter of 2011 than into any other sector. Venture firms nationwide put $1.8 b ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Ask the mineshft! Questions for you to answer.
    Summary:  After a long series of “ask a question” posts, today we turn the tables.  Today we “ask the mineshaft.  Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikpedia).  Share your answers to these questions.  This idea copied from Brad ...
  • As we start new wars, let’s see an exper ...
    Summary:  As our war against al Qaeda evolves into a worldwide war against insurgents who look Islamic, it’s worth some time to ponder the original texts that put us on this road — with an almost uniform record of failure by foreign armies fighting local insurgents.  Here we see Thom ...
  • Wave goodby to Greece. All the paths that lie ...
    Summary:  This week Europe’s leaders faced a choice somewhat similar and perhaps equally momentous as America’s leaders faced in 1787.  But this week they chose a path that looks punitive and short-sighted, pursuing European unification but likely to generate discord and eventually f ...
  • Realism and Realpolitik – Setting the Co ...
    Summary:  Today we have a brilliant work by Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) discussing America’s place in the world, and recommending what should be our grand strategy to best adapt to the inevitable changes that lie ahead in this century.  It’s deserves some attention as an altern ...
  • Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
    Summary:  Americans increasingly live in a world bordered by our amnesia.  Our past lost, replaced by myths.  Our recent history largely forgotten, replaced by a vague jumble of half-remembered events.  To tell the story of our past decade requires someone with a clear understanding of geopoliti ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

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

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Romney's Clunker
      “This is not exciting and barn-burning,” Mitt Romney admitted as he stood today amid 65,000 empty seats at Detroit’s Ford Field to deliver what was billed as a major economic address, “but it’s important.” He was right, at least, about the first part. The awful optics—the 1,200 supporters who ...
  • This Station is Non-Operational
    “I believe I am kindly enough in nature, and can be moved to pity and to pardon the perpetrator of almost the worst crime that the mind of man can conceive or the arm of man can execute; but any man, who, for paltry gain and stimulated only by avarice, can rob Africa of her children to sell int ...
  • Death Stars Aren't All Fun and Games
    At first glance, building a moon-sized battle station seems incredibly expensive. A few students at Leigh University calculated that, assuming the mass/volume ratio of an aircraft carrier, a Death Star would cost $852 quadrillion, or 13,000 times the world’s GDP. According to Mother Jones’ Kevi ...
  • Not Sweet Home Alabama
    Recently, Scott Douglas III, a civil-rights activist in Alabama and executive director of the Greater Birmingham Ministries, appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his involvement as a plaintiff in an American civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the state of Alabama. The case challe ...
  • Chart of the Day
    It’s always useful to have the proper context when evaluating the popularity of a presidential candidate. Otherwise, it’s hard to know if you’re looking at a deviation, or the usual pattern. Mitt Romney’s high unfavorables are unusual, for example, but the real question is how unusual? To that ...

Buzzflash

  • 10 Reasons the GOP Wants to Ditch the Constitution
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT One of the great ironies of the Republican Party right wing -- which is to say the current crop of GOP presidential contenders -- is their alleged reverence to the Constitution and the "Founding Fathers."  But, many of their more provocative public s ...
  • Eleven Questions for Sen. Santorum
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is steadily climbing the GOP polls (even though his standing versus President Obama is dismal). He may even win in Michigan, one of the several home states of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Wh ...
  • Global Corporations Know No National Boundarie ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Global corporations and the super rich know no national boundaries; while working class people and the poor of the world face walls. To be accurate, there are some barriers that multinational companies confront to expanding in a few countries, but the ...
  • What an iPad Really Costs
    LINDA GIBSON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Between a factory tour by ABC's "Nightline" and an investigation by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), it might appear that something is actually being done to help the subsistence-wage Chinese workers at Foxconn who make products for Apple, Hewlett Packard, ...
  • Former Senator Alan Simpson Calls Rick Santoru ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Santorum "is rigid and a homophobic. He believes that gays and lesbians, he mentioned in an interview in 2003, about bestiality, and gays and lesbians. I think that's disgusting," former Senator Alan Simpson told CBS News. *************************** ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Free 150-minute life extension
    Step right up! It’s the miracle cure we’ve all been waiting for. But, this is no snake oil, no pink medicine, no alternative or mystical panacea. It can reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer by up to 50% and lower your risk of early d ...
  • Losing weight is easier than you think
    The tabloids were recently full of nonsense about metabolic rate, diets, weight loss, obesity…hold on…when are they not full of nonsense? The latest story claimed that it’s twice as hard to lose weight than current guidelines suggest. Is it? Here’s what the NHS has to say ...
  • How glaucoma medication works
    I recently wrote about the diagnosis of glaucoma and readers were then asking about how their eye drops for the condition work. The raised pressure within the eye that defines glaucoma and can cause optic nerve damage can be lowered through surgery problematic cases that do not respond to drugs ...
  • A real life Periodic Table
    One of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, Theo Gray, owns a home made, wooden periodic table table with compartments underneath every element label, with samples, if you’re a chem geek you’ll have probably seen it before. Gray built and populated the wooden PT in his free time. Kir ...
  • Feeling fine for Fenland findings
    Well, I’ve fasted overnight, urinated into a plastic vial, donated half a dozen shots of blood, been exposed to X-rays, had height (just under 6 foot), weight and waist & hips measured (not telling), body fat determined (somewhere between the “average” man at 18–24%), bloo ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Consumer Groups Call on Obama Administration t ...
    The nation’s largest consumer groups today wrote to the Obama administration, urging an appeal of the November 2011 ruling by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel against U.S. country-of-origin labels on meat. The ruling followed a case brought by Canada and Mexico in December 2008 again ...
  • Consumer Groups Call on Obama Administration t ...
    The nation’s largest consumer groups today wrote to the Obama administration, urging an appeal of the November 2011 ruling by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel against U.S. country-of-origin labels on meat. The ruling followed a case brought by Canada and Mexico in December 2008 again ...
  • ACLU Steps in to Block South Carolina’s Discri ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of South Carolina today asked a federal court to block South Carolina’s discriminatory voter identification law that would keep minorities and others from exercising their right to vote.  read more
  • ACLU Steps in to Block South Carolina’s Discri ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of South Carolina today asked a federal court to block South Carolina’s discriminatory voter identification law that would keep minorities and others from exercising their right to vote.  read more
  • NYT Lets Unnamed Officials Smear Critics as 'T ...
    In two stories this month, New York Times journalists allowed anonymous government officials to smear critics as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers--a shocking violation of the paper's explicit rules against allowing anonymity to be a cover for attacks. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • “Trickled On” Economics
    Doug Harvey One thing about an election year, particularly this one, is that it reveals the fallacy that humanity has somehow emerged from “mere animal conditions.”  We may have comfortable homes, climate-control, exo-skele ...
  • The Untold War Story -- Then and Now
    Adam Hochschild Well in advance of the 2014 centennial of the beginning of “the war to end all wars,” the First World War is suddenly everywhere in our lives. Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse opened on 2,376 movie screens and ...
  • The New Cold War has Already Started – in Syria
    Robert Fisk If Iran obtains nuclear weapons capability, "I think other nations across the Middle East will want to develop nuclear weapons". Thus thundered our beloved Foreign Secretary, William Hague, in one of the silliest prono ...
  • Ottawa’s Focus on Alberta Oilsands is Killing ...
    Antonia Zerbisias You know that old saying, “When the U.S. sneezes, Canada catches a cold.” It still applies. The United States remains our biggest trading partner. What happens there affects everything from our tourism to our e ...
  • The Causes of the Protests in Afghanistan
    Glenn Greenwald Most American media accounts and commentary about the ongoing violent anti-American protests in Afghanistan depict their principal cause as anger over the burning of Korans (it’s just a book: why would people get viole ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Thailand's Songkran festival
    IF YOU add April and Thailand, you're guaranteed to get one thing and that's unrelenting heat.
  • Film series spreads awareness of the effect of ...
    There are not many venues in Decatur that could operate a lucrative business showing independently produced environmental documentaries, and as such, these sorts of films can be difficult to come by locally at a public screening.
  • Peace, Justice, Sustainability, Technology and ...
    A historic gathering of distinguished scientists, leaders, and humanitarians will speak to the most important scientific, social, and spiritual questions of our time in the Southern California town of Carlsbad next month. The Day 2 (Sunday) afternoon and evening speakers list, which includes ret ...
  • Water Wars: Niles Amended Complaint Against Gl ...
    Attorneys representing the village of Niles in their ongoing dispute over water with the village of Glenview, attempted unsuccessfully to file an amended complaint yesterday (Tuesday) in Cook County court.
  • USQ graduate vies for award
    USQ graduate Melanie Zanetti has proven she is one of the shining stars of the Queensland theatre scene – she has been nominated for a Matilda Award.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Transformation of Palestinian landscape focus ...
    Emily Lawrence Bethlehem 25 February 2012 A new multidisciplinary project examines how Israeli settlements, a burgeoning neoliberal economy and loss of traditional heritage is quickly transforming Palestine’s landscapes and public spaces.
  • Asking Israel why it tortured my friend
    Joy Ellison Chicago 25 February 2012 When I heard that Israeli Sergeant Benjamin Anthony would be speaking at DePaul University in Chicago yesterday, I had one question for him: why did its army torture my friend?
  • "UN must prosecute Israel for war crimes," say ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 24 February 2012 Michael Mansfield, a juror for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, talks about the tribunal’s shadow report documenting Israel’s apartheid policies that tears apart Israel’s report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimina ...
  • Radio station aims to empower Palestinian women
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Ramallah 23 February 2012 Nisaa FM is an almost entirely female-run Palestinian radio station based in Ramallah and the only radio station in the Middle East devoted solely to women’s issues.
  • Court gives Israel "licence to pillage" West B ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 22 February 2012 JERUSALEM (IPS) - After a recent Israeli high court decision allowed Israeli companies to maintain quarrying and mining activities in the occupied West Bank, human rights activists say the decision has opened the door to Israel’s pillagin ...

The Wonk Room

  • Conservative George Will Rips GOP’s Poli ...
    On ABC’s This Week, conservative commentator George Will rejected the “preposterous” GOP political strategy of trying to win elections by railing against “high gas prices.” As evidence, Will highlighted Rep. Allen West (R-FL), who said he was outraged that it costs ...
  • Apocalypse Not: The Oscars, The Media And The ...
    The two greatest myths about global warming communications are 1) constant repetition of doomsday messages has been a major, ongoing strategy and 2) that strategy doesn’t work and indeed is actually counterproductive! These myths are so deeply ingrained in the environmental and progressive ...
  • Nativist Gov. Jan Brewer Endorses Romney
    On Meet the Press this morning, Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) endorsed Mitt Romney for President. Although Brewer offered little explanation for her decision, citing only Romney’s “pro-business background” and his “political history,” it is not the least bit surprising tha ...
  • Santorum: ‘I Don’t Believe In An A ...
    Rick Santorum took issue with President John F. Kennedy’s famous speech on the separation of church and state on Sunday, telling This Week’s George Stephanopoulos that he does not believe the separation is absolute: I don’t believe in an America where the separation between church and state is a ...
  • Classic Maya Civilization Collapse Related to ...
    Large parts of the arable and populated land of the world faces sharp increases in aridity and dust-bowlification thanks to human-caused climate change. “It is well established that the [Mayan] civilization collapse coincided with widespread episodes of drought, their nature and severity r ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • There is NO Justification for Voting "Conserva ...
    You are either stupid, ignorant, deluded or greedy. Here's why ... Across the board -- whether it's using dirty tricks to get elected in the first place, smear attacks on opponents and critics, or legislation that will completely undermine human rights and civil liberties -- the Conservative ...
  • Thomas Walkom - yes and no
    [hat-tip to Accidental Deliberations], Thomas Walkom's column on the robo-call and misuse of military resources scandals is okay about describing the unprecedented anti-democratic, abusive behaviour of the harpercons. But I'll give Walkom the benefit of the doubt over his speculations on the sou ...
  • Are There Genuine Safeguards To Bring About A ...
    Dr. Dawg is doing a good job of raising the significance of Tory dirty-tricks during the last election. The harpercon sleaze is intolerable. What are the chances that there could actually be by-elections in some of these ridings?
  • How to Win an Election
    Don't pull stupid stunts like calling your opponents' supporters and lying and telling them that the polling location or date had changed. Instead, put together a platform and honestly argue it in the face of others doing the same thing. Why is this so hard for some people to understand? Polit ...
  • Another Quick Post About Ecological Inevitability
    First a mention of an important book: Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - "[N]o system or machinery or economic doctrine or theory stands on its own feet: it is invariably built on a metaphysical foundation, that is to say, upon man's basic outlook on life, its meaning and ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • 3 train workers killed when locomotive goes of ...
    Three employees of Vial Rail were killed in the Canadian province of Ontario on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 26, when the locomotive they were operating was derailed. As of this writing Via Rail says the scene is still an "active" one.
  • Maple Leafs woes: Host of quotes from Leafs Na ...
    They are in a slump, no doubt, and given that the first three-quarters of this season suggested to fans that the long playoff drought might be over, their recent run of poor play is all the more disappointing. For fans, yes, and the Leafs themselves.
  • VIA train derailment near Burlington, Ontario ...
    A passenger train traveling between Niagara Falls and Toronto has derailed and is sitting on its side, near the town of Burlington, ON. Around 60 people have been injured, including three fatalities.
  • Oscar-nominee Plummer recognized on eve of Aca ...
    Just ahead of this weekend’s Oscars, Academy-Award nominee Christopher Plummer picked up a little piece of hardware at an award presentation held by the Toronto chapter of ACTRA on Saturday night.
  • Canucks put Ballard on long-term injury list, ...
    With the placing of defenceman Keith Ballard on the long-term injury list the Vancouver Canucks create a great deal of cap room - Ballard's at $4.2 million a year - and it seems likely they'll seek a defenceman before Monday's trade deadline.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • No Stealth Fighters! Sign-up to be Heard on Ma ...
    Sign the petition - No Stealth Fighters! Sign-up to join thousands of other Canadians and Be Heard on March 3rd!
  • Canadian arms (and principles) sold
    Figures tabled in parliament confirm that Canadian arms sales to Saudi Arabia skyrocketed last year, with more than $4 billion in sales approved to the Middle East monarchy.
  • Promote peace and stop paying for war with Con ...
    Conscience Canada is a group of people who want to know that all the funds that we, as citizens, turn over to government will be used only for peaceful purposes.
  • Vic Toews is watching you
    Public Safety Minister Vic Toews took a break last week from his busy schedule of tracking down terrorist environmentalists, expanding the prison system, and approving information swaps with torturers to put Bill C-30, the disingenuously named Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, bef ...
  • Please renew your support for 2012!
    If you would gladly give $7 each month to stop Harper’s stealth fighters, click here. New monthly donors will receive a free copy of the revised edition of Speaking Out Louder: Ideas that Work for Canadians by Jack Layton (a $30 value).

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Debt Slavery: 30 Facts About Debt In America T ...
    February 10, 2012 Prison Planet By The American Dream When most people think about America’s debt problem, they think of the debt of the federal government. But that is only part of the story. The sad truth is that debt slavery has become a way of life for tens of millions of American families. ...
  • Mortgage Settlement Is Just Another Stealth Ba ...
    Februry 10, 2012 Washington’s Blog By WB The 50-state settlement with the banks (Oklahoma didn’t sign, but supports letting the banks go scot-free) over mortgage fraud is a stealth bank bailout, according to many top observers. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. This is ...
  • US Implausibly Denies Role in Israeli Terror S ...
    February 10, 2012 Prison Planet By Tony Cartalucci The British Daily Mail published a stunning admission by “US officials” that Israel is indeed funding, training, arming, and working directly with US State Department listed terrorist organization, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, also known as M ...
  • US Congress Passes Bill To Ban Insider Trading ...
    February 10, 2012 Press TV By Press TV The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, passed by a 417-2 vote on Thursday, would bar members of Congress and their employees from using exclusive information they learned as lawmakers for their financial benefit. The Senate passed the anti ...
  • Group Forces Congressional Hearing On Big Sis’ ...
    February 10, 2012 Info Wars By Steve Watson A privacy advocacy group has swayed Congress to hold a hearing next week into the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of monitoring social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as media reports and organizations, including The Drudge Re ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Elementary students expelled for rat poison
    Three students were expelled from their elementary schools in Fresno, California Saturday afternoon for attempting to harm their teacher with rat poison in her coffee and cupcake’s icing. According to KFSN-TV, the three students have been transferred from Balderas Elementary to other schoo ...
  • Mitt Romney cast as ‘The Artist’
    In the spirit of The Oscars, The Chris Matthews Show decided this weekend to humorously cast GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney as “The Artist.” The 70 second parody trailer features the characteristics of the Academy Award nominated silent film, and factors in Romney aesthetical ...
  • 3-minute video: CIA Director admits manipulati ...
    3-minute video: CIA Director admits manipulating US news; CBS confirms By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com This ...
  • Do you want to run your own #altnews website?
    By Dark Politricks As you may or may not know I have had recent health problems which the consultant first diagnosed as Cancer and has meant the majority of my spare time is either spent in hospitals, doctor surgeries, chemists or travelling between them all. Luckily I live in the UK so the NHS ...
  • The Mayan ‘Decline’ and Small Horses … More Cl ...
    Anthony Wile Daily Bell February 26, 2012 Here we go again. Global warming is suddenly back in the news and I think I know why. But before I discuss that, let’s take a look at the latest grim findings. Once more we’re reading about the terrible toll that global warming can take. In t ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky: Education For Whom and For What? ...
    Dandelion Salad Arizona on Feb 17, 2012 Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist, spoke at the University of Arizona on Feb. 8, 2012. His lecture, “Education: For Whom and For What?” featured a talk on the state of higher education, followed by a q ...
  • Exclusive: Blowback and the Religious Right by ...
    by Shawn S. Grandstaff Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 24, 2012 I really do care about the direction this country is heading and the way the church is trying to fix it. These are just some thoughts to think on and issues that should be of concern to us as believers when dealing with a [...]
  • The sheep look down By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation 22 February 2012 The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner’s remarkably prescient ‘science fiction’ novel, first published in 1972 concerns the destruction of the entire environment in the US a ...
  • Sibel Edmonds: Obama administration charges a ...
    with Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 22, 2012 RTAmerica on Feb 22, 2012 From Thomas Drake to Bradley Manning, many whistleblowers have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Last week the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Spons ...
  • Moyers and Company: Poet Christian Wiman on Lo ...
    Dandelion Salad BillMoyers.com February 24, 2012 Bill Moyers has a moving conversation with acclaimed poet and Poetry Magazine editor Christian Wiman about how finding true love and being diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer reignited his religious passion as well as his creative exp ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: The myth of Israel’s liberal Su ...
    Adalah: “When the issue of ‘equality’ for Palestinian citizens of Israel is seen as a political rather than a constitutional question, it is then a short step to also view human rights groups that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • US refuses to grant visa to Israeli MK due to ...
    National Union MK Michael Ben Ari believes he was barred from US for being a member of far-right Kach organization, says in response that this type of 'US blindness' is what brought about the 9/11... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish ...
    It is doubtful whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has expressed great concern over the fate of Migron's residents, has heard of Tha'lah. Unfortunately for the village's residents, Tha'lah... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • USACBI: Scholars in solidarity with Khader Adn ...
    The following statement will be distributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Israeli officials, and the US State Department urging immediate action for the freedom of Khader Adnan. ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Israeli High Court of Justice schedules hearin ...
    Israel’s High Court of Justice scheduled a petitions hearing regarding the case of Khader Adnan on Thursday, 23 February 2012. The High Court of Justice was provided with a detailed medical report... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Almost Half of Asthma Sufferers Not Using Need ...
    Asthma is a serious disease, causing 4,000 deaths yearly. The recent death of journalist Anthony Shadid underscores this danger. Study results report 79 percent of asthma sufferers who should be on controller medications are not.
  • Renowned Physicist and Innovator Eric Fullerto ...
    The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is pleased to announce that physicist Eric Fullerton, Ph.D., has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics, which recognizes scientists who have developed proven industrial technologies.
  • Physicist Giovanni Jona-Lasinio Wins 2012 Dann ...
    The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) are pleased to announce that renowned physicist Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Ph.D., has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, which is given annually to recognize outst ...
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors in the Spotlight on Rare ...
    Twitter Chat Hosted by @MontefioreNews on February 29, at 2 p.m., #Monte_NETs
  • Study Shows Differences in Black, White Life E ...
    A group of researchers tracing disparities in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the U.S. has found that white males live about seven years longer on average than African American men and that white women live more than five years longer than their black counterparts.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • May the U.S. (Still?) Use Military Commissions ...
    by John C. Dehn Over at Lawfare last Friday, Bobby Chesney commented on a NY Times article reporting that military commission charges have been initiated against Ali Musa Daqduq. Chesney describes Daqduq as “a Hezbollah member involved in an attack on American forces in Iraq in which the attac ...
  • German “Financial Services Executives” to Come ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I don’t see how this is going to go as planned: More than 160 German financial services executives are willing to come to Greece in order to strengthen the Greek tax mechanism, according to a report to be published in the German magazine ‘Wir ...
  • Greenwashing… By Lego
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Reuters reports that Denmark-based Lego will soon be powered solely by the wind: The family firm that controls Denmark’s Lego is buying almost a third of a German offshore wind power project in an unusual foray outside the toy business to showcase ...
  • Mitt Romney Is Learning Geography from Fox News
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At Wednesday’s debate, Mitt Romney claimed that one of the reasons Iran supports the Syrian government is that Syria is Iran’s “route to the sea.”  Hmm: Where’s Syria?  Oh, yeah, it’s off to the left — past Iraq. ...
  • Self-Execution Beyond Treaties
    by Steve Vladeck Just two days ago, in his dissent in Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Chief Justice Roberts argued that Medicaid beneficiaries should not be able to pursue injunctive relief under the Supremacy Clause against California state officials alleged to ha ...

Public News Service

  • Forum Finds Rural Arizona Hurting for Health Care
    Forum Finds Rural Arizona Hurting for Health Care PHOENIX – Obtaining health care is increasingly difficult in rural Arizona, and state budget cuts are making the situation worse. That was the conclusion at a community health forum in Marana. Tara Plese with the Arizona Association of Com ...
  • Report: Consumer Info At Risk in Overseas Call ...
    Report: Consumer Info At Risk in Overseas Call Centers PHOENIX - A new report links overseas call centers with a lack of protection for the personal information of American consumers. The report from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) calls for new federal legislation to address overse ...
  • "Pocket Pet" Trend Concerns Animal Rights Groups
    "Pocket Pet" Trend Concerns Animal Rights Groups PHOENIX - "Pocket pets" sound like the latest toy craze for children - but these animals are real, and so are the concerns about keeping them as pets. The term is used to describe ferrets, sugar gliders, chinchillas and other hand-held, furry ani ...
  • Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable?
    Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable? PHOENIX - A petition from consumer group Public Citizen says Bank of America is so big and frail that regulators should dismantle it before its problems provoke a crisis. The economists, law professors and former regulators behind the call say there is ...
  • Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow i ...
    Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow in Arizona and New Mexico PHOENIX - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico continued to rise last year. State and federal biologists found at least 58 wolves in their latest count, up from 50 the previous year and 42 in ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...
  • Consumer Groups Petition FDA to Ban GE Salmon ...
    Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) sal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Strike ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • A Plea to the World from the Principal of a Pa ...
    In November we reported with joy about the new school structure at Susiya (Susya). (see also an earlier report here). Only a few weeks later, the Occupation regime’s fraudulently named “Civil Administration” handed down demolition orders to the school. In a rare direct expres ...
  • Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Se ...
    Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...
  • Sheldon Adelson has already bought a politicia ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina primary victory has brought onto the spotlight his campaign’s main benefactor, Sheldon Adelson. Relatively to his wealth and the manner in which he has acquired it, Adelson has managed to stay away from the limelight – despite his quoted bragging ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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?

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Cant make this up – Jeb Bush eyed as lat ...
    Former Florida governor was critical of current field in a speech this week, prompting rumors he could be a surprise contender London Guardian   Bush crime family: Jeb Bush, right, with his brother President George Bush at an Orlando fundraiser in 2006. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters Specul ...
  • We Miss you Bill Hicks! RIP – (Video) Bi ...
    As it is Bill’s Death day today – we wanted to post this tribute to him. Man, was he ahead of his time! Now we have Bill Maher…
  • MSM says just a small amount of children kille ...
      ISLAMABAD (AP) — American drone strikes inside Pakistan are killing far fewer civilians than many in the country are led to believe, according to a rare on-the-ground investigation by The Associated Press of 10 of the deadliest attacks in the past 18 months. The widespread perception in P ...
  • Fox Focus Group Praise Ron Paul, Trash Santorum
    Is the tide turning? We’ll know this Tuesday when Mich, and AZ results come in. Broadcast: February 23, 2012 America Live With MeGYN Kelly
  • Monarch Model (Obama Cousin) Angelina Jolie Co ...
    Yes – Angelina Jolie is a cousin to the Power Elite (O’Bomba, Bush, Clinton)… She allegedly works to “save” the world’s war torn, poverty stricken children… Would she now bomb them, and sanction them to “help” them? Empire Stikes Back by Mart ...

The Air Vent

  • Gleickgate 1.0
    When Steve McIntyre mocks you, you screwed up. :0 Anthony Watts provided the correct link.  
  • Green or Red
    Extremists in congress have chosen to investigate Heartland institute for discrediting mainstream science.   These powerful people who distribute billions of dollars to promote left-wing environmentalism are quoting hundred thousand dollar figures to Heartland in a letter full of innuendo. Like ...
  • Green or Red
    Extremists in congress have chosen to investigate Heartland institute for discrediting mainstream science.   These powerful people who distribute billions of dollars to promote left-wing environmentalism are quoting hundred thousand dollar figures to Heartland in a letter full of innuendo. Like ...
  • My warning about Gleick to the NCSE
    I have been debating whether to post this email exchange with the NCSE.   In light of the recent Gleick burnout, it seems worthwhile.  Readers will recall that I posted on Gleick’s attack on conservative political candidates on behalf of his tax-free 501c3 company. Advertising for or again ...
  • My warning about Gleick to the NCSE
    I have been debating whether to post this email exchange with the NCSE.   In light of the recent Gleick burnout, it seems worthwhile.  Readers will recall that I posted on Gleick’s attack on conservative political candidates on behalf of his tax-free 501c3 company. Advertising for or again ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Konami, Atari, SponsorPay, GREE International, Inc., Social Point, ...
  • Facebook roundup: lobbying, engineering, Power ...
    Facebook loses lobbyists – Politico reported this week that three contract lobbying firms working for Facebook pulled their services after content providers who were also clients raised concerns. The story implies that Internet providers and content creators are at odds, … Continue r ...
  • Platform update: Open Graph submissions, app r ...
    Facebook says it has responded to 90 percent of the thousands of Open Graph submissions it received, and the company is on track to complete the review process in the next few weeks, according to a blog post. The social … Continue reading →
  • Facebook highlights ability to drive traffic t ...
    Facebook shared some new statistics today about the growth some mobile apps have seen since integrating with the social network’s platform. In the past month the company has been building a case that it can help drive traffic and engagement … Continue reading →
  • Fan Appz launches Social Database
    Social media marketing platform Fan Appz announced a feature this week to help companies gather information about their fans that can then be applied to other marketing efforts. With the new Social Database, marketers can begin to create individual customer … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Gaza's race car students "inspirational"
    Stuart Littlewood tells the remarkable story of Palestinian students from Gaza who are competing in an international competition to design and build a racing car, which thanks to the medieval Israeli siege they are doing using domestic water pipes and parts scavenged from disused vehicles.
  • The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Ameri ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Pale ...
  • Reality and the Senate Intelligence Committee
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by failing to participate in national politics, citizens abdicate their potential influence to those who do act politically and that these could be "thugs in suits" with hidden agendas and judgments that are skewed by interest lobbies that hold the purse strings to ...
  • Ten questions Britain's William Hague won't an ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that behind British Foreign Secretary William Hague's extraordinary and otherwise inexplicable hostility towards Iran may lie the desire to preserve the imbalance of power in the Middle East so that Israel remains the dominant military force.
  • Palestine: a story that needs retelling
    Paul J. Balles retells the story of Palestine, reminding us in brief and simple terms of the the basic, undeniable facts of the world's worst, most obdurate and premeditated injustice.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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. . . ...
  • Podcast Show #76
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Cindy Cohn This is Part IV of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here. Cindy Cohn joins us to discuss the critical constitutional questions raised by the government’s ongoing warrantless-illegal surveillance of Am ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword.The other is by debt.” –John Adams  International Newsworthy Britain Had to Plead with US to Take Part in Iran Flotilla Iran Turns Tables on European Embargo War on Iran: Gulf Crisis Ripp ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks For our 4th music pick, we take it down a notch (well sorta). Soothing the Beast tonight is Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, each who have made beautiful music in their own right. Put them together as a husband/wife team and the result is some very sweet tunes ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • You Should Know About The "99% Spring"
    The coalition is calling for a national convergence of training, education, and action between April 9 and 15 to: shape a collective vision of an economy that works for all Americans -- not just the wealthiest 1%; learn about the history and application of non-violent direct action; and put what ...
  • I.A.E.A. is frudulently helping the U.N., Isra ...
    I am so mad I could spit. I am so mad I have a few other choice phrases but they are not suitable for a family news web site. A secret society known as the International Atomic Energy Agency or IAEA, an arm of the United Nations, appears to be encouraging a military assault on Iran.
  • Scott Walker's Koch Connection Goes Bad
    It is no secret that Koch and his billionaire brother, Charles, have long been Walker supporters. Their Koch Industries PAC was the second-highest donor to Walker's 2010 campaign, donating $43,000. The PAC also gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which streamed spending into ...
  • The JFK Factor: Bill O'Reilly on the Assassina ...
    What sort of answer will O'Reilly provide to the fundamental and extremely controversial question about why Kennedy died? Will he perpetuate the mainstream media's near-constant advocacy of the lone-nut scenario? O'Reilly did not even hint at how he would handle it or whether he has any new info ...
  • Adnan's Victory
    When he was arrested last December, Khaled Adnan demanded to be put on trial or released. When neither happened, he declared a hunger strike. A hunger strike is the ultimate form of non-violence. Ghandhi used it frequently, relying on its moral impact. Khaled Adnan's achievement is exactly that: ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • And, Indeed, Doesn’t This GOP Primary Fi ...
    After a nut-related event last night, I would prefer not to think about “throwing up” for a while. But, alas, I saw Little Ricky’s pensees on the subject of religious freedom anyway, so: Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Sunday defended a statement he made last October in ...
  • That must’ve been one Hell of a nap…
    …because when I awoke and finally got a look at the “latest” transcript from the Republican’s 2/22 debate in Arizona, this is what I heard: KING: Governor Romney, both Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich have said during your tenure as governor, you required Catholic ho ...
  • Giving Away the Show
    This comment from Wendy Long, a lawyer who apparently the GOP might be using as cannon fodder against Kirsten Gillibrand this November, is very instructive: If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, comple ...
  • Environmental Funders and the Grassroots
    David Roberts has an excellent piece up at Grist decrying the disconnect between environmental funders and grassroots organizations. There is a criticism of funders on the left that is so old and familiar as to have become cliché. It goes like this: The right’s funders have spent the last 30 yea ...
  • Foreign Entanglements: All Iran Bombing, All t ...
    Duss take on Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation on the subject of bombing Iran to Freedom:

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE GLOBAL LAWYER: Treaty arbitration v. Ecuad ...
    On Feb. 16, Chevron Corp. won an arbitral award neutralizing the $18 billion Ecuadorian judgment now on appeal in that country — only to have an Ecuadorian court defy the arbitrators the next day.
  • OPINION: The Voting Rights Act is outmoded, un ...
    Section 5 was a valuable tool against disenfranchisement, but it now facilitates the bias it was designed to prevent.
  • OPINION: Lessons from the Maples case
    The biggest lesson from the appeal that nearly died in a law firm mailroom is the need for more partner involvement in pro bono cases, especially out-of-state capital cases.
  • THE PRACTICE: Congress gets it mostly right in ...
    The Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2011 rectifies several troublesome civil procedure issues.
  • Call of duty
    Rigsby holds a unique place among D.C. judges. This year marks his 10th anniversary as both a Superior Court judge and his ninth as a military judge in the U.S. Army Reserve's 150th Legal Support Organization Judge Advocate General Detachment.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
  • A Letter from the Responsible Drilling Allianc ...
    Responsible Drilling Alliance Newsletter Fooled Again Februrary 2nd, 2012  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear RDA Members,   Minus a last minute miracle, an incredible shift in the course of the future of Pennsylvania is about to occur. With the Governor set to unveil his vers ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Rethinking Carbon Dioxide: From a Pollutant to ...
    Three startup companies led by prominent scientists are working on new technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The scientific community is skeptical, but these entrepreneurs believe the process of CO2 removal can eventually be profitable and help cool an overheating planet. ...
  • Amazon Subsidiary Selling Meat of Protected Wh ...
    Amazon Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of Internet giant Amazon Inc., is offering for sale roughly 150 food products derived from whales, dolphins, and porpoises, including canned whale meat, whale jerky, and whale stew, according to a new report. In a survey of the Amazon Japan website in Dece ...
  • Near-Extinct Penguin Rookery Recovers with Imp ...
    A century ago, a rookery of roughly 3 million king penguins on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island was nearly wiped out as a New Zealand blubber merchant boiled the birds to extract oil for lamps. Saved by one of the first Wikimedia Commons King penguins international wildlife campaigns, the 4, ...
  • Volcanic Rock Reveals Composition of Ancient T ...
    U.S. scientists say they were able to reconstruct an ancient tropical forest, including long-extinct plant species, using fossil remains trapped beneath the ash of a volcanic eruption that occurred about 300 million years Click to enlarge PNAS A 300-million-year-old forest ago in northern ...
  • Global Permafrost Regions Depicted in High-Res ...
    Swiss researchers have released a series of high-resolution maps depicting the global distribution of permafrostand highlighting those regions where thawing permafrost as a result of global warming could Click to enlarge University of Zurich Permafrost regions in the Himalayas have the ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Fake Meat Grown In Lab: Recipe For Disaster?
    The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort. [It] will be created by growing bovine stem cells in a vat, transforming them into thousands ...
  • The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
    On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin s ...
  • Free Robert Green
    Robert Green was sentenced to 12 months in prison. This is Robert Green’s last interview before being sentenced to one year in prison with no jury. Please write to Robert to show him your support.
  • Massive European network of Stone Age tunnels ...
    Evidence of tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements. That so many tunnels have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original network must have been enormous. Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, ...
  • Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie ...
    Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target. If you’ve got Danger Room’s taste in movies, you’ve probably seen both ideas o ...

Russia Today

  • Chinese breach Great Firewall of China and Occ ...
    For web users in countries where the Internet is restricted, there is nothing quite like the joy of seeing a previously blocked website become available. As Chinese Internet users amply showed when they flooded Barack... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Death toll climbs on Day 6 of Afghan rage over ...
    At least two Afghans have been killed as protests that have rocked the country passed their sixth day. Clashes between law enforcement and rioters have already left more than 30 people dead and hundreds injured. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • New Mediterranean oil and gas bonanza
    The Middle East could soon see new battles over rights to oil and gas beneath the eastern Mediterranean in the Levant Basin and Aegean Sea. The discovery of huge reserves off Israel's coast is changing the geopolitical... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Exuberance and style reign on final day of Bra ...
    Rio de Janeiro bids farewell to the Carnival of 2012, and the last day of week-long celebrations saw it all - captivating samba beats, superb percussionists, imaginative choreography and gorgeous samba ladies in... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Controversy over Iran cutting oil flow to Greece
    Iran has denied a shipment of crude oil to Greece, Fars news agency reported on Sunday. However, according to ISNA, an Iranian oil industry official has rejected the report, saying there had been no changes in Iranian... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came acrossdebunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildingswithout explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collaps ...
  • Kurt Haskell's Awakening
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF2F6AA5408C443F
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • Evidence Based "Conspiracy Theories" Beat Auth ...
    Considering the documentation of corruption in political, corporate and military (intelligence) circles it is irrational to exclude the consideration of high level conspiracy when evaluating the causes of recent conflicts. To a priori exclude a conspiracy hypothesis is naive and illogical. Inde ...
  • "Strange Sounds" DEBUNKED and EXPLAINED

Fooducate

  • Wonderful Walnuts
    Did you know that less than 10% of Americans consume tree nuts in their raw form?  Tree nuts include walnuts, brazil nuts, hazelnuts,cashews, pecans, pine nuts, almonds and pistachios.  Today we’ll talk about walnuts. Walnuts are simply wonderful. They’re tasty, affordable and health ...
  • An ER Meal: A Personal Story
    This is a guest blog post by Toby Amidor, MS RD Recently, my 9-year old son fainted in religious school and needed to get checked out in the ER. Thank goodness he’s okay, but the food he got served bothered me to the point that I’m writing this blog post to gain some perspective and insight [...]
  • SuperKids Nutrition – A Shared Vision for a He ...
    This is a guest blog post by  Melissa Halas-Liang, MA RD CDE Today’s children are at an ever increasing risk of becoming overweight and obese and developing related diseases like diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and certain cancers. Here’s my story, and how I am hope to help the next ...
  • The Incredible Shrinking Candy from Mars
    Mars, the candy maker, not the planet, is trying to do its share to help America lose some weight. While it won’t go to the extreme of making Kale Kandy bars, the company announced last week that it will be discontinuing its King size Snickers Bar (540 calories) by the end of 2013. In fact ...
  • BPA Update: French Ban Upsets Our USDA
    It seems European lawmakers are more in tune with their constituency than Congress. After reviewing the French Food Safety Authority (ANSES) report on Bisphenol-A (BPA), the French parliament issued a ban effective January 2014. (Reminder: BPA  is a chemical compound used as a building block of ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Guard post to protect Peru’s uncontacted Mashc ...
    Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Residents living close to the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe – whose photos went viral last month – will build a guard post to protect both the Indians and locals fr ...
  • Clampdown on sacred ritual as Vedanta mine app ...
    A Dongria boy stands in front of Niyamgiri, where the tribe will hold its festival. © Lewis Davids/Survival Security forces are cracking down on the Dongria Kondh tribe as they prepare for a religious festival this weekend at the top of India’s most contentious mountain. Hundreds are deter ...
  • Survival uncovers shocking human rights abuses ...
    Two Karo by Ethiopia's Omo River. It is crucial to their way of life. © Survival Survival has uncovered shocking new evidence of human rights abuses against tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, as government efforts to develop lucrative sugar cane plantations in the region intensify. Bull ...
  • Survival urges UN to end Andamans scandal
    India's Supreme Court ordered sections of the Andaman Trunk Road to be closed in 2002 © Ariberto De Blasoni/Survival Five years after the UN first called on India to close the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), Survival is urging the organization to bring an end to human safaris by speaking out ...
  • Brazilian indigenous organization wins prestig ...
    Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for a meeting at Bismark to discuss their land claims, Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival Brazilian organization CIR- Indigenous Council of Roraima (Conselho Indígena de Roraima)- has won the Spanish government’s Bartolomé de las Casas awa ...

Greg Palast

  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention
    by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...
  • Queen of Angels' Condoms
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny. Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital. Dr. Kolodny was Jewish. Last night, I heard Sena ...
  • Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the G ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...
  • Romney's Billionaire Funder ThreatensBBC Inves ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash - update Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. The call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer. ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle poker/betting chips?
    Inma has emailed us about betting chips: Hi! I’ve found a lot of chips to bet, and I wonder if anyone has some use for them. There was a fad for playing poker with betting chips a few years ago and all the shops were stacked full of them as cheap/easy Christmas presents – so [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a unwanted solid de ...
    Kathryn has emailed us asking about reuses for a solid deodorant bar: I recently bought a solid deodorant from Lush (this one). It smells nice, but it’s not right for me. Other than using it to keep my sock drawer fresh, could I do anything else with it? The ingredients are listed as inclu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old PVC pipes?
    We’ve had an email from Madhvi asking : how can I creatively recycle old PVC pipes? We’ve covered some reuses for guttering and drainpipes – which are increasingly plastic these days – but I thought it was worth asking Madhvi’s question because PVC pipes come in all ...
  • Reduce This: How can I revamp an old kitchen s ...
    Yesterday, I posted a question from James, asking for ways to reuse or recycle a whole kitchen, because he’s getting a new one. Thanks to everyone that has commented about that! At the bottom, I mentioned reducing is the most important part of the recycling triangle. James already seems qu ...

Age of Autism

  • The Mother Load
    By Cathy Jameson Mother Angry After Daughter Vaccinated Why is this the title of the article? I can easily (and have) thought of a few other title options. School Nurse Crosses the Line: child suffers from vaccine given at school...
  • FOX13 News Salt Lake City Reports on the Autis ...
    By Anne Dachel Here are three stories from FOX13 News in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is amazing that the media is never alarmed about autism, nor is there any criticism of the scientific/medical community's failure to know anything about...
  • Introducing MAPS: The Medical Academy of Pedia ...
    By Teri Arranga An important movement has been initiated that holds great promise for the future of autism prevention and recovery. The Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS) has as its mission to “provide education and long-term support for...
  • Scientists with Starving Brains
    By J.B. Handley Like clockwork, a few times a year, a profoundly asinine study will appear in a scientific journal somewhere ostensibly “further refuting” the hypothesis that vaccines are causing all this autism. Recently, our minds were subjected to ad...
  • The Thinking Moms Revolution. Because TMR Know ...
    Thinking Moms' Revolution What began as a collective journey Of stories across the globe From Autism to recovery, and with whatever happens in between A tight-knit group of parents were drawn to support each other Traveling the Autism journey While...

Global BDS Movement

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?

Open Your Eyes News

  • Jeb Bush eyed as latest ‘white knight&#8 ...
    Guardian – Bush, who is the brother of President George W Bush and son of President George Bush Sr, is a beloved figure among many conservatives who see him as a strong and charismatic leader who is popular in the must-win swing state of Florida. That contrasts with a widespread unease amo ...
  • Pakistan Razing House Where Bin Laden Lived
    NY Times – The Pakistani authorities moved on Saturday to demolish the house where Osama bin Laden died at the hands of Navy SEALs last May, erasing a three-story building that had acquired a painful symbolism for Pakistan’s powerful military, which was badly embarrassed by the American ra ...
  • Britain leads dash to explore for oil in war-t ...
    Guardian – Britain is involved in a secret high-stakes dash for oil in Somalia, with the government offering humanitarian aid and security assistance in the hope of a stake in the beleaguered country’s future energy industry. Riven by two decades of conflict that have seen the emerge ...
  • RBS ‘deliberately’ doubled losses ...
    Telegraph – Royal Bank of Scotland “deliberately” doubled its loss for last year to £2bn in what Stephen Hester, the taxpayer-backed lender’s chief executive, admitted was a sign of “Alice in Wonderland” accounting. Mr Hester said the bank, which is 83pc owned ...
  • The myth of the eight-hour sleep
    BBC – We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night – but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Girls are the Answer... And so are YOU - The P ...
    Canada's Because I am a Girl initiative seeks to unleash the power of Canadian girls, women -- and everyone who matters to them -- to claim a brighter, safer future for girls in the developing world. Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish ...
    Eight people, including children, were thrown out of their shabby hut and left without a roof over their heads on a rainy winter night. The sheep pen was destroyed, and buried underneath it were 15 lambs and a dovecote. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • Media May Give Hamas Extreme Makeover
    Hamas may be headed for an extreme makeover in the corporate mass media. Yes, Hamas, the "terrorist" Palestinian party supposedly sworn to the destruction of Israel. At least, that's what you'd believe if you get all your news from America's mass media-> Submitted by Kit B. to World  |&nbs ...
  • Turkish student village may herald thaw in tie ...
    A small event on Monday in eastern Turkey, less than an hour's drive from the Iranian border, signaled a lull in the hostility that has been characterizing Israel-Turkey relations for over three years. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Al Qaeda Paradox: Freedom Fighters Who Hate us ...
    Were we lied to about 9/11, lied to about Libya & Syria, or perhaps both? Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Lower Lung Function And Airflow Obstruction Ra ...
    A study published February 25 in the European Journal of Heart Failure, reveals that lung function and obstructive airway diseases are associated with a higher incidence of heart failure According to the researchers of the large population-based study, this link was apparent in individuals who ...
  • Barbie, Monopoly and Hot Wheels for iPad Gener ...
    The evolution of classic toys and games is beginning to reflect the fact that even young children are wedded to digital devices.
  • The Vanishing Mind: Dealing With Dementia Amon ...
    At the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, prisoners doing time for murder are caring for inmates with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
  • Ask D’Mine: Basal vs. Bolus Tweaks, Stoc ...
    If it isn’t one thing with diabetes, it’s another — from trying to figure out what the heck’s going on overnight, to the understandable paranoia that sometimes sets in.  But here at the ‘Mine, we’re here to support you! We’ve…
  • Nektar to Announce Financial Results for the F ...
    SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) will announce its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011 on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, after the close of U.S.-based financial markets. Howard Robin, president and...

Common Dreams

  • 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. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • #34 9/11 Truth?
    [Author's Note: You are probably here because you read #34 9/11 Truth? by John Roth yesterday at OpEdNews and can’t figure out why today when you click on the link, OpEdNews returns Article Not Found Sometimes, authors delete their articles after publishing them.To see if the article ...
  • a·the·ist n.
    By Robert Singer One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods. [1] An a·the·ist is really One who doesn’t believe in, Yahweh, Allah or Jehovah (monotheism). Atheists characterize themselves as non-believers in order to put the burden of proof on theists, the belie ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires - Top fund ...
    by: Greg Palast Paulson made $1.5 Billion on auto-bailout and 3.7 Billion on foreclosures.Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government's 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, "nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors to his ...
  • Interfaith coalition urges politicians to stop ...
    Mary Shaw If you've been following the 2012 presidential campaign season at all, you're probably aware that religion is playing a big part in it. Combine a widespread distrust of Mitt Romney's Mormonism with Rick Santorum's rabid Catholicism and the still-ongoing whisperings about President Ob ...
  • Lynne Stewart Appeal for Justice
    by Stephen Lendman Lynne was wrongfully indicted, convicted, sentenced, and given a far harsher one unjustifiably on appeal. On February 29, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit arguments will be presented. She won't be there, but hopes massive support will turn out for her at the: US C ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • New Brunswick needs to change direction
    A new study from UNB-SJ economist Roderick Hill and CCPA-NS researcher Jason Edwards outlines why New Brunswick should move toward a more progressive tax structure.  The report, titled New Brunswick at a Crossroads: Progressive Income Tax, a Clear Choice, estimates that the province could g ...
  • America or Sweden: Which would you choose?
    Ask Americans, as Micheal I. Norton and Daniel Ariely did in this study, to build their ideal system of wealth distribution and they choose something that looks very different than the United States. They build a system that looks a lot more like Sweden. See this interactive infographic. Perhaps ...
  • Deconstructing Drummond
    In response to the February 15 Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services report – widely referred to as the Drummond report after its author, retired banker Don Drummond – the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted a public meeting, entitled Deconstructing Drummond, in Toro ...
  • Iglika Ivanova dissects BC Budget 2012
    The BC budget was released today, and Iglika Ivanova posted her analysis on Policy Note as soon as she got out of the budget lockup. The government claims it had no choice but to present an austerity budget. Iglika begs to differ.
  • State of the Inner City Report 2011
    Neo-Liberalism:  What a difference a Theory Makes "We need to say no to the neoliberal fatalism that we are witnessing at th end of this century, informed by the ethics of the market, an ethics in whih a minority makes most profits against the lives of the majority....." To see the full r ...

World Wide Hippies

  • A Moment In Time
    By Ed Croft,Worldwidehippies – Ah time.  How often do we find ourselves in a mad dash getting nowhere? We fill our lives with things to do and rush from one to the other without savoring the now. The now, that instant moment that we miss, as we are all ready looking ahead to what is [...]
  • NYT: Dementia behind bars makes caregivers of ...
    ,By PAM BELLUCK - SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Secel Montgomery Sr. stabbed a woman in the stomach, chest and throat so fiercely that he lost count of the wounds he inflicted. In the nearly 25 years he has been serving a life sentence, he has gotten into fights, threatened a prison official and bee ...
  • Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Con ...
    byWashington’s Blog,globalresearch.ca -Censorship By Top Social Media Websites Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups. Digg was caught censoring stories which w ...
  • Missing Candice Shields

  • Worldwide Hippies Sunday Funnies w/Boris Rasin
     Santorum Gets Advice                                                                                               COWARDS ========================================================================= To see more [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Why Bill O’Reilly’s Gasoline Price Solution Do ...
    Today’s column was supposed to be about what has happened with ethanol exports following the expiration of the ethanol tax credit. That is an interesting story (and exactly what I felt would happen once the credit expired), but it will have to wait until next week, because there is a story ...
  • How To Kill The Global Warming Cause
    First There Was Climategate, Now There’s Gleickgate In 2009, shortly before the Copenhagen summit on climate change, a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. was hacked. Numerous communications from climate scientists were released to the public, ...
  • Welcome to the New and Improved Design
    Recent visitors to R-Squared will notice a distinct new look to the site that impacts all of Consumer Energy Report. This is a result of some long overdue upgrades, and I would like to detail some of the changes for readers. Some of the code in the previous site was unnecessarily complex. This m ...
  • Butanol & Natural Gas Reserves — R-Squared Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about butanol and natural reserves. I had intended to discuss the Open Fuel Standard when talking about butanol, but ultimately did not. I will get to that in an upcoming episode. Som ...
  • No Free Lunch in Our Energy Options
    Join the forum discussion on this post Land Usage and Wildlife vs. Carbon Emissions If I had to describe the theme of my upcoming book with just one phrase, it would be “There is no free lunch in our energy options.” Sometimes the costs are obvious, as when an oil spill occurs or a ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Is There More to Life than Happiness?
    What's the Latest Development? Though University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Martin Seligman began the positive psychology movement a decade ago, he is still modifying which elements he believes constitute happiness. The latest to be added to the list is 'accomplishment', which ...
  • Is Holden Caulfield Obnoxious?
    You already know where you stand on Holden Caulfield. Either you found him a kindred spirit in your youth and continue to sympathize with him—less blindly, more wistfully—as you age; or else you found him a whiner then and you find him a whiner now. According to the New York Times, the s ...
  • Is America Doomed If The President Is Not A Ch ...
    If it is not illegal for a devout Muslim to become the president of the United States, why are people so hell bent on trying to prove that President Obama is one? Would it matter if any president we’ve had who is still alive were to admit that he was not really a practicing Christian? Is it ... ...
  • How Exercise Benefits Your Brain
    What's the Latest Development? Japanese scientists have just uncovered why exercising gives your brain such a powerful pick up. By examining the brains of animals on an exercise regimen, they saw that physical activity severely drains the energy resources that neurons need to fire, which ...
  • Neuroscience Makes the Mind More Mysterious, N ...
    What's the Latest Development? fMRI machines and PET scanners, which can slice images of the brain to detect blood flow and electrical activity, are often thought of as having solved the mysteries of consciousness (where does it come from and what is it like?) After all, breaking the bra ...

Information Liberation

  • John Bolton dodges question from anti-war vet ...
    "I was in the audience for the taping. Bolton was booed when taking the stage, at which point one of the show's producers hissed at us and said something about "allowing a fair debate". In spite of that, he was then booed overwhelmingly after givin...
  • 'Officer Safety' Uber Alles: The Coercion Cart ...
    The Minnesota state legislature is debating a measure that would amplify that state*s "Castle Doctrine" by recognizing that innocent people have no "duty to retreat" in the face of criminal aggression. This would expand existing legal...
  • Man shocked by arrest after daughter draws pic ...
    KITCHENER * A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children*s* school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school. *I*m picking up ...
  • Windows 8: Millions of PCs Will Get Kill Switc ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Janne Kyt*m*ki, a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google*s (GOOG) Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. ...
  • Report: More Than 100,000 Americans Are Domest ...
    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 the group. The artic...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Free 150-minute life extension
    Step right up! It’s the miracle cure we’ve all been waiting for. But, this is no snake oil, no pink medicine, no alternative or mystical panacea. It can reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer by up to 50% and lower your risk of early d ...
  • Losing weight is easier than you think
    The tabloids were recently full of nonsense about metabolic rate, diets, weight loss, obesity…hold on…when are they not full of nonsense? The latest story claimed that it’s twice as hard to lose weight than current guidelines suggest. Is it? Here’s what the NHS has to say ...
  • How glaucoma medication works
    I recently wrote about the diagnosis of glaucoma and readers were then asking about how their eye drops for the condition work. The raised pressure within the eye that defines glaucoma and can cause optic nerve damage can be lowered through surgery problematic cases that do not respond to drugs ...
  • A real life Periodic Table
    One of the co-founders of Wolfram Research, Theo Gray, owns a home made, wooden periodic table table with compartments underneath every element label, with samples, if you’re a chem geek you’ll have probably seen it before. Gray built and populated the wooden PT in his free time. Kir ...
  • Feeling fine for Fenland findings
    Well, I’ve fasted overnight, urinated into a plastic vial, donated half a dozen shots of blood, been exposed to X-rays, had height (just under 6 foot), weight and waist & hips measured (not telling), body fat determined (somewhere between the “average” man at 18–24%), bloo ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

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

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Ticketing of homeless people in Montreal sky-r ...
    Researchers, community groups call on city to support, no criminalize, homeless population Over the past 16 years, the number of tickets given to homeless people in Montreal has increased seven-fold: In 1994, the amount given out was 1,054; ...
  • It’s Official
    Leaked documents reveal Harper government’s active targeting of anti-oil sands organizations Documents obtained by the Climate Action Network via access to information legislation reveal that the Harper government drew up lists of “ad ...
  • It’s Official
    Leaked documents reveal Harper government’s active targeting of anti-oil sands organizations Documents obtained by the Climate Action Network via access to information legislation reveal that the Harper government drew up lists of “ad ...
  • CBC misrepresenting Quebec student strike?
    CBC coverage of Quebec student protests in downtown Montreal today is driven by a painfully obvious bias against the student strike. News reports via CBC have consistently failed to scrutinize violent police actions against striking students, and the station's coverage bends toward the auste ...
  • CBC misrepresenting Quebec student strike?
    CBC coverage of Quebec student protests in downtown Montreal today is driven by a painfully obvious bias against the student strike. News reports via CBC have consistently failed to scrutinize violent police actions against striking students, and the station's coverage bends toward the auste ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
    David Seaton's News LinksBetween the civil war in Syria, for that is what it is, and the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran, which would set the region -- at the very least -- ablaze, and probably start off a chain of events that could tip the whole world into full-scale depression, we have ple ...
  • Meditations on America and the the Flight of t ...
    David Seaton's News LinksJust the other day I saw a well-known documentary, "Food Inc", which shines a light on the physically and morally toxic American food industry. I found myself getting very depressed about all the young people, especially poor, young people developing diabetes. Full ...
  • Homage to the people of Greece - Αφιέρωμα στου ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, on Wednesday went so far as to suggest Greece might postpone its elections and install a technocratic government free of all political parties, similar to Italy, to ensure that the bail-out programme is implemented. Financi ...
  • A Valentine story
    David Seaton's News Links I thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz.This all happened when I was a little kid.  My stepfather was a docto ...
  • A poem for ex-Judge Baltasar Garzón
    ex-judge, Baltasar GarzónTerrible crimes were committed during and after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, is on trial for da ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Metaphysics of Citizens United and Campaig ...
    Did the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United produce the recent explosion of Super PACs and their flood of independent money from rich donors into the 2012 campaign? There's been a bit of a cottage industry lately claiming that this is a myth, followed by a bit of a counter-cottage indust ...
  • There is More Cynicism Than Hypocrisy in Washi ...
    There is unquestionably a sort of kabuki-like level of hypocrisy that's routine in Washington DC. The party in the majority routinely rails against the obstructionism of the minority, but flips around and extols the filibuster as a cornerstone of democracy when they're in the minority themselv ...
  • LA Times Joins the Paywall Brigade
    I see that the LA Times will soon be putting in place a paywall — oops, I mean a "membership program" — for its online readers: Starting March 5, online readers will be asked to buy a digital subscription at an initial rate of 99 cents for four weeks. Readers who do not sub ...
  • Raw Data: How Registration Affects Comments
    A few weeks ago we started requiring registration with email verification for commenters. So how has that worked out? Here are the basic stats from our tech wizards: 22% decrease in total comments 22% increase in Twitter logins 257% increase in Facebook logins 45% decrease in ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 24 February 2012
    This week doesn't really have a theme. Just a couple of cats enjoying the nice weather. On the left, Domino is rolling around in the sunshine and peering out from behind a potted plant on the patio. On the right, Inkblot obviously has some serious business on his mind as he strides purposefull ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Lou Dobbs Thinks The Lo ...
    Lou Dobbs has a long history of being an idiot.  From race-baiting to flat out bigoted statements, particularly aimed at Latinos to his ridiculous attacks against the “Liberal media” and Liberals “War on America”.  I mean he’s become a cornucopia of ratchet rightwin ...
  • IC 305: Team Rick vs Team Shane
    Topics: Kriss & Kev take sides on The Walking Dead Team Rick vs Team Shane Poor Worf Ben Sisko, one of the greatest starship captains ever Lent and what we’re giving up Sharing too much on the Internet Don’t want your grieving judged, don’t put your grief on display Frankl ...
  • IC 304: Yall Ain’t Shit
    Topics: Batman & Robin could have been worse Fuck Cyclops & Superman Kinect Porn Linsanity & Tebow Time Black people can’t be racist Reexamining the Roland Martin issue Fuck hypocrites Twitter…sometimes I don’t have time for this shit Share with your friends:
  • IC 303: From Ascots to Niggas
    Topics: Whitney Houston’s death Live Tweeting grief The fan guilt Uncouth niggas in the movie theaters Madonna’s geriatric Super Bowl Show Roland Martin gets himself into trouble Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Climate change causes chipmunks hidden damage
    By comparing DNA from alpine chipmunks preserved for 96 years with samples from those living today Emily Rubidge from University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues reveal a threatening, climate-change driven, shrinking of their gene pool.
  • Population and climate raise tropical cyclone ...
    Higher population will mean more people and property are in the way of tropical cyclones made more intense but less frequent by climate change, say Bruno Chatenoux from the Global Change and Vulnerability Unit at the United Nations Environment Program and colleagues.
  • Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears
    Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.
  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...
  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.

e!Science News

  • Training parents is good medicine for children ...
    Children with autism spectrum disorders who also have serious behavioral problems responded better to medication combined with training for their parents than to treatment with medication alone, Yale researchers and their colleagues report in the February issue of Journal of the American Academy ...
  • 'Storm of the century' may become 'storm of th ...
    As the Earth's climate changes, the worst inundations from hurricanes and tropical storms could become far more common in low-lying coastal areas, a new study suggests. Researchers from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that regions such as the New York Cit ...
  • For fish, fear smells like sugar
    When one fish gets injured, the rest of the school takes off in fear, tipped off by a mysterious substance known as "Schreckstoff" (meaning "scary stuff" in German). Now, researchers reporting online on February 23 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have figured out wh ...
  • Investigation links deaths to paint-stripping ...
    The deaths of at least 13 workers who were refinishing bathtubs have been linked to a chemical used in products to strip surfaces of paint and other finishes. read more
  • New research points to erosional origin of lin ...
    Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated for some time that some linear dunes may have formed by "wind-rift" erosion, but this model has commonly been rejected due to l ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • OccuPodcast: 99% Movement Call to Action &#821 ...
    OccuPodcast with host Dennis Trainor, Jr: Two years ago, David DeGraw called for the 99% to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms. This past week, AmpedStatus published a two-year anniversary edition of his report, complete with some personal history and context f ...
  • Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Ca ...
    Editor's Note: History should record that the birth of the 99% Movement was on September 17, 2011. That was when the movement became a household name known to the masses. However, the 99% Movement was conceived exactly two years ago, with the release of an online report and call to action title ...
  • Get Ready for OWSnews.org
    Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...
  • Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on ...
  • Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland
    By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...

+972

  • MK Ahmad Tibi gives Israeli Jews a ‘less ...
    MK Ahmad Tibi is probably the most well known Arab MK in Israel these days. Unfortunately, much of that has to do with the occasional media stunt he pulls. But hey, if Bibi can use the media – why not Tibi? I found it quite amusing that Tibi was a guest on the ancient radio [...]
  • PLO committee agrees to push for landmark elec ...
    With the Palestinian political horizon looking grim, reconciliation, elections and reform may be the only hope. News of a major development in Palestinian politics was reached today in Cairo between leaders of various Palestinian factions. A committee established by the reconciliation agreement ...
  • Uprooted settlers pardoned by court – wh ...
    By Fady Khoury The High Court of Justice on Thursday handed down its ruling in a petition against the 2010 Termination of Proceedings and Deletion of Records in the Disengagement Plan Law (the Pardon Law), rejecting the petition and upholding the law. In 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon an ...
  • Extend settler pardons to all uprooted peoples ...
    The High Court of Justice on Thursday handed down its ruling in a petition against the 2010 Termination of Proceedings and Deletion of Records in the Disengagement Plan Law (the Pardon Law), rejecting the petition and upholding the law. In 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Israel& ...
  • West Bank villages protest in solidarity with ...
    Weekly demonstrations throughout the West Bank focused this week on the demand to open Shuhada St. in Hebron. While hundreds of people took to the streets of Hebron in two mass demonstrations, hundreds more dedicated the weekly Friday demonstrations against the wall and the settlements to solida ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Recycling plant to improve Victorian surf coa ...
    Construction began today on the $42 million Black Rock Recycled Water Plant, which will significantly improve the Victorian surf coast growth corridor long-term water security.
  • Targeted Water Purchase Initiative in Southern ...
    A new, strategic water purchase initiative will be conducted by the Gillard Government in the southern connected system of the Murray Darling Basin from 27 February, 2012.
  • Government thanks outgoing Bureau of Meteorol ...
    The Australian Government has thanked Dr Greg Ayers for the major national and international contributions he has made as Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, following the announcement of his intention to resign due to ill health.
  • Development pressures on Great Barrier Reef t ...
    One of the world's most treasured icons - the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - will undergo a joint assessment to ensure future development along Queensland's coastline is well-planned and its unique values are protected.
  • Further extension to koala threatened species ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced a further 10 week extension to the due date for his decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.

Matt Weidner Blog

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Are We Channeling Lincoln or Darwin?
    Note: Below is a piece I wrote for the Huffington Post about the growing philosophy of right-wing government. You can …Continue reading »
  • Legacies
    It’s finally over. What had begun as a labour dispute ended this week in sad resignation.  The workers at ElectroMotive …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – The Meddling Factor
    For the American colonies life was becoming increasingly frustrating. The denigration they experienced from their political masters in England was …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – The Humiliation Factor
    I passed Vic Toews in Centre Block early in my parliamentary tenure, said “hi,” and received a nasty scowl in …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Increasingly Alone
    When aspiring Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke at an economic club in Detroit last week he revealed just …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • What’s New in Swine Flu – Three Novel Viruses
    Since August, the CDC has reported three novel influenza A virus variants (H3N2v, H1N1v, H2N2v) that have infected humans in the U.S., for a total of 14 cases. All three viruses originated in swine herds.
  • The Air Down There: Dairy Ops in Yakima Valley ...
    The study measures the density of airborne pollutants in homes close to dairy operations, and the pollutants include ammonia, particulate matter (PM), or dust, and ammonia. Many airborne contaminants are unregulated, and the exposure effects are unknown.
  • Faith and the Future
    As we all know the picture is not pretty. Numerous spiritual traditions have taught that we must tend and care for the Earth. And while those traditions and practices entirely make sense for the common good, we have for the most part ignored them.
  • Food Movement Tsunami: U.S. Mayors Ride the Wave
    The mayors may not have started the revolution, but they don’t want to be left behind by it, either.
  • Do Farmers Benefit from Biofuels?
    Biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol, offered the promise of large financial returns to both the farmer and to the rural community. How have the small-scale farmers fared against the land barons?

k2p blog

  • Fakegate and the enrichment of language
    Peter Gleick's inept escapades in the Fakegate shenanigans leads to the coining of new words which will enrich language; "to gleick" meaning to forge ineptly or "a gleick" meaning a vain and inept person.
  • Earliest evidence of the wheel? 7,500 year old ...
    A stone car with two axles and 4 wheels dating from about 7,500 years ago has been found near the North Kurdish town of Qoser. It would seem to be earliest known evidence of a wheeled vehicle.
  • More plagiarism by Indian PM’s Science A ...
    Disclosures that the Prime Minister’s top science adviser, C.N.R. Rao, is a co-author of three research papers with plagiarised text have stirred a debate about seniors accepting authorship while being oblivious to the papers’ contents.
  • Prominent Indian-American researcher being inv ...
    DR. Bharat B Aggarwal, a prominent Indian-American researcher at the University of Texas is being investigated by the Office of Research integrity for alleged falsification and fabrication of images in some 65 publications regarding the cancer fiighting properties of plants.
  • Insurance Companies and alarmism
    Insurance companies are in the business of making perceived risk seem much larger than the actual risk. Based on a request for investigation from JunkScience.com, Nature has forced MIT’s Kerry Emanuel to disclose his employment with insurance companies as a conflict of interest.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Man Sues AT&T For Throttling His iPhone Servic ...
    This could be the start of something interesting. An AT&T customer in California was less than thrilled by the Death Star's decision to throttle his iPhone service even though he was on an unlimited data plan. So he went down to small claims court and came out victorious. Much like many Consum ...
  • Peapod Offer Spirals Through Three Levels Of A ...
    The phrase, "But wait, there's more!" is never good when it's regarding another level of explanations that takes a deal down from something seemingly awesome, to something that is fine, but not as awesome as what you initially thought you were getting. Confused? So was Jed when he read a recen ...
  • Cash Mobs Are Way Better At Helping Boost Loca ...
    Who needs a crowd of people dancing to a pop song in an elaborately choregraphed public maneuver, designed only to get attention? Well, sure, flash mobs are fun to watch, sure, but cash mobs -- large groups of people descending on local businesses to give sales a push -- are a lot more producti ...
  • Stuff To Consider Before Building An Addition ...
    Some homeowners are convinced that they need more space, and glance through their walls with visions of new rooms dancing in their heads. The trigger-happy subset of these folks jumps into these projects with abandon, certain that the addition will "pay for itself" by upping the value of the ho ...
  • Why Won't Anyone At AT&T Answer The DSL Cancel ...
    Most phone/cable/internet providers make it a pain in the butt to cancel service, requiring that you call a specific number during certain hours. But the folks at AT&T DSL seem to be going a step further by not even answering the phone when a customer calls up to cancel. Consumerist reader A.D ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Why “The Help” Is Little Help
    The movie, The Help, has received accolades from across the Hollywood spectrum. Heralded as the most popular film of 2011, it’s been recognized by the NAACP Image Awards, The Golden Globe, The Hollywood Film Awards, The Screen Actors Guild,  The People’s Choice, and the Academy Awards – with mil ...
  • Why, Rick Santorum, We Will Choose to Return t ...
    CARDIFF “Rick Santorum’s ridiculous statements are thought of in The Netherlands in the same vein as those by the North Korean dictator (Kim Jong Il)” said my Dutch wife. We were watching Erik Mouthaan of Dutch rtl TV asked by Rachel Maddow about reaction in The Netherlands to Santorum’s attack ...
  • Pioneering a Way to Distinguish Blood Disorder ...
    by Gretchen Gavett, Special to ProPublica Last year, as part of our ongoing investigation into the troubled state of death investigation in America, PBS “Frontline,”ProPublica and NPR took a closer look at what can be the most troubling and difficult cases — suspicious deaths of youn ...
  • Jeremy Lin’s America
    I was going to write a column today titled “Mitch Daniels on deck,” but after watching a few minutes of the latest GOP debate I turned off political television, turned on the Knicks-Hawks game, and did some thinking about Jeremy Lin. I would argue, notwithstanding the endless echo chamber of pol ...
  • Corporations Don’t Need a Tax Cut, So Why Is O ...
    The Obama administration is proposing to lower corporate taxes from the current 35 percent to 28 percent for most companies and to 25 percent for manufacturers. The move is supposed to be “revenue neutral” – meaning the Administration is also proposing to close assorted corporate tax loopholes t ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Unthreaded (updated)
    There is much to say this weekend and I’m still at the beach… so here’s the Sunday thread. Jo Rating: 7.6/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 7.6/10 (5 votes cast)
  • Unthreaded Weekend
    I’m at the beach, it’s your turn to write Jo   Rating: 7.9/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 7.9/10 (7 votes cast)
  • FakeGate: The sound of a meme collapsing
    Heartland have released both emails that Peter Gleick wrote under his name (below) as well as under a false name. The deceit is there for all to see. Heartland have at all times behaved impeccably. — Jo From James Taylor at Forbes.com The real story in this Fakegate scandal is how the glob ...
  • Malcolm Turnbull Flashback 2009: Conservatives ...
    This is so apt this weekend.  The Ghost-of-Malcolm-Turnbull-leadership is channeling a message for the Labor Party. Listen carefully to him and do … the opposite. Turnbull’s uncanny ability to get it 100% wrong From reporting by Richard Black (BBC) Friday 27th November 2009 The issue ...
  • Phase change: Australian politics turns liquid
    Who says it’s only Rudd versus Gillard? Abbott came from nowhere. Australia may have a new Prime Minister as soon as next week. Former PM, Kevin Rudd has just resigned from his Foreign Ministership so he’s going to challenge the current PM, and it could be any day. Here in Australia ...

ReNew America

  • Kagan must recuse herself from Obamacare case
    (Sen. Jeff Sessions) - As solicitor general of the United States, Justice Elena Kagan served as the head of an office responsible for formulating the Obama administration's legal defense of its domestic agenda priority -- Obamacare...
  • Saving Pastor Yousef
    (Washington Times) - The Islamic regime in Tehran is believed to have given the go-ahead this week for the execution of Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani for the crime of apostasy against an Islamic religion he never held. The international attention his case has attracted may be the only thing keeping h ...
  • Where Ron Paul goes off the rails
    (Joseph Farah) - How can Ron Paul be so right about domestic economic issues and so wrong about ... well, just about everything else? It's puzzling to me. And sad. A perfect illustration of what I'm talking about came recently in an interview Paul did with CNN...
  • Yes, Santorum can beat Obama
    (Tom Tancredo) - One of the most reliable truisms in politics is full of irony: When it comes to predicting presidential elections, conventional wisdom is nearly always wrong. Washington pundits talk and write mostly for themselves, and certainly not for the history books. If they were paid acco ...
  • California asks judges to reveal if they are g ...
    (Weekly Standard) - In order to make sure gays and lesbians are adequately represented on the judicial bench, the state of California is requiring all judges and justices to reveal their sexual orientation. The announcement was made in an internal memo sent to all California judges and justices...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Crazy EOTW Video in Russian
    When researching 2012 stuff, every now and then something poking fun at the meme lightens the doom for me. I found this video on a Ukranian 2012 site. Take a look, it’s only 52 seconds in length: In case you don’t understand Russian, the reporter is initially discussing the price ...
  • Tortuguero Monument 6 – The Full Story
    For a very long time the Mayan doomsday meme revolved around the extraordinary idea that an ancient culture would have a calendar that ended in the distant future. A future we live in… In recent months archaeologists and the media have spun the attention towards Tortuguero Monument 6, t ...
  • More Mayan Pyramids in the USA?
    It’s not hard to make the link. In the early first century, Mayan civilization was on the decline, and up in the USA earthern mounds were being built – and corn was introduced. That the structures were not as elaborate suggests that it was only working class Mayans that fled. Ar ...
  • Farewell Thumb Knuckle / Prepper Declared Insane
    Doomsday Preppers (currently screening on NatGeo in the USA) is reality TV, so of course it includes some drama. And what happened to Tim Ralston certainly wasn’t scripted: Meanwhile, David Sarti, who also appeared on the show, has been declared insane. Yet it might all come down to his ...
  • False Flag Damage Control
    It is well known that governments do their best to hide news they would rather we didn’t hear. Sometimes they pass laws at midnight before a public holiday. Sometimes they make bigger news to drown out the embarassing news… The News They Don’t Want You To Hear During the tria ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Party split over Sanjay Joshi, admits Jaitley
    For the first since Sanjay Joshi was reinstated into BJP’s organizational set-up by Nitin Gadkari, a senior leader has admitted that there were serious differences within the party on the decision. Reported by IndiaTimes 5 hours ago
  • Sandeep powers India to London Olympics men's ...
    Ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh slammed five goals, including a hat-trick, as India qualified for London Olympics men's hockey after missing out the 2008 edition by spanking France 8-1 in the final of thequalification tournament in New Delhi on Sunday. Reported by Rediff.com 7 hours ago
  • Memorable day for Giggs, United and Arsenal
    LONDON (Reuters) - Ryan Giggs enjoyed a dream 900th appearance with a 90th minute winner in Manchester United's 2-1 victory at Norwich City in the Premier League on Sunday while Arsenal came from behind to thump Tottenham Hotspur 5-2 in an astonishing North London derby. Reported by Reuters Ind ...
  • Jharkhand: 3 arrested for kidnapping teenagers
    Police have arrested three persons hailing from Jharkhand who allegedly kidnapped three teenagers from that state and forced them into stealing at crowded places in Kalyan. Reported by Zee News 9 hours ago
  • UP has become mascot of corruption: Sonia
    The UPA government gave lakhs of crores to the UP, but due to the state government`s corruption, the money vanished into thin air, Sonia Gandhi said. Reported by Zee News 9 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • 10 Tips for Working Parents to Have More Famil ...
    I see it all the time. Women (and men) working so hard to provide for their family, to create a better life for their kids...only to lose sight of what they are working for in the first place. Consider these ways you can put your family first (without giving up your job). Studies show most ...
  • Planning a Last Minute Oscar Party? Me Too!
    If Genie's brilliant array of Best Picture Dinners hasn't given you inspiration for Oscar-themed fare, then I probably can't help you, but being the lazy hostess/film geek that I am I'm sure going to try.  Because you know they still have Fashion Police badges at your local party store. A p ...
  • Live Tweet the Oscars with BlogHer Pop!
    It's almost time!  Tonight, the celeb set will stroll the red carpet down Hollywood Boulevard and into the Kodak Theater for the 84th Annual Academy Awards and you can bet your butt we here at BlogHer Entertainment will be watching -- and live tweeting -- every single second of it. Because ...
  • A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Food Prep for The Help
    There was no shortage of food in almost every scene of Best Picture Nominee The Help, but what did it take to make sure all that food was true to the culture and time depicted in the movie and actually delicious (since, in many cases, the actors were eating the food right there on-screen)? Learn ...
  • Inappropriate Coaching and Parent Responses
    Earlier this week, a high school in my town fired its head football coach over allegations that he sent an inappropriate text to a female student.  I’m angry at his stupidity and overall lack of judgment.  I’m angry that school officials did not act in a more timely manner in this situ ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Meat Grown in Lab Poised to Enter Food Industry
    A scientist in Maastricht University has grown the world’s first synthetic meat in hopes to keep animal protein accessible and inexpensive in the face of growing demand.  Dr. Mark Post explains: “Meat demand is going to double ...
  • Be Reminded of What it Means to Resist!
    This speech from Charlie Chaplin comes from a movie created at the end of the Nazi era as a satire against the evil regime.  A comedian for all intensive purposes, Charlie Chaplin was also wise, the ...
  • Occasional Fasting Offers Boost in Mental Heal ...
    Longevity is not only rooted in what we put in our bodies but also how we regulate our intake.  There is a Japanese proverb, “hara hachi bunme” or “Stop eating when you are 80% full”. ...
  • Get Dirty to Get Joy- Bacteria in Soil Acts as ...
    A bacteria found in soil called Mycobacterium has been found to effect the same neurons as Prozac, offering people a natural lift in mood.  This is just one more great reason to get out in ...
  • Why do 53% of autistic children have rh negati ...
    One of the most misinterpreted terms out there is “rhesus disease”. It is not a disease, but rather an incompatibility causing danger to the rh positive child in the rh negative mother’s body. The common remedy ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Is this ‘meaningful’ mine safety l ...
    As we begin another week, expect movement perhaps as early as Monday morning to get a mine safety bill through the West Virginia House of Delegates before Wednesday’s deadline to approve legislation in its house of origin. Officials from the Tomblin administration have worked out a deal wi ...
  • Remembering the Buffalo Creek Disaster
    (A dog sits in Buffalo Creek hollow in the aftermath of the 1972 coal-slurry dam disaster in this photo by longtime Gazette photographer Lawrence Pierce) Earlier this week, I wrote a print story for the Gazette looking back briefly at the Buffalo Creek Disaster and at the continuing concerns of ...
  • One more time: Can Upper Big Branch be the last?
    Clay Mullins, brother of deceased Upper Big Branch coal miner Rex Mullins, is surrounded by members of the media Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 following a family meeting with investigators in Beckley, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) When I drove the West Virginia Turnpike to Beckley yesterday, I watched ...
  • ‘Tepid’ state UBB report points to ...
    Family members of the coal miners killed in the April 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine leave after a meeting where state mine safety officials released the results of their investigation into the explosion. Gazette photo by Chris Dorst. I spent a long time trying to come up with one g ...
  • Alpha takes $745M ‘goodwill impairment&# ...
    We haven’t seen any comments from our friends at Alpha Natural Resources on yesterday’s release of the state report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. So we still don’t know if Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield thinks the deaths of 29 coal miners on April 5, 2010, was — as ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Clarification on My Free Will Position
    A number of people recently have asked me about how my position on free will integrates with a practical society, e.g. how do you get up in the morning if you know you don’t make your own decisions? I answered this recently in an email, and here’s the response: – >On Sun, Feb 2 ...
  • How to Convince Someone Evolution is True | Reddit
    He permitted her to persist with the illusion that evolution and creation are competing hypotheses, when in fact they are entirely independent concepts that have nothing to do with one another. She needs to understand why creation doesn’t belong in a science classroom. The fact that she th ...
  • Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Yea ...
    Seth Weintraub, a blogger for 9 to 5 Google, who first wrote about the glasses project in December, and then discovered more information about them this month, also said the glasses would be Android-based and cited a source that described their look as that of a pair of Oakley Thumps.They will a ...
  • S for Lisp | George Watsky
    via youtube.com Enjoy. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSeriously Fast LyricsA Creative SongNew Headz Up App | SNLHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)
  • I Pray Every Night For an Obama vs. Santorum P ...
    Moderate Republicans in this country need to see how ridiculous Santorum looks when compared to someone who is both reasonable and compassionate. They need to be embarrassed. I want them to physically cringe every time Santorum opens his silly face to speak. I want them beaten into submission by ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • A Moment In Time
    By Ed Croft,Worldwidehippies – Ah time.  How often do we find ourselves in a mad dash getting nowhere? We fill our lives with things to do and rush from one to the other without savoring the now. The now, that instant moment that we miss, as we are all ready looking ahead to what is [...]
  • NYT: Dementia behind bars makes caregivers of ...
    ,By PAM BELLUCK - SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Secel Montgomery Sr. stabbed a woman in the stomach, chest and throat so fiercely that he lost count of the wounds he inflicted. In the nearly 25 years he has been serving a life sentence, he has gotten into fights, threatened a prison official and bee ...
  • Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Con ...
    byWashington’s Blog,globalresearch.ca -Censorship By Top Social Media Websites Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups. Digg was caught censoring stories which w ...
  • Missing Candice Shields

  • Worldwide Hippies Sunday Funnies w/Boris Rasin
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reference frame

  • German interior minister: let's squeeze Greece ...
    On Saturday, the German minister of interior, Mr Hans-Peter Friedrich, became the first member of Merkel's government who began to publicly defend the removal of Greece from the eurozone. It's not too long a time ago when Merkel herself warned that the decay of the eurozone would mean the eru ...
  • Rudd vs Gillard: a bizarre biological warfare ...
    I think that most of us in Europe are confused by the Australian politics. The same thing could be true for most Americans. Former Labor Party leader and former prime minister Kevin Rudd who was fired in 2010 wants to destroy and replace the current Labor Party leader and prime min ...
  • Brian Cox misunderstands locality, Pauli exclu ...
    It's very refreshing to agree with Sean Carroll (and a guy named Tom Swanson) on something. Brian Cox wanted to use quantum mechanics to defend the Gaia religious proposition that "everything is connected with everything else" (the last sentence of the video above). I am convinced ...
  • Clouds falling by 44 ± 22 meters per decade
    Dozens of media outlets (let me pick IB Times as an example of a good story) inform us about a new paper by Roger Davies and Matthew Molloy of New Zealand, Global cloud height fluctuations measured by MISR on Terra from 2000 to 2010 (Geophysical Research Letters, abstract)A satellite uses s ...
  • RSS: temperature trend in the last 15 years is ...
    We've been emphasizing for a few years that in the last decade, the global warming trend wasn't statistically significant and according to most datasets, it was actually negative: linear regression produces a cooling result. Global warming as seen in Versoix, Switzerland in James H ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • @MaxKeiser’s Stand Up Rage at the King’s Head ...
    November 19th, 2011 – Max stand up rages about austerity sandwiches, Lloyd Blankfein’s fishbowl of fraud and a useless Scottish fiver. Related posts: KING WORLD NEWS INTERVIEW: John Embry from Sprott – May 26 2011 John Embry: Chief Investment Strategist for Sprott Gold & Precious ...
  • Fukushima radiation detected 400 miles away in ...
    Yeah that radiation is not a problem. Nothing to see here. Move along… From Natural News: (NaturalNews) The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is far from over, as new reports explains that water samples taken nearly 400 miles off the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean are showing radiati ...
  • How Goldman Sachs Helped Mask Greece’s Debt
    Nick Dunbar, author of ‘The Devil’s Derivatives, reveals how the country turned to investment bank Goldman Sachs for help getting around the deficit rules. In his report for Newsnight, some of those who did the deal, talk publicly for the first time. http://LeakSource.wordpress.com T ...
  • Shock Top – The Official Beer of the End of th ...
    So the world is going to end in 2012. The signs are everywhere. From my recent discovery of Planet X aka Nibiru appearing in Fredericton, to Mayan Prophecies. So in truly capitalistic fashion a beer company has released Shock Top – The Official Beer of the End of the World™. Stay thirsty m ...
  • Canada’s ruling Conservative Party involved in ...
    The Facts Shit is hitting the fan in Canada this weekend as the ruling Conservative party allegedly used a robo-calling system in  ridings where polls showed a tight race. This robo-calling system would tell voters it was Elections Canada calling and directed voters either to a wrong polling sta ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • Fakegate and post-modern journalism.
    Fakegate has been a very public reverse for climate alarmism. Instead of being a successful smear of the Heartland Institute and other parties, it’s likely to be viewed in retrospect as a turning point in the manner in which the mainstream and online media covers dissenting institutions and voic ...
  • Fakegate.
    I’ve been watching the developments following the publication of the Heartland documents, what’s now very appropriately become known as Fakegate. As usual, the propaganda organ of climate alarmism, otherwise known as the mainstream media, has been very quick off the mark to circulate any materia ...
  • Being you.
    We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more
  • How policies get dropped and positions reversed.
    Political policy changes constantly in a democracy. It does so primarily in response to the changing concerns of its electorate, because by addressing these concerns, politicians hoping to gain office naturally expect to attract votes by catering to these concerns. When the economy is prosperous ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...
  • Message to Occupy Prisons Protests, By Robert King
    The below message, from Robert King, a former New Orleans Black Panther and member of Angola Three, was recently published in the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three newsletter. First of all I would like to applaud and salute those in the Occupy movement for focusing on the hideou ...
  • Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist An ...
    I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I learned about the incredibly egregious law HB 56 and I l ...
  • What Does Gender Have To Do With Housing? By S ...
    From the Bridge The Gulf website: This article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork: Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housi ...
  • For Volunteers in New Orleans: Principles of P ...
    More than six years after Hurricane Katrina, volunteers are still coming to New Orleans from across the US. We appreciate the solidarity, but we also think it is important to be conscious of the limits of volunteerism. In that spirit, we believe it is useful to republish this 2007 letter, origin ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Rethinking Carbon Dioxide: From a Pollutant to ...
    Three startup companies led by prominent scientists are working on new technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The scientific community is skeptical, but these entrepreneurs believe the process of CO2 removal can eventually be profitable and help cool an overheating planet. ...
  • Amazon Subsidiary Selling Meat of Protected Wh ...
    Amazon Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of Internet giant Amazon Inc., is offering for sale roughly 150 food products derived from whales, dolphins, and porpoises, including canned whale meat, whale jerky, and whale stew, according to a new report. In a survey of the Amazon Japan website in Dece ...
  • Near-Extinct Penguin Rookery Recovers with Imp ...
    A century ago, a rookery of roughly 3 million king penguins on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island was nearly wiped out as a New Zealand blubber merchant boiled the birds to extract oil for lamps. Saved by one of the first Wikimedia Commons King penguins international wildlife campaigns, the 4, ...
  • Volcanic Rock Reveals Composition of Ancient T ...
    U.S. scientists say they were able to reconstruct an ancient tropical forest, including long-extinct plant species, using fossil remains trapped beneath the ash of a volcanic eruption that occurred about 300 million years Click to enlarge PNAS A 300-million-year-old forest ago in northern ...
  • Global Permafrost Regions Depicted in High-Res ...
    Swiss researchers have released a series of high-resolution maps depicting the global distribution of permafrostand highlighting those regions where thawing permafrost as a result of global warming could Click to enlarge University of Zurich Permafrost regions in the Himalayas have the ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Henderson tops Edgar at UFC 144
    Ben Henderson claimed the UFC lightweight title with a unanimous decision over Frankie Edgar at UFC 144 on Saturday night. Ryan Bader survived a frightening fall onto his neck to win every round in a unanimous decision over Japanese favorite Rampage Jackson in the co-main event of the UFC's fi ...
  • Fiscally hobbled Japan nears multiple-currency ...
    For a single-currency area to be sustainable, one of two conditions needs to be met. One, sufficient economic convergence throughout the area in question. Two, a transfer mechanism to offset whatever economic divergences exist in the area. The eurozone currently meets neither of these conditions ...
  • Kipyego passes legend to win Tokyo Marathon
    Kenya's Michael Kipyego upstaged former world record holder Haile Gebrselassie to win the Tokyo Marathon ahead of Arata Fujiwara in 2 hours, 7 minutes and 37 seconds on Sunday. The 38-year-old Gebrselassie, who holds the third-fastest time ever at 2:03.59, was fourth in 2:08.17, his first comp ...
  • Defensive intensity propels B-Corsairs past Sh ...
    Justin Burrell scored 17 points and hauled in 18 rebounds as the Yokohama B-Corsairs routed the Miyazaki Shining Suns 81-64 on Sunday afternoon at Yokohama International Pool. Masayuki Kabaya contributed 14 points and Marcus Simmons and Draelon Burns had 10 apiece to give Yokohama a split of i ...
  • Noda makes first trip to Okinawa for Futenma talks
    Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made his first visit to Okinawa Prefecture as head of the government Sunday in a bid to persuade residents to back the long-stalled plan for moving a contentious U.S. air base within the prefecture. During his two-day trip, Noda will speak Monday with Okinawa Gov ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • Gaza's race car students "inspirational"
    Stuart Littlewood tells the remarkable story of Palestinian students from Gaza who are competing in an international competition to design and build a racing car, which thanks to the medieval Israeli siege they are doing using domestic water pipes and parts scavenged from disused vehicles.
  • The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Ameri ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Pale ...
  • Reality and the Senate Intelligence Committee
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by failing to participate in national politics, citizens abdicate their potential influence to those who do act politically and that these could be "thugs in suits" with hidden agendas and judgments that are skewed by interest lobbies that hold the purse strings to ...
  • Ten questions Britain's William Hague won't an ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that behind British Foreign Secretary William Hague's extraordinary and otherwise inexplicable hostility towards Iran may lie the desire to preserve the imbalance of power in the Middle East so that Israel remains the dominant military force.
  • Palestine: a story that needs retelling
    Paul J. Balles retells the story of Palestine, reminding us in brief and simple terms of the the basic, undeniable facts of the world's worst, most obdurate and premeditated injustice.

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • FF News: President Abdulla 'arrives,' in China
    by The Nike Outlet (Posted Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:47:13 GMT) Nike appears to have consistently survived roughly standing in front of several brands. It is been loved for its good quality and innovative designs. The truckloads of Cheap Nike Shoes are sufficient to keep you grinning from ear to ear. ...

Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

  • Cleveland Unscathed, Yet USPS Consolidation Pl ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee which oversees the United States Postal Service (USPS), and has been a consistent supporter of the USPS, today released the following statement regarding the proposed consolidation plan which clos ...
  • Good News for Workers at Cooper Tire; Tentativ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after workers and management at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company came to a tentative agreement to end the lock out. “Collective bargaining works. It works for the people, it works for workers, it works for the economy and i ...
  • Kucinich Applauds Obama Administration’s Effor ...
    Cleveland, Ohio (February 23, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the Obama Administration announced plans to spend about $50 million this year to protect the Great Lakes from Asian Carp, an invasive species.  “I applaud the Obama Administra ...
  • Proposed Incinerator Permit Application Reject ...
    Today the United States Environmental Protection Agency informed the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) that the proposed permit for the trash incinerator in Cleveland did not protect public health and the environment enough to be considered legal.   Congressman Dennis Kucinich ...
  • Kucinich: Administrator Bolden’s Visit Highlig ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding NASA Administrator Bolden’s visit to NASA Glenn Research Center yesterday.  “The NASA Glenn Research Center (Glenn) has critical roles in the agency’s missions, including Exploration, Space Operations, Scie ...

Authentically Wired

  • … So what does this say about the absent ...
    … So what does this say about the absentee ballot system Arizona’s red queen put into place during her stay as Election Official chief …     Filed under: Blogroll
  • And we remain deaf, dumb, silent … why&# ...
    … And we remain deaf, dumb, silent … why…? Our tyrannical Tea-Publican legislature shuts out the public on the budget   READ COMPLETE COMMENT HERE … Posted: 22 Feb 2012 08:24 AM PST  …Posted by AzBlueMeanie: You were warned this would happen. Shooter considering banning public te ...
  • what goes around comes around
    … Billy Gates’ … Microsoft … is finding out what it feels like   … when it is no longer the “big-dog” and has everyone shaking and quaking at the every move …    … what goes around comes around …   Filed under: Blogroll
  • …NOW THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHIN ...
    …NOW THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING … GOOD … Internet Privacy Bill: Obama set to unveil ‘do not track’ support The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights will be formally unveiled tomorrow, and is set to endorse the ‘Do not track’ web browser button that already has the support ...
  • … So you really think “corporate&# ...
    … So you  really think “corporate” wants you and me to have CONTROL over our data … that just ain’t going to happen with this Congre$$ and this Court system …   …Consumer Privacy ‘Bill of Rights’ Seeks To Give Web Users More Control Over Their Data… RAAD COMPLETE ARTI ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • 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 ...
  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...
  • Herpetology curator: behind-the-scenes of 'new ...
    Bryan Stuart’s mission as a curator of amphibians and reptiles at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is to understand the diversity of life on earth. For that, he documents what species occur where and why. He’s particularly attracted to areas where there’s a dearth ...
  • Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?
    Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Laboratory aims to be one stop shop for winemakers
    Hill Laboratories expects its Christchurch wine lab to become a one-stop shop for Kiwi wine companies.The wine-testing division of the laboratory has leased adjoining space in its existing Hornby building and employed three extra...
  • Einstein may be right after all
    The mind-boggling recording of particles that travelled faster than Einstein deemed possible may have been caused by dodgy wiring, scientists at one of the world's largest laboratories have revealed.Researchers at the Cern physics...
  • Grammar boys' hot air gets Nasa's attention
    Two Auckland schoolboys could be responsible for the future of astronaut luxury - air-conditioned spaceships - and will visit Nasa headquarters in Washington DC next month to see if their idea will be tested in space.Auckland Grammar...
  • Doubt cast over breaking of light-speed
    The scientists who announced they had recorded subatomic particles called neutrinos breaking the speed of light last year have found a small problem. The results could have been skewed by a dodgy cable, according to the physicists...
  • Bird flu more common and less lethal - study
    Bird flu is believed to be a rare disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, but a US study out today suggests it may be more common and less lethal than previously thought.The research could help soothe concerns...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Romney Bug Report
    Thanks to Mitt Romney, politicians will never again assume that feigning interest in NASCAR is a surefire way to show the common touch: Two days away from a critical primary in Michigan, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney detoured to Daytona International Speedway on Sun ...
  • Wikileaks Strikes Again, Dumps Hacked Emails f ...
    Tomorrow morning 25 media organizations across the globe (including Rolling Stone and McClatchy here in America) will publish stories based on a massive cache of emails obtained by Wikileaks. According to a press release on the Wikileaks website, the emails are from the private secu ...
  • T-Paw Surprises With Best Speech of Cal GOP Confab
    If you were looking for somebody to say last rites for a political party, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty would be the logical choice. His aged-but-unlined face, patiently pedantic affect and low-blood-pressure delivery all give Pawlenty the air of an amiable parish priest.  But ...
  • Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep, & The Iro ...
    "When I first heard of this movie," says John Blundell, "I immediately was a little worried because of Meryl Streep's own ideas and polices and so on that are very distinctly not Thatcherite." As a longtime Margaret Thatcher ally, few people are in a better position t ...
  • The Cheyenne Army
    New frontiers in disaster preparation: House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run government continuity task force, which would study and prepare Wyoming for potential catastrophes, from disruptions in food and energy supplies to a complete m ...

Mercury Rising

  • Honduras: the Comayagua prison fire and a fire ...
    Via Adrienne (here and here), David Dougherty of TRNP on the fire: and Dana Frank on Counterspin. The latter starts at 17:00. Frank believes that the publication of her OpEd in the NYT indicates a slight opening in the imperial position regarding Honduras, and that this could have budgetary cons ...
  • Does MinnPost Have A New Revenue Stream Via Se ...
    We’re all familiar with direct-mail marketing, at least of the paper mail kind. Mailing lists of people who might be interested in what you have to sell are quite valuable, and are often sold by one group or commercial interest to similarly-employed or similarly-minded groups or interests. ...
  • Does MinnPost Have A New Revenue Stream Via Se ...
    We’re all familiar with direct-mail marketing, at least of the paper mail kind. Mailing lists of people who might be interested in what you have to sell are quite valuable, and are often sold by one group or commercial interest to similarly-employed or similarly-minded groups or interests. ...
  • I believe this is called “obstruction of ...
    Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian: Rupert Murdoch’s News International took active steps to delete and prepare to delete the publisher’s email archives as phone-hacking allegations and lawsuits against the owner of the now-defunct News of the World mounted in 2009 and developed in 2010. Acco ...
  • I believe this is called “obstruction of ...
    Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian: Rupert Murdoch’s News International took active steps to delete and prepare to delete the publisher’s email archives as phone-hacking allegations and lawsuits against the owner of the now-defunct News of the World mounted in 2009 and developed in 2010. Acco ...

Reality Sandwich

  • The Church of Random Rab
    Photo by Mario Covic (mariocovic.com) read more
  • Conscious Evolution Now
    In the wake of the Occupy movement and grass roots uprisings, what are the next steps for creating the beautiful world that we all know is possible? On Leap Day, discover how we can transform our society to build a new planetary culture, when the "grandmother of the consciousness movement&q ...
  • Occupy This Week
    This week Farm Aid Joins OWS in the campaign to create awareness around food issues and solutions. #F27 marks a Day of Global Action: “Occupy the Food Supply." The Occupy Wall Street community invites everyone to participate in creative actions here in NYC and across the Globe. read more
  • This Week in Psychedelics
    A dozen Latin American countries call for an alternative to the drug war, the "chemical genius" behind Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is profiled in the NYTimes, and a new first-person shooter game hunts for magic mushrooms in this week's psychedelic news. read more
  • Prophetic Stickers
      I am a professional bumper sticker writer. By "professional," I mean that my bumper stickers are published -- that is to say, they become physical objects to be placed on the back of one's car. (And I get "royalties" -- as much as $15.26 per quarter.) Of course, ...

Desertification

  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • Train derailment kills 3 in Canada
    Canada, Transportation Safety Board, Via Rail Canada, rescue workers, staff, buildings, minor, damages, Burlington, three, 77, passengers, Canadian, investigation
  • Oscar goes to Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’
    Internationally-acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin: A Separation has won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.
  • US, South Korea test North’s threat
    South Korea and the United States have started annual joint military maneuvers, despite the North's threat of possible retaliation.
  • UK PM ‘organ grinder’ for rising racism
    Campaigners at a Unite Against Fascism conference in London have accused British Prime Minister David Cameron of being the "organ grinder" for the rise in racism due to his economic and social policies.
  • Fresh strikes hit Frankfurt airport
    Airfield workers at the Frankfurt airport in Germany have resumed their strike, bringing chaos to aviation services in Europe’s largest economy.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Border guards, fire brigade officers and priso ...
    Border guards, fire brigade officers and prison guards blow horns as they protest demanding monthly wage increases of 300 zlotys (US dollar 85, euro 66) , just like those recently given to the police and armed forces, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Similar protests t ...
  • International Indignados movement demonstrator ...
    International Indignados movement demonstrators chash with Italian police officers as they try to move out of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2012. The Indignados staged a sit-in and tried to place tents and climb the Vatican Christmas tree as a pro ...
  • Nepalese students chant anti government slogan ...
    Nepalese students chant anti government slogans during a torch rally to protest against Nepal Oil Corporation’s decision to hike prices on major petroleum products, including petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG in Kathmandu January 24, 2012. Reuters
  • Members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) c ...
    Members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) chant slongans against French president during a protest outside the French consulate in Istanbul, on January 24, 2012. The French Senate on Monday approved, by 127 votes to 86, the measure which makes it an offence punishable by ...
  • Members of a leftist Turkish party waves party ...
    Members of a leftist Turkish party waves party flags and hold a banner reading ‘Armenian allegations are part of a new Treaty of Sevres (which would have divided Turkey) by the USA and EU’ as they protest outside the French embassy in Ankara on January 23, 2012. Turkey thre ...
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