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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

29 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Opera has started advertising its custom applications for browsing. I already prefer the app noted in the sidebar  YouTube Web M Plus  for watching YouTube. I've used Opera as an additional browser for years, never utilizing many of its possibilities. But then, I've not understood how to do that in many cases ! 
Google made Opera free - so this is rather a Google ad for two reasons. Hm.


 
 If you're wondering why Zemanta is not always activated on posts - though sometimes I literally don't have time to wait for it - here's the advisory
The connection timed out - sure you're online? If you see this often, please contact us at support@zemanta.com.
Even running with 4 gig of RAM on Windows 7 and a Toshiba Satellite ( I cheat and plug in a bigger monitor ) with AMD Quad Core, I push the limits apparently. Chrome, Avant and Pale Moon  browsers are added for fun ( Yes, I am a resource hog. I even run 2 browsers at once at times and far too many Tabs )
The old timer custom box single core 3 gig AMD CPU on Ubuntu 11 still runs fine - upgraded to 2 gigs RAM and with a 4 gig replacement board now - but the cursor likes to hide . I selected the option to press Ctrl to show it at least, yet the OS still wants to verify who I am at inconvenient intervals. It was brought back in order after my inept attempt at deleting unwanted files whacked my dependencies so I could not update - so I get to play with the Chromium browser and more. 
 

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

  • 'Iran' as a weapon of subordination
    Summary: In addition, the IAEA investigations began to question the right of certain countries to enrich uranium for energy purposes. The US-EU position is to deny Iran its own enrichment and reprocessing infrastructure, even if it fulfills the IAEA safeguard requirements for verification. Ir ...
  • Iran talks could begin soon - Ashton
    Summary: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton expressed optimism today that negotiations between Tehran and world powers on Iran's nuclear programme could begin soon. source: Morning Starread more
  • War with Iran? What are the odds? King's colle ...
    Summary: When: 28.02.2012 KCL Strand Campus, K-1.56, Raked Lecture Theatre, 18:30 until 20:30 Speakers: Sir Richard Dalton, Ariane Nejad, Mohammad Kamaali, Chris Nineham. source: King's College London Think Tank Society read more
  • Putin: US should recognise Iran's right to dev ...
    Summary: “We propose recognizing Iran's right to develop a civilian nuclear program, including the right to enrich uranium,” he said. “But this must be done in exchange for putting all Iranian nuclear activity under reliable and comprehensive IAEA safeguards. If this is done, the sanctions ag ...
  • Six questions reporters should ask of anyone a ...
    Summary: America is once again drifting toward war. Less than ten years after the U.S. invasion (and subsequent occupation) of Iraq, its myriad lessons seem forgotten. A familiar, toxic mix of sloppy politicians and politicized foreign policy experts is telling the American public that an irr ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Complex Organic Matter Discovered Created by S ...
    Physicists Freeman Dyson has said that it appears as though the Universe was anticipating our existence. A recent discovery seems to support his observation: In 2011, astronomers discovered that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe, suggesting that...
  • Radical New 3-D Model of Planet Formation Unveiled
    The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System’s planets grew as small grains colliding chaotically, coalescing into bigger ones, colliding yet more until they...
  • Image of the Day: A Colossal Star Destined to ...
    The breathtakingly beautiful Cocoon Nebula is located about 4,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cygnus. Hidden inside the Cocoon is a newly developing open cluster of stars dominated by a massive star in the center of the above...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' February Contest -- Two Day ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
  • What Were the Consequences of Early Human & Ne ...
    Ealy modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago. The question has long been whether the physically stronger Neanderthals, who possessed the gene for language and may have played the flute, were a separate species or could have...

Natural News

  • Canadian addiction experts call for national s ...
    With addictive painkiller OxyContin being phased out in Canada, health experts are calling for a national strategy to confront prescription painkiller abuse. OxyContin is the most well known form of the narcotic painkiller oxycodone (technically, oxycodone hydrochloride...
  • Are cell phones really so bad for your health?
    Cells phones are one of the most utilized, most convenient inventions of the twentieth century. While there are definite advantages to using cell phones, e.g., being in contact with loved ones at all times, as with any convenience or luxury there are usually some downfalls...
  • Chiropractic treatments improve sensory-proces ...
    Sensory processing disorders (SPD) are impairments in detecting, modulating, interpreting, or responding to sensory stimuli. One study estimates that 5 percentof elementary aged children met the criteria for SPD. These conditions are closely related to other neurodevelopmental...
  • Bladderwrack is a safe alternative to GMO soy ...
    Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus), a brown seaweed similar to kelp, gets its name from the air sacs that keep the plant afloat in cold sea water. Bladderwrack is a great plant source of iodine thatis essential for the human body, but the body cannot make on its own. Iodine...
  • Seven tricks your brain is playing on you
    We all want to believe we are tough to fool. The problem is, even if you are not so gullible, your brain still works a certain way, making associations that create vulnerability to being easily fooled, or fooling yourself. It takes work to release yourself from these...

Threat Level

  • 25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Cra ...
    Police in four nations arrested 25 alleged participants in the Anonymous collective Tuesday for attacks against web sites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
  • Google Offers $1 Million in Hacker Bounties fo ...
    Google has pledged to pay up to $1 million in several cash awards to anyone who hacks its Chrome browser during a challenge next week.
  • Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Inte ...
    In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night portions of a massive trove of e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that Anonymous obtained by hacking the company in December. WikiLeaks did not mention the sour ...
  • 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.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Obama's Affordable Care Act to the Rescue for ...
    By almost any measure, Texas has one of the worst health care systems in the nation. Its 26 percent uninsured rate - no other state is even close - put its dead last. Overall, health care in the Lone Star State is ranked 44th by America's Health Rankings and 46th by the Commonwealth Fund. Two ...
  • Two Headlines Say It All About GOP Field's Eco ...
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  • 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...
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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

  • Green Politics News (VIDEO)
    Today’s top green politics stories: Congress’ Failure to Act on Energy & Climate is a National Security Threat A new post by Bill Becker of Third Generation Environmentalism on Climate Progress indicates how lack of action, by Congress, on energy and the climate threatens our ...
  • Obama Supports TransCanada’s Idea to Start 1st ...
    Say what? I thought Obama rejected that thing?! He did, sort of…. The permit was refused since adequate time was not given to conducting an environmental review. However, the administration just gave the go-ahead for the company to start work on the southern portion of what could be that ...
  • Climate Science News of the Day (VIDEO)
    Top climate science news of the past day: Live Q&A with Climate Scientist Dr Michael Mann (TODAY) The UK’s Guardian is hosting a live question and answer with Dr. Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, today. To participate, head on over to Guardian [... ...
  • Activism News of the Day (VIDEO)
    Top green & animal activism news of the day from around: Lucy Lawless & Greenpeace Activists Arrested Lucy Lawless (XENA) and 6 other Greenpeace activists were arrested yesterday for climbing a Shell oil rig headed to the Arctic. Greenpeace Activists Climb Mt Fuji to Call for [...] ...
  • Lucy Lawless (Xena) and Other Greenpeace Activ ...
      As reported the other day, actress Lucy Lawless (Xena) joined Greenpeace and climbed an oil rig in New Zealand that was supposed to be headed to the Arctic. Lucy was arrested yesterday for this civil disobedience, as were the other environmental activists. Regarding some of her reasons ...

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Axis of Logic

  • All-India strike poses fresh challenge to gove ...
    NEW DELHI — A nationwide strike called by trade unions including those affiliated with the government hit Indian cities Tuesday, as millions joined the call for tighter labour laws and a minimum wage. Eleven central trade unions backed the strike call, posing a fresh challenge to Prime Minist ...
  • President Hugo Chávez Is Recovering Satisfacto ...
    Statement President Hugo Chávez Is Recovering Satisfactorily As is publicly known, in recent days, during a medical check-up of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, doctors detected a lesion requiring corrective surgery. In that sense, the medical team, af ...
  • Now Canada Needs Election Outside Observers - ...
    We used to help other nations keep it clean on voting day. Who will hold us honest? For the past decade, the federal government has been underwriting the cost of sending election observers from Canada to more than 40 troubled countries around the world to help them make sure that...
  • Is Monsanto’s Goal Our Extinction? - Environme ...
    Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) are made by manipulation of extremely deadly viruses and bacteria that have been engineered to be immune to antibiotics. Monsanto spends millions of dollars each month to ‘sugar’ coat and hide the truth of what they are doing or what is really behin ...
  • 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 ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "A dream so strong, so brave, so true"
    By @KYYellowDog From Jesus' General, a poem that is always timely: My Inner Frenchman was surprised to see a guvmint blog linking to a Langston Hughes poem. And it being Unheartlandishly-Hued History Month, he demanded that I publish it here. God damned commie.    Let America Be Ameri ...
  • Just Call Me the Facebook Avenger
    By @TedFrier If this keeps up people are either going to start calling me the "Facebook Avenger" or begin de-friending me in epic numbers. A few days ago I took on a Christian wingnut in-law of mine. And this morning, I blasted one of those passing acquaintances you pick up like lint along the w ...
  • Our Word For Today
    by @TomBales1 Crossposted at Things That Really Piss Me Off Our word for today is "OFFENDED" as in the Republicans appearing to be in some kind of race to see who can be the most "offended" by the fact that a black guy lives in the White House. I know, I know.  Big surprise, huh?  Th ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Know Your ...
    By @KKYellowDog Uploaded by masterofacdcsuckaS on Dec 5, 2007: Lyrics: Huh! Yeah, we're comin' back then with another bombtrack Think ya know what it's all about Huh! Hey yo, so check this out Yeah! Know your enemy! Come on! Born with insight and a raised fist A witness to the slit wrist ...
  • "A Remarkably Safe and Secure Place"
    By @KYYellowDog Some of us have known for a long time that the whole Warren Terra/Homeland Insecurity circus was a nothing but cover for massive corruption, militarization of law enforcement, metastasizing the security state and eliminating civil liberties. But it's nice to have confirmation fro ...

Care 2

  • Human Trafficking Petition: Remove advertising ...
    The Wodka Vodka advertisement that says, "Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing" is highly offensive -sign to remove billboards and all related ads. These advertisements are making light of the trauma that individuals experience in the commercial sex trafficking Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World &n ...
  • Support Legislation To Help Wildlife Survive! ...
    Climate change poses an imminent risk to lynx, wolverines, sea turtles and other wildlife. As weather and precipitation patterns shift, many species will lose vital habitat...and with it, a chance at survival. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Save the Sumatan Tiger! TAKE ACTION!
    The world smallest tiger, the Sumatran Tiger of Indonesia, is critically endangered with less than 400 left. They are rapidly loosing their habitat due to palm oil plantations and logging- the trees of the rainforest becoming toilet paper. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Environment  |&n ...
  • Farmers Sued by TransCanada
    Congress allows Canada to seize farmlands without valid permits or minimum safety standards to make way for the Keystone Pipeline. Submitted by Deb Duxbury to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop The Hunt!!! TAKE ACTION!
    Why are these animals dying??? We need to let these cruel minded people know that we will shut them down!!! Stop the profit of such CRUELTY and MURDER without a conscience. Without a thought for these beautiful animals lives!!! Let them know your thought Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Animals ...

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No Quarter

  • Santorum Breaks Media’s Heart
    The media’s anti-Romney sentiment took a real kick to the nuts tonight. Two weeks ago Romney was being written off as a dead man walking. Even though Romney has almost twice as many delegates as the other three Republican candidates combined, the media was insisting that he was on the rope ...
  • Rick Santorum, Fucking Moron
    Santorum is politically clueless. He had a shot at beating Romney in Michigan and being perceived as an alternative. But not now. He may very well win Michigan tonight, but it will be a tainted, tarnished victory. Why? Because he appealed to Democrats to vote for him and stop Romney. What a godd ...
  • MI & AZ Primary Day Open Thread
    NEWS NETWORK PRIMARY COVERAGE: Fox News 9 p.m. || CNN 6 p.m. || MSNBC 7 p.m. (all ET) DRUDGE’S PRIMARY (results as of 5 p.m. ET): MICHIGAN: ROMNEY 36.7% || SANTORUM 30.37% ARIZONA: ROMNEY 38.32% || SANTORUM 26.53 NOW, while we wait, here are a few fu ...
  • Deliver us from this nightmare. NOW!
    The Hill is a thoroughly prim and proper news source, which makes this headline and clip all the more stunning and sickening. I swear by all that is holy that the following is not satire: Santorum blames 2008 mortgage crisis on $4-per-gallon gas Stop. Read that again. Santorum blames 2008 mortga ...
  • Is Hillary Losing It?
    As a long time fan of Hillary, I am troubled and distressed by her conduct of U.S. foreign policy on behalf of Barack Obama. This is more than a dust up over “policy” differences. Let’s start with the abominable “apology” by Barack Obama, General Allen and others ov ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop removal foes try new strategy - Th ...
    ThinkProgress Mountaintop removal foes try new strategy The Tennessean Mountaintop removal has been a major issue in the state for years. Environmentalists are trying a new tack. / Shelley Mays / File / Tennessean Conservationists stymied for several years in efforts to pass a bill to ban the dy ...
  • Green Your Money: Earth-Conscious Quakers Agai ...
    Green Your Money: Earth-Conscious Quakers Against Mountaintop Removal Huffington Post In that tradition of non-cooperation with injustice, the Earth Quaker Action Team is launching a new program called Green Your Money to encourage people of conscience to stop financing mountaintop removal coal ...
  • Stalled Out No More: Appalachian Community Hea ...
    Stalled Out No More: Appalachian Community Health Emergency Kicks Off DC ... AlterNet (blog) Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop removal crisis in the central Appalachian coalfields are descending on Washington, DC today, as part of a new emergency health campaign calli ...
  • Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining In Tennessee ...
    Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining In Tennessee ThinkProgress Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining In Tennessee | The Scenic Vistas Protection Act, legislation that would end high-elevation surface mining techniques such as mountaintop removal in Tennessee on peaks over 2000 feet, is up for a vote t ...
  • We Made the Cut - Fenceviewer
    We Made the Cut Fenceviewer West Virginia is number one on a list of five states being heavily impacted by dirty energy (think Keystone XL), mountaintop removal, and other decrepitating means of extraction for the goods we need to keep life running smooth.

Memeorandum

  • Ron Paul 'movement' comes to Virginia (James H ...
    James Hohmann / Politico: Ron Paul ‘movement’ comes to Virginia  —  SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Ron Paul lost his tenth and eleventh contests this year Tuesday night, but he dismissed those failures with only a passing reference here.  —  “They kee ...
  • EXIT POLLS: Michigan (CNN)
    CNN: EXIT POLLS: Michigan  —  Republicans  —  HOW TO READ EXIT AND ENTRANCE POLLS: The first column of numbers in each table shows how many voters fall into each category; those numbers should be read down.  The remaining figures show how each category voted ...
  • Romney fights to hold lead in Michigan primary ...
    Fox News: Romney fights to hold lead in Michigan primary after projected Arizona win  —  Mitt Romney was fighting in his home state of Michigan to fend off Rick Santorum Tuesday night, pulling ahead in the Republican presidential primary contest there after scoring a projected v ...
  • Democracy Alliance Dumps Progressive Organizat ...
    Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post: Democracy Alliance Dumps Progressive Organizations … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Fox News, Video, Koch Brothers, Media Matters, Robert Greenwald, The Advancement Project, The Democracy Alliance, Third Way, Center For Progressiv ...
  • Romney Wins Arizona; Tight Race in Michigan (J ...
    Jeff Zeleny / New York Times: Romney Wins Arizona; Tight Race in Michigan  —  SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Mitt Romney won the Arizona primary on Tuesday, based on surveys of voters leaving polls, but was locked in a tight battle with Rick Santorum in Michigan, where Mr. Santorum h ...

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China Dialogue

  • Lonely death of the river pig
    Students in search of the endangered finless porpoise found indifference to its future on the banks of the Yangtze. Wang Tao reports.Despite earning the nickname “river-pig” for its rotund appearance, the finless porpoise is also revered as a river god. When a storm is brewing, these ...
  • Drunks, lampposts and champions
    When celebrating responsible business, media and campaign groups focus too narrowly on a small group of big brands. Their horizons must expand to match the new world order, writes John Elkington.Enthusiasts for corporate-responsibility rankings will have no doubt spotted the same names routinely ...
  • Elephants for Australia?
    Introducing large herbivores to the continent could stop the spread of gamba grass, blamed for many of the country’s bush fires, ecologist David Bowman tells Ian Tucker. The debate, too, is catching fire.David Bowman is a professor of environmental change biology at the School of Plant Sci ...
  • 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 ...

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  • 25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Cra ...
    Police in four nations arrested 25 alleged participants in the Anonymous collective Tuesday for attacks against web sites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
  • Google Offers $1 Million in Hacker Bounties fo ...
    Google has pledged to pay up to $1 million in several cash awards to anyone who hacks its Chrome browser during a challenge next week.
  • Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Inte ...
    In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night portions of a massive trove of e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that Anonymous obtained by hacking the company in December. WikiLeaks did not mention the sour ...
  • 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.

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  • 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

  • 11th Listeria Cantaloupe Lawsuit filed against ...
    Michael Hauser died last week after a heroic struggle against Listeria. He left his loving wife and family. PDF Complaint.
  • With three Jimmy John's near Michigan State Un ...
    In past Jimmy John’s sprout E. coli and Salmonella cases, young people – especially college students – seem to have been disproportionately hit. With at least three Jimmy John’s in East Lansing, and one student sick, I wonder how many of the 2, or 7, will be part of the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mitt Romney Wins: Michigan Primary Results 2012
    Posted: 02/28/12 10:14 PM ET  |  Updated: 02/28/12 10:46 PM ET Huff Post Mitt Romney was projected the winner in the Michigan primary on Tuesday night by NBC. Going into the contest, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum was hoping to pull off an upset win over the former Massachusetts governor. S ...
  • President Obama Slams Republicans In Defense O ...
    February 28, 2012 Addicting Info- By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Ever since the US Government saved the American auto industry from the abyss through a bail out that kept millions of jobs from being lost, the Republican Party has bitterly bashed the action, especially since President Obama took over t ...
  • Indefinite Military Detention: President Obama ...
    Posted: 02/28/12 07:28 PM ET  |  Updated: 02/28/12 07:41 PM ET Huff Post  By- Michael McAuliff WASHINGTON — The White House released rules Tuesday evening waiving the most controversial piece of the new military detention law, and exempting U.S. citizens, as well as other broad catego ...
  • Santorum: Separation Of Church And State &#821 ...
    The Huffington Post Alana Horowitz First Posted: 02/26/2012 11:12 am Updated: 02/26/2012 12:40 pm Rick Santorum on Sunday took on of separation of church and state. “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute,” he told ‘This Week&# ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Accounting Brothel Opens Doors for Banker Fiesta
    By Jonathan Weil The banks demanded that the accountants give them leeway in how they report losses to investors. The accountants responded by giving away their souls. This week, the Financial Accounting Standards Board unveiled what may be the dumbest, most bankrupt proposal in its 36-year his ...
  • Seattle to Create Nation’s First Public Food F ...
    In the heart of Seattle, a public park is planned like no other: an urban food forest that is free for the plucking! By Michael Ricciardi Due to its mild temperatures and routinely wet climate, Seattle is one of the very few cities in the US with a year-round, outdoor growing season. Taking adva ...
  • Windows on The iPad, and Speedy
    [CAF Note: Your data is in the clouds. NO PRIVACY! Good luck with this...] By David Pogue You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can. Your [...]
  • Why Doctors Die Differently
    By Ken Murray Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. It was diagnosed as pancreatic cancer by one of the best surgeons in the country, who had developed a procedure that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5% ...
  • Wyoming House Advances Doomsday Bill
    By Jeremy Pelzer Cheyenne — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States. House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run gove ...

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

  • The end nears for our expedition to Afghanista ...
    Summary:  After writing over 100 posts since September 2003 about our war in Afghanistan, I faced the grim task of writing about its ugly end.  Fortunately, here are two articles that do it better than I could.  They deserve your attention, as we walk away from a project for which we borrowed so ...
  • More milestones for the FM website
    This week the FM website crosses two milestones: 500 subscribers on WordPress, 2 million visitors since opening on WordPress in November 2007, and Post #2000, counting from the first one at Defense and the National Interest in September 2003 Other stats: Aprox 3.2 million pageviews (does not cou ...
  • More milestones for the FM website
    This week the FM website crosses two milestones: 500 subscribers on WordPress 2 million visitors since opening on WordPress in November 2007 Post #2000, counting from the first one at Defense and the National Interest in September 2003 Other stats: Aprox 3.2 million pageviews (does not count WP ...
  • Which is more characteristic of America today?
    Summary:  A bizarre ruling by a Pennsylvania State judge has sparked yet another round of anti-Muslin hysteria by Republicans.  Sharia is coming! Sharia is coming.  The far more widespread and growing hostility towards Muslims — backed by government action — remains invisible.  Can a ...
  • Which is more characteristic of America today?
    Summary:  A bizarre ruling by a Pennsylvania State judge has sparked yet another round of anti-Muslin hysteria by Republicans.  Sharia is coming! Sharia is coming.  The far more widespread and growing hostility towards Muslims — backed by government action — remains invisible.  Can a ...

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 Rising Cost of Stupidity and Brutality
    The recent flaps concerning indiscretions by American troops in Afghanistan (urinating on Taliban corpses, burning copies of the Quran) and Syrian brutality against its own population have one very common and powerful thread: both were acts that were not intended for widespread public attention ...
  • The UNSC: The Unsung Concert?
    A while back, Dan Nexon posted a thought-provoking suggestion at the Duck of Minerva: I wonder, though, if our unipolarity fixation obscures some important aspects of post-Cold War security order. In the early 1990s another image of world politics seemed plausible: that of a new great-power con ...
  • The Iraqi University System
    Hugh Gusterson has an excellent article on the collapse of the Iraqi university system from 1991 on: While American troops guarded the Ministries of Oil and the Interior but ignored cultural heritage sites, looters ransacked the universities. For example, the entire library collections at the Un ...
  • The Westphalian System and US Defense Policy
    Last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told an audience at the Atlantic Council that building partnership capacity or security force assistance will remain an important component of US defense policy. The talk was grounded in the 2012 strategic defense guidance tha ...
  • Why Today’s Human Rights Council Session on Sy ...
    One of the biggest obstacles stymieing most plans that you see about international intervention in Syria–from “mobilization of the instruments of international justice,” to sanctions against top regime officials, to setting up “Humanitarian corridors“– is that ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • This Station is Non-Operational
    Americans aren’t so sure that they want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. One of the things I look forward to about the return of Game of Thrones is the smart commentary that will come with it. Mitt Romney’s intensely antagonistic position on immigration is going to be a huge self-inflicted wo ...
  • Playing With Fire
    When Michigan Democrat Crystal Larson voted today in Dearborn Heights, she told CNN it “felt like I made a deal with the devil.” The devil, in this case, is Rick Santorum, whose quest to upset Mitt Romney in his native state is getting a boost from Operation Hilarity, the Daily Kos effort to co ...
  • Obama Smash!
    On paper, President Obama’s speech to the United Auto Workers this morning isn’t any different than the speech he gave in Osawatomie, Kansas at the beginning of the year, or the one he gave announcing the American Jobs Act last fall. Boiled down, each is a populist call to reject tax cuts for t ...
  • Virginia Passes Sonogram Bill After All
    In the end, even Jon Stewart couldn't kill the Virginia ultrasound bill. After more than a week of protests and national attention, the state Senate passed an amended version of the measure Tuesday afternoon which will require women seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound 24 hours ahead of the ...
  • A German History Lesson
    Yesterday, the German Parliament relented and agreed to let the Greek debt restructuring go forward, but only the price of crushing austerity for the Greek economy. This is a widespread attitude in Germany, where aid to the Greeks is unpopular. The other day, Jörg Krämer, chief economist for Co ...

Buzzflash

  • To Paraphrase "Man on Dog" Rick, Santorum Make ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What could represent a more intrusive government than forcing an invasive vaginal procedure on women who seek an abortion? Yet, that is what was recently proposed in the states of Virginia and Idaho, before the bills were "modified." Now the vagina ...
  • Is the GOP Running Guatemala? Foreign Minister ...
    WILLIAM BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We know little about Guatemala, a Central American neighbor with a troubled history - stoked by U.S. corporate profiteering, military interventions, and support for an assortment of ruthless military dictators. During a thirty plus-year bloody civil w ...
  • Profligate Use of Fossil Fuels Threatens Humankind
    STEFANIE PENN SPEAR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In my line of work it's easy to harp on what's wrong. Problems with our water, air, food and land are vast. It seems two steps forward is always followed by ten steps back. We're constantly fighting for protection of natural resources and trying to s ...
  • If Men Want to Outlaw Abortions and Restrict C ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you are going to stop women from exercising their reproductive choice, then it is time for health insurance to stop paying for vasectomies - and time to make them illegal. That's the proposed thinking of a state representative in Georgia, who has ...
  • Republicans Have Mastered the Art of the Irrel ...
    Body ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When did bluster and rudeness begin to supplant reasonable discourse and responsive answers? It seemed shocking in 2008 when Sarah Palin during the vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden looked squarely into the camera and said "I'm not go ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Uncharted, unfashionable, but unavoidably wond ...
    The exploration of our solar system is one of humanity′s greatest scientific achievements. The last half century has seen huge steps forward in our understanding of the planets, the sun, and the countless other objects in the solar system. Some would say that planetary science is a mature discip ...
  • Delivering healthcare electronically
    The evaluation of e-health services seems not to be high on the research agenda and yet finding ways to evaluate such initiatives and provide feedback to developers could support existing e-health projects and lead to better quality and efficiency in future initiatives. The outcome would hopeful ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CCFC Launches "Save the Lorax!" Campaign
    The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has launched a campaign to “Save the Lorax!” from an onslaught of corporate cross-promotions.  For more than forty years, Dr.read more
  • Bill Would Steal 260 Billion Gallons of Water ...
    The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on an attempted water grab by powerful corporate agribusinesses in California's San Joaquin Valley that threatens to drive salmon runs extinct and reverse decades of laws that protect people, wildlife and water supplies. Among other thing ...
  • Rural Women Leaders from Kenya, Sudan, Haiti a ...
    Grassroots women are the world’s foremost rural development experts, but their knowledge is often ignored by policymakers. This Thursday, MADRE will host a panel with our grassroots partners from Kenya, Sudan, Haiti and Nicaragua. Come hear from them as they strategize, build solutions and ...
  • Lessons from Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Report ...
    Greenpeace today released “Lessons from Fukushima”, a new report which shows that it was not a natural disaster which led to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan’s east coast, but the failures of the Japanese Government, regulators and the nuclear indust ...
  • Occupy Our Food Supply Day of Action Unites Pr ...
    Organizers call today’s Occupy our Food Supply day of action a resounding success. The day included more than 100 events across the globe, united an unprecedented alliance of more than 60 Occupy groups and 30 environmental, food and corporate accountability organizations, and featured prom ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The World Bank’s Plans for Fisheries Could Des ...
    Meredith McCarthy Taking care of the oceans is a big challenge that needs the right solutions. That’s why we oppose turning our fisheries into privatized markets through catch shares, filling our coastal waters with environmentally de ...
  • President Barack Obama and His Key Advisors ar ...
    Dave Lindorff If a bunch of street toughs decided to gang up and beat the crap out of some guy in the neighborhood because they feared he might be planning to buy a gun to protect his family, I think we’d all agree that the police wou ...
  • WikiLeaks' Stratfor Dump Lifts Lid on Intellig ...
    Pratap Chatterjee What price bad intelligence?read more
  • AIPAC Undermines Democracy at Home and in the ...
    Medea Benjamin The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. On March 4-6, AIPAC will be holding its annual policy conference in Washington DC. The speakers include Isra ...
  • New Mountaintop Removal Campaign Kicks Off in ...
    Jeff Biggers Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop removal crisis in the central Appalachian coalfields are descending on Washington, DC today, as part of a new emergency health campaign calling for an immediate mora ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Viewpoints: Water bill in Congress promotes di ...
    As early as Wednesday, Congress is voting on a dangerous bill that would turn upside down 150 years of California water law.
  • 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.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Transforming Finkelstein BDS attack into oppor ...
    David Letwin 28 February 2012 Norman Finkelstein’s attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is an opportunity — particularly for those of us who are Jewish — to affirm our unequivocal support for Palestinians’ fundamental rights.
  • Rebuilt Gaza Music School hopes to reach more ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 28 February 2012 Sarah, Abdelaziz and Anda have found a welcome distraction from Palestine’s troubles: music. They and 120 other girls and boys are enrolled in the Gaza Music School, a program of the A.M. Qattan Foundation launched in 2008.
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • ‘Ready Player One,’ ‘Reamde, ...
    Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, a novel about a futuristic America wracked by poverty and severe energy shortages where most people spend the majority of their time inside an extremely sophisticated video game world called OASIS, and the billionaire inventor of the game who sets off a tre ...
  • Fakegate: Heartland-Backed ‘Scientist&#8 ...
    Bogus climate course “a source of embarrassment to the institution” – Richard Littlemore, in a DeSmogBlog repost An energy industry public relations man and lobbyist with no background in climate science has infiltrated Carleton University in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, teaching a cour ...
  • Gay Marine And Boyfriend From Homecoming Kiss ...
    Hawaii’s KHON caught up with Sgt. Brandon Morgan and his boyfriend Dalan Wells, a couple whose homecoming kiss and embrace went viral this week. Their friendship had blossomed into love through long-distance communication from Afghanistan, and the photograph was actually of their very firs ...
  • Alabama Denies DNA Test To Potentially Innocen ...
    Andrew Cohen chronicles the many uncertainties in Alabama’s case against Thomas Arthur, who was convicted of murder three decades ago and is scheduled to be executed next month. They include a key witness who recanted and then unrecanted her testimony, another man who admitted to committin ...
  • In West Virginia, Safety Violations That Kill ...
    Nearly two years after Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, the deadliest mine accident in nearly 40 years, the West Virginia House of Delegates has just passed a mine safety reform bill that should, in theory, strengthen some of the lax laws that made the tragedy possible. Through the legislative pr ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Two Great Posts
    Impolitical has a valuable contribution to make. After describing the latest harpercon's stammering attempt to explain evidence of their sleaze and the RCMP's unsurprising total failure to do anything about it* she sets her sights on useless fuckwad John Ibbittson who first spoke out of turn abo ...
  • Tell Everyone
    I just wrote an email to my MP. He's a Conservative but he's one of the non-entities and in all honesty, seems like a decent enough guy. I've asked him his explanation for the electoral fraud and for him to repudiate such disgraceful behaviour. I'm going to write a letter to every national news ...
  • 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?

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canadians look for ‘bang for the buck’ when sh ...
    Most Canadians feel that getting the features they want and good value is more important than opting for traditional “luxury”, so says a recent survey commissioned by Hyundai Canada.
  • Canadian town wins best-tasting water in inter ...
    The 22nd annual Berkley Springs International Water Tasting contest was held in Berkley Springs, West Virginia on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 and the world's winner comes from the Canadian province of B.C..
  • Assembly of First Nations Water Conference — M ...
    The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) will be hosting the AFN Water Conference on March 6-7, 2012 and the Water Rights special session, co-hosted by the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, on March 5, 2012 at the Marriott Edmonton River Cree Resort.
  • A Seedy Saturday in Nova Scotia
    Seeds and plant biodiversity were the focus of attention during a Seedy Saturday event recently held in a Nova Scotia town.
  • Human rights film festival set to go in Montre ...
    People’s struggles around the globe will be front and centre in Montreal this weekend at the third-annual DocFest, a film festival featuring documentaries dealing with human rights issues.

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

  • Staples: Scrap the submarines
    Steven Staples, Ken Hansen, and Rob Huebert discuss the future of submarines in the Canadian navy on CBC's Radio's the current.
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • It’s Hard To Cheat When You Don’t Eat Meat
    February 9, 2012 KTRadioNetwork.Com By William Kitner (KTRN Exclusive)   I have friends who are true meat lovers – they are experts in smoking meat, making sausage, and roasting pigs.  So when I arrived at this year’s Super Bowl party, I wasn’t surprised to see an entire table of meat – pulled p ...
  • Outbreak Sickens Dozens at New Jersey University
    February 9th, 2012 CNN By: Josh Levs About 40 students at a university in New Jersey have been taken to hospitals for treatment after an outbreak of what authorities believe is the norovirus. The Rider University students, at the school’s campus in Lawrenceville, were brought to hospitals ...
  • Paul Campaign: We’re Winning The Battle For De ...
    February 10, 2012 Prison Planet By Steve Watson “Ron Paul still needs to win some states outright, and when he does, watch out.” –KTRN The Ron Paul campaign issued a press release yesterday announcing that the Congressman was winning the battle for delegates in the lead up to t ...
  • Mars Express Radar Gives Strong Evidence For F ...
    February 10, 2012 ESA News By ESA “More evidence that Mars might have been the original Earth.” –KTRN ESA’s Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the b ...
  • 4 Ways The FDA Proves It Doesn’t Care About Yo ...
    February 10, 2012 Activist Post By Mike Barrett “Everyone should know by now that the FDA protects profits for big pharma and big food. They do not care about you or your family.” –KTRN The stated mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to protect and promote publi ...

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

  • UK’s largest union threatens Olympic walk-out
    Britain’s largest trade union on Tuesday warned it would consider staging industrial action during this year’s London Olympic Games, threatening travel chaos for visitors. Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey told the Guardian newspaper that the scale of the government’s ...
  • Virginia Says No to Lawless Imprisonment
    Virginia Says No to Lawless Imprisonment By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Virginia Says No to Lawless Imprisonment By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org (formerly AfterDowningStreet.org) G ...
  • Virginia declares “emperor has no clothes”: ND ...
    Virginia declares emperor has no clothes : NDAA nullified By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com Virginia’s Senate voted today (39-1) to nullify NDAA 2012 provisions to seize American citizens at the dictate of the federal executive branch. They joined the House’s 96-4 vote. Do an Interne ...
  • Ron Paul denies secret alliance with Romney ca ...
    During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, Texas Rep. Ron Paul denied teaming up with Mitt Romney to take down Rick Santorum. “If that?s all he has to talk about, that means he doesn?t have much of a platform to talk about. I would think we?re supposed to be talking about the issue,? Paul sai ...
  • “Reaction to Referendum Shows that the West Is ...
    “Reaction to Referendum Shows that the West Is Not Really Keen On Democracy in Syria …Syrian Voters Are Non-People for the West” By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com View the original article at Washingtons Blog Link to this post!

Dandelion Salad

  • Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qa ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 February 2012 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition. Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of ...
  • Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qa ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 February 2012 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition. Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of ...
  • Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant by Felicity Arbu ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 27 February 2012 “The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” (J. Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972) Smelt any proverbial rats, lately? If not, you have n ...
  • Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant by Felicity Arbu ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 27 February 2012 “The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” (J. Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972) Smelt any proverbial rats, lately? If not, you have n ...
  • Nader to Occupy: Help Raise the Minimum Wage b ...
    Happy Birthday, Ralph Nader! ~ DS by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Feb. 27, 2012 The Occupy movement may be able to forge a powerful alliance with millions of working men and women around a national call to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. The drive to establish new ...

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

  • Giant Prehistoric Penguins Stood Nearly 5 Feet ...
    Paleontologists have constructed a model of a prehistoric penguin that stood almost 4 feet 6 inches tall when it lived in what is now New Zealand, approximately 25 million years ago.
  • Op-Ed: Why YouTube Matters to the Science of D ...
    An anthropologist of science looks at YouTube, where parodies of Zoloft advertisements have reclaimed the scientific and cultural narrative of depression from a handful of corporate behemoths.
  • Men Think Sex After Seeing Red Dress
    Men rate women wearing red clothing as being more interested in sex, hinting that humans may be conditioned to associate the color with fertility.
  • Americans Listening to Politicians, Not Climat ...
    Public acceptance of climate change was at its prime in the mid-2000s, yet political bipartisanship also hit a high point. As the economy began to plummet, people began listening to politicians on climate change instead of scientists, new opinion-poll-based research suggests.
  • Video: First Nanorockets Might Shuttle Drugs, ...
    In the movie Fantastic Voyage, a crack surgical team is miniaturized inside a ship. Their mission: to destroy a blood clot in the brain of a Soviet-era informant. Given the relatively vast distances covered inside the body, however, movie makers probably should have equipped vessel with rocket m ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s “New West Bank”
    In recent years, the government has adopted the so-called Prawer Plan, reversing several earlier decisions to recognize unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert. The new plan, explained by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Israel draws plan for 475-kilometer rail netwo ...
    The Transportation Ministry confirmed that it was pursuing the plan for the new rail lines "so as to permit it to be carried out in the future," and in accordance with "a legal commitment the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • UNC Wilmington Repositions Entrepreneurship Ce ...
    The University of North Carolina Wilmington announced plans to reorganize its Entrepreneurship Center as a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) under the auspices of the UNCW Research Foundation at a press conference today, Tuesday, Feb. 28. The change is designed to ensure the center's continued ...
  • How to Control a Prosthesis with Your Mind
    New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way.
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    Virgin Oceanic is aiming its experimental, cutting-edge sub straight to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
  • Loyola Names New Director of Nursing
    Kim Reeks, RN, MSN, has been named the director of nursing at Loyola University Health System (LUHS). Reeks has filled the position most recently held by Mary Morrow, RN, PhD, ACNS-BC. Dr. Morrow was named the chief nursing officer at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (GMH) of Loyola University Health ...
  • Open Your Eyes and Smell the Roses
    A new study reveals for the first time that activating the brain's visual cortex with a small amount of electrical stimulation actually improves our sense of smell.

Natural Health News

  • CDC Goes Cherry Picking, Attacks Raw Milk With ...
    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 ...
  • Why This Highly Touted Cancer Prevention Strat ...
    In a recent essay, researchers have pointed out that there is a major discrepancy in claims regarding the safety and efficacy of HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.  One major concern is the claim that HPV vaccines are an important tool in preventing cervical cancer. But the efficacy of the ...
  • Widely Used Herbicide Found to Kill Sperm Cell ...
    A new study has shown that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup Bioforce, as well as glyphosate alone, can reduced testosterone levels in testicular cells even at very low concentrations.  At higher concentrations (but still 10 times lower than those used for agricultural) the cell ...
  • Monsanto Pays $93 Million to Victims in Settlement
    Monsanto has tentatively agreed to a $93 million settlement with some residents of Nitro, West Virginia, the site of a Monsanto chemical plant that manufactured 2,4,5-T herbicide, a major component of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange.  Agent Orange is known to cause cancer, bir ...
  • Shocking Stealth Cause of Birth Defects
    The video above explains how genetically modified (GM) crops are causing devastating effects in Argentina -- damaging both the environment and the people.  You can click on the CC button to see English-language subtitle. Genetically modified foods are engineered to tolerate herbicides such ...

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

  • Special JICJ Issue on the Crime of Aggression
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the leading journal in the field, has just published a special issue on the crime of aggression to commemorate its 10th anniversary.  The special issue, which is edited by Cla ...
  • Parsing the Oral Arguments in Kiobel, Keitner ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku [We are pleased to share this guest post by Chimène Keitner, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.] The oral arguments in Kiobel and Mohamed will doubtless generate a new round of commentary on these cases. A “quic ...
  • Kiobel and Mohamad Oral Argument Transcripts
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson … from this morning’s hearing:  Kiobel and Mohamad.  I would be curious as to readers’ prognostications of how the Justices will rule based on the oral arguments today.
  • Comment on Kiobel and Mohamad
    by Juan E. Mendez by Juan E. Mendez [Juan E. Méndez is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and a Professor at American University Washington College of Law.] Torture is illegal and immoral, and like slavery, we should ...
  • Kiobel and Unattractive Legal Arguments Agains ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I am participating this week in a discussion on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the case on corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute that will be argued tomorrow at the Supreme Court, at the Manhattan Institute’s Point of Law Blog.  My interlocutor will ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Wilderness "Under Siege"
    Report: Wilderness "Under Siege" PHOENIX - A vast area of the United States, totaling a half-billion acres of federal lands, is at risk of losing federal safekeeping from development, according to the new report by The Wilderness Society, titled "Wilderness Under Siege." The report finds that Co ...
  • Study: Spanking May Do More Harm than Good
    Study: Spanking May Do More Harm than Good PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona parents who struggle with difficult behavior in their children may cause more harm than good by resorting to spanking. A new report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal analyzed 20 years of research. ...(Read More)
  • 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 ...
  • More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborh ...
    More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborhoods PHOENIX, Ariz. - A new KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released today shows the number of children living in high-poverty communities has increased by 25 percent over the last decade. ...(Read More)
  • 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 ...

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
  • All Curled Up
    This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers.   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel  
  • 2012 Global Energy Prize Now Accepting Nominations
    The Global Energy Prize annually rewards innovation and solutions in global energy research and its concurrent environmental challenges.

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • More on Khader Adnan: Video from “Democr ...
    Originally posted on the “Democracy Now!” website
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • FASB let big banks make up their numbers. Expe ...
    Under huge pressure from Obama, Geithner, and banksters, FASB passed the mark-to-fantasy rule, which only applies to big banks. No longer are they bothered with having to determine what their toxic slop is actually worth. Instead, thanks to a friendly federal government, they can just make it up ...
  • Losing Las Vegas. Play the Lake Mead water game
    Aquadoc has a Powerpoint game available for download, showing the problem which basically is too little water for too many peopleOkay. The game is actually ‘Losing the Lake’ and it is a simulation to keep enough water in Lake Mead so that Las Vegas can keep growing like a weed for a ...
  • Republicans have panties in a twist over class ...
    Obama makes tepid comments pretending to defend the 99% against the 1% and Republicans squeal about how might they lose a class warfare fight. It’s comical, isn’t it?No doubt Barack Obama would love to reprise Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “Morning in America” reelection campaign, ...
  • “Occupy Green Street.” Satire on a garden cata ...
    Tree Nursery, Closter, New Jersey, 1924. John Marin, American Metropolitan Museum)Once upon a time, I used to pore over garden catalogs. They arrived in the mail early every year, full of promises.  (One rose plant catalog scented its glossy pages hoping to fuel sales.) By the time Tony Avent&#8 ...
  • California pension reform battle
    pennlive.comIn one of those complicated Sacramento political tangos, this having to do with public pension reform, a ballot measure suspended their campaign citing a deliberately misleading title forced on it by the Attorney General, Republican lawmakers backed Gov. Brown’s 12 point pensio ...

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

  • Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 201 ...
    OTTAWA—Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were instructed in the days before last year’s election to read scripts telling voters that Elections Canada had changed their voting locations, say telephone operators who worked for a Thunder Bay-based call centre. These weren’t “robo- ...
  • Interpol arrests suspected ‘Anonymous&#8 ...
    Police in Europe and South America have arrested 25 alleged members of the “Anonymous” hacking group, Interpol said, amid a suspected attack on its own website by the group’s supporters. The arrests include four people in Spain, ten in Argentina, six in Chile and five in Colomb ...
  • Report: Widow of London bombings suicide attac ...
    LONDON — A woman believed to be the widow of one of the four suicide bombers that killed 52 London commuters in July, 2005, is being sought by Kenyan authorities in relation to a terrorist plot in that country, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday. Kenyan police were searching for a w ...
  • Some 9/11 victims’ remains ended up in l ...
    WASHINGTON – Partial remains from some people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 ended up in a landfill, according to a Pentagon-commissioned report released on Tuesday that revealed previously undisclosed blunders at the U.S. military’s main mortuary. The unidentified remains came fro ...
  • No apology for dad arrested over gun drawing, ...
    KITCHENER, Ont. – The Sansone family is not getting any apologies after they were put through hell by school officials, social workers and police last week. And, the smoking gun — a child’s drawing that triggered the whole thing — will never be seen. “I am really so ...

The Air Vent

  • Single Year Global Sea Ice Shows Minimal Trend
    As regular readers know, we have been using daily gridded sea ice data from satellite microwave sounders published by the NSIDC to discover what we can learn both from and about the data.  With Layman Lurker’s help we recently discovered that nearly 100% of the sea ice to the South of 72 d ...
  • An Interview with Dr. Curry on the Fat Cat&#82 ...
    James Stafford contacted me by email to ask me to call attention to his interview with Judith Curry. The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness – An Interview with Judith Curry “The IPCC might have outlived its usefulness. Let’s see what the next assessment report comes up with. ...
  • Skeptic Weblogs Sweep Global Award Categories ...
    This is more than a little telling about the basic state of climate science.  Images below are copied from Anthony Watts site.  In case you are wondering whether the public is buying into the constant attacks on scientific skeptic blogs by the main stream media and overpaid government scientists ...
  • 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 ...

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 summ ...
  • 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 . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Studio gives awards to Amex, Wrigley, ...
    American Express took top honors in the Facebook Studio Awards for its Small Business Saturday promotion on the social network. A jury of marketing executives selected 10 more winning campaigns that used the Facebook platform to promote social interactions and … Continue reading →
  • Wildfire, GraphEffect now provide page managem ...
    Two more social software companies announced integration with Facebook page publishing and ad management tools this week on the heels of news that Buddy Media acquired Brighter Option to offer a platform that combines paid, owned and earned efforts. Wildfire … Continue reading →
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagen ...
    If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook likely paying carriers big cuts for m ...
    Now that Facebook finally unveiled carrier-powered payments for the mobile web yesterday, it’s time to look at what the potential costs might be. Last month, U.K.-based mobile billing and analytics provider Bango announced to shareholders that it had a new … Continue reading →
  • Yahoo goes after Facebook with patent claims
    Yahoo claims Facebook is infringing on 10 to 20 of its patents and threatens a lawsuit against the social network if it doesn’t agree to pay licensing fees, according to the New York Times. The timing of the claim is … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • What nasty surprises await our warmongers in t ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain's Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should "don uniform and flak-jacket" and go play ...
  • The not-so-hidden limits to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that although superficially Western societies are free, in reality people in the West are enslaved to debt through a relationship with financial institutions that "mirrors many of the attributes of an oppressive master-slave relationship: ownership, obedience, burden and seve ...
  • A vision of harmony in Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon outlines a vision of Palestinian-Jewish reconciliation in Palestine where Jews, freed of their Zionist state and its ideology of oppression, exclusiveness, exceptionalism, and racial supremacy and segregation, live side by side with Palestinians as citizens of one state with equal ...
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Every weekday evening we bring you a comprehensive collection of news and views that are carefully selected from reliable sources. Every day we spend hours researching the most significant developments around the world, weeding out the propaganda elements, taking out those sourced to long-known ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    “Understanding the Arab Spring” Seeking to place the Arab Spring within a wider geopolitical and social context, this episode draws a thread through the middle of many critical interpretations of the events in the Arab world, those which view the uprisings as authentic and organic democrat ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Every weekday evening we bring you a comprehensive collection of news and views that are carefully selected from reliable sources. Every day we spend hours researching the most significant developments around the world, weeding out the propaganda elements, taking out those sourced to long-known ...
  • Liberty, Anarchy, Property, Democracy & Power
    It Must be Freedom for All, or Freedom for None By Andrew Gavin Marshall I have had a number of debates and discussions recently, largely through various social media networks and similar avenues, on some issues that are of major concern to those who seek to confront the challenges of the presen ...

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

  • Health Care Myths and Realties: Seeking the tr ...
    Health Insurance companies suggest that companies who haven't moved all of their employees into a high-deductible plan are inept. But studies by nonprofit organizations that don't sell insurance have found that high-deductible plans "have significantly greater difficulty" accessing care due to ...
  • Santorum "Throws Up" on JFK/Obama
    Rick Santorum says he almost threw up reading John Kennedy's 1960 speech on religious tolerance, and the GOP presidential hopeful sees sinister intent in President Obama's plea that young Americans seek higher education. So, what would a Santorum America be like?
  • Move Our Money: New State Bank Bills Address C ...
    Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works. Hawaii's innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess. County-owned banks are being proposed that would tackle the housing crisis by exercising the right of eminent domain on abandoned a ...
  • Syrians Overwhelmingly Approve New Constitution
    Major media scoundrels can't bear reporting good news they'd rather suppress, so they downplay and disparage it best they can. More on that below.
  • Prosecutor in Gabe Watson Case Has Ties to Som ...
    The Gabe Watson prosecution was not the first case that has blown up in the face of Don Valeska

Switchboard

  • Less is more: new recommendations for advancin ...
    George Peridas, Scientist, Climate Center – San Francisco Today, the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI) released its recommendations for advancing CO2-enhanced oil recovery. The Initiative comprises stakeholders from many different wa ...
  • Los Angeles has a river?
    Jessica Lass, Senior Press Secretary, Santa Monica I recently joined 25 fellow Angelenos on a river walk tour of one section of the Los Angeles River. Specifically, we toured part of the former rail yard known as Taylor Yard, or the “G-1&rdquo ...
  • What are they saying about the E.U. program to ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Starting this January 1, 2012 all airlines that use European airports have to reduce their carbon pollution produced during the entire flight.  This program is a common sense w ...
  • DOE FY2013 Nuclear Energy Budget Request Makes ...
    Jordan Weaver, Project Scientist and Science Center Fellow, Washington, D.C. As the Department of Energy (DOE) budget for FY 2012 continued its journey through Congress, with the House taking every opportunity to inflate the requested fund ...
  • Mercury Isn't Just a Hazard for Young Children ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The Environmental Protection Agency recently created the first-ever national standards to limit mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the hum ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Still Coming Up Mittens
    Obviously, I’m not changing my mind about the direction of the race after a Romney sweep. Michigan does make me understand why some people are stubborn about seeing a race here; I was skeptical of Romney for too long myself.   Given the mismatch of resources, it’s not an impressive w ...
  • Church and State
    Rick Santorum: But Mr. Santorum accused “our culture, our education system’’ of falsely “teaching our children that separation of church and state” is mentioned in the Constitution. The Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer ...
  • Snowe
    Looks like the Tea Patry has chased her off. Good; would seem like an almost certain Dem pickup, and it’s not like having someone who added a moderate patina to the Republican Party while voting like Jeff Sessions on most crucial issues was doing any good.
  • Liberals and Gay History
    This Frank Rich article on liberal hypocrisy and gay history really annoyed me. Not that Rich is wrong–liberals have not supported gay rights until very recently. But, well, duh? Is anyone questioning that? Am I somehow supposed to be surprised or outraged that Reuben Askew supported Flori ...
  • New Front in the War on Labor
    It is my contention that we will see bills in the next 5 years that outright ban unionization, even in the private sector. And even I am too pessimistic, we will certainly see a strategy from Republicans not so different than their abortion strategy–define the laws down so narrowly that ve ...

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.

  • Intellectual Property: A Special Report
    The America Invents Act shifts the U.S. from a system where a patent is awarded to the first person who comes up with an invention to one where it's awarded to the first person who files a patent application.
  • EPA greenhouse gas rules challenged at D.C. ap ...
    Lawyers challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas rules faced tough questioning Feb. 28 from a panel of three appellate judges ? but the tables may turn when the hearing resumes the following day to focus on the most controversial element of the rules.
  • Trademark board just says no to 'CrackBerry'
    A trademark appeal board has denied registration to four trademark applications for the term "CrackBerry" for different types of goods and services, ruling that the marks would dilute Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry mark.
  • MGA's insurer on the hook for Bratz litigation ...
    A federal judge has ordered Evanston Insurance Co., one of MGA Entertainment Inc.'s insurers, to pay $8.5 million to the insurance companies that covered the Bratz doll manufacturer's defense fees and costs during its drawn-out litigation with Mattel Inc.
  • Court skeptical of using U.S. laws in foreign ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court during arguments Tuesday appeared skeptical of citizens and foreigners using two federal laws to hold corporations and other organizations liable for human rights violations committed abroad.

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

  • Federal Agencies Release New Environmental Jus ...
    The Administration believes that all Americans should be able to live in healthy communities, share in the benefits of federal programs and initiatives, and have a voice in the federal decision-making process.
  • West African Subregion Loses $2 Billion Annual ...
    To address the problem of piracy in Gulf of Guniea, the U.S. government stresses that that piracy in the Gulf of Guinea requires the strongest possible regional response, with international help.
  • Orlando Fugueroa to Lead New Mars Program Plan ...
    The MPPG will report to Grunsfeld, a physicist and five-time flown space shuttle astronaut. Grunsfeld is chairing the overall, agency-wide reformulation strategy along with William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the human exploration and
  • US Committed to End 'Intolerable Yoke of Moder ...
    He underlines that in fulfilling these responsibilities, the Office spend a lot of time engaging with others who are part of the fight against modern slavery whether U.S. foreign government counterparts, or leaders in the NGO community, or academics
  • Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul: German Parliamentar ...
    Think of German politicians and the name and face that comes to mind is, of course, that of Angela Merkel, the current chancellor of the country and chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union.

environment 360

  • 'Unprecedented' Slaughter of Elephants Continu ...
    Poachers in pursuit of ivory have killed nearly 500 elephants inside a Cameroon national park in the last six weeks, a highly organized slaughter that appears to be one of the worst elephant massacres in recent memory. View images IFAW An elephant killed at Bouba Ndjida National Park. O ...
  • Denmark Offers Best Conditions for Clean Techn ...
    According to a new global index, Denmark offers the best conditions for green technology innovation and entrepreneurship, with a strong record of support for technology startups that have achieved widespread market adoption, particularly in the area of wind energy. In an evaluation of 38 countri ...
  • Warming Climate Caused ‘Dwarfing’ of Earliest ...
    A new study suggests that the earliest known horse species shrank significantly in size over a 135,000-year span as a consequence of a warming climate. Using geochemical testing and measurements of fossilized teeth dating back more than 50 million years, U.S. researchers found that a 30-percent ...
  • Conservationists Launch Drone to Monitor Fores ...
    A coalition of scientists and environmental advocacy groups has developed a camera-equipped drone they say could become a key conservation tool for monitoring WATCH VIDEO: View from a conservation drone forest loss and endangered wildlife. The coalition — which includes The Orang ...
  • Pollutants from Tar Sands Sites Comparable to ...
    The amounts of pollution produced by tar sands excavation sites are comparable to those of a medium-sized city or a large power plant, according to a new study by Environment Canada, the nation’s environmental agency. Using satellite remote sensing observations, scientists found elevated levels ...

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

  • Greek Parliament approves fresh cutbacks worth ...
    Greek Parliament has been charged with pushing through yet more austerity legislation in order for the country to receive the cash from its second bailout package, worth some €130 billion. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Anonymous bring down Interpol website in retal ...
    Supporters of the Anonymous hacker group attacked Interpol's main website after the international police agency conducted a number of hacker arrests across the globe. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Egyptian judges resign over process targeting ...
    Cairo's entire Judicial Assembly, which had been heading a case against locals NGOs accused of unlawful operation and foreign financing, has resigned, says Court of Appeals head Abdul Moiz Ibrahim. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Assad could be classified as a war criminal – ...
    With the US labeling the Syrian President as a “war criminal” and France calling for his prosecution in the International Criminal Court, the West appears to be ratcheting up its rhetoric against the Syrian government. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • China’s slow reforms: a ‘gradual transition’ o ...
    In the face of China’s unprecedented economic growth over the last two decades, the World Bank issued a surprisingly critical assessment of the country’s prospects in its latest report. But not everybody agrees. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • How European imperialism spread AIDS to the world
    About 7 years ago, scientists discovered that the origins of the AIDS epidemic began in Cameroon, Africa. That info can be found here… Hunt for origin of HIV pandemic ends at chimpanzee colony in Cameroon …This week an article in the Washington Post by Daniel Halperin, who was a seni ...
  • In India- a general strike called by a Right W ...
    India has two major parties, one of which is much like the Far Right Republican Party here in the US, and the other much like the Right Centrist Democratic Party we here in the US are currently burdened with having administering the White House on behalf of the corporate super rich. And just lik ...
  • Why does the Colorado Springs D-11 School Boar ...
    The answer to our question is quite simple- Go to The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism at the Ayn Rand Institute and find out just why the D-11 Colorado Springs school board is pushing this Right Wing dope onto its PUBLIC SCHOOL students? The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is given out free by ...
  • Hollywood to rest of world: Whatever.
    It used to be the effusive “You love me. You really love me” but the Oscars post-Guy Fawkes have lifted Hollywood’s green curtain. Meryl Streep may have thought she was retweeting the audience when she pulled the Federer/Schumacher victor’s lament, but what was that reall ...
  • Vladimir Putin speaks TRUTH to US militarist p ...
    Got to love Russia’s Vladimir Putin for one thing at least, and that is that he often speaks out and tries to defend his country and the rest of the world from US militarism and expansionism. Here is the latest about that… Putin warns West over Syria, Iran

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

  • 9 Ways to Reduce Your Salt Intake
    There’s a war going on now in the food/health space. In the last few years, excess salt consumption has been identified by leading health organizations as a contributor to various diseases including hypertension, stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, stomach cancer, and osteoporosis. The ...
  • Study: Convenience, Not Price, Limits Veggie C ...
    A research paper published in Public Health Nutrition posits that price is less of a factor in deciding to buy vegetables and fruits. Rather, it’s the convenient access to quality produce that increased purchases. The research was conducted in low income neighborhoods in Chicago, where you ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Spread of ‘human safaris’ threatens Peru’s unc ...
    Uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians have been seen in the area on several occasions. © G. Galli/uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe is facing the very real threat of being exploited by ‘human safaris’, according to British newspaper The Observer. Last month, Survival rel ...
  • 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 ...

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 ?

  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...
  • 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 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

  • A Keynesian Look at Autism
    By L.J. Goes "Von Mises. Now he was a true Austrian economist." Many an unsuspecting dinner guest have been treated to an impromptu lecture about economics by my beloved husband, Dave. Along with fast cars, Harleys and the White Sox,...
  • The Sound of Recovery
    By Julie Obradovic I remember the moments vividly and painfully. I have some of them on tape. “Evie, what’s your favorite color? Evie. Evie? Evie, over here. Evie, look at mommy. I’m talking to you. Evie, listen. Evie? What’s your...
  • 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...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Power of RAW Cannabis
    This is a must-watch video featuring some of the top researchers on the healing effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) in it's raw form, eaten or juiced.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Scientists Use Stem Cells to Generate Human Eggs
    NY Times – Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital say they have extracted stem cells from human ovaries and made them generate egg cells. The advance, if confirmed, might provide a new source of eggs for treating infertility, though scientists say it is far too early to tell if the ...
  • Sleeping pills increase risk of death, study s ...
    The Guardian – Doctors are calling for a rethink of the use of sleeping pills after a large study showed that the drugs carry a substantially increased risk of death for those who are prescribed them. Commonly used sleeping pills, or “hypnotics”, such as temazepam and zolpidem, ...
  • German tax collectors in Athens
    AthensNews – 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 ‘Wirtschafts Woche’, which will be released on Monday. Read article
  • Indian: Army to hold biggest war game in Rajasthan
    India Today – The army is gearing up to hold one of its biggest ever war games – Shoorveer – in Rajasthan between March and June. The exercise, involving the army’s elite 1 Strike Corps and 10 Corps under the Jaipur-based South Western Command, will see the deployment of ...
  • Pakistan bus attack leaves 18 dead
    Guardian – Gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in Kohistan, northern Pakistan, in an apparent sectarian attack, killing 18 people, police officials said. “All the people on board were Shia, and at the moment it looks like they were targeted by armed men from the local Sunni communi ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California wolf trek shows importance of wilde ...
    The incredible ramble of California’s only wolf shows more than determination, as OR7 has trotted more than 1,000 miles to look for a mate and a new home. It also demonstrates the necessity of wilderness areas that serve as safe corridors for migrating wildlife.
  • Organic farmers' case against Monsanto thrown ...
    U.S. Federal Dist. Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Friday to dismiss the case brought by organic farmers to stop patent infringement lawsuits brought by seed giant Monsanto. The suit, called OSGATA et al. vs. Monsanto , was brought by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn. (OSGATA), as well as 82 ...
  • Enviros petition to protect wolf as endangered ...
    Environmental groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission on Monday to protect the gray wolf as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. If determined to have merit, it would require the state to put together a recovery plan for the wolves.
  • Global warming feeds bark beetles: Are they un ...
    Hear the sound of chewing out in our vast forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and fir, the chewing that’s already destroyed half the commercial timber in important regions like British Columbia? That’s the sound of climate change, says biologist Reese Halter. Global warming in the form ...
  • Organic farmers take on Monsanto over patent l ...
    After years of taking farmers to court to assert their patent rights, agri-giant Monsanto Co.is being sued by farmers. Lots of farmers.

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

  • Help Stop Attacks on Civil RIghts Activists
    Two weeks after we were targeted in the West Bank village of Nilin, Tristan Anderson, a 37-year-old from California was shot with a high-velocity tear gas canister Submitted by Abdessalam Diab to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu will urge Obama to publicly back att ...
    The talks with the Americans are like porcupines having sex: slowly and carefully," he said. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Please Sign: Tell Prime Minister Harper to Coo ...
    Something is very fishy about how Conservative Party phone calls misdirected voters to bogus polling stations before the 2011 election. Liberal leader Bob Rae say the dirty tricks used rival those in the Nixon campaign. Tell Harper: Cooperate with probe. Submitted by Susan V. to World  |&n ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! TELL Canada, Stop Censoring ...
    Tell Canada that you support the right of scientists to talk directly to the media about important issues that affect the lives of Canada's citizens without the government dictating what they say,as they do now.. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • Silencing The Critics
    The US has no independent print and TV media. It has presstitutes who are paid for the lies that they tell. The US government in its pursuit of its immoral aims has attained the status of the most corrupt government in human history. Submitted by Michael Dewey to World  |   Note ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Federal Agencies Release New Environmental Jus ...
    The Administration believes that all Americans should be able to live in healthy communities, share in the benefits of federal programs and initiatives, and have a voice in the federal decision-making process.
  • West African Subregion Loses $2 Billion Annual ...
    To address the problem of piracy in Gulf of Guniea, the U.S. government stresses that that piracy in the Gulf of Guinea requires the strongest possible regional response, with international help.
  • Orlando Fugueroa to Lead New Mars Program Plan ...
    The MPPG will report to Grunsfeld, a physicist and five-time flown space shuttle astronaut. Grunsfeld is chairing the overall, agency-wide reformulation strategy along with William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the human exploration and
  • US Committed to End 'Intolerable Yoke of Moder ...
    He underlines that in fulfilling these responsibilities, the Office spend a lot of time engaging with others who are part of the fight against modern slavery whether U.S. foreign government counterparts, or leaders in the NGO community, or academics
  • Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul: German Parliamentar ...
    Think of German politicians and the name and face that comes to mind is, of course, that of Angela Merkel, the current chancellor of the country and chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union.

Worldnews

  • Spring cleaning isn't just for housekeepi ...
    March is fast approaching, and aside from a little recent rain, the weather has been beautiful. Before you start spending those gorgeous Spring days outdoors, why not do a little spring cleaning? Don't limit it to just your house, though – get your whole life in order! Start with the h ...
  • Avocados, seaweed, plums and chocolate--i ...
    You are what your eat.. You don’t have to tell us Angelenos what to eat. Los Angeles is the health capital of the country. There’s a Whole Food’s, vegan restaurant, Erewhon or other health food store on nearly every street. We invented health foods. So as I was watching T ...
  • Australia Retail Sales Edge Up, Rates on ...
    Australian retail sales rose a modest 0.3 percent in January as a sharp rise in eating out helped offset softness in household goods, a pedestrian result that only confirms the challenges facing traditional bricks-and-mortar stores across the country....
  • Sugar trap: Critics say Healthy Tick deal ...
    ONE lump or two? Or how about three? As long as it's a balanced part of the "total make-up" of whatever you're eating or drinking, the Australian Heart Foundation seems to be OK with sugar. Supports it even, to the tune of awarding its Healthy Heart Tick in recent years across an i ...
  • WSH hits a new roadblock
    Hockey is high on popularity charts following India's qualification for the London Olympics and the organisers of the World Series Hockey - Indian Hockey Federation and Nimbus - would have hoped to make most of it. That, however, is not the case. The tournament has been mired in controversy ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Child Advocates Slam Greenwashing of Seuss' Be ...
    Environmentalists and child advocates are raising warning flags this week over the consumer-driven, corporate-sponsored ad campaigns and product tie-ins surrounding the movie version of Dr. Suess' 'The Lorax'.  One of the most beloved children's book authors of all time, Dr. ...
  • Greenpeace: Fukushima Disaster Caused by Japan ...
    A new report released today by Greenpeace argues it was neither the 7.1 magnitude earthquake nor the raging tsunami that followed which deserve the real blame for the nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Diachi power plant last year. ...
  • Antarctic Ocean Alliance Calls for World's Lar ...
    The Antarctic Ocean Alliance, a coalition of groups including Greenpeace, WWF and Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), has called for the world's largest marine reserve to be declared in Antarctica's Ross Sea to protect the delicate ecosystem. The alliance calls on the Commissi ...
  • Wall Street Fights Back Against Bid to Curb Oi ...
    A Federal Judge is weighing arguments for and against a deeper regulatory regiment on the oil futures market that stems from Congressional legislation passed in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. McClatchy reports on the hearing that took place on Monday where the judge hinted that he &q ...
  • Israeli Officials: Israel Won't Warn U.S. Bef ...
    Israel won't notify the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran, the Associated Press is reporting, and says the announcement was "delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations with U.S. officials." Associated Press reports that though Israeli de ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Analysis: Cape Wind’s Big Break
    Offshore wind developer Cape Wind appears poised to secure a second buyer for the electricity to be produced by its proposed project off Massachusetts.
  • Federal Agencies Respond to Risks of Climate C ...
    C2ES is pleased to release our updated report, Climate Change Adaptation: What Federal Agencies are Doing, which lays out the rapidly expanding efforts across the federal government to respond to the increasing economic risks of extreme weather and climate change.  Federal agencies are unde ...
  • Who's To Blame For Current Gas Prices?
    Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most of his critics ar ...
  • Promising to Slash Gas Prices is "Economic No ...
    Oddly enough, I found myself nodding vigorously while listening to George Will yesterday on This Week. He derided politicians who claim to be able to move globally determined oil prices enough to influence gas prices dramatically, saying they might as well promise we can grow lobsters on trees. ...
  • Small modular reactors in Iowa?
    The land of Iowa - home of hogs, corn, windmills, and... SMRs (i.e., small modular reactors). Or at the least, that last part may be true pending a proposal before the Iowa Legislature (HF 561) is passed, allowing for among other things, recovery of costs while construction is in progress o ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA
    by Stephen Lendman Internet freedom's on the line. SOPA and PIPA threatened Net Neutrality and free expression. So does ACTA. More on it below. For now, the largest online protest in Internet history got Congress to abandon SOPA and PIPA for now but not permanently. Expect resurrection in mod ...
  • Grandstanding and Betrayal
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Shatila Camp, Lebanon In the US, it would be a difficult task to find even more revolting and groveling intellectual “half-men” to borrow a phrase from Syria’s beleaguered President Bashar Assad than Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich during their recent “de ...
  • Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa'id Naffa
    by Stephen Lendman Israel reveals its rogue credentials daily. In mid-July 2010, its Knesset stripped MK Hanin Zoabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla bringing vital aid to Gaza. Since then, she's been vilified, threatened, and may b ...
  • Targeting Iranian Nationals
    by Stephen Lendman Washington's first regime change priority is Syria. At issue is isolating Iran. Then devoting full attention to replacing its current government with a pro-Western one. At the same time, covert war's raged against Tehran for years. Destabilization tactics include fake ...
  • Torture and Abuse in Libya
    by Stephen Lendman NATO's alleged "responsibility to protect" was subterfuge. Months of terror bombings left Libya a charnel house. Africa's most developed country was ravaged. Tens of thousands were killed, multiples more injured, and millions left on their own sink or swim. When is wa ...

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.
  • BC Ombudsperson releases roadmap for seniors care
    The much-anticipated final report by BC Ombudsperson Kim Carter on her investigation into the crisis in seniors care was released last week. With 176 recommendations, "The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 2)" outlines measures for improving quality, accessibil ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Pentagon admits it dumped some 9/11 remains in a landfill For the first time, the Defense Department acknowledged Tuesday that some cremated remains of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were dumped in a landfill, conduct the White House called “unacceptable.” The discl ...
  • Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: Splitting the ...
    by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard - Bullying American landowners and stockpiling pipe for a rejected project show the arrogance of the Canadian pipeline company TransCanada as it tries to reanimate the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The latest news is that TransCanada i ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Partnership With Anonymous Ma ...
    by Luke Allnutt,rferl.org -WikiLeaks is back in the news with the release of millions of e-mails from Stratfor, a global security firm. The latest trawl — 167 of more than 5.5 million corporate e-mails — was obtained after the hacktivist collective Anonymous hacked into Stratfor serv ...
  • Native American News
    Native Lesson By Laurie Heuston - SOU stages ‘Raccoon Earns His Stripes’ with a nod to folklore storytelling A character from ancient Pacific Northwest folklore will walk on the wild side of contemporary times when “Raccoon Earns His Stripes” premieres in the Center Squar ...
  • Your Hippie Digest for Tuesday
    The Future of Cannabis: How Are We to Move Forward? From vancouversun.com – Cannabis has been taking centre stage in recent weeks. Former attorneys-general and Vancouver mayors in British Columbia have called for regulation and taxation of the industry, in an attempt to stop the violence o ...

FourWinds10

  • 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
    The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
  • Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...

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

  • President Obama’s Role in Current Gas Prices
    Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Want Healthy, Safe Seafood? Consult the Superf ...
    In his book Oceana, Ted Danson, the actor and oceans advocate, writes that one-third of the world's fisheries are currently in collapse, "unable to regenerate their populations fast enough to keep pace with the rate at which they are being caught or killed." In an interview with Rodale.com, he ...
  • Why Women Shouldn't Eat Factory Farmed Chicken
    Tests from the nonprofit Consumers Union have found that grocery store shelves are littered with contaminated meat. Their tests regularly show that as much as two-thirds of grocery-store chicken contains bacteria resistant to some of the most common classes of antibiotics. While those tests hav ...
  • Trio of Chemicals Responsible for Major U.S. B ...
    Premature births and ADHD have long been known causes of low IQ in children, but a new study recently found that exposure to common environmental contaminants could be even bigger causes behind a societal brain drain. Previous studies have shown that mercury, lead, and organophosphate pesticid ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Bill Nye: Scientist on Wheels
    Bill Nye has always mixed science and comedy, dating back to his early career when he balanced his day job as an engineer at Boeing with his nighttime routine as a stand-up comic. Later Nye was able to combine those passions in his award-winning PBS show  Bill Nye the Science Guy . A ...
  • The True Cost of Congestion
    What's the Big Idea? No one would accuse Gernot Wagner of having an environmentally irresponsible lifestyle. "I don’t drive," he tells Big Think. "I don’t even have a driver’s license. I don’t eat meat. I try to do all the right things." And yet, are his actions making a differen ...
  • Should the UN Run the Internet?
    A worldwide battle for control of the Internet looms, which could soon pit the U.S. against the rest of the world. Starting this week in Geneva, at the World Conference on International Telecommunications, geopolitical rivals such as Russia and China will attempt to extract "unprecedented powe ...
  • We're Ethically Bound to Eat Braindead, Legles ...
    A recent proposal to remove the heads and legs of chickens may be the best thing we can do for them. If we can reduce our farmed animals to vegetables, we would have made great strides in reducing suffering. That is, if we can remove the functions of the brain that cause animals to suffe ...
  • Economics, Immigration, and Eugenics
    In my last post, I mentioned in passing the eugenic dimensions of tax and immigration policy. The genetic quality of the national stock is a taboo subject, and for familiar, excellent reasons. Nazis! That said, the history of eugenics is fascinating, especially if one is also interested in the . ...

Information Liberation

  • Ohio Officials Seek to Criminalize 'Hidden Com ...
    Everything is a crime in the new America. Via The Columbus Dispatch: A hidden compartment in your vehicle, with or without drugs, could mean big trouble as Ohio officials get serious about slowing down drug-smuggling. A proposed state law, adv...
  • 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. ...

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

  • Uncharted, unfashionable, but unavoidably wond ...
    The exploration of our solar system is one of humanity′s greatest scientific achievements. The last half century has seen huge steps forward in our understanding of the planets, the sun, and the countless other objects in the solar system. Some would say that planetary science is a mature discip ...
  • Delivering healthcare electronically
    The evaluation of e-health services seems not to be high on the research agenda and yet finding ways to evaluate such initiatives and provide feedback to developers could support existing e-health projects and lead to better quality and efficiency in future initiatives. The outcome would hopeful ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Could "Computational Sprinting" Speed Up Smart ...
    The demands placed on smart phones by marathon sessions of texting, streaming video and surfing the Web require that they have blazing-fast processors while, at the same time, be able to disburse the heat these processors generate. A team of engineers is proposing something of a counterint ...
  • Bats Harbor Novel Type of Influenza
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • New Energy-Dense Battery Could Enable Long-Dis ...
    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--A company founded in the Palo Alto public library has taken a dose of government money and technology and turned it into the most energy-dense battery ever. Envia System's new lithium-ion battery packs roughly twice as much energy per gram as present batteries, the comp ...
  • "Time Crystals" Could Be a Legitimate Form of ...
    The phrases "perpetual-motion machine"--a concept derided by scientists since the mid-19th century--and "physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek" wouldn't seem to belong in the same sentence. But if Wilczek's latest ideas on symmetry and the nature of time are correct, t ...
  • Hell off Earth: Blustery Exoplanet Charted in ...
    A mere 60 light-years away, orbiting an orangish star called HD 189733, is a world an Earthling would not want to visit. The planet is a gas giant, like Jupiter or Saturn, but unlike those familiar worlds this one hugs tightly to its host star, orbiting at about one thirtieth the distance at w ...

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

  • BC Teachers Send Message - Negotiate!
    VANCOUVER - Local public school teachers joined their colleagues across the province today in a day of action. Before and after classes they took to the streets with placards calling for the province to negotiate - not legislate.  The teachers have also applied to the BC Labour Relations Bo ...
  • Harper Roboscam Recordings Revealed
    Former US President Richard Nixon was able to keep 18 ½ potentially incriminating minutes of White House audio tapes under wraps, allowing him to avoid being personally connected to the dirty tricks used against his political oppone ...
  • 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; ...
  • 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; ...
  • MORE Intelligence Reports from the V2010ISU-JIG
    It seems to never end. I got a less redacted version of the V2010ISU-JIG reports, and I currently have the following reports: A_4382.pdf - December 2008 B_4382.pdf - January 2009 update C_4382.pdf - February 2009 update D_4382.pdf - A different February 2009 update E_4382.pdf - March 2010 updat ...

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

  • Romney Can't Win, But He Can't Lose Either
    Going into today's primaries, I figured Romney had to win Michigan by five points to demonstrate that his campaign still had its old mojo. In the event, he won by three. So....I guess things are still up in the air. Romney is in sort of a quantum superposition between winning and losing, still ...
  • The Filibuster, Sadly, Will Be Around for a While
    Jon Chait thinks Republicans are following an inevitably disastrous long-term electoral strategy because they've given up on their future and just want to win two more years in office — years they can use to move America so far to the right it will take Democrats a generation to move it ...
  • Quote of the Day: Romney Being Outplayed at Hi ...
    From Mitt Romney, in a rare appearance before actual reporters who got to ask him questions: It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We've seen throughout the campaign if you're willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative, attacking of President Obama, th ...
  • Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
    The Washington Post reports on another budding source of outrage: On Tuesday, a new Defense Department review of the mortuary operations at Dover [Air Force Base] revealed that “several portions of remains” recovered from the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon and at Shanksville [ ...
  • Are the Rich Bigger Pricks Than the Rest of Us?
    A study that suggests the rich are bigger pricks than the poor got a lot of attention yesterday, and I agree with Tyler Cowen that we should all take it with a bigger grain of salt than we have. I wasn't wildly impressed with the quality of the results, though some are interesting and suggesti ...

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

  • New 'magnetic yeast' marks step toward harness ...
    Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School have developed a method for inducing magnetic sensitivity in an organism that is not naturally magnetic -- yeast. Their technology could potentially be used to magnetize a variety of different cell types in medical, industrial and rese ...
  • SFU researchers test sugary solution to Alzhei ...
    Slowing or preventing the development of Alzheimer's disease, a fatal brain condition expected to hit one in 85 people globally by 2050, may be as simple as ensuring a brain protein's sugar levels are maintained. read more
  • Notre Dame researchers are providing insights ...
    Last year, Kenya lost 278 elephants to poachers, as compared to 177 in 2010. On the continent of Africa as whole, elephants have declined from an estimated 700,000 in 1990 to 360,000 today due to the demands of the ivory trade. read more
  • Iowa State, Ames Lab chemists aid study of mut ...
    Genetic mutations to cellulose in plants could improve the conversion of cellulosic biomass into biofuels, according to a research team that included two Iowa State University chemists. read more
  • Eye movement not engaged in arms race, NYU res ...
    We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehab ...

unEarthed

  • Proposal For Longview Coal Export Terminal Returns
    Columbia River facility would ship 44 million tons of coal annually They’re baaack! The shipping and logistics company Millennium Bulk Terminals last week ...
  • Tennessee Standing Up For Its Mountains
    State may become first to ban high-altitude mountaintop removal mining Tennessee mountains -- Image courtesy of EarthFirst A bipartisan bill is coming up for ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Lessons Unlearned from Buffalo Cr ...
    Similar threats at coal ash impoundments remain unresolved Buffalo Creek disaster February 26, 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek disaster& ...
  • Remembering Buffalo Creek
    Forty years after tragic sludge dam failure, the threat remains Buffalo Creek dam failure aftermath Yesterday, Feb. 26, was the 40th anniversary of the tragi ...
  • Friday Finds: War on Terra
    Sour milk, filthy beaches, biotech's legal blues (Photo courtesy of p*p) Big business attack ads create fear conditions for environmental scientists ...

Brave New Climate

  • 100% Renewable Electricity for Australia: Resp ...
    Guest post by Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. Click here for a printable 6-page PDF version of this response. ——————– This is a personal response to Lang’s (2012) article critiquing the peer-reviewed paper Elliston, Diesendo ...
  • 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 [...]

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 ...

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  • Israel ups demolitions in controversial Palest ...
    Less than two months into 2012, the pace of Israeli demolitions and displacements of Palestinians is already outstripping the same period in 2011. Israel seems to be taking advantage of the American election cycle to push settlement expansion in the E1 territory, which even the former Bush Admin ...
  • Response to comment on Abbas speech: Erasing P ...
    A response to Dahlia Scheindlin’s piece about Mahmoud Abbas’ comments on ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem. I am going to have to totally disagree with my colleague Dahlia Scheindlin on her piece, Response to Abbas: we’ll be together in Jerusalem forever. Although I am also ignorant of t ...
  • Asylum seekers denied discounted bus pass due ...
    An asylum seeker from Eritrea has been living and working legally in Israel – but is continuously denied a discounted electronic bus pass because she has no passport or formal identification card. The Transportation Ministry refuses to recognize her government-issued visa and claims this & ...
  • Asylum seekers denied bus pass due to ‘t ...
    An asylum seeker from Eritrea has been living and working legally in Israel – but is continuously denied a discounted electronic bus pass because she has no passport or formal identification card. The Transportation Ministry refuses to recognize her government-issued visa and claims this & ...
  • Response to Abbas: We’ll be together in ...
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the International Conference on Jerusalem in Doha on Saturday set off the most proverbial alarm bells in Israel. Caveat: Without actually seeing the full text of the speech, or being at the conference, I am dependent on excerpts in news report ...

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

  • A Critical Analysis of The Florida Senate Bank ...
    And contrary, to representations made at the hearing yesterday, the letter in opposition to the bill written by Henry Trawick applies to many of the issues that are still addressed in the current version of the litigation. Henry Trawick’s honored opinion and analysis of this bill should no ...
  • The State Attorneys General, Yes, They Sold Us ...
    From Abigail Field: Dear State Attorneys General: Rumor has it that this week we will learn precisely how you sold us all out regarding the criminal enterprise that is mortgage servicing and foreclosure in America. That is, rumor has it that more than two weeks after you announced a deal with fi ...
  • Foreclosure Bill: “Most of this bill is ...
    The good news is some of our elected leaders are listening to us…. For the first time since the real estate crash crippled Florida’s economy and battered struggling homeowners, a bill to hasten foreclosures through the courts is headed to the full House and Senate. A narrow 6-4 vote ...
  • Senators Olerich and Fasano, Margolis, Sobel, ...
    Tonight the Florida Senate voted to pass the absurd foreclosure bill.  The debate was actually significant because two Republicans actually took a stand for justice and the integrity of the legal process and voted against this mess.  Senators Fasano and Olerich  both provided sensible commentary ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • Right to Community – Against Our Wishes
    The American Revolution didn’t start out as anything of the kind. Its eventual leaders were believers in the principles that …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Our Turn
    It wasn’t expected. Just returning from a meeting, my cellphone rang. The caller ID was blocked, but upon answering I …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

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

  • ‘Superbug’ Transfer: The Jump From Humans, to ...
    News media outlets throughout the nation were abuzz last week with the report of new scientific research showing, for the first time, how a strain of infectious Staph began life in humans, then spread to livestock where it became MRSA, and then jumped back to humans. The study was published Tues ...
  • On the Horizon: The Future of Biofuels
    What are the greatest opportunities and challenges right now in moving toward a more bio-based economy? A conversation with Donna Perla, senior advisor at EPA.
  • 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.

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Have A Facebook Privacy Horror Story You Want ...
    In just a few short years, Facebook has turned a networking site for college students into a multi-billion dollar business with hundreds of millions of users. It has also earned a reputation for blurring the line between what constitutes users' private information and what data it can make avai ...
  • Price-Protection Guarantees: Don't Hold Your B ...
    Ah, the wonderful allure of a price-protection guarantee! That carrot travel booking sites often dangle to get your business when you're buying a plane ticket or hotel stay -- you know, if the price goes down after you buy it, you'll get money back. But unfortunately, consumers might not have m ...
  • Chase Plans On Caring Even Less About Customer ...
    Are you a JPMorgan Chase customer with less than $100,000 dollars deposited? Then you are not making the bank enough money and it probably wants nothing to do with you going forward. Speaking to investors today, Todd Maclin, the bank's chief executive officer of consumer and business banking s ...
  • The Informed Consumer Strikes Again, Ends Up W ...
    You know what makes our day? Helping out whoever we can in a tight spot. Sort of like when Princess Leia is like, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope," except we are far less Jedi and really, it's up to you to arm yourselves with info in the battle against bad companies. That being sa ...
  • FDA Adds Diabetes & Memory Loss Warnings To St ...
    Widely used cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor (atorvastatin), Crestor (rosuvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin), Simcor (simvastatin/niacin extended-release), Vytorin (simvastatin/ezetimibe) and many others will now have additional warnings on their packaging, according to an announcemen ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Cyber-threat Boogeyman: Props to White House f ...
    Ellen Nakashima of WaPo reports today: The National Security Agency has pushed repeatedly over the past year to expand its role in protecting private-sector computer networks from cyberattacks but has been rebuffed by the White House, largely because of privacy concerns. . . The NSA-fuele ...
  • Eyal Press on National Security Whistleblowers ...
    UP with Chris Hayes: Chilling Effect – The White House Crackdown on Whistleblowers Summary: On his Sunday morning MSNBC show, host Chris Hayes gathered a panel to discuss the Obama administration’s crackdown on national security whistleblowers through the Espionage Act. The panel featured Eyal ...
  • ABC vs White House (Over Whistleblowers) Heats ...
    The New York Times: Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth Summary: This is continuing coverage of ABC News reporter Jake Tapper confronting White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the administration’s praises of investigative journalists oversees – comments made despite the ad ...
  • State Department Hallwalkers: Whistleblower Pe ...
    Author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and whistleblower Peter Van Buren discussed the State Department's retaliatory actions on NPR Sunday. From the NPR story: The halls of the State Department are haunted, no ...
  • New York Times: Espionage Act De Facto Officia ...
    The New York Times reports today on White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's dodge ball non-response to ABC's Jake Tapper on the hypocrisy of promoting an aggressive free press abroad while criminally prosecuting a record number of "leakers" a.k.a. sources a.k.a. whistle ...

UK Progressive

  • Portugal: A Case Study of Austerity
    In ‘99 Portugal adopted the Euro (“€”) after joining the EU in ’86. At the time the country’s Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) per capita was 80% of the EU average versus 38% forty years earlier. The Global Competitiveness Report (2005) ranked Portugal 22nd out of 134 countries, and the Economist ...
  • Livestreaming: Telling the Truth About Occupy ...
    Livestreamers are armed with a smart phone, an app and an audience of people at home watching every frame. The first Occupy camp I went to was in Los Angeles at City Hall. On the corner there were communists standing next to Ron Paul supporters next to vegan activists next to those LaRouche peop ...
  • A Scary and Sad Santorum
    Rick Santorum wants to be President. He’s such a conservative Catholic that he makes the Pope look liberal! Rick’s rapid-fire, machine gun style of speaking allows him to cover more territory with more words than an auctioneer. He deflects and sweeps aside all manner of criticism. And, just like ...
  • Too Soon for Champagne Corks?
    As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his 98th.) What happened? “They lost me,” he says. They’re losing even more Americans no ...
  • Ron Paul Only Candidate to Warn of a Fascist T ...
    Republican Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate of either party to tell the truth that America is “slipping into a fascist system.” That is unquestionably the critical issue of the hour for the United States of America and one that Paul’s Republican fellow candidates and their Democratic ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The Guardian: CO2 Apocalypse Now! Volcanoes, e ...
    The Guardian “Climate change will shake the Earth” (parroted by the SMH)  is feeding the pagan masses who worship The God CO2. Which would be fine, except they pretend that it’s science when it’s the “hell” part of any religion. If you drive your SUV too far y ...
  • Australian teachers — pick up your free ...
     The Education Department and the CSIRO push their propaganda and scare our children with apocalyptic, unscientific scenarios. They are even trying to target pre-schoolers. The ABC has accepted grants from the Climate Change Foundation to work the Climate Change message into ‘DirtGirl’, an ABC4 ...
  • 2012 bloggies winner :-)
    thank you to everyone who nominated and voted and for me. Cheers! Jo Rating: 9.0/10 (17 votes cast) Rating: 9.0/10 (17 votes cast)
  • 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)

ReNew America

  • Amy Contrada on 'Word of Truth' radio show
    (RenewAmerica) - ...
  • Whither Western Civilization? Santorum, Romney ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Many viewers scratched their heads during a Republican presidential candidate debate when George Stephanopoulos, an erstwhile Clinton administration official, suddenly brought up the question of contraception...
  • The revolt against limited government
    (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - The framers' belief in limited government pervades the entire constitutional structure. It is the continuous theme of The Federalist Papers. Until the New Deal agenda tried to wipe away limited government principles from the political and constitutional consciousnes ...
  • Romney camp, super PAC share high-level aides
    (Washington Times) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and the super PAC accepting million-dollar contributions to support him are barred by law from coordinating, yet they share many of the same top-level workers, a fact both groups have helped mask by paying high-level aides through companie ...
  • Romney speaks to empty stadium
    (Newsmax) - The pictures of presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivering a speech in a mostly empty Detroit stadium on Friday were played and replayed over the weekend as yet one more example of how his campaign may not yet be ready for prime time...

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

  • A New Type of Portable Charger
    Your survival equipment might include something that charges over USB. For example, an iPad with hundreds of survival books stored on it. When the SHTF and there’s no electricity and/or you are on the road, how will you recharge your device? You’ll be OK if you have a car and the rig ...
  • NASA: Catastrophic Floods Happen
    When NASA say catastrophic floods they are not talking about Hurricane Katrina. Check this out: Geologists would learn that the waters could have drowned a 40-story skyscraper, making them 20 times deeper than the Hurricane-Katrina-triggered flooding that destroyed swaths of New Orleans and the ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

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Oriental Review

  • Russia and the Changing World
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the latest article by Vladimir Putin, Russian PM and front-runner of the presidential campaign due to culminate next Sunday, March 4, 2012. The article focuses on different aspects of the Russian foreign policy. In my previous articles I have discussed some of the key ...
  • Russia and US Clash Over Afghan Drug Trafficking
    This month Washington whose commitment to fighting drug production in the US occupied Afghanistan is widely called into question rolled out a new plan of coordinating the activities of Central Asian republic’s anti-narcotic agencies. The initiative was, however, promptly blocked as potenti ...
  • 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: ...

BlogHer

  • Functional or Emotional, Buying Underwear or L ...
    I recently took my 19 year old daughter to Paris for some R&R and decided to take her to one of the less known and visited tourist hot spot  in Paris.  The fourth floor at Galleries Lafayette.  The lingerie floor.  An entire floor dedicated to the clothing category seen b ...
  • X-Ray Tech Develops New Career Helping Kids
    Even the most established careers can suddenly vanish. That's what happened to graduate Maureen Petengill. However, her unexpected change was the start of something better and more fulfilling. "I was working as an X-ray tech or 22 years and got laid off. It was the perfect opportunity to go back ...
  • BlogHer '12 Parties - - Blog Bling!
    It's here, blog bling for BlogHer '12 Party Blog Bling! Grab and post on your site and let everyone know which party you are attending!!! Thursday Evening at the Expo, 6-8pm Latino Voter Influence on 2012 Election
    [Editor's Note: The Latino population is expected to play a key role in the 2012 political season, from the primaries through to November's election. Sofia Sanchez posts on Latino Politics Blog about what's on the minds of Hispanic and Latino voters -- and why it's important to both Republicans ...
  • MICHIGAN: Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Sta ...
    The trees are the right height in Michigan? Two Cadillacs? I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that former Gov. Mitt Romney's not a natural storyteller. Just watch: Romney has never elaborated on his quasi "Double Rainbow" moment, but I can assert as a Michigander there's no inside joke abo ...

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

  • Alpha gets two more ‘imminent danger&#82 ...
    This just in from Alpha Natural Resources: On February 23, 2012, Brooks Run Mining Company, LLC (“Brooks Run”), a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., received an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Mine Act alleging that a miner at the Cucumber Mine (the “Mine”), located n ...
  • Written in blood: Another disaster, another law
    Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates just passed — with a unanimous vote — a much-watered down version of a mine safety bill (see previous posts on the bill here, here and here) with language worked out in closed-door meetings with industry and labor lobbyists, and a key p ...
  • Will coal lobby support weakened mine safety bill?
    The point of closed-door negotiations between various lobby groups — aside from insulating lawmakers from any real public accountability — is to get a product that everyone will agree to … to push legislation through with everyone on board. Supposedly, that’s what has hap ...
  • Senate approves tax hike for W.Va. coal cleanu ...
    We’ve got a little AP story in today’s paper about Senate passage of the bill that would increase the coal production tax that funds cleanups of West Virginia coal mines that were abandoned after 1977. Here’s the deal: West Virginia lawmakers are considering at least one tax hi ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Disqus vs. CloudFlare: Comments Fixed
    It appears commenting has been broken here for quite some time and I finally found time to track the issue down this morning. It was a particular beta-level feature of CloudFlare (RocketLoader) that was the culprit. Everything should be fine now; let me know if that’s not the case. Related ...
  • Life Correction | Reddit
    When I arrived at her wedding, her mom greeted me. “Oh, are you THE Conc?” she said. I was a bit shocked. “I don’t think so” I replied. Her mom said “Yes, you’re her friend from college. She talks about you all the time! She would LOVE to see you before ...
  • How Exercise Fuels the Brain | NYT
    After the single session on the treadmill, the animals were allowed to rest and feed, and then their brain glycogen levels were studied. The food, it appeared, had gone directly to their heads; their brain levels of glycogen not only had been restored to what they had been before the workout, bu ...
  • The Miura-ori
    via wheatpond.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentTry a BookA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatThe Problem Decision TreeDon’t Be a Cryptic Ass
  • Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired.com
    A new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, and led by Jason Moser at Michigan State University, expands on this important concept. The question at the heart of the paper is simple: Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? After all, everybody screws up. ...

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

  • WikiLeaks’ Partnership With Anonymous Ma ...
    by Luke Allnutt,rferl.org -WikiLeaks is back in the news with the release of millions of e-mails from Stratfor, a global security firm. The latest trawl — 167 of more than 5.5 million corporate e-mails — was obtained after the hacktivist collective Anonymous hacked into Stratfor serv ...
  • Native American News
    Native Lesson By Laurie Heuston - SOU stages ‘Raccoon Earns His Stripes’ with a nod to folklore storytelling A character from ancient Pacific Northwest folklore will walk on the wild side of contemporary times when “Raccoon Earns His Stripes” premieres in the Center Squar ...
  • Your Hippie Digest for Tuesday
    The Future of Cannabis: How Are We to Move Forward? From vancouversun.com – Cannabis has been taking centre stage in recent weeks. Former attorneys-general and Vancouver mayors in British Columbia have called for regulation and taxation of the industry, in an attempt to stop the violence o ...
  • Millions of children in cities face poverty an ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN -  Hundreds of millions of children in cities across the world are growing up in poverty and enduring deprivation, according to a report unveiled today by the United Nations, spotlighting social exclusion and calling for measures to give the youngsters access to basic service ...
  • Ten Things Everyone Should Know About White Pr ...
    By Mikhail Lyubansky,OpEdNews - Have you thought about the privilege of whiteness? If you haven’t, it’s never too late (or too early) to start, especially since the potential payoff is the ability to better connect across racial lines. If you have, here are ten observations to feed y ...

reference frame

  • Quantum computers: intro
    Classical computers operate with classical information, e.g. bits encoded in the voltage of a capacitor. \(5 = 00000101\). Their working should be deterministic. Additional reading if you wish: recent books such as "The Physics of Quantum Information" by Bouwmeester, Ekert, Zeilinger ...
  • Debate with a chief economist
    I just returned from a 2-hour public debate with Dr Tomáš Sedláček [Thomas Little Farmer], the chief economist of the Czechoslovak Business Bank (ČSOB), a member of the government advisory committee called "NERV[e]", which is a well-constructed acronym, and the only Czech who was invited to t ...
  • OPERA and Italian comrades
    Yesterday, I summarized the current situation with the OPERA experiment in Lidovky, a leading Czech daily. All the people who responded to my article by e-mail included the term "Italian comrades" in the subject line of their e-mails. And all the people wrote me about units – people, inc ...
  • Xena and Greenpeace pals arrested
    Xena, the warrior princess, thinks that the defense of the Arctic starts here, on a ship in New Zealand. Together with six other less memorable faces, Xena occupied a drillship that belongs to Shell. Their happening has encouraged 133,000 people to send hate mail to Shell, ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Bilderberger Brzezinksi: USA will not support ...
    These are strong words coming from Bilderberger, Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission Mouthpiece Zbigniew Brzezinksi. I am sure that Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu will be soiling his depends over this bold statement. Brzezinksi pulls no punches in this short rant, clai ...
  • Anticipation of a fail – White Hats Report #37 ...
    The much anticipated and hyped pending release of The White Hats Report #37 in terms of stud or dud, was a dud, a stinker, a real let down. They said on numerous occasions that the wait would be worth it and then when I read it I said WTF. They released a scanned document as [...] Related posts ...
  • Wikileaks Announcement: The Global Intelligenc ...
    Via BNO News Wire Service: WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED EMBARGOED EMBARGOED DO NOT DISCLOSE THE EXISTANCE OF THIS RELEASE OR ANY INFORMATION DERIVED FROM IT BEFORE Monday 27 February 00:01 GMT 2012 The Global Intelligence Files [link to wikileaks.org] Twitter tag: #gifiles OFFICAL PRESS CON ...
  • Webster Tarpley, Ph.D. – NATO Death Squad kill ...
    According to Webster Tarpley a false flag is about to be undertaken by British MI6 Front Group Al Jazeera to blame the deaths of 17 Syrian children on Assad forces when it was NATO death squads that did the heinous act. How are we to know for sure? But Tarpley is usually spot on in [...] Relate ...
  • Nature’s Art in Cymatic Experiments, Harmonics ...
    Nature’s hidden art. Real the real Rembrandt please stand up! Another example of the consciousness of the Universe.   Good interview detailing the HOW and WHY of energy, magnets and more: Atomic Feng Shui – Aetheric Diodes and Magnetization: http://www.scribd.com/doc/77264199/At ...

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

  • Study: Toxic Chemicals Play Are Lowering Child ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations I spend more time than most people reading about scientific studies on the environmental and public health effects of exposure to toxic chemicals. Last week I came across one report that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Most-active thief sentenced to jail
    Norway’s most-active thief was sentenced to four years and eight months in jail on Tuesday after being convicted on charges including 170 break-ins. He’s believed to actually be behind 700 violations of the law, most of them for theft or attempted theft. “Police have arrested h ...
  • Consumer council opposes higher cheese tariffs
    Norway’s consumer council Forbrukerrådet opposes an attempt by Norwegian dairy cooperative Tine to protect itself from competition by boosting import tariffs on foreign cheese. Tine officials have said they plan to ask state officials to recalculate tariffs to protect the market for Norweg ...
  • Strong krone threatens hotels
    Economic problems abroad combined with Norway’s strong currency, the krone, have left Norwegian hotel owners in outlying areas fearing that fewer tourists will be checking in this summer. They received some relief, however, from the postponement of new, protectionist rules that would restr ...
  • Norwegians finally consider mausoleums
    Population growth and a looming shortage of cemetery space have left Norwegians finally considering a funeral and burial option that’s widespread in many other parts of the world: Mausoleums to house the urns containing ashes of the deceased. They’ve been common in Europe, Asia and t ...
  • State seeks five-year term for Krekar
    State prosecutors asked a court in Oslo on Tuesday to sentence Muslim cleric and former guerrilla leader Mullah Krekar to five years in prison, for making threats against several persons including former government minister Erna Solberg. They also want to seize Krekar’s computer. Prosecuto ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Automatic Earth’s Nicole Foss Speaks in Ad ...
    Nicole Foss at Adelaide Seminar Who would have thought a seminar on the economy could have passion and run the audience through a gamut of emotions, all in a couple of hours? But this was so much more than an economics lecture, even though the future of economies and financial systems were th ...
  • Free Your (Eco)Mind
    Think like an ecosystem, and you just might save the world Gradually it’s dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, what we can see and what we cannot. Nothing so wrong with that, ...
  • Regenerating Rusinga (Kenya)
    FMNR workshop, Feb 2012, Kenya Rusinga Island is situated in Lake Victoria in the Western parts of Kenya. It is known for its prehistoric findings of primate fossils dating from 17 million years ago and for being the birthplace of the famously assassinated Kenyan politician, Tom Mboya, whose ...
  • Taranaki Farm Videos
    How To Move Your Farm Animals Taranaki Farm shows you how to move a herd of cows, a flock of laying hens, some sheep and a stowaway frog in only 20 minutes… and in the process, heal farmland and local community. Autumn Rain & Keyline Earthworks Pairing Keyline Design farm layout ...
  • Glocal Transition Forum, Nerang (March 10, 2012)
    Geoff Lawton and others will be participating in a short forum in Nerang, close to Brisbane, on Saturday March 10. Come along if you can! What: Glocal Transition Forum Where: Nerang Bicentennial Community Centre, 833 Southport – Nerang Road, Nerang, QLD When: Saturday March 10, 201 ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Hey CSR. These leaks are a really big deal. It seems it's scaring the shit out of some conspiracy sites as well. Remember when wiki leaks was all about American leaks? The msm and alternative media were going bonkers posting that stuff. There seems to be an uncomfortable silence now. It turn ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: The Jews' number ...
    Recent shows on RBN: Deanna Spingola on RBN had this recent show. http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/pod ... ogramID=81 Spingola Speaks, 2012-02-28 12:00:58, HOUR 1Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:01 AM Guest: Josh del Söl Josh del Söl, of British Columbia, talked about the health and secur ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: T ...
    Ognir: Great fucking show man! My buddy zapoper was very impressed at your knowledge and how you did the show with no notes and while you were driving. Glad your back and LordLindsey too. By the way, Sayanim: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uecmDWNEgIStatistics: Posted by Rockclimber ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Jews rarely make a move unless they are "sitting pretty". This figures. Russia appears to be a Jewish controlled state after all. Indeed Micheal K was right on this front. --CSRStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:57 pm
  • Social Engineering • Greg Johnson, “Money for ...
    Greg Johnson, “Money for Nothing” & Kevin MacDonald, “The Jewish Question Today” Counter-Currents Radio Tullio Crali, "Nose Dive on the City" 48 minutes/2,662 words http://cdn.counter-currents.com/radio/M ... ngKMac.mp3 http://www.counter-currents.com/tag/podcasts/Statistics: ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • 'Unprecedented' Slaughter of Elephants Continu ...
    Poachers in pursuit of ivory have killed nearly 500 elephants inside a Cameroon national park in the last six weeks, a highly organized slaughter that appears to be one of the worst elephant massacres in recent memory. View images IFAW An elephant killed at Bouba Ndjida National Park. O ...
  • Denmark Offers Best Conditions for Clean Techn ...
    According to a new global index, Denmark offers the best conditions for green technology innovation and entrepreneurship, with a strong record of support for technology startups that have achieved widespread market adoption, particularly in the area of wind energy. In an evaluation of 38 countri ...
  • Warming Climate Caused ‘Dwarfing’ of Earliest ...
    A new study suggests that the earliest known horse species shrank significantly in size over a 135,000-year span as a consequence of a warming climate. Using geochemical testing and measurements of fossilized teeth dating back more than 50 million years, U.S. researchers found that a 30-percent ...
  • Conservationists Launch Drone to Monitor Fores ...
    A coalition of scientists and environmental advocacy groups has developed a camera-equipped drone they say could become a key conservation tool for monitoring WATCH VIDEO: View from a conservation drone forest loss and endangered wildlife. The coalition — which includes The Orang ...
  • Pollutants from Tar Sands Sites Comparable to ...
    The amounts of pollution produced by tar sands excavation sites are comparable to those of a medium-sized city or a large power plant, according to a new study by Environment Canada, the nation’s environmental agency. Using satellite remote sensing observations, scientists found elevated levels ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    All right, it’s been about three months since I offered up my first batch of suggestions on how we can fix the world, and it appears none of them have been implemented. (Seriously ABC, Charlie’s Angels is the next … Charlie’s Angels. It’ll spawn five seasons, two movies, and a reboot series if y ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Djokovic gets win in return
    Top-ranked Novak Djokovic played his first match since winning the Australian Open, shaking off the rust to beat Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-4, 6-2 Monday in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Marko Djokovic — ranked 868 spots below his brother — had a less successful day ...
  • Japanese-American internment tales sought
    Bill Shishima shares how at 12 he joined the Boy Scouts behind the barbed wire of a Japanese-American internment camp, or how he had to work on a rabbit farm to earn his keep when his parents couldn't afford to move the family back to California after World War II. The 81-year-old retired teac ...
  • Draft program targets buckets of Olympic gold ...
    An education ministry panel has approved a basic program outlining the promotion of sports and other physical activities that includes numerical targets for Japanese gold medals at the Olympics. Approved Monday, the draft sets gold medal ranking targets of fifth or higher for the Summer Olympi ...
  • In Iraq, done in by the Clinton-Lewinsky affair
    The recent public-television documentary on the Clinton presidency has focused attention anew on the scandal involving Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Overlooked is the important role this affair played in the confrontation with Iraq in 1998. As the story was breaking, I happened to be in Ba ...
  • Fukushima farmer presses Tepco to look after a ...
    A farmer remaining in the evacuation zone in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, amid the nuclear crisis has asked Tokyo Electric Power Co. to help care for abandoned livestock and pets. Naoto Matsumura, 52, visited Tepco's head office Monday to make the request. He has gained international coverag ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Debunking Drummond
    The Drummond report claims that Ontario is headed for a $30-billion deficit. This figure has been widely and uncritically reported. For example, The Globe and Mail printed four articles featuring this number in its February 18 edition. The Ontario government projected a balanced budget with a $1 ...
  • Québec Students Strike Over Tuition-Fee Hikes
    This morning, there are more than 65 000 students on strike in Québec. University students, but also college-level students, are walking out of classrooms to reverse the 75% raise in tuition fees over five years announced in the last provincial budget. In the space of a single week, the number o ...
  • New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, In ...
    This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English http://bit.ly/z4GQx5  and in French http://bit.ly/yabiK2) What do the Occupy Movement and Ca ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • What nasty surprises await our warmongers in t ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain's Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should "don uniform and flak-jacket" and go play ...
  • The not-so-hidden limits to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that although superficially Western societies are free, in reality people in the West are enslaved to debt through a relationship with financial institutions that "mirrors many of the attributes of an oppressive master-slave relationship: ownership, obedience, burden and seve ...
  • A vision of harmony in Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon outlines a vision of Palestinian-Jewish reconciliation in Palestine where Jews, freed of their Zionist state and its ideology of oppression, exclusiveness, exceptionalism, and racial supremacy and segregation, live side by side with Palestinians as citizens of one state with equal ...
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • ITER solves problem with superconducting cables
    Science: A potential construction delay for ITER, the international fusion reactor, has been resolved. Tests run last year had determined that the superconducting cables, which generate the magnetic fields holding the superheated plasma in place at the heart of the machine, were lasting only one ...
  • Netherlands group may have detected elusive qu ...
    Nature: Researchers at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands may be the first to have detected the long-sought Majorana fermion, which acts as its own antiparticle. Majorana fermions are not necessarily individual particles like electrons or protons. Quasiparticles—collecti ...
  • Imaging charge distribution within a single mo ...
    BBC: A group of researchers at IBM Research Zurich used Kelvin probe force microcopy, a variant of atomic force microscopy, to capture the intricate dance of electrons in a complex molecule. They scanned a tiny bar with a charged tip across the surface of a much larger, X-shaped molecule, naphth ...
  • Company develops cheaper, more powerful electr ...
    New York Times: Envia Systems in California announced today that it had made a major advance regarding electric vehicles—a more powerful and less expensive lithium-ion battery. At half the current cost, the new cells will have an energy density almost three times greater than conventional ...
  • Mild winter in US worries horticulturists
    New York Times: From New York City to Washington DC to Chicago, plants and flowering bulbs are bursting out two to four weeks ahead of schedule, writes Lisa Foderaro for the New York Times. Although many people in the US are enjoying an unusually early spring this year, a mild winter is not nece ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Water Central to Control of Japan Nuclear Plant
    “Nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami sparked triple meltdowns at reactors here, the taming of Fukushima Daiichi has become in large part a quest to control water. “Water is crucial to the continued safety and stability of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, even after re ...
  • Fracking to blame for water shortage?
    “FALLS CITY, Texas- The small community went from having no restrictions to Stage 4 over the weekend. Aside from the drought, officials say fracking is taking a toll. “Recently, a combination of the fracking as well as the drought put together, we’re seeing some dramatic level ...
  • Artificial Glaciers Water Crops in Indian High ...
    “A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or “artificial glaciers,” to get through the dry spring months. (See a map of the region.) Located on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, the village of Skara ...
  • Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping Is Pol ...
    “These mine wastes, or tailings, can contain up to three dozen dangerous chemicals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, and cyanide. Each year, mining companies dump over 180 million tonnes of these hazardous mine wastes into rivers, oceans, and lakes – that’s more than 1.5 times ...
  • Dressing New York City’s Water Tanks
      For 12 weeks starting in the spring and summer of 2013, several hundred of New York City’s water tanks will be wrapped with artist-designed creations. The project is the brainchild of Word Above the Street, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness about the global wate ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Delivers Results: Local Communities E ...
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today unveiled its Section 205 Flood Risk Management Project Status Update for Independence and Valley View in Ohio's 10th Congressional District.  The study was requested by Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) on behalf of affected communities after major floods in ...
  • Kucinich Congratulates Cooper Tire Workers
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) a tireless advocate for workers’ rights, today issued the following statement in response to reports that workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in Findlay, Ohio approved a new contract. Kucinich, a senior member of both relevant Congressional committees, ...
  • Kucinich Aide Honored for Service to Middle Ea ...
    Longtime aide to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Malak Jadallah will be honored this Saturday for her service to the community by the Cleveland American Middle East Organization (CAMEO). Malak Jadallah is a Palestinian immigrant who came to America in 1990. She has worked for Congressman Ku ...
  • Kucinich Questions IRS Delay in Tax Refunds
    After learning from constituents about delays in receiving tax refunds, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to the Internal Revenue Service requesting a detailed explanation of how the IRS plans to resolve the issues. “I have received reports that taxpayers have been experiencing lon ...
  • Kucinich: Threat of War with Iran Hits Ohioans
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the gas prices, which now average $3.54 per gallon in Cleveland according to the Energy Information Administration: “The mere threat of war with Iran is affecting the wallets of Ohioans.  Wars on the other side of ...

Authentically Wired

  • … Should you truly want to get a differe ...
    … Should you truly want to get a different perspective about American education … read … Dumbing Us Down … by John Taylor Gatto … then let’s talk …     Does College Make Us Less Equipped to Change the World? Sara Robinson, AlterNet: "In this great meritocracy of ours, those o ...
  • … If you are not drinking all the corpor ...
    … If you are not drinking all the corporate mass media propaganda’s “kool-aide” … then read the following article …   Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat   This is not a problem we can solve by going vegetarian or vegan, or buying organic and fair tra ...
  • … And Joe is doing this because …?
    … And Joe is doing this because …? Sign to say how many inmates served time in tents Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America plans to erect a sign outside one of his jails that will say how many inmates have served time in his complex of canvas jail ...
  • … Now this cast the abortion issue in an ...
    … Now this cast the abortion issue in an entirely new light and I suspect quickly alters the playing field …   Men Want to Outlaw Abortions and Restrict Contraceptives, Vasectomies Should Be Illegal Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "If you are going to stop women from exercisin ...
  • And “we” believe these lie$ becaus ...
        … And “we” believe these lie$ because …?    We’ve drunk all the corporate “kool-aide” … … And have been educated pursuant to their corporate agenda … 7 Dangerous Lies About Plastic   Big Plastic is big money and survives regulatory scrutiny by creating big spin. ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Rawiri Taonui: Holocaust or not, indigenous ha ...
    Semantic arguments are a sideshow when the subject is the destruction of peoples, writes Rawiri Taonui, adjunct professor of indigenous studies at AUT. Jewish Council president Stephen Goodman's criticism of Keri Opai's view that...
  • Pig poo is powering clean, green plan
    There's a new, unlikely energy source that can power farms while reducing greenhouse gas emissions - pig poo.A team of scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Hamilton has developed a system that...
  • 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...

Truth Survival + RSS

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
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      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 Wins Arizona, Michigan; Paul 3rd, 4th
    Mitt Romney took both Republican primaries held yesterday, winning easily in Arizona with 47 percent and less so in his boyhood home state of Michigan, where he garnered 41 percent of ballots. Your presumptive GOP nominee, ladies and gents: “We didn’t win by a lot, but we won by ...
  • Jacob Sullum on the Trial of Tyler Clementi's ...
    In 2010 Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University, killed himself three days after his roommate watched him kiss another man via a surreptitiously activated webcam. The roommate, Dharun Ravi, is now on trial for invasion-of-privacy offenses that are being treated a ...
  • He's a Cowboy, Baby
    Here is an actual headline from this morning's New York Daily News: "Mitt Romney personally recruited Kid Rock to campaign event." It's accompanied by this photo: Here's Kid Rock's video for his song "American Bad Ass":
  • Colorado Medical Marijuana Users Got the Full ...
    It's legal medicine under state law — and it's on the potential full-legalization track for 2012  — but Colorado has had some issues with federal raids of their medical marijuana dispensaries in the last few years especially. However, a raid on the home of legal two medical m ...
  • For Fewer Crushed Children, Feds Mandate Rear- ...
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has mandated that all vehicles come equipped with a rear-view camera by 2014, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek report. The impetus for this mandate came from KidsAndCars.org, "a nonprofit group that pushed the gover ...

Mercury Rising

  • Cointelpro Redux: police infiltration of Occupy
    Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, truthout: As Part II of this discussion will show, infiltration is the norm in political movements in the United States. Occupy has many opponents likely to infiltrate to divide and destroy it beyond the usual law enforcement apparatus. Others include the corpor ...
  • Murdoch bribery scandal: widespread corruption ...
    For some reason, only Keith seems to have grasped how serious testimony by Sue Akers was. Even Dan Sabbagh doesn’t quite seem to get it.
  • What’s The Difference Between A Chicago ...
    You may have heard about this: A Chicago pastor said Sunday that it was worth living in a tent on the icy roof of an abandoned motel for three months to draw attention to gun violence, despite the long hours of loneliness and cold winter nights punctuated by the pop of gunfire. The Rev. Corey [...]
  • WikiLeaks Still Alive, Publishing Stratfor E-Mails
    Remember how, when Daniel Domscheit-Berg left the WikiLeaks group a little over a year ago, it was allegedly permanently crippled and unable to do any more work once Dumbshit — erm, Domscheit-Berg — defected and took WikiLeaks’ coding platform and data archive with him? (Being ...
  • 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 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Empire Iceberg
    An iceberg the size of New York is splintering off of West Antarctica's fastest melting glacier, the Pine Island Glacier. As seen in the video linked below, the splintering stretches a massive 260 feet wide and 19 miles long in the truly beautiful, pristine Antarctic icelands. The expected s ...
  • Esoteric Voices 9: Neuroscience of Psychic Phe ...
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  • Manifest 2012
    The Manifestation Celebration returns to Dallas on May 5, 2012 at the Fair Park Band Shell and Dallas Museum of Nature & Science.   More than just a music festival, The Manifestation Celebration brings together a conscious, creative community with the intention of exploring and evolving h ...
  • Americosmos: A Mandala of the Unenlightened St ...
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  • The Church of Random Rab
    Photo by Mario Covic (mariocovic.com) read more

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 ...

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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

  • Since the Koran burnings at Bagram Air Base, A ...
    Since the Koran burnings at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan has been in turmoil and the news reports have been coming fast and furious.  Here, however, is the first article to put all the events together and make some sense of them in the context of the last decade-plus of disaster in that country ...
  • futurejournalismproject:livelymorgue:An ar ...
    futurejournalismproject: livelymorgue: An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue. Photo: The New York Times ...
  • reuters:Partial remains from some victims of ...
    reuters: Partial remains from some victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ended up in a landfill, according to a Pentagon report released on Tuesday that revealed other blunders at the U.S. military’s main mortuary. The Pentagon report said that several portions of remains found from the at ...
  • motherjones:We really want to read this NY M ...
    motherjones: We really want to read this NY Mag piece by Jonathan Chait on Republican paranoia, but we can’t get past Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson’s haunting shot of Newt Gingrich supporters at the top of the article. Whoa. (Anderson also shot Dan Rather for us last year. Badass.)
  • theweekmagazine:Just when it seemed matters ...
    theweekmagazine: Just when it seemed matters couldn’t get any worse in Syria, Monday happened. President Bashar al-Assad pushed through a referendum (denounced as “a farce” by Western leaders) allowing him to stay in power until 2028. And Mother Jones uncovered an encyclopedia-sized document c ...
 
 
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