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Thomas Paine

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Friday, February 3, 2012

3 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Rinehart won't find a Fairfax megaphone
    She was raised on mining and right wing politics and was taught by her father that owning media was a source of influence, along with giving politicians money directly and nagging them, and everyone, endlessly about the benefits of small government and the evils of environmentalism. Gina Rinehar ...
  • Doubts On “Official Story” of Bin Laden Killing
    The bin Laden raid presents us with every reason to be cautious. The government’s initial claims about what transpired at that house in Abbottabad have changed, then changed again, with no proper explanation of the discrepancies. Even making allowances for human error in such shifting accounts, ...
  • Japan faces 'chronic' trade deficit after Fuku ...
    Japan has racked up its first trade deficit in 31 years as the country's ageing crisis hits home and the Fukushima nuclear disaster raises dependence on imported fuel.
  • Review: 'Obama, The Lone Ranger'
    how the cultural influences and global underpinnings of Barack Obama's diverse upbringing in Indonesia and Hawaii created the president America needed for the multipolar world of the 21st century. Written by a cultural psychologist, it uses anthropological, political and genealogical perspectiv ...
  • Catastrophe for the young American worker
    Talks of recovery fall on confused ears as many young college graduates compete for fewer jobs with higher amounts of student debt.  In the last decade college graduates have encountered the highest tuition increases ever while getting a lower return on their investment once they enter into the ...

Independent - London

  • 'A charismatic dictator': friend's verdict on ...
    Allen Stanford ruled as a "charismatic dictator" by using "money, flattery, intimidation and fear" to carry out a $7 billion investment fraud, the businessman's former finance chief told a court in Houston, Texas, yesterday.Related StoriesPennsylvania bank robbed at gum-pointBloomberg braves Gro ...
  • Let battle commence: US diver hopes to find £2 ...
    It is 70 years since the British merchant ship the SS Port Nicholson was sunk by a U-boat off Cape Cod during the Second World War.Related StoriesPennsylvania bank robbed at gum-pointBloomberg braves Groundhog Day – all over againFit First Lady wins press-up competition on US chatshowMormons se ...
  • Israel calls for attack on Iran 'before it is ...
    Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak issued a stark warning last night that military action may be needed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons before it is "too late" and Tehran puts its programme beyond the reach of external attack.Related StoriesImpasse at the UN as Russia digs its heels ...
  • It's true – I'm in love with the Costa cruise ...
    The young woman who, reports suggest, may have proved a distraction for the captain of the Costa Concordia liner as it ran aground three weeks ago with the loss of 32 lives, said she is "in love" with the disgraced officer.Related StoriesBig freeze death toll rises again in eastern EuropeMoldov ...
  • Kuwaiti snap election set to bolster opposition
    Opposition candidates were expected to make gains in a snap parliamentary election held yesterday in the Gulf Arab state. Related StoriesIsrael's military leaders warn against Iran attackImpasse at the UN as Russia digs its heels in over SyriaUN may drop 'Assad quit' callBarak calls for attack o ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • SOTT FOCUS: Chaos and Consent: The Logistics o ...
    Reading "Columnist Calls for Internet "Quality Control" to Quash Dissent sent absolute shivers up my spine. As I posted on my Facebook Wall: "Is it just me noticing the increasing lock-down, the increasing propaganda FOR lockdown and abrogation of human rights, and the masses seem to be sleep-w ...
  • Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
    A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called "Communities Against Terrorism", lists the use of "anon ...
  • Vanuatu: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - 2nd Feb 2012
    Date-Time: Friday, February 03, 2012 at 03:46:23 UTC Friday, February 03, 2012 at 02:46:23 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 17.376°S, 167.278°E Depth: 21.7 km (13.5 miles) Region: VANUATU Distances: 116 km (72 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, V ...
  • US: Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Te ...
    According to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill (R), the Bible says that increasing teacher salaries would only lead to less-qualified teachers. McGill said at a prayer breakfast that doubling teachers' salaries - starting pay for Alabama teachers begins at $36,144 - would not help education ...
  • Russian Winter Goes Extreme, Claims Lives
    Winter temperatures in Russia have gone extreme. The air in some regions of the republic of Yakutia (Siberia) has cooled down to -50 degrees Centigrade. Anomalous cold of -40 degrees is expected in the Perm region of Russia, Vesti.Ru reports. In the European part of Russia, the current temperat ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Nazi wants privacy?
    Regardless of whether Anonymous was right or wrong in releasing personal data, I might suggest that Nazis lost any reasonable expectation of privacy somewhere between Kristalnacht and the invasion of Poland, although I'd lean more toward the Beer Hall Putsch.  Genocide and tens of millions ...
  • Occupy American Anthropological Associaton
    For unfamiliar readers, the vast majority of published peer reviewed academic research appears in journals controlled by massive for-profit publishing houses. Academics do not see the monetary profit, the publishers do because they control distribution and access to their journals through expen ...
  • Midwinter's Freditorium . . .
    — Fred — MIDWINTER: AKA GROUNDHOG DAY. Actually, celebrating midwinter happened a long time before some American marketing weenie thought of promoting a rodent. According to thepaganperspective,  Midwinter began as a celebration of the returning sun and sometimes a propitiation to assure t ...
  • The Komen cave
    If it's got a pink ribbon on it, I'm not buying it. Simple. As TBogg points out, the upper end of the Susan G Komen foundation had to know that THIS bombshell was being released in the same week at they issued a press release severing their breast cancer funding from Planned Parenthood. And, a ...
  • Hardware Dep't Bulletin . . .
    DEFENSE TECH follows military happenings world wide. Of interest, India has decided to buy 129 French Rafale fighters after comparing "against everything from the Eurofighter Typhoon and Mig-29 to the American made F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-16." That's the Rafale, below. They will definitely ...

Media Matters for America

  • Obama's Mortgage Relief Plan Is Immediately At ...
    President Obama recently outlined his proposal that would give millions of homeowners a chance to save thousands of dollars annually by refinancing their mortgages at a lower interest rate even if their homes are currently underwater. The right-wing media immediately went on the attack, claimin ...
  • The Hannity Challenge: How To Make The Case Th ...
    Sean Hannity pushed the myth that President Obama has made the economy worse, arguing that you could not "make the case" that it has improved during Obama's watch. In fact, when Obama took office, he inherited an economy that was shrinking faster than it had in 50 years and that had lost 2 mill ...
  • Conservative Media Repeat Tabloid's Climate Mi ...
    After the British tabloid Daily Mail published a flawed article that distorted climate research to claim we could be "heading for a mini ice age," conservative media followed suit. In fact, the study did not project a decline in global temperatures.Scientists: Solar Fluctuations Won't Offset Gl ...
  • Right-Wing Media Cheer Decision&nbsp ...
    Right-wing media have applauded Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to stop providing funds to Planned Parenthood. But Komen's decision could affect access to breast cancer screenings and other cancer-related services for thousands of women, as the Komen funds have allowed Planned Parenthood ...
  • Bogeyman: Fox News Attacks Progressives With F ...
    Fox News personalities have repeated numerous falsehoods about activist Saul Alinsky, including that he was a "Marxist" and that he dedicated his book Rules for Radicals "to Lucifer." Fox has used this false image of Alinsky to attack President Obama and other progressives.Fox Portrays Alinsky ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Don't Fix What Isn't Broken
    Presentation by Reed Hundt, January 31, 2012, Capitol Hill About the spectrum bill passed by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology: I'm here not to praise it but to hope that you bury it on this side of the Hill. I don't think it would pass on a clear ...
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  • Obama, Healthcare, And Progressive Critics
    It is hard to read Remedy and Reaction, Paul Starr's remarkable chronicle of the hundred-year effort to legislate universal health insurance in the United States, without recalling Robert Gibbs's tortured quip that Democrats who've denounced the Obama White House for having knuckled under to Rep ...
  • Why Obama Defaulted in his 'State of the Union'
    In his State of the Union address two years ago, in 2010, President Obama kept alive faltering hopes for our fraudulent and now broken political system by appealing movingly to Republicans for bipartisanship and civility. As Ryan Lizza reminds us in a New Yorker article that "everyone" is disc ...
  • The writing has always been on the wall
    The human body is an amazing creation. It's not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar signaling system exists in political bodies. Those tasked with reading the signals--be they individuals, p ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • California nuclear plant may have leaked radio ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that a “small” amount of radioactive gas may have leaked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The San Onofre plant is on the Pacific Ocean coast near San Clemente north of San Diego. It consists of two uni ...
  • A Texas town runs out of water, will we see more?
    Spicewood, Texas, a small community on Lake Travis, is precariously close to becoming the state’s first community to run out of drinking water during this historic drought.  On Monday, under dark clouds and with rain falling, Spicewood got its first delivery of 8,000-gallons of water after ...
  • Texas Coalition for Affordable Power Release R ...
    Texas Coalition for Affordable Power’s (TCAP) report on electric deregulation in Texas says the industry has failed to deliver, while industry and agency critics find fault with the reports price and reliability comparisons. Texans have paid higher prices for power that is less reliable – ...
  • RR Commission instituting “real” penalties for ...
    Chronic violators of Texas Railroad Commission safety rules may be looking at steeper fines if they don’t clean up their acts. In response to the agency’s Sunset review last session, the commissioners who regulate the state’s booming oil and gas industry are expected to approve penal ...
  • Sierra Club sues TCEQ for failure to provide a ...
    The Sierra Club claims the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally gave four coal-fired power plants passes to pollute the air. The Sierra Club says the state in December illegally approved permit amendments for Luminant Generation Co.-owned plants in Freestone, Rusk, Titus and Milam ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Is there a demon behind the sofa ?
    A photograph of a living room with a sinister paranormal extra has gone viral after being posted online. The 'demon' is difficult to see at first, how...
  • 30ft prehistoric crocodile discovered
    A skull of a giant crocodile that lived 95 million years ago has been unearthed in Morocco. Known as Aegisuchus witmeri, the crocodile had a large ar...
  • NASA probe discovers 'alien' matter
    The Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system. It's the first time that matter from elsewhere in the...
  • Is a life of crime all in the genes ?
    Could lifelong criminals be genetically programmed to break the law regardless of their background ? Criminologists have long argued that a tendancy t...
  • Stone Age social networking similar to ours
    Strip away all of the mod cons we all live with and we aren't so socially different from our ancestors. By studying an industrially isolated group in ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...
    Source:  The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
  • NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
    Source:  AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
  • Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
    Source:  The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    Source:  Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
  • 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
    Source:  USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

GreenBiz

  • What Will It Take to Power the US Military wit ...
    Just how much energy does the U.S. military use, what the costs in dollars and the risk to soldiers, and how can they all be reduced? The American Council On Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy are working with the Defense Department to answer those questions.
  • University of Vermont Offers Online Course on ...
    Lauded for its green practices and curricula, the University of Vermont has developed a certificate program to enable other colleges to integrate sustainability into their operations.
  • The Economic Risks of a Water Constrained World
    Our over-leveraged global water position is fundamentally unsustainable, and the business community is already feeling the pain.
  • Inside Kohl's Green Energy Leadership
    At the GreenBiz Forum this morning in Minneapolis, Tari Emerson, Kohl's director of energy and capital projects, walked through how the retailer has become the nation's largest corporate solar panel owner, and how other companies can get started.
  • Digging in to the Whole 'O' of Sustainability ...
    Jerry Lynch, Chief Sustainability Officer at the food giant, talks about the company's 2015 sustainability goals, their relationship with their brands, the issues surrounding food waste, and much more.

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • RMoney Pays No Gift Taxes on $100M
    Yeah, he did it again (video from Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word): The idea that someone could pay zero gift taxes on contributions to a $100 million trust fund may surprise people who have heard arguments that the wealthy are overburdened by gift and estate taxes. But the Romneys gif ...
  • Please Support Booman Tribune
    Our readers were very generous over the holiday season. I thank you for relieving a lot of the stress I was feeling during December. It's wonderful to have loyal group of supporters who value what we do here enough to make sure we can continue to do it. The biggest thing that happened since ou ...
  • Morning Whiplash
    I woke up, got my coffee, and opened Think Progress. There I saw a headline telling me that the Washington state Senate has approved marriage equality. The article says that this means certain passage of the bill. Then I saw another headline: Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Teacher Pa ...
  • Romney Caught in Another Lie Re: Finances
    In my opinion, when a man promises to do something and then does the exact opposite that makes him a Liar (and I make no apology for the Capital L). In 2007, Mitt Romney promised that his family trusts that hold his stock portfolio (you now the ones that make him able to claim he's unemployed w ...
  • Romney's Giant Blunder
    Mitt Romney managed to infuriate the left and demoralize the right when he told CNN's Soledad O'Brien that he didn't care about the very poor and that the federal programs that serve them are working just fine. It's kind of obvious why people on the left took offense, but what about people on t ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Adorable Baby Animals That Grow Up To Be De ...
    Even the fiercest predators start their lives helpless and adorable, and even cold-blooded killers like crocodiles display surprising parenting skills... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mother of All Moths!
    The aptly-named Atlas moth is not only one of the most beautiful creatures of its kind but also the largest moth in the world! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Abstract Beauty of Toxic Tailings Ponds
    Tailings ponds may look stunning with their blue and gray colors, but beneath their surface beauty lie substances that are deeply harmful to human and animal health. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Iceland's Historic Turf Houses: The Eco-Homes ...
    Thanks to their practical and energy efficient design, the turf houses of Iceland have been around for centuries – and may be the future of eco-conscious home design... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the a ...
  • Groundhog Day: The Weather-Predicting Woodchuck!
    Groundhogs predict North American weather every February 2nd. But what do groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, do with the rest of their year? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
    It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...

Daily Censored

  • Environmental internationalism: Cuba’s new mis ...
    By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés Since 1959 Cuba has played a significant world role, quite a feat for a nation of 5 million – 11 million now. Cubans have shown their values, commitment and solidarity in dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters around the world. Between 1960 and 2011, ...
  • 52 million views, 4-minutes, Occupy’s point: W ...
    video here. What’s wrong with the world, mama, is the 1%’s criminal wars and rapacious looting. Occupy exposes the 1% that allows a million children to die every month from preventable poverty when just 1% of our income saves their lives while reducing population growth. Occupy documents and pro ...
  • No Country Left Behind (NCLB) and The Race to ...
    The 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure grades 15 categories of infrastructure, including levees (http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/report-cards).  So how is America doing?  The report notes, “….. for the second time,America’s infrastructure rates a cumulative grade of D.  While ...
  • Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher exp ...
    with NEW PuppetGov video here. “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to ...
  • At for-profit colleges the poor pay more
    Kaplan University  charges the following populations different amounts for a 180 quarter unit Bachelor of Science degree: $30,000 for active duty military, $41,000 for veterans, $50,000 for international students and $68,000 for low income Title IV eligible students.   Why do the poor pay m ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #673
    Israel outsources intelligence-gathering to rightwing groups. NATO report finds Pakistan spies help Taliban. Another Russian diplomat 'leaves' Canada.
  • News you may have missed #672
    CIA claims bin Laden death photos would trigger violence. Kuwait accused of tapping phones of prominent citizens. Did US FDA spy on whistleblowers?
  • Maltese government secretly helped British spy ...
    In the 1980s, Malta was one of the world’s closest allies with the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. For this reason, during the recent Libyan civil war, it was generally presumed that the island nation’s strong cultural and strategic links with Tripoli would prevent it from joining o ...
  • News you may have missed #676
    US admits Pakistani doctor was CIA agent. Czech secret services accused of political spying. Colombian paramilitaries protected by spy agency.
  • US Senate hearing accidentally reveals Mossad ...
    The chairwoman of a public hearing at the United States Senate, which was televised live across America, accidentally revealed that the Director of Israeli intelligence service Mossad secretly visited the US for talks last week.

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Grist - News

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

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Digg Green

  • This Is How Spaceships Are Born
    Have you ever wondered how the hell spaceships get made? I mean, how does something like the six-legged ATHLETE rover go from an engineering fantasy into an actual working thing?
  • New Komen Foundation policy also refuses fundi ...
    Via Kombiz, it appears the Susan G. Komen Foundation's newest push towards the hard-right has resulted in another new policy as well. According to a statement released at around the same time as the Planned Parenthood defunding was being planned, the Komen Foundation will also be denying any fun ...
  • Life Bearing Super-Earths --Will be Geological ...
    Super-Earths would be more geologically active than our planet, experiencing more vigorous plate tectonics due to thinner plates under more stress. Earth itself was found to be a borderline case, not surprisingly since the slightly smaller planet Venus is tectonically inactive.
  • NASA Report: Greenhouse Gases, Not Sun, Drivin ...
    A quiet sun didn't stop the Earth from absorbing more energy than it released back into space.
  • Zinc-finger proteins act as site-specific adap ...
    DNA is not merely a carrier of genetic information; DNA is a useful building material for nanoscale structures. In a way similar to origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, a long single strand of DNA can be folded into nearly any three-dimensional shape desired with the use of short DNA frag ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Vaccine-Induced Disease Epidemic Outbreaks
    By A. True Ott, PhD, ND 8-23-9 The year was 1921. America was entering a decade of robust prosperity. Later called “The Roaring Twenties”, it was a time of unparalleled economic expansion. Debt money from Wall Street banks was plentiful and easy to obtain. The “Great War” ...
  • Crops being sprayed with MSG, glutamic acid as ...
    by: PF Louis 249Share [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) Many Natural News readers know of government requirements for irradiating raw almonds and herbs, destroying their nutritional value, under the guise of food safety. This and pasteurizing milk are but two examples of how federal agencies ar ...
  • HPV vaccines (Gardasil) now pushed onto boys i ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) There is still a whole lot of money to be made from pushing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines on young people around the world. But in order to accomplish this, the market for the vaccines, which include Merck & Co.’s Gardasil and GlaxoSm ...
  • Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Teache ...
    By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Feb 1, 2012 at 2:15 pm According to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill (R), the Bible says that increasing teacher salaries would only lead to less-qualified teachers. McGill said at a prayer breakfast that doubling teachers’ salaries — starting pay for Alabama teach ...
  • Breaking news! : For the first time in history ...
    Brussels Anders Fogh is silent on lawsuit against NATO Published: 12:26, 2nd February 2012 NATO Secretary General has no comment to Nato announced action against the killing of civilians in Libya. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, would not immediately comment on the information in T ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Pombal Castle’s Striking Upgrade is a Rust Col ...
    Read the rest of Pombal Castle’s Striking Upgrade is a Rust Colored Connection to Portuguese History Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Comoco, Corten steel, Daylighting, eco design, eco-tourism, green design, Green renovation, hilltop castle, history, pathways, pavilion, ...
  • Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Claim Their Bran ...
    While Giants fans have been rabble-rousing Tom Brady over the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI, environmentalists are giving the Patriots quarterback and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen the stink eye for a different reason – their brand new, 22,000 sq. ft. mega mansion in Brentwood, CA. The ce ...
  • Homegrown Concessions to Serve Up Organic Food ...
    Fans who are lucky enough to attend this year’s Super Bowl XLVI in person will be able to nosh on farm-fresh organic food provided by Homegrown Concessions, a partnership between Farm Aid and Centerplate. Homegrown will be serving up organic chili to hungry fans, and best of all, Centerplate wil ...
  • Building Trust International Unveils Winning S ...
    Through their School 4 Burma competition, Building Trust International aimed to provide a modular educational facility for Burmese child migrants and refugees – and the winners have finally been announced! Out of some 800 applicants, a flat-pack, bamboo-panelled structure by architects Ama ...
  • MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panel ...
    What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? That’s exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be the case. The scientist says creating a solar cell could be as easy as mixing any green organic mater ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Things That Were Once Amazing
    David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...
  • Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop with Ey ...
    Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how ...
  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.
  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...
  • A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
    If you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • The 16 Best Science Visualizations of 2011
    Toxic barbs on a cucumber’s skin, nanoscopic flakes of metal and a mouse’s technicolor eyeball are just a few of 2011's best science visualizations.
  • Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarc ...
    After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.
  • Caldera Eruption “Early Warning System”? Not s ...
    This appears to be a week of media interest in new journal articles. Earlier, I discussed a study that claimed that volcanoes were the cause of the onset of the Little Ice Age. Now, we have a study in Nature that discusses the magmatic events that lead up to the Minoan eruption at Santorini &#82 ...
  • 8 Wild Proposals to Relocate Endangered Species
    Moving big animals to places they don't already live is at once appealing and disturbing, a sort of adolescent environmental fantasy come to life: African lions in Nebraska! Komodo dragons in Australia! But at the beginning of the 21st century, moving species around is a controversial but legiti ...
  • GRAIL Satellite’s First Video of the Far Side ...
    The band you're in may not start playing different tunes, but in this video you can see the dark side of the moon.

PakAlert

  • Scientists to Add Spider Genes to Human Genome ...
    Scientists are now discussing the possibility of adding silk-producing spider genes into the human genome to produce ‘bulletproof’ skin. The news comes after testing was done on bioengineered human skin that was grown in a laboratory and mixed with ‘milk’ created from a genetically engineered ‘s ...
  • Chemtrails May Contain Bio-Engineered RFID Chi ...
    This presentation by Sofia Smallstorm centres around the phenomena that is 'Chemtrails' the lingering, clouds of matter that seem to be filling the skies around the world these days.
  • Farmers Issue Lawsuit Against Monsanto for Wid ...
    Farmers are taking a stand against Monsanto, launching a landmark lawsuit against the mega corporation for widespread genetic contamination. The farmers are concerned that Monsanto’s aggressive agenda to genetically alter the planet will ultimately result in a severe threat to the organic integr ...
  • Google starting to censor blogs
    Following Twitter’s decision last month to begin censoring the messages of users based on restrictions of their respective countries, Google has followed suit and announced that it will begin a similar practice with its own blogging service.
  • What Do You Do When The Country Where You Live ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the world around you is going crazy? If you live in America today and you are not in a television-induced coma, then you have probably had that feeling. It seems like almost everywhere you turn these days, there is someone that is seriously losing it. It is no ...

Andy Worthington

  • Former Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Is F ...
    When looking at the stories of the released Guantánamo prisoners, one of the most tragic individual stories of last year was that of Adel al-Gazzar (aka Adel El-Gazzar), a former officer in the Egyptian army, who lost a leg in US custody and spent eight years in Guantánamo. Adel returned to Egyp ...
  • Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country for the Repa ...
    Since July 2008, when the first Algerian prisoners were repatriated from Guantánamo, the position taken by the US government — first under George W. Bush, and, for the last three years, under Barack Obama — has been that Algeria is a safe country for the repatriation of prisoners cle ...
  • Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners ...
    Ten years ago, foreign prisoners, seized in other countries, began to arrive in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Some were held in a secretive part of the prison, and had often passed through other secret facilities in Afghanistan or elsewhere. The majority of these prisoners ende ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles & ...
    Please support my work! Since March 2006, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist. For three years, I focused on the crimes of ...
  • UN Human Rights Commissioner Criticizes Obama ...
    On Monday, marking the third anniversary of President Obama’s failed promise to close the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo within a year, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed what a UN news release described as “deep disappointment” ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Mosque Badly Vandalized, but Imam Unsure of Ha ...
    A mosque under construction near Washington, D.C., was extensively damaged by vandals last weekend, but a regional imam said today there’s no indication yet that the vandalism was a hate crime. “It seems at this point that the vandalism was done by intoxicated individuals,” regional imam Yahya L ...
  • Washington ‘Sovereign’ Tax Preparer Sentenced ...
    An accountant who took his antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views to work with him is going to prison, and many of his former clients are faced with huge, unpaid tax bills. Timothy Garrison, 60, of Mount Vernon, Wash., was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $ ...
  • Jury Convicts Texas ‘Sovereign’ Who Shot at Cop
    A self-described “sovereign citizen,” who also called himself a “Moorish American,” has been convicted in Fort Worth, Texas, of shooting at a police officer who tried to arrest him for traffic violations last summer. James Michael Tesi, 49, was taken into custody following the jury verdict Tuesd ...
  • WND ‘Comedienne’ Warns of ‘Liberal’-Infested G ...
    In recent weeks, a Microsoft cell phone app that helps people use GPS to avoid high-crime areas has prompted a nationwide discussion about race, class and prejudice. Some praise the “avoid the ghetto app,” as the product has been unofficially dubbed, as a handy safety measure. Others worry it wi ...
  • Ex-Gay Advocates: ‘Change’ Depends on the Defi ...
    It depends on what your definition of is … is. We all recall President Bill Clinton’s parsing of words during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Now, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), composed of psychoanalysts and other therapists who believe that gay m ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Capitol Hill Scrambles To Save Military Spendi ...
    Republican leaders in Congress yesterday moved to avert potential cuts in the military budget that were part of a bipartisan budget agreement made last year. The Hill reports today: read more
  • States Don't Want to Be Dumping Ground for Fra ...
    More environmental concerns have arisen lately in relation to hydraulic fracking. Millions of gallons of toxic wastewater have been produced by the noxious procedure, creating problems of wastewater management. Where to dump this unwanted substance?  Ohio lawmakers have recently raised conc ...
  • Drumbeats of War: Israel says Iranian Missiles ...
    The war drums for war on Iran grew louder today. Israel is counting on the influence of right-wing extremist views in US politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall. In Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaa ...
  • Report: Global Land Grab Efforts Will Lead to ...
    A report out today from the Rights and Resources Initiative states that global land grab efforts will lead to "widespread civil unrest" unless the rights of people who have loved on those lands are taken into consideration. read more
  • IMF Official: Austerity Policies Hurting Greece
    In an interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, International Monetary Fund (IMF) official Poul Thomsen admits that the austerity-emphasized strategy for Greece hasn't worked. read more

Lifehacker

  • Best Way to Stream Live Television?
    The Super Bowl is this weekend, but not all of us have the privilege of making some snacks and sitting in front of the couch all evening to make sure we catch the game (assuming you want to see the matchup, or the commercials, even.) Thankful ...
  • How to Be the Bearer of Bad News [Social Gps]
    Nobody likes bad news, and delivering it is an uncomfortable job that comes with the very real possibility of ruining someone else's day. Unfortunately, it's often necessary. We have a tendency to be a little selfish and prolong the inevitab ...
  • Apple Updates Mac OS X Lion to 10.7.3, Resolve ...
    Today Apple released version 10.7.3 of Mac OS X, fixing a few minor compatibility and stability issues in the operating system. If you've been having address issues when using smart cards, authenticating with directory services, or running in ...
  • Ask and Answer Questions About Using Caffeine ...
    Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hi ...
  • Verbling Pairs You with Native Speakers So You ...
    The best way to learn a new language fast is to start applying it right away, but a big barrier for new learners is not having anyone to practice with. Verbling solves that problem by connecting you in timed video chats with other language lea ...

Water Privatization

  • With Trade Deal, Will Canada Give EU 'Righ ...
    Failing to safeguard resource in CETA negotiations shows private firms our water is on offer.
  • Partisan scuffle over privatization and tax br ...
    Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich got the last word in a partisan flame war with Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner over firing prison workers vs. closing a corporate tax loophole. Rich launched the skirmish when she fired off a statement accusing Senate President Mike Haridopolos of ignoring ...
  • Under pressure from environmentalists, water p ...
    By Brittany Alana Davis, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Wednesday, February 1, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Under pressure from environmentalists, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Rep. Dana Young, R-Tampa, scrapped a controversial proposal Wednesday to "privatize" the state's treated waste wate ...
  • Environmentalists triumph on water privatizati ...
    " Kumbaya ," said Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, after drastic changes to a controversial "reclaimed water" bill won support from both environmentalists and the city of Tampa. The proposal is a top priority of Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn , and aims to ensure local governments ...
  • Water, and sidewalks, and golf: oh my!
    At tonight’s East Asheville community meeting, members of the public flooded City Council members with their concerns about the fate of the Asheville water system, the need for more sidewalks and ideas for the Municipal Golf Course. About 50 people attended the Jan. 31 meeting at Haw Creek Eleme ...

Guardian

  • Pakistan v England – day one live! | Andy Bull ...
    • Hit F5 for the latest or select our auto-refresh button below • Join the debate on our latest world cricket forum • Sign up now and get your copy of our email, The Spin • And email your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk5th over: England 8-2 (in reply to Pakistan's 99 all out; Strauss 5, Pie ...
  • Egypt protests continue after football deaths ...
    • Two people killed in Suez after police fire at protesters • Witnesses at Port Said game blame hired thugs • UN diplomats near agreement on watered-down Syria draft10.23am: Egypt's health ministry says 1,482 people were injured in the protests following the deaths in Port Said, al Jazeera's Ad ...
  • Chris Huhne expected to resign over criminal c ...
    The energy secretary faces prosecution over claims his ex-wife took his speeding points on her licence in 2003The energy secretary, Chris Huhne, is to face a criminal charge in connection with allegedly dodging a speeding offence, the director of public prosecutions has announced.In a televised ...
  • RBS chairman defends Stephen Hester's near-£1m ...
    Sir Philip Hampton admits taxpayer-owned bank underestimated scale of public reaction to award of 3.6m shares to chief executive – which he has since waivedRoyal Bank of Scotland's chairman has defended the near-£1m bonus awarded to its chief executive Stephen Hester by insisting he was doing a ...
  • Freezing weather claims more lives in Ukraine
    Country experiences coldest winter in six years, with temperatures of -33CThirty-eight more deaths from a cold snap have been registered in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, bringing to 101 the toll from freezing temperatures, the country's emergencies ministry has said.Ukraine is experiencing its c ...

McClatchey

  • White House scrambles to ease fallout from Pan ...
    The Obama administration scrambled Thursday to tamp down the fallout out from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement that the United States would end its combat role in Afghanistan a…Click to Continue »
  • Obama says his religious values underpin his p ...
    President Barack Obama, who rarely speaks of his faith, defended some of his administration's policies Thursday by saying they reflect his religious convictions.Click to Continue »
  • Republicans rip into attorney general at Fast ...
    House Republicans accused Attorney General Eric Holder of hiding information at a hearing Thursday over the botched Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking investigation, while Holder dismissed calls for him to…Click to Continue »
  • Billionaire Trump endorses millionaire Romney ...
    LAS VEGAS ? Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, a move with little likely impact on voting but rich with billionaire-meets-millionaire symbolism.Click to Continue »
  • Employment gains aren't attracting believers yet
    Employment statistics and the jobless rate have improved over the past several months. These usually point to a rebounding economy, but there's still considerable doubt over just what these numbers…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. hopes to end Afghanistan combat mission b ...
    American troop levels The U.S. has about 90,000 troops in Afghanistan, but 22,000 are due home by fall. No schedule has been set for the pace of the withdrawal of the 68,000 U.S. troops who will ...
  • White House Downplays Panetta Remark Suggestin ...
    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Thursday tried to clarify a remark by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta suggesting an early U.S. transition out of its combat mission in Afghanistan. Carney ...
  • U.S. tries to ease confusion over Afghan plans
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. forces will cede the lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year, but will keep fighting alongside Afghan troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on ...
  • Afghan withdrawal to dominate meeting
    An Afghan soldier takes position near the building which is occupied by Taliban militants, unseen, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, September 13, 2011. UPI/Enayat ...
  • Obama Glad to Debate Romney on Afghanistan Pullout
    statement Wednesday that American troops could end their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013, 18 months sooner than expected. Within hours, Mr. Romney lambasted it as "nai;ve" and ...

Futurismic

  • Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
      The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
  • Out of Destruction, Transformation?
    Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
  • Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
    My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...
  • A chat with Eric Drexler
    Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...
  • Skyrim and the Quest for Meaning
    Lithium I’m old enough to remember when video games were comparatively simple things. For example, I remember the side-scrolling video game adaptation of Robocop (1988). Relatively short, Robocop had you shooting and jumping your way from one side of the world to another. Once you got to the end ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Senator Grassley's Ten Scathing Questions for ...
    Amid this week’s media frenzy, Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a scornful letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg about the FDA’s targeted whistleblower surveillance program. If you missed the original story about the FDA’s illegal spy operation, you can catch up by r ...
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...
  • U.S. Air Force receives Whistleblower Retaliat ...
    This week, the U.S Office of Special Counsel (OSC) presented their report regarding the allegations made by four whistleblowers about retaliation at U.S Port Mortuary in Dover, Delaware's Air Force Base. The report reviewed events that occurred over a 17 months period in 2009 and 2010. It conclu ...
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...
  • New IRS regulation is no help to whistleblowers
    On January 23, 2012, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a final regulation that reflects a 1996 law making payments for emotional distress damages taxable as income. The new regulation, cited as 26 CFR 1.104-1(c), makes clear that settlements and awards are taxable unless they are "a ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Copyright Troll Submits Entire Filing About Ho ...
    While not everyone agrees with the EFF's position on various issues, the group is still pretty widely respected in legal circles. So it seems a bit odd that a copyright troll has apparently decided to spend an entire filing trying to block the EFF from filing an amicus brief ("friend of the cou ...
  • Jenzabar Continues To Try To Censor Criticism ...
    Some people continue to insist that intellectual property and censorship are two totally separate issues, but that's ridiculous. Yet another example is in the ongoing case concerning software company Jenzabar, which we've covered before. If you're just picking this up now, one of Jenzabar's fo ...
  • Making The Case For PR Pros Editing Wikipedia
    Obscured amidst the hysteria over anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA has been a valuable discussion bubbling up within public relations about PR people editing clients’ Wikipedia entries. It’s a topic that has been debated for years. From Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stating in ...
  • Congress Trying To Regulate Certain Wireless S ...
    We've all seen how Congress sneaks controversial issues into larger "must pass" bills. The folks over at Public Knowledge are highlighting how our elected officials are trying to sneak three questionable policies -- all related to wireless technologies and access -- into a single "must pass" pa ...
  • DailyDirt: Birds Do The Darndest Things
    It's fascinating to watch birds, not just because birds can fly, but also because some birds are incredibly intelligent and can perform some pretty cool tricks. If you can step away from playing with Angry Birds for a bit, watch a few of these much calmer bird videos. A flock of starlings i ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccines Are Exploding Kids’ Immune Systems
    The pharmaceutical industries are treating our children as little more than test tubes. They are adding as many potentially lethal chemicals, toxins and poisons as they can to see which ones cause the test tubes to explode.
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for January
    Apparently PFCs are making vaccines ineffective... and another child dies from a hypersensitivity reaction to a vaccine. That and more with the top 5 stories for January.
  • OSHA’s Interesting ‘Take’ on Vaccinations
    OSHA document states, "...reliance on a mandatory influenza vaccination policy may provide healthcare workers, health care facility management and patients with an unwarranted sense of security and result in poor adherence to other infection control practices that prevent all types of infections."
  • Repeal HPV Vaccine for Girls—Not a Dream: Comm ...
    Finally some legislators have come to their senses about the obviously dangerous HPV vaccines!
  • The Gloves Are On For Dr. Andrew Wakefield
    The ‘gloves’ are on with Dr. Andrew Wakefield in one corner, and Brian Deer, the British Medical Journal (BMJ), and Dr. Fiona Godley in the other corner! Andrew Wakefield, as plaintiff is not about to take the destruction of his reputation lying down.

BroadSnark

  • Protest Tomorrow!!!
    Sorry I’ve been missing in action for a bit. Lots going on. I’ll fill you in soon. But if you are in the DC area, come out to Tivoli Square tomorrow for an anti-prison protest. I’ll be there. More info here
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...
  • Shoot the Messenger
    Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a post about Ron Paul the other day. He featured a clip of Paul talking about the civil war. In the clip, Tim Russert asks Paul about his statement that “Abe Lincoln should never have gone to war. There were better ways; there were better ways of getting rid of slave ...
  • Please Don’t Come
    I’m hearing various rumors that occupiers are planning to descend on the capital for national actions. I don’t want to belabor the points I made in my previous post about activism in DC, but I just have to plead with you. Please don’t come. For the first time since I have been ...
  • Sex, Age, Consent, and Power
    Just after I turned sixteen, I met this guy who would end up being my boyfriend for about a year. He was twenty-two. He didn’t think I was that young at first. I never lied to him, mind you. He just didn’t ask me the night we met. I regularly passed for older in clubs, buying cigaret ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama ready to signal U.S. may stay out of con ...
    The Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, often serves as an unofficial mouthpiece for the White House, CIA, State Department, or Pentagon. His column today should probably be read in this way. While funneling the chatter that with increasing volume in recent weeks has suggested that an Isr ...
  • How the GOP is resegregating the South
    The Nation reports: North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed the right to vote for African-Americans. He grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and moved to North Carolina when he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He bec ...
  • Egyptian football riot anger focuses on milita ...
    The Associated Press reports: Egyptians ranging from football fans to MPs have blamed the military rulers for the bloody post-match riot that left scores of people dead. Police were criticised for failing to stop the violence on Wednesday night which led to a crush in a narrow exit at the stadiu ...
  • Robert Lipsyte: On Super Sunday, occupy your mind
    Are you on tenterhooks? Will Mitt make it out of the Cayman Islands and into the White House?  Will Newt take the full “wild and woolly” ride on the primary roller coaster to the Republican convention?  Will the two of them and their PACs eat each other alive by next week?& ...
  • Is Israel a failed state?
    Noah Millman reviews The Unmaking of Israel:Gershom Gorenberg is an exception to the rule — more than one rule. He’s an Orthodox Jewish Israeli of American origin, a group that generally tilts sharply to the right in an Israeli context. But he’s decidedly on the political left, an advocate ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Monckton responds to Skeptical Science
    Cooking the books By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Mr. John Cook, who runs a website puzzlingly entitled Skeptical Science” (for he is not in the least sceptical of the “official” position) seems annoyed that I won the 2011 televised debate … Continue reading →
  • Global Economic Damages from Tropical Cyclones ...
    Guest post by Indur M. Goklany A few days ago I saw a report about a paper in Nature Climate Change on future economic damages from tropical cyclones (or hurricanes, as we Americans call them) by Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry Emanuel … Continue reading →
  • The Gore Effect kicks in, plus ça change …
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach … plus ça same old stuff. Thank goodness somethings never change. For example, the “Gore Effect”, which says that wherever His Nobelity Albert Gore III might hold a Climastravaganza to remind the world of the … Continue reading →
  • What do you get when you rub two climatologist ...
    The Current Wisdom: Climate Change Controversy in the Wall Street Journal Guest post by Patrick J. Michaels (reposted from cato.org) This edition departs from our usual routine because of the very vitriolic fight that has broken as the result of … Continue reading →
  • Terrifying new book about climate change
    Normally I don’t go for anonymous guest posters, but this one is from the famous “zombie” of zombietime.com whose identity remains hidden so that he/she may continue to record the anarchy and socially bereft behavior that permeates the McKibbenesque protestor … Continue r ...

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Biosingularity

  • Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin ...
    A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored by a professor at the University of California, Merced. The study, “A Route to Enantiopure R ...
  • Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny par ...
    Tiny particles made of polymers hold great promise for targeted delivery of drugs and as structural scaffolds for building artificial tissues. However, current production methods for such microparticles yield a limited array of shapes and can only be made with certain materials, restricting thei ...
  • Human Skin Cells Converted Directly into Funct ...
    Columbia University Medical Center researchers have for the first time directly converted human skin cells into functional forebrain neurons, without the need for stem cells of any kind. The findings offer a new and potentially more direct way to produce replacement cell therapies for Alzheimer’ ...
  • New approach a step forward for hepatitis C va ...
    French scientists have developed a novel hepatitis C vaccine that may offer the first effective way to prevent an infection that can cause chronic liver disease and cancer. There is currently no available vaccine for hepatitis C, though some companies are developing so-called “therapeutic ...
  • Gene Discovery Could Lead to New Stroke Treatments
    Plaque buildup in the arteries is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attack, but some plaques are far more dangerous than others. The problem is there is no good way to distinguish relatively benign plaque on artery walls from plaque that will break off and cause harm, but that may soon c ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • The Russian Navy Grows from Bottom up
    While the nation’s leaders work at overhauling the Navy organization, the Navy itself continues to order new ships.
  • Gazprom to Europe: Gas Demand Tops Contract Levels
    Faced with a cold snap, some Gazprom customers in Europe have complained that deliveries of Russian natural gas have declined, but Gazprom said they were asking for above-contract volumes, a Gazprom export official, Sergei Komlev, said on Friday.
  • Rosneft's 2011 Net Profit Rises 19.7% to $12.4 ...
    Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, saw 2011 net profit jump 19.7 percent year-on-year to $12.452 billion to US GAAP, the company said in a statement on Friday.
  • Ornithologists work in icy waters to rescue a swan
    Ornithologists, fisherman and environmentalists are looking after a swan, which became separated from its flock in fall and is spending winter in the Ulyanovsk Region. People are doing all they can to make sure the bird survives until spring.
  • Hearts Owner's Club in Belarus Thrown Out of L ...
    Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov told RIA Novosti on Friday that his club in Belarus have been excluded from the Top League because the oligarch refused to keep bankrolling the team.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Iran Launches Observation Satellite
    Iran has successfully launched an observation satellite, Iranian news network Press TV reported on Friday.
  • Manned Moon Shot Possible by 2020 – Roscosmos
    A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday.
  • Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space ...
    Russia may repeat the Mars-500 experiment simulating a crewed flight to the Red Planet on the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the Russian Space Federal Agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin said on Thursday
  • Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link
    Tests carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos have ruled out the possibility a U.S. radar could be linked to the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Thursday.
  • Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets
    Russian astronomers are planning to start their own search for planets outside the Solar System using ground-based telescopes, head of the Institute for Space Research Lev Zelyony said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Blogroll Amnesty Day
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Here are my 2012 selections: Hannah’s Blog Under The LobsterScope The Adventures of Fat Cat and Everyman! The Confluence FALKLANDS Elle Varner - Conversational LushI&#8 ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army 1st Lt. David A. Johnson, 24, of Horicon, WI.Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Singer, 23, of Temecula, ...
  • Hollywood, SOPA and the AMC Pacer model
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postIn the middle of 2010 I wrote a post titled “ACTA and the Overblown Threat of Piracy” that discussed the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA is basically an attempt by legacy media companies to leverage ...
  • New single: "Traktor" by Francis
    “I Was Never Bored at All” from Francis made my best of 2010 list.  Petter Nygårdh from the group sends word of their new single, “Traktor.”  Give it a listen at Spotify or Soundcloud.  Or both! (The B-side contains a Simian Ghost remix.)
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, 22, of Willis, TX.Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, 25, of Colonia, NJ.Marin ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Informational Video on Subsidies for Biotech a ...
    Farmers have been subsidized in one form or another since early post revolutionary days. President Washington proposed that Congress create a department of agriculture in 1793, to conduct research to improve farming practices. This was the same year the English Parliament established their depar ...
  • The Organic Revolution: How We Can Stop Global ...
    Click here to read this article
  • New Rules for Radicals: 10 Ways To Spark Chang ...
    The first rule is this: The world is different now. The rules have changed. Click here to read this article
  • Kentucky Food Freedom Takes on Big Ag in S.B. 47
    Kentucky finds itself at the center of the emerging battle over who decides what the average person can choose to eat - the government/regulatory apparatus, little more than a front man for Big Ag and the establishment at this point, or the people.Click here to read this article
  • Mexico Climate Politics Heat Up
    History has not been kind to the indigenous Raramuri people of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Pushed to remote mountains of a harsh land by Spanish and mestizo colonists, the Raramuri managed to hang on to their culture while eking out an existence based on rain-fed farming and small h ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Biofuels: Innovations Needed
    Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.
  • Dignity of Work
    The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.
  • Third Time’s the Charm? The 2012 Arsenic Roundup
    The ban, if enacted, would help to curb the ongoing problem of arsenical drug use by the poultry industry, and associated public health risks to poultry consumers.
  • SPRAWL: A Six-Letter Word with a Four-Letter W ...
    Sprawl can be bad, and it can be necessary, depending on the source and the treatment of the land. As the human population grows, how do we reclaim the word sprawl?
  • Decline in U.S. Meat Consumption: Public Healt ...
    According to USDA estimates, per capita meat consumption in the United States nearly doubled between 1930 and 2007. On average, each American today eats about 200 pounds of meat per year, or almost nine ounces per day—roughly twice the global average. With a few exceptions, intake has been on a ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • War Crimes Tribunal finds Bush and Blair are w ...
    five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Scientists: Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico Dyi ...
    "Unusual Mortality Event" contradicts BP's portrayal of health of Gulf. Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network says the blame belongs to the BP spill. Submitted by Judy C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Libya Americans Never Saw on Television
    Take a tour of Libya with me and see how things were before US/NATO intervention and tell me if they lived in the Dark Ages. Videos of how Libya was before the invasion Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    Employees of the Food and Drug Administration have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress & other oversig Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics &a ...
  • USS Enterprise false flag target for US crimin ...
    US wars are not even close to lawful. The two-minute video explains the possible false flag attack target of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to start war on Iran. ( More credible since it's a 'two-fer one' deal poisoning like DU ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Announcement!
    Due to a computer virus – System Check – I will be offline for the most part trying to repair my computer. This is a particularly nasty virus that takes out all anti-virus protection as well as malware and spyware protection. It also hides your files. Here is a bit about it: System C ...
  • TS Radio with Special Guest Dave Hodges
    Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us to give an update on the Gulf Coast disaster, and fill us in on the massive corruption of UN Agenda 21's ICLEI local branches.
  • Aluminum + Fluoride = Alzheimer’s and Dementia
    Fluoride “enhances the bio-availability of aluminum,” allowing it to cross the blood-brain barrier easier, thus making it more toxic.
  • Nevada County’s Sustainable Food and Farm Conf ...
    Local farmer's conference to promote back to the earth, natural farming techniques.
  • Why PIPA/SOPA and the DNS are a Joke!
    VIDEO - Must see to understand the background and implications of SOPA and PIPA.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Barak: If sanctions fail, Iran must be hit
    ShareThisIsrael's top sociopaths are busy little warmongering bees: Barak: If sanctions fail, Iran must be hit --Ya'alon says Tehran is developing missiles capable of reaching the United States. 03 Feb 2012 Claiming that all of Iran's nuclear facilities are vulnerable and that a military option ...
  • 'Certain countries' could take Iran nuclear ma ...
    ShareThis'Certain countries' could take Iran nuclear matter into their own hands, U.K. official says --Deputy PM Nick Clegg would not speculate whether or not Britain would take part in the military conflict expected to erupt following an attack of Iran's nuclear facilities. 03 Feb 2012 Britain’ ...
  • Panetta lets stand report that Israel may atta ...
    ShareThisPanetta lets stand report that Israel may attack Iran by June 02 Feb 2012 U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta won't dispute a report that he believes Israel may attack Iran this spring in an attempt to set back the Islamic republic's [alleged] nuclear program. Panetta was asked by repor ...
  • Iran mulls ban of Samsung over Israeli commerc ...
    ShareThisIran mulls ban of Samsung over Israeli commercial depicting attack on nuclear plant --Teaser by cable operator HOT shows a bored Mossad agent in Iran passing the time by watching TV on a Samsung tablet and accidently blowing up the uranium enrichment plant in Isfahan. 03 Feb 2012 Iran i ...
  • Is Israel preparing to attack Iran?
    ShareThisIs Israel preparing to attack Iran? By By David Ignatius 02 Feb 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's biggest worry is the growing possibility that Israel will attack Iran over the next few months. Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • The Army MEDEVAC Scandal: Report of Conspiracy
    02 February 2012 An Army officer writes: The Army is not resisting Dustoff policy change because our leadership honestly believes the current policy is superior, but rather because of AMEDD's [Army Medical Department] protectionist attitude toward "their" Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopters. I'm an ac ...
  • Important Letter from Gold Star Mother
    31 January 2012 A Gold Star Mother is one who lost a child in service of the United States.  Ms. Keyko Clark-Davis is a recent Gold Star Mother.  I was present when her son Chazray was mortally wounded.  We have communicated many times.  Chazray’s mother is strong and inspir ...
  • 13 Military Pilots Rebuke the Joint Chiefs of ...
    An overview of harmful Army medical evacuation practices not endorsed by other service branches, and a response to official arguments defending this policy provided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC). 30 January 2012 Introduction Michael Yon is a c ...
  • British Officer Slams US Army on Growing MEDEV ...
    28 January 2012 While reading traffic in a closed forum between current and former military officers, I stumbled across this message from a British officer.  I’ve known him since the Iraq days, and he’s also served in Afghanistan.  He’s an honest and very smart officer, and so I pay c ...
  • Another Dustoff Pilot says Delays Costing Lives
    (The following letter appeared on the Army Times website.) DEADLY DELAYS “What the hell happened to Medevac, sir?” That was a question an angry sergeant asked me as I was eating chow last February at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq. I didn’t understand the question or the anger in his voi ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Virginia senate approves bill requiring ultras ...
    [JURIST] The Virginia Senate [official website] approve a bill [text] on Wednesday that would require a woman seeking an abortion [JURIST news archive] to have an ultrasound before the procedure. The new requirements include the audio provision of fetal heartbeat and a determination of the gesta ...
  • Ninth Circuit seals videos from California sam ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] that it will not release video recordings from Perry v. Schwarzenegger [opinion], California's 2010 trial which declared Proposition 8 [text, PDF; JURIST news archive], the state's same-sex ...
  • Lebanon tribunal to try accused Hariri assassi ...
    Four accused assassins of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri will be tried in absentia, a UN tribunal said Wednesday. The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) said Wednesday that after considering the efforts taken by the prosecution and the authorities to apprehend the suspects, they ...
  • Lawyer for Guantanamo detainee seeks to questi ...
    Lawyers for a suspect in the USS Cole bombing being held at Guantanamo Bay filed a motion Tuesday with the military commission overseeing detainee cases seeking to subpoena the president of Yemen for questioning. Lawyers for alleged al Qaeda senior leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri filed the motion ...
  • UN rights chief expresses concern over Senegal ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] expressed concern [press release] Thursday about excessive force used by Senegalese authorities in response to protests that ensued after the announcement of presidential candidates. Reports of shooting at protestors h ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Obama Administration: U.S. Would ‘Come to Isra ...
    David Ignatius published an alarming story in today’s Washington Post, in which he quotes Leon Panetta predicting an Israeli attack on Iran in “April, May or June.”  Buried deeper within the article is an even more chilling passage: Administration officials caution that Tehran ...
  • If You Want to Be Shin Bet Chief, Get on Sara’ ...
    Of all the qualities that are necessary for a good Israeli intelligence chief, there’s one essential one you’d never think of in a million years: don’t cross Sara Netanyahu.  You won’t find that one listed on any job description or set of requirements for the position, bu ...
  • Arab Intelligence Agencies Collaborate With Mo ...
    In a story reminiscent of the kidnapping of Dirar Abusisi, a Palestinian engineer known for his activities in support of Hamas, has been arrested and interrogated for long periods by the Mukhabarat in both the United Arab Emirates and Jordan: Was Israel behind the overseas arrest of a Palestinia ...
  • Israeli Film Depicts Iranian First-Strike Nuke ...
    The Israeli power of delusion is evident in this short film called, The Last Day, which purports to film the last moments of an Israeli family before Iran drops a nuclear bomb on Israel and obliterates it. The film, created by Ronen Barany, is shot in faux-documentary style with lots of shots of ...
  • Israel’s Drone Crash and the Perils of Reporti ...
    Above is my latest appearance on Tzinor Layla (starting at around 2:30) in which I discuss the crash of the drone inside Israel two days ago. I’ve spent the past day or so trying to make sense of the duelling stories of the crash. My Israeli source said that the unmanned aircraft was forei ...

If Americans Knew

  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • TileMill Now Lets You Design Maps for the Web ...
    TileMill, the free and open-source design studio for creating beautiful web maps, is now available for download on Windows. With the latest release, the map-making tool is fully operational on the three leading operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Windows still dominating the marketp ...
  • Zeega + Localore = Innovative Local Storytelli ...
    Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media stations should be supported for year-long projects to transform the industry. Localore is a new $2 million national competition produced ...
  • Knight Lab to Help Illinois Publishers Cover C ...
    When it comes to the mission of journalism, it's hard to imagine any function more fundamental than providing people with the information they need to choose their elected representatives. That's why the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, announced this week, will f ...
  • ScraperWiki Lets You Make Magic Out of Web Data
    There's a wonderful magic wand that every member of a digital newsroom wants to get their hands on. Take control and you can work wonders, untangle the world wide web of information, and even decrease your workload to fit in that extra cup of coffee. "What is this wand?" you ask, and "How can I ...
  • Pew Report: Tablet Ownership Doubles. What's L ...
    The shift from print to mobile reading went into overdrive this holiday season, with ownership of e-readers like the Kindle and tablets like the iPad doubling in a single month. A new survey-based study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that the percentage of adults ow ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle For Syria - Syria's Fate-Not Entire ...
    Conventional wisdom in Washington and in European capitals is that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Asad is doomed. The protests that have spread across the country since March of 2011 and have claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people appear to be progressing by their own inertia. Secure in the ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Iran's Threat to Close th ...
    Just recently President Obama crossed the Potomac River and stopped at the Pentagon to rollout America's newest national security startegy-Sustaining Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. The key idea behind the strategy is that after ten years of war in the Middle Ea ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Trump's Endorsment of Romney i ...
    Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) said the expected endorsement of Republican front-runner Mitt Romney by reality show host Donald Trump was "a non-news event" and mocked both for making millions "firing people" during an interview on the morning of Fe ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Boehner and House Act on White ...
    An exasperated Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on February 2 tried to drive a wedge between President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate, pointing out that a series of jobs bills the president endorsed have already passed the House. Boehner used his weekly press conference to respond to th ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Gingrich's Unkosher Call
    Did it matter to Floridian voters that Republican candidate Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor, may have cut funding for kosher meals in nursing homes?  Whether or not it mattered was less important than the importance put upon the Jewish vote by House Speaker Newt Gingrich.  T ...

High Country News

  • Your trash is my treasure
    If you want to find an inexpensive, entertaining way to furnish your house, try raiding the garbage in a resort town like Crested Butte, Colo.
  • Beauty and the Beast
    Photographers and artists -- and scientists, too -- discover that a terrible beauty can be found in ravaged industrial regions.
  • Pity the Sacketts? Not much
    An Idaho couple are getting a lot of sympathy because the EPA has halted construction of their planned home on a wetlands, but if the agency would be more open with the facts, it would come out looking better.
  • Feeding the deer
    A rural Californian doesn't apologize for feeding the deer that hang out near his mountain home.
  • Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming
    The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Eric Holder is Right, He SHOULD Get Credit For ...
     Eric Holder Testified before the House Oversight Committee this morning about the "Fast and Furious Cover-up" and at a particularly tense part of the questioning, a frustrated Holder defended himself by saying: I’m Attorney General of the United States, and I should also be held account ...
  • NY Times Slips-Tells Truth About Muslim Brothe ...
    DOROTHY: If you were really great and powerful, you’d keep your promises! OZ’S VOICE: Do you presume to criticize the…. Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the Wizard at the controls of the throne apparatus OZ’S VOICE: …Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Tin Man, Lion, Dorothy and S ...
  • As Criticism Over Antisemitism Increases--Medi ...
    Not all George Soros-funded groups are alike. Both Center For American Progress (CAP) and the "media watchdog" it formed, Media Matters for America (MMFA) have been roundly criticized for their use of anti-Semitic memes. Most recently the focus has been on the use of the term "Israel-firster" a ...
  • What The Western Liberal Establishment Doesn't ...
    By Barry Rubin Jackson Diehl is by far the best journalist writing in the mass media about the Middle East. In a recent column, he tries to find some middle ground between the dominant ideas — that Islamist regimes are no problem at all and that the Muslim Brotherhood is really moderate — a ...
  • Daniel Pearl-Brutally Murdered Ten Years Ago Today
    The prisoner surrounded by cowardly men covering their faces, looked at the camera and said, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." just before Khalid Sheikh Mohammed brutally hacked his head off in front of the whole world. Today, ten years after that horrific day, the me ...

The Real Agenda

  • BPA Levels Skyrocket after Consuming Canned Foods
    by Elizabeth Walling Natural News February 1, 2012 A Harvard study suggests that avoiding BPA packagingmostof the time isn’t enough to avoid its toxic side effects. Even a daily bowl of canned soup is enough to spike your BPA levels by more than 1,200 percent. Researchers at the Harvard Sc ...
  • IMF driving Poverty and Resource Monopoly in N ...
    Nigeria and the US have one thing in common. Despite the vast natural riches that exists under their lands, the two countries “prefer” to spend billion to import the oil needed to keep the economic activity going. by F. William Engdahl February 2, 2012 Nigeria, Africa’s most populous ...
  • What’s the US like? More taxes, more Une ...
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 1, 2012 Often times, people want to know what exactly is the United States like. Most people have the wrong idea as it turns out. In many countries, where people believe that having it all is what life is all about, they still see the US as [...]
  • Educational System Prepares Children for Serfdom
    by John Kozy Global Research February  1, 2012 Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there’s a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational trainin ...
  • Cancer is a Metabolic Malfunction, not Cellula ...
    Cancer industry not interested in curing the disease; not even with a pharmaceutical by PF Louis Natural News February 1, 2012 A safe and effective cure for cancer has been discovered with a drug that was once used for unusual metabolic problems. Yet, the cancer industry shows no interest with f ...

Wind Watch

  • Obama admin sweats legal response as turbines ...
    MOUNT STORM, W.Va. — Turn the final bend on Route 42 as it snakes up Mount Storm and a towering turbine appears, its blades swooshing in the winter gusts. Dozens more of these giants crown this remote mountain ridge 150 miles west of Washington, D.C. Dominion and Shell WindEnergy’s N ...
  • Aid for wind turbine victims sought
    Brown Co. panel: State should pay medical bills for those near wind farm Wisconsin should pay the medical bills of Brown County residents who were made ill by industrial wind turbines, some county supervisors say. Saying the state allowed “irresponsible placement” of industrial wind ...
  • What you can’t hear can hurt you
    When American noise expert Robert Rand turned up to work in Maine, in the US northeast, in April to investigate the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents he was literally blown away. Not only did Rand’s readings confirm many fears in the community, he claims to have become an unwitti ...
  • Wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles
    A controversial wind farm proposed near Red Wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades. U.S. Fish and Wildlife offi ...
  • Birds at risk from South Florida ‘wind f ...
    Splattered birds make going green a tough sell. The risk of birds flying into fast-spinning blades atop wind-catching turbines the size of the Statue of Liberty threatens to torpedo a proposed “wind farm” that could produce non-polluting energy on the edge of the Everglades. The same ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...

The Freeman

  • Bernanke to Congress: Don’t Cut Deficit Too Fast
    “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely tell members of Congress on Thursday that the slowly improving economy may need more help from the Fed and that cutting the deficit too fast could backfire.” (Associated Press) Should anyone be listening to him? FEE Timely Classic &# ...
  • Unemployment Applications Drop
    “The number of people seeking unemployment aid fell last week, a sign that companies are cutting fewer jobs and likely stepping up hiring.” (Associated Press) Why is government determined to impede the recovery? FEE Timely Classic “More Government Action Needed for Job Recovery ...
  • Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
    The next time anyone starts talking about job creation, stop listening. Jobs come into existence when entrepreneurs are free to create value.
  • The Boston Red Sox and Bad Baseball Economics
    If you don't understand the law of supply and demand, you may end up promoting the very outcome you want to avoid.
  • Another Trillion-Dollar-Plus Deficit on the Way
    “The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the economy would remain sluggish, with high unemployment, and that the federal budget deficit would exceed $1 trillion in 2012 for the fourth consecutive year. The deficit will be $1.1 trillion in the current fiscal year, about $200 billi ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...

Facing South

  • Texas court voids conviction in child death case
    The Ernie Lopez case highlights the growing international controversy over the reliability of the science used to prosecute cases of fatal child abuse and sexual assault.
    ...
  • Dumping dioxin on Dixie
    As the Environmental Protection Agency readies a long-awaited report on a class of health-damaging pollutants known as dioxins, we look at the biggest industrial dioxin sources in the U.S. -- ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The truth behind Gingrich's f ...
    With Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich erroneously claiming that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history,&q ...
  • How to rein in Big Money's influence?
    The two-year anniversary of Citizens United -- and Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC -- have pushed the issue of money in politics into center stage. The question now: How best to reign in B ...
  • Actual winner unclear in Supreme Court's rulin ...
    Last week's ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
    With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.
  • The Unsolved Mystery of Agnès Dury
    Four years after a young French aid worker was assassinated in a small Burundian town, family members and coworkers are still pressing for a proper investigation.
  • HIV and AIDS: The End of the Beginning
    A large number of HIV infections have been treated or prevented in the last decade, but in some ways the battle against the global epidemic has just begun.
  • HIV and AIDS: The End of the Beginning
    A large number of HIV infections have been treated or prevented in the last decade, but in some ways the battle against the global epidemic has just begun.
  • Repression of the Press in Cote d'Ivoire
    Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara came into office promising to uphold democracy, but members of the press find themselves under threat.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
    Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
  • Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feld ...
    Ms. Feldt: Where have you been these last three years, Mr. President? Welcome back. He was doing what he believed in.  Now it’s an election year, and he’s pandering.  You, Ms. Feldt, are exactly why women are losing their abortion rights.  With leaders like you and Obama who needs en ...
  • The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
    1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...
  • The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Euro ...
    1) 2013 will be ugly.  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressives and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he will be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, do not believe promises, do not accept promise ...
  • The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
    I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do. Grow the economy sustainably, help the ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Who Stands The Most To Win – And Lose – From A ...
    As the probability of President Barack Obama’s reelection grows, state and local officials across the country are tallying up the potential ramifications of a second term. For the most part, the biggest concerns lie with energy-producing states, which fear stricter environmental regulati ...
  • Families: The New Demographic Mash-Up
    Look back a few weeks to the surprise success in Iowa for Republican presidential primary contender Rick Santorum. Today, there is increased scrutiny of the conservative values the hard-line social conservative so enthusiastically endorsed. Political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic has ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Guangzhou-Foshan
    The Pearl River Delta of China is home to the largest extent of continuous urbanization in the world. The Pearl River Delta has 55 million people in the jurisdictions of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhuhai and Macau. Moreover, the urban population is ...
  • Making Room for the Old and the New Economies
    The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the Great Plains Democrats, much as California’s 2010 Democratic landslide assured that Republicans are soon to become endangered species in place ...
  • How Libraries and Bookstores Became the New Co ...
    Bookstores and libraries have long played a central role in fostering a deeper appreciation of knowledge, and in lifelong learning. Increasingly, these places are also filling another critical need in our communities, by providing a haven for those seeking a communal connection in an ever-more i ...

GM Watch

  • Henry Miller raves but we should take him seri ...
    NOTE: According to Henry I. Miller, who claims to "debunk the worst, most damaging, most hypocritical junk science", US National Public Radio is biased against genetic engineering.  In an op-ed in Forbes, Miller tells us: "Among the most egregious previous transgressions by NPR of fair, profess ...
  • Untangling India's Bt cotton fraud
    NEWS FROM INDIA 1.Untangling India's Bt cotton fraud - Latha Jishnu 2.Gandhi's Martyrdom day celebrated with a thought for safe food - Pari Trivedi 3.Monsanto and news as product placement - Chandrahas Choudhury 4.Industry meeting on GM crops for food security - Business Line 5.From food securit ...
  • China says 'no' to genetically engineered rice
    NOTE: See the full story in Greenpeace East Asia's online magazine + lots of great photos. http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/specials/gpm01/ EXTRACT: "For a scientist to have a high level of credibility they need to be separated from approval bodies and industry. But in China, GE scientists ar ...
  • The controversial release of GM insects
    EXTRACTS: The experiment will go down in scientific history as the first release of GM insects that could bite humans. What's scandalous about this field trial is that it was largely conducted in secret. Few people on Grand Cayman knew the mosquitoes were genetically modified. The local populati ...
  • Protestors come out against Monsanto
    NYC: Protestors Come Out Against Monsanto ELEANOR WEST Food Republic, Jan 31 2012  http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/01/31/nyc-protestors-come-out-against-monsanto *Farmers get their day in court [image captions: Protestors create a human timeline of Monsanto's company history. Many protestors ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The United Nations Wants To Crash The World Ec ...
    The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem.  In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economi ...
  • 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying A ...
    Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global e ...
  • Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
    How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is ...
  • Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free ...
    Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients?  It may be hard to believe, but it is true.  Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans inf ...
  • 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Am ...
    A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all ...

Desertification

  • Sahel could slip into hunger crisis (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46089839/ns/world_news-africa/t/drought-returns-sahel-bringing-hunger/#.TyvZTl0XNYo Drought returns to Sahel, bringing hunger By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI DAKAR, Senegal — For the third time in the past decade, drou ...
  • Desertification (Google / Prezi)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://prezi.com/jxvma5jmmxw4/ Desertification by Nic Van Vliet on Prezi Desertification Intro What exactly is the environmental issue? Lack of water which limit’s the production of crops, forage and wood. More presentations by Nic Van … ...
  • The world needs a second green revolution (Goo ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/opinion-leading-second-green-revolution/5/113961 Opinion: Leading a second green revolution Originally published in the Dominion Post on 3 February by Dr William Rolleston, Vice-President of Federated Farmers, Chief Ex ...
  • New edition of my latest video on bottle tower ...
    Thanks to some recommendations of Zahra Ali Husain (Karachi) I was able to improve my latest video : http://youtu.be/Phj0e76P5Xc BOTTLE TOWERS IN A KARACHI GOVT SCHOOL Zahra Ali Husain and some of her friends have set up a “bottle tower … Continue reading →
  • Magnus LARSSON on TED
    Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture http://www.ted.com/talks/magnus_larsson_turning_dunes_into_architecture.html

The Paper Trail

  • Media execs, companies gave more than $350,000 ...
    Conservative complaints about a liberal bias in the media do not hold up, at least not when it comes to the free-spending groups known as “super PACs.”News companies and their executives donated more than $350,000 to conservative super PACs in 2011, according to financial disclosure forms filed ...
  • Big oil fuels Pro-Perry super PAC, contributio ...
    "Make Us Great Again," the presidential super PAC that supported Texas Gov.
  • Los Angeles report: Limit suspensions, don't f ...
    Led by a top juvenile court judge, a special task force in Los Angeles County is releasing a report attacking excessive student suspensions and cautioning against law enforcement solutions to truancy.The Center for Public Integrity has a near-final draft of the report, which has some illuminatin ...
  • Presidential super PACs raise $49 million thro ...
    Outside groups that funded numerous attack ads in the GOP primaries collected more than $49 million in donations in 2011, with huge contributions coming from billionaires, corporations and labor unions, something that would have been illegal were it not for pivotal court decisions in early 2010. ...
  • Center, NPR finalist for Goldsmith journalism ...
    The Center for Public Integrity and NPR News have been named a finalist for the prestigious 2012 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The two organizations collaborated on a major air pollution investigation called Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities.The Goldsmith Prize is ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Brian Brennan
    Brian Brennan is an Irish-born writer who has lived and worked in Canada since 1966. He makes his home in Calgary, Alberta, where he has worked as a journalist and author, publishing eight books of biography and social history including The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story (2008), How t ...
  • Tech in ’12: Apple may be in more troubl ...
    by Eric Pettifor First of all, I’m not going to predict the end of the world. I know, 2012 is the year that the Mayan long count calendar ends, on December 21st, to be exact, but somehow I doubt it will be terminal. Really, our best shot at near term extinction comes from science. But [...]
  • Joe Bodolai’s final hit
    A BoB short: A last blog post by Joe Bodolai has gone viral today after the L.A. Police ruled the well-loved comedy writer’s death a suicide. Bodolai, who worked on both “Saturday Night Live” and the “Kids in the Hall” before helping to launch Canada’s Comedy ...
  • War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.
    By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless ...
  • On Blatchford, Hitchens, and why babies suck
    By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public — that would be you — can be. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. Conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article. But conventional wi ...

libcom

  • Strike wave in Indonesia
    Bekasi Jan 27.jpg The Indonesian economy has been booming due to high prices for the commodities it is based on, but living costs are also rising and there is a strong sense that the country’s economi ...
  • Crisis and Conflict in Barcelona: January
    antiavortista.jpg An overview of austerity measures and popular responses in Barcelona, with descriptions of January actions What follows are several translations of action comm ...
  • You can’t arrest the whole Valley – support th ...
    Valle2.jpg How to support the NO TAV activists arrested on January 26. Support the campaign or, even better, write to them! To keep up-to-date with the NO TAV defendants’ solida ...
  • Building the Red Army: The Death and Forbidden ...
    copsmoveout.jpeg A report on the J28 "move-in day" in Oakland, first published at Viewpoint. “Don’t fuck with the Oakland Commune.” Words which will live forever in hi ...
  • Cape Towns: Attempt to Occupy Rondebosch Common
    Yesterday more than forty people were arrested in a major police operation to prevent the occupation of the Rondebosch Common in an elite suburb of Cape Town - the most unequal city in South Africa, which has now surpassed Brazil as the most unequal country ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • MR. “MITTEN’S” MORMONISM &#8 ...
    “Mormon” Fundamentalist “Prophet” Warren Jeffs has done it now!!!  NO SEX!   You see, by his ORDER, he has officially wiped out all FLDS marriages, (aka ‘sealings’) – and has commanded his hoodwinked and abjectly brainwashed flock to abstain from sex unt ...
  • Veteran’s Today Expose – Would Isr ...
    This is an incredible story for at least two reasons. First,  Israeli Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu declared in a 2004 interview that Israel (MOSSAD) was totally responsible for the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, because JFK was exerting pressure on the then Israeli head of stat ...
  • Victim of Her Own Greed? Incredible! MUST SE ...
    Let’s see if we have this bizarre story straight.  U.S. Representative Harman supports and lobbies for warrant-less wiretapping of Americans under the “Patriot” Bill.   Of course, this “abuse of power” is only designed for John Doe Citizen, not for the omnipotent, h ...
  • Ask Mitt ANYTHING? You Betcha!!!
    Top Ten Questions for Willard “Mittens” Romney. 1.   Congratulations on releasing your 2010 personal income tax returns.   They show that you made $21.7 million dollars in 2010, placing you and Ann in the top 1% of the richest 1% of Americans.   Thank you for making this public.  The ...
  • Righteous Blood Part VIII – CONTINUED &# ...
    These are the other 4 of the “Top 6″ Edomite Experiments against HUMANITY that was edited and “lost” from my earlier post. #3. LSD SPRAYED ON FRENCH VILLAGE —1951 This “incident” was blamed on “ergot poisoning” in the Edomite-controlled Press ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

  • Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Needs
    Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...
  • Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
    Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...
  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
  • CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
    UPDATE:  Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market.   Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Victory for the Neptune Network
    At Sellafield blocking plutonium shipment (This is the second of two posts about Neptune Network, a group organized by Norwegian business executives, and their campaign to shut down a nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK.) The MOX reprocessor at Sellafield closed August 3rd, after Japan (foll ...
  • The CEO Who Chained Himself to a Bridge
    Stordalen chained to the bridge (This is the first of two posts about Neptune Network, a group organized by Norwegian business executives, and their campaign to shut down a nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK.) The man in the photo is Petter Stordalen, and he’s a billionaire Norwegian p ...
  • The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
    (This is the second of two blogs exploring why the US is the country – besides the Netherlands – that doesn’t vaccinate against tuberculosis) Sadly the vast majority of Americans – including many doctors – are unaware there is a safe, effective and inexpensive vac ...
  • The TB Vaccine Americans Never Heard Of
    Tuberculosis Ward (This is the first of two blogs exploring why the US is the only country – besides the Netherlands – that doesn’t vaccinate against tuberculosis) One side of the vaccine controversy Americans are extremely unlikely to hear about concerns the safest, cheapest ...
  • The World Economic Forum Weighs In
    Leaders from 2008 World Economic Forum This is the second of two posts on Global Risks 2012, a discussion document the global elite is considering this week at the World Economic Forum meets in Davos Switzerland. How Global Risks 2012 Came to Be Written The World Economic Forum ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...
  • Democratic National Committee Chairwoman decli ...
    OccupyTheIowaCaucuses.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, January 01, 2012 Contact : Stephen Toothman 515-480-5682 stoothman@yahoo.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday people Occupy the Caucus extended an invitation to Democratic National Committee Chairwoma ...
  • Listen to Michael Moore Read 'Gratitude,' the ...
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  • Christmas ’43
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore My dad had noticed for some years that I no longer wanted to shoot guns. He had taken note of when we boys in the neighborhood had stopped playing War. I didn’t know much about his time as a Marine in the South Pacif ...
  • Pietà
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I was lost. I had paused for perhaps too long to inspect the statues in the hallways and the Rotunda, bronzed and marbled renditions of an odd assortment of great and not-so-great Americans: Will Rogers, Daniel Webster, G ...

Salon

  • WikiLeaks sheds light on Adelson’s Asia ...
    We've learned this election cycle that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson isn't afraid to throw around vast sums of money to get what he wants -- he and his family have given at least $11 million to help the Newt Gingrich campaign.It hasn't gotten any notice since Adelson became a player in presiden ...
  • Chastened liberal hawk fears clash with Iran
    Kenneth Pollack has been among the most influential Middle East experts in Washington over the last generation. He directed Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council and the CIA. His 2002 book "The Threatening Storm" was profoundly influential in convincing some Democratic Party inte ...
  • The latest Twitter revolution
    Rich Wilson is telling a roomful of truckers how to sound less like, well, truckers. “Intelligence, not ignorance,” he instructs. “If you have to, Google a few words. Refrain from words like ‘ain’t,’ ‘gonna,’ ‘y’all’ or ‘you-know-what bureaucrats.’”Wilson, himself a former truck driver, is speak ...
  • Why Wall Street hates a healthy labor market
    It's always such a shame when the interests of labor don't match up with the priorities of capital. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday that new claims for jobless benefits fell again last week. But in a Wall Street Journal roundup of reactions to the news, one economist found re ...
  • The Super Bowl is not a job creator
    Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, argued on "60 Minutes" last Sunday that the NFL is one professional organization designed to appeal to the economic interests of the little guy: Its revenue-sharing model, he said, gives a fighting chance to squads from Green Bay a ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Cleantech Firms Paying the Price for Subsidies
    In observing the recent struggles of various segments of the global cleantech industry, including renewable energy and advanced energy technology firms, a pattern is emerging. Today's Wall St. Journal reports "Wind Power Firms on Edge," as the US wind industry hunkers down pending the renewal or ...
  • Solar Energy Trade Battle Heats Up Again
    The group fighting SolarWorld’s bid for duties on Chinese-manufactured crystalline photovoltaic cells and modules on Monday released a report that claims protectionist measures would result in between 14,000 and 60,000 fewer American jobs than would otherwise exist by the end of 2014—but that wa ...
  • Who to trust about climate change
    My sister is a neurologist. She's highly active in her field and is often asked by the media to comment about her particular area of expertise within the field of neurology.
  • Painkillers – the Real Drivers of Innovation f ...
    One of the largest US-based industry conferences for electricity, gas, and water utilities just wrapped up in San Antonio, Texas.  The entire value chain for electricity was well-represented there – you could find products for generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of elect ...
  • Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage In 2012
    For two reasons, 2012 will be a milestone for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, marking the beginning of its practical utilization.

EU Times

  • Mitt Romney’s remark on poor sparks cont ...
    It was on a live television morning show where the GOP frontrunner made this comment. After which it took little time for Americans to react. Message boards were flooded with criticism about the Republican candidates’ remark. Romney initially was making his victory rounds after winning the ...
  • Iran Successfully Launches New Satellite into ...
    The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit following a decree by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The satellite, completely designed and built by Iranian experts, blasted into orbit late Thursday on the third ...
  • Rogozin calls on Russian nationalists to assum ...
    The head of the Russian defense industry, Dmitry Rogozin, has praised Vladimir Putin’s ethnic policy and called upon Russian nationalists to work hand in hand with the country’s authorities. The outgoing NATO envoy, who was appointed deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry this y ...
  • The Bacillus of Immortality found in Siberia
    In mountain permafrost in Mamontovaya, Yakutia (Siberia), Russian researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria. Mice injected in the body with a solution containing these organisms, were healthier and lived longer than their counterparts. Have the scientists discovered the sec ...
  • Russia loses $4 billion in Libya because of Ga ...
    Russia has lost $4 billion due to the loss of arms contracts with Libya as a result of the UN’s arms shipments embargo. Anatoly Isaikin, the General Director of Russia’s defense export giant Rosoboronexport, said that Russia had concluded arms contracts worth $2 billion with the prev ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Gingrich Ad Quotes George Soros “Not Much Diff ...
    Newt Gingrich ’s campaign just released a new ad that highlights a Reuters interview with George Soros .  In the clip he says, “if it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them.” Ouch.  Here’s the ad:   President Obamney?  Thi ...
  • NFL Talkboard: Super Bowl 2012
    Jim Rogash/Getty Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots congratulates Eli Manning #10 of the New York Giants after the New York Giants 24-20 win on November 6, 2011 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The New York Giants are scheduled to play the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil S ...
  • Chris Huhne Charged With Perverting The Course ...
    Huhne The Leader of the Church of Climatology in Britain has been flushed down the tubes The day has finally dawned, the Liberal Democrat Secretary for Climate Religion and Green Taxation has been charged with Perverting the Course of Justice, along with his former wife Vicky Price. Huhne has a ...
  • Madonna Unveils Partial ‘M.D.N.A.’ ...
    In the mood for even more Madonna ? Well, don't worry because her promotional blitz has only just begun. Continuing to taunt her fans, the icon unveiled 15 of the 18 songs that will be included on her upcoming 'M.D.N.A.' album's deluxe edition, shortly before the set is made available for pre-o ...
  • Math teachers to get their very own Facebook-l ...
    Mathematics enthusiasts are soon going to get an exclusive Facebook-like social networking site. Chennai-based online mathematics education platform HeyMath is planning to launch a first of its kind social networking for math teachers to discuss mathematics concepts and connect with other teach ...

Groklaw

  • The SOPA War: Why the GOP Turned on Piracy
    From the start, studios saw the fight over SOPA as a struggle with a bunch of other companies -- Google and Internet service providers among them -- that were hoping to profit from the Internet travails of the entertainment industry. That turned out to be wrong. In fact, the industry is fightin ...
  • Son-of-ACTA, the TPP, wants to legislate buffers
    Now, this is a secret treaty, so we don't know most of what's going on in the room, but one jaw-dropping leak is that that the treaty contemplates requiring licenses for ephemeral copies made in a computer's buffer. That means that the buffers in your machine could need a separate, negotiated li ...
  • French Court Fines Google $660,000 for Offerin ...
    A French Court this week ordered Google to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to a French mapping company for stifling competition by offering its Google Maps service for free. Bottin Cartographes, which offers map services to businesses for a cost, filed an unfair competition comp ...
  • The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement
    If a vendor is shipping products using Busybox, and is found to be in violation, this interpretation of GPLv2 means that they have no license to ship Busybox again until the copyright holders (or their agents) grant them another. This is a bit of a problem if your entire stock consists of device ...
  • Google seeks leave to submit amicus curiae bri ...
    In Capitol Records v. ReDigi, Google has requested permission to submit an amicus curiae brief explaining its position as to why Capitol's preliminary injunction motion should be denied. [PJ: Here's the letter to the judge, seeking permission. And here's a snip to explain why Google cares: "Wh ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
  • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
    It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
  • 2012: A good year to boycott Sabra (& Shatila) ...
    I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the September 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As some of you may know, my company, Just World Books, will soon be publishing a reissued version of former WaPo journo Jon Randal's classic 1 ...
  • J. Alterman's on America and Egypt
    Jon Alterman has an op-ed in the NYT that has some good sense in it but also some very troubling ideas and policy prescriptions. Alterman is quite right to note that by far the most important thing that's happening in Egypt right now is not the confrontations or lack of them in Cairo's very vis ...

frogblog

  • Public Education under attack
    This has been a week of disturbing announcements by the National Government although the leader of the pack was actually John Banks – the lone ACT MP. Before final sign off and maybe as a way to keep the pressure on, John announced that Catherine Isaac (number 3 on the ACT list and rumoure ...
  • The best way to oil independence is to provide ...
    The Ministry of Economic Development’s Briefing to the incoming Energy Minister predicts New Zealand could become a net exporter of petroleum by 2030 if new oil fields are developed. It’s a laudable goal to reduce our expensive dependence on foreign oil but it would be a lot smarter to invest in ...
  • Another reason to care about equal pay
    Aside from the obvious ‘minor’ issues of justice, equality, child poverty, women’s ability to participate in society on an equal footing with men, ethnic/gender disparities and poverty, Australia has just given us another reason to care about Equal Pay. Fair Work Australia workplace tribunal has ...
  • Doing a stretch in the safety net
    United States Republican Presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney is getting a pasting for his comment: …I’m not concerned about the very poor; we have a safety net there. Over on Denise Roche’s minimum wage thread here at frogblog, commenter dbuckley recalls for us just what that &#8220 ...
  • Syria: The Litmus Test for Palestine
    This week the UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the situation in Syria. The Council has the opportunity, along with the obligation, to lead in the international community’s call for respect for human rights and political freedoms in this latest country to enjoy the warmth of the Arab Spr ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How Grief Can Break Your Heart
    By Dr. Mercola Dying from a broken heart may seem more like a scene from a Shakespearean drama than reality, but extreme grief really can "break" your heart. In the days after losing someone close to you, your risk of suffering from a heart attack goes through the roof -- increasing by up to ...
  • Dutch Get it Right and Recognize Saturated Fat ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new study from the Netherlands has aroused a great deal of interest, especially as it comes immediately in the wake of an ill-conceived Danish tax that unfairly targets saturated fats. The study found that dietary intake of saturated fatty acids is associated with a modes ...
  • 12 Things Successful People Do Differently
    People who are wildly successful – think Clint Eastwood and Warren Buffett – take steps to help them realize their full potential. Some of these things are strategies you can easily emulate to rise to success in your own life… Create and pursue S.M.A.R.T. goals -- S.M.A.R.T. goals are Spe ...
  • $29 Billion Reasons to Lie About Cholesterol
    $29 Billion Introduction from 29billion on Vimeo.By Dr. Mercola Millions of people around the world take medications known as statins to lower their cholesterol. The current value of the cholesterol-lowering drug industry is estimated at around $29 billion -- and this is clearly a conservati ...
  • Use This Superfood to Help Remove Mercury From ...
    By Dr. Mercola Have you noticed that practically every day a new story comes out in the media about the toxic side effects of living in the modern world? Chemical and heavy metal dangers seem to be lurking everywhere you turn in the 21st century! Pesticides coat much of our fresh food supp ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Up close one year later: startling new photos ...
    Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Survival International has released close-up pictures of uncontacted Indians, exactly a year after aerial photos from Brazil astonished the world. The new photogra ...
  • Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another 'f ...
    Boa Sr died exactly two years ago. She was the last member of the Bo tribe. © Anvita Abbi/Survival Two years after India’s Andaman Islands lost the last speaker of ‘Bo’, a leading linguist has warned the Jarawa could face a similar fate unless the road running through their reserve is close ...
  • German travel industry warns Samburu eviction ...
    A Samburu girl from Kenya. The tribe has suffered violent evictions. © Adrian Arbib/Survival The German travel industry has called on Kenya to find a solution to the recent evictions of the Samburu tribe, and warned its position as a tourist destination could be damaged. Germans currently s ...
  • Further threats as Guarani Indians remember mu ...
    Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen © Survival Guarani Indians in Brazil have come under further threat since gunmen murdered their leader Nísio Gomes last November. The Guarani of Guaviry community have reported that a non-indigenous man who claimed to be employed by a local ...
  • ‘Evidence of attack’ discovered where Indian c ...
    An Awá man whose uncontacted relatives were victims of an alleged attack by loggers © Survival An investigation into the reported killing of an uncontacted Indian child by loggers, has uncovered disturbing ‘evidence of an attack’ deep in the Amazon forest. The findings suggest loggers were ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The anti-corruption legislation needs more bite
    It has taken considerable prodding to get the Quebec government to come to grips with corruption in the construction industry.
  • Opinion: Why the Pink Ribbon campaign matters
    There are many ways that people can contribute to the fight against breast cancer. Indeed, much of the money that goes to support this fight comes from the public at large.
  • Cut the rhetoric
    It is reasonable to suggest that it would have been more appropriate for Stephen Harper to have raised the prospect of pension reform here at home instead of overseas at the economic bigwig confab in Davos, Switzerland, last week.
  • From the PQ, some good ideas and some clunkers
    After the recent tribulations that threatened to tear it apart, the Parti Québécois put on a convincing show of unity at its national council meeting last weekend.
  • Should we call it 'honour killing'?
    The extensive media coverage of the Shafia trial and convictions raises important questions about how violence against women is framed in the media. Just as a photograph is framed by the photographer, so is the media's framing of a particular issue; the focus of our attention is on what is in th ...

Food World Order

  • 2/2 binge & purge: super bees, count fudgula & ...
    Monsanto killed the bees to make way for its 'Super-Bee'?* Pink slime removed from McDonald’s burgers!* Food carriers recalled due to freezer gel pack ingestion hazard* Trisha Yearwood Launching Food Network Series* Food Network Executive to Run YouTube Food Channel* Proposed Bill ...
  • Records Show Critical Violations at Stupor Bow ...
    Beware the Lucas Oil food carts! from espn: What could ruin a fan's once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Super Bowl more than his team's quarterback fumbling away the game in the final seconds? Try a trip to the emergency room courtesy of food poisoning. In just a few days, tens of thousands of f ...
  • Cuba reports big increase in food prices
    from reuters: Cubans paid almost 20 percent more for food in 2011 as economic reforms, reduced imports and stagnating farm production touched off price inflation at the country's many produce markets. The National Statistics Office reported on its website (ONE.CU) that meat prices rose 8.7 perce ...
  • UN Claims World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel as Pop ...
    from firstpost.com: The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a UN report warned on Monday. As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly ...
  • Starving Las Vegas: $3.39 a day buys little fo ...
    from lasvegassun.com: Try eating on $3.39 a day. Some Las Vegans learned last week that it’s doable but difficult. Luckily for them it was just a one-week experiment, whereas for hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, it’s an ongoing challenge... To show the difficulty of living on a meager foo ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The United Nations Wants To Crash The World Ec ...
    The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem.  In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economi ...
  • 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying A ...
    Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global e ...
  • Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
    How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is ...
  • Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free ...
    Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients?  It may be hard to believe, but it is true.  Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans inf ...
  • 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Am ...
    A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • See ya'... wouldn't want to be ya'.
    So long, adios, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu. No matter what language you say it in, it sounds good, doesn't it? Yes - it's no good tilting at windmills. You all know who and what we're referring to. However, we're going to bite our tongue. Not because we don't have plenty we wou ...
  • Quote of the Day: Biased BBC exposed edition
    "People will quite rightly continue to question what influence the EU exerts over the BBC, particularly in the light of EU loans and grants, and the BBC's often one-sided coverage of matters relating to Europe." - Karl McCartney MP, cited in the Daily Telegraph (HT: Eurosceptic1) Stunning ...
  • A musical interlude...
    Just so you know where our head's at, a couple of music videos which we're hoping people identify the thematic of and relate to. More regular blogging soon: You know you're depressed when Aqua singing about the 80's makes you burst into tears. I'm not a racist, xenophobic Little Englande ...
  • Quote of the Day: 1st February 2012
    "The government led by Enda Kenny of Fine Gael is doing everything it can to stop a referendum, because the answer the voters would most probably give is a No (the Irish are fed up with the EU/ECB/IMF team known as 'the Germans' occupying their finance department)." - Mary Ellen Synon for the ...
  • Just shut up - all of you. We're sick of heari ...
    I write this blogpost at 01.09 UK time. By midday, I promise you that somewhere, in one of the newspapers, there'll be a soundbite from a Carswell or a Hannan, a Redwood or a Helmer and maybe even a Farage. Yadda, yadda, yadda... EU this, EU that... yadda, yadda, yack, yack, yack. Aren' ...

Facing South

  • Texas court voids conviction in child death case
    The Ernie Lopez case highlights the growing international controversy over the reliability of the science used to prosecute cases of fatal child abuse and sexual assault.
    ...
  • Dumping dioxin on Dixie
    As the Environmental Protection Agency readies a long-awaited report on a class of health-damaging pollutants known as dioxins, we look at the biggest industrial dioxin sources in the U.S. -- ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The truth behind Gingrich's f ...
    With Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich erroneously claiming that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history,&q ...
  • How to rein in Big Money's influence?
    The two-year anniversary of Citizens United -- and Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC -- have pushed the issue of money in politics into center stage. The question now: How best to reign in B ...
  • Actual winner unclear in Supreme Court's rulin ...
    Last week's ruling that federal judges in Texas overstepped their bounds in drawing a minority-friendly set of interim maps for the 2012 elections was interpreted by some as a win for ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Mr Legs - One of the Most Original Android Gam ...
    Mr Legs is a brand new Android game that promises a lot of fun. Gameplay is rather simple but very clever and addictive. Animations, visual style, artworks and everything else about this game is very creative. Though the game itself is rather simplistic by design, it is very well executed. Mr ...
  • First Ever Humble Indie Bundle for Android!
    This is great news for all hard core Android gamers out there. Humble Indie Bundle has just released their first ever collection of games for Android at the usual pay-what-you-want price. Games include Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, EDGE, and World of Goo. Humble Indie Bundle f ...
  • Unity 5.2 Released, Brings in Multi-Monitor Su ...
    Unity 5.2 is released and it brings in some much needed features to Ubuntu's Unity shell. The new upgraded Unity comes with multi-monitor support and there is this tiny little Unity launcher related hack that is going to make the lives of so many Ubuntu users a wee bit easier.  ...
  • KDE's "Spark" Tablet Promises a Truly Open Future
    If the near domination of Linux at CES 2012 wasn't good enough news for you, this little tablet from KDE is definitely going to make you happy. Out of the blue, lead KDE hacker Aaron Seigo announced to the world the imminent launch of Spark tablet running KDE's brand new Plasma Active de ...
  • Linux at CES 2012: Everything You Need to Know
    Linux has been gaining some serious mileage over the years. Linux and other high-end Open Source software like Blender are not some hobbyists-only stuff anymore and the whole technology world is slowly starting to realize the positive and unbiased influence Open Source and Linux has on everyth ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • UNIVERSITY THREATENS HÖRMANN WITH LEGAL ACTION ...
    *Economics University Professor Franz Hörmann faces legal action over Holocaust denial *Vienna Economics University says it will suspend Hörmann if remarks questioning Holocaust are authentic *Is Hörmann a Globalist provocateur designed to discredit the sound money movement? Vienna Economics Uni ...
  • VIENNA CHAMBER OF DOCTORS ARE NAZIS SAYS HEALT ...
    Austrian health economist Ernest Pichlbauer has called the Vienna Chamber of Doctors Nazis on his facebook page with refreshing honesty. http://derstandard.at/1326503857555/Nach-Aerztekammer-Diskussion-Die-Kammer-sind-echte-Nazis “Ever heard about psycho terror and the suppression of free speech ...
  • EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty
    IF THE BIRDFLU 666 BLOG IS EVER TAKEN DOWN WITHOUT DUE JUDICIAL PROCESS, THEN CHECK OUT MY FOURTH EMPIRE BLOG SPOT FOR UPDATES.   Rady Ananda Prisonplanet.com January 27, 2012 Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Minis ...
  • 50,000 GERMANS NOW SUFFER FROM NARCOLEPSY &#82 ...
    *ONE IN SIX VICTIMS DIAGNOSED WITH SLEEPING DISORDER IN GERMANY IS A CHILD *AVERAGE AGE OF VICTIM IS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 *NARCOLEPSY IS AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE CAUSED BY ADJUVANT, CONFIRMS AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITY,  PREDICTED BY DR REBECCA CARLEY IN 2009 A staggering 50,000 Germans now suffer from the sl ...
  • Why I will be suing the Austrian government al ...
    One element I will emphasise in my claim for damages against the Austrian government is the psychological distress I have been forced to suffer. In February 2010, I twice came close to being confined by a researcher employed by the Austrian government, who works for one of the most notorious res ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Vaccine-Induced Disease Epidemic Outbreaks
    By A. True Ott, PhD, ND 8-23-9 The year was 1921. America was entering a decade of robust prosperity. Later called “The Roaring Twenties”, it was a time of unparalleled economic expansion. Debt money from Wall Street banks was plentiful and easy to obtain. The “Great War” ...
  • Crops being sprayed with MSG, glutamic acid as ...
    by: PF Louis 249Share [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) Many Natural News readers know of government requirements for irradiating raw almonds and herbs, destroying their nutritional value, under the guise of food safety. This and pasteurizing milk are but two examples of how federal agencies ar ...
  • HPV vaccines (Gardasil) now pushed onto boys i ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) There is still a whole lot of money to be made from pushing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines on young people around the world. But in order to accomplish this, the market for the vaccines, which include Merck & Co.’s Gardasil and GlaxoSm ...
  • Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Teache ...
    By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Feb 1, 2012 at 2:15 pm According to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill (R), the Bible says that increasing teacher salaries would only lead to less-qualified teachers. McGill said at a prayer breakfast that doubling teachers’ salaries — starting pay for Alabama teach ...
  • Breaking news! : For the first time in history ...
    Brussels Anders Fogh is silent on lawsuit against NATO Published: 12:26, 2nd February 2012 NATO Secretary General has no comment to Nato announced action against the killing of civilians in Libya. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, would not immediately comment on the information in T ...

Veterans Today

  • Alan Dershowitz — torture, violence advocate t ...
    The IMEU shares the following op-ed from the University of Pennsylvania’s school newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, as well as a link to today’s press briefing with Ali Abunimah and Anna Baltzer who discuss the first-ever national BDS Conference, which will bring together supporters ...
  • 27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to ...
    When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles.
  • Military Kids Can Apply for Scholarships
    The deadline is swiftly approaching for the Fisher House Foundation’s 2012 Scholarships for Military Children Program, conducted at military commissaries worldwide.
  • New York Times-Style Journalism
    Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    The Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $1,781,413,723 firm-fixed-price contract for a modification is a Foreign Military Sales requirement for the Indian Air Force.

electric politics

  • Whither Korea?
    The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...
  • Nuclear Nihilism
    Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...
  • One of Our Other Cold Wars
    As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...
  • Seeking Economic Truth
    John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...
  • Accelerated Ideas
    When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: February 3, 20122
    ==== Putin Says NATO Missile System Pointed At Russia Russia Slams U.S. Missile Shield Ahead Of Munich Security Talks Pentagon Chief: Israel May Attack Iran This Spring Rasmussen: NATO Combat Operations In Afghanistan Through 2014 NATO Duty: Spanish Troops To Stay In Afghanistan Denmark Pushes C ...
  • Clinton Visit: U.S. Uses Bulgaria As Base Agai ...
    Xinhua News Agency February 3, 2012 News Analysis: Hillary Clinton’s visit to be welcomed by Bulgaria but likely under Russian shadow By Marian Draganov ==== Bulgaria gradually became one of the most faithful and predictable political allies of the overseas giant, supporting its initiative ...
  • War Against Iran To Provoke Regional Catastrop ...
    Trend News Agency February 2, 2012 Outbreak of war in Iran to aggravate conflicts in all neighboring countries Edited by RR ==== “Naturally, the Americans will not carry out this action alone. As events of last decades show, the Americans understood that legitimization of any operation dep ...
  • Lebanon: Israeli Arms To Syrian Rebels, U.S. D ...
    Voice of Russia February 2, 2012 Lebanese ex-General: “Israeli weapons from Italy delivered to insurgents in Syria through Lebanon” Edited by RR         The reconstruction of the Kleyate airport in the north of Lebanon has begun, Arab media report. According to offi ...
  • Wolfgang Borchert: Only one thing to do, say No!
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Wolfgang Borchert Then There’s Only One Thing To Do! (1947) Translated by Ryan Wilcox You. Man at the machine and man in the workshop. If they order you tomorrow to stop making water pipes and cook pots and start making helmets an ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Texas Fireball Glows Colors While Barking Out ...
    Francis Walsh - A massive colored fireball was spotted traveling across several states through the sky emitting sound as onlookers watched.
  • HEPA Air Filters in California Recorded Radiat ...
    The Intel Hub - A test of a HEPA air filter stationed in California recorded radiation at least 3 times higher than normal background levels. Are these increases from the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
  • Possible Looming Nuclear Event as USNRC Report ...
    The Intel Hub - One would assume that government leaders in Washington would insulate the general public from any type of nuclear incident on American soil following the ponderous Fukushima Diachi disaster of 2011. However, this is simply not the case.
  • Farmers Issue Lawsuit Against Monsanto for Wid ...
    Anthony Gucciardi - Farmers are taking a stand against Monsanto, launching a landmark lawsuit against the mega corporation for widespread genetic contamination.
  • 9 Ways to Achieve Personal Peace and Freedom
    The Intel Hub - 9 ways to achieve personal peace and freedom in a world run by corrupt banksters and corporations. This overwhelming situation that we find our species in leaves so many people feeling hopeless, asking, “What can I possibly do to improve the state of our civilization?”

FRS

  • Koraput, India: Political candidates wary of u ...
    The Times of India:  “Maoist fear keeps candidates indoors in Malkangiri” — February 2, 2012 KORAPUT: Electioneering is yet to pick up pace in Malkangiri district with Maoist fear preventing candidates from coming out of their houses in remote areas. The fear is understandable ...
  • Resistance in Tucson, Arizona: “No Hist ...
    by Teacher Activist Groups, Tucson They say shut it down. We say spread it around! As a network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), we believe that education is essential to the preservation of civil and human rights and is a tool for human liberation. In alignment with these beliefs, TAG is proud ...
  • Detroit couple avoids eviction thanks to Occup ...
    By Jay Scott Smith, 02/02/2012 Bertha Garrett thanks Occupy Detroit, People Before Banks, and Moratorium Now! and describes the struggle to save her home from foreclosure. http://www.thegrio.com/local/detroit/detroit-couple-avoids-eviction-thanks-to-occupy-movement.php Metro Detroit, according t ...
  • Bahrain boils as uprising nears 1-year mark
    Bahrain, January 24, 2012 —————————————– Feb. 1, 2012 BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press REEM KHALIFA, Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — It’s usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather. T ...
  • Why Record Black Male Unemployment Remains Inv ...
    [President Obama continues to ride and promote the myth that "post-racial America" has been achieved.  This has not only been useful to the corporate/capitalist claims that the political system is "democratic", but is also essential for claiming and asserting the misleading "democratic" cover fo ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • PRESS RELEASE: Ofcom Bans Press TV in the UK & ...
    OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement:
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
    For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
    A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
    While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
  • Ron Paul Packs Them In In Maine
    Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012
  • Demi Moore Call -- Example of 911 System Succe ...
    The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • New Climate Change Culprit: Chilean Man Steali ...
    Police in Capitán Prat Province, Chile, have stopped a refrigerated truck carrying nearly 6 tons of ice bound for cocktail bars in Santiago, and arrested the driver on suspicion of having thieved the ice from a glacier in a Patagonian national park. We've seen polar-chilled liquor before, as wel ...
  • Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of "A ...
    A Canadian researcher says she has debunked controversial claims that a microbe found in California's Mono Lake can replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic Microbiologist Rosie Redfield, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, spent several months trying to reproduce the resu ...
  • 2011 Visualization Challenge Winners Teach Sci ...
    A multicolored mouse eye, the macro-scale universe, alien slugs on the face of a baby cucumber — all these images accomplish a pretty impressive feat: They look awesome, and they can teach us something about the world we live in and our place in it. They are among the winners of the 2011 Interna ...
  • Gallery: Visualization Challenge Winners Expla ...
  • Paint Your Roof With Working Solar Cells Made ...
    Installing a solar roof on your home could one day be as simple as mixing your yard clippings into a stew of inexpensive chemicals and painting the resulting mixture right onto your rooftop. An MIT researcher has developed a method of manufacturing solar panels on the spot from agricultural wast ...

Veterans Today

  • Alan Dershowitz — torture, violence advocate t ...
    The IMEU shares the following op-ed from the University of Pennsylvania’s school newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, as well as a link to today’s press briefing with Ali Abunimah and Anna Baltzer who discuss the first-ever national BDS Conference, which will bring together supporters ...
  • 27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to ...
    When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles.
  • Military Kids Can Apply for Scholarships
    The deadline is swiftly approaching for the Fisher House Foundation’s 2012 Scholarships for Military Children Program, conducted at military commissaries worldwide.
  • New York Times-Style Journalism
    Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    The Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $1,781,413,723 firm-fixed-price contract for a modification is a Foreign Military Sales requirement for the Indian Air Force.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • East versus West: Let the battle commence!
    For the first time this winter, after a relentless spell of westerly winds, many areas are expected to see a general change to colder conditions as we head through the weekend and into next week. As the colder air becomes established it will be competing with milder air from the Atlantic. Wher ...
  • Will we see the Northern Lights again tonight?
    The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...
  • Will winter pass us by this year?
    As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...
  • 2011 - 9th warmest globally on satellite record
    The Global temperature in December, according to the UAH satellite measure, showed little change from the previous month with an anomaly of +0.127C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.380C abov ...
  • Gales continue to batter Britain
    The Met Office have again warned of severe gales into this evening and overnight across much of Eastern England from the Pennines to the coast, and the Scottish Borders to the Wash. Gusts could reach 70mph in more exposed areas. This comes hot off the heels of yesterday's storm, more powerful ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • RMB Internationalization's Coming Along Fine, TY
    This is a short follow-up to a post I recently made about how the RMB was becoming more integrated into the global SWIFT interbank transfer system as well as the emergence of RMB libor creating reference rates for yuan-denominated borrowing. All point towards inroads the renminbi is making towar ...
  • Ry Cooder's Fine Soundtrack to American Decline
    Whoa, how I missed album this the first time around I dunno but I guess it's never too late to rectify that error. Never let it be said that this blog doesn't offer you the full panoply of American decline. Oftentimes, the most memorable art and literature doesn't cover success stories but rathe ...
  • Attn Deficit Lovers: Why China Should Rule World
    Balancing one's budget is the most fundamental money management task one faces. If there's eomething that so graphically illustrates Western decline, it is the inability to do anything other than run up massive debts that are a burden on future generations, all the while spouting all sorts of ut ...
  • Asshat Stripping: RBS' Fred Goodwin De-Knighted
    Pardon the title but I thought it appropriate for the subject matter. At any rate, here's something you don't see everyday. Typically, HM Queen Elizabeth knights not only those who've worked to improve social conditions in the Commonwealth alike Sir Bob Geldof and Sir Bono but also captains of i ...
  • Lamborghini Aventador, US-Subsidized Supercar
    Now for one of my occasional Robb Report impersonations--albeit with an IPE twist. (We've got style, baby.) In 1998, Lamborghini became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Audi AG, which in turn is a luxury brand of the almighty Volkswagen Group--the real largest automaker in the world. What if the Ge ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The United Nations Wants To Crash The World Ec ...
    The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem.  In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economi ...
  • 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying A ...
    Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global e ...
  • Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigge ...
    How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is ...
  • Outrageous! The Government Is Giving Out Free ...
    Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients?  It may be hard to believe, but it is true.  Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans inf ...
  • 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Am ...
    A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Mitt Romney’s remark on poor sparks cont ...
    It was on a live television morning show where the GOP frontrunner made this comment. After which it took little time for Americans to react. Message boards were flooded with criticism about the Republican candidates’ remark. Romney initially was making his victory rounds after winning the ...
  • Iran Successfully Launches New Satellite into ...
    The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit following a decree by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The satellite, completely designed and built by Iranian experts, blasted into orbit late Thursday on the third ...
  • Rogozin calls on Russian nationalists to assum ...
    The head of the Russian defense industry, Dmitry Rogozin, has praised Vladimir Putin’s ethnic policy and called upon Russian nationalists to work hand in hand with the country’s authorities. The outgoing NATO envoy, who was appointed deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry this y ...
  • The Bacillus of Immortality found in Siberia
    In mountain permafrost in Mamontovaya, Yakutia (Siberia), Russian researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria. Mice injected in the body with a solution containing these organisms, were healthier and lived longer than their counterparts. Have the scientists discovered the sec ...
  • Russia loses $4 billion in Libya because of Ga ...
    Russia has lost $4 billion due to the loss of arms contracts with Libya as a result of the UN’s arms shipments embargo. Anatoly Isaikin, the General Director of Russia’s defense export giant Rosoboronexport, said that Russia had concluded arms contracts worth $2 billion with the prev ...

Voiceless Victim

  • You Ensured We Never Had A Chance
    This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...
  • More Damning Evidence Vatican Couldn’t G ...
    The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...
  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
  • State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
    The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...
  • Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
    Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...

WL Central

  • 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 2
    TweetDuring the second and final day of the U.K. Supreme Court's hearings on Julian Assange's extradition, Matrix Chambers attorney Clare Montgomery offered her rebuttal to arguments made yesterday by Assange's counsel. (Dinah Rose is representing Assange in his fight against extradition to Swed ...
  • PCO WTF – Inside Canada's WikiLeaks Task Force
    TweetAuthored by Joe B. Today I received another large stack of LEGAL from the Privy Council Office regarding WikiLeaks. Back in July of 2011, I wrote about the DFAIT WTF, where I got the e-mails from the various diplomats who headed the WikiLeaks Task Force in Canada. Unlike the PCO, DFAIT gave ...
  • 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 1
    Tweet At Day 1 of the Julian Assange extradition hearing On the night before the hearing began, one dedicated Assange supporter in London told me that she planned to arrive at Court by 6 a.m., ahead of the throngs that she expected based on the turnout at Assange's hearing last November. No doub ...
  • 2012-01-25 #WikiLeaks News: New details about ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News The activation of WikiLeaks’ social network Friends of WikiLeaks is to happen very soon ...
  • A proposal for governance: Groups and individuals
    TweetThis article is a continuation of the ideas begun in A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world There are two underlying concepts which must be universally accepted for the current system to function. These two concepts are that groups may act as individuals and individuals may act as ...

U N News

  • Haiti: UN welcomes ratification of pact on eco ...
    The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti (MINUSTAH) welcomed today the ratification by the Government of a pact on economic, social and cultural rights.
  • El Salvador: UN panel voices concern at arbitr ...
    A United Nations expert human rights panel has voiced concern about the right to security impinging on the right to be free from arbitrary detention in El Salvador, as well as extreme overcrowding in prisons and police facilities in the Central American nation.
  • Threatened by climate change, glaciers now und ...
    Criminal gangs are becoming a threat to the world's glaciers, which are already receding as a result of climate change, the United Nations said today, citing a case in Chile where police are investigating the theft of some 5,000 kilograms of millennia-old ice from the Jorge Montt glacier.
  • Former Haitian leader must face charges for hu ...
    The United Nations today voiced its concern at reports that former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier may not face charges relating to the serious human rights violations that took place during his 15-year rule, while stressing that justice must be ensured for the victims.
  • Independent UN expert calls on Brazil to suspe ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged Brazilian authorities to suspend evictions from the Pinheirinho settlement in São Paulo and find durable solutions with residents.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Five Lit ...
    Ten years ago at the end of a three-week trip in Argentinean Patagonia and the rain-soaked, glacier-whittled southern Chilean coast, I took a nasty fall.   After flying home to New Mexico, my back, which had never bothered me before, grew steadily worse over the coming months.  I soon had to sto ...
  • Public Pressure Exposes Prime Minister Harpers ...
    Issues such as proposals to build the Keystone and Enbridge “Gateway” Pipelines, intended to carry Tarsands oil out of Canada, are receiving growing public scrutiny, and that often exposes bias or applies public pressure on isolated elitists, as some of our Federal, Provincial, and State politic ...
  • National Fish, Wildlife & Plants Climate Adapt ...
    Please visit the website for The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy,  learn about this project, read the Public Review Draft and weigh in with your comments. The following is a very brief excerpt: From the Arctic to the Everglades, impacts like rising sea levels, war ...
  • She’s Alive . . .
    She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage, agonizing conclusions.
  • Man Swarm: the slaughtering of the world’s wil ...
    By Frosty Wooldridge A book review: Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman Part 1 of 5: Humans devastating habitat and poisoning it The Bible said, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it and take dominion over all living things on land and in the seas.”At the time ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Growing Number of Lawsuits Face Frackers
      A “wildcat” approach to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) drilling across the U.S. is likely to result in mounting legal action against natural gas and oil drillers. read more
  • Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to Introduce Bill ...
      The ranking Republican Senator on the Homeland Security Committee is poised to introduce legislation this week that would force the TSA to have independent tests carried out on the Backscatter radiation body scanners currently in use in hundreds of airports nationwide. ~ Steve Watson ...
  • IRS Wants to Reward You by Snitching on Tax Ev ...
      You could start right here! US corporations tax dodging from 1995 -2011 ~ Videos read more
  • Ron Paul Campaign Says... 'Newt Must Pay Medic ...
      The Ron Paul campaign is demanding that Newt Gingrich pay the medical bills for Eddie Dillard, a Paul supporter whose foot was broken Tuesday after Gingrich staffers intentionally stomped on it. read more
  • 'No-Fly List' More Than Doubled In 2011 to 21, ...
      The secret government “no fly list” of suspected “terrorists” who are banned from flying to or within the United States more than doubled in 2011, according to figures obtained by the Associated Press. The figures show that the list now contains around 21,000 names, close to 11,000 ...

Tarpley

  • Who Will Stop Obama’s Aggressive War on ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 29, 2012 [download video] The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology. T ...
  • Media Interviews
             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  >  >| page: 1 of 10   total items: 99 Statistics for Suicide, Domestic Violence, Crime Reveal Tragedy of Overstretched and Demoralized US Military After a Decade of Multiple Wars PressTV – January 21, ...
  • To Avoid War, Russia and China Must Announce T ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 17, 2012 recorded on January 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is working hard to persuade other countries to obey its domestic law on sanctioning the Iranian Oil industry. Many experts believe that the US will face strong res ...
  • “Free Syrian Army” Unleashes Suici ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 12, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV talks with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and lecturer in Washington who shares his in-depth insights of the movements by Western and Arab elements behind the scenes to destabilize Syria and terroriz ...
  • Ron Paul’s $1 Trillion of Austerity Cuts ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com January 4, 2012 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • National Geographic Channel: Doomsday Preppers
    National Geographic Channel’s new ten-part series DOOMSDAY PREPPERS gets up close and personal with those stockpiling for survival. The series premieres Tuesday, February 7 with back-to-back episodes at 9 p.m. ET/PT The NGC publicist for the show contacted Modern Survival Blog to kindly le ...
  • Ready Made Resources
    msb-note We are happy to have Ready Made Resources.com as an additional sponsor/advertiser on Modern Survival Blog! From the owner, “We have been in business 16 years, we carry thousands of products, we offer free consulation on retreat set up and solar energy design. We have a walk in sto ...
  • Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick
    U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”, and established a foreign diplomacy ideology nicknamed ‘Big Stick diplomacy’. The meaning of the phrase advises a tactic of caution and non-aggression, backed up by the abi ...
  • They Are More Powerful Than Governments
    You may never have heard of them. The ISDA, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, is an organization more powerful than any nation government, and is apparently about to redefine ‘sovereign default’. Why are they so powerful? Because they represent (their members consi ...
  • Some Of The First Preps To Disappear
    Following the onset of a regional (or wider) disaster, if and when it becomes known that the disaster is going to last for a week or more, many or most items will disappear from store shelves. It is a given that food of all varieties will be one of the first things to go. But [...]

Fast Company

  • White House Taking To Google+ Hangout Right No ...
    Steve Case, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and NEC Director Gene Sperling use Google's new-ish social tool to talk about Startup America on behalf of the White House. We're in line to ask a question right now. First President Barack Obama gets into this Google+ Hangout thing, and before you know it, h ...
  • The Facebook IPO Players Club: Eduardo Saverin
    They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of minority owners of Facebook are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (billions, for cofounder Eduardo Saverin), here's a look at what got them where they are today.Who he is: ...
  • Apple Looks Abroad To Spruce Up Its Exec Team
    Is Apple going on an overseas talent shopping spree? The company's just hired Robin Burrowes to head up marketing for the iTunes App Store in Europe. Executive-level hiring happens all the time, but Burrowes is different: Until now he's been leading Xbox Live marketing for Europe, the Middle Eas ...
  • Fast Talk: How A Former Google Exec Plans To T ...
    Meet Douglas Merrill, Google's former Chief Information Officer, whose loan-giving startup ZestCash makes FICO scores seem straight outta the Stone Age. "All data is credit data," he says--and the insight is helping America's "underbanked" legions.A few years ago, Douglas Merrill became convince ...
  • The Facebook IPO Players Club: David Choe
    They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of Facebook's minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (around $200 million for the... colorful and creative David Choe), here's a look at what got them where th ...

Jadaliyya

  • دروس لاتينية للعسكر
    بقلم روبرت سبرنبورج وتوماس برونو. ترجمة وتعليق عمرو عادلي  تعد مصر من أوائل البلدان العربية التي تواجه تحدي التحول عن الحكم العسكري، وهو ما نجحت فيه العديد من بلاد أمريكا اللاتينية خلال العقدين الماضيين، ومن ثم فإن هناك الكثير من الدروس المستقاة من تلك التجارب، والتي قد تفيد رمو ...
  • الألتراس والمجد لسياسات الفنفنة
    قدم المشهد العاصف لمواجهات الأمن المركزي مع ألتراس أهلاوي في شوارع مدينة نصر عقب إحدى مباريات النادي الأهلي في مسابقة كأس مصر لكرة القدم في شهر سبتمبر الماضي وما تلاه من تجدد نفس المشهد (مع إنضمام ألتراس نادي الزمالك إلى الصورة) أثناء الإشتباكات الدموية بين الثوار (وقد صارت جماعات الألتر ...
  • خطاب الجعفري ...دريفوس معتقلاً
    ﻻ ندري على أيّ آليّة استند السفير بشار الجعفري لتقرير أن الملائم لاجتماع مجلس الأمن يوم أمس هو موضوع تعبير إنشائي ركيك اللغة والمعنى، مناسبٌ لتلك المهرجانات الخطابيّة التي حررت فلسطين والجولان ولواء اسكندرون وعربستان وجزر الإمارات وأوغادين ألف ألف مرّة. هل كان يريد مخاطبة مؤيّديه عب ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Ben White, Palestinians in ...
    Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. London: Pluto Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Ben White: I wanted to write something that would accessibly describe the policies of segregation and disc ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Magid Shihade, Not Just a S ...
    Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Magid Shihade: One reason was personal. The book begins with a case study of a soccer game between two Pale ...

mediagazer

  • How Online Paywalls Are Changing Journalism (NPR)
    NPR: How Online Paywalls Are Changing Journalism … Read Clay Shirky's column “Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users”  —  Online media advocate Clay Shirky has long been a skeptic of newspaper paywalls.  He now thinks 2012 could be the year that a critical ...
  • Watch Out, TV: AOL and HuffPo Jump Into Live V ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Watch Out, TV: AOL and HuffPo Jump Into Live Video  —  AOL and The Huffington Post are readying a live video network that will have twelve hours of programming every weekday when it starts this summer.  —  The network, which is curr ...
  • Amazon Starts India Shopping Service as Intern ...
    Malavika Sharma / Bloomberg: Amazon Starts India Shopping Service as Internet Market Grows  —  Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest Internet retailer, started an online shopping service in India to profit from the world's second most populous nation as it waits for the co ...
  • Max Clifford: press too cautious after phone h ...
    John Plunkett / Guardian: Max Clifford: press too cautious after phone hacking and Leveson inquiry  —  PR veteran says newspapers would not uncover stories such as the MPs' expenses scandal in the current climate  —  PR veteran Max Clifford has said the MPs' expe ...
  • Silence of the Lambs: The Missing Voice of Aut ...
    Lisa Alter / AllThingsD: Silence of the Lambs: The Missing Voice of Authors in the SOPA Debate  —  The recent media frenzy surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act is perhaps most notable for the voice that is absent in the mainstream media debate: The voice of the individual crea ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • U.N. Tentatively Backs a Plan for Syria
    UNITED NATIONS -- Security Council ambassadors reached a wobbly consensus on Thursday backing an Arab League plan for political change in Syria, after they dropped a specific reference to President Bashar al-Assad's ceding of power. The resolution's passage is far from assured, and it still. ...
  • Egypt unrest: Two shot dead in clashes af ...
    Two people have been killed and more than 400 injured in protests across Egypt sparked by the deaths of 74 people after a football match. The two killed were shot by police trying to disperse angry crowds in the city of Suez, medical officials said. In the capital Cairo, thousands of protest ...
  • JK's Golf Circuit to Attract Global Playe ...
    Jammu: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Thursday said that the creation of Golf Circuit in the State would help rope in national and international golfers to the State giving boost to tourism related activities. Omar said that the completion and...
  • Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of ...
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language Moscow has rejected. Demonstrators protes ...
  • Germany's Merkel holds talks with China's ...
    AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met China's president on Friday as she seeks to lift Beijing's confidence in Europe where the sovereign debt crisis threatens to tip the region into recession. China, the world's second-biggest economy, has watched with increasing concern as...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/2/12 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts abou ...
    2012election.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts about US Presidential Elections - Did you know that a presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history, or that every US President since 1852 has been either a Republican or a Democrat? ...
  • 1/26/12 - 16 States with Pending Legislation t ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...
  • 1/25/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with five new questions on credit cards, government bailouts, outsourcing jobs, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and ta ...
  • 1/25/12 - 40 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org – UPDATED: 40 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption – 40 US states have exceptions to allow underage consumption of alcohol under certain circumstances including medical, educational, or religious purposes. 10 states and the District of Columbia allow n ...
  • 1/25/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary ...
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidate Summary Chart - See Gary Johnson (Libertarian), the five remaining Republican candidates (Gingrich, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum), and Barack Obama's positions on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • US Government tries to restrict publication
    of details on avian flu virus that spreads among mammals John Timmer Although avian flu viruses have infected humans in the past (often with lethal effect), so far, these infections have come directly from birds. Over this past summer, however, researchers presented disturbing results at a scien ...
  • A collapsing scientific hypothesis led to a la ...
    John Timmer In 2006, scientists announced a provocative finding: a retrovirus called XMRV, closely related to a known virus from mice, was associated with cases of prostate cancer. But other labs, using different sets of patients, found no evidence of a viral infection. Before the controversy co ...
  • Hackers gave Subway a $30 million lesson in po ...
    Sean Gallagher For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few years, paying for their $5 footlong sub was a ticket to having their credit card data stolen. In a scheme dating back at least to 2008, a band of Romanian hackers is alleged to have stolen payment car ...
  • Defendant asks US Marshals to drag Righthaven ...
    Timothy B. Lee The copyright trolling firm Righthaven hit a new low on Monday when one of its targets sought to have a US Marshal drag Righthaven officers into court to explain their failure to comply with a previous court order. When we began covering Righthaven last year, the firm seemed like ...
  • Firefox 9 and fancy JavaScript optimizations
    Peter Bright Another six weeks have gone by, and another version of Firefox has been released. Still not officially "live," Firefox 9 improves on Firefox 8 with a JavaScript engine that’s up to 30 percent faster and, well, not a whole lot else. Mac OS X users will have a little mor ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Revolutionary science
    This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
  • Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
    In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
  • Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
    FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
  • Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
    The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...
  • Discovery Reinvented? The Promise of European ...
    Next Thursday, the Policy Centre is holding an event in Brussels…   Chaired by Martin Porter, Managing Director, Edelman | The Centre  & Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh   Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 12.00 to 17.30, followed by a drinks reception The Centre is hosting ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
  • Indian?s fight against child marriage in focus ...
    ABU DHABI - The spotlight was once again on India at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, courtesy a British filmmaker. Kim Longinotto in “Pink Saris” depicted the evils of child marriage and the caste conflict in the interiors of northern India - and a woman’s fight to bring about ch ...

TruthNews Australia

  • The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
    Anti-ACTA protest in the Polish Parliament Just when you thought you could relax, after the defeat of the SOPA/PIPA bills in the US, another freedom-crushing legislation rears its ugly head. It's an international treaty called ACTA, which Australia signed back in September 2011. From the Dep ...
  • What Caused the Ejections of Dust and Debris i ...
    Q: What caused the "squibs"? Could they have been just puffs of dust being pushed out of the Towers by falling floors? Are they visual evidence of explosive charges? A: The isolated ejections 20-60 stories below the demolition front appear to be composed of pulverized building materials, incl ...
  • Thomas Kean: “aftershocks” from pl ...
    This muddle headed, government-appointed chair of the 9/11 Commission does not even know what his government found to be the cause of the collapse of WTC 7. For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of the "official" 9/11 narrative. The ignorance and impudence of this man is breathtaking. H ...
  • Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
    Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...
  • Highlights from Skid Row Radio with Hereward, ...
    Today we bring you highlights from the Workers Radio breakfast show on Radio Skid Row 2RSR 88.9 FM Sydney, from 1 December 2011. You can tune in to the show every morning from 6-9 AM, and if you're outside Sydney you can listen via the web stream here. I am joined on air by the show host Jack ...

Beacon

  • Maryland Introduces Shark Fin Trade Ban
    Shark fins drying in the sun. © Oceana/LX The West Coast shark fin trade bans we celebrated last year may be catching on here on the East Coast. Maryland lawmakers introduced bills Tuesday in both the House and Senate that would outlaw the sale, trade, distribution or possession of shark fin ...
  • Watch ‘Big Miracle" and Help the Oceans
    © Oceana Last week we had a great time at the Washington, DC premiere of “Big Miracle,” the true story of an activist who spearheads an international effort to save three gray whales trapped in the ice in northern Alaska. The film stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski (“The Office”) and Oc ...
  • Watch ‘Big Miracle" and Help the Oceans
    © Oceana Last week we had a great time at the Washington, DC premiere of “Big Miracle,” the true story of an activist who spearheads an international effort to save three gray whales trapped in the ice in northern Alaska. The film stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski (“The Office”) and Oc ...
  • Marine Monday: Tasseled Wobbegong
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. Some sharks are fearsome predators, all sharp teeth and angular fins. These are the sharks that inspire epic monster movies and give the word “shark” its fearsome connotations. And then there are sharks that look like a pile of seaweed. The tasseled wobbegong is ...
  • Marine Monday: Tasseled Wobbegong
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. Some sharks are fearsome predators, all sharp teeth and angular fins. These are the sharks that inspire epic monster movies and give the word “shark” its fearsome connotations. And then there are sharks that look like a pile of seaweed. The tasseled wobbegong is ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Rise Of Anti-Semitism In Modern Europe.
      In Europe, there has been a notable rise in anti Semitism in the last decade. The rise itself is remarkable for a few reasons, not the least of which is that the rise is significant, and that the United States news media has been asleep at the wheel. I know that it comes as [...]
  • Greatest Boxing Trainer In History Passes
      Ubiquitous Boxing Trainer Angelo Dundee, who was in the corner for Muhammed Ali, Wilfred Benitez, Thomas “Hitman Hearns, Marvin Hagler,  and George Foreman has passed. He always seemed to be in the corner of winners. Maybe that’s why winners asked for him. He was the second, or buck ...
  • US Naval Gun Fire Photos.
              Source: Dark Roast Blend
  • Visions Of Future Warfare And Flight Are Alway ...
                Sources: Wiki, Popular Mechanics, Dark Roast Blend  
  • An Open Letter To Apple.
    First of all I am writing this on a MacBook Pro. The first computer I ever bought was an Apple. It was the colorful and cool iMac that looked like a cross between a Volkswagen Super Beetle and the Japanese monster Gamera. I loved it. The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh II, [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Susan G. Komen Puts Romney’s ‘Not Concerned Ab ...
    The decision, made in December, caused an uproar inside Komen. Three sources told me that the organization’s top public health official, Mollie Williams, resigned in protest immediately following the Komen board’s decision to cut off Planned Parenthood. ..Three sources told me the or ...
  • Preparing for the Spring Occupation
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Last week I wrote about The Rahm Emanuel way, and the Occupy way, to get ready for the Chicago G8 / NATO Summit. That summit takes place in May, and that month appears to be a very significant part of the future plann ...
  • Media Made a Laughingstock Chasing The Donald’ ...
    TM NOTE: HostGator botched its hosting duties, so I have been able to write today, but I’m finally back in now (though I still can’t get emails). Onward… As the Las Vegas Review Journal predicts a massive win in Nevada (pronouced Neva-as in cat-da) by Mitt Romney, traditional a ...
  • Pres. Obama Already has Your Vote and He Knows It
    This article was first published for U.S. News & World Report, under the title “Time for a Tea Party of the Left”. President Obama takes his base for granted on issues like the Bush tax cuts, Plan B, and the economy Here we are at the beginning of Pres. Obama’s reelection ...
  • The Monster Facebook IPO Filing
    Facebook earned $1 billion in profits in 2011, a 65 percent increase from the previous year. It hopes to raise at least five times that with its stock offering. Eighty-five percent of its revenue last year came from advertising. Most of the rest came from the share that Facebook takes when onlin ...

Hudson New York

  • Italy's Mosque Wars
    The southern Italian island of Sicily is about to become the proud new owner of a multi-million euro mega-mosque. The mosque, to be built in the medieval town of Salemi in southwestern Sicily, is being paid for by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Emirate of
  • Abbas Blocks Young Leadership, Ensuring Hamas ...
    Fatah leaders in the West Bank announced this week that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is their only candidate for the presidential election expected to take place in May 2012. The announcement enraged several disillusioned Fatah
  • Brazil Moves Away from Iran
    Relations between Brazil and Iran are shaky. In an interview with the Brazilian paper Folha de Sao Paulo, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who has worked as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top media adviser, declared that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, is
  • Turkey Warns Europe Against Mounting Racism, I ...
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday warned of rising racism and Islamophobia in Europe as he once again denounced a recent French bill outlawing denial of Armenian genocide. The French bill is a "serious manifestation of an insidious
  • A Victory Over Bigotry at Friends
    The Friends Seminary in New York, which made the God-awful mistake in judgment of twice inviting Gilad Atzmon to meet with its students, has now acknowledged that it was wrong to do so and has promised never again to allow that bigot to set foot on its

Urban Survival

  • This Wrong-Headed Rally
    Happy ground hog day:  I don’t suppose anyone but me noticed that there was a huge layoff announced this week by American Airlines, which is planning to whack 13,000 jobs but this is just the kind of thing we would … Continue reading →
  • Coping: WuJo Notes to the Adjustment Bureau
    There aren’t too many movies I will watch more than once, since the plot and the rest doesn’t change on second viewing.  But still, there are some, like The Adjustment Bureau that are so close to filling in a huge … Continue reading →
  • S&P Housing: Price Slide Resumes
    Just in from Case-Shiller/S&P: New York, January 31, 2012 – Data through November 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed declines of 1.3`% for both the 10- … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Living Through an Earthquake
    We begin the “softer side” of this news this morning with a report from a reader who just lived through this earthquake in Peru: Hi George. I sent you an earthquake statistic analysis a couple of years ago; this just … Continue reading →
  • The One Number that Matters
    We burrow into another Monday with all the zest and vigor of an aged and lame elephant, since plodding along slowly with a few investments and slow decision-making seems to work.  Still holding to our gold decision (2001) and silver … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Priceless Elevator Conversation
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported last December that “enviros, clean-coal advocates make strange bedfellows.”  It seems that my organization, the Natural Res ...
  • Editorial Extremism at the Wall Street Journal
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City The Wall Street Journal is one of nation's leading sources for business and economic news, but its editorial page has long been out to lunch on climate change. Even for the WSJ, however, the Op-Ed ...
  • New NRDC report highlights pathways for innova ...
    Alisa Valderrama, Finance Analyst, New York   As a kid in San Diego, I remember how after a rainstorm,  even once the skies had cleared and the day was beautiful, the ocean remained polluted -- so polluted that it was dangerous for my brot ...
  • Declaring War on Public Transportation
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Thirty years ago America was mired in a recession. Oil prices were high. The nation’s highways and transit systems were falling apart. Divided government was the name of th ...
  • Worst Transportation Bill Ever (Video Version)
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C.

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    After the overwhelming response to the BGSU DOJ/NIJ funding crap and urging from my wife I went ahead and restarted the news feed today. Sorry I haven’t responded much to all the feedback and emails, I’ve been up for about 42 hours so far because of work, only to find out this mornin ...
  • It’s nice to know…
    That these jokers will be making $300k off of my hard work.
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, January 30, 2012: Oakland CA cop shown on video beating an occupy protester with a baton after throwing him on the ground, right after that another cop points out the person recordi ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 01-27 ...
    I’m afraid to say that, once again, work completely dominated my weekend, and I mean completely. So it was incredibly difficult to stay on top of the news feed. I have a backlog of reports I’ll try to work through as I can today, but here are the few reports I’ve been able to [...]
  • Outage
    Sorry for the lack of a news feed recap for Friday, January 27. I had to walk to work 3 times for emergency issues and didn’t get much of a chance to track reports, let alone do a recap, until nearly midnight and was too tired to do it by then. On top of [...]

Total Collapse

  • Shocking Collapse Of World Economy Warned Is U ...
    A grim report just issued by the Finance Ministry that is circulating in the Kremlin today says the United States Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) has ground to a virtual halt signaling that a major global economic collapse is currently underway and could very well likely enter i ...
  • Massive US Troop Movements In California Raise ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Ministry of Defense circulating in the Kremlin today states that Russian Military Officials were rebuffed by NATO yesterday after questions were raised regarding massive troop and war equipment movements in the United States region of California and said to in ...
  • US Deploys 15,000 Troops To Kuwait As Tensions ...
    The United States is not at war with Iran yet, but just in case,the Pentagon says they want to be prepared. To do so, the Department of Defense has dispatched 15,000 troops to the neighboring nation of Kuwait. Gen. James Mattis, the Marine Corps head that rules over the US Central Command, won a ...
  • Google to track users… like never before!
    In a move that has triggered outrage, Google has announced plans to bring all data collected from users’ separate accounts on its sites into a combined profile. Besides raising dubious questions about privacy, this offer is one you… cannot refuse. The changes will take effect on March 1. Before ...
  • FBI would like to follow you on Facebook and T ...
    The FBI has got tired of monitoring social media sites manually and wants to reinvent the process. So, soon your posts may instantly light up on a map as a big red dot if considered suspicious, marking the location of the ‘bad actor.’ “Social media has become a primary source of intelligen ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook files the S-1 for its $5 billion IPO. Twitter rolls out brand pages in the UK. A South Korean man faces jail time for retweeting North Korea. You can...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook looks set to file for its long-awaited IPO today, The Pirate Bay founders are denied an appeal in the Swedish Supreme court while the site looks to avoid a...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple names a new SVP of Retail. A study shows that only 27% of Twitter users tweeted over 3 months. EU antitrust is probing Samsung, rubber gloves not included. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Thailand welcome’s censored Twitter with open (or closed?) minds. A couple of Twitter users were barred from entering the US, after saying that they were coming to have a good...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    The head of the UFC says that Anonymous’ actions might very well cause SOPA to resurface. The FBI is looking for someone to build it a monitoring tool for Twitter....

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar can deliver in FiTs and starts
    Mattew Wright In the Icy German Winter, during the 12 days of Christmas, the Germans installed more than 3 gigawatts of solar PV – a sum that is nearly ten times our Federal Goverment’s entire target for big solar. To much fanfare the Labor Government has been announcing, and re-announ ...
  • Australian Car Manufacturing must go electric
    Australian car manufacturing to become extinct unless we shift to electric vehicles. "The Australian car manufacturing industry will suffer a "Kodak moment" (they announced bankruptcy this week) if it fails to shift from polluting internal combustion engines (ICE) to efficient electric engines, ...
  • Losing farmland to fossil fuels
    Matthew Wright Climate spectator reports:Today, across NSW, farmers are participating in wind projects by co-locating wind turbines on their land. Just 2,000 modern 7.5MW on-shore wind turbines would provide enough electricity to power more than half of NSW. The NSW government is opposed to w ...
  • Piers Akerman's call for apartheid era coal to ...
    Piers Akerman (Daily Telegraph Jan 20,2012) is calling for Coal-to-Liquids to be deployed in Australia. Coal to liquids is the technology choice of desperate regimes including the Nazis in Germany during WWII and the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is highly polluting and has only ever be ...
  • Solar programs pay for themselves and reduce t ...
    This is an updated version of what was published in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Solar energy benefits the state by providing electricity at much cheaper rates than those of traditional sources, writes Matthew Wright. It may appear counter-intuitive, but getting millions of solar panels ont ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New meteorological theory argues that the worl ...
    New, radical theories in science often take time to be accepted, especially those that directly challenge longstanding ideas, contemporary policy or cultural norms. The fact that the Earth revolves around the sun, and not vice-versa, took centuries to gain widespread scientific and public accept ...
  • Forgotten species: the wild jungle cattle call ...
    The word "cattle," for most of us, is the antithesis of exotic; it's familiar like a family member one's happy enough to ignore, but doesn't really mind having around. Think for a moment of the names: cattle, cow, bovine...likely they make many of us think more of the animals' byproducts than th ...
  • Belgium to source only RSPO-certified palm oil ...
    Belgium will source only palm oil certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) by 2015 under a pledge by an alliance of major processors, manufacturers, and industry associations, reports the RSPO.
  • Wall Street Journal under attack for climate o ...
    The Wall Street Journal is under attack for publishing an op-ed attacking climate science last Friday, while turning down another op-ed explaining climate change and signed by 255 researchers with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which was eventually published in the journal Science. The o ...
  • Rainforests store 229 billion tons of carbon g ...
    Tropical rainforests store some 229 billion tons of carbon in their vegetation — about 20 percent more than previously estimated — finds a new satellite-based assessment published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The findings could help improve the accuracy of reporting CO2 emis ...

Sierra Express

  • Judicial trap…Aziz Carew sent to prison
    “Though camouflaged as Section 136 of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1965; it seems a judicial ambush; a hidden legal trap though,” a court visitor said. Wednesday, February 1st saw Aziz Carew, an accused, charged with wounding and other related offences, shockingly arraigned at the Sierra Leone ...
  • Airtel’s response to negative publication on i ...
    Airtel SL wishes to inform the public that certain perception about their internet service is wrong. Users should be aware that even when their phones are idle as long as it is connected to the internet it will attract charges based on automatic updates Usually devices such as iphone, ipad, tabl ...
  • Ahmadiya celebrates 51st … Bo salutes Presiden ...
    Consequent to Ahmadiyah Muslim Jamat holding of its 51st Jalsa-thalaana anniversary conference in Bo, President Koroma receives salutation from residents. The Bo conference starts at 10 a.m. this morning.  It is expected that President Koroma will deliver the keynote address and afterward declar ...
  • Airtel’s 3G mobile platform poised to transfor ...
    3rd February 2012, Freetown – Airtel Sierra Leone today took a significant step towards building the largest 3G network across Africa by announcing the launch of its 3G mobile platform in the country, which promises to change how subscribers experience the web on internet-enabled cell phones. Th ...
  • Notice of vacant position – Junior HR Recruiter
    African Minerals (SL) Ltd is inviting applications from interested candidates for the position of Junior HR Recruiter. This position is open to qualified Sierra Leoneans, and women in particular are encouraged to apply. The deadline for all applications is Friday 11th February, 2012. This role w ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy Holdings shareholders buy out remaining ...
    Shareholders of Dairy Holdings Ltd, which owns 58 dairy farms in the South Island, have bought shares owned by the collapsed South Canterbury Finance (SCF) and others.Chairman Bill Baylis said earlier that transactions were due...
  • Dairy, aluminium lead commodity price rise
    New Zealand commodity prices rose for the first time in eight months in January, led by aluminium and dairy products.But the high kiwi dollar wiped out the benefits in local currency terms.The ANZ Commodity Price Index rose 1.2...
  • NZ commodity prices rise for first time in 8 m ...
    New Zealand commodity prices rose for the first time in eight months in January, led by aluminium and dairy products, though the high kiwi dollar wiped out the benefits in local currency terms.The ANZ Commodity Price Index rose...
  • Prices dip in dairy auction - third fall in fo ...
    Prices of dairy products sold on Fonterra s GlobalDairyTrade platform fell for the third time in four sales with declines for all six product types on offer.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 0.9 per cent from the last sale a fortnight...
  • Crafar farm sale: Readers reaction
    An overwhelming majority of nzherald.co.nz readers are railing against the just-approved sale of the Crafar farms to a Chinese Government-backed investment group.Shanghai Pengxin's bid for the 16 Crafar farms was approved by Land...

The Bovine

  • Learning the lexicon of sustainability
    From Brie Mazurek, on Civil Eats: “Urban farmer. Heirloom. Food security. Methane digester. These are just a few of the terms you’ll find in the Lexicon of Sustainability, a series of portraits that speak the language of a growing movement. The … Continue reading →
  • Sheriff who stood up for Amish farmer against ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “One of the best ways to get elected county sheriff these days is to campaign against the encroachments by the federal government on basic rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. And … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and raw milk at NOFA: The hunt ...
    This just in from Michael Schmidt, who is reporting on his visit to Princeton New Jersey, where he was a keynote speaker at the recent Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) conference: I just returned from New Jersey where I was … Continue reading →
  • Continuing raw milk production in the face of ...
    David E. Gumpert’s latest post over on The Complete Patient blog brings to mind Bill Marler’s reference to him as “the pope of raw milk”. The way David spells it out, the heretic farmers of raw milk are like the … Continue reading →
  • Bollywood star washes with raw milk
    Just in case anyone thought that the idea of using raw milk products for skin care purposes was some kind of made-up fantasy, here’s a story from India about a beautiful film star sharing her skin care and beauty secrets: … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • EU says "Strict Application of Budget Rules Do ...
    On January 30, 25 of 27 nations signed the Merkozy accord calling for strict budget discipline and "quasi-automatic sanctions" for nations that violate budget rules. Only the UK and Czech Republic refused to sign. Following that ceremonious signing it took precisely two days for European bu ...
  • American Airlines Went Bankrupt in November; A ...
    American Airlines filed for bankruptcy in November 2011. Here is the question at hand: Will Taxpayers Be On The Hook For American Airlines' Pensions? American Airlines needs $18.5 billion to cover its pension promises to current and former employees, but it has only set aside $8.3 billion. ...
  • Jim Grant is Ron Paul's Pick to Head Fed, Ging ...
    MarketWatch comments on the politics of Getting Back to the Gold Standard The legendary Wall Street writer, publisher of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, has been mentioned by two of the rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. Newt Gingrich said if elected president, he’d name Grant ...
  • Deal Reached to Prevent Michigan Takeover of D ...
    On January 29 Bloomberg reported Bing Races to Beat Michigan Deadline for Union Detroit Deal Democratic Mayor Dave Bing is racing to wrest concessions from 48 bargaining units to erase a $200 million deficit in the home of General Motors Co. and the cradle of the U.S. auto industry. Other ...
  • Swarms of Mini-Drones to Forever Change Warfar ...
    As a temporary diversion from economic analysis, inquiring minds are watching an amazing video of swarming mini-drones. Information Dissemination says UAV Swarms Will Change Warfare Forever Global Guerrillas discusses Drones in the USA. Global Guerrillas also discusses the s ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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  • BFP Exclusive: NATO Member Turkey to Train Lib ...
    Harvesting the Fruits of “Regime Change” in Libya In the last few decades one never-changing modus operandi in our imperial pursuits and operations overseas has been the formation, financing, training, control and domination of our target countries’ military force. Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Tunisi ...
  • Why the Military Industrial Complex Supports O ...
    Video- Sibel Edmonds Interview: RT I was scheduled for an interview on the latest developments on the Turkish-Syria topic, however, they had a last minute change and suddenly I was facing questions regarding the latest exposé on Bahrain-Washington Times. If you look carefully you’ll see my eye-b ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...
  • Who Does NED Work For?
    The Government Funded National Endowment for Democracy The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is frequently described as a ‘private, not-for-profit foundation.’  At least, at its website, NED acknowledges funding from the US Congress.  In NED’s latest IRS Form 990 filing, over $135 million o ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • South Korean Shipbuilding Faces Hard Times, Hy ...
    Analysts expect the downturn in global orders for capesize bulk carriers to continue through to 2012, which may intensify the race for survival for shipyards in China. -By Alex Lee [...]
  • Obama Administration Announces Major Steps tow ...
    WASHINGTON — Echoing President Obama’s State of the Union call for an “all of the above” energy strategy, the Department of the Interior today marked a major milestone for offshore [...]
  • Update Marks The 3rd Anniversary of Google Oce ...
    n the three years since Google earthexpanded its reach into the ocean the company has focused with enthusiasm on building great relationships with the world’s leading oceanographers, people like David [...]
  • Passenger Ferry Sinks in Heavy Seas off Papua ...
    A Papua-New Guinea (PNG) flagged passenger ship/RoRo sunk yesterday in heavy seas off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.  350 people are reported to have been on board the [...]
  • Maersk Forms Joint Venture to help Protect Mar ...
    Vessels traversing the world’s oceans carry ballast tanks filled with seawater to ensure stability, trim and structural integrity. However, the water in ballast tanks contains micro-organisms that can wreak havoc [...]

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Saudi protesters slam govt. crackdown
    Protesters in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province to condemn the killing of demonstrators by Riyadh regime forces.
  • 'US to use NATO radar in Israel interest'
    The United States has reportedly planned to utilize NATO's US-made radar system in Turkey as a platform to provide intelligence to Israel, Press TV reports.
  • Israeli airstrikes wound 2 in Gaza
    Israeli warplanes have conducted more airstrikes against several areas in the besieged Gaza Strip, wounding at least two Palestinians, including a child.
  • New UN draft resolution crafted on Syria
    The United Nations Security Council has prepared a new draft resolution on Syria after earlier negotiations ended without agreement, diplomats say.
  • Turkish TV airs Holocaust documentary
    Turkish state television channel (TRT) has broadcast the first episode of a nine-hour-plus documentary on the Holocaust which has sparked reactions from Turkish community, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Get ready, get set, go!
    2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
  • Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
    I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
  • What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
    One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...
  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...
  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...

Dissident Voice

  • Cheering On Dumb, Stupid Animals
    Outrageously yet routinely, America is preparing for yet another war. Though warned by Iran not to bring an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, the US now has an unprecedented three. (Gee, I wonder why they call it the Persian Gulf, but don’t be surprised if, say, 200% of our high school sen ...
  • Adios, Mo–ron!
    Texas comedian Ron White is famous for a bit he does claiming you can’t fix stupid. He says there’s no class you can attend to alleviate it. He says there’s no pill you can take to cure it. “Stupid is forever,” he insists. The bit gets lots of laughs, but here in White’s home state, [...]
  • Anti-Semitism and Israel’s Inherent Contradictions
    In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as ‘anti-Semitic’. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White’s latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. Those of us who c ...
  • Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won’t Join Th ...
    IPS — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders January 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers. Dempsey&#82 ...
  • African Sahel Facing Slide Into Oblivion
    Thanks to the “help”  of the US and NATO, and their Islamist proxy butchers of Libya, the African Sahel is now potentially facing a “slide into hell”. Libya is, of course, facing its own disharmony, but its Sahelian neighbors are facing a host of problems too. Like Qaddafi was, many of the count ...

Destructionist

  • Did Attorney General Eric Holder Know About &# ...
    Did Attorney General Eric Holder know about 'Fast and Furious'? He claims to have had no knowledge of the incident before 2011, yet the contrasting information in the articles below paint a very different and disconcerting picture. The head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division an ...
  • Bill Introduced To Challenge Authority Of NDAA ...
    Five Washington state representatives have introduced legislation in an attempt to override provisions the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 that would allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial. Reps. Jason Overstreet, Matt Shea, Vincent Buys, Cary ...
  • Bill Introduced To Challenge Authority Of NDAA ...
    Five Washington state representatives have introduced legislation in an attempt to override provisions the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 that would allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial. Reps. Jason Overstreet, Matt Shea, Vincent Buys, Cary ...
  • Full Body Scanners At Super Bowl 2012: First t ...
    Fans attending the 2012 Super Bowl on Sunday will face a new level of security in addition to pat downs before they are allowed to enter the Lucas Oil Stadium – full body x-ray scanners. According to WPRI.com News reporter Matt Touchette, despite a congressional demand for an investigation in ...

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    Neste sees renewable result improvement
    Reuters Africa
    HELSINKI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Finnish refiner Neste Oil narrowed losses at its renewable fuels unit in the fourth quarter and forecast further improvement as volumes from its new plant in Rotterdam start to feed in, sending the company's shares higher.
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    EnSave, Inc. and Ecology and Environment, Inc. Launch Farm Energy Management ...
    MarketWatch (press release)
    RICHMOND, VT, Feb 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- EnSave, Inc. (EnSave) and Ecology and Environment, Inc. (E & E) /quotes/zigman/71266/quotes/nls/eei EEI -0.83% are partnering to launch a new service for farmers: the Landscape Agricultural Energy ...
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    In 2009, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, funded Graham, Condon and Carlos Duarte, a marine ecologist at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies on Majorca, Spain, ...
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    US Ecology Announces Schedule for Its Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 ...
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    Ecology Department Investigates Deception Pass Oil Sheen
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    Drought Forces Texas Town to Haul in Water by Truck
    New York Times
    The water that once nourished this central Texas community never traveled far: it came from a fenced-in well at the edge of Lake Travis, down a winding street next to the golf course. These days, the water that flows from kitchen and bathroom faucets ...
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    Global Water Technologies Soars Above Indianapolis
    Sacramento Bee
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    More radioactive water leaks at Japanese reactor
    CTV.ca
    AP TOKYO — The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says more radioactive water has leaked at the seaside complex. The problem underlines the challenges facing Tokyo Electric Power Co. as it attempts to keep the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear ...
    Inspectors find 'unusual' wear on new tubes carrying radioactive water at ...
    Washington Post
    LOS ANGELES — Unusual wear has been found on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California's San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant, raising questions about the integrity of equipment the company installed in a multimillion-dollar ...
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