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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, February 3, 2012

3 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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 USDA issues new rules for school meals

Malaria may kill far more people than we thought 

Malaria kills almost twice as many people worldwide as the World Health Organization estimates, according to a major study that is causing a stir this week. It claims a staggering eight times as many adults die of the disease in Africa as the WHO says.

Bring back DDT: Eco-imperialism is killing African children Globe and Mail (Toronto) ^ | April 27, 2004 ... New analysis of Rachael Carson's book, Silent Spring show she ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127575/posts
 
Howard Stern : Bring Back DDT ! 
 
VeriSign hacked 
 
Google Earth ocean terrain receives major update 
 
The Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition addresses the most pressing issues affecting Florida’s coastal and marine environments in Florida’s Coastal and Ocean Future: An Updated Blueprint for Economic and Environmental Leadership. 

Syria: It’s not just about freedom

With its archipelago of clients anchored by Syria, Iran is today the greatest regional threat — to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states terrified of Iranian nuclear hegemony; to traditional regimes menaced by Iranian jihadist subversion; to Israel, which the Islamic Republic has pledged to annihilate; to America and the West, whom the mullahs have vowed to drive from the region. 

( Masterful. One can only read such a catalogue of lies with something akin to awe...while trying not to barf. Washington Post need not be considered a news source....but it's labeled Opinion. Huh. Try hatemongering. )

The Rinse-Cycle must stay on until the illusions created by the power-elite are gone. 

Iran Is NOT Our Enemy!

"America's troops may be returning home from Iraq, but contrary to President Obama's assertion that "the tide of war is receding," we're far from done paying the costs of war. In fact, at the same time that Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he's replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer and redeploying American troops to other parts of the globe, including Africa, Australia and Israel....
The war effort in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan has already cost taxpayers more than $2 trillion and could go as high as $4.4 trillion before it's all over....  That translates to a loss of $12 million a day since the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan. To put it another way, the government is spending more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety.
Incredibly, while base pay for an American soldier hovers somewhere around $19,000 per year, contractors are reportedly pulling in between $150,000 - $250,000 per year... 
according to a Wartime Contracting Commission report released in August 2011, there are more than 260,000 private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than the number of ground troops in both countries."
READ IT ALL:

Privatizing the War on Terror: America's Military Contractors:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/privatizing-the-war-on-te_1_b_1209086.html

'Hundreds of slaughtered civilians isn't a 'huge number' for Obama'
http://rt.com/usa/news/drones-civilian-death-obama-187/

'Obama: Not Cool, Just Cold-Blooded'
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“When the U.S. president arrogates to himself the right to bomb and kill at will, he makes himself an outlaw.” 

http://blackagendareport.com/content/obama-not-cool-just-cold-blooded
  

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Social Media Saved Africa's Oldest Community S ...
    When a financial crisis threatened the existence of Africa's oldest community station, Bush Radio, an outpouring of sympathy and appeals went viral on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. In the end, it was this outspoken support that showed finanical backers that the station ...
  • Finnish Contest No More Between Right and Left
    In an uncharacteristically lively election campaign in this nation of five million people, Finns head for the polls in a second round of voting Sunday to elect a new president.
  • INDIA-PAKISTAN: Food Heals Historic Hostility
    If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
  • Malawi's Consumers Have a Right to Fuel and Fo ...
    The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market.
  • Spate of Spills at Sea for Brazilian Oil Industry
    An accident at an ultra-deepwater drilling platform spilled 160 barrels of crude off the coast of Brazil this week, deepening fears about safety in this new frontier of oil and gas production.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • BUILD FEB. 4 EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION TO STOP U ...
    Summary: A broad spectrum of U.S.-based anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations, including the IAC and CASMII, agreed on a Jan. 17 conference call to hold coordinated protests across the country on Saturday, Feb. 4. The demands will be: “No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassina ...
  • Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won't Join Their Wa ...
    Summary: Asked how the United States would react if Israel were to launch a unilateral attack on Iran, Panetta first emphasised the need for a coordinated policy toward Iran with Israel. But when host Bob Schieffer repeated the question, Panetta said, "If the Israelis made that decision, we w ...
  • IAEA, Iran to meet again after "good" talks
    Summary: "We are committed to resolve all the outstanding issues and the Iranians said they are committed too," Herman Nackaerts, IAEA deputy director general, told reporters after returning from Tehran. source: Reutersread more
  • The deal the West could strike with Iran
    Summary: Four IAEA inspectors at Iranian nculear facilityIt may be asking a lot of our leaders that they swallow their words, lower their sights and focus on a realistic target. They could do it, though, and the talks due to take place shortly in Turkey could be the setting for a change of co ...
  • Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfir ...
    Summary: Any rhetoric regarding Iran’s nuclear program and the insistence on crippling it is nothing more than a US attempt to force regime change for one more receptive to maintaining the hegemony of the petrodollar. The world now knows the truth about the US and how they conduct their affa ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Comment of the Day: "Humans May be One of the ...
    "While I love bringing new ideas to the table, I have to say that I don't see a paradox as Fermi does, but an arrogant assumption by Fermi and those who endure his paradox. Even if you wish to dismiss...
  • "Humans May be One of the Early Advanced Speci ...
    Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because...
  • NewsFlash: Russia to Begin Search for Alien Pl ...
    Russia plans to start their own search for planets outside our solar system following U.S. and French successes in finding such exoplanets. The U.S. Kepler space telescope and France's CoRoT space telescope have been successful in identifying exoplanets, while Russia's...
  • 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...
  • SpaceX Successfully Tests SuperDraco Engine -- ...
    Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has successfully test fired SuperDraco, a powerful new engine that will play a critical role in the company’s efforts to change the future of human spaceflight. “SuperDraco engines represent the best of cutting edge technology,” said...

Natural News

  • Tainted juice saga reveals shocking truth abou ...
    Last month, the Coca-Cola Company notified the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that imported orange juice it uses in some of its drink products was found to be tainted with carbendazim, an illegal crop fungicide linked to infertility and testicular damage. Less...
  • Obama's economic policies have created a natio ...
    It's no secret that the U.S. national debt is poised to increase by more than $6 trillion during President Obama's first four years in office. All of this additional spending, he has often said, was needed to "stimulate the economy", curtail unemployment and get Americans...
  • Frequent bone scans for osteoporosis revealed ...
    There seems to be a scan for almost every medical condition these days. But not all of these scans have been proven safe or effective, or even necessary for that matter. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has revealed that bone mineral...
  • Raw food dieting leads to weight loss success
    Out of all the weight loss programs that exist, very few are as simple and obvious as a raw food diet. People often forget about the calories that get padded on to foods through basic cooking techniques. Between oil and butter, as well as the general frying and baking...
  • Omega-3 foods essential to treat nerve damage ...
    People that have suffered a traumatic injury face an uphill battle as they attempt to regain their health and fight the risk of depression as a long term consequence of the event. British researchers from Queen Mary at the University of London have published the result...

Threat Level

  • Online Market for Pre-Owned Digital Music Hang ...
    The future of a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files is in the hands of a federal judge.
  • Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of ...
    Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.
  • VeriSign Hit by Hackers in 2010
    Internet giant VeriSign was hacked repeatedly in 2010 resulting in the theft of undisclosed information and raising questions about the integrity of security certificates issued by the company as well as its domain name service.
  • Copyright: To the Batmobile!
    A federal judge is siding with DC Comics in its copyright suit against the maker of replica Batmobile “modification kits” for automobiles, saying the iconic Batman superhero vehicle is protected by copyright. DC Comics sued Mark Towle, the operator of Gotham Garage that in court pape ...
  • Supreme Court of Sweden Upholds Pirate Bay Pri ...
    Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the prison sentences of the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing service on Hollywood’s and the recording industry’s most-hated list. Peter Sunde faces eight months; Fredrik Neij 10 months; Carl Lundström four mo ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Memo to GOP: To Avoid New Defense Cuts, Pay fo ...
    Last summer, Congress ended the debt ceiling hostage-taking drama by agreeing to $1.2 trillion in automatic budgets cuts, half of them from the Pentagon, if a so-called "super committee" failed to come up with a plan to do so. Of course, now that the Republican refusal to raise even a dime in n ...
  • Romney's Plan Not Very Concerned About the Poo ...
    One day after branding President Obama "really out of touch with what's happening in America," Mitt Romney marked his Florida primary victory by declaring, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." Of course, back in December Romney announced that "I'm concerned about the poor in this country," ...
  • GOP Governors Seek to Slash Taxes as Budget Cu ...
    On Monday, the New York Times claimed that many of the Republican governors who swept to power on 2010 "are adopting decidedly more moderate tones as they begin their sophomore year in office." But that premature conclusion was belied by the AP, which on the same day reported that "many have tr ...
  • Low Capital Gains Taxes Fuel Inequality, Not I ...
    Behind almost all of the disturbing issues raised by Mitt Romney's jaw-dropping tax returns stands one largely unchallenged conservative article of faith. Much lower tax rates for capital gains than income earned through labor, conservatives claim, spur investment, catalyze economic growth and ...
  • Meet the Party of American Capitalism
    President Obama, Mitt Romney has declared repeatedly, "believes America should become a European-style welfare state." While Newt Gingrich warned of the Democrats' "secular-socialist machine," Rick Santorum insisted "President Obama is for income equality. That's socialism. It's worse yet, it's ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won’t Join Their Wa ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS Feb. 1, 2012 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2012 (IPS) – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel withou ...
  • The NYPD Commissioner Told Cops to Follow the ...
    Even after the Commissioner told cops to follow the books on pot charges, small time weed arrests continued, breaking records for the past decade.
  • The Right-Wing Zombie Lie About Public Workers ...
    A new study on government employees' earnings has the Right buzzing -- and some progressive pundits repeating the myth that government workers are "overpaid."
  • Bill Moyers: 6 Movies You Have to See About th ...
    Here are some important movies and documentaries that try to make sense of the financial collapse.
  • After Right-Wing Campaign, Leading Breast Canc ...
    The nation's leading breast cancer charity is under intense scrutiny for its decision to cut off funding for breast cancer screening programs run by Planned Parenthood. Susan G. Komen for the Cure has confirmed it is withdrawing support for 19 of Planned Parenthood's 83 affiliates, citing a new ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • China Rejects Genetically Modified Rice
    The News: China rejects commercialization of genetically-modified (aka genetically-engineered) rice! Wow, not the news I was expecting to run into this week. But, apparently, it’s been a long time coming. “It took seven years, teams of young campaigners and hordes of devoted support ...
  • Groundhog Day (with the Climate)
    OK, I know, Groundhog Day was yesterday. But this is an excellent post by Joe Romm of Climate Progress that I just had to repost. The post, basically, is on how “We’re Stuck in a Bad Movie, Where It’s Always the Hottest Decade on Record,” as the title states. Check it out:
  • Brad Pitt on Insanity of Using Fossil Fuels to ...
    Brad Pitt is a pretty green dude. But it was pretty surprising to see him go out of his way in this interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to comment on the insanity of powering our vehicles with fossil fuels. It’s obviously something that’s really on his mind and gets him [.. ...
  • House GOP Pushing Dirtiest Fuel on Planet, Oil ...
    Oh my, they just can’t stop. The House GOP seems dead set on destroying the country and destroying the planet. Here’s the latest, via Climate Progress, on its push to develop the dirtiest fuel on the planet (you thought tar sands were bad?!): by Joe Romm Rep. Cantor (R-VA):  In addit ...
  • Monsanto & Federal Government’s Revolving Ties
    Here’s another thing I had in my queue and just discovered was covered yesterday on sister site Red, Green, and Blue. It’s a pretty shocking image showing the heavy rotation between top Monsanto employees and office holders in the federal government. Check it out: Monsanto employees in the hall ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspect ...
    This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.  This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief ...
  • Canada's 'honour killings': Where is the sense ...
    Editor's Comment: Across the decades, public schools in the United States have been teaching young children negative, distorted ideas and images about Muslim people whom the same children have never had an opportunity to meet. The images of Muslim/Arab people burned into my mind and memory by pu ...
  • In the Assange case we are all suspects now - ...
    Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state. This month's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange's fi ...
  • Nicaraguan Voters Deepen 21st Century Socialis ...
    John Riddell interviews Felipe Stuart Cournoyer In a fit of petulant anger, the U.S. government has lashed out on January 25 against the outcome of Nicaragua’s recent presidential election. To understand the context of the U.S. threats, I talked to Felipe Stuar ...
  • A young country on the move - NICARAGUA - la j ...
    In Nicaragua the support of the country's youth for the Frente Sandinista has played a decisive role in the country's development under the government of President Daniel Ortega. In this video, young people at grass roots talk about why they identify with the Frente Sandinista. En Nicaragua e ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD Like you needed another reason the love the #Decembrists "The band, which has been active about fundraising for breast cancer since keyboardist Jenny Conlee's bout with the disease, has decided to pull its support from Susan G. Komen For the Cure after that group made a clearly politici ...
  • Stand with Planned Parenthood
    By @KYYellowDog Annoy a woman-hating anti-choicer. Make the Komen Foundation pay for being corporate-cock-sucking freakazoid-lovers. Katha Pollit at The Nation tells how: How you can take action: Donate to Planned Parenthood for breast care and cancer screenings. Even a small gift at this moment ...
  • Reagan forever ruined Republicans for democracy
    By @TedFrier Extremism in defense of liberty is apparently still no vice among Republicans who define "liberty" as simply "No New Taxes!" Further proof, as if any more was needed, that the Right crossed the foul line into political fanaticism long ago were comments made last week by GOP power br ...
  • Making Money By Insulting The President
    by @TomBales1 What exactly is it with these Republican governors?  Not only do we have a greater number of corrupt and venal politicians sitting in state houses than at any other time in history but the corruption and venality appear to have been distilled to a putrid essence also unequale ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Sinking of ...
    By @KYYellowDog Because unlike in World War II, today Plutocrats aren't the ones fighting and dying in the wars that make them rich. Uploaded by tasedlak Before the U.S. even entered World War II, the Reuben James was escorting supply ships across the Atlantic to Britian. On October 23, 1941, of ...

Care 2

  • Oldest African crocodile exposed for the first ...
    The 95 million year old reptile lived during the Late Cretaceous period. The beast was 30 feet long with a flat shaped five foot wide head and ate fish as the majority of its diet. Submitted by Bryan Hamaker to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell Congress: Don't open our lands and oceans ...
    In order to lure Congress to open all ocean waters to oil drilling, House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) will soon introduce a bill that would direct some of the drilling royalties into highway work, even though no money would actually be available soon enough Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
  • The Official Site of Justice Party...."Justice ...
    The Justice Party is organizing a grassroots, broad-based, real political alternative to the corporate controlled Democratic and Republican parties. "Have you had enough?" asks Rocky Anderson. If yes, you are invited to help build America's Just future. Submitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics & ...
  • Prince William, oil, honor: Why Argentina is p ...
    Prince William begins his six-week deployment in the Falkland Islands today. Argentines aren't ready to give up their claim to what they call the Malvinas just yet. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Australia's elephant weed solution?
    ELEPHANTS could be the key to controlling grasses and reduce bushfire risks in Australia, an expert says. Professor David Bowman, from the University of Tasmania, said it was crazy idea but it was a thought Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Trump Card + OPEN THREAD
    The world waited breathlessly for the announcement that would surely change the political landscape of America for years to come!  The man whose words we all hang on, waiting for direction in our lives, was about to make a major political announcement!  Yes, The Donald will make an endorsement f ...
  • Time for a Gorilla Break
    Can you imagine having this amazing experience? Do stick with the whole video–it will make your day. How come we can’t get along as well with each other? Or at least just be curious and move on?
  • Pissing You Off? I Don’t Care.
    This clip from The Fugitive, featuring a confrontation between Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford sums it up: Seriously. You’re upset because I’m trashing Herman Cain? Mr. Serial Adulterer who claimed to be a great businessman but couldn’t organize a campaign? You’re upset ...
  • Sarah Palin Loves Her Some Newt
    Sarah Palin removed any lingering doubts that she is a serious political force or deep thinker this week by pandering to the Newt Gingrich camp. She’s not stupid. Hell no. But she is like Newt Gingrich–no principle but making money. Now understand, I don’t begrudge her taking h ...
  • Exit Polling Coming Any Time Now …
    Fox News Network is revealing its first exit findings right now – 6:01 p.m. document.write(''); Thanks to Townhall.com for the nifty app. PLEASE share any exit poll results you hear about in the comments below! Thanks! YOUR TURN!

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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • MTR activist to visit Marshall's campus - MU T ...
    MTR activist to visit Marshall's campus MU The Parthenon The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) invited Larry Gibson, mountaintop removal activist and resident, to speak to Marshall students and community members. The lecture will be at 6p.m. Thursday in the Shockey Room of the Me ...
  • If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can S ...
    If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal. Right? Huffington Post We need to call on President Obama to commit to an immediate moratorium on all mountaintop removal mining operations until the federal government can effectively mitigate a spiraling humanitarian crisis ...
  • W.Va. Coal Symposium: Bad timing for Alpha - C ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) W.Va. Coal Symposium: Bad timing for Alpha Charleston Gazette (blog) But I guess I must have missed the part where Tom explained exactly what his agency was doing to reduce the “pervasive and irreversible impacts” of mountaintop removal on the environment — let alone wh ...
  • TTU students to screen film about mining indus ...
    TTU students to screen film about mining industry Cookeville Herald Citizen COOKEVILLE -- In anticipation of increased mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee, environmentalists are taking steps to inform Upper Cumberland residents of the devastating effects of the process. To raise awarene ...
  • Where the Dirty Deed lies - Fenceviewer
    Where the Dirty Deed lies Fenceviewer ... yielded results showing that 1.2 million acres of land has been used for surface mining. Over 500 mountains have been severely destroyed, beyond repair. In some parts of Virginia over 40% of land use has been destroyed, because of Mountain Top Removal. ...

Memeorandum

  • Why Sarah Palin is right about having a compet ...
    J.E. Dyer / Hot Air: Why Sarah Palin is right about having a competitive primary season  —  The short answer is that Mitt Romney isn't a small-government conservative.  The slightly longer answer is that Barack Obama has been - as he promised to be - a game-changer, and the ...
  • Sierra Club took $26m from gas industry to fig ...
    Ben Geman / The Hill: Sierra Club took $26m from gas industry to fight coal  —  The Sierra Club disclosed Thursday that it received over $26 million from natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. between 2007 and 2010 to help the group's campaign against coal-fired power plants. ...
  • Mitt Romney Was A Democrat (Politics)
    Politics: Mitt Romney Was A Democrat  —  It may only have been for a few minutes in 1992.  But this is a little-known, true fact: The likely GOP nominee is a former Democrat.  —  Mitt Romney's 1992 Democratic Primary vote for Paul Tsongas — a technocra ...
  • Obama's Magic Number? 150,000 Jobs Per Month ...
    Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: Obama's Magic Number?  150,000 Jobs Per Month  —  The unemployment report on Friday will give us the most tangible read to date on how the economy is performing in 2012.  It might also represent the most important number yet for President ...
  • Obama to unveil new jobs initiative for vetera ...
    Associated Press: Obama to unveil new jobs initiative for veterans  —  WASHINGTON - In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, the Obama administration is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans to work rebuilding trails, roads and levees o ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
    Friday, February 3, 2012 11:26:47 UTC Friday, February 3, 2012 09:26:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 12.60 km (7.83 mi)
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    Friday, February 3, 2012 06:01:41 UTC Friday, February 3, 2012 05:01:41 PM at epicenterDepth: 24.90 km (15.47 mi)
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    Friday, February 3, 2012 04:33:09 UTC Friday, February 3, 2012 03:33:09 PM at epicenterDepth: 23.80 km (14.79 mi)
  • M 6.0, Vanuatu
    Friday, February 3, 2012 03:46:23 UTC Friday, February 3, 2012 02:46:23 PM at epicenterDepth: 21.70 km (13.48 mi)
  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Thursday, February 2, 2012 20:26:31 UTC Friday, February 3, 2012 07:26:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 17.40 km (10.81 mi)

China Dialogue

  • China should bolster its African aid
    Chinese investments must bring lasting benefit to Africa’s people in the form of development and better governance. Otherwise the relationship risks souring, warns René N’Guettia Kouassi. China has become an indispensable partner in Africa. The inroads it has made have re ...
  • Thorns in the African dream (2)
    To meet its duties as a rising power, China must evolve a more nuanced approach to international development – just putting up the cash is not enough, concludes Wang Xiaojuan.As Chinese companies have continued to expand overseas, their projects in Africa have come in for frequent criticis ...
  • Thorns in the African dream (1)
    Chinese companies are facing problems on the ground in Africa as they ignore local politics and stir hostilities. Wang Xiaojuan opens a two-part article.The importance of Africa to China is easily understood: it offers a huge market, rich supplies of natural resources and raw materials and cheap ...
  • “We should look behind the curtain”
    State-owned companies are pushing for a “Great Leap Forward” in dam building. But Chinese NGOs can hold them to account, environmentalist Yu Xiaogang tells Isabel Hilton. Yu Xiaogang is director of the NGO Green Watershed, based in the city of Kunming, in south-west China. A vet ...
  • China's carbon tax is very real
    An incendiary Wall Street Journal article has accused Beijing of trying to dupe the world with a smokescreen carbon levy. The author is plain wrong, write Yang Mingche and Yang Fuqiang.The news that China may very soon introduce a carbon tax has caused a stir. Of the many articles to address the ...

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  • Online Market for Pre-Owned Digital Music Hang ...
    The future of a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files is in the hands of a federal judge.
  • Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of ...
    Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.
  • VeriSign Hit by Hackers in 2010
    Internet giant VeriSign was hacked repeatedly in 2010 resulting in the theft of undisclosed information and raising questions about the integrity of security certificates issued by the company as well as its domain name service.
  • Copyright: To the Batmobile!
    A federal judge is siding with DC Comics in its copyright suit against the maker of replica Batmobile “modification kits” for automobiles, saying the iconic Batman superhero vehicle is protected by copyright. DC Comics sued Mark Towle, the operator of Gotham Garage that in court pape ...
  • Supreme Court of Sweden Upholds Pirate Bay Pri ...
    Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the prison sentences of the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing service on Hollywood’s and the recording industry’s most-hated list. Peter Sunde faces eight months; Fredrik Neij 10 months; Carl Lundström four mo ...

Equality Trust

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    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • KCTS Seattle Public Television Interview with ...
    From Seattle KCTS Public Television:  Attorney, Lawyer and food-safety advocate Bill Marler talks about how his career has changed since the 1993 E. coli break in Seattle and his ongoing fight for tough food-safety laws.
  • Ethanol byproducts, like WDGS - Don't feed it ...
    Ethanol has long been promoted (especially by farm state Senators) as a solution to greenhouse gas emissions. In 2005, Congress passed the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandated that 7.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel be blended into gasoline by 2012. Two years later it increased this amount ...
  • Unopened Family Cow Raw Milk Bottles Test Posi ...
    The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) continues to advise consumers who purchased raw milk produced by The Family Cow dairy in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to discard any product purchased from this farm since January 1, 2012. The DHMH Laboratories Administ ...
  • Oklahoma's OK - it outs Taco Bell in 10 State ...
    Oklahoma State Department of Health Acute Disease Service  Summary of Supplemental Questionnaire Responses Specific to Taco Bell Exposure of Oklahoma Outbreak-associated Cases Multistate Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak Investigation November 2011 – January 2012  Summar ...
  • If I Drank Raw Milk, I might buy it from Ed Sh ...
    I do not drink raw milk, and suggest against it, and I would never suggest that children or the elderly drink it, (see, www.realrawmilkfacts.com for reasons why) but if I did, a guy like Ed Shank of Your Family Cow Dairy might get me to buy it from him.  Right now, however, he has a bit of ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Bob Lutz: Hey right-wingers, stop atta ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Electric In the wake of last week's bruising hearing on Capitol Hill about the safety of the Chevrolet Volt (which itself followed an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that concluded plug-in veh ...
  • A word on Nissan Leaf sales, orders and reserv ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric What's up with the sales, orders and reservations of the Nissan Leaf? The Japanese automaker loudly trumpeted the 20,000 reservations it originally collected back in September, 2010 and Nissan's Mark Perry recently told AutoblogGreen that, ...
  • Official: Chevrolet introduces new Ecologic wi ...
    Filed under: Etc., Chevrolet At the Washington Auto Show today, Chevrolet introduced a sticker. Okay, the new Ecologic environmental labels that will be coming to all new Chevy vehicles - starting with the 2013 Sonic - is a lot more than just an adhesive piece of paper. Last year, the EPA re ...
  • Report: CARB's latest ZEV revision could add 1 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding meetings that could put the hammer down on getting more zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) on the road - or so it seems at first glance. CARB, which always looks far down the road, is discussing ...
  • Report: GM CEO stands up for Chevy Volt in D.C ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric What a surprise. Today's Congressional hearing over the Chevrolet Volt fire and the resulting investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration turned out to be contentious. The hearing took pla ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • "Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God." By Amy ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida. After he and the pro-Romney super PACs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in a state where nearly half the homeowners are underwater, he ...
  • Watch Democracy Now! Intv. With Spanish Judge ...
    Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón is known for ordering the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and seeking to indict members of the Bush administration for their role in torturing prisoners. Now, Garzón himself is facing a trial in Madrid, after right-wing groups objected to his investigat ...
  • From the Archive: Newt Gingrich Outraged Over ...
    Newt Gingrich’s attacks on reporters who’ve asked him tough questions during the 2012 Republican presidential primary may sound familiar to Democracy Now! listeners and viewers. Watch the video above to see Amy Goodman question Gingrich about the GOP’s "war on women,&quot ...
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal Transferred Out of Solitary Co ...
    The Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections tells Democracy Now! it has transferred Mumia Abu-Jamal out of solitary confinement and into general population. The move comes seven weeks after Philadelphia prosecutor Seth Williams announced he would not pursue the death penalty against the imprisoned jo ...
  • Documentarians Take On Power and Corruption: A ...
    Democracy Now! just returned from Park City, Utah, where we covered the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary track for the third year in a row. While there we spoke with Cara Mertes, who oversees the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program and Fund. In this interview, she de ...

Suzie-Q

  • Polling Shows Obama Heading For Huge Victory O ...
    Politicususa- February 1, 2012 By Jason Easley It is early, but an analysis of state by state polling data reveals that President Obama may be heading for a huge victory over Mitt Romney. Although President Obama’s polling numbers have been trending upwards for a few months now, the right wing m ...
  • Jan Brewer Recall Possible As Arizona Collecti ...
    Huff Post – First Posted: 02/ 2/2012  1:25 pm Updated: 02/ 2/2012  5:09 pm By- John Celock Arizona could become the next Wisconsin as plans for protests, Capitol sit-ins and a potential effort to recall the governor get underway in an effort by progressives to block the passage of sweeping ...
  • Obama- Let’s Stay Together 2012
  • Mitt Romney’s Family Trusts Continued To ...
    STEPHEN BRAUN  02/ 2/12 02:08 PM ET WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised in 2007 he would shed any investments that conflicted with Republican positions on hot-button domestic and foreign policy issues. But Romney’s family trusts kept some of those holdings and repeated ...
  • Brewer Pledged Cash For Immigration Fight, Ins ...
    TPM Muckraker- Nick R. Martin February  2, 2012, 11:47 AM Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) launched a special fundraising political action committee in October, pledging to use the money to fight illegal immigration and take on other issues she believes in. But based on financial disclosures filed th ...

Solari

  • A Culture of $20 Scams
    By Catherine Austin Fitts At Solari, we watch our vendor and financial accounts like a hawk. We find it is the only way to stop a contagion of mistakes, frauds and scams that just keep growing throughout the economy. Today, one of our team members was finding and reversing a series of fraudulent ...
  • Facebook Set to File For $5 Billion IPO
    The “lead left” bank leads the IPO underwriting process — its name in the upper-left-hand corner of the actual prospectus — and typically receives higher fees than the other banks in the syndicate. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had reportedly battled over that status for Facebook’s IPO. Prev ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” ~ Upton Sinclair Related reading: Upton Sinclair Wikipedia Upton Sinclair Biography Upton Sinclair, Politician TIME (9 Aug 10) Upton Beall Sinclair, Author NNDB [...]
  • Obama Approval Above 50% in 10 States and D.C. ...
    By Jeffrey M. Jones In 10 states plus the District of Columbia, a majority of residents approved of the job Barack Obama was doing as president last year, according to aggregated data from 2011. His greatest support came from District of Columbia, Maryland, and Hawaii residents, while Utah and I ...
  • $10 billion Deutsche Boerse, NYSE Merger Blocked
    By Yahoo Finance The European Union on Wednesday blocked the Deutsche Boerse’s planned merger with NYSE Euronext, a $10 billion deal that would have created the world’s largest financial exchange operator. Brief video about the merger reducing competion so EU did not approve it.  Ma ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Good news! Global temperatures have stabilize ...
    Summary:  This is the second in a series of posts examining what we know about global temperature trends.  The first discussed the strong consensus about the warming of the past two centuries.  This post shows that global temperatures have leveled off during the past decade.  Both sides of the p ...
  • What do we know about our past climate, and it ...
    Summary:  Climate change has destroyed civilizations in the past, and might in the future.  Fortunately we have technology. Unfortunately that requires time to develop and implement, therefore we need science to provide forecasts.  Unfortunately climate science has become politicized.  This seri ...
  • Bing West tells us about “Grit, Strategy ...
    Summary:  Today we have a review of what seems likely to be a major genre of military literature for the next generation, if our experience in Vietnam repeats itself — why we lost in Afghanistan, and how we could have won.  It’s a well-researched, thoughtful book, reviewed by a top p ...
  • Where to go for information about our conflict ...
    Summary:  Our conflict with Iran is complex, multidimensional, with deep roots in history.  On the FM website we’ve provided a series of posts examining aspects of this conflict, each with summaries (and links) to primary sources and expert analysis.  This is especially important since so ...
  • WPR: “Counterinsurgency in the Post-COIN ...
    Summary:  A special issue of World Politics Review reveals the key problems facing the US military.  They provide little meaningful analysis, let alone solutions.  But these articles provide a start for the necessary reevaluation of our fantastically expensive military, foundation for our mad an ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Experts Urge Caution About Attacking Iran
    As tensions mount between the West and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, hopes that a diplomatic resolution to the crisis — a necessary step to tamp hostility — got a bump this week when U.N. inspectors visited Iran. The talks drew praise from both the U.N. nuclear watch ...
  • The Splintering of Al Shabaab in Somalia
    For the better part of five years, much of Somalia's long-suffering population has been caught in a deadly stalemate between al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant group, and African Union peacekeepers, known as AMISOM. The peacekeepers are tasked with defending the country's weak Transitio ...
  • Poll: Only Seventeen Percent of US Public Supp ...
    Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reminded Congress earlier this week that U.S. intelligence estimates indicate that Iran has not yet decided to build a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, U.N. nuclear inspectors report that their recent talks in Tehran made for a “good trip” an ...
  • NATO Meeting to Discuss Early End of Combat Op ...
    In background briefings for American security bloggers on Monday, senior NATO officials hinted that the alliance would be willing to wrap up combat operations in Afghanistan and transfer responsibility for the war to the Afghan security forces more than a year ahead of schedule. That decision wa ...
  • The Environmental Legacy of the Iraq War
    We are now out of Iraq, at least sort of. So now everyone can start putting their bad memories of the American occupation behind them, right? Of course, Americans forgot this yesterday, after all Real Housewives of Lubbock is on. But the Iraqis have a lot of reminders. Among them–massive a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • A Blockbuster Jobs Report
    Earlier this morning, Nate Silver argued that 150,000 was President Obama’s “magic number” for job growth, in part, because 150,000 is the dividing line between a bad report—where the economy isn’t growing fast enough to keep up with population—and a decent one, where it is. If the economy coul ...
  • Contraception, Co-Pays, and the Church
    The Obama administration took some hits last week after it announced that employers with religious affiliations would not be exempt from the Affordable Care Act's mandate to cover preventive services without a co-pay—including contraception. At the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne* was quite peeved ...
  • Wall Street Backs One of Its Own
    Bankers are supposed to be the personifications of economic reasoning, but anyone looking at the financial reports of the presidential candidates and super PACs that have come out this week might conclude that there’s more to their political calculations than dollars and cents. Indeed, what the ...
  • Sacred vs. Profane
    Campaign operatives love nothing better than a sharp, highly favorable contrast between their candidate and the opposition—and President Obama’s people had to be chest-bumping and high-fiving over the one they got today. At this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, one day after Mitt Romney dis ...
  • In Case You Were Underestimating ALEC's role
    Florida Rep. Rachel Burgin recently filed a pretty typical bill for a conservative Republican, asking the federal government to lower corporate taxes. But there was one thing that made Burgin's measure a little unusual: it began by stating the mission of the American Legislative Exchange Counci ...

Buzzflash

  • Don't Blame the Wealthy for Inequality? You've ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Not an angry response, though. 'Amused' is probably more accurate, since a little research shows that James Q. Wilson's article is filled with the tired old defense mechanisms of people eager to justify a 30-year transfer of wealth to the rich. Mr. W ...
  • Hi-Tech US Corporations Deny Skilled American ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A short time ago, BuzzFlash at Truthout ran a commentary on how US global corporations don't give a hoot about increasing jobs in America. In it, we included a section about how Silicon Valley high-tech companies, particularly Apple, use overseas co ...
  • Mitch McConnell’s Very Selective Memory
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Instead of saying this is hooey I give him a shout out for trying Because they've got nothing else And have to resort to such lying. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/mcconnells-revisionist-history-congress-gave-obama-everything-he-wanted.php  
  • The Tangled Web of Newt Gingrich's Alliances
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT While Newt Gingrich was taking it on the chin in Florida, thousands of miles away in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was beating back a challenge to his Likud Party leadership from ultranationalists, thus making it a so-so week for Sheldon Adels ...
  • Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's Finger Poke in O ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It was the photo seen round the nation - one that in a single finger-wagging gesture was a Rorschach test of America's "post-racial" society. When Jan Brewer - governor of perhaps the most politically anti-immigrant state in the union (including m ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...
  • Post mortem breast implants
    When you leave your body to medical science you might imagine some marvellous discovery among your organs and tissues that leads researchers to the wondrous discovery of a universal anticancer drug or something equally stupendous. In reality, it can be a much more mundane, especially for any wom ...
  • Deodorants still don’t cause breast cancer
    It was perhaps inevitable that a paper published in the journal Journal of Applied Toxicology that showed parabens (a preservative used in underarm deodorants and countless other products) to be present in breast cancer tissue samples would be grabbed by the tabloids and others and turned into t ...
  • Alchemist Chemistry News
    The Alchemist learns how to manipulate tiny polystyrene beads with a set of micro-tweezers this week and spots the smoking gun in forensics using capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity. In the world of chemophobia has asked why parabens are still the focus of research int ...
  • Shape of snowflakes
    On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The ARMS Act: GOP Offers Immigrant Youth as Ch ...
    Last week Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) introduced the ARMS Act, H.R. 3823, in the House of Representatives. The bill is a diluted version of the DREAM Act which would allow certain undocumented youth to attain legal status through military service. The undiluted version of the DREAM Act offers youth ...
  • The ARMS Act: GOP Offers Immigrant Youth as Ch ...
    Last week Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) introduced the ARMS Act, H.R. 3823, in the House of Representatives. The bill is a diluted version of the DREAM Act which would allow certain undocumented youth to attain legal status through military service. The undiluted version of the DREAM Act offers youth ...
  • Internet VS Lamar Smith, Round Two: Demand Pr ...
    Fresh off of a hard-fought victory against SOPA and PIPA, Demand Progress and its million-plus members are taking on appalling snooping legislation which is awaiting a floor vote in the House of Representatives. HR 1981, introduced by SOPA author Lamar Smith, would require Internet Service Provi ...
  • Internet VS Lamar Smith, Round Two: Demand Pr ...
    Fresh off of a hard-fought victory against SOPA and PIPA, Demand Progress and its million-plus members are taking on appalling snooping legislation which is awaiting a floor vote in the House of Representatives. HR 1981, introduced by SOPA author Lamar Smith, would require Internet Service Provi ...
  • CAIR Calls for Hearings on NYPD Targeting of S ...
    The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called for hearings in that state's legislature to investigate new revelations that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) initiated a program of spying on Shia mosques without warrants and without any evid ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can S ...
    Jeff Biggers One of the most heartening moments of solidarity in the Tar Sands Action movement took place last summer: A contingent of Appalachian coalfield residents, whose homes are literally under siege from daily blasting and stripminin ...
  • Indiana Lets It All Slip Away
    David Macaray Unless a miracle occurs, Indiana (with approximately 11-percent of its workforce unionized) is going to become the 23rd “right-to-work” state in the U.S. (and the first one to take that dreadful plunge since Oklaho ...
  • Reproductive Rights Redux
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Americans hate to be told what to do–even when it’s in our own best interests. Today’s brouhaha over the Obama Administration’s decision to require employers to provide insurance fully co ...
  • The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)
    Laura Flanders President Obama is, as AP puts it, “wearing his decision to rescue General Motors and Chrysler three years ago as a badge of honor” on his re-election campaign. It saved jobs and working communities, brought the U ...
  • The Apple Connection
    Walden Bello Ever since the beginning of the current global economic crisis, the focus of both critical analysis and public odium has been speculative capital. In the populist narrative, it was the breathtaking shenanigans of the banks in a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Comprehensive water plan for Alabama needed
    Springville — Last Thursday “Friends of Big Canoe Creek” hosted Mitch Reid from the Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA) to speak about the growing need for a comprehensive water plan in the state of Alabama.
  • New Education About the Blue Planet Project an ...
    Anil Naidoo of Canada's Blue Planet Project Talks with Sharon Kleyne about Maude Barlow and Water Access as a Human Right.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 Sharon Kleyne, host of the Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water syndicated radio talk show, recently interviewed Anil Naidoo of Cana ...
  • A Negotiated End to the Water Wars Is Near
    Many of us remember the film “Chinatown,” starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, which was based in part on real events that fostered water wars when William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests to secure water rights in Northern California.
  • ALEX HILDEBRAND
    Alex Hildebrand passed away at his rural south Manteca home Monday surrounded by what he loved and fought passionately for - his family, farming, and water.
  • Germany: Four-person water charge in Berlin is ...
    GERMAN HOMEOWNERS have a long list of bills to pay every month, starting with water and refuse charges and ending with bills for cleaning the street (dirt and snow) and even lighting the street lamp outside their door.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Why is the BBC so afraid of the word "Palestine"?
    Amena Saleem 2 February 2012 This week, the BBC issued its final ruling on a controversy which has been raging for nearly a year after the words “Free Palestine” were censored from a freestyle rap played on Radio 1Xtra.
  • New documentary presents shallow view of Arafat
    Sarah Irving 1 February 2012 A new documentary on Yasser Arafat accesses big-name Palestinian figures but wastes an opportunity to provide an in-depth look at the late leader.
  • Islamic aid to Gaza grows, despite restrictions
    Gaza Strip 30 January 2012 Despite movement and access restrictions on humanitarian staff and supplies, and obstacles to the transfer of funds into Gaza, the number of Islamic organizations working with the vulnerable in Gaza is actually increasing.
  • West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount di ...
    Joe Catron Gaza City 30 January 2012 A married couple, both former political prisoners from the occupied West Bank, recount their years in detention from Gaza, where the husband was deported to following last October’s prisoner swap.
  • Palestinian families denied rights by Israel's ...
    Charlotte Silver 27 January 2012 An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo.

The Wonk Room

  • ‘Shut Up and the Play the Hits’: A ...
    “There are only three ways to end your career as a rock star,” Stephen Colbert tells James Murphy in a clip shown near the beginning of Shut Up and Play the Hits, a good concert movie but not very revealing look at the end of LCD Soundsystem, which I saw at Sundance. “Overdose, ...
  • Coal-Powered PAC Runs Harassment Campaign Agai ...
    A coal-industry astroturf group is running a public campaign to harass Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann for his “radical agenda” of climate science. The Common Sense Movement/Secure Energy for America Political Action Committee (CSM/SEAPAC) has established a website a ...
  • Romney Falsely Claims Panetta Said ‘We&# ...
    Reacting to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s announcement yesterday that U.S.-led international forces would shift from their lead role in combat operations to a primary role of training Afghan forces, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney resorted to distorting the announcement b ...
  • Utah’s Republican AG Disowns Hate Group ...
    Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff (R) says he doesn’t want help from the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), the anti-immigrant group whose attorneys include the architect of Alabama and Arizona’s tough immigration laws, Kris Kobach. IRLI filed a fried of the court brief supp ...
  • Is Eric Cantor Trying To Kill The Proposed Ban ...
    During his State of the Union address, President Obama said “send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress; I will sign it tomorrow. Let’s limit any elected official from owning stocks in industries they impact.” The remark stemmed from a 60 Minutes investigation sh ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Reading "This Crazy Time" by Tzeporah Berman
    It was on the "new and recommended" shelf at the library. It's a pretty important book and, just like my local library branch, I recommend it. In This Crazy Time Tzeporah Berman (one of the early leaders in the fight to save Clayoquot Sound) talks about real activism that appears to have brough ...
  • The Canadian Civil Rights Movement
    If there's one thing to protest (but there are many) let's make the abysmal betrayal of the First Nations and their treaty rights in this country. Let's take on the imperialists and their knuckle-dragging racist allies.
  • Rob Ford's low-hanging fruit
    It's easy to write a blog post when your target is so grotesquely stupid. When he was first elected, Rob (coward) Ford announced that he was going to kill the long-delayed public transportation expansion "Transit City." In return for keeping his suffering suburbanite constituents waiting in the ...
  • If it was an "honour killing" ...
    Shouldn't whoever did it acknowledge their deed fearlessly and suffer the consequences with pride?
  • Ezra Levant: An Enemy of Canada
    Wingnut welfare recipient Ezra Levant has a new book coming out. It's called The Enemy Within. It's not an autobiography however. The slime-ball has decided to return once again to his masturbation fantasies about torturing young Muslim males. That's right. Levant's moved on from Maher Arar t ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Youth Unlimited takes to the streets helping T ...
    A local non-profit was on the road Thursday night in Toronto looking for local homeless youth who are in need of medical help, some hot food or just someone who is willing to listen to him or her.
  • Menagerie, An Anthropomorphic Art Show
    Toronto's Steam Whistle Brewery is hosting an art show that features local, up and coming artists whose works showcase the imaginative ways in which the individual artists take human attributes and insert them onto or into nonhuman entities.
  • The Donald plays his trump card and endorses M ...
    Donald Trump did the unexpected on Thursday and endorsed Mitt Romney as his candidate of choice for the Republican nomination for the office of the President. Rather than announce it yesterday, Trump had announced that he'd make an announcement today
  • Massive child-pornography investigation snares ...
    An extensive investigation involving a number of police forces has left 60 people facing over 200 child-pornography charges.
  • ‘Moon Point’ eventually gets there if you’re w ...
    ‘Moon Point’ is about an unusual road trip shot just north of Toronto. It opens this weekend in the city, and the filmmakers and cast will be on hand for several Q&As.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Afghanistan round-up
    The ten-year-and-counting Western intervention in Afghanistan moves towards its inevitable conclusion.
  • More on F-35 costs
    Billions on the F-35, $375,000 on office renovations: The Department of National Defence's idea of fiscal restraint.
  • F-35 price tag still climbing?
    The probable price tag for the F-35 fighters the Harper government insists on buying continues to climb. The government has continued to maintain despite all evidence that Canada will pay no more than $16 billion to own and operate the proposed fleet of 65 F-35s, but outside estimates have run a ...
  • Business ethics meet Gadhafi’s Libya
    Canada’s largest engineering firm, Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin has come under criticism for its operations in Libya. A recent story by Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith revealed close ties between the Canadian engineering company and Col. Gadhafi’s son Saadi before the regime collapsed. ...
  • New defence agreement with the U.S.
    Another defence cooperation agreement between the Canada and the United States is signed.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • TSA Apologises For Strip-Searching TWO Grandmo ...
    January 19, 2012 Daily Mail By DM “An apology is not acceptable.  The people responsible should be sent to jail.”  –KTRN The TSA has finally apologized to two grandmothers who were strip-searched at JFK airport. Wheelchair-bound Ruth Sherman, 89, was asked to pull down her trou ...
  • Iran To Return US Secret Drone… As A Toy
    January 19, 2012 RT By RT “Who knew Iran had such a wicked sense of humor.” –KTRN Reports say the US is to get its top secret surveillance drone back from Iran. The catch is, the device, intercepted in December, has been reduced to 1:80 of its original size and is being markete ...
  • The Superfood That Can Help You Lose 28 Lbs In ...
    January 19, 2012 DrAxe.Com By Dr. Josh Axe “More great tips from Dr. Axe.  This time – weight loss.” –KTRN Do you want to lose weight fast? There is a superfood that can help you lose 28 lbs in 10 weeks. The product I showed in the video is from Beyond Organic and it’s ca ...
  • Gingrich Flubs History In GOP Debate
    January 24, 2012 Associated Press By CALVIN WOODWARD “You mean Newt Gingrich said something that wasn’t true?”  –KTRN Newt Gingrich called rival Mitt Romney a “terrible historian” but flubbed his own history in Congress on Monday night when he claimed the nati ...
  • Did TSA Target Rand Paul for Intrusive Pat-down?
    January 24, 2012 Prison Planet By Kurt Nimmo Following Rand Paul’s incident earlier today with the TSA, the corporate media spun the story to say Paul was not detained. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, set the tone when he insisted Paul – or rather, the passenger in question – was not deta ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • 164 dead as cold snap grips Europe
    Europe’s cold snap has claimed 164 lives, as countries from Ukraine to Italy struggle with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places and with more cold weather forecast. Entire villages were cut off in parts of eastern Europe on Thursday, trapping thousands, while road, air a ...
  • Egypt unrest video: Protesters vs police & tea ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Clashes continued into the night on Thursday between Egyptian security forces and protesters in central Cairo.They were protesting against the security forces’ failure to prevent a soccer riot that killed more than 70 people in Port Said on Wednesday. The protesters ...
  • Floods create ‘inland sea’ in Australia
    SYDNEY — Major flooding hit parts of Australia’s east on Friday, stranding thousands of residents, prompting a military airlift and leaving some communities only accessible by helicopter. The deluge, which has sparked dozens of rescues and left about 7,275 people isolated in various parts ...
  • U.S. seizes 307 websites during Super Bowl cra ...
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday that it had seized the domain names of 307 websites as part of “Operation Fake Sweep,” a campaign targeting those selling counterfeit sportswear ahead of the Super Bowl in Indianapolis. Sixteen of those sites streamed ...
  • NYPD proposed spying on Muslims based solely o ...
    The New York Police Department proposed spying on more than a dozen Shia mosques despite any evidence of wrongdoing, secret police documents obtained by the Associated Press revealed. The May 2006 NYPD intelligence report, titled “US-Iran Conflict: The Threat to New York City,” recom ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won’t Join Th ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS Feb. 1, 2012 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2012 (IPS) – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel withou ...
  • Exclusive: Why is there so much apathy or host ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) January 31, 2012 Be it articles by Chris Hedges, myself, Philip A. Farruggio, Gunther Ostermann, other writers, or even when Lo herself posts a documentary having anything to do with relig ...
  • Drones: When is a Pullout not a Pullout? by Fe ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 31 January 2012 “ … the enduring power of our moral example, America is back.” (President Obama, State of the Union address, 24th January 2012.) First the world was sold imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, General C ...
  • The Nature and Effects of Imperialism by Fazal ...
    by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published on imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com January 31, 2012 Multidimensional and complex nature and effects of imperialism on democracy, society, nature, and human nature “At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man ...
  • Richard Wolff: Replace Capitalism
    Dandelion Salad joefriendly on Jan 27, 2012 Economics Professor Richard Wolff details the problems of capitalism and urges our recognizing its obsolescence and replacing it with institutions that truly serve the people. Talk at Church of All Souls in New York City, January 24, 2012. Camera, audi ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...
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    Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...
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    Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

Wired - 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Norman Finkelstein’s Henley College lecture – ...
    Henley College should NOT rescind its invitation for Norman Finkelstein to guest lecture. Norman Finkelstein's lecture at Henley College (UK) is threatened by a 'disinvitation' prompted by a letter... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Remembering Howard Zinn
    Noam Chomsky remembers Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian, and his close friend of 45 years. A moving political and personal history of the leading activists of a generation --... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • The Palestine Nakba: decolonising history
    Rashid Khalidi: 'This book is the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis available of the catastrophe that befell Arab Palestine and its people in 1948, known as the nakba. It shows how the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Gideon Levy: God rules all in 2012 Israel, eve ...
    From Jenin to Hebron, we are in the West Bank above all because the majority of Israelis believe that it is not only the land of the patriarchs, but that this fact gives us a patrimonial right to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jewish Voice for Peace statement on BDS
    JVP has grown dramatically in size and influence in the past two years. As part of the ongoing assessment sparked by this growth, JVP reviewed its BDS policy. On the basis of an organization-wide... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Publication Research Ethics Questioned
    Research by two faculty members from The University of Alabama in Huntsville were published in the prestigious journal Science for their investigation of the unethical practices of some journal publications.
  • Maternal Asthma, Breastfeeding and Lung Functi ...
    Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study from researchers in Switzerland and the UK.
  • Cedars-Sinai Neurology Researchers Present Fin ...
    At the International Stroke Conference, Cedars-Sinai neurology researchers present findings on therapeutic cooling for stroke, damaging effects of normally beneficial blood component following ischemic stroke, and more.
  • U.S. Counties with Thriving Small Businesses H ...
    Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations -- with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes -- than do those that rely on large companies with "absentee" owners, according to a national study by sociologists at LSU and B ...
  • Google Earth Ocean Terrain Receives Major Update
    Data from Scripps, NOAA sharpen resolution of seafloor maps, correct "discovery" of Atlantis.

Natural Health News

  • New Study Shows this Popular Beverage Will Inc ...
    A new study has shown that drinking diet soda results in an increased risk of vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death.  The researchers found that people who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event. Previous resear ...
  • New Evidence Shows Vaccination Concerns May In ...
    Challenges to a child’s immune system during early development, including those induced by vaccines, can lead to permanent and detrimental alterations of brain and immune function. Evidence also shows that as few as two or three vaccine adjuvants, simultaneously administered, can overcome geneti ...
  • New Research Shows Gardasil, HPV Vaccine, Will ...
    In a recent essay, researchers have pointed out that there is a major discrepancy in claims regarding the safety and efficacy of HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.  One major concern is the claim that HPV vaccines are an important tool in preventing cervical cancer. But the efficacy of the ...
  • Who is Responsible for the Mother of All Herbi ...
    The USDA has prepared the way for approval of a new product from Dow Agrosciences -- a corn strain that can withstand Dow’s herbicide 2,4-D. The company plans to sell the corn to industrial farmers whose fields are choked with weeds that have developed resistance to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. ...
  • Why Does the Media Censor Vaccine Studies that ...
    Scientist Chris Shaw and his colleague Lucija Tomljenovic recently published a carefully researched and thoroughly peer reviewed paper on the topic of vaccine safety. But despite the cautious and professional tone of the paper, which describes possible causal links between vaccine adjuvants and ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Emerging Issues in International Humanitarian ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The cool place for international law this weekend will be Santa Clara Law School, out in Silicon Valley, whose Santa Clara Journal of International Law is hosting a conference on “Emerging Issues in International Humanitarian Law.” The eminen ...
  • Drumbl — Reimagining Child Soldiers
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Oxford University Press has just published my dear friend Mark Drumbl’s new book, “Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy.”  Here is the description: The international community’ ...
  • Julian Arato on the Eurozone Crisis and the Ge ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson (This is the second part of a guest post by Julian Arato, LLM candidate at NYU Law School; our thanks to him.  The first part can be found here.) In my last comment, I said that the 2009 decision in Lisbon looms like a specter over the Eurozone crisis.  ...
  • African Union may ask ICJ for opinion on Bashi ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Be careful what you wish for: The leaders at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa asked the chairperson of the pan-African body to consider moving the case of Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an opini ...
  • Significant Problems with the Gotovina Expert ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller It's rare that I defend the ICTY, but I feel compelled to do so here.  As discussed in this blog post by Laurie Blank, a group of experts in military law have released a report attacking the Trial Chamber's judgment in Prosecutor v. Gotovina for allegedly misapplying basic ...

Public News Service

  • Representantes de pequeños negocios a D.C ...
    Representantes de pequeños negocios a D.C. para proteger la cuenca del Río Colorado PHOENIX – Esta semana una delegación de representantes de pequeños negocios que dependen del Río Colorado para sostener empleos relacionados con el turismo y la recreación via ...
  • Small Business Reps Travel to DC to Protect Co ...
    Small Business Reps Travel to DC to Protect Colorado River Flows PHOENIX - Small-business people who depend on the Colorado River to support tourism- and recreation-related jobs traveled to Washington this week, promoting ideas to fix the imbalance between water supply and demand in the seven-st ...
  • Los arizonianos equiparan la conservación ...
    Los arizonianos equiparan la conservación con el crecimiento económico PHOENIX – Una nueva encuesta encontró que la mayoría de los arizonianos y otros habitantes al oeste de la Montaña Rocky piensan que los recursos naturales pueden ser protegidos sin dañar la ...
  • Poll: Arizonans Equate Conservation with Econo ...
    Poll: Arizonans Equate Conservation with Economic Growth PHOENIX - Nearly four in five Arizona voters see no conflict between conserving the state's natural resources and promoting a strong economy, according to a new Colorado College poll of people in six Rocky Mountain states. A majority of t ...
  • Proposed AZ Monument Shooting Ban Stirs Contro ...
    Proposed AZ Monument Shooting Ban Stirs Controversy PHOENIX - Recreational target shooting would be prohibited on the Sonoran Desert National Monument, southwest of Phoenix, under the preferred alternative of a draft 20-year management plan drawn up by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The p ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Calls On EPA Not To Bac ...
    Much Needed Inventory Would Identify Animal Factories’ Locations and Manure Management Practices, Allowing EPA To Begin Assessing Scope of National Threat To Water and Food Supplies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted comments strongly criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EP ...
  • Genetically Engineered Crops Will Not Feed The ...
    The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion ...
  • California Bill to Label GE Fish Fails
    AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...
  • Dow Chemical requests unprecedented USDA appro ...
    Dow Chemical is currently requesting an unprecedented USDA approval: a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological ...
  • FDA Bans Extra-Label Use Of Cephalosporin Drugs
    EXTRA-LABEL BAN A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MORE ACTION STILL NEEDED   The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for pre-releasing its long awaited prohibition on the extra-label use of cephalosporin drugs i ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • All Curled Up
    This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers.   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel  
  • 2012 Global Energy Prize Now Accepting Nominations
    The Global Energy Prize annually rewards innovation and solutions in global energy research and its concurrent environmental challenges.
  • Environmental News 22/12/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • One Moment Meditation
    Tips to take a moment for yourself This a great video for everyone who feels like they have no time to meditate. All you need is a 'moment', if you know what to do.Watch and try it for yourself! Video found on the Padre Ralph blog.   
  • Iguazu Falls
    The Iguazu Falls are located on the border of Brazil and Argentina and divide the Iguazu River into a high and a low part. You can visit the falls through two main towns: Puerto Iguazu in Argentina and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil. These falls are shared between two national parks: (glossary/wildlif ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Support a Palestinian Family Fighting to Stay ...
    Reprinted with permission from Mondoweiss. Written by Udi Aloni, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board. There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legisl ...
  • Winter at Salem: Music Center Annual Concert & ...
    The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...
  • Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh fr ...
    As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...
  • Six Common Misconceptions About Gaza That Are ...
    Reposted with permission from www.gazagateway.org In sixth place: “The civilian closure has been lifted and only security restrictions remain”. Gaza is not as isolated from the rest of the world as it was a few years ago, but it is still cut off from the West Bank and it’s hard to find convi ...
  • IDF Investigations: Will There Be Justice for ...
    IDF policy requires a criminal investigation be launched immediately when military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories cause death. But a defective system essentially ensures that the investigation will not be conducted in a fair and impartial manner, enabling soldiers to contin ...

Politics in the Zeros

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Interview with ‘Freeway Rick’ – The man ...
    Trymaine Lee Huffington Post - Nearly every night that “Freeway” Rick Ross spent in prison, the same nightmare filled his head: He and his crew are sitting around a table piled high with hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and more money than they could count. His Nicaraguan supplier is ...
  • Governors of Mexican Border States Investigate ...
    The real Mexican Drug War is a political war between the federal government, led by the National Action Party (PAN) and the state governments, mostly led by the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI). The most powerful drug cartel in Mexico (the Sinaloa Drug Cartel) has ties to the CIA and corr ...
  • Two More American Missionaries Murdered in Mexico
    Associated Press EL CERCADO, Mexico – (AP) — The bodies of John and Wanda Casias came one last time to the Baptist church they founded in a violence-plagued region of northern Mexico as mourners paid homage Thursday to the Texas couple who were discovered strangled in their home. Mor ...
  • Iran set up? NYPD document: Gather intel info ...
      NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police ...
  • UN panel says Retool World Economy for “ ...
    “Sustainability” seems to be a code world for all out global control. Of course the most influential will find a way to receive exemptions and special privileges in the market place, allowing the NWO to choose who fails and who succeeds in a “green” economy. Dont fall for ...

The Air Vent

  • D minus — below average.
    Accelerating warming failed again. I’ve been waiting for this post because we knew the sat channels had plunged. On reading his post, I learned that Dr. Roy Spencer’s daughter was involved in a serious car accident.  I hope everyone will send their regards.   H/T Doug Cotton.  
  • First Order Draft Release IPCC
    David Appell has released a copy of a FOD AR5 chapter. http://www.davidappell.com/AR5
  • Northern hemisphere non-Arctic sea ice
    Satellite sea ice measurements are comprised of terabytes of data over decades of time and multiple instruments. The literature on the topic is incomplete for those of us who don’t live in the field, yet far better than anything that paleomagicology has ever produced. In my recent sea ice ...
  • How to Form a Consensus
    The theme which started the URL of noconsensus, was that a consensus is an unnatural state for humanity. People disagree about everything under the Sun. Usually, disagreement is due to lack of information but we all know that many times it is about biased interpretation of information. The only ...
  • Getting Warmer
    Change you can believe in.  I’ve wondered often why the assumption of a large Climate Science™ body is so against warmer weather.  As many here are noting, I do understand that CO2 will absolutely warm the planet.  Still I am more skeptical than many as to whether that warmi ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook brings back games discovery module
    Some users are once again seeing the “Discover New Games” module in the right sidebar of Facebook. The Discover New Games module highlights games a user’s friend is playing or that are otherwise popular. This time around it includes a … Continue reading →
  • Facebook likely to reject traditional mobile a ...
    With mobile growth outpacing overall monthly active user growth, Facebook knows how critical it will be to monetize its mobile users. But for the company that has long shunned traditional types of advertising, the solution is not as simple as … Continue reading →
  • Facebook career postings: engineering, communi ...
    Facebook posted several engineering positions between its Careers page and LinkedIn feed this week. The positions ranged from data to developer to security and platform. The company also posted positions for sales, marketing, legal, communications and policy positions in Italy, as well as &#8230 ...
  • Facebook hires and departures: data centers, e ...
    Facebook seems to have eliminated many of its university intern positions this week. Many of the jobs were listed in early December and more than a dozen of the positions disappeared this week. They could have been filled, but it … Continue reading →
  • Facebook groups get Timeline-like cover photos
    Some Facebook groups now have cover photos, making them more consistent with the new Timeline design. The default image is a collage of the group members’ profile photos, which link to individual profiles. The image is slightly transparent, but colors … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Palestinians need high calibre leaders - urgently
    Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian "President" Mahmoud Abbas's recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration's public relations incompetence and argues: "If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole move ...
  • BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews s ...
    Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated th ...
  • Democratic elections in the Middle East: why t ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the historical, cultural and political reasons behind the triumph of Islamist parties in democratic elections in Tunisia and Egypt, and the ignorance, the stereotyping and the shallow, inaccurate analyses of the phenomenon displayed by US media and politicians.
  • Israelis bulldoze Palestinian home without war ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...
  • Stop Britain’s pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “There is one modern political writer who saw very clearly that military centralization is helpful in undermining a federal republic. His name was Adolf Hitler. Chapter 10 of Volume II of Mein Kampf, which is devoted to an indictment of German Federalism as an obstacle to ...
  • The Decision-Makers-of-Wars & ‘You’
    It is More Like ‘Them’ vs. ‘You’ The Decision-Makers-of-Wars have decided to end one in 2013. That is, after twelve years, after they made the decision to make that war in the first place. No talk of terrorists, wins, or liberation – no more. At least on that one. Same as the other one. Th ...
  • National “Defense” & the Departmen ...
    Time to Rename the Defense Department the War Department? The U.S. Congress created the Department of War in 1789.  One hundred and sixty years later, in 1949, it became the Department of Defense.  The various factors involved in the name change likely included fatigue with death and destruction ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Every war in which the United States has engaged since 1815 was waged in the name of democracy. Each has contributed to that centralization of power which tends to destroy that local self-government which is what most Americans have in mind when they acclaim democracy.&# ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    What is the Nature of Power? How does power function? What are the effects of power? Is it necessary? This episode seeks to introduce the listener to some thoughts on the concept of power, in both the concentration of it on one hand, and the lack of it on the other. Power can be concentrated [...]

Afro Spear

  • Byts and Bytes
    His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men
  • About Africa
    “The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...
  • Boko Haram: The New (Black) African Al-Qaeda?
    I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...
  • “The US Plan to Destabilize Sudan” ...
    As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. To start with, the US pays the salaries for the Sudan Peoples L ...
  • The Spell of the Albino
    From Aljazeera English: Africa Investigates  

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • GROUNDHOG DAY: We Have Our 'Phil' of the Winter
    America loves Punxsutawney Phil. And, Pennsylvania loves Gus, the second most famous groundhog. BUT the Pennsylvania Game Commission considers the species to be a nusiance. Hunters shoot groundhogs in "open season." But, there's a better way than killing them.
  • The Choice: Fear Or Love
    Our nation has become very fearful since 9/11, belying our 'home of the brave' anthem, and leading to a more repressive and restricted society. The only way to counter fear is through love, and the only way to counter a fearful society is by becoming loving and compassionate. This requires a b ...
  • Here Comes Al-Qaeda 2.0
    The CIA - who fathered Al-Qaeda during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's - has been up to its old tricks again in Libya, & now Syria, & is in the process of spawning another, similar, ill-begotten offspring.
  • Let's Prosecute These Perps
    The Bush administration made it possible for Pharmaceuticals to access our children. Crimes against humanity have been commited and monetary judgements are all that have been imposed. It is time to bring this group of criminals to justice, starting with Texas, where it all began.
  • The Real Economic Picture
    These graphs, courtesy of John Williams, make it completely clear that there is no economic recovery. In place of recovery, we have hype from politicians, Wall Street, and the presstitute media.

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,  long after the skies had cleared and the day was beautiful, the ocean would be polluted -- so polluted that it was dangerous for my bro ...
  • Worst Transportation Bill Ever (Video Version)
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C.
  • Friends Don't Let Friends Drill and Drive
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Sometimes a party can get out of hand. Case in point: The Republican Party in the House of Representatives showed too little self-control by loading up a transportation bill with extreme ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Nevermind My Optimism
    I know I’ve been expressing some optimism about November in recent posts. But forget about it. A total game-changer means we should all give up on reelecting Barack Obama. Apparently gluttons for more movie critic punishment, the producers of the first Atlas Shrugged movie have announced t ...
  • You’re Right — It *Was* a “M ...
    For an object lesson about why it infuriates me when the Dana Milbanks of the world assume that the forced pregnancy lobby has some sort of monopoly on assessing morality, see here.    Forcing your mentally disabled daughter to bear her rapist’s child without her input (let alone consent,) ...
  • Union-Busting Hits the Midwest
    Kilgore: Yesterday, with Gov. Mitch Daniels’ signature, Indiana became the 23d state, and the very first (other than Indiana itself during a brief period ending in 1965) in the industrial northeast and midwest, to enact “right-to-work” legislation—or as folk in the labor movement call it, a “rig ...
  • Stigma and Silence
    In his book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, the sociologist Erving Goffman makes a distinction between virtual social identity and actual social identity. A person’s virtual social identity is made up of those attributes which are assumed by others to be a normal part of one ...
  • And the Empire Crumbled, ’til All that W ...
    Argentines getting twitchy: Fast forward to 2012, the 30th anniversary of the war. Prince William, a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot, is flying to the Falklands tonight to begin a six-week mission as Britain prepares to dispatch an advanced warship to the islands, prompting Argentina’s Fo ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.
  • Experience of a Visiting Scholar
    What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
  • DRI Scientist Earns Fifth Patent
    Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.
  • Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
    Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...
  • Truckee River Fund Supports DRI’s Integrated W ...
    DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Which metrics matter most?
    Firms need to avoid less productive metrics like non-billable hours and start measuring hours spent on business development, follow-up frequency and quality touches with centers of influence.
  • Chinese prosecutors will hone their craft in A ...
    Some Chinese prosecutors will soon be learning the ins and outs of the American criminal justice system, under a partnership between Emory University School of Law and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's KoGuan Law School.
  • No quick trial for ex-Nixon Peabody partner in ...
    A former securities partner at Nixon Peabody who was fired while under investigation for allegedly falsifying documents as part of a Ponzi scheme will have to go to trial in October, despite the pleas by his attorney to expedite the proceedings.
  • 9th Circuit countermands order to unseal Prop. ...
    A federal appellate panel ruled on Feb. 2 that a San Francisco judge abused his discretion by ordering the release of a video recording of the trial over California's Proposition 8, saying that he ignored a promise upon which supporters of the ban on gay marriage relied.
  • PhoneDog's amended claims over ownership of Tw ...
    Who owns a Twitter account — the person who used it or the company for which he worked at the time? That question has yet to be resolved, but a federal magistrate judge has allowed several claims by PhoneDog LLC against a former independent contractor over a Twitter account to move forward.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • A Letter from the Responsible Drilling Allianc ...
    Responsible Drilling Alliance Newsletter Fooled Again Februrary 2nd, 2012  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear RDA Members,   Minus a last minute miracle, an incredible shift in the course of the future of Pennsylvania is about to occur. With the Governor set to unveil his vers ...
  • Corbett Administration Cuts Funds
    I heard this piece from State Impact PA (WITF/NPR) this morning on my drive to work. Corbett wants to make decisions about gas drilling based on facts, not emotional…and then his administration goes and cuts the funding for research that provides just the sort of facts he is talking about. ...
  • It’s Like We’re Losing Our Love…
    This video documents Simona Perry’s research on the emotional and traumatic effects of the natural gas drilling, specifically in Bradford County, PA. http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=689293c50f404f12b8c628b8f2285780
  • Hydraulic Fracking the Propaganda and Truth
    I know I’ve been away from this blog for a while now but it looks like folks are still finding it. The following link was passed on to me, and good for a few laughs despite the depressing topic, and I just had to pass it along. Enjoy and share! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZptKESRzio&#3 ...
  • Shale Gas Drilling Photos
    The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening.  Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Road-based Charging Network Could Charge EVs W ...
    U.S. researchers have designed a wireless charging system for electric vehicles they say could ultimately lead to all-electric highways capable of charging cars and Click to enlarge Sven Beiker/CARS/Stanford University Wireless electric car charger trucks as they drive down the road. The ...
  • Harsh Roadside Environments Creating Hardy Sal ...
    The old adage — “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” — seems to apply to salamanders evolving to survive in contaminated environments near roads. Yale University researcher Steven Brady compared Steven Brady/Yale University A spotted salamander salamanders breeding in roadside ponds ...
  • Wide Variety of Threats Wiping Out World’s Big ...
    A litany of environmental threats, from forest fragmentation and logging to climate change and disease, are wiping out the world’s biggest trees, according to a published report. In forest ecosystems worldwide, research shows that giant trees have become particularly vulnerable to a changing env ...
  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in ...
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...
  • Fishing ‘Free-for-All’ Decimating South Pacifi ...
    Years of lax oversight, corruption, and political rivalry have allowed industrial fishing fleets from Asia, Europe, and Latin America to decimate fish stocks across the southern Pacific, a “free-for-all” that has pushed one Getty Images A Peruvian fishmeal factory critical species to the ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Ira ...
    During a broadcasted meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director, panel Chairperson indicate they met Tamir Pardo in Washington this week; U.S. official: Iran willing to attack U.S. targets if threatened. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo held secret talks with top U.S. officials ...
  • WikiLeaks Appeals To Maritime Law?
    In a bid to keep its servers out of the hands of global juridiction and evade prosecution, WikiLeaks is allegedly looking into ways to relocate the servers to offshore data centres. Wikileaks’ servers have been based in many different countries such as France, Iceland and Sweden, and while the a ...
  • Illinois reactor suffers shutdown, steam conta ...
    Operators at Byron Generating Station [around 110 miles from Chicago] declared an Unusual Event at 10:18 a.m.CT, due to the loss of offsite power and Unit 2 coming offline. The nuclear facility’s diesel generators activated as designed to provide power to the facility when there is a loss of off ...
  • NASA probe discovers ’alien’ matter from beyon ...
    For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today."This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of - it’s really important ...
  • Does China’s Cat-Eyed Boy Really Have Night Vi ...
    According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat’s, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flashlight, and his night vision is good enough to enable him to fill out questionnaires while sitting in a pitch black ...

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • Ayn Rand SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Let me first begin with how I was exposed to Ayn Rand. I am in high school and a while back my teacher was doing a course on homelessness. In a ‘prompt’ that she gave me which was what are the causes of homelessness I answered CAPITALISM. A week later I was astonished to get [...]
  • By defunding Planned Parenthood, Komen Breast ...
    Is the all-things-pink breast cancer impresario bowing to Right-wing anti-abortion pressure in pulling their financial support for low-income breast exams provided by Planned Parenthood? That a nonprofit industry heavyweight like the Komen Foundation would shift its emphasis from helping the poo ...
  • Bay Area police mentality
    Park ranger shoots man with stun gun for walking dogs off-leash This authoritarian mentality is becoming more common everywhere across the US unfortunately.
  • New Lessons from the Oakland Occupy Movement
    The tactics nationally of the Occupy Movement have led to the continuing demobilization of this once broadly popular effort to kindle opposition to current ruling Establishment politics. Several comments by participants in Oakland Occupy’s recent engagements with the police there shed ligh ...
  • National demonstrations to stop US-NATO war ag ...
    This Saturday, there will be a national mobilization of the remaining elements of the US Antiwar Movement in demonstrations calling for an end to the US-NATO attack against Iran. Why do I call the people concerned with stopping this aggression ‘the remaining elements’? Simply put, it ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • FAQ # 2: What about the planes that slammed in ...
    Written by Adam Taylor [Response to attempted debunking of this article] ae911truth.org Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:21 We first frame the issue by noting that the answer to this question does not negate the evidence that the Towers were destroyed through controlle ...
  • FAQ #9: Why does AE911Truth Represent Only a S ...
    Written by John-Michael Talboo ae911truth.org Wednesday, 14 December 2011 16:03 Q. Isn’t it true that the signatories at AE911Truth represent only a small percentage of all architects and engineers worldwide? Regardless of the hundreds of architects and engineer ...
  • FAQ # 8: What Caused the Ejections of Dust and ...
    Written by AE911Truth [Including contributions by John-Michael Talboo] Thursday, 08 December 2011 13:36 Images like this one reveal that the squibs were not merely puffs of air, as they have the same hue and consistency as pulverized solid building materials ...
  • Please Read What I Actually Wrote Before Sayin ...
    James B. of Screw Loose Change recently commented on my FAQ article posted at AE911Truth and, surprise surprise, he wasn't very impressed. He says the claims in my article are "ironic (and moronic)," but the real irony here is that he clearly didn't carefully read what I wrote. So, what are Jame ...
  • JREFers acknowledge the nanothermite hypothesi ...
    It seems after almost three years, the debunkers are finally putting up. Chris Mohr has found a scientist willing to independently test the findings of Harrit et al: Here is my official request for funds to analyze the WTC dust. To summarize, after three months of investigating this, the best pe ...

Fooducate

  • Will a Daily Diet Coke Lead You to a Stroke?
    Yesterday we talked about the potentially addictive properties of sugar and the extreme public policy measures suggested by some scientists to reduce America’s sugar consumption. One solution already exists – artificial sweeteners. To many a dieter, aspartame and friends are the perf ...
  • Alcoholic. Junkie. Sugar Addict ??
    There are some people who can’t resist sugary treats. We say they have a sweet tooth. But pretty soon, we may be calling them “sugar addicts”. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have published a position paper in Nature entitled Public health: The toxic ...
  • Frito Lay Gets Sued. Increasing Pressure to La ...
    Frito Lays is being used in New York by a man who claims he was duped to paying more for product labeled “All Natural” when in fact they are not: In the proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court, plaintiff Chris Shake said the snacks actually contain corn and oils ...
  • About that Plastic Used to Package Your Food
    Plastic is everywhere:  In our homes, in our schools, in our kids’ toys, even in the pens we inadvertently chew on. Plastic is also in landfills. About 85% is never recycled! Plastic is how the food industry packages a sizeable percentage of our food. Have you ever noticed the markings on the pa ...
  • Carbs: The Good, the Bad, and the Debatable
    A recent article in the Chicago Tribune, Good Carb, Bad Carb, caught our eye because of its title “Good Carbs, Bad Carbs”. Carbohydrates, to remind you are one of the three macronutrients making up almost all foods, alongside with fat and protein. Over the years both fats and carbs h ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Palast on C-Span's BookTV
    Check out CSPAN TV schedule listings here. From CSPAN- Greg Palast presents his investigation of the BP oil spill and talks about the corruption he says permeates the oil industry, the financial sector, and government. This event, held at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Maryland, is hosted ...
  • The Pig in the XL PipelineInsider reveals conc ...
    For Firedoglake by Greg Palast “They threatened me. Last night I got a call and they threatened me. If I talked.” “Pig Man #2,” a pipeline industry insider, had a good reason to be afraid.  He was about to blow the whistle on a fraud, information that could blow away the XL Keystone Pipeline ...
  • XL Keystone - The Pig in the PipelineThe GOP i ...
    by Greg Palast President Obama just nixxed the permit for the XL Keystone Pipeline for now.  But - and this is one big but - he's talking about authorizing other pipelines to replace the XL. Look out! In my investigation for UK's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, our team disclosed information ...
  • No Child Behind Left
    By Greg Palast This month marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of No Child Left Behind. Before George W. Bush invaded Iraq he knew he would have to invade our classrooms first. While the occupation of Iraq has ended the brutal occupation of our classrooms by the Forces of Stupid remains. ...
  • My Declaration of War on Christmas
    by Greg Palast Click on the image to watch the segment I don't usually watch Today or any American TV because my reports appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation, a network run by highly-educated America-haters. But there I was, last Friday, in this hotel room in Atlanta, a city preten ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle margarine tub lids/ ...
    Whitney has emailed us, asking about margarine tub lids: i’m trying to do my part and make sure that i recycle everything that i can, or at least find a way to reuse it. i recycle my #5 containers of cream cheese, margarine, etc, but have nothing to do with the lids, which even if [...]
  • Listed buildings & green issues: what are your ...
    (This isn’t strictly a recycling issue but I was thinking about it the other day and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter!) A few miles down the road from me is a village called Saltaire. It is a Victorian model village founded by a local mill owner (Sir Titus Salt) so his [...]
  • How can I reuse/use up really, really old coff ...
    I mentioned in passing on my simple/frugal living blog that we’re having our kitchen ceiling replastered at the moment. Ahead of the plasterer starting on Monday, we had to tidy off all the work surfaces and tops of cupboards – quite a challenge for hoarders like us with many, many c ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic handicap ca ...
    Ages and ages ago on the Suggest An Item page, Carolyn asked about reusing handicap parking tags – but I missed it until Raynor recently comment last week. Sorry – not sure how it slipped by me! Anyway, better late than never, Carolyn asked: Every two years my husband’s blue handicap ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leftover chips?
    Mari has emailed asking about leftover chips – as in English chips eaten hot, thick fries not potato chips/crisps – saying her family nearly always have “eyes bigger than their bellies” when they order fish’n'chips and end up with some leftovers: Good thick chips no ...

Age of Autism

  • The New York Miracle Book Tour and Seven Keys ...
    Leave a comment to win one of 5 copies of Seven Keys to Unlock Autism. Our friend Dr. Stephen Shore wrote the foreword. THE MIRACLE PROJECT PRESENTS I HEART AUTISM: The New York Miracle Book Tour With Elaine Hall &...
  • Tics and Toxins: Similar Case in County Near L ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill BATH, N.Y., February 3 – “I’ve always been a fighter,” Bryan Tremblay says, and that’s not just a metaphor. Now 35 but still a slight 112 pounds at 5 foot 1, he was a...
  • Why Do Autism "Experts" Know So Little? The DS ...
    By Anne Dachel Experts know NOTHING about autism. NOTHING. Not the cause or the cure. They’re not sure what the current rate is since the last time they updated the numbers was three years ago but it was based on...
  • The Case Against the Whittemores and the Impor ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. The Reno Gazette-Journal and the Las Vegas Review Journal are both reporting that Harvey and Annette Whittemore, founders of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Diseases at the University of Nevada/Reno have been sued by their former...
  • National Autism Association Exclusive: Designs ...
    Our friends at National Autism Association and Designs by Ja9 have given us three of these beautiful necklaces for our readers. Leave a comment to enter. We'll draw the winner on Saturday. Good luck! In the meantime, purchase your necklaces...

Global BDS Movement

  • No title
    BDS National Committee S. on Dipity.
  • Point Counterpoint: Aim to Promote Human Right ...
    Coming together to push forward an inclusive movement that supports nonviolent action to promote the human rights of the Palestinian people, because only full respect for these rights can lead to peace.
  • Stop the Jewish National Fund Greenwashing
    The Jewish National Fund has designated Sunday 5th February as ‘Green Sunday’, when it encourages people to donate money to ‘plant trees in Israel’.
  • Divestment debate continues
    Stanford Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER) hosted a divestment campaign event Wednesday evening in the Oak Lounge at Tresidder, attended by approximately 30 Stanford students, affiliates and community members
  • Jewish Voice for Peace Statement on BDS
    JVP has grown dramatically in size and influence in the past two years. As part of the ongoing assessment sparked by this growth, JVP reviewed its BDS policy.

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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Greece: 60,000 shops to shut down
    Ekathimerini – About 160,000 jobs will be lost this year in the commerce sector, according to the National Confederation of Greek Commerce (ESEE) as the constant decline in disposable income has led to a sharp drop in turnover and a steep rise in the number of enterprises shutting down. Re ...
  • Venezuela passes anti-terrorism law; critics w ...
    Washington Post – Venezuela’s congress has approved a law aimed at fighting organized crime and terrorism, though opposition lawmakers say they fear it could be used to crack down on dissent. Lawmakers allied with President Hugo Chavez say the “Law Against Organized Crime and Terrorism Fin ...
  • Sugar as Dangerous as Alcohol and Tobacco?
    abc – Is sugar as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco? One group of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, says so. And they are urging a tax on sugary treats and some action by the government to get Americans to cut back on sugar. In an editorial published today in the ...
  • Chinese rebel village votes in symbolic election
    Reuters – Residents of Wukan village in China’s Guangdong province turn out for election after months of turmoil over corruption and illegal land grabs. Read article
  • Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of ...
    Haaretz – All of Iran’s nuclear faculties are vulnerable to a military strike, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday, calling the potential of a nuclear Iran a “nightmare to the free world.” Read Article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
  • Luxury with an ecosan toilet
    Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.
  • From lack to abundance
    Today, Selvi is extremely pleased with the construction of the water tap at her home! Now, she collects enough water for her family without any difficulty.
  • Give a Recurring Gift
    Thirsting to make a DIFFERENCE this year? Sign up for a recurring donation. Every month you can transform the life of someone without safe water.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam t ...
    A crafty state senator has done something so wonderful that we should all be cheering while simultaneously smacking our foreheads, because why didn't we think of this earlier? The hero in question is Virginia senator Janet Howell. The Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   No ...
  • Is Israel on the road to self-destruction?
    One very well informed and courageous Israeli who thinks the answer is Yes is Merav Michaeli, a radio and television presenter who also writes for Haaretz. She is completely without fear when it comes to telling it like it is. On 2 January this year, f Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World ...
  • The Canada Party--America But Better
    As so many C2 members enjoyed the other Canada Party video I thought I'd add this one as well. So with a little humor from our northern neighbors who also laugh at their own faults here it is. Submitted by Dandelion G. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Take Down The Tea Party Ten: Unfit to serve
    Every one of these actual, elected representatives to the United States Congress have voted to redefine rape, to gut the Clean Air Act, to reject the science of climate change, to let women die, and to abolish Medicare. Racist, sexist, anti science, crazy Submitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics ...
  • Jimmy Carter unveils truth about Israel
    And the truth shall set them free. Wake Up America. Submitted by Barbara W. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • AMERICA'S SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM, A WEB OF FINA ...
    Ellen Brown The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the “robo-signing” scandal. The scandal involves employees signing names not their o ...
  • The Armenian Genocide
    by Stephen Lendman Raphael Lemkin defined genocide as: "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" that corresponds to other terms like "tyrannicide, homicide, infanticide, etc." (It) does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings....It ...
  • Israeli Settlements: An Obstacle to Peace
    by Stephen Lendman Netanyahu's Likud Party platform says the following about Palestinian self-determination: Unilaterally establishing a Palestinian state "will constitute a fundamental and substantive violation of the agreements with the State of Israel and the scuttling of the Oslo and Wye a ...
  • Violence Rages in Libya
    by Stephen Lendman Occupied Libya isn't pretty. Libya SOS said its government "recognize(d) the presence of the forces belonging to 14 different nationalities in the country under the umbrella of the training, assistance and advice." In mid-January, 12,000 US troops sent to Malta readied to oc ...
  • NPR and PBS Anti-Iranian Propaganda
    by Stephen Lendman Both National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting serve corporate and imperial interests. They're called public to conceal their agenda. Critics ridicule NPR as National Pentagon or Petroleum Radio for good reason. It's true as well for PBS. Calling it Propaganda Publ ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Education is a public good
    Hundreds of students across the province came together on February 1st for the Canadian Federation of Students' Day of Action to protest Nova Scotia’s continuing erosion of funding for higher education.  The average Nova Scotian graduate leaves university with $30,000 in accumulated de ...
  • Resources on pension reform and Old Age Security
    Last week Prime Minister Harper signaled possible cuts to Canada's pension programs, namely Old Age Security benefits for middle- and lower-income seniors. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has produced several resources on pension reform, including analysis of the possible plan to rai ...
  • What economic recovery?
    We've all heard political leaders boast that the Canadian economy has fully recovered from the recession and that the recession was not as severe in Canada as in other countries. It turns out that both of those claims are false because they don't take population growth into consideration. Canad ...
  • Infographic visualizes rising income inequalit ...
    Income inequality has been getting worse in Canada, rising at a faster pace than it has been in the U.S. The inequality is being driven by what’s happening at the very top of the income spectrum: the richest of the rich are breaking away from the rest of us. CCPA's latest infographic illustrate ...
  • University students more than repay tuition co ...
    Our new study released today shows that BC university graduates fully repay the cost of their tuition through taxes after graduation. University graduates in most cases earn more than those without degrees, and therefore pay more taxes. If post-graduation taxes were considered as tuition payment ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Sen. Sanders to Komen: “Put Women’s Health Bef ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders is among nearly two dozen senators who are calling upon Susan G. Komen for Women’s Health for the Cure to reconsider its politically motivated decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.  Last year alone, grants from Komen provided Planned Parenthood with roughly $650, ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Abusive
         By Dr.Woody,Worldwidehippies – Earlier today I was led to recall and reread a piece I wrote on my “Well-Armed Lamb” blog back in 2007 (Oct. 31, precisely). The following is a slightly amended version of it. At some campaign event (in 2007), Senator (and incipient President ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) What was in that orange ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – It’s the day after the Fla. Republican primary as I write this. I’m writing at 9 in the morning before I listen to any of the paid yakkers spin and try to out clever each other. I don’t want to be influenced even a teeny bit by their nonstop “smarts ...
  • Rented Protesters in Chicago, Presidential Hyp ...
    By blackagendareport.com - A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What’s three years of crusading against public schools and their teachers, three years of anti-democratic corporate school reform compared to a couple paragraphs in a presidential State of the ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Free the Weed Updates
    New debate: When is medical marijuana “usable?” By Jeff Barnard Associated Press – ROGUE RIVER, Ore.—When police knocked on Josh Brewer’s door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation’s most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test. Officers were fin ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Electric Cars & Overpopulation — R-Squared Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on the future of electric cars, and the global population, which many feel is the root of so many problems. Some of the topics discussed are: When electric cars might be expected t ...
  • Refinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices an ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the East Coast. Some of those closures have been on the East Coast. Others &# ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 9 – Energy Tradeo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...
  • Are President Obama’s Policies Causing U.S. Oi ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my r ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • From Farm to Table, Via the Web
    There's a reason farmer's markets are so popular: They provide local food direct from the grower, along with ample opportunity to talk to that grower about how the food was grown, whether any pesticides were used, and how his or her animals are treated. The downside? They shut down when it gets ...
  • What You Need to Know About Fried Foods
    "Fried foods don't cause heart disease!" "Fried foods are healthy!" The headlines about a new study from Spain were hard to miss this week, after researchers there announced that they were unable to find a link between eating fried food and an increased risk of heart disease. The research, pub ...
  • How 300 Chemicals Can Infiltrate Your Baby's N ...
    Good indoor air quality is crucial for a healthy home. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemicals in gas form that can cause respiratory irritation and cancer, and make your hormones go out of whack, can waft out of furniture and cabinetry glues, carpet adhesives, furniture finishes, and pain ...
  • The Secret to Boosting Vitamin D Levels All Winter
    Vitamin D is a wonder vitamin that seems to cure a whole host of ailments. Research has linked the vitamin, which comes from sunlight, seafood, and mushrooms, to lower rates of cancer, bone fractures, diabetes, heart disease, and even anxiety and depression. However, with all the time we spend ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Easy, Healthy Homemade Pre ...
    Pennsylvania is the pretzel capitol of the U.S.—literally, four-fifths of the pretzels you buy in stores are baked here—so we know our pretzels. We didn’t invent them. They came over from Germany and surrounding areas with the Pennsylvania Dutch (Dutch actually was a misspelling of Deutsche i.e ...

big think

  • What's the Best Degree for Entrepreneurs?
    What's the Latest Development? Individuals with advanced engineering degrees may be more successful entrepreneurs than MBA graduates, according to a new online survey. The business blog Identified combed its Facebook Rolodex and found that engineering post-graduates outnumbered MBA grads ...
  • Innovative Start Up Challenges 'Big Cell'
    What's the Latest Development? A start up mobile phone company is refining a business model it believes can challenge the dominance of major cell phone carriers. Called Republic Wireless, the North Carolina-based firm offers unlimited voice, text, and data service for $19 per month, with ...
  • Caravaggio, Mad Marketing Genius.
    Andrew Graham-Dixon, who has been called “the most gifted art critic of his generation,” revisits the scandalous, sensational life of Italian painter Caravaggio and finds in it one model for success in troubled times.   What’s the Big Idea? It is a keen i ...
  • Caravaggio is Italy Incarnate
    Italy, says Joseph Luzzi, is a chiaroscuro nation – a land of sharp contrasts. Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard College and the award-winning author of The Blessed Lens: A History of Italian Cinema, calls Caravaggio – the "incarnation" of Italy's dualistic spirit. Caravaggio's work ...
  • The 2012 Election as Technology Showcase
    The Obama White House, as measured by its willingness to embrace new technology platforms on a rolling basis, is perhaps the most innovative in history. This week’s Google+ Hangout with the President – essentially an FDR fireside chat updated for the Internet era viewable by millions on YouTu ...

Information Liberation

  • Gingrich Staffers Attack Ron Paul Supporter in ...
    Yahoo News reports that Newt Gingrich staffers stomped on the flip-flop-wearing feet of a sign-toting Ron Paul supporter in Windermere, a small town outside of Orlando: Noticing the awkward optics, Gingrich aides and security personnel swarmed Dil...
  • Former CIA Agent Charged Under Espionage Act F ...
    In a recent ruling by the Justice Department, former CIA agent John Kiriakou was charged with four felony counts of espionage for discussing the torture involved in CIA's interrogation program with reporters. Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains th...
  • Memphis Police Delete Photographer's Cell Phon ...
    MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - If you are on a public street and take pictures or video of Memphis Police with your cell phone, you could end up in the back of a squad car and your pictures could be deleted. ABC 24 News photographer Casey Monroe said ...
  • Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating ...
    The Department of Justice has filed a brief siding with the RIAA in its civil case against the file-sharing student Joel Tenenbaum.The RIAA is protesting a demand from the student*s legal team, who want the court to reduce the massive $675,000 fine o...
  • Pirate Bay Founders* Prison Sentences Final, S ...
    A few moments ago Sweden*s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay criminal trial. This means that the previously determined jail sentences and fines handed out to Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Go...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →
  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →
  • Waste Not, Want Not
    A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →
  • A Few Days Yet
    G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...
  • Post mortem breast implants
    When you leave your body to medical science you might imagine some marvellous discovery among your organs and tissues that leads researchers to the wondrous discovery of a universal anticancer drug or something equally stupendous. In reality, it can be a much more mundane, especially for any wom ...
  • Deodorants still don’t cause breast cancer
    It was perhaps inevitable that a paper published in the journal Journal of Applied Toxicology that showed parabens (a preservative used in underarm deodorants and countless other products) to be present in breast cancer tissue samples would be grabbed by the tabloids and others and turned into t ...
  • Alchemist Chemistry News
    The Alchemist learns how to manipulate tiny polystyrene beads with a set of micro-tweezers this week and spots the smoking gun in forensics using capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity. In the world of chemophobia has asked why parabens are still the focus of research int ...
  • Shape of snowflakes
    On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Save On Meets Opposition
    DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE - Members of the DTES Not For Developers Coalition have raked a local restaurateur over the coals. Mark Brand, owner of several upscale venues including Save On Meats, showed up at a Coalition planning session at Carnegie Community  Centre today. Brand stars in an Oprah Ne ...
  • ATU Early Morning Picket
    Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - With backed up traffic along the MacDonald bridge as their backdrop, members of ATU local 508 and their supporters this morning staged their first strike rally at the Dartmouth Transit Terminal. ...
  • Freedom for Leonard Peltier by John Graham
    in the context of an international rally in support of Leonard Peltier (february 4th) for more info : http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/04FebSolidarity.htm http://www.grahamdefense.org/ Original Peoples
  • All Out Audio
    Sounds from the Student Day of Action in Halifax Halifax, Nova Scotia - Over 1,000 students and their allies owned downtown Halifax today, protesting the January 5th announcement by the provincial NDP government that it had come to an agree ...
  • All Out February 1st - Over 1,000 Take to Hali ...
    The following text is graciously reproduced from the original work "Education Is A Right!", which appears in its entirety at www.cpcml.ca. On February 1, students across Canada will demonstrate for the right to educati ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The sustainable future beckons: an all purpose ...
    David Seaton's News Linksphoto credit to जरा खाजवा की डोक For me this image is pure poetry, it suggests so many things about our world and even about our human nature: the smile of the driver, the people riding snug and dry in the cab, the no nonsense expression on the little bullock's face. ...
  • Thomas Friedman and the hangman
    David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...
  • Barack Obama: a parenthesis between Bush and G ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWho knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics? Maureen Dowd - New York TimesWhy does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Christian Science MonitorGingr ...
  • Goodbye to Etta James
    Too many leaving too fast! DS
  • SOPA + PIPA (additional reading)
    David Seaton's News LinksIf nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Report: Military Warns Israel Against Iran Strike
    File this dispatch from Gareth Porter under "interesting if true": Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to ...
  • Quote of the Day: "Democrats Piss Me Off"
    From Kent, a Republican caucusgoer in Nevada, explaining to Dave Weigel why he hates Democrats: If you're a Democrat, you are my enemy. Democrats piss me off. They've gotten extremely socialistic. Every time they get in, they raise taxes. They screw things up. I've got a jeep I've had for t ...
  • Making Sense Out of the New York Times
    Felix Salmon is puzzled. So am I. Here is Ken Doctor reporting on the success of the New York Times paywall, which was put in place last year and has since attracted 390,000 subscribers: It took about 12 seconds for Times’ readers to figure out the new subscription math, when the comp ...
  • Super PACs Are Already Yesterday's News
    A couple of day ago I linked to Adam Skaggs asking Congress to change the ridiculous campaign fundraising rules that allow Super PACs to coordinate with campaigns even though it's supposedly strictly forbidden. Today, Rick Hasen says that Super PACs are yesterday's news: Right after Citizen ...
  • Nation-Building vs. Al-Qaeda-Crushing in Afgha ...
    Matt Steinglass on our decade-long nation-building mission in Afghanistan: Nothing in my life has made me as pessimistic about development aid as the course of the American intervention in Afghanistan…I think I've seen figures showing that foreign aid was actually greater than the co ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 301: The Urban Radio Fluff Job
    Topics: Its Black History Month and Kriss & Kev don”t care Don Cornelius goes to the big soul train in the sky Kriss realizes he may be a sociopath February movie rundown Every role for a young black actor comes to Bow Wow first Arizona wants to allow guns on campus Drake apologizes t ...
  • IC 300: This Is Sparta
    Topics: *There were issues with saving the show so audio quality is lower than normal* Kriss, Kev & Karen list out different people and things that they want to Sparta Kick The list include: George Lucas Nurses People who don’t tip Tyler Perry Wire Bras and many more Share with your f ...
  • IC 299: Racial Free Agent
    Topics: Red Tails is not a good movie Black people’s fear of not supporting Kriss wants to be traded in the racial draft Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe Jay-Z inspires black fathers? Feminista Jones on Open Marriages and relationship advice MLK on a strip club flyer Great moments in White P ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Mark Wahlberg
    Mark Wahlberg is one of today’s biggest action movie stars, but as he sees it, his heroism doesn’t end at a film’s credits. Instead, he fancies himself a real badass off screen, too. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, Wahlberg says that world history would have been d ...
  • IC 298: Nuking Bridges
    Topics: Brian White wants you to watch shitty movies Quality over Quantity when it comes to black movies Bad movies don’t put good actors on SOPA: Why old people shouldn’t make laws Keep your kids off of social media Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.
  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.
  • The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
    After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.
  • Warming puts species on collision course
    Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.
  • The world’s New Year’s resolution: ...
    Tense negotiations in South Africa in December laid a path for controlling greenhouse gas emissions across the world, and with those emissions and average temperatures controlling for short-term fluctuations reaching highs in 2010, we should encourage and help efforts to make controls law.

e!Science News

  • How to tell apart the forgetful from those at ...
    It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), and identification of these people would mean that they could ...
  • Elevated glucose associated with undetected he ...
    A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. Researchers found that elevated levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), a marker ...
  • Scripps research scientists demonstrate effect ...
    Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) -- breakaway cells from patients' solid tumors -- from cancer ...
  • Scientists coax shy microorganisms to stand ou ...
    The communities of marine microorganisms that make up half the biomass in the oceans and are responsible for half the photosynthesis the world over, mostly remain enigmatic. A few abundant groups have had their genomes described, but the natures and functions of the rest remain mysterious. read ...
  • Google Earth ocean terrain receives major update
    Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA researchers and many other ocean mapping groups from around the world. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
    Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...
  • The folly of making perfection the enemy of ex ...
    Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...
  • Saludos desde Mataelpino
    I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...
  • Burning energy questions – ERoEI, desert ...
    Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re  at it again, this time for ...
  • Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the g ...
    I have published a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy with the title “Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the greenhouse problem? The affirmative case” (currently online first, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.041 — it will appear in the print version, with v ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]
  • Met A Wonderful Republican Yesterday – Not!
    Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]
  • The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
    No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...
  • Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
    Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Get Ready for OWSnews.org
    Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...
  • Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on ...
  • Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland
    By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...
  • Marine Down in Oakland – “We&#8217 ...
    Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...
  • #OccupyOakland: Riot police fire tear gas, fla ...
    Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear ...

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  • Minister of Culture urges Tzavta Theater to ba ...
    SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/robertlenkinski/Desktop/Professional/bakri%20tzavta%20blog.doc In response to Desmond Tutu’s call on the Capetown Opera Company to cancel their 2010 tour in Israel, director Michael Williams said, “arts and academics are never the right place to boycott.” These w ...
  • Panel on legalizing outposts includes settler ...
    One of the members of a new government committee, which will look into the legalization of West Bank outposts, is a settler attorney who has already worked in the service of illegal settlements. The blatant conflict of interest is further proof of the clear desired outcome of the committee&#8217 ...
  • Palestinian on 48th day of hunger strike chain ...
    Khader Adnan is on the 48th day of his hunger strike, protesting his administrative detention. He is chained to a bed in a Bnei Brak hospital, and it’s unknown whether his family will be permitted to visit him Khader Adnan, aged 34 of ‘Araba near Jenin, is on the 48th day of his hunger strike, [...]
  • 200,000 missiles aimed at Israel. None fired. Why?
    At any given time, about 200,000 missiles are aimed at Israel, Aviv Cochavi, chief of army intelligence, told the VIPs today at the Herzliya Conference. Two-hundred thousand missiles – another important fact that will go in one ear of the Israeli public and out the other. It plays havoc wi ...
  • Jewish Week op-ed makes (bad) case for Israel& ...
    Lisa Levi tries to defend the undefendable boycott law at The Jewish Week. After making the old case that the Israeli boycott law is anything like the French or the American (simply false claim, as any form of the current boycott movement is perfectly legal in the United States. In fact, a Kness ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Turning Humans Into Cattle One Head At A Time& ...
    We all need to pay careful attention to what is happening with Florida’s Prisons.  I know, you think, “I’m not going so who cares”. Well, prisons, like the First Amendment and other basic aspects of our society are something that every single one of us needs to be concern ...
  • Republicans Order Arrest of Reporter in US Cap ...
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  • FEB. 16- JOIN FLORIDIANS FOR MORTAGE JUSTICE F ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • When Business is Good
    Challenging times. Slightly over a month ago the London Food Bank assisted 3500 families a month – the highest in …Continue reading »
  • Until Now
    One of the abiding frustrations of being in politics is that optics are often preferred over opportunity and politics sometimes …Continue reading »
  • Democracy At Work
    In many ways citizens deliberating with citizens is a lot more rare than we think. It happens in coffee shops …Continue reading »
  • On Being Seen
    “Will we be seen, by others I mean?” I looked by at the man who had just asked the question, …Continue reading »
  • The Best Hope for Business is the Business of Hope
    The news is coming in fast and furious. More layoffs. Jobs vanishing altogether. Record profits. Increased employer/employee tensions.  Then from …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    I’m writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as it’s the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck i ...
  • Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
    Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can pr ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...
  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • Honeybee Problem Nearing a 'Critical Point'
    Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...

War Resisters League

  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
  • “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
    As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →
  • Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the ...
     [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...

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 ...

k2p blog

  • Bicentennial cycle of deep cooling starting in ...
    Russian scientist predicts in anew paper about solar influences on climate that a bicentennial global cooling cycle is starting and will give a little ice age in 2055±11years.
  • Indian MMRCA: Dassault’s Rafale dumps it ...
    Finally the lowest bidder for the Indian $10.4 billion MMRCA contract has been announced and it seems that the French dumped their prices for the Rafale to beat the Eurofighter by $4-5 million per aircraft
  • No need to panic about global warming
    There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
  • Humans as paradox
    "Man. ... He lives as if he is never going to die and then dies never having really lived" - Dalai Lama
  • Swedish Social Democrats implode as Juholt resigns
    I have long felt that Håkan Juholt was inappropriate as the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats. But what was most disturbing - in this time of transparency - was the opaque manner of his being "appointed and anointed" as leader of the party.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Morning Deals
    ClothingKohl's: [Apparel] 15% Off your Entire order w/ Coupon GROUNDHOGChildren's Place: [Apparel] 20% Off your Entire order w/ Coupon E3G2012Macy's: [Clothing & Accessories] Save An Extra 20% Off Your Order use coupon code RED.Express: [Apparel] $50 Off $150 or $25 Off $75 Purchase w/ Coupon 1 ...
  • Anti-Gay Group Tells JCPenney To Fire New Spok ...
    Conservative group OneMillionMoms.com, an offshoot of the American Family Association, doesn't like that JCPenney has hired Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokeswoman. Not because of her dance moves or jokes on her talk show, but because she's gay. The L.A. Times says the Tupelo, Miss. group pos ...
  • Xbox Live Bans User For Getting Hacked
    After his Xbox Live account was stolen, Josh had to file a Better Business Bureau complaint in order to make MIcrosoft pay attention to him and restore his account access. After three months, he was delighted to log back in to his account, but surprised to learn that he had been banned for a "c ...
  • Bank Of America Takes Back My Claim Money Beca ...
    Mahdi went through the upsetting ordeal of having her Bank of America checking account compromised, which was bad enough until of course, BOA found a way to make the whole thing even worse. Shocker. She writes that in December last year, she noticed her account had charges totaling $1,168 at p ...
  • Scientists Suggest Restricting Sugar Sales For ...
    Arguing that sugar is as additive as tobacco or alcohol, scientists at the University of California San Francisco say that the sweet stuff should be regulated in much the same way as those products. That means taxes to discourage consumption and age-dependent restrictions on how much can be sol ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • New U.S. Law Requires World Bank, MDBs to Impl ...
    World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCA provision in the recently passed U.S. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 requires three Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to make "substantial progress" toward "implementing" best practices for the protection of whistleblowers from retaliation be ...
  • South Korea Indicts Citizen for Tweets; U.S. R ...
    Actual State Department seal Today's New York Times reports: South Korean prosecutors indicted a social media and freedom of speech activist this week for reposting messages from the North Korean government's Twitter account. It seems the U.S. State Department takes tweets and blogs ...
  • State Department Demands I Remove Their Seal
    Not actual State Department seal. (Photo courtesy of Flickr user orphum)With war maybe on its way in Iran, problems in Syria and Iraq, never mind troubles everywhere else abroad, what does your Department of State have time to focus on? This blog apparently. Not to suggest State is overstaffed, ...
  • Tell Congress to Support TSA Whistleblower Rob ...
    Tell Congress to Support TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean! Summary: GAP, in conjunction with the Project on Government Oversight, has started a petition in support of whistleblower Robert MacLean, the former air marshal who was fired after he revealed the TSA’s plan to reduce the number o ...
  • 'Addiction Incorporated' Shows the Difficultie ...
    Perceptions of whistleblowers in feature films are generally favorable, and do much to combat unjustified negative connotations that a few people still hold toward workplace truth-tellers. The Insider, Serpico, The Constant Gardener, All The President's Men, The Whistleblower ... all of these fi ...

UK Progressive

  • A Tale of Two Romneys
    President Obama will receive great credit from historians and many voters in November for his triumph reviving the American auto industry, and making “Made in America” a badge of honor for this key sector of the national economy. It is a useful moment to consider the career of a great man, forme ...
  • How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car
    by Michael Grabell, ProPublica A common criticism of President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package has been that it failed to produce anything – that while the New Deal built bridges and dams, all the stimulus did was fill some potholes and create temporary jobs. Don’t tell that to ...
  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 9 – The Day ...
    For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Wednesday, 02 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @ahmetkilci‎ “I don’t need Ob ...
  • California AG Kamala Harris Standing Firm Agai ...
    On October 1, 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported, “California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris pulled out of settlement negotiations with the nation’s biggest banks over alleged foreclosure abuses, calling the proposed deal ‘inadequate for California homeowners.’” This came after months of ...
  • GOP Uses McCarthyism To Stop ‘Fractivists?’
    Josh Fox, writer and director of Gasland, a documentary that focuses on American communities that have been impacted by the increase in natural gas drilling, specifically hydraulic fracturing or fracking, was arrested when he tried to film a hearing on fracking, in the House Energy and Environme ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • 8 Reasons to Dump That Cheating Doctor (Trenbe ...
    Hand back your science degrees Trenberth et al. Thirty eight of the worlds top, most consequential climate scientists sought to slap down the Nobel prize winner, astronaut and glitterati of science, and all they could come up with was a logical fallacy and a single paragraph of incohate, innume ...
  • The land that rewards failure
    Mark Steyn hits the spot: “America is now the land that rewards failure– at the personal, corporate, and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If you reward it as lavishly as the federal government does, you’ll get the Radio City Christmas Spectacular of Failure, o ...
  • On misanthropology
    misanthropology (from Urban Dictionary): the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of hatred in humans misanthropology-the opposite of optimistology. Lost word, sighted on the Neologism thread at (Diggingintheclay) that inspired The Doom ...
  • Is this the beginning of the Euro-Spring? The ...
    From the Facebook page: Movimento-de-Forconi During the last couple of weeks, truck-drivers in an advanced western region with 5 million people have blockaded roads and ports protesting at the sudden 40% rise in the fuel price (due to taxes) which is wiping out their business. The fishermen join ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
    Put those “other comments” and news here. Thanks! Jo Rating: 8.3/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 8.3/10 (4 votes cast)

ReNew America

  • First, they came for the Catholics
    (Michelle Malkin) - President Obama and his radical-feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?...
  • Vanderbilt U. promotes religious intolerance i ...
    (VandyforReligiousFreedom.com) - Last year, Vanderbilt University placed five longtime extracurricular religious groups on "provisional status" -- jeopardizing their continued role on campus -- because these groups required their leaders to share the groups' core religious beliefs...
  • Gingrich fights to hold No. 2 position
    (Washington Examiner) - After Newt Gingrich failed in his Florida bid to overtake Mitt Romney as the GOP front-runner, he now faces a three-man struggle out west to hold on to his status as the top conservative alternative to Romney. "Just yesterday a poll was released showing that I am leading ...
  • Our dead American Medical Association
    (Washington Times) - So, what's up with the AMA? You know, the American Medical Association, venerated representative of the American physician, right? Wrong. This long-lived and generally respected organization, one that represented more than 70 percent of American doctors in the 1960s, has bec ...
  • Gallup state numbers predict huge Obama loss
    (Washington Examiner) - Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers yesterday, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Preview: Doomsday Preppers
    Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a ...Preview: Doomsday Preppers is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomsday Preppers (was) ...
  • 2012: Year of the Dragon
    In the Chinese calendar, 2012 is the year of the dragon. It is the only of their 12 years that is named after a fictional animal. So are dragons really fictional? I have investigated the possibility ...2012: Year of the Dragon is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Don’t Forget th ...
  • Trailer: The Carrington Event
    The above trailer is for a TV series in development. Here’s the official synopsis for The Carrington Event: Joseph Carrington runs an organic mini-farm on the outskirts of a large, southern town. His rustic lifestyle means ...Trailer: The Carrington Event is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Emergency Light Bulb + Funny Video
    I think this is a great product – it’s an LED bulb that has a battery inside, meaning you get 7 hours of light when your power is out – and it doubles as a ...Emergency Light Bulb + Funny Video is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Funny 2012 Cartoon Video Patrick Ger ...
  • X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worry!
    There are several doom’n'gloom news services out there that report every solar flare as if it will cause the end of the world. SpaceWeather.com has informed us: Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, ...X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worr ...

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 ...

One News Page

  • Lindsay Lohan - Lindsay Lohan Sued Over Car In ...
    Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a woman who claims she was hit by the actress car Nubia Del Carmen Preza alleges she was struck by the Mean Girls stars Maserati while walking through a West Hollywood intersection in September 2010 Prezas l...
  • Lindsay Lohan 'moves out of home after trespas ...
    Lindsay Lohan is apparently living at the Chateau Marmont.
  • Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Want to Marry!
    BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie want to get married. The couple — who have been together for six years — have previously insisted they wouldn’t tie the knot until gay marriage was legal throughout the US but the Moneyball actor doesn’t think they can “hold out” until then, particularly ...
  • Brad Pitt wants to get married
  • Prince William and Kate Middleton Put Family P ...
    PRINCE William and Kate Middleton are putting their family plans on hold. The pair — who tied the knot in April last year — are in “no hurry” to start a family and want to make sure that 2012 is a success for the sake of the Queen’s 60th anniversary celebrations. “Realistically ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • What the Taliban Readiness to Talk Means for A ...
    The Taliban spokesman’s announcement that the Taliban are prepared to open an office in Doha Qatar and to hold talks with the Americans at that site has been the headline story in the international media for the last few days. The fact that this very spokesman, commenting on the disgusting video ...
  • Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of ...
    Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Ira ...
  • Missile Defense Deadlock: What Will It Lead To?
    Moscow does not intend to propose any initiatives on missile defense, which the U.S. could interpret as concessions. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio station. He emphasized the negotiations on this subject proceed with difficulty, b ...
  • Libyan Oil Infrastrusture Assets Seized By the ...
    The unexpectedly quick EU consent to take immediate sanctions against Iran “coincided” with seizure of Libyan oil terminals. To certain extent the negative affect of expected oil shortage for European economy could be minimized in case the utmost is done to boost the Brega and Ras-La ...
  • Looking For Ways to Make Anti-Syrian Aggressio ...
    The recent weeks events in Syria give rise to new apprehensions. Thanks to Russia’s efforts the situation in Syria was not formally included into the agenda of the UN Security Council session that took place on January 24, so the issue was considered indirectly. The official agenda was “The situ ...

BlogHer

  • SAHM Sanity Saver? Work.
    Women at the top of their game, sitting in high powered positions suddenly stop to stay at home and be a mom. Then what? There's a little known secret among high achieving SAHM's that doesn't get talked about enough...and that is loving your brain (beyond Barney). See what this mom did to get ba ...
  • 7 Deadly Skin Sins
    OK, so these practices may not be DEADLY, but your skin is your body's largest organ and the first thing people notice when they see you so why not take care of it?  Your skin is with you all your life, constantly regenerating and changing (for better or worse.) While I may not be Ponce De ...
  • The Unspoken Rules: Mommy Jobs vs Daddy Jobs
    Yesterday, I was in the kitchen making dinner, and I overheard a one-sided conversation between my three-year-old son and my husband, who were in the next room. “Hi, son. What’ve you got there?” my husband said warmly. No response from the three-year-old. “Wait. Is that…. Is that from your no ...
  • (CONTEST) Journey to Motherhood with Ricki Lake
    Making my new documentary film series More Business of Being Born, I had the privilege of interviewing some incredible women (Christy Turlington Burns, Alanis Morissette, Cindy Crawford and Gisele Bundchen to name a few) to capture all the intimate details about their children’s births. Admitte ...
  • Why I Will Fight for Susan G. Komen: A Survivo ...
    Five years ago in August, I took off my bra and felt a lump on my right breast. I wasn't a regular self examiner, so I wasn't sure if it was just a fibroid because my breasts are dense and lumpy and I've felt things before. But for some reason this seemed different to me. I asked my hubby to ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Collecting rainwater now illegal in many state ...
    Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly ...
  • Year in review: 37 communities vote to end art ...
    A total of 37 communities vote to end artificial water fluoridation in 2011. Is your community on that list? With all the toxins in today’s drinking water it should be. ~ Health Freedoms The year 2011 ...
  • True fact: A common ingredient in commercial b ...
    Did you know that most breads you eat have been derived from human hair? It’s true! ~ Health Freedoms If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient ...
  • Explosive reports reveal HFCS in processed foo ...
    Why has the FDA ignored the fact that mercury, an element that is highly toxic in all forms, was found in a large number of brand-name processed foods? Specifically, the mercury content was found to ...
  • 7 ‘healthy’ foods that are making ...
    Ever wonder why you go all day munching on fat-free pretzels and granola yet never seem to lose any weight? Why your tasty yogurt with fruit is leaving you feeling blah and your ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • W.Va. Coal Symposium: Bad timing for Alpha
    There’s a fair amount of coverage out there this morning from yesterday’s start of the West Virginia Coal Association’s annual symposium, being held over at the Charleston Civic Center. A few examples: – Vicki Smith from the AP reported that MSHA officials say the nation& ...
  • MSHA announces next phase of ‘Rules to L ...
    Here’s today’s announcement from MSHA: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today launched the third phase of an outreach and enforcement program designed to strengthen efforts to prevent mining fatalities. “Rules to Live By III: Preventing ...
  • Will W.Va. prepare for a post-coal future?
    Gazette photo by Chip Ellis We’ve written before about the proposal from the good folks at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy for a long-term trust fund to prepare our state for the day the coal and natural gas run out … well, today, the center has a new report out that d ...
  • Gov. Tomblin’s mine safety bill finally ...
    Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin waves to the crowd Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 prior to delivering his state of the state address at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) UPDATED: The state mine safety office’s spokeswoman, Leslie Fitzwater says today: The WVOMHS&T report [on the ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 27, 2012
    In a Monday Jan. 23, 2012 photo, Sheila Combs, president of the Upper Big Branch Mining Memorial Group, looks over a sign showing what the Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial will look like in Whitesville, W. Va. Media outlets report that work began Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 on a memorial for 29 min ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Thought on Aging
    I had a thought on aging and health the other day. What if hitting 35 flips a switch in the body that says the following: If you continue to act young, you can still be so (more or less) for another few decades. But if you slow down (which is what I expect and why [...]
  • My 2012 Laptop
    It’s that time again. My 2010 MacBook Pro has run its course and is falling down on a few key metrics: SATA Bus Speed: I can’t run the latest SSD technology because it doesn’t support SATA III Memory limit: It maxes out at 8GB of RAM Poor Display Tech: The screen is extremely l ...
  • Source2URL
    Source2URL is a simple tool (currently bash only) designed to aid the content discovery phase of a web application security assessment. It parses a given directory containing source code and creates a URL list for all discovered resources. Once this is complete it then makes an HTTP request to e ...
  • Gingrich Supporting ObamaCare in May 2009
    via youtube.com lol Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)David Simon on the End of the American EmpireAdding Malware to Android ApplicationsObama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of ...
  • Terror Defense Based on Resilience Rather than ...
    America is wide open and trusting. This won’t, and shouldn’t, change. The idea of stopping terrorist attacks from occurring is simply foolish in this light, as it’s just too easy to walk into a mall and cause havoc. The message to terrorists (heard by the American people) shoul ...

Fitwatch

  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...
  • Resist plainclothes cops
    More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...
  • Plainclothes cops spotter card
    SPOTTER CARD PLAINCLOTHES PDF - please copy and distribute freely. We must remember these faces and not allow them near our protests again!

Worldwide Hippies

  • Sen. Sanders to Komen: “Put Women’s Health Bef ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders is among nearly two dozen senators who are calling upon Susan G. Komen for Women’s Health for the Cure to reconsider its politically motivated decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.  Last year alone, grants from Komen provided Planned Parenthood with roughly $650, ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Abusive
         By Dr.Woody,Worldwidehippies – Earlier today I was led to recall and reread a piece I wrote on my “Well-Armed Lamb” blog back in 2007 (Oct. 31, precisely). The following is a slightly amended version of it. At some campaign event (in 2007), Senator (and incipient President ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) What was in that orange ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – It’s the day after the Fla. Republican primary as I write this. I’m writing at 9 in the morning before I listen to any of the paid yakkers spin and try to out clever each other. I don’t want to be influenced even a teeny bit by their nonstop “smarts ...
  • Rented Protesters in Chicago, Presidential Hyp ...
    By blackagendareport.com - A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What’s three years of crusading against public schools and their teachers, three years of anti-democratic corporate school reform compared to a couple paragraphs in a presidential State of the ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Free the Weed Updates
    New debate: When is medical marijuana “usable?” By Jeff Barnard Associated Press – ROGUE RIVER, Ore.—When police knocked on Josh Brewer’s door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation’s most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test. Officers were fin ...

reference frame

  • Gore's Antarctic friend needs your help with h ...
    There are 116 people participating in Al Gore's expedition to Antarctica (whose goal is to prove that the uninhabited continent has been transformed into another Sahara by the global warming), including this list collected by Eco Tretas (thanks!). One of them is Sam Pucci, a random youngster ...
  • Astrophysicist Grygar on global warming and ev ...
    This blog entry is directly relevant for 3% of the readers only who are Czech; but others may learn something about the intellectual atmosphere in our nation. Radio Impuls – which I happen to be listening to right now (and sometimes) because it has an OK Vista Sidebar Gadget :-) – is jus ...
  • LHC lunch
    From Utah to CERN's cafeteria The U.S. LHC network has launched a P.R. project called The LHC Lunch. They catch various members of the set of 1700 U.S. scientists in the CERN's largest cafeteria, the so-called Restaurant I. I think that this graduate student of Utah and ATL ...
  • Siberia overtakes Europe
    In comparison with some chilly winters in recent years, the 2011-2012 winter could have looked balmy so far. However, that changed this week when a chilly continental wind brought cruel chills to most of Europe. Temperature anomalies across the globe in °C right now, averaged over ...
  • The Physicists: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    I just returned from the theater. They were playing The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a top Swiss playwright. Our Pilsner actors are sort of amazing – and it's a happy coincidence that the EU has agreed that Pilsen is the right city that will become the European Capital of Culture 2015 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Calling all Habs Fans: FAIL FOR NAIL FIRE FOR ...
    Switching hats tonight for a few words on hockey. Those who know me know that I am a diehard Montreal Canadiens fan and have been my entire life. FAIL FOR NAIL Having watched them tank this year, with no hope of making the playoffs, I have come up with an idea to encourage them to [...] Related ...
  • Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)
    Somehow ya know that I had to blog this one. Bananas are my staple! In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits ‘trapped’ overseas and the gloomy State of the Stiff Upper Lip as UK family debt ...
  • @MaxKeiser & @StacyHerbert give me an ounce of ...
    A while back Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert sent me 1 ounce of silver after I was the 1000 commentator in a blog article on their site.  This is not just any silver coin. This is the prized Silver Keiser. I didn’t even know that I had won until Stacy informed me by email, asking [...] Relat ...
  • Sometime Today or Tommorrow I Top 3 Million Lo ...
    Yessiree either later on today or early tomorrow, I should top the 3 million loons served mark on MadApeTV. That is over 3 million human beans that have had The Mad Ape seed embedded into their consciousness. If you are reading this then you may or may not have been counted. You see I do [...] ...
  • Planet X Appears in Fredericton
    I was out doing some sunset photography and when I got home and downloaded my photos…..BAM. This was in it. Planet X aka Nibiru has appeared. I took this with my Nikon 3000 DSLR camera. This photograph was not retouched or altered in any way. The version you see here is a jpeg because RAW ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Marine brass wants to limit Camp Lejeune water ...
    By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fraccidents
    Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Louisville Water Co. Slashes Chrome-6 Pollution
    By Alex Formuzixs, EWG Communications Director In 2010, EWG identified chromium-VI contamination in the drinking water of 31 of the 35 cities we tested. One Kentucky city has stepped up to solve that problem. A change in how drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental S ...
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Hopeful world champs arrive in Oslo
    Holmenkollen's arenas and the hills above Oslo are coming alive once again with the sound of skiers, snowboarders and cheering fans, as the first of two major international competitions gets underway. First out is the IBU World Cup Biathlon, to be followed by the World Snowboarding Championships ...
  • New fare hike ‘shamelessly’ high
    New public transit fares were taking effect in Oslo on Wednesday, and already have been been dubbed as "shamelessly" high. It now costs NOK 50 for a single-ride, full-fare ticket, the equivalent of nearly nine US dollars. "This is just way too expensive," Gunnar Larssen, leader of the Norwegi ...
  • Olsen heir plans new Munch gallery
    Norwegian philanthropist Petter Olsen, who inherited part of a shipping fortune along with a vast collection of paintings by Edvard Munch, seems keen to share his valuable collection with the public. He plans to open a private Munch gallery on his rural estate south of Oslo. Newspaper Østland ...
  • Moose meat peddled in Germany
    Among the various Norwegian products on offer at a major food exposition in Germany last week was moose meat, specifically moose burgers, which disappeared almost as quickly as promoters could fry them up and serve them. "Moose (called elg in Norwegian) is exotic in Germany, and we see that i ...
  • Activists seek Eurovision conscience
    Norway's chapter of the Helsinki Committee, known for its advocacy of human rights and democracy, has asked the singers and musicians taking part in this year's Eurovision Song Contest to pay attention to what's happening in Azerbaijan, which will host this year's show. The country, run by a dic ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Search for Sustainability in the Negev
    The Bedouin of the Negev are an ancient people whose cultural history spans centuries, if not millennia. Historically, the Bedouin have been semi-nomadic pastoralists, who made the desert their own through a combination of dry-land farming of forage crops and cereals, rainwater harvesting and se ...
  • Bustan Qaraaqa, West Bank, Seeks Two Permacult ...
    Bustan Qaraaqa is a community permaculture project in the Palestinian West Bank. The project consists of an experimental permaculture farm in the town of Beit Sahour close to the historic city of Bethlehem, and several community projects where staff and volunteers work together with Palestinian ...
  • Extended Permaculture Design Course in the Negev
    What: Extended Permaculture Design Course When: The itinerary is based on weeks of 5 days where the weekends are free for advancing individual projects, rest or travel in Israel. Program starts on the 11th of March and ends on 15th of August 2012. Where: The course and accommodations will ta ...
  • Arts Factory Backpackers – Photo Update
    I was visiting Byron Bay on my last Sunday off in conditions where we have had a large amount of rain and some very unsettled weather with lots of storms. With the winds from the north, the surf conditions where very messy and unfavorable, as also were the fishing conditions, the sea was really ...
  • Common Ground, Not Landscape Design: Improving ...
    This presentation makes a radical departure from many previous approaches to permaculture education in schools. It does not include gardens or design principles. Instead it considers the main purpose of schools — students learning — and the main factor that influences that purpose: t ...

Pointman's

  • How policies get dropped and positions reversed.
    Political policy changes constantly in a democracy. It does so primarily in response to the changing concerns of its electorate, because by addressing these concerns, politicians hoping to gain office naturally expect to attract votes by catering to these concerns. When the economy is prosperous ...
  • If all else fails, just intimidate them.
    Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...
  • Oh, what a wonderful MSM.
    I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...
  • They’re just words.
    If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...
  • Green Myths : There’s only one evil species on ...
    I am not a religious man. For a number of reasons, some intellectual but mostly personal, I don’t even believe in a God but I acknowledge the overall good religion has done in the world, as well as the bad. A religion is after all a man-made thing directed by human beings and will therefore&#160 ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Big Freedia And The Week New Orleans Took Over ...
    Last week, New Orleans rapper Big Freedia made her national television debut on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Freedia, who has been quickly taking the nation by storm, performed two songs "Excuse," and "Na Who Mad." Although the network appearance was Freedia's national television debut, she showe ...
  • Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions, ...
    Note: See below for quiz answers. Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Question Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net worth of wh ...
  • Community Profile: Betty Wells Allen
    From our friends at VOTE-NOLA: Some members join VOTE out of a sense of social responsibility or a personal mission. For Betty Wells Allen it was all of these forces combined with the joy of helping ex-offenders understand how to thrive in society. “My son was convicted with a life sentence [for ...
  • Inside Orleans Parish Prison, By Rosana Cruz
    From the Bridge the Gulf blog: In a letter to the editors of the Times-Picayune this month, New Orleans resident Mona Castillo wrote that the key to decreasing crime is to make prison "less comfortable." She wrote, "At the present time, jails are more like hotels. Many prisoners live better ...
  • Possible MLK Day Hate Crime Against Civil Righ ...
    Family member had been founder of Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice The following article was originally published by journalist Pete Tucker at TheFightBack.org: Growing up in a civil rights family in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Chuck Hicks remembers the constant threats. “We ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Doesn't the fact that Assange is getting a TV show strike you as odd. Guess who owns all the media? So if he is going to get on the television and spill secrets, which secrets do you think he'll be allowed to spill. This isn't any different than Alex Jones or Jesse Ventura - they're allowed ...
  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: MSG Is ...
    moisture must have got into it.Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:21 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjy5RmmXb2Y JACKSON’S JEWISH HANDLERS UNDER THE JEWISH INFLUENCE of one of the most powerful figures of the music business, the Jew, Rob Stringer, Chairman of Sony Music Label Group and its Epic Records label, (Jackson’s label), Michael Jackson’s car ...
  • Survival & Defence • Re: .308 or a .223? ...
    Michael K, Agreed on all points. I'm well aware of the differences between NATO spec. and civilian spec ammo and often forget others may not. Yes, I do agree a 5.56/.223 is much easier to handle for someone with little to no training and you offer good advice there. Often have to remind mysel ...
  • Survival & Defence • Re: .308 or a .223? ...
    ZS- I agree on .308 for would-be combat shooters and trained marksmen. I got into a DPMS 7.62x51 NATO Sportical, which is essentially a flat top AR-10 clone in a 16" heavy barrel version. .308 and 7.62 x 51 NATO are nearly the same ammunition, and can interchange in most cases. One ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Road-based Charging Network Could Charge EVs W ...
    U.S. researchers have designed a wireless charging system for electric vehicles they say could ultimately lead to all-electric highways capable of charging cars and Click to enlarge Sven Beiker/CARS/Stanford University Wireless electric car charger trucks as they drive down the road. The ...
  • Harsh Roadside Environments Creating Hardy Sal ...
    The old adage — “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” — seems to apply to salamanders evolving to survive in contaminated environments near roads. Yale University researcher Steven Brady compared Steven Brady/Yale University A spotted salamander salamanders breeding in roadside ponds ...
  • Wide Variety of Threats Wiping Out World’s Big ...
    A litany of environmental threats, from forest fragmentation and logging to climate change and disease, are wiping out the world’s biggest trees, according to a published report. In forest ecosystems worldwide, research shows that giant trees have become particularly vulnerable to a changing env ...
  • California ‘Clean Car’ Rules Mandate Boost in ...
    California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...
  • Fishing ‘Free-for-All’ Decimating South Pacifi ...
    Years of lax oversight, corruption, and political rivalry have allowed industrial fishing fleets from Asia, Europe, and Latin America to decimate fish stocks across the southern Pacific, a “free-for-all” that has pushed one Getty Images A Peruvian fishmeal factory critical species to the ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • 16 Banned Super Bowl Ads
    Chimps get a little too close to home, abortion takes center stage, and Jesus and Obama bobblehead dolls duke it out. Watch that and more campaigns that never made it to game day.
  • Stand-Up Humor From the Stump
    The Tactical Humorist takes a closer look at the strategy behind the candidate-generated humor of Campaign 2012.
  • Facebook’s Graffiti Millionaire
    David Choe will become very rich when the social-network giant goes public. By Jimmy So.
  • Finally, an Insider-Trading Ban
    The Senate moves to end its own financial loophole. Don't forget the Restrict Act, too. By Peter Schweizer
  • Why Trump Fired Up for Romney
    Newt talks Trump’s talk, but in Mitt, the Donald surely saw a businessman with a heart as hard as his own.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • How far can Hashimoto ride wave?
    Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's political fortunes in and out of Osaka continue to rise, as a growing number of local- and national-level politicians seek his cooperation to form what could well be the ruling coalition after the next Lower House election. But key policy differences mean a group o ...
  • Retired police chief, 74, arrested after payin ...
    A 74-year-old retired police chief has been arrested on suspicion of paying two 16-year-old girls for sex in Sapporo, a Hokkaido police spokesman said Thursday. Keiji Kato, who retired 15 years ago from the Hokkaido force, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly paying ¥6,000 each to the two ...
  • Koga ninja chief to teach Mie biz
    Mie University has hired the head of the 500-year-old Koga ninja clan as a professor to research and teach how ninja techniques can be used in business. The university said Tuesday that Jinichi Kawakami, 62, the 21st head of the Koga clan, will teach ninja knowhow starting Dec. 1 at its Commun ...
  • 'The Hunter' / 'Poetry'
    One of cinema's most constant motifs is the flawed, morally corrupt character who in the last reel listens to his conscience and decides to do the right thing. There's a good reason for this: Audiences know all too well how easy it is to be a "good German," and desperately wish it weren't so. Yo ...
  • Legendary trainer Dundee dead at 90
    Angelo Dundee, the brilliant motivator who worked the corner for Muhammad Ali in his greatest fights and willed Sugar Ray Leonard to victory in his biggest bout, died Wednesday in Tampa, Florida. He was 90. The genial Dundee was best known for being in Ali's corner for almost his entire career ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Is The OAS/GIS Program Unaffordable?
    No. Of course not. Even if the government waves around scary large increases in nominal dollar terms. As has been widely reported, the most recent OAS actuarial report shows that total program expenditures will rise from $38.8 billion in 2011 to $107.9 billion in 2030. However, the dollar figure ...
  • Budget Cuts Could Worsen Rising Unemployment
    It was not a happy new year for Canadian job seekers. Statistics Canada reported today that unemployment rose for a fourth consecutive month in January. Overall employment remained flat as Canada’s population and labour force grew at a normal pace, leaving more workers without jobs. The good new ...
  • Harper vs. Kyoto: where does that leave Québec?
    On 12 December 2011, the Canadian Minister of Environment, Peter Kent, officially announced Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. In effect, Canada will no longer be legally constrained to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets. According to Scott McKay, the Parti québécois ...
  • Federal cuts could push unemployment to 8%
    Last Monday, the CCPA released my paper, The Cuts Behind the Curtain, which examined some possible scenarios for how the conservative government might cut $6 billion from program spending over the next 3 years.  The $2 billion from the 2010 program freeze and $4 billion from the 2010 Strategic & ...
  • Raising the OAS Eligibility Age Would Raise Po ...
    Canadian Press have put out a story based on a research paper by Richard Shillington which was commissioned by HRSDC from Informetrica, and obtained by the CLC through an Access to Information request. Receiving OAS is required to makes seniors eligible for the GIS top up, which provides one in ...

ReDress

  • Palestinians need high calibre leaders - urgently
    Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian "President" Mahmoud Abbas's recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration's public relations incompetence and argues: "If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole move ...
  • BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews s ...
    Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated th ...
  • Democratic elections in the Middle East: why t ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the historical, cultural and political reasons behind the triumph of Islamist parties in democratic elections in Tunisia and Egypt, and the ignorance, the stereotyping and the shallow, inaccurate analyses of the phenomenon displayed by US media and politicians.
  • Israelis bulldoze Palestinian home without war ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...
  • Stop Britain’s pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.

Physics Today

  • Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics
    Science: The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), which will open on 6 February, is a new regional center for theoretical physics located in São Paulo, Brazil. It is a joint project of the State University of São Paulo, the São Paulo Research Foundation, and the A ...
  • Researchers boycott Elsevier
    Chronicle of Higher Education: The latest development in the controversy concerning open access to scholarly research is the boycott of Elsevier, the world's largest scientific journal publisher. By Tuesday evening about 2400 scientists had signed an online pledge not to publish or do any editor ...
  • Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors
    BBC: Earth's largest volcanoes may signal impending eruptions earlier than previously thought, according to a new study in Nature. Tim Druitt of Blaise Pascal University in France and colleagues analyzed crystals in pumice rock from the Greek island of Santorini, site of the Minoan eruption in t ...
  • Japan to consolidate research organizations
    Nature: The Japanese government is preparing to merge five of its science organizations: the RIKEN network of basic research laboratories, the National Institute for Materials Science, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, the National Research Institute for Earth Science and ...
  • Computers may one day be able to read minds
    Daily Mail: Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have been developing a computer program that can decode brain activity and put it into words, writes Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail. To monitor information from the temporal lobe, where sounds are processed, the scientists i ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Obsolescence Management Tools
    by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...
  • B. Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should s ...
    by johnscarbrough (Posted Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:06:40 GMT) This game is disgusting really
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by albertodegama (Posted Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:08 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Properties...
    by requintn (Posted Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:34:59 GMT) doudoune homme moncler "Bingjie populaires vêtements d'hiver!" - Ville Bingjie Down.Geo Bas et à la mode, avec la tendance du dialogue, afin de répondre aux besoins modernes de différents secteurs depuis des décennies avec d'excellents résul ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
    by footprints888 (Posted Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:02:33 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...

Peakwater

  • Keeping the Great Lakes great
    “Biologists worried that the voracious creatures — brought to the U.S. as a means to enhance fish farming along the lower Mississippi River in the early 1970s — could escape from their ponds if floods breached the barriers holding them in place. Sure enough, years later, the carp escaped a ...
  • Villagers Protest Pension Cuts For Water Debts
    “Armenian Water and Sewerage, a company managing most of the country’s water supply and distribution networks, has been successfully filing civil lawsuits against customers in some rural areas, with courts ordering them to pay sizable amounts of money for water debts . Most villagers descr ...
  • The Real Cost Of Brazil’s Dam
    “Until a few months ago, the future of the Belo Monte dam seemed in doubt. The project faced a wave of legal battles and opposition from indigenous groups and environmental organisations around the world. About 400 square kilometres of the Amazon forest will be flooded to make way for the ...
  • Christian Pilgrimage and Middle Eastern Water ...
    “In the current climate of political contest and a reduced Jordan River, currently conveying 2 percent of its historic flow, it is worth thinking anew about the importance of the Jordan, borders and water. In place of reactionary territorial claims justified through religious precedent, pe ...
  • Zimbabwe’s government to give water to poor af ...
    “Zimbabwean authorities say they are making sure poor townships get uninterrupted water supplies after a typhoid outbreak, leaving wealthy areas with reduced supplies. “Harare official Tendai Mahachi told reporters Tuesday well-to-do suburbs will get water about twice weekly. He said ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Stands for Workers; Votes for Fair Pay
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against H.R. 3835, legislation to extend a freeze on salaries for federal workers until December 2013.  See video here. “There is an attack on the idea that government has a role in the proper function ...
  • Kucinich Remembers Polish Poet Wislawa Szymborska
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement in honor of Wislawa Szymborska, a treasured Polish poet and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature. “Wislawa Szymborska was a talented artist who touched the lives of all who read her wonderful work. She was an ins ...
  • Kucinich’s Congressional Briefing Examines “P ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) held a widely attended Congressional briefing to examine advancements in treating veterans who suffer from Gulf War Illness.  See Congressman Kucinich’s welcoming statement here. Speaking at the briefing was Colonel Jeffery Leggit, Director of the Congr ...
  • Kucinich Stands Up for Americans in Need: “Pro ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is fighting to protect the social safety net that keeps food on the table for as many as eight million Americans struggling in the current economy.  Kucinich spoke on the House floor tonight in support of a motion by Representative Mike Michaud (D-ME) that ...
  • Kucinich Defends National Labor Relations Boar ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today pressed back hard against attacks on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during a hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform examining the consequences of President Obama’s recess appointments to two government agencies. Under the ...

Authentically Wired

  • If “we” demand better legislation ...
    … It appears it is not possible to get straight answers nor hold debates leading to consensus based conclusions under our current polarized political climate …  If “we” demand better legislation then “we” need to elect a better quality public servant … GOP attacks public e ...
  • while selling us on the benefits and SAFETY of ...
      … And “we” will quickly hear from Az Dept Water Resources  (ADWR) … SRP … CAP … that Arizona does NOT require a state wide water conservation program and they will adroitly stay far away from address luxury items like Tempe Town Lake … 200 plus golf cour ...
  • if it does NOT benefit corporate it just ain&# ...
    … Why anyone would find this surprising is beyond me as Corporate owned AMA dictates what is approved by USDA … FDA … and if it does NOT benefit corporate it just ain’t safe … Got it …   Useful info that may help someone ….  LISTEN UP FOLKS: This is ...
  • they want to invade Iran …
        … What don’t you comprehend … the United States and Israel do NOT want to talk to Iran they want to invade Iran … … Ike was right … we need to pay very close attention to our military-industrial-congressional-corporate-complex … but we don’t&#160 ...
  • …SOPA Debate Highlights Congress’s ...
    …SOPA Debate Highlights Congress’s Ignorance… … This seems to me to be an observation worth your time to contemplate … what do you  think … ?   By Emily Badger … http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/sopa-debate-highlights-congresss-ignorance-38 ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Matt Miller: don't oversimplify issues in envi ...
    Matt Miller is director of communications for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, a position he’s held for ten years. He is responsible for the chapter’s publications and digital media. He writes for the Conservancy’s blogs Cool Green Science and Idaho Nature Notes. He has also co ...
  • Herpetology curator: behind-the-scenes of 'new ...
    Bryan Stuart’s mission as a curator of amphibians and reptiles at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is to understand the diversity of life on earth. For that, he documents what species occur where and why. He’s particularly attracted to areas where there’s a dearth ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Dolphin's death reignites calls for set net ban
    Conservationists angered by the death of a Maui's dolphin in a set net off the Taranaki coast want the practice banned to save the world's rarest dolphin.Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) spokesman Scott Gallacher yesterday said the...
  • Tubby tabby gets first knee replacement
    Because Cyrano weighs more than 20 pounds, amputating his cancer-weakened leg was out of the question. So the tubby tabby's owners turned to doctors and engineers at North Carolina State University to get him back into mice-catching...
  • 'Flesh-eating' bug case causes concern
    A patient in Palmerston North is the latest in New Zealand to be treated for a rare and potentially lethal "flesh-eating" bug.MidCentral District Health Board this morning confirmed a patient had been admitted to Palmerston North...
  • Study seeks to discover why West Coast seal nu ...
    A study is underway to try and find out why the West Coast fur seal population is declining.Massey University researcher Laureline Meynier spent the first week of this year armed with giant butterfly nets and shields, gluing six...
  • Controversial plan taps volcano heat for green ...
    Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this year to demonstrate new technology they hope will boost a green energy sector yet to live up to its promise.They...

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

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Mercury Rising

  • Fahrenheit 45AZ
    Ray Bradbury would love this. Via Adrienne, The Librotraficante
  • Charles Murray, relegated to the footnotes
    Bashing Charles Murray is all the rage since the publication of his book, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010. Charles Pierce manages to swat Murray and David Brooks with one stroke, while Adam Serwer gets Murray and the American Enterprise Institute with another. But it’s s ...
  • Oak Park Heights City Council To Boondoggle Br ...
    Despite bespoke polls being flogged by the Boondoggle Bridge’s booster club (and one wonders if the question “Would you back the megabridge if you knew that a far less expensive alternative existed?” was asked; somehow I doubt it), the “inevitable” megabridge is loo ...
  • Oh, what a piece of work is Han…del
    (image from http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2012/02/eb8e07101f4f8099a2b6c77418a79b72.png) (image from https://twitter.com/#!/karenhandel/status/8080771312) Meet Karen Handel, Senior Vice President of Public Policy FAIL. It’s just malicious gossip that Handel promised to end ...
  • Dulcet tones to begin your day
    Via Avedon, Nancy Griffith

Reality Sandwich

  • Save the Wirikuta's Sacred Site
    [Action Alert] • The Wirikuta Cultural and Ecological Reserve, located in Real de Catorce, Mexico, is in danger of irreversible damage due to Canadian mining company First Majestic Silver Corp's plans to mine silver there. The site is sacred to the Wixarika People, who practice their ancie ...
  • Esoteric Voices 7: Parapsychology Research
    Sorry, flash is not available. Dean Radin is a senior scientist at The Institute of Noetic Sciences where he studies exceptional human experiences and conducts parapsychological research. He claims that psi phenomena do indeed exist--he's researching how and why they happen and extendi ...
  • The Chosen People of Iboga: A Conversation wit ...
      By the time Dimitiri Mobenga Mugianis reached 40 years of age, he was ready to die. After cultivating an ever-worsening cocaine and heroin habit, the Detroit born and raised artist, poet and activist had just lost his wife, who died of an heroin overdose while pregnant.  read more
  • Charles Eisenstein in NYC
    Join Charles Eisenstein in NYC this weekend for two unique and informative events. read more
  • This Week in Psychedelics
    Psilocybin shows promise in the treatment of depression, the UK Home Affair's Select Committee kicks off its first evidence session on drug policy, and a Polish politician threatens to light up a joint in parliament in this week's psychedelic news. read more

Desertification

  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.
  • ARGENTINA: In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far Mor ...
    Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.
  • Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
    Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.
  • KENYA: Thirsty Eucalyptus Good for Absorbing C ...
    On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years.

Automatic Earth

  • January 31 2012: Goal-Seeked Analyses for Gold
    Unknown Dreaming of great fortunes 1858California gold miner joining the British Columbia goldrush Ashvin Pandurangi: After the Fed’s latest announcement on January 25, in which the central bank said very little more than the obvious ("exceptionally low" fed funds rate at least through late 201 ...
  • The Report That Will Blow Up The Eurozone
    Jack Delano Hot Sugar January 1942Guanica, Puerto Rico. "Burning a sugar cane field. This process destroys the leaves and makes the cane easier to harvest" Ilargi: No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin ...
  • January 25 2012: Occupy Your Own Space
    Dorothea Lange PlantationJune 1937"Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi" Ilargi: For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable to either incumbent politicians or wannabe leaders (unless they’re extremists, perhaps), let alone to t ...
  • January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...
  • January 19 2012: Don't Be Fooled : Nothing's P ...
    National Photo Co. Bond Vault 1914"Treasury Department, Office of Comptroller of Currency -- bond vault. Contains bonds to the value of $900 million securing government deposits and postal savings fund" Ilargi: Double treat today: a thourough big picture interview with Nicole by KMO at C-Realm, ...

Press TV

  • Militants blow up school in NW Pakistan
    Unknown attackers have completely destroyed a state-run girls' school in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, critically injuring one person, Press TV reports.
  • Leader: Iran to advance despite hurdles
    Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue on the path of progress despite the Western pressures.
  • 'US govt. spies on Muslim communities'
    A recently-surfaced document has revealed that New York Police Department has advised its officers to expand their covert operations targeting the local Shia communities.
  • Govt. troops retake south Somalia town
    Somali government forces have pushed back al-Shabab fighters in their stronghold of Lower Juba region and captured a key town in the southern part of the lawless Horn of Africa country, Press TV reports.
  • Iran launches new satellite into orbit
    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.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • How Would Some Changes to Current Law Affect t ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on our annual Budget and Economic Outlook, which was released on Tuesday. As I did in my testimony before the House Budget Committee, I highlighted many of the points that were included in Tuesday’s blog post. In today’s pos ...
  • CBO’s View on the Wall Street Journal Story ab ...
    The Wall Street Journal has just published an article entitled “Congress’s Number Cruncher Comes Under Fire.” Here’s our view: CBO is responsible for providing nonpartisan and thoughtful analysis to the Congress, and we are proud that our success in carrying out that miss ...
  • Fundamental Fiscal Challenge: Rising Health Ca ...
    This morning I testified before the House Budget Committee on our annual Budget and Economic Outlook that was released yesterday. My testimony highlighted many of the points that were included in yesterday’s blog post. One point I want to emphasize is the following: The combination of ...
  • Can Proposed Reductions in Future War-Related ...
    We have received many questions about whether potential reductions in spending for overseas contingency operations (OCO), such as U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, can be considered as offsets to reductions in taxes or additional spending for Medicare or other programs. In this blog post, ...
  • CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: ...
    This morning CBO released the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022.  Each January, CBO prepares “baseline” budget projections spanning the next 10 years. Those projections are not a forecast of future events; rather, they are intended to provide a benchmar ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...

Nick Turse

  • Masked protesters seen during a mass rally to ...
    Masked protesters seen during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia’s parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Russians angered by allegedly fraudulent parliamentary elections are protesting Saturday in cities from the fre ...
  • Riot police detain a protester during a rally ...
    Riot police detain a protester during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. More than ten thousands people have protested in St.Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election ...
  • An Occupy DC demonstrator sits on a chair as d ...
    An Occupy DC demonstrator sits on a chair as demonstrators blocked an intersection on K St., in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (Evan Vucci)
  • French Occupy protesters participate in a rall ...
    French Occupy protesters participate in a rally as part of the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, on December 10, 2011 in center Paris. The activists, angered by state spending cuts that hurt ordinary people and high unemployment have called ...
  • Activists of Ukraine’s protest group Femen, pr ...
    Activists of Ukraine’s protest group Femen, protest outside the Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. The post-election protests in Moscow drew thousands and continued for several days in the biggest ever challenge to Putin, reflecting a grow ...
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