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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, February 5, 2012

5 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • New Libya Off to a Shaky Start
    It's been almost a year since Benghazi launched its uprising against former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and three months since he was killed, but there is a growing sense of frustration in eastern Libya with the National Transitional Council. Two weeks ago, a group of protesters attac ...
  • U.S. Leak on Israeli Attack Weakened a Warning ...
    When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly yet another expression of alarm at the Israeli government's threats of military action.
  • A Turbulent Twenty Years for Venezuelan Democracy
    Twenty years ago, a military rebellion led by Venezuelan president - then lieutenant-colonel - Hugo Chávez ushered in an enduring era of turmoil for the country's democracy, with abrupt changes in its institutions and a climate of political upheaval and social and economic instability.
  • Chinese Feed Illegal Ivory Trade
    The illegal trade in ivory continues in Egypt, with ivory products sold openly in local tourist markets by traders who operate with impunity, a new study by the conservation group Traffic has found.
  • DEVELOPMENT-NIGER: Three Million Children Thre ...
    Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of Zamkoye-Koïra, in western Niger, as food shortages have driven male family members to leave in search of work elsewhere. A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecu ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Obama tells Netanyahu 'No'?
    Summary: Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist specializing in U.S. national security policy, discusses Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey’s warning to Israel’s government that the US would not be dragged into war with Iranby a unilateral Israeli attack; ...
  • Are Obama and Netanyahu Trying to Push Iran to ...
    Summary: If this is the case that Iran has not decided to build the bomb, why is the U.S. government conducting economic warfare against Iran with sanctions and vigorous efforts to get other nations to cease all contact with that country’s central bank? Why is the U.S. House of Representative ...
  • Israel Ramps Up Push for Attack on Iran
    Summary: Despite the near consensus that Iran has not yet chosen to have a nuclear weapons program, the United States has heaped a crippling set of sanctions on Iran, partially to satisfy Israeli concerns and pressure. This is unlikely to have any effect on Iranian nuclear policy and has alre ...
  • Foolishly Ignoring The Arab League Report on ...
    Summary: Read the mission report. Conclude what you will. But admit that possibly the worst thing that can be done at this critical juncture is to suspend the Arab League mission’s investigations and interventions. If the mission is halted, civilians will lose protection in this conflict, fac ...
  • SYRIA: New Flawed UN Security Council Resoluti ...
    Summary: The language sounds ominously like Libyan Resolution 1973. It authorized "all necessary measures to protect civilians and civilian population areas under threat of attack. NATO intervened belligerently. Many tens of thousands died. Western intervention assures Syria the same fate and ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Days Gone By (Opinion)
    The other day I was shopping in a local natural food store when the cashier asked me if I wanted a plastic bag or a paper bag. I said I wanted a plastic bag because I used them at home for trash. She looked at me strangely and said that paper would be more environmentally...
  • ACLU sues Obama over drone killings of U.S. ci ...
    You may remember that lawyers for the Obama administration have advised the president that using drones to target and kill American citizens without a trial is perfectly legal. If you were outraged by this so-called legal opinion and convinced it was made without any...
  • Holy basil is a clinically proven antioxidant, ...
    (NaturalNews)Holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum), also known internationally as tulsi, is highly prized in the natural healing community both for its heady scent and for its healing properties. In the Hindu religion, holy basil is a sacred plant which is used during meditation and is...
  • Teen cancer survivor banned from school for gr ...
    After surviving leukemia and grueling chemotherapy, Michigan teen J. T. Gaskins decided to grow out his hair to donate it to Locks of Love for fellow cancer patients. Instead of being praised for his generosity, he has been suspended from high school for violating its...
  • Weird food fact: Jell-O molds cannot be made w ...
    Jell-O molds made with pineapple are practically a U.S. cultural icon, so many people may be surprised to learn that if you try to make a Jell-O mold with fresh or frozen pineapple, the mold will never set. Only canned pineapple can be used. In fact, according to the...

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  • Republicans Return to Taking Credit for Improv ...
    Appearing on CNN Sunday, Romney endorser and VP wannabe Bob McDonnell gave his GOP credit for the nation's improving economic outlook. "Look, I'm glad the economy is starting to recover," the Virginia Governor declared, "but I think it's because of what Republican governors are doing in their s ...
  • SuperPAC Super Payday: How Rich Donors Could G ...
    Federal Election Commission filings released this week showed that conservatives groups are amassing an ocean of cash for the 2012 presidential campaign. Thanks to the likes of the Koch brothers, the Walton clan and other of the usual suspects on the right, in 2011 conservative SuperPAC's outra ...
  • Republicans Double-Down on 'Obama Made the Eco ...
    Friday's promising employment report showing that the U.S. added 243,000 jobs in January is just the latest sign of a slowly improving American economy. But that good news for the American people is bad news for the "Hope America Fails" crowd of the Republican Party. After all, GOP presidentia ...
  • 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," ...

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)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Newly Discovered Alien Planet is ‘Best Candida ...
    It’s called GJ 667Cc and it’s just 22 light years from Earth — virtually a next door neighbor in our little corner of the galaxy. Most compelling to astronomers is that the planet is smack dab in the middle of its parent star’s habitable zone, the circumstellar region wi ...
  • Roseanne Barr Running for Green Party Presiden ...
    Say what?! Roseanne Barr—yes, that Roseanne— is running for president of the United States of America, and she has now stated that she’s running for the Green Party’s nomination. “The actress-comedian said in a statement that she’s a longtime supporter of the ...
  • Vegan Super Bowl Recipes
    Sister site Eat Drink Better has a great run-down of some delicious-looking vegan recipes for Super Bowl 2012. Below are what the recipes are for (click the link on “vegan recipes” above to see the recipes), followed by one more I’ll throw in there: Game Day Guac Kick Off [... ...
  • Greenest Super Bowl Ever — Super Bowl 2012
    Last year, I wrote about how Cowboys stadium and Super Bowl 2011 were greened for what was the greenest Super Bowl ever. Well, it’s being outdone this year. Here’s more from my post on the matter over on CleanTechnica: null (via Clean Technica)
  • 1,200 Acres of Rooftop Farms for New York City
    New York City has some of the highest-priced real estate in the world. But building rooftops remain grossly underutilized (barring some notable exceptions). However, the city planning department is proposing that 1,200 acres of commercial rooftops be available for urban farmers to put greenhous ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SO ...
    Hugh Pickens writes:  "Strengthening intellectual property enforcement has been a bipartisan issue for the past 25 years, but Stewart Baker writes in the Hollywood Reporter that when the fight went from the committees to the floor and Wikipedia went down, the Democratic and Republican pa ...
  • A Slave says thanks, but no thanks - Critical ...
    In August 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, asking Jourdan to come back to work on his farm. Since being emancipated, Jourdan had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family. He responded spectacularly with ...
  • News Release: The Actors' Gang will remount Ge ...
    NEWS RELEASE:   THE ACTORS' GANG CONTACT: ELIZABETH DORAN (310) 838-4264 (US - California)                       1984 Directed by Tim Robbins   The Actors’ Gang re-visits George Orwell’s Masterpiece to celebrate its 30th Anniversary Season  As a highl ...
  • There's nothing like a Peace Conference when y ...
    At least 37 people have been killed in South Sudan during a shoot-out at a peace meeting aimed at ending recent violence, officials said. Officials from three states and the UN had met for talks in the remote town of Mayendit in Unity state in an effort to reduce inter-ethnic...
  • Bolivarian Revolution Celebrates 13 Years of A ...
    Thirteen years ago yesterday, Hugo Chávez was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. With a socialist-oriented program for the country, the president continues to maintain popular support with an approval rating of over 60 percent, according to recent polls. On Decembe ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "This Land ...
    By @KYYellowDog There are some verses to this song that are rarely if ever sung. They are subversive, socialist and as anti-plutocracy as they come. Here are two they don't teach at summer camp: As I was walkin'  -  I saw a sign there And that sign said - no tress passin' But on the ...
  • Regularly Scheduled Blogging
    By @BGinKC You may have noticed that I have been fairly quiet lately, only maintaining my regular schedule on Facebook, and that is because the Monthly pays me to do so. It's nothing major. It's a bad battery and power cord on the netbook I use for blogging. This tablet is changing my life, espe ...
  • Privatized Health Insurance Killing Kentucky's ...
    By @KYYellowDog Privatizing public services always - ALWAYS - costs more for worse service. And in Kentucky it's destroying jobs by killing small businesses. From the Courier: Kentucky legislators are threatening to subpoena three managed care companies after the state's 550 small pharmacies com ...
  • Death Penalty for Lack of Papers
    By @KYYellowDog When anti-immigrant hatred and hysteria trump the Hippocratic Oath, we are doomed. Amanda Peterson Beadle at Think Progress: Jesus Navarro, a dialysis patient who will die without a kidney transplant, has private insurance. He has a donor to provide the needed kidney. But because ...
  • Don't Like the Rules, Don't Take the Money
    By @KYYellowDog This is, of course, just the flip side of giving tax exemptions to freakazoids who preach political hate. No tax exemptions, no tax breaks, no subsidies, no tax dollars of any amount to anyone who claims fealty to any kind of religion. Period. Kevin Drum: E.J. Dionne makes the l ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Stop the Reopening of the Cruel ...
    The diving horse show at the Atlantic City Steel Pier was shut down in the 1970's, but the event is set to return this summer. Riders mount horses and then dive from the tall pier into the water below. This dangerous and cruel event is terrifying. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |  ...
  • Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth
    Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Save Lug & Marley, German Sheph ...
    Please do not punish Lug and Marley, the two German Shepherd dogs owned by Ingrid Sacha, for doing exactly what humans have not only relied upon our canine companions to do for centuries, but also bred them to do protect us and our homes from threats Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |& ...
  • Save Lives by Supporting the Florida Animal Re ...
    The Florida Animal Rescue Act (SB 818 and HB 597) is a groundbreaking bill that would create a fundamental shift in the way animals in Floridas animal sheltering system are treated. By prohibiting shelters from killing any animal in a pound or shelter Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Support Minnesota Companion Animal Protection ...
    The Minnesota Companion Animal Protection Act (MN CAPA), HF 1735, has been introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives and is sponsored by Rep. John Benson (R-30B). This landmark bill emphasizes saving animals lives in Minnesotas public and Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Check In With Nevada Caucus Results
    The first caucus returns are already trickling in, with many more @ at around 7 p.m. Here’s some background from a Reuters/Yahoo story. It’s so nice, for once, to see the Pacific time zone in a news story. It’s lookin’ good for Mitt. Two polls taken this week in Nevada sh ...
  • Newt Gingrich, Lesbian Shocker?
    Got your attention? Well, read on. News today is that Gingrich is planning to hold a press conference after the Nevada caucuses wrap up. This comes as the National Enquirer hits the stands today with the blaring headline, NEWT GINGRICH’S WIFE, LESBIAN SHOCKER. Oh oh. Remember when the Nati ...
  • F**king for Flowers
    OK, I admit I am on an anti-sexism kick these days. So when you watch the big game on Sunday you will be accosted by this little gem. Gee guys, who knew women were so easy to get into the sack? Putting out starts at only $29.95 (plus tax). I think Kristen Gwynne has it [...]
  • Newt Gingrich, The Quinessential Boor
    Newt. The new synonym for “boor” or “lout.” Typical self-centered asshole. Did he have the grace to call Mitt Romney and congratulate the former Massachusetts Governor for his victory in Florida? Oh, hell no. Did Mitt call and congratulate Newt when the latter won in Sout ...
  • The Pseudo Economic Rebound
    Ah Obots. You are having verbal orgasms, ecstatic over the “news” that 240,000 jobs supposedly were created in January 2012. Hope and change is back. You are now ready to declare victory and vindicate the pathetic economic policies of the Obama Administration. Just one little problem ...

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

  • Silas House play highlights LBGT struggle for ...
    Silas House play highlights LBGT struggle for fairness Richmond Register House, director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College and a best-selling author, had intended to write about mountain-top removal and the coal industry, he said. However, “This Is My Heart For You,” debuting at the col ...
  • Carving down the mountain - Middle East North ...
    Carving down the mountain Middle East North Africa Financial Network ASHLAND, Feb 05, 2012 (The Daily Independent - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- When you have bags of clothes piled to the ceiling, mountaintop removal is a blessing. "Money wouldn't do me any good ...
  • Book review: Mountains of deception - Atlanta ...
    Book review: Mountains of deception Atlanta Journal Constitution In a town devastated by brutal mountain top removal, the constant blasting, flooding and pollution have driven the natives either out of their homes or out of their minds. The water is undrinkable, their houses are ruined from the ...
  • Coal Symposium ends with Obama bashing session ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Coal Symposium ends with Obama bashing session Charleston Gazette (blog) My good friend Ben Bailey, the Charleston lawyer who represents the state in its taxpayer-funded lawsuit to block the US EPA's crackdown on mountaintop removal. Ben cited this as proof of a “Bi ...
  • Is the coal industry just misunderstood? - Cha ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Is the coal industry just misunderstood? Charleston Gazette (blog) Of course, that poll also showed strong opposition to mountaintop removal, and support for tougher regulations on strip mining. White said that, while the industry will continue to actively oppose toughe ...

Memeorandum

  • Greece takes step closer to default (Financial ...
    Financial Times: Greece takes step closer to default  —  By Kerin Hope in Athens, Alex Barker in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Munich  —  Lucas Papademos, the Greek premier, failed to make party leaders accept harsh terms in return for a second €130bn bail-ou ...
  • 'Honour' crime: Three women killed 'for loose ...
    Owais Jaffery / The Express Tribune: ‘Honour’ crime: Three women killed ‘for loose morals’  —  DERA GHAZI KHAN:  —  Kot Chuttha police have arrested a man who has admitted to killing his wife, Samina, her sister (his brother's wife) and th ...
  • Nevada caucuses 2012: 5 takeaways (Maggie Habe ...
    Maggie Haberman / Politico: Nevada caucuses 2012: 5 takeaways  —  Nevada was twice lucky for Mitt Romney.  —  The Silver State bet big on Romney last night — a win with a slightly diminished impact because it was expected, but which was, nonetheless, a notc ...
  • Super Bowl ads: Pete Hoekstra's hits a nerve ( ...
    Tim Mak / Politico: Super Bowl ads: Pete Hoekstra's hits a nerve  —  The campaign of former Rep. Peter Hoekstra for U.S. Senate explained a racially charged Super Bowl advertisement they developed - complete with an Asian actress speaking in broken English - as a reflection of C ...
  • Egypt Will Try 19 Americans on Criminal Charge ...
    David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times: Egypt Will Try 19 Americans on Criminal Charges  —  CAIRO — Egyptian authorities on Sunday referred 19 Americans and two dozen others to criminal trials as part of a politically charged investigation into the foreign financing of nonp ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Fiji region
    Sunday, February 5, 2012 23:50:41 UTC Monday, February 6, 2012 11:50:41 AM at epicenterDepth: 521.00 km (323.73 mi)
  • M 5.2, Mindanao, Philippines
    Sunday, February 5, 2012 16:46:43 UTC Monday, February 6, 2012 12:46:43 AM at epicenterDepth: 490.20 km (304.60 mi)
  • M 6.0, Vanuatu
    Sunday, February 5, 2012 16:40:39 UTC Monday, February 6, 2012 03:40:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.30 km (6.40 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kyrgyzstan
    Sunday, February 5, 2012 07:10:18 UTC Sunday, February 5, 2012 01:10:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.90 km (12.99 mi)
  • M 5.0, southern Iran
    Sunday, February 5, 2012 06:10:39 UTC Sunday, February 5, 2012 09:40:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Farmland security
    Crisis on the financial markets has brought investors flocking to agricultural assets. But the risks may help drive a more sustainable approach, writes Alejandro Litovsky.How agricultural land is owned, what is grown on it, and by whom, will probably determine much of the next century’s po ...
  • 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 ...

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Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    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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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Hey, CDC and FDA, Taco Bell has a Long History ...
    Everyone remembers the New York Taco Bell restaurant rat problem: There were no reported illnesses. Despite the CDC and FDA not “naming names” at times, Taco Bell has a long history of problems.  Thanks to Outbreak Database, here is a list: Multistate Taco Bell Restaurant C ...
  • People, not Statistics, became Sick and Died i ...
    According to the CDC’s final report, a total of 146 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes were reported to CDC from 28 states. The number of infected persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), California ...
  • Cantaloupes, a Fruit with a Problem
    Although the 2011 cantaloupe outbreak that sickened 146 and killed 30 (with an additional two dying over the last months) and one miscarriage was the first known Listeria outbreak associated with cantaloupe, cantaloupe outbreaks are by no means a new phenomenon.  Since 1985, in fact, there ...
  • Hey Kid, Step Away from that Frog
    And, for that matter other amphibians and reptiles. CDC just released a new report entitled “Outbreak of Salmonellosis Associated with Pet Turtle Exposures — United States, 2011”. This report describes an outbreak of 132 human Salmonella infections between August 2010 and Sep ...
  • Campylobacter Linked to Raw Milk Consumption S ...
    According to AP, an outbreak of a campylobacter bacterial infection due to consuming raw milk from a Edwin Shank’s Family Cow Farm in Pennsylvania is now linked to 38 illnesses in four states, The farm has temporarily suspended sales. Four are sick in Maryland according to the Maryland D ...

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

  • No title
  • 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!

  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 2/5 ...
    Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday, February 5th from 8 -10am EST .
  • "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 ...

Suzie-Q

Solari

  • U.S. Indicts Wegelin Bank for Helping American ...
    By Lynnley Browning The United States indicted Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, on charges that it enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes on at least $1.2 billion hidden in offshore bank accounts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The announcement, by federal prosecutors in ...
  • Panetta Believes Israel May Strike Iran This S ...
    By The Telegraph United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, according to reports. The Washington Post first reported that Panetta was concerned about the increased li ...
  • Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Threatens Activism
    (photo: Advocacy for Animals – Britannica) By Will Potter, Jurist A recent undercover investigation into one of the nation’s largest egg producers, Sparboe Farms, documented hens mangled in cage wire, many with open wounds, and chicks having their beaks burned off by workers. This i ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The government is run by special interests clawing away at a shrinking pie and things are becoming quite vicious.” ~ Ron Paul Related reading: Ron Paul Wikipedia Ron Paul 2012 Wakeupstupid (2 May 2011)
  • 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 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What can climate scientists tell about the dri ...
    Summary:  What can we expect from Earth’s climate during the next decade or so?  Unfortunately climate sciences forecasts have become footballs in public policy debates.  Can we see through the fog?  Here we see a selection of articles explaining the current state of the climate sciences.  ...
  • Is it possible to debate climate change with t ...
    Summary: The comments in reply to the posts on the FM website often provide valuable information.  Sometimes new information and insights.  Sometimes revealing the tactics and thinking of factions in our society.  The posts about global warming produce especially interesting replies, showing how ...
  • About the January jobs report – mildly g ...
    Summary:  Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which contain a lot of noise.  The 12-month changes are more revealing.  We are in a slow recovery, somewhat faster than in 2010.  We should enjoy it, as it was bought at great cost. Here we examine the January employm ...
  • Lessons for America from the Russo-Japanese War
    Summary:  Just as tactical military victory does not guarantee strategic military victory, tactical victory at the peace table does not guarantee the accomplishment of national strategic goals. From the start through the termination of the Russo-Japanese War, at the strategic level, Japan unders ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Iran, Israel and Rock Star Prescience
    True story. In September 2008 I was waiting for a flight at Minneapolis airport. And so were the members of Rage Against the Machine. Which was how I found myself in a foreign policy discussion with Zack de la Rocha. (Our flight also gave me a chance to introduce Tom Morello to Ben Stein, but th ...
  • America’s Drones, Transparency and Accountability
    On Monday evening, President Obama made the unprecedented decision to publicly acknowledge U.S. drone strikes against suspected terrorists and militants in Pakistan. During a Google+ “Hang Out” webchat, the president overturned seven and half-years of policy when he stated that: “Obviously a lot ...
  • Security Council Vote on Syria Up in the Air
    After a night of terror in Homs, the atmosphere at the UN Security Council is tense, as diplomats still are unsure whether a resolution on Syria will pass this morning. The draft, written by Morocco and amended several times since its introduction, is still meeting opposition from the Russian Fe ...
  • Retrenchment & Liberal Internationalism Don’t ...
    Taking Brian Rathbun’s advice, I was reading chapter 4 of Perception and Misperception, when it struck me that Jervis’ argument about values incongruity could be applied to the two most popular normative positions in IR today – that western power and international law can help reduce violence a ...
  • Wars Without End
    President Obama has, predictably, been taken to task in recent days by leading Republican candidates for president for proposing that the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan be brought to a close next year. The U.S. has been fighting in that country for a decade. If we withdraw combat forces next ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Sell By Super Tuesday
    (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich holds a press conference after losing the Nevada caucus. To no one’s surprise, Mitt Romney repeated his 2008 performance in Nevada with a double-digit win last night. Given the poll numb ...
  • How Liberal Is Barack Obama?
    President Obama is the most moderate Democratic president since the end of World War II, while President George W. Bush was the most conservative president in the post-war era. For more, see Keith Poole’s post at Voteview.
  • State of the Week
    Each Friday—well at least most Fridays—I'm going to sum up the big news happening in states around the country. To make it more interesting I'm naming a State of the Week where the biggest news came from. See something that's missing? Tell me: arapoport@prospect.org or on Twitter @RaRapoport. A ...
  • Has Komen Reversed Course?
    Here's the statement that Komen for the Cure has released explaining its new position. I've bolded some parts: We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives. The events of this week have been deeply un ...
  • Because You Need To See Michelle Obama Dance W ...
    It's just the first 40 seconds of the video. Check it:  video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

Buzzflash

  • Komen's Small Board Includes GOP CEO, Her Son, ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT  No doubt the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has done some good and honorable work, but according to the most recent audit of Komen, it had $471 million in "public support and revenue" in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011 - and that's a lo ...
  • CEO of Komen and Former Husband Gave Massive D ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The fallout from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's planned severing of funding to Planned Parenthood can be measured in the number of women who would be denied breast cancer screening. Today, February 3, Komen engaged in what is known as ...
  • Tell the Tea Party: The Obamas Represent True ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Given the daily lacerating commentaries on BuzzFlash at Truthout, you might not suspect that we have a sentimental side. Although, admittedly, there is a political/"social values" angle to our soft spot for the Obama marriage.read more
  • 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 ...

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

  • Say No To An Attack on Iran Today!
    Say no to an Attack on Iran Today! Listing of actions:read more
  • Say No To An Attack on Iran Today!
    Say no to an Attack on Iran Today! Listing of actions:read more
  • Military Officials Formally Refer Bradley Mann ...
    Military officials today formally referred all charges against PFC Bradley Manning to a full court martial. Today's announcement by the General Court-Martial Convening Authority, Major General Michael S. Linnington, endorses the recommendations made last month by Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, who p ...
  • Military Officials Formally Refer Bradley Mann ...
    Military officials today formally referred all charges against PFC Bradley Manning to a full court martial. Today's announcement by the General Court-Martial Convening Authority, Major General Michael S. Linnington, endorses the recommendations made last month by Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, who p ...
  • Arizona State University Blocks Popular Online ...
    Arizona State University is reportedly blocking students’ access to Change.org and to messages from the site to ASU email addresses. A popular website that uses petitions to create social change, Change.org is hosting a petition by ASU students to lower tuition rates.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Wild Dreams: Anonymous, Arne Duncan, and High- ...
    Jim Horn Last night I was re-reading a terrific little book from 1976 by Don Martin, George Overholt, and Wayne Urban: Accountability in American Education: A Critique. The book brings so many elements of the current edu-mess into focus, wh ...
  • If You Want to Fight Cancer, Turn Those Pink R ...
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I'm going to make a confession. I never could stand those pink ribbons. I've never done a "Walk for the Cure" or bought daffodils for cancer victims or even picked a cancer-cure-themed postage ...
  • Why Protests Should Be a Part of Super Bowl Sunday
    Dave Zirin Today, the greatest multitude in the history of the United States will be tuning into the same television show at the same time. The 2012 Super Bowl, to be played between two major media markets, the New England Patriots and New ...
  • Return of Cheney’s One Percent Doctrine
    Robert Parry A weak point in the psyches of many Americans is that they allow their imaginations to run wild about potential threats to their personal safety, no matter how implausible the dangers may beread more
  • Beyond the Bubble Economy
    David Korten Public anger at the 2008 Wall Street bailout, concerns about debt, and a deep and pervasive fear that another financial crash is just a matter of time create an important moment of opportunity for a long overdue public conversa ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • No one wins in water wars
    Water is our most vital natural resource and should not be a partisan issue. But after a decade of beneficial policies to protect Florida’s water supply, partisan politics is rearing its ugly head and threatening our quality of life.
  • No one wins in water wars
    Water is our most vital natural resource and should not be a partisan issue. But after a decade of beneficial policies to protect Florida’s water supply, partisan politics is rearing its ugly head and threatening our quality of life.
  • No Trees…No Baguio…No Home
    By Michael A. Bengwayan What would Baguio be like without trees? Close your eyes, and try to imagine a desolate Baguio City full of concrete... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Who says Palestinian resistance is dead?
    Nour Joudah 3 February 2012 The Arab uprisings are serving Palestinian youth in much the same way solidarity with Palestinian intifadas historically served activists in other Arab countries.
  • "We will rebuild": Hebron family resists unrel ...
    Emily Lawrence Hebron 3 February 2012 Despite chronic attacks on their homes and property by settlers, while Israeli forces continue to confiscate more and more land to serve the nearby settlement, the Jaber family hold fast to both their heritage and their future.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • Will Global Warming Ruin Football in the South?
    Football’s heartland will become dangerously hot Back in November, GE’s TXCHNOLOGIST blog pointed out that climate change “could ruin Texas football,” indeed all southern U.S. football: The effects of climate change, so far, have been most noticeable in Texas, where a terrible ...
  • GOP Rep. Mike Rogers: An Israeli Attack On Ira ...
    The past week brought heightened discussion of a potential Israeli unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. But House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley this morning, agreed that an Israeli attack would &#822 ...
  • Bloomberg: ‘You’d Think That If A ...
    Appearing on Meet the Press this morning, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed bewilderment at the many lawmakers in Washington who continue sabotage existing gun laws: BLOOMBERG: You’d think that if a congresswoman got shot in the head, that would have changed Congress’ views. ...
  • REC-ing Crew: Does the ‘Greening’ ...
    The Super Bowl is pure American Red, White and Blue. And organizers are trying to throw in a shade of green as well. This year, the National Football league is undertaking a variety of initiatives — from an urban forestry program to donation of a small solar array — to “green” its op ...
  • Tim Tebow Tells Golf Channel: Politics ‘ ...
    Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow opened the door to a future in politics during an interview with the Golf Channel’s Dave Feherty. “It could be something in my future,” Tebow said. Feherty began the conversation by lobbying Tebow to run. “I have an idea — would ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Sweet Christ
    But take a gander at these awesome graphics! What a gas!
  • Ezra Levant is REALLY Stupid
    And that's why the stupid portion of the Canadian bell curve likes him so much! Well, truth be told, most really stupid Canadians don't watch the news, read books or newspapers, or anything. So Ezra's fans are a small portion of the stupid population. The part that strains itself mightily trying ...
  • Should be pointed out ...
    There's so much that's rotten, here in Canada and everywhere else. But I think Glenn Greenwald's observations here deserve some mention: From a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all of this: if you think about it, it is warped beyond belief that the ACLU has ...
  • 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.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Is Canada’s oil sands monitoring program a ‘PR ...
    Environment Canada announces they are taking steps to monitor the effects of development of oil sands in the area. The plan is designed to gauge the cumulative effects on the environment from oil production from tar sands.
  • Huge BC rally in Prince Rupert protests Northe ...
    A huge rally took to the streets on Saturday in British Columbia’s Prince Rupert, opposing Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline which would transport Alberta tar sands to Kitimat, primary access point along the province’s northwest coast.
  • The danger of tanning beds for under-18 consumers
    The Canadian Pediatric Society is calling for a ban on tanning bed use for under-18 consumers. Some of the dangers from commercial indoor tanning include premature aging, eye damage and skin cancer; in particular deadly melanoma.
  • Beauty of snow on Mount Seymour
    After a springlike weather of the Groundhog Day in the region of Vancouver's Lower Mainland, the last remains of snow are found in higher elevations in the mountains.
  • Sam D Man keeps going as Oilers Sam Gagner sco ...
    After scoring 4 goals and 4 assists against the Chicago Blackhawks two nights before, Edmonton Oiler forward Sam Gagner picked up where he left off on Feb. 4. At least he did for the first period.

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

  • Monsanto’s Biopiracy Faces Charges In India
    January 18, 2012 OpEd News By Sayer Ji According to an article published this month in the journal Nature Biotechnology, Monsanto is facing biopiracy charges in India. In an unprecedented decision, India’s National Biodiversity Authority(NBA), a government agency, declared legal action aga ...
  • IBM Wants Biometric Data To Replace All Forms ...
    January 18, 2012 InfoWars By Brandon Turbeville Fresh on the heels of India’s massive databasing program that is set to encompass all 1.2 billion members of its population, recent announcements by IBM should be drawing the attention of some 300 million Americans. IBM’s “IBM 5 in 5” predictions r ...
  • Scientists Introduce Edible Microchips That Tr ...
    January 18, 2012 The Independent By Steve Connor An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient’s pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal that opens the door to an era of digital medicines. An American biomedical company ha ...
  • Will Obama Resist Push for Iran War?
    January 19, 2012 Consortium News By Marjorie Cohn Neocons in Israel and the United States are escalating their rhetoric to prepare us for war with Iran. Even the infamous John Yoo, architect of President George W. Bush’s illegal torture and spying programs, is calling on the Republican president ...
  • Internet Blackout Highlights Failure of Americ ...
    January 19, 2012 Activist Post By J.G. Vibes “Hey government – hands off the Internet. I think we made that loud and clear.” –KTRN Our whole lives we have been told that we have “freedom”, that we live in a “democracy”, that “we the people” have the ability to choose the ...

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

  • U.S. Leak on Israeli Attack Weakened a Warning ...
    Dissident Voice Article By Gareth Porter IPS – When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly yet another expression of alarm at the Israeli government&# ...
  • Has our hypocrisy at the UN prevented action o ...
    By Dark Politricks As most people will know waking up today to the morning newspapers and TV shows yesterday saw both a massacre in the Syrian city of Homs and a vote at the UN which was vetoed by both Russia and China which condemned the Assad regime. The attack on the city of Homs was blamed b ...
  • Santorum suggests abortion causes breast cancer
    Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested that Susan G. Komen for the Cure shouldn’t provide grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because abortions cause breast cancer, a false claim that has been repeatedly debunked. The candidate told Fox News hos ...
  • ‘Israeli attack on Iran will pull US int ...
    Russia Today youtube.com The West should drop the Libyan scenario when dealing with Syria. The country’s opposition is neither homogenous, nor ideologically transparent, and the West cannot be completely sure who it is supporting, political editor Mehdi Hasan told Russia Today. Link to thi ...
  • Hitler would have loved The Singularity: Mind- ...
    UK Daily Mail February 5, 2012 By IAN MORRIS, PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AND HISTORY AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY Of all the tall tales in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek, what impressed me most when I was a  little boy was the Vulcan mind meld. Laying his hands on the head of a human (or, in [...]

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges on the reality and the seriousnes ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 30, 2012 catwatters4 on Jan 30, 2012 Chris Hedges on NDAA, New School, 1/29/12 Talk on the reality, the seriousness of what the NDAA really means. Chris Hedges on NDAA, New School, 1/29/12 Part 1 * * Was able to video most of the talk,, befo ...
  • Canadian Citizen Naser Al Raas Faces Death Ris ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 1 February 2012 Family Appeal To Ottawa Government To End Its Silence Over Barbaric Treatment A Canadian citizen with a life-threatening heart condition has lost his appeal for acquittal in Bahrain and is now beginning a five-year sen ...
  • Barack, Ya Coulda Been A Contender! by Philip ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 1, 2012 OK, Barack, from one Brooklyn guy to one Chicago guy, let’s talk straight and pull no punches. I don’t care how nice of a guy you may be, or how intelligent and articulate… ya blew it kiddo! Just like with your predecessors, esp ...
  • The Grand Ayatollah of nuclear menace by Willi ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org Feb. 3, 2012 The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of threats. The Grand Ayatollah of nuclear menace. As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being “the only ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: Military action against Iran ...
    Dandelion Salad DJKucinich on Feb 3, 2012 During an interview last month on CBS’ Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.” But if you read recent news reports lately, you’d think ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Sugar May Be Bad, But Is the Alternative Worse?
    Given the recent controversy over sugar, one might look to artificial sweeteners for an easy alternative to thorny scientific and ethical questions. But to anyone seeking pastel-packaged reassurance that regulators won't ever need to pry donuts from their cold, dead and pudgy fingers, science o ...
  • Cosmonaut Couture: Russian Photo Shoot Makes S ...
    In a resurgent space-themed fashion shoot, supermodel Natalia Semanova mingles with real-life cosmonauts in Star City, the home of Russia's space training program. We interview the spread's photographer, Arthur Elgort, for the back story.
  • Video: How the View From a Comet Might Look
    The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is heading for a comet. The ambitious mission -- scheduled to enter orbit Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January of 2014 and place a tiny lander named Philae on its surface that November – will no doubt return incredible, never-before-seen pict ...
  • Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other ...
    Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous "Blue Marble" image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high resolution photograph of our watery world.
  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • No Sanctions, No War, No Dictatorship in Iran
    Looking for a way to oppose US and Israeli war threats against Iran while at the same time condemning the terrible repression taking place inside Iran? This Saturday, February 4th, New Yorkers can do... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • FDA's Outrageous New Claim: Your Body Is a Dr ...
    In what amounts to an outrageous power-grab, the U.S. FDA is saying that the stem cells within your own body are drugs.  They further claim that stem cell therapy counts as interstate commerce because it affects the profits of FDA-approved drugs in other states. These ridiculous arguments ...
  • Time to Panic: Pfizer Just Recalled 1 Million ...
    Pfizer has just recalled a million packs of birth control pills because a fault in their manufacture means they could actually increase your chances of getting pregnant. The affected pills include Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets.  The pills were distributed ...
  • New Study Shows Cancer Drugs Affect Genes for ...
    Three common chemotherapy drugs cause DNA mutations.  But a study on mice found that the mutations did not just occur in the animals that received the treatment, but also in their offspring. This may mean that the genome in treated mice became destabilized, creating new mutations long afte ...
  • Monsanto Accused in Suit Tied To Agent Orange
    For a period spanning 20 years, a Monsanto chemical plant in West Virginia produced the herbicide 2,4,5-T.   2,4,5-T is a component of Agent Orange, the defoliant sprayed over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.  Monsanto now faces a class-action lawsuit, filed on behalf of peo ...
  • Should Pregnant Women Avoid Using Cell Phones?
    A new study sought to evaluate the intensity of oxidative stress and the levels of neurotransmitters in the brains of fetal rats chronically exposed to radiation from to cell phones. Four groups of pregnant rats were exposed to different intensities of cell phone microwave radiation -- one group ...

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 ...
  • 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’ ...
  • 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.  ...

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?

  • Sheldon Adelson has already bought a politicia ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina primary victory has brought onto the spotlight his campaign’s main benefactor, Sheldon Adelson. Relatively to his wealth and the manner in which he has acquired it, Adelson has managed to stay away from the limelight – despite his quoted bragging ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • It’s too late to save the common web
    Scoble says the dream of a common web is gone. We now have pretty web gardens with big high walls around them, often with no way to get your data out much less make it interchangeable. You want one central repository for all your contacts across all platforms? There’s no way to do that [...]
  • Republican candidates as Gilligan’s Island cast
  • Advertising now defining your identity and worth
    “The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth.” Yale University Press This review of Joseph Turow’s book The Daily You from Doug Weaver at The Drift caused me to download the first chapter (free) to my Kindle. For Turow, the real issue is the dig ...
  • Why is Monsanto lobbyist serving as the FDA Fo ...
    It’s probably for the same reasons the architects of the financial crisis were appointed by Obama to clean up the mess they made. Depending on your point of view you might see such appointments as extraordinarily dumb, evidence of bad advice from advisers, or proof that the fix is in.
  • Amphetamine psychosis in the meth capital of US
    A 23 year old Fresno, CA mother shot her two toddlers, cousin, husband, and herself after smoking meth. It’s called amphetamine psychosis, and it’s beyond ugly. The Central Valley of California is a hub for meth distribution. Rural areas are good for cooking meth in and some fertiliz ...

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

  • Paul Campaign Tech, former Bush insider; Doug ...
    This is a little weird. From a February 1, 2012 Doug Wead lecture at Western Michigan University Fetzer Center. related:
  • Nevada and Maine Vote this weekend – Pau ...
    The News just completely lies about this entire election, Doug Wead sets the record straight with a smile. Looks like Nevada will be a big loss for Paul, and Maine should get him to # 2 behind M-Rom. Frustrating to say the least. We are still a very long way off.  
  • Employment Report: Blatant And Outrageous Lies
    This article cuts through the BS the O’Bomba Admin is selling pre selection 2012. The OTHER points not made in this article are inconvenient to the Govt. 1) Whatever numbers and statistics come out, they are simply averaged in to a national flow. In some cities we have seen unemployment re ...
  • “Occupy” Austin PD HQ Protest Janu ...
      JustLive.US On Saturday January 28th, 2012, well over a hundred people from all walks of life, protested on the steps of the Austin Police Department for solidarity of the victims of police abuse on January 1, 2012. This was the second rally that was organized to protest police abuse in A ...
  • The (Police) State of US Surveillance
      Written by Doug Hornig Date: 02-03-2012 Casey Research Articles Via Freedoms Phoenix   Lovers of liberty have seemingly had a good bit to celebrate recently. First, there was an unprecedented outpouring of negative public sentiment about the Congressional bills SOPA (House) and PIPA ...

The Air Vent

  • Comparison of Northern Hemisphere Perennial an ...
    We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Jan. 30 to Feb. 4. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.  Monday, Jan. 30 Pocket Gems’ Zombie Takeover for iOS provides … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Plumbee, GREE International, Inc., Tapjoy, LolGames, 6 Waves/Lolapp ...
  • Facebook hires marketing exec to boost brand image
    Facebook hired former Levi’s CMO Rebecca Van Dyck to lead its global marketing efforts, according to Ad Age. Van Dyck, who worked at Apple and Wieden+Kennedy before Levi’s, will bring important branding experience to Facebook. An initial public offering this … Continue reading →
  • Facebook roundup: Politics, Super Bowl ads, more
    Facebook polls appear in Times Square – Facebook and ad agency R/GA partnered to produce a political polling app, 2012 Matters: What Matters Most. Users can indicate which issues are most important to them and have their answers appear on the … Continue reading →
  • Mobile usage pushes Facebook engagement to new ...
    A greater percentage of Facebook’s monthly active users became daily active users in recent years as consumers switched to smartphones, according to an analysis of the company’s filing for an initial public offering. DAU as a percentage of MAU is … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...
  • Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reac ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.
  • 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.

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

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Punishing the Population: The United States in Haiti & the Dominican Republic This podcast episode examines the early 20th century United States military occupations of Haiti (1915-1934) and the Dominican Republic (1916-1924), undertaken as an imposition of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) declar ...
  • The EyeOpener- Resisting the Police State: Sol ...
    Leveling the Playing Field between the Oppressor & the Oppressed With TSA abuses back in the headlines, continued concern over the NDAA and other legislation codifying martial law, President Obama’s unchallenged use of his self-proclaimed authority to assassinate American citizens wit ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “WAR, n. A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.” – Chaz Bufe, the Devil’s Dictionaries International Newsworthy ...
  • The Formula: Inform, Organize, Action
    They Say it all Starts with ‘Informing’ … Those of you who’ve been listening to our podcast series know how impatient I sometimes get when the question boils down to ‘what do we do? Where do we go from here?’ Look, I understand and agree with the general consensus out there among the intellectua ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Welcome to Soothing the Beast. All week we work, stay involved, fight and just try to survive and come to grips with everything in this world around us. We need a break and that’s what this segment is all about. At Boiling Frogs Post when Saturday night r ...

Afro Spear

  • “Certain Signs of Societal Decline&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few of the scenes caught on video across ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Way It Was: McPherson Square (Photo Essay)
    Some photos I took last week with my cellphone and finally succeeded in pulling out of cyberspace today.
  • Exposed: The Arab agenda in Syria
    The report points to shady armed gangs as responsible for hundreds of deaths among Syrian civilians, and over 1,000 among the Syrian army, using lethal tactics such as bombing of civilian buses, bombing of trains carrying diesel oil, bombing of police buses and bombing of bridges and pipelines.
  • Return of Cheney's One Percent Doctrine
    ust as happened before the Iraq War, those who want to bomb Iran are scaring the American people with made-up scenarios about grave dangers ahead, new warnings as ludicrous as the "mushroom cloud" tales that panicked the U.S. public a decade ago.
  • America's Jobs Deficit, and Why It's Still Mor ...
    When they're not blaming Obama for a bad economy, Republicans are decrying the federal budget deficit and demanding more cuts. But America's jobs deficit continues to be a much larger problem than the budget deficit.
  • In The "Real Non-Propaganda World," Does Iran ...
    As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being "the only nuclear power in the Middle East" is a great card for Israel to have in its hand. But -- in the real, non-propaganda world -- is USrael actually fearful of an attack from ...

Switchboard

  • It's all about the framing: How polls and the ...
    Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC First of all, you won’t find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling.  And in most polls, you won’t even find oil.  It’s just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no m ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile  In the last three months, Chile’s government has raced to achieve its goal of obtaining a national energy matrix that consists of 20% alternative energies by 2020. Today only ...
  • Southern California's New Wave of Local Water ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Last week, the Luskin Center at UCLA sponsored a conference called “The Future of Water in Southern California.” The conference lived up to its ambitious title. That event ...
  • Backlash Builds Against the House Transportati ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. The House transportation bill that emerged from various committees this week is getting hammered from all sides. And the media coverage is a testament to the political firestorm that has ...
  • Hundreds of Leaders Agree: Kill the House Tran ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. What a week it's been! Three Congressional committees marked up and passed five historic bills. Historically awful, that is. Now House Leaders -- who clearly have hijacked the tr ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Super Bowl Open Thread
    I can’t leave any suspense about the pick, since I already placed my low stakes wager on the Giants (money line and +3) the Monday after the championship games before the sharps bet the Giants payouts down more. The line seems like an obvious botch for a relatively even-matched game on a n ...
  • Evil plot thwarted
    Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My favorite line: In Maine, the Tea Party-backed Republican governor canceled a project to ease congestion along the Route 1 corridor af ...
  • The Disincentive for Natural Disaster Preparation
    Interesting Times article on the battle between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and areas of Illinois over upgrading levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Essentially, the Army Corps says the levees are not up to snuff and the communities say it is too expensive to upgrade them. In the decen ...
  • Modes of Loyalty
    Ah, the Patriots: So close to the Super Bowl, yet so far. Wide receiver Tiquan Underwood has been cut by the Patriots less than 24 hours before the big game — bad news for him, of course, but a move that increases the likelihood Chad Ochocinco will be active against the Giants on Sunday. Which [...]
  • Pro Football Hall of Fame
    Yesterday, 6 players were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I was particularly excited by the inclusion of the great Seattle Seahawk Cortez Kennedy, one of my favorite players in team history. Willie Roaf and Dermontti Dawson were both clear choices. I am less excited about Curtis Mar ...

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.

  • E-DISCOVERY: Model order has import beyond pat ...
    Judge Randall Rader introduced it, saying greatest weakness of system is expense, driven by discovery excesses.
  • E-DISCOVERY: Crushing Costs
    What data there are — and there aren't many — don't support notion that costs are forcing settlements.
  • 2012: PRO BONO HOTLIST
    It's an ugly situation — pro bono work by large law firms is on a steep decline. This year's Pro Bono Hot List highlights 10 firms that haven't forgotten their professional obligations even — especially — during hard times. Often, at considerable expense or risk to themselves.
  • The 2012 Forecast
    With storm clouds in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S., which Washington practices will flourish and which will fail this year? We asked three D.C. managing partners.
  • THE CAREERIST: Lessons from the Iron Lady
    Bad news, ladies: You might have to trash the Manolos and the Jil Sander ensemble. Instead, break out the sensible Ferragamo pumps and head to the nearest Talbots for some royal blue suits. And while you're at it, stock up on the extra-hold hairspray.

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

  • Indian Clean-Energy Growth Was Fastest in Worl ...
    Renewable energy investments in India increased by more than 52 percent in 2011, the fastest growth among major global economies, according to a new report. More than $10.3 billion was invested in renewable energy projects in India last year, with about $4.6 billion targeting wind energy project ...
  • Sierra Club Accepted Millions from Natural Gas ...
    The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest environmental group in the U.S., accepted more than $25 million from the natural gas industry from 2007 to 2010 while promoting the fuel as a “bridge” to a clean-energy future, according to a Time magazine report. The organization used the funds — which la ...
  • Mysteries of Killer Whales Uncovered in the An ...
    Two of the world’s leading experts on the world’s top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing a creature whose remarkably cooperative hunting behavior and transmission of knowledge across generations may be rivaled only by humans. BY FEN MONTAIGNE
  • Earth’s First Plants May Have Triggered Ice Ag ...
    The first plants to colonize the planet about 470 million years ago may have plunged Earth into a series of ice ages, according to a new study. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers suggests that the earliest plants — including the ancestors of today’s mosses — caused s ...
  • New Gorilla Habitat Discovered Using Satellite ...
    Satellite and land surveys of the mountainous terrain along the Nigeria-Cameroon border have revealed that the world’s rarest gorilla, the Cross River gorilla, has access to more suitable habitat than previously believed, including vital corridors that allow the gorillas to move WCS A Cross ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Words from brain waves may let scientists read ...
    Scientists have found a way to decipher actual words from a person’s brain waves, a feat that sounds very much like mind-reading, a new study shows. The research may sound like scary science fiction -- once a person’s brain waves can be read, will any thought be private? -- but the positive impl ...
  • Australia attempts to enact scientific dictato ...
    Self-proclaimed advocates of "science-based" medicine are hard at work trying to eliminate government funding for any form of medical education or treatment that is not conventional in nature. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a new lobbying group of 400 "doctors, medical researchers, and s ...
  • Scientists urge unis to axe alternative medici ...
    More than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists have formed a powerful lobby group to pressure universities to close down alternative medicine degrees. Almost one in three Australian universities now offer courses in some form of alternative therapy or complementary medicine, including ...
  • Occupy Yourself - Not The Streets
    At the heart of each conflict is two predictable polar opposites – the aggressor and the defense. Pick any conflict in history and you will be amazed that this holds true for each one. Due to the predictability of this pattern, the aggressor knows that there will be an uprising to deal with. Wit ...
  • ’Jewish Indiana Jones’ admits Torah fraud
    A self-described "Jewish Indiana Jones" who claimed to have travelled the world to rescue holy Torah scrolls has pleaded guilty to fraud. Rabbi Menachem Youlus, 50, admitted he had simply made up claims that he personally found and restored Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel. Prosecutors also sa ...

Russia Today

  • Syria vote: US ‘appropriated’ UN power
    While officials in Washington tirelessly admonish Russia and China for blocking another resolution on Syria, Rick Rozoff of the Stop NATO group tells RT that the UN has been hijacked by the US and NATO.
  • 'No question' of US backing for Russian opposition
    Over two hundred thousand people gathered Saturday across Russia to voice their political views ahead of next month's presidential election. But some think that many supporters of the Russian opposition are financed...
  • Howdy neighbor: Iran warns neighbors against a ...
    A senior Iranian military official says Tehran will attack any country used by "enemies" to launch a military strike against his country. The statement comes amid growing tensions between Iran and the West.
  • War of nerves: Tehran’s navy arrives in Saudi ...
    Two Iranian naval ships have docked in the Saudi port of Jeddah. Iranian officials say the move aims to project the country's "power on the open seas" and “confront Iranophobia.”
  • No rest to unrest: New and old disputes create ...
    A dozen dead and thousands injured – the bloody aftermath of three straight days of rioting in Egypt. It all began after an outbreak of violence at a football match earlier this week that claimed the lives of 74 people.

Not My Tribe

  • Republican imbecility reigns supreme in their ...
    Republicans really are unrepentant imbeciles. Democrats are usually semi repentant imbeciles. And Libertarian (Republicans) most certainly are the most arrogant, ignorant, and unrepentant imbeciles of the lot. So let’s take a quick look now at Republican Ron Paul and his attitudes regardin ...
  • Pentagon versus THEIR troops
    Being in the military for grunts can be an incredibly depressing ‘lifestyle’ experience. The top brass knows that so how do they respond when a soldier gets fed up and tries to desert the ranks by trying to kill themselves? Why with typical military sensitivity, that’s how! See ...
  • 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.

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Shear Ignorance - NIST and WTC7
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • You Won’t See THIS Commercial During the Superbowl
    You won’t see this commercial, by Chef Rob Endelman and his wife, during the big game today. That’s because Quinoa, broccoli, and other healthy foods are not part of the modern multi billion dollar food chain. But imagine if Kale Chips got the same marketing treatment as Doritos&#823 ...
  • Chili NON Carne for your Superbowl Pleasure
    If you are still figuring out your culinary options for game day tomorrow, here’s an interesting and easy recipe from professional chef Dave Schy – Chili NON CARNE . It has all the body and texture of chili, without the meat. According to Dave, “It’s Damn Good!”. Visit Dave&#82 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Brazilian Indians fear imminent eviction from ...
    Guarani man. © Joaó Ripper/Survival A community of Guarani Indians in Brazil has spoken of its ‘fear, despair and deep pain’, after being served with an eviction order requiring it to leave its land. The Guarani of Laranjeira Nanderu community have been living on a small patch of their an ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the G ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...
  • Romney's Billionaire Funder ThreatensBBC Inves ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash - update Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. The call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Rise From the Ashes
    By Cathy Jameson A rush of excitement filled my house this week. Ronan found a word! I should restate that. He retrieved a word he’d said many, many moons ago. Gathered around his room one night after being tucked in,...
  • Age of Autism Contest Winners: National Autism ...
    Congrats to Jan Randall, Rebekah Gill and Kevin who have won this necklace. Please support our friends at National Autism Association and Designs by Ja9 and purchase your necklaces now for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Teacher gifts at Designs...
  • Request to Secretary Sebelius to Rescind FDA G ...
    In the interest of public health and safety, Sane Vax Inc., appeals to the Secretary of Health and Human services to request that FDA approval of Gardasil® be rescinded due to lack of efficacy demonstrated during post-licensure monitoring. By Norma...
  • 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...

Global BDS Movement

  • No title
    BDS National Committee S. on Dipity.
  • Short history of BDS in France
    As 2012 begins, a French activist looks at the short history of the French BDS movement, which mobilized in the wake of the Israeli assalt on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead
  • 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’.
  • The Italian Movement for Boycott, Divestment a ...
    Third national meeting of the BDS movement against Israel was held in Bologna, Italy. The scope of the meeting was to evaluate the progress of ongoing campaigns between the various Italian groups working on BDS.

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

  • Man accused of involvment in war crimes wins h ...
    Telegraph – A man accused of being complicit in war crimes in the former Yugoslavia has been allowed to stay in Britain on the grounds of human rights. He looked like an innocent refugee, fleeing the ethnic tensions of former Yugoslavia for the safety and security of Britain. But when Deja ...
  • Revealed: Plans to secretly test 30,000 NHS bl ...
    Daily Mail – Thousands of NHS patients could be secretly monitored by the Government for symptoms of the human form of mad cow disease amid concerns that there could be another wave of infections. Experts advising the Department of Health believe patients who have received more than 80 blo ...
  • Syria resolution vetoed by Russia and China at ...
    Guardian – All 13 other members of the council, including the US, France and Britain, voted in favour of the resolution, which backed an Arab peace plan aimed at stopping the violence in Syria. Russia and China blocked the resolution because of what they perceived to be a potential violati ...
  • Protests in Bahrain
    Reuters – Anti-government protests in Bahrain as demonstrators demand the release of political prisoners and political reforms. Read article
  • Sturgeon Scarcity Affects More Than Caviar
    NPR – Sturgeon have been swimming around for more than 200 million years, but their eggs are sought after for caviar. This week, the National Marine Fisheries Service placed the Atlantic sturgeon on its endangered species list. Guest host David Greene speaks with Dr. Ellen Pikitch, executi ...

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

  • A call from Palestinians in Palestine to join ...
    Join us as "We" intensify our struggle against forced exile & the system of Israeli apartheid on Land Day 2012. We Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed & uprooted from our lands starting in the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) which resulted in the creation Submitted by Barbara W. to World   ...
  • Israel proposes West Bank barrier as border
    ''RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) Israel is proposing to essentially turn its West Bank separation barrier into the border with a future state of Palestine, two Palestinian officials said Friday, based on their interpretation of principles Israel presented in Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & ...
  • Deliver an arms trade treaty - Amnesty Pet ...
    we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect human rights and save hundreds of thousands of lives. In July, world leaders will meet in New York to draw up : the worlds first ever international Arms Trade Treaty. Submitted by Christine Linley to World  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Cell 36: Palestinian children locked in solit ...
    Cell 36 in Al Jalame prison, northern Israel, is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks. Submitted by Christine Linley to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PLEASE SIGN! The US May Be Pushing SOPA on Ca ...
    After killing the SOPA & PIPA bills in the US, the wave of protests may be circumvented by U.S. lobby efforts to send SOPA to Canada. Canada's bill C-11 could end up with SOPA-like rules, having the same/ similar effect on Internet & freedom of speech. Submitted by Susan V. to World  | ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Langer feels for ‘out of form’ Marsh
    Sydney: Australian batting coach Justin Langer has said he sympathizes with the beleaguered Shaun Marsh who has been struggling with poor form lately. Marsh has been dropped from the Australian one-day international team and will now play for Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield in an a ...
  • Every party should respect judiciary: Sha ...
    Disapproving Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray's fiery reaction to the Bombay high court decision's denying him permission to hold rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday underlined the need to maintain the dignity ...
  • Amar Singh asked me to return to Congress ...
    Defending his parting of ways with old friend Amar Singh, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt today claimed that his "return" to Congress came after "advice" to this effect from the expelled Samajwadi Party leader himself. "It was Amar Singh himself who gave...
  • Maziarz’s welcome uncertain in Niagara Fa ...
    For years, critics of State Sen. George D. Maziarz have said the Newfane Republican has no business speaking up about problems in Niagara Falls — after all, the city lies outside his district. But if one part of a redistricting map recently drawn by State Senate Republicans withstands a gube ...
  • Wenger claims winning more important than ...
    London, Feb 5(ANI): Following his team's outstanding game against the Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that winning is all that matters for his team...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • NHS Will Have To Be Re-Reformed Within Five Ye ...
    In five years the NHS will require another reform, caution the editors of three leading healthcare publications. In addition, they request a public debate regarding the NHS's future to "salvage some good" from the government's "damaging" reforms. According to a second BMJ report discarding the ...
  • Vaccine Myths - Doctors Try To Dispel Them
    A Missouri State Medical Association, led by two Saint Louis University pediatricians, aims to raise awareness about the importance of getting children vaccinated and change the way in which doctors respond to parents' fears of vaccines. The campaign is the focus point of Ken Haller, M.D., assoc ...
  • 'A little too much drink' warning
    Drinking "just a little more than they should" puts people at risk of serious illness including heart disease, stroke and cancer, the government is warning.
  • New Science in Skin Care Available to Consumers
    WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Prolastil.com Prolastil Skin Cream and Eye Serum Scientific Update The products, marketed under the name , Prolastil E-50 work by increasing the amount of elastin in the skin. The main cause of both wrinkles and facial sagging is the...
  • Recall of hard-cooked eggs includes Washington ...
    Washington is among the states affected by a Minnesota company's recall of hard-cooked eggs.

Common Dreams

  • Obama's Drone Program Includes Targeting Rescu ...
    A week after President Obama spoke publicly for first time about the CIA's drone campaign in Pakistan, a new investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times in London reports the program has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals. ...
  • Turkey: Israeli Attack on Iran 'Would Be Disaster'
    Tensions in the Middle East show no sign of abating today as Iran issued warnings to neighboring Gulf states that they would face the wrath of Iranian military retaliation if US bases on their soils were used to support an attack on their nuclear facilities or infrastructure. Meanwhile, other na ...
  • Occupy Groups, Labor Unions Hope to Capture Su ...
    Super Bowl Sunday, the largest single sporting event in the United States most years, is taking place today in Indianopolis and proponents of labor rights  and representatives of the Occupy movement hope to capitalize on some of the fanfare to make their voices heard. ...
  • Scientists: Arctic Melting Leading to Europe's ...
    The unusual cold weather in eastern Europe has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of vulnerable people living in areas unprepared for the freezing conditions. Extreme weather events have been increasingly evident in recent years, and now scientests are fearful that the 'feedback loops' o ...
  • Canadians Fight Tar Sands Pipeline
    Indigineous groups, environmentalists, and other concerned Canadians took to the streets in the British Columbian town of Prince Rupert on Saturday to protest the construction of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Like the Keystone XL pipeline proposed to transport tar sands oil from Canada ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • New Cuban Crisis Threatens Florida's Coasts
    Ever since Cuba’s intent to drill within 70 miles of Florida’s coast has become known, concerned Floridians have been reeling with how to protect our treasured Florida Keys. For many Floridians, this is a very charged issue.
  • Back to the Public Service Board: Next Steps f ...
    The court ruled in favor of Entergy in the recent court case. In consequence, Entergy applied to the Public Service Board for a Certificate of Public Good for Vermont Yankee.
  • Raising the Efficiency of Solar Cells
    There’s a cottage industry in solar research involving the manipulation of quantum dots. Solar cells using these tiny particles of semiconductors are much less expensive to produce than traditional ones, because they can be made using simple chemical reactions. And scientists for a number of yea ...
  • Science, risk management or just politics?
    An opinion piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Europe) on Tuesday (a few days earlier in the USA) presented the views of sixteen scientists on the issue of climate change under the heading “No Need to Panic About Global Warming“. Unfortunately there isn’t much in the way of science d ...
  • Audio Archive: The Future of Oil & Gas: Explor ...
    Thanks to everyone who listened to last week's The Energy Collective's webcast, which originally aired on January 27, 2012. For everyon who missed it, you can find the audio below, and explore the accompanying slide material.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Lew, Michel, JFK and Me
    By Katherine Smith, PhD An investigative journey from the front page of Lew Rockwell.com to the Internet Abyss: 404 Error - File Not Found Someone has miswritten the URL, deleted the file you are looking for, or the net spirits are against you and will see to it you will never find the inform ...
  • City of Brotherly Love Event Promotes War and Hate
    by Stephen Lendman On February 2, notorious hatemonger Alan Dershowitz keynoted a Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia (JFGP)/Hillel of Greater Philadelphia "Evening of Unity & Community Solidarity" with Israel. Inviting him was disgraceful. He's a shameless bigot, a longstanding Isla ...
  • Egypt Soccer Violence: The Military’s Po ...
    Dr. Ashraf Ezzat, MD Protesters chant anti-government slogans during protest condemning the death of soccer fans at Port Said stadium, near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Feb. 2“Egyptians infuriated by the deaths of 74 people in soccer violence staged protests in central Cairo and cla ...
  • An interview with the Palestinian historian S ...
    from: Salim Nazzal This interview comes on the first anniversary of the Arab spring After one year of the Arab spring, how would you evaluate the Arab spring, and where do you think it would lead the Middle East? Nazzal: Where this leads is a difficult question to answer. I have written in th ...
  • Cruise Ship Vacation Wisdom
    Joel S. Hirschhorn I have taken a number of cruise ship vacations. The last one was about a year and half ago. I learned a lot about cruise ships and what factors should go into decisions about selecting a specific cruise ship that I want to share with you. By now, of course, you have heard ...

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

  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday. “A boo ...
  • ‘How I got sucked into a cult’
    By Lynne Wallis,telegraph.co.uk – Sitting in the Cotswolds farmhouse that he shares with his wife, the fashion designer Savannah Miller (sister of Sienna), Nick Skinner is explaining how an intelligent, middle-class man could get sucked into the grips of a religious cult in Costa Rica and ...
  • Let’s Pretend Women Matter
    Update: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundationbacked off Friday from its decision to eliminate grants for Planned Parenthood By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies – It seems to me that they have found one more way to divide women. This blatant division comes on the heels of the news th ...
  • Austerity drive dragging Britain into what cou ...
    By J Bradford DeLong,economictimes. – Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as the British Prime Minister who, as an avatar of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1930′s, helped to usher Europe into World War II. But, earlier in that fateful decade, relatively soon after the st ...
  • Fukushima Pets Running Out of Time
    By Akiko Fujita,abcnews - The dogs in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone huddle in what remains of earthquake-ravaged homes, burying themselves in a mix of debris – newspapers and torn blankets - to fend off the cold. Those too weak to move lie on the floor waiting for help to come, as they have for ...

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

  • EssayTagger.com - Grade Essays Faster
    Comments:EssayTagger is a web-based tool that helps you grade your essays faster by eliminating the repetitive and inefficient aspects of grading papers. You'll be able to speed up your grading process without sacrificing the quality of the feedback you give to your students. - Fred DelventhalTa ...
  • cooltoolsforschools - Presentation Tools
    Comments:wiki of presentation tools for students - Robin Talkowskiwiki of presentation tools for students - Robin TalkowskiTags: web2.0, tools, presentationby: Robin Talkowski
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  • Yummy Math | We provide teachers and students ...
    Comments:provide teachers and students with mathematics relevant to our world today … - Fred DelventhalTags: math, problemsolving, education, relevant, mathematicsby: Fred Delventhal
  • Photo Pin : Free Photos for Your Blog or Websi ...
    Tags: photos, creativecommons, cc, search, Fotos, photopinby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Brazilian Blowout Makers Agree to Label Cancer ...
    After spending months denying claims that its products are hazardous to salon workers and to customers, the makers of the popular Brazilian Blowout hair-straightening treatment has agreed to start posting labels on its products warning customers that the products contain formaldehyde gas, a kno ...
  • The Surprising Heart Attack Trigger in the Sea ...
    Omega-3 fatty acids from fish are among the most potent heart-disease fighters that don't come in pill form, and loading up on three servings of fish per week is an easy way to get the recommended amount. However, new research from Syracuse University casts some doubt about how beneficial thos ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Fat, Smoking, and Stupid Is No Way to Go Throu ...
    I'm distorting, of course, the lengendary admonition of the evil Dean Wormer to the (seemingly) fat loser Delta pledge Flounder in the classic film Animal House. I had to add  "smoking" and delete "drunk" from the original quote, because they weren't particularly judgmental about smoking ...
  • What Makes the Human Mind Unique?
    What's the Latest Development? New research has shed light onto the mystery of our own minds. Specifically, why the human mind is so superior to those of even monkeys and chimps, our closest animal relatives. A team of German scientists has extracted brain cells, post mortem, from people ...
  • Do You See Politics On My Chest?
    I have been wondering all week what to write about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s move against Planned Parenthood, but Linda Burger, a 56-year-old breast cancer survivor who resides in Las Vegas, NV, says it on Youtube better than I or any man can. Standing in her bathrobe in front of her digit ...
  • Brain Science Is Our Modern Bible
    What's the Latest Development? The force with which brain science has come to frame the debate around many age-old questions—queries about ethics, free will, the mind-body problem, etc.—is partly the result of how two of its most passionate advocates explain their point of view. Paul and ...
  • Who's More Creative? Introverts or Extroverts?
    What's the Latest Development? Extroverts and introverts are not different in the ways we usually consider them to be. Introverts want lower-stimulation environments—less noise, less action—while extroverts crave stimulation to feel their best. Introverts may be very outgoing people, jus ...

Information Liberation

  • Author James B. Stewart: I pay a 74 percent ta ...
    Is James B. Stewart paying the highest tax rate in America? Famous author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James B. Stewart added up all the taxes he paid in one year, and he was stunned to learn his tax rate is an astonishing 74%. How's...
  • Laws For Thee, But Not For Me: 'I'll Bet You $ ...
    Despite betting Rick Perry ten thousand dollars just a few weeks ago, going against his anti-gambling religion mind you, Romney says he's against plebs being free to gamble themselves. Via Poker News: In an interview with 8 News Now in Las Vegas ...
  • The Super Bowl's 'Security'
    Football fans, beware. "Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano joined NFL and other officials in warning that security for Sunday's game at Lucas Oil Stadium would be significantly heightened*" Whoa! Seems professional games have become ...
  • One Nation, Under Guard
    Bad news about the impending police state here in America: it's already here. From the indefinite detention (without trial) of terrorism suspects both foreign and American to the escalating militarization of our nation's police forces, there's little...
  • TSA Trains Super Bowl Hot Dog Sellers To Spot ...
    Despite acknowledging there are *no credible or specific threats* to the safety of the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Sunday, the TSA is training thousands of fast food sellers*and other vendors to spot terrorists under the "First Observer" progr...

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

  • Human Waste-Powered Robots May Be Future of Ma ...
    Today's robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any gadget that runs out of energy. Tomorrow's new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on dead insects, rotting plant matter or even human waste. [More] ...
  • Russian Scientists Poised to be First to Reach ...
    At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.     [More] ...
  • Is It Ethical to Own an iPhone?
    Recent media reports and ongoing protests over the reportedly abhorrent working conditions at factories where Apple's iPhones are produced have left socially conscious Americans with a dilemma: Is it ethical to own an iPhone? [More]
  • Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Availa ...
    Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding. [More]
  • Temperatures--Not Acid--Could Cook Coral to Death
    One of the biggest natural tragedies of recent years is the deterioration of Australia's Great Barrier Reef , a vast structure of coral off the continent's east coast that supports a profusion of wildlife. In addition to overfishing and nutrient pollution, the world's largest natura ...

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

  • Decolonizing Anarchism
    Interview with author Maia Ramnath Maia Ramnath is an author and anarchist activist based in New York City. Her latest book is called "Decolonizing Anarchism: An anti-authoritarian history of India's liberation struggle", publ ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Morris Building Project: Answering the Que ...
    One historic building's hopeful transformation from dramatic demolition to community youth housing It takes a village to raise a child, but does it take a village to raise a house? According to the Morris Building Project, an exciting ...
  • 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

David Seaton's News Links

  • Iran... is a trap being set?
    If the United States and/or Israel finally do attack Iran, as it now appears inevitable, they may end up falling into a trap laid by Russia and China. "Garden Airplane Trap" Max Ernst - Art Institute of Chicago The Americans know Iran did not bring the RQ-170 down because their intelligence agen ...
  • 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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Housekeeping Notice: Comment Registration Now ...
    A little while ago I mentioned that we were thinking about requiring registration for commenters and asked for feedback. Some was positive and some was negative, but most of the negative feedback related to (a) having to use your real name or (b) being required to use a Facebook account. The ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 3 February 2012
    Normally, drinking out of human glasses is Not Allowed. But last night I mentioned that I still needed photos for Friday Catblogging, so this morning An Exception Was Made as Marian urged me to get my camera and come record the moment. So I did. The camera captured some excellent tongue action ...
  • I'm Getting Jobs Report Fatigue
    One of the things that's been niggling away at the back of mind lately is the (seemingly) increasing sameness of the blogs I read. More and more, as I plow through them in the morning, they're all filled with posts on the exact same four or five topics. I used to call them the "outrages of the ...
  • Mitt Romney's Terrible Economic Dilemma
    Greg Sargent points us to Mitt Romney's latest statement on the economy: We welcome the fact that jobs were created and unemployment declined. Unfortunately, these numbers cannot hide the fact that President Obama’s policies have prevented a true economic recovery. We can do better. L ...
  • Komen Foundation Completes Its Triple Backflip
    When the Komen Foundation cut off its breast cancer screening grants to Planned Parenthood a few days ago, they said it was because of a new policy that bars grants to organizations under investigation. Then they backtracked, and said that it was actually because Planned Parenthood doesn't per ...

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

  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...
  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Coughing and other respiratory symptoms improv ...
    If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing. The study findings are detailed ...
  • Whole exome sequencing identifies cause of met ...
    Sequencing a patient's entire genome to discover the source of his or her disease is not routine -- yet. But geneticists are getting close. read more
  • Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may ...
    One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. read more
  • Regular use of vitamin and mineral supplements ...
    Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP) found that rats given regular multivitamin and mineral supplements showed a ...
  • Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky W ...
    Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way galaxy. read more

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: Coal Numbers Don’t Add Up
    Industry engages in flim-flam to spin coal ash recycling stats The American Coal Ash Association is trying with might to mislead us. In a recent press release, ...
  • Coos Bay, Oregon is Coal Industry’s Latest Target
    Earthjustice challenges permit for largest estuary dredging project in state history Coos Bay, Oregon. (Brian Burger/Creative Commons) A new battle has emerge ...
  • Whales and Wolves: The Hollywood Versions
    Using the power of popular media to educate or misinform The uplifting movie Big Miracle, opening this weekend, has the power to educate people across the country about America’s Arctic Ocean, along with the people and wildl ...
  • Friday Finds: Snakes in the ‘Glades
    Dirty lettuce, winterless havoc, sick meat A Burmese python. (wildexplorer) Pythons and anacondas put the squeeze on the Everglades Forget snakes on a plane ...
  • World Wetlands Day: Happy Underrated Water Bod ...
    Nothing compares to wetlands in terms of dollars saved, disasters prevented In addition to being Groundhog Day, Feb. 2 is World Wetlands Day. Say what? An intern ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 21
    The previous Open Thread has gone past is off the BNC front page, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard [...]
  • Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
    Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...
  • 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 ...

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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  • Subaru ad makes light of West Bank price tag a ...
    The lengths to which corporate capitalism will go to make an extra buck make never ceases to amaze me. Knowingly crossing the lines is the easiest way to get attention these days. A Facebook friend said he found this advertisement in a Yedioth Aharonot paper he was reading today and took a shot ...
  • Call for action: Palestinian prisoner on hunge ...
    Khader Adnan, 50 days on hunger strike! By Jalal Abukhater Khader Adnan; courageously fighting for dignity, employing his stomach as a weapon to call for justice, and fearlessly facing death. We have reached a moment no one can be silent anymore. Khader Adnan is now on his 50th day of hunger str ...
  • Human Rights Watch slams Israel’s &#8216 ...
    Human Rights Watch on Sunday released a report slamming Israel’s control over the Palestinian population registry, an ongoing list of residents living lawfully – according to Israel – in the West Bank and Gaza. The international organization, which is dedicated to protecting hu ...
  • PHOTOS: Settlers march through Palestinian village
    On Friday morning, a group of Israeli settlers entered the West Bank Palestinian village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. The settlers, who were escorted by the Israeli military, marched through the village in what seemed to be an attempt to intimidate and provoke Palestinian residents. S ...
  • Thoughts following the Syrian massacre
    Toppling the regime in Damascus should be the top priority these days | Those who once praised the Assads as anti-colonial heroes should learn their lesson | and condemnations of the Chinese-Russian Security Council veto would have sounded better if it wasn’t for the Americans&#8 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Attorney General Bank Bailout/Private Prop ...
      Attorneys General from all across the country have been under intense pressure by the Obama Administration to accept the terms of the Very Bad Bank Bailout by tomorrow, February 6, 2012. Word on the street is that there was a conference call scheduled this weekend between all of them to h ...
  • SugarCane Syrup, Hand Cracked Biscuts And A Do ...
    I’m writing this while eating one of nature’s most amazing and perfect treats…liquid brown gold, syrup made from pure sugar cane. You city folk just cannot imagine how amazing this tastes, how unique and earthy and absolutely heavenly.  Just to give you some idea of how preciou ...
  • Fannie is a Fraud and Pinellas County Judges P ...
    Some Key Excerpts From The Now Sure to Be Worldly Famous Case No. 5595.  I just got off the phone with Nye and he’s quite amazed at all this…amazed that it took the world so long to wake up to what he’s been screaming about for years. Like every other whistleblower or advocate ...
  • NUCLEAR BOMBSHELL- FANNIE/FREDDIE KNEW THE FRA ...
    That’s my friend Nye.  He’s a guy who’s been screaming about the extraordinary mortgage fraud conspiracy between the banksters and the federal government for years….almost a decade.  There are so many bombshells, but here is one that will rock the world… MORTGAGE AN ...
  • THE ATTORNEY GENERALS CANNOT SIGN WITH THE BAN ...
    and this is why…. If we are a nation where justice is blind, should we not investigate this possibility before we give the offending financialinstitutions another free pass? The essence of an effective capitalist system is rules and accountability. For markets, and our larger economy to wo ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • “A Remarkable Change in Man”
    Being with the ElectroMotive workers on Saturday, the day following the announcement of that plant’s official closing, had an odd …Continue reading »
  • An End and the Beginning
    Well, it’s over. Tears filled our eyes this morning as my wife and I heard that Caterpillar had finally made …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

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

  • Liturgies of Sufficiency: Individual versus Co ...
    If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.
  • 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?

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Maybe Super Bowl Ads Are Too Cheap
    The price of a 30-second ad slot during the Super Bowl goes up every year. In 2012, ad time is going for $350,000 per spot, or $11,666.67 per second. But maybe everyone involved is looking at this wrong. Maybe the eyeballs of the nation and the free publicity that comes along with buying a slot ...
  • Lawsuit: You Can't Charge Me With Downloading ...
    For the first several years of the entertainment industry's crackdown on online piracy, American pornographers did very little to go after the people who filled up gigabyte after gigabyte of hard drive space with bittorrented x-rated material. But in recent years, realizing there is money to b ...
  • Buying Generic Doesn't Save Shoppers As Much A ...
    Used to be, back in the days of yore, shoppers looking for a deal in the grocery store could go for a generic store brand item instead of the more expensive name brands. But lately the gap between those two options has been narrowing, to the point where store brands sometimes even cost more tha ...
  • New Legislation Would Pad Health Insurance Cof ...
    As part of the Affordable Care Act, health insurers must spend at least 80% of the money they earn from premiums on actually providing health care, with the remaining cash used to cover all administrative, advertising and payroll costs. Those insurers with plans that don't follow this ratio are ...
  • Facebook Hasn't Even Gone Public And People Ar ...
    You're all educated, gorgeous people so you are fully aware that shares in Facebook won't be publicly available for several more weeks. But that didn't stop a woman in Wisconsin from using fake stock in the website to pay for home repairs -- she even gave some to her daughter for Christmas. Wh ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Report Shows Problems at Federal Air Marshal S ...
    CNN: Report on Federal Air Marshal Service Paints an Unflattering Picture Summary: A report to be released next week about misconduct within the Federal Air Marshal Service "paints an unflattering picture of the agency," and states that investigators have "heard too many negative and conflicti ...
  • Welcome to the Club: No-Fly List Doubles in Pa ...
    Under Obama's self-proclaimed "most transparent administration in history," not only did the number of "original classification decisions" rise by 22.6% in his first year in office, but the secret no-fly list has doubled in the past year and now includes 21,000 names, includi ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 12 – One Mor ...
    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. Saturday, 05 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @estr4ng3d‎ The revolution’s b ...
  • Why Fannie and Freddie Are Hesitating to Help ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica Earlier this week, ProPublica and NPR detailed how Freddie Mac placed bets against homeowners that paid off if borrowers were unable to refinance their mortgage loans. The story highlighted the conflicted role of the huge and now government-controlled Freddie Mac and ...
  • Europe’s Extreme Frost Gives Climate Deniers F ...
    Until this week, Europeans had been enjoying an unusually mild winter with spring-like temperatures in many cities. Scientists say a string of freezing European winters, scattered over the last decade, has been driven in large part by global warming. The recent week-long cold wave, with temperat ...
  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 11 – 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. Friday, 04 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @nolanjazeera‎ And I told the protesto ...
  • Senators’ Bill Calls for Independent Study of ...
    by Michael Grabell, ProPublica A group of five Republican and Democratic senators on the homeland security committee introduced a bill today that would require an independent health study of the X-ray body scanners used in airports nationwide. We have been reporting on the cancer risk associated ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • JoNova a Finalist for the 2012 Bloggies :-) Se ...
    Cheerio! Thanks to the dedicated souls who nominated it, this blog is a finalist in 2012 Web Bloggies Award. (Ta Pat, Val, Baa). ! That’s a success on its own (it’s already bringing in new readers).  Cheers! With your help, we can reach a wider crowd. The different traffic, new links ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Huckabee: Governor Romney acted unconstitution ...
    (Amy Contrada) - "He could have stopped it, and should have stopped it," Huckabee said. CNSNews.com: Governor Romney should have stood up to the Court and said, "No"? Huckabee: He should've. (August 2008)...
  • Rasmussen poll: Santorum would beat Obama
    (Rasmussen) - The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of ...
  • Santorum: Obama most anti-religion president i ...
    (Newsmax) - President Barack Obama uses his faith "as a convenience" when it serves him, while at the same time being the most anti-religion president in history, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged in an exclusive Newsmax interview...
  • GOP's 'Buckley rule' points to Santorum
    (David Limbaugh) - In the intense heat of the present, it is easy to forget even the relatively recent past, but it seems to me that this GOP primary season is more acrimonious than the past few, probably because the stakes are so high...
  • Military tells Catholic chaplains what they ca ...
    (Jim Hoft) - Last week Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan lashed out at the Obama Administration for forcing religious organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience...

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

  • Fox: Cashing in on 2012
    There’s an interesting article over at Fox News, although I’m not sure “cashing in” is fair – Americans are heading south for 2012, and businesses are accommodating them.  Perhaps it is Fox who are cashing ...Fox: Cashing in on 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku
    Suspected on killing a couple and a police officer, before being gunned down was Drew Ryan Maras, an author who was working on a book covering conspiracy theories and 2012 when he died. BlogTalkRadio are replaying ...Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku is a post from: 2012 Blog Related ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Marriage changed Christina Hendricks
  • Florida Primary 2012: Check Live Results Here
    Florida Primary is on January 31, 2012. Check Here for FL Primary Results as They Come In The Florida primary is the third primary of Election 2012, and it takes place on January 31. Polls are open at 7am ET and... read more
  • Katy Perry - Katy Perry Comforted By Ex
    Katy Perrys ex-boyfriend has been comforting her following her marriage split The Firework hitmaker and British comedian Russell Brand called time on their union in December after only 14 months of marriage and Katys former love Gym Class Heroes...
  • Snow fell in Snowdon, Wales
    Ambiguity remains in the forecast I checked this morning and there are no weather warnings in the UK except maybe a “yellow” cautionary warning for the mountainous North Wales. For certain, it snowed in... read more
  • Lindsey Vonn gets 50th World Cup win
    A career milestone and a rare family reunion. All of which left Lindsey Vonn in tears, and it made for a perfect day.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Ambassador’s Silicone Brains
    On Monday January 30, 2012 a leading Russian TV channel showed an unexpectedly significant interview with Michael McFaul, the recently appointed US Ambassador to Russia. Why ‘unexpectedly’? Because the host of the show was Vladimir Pozner, patriarch of the Soviet/Russian television widely known ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Nevada Caucus: Romney Wins; Paul's "Honest Rap ...
    Mitt Romney won the Nevada Republican caucuses yesterday with 47.6 percent of the vote and a "a broad coalition of voters that included groups that he has struggled with in previous contests," according to the New York Times, which has him "solidifying his status as the front-runner" in the race ...
  • Will a Super Bowl Twitter Campaign Help All Wo ...
    After three heated days of public outcry and debate surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to cut breast-cancer screening funds for -- and then restore eligibility to -- the women's health organization Planned Parenthood, Saturday was mostly quiet. Today, a group of women is launchi ...
  • Women in Games: The Escapist's Susan Arendt
    Welcome, GamingAngels (and now BlogHer!) readers! It’s time to start bringing you more Women in Games interviews. Why? Because so many people don’t realize all the different ways that you can work with games. You don’t have to be a programmer, or an artist — you can take your skills and make a g ...
  • Nie Asks: What's Winter Looking Like in Your N ...
    How is winter looking in your neck of the woods? Nic and Ollie enjoy a little sledding in our backyard. Your turn: I want to know what winter scenes you're seeing! Leave a comment below.
  • By The Numbers: Eli Manning vs Tom Brady
    Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Eli Manning will renew their rivalry today and a lot of fans will be debating both their positive and negative qualities. Who is smarter? Who is more experienced? Who threw more yards this season?While Manning has the edge in their on-the-field matchups, leading 2-1 in ...

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

  • Friday roundup, Feb. 3, 2012
    Train cars full of coal head to the FirstEnergy Corp., coal-fired power plant in Eastlake, Ohio is seen on Thursday,  Jan. 26, 2012.  FirstEnergy Corp. says it will shut down six older, coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, affecting about 530 employees on Sept. 1.  The Akr ...
  • Coal Symposium ends with Obama bashing session
    This morning’s sessions over at the West Virginia Coal Association’s Annual Mining Symposium didn’t disappoint, that’s for sure. Especially if you — like most of the industry crowd there — can get worked up about just about anything that criticizes President O ...
  • Is the coal industry just misunderstood?
    A railroad bridge over the Ohio River begins to disappear from fog that developed around midday Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 as seen from the river’s bank in Metropolis, Ill. A coal barge is also shown in the photo, pushed closer than usual to the bank due to Ohio rising rapidly. (AP Photo/The ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday. “A boo ...
  • ‘How I got sucked into a cult’
    By Lynne Wallis,telegraph.co.uk – Sitting in the Cotswolds farmhouse that he shares with his wife, the fashion designer Savannah Miller (sister of Sienna), Nick Skinner is explaining how an intelligent, middle-class man could get sucked into the grips of a religious cult in Costa Rica and ...
  • Let’s Pretend Women Matter
    Update: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundationbacked off Friday from its decision to eliminate grants for Planned Parenthood By Diana May-Waldman,WorldWideHippies – It seems to me that they have found one more way to divide women. This blatant division comes on the heels of the news th ...
  • Austerity drive dragging Britain into what cou ...
    By J Bradford DeLong,economictimes. – Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as the British Prime Minister who, as an avatar of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1930′s, helped to usher Europe into World War II. But, earlier in that fateful decade, relatively soon after the st ...
  • Fukushima Pets Running Out of Time
    By Akiko Fujita,abcnews - The dogs in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone huddle in what remains of earthquake-ravaged homes, burying themselves in a mix of debris – newspapers and torn blankets - to fend off the cold. Those too weak to move lie on the floor waiting for help to come, as they have for ...

reference frame

  • Trying to cancel Michael Mann's talks: a poll
    Anthony Watts criticizes a cool-headed, rational, pro-coal organization named Choose Common Sense that attempts to convince Penn State University to abolish a planned talk by Michael Mann on February 9th in the Penn Stater, central Pennsylvania's most sophisticated hotel. I am genuinely ...
  • ATLAS: rumor about stop squark signal
    A commenter from an unnamed Ivy League University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, West of the Central Square, has pointed out that he or she has also heard the same rumors about the signal hinting at the existence of the stop squarks – the supersymmetric partners of the third-generation top quar ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • Memorial held for father of Eurovision winner
    Memorial services were held on Sunday for Jeff Mwangi Kwirikia, father of singer Stella Mwangi, after he was killed by a hit-and-run driver at Dal in Akershus last week. The 54-year-old native of Kenya was hailed for integrating his children into Norwegian life without letting them forget where ...
  • More trouble for Telenor in India
    An attempt by Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor to cash in on a potentially huge market for mobile phone service in India has backfired badly. Now Telenor is once again turning to its biggest shareholder, the state, for help after getting in trouble on foreign investments. Opposition politician ...
  • Royals forced to flee SAS flight
    Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were among 135 passengers ordered to evacuate an Oslo-bound Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) flight when it suddenly ran into trouble on take-off Sunday morning. The drama at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport left all of them shaken but SAS denie ...
  • 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 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • How to Prepare a Beneficial Microorganism Mixture
    Many have heard of EM mixtures, sold worldwide with cultures of effective microorganisms, that due to their symbiotic relationships with each other can benefit the microorganisms’ ecosystem in our soils, compost piles and toilets. They are known to boost yield and speed the composting pro ...
  • Making Miso
    Mashing cooked soybeans It is now the middle of winter here in Japan and time again to make another year’s supply of miso. The deep flavour of miso soup (misoshiru) remains for many in Japan a daily dish. Traditionally the first meal of the day consisted of a steaming bowl of miso soup, ...
  • Gaiacraft Workbook: Global Release
    As an offering to the planetary permaculture movement we have created a workbook of permaculture worksheets. This educational tool kit will help support your learning and teaching practice. In the spirit of a genuine love for permaculture education and in gratitude to the world community, this ...
  • The Biochar Miracle
    Carbon pirates bury black gold… so future generations will be richer. – John Rogers Biochar is being promoted as the soil saving miracle of the century promising outrageously high yields of crops as well as removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The first video ‘The Prom ...
  • 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 ...

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

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Indian Clean-Energy Growth Was Fastest in Worl ...
    Renewable energy investments in India increased by more than 52 percent in 2011, the fastest growth among major global economies, according to a new report. More than $10.3 billion was invested in renewable energy projects in India last year, with about $4.6 billion targeting wind energy project ...
  • Sierra Club Accepted Millions from Natural Gas ...
    The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest environmental group in the U.S., accepted more than $25 million from the natural gas industry from 2007 to 2010 while promoting the fuel as a “bridge” to a clean-energy future, according to a Time magazine report. The organization used the funds — which la ...
  • Mysteries of Killer Whales Uncovered in the An ...
    Two of the world’s leading experts on the world’s top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing a creature whose remarkably cooperative hunting behavior and transmission of knowledge across generations may be rivaled only by humans. BY FEN MONTAIGNE
  • Earth’s First Plants May Have Triggered Ice Ag ...
    The first plants to colonize the planet about 470 million years ago may have plunged Earth into a series of ice ages, according to a new study. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers suggests that the earliest plants — including the ancestors of today’s mosses — caused s ...
  • New Gorilla Habitat Discovered Using Satellite ...
    Satellite and land surveys of the mountainous terrain along the Nigeria-Cameroon border have revealed that the world’s rarest gorilla, the Cross River gorilla, has access to more suitable habitat than previously believed, including vital corridors that allow the gorillas to move WCS A Cross ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    Continued from page 3 The end, when it came, was not pretty. Union bargainer Dave Coles met behind closed doors in June 2000 with senior company executives and came back with two offers from the employer that might have been drafted in Hades. The first involved continuing to bargain until all th ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    Continued from page 2 Local television and radio reporters gave the lockout plenty of coverage. So did the rival Calgary Sun, which distributed an edition of the paper wrapped in what appeared to be a Herald front page. “I always pray for opportunity,” said Sun publisher Les Pyette. The Herald o ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    Continued from page 1 After months of lunchtime discussions in the Herald cafeteria, the journalists made the first move. One employee talked to the Teamsters Union but was told the union had no interest in organizing the Herald newsroom without an assurance that at least 40 per cent of the 160 ...
  • Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at ...
    The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to” jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Live-Tweeting Nevada
    Read real-time tweets from Howard Kurtz and other contributors as we track the Nevada primary returns.
  • 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
    Gingrich confesses he’d vote for Romney, Paul rises above, Bloomberg compares football to politics & more.
  • Ron Paul’s Long Game
    Mitt Romney won handily, and Newt hung in to fight another day. But the story in Nevada was the libertarian’s “tireless minority”—and his plan for Tampa. By John Avlon
  • Michelle’s Charm Offensive
    Margaret Carlson on how the first lady helped defuse a juicy White House tell-all with winning TV appearances.
  • Where the Money Is
    Laura Colarusso explains why Obama is leading the fundraising race.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Parker sets new mark in win over Thunder
    Tony Parker wasn't playing for an All-Star invitation. He made a strong case just the same. Putting together his most dazzling game in three years — and doing it against the NBA's hottest team, no less — Parker scored 42 points and became the all-time franchise assists leader for t ...
  • Vonn takes downhill for 50th World Cup victory
    A career milestone and a rare family reunion. All of which left Lindsey Vonn in tears, and it made for a perfect day. Vonn captured her 50th World Cup victory Saturday, winning the downhill on the demanding Kandahar course with temperatures plunging to minus 25 Celsius.
  • Kanagawa teen wins elite Swiss ballet competition
    A 17-year-old Japanese girl was among the eight winners of the prestigious Prix de Lausanne ballet competition in Switzerland on Saturday, the organizers said. Madoka Sugai of Kanagawa Prefecture had the top score and was also given the contemporary dance prize.
  • Mormon Church could use a Martin Luther
    There has been much talk recently about whether America is ready for a Mormon president. This tolerance question should cut both ways. Nearly a quarter of Americans told Gallup last summer that they wouldn't vote for a Mormon president, which is unfortunate since former Gov. Mitt Romney and fo ...
  • Ginowan mayoral campaigns kick off
    Official campaigning for the mayoral election kicked off Sunday in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, where the relocation of a key U.S. Marine Corps base remained the top issue. So far, two independents — Atsushi Sakima, 47, a former member of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly, and former Gino ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Caterpillar: The moth flying too close to the ...
    We treated them like royalty. We rolled out the tax cut red carpet. In fact our Prime Minister made a special stop at the London, Ontario Electro-Motive (EMT) plant in 2008, touting the $5 million in tax cuts we gave EMT. It was all part of the ‘tax cuts create jobs’ rhetoric that Ca ...
  • 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 & ...

ReDress

  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...
  • Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reac ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.
  • 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.

Physics Today

  • Researchers pressured by editors to make super ...
    Nature: Twenty percent of academics from a variety of fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published, according to a survey conducted by Eric Fong and Allen Whilhite of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Published in Science, the s ...
  • ESO's Very Large Telescope becomes fully funct ...
    BBC: Yesterday an international team of astronomers and engineers succeeded in linking all four of the large telescopes that make up the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert. Each of the four has been up and running since at lea ...
  • Malaysian rare-earth plant granted operating l ...
    New York Times: Rare-earth elements are not that uncommon in Earth's crust, but they're typically dispersed. Economically exploitable forms are rare, however. China currently mines and processes more than 90% of rare earths on the market, and it has placed restrictions on their export over the p ...
  • Mars too dry to sustain life
    Telegraph: Researchers at Imperial College London have determined that life could not exist on the surface of Mars because of a super drought that lasted hundreds of millions of years, writes Nick Collins for the Telegraph. Experts spent three years studying individual soil particles collected i ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fight over water pollution rules continues in ...
    “The fight to allow Florida to write its own water pollution rules continues at both the state and federal level this week. A bill designed to establish the state’s version of nutrient criteria for its waters passed its final committee last week and is headed for a floor vote in the House. ...
  • Africa land grabs ‘could cause conflicts ...
    “ILC zeroed in on West Africa, where it said land acquisitions by foreign entities were causing major environmental and agricultural damage along the River Niger, at 2,265 miles the third longest river in Africa after the Nile and the Congo. “The siphoning of water for huge areas of ...
  • Water Authority Seeks More Groundwater From Tw ...
    “During the hearing, we introduced a lot of new data,” water authority Deputy General Manager John Entsminger said. “We submitted the only new data collected in the period between the last ruling and this one.” “King has until late March to rule on the bulk of the w ...
  • Sudan Dam Protest At President’s Doorstep
    “We call for the rights of people affected by the dam,” their signs said. “The peaceful protesters dispersed at the request of security officers. It is the latest gathering in Khartoum by supporters of residents displaced by the Merowe dam. City police forcibly broke up two sym ...
  • Giving an invasive water pest the bullet
    “An invasive species, the zebra mussel clogs up water works and systems across the UK, costing millions of pounds each year to remove. “With each female zebra mussel able to produce up to a million eggs per year, serious infestations can quickly form. “Thankfully a Cambridge-ba ...

D. Kucinich

  • Local Animals Sick, Kucinich Demands Recall of ...
    Pet owners across the country and in the Cleveland area have reported illnesses in their pets after feeding the dogs chicken jerky snacks, including “Waggin’ Train.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states in their November 2011 warning that complaints about the China-made product hav ...
  • Kucinich to SEC: Do Your JobKucinich to SEC: D ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after an investigation by The New York Times showed that the Securities and Exchange Commission has failed to prosecute Wall Street fraud. See video here. “Today, the New York Times published the results of its inv ...
  • FACT CHECKING THE MEDIA
    "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." -Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Iran January 8, 2012, CBS’ Face the Nation WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 3, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent the following letter to his colleagues in Congress. See video here. Dear C ...
  • Kucinich Stands Behind Workers Who Keep our Sk ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), an ardent advocate for workers, today criticized the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. The Conference Report on H.R. 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, undermines workers’ rights and politicizes the ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • From blokes in sheds to inventing wizards
    In a garage near you is an inventor working on the next big thing. It could be anything from clothes that measure your heart rate to an engine that will revolutionise the way we run vehicles and machinery.Inventors range from dreamers...
  • Secrets of ailments unlocked by stem cells fro ...
    The news that Edinburgh scientists had created the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, at the university's Roslin Institute made headlines around the world 16 years ago.Her birth raised hopes of the creation of a new generation...
  • 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...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Ron Paul Limps to Third in Nevada
      Las Vegas – Ron Paul’s distant third place finish in the Republican caucuses did not live up to the high expectations his campaign set for him in Nevada. For months now we have been told about his caucus state strategy and how it would allow him to gobble up delegates all the way ...
  • Takers vs. Makers in Today's America
    In the Washingtion Examiner, Glenn Instapundit Reynolds writes about a new book arguing the real divide in today's America is between moochers and producers: "Fifty thousand for what you didn’t plant, for what didn’t grow.  That’s modern farming -- reap what you don’t sow.” That’ ...
  • Ron Paul Caucus Goers in Their Own Words
    Henderson, Nev. - Ron Paul may have finished second in the caucus here, but according to his supporters, he did very well in the battle for delegates to the state convention. Here Paul delegates Miles Planette and Karen Manning talk about their caucus experience. Karen, 52, was active ...
  • What a Nevada Caucus Looks Like
    Henderson, Nev. - Covering a caucus is a bit different from covering a primary or general election, because you only get to visit one site. You cannot jump from caucus to caucus because they all start and end at about the same time. Some reporters luck out and end up at really interes ...
  • Romney Takes Nevada, Ron Paul and Gingrich Bat ...
    From CBS News, updated around 10.25 pm ET: With the doors closed at caucus precincts across Nevada, CBS News projects that Mitt Romney has won the Nevada Republican caucuses by a sizable margin, giving him his third victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. ...

Mercury Rising

  • Me or your lying eyes? Media and government cr ...
    In watching most television, it’s sometimes wise not to trust your eyes. In this piece, police clumsily disguised as Black Bloc protesters attempt to discredit a Canadian protest. And are caught at it. According to what the National Lawyers Guild has reported, this goes on all the time in ...
  • PW Makes A Daring Prediction About Newt’ ...
    Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker and current presidential hopeful, is having a press conference tonight after the Nevada primary results are in. Many think Newt will announce that he’s pulling out and conceding the nomination. I don’t think so. I think it’s going to be Newt& ...
  • PW Makes A Daring Prediction About Newt’ ...
    Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker and current presidential hopeful, is having a press conference tonight after the Nevada primary results are in. Many think Newt will announce that he’s pulling out and conceding the nomination. I don’t think so. I think it’s going to be Newt& ...
  • Howard Dean would not allow pro-cancer Cliff S ...
    In all the celebration over the Susan G. Komen Foundation flinching in the face of public disapproval, the real perpetrator behind this is going about the attack on Planned Parenthood and breast cancer screening almost unnoticed. His name is Cliff Stearns. He represents, to that district’s ...
  • Howard Dean would not allow pro-cancer Cliff S ...
    In all the celebration over the Susan G. Komen Foundation flinching in the face of public disapproval, the real perpetrator behind this is going about the attack on Planned Parenthood and breast cancer screening almost unnoticed. His name is Cliff Stearns. He represents, to that district’s ...

Reality Sandwich

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

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

Press TV

  • UK queen’s Diamond Jubilee underway
    Celebrations of the British queen’s Diamond Jubilee will begin on Monday 6 February and will culminate in a lavish ceremony in June as the longest-lived monarch of the UK celebrates 60 years of reign.
  • Argentina urges UK to stop waging wars
    The Argentine government has urged Britain to take a look at its own history of waging war around the globe and acknowledge that the Malvinas islands rightfully belong to Argentina.
  • Netanyahu: Avoid anti-Iran remarks
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned ministers from his center-right Likud political party to avoid making statements on a possible military attack against Iran, saying such remarks could be damaging to Israel.
  • 'West uses UN as cover to wage wars'
    Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Syria calling for Syrian President Bashar al Assad to resign and hand over power to opposition leaders.
  • Iran Navy saves oil tanker from pirates
    Iran's Navy warships have foiled a pirate attack on an Iranian oil tanker close to the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of lawless Somalia.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Tax Expenditures Have a Major Impact on the Fe ...
    Do you receive a tax deduction for the interest paid on your mortgage or for the taxes you pay to your state and local governments? Would you think about those deductions in the same way if instead of seeing a reduction in taxes for those items the federal government instead simply sent you a ch ...
  • 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, ...

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...

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