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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • Challenging Falkland War Myths
    .. over the Falklands, no one in the UK can claim geographical ties. Instead, leaders here insist that the islanders have the right to self-determination, however much that impacts on the UK. In contrast, Scotland's right to self-determination is not as clearly stated. The impact on the rest of ...
  • Escobar: Iranian oil embargo blowback
    imagine if this pre-emptive Iranian legislation is voted within the next few days. Crisis-hit Club Med countries such as Spain and especially Italy and Greece will be dealt a deathblow, having no time to find a possible alternative to Iran's light, high-quality crude. Saudi Arabia - whatever ...
  • NATO report: State of the Taliban 2012
    The Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly assisted by Pakistani security services, according to a secret Nato report seen by the BBC. The leaked report, derived from thousands of interrogations, claims the Taliban remain defiant and have wide support among the Afghan people. A BBC corr ...
  • Talib captives dispute US view of Afghan war
    it was the accounts of cooperation between the insurgents and local government officials or security forces that seemed to most upset NATO officials. “Captured photographs of Taliban personnel riding openly in the green Ford Ranger pickup trucks of the Afghan army are commonplace throughout Afgh ...
  • Escobar: The Arab agenda in Syria
    Here's a crash course on the "democratic" machinations of the Arab League - rather the GCC League, as real power in this pan-Arab organization is wielded by two of the six Persian Gulf monarchies composing the Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf Counter-revolution Club; Qatar and the Ho ...

Independent - London

  • Santorum sweeps back into GOP race with Minnes ...
    A stunning mutiny by evangelical and conservative Republicans punctured the tyres of the supposed frontrunner Mitt Romney in last night’s trio of nomination contests and instead gave a sudden and barely expected jolt of adrenalin to the staunch social conservative in the race, Rick Santorum.Rela ...
  • Romney braced for strong challenge from Santor ...
    Mitt Romney is facing fresh turbulence on what is meant to be a glide-path to the Republican Party nomination amid signs of a revitalised challenge from social conservative Rick Santorum and new questions about his strategy to unseat Barack Obama.Related StoriesPitch battle! Football league in ...
  • Entire staff suspended at LA abuse inquiry school
    All the staff at a school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of child abuse have been suspended while education officials investigate the claims.Related StoriesPitch battle! Football league in Argentina renamed in honour of 'General Belgrano'Obama forced to return $200,000 tied to fug ...
  • The Fantastic (and now up-to-date) Four
    In a bid to keep up with the times, Marvel Comics is updating the origins of the Fantastic Four.Related StoriesPitch battle! Football league in Argentina renamed in honour of 'General Belgrano'Obama forced to return $200,000 tied to fugitive Mexican tycoonArgentina's president will complain to ...
  • Women seeking abortion will be shown image of ...
    Everything is bigger in Texas. Including, it seems, the degree of influence which the anti-abortion lobby is able to exert over both lawmakers and members of the judiciary.

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Germany Summons Syrian Ambassador After Spying ...
    The German government called in Syria's ambassador after security officials in Berlin arrested two men suspected of spying for Syrian intelligence on groups critical of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. "We will signal unambiguously to Syrian officials that any apparent activity against the S ...
  • US: Old Mortgages Rise From the Dead, Haunt Ho ...
    In July 2009, Roy and Sheila Bowers refinanced the mortgage on their suburban ranch home in Topeka, Kansas. The couple wanted to take advantage of the low interest rates that were all the rage at the time. Roy, a truck driver, and Sheila, a former hotel housekeeping supervisor, knew their new l ...
  • Japan: TEPCO Struggles to Cool Fukushima Plant ...
    Tokyo Electric Power Co. is taking steps to prevent a possible self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Readings from a thermometer at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor's pressure vessel rose from 50.8 degrees at 5 a.m. on Feb. 1 to 73.3 degrees ...
  • Uganda Bill Punishes Homosexuality with Life i ...
    A Ugandan member of parliament has reintroduced a bill that increases criminal penalties for some homosexual acts, but dropped a provision that allows homosexuals to be executed by the state. Parliamentarian David Bahati on Tuesday reintroduced the so-called "kill the gays" bill that he had fir ...
  • US: The Department of Homeland Security Defend ...
    The Department Of Homeland Security is the very epitome of unnecessary bureaucracy. Its formation was predicated on the existence of terrorist threats, many of which the U.S. government and orbiting alphabet agencies either created through acts of war, or fabricated out of thin air. Its policie ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Log rolling...
    ...not quite the same the way as the folk tune, but this seems to be what happens when a bulk carrier full of raw logs meets 70 knot winds and associated water. Found her when I was out for a stroll yesterday. Dry Beam (Image: Boris) Vessel data and a picture of her in better days are availabl ...
  • Pictures . . .
    THE ARK IN SPACE proclaims itself to be "A Compendium of Creatures", which it is. Take a minute and check it out. The puddy-tat above? That's a Manul – the Cat that Time Forgot. Really. ROUND pupils. This beautiful specimen is a Manul, otherwise known as Pallas’s Cat. About twelve million yea ...
  • The F-35 Fugue . . .
    — the F-35 Fugue —THIS JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER: according to DEFENCETECH "Did Chinese Espionage Lead to F-35 Delays?", that's what happened. Chinese spies apparently hacked into secure conference calls and listened to meetings discussing the classified technologies aboard the jets. In particul ...
  • Dickens' perspective . . .
    —  Mr. D. —HARD TIMES AGAIN: that's the title to a fine article on The American Conservative (go figure) by Theodore Dalrymple, who contends that "Amid the wreck of capitalism and socialism, Dickens is timelier than ever." We live in hard times, and all the indications are that they may ge ...
  • It Ain't Over Till The Pink Plunger Sets Off T ...
    Ah ... the speculation. Let's not get ahead of ourselves — Karen Handel hasn't resigned (yet), but as pressure for her to quit grows, it seems like odd timing for the organization to post an ad that looks a lot like it's an ad to fill the embattled Senior Vice President of Public Policy's shoes ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity's "War On Religion" Campaign Undermine ...
    Continuing a Fox News campaign to portray President Obama as anti-Christian, Sean Hannity claimed the administration's requirement that insurers cover contraception for women was part of a "war on religion." That criticism is undermined by the fact that a majority of Catholics believe insurance ...
  • Right-Wing Media Aren't Concerned About Helpin ...
    As income disparities continue to increase, and the effective tax rate paid by the rich remains at historic lows, right-wing media figures work hard to make sure none of that changes. They routinely attack the poor and programs designed to assist them, while simultaneously extolling the rich an ...
  • CBS To Receive Award From Fringe Group At CPAC
    CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson is set to receive a journalism award at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference from Accuracy in Media, a right-wing group with a long history of promoting anti-gay views and conspiracy theories. Attkisson -- the first reporter from a mainstr ...
  • Still Wrong: Right-Wing Media Continue To Dism ...
    Following the news that the unemployment rate fell in January from 8.5 percent to 8.3 percent, right-wing media have continued to claim that a routine Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) adjustment to jobs data, based on the 2010 census, means that "1.2 million people dropped out of the labor forc ...
  • Right-Wing Media Rely On Discredited Evidence ...
    Right-wing media are rushing to put a negative spin on newly released jobs numbers showing a drop in the unemployment rate and a net increase in jobs by parroting the discredited claim that government data show that "1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force" last month. In fact, as eco ...

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  • Why the Yale Quarterback's Rhodes Fumble Wasn' ...
    Although this column is about how Yale handled its star quarterback Patrick Witt's pass on a Rhodes Scholarship interview, it's really about what the business-corporatization of old American colleges has done to republican leadership training. It's about what former Harvard College Dean Harry Le ...
  • Some Ironies in Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Me ...
    There are delicious ironies in "How to Win Female Votes: What Obama Can Learn From Elizabeth Warren," a terrific piece just posted by Paul Starobin in The New Republic. Starobin reflects on Warren's message in her U.S. Senate campaign against Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who took the la ...
  • Why the "Israel First" Meme Matters
    I certainly set off a firestorm with my use of the term "Israel Firster." Other people use it too but I was the guy who popularized it recently and who used it hundreds of times. The others who utilize the term did so occasionally, often citing me.  So I am the main "miscreant" on this scor ...
  • Don't Fix What Isn't Broken
    Presentation by Reed Hundt, January 31, 2012, Capitol Hill About the spectrum bill passed by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology: I'm here not to praise it but to hope that you bury it on this side of the Hill. I don't think it would pass on a clear ...
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  • The task force responsible for revamping U.S. ...
    Among the recommendations for managing the current stockpile of spent nuclear fuel — approximately 65,000 tons of waste stored at about 75 operating and shut-down reactor sites around the country — is a plan to move the waste to temporary storage sites. Public Citizen rejects this plan. In the a ...
  • California nuclear plant may have leaked radio ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that a “small” amount of radioactive gas may have leaked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The San Onofre plant is on the Pacific Ocean coast near San Clemente north of San Diego. It consists of two uni ...
  • A Texas town runs out of water, will we see more?
    Spicewood, Texas, a small community on Lake Travis, is precariously close to becoming the state’s first community to run out of drinking water during this historic drought.  On Monday, under dark clouds and with rain falling, Spicewood got its first delivery of 8,000-gallons of water after ...
  • Texas Coalition for Affordable Power Release R ...
    Texas Coalition for Affordable Power’s (TCAP) report on electric deregulation in Texas says the industry has failed to deliver, while industry and agency critics find fault with the reports price and reliability comparisons. Texans have paid higher prices for power that is less reliable – ...
  • RR Commission instituting “real” penalties for ...
    Chronic violators of Texas Railroad Commission safety rules may be looking at steeper fines if they don’t clean up their acts. In response to the agency’s Sunset review last session, the commissioners who regulate the state’s booming oil and gas industry are expected to approve penal ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 'Lake monster' filmed in Iceland
    A snake-like creature has been filmed moving slowly through a frozen glacial lake in Iceland. Some believe the video to show evidence of the legendary...
  • Why were some dinosaurs so huge ?
    Scientists have been investigating what lead some dinosaurs to grow to such enormous sizes. It is thought that bird-like egg-laying and efficient resp...
  • Doctors 'print' a new jaw for transplant
    In an operation that's the first of its kind, doctors have created a new jaw using a 3D printer. The patient, an 83 year old Dutch woman, required the...
  • Contact with Vostok team 'not lost'
    The research team have been drilling down in to the waters of an ancient freshwater lake under the ice. Reports that contact had been lost with the te...
  • Cigar shaped UFO sighted over Eastern US
    Five witnesses have reported witnessing a cigar shaped object over the US within a three day period. The latest witness to come forward described how ...

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Climate

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

GreenBiz

  • How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges ...
    A relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest.
  • The Major Dividends Cities Reap from Investing ...
    A new report shows that U.S. cities can save billions in costs -- while cleaning waterways and green neighborhoods -- by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure.
  • What Will It Take to Power the US Military wit ...
    Just how much energy does the U.S. military use, what the costs in dollars and the risk to soldiers, and how can they all be reduced? The American Council On Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy are working with the Defense Department to answer those questions.
  • University of Vermont Offers Online Course on ...
    Lauded for its green practices and curricula, the University of Vermont has developed a certificate program to enable other colleges to integrate sustainability into their operations.
  • The Economic Risks of a Water Constrained World
    Our over-leveraged global water position is fundamentally unsustainable, and the business community is already feeling the pain.

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Booman Tribune

  • So Many Reasons to Boycott Staples
    Here's an idea. Why don't we all take our business to Office Max or our local stationary retailer until Staples stops complaining about "lactation chambers" and provides its nursing employees with reasonable break time to nurse their babies in a space that is not a bathroom and is shielded from ...
  • It's a Ricktacular Night!!
    Remember when I was writing all those posts about the possibility of a brokered convention for the Republicans? The premise was that Romney would never be able to close the deal and that Republican voters would vacillate between Romney and at least two other candidates. Whenever Romney won som ...
  • Can't Santorum Sow Confusion?
    Nate Silver has some interesting analysis on today's caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and the primary in Missouri. It's interesting that Romney canceled planned appearances in Minnesota to race back to Colorado. I say it is interesting because polling shows that Romney is favored to win in C ...
  • Mr. Brooks, Join Us in Modernity
    David Brooks: Members of the Obama administration arent forcing religious organizations to violate their creeds because they are secular fundamentalists who place no value on religious liberty. They are doing it because they operate in a technocracy. That's an interesting take. In David B ...
  • You Can't Claim Eastwood
    It seems like everyone wants to claim Clint Eastwood as their own. The Republicans point out that he has voted for their party in every presidential election since the Eisenhower administration. That's seems conclusive to me. He even served as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California as a Repub ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 20 Cute Koalas Precariously Catching Some Zs
    Koalas are not only cute; they are also experts at sleeping in trees – and dozing while doing so! Still, looking at the following images, it doesn't seem an easy feat! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Hospital Room of Tomorrow
    This infographic offers a fascinating glimpse into how hospital rooms might look in the very near future... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Beautifully Complex Art of Moroccan Mosaics
    Moroccan mosaics have been around for centuries, their intricate designs delighting all who see them. But there's more to the complex patterns than meets the eye. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 11 Coolest Links of the Week
    Trees have some staying power – geez, just check out these six – but then, if a guy can live without a heart, so do we! Cool link awesomeness abounds! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Hottest Links of the Week
    The worst polar expedition ever and nine warmer links, including a church consumed by nature, and eleven more such places of worship given a new lease of life... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Urban Garden? Check. Now, Chickens.
    City dwellers are making some headway in securing local permission to raise a small number of chickens and harvest their eggs. Still, some towns are firmly opposed.
  • On a Snowmobile, Stippled Pleasures
    Although she is more of a skiing or walking, reflective sort, the author gets a thrill barreling along on a snowmobile -- until the muscle aches set in.
  • Fracking Is Not a 'Fait Accompli' for 2012, N. ...
    The state's top environmental official says his staff faces months of work on revised rules governing the controversial gas drilling process.
  • On Our Radar: Quake in the Philippines
    At least 88 people are dead and/or missing. The country has tried to upgrade its disaster-response capability in recent years but is regularly stretched by such catastrophes.
  • Crossed Fingers for a Threatened Butterfly
    The Bay checkerspot vanished from a park in Northern California after nitrogen pollution from road traffic encouraged the spread of nonnative plants. Now, conservationists are hoping they can bring it back.

Dot Earth News

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

Daily Censored

  • Testimonial of a for-profit college student: F ...
    The following is from a former student at Kaplan University.  Dear Mr. Weil  If you are able to can you please read the attachment I sent along and give me your honest opinion. I am a former student of Kaplan University and needless to say they really took me for a very long and painful [...]
  • ”Setting the record straight”: Washingto ...
      Washington Post subsidiary Kaplan Higher Education recently surrendered its license to operate a dental assisting educational program in Charlotte, North Carolina after they were exposed misleading students about the accreditation status of the program.  As I wrote in the story I broke fo ...
  • Daring to Look Behind the Curtain: The Drop-Ou ...
    “‘Only four out of ten U.S. children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college’”—does this sound familiar? Possibly at least echoed in the 2012 State of the Union Address by President Obama, who made this charge regarding U.S. public educat ...
  • Environmental internationalism: Cuba’s new mis ...
    By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés Since 1959 Cuba has played a significant world role, quite a feat for a nation of 5 million – 11 million now. Cubans have shown their values, commitment and solidarity in dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters around the world. Between 1960 and 2011, ...
  • 52 million views, 4-minutes, Occupy’s point: W ...
    video here. What’s wrong with the world, mama, is the 1%’s criminal wars and rapacious looting. Occupy exposes the 1% that allows a million children to die every month from preventable poverty when just 1% of our income saves their lives while reducing population growth. Occupy documents and pro ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • Targeting Syria and Iran
      Targeting Syria and Iran   by Stephen Lendman   Slowed but not derailed by Russia and China vetoing its Security Council resolution, America's regime change/war plans remain on track.   In 1999, Washington circumvented the Security Council, UN Charter, and US Constitut ...
  • Economic Recovery? What Recovery?
      Economic Recovery? What Recovery?   by Stephen Lendman   Reporting it doesn't make it so. In fact, it's more illusion than fact, but that doesn't surprise half of US households impoverished or bordering on it, according to recent US Census data.   read more
  • The Election We Should Be Following
    For progressives and populists around the country who take an interest in Congressional races there are always a few good challengers we might hope to send to Washington.  Incumbents, we assume, can take care of themselves.  But in Northern Ohio, redistricting has thrown two incumbents ...
  • Even US Warmongers Point Out That Israeli Sold ...
    Daily Beast: ... an astonishing number of Israel’s top soldiers and spies are warning against bombing Iran. It began last summer, when Meir Dagan, fresh from a highly successful, eight-year stint as head of the Mossad, called attacking Iran “the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” He noted that ...
  • After Almost a Century Britain Decides to Brin ...
    by Common Dreams Nerve Gas To Be Used for Crowd Control in the UK? Royal Society scientists tell of 'incapacitating chemical agents' investigation - Common Dreams staff A neuroscience research team has announced that the UK may be planning on implementing nerve gas and other chemical agents ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Let’s take a look at Ron Paul’s su ...
    Let’s take a look at Ron Paul’s support in primaries/caucuses so far from 2008 to 2012…anything fishy with Nevada?.. /caucuses so far from 2008 to 2012…anything fishy with Nevada?.. – Imgur.
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  • The Ice is Thin and the Fix is In
    By Les Visible A lot of people wish they were Madonna, or any of the other retarded chipmunks who get the spotlight for one reason or another. Just being in the spotlight is so important to many people that it doesn’t matter what it costs to get there or what they have to do to [...]
  • Super Bowl Sunday and the Material, Kabala Girl
    By Les Visible I am very much noticing the shifting of those seeking to be sitting at the tables after the tables turn. I see the sudden and dramatic shift in conscience among those where conscience is not actually resident. I see what’s going on. I wish I didn’t. I see the new trend ...
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    By Les Visible Here’s a brief burst of mutilated information from CIA-Zio-Controlled Fundieland. You’ll note the standard operative’s mustache on the publisher and scrolling down past him you’ll see where the funding comes from. Why am I talking about this at Visible Orig ...

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

Inhabitat

  • 10-Year-Old Discovers New Molecule That Could ...
    When this author was 10 years old, he was playing with Micro Machines and generally being a nuisance. He definitely wasn’t discovering a new molecule called tetranitratoxycarbon that can be used for anything from energy storage to creating explosives. However, that is exactly what 10 year ...
  • Canada’s Gorgeous Green-Roofed VanDusen Botani ...
    Read the rest of Canada’s Gorgeous Green-Roofed VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre Opens to the Public! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Canada architecture, energy efficient public buildings, green architecture, green design, green roof, Landscape Architect ...
  • 7 Amazing Green Bookstores and Libraries from ...
    Read the rest of 7 Amazing Green Bookstores and Libraries from Around the World Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, amazing bookstores, amazing libraries, ateneo, ateneo bookstore, awesome bookstores, awesome libraries, beer crate library, bicycle library, ...
  • Marks Barfield Proposes a Soaring Bamboo Scien ...
    Read the rest of Marks Barfield Proposes a Soaring Bamboo Science Center for the Amazon Rainforest Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: amazon rainforest, amazon treehouse, bamboo architecture, bamboo treehouse, ecotourism, green architecture, green design, green rainforest ...
  • Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial for Washington D.C ...
    Frank Gehry is no stranger to controversy, sometimes wrongly and sometimes for good reason, but the rejection of his plans for the President Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. is a new kind of controversy. The proposed plan is being resoundingly rejected by Eisenhower’s Family and many more ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mini Motion: Award-Winning Microscope Videos
    Every year, Nikon holds a photomicrography contest that honors some of the best microscope images you'll ever see. This year, they've added video with their Nikon Small World in Motion competition. The best of more than 200 videos show amazing microscopic activity, including cells dividing, ants ...
  • Why Some Wild Animals Are Becoming Nicer
    Nature is supposed to be red in tooth and claw, and domestication an artificial process for making animals gentle. But it appears that some corners of the animal kingdom are becoming kinder, gentler places. Certain creatures may be domesticating themselves.
  • Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes ...
    A song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again, making it the world's oldest known piece of music.
  • How NASA Makes Those Incredible High-Res Image ...
    In recent weeks, a pair of high-resolution images of the Earth has captivated the Internet. Taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, these pictures portray our planet's incredible beauty with a whopping 8,000 by 8,000 pixel and 11,500 by 11,500 pixel detail.
  • Russian Drill Penetrates 14-Million-Year-Old A ...
    After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers has breached the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.

PakAlert

  • ILLUSION OF RECOVERY – FEELINGS VERSUS FACTS
    “There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as the final and total catastrophe of the currency involved.” – ...
  • Satan’s Nation
    You have to realize that all these people, the bankers, the regulators and the lawmakers, are personal friends, hang out together, and belong to the same secret societies. The more they plunge the average person into crushing poverty and hopelessness, the more they are respected and the more the ...
  • 100000 expected to Die at the London 2012 Olym ...
    Before 9 / 11 and 7 / 7 there were clues in card games, comics, film and TV programmes, of the events that would later take place. Similarly, the BBC has broadcasted a series imagining a nuclear explosion at the London Olympics.
  • UFO sightings at Stonefield Beach reveal stran ...
    A dog’s eyes leaving his face for the flutter of a moment made locals here at Stonefield Beach feel even more at ease late Feb. 6 after dog after dog barked and growled at a strange metal box that locals say “suddenly appeared at dawn Monday” after a weekend filled with what locals call intense ...
  • Video: Chemtrails Forecast in Gainesville Florida
    A rather compact but very healthy and dynamic storm slides across the Colorado / New Mexico line Thursday February 2nd 2012. My camera shooting in lime-lapse mode, one frame each 10 seconds yielding a movie showing the clouds moving at 300x real time speed.

Andy Worthington

  • Life After Guantánamo: The Suffering of the Ui ...
    The story of Guantánamo’s Uighurs has always been one of monstrous injustice — as well as a monstrous failure of intelligence, and an equally monstrous failure when it comes to the US government taking responsibility for its own mistakes. This is not a unique occurrence in Guantánamo ...
  • Video: Guantánamo Panel Discussion in Washingt ...
    Yesterday, I posted a short video of a speech I gave on January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, prior to a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash) at ...
  • Save the NHS: A Doctor’s Moving Defence ...
    Yesterday, I published an article about the Tory-led coalition government’s ongoing attempts to destroy the NHS, after the health minister Andrew Lansley issued a new set of amendments to his Health and Social Care Bill, in an attempt to suppress dissent in the House of Lords, which only s ...
  • Save the NHS: 100,000 GPs and Physiotherapists ...
    Ever since the coalition government introduced its Health and Social Care Bill, it has been obvious that what was planned was nothing less than the destruction of the NHS as a universal healthcare provider, and the gradual privatisation of the service, leading to greater profits for private comp ...
  • Video: In Washington D.C., Andy Worthington Di ...
    On January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the World Can’t Wait, the campaigning organization responsible for my visit, hosted a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” ( ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Immigrant-hating ‘Environmentalists’ Enraged a ...
    Anti-immigrant extremists are furious over a decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to exclude Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a nativist organization masquerading as an environmental group, from its annual meeting. In a press release this we ...
  • Noose, Threats at Wisconsin College Found to b ...
    Authorities in Kenosha County, Wis., are recommending criminal charges be filed against a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Parkside student who confessed to what initially appeared to be hate crimes. Khalilah N. Ford of Louisville, Ky., “confessed Friday evening when presented with evidence p ...
  • UN’s Agenda 21 is Seen as Trojan Horse for &#8 ...
    In the last several years, an obscure United Nations accord called Agenda 21 has emerged as something of a unified field theory for the antigovernment movement. On its face, Agenda 21 does nothing but provide countries and communities with a set of principles to grow smartly –– a plan, in short, ...
  • Surprising No One, Georgia Judge Concludes the ...
    The economy may still be limping along and the Middle East in crisis, but at least President Obama can cross one item off the list of things keeping him up at night: According to Friday’s ruling by Georgia Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi, the president is indeed a natural-born citizen el ...
  • Radical Animal Rights Activist Arrested at Uni ...
    Camille Marino, a radical animal liberation activist who advocates violence against scientists who use animals in their research, was arrested on Saturday during a protest at the University of Florida. According to campus Police Chief Linda Stump, Marino now faces extradition to Michigan, where ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Monsanto, Agent Orange Creator, Returns To Vietnam
    Multinational agricultural biotech corporation Monsanto, known as the creator of chemical weapon Agent Orange, is attempting to infiltrate Vietnam once again -- this time as GMO dealer. read more
  • California's Anti-Gay Marriage Prop 8 Ruled Un ...
    Gay marriage activists were celebrating a major victory on Tuesday after a federal appeals court ruled California's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. The federal appeals court struck down California's ban, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early ...
  • Nerve Gas To Be Used for Crowd Control in the UK?
    A neuroscience research team has announced that the UK may be planning on implementing nerve gas and other chemical agents for domestic law enforcement. Scientists commissioned through Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences, says that the government commissioned them to researc ...
  • As BP Profits Gush Skywards, Deal May Be Cut t ...
    BP returned to profit with a bang in 2011, revealing Tuesday that it made $24 billion last year as the British energy giant prepares for a criminal trial over the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. BP lost $4.9 billion in April 2010 when an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig kil ...
  • Poll: Most Canadians Oppose Fracking
    A new poll shows that the majority of Canadians oppose the natural gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. read more

Lifehacker

  • The Aged Paper Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]
    Reader Ammar Githam took a slightly different approach to home screen creation, placing all of his icons on the wallpaper itself for more freedom to create this handwriting-on-paper look. Here's how he put it together. More » ...
  • Remains of the Day: Deleted Photos Still on Fa ...
    Facebook can't make your embarrassing photos go away, hackers make good on their threats to Symantec, and Kubuntu's future is uncertain. More »
  • Remember Phone Numbers and Other Long Strings ...
    If you have trouble remembering long numbers—like phone numbers—Redditor Fealiks shares a simple way to keep everything straight. More »
  • Why a Late Reply Can Be a Compliment mailto:
    Nowadays, immediacy is the norm. Cellphones offer the possibility of constant contact and app and media stores offer instant downloads of purchases. When we're required to wait for something, such as a reply to an email, we often feel slight ...
  • Chrome for Android Brings Bookmark Sync and In ...
    If you've got an Android device running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), you can now download the beta version of Google's Chrome browser from the Android Market, complete with many of the things we love about Chrome—like bookmark sync ...

Water Privatization

  • Haridopolos: Privatization of prisons would di ...
    By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Tuesday a hotly debated plan to privatize prisons in 18 South Florida counties would die in a tie vote, if he allowed a showdown on it now.
  • Florida prison privatization stalls in legislature
    TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A proposal to privatize at least 26 prisons in south Florida is facing stiff opposition in the Florida Senate and may not have the votes to pass, the chamber's president and chief backer said on Tuesday. With the chamber split evenly on the issue, Senate Pres ...
  • Florida prison privatization stalls in Legislature
    Tallahassee, Florida (Reuters) - A proposal to privatize at least 26 prisons in south Florida is facing stiff opposition in the Florida Senate and may not have the votes to pass, the chamber's president and chief backer acknowledged on Tuesday. With the chamber split evenly on the issue, Sen ...
  • University’s Ban on Bottled Water Stirs Contro ...
    The University of Vermont has banned bottled water on campus as part of its “healthy initiative,†but some critics say bottled water is the healthiest beverage option possible.
  • Video Puts Bottled Water Bans at Colleges into ...
    Bottled water has the lowest carbon footprint, the lowest water footprint, and the highest curbside recycling rates of packaged drinks, says the International Bottled Water AssociationAlexandria, VA (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 The International Bottled Water Association’s (IBWA) consumer website h ...

Guardian

  • Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri results – as ...
    • Rick Santorum sweeps Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri • Front-runner Mitt Romney spurned by Republicans • Low turnout raises fears of GOP enthusiasm gap • Live and in 3D, state-by-state election results1.25am: So where does this leave Mitt Romney? Mix your own metaphor: in a ditch, up a creek wi ...
  • Promises to simplify elderly care not kept, sa ...
    Health select committee to say government's health reforms have failed to integrate care for a rapidly ageing populationAndrew Lansley's NHS reforms have failed to come up with the plans and the cash for an integrated system of health and social care to cope with an ageing population, a group of ...
  • China's anti-gang police chief placed on 'stre ...
    News came hours after police surrounded the US consulate in Chengdu prompting rumours of an attempted defectionChinese authorities have announced that a high profile official is receiving "vacation-style treatment" due to stress, hours after police surrounded the United States consulate in south ...
  • Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questio ...
    The amount of cooling water being injected into the No. 2 reactor was increased after its temperature soared to 73.3 CWorkers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant say they are regaining control of a reactor after its temperature rose dramatically this week, casting doubt on government cl ...
  • Argentina will take Falklands claim to the UN, ...
    Cristina Kirchner warns of 'grave risks to international security' and states intention to prevent war over natural resourcesPresident Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has accused Britain of "militarising" the south Atlantic, and said she would seek UN intervention to prevent a war against Argenti ...

McClatchey

  • Santorum wins Minnesota and Missouri, shakes u ...
    The strong showing by Rick Santorum made it clear that Mitt Romney isn't yet his party's consensus nominee. It signaled that the GOP nomination campaign may remain a bitter struggle…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. Gen. Dempsey heads to Egypt with relation ...
    With $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid and a three-decade relationship hanging in the balance, U.S. officials said Tuesday that Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint…Click to Continue »
  • House OKs bill to help feds shed surplus property
    The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would speed the disposal of surplus federal property, a mundane-sounding but potentially significant money saver that's also a notable freshman-year…Click to Continue »
  • Planned Parenthood furor claims Komen exec
    Karen Handel, the vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has quit her post at the breast cancer charity; her move comes on the heels…Click to Continue »
  • Woman turns around big diabetes risk factor fo ...
    Maria Medina's life is littered with the destruction of diabetes. Damage that pervasive is a common experience in the Mexican American community, which has some of the highest rates in…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner and Lindsey Williams discuss the updates in the FDA whistleblower illegal surveillance case, including Senator Grassley’s biting letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg dema ...
  • Senator Grassley's Ten Scathing Questions for ...
    Amid this week’s media frenzy, Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a scornful letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg about the FDA’s targeted whistleblower surveillance program. If you missed the original story about the FDA’s illegal spy operation, you can catch up by r ...
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...
  • U.S. Air Force receives Whistleblower Retaliat ...
    This week, the U.S Office of Special Counsel (OSC) presented their report regarding the allegations made by four whistleblowers about retaliation at U.S Port Mortuary in Dover, Delaware's Air Force Base. The report reviewed events that occurred over a 17 months period in 2009 and 2010. It conclu ...
  • Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillan ...
    TAKE ACTION! FDA Spy Program Documents Linked Here As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the ag ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Publishing 2.0: Content Is Marketing, Profits ...
    Publishers find themselves confronted by a difficult dilemma at the moment. On the one hand, they might want e-books to succeed, because digital devices represent a huge new market to which they can sell their back catalogs. On the other, they might want them to fail, because e-books will cann ...
  • More Details About Paramount's Offer To Law Sc ...
    On Friday, we wrote about reports of Paramount Pictures sending overnight letters to a variety of universities, asking to come speak to their students about the whole SOPA/PIPA debate, and why they're all "content thieves," before asking for the students' thoughts on what Paramount should do. T ...
  • DailyDirt: Sneaky Little Spiders
    Spiders exhibit a wide variety of fascinating behaviors that are intriguingly complex. They don't just build nice webs and trap unsuspecting insects. Spiders have bizarre mating rituals that seem to suggest a surprising amount of intelligence for their size. Here are just a few examples. Som ...
  • USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitt ...
    With all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that they'd avoid upsetting anyone else. But it seems that some publishers have decided to go after lawyers who make patent applications that include copies of academic articles as prior a ...
  • Who's Still Backing SOPA/PIPA... And Why?
    With all the talk about SOPA/PIPA it's worth noting that neither bill is really dead yet, and either one could come back at any time -- though you'd hope that Senator Leahy and Rep. Smith realize that they'd be crazy to just bring the bills back without being more open about the process. In the ...

VacTruth

  • Formaldehyde in Vaccines: A DNA Adduct?
    Formaldehyde in vaccines is injected into your child. Before you consider another vaccine for your child, consider this important information...
  • What, if any, Parallels Are There Between BP’s ...
    Big Pharma has stealth-like protection and freedom from legal and financial liabilities from harming anyone with vaccines, all while they keep making more vaccines with more mandates for their use.
  • Vaccines Are Exploding Kids’ Immune Systems
    The pharmaceutical industries are treating our children as little more than test tubes. They are adding as many potentially lethal chemicals, toxins and poisons as they can to see which ones cause the test tubes to explode.
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for January
    Apparently PFCs are making vaccines ineffective... and another child dies from a hypersensitivity reaction to a vaccine. That and more with the top 5 stories for January.
  • OSHA’s Interesting ‘Take’ on Vaccinations
    OSHA document states, "...reliance on a mandatory influenza vaccination policy may provide healthcare workers, health care facility management and patients with an unwarranted sense of security and result in poor adherence to other infection control practices that prevent all types of infections."

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Jesus versus the GOP
    Gary Kamiya writes: The Republican strategy — loudly proclaiming one’s Christian faith, while attacking Obama as an agent of secular evil, if not actually Satan himself – is right out of the Fox News playbook. As the voice of the American far right, the ultimate undeclared super-duper-GOP-PAC, F ...
  • ‘We the People’ loses appeal with people aroun ...
    Adam Liptak writes: The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little curren ...
  • Video: Are NGOs fanning unrest in Egypt?
  • In Syria, we need to bargain with the devil
    Nicholas Noe writes: Almost one year after anti-government protests began in Syria, a disaster of enormous moral and strategic proportions is fast approaching. Full-scale civil war is now likely. And a multifront, conventional and possibly unconventional war ignited by events in the Levant is al ...
  • Syria: death and division thwart hopes of oppo ...
    The Guardian reports: Syria’s opposition is struggling to respond to the intensifying crackdown by the regime and the failure of international efforts to secure a peaceful outcome. The proliferation of different groups, personal rivalries, incompatible agendas and failing strategies is mak ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Support for the saturated greenhouse effect le ...
    From The Hockey Shtick, word of a new paper that supports Miskolczi’s theory of saturated greenhouse effect. We’ve seen this before, in the form of this graph. In 2006, Willis Eschenbach posted this graph on Climate Audit showing the logarithmic … Continue reading →
  • How reliable are global temperature “ano ...
    Guest post by Clive Best Perhaps like me you have  wondered why “global warming” is always measured using temperature “anomalies” rather than by directly measuring the absolute temperatures ? Why can’t we simply average  the surface station data together to … Continue reading →
  • Extremely Black Carbon
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Of late there has been a lot written about the effect of “black carbon”, a.k.a. “soot”, and also “brown carbon”, a.k.a. wood and dung smoke, on the climate. Me, I think it’s worthwhile controlling black … Continue re ...
  • Your tax dollars at work: an NCAR cartoon on s ...
    From the video description: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking … Continue ...
  • The numbers on “bad science”
    This infographic from www.clinicalpsychology.net is interesting. It speaks to President Eisenhower’s second warning in his famous farewell speech. More below. Here’s the references as actual links: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 http://www.n ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Portfolio Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet at Lowering ...
    A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-l ...
  • Bran, soy help cut cholesterol
    Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit ...
  • Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin ...
    A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored by a professor at the University of California, Merced. The study, “A Route to Enantiopure R ...
  • A novel mechanism that regulates pro-inflammat ...
    Discovery has implications for autoimmune diseases, HIV infection and possibly in cancer as a biomarker and in the development of new treatments New research led by Derya Unutmaz, MD associate professor, the Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Microbiology at NYU School of Medicine and Mark ...
  • Lab-Grown Disks May Cure That Aching Back
    Squishy, doughnut-shaped disks can make the difference between a pain-free, active lifestyle or years of back discomfort. When the disks that normally cushion each vertebra in the spine start to degenerate, due to aging or injury, nerves can be pinched and movement impeded. But degenerating disk ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russians drill to alien Antarctic lake
    After decades of drilling, Russian scientists have finally managed to pierce through Antarctica’s ice sheet to reveal the secrets of a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, a scientific source said on February 6.
  • Sochi 2014 launches recruitment campaign for O ...
    Tuesday saw the ceremonial opening of a massive nationwide recruitment campaign to find volunteers for the 2014 Winter Olympics - from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.
  • Defense Ministry Drops Contracts for ‘Inferior ...
    Substandard and uncertified models of arms and military equipment have been excluded from the 2012 state defense order, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.
  • Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, February 8
    Moscow Could Take Blame for Adverse Developments in Syria \ Medvedev to Meet With Leaders of Unregistered Opposition Parties
  • Army Introduces Ammo Destroyer
    The Russian military is introducing new technology for destroying obsolete ammunition, with the straightforwardly-named “Destroyer” set to replace the current dangerous practice of just blowing up old bombs and rockets, Rossiiskaya Gazeta said.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia May Spend Almost $12 bln on Glonass in ...
    Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 bln) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, the Kommersant daily said on Wednesday.
  • British Scientists Show Vegetables Can 'Talk'
    A research team at the University of Exeter visualized on television the ability of plants to communicate, the university reported on its website.
  • Russian Scientists Drill to Sub-Glacial Antarc ...
    After decades of drilling , Russian scientists have finally managed to pierce through Antarctica’s ice sheet to reveal the secrets of a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, that has been sealed there for the past 20 million years, a scientific source said on Monday.
  • Russia Tests HIV Vaccine
    The State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology, Vektor, has successfully completed the first stage of clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, Vektor director Alexander Sergeyev said on Monday.
  • Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe – Investigators
    Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • OSGATA Et Al. V. Monsanto: Will Farmers Receiv ...
    It was standing room only as family farmers from around North America filled Federal Court Judge Naomi Buchwald's courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday, January 31. The topic was the landmark organic community lawsuit OSGATA et al v. Monsanto and the Oral Argument Monsanto's pre-trial motion to dis ...
  • Eyeing Greener Acres, New Farmers Reap Growing ...
    HALLSVILLE, Mo. - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country.Click here to ...
  • Millions of Americans Move Their Money Out of ...
    More than 600,000 U.S. consumers have moved their money from big banks to community banks or credit unions, thanks to the much-publicized Bank Transfer Day last fall, according to an analysis released by Javelin Strategy & Research.Click here to read this article
  • Forget the Environment and Climate Stability: ...
    The U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo triggered a recession and led to lines at gasoline stations.Click here to read this article
  • Judges Already Citing Wal-Mart Ruling in Envir ...
    A major Supreme Court ruling from last year that is widely predicted to reduce the number of successful class-action claims against big companies is already being cited in environmental cases.Click here to read this article

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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US strike group simulates war with Iran
    ShareThisUS strike group simulates war with Iran 07 Feb 2012 The United States' oldest aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, and its strike group are running naval drills, which seem to indicate potential conflict with Iran, off the US East coast ahead of being deployed to the Persian Gulf. The dril ...
  • CIA expected to stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for ...
    ShareThisCIA expected to stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for the long haul --The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in December has moved the CIA's emphasis there toward more traditional espionage -- monitoring developments in the increasingly antagonistic government. 07 Feb 2012 The CIA is expected ...
  • California Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unlawful by ...
    ShareThisCalifornia Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unlawful by Appeals Court 07 Feb 2012 California's voter-backed Proposition 8 law declaring marriage to be only between a man and a woman was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. The San Francisco-based court, ruling 2-1, today upheld the ...
  • Daily Mail Hacked by TeaMp0isoN
    ShareThisDaily Mail Hacked by TeaMp0isoN 07 Feb 2012 Yesterday Visitors to the Daily Mail's recipe pages had been confronted with a message left by hackers who defaced and disabled the site. British sensationalist newspaper the Daily Mail has been hit by hackers in support of the online movement ...
  • Fire at Moscow nuclear institute
    ShareThisFire at Moscow nuclear institute 05 Feb 2012 Fire broke out at a Moscow nuclear research centre housing a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor on Sunday, said officials. The fire broke out early on Sunday in a part of the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • 17 Members of Congress Want Answers on MEDEVAC
     
  • Contempt of and for Congress?
    US Military Forges Ahead with Deadly Deceptions Dhaka, Bangladesh 05 February 2012 The US military is toying with American lawmakers. Based on two key documents submitted to individual Members of Congress and the House Armed Services Committee, by both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Army, ...
  • Crucifixion of Common Sense
    03 February 2012 Nobody crucifies common sense like the US Army.  During my morning search for anything MEDEVAC related, several new stories emerged, including one with these illustrative quotes from a Soldier returning from Iraq: “You have to land where you never had to land before,&nbsp ...
  • The Army MEDEVAC Scandal: Report of Conspiracy
    02 February 2012 An Army officer writes: The Army is not resisting Dustoff policy change because our leadership honestly believes the current policy is superior, but rather because of AMEDD's [Army Medical Department] protectionist attitude toward "their" Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopters. I'm an ac ...
  • Important Letter from Gold Star Mother
    31 January 2012 A Gold Star Mother is one who lost a child in service of the United States.  Ms. Keyko Clark-Davis is a recent Gold Star Mother.  I was present when her son Chazray was mortally wounded.  We have communicated many times.  Chazray’s mother is strong and inspir ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • EU court limits privacy rights for public figures
    [JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] issued two rulings [press release] on Tuesday upholding the right of the media to report on celebrities and limiting celebrities' right to privacy. In Axel Springer AG v. Germany [judgment], the court examined whether a German ...
  • UNICEF claims bloodshed in Syria has led to hu ...
    [JURIST] The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) [official website] reported Tuesday that the nearly 11 months of violence in Syria have led to the deaths and injuries of hundreds of children [press release]. In particular, UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said that, "[a]s of the end of January, 400 c ...
  • Arizona files opening brief with Supreme Court ...
    [JURIST] Attorneys for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer [official website] filed an opening brief [text, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday, asking the court to lift an injunction that has blocked many contentious provisions of a state immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURI ...
  • ICTY sentences former case manager to 12 month ...
    [JURIST] Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday rendered a judgment [summary, PDF] against Jelena Rasic, sentencing her to 12 months imprisonment on contempt charges. The judgment came following ...
  • Federal judge allows enforcement of Texas abor ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas [official website] ruled [order, PDF] Monday that Texas can begin enforcing a state law [HB 15, PDF] that requires women to have a sonogram before undergoing an abortion [JURIST news archive]. In his ruling, Judge Sam S ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Foreign Press Rents Tel Aviv Rooftops to Cover ...
    You remember the descriptions of the First Battle of Bull Run when all of Washington’s high society rode out in their fine carriages and horses to picnic under the shady trees and watch their Union boys send the Yankees packing?  Did they get the shock of their lives when the Rebel musket ...
  • Former Senior U.S. Diplomats Propose Solution ...
    Despite the beating drums of war on its news pages from David Sanger and others, the Times published an intelligent, pragmatic outline of a possible agreement between Iran and the U.S., written by two senior diplomats of past Republican administrations, Tom Pickering and Bill Luers.  Here’ ...
  • Jewish Forward Attack on Penn BDS Neglects Iar ...
    This past week, Penn students held a three day conference on the BDS movement. The conference had been preceded by coverage from the local Jewish community pro-Israel newspaper and the Penn student newspaper which was not only antagonistic and unbalanced, but specifically, a professor penned an ...
  • Abbas to Head Fatah-Hamas Unity Government Til ...
    Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal have reached an agreement that would provide for Abbas to head a Palestinian unity caretaker government until elections, which would happen sometime in the coming months.  The deal comes on the heels of the abject failure of four rounds of Jordanian sponsored peac ...
  • Rabbi Joseph Lukinsky, May His Memory Be for a ...
    I’ve been rummaging through the attic of my life for a media project I’m involved with.  A cousin just found a picture of my father, smiling, handsome and so full of young promise, at age 23 in 1948.  When my partner in this project asked who she could speak with about me in Israel, ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Eastern Europe - Ukraine's Cold Snap R ...
    Ivan Brilyuk is 45, but he looks much older. With his white beard and swollen, chapped face and fingers, Brilyuk is one of the hundreds of thousands of homeless people that Ukrainian social workers say are suffering the worst of the recent cold weather. Brilyuk is relatively lucky. He has m ...
  • Inside Mexico - Mexico Prepares for July 2012 ...
    As Mexico's political season rapidly unfolds, attention is focused on the candidates and their political parties. But underneath the glare of the media spotlight, the nuts-and-bolts work of organizing the July 1 elections is quietly taking place without much fanfare. Unlike the United States whe ...
  • Edge of China - Deng Xiaoping Speaks from Beyo ...
    A Chinese new year is just beginning, and the undercurrents in Chinese politics are already surging up. The countdown to the 18th Party Congress has started, and various factions within the Party are now in hand-to-hand combat, resorting to all sorts of weapons to try to overpower their opponent ...
  • Edge of Economic Crisis - Even Bankruptcy Migh ...
    Even if Detroit ends up filing for bankruptcy, it may not be the solution to the city’s long-running fiscal woes, according to a new report led by a Michigan State University economist. Instead, a Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy may simply serve as a wakeup call to bring city and union leade ...
  • South of the Border - A Mexican Resort City Fi ...
    It might be called Puerto Vallarta's "Stairway to Heaven." Climbing up a double row of steps and fronting white homes with red-tiled roofs, the cobble-stone heights of Iturbide Street offer a magnificent view of blue Banderas Bay and its population of wintering humpback whales and playful dolphi ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Arab Leaders Believe Obama Administration is B ...
    By Barry Rubin Want to understand the real Middle East? Then pay attention to the following. Let’s say an important and outspoken Gulf Arab gave a frank and thoughtful assessment of the region’s security problems. What would he say and what would that tell you? And how would that differ fr ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Mainstream Media Reports ...
    The Mainstream Media refuses to give the New York Giants their due from their exciting victory in Super Bowl 46. According to an analysis conducted by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, many in the mainstream media are saying that the Giants weren't really a super bowl team, and given the chance Pre ...
  • Who Owns DNCC Chair Steve Israel Part 1
    From Steve Israel For Congress;Working to Create New Jobs, Holding the Financial Industry Accountable Steve understands that while we're trying to work our way out of this economic crisis, we have to hold the financial industry accountable to prevent the next one. That's why Steve wrote a b ...
  • Jews Should Join Catholics In Their War Agains ...
    President Obama has declared war on the Catholic Church and the Church is fighting back. Leaders of American Catholics are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s 70 million Catholic voters. The Issue? A ruling made by Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sibel ...
  • Rev Al's Loony Support Of Obama's Anti-Catholi ...
    Friend of Obama, professional Bigot and MSNBC talking head the "Reverend" Al Sharpton was on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to defend the President's policy forcing Catholic organizations to pay for Contraception, morning after abortion pills and other procedures banned by the Catholic Church.  ...

The Real Agenda

  • Brazil will become first Transgenic crop producer
    France 24 February 7, 2012 Brazil is on course to overtake the United States as the world’s top producer of biotech crops in the coming years, a leading promoter of farm biotechnology said Tuesday. The United States currently holds the lead with 69 million hectares (170 million acres) unde ...
  • FBI: Anti-government people are “terrori ...
    Paying cash for coffee or using a proxy server must be reported to the FBI By Patrick Temple-West Reuters February 7, 2012 Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday. These ext ...
  • NASA Satellite Shows That Global Temperatures ...
    by Steven Goddard Real Science February 7, 2012 Strange that NASA’s Hansen isn’t talking about this remarkable event. It would be easy to get the impression that he has an agenda which has nothing to do with science. Daily Earth Temperatures from Satellites Please move the cursor to the altitude ...
  • Las causas del cáncer son bien conocidas y tam ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 07 de febrero 2012 No es raro ver a los ensayos de expertos en cáncer o de los médicos que en privado o a través de fundaciones promueven viejos conocimientos cuando se habla de cáncer, su prevención y tratamiento. Pero los artículos que hablan de las tasas de ...
  • The Causes of Cancer are well-known and so are ...
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 7, 2012 It is not uncommon to see essays from so called cancer experts or doctors who privately or through foundations promote the old know-how when talking about cancer, cancer prevention and treatment. But articles that talk about cancer rates and th ...

Wind Watch

  • 101 Tories revolt over wind farms
    David Cameron has been hit by a major protest by Conservative MPs over the Government’s backing for wind farms, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. A total of 101 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind tu ...
  • Obama admin sweats legal response as turbines ...
    MOUNT STORM, W.Va. — Turn the final bend on Route 42 as it snakes up Mount Storm and a towering turbine appears, its blades swooshing in the winter gusts. Dozens more of these giants crown this remote mountain ridge 150 miles west of Washington, D.C. Dominion and Shell WindEnergy’s N ...
  • Aid for wind turbine victims sought
    Brown Co. panel: State should pay medical bills for those near wind farm Wisconsin should pay the medical bills of Brown County residents who were made ill by industrial wind turbines, some county supervisors say. Saying the state allowed “irresponsible placement” of industrial wind ...
  • What you can’t hear can hurt you
    When American noise expert Robert Rand turned up to work in Maine, in the US northeast, in April to investigate the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents he was literally blown away. Not only did Rand’s readings confirm many fears in the community, he claims to have become an unwitti ...
  • Wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles
    A controversial wind farm proposed near Red Wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades. U.S. Fish and Wildlife offi ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Congressional Earmarks Sometimes Personally Lu ...
    “Thirty-three members of Congress have directed more than $300 million in earmarks and other spending provisions to dozens of public projects that are next to or within about two miles of the lawmakers’ own property, according to a Washington Post investigation.” (Washington Post) So ...
  • Government’s Health Care Tab to Double in Decade
    “Government spending for Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs will more than double over the next decade to $1.8 trillion, or 7.3 percent of the country’s total economic output, congressional researchers said on Tuesday.” (Reuters) If demand is subsidized by the tax ...
  • Super Bowl versus Education?
    It appears that spending on government education in one year was 324 times the amount companies spent on Super Bowl advertising over 20 years.
  • The Naughty Mr. Hazlitt
    In digging through the archives at the Foundation for Economic Education, one comes across a variety of correspondences, from the friendly to the boring and from the hostile to the downright amusing. Today’s document is a correspondence between Henry Hazlitt and a Major L.L.B. Angas. Hazlitt and ...
  • Unemployment Rate Drop Has Mixed Message
    “The big drop in the unemployment rate in recent months to 8.3 percent from double-digit rates during the recession came at a fortunate time for President Obama, but economists say it as much because of young people dropping out of the labor market as it is the result of businesses adding ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • How Lower Income Citizens Commute
    One of the most frequently recurring justifications for densification policies (smart growth, growth management, livability, etc.) lies with the assumption that the automobile-based mobility system (Note 1) disadvantages lower income citizens. Much of the solution, according to advocates of ...
  • New Urbanism vs. Dispersionism
    The Florida real estate developer, unburdened of state regulatory agencies, may now focus his efforts on pleasing the investment community and the local market.  I recently played the role of real estate developer interviewing two consultant teams vying to help me create a new fictional comm ...
  • The Three Laws of Future Employment
    As a college educator I am tasked with preparing today’s students for their future careers. Implicit is that I should know more about the future than most people. I do not - at least not in the sense of specific predictions. But I can suggest some boundaries on the path forward. Let’s start ...
  • Indianapolis: From Naptown to Super City
    I have long touted the sports strategy that Indianapolis used to revitalize its downtown as a model for cities to follow in terms of strategy led economic and community development. I really think it sets the benchmark in terms of how to do it, and it has been very successful. Indy is hos ...
  • Who Stands The Most To Win – And Lose – From A ...
    As the probability of President Barack Obama’s reelection grows, state and local officials across the country are tallying up the potential ramifications of a second term. For the most part, the biggest concerns lie with energy-producing states, which fear stricter environmental regulati ...

GM Watch

  • GM industry backers cook the books again- ISAA ...
    NOTE: Cooking the Books: A Methodological Critique of PG Economics's 2011 Global Report on GM Crops, January 2012. Available at http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/FWW_CookingTheBooks_WEB.pdf --- --- GM Industry Backers Cook the Books Again – ISAAA Figures on GM Can't Be Trusted Food & Water ...
  • 8 Ways Monsanto fails at sustainable agriculture
    NOTE: Brilliant new primer from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Just follow the links to lots more info on how Monsanto is failing sustainable agriculture - something that its latest advertising campaigns claim it's promoting! --- --- Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture http: ...
  • GM has exacerbated pesticide treadmill in India
    1.Scientist: GM technology has exacerbated pesticide treadmill in India 2.Responses to "GM cotton: suicide seeds?" NOTE: Item 2 gives other views on the same topic, particularly that of the role of Bt cotton in farmer suicides. --- --- 1.Scientist: GM technology has exacerbated pesticide treadm ...
  • Way beyond greenwashing: Have corporations cap ...
    1.Way Beyond Greenwashing: Synopsis 2.Way Beyond Greenwashing: Extract NOTE: Please forward, post, distribute, tweet, like, link to, and otherwise recommend this important article. --- --- 1.Way Beyond Greenwashing: Synopsis Independent Science News Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations C ...
  • Organic farming dwarves GM crops
    ORGANIC FARMING DWARVES GM-CROPS IN EUROPE AS PUBLIC REJECTION HITS BIOTECH FIRMS Friends of the Earth Europe, February 7 2012 A factsheet including 2011 GM crop cultivation figures is available at:http://www.foeeurope.org/GMOs/FoEE_factsheet_organic_farming_dwarves_GM_Feb2012.pdf Brussels – P ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramati ...
    If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...
  • Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now ...
    Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...
  • The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm U ...
    The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financ ...
  • I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The G ...
    On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for so ...
  • The United Nations Wants To Crash The World Ec ...
    The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem.  In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economi ...

Desertification

  • A sustainable development jewel in written for ...
    Read at : http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2012/02/re-use-recycle-and-produce-bottle-gardening-in-karachi/ Reuse, Recycle and Produce: Bottle Gardening in Karachi By Zahra Ali A new generation of green thumbs: Students pose with their base pots and a plastic bottle filled with potting mix (left). ...
  • “African Agriculture” – 11 n ...
    Read at :Feed Bitz 1 Inputs subsidy schemes: does easy … Inputs subsidy schemes: does easy fertilizer access discourage good soil management? Interrogating Africa’s traditional communal land tenure systems Maize exports threaten South Africa’s food security Some Zimbabwean farmers find &#8 ...
  • Wheat variety that may produce sufficient food ...
    Read at : http://www.ecosensorium.org/2012/02/haryana-agriculture-university-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ecosensorium+%28ECOSENSORIUM.ORG%29 Haryana Agriculture University to develop new wheat variety Inadequate irrigation resources and changing cli ...
  • Zimbabwe maize harvest to fall 35% on late rai ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/zimbabwe-maize-harvest-to-fall-35-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 by Godfrey Marawanyika Zimbabwe planted 247,000 hectares (610,350 acres) of ...
  • Erratic rainfall has delayed planting of Zambi ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/erratic-rains-get-zambia-maize-crop-off.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Erratic rains get Zambia maize crop off to poor start by Chris Mfula Err ...

The Paper Trail

  • Another Bain exec revealed as man behind corpo ...
    A mysterious corporate donor to an outside spending group supporting Mitt Romney’s campaign for president isn’t a corporation at all, but a former executive of Romney’s old employer, Bain & Co., and his wife, according to records.Super PAC “Restore Our Future” reported a $250,000 donation fr ...
  • Susan Ferriss discusses youth in prison with KQED
    Susan is interviewed for California Report story on youth inmates.
  • Weekly Watchdog 2/2/12
    Super PACs file expenditure reportsJanuary 31st was the deadline for super PACs to file their latest expenditure reports. The Center dug into the numbers quickly to identify the major donors – and their special interests. These are the people who, in many respects, are attempting to buy the 2012 ...
  • Bain execs spent nearly $5 million on Romney’s ...
    Of all the investments made by the super-wealthy partners at Bain Capital, perhaps none have a greater potential return than the one they have made in Mitt Romney.Current and former Bain executives and their relatives have given about $4.7 million to organizations dedicated to making Romney the ...
  • Another green energy company stumbles: Fisker ...
    Fisker Automotive, maker of exotic electric sports cars being built with help from a $529 million federal loan, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to continue backing it with public money.

backofthebook.ca

  • The book is back
    A message from backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher: Astute readers of backofthebook.ca will have noticed that our metabolism has slowed of late — we’ve been posting less often. This follows a deleriously busy spring and fall, when our traffic skyrocketed (especially for our pieces on ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Autonomy, Consensus, and Revolution: Call for ...
    246_capitalism_is_the_crisis_logo1.jpg Autonomy, Consensus, and Revolution: In the process of consensus, the voices of the oppressed can be stifled, as well as those of the Third Worlds. In this ...
  • Arizona Set to Abolish Public Unions
    For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. Arizona sate employees’ unions were caught off guard this week with news that the state’s republican controlled senate was passing a series of bills which, amongst other provisions, would ...
  • Barnet council workers to strike against priva ...
    tuesday 062.JPG On Thursday 9 February, hundreds of Barnet council UNISON members will go on strike. Barnet council workers are fighting plans to mass-outsource council services and jobs to the privat ...
  • EDL Latest
    poor do.jpg EDL & Infidels Wash Out! Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! What a total failure for both the English Defence League and the Infidels this weekend. The EDL calle ...
  • Strike wave in Indonesia
    Bekasi Jan 27.jpg The Indonesian economy has been booming due to high prices for the commodities it is based on, but living costs are also rising and there is a strong sense that the country’s economi ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Edomite Internet Trolls
    There can be no doubt that this blog has upset the Edomite Jew overlords con-troll-ing Planet Earth.   I have been trolled and the world is being conned! A “Humanist Psycho-babbler” lackey named Mike Lewinsky has publicly accused me of plagiarism.  No, to be more exact, this sacrosan ...
  • Edomite Forbidden Archeology
    What happens when an archeologist finds an artifact that disproves a widely accepted “scientific theory” such as evolution?   Simple, make the artifact disappear, and if the archeologist cries foul, black list him/her and teach them a lesson.  If the archeologist continues to spout o ...
  • Propaganda and Fear Mongering Against Iran Acc ...
    Iran.  The hated and evil empire – the primal enemy of Edomite “Israel”.   What better time for Israel to attack Iran than their blessed festival of “Purim”. You see, the Edomite God Mammon has promised his people victory if the attack comes during “Purim&#822 ...
  • Edomite Advertising
    Are you tired of all those Big Pharma ads – you know, the ones that promote the miracles of  a wide variety of chemical drugs?  Billions of dollars are spent by Big Pharma to pre-condition the Goyim mind to desire their miracle pills.   Of course, the FDA requires the caveat:  ASK YOUR DOC ...
  • Righteous Blood Part IX – “Transce ...
    The ancient story of  enmity between Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) is ongoing to this very day!!  All of the “righteous blood” spilled because of this incredible feud via their abominable World Wars, assassinations, murders, and massive invasions into the human body, yet cries unto ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Me and the Club of Rome
    Bethnal Green tenements in 1973 (This is the first of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an important think tank in the Round Table network of world elites. Bill Clinton’s mentor Carroll Quigley ...
  • The Mayor Who Said No to the Feds
    Wes Uhlman - Seattle Mayor 1969-1978 In my last post I wrote about the apparent defect in integrity and moral courage that plagues most American corporate and political leaders. This hasn’t always been the case. With the steady erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights over the las ...
  • Victory for the Neptune Network
    At Sellafield blocking plutonium shipment (This is the second of two posts about Neptune Network, a group organized by Norwegian business executives, and their campaign to shut down a nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK.) The MOX reprocessor at Sellafield closed August 3rd, after Japan (foll ...
  • The CEO Who Chained Himself to a Bridge
    Stordalen chained to the bridge (This is the first of two posts about Neptune Network, a group organized by Norwegian business executives, and their campaign to shut down a nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK.) The man in the photo is Petter Stordalen, and he’s a billionaire Norwegian p ...
  • The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
    (This is the second of two blogs exploring why the US is the country – besides the Netherlands – that doesn’t vaccinate against tuberculosis) Sadly the vast majority of Americans – including many doctors – are unaware there is a safe, effective and inexpensive vac ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Climate change denial’s new offensive
    If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet -- as we shall see -- it’s unfortunately largely inv ...
  • Guantanamo’s deepening failure
    The U.S. Defense Department specializes in euphemism. “Limited kinetic action” is a polite way of saying “war” and “collateral damage” does not sound as blunt as “dead children.”  When I was chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration, I was tol ...
  • Syria’s bloody turning point
    BEIRUT, Lebanon — Abu Yaman used to work at the oil refinery in Homs, where production helped Syria maintain cheap subsidized heating oil and fuel, as well as free health care and 24-hour electricity.Today, Abu Yaman’s refinery has become a military base, its main pipelines destroyed, state hosp ...
  • Saul Alinsky: The activist who terrifies the right
    "I am for the Declaration of Independence,” declared Newt Gingrich at a recent campaign appearance, but President Barack Obama “is for the writing of Saul Alinsky. I am for the Constitution; he is for European socialism." Gingrich is not alone in his demonization of Alinsky, widely viewed as the ...
  • Karl Rove’s hissy fit: “Offended&# ...
    I admit it: Chrysler's "Halftime in America" Super Bowl ad reminded me of President Obama's best recent speeches. Actor Clint Eastwood, the face of rugged American individualism, talked about "tough eras" and "downturns" and "times when we didn't understand each other," but then declared:But aft ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Sierra Club admits taking money to promote nat ...
    On February 2, 2012, the Sierra Club allowed a Time magazine blog to break a poorly kept “secret” whose existence had threatened to get out of hand.
  • Cincinnati Explores 100% Renewable Energy Plan
    Cincinnati is working on a new power aggregation deal right now that could lead to the entire city being powered from 100 percent
  • Australia: Solar Flagships extends deadline, r ...
    The Australian government has given the Areva-led Solar Dawn project a six month reprieve, and has re-opened bidding for the PV portion of its national solar program. The Solar Dawn consortium proposing to build a 250MW solar thermal plant in south-west Queensland as part of Australia’s Solar Fl ...
  • Is Climate Change Bringing the Arctic to Europe?
    Less Summer Arctic Sea Ice Cover May Mean Some Colder, Snowier Winters in Central Europe [For Now] [T]he probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer. Scientists of the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener In ...
  • The Dawn of a New Day for Autos
    A lot has changed in the two years since I made my first visit to the Washington Auto Show. Back then, gas prices averaged $2.68 per gallon and the Nissan LEAF looked like a “car of the future” compared to the other vehicles on the showroom floor. Now, prices at the pump are 25 percent higher, a ...

EU Times

  • Men who Smoke More Likely to Suffer Dementia i ...
    Those searching for another reason to stick to their resolution to give up cigarettes need look no further. A new study has warned that men who smoke are more likely to suffer dementia in later life. Researchers found that smoking in men appears to be associated with a greater and more rapid cog ...
  • Iran to complete Pakistan gas pipeline ahead o ...
    Iran is ready to complete and inaugurate the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project ahead of the due date, the vice president for international affairs said in Islamabad today. In a meeting with Pakistani finance officials, Ali Saeedlou said that Iran is prepared to help Pakistan establish ...
  • Somalia hails Iran’s Humanitarian Aid
    President of the Somali Red Crescent Society has expressed gratitude to Iran for Tehran’s significant contribution of humanitarian aid to the famine-stricken African nation, Press TV reports. “[We are here] to express our appreciation and thanks to the Iranian Red Crescent for the assistance the ...
  • Russian Foreign Minister in Damascus seeking h ...
    Syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis as the Russian delegation has arrived on Tuesday to hold talks with President Assad. A last-ditch delegation to Damascus bearing a personal message for Bashar al-Assad from President Medvedev has bee ...
  • Obama says attack on Iran risky, urges diploma ...
    US President Barack Obama has warned against the serious risks of a military campaign against the Islamic Republic and underlined diplomacy as the favored solution to the impasse over Iran’s nuclear issue. Speaking in an interview with the NBC television network on Sunday, Obama said he did not ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Parodies of the Clint Eastwood Chrysler Super ...
    February 7, 2012 - HERE THEY COME: The video spoofs of Chrysler's controversial Super Bowl   ad, " Halftime in America ," that starred Clint Eastwood .  Dozens of them are already up on the Internet, and more are coming. We've highlighted several of our favorites (so far) below. It was inevitab ...
  • Dickens_Gurney_head
    âThere are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.â Charles Dickens Memories: Reading Charles Dickens In The Best & Worst Times... Happy 200th Birthday Charles Dickens! A young Dickens by D. Maclise Memories: Reading Charles Dickens In The Best & Worst Ti ...
  • Paul Pierce to Pass Larry Bird as 2nd Greatest ...
    Paul Pierce is just 10 points shy of leap-froggin ahead of Larry Legend, placing him just behind John Havliceck on the all-time scoring list for the Boston Celtics. Pierce should reach the milestone tonight against the Bobcats. From the Herald: “Bird retired with 21,791 regular-season points. J ...
  • Super Bowl web traffic 2
    The next time a nefarious organization wants to keep people off the internet, it would do well to engineer its own championship professional football game. Internet traffic dropped significantly during last Sunday’s NFL Super Bowl Sunday football match up between the New York Giants and the New ...
  • Siri’s Evil Twin Sister Iris: Popular Android ...
    Apple’s electronic personal assistant Siri made headlines back in November for drawing a blank when asked for the location of the nearest abortion clinic. If you thought that was bad, meet Iris, Siri’s evil twin sister (or fundamentalist cousin). Iris – Siri spelled backwards – is the popular e ...

Groklaw

  • Oracle rejects $272M court award for another c ...
    Oracle has turned down a court order requiring rival business software maker SAP to pay $272 million damages for stealing copyrighted information. Oracle wants a new trial instead. - Washington Post
  • Is iPad 3 in Jeopardy? Apple Could Lose $1.6 B ...
    "We ask the court to stop selling and marketing for Apple's iPad in China," said Xie Xianghui, Proview Technology's lawyer. "We also demand an apology." Proview has filed separate lawsuits in local courts in two Chinese cities, Shenzhen and Huizhou, against Apple's authorized retailers and stor ...
  • Apple Faces $1.6 Billion Legal Challenge Over ...
    Computer display manufacturer Proview Technology, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Proview International Holdings, said it has filed a motion for a temporary retraining order against Apple, according to The Wall Street Journal. "We have to admit that Apple's iPad is a great product, and Apple cre ...
  • Yahoo! Releases Chairmans Update for Shareholders
    Finally, the board has concluded that in order to accelerate the Company's transformation, the combination of a new Chief Executive Officer with an enhanced team of independent directors would provide Yahoo! with the expertise and perspectives necessary to drive innovation and growth going forwa ...
  • Patent Mass Aggregators: The Giants Among Us
    The patent world is quietly undergoing a change of seismic proportions. In a few short years, a handful of entities have amassed vast treasuries of patents on an unprecedented scale. To give some sense of the magnitude of this change, our research shows that in a little more than five years, the ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Google Web History
    Google stores all your web searches and much more by default. Google Web History allows you to remove all your web history and to tell Google not to do it in the future. Perhaps you don’t want people to accidentally learn about your Albanian midgets on trampolines fetish. Just saying&#8230 ...
  • Violence vs nonviolence
    I considered writing something with Black Bloc in the title, but does that mean anything at this point? After the latest misadventure by Chris Hedges, “The Cancer of Occupy,” Hedges does a wonderful job of obscuring and misinforming his readers. It’s not often that such a crack ...
  • The cancer in Chris Hedges analysis
    I don’t recall Chris Hedges being voted Moral Compass of Occupy, do you? Yet his temper tantrum in Truthdig implies just that. He knows what is best for the movement and it sure isn’t those icky Black Bloc anarchists. Yes, I think the Black Bloc are often misguided. But saying Occup ...
  • Unemployment is caused by poor sales, not regu ...
    The primary cause of unemployment, says a survey a business owners, is poor sales. Concerns about regulations are a distant third. It’s not surprising that regulatory uncertainty seems to have such marginal economic effects. Regulations do impose burdens on businesses, but the numbers are ...
  • What the Republican Party wants to hear
    Steve M, No More Mr Nice, is trying to figure out what sort of Chrysler [Superbowl] ad actually would have met with the Republican Party’s approval. Probably something like this: Look, that evil Kenyan put a gun to our heads and forced us to take his filthy socialist money. We never should ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
  • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
    It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
  • 2012: A good year to boycott Sabra (& Shatila) ...
    I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the September 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As some of you may know, my company, Just World Books, will soon be publishing a reissued version of former WaPo journo Jon Randal's classic 1 ...

frogblog

  • Waitangi Day Speech to Kapiti
    Sorry it’s a few days late, but as promised here is my speech from Waitangi Day: Tēnā koutou katoa, Toi te kupu. Toi te mana. Toi te whēnua. Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, mē –tē hapū o Ngāti Haū-mia. Kiā ora koūtoū.  E ngā iwi,- e ngā mana, – e ngā whānau [...]
  • A stingy and evidence-averse decision on the m ...
    As I predicted in my blog post last week, John Key’s Government has announced today what amounts to a nil increase in the minimum wage – a paltry increase of 50c an hour. The nominal increase is 3.8% – but at the same time the Consumer Price Index increased 4.6% in the year to September 20 ...
  • Member’s Bills drawn
    Today, there was a ballot at Parliament for two Member’s Bills – they get drawn by a Lotto-style “numbers in a bucket” system as there are always many more MPs outside the Cabinet wanting to progress legislation than there is time in Parliament to deal with their Bills. I ...
  • A nation divided?
    The Herald has launched a six part series highlighting inequality and poverty in New Zealand, showing why we need action on the root causes, not the consequences.
  • General debate, February 4, 2012

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Iodine is Important but a New Study Shows Too ...
    By Dr. Mercola Iodine is a vitally important nutrient that is detected in every organ and tissue. Along with being essential for healthy thyroid function and efficient metabolism, there is increasing evidence that low iodine is related to numerous diseases, including cancer. Worldwide, it's ...
  • Sidestep These Veggies - Even if They're Organic
    By Dr. Mercola Videos like the two featured above have started making the rounds online, raising questions about what exactly that plastic-looking "peel" found on some fresh produce might be. Let me preface this article by saying that I do not have the answer, but I will present a couple ...
  • Don't Eat it: Linked to Cancer and Gets into Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola In November 2011, about 250 Boulder County residents attended a public meeting to discuss the planting of GM (genetically modified) crops on county-owned land. Their turnout, together with an anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) recommendation from the county's Food and A ...
  • Doctor Outraged After Recommending a Drug (Tha ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2006 health agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva began warning of the imminent onset of an avian flu pandemic of lethal proportions.  The pandemic never materialized, but sales of ...
  • This Vitamin Found to Rejuvenate Aging Eyes
    By Dr. Mercola It's becoming common knowledge that vitamin D is important for far more than bone health. In the last several years, research has been pouring showing that higher levels of vitamin D are necessary to provide protection from serious chronic diseases such as cancer, heart diseas ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Illegal loggers seized days after photos of un ...
    Illegal logging threatens Peru's uncontacted Mashco-Piro.  © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú National Park, just days after the world caught its first detailed glimpse of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe. The discovery followed Surv ...
  • UK MPs call for end to ‘human safaris’ as new ...
    Jarawa girls. Newly released videos show Jarawa women being ordered to dance. © Survival The ‘human safaris’ scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe’s reserve. ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Bread Beats out Chips as Biggest Salt Source
    Potato chips, pretzels, and popcorn - which we think of as the saltiest foods in our diet - are only No. 10," said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden.
  • Monsanto Practically a Government Agency
    from brasschecktv.com: With the revolving door that is the relationship between Monsanto and various federal regulatory agencies, we might as well call Monsanto a part of the administration. President Obama has appointed the worst man possible to the top position at the Food and Drug Administrat ...
  • Sea World slammed for selling seafood
    from barfblog: Do fish tire of eating seafood? Do fish like seafood as long as it doesn’t taste too much like fish? Do fish care if seafood is served at Sea World? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Australia thinks so, and wrote to Sea World manager Jeff Hughes asking for all fish dish ...
  • Weird food fact: Jell-O molds cannot be made w ...
    from naturalnews.com: 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 label ...
  • Episode007 - Stupor Bowl Binge
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week covers the stupor bowl, bees, pink slime and more... Episode007: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous: Episode ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramati ...
    If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...
  • Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now ...
    Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...
  • The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm U ...
    The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financ ...
  • I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The G ...
    On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for so ...
  • The United Nations Wants To Crash The World Ec ...
    The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem.  In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economi ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Gay rights campaigners go 'right', the 'right' ...
    Quite hilariously from a political left-right perspective, an American court has thrown out a Californian ban on gay marriage ruling that the ban is unconstitutional. As a pro-constitution blogger and as a libertarian, we applaud the court for their verdict. However, we are quite aware tha ...
  • Quote of the Day: 7th February 2012
    We recently posted a provocative opinion piece saying that politicians should shut (the f***) up if they were not prepared to do something about it. So we were heartened that one of our closest and dearest friends in the blogosphere - Witterings from Witney - seems to have come to a similar c ...
  • May she defend our laws? Only with our help.
    Daniel Hannan MEP marked this sixtieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the House of Windsor with a blog post entitled: "May she defend our laws and ever give us cause…" Unfortunately, a promising sounding blogpost contained not one single reference to any of the laws that ou ...
  • Shock as Monckton and Gore debate the climate...
    On the day that Windy Miller stepped down as Chief Government Gaia Worshipper, it seems Gore has sensationally agreed to debate Monckton on the climate. Well, that's what this satirical clip says it is... and how we laughed:
  • See ya'... wouldn't want to be ya'.
    So long, adios, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu. No matter what language you say it in, it sounds good, doesn't it? Yes - it's no good tilting at windmills. You all know who and what we're referring to. However, we're going to bite our tongue. Not because we don't have plenty we wou ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Beware: "Glassy" Future Ahead
    Corning Incorporated may not be a familiar name to you, but Gorilla Glass should be. A good majority of today's high-end touch-screen smartphones comes with Gorilla Glass which acts as a scratch resistant and durable cover glass. Phones that comes with it include blockbusters like Samsung Gala ...
  • Marlin File Browser is Evolving Pretty Nicely
    Most long term Ubuntu users here must have been familiar with the now defunct Nautilus-Elementary project. The project's lead, nicknamed ammonkey, is now working on a full blown Nautilus-Elementary inspired file browser for Linux called Marlin. Marlin is supposed to become the default file bro ...
  • Unity Concept Mockup for Ubuntu 12.10 Done Right
    We have featured quiet a huge cache of Unity mockups before but this one is quite unlike anything I have seen so far. This is perhaps the most comprehensive mockup of future Ubuntu Unity I have seen in a while. Without much ado, let's watch the video.  Unity in Ubuntu 12. ...
  • YouTube Remote App for Android is Pretty Cool
    First of all, this is not a new application. YouTube Remote app is an official Android app by Google and it has been there for sometime now. It is one of the better apps for Android made by Google but not many Android users, especially newbies, know about it. Here's everything you need to know ...
  • Mr Legs - One of the Most Original Android Gam ...
    Mr Legs is a brand new Android game that promises a lot of fun. Gameplay is rather simple but very clever and addictive. Animations, visual style, artworks and everything else about this game is very creative. Though the game itself is rather simplistic by design, it is very well executed. Mr ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • DIE TÖDLICHE GEFAHREN VON ASPARTAM: BERND KARWATH
    Translation of an Infowars report into German by Bernd Karwath. 1.2.2012 Infowars-Abendnachrichten enthüllen tödliche Gefahren von Aspartam von Kurt Nimmo In den Abendnachrichten vom 31. Januar 2012 sprach Reporter Darrin McBreen mit Alex Jones über die immensen Gesundheitsgefahren, die von dem ...
  • GREEKS REBEL AGAINST GERMAN OVERLOADS: EURO EX ...
    Greek protesters burned the flag of Germany as well as a Swastika flag during a 24-hour strike today against the power grab by Germany and foreign creditors for the country’s tax revenues. http://www.deutsche-mittelstands-nachrichten.de/ Greece’s finance minister Evangelos Venizelos this week re ...
  • VIENNA ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY SUSPENDS FRANZ HÖR ...
    Vienna’s Economics University on Thursday suspended Professor Franz Hörmann after he made comments casting doubt on the Nazi gas chambers and the Holocaust. http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/oesterreich/432594_Wirtschaftsuni-hat-Franz-Hoermann-suspendiert.html The university has al ...
  • How many adverse reactions and deaths are actu ...
    Penny Bright waterpressure@gmail.com   7 February 2012 OIA REPLY! : REPORTED DEATHS FROM ADVERSE REACTIONS TO MEDICINES/VACCINES/NATURAL PRODUCTS/ DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS Here you go! (Attached)  How many adverse reactions and deaths are actually reported – if reporting is NOT mandatory? ...
  • CDC recommends Gardasil for boys
    February 3, 2012 2:18 PM HPV vaccine now recommended for all boys, CDC says (CBS) The HPV vaccine should be given to all males between the ages of 11 and 21, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57371255-10391704/hpv-vaccine-now-recommende ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Let’s take a look at Ron Paul’s su ...
    Let’s take a look at Ron Paul’s support in primaries/caucuses so far from 2008 to 2012…anything fishy with Nevada?.. /caucuses so far from 2008 to 2012…anything fishy with Nevada?.. – Imgur.
  • Ron Paul vs. the #HONESTMISTAKE
  • The Ice is Thin and the Fix is In
    By Les Visible A lot of people wish they were Madonna, or any of the other retarded chipmunks who get the spotlight for one reason or another. Just being in the spotlight is so important to many people that it doesn’t matter what it costs to get there or what they have to do to [...]
  • Super Bowl Sunday and the Material, Kabala Girl
    By Les Visible I am very much noticing the shifting of those seeking to be sitting at the tables after the tables turn. I see the sudden and dramatic shift in conscience among those where conscience is not actually resident. I see what’s going on. I wish I didn’t. I see the new trend ...
  • Windows of Promise and Food for the Moon
    By Les Visible Here’s a brief burst of mutilated information from CIA-Zio-Controlled Fundieland. You’ll note the standard operative’s mustache on the publisher and scrolling down past him you’ll see where the funding comes from. Why am I talking about this at Visible Orig ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: February 8, 2012
    ==== U.S. Officials Pour Into Bulgaria Amid Middle East War Rumors 24 Ships, 3,600 International Troops In U.S. Amphibious Warfare Drill After Afghanistan, Canadian Military Trains For Arctic Warfare Baltic-Arctic Region: Baltic-Nordic Chiefs of Defense Meet U.S. Drone Strike Kills Ten In Northw ...
  • NATO Has Failed Libya’s Stricken Civilians
    Global Times February 6, 2012 NATO has failed Libya’s stricken civilians By Charles Gray Illustration: Liu Rui ==== By setting up the conditions for his fall, since it was NATO airpower that ultimately defeated Gaddafi, not the rebels, NATO and the nations advocating intervention bore full respo ...
  • NATO: Murdering Afghan Civilians
    The Nation February 7, 2012 Murdering Afghan civilians The UN mission in Afghanistan has reported that a record number of civilians were killed in the war-torn, foreign-occupied country in 2011, marking the fifth consecutive year the death toll has risen. In its annual report, the mission reveal ...
  • Britain Deploying Nuclear Submarine To The Fal ...
    Voice of Russia February 7, 2012 Why is British nuclear sub on Falklands patrol? Sergei Sayenko Edited by RR ==== Britain’s Royal Navy is sending a nuclear-powered submarine to the Falkland Islands which have long been the subject of a sovereignty dispute between Britain and Argentina… Ear ...
  • Is U.S.-China Collision Inevitable?
    Daily Times February 7, 2012 Is US-China collision inevitable? S P Seth ==== As part of a new resolve to play a more assertive role, the US has reinforced and strengthened its strategic ties with Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Australia and Japan. It is pertinent to remember that wars have oft ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Explained: What Are the Strange Sounds Being H ...
    NotForSale2NWO February 7, 2012 READ THE ARTICLE: http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/03/strange-sounds-proven-by-scientist-massive-… Visit The Rabbithole2.com http://rabbithole2.com Get the documentaries that changed everything http://rabbithole2.com/store.htm
  • New York Times Publishes Hit Piece Against US ...
    Intel Hub News Brief - In a move that has shocked many Americans, the New York Times has published a hit piece against the Constitution and its "outdated" ways. The hit piece comes on the heels of a sitting justice of the Supreme Court recommending multiple other constitutions and human rights ...
  • “ShakeOut” Takes Place on 200th An ...
    Andrew Griffin - This year’s Great Central U.S. ShakeOut earthquake drill – involving 2.3 million people in nine American states, took place at 10:15 a.m. on the 200th anniversary of the day the Mississippi River ran backwards.
  • The DHS Defends Globalism, Not America
    Brandon Smith - Janet Napolitano announces that the globalization of the world economy falls within her jurisdiction.
  • Strengthening U.S.-Canada Security Interests i ...
    Dana Gabriel - The United States and Canada recently signed several bilateral agreements that will strengthen security and defense cooperation. North American Union continues.

FRS

  • The Occupy Oakland Move-In Assembly: Statement ...
    February 7, 2012, by the Occupy Oakland Move-in Assembly: We are writing in regards to any misconceptions you may have regarding last Saturday’s (1/28) Move-In Day to reclaim the unused Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. We have had to brave a heavy campaign launched by the city and the mainstre ...
  • Nepal: Disqualified combatants disrupt retire ...
     [Frontlines editorial comment:   A noted Black writer/poet in the US, Langston Hughes, once penned these lines on the frustrations of the denied and delayed.  It is appropriate to the events in Nepal today.  “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester l ...
  • Arizona: In the Shadow of the Klan
    THE BURNING Of THE BOOKS,  by Bertolt Brecht When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge Should be publicly burned and on all sides Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books To the bonfires, a banished Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the Burned, was shocked to fin ...
  • Houston: Writers caravan smuggling banned boo ...
    Thursday, February 2, 2012 CONTACT: Tony Diaz, Nuestra Palabra Director 713-867-8943 AztecMuse@aol.com Houston writers and activists organize a caravan of Librotraficantes to smuggle contraband books back into Arizona! HOUSTON, TEXAS - Local literary nonprofit Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Hav ...
  • Tucson Youth Group Hosts Their Own Chicano Stu ...
    Source: teacheractivistgroups.org and colorlines.com Chris Summitt by Jorge Rivas, Thursday, February 2 2012 Organizers from Unidos, a youth group that opposes the Mexican-American studies ban that went in to affect January 1st in Tucson, have started organizing their own weekly ethnic studies c ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
    For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
    A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
    While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
  • Rick Santorum's Campaign: What's Wrong With Th ...
    Although Rick Santorum has a political messsage that appeals to a portion of the electorate, he can't get it to the electorate because of a lack of money. Why does the electorate follow the candidate who carries the glitter of the green?Contributor: Hugh Houchin Published: Jan 28, 2012
  • Kentucky Educational System vs. Creationist Th ...
    Governor Beshear pushes for new cuts to the education system budget in his $19 billion plan but leaves the tax break of a controversial Creationist theme park alone.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Jan 26, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the ...
    The winners of the Nikon Small World microvideography contest Every year we’re enthralled by the smallest things among us, as scientists capture stunningly beautiful and bizarre images under the microscope. For the first time, the people who bring us the annual Small World Microphotography Comp ...
  • MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Ca ...
    Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those deniers out there: prove that "scalable quantum computing is impossible in the physical world," and Aaronson will personally pony up $100,000 to the winner. Aaronson works w ...
  • Antarctica's Frozen Lake Vostok, Isolated for ...
    The Russian scientists drilling into ancient buried Antarctic Lake Vostok have reached their destination, the Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported today. The team is apparently alive and well despite a week of suspicious radio silence, but more details are to come about what they’ve found bu ...
  • To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and ...
    Scores of animals exist in scientific laboratories for the purpose of serving as our proxies, their cortices mapped and their flu responses studied so scientists can figure out how humans work. But in many cases, there’s little agreement between their functions and ours, and scientists need to f ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    This week's Images of the Week gallery includes a cocktail that looks, according to the person who made it, like an "alien brain hemorrhage," we've got the other side of that amazing "blue marble" picture of Earth, we've got a handmade net fort we are dying to play in, and we've got internal org ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • First widespread snow of winter on its way
    It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...
  • East versus West: Let the battle commence!
    For the first time this winter, after a relentless spell of westerly winds, many areas are expected to see a general change to colder conditions as we head through the weekend and into next week. As the colder air becomes established it will be competing with milder air from the Atlantic. Wher ...
  • Will we see the Northern Lights again tonight?
    The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...
  • Will winter pass us by this year?
    As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...
  • 2011 - 9th warmest globally on satellite record
    The Global temperature in December, according to the UAH satellite measure, showed little change from the previous month with an anomaly of +0.127C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.380C abov ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Choking Iran: Asian Dealings & Its IMF Membership
    It may be a surprise to some readers that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of the World Bank and the IMF. Not that it's benefited much in the way of funding from either lender in recent times--it's not received any World Bank loans since Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005, f'rinstance. I ...
  • Capturing LSE Involvement in the London Riots
    I don't mean to turn this site into the "stuff I picked up from the weekly LSE employee newsletter" blog but the quality of the material is simply astounding sometimes. It is, by far, the most literate and even highbrow I've come across with coverage of IMF labour conditionalities among other th ...
  • IMF Tries a Little Tenderness w/ Greece, Others
    Oh Greece may be weary--and borrowers they do get weary--meeting those old IMF conditionalities. Especially after the Asian financial crisis when it was at the height of its deregulation, privatization and liberalization phase, the IMF has been a global bogeyman for allegedly foisting the intere ...
  • RMB Internationalization's Coming Along Fine, TY
    This is a short follow-up to a post I recently made about how the RMB was becoming more integrated into the global SWIFT interbank transfer system as well as the emergence of RMB libor creating reference rates for yuan-denominated borrowing. All point towards inroads the renminbi is making towar ...
  • Ry Cooder's Fine Soundtrack to American Decline
    Whoa, how I missed album this the first time around I dunno but I guess it's never too late to rectify that error. Never let it be said that this blog doesn't offer you the full panoply of American decline. Oftentimes, the most memorable art and literature doesn't cover success stories but rathe ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramati ...
    If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall ...
  • Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now ...
    Did you see the Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl the other night?  It was entitled "It's Halftime In America", and it was truly a great ad.  To me, it was the most memorable Super Bowl ad this year by far.  It conjured up images of the ...
  • The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm U ...
    The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financ ...
  • I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The G ...
    On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for so ...
  • The United Nations Wants To Crash The World Ec ...
    The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem.  In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economi ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Men who Smoke More Likely to Suffer Dementia i ...
    Those searching for another reason to stick to their resolution to give up cigarettes need look no further. A new study has warned that men who smoke are more likely to suffer dementia in later life. Researchers found that smoking in men appears to be associated with a greater and more rapid cog ...
  • Iran to complete Pakistan gas pipeline ahead o ...
    Iran is ready to complete and inaugurate the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project ahead of the due date, the vice president for international affairs said in Islamabad today. In a meeting with Pakistani finance officials, Ali Saeedlou said that Iran is prepared to help Pakistan establish ...
  • Somalia hails Iran’s Humanitarian Aid
    President of the Somali Red Crescent Society has expressed gratitude to Iran for Tehran’s significant contribution of humanitarian aid to the famine-stricken African nation, Press TV reports. “[We are here] to express our appreciation and thanks to the Iranian Red Crescent for the assistance the ...
  • Russian Foreign Minister in Damascus seeking h ...
    Syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis as the Russian delegation has arrived on Tuesday to hold talks with President Assad. A last-ditch delegation to Damascus bearing a personal message for Bashar al-Assad from President Medvedev has bee ...
  • Obama says attack on Iran risky, urges diploma ...
    US President Barack Obama has warned against the serious risks of a military campaign against the Islamic Republic and underlined diplomacy as the favored solution to the impasse over Iran’s nuclear issue. Speaking in an interview with the NBC television network on Sunday, Obama said he did not ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Towards Deception and Denial: Vatican PR Parad ...
    Vatican PR is in overdrive again, trying to ensure there is no possibility of any unauthorised commentary of the so-called “Global Summit on Sexual Abuse” this week, other than their own carefully manipulated spin. Surprisingly, Vatican PR has finally realised how little credibility ...
  • You Ensured We Never Had A Chance
    This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...
  • More Damning Evidence Vatican Couldn’t G ...
    The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...
  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
  • State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
    The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...

WL Central

  • Election Year Venezuela: It’s Washington vs. t ...
    Tweet Authored by Nikolas Kozloff As the Venezuelan presidential election approaches in October, Washington is undoubtedly hoping that Hugo Chávez will go down to stinging electoral defeat and that the populist leader’s geopolitical alliance will crumble and come to an ignominious end. Of partic ...
  • 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 2
    TweetDuring the second and final day of the U.K. Supreme Court's hearings on Julian Assange's extradition, Matrix Chambers attorney Clare Montgomery offered her rebuttal to arguments made yesterday by Assange's counsel. (Dinah Rose is representing Assange in his fight against extradition to Swed ...
  • PCO WTF – Inside Canada's WikiLeaks Task Force
    TweetAuthored by Joe B. Today I received another large stack of LEGAL from the Privy Council Office regarding WikiLeaks. Back in July of 2011, I wrote about the DFAIT WTF, where I got the e-mails from the various diplomats who headed the WikiLeaks Task Force in Canada. Unlike the PCO, DFAIT gave ...
  • 2012-02-01 The Assange Extradition Hearing: Day 1
    Tweet At Day 1 of the Julian Assange extradition hearing On the night before the hearing began, one dedicated Assange supporter in London told me that she planned to arrive at Court by 6 a.m., ahead of the throngs that she expected based on the turnout at Assange's hearing last November. No doub ...
  • 2012-01-25 #WikiLeaks News: New details about ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News The activation of WikiLeaks’ social network Friends of WikiLeaks is to happen very soon ...

U N News

  • UN-backed census aims to improve lives of Domi ...
    A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers.
  • Panama: UN expert calls for dialogue between G ...
    An independent United Nations expert on indigenous rights called today on the Government of Panama and the country's indigenous groups to establish a dialogue process to stop the recent tensions and violence from escalating after recent protests.
  • Haiti: UN welcomes ratification of pact on eco ...
    The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti (MINUSTAH) welcomed today the ratification by the Government of a pact on economic, social and cultural rights.
  • El Salvador: UN panel voices concern at arbitr ...
    A United Nations expert human rights panel has voiced concern about the right to security impinging on the right to be free from arbitrary detention in El Salvador, as well as extreme overcrowding in prisons and police facilities in the Central American nation.
  • Threatened by climate change, glaciers now und ...
    Criminal gangs are becoming a threat to the world's glaciers, which are already receding as a result of climate change, the United Nations said today, citing a case in Chile where police are investigating the theft of some 5,000 kilograms of millennia-old ice from the Jorge Montt glacier.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
    This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
  • Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
    Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...
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  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Five Lit ...
    Ten years ago at the end of a three-week trip in Argentinean Patagonia and the rain-soaked, glacier-whittled southern Chilean coast, I took a nasty fall.   After flying home to New Mexico, my back, which had never bothered me before, grew steadily worse over the coming months.  I soon had to sto ...
  • Public Pressure Exposes Prime Minister Harpers ...
    Issues such as proposals to build the Keystone and Enbridge “Gateway” Pipelines, intended to carry Tarsands oil out of Canada, are receiving growing public scrutiny, and that often exposes bias or applies public pressure on isolated elitists, as some of our Federal, Provincial, and State politic ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 1984!... DHS Implementing 'No Work List'... Ci ...
      You’ve heard of no fly and no buy lists – get ready for no work lists. Millions of workers now must apply to the DHS and prove they are not terrorists in order to be granted permission by the government to work!!! ~ Kurt Nimmo - Dec. 16, 2010 - Video read more
  • Harry Reid to Continue His Internet Coup with ...
      Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. ~ Josh Peterson (Geez... Isn't there an old folks ...
  • Food Items Could Contain 180 Times More Fluori ...
      Fluoridated tap water and toothpaste are oftentimes considered the main sources of fluoride exposure, but it turns out that common food items could also be largely contributing to your fluoride intake. ~ Anthony Gucciardi read more
  • Experts Call For Nationwide BPA Ban
      Even small amounts of exposure to many chemicals can result in drastic negative health consequences – bisphenol-A (BPA)  is no exception. Found in many household goods such as plastic and some food items, BPA acts as an endocrine-disrupting chemical that mimics hormones in the ...
  • Nikola Tesla... The Untold Story
      This program reveals the discoveries of a forgotten genius, many of which went virtually unnoticed for nearly a century. Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious and controversial scientists in history. ~ Documentary read more

Tarpley

  • Occupy Wall Street Should Oust Facilitators, M ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is faced with anti-war protesters who also condemn the assassinations of Iran’s high profile nuclear scientists. An analyst believes that warmongering groups in Wall Street provoke wars in the ...
  • Report from Iran Under the Shadow of War
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 5, 2012 Webster Tarpley reporting from Tehran, Iran [download audio]
  • Who Will Stop Obama’s Aggressive War on ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 29, 2012 [download video] The United States and the European Union have recently slapped unilateral sanctions against Iran’s oil and banking sectors based on the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is trying to acquire a military nuclear technology. T ...
  • Media Interviews
             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  >  >| page: 1 of 10   total items: 99 Statistics for Suicide, Domestic Violence, Crime Reveal Tragedy of Overstretched and Demoralized US Military After a Decade of Multiple Wars PressTV – January 21, ...
  • To Avoid War, Russia and China Must Announce T ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 17, 2012 recorded on January 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is working hard to persuade other countries to obey its domestic law on sanctioning the Iranian Oil industry. Many experts believe that the US will face strong res ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Benefits of Milling Your Own Flour
    Often times I am asked why I mill my own flour. Well, there are several reasons why I mill my own flour. I can you that my very first reason that prompted me into action was that I got tired of paying anywhere from $4.00 – $5.00 for a loaf of bread at the grocery [...]
  • Grocery Store Sticker Shock: Buttermilk and So ...
      How to make Buttermilk and Sour Cream A lesson in Kitchen microbiology Guest post: by Christine Coburn Have you ever tried to make something and it called for buttermilk? Of course there is the old standby of adding vinegar or lemon juice to regular milk and letting it clabber. That just ...
  • Why Do We Accept Inferior Products?
    How often has it happened to you after purchasing a product, that you discovered it was inferior or even damaged in some way, but you didn’t return it or notify the manufacturer or distributor of the problem? You were aggravated, but there were a number of reasons holding you back from com ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (February 6, 2012) New show preps viewers for survival “It’s not a hobby,” prepper Gloria Haswell tells National Geographic, “it’s a lifestyle.” Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justificat ...
  • Recession Creates Preppers
    It has been very pleasing to see new preppers being ‘born’ during these past few years. I can also tell you that I am not surprised that they are all people our age or older. I believe the economic situation of the world today is a big reason why these people have taken to being [...]

Fast Company

  • It's 10 P.M., Do You Know Where Your Employees ...
    The other day I sat with three senior leaders from three different industries. One was the CEO of an international PR and communications firm. One was a partner of a professional services firm, and the other the president of a national not-for-profit. As it often does, our discussion about work ...
  • Romney Campaign: Square "Could Be Huge," And O ...
    If 2008 was the year that Facebook and YouTube cracked the mainstream in politics, then 2012 will be the year that most every other digital tool breaks the dam wide open on the campaign scene. It's no longer enough for politicians to just be on Twitter--now almost all serious candidates aiming f ...
  • Beyond The One-Time Click: 6 Social Media Rule ...
    There’s a vast expanse between the transactional moment when a consumer likes, friends, or follows a site and the instant that same consumer becomes a brand evangelist, entering into a state of emotional commitment.The former isn’t difficult to achieve; observe how many sites have hundreds of th ...
  • The Ultimate Crisis-Communications Checklist: ...
    Whether you’re digging your way out of a negative PR avalanche or simply need to scrub a less-than-squeaky-clean outburst, here are tips from branding experts on how to handle public outrage with grace and style.So you torpedoed your brand. Or maybe you just want to learn how to handle a media ...
  • Reddit's Alexis Ohanian's Work Flow: Fancy Han ...
    Believe it or not, the founder of Reddit also has to avoid spending all day killing time on Reddit. Here's his advice for staying productive. Reddit is arguably the most successful social news site on the Internet. So how does cofounder and New York tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian avoid "Reddit ...

Jadaliyya

  • One Morning in Homs
    It’s nighttime here and I’m about to go to bed. Before I disconnect from Syria, I notice Omar is on Skype. I send him a message telling him that his video on Anderson Cooper tonight was impressive. I tell him that he makes me proud to be Syrian. I tell him that I wished I was with them i ...
  • The Syrian Revolution on Four Packs a Day
    Who populates the Syrian revolution? The Syrian revolution has three core populations: urbanite survivors of the 2001 Damascus Spring, disenfranchised classes rural and urban, and the traditional opposition. Local histories, not dissidents abroad or foreign entities, create and power thi ...
  • بتوقيت بابا عمرو
    الساعة الثامنة والنصف صباحاً. أجلس أمام التلفزيون. أشرب قهوتي وأدخن. الجزيرة مباشر تنقل لنا "بابا عمرو" هذه اللحظة. كاميرا مثبتة على سطح ما أو على شرفة عالية. تظهر سطوح العمارات. مئذنة تنتصب على يمين الشاشة. سماء ملبدة بالغيوم. وأصوات قصف عنيف تدوي في الفضاء. وأنا أحتسي القهوة ...
  • The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwa ...
    Israeli democracy, through its promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a lecture in Tel Aviv at the Women’s Peace Coalition, I heard the strain in the voices of queer Israel ...
  • Remapping Palestine and the Politics of Injury
    Till Roeskens, Videomappings: Aida, Palestine. Palestine/France, 2009. The struggle over Palestine, a struggle in which ideas, representations, rhetoric, and images are all fiercely contested, has been so overexposed in mainstream media in North America and Western Europe that the actu ...

mediagazer

  • More phone-hacking claims settled (Brian Farme ...
    Brian Farmer / The Independent: More phone-hacking claims settled  —  More high-profile figures have settled their phone-hacking damages claims, the High Court heard today.  Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, comedian Steve Coogan, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes and ...
  • Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expan ...
    Robert Andrews / paidContent: Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion  —  Mail Online's annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT reported in Wednesday's interim disclosure for its Octo ...
  • How Siri, if opened up to third-party apps, co ...
    Patrick Thornton / Poynter: How Siri, if opened up to third-party apps, could enhance news consumption  —  Apple's Siri voice technology is one of the must-have features of the iPhone 4S, and has become one of the phone's biggest selling points.  —  Voice technol ...
  • Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle f ...
    Matthew Bryan Beck / Mashable!: Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music?  —  Matthew Bryan Beck is an NYC-based singer-songwriter, producer, editor, graphic designer and photographer.  He writes the tech/social media blog Sludgr.  Follow him on ...
  • McClatchy Revenues Dip Nearly 8% (Erik Sass/Me ...
    Erik Sass / MediaPost: McClatchy Revenues Dip Nearly 8%  —  Major newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. reported that total revenues decreased 5% to $351.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.  The decline was attributed to weak print advertising demand, as total advertising ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Greece: 'There's no more left to cut'
    Several thousand demonstrators from the public and private-sector unions braved the heavy rainfall, gathering outside Parliament to voice their opposition at the latest proposed measures to secure a €130bn (£108bn) bailout package. Minor clashes broke out when protesters tried to remove a co ...
  • UK rules out military action or arming Sy ...
    David Cameron chaired a meeting of the National Security Council which agreed to increase sanctions against the regime and to strengthen links with opposition leaders. The Government also reacted sceptically to claims from the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who visited Damascus yes ...
  • Russian visit ends in talk of peace as sh ...
    Sergei Lavrov said after a meeting with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, that the embattled leader had pledged to talk to the opposition, hold a referendum on a new draft of the constitution and expand an Arab League monitoring mission. Although similar promises during the past 11 mont ...
  • Mugabe general 'killed in blaze' cannot b ...
    The inquest is being watched for signs of divisions in Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party, where General Mujuru's wife, Joyce, was among the leading candidates to replace the veteran President. With the backing of her husband's fortune – much of it in diamonds and farms seized from white o ...
  • Authorities blame Dalai Lama for Tibetan ...
    Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said clashes between Tibetans and security forces in Sichuan province last month were the work of criminals and were instigated by overseas groups...

no frakking consensus

  • Bob Carter: A Geological Perspective
    A climate debate that includes Al Gore’s climate ideas - but not Bob Carter’s - is no debate at all.
  • Proselytizing to Toddlers
    Many jurisdictions frown on advertising that is aimed at children. But UNESCO says nursery schools should teach kids about sustainable development.
  • Pachauri Pushes Emissions Reduction – Again
    The IPCC is supposed to be "policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive." How can it be OK for its chairman to lobby for one policy in particular?
  • What Pachauri Means by ‘Sustainable’
    For the head of the IPCC, sustainable is just another word for a global anti-poverty campaign. Which means that organizations such as his own TERI institute, in poor countries such as India, receive lots of funding.
  • Pachauri’s 5-Star Sustainability Summit
    If you were hosting a sustainability conference that criticized energy-intensive lifestyles and over-consumption, would you do it at a five-star hotel?

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
    Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/6/12 - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto C ...
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Lance Armstrong Cleared and Alberto Contador Found Guilty - A two-year investigation into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ended on Feb. 3, 2012 with no charges filed by federal prosecutors. On Feb. 6 ...
  • 2/2/12 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts abou ...
    2012election.procon.org - Did You Know? Little Known Facts about US Presidential Elections - Did you know that a presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history, or that every US President since 1852 has been either a Republican or a Democrat? ...
  • 1/26/12 - 16 States with Pending Legislation t ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: 16 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in 16 states. Ten bills carried over from 2011 in states that have two-year legislative sessions. One state, Delaware, passed m ...
  • 1/25/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with five new questions on credit cards, government bailouts, outsourcing jobs, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and ta ...
  • 1/25/12 - 40 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org – UPDATED: 40 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption – 40 US states have exceptions to allow underage consumption of alcohol under certain circumstances including medical, educational, or religious purposes. 10 states and the District of Columbia allow n ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Why French Parents Are Superior
    While Americans fret over modern parenthood, the French are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety. Pamela Druckerman on the Gallic secrets for avoiding tantrums, teaching patience and saying ‘non’ with authority. Pamela Druckerman’s new book "Bringing ...
  • Less Real Blood
    Across the world, crime is down — and in a big way. Are violent movies to thank for less real blood and gore? CHARLES KENNY For all the grim news about the economy and jobs over the last few years, one indicator of the quality of life in the United States has stubbornly continued to & ...
  • Bodyweight exercises for fitness
    Pushups Calculator: http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/PushUps.html Pushups training programs: http://hundredpushups.com http://www.100pushups.info Pullups training program: http://twentypullups.com/ Squats training program: http://www.twohundredsquats.com Situps training program: http://www.twohun ...
  • MIT launching certificate program based on Ope ...
    John Timmer A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online certification program, currently termed MITx. Although these certificates won’t ha ...
  • How Does the Brain Perceive Art?
    In 1995, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted a controversial exhibition entitled “Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt,” in which works considered to be genuine Rembrandts were displayed alongside those done by his students and admirers. (These lesser paintings are often dismissed as “the school of Rembra ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • 2RSR Breakfast Mayhem with Jack and Hereward - ...
    Today we bring you an hour of unedited mayhem with Jack Frost and Hereward Fenton on Radio Skid Row 88.9 FM Sydney, recorded on 2 February 2012. The show includes a long interview with Craig Isherwoord - Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council, as well as banter, phone calls and robust deb ...
  • The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
    Anti-ACTA protest in the Polish Parliament Just when you thought you could relax, after the defeat of the SOPA/PIPA bills in the US, another freedom-crushing legislation rears its ugly head. It's an international treaty called ACTA, which Australia signed back in September 2011. From the Dep ...
  • What Caused the Ejections of Dust and Debris i ...
    Q: What caused the "squibs"? Could they have been just puffs of dust being pushed out of the Towers by falling floors? Are they visual evidence of explosive charges? A: The isolated ejections 20-60 stories below the demolition front appear to be composed of pulverized building materials, incl ...
  • Thomas Kean: “aftershocks” from pl ...
    This muddle headed, government-appointed chair of the 9/11 Commission does not even know what his government found to be the cause of the collapse of WTC 7. For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of the "official" 9/11 narrative. The ignorance and impudence of this man is breathtaking. H ...
  • Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
    Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...

Beacon

  • Oregon Senate Passes Bill to Create Marine Res ...
    Oregon's Otter Rock. © Oceana/Will Race Today the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 1510, which brings Oregon’s first network of marine reserves and marine protected areas off the Oregon coast one step closer to implementation. An ecologically significant network of marine reserves and protec ...
  • More than 100 Dolphins Beached in Cape Cod
    © Oceana/Jesus Renedo More than 100 dolphins have beached themselves in Cape Cod, Massachusetts this winter, and no one knows why. In the northeastern United States, it’s normal for about 230 animals to beach themselves over the course of a year. But this year, 129 common dolphins have been ...
  • Marine Monday: Antarctic Krill
    What do blue whales, penguins and salmon have in common? They all have the same diet. Much of the ocean is fed by a two-inch crustacean: krill. Antarctic krill congregate in huge masses in the Southern Ocean, dense enough to fill the belly of a blue whale, the world’s largest animal. Penguin ...
  • Belize Government Rejects 8,000 Anti-drilling ...
    Last year, our colleagues in Belize traversed the small Caribbean nation to gather more than 20,000 signatures on a petition against offshore oil drilling off Belize’s coast and beautiful protected areas. They discovered that almost everyone they spoke to was against allowing oil rigs to invad ...
  • Maryland Introduces Shark Fin Trade Ban
    Shark fins drying in the sun. © Oceana/LX The West Coast shark fin trade bans we celebrated last year may be catching on here on the East Coast. Maryland lawmakers introduced bills Tuesday in both the House and Senate that would outlaw the sale, trade, distribution or possession of shark fin ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • In The Mid 11th Century, Europe Was A Boiling ...
      Herod and Solomon’s Temples are trod upon, the Jews are sent into diaspora. Christ is killed. Mohammed has ascended. The remnants of the Roman Empire have been split into the Holy Roman Empire in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire in the East. Most of Europe is a complicated bloody m ...
  • The Ever Increasing Militarization Of America.
      Todd Purdum writes in Vanity Fair about something that I have stared in the face for a few years and have been reticent to talk about. I am a part of it. The subject is the hyper militaristic state that America has become. It began in the late 1980s and was completed after the [...]
  • The Convair XF-92A.
      The XF-92 was an early American delta wing experimental aircraft. It was first created as a super fast interceptor. But later became a testbed, one that led to the development of a whole fleet of American delta winged fighters: the F-102, the F-106, and the B-58 Hustler. Like the BAC Ligh ...
  • The Hunting Percival P 74.
      Hunting Percival became a rotorcraft division unto itself and so set out to capture some of the growing vertical lift market with a new helicopter labeled the Percival P74. N 1956, the prototype finally came together. There was a two seated cabin in the forefront of the fuselage and a lar ...
  • Politics From The Second Crusade To Hattin.
    One hundred thousand Christians marched into the Mid East and took Jerusalem. Along the way they have fought, pillaged, plundered, and laid siege to every populace they come across and of course, they slaughtered. The chutzpah of this unannounced invasion, perhaps spurred by Byzantine losses at ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Women Want Their Birth Control
    “The Peggy Noonan piece left some things out. … But I have to say, the article appears to be very misleading.” – Mika Brzezinski, “Morning Joe” (7 Feburary) This started yesterday on “Morning Joe,” with Brzezinski reading part of an over the top de ...
  • When the media is a part of the news …
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. When it comes to mainstream media and the Occupy movement, there is, of course, some actual reporting. But then there’s what at least appears to be two things happening, sometimes overlapping: a negative spin of some ...
  • Susan G. Komen Fiasco Delivers Karen Handel Re ...
    **UPDATED** From the AP: Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen official, resigns after Planned Parenthood dispute Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started ...
  • Al Sharpton Schools Morning Joe
    The Catholic League, according to CBS, is “poised to go to war with Obama over mandatory birth control payments.” A better stenographer the Catholic League could not have than CBS, with the threat meant to put a political scare into Obama. But this isn’t 1980 and the Catholic L ...
  • Obama Embraces the Super PAC
    It was the only decision to make, giving the official White House nod to Bill Burton, a former Obama aide. President Barack Obama — in an act of hypocrisy or necessity, depending on the beholder — has reversed course and is now blessing the efforts of a sputtering super PAC, Priorities USA Actio ...

Hudson New York

  • Islam and Free Speech: OIC vs. Universal Decla ...
    One of the important early contributions of James Madison to American life was his impact on the framing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1776. One section stated that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion
  • Brazil's President in Cuba
    Human rights activists had high expectations for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's first official visit to Cuba last January 30. Rousseff visited Cuba just few days after the international media reported that Brazil was distancing itself from Iran
  • The University Bubble
    It has become glaringly apparent that the college tuition bubble is about to burst. At a time of financial exigency, the cost of $250,000 for a four-year education at a private college is beyond the means of most middle class parents. That story is now
  • Israel Undecided on Attacking Iran
    United States President Barack Obama said Monday that he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge. The president sought to assure allies and foes alike that
  • Who Defames the Prophet?
    Translated and Introduced by Raymond Ibrahim. The following op-ed, written by Ahmed El Aswany, appeared in the popular news website El Bashayer, December 22, 2011, following several lawsuits against Egypt's Christians, most notably billionaire Naguib

Urban Survival

  • March to War: 25 to Go?
    “That’s be two eggs, over easy, hash browns, bacon, and oh, yeah, a side of global thermonuclear war…”  That seems to be the menu this morning as global forces are being put into place for a huge showdown in early … Continue reading →
  • Coping: So Long, Anti-Gravity
    A couple of people have written to me asking “What happened to that video of your anti-gravity work?” Funny you should ask.  I took the video down yesterday because I understand now what was going on.  It’s a dandy example … Continue reading →
  • Sliding Deadlines – War to Come?
    As we slip and slide toward whatever that linguistic stuff the first half of March means, we notice that Greece is also playing the old “slip-and-slide” this morning with yet another (made-up) deadline coming and going. One aspect of what’s … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Betting on What march Brings
    It’s become something of a part-time job around here keeping track of all the various things readers are proposing/supposing for the dramatic shit into predictive linguistics “release language” come March.  To give you an idea, here’s a list of possible … Continue r ...
  • Marketing the NuWar
    Yeah, sure, the jobs report, which we’ll get to in a second, is important and may result in Bulls dancing down on Wall Street, but if the whole world blows up, having a job will not matter much, will it?  … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green ...
  • Help Protect Polar Bears from Oil Drilling Dis ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco Credit: The Toronto Zoo A cuddly ball of white fur is rolling around the Toronto Zoo this week, as zoo keepers introduced their new polar bear cub to the public on Friday. The cub— ...
  • Weekend in the Woods: Tracking Wolverines
    Whitney Angell Leonard, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana I think I might be hooked on wolverines. Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to join a group of volunteers tracking wolverines and lynx in western Montana, and now I can’t ...
  • BEE Raising the Bar: Increased Appliance Effic ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco It may be blizzarding in Europe but here in India, including Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, cars, office buildings, and hotels are blasting their air conditioners. Last week, NRDC’s president, Frances B ...
  • The California renewables market is robust and ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco The market for renewable electricity is robust and competitive according to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).  In a report on the state’s 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 6, 2012: Cincinnati OH cop who refused to give a statement to investigators about why he shot an unarmed man to death is now the subject of a lawsuit over that shooting inci ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-04 ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 4-5, 2012: A new video is contradicting New York NY cops version of the fatal shooting of a teen in the Bronx. The video shows the teen calmly walking into his home despi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 3, 2012: 2 St Louis MO cops investigated by FBI after one accused of shooting unarmed man to death while he begged for his life [3] http://bit.ly/zdPVRs Woodbridge NJ cop in ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry folks, sort of fell asleep before posting this last night, probably because I started that second job now and things are pretty hectic. Anyway, here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, February 2, 2012: New York NY ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    After the overwhelming response to the BGSU DOJ/NIJ funding crap and urging from my wife I went ahead and restarted the news feed today. Sorry I haven’t responded much to all the feedback and emails, I’ve been up for about 42 hours so far because of work, only to find out this mornin ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian warships sail off English and Irish coasts
    Russian warships which sparked a row about waste being dumped overboard into a Scottish firth have reappeared off the UK coast. In December, aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, a destroyer, two frigates and support ships sought shelter from bad weather in the Moray Firth. Moray SNP MP Angus Robe ...
  • UK Sends Nuclear Submarine to Falkland Islands
    The UK is sending a nuclear submarine to the Malvinas Islands amid growing tensions between Britain and Argentina over the disputed territories. According to media reports on Saturday, British Prime Minister David Cameron has personally approved the deployment of the Trafalgar-class vessel, beli ...
  • Obama moves against Iran Central Bank in bid t ...
    The White House moved to enforce tightened sanctions against Iran on Monday because of the country’s suspect nuclear program, freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in the United States. The new restrictions also raised ...
  • Nazi Swastika Found In Ancient Antarctica Lake ...
    A shocking Ministry of Defense report on the Russian scientific team that has successfully drilled 3,768 meters into the world’s largest submerged lake on the continent of Antarctica, believed to be untouched for over 20 million years, states that the underwater video camera discovered the“strik ...
  • Pakistan will retaliate if Israel attacks Iran ...
    A diplomat based in Islamabad said on Sunday that an Israeli attack on Iran would force Pakistan to support a Iranian response, according to the Israeli website Ynetnews.com. The diplomat did not say if the Pakistani retaliation would be diplomatic or involve a conventional military or nuclear r ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    We get some potential details about the forthcoming Apple iTV. Brazil is suing Twitter and India is going after Google and Facebook. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Netflix releases its first original content, the Super Bowl smashes a Twitter record and one Russian mobile operator has encouraged its customers to compete to be the ultimate 3G data...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Anonymous has eavesdropped on a call between the FBI and Scotland Yard. 1 in every 5 pages viewed last month belonged to Facebook. Google has lost an appeal over its...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook files the S-1 for its $5 billion IPO. Twitter rolls out brand pages in the UK. A South Korean man faces jail time for retweeting North Korea. You can...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook looks set to file for its long-awaited IPO today, The Pirate Bay founders are denied an appeal in the Swedish Supreme court while the site looks to avoid a...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Flagships Fiasco Ferguson Un-FiT
    Today climate and energy solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions called on Minister Ferguson and the Gillard Government to stop picking losers through a renewable energy grant system and instead back a national Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) "The reason to choose Feed-in-Tariffs over grants, guarantee ...
  • Reneweconomy: A Leaf to hide Australia’s peak ...
    Fortunately for the Federal Government, it can use a “Leaf” to hide its growing embarrassment at being exposed for suppressing its own report warning of sharp declines in global oil production in five years time. In 2009, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese’s Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport ...
  • Melbourne, VIC: Transitions Film Festival Open ...
    Transitions film festival presents International Energy Futures. The transition towards a sustainable society will require an energy revolution, away from non-renewable fossil fuels toward clean renewable energy forms. The two documentaries in the International Energy Futures showcase prove tha ...
  • Farmers squeezed out of energy boon
    Stock ＆ Land reports: LANDHOLDERS should be capitalising on seismic changes in how we generate energy, says Matthew Wright, but instead they are being pushed aside. Mr Wright, executive director of Beyond Zero Emissions, thinks the thrust of current government policy will be to deny many land ...
  • Merit order: How solar FiTs could cut energy b ...
    A study from the Melbourne Energy Institute suggests that the benefits of solar energy on the National Electricity Market could outweigh the costs of feed-in-tariffs, and could deliver energy cost savings for all customers, rather than an impost as is commonly believed. The conclusion comes ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • More big companies disclosing impacts on forests
    More companies are reporting on the impact of their operations on global forests, finds a new report. Eighty-seven global corporations disclosed their "forest footprint" in 2011, according to the third Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD), which asks companies to report on their impact on forests b ...
  • Photos of the day: satellite tagging a 12-foot ...
    Researchers in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo have successfully satellite-tagged a 3.6 meter (11.8 feet) saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in an effort to study human-wildlife conflict with the world's largest reptile. As massive, powerful reptiles they are quite capable of injur ...
  • Wall Street Journal climate op-ed: the "equiva ...
    Climate scientists have struck back at the Wall Street Journal after it published an op-ed authored by 16 mostly non-climatologists arguing that global warming was not an urgent concern. The response letter, entitled Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate, responds that the Wall Stre ...
  • Jellyfish explosion may be natural cycle
    Evidence that jellyfish are taking over the oceans is currently lacking, according to a new study published in Bioscience. Complied by a number of marine experts, the study found that while jellyfish have been on the rise in some regions it is likely due to a natural cycle of jellyfish populatio ...
  • Indonesia to create the world's largest palm o ...
    The Indonesian government plans to create a massive plantation firm next month when it will combine the assets of state-owned rubber and palm oil companies, reports Reuters.

Sierra Express

  • Combating HIV infections among African women
    Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. “If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends that you have things,” says Nomasonto. The most prized items are cell phones, jewelry and fashi ...
  • Invitations for Bids: Cleaning Services
    NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE TRUST (NASSIT) Date of Issue: 7TH FEBRUARY   2012 PROCUREMENT NUMBER: NASSIT/ADMIN/SS/NCB/012/004 1. The Trust maintains headquarters building at 32 Walpole Street, Freetown, West regional office at Old Parcel Post Building at Government Wharf in Freetown, ...
  • African Peer Review Mechanism is making progress
    Interview with Amos Sawyer: In 2003 the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the continental development plan, initiated the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Since then 30 countries have joined the voluntary arrangement. How well has this process been working, and what lies ahe ...
  • Egypt vs soccer violence
    As a soccer enthusiast and a one time a footballer, I am compelled to write on recent events of disaster of soccer violence in Port Saiid. Egypt. Egypt, known as ancient civilization, has a very good profile soccer history.  It is not only the first nation to represent Africa for the world cup, ...
  • Invitation for Bids: Supply of computers, serv ...
    NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE TRUST Procurement Number: NASSIT/ST/CSPK/NCB/12/003 Date of Issue 7th February 2012 1.     In an effort to enhance its ICT infrastructure the Trust wishes to acquire new equipment to improve its operational performance. Consequently it has allocated funds f ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • $1-a-litre deal's 'amazing' response
    The boutique grocery store that dropped the price of its milk to make a point has sold thousands of bottles at $1 a litre - and is now promising to keep milk cheaper than in supermarkets for the rest of the year.Nosh Food Market...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra must be a champion i ...
    NZ dairy company Fonterra is at risk of being outclassed on its own home turf if it doesn't rapidly develop a strategy to launch high-quality New Zealand brands into the fast-growing Chinese markets.It's hard to credit why Fonterra...
  • Milk price inquiry hangs in balance
    Consumers worried about the price of milk will find out this month whether a parliamentary investigation into the high-profile issue will resume or get the can.The retail price of milk has become a hot topic, with a Consumer NZ...
  • Trendy grocer leads way with $1-a-litre milk deal
    A boutique grocery is calling on retailers to make milk affordable as it drops its prices to $1 a litre.Nosh Food Market says margins are too high and it hopes the lowered price can continue indefinitely if competitors and other...
  • Kiwis regain full control of dairy empire afte ...
    Agribusiness mogul Alan Pye and his associates have full control of New Zealand's largest dairy farming conglomerate after South Canterbury Finance sold its $54.4 million stake in the $535 million business yesterday.The straight-talking...

The Bovine

  • FDA’s double standard for regulating: ra ...
    From Ethan A. Huff at PrisonPlanet.com “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is getting increasingly bold these days with openly admitting that it works directly for big industry interests rather than public health interests. In a recent report on … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk at Portland farmers markets
    From Seth Koenig in the Bangor Daily News: “PORTLAND, Maine — Raw milk and malt liquor are among the products to be allowed at the Portland farmers’ market after the City Council on Monday night expanded its list of approved … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk is bigger than you’d think &#82 ...
    From VTdigger.org: “Montpelier – Rural Vermont has released its 2012 Report on raw milk production and sales. For the third year since the passage of Act 62, which enabled the direct sale of raw milk by farmers to consumers, Rural … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk cow sharing in Kentucky
    From Kentucky.com: FRANKFORT — Families who want to drink fresh raw milk without buying their own dairy herds are backing a bill to sanction “cow sharing.” The practice lets people buy into a herd and share the resulting milk, cheese … Continue reading →
  • Food rights, gene rights, human rights
    From Rady Ananda, on Food Freedom blog: As courts and bureaucrats continue to assert that citizens have no fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice, we find Monsanto lurking nearby.  The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to … Continue readin ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Postponed Due to "Political Suicide"; Flag of ...
    Greece bailout talks that were postponed on Friday to Saturday, then Saturday to Sunday, then Sunday to Monday, then Monday to Tuesday. They have been postponed again, this time for a reason that makes perfect sense "Political Suicide". The New Work Times reports Greece Puts Off Decision on ...
  • Banks Paying as Much as $35,000 Cash to Homeow ...
    In a short sale, banks forgive the difference between what is owed and the sale price of the house. Recently, however, banks have started giving cash back to the sellers. So far, the programs are a drop in the bucket. There are millions of pent-up foreclosures and JP Morgan is doing 5,000 short ...
  • Rise of the High Frequency Trading Robots
    I do not know enough about algorithm-driven High Frequency Trading to comment intelligently other than to say 100% without a doubt that someone is making a huge pile of cash from HFT or it would not be done. You can watch an animated GIF that chronicles the rise of the HFT Algo Machines fro ...
  • New Merkozy Proposal "I will Give You Money If ...
    The Merkel proposal for Greece to cede budget sovereignty to a European commissioner has finally been trashed. In its place is a Spaghetti-O loop proposal to give Greece money only if Greece earmarks the funds to immediately pay back bondholders. Please consider Greece bail-out funds could ...
  • Fewer Nonfarm Employees Now Than December 2000 ...
    Along with many others, I am pondering the latest employment numbers. Strong opinions are the norm. Many are steadfast in their interpretations, some critically so, especially Bondad who blasted Zero Hedge in a scathing attack "No Rick Santelli and Zero Hedge, One Million People Did Not Dro ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the [...]
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Exclusive: NATO Member Turkey to Train Lib ...
    Harvesting the Fruits of “Regime Change” in Libya In the last few decades one never-changing modus operandi in our imperial pursuits and operations overseas has been the formation, financing, training, control and domination of our target countries’ military force. Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Tunisi ...
  • Why the Military Industrial Complex Supports O ...
    Video- Sibel Edmonds Interview: RT I was scheduled for an interview on the latest developments on the Turkish-Syria topic, however, they had a last minute change and suddenly I was facing questions regarding the latest exposé on Bahrain-Washington Times. If you look carefully you’ll see my eye-b ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Evergreen Shipping Founder Bequeaths Fortune t ...
    According to Forbes, the net worth of Evergreen’s Founder and Group Chairman, Chang Yung-fa, is in the range of $1.6 Billion, and he is listed number 782 among the world’s [...]
  • Keppel and ConocoPhillips Partner to Develop I ...
    Keppel Offshore & Marine and ConocoPhillips today announced a joint project that they claim could potentially yield major breakthrough’s in offshore Arctic drilling.  The project aims to design the first-ever [...]
  • Big City Emergency – How To Bug Out At Sea
    A friend recently asked me to write a supplemental to his book Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life. Specifically he was interested in how to escape a big city when [...]
  • WWS’s Fleet Expands: Additional Platform Suppl ...
    Norwegian shipowner World Wide Supply (WWS) has ordered another two PSV 3300 CD’s with Damen Shipyards. The two platform suppliers are added to the four that WWS announced to be [...]
  • Maritime Union Expands into Drilling Industry: ...
    As gCaptain first reported in August, American Maritime Officers’ (AMO) union training facility, STAR Center, has announced plans expand its simulation training programs to include Dynamic Positioning training, furthering the [...]

Blogging Canadians

Press TV - Middle East

  • Saleh says will return to Yemen
    Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will return home from the United States as the country prepares to vote for a new head of state.
  • ‘We were not responsible for airstrike’
    Turkish military commanders have said that they were not informed beforehand about the airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in the southeastern province of Sirnak in December.
  • Nasrallah calls for unity among Muslims
    Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has called for Islamic unity and praised Iran for its support of the Lebanese resistance movement, Press TV reports.
  • Iraq exhibit highlights Bahrain crimes
    Al Ahrar bloc, the political wing of Sadr Movement, has mounted an exhibition of photos in Iraq to showcase Bahraini regime’s brutality against its protesters, Press TV reports.
  • 'Miles of Smiles' convoy arrives in Gaza
    A group of human rights activists participating in the Miles of Smiles aid convoy has arrived in the besieged Gaza Strip, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
    Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
  • Get ready, get set, go!
    2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
  • Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
    I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
  • What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
    One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...
  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...

Dissident Voice

  • US Thwarted at the UN: Imperial Ambitions Pers ...
    To Washington’s great chagrin, the attempt to impose “regime change” in Syria under the auspices of a United Nations Security Council resolution fell apart Saturday, thwarted by the double veto of Russia and China. Speaking Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Russian and Chines ...
  • US, UK Targeting Syria: Revisiting 1957 Attac ...
    The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950) For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the ...
  • An Exchange on “Humanitarian” Intervention wit ...
    A few days back I received an announcement from Rocky Anderson, announcing his presidential bid as the candidate of the newly formed Justice Party. Although social justice was mentioned prominently along with the desperate economic plight of many in the U.S., I was struck by the fact that the st ...
  • Prayer to the “Job Creator”
    Oh beneficent Job-Creator, omnipotent yet merciful, we humbly solicit your aid in this time of need.  Thou hast, in thy unfathomable Wisdom, taken away our livelihoods, sending forth a Plague of outsourcing, automation and credit default swaps.  We have meekly borne thy punishments, and have hum ...
  • Strengthening U.S.-Canada Security Interests i ...
    The U.S. and Canada recently signed several bilateral agreements that will further strengthen continental security and defense cooperation. Deeper military integration between both countries is part of efforts to establish a North American security perimeter and better address common global thre ...

Destructionist

  • FBI: Paying Cash For a Cup of Coffee a ‘Potent ...
    An FBI advisory aimed at Internet Cafe owners instructs businesses to report people who regularly use cash to pay for their coffee as potential terrorists. The flyer, issued under the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program, lists examples of “suspicious activity” and then encourage ...
  • FBI: Paying Cash For a Cup of Coffee a ‘Potent ...
    An FBI advisory aimed at Internet Cafe owners instructs businesses to report people who regularly use cash to pay for their coffee as potential terrorists. The flyer, issued under the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program, lists examples of “suspicious activity” and then encourage ...
  • FBI warns of threat from anti-government extre ...
    Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday. These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI ag ...
  • FBI warns of threat from anti-government extre ...
    Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday. These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI ag ...
  • Flashback: Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syru ...
    In 2009, a study found that almost half of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury — a carcinogenic chemical element that is toxic in all its forms to the human body. Even more troubling, nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products that listed HFCS as ...

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    Jumpstart development for renewable energy applications with TI's new C2000 ...
    PR Newswire (press release)
    These new solar kits bring advanced peripherals, application-targeted development hardware, schematics, comprehensive software libraries of algorithms and an industry-leading development environment to the renewable energy market, allowing designers to ...
    Karnataka Renewable Energy receives plans to set up 350 MW of solar projects
    Hindu Business Line
    Despite uncertainties surrounding the solar REC scheme, several developers have shown interest in setting up solar projects in Karnataka under the Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Scheme, the State had announced recently. “Karnataka Renewable Energy ...
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    New Warner Robins Solar Array Helps Power Georgia
    The Warner Robins Patriot
    ... development potential for solar in Georgia , as most of the system components and all labor was sourced in the state.” For the record, there are currently about four and a half million EMC-member households powered by renewable energy in the state.
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    Funding Available For US-Israel Renewable Energy R&D Cooperation
    North American Windpower
    The following areas of R&D are within the scope of this call: wind energy, solar power, smart grid, alternative fuels, advanced vehicle technologies, or any other renewable energy or energy efficiency technology. The conditional grant per project is up ...
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    Ensave, Ecology and Environment Launch Farm Energy Audits
    Environmental Leader
    EnSave and partner Ecology and Environment have launched an audit service for farm energy uses including tillage, harvesting, and waste management. The Landscape Agricultural Energy Management Plan quantifies farm energy use and provide specific, ...
    Tu B'Shvat Ecology Study Opportunities, 2012
    Green Prophet
    As man is compared to “the tree of the field,” Tu B'Shvat is a good day to inaugurate ecology studies. Jewcology's Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment. Jewcology, a project which provides materials and tools to support the Jewish environmental ...
    Guide based on ecology, not numbers - Fish and Bird
    Radio New Zealand
    Environmental group Forest and Bird says the results of its latest best fish consumer guide are based on a thorough ecological assessment and not fish numbers. The guide, to be released this week, looks at the sustainability of 78 commercial fisheries.
    Carmel Valley school building a lesson in ecology
    San Jose Mercury News
    By Stephen Tung This new building at Carmel Middle School is constructed out of green materials and has a "living roof." (Vern Fisher/Monterey County Herald) CARMEL VALLEY -- When you're driving down Carmel Valley Road in Monterey County a couple of ...
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    Water Power

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    American Water's Dr. Mark LeChevallier Earns One of Water Industry's Highest ...
    Business Wire (press release)
    VOORHEES, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Water (NYSE: AWK), the nation's largest publicly traded water utility, announced today that Dr. Mark LeChevallier, Director of Innovation & Environmental Stewardship, has been selected by the American Water Works ...
    Water diversions threaten economies of mountain towns
    Aspen Times
    ASPEN — Pitkin County is losing the second-highest amount of water to the Front Range among Colorado's six headwater mountain counties, and the state's thirst soon could suck more from the Aspen area's rivers and streams, a new study has determined.
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    PureSafe Water Systems, Inc. Announces the Delivery of the First Response ...
    DigitalJournal.com (press release)
    6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PureSafe Water Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the patented mobile First Response Water System (FRWS), announced the delivery to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs of the State of Alaska. Gerard Stoehr, COO stated, ...
    Water Technologies International, Inc. (PINK:WTII) Received a $167500 Stock ...
    HotStocked
    by Violeta Slavtchevska Feb 6, 2012 Tweet 0 Comments Water Technologies International, Inc. (PINK:WTII, WTII message board) stock got excessive trading activity on Friday last week without any news or promotions. Traders should put it on the watch list ...
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