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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

8 February- RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran: A Manufactured Threat
    Summary: Stephen Lendman Iran attacked no other country in over 200 years. It threatens none now. It's neighbors know it. So do Washington and Israel. Nonetheless, saber rattling warnings continue. At issue is making an independent state a client one. source: MWC newsread more
  • Iran Preparing to Counter All Western Scenarios
    Summary: Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran is preparing itself to counter all Western plans aimed at mounting pressure on the Islamic Republic. source: Iran Reviewread more
  • Why aren't we negotiating with Iran?
    Summary: The Obama administration likes to portray itself as having "extended a hand of friendship" to Iran, but it was a half-hearted effort at best. Even now, we seem unable to offer Iran a "yessable" proposition, and we merely repeat our long-standing position it simply comply with our dem ...
  • The Consequences of Sanctions on Iran’s Centra ...
    Summary: Last Monday, in addition to embargoing Iran’s oil, the EU joined the US on imposing sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank. In a dialogue with IRD, Mohammad Hossein Adeli – the former head of Iran’s Central Bank and former ambassador to the UK – outlines the effects of the sanctions on the ...
  • 'Israeli attack will prompt Pakistani response'
    Summary: European diplomat based in Islamabad says Israeli strike would force Pakistan to support Iranian retaliation, while EU official says 'political and economic consequences of attack would be catastrophic for Europe'. source: Ynetread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • 'Alien Eyes' Revise the "Pillars of Creation" ...
    The Eagle Nebula, 6500 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens, harbors a young hot star cluster, NGC6611, that is sculpting and illuminating the surrounding gas and dust, resulting in a huge hollowed-out cavity and pillars, each several light-years long....
  • Image of the Day: 3 Billion-Year-Old Site of a ...
    Mars' mysterious 3 billion years old Syrtis Major shown above in this Mars Express image was once thought to be a shallow sea. The region, first discovered in 1659 by physicist and astronomer Christaan Huygens, who used its appearance during...
  • EcoNews: 80,000-Year-Old 15-Kilometer Long Swa ...
    Carlos Duarte of the University of Western Australia in Perth sequenced the DNA of Posidonia oceanica at 40 sites spanning 3500 kilometres of seafloor, from Spain to Cyprus. One patch off the island of Formentera stretched for over 15 kilometres...
  • NewsAlert: Radar Captures Evidence of an Ancie ...
    The European Space Agency's Mars Express radar probe has returned evidence that the planet once hosted an enormous ocean in its northern plain from sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor, within areas that have been suspected to be shorelines. Jérémie...
  • EcoAlert: Russians Drill into Previously Untou ...
    Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and priatine Lake Vostok 2.5 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a source quoted Monday by Ria Novosti, a state-run Russian news agency. The subglacial lake, the world’s third-largest lake...

Natural News

  • Proteolytic enzymes: A miracle cure the medica ...
    Enzymes are more important than vitamins and minerals for general health. Without enzymes, vitamins and minerals are useless. Enzymes are catalysts for metabolic processes and digestion. A catalyst initiates a chemical process without being part of the resultant product...
  • Pregnancy and fish oils - How both mother and ...
    By 2012, most people understand the importance of including omega-3 fatty acids to their diets. Commonly found in fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids have countless benefits to a person's health and complexion. From teens to the elderly, everyone can benefit from the wonders...
  • Diet soda again linked to heart attacks and st ...
    Diet soft drinks are considered the "healthier" alternative to high fructose corn syrup and empty calories. But the truth is that diet drinks have an evil side: new research confirms that diet soda can seriously increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. But in...
  • Vaccine study admits that PFCs and fluoride co ...
    Though widely heralded for promoting immunity, vaccine recipients often receive the very diseases for which they were vaccinated. Pondering this conundrum, vaccine researchers have cleverly managed to identify factors independent of the vaccines themselves to account...
  • Full-body scans rolled out at all Australian a ...
    It appears as though Australia is now competing with the U.S. for the "most authoritarian government in the 'free world'" award, as officials down under have now passed new rules mandating that all air travelers be forced to go through naked body scanners before being...

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PERRspectives : Blog

  • Ex-Planned Parenthood Supporter Romney Backs K ...
    That GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney announced his support for the Susan G. Komen Foundation's aborted effort to end funding for Planned Parenthood comes as no surprise. After all, defunding the group that each year provides health care and reproductive services for hundreds of thousands of America ...
  • Do Nations Commit Suicide?
    In the early 1980's, Reagan administration officials and some defense analysts fretted that the expanding Soviet arsenal of nuclear missiles gave the USSR a "window of opportunity" to launch a devastating "first-strike" against the United States. But in a famous article titled, "Windows of Oppo ...
  • Republicans Return to Taking Credit for Improv ...
    Appearing on CNN Sunday, Romney endorser and VP wannabe Bob McDonnell gave his GOP credit for the nation's improving economic outlook. "Look, I'm glad the economy is starting to recover," the Virginia Governor declared, "but I think it's because of what Republican governors are doing in their s ...
  • SuperPAC Super Payday: How Rich Donors Could G ...
    Federal Election Commission filings released this week showed that conservatives groups are amassing an ocean of cash for the 2012 presidential campaign. Thanks to the likes of the Koch brothers, the Walton clan and other of the usual suspects on the right, in 2011 conservative SuperPAC's outra ...
  • Republicans Double-Down on 'Obama Made the Eco ...
    Friday's promising employment report showing that the U.S. added 243,000 jobs in January is just the latest sign of a slowly improving American economy. But that good news for the American people is bad news for the "Hope America Fails" crowd of the Republican Party. After all, GOP presidentia ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Comprehensive 2012 Bicycling & Walking Report
    I recently included this report, the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s 2012 Benchmarking Report, in a green living roundup post. But I’ve decided it really needs a full post. I don’t think I can out-do the Alliance’s summary of the report, so rather than try to, I&#8217 ...
  • Living a Life You Love: Mindfulness Versus Min ...
    I’ve been thinking about coming back to this topic of habits lately. It’s one I’ve covered in the past, but should probably write about more often. Luckily, a nice post on sister site sustainablog has brought me to finally doing so. We do soooo many things worse than we know w ...
  • Americans Understand But Don’t Care About Pola ...
    Over the past half-decade the American population’s understanding of the facts about polar regions have increased, sadly, their concern or those same regions have stayed the same. These are the findings of the first comparative analysis conducted by Carsey Institute at the University of Ne ...
  • GMO-Tainted Blood Poisons Unwitting Vampires
    Get involved with LabelGMOs.org to help get GMO labelling on the 2012 ballot in California. Success in California should portend success across the rest of the country. We could be the next France…or Hungary. Cartoonist’s note: This image will soon be added to my
  • Green Living News: Nature Declining in Childre ...
    OK, last weekly roundup of the day, here are 10 big green living stories, other than OUR green living stories, I recommend checking out (if you are into green and healthy living): 1. Nature in children’s books declining! (So sad.) “A new study finds a significant decline in the depi ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • I am not appeased
    By @BGinKC I know I said that so long as Karen Handel, the failed "tea party" candidate for governor of Georgia and anti-Planned Parenthood teahadist, was at Komen they would do without my dollars, I wouldn't be walking, marching, joining them for lobbying efforts, or buying stuff with pink ribb ...
  • What's Left Out of Black History Month
    By @KYYellowDog Because as long as it fails to recognize the continuing reality of black economic struggles and the persistent racism behind them, Black History Month is pacification, not progress. Sean Thomas-Breitfield at The Nation: In his last book, Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther Ki ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Halleleuja ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by solutioncow:
  • Contraception Controversy About Politics, Not ...
    By @TedFrier Like all Fox News talking heads, Kirsten Powers adopts a simple if not simple-minded narrative designed to incite maximal tribal resentment among Fox News listeners, in this case conservative Catholics. And so the argument in her Daily Beast column today goes like this: The Catholi ...
  • I Voted in the Missouri Presidential Primary ( ...
    By @MBersin ...if you're registered to vote in Missouri. At 7:15 a.m. I was the sixth person to vote in my precinct of close to two thousand registered voters. It's safe to say that turnout won't be stellar. One of the Kansas City morning television shows wasn't helping much, telling their viewe ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Komen: We need you to fund ...
    Komen for the Cure has deliberately left the door open to cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood next year. We need to keep up the pressure. Komen for the Cure needs to know that there are millions of us who are going to keep watching them long after Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politi ...
  • Millions pushed into child labor in Pakistan
    From the bottom of my heart, I want to send my son to school but we have so many expenses ... We struggle to put food on our table,' one mother says Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Judge Sleeps During Autistic Student's Hearing ...
    An 18-year-old autistic student's family has been fighting his Texas public school to get him the free, appropriate education that he is entitled to. The school district has denied his diagnosis. When the case went to court, the judge is shown sleeping. Submitted by Beth M. to Society & Cu ...
  • Water for Dimock: Emergency aid needed for Pen ...
    Water for Dimock: Emergency aid needed for Pennsylvania fracking victims! It wasnt a flood or natural disaster that left 11 families in Dimock, PA without drinking water. The disaster in Dimock was created single-handedly by the Cabot Oil and Gas Submitted by Nancy C. to Health & Wellness ...
  • Fight Legislation to Approve Keystone XL! TAKE ...
    President Barack Obama rightly denied a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline in January, but Big Oil is not taking his decision lying down. To please oil interests, Senate Republicans are pushing legislation that would reverse the president's decision... Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Environme ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • So Santorum Wasn’t a One-State Wonder; May Win ...
    Since I don’t have photos of Betty Grable, or my area’s Irrigation Festival Queen, here are screenshot clips of Politico’s homepage as of 11 p.m., 02-07-12: Update: 3 Colorado’s GOP announces Santorum the victor, via CNN. Update: 1 Romney is now ahead of Santorum in Color ...
  • Obama Lost His Cool… And Wants It Back! + OPEN ...
    Don’t we have the coolest-est president in the history of ever?  You’d never see Ronald Reagan or other so-called “adult presidents” working so hard to be “cool!” I mean look at him! Wearin’ his cool Ray-Ban shades, jacket slung over his back.  Posing ju ...
  • Where the consumers are
    Evan Newmark worries about consumer spending with witty Spencer Jakab. POTUS re-elect needs the consumer to get involved in the recovery. This will increase the growth of wholesale jobs, transportation and manufacturing jobs, that we saw in the January jobs numbers. The housing crush remains the ...
  • Obama’s Jihad on Catholics (and Christians?)
    Just when you thought the Republicans were strapping a nuke to their ass and lighting it off, along comes Barky Obama with one of the most astonishing, boneheaded, politically stupid stunts EVAH!! His administration is trying to bully the Catholic Church and the Bishops ain’t going to put ...
  • The Blogosphere — Pro and Con. The Candidates ...
    Witnessing tempers flare on this blog of late, I am forced to reflect on the obsessive nature of a political junkie. I am speaking of myself, by the way. Glued to the news and anywhere from 12 to 15 websites in an effort get to the truth, it is easy to grade every gaffe, broken [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • 5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being ...
    5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy AlterNet Today, the coal industry has turned to mountaintop removal to pull the coal from the mountains. This process blows up mountains, allowing the companies to shovel out the coal at low cost. The pulverized land is dump ...
  • Urgent: Blair Mountain Under Threat - It's Get ...
    Urgent: Blair Mountain Under Threat It's Getting Hot In Here Blair has become a powerful symbol in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining. Last summer, hundreds of people marched to Blair Mountain to commemorate the generations of coal miners who fought for their rights and join hands ...
  • Arts Roundup: Consider the Wonk Band - Washing ...
    Arts Roundup: Consider the Wonk Band Washington City Paper (blog) Berry, whose many novels, stories, and nonfiction writings center on the American rural South, has in the past criticized certain aspects of modernity, like mountaintop-removal mining (bad!) and computers (oh.). Wonder if this thi ...
  • Movers & Shakers: Diane Isser - Temple News
    Movers & Shakers: Diane Isser Temple News Diane Isser, a junior political science and sociology major, takes political action unapologetically, and was the driving force behind the mountaintop removal coal mining protests, the Troy Davis protest on Main Campus and Temple's involvement in ...
  • Silas House play highlights LBGT struggle for ...
    Silas House play highlights LBGT struggle for fairness Richmond Register House, director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College and a best-selling author, had intended to write about mountain-top removal and the coal industry, he said. However, “This Is My Heart For You,” debuting at the col ...

Memeorandum

  • In Republican 2012 presidential race, Rick San ...
    Alexander Burns / Politico: In Republican 2012 presidential race, Rick Santorum roars back  —  Just in case the 2012 Republican primary race hasn't already had enough twists and turns - welcome back, Rick Santorum.  —  After winning Tuesday's non-binding contests ...
  • Obama Inches Past Romney In Virginia President ...
    Quinnipiac University: Obama Inches Past Romney In Virginia Presidential Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Senate Race Still Tied  —  For the first time in this election cycle, President Barack Obama inches ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the leading Republ ...
  • Stephen Hester: The full interview (BBC)
    BBC: Stephen Hester: The full interview  —  In his first interview since the row over his bonus Stephen Hester, the chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has admitted that he “underestimated” the outcry the £1 million payment would cause.  — ...
  • Syrian siege of Homs is genocidal, say trapped ...
    Guardian: Syrian siege of Homs is genocidal, say trapped residents  —  People in the city describe snipers, bombings and their fear that the regime is preparing to make a lethal final assault  —  Residents inside the besieged city of Homs claim they are under &ld ...
  • Flo Rida a Big-Time Cheapskate? Ex-Assistant S ...
    Alexis L. Loinaz / E! Online: Flo Rida a Big-Time Cheapskate?  Ex-Assistant Sues Over Low, Low, Low Wages  —  Flo Rida is getting a bad rap from his ex-assistant.  —  A woman who says she worked for the rapper is suing him for unspecified damages, claiming t ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Slideshow: Sanjiangyuan’s changing face
    As global warming and economic development alter landscapes and lives in western China, Hashi Tashidorjee has been out with his camera. Here he shows chinadialogue the results, kicking off a special series of articles on the region.The Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai–Tibet plateau conta ...
  • A Canadian pipe-dream?
    Canada’s prime minister is on his way to Beijing to stoke interest in the country’s oil sands, but China would be wise to keep a safe distance, writes Angela Merriam.Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, arrives in Beijing tomorrow with a very specific goal: to secure a mark ...
  • Farmland security
    Crisis on the financial markets has brought investors flocking to agricultural assets. But the risks may help drive a more sustainable approach, writes Alejandro Litovsky.How agricultural land is owned, what is grown on it, and by whom, will probably determine much of the next century’s po ...
  • China should bolster its African aid
    Chinese investments must bring lasting benefit to Africa’s people in the form of development and better governance. Otherwise the relationship risks souring, warns René N’Guettia Kouassi. China has become an indispensable partner in Africa. The inroads it has made have re ...
  • Thorns in the African dream (2)
    To meet its duties as a rising power, China must evolve a more nuanced approach to international development – just putting up the cash is not enough, concludes Wang Xiaojuan.As Chinese companies have continued to expand overseas, their projects in Africa have come in for frequent criticis ...

AlterNet Top Stories

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Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Some Seattle Area Grocers Stop Selling Sprouts
    As I said to King 5 a few months ago: “Sprout seeds can be contaminated when they’re grown, cause they’re grown outside,” says food safety attorney Bill Marler, of Seattle, “When the Sprouts are sprouted, you have to be exceedingly careful with the quality of the w ...
  • ABC Evening News (and others) Praise Food Safe ...
    Food Safety News dogged reporters did what the government and Taco Bell did not do, be open with the public about the Salmonella Outbreak Linked Taco Bell restaurants in ten states.  FSN first reported that Oklahoma and Michigan broke ranks with the FDA, CDC and other states when those two ...
  • Yet Another Transparency Problem - Meat Glue
    Come on, at some point people that produce food need to stop with the BS and put food safety first.
  • What is it with Tacos Today? - Clostridium per ...
    Laboratory testing by the Department of Health has identified Clostridium perfringens as the cause of the outbreak associated with the Pierre-Mitchell high school boys’ basketball game held in Pierre January 31. The investigation, which included voluntary questionnaires, implicated the tac ...
  • The Family Cow now Linked to 43 with Campylobacter
    Press reports tonight have Pennsylvania state health officials saying there are now 43 confirmed cases of Campylobacter infections linked to raw milk from a Franklin County farm. The confirmed cases of Campylobacter infection include 36 people in Pennsylvania, four in Maryland, two in West Virg ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: “Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away ...
    Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key leaders of the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew U.S.-b ...
  • Amy Goodman Appears on MSNBC's "Up w/ Chris Hayes"
    Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman joined a 2-hour panel of journalists, analysts and academics on MSNBC’s "Up w/ Chris Hayes" to discuss topics of the day, ranging from the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood reversal to the Republican Primaries. From the &qu ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 2/5 ...
    Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday, February 5th from 8 -10am EST .
  • "Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God." By Amy ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida. After he and the pro-Romney super PACs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in a state where nearly half the homeowners are underwater, he ...
  • Watch Democracy Now! Intv. With Spanish Judge ...
    Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón is known for ordering the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and seeking to indict members of the Bush administration for their role in torturing prisoners. Now, Garzón himself is facing a trial in Madrid, after right-wing groups objected to his investigat ...

Suzie-Q

  • GOP Primary Show: Non-Stop News And Noise In T ...
    Huff Post- Posted: 2/7/12  |  Updated: 2/7/12 Michael Calderone Last week, Jon Ralston, a veteran Las Vegas Sun columnist, dared reporters to ignore Donald Trump’s unveiling of his presidential endorsement — with low expectations about how that might play out. “I suggest m ...
  • Prop 8, California’s Same-Sex Marriage B ...
    LISA LEFF 02/ 7/12 04:10 PM ETAssociated Press  via: Huff Post SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional but agreed to give sponsors of the bitterly contested, voter-approved law time to appeal the ruling before ordering ...
  • Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen Executive, Quits ...
    Huff Post- Posted: 2/7/12  |  Updated: 2/7/12 By- Laura Bassett Karen Handel, vice president for public affairs at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned on Tuesday following public outcry over the announcement Komen would pull funding from Planned Parenthood. After Komen reversed its decisi ...
  • With Economy Improving, Obama Would Beat Romne ...
    WASHINGTON | Mon Feb 6, 2012 2:32pm EST (Reuters) – President Barack Obama – bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth – would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, a poll on Monday ...
  • Poll: By Large Margins, Americans Trust Obama ...
    Think Progress- By Ben Armbruster  on Feb 6, 2012 at 10:15 am Out on the campaign trail and in debates, Mitt Romney has tried to paint President Obama as a ineffective commander-in-chief. The former Massachusetts governor regularly says things like the President is “weak” or that he “went around ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report – 2.9.12
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I’m in Silicon Valley in California and Franklin is at Top of the World Farm in Tennessee. Given what is happening in the markets, we have a lot to talk about on Thursday evening! We are publishing a Special Solari Report this week on the latest U.S. regulations ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “What day is it,?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
  • Facebook Is Using You
    By Lori Andrews Last week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn’t have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones. Faceb ...
  • A Place For Conversation
    By Diane Lorence The following photographs are of our home in the mountains of northern California. The house was designed by my husband, Michael Anthony Lorence, who is a private confidant to people of the world who come to him for the special kind of conversation made possible by this house i ...
  • The Numbers Are In: Find Out Just How Many Ame ...
    By Mandi Woodruff Finally, we’ve got some cold, hard stats on how badly banks are hurting from November’s Bank Transfer Day  movement. A new report by Javelin Strategy & Research estimates a staggering 5.6 million big bank customers have switched banks in the last 90 days. Con ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Another echo in Afghanistan of the Vietnam War ...
    Summary:  The Afghanistan War vividly demonstrates one of America’s greatest weaknesses.  We don’t learn from experience.  Change the names and so much history of Vietnam War reads like today’s news.  All that’s old is new again.  The actions of Lt Colonel Davis (see yest ...
  • A letter from Lt Col Daniel L. Davis, who is a ...
    Summary:  Please read this letter from Daniel L. Davis (Lt Colonel, US Army).  He has set in motion forces that can change America, but only if we choose to help.  Pass this on to your Congressmen, Senators, local newspapers, associate, friends, and relatives.  If we stand together we can reclai ...
  • Important news about our war in Afghanistan
    If you have not yet done so, please read these.  These two articles are just two of the pebbles Lt Colonel Davis has tossed off the cliff.  They might start an avalanche. “Truth, lies and Afghanistan – How military leaders have let us down“, Daniel L. Davis (Lt Colonel, US Army ...
  • What can climate scientists tell about the dri ...
    Summary:  What can we expect from Earth’s climate during the next decade or so?  Unfortunately climate sciences forecasts have become footballs in public policy debates.  Can we see through the fog?  Here we see a selection of articles explaining the current state of the climate sciences.  ...
  • Is it possible to debate climate change with t ...
    Summary: The comments in reply to the posts on the FM website often provide valuable information.  Sometimes new information and insights.  Sometimes revealing the tactics and thinking of factions in our society.  The posts about global warming produce especially interesting replies, showing how ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Turkey Poised to take the Lead on Syria
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service.  After ‘Fiasco’ Turkey Takes the Lead on Syria Turkey already hosts the exiled leaders of the Syrian opposition. It is also the country most directly affected by refugee flows and instability in Syria. After a failed bid and the UN an ...
  • Burned in the Kitchen. Cooking Shouldn’t Kill
    Ed note. This is a special guest post from Radha Muthiah, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves — a project of the UN Foundation.  A few days ago, I visited the Burns Department at Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi. This is only one of two major treatment centers for burn ...
  • Uniting the Iranian Opposition
    The speculation over whether Israel will attack Iran this spring is having an unintended consequence: It’s bringing Iranian opposition groups together. About 50 activists, including university professors, lawyers and students now living outside Iran, met on February 4th and 5th at a snow-covere ...
  • Do You Want to Spend Another $88 Billion in Af ...
    Of the 90,000 troops currently stationed in Afghanistan, 22,000 are scheduled to come home this summer. The 2013 drawdown plan hasn’t been revealed, but Sec. Panetta’s announcement that combat operations may end in 2013 seems to indicate a faster drawdown than previously expected. The war in A ...
  • The Mess in Afghanistan
    I think it is now pretty clear that the 2009 decision to dramatically escalate the war in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake. A few recent stories highlight this: Glenn Greenwald comments on a new Sunday Times report about drone strikes targeting rescuers: read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • A Gun to the Gun Fight
    In the summer of 2008, revving up for the general-election campaign against John McCain, Barack Obama raised some eyebrows by telling a group of Philadelphians: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” He wasn’t talking about fundraising specifically—he was emphasizing his ability ...
  • There's Something Rotten at the Komen Foundation
    Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, had a placid expression on her face when she assured MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last week that Karen Handel had nothing much to do with the foundation’s decision to cease funding breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinics. ...
  • Ohio Governor John Kasich's Tightrope Walk
    John Kasich is in a bit of a bind. The Ohio governor is, on the one hand, the tough Republican who tried to bring right-to-work legislation to Ohio and reduce government spending. He's also the guy whose efforts to limit collective bargaining got knocked down by Ohio voters. Partisan divides se ...
  • In Prop. 8 Ruling, a Liberal Lion Coos
    (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, Pool) Senior Circuit Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, left, Circuit Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt, center, and Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith hear arguments during a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Today, the federal appeals court in San Fr ...
  • Fight to Be Ordinary
    Recently, someone asked me what it feels like to be married in Massachusetts. After all, our state has had marriage equality longer than any other in the nation, since May 17, 2004 (which, not coincidentally, is the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board). How does the controversy manifest these da ...

Buzzflash

  • Komen Foundation's Brinker and Board, Not Just ...
    It would be wrong to let Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation off the hook because its Tea Party, anti-choice, anti-gay rights Vice President for Public Policy Karen Handel has abruptly departed the organization. First of all, Handel was hired by Komen as the foundation's point person for ...
  • Mitt Romney's Mormon Landslide
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT As of a little more than one-hour before the kickoff to Super Bowl XLVI, 71% of the vote had been tallied in the Nevada caucuses, and it is clear that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had easily outpaced his challengers --including former House S ...
  • We Are the 90% (Who Don't Own Stocks)
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Actually, the richest 10% don't own ALL the stocks. But they own over 80% of the stock market, while the richest 20% of Americans own 93% of our country's financial wealth. Many of the rest of us own SOME stocks, and would certainly like to own more. ...
  • When GOP Candidates "Misspeak," The Truth Come ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Republicans struggle to define themselves as conservative saviors bent on rescuing people foolish enough to profess liberal views or pursue progressive goals. At first the presidential candidates and their supporters just seemed to be incredibly dense and fo ...
  • Komen Pinkwashes Breast Cancer, Including Prom ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   Last week, BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed out the GOP leanings of Nancy Brinker and her tightly held governance of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. We provided evidence of Brinker's strong Republican donation ties, and the domination of ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...
  • Testing times, but no pardon for Turing
    UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...
  • 10 out of 10 for boron’s coordinated effort
    A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. I asked theoretical chemist Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, ...
  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Legislation Would Close Corporate Tax Loop ...
    Statement of U.S. PIRG Tax and Budget Associate Dan Smith on the introduction of the Cut Unjustified Tax Loopholes Act (CUT Loopholes Act, S.2075) by Senators Carl Levin and Kent Conrad. “The CUT Loopholes Act goes a long way in making sure corporations play by the same rules as ordinary t ...
  • Maldives Must Avoid Persecution of Ousted Gove ...
    The new authorities in the Maldives must avoid persecuting members of outgoing president Mohammed Nasheed's political party, Amnesty International said today, after Mr. Nasheed resigned following a police mutiny in the country.read more
  • Freedom to Marry Calls 9th Circuit Ruling "Pow ...
    Today, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found that Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that stripped the freedom to marry away from gay and lesbian couples in California, violates the U.S. Constitution.  Evan Wolfson, founder and Pres ...
  • A Lower Dollar Would Ease the Pressure of the ...
    A new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) demonstrates that a reduction of the value of the dollar would not only correct the large trade deficit in the United States, but would also lead to a boom in the manufacturing sector, potentially creating millions ...
  • PFAW Commends Ninth Circuit Ruling on Prop 8
    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the district court decision striking down California’s Proposition 8, which bans marriage equality in the state. Michael Keegan, president of People For the American Way, issued the following statement in response: “Today’s ruling ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Can Democrats Landslide Republicans?
    Ralph Nader I often ask Congressional Democrats these days: "If you agree that your Republican counterparts in Congress are the most craven, corporatist, fact-denying, falsifying, anti-99 percent, militaristic Republicans in the party& ...
  • Can Democrats Landslide Republicans?
    Ralph Nader I often ask Congressional Democrats these days: "If you agree that your Republican counterparts in Congress are the most craven, corporatist, fact-denying, falsifying, anti-99 percent, militaristic Republicans in the party& ...
  • The Downward Mobility of the American Middle C ...
    Robert Reich January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class.read more
  • The Downward Mobility of the American Middle C ...
    Robert Reich January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class.read more
  • Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
    Ray McGovern Before President Barack Obama’s interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, aired before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably hoped that, if Obama discussed Iran, he would give him the s ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Avalonia Land Conservancy, Groton Public Libra ...
    Groton - Avalonia Land Conservancy and the Groton Public Library have organized a five-part series of programs over the next four months to highlight the importance of water and water protection.
  • Comprehensive water plan for Alabama needed
    Springville — Last Thursday “Friends of Big Canoe Creek” hosted Mitch Reid from the Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA) to speak about the growing need for a comprehensive water plan in the state of Alabama.
  • Camp Palm Beach registration opens Monday for ...
    Registration begins Monday for residents wishing to enroll their children in Camp Palm Beach, which runs from March 12-16 and from March 19-23 at the town’s Recreation Center.
  • No one wins in water wars
    Water is our most vital natural resource and should not be a partisan issue. But after a decade of beneficial policies to protect Florida’s water supply, partisan politics is rearing its ugly head and threatening our quality of life.
  • No one wins in water wars
    Water is our most vital natural resource and should not be a partisan issue. But after a decade of beneficial policies to protect Florida’s water supply, partisan politics is rearing its ugly head and threatening our quality of life.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Is 17-year-old girl Cast Lead's latest victim?
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 7 February 2012 Seventeen-year-old Haneen Abu Jalala died last month at an Israeli hospital from what her family says were complications from white phosphorous fired at their home three years ago.
  • Stealing Palestine's resources is illegal, des ...
    Charlotte Silver Ramallah 7 February 2012 Israel’s illegal acts of resource pillaging in the occupied West Bank are “benefitting” the Palestinian population, according to the Israeli high court.
  • 2,600 Bedouins threatened with displacement as ...
    Sophie Crowe Jerusalem 7 February 2012 Twenty Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem area, in which 2,600 persons live, are facing displacement to make way for Israeli settlement expansion
  • "Words flower from fragile bodies": the poigna ...
    Patricia Sarrafian Ward 6 February 2012 Poet Lisa Suheir Majaj writes exquisitely of the profound personal and collective loss that defines Palestinian history in her book, Geographies of Light.
  • Who says Palestinian resistance is dead?
    Nour Joudah 3 February 2012 The Arab uprisings are serving Palestinian youth in much the same way solidarity with Palestinian intifadas historically served activists in other Arab countries.

The Wonk Room

  • BREAKING: Military Coup Ousts Maldives Climate ...
    The first democratically elected leader of a 100-percent Muslim country, President Mohamed Nasheed has been ousted in a military coup by supporters of the 30-year dictator Maumoon Gayoom. President Nasheed, who has led democratic reforms and mobilized his island nation about the existential thre ...
  • Florida Public School Teacher Referred To Hait ...
    Most teachers across the country are dedicated civil servants, committed to the success of their students. Broward County (Florida) public school teacher Leslie Rainer is not one of them. Rainer is a teacher at Blanche Ely High School who is being investigated for the third time by the Broward C ...
  • Why ‘The Voice’ Is Getting Better ...
    The numbers for The Voice have been big over the past couple of days, even without the boost from the Super Bowl: 17.7 million viewers tuned in last night, and a 6.6 rating among the coveted adults between the ages of 18 to 49. It makes sense that the show is doing well. Two episodes [...]
  • 50,000+ Sign Petition For Undocumented Immigra ...
    In less than a week, more than 54,000 people have signed a Change.org petition to push the UC San Francisco Medical Center to allow an undocumented immigrant to have a kidney transplant. ThinkProgress wrote last week about how administrators at the medical center denied Jesus Navarro’s pro ...
  • Islamophobic Filmmakers Promote Comment Seekin ...
    The Clarion Fund, an organization which produces Islamophobic documentaries, came under renewed scrutiny last month when news broke that their film “The Third Jihad” was screened at an NYPD conference. Facing calls for his resignation, NYPD commissioner Raymond Kelly, after some diss ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canadian Values
    Man oh man. When I think about repressive, anti-female cultures, ... like the patriarchal nonsense of Afghanistan, that made a creep like Mohammad Shafia think that his daughters' and his first wife's lives are worth less than his trumped-up "honour." Or those sickos, the man and his family memb ...
  • Canada is Sick
    Sick, sick, sick. That's all.
  • Sweet Christ
    But take a gander at these awesome graphics! What a gas!
  • Ezra Levant is REALLY Stupid
    And that's why the stupid portion of the Canadian bell curve likes him so much! Well, truth be told, most really stupid Canadians don't watch the news, read books or newspapers, or anything. So Ezra's fans are a small portion of the stupid population. The part that strains itself mightily trying ...
  • Should be pointed out ...
    There's so much that's rotten, here in Canada and everywhere else. But I think Glenn Greenwald's observations here deserve some mention: From a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all of this: if you think about it, it is warped beyond belief that the ACLU has ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Two Canadian RCMP officers shot, badly hurt, i ...
    Two RCMP officers in Canada were shot Feb. 7 as they attended a warrant at a rural residence near the small Northern Alberta town of Killam, 160 miles southeast of Edmonton. Both males were hit in the torso.
  • Two RCMP officers wounded in Alberta this afte ...
    Two RCMP officers were shot at a rural home in Killam, Alberta Tuesday afternoon around 2:00 p.m. said Chief Supt. Rick Taylor during a press conference.
  • TDSB Trustee candidate Monica Batac wants to i ...
    Monica Batac, a classroom teacher that utilizes innovative teaching techniques, is in the race for the TDSB Trustee Ward 20 Scarborough-Agincourt by-election to give students and parents a voice to improve education.
  • Toronto's Toque Tuesday helps put a cap on hom ...
    Today is 'Toque Tuesday,' the day that Toronto-based charity Raising the Roof asks us to collectively 'put a cap' on youth homelessness in Canada. It is estimated that one third of Canada's homeless are between the ages of 16 and 24.
  • Justin Bieber bodyguard punches pesky paparazz ...
    If you're gonna stand right in the way of Justin Bieber's car at an airport and snap photos, refusing to get out of the way despite repeated honks, well, someone isn't gonna take too kindly to it. And, it seems, you might get punched and then arrested.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Where are the helicopters?
    More details have emerged about the controversial Maritime Helicopter Program, which looks more and more like a money pit.
  • Ceasefire.ca vs. Harper’s pro-war lobby ...
    I am writing my remarks right now – but I want to hear from you. What do you think I should say to the MPs?
  • Will CDA’s DND funding continue?
    A recent article in Esprit de Corps by Steve Staples and Josh Libben argues for an end to the close relationship between the Department of National Defence and the lobbyists of the Conference of Defence Associations.
  • Afghanistan round-up
    The ten-year-and-counting Western intervention in Afghanistan moves towards its inevitable conclusion.
  • More on F-35 costs
    Billions on the F-35, $375,000 on office renovations: The Department of National Defence's idea of fiscal restraint.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Gingrich Flubs History In GOP Debate
    January 24, 2012 Associated Press By CALVIN WOODWARD “You mean Newt Gingrich said something that wasn’t true?”  –KTRN Newt Gingrich called rival Mitt Romney a “terrible historian” but flubbed his own history in Congress on Monday night when he claimed the nati ...
  • Did TSA Target Rand Paul for Intrusive Pat-down?
    January 24, 2012 Prison Planet By Kurt Nimmo Following Rand Paul’s incident earlier today with the TSA, the corporate media spun the story to say Paul was not detained. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, set the tone when he insisted Paul – or rather, the passenger in question – was not deta ...
  • India To Pay Gold Instead Of Dollars For Irani ...
    January 24, 2012 Debka File By Debk File India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, debkafile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one mi ...
  • SOPA and PIPA Fully Alive – And a New Bill Joi ...
    January 24, 2012 Info Wars By Heather Callaghan “Even though the American people are completely against the government controlling the internet, congress still wants to pass legislation for dominance over the web.” –KTRN Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming ...
  • Digital DNA for SAT and ACT testing
    January 23, 2012 CBS New York Since the SAT and ACT cheating scandals broke wide open on Long Island, lawmakers have pledged to come up with unique cutting edge ways to combat identity theft. On Monday, CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan got the exclusive first look at what politicians will see first hand ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • US Thwarted at the UN: Imperial Ambitions Pers ...
    Dissident Voice Article By Ben Schreiner 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 Hill ...
  • US, UK Targeting Syria: Revisiting 1957 Attac ...
    Dissident Voice Article By Felicity Arbuthnot 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 a ...
  • ‘Hysteria’ over Russia veto after ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Russia and China are facing a barrage of criticism from some Western and Arab states for their decision to block the latest UN resolution on Syria. Moscow has already dubbed the reaction ‘hysterical’, saying the resolution took a biased approach to resolving t ...
  • Syrian Signals: Assad ‘ready for talks&# ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Members of the Syrian opposition say they would welcome Russia mediating talks with the Syrian authorities. The reaction came after Russia‘s Foreign Minister’s talks with President Bashar Assad in Damascus. Following the meeting, Sergey Lavrov said Moscow will ...
  • Mr. Barling’s Education or How an Ashford U. E ...
    By Rick RogersTuesday, February 7th, 2012 By Rick Rogers Front&Center: Military Talk Radio, Host   Attended a meeting of Southern California military family advocates at the Bridgepoint education complex in San Diego the other week.   These are meet and greets with strong coffee an ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: Black Bloc Could Kill OWS
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 7, 2012 TheAlyonaShowon Feb 7, 2012 We’re continuing our discussion of wanting to take the influence of money out of politics with Author and Truthout columnist Chris Hedges. Overturning Citizens United is just one step, but for those ...
  • Canadian’s Prison Release in Bahrain Raises Ho ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 7 February 2012 Canadian citizen Naser Al Raas was unexpectedly released from prison in Bahrain earlier this week, raising hopes that he may soon be able to return to Canada a free man. His family is hoping that the reprieve from cust ...
  • Canadian’s Prison Release in Bahrain Raises Ho ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 7 February 2012 Canadian citizen Naser Al Raas was unexpectedly released from prison in Bahrain earlier this week, raising hopes that he may soon be able to return to Canada a free man. His family is hoping that the reprieve from cust ...
  • Follow the Bills by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page February 1, 2012 Looking at millions of individual bills that makeup the 2.7 trillion dollars of annual health care costs opens a gigantic window on the massive waste, redundancy, profiteering, fraud and sometimes criminal over-billing. Here is a par ...
  • Washington Gives Green Light to Toxic Terror i ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 4 February 2012 Just as Bahrainis are being poisoned in their homes from indiscriminate firing of massive teargas by regime forces, Washington is showing its approval by going ahead with an arms sales deal to the Persian Gulf kingdom. ...

Your New Reality

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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...
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    Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jerusalem monastery, Jewish-Arab school deface ...
    Jerusalem report: 'Death to Arabs' and 'Kahane was right' daubed outside bilingual school; Christian monastery defaced with 'Death to Christians' and 'price tag' inscriptions; Jerusalem police... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Otherwise Occupied: for the sake of his dignity
    Khader Adnan has already broken a Palestinian record for the longest solo hunger strike. Yesterday he passed his 50th day as a hunger striker, protesting what he regards as humiliating practices... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • No Sanctions, No War, No Dictatorship in Iran
    Looking for a way to oppose US and Israeli war threats against Iran while at the same time condemning the terrible repression taking place inside Iran? This Saturday, February 4th, New Yorkers can do... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Norman Finkelstein’s Henley College lecture – ...
    Henley College should NOT rescind its invitation for Norman Finkelstein to guest lecture. Norman Finkelstein's lecture at Henley College (UK) is threatened by a 'disinvitation' prompted by a letter... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Remembering Howard Zinn
    Noam Chomsky remembers Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian, and his close friend of 45 years. A moving political and personal history of the leading activists of a generation --... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Airstrip Stolen in Bryansk
    Taking corruption to uncharted heights, a military official in central Russia has sold an airfield for a bribe.
  • Russia Completes Final Trials of Indian Frigate
    The Yantar shipyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad has completed the final tests of a missile frigate for the Indian navy, the company’s spokesman Sergei Mikhailov said o Tuesday.
  • Russia to Upgrade Over 10 Tu-160 Bombers by 2020
    The Russian Air Force will receive more than 10 modernized Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers by 2020, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

  • Researchers Suggest Abandoning Convention in D ...
    In their search for new, better ways to diagnose periprosthetic joint infection, Rothman Institute at Jefferson researchers have shown that the accepted method of diagnosis, measuring a patients' serum white blood cell count (WBC) and the percentage of neutrophils (PMN%) in the synovial fluid, h ...
  • New Procedure Bests Standard of Care for Fixin ...
    A new study has demonstrated that a procedure wherein healthy cartilage is transplanted to fix an area of damaged cartilage is superior to the standard of care for repairing cartilage defects.
  • Archive of Failed Joint Replacements Provides ...
    A study by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers has provided the first comprehensive look at just how metal-on-metal total hip replacements are failing in patients around the country.
  • New Kavli Institute Announced At The Universit ...
    The Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, receives a major endowment from The Kavli Foundation, joining the family of Kavli Institutes.
  • Press Conference Announcing New Kavli Institut ...
    The University of Tokyo will webcast from Japan a press conference announcing the establishment of an endowment for the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) by The Kavli Foundation - the first time a National University in Japan hosts a named research institute with e ...

Natural Health News

  • The California Whooping Cough Cover Up
    2011 was the first year in more than two decades during which there were no deaths from whooping cough.  In 2010, 10 infants died from the disease.  The number of people who became infected also dropped from 9,000 in 2010 to just 3,000 in 2011.  The state passed a law requir ...
  • New Research Indicates Krill Oil is Radically ...
    Dietary supplementation with omega-3 fats, specifically DHA and EPA, is known to have beneficial health effects.  A recent study sought to evaluate the efficacy of two different sources of omega 3 fats -- fish oil and krill oil. The researchers performed gene expression profiling in the li ...
  • Chiropractors and Exercise Better than Drug Sa ...
    A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that when it comes to neck pain, the best medicine is no medicine.  The study tracked patients with recent-onset neck pain who were treated using either medication, exercise, or a chiropractor.  After 12 weeks, the pati ...
  • New! A Critical Update on Mammograms
    The Nordic Cochrane Center has put out a leaflet that every woman should read, explaining the potential benefits and potential harms of mammography.  They point out that recent studies suggest that mammography screening is not effective in reducing your risk of dying from breast cancer. ...
  • A New Target in Fighting Brain Disease: Heavy ...
    New research into how metals such as iron, copper, and zinc affect your brain could help to reveal some of the mysteries behind ailments like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.  A new study has lent more credibility to the theory that Alzheimer's disease may be caused at least in part by toxic me ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Blogging Hiatus and a Book
    by Duncan Hollis Although I've blogged with Opinio Juris for more than six years now, I would never describe myself as a frequent blogger; at my best, I'll give you 2 posts a week, more often just one.  Of late, however, my blogging has been even more sporadic. Here's the reason: After more t ...
  • Looking for Twitter Follower No. 2000
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Just a note to point you to OJ’s Twitter feed, which you can find here.  We link to posts on the blog, but there’s also added content in the form of pointers to other items that might be of interest to OJ readers. For those of you that haven’t ta ...
  • Chesney on Attacking Mourners and Rescuers wit ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller As most readers likely know, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism recently released a 22,000 word report documenting the disturbing U.S. practice of using drones to target individuals attending funerals or attempting to provide aid to individuals wounded in previous dr ...
  • ICJ Issues Jurisdictional Immunities Judgment
    by Ingrid Wuerth by Ingrid Wuerth [Ingrid Wuerth is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and Director of Vanderbilt's International Legal Studies Program.] The International Court of Justice has issued its judgment in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece Interv ...
  • Cambodia Tribunal Increases Duch Sentence to Life
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin Cross-posted at LieberCode. On Friday, the Supreme Court Chamber of the ECCC increased the sentence of Kaing Guek Eav (Duch) to life in prison.  The Trial Chamber had sentenced Duch to 35 years in prison for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva C ...

Public News Service

  • Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable?
    Is a Bank of America Break-up Inevitable? PHOENIX - A petition from consumer group Public Citizen says Bank of America is so big and frail that regulators should dismantle it before its problems provoke a crisis. The economists, law professors and former regulators behind the call say there is ...
  • Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow i ...
    Endangered Wolf Population Continues to Grow in Arizona and New Mexico PHOENIX - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico continued to rise last year. State and federal biologists found at least 58 wolves in their latest count, up from 50 the previous year and 42 in ...
  • Se expande a nivel estatal programa de informa ...
    Se expande a nivel estatal programa de información para personas mayores PHOENIX, Ariz. - Las personas de edad mayor tendrán a su alcance un recurso de información sobre el Social Security, Medicare y la ley conocida como Affordable Healthcare Act (Acta del Cuidado de Salud de Baj ...
  • Senior Information Program Expanding Statewide
    Senior Information Program Expanding Statewide PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona seniors will soon have a new source of information about federal benefit programs such as Social Security, Medicare and the Affordable Health Care Act. AARP-Arizona is expanding its volunteer speakers program statewide. ...( ...
  • Los arizonianos equiparan la conservación ...
    Los arizonianos equiparan la conservación con el crecimiento económico PHOENIX – Una nueva encuesta encontró que la mayoría de los arizonianos y otros habitantes al oeste de la Montaña Rocky piensan que los recursos naturales pueden ser protegidos sin dañar la ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Consumer Groups Petition FDA to Ban GE Salmon ...
    Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) sal ...
  • Center for Food Safety Calls On EPA Not To Bac ...
    Much Needed Inventory Would Identify Animal Factories’ Locations and Manure Management Practices, Allowing EPA To Begin Assessing Scope of National Threat To Water and Food Supplies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted comments strongly criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EP ...
  • Genetically Engineered Crops Will Not Feed The ...
    The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion ...
  • California Bill to Label GE Fish Fails
    AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...
  • Dow Chemical requests unprecedented USDA appro ...
    Dow Chemical is currently requesting an unprecedented USDA approval: a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • All Curled Up
    This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers.   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel  
  • 2012 Global Energy Prize Now Accepting Nominations
    The Global Energy Prize annually rewards innovation and solutions in global energy research and its concurrent environmental challenges.
  • Environmental News 22/12/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • One Moment Meditation
    Tips to take a moment for yourself This a great video for everyone who feels like they have no time to meditate. All you need is a 'moment', if you know what to do.Watch and try it for yourself! Video found on the Padre Ralph blog.   
  • Landowners Block CSG Project
    Last week, landowners from communities across the Liverpool Plains literally blocked the CSG Project!

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Se ...
    Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...
  • Sheldon Adelson has already bought a politicia ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina primary victory has brought onto the spotlight his campaign’s main benefactor, Sheldon Adelson. Relatively to his wealth and the manner in which he has acquired it, Adelson has managed to stay away from the limelight – despite his quoted bragging ...
  • Support a Palestinian Family Fighting to Stay ...
    Reprinted with permission from Mondoweiss. Written by Udi Aloni, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board. There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legisl ...
  • Winter at Salem: Music Center Annual Concert & ...
    The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...
  • Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh fr ...
    As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Exposed: The “Arab” agenda in Syria
      By Pepe Escobar Asia Times 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, al ...
  • See No Evil: A Strange Absolution of Obama’s W ...
      Written by Chris Floyd    Friday, 03 February 2012 00:55     It’s hard to say which is more disturbing in Patrick Cockburn’s recent analysis of America’s warmongering toward Iran: his portrait of wily Jews manipulating and “bamboozling” the American power ...
  • CIA Claims Release of its History of the Bay o ...
    February 3, 2012 by Nate Jones Confused anti-Castro forces captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion. History is being held captive, as well. Late last year, the Central Intelligence Agency explained to Judge Kessler of the US District Court in Washington DC that releasing the final volume of its ...
  • Paul moves into to 2nd place in latest nationa ...
      Feb. 7 2012 (Reuters) – Despite his strong showing in early state contests in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney’s support nationwide has dipped slightly during the past month, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. Romney was ...
  • First they Ignore you, then they Ridicule you, ...
    Then you WIN! Anyone that doesn’t believe in a media conspiracy to control public opinion… Should watch this video. If they still do not believe it then they can read about “Operation Mockingbird” “Operation Hollywood” etc… And if they still don’t ...

The Air Vent

  • Bias In Arctic Satellite Sea Ice Trend
    I wrote recently that I wanted to check local regions of inland lakes to look for bias in the sea ice satellite record.   Satellites are not long lived creatures.  They are built of lightweight materials very carefully constructed to survive in incredibly harsh environments.  The result is desig ...
  • Comparison of Northern Hemisphere Perennial an ...
    We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]
  • Comparison of Northern Hemisphere Perennial an ...
    We have been looking at sea ice trends below the arctic circle at the request of Anthony Watts.  It is a curiosity of his that he’s been asking Walt Meier of the NSIDC to consider for some time.   I am a fan of the NSIDC because their data access is excellent and they answer questions [...]
  • D minus — below average.
    Accelerating warming failed again. I’ve been waiting for this post because we knew the sat channels had plunged. On reading his post, I learned that Dr. Roy Spencer’s daughter was involved in a serious car accident.  I hope everyone will send their regards.   H/T Doug Cotton.  
  • D minus — below average.
    Accelerating warming failed again. I’ve been waiting for this post because we knew the sat channels had plunged. On reading his post, I learned that Dr. Roy Spencer’s daughter was involved in a serious car accident.  I hope everyone will send their regards.   H/T Doug Cotton.  

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Nimble, ...
    Social CRM company Nimble hired a director of EMEA, GraphEffect brought on three new members of its advisory board, Buddy Media hired a designer and a few more companies hired employees this week at our look at platform industry hires. … Continue reading →
  • Inside Social Apps 2012 is Tomorrow – Few More ...
    February 8 – 9, 2012 | San Francisco     Inside Social Apps 2012 is coming to San Francisco tomorrow! Pre-registration passes are $599 through tonight only, and will be $799 at the door. Click to Register Here Who’s Speaking? … Continue reading →
  • Some pages boost engagement with posts about S ...
    Facebook page posts about the Super Bowl garnered an engagement rate twice as high as posts unrelated to the game on Sunday, according to data from 70,000 posts from 1,400 of Buddy Media clients. Social enterprise software company Buddy Media … Continue reading →
  • Cityville, Adele, McDonald’s, more on this wee ...
    Zynga’s CityVille topped our list of the fastest-growing Facebook pages by the number of Likes, with a few other games making the top 20. Because the social network removed app profile pages on Feb. 1, many game pages were consolidated and had … Continue reading →
  • Platform update: ads, passwords, access tokens ...
    As Facebook continues to review and approve new Open Graph actions, the social network announced a number of changes affecting developers working on the platform. Action specs – The Ads API now allows developers to create Featured Stories (previously called … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • UK, US condemn murder in Syria, condone murder ...
    Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".
  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...
  • Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reac ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.
  • Palestinians need high calibre leaders - urgently
    Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian "President" Mahmoud Abbas's recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration's public relations incompetence and argues: "If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole move ...
  • BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews s ...
    Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated th ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Federal Debt & A New Way to Control It
    Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul Can Work Only for a While Debt owed by the United States federal government has risen sharply in recent years.  The worst recession since the Great Depression played a role in that increase, to be sure.  But the federal debt has been growing considerably faster t ...
  • BFP Follow UP: Noteworthy Developments in the ...
    Israel’s Shimon Peres Salutes Azerbaijan while the Story-Line Keeps Getting Murkier Last week Boiling Frogs Post broke the newly brewing story-line in the war propaganda against Iran involving an alleged Iranian terror plot in Azerbaijan. Yesterday we had a follow up on the emerging ‘alleged’ de ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus International Newsworthy Iranian Energy Poses Asian Dilemma Iran Banned from Trading Gold & Silver Saakashvili & Obama Plotting Attack on Iran US Sees Iran’s Neighbor Azerbaijan ...
  • 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 [...]
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Punishing the Population: The United States in Haiti & the Dominican Republic This podcast episode examines the early 20th century United States military occupations of Haiti (1915-1934) and the Dominican Republic (1916-1924), undertaken as an imposition of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) declar ...

Afro Spear

  • “Certain Signs of Societal Decline&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few of the scenes caught on video across ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men
  • About Africa
    “The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries.  So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa?  ...
  • Boko Haram: The New (Black) African Al-Qaeda?
    I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...
  • “The US Plan to Destabilize Sudan” ...
    As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. To start with, the US pays the salaries for the Sudan Peoples L ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Targeting Syria and Iran
    Slowed but not derailed by Russia and China vetoing its Security Council resolution, America's regime change/war plans remain on track.
  • Economic Recovery? What Recovery?
    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.
  • my Newt song as article ...'Wants to farm kids ...
    In honor of protest history and as a response to GOP 2012 inanity, my article is primarily lyrics and link to a topical song video I just wrote/created.
  • The Election We Should Be Following
    The incumbents are both Democrats, both white, both 65, and many imagine that they do similar work in Washington. In fact, they could not be more different.
  • Clint Eastwood and Chrysler upset the "Hope Am ...
    What is good for American auto workers is good for President Obama. What is good for America is good for President Obama. The Republicans can't handle the truth, because they are so negative that what is good for America is bad for Republicans!

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Creating Jobs in Homebuilding: What It Will Take
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Paul Krugman wrote on February 6th that January’s favorable jobs report may be a harbinger of economic recovery. But he lists a precondition: that housing must recover. “The m ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Santorum Sweep!
    Politico, I will not underestimate you… twice. Just in case the 2012 Republican primary race hasn’t already had enough twists and turns – welcome back, Rick Santorum. After winning Tuesday’s non-binding contests in Missouri and Minnesota by thumping margins, bruising Mitt Romney and provin ...
  • “Judgifying I Don’t Like” Ha ...
    Whenever the courts strike down a law that discriminates against a group conservatives don’t like, every reactionary think and group blog must draw straws to see who gets to throw out the stale, transparently unprincipled cliches about judicial restraint. At the Heritage Foundation, the as ...
  • Happy Anniversary!!!
    The US embargo on Cuba, a monument to futility: The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The United States’ economic embargo on Cuba, a near-total trade ban that turned 50 on Tuesday.Supporters say it is a justified measure against a repressive ...
  • How the Right-Wing Climate Change Deniers Work ...
    Leo Hickman has a nice little piece of investigative journalism in the Guardian about how a right-wing climate myth gets born and spread. In short, a scientist working on whether wind farms might affect localized weather (within 300 meters), gets published. He suggests it might. A right-wing new ...
  • Bureaucratic Discretion and Environmental Prot ...
    The Obama Administration is producing a comprehensive planning document for national forest management. By and large, environmentalists are OK with it. Except for one major exception. One of the key environmental victories in protecting the northern spotted owl and thus the Northwest’ old- ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.
  • Experience of a Visiting Scholar
    What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
  • DRI Scientist Earns Fifth Patent
    Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.
  • Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
    Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Immunity from what? D.C. Circuit examines deal ...
    Immunity agreements between prosecutors and a defendant can pose thorny legal issues that pit a suspect's hope for leniency against the government's desire for accountability.
  • Renegade Toyota lawyer loses bid to overturn a ...
    Dimitrios Biller, the former in-house attorney for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. who accused the automaker of discovery violations in products-liability cases, lost his appeal to overturn a $2.5 million arbitration award against him.
  • 1st Circuit revives Big Dig whistleblower's re ...
    A few days after ruling against whistleblowers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has issued a decision favorable to them. The court revived a whistleblower's retaliation claim against a company that fired him a few days after settlement of a False Claims Act lawsuit against it.
  • ABA joins disability advocates in pressuring L ...
    The American Bar Association has sent a message to the Law School Admission Council that it's not happy with that group's handling of requests for special accommodations by takers of the Law School Admission Test.
  • Archbishop challenges monastery's copyright in ...
    Questions about how copyright law applies to English language translations of ancient religious texts dominated oral arguments in a case at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Nigerian Children Perish From Exposure to Lead ...
    Lead contamination from hundreds of gold mines across northwestern Nigeria has caused the deaths of 400 children under the age of five and exposes thousands more children to lead poisoning, according to a report from the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch. Across Human Rights WatchVIDEO: Niger ...
  • EU Wind Energy Capacity Grew 11 Percent in 201 ...
    More than 9,600 megawatts of wind power capacity was installed in European Union member states in 2011, accounting for about 21 percent of all new power capacity installations, according to an industry report. EWEA New offshore wind farms in the UK and land-based projects in Sweden and Germany ...
  • In Fast-Track Technology, Hope For a Second Gr ...
    With advances in a technique known as fast-track breeding, researchers are developing crops that can produce more and healthier food and can adapt and thrive as the climate shifts. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • Indian Clean-Energy Growth Was Fastest in Worl ...
    Renewable energy investments in India increased by more than 52 percent in 2011, the fastest growth among major global economies, according to a new report. More than $10.3 billion was invested in renewable energy projects in India last year, with about $4.6 billion targeting wind energy project ...
  • Sierra Club Accepted Millions from Natural Gas ...
    The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest environmental group in the U.S., accepted more than $25 million from the natural gas industry from 2007 to 2010 while promoting the fuel as a “bridge” to a clean-energy future, according to a Time magazine report. The organization used the funds — which la ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • UK Supreme Court not supreme enough for EU
    Outrage has swept Britain after the European Court of Human Rights ordered the release of Bin Laden's former right-hand man in Europe. The decision is reinforcing the opinion in the UK that the EU is interfering in...
  • Ukraine freezes to death
    Decades-record colds that are freezing out Europe have brought far more serious consequences to Ukraine, where the harshest winter in recent history has claimed lives of 122 people, who died of hypothermia in the last...
  • ‘Banned’ nerve gases to be used on UK streets?
    There is speculation that the UK is planning to sanction the use of chemical nerve agents against UK citizens on British streets. These could include substances whose use in warfare is banned by the Chemical Weapons...
  • ‘Two or three days’ needed to pass Syria resol ...
    With many accusing Russia of deepening the crisis in Syria by vetoing the recent resolution at the UN Security Council, Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, says the document could have been signed if more...
  • Greek police fire tear gas at protesters in la ...
    Hundreds of protesters have clashed with police in Athens as thousands gathered in front of the parliament to protest against austerity measures. Police fired tear gas at protesters as they tried to break into the...

Not My Tribe

  • US and its allies plan to try to force a regim ...
    US and its allies plan to force a regime change upon Syria to help Washington DC and Israel in their plans to defeat Iran and the Palestinians struggling for their rights against the Israeli Jewish Apartheid regime. The Associated Press stated that ‘U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham C ...
  • Republican imbecility reigns supreme in their ...
    Republicans really are unrepentant imbeciles. Democrats are usually semi repentant imbeciles. And Libertarian (Republicans) most certainly are the most arrogant, ignorant, and unrepentant imbeciles of the lot. So let’s take a quick look now at Republican Ron Paul and his attitudes regardin ...
  • Pentagon versus THEIR troops
    Being in the military for grunts can be an incredibly depressing ‘lifestyle’ experience. The top brass knows that so how do they respond when a soldier gets fed up and tries to desert the ranks by trying to kill themselves? Why with typical military sensitivity, that’s how! See ...
  • Ayn Rand SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Let me first begin with how I was exposed to Ayn Rand. I am in high school and a while back my teacher was doing a course on homelessness. In a ‘prompt’ that she gave me which was what are the causes of homelessness I answered CAPITALISM. A week later I was astonished to get [...]
  • By defunding Planned Parenthood, Komen Breast ...
    Is the all-things-pink breast cancer impresario bowing to Right-wing anti-abortion pressure in pulling their financial support for low-income breast exams provided by Planned Parenthood? That a nonprofit industry heavyweight like the Komen Foundation would shift its emphasis from helping the poo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Core Of Corruption 2: Echoes of Treason - Offi ...
    "Even information provided by the debunkers will be examined." Core Of Corruption 2: Echoes of Treason - Official Trailer from Phil Anthropy on Vimeo. Related: Core Of Corruption Volume 1: In The Shadows {Full Film}
  • David in Los Angeles, CA Writes...
    hi there, just wanted to take a minute and say how much i appreciate your 9/11 truth site. Your research and all the details of evidence you provide are excellent. Like yourselves, i take the more conservative views of the 9/11 movement and try to stick with the refutations of the official stor ...
  • Jesse Ventura: 63 Documents The Government Doe ...
    Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used on 9/11 and the Pentagon flyover theory and he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here, but he does promote a lot of good 9/11 and other info that is widely distributed to the masses. So rath ...
  • What Does it Mean for the 9/11 Truth Movement ...
    It was announced recently that Chris Mohr is spearheading an investigation by James R. Millette, Ph.D. of MVA Scientific Consultants, looking into the peer-reviewed findings of Harrit et al, that the explosive/incediary nano-thermite was used to take down the WTC Towers on 9/11. This begs the q ...
  • Shear Ignorance - NIST and WTC7

Fooducate

  • The Double Headed Food Monster in Schools
    There are several ways for children to be fed during school hours. One is to bring home made lunch in a cute little lunchbox (cool until third grade) or a brown bag (recyclable, of course.) The other calorie intake method is to get fed by the school. We’ll talk about this method today. The ...
  • What’s Greek Yogurt Doing at the Superbowl?
    Finally in 2012, a Superbowl ad for food other than junk. Dannon presented its Oikos Greek Yogurt in a playful, sexy little clip featuring John Stamos and a pretty, albeit violent, partner. Will a 30 second spot for $3.5 million convince consumers to increase yogurt consumption? Will it help Dan ...
  • You Won’t See THIS Commercial During the Superbowl
    You won’t see this commercial, by Chef Rob Endelman and his wife, during the big game today. That’s because Quinoa, broccoli, and other healthy foods are not part of the modern multi billion dollar food chain. But imagine if Kale Chips got the same marketing treatment as Doritos&#823 ...
  • Chili NON Carne for your Superbowl Pleasure
    If you are still figuring out your culinary options for game day tomorrow, here’s an interesting and easy recipe from professional chef Dave Schy – Chili NON CARNE . It has all the body and texture of chili, without the meat. According to Dave, “It’s Damn Good!”. Visit Dave&#82 ...
  • Will a Daily Diet Coke Lead You to a Stroke?
    Yesterday we talked about the potentially addictive properties of sugar and the extreme public policy measures suggested by some scientists to reduce America’s sugar consumption. One solution already exists – artificial sweeteners. To many a dieter, aspartame and friends are the perf ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the G ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...
  • Romney's Billionaire Funder ThreatensBBC Inves ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash - update Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. The call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer. ...
  • Palast on C-Span's BookTV
    Check out CSPAN TV schedule listings here. From CSPAN- Greg Palast presents his investigation of the BP oil spill and talks about the corruption he says permeates the oil industry, the financial sector, and government. This event, held at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Maryland, is hosted ...
  • The Pig in the XL PipelineInsider reveals conc ...
    For Firedoglake by Greg Palast “They threatened me. Last night I got a call and they threatened me. If I talked.” “Pig Man #2,” a pipeline industry insider, had a good reason to be afraid.  He was about to blow the whistle on a fraud, information that could blow away the XL Keystone Pipeline ...
  • XL Keystone - The Pig in the PipelineThe GOP i ...
    by Greg Palast President Obama just nixxed the permit for the XL Keystone Pipeline for now.  But - and this is one big but - he's talking about authorizing other pipelines to replace the XL. Look out! In my investigation for UK's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, our team disclosed information ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Police and Autism: A Unique Perspective
    By Jerry Turning Alex was 5’9 and every bit of 200 lbs. He was “uncontrollable” and destroying his family’s home. We arrived to find Alex’s grandmother on the front porch. Her arms were literally purple with bruises; the aftermath of...
  • The Trouble with the ANTI “Anti-Vaccine” Movem ...
    By Julie Obradovic 1. They believe there is an anti-vaccine movement. This may surprise a lot of people, but there actually isn't an "anti-vaccine movement”. Although there are definitely people who believe no vaccine is a good vaccine, the controversy...
  • Vive la Difference: The LeRoy Outbreak, Toxic ...
    By Adriana Gamondes By now the outbreak of tics and Tourette’s like symptoms among primarily female high school students in LeRoy, New York, has hit the mainstream media—all except The New York Times, which so far has printed nothing on...
  • EBCALA Center on Fox News RE: DSM-5 Changes fo ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com A Yale School of Medicine researcher, Dr. Fred Volkmar, recently used the APA’s new criteria for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version five (DSM V) to find that only 45% of...
  • News Media Continue to Manipulate the MMR Cont ...
    News media continue to manipulate the MMR controversy with research ‘disproving’ the link between autism and MMR By Martin Hewitt For some years a common media response to new autism research was the question: what do these findings say about...

Global BDS Movement

  • No title
    BDS National Committee S. on Dipity.
  • Short history of BDS in France
    As 2012 begins, a French activist looks at the short history of the French BDS movement, which mobilized in the wake of the Israeli assalt on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead
  • Point Counterpoint: Aim to Promote Human Right ...
    Coming together to push forward an inclusive movement that supports nonviolent action to promote the human rights of the Palestinian people, because only full respect for these rights can lead to peace.
  • Stop the Jewish National Fund Greenwashing
    The Jewish National Fund has designated Sunday 5th February as ‘Green Sunday’, when it encourages people to donate money to ‘plant trees in Israel’.
  • The Italian Movement for Boycott, Divestment a ...
    Third national meeting of the BDS movement against Israel was held in Bologna, Italy. The scope of the meeting was to evaluate the progress of ongoing campaigns between the various Italian groups working on BDS.

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Cairo clashes rage on
    Reuters – Clashes between protesters and security forces continue for a fifth consecutive day in downtown Cairo. Read article
  • Nigeria unrest: Blasts rock Kano and Maiduguri
    BBC – A police station has been hit by an explosion and attacked by gunmen in the flashpoint northern Nigerian city of Kano, injuring an officer. Further east, at around the same time, witnesses spoke of hearing explosions in the market area of Maiduguri. Suspicion for the attacks will fal ...
  • Swiss bank indictment details tax evasion ploys
    USA Today – It was a cool August Tuesday in 2007 when Swiss banker Urs Frei walked into a Manhattan restaurant for meetings with two U.S. clients. One of the clients carried an unmarked envelope containing $16,000 in cash. For an extremely expensive lunch? Hardly. For what a new federal in ...
  • Daily News Archive In Focus – Afghanistan and ...
    The latestwar in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001 as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched Operation Enduring Freedom. But Afghanistan and Pakistan has been a hotbed of unrest for many years p ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – La Nina brings ...
    The Australian – It will come as no surprise to most that the seemingly endless rain from spring 2010 to autumn 2011, and again in late 2011, resulted in record falls, the Bureau of Meteorology said. Averaged across Australia the two-year rainfall total for 2010-2011 of 1409mm beat the old ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
  • Worms, leeches long gone
    A stream full of worms, leeches and waterborne disease was their only option. But thanks to your generosity, the community of Mezegaguf recently got a new well! Today, moms like Akberet Naizgi no longer have to worry about their kids getting sick from the water.
  • Luxury with an ecosan toilet
    Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.
  • From lack to abundance
    Today, Selvi is extremely pleased with the construction of the water tap at her home! Now, she collects enough water for her family without any difficulty.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Bills Introduced in House to Repeal Indefinite ...
    Two bills have been introduced to amend the NDAA to make it clear that Americans cannot be detained indefinitely and denied their Constitutional Rights. HR 3676 has 54 co-sponsors and HR 3785 has 3. Submitted by Norm C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Just a Bluff? Fears Grow of Israeli Attack on Iran
    JERUSALEM -- For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent -- an action that many fear might tri Submitted by O O O O to World  |&n ...
  • Israeli court grants reprieve to abandoned Pal ...
    Israel once again proves that it is a true democracy, whose courts guarantee Palestinian rights, even in the face of a terrorist threat that no other country on earth must endure. Submitted by Fred H. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tasmanian Police strip-search 12yo girl: Deman ...
    In January Tasmania Police conducted a drug raid in a Hobart house. The police strip searched a 12 y.o.girl. For reasons that have not been explained, they then strip-searched the girl a second time... Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Petition to Clinton and Ashton: Demand Pardon ...
    Two Swedish journalists, 29-year-old Johan Persson and 31-year-old Martin Schibbye, were arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison in Ethiopia while reporting on human rights issues according to The Guardian, a leading British newspaper. Submitted by Ola H. to World  |   Note- ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Indivi ...
    Objective  To investigate the degree to which genetic and environmental influences affect individual differences in sedentary behavior throughout adolescence. Design  Cross-sectional twin-family design. Setting  Data on self-reported sedentary behavior from Dutch twins and their ...
  • NBTY, Inc. to Webcast Fiscal First Quarter Con ...
    RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBTY, Inc. today announced it will webcast a conference call to review its fiscal first quarter results on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:30 AM (ET). These results will be posted on the Company website prior to the webcast. Listeners may...
  • Outbreak reminds of raw milk hazard
    WASHINGTON - An outbreak of bacterial infections on the East Coast illustrates the popularity of raw, unpasteurized milk despite strong warnings from public health officials about the potential danger.
  • Dealing With a Hangover
  • Cancer Center, in Suit, Claims Ex-Official Too ...
    The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Iran: A Manufactured Threat
    by Stephen Lendman Iran attacked no other country in over 200 years. It threatens none now. It's neighbors know it. So do Washington and Israel. Nonetheless, saber rattling warnings continue. At issue is making an independent state a client one. It's why Washington orchestrated Syria's insurg ...
  • America's Racist Drug Laws
    by Stephen Lendman Sentencing Project Executive Director Marc Mauer's a leading expert on sentencing, race, and criminal justice. For 25 years, it's "work(ed) for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarcera ...
  • Lew, Michel, JFK and Me
    By Katherine Smith, PhD An investigative journey from the front page of Lew Rockwell.com to the Internet Abyss: 404 Error - File Not Found Someone has miswritten the URL, deleted the file you are looking for, or the net spirits are against you and will see to it you will never find the inform ...
  • City of Brotherly Love Event Promotes War and Hate
    by Stephen Lendman On February 2, notorious hatemonger Alan Dershowitz keynoted a Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia (JFGP)/Hillel of Greater Philadelphia "Evening of Unity & Community Solidarity" with Israel. Inviting him was disgraceful. He's a shameless bigot, a longstanding Isla ...
  • Egypt Soccer Violence: The Military’s Po ...
    Dr. Ashraf Ezzat, MD Protesters chant anti-government slogans during protest condemning the death of soccer fans at Port Said stadium, near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Feb. 2“Egyptians infuriated by the deaths of 74 people in soccer violence staged protests in central Cairo and cla ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Saskatchewan Labour wins Essential Services Ch ...
    Saskatchewan's labour movement won a significant victory yesterday as Justice Dennis Ball ruled that Bill 5, The Public Service Essential Services Act (PSES) violated the constitutional right to strike and bargain collectively as upheld in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  ...
  • Lessons from London, Ontario: The crackdown on ...
    Electro-Motive/Caterpillar's decision to lock out its London, Ontario workers on January 1st, demanding workers accept a 50% pay cut or lose the plant altogether, brings into focus a theme that is unfolding in 2012: The crackdown on middle class work in Canada. The CCPA's Trish Hennessy has wri ...
  • Every Tool Shapes the Task
    The speed and breadth of technological change and how it plays out in education is creating many battles. The Winter 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves -- Every Tool Shapes the Task identifies some of these areas of conflict and how they play out in schools and for students and teach ...
  • CAW/CEP Merger Discussions
    The CAW and CEP, two organizations with extensive experience with union mergers, have embarked on a joint exploration of whether to form a new alliance founded on "a genuinely new form of trade unionism: a unionism that is equated with the broader fight of all workers for justice and security."& ...
  • Caterpillar and the Investment Canada Act
    Caterpillar's February 3rd announcement that it will close the Electro-Motive Diesel facility in London has renewed calls to overhaul the Investment Canada Act.  The CAW, CEP, USW and CLC among others have pressed for expanding the criteria for approving foreign takeovers to include the imp ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The Cancer in Occupy
    By Chris Hedges,TruthDig – The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physic ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird by Mikel K
        “Live from the gluck theater at wvu: at a moment’s notice.” is a brilliant cd by Stephanie Barbian. I have known Stephanie Barbian for over 20 years. I discovered her at a club in Midtown Atlanta, and asked her to be a regular on my tv show, “Your 15 Minutes ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Two Weevils
    By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies – Hey hippies…Paz en el Barrio…Wanna try some MORE “positivity, a la Woody?” Well, here ya go! Confused about for whom to “vote” in this year’s quadrennial power-grab and leadership sweepstakes, in which you had no say ...
  • Blackballed: How the FBI Bends FOIA
    by James Corbett,BoilingFrogsPost.com - The Freedom of Information Act is intended to be one of the American citizens’ key checks against the fraud and corruption that inevitably happens in the corridors of power when information can be hidden behind a secrecy classification. Originally enacted ...
  • NEARLY 2,000 AFRICAN COMMUNITIES END FEMALE GE ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN – A new United Nations report shows that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) last year, prompting calls for a renewed global push to end this harmful practice once and for all. According to the report, issued by the ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Confused about Energy and Power?
    Join the forum discussion on this post When I recently solicited feedback for topics to cover for my upcoming book, several people requested that I discuss the difference between energy and power. Just two weeks ago Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is on the House Committee on Scienc ...
  • Electric Cars & Overpopulation — R-Squared Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on the future of electric cars, and the global population, which many feel is the root of so many problems. Some of the topics discussed are: When electric cars might be expected t ...
  • Refinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices an ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the East Coast. Some of those closures have been on the East Coast. Others &# ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 9 – Energy Tradeo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...
  • Are President Obama’s Policies Causing U.S. Oi ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my r ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Build a Body
    Comments:Great interactive site shared on Richard Byrne's Free Technology For Teachers blog.   - Dean MantzTags: science, interactive, body, biology, anatomyby: Dean Mantz
  • Synergy
    Comments:Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk, and it's Free and Open Source. Just move your mouse off the edge of one computer's screen on to another. You can even share all of your clipboards. All you need is a network connection. Synerg ...
  • EssayTagger.com - Grade Essays Faster
    Comments:EssayTagger is a web-based tool that helps you grade your essays faster by eliminating the repetitive and inefficient aspects of grading papers. You'll be able to speed up your grading process without sacrificing the quality of the feedback you give to your students. - Fred DelventhalTa ...
  • cooltoolsforschools - Presentation Tools
    Comments:wiki of presentation tools for students - Robin Talkowskiwiki of presentation tools for students - Robin TalkowskiTags: web2.0, tools, presentationby: Robin Talkowski
  • gr8 tools to unelash the power of your documen ...
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Rodale News

  • 5 Disturbing Side Effects of Soda
    If you've been reading health magazines and websites for any length of time, you've read a litany of reasons why soda is bad for you. It's nothing but sugar water. It's devoid of any nutritional value. It leads to obesity and diabetes. But we've dug up nine other disturbing facts about what sod ...
  • 5 New Ways to Avoid the Supermarket
    The local food movement is on fire, and farmers and innovative small businesses are making it easier than ever to feed your family without even setting foot in a box store or supermarket. (By staying out of places crammed with packaged foods, you'll be more likely to avoid toxic food additives. ...
  • Is Your Office Making You Sick?
    When you think air pollution, you probably think smokestacks in remote countries—not the furniture in your office, right? Well, get this: Thirty Boston office workers in buildings that were new, recently renovated, or had no recent construction, had perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs—toxic chemi ...
  • Brazilian Blowout Makers Agree to Label Cancer ...
    After spending months denying claims that its products are hazardous to salon workers and to customers, the makers of the popular Brazilian Blowout hair-straightening treatment has agreed to start posting labels on its products warning customers that the products contain formaldehyde gas, a kno ...
  • The Surprising Heart Attack Trigger in the Sea ...
    Omega-3 fatty acids from fish are among the most potent heart-disease fighters that don't come in pill form, and loading up on three servings of fish per week is an easy way to get the recommended amount. However, new research from Syracuse University casts some doubt about how beneficial thos ...

big think

  • Jason Silva: Transcendant Man
    Jason Silva is a transcendent man. As a filmmaker, philosopher, and futurist, Silva is always thinking big. Currently in the process of creating a feature length documentary, Silva has released a series of short clips that are attracting attention. The videos are sometimes under 2 minutes long, ...
  • Our Future of Abundance
    It's not easy being an optimist in 2012. There's just too much to worry about: a global economic downturn, climate change, overpopulation, nuclear proliferation, failing education systems, you name it.  We are bombarded with bad news all the time, and we eagerly eat it up because our bra ...
  • Venture Capital for the 99%
    The crowdfunding phenomenon, which has already helped thousands of artistic and cultural projects go public, is now crossing over into the world of venture capital and the financing of startup companies. The only problem is that, until now, it has been illegal to invest as little as $100 at a ...
  • 552 - When Macbeth Met Hamlet: a Scandinavian ...
    To be or not to be Scandinavian, that might be the question soon enough for Scotland, if it decides to become independent. For the time being, Scotland is still a part of the United Kingdom, as it has been since the Acts of Union in 1707. But with the Scottish National Party firmly ensconced in ...
  • Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century
    So my title is misleading.  The basic content of and case for liberal education didn’t change when we moved from one century to another.  I’m not big on century analysis and even less on decade analysis (the Sixties!).    Liberal education is under attack these days in pretty predictable ...

Information Liberation

  • If You See Something, Film Something (Recordin ...
    This video was created as an example of the importance of filming the police. Video provides transparency, accountability, and an accurate account of incidents that occur. It is no secret that the United States has a serious problem with police abu...
  • The Super Bowl's 'Security'
    Football fans, beware. "Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano joined NFL and other officials in warning that security for Sunday's game at Lucas Oil Stadium would be significantly heightened*" Whoa! Seems professional games have become ...
  • One Nation, Under Guard
    Bad news about the impending police state here in America: it's already here. From the indefinite detention (without trial) of terrorism suspects both foreign and American to the escalating militarization of our nation's police forces, there's little...
  • The Stealth of Nations
    There's a Mexican restaurant I like (I'm not saying where it is) that seems to thrive in good times and bad. It never has a shortage of servers, cooks and people to bus the tables, even when there are only a few customer cars out front. Actually, it ...
  • Ex-cop Jason Arbeeny cries for judge, gets pro ...
    He cried * and the judge cut him loose. A disgraced NYPD detective convicted of planting drugs on an innocent couple was looking at jail time when he walked into court on Thursday. He walked out with probation after blubbering that he was asham...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Felix Baumgartner to freefall from almost 40 km up
    Real-life action hero Felix Baumgartner plans to take a balloon up to the edge of space and then to jump out. In freefall he hopes to break the speed record for a human travelling without a machine, the needle, as it were, reaching speeds in excess of the speed of sound. In the BBC newsclip [... ...
  • Kinect could help phantom limb pain
    A phantom limb is the perception that an amputated or missing limb or other body part is still attached to the body. The sensations, by most accounts, are unpleasant and commonly painful. Mirror therapy has been used to help alleviate some of the problems experienced by veterans, accident victim ...
  • Testing times, but no pardon for Turing
    UK government minister, Lord McNally, responded for the government declining to pardon Turing: The question of granting a posthumous pardon to Mr Turing was considered by the previous Government in 2009. As a result of the previous campaign, the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an unequiv ...
  • 10 out of 10 for boron’s coordinated effort
    A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. I asked theoretical chemist Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, ...
  • Layers of graphene, water and helium
    Graphene is perhaps the thinnest material known. Essentially it is a single, isolated layer of the carbon allotrope graphite. In SpectroscopyNOW this week I discuss new research into how a single layer of graphene is transparent to water molecules in the sense that the water can “see&#8221 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Custom-Designed Proteins Could Counteract Chem ...
    Custom-designed proteins made with the aid of computers could fight chemical weapons such as nerve gas and help decontaminate toxic-waste sites, scientists say. [More]
  • Popular Opinion on Climate Change Traced to Po ...
    It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man-made climate change. Rather than steadily increasing or decreasing over the last decade, the U.S. public's concern over our warming planet has jumped up and down, according to Gallup polls. But what exactl ...
  • Signal for Higgs Boson Particle Gains Strength
    Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The  new   papers  boost the case for December’s announcement of a possible Higgs signal , but let’ ...
  • Russian Team Has Reached Buried Antarctic Lake ...
    Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok , a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. [More]
  • Bright-Sized: Skull Study Shows Eye-Sockets Ha ...
    People who live farther from the equator have larger eye sockets than their tropical counterparts, a new study finds. And as people inhabited higher and higher latitudes , eye socket size grew along with the northerly or southerly extent of their migrations. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Les femmes résistent à l'exploitation par les ...
    Journée internationale des femmes 2012 Séminaires, ateliers et activités culturelles Le dimanche 4 mars prochain, de 9 h à 16h30 Au 6767 Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal. Montréal, 5 février 2012 - Les femmes jouent un rôle crucial au Canada et à ...
  • Interview with Toghestiy part 2
    against pipelines For more info : unistotencamp.wordpress.com stoptheflows.com vancouver.mediacoop.ca Dominion Stories
  • Interview with Toghestiy part 1
    against pipelines For more info : unistotencamp.wordpress.com stoptheflows.com vancouver.mediacoop.ca Dominion Stories
  • Decolonizing Anarchism
    Interview with author Maia Ramnath Maia Ramnath is an author and anarchist activist based in New York City. Her latest book is called "Decolonizing Anarchism: An anti-authoritarian history of India's liberation struggle", publ ...
  • Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier
    The beating of a drum circle broke the stillness of noontime on February 4 2012, as a crowd of around 75 demonstrators marched to the American consulate to demand the freedom of imprisoned indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.

David Seaton's News Links

  • Iran... is a trap being set?
    If the United States and/or Israel finally do attack Iran, as it now appears inevitable, they may end up falling into a trap laid by Russia and China. "Garden Airplane Trap" Max Ernst - Art Institute of Chicago The Americans know Iran did not bring the RQ-170 down because their intelligence agen ...
  • The sustainable future beckons: an all purpose ...
    David Seaton's News Linksphoto credit to जरा खाजवा की डोक For me this image is pure poetry, it suggests so many things about our world and even about our human nature: the smile of the driver, the people riding snug and dry in the cab, the no nonsense expression on the little bullock's face. ...
  • Thomas Friedman and the hangman
    David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...
  • Barack Obama: a parenthesis between Bush and G ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWho knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics? Maureen Dowd - New York TimesWhy does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Christian Science MonitorGingr ...
  • Goodbye to Etta James
    Too many leaving too fast! DS

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Hypocrisy Trope That Won't Die
    President Obama has publicly condemned the Citizens United decision and has publicly opposed the role of Super PACs in campaign finance. Recently, though, he signed off on a plan to actively support Priorities USA Action, a leading Democratic Super PAC that's had trouble raising as much m ...
  • Catholics Do Not Have a Deep Moral Objection t ...
    Should secular Catholic institutions (such as hospitals and universities) be required to abide by federal rules that say healthcare plans have to cover contraception? Or should they receive a conscience exemption from this rule, as churches themselves do? Two new polls today shed some light o ...
  • Chrysler is Just Trying to Sell You a Car, OK?
    Matt Yglesias on the Chrysler Super Bowl ad that seems to have Karl Rove and the right-wing outrage machine in an uproar: Apparently Clint Eastwood is personally upset that some people took Chrysler's "halftime in America" to be a positive commentary on the Obama administration. This seems ...
  • It's Almost Time to Boost the Economy. Almost.
    Ben Bernanke told Congress today that the long-term deficit is indeed a problem, but it's a problem for the long term. The best way to address it is to combine future budget tightening with present-day budget loosening, which will boost the economy and produce lower deficits in future years: ...
  • Gay Marriage Ban is Unconstitutional — For Now
    A district court and now the 9th Circuit court have both ruled that California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. This is great news. However, I assume that it doesn't really matter much since the case will now go to the Supreme Court, which has a history of ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 302: Don’t @ My Prophetess
    Topics: George Romero’s birthday Fast Zombies are cheating Eddie Long is a “King” The pedophile burrito Juanita Bynum & the $5000 pen Fuck your murderous family member Roseanne Barr is running for President Share with your friends:
  • IC 301: The Urban Radio Fluff Job
    Topics: Its Black History Month and Kriss & Kev don”t care Don Cornelius goes to the big soul train in the sky Kriss realizes he may be a sociopath February movie rundown Every role for a young black actor comes to Bow Wow first Arizona wants to allow guns on campus Drake apologizes t ...
  • IC 300: This Is Sparta
    Topics: *There were issues with saving the show so audio quality is lower than normal* Kriss, Kev & Karen list out different people and things that they want to Sparta Kick The list include: George Lucas Nurses People who don’t tip Tyler Perry Wire Bras and many more Share with your f ...
  • IC 299: Racial Free Agent
    Topics: Red Tails is not a good movie Black people’s fear of not supporting Kriss wants to be traded in the racial draft Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe Jay-Z inspires black fathers? Feminista Jones on Open Marriages and relationship advice MLK on a strip club flyer Great moments in White P ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Mark Wahlberg
    Mark Wahlberg is one of today’s biggest action movie stars, but as he sees it, his heroism doesn’t end at a film’s credits. Instead, he fancies himself a real badass off screen, too. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, Wahlberg says that world history would have been d ...

Simple Climate

  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...
  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.
  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.
  • The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
    After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.
  • Warming puts species on collision course
    Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Chlorhexidine umbilical cord care can save new ...
    Cleansing a newborn's umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce an infant's risk of infection and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study, conducted in rural Bangla ...
  • Scared of a younger rival? Not for some male ...
    When mature male white-crowned sparrows duel to win a mate or a nesting territory, a young bird just doesn't get much respect. read more
  • New study shows Facebook use elevates mood
    People visit social networking sites such as Facebook for many reasons, including the positive emotional experience that people enjoy and want to repeat, according to an article in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.  ...
  • Salk scientists use an old theory to discover ...
    Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have studied organ development in mice to unravel how breast cancers, and perhaps other cance ...
  • Drinking large amounts of soft drinks associat ...
    A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that a high level of soft drink consumption is associated with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). read more

unEarthed

  • Monday Reads: The Arctic Nights Edition
    All we know, to the best of our knowledge, is that we don’t yet know enough A male polar bear patrols the pack ice edge in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Coal Numbers Don’t Add Up
    Industry engages in flim-flam to spin coal ash recycling stats The American Coal Ash Association is trying with might to mislead us. In a recent press release, ...
  • Coos Bay, Oregon is Coal Industry’s Latest Target
    Earthjustice challenges permit for largest estuary dredging project in state history Coos Bay, Oregon. (Brian Burger/Creative Commons) A new battle has emerge ...
  • Whales and Wolves: The Hollywood Versions
    Using the power of popular media to educate or misinform The uplifting movie Big Miracle, opening this weekend, has the power to educate people across the country about America’s Arctic Ocean, along with the people and wildl ...
  • Friday Finds: Snakes in the ‘Glades
    Dirty lettuce, winterless havoc, sick meat A Burmese python. (wildexplorer) Pythons and anacondas put the squeeze on the Everglades Forget snakes on a plane ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 21
    The previous Open Thread has gone past is off the BNC front page, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard [...]
  • Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
    Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. Elaine is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education to technology to public policy, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites. Currently, she writes for an online school resource. Black Swan Theory, as explained by Nassim Nicho ...
  • The folly of making perfection the enemy of ex ...
    Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...
  • Saludos desde Mataelpino
    I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...
  • Burning energy questions – ERoEI, desert ...
    Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re  at it again, this time for ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Two-state think tank appoints one-state CEO
    Promising to promote ‘new thinking,’ Dan Goldenblatt, the founder of a one-state Israeli group, was made the new co-CEO of IPCRI. Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, a think tank formed in 1988 by veteran peace activist Gershon Baskind, has recently appointed Att. D ...
  • WATCH: Israeli FM and US Secretary of State Cl ...
    In a highly critical meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on Tuesday,  the two discussed, among other things (Iran, Iran and Iran), the weather. In this first face-to-face meeting between the two in over a year, Lieber ...
  • Palestinian rights group condemns Syrian &#821 ...
    By Fady Khoury Adalah – the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel issued a press release on Tuesday denouncing the Syrian regime’s attacks on its own citizens. The organization – whose name means “justice” in Arabic – said that the attacks amount to war crimes and crimes against ...
  • Hunger strike highlights forgotten tragedy of ...
    Khader Adnan’s hunger strike reached its 52nd day with little international attention. Some might think this is due to his association with the Islamic Jihad. However, the Israeli military has not presented any formal charges against him. Adnan is one Palestinian prisoner among thousands, ...
  • WATCH: Three ‘Price Tag’ attacks i ...
    Escalation in ‘price tag’ attacks and nature of incidents send clear message that attempts at coexistence are to be trampled On Sunday, a “price tag” attack that included hateful graffiti and vandalism of property was committed in the middle of the night by Jewish Israeli ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • I HAVE A DREAM…We’re All Minoritie ...
      I left court the other day after a particularly bruising hearing and thought to myself, “I’m now starting to understand what it must feel like to be a minority.” Now I’m not going to overstate this, I’m not suggesting that I’ll ever know the full breadt ...
  • Forbes Magazine- Who Cares About Forged Docume ...
    From Forbes Magazine: The AGs are seizing upon behavior which looks bad and may technically violate the law, but is hard to link directly to consumer injuries. As with tobacco, the AGs are attacking a tragedy with many causes by going after the least popular actors in the drama. It’s good theate ...
  • CALL PEOPLE! CALL NOW! TELL THEM NO! ON UNFAIR ...
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  • Foreclosure Crisis Hits Home For All- Somethin ...
    Note the date on the article when you read…. “We have Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Chase openly admitting to what they’re trying to say are irregularities — but are actually fraud upon the courts,” said Lisa Epstein, a housing activist who regularly attends foreclosure hearin ...
  • EMERGENCY- The Florida (un)Fair Foreclosure Ac ...
    THIS BAD, BAD BILL COMES UP FOR VOTE ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8! IT IS A BAILOUT AND A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD FOR THE BANKSTERS AND THE FRAUDCLOSURE MILLS FLORIDA’S ELECTED LEADERS SHOULD NOT BE REWARDING CON ARTISTS AND FRAUDSTERS THIS WILL GUT THE RIGHTS OF ALL FLORIDIANS IN FORECLOURE F ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Grief, Generosity, and a Galvanizing of Commun ...
    What began as a brief comment ended up as a unique citizen exercise. Ed Jackman (look for him in the …Continue reading »
  • “A Remarkable Change in Man”
    Being with the ElectroMotive workers on Saturday, the day following the announcement of that plant’s official closing, had an odd …Continue reading »
  • An End and the Beginning
    Well, it’s over. Tears filled our eyes this morning as my wife and I heard that Caterpillar had finally made …Continue reading »
  • When Business is Good
    Challenging times. Slightly over a month ago the London Food Bank assisted 3500 families a month – the highest in …Continue reading »
  • Until Now
    One of the abiding frustrations of being in politics is that optics are often preferred over opportunity and politics sometimes …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safe ...
    The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal &#8 ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Liturgies of Sufficiency: Individual versus Co ...
    If someone is hungry, we must feed them before they can be receptive to spiritual food.
  • Biofuels: Innovations Needed
    Ongoing research is advancing the efficiency of the use of cellulosic biomass for liquid fuels. It is doubtful if we willsee breakthroughs anytime soon though, as these types of innovations often come slowly.
  • Dignity of Work
    The pesticides were euphemistically spoken of as “plant medicine.” Ms. López jokingly summed that her diminutive figure is a testimony that too little energy was left over for physical growth.
  • Third Time’s the Charm? The 2012 Arsenic Roundup
    The ban, if enacted, would help to curb the ongoing problem of arsenical drug use by the poultry industry, and associated public health risks to poultry consumers.
  • SPRAWL: A Six-Letter Word with a Four-Letter W ...
    Sprawl can be bad, and it can be necessary, depending on the source and the treatment of the land. As the human population grows, how do we reclaim the word sprawl?

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • TomTom Ticks Off Customers With Pricing Errors ...
    Angry TomTom customers have been writing to us all day today to complain that the GPS maker had canceled orders they placed last week on the company's website. E-mails sent by TomTom to customers explained that the orders were being canceled due to a pricing error. Most pricing errors we hear ...
  • Should Your Driving Record Impact Your Homeown ...
    You don't need a driver's license to own a home. You don't need to own a home to drive a car. But Allstate insurance has launched a product in Oklahoma that looks at policyholder's driving records when determining their homeowner's insurance rates. Allstate introduced House & Home late in 2011 ...
  • Bank Of America Plaza Auctioned Off For Missin ...
    Bank of America Plaza, the tallest building in Atlanta, went on the auction block today, in a perfect example of things that go around you know, coming around. How does that medicine taste now, Bank of America? Your landlords missed mortgage mortgage payments and now they have to sell. We're su ...
  • Clint Eastwood Denies Political Slant In Chrys ...
    Last year, people around the country cheered Chrysler's ad touting the phoenix-like rebirth of Detroit and American automakers. But it's an election year, so the car company's most recent TV spot, featuring Mr. Grizzle himself, Clint Eastwood, has been attacked by some as being propaganda for t ...
  • We Still Don't Know Why Honeybees Are Dying Bu ...
    There's some new buzz about honeybees, and while not all of it is super positive -- namely, that we still can't figure out why so many of them are dying -- there are some bright spots in the latest action from the hive. CNNMoney says that while bees continue to mysteriously die off at a rate ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • DHS OIG Report Vindicates Air Marshal Whistleb ...
    A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report, "Allegations of Misconduct and Illegal Discrimination and Retaliation in the Federal Air Marshal Service," released in embargoed form to select news agencies, appears to be a significant vindication for Federal ...
  • GE Energy Faces Suit: Daily Whistleblower News
    Houston Chronicle: Houstonian Files Whistleblower Suit against GE Energy Summary: A former GE Energy employee has filed a whistleblower suit against the company, alleging that he was fired after raising concerns about questionable hiring practices involving a possible violation of the Foreign ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour Comes to Florida I ...
    GAP's program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, comes to Florida International University (FIU) this week, from February 8-9. The stop will feature prominent whistleblowers (Frank Casey, Madoff Ponzi scheme; Dr. Jon Oberg, Education Department) and notable jo ...
  • Bradley Manning to Face Court Martial; Lt. Col ...
     Reuters: US Confirms Manning to Face Court Martial Summary: The US army has decided that Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks, will face a court martial. Manning faces 22 charges and could spend life in prison if convicted. Related Articles:&n ...
  • Report Shows Problems at Federal Air Marshal S ...
    CNN: Report on Federal Air Marshal Service Paints an Unflattering Picture Summary: A report to be released next week about misconduct within the Federal Air Marshal Service "paints an unflattering picture of the agency," and states that investigators have "heard too many negative and conflicti ...

UK Progressive

  • ANYBODY But Romney Wins as Santorum (Don’t Goo ...
    You almost have to feel sorry for the sad state of affairs my Dad’s Republican Party has become. Torn asunder by Tea Party and Christian fundamentalists, frontrunner and delegate count leader Mitt Romney lost contests in Midwest states Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado last night throwing the Rep ...
  • White Smoke – For God’s Sake
    One of my sons rails against President Obama at the drop of a hat. His complaints did not emerge after three years of experience with the President but within hours of the election. My son is a racist. I had a physician who just after the inauguration was walking around his office, within sight ...
  • Reliving Revolution in Egypt: Day 14 – Is this ...
    For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.Monday, 07 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @SultanAlQassemi‎ Wael @Ghonim‘s ...
  • Is America a Police State?
    You know you live in a police state when the president allows the military to continuously harass a prisoner against whom no crime has been proven by interrupting him every five minutes of the day to ask him, “Are you okay?” and forces him to stand to attention naked at roll call. What it can [. ...
  • The Downward Mobility of the American Middle C ...
    January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class. Most of the new jobs being created are in the lower-wage sectors of the economy – hospital orderlies and nursing aides, secretaries and temp ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • GetUp-poplexy! Scared of Monckton, Mannkal, Bo ...
    Thank you GetUp! Australians are finally talking about how they can get more media competition and how we can lift media standards. Read on to see Moncktons reply, and the call for interest Spot those afraid of free speech. ... Gina Rinehart merely buys 13% of  Fairfax, and the GetUp-union-funde ...
  • “Cooking the books” Monckton repli ...
    When Christopher Monckton debated at the National Press Club in Canberra last July, he showed exactly why the fans of a man-made catastrophe are so frightened of free speech and open debates. With no slides nor images, in a single hour he still changed the opinions of fully 9% of the audience , ...
  • JoNova a Finalist for the 2012 Bloggies :-) Se ...
    Cheerio! Thanks to the dedicated souls who nominated it, this blog is a finalist in 2012 Web Bloggies Award. (Ta Pat, Val, Baa). ! That’s a success on its own (it’s already bringing in new readers).  Cheers! With your help, we can reach a wider crowd. The different traffic, new links ...
  • 8 Reasons to Dump That Cheating Doctor (Trenbe ...
    Hand back your science degrees Trenberth et al. Thirty eight of the worlds top, most consequential climate scientists sought to slap down the Nobel prize winner, astronaut and glitterati of science, and all they could come up with was a logical fallacy and a single paragraph of incohate, innume ...
  • The land that rewards failure
    Mark Steyn hits the spot: “America is now the land that rewards failure– at the personal, corporate, and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If you reward it as lavishly as the federal government does, you’ll get the Radio City Christmas Spectacular of Failure, o ...

ReNew America

  • Singer Pat Boone endorses Santorum
    (Newsmax) - Singer, author, and conservative activist Pat Boone has endorsed former Sen. Rick Santorum, whom Boone described as holding the same ideals as President Ronald Reagan. "I am excited to endorse Rick Santorum for president," Boone said. "I've known Rick for many years, and Rick has bee ...
  • Karl Rove criticizes Romney, stop the presses!
    (Richard A. Viguerie) - Former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove is one of the chief spokesmen for the Washington Republican establishment. This election cycle, Rove's hobbyhorse has been to promote the "inevitability" of moderate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's nomination as the Repu ...
  • Evicting Obama from the White House: how to do it
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The Republicans appear destined to slug it out for a few more rounds before landing on a candidate. But Republican strategists have their eyes on the target: extracting the tools of power from a man widely viewed as not just wrong-headed, but dangerous...
  • Vanderbilt launches offensive against religiou ...
    (Robert Shibley) - Since the Supreme Court's sharply divided and startlingly wrongheaded decision two years ago in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, those concerned about religious liberty on campus have known that the fallout was on its way. At Vanderbilt University, it has arrived -- and it ...
  • Again, why not Santorum?
    (Quin Hillyer) - Missouri's "beauty contest" primary on Tuesday could be Rick Santorum's big chance. If he defeats Mitt Romney in that event, as at least one poll shows he is poised to do, the punditocracy and public alike might finally recognize the considerable upside he would offer Republican ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • What If Money Goes 100% Digital?
    The long term trend is obvious to any Sci-Fi fan – one day all transactions will be cashless. We might even have a universal currency known as credits! There are some indications in Europe that the ...What If Money Goes 100% Digital? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Power Gr ...
  • Fox: Cashing in on 2012
    There’s an interesting article over at Fox News, although I’m not sure “cashing in” is fair – Americans are heading south for 2012, and businesses are accommodating them.  Perhaps it is Fox who are cashing ...Fox: Cashing in on 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku
    Suspected on killing a couple and a police officer, before being gunned down was Drew Ryan Maras, an author who was working on a book covering conspiracy theories and 2012 when he died. BlogTalkRadio are replaying ...Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku is a post from: 2012 Blog Related ...
  • Preview: Doomsday Preppers
    Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a ...Preview: Doomsday Preppers is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomsday Preppers (was) ...
  • 2012: Year of the Dragon
    In the Chinese calendar, 2012 is the year of the dragon. It is the only of their 12 years that is named after a fictional animal. So are dragons really fictional? I have investigated the possibility ...2012: Year of the Dragon is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Don’t Forget th ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Key accused in 13/7 Mumbai blasts trained unde ...
    A key accused in the Mumbai July 13, 2011, serial blasts had met Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001 and trained under him, a top police official said here Tuesday. Reported by IndiaVision 50 minutes ago
  • American chalk artist to showcase work at Mumb ...
    American chalk artist Tracy Lee Stum will present her 3D street art at the ongoing Kala Ghoda Arts Festival here, an official from the American Center said Tuesday. Reported by IndiaVision 1 hour ago
  • Child rights panel questions Bengal on infant ...
    Taking cognizance of deaths of new-born babies in various hospitals of West Bengal, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Tuesday said it has asked  the state government to spell out, in detail, the steps taken to tackle the situation. Reported by IndiaVision 1 hour ago
  • When the Indian armed forces put down a Maldiv ...
    The regime change in Maldives Tuesday had many oldtimers recalling Operation Cactus in November 1988 when the Indian armed forces went into the archipelago nation after  then president Maumoom Abdul Gayoom faced a coup by mercenaries of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam. Repor ...
  • ‘Enough space for India, China to develop’
    China on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the progress in Sino-India relations. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Ambassador’s Silicone Brains
    On Monday January 30, 2012 a leading Russian TV channel showed an unexpectedly significant interview with Michael McFaul, the recently appointed US Ambassador to Russia. Why ‘unexpectedly’? Because the host of the show was Vladimir Pozner, patriarch of the Soviet/Russian television widely known ...
  • What the Taliban Readiness to Talk Means for A ...
    The Taliban spokesman’s announcement that the Taliban are prepared to open an office in Doha Qatar and to hold talks with the Americans at that site has been the headline story in the international media for the last few days. The fact that this very spokesman, commenting on the disgusting video ...
  • Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of ...
    Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Ira ...
  • Missile Defense Deadlock: What Will It Lead To?
    Moscow does not intend to propose any initiatives on missile defense, which the U.S. could interpret as concessions. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio station. He emphasized the negotiations on this subject proceed with difficulty, b ...
  • Libyan Oil Infrastrusture Assets Seized By the ...
    The unexpectedly quick EU consent to take immediate sanctions against Iran “coincided” with seizure of Libyan oil terminals. To certain extent the negative affect of expected oil shortage for European economy could be minimized in case the utmost is done to boost the Brega and Ras-La ...

BlogHer

  • Tributes to Susan Niebur and Rachel Moro, Blog ...
    Yesterday, the blogging community lost two women to breast cancer: Susan Niebur, aka @WhyMommy of Toddler Planet and Rachel Cheetham Moro of The Cancer Culture Chronicles. Susan was a planetary scientist who worked at NASA and promoted women in planetary science. After being diagnosed with infl ...
  • "The Voice" Roars into Season Two
    Are you watching The Voice? The singing competition show debuted fairly quietly last year, with most of the buzz surrounding it's impressive judging panel. Momentum grew steadily over the first season, and it was well poised to make a grab for it's piece of the pop culture landscape this year. I ...
  • Announcing the 2012 International Activist Blo ...
    Today we are proud to announce the BlogHer '12 International Activist BlogHer scholarship program and invite you to submit yourself or your favorite international activist BlogHer for consideration for this scholarship.The Back Story:In 2008, BlogHer won the Anita Borg Social Impact Award from t ...
  • Chocolate Overload: Chocolate Cheesecake Cake
    [Editor's Note: If you're ready for a true chocolate overload, this may be the perfect recipe. From start to finish, this cake takes chocolate and amps it up in spectacular fashion. Serve it up with a big glass of milk, because you're going to need something to take the edge off all that sweet, ...
  • Add Some Hot Pink Pop to Your Craft Space
    [Editor's Note: Like many of us blogger Kerri-Lynn from A Pop of Pretty made the New Year’s resolution to organize her craft space. Where I would pat myself on the back for just cleaning off my desk and clearing a path in the clutter to said desk, Kerri-Lynn takes things a step further. Not only ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Coal industry opposed Bush drug-testing policy ...
    Davitt McAteer, who led the independent team that investigated the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster was just on Hoppy Kercheval’s Talkline statewide radio show, giving West Virginians a preview of his testimony this afternoon up at the Capitol. Lawmakers are holding the second in two days of ...
  • Mine safety: Are lawmakers doing all they could?
    Today and tomorrow, the House and Senate Judiciary committees at the West Virginia Legislature are holding informational sessions to discuss the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster and to hear about at least two pending pieces of mine safety legislation. We’ve talked before about Gov. Earl Ray ...
  • And so it begins: Coal layoffs sign of things ...
    If you don’t read the Saturday newspaper, you might have missed this story, outlining two troublesome announcements last week by major coal producers here in West Virginia: Alpha Natural Resources announced late Friday that it plans to idle several Appalachian coal mines and reduce work sc ...
  • Friday roundup, Feb. 3, 2012
    Train cars full of coal head to the FirstEnergy Corp., coal-fired power plant in Eastlake, Ohio is seen on Thursday,  Jan. 26, 2012.  FirstEnergy Corp. says it will shut down six older, coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, affecting about 530 employees on Sept. 1.  The Akr ...
  • Coal Symposium ends with Obama bashing session
    This morning’s sessions over at the West Virginia Coal Association’s Annual Mining Symposium didn’t disappoint, that’s for sure. Especially if you — like most of the industry crowd there — can get worked up about just about anything that criticizes President O ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The 5 Why’s | Harvard Business Review
    Eric Ries, entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, explains how to find the human causes of technical problems. via hbr.org How to find the actual cause of business failures. A must-see. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentPride HurtsThe Best Ha ...
  • The Pleasures of Drowning : Sam Harris
    To train in BJJ is to continually drown—or, rather, to be drowned, in sudden and ingenious ways—and to be taught, again and again, how to swim. via samharris.org I love this encapsulation of BJJ. You should also read the main article, as it gives a very solid description of this martial art. Plu ...
  • The Fireplace Delusion | Sam Harris
    It seems to me that many nonbelievers have forgotten—or never knew—what it is like to suffer an unhappy collision with scientific rationality. We are open to good evidence and sound argument as a matter of principle, and are generally willing to follow wherever they may lead. Certain of us have ...
  • New “Man in the Browser” Attack Bypasses Banks ...
    The attack, know as the Man in the Browser method, works like this. Malicious code is first introduced onto the victim’s computer where it resides in the web browser. It will lay dormant until the victim visits a specific website—in this case, his bank’s secure website. Once the user ...
  • Entire Genome of Extinct Human Decoded From Fo ...
    In 2010, Svante Pääbo and his colleagues presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The DNA sequences showed that this individual came from a previously unknown group of extinct humans that have become kno ...

Fitwatch

  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...
  • Resist plainclothes cops
    More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • The Cancer in Occupy
    By Chris Hedges,TruthDig – The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physic ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird by Mikel K
        “Live from the gluck theater at wvu: at a moment’s notice.” is a brilliant cd by Stephanie Barbian. I have known Stephanie Barbian for over 20 years. I discovered her at a club in Midtown Atlanta, and asked her to be a regular on my tv show, “Your 15 Minutes ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Two Weevils
    By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies – Hey hippies…Paz en el Barrio…Wanna try some MORE “positivity, a la Woody?” Well, here ya go! Confused about for whom to “vote” in this year’s quadrennial power-grab and leadership sweepstakes, in which you had no say ...
  • Blackballed: How the FBI Bends FOIA
    by James Corbett,BoilingFrogsPost.com - The Freedom of Information Act is intended to be one of the American citizens’ key checks against the fraud and corruption that inevitably happens in the corridors of power when information can be hidden behind a secrecy classification. Originally enacted ...
  • NEARLY 2,000 AFRICAN COMMUNITIES END FEMALE GE ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN – A new United Nations report shows that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) last year, prompting calls for a renewed global push to end this harmful practice once and for all. According to the report, issued by the ...

reference frame

  • Andrei Shleifer on transition from communism
    Patria.cz, a server for Czech investors, published a shortened Czech translation of Andrei Shleifer's essay called Seven things I learned about transition from communismAndrei Shleifer co-authored the Russian privatization scheme. However, I know him from Harvard – as a close colleague of L ...
  • Hogan's holographic noise doesn't exist
    In recent years, the name of Craig Hogan – the proponent of the "holographic noise" – appeared several times on TRF. A year ago, I discussed a BBC program that showed Craig Hogan's Holometer or Hoganmeter, a rather large and fancy apparatus given the fact that the effect clearly didn't exist. ...
  • Trying to cancel Michael Mann's talks: a poll
    Anthony Watts criticizes a cool-headed, rational, pro-coal organization named Choose Common Sense that attempts to convince Penn State University to abolish a planned talk by Michael Mann on February 9th in the Penn Stater, central Pennsylvania's most sophisticated hotel. I am genuinely ...
  • ATLAS: rumor about stop squark signal
    A commenter from an unnamed Ivy League University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, West of the Central Square, has pointed out that he or she has also heard the same rumors about the signal hinting at the existence of the stop squarks – the supersymmetric partners of the third-generation top quar ...
  • Gore's Antarctic friend needs your help with h ...
    There are 116 people participating in Al Gore's expedition to Antarctica (whose goal is to prove that the uninhabited continent has been transformed into another Sahara by the global warming), including this list collected by Eco Tretas (thanks!). One of them is Sam Pucci, a random youngster ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Shining the Light on a Triple Meltdown at Fuku ...
    Thinking of traveling to Japan? You may want to reconsider. The situation is worse than the government, media, or TEPCO will leave you to believe. From the dumping of radioactive water into Tokyo Bay, to releasing radioactive steam into the atmosphere, the closer you get to source the more hot p ...
  • Aware, alert, and paying attention: The Coming ...
    Aware, alert, and paying attention to the Globalist Agenda. Such is the life of someone who is awake and has escaped the shackles of the mind that enslave the majority of humanity. It is both a blessing and a curse but once awake, always awake. The Coming USS Enterprise False Flag   The Her ...
  • Calling all Habs Fans: FAIL FOR NAIL FIRE FOR ...
    Switching hats tonight for a few words on hockey. Those who know me know that I am a diehard Montreal Canadiens fan and have been my entire life. FAIL FOR NAIL Having watched them tank this year, with no hope of making the playoffs, I have come up with an idea to encourage them to [...] Related ...
  • Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)
    Somehow ya know that I had to blog this one. Bananas are my staple! In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits ‘trapped’ overseas and the gloomy State of the Stiff Upper Lip as UK family debt ...
  • @MaxKeiser & @StacyHerbert give me an ounce of ...
    A while back Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert sent me 1 ounce of silver after I was the 1000 commentator in a blog article on their site.  This is not just any silver coin. This is the prized Silver Keiser. I didn’t even know that I had won until Stacy informed me by email, asking [...] Relat ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • Don't Let Your Child Be a Back Seat Smoker
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Many parents who don't smoke - and have raised their kids to do the same - might be surprised to learn that their offspring could be secondhand-smoking a pack a week. Roughly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  • Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Marine brass wants to limit Camp Lejeune water ...
    By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fraccidents
    Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Louisville Water Co. Slashes Chrome-6 Pollution
    By Alex Formuzixs, EWG Communications Director In 2010, EWG identified chromium-VI contamination in the drinking water of 31 of the 35 cities we tested. One Kentucky city has stepped up to solve that problem. A change in how drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Elderly woman’s assault sparks anger
    An elderly woman was found beaten, robbed and possibly raped in a forested area at Korsvoll in Oslo late Monday, and local residents are expressing shock and outrage. Police have sought help from national crime unit Kripos as the investigation continues. “First I felt shock, then I got rea ...
  • Restaurants caught evading taxes
    City officials in Oslo are threatening to withhold liquor licenses for cafés, bars and restaurants caught cheating on their taxes, after authorities uncovered accounting irregularities at more than half of all eating establishments that were audited last year. It’s suspected that most of t ...
  • More record profits, and some losses
    State oil company Statoil reported more record profits on Tuesday after another year of high oil prices and major discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Two other big companies in which the state has ownership stakes, though, reported some large losses. Statoil remains on a roll, pumpin ...
  • Sex scandal rocks another party
    Norway’s small Liberal Party (Venstre), which has been building itself up again under new leadership, was rocked by rape charges filed Monday against its deputy leader Helge Solum Larsen. He was immediately stripped of all party posts and was admitted to the psychiatric unit of a west coas ...
  • Northug weary of his own celebrity
    Petter Northug, Norway’s sometimes surly skiing star, reportedly is getting tired of his celebrity status at home. The coach of the men’s cross-country ski team is worried Northug may cut his career short so he can just be a normal guy. Vidar Løfshus told newspaper Adresseavisen in T ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Earthship Huts – Low Hanging Fruit in the Figh ...
    Beavers and wasps can build their own homes… — Michael Reynolds History Modern Earthships are shelters built to sustain their occupants by providing energy, water, and waste management through the use of passive systems. They have been designed to meet the rigorous criteria t ...
  • The Newcastle Fair Share Festival is On Again!
    When: 9 — 11 March 2012, starting on the evening of March 9 Where: Hamilton Public School, corner of Tudor Steet and Steel Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Theme: "Transitioning to connected communities, localised fair economies and sustainable lifestyles." Please put this ev ...
  • Rwandan Orphanage Director Expresses Gratitude ...
    Some of you may remember our call-out for donation support for Victor Monroy (see paragraphs below the video here), an organic agricultural engineer who is director of a large orphanage in Rwanda. Well, a couple of you kindly donated to help get Victor along to a PDC taught by PRI PDC Teacher, W ...
  • Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for t ...
    by Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio Abstract This essay presents desirable social functioning as basically a matter of free individual decision. I discuss two basic polarities: Left versus Right, and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) versus Global-mass-society. Each polarity takes c ...
  • Nichole Foss to Give Talk at The Channon (Feb ...
    What: Nichole Foss talk on the present and future crises Where: The Channon Community Hall, near Lismore, NSW, Australia (and a stone’s throw from the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm) When: 10th of February, starting at 5.30 pm Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth (TAE), where ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Sentencing in Noose Incident at Louisiana Midd ...
    Three men, aged 21 - 25, were sentenced today in an incident in which they sought to intimidate African American children away from attending a school in Morehouse Parish, LA. The school had recently seen increased enrollment by Black students because of a new busing policy. In other news, the ...
  • Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate P ...
    “Corporations are people, my friend.” - Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda i ...
  • Big Freedia And The Week New Orleans Took Over ...
    Last week, New Orleans rapper Big Freedia made her national television debut on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Freedia, who has been quickly taking the nation by storm, performed two songs "Excuse," and "Na Who Mad." Although the network appearance was Freedia's national television debut, she showe ...
  • Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions, ...
    Note: See below for quiz answers. Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs? 45,000? 83,000? 102,325? Question Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net worth of wh ...
  • Community Profile: Betty Wells Allen
    From our friends at VOTE-NOLA: Some members join VOTE out of a sense of social responsibility or a personal mission. For Betty Wells Allen it was all of these forces combined with the joy of helping ex-offenders understand how to thrive in society. “My son was convicted with a life sentence [for ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Says he was converted by daughter's birth and encounter with Jewish mentor A B.C. man who was a recruiter for white supremacist groups says he's changed his hateful ways and has moved on to become a motivational speaker who helps others leave racist organizations. Tony McAleer, 44, looks bac ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Look ZS, I'm going to ban you. It is nothing personal. It is just that we need to keep TIU away from the Federales. While "posting" and getting "material" on websites and other media may not seem "practical" or "direct" enough for you, this "work& ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Your judgments of the others will come back as your judgment. That's the price. - Michael K. Isn't that statement also a judgement? Wishing it all away or turning other infinite cheeks won't cut it. I have to agree with ZS on this. When someone arrives to demand your weapons, will you just ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    You sure do defend the jews a lot for someone who supposedly says you want to stop them ... ZSStatistics: Posted by Zionist Sniper — Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:37 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Well I'm glad you cleared that up about civilians. Your judgments of the others will come back as your judgment. That's the price. Strategy does not come out of hatred, and guns alone don't decide the outcome of wars. If you are certain to react with violence, the enemy can choose the battle ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Nigerian Children Perish From Exposure to Lead ...
    Lead contamination from hundreds of gold mines across northwestern Nigeria has caused the deaths of 400 children under the age of five and exposes thousands more children to lead poisoning, according to a report from the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch. Across Human Rights WatchVIDEO: Niger ...
  • EU Wind Energy Capacity Grew 11 Percent in 201 ...
    More than 9,600 megawatts of wind power capacity was installed in European Union member states in 2011, accounting for about 21 percent of all new power capacity installations, according to an industry report. EWEA New offshore wind farms in the UK and land-based projects in Sweden and Germany ...
  • In Fast-Track Technology, Hope For a Second Gr ...
    With advances in a technique known as fast-track breeding, researchers are developing crops that can produce more and healthier food and can adapt and thrive as the climate shifts. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • Indian Clean-Energy Growth Was Fastest in Worl ...
    Renewable energy investments in India increased by more than 52 percent in 2011, the fastest growth among major global economies, according to a new report. More than $10.3 billion was invested in renewable energy projects in India last year, with about $4.6 billion targeting wind energy project ...
  • Sierra Club Accepted Millions from Natural Gas ...
    The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest environmental group in the U.S., accepted more than $25 million from the natural gas industry from 2007 to 2010 while promoting the fuel as a “bridge” to a clean-energy future, according to a Time magazine report. The organization used the funds — which la ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Crisis never came close to scenario meriting T ...
    The Fukushima No. 1 plant worst-case fallout scenario drawn up by Japan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Shunsuke Kondo last March 25 assumed winds would carry the radioactive materials to Tokyo, forcing the government to help people "migrate" from the capital. But Kondo told The Japan Times ...
  • 'Stealth' intervention reined in yen
    Japan used so-called stealth intervention in November as the government sought to stem yen gains that hammered earnings at makers of exports ranging from cars to electronics. Finance Ministry data released Tuesday showed Japan conducted ¥1.02 trillion worth of unannounced intervention dur ...
  • High cesium found in earthworms
    Earthworms collected in Kawauchi, a village near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, have cesium levels averaging some 20,000 becquerels per kilogram, government researchers said. The finding indicates the radioactive substance "may accumulate in other animals through the food chain," Motohiro ...
  • Mao's push for third world title starts at Fou ...
    Mao Asada ended last year with a month of triumph and tragedy that are hard to imagine. Just two weeks after her mother Kyoko passed away at 48 on Dec. 9, Mao laced up the boots again and showed the heart of a true champion in winning her fifth national title with an inspiring effort in Osaka. ...
  • Obama bows to Arab royalty in democracy push
    Just after the first anniversary of the onset of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration announced in December an enormous arms sale to Saudi Arabia, with a price tag greater than the annual gross domestic product of more than half the countries in the world. The administration hailed the sale ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Canada’s Incredible Shrinking Population?
    On CTV yesterday, human resources minister Diane Finley said (45 seconds into this interview): “As we go forward, we’re going to have three times the expense in Old Age Security as we do now, but we’re only going to have half the population to pay for it.” That sounds pretty scary. If the total ...
  • The OAS Eligibility Age and Employment
    It is argued that eligibility for OAS/GIS discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working to avoid labour shortages and a sharp rise in the so-called dependency ratio. But the fact of the matter is that 65 is not the trigger for retirement that ...
  • Caterpillar: The moth flying too close to the ...
    We treated them like royalty. We rolled out the tax cut red carpet. In fact our Prime Minister made a special stop at the London, Ontario Electro-Motive (EMT) plant in 2008, touting the $5 million in tax cuts we gave EMT. It was all part of the ‘tax cuts create jobs’ rhetoric that Ca ...
  • Is The OAS/GIS Program Unaffordable?
    No. Of course not. Even if the government waves around scary large increases in nominal dollar terms. As has been widely reported, the most recent OAS actuarial report shows that total program expenditures will rise from $38.8 billion in 2011 to $107.9 billion in 2030. However, the dollar figure ...
  • Budget Cuts Could Worsen Rising Unemployment
    It was not a happy new year for Canadian job seekers. Statistics Canada reported today that unemployment rose for a fourth consecutive month in January. Overall employment remained flat as Canada’s population and labour force grew at a normal pace, leaving more workers without jobs. The good new ...

ReDress

  • UK, US condemn murder in Syria, condone murder ...
    Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia's and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting "Israel right or wrong - unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all".
  • Two-front international struggle for Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United St ...
  • Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reac ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called "left" and "anti-imperialist" camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.
  • Palestinians need high calibre leaders - urgently
    Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian "President" Mahmoud Abbas's recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration's public relations incompetence and argues: "If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole move ...
  • BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews s ...
    Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated th ...

Physics Today

  • Prehistoric katydids sang in single tone
    Science: Katydids, crickets, and other arthropods produce their characteristic chirps by stridulation, a process in which they scrape one rough body part against another, writes Sid Perkins for Science. Until now, it was not known whether ancient insects chirped at a single frequency or across a ...
  • US may pull out of Mars collaboration with Europe
    BBC: Due to financial woes, NASA may be forced to withdraw from its partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the dual ExoMars robotic space missions. NASA expects to know more after 13 February, when President Obama announces his 2013 budget. The US agreed to provide equipment and lau ...
  • NASA renews its interest in nuclear-powered pr ...
    Nature: Small fission reactors may be used to power future NASA manned space missions. With twice the efficiency of chemical rockets, the reactors could send astronauts farther into space and at a much higher rate of speed, writes Eric Hand for Nature. Although researchers have been exploring th ...
  • Isotopes may indicate 2010 North Korean nuclea ...
    Nature: Radioisotopes collected from atmospheric samples suggest that North Korea may have tested two nuclear weapons in 2010, if a new analysis by Lars-Erik De Geer of the Swedish Defence Research Agency in Stockholm is correct. De Geer examined radioisotope data from Comprehensive Nuclear-Tes ...
  • Chinese airlines won't participate in EU emiss ...
    BBC: A plan to levy charges on flights in EU airspace based on carbon emissions has been criticized by the US, Canada, and China—and China has barred its airlines from participating. The plan was implemented at the beginning of the year. The EU has estimated that airline passengers will be ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Reclaimed Wastewater for Drinking: Safe but St ...
    “Water filtration technology has advanced to the point where wastewater can be rendered safe for drinking, according to a new report, but legislative and psychological hurdles will need to be overcome before widespread adoption can happen. “Expanding water reuse could significantly i ...
  • Alberta Oil Sands Up Close: Gunshot Sounds, De ...
    “It’s literally a toxic wasteland—bare ground and black ponds and lakes—tailings ponds—with an awful smell,” said Warner Nazile, who with Freda Huston spoke to university students in Denver recently about the tar sands and its related pipelines. Both are activists from British Columbia and membe ...
  • The Frog of War
    “ATRAZINE HAS LONG been a mainstay of American agriculture. Registered for use in 1959, it is now used on half the nation’s corn and 90 percent of our sugarcane, not to mention lawns, golf courses, and Christmas tree farms. All told, about 80 million pounds of it are applied each yea ...
  • Lake’s Deterioration Needs Urgent Attention
    “The situation on Dongting Lake, once China’s largest freshwater lake, remains grim despite growing awareness on ecological conservation, a local environment official has warned. “I often tell people that our mother lake is seriously ill and needs urgent attention,” said ...
  • Arab Region To Target Reducing Adverse Effects ...
    “With 5 per cent of the world’s population and only 1 per cent of global freshwater water resources, the Arab region is heavily affected by water scarcity and heavily dependent on non-conventional water resources such as desalination and treated wastewater. The collective water short ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Moves to Protect Federal Workers’ Pen ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today rallied Members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in an attempt to protect federal workers from a bill that attacks their pensions, H.R. 3813, the Securing Annuities for Federal Employees Act. The bill would force workers to pay more into p ...
  • Kucinich Responds to Breaking News – Prop 8 Ru ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following statement after a federal court in California ruled a ban on same sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, is unconstitutional. Click on the image to see the video.
  • Kucinich Calls for Strong, New Law to Protect ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for a strong, new law to protect striking workers from illegal lockouts.  Speaking before the Education and Workforce Committee, Congressman Kucinich, who has remained one of the workers’ strongest allies in Congress, called for legislation th ...
  • Kucinich Supports Corolla Wild Horses Protecti ...
    Washington D.C. (February 6, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement in support of H.R. 306, the Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act. “This bill is a responsible and well-studied solution to the on-going debate regarding wild horse populations. Generally ...
  • Kucinich Responds to Misleading Attack on Unions
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement in response to a misleading advertisement aired in select markets during the Super Bowl. “During last night’s Super Bowl, many Americans were subjected to a biased piece of political advertising by D.C., corporate lobbyis ...

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Experts voice nerve agent fears
    Leading neuroscientists believe that the British Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.A high-level...
  • Not much of a summer - but flies are having a ...
    Infestations of flies are plaguing householders as temperatures slowly start to climb.Mid-20C temperatures and moist conditions have caused a proliferation of household flies, which thrive and reproduce more quickly in a sticky...
  • Say goodbye to the classic Kiwi summer
    More floods, droughts and extreme weather events associated with the El Nino and La Nina cycles can be expected in New Zealand in a warming world, Auckland researchers predict.A group of University of Auckland scientists looking...
  • From blokes in sheds to inventing wizards
    In a garage near you is an inventor working on the next big thing. It could be anything from clothes that measure your heart rate to an engine that will revolutionise the way we run vehicles and machinery.Inventors range from dreamers...
  • Secrets of ailments unlocked by stem cells fro ...
    The news that Edinburgh scientists had created the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, at the university's Roslin Institute made headlines around the world 16 years ago.Her birth raised hopes of the creation of a new generation...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • It's Santorum Time!
    The come-from-behind kid, Sen. Rick Santorum, though still third or last in most national polls and severly underfinanced, wins non-binding contests in Minnesota, Colorado, and Missouri. Minnesota's and Colorado's were nonbinding caucus straw polls; Missouri's a completely ...
  • Halftime in America: Remy Chrysler Ad Parody
    It's halftime. Both teams are listening to a Madonna performance that sounds eerily similar to a Lady Gaga song they'll hear 10 years from now. It's halftime in America too. People are out of work and they're hurting. And they're wondering where all their money went ...
  • "Tim Tebow Law" Would Let Homeschooled Virgini ...
    Sometime this week Virginia lawmakers are expected to vote on a law which would allow the state's "tens of thousands of" homeschooled kids to play sports on public school teams; in fact it would prevent public schools from being part of any intramural-type organizations which barr ...
  • Ronald Bailey Reviews Abundance: Why The F ...
    The end is not nigh argues X Prize guru Peter Diamandis and journalist Steven Kotler in their new book, Abundance. Instead they assert that humanity stands on the threshold of a period of radical transformation in which technology has the potential to significantly raise the basic sta ...
  • Orwellian Irony in the Extreme
    Picture of the the day, courtesy the Twitter feeds of Libby Jackson, Soren Dayton, and Radley Balko.

Mercury Rising

  • Bigotry Struck Down
    The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The people may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a righ ...
  • Ron Paul Supporters Commit Actual Voter Fraud, ...
    Uh, Paulies, besides its being an actual (as opposed to FOX-hallucinated) act of voter fraud, crashing a Nevada caucus set up for Orthodox Jewish voters is not how you make folks stop wondering if you or your leader are anti-semites: In order to participate, caucus-goers “had to sign a leg ...
  • Sometimes I find a blog that I just like
    (in this case, because the blog owner Liked my post “Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?“, and I was curious enough to track back.) TorontoEmerg, which bills itself as: …the mostly fictional hallucinations of an Emergency Department RN somewhere in the Greater Toront ...
  • Ron Paul Is Mitt Romney’s Best Friend. H ...
    Ever wonder why Ron Paul, the anti-establishment Republican, the hater of “ObamaCare”, the darling of hard-core conservatives and free-market libertarians as well as those progressives who actually think he means what he says about upholding the Constitution, hasn’t laid a glov ...
  • Me or your lying eyes? Media and government cr ...
    In watching most television, it’s sometimes wise not to trust your eyes. In this piece, police clumsily disguised as Black Bloc protesters attempt to discredit a Canadian protest. And are caught at it. According to what the National Lawyers Guild has reported, this goes on all the time in ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Astrology, Ayahuasca, and Reincarnation
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  • Paraben Problems
    While the recent Susan G. Komen grant-making controversy revealed the part politics plays in fighting breast cancer, another discovery regarding the potential danger of everyday cosmetics has received far less attention.    read more
  • A Temple to Atheism
    Writer, and now architectural visionary, Alain de Botton announces his plan to build an atheist temple in the UK. “Why should religious people have the most beautiful buildings in the land?” he says, “its time atheists had their own versions of the great churches and cathedrals.” With the immine ...
  • The Dangerous Methods of David Cronenberg--A B ...
      The following originally appeared on Zap Oracle.   "He made on me personally the impression of a man obsessed with fixed ideas. I can make nothing in my own case with his dream theories, and obviously 'symbolism' is a most dangerous method." --William James ...
  • Save the Wirikuta's Sacred Site
    [Action Alert] • The Wirikuta Cultural and Ecological Reserve, located in Real de Catorce, Mexico, is in danger of irreversible damage due to Canadian mining company First Majestic Silver Corp's plans to mine silver there. The site is sacred to the Wixarika People, who practice their ancie ...

Desertification

  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.
  • ARGENTINA: In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far Mor ...
    Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.
  • Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
    Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • UK militarized South Atlantic: Argentina
    The Argentinean president says Britain was militarizing the South Atlantic by sending reinforcements to the Malvinas Islands and that her country will make a formal complaint to the United Nations over the matter.
  • Argentina to take UK dispute to UN
    Argentina says it will file a formal complaint with the United Nations over Britain's “militarization” of the disputed Malvinas (Falklands) Islands.
  • 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.
  • McCain calls for arming Syria opposition
    US Republican Senator John McCain has called on Washington to consider arming Syrian opposition groups that fight against government forces.
  • US drone raid kills 10 in Pakistan
    A US assassination drone attack has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency near the Afghan border, security officials and residents say, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
  • Tax Expenditures Have a Major Impact on the Fe ...
    Do you receive a tax deduction for the interest paid on your mortgage or for the taxes you pay to your state and local governments? Would you think about those deductions in the same way if instead of seeing a reduction in taxes for those items the federal government instead simply sent you a ch ...
  • How Would Some Changes to Current Law Affect t ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on our annual Budget and Economic Outlook, which was released on Tuesday. As I did in my testimony before the House Budget Committee, I highlighted many of the points that were included in Tuesday’s blog post. In today’s pos ...
  • CBO’s View on the Wall Street Journal Story ab ...
    The Wall Street Journal has just published an article entitled “Congress’s Number Cruncher Comes Under Fire.” Here’s our view: CBO is responsible for providing nonpartisan and thoughtful analysis to the Congress, and we are proud that our success in carrying out that miss ...
  • Fundamental Fiscal Challenge: Rising Health Ca ...
    This morning I testified before the House Budget Committee on our annual Budget and Economic Outlook that was released yesterday. My testimony highlighted many of the points that were included in yesterday’s blog post. One point I want to emphasize is the following: The combination of ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...

Nick Turse

  • Taliban guerrilla leader Mullah Hayatullah Kha ...
    Taliban guerrilla leader Mullah Hayatullah Khan (R) speaks to Reuters at a secret base in eastern Afghanistan. © Str/Pakistan/Reuters/Corbis
  • GUIYANG, CHINA - JUNE 06: (CHINA OUT) Green t ...
    GUIYANG, CHINA - JUNE 06: (CHINA OUT) Green terraced fields after heavy rain are seen on June 6, 2011 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China. According to the China Meteorological Administration on Monday, heavy rain will affect parts of eastern and southern China over the next three days. ...
  • Semi naked activists from the Ukrainian female ...
    Semi naked activists from the Ukrainian female rights group Femen protest in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy against a ban on driving cars for women in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, June 16, 2011. (Sergei Chuzavkov)
  • reuters:This Reuters graphic shows there hav ...
    reuters: This Reuters graphic shows there have been 6,519 men, 190 women and 465 children killed in violence in Syria as of Feb. 5, 2012. The most fatalities in a single day since April of last year happened on Feb. 4, 2012 with 400 deaths reported. The latest on Syria | Follow Reuters on Tumb ...
  • centerforinvestigativereporting:What is the ...
    centerforinvestigativereporting: What is the food situation in countries around the world? Click through to check out our new food statistic map, part of our Food for 9 Billion project with the PBS NewsHour, American Public Media’s Marketplace and Homelands Productions.  To get you started, he ...
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