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• Japanese Humour on Nuclear Contamination
  After an endless stream of horrid reports on the tragedy of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, and the hotspots that are cropping up in odd places, and food scares, and even contaminated grasshoppers, we’re ready for something ... lighter. A ...
• Germany's Carthaginian terms for Greece
  The last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secured better terms than shattered Greece last week. The US, Canada, Britain, France, Greece, and other signatories at the London Debt Agreement of 1953 granted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a 50pc haircut on all German debt, worth ...
• Social Media "Tactical Intelligence Collection"
  A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports: We e ...
• Inside Story: Climate Scientists Under Siege
  It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann’s account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public. His story of that campaign, and his own journey from naive computer geek to battle-hardened climate ninja, seems overwrought, maybe even paranoi ...
• Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: With Robots
  In the agency’s $2.8 billion budget for 2013, unveiled on Monday, they’ve allotted $7 million for a project titled “Avatar.” The project’s ultimate goal, not surprisingly, sounds a lot like the plot of the same-named (but much more expensive) flick. According the agency, “the Avatar program w ...

Independent - London

• Syria troops advance on rebel area
  Syrian security forces are advancing on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, an official says.Related StoriesJournalist Paul Conroy 'in good spirits' after Syria rescueWe won't give US advance warning of Iran strike, says IsraelThe siege-breakers who provide a lifeline i ...
• Belarus criticises EU decision to pull envoys 
  The Belarusian Foreign Ministry says the European Union's decision to recall all its ambassadors from the ex-Soviet nation is a "path into a deadlock." Related StoriesCourt orders retrial into boy's death in Gaza captured by TV crewIreland to hold referendum on euro pactLiner all at sea for at l ...
• German jobless rate up to 7.4% in February 
  Official data shows that Germany's unemployment rate edged up to 7.4 per cent in February, due to a spell of bitterly cold weather. Related StoriesCourt orders retrial into boy's death in Gaza captured by TV crewIreland to hold referendum on euro pactLiner all at sea for at least one more night ...
• Christopher Tappin makes first court appearance
  British businessman Christopher Tappin has made his first appearance in court after being extradited to the US.Related StoriesChavez recovers after undergoing cancer surgeryMistakes, I've made a few: Romney apologises for misfiring campaignAllen Stanford decides not to take stand at his fraud t ...
• 'Anonymous hackers' arrested in police swoops
  25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in police raids across Europe and South America.Related StoriesCourt orders retrial into boy's death in Gaza captured by TV crewIreland to hold referendum on euro pactLiner all at sea for at least one more night after detou ...

Rogue Government.com

• Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
  Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
  The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
• Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
  Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
• China aims high with space program ambitions
  As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• One Year on, 'Ghosts' Stalk Japan's Tsunami City
  A year after whole neighbourhoods full of people were killed by the Japanese tsunami, rumours of ghosts swirl in Ishinomaki as the city struggles to come to terms with the awful tragedy. One reconstruction project appears stalled because of fears the undead spirits of those who perished last Ma ...
• Not guilty! We did not kill the Neanderthals - ...
  Neanderthals were not wiped out by humans - and faced extinction even before our ancestors migrated to Europe, according to scientists. Debunking long-held claims that we introduced disease or brutally murdered them, researchers say our rival species was more likely to have succumbed to the I ...
• Food Dyes Suspected Of Causing Behavioral Prob ...
  Chicago - Is it possible that artificial colors added to our food could be causing behavioral problems in children? Concerns about synthetic food dyes led many manufacturers in Europe to stop using then. But as CBS 2's Mary Kay Kleist reports, the dyes are used here in everything from cereal ...
• The ancient Arabic writings that reveal desert ...
  It snowed three times between 908 and 1007 - but not again until 2008 Temperatures in Baghdad range from around 2C in winter to 45C in the summer - but ancient Arabic writings have revealed that the city experienced a dramatic frozen period around 1,000 years ago. Spanish researchers from th ...
• China Chemical Plant Blast Leaves 13 Dead, Man ...
  An explosion at a chemical factory in northern China has killed at least 13 people, state officials said. Part of the plant was flattened by the blast and witnesses said houses within a 2km diameter had windows smashed. Police believe the blast, which left another 43 people injured, may have b ...

The Galloping Beaver

• All he wanted was power ...
  Something which puts him right out of his depth. Harebell has the best paragraph of the month. This was some pretty canny footwork by Rae, who is showing he can dance well. However it speaks volumes about the naivete of Harper when the chips are down and it is a cast iron illustration that thi ...
• I wield my scimitar through the fields of drag ...
  And Preston Manning, because Latin doesn't seem to be his strong suit, makes up words to go with his gut-gripping fiction. We Canadians have many virtues, but we also have our faults. One of the most worrisome is our growing tendency to substitute discussion for action on key public issues such ...
• Honourary degrees...
  I don't have much of a problem with honorary degrees, provided they are conferred on people who have done something in the public good. I do have a problem when they are all too often politicised, given to donors and friends of university brass. In my undergraduate at Winnipeg, former foreign mi ...
• PR blocks harpergov.enbridge.cn
  Via BCL, we learn Prince Rupert has officially given the finger to the China-Conservative Party-Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, formally signally that city's allegiance to the eco-terrorist revolutionaries. Unofficial government sources claim that the Conservative government is considering ...
• Figuring things out . . .
  D-Wave's 512-qubit chip, code-named Vesuvius. The white square on the right contains the quantum goodness. THANKS TO ALISON, DAVE AND BORIS, the sad and disgraceful tale of Stevie's criminality unfolds in exquisite schadenfreude, maybe we'll get an IMAX version. Eventually, the Steviezit will g ...

Media Matters for America

• Conservative Experts Say That Obama Was Right ...
  Several conservative foreign policy and military experts have agreed with President Obama's decision to apologize to Afghanistan for the burning of Qurans by U.S. military personnel. Ignoring these experts, Fox News' conservative hosts and pundits have tried to flame outrage over Obama's apolog ...
• Fox Attacks On Obama Ignore Bush Apology For ...
  Fox News figures are lambasting President Obama as "weak" for apologizing to Afghans after U.S. military personnel burned copies of the Quran. This criticism is bizarre, as Obama's reaction to the incident is fully consistent with U.S. precedent: in 2008, President Bush similarly apologized ...
• Exposing What's Wrong With The "Right-To-Work" ...
  Contrary to the right-wing media myth, right-to-work legislation does not lead to job growth and higher pay for workers. Economic studies have shown that the "evidence is overwhelming" that "right-to-work" laws have not boosted employment or wages in states that have adopted them.Right-Wing Myt ...
• Conservative Media Still Deny Fact That Unempl ...
  Right-wing media have spent the week attacking Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett for her accurate claim that unemployment insurance stimulates the economy. The claim that unemployment benefits don't provide an economic boost is a conservative myth that right-wing media have regularly pushed.Jarrett ...
• Brent Bozell Now Making Up Oil Statistics
  During a discussion of gasoline prices, frequent Fox News guest Brent Bozell claimed that U.S. oil production has fallen under President Obama. In reality, the opposite is true: after increasing every year since 2009, oil production is at an eight-year high; gas prices continue to rise because ...

Global Research.ca

• WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling th ...
  GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve nuclear weapons and the collision of global powers...
• SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
  ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the "Libya Model": it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces...
• The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadma ...
  The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
• After the Fact, Senate Committee to Hold Heari ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Military Hysteria: America's Neverendin ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• In Afghanistan, American Conservatives Threw P ...
  The stunning murders of two senior American officers within the high-security command and control center of the Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, followed by the wounding of other American soldiers by a grenade thrown into a camp in Kunduz, is a bitter disgrace for the counter-insurgency strategy ...
• The Unapologetic Republicans
  I'm sorry, but the apology controversy is a sorry-**sed sorry affair (latest coverage here and here). If this is going to be taken seriously as campaign issue, it needs to be looked at from both directions. The Republicans shouldn't get a free pass to put the president on the defensive. We need ...
• Smothering Iran Diplomacy With Support
  When you boil it down, much of the recent right-wing commentary on Iran consists of variations on the theme of just how futile diplomacy is. President Obama's handling of Iran has been subject to intense cross-pressures --and plenty of second-guessing -- at every step along the way. And now, hav ...
• Has Iran Decided to Build the Bomb?
  Senator Lindsey Graham is convinced the goal of Iran's nuclear program is military, and the contrast between Graham's certainty and the more judicious view of President Obama's director of national intelligence highlights critical points for a peaceful resolution of the issue -- or a war. Hat ti ...
• Ten Deep Thoughts on the All-Male Panel on my ...
  House Oversight Committee Chairman, master car thief and generalcriminal Darrell Issa held a hearing today on the Obama administration's new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Claiming that the the hearing was "not abo ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel ups demolitions in controversial Palest ...
  Less than two months into 2012, the pace of Israeli demolitions and displacements of Palestinians is already outstripping the same period in 2011. Israel seems to be taking advantage of ...
• Soldiers raiding Palestinian homes: 'We want p ...
  A new video from Nabi Saleh shows a night-time raid on the home of activist Bilal Tamimi, during which soldiers claim they just want peace - as they take all the children out from their ...
• Gaza power plant closes again (Ma'an News Agency)
  Gaza's only power plant has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to a fuel shortage, the energy authority in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday. Energy officials appea ...
• One man's hunger strike is a victory for Pales ...
  For much of the 66 days that Khader Adnan spent on hunger strike, international leaders and the world's media averted their gaze. In much the same manner, they long turned a blind eye t ...
• Israeli government confirms plan for segregate ...
  On Monday, Israeli officials announced their intention to construct a train system for Israeli settlers living in violation of international law in the West Bank. According to the Ha'ar ...

Water - AlterNet

• How Private Water Companies Are Fleecing its C ...
  Private companies are aggressively trying to expand their share of the water service market, and too often we're getting a raw deal.
• Is the Era of Nuclear Power Coming to an End i ...
  A battle raging in Vermont over an aging plant may be an important indicator of whether nuclear has had its day.
• 7 Dangerous Lies About Plastic
  Big Plastic is big money and survives regulatory scrutiny by creating big spin. Here's what you need to know.
• Is Heartland Document Leaker Peter Gleick a Hero?
  The climate scientist is on a temporary leave of absence while there is an investigation over the leak of Heartland Institute documents.
• As Fracking Boom Hits Ohio, Deceptive Industry ...
  An energy company representative blatantly lies to an Ohio landowner about the basics of fracking.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Tar Sands by Any Other Name
  This post was reprinted from a press statement by Trevor Lovell in response to TransCanada’s announcement yesterday, February 27th regarding their plans to pursue the building of a pipeline from Cushing, OK to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast while pursuing a new application for the ...
• 2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts bo ...
  While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out pow ...
• A temporary victory for private property rights
  Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline ...
• TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Desp ...
  Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to b ...
• A plan to teach climate change skepticism in s ...
  The other day at a dinner party I sat across from a climate scientist (seriously, a professor at a major university in the earth sciences department), who commented that his trips to the Artic this summer were somewhat daunting.  When I asked him who were all these folks Governor Perry said were ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA's Mars program cancelled ?
  Future missions to Mars seem unlikely due to large budget cuts to NASA's planetary budget. Missions slated for 2016 and 2018 have been cancelled while...
• Can we unlock eagle vision in humans ?
  Eagles have such good eyesight that they are able to see an ant from the top of a 10-story building. Scientists have long pondered over the possibilit...
• Psychic jailed for stealing $300,000
  Nancy Marks was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing large sums of money from her clients. Marks had tricked clients in to handing over thei...
• Does a fear of spiders make them bigger ?
  Research has suggested that people scared of spiders are likely to perceive them as larger than they are. The study found that sufferers of arachnopho...
• Yellowstone visitors report mystery 'music'
  Strange celestial sounds have been heard by visitors to the picturesque Yellowstone National Park. For years the sounds have been described by visitor...

Grassroots

• Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Anna Lappé is author of Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork (Bloomsbury USA) and a board member of Rainforest Action Network. Willie Nelson is founder and president of Farm Aid ...
• Successful Steps toward Food Sovereignty
  mozambique200811-small.jpg From all corners of the world, small farmers, indigenous peoples and human rights activists have been percolating solutions upward to advance their rights to land, water and food. With 2011 behind us, Grassroots I ...
• Haitian leaders call for land and housing rights
  639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...
• Ex-Haitian Dictator will not be tried for huma ...
  2785349288_8fd8b11a14_m.jpg Since returning from exile last year, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been treated like an old friend by Haitian President Michel Martelly, rather than a brutal dictator responsible for the de ...
• Violence continues in Honduras, agro-fuels pla ...
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Climate

• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  (National Geographic) Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind the recent unusually cold and snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Climate Change May Make Mount Everest Unclimbable
  (Discovery.com) Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world's top mountaineers have warned.
• Donald Trump's Campaign Against Offshore Wind ...
  (BBC News) Donald Trump may spend more than £10m campaigning against a proposal for 11 offshore wind turbines off Scotland's Aberdeenshire coast, near his golf resort.
• Opposition Groups Kick Up Storm Over Wind Farm ...
  (Guardian) Opposition to wind power in rural Wales is said to be "total," with communities threatening peaceful direct action and at least 20 groups fighting plans for 870 of the largest turbines in Powys alone.
• Quebec Carbon Labeling Program a First
  (Montreal Gazette) Quebec is kicking in $24 million to help companies determine the carbon content of their products and disclose that carbon footprint to consumers.

GreenBiz

• How eBay's Data Center Makes e-Commerce More E ...
  By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.
• Helping Social Intrapreneurs Enhance Their Imp ...
  Ford Motor Company's manager of Social Sustainability explains why his work has expanded beyond not just environmental issues, but to reach out far beyond the company's own factories and into the community.
• The Benefits of Building Efficiency Go Far Bey ...
  Today, improving buildings' energy efficiency is a rapidly growing industry blossoming with new business ideas and models. Here are some ways business can profit.
• 5 Ways Leading Companies Dive into Water Manag ...
  Verdantix takes a look at the state of global corporate water strategies and what it will take for them to mature.  
• The Green Button and a Breath of Fresh Air for ...
  A project aimed at making customers' utility data more easily accessible and understandable has already been embraced by a few leading utilities, and developers like Tendril and Opower are working to take it to the next level.

Duly Noted

• Greeks on the street
  Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
• NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
  Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
• Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
  After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
• Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
  A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
• India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
  A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.

Booman Tribune

• 500 Deaths From Tasers in USA
  Non-lethal force. Saving lives. Who can argue with that. Well, in the United States, Amnesty International now reports that 500 people have been killed by Tasers employed by law enforcement officials. I imagine if they had a voice they might have something to say about the rampant use of thi ...
• Serious Question
  Anyone want to discuss this excerpt from James Taranto? There is more to a black person's life than the way he is treated by the government or by whites. When one considers the social problems that have beset the black community since the civil rights era--the decline of marriage and rise of ...
• Election Night Thread
  With about half the vote counted in Michigan it is still technically too close to call, but I'm going to predict that Romney pulls it out. I see Nate Silver is hedging a bit, but I think he knows already that Romney did well enough in his strongholds in the Detroit suburbs and held up well enou ...
• David Brooks Compares His Party to Nazis
  Clay Risen once described David Brooks this way: Brooks has a good sense of humor and an incisive wit. He is ruthless in his depiction of the vagaries and contradictions of Bobo culture ("they want an oven capacity of 8 cubic feet minimum, just to show they are the sort of people who could ro ...
• Tonight Doesn't Really Matter
  It seems like everyone is trying to create drama. Here's Matt Dowd, responding to a query from George Stephanopoulos: "What happens if Rick Santorum wins Michigan tonight?" If Rick Santorum wins tonight its the equivalent of a 9.0 on a Richter scale. I mean it is going to shake Washington, ...

Environmental Graffiti

• How to Make Your Own Walking Stick Out of Recy ...
  Save your pruned branches from the dump. Turn them into walking sticks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 15 Incredible Pics of Animal Treehuggers
  Being a 'treehugger' isn't just a human thing! As these fantastic images demonstrate, animals hug trees too — and for all sorts of reasons. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 17 Spectacular Pictures of Siberia's Altai Mou ...
  In the autumn of 2011, photographer Andrew Kudrin visited the stunning and ecologically diverse Altai mountains, returning with these jaw-droppingly beautiful photographs read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
• Spider Vs Wasp: A Deadly Battle in Pictures
  Captured in a series of fascinating images, a battle between a spider and a wasp is hard-fought indeed... but who will be the victor? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• BASE Jumping from the Top of Shanghai's Jin Ma ...
  Most of us would get sweaty palms just looking down from an 88-story tower, but for some daring BASE jumpers the Jin Mao super skyscraper offers the chance to fly... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• America's Image Problem
  We think we're helping them. They think we're out to destroy their way of life.
• Qur'an Burning an Arson Attack on Islam
  The soldiers who dumped copies of the Qur'an into an incinerator may as well have set fire to a religion.
• Hyping Threats Is a Smokescreen That Obscures ...
  The problem with hyping national security threats is that it nudges greater threats such as global warming off the public's radar screen.
• Review: Occupy World Street
  A new book on economic inequality puts environmental sustainability at the heart of global economics.
• U.S. "Democracy Promotion" May Sour President ...
  The sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia could prove to be an awkward weekend for President Obama.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Arrests target suspected 'Anonymous' hackers
  Interpol announces 25 arrests in Spain and South America over cyber-attacks linked to hacker network.
• China backs efforts to send aid to Syria
  Foreign minister says international community should extend humanitarian aid as West calls for Security Council action.
• Chavez undergoes surgery in Cuba
  Venezuelan president in "good physical condition" after latest operation in Cuba to remove pelvic lesion, officials say.
• Several killed in China axe attacks
  Police in Xinjiang province blame Uighurs for marketplace attack by axe-wielding men that left at least 12 people dead.
• New Zealand shipwreck captain pleads guilty
  Captain and navigating officer admit operating ship in a dangerous manner and trying to pervert course of justice.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Fracking Dispute in Pennsylvania
  Residents argue that the drilling company and the state should have alerted them to problems with cement casings at two gas wells.
• Alliance Seeks Vast Marine Reserves in Antarctic
  Alarmed by threats to marine life, an alliance of environmental groups wants 19 zones to be protected or off limits to fishing and mineral exploration.
• Preserving the World's Reefs Through Photography
  A suitably squidlike camera that moves at a leisurely two and a half miles an hour will visually document the composition and health of the Great Barrier Reef along its full 1,500-mile span.
• Energy Field's Long Shots Show Off Their Stuff
  The array of technologies at this year's ARPA-E conference include a flying wind turbine and a process that zaps dirty flue gases with supersonic sound.
• The Sturgeon's Looming Endangered Listing
  A federal agency works with the fishing industry on ways it can minimize incidental catches of Atlantic sturgeon.

Dot Earth News

• Why We Often Worry Too Much, and Sometimes Not ...
  A look at the fear factors that cause humans to overreact to some risks and miss others.
• The Other False Balance in the Climate Fight
  For those seeking action on global warming, stepping carefully is as much a practical necessity as a matter of ethics.
• A Chat With RealClimate Blogger Gavin Schmidt
  A seasoned climate blogger explores how scientists should get online to fill the space "between the paper and the Tweet."
• More on Peter Gleick and the Heartland Files
  Consequences begin to pile up for a scientist who said he lied to get documents from a group fighting climate action.
• Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining ...
  A climate scientist admits that he used false pretenses to obtain documents from a group fighting climate action.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
  BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...
• Rise of the Facebook Killers! SocialNetwork-in ...
  Rise of the Facebook-Killers by Nick Pinto- New York - Village Voice: .... Moglen said, Mark Zuckerberg had harnessed the energy of our social desires to talk us into a swindle. "Everybody needs to get laid," Moglen said. "He turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human per ...
• Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
  It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
• Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
  Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
• #occupywallstreet makes total lol
  Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...

Daily Censored

• Virginia declares “emperor has no clothes”: nu ...
  Virginia’s Senate voted today (39-1) to nullify NDAA 2012 provisions to seize American citizens at the dictate of the federal executive branch. They joined the House’s 96-4 vote. Do an Internet news search for this story (like this); you won’t find any corporate media coverage. ...
• Four Horsemen movie trailer: “You don’t know w ...
  with trailer here. The documentary Four Horsemen follows the 2011 Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job. The purpose of both is to begin factually explaining what Occupy points to: A “1%” oligarchy within economics, government, and media have transferred wealth from the 99% to themselves. ...
• University of Maryland plans $7.2 million pres ...
  The “University House” at the University of Maryland is scheduled to open this fall.  Also known as the University of Maryland’s president’s house, the new mansion will have two separate sections: one wing will contain a 4,000-square-foot private residence with four bedrooms that will cost about ...
• Santorum’s Satanic Voices
  By Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Senator Rick Santorum knows something many of us do not. Satan is waging war on the United States. This is no scruffy terrorist group carrying explosives in their underwear or shoes. It is Satan himself, also known as the Devil, Mephistopheles, the Beast, etc. ...
• Identifying Eight Trillion Dollars in U. S. Fe ...
  By Skip Robinson Ph.D. The U. S. Congressional Supercommittee fell from the sky in flames. (Not that it was any great surprise.) It could not reach its goal to manage a bipartisan agreement for $1.2 trillion or more in new revenues and cuts – which could have significantly begun to flag the lowe ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

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  In advance of Trans-Pacific trade talks, over 100 economists are sending a letter today urging negotiators to promote global financial stability by allowing the use of capital controls.
• Open Letter: Urging Capital Controls in the Tr ...
  IPS economists join 100 colleagues across the world in advocating for governments' right to use a proven tool against financial volatility.
• The Persecution of Judge Garzon
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• Stealing From The Mouth of Public Education to ...
  We are witnessing a systemic recasting of education priorities that gives official structure and permanence to a preexisting underclass comprised largely of criminalized poor black and brown people.
• The Lineup: Week of Feb. 27-March 4, 2012
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IntelNews

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  Is Obama abusing the US Espionage Act? Ex-head admits IAEA does work with spies. Afghanistan arrests diplomat on spying charges.
• Israel ‘not to warn US’ on Iran attack, says U ...
  The Israeli government has reportedly decided not to forewarn the United States if and when it decides to launch military strikes against Iran’s nuclear energy program.
• News you may have missed #686
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• US spy agencies see no clear evidence of Iran ...
  The United States intelligence community still believes Iran has no immediate goals to produce nuclear arms, and says that Tehran terminated its atomic weapons program in 2003, according to American officials.
• News you may have missed #685
  Abkhazia President survives assassination attempt. Groups object to CIA declassification charges. Fallout from Syrian colonel’s abduction in Turkey.

War is a Crime.org

• Fadi Quran Victimized by Israeli State Terror
    Fadi Quran Victimized by Israeli State Terror   by Stephen Lendman   On February 25, international and supportive Israelis joined 500 Palestinians protesting in Hebron's Old City.    read more
• Talk Nation Radio: Robert Naiman of Just Forei ...
  Robert Naiman, just returned from Bahrain, discusses the popular uprising there, the upcoming conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its push for war with Iran, and the prospects for reducing U.S. military spending. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson Produc ...
• WikiLeaks' Stratfor Dump Lifts Lid on Intellig ...
  by The Guardian/UK via CommonDreams WikiLeaks' latest release, of hacked emails from Stratfor, shines light on the murky world of private intelligence-gathering by Pratap Chatterjee What price bad intelligence? Some 5m internal emails from Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that bran ...
• Occupy Honduras
• The Ghost and the Machine
  By Kathy Kelly with research by the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province.  She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son, Aymal ...

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

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Digg Green

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  When the mythical Greek king Oedipus realized he'd murdered his father and married his mother, he gouged his own eyes out. But in real life, self-blinding is a rare yet devastating consequence of untreated psychosis.

Invisible Opportunity

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  Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post With the designated purpose of ‘euthanasia and execution,’ the “Euthanasia Coaster” is a concept for a real steel roller coaster that has been created to “show the future of humans and technology.” The creator of the coaster, Julijonas Urbonas, says th ...
• Putin Assassination Plot Foiled as Two Militan ...
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• Did the Ayatollah Really Say: Kill all Jews, A ...
  By Keith Johnson The short answer: Absolutely not! Part of the long answer comes from Muhammad Sahimi, who recently told Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton that the inflammatory article published by World Net Daily (WND), entitled Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, Annihilate Israel is “totally bogus.” Muha ...
• The Recurring Myth of Peak Oil
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• Study: Combination tetanus, whooping cough vac ...
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Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Kentucky and Oklahoma Reject "Anti-Meth& ...
  This week, prescription-only bills were killed in Oklahoma and withdrawn in Kentucky, and unhappy police and prosecutors are blaming the over-the-counter industry.
• Kentucky and Oklahoma Reject Ridiculous &quot ...
  This week, prescription-only bills were killed in Oklahoma and withdrawn in Kentucky, and unhappy police and prosecutors are blaming the over-the-counter industry.
• Eliot Spitzer: Spending Money on Prosecuting P ...
  Former New York governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer says he not only supports medical marijuana, but thinks we should replace marijuana prohibition with legalization.
• Eliot Spitzer: "Legalizing Pot is The Rig ...
  Former New York governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer says he not only supports medical marijuana, but thinks we should replace marijuana prohibition with legalization.
• Whites More Likely to Be Drug Addicts Than Bla ...
  The racial undertones that permeate the discussion of Whitney Houston’s death are trading on the stereotype that most drug abusers are black -- which simply isn't true.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• An Enchanted Forest of Carved Tree Stump Creat ...
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• A Contest is Brewing: Win a Trip To Brazil!
  There are two types of coffee lovers in the world: commercial café frequenters and coffee connoisseurs. If you fall into the latter category, or simply appreciate the alluring aroma of an excellent cup of Joe, this unique opportunity will surely get you percolating. Peet’s Coffee is offering a s ...
• 2012 Pritzker Prize Awarded to Wang Shu – Firs ...
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• Summit Soap Launches Kickstarter to Gear Up Pr ...
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• 6 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Company’s Carbon ...
  While some companies become more sustainable by overhauling their workplaces into state-of-the-art, ecotastic offices, most businesses don’t have the money or the ability to do that. Instead, we must try to green the spaces that we have, which are often decades-old buildings with drafty wi ...

Pogue's Posts

• More on OnLive Desktop – Readers' Questi ...
  Following Thursday's column, more information about OnLive Desktop, the app that turns an iPad into a blazing-fast Windows machine.
• What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
  ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.
• Apple's Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like ...
  Apple's Mountain Lion operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what's on the iPhone/iPad. Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly a ...
• The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
  If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.
• Things That Were Once Amazing
  David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Giant Prehistoric Penguins Stood Nearly 5 Feet ...
  Paleontologists have constructed a model of a prehistoric penguin that stood almost 4 feet 6 inches tall when it lived in what is now New Zealand, approximately 25 million years ago.
• Op-Ed: Why YouTube Matters to the Science of D ...
  An anthropologist of science looks at YouTube, where parodies of Zoloft advertisements have reclaimed the scientific and cultural narrative of depression from a handful of corporate behemoths.
• Men Think Sex After Seeing Red Dress
  Men rate women wearing red clothing as being more interested in sex, hinting that humans may be conditioned to associate the color with fertility.
• Americans Listening to Politicians, Not Climat ...
  Public acceptance of climate change was at its prime in the mid-2000s, yet political bipartisanship also hit a high point. As the economy began to plummet, people began listening to politicians on climate change instead of scientists, new opinion-poll-based research suggests.
• Video: First Nanorockets Might Shuttle Drugs, ...
  In the movie Fantastic Voyage, a crack surgical team is miniaturized inside a ship. Their mission: to destroy a blood clot in the brain of a Soviet-era informant. Given the relatively vast distances covered inside the body, however, movie makers probably should have equipped vessel with rocket m ...

PakAlert

• Ethicists Argue Killing Newborn Babies Should ...
  A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics argues that abortion should be extended to make the killing of newborn babies permissible, even if the baby is perfectly healthy, in a shocking example of how the medical establishment is still dominated by a eugenicist mindset.
• Will A Metal Garage Protect From EMP?
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• Hitler’s Roswell: Alien saucer crash in 1937 N ...
  Ten years before an alien craft crashed onto rancher Mack Brazel's property near Roswell, New Mexico, a flying saucer lost control and crashed onto the countryside of Nazi Germany. This incredible story—covered-up by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. for more than 70 years—is allegedly the actual basis ...
• Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America ...
  In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation's two leading producers of agrochemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the use of the herbicide 2,4-D, one half of the infamous defoliant Agent Orange, which was used by American forces to clear jungle during the Vi ...
• US armed Israel for Iran attack
  The United States has provided Israel with the military technology and arms to aid Tel Aviv in a possible attack against Iran nuclear facilities, a prominent American journalist says.

Andy Worthington

• To Mark 10 Years of Guantánamo, Stern Magazine ...
  Last week, when I cross-posted an article written for the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo by my friend Todd Pierce, I also noted that when I visited the US in January to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy that I did not have time to cross-post other articles ...
• Video (in Arabic): On Kuwaiti TV, Tom Wilner a ...
  Following up on my visit to Kuwait last week, to assist the lawyers and activists and family members pushing for the release from Guantánamo of the last two Kuwaiti prisoners, Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah, I’m pleased to make available below a series of videos of the 70-minute progra ...
• After a Wonderful Visit to Kuwait, New Plans t ...
  Now that my first ever visit to Kuwait has come to an end — in which I was involved in events and discussions designed to raise the profile in Kuwait, and internationally, of the two remaining Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah — I feel as though I have been a ...
• As the Underwear Bomber Receives a Life Senten ...
  Last Thursday, February 16, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” received a life sentence in a courtroom in Detroit. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, had tried and failed to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, receiving serious burns when the bo ...
• In Kuwait, Looking for American Justice &#8212 ...
  Greetings from Kuwait, where the weather is fresh and warm, and the people are very friendly. Although I have been studying Guantánamo and the “war on terror” for the last six years, this is my first visit to the Middle East, and I’m here to play whatever part I can to secure t ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind unusually snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged ...
  Scientists have created a new 3-D picture of a giant swarm of tiny gelatinous sea creatures off Australia.
• Concern Over Rare Rhino Rouses Clean Energy Dr ...
  After a fight against a coal-fired power plant that threatened one of the last sanctuaries of the Sumatran rhino, a struggle for cleaner energy continues in east Malaysia.
• 32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Old ...
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• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
  The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

• Mental Exam Ordered for Arizona ‘Soverei ...
  Arizona officials say a murder suspect who used language reminiscent of that employed by antigovernment “sovereign” citizens during court appearances must undergo a mental competency exam before returning to court, the Arizona Republic reported yesterday. Michael Lee Crane, 31, of Mesa, Ariz., p ...
• White Supremacist Convicted of Bombing Scottsd ...
  Notorious white supremacist Dennis Mahon faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted in Phoenix on charges related to mailing a pipe bomb to a diversity officer who is African-American. Mahon, 61, was convicted Friday of conspiracy to damage buildings and property with explosives; malic ...
• Alaska Birther Launches ‘Sovereign’ Attack on ...
  An Alaska man who is challenging President Barack Obama’s eligibility for office on the grounds that the president is a “mulatto” based his complaint on an argument common to the neo-Confederate and antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movements, Hatewatch has learned. In a complaint filed Tuesday ...
• After Debate With SPLC, a Professor Offers a B ...
  Apparently, it’s a lot easier to declare victory than to actually win it. At least that’s my takeaway from a comment today from Vanderbilt University law school professor Carol Swain, who I debated, along with two others, this Tuesday at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention in Na ...
• Reality Show Celebrates Hate Group Leader as A ...
  In a move that is sure to endear it permanently to America’s nativist extremist demographic, the Outdoor Channel last night featured hate group leader Glenn Spencer on “Border Battles,” a recently debuted reality show about “what it takes to protect our nation’s borders from drug smuggling, ille ...

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

Common Dreams -News

• Child Advocates Slam Greenwashing of Seuss' Be ...
  Environmentalists and child advocates are raising warning flags this week over the consumer-driven, corporate-sponsored ad campaigns and product tie-ins surrounding the movie version of Dr. Suess' 'The Lorax'.  One of the most beloved children's book authors of all time, Dr. ...
• Greenpeace: Fukushima Disaster Caused by Japan ...
  A new report released today by Greenpeace argues it was neither the 7.1 magnitude earthquake nor the raging tsunami that followed which deserve the real blame for the nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Diachi power plant last year. ...
• Antarctic Ocean Alliance Calls for World's Lar ...
  The Antarctic Ocean Alliance, a coalition of groups including Greenpeace, WWF and Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), has called for the world's largest marine reserve to be declared in Antarctica's Ross Sea to protect the delicate ecosystem. The alliance calls on the Commissi ...
• Wall Street Fights Back Against Bid to Curb Oi ...
  A Federal Judge is weighing arguments for and against a deeper regulatory regiment on the oil futures market that stems from Congressional legislation passed in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. McClatchy reports on the hearing that took place on Monday where the judge hinted that he &q ...
• Israeli Officials: Israel Won't Warn U.S. Bef ...
  Israel won't notify the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran, the Associated Press is reporting, and says the announcement was "delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations with U.S. officials." Associated Press reports that though Israeli de ...

Lifehacker

• Collusion for Firefox Shows You Who’s Tracking ...
  Firefox: We talk a lot about privacy at Lifehacker, specifically about how your activities are tracked on the web and what you can do to stop it. If you're still on the fence or not convinced that the issue is as widespread as it is, Collusio ...
• Like Lifehacker on Facebook and Subscribe to O ...
  If Facebook is your social network of choice, there's no reason you have to leave Lifehacker behind when you head over to catch up with your firends. Like the Lifehacker Facebook Page to get just our top stories in your news feed, as soon as ...
• Buzz Contacts Is an Attractive and Feature-Ric ...
  iOS: Buzz Contacts replaces your iPhone's conatcts app with a contacts manager and dialer that's easy to navigate, offers partial name and number search, lets you quickly SMS or call your contacts, organize your contacts by list and category, ...
• Daily App Deals: Get Convex for iOS for Free i ...
  The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More »
• Most Popular PowerPoint Alternative: Keynote [ ...
  Creating an interesting, informative, and elegant presentation or slideshow for a company meeting or job interview doesn't have to be difficult, and you don't have to lock yourself into Microsoft PowerPoint to make a good one, even though it' ...

Water Privatization

• SGA Bill Supports Plastic Reduction
  The Student Government Association (SGA) voted to support a water coalition initiative calling for the reduction of plastic bottle sales on campus, particularly at Cox Hall, during a legislative session Monday evening.
• Aquino wants water sector master plan by April
  A MASTER plan for the water sector is expected to be finalized by April to improve the development and use of the resource, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III said yesterday.
• Manila Water sets P10B capex
  EAST Zone concessionaire Manila Water Co. Inc. yesterday said it would maintain a capital expenditure of P10 billion this year to finance priority projects and investments particularly in wastewater treatment plants.
• Candidate for water-sewer board withdraws her name
  A candidate for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority board withdrew from consideration for the position in the wake of comments she made earlier this week to City Council about privatizing the troubled authority, a city spokeswoman said.
• Ravenstahl withdraws sewer authority nominee
  Two days after an awkward confirmation interview with city council, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today withdrew his nomination of Darlene Williams Yanakos to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.

Guardian

• Leveson inquiry: Phillip Williams, Mark Maberl ...
  Full coverage as the serving Met police officers give evidence12.44pm: Jay says the email would appear to suggest Mulcaire was contacting News of the World before and after illegal accesses. "Pretty good circumstantial evidence", is how Jay describes it.Williams says he does not know what the em ...
• Eurozone crisis live: Finland and the Netherla ...
  • 800 banks bid in huge cheap loans offer • Euro falls after results • Analysts welcome 'Goldilocks' result, but predict trouble ahead • Finland and the Netherlands approve Greece's rescue package • Today's agenda12.38pm: Word of the day is officially "Goldilocks". Three analysts have now argued ...
• Syria: reports of ground invasion on Baba Amr ...
  • Activists claim troops advancing on Homs neighbourhood • Official says Baba Amr will "cleaned" within hours • UN draft to demand humanitarian access to Homs • Activists killed rescue of photographer Paul Conroy12.37pm: "The situation in Baba Amro looks grim," according to Peter Bouckaert, emer ...
• Atlantic Records founder bequeaths £26m to Oxf ...
  Ahmet Ertegun and widow Mica to fund graduate scholarships in biggest donation for humanities students in university's historyOxford University has announced a gift amounting to £26m from the late founder of Atlantic Records and his widow.Some of the fortune left by Ahmet Ertegun – who helped sh ...
• 7/7 bomber's widow sought over Kenya terror plot
  Kenyan police investigate whether wife of Germaine Lindsay was part of unit planning Mombasa attack The wife of one of the 7 July 2005 suicide bombers is being sought for questioning in Kenya over a suspected terror plot, it is understood.Counter-terrorist officers in Nairobi are investigating w ...

McClatchey

• Republican Sen. Snowe of Maine will not seek r ...
  Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, one of the Senate's few remaining moderate Republicans, announced Tuesday that she would not seek a fourth term - a blow to GOP hopes…Click to Continue »
• Officials: Hugo Chávez in good condition ...
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was in stable condition Tuesday after doctors removed a lesion from his pelvic region, the government said.Click to Continue »
• Iraq war vet from S.C. to dine with Obamas
  WASHINGTON ? When she attended Blackville-Hilda High School in South Carolina, Nytayia Jamison never imagined that she would dine at the White House, much less with the first black president.Click to Continue »
• Iraq war vet from S.C. to dine with Obamas
  WASHINGTON ? When she attended Blackville-Hilda High School in South Carolina, Nytayia Jamison never imagined that she would dine at the White House, much less with the first black president.Click to Continue »
• Pentagon: Some 9/11 victims' remains dumped in ...
  Some cremated remains of people who were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were disposed of in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday, tracing the problems with the handling…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• UN-supported project brings Afghans one step c ...
  The United Nations and its partners have teamed up with local villagers in Afghanistan to develop clean cooking stoves that could potentially save lives by improving indoor air quality and reduce gree
• Top Dem Seeks Faster Afghan Withdrawal
  Obama administration officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill will consider bringing U.S. forces out of Afghanistan faster amid new and deep tensions between the two nations, says Carl Levin, the ...
• Clinton defends US mission in Afghanistan
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has defended the US mission in Afghanistan as a week of deadly anti-American protests and the killing of two US service members pushed Democrats to challenge ...
• Fanning the Flames in Afghanistan
  Taliban Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity. In Afghanistan, Washington may be reaching that moment in a state ...
• AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN Timeline of Afghan displa ...
  strategy , they are wrestling with decades of displacement in what has become the world’s most protracted refugee crisis. Here is a ...

Futurismic

• The Future Always Wins
  Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
• New Economies
  Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
• 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Supreme Court ducks conflict on Garcetti
  This morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear two cases that raise a conflict among the circuits about whether the First Amendment protects government employees who refuse to make false statements.  The Court denied petitions for certiorari by David Bowie, a former official of the Distri ...
• No SOX protection for contractor's employees, ...
    On February 3, 2012, two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the SOX whistleblower claims of Jackie Lawson and Jonathan Zang. The case is Lawson v. FMR, LLC, Case No. 10-2240 (1st Cir. 2012). To justify this dismissal, the two judge majority held that the ...
• NWC amicus brief urges broad protection under SOX
  Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center filed an amicus, or fiend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its case of Wiest v. Lynch, Case No. 11-4257. The main issue is whether the Court should adopt the ARB's broad "reasonable belief" standar ...
• New York Times editorial supports FDA whistleb ...
  In today's editorial, the New York Times expresses concerns about the targeted surveillance of whistleblowers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The editorial recounts the claims made by six scientists and physicians who raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of devices appro ...
• Whistleblowers Risked Careers for Mortgage Set ...
  Chalk up another top news story to the whistleblowers. Today, federal and state officials announced a $25 billion landmark settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wro ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• How The Patent System Is Rigged To Only Expand ...
  When the numbers came out showing that 2011 represented yet another record year for patents granted, it was such a non-surprise that I didn't even bother mentioning it. The number of patents granted just keeps going up. And yes, there were two small dips during the past decade, but they corres ...
• DailyDirt: Tiny Drug Factories
  Brand name pharmaceutical drugs are ridiculously expensive, but how much does it really cost to manufacture a drug? A potentially low-cost method is to use microorganisms -- which are plentiful -- to synthesize chemical compounds. For example, synthetic insulin is now made using genetically modi ...
• Organic Farmers' Preemptive Lawsuit Against Mo ...
  Monsanto has quite a track record of going after farmers for making use of its "patented" seeds, even in a case that involve seeds that blew onto a farm from a neighboring farm. So, it wasn't entirely surprising to see a group of organic farmers preemptively sue Monsanto last year, asking for a ...
• Yahoo Going Patent Troll: Threatens Facebook O ...
  We've said it a bunch of times here in the past when describing the life cycles of tech companies: when you're young, you innovate. When you're old, you litigate. We've seen it time and time again. The big tech companies that are no longer innovating and are far removed from their former posi ...
• New Platform Launched To Crowdsource Better In ...
  In the wake of the SOPA/PIPA fight, there have been more and more efforts to use the interest in keeping the internet free and open in a more proactive manner, rather than just reactive. We've already talked about the Reddit community crowdsourcing a law, as well as our own attempt at crowdsour ...

VacTruth

• ‘Legal’ Kidnapping By The State To ...
  Vaccine injured children are being taken from their parents. Authorities take the children under the pretense of child abuse.
• Horse Contraceptive Vaccine: Is Human Immunoco ...
  Several entities began working on a contraceptive vaccine to control wild horse populations. Is human immunocontracption Next?
• Autism – and a Different Vaccine
  If a relatively uncontroversial vaccine like the rabies vaccine can cause autism, isn’t it just possible that shooting tiny babies and young children full of vaccines—many at the same time when no one has ever conducted a study to prove that it’s safe to do so—could also cause autism?
• 3 Powerful Facts Discovered About Suppressed C ...
  Vaccines with a cancer-causing virus were left on the shelf because YOU, the person into whom they would be injected, would lose confidence in the vaccine program!
• The Varied Types of Vaccines
  There are seven types of vaccines. After reading this article, you may arguably know more than your MD on the topic.

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  The video is now up from our protest for the National Day for Prisoners. You can check it out here. Last Friday, anonymous took down The Geo Group’s website and replaced it with a picture of Mumia. I am so incredibly creeped out that corporations have been patenting the human genome. Excel ...
• On Porn Stars and Seamstresses
  I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview.  It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Holy crap. How have I not put up a TYMHM since January 10th. I seem to have lost a month of my life somewhere along the way. As you must have gathered from the couple posts I have put up, one of the things keeping me busy is the Criminal INjustice Committee of occupy. We [...]
• Natl Day in Support of Prisoners
  Apologies for falling off the map again. I have just about dug myself out of a hole and should be back on a posting schedule (fingers crossed) next week. In the meantime, one of the things keeping me busy has been the Criminal Injustice Committee of Occupy. Our Wells Fargo boycott website is up ...
• Protest Tomorrow!!!
  Sorry I’ve been missing in action for a bit. Lots going on. I’ll fill you in soon. But if you are in the DC area, come out to Tivoli Square tomorrow for an anti-prison protest. I’ll be there. More info here

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Blood on Obama’s Hands: What Future for Haiti?
  By Cynthia R. Rush Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 17, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 7
• Glass-Steagall Bill Sent to Italian Senate
  By Andrew Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 17, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 7
• London’s Road to WW III: Obama Allies with al- ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 17, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 7
• The Galaxy, Imperialism and Us: Science-vs.-Ol ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 17, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 7
• LaRouche Denounces Obama’s Homicidal Hypocrisy
  EIR News Service press release.

War in Context

• Israel increases pressure on U.S. to start a w ...
  The Wall Street Journal reports: Complaints from Israel about the U.S.’s public engagement with Iran have pushed the White House to consider more forcefully outlining potential military actions, and the “red lines” Iran must not cross, as soon as this weekend, according to peop ...
• Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: The end in Afgh ...
  Blown away How the U.S. fanned the flames in AfghanistanBy Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing?  Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the lan ...
• The Pentagon’s lies about Afghanistan — ‘the t ...
  Douglas Wissing writes: If observers had any doubts about the failure of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, the past several days should have put them to rest. Since Feb. 21, anti-U.S. protests have erupted in virtually every major Afghan city over the revelation that American p ...
• Music: Late
• Obama prizes secrecy above truth
  David Carr writes: Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay Carney, opened on a somber note, citing the deaths of Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, two reporters who had died “in order to bring truth” while reporting in Syria. Jake Tapper, the Whi ...

Watts Up With That?

• The Gleick Tragedy
  The original Gleick Confesses thread was getting unwieldy with almost 1000 comments, so this one will serve in its place and will continue to be updated. New content on other topics will appear below. Satirical logo by our own charles … Continue reading →
• The Fakegate Timeline – from soup to nuts
  There have been a number of different people working on timelines recently. Reader A. Scott has contributed a complete and highly detailed timeline of the Glieck Keystonian Caper aka Fakegate. It is presented here in entirety, both as a PDF … Continue reading →
• Sea ice decline posited to be driving snowier ...
  From Georgia Tech, the science press release that gave us the best-warming-headline-evah thanks to media spin, likely started by BBC’s Richard Black. It is worth noting that this study cites data from such a short time from 2009-2011. Surely if … Continue reading →
• Best – warming – headline – evah
  I’ve been getting a lot of pressure to cover the story by warmspinner Richard Black over at the BBC about a supposed feedback between Arctic sea ice and colder, snowier, winters in the UK and the EU. For example, WUWT … Continue reading →
• Cambridge professor Michael Kelly on “de ...
  UPDATE: 9:50AM 2/28 Professor Kelly responds in comments. It seems the Times saw fit to remove an important portion of his first paragraph. I’ve highlighted the missing text in red. Gobsmacking that they couldn’t handle this one sentence but left … Continue reading →

treehugger

• The Cruel, Cruel Irony of Senator James Inhofe ...
  Or, how one senator's blind hatred of government regulations led to a lifelong campaign to discredit climate change.
• Seattle to Create Nation's Largest Public Food ...
  Soon, residents of Seattle, Washington will get the chance to grab a bite the old-fashioned way -- thanks to a brand new food forest being planted in the heart of their city.
• Sylvia Earle Launches Mission Blue to Spread t ...
  In 2010, Sylvia Earle won the TED Prize for her wish that everyone would fight for a global network of marine preserves. The new site Mission Blue is a step in that direction.
• Would You Compost Your Dog or Cat's Poop?
  Generally speaking pet poop is considered a no no in composting. But some gardeners are experimenting anyway, with decidedly mixed results.
• 2012 Plug-in Prius Eligible for $4,000 Incenti ...
  Those of you who live in California and are interested in the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in will be happy to learn that they won't have to pay the full sticker price.

Biosingularity

• Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold
    Proteins control nearly all of life’s functions, but how they self-assemble, or fold, is an unsolved problem in biology. Understanding how folding goes awry could lead to cures for diseases caused by protein misfolding, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Stanford chemistr ...
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Sirtuin protein linked to longevity in mammals
  At last, a member of the celebrated sirtuin family of proteins has been shown to extend lifespan in mammals — although it’s not the one that has received the most attention and financial investment. Sirtuin genes and the proteins they encode have intrigued many researchers who study ageing ever ...
• The Patient of the Future
  Back in 2000, when Larry Smarr left his job as head of a celebrated supercomputer center in Illinois to start a new institute at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Irvine, he rarely paid attention to his bathroom scale. He regularly drank Coke, added sugar ...
• Supergene controls butterfly mimicry

CFACT

• The clear-cutting facts about the rainforest
  Are we really losing one football field every minute?
• New predictions of warming lack scientific basis
  Worst-case scenairos do not paint accurate picture of climate
• Cloudy days ahead for global climate models
  Computers still not reliable in predicting climate
• Corn dogs: A New Eco-Villain?
  Controversy is latest in biotech battle
• Examining China's emissions claims
  Evidence suggests China not cutting greenhouse emissions

Ria Novosti Online News

• Five Killed as Special Forces Thwart Robbery
  Five members of a criminal gang were killed after special forces thwarted a robbery attempt in the town of Khimki near Moscow in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
• Kleybanova Returns to Tennis after Cancer Battle
• Russia Signs Contract for Navy MiG-29K Fighter
• UK Seeks Extradition of Second Man Over Litvin ...
  A former KGB officer has said British prosecutors are seeking his extradition over the murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
• Ovechkin’s OT Strike Completes Capitals Comeback
  Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin scored in overtime to complete an unlikely 3-2 comeback win against the New York Islanders and put the Capitals into the playoff spots.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Space Station’s Orbit to be Readjusted for Pro ...
  The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) on Wednesday to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia’s Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft with the station, Russian Mission Control spokeswoman said.
• Tunguska-Sized Asteroid Homing on Earth
  An asteroid of the same class as one that allegedly detonated over Tunguska River in 1908 will pass by Earth next year, flying closer than some man-made satellites, according to NASA.
• Faster-Than-Light Particles Report ‘Debunked’
  Reports of particles traveling faster than light may be due to be equipment error and not a breakthrough discovery, but more tests are needed, researchers said on Thursday.
• Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively Simple
  So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one.
• Russian Scientists Grow Flowers from 30,000-ye ...
  A team of Russian scientists have resurrected a plant from 30,000-year-old seeds discovered in the Far Eastern permafrost in an unprecedented experiment marking a step towards unveiling the secrets of ancient life on Earth.

Pruning Shears

• Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
  Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
• Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I&#8 ...
• Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
  This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
• Diversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
  Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...
• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Judge Sides With Monsanto: Ridicules Farmers' ...
  New York, New York - On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn et al v. Monsanto after hearing oral argument on January 31st in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Click here to read this article
• Mechanically Separated Meat Paste Used in Hot ...
  Have you ever glanced at the ingredients on a hot dog or a can of Spam Lite and wondered about an ingredient called "mechanically separated chicken" or "mechanically separated meat"? This type of meat is collected from animal carcasses after all the prime cuts of muscle have been removed.Click h ...
• GMOs with 'Stacked Traits' Exponentially More ...
  Monsanto's pipeline of upcoming genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) includes several new varieties specifically engineered with "stacked traits," which means they contain multiple genetic modifications and built-in resistance traits as opposed to just one.Click here to read this article
• 'Natural': The Most Meaningless Word on Your F ...
  Consumers, the marketers all tell us, want foods that are ‘wholesome’, ‘authentic’, and above all ‘natural’, although few of them can articulate what this means. Click here to read this article
• Food Dyes Suspected Of Causing Behavioral Prob ...
  Is it possible that artificial colors added to our food could be causing behavioral problems in children?Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• ‘Superbug’ Transfer: The Jump From Humans, to ...
  News media outlets throughout the nation were abuzz last week with the report of new scientific research showing, for the first time, how a strain of infectious Staph began life in humans, then spread to livestock where it became MRSA, and then jumped back to humans. The study was published Tues ...
• On the Horizon: The Future of Biofuels
  What are the greatest opportunities and challenges right now in moving toward a more bio-based economy? A conversation with Donna Perla, senior advisor at EPA.
• What’s New in Swine Flu – Three Novel Viruses
  Since August, the CDC has reported three novel influenza A virus variants (H3N2v, H1N1v, H2N2v) that have infected humans in the U.S., for a total of 14 cases. All three viruses originated in swine herds.
• The Air Down There: Dairy Ops in Yakima Valley ...
  The study measures the density of airborne pollutants in homes close to dairy operations, and the pollutants include ammonia, particulate matter (PM), or dust, and ammonia. Many airborne contaminants are unregulated, and the exposure effects are unknown.
• Faith and the Future
  As we all know the picture is not pretty. Numerous spiritual traditions have taught that we must tend and care for the Earth. And while those traditions and practices entirely make sense for the common good, we have for the most part ignored them.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘ha ...
  Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’. Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’
• Another new female witness steps forward in Ta ...
  Another new female witness steps forward in Tamihere case today. Another new female witness steps forward in Tamihere case today
• David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown ope ...
  David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown open by new witness. David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown open by new witness
• Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland
  Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland. Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland
• Heartland critic: Pot calls kettle black?
  Heartland critic: Pot calls kettle black?. Heartland critic: Pot calls kettle black?

My Care2 Picks

• The Corporate Climate Coup
  How did scientific speculation so swiftly erupt into ubiquitous intimations of apocalypse? These are not hypothetical questions but historical questions, and they have answers. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• WE ARE THE NEW WORLD ORDER
  Thanks be to the traitors, moles, deceivers and manipulators and all their tools such as the many false flag operations like the 93 world trade center bombing, the underwear bomber and even today with the foiled attack on the U.S. Capitol where there is a Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...
• Lhasa Lockdown and Tibetan disappearences
  Lhasa consists of approximately 1.2 million Chinese and approximately 200,000 Tibetans. The majority of these Tibetans live in an area which is now almost entirely enclosed by military compounds with walls between 10-16 feet; some with barbed wire. Submitted by Rex K. to World  |  &n ...
• "Salt: This Forbidden Indulgence Could Actuall ...
  High-quality salt is actually essential for life,Salt has been vilified as a primary cause of high blood pressure and heart disease. These latter claims have failed to be proven conclusively, as have the purported benefits of a low-salt diet. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness &nbsp ...
• CIA Drone Attacks Murder Civilians, Rescuers, ...
  Obama recently defended his controversial "drone campaign" in Pakistan as a "targeted, focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists," adding that it "has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties." Now, a shocking new report not o Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• The Power of RAW Cannabis
  This is a must-watch video featuring some of the top researchers on the healing effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) in it's raw form, eaten or juiced.
• 2012 Seed Lady Calendar
  Download a free, printable 2012 Seed Lady Calendar to help keep track this growing season!
• The Candidate Interview Process
  People elected to hold public office are employees. Of whom? We the People. Therefore, every meeting with these people should be conducted as a job interview. YOU are the prospective employer, and they are approaching YOU for a job. It is your responsibility to carefully consider their qualifica ...
• Farmer Faces Possible 3-year Prison Term for F ...
  Food sovereignty activists from around North America will meet at this tiny town on March 2, 2012 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, who has a court hearing that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land him in prison for ...
• Blind, Footless Chickens for Future CAFOs
  This new supposedly "humane" CAFO method requires rendering the chickens blind by "removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken" so that "its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Romney projected winner in Michigan GOP primary
  ShareThisBreaking: Romney projected winner in Michigan GOP primary 28 Feb 2012
• Romney Wins Arizona GOP Primary
  ShareThisRomney Wins Arizona GOP Primary 28 Feb 2012 Mitt Romney won the Arizona primary and was locked in a tight battle with Rick Santorum for Michigan Tuesday, with returns showing Mr. Romney holding a small lead in his native state. The former Massachusetts governor had been widely expected ...
• Israel to attack Iran without US permission: R ...
  ShareThisIsrael to attack Iran without US permission: Report 28 Feb 2012 Israeli official say they will not alert the US if they decide to launch a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities amid growing war threats against Tehran. An unnamed US intelligence official said Israelis argue that ...
• Nuclear Energy Group Sues Over Uranium Mining ...
  ShareThisNuclear Energy Group Sues Over Uranium Mining Ban in Arizona 28 Feb 2012 The Nuclear Energy Institute and the National Mining Association said they sued the U.S. to reverse a ban on new uranium mining on federal land around the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The two organizations [corpora-ter ...
• Citing partisanship, Maine's Snowe says she'll ...
  ShareThisCiting partisanship, Maine's Snowe says she'll leave the Senate 29 Feb 2012 Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine announced Tuesday she will retire rather than seek re-election this year, surprising colleagues and perhaps casting the future of her seat in doubt. Snowe, 65, was first el ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Sisters at War
  29 February 2012 This is a small tribute to our women in harm’s way. We constantly argue about whether or not women should be allowed in combat.  Reality is that they have been in combat for longer than anyone reading this has been alive, and they were in combat before any of our great gr ...
• Tigers, Crocodiles, Korans and Superstitions
  Tiger eyes of man with fresh scars “The Sundarbans lies in the massive delta between India and Bangladesh. This is one of the most beautiful but most dangerous places in the world, a place of tigers and crocodiles and dangerous seas and canals. Mamata is just one of about 3,000 ‘tiger widows’ i ...
• Our Weak Government Must Stop Apologizing for ...
  27 February 2012 The recent Koran-burning in Afghanistan has again inspired lunacy and murder.  And while the US civilian and military leadership burdened by their oleaginous apologies tumbles down a moral stairwell, Afghan security forces continue to murder American and Coalition troops.& ...
• White Birds in a Red War
  25 February 2012 An Army Dustoff pilot studying his art ran across some interesting passages.  The book DUST OFF: ARMY AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION IN VIETNAM mentions machine guns, missiles, Geneva Conventions, and painting MEDEVAC helicopters white so that the enemy could identify them. Excer ...
• Army Dustoff Medics Unprepared
  “After more than 9 years of conflict and more than 40 AAR’s recommending the evolution of MEDEVAC to current civilian standards, no institutional change has been made. Continuing the legacy model has resulted and continues to result in documented sub-optimal outcomes and increased deaths among p ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• The Cruel, Cruel Irony of Senator James Inhofe ...
  Or, how one senator's blind hatred of government regulations led to a lifelong campaign to discredit climate change.
• Seattle to Create Nation's Largest Public Food ...
  Soon, residents of Seattle, Washington will get the chance to grab a bite the old-fashioned way -- thanks to a brand new food forest being planted in the heart of their city.
• Sylvia Earle Launches Mission Blue to Spread t ...
  In 2010, Sylvia Earle won the TED Prize for her wish that everyone would fight for a global network of marine preserves. The new site Mission Blue is a step in that direction.
• Would You Compost Your Dog or Cat's Poop?
  Generally speaking pet poop is considered a no no in composting. But some gardeners are experimenting anyway, with decidedly mixed results.
• 2012 Plug-in Prius Eligible for $4,000 Incenti ...
  Those of you who live in California and are interested in the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in will be happy to learn that they won't have to pay the full sticker price.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• ‘No chance of Than Shwe returning’: aide
  President's advisor tells Thai media that former junta strongman 'doesn't want to be involved' in Thein Sein's pseudo-civilian government
• Villagers on trial for resisting relocation
  20 families in township close to Burma's capital in court after refusing to relocate to make way for government-run gem project
• Humour still weapon of protest in Burma
  Laughter no longer a risky business in Burma as comedy troupe famed for poking fun at the regime continues to draw crowds
• Attempt to ban Suu Kyi from polls rejected
  Election body dismisses attempt by candidate running in same constituency as Suu Kyi to ban her from April by-election
• Deportation threat for 1m Burma migrants
  Deadline for Thailand verification extended but rights groups warn many migrants may not make it, with stateless at most risk

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Grey squirrels blamed for decline in woodland ...
  Grey squirrels could be causing a decline in woodland song birds, according to a new study by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
• The Gleick affair is further proof of the warm ...
  Dr Peter Gleick provides more evidence that the supporters of the Cause will stop at nothing, says Christopher Booker.
• Foreign aid cash spent tackling climate change
  Nearly £1.5 billion has been spent tackling man-made climate change by Government department responsible for fighting poverty abroad, it can be revealed.
• Windfarms: An ill wind of change?
  As the world's biggest windfarm opens off Cumbria, Christopher Middleton investigates the turbine boom.
• Building a home the green way
  How to be green and stay sane - why we must build to better standards.

National Geographic | Environment

• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind unusually snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged ...
  Scientists have created a new 3-D picture of a giant swarm of tiny gelatinous sea creatures off Australia.
• Concern Over Rare Rhino Rouses Clean Energy Dr ...
  After a fight against a coal-fired power plant that threatened one of the last sanctuaries of the Sumatran rhino, a struggle for cleaner energy continues in east Malaysia.
• 32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Old ...
  The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has beaten the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years, a new study says.
• Uganda's Power Drive Stills the Headwaters of ...
  Uganda, where 90 percent of the people lack electricity, taps deeper into waterpower, by eliminating cascading rapids on the Victoria Nile.

Jurist - Legal Research

• France constitutional court declares genocide ...
  [JURIST] The Constitutional Council of the French Republic [official website, in French] on Tuesday ruled [judgment, in French] that a French law [materials, in French] making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered a genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 is unconstitutional. Ultimately, the ...
• Supreme Court declines to rule on Asian carp
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday declined to grant an injunction, and denied a petition for writ of certiorari [orders list, PDF] in Michigan v. US Army Corp. of Engineers [SCOTUSblog backgrounder]. Five states petitioned the court [JURIST report] in October asking them ...
• Virginia Senate approves voter ID bill
  [JURIST] The Virginia Senate [official website] on Monday approved a bill [SB 1, PDF] requiring identification from those trying to vote in elections. The bill passed 21-20 after an initial 20-20 deadlock that was broken by Lt. Governor Bill Bolling [official website]. The bill requires voters ...
• Germany high court rules eurozone stimulus ove ...
  [JURIST] Germany's Federal Constitutional Court [official website, in German] on Tuesday ruled [press release, in German] that use of a parliamentary subcommittee to fast-track decisions related to eurozone bailouts is unconstitutional, and that such decisions require full oversight of the Bunde ...
• Iran executions doubled in 2011: Amnesty
  [JURIST] Iran executed twice as many people in 2011 as it did in the previous year, Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] reported [text, PDF] Tuesday. The report, entitled "'We Are Ordered to Crush You': Expanding Repression of Dissent in Iran," chronicles widespread international human ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama Announces Reelection Bid
  The 2012 election is underway
• 5 Advantages for Obama in 2012
  The president's path to reelection
• Obama's Reelection Report Card
  The president's political strengths and weaknesses, as he opens the 2012 campaign
• 5 Disadvantages for Obama in 2012
  A tough economy could make him a one-term president
• Bin Laden's Death: A Pivotal Victory for Obama ...
  The president silences his national-security critics heading into 2012, and the CIA stands tall after the damage of 9/11

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• Stratfor: Russia Provides Israel With Code to ...
  Among the new nuggets exposed by Wikileaks’ dump of Stratfor e-mails is an eye-opening 2009 memo from an analyst who met with an intelligence source in Mexico.  The latter had a Mexican ex-military friend with a background in Mexican UAV (drone) systems.  The source told his Stratfor &#822 ...
• Haaretz’s Yossi Melman Served as Stratfor Source
  The Wikileaks dump of Stratfor e-mails (see this comprehensive background article on the project and this glossary of wacky Strator intel-speak terms) has  exposed one particularly interesting set of relationships.  One of the company’s chief Israeli sources was Haaretz’s former inte ...
• Obama Promises Israel Use of U.S. Bases for Ir ...
  There have been endless recent visits to Israel from high-ranking U.S. officials regarding the Iran issue, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and most recently National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.  The AP reports that during the last set of meetings the Israelis defiantly told the U.S. t ...
• Olympia Food Coop Wins Anti-SLAPP Motion, Cour ...
  Today, a Washington state court dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Olympia Food Coop by StandWithUs and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs: [The] court dismissed the case, calling it a SLAPP – Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation – and said that it would award the defendan ...
• Marc Lynch: ‘U.S. Military Intervention in Syr ...
  The United States must respond urgently to address the growing bloodbath in Syria, where the asad regime has killed more than 6,000 of its own citizens and risks unleashing a sectarian war that would kill thousands and destabilize a critical region. However, the united States should not interven ...

If Americans Knew

• VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
  Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
• Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
  You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
• Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
  He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
• American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
  Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
• US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
  While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• As TriangleWiki Gets Ready to Launch, LocalWik ...
  Hey friends! Whew! A lot has happened since our last PBS Idea Lab blog update! Our first focus community, DentonWiki, has been doing great, and several of our other focus communities are close to launching. Just recently, nearly 50 people came together in Raleigh, N.C., to join a mass ...
• How Spending Stories Fact Checks Big Brother, ...
  This piece was co-written with Eric King, human rights and technology adviser at Privacy International, and comes as Privacy International launches a new data release about companies selling surveillance technologies. Today, the global surveillance industry is estimated at around $5 billion a ...
• Knight Lab's Election Project Mines Social Med ...
  CongressionalPrimaries.org, the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, went live officially this week. The site demonstrates several technologies that enhance coverage of this year's congressional primary elections in Illinois -- while also providing components that pub ...
• Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data! (Beta ...
  We're excited to, for the first time, put PANDA into users' hands! After roughly six months of development, we are releasing our first beta version. This release implements nearly all of our "must have" features. We've written several times (1, 2, 3) about specific parts of PANDA in developme ...
• Ushahidi's 'Disruptive Deployers': The People ...
  One spark and it happens: An individual or a team of people create a deployment using Ushahidi or Crowdmap. Their motivation and the inspiration are telling tales. These citizens, diaspora and a global community collaborate near and far to make change happen. Motivated often by the simple act of ...

Cutting Edge News

• Edge of Economic Crisis - Fiscal and Financial ...
  The European financial crisis centered for several years on the idea of preventing Greece from defaulting on its national debt. However, the rest of Europe has had time to prepare itself for any potential fallout from a Greek default. This is changing the dynamic between Greece and Europe even a ...
• Edge of Health - New Influenza Virus May not b ...
  A new influenza A virus discovered in fruit bats in Guatemala does not appear to present a current threat to humans, but should be studied as a potential source for human influenza, according to scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who worked with Universidad del Valle ...
• The Race for Smart Grid - Will Smart Sockets C ...
  Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission said this to a group of science writers in 1954: “Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter…” While this comment is often given as an example of overly-optimistic technological predictions, electricity i ...
• After the Holocaust - IBM’s Role in the Holoca ...
  Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM’s pivotal role in the Holocaust—all six phases: identification, expulsion from society, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination. Moreover, the documents portray with crystal clarity the personal involveme ...
• The Politics of Hate - Exploiting Apartheid fo ...
  In September 2001, the participants in the Non-Government Organization Forum of the United Nations Conference on Racism and Discrimination in Durban, South Africa, welcomed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, distributed anti-Semitic literature, and adopted a declaration branding Israel as "a raci ...

High Country News

• Our nuclear legacy should have taught us something
  Utah considers building a nuclear power plant despite the fact that it's still cleaning up the mess left over from the last uranium boom.
• This is a winter of snowy owls
  Big, beautiful snowy owls are showing up far outside their usual range, much to the delight of Western birdwatchers.
• Some politicians turn public lands into a poli ...
  The West's vast public lands are under attack by politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as by several of the Republican presidential candidates.
• How Arizona's culture helped shape the shootin ...
  If you want to understand why Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others at a Tucson Safeway in 2011, look to Arizona’s soulless culture and vitriolic politics.
• West to East, and a world away
  After 20 years in the West he loves, a writer is forced to move back East.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Live Primary Coverage Starring Tony Katz and S ...
  Yes its true that pair of pundits who made the last debate so enjoyable are back to ad some insight and fun into today's primaries.  Please note: Kurt Schlichter will not be calling in becauseI can't call into Katz and Kruiser -- adding "Kurt" would be way too many K's. I don't want to mak ...
• Some Truth For Obama's Buddy Mahmoud Abbas: Ev ...
  I hate to beat up on Palestinian President Abbas, especially since he is so well liked (and protected) by American President Barack Obama. During a weekend speech about Jerusalem, Abbas accused Israel of blocking Muslim access to east Jerusalem, trying to wreck it economically, ethnic cl ...
• Newsbusted Exclusive: Obama To Apologize to Fa ...
  Everybody has their own special skills, one of President Obama's is the art of apologizing. Immediately after being inaugurated he traveled across the world apologizing to every country he set foot in (sometimes he even bowed). Most recently he apologized to Afghanistan for mistakenly burning Ko ...
• AP Reports: Israel Will Not Warn The US About ...
  The Associated Press is reporting that Israel will not warn the Obama Administration if they decide to launch a preemptive strike against Iran. The "official reason" according to the AP is Israel would keep the US in the dark  to decrease the likelihood that the U.S. would be held res ...
• GOP Candidates-- Stop Allowing The Media To Co ...
  By Barry Rubin I don’t understand — and I haven’t seen anyone even try to explain it — why the Republican presidential candidates keep subjecting themselves to politically partisan, hostile journalists being in control of their debates. These journalists have been highly partisan previousl ...

The Real Agenda

• Europe is Pouring Money into the Banker’ ...
  SpiegelOnline February 28, 2012 A German minister has broken with the official government line by saying Greece should be encouraged to quit the euro. The comment, made to SPIEGEL, comes ahead of Monday’s parliamentary vote on the second bailout. Some newspapers, including the tabloid Bild ...
• Israel will not wait for US permission to atta ...
  PressTV February 28, 2010 Israeli official say they will not alert the US if they decide to launch a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities amid growing war threats against Tehran. An unnamed US intelligence official said Israelis argue that if they keep Washington in the dark, it is unli ...
• Another Chance for BP to “settle” ...
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 28, 2012 British Petroleum “has gotten lucky”, again. Not only has it not been held accountable for its share of the blame on the Oil Spill Disaster, but they’ve also managed to delay the start of the trial that was supposed to start ...
• Hans Blix: CIA feeding bad information about I ...
  Russia Today February 27, 2012 Filed under: World Tagged: CIA intelligence, Hans Blix, IAEA, Iran nukes
• How the West was Conquered
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 2012 The existence of society as we know it today is not a random event of nature or anything of the sort. Today’s society is a direct reflection of the gigantic plans for social engineering that were put in place and gradually imposed on the peo ...

Wind Watch

• Study group rejects wind power plans in Lenox
  LENOX — With nearly perfect harmony, a panel assigned to report on the merits of a proposed municipal wind-turbine installation atop Lenox Mountain has issued its verdict: A near-unanimous rejection of the project on grounds of adverse financial, environmental and health impacts. Following ...
• Huron County councillors walk out on McGuinty ...
  TORONTO – More than one hundred municipal politicians – including some from Huron County – walked out on Premier Dalton McGuinty en masse in protest of wind energy development during his opening address at the county’s largest annual conference for rural municipalities. Politicians were gathered ...
• Debate still swirls over effects of wind turbi ...
  Living near wind turbines has changed Sandy Vercauteren’s life forever. “I am exposed to vibration constantly,” the town of Byron resident said. “It rattles the valances right off my windows. The noise, especially in summer, keeps me awake at night. The flickering creates a strobe light in my ho ...
• Blown away
  A German fashion designer who moved to the countryside for the peace and quiet claims he has been forced out of his house and is now sleeping on a friend’s floor after a wind turbine was built in a field nearby. Robert Niebach, 60, is one of a growing number of Germans taking legal action ...
• Bald eagles win a round against Red Wing wind farm
  Bald eagles won an unexpected victory Thursday when Minnesota regulators delayed a wind farm near Red Wing for at least a year because the developer failed to produce an adequate plan to protect America’s national symbol and other flying creatures. Local residents who have been fighting th ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Despite Plan, Iranian Sanctions Push Oil Price ...
  “U.S. and EU sanctions on Iran’s crude oil exports and its central bank were not supposed to affect either the volume of oil available or its price, provided markets reacted ‘rationally’…. But the policy has backfired. Oil prices have surged, harming consuming countries and offsettin ...
• President Wants an Interagency Trade Enforceme ...
  “President Obama is creating a new agency to challenge what officials see as unfair trade practices, including those by China.” (USA Today) The last thing we need. FEE Timely Classic “What Free Trade Really Means” by Jeffrey Herbener
• NY Pension Bailout Creates More Problems
  “When New York State officials agreed to allow local governments to use an unusual borrowing plan to put off a portion of their pension obligations, fiscal watchdogs scoffed at the arrangement, calling it irresponsible and unwise. And now, their fears are being realized: cities throughout ...
• Some Economists Say Economy Is Looking Up
  “Economists are increasingly confident that some pillars of the U.S. economy will improve this year, but they still remain cautious in their expectations on the overall pace of economic growth.” (Associated Press) What about all that money the Fed created? FEE Timely Classic “I ...
• U.S. Dominance of World Bank Is Questioned
  “Emerging economies said on Sunday that they will challenge a tradition that has placed an American at the head of the World Bank for decades, as the Obama administration shows sensitivity to the need for change at global institutions.” (Reuters) That’s another agency the world could ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Definition: Social media
  I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
• Resources for learning about social media
  I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
• Resources for learning about social media
  I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
• People see value in curation
  I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
• People see value in curation
  I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

Facing South

• North Carolina convenience-store chain targete ...
  The largest independent convenience-store chain in the Southeast, Kangaroo is under fire for refusing to meet with advocates for the farmworkers who pick the tobacco it sells.
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• VOICES: Considering BP's history of violence
  A judge has decided that BP's history of safety problems won't be admissible in the upcoming trial for its Gulf oil spill. While that may be legally justifiable, it's ...
  
• VOICES: Privatizing America for their majesty, ...
  On an island off the coast of Florida, the billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries recently gave an order to push the privatization of schools, prisons and anything else standing in the w ...
  
• Art Pope turns up in climate disinformation exposé
  Internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute, a leading player in the climate disinformation campaign, show that the group is counting on continuing support from the North Carolin ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A budget for the 99 percent?
  A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President Obama released this week.
  A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President O ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
  With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.

Telegraph UK - oil

• David Ross loses shareholder vote to take Cosa ...
  David Ross, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur, has lost the vote to take Cosalt private and declared the company will remain publicly listed following a shareholder revolt.
• BP trial: in numbers
  As the "trial of the century" gets under way in New Orleans, with BP and some of its suppliers in the dock over its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, here are some of the numbers.
• London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hija ...
  A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.
• September 11: A Saudi family, a Florida villa ...
  Whether the September 11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they received support from a network of co-conspirators in the United States, remains one of the unanswered questions of the world's most devastating terrorist attack.
• Charles Hendry: North Sea oil industry in inde ...
  The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.

Ian Welsh

• On Stratfor
  Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
• Justified Pessimism
  is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
• Justified Pessimism
  is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
• Sewage
  Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
• Sewage
  Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Don’t Bet Against The (Single-Family) House
  Nothing more characterizes the current conventional wisdom than the demise of the single-family house. From pundits like Richard Florida to Wall Street investors, the thinking is that the future of America will be characterized increasingly by renters huddling together in small apartments, liv ...
• Housing Affordability: St. Louis’ Competitive ...
  Things are looking better in St. Louis. For decades, St. Louis has been slowest-growing metropolitan areas of the United States. Its historical core city has lost more than 60 percent of its population since 1950, a greater loss than any other major core municipality in the modern era.  Non ...
• Commuting in New York City, 2000-2010
  New York City is infamous for congestion and long commutes. At 34.6 minutes, it has the longest average commute time in the United State. The region is also America's top user of public transportation, with 30.7% of all metro area commutes made by transit. Nearly 40% of all transit commuters ...
• The State of the Anglosphere
  The world financial crisis has provoked a stark feeling of decline among many in the West, particularly citizens of what some call the Anglosphere: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. In the United States, for example, roughly 73 percent se ...
• The Growth In Science & Research Occupations
  Local economic developers and policy pundits often point to scientific and research jobs as an important part of regional economies and a critical driver of innovation for the nation's economy. As we continue to filter through the data in our latest release (built on nearly 90 federal and stat ...

GM Watch

• Bravo the French - ban GM maize
  1.Bravo the French – UK should support French call to ban GM maize 2.Study questions safety of GM corn as France seeks EU ban EXTRACT: "GM is an outdated technology, and it is draining research time and money away from more promising technologies. We encourage other EU member states to support ...
• Gates' support of GM wrong approach for Africa
  NOTE: Great to see such well reasoned and sustained opposition to what Bill Gates is doing in agriculture being voiced in Gates' home town paper. That it comes from the pen of an African makes this all the more powerful.  --- --- Bill Gates' support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa Glenn ...
• Lethal effects of GM Bt toxin confirmed on you ...
  Lethal Effects of Genetically Modified Bt Toxin Confirmed On Young Ladybird Larvae Science Daily, February 27 2012  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120227111158.htm Swiss researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich confirm earlier findings that the Baci ...
• Judge sides with Monsanto
  Judge Sides With Monsanto *Ridicules Farmers' Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, 27 Feb 2012 On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade ...
• Bt cotton should be banned
  1.Bt cotton cultivation should be banned 2.Now, parliamentary panel to study suicide crisis NOTE: Nowhere in India has Bt cotton been more hyped than in Maharashtra's cotton belt of Vidarbha, which is both a major centre of cotton production in India and an epicentre of farm suicides. Farm acti ...

spiked

• The war on workfare is worse than workfare itself
  The pity and tears of the anti-workfare lobby are far more insulting to working-class youth than asking them to stack shelves in Tesco.
• It’s not all about human-rights abuses
  China possesses one of the world’s hottest, most vibrant art scenes – if only Westerners could see it.
• Greens, face it: we’re just not that int ...
  As ‘Fakegate’ shows, the inconvenient truth for greens is there is no denialist conspiracy blocking climate-change action.
• Delving into the mind of the technocrat
  Robert H Frank’s The Darwin Economy tells us little useful about the economy, but it does provide a frightening glimpse into the democracy-averse mindset of our rulers.
• A surreal commitment to Stalinism
  Román Gubern and Paul Hammond’s excellent new biography of the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel reveals the reactionary impulses behind his anarchical facade.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...
• 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In ...
  How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...
• 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop ...
  The global financial system is not a game of checkers.  It is a game of chess.  All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...

Desertification

• Vulnerability to Food Crises (Google / New Sec ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/02/sahels-complex-vulnerability-to-food.html The Sahel’s Complex Vulnerability to Food Crises Posted by Stuart Kent “Across the Sahel region of western Africa, a combination of drought, poverty, high grain prices, ...
• Illegal logging and sale of wood from the Afri ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201202241285.html Cote d’Ivoire: Illicit Timber Trade Exposes the North to Drought By Fulgence Zamblé, 24 February 2012 Abidjan — Environmental groups in Côte d’Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of wood ...
• Combating desertificatiuon in Lebanon (Google ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.enpicbcmed.eu/calls-for-proposals/content/combat-desertification-and-maintenance-forest-wealth-dangers Combat desertification and maintenance of forest wealth of the dangers First name: Dr. Mohamad Last name: Dehaini Email: iqleem-eltufah ...
• Desertification in Africa (Google / SCRIBD)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.scribd.com/doc/82918873/Desertification-in-Africa Desertification in Africa Africa is facing a large problem called desertification. Desertification is an increase in the desert like conditions in arid or semi-arid lands, or more easily s ...
• Program to reverse desertification of 66,000 h ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://english.people.com.cn/90882/7736457.html Anti-desertification program to start in NW China (Xinhua) People’s Daily Online YINCHUAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — An anti-desertification program powered by an investment of 700 million yuan (a ...

The Paper Trail

• Unions fighting efforts to require certificati ...
  Reused surgical instruments are often dangerously dirty, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has revealed, but the workers charged with the high-stakes task of cleaning these complex devices face almost no state-mandated professional licensing or certification requirements.Only New Jerse ...
• Teen suspect in Ohio school shooting had viole ...
  The suspect in Monday’s horrific Ohio school shooting has been variously described as a quiet loner who was bullied to a boy who actually seemed quite normal to classmates. So far, much of what’s out there is speculation. But there is one solid piece of original reporting from the Cleveland Plai ...
• Drug lobby gave $9.4 million to nonprofits tha ...
  The drug lobby's trade association was a multimillion-dollar donor to nonprofit groups that were actively working to elect federal candidates during the 2010 election, an iWatch News analysis of documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service reveals.The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacture ...
• FACT CHECK: Santorum’s twisted take on JFK, re ...
  Rick Santorum misrepresented what John F. Kennedy said in 1960 about church-state separation. According to Santorum, Kennedy said that religious people could “have no role in the public square” and “should not be permitted ... to influence public policy.” But Kennedy didn’t say those things. He ...
• Colo. judge issues new ruling in payday lendin ...
  A judge in Denver now says he misunderstood key evidence when he ruled that two payday lenders operating on the Internet were beyond the reach of state regulators because they had been sold to Indian tribes.Denver District Judge Morris Hoffman says it’s now clear from the evidence that the sales ...

backofthebook.ca

• A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
  All right, it’s been about three months since I offered up my first batch of suggestions on how we can fix the world, and it appears none of them have been implemented. (Seriously ABC, Charlie’s Angels is the next … Charlie’s Angels. It’ll spawn five seasons, two movies, and a reboot series if y ...
• Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape
  By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have emerged over the last day to defend his “interview” of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a pile of ironic quotation marks beside me when I write about SUN TV.) Some of them arrived here ...
• Harper’s implausible deniability
  By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election ...
• Rabbi Boteach schools Michael Coren
  It would appear that the bush-leaguers at SUN TV are once again abusing their guests. In the wake of some forgettable broadcaster’s pummelling of Margie Gillis, Michael Coren has now taken the opportunity of an interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ostensibly about his new book Kosher Jesu ...
• Snoop dogs
  By Alison@Creekside So remember how the Cons withdrew their just-tabled internet surveillance bill, the Lawful Access Act, on Feb 14 and replaced it an hour and 15 minutes later with the identical but renamed Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act , a bill which mentions neither childre ...

libcom

• 100,000,000 workers grind India to a halt in o ...
  india3.jpg One of the world's largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at midnight tonight. Up to 100,000,000 Indian workers from different sectors and industries ar ...
• Not mentioned in Dispatches
  pissy pants.jpg Review of the piss poor Dispatches documentary on the English Defence League! Well the Dispatches documentary on Mr Tommy and the radical Islamicists was a prett ...
• Incident on the dancefloor – pre-history of th ...
  13th of February, a known Moscow anti-fascist Alexey Olesinov was arrested in St. Petersburg with charges of “hooliganism”, related to incident in Moscow club “Vozdukh” 17th of December. The following statement (http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/2 ...
• The CNT mobilises across the country against l ...
  cnt-(2).jpg Statement from the Secretariat of the CNT on the recent demonstrations and protests against the government's new labour reforms. The Confederation believes that ...
• Griffin's weak End!
  fats.jpg Dear, oh dear! The far-rights much anticipated 'race war' has failed to ignite. Again! It has been a dreadful weekend for Nick Griffin, the BNP, the English D ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• The EXTRAORDINARY Properties of Water! Viktor ...
  What was the REAL REASON for the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden Germany in February, 1945?   Could it have been due to the fact that Dresden was the planet’s research heart of Homeopathy and Naturopathy/Cellular Nutrition?   Could it be that during the 30′s Dresden was unlocking the ...
• The Biggest Hidden Problem of Election 2012
  Wake Up America!!!! Why is the Controlled Media so quiet about discussing what will happen in 2013 if Obama is still in the White House?   Do you realize that Mittens Romney will implement OBAMACARE COMMUNISM as well? Instead of harping about the NDAA (of which the final version was sanitized of ...
• Are Mormons “Christian”??
  Are Mormons (aka Latter-day Saints) Christians?   According to the standards set by The Holy Bible – they absolutely are not!! I know, I can hear the screaming now from the LDS faithful – of COURSE we are “Christians” – we are the “Church of JESUS CHRIST of La ...
• USS Liberty – OPERATION CYANIDE – ...
  This BBC documentary on the USS Liberty attack BY EDOMITE ISRAEL in 1967 is incredible.   It is a must-watch, for if ever there was a “high crime” of treason against America – this was it!!!!! As you watch this video, take note.  This was not an American-made documentary.   As ...
• Film Footage of “UFO” in New Mexic ...
  I have had a number of “informants” (worker’s at Utah’s Hill AFB) tell me “off the record” that the USAF have deployed large “saucer” craft rigged with invisibility RFR “cloaks” since the late 90′s.   They supposedly are based in ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
  Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
• Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
  They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
• Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
  Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
• Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
  Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
• The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
  Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.

Scotts Contracting

• Roy Blunt R MO Dirty Energy Voting Record
  Dirty Energy Voting Record for Roy Blunt aka:"Big Oil Roy Blunt" Roy Blunts Dirty Dollar Image via:http://dirtyenergymoney.org While searching for what company (Big Oil and Big Coal) was giving to the Politicians from Missouri aka: "Big Oil Roy Blunt", who is also in favor of the ...
• Adding Support for Deck Rail
  Fixing Deck Rails on Porches, Decks, etc One of my latest repair projects: The 2nd Floor deck support rail was leaning away from the building creating a Safety Issue for anyone who leaned on the Support Rail. I used a Ratcheting Tie Down Strap to pull the deck support rail straight.  (In the fol ...
• Spray Insulation~Deal of the Week
  If you have ever wanted to super insulate your home or business against the cold and heat and protect the bank account from the rising costs of our Electricity Rates – Ameren UE and New Gas Rate Hikes – Laclede Gas. The following offer I received from a couple of my Spray Insulation ...
• Rock Wall Foundation Repair and Waterproofing
  Rock Foundation Repair Suggestions for Water Proofing a Stone Foundation Always Inspect for Mold Growth on the Foundation Wall Close Up View of Mold Growth After Treatment See Photo Below Find the Bad Spots Gently Remove any loose materials. Paying close attention to leave any Structural Rocks i ...
• Missouri’s Climate: News, Building Codes ...
  Midwest has experienced rising average temperatures with the largest warming seen in the winter months. The growing season has been extended by one week because of earlier last spring frosts and precipitation has become more frequent including increased instances of heavy downpours. Since the 19 ...

The View From Abroad

• Romney is Focusing on the Wrong Mechanism
  To help the working poor Mitt Romney should propose something other than indexing the minimum wage for inflation.
• Is Obama Attempting to Buy Votes from College ...
  The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.
• Ron Paul is Nibbling at Romney’s Heels
  The Republican race for president is a two man contest between Romney and Paul.
• We Can't Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
  It is crazy to extend the payroll tax cut at this time.
• Obama is Correct But for the Wrong Reason
  President Obama is right: it will take more than one president to fix our economy.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• America's Image Problem
  We think we're helping them. They think we're out to destroy their way of life.
• Qur'an Burning an Arson Attack on Islam
  The soldiers who dumped copies of the Qur'an into an incinerator may as well have set fire to a religion.
• Hyping Threats Is a Smokescreen That Obscures ...
  The problem with hyping national security threats is that it nudges greater threats such as global warming off the public's radar screen.
• Newt Gingrich and the "Madman" Theory of Inter ...
  According to Gingrich's logic, North Vietnam would have been justified in attacking the United States.
• Syria: The Wrong Drum to Beat
  Hawks are using the death of journalists such as Marie Colvin to further the cause of military aid to Syria's opposition.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• The American public’s support for an attack on ...
  In a recent poll carried out by Pew Research, 58% of Americans expressed support for American military attack on Iran if sanctions fail, compared to only 30% who oppose it.
• How Israel might strike at Iran
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• Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. ...
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• Putin: Iran nuclear issue must be settled peac ...
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• Iran's opposition gagged ahead of parliamentar ...
  In Iran, the what-you're-not-allowed-to-do list keeps expanding. Supporters of the opposition Green Movement are no longer allowed to demonstrate. What's more, they're not allowed even to talk about thinking of demonstrating.

Most Revolutionary Act

• Demonizing the Black Bloc
  Greek black bloc (This is the second of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) Nearly all the on-line critiques (rightly, in my view) accuse He ...
• Debating Violence in the Occupy Movement
  Occupy Oakland protestor (This is the first of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement. Contrary to the myth promoted by the corporate media, the Occupy movement is alive and well and engaged in a multiplicity of creative movement buildin ...
• The Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill
  (This is the last of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) Hemp as a Tobacco Replacement Crop With recent the recent anti-smoking movement and declining cigarette use among Americans, many tobacco f ...
• Killing the Hemp Industry: Another Corporate C ...
  Henry Ford in his hemp plantation (This is the second of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill, sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) The Decline of Hemp Hemp first began losing ground in 1850 to cheaper substitutes made of cotton, ...
• The Politics of Hemp
  How to distinguish industrial hemp (the first plant) (This is the first of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) For nearly four decades, industrial hemp advocates have extolled the virtues of hemp ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
  Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
• THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
  RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
• 'Gratitude'
  Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...
• 'Gratitude' Audio
• Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...

Salon

• The GOP leaves Michigan behind for Obama
  To come from behind to win your home state is embarrassing, but it's better than losing. So Mitt Romney snatched a victory in Michigan -- while winning Arizona as predicted -- and looked relieved to be leaving his "home."In the end, it's amazing he won Michigan at all. In fact, I'd have advised ...
• LIVEBLOG: Romney slightly ahead in early returns
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• To camp or not to camp? That is Occupy’s ...
  Occupy Tampa has had a rough life. Born on a “Day of Rage” that drew 1,000 people to Tampa, Fla.'s downtown on Oct. 6, it put down roots three days later on a public sidewalk bordering Curtis Hixon Park. It soon blossomed into a community of more than 100 residents adorned with tents, medics, me ...
• Politicians’ beliefs deserve scrutiny
  The GOP candidates’ struggle to outdo each other in appealing to Christian fundamentalists continues. Rick Santorum, the current favorite of this constituency, topped his previous plays with his remark that John F. Kennedy’s famed 1960 speech on the importance of a separation between religion an ...
• Wisconsin’s Walker tries to shed anti-un ...
  This month David Koch gave away the game.  In a rare interview with the Palm Beach Herald, the notorious right-wing financier declared that a defeat of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in his upcoming recall election would spell doom for conservatives’ efforts to hamstring the labor movement.  “I ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is wrong to the public ...
  Message to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: It turns out the public doesn’t overwhelmingly support subways over light rail.
• Corporate taxes: Now is not the time for Ontar ...
  Ontario can not afford to cut corporate taxes again. Besides, they are already more than competitive.
• Dirty tricks: Liberal leader Bob Rae shows how ...
  Liberal leader Bob sets an example on taking responsibility for political wrong-doing. Prime Minister Stephen Harper should learn the lesson
• VIA Rail derailment: we need full explanation, ...
  The VIA Rail crash that killed three engineers requires a full explanation, especially in light of a similar derailment four years ago at almost exactly the same spot. ...
• Drummond report: Premier Dalton McGuinty must ...
  Premier Dalton McGuinty and the two opposition leaders need to start saying what they will do – not just what they won’t to - to put Ontario’s fiscal house in order. ...

Energy Collective

• Analysis: Cape Wind’s Big Break
  Offshore wind developer Cape Wind appears poised to secure a second buyer for the electricity to be produced by its proposed project off Massachusetts.
• Federal Agencies Respond to Risks of Climate C ...
  C2ES is pleased to release our updated report, Climate Change Adaptation: What Federal Agencies are Doing, which lays out the rapidly expanding efforts across the federal government to respond to the increasing economic risks of extreme weather and climate change.  Federal agencies are unde ...
• Who's To Blame For Current Gas Prices?
  Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most of his critics ar ...
• Promising to Slash Gas Prices is "Economic No ...
  Oddly enough, I found myself nodding vigorously while listening to George Will yesterday on This Week. He derided politicians who claim to be able to move globally determined oil prices enough to influence gas prices dramatically, saying they might as well promise we can grow lobsters on trees. ...
• Small modular reactors in Iowa?
  The land of Iowa - home of hogs, corn, windmills, and... SMRs (i.e., small modular reactors). Or at the least, that last part may be true pending a proposal before the Iowa Legislature (HF 561) is passed, allowing for among other things, recovery of costs while construction is in progress o ...

EU Times

• US “Trespass Bill” will make prote ...
  Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of Representatives voted 388-to- ...
• Argentina calls on firms to halt imports of UK ...
  Amid an ongoing dispute over the Malvinas Islands between Argentina and Britain, the Argentinean industry minister has called on the country’s top companies to stop importing British products, Press TV reports. Argentina’s Industry Minister Debora Giorgi on Tuesday called the bosses of at least ...
• Study says Mayan civilization was wiped out by ...
  A recent study has suggested that the conditions caused by a mild drought might have been the reason for the collapse of the Mayan civilization. The research published in the journal Nature says a continuous 25 to 40 percent drop in rainfall reduced water supplies in the homeland of the ancient ...
• China: US has no moral right to protect Arabs
  China says the US has no right to “protect” Arab peoples, questioning “the sincerity and efficacy of US policy.” The country’s top newspaper replied to Hillary Clinton after she called China’s and Russia’s veto of a UN Syrian resolution “despicable”. The People’s Daily commentary say ...
• Wyoming Prepares “Doomsday Bill” F ...
  State representatives in Wyoming have advanced a “doomsday” bill that when passed will launch a study into what the state should do in the event of an economic collapse, martial law style scenario. Wyoming House Bill 85 is essentially a state continuity of government plan that would study the im ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Mitt Romney pulls out win in home state MI, cr ...
  Mitt Romney's low-performing Republican US Tour continues now that he barely won Michigan, a state he grew up in and carried handily in 2008. Romney also won Arizona more easily.** But a win's a win. "We didn't win by a lot, but we won by enough," Romney said. "That's all that counts." The vict ...
• NASA Mars Mission News of the Day
  NASA Mars Mission News of the Day: NASA’s Mars program took a huge hit in President Obama’s proposed budget earlier this month, but the agency is now redesigning the program to allow for possible missions to Mars later this decade. Mission proposals will be hashed out by a committee over the ne ...
• Kenseth Wins Bizarre 54th Annual Daytona 500
  The 54th annual Daytona 500 finally got underway around 7:15 p.m. Monday night after a day and a half's postponement for lingering rain; it was the first time this NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race had ever been run completely under the lights and on the final weekend of February. By the time Tuesd ...
• Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck Welcome a Son
  Jennifer Garner gave birth to a son earlier this week, her third child with actor Ben Affleck. Us Magazine says: The couple of seven years welcomed their third child, a baby boy, in Santa Monica, Calif. Garner and Affleck’s new little one joins older daughters Violet, 6, and Serafina, 3. Announ ...
• Cannes 2012 Poster: Marilyn Monroe Blows Candle
  Marilyn Monroe: Cannes 2012 poster The Cannes Film Festival turns 65 this year. If the festival were a person, it'd be officially considered a senior citizen in a number countries. But the Cannes Film Festival is no person; unlike human (and other living) beings, is keeps getting refreshed with ...

Groklaw

• So Its the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo The Last ...
  Such a cynical move on rights Yahoo has long held seems more a play for the cheap seats of Wall Street, given that the company needs to look like it is doing everything it can to turn things around right now as it faces a proxy challenge. First, it ended difficult talks with its Asian partners, ...
• Technopanics, Threat Inflation, and the Danger ...
  Information controls could stifle free speech, limit the free flow of ideas, and retard social and economic innovation. It is vital that public policy debates about information technology not be driven by technopanics and threat inflation. Instead, a four-part framework should be used to analyze ...
• Microsoft denies any EU antitrust complaint ab ...
  Microsoft has recently lashed out at Google with aggressive ads and an EU patent complaint, but the company says that it's not involved in any antitrust complaint, formal or informal, over Google+. Previously, sources told Reuters that the company was one of several to complain to EU antitrust r ...
• Fred Wilson: Everybody's a Pirate (video)
  "When 99% of the citizens of the world are breaking the law, the question is, is this the right law?" - Fred Wilson Dot VC
• How do you like THEM apples? Proview seeks glo ...
  Proview Electronics says it is now seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. for alleged fraud and unfair competition, hoping to have a 2009 sale of the trademark ruled void. The Taiwan-based maker of LED lights said in a release late Monday that it had amended ...

WideShut

• Psychological Trauma Coming To A Primary Schoo ...
  Children across the UK being subjected to fake alien invasions, shootings, teacher assaults and holocaust simulations, leaving them upset and traumatized.
• Debunking Iran Nuclear Threat: Feb 27, 2012, W ...
  On this week's WideShut Webcast Keelan systematically debunks the alleged Iran nuclear threat.
• UK Recognise Syrian Opposition As Sole Represe ...
  Despite hundreds of thousands of vocal pro-Assad citizens, UK now officially recognises Syrian Opposition as the only representatives of the people, an opposition that houses Al Qaeda terrorists.
• United Nations to Regulate Internet
  As the US become authoritarian over Internet, foreign countries call for UN to takeover, which will cause an even more draconian outcome.
• Iran Told it Must Open Military Base to Inspec ...
  Iran told to re-open it's Parchin base to inspectors because a "bus sized steel container" has been spotted. We're starting to enter Iraq WMD absurdity.

Politics in the Zeros

• FASB let big banks make up their numbers. Expe ...
  Under huge pressure from Obama, Geithner, and banksters, FASB passed the mark-to-fantasy rule, which only applies to big banks. No longer are they bothered with having to determine what their toxic slop is actually worth. Instead, thanks to a friendly federal government, they can just make it up ...
• Losing Las Vegas. Play the Lake Mead water game
  Aquadoc has a Powerpoint game available for download, showing the problem which basically is too little water for too many peopleOkay. The game is actually ‘Losing the Lake’ and it is a simulation to keep enough water in Lake Mead so that Las Vegas can keep growing like a weed for a ...
• Republicans have panties in a twist over class ...
  Obama makes tepid comments pretending to defend the 99% against the 1% and Republicans squeal about how might they lose a class warfare fight. It’s comical, isn’t it?No doubt Barack Obama would love to reprise Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “Morning in America” reelection campaign, ...
• “Occupy Green Street.” Satire on a garden cata ...
  Tree Nursery, Closter, New Jersey, 1924. John Marin, American Metropolitan Museum)Once upon a time, I used to pore over garden catalogs. They arrived in the mail early every year, full of promises.  (One rose plant catalog scented its glossy pages hoping to fuel sales.) By the time Tony Avent&#8 ...
• California pension reform battle
  pennlive.comIn one of those complicated Sacramento political tangos, this having to do with public pension reform, a ballot measure suspended their campaign citing a deliberately misleading title forced on it by the Attorney General, Republican lawmakers backed Gov. Brown’s 12 point pensio ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
  The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
• Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
  The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
• What's new in the publishing biz!
  ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
• Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
  It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
• The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
  Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...

frogblog

• Welfare Reform goes nanny goat gruff – Part 2 ...
  When the Government announced their reform plans this week we were hoping to see a reinstatement of the Training Incentive Allowance for higher level courses, as suggested by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett in a Cabinet paper signed off in October last year. It is very disappointing no ...
• The Government can protect the Ross Sea.
  What has Richard Branson, a National Geographic oceanographer and Edward Norton got in common? They all want to see greater Antarctic marine protected areas included in the Ross Sea.
• Employer militancy is the new black
  I spent last weekend on the picket line at the Ports of Auckland with the Maritime Union members and their families. It was there on Saturday that Council of Trade Unions President, Helen Kelly, broke the news that meat processing company AFFCO – owned by that long-standing New Zealand family co ...
• Welfare Reform goes nanny goat gruff – Part 1 ...
  The Green Party believes in an inclusive society, active job creation and basic human rights for every New Zealander. We believe in times of fiscal restraint it is all the more important to value people and foster our points of commonality rather than differences. This may sound all very ‘herbal ...
• Carbon Zero and the University of Canterbury – ...
  Without identifiable and reputable certification, emission reductions are too often seen as ‘hot air’ and clever marketing.

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
  Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
• The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
  Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
• Instruments of Repression
  For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
• The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
  The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
• The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
  The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• What Mystery Disease is Killing Thousands in C ...
  By Dr. Mercola The United States imports one-fourth of its raw sugar from Central America, a region known as much for its sandy beaches and lush rainforests as its many acres of sugar plantations. In Central American countries like Nicaragua, finding employment is a challenge, and many resid ...
• The One and Only Way You Can Tell if a Food is ...
  By Dr. Mercola A bill has recently been introduced in the Vermont state legislature that would require food to be labeled as genetically engineered if it is entirely or partially produced with genetically engineered ingredients. If passed, the bill, H.722, also known as the 'VT Right to Kno ...
• "Harmless Procedure" Can Cause Narcolepsy, Mus ...
  By Dr. Mercola High-risk patients with chronic, underlying health conditions that increase the risk of severe illness and death after influenza infection are among the first of all groups that public health officials target to receive flu vaccinations. This population is targeted for vaccin ...
• Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
  By Dr. Mercola Non-medical vaccine exemptions are under serious attack across the United States, with the latest assault happening in Vermont. It is extremely important that Vermont residents, who want to protect their right to obtain a philosophical exemption to vaccination for their chil ...
• Do You Have ANY Idea How Absurd U.S. Farm Subs ...
  By Dr. Mercola If you're like many Americans, when you think of farm subsidies you think of rolling green pastures, fields of golden wheat and corn, and a hillside full of cattle peacefully meandering through the grass. The farmer, a "salt of the earth" type with weathered skin, depends ...

JAMA

• Cirrhosis [JAMA Patient Page]
• Risk of Febrile Seizures and Epilepsy After Va ...
  Context Vaccination with whole-cell pertussis vaccine carries an increased risk of febrile seizures, but whether this risk applies to the acellular pertussis vaccine is not known. In Denmark, acellular pertussis vaccine has been included in the combined diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertu ...
• Association of Age and Sex With Myocardial Inf ...
  Context Women are generally older than men at hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) and also present less frequently with chest pain/discomfort. However, few studies have taken age into account when examining sex differences in clinical presentation and mortality. Objective To examine t ...
• Cost-effectiveness of Adult Vaccination Strate ...
  Context The cost-effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) compared with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) among US adults is unclear. Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of PCV13 vaccination strategies in adults. Design, Setting, and Partici ...
• Invasion of the Body: Revolutions in Surgery [ ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Spread of ‘human safaris’ threatens Peru’s unc ...
  Uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians have been seen in the area on several occasions. © G. Galli/uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe is facing the very real threat of being exploited by ‘human safaris’, according to British newspaper The Observer. Last month, Survival rel ...
• Guard post to protect Peru’s uncontacted Mashc ...
  Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Residents living close to the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe – whose photos went viral last month – will build a guard post to protect both the Indians and locals fr ...
• Clampdown on sacred ritual as Vedanta mine app ...
  A Dongria boy stands in front of Niyamgiri, where the tribe will hold its festival. © Lewis Davids/Survival Security forces are cracking down on the Dongria Kondh tribe as they prepare for a religious festival this weekend at the top of India’s most contentious mountain. Hundreds are deter ...
• Survival uncovers shocking human rights abuses ...
  Two Karo by Ethiopia's Omo River. It is crucial to their way of life. © Survival Survival has uncovered shocking new evidence of human rights abuses against tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, as government efforts to develop lucrative sugar cane plantations in the region intensify. Bull ...
• Survival urges UN to end Andamans scandal
  India's Supreme Court ordered sections of the Andaman Trunk Road to be closed in 2002 © Ariberto De Blasoni/Survival Five years after the UN first called on India to close the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), Survival is urging the organization to bring an end to human safaris by speaking out ...

Montreal Gazette

• Better planning needed for summer roadwork
  The announcement that the Quebec government will hike its spending on upgrading provincial roads on Montreal Island comes as both good news and potentially bad.
• Christopher Plummer and the Canadian way
  The sight of the elegant Christopher Plummer gliding across the stage at the Academy Awards Sunday night to receive his first Oscar at age 82 struck a chord around the world.
• The Gazette's view, in short
  No matter who is found responsible for the so-called Robocall phone scandal with which the Conservative Party of Canada has denied links, deliberately misinforming voters of changes in addresses of polling stations is clearly dirty politics - illegal, too. Political "black ops" don't just underm ...
• Digital medical records and the right to opt out
  On March 30, the Quebec government will start bringing in a system of electronic health records - nearly two years after it first promised they would be in use. Every Montreal resident registered with Quebec's health-insurance plan will automatically be included in the new electronic database - ...
• The Gazette's view, in short
  No matter who is found responsible for the emerging phone scandals with which the Conservative Party of Canada has denied links, deliberately misinforming voters is clearly dirty politics - illegal, too. Political "black ops" don't just undermine voter confidence in the electoral process, they u ...

Food World Order

• #Occupy Targets Industrial Food System #Feb27
  Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat* from sustainablebusiness.com: Occupy, environmental and food justice organizations are joining in a global day of action on February 27 to end corporate control of the food system and steer back society from the stranglehold ...
• NASA Seeks Amateur Astronauts to Study Space Food
  Dream Job: Go to Hawaii and Eat Astronaut Food in the 'Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue and Simulation', or HI-SEAS from pcmag.com: In the film Mission To Mars, astronauts find a stranded and presumed dead Don Cheadle happily living on the planet's surface, surviving on food grown in a makesh ...
• Fast food nutrition labeling 'confusing, ineff ...
  "Calorie Postings in Chain Restaurants in a Low-Income Urban Neighborhood: Measuring Practical Utility and Policy Compliance" from nydailynews.com: Fast food chains are doing a bad job of making nutritional information of their menu items clear and easy to digest, according to a recent study. ...
• Japan's nuclear crisis goes much further than ...
  from reuters: On a hillside in northern Japan, wind turbines slice through the cold air, mocking efforts at a nearby industrial complex to shore up the future of the demoralized nuclear power industry. The wind-power farm at Rokkasho has sprung up close to Japan's first nuclear reprocessing pl ...
• Syria’s Chaos Reaches Its Kitchens
  from themedialine.org: Syria’s turmoil is showing signs of reaching the country’s kitchens as disruptions in transportation and trade sanctions are conspiring to shrink supplies and boost prices at a time when harvests are constrained by poor weather. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Orga ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...
• 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In ...
  How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...
• 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop ...
  The global financial system is not a game of checkers.  It is a game of chess.  All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...

CASSE

• Economic Growth, Obesity, and the Creed of Greed
  Society has reached a tipping point where further economic growth is causing serious health problems.
• Cheater Economics
  They say cheaters never prosper, but the cheaters seem to be doing just fine in an economy that condones their fraudulent ways.
• Rescuing Obama from the Slippery Slope
  Is anyone else ready for some refreshing honesty from the President regarding economic growth and the environment?
• Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still ...
  Of course, it's better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich -- GDP growth and free trade -- no longer apply.
• The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons
  Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior -- assumptions familiar to students of economics.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: 26th February 2012
  "Fascism does not have to be jackboots goose-stepping along cobblestone streets. Fascism does not have to be an egomaniac with a bad mustache ranting from the rostrum. Fascism does not have to mean the end of fun. Indeed, the most sinister political program can easily conceal itself behind fast ...
• Ahhh. So there was more to 7/7 than some lunat ...
  '9/11 was an inside job' - a familiar refrain to those of us who have a bit more imagination than to believe that three steel framed buildings, one of which was not hit by an aeroplane, can just dissolve into their own footprint - something that has never happened before, never happened since, a ...
• Lord James of Blackheath: Outing a $15 trillio ...
  Conservative life peer Lord James of Blackheath got to his feet in the House of Lords seven days ago... to raise the small issue of, what he suggests, is a $15 trillion fraud. Here is the speech he gave: ...and here is the speech, forever, on Hansard. So, what the hell is going on her ...
• Live, once again, to Syntagma Square... WATCH ...
  Here we go again then - live to Syntagma Square, Athens; courtesy of StopCartelTV. Unmute to listen (bilingual Greek/English commentary), hover mouse over screen for full screen option, video up thoughout live streaming broadcast. Alternative camera views from Zougla online here.
• Spain reacts to police brutality against students
  Compare and contrast... In Britain, when a newspaper vendor dies on the streets, we all go back to mindless drivel such as X Factor... In Spain, when police get aggressive with demonstrating students, the whole country seems to make it's feelings known. The clip above - from this evenin ...

Facing South

• North Carolina convenience-store chain targete ...
  The largest independent convenience-store chain in the Southeast, Kangaroo is under fire for refusing to meet with advocates for the farmworkers who pick the tobacco it sells.
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• VOICES: Considering BP's history of violence
  A judge has decided that BP's history of safety problems won't be admissible in the upcoming trial for its Gulf oil spill. While that may be legally justifiable, it's ...
  
• VOICES: Privatizing America for their majesty, ...
  On an island off the coast of Florida, the billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries recently gave an order to push the privatization of schools, prisons and anything else standing in the w ...
  
• Art Pope turns up in climate disinformation exposé
  Internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute, a leading player in the climate disinformation campaign, show that the group is counting on continuing support from the North Carolin ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: A budget for the 99 percent?
  A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President Obama released this week.
  A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President O ...
  

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Spacecraft assembled for first private shot to ISS
  SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule and Falcon 9 rocket have been assembled for a probable launch in late April
• Today on New Scientist: 28 February 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Ötzi the ice mummy's secrets found in DNA and genetic algorithms let Chinese drones hunt submarines
• Part of Keystone XL pipeline to go ahead
  While the northern part of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline remains in limbo, the southern part will be built later this year
• Elsevier vows to keep price of mathematics jou ...
  The publisher has also withdrawn support for a controversial, proposed US law - both moves follow a boycott of the firm's journals led by mathematicians
• Asteroid dust brought to Earth reveals space s ...
  Dust grains collected from the asteroid Itokawa harbour even smaller particles and craters of their own – the scars of high-speed collisions

Tech Drive In

• How to Install Elementary Luna OS in Ubuntu 12 ...
  Elementary OS Luna is far from a finished product. The final release is going to happen only after the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin since Luna is supposed to be based on Precise. Just yesterday, I found out that there is a simple script to install latest development ...
• Unofficial VLC for Android Ready to Download
  Let me be clear, VLC for Android has NOT yet been officially released. VLC for Android is an open source project and is licensed under GPLv2 License (like all other VLC projects). This means, you can build VLC from source and use it the way you want. And that's exactly what XDA Forum mem ...
• Unofficial r/Linux Distro Survey 2012 Puts Ubu ...
  'Which is the most popular Linux distro' is a question that has been raging like for ever. Ubuntu remained on top of the charts ever since its official launch in 2004. But the resurgence of Linux Mint as DistroWatch's most popular distro has stirred up a lot of debates. Redditor TyIzaeL conduc ...
• 6 Best Reddit Apps for Android
  I don't think there is anybody here who haven't heard about Reddit before. Founded in June 2005, Reddit gradually won over the tech-savvy internet crowd leaving the once prominent Digg.com in shambles. 2011 was an year of explosive growth for Reddit. In December 2011 alone, reddit served a mas ...
• CyanogenMod 9's New Boot Animation Looks Fabulous
  CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) is gearing up for its next major release which is supposed to bring the goodness of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to one of the most popular ROMs out there. Following is the new boot animation for upcoming CM9 and it looks fabulous.  Reworked ...

Case About Bird Flu

• GREEKS FIRST TO GET SWINE FLU JAB AND TROIKA A ...
  As the media in Sweden discusses the damage done by the mass swine flu vaccine campaign in 2009, it is worth remembering that Greece was the first country to annouce mandatory swine flu jabs for all 12 million citizens . “We decided that the entire population, all citizens and residents, w ...
• SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NARCOLEPSY IN SWEDEN
  Thirty-three cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Skåne in Sweden after Sweden’s massive vaccination campaign against swine flu in 2009. http://www.thelocal.se/39192/20120219/ Swedish doctor Steffan Sylvan said that themass swine flu vaccine campaign had led only to side effects, call ...
• Sodium bicarbonate: a cure for cancer and othe ...
   Cancer is one the most deadly diseases, and yet a simple cure for cancer identified by Italian doctor Tulio Simoncini has been buried by the medical establishment. Simoncini discovered that sodium bicarbonate can prevent cancer. Soda neutralizes high levels of acidity in our body and so creates ...
• HOPES GROW OF GREEK COUP TO OVERTHROW BANKSTERS
  *Shock and consternation after German Finance Minister calls for Greece to postpone elections in April and install a technocratic government *Greek President rejects aggressive German power grab over country; “default better than a German pistol at head” *Hopes grow that the Greek army will over ...
• Check this blog every Friday
  Please check this blog on Fridays for a  regular update from now on.

Invisible Opportunity

• ‘Euthanasia Rollercoaster’ Hailed by Anti-Huma ...
  Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post With the designated purpose of ‘euthanasia and execution,’ the “Euthanasia Coaster” is a concept for a real steel roller coaster that has been created to “show the future of humans and technology.” The creator of the coaster, Julijonas Urbonas, says th ...
• Putin Assassination Plot Foiled as Two Militan ...
  By Paul Abelsky and Ilya Arkhipov - Russian and Ukrainian security services foiled a plot to assassinate Vladimir Putin, who faces a presidential election in less than a week, said his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. Two militants were detained in Ukraine for planning to murder the premier in Moscow a ...
• Did the Ayatollah Really Say: Kill all Jews, A ...
  By Keith Johnson The short answer: Absolutely not! Part of the long answer comes from Muhammad Sahimi, who recently told Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton that the inflammatory article published by World Net Daily (WND), entitled Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, Annihilate Israel is “totally bogus.” Muha ...
• The Recurring Myth of Peak Oil
  By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH | October 1, 2008 The Peak Oil theory maintains that world production of conventional oil will soon reach a maximum, or peak, and decline thereafter, with grave socio-economic consequences. Some proponents of the theory argue that world oil production has already pea ...
• Study: Combination tetanus, whooping cough vac ...
  by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) If you choose to have your baby vaccinated with the combination diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type 2 vaccine, a mega-jab collectively known as the DTap-IPV-Hib, your child may be at an increased r ...

Veterans Today

• The VA is a Racket
  A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
• Informal Conversation – Clay Douglas and ...
  Two plus hours of Clay Douglas and Gordon Duff, taking on the recent multi-trillion dollar financial crimes starting with the 15 trillion dollar wire transfer to Bank of Scotland exposed in Parliament. The conversation is freewheeling, Clay Douglas is a well known and extremely outspoken radio ...
• Questioning the Syrian “Casualty List”
  People have to stop this knee-jerk, opportunistic, hysterical obsession with numbers of dead Syrians, and ask instead: “who are these people and who killed them?”
• The Revolution We Will Never See
  Around me, 50 million Americans are homeless, living in travel trailers, in tents. 500,000 young veterans, too many with families, have applied for 100% disability compensation. All have supportable medical diagnoses of total disability. Their "paperwork" will remain in limbo for years, unti ...
• Syrians Overwhelmingly Approve New Constitution
  Major media scoundrels can't bear reporting good news they'd rather suppress, so they downplay and disparage it best they can.

electric politics

• America Agonistes
  The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
• The Color of Authority
  We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
• How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
  Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
• Whither Korea?
  The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...
• Nuclear Nihilism
  Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...

PR News

• DeMaria leaves NASDAQ corp comms role
  NEW YORK: Frank DeMaria stepped down as SVP of corporate communications at NASDAQ OMX this month, a company source confirmed.
• Everett appointed Time Inc. corp comms EVP
  NEW YORK: Former News Corp. communications executive Teri Everett will join Time Inc. as EVP of corporate communications on March 5.
• Citrix hires Weber as AOR for online services ...
  SAN FRANCISCO: Citrix Systems has hired Weber Shandwick as its US AOR for its online services division after a competitive review process.
• Leedy & Associates adds over-the-counter clients
  MOUNT KISCO, NY: Robin Leedy & Associates has added six clients to its roster.
• LED Medical teams with Edelman
  BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA: LED Medical Diagnostics has tapped Edelman to promote the key benefits of its technologies, which are used to identify oral cancer in its earliest stages.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• ELC comments on Proposed Recovery Strategy for ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted their comments on Recovery Strategy for Woodland Caribou (Rangifer terandus caribou) Boreal Population, In Canada to the ELC website. ...
• Conservation groups take Environment Minister ...
  Ecojustice Alberta Wilderness Association Pembina Institute 23 Feb 2012 EDMONTON — T ...
• Pembina Institute backgrounder on the proposed ...
  Pembina Institute In advance of the February 23 European Commission vote on the European Union's proposed fuel-quality directive, the Pembina Institute has released a backgrounder to answer "some frequently asked questions about ...
• Alberta Government Kills 145 Bears at Oilsands ...
  No Charges Laid Alberta Wilderness Association 22 Feb 2012 Last year, the Alberta government killed 145 garbage-habituated b ...
• Canadians Can Stop Massive Wolf Kill
  22 Feb 2012 - 14:00 The deadline for Canadians to comment on the federal government’s massive wolf-kill caribou recovery strategy is February 22, 2012. For most Alberta boreal woodland caribou herds, the wolf-kill strategy would all ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO news: February 29, 2012
  ==== Attacks On Syria, Iran Would Overwhelm Armenia With Refugees Russian Expert: Azerbaijan’s Territory May Be Used To Strike Iran “Nightmare For Invader”: Georgia Is NATO States’ Window To Caucasus Georgian Foreign Minister In Israel To Discuss “Regional Security Issues ...
• West Intensifies Syria-Style Campaign Against ...
  Russian Information Agency Novosti February 29, 2012 U.S. Warns Belarus of Deepening Isolation EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced on Tuesday that all EU members will recall their ambassadors to Minsk WASHINGTON: The United States has expressed “deep regret” over the Belarusian au ...
• Storm Clouds Gather Over The Falklands/Malvinas
  Voice of Russia February 28, 2012 Storm clouds gather over the Falklands Sergei Sayenko ==== Adding fuel to the fire will certainly be a visit by British MPs to the Falklands in March and the upcoming deployment of the Dauntless destroyer and a Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarine off the F ...
• American Unipolar Moment Has Ended, Global Mul ...
  Pakistan Observer February 28, 2012 Emerging multipolar world M Zarrar Haider The last two decades witnessed the expression of unipolarity in terms of unilateralism with invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the endemic Global War on Terror (GWOT). We are now in a new, fast-evolving multipolar w ...
• Syria’s Dubious Friends Plan To Plunge N ...
  China Daily February 28, 2012 Syrian people’s true friend ==== Despite its efforts to brand itself as the “protector” of the Arab people, the US’ conduct lacks any moral backing. History is sure to be the judge of the US’ interventions into the internal affairs of t ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• GE Paid Just 2.3 Percent in Federal Taxes Over ...
  Madison Ruppert | Thanks to tax loopholes and deductions, General Electric (GE) was able to pay a mere 2.3 percent in federal taxes on over $81 billion in profits over the last 10 years, according to analysis of the corporation’s tax filings conducted by Citizens for Tax Justice.
• International Raids Result in Arrests of 25 Su ...
  Madison Ruppert | Twenty-five alleged members of Anonymous were arrested in a worldwide sweep Tuesday by the International Criminal Police Organization.
• Paperless Child Support Payments May Cost Poor ...
  Associated Press February 28, 2012 WASHINGTON — Old child support debts could cost thousands of poor men their only income next year because of a policy aimed at reducing the cost to the government of mailing paper checks to pay federal benefits. The Treasury Department will start paying b ...
• The Intel Hub News Brief With Jason Bermas &#8 ...
  The Intel Hub February 28, 2012 The Intel Hub News Brief with Jason Bermas. Topics covered include the fact that 95% of animals that PETA takes in are killed, the “soft” culture we now find ourselves in, election fraud targeting Ron Paul, the MF Global Scandal, the Republican GOP selection, the ...
• Medical Journal: Legalize ‘After-Birth Abortio ...
  Alexander Higgins A paper recently published claims infants aren't people and can be aborted(murdered) after birth.

FRS

• Grasping the Lessons of a Year of Struggle
  The Lessons of 2011: Transcending the Old, Fostering the New, and Settling Outstanding Accounts Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Friday, February 24, 2012 The militant working class struggles of 2011 – from the strikes and occupation in Wisconsin, to the countless demonstrations a ...
• Grasping the Lessons of a Year of Struggle
  The Lessons of 2011: Transcending the Old, Fostering the New, and Settling Outstanding Accounts Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Friday, February 24, 2012 The militant working class struggles of 2011 – from the strikes and occupation in Wisconsin, to the countless demonstrations a ...
• Out of the public eye, China cracks down on an ...
  Tom Lasseter – McClatchy Newspapers, February 26, 2012 PANHE, China — The old woman walked over to the door and peeked out from behind a blue curtain, looking slowly from one side of the street to other. She muttered to those huddled in the room behind her, “the police will come.&#82 ...
• Out of the public eye, China cracks down on an ...
  Tom Lasseter – McClatchy Newspapers, February 26, 2012 PANHE, China — The old woman walked over to the door and peeked out from behind a blue curtain, looking slowly from one side of the street to other. She muttered to those huddled in the room behind her, “the police will come.&#82 ...
• Syria Crisis: Hamas Ditches Assad
  [In a move that indicates both the declining prospects for the Syrian Assad regime, as well as the growing role of the Saudi regime in post-Mubarak Arab alignments, Hamas--which is also busily retooling its relations with the Fatah forces and the Palestine Authority as a whole--has made a signif ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
  Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
• Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
  Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
• Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
  This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...
• Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
  This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...
• Dedicated to Brother Khader Adnan – Wher ...
  Brother Khader, Like so many before you, and surely many more to come, between death with honour or life without it, you have chosen the former. Nothing but love and respect to you my brother, and to all the brothers and sisters of this world who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who resist th ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• Creationist Rick Santorum's Speech Against Env ...
  Rick Santorum has gained a jump in the polls in Ohio this week, yet there are still people scratching their heads and wondering why. Aside from denying solidly proven science about the environment, he appealed to the highly religious in pious Ohio.Contributor: JD Stockman Published: Feb 21, 2012
• Iran Halts Oil Sales to British and French Com ...
  Iran is trading blows with the United States and its western allies over its nuclear program.Contributor: John Coon Published: Feb 20, 2012
• Breakthrough in Early Diagnosis of Autism
  It may be possible to diagnose autism in infants as young as 6 months old, well before most begin to display signs of the disorder. A recent study found differences in the way neural pathways in the brain develop in autistic infants.Contributor: Kim Jacobs Walker Published: Feb 20, 2012
• Taking Advantage of Momentum, Rick Santorum Go ...
  With recent primary wins, Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum goes after President Obama and Republican front runner Mitt Romney as we head into Super Tuesday on March 6th.Contributor: Roy Branson Published: Feb 19, 2012
• Suspect Arrested in Capitol Suicide Bombing Plot
  After a year long undercover sting operation, federal authorities arrest Amine El Khalifi on attempting a suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol.Contributor: Kathrine Ayers Published: Feb 18, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Could Climate Change Make Mount Everest Unclim ...
  Meanwhile, Nepal asks world to help measure the peak's exact height Changes on the planet are affecting the world's tallest mountain, casting doubt on its climbability and even its height. Sherpas are wondering whether warmer climates will render Mount Everest too dangerous to summit, and geolo ...
• Does a Splash of Red Make a Woman More Attractive?
  And if so, why? At the Oscars this year, Angelina Jolie paired a leggy black dress with bombshell hair. What stood out, though, was her bright red lipstick. I thought she looked great, and--according to science--most of the men watching agreed. In 2008, psychologist Andrew Elliot at the Univer ...
• The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a D ...
  To catch a fast-acting virus, response teams have to be faster A man who worked in a lead and gold mine in southwest Uganda died suddenly from a hemorrhagic fever. Concerned that it could be the beginning of an outbreak of Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola, doctors sent a blood sample to ...
• IBM Photographs the Electric Charge in a Singl ...
  This is a molecule, and the circles represent how the electrical charge is distributed inside it. It’s a glimpse of the forces that bind molecules together, essentially. This picture is a major breakthrough for nanotechnologists — understanding how charge is arranged inside molecules could help ...
• PopSci Talks To Neil deGrasse Tyson About Poli ...
  Tyson's book "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier" is out today 2012 marks the first year in three decades that the U.S. is not launching its own publicly funded manned space vehicle, and it could also be China's year to shine, on Earth and in space. It’s a transition period for Ame ...

Veterans Today

• The VA is a Racket
  A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
• Informal Conversation – Clay Douglas and ...
  Two plus hours of Clay Douglas and Gordon Duff, taking on the recent multi-trillion dollar financial crimes starting with the 15 trillion dollar wire transfer to Bank of Scotland exposed in Parliament. The conversation is freewheeling, Clay Douglas is a well known and extremely outspoken radio ...
• Questioning the Syrian “Casualty List”
  People have to stop this knee-jerk, opportunistic, hysterical obsession with numbers of dead Syrians, and ask instead: “who are these people and who killed them?”
• The Revolution We Will Never See
  Around me, 50 million Americans are homeless, living in travel trailers, in tents. 500,000 young veterans, too many with families, have applied for 100% disability compensation. All have supportable medical diagnoses of total disability. Their "paperwork" will remain in limbo for years, unti ...
• Syrians Overwhelmingly Approve New Constitution
  Major media scoundrels can't bear reporting good news they'd rather suppress, so they downplay and disparage it best they can.

War is Business

• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
• New U.S. Nuke Facility Shows One Way Military ...
  Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?
• U.S. Military Manufacturers Move South Of The ...
  Buy maquiladora Buy maquiladora • Read more at The World
• U.S. Activists Sue For Info On Private Drones ...
  Buy private registration Buy private registration • Read more at EFF

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• February's huge temperature contrast
  Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
• Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
  The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...
• Risk of drought restrictions spread
  Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...
• Met Office global forecasts too warm in 11 out ...
  Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...
• First widespread snow of winter on its way
  It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Thou Shalt Obey Thy Lord Mandy on Globalization
  On paper, I am not supposed to favourably regard Peter Mandelson, the third architect of the UK's third way along with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. While I regard the latter two as rather odious at this point in time, I have yet to definitively suss why I remain a Lord Mandelson fan. Perhaps it' ...
• I [Heart] Empire: "Hong Kong Better Under Brits"
  Niall Ferguson probably cemented the fashion of extolling the virtues of British empire with his bestselling book from a few years back. While the British empire had its downsides alike slavery earlier on and occasional massacres of various peoples supposedly under the crown, it was, on the bala ...
• Japan Ponders Limits of National Superindebtedness
  That Japan owes over twice its annual output has been a favourite storyline for assorted end-of-the-world-economy cultists in triggering the next round of global financial meltdown. Nevermind that such predictions have proven woefully inaccurate given the yen strengthening to all-time highs in r ...
• PIIGs in a Blanket: IMF & Reverse Robin Hood
  I've often harped on the idea that Europe's troubled PIIGS nations shouldn't be receiving IMF funding since the nature of their woes do not primarily deal with balance-of-payments woes the institution was meant to address. Greece simply borrowed too much. Ireland overcommitted to guaranteeing it ...
• Onshoring--You Macho Enough to Make in the USA?
  I have to run so this will be a quick if interesting one: Remember during the 2004 American presidential elections when John Kerry was inveighing against outsourcers with talk about "Benedict Arnold corporations"? What we now have is an interesting Reuters article that takes this line of argumen ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...
• 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In ...
  How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...
• 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop ...
  The global financial system is not a game of checkers.  It is a game of chess.  All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Fifth Estate's Spring 2012 issue (#386) now av ...
  The Fifth Estate has always proudly displayed the FBI’s description of this publication as “supporting revolution everywhere.”...
• Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
  When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
• October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
• New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
  June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
• November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
  Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...

E U Times

• US “Trespass Bill” will make prote ...
  Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of Representatives voted 388-to- ...
• Argentina calls on firms to halt imports of UK ...
  Amid an ongoing dispute over the Malvinas Islands between Argentina and Britain, the Argentinean industry minister has called on the country’s top companies to stop importing British products, Press TV reports. Argentina’s Industry Minister Debora Giorgi on Tuesday called the bosses of at least ...
• Study says Mayan civilization was wiped out by ...
  A recent study has suggested that the conditions caused by a mild drought might have been the reason for the collapse of the Mayan civilization. The research published in the journal Nature says a continuous 25 to 40 percent drop in rainfall reduced water supplies in the homeland of the ancient ...
• China: US has no moral right to protect Arabs
  China says the US has no right to “protect” Arab peoples, questioning “the sincerity and efficacy of US policy.” The country’s top newspaper replied to Hillary Clinton after she called China’s and Russia’s veto of a UN Syrian resolution “despicable”. The People’s Daily commentary say ...
• Wyoming Prepares “Doomsday Bill” F ...
  State representatives in Wyoming have advanced a “doomsday” bill that when passed will launch a study into what the state should do in the event of an economic collapse, martial law style scenario. Wyoming House Bill 85 is essentially a state continuity of government plan that would study the im ...

Voiceless Victim

• How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
  An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
• Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
  The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
• Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
  Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...
• Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality &#821 ...
  Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...
• Towards Deception and Denial: Vatican PR Parad ...
  Vatican PR is in overdrive again, trying to ensure there is no possibility of any unauthorised commentary of the so-called “Global Summit on Sexual Abuse” this week, other than their own carefully manipulated spin. Surprisingly, Vatican PR has finally realised how little credibility ...

WL Central

• Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
  TweetAuthored By: Nikolas Kozloff I have always been a bit skeptical about some of the more salacious claims made in John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the story of one man’s life working for the secretive National Security Agency or NSA. When he was a young man, NSA interrogator ...
• Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
  TweetAuthored By: Nikolas Kozloff I have always been a bit skeptical about some of the more salacious claims made in John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the story of one man’s life working for the secretive National Security Agency or NSA. When he was a young man, NSA interrogator ...
• 2012-02-27 African Spring continues in Senegal
  TweetWhen Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was booed by hundreds of voters as he cast his ballot Sunday in an election the controversial incumbent hopes will elect him to serve a third term in office, it capped more than a month of popular protests by opposition candidates and their supporters ...
• 2012-02-27 African Spring continues in Senegal
  TweetWhen Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was booed by hundreds of voters as he cast his ballot Sunday in an election the controversial incumbent hopes will elect him to serve a third term in office, it capped more than a month of popular protests by opposition candidates and their supporters ...
• 2012-02-26 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles & More
  Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 450 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 447 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 644 days. News: Image from WikiLeaks WikiLeaks, partnered with over 25 media organizatio ...

U N News

• UN launches new guidelines in fight against ch ...
  United Nations health officials have unveiled new guidelines to help countries throughout the Americas detect and prevent transmission of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus - a disease which has already infected more than two million people around the world.
• Drug-related violence has reached alarming lev ...
  Escalating violence involving drug trafficking organizations in Central America has reached "alarming and unprecedented levels," making it one of the most violent areas in the world, the United Nations anti-narcotics panel stressed in its annual report which was launched today.
• Haitian premier's resignation sparks concern f ...
  The chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) today expressed his deep concern following the resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, just four months after his appointment.
• Mexico: UN human rights office voices alarm af ...
  The United Nations human rights office has called on Mexican authorities to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the killing over the weekend of 44 inmates at a prison in the country's north, apparently by members of an organized criminal group.
• UNESCO chief deplores slayings of another two ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murders of two Brazilian journalists earlier this month and called for thorough investigations of the killings.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
  Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
• Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
  The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
• NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
  NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
• Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
  This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
• Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
  Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...

Asia Sentinel

• Hong Kong's Canadians Disappear
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Statistics trick us once again
• Jeremy Lin's Chinese Trademark Problems
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Knicks phenom joins Michael Jordan, Apple and others in losing his name to a Chinese company
• Delayed Controversial Murder Appeal To Be Hear ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Maybe, if it isn’t delayed again
• Pakistan's Hindu Girls Forced into Muslim Marr ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Girls are lured away from their families and forced into conversions
• Temporary Relief from Global Starvation
  • (http://twitter.com/share) World food stocks rise, driven by new production

We Know the Lies

• How Gas Prices Are Manipulated By Koch Brother ...
    Why are gas prices surging to levels unseen since the 2008 oil spike while the oil companies reporting record profits? ~ Emine Dilek read more
• CIA Controlled Media... CIA Admits To Planting ...
    An archived clip from 1950's exposes the fact that the CIA directly plants stories in the media, both in the United States and the rest of the world. ~ Video read more
• ACTA 2.0
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) calls the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "a secretive, multi-nation agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property laws across the globe." It replicates its worst features. ~ S. Lendman read ...
• A Look At The World's Most Powerful Mercenary ...
    Business is booming for a growing army of private military contractors, who take their military training and offer it to the highest bidder.  Modern-day mercenaries are stationed throughout the world fighting conflicts for governments that are reluctant to use their own troops. re ...
• US to Announce Aerial 'Blockade' on Syria (Can ...
    The message... 'Syria is fine, mind your own business'! US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border. ~ Roi Kais - MyTwoCents - photos rea ...

Tarpley

• Reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democr ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Atlantic Television News February 27, 2012 — recorded on February 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• One-Candidate Presidential Election Mockery in ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 27, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington about the potential for real change and stabilization in Yemen now that UK-trained army officer Abd-Rabbu Mansour Had ...
• Russia, China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Top US officials have called for the urgent provision of weapons, intelligence and funds to the Syrian opposition for use against President Bashar al-Assad. Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpl ...
• Hillary Clinton’s “Enemies of Syri ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A political analyst says the Friends of Syria conference expected to be held in Tunisia’s capital Tunis aims at creating a scenario in Syria similar to the one, which materialized in Libya. What follows is a ...
• FALSE FLAG ALERT – Syrian Sources Warn: ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 23, 2012 A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad’s forces. These children are already dead, and ...

Modern Survivalism

• Will A Metal Garage Protect From EMP?
  Reader Question: I have a very big workshop/Garage and it is 95% metal. Would it protect my cars electrical systems in the event of an EMP attack? Answer: An enclosed metal structure is ideal for protection of electronic systems against an EMP attack (or a natural EMP occurrence from the sun). T ...
• Microwave Oven Used As A Faraday Cage?
  Reader Question: Can an old microwave oven be used as a Faraday cage? Answer: YES, an old microwave is perfect for use as a Faraday cage against EMP (electro magnetic pulse). In fact, it is a Faraday cage! A Faraday cage is an enclosure formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material ...
• Which Water Filter To Buy
  Reader Question: I am looking at water filter systems. I can not afford Berkey’s stainless steel tanks, but I can afford two of their filters. (What are the recommendations)? Answer: I appreciate that you cannot afford to spend the money for this top-of-the-line water filter system. The Big Berk ...
• Decade Old Beans – OK To Eat?
  Reader Questions: I have some pintos and lentils that I put away over 12 years ago that are in their original bags inside of Rubbermaid containers. They look like the day they were purchased. There are no bugs or moisture. However, they have not been stored in ideal temperatures. They have been ...
• How Much Can You Do Without?
  You would be surprised how much that people can do without. The family budget is about cash flow. You have money coming in and money going out. The money comes in from your paycheck or other earnings and it goes out to pay for rent, mortgage, utility bills, gasoline, food, insurance, on and on&# ...

Fast Company

• $35 Raspberry Pi Computer Goes On Sale, Marvel ...
  Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.EU Privacy Regulator To Investigate Google. CNIL, a data protection agency from France will investigate Google's new privacy policy to check if the company's changes flout the laws the EU has in place to protect user privacy. ...
• IBM's Quantum Computers Could Change The World ...
  101010: That's the number 42 represented in binary, which is the mathematical way today's binary computers see every single piece of information flowing through them, whether it's a stock price, the latest Adele track, or a calculation to generate an MRI of a tumor. But now IBM believes it's mad ...
• Are You A Power-Poisoned Boss?
  If you're the boss, it'd do you some good to assume you are clueless, insensitive, and selfish--especially ­if ­you ­wield ­a ­lot ­of­ power ­or ­your people are performing especially well. This is the first in a series based on leadership lessons I've learned from since publishing Good Boss, ...
• Electrical Grid At Risk From Terrorists
  Tethering America's electrical grid to the Internet was a boon for consumers. However, a Congressional hearing revealed that foreign agents could easily hack into energy grids nationwide.Could America's electrical grid be targeted by terrorists or hostile foreign states? Anything's possible. Is ...
• Defining Your Company's Vision
  Many organizations confuse mission and vision. A mission is about who you are. Missions rarely change. Visions should be dynamic and drive constant learning and innovation.I am working with a client on a vision for their organization. I find it interesting that people in leadership positions s ...

Jadaliyya

• الأزمة المعيشية الفلسطينية بين الإستهلاك والمد ...
  يعتبر عدول السلطة الفلسطينية الأخير عن نيتها تطبيق خطط الإصلاح الهيكلي وعن مجموعة من الإجراءات التقشفية(1) اعترافا أولياً بضرورة إجراء المزيد من التشاور العام والدراسة الفنية، وذلك في ما يشبه انتصاراً رمزياً لما يمكن تسميته بـ "العدالة الضريبية" في ظروف احتلال يصعب على الج ...
• حلّ التواطؤ، أفق الخروج
  يسعى هذا المقال إلى إعادة فتح منظومة العلاقات بين فلسطينيّي 48 والنظام الصهيونيّ الاستعماريّ الذي يرزحون تحته منذ أن تَشكَّلَ كدولة عام 1948. وهو إذ يسعى في ذلك، سيقوم بفحص موقع الفلسطينيّين البنيويّ في هرميّة العلاقات الاستعماريّة، أي إنّ ما يهمّنا هنا هم الفلسطينيّون وورطتهم البنيويّة ...
• The Uprisings Will be Gendered
  Women's rights and the regulation of gender and sex norms in the Arab world have long been put under the spotlight by local and international activists in addition to local and international politicians and NGOs. This year, the ongoing uprisings in the Arab world have brought into focus ...
• "Future of Syria" Panel and Discussion on CSPAN
  I have recently participated in a panel titled "Future of Syria," organized by Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University. My aim was to address four basic questions in a very short time period: What are the structural causes for the Syrian Uprisin ...
• O.I.L. Media Roundup (February 27)
  [This is the first installment of the O.I.L. Page Media Roundup, dealing with Occupation, Intervention, and Law. The O.I.L. page can be accessed here and can be clicked on the bar above] In her article, “Exploiting A ‘Dynamic’ Interpretation? The Israeli High Court of Justice Accep ...

mediagazer

• Syrian activists killed in Paul Conroy rescue ...
  Peter Beaumont / Guardian: Syrian activists killed in Paul Conroy rescue mission  —  Up to 13 activists died smuggling the Sunday Times photographer out of the country, it has emerged  —  Paul Conroy, the Sunday Times photographer wounded in the leg in an attack ...
• Birmingham Weekly to be published every 10 day ...
  Stan Diel / Business News from The Birmingham News: Birmingham Weekly to be published every 10 days  —  BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Birmingham Weekly, the alternative newspaper, will publish every 10 days rather than every seven, beginning immediately, owner Stephen Humphreys sa ...
• Google and the News, Part 2,389: The Company I ...
  Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: Google and the News, Part 2,389: The Company Is Co-Hosting a Conference on Investigative Reporting and Tech  —  An investigative reporter might spend weeks (or months, or years) working on a single story, guided by her sense that the facts she ...
• NYC Newspapers Defend Spying On Muslims (Micha ...
  Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: NYC Newspapers Defend Spying On Muslims  —  NEW YORK — Bob McManus, editorial page editor of the New York Post, blasted the Associated Press on Tuesday, suggesting that the news organization cares more about winning a Pulitzer Prize ...
• The Twitter Death Epidemic (Barb Palser/Americ ...
  Barb Palser / American Journalism Review: The Twitter Death Epidemic  —  All of the bogus tweets about celebrity deaths underscore why it's silly to assert that Twitter “beat” the news media in reporting Whitney Houston's demise.  Tues., February 28, 2012.  ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Spring cleaning isn't just for housekeepi ...
  March is fast approaching, and aside from a little recent rain, the weather has been beautiful. Before you start spending those gorgeous Spring days outdoors, why not do a little spring cleaning? Don't limit it to just your house, though – get your whole life in order! Start with the h ...
• Avocados, seaweed, plums and chocolate--i ...
  You are what your eat.. You don’t have to tell us Angelenos what to eat. Los Angeles is the health capital of the country. There’s a Whole Food’s, vegan restaurant, Erewhon or other health food store on nearly every street. We invented health foods. So as I was watching T ...
• Australia Retail Sales Edge Up, Rates on ...
  Australian retail sales rose a modest 0.3 percent in January as a sharp rise in eating out helped offset softness in household goods, a pedestrian result that only confirms the challenges facing traditional bricks-and-mortar stores across the country....
• Sugar trap: Critics say Healthy Tick deal ...
  ONE lump or two? Or how about three? As long as it's a balanced part of the "total make-up" of whatever you're eating or drinking, the Australian Heart Foundation seems to be OK with sugar. Supports it even, to the tune of awarding its Healthy Heart Tick in recent years across an i ...
• WSH hits a new roadblock
  Hockey is high on popularity charts following India's qualification for the London Olympics and the organisers of the World Series Hockey - Indian Hockey Federation and Nimbus - would have hoped to make most of it. That, however, is not the case. The tournament has been mired in controversy ...

no frakking consensus

• Where Do Gleick’s Apologists Draw the Line?
  If it's OK for scientists to lie to advance the fight against climate change what other bad behaviour is acceptable?
• Peter Gleick – Then and Now
  Eleven years ago Peter Gleick was declaring that the debate is over. Now he says other people are preventing it from taking place.
• Opinion Disguised as Science
  Iowa scientists have signed a letter about climate change. News reports don’t mention their activist leanings.
• Gleick Speak
  Peter Gleick issues a statement about the Heartland documents.
• Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee
  The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri's sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
  How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

• 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
• 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...
• 2/28/12 - NL MVP Ryan Braun Successfully Appea ...
  sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Ryan Braun Becomes First MLB Player to Successfully Appeal a Positive Drug Test - National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned on Feb. 23, 2012 because of a delay transferring his sample to the testing lab. His testosteron ...
• 2/17/12 - "Did You Know?” Little Known Facts a ...
  2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...
• 2/17/12 - Embargo against Cuba
  2012election.procon.org - Should the US continue to support the embargo against Cuba? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Paul is Con. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, and Obama are Pro, and Johnson is Not Clearly Pro or Con.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Fields Apart
  By Sam Kean “Shut up and calculate!” As physics became more mathematical and abstract during the past century, that phrase—first uttered by physicist David Mermin—became its mantra. Indeed, the more that physicists stopped worrying about what their complicated equations meant and simply ran the ...
• Why Are Men So Violent?
  Why Are Men So Violent? Jesse J. Prinz It will not have gone unnoticed that men are more violent than women. Men perpetrate about 90 percent of the world’s homicides and start all of the wars. But why? A recent article in a prominent science journal contends that evolution has shaped men t ...
• Daddy Issues
  Why caring for my aging father has me wishing he would die Sandra Tsing Loh Recently, a colleague at my radio station asked me, in the most cursory way, as we were waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, how I was. To my surprise, in a motion as automatic as the reflex of a … Read&# ...
• Poverty as Destiny
  Isaac Chotiner … a Mumbai garbage-sorter takes the witness stand to defend the honor of his dead wife. A trial is being held to determine whether the defendant beat, and drove to suicide by self-immolation, the woman everyone in Annawadi calls The One Leg. After an argument with her neighb ...
• Literally figuratively
  All patriotic Americans ought to stand up and say enough is enough. We need a law to put a stop to this literally-abuse. A. Barton Hinkle … Literally? Yikes. The last time a Cat-5 hurricane made landfall in the United States was seven years ago, when Katrina slammed into New Orleans. Tuesd ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
   The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
• Revolutionary science
  This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
• Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
  In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
• Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
  FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
• Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
  The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• L-3: the $15 billion defence contractor that w ...
  Part two of a report by Crikey political correspondent Bernard Keane on the awarding of an airport body scanner contract by the Australian Government without conducting a risk analysis So who is the real beneficiary of the government’s decision to impose body-scanning technology on int ...
• Silencing The Critics
  In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were ...
• Kurt Haskell: Witness to Government False Flag
  Personal Statement from Kurt Haskell, Delta 253 Passenger Kurt Haskell. I wish to thank the Court for allowing me these 5 minutes to make my statement. My references to the government in this statement refer to the Federal Government excluding this Court and the prosecution. On Christmas Day 2 ...
• James Corbett - TSA: Tyrants Sucker America
  Video here: http://www.corbettreport.com/tsa-tyrants-sucker-america/ by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com February 21, 2012 Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Eyeopener report for BoilingFrogsPost.com. Of all of the myriad agencies, bureaucracies, laws and le ...
• How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
  A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz wave ...

Beacon

• House Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Fight Ille ...
  Congress took a strong step forward today in the fight against illegal fishing, as Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) introduced legislation to fight this growing global problem that threatens our oceans, honest fishermen and seafood consumers worldwide.  The bill is cosponsored by ...
• Alexandra Cousteau Joins Oceana
  Alexandra Cousteau. © Oceana We’re excited to announce that Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, has become a senior advisor to Oceana.  Alexandra is a distinguished international ocean advocate, and as a senior advisor she will lend her environment ...
• Marylanders: Tell Your Senators to Protect Sharks
  Today, the Maryland state Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on numerous bills including a bill that would ban the possession, sale, trade and distribution of shark and ray fins. This bill will help protect global shark populations by reducing t ...
• World Bank Launches Global Partnerships for th ...
  © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Today the World Bank announced a new international alliance called the Global Partnerships for the Oceans and we are excited to announce our involvement! It’s a collaborative partnership in every sense with many of the world’s top conservation organizations, private ...
• Oregon House Approves Marine Reserves, MPAs
  Oregon's Otter Rock. © Oceana/Will Race Great news! Today the Oregon House passed a bill making Oregon’s first network of marine reserves and marine protected areas (MPAs). The bill, which Oceana has been actively supporting, now goes to the governor’s desk for a signature. The bill cal ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Creamed Chipped Beef, Or SOS
    My father mentioned this to me even though he said it was really good. Creamed Chipped Beef. Or for some reason it took on the moniker of SOS or Shit On Shingle You take chipped beef, air dried slivers of beef and cover it with a creamy white sauce.   Here is one of [...]
• The Chinese Civil War Was One Of The Largest, ...
        This war was far too long and complicated to cover here in one article. What is interesting is that the war itself was in motion before the Japanese invaded and occupied China, and it picked up with deadly intensity afterwards. The weapons purloined and copied from occupiers ...
• The Gloster IV Float Plane.
    The British were among the first pioneers of flight along with the French, the Italians and the Americans. England is, of course, a large island surrounded by oceans. Thusly, the British had led the world in naval power. Therefore it made sense that the British would also be among the fir ...
• The Bell X-16, The Plane That Never Was.
    First of all the Bell X-16 was never completed. Competing against Fairchild and Martin Aircraft, Bell won the contract. Although wind tunnel test and materials tests went favorable, the fact is that the first one was 80% finished when the United States Air Force cancelled it in favor of t ...
• The Bell X-2, The First Plane To Go Three Time ...
  The Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier. Although highly advanced , the United States was still looking to develop another test bed that would go even faster and solve problems with flight at higher speeds. The first problem that needed to be solved was the thermal barrier. Extreme heat resulted fr ...

Taylor Marsh

• Mitt Romney Minute: Just a Couple of Cadillacs ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I think we can use Britney Spear’s anthem “Oops I did it again” as Mitt Romney’s theme song. Mitt was declared the “winner” of the nasty Wednesday debate but as usual Mitt creates a self-inflicted ...
• Queer Talk: Obama administration and “gay righ ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Before getting to the Obama administration: Thursday, the Maryland Senate followed the House’s earlier approval of a bill making marriage of same gender couples legal. From Keen News: The Maryland Senate … gave ...
• Dash of Dan: Mini Chocolate Oreo Cheesecakes
  Cheesecake. One of my favorite shows (ever) is the “Golden Girls.” Whenever the girls reminisce or have a group pow-wow, cheesecake is the immediate vicinity. And just like that, problems were solved and good times ensued. But you don’t always have the time to make a cheesecake ...
• Political Junky Fun, with Amy and Seth
  How was your week? Have some fun this weekend. Anyone planning to watch the Oscars? I fell in love with “Hugo.” …out of the love between a father and his daughter, quite lovely.
• SuperPACs and “dancing with the devil”
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intac ...

Hudson New York

• France Goes Halal
  A French television documentary has revealed that all of the slaughterhouses in the greater Paris metropolitan area are now producing all of their meat in accordance with Islamic Sharia law. The exposé broadcast by France 2 television also alleged that
• Arab Spring Brings the Decline of Secularism i ...
  Throughout the Middle East, long-standing dictators just ousted in the Arab Spring are being replaced by more oppressive forms of governance, even in the Arab world's most liberal country, Tunisia. Widely seen as the most secular country that recently
• China's Middle East Calculations and Miscalcul ...
  China's most dramatic 21st century Middle Eastern political move so far was its decision on February 4, 2012, to join Russia in vetoing an exceptionally mild and toothless UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria's Assad regime for its ongoing
• France Prepares for a Major Political Realignment
  In early May, France will elect a new president. The chances of reelection for 57-year old Nicolas Sarkozy look slim. The agreement of the eurozone countries to provide Greece with a new bailout of €130bn has postponed a chaotic default of Greece until
• Tawriya: "Creative Lying" Advocated in Islam
  Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances -- primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to

Urban Survival

• The One Number that Matters
  Conspiracy types are not particularly trusting of government numbers, particularly, when like this morning’s Durables report, which we will get to next, they don’t seem to square with reality, most of the time.  Especially when it comes to reports like … Continue reading & ...
• How Durable These Orders?
  Early Reader Advisory: Reminder that the Housing report from Case Shiller/S&P is due out in a few minutes.  If you’re on the East Coast check back for update data around 9:15 AM, if you’re in the Midwest that’d be 8:15 … Continue reading →
• Coping: The Ultimate Secret of Cooking
  Time for some thinking brought about by my book on obvious but hidden processes which run Life that I’ve been writing/rewiring for 10 years now.  But we need to start at the beginning… Not only did I get my root … Continue reading →
• Bankers, Tankers, and Gold
  The Middle East this morning is something like sh*t soup:  Simmering with an occasional stir, and it smells bad no matter who’s doing the seasoning.  Still, the Big Question for the coming three months is what will go wrong in … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Home Movies
  What’s the point of being an old geezer, if you can’t kick back and enjoy some of the finer parts of high tech, now and then?  I mean besides getting into occasional use of the DragonSpeaking to take the wear … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Bob Chapman - The National Intel Report with J ...
• Bob Chapman - The National Intel Report with J ...
• Bob Chapman - The National Intel Report with J ...
  Bob Chapman - The National Intel Report with John Stadtmiller 2012.02.28
• Bob Chapman - The National Intel Report with J ...
• The SOVEREIGN CITIZEN BLOG: Corporations are ...

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• Less is more: new recommendations for advancin ...
  George Peridas, Scientist, Climate Center – San Francisco Today, the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI) released its recommendations for advancing CO2-enhanced oil recovery. The Initiative comprises stakeholders from many different wa ...
• Los Angeles has a river?
  Jessica Lass, Senior Press Secretary, Santa Monica I recently joined 25 fellow Angelenos on a river walk tour of one section of the Los Angeles River. Specifically, we toured part of the former rail yard known as Taylor Yard, or the “G-1&rdquo ...
• What are they saying about the E.U. program to ...
  Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Starting this January 1, 2012 all airlines that use European airports have to reduce their carbon pollution produced during the entire flight.  This program is a common sense w ...
• NY awarded for RGGI's economic benefits; NJ la ...
  Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York New York’s Citizens Budget Commission, a group described as “one of the oldest and most respected independent fiscal watchdog groups in the country,” is awarding its public servic ...
• Beyond Firm-Level Sustainable Capitalism
  Peter Malik, Director, Center for Market Innovation, New York John Fullerton of Capital Institute and I have penned the below piece as a continuation of dialogue on the future of capitalism and finance.  It is appearing in a few publications in ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 27, 2012: Providence RI cop ordered by jury to pay $17k civil judgment to gas station clerk he assaulted while on duty [0] bit.ly/wrZqxa Denver CO sheriff’s dept sued ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-25 ...
  Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 25-26, 2012: Chicago IL police are being sued on allegations that an unspecified number of officers spent several minutes trying to concoct a story to cover up how they s ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, February 24,2012: Hamilton MA police sgt critically injured a Beverly MA cop when he shot him several times then he fatally shot self as police closed in on him. [0] wapo.st/xdENj0 H ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, February 23, 2012: Philadelphia PA cop convicted of 1st degree murder for shooting neighbor to death, manditory life sentence [0] bit.ly/zmBKVo Toronto ON police officer charged w/ ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 22, 2012: UC Davis CA sued by students & alumni alleging civil rights violations involving an infamous videotaped pepperspray incident. [0] http://lat.ms/zcYt58 Santa ...

Total Collapse

• China: US has no moral right to ‘protect’ Arabs
  China says the US has no right to “protect” Arab peoples, questioning “the sincerity and efficacy of US policy.” The country’s top newspaper replied to Hillary Clinton after she called China’s and Russia’s veto of a UN Syrian resolution “despicable”. The People’s Daily commentary say ...
• Russia upgrades Syria-based electronic station ...
  The Russians have upgraded their Jabal Al Harrah electronic and surveillance station south of Damascus opposite Israel’s Sea of Galilee, adding resources especially tailored to give Tehran early warning of an oncoming US or Israeli attack, DEBKAfile’s US military sources report. Before it was bo ...
• Mysterious Siberian Blasts Warned Point To Rap ...
  An unsettling report prepared by Viktor Seleznyov, director of the Geophysical Institute at the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), on the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Tyva Republic in Russia’s East Siberia earlier today warns that more seismic activity shoul ...
• Plot to assassinate Vladimir Putin foiled, Rus ...
  RUSSIA’s secret service has foiled a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state TV is reporting. The station showed two men who said they were acting on the orders of Chechen warlord Doku Umarov. They said they prepared the attack in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa and were ...
• Iran stops oil flow to Greece – report
  Iran has denied shipment of crude oil to Greece, following similar moves against Britain and France. The moves are pre-emptive to a set of sanctions imposed by the EU, which forbids buying oil from Iran after several months of grace period. The first oil tanker denied loading of the expected 500 ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple’s iPad 3 announcement is coming next week. Once you snag your new iPad, you need to get TNW Magazine. Users are spending a mere 3 minutes per month on...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Mobile World Co ...
  Today we bring you a round-up of all the biggest stories from Mobile World Congress so far. So, press ‘play’ below and catch up in 3 minutes. You can read...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple acquires Chomp to improve app discovery, Google sells its stake in 4G firm Clearwire, and MATTER clearly matters as it raises money on Kickstarter to support long-form journalism. It’s...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Google backs ‘Do Not Track’, Twitter speaks out on French parody censorship complaints and Google adds artificial language Esperanto to its Translate product. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  LinkedIn hits 1 million users in Indonesia. Apple is addressing environmental concerns for its Chinese manufacturers. Google+ brand pages are growing at a staggering rate. You can catch The Daily...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Brace for an electric shock
  Germany's 37 million households will soon be paying half as much on their annual electricity bills as Australian households. An average German household pays just $1060, or about $88 a month, for electricity to run their computers, lights and other household appliances, while an Australian ...
• House swap: I’ll take wind turbines over a coa ...
  Wind turbines. You either love them (like 75 per cent of us), or hate them (15 per cent). Or, you couldn’t care less. Coal mines: you either love them, like those who reap their profits (20 per cent), or you hate them (80 per cent), like those who have to live near them. The problem of differing ...
• Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan n ...
  The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...
• Alcoa: seeing through the carbon tax doomsday ...
  When Alcoa's Point Henry workers met the Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday they should have advised her to call the aluminium company's bluff and dismiss its blatant rent seeking tactics. Just over 12 months ago, the company's majority owner, Alcoa Inc of the US, declared the Australian ope ...
• Renewistan or Carbonopia: where would you rath ...
  Matthew Wright Published last November, Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and the planet made some fundamentally important points: that solutions to climate change must allow for economic development in poorer countries; that a large part of the soluti ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Possible embezzlement halts WWF-run REDD proje ...
  Two conservation and community projects in Tanzania have been halted after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reported possible corruption. WWF is running the projects with funds from the Norwegian government. One of the projects is a pilot REDD project, a program to reduce greenhouse gas emis ...
• Over 450 wolves shot dead in Idaho, Montana to ...
  Less than a year after being pulled off the Endangered Species Act (ESA), gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the western U.S. are facing an onslaught of hunting. The hunting season for wolves has just closed in Montana with 160 individuals killed, around 75 percent of 220-wolf kill quota for the state ...
• Palm oil firm pays 'precedent-setting' fine fo ...
  A subsidiary of agribusiness giant Cargill has paid a $1 million fine for clearing land for oil palm outside its concession, a move that could set an important precedent for palm oil developers operating in Indonesia, according to Greenomics-Indonesia, a Jakarta-based environmental group.
• Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
  Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
• Scientists discover deadly new sea snake
  Scientists in Australia have discovered a species of sea snake in estuaries of the Gulf of Carpenteria in northern Australia. The snake is described in the current issue of Zootaxa.

Sierra Express

• A De Mek Am Competition 2012
  About the Challenge The Innovate Salone: “A De Mek Am” competition is looking to identify and support innovative solutions to issues within the fields of Health, Energy, Education, Agriculture, Transportation, Telecommunications, Civic Media, and Engineering in Sierra Leone. The innovation chall ...
• SLeCAD & US Visionary Team visit ABCs in Kambi ...
  On Saturday 25th February 2012, the Sierra Leone Centre for Agri-business Development (SLeCAD) Executive Secretary Mr. Ahmed Nanoh and his team together with the four-man visionary team from the US visited two ABCs in the Kambia District. The centres visited were Gbalamuya and Maseneh respective ...
• Standard Chartered announces launch of Securit ...
  Standard Chartered Bank has launched Securities Services in Cote d’Ivoire, expanding the Bank’s existing regional securities capabilities to include the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) region. Bank expands custody services to cover the West African Economic and Monetary Union re ...
• SLeCAD and US Visionary Team hold talks with A ...
  The Sierra Leone Centre for Agri-business Development (SLeCAD) last Wednesday received four American investors who are in the country to carryout a feasibility study in the areas they want to invest within the agricultural sector.  (Photo: Chief Executive Officer of Good Samaritan Ministries, Ma ...
• Minister Gaojia leads Sierra Leone’s delegatio ...
  The Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Hon. Stephen J. Gaojia (in photo) , arrived in New York on Friday February 24  at the head of a Sierra Leone delegation to attend the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women  at the United Nations. According to  t ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Flood of European milk to hit market
  Billions of litres of extra milk are expected to hit the global market once restrictions on European production are fully lifted, says Rabobank.It said its forecasts indicated when dairy quotas were fully lifted in 2015 an additional...
• The lousy summer that saved NZ
  It put a dampener on the holidays but all this rain is pumping much-needed millions into the economy. From his office window, Bruce Wills sees the ears of sheep poking above a paddock of grass growing faster than it can be eaten....
• Dairy investors seek $25m to buy big SI farms
  Pastoral Dairy Investments, a specialist investment fund led by New Zealand's dairy industry and investment figures, launched an initial public offer yesterday aimed at raising a minimum of $25 million for the purchase of South Island...
• $75m dairy IPO launched, Unlisted listing flagged
  Pastoral Dairy Investments, a company associated with farm management firm MyFarm, plans to raise at least $75 million by selling shares to the public and tapping high-wealth individuals to invest in dairy farms.PDI will offer 25...
• Fran O'Sullivan: Crafar farms saga set to run ...
  Shanghai Pengxin yesterday jumped into the PR war by labelling an offer by the Sir Michael Fay-led consortium for the 16 Crafar farms as a "phantom bid" which would result in fewer economic benefits to New Zealand than its own conditional...

The Bovine

• Boost longevity with good gut bacteria
  From Science Daily: “The mammalian gut is home to hundreds of bacterial species that contribute to food digestion and, in some cases, inflammatory gut diseases. Probiotics, beneficial bacterial species, can enhance gut health by keeping the resident bacteria in check. … Continue read ...
• Illegal raw milk bust makes CBS news
  California, where you can buy raw milk in the store, but not from your farmer: “An undercover agent posting as a mom busted a Bay Area operation that offers participants raw milk. Dr. Kim Mulvihill reports.”
• Harvard study links pasteurized milk to common ...
  From Jonathan Benson at Natural News.com: “(NaturalNews) The truth has once again shaken the foundation of the ‘American Tower of Babel’ that is mainstream science, with a new study out of Harvard University showing that pasteurized milk product from factory farms is … Co ...
• Wanted: Scientific integrity on GMOs
  From Marcia Ishii-Eiteman on Civil Eats: “As reported in this week’s UK Guardian, Nina Federoff spoke about threats to science at a meeting of 8,000 professional scientists. The former Bush Administration official (and former adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) and GMO … C ...
• Diet for a smaller planetary population?
  From Concerned Citizen, on the Lyme Disease Sentinel blog: “We are being told by government to eat low fat, low salt,high grain, low or NO meat and other animal products. We are being conditioned to think that animal foods are … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• World Bank Warns of Economic Crisis in China; ...
  A World Bank report to be released next week warns of an economic crisis in China unless state-run firms are scaled back. The Wall Street Journal discusses the report in New Push for Reform in China An exclusive preview of an economic report on China, prepared by the World Bank and government ...
• Sharpen the Mower: Spain Needs Triple the Budg ...
  Conditions in Spain have deteriorated at a rapid pace. As little as a few months ago the Spanish economy was foolishly projected to grow at .7%. Now it expected to contract 1%. Likewise, Spain's budget deficit was supposed to shrink to 6% in 2011 and 4.4% in 2012. Instead it rose to 8.51 pe ...
• Damn the Voters, Full Bailouts (and Existing P ...
  What's "too complicated" for France is not "too complicated" for Ireland. The Financial Times reports Ireland calls vote on European treaty Dublin will hold a referendum on the eurozone fiscal treaty, plunging Europe into months of uncertainty and potentially placing a question mark over Irela ...
• Referendum on a Person or on a Treaty?
  Reader Andrea from Italy, but who now lives in France adds some insight into Sarkozy's "Treaty Too Complicated For A Vote" excuse. Andrea writes ... Hi Mish, I can add some more info. Sarkozy started his presidential campaign pledging to be the "president of the people" and sa ...
• Sarkozy Breaks Campaign Pledge, Says Treaty To ...
  French president Nicolas Sarkozy is campaigning on a pledge to consult people directly on "significant issues". However, despite trailing in polls, Sarkozy refuses to agree to referendum on EU fiscal treaty. Mr Sarkozy, who is trailing the socialist François Hollande in opinion polls seven wee ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “COWARDICE, n. A charge often leveled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These ‘cow ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  “Understanding the Arab Spring” Seeking to place the Arab Spring within a wider geopolitical and social context, this episode draws a thread through the middle of many critical interpretations of the events in the Arab world, those which view the uprisings as authentic and organic democrat ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  Every weekday evening we bring you a comprehensive collection of news and views that are carefully selected from reliable sources. Every day we spend hours researching the most significant developments around the world, weeding out the propaganda elements, taking out those sourced to long-known ...
• Liberty, Anarchy, Property, Democracy & Power
  It Must be Freedom for All, or Freedom for None By Andrew Gavin Marshall I have had a number of debates and discussions recently, largely through various social media networks and similar avenues, on some issues that are of major concern to those who seek to confront the challenges of the presen ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Sleeping With Your Containers – The Greenest W ...
  - By Feray Yuksekbas Kavas, Sales Executive, MTS Logistics What if I told you that there is a great option to travel other than flying, for those of you who hate waiting in line [...]
• Ship Photo of The Week – Antarctic Delivery
    Here, the Military Sealift Command-chartered cargo ship MV Green Wave is in the process of offloading more than 6.8 million pounds of vital supplies, including food and research equipment, [...]
• Fire on Russian Tanker Kills One
  A fire on board a Russian oil tanker claimed the life of at least one crewmember in the Caspian Sea on Tuesday. Russian news agency RIA Novosti, citing a regional [...]
• Costa Allegra Update: Tugs Reach Stricken Crui ...
  Two tugs have joined the Costa Allegra and will help tow the broken down cruise ship to the Island of Mahe, Seychelles, the cruise ship owner, Costa Crociere, said today.  [...]
• The Graveyard of Giants: A history of ship bre ...
  By Jan Møller Hansen Ship breaking in Bangladesh started back in 1960 when the Bay of Bengal was struck by a cyclone, which left a giant cargo ship beached near [...]

Blogging Canadians

• Canadian Federal Member of Parliament / Public ...
  As Mr. Toews is so eager to insert his former mistress into this debate, we find it only appropriate to name her: Stacey Meek. #victoews by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (AnonsOfCanada) on Twitter February 20, 2012
• Is the U.S. conservative movement on drugs?
  I realize very well that the conservative movement in the U.S. has gone and basically co-opted the fundamentalist, born again, bible thumping, man walked with dinosaurs Christian crowd.  Fair enough, they're a great constituency to have.  They're used to doing as they're told, and ...
• WELCOME To Stephen Harper's neo-Canada!
  Canada under Conservatives not what it used to be by Joan Baxter "It is interesting that Laurent Le Pierrès seems to believe Canada hasn’t fundamentally changed, and he can still look his "country in the mirror" ("Justin jumps in where angels fear to tread," Feb. 17 column). I was also happy to ...
• "Your Country" and "the IMF and the Bankers"
  The following press release has been edited in terms of its formatting. #OpGreece =========================================== Citizens of Greece We are Anonymous. We watch every day your government abolish the constitution and institutions of your country. We see them leading you closer a ...
• Hey John Baird ... PROBE What?
  John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record?? -Ottawa Citizen seems to be a bit of a player in this Conservative 'outrage'. -Gutter politics you say? CREEKSIDE

Press TV - Middle East

• Fresh wave of violence kills 10 in Iraq
  At least ten people have been killed and more than a dozen others injured during a string of bombings and shootings across Iraq.
• Israeli troops shut down Palestinian TVs
  The Israeli regime’s security forces have shut down two Palestinian television stations in the occupied West Bank after confiscating their broadcasting equipment and properties.
• Toxic tear gas kills Bahraini citizen
  Another Bahraini citizen has lost his life after inhaling toxic tear gas fired by the Saudi-backed regime forces on protesters, Press TV reports.
• US says NATO radar active in Turkey
  The United States has reportedly confirmed for the first time that a controversial NATO radar base, part of a larger missile system, in eastern Turkey has begun operation.
• US, France send arms to Syria: Rebels
  Armed groups in Syria have admitted that they have received weapons from French and American sources, reports say.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• Silently Waiting
  The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
• Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
  Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
• Get ready, get set, go!
  2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
• Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
  I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
• What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
  One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...

Dissident Voice

• Huey Long: An Original Voice of the 99%
  Every individual is a blend of struggling motivations, except perhaps for the garden variety sociopaths that seem to occupy many places of power these days. Most of us, however, endeavor to exhibit the noble of our character as we try to calm the howls of ego that so often derail the best of int ...
• The Dreadful Candy Caper
  What happened recently at the Hershey candy factory, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, has to be considered one of the weirdest and most outrageous labor stories of the new year. First the outrageous part. According to a story in the New York Times (February 21), Exel, the logistics company hired by Her ...
• Ladybug
  (for Garda Ghista, 1944-2012) The ladybug goes back and forth, back and forth across the thin-rimmed screen. She doesn’t know she goes back and forth across the lip of the laptop’s screen. I’ve already killed a score or more— a minor infestation. As soon as the warm days come along– millio ...
• How Social Isolation Kills
  Sitting down to create a life plan is a time for people, especially young people, to demonstrate their hopes for the future.  For the young the possibilities seem endless so you will hear a good sprinkling of pro-basketball player, astronaut and race car driver during these conversations.  Few w ...
• Colombia’s Quest for Peace and Justice
  Between April 21-23, the National Patriotic Council will convoke thousands of activists from most of the major urban and rural social movements and trade unions, human rights groups and Indigenous, afro-colombian movements, who will meet to unify forces and launch, what promises to be the most s ...

Destructionist

• Anonymous Openly Declares War on the United St ...
  To the Citizens of the United States and the United States Government. We are Anonymous. In the past few months, our collective has been organizing the operation known as Operation Blackout. Part of the operation's purpose was to alert the people of the coming bill that was to be called the ...
• Hello ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and NDAA; Anonymous and ...
  In a stunning move Occupy and Anonymous have joined forces in what’s called, “OUR POLLS” – A new joint effort to hold politicians accountable to We the People. The blatant disregard of our politicians from both sides of the aisle is mind boggling — so now, they’re being called out for giving in ...
• The Secret Media War of 2012
  We are currently in the middle of the long war of the Internet Reformation, although the press will never mention this. Effectively, there has been an ongoing war between the non-controlled alternative media and the establishment media since the inception of LewRockwell.com in 1999. Since then m ...
• CIA Director Admits Manipulating US News; CBS ...
  This is an old clip from 1975 that shows the CIA admitting that they use the "mainstream media" to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of American citizens in the USA. This tactic of molding public opinion is still happening today.
• Poll: Ron Paul Strongest Against Obama In Head ...
  GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is leading the incumbent president in a hypothetical matchup, according to a newly released poll from respected pollster Rasmussen. Paul scores 43% over 41% for Obama in the poll, with 10% saying they would vote for some other option, a figure that includes ...

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  Panasonic and Renewable Social Benefit Funds Team To Bring Solar Power ...

  Bradenton Herald

  28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company today announced that, working with Renewable Social Benefit Funds (RSB Funds), it will create a 115 Kilowatt solar power generation installation on the corporate campus of the Conrad N.

  United States Named Global Leader in Renewable Energy Investment

  Bradenton Herald

  28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2011, American renewable energy investment in solar and wind technologies dominated the global market, propelling the United States past China into the leadership position, according to Ernst & Young's latest quarterly ...

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  U.K. Push for Renewable Energy to Prevent Electric Power Crisis

  Bloomberg

  Britain's policies encouraging renewable-energy use will prevent the country from suffering an electricity crisis leading to blackouts toward the end of the decade, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. The UK will build more than 30 gigawatts of power ...

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  EIA expects long-term growth in renewables

  UPI.com

  29 (UPI) -- Use of renewable energy in the United States depends on local efforts though the US government said it expected growth as the technology becomes competitive. The US Energy Information Administration said, not counting hydropower, ...

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  Department of Ecology managing gasoline spill at Port Orchard Yacht Club

  Access Washington

  OLYMPIA – Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) spill responders are managing a spill of approximately 10 gallons of gasoline into Puget Sound at the Port Orchard Yacht Club. The response is the aftermath of a boat sinking yesterday, ...

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  US Ecology Outruns Estimates Again

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  US Ecology reported earnings on Feb. 16. Here are the numbers you need to know. The 10-second takeaway For the quarter ended Dec. 31 (Q4), US Ecology beat expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share. Compared to the prior-year ...

  US Ecology Outruns Estimates Again

  DailyFinance

  By Seth Jayson, The Motley Fool Posted 12:00PM 02/27/12 Investing US Ecology (NAS: ECOL) reported earnings on Feb. 16. Here are the numbers you need to know. For the quarter ended Dec. 31 (Q4), US Ecology beat expectations on revenues and beat ...

  Dept. Of Ecology will do an inspection at CWC leak site

  KNDO/KNDU

  NBC Right Now reporter Lisa Loevsky and Christine Brown sat down Tuesday morning with three Department of Ecology staff members, Tri-Party Agreement Section Manager John Price, Waste Management Section Manager Ron Skinnarland and Communications Manager ...

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  Brewing storm could help Calif.'s water woes

  CBS News

  Despite recent storms which brought much needed snow to the Sierra Nevada, the California Department of Water Resources snow survey showed the snow pack to be 17.7 inches deep with a water content of 3.9 inches_ which is only 16 percent of normal for ...

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  Japan Struggles With Tainted Reactor Water

  Wall Street Journal

  OKUMA, Japan—Nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami sparked triple meltdowns at reactors here, the taming of Fukushima Daiichi has become in large part a quest to control water. Foreign journalists on a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi ...

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  American States Water Company to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results

  SunHerald.com

  American States Water Company (NYSE:AWR) announced today that the Company will release its financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2011 on Monday, March 12, 2012, followed by a conference call at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (11:00 am ...

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  $1 trillion to replace US water pipes

  UPI.com

  The cost of replacing US drinking water pipes at the end of their useful lives will top more than $1 trillion from 2011 to 2035, water experts estimated. People relax at a fountain at the National Sculpture Garden, on the National Mall in Washington on ...

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