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Saturday, March 10, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • Rinehart loses appeal to suppress details of f ...
    Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, told her children they could be bankrupted unless they agreed to let her continue to control the family's multibillion-dollar trust. Mrs Rinehart, who is worth $17.1 billion, emailed her son and three daughters just days before the trust was to vest, ...
  • Fifty injured in attack on female Saudi protesters
    Over 50 female Saudi students were injured when security guards and Saudi police attacked a peaceful protest in a university, a local newspaper has claimed. The 1,000-strong all-women protest, which was calling for an end to corruption and ill-treatment at the King Khaled University (KKU) in ...
  • Fifty injured in attack on female Saudi studen ...
    Over 50 female Saudi students were injured when security guards and Saudi police attacked a peaceful protest in a university, a local newspaper has claimed. The 1,000-strong all-women protest, which was calling for an end to corruption and ill-treatment at the King Khaled University (KKU) in ...
  • Greece, a preview for the rest of us
    All eyes are on Greece these days, with hopes that the situation there can soon be resolved and global recovery kicked into high gear. Sadly, those hopes are misguided claims Ben Davies, CEO of Hinde Capital. In fact, he says, Greece's pain foreshadows the future awaiting the rest of the worl ...
  • The Persecution of Judge Garzon
    In 1998, a smug and retired Pinochet, secure in the Amnesty he had granted himself and his fellow torturers and murders, traveled to England, visited his friend Margaret Thatcher, and then had back surgery. When he awoke from the anesthetic, a British policeman told him he was under arrest; a tr ...

Independent - London

  • Syria forces in new assault amid diplomacy efforts
    Syrian troops pushed ahead with a new assault on the northern region of Idlib on Saturday, shelling one of the centers of the uprising against President Bashar Assad's rule and sending families fleeing for safety as armed rebels tried to fend off the attack. Thick black smoke billowed into the ...
  • Toll from Israel Gaza strikes now 14 militants
    The worst exchange of strikes between Israel and the Gaza Strip so far this year entered its second day today, as Israeli aircraft carried out raids that have so far killed 14 militants according to a Palestinian count, and militants responded with nearly 100 rockets. Related StoriesIsraelis bu ...
  • Yemen air strikes kill 15 suspected militants
    Yemen's air force killed at least 15 al-Qa'ida-linked fighters in the south including some of their leaders, a government source said today, while the UN refugee agency warned of a new wave of internally displaced people.Related StoriesIsraelis build the world's biggest detention centreIsraeli a ...
  • Kofi Annan in Syria to press for end to violence 
    UN envoy Kofi Annan met with Syrian President Bashar Assad today in Damascus during a high-profile international mission to mediate an end to the country's year-long conflict, even as activists reported fresh shelling by regime forces that sent families fleeing for safety in the northern provin ...
  • Thousands protest in Moscow over Putin win
    Up to 10,000 protesters flocked to a central Moscow avenue today to demand Vladimir Putin's resignation and protest electoral fraud. Related StoriesGreece to get first EU bailout cashGreece eyes bailout after debt dealNews instead of nudes: Bild gets rid of its Page 1 girlsRichelieu, Cousteau, ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Unexplained explosions heard in Croy Canyon: M ...
    (Idaho, USA) Blaine County sheriff's deputies responded to reports of loud booming noises in western Hailey last week, but could not find the source of the sounds. Speculations about the source of the sounds, which were heard across the city and to the west, range from supersonic aircraft to ex ...
  • Stranded pod of dolphins rescued by beachgoers ...
    A tourist has captured on camera the frenzied rescue of a pod of beached dolphins on a beach north of Rio de Janeiro. The footage shows over 20 dolphins trapped in the surf and thrashing their flippers in distress. Realising the dolphins' plight, a dozen beachgoers began to pull the dolphins ...
  • Bats Invasion: Colony of fruit bats in norther ...
    A town in northern Australia has been invaded by more than 250,000 bats, prompting warnings of a potentially fatal disease related to rabies. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) warned residents in Katherine to stay away from the fruit bats, which could carry the Australian Bat Lyssavirus. T ...
  • Eels Invasion: After 'weather bomb' hits New ...
    They are one of the least attractive of all fish species and are normally found lurking in oceans and rivers. But when part of New Zealand was hit by a 'weather bomb' recently, a number of eels suddenly sprung up in some surprising locations. Residents in one street in Masterton, Wellington, w ...
  • Fox Attack: Man was Cornered and Mugged by Fox
    (United Kingdom) Seb Baker, 29, weighs 15 stone but was attacked by the common red fox as he walked home from the supermarket. The civil servant has revealed the wily fox, which had been sitting on a kerb at the side of the road, followed him into an alleyway. There, he told the Sun newspaper ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Not just a pattern. A strategy.
    As Dawg says, a pattern is emerging. It is more than that however. The discovery that phone calls directing voters to non-existent polling places was targeted to a specific age group, in this case voters over aged 60, reveals a strategy. Most of those who received an automated phone call tell ...
  • Quit Playing Catch-Up, the Sarcophilus harrisi ...
    There is a job for you at the end of this post. You can skip down there if you don't have time to enjoy my lavish metaphors. **** Since Mr. Harper and Peter MacKay pulled their MIB skin-change on the Reform and PC parties in 2004, Harper has leaped forward in power, chiefly by doing things no ...
  • Manning speaks
    From the Right-Wing conference on self-stimulation, Preston Manning repeated most of the Harper talking-points on the electoral-fraud scam. He said the most important issue is to determine how to end unethical vote-suppression tactics, be it by robocalls or any other form. Manning says stricter ...
  • The question is . . .
    NORTHERN REFLECTIONS' Owen Gray nails it: "What Did He Know, And When Did He Know It?". Of course, we're talking about Stevie. Stevie does a great know-nothing, but as Owen shows, it just ain't so.
  • CONsternation . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Experts Commend North Korea Deal That Right-Wi ...
    Experts on Korea and U.S. national security have commended a recent deal between the United States and North Korea on nuclear testing as "a positive development" and an indication that the U.S. has "turned a new page with the North Koreans." Nevertheless, conservative media are attacking the de ...
  • Fox's New Scapegoat For Gas Prices: The EPA
    Fox News is calling for President Obama to somehow require a single national blend of gasoline instead of the multiple blends tailored for seasonal and local pollution conditions in accordance with the Clean Air Act Amendments and state regulations. But doing so would lead to increased pollutio ...
  • NRA's Cox Pushes Tennessee Legislation That Wo ...
    National Rifle Association chief lobbyist, Townhall.com columnist, and Daily Caller contributor Chris Cox is currently pushing for Tennessee state legislation that would prevent employers from banning their employees from storing guns in their vehicles in company parking lots while opposing ...
  • Energy Experts Debunk Right-Wing Defense Of Oi ...
    Conservative media are claiming that President Obama's proposal to eliminate $4 billion in annual tax subsidies enjoyed by oil and gas companies would raise gasoline prices. But energy experts say that rolling back the subsidies would have an "extremely small" or "imperceptible" effect on the p ...
  • Limbaugh Launched 46 Personal Attacks On Fluke ...
    Rush Limbaugh has "sincerely apologize[d]" for using the words "slut" and "prostitute" to describe Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke on two separate days and claimed that he "did not mean a personal attack" on her. These statements fail to account for the other 44 times that Limbaugh personal ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Video: What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks!
    What Rush Limbaugh REALLY thinks! Why Rush Limbaugh really apologized to Sandra Fluke.
  • Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
    I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...
  • But What Exactly Is Green Manufacturing?
    When most people think of green manufacturing jobs, they think of multi-billion-dollar investments in plants making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars or photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines for smartening grids. They fear, not without reason, that jobs in such plants will star ...
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  • 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 ...

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  • US Senate rejects GOP measure to build Keyston ...
    According to CNN, the Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure Thursday that would have bypassed the Obama administration’s current objections to the Keystone XL pipeline and allowed construction on the controversial project to move forward immediately. Fifty-six senators vo ...
  • Fukushima Anniversary Action in Austin, TX
    This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Our thoughts and prayers will be with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese still living in contaminated areas. There are anniversary actions across the U.S. and entire world this weekend. You can find a list of many of ...
  • Tell TCEQ grading polluters on a curve doesn’t ...
    The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality is the second largest environmental agency in the world—with a budget to match. Help hold TCEQ accountable for taxpayer’s interests and stop them from implementing rules that favor polluting businesses. Read our press release (Press Release – ...
  • Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hear ...
    Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections.  In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affect ...
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    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 ...

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    A mysterious explosion that lit up the sky was filmed in the background during a live traffic report. The incident comes just days away from the 15th ...
  • The colour pink does not exist
    It's the colour of flamingos, roses and much more - but is there really such a thing as pink light ? According to scientists, no, there isn't. Pink is...
  • Harold Camping admits prediction error
    The 90-year-old former Family Radio president has finally come out and acknowledged his mistake. Camping made headlines last year when he predicted th...
  • "Spring Heeled Jack" figure spotted
    Scott Martin and his family encountered a mysterious dark entity while travelling home by taxi. The incident occured at around 10:30pm when they spott...
  • The children who bore witness to Roswell
    Who were the two children who first came across the Roswell wreckage and what happened to them ? They were first to happen upon the debris of the obje...

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  • End in Sight for West Virginia Natural Gas Wel ...
    (The Charleston Gazette) The state Department of Environmental Protection has set May 31 as the deadline for extinguishing a flare that has been burning gases from three Nicholas County Marcellus Shale exploration wells for more than ...
  • Minnesota Coal Plan Draws North Dakota Protest
    (AP) Top North Dakota officials renewed their protests against a plan to discourage Minnesota utilities from meeting new energy demands by using electric power generated by burning coal.
  • MIT Study: Shift to Clean Energy Could Mean Cr ...
    (Green Car Congress) A major shift from coal plants and gas-fueled cars to wind turbines and electric vehicles could increase demand for two already-scarce rare earth elements—dysprosium and neodymium, available almost exclusively in ...
  • China Says Climate Ambition Depends on Funding ...
    (Bloomberg) China said developing nations could take more action on climate change only when they get more money and technology from rich countries, which need to recognize their past responsibility for greenhouse-gas output.
  • Australia Approves Huge Chinese Coal Takeover
    (AFP) Australia on Thursday cleared the way for China's Yancoal to take over miner Gloucester Coal in a multi-billion-dollar deal that gives Beijing a greater foothold in the resource-rich country.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • Church and State
    I was raised in an Episcopalian household while my next-door neighbors raised their kids as Catholics, so I had an opportunity to see the similarities and differences. And the two religions are not all that different. Still, I find that I am deeply uncomfortable about things like this: The ...
  • All My Friends Are Doing It
    A lot of conservatives are operating under the assumption that progressives give a crap what Bill Maher thinks or that we even consider him one of our own. Maher is a comedian and an entertainer who has some progressive opinions, but he also has many libertarian opinions. He's always been a pi ...
  • Friday Foto Flog
    Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites ...
  • Palin Was Born a Poor Black Child
    I don't care how much Sarah Palin gushes with approval about the America that emerged after the Civil War, what she says to Sean Hannity about Barack Obama in the clip below is just astonishing (emphasis added): SARAH PALIN: ... He is bringing us back, Sean, to days that -- you can hearken ...
  • Busy, Busy, Busy
    It's CabinBoytheYounger's 17th birthday today. I also had the sad news yesterday that my 101 year-old grandmother passed away. She was born during President Taft's administration. We once visited the Constitution Center in Philadelphia together and I asked her who should thought the best pres ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 12 Amazing Recycled Dragons
    Twelve incredible, majestic dragons, resurrected from the trash pile.... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 25 Vertigo-Inducing Views From the Highest Atr ...
    Atriums, or atria, are often-stunning central spaces inside modern buildings. Here are some vertigo-inducing bird's-eye views of the very tallest! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Incredible Praying Mantis Pictures
    The praying mantis is one of nature’s most captivating creatures. Find out more about this fascinating insect while enjoying some awesome praying mantis pictures. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 13 Amazing Pictures of Dunes from Space
    Amazing images of sand dunes on both Earth and Mars – as seen from space... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Grinning Skeletons of Peru's 1000-Year-Old ...
    Mummies and skeletal human remains – complete with hair and skin tissue – sit in open air tombs in Chauchilla Cemetery in Peru! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • White Trumps Black in Urban Cool Contest
    Temperatures on three white roofs in Queens were up to 43 degrees lower than those recorded on their black counterparts in the summertime, a study showed.
  • For a Shell Executive, Much Head-Scratching
    The oil company's chief executive expresses bewilderment over debate on the Keystone XL pipeline project and controversy over fracking.
  • On Our Radar: A Rare-Earths Merger
    Molycorp, which operates a mine that is being reopened and expanded in California, is buying Neo Material Technologies of Toronto, which makes specialty chemicals from rare earths at factories in China and Thailand.
  • King of the Dung Hill
    In a three-and-a-half-year study, researchers found a unique community of dung beetles on each of four livestock farms within a small radius in Florida.
  • 2 Manmade Marshes: One Planted, One Left to Nature
    Ultimately, the plant life that flourished in each marsh was roughly identical. But the unplanted one sequestered more carbon.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
    IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
  • Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
    I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
  • Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
    IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
    EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Rally to stop the closing of School for the De ...
     Picture of abandoned Detroit school DFT Rally March 12  Detroit deserves a public school in every neighborhood. Don’t stand for the closing of more Detroit Public Schools. Please come out for a march and rally on Monday, March 12 at 4 p.m. at the Day School for the Deaf (an important Detr ...
  • UK government has plans to privatize police
    The West Midlands and Surrey police departments, among others, are facing budget cuts, so the UK government is planning on privatizing parts of the police force to private contractors. Several UK cities, such as Lincolnshire, have already opted for privatization, while the West Midlands and Surr ...
  • NYC Mayor John Hylan and House Banking Committ ...
    This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, relate ...
  • Scooter Libby v. Bradley Manning; Malice v. No ...
    After 9/11, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a Yale graduate with a law degree from Columbia, and fellow neo cons plotted to twist and invent “intelligence” data to convince the public that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, so as to build a case for invading Iraq. From 2001 to 2005, ...
  • Separate, Unequal…and Distracted
    When research, history, and allegory all converge to tell us the same story, we must pause to ask why we have ignored the message for so long and why are we likely to continue missing the essential thing before us. The New York Times and Education Week reveal two important lessons in both the me ...

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  • News you may have missed #691
    NSA whistleblower says Obama worse than Bush. Australian spies reportedly buying computer bugs. Refugees in Finland face spying threats.
  • Analysis: US spy agencies stil in the dark abo ...
    It has been almost a year since the ongoing anti-government uprising erupted in Syria. But intelligence agencies in the United States are still struggling to make sense of most aspects of the spiraling conflict.
  • News you may have missed #690
    Indian army accused of spying on government officials. US Special Ops in Afghanistan to transfer to CIA. Interview with Katya Zatuliveter.
  • Israel ‘has decided to attack Iran’, claims US ...
    The consensus in the US intelligence community is that Israel has decided “on principle” to launch a military strike on Iran in order to halt its nuclear program, according to an American intelligence insider.
  • Libyan militia arrests British journalists on ...
    The commander of one of the largest armed militia groups in post-revolutionary Libya has announced the arrest of two British journalists accused of spying for an unidentified foreign country.

War is a Crime.org

  • Obama Plans More Middle East Wars
      Obama Plans More Middle East Wars   by Stephen Lendman   Cheerled by America's major media scoundrels, war looks increasingly likely. Syria and Iran both are targeted.    Imagine the potential catastrophic consequences, especially if nuclear weapons are used. They ...
  • Israel's Ruthless Golani Brigade
      Israel's Ruthless Golani Brigade   by Stephen Lendman   On February 28, 1948, David Ben-Gurion formed Golani to help ethnically cleanse Palestine during Israel's War of Independence.    read more
  • OccupyAIPAC Gives Iran War Lobby Raucous Times
    The annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the conservative lobbying group which favors "enshrining" in U.S. law that it is "U.S. policy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons," was met with the full-blown Occupy Wall Street treatment last week by OccupyAIPAC, wh ...
  • War Resisters League Releases New Pie Chart Sh ...
    New Pie Chart Flyer Just Released! Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes Every year, once the federal government releases the budget, War Resisters League analyzes those numbers and helps you unpack the 'government's deception',  showing you what percentage of your income tax dollars rea ...
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlawed War: Video Footage

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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Invisible Opportunity

  • Why an MRI Costs $1,080 in America and $280 in ...
    By Ezra Klein, The Washington Post 06 March 12 There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. That may sound obvious. But it is, in fact, key to understanding one of the most pressing problems facing our economy. In 2009, A ...
  • Parents Fighting Against Gov’t. Vaccinat ...
    by Dave Bohon Tuesday, 06 March 2012 15:59 A Detroit mother is fighting mad after school officials defied her specific instructions and gave her daughter four vaccinations, including one that has been linked to adverse physical reactions and even death in its recipients. Sighle Kinney told Detro ...
  • How our Understanding of History is Manipulated
    Andrew J. Fell Activist Post It’s becoming increasingly apparent that in order for us, the general population, to understand the deeper issues of the current geopolitical situation, it is imperative for us to understand the relevant history. This may sound somewhat obvious, but I would argue tha ...
  • Monsanto’s Roundup Shown to be Ravaging Butter ...
    Mike Barrett Activist Post Monsanto’s Roundup, containing the active ingredient glyphosate, has been tied to more health and environmental problems than you could imagine. Similar to how pesticides have been contributing to the bee decline, Monsanto’s Roundup has been tied to the decrease in the ...
  • Mass Banking Resignations Signal a Purging Has ...
    Brandon Turbeville Activist Post According to a list compiled by independent blog, American Kabuki, at least 122 banking directors, CEOs, and board members of both national and international stature have resigned since September of last year. The blog recently posted a list of all 122 of these i ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Yusuhara Marche is a Thatch-Covered Market & B ...
    Read the rest of Yusuhara Marche is a Thatch-Covered Market & Boutique Hotel In Japan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: boutique hotel, green design, green hotel, hotel, Japan, Kengo Kuma + Associates, market, sustainable design, Sustainable Hotel, thatch, Yusuhara M ...
  • This Jacket Made From Pen Caps by Maison Marti ...
    It’s no secret that here at Inhabitat, we’re fans of repurposing old materials into new, useful pieces. Maison Martin Margiela took those hunks of excess plastic that sit at the end of our pens and turned them into a gorgeous jacket, currently on display at Museum Rotterdam. Hit the ...
  • SOM’s Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Will Be a He ...
    Read the rest of SOM’s Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Will Be a Healing Green Oasis in Abu Dhabi Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", abu dhabi, desert architecture, eco design, eco hospital, green architecture, Green Building, green design, G ...
  • HOW TO: Use Naturemill’s Metro Composter to Co ...
    Read the rest of HOW TO: Use Naturemill’s Metro Composter to Compost Indoors Without the Odor Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: composting, Eco, Gardening, green, green kitchen, how-to, indoor composter, Metro, naturemill, Sustainable, Waste
  • INTERVIEW: Rob Peterson Of Chevy Talks Volt Pr ...
    There is a buzz in the air this week about the Chevy Volt thanks to an announcement by General Motors on Friday that they’ll be shutting down production of the Volt at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant for five weeks. While the news media geared up to make this announcement look like th ...

Pogue's Posts

  • The New iPad: It's in the Apps
    The new iPad's hardware keeps Apple ahead of its tablet rivals - there's no other tablet, yet, with anything like these specs - but it's the software that really makes the iPad shine.
  • Place Your Emphasis HERE, Not THERE
    When graphic designers use their computers to fool around with typography, sometimes they get the emphasis all wrong.
  • A Review of the Windows 8 Beta
    Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public. It's an imaginative and successful rethinking of an operating system. The Start screen, for example, is like a Lego kit for your life's control panel.
  • 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.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • America, the Beautiful (And Nutty): A Skeptic’ ...
    Almost one-third of Americans believe the ancient Mayan prediction of global calamity this December are "somewhat true," according to a recent National Geographic poll. The prediction is based on a huge stone calendar wheel but exact nature of the disaster is an open question. Why are such rampa ...
  • Condor Cam Update: Egg to Hatch This Weekend
    Ready, set, hatch! The first California condor to hatch on live webcam will poke through its egg's shell this weekend, possibly as early as Saturday.
  • Honeybees May Have Personality
    Bees have different "personalities", with some showing a stronger willingness or desire to seek adventure than others, according to a new study.
  • Strange Effects: The Mystifying History of Neu ...
    As most recently seen in faster-than-light neutrino measurements caused by a loose cable, science is difficult at the edge of the unknown -- and neutrinos are especially tricky. More often than not, neutrino experiments have returned perplexing results, challenging scientists and helping them le ...
  • Strong Solar Storm Could Produce Auroras Over ...
    The most powerful solar storm in five years hit Earth on March 8, and could create northern lights far south of their usual range.

PakAlert

  • John McCain: Founding Father of the Terrorist ...
    Even as McCain deceived the world with his comments in pursuit of overthrowing and destroying the sovereign nation-state of Libya, it was already a matter of record, according to America's own West Point Combating Terrorism Center, that Benghazi, and much of eastern Libya known as Cyrenaica, ser ...
  • Check The Propaganda: Pakistani Baloch Were Ne ...
    Pakistani journalists and commentators are unknowingly repeating lies which anti-Pakistan elements use for propaganda. Our media must remember two points: how resources are equally distributed and that the economic mess is the work of politicians and terrorists in the province.
  • We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction
    Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario, according to Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at Oxford, is that we humans will destroy ours ...
  • Bin Laden WAS NOT buried at sea, but flown to ...
    The fate of Osama bin Laden's remains have been called into question after emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the terror leader was actually sent to the U.S. for cremation.
  • If the biotech industry is so proud of GMOs, w ...
    Genetically engineered foods will "feed the world," say Bill Gates and all the rest of the GMO pushers. GM crops are the result of "high-tech agriculture" and "advanced technology" created by super-smart agricultural geniuses who only enhance the properties of food crops. GMOs are better than Go ...

Andy Worthington

  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 5: Still Seeking $120 ...
    Please support my work! Thanks to the generosity of 16 friends and supporters, I have raised $800 to help support my research and writing about Guantánamo and related issues over the next three months, and I’m enormously grateful for the support. However, as the week comes to an end, I&#82 ...
  • Were Two Prisoners Killed at Guantánamo in 200 ...
    My friend and colleague Jeff Kaye, a full-time psychologist who somehow also finds time to conduct research into Guantánamo and America’s post-9/11 torture program, had a fascinating — and disturbing — article published last week on Truthout, in which, after stumbling upon the ...
  • Return Shaker Aamer to the UK from Guantánamo: ...
    Please sign the e-petition (British citizens and residents only). This is the image that, from next week, will be on postcards distributed the length and breadth of the UK, and handed out in universities and colleges, in mosques and churches, and at protests and other gatherings, to secure 100,0 ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: $2000 Needed to Su ...
    Please support my work! Dear friends, readers and supporters: Thanks to the generosity of four of my supporters, I have secured $200 of the $2500 I was hoping to raise to help to fund my ongoing work on Guantánamo and related issues over the next three months. This is a great start, but I am [...]
  • Video: Andy Worthington, Jason Leopold and the ...
    In January, when I visited the US for events to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, and to renew calls for the prison to be closed, as President Obama promised on his second day in office, I paid a flying visit to San Francisco to ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Ousted Bronx Principal Asks Racists to Support ...
    Frank Borzellieri is making a “desperate appeal” to supporters of the academic racist group American Renaissance to back his legal defense fund. Borzellieri was fired last August from his post as principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in the Bronx after his connection to American Renaissan ...
  • New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movemen ...
    The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups grew at an astounding pace last year, as it has in all three years of the Obama presidency, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) annual count of extremist groups, released today. The number of these groups rose from 824 in 2010 to 1, ...
  • Pot, Meet Kettle: JBS Rips Sovereigns as &#821 ...
    A note to right-wing extremists: When the John Birch Society (JBS) condemns your movement as a “fringe group” whose followers are “paranoid” “conspiracy theorists” who “occasionally go off the deep end … when confronted with reality,” it’s time for some serious soul-searching. An article publish ...
  • Alabama ‘Sovereign’ Kingpin Loses Land, Prompt ...
    Not even antigovernment “sovereign citizen” James Timothy Turner, who has made a living teaching people sovereign tactics he claims will allow them to beat the banks, can save himself when it comes right down to it. On Feb. 22, Hatewatch has learned, the People’s South Bank in Ozark, Ala., ...
  • Nevada Neo-Nazis Charged in Double Murder of A ...
    Contents of a cell phone found two years ago by federal investigators may have provided key information to the unraveling of a racially motivated, brutal double murder that took place 14 years ago in the Nevada desert. Melissa Hack, 37, her brother, Ross Hack, 40, and Leland Jones, 31, are charg ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Sustained Attacks on Gaza: 14 Dead in Two Days
    14 are now dead in what is said to be the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian flare-up in more than three years. Israeli strikes began on Friday when an air raid killed Zohair al-Qaisi, the secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza.Palestinian mourn over the body of Hazem Ke ...
  • 'Save Our School!': Students 'Hunger Strike' t ...
    Three California high school students, Anai Rosales (18), Veronica Mandujano (18), and Kayla Ely (17), have been on hunger strike since Wednesday in an effort to reverse a 7-0 vote by their school board to lay-off more than 50 full-time San Leandro High school personnel, including teachers, coun ...
  • 'Save Our School!': Students 'Hunger Strike' t ...
    Three California high school students, Anai Rosales (18), Veronica Mandujano (18), and Kayla Ely (17), have been on hunger strike since Wednesday in an effort to reverse a 7-0 vote by their school board to lay-off more than 50 full-time San Leandro High school personnel, including teachers, coun ...
  • Fighting Austerity: Spanish Unions Call for Ge ...
    Spain's two main unions, the General Workers Union and the Workers Commissions, have called for a general strike on March 29 to protest the government's austerity push. read more
  • Fighting Austerity: Spanish Unions Call for Ge ...
    Spain's two main unions, the General Workers Union and the Workers Commissions, have called for a general strike on March 29 to protest the government's austerity push. read more

Lifehacker

  • Get $50 Ashampoo Burning Studio 2012 Free for ...
    Ashampoo's paid version of their Burning Studio program rated highly in our recent app directory series for best disc burning app for Windows. It wasn't the first choice, as it normally costs a cool Ulysses S. Grant, but is available as a free ...
  • Top 10 Badass Things You Can Do One Handed
    You know what's cooler than having lots of skills? Having skills you can use with one hand tied behind your back. Here are our top 10 tricks that only take 25% of your limbs to accomplish. More »
  • Cut a Glass Bottle Using Nail Polish, String, ...
    There are a lot of fun ways you can reuse beer and wine bottles. Two months ago I showed you how to build a glass cutting jig on the cheap to make wine bottle glasses, but YouTube user TrashPeaches shares another easy method of precision cutt ...
  • Upgrade Your Home Network This Weekend [Weeken ...
    Home networks can be great or they can be a huge pain in the butt. Set aside some time this weekend to fix your annoying network issues, boost your Wi-Fi reception, and add some great new features. Here are a few ideas to get you started. ...
  • Tether Webapp Shares Your iPhone's Data Connec ...
    You've been able to tether your iPhone's data connection to another computer for awhile now, but it would cost you $20 per month for the convenience or you'd need to be jailbroken to get the service to work. Tether.com just figured out a way ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization decision nears
    The mayor got a round of applause from members of the Sanger Woman's Club Tuesday when he outlined the benefits of privatizing the city's disposal services.
  • Harrisburg Assets Lead Would-Be Buyers to Line ...
    The feelers about the waste-to-energy plant run by a Covanta Holding Corp. (CVA) unit and on other municipal assets were received by the Harrisburg Authority, which oversees the operations, according to documents posted today on the website of David Unkovic, the city’s receiver.
  • Keep It Local, Keep it Public community event ...
    PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Stand up for the North Committee are hosting a free community event entitled "Keep it Local, Keep it Public", this Wednesday, March 7.This event will feature a screening of the film "Water Makes Mon ...
  • Ontario may halt corporate tax cuts until 2017-18
    TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario may cancel plans to cut corporate taxes until it balances its books in 2017-18, and will eliminate its C$16 billion ($16.1 billion) deficit by that date "come hell or high water", the Canadian province's finance minister said on Monday. The government of ...
  • Bottled water costly for us and the planet
    I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).

Guardian

  • Everton v Tottenham! | Evan Fanning
    • Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Email your thoughts to evan.fanning.casual@guardian.co.uk • Get in touch via Twitter, if that's your thing • All today's results and latest scores61 min: A yellow card for Assou-Ekotto and Everton have a free kick in a dangerous area. I ...
  • Liberal Democrats at war over Nick Clegg's pla ...
    Liberal Democrat conference split by accusations that deputy prime minister is making policy 'on the hoof'The Liberal Democrats descended into open warfare over tax on Saturday as senior party figures reacted furiously to a call by Nick Clegg to back off their flagship plan for a "mansion tax" a ...
  • Anonymous hacker planned to publish details of ...
    Court hears James Jeffery stole 10,000 database records of women registered with Britain's biggest abortion provider BPASA member of the hacking collective Anonymous broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider and planned to publicly release the details of women who used the se ...
  • Passion vs puritanism as America is gripped by ...
    US politics is overshadowed by bitter debates over sexual politics, from abortion to contraception and personal morality. But it is not just rightwingers who fear the increasing sexualisation of societyDr Marty Klein pulled no punches when it came to what he thought of the ferocious debate in Am ...
  • At least 23 die as Ethiopian troops battle Som ...
    Witnesses say al-Shabab group forced to retreat after hours-long border clash with armyAt least 23 people have been killed in an attack on Ethiopian troops by al-Qaida-linked Somali insurgents near the two countries' border.Residents in Yurkud village said the battle lasted several hours. Mohame ...

McClatchey

  • Gingrich woos Mississippi voters by drilling Obama
    GULFPORT, Miss. - Newt Gingrich told a Gulfport campaign rally crowd he was more than an hour late Friday because he detoured his campaign bus to film a Mississippi natural…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Public dole helps more than just t ...
    A couple of weeks ago, I asked a few questions on my blog that have not yet been fully answered, particularly by those who took issue with the questions themselves.Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: The 'green' old days
    Five years ago, I began to involuntarily receive AARPs magazine and a membership card good for any number of discounts for seniors. Jeez, I thought with a certain sense of…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. officials: Assad could survive Syria revolt
    Months after the United States sided with rebels against Syrian President Bashar Assad, senior U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Friday that not only could Assad survive the uprising, but also that…Click to Continue »
  • Libya's prime minister optimistic despite coun ...
    Despite fissions that threaten to break up his state and rising concerns about human rights abuses, Libya's new prime minister assured top officials in Washington this week that his government…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • US to hand over key prison to Afghanistan
    KABUL - The US military Friday pledged in a written agreement that it will hand over its main detention center in Afghanistan to local authorities in six months in what is seen as a key step toward a
  • Army Honours Six Fallen 'Brothers'
    The Army has paid tribute to six fallen "brothers" who have been named by the Ministry of Defence after being killed in the single deadliest attack on UK troops in Afghanistan since 2006. ...
  • Afghanistan opens first female-only internet cafe
    Source: Reuters Afghanistan has opened its first female-only internet cafe, hoping to give women a chance to connect to the world without verbal and sexual harassment and free from the unwanted ...
  • Obama, Karzai note progress on long-term deal ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai noted progress on Thursday in long-stalled efforts to broker an agreement guiding U.S.-Afghan relations after ...
  • Karzai accused of endangering troops by blocki ...
    The highest number of British deaths in a single attack comes at a time when relations between Hamid Karzai and his Western sponsors are once again enmeshed in ...

Futurismic

  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IRS resists using whistleblowers
    Whistleblower disclosures have helped the federal government make some of its biggest recoveries from fraudsters. In the Obama administration alone, the government recovered over $21 billion thanks to whistleblowers using the “qui tam” procedure under the False Claims Act. The govern ...
  • DC high court says there is no "safe harbor" f ...
    In a long-awaited ground-breaking decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals today held that an employer engages in unlawful retaliation when it adds a new demand for a release as a condition for concluding a consulting agreement. The case is Propp v. Counterpart International and LeLau ...
  • Whistleblower Leyla Wydler suffered to bring S ...
    Yesterday's conviction of Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford generated much news.  Most of the coverage, however, is missing the role of whistleblower Leyla Wydler.  Two weeks ago on Honesty Without Fear, I interviewed Eyal Press about his new book, Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks ...
  • Congress Questions Federal E-mail Surveillance ...
    Yesterday, Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa released a letter asking the Obama Administration for assistance in assessing the e-mail monitoring policies of all federal agencies. This letter was sent in light of Congressional and Office of Special Counsel investigations in ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. From Sarajevo, Bosnia, Steve Kohn interviews Bojan Bajic, the head of the Centre for Responsible Democracy and co-founder of Association of Whistleblowers Against Corruption about the growing movement to increase ...

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

  • Ltlw0lf's Favorite Techdirt Posts of the Week
    This week's posts ran the gamut from the evils of DMCA/ACTA/TPP, to computer security issues, to the government’s effort to pass draconian treaties which are most likely binding even when the government says they aren’t, to cheap computers that will revolutionize the world. Th ...
  • Forget Home Taping: Evil Robots Are Killing Music!
    The entertainment industry has a long and storied history of incumbents freaking out about every technological advancement that alters the market. From iPods and digital distribution, to VCRs and home taping, all the way back to player pianos, it seems like they've never met a device they didn't ...
  • Michael Jackson, Pirate Remixer
    We always hear stories about how copyright has to be protected to "protect the artists," and yet time and time again we learn that some of the biggest name artists will often copy directly from each other without credit or payment. It's the way music is made. In James Boyle's excellent book, T ...
  • Transparency Double Standard: UK Public Inquir ...
    Well, this is interesting. Given the general condemnation of Wikileaks by governments, all the ongoing controversy and reputation problems faced by the organization, you wouldn't expect them to be approached with any official requests for leaked information. But it seems just that has happened i ...
  • DailyDirt: Fresh Water On Demand
    The Earth is literally covered in water, but 97% of that water is in salty oceans and not useful for drinking. In fact, only about 1% of the world's water is really usable by humans (because a lot of fresh water is frozen in glaciers or otherwise inconveniently located). Here are just a few link ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
    I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]
  • More Revolutionary Than Thou
    On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Israel, Iran and America: Auschwitz complex
    Sometimes a piece of commentary simply has to be re-presented in its entirety. This comes from The Economist’s Democracy in America blog: During his meeting with Barack Obama on Monday, Bibi Netanyahu said Israel “must have the ability always to defend itself, by itself, against any ...
  • Renewed Israeli assault on Gaza
    The latest round of violence was triggered by Israel’s assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisy secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees along with two associates in an airstrike on Gaza yesterday. Ynet reported: Minister of Home Front Defense Matan Vilnai stressed on Saturday that & ...
  • How Israelis tried to kill Anthony Shadid in 2002
    David Kindred writes: Until the Israeli sniper shot him, it had been a good day. Shadid’s notebook was full because he had been eyewitness to a drama that was a perfect metaphor for the latest Israel-Palestine war. He started a long walk back to the hotel. There he would write for his news ...
  • Syrian brass defect, buoying rebels
    The Wall Street Journal reports: Several high-ranking Syrian military officials joined the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday and Friday, in the Syrian conflict’s biggest wave of military defections to date. The defections appeared to boost Syria’s armed opposition, ...
  • Syria begins withdrawing European ambassadors
    Reuters reports: Syria has begun preemptively withdrawing ambassadors from Europe because it fears EU members will expel them in the coming weeks, Arab diplomats said. The diplomats stressed that Syrian envoys in a number of European Union countries had been told to come home by their government ...

Watts Up With That?

  • So Many People … So Little Rain
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I started a post on Kiribati, but when it was half written I found Andi Cockroft had beaten me to it with his post. His analysis was fine, but I had a different take … Continue reading →
  • Monckton’s Schenectady showdown
    Monckton vanquishes Union College “Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds” Guest post by Justin Pulliam THE NEWS that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom” lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York, had thrown the … Continue reading →
  • March launch madness at Wallops Island to prob ...
    From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NASA jet stream study will light up the night sky - 5 sounding rockets to launch into upper atmosphere within 5 minutes High in the sky, 60 to 65 miles above Earth’s surface, winds … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny Bonus: Kenji gets mail
    WUWT readers may recall that back on October 7th, 2011, there was this story: Friday Funny – The newest member of the Union of Concerned Scientists where my dog Kenji, became an esteemed member of the Union of credit card carrying … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny: Apparently, I’ve irritated ...
    David “fruit fly” Suzuki goes ballistic, and advocates retracting all rights from skeptics. I’m mentioned as some sort of baddie central, but at least I don’t dress up with Santa Claus to scare the kids and ask their parents to … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • How your brain tells you where you are
  • Fat cell
    Source: Fat cell, TEM.
  • Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first
    A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman’s face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. The transplant was carried out in June in the Netherlands, but is only now being publicised. The implant was made out of titanium powder – heated and ...
  • How Pot, Cocaine, and Hunger Intersect in the ...
    In June 2006 pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis began selling a new weight-loss drug called rimonabant in Europe. Rimonabant worked in part by reducing appetite, and the company claimed it could also treat addiction, harmful cholesterol, and diabetes. Lab tests even suggested the drug produced ...
  • Opinion | Investment in medical research saves ...
    WITH the nation’s economy in poor health, the congressional “super” committee appointed to propose areas for cuts to reduce the national deficit offered the promise of a cure. But when it ended deliberations without a proposal, it provided instead a bitter pill — $1.2 trillion ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russia, Arab League Agree Plan on Syria
    Russia and the Arab League have negotiated a plan to settle the bloody political conflict in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
  • Roberto Carlos Denies Retirement
    Brazilian left-back Roberto Carlos has denied his playing career is over after Anzhi Makhachkala dropped him from their squad, in comments posted on Twitter on Saturday.
  • Asildarov Driving Force as Terek Beat Krasnodar
    Shamil Asildarov led Terek to a dominant 3-1 win away to FC Krasnodar on Saturday, scoring the opener and setting up a second.
  • Putin Opponents Rally ‘For Fair Elections’
    Thousands of people critical of the political system led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rallied peacefully on Saturday in central Moscow, asserting that the Russian leader’s recent victory in presidential elections was not fair and demanding reform.
  • Trendswatcher: Of lady-business and Soviet imagery
    “Happy International Women’s Day!” A huge billboard near Novy Arbat proclaimed. As per Soviet tradition, the text was superimposed on a hideous picture of pink flowers, showcasing the kind of nature photography that went out of style before I was born.

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Pruning Shears

  • Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
    Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country.  Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
  • Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
    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.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Got [Camel] Milk?
    Nomads in Algeria have long said, "Water is the soul, milk is the life." They may be proved right by emerging reports that camel milk, the drink of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to India, may have a healing effect on various diseases.Click here to read this article
  • 10,000 GM Customers Tell Auto Giant: Stop Fund ...
    General Motors, a company that has made strides to lower the carbon footprint of driving, is taking heat from 10,000 of its customers for a donation its charitable foundation made to an institute that casts doubt on climate science, according to a report from McClatchy.Click here to read this ar ...
  • What You Should Know About the Company Pushing ...
    AquaBounty Technologies, maker of genetically engineered salmon, is almost out of money. It's been more than two decades since the prototype of its AquAdvantage salmon was spliced into existence, and a decade since AquaBounty applied for FDA approval, but the fish remains on the sidelines of a s ...
  • PA Legislature Pre-empts Communities on Fracking
    The Pennsylvania Legislature recently adopted Act 13 of 2012 (House Bill 1950) to accelerate the extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale deposit underlying much of Pennsylvania. Click here to read this article
  • Shut Down Monsanto! Global Actions March 2012
    Shut Down Monsanto & the Anti-Monsanto Project are calling for global protests against the biotech behemoth this month, March 2012. Get involved now and stay tuned for Occupy Monsanto in September.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Will Allen Index: Growing Power to the People
    Incredibly, Growing Power uses zero chemicals and fossil fuels to grow, and they are constantly researching new and better technologies for sustainable food production. The organization also provides a “living wage” for its 100+ employees. In farm work, a living wage is nothing to sneeze at.
  • Once More, Big Ag Wants Us Off the Farm
    Back in 2011, a number of states were trying enact so-called “ag-gag laws,” which would make it illegal to film or take photographs inside farms and slaughterhouses. Thankfully, these efforts failed to pass. This year, however, there seems to be a new angle on the issue. Last week, Iowa’s govern ...
  • Field Trip Day
    We empathized with the human side of these hard-working distributors just trying to make a buck in this tough economy like the rest of us. But, of course, we also challenged them with difficult questions about sustainability and their role in the future of our food system.
  • The Other Side of the Chicken
    I recently had my first in-person experience with one of the hurdles in promoting a healthy change in food production. It was a major eye-opener to see how great of a hurdle the legislative process can be.
  • Public Health Reports on Antibiotics in Food A ...
    The good news is that the journal Public Health Reports has published a review article that acknowledges (not in so few words) that agriculture is one of the major drivers of the antibiotic resistance crisis that is unfolding.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Why Do Whales Beach ?
    Barotrauma in the sinusitis can be a deadly injury for marine mammals because it prevents them from diving and feeding themselves and also disables their biosonar. Unable to dive deeper than a few meters due to pain,they also lose their sense of direction Submitted by John Farnham to Animals &n ...
  • Judge Throws out Organic Farmers Case Against ...
    Between 1997 and 2010, 144 lawsuits were filed by Monsanto against American family farmers, with an additional 700 being settled out of court.The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association was hoping that the judge would disallow the use of Monsantos see Submitted by John Farnham to Science &amp ...
  • Monsanto's Bt GMO corn to be sold at Wal-Mart ...
    Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Heal ...
  • "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

  • Another unfortunate GMO incident….
    Farm wars graphic.
  • GMOs – Label Them Yourself!
    There is a new movement afoot that is all about people taking matters into their own hands regarding GMO labeling. Instead of waiting and begging the corporate government to actually require that genetically engineered foods (GMOs) be labeled as such, do it yourself!
  • TSA Nude Body Scanners Worthless
    After looking at the following video, I challenge anyone to think that these scanners were put in place for anything other than subjugation of the American people, NOT for our safety and security. This blows the lid right off that blatant lie.
  • GMOs – The New Green Revolution – Graphic
    Ag Day - March 8, 2012 - Graphic: In celebration of the sellout of conventional farming to biotech interests, and the phony "New Green Revolution." Enjoy!
  • GMO Krispies – Graphic
    GMO Krispies Graphic - Extra Glyphosate in Every Bite!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Japanese leaders silent on meltdown
    ShareThisJapanese leaders silent on meltdown 11 Mar 2012 Just four hours after a tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant a year ago, Japan's leaders knew the damage was so severe that the reactors could melt down, but they kept their knowledge secret for months. Five days into the c ...
  • Anonymous Hackers Replace Police Supplier Webs ...
    ShareThisAnonymous Hackers Replace Police Supplier Website With 'Tribute to Jeremy Hammond' 09 Mar 2012 Anonymous hacktivists announced via Twitter that they had successfully hacked the website of New York Iron Works, a police-equipment supplier, and replaced the homepage with a tribute of love ...
  • U.S. senator calls for naval blockade of Iran
    ShareThisU.S. senator calls for naval blockade of Iran 10 Mar 2012 An international naval blockade of Iranian oil exports should be considered before any resort to air strikes against the country's disputed nuclear program, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Friday. ...
  • Army Suicides Up 80 Percent Since Iraq War Start
    ShareThisArmy Suicides Up 80 Percent Since Iraq War Start 08 Mar 2012 The number of suicides in the U.S. Army rose by 80 percent after the United States launched the war on Iraq, American military doctors reported on Thursday. From 1977 to 2003, the tally of Army suicides had trended slightly do ...
  • 'Anonymous' Hacker Sabu May Require Federal Wi ...
    ShareThis'Anonymous' Hacker Sabu May Require Federal Witness Protection --[Traitor] Monsegur began working 'around the clock' to inform on his colleagues, prosecutors told a judge. 09 Mar 2012 Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker with the group Anonymous cooperating in a U.S. probe, won't face prose ...

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

  • Purple Heart
    PFC Leah Bartlett awarded Purple Heart 09 March 2012 Reaction to the recent Koran burnings led to dozens of killings.  Some of the attacks were obviously related to the burnings, while others may have been normal background noise of war.  Whatever the specific motivations, bombs stil ...
  • Senator Levin on MEDEVAC
    07 March 2012 Senator Carl Levin has been sending a form letter to his constituents.  Key parts of the letter seem to be have been written by the Army.  At minimum, Senator Levin’s responses are a rewrite of Army releases.   His statement perpetuates numerous myths and outri ...
  • MEDEVAC Momentum: Senate Armed Services Commit ...
    01 March 2012 The MEDEVAC issue continues with increasing seriousness.  Numerous Generals, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of Defense (through General Dempsey, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs) have all weighed into the fight.  Seventeen members of Congress have joined, and m ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Govt ‘accepts’ Kachin army demands
    Contention remains on status of Burmese outposts but both sides agree to release hostages and hold talks on Kachin autonomy
  • Thailand steps up migrant passport effort
    New registration office opening in northern Thai city aims to boost protracted scheme to have millions of Burmese migrants legalised
  • Election body warned on voter fraud
    Aung San Suu Kyi asks Burma's Election Commission to 'do something about' mounting reports of irregularities on voter lists
  • Opium wars
    Reuters accompanied Burmese officials and staff from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to Shan state recently to observe Burma’s proclaimed war on opium. Burmese police and UN officials traveled through the opium-rich region to ask farmers what assistance they need. The desperately poor gro ...
  • No fanfare, but quiet confidence from Suu Kyi& ...
    Former military doctor Soe Min targeting healthcare as he embarks on a testing campaign trail again Burma's opposition icon

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN expert warns of Switzerland law's 'chilling ...
    [JURIST] An independent UN expert announced [press release] on Friday that proposed changes to a Swiss law that imposes heavy fines for people who protest without prior governmental authorization would "unduly restrict the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression." Maina Kiai [offic ...
  • Wisconsin judge to rule next week on voter ID ...
    [JURIST] A Wisconsin circuit court judge will rule on Monday whether to issue a permanent injunction to block Wisconsin's voter identification law, Wisconsin Act 23 [text, PDF]. Dane County Circuit Court [official website] Judge Richard Niess's ruling will come on the heels of another judge's is ...
  • Five Guantanamo detainees agree to Qatar transfer
    [JURIST] Five detainees at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detention facility agreed to be transferred to Qatar, a spokesperson for Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official profile; JURIST news archive] announced Saturday. The detainees, who are associated with the Taliban [CFR backgroun ...
  • UK PM proposes adoption reforms
    [JURIST] United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron [official profile; BBC profile] spoke on new plans to reform the nation's adoption process, basing it on speed rather than ethnicity. Currently, white children are three times more likely to be adopted than minority children because of the Uni ...
  • Campaign to arrest Uganda war criminal Kony: I ...
    [JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] expressed his support [BBC news report] on Thursday for a campaign by Invisible Children [advocacy website] to capture alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony [BBC profile; JURI ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Iran: Israel’s Concocted World Threat
    TweetScott Peterson recently published a comprehensive timeline for Iran’s nuclear program that charted not so much the actual progress of Iran’s supposed quest for a weapon, but the west’s, and in particular Israel’s shifting and endless series of revelations and predict ...
  • Tikun Olam: Discover the Social Networks
    TweetThe post title is a tweak of David Horowitz’s slightly paranoiac, Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left.  My intent, however, was to remind all of you that I spend quite a bit of time social networking in order to promote the work of this blog and its political mission. ...
  • Dershowitz: from Israel Firster to MEK Firster ...
    Tweet Alan Dershowitz and his 1% hedge fund manager friends at the Emergency Committee of Israel recently declared war on the Center for American Progress and Media Matters because M.J. Rosenberg has called some of Israel’s American Jewish supporters, “America Firsters.” Phil W ...
  • Obama Plays Dangerous Game, Offers Israel Bunk ...
    Barack Obama is playing a very dangerous game regarding Iran.  He speaks to Israeli leaders like Bibi Netanyahu and his pro-Israel supporters in Aipac like an Iran hawk, placating them with suitably hawkish rhetoric.  While the very next day, he tells a White House press conference those who lob ...
  • Bibi’s Declaration of War (on Iran)
    After reading Bibi Netanyahu’s profoundly delusional and mendacious Aipac speech from earlier today, I’m left with two impressions: the most important one is that Israel will attack Iran.  His remarks read like a declaration of war. Believe me, no Jew invokes a historical parallel to ...

If Americans Knew

  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...

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

  • At SXSW: Poderopedia, Others Spotlight Civic M ...
    Citizen heroes who are recognized by their fellow citizens in Juárez City; how people from Panama fight corruption and denounce violence and crime; what we're building in Chile to show you who's who among the elite and their possible conflicts of interest -- all of these are part of the Latin Am ...
  • How Designers Can Imagine Innovative Technolog ...
    A version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog. How can designers imagine innovative technologies for news and journalism? I think I know one answer. In this post, I propose the Journalism Innovation Spiral and demonstrate it by picking apart the "profile articl ...
  • How the State Decoded Makes Sense of Messy Rea ...
    Those of us who deal with big data have a tendency to describe working with it in cavalier terms. "Oh, I just grabbed the XML file, wrote a quick parser to turn it into CSV, bulk loaded it into MySQL, laid an API on top of it, and I was done." The truth is that things very rarely go so well. ...
  • iWitness Aims to Aggregate News By Time and Place
    Let's face it: The great promise of citizen media has not really been fulfilled. News organizations have struggled to find ways to supplement their coverage of news events with contributions from citizens -- and finding citizen media related to a news event is currently difficult at best. Key ...
  • Triangle Wiki Day a Win for Open Source in Raleigh
    This post is a guest column by Jason Hibbets, chair of Raleigh's South West Citizen Advisory Council (SWCAC). A version of this post first appeared on southwestraleigh.com. Almost 50 people collaborated on Saturday at Red Hat headquarters, currently located on Centennial Campus in Raleigh, ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Defense Edge - How Planned Defense Budget ...
    Tremendous changes can occur over the course of one year. Regarding defense spending, the Administration is now planning to pay out $4.5–$5 trillion over the next ten years on defending the country, compared to nearly $6 trillion just 12 months ago. This, in part, reflects the debt ceiling agr ...
  • 2012 Vote - GOP’s March Madness
     Republican voters know all about the disappointing ending; they have flipped to the last page of the book — Mitt Romney somehow becomes the party’s candidate for president. It’s all over but the fighting. But tell that to fuming GOP primary voters who are far from finished with their ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Toxic Acid Release Again Draw ...
    Again drawn by a leak of toxic hydrofluoric acid, federal investigators are back at a Texas oil refinery they examined three years ago.Some nearby residents were told to shelter in place after the release, said Daniel Horowitz, managing director of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which has sent ...
  • Edge of Justice - Deportation of Salvadorean G ...
    On February 23, Judge James Grim of Florida’s Immigration Court set a legal precedent whose impact is destined to reverberate across Central America in years to come. Judge Grim found Salvadoran General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova legally responsible for numerous counts of torture and murder ...
  • Edge on Film - Century-old Sci-Fi Adventure No ...
    A century ago, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs also wrote a series of popular novels about an Earth-man’s adventures on the planet Barsoom, i.e., Mars. A new action film, “John Carter,� is based on those sci-fi books.While prospecting in the Arizona desert, John Carter, a veteran of th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusters: Scientists Prove Brain Eating Amo ...
    Every wonder why, in the face of all the facts, the destruction of the economy, etc., people vote for Democrats?  Well thanks to Jodi Miller of Newsbusted we now know--brain eating amoebas. Apparently these strange microscopic creatures not only cause people to vote for the ...
  • Will The Arab Spring Lead to Shari’a Law or Sh ...
    A liberal member of Tunisia’s parliament, discussing the writing of that country’s new constitution, brilliantly defines the entire issue of Islam and politics in one sentence. But before telling you the sentence, here’s the background. The debate, as in Egypt and Libya, is over whether to mak ...
  • ...And Yes, Barack Obama is a Marxist
    It’s been four years and the mainstream media still refuses to address the fact that Barack Obama is a Marxist. In fact using that word gets you branded as a crazy (guilty but not on this issue) and someone who uses divisive "tone. Some who brand Obama Marxist use as their evidence ...
  • Can You Judge A President by His Jew-Hating Fr ...
    Yesterday’s release of the Barack Obama/Derrick Bell Harvard tape was seen by many as another example of the President’s long history associating with radicals. There is another interpretation however. When Obama urged people to open up their hearts and minds to Bell it was another case of him “ ...
  • Will the Palestinians Launch a Third "Intifada ...
    By Barry Rubin Is there going to be a “third intifada?” I have no idea. That is a question most likely to be determined by those who set Palestinian strategy and they will surely differ among themselves. What interests me is the question of on what basis would such a choice be made. When t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Economía Española en Camino hacia el Abismo
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 09 de marzo 2012 El continuo aumento en el gasto público en España está minando la capacidad del país para salir de una de las situaciones económicas más graves de la zona euro. En los últimos 4 años, España no ha sido capaz de hacer frente a una [...]
  • Portugal right behind Greece in the Economic D ...
    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph March 9, 2012 Europe has ring-fenced Greece’s debt crisis for now but its escalating recourse to legal legerdemain has shattered the trust of global bond markets and may ultimately expose Portugal, Spain, and Italy to greater danger. “The rule of ...
  • Spain Spending its way into the Abyss
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 9, 2012 The continuous rise in public spending in Spain is deeply braking the back of the country’s capacity to keep up with one of the most dire economic situations in the Euro zone. In the last 4 years, Spain has not been able to cope with [...]
  • Don’t attack Iran, says ex-Mossad chief
    Agence France Presse March 9, 2012 The former chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency has cautioned against an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites and put his trust firmly in US President Barack Obama to intervene if and when necessary. In excerpts of an interview with CBS’s “60 M ...
  • Leon Panetta says Military Industrial Complex ...
    by Paul J. Watson Infowars.com March 8, 2012 The Pentagon is engaging in damage control after shocking testimony yesterday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at a Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing during which it was confirmed that the U.S. government is now completely beholde ...

Wind Watch

  • Resident on Pinnacle wind turbine noise: &#821 ...
    CROSS, W.Va. — Tasker Road resident Richard Braithwaite hopes his complaint filed with the West Virginia Public Service Commission recently will eventually help him get some sleep. “I can’t take it,” Braithwaite said, speaking of the noise from wind turbines that he said sounds like an airplane ...
  • Pinnacle Wind Farm complaint filed with Public ...
    KEYSER – A Keyser man has filed a formal complaint with the West Virginia Public Service Commission over noise from the Pinnacle Wind Farm. Richard Braithwaite filed the complaint last month, citing excessive noise levels both inside and outside his Green Mountain home near the 23-turbine wind f ...
  • Billions blown away on wind power, says Britis ...
    Governments are squandering billions of dollars on “uneconomic” wind farms, according to a landmark study that undermines the case for Labor’s huge renewable energy subsidies. Investment in wind turbines will fail to cut enough greenhouse gas emissions to justify their cost, ec ...
  • Alexander attacks tax break for wind power
    A top Republican lawmaker said Wednesday that long-standing federal subsidies on the wind farm industry should be allowed to expire at the end of the year, calling wind energy unreliable, too expensive and damaging to the environment. While wind energy interests have launched a concerted campaig ...
  • ‘We should not have to take drugs’
    People living near a wind farm north of Carmarthen say they have resorted to medication because the turbines are so loud. They also claimed energy company Statkraft, which built and runs the Alltwalis Wind Farm, has admitted there is a noise problem — but told residents to “just live with ...

Tippers News

  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • 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
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

  • Unemployment Rate Unmoved in February
    “U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recession began. The unemployment rate was unchanged, largely because more people streamed into the work force.” (Associated Press) As Robert Higgs notes, labor-force growth is in ...
  • White House Gears Up Campaign for Health Care Law
    “The White House has begun an aggressive campaign to use approaching Supreme Court arguments on the new health care law as a moment to build support for the measure seen as President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, hoping to shape public opinion on an issue at the center of the ...
  • Adam Smith versus Business
    Advocates of the freed market should embrace Smith’s understanding of political economy: that a powerful force against freedom emanates from where they might least expect to find it.
  • No More Risk-Free Government Debt
    “Late Thursday in Athens, Greek officials will begin the final tally of a massive debt write-down to see if enough investors have agreed to participate to allow them to declare the program a successful step on the way back to solvency, receive a new round of international loans — and perha ...
  • Presidential Contenders Clash over Energy
    “President Obama and Mitt Romney traded jabs Wednesday as the threat of greater fluctuations in oil prices drove a long-distance debate over energy policy. Romney said Obama should do more to open up domestic sites for drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. But ...

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

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

  • Mapping the College Culture Gap
    Although the television series “Mad Men” has yet to take up the subject of college applications, I could well imagine an episode in which ad man Don Draper spends his day consuming vast quantities of Scotch and cigarettes, only to come home and have his wife say (while ignoring the lipstick on h ...
  • Time for Real Solutions to Vancouver's Housing ...
    Vancouver is in desperate need of new solutions to ease its worsening housing affordability crisis. The 8th annual Demographia housing affordability survey released by the Frontier Centre found that Vancouver has the second least affordable housing market next to Hong Kong. On average, and a ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Hong Kong
    Hong Kong has experienced its slowest decadal growth in at least 70 years, according to the results of the recently released 2011 census. Between 2001 and 2011, Hong Kong added only 5.4 percent to its population, a decline of more than two-thirds from its 1991-2001 rate. Hong Kong's slowest ...
  • Foreign Industrial Investment Is Reshaping America
    Declinism may be all the rage in intellectual salons from Beijing to Barcelona and Boston, but decisions being made in corporate boardrooms suggest that the United States is emerging the world’s biggest winner. Long the world leader as a destination for overseas investment, the U.S. is ext ...
  • Is The United States Population Heading to Lon ...
    It's been clear since the census 2011 estimates were released on December 21, 2011, that we are experiencing something of a demographic change, at least in the short run. Clearly growth is slowing down in part, many believe, due to economic reasons, as was the case during the 1930s as well a ...

GM Watch

  • Are GM foods compatible with Islamic Sharia law?
    The following analysis of GM foods from the point of view of Islamic Sharia law is from attorney Steven Druker. --- --- GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS AND SHARIA  Why There are Good Reasons to Decide They Are Incompatible Steven M. Druker, J.D. Executive Director Alliance for BioIntegrity        ...
  • Are GM foods compatible with Islamic Sharia law?
    The following analysis of GM foods from the point of view of Islamic Sharia law is from attorney Steven Druker. --- --- GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS AND SHARIA  Why There are Good Reasons to Decide They Are Incompatible Steven M. Druker, J.D. Executive Director Alliance for BioIntegrity        ...
  • Insect experts issue 'urgent' warning on using ...
    Insect Experts Issue 'Urgent' Warning On Using GM Seeds Dan Charles NPR, March 9 2012  http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/148227668/insect-experts-issue-urgent-warning-on-using-gm-seeds This week, a group of scientists sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urgin ...
  • Insect experts issue 'urgent' warning on using ...
    Insect Experts Issue 'Urgent' Warning On Using GM Seeds Dan Charles NPR, March 9 2012  http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/148227668/insect-experts-issue-urgent-warning-on-using-gm-seeds This week, a group of scientists sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urgin ...
  • URGENT- Help stop GM trees in the US
    Action Alert: Help Stop GE Eucalyptus Trees in US South: Comments by Monday 3/12 http://globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php?ID=604&tabs=2 *Please forward widely         *Comments needed by March 12! *Help STOP planting of flowering GE Eucalyptus tree field trials in Alabama, Florida, Mis ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Greece Has Defaulted – Which Country In ...
    Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts.  The ISDA is saying that ther ...
  • Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing
    Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the sto ...
  • Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
    Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...
  • 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Eco ...
    We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever.  There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the n ...
  • Now THAT Is Cold – 19 Signs That America ...
    The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America.  In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner.  Unfortunately, we are star ...

Desertification

  • Scenes of the daily life in Burkina Faso (Sahe ...
    Please have a look at my newest video (with French titles) : http://youtu.be/KAAhhUcu10Q with some scenes of the daily life of local people and children in a village of Burkina Faso (Sahel, Western Africa) and a team of the University … Continue reading →
  • Australia : Initiatives to Combat Desertificat ...
    Read at : http://www.environment.gov.au/land/publications/actions/overseas1.html Australian Actions to Combat Desertification and Land Degradation National Report by Australia on Measures Taken to Support Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Commonwealth Inte ...
  • rising malnutrition amid increasing poverty (I ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95040/EGYPT-Fears-of-rising-malnutrition-amid-increasing-poverty EGYPT: Fears of rising malnutrition amid increasing poverty CAIRO, 9 March 2012 (IRIN) – Nasser Ali Hossan Morsy, who worked as a porter in central-northern Egypt, knew he needed anoth ...
  • Halting water scarcity, drought and desertific ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.emwis.org/initiatives/desert-jucar Halting Desertification in the Jucar River Basin (HALT-JÚCAR-DES) Introduction: The current pilot action funded by the EC (DG Environment) started with the signing of an agreement on 21 December 2011. Th ...
  • Women are leaders and should not be left out o ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/human-rights/56808/on-the-frontline-of-climate.html On the frontline of climate change The CSW conference is discussing how the condition of women can be improved in the face of worsening climate change impacts ranging ...

The Paper Trail

  • New whistleblower cases allege continued bank ...
    Whistleblower lawsuits made public in recent weeks shed new light on abuses in the mortgage industry that led to — and continued well after — the housing crash in 2007.The cases suggest that fraud inside the banking industry continued years after the meltdown, some as late as 2011. They have bee ...
  • Chamber spends early, often on GOP congression ...
    For the big-spending U.S.
  • Toxic acid release again draws federal investi ...
    Again drawn by a leak of toxic hydrofluoric acid, federal investigators are back at a Texas oil refinery they examined three years ago.Some nearby residents were told to shelter in place after the release, said Daniel Horowitz, managing director of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which has sent ...
  • Fukushima disaster anniversary finds U.S. nucl ...
    One year ago on Sunday, an earthquake off the coast of Japan and the resulting tsunami triggered a month-long partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. In the days leading up to the anniversary of the crisis, advocates and opponents of nuclear power are squaring off in a f ...
  • PAC profile: FreedomWorks for America
    Supports: Conservatives Principals: Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe, Ryan Hecker, Russ Walker More...

backofthebook.ca

  • Ohi – uh-oh
    By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Da ...
  • Robocalls, Vikileaks: One of these things is n ...
    By Montreal Simon When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks.  “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member ...
  • More gravy on my Poutine, please
    By Montreal Simon You know it takes a certain kind of mentality to pay cash for a disposable cellphone, like criminals do,  and call the phony owner Pierre Poutine. A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • (Italy) NO TAV Women’s Day: Reclaim Dissent!
    no tav 8 marzo.jpg Responding to a call out made by women within the movement a few days ago, today around 100 NO TAV women met up in Susa to “have a chat” with the local Mayor (a woman herself). ...
  • Russia: They don`t represent us!
    Almost 40% of the population of Russian Federation with a "right to elect" chose not to participate in the electoral farce, indirectly expressing his opposition to the existing system, which doesn`t represent their will. The ...
  • New Zealand: Meat workers locked out for 9 weeks
    6388328351_912a5f98bf_z.jpg Since 19th October meat workers at the Canterbury Meat Processors Rangitikei lamb-processing plant have been locked out by the company in a bid to force them to accept new ...
  • A rally against the elections in Moscow live b ...
    161979_382708068424764_1893775011_n.jpg Make sure to keep track of what is happening in the very centre of Moscow and St. Petersburg in real time! Our reporters will follow left-wing activists collect ...
  • Valsusa in every city: NO TAV updates (Italy)
    images.jpeg The last 10 days or so have seen a massive shift in the NO TAV struggle, with the state now trying to repress the movement more openly than ever: evictions, police beatings, and the govern ...

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

  • Christian TRUTH AND LOVE Shining Through in Ed ...
    Say hello to Miko Peled – a true Israeli HERO in so many ways!!!   If only his voice could be heard all over Israel and America.  If only he were Israel’s Prime Minister.   If only his honor and integrity could be contagious to all Edomite Zionists!!   If only!!   The Middle East, Ir ...
  • Netanyahu Speech at AIPAC – Sounds Like ...
    Listen to this blatant Edomite PROPAGANDA!!!!  Indeed, it is time to call a Duck a Duck Sir!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GnDbA5r0pc What the esteemed Prime Minister fails to mention, of course are these most salient facts: 1. Israel has nukes – reportedly the 5th largest arsenal in ...
  • Edomite Agents Spewing Lies and Disinfo &#8211 ...
    Truth is a Beautiful Thing – when it is declared and told, you don’t have to worry about covering it up.   On the other hand, malicious Lies beget more lies and more deception. #1 TRUTH FOR CHRISTIANS:  Edomites (the descendants of Esau which is Edom)  Abhor Truth, yet Adore the Lie! ...
  • The War Prayer – America’s Corrupt ...
    The Edomite “Festival” of Purim is all about death and destruction of Esau/Edom’s enemies – but most specifically, the destruction of Persia (which is modern-day Iran).   “Esther” is a fictitious archetype of the Edomite/Babylonian goddess Ishtar, and Mordecai ...
  • Edomite Satanism in Action
    Geraldo Rivera tried to warn America years ago.   Satanism and it’s toll on humanity has increased, not diminished.  

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • 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.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

  • HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren UE Bailout
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts Missouri Nuclear Agenda and Fair Energy Rates HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren Bailout Ameren is asking Missouri businesses and residents to bail them out for costs they have already incurred and plan to incur in the future which do nothing to produce energy or pr ...
  • Reduced Solar Prices-March Madness Solar Prices!
    March Madness Solar Prices! On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: March Madness Solar Prices!Our BEST PRICING EVER is now available for our industry leading Westinghouse Solar AC 235watt module, complete with an in ...
  • New Policy Brief- Middle Income Financing for ...
    Increasing Middle America’s Access to Capital for Energy Improvements While middle income Americans have historically invested in improvements that maintain and increase the value of their homes, they have seen an important source of financing – the equity in their properties – evaporate at the ...
  • Health Benefits of Plants in the Work Place
    Introducing living plants into your work place can actually have a large positive effect on your psychological and physical health. Keywords: Flowers, Bouquet, Volatile Organic Compounds, Pollution, Office Having plants in your work place does more for you than simply providing something pretty ...
  • CAD Deck Design
    Features: Pergola, Bench Seat, Topiary, and Hot Tub                           Computer Aided Drawing- Deck design by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Holding Iran's Supreme Leader Accountable
    The subject of Iran currently sits quite prominently at the forefront of foreign policy discussions. 80% of all media coverage of Iran today focuses on the covert nuclear program. The remaining 20% focuses on provocative words and actions of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.read more
  • مجتبی واحدی:بدنه جنبش سبز فرصت دیگری به فرصت ط ...
    گفتگوی تلوزیون جبهه ملی ایران با مجتبی واحدی :*توجیهات بعضی از دوستان باعث شرمندگی است*شرکت در این انتخابات انکار جنبش سبز است*دستاورد خاتمی از رای دادن انتخاب خواهرزاده اش از اردکان بود*حاکمیت این افراد را نمی پدیرد*بدنه جنبش سبز فرصت دیگری به فرصت طلبان نخواهد
  • روز جهانی زن در ايران:۳۴ زنداني، ۲۰۸ سال زندان ...
    جـــرس: روز هشتم مارس به عنوان روز جهانی زن در سال ۲۰۱۲ در حالی سپری مي‌شود که ۳۴ زندانی زن با داشتن بيش از ۲۰۰ سال حکم در زندان‌ به سر مي‌برند. تارنمای خانه حقوق بشر ايران اسامی و اطلاعات ۴۷ زندانی سياسی زن که به خاطر فعاليت‌ها و عقايد خود در بازداشت به سر مي‌برند جمع‌‌آوری کرده و انتشار داده ...
  • Republicans, Netanyahu and Iranian Children
    "Attack Iran, Bomb Iran" is the monotonously uttered mantra of three out of the four Republican candidates whose foreign policy seems to involve one country alone.
  • Hamas Deserts Iran, and Lebanese Stand Up Agai ...
    The only thing that could stop this is an Assad victory in Syria–a complete crushing of the opposition.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Female Face of Poverty
    Happy International Women's Day Today (March 8th) is International Women’s Day. This year the UN has declared the theme “Empower Rural Women: End Hunger and Poverty.” According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), women comprise 43 percent of agricultural wor ...
  • Wyoming Prepares for Dollar Collapse
        2012 STATE OF WYOMING 12LSO-00441 HB0085 HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085 Government continuity Sponsored by: Representative(s) Miller, Burkhart, Davison, Edmonds, Jaggi, Kroeker, McKim, Peasley, Quarberg and Teeters and Senator(s) Jennings and Peterson A BILL for 1 AN ACT relating to go ...
  • Korangate 3: An Ingenious Taliban Psy-ops?
    Afghans burn Obama in effigy A bizarre random thought occurred to me last night. What if the alleged February 21st Koran burning at Bagram prison in Afghanistan never actually happened? Or if it happened, but without the involvement of any US troops? What if the whole thing was an ingenious Tali ...
  • The FBI’s Misadventures in New Zealand
    Kim Dotcom There is growing suspicion in New Zealand that this country, like American Samoa and Puerto Rico, has become an American colony. Sadly, the unfolding Kim Dotcom[1] saga seems to confirm this. On January 20th, a New Zealand assault team consisting of helicopters and special defen ...
  • The People Under the Black Masks
    Pink black bloc (This is the third 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) As Nihilo Zero, Don Gato and others point out, the major problem w ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • AIDS: Why Africa suffers for the West’s sins
    As a lens to explore the complex and deeply fraught relationship between Africa and the West, the AIDS epidemic is as revealing and disturbing as it gets. Born in colonial Africa and discovered in gay America, the devastating rise of AIDS has been fueled in no small part by the clash of cultures ...
  • Lowlifes deserve justice too
    Law professor Dale Carpenter’s new book about the Supreme Court 2003 sodomy case, “Flagrant Conduct,” has been causing a stir with its claim that the plaintiffs who legalized same-sex sex for everyone weren’t actually having sex at all when they were arrested. Worse, rather than the camera-ready ...
  • The president’s good news
    January’s 227,000 net new jobs – the third month in a row of job gains well in excess of 200,000 – is good news for President Obama and bad news for Mitt Romney.Jobs are coming back fast enough to blunt Republican attacks against Obama on the economy and to rob Romney of the issue he’d prefer to ...
  • Casino capitalism: As gambling spreads, metaph ...
    Though Wall Street's brand of “casino capitalism” crashed the American economy in 2008, American capitalists are making a growing profit from real-life casino gambling: commercial (or non-Indian)  casinos have generated nearly $98 billion since 2008, including  $34.6 billion in gross revenues in ...
  • How to catch Joseph Kony
    As more than 50 million viewers on YouTube of the Kony2012 viral video now know, Joseph Kony, founder and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is a wanted man with the blood of many people on his hands. We’ve spent years investigating the horrors perpetrated by the LRA in central Africa  -- Uga ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Powering America (and the world) with nuclear ...
    The Heritage Foundation has produced an inspiring, visually appealing documentary titled Powering America. As the title suggests, it is focused on the United States and our energy choices, but the need for power is universal and the options are essentially the same all around the world. Here is ...
  • Audio Archive: Unlocking the Next Energy Break ...
    What technologies are at the cutting edge of energy innovation in 2012, and which ones show the most promise for helping us to establish a sustainable energy future and power our economy in the process? What are the respective roles of the public and private sectors in driving innovation in ...
  • Using Solar/Wind to Fuel the Oil Industry
    Oil industry executives attending the 2012 East Texas Oilfield Expo this week are getting the chance to view a rather unusual exhibitor. Progress Solar Solutions is on hand, demonstrating how its solar/wind light tower can help cut costs and reduce emissions at oil field oper ...
  • Should we be techno-optimists about climate ch ...
    Paul Gilding, an independent writer on sustainability and former head of Greenpeace International spoke at TED last week with a talk called “The Earth is Full”. His blog post this week references the talk and argues why we shouldn’t rely on the “techno-optimist” point of view that all will be ok ...
  • On Gas Prices & the Keystone XL Pipeline
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer more questions about gas prices, and discuss the Keystone XL pipeline and future development of Canada’s oil sands. Some of the topics discussed are:

EU Times

  • U.S. & NATO forces have invaded Syria
    Russia accuses Libya terrorists of exporting terrorists Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN: “It is completely unacceptable. This practice is undermining stability in the Middle East…” The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, has accused Libya of training and ...
  • US electoral registration: Subject to grave errors
    With Americans heading to the polls in 2012, determined to take part in homespun democracy, millions of votes may end up rejected or thrown away when election night comes – all because of the specific voting registration system. ­The US is always quick to criticize the election process in other ...
  • Iran capable of building aircraft carriers: Na ...
    Commander of Iran’s naval forces Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Islamic Republic possesses the know-how for manufacturing aircraft carriers. “Considering the existing capabilities of the young experts in the Naval Forces and the country’s defense industry and universities, the Is ...
  • Australian Bill Allows for Sterilizations With ...
    Following the call by ethicists for after-birth abortions and the press explosion surrounding the “Euthanasia Coaster“, new legislation from Australia is now paving the way for children of any age to consent to sterilization — without parental consent. That’s right, if a psychiatrist ...
  • Iran navy in Atlantic Ocean
    Iran: Capable of increasing military presence in Atlantic ocean Iranian Army Commander, Major General Ataollah Salehi, said Monday that Iran’s Navy has the ability to extend its presence to the Atlantic Ocean. “Today the Iranian Navy has the ability to expand its presence to the Atla ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • At least eleven Palestinians killed in Israeli ...
    Israeli airstrikes kill 11, Palestinian sources say Gaza (CNN) -- Eleven Palestinians were killed and at least four critically injured Friday and early Saturday after a series of Israeli airstrikes targeted suspected militants across Gaza, according to Palestinian medical officials. Reuters VID ...
  • Speech Nazi Gloria Allred Seeks Rush Limbaugh ...
    Far left speech Nazi Gloria Allred is back in the news. Now she wants to silence Rush Limbaugh. Gloria Allred sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation on whether Rush Limbaugh should be prosecuted for his attack on 30 year-old far left activist Sandra Fluke
  • Redskins Mortgage Future For Robert Griffin III
    Seahawk fans can drop the pipe dream of the Seahawks trading up for a top QB in this year’s draft. The Colts have already cut Peyton Manning as part of a plan that includes drafting Andrew Luck. And now the Redskins have given up a … [ visit site to read more ]
  • By Gary P Jackson Greta Van Susteren is bad to ...
    By Gary P Jackson Greta Van Susteren is bad to the bone! Less than 24 hours ago she wrote that if vile misogynist Louis C.K. was going to perform at the annual Radio & Television Congressional Correspondence Dinner she wasn’t going to attend. Now comes word that the â commedian â has backed ...
  • Conan checks out the new iPadâs Retina display
    As usual, Apple’s latest product announcement was a topic of conversation on Conan yesterday (Flash only, sorry). We know one of the new iPad’s biggest upgrades is the 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution Retina display that Apple pointed out has a  million more pixels than your HDTV , the most ever ...

Groklaw

  • Apple to build $304 million campus in Texas, a ...
    Apple plans to add jobs in customer support, sales and accounting. - Reuters
  • "Official" Fedora Linux Remix for Raspberry Pi ...
    According to the Raspberry Foundation, "The Remix is a distribution comprised of software packages from the Fedora ARM project, plus a small number of additional packages that are modified from the Fedora versions or which cannot be included in Fedora due to licensing issues - in particular, the ...
  • Just Two
    I recently met with some lawyers to prepare an "iPad for Lawyers" presentation. I wanted to see how these lawyers were using the iPad so I could tailor my presentation to their work. ... We talked a little bit about workflows generally before turning to discuss the apps they use to run their pra ...
  • Activist Investor Charts Plan to Revitalize Yahoo
    His campaign comes as his personal interest in technology grows. The hedge fund manager - a technology neophyte who bought his first iPhone last year - adopted up-and-coming mobile applications, like Instagram, the photo-sharing service. [PJ: Oh, perfect. A tech "neophyte" thinks he knows how t ...
  • Dynegy Asset Shuffle Called 'Fraudulent'
    A bankruptcy-court examiner said Dynegy Inc.'s board breached its fiduciary duty with an asset reshuffling that benefited billionaire Carl Icahn and other shareholders at the expense of creditors. A report by the examiner released Friday threw the Houston-based power provider's debt-restructuri ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hoarding of license plate scans a police state ...
    Connecticut police scan license plates and save the data forever. Other states delete such data after a few weeks.Government can use the travel data to determine what church or what kind of political rallies you attend, what types of social activities you prefer.
  • Hand-cranked machine turns plastic bottles int ...
    A simple machine that can turn discarded plastic bottles into a superior roofing material for tropical climates has been designed by Duquesne University business professor Dr. David Saiia.Tip: Inhabitat
  • TSA: yes, again (or still)
    X-Ray Photo, 1896. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. )Another week’s finds straight from TSA’s homepage (for the period between February 24th and March 1st (otherwise known as St. David’s Day), 2012: Firearms: 21 loaded; 4 unloaded 3 artfull ...
  • California. Can blocking development hurt more ...
    Blocking development is a “sporting pastime” in San Francisco and in much of the rest of California too. But if California wants 33% renewable energy by 2020 then it can’t allow challenges continually be made on new renewable energy projects. Certainly NIMBYs may often have imp ...
  • US now using killer drones within this country
    From the videos, drones look harmless. They aren’t. The primary use of drones today is to find, identify, and kill targets. You could even make the case that this is the raison d’etre of drones.So now the US is using drones against their own populace. Only a fool or an oBot will say ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

  • Inquiry into election includes low voter turnout
    The regular inquiry into the conduct of the General Election will this time address voter turnout out in its terms of reference, and is seeking submissions from the public. 2011 had the lowest voter turnout in over 100 years. How can we turn that around, especially amongst young people?
  • Climate Change post-Durban: Still “punching ab ...
    Yesterday was just one of those days. I experienced, yet again, one of those apocryphal exchanges with Dr Nick Smith on climate change. Those who perceive global climate change as a competitive sport will be heartened to hear Minister Smith assure Parliament that New Zealand is punching above it ...
  • Rally for sacked workers – Saturday
    Tomorrow I’ll be joining the rally starting at 4pm at Britomart to march with the sacked Ports of Auckland Maritime Workers Union members and their families to the gateway of the Port at Teal Park. Like the city councillor from my area Mike Lee I’m sickened by the approach the board and manageme ...
  • A criminal waste of money – Wiri prison ...
    Today we got some very bad news, and frankly quite unexpected news, when Ministers Tolley and English announced the government’s intention to build yet another fiscal and moral failure, a 960 bed prison at Wiri in South Auckland. I had (foolishly, it seems) been optimistic that a more enli ...
  • Rena – Lessons learned
    This morning the Transport Accident Investigation Commissions initial report into the Rena grounding was released and Maritime NZ appeared in Select Committee for questioning. It’s good to get some answers but we are still only seeing a small part of the picture and need an independent inquiry i ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This Is Your Br ...
    By Dr. Mercola You sprinkle it on your cereal. Add it to your morning cup of coffee. Lovingly bake it into your children's birthday cakes... And then, of course, it's a key part of some of our most favorite "treats" and comfort foods -- cookies, candy, soda pop, ice cream, all those "yumm ...
  • The Prescribed 'Preventive' That Labs Use to I ...
    By Dr. Mercola 2011 was the first year in more than two decades during which there were no deaths from B. pertussis whooping cough in the state of California, the Los Angeles Times recently reportedi. In 2010, 10 infants reportedly died from the disease.  The number of reported cases ...
  • Is This Fraud Too Big Even For 60 Minutes?
    By Dr. Mercola Exposure and subsequent concern over medical research fraud is on the rise, and for good reason. It's now reached the point where blogs exist solely to cover retractions of published researchi. An episode of 60 Minutes, featured above, also highlights the problem. In this e ...
  • You Can Do This!
    What can you do, if you simply get out there and do it?  More than you might think.
  • Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France
    By Dr. Mercola Most people do not realize that genetically engineered foods were only approved in the U.S. because the FDA hid 40,000 documents indicating their extreme toxicity. Countries around the globe are making it increasingly clear that they're not going to continue to let Monsanto ab ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Yanomami spokesman warns UN of mining threat
    Yanomami Indians, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami shaman and spokesman Davi Kopenawa warned the UN in Geneva this week of the dangers illegal gold mining is bringing to his people. Davi stated that thousands of illegal miners are currently working in the Yanomami territory, destroy ...
  • VIP ‘human safari’ organized by top cop tasked ...
    Jarawa woman from the Andamans. Her tribe is at risk from 'human safaris'. © Survival The second most senior policeman on the Andamans has been caught organizing a VIP ‘human safari’ despite being tasked with the job of protecting the Jarawa tribe. Sanjay Baniwal, the Andaman’s I ...
  • Outrage at ‘Freakshow TV’ as reporter brands A ...
    Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease. © Channel 7 An Australian TV report which branded an Amazon tribe as child murderers; a ‘suicide cult’ from the ...
  • Vedanta’s PR campaign backfires as Bollywood c ...
    The Dongria Kondh reasserted their pledge never to leave the Niyamgiri Hills, at a festival in February. © Bikash Khemka/Survival A bid by British mining giant Vedanta Resources to repair its tarnished international reputation has backfired after two major Bollywood celebrities withdrew fro ...
  • Official report confirms presence of “hiding t ...
    Ayoreo woman. Her uncontacted relatives are under threat from logging. © Survival In an official report, Paraguay’s Department of Indian Affairs INDI has confirmed that an uncontacted tribe is living on farmland in the northern Chaco region owned by a controversial ranching company. Signs ...

Montreal Gazette

  • An Aislin contest: party animals
    Thanks to 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast, the notion of a donkey representing the Democratic Party and an elephant the Republican Party has long been a part of the U.S. political consciousness. Now The Gazette's Aislin (Terry Mosher) wants to know: what animal would be a good repr ...
  • Protesting students could use a lesson in demo ...
    Students protesting the provincial government's planned tuition increases appear significantly lacking in understanding of legitimate democratic practice.
  • Editorial Cartoon
    " Re: "Student protesters clash with police" (Gazette, March 8).
  • The mayor of Huntingdon and the language law
    Huntingdon Mayor Stéphane Gendron is seeking to affirm the town's right to serve the sizable minority of its anglophone residents in their own language.
  • Quebec's challenge is to make daycare even better
    International Women's Day has become a day for taking stock of how well, or how badly, women are faring at home and outside of the home, in Canada and in other countries throughout the world.

Food World Order

  • #Audio: Episode012 - Monsanto, Lorax, Bird Flu
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Monsanto, the Lorax, bird flu and more... Episode012: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Au ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Pink Slime, Satire, Coconut Co ...
    Pink Slime for School Lunch: Government Buying 7M Pounds of Ammonia-Treated Meat for Meals* Campaign Against BPI's 'Pink Slime'* Campbell's Soup Phasing Out BPA Use in Cans* Disney retooling childhood obesity exhibit, critics say it's insensitive* Chefs celebrate the Oreo on its 1 ...
  • Michigan Lottery Winner Loses Government Food Aid
    Michigan slow to crack down on big lottery winners* from latimes.com: Michigan’s Department of Human Services has cut off $200 a month in food aid to Amanda Clayton in the wake of media reports that she had won $1 million in the state lottery in September. To make matters worse for Clayto ...
  • More Foods Going to Pouch Packaging
    Plus, there's no more pesky recycling! from chicagotribune.com: Packaged food makers are thinking outside the bottle and can. More to the point, they're increasingly partial to pouches. Kitchen staples from Campbell Soup Co. and H.J. Heinz Co. will be joining other consumer products in pou ...
  • U.S. Stands Firm Against Drug Legalization, Bi ...
    from nytimes.com: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a blunt message on Monday to leaders in Latin America who are contemplating opening the door to the legalization of illicit drugs: The United States will not budge in its opposition. Mr. Biden, beginning a two-day trip to Mexico an ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Greece Has Defaulted – Which Country In ...
    Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts.  The ISDA is saying that ther ...
  • Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing
    Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the sto ...
  • Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
    Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...
  • 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Eco ...
    We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever.  There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the n ...
  • Now THAT Is Cold – 19 Signs That America ...
    The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America.  In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner.  Unfortunately, we are star ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Obama facing impeachment for alleged "high cri ...
    An attempt at the impeachment of President Obama has begun in the U.S. after Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina filed a resolution which alleges that Obama has engaged in: "...the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress" which " ...
  • Oh joy! Come celebrate the wonderful disaster!
    Seems most mainstream media sources are spinning the line of the 'successful' Greek debt swap. Amidst complex financial shenanigans that seem fishier than fresh Greek bacalao, only the bravest dared attempt any interpretation or explanation as last night's deadline to voluntarily call the Gr ...
  • Ken Clarke's Charter To Bump Off Anti-Landmine ...
    Much fuss has been made over the last few days, quite rightly too, about Bilderberg attending Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans for "secret justice". Faced with widespread criticism, the Bilderberger has today - according to The Independent - "attempted to quell growing concerns over propo ...
  • Pritchard Quits: Principles Over Personal Posi ...
    Those wondering whether Roger Helmer MEP's weekend defection from the Conservatives to UKIP would open the floodgates did not have to wait too long. Yesterday we learnt through the Sunday newspapers that Steve Hilton walked from his Downing Street job, apparently privately citing frustrations ...
  • President Obama's Birth Certificate: 'Not Auth ...
    The debate about whether President Obama - Barry Soetoro, to some - should not be President of the United States due to his status as a U.S. citizen or otherwise rumbles on. The issue has migrated from the pages of 'right wing' indie media and 'conspiracy theory' websites and now it is mainst ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • MComix: Really Good Comic Book Reader for Ubuntu
    MComix is a fork of now defunct Comix project. MComix aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements to Comix project since its development came to a halt in late 2009. MComix is basically a highly customizable image viewer designed specifically to handle comic bo ...
  • N7 Music Player for Android is a Thing of Beauty
    There are plenty of music player apps for Android. But one of the issues that plague most of the popular Android music players is the fact that, they all look more or less the same. There is virtually zero innovation on the UI front. N7 Music Player changes everything. It has got a unique, use ...
  • Android Market is Now Google Play, Play Shop A ...
    Ever since the Larry Page became the CEO, Google is on an aggressive consolidation mode. Google Play is the latest in a serious of such moves. Google intends to bring its movies, music, books and android apps under one umbrella via Google Play. Having said that, Google Movies, Music and Books ...
  • First Official Release of Songbird Fork - Nigh ...
    Quoting our previous article on the topic, "Not so long ago, Songbird was one of the most loved music player app among Linux users. It all changed when Songbird developers decided to stop supporting Linux and concentrate on Mac and Windows platforms. But some hardcore Songbird users were not r ...
  • Logcat Android Live Wallpaper Sure Looks Geeky!
    We have featured quite a number of really unique Android live wallpapers before, but Logcat is of a different breed altogether. And it is very simple too. All it does is displaying Android activity log as your live wallpaper. I have to admit, it looks very geeky! Logcat Live W ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Stauffenberg and Hitler: read chapter two (and ...
    With the Greeks, Irish and much of the rest of Europe now openly accusing German Chancellor Angela Merkel of behaving like a Nazi, it’s a good time to take a new look at the original, Adolf Hitler. Spot parallels by reading Chapter Two of the Stauffenberg ebook, featuring Adolf Hitler in his bun ...
  • Austrian media’s campaign of disinformat ...
    Austrian ORF journalist Christoph Feuerstein’s cynical attempt to “debunk” the “conspiracy theory” that Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped by a paedophile ring during an “exclusive” interview was disinformation at its most distasteful. Instead of a critical analysis of the facts which h ...
  • MMR doctor wins battle against being struck off
    Professor John Walker-Smith, who carried out research into the MMR vaccine with Dr Andrew Wakefield, has won a court battle against being struck off the medical register. By Donna Bowater 11:11AM GMT 07 Mar 2012, The Telegraph A High Court judge quashed the finding of professional misconduct aga ...
  • Dutch Freedom Party pushes euro exit as €2.4 t ...
    The Dutch Freedom Party has called for a return to the Guilder, becoming the first political movement in the eurozone with a large popular base to opt for withdrawal from the single currency. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph 9:50PM GMT 05 Mar 2012 “The euro is not in the interests ...
  • The relevance of Stauffenberg to our problems ...
    IT IS JULY 20th, 1944. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg makes his way through the labyrinthe of the Wolf’s Lair to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, launch a coup, end the Second World War and liberate the concentration camps. Read the first chapter of this book of fiction based on his ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Why an MRI Costs $1,080 in America and $280 in ...
    By Ezra Klein, The Washington Post 06 March 12 There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. That may sound obvious. But it is, in fact, key to understanding one of the most pressing problems facing our economy. In 2009, A ...
  • Parents Fighting Against Gov’t. Vaccinat ...
    by Dave Bohon Tuesday, 06 March 2012 15:59 A Detroit mother is fighting mad after school officials defied her specific instructions and gave her daughter four vaccinations, including one that has been linked to adverse physical reactions and even death in its recipients. Sighle Kinney told Detro ...
  • How our Understanding of History is Manipulated
    Andrew J. Fell Activist Post It’s becoming increasingly apparent that in order for us, the general population, to understand the deeper issues of the current geopolitical situation, it is imperative for us to understand the relevant history. This may sound somewhat obvious, but I would argue tha ...
  • Monsanto’s Roundup Shown to be Ravaging Butter ...
    Mike Barrett Activist Post Monsanto’s Roundup, containing the active ingredient glyphosate, has been tied to more health and environmental problems than you could imagine. Similar to how pesticides have been contributing to the bee decline, Monsanto’s Roundup has been tied to the decrease in the ...
  • Mass Banking Resignations Signal a Purging Has ...
    Brandon Turbeville Activist Post According to a list compiled by independent blog, American Kabuki, at least 122 banking directors, CEOs, and board members of both national and international stature have resigned since September of last year. The blog recently posted a list of all 122 of these i ...

Veterans Today

  • Why Putin is Driving Washington Nuts
    He will be the devil of choice because there could not be a more formidable opponent in the world stage to Washington's plans – be they coded as Greater Middle East, New Silk Road, Full Spectrum Dominance or America's Pacific Century. Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble.
  • Marine Hangar Was ‘Witches Brew’
    MCAS El Toro’s Hangar 296 was “ground zero” for TCE plume spreading miles into Orange County and contaminated with radiation from a Ra 226 paint room.
  • Afghanistan: De-Pashtunization of Pashtuns by ...
    By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR For more than a thousand years the Afghan nation, and Pashtun tribes in particular, have resisted all foreign efforts of domination. Efforts by great empires have failed to suppress rich Pashtun culture and traditions, created during ancient Silk Road tradin ...
  • Africa’s Psychological Warfare Program
    By Ricardo Baretzky Press Member of the NWU (National Writer’s Union) IFJ (International Federation of Journalists)   With the growing technology, the fighting of African warfare has changed dramatically since 1961. The days of dropping flyers from a military airplane and TV advertise ...
  • Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Prog ...
    A living-wage campaign has been pressing the university's overpaid administrators to treat its workers better for the past 14 years.

electric politics

  • The Taiping Civil War
    In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
  • It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
    In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Syria: Russia Reiterates Opposition To Foreign ...
    Syria: Russia Reiterates Opposition To Foreign Armed Intervention ==== Syria In Western Strategy For Global Military Supremacy U.S. And NATO Allies Initiate Libyan Scenario For Syria ==== The Hindu March 9, 2012 Russia threatens to veto U.S. resolution on Syria Vladimir Radyuhin Russia will not ...
  • United States: Turning War-Fear Into Warfare
    RT March 10, 2012 US: Turning war-fear into warfare ==== “The US army flag has 183 campaign ribbons on it. Those 183 ribbons each represent wars,” Iraq war veteran Matthis Chiroux from New York shared with RT. “When you compare that to the 236 years that we’ve actually been around as a country, ...
  • U.S. Marines Launch Joint Military Exercises I ...
    U.S. Marines Launch Joint Military Exercises In Georgia U.S. Marines in Georgia for Agile Spirit 2011 ==== Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It? U.S. Marines In The Caucasus As West Widens Afghan War ==== Trend News Agency March 9, 2012 Joint Geor ...
  • Chinese Stance On The Syrian Situation
    Pakistan Observer March 9, 2012 Chinese stance on Syrian situation Sultan M Hali It has been more than a year since the Arab Spring or wave of revolutionary demonstrations rocked the Arab world. Commencing on December 18, 2010, the Arab Spring has already taken a toll of the rulers in Tunisia, E ...
  • Obama Signs Anti-Protest Trespass Bill
    RT March 10, 2012 Obama Signs anti-protest Trespass Bill     Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing prote ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza Strip
    EuroNews, March 10, 2012 GAZA CITY — Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed up to 12 Palestinians, mostly militants, in the worst flare-up of violence along the restive border in months. The leader of a militant group is among the dead. Israel said it struck after Palestinians ha ...
  • April Conference in India: “Turn the Pr ...
    Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF)  Friends, The first Conference of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) is going to take place at a time when the imperialist forces and their props – the ruling classes of various colonial and semi-colonial countries – are going through an unprecedented e ...
  • Obama Shoots the Messengers, Attacks Whistlebl ...
    [During his 2008 election campaign, Obama promised to protect whistleblowers, saying their "acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled."  By comparing such promises with the reality that followed, we ar ...
  • US Army suicides up 80% since start of Iraq War
    Suicide among young Army personnel rose 80% between 2004 and 2008, with 255 soldiers taking their lives in 2007 and 2008 alone. Jill Langlois, Global Post, March 8, 2012 Suicide among young Army personnel rose 80% between 2004 and 2008, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the last two years t ...
  • India: Women against Sexual Violence and Stat ...
    Let us on this historic day reaffirm our commitment to: * Resist the increasing assault on people’s land, other resources, livelihoods and lives * Fight the increasing sexual assault in society at large, especially on women in mass struggles * Rescue March 8 from the cacophony created by media, ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • For Love
    I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...
  • The Criminal UK Police Looking to Arrest Me fo ...
    The mass murdering criminal UK Government and its equally corrupt police, the ones who are happy to protect Israeli war criminals in the UK by destroying universal jurisdiction. The same UK that is home to the worlds biggest fraudsters and financial terrorists, otherwise known as the banksters. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Burger King Announces Home Delivery
    The No. 2 in fast food burger chains, Burger King, has just announced that they will be delivering hot and fresh food straight to your doorstep in a few locations in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. This is a test for these areas.Contributor: K. Luane Holt Published: Jan 18, 2012
  • Occupy Gathers in West Portland
    Occupy Portland held neighborhood meetings around the city last weekend, bringing activism into the heart of West Portland and reaching a new audience.Contributor: Cate Patricolo Published: Jan 18, 2012
  • Factbox: Costa Concordia, Titanic, Eerie Paral ...
    A comparison factbox look on two luxury cruise ships in the news with striking parallels. One suffered a recent disaster on January 13 hitting a reef. The other famous ship struck an iceberg and will celebrate its centenary this year on April 14-15.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jan 17, 2012
  • Zappos.Com Hack Affects 24 Million Customers
    Zappos.com was hacked and this has left 24 million customers vulnerable. Payment data, such as full credit card numbers, are said to not be affected, but other critical personal information may have been.Contributor: R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen Published: Jan 16, 2012
  • 'The Artist' Wins Three at the 69th Annual Gol ...
    "The Artist" dominates the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, with three wins. The award show presented awards to newcomers and veterans taking on different roles.Contributor: Cicely A. Richard Published: Jan 16, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, March 5-9, 2012
    A pink violin strung with spider silk, and a brand-new iPad upon which, of course, one types with one's right hand. That's this week in the future. Want to win this Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the ...
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, March 5-9 ...
  • How Do You Tell Time On Mars?
    Synchronizing rovers on Mars with their drivers on Earth is a bit of a challenge When NASA’s new Mars rover lands on the Red Planet this summer, it’s safe to assume it’ll be sometime in the morning or early afternoon at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, home of the rover science and ...
  • Reconstructed: a Dinosaur With Four Iridescent ...
    Microraptors like these used to roam the Earth Dinosaur fans have barely recovered from the revelation that some dinosaurs were not scaly, but feathered. Now it looks like those fans will have to update their mental imagery once more: several of the same researchers who brought us vivid images ...
  • Today in Good Reads: Inside the Mysterious Dis ...
    One of the more bizarre and sad television-news gawkeries in recent memory has centered on the uncontrollable tics of a group of high school girls in upstate New York. The afflicted patients have been shown flailing on the “Today Show,” Erin Brockovich got involved, and the community has been up ...

Veterans Today

  • Why Putin is Driving Washington Nuts
    He will be the devil of choice because there could not be a more formidable opponent in the world stage to Washington's plans – be they coded as Greater Middle East, New Silk Road, Full Spectrum Dominance or America's Pacific Century. Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble.
  • Marine Hangar Was ‘Witches Brew’
    MCAS El Toro’s Hangar 296 was “ground zero” for TCE plume spreading miles into Orange County and contaminated with radiation from a Ra 226 paint room.
  • Afghanistan: De-Pashtunization of Pashtuns by ...
    By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR For more than a thousand years the Afghan nation, and Pashtun tribes in particular, have resisted all foreign efforts of domination. Efforts by great empires have failed to suppress rich Pashtun culture and traditions, created during ancient Silk Road tradin ...
  • Africa’s Psychological Warfare Program
    By Ricardo Baretzky Press Member of the NWU (National Writer’s Union) IFJ (International Federation of Journalists)   With the growing technology, the fighting of African warfare has changed dramatically since 1961. The days of dropping flyers from a military airplane and TV advertise ...
  • Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Prog ...
    A living-wage campaign has been pressing the university's overpaid administrators to treat its workers better for the past 14 years.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
  • Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
    Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
  • 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 ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Yanks Never Learn: US Imports Hit Record High
    This has to be the most ridiculous story I've seen all week long. One that once again demonstrates that you don't have to go much further than the Yahoo! News front page for IPE-relevant material. For all the hot air about "global rebalancing," the Yanks seem to be repeating the Bushite formula ...
  • India Isn't a Superpower (and May Never Be)
    It's once again time to feature an LSE IDEAS publication as I sometimes do. Although hosting Niall Ferguson was something of an event for us--he is in many respects a one-man travelling circus of his own--we now have another Phillip Roman chairholder in Ramachandra Guha. Although he is somewhat ...
  • The Kids Ain't Alright: Bahrain GP On In 2012?
    With the Formula One circus about to commence in 2012, I though it would be interesting to revisit the plight of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Famously cancelled, rescheduled, and then recancelled due to public uproar over holding an event in an "Arab Spring" state--the ruling regime survived anyway-- ...
  • Masters of the Game: Vatican Diplomacy in Cuba
    By far one of the most underresearched areas in IPE I would argue is the role played by religious institutions as diplomatic actors. Not only were the imperial conquests of earlier European colonizers usually phrased in terms of enlightening the unwashed masses, but religion remains a very signi ...
  • Celebrating the IPE Zone's Five-Year Anniversary
    Five Years of Fearless BloggingUnbeknownst to me, the IPE Zone just turned five in February.. Belatedly, then, it's time to celebrate! I once had a nearly octogenarian boss who morbidly observed that her peers were all retired and many dead besides. With blogging the very model of a throwaway me ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Greece Has Defaulted – Which Country In ...
    Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts.  The ISDA is saying that ther ...
  • Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing
    Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the sto ...
  • Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
    Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...
  • 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Eco ...
    We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever.  There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the n ...
  • Now THAT Is Cold – 19 Signs That America ...
    The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America.  In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner.  Unfortunately, we are star ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • U.S. & NATO forces have invaded Syria
    Russia accuses Libya terrorists of exporting terrorists Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN: “It is completely unacceptable. This practice is undermining stability in the Middle East…” The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, has accused Libya of training and ...
  • US electoral registration: Subject to grave errors
    With Americans heading to the polls in 2012, determined to take part in homespun democracy, millions of votes may end up rejected or thrown away when election night comes – all because of the specific voting registration system. ­The US is always quick to criticize the election process in other ...
  • Iran capable of building aircraft carriers: Na ...
    Commander of Iran’s naval forces Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Islamic Republic possesses the know-how for manufacturing aircraft carriers. “Considering the existing capabilities of the young experts in the Naval Forces and the country’s defense industry and universities, the Is ...
  • Australian Bill Allows for Sterilizations With ...
    Following the call by ethicists for after-birth abortions and the press explosion surrounding the “Euthanasia Coaster“, new legislation from Australia is now paving the way for children of any age to consent to sterilization — without parental consent. That’s right, if a psychiatrist ...
  • Iran navy in Atlantic Ocean
    Iran: Capable of increasing military presence in Atlantic ocean Iranian Army Commander, Major General Ataollah Salehi, said Monday that Iran’s Navy has the ability to extend its presence to the Atlantic Ocean. “Today the Iranian Navy has the ability to expand its presence to the Atla ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Catholic Church has no business policing itself
    Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
  • 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 ...

WL Central

  • 2012-03-10 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles co ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 462 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 459 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 656 days. WikiLeaks News: Image from WikiLeaks WikiLeaks continues to release more G.I. F ...
  • 2012-03-07 Press Release for Motion Hearing at ...
    TweetBelow is a March 1, 2012 United States Department of Defense Press Release for an upcoming Motion Hearing in the legal proceedings for U.S. Government vs. PFC Bradley Manning: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians o ...
  • To Whom It May Concern
    TweetI, Heather Marsh, have decided to no longer act as editor-in-chief, administrator or domain holder of wlcentral.org. From this point forward, I accept no legal, moral or other responsibility for the content of this site. WL Central has been one of the most enjoyable volunteer efforts I have ...
  • 2012-03-06 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles; U ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 458 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 455 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 652 days. WikiLeaks News: Image from WikiLeaks WikiLeaks continues to release more G.I. F ...
  • Christine Assange's Talking Points
    TweetChristine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks founder and Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, has spent many long months reaching out to supporters and urging them to contact their local political representatives. Recognising that many politicians do not even know the true story behind WikiLeaks and h ...

U N News

  • Police reform vital to improve security situat ...
    The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) stressed today that although the security situation in Haiti has improved in recent years, there is still an urgent need for police reform to ensure peace and stability in the country.
  • Guatemala: UN welcomes judge's decision to den ...
    The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the news that a Guatemalan judge rejected the claim that a former dictator is protected under an amnesty law from being tried on genocide charges.
  • Haiti: First mobile phone cash transfers facil ...
    Survivors of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti have this week started receiving cash subsidies through the first-ever mobile money transfer system in support of post-disaster housing reconstruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported today.
  • 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.

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

We Know the Lies

  • Let the People Vote!... NAACP Looks to UN in F ...
      The NAACP is sending representatives next week to a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland to argue that minority community members are facing clear voter suppression efforts in the United States, NAACP President Ben Jealous said during a press call ...
  • The Titanic As Never Seen Before!
      For almost three-quarters of a century its location at the bottom of the ocean was a maritime mystery. Even when explorers found the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, they struggled to understand exactly what happened on that terrible night she sank. ~ Stunning Photos! read more
  • Is 'This' the Obama Video Andrew Breitbart In ...
      Before his unexpected death, conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart was chomping at the bit to release a supposedly “explosive” video of President Obama filmed during the president’s time at Harvard Law School. The video was purported to show a young Obama making racially charged co ...
  • The FBI, The CIA, Homeland Security, The Feder ...
      Why is there such a sudden obsession with monitoring what average Americans are saying on Facebook and Twitter?  To be honest, the vast majority of what is being said on Facebook and Twitter is simply not worth reading even if you could understand it.  read more
  • Dead InThe Water... The Sinking of the USS Liberty
      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.&nbs ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Power Outage – How Will You Deal Long Term?
    I think we have all had to deal with a power outage for a day or two. Some of us have had the experience of being without power for 5 to 7 days. What if you had to survive and adapt to a power outage for 3 weeks or longer? Can you imagine that? Can [...]
  • We Are All Just Boiled Frogs
    We Americans have been subject to the boiling frog syndrome for decades. Did you know that you can boil a frog alive? If the frog is placed in cool water and the temperature of the water is raised sufficiently slow, the frog will not jump out and will be cooked to death. Most Americans are [...]
  • Home Remedies For Muscle Strain
    Seeing how so many more people today are starting to prep, I thought I would talk a little about home remedies. Home remedies are a good tool that all survivalists should have ready. Think about it, if a SHTF scenario occurs, you will probably not be able to run down the street to the pharmacy [...]
  • Asteroid Impact Risk
    Another reminder of one of the risks that we face, a risk of lesser probability, but a risk that could be life changing or life ending. That is, asteroid impact. Just a few days ago, another ‘new’ asteroid was discovered, an asteroid that will come very close to striking the earth on ...
  • Organization And Pantry Organizers For Your Fo ...
    Yesterday I happened to be visiting with a friend for a few hours. We went down into her basement and I saw the nice, well stocked metal pantry shelves her husband had built. Immediately, a big smile came to my face. I turned to her and said, “What a nice pantry! I have to congratulate [...]

Fast Company

  • The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, tweeting, Facebooking, pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network.This week's top 10 features some valuable career and motivational advice for people both writing and receiving checks, a lesson on how to dine on the corporate ...
  • Weekend Reading: The LulzSec Indictment
    The whimsical seeming but real mayhem causing group and one of its prominent alleged members just got slapped with a federal indictment.... Because you don't have any real plans, right? Following the arrest of alleged LulzSec and Anonymous members earlier this week, here's the federal indictment ...
  • Unlimited Vacation Doesn't Create Slackers--It ...
    By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout. Sharon Rosenblatt confesses she suffers from self-diagnosed workplace paranoia--and even her c ...
  • How To Bring Out The Magic In Marketing
    Whether you're trying to sell whisky or get people to adopt dogs, marketing can be magical when there's a deep understanding of both an organization's culture and its strategic needs. There’s been a back and forth on Fast Company of late, regarding corporate culture versus strategy. In our humbl ...
  • Mastering The Uncomfortable Art Of Personal Br ...
    Whether interviewing for a job or making a presentation, weaving a strong personal narrative could be the one thing that keeps you on top. Here are a few tips to turning on your personal branding story without turning off your audience.I was recently chatting with an up-and-coming professional s ...

Jadaliyya

  • Queering the Qur’an? Sacred Ripping and the Ho ...
    It may be hard to imagine that here, in the hot and humid Texas, being queer is “cool.” Believe it or not, Houston has a lesbian mayor and one of the first transgender judges in the nation. Hell, if it was not for the rest of Texas, gay marriage could possibly be legal in the land of Law ...
  • إذا أردت السياسة فعليـك بالاقتصاد
    رغم أهمية الاقتصاد البالغة، ودوره الحاسم فى حسم اختيارات المصريين لصالح الثورة، يبقى هو بامتياز الجبهة الأقل تقدما فى العام الماضى. فلم تتخذ حكومات المجلس العسكرى المتعاقبة قرارا ذا شأن للتعامل مع الوضع الاقتصادى واكتفت جميعها بالاعتراف بضرورة بعض الخطوات التى يبدو أن عليها إجماعا قبل ان ...
  • القضاة التونسيون بين السلطة والجمعية والنقابة
    إذا ما أراد المراقب المتعمق في الشؤون القضائية اللبنانية، (والتي تنفرد فيها السلطة السياسية، أو من ينوب عنها في قصر العدل كمجلس القضاء الأعلى، بالكلام عن القضاء وعليه)، بالذهاب إلى تونس اليوم، سيصدم بحيوية المنافسة، واحتدام النقاش العام بين جمعية القضاة التونسيين ونقابتهم. حيث يرى المظاه ...
  • Year of the SCAF: a Timeline of Mounting Repre ...
    [Jadaliyya Egypt Editors’ note: This post was originally published on 17 December 2011, under the title "SCAF: A History of Injustice".  It has since been updated and retitled.  The original and updated versions of this post were originally published on Ahram Online.] ...
  • Syria’s Currency Plunges, Raising Fears of Eco ...
    The exchange rate of the Syrian Pound has reportedly plunged to the 103 range against the dollar at mid-day Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 in Damascus. This is a loss of over 100% since the beginning of the uprising. Over the last month, the pound has begun to weaken significantly which ha ...

mediagazer

  • Louis C.K. Drops Out Of Congressional Correspo ...
    The Huffington Post: Louis C.K. Drops Out Of Congressional Correspondents Dinner After Fox News Host Complains  —  Louis C.K. has dropped out of hosting the Radio & Television Congressional Correspondents dinner after Fox News host Greta Van Susteren threatened to not attend ...
  • Politico Planning Big Slate of Web Video Shows ...
    Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: Politico Planning Big Slate of Web Video Shows  —  WASHINGTON — Seeing an emerging playing field where Internet delivered video news will eventually be on par with cable, Politico will broadly expand its video programming this year, says Jim VandeHe ...
  • New York Times CEO Robinson's Exit Compensatio ...
    Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: New York Times CEO Robinson's Exit Compensation Package Tops $23 Million  —  Janet Robinson, the New York Times Co. chief executive officer who was pushed out in December, received an exit package, including stock options and retirement benefits, of more ...
  • Vevo redesigns to become MTV for the online ge ...
    Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: Vevo redesigns to become MTV for the online generation  —  Over the past two years, Vevo has become the default place to watch music online.  But, like many other streaming video providers, it had a problem: For users, the act of watching videos tends ...
  • Everything that converges must be workshopped: ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Everything that converges must be workshopped: New York media flees town for SXSW conference  —  Sultan Al Qassemi, the Dubai-based Arab affairs commentator who was one of a handful of online personas to make a name for themselves last year via the ...

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

  • Gingrich vows to stay in race even if he ...
    ELLISVILLE, Miss. — Spurning calls for him to get out, Newt Gingrich insisted Friday that he’ll stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination even if he loses two Southern primaries next week. “I think there’s a fair chance we’ll win,” the fo ...
  • Gingrich says new ABC show 'GCB' is anti- ...
    BETH FOUHY The Associated Press ENTERTAINMENT Emily Blunt loved her role in 'Devil Wears Prada' PhillyStage: Review: 'MESSIAH' - 7:59pm  Dick Van Dyke marries makeup artist at age 86 - 6:00pm  Dennis Quaid's 3rd wife files for divorce in Texas - 6:02pm Hautehouse Row: Those inappropriate, ...
  • Freezing K-Issue Not Acceptable: Malik
    Handwara, Mar 09: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Friday said that freezing Kashmir issue was not acceptable to the people of the state and without its solution no development was possible in the region. “The international community should stress upo ...
  • Over 3,000 Ghanaians Are Affected Annuall ...
    Dr. Charlotte Osafo, President of the Ghana Kidney Foundation, has indicated that over 3,000 Ghanaians develop chronic kidney disease each year with the majority falling within the youthful age brackets of 20-50 years. She said the disease is a silent killer since it may not have any symptom ...
  • Facebook 'friend' offer exposes man's oth ...
    SEATTLE — Facebook's automatic efforts to connect users through "friends" they may know recently led two Washington women to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time. More business news Hartsfield-Jackson begins planning for next 20 years Spanx founder Sara Blakely ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/28/12 - 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

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The QWERTY Effect
    How Typing May Shape the Meaning of Words Dave Mosher A keyboard’s arrangement could have a small but significant impact on how we perceive the meaning of words we type. Specifically, the QWERTY keyboard may gradually attach more positive meanings to words with more letters located on the right ...
  • Barefoot Versus Running Shoes
    Running in shoes takes less energy than running barefoot. The heavier your shoes are, the less efficiently you run. Running barefoot "offers no metabolic advantage over running in lightweight, cushioned shoes." Alex Hutchinson The topic is a very cool and thought-provoking new study, fro ...
  • Evolutionary Mystery of Female Orgasm
    David Barash Believe it or not, there may be a connection between the mating behavior of grizzly bears and the evolution of the human female orgasm … In his poem “Of the progress of the soul,” John Donne once eloquently described a young lady he admired (one Elizabeth Drury), by observing that “ ...
  • Night in Arzamas
    How Tolstoy’s obsession with mortality became a teachable moment. Jordan Smith In 1869, just after he finished War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy experienced a profound spiritual crisis as the result of an incident during a journey through the city of Arzamas, which is on the Tyosha River about 250 mile ...
  • WHICH IS THE BEST LANGUAGE TO LEARN?
    Once a mark of the cultured, language-learning is in retreat among English speakers. It’s never too late, but where to start? Robert Lane Greene launches our latest Big Question …   From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, March/April 2012 For language lovers, the facts are grim: Anglophones s ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Police brutality on youtube: with entertainmen ...
    The following videos were found during a casual youtube search which began with a story about a 20 year old girl in Florida who suffered severe brain damage as a result of being tasered in the back while handcuffed. These videos demonstrate over and over again the same pattern, with police off ...
  • How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scan ...
    This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). The scanners are now effectively worthl ...
  • Airport scanners: your freedom has flown
    Plans to introduce see-through scanners at airports don't allow you any choice, like frisking or pat-down as alternatives. The scanners are bad in principle, will cause delays and produce false positives, and they create a head-on assault on Australians' civil liberties. They are also a waste of ...
  • Airport body scanners lengthen queues as many ...
    Debra Jopson March 5, 2012 Two in five passengers who took part in a trial of airport body scanners, which are set to become compulsory in four months, had to submit to further searches after they triggered alarms. During seven weeks of trials at Sydney and Melbourne's internationa ...
  • Australian academics advocate killing unwanted ...
    Part 2 of Australian academics advocate killing unwanted babies

Beacon

  • Oceana Celebrates SeaBlue in Florida
    Martin Stepanek, Alexandra Cousteau, Wyland, Jim Simon. ©Oceana/Steven Shires After recently joining Oceana as a senior advisor, I traveled with the team to Fort Lauderdale last week where we hosted our first major South Florida event, SeaBlue. We had a great time and let me say, it was a hug ...
  • Stop the Sale of Manta Ray Leather
    Manta ray. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Manta rays are one of the most fascinating and unique ocean creatures. As the largest of all the rays, giant manta rays can reach up to 22 feet. But we have been shocked to discover that Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business-to-business commerce ...
  • Fish as a Lifeline for Filipinos
    Ayoke Island, Philippines. © Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is part 3 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. Ayoke Island may be the most idyllic place I’ve ever seen. It’s a small island in the northern part of Lanuza Bay covered with a riot of coconut and palm trees. The town ...
  • What BP Owes Americans
    This blog was originally posted on the Huffington Post. There has been a lot of news lately about whether BP will settle all of the legal claims against it stemming from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe two years ago, or whether the company will end up in court. As is typical of most thi ...
  • Leatherback Sea Turtle May Be CA’s Newest Symbol
    © NOAA Some fun news today: The Pacific leatherback sea turtle may soon join the California poppy, coast redwood, and grizzly bear as one of California’s official symbols. Assemblymember Paul Fong introduced legislation (Assembly Bill 1776) that would designate the Pacific leatherback a ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Hitler’s Flatulence.
      We know from films and excerpts from diaries of those around him that Hitler had Parkinson’s Disease. He had pain and tremors in his left arm.     We also know that he had severe gastrointestinal problems, most of which manifested as constipation, diarrhea and flatulence. The pr ...
  • The Mons Meg Super Cannon.
      This is the Mons Meg, a super cannon forged in the 15th century as a gift from Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy to the James II, King of Scotland. The history of this cannon is actually clouded and there are several competing stories about it. Some historians claim it was used to lay [...]
  • The First Super Weapon.
      It weighed almost 20 tons and was 17 feet long. Cast in bronze by Munir Ali, and brought to the Ottoman Turk Army in Constantinople by Urban, a 15th century Hungarian gunfounder, the gun was used to attack Byzantines who laid siege to the city. The Dardanelles Gun was partly responsible f ...
  • The Ikarus.
    Yugoslavia did not go gently into the Warsaw block. Marshal Tito demanded that Yugoslavia build its own industries and in aviation the Yugoslavs did quite well. Here we see a few examples of an aircraft that existed in about six prototype forms:     The Ikarus 451M Solja or “Wasp” pict ...
  • German World War II Propaganda Posters.
              Source: Lest We Forget

Taylor Marsh

  • Saturday Night at the Television Movies
    The first time I saw the trailer and heard “American Woman” I felt like I should get ready to go on the air again, because I used it as my intro back when I was dabbling in radio. It’s the lead-in for HBO’s “Game Change”, whose roll out has mimicked a Hollywoo ...
  • Nude Mama Caught in a Sandra Fluke Moment
    Amid Rush Limbaugh’s sexist rants and women rising up to let Republicans know they’ve gone to far, the Jessica Simpson April cover for Elle seems frivolous. When Demi Moore appeared on Vanity Fair it was a smash. This from Vanity Fair. A truly great magazine cover surprises, even sho ...
  • Culture Quakes: Turkey’s Soap, Historic Daytim ...
    “Here are the values that I stand for: I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. That’s what I stand for. Oh, also I believe in dance.” – Ellen DeGeneres Here it ...
  • More Bad News for Romney
    In yet another sign of a strengthening recovery, the United States added 227,000 net jobs in February, the third consecutive month of gains over 200,000. The unemployment rate was unchanged from 8.3 percent in January, the Labor Department reported Friday, as nearly a half million people who had ...
  • The Keystone Democrats
    “API supports the Senate approval of Amendment 1537 to authorize the building of the Keystone XL pipeline,” said a press release that landed in reporters’ inboxes at 4:50 p.m., about 30 minutes after the vote. The headline cheered: “Bipartisan Senate majority approves building Keystone XL pipeli ...

Hudson New York

  • Spain Facing Creeping Islamization
    A radical Islamic preacher in Spain has been arrested for calling on Muslims to use physical and psychological violence to "discipline" errant wives who refuse to submit to Islamic Sharia law or obey their husbands. Spanish public prosecutors say
  • Sharia Law, Secular Law and Rabbinical Courts
    The Archbishop of Canterbury in a speech in February 2008 inaugurated a controversial discussion on the existence and place of religious law and courts in Britain. His challenging premises were that adopting parts of Islamic sharia law into the British
  • Islam's Tradition of Breaking the Cross
    In the recent destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Benghazi, Libya (YouTube Video), you can see not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses. The radical Muslims who are kicking over and smashing headstones marked with crosses (and one
  • Turkey Seeks Parliamentary Authorization to Av ...
    Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has signaled that the government could seek permission from Parliament to deploy troops in Syria in the event of ongoing violence in the country escalating to the point where it will undermine Turkish national security.
  • The "Mother of All Letters"
    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deserves an award for being the best master of gimmicks in the Middle East. After his failed statehood bid at the UN Security Council and his unsuccessful attempts to end the power struggle between his Fatah

Urban Survival

  • Unemployment: Level for Now
    The unemployment rate didn’t improve in the current period, and this was in spite of the economy recording an additional 227-thousand news jobs.  Her’es how this somewhat unexpected outcome occurred: Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 227,000 in February, and the … Continu ...
  • Coping: As GlobalRev Be Happ’nin
    A long-time reader has caught our often-discussed GlobalRev in his headlights.., explain more articulately than I ever could in this email: Hi George, I’m sure you’ve read about it, but have you actually watched the full Kony video?  KONY 2012. … Continue reading →
  • The Still Cloudy Jobs Picture
    We note that yesterday’s numbers on jobs were pretty encouraging, but it’s not exactly summertime for job-seekers yet.  This morning we got the Challenger job report and while it was somewhat better (by three percent, or so) there are still … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the “Dead Americans” ...
    Since we last coffeed on Tuesday, there’s been a lot of discussion in such esteemed journals as the NY Times around when the government has the right to kill Americans without trial or due process. Granted, I’m not an attorney … Continue reading →
  • Rollover Week, Day II
    We are seeing gold hammered this morning, and although our linkage between gold and the Dow isn’t perfect, if you’ve been popping the ginko pills for your memory, you may recall the alchemical view that: “If gold goes down, the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Fracking in the Baldwin Hills
    Damon Nagami, Staff Attorney, Santa Monica The controversial drilling practice known as fracking has made its way to southern California. Last night, over 100 concerned citizens packed the meeting room at the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area Co ...
  • Title 24: Saving Homeowners Money, Reducing Po ...
    Jamy Bacchus, Staff Engineer, Energy Program, San Francisco Great news came from California recently when the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced that it will finalize energy efficiency standards for new and renovated buildings. As a result ...
  • EPA's Boiler Rule Spared: Good News for Health ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco News yesterday that a Collins amendment to the Transportation Bill failed a Senate vote should come as a relief to anyone concerned about babies’ health, as well as public health in general.  ...
  • Clean Air and Public Safety Triumph over Keyst ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City In a major victory for public health and the environment, the Senate defeated three dirty amendments on Thursday. One amendment would have forced the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline for tar san ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile A setback for the Castilla thermoelectric project in the Atacama region marked a victory for environmentalists as the Antofagasta Court accepted the appeal filed by environmental protecti ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry folks, it was a hectic day yesterday and I fell asleep before I could publish the day’s report. Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct I was able to track for this Thursday, March 8, 2012: New Orleans LA undercover cop under investigation after shooting unarmed man to death dur ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry these are in short format, but here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, March 7, 2012: Stow OH cop sued by 90lb diabetic girl punched in the stomach then tasered 2x on ground at traffic stop [4] bit.ly/zSVO1G Colum ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 6, 2012: Pittsburgh PA settles suit for $75k to teen beaten by cops who claim they mistook a soda bottle he had in his pocket for a gun. [1] bit.ly/xYaw6k Milford CT finalizes ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 5, 2012: Crestview FL police major faces slew of charges including excessive force, assault, soliciting sex in exchange for favors, racketeering & other charges, though the ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-03 ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 3-4, 2012: 5 Springfield MA cops are the subject of a lawsuit alleging that they beat a man for filming a violent arrest then arrested both him & his wife on false charge ...

Total Collapse

  • Iran to fire 11,000 missiles at US, Israel if ...
    The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon says his country has the capability to fire thousands of missiles at enemy bases in case of an attack against the Islamic Republic. Ghazanfar Roknabadi said Iran is keeping a watchful eye on the slightest possibility of a military threat, and would fire 11,000 m ...
  • US bunker-busters, aerial refueling for Israel ...
    American sources disclosed Tuesday March 6, that President Barack Obama had decided to let Israel have weapons systems suitable for long-range military operations and strikes against fortified underground targets. They include four KC-35 aerial refueling aircraft, doubling the number already in ...
  • Israeli spies oppose Iran war: Former US envoy
    Former US ambassador to Tel-Aviv says Israel’s intelligence agencies do not suggest a military strike on Iran, despite the fact that Israeli politicians push for it. “The really interesting thing about the Israeli situation is…that the heads of the three Israeli intelligence services do not seem ...
  • Eastern Libya declares autonomy
    Cyrenaica, the eastern region of Libya, has elected a regional congress and declared semi-autonomy from the capital Tripoli. The “blatant call for fragmentation” of the country was condemned by Libya’s ruling NTC. Thousands of major tribal leaders and militia commanders attended a celebrat ...
  • US Defense Secretary: US will take Military Ac ...
    US defense secretary Panetta says US will take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons if all else fails Source.

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Climate Spectator: Stifling a FiT Aussie solar ...
    Germany now has over 30 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic panels on its rooftops. The sheer scale of deployment means that over 4 per cent of the nation's electricity will come from rooftop solar power this year. This industrial-scale solar rollout, created by Germany's innovative policy support s ...
  • Cairns and Brisbane, QLD: Two-Speed Economy - ...
    Everyone has heard how good the mining industry is for Queensland but is this actually the case? The world’s largest coal mine is being developed 400km inland from Cairns, with a proposal to ship coal through the Whitsundays. There is no doubt that it will destroy existing jobs in tourism and a ...
  • Australian Climate Leadership - Volunteer Oppo ...
    Are you sick of hearing that “Australia is only a small part of the climate problem”, that “we shouldn’t act before the rest of the world”, and that “our actions won’t make any difference anyway”? BZE is challenging these excuses for inaction with a new report that aims to expose the true extent ...
  • Hans-Josef Fell at ANU
    German member of parliament Hans-Josef Fell, the key architect of the world's most successful renewable energy policies (feed-in tariffs) spoke at the Australian National University in Canberra last week. Below is a recording of his talk.  
  • 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 Austral ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Military called in to stop Cameroon elephant s ...
    Cameroon's military has been called in to Bouba Ndjida National Park to take on foreign poachers that have slaughtered hundreds of elephants for their ivory, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Reports vary, but between 200-480 elephants have been killed in recent weeks in the par ...
  • Solar cells cross new threshold
    Imagine powering your cell phone by leaving it on the window sill. Sounds like science fiction? Actually, this might soon turn into reality. Scientists have been exploring the potential of solar energy for decades. One of the cheapest ways to turn solar energy into electricity is by creating sol ...
  • Rally calls on Brazil President to veto new fo ...
    A coalition of 200 organizations, known as the Comitê Brasil in Defense of Forests and Sustainable Development, rallied today in Brasilia against proposed changes to Brazil's Forestry Code. The code, which was supposed to be voted on this week but has been delayed to shore up more support, ...
  • After illegal logging allegations, certifier l ...
    Less than a week after Greenpeace released evidence that protected tree species were being illegally logged and pulped at an Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) mill in Sumatra, a major certifier, the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), has lodged a complaint and asked for an inves ...
  • United Nations meets clean water goal
    Over the past two decades (1990-2010) over two billion people have received access to improved drinking water, bringing the current number of people worldwide who have access to better water up to 89 percent. This accomplishment meets the UN's Millennium Development Goal's (MDG) target of cuttin ...

Sierra Express

  • Ian Hughes blogs on International Women’s Day
    The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women … Travelling around Sierra Leone I am constantly impressed by the lively, intelligent and capable women that I meet. So it surprises me that so few of them contribute to the development of their commu ...
  • Afsatu Kabba plants women’s tree on Internatio ...
    One of Sierra Leone’s female politicians, Afsatu Kabba, Thursday 8th planted a tree signifying women’s empowerment and inspiration in observation of International Women’s Day. The ceremony held at the frontage of the Miata Conference Hall, Youyi Building, Freetown, saw hundreds of women sharing ...
  • The fight against corruption reaches Bandama c ...
    The ACC in Kenema on Thursday 9th March, 2012, held a successful community sensitization meeting with residents, Security Personnel and other Stakeholders of the Bandama Village court Barry in Kenema.   (Photo: DCO Blake handing over IECs) The crusade which was aimed at soliciting the support of ...
  • Big talk – Is that true, Hon. Robin Fallay?
    When I, the Big Talk man was told a member of parliament is being held in the smelly cells of the police on allegations of electoral malpractice, I was vexed but held my breathing anyway. I have since not said a word at all.  But why have I not spoke on the issue?  Fine question!  [...]
  • ENCISS trains CSOs on how to write winning budgets
    Training on budgeting for ENCISS project proposals will be held between 12th and 20th March 2012, in Freetown, Makeni, Kabala, Bo, Mattru, Kenema and Kailahun. This course is specially designed for NGO and CSO staff who are involved in the preparation of budgets to accompany ENCISS project fundi ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices dip but still at 'pretty good levels'
    International dairy prices continue to drop in Fonterra's online auction but are still at "pretty good levels" says BNZ economist Doug Steel.The average price for a basket of products in the latest online auction dropped 0.9 per...
  • Dairy prices fall at global auction
    Prices of dairy products fell for the third straight sale on the GlobalDairyTrade platform in a week in which China lowered its target for economic growth and figures confirmed Europe's economy contracted.The GDT-TWI Price Index...
  • Smaller investors sought for dairy farms
    The balance between the cost of buying a dairy farm and how much it can earn is the best that Pastoral Dairy Investments chairman Malcolm Bailey says he can remember.Pastoral Dairy Investments (PDI) is looking to raise a minimum...
  • Commodity prices hold steady in February
    The ANZ commodity price index of New Zealand exports was unchanged during February, with declines in some areas balanced by gains in others.Dairy prices in aggregate fell 1 per cent, seafood dropped 4 per cent and the price of skins...
  • 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 Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt to speak at “Practical F ...
    From Eastern Ontario Agri-News: PETERBOROUGH – A group of producers with a vision of a more hands-on farm organization is holding the first annual general meeting of the Practical Farmers of Ontario (PFO) at Trent University here Sat., March 31. … Continue reading →
  • Roundup killing food microorganisms?
    From Sayer Ji at Green Med Info.com: “Disturbing new research indicates that the microbial biodiversity of the soil and our food is being dramatically impacted by the use of herbicides like glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. Researchers … Continue rea ...
  • Vernon Herschberger interview, part 2
    Politics and Activism  by Raoul Bedi of the Vedic Harmony Centre (www.canadafoodsecurity.info) In the first interview published last week we focused briefly on Vernon’s background but mainly on his “Sources of inspiration and role models “. The same day the … Continue reading →
  • OSPCA raiding Amish farms in Ontario
    According to Michael Schmidt, 45 inspectors of the OSPCA raided 16 Amish farms in Huron County. No charges were laid. They found one dog with an ear infection, one puppy born the night before laying away from his mother, and tarter … Continue reading →
  • The Declaration of Food Independence
    From Kimberly Hartke on her Hartke is Online blog: “…Liz Reitzig served as emcee for the rally, and introduced Canadian dairy farmer Michael Schmidt who spoke to the crowd about how food rights and small farms were at risk all … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Another Plunge in 3-Month Rolling Average of P ...
    The following chart shows U.S. petroleum and gasoline usage for December-February compared with the same three months in prior years. Chart is courtesy of reader Tim Wallace. Note that petroleum usage is back to December 1995 thru February 1996 levels. Gasoline usage is back to December 200 ...
  • Greece "Credit Event" Triggers $3B in CDS Cont ...
    At long last the ISDA has agreed that Greece in in default, and that default constitutes a "credit event". Bloomberg reports Greece Deal Triggers $3B in Default Swaps. Greece’s use of collective action clauses forcing investors to take losses under the nation’s debt restructuring will ...
  • Euro Sell the News Round-Trip
    The following chart shows the silly rise in sentiment over the last two day that "Success at Gunpoint" actually meant something good. Euro 15-Minute Chart (2-Day Timeframe) click on chart for sharper image Following the announcement the deal would go through coupled with r ...
  • Nonfarm Payroll +227,000 ; Unemployment Rate S ...
    Quick Notes About the Unemployment Rate In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,584,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 1,569,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,014,000.   In February, the Civilian Labor Force rose by 476,000.   In February, thos ...
  • Prepare for Major Haircuts on Portuguese Debt
    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph says Legal skull-duggery in Greece may doom Portugal. I suggest that Portugal is doomed whether or not there is "Legal Skull-Duggery". However, it's perfectly fair to suggest that LSD will indeed make matters worse. From Pritchard ... Last mon ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our first Boiling Frogs Post DVD is now available!
    Truths about Boiling Frogs Post The first truth is what we do…We try to bring to our readers and subscribers the truth with our News and Editorial Round Ups, Investigative Video Reports, Podcast Interviews, Weekly Podcast Series, Editorials & Analyses by Independent and Nonpartisan Exp ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 9, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.” – ...
  • Economic Warfare & Strangling Sanctions: Punis ...
    Punishing the Population into Hunger The economic sanctions imposed upon Iran are having the desired effect of punishing the population through hunger and economic strangulation, making life miserable for the many. As tensions increase between the “international community” (the West) and Iran, t ...
  • Who is Ken, or Kenneth, Wainstein? Part II
    Banking on Washington Kenneth Wainstein earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1984, and went on to receive a law degree from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988.  He began working for the U.S. Justice Department in 1989 as an assistant U.S. attorney, with hi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 8, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.” — Adolf Hitler International Newsworthy Banks in Front Line of Nuclear Arms Campaign ...

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

  • Final Stage of Sea Trials Underway for the Lat ...
    GLASGOW –  DEFENDER, the fifth Type 45 destroyer built by BAE Systems, has today set sail from the company’s Scotstoun shipyard to embark on her second and final stage of [...]
  • Sinking of the RMS Titanic: 100-Year Anniversa ...
    - above: photo from a friend who sampled ICEBERG from Titanic Brewery in England - As we approach the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, your [...]
  • Fighting Shipboard Fires with Artificial Intel ...
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    Hundreds of questionable votes were cast in Eglington Lawrence Riding in Toronto.
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    Ok just forget how crazy the question sounds.  The recent wrangling between Ontario and Alberta over the value of the Canadian dollar, oil output and the decline of manufacturing in Ontario (and other provinces east of Ontario) raises some reasonable … Continue reading →
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    Stiglitz prefaced his 2001 Memorial Prize Lecture with a clear explanation of what motivated his study in economics: When I began the study of economics some forty one years ago, I was struck by the incongruity between the models that … Continue reading →
  • Tories to social conservatives...thanks for th ...
    Members of Canada's socially conservative religious right fraternity must be looking on Harper government like the insurance salesman who attends church to drum up business.  I mean sure he's on the membership role and tosses his cheque in the plate every week. ...

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

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    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • 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 ...
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    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 ...

Dissident Voice

  • Anthems, Indoctrination, and Violence
    The basic sentiment expressed in Uri Avnery’s latest article, “A Jewish Soul,” is humanistic, but in some parts it is puzzling. For instance, when Avnery writes of “our [Israeli] hope to be a free people in ‘our’ land has already been fulfilled.” Since Avnery is one of the Jews who partakes in s ...
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    Last April 20 the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published an on-line article entitled “Short-term and Long-term Health Risks of Nuclear-Power-Plant Accidents” by Dr. Eli Glatstein and five other authors. The article was riddled with distortions and misinformation, and overal ...
  • Rush Limbaugh Is No Joke
    If ten or twelve Hungarian writers had been shot at the right moment, there would have been no revolt. — Nikita Khruschev, 1956 It’s disappointing to hear people (liberals, progressives, Democrats) dismiss Rush Limbaugh as simply a “clown,” or a “blowhard,” or “an idiot,” or, more thoughtfully, ...
  • The Bloody Road to Damascus
    There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peaceful opposition. The ...
  • Why Putin Is Driving Washington Nuts
    Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington’s top bogeyman — and also for its rogue North Atlantic Treaty O ...

Destructionist

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    Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing protest in the States.
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    Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as the “Trespassing Bill,” is soon to be signed into law by President Obama. This bill effectively criminalizes protest and will hurt protest groups and movements such as Occupy quite hard. The bill as states that an ...
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    The Virginia Senate has passed a law that forbids authorities in the state from using the ‘indefinite detention’ provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act against Americans, but whether or not Governor Bob McDonnell will sign it remains to be seen given the fact that he is a member of ...
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    Reblogged from Political Vel Craft: Yesterday Rep. Walter Jones, republican of North Carolina, introduced H. Concurrent Resolution 107, which calls on the House, the Senate Concurring, to do the following: “IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 7, 2012 Mr. JONES submitted the following concurren ...
  • Coup D’état: Pentagon & Obama Declare Congress ...
    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony asserting that the United Nations and NATO have supreme authority over the actions of the United States military, words which effectively declare Congress a ceremonial relic, have prompted Congressman Walter Jones to introduce a resolution that re-affir ...

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    ElectroIQ
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    Adam Putnam's Renewable-Energy Bill Passes
    Sunshine State News
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    The Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy held a hearing Thursday on Jones's bill (H 3767) that would require power companies to routinely solicit bids for renewable energy contracts to satisfy renewable energy requirements specified by ...
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    The Rick Santorum Ecology Quiz
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    Country Ecology: Canada lynx
    Conway Daily Sun
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    Cougar Ecology and Verification Workshop at Audubon Conservation Education Center
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    A cold water plunge for Special Olympics [12:41 am]
    Farmington Daily Times
    Before they had even entered the water potential plungers were shivering slightly. To raise money for the Special Olympics, local law enforcement personnel gathered at the Farmington Recreation Center on Saturday morning in 40 degree weather for the ...
    Ship runs aground off Norway's coast, film of oil on water
    USA TODAY
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