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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, March 10, 2012

10 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: ‘Returning to Burma is OK, Not for ...
    When he returned home after over two decades as a political exile, Aung Zaw, a prominent figure among Burma's exiled media community, was served a slice of truth by the country's notorious censorship board.
  • Palestinian Children Inherit Political Separation
    For Taiseer Khatib and his wife Lana, the most difficult aspect of Israel's policy of forced family separation is the impact it is having on their children. "Our children are paying the price psychologically. We are trying to protect them, but they have a good sense of what's going on and ...
  • Q&A: Group Founded by Rape Survivors Lifts Up ...
    In Haitian refugee camps, women are still crammed under plastic or cloth tarps that provide no security and quickly become overheated by the sun. Sexual abuse, harassment, assault and rape run rampant, even as political responses to these dangers have stalled. But KOFAVIV, a women's organi ...
  • Democratic Blow to India's Ruling Dynasty
    India's premier political dynasty - the Nehru Gandhi clan - has failed to charm voters in elections held across five states in the country, including the key Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh.
  • Burma's Armed Ethnic Minorities Present Agenda ...
    "Our past experiences have demonstrated that a mere ceasefire agreement will not result in the durable peace that we have long sought. Political peace is the only way forward."

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • It's time to take to the streets to stop Weste ...
    Summary: Nato bombardment does not bring peace, human rights, democracy or justice. It is the advance guard for commercial interests seeking to exploit natural resources. Political change comes from popular movements and respect for the rights and diversities of all communities. It's time onc ...
  • U.S. Sanctions as a Tool of War: The Case ...
    Summary: New York Forum: Sat. March 10, 2012 Time: 6 – 9 PM Place: Grace & St. Paul's Church, 123 W. 71 St. , NYC 10023 source: CASMIIread more
  • Iran’s IAEA envoy says war threats violate UN ...
    Summary: Iran says the excessive warmongering rhetoric against the country and threats of a military strike on its nuclear facilities are in breach of the UN Charter and the International Atomic Energy Agency’s statute, Press TV reports. source: Press TVread more
  • IAEA Should Investigate November 2011 Report o ...
    Summary: When a country goes to war, as the U.S. did in 2003 with disastrous results, there should be some lessons learned on the table. It would appear there are no lessons learned being used in the current hysteria. The most important is peer review. The accusations leveled against Iraq in ...
  • Demanding Intrusive Inspections While Threatening
    Summary: Contrary to inaccurate and biased US media reports, Iran is in fact in full compliance of its obligations under the IAEA’s Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Even the latest IAEA report cannot deny this fact, but the US media, in a misleading effort, insists on reporting only those are ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Comment of the Day: "Our Universe is Merely a ...
    "We can only observe the space that our universe's matter has expanded into, and I think that many more trillions of galaxies sit beyond the furthest redshift object yet discovered. Space itself, or the dark matter it consists of, is...
  • Today's Hot Tech News Top Right from IDG --Pub ...
    'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by our major sponsor, IDG News Service. We hope you enjoy their video presentation, above right,...
  • The Cosmic "Life-Distribution Kit" --New NASA ...
    Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich – you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to make...
  • "Some Primordial Black Holes Have Existed Befo ...
    In recent years, cosmologists have begun to think seriously about processes that occurred before the Big Bang. Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University and Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London, published a paper in 2011, where they theorized...
  • The First Planets Discovered Orbiting a Neutro ...
    In 1991, radio signals from the pulsar PSR B1257+12 in the constellation Virgo led Penn State professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Alexander Wolszczan to the discovery of the first planets ever known outside our solar system. Wolszczan used the worlds...

Natural News

  • APEC had no aloha spirit (opinion)
    (NaturalNews)Oahu residents were groaning under the impact of the Asia-pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference. Parks and beaches were inaccessible or closed, roads were blocked unexpectedly and even the freeway shut down. Waikiki was under martial law conditions, with...
  • Texas doctor accused of largest Medicare, Medi ...
    Medicare and Medicaid, the two largest government-run health care programs that cover health services for elderly, disabled, and low-income individuals, cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year just in fraudulent claims. And an ongoing crackdown on such fraud...
  • The role of polyunsaturated fatty acids in neu ...
    Excitotoxicity, oxidative stress and inflammation are core processes that play leading roles in neurodegenerative diseases. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) methodically contribute to and impair the cells' defensive mechanisms against these destructive processes,...
  • How services like Netflix (in moderation) coul ...
    The days of Saturday morning cartoons are long gone. Today, kids can watch cartoons and other children's programming on a variety of channels anytime they turn on the TV. Parents would do well to keep a close eye on not only what and how much their children are watching...
  • Toxic China: Widespread lead pollution is pois ...
    Though set to become the world leader in manufacturing within the next few years, China has one of the worst track records for rampant environmental pollution with industrial materials and chemicals. And a recent report out of the town of Dongtang, which is located in...

Threat Level

  • Teen Exploits Three Zero-Day Vulns for $60K Wi ...
    A teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie pokes a hole in Google's Chrome browser, an unlikely winner who's taking home $60K and a possible job at the search giant.
  • How to Pwn the Pwn2Own Contest
    Finding zero-day exploits to win a hacking contest can be really hard work these days. So sometimes the better strategy is just to game the game.
  • Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy
    Just in case you haven't seen the memo: Drones are coming to a city near you. Why now? Under a fresh mandate from Congress, the FAA will begin to relax its restrictions around the domestic use of "unmanned aerial systems," leading to greater use of drones by public agencies and, eventually, the ...
  • Chrome Owned by Exploits in Hacker Contests, B ...
    A $1 million purse that Google has offered to hackers who can produce zero-day exploits against its Chrome browser appears to be safe after the first day of its three-day Pwnium hacking contest, which yielded just one contestant and one successful zero-day attack.
  • Occupy Rolls Out Its Most Subversive Tech: A M ...
    It’s not often that something new for cultural alarmists to fret over just rolls up, all flashing and beeping. But here it comes: the homebrew Occupy arcade game on wheels. If conservatives are worried about video games encouraging violence, imagine how they'll react to an itinerant amusement de ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Threaten the "Doctor-Patient Relat ...
    For two decades, Republicans opponents of health care reform have turned to a tried if untrue talking point. In 1994, GOP strategist Bill Kristol warned that "the Clinton Plan is damaging to the quality of American medicine and to the relationship between the patient and the doctor." Twelve ye ...
  • Expanding Catholic Hospitals Put Reproductive ...
    For the last several weeks, all eyes have been focused on the high-profile clash between Catholic bishops (if not their parishioners) and the Obama administration over mandated insurance coverage for contraception at their non-church institutions. But in cities and towns across the country, a s ...
  • Romney Admits He Has No "Bold" New Tax Plan
    Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney unveiled what he has repeatedly deemed a "bold" plan to deliver a 20 percent across the board tax cut. As it turns out, the plan isn't so bold after all. For starters, it's largely a retread of the 15 percent tax cut scheme Bob Dole rode to defeat in 1996. And after ...
  • Ronald Romney Forgets Iran-Contra
    For the second time in four months, Mitt Romney has penned a tough-talking op-ed on the Iranian nuclear program. But this time, the almost certain GOP presidential nominee has introduced a new riff to his constant refrain that "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If yo ...
  • Conservatives Silent About Romney-Alinsky Link
    Barack Obama was 10 years old when legendary activist and organizer Saul Alinsky died in 1972. Nevertheless, right-wingers are frothing at the mouth at the discovery posthumously unearthed by the late Andrew Breitbart that then Illinois State Senator Obama was part of panel discussion after a 1 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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    Info About Formal Dresses There are numerous times when one has to attend a formal event or gathering that requires all the guests to wear formal attire. There are many different kinds of Formal Dresses that are suitable for different occasions. Each of the occasions is different in nature and h ...
  • The U.S. Is Becoming a Friendlier Place for Ga ...
    Even in the states where same-sex marriage is legal, same-sex spouses of U.S. citizens are not eligible for green cards because of the Defense of Marriage Act.
  • 'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed': Le ...
    Latin American leaders are increasingly speaking out against prohibition. And public opinion in America, especially when it comes to legalizing pot, is shifting very rapidly.
  • Movie Theater Snack Scam: Can We Take on Theat ...
    Finally, one man is going up against corporate theaters for excessive concession stand mark-up.
  • Race-Baiting: The Attack on Black Intellectuals
    Some political operatives work to divide us, and since the U.S. elected its first black president, have worked feverishly to stoke fear in the hearts of white Americans.

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • 4th Warmest US Winter on Record — Thank You, “ ...
      No surprise here — the U.S. is just wrapping up its 4th-warmest winter on record (at least, for the 48 contiguous states that NOAA focuses on). In addition to the near-record warmth, it was also drier than average, especially in the West and Southwest. The average temperature acros ...
  • Kiribati Residents Moving to Fiji because of S ...
    The effects of global warming have been known for a long time. We have been warned. Unfortunately, we have largely ignored the warnings. As a result, we are starting to see the effects around the world. The first effect mentioned on that post linked above is ‘sea level rise’. It&#82 ...
  • New Sim City Adds Climate Change
      Sim City, one of my favorite games as a child (perhaps one of the reasons I ended up getting a master’s degree in city planning), is now adding in the important factor of climate change. Watch out, this might be a hard game to survive in! In complete seriousness, the challenges [. ...
  • Top US Climate Scientist, Head of NASA Institu ...
      Some more key quotes from top NASA climate scientist, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen from the video posted below: “It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” “Global warming is already aff ...
  • Climate Ride 2012, Join In!
      One of my favorite activism events: tons of people get together to ride their bicycles along the East or West coast to raise awareness about climate change, raise awareness about one of its best solutions — bicycling, and raise money for organizations promoting global warming and e ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Palestine is Still the Issue - Palestine
    Editorial comment: This video was first published in 2006, but has been republished and is quite as relevant today as it was six years ago. -SON John Pilger made the film 'Palestine Is Still The Issue' in 1977. It told how almost a million Palestinians had bee ...
  • Syria: The Western Deception Over Regime Chang ...
    The Western governments' and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it is the Western powers and their Israeli and Arab henchmen who a ...
  • Pentagon prepares war plans for Syria - World News
    9 March 2012 In testimony before a Senate committee Wednesday, the Pentagon’s civilian and uniformed chiefs confirmed that they are drawing up war plans against Syria at the request of the Obama White House. The statements by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ...
  • Speculating on hunger - Poverty/World Hunger
    How to control global food commodity trading Financial speculators invested in food futures even before the great crash of 2008, driving up food prices to dangerous levels. This can and must be stopped. The asphalt road was straight and monotonous. ...
  • new essay by petras - China: Rise, Fall and Re ...
    Introduction The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this period provides an abundan ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Killing in ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by tachpense on Dec 23, 2009
  • Have I mentioned lately how much I love The La ...
    By @BGinKC The vicious polarization that has divided our country over the last thirty years has a direct correllation with the rise of right-wing talk radio. It was couched in "free market" terminology...Liberalism would have to compete in the marketplace of ideas, they said. Ronald Reagan reali ...
  • "Investing in a Clean Energy Future"
    By @KYYellowDog You know the facts and you say the right thing, Mr. President, but your drill-baby-drill policies are doing the opposite. Full transcript here.
  • Why Are We Paying These People Again?
    By @KYYellowDog No one begrudges Kentucky state senators a day off to watch the University of Kentucky Wildcats play in the SEC tournament, which began Friday afternoon. What is unforgivable is senators cobbling together a quorum for a fake session just so they can get their $300 daily pay. For ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD Holy hell, the badass-goombah routine is getting old. The day ended in "y" so you know that the Jersey Jackass thundered at a constituent with concerns that he's an "idiot" or maybe he'll make an oral sex reference if it's a female. This time, it happened to be a former SEAL he call ...

Care 2

  • Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue S ...
    There's only one way to demonstrate who America's producers and parasites really are. It's time to go Galt. It's now well-understood that blue states generally export money to the federal government; and red states generally import it. Submitted by Lynn Squance to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse
    Author and social critic Morris Berman says the fact that we're a nation of hustlers lies at the root of our decline. Several years after the Wall Street-ignited crisis began, the nations top bank CEOs (who far out-accumulated their European and . . . Submitted by Lynn Squance to Business ...
  • South Africa: Greyhound racing gets go ahead f ...
    Members of Parliament have proposed that greyhound racing be legalised. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Italian police break up international paedophi ...
    Some good news on Woman´s day. Italian police have broken up a paedophile network, spanning at least 28 countries, that used social media to swap pornographic images and videos of child abuse. Submitted by Xil L. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Keystone oil pipeline bill fails in Senate
    enate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline in a vote that will give Republicans more ammunition to criticize President Barack Obama's energy policies on the campaign trail. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |& ...

Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • Friday Night Frights * Open Thread
    I was just casually reading a post I wrote years ago after Byron York attacked Larry Johnson. Given Larry’s “Going to War With Iran?,” I’m posting a relevant segment. One of the names will turn you off. Screw that. What matters is not who said it but that it had to be sai ...
  • The Radio and Television Correspondents Hypocr ...
    You might think that, with all the endless laments about the nasty slurs by Rush Limbaugh, the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner would be a bitty-bit sensitive about issues like sexism. You would be wrong.  This year the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner will ...
  • Going to War in Iran?
    Odds are high, very high, that we will be drug into a war with Iran within the next four to five months. There is only one bit of good news from this–it will mean the end of the Obama Presidency. Obama and team are terrified by the prospect of Netanyahu and his cronies launching an [...]
  • 9.1 Open Thread
    NINE POINT ONE. 9.1. Uh, wasn’t unemployment just in the 8 range? Weren’t Obama and crew sporting swaggers, certain they will crush the GOP in November? Well, that only works if one depends on crossing one’s fingers. Especially if one blows three years of a presidency, particul ...
  • Dinner Table Conversation Not
    Bronwyn’s Note: I enjoy John’s writings very much, but am baffled by this short post bereft of explanations. Apologies to John, but I just had to get my two cents in. A confounding question asked me several months back by a veteran political wag: When President Obama and Governor Rom ...

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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Governor Curiously Silent on Tennessee Mountai ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Governor Curiously Silent on Tennessee Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Tennessee is headed toward a historic state Senate decision on whether to ban mountaintop removal mining. Passing the Scenic Vistas Protection Act* would m ...
  • Man of Action - Philadelphia Citypaper
    Man of Action Philadelphia Citypaper After all, Lakey — an activist, Swarthmore peace-studies professor and civil-disobedience trainer who, at age 74, is about to walk across Pennsylvania to protest PNC Bank's financing of mountaintop-removal coal mining — has a bio that reads like a ... ...
  • Battle against invasion - Northern Rivers Echo
    Battle against invasion Northern Rivers Echo Michael O'Connell made Mountain Top Removal in 2007. It explores the effect that mountain top removal mining in West Virginia had on local communities. "Michael was very dedicated to the idea. When he landed in Brisbane he drove a thousand ki ...
  • Virginia Regulators Fail To Notify Public On M ...
    WAMU Virginia Regulators Fail To Notify Public On Mountaintop Removal WAMU Some environmental advocates say regulators in Virginia are issuing permits for mountaintop removal without sufficient public notice. The Sierra Club, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards and Appalachian Mountain Advoca ...
  • Kathy Mattea and Barbara Kingsolver Team Up to ...
    Kathy Mattea and Barbara Kingsolver Team Up to Protest Mountaintop-Removal Mining Knoxville Metro Pulse By Cari Wade Gervin Coal Power: Kathy Mattea has morphed from superstar country singer to an environmental activist fighting mountaintop removal coal mining. “I've never really thought of ...

Memeorandum

  • Report: Some papers won't be running next week ...
    Jim Romenesko: Report: Some papers won't be running next week's ‘Doonesbury’ strips  —  I asked around and was told that the Oregonian and Dallas Morning News are among the papers that have discussed pulling the strips.  (I've left messages with editors at both ...
  • The Frontrunner and His Rivals - This post-Sup ...
    Ross Douthat: The Frontrunner and His Rivals  —  This post-Super Tuesday analysis from NBC's First Read embodies everything I find exhausting and frustrating about the horse-race coverage of the Republican primary: … Or maybe the race “isn't over” because the ...
  • Gov. Dalrymple: Obama is 'killing energy devel ...
    Andrew Restuccia / The Hill: Gov. Dalrymple: Obama is ‘killing energy development’  —  North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) called on Congress to quickly pass legislation to green-light the Keystone XL oil pipeline, arguing that the Obama administration is “kil ...
  • Buffett's NetJets Countersued by U.S. for Unpa ...
    Andrew Harris / Bloomberg: Buffett's NetJets Countersued by U.S. for Unpaid Taxes  —  NetJets Inc., the private-plane company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A), was countersued by the U.S. over $366 million in taxes and penalties.  —  NetJ ...
  • Louis C.K. drops correspondents' dinner after ...
    Patrick Kevin Day / Show Tracker: Louis C.K. drops correspondents' dinner after conservative outcry  —  Louis C.K. has pulled out as host of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Assn. Dinner following conservative complaints about the comedian's past comments about Sarah Pal ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Fighting India’s mega-dams
    Popular protests against the construction of a vast network of dams in the Brahmaputra valley have gathered impressive momentum. Tanmoy Sharma reports from Assam.In demonstrations barely reported in the media, people in the north-east Indian state of Assam have been fighting for several years ag ...
  • Design tips for a carbon market
    China is planning emission-trading trials in key spots including Beijing and Shanghai. Alvin Lin and Yang Fuqiang have some words of advice.China’s decision to launch a group of city and provincial-level carbon-trading trials is widely considered to be preparation for an absolute cap on em ...
  • Full circle for bikes in Beijing?
    Shannon Bufton promotes two-wheeled travel as an aspirational pastime. New Chinese riders are as interested in bicycles as cool objects as they are in where cycling can take them, he tells Olivia Boyd.Australian bike enthusiast Shannon Bufton is the founder of Smarter Than Car, an NGO that promo ...
  • How China can decarbonise by 2050
    China needs a long-term emissions reduction goal. Ajay Gambhir introduces one such target and how the country could reach it.The recent “breakthrough” at UN-led climate negotiations at Durban, in South Africa, involved all countries, developed and developing, for the first time agree ...
  • Sham victory for China’s pandas
    Progress breeding giant pandas in captivity masks a conservation failure: the species’ natural habitat is vanishing, writes Wang Dajun.Images of a dozen or more baby pandas being shown off to the public by researchers or reserve staff is a common sight in the media these days, giving the i ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Would the Kochs rather attack me than stop can ...
    My filmmaking team and I recently told the story of the small town of Crossett, Arkansas, where residents are giving powerful testimony about the prevalence of cancer in their community and linking it to a nearby chemical plant owned by Charles and David Koch. This revelation came on top of the ...
  • Health Insurance Coverage a Courtesy? No, It&# ...
    Written by Vyckie Garrison for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.This article is written by No Longer Quivering guest writer, “Sierra,” a PhD student living in the Midwest. S ...
  • The Jeb Scenario: Can You Say “Presiden ...
    By Russ Baker on Feb 29, 2012 originally posted on WhoWhatWhy.comMore and more GOP politicians are realizing their party has a big problem. What once seemed a great idea—a drawn-out Republican Primary slugfest intended to take the limelight from President Obama—may have only served ...
  • Who, Me? Limbaugh Regrets Not Slurring America ...
    Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. After spending three days on his radio show calling Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified in front of Congress abou ...
  • Three reasons why religious right groups are b ...
    To hear religious right groups (i.e. the Family Research Council, the National Organization for Marriage, the American Family Association, etc.), they are unfairly attacked because they are standing up for the so-called Biblical view that homosexuality is a sin. Of course this is a lie and I ...

Threat Level

  • Teen Exploits Three Zero-Day Vulns for $60K Wi ...
    A teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie pokes a hole in Google's Chrome browser, an unlikely winner who's taking home $60K and a possible job at the search giant.
  • How to Pwn the Pwn2Own Contest
    Finding zero-day exploits to win a hacking contest can be really hard work these days. So sometimes the better strategy is just to game the game.
  • Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy
    Just in case you haven't seen the memo: Drones are coming to a city near you. Why now? Under a fresh mandate from Congress, the FAA will begin to relax its restrictions around the domestic use of "unmanned aerial systems," leading to greater use of drones by public agencies and, eventually, the ...
  • Chrome Owned by Exploits in Hacker Contests, B ...
    A $1 million purse that Google has offered to hackers who can produce zero-day exploits against its Chrome browser appears to be safe after the first day of its three-day Pwnium hacking contest, which yielded just one contestant and one successful zero-day attack.
  • Occupy Rolls Out Its Most Subversive Tech: A M ...
    It’s not often that something new for cultural alarmists to fret over just rolls up, all flashing and beeping. But here it comes: the homebrew Occupy arcade game on wheels. If conservatives are worried about video games encouraging violence, imagine how they'll react to an itinerant amusement de ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Outbreak of E. coli O26 Infections Linked to R ...
    A total of 25 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from 8 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Michigan (9), Arkansas (1), Ohio (3), and Wisconsin (1). Six ill persons have ...
  • Vibrio fulvialsis Death Linked to Martin's Sup ...
    The St. Joseph County Health Department is investigating the death of a South Bend Indiana man related to recently recalled shrimp from Martin's Super Markets. On February 17, Memorial Hospital alerted the county health department it had a patient with Vibrio fulvialsis. Vibrio fulvialsis is f ...
  • Food Safety Lawyer Bill Marler On Sprouts, Raw ...
    By Blisstree’s Hanna Brooks Olsen: Based on the cases he’s tried and the amount of blogging he’s done on the subject, it’s amazing that Seattle-based food safety lawyer Bill Marler can eat anything he hasn’t grown or raised himself. But instead of being repu ...
  • They need to hear our stories - A Broken Syste ...
    Over the weekend I penned for Food Safety News, “Excluding Consumers a Bad Idea.” It was based upon reports that the cantaloupe industry was planning a series of meeting across the United States to develop a “new cantaloupe guidance document.” The report also made it cle ...
  • Why Some People in Michigan Drink Raw Milk - V ...
    Apparently today all charges were dismissed against Vernon Hershberger of Loganville, Wisconsin, who leases his cows to a "food buyers club," and had been charged with operating a retail food establishment without a license, operating a dairy farm as a milk producer without a license, operating ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Fisker Karma owned by Consumer Rep ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Like pretty much any driver, we've had our share of car trouble over the years, both with vehicles loaned to us for review by automakers and our own private rides. What we haven't experienced is being the first media outlet to plunk down over $100 ...
  • Geneva: Valmet Dawn gets its Tron on in Geneva
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Electric There are a lot of ways to describe the Valmet Dawn you see pictured above, but our favorite could be mouthed by Keanu Reeves: Whoa. And then we would expand it to WTF? As in, "Whoa the F?" That's because Valmet Automotive - the makers ...
  • Report: White House annouces $4.7B effort for ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Electric It's a big week for compressed natural gas vehicles, thanks to President Obama's announcement today that his administration wants to increase federal support for CNG automobiles by introducing a tax credit similar to the one in place for plug-in vehicle ...
  • Geneva: Volkswagen introduces four new Up! con ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Volkswagen Swiss. Winter. X. Cargo. Those are the names of the four new Up! models that Volkswagen has brought to the Geneva Motor Show, the latest expansion of the supermini that by now has more personalities than the United States ...
  • Report: GM shutting down Chevy Volt production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Even with the new HOV-eligible 2012 Chevrolet Volt models heading to California and sales up in February, General Motors has reportedly decided to shut down production of the plug-in hybrid for ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • "The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout"
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Super Tuesday demonstrated the rancor rife in Republican ranks, as the four remaining major candidates slug it out to see how far to the right of President Barack Obama they can go. While attacking him daily for the high cost of gasoline, both sides are tra ...
  • Read an Excerpt from Anthony Shadid's New Memo ...
    On Thursday, we will interview reporter, Nada Bakri, wife of recently deceased, New York Times foreign correspondent, Anthony Shadid. Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the conflict in Syria. His newly published memoir, "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a ...
  • Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for obtaining more than 5 milli ...
  • Redefining Black Power: Pacifica Archives & Ci ...
    In this web exclusive interview, Amy Goodman interviews Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, a new which was inspired by historic recordings preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. She also speaks with Archives directo ...
  • Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Wins Iz ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous , along with the Center for Media and Democracy, are co-winners of this year’s Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media . The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F. Stone’s ...

Suzie-Q

  • Sarah Palin Says President Obama Wants America ...
    March 9, 2012 Addicting Info-  By Stephen D. Foster Jr. During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity that President Obama wants America to be as it is was before the Civil War. This comment was part of an overall conservation about the not-so controversial “secret ...
  • Tom Hanks Narrates Pro-Obama Film, Trailer Rel ...
    The Huffington Post | By Sam Stein Posted: 03/ 8/2012  8:50 am Updated: 03/ 8/2012 12:10 pm The Obama campaign on Thursday morning released the trailer for the 17-minute-long infomercial/biopic that it will unveil later this month. The trailer doesn’t reveal much, save that the film & ...
  • Obama to Romney: Make Your Case For War With I ...
    March 07, 2012 05:00 PM Crooks and Liars- By karoli Mitt Romney’s pathetic efforts to stain the President’s track record when it comes to foreign policy ring hollow and are actually dangerous, or could be. During his news conference yesterday, President Obama addressed Mitt Romney&#8 ...
  • Evening Jukebox: White Wedding (VIDEO)
  • Obama News Conference: President Holds First F ...
    By JIM KUHNHENN 03/ 6/12 11:00 AM ETAssociated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is aiming mortgage relief at members of the military as well as homeowners with government-insured loans, the administration’s latest efforts to address a persistent housing crisis. In his first ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
  • A Solar Storm Is A Bad Omen For Stocks
    [click on the image for a larger version] By Sam Ro Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Space Weather Alerts and Warnings Timeline NOAA /Space Weather Prediction Center
  • USDA to Give Speedy Approval to New GE Crops
    By Jenna Blumenfeld Lately it seems like non-GMO supporters simply can’t catch a break. In the wake of an unsuccessful lawsuit between the Organic Seed Growers and Monsanto Co., and news that BASF—the largest chemical company in the world—will be relocating it’s biotech plant headquarters to t ...
  • Quotation of the Day
    “It’s a little late in the game to worry about anticorruption measures because what in the world is the alternative going to be? If you find people who aren’t corrupt it is largely because they haven’t had the opportunity.” ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN, a defense expert at ...
  • Transcript of Catherine’s Solari Report ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s March 1, 2012 Solari Report on “Living in Faith” is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Our theme tonight is on Faith – Living in Faith. I wanted to quote Hebrews 11:1, “Now Faith is the substance o ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The hidden dynamics of the 2012 campaign, and ...
    Summary:  John Robb’s open source insurgency nicely describes the quiet coup underway in America.  Like-minded rich people work together, and finance others to help them.  The 2012 election shows several of the mechanisms by which they’re doing so.  Solidarity works for them. Content ...
  • Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. O ...
    Summary:  Sharks often use the ”bump and bite” attack:  The shark tests its prey by repeatedly bumping it.  If the prey gives no dangerous response, the shark begins its attack — biting the prey repeatedly and viciously.  It works for sharks, as it has worked for our leaders.  ...
  • Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. O ...
    Summary:  Sharks often use the ”bump and bite” attack:  The shark tests its prey by repeatedly bumping it.  If the prey gives no dangerous response, the shark begins its attack — biting the prey repeatedly and viciously.  It works for sharks, as it has worked for our leaders.  ...
  • Preparing for the Evacuation of Israel
    Summary:  This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun.  They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow ...
  • Preparing for the Evacuation of Israel
    Summary:  This article by guest author Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) looks ahead beyond Israel’s current moment in the sun.  They face a divided Arab people and even more fragmented Islamic societies, which they overawe by their massive military strength — exercised in the shadow ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • KONY 2012: Bandwagon Empowerment
    Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" campaign provides many of us professors with a unique opportunity to address and learn how students respond to such campaigns and engage with human rights issues. College is an opportunity for students to feel empowered by activism and knowledge that we partly pr ...
  • Why Wars Are Won
    Last week's column explored the questions of why wars start and why wars are lost. Flawed assumptions, miscalculations and misperceptions, ideologically driven assertions and the failure to examine potential consequences are among the better explanations. However, there is a flip side. Greater u ...
  • Why the Middle East and North Africa Incentive ...
    Last month, the Obama administration released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013, which starts on 1 October 2012. Among the many tidbits buried in that document is a proposal to establish a new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Incentive Fund, to be managed by the Department of State and ...
  • The Culture War Over Afghan Women: The Bad News
    The culture war over Afghan women is heating up. Just over ten years have passed since the international community intervened in Afghanistan to overthrow the notoriously misogynist Taliban regime, and Afghan women are again at the center of a volatile national debate over whether basic rights an ...
  • What's Up with All the MEK Ads?
    If you’ve been watching cable news lately, there’s a good chance that you’ve noticed some out-of-the-ordinary adverts. Namely, a 30-second spot done in the grainy style of a spy-thriller flashback calling for the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group, to be taken off the official ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Strange Doings in Dixie
      “Things, strange things, are happening to me,” Mitt Romney told folks in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Thursday evening. Hanging out with his personal aide, Mississippi native Garrett Jackson, as he stumps through the Deep South is “turning me into, I don’t know, an unofficial Southerner,” he s ...
  • State of the Week
    This week's State of the Week is ... Florida! After weeks of controversy, the Florida Senate killed a "parent trigger" bill on Friday, the last day of the legislative session. The measure would have allowed parents with children in a failing school to convert it into a charter school or firing ...
  • What if Huckabee Had Run?
    Should Barack Obama win reelection this fall, the 2012 Republican campaign might be remembered as much for those who decided to remain on the sidelines and leave a feeble frontrunner unchallenged as for the party's actual nominee. Even though Mitt Romney has held onto his place as the only cand ...
  • Moms Behaving Badly
    I hate these stories. A couple in love decides to start a family. They do. Their bond cracks under the strain of parenting (parents, y’all know exactly what I’m talking about). As they break up, instead of putting the child’s well-being first, one of them tries to keep the other one entirely ou ...
  • Friday Music Break
    For today's edition of Well-Meaning Pop Songs From the 70's That Make You Cringe, I could have gone with Elvis doing "In the Ghetto," but that would have been too easy. Instead, we've got Cher, with "Half Breed." This particular performance comes from the Sonny & Cher show, and allow me to ...

Buzzflash

  • Foreclosing on God: When Banks Seize Churches
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Oh dear me, what a divine train wreck it is when the free market economy kicks God out of house and home. According to a March 8 Reuters article: Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience wit ...
  • Did Taxpayer Bailout Money Fund Heartland Inst ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Unless you've followed the development of state-based right wing think tanks over the years, you probably never heard of the Heartland Institute. Founded in 1984 by Joseph L. Bast and David H. Padden, Heartland, until a few weeks ago, was another free mar ...
  • Limbaugh May Get Fitting New Sponsors: Website ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Yesterday BuzzFlash at Truthout posted a commentary on Rush Limbaugh's misogynist rants, but journalist Amanda Marcotte gets to the heart of his sleazy hypocrisy. In a caustic article in Slate, Marcotte points out the sordid irony that Limbaugh may b ...
  • The Tax Hypocrisy of the Wall Street Journal
    GERALD E. SCORSE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Nobody outdoes the Wall Street Journal at decrying the federal deficit, berating President Obama for it, and predicting economic disaster if it isn't fixed. So it was amusing to see the Journal weeping over a lapsed tax break that added to the deficit, ...
  • The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Newt Gingrich
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "I am the tortoise. I just take one step at a time," Gingrich declares at a Georgia victory celebration. If he was half the statesman he fancies himself, the headlines from Super Tuesday might have read, "Gingrich Bows Out Gracefully." Instead, those payi ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Three minutes of exercise really isn’t enough
    As promised, here are the thoughts of Soren Brage, an Investigator Scientist in Physical Activity at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge on the recent BBC Horizon program featuring Michael Mosely taking part in a so-called “experiment” to see how well high intensity training (HIT) ...
  • Three minutes of exercise is not enough
    BBC Horizon recently discussed the recent burst of activity surrounding claims that just 3 minutes of very intense exercise (HIT high intensity training), done in 3×20 second sessions three times each week is enough to improve various health factors (such as insulin sensitivity and lung cap ...
  • This week’s (al)chemical happenings
    The Alchemist learns this week how phosphorus atoms might be perfectly placed to build a quantum computer and how fluorescent gel and filter paper might put explosive sniffer dogs out of work. In environmental remediation the reverse of gold-digging could be used to remove toxic mercury ions fro ...
  • Rock on @GulliverTurtle
    Gulliver Turtle was checking out my guitars and stuff yesterday, making sure I’d turned everything up to 11…there he is, third shelf up, on the right, next to my wife’s copy of Streitwieser & Heathcock “Introduction to Organic Chemistry” (2nd edn 1981) and just ...
  • Making scientific peer review open
    Scientific reputation is essential to researchers for their academic advancement, tenure, research grants and fellowships. It relies, most of the times, on quantitative metrics such as the H Index, citation counts, article counts etc. And, of course, getting published in a journal in the first p ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Stop Using Pink Slime in School Lunches
    Statement of Nasima Hossain, U.S. PIRG Public Health Advocate, on the USDA’s decision to buy 7 million pounds of ammonia treated meats for school lunches.read more
  • Stop Using Pink Slime in School Lunches
    Statement of Nasima Hossain, U.S. PIRG Public Health Advocate, on the USDA’s decision to buy 7 million pounds of ammonia treated meats for school lunches.read more
  • US: Victory for Rights in Alabama
    A decision by a federal appeals court to block two major provisions of Alabama’s immigrant law is a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  • US: Victory for Rights in Alabama
    A decision by a federal appeals court to block two major provisions of Alabama’s immigrant law is a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  • Contract for Keystone XL Review Was Between Tr ...
    Under pressure from Friends of the Earth, the State Department today made public the third-party contract and conflict of interest documents for the environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The documents confirm long-held suspicions that the contract was brokered between T ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Politicians Won’t Return Ponzi Payoffs
    Michael Winship On Tuesday, Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford was convicted in a Houston federal court on 13 out of 14 criminal counts of fraud. As The New York Times reported:Texas financier Robert Allen Stanfordread more
  • The Dirty War on WikiLeaks
    John Pilger War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colon ...
  • The Dirty War on WikiLeaks
    John Pilger War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colon ...
  • The Precarious Jobs Recovery
    Robert Reich February’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 blun ...
  • The Precarious Jobs Recovery
    Robert Reich February’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 blun ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: Silver Lake Reservoir Replacement ...
    The LA DWP officially breaks ground today on the Headworks Reservoir project, which will put huge underground reservoirs and a power plant at the north end of Griffith Park, between Forest Lawn Drive and the LA River. The project...
  • VAN ZANT: Fred Hall Show fights to save 'o ...
    This year's Fred Hall Show, which runs through Sunday, is dedicated to "Save California Fishing." The goal of the show is to get 5,000 anglers to sign up.
  • Financial woes shake the DRBC
    The financial noose is tightening for the Delaware River Basin Commission, the arbiter of whether natural gas drilling will occur in the watershed.
  • Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water Celebrates M ...
    Steven Solomon, Author of, Water: The Epic Struggle, Talked with Sharon Kleyne, founder of Bio Logic Aqua Research and host of Sharon Kleyne Hour, on World Water Day 2010.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) March 06, 2012 "United Nations World Water Day (March 22) offers an opportunity become educated ...
  • Financial woes shake the DRBC
    The financial noose is tightening for the Delaware River Basin Commission, the arbiter of whether natural gas drilling will occur in the watershed.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Canada's Zionist lobby exposed in new book
    Andrew Stevens 9 March 2012 The Canadian government’s close relationship with the Israel lobby is the topic of a new book on academic freedom.
  • Parents of Hana al-Shalabi plead for urgent ac ...
    Sophie Crowe 9 March 2012 The parents of Hana al-Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike since 16 February to protest Israel’s holding her without charge or trial, are pleading for action to save their daughter’s life.
  • US sent 600,000 tear gas canisters to Israel, ...
    David Elkins Washington, DC 9 March 2012 Between the years 2000 and 2009, the US transferred “more than 670 million weapons, rounds of ammunition and related equipment,” according to a new report.
  • Women at the heart of struggle
    Roqayah Chamseddine 8 March 2012 Women have been at the heart of liberation struggles in the Middle East and North Africa, contrary to Orientalist misrepresentations.
  • Interview: why Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 7 March 2012 Khitam Saafin, chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, talks to The Electronic Intifada about the challenges Palestinian women face today and why Hana al-Shalabi’s hunger strike should be supported.

The Wonk Room

  • BREAKING: 98 major advertisers dump Rush Limbaugh
    Industry website radio-info.com has the scoop: When it comes to advertisers avoiding controversial shows, it’s not just Rush From today’s TRI Newsletter: Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who want to avoid “environments likely to stir negative sentiments.” The ...
  • Right Wingers Attack Innovative $50 Light Bulb ...
    A slanted Washington Post story by Peter Whoriskey attacked the innovative $50 light bulb that won the Department of Energy’s $10 million L Prize for lighting innovation as being “costly,” “exorbitant,” and “too pricey” in comparison to a $1 incandescent ...
  • 19 Climate Games That Could Change the Future
    by Ellie Johnston and Andrew Jones, reposted from Climate Interactive The prevalence of games in our culture provides an opportunity to increase the understanding of our global challenges. In 2008 the Pew Research Center estimated that over half of American adults played video games and 80% of y ...
  • Senate Republicans Advance Conspiracy Theory I ...
    Apparently afraid that former Maine governor Angus King, an independent seeking the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-ME) surprise retirement, might caucus with the Democrats if elected, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is going on the offensive. In a new ad, the c ...
  • Minnesota Officials Propose Third Way On Voter ...
    The debate over voting rights, which sprung up again with force last year, comes down to a simple issue in the end: access versus integrity. Progressives want to ensure that everyone, regardless of race or wealth, has equal access to the ballot box, while conservatives are preoccupied with preve ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • International Women's Day
    Ever hear of Lee Miller? Here's her Wikipedia page too! While we're at it, here's Kay Sage as well.
  • Why I've Been Blogging About Trolls
    Because I'm busy. The big story, ... the HUGE story is the harpercon assault on the integrity of our electoral process. And that story requires serious attention which I don't have the time for, but which Dr. Dawg, Montreal Simon, Alison at Creekside and Sixth Estate (among others) are doing. B ...
  • A Blast From The Past
    Read this for shits n' giggles.
  • How a "conservative"/troll thinks ....
    Sane person: "Electoral fraud is a stab at the heart of democracy. It looks like the Conservative Party of Canada engaged in it. We need to find out. We need to get to the bottom of it. We need a public inquiry." Conservative/Troll: "Ha! Stupid lefties can't take it! Sore losers! It's a smear j ...
  • "Wayne"
    You know, in some respects, "Wayne" or "L. Wayne Mathison," would be the gift that keeps on giving. Like most right-wing shit-heads there's a lot of unintended comedy in his comments. The beauty of consistency though is that I never have to waste time thinking: "Is this comment from the banned r ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Ontario dog found shot at side of road dies
    The German Shepherd found at the side of a road near Sudbury, suffering from two gunshot wounds to his face, died unexpectedly from heart complications.
  • Taylor Swift earns $35 million in 2011, tops L ...
    Taylor Swift lead all musical acts in earnings for 2011, a report from Billboard said on March 9, 2012. The 22-year-old country singer made a whopping 35 million bucks, much of it from sales of her album, 'Speak Now'.
  • Human remains found in Toronto are of Mariam M ...
    On September 14, 2009 young Mariam Makhniashvili, 17, disappeared from her school. It appeared that the young girl had simply vanished with no clues to what had happened to her.
  • Sidney Crosby looks to 'test' recovery before ...
    Sounding understandably nervous about how things may go when he returns to NHL action, on Friday Sidney Crosby said he wanted to be as "tested" as possible before playing. Crosby has been out since Dec. 5 after suffering recurring concussion symptoms.
  • Lady Gaga 'cringing' over a planned tell-all m ...
    Given that the recent report about Lady Gaga's reaction to a film being planned on her life comes from a source you might take it with a grain of salt. But given the unflattering content of the book it will be based on, that she'd be unhappy rings true.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Veterans on the chopping block?
    It looks like Veteran's Affairs will not be spared from the cuts planned by the Harper government
  • Government lacks credibility on F-35
    The government’s inability to produce a credible cost estimate for the F-35 purchase is undercutting its credibility on the overall F-35 issue
  • Call for nuclear divestment
    Each year, the nine nuclear-armed nations spend a combined total of more than US$100 billion on their nuclear forces – assembling new warheads, modernizing old ones, and building ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them. Much of this work is being carried out by private companies.
  • Be Heard – No Stealth Fighters!
    Tell Stephen Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that you do not support the F-35 Stealth Fighters. Send your letter, right away.
  • Toews: Send info to torturers
    The Harper government has given CSIS the go-ahead to provide information to foreign agencies even when there is a "substantial risk" it will lead to torture.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Ron Paul: A Political Force, A Republican Blas ...
    February 17, 2012 Seattle PI By SP Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, preaching ploughshares as fellow GOP candidates brandish sabres, quoted returning military personnel describing the Afghanistan War as a “fake and a fraud” when his packed house Sea-Tac rally broke into a chant seldom heard a ...
  • Feds Succeed In Destroying Entire Business Of ...
    February 17th, 2012   Natural News   By: Ethan A. Huff   It is with much sadness that we report the two-year war waged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has been a success.The Washington Timesand others are now reporting t ...
  • Many Processed Foods Are Made With A Coal Tar ...
    February 17th, 2012   Natural News   By: Mike Adams   Would you knowingly feed your children an ingredient derived from coal tar? That’s exactly what you may be doing, if you let them eat any orange or yellow artificially-colored products including sodas, cheese-flavored pro ...
  • The Return Of The Company Town
    February 20, 2012 Dollar Collapse By John Rubino The US government’s obliteration of the Bill of Rights via the Patriot Act, the recent defense bill that allows the military to detain citizens indefinitely without trial, the health care law that forces citizens to buy insurance, and the attempte ...
  • Rise In Resistant Bacteria Could Make Some Dis ...
    February 20, 2012 The Independent By Jeremy Laurence Britain is facing a “massive” rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli – bringing closer the spectre of diseases that are impossible to treat. Experts say the growth of antibiotic resistance now p ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Anthems, Indoctrination, and Violence
    Dissident Voice Article By Kim Petersen 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 Avn ...
  • ‘Run for your life’: Finding refug ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Signs of nationwide unrest are still clearly visible in Kyrgyzstan. This Central Asian country saw two bloody revolutions in less than a decade, with some lauding them as the march of democracy. All that amid claims politicians were manipulating people to grab power. RT&# ...
  • Media, Academia Join Forces to Downplay Danger ...
    Dissident Voice Article By Titus North 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 dis ...
  • Shimon Peres wants to be your Facebook friend ...
    Jews are the people of the Book but also the “people of the Facebook,” Israeli President Shimon Peres joked about his flashy new page — complete with electro-pop video — on the site. “You have to speak the language of the young people,” the 88-year-old Nobel P ...
  • War Addicts: Iran next on US attack list?
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Barack Obama’s push for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear programme has failed to quell talk of a pending military confrontation. Statements from America‘s top defence officials suggest a strike is in the planning stages – and could use a type of bomb ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Syria: The Western Deception Over Regime Chang ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 8 March 2012 The Western governments’ and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it i ...
  • Syria: The Western Deception Over Regime Chang ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 8 March 2012 The Western governments’ and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it i ...
  • Public Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Globa ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com March 8, 2012 Once the black sheep of high finance, government owned banks can reassure depositors about the safety of their savings and can help maintain a focus on productive investment in a world in which effective financial regulat ...
  • Public Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Globa ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com March 8, 2012 Once the black sheep of high finance, government owned banks can reassure depositors about the safety of their savings and can help maintain a focus on productive investment in a world in which effective financial regulat ...
  • Greg Palast: The Lies and Fraud Behind Nuclear ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com For FreePress.org March 8, 2012 “Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake” GregPalastOffice on Mar 6, 2012 Greg Palast: The Lies and Fraud Behind Nuclear Plants I’ve seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Auschwitz complex
    Having trapped themselves in a death struggle with Palestinians that they cannot acknowledge or untangle, Israelis have psychologically displaced the source of their anxiety onto a more distant... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian film breaks groun ...
    Abeer Zeibak Hadad is a Palestinian filmmaker living in the Israeli mixed city of Jaffa. This year her first feature film – Dum’a – was released in Israeli theaters. The film is the first in the Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Norman Finkelstein on BDS, Palestinian rights, ...
    IOA Editor: Finkelstein's treatment of Palestinian rights reflects the limitations of relying exclusively on international law in the defense of Palestinian rights. Rather than forcing 100 years of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Not quite “ordinary human beings” – anti-imper ...
    While perhaps well-meaning, operating under the assumption that any opposition to Zionism is to be welcomed, progressives who promote the work of Atzmon are in fact surrendering the moral high ground... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Haneen Zoabi’s Channel 2 TV [Israel] interview
    Haneen Zoabi in a highly biased interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV. Her courage stands out, rising above the abrupt Israeli interviewing style: she keeps to her principled positions. (Hebrew with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • NSBRI Soliciting Postdoctoral Fellowship Appli ...
    The National Space Biomedical Research Institute's (NSBRI) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is soliciting applications. The submission deadline is June 8.
  • New Study Finds Usual Care Enough to Promote t ...
    University of Maryland School of Nursing professor leads study showing that physical, emotional, and social adjustment occurs over time with or without additional interventions for women with early stage breast cancer, as the body and spirit have a natural capacity to heal.
  • Mount Holyoke Alum Wins Avon Communication Award
    Mallika Dutt '83, who will receive an honorary degree at Mount Holyoke College's 175th commencement in May, has been further recognized for her humanitarian work to end domestic violence against women.
  • Law Professor Says Kony 2012 Oversimplifies Pr ...
    A Washington and Lee University law professor who has written extensively about child soldiers believes the Kony2012 Campaign unduly simplifies the problem of child soldiering.
  • New Surgery, Stomach Origami
    Patients seeking a weight-loss surgery that does not require an implanted device or permanent change to their anatomy, have a new clinical trial option at UC San Diego Health System. Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery, and his team, now offer gastric plication, a novel surg ...

Natural Health News

  • Serious Tip to Help Women Cheat Death
    A new study has shown that breast cancer patients who start regular exercise within six months of getting the disease can lower their chances of dying by up to 30 percent. Women with breast cancer who immediately begin exercises that elevate their heart rate without overexertion, such as speed- ...
  • FDA Considering Making Many Drugs OTC
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering the possibility of letting consumers buy medicines for some chronic conditions without a prescription.  They are also planning to speed up approvals of drugs for infection, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions by relaxing the standar ...
  • The Single Most Effective Way to Save Water in ...
    In the video above, the “Dirt Doctor”, Howard Garrett, explains why the single most effective way to save water in your garden is to go organic.  This can cut 40 to 50 percent off of your water bill. Soil with 5 percent organic matter can hold almost 200 pounds of water in every 100 pounds ...
  • New Study Shows Topical Antioxidant Protects t ...
    Acute exposure to ultraviolet B (UVB) light can be damaging to your eyes, causing photokeratitis and inducing apoptosis in corneal cells. The antioxidant carotenoid astaxanthin has been shown in a recent study to have both preventive and therapeutic effects on UV-photokeratitis. The research, c ...
  • Confirmed: This Beverage May Trigger Type 1 Di ...
    The link between juvenile onset (type 1) diabetes and cow’s milk consumption has long been noted in scientific literature.  Cow’s milk can potentially trigger an autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in your pancreas.  Recent research sheds new light on why this is ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup 3-9 March 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen If you have not been able to keep up with the stream of posts on Opinio Juris this week, we are pleased to offer you a weekend roundup. Three topics and a symposium fought for your attention. First, the US Supreme Court hearings in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum ...
  • The Problem with “Justice and Democracy”
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku There is much to admire in Alex Waal’s criticism of the international community’s kneejerk response to mass humanitarian atrocities. Once an abstract obligation, stopping genocide has become a political project. Building on the humanitarian interventionism ...
  • The Endless (Cyber) Jurisdiction of the U.S. G ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Fascinating article on how the U.S. government can, if it chooses, force almost any website with the “.com” suffix to shut down. …the U.S. government… says it has the right to seize any .com, .net and .org domain name because the companies that ...
  • The Endless (Cyber) Jurisdiction of the U.S. G ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Fascinating article on how the U.S. government can, if it chooses, force almost any website with the “.com” suffix to shut down. …the U.S. government… says it has the right to seize any .com, .net and .org domain name because the companies that ...
  • Two remarks on queer law and queer politics: T ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Panel 3 of the NYU JILP Vol. 44:2 Online Symposium   Thomas Spijkerboer is professor of migration law at VU University Amsterdam. His publications in English include Gender and Refugee Status ...

Public News Service

  • Cancer-Free? The American Cancer Society Wants You
    Cancer-Free? The American Cancer Society Wants You PHOENIX - The American Cancer Society is looking for men and women from ages 30 to 65 who never have been diagnosed with cancer to help out with a historic study. "Cancer Prevention Study-3" is being launched to better understand the lifestyle, ...
  • Studies: C-section or Induced Labor Not Always ...
    Studies: C-section or Induced Labor Not Always Best for Baby PHOENIX, Ariz. - Two new studies have called into question the use of cesarean procedures when a baby is going to be born early or when labor is induced. It has been common practice for doctors to order a cesarean section (C-section) ...
  • Family Advocates: State Budget Cuts Hurt Kids, ...
    Family Advocates: State Budget Cuts Hurt Kids, Economy PHOENIX – Child and family advocates say spending cuts in budget proposals from the governor and Legislature not only hurt kids and their families, but also the state's economy. Children's Action Alliance President Dana Naimark says t ...
  • Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever ...
    Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever for Arizonans PHOENIX - Dozens of products are recalled every month because they could cause injuries or death, but keeping up on the latest recalls is easier than ever. So says attorney Paul Shively, although he adds that it does take initiative. ...
  • Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposit ...
    Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposite Sex at Risk of Abuse PHOENIX, Ariz. - Boys who act like girls and girls who act like boys are at risk of abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The researchers polled adults about c ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Tell Walmart to Reject GE Sweet Corn!
    CFS has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health and Food and Water Watch to urge major food companies and grocers to reject Monsanto’s GE sweet corn, and we need your help to tell leading retailer Walmart to reject this new GMO corn. General Mills (Green Giant, Cascadian Farms), Trade ...
  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Valerie Taylor Urges Protection of Coral Sea
    The Coral Sea may be the world's last great tropical ocean ecosystem where a highly protected marine national park on a very large scale could be established and effectively managed.
  • Skipjack Tuna caught from 'Free Schools' more ...
    As a result of the free school fishery’s certification, 30% of the skipjack caught in the PNA fishery, and 16% of the skipjack caught in the WCPFC convention area is eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel.
  • Bright Coloured Lorikeet
    The Lorikeet is a small parrot and can be found in the Australasian region. Most of these birds have bright rainbow coloured plumage, which makes them beautiful to look at! Photo by: Alexandra Meusel
  • What's on 16 January 2012
    20 January is Chinese New Year! This day is being celebrated everywhere across most cities in Australia. In Sydney, Belmore Park becomes a feast of colours and flavours as the Lunar New Year celebrations begin. Get out and revel in the entertainment, parades and the array of flavours to enjoy ...
  • Blooming Tree
    After being burned, this tree is regenerating life, showing off these beautiful little bright red flowers. Isn't nature amazing?!  Photo by: Alexandra Meusel

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Why/ Who Died?
    By David Grossman, Translated by Sol Salbe All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such ...
  • More on Khader Adnan: Video from “Democr ...
    Originally posted on the “Democracy Now!” website
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Strike ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • A Plea to the World from the Principal of a Pa ...
    In November we reported with joy about the new school structure at Susiya (Susya). (see also an earlier report here). Only a few weeks later, the Occupation regime’s fraudulently named “Civil Administration” handed down demolition orders to the school. In a rare direct expres ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • BARIUM ,ALUMINUM OXCIDE,STRONTIUM 90 AND URANI ...
    North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that morph into ...
  • This Day In History – March 10
    1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.&# ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: “ICED EARTH” Guitarist, ...
    We shot this a few weeks back after the ICED EARTH show in Austin TX at EMO’s East. (All the live footage is from the show) Had a great chat after the interview – off the record! What an amazing guy he is. Get the NEW ICED EARTH CD “Dystopia” – and latest Tour info ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – March 9 2012
    Friday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Jack takes calls from listeners.
  • Ron Paul Talks Election Fraud on CNBC 3-9-12
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The Air Vent

  • Craig Loehle – 10 US Climate Disasters W ...
    We all know the media constantly reports the standard climate change mantra of increased storms, droughts, flooding, warming, cooling and basically anything they can find and attribute it to climate change – by man.  Craig Loehle wrote an interesting post on WUWT which calls out what I des ...
  • Hu McCulloch – Climate Audit
    I finally had time to read Hu McCulloch’s guest post at CA on Mann’s fancy new book. His reveiw shows more of that Mannian honesty we’ve all come to know and love.  My reading of it brings up some of my favorite history at Climate Audit. Good stuff
  • Taminos Trick
    Tamino has his crowd all whipped up about sea ice.  He has done two posts now declaring how stupid I, Anthony Watts, and by association, all of you, are.   Sorry folks, it was a drive-by incident! For him, I’m not enough of a believer and for others, I’m too much. Is it is a [...]
  • Gaggle of Giggles
    The Guardian is stooping to new lows – if that is possible.  With recent news that Mann’s emails won’t be released from the University of Virginia , you know the ones they claimed originally didn’t exist, the Guardian has taken this time to produce an article.  About Mann ...
  • The Concentric Blackbody Problem – Nick ...
    I have not had a chance to see Tallbloke’s guest post but Nick Stokes wrote a nice rebuttal to it.   It discusses basic equations for a sphere in a sphere for blackbody calcs.   I’ve been arguing over at Tallbloke’s. It’s one of those posts where a sceptic does an el ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: IPO, germany, Windows, locat ...
    Facebook adds $5.5B in credit – Facebook took on an additional $5.5 billion in credit lines as it prepares for an initial public offering. This will help the company pay the taxes on its employees’ restricted stock units when they vest … Continue reading →
  • Marvel, Zynga, cards, Viddy, Metacafe, more on ...
    Games continued to dominate our list of growing Facebook applications this week, this time on our list of emerging apps by monthly active users. The apps grew from between 80,000 and 560,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering … Continue reading →
  • Facebook platform update: European incentive p ...
    Facebook announced a number of changes and initiatives this week, including a program to reward developers who drive sales using Credits among European users. European incentive program begins – Facebook will give developers who drive more than US$100,000 in sales to … Continue readi ...
  • Former Facebook engineering director Yishan Wo ...
    Yishan Wong, a former director of engineering at Facebook, who spent more than four years at the company overseeing ads, payments and internationalization efforts, is becoming chief executive of Reddit. Reddit is seeing somewhat of a resurgence after its onetime … Continue reading →
  • Facebook career postings: engineering, data ce ...
    Facebook added a few engineering positions to its employment listings on its Careers page this week, as well as a few data center positions. Client partners, account managers and other related staff positions were listed on its LinkedIn feed this week, too. Posts … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • America gone stupid over Iran
    Lawrence Davidson argues that, as with the war on Iraq in 2003, the USA is drifting towards aggression against Iran propelled not by evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons programme, but by the lies and obsessions of a foreign state, Israel, and its American stooges.
  • Flying into Tel Aviv? Then it's "Welcome to Pa ...
    Stuart Littlewood explains why people of conscience, principle and respect for justice and the truth will always see Palestine as Palestine and will not forget that what is known as "Israel" is an extraneous implant build on the blood and ruins of a nation.
  • Barack Obama prostrates himself before America ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that Binyamin Netanyahu's and Ariel Sharon's ominous assertions that Israel controls the US were demonstrated once again this week by Barack Obama's humiliating pledges of loyalty to Israel in a speech to America's leading pro-Israel lobby and in a magazine interview.
  • Ignore the intelligence reports, let's make wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA's intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington's and London's clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and i ...
  • Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian c ...
    Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #79
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Van Buren This is Part VII of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here. Peter Van Buren joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 2, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg.” — Anonymous International Newsworthy Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire US to Refuel Israeli Planes Striking Iran India Cancels Iran Oil Shipment Due to Sanctions Iran Votes in Test  for Ahmadinejad Afghanis ...
  • Impotence in the Face of Impunity?
    The Phenomenon of the ‘Red Tops’ By William Bowles A fellow writer tells me that she feels overwhelmed by events and I feel the same way. An awful sense of déjà  vu that we have as much chance of stopping the march to total war as they had in the 1930s. Except that this time [...]
  • What the Heck is a “Prevailing Wage,” and Why ...
    Getting Out the Vote, at Public Expense Prevailing wage laws govern worker compensation on government-funded construction projects.  They direct that workers be paid “prevailing wages.” This may not sound like such an evil thing, but these laws end up boosting construction costs significantly, a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 1, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...

Afro Spear

  • Byts and Bytes
    Blogtalkradio: The Promotion of Homosexuality in Africa Farm life of African family in Russia is “beyond bad dream” The Great African Scandal
  • Kony 2012
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  • A piece of heaven in a world of hell
    As I was watching this documentary on Liberia, I though to myself: “here we go again, white people showing the worst of Africa, disease, death, crime, corruption, prostitution, cannibalism, civil war, dirt, filth, despair, hopelessness etc.” I almost turned it off but as I continued ...
  • A Thought on Abortion
    “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It h ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Democracy Warriors and Talking Dogs
    On February 13, 2012 NH citizens met with Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan and other election officials to talk about the Diebold computerized voting system approved for use in New Hampshire, which conceals the vote count from public oversight.
  • Reverse Robin Hood - Poor Greek farmers just b ...
    The Greek bailout #2 is nothing but a Greek-funded bailout of Europe's insolvent banks.
  • Threats, Aggression, War Preparations...and Li ...
    Just what is it the U.S. and Israel are really defending and seeking to preserve? They're working to preserve U.S. domination over this whole region in service of a global empire of exploitation imposed and maintained by massive violence. And if there's a debate among them, it's over how to best ...
  • Imperial Death Mongers
    Russia warns bloodthirsty western alliance against attacking Syria and Iran. Stakes could not be higher.
  • The Reflective Mind
    An inquisitive mind and the desire to know the truth is natural to all of us. We have this tendency as children. The search for, and love of wisdom and knowledge must be kept alive for democracy to survive.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Bell: A Genuine Problem for Obama
    I’ll confess that I haven’t watched the video, and I don’t understand most of what people are saying with regards to Obama’s embrace of Derek Bell. Nevertheless, while I’m generally reluctant to launch into rants about “Obama apologism,” this Derek Bell ...
  • There is Trouble With the Trees
    Rush v. Rush!
  • Santorum and JFK
    JFK may be a massively overrated president, but for once I’m glad people think he’s the tops. Because if there’s anything that is going to get Rick Santorum elected, it’s telling Americans that JFK makes him want to puke. It’s only one data point, but the timing of ...
  • Getting Something for Your Wages (or Tuition) ...
    One of the reasons Slate has improved greatly over the years is that it not longer publishes the inadvertently self-paradoic ramblings of Steven Landsburg.  (I particularly enjoyed his argument that you can’t tax the wealthy because other people will ultimately spend the money.  Oh.)   So ...
  • And that’s the way it is
    When I was about seven or eight I would watch the CBS Evening News with my father every night after dinner. This was at the height of US involvement in the Vietnam war, around the time of the Tet Offensive, when the anti-war movement in the U.S. was becoming something of a mass movement on [...]

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
  • A Letter from the Responsible Drilling Allianc ...
    Responsible Drilling Alliance Newsletter Fooled Again Februrary 2nd, 2012  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear RDA Members,   Minus a last minute miracle, an incredible shift in the course of the future of Pennsylvania is about to occur. With the Governor set to unveil his vers ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Some Shale Formations Impervious To Fracking, ...
    Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson says that a drilling method that has made vast natural gas resources accessible across the U.S. has been unable to crack some shale rock formations in Europe and China. Speaking to energy analysts, Tillerson said two attempts to tap gas-rich shale fields in Poland t ...
  • Thoreau’s Notebooks Reveal Details of Earlier ...
    A comparison of detailed notes taken by naturalist Henry David Thoreau with current weather and flower-blooming data has enabled scientists to document the earlier arrival of spring in eastern Massachusetts over Henry David Thoreau the past 150 years. After studying Thoreau’s records and ...
  • Herbicides May Be Lethal For Endangered Butter ...
    Common herbicides used to maintain the habitat of the endangered Lange’s metalmark butterfly may actually pose a lethal threat to the species, according to a new study. In tests requested by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which uses the herbicides to combat invasive plants in a California w ...
  • New York City Roof Study Shows Drastic Cooling ...
    A New York City roof covered in a white synthetic membrane was on average 43 degrees F cooler than surrounding black tar and asphalt roofs during times of peak heat last summer, according to a study by scientists from Columbia University and NASA. On the CoolRoofs.org hottest day of the s ...
  • California Takes the Lead With New Climate Ini ...
    Long ahead of the rest of the U.S. on environmental policy, California is taking bold steps to tackle climate change — from committing to dramatic reductions in emissions, to establishing a cap-and-trade system, to mandating an increase in zero-emission vehicles. The bottom line, say state offic ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Children Born In December 39% More Likely To B ...
    Video from: YouTube.com ADHD may be overdiagnosed in youngest classmates An 11-year Canadian study suggests the youngest children in a classroom are more likely to be assessed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to their older classmates, raising concerns that many ...
  • Robotic Fish Accepted by Real Fish as Leader
    Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University have created a robotic fish that have been accepted as leader by real fish: The researchers designed their bio-inspired robotic fish to mimic the tail propulsion of a swimming fish, and conducted experiments at varying tail beat fre ...
  • Three Little Pigs As Exposed by News and Socia ...
    "This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper’s front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpec ...
  • The Mysterious Mr. Zedzed: The Wickedest Man i ...
    In his prime, Zaharoff was more than a match for the notorious Aleister Crowley in any contest to be dubbed the Wickedest Man in the World. Still remembered as the inventor of the Systeme Zaharoff—a morally bankrupt sales technique that involved a single unscrupulous arms dealer selling to both ...
  • Andrew Breitbart death sparks conspiracy theories
    Andrew Breitbart’s unexpected death on Thursday has sparked a swift outpouring of grief and remembrances--but also the inevitable conspiracy theories about the timing of the outspoken conservative’s demise. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., last month, ...

Russia Today

  • No program – no protest? ‘Fair elections drive ...
    Political analysts say the low turnout at today’s opposition rally in Moscow is down to people’s weariness with their efforts yielding so few results. Slogans need to be replaced by a clear program if the movement is... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ­US intelligence: Assad firmly in charge in Syria
    One year after the unrest in Syria started President Bashar Assad is still firmly in control of his country, US intelligence services say, despite their leaders claiming his regime is doomed. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Restless Kyrgyzstan: Revolutionary poster child
    The Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan has experienced popular uprisings twice in less than 10 years, and long before the ongoing Arab Spring. The habit of having revolutions has already split up the multicultural... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Official: US govt already seized hundreds of f ...
    US seizure of a Canadian gambling website caused online outcry as it was registered abroad and thought to be outside American jurisdiction. But this is far from isolated; it has emerged that the US has seized hundreds... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Subsidized birth control: Right or personal ch ...
    With US presidential elections on the horizon a debate over whether birth control should be subsidized by the US government is in full swing. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • US corporate media wishes that the Occupy Move ...
    ‘The Occupy Wall Street group in New York is running low on money and on pace to run out by the end of the month, raising questions about the future of the movement that sparked a wave of nationwide protests against economic injustice six months ago.’ and so goes Reuters droning on a ...
  • Character assassination par for course, but KO ...
    THAT’S RICH. “Occupy Hijacked” is the takeaway from a KOAA news blort on division within Occupy. Because Agent Duh and Co had been calling the TV station to complain they’d lost their right to march into GA and take it over, KOAA concludes that someone stole their protest ...
  • Pope plans to interfere in Mexican presidentia ...
    Many people in the US are now aware that the Catholic Church and its ex-Nazi Pope is now running against the Obama Administration claiming that the Democratic Party boss wants the Federal government to religiously discriminate against ‘people of Faith’. Of course that is all a crock ...
  • The Pope defends the Catholic Church’s o ...
    Has The Pope begun to apologize and take some Church responsibility about the Church’s priests’ mass world raping of young children? No, instead he is attacking homosexuals and the Gay community. Why in the world we allow Catholics to pretend to having a higher morality than others i ...
  • The troops don’t want your support, they ...
    In protesting war, it’s not enough to say you “support the troops”, even as you advocate to “bring them home”. Soldiers see criticizing war as directed at them because it underminds the purity of spirit they want to go about their destructive missions. Don’t e ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Millette Versus Harrit et al: The MEK Test
    Since the Active Thermitic Material... paper was published, debunkers have asserted that the red/gray chips are simply a form of paint. To support this claim, they note that the plate-like particles in the red layer look a lot like kaolinite - an aluminosilicate clay mineral that is used as a p ...
  • Some initial thoughts on Dr Millette's study...
    The red/gray chips are not nanothermite! So say Chris Mohr and Dr James Millette. I've had a quick look at the study, and here are my initial thoughts. Adam has informed me that Harrit et al are preparing their own response which I'm sure will be available shortly. I'm not interested in Dr Mil ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came acrossdebunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildingswithout explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collaps ...
  • Kurt Haskell's Awakening
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF2F6AA5408C443F
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...

Fooducate

  • Pink Slime, Rejected by McDonald’s, Goes to Sc ...
    How’s this for taking care of our kids? McDonald’s refuses to put a dubious meat by product into its burgers, but the government orders 7 million  pounds of “Pink Slime” for its school lunch program. The pink slime is a mix of fat trimmings and ammonia-hydroxide that is a ...
  • Give The Healthiest Vegetable on The Planet So ...
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Yes! You know the vegetable that I am referring to – KALE. Kale is on every list for “healthiest vegetable”. One cup of kale contains 36 calories, 5 grams of fiber, and 15% of the daily requirement of calcium and vitamin ...
  • The Oreo Cookie Celebrates 100 Years
    This week marks the 100th birthday of the Oreo Cookie. Originally created and sold in New York by National Biscuit Company, the brand is now owned by mega-processed-food giant Kraft Foods. The brand tagline is “Milk’s Favorite Cookie,” and indeed Oreos have become an American i ...
  • GMO Labels – Coming Soon?
    We often get requests by Fooducate app users to provide GMO (genetically modified organism) information on products. We respond that our analysis is based on information presented on the products package. And product packages do not have this info to offer. We also tell people to assume that the ...
  • Eating, Seen Through Your Child’s Eyes
    This is a guest blog post by Dr. Dina R. Rose Sometimes I think parents and toddlers come from different planets, and speak different languages. That’s why we interpret the world so differently. It’s the parenting version of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. You see foods: applesauce, yog ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention
    by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an acrylic sweater/ ...
    We’ve covered wool jumpers/sweaters on the site before now – what to do with them when you accidentally shrink your most favourite jumper ever in the wash. But what about acrylic jumpers? They don’t get ruined in the same way but cheaper ones tend to lose their shape and look a ...
  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...
  • How can I revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle poker/betting chips?
    Inma has emailed us about betting chips: Hi! I’ve found a lot of chips to bet, and I wonder if anyone has some use for them. There was a fad for playing poker with betting chips a few years ago and all the shops were stacked full of them as cheap/easy Christmas presents – so [...]

Age of Autism

  • “Something New Was Coming”: Walker-Smith, Wake ...
    By Dan Olmsted Now that Professor John Walker-Smith has been cleared of charges brought against him by Britain’s General Medical Council – with an admonition by the appeals judge that such a travesty must never happen again – his testimony...
  • Sammy's Gold Stars Helps Kids on Special Diets
    We invite you to check out Sammy's Gold Stars. Sammy's Gold Stars is a children's book about one boy who found a special diet helped him feel and behave better. Many children with food sensitivities, Autism, Celiac Disease, ADHD, Lyme...
  • Editorial by Jenny McCarthy: MMR Doctor Exoner ...
    By Jenny McCarthy The parent autism community is buzzing with excitement over a ruling by a British judge clearing Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s colleague and co-author of all charges against him that arose from a study of the relationship between gut...
  • Was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Deadly Immunity” ...
    By Jake Crosby If the co-opting of CBS and HuffPo by liars-for-hire like Seth Mnookin was unfortunate, what happened at Salon was even worse. A year ago, the website decided to retract Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s piece, Deadly Immunity which...
  • An Open Letter to Bill Moyers on When The Next ...
    By Anne Dachel Dear Mr. Moyers, I'm writing this open letter to you in the hope that you'll address something this is one of the most heated controversies in health care today, namely vaccine safety. I see that you've recently...

Global BDS Movement

  • Policy Paper – U.S. Military Aid To Israel
    About the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is a national coalition of nearly 400 organizations working to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality. … Continue reading&#160 ...
  • Israel sponsors Polish soap opera in ‘image im ...
    Polish and Israeli activists have called on the makers of a Polish medical drama to abandon plans to film two episodes in Israel under the sponsorship of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
    For the 3rd consecutive year, students in Gaza are holding a series of events to mark Israeli Apartheid Week. Gaza’s contribution to this international on-campus initiative is largely the work of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel.
  • Israel ‘charity’ accused of racism suffers ano ...
    Green Party of England and Wales members voted overwhelmingly to support an international campaign for action against JNF practices in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and to revoke its charity status in the UK.
  • Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel
    Norman Finkelstein's views on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement may be somewhat shortsighted.

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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Colombia: Students clash with police
    Reuters – Police in riot gear use tear gas to disperse students demonstrating to demanding better public transportation in Bogota. Read article
  • U.S. scientists warn EPA on Monsanto corn rootworm
    Reuters – A group of U.S. plant scientists is warning federal regulators that action is needed to mitigate a growing problem with biotech corn that is losing its resistance to plant-damaging pests. “This is not something that is a surprise… but it is something that needs to be ...
  • Australia: Concerns on GM food testing continue
    ABC – The Australian food authority has again defended itself against criticisms that its testing of GM food is inadequate. French molecular biologist Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen made the criticisms during a recent lecture tour of Australia. Read article
  • Britain’s Four Biggest Banks Pay 32 Employees ...
    Bloomberg – Britain’s four biggest banks paid 32 senior executives a combined 103 million pounds ($161 million) last year amid political criticism of their bonuses. Barclays Plc, which yesterday awarded Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond 6.3 million pounds for 2011, paid its eight most ...
  • S.Africa GM crop area hit record in 2011-report
    Reuters – South Africa’s genetically modified (GM) crop area increased 100,000 hectares to a record 2.3 million hectares in 2011 from 2.2 million hectares in the year before, an industry report showed on Thursday. Such data is keenly monitored by maize traders but also by food retail ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Animals: Iowa, first state to criminalize unde ...
    On Friday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law a bill designed to thwart activists who go undercover to report animal abuse. This makes Iowa the first state in the country to pass such a law; Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Utah are considering them.
  • Federal court rejects delay of N.M. power plan ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that the owners of the San Juan Generating Station, a huge coal-fired power plant near Farmington, N.M., must continue with plans to install strong pollution controls. Several California cities purchase electricity from the plant.
  • More Americans now believe in global warming
    After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change, pollsters are now finding that belief is on the uptick.
  • California wolf trek shows importance of wilde ...
    The incredible ramble of California’s only wolf shows more than determination, as OR7 has trotted more than 1,000 miles to look for a mate and a new home. It also demonstrates the necessity of wilderness areas that serve as safe corridors for migrating wildlife.
  • Organic farmers' case against Monsanto thrown ...
    U.S. Federal Dist. Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Friday to dismiss the case brought by organic farmers to stop patent infringement lawsuits brought by seed giant Monsanto. The suit, called OSGATA et al. vs. Monsanto , was brought by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn. (OSGATA), as well as 82 ...

water.org

  • Gearing up for World Water Day
    For the past few years, these 20,000 women have come together from all over rural India on March 22 to celebrate water. As their colorful saris fill the giant tents, they spend World Water Day listening to speakers, watching dancers, and talking about the importance of water in their lives.
  • Mar 2012 Conference Call
    Water.org’s Senior Manager of International Programs, Heather Arney, talked about our work with WaterCredit in India, and Water.org’s Marketing Programs Manager, Erin Swanson, spoke about the many ways to get involved with World Water Day, March 22nd. The call ends with an open question and answ ...
  • Conference Call: March
    Hear about India and World Water Day
  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The Story of Obama and Israel
    The Porkies of the POTUS Submitted by Tommy S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • | ThinkProgress
    Limbaugh has crossed the line. He isnt just attacking Sandra Flukehes attacking all women. Use the form on this page to let Sandra Fluke know that you are on her side. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Noam Chomsky - What Are Iran's Intentions?
    The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option" ... one purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons, not often stated, but obvious, is their use on the United States ... ME-WMDFZ... Submitted by wolf a. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Pitts: There's nothing to fear in Girl Scouts' ...
    Bob Morris is scared of Girl Scouts. Fear the Girl Scouts. They are trying to conquer America one cookie at a time. Submitted by Robert Tomlinson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How Coyotes Dwindled to Their Modern Size
    In ancient times, when woolly mammoths and cave bears roamed Earth, coyotes boasted bigger bodies, rivaling the size of wolves, only to shrink to near modern size about the same time these megafauna went extinct. Submitted by Jae A. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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:

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • 2012 is not the End of the World, it’s 2023!
    Nostradamus did not predict the End-of-the-World in 2012 By Robert Singer Unless you are living under a rock you have heard about Nostradamas, the man who, 500 years ago, made an estimated 6,338 predictions/prophecies. Followers claim he predicted everything from Hitler to 9/11, the death of ...
  • The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Allian ...
    James Petras Introduction 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 ...
  • Monsanto-FDA’s Michael Taylor to Keynote ...
    By Rady Ananda Activist Post An agtivist with chutzpa might want to perform a GMO label action at the Food Safety Summit where Monsanto-lobbyist-now-Obama’s-Food-Safety-Czar, Michael R. Taylor, plans to wax tyrannical at a Town Hall on April 19. For a mere grand, you can attend the enti ...
  • European Union approves 11 new transgenic crop ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom In February, the European Commission (EC) approved four transgenic soybeans intended for food and feed, import and processing, reports Inf’OGM. This follows four approvals in December, on top of three last summer. Three of the recently-approved GM soy variet ...
  • NATO Intervening in Syria
    Stephen Lendman On March 6, the BBC reported Obama saying Washington won't intervene in Syria unilaterally. At the same time, he stopped short of ruling out joint Western aggression. In his first 2012 news conference, he said: "The notion that the way to solve every one of these problems is to ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Inequality: The role of unions and race
    The University of Toronto's Richard Florida has an important two-part series in The Atlantic focusing on what is driving the growing income gap in American cities. In particular, he and colleague Charlotta Mellander look at what is driving the differences in income inequality, since it's not a ...
  • Toxic spill and communications chill
    Last August, a pipeline broke near Fort St John, spilling toxic liquid that killed at least one cow and sickened other cattle. The Oil and Gas Commission has refused to release any details about the spill, citing its ongoing investigation. But our researcher Ben Parfitt questions the OGC's loyal ...
  • Shared Futures: Big Institutions and their Inn ...
    In a new report from CCPA-MB, Valerie Shantz examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg's inner city. Download the full report: Shared Futures: Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours.
  • Nova Scotia doubles number of temporary foreig ...
    The number of migrant labourers working in Nova Scotia has doubled over the past five years.  While such rapid increases benefit the Canadian economy, they pose difficult questions for policymakers.  Recent immigrants are often  used as an exploitable working population and are si ...
  • Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences
    Today, March 1, 2012  at 1:30 at the John Howard Society of Manitoba (3rd Floor, 583 ElliceAvenue), The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Mb. and the John HowardSociety of Manitoba, Inc. will release their report: Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences. This report was produced wit ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Five new judges of International Criminal Cour ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN - New ICC judges from left: Robert Fremr Anthony T. Carmona Howard Morrison, Olga Herrera Carbuccia and Chile Eboe-Osuji. Photo: ICC Five new judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) weresworn in today following their election last December at the last session of the ...
  • Hippie Health Digest
    Turn On, Tune In, Quit Drinking: LSD May Help Cure Alcoholism By Ian Landau,everydayhealth.com – A Gallup poll released in October 2010 found that 70 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana for medical use. Now two Norwegian neuroscientists are questioning whether LSD should be giv ...
  • United State of Emergency: Outlawing Dissent
    By Zakk Flash,pressaction.com - During the 1967 Six Day War, a series of strict emergency laws were enacted across the Arab World, most notably in Egypt and Syria. Police powers became absolute while constitutional rights were suspended; any non-governmental political activity such as street dem ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Israel kills more Gaza gunmen, rockets fired into Israel GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed two more Gaza militants on Saturday, raising the death toll in two days of violence to 12 and dozens of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel injured at least four people, Israeli and Palestinian official ...
  • Orthodox Believers Stand Up For Jailed Anti-Pu ...
    By RFE/RL’s By Claire Bigg - Public outrage is mounting over the jailing of two Russian women accused of staging an illegal anti-Kremlin performance in Moscow’s largest church. Investigators claim the pair belong to the all-girl dissident punk group Pussy Riot that broke into Christ ...

FourWinds10

  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
  • CDFA Pest PEIR Must Not Be Allowed
      This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safegua ...
  • STORMTROOPER: THE MILITARY'S WAR ON THE EARTH
  • The BP spill in the Gulf: One year later
      (NaturalNews.com) - It's been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and rightfully so, if for no other reason than because, one year later, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmare gift that keeps on giving, some experts are saying. The Deepwater ...
  • US space junk falls in South America

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Gas Prices & Keystone Pipeline — R-Squared Ene ...
    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: The EROEI for producing oil sands The emissions profile of shipping the oil sa ...
  • Ethanol Exports and the Future of the Ethanol ...
    Were U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing Ethanol Exports? Over the past couple of years, U.S. ethanol exports have soared. Last year a news article in Financial Times charged that these exports were being subsidized with U.S. tax dollars. The U.S. ethanol industry strongly denied this, but I wrote severa ...
  • Study: Eliminating Coal-Fired Power is Worth 0 ...
    Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy? A new paper in Environmental Research Letters called “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity” concludes that replacement of all of the world’s currently operating coal-fired pow ...
  • Follow-up to Alan Colmes’ Interview
    During my interview last week with Alan Colmes (embedded below), a few points were discussed that warrant some elaboration. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The first is the conversion from winter to summer gasoline, which I have written about in more detail at Why Summer Gasoline Mea ...
  • Natural Gas Liquids and Algae as Fuel — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about natural gas liquids and algal fuel. Some of the topics discussed are: The difference between natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil How NGLs and “all-liquids” contribute to oil supplies How “double- ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Paper or Plastic? Both are Now Illegal in Aust ...
    Everything is bigger in Texas, so the saying goes. And that doesn't apply just to steers and Stetson hats. Late last week, the city council of Austin, the state's capitol, passed one of the most comprehensive bans on disposable shopping bags in the country. Starting in March 2013, all retailers ...
  • USDA "Compass" Points Toward Strengthening Loc ...
    It's getting easier to Know Your Farmer and Know Your Food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) two-year-old program took a technological leap last week with a new interactive map called the "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" Compass that highlights the thousands of rural and small-sc ...
  • Study: Plastic Chemicals May Up Miscarriage Risk
    Chemicals that mess with your hormones have long been suspected of keeping couples from having children. By interfering with both men's and women's estrogen levels, these hormone-disrupting chemicals, found in plastics, pesticides, and other household goods, can lower sperm counts and increase ...
  • The Easiest Way to Get Duped in the Meat Aisle
    The sluggish economic rebound hasn't stopped more people from ditching dirty factory-farmed meat for organic and "natural" alternatives, according to a new report from the American Meat Institute and the Food Marketing Institute. Based on surveys of 1,340 people, the annual "Power of Meat" repo ...
  • The 3 Biggest Sources of Chemicals in Your Home
    It's pretty well known that products like vinyl shower curtains and floor tiles, personal care products, and household cleaners expose people to a variety of harmful chemicals that have been linked to asthma and reproductive problems, including infertility in both men and women. But when it com ...

big think

  • Gene Sequencing: The New Blood Test?
    What's the Latest Development? Sequencing a patient's genes may soon become as common as a blood test, say computer engineers working in the genetics industry. They cite several advances in computing such as industrial digital cameras which can capture fluorescent molecules used to 'read ...
  • Fetal Cells Gone Wild
    What's the Big Idea? Within any woman who has ever been pregnant, some of her baby’s cells may live for as long as she lives. During pregnancy and childbirth, cells migrate across the placenta in both directions: from fetus to mother, and vice versa. In the mom, fetal cells may take resi ...
  • Our Selves, Others’ Cells
    Is it any solace to sentimental mothers that their babies will always be part of them?  I’m not talking about emotional bonds, which we can only hope will endure. I mean that within any woman who has ever been pregnant, some of her baby’s cells may live for as long as she lives. Some cir ...
  • You Don't Need a New Idea to Start a Business
    What's the Latest Development? Serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal knows how to start a business and says having a new idea is not essential to a new company's success. After dropping out of school, Chahal worked to build an online advertising business which he later sold for $40 million ...
  • How to Give Every Child the Best Teacher
    What's the Latest Development? Modern communication technology could be harnessed to create teaching dream-teams, inspiring a larger generation of students to become life-long learners. The first and perhaps most important step is to identify the best teachers, which does not mean the be ...

Information Liberation

  • Rogers' "Cybersecurity" Bill Is Broad Enough t ...
    Congress is doing it again: they're proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppe...
  • Buffett's Bursting Bubble
    The gold doomsayers have found their champion in the media's favorite financial advisor and one of the world's richest men. Warren Buffett, the man dubbed the "Oracle of Omaha," has repeatedly and publicly denied that gold is an investment, and...
  • Crony capitalism: Green firms burn through tax ...
    The Obama Administration's green energy development program, which has leveraged billions of taxpayer dollars into high-risk green energy startups, is rapidly turning out to be one of the biggest financial scams on the American people in recent histo...
  • Government-subsidized green light bulb carries ...
    The U.S. government last year announced a $10 million award, dubbed the *L Prize,* for any manufacturer that could create a *green* but affordable light bulb. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the prize would spur industry to offer the costly bulbs...
  • Maryland Cops To Be Trained On US Constitution ...
    State police in Maryland have been ordered to undergo training on the First and Fourth Amendments following a 2008 incident during which 18 pro-life protesters were arrested, shackled and strip searched. The incident occured when members of the...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →
  • A Servitude Of Convenience
    Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →
  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Three minutes of exercise really isn’t enough
    As promised, here are the thoughts of Soren Brage, an Investigator Scientist in Physical Activity at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge on the recent BBC Horizon program featuring Michael Mosely taking part in a so-called “experiment” to see how well high intensity training (HIT) ...
  • Three minutes of exercise is not enough
    BBC Horizon recently discussed the recent burst of activity surrounding claims that just 3 minutes of very intense exercise (HIT high intensity training), done in 3×20 second sessions three times each week is enough to improve various health factors (such as insulin sensitivity and lung cap ...
  • This week’s (al)chemical happenings
    The Alchemist learns this week how phosphorus atoms might be perfectly placed to build a quantum computer and how fluorescent gel and filter paper might put explosive sniffer dogs out of work. In environmental remediation the reverse of gold-digging could be used to remove toxic mercury ions fro ...
  • Rock on @GulliverTurtle
    Gulliver Turtle was checking out my guitars and stuff yesterday, making sure I’d turned everything up to 11…there he is, third shelf up, on the right, next to my wife’s copy of Streitwieser & Heathcock “Introduction to Organic Chemistry” (2nd edn 1981) and just ...
  • Making scientific peer review open
    Scientific reputation is essential to researchers for their academic advancement, tenure, research grants and fellowships. It relies, most of the times, on quantitative metrics such as the H Index, citation counts, article counts etc. And, of course, getting published in a journal in the first p ...

RFF Library

  • Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Healt ...
    OECD (This report is fee-based, but RFFers can access it through OECD iLibrary — username/password are on the library’s landing page.) http://bit.ly/zHGvzU [Abstract]  The book presents a major meta-analysis of ‘value of a statistical life’ (VSL) estimates derived from su ...
  • 2011 Fuel Economy Trends Report
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fetrends.htm [Press release]  The average fuel efficiency for new cars and light duty trucks has increased while the average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to decrease for the seventh consecutive year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’ ...
  • Extreme Events and Insurance: 2011 Annus Horri ...
    Geneva Association / by Christophe Courbage and Walter Stahel http://bit.ly/yMnHyR [From an article in "Insurance Journal"]  The latest report from the Geneva Association , No. 5 in the current series – Extreme events and insurance: 2011 annus horribilis -, describes the global impact of the maj ...
  • Facing China’s Coal Future Prospects and ...
    International Energy Agency / by Dennis Best and Ellina Levina http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k9fdwthx630-en [Abstract]  This paper is the first IEA analysis that focuses on country-specific trends, opportunities and challenges for carbon capture and storage (CCS). It follows previous IEA publicatio ...
  • Energy for Economic Growth: Energy Vision Upda ...
    World Economic Forum (WEF) http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EN_IndustryVision.pdf [From an Energy Wire article by Pamela King, sub. req'd]  The growing oil and gas industry may be a bright spot in an otherwise-gloomy global recession, according to a report released yesterday by the World Economi ...

Scientific American - News

  • 'Chum Cam' Helps Catalog Endangered Sharks
    Scientists have been trying to answer the question of whether marine protected areas, where sharks and their prey are off-limits to fishermen, are indeed home to more sharks than non-protected areas of the ocean. [More]
  • NASA Crushes 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Claims
    Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a new video to address false claims about the "Mayan apocalypse," a non-event that some people believe will bring the world to an end on Dec. 21.  [More]
  • Flavor of the Ray: Neutrino Measurement May He ...
    Neutrinos are devious little particles. Only in the late 1990s were they shown to have mass, after decades of head-scratching hints to that effect. They can oscillate between three neutrino types, or "flavors," changing their identity on the fly. And, perhaps most famously, they were a ...
  • Pirate-Eye Pigeons Reveal How the Brain Talks ...
    As a baby bird develops, its body contorts to fit within the confines of its egg . The bird's neck twists so that one side of its head is tucked against its chest. In this position, the bird's left eye remains nestled among sprouting feathers--where it does not receive much light from t ...
  • Biopsies Found to Provide Only a Snapshot of T ...
    From Nature magazine [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Entrevue avec Arthur Picard d'Innu Power sur l ...
    parce que malgré la répression de l'État colonial et de sa police sur la 138 et ailleurs, la lutte va continuer et s'intensifier
  • Czech-mate?
    Protest Briefly Occupies Q104 Office, Station Refuses to Drop "Mail-Order Bride" Contest Halifax - A protest of about 25 people took place today, March 8th, International Women's Day, outside the Q104 fm station on 3770 K ...
  • Latuff On the Big Screen in Halifax
    World's Most Prolific Political Cartoonist Speaks Via Skype at Israeli Apartheid Week in Halifax On Wednesday, March 7th, Carlos Latuff appeared via skype at King's College. Latuff's presentation was part of the numerous activi ...
  • The Occupation of Workplace Democracy: Challen ...
    Part two of an interview with Cheyenna Weber of SolidarityNYC Read part one, Cooperating to Replace Capitalism. In this, the second and concluding part of an email dialogue about the work of SolidarityNYC, Cheyenna Weber discusses the chall ...
  • Safety First
    Picket at Airport Hotel Construction Site Finds Safety Infractions A construction site next door to the Halifax International Airport was picketed yesterday by the Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenter, Millwrights and Allied Workers. Clos ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Netanyahu's target is Obama, not Iran
    David Seaton's News LinksIt cannot be denied that the Holocaust theme has served Netanyahu well politically. As many commentators have pointed out, Netanyahu has succeeded in reframing political discourse on the Middle East: this visit to the U.S. was the first in a long time in which the Palest ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - III
    David Seaton's News LinksObserving the pantagruelian expense and listening to and reading about the nauseating, sociopathic babble of the seemingly endless Republican primaries in the United States; people all over the world are questioning the democratic process and wondering if China's authori ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - II
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholy" Domenico Feti We are living in quite special times. The crisis in the system hasn’t been this evident to “everyman” since the 1930s. The United States is rather special in one respect in facing the crisis. The idea of personal responsibility for everyth ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to?
    David Seaton's News LinksIf Mitt Romney takes the nomination and then loses to Obama, the extremists who’ve taken over the party will surely say the problem was Romney’s lack of ideological purity.  Joe Nocera - New York Times Here’s what I think may happen. Romney gets the nomination and ...
  • Are we looking at a possible intellectual and ...
    David Seaton's News LinksBank concentration: Graph - Mother Jones, (click though to view)Low genetic variation can make a species less resilient to changes in its environment, and place it at increased risk of extinction. BBC NewsEcologists say that when the gene-pool of a species is reduced be ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Chart of the Day: Half of All Outside Campaign ...
    Via Rick Hasen, here's a year-old chart from the Center for Responsive Politics showing the rise in campaign spending by undisclosed donors over the past six years. In 2006, less than 10% of spending by outside groups came from undisclosed donors (blue line + part of red line). By 2010 it was ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 9 March 2012
    On the left, Inkblot is looking soulfully into the depths of an empty wine glass. The effect is, perhaps, spoiled slightly by the fact that he's perched on top of a nice, warm pizza box, but that just shows that he's a cat of the people. Do you think Mitt Romney ever curls up with a pizza? On ...
  • Will 2012 Be a Reprise of 2010's Summer of Hate?
    July and August of 2010 were a festival of xenophobia and racial rage from the news organs of the right. Among the topics that generated wall-to-wall coverage on a serial basis that summer were (1) the New Black Panthers, (2) Arizona's new immigration law, (3) the "anchor baby" controversy, (4 ...
  • The Fed Should Help Out the Recovery by Lettin ...
    We had some pretty decent jobs numbers today: 227,000 new jobs in February and an upward revision for January to 284,000 new jobs. Hooray! And with that out of the way, I'm going to profoundly abuse the principles of fair use and republish this post of Karl Smith's in its entirety: I had co ...
  • Arizona Moves to Bar "Wrongful Birth" Lawsuits
    Aaron Carroll asks: Should doctors be protected by law for withholding information from patients that their patients might want to know? Hmmm. I guess the correct answer is "no." But I'm a little confused about whether anyone actually disagrees about this. At issue is an Arizona bill th ...

Insanity Report

  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...
  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:
  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Lou Dobbs Thinks The Lo ...
    Lou Dobbs has a long history of being an idiot.  From race-baiting to flat out bigoted statements, particularly aimed at Latinos to his ridiculous attacks against the “Liberal media” and Liberals “War on America”.  I mean he’s become a cornucopia of ratchet rightwin ...

Simple Climate

  • Thick ice decline could advance watery Arctic ...
    NASA scientist Joey Comiso reveals a faster loss of supposedly less vulnerable “multiyear” ice that could see summer Northern polar ice melt into history, bringing further climate and food chain problems.
  • Melting sea ice plays critical role in winter ...
    Georgia Institute of Technology's Jiping Liu and colleagues have revealed evidence that shrinking Arctic ice is allowing more water into the atmosphere and slowing the jet stream so the moisture can move southward and fall as snow.
  • Climate change causes chipmunks hidden damage
    By comparing DNA from alpine chipmunks preserved for 96 years with samples from those living today Emily Rubidge from University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues reveal a threatening, climate-change driven, shrinking of their gene pool.
  • Population and climate raise tropical cyclone ...
    Higher population will mean more people and property are in the way of tropical cyclones made more intense but less frequent by climate change, say Bruno Chatenoux from the Global Change and Vulnerability Unit at the United Nations Environment Program and colleagues.
  • Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears
    Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.

e!Science News

  • Bite the hand that feeds...
    Ecotourism activities that use food to attract and concentrate wildlife for viewing have become a controversial topic in ecological studies. This debate is best exemplified by the shark dive tourism industry, a highly lucrative and booming global market. Use of chum or food to attract big sharks ...
  • Metamaterials may advance with new femtosecond ...
    Researchers in applied physics have cleared an important hurdle in the development of advanced materials, called metamaterials, that bend light in unusual ways. read more
  • Mapping the Moho with GOCE
    The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth's crust and mantle -- the Moho -- has been produced based on data from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite. Understanding the Moho will offer new clues into the dynamics of Earth's interior. read more
  • Meteorites reveal another way to make life's c ...
    Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich -- you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to make crucial components of life increases the likelihood that life emerged elsewhere in the Univ ...
  • Drug helps purge hidden HIV virus, study shows
    A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has successfully flushed latent HIV infection from hiding, with a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma. Tackling latent HIV in the immune system is critical to finding a cure for AIDS. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Purpose and target audience of BraveNewClimate.com
    Before I write a scientific paper, I always try to identify: (1) my main message [MM], in 25 words or less, and (2) my target audience [TA]. Doing this helps focus the ‘story’ of the manuscript on a key point. Papers that try to present multiple messages are typically confusing and/or too long f ...
  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...
  • 100% Renewable Electricity for Australia: Resp ...
    Guest post by Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. Click here for a printable 6-page PDF version of this response. ——————– This is a personal response to Lang’s (2012) article critiquing the peer-reviewed paper Elliston, Diesendo ...
  • IFR FaD 10 – Metal fuel and plutonium
    Over the next few months I will publish four extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the ...
  • The Grattan Report on low-emissions energy tec ...
    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). Wood, A, T. Ellis, D. Mulloworth, and H. Morrow (2012) No Easy Choices: Which Way to Australia’s Energy Future. Technology Analysis. Grattan Institute, Melbourne. This report is a valuable addition to the litera ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • I Want To Be On Armed Forces Radio
    I promise not to call people sluts for the crime of testifying before congress, and this alone makes me more qualified than Rush The Liar Limbaugh. I don’t have a radio show, bit I am sure there is millions of Americans who agree that Republicans are a Disease, and would love to hear my vo ...
  • So Rush Limbaugh Is A Piece Of Slime
    Who knew…. How dare anyone testify that doing stuff that keeps people from dying might be necessary! How dare they. They should just sit down, shut up, and let Rush’s friends run the world.
  • Psycho CPAC Anyone?
    Man, I watched clips of the freak show at this year’s CPAC. Why don’t they just call it the Obama hatefest? Where is Politifact anyway? I don’t think one single fake conservative said one single thing that was true from all the coverage I watched. Man, what a bunch of lying cry ...
  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Greedy Bastards Antidote: Lawrence Lessig on “ ...
    In a discussion on money, politics, and the growth of organic political reform movements in America over the last few years, Dylan Ratigan talks with Lawrence Lessig about his new book, One Way Forward: An Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic. You can read Lessig's book here.
  • Obama’s Lobbying Ban Leads To More Corru ...
    When Republic Report launched Sell Out Of The Week, our initial winner was President Obama, who earned the prize for embracing his super PAC, essentially endorsing unlimited corporate cash invading the democratic process, after having failed to take some critical steps to clean up the system. We ...
  • This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Crimina ...
    If laws like the new Trespass Bill (HR 347) had been in effect during the Civil Rights movement, there would have been no March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists would have been rendered criminals. And King's call for "militant nonviolent resistance" would have been ...
  • Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; ...
    Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats | #Occupy News Roundup | How to Fund an American Police State | Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts | "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks | Tech Firms Help Arab Dictators | Vermont Town Meet ...
  • Hot List: Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income G ...
    Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains | Wall Street speculators continue to rake in billions | SEC Dropped the Ball on $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme | Goldman's Massive Conflicts of Interest | Gaming the Greek bailout | Market Recovery Is an Illusion | BP to Pay $7.8 B ...

+972

  • WATCH: Army disperses International Women&#821 ...
    More than 250 Palestinian and Israeli women and men were attacked by military forces at a demonstration at the Qalandia checkpoint. Several injuries were reported, including one woman who was hospitalized after being shot with a rubber-coated bullet. The demonstration started Thursday at noon, w ...
  • In Jewish tradition, Dershowitz hunting down & ...
    Harvard Professor Alan Dershowtiz has made a name for himself by hunting down those Jews he believes are beyond the pale of what is admissible in discourse about Israel and trying to ‘excommunicate’ them. His latest target: MJ Rosenberg of Media Matters. By Jeremiah Haber Theater J, ...
  • PHOTO: Settlers dress as Arabs for Purim in ap ...
    For just a moment yesterday, one might have thought that the demonstrations worked, or that the hoax newspaper announcing the end of segregation on Shuhada St was not a hoax after all. For a moment, one might have mistakenly assumed that Palestinians are actually walking that main road in Hebron ...
  • Hebron settlers dress up as Arabs for Purim
    For just a moment yesterday, one might have thought that the demonstrations worked, or that the hoax newspaper announcing the end of segregation on Shuhada St was not a hoax after all. For a moment, one might have mistakenly assumed that Palestinians are actually walking that main road in Hebron ...
  • David Grossman comes out against attack on Ira ...
    In interview published in The Nation online, novelist says starting a war is an even worse option than living with a nuclear Iran       In his first public statement on the conflict with Iran, David Grossman, the leading Israeli novelist of the last generation and strongest voice of his country’ ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • The Australian Government Welcomes the Withdr ...
    The Australian Government welcomes Japan's decision to recall its whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean.
  • Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan
    The Gillard Government's commitment to build a network of national wildlife corridors is moving ahead with the release today of the Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan.
  • First approved arrangement announced for Nati ...
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today announced that DHL Supply Chain (Australia) Pty Ltd has been approved as the first organisation able to deliver services under the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme.
  • Australia welcomes World Heritage Centre dele ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today welcomed to Australia a delegation from the World Heritage Centre and the International Union for Conservation of Nature which will assess conservation of the world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
  • Many hands make light work this Clean Up Aust ...
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability, Senator Don Farrell encourages all Australians to get involved in the 22nd annual Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday, March 4, 2012.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Critical Analysis of The Florida Senate Bank ...
    And contrary, to representations made at the hearing yesterday, the letter in opposition to the bill written by Henry Trawick applies to many of the issues that are still addressed in the current version of the litigation. Henry Trawick’s honored opinion and analysis of this bill should no ...
  • The State Attorneys General, Yes, They Sold Us ...
    From Abigail Field: Dear State Attorneys General: Rumor has it that this week we will learn precisely how you sold us all out regarding the criminal enterprise that is mortgage servicing and foreclosure in America. That is, rumor has it that more than two weeks after you announced a deal with fi ...
  • Foreclosure Bill: “Most of this bill is ...
    The good news is some of our elected leaders are listening to us…. For the first time since the real estate crash crippled Florida’s economy and battered struggling homeowners, a bill to hasten foreclosures through the courts is headed to the full House and Senate. A narrow 6-4 vote ...
  • Senators Olerich and Fasano, Margolis, Sobel, ...
    Tonight the Florida Senate voted to pass the absurd foreclosure bill.  The debate was actually significant because two Republicans actually took a stand for justice and the integrity of the legal process and voted against this mess.  Senators Fasano and Olerich  both provided sensible commentary ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • Click Here to Care
    In the last 48 hours, my wife and I have field endless requests for guidance on the Kony 2012 phenomenon. …Continue reading »
  • We Found Love In A Hopeless Place
    Jane and I weren’t prepared for the sheer number of well wishes pouring in through various venues yesterday regarding my …Continue reading »
  • With Respect
    Try as hard as I might, I just can’t seem to get out of politics. Strange, considering that I lost …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Not As We Had Hoped
    Canadian communities are presently struggling through a process never endured before. We have already recounted in these posts how governments, …Continue reading »
  • I Earned Them
    The call came from one of those trendy American magazines that have found their niche and built a solid base …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...

War Resisters League

  • A Story and a Book
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →
  • “Exigent times call for very strenuous r ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →
  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
  • “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
    As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →

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.

k2p blog

  • Solar cycles and the Landscheidt minimum
    Theodor Landscheidt predicted in 1989 that the next solar minima leading to cool periods on earth would occur in 2030 and 2200.
  • South Africa could join the shale gas band-wagon
    South Africa has vast resources of gas bearing shale in the Karoo region which could amount to 14 trillion cubic metres (compared to 25tcm in China and 13tcm in the US) which - if exploited - could fuel economic growth and provide energy independence.
  • When senior scientists in India condone &#8220 ...
    The prevailing paradigm in India of senior scientists merely appending their names to research papers without contributing to the work and without taking responsibility for any wrongdoing has to change. It is hardly surprising that research students indulge in "cut and paste" science when their ...
  • Worldcomp and the University of Georgia
    A search for "University of Georgia + Worldcomp" returns some 52,900 results and encourages the perception that the two are linked. A very discrete disclaimer on the Worldcomp website does little to correct this perception. If the University of Georgia truly wishes to distance itself from these ...
  • Norway: “25–56% of the temperature incre ...
    Norwegian scientists find that temperature increases over the last 150 years at Norwegian stations can be largely attributed to solar effects followed by ocean effects.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • How Does A 14-Year-Old Girl Buy A House?
    You occasionally hear about teen pop stars and actors buying their own homes, but it's not every day that you run across a seemingly average 14-year-old girl who not only purchased a property but has already turned it into an income generator. NPR has the story of the Florida teen who has spen ...
  • Penguins Waddling Around On Delta Flight Elici ...
    We're a bit batty over airline news today, but this one just had to be posted: If anyone ever told you something unlikely would happen "when penguins fly," you take this story and shove it right in that person's face. Two penguins not only flew, but they traveled first class on the way to a pre ...
  • Survey Says We're Not Okay With Search Engines ...
    As companies like Google and Facebook fall under scrutiny for their online privacy policies, Americans are getting uncomfortable with the the fact that using a search engines could turn over their personal data for collection and targeted advertising. Reuters cites a new Pew survey released to ...
  • 4-Minute Phone Call Saves ADT Customer $100 Pe ...
    Aishel is an ADT home security system customer. When he received a letter in the mail that the company was increasing his monthly bill slightly, he decided that this change made him feel quite insecure in the wallet. He called up ADT to see whether they could waive the increase for him. Of cour ...
  • You Can't Deduct Your Nudie Magazine Subscript ...
    Every year, taxpayers try to slip things into their taxes as deductions, things they might deem necessary business expenses that can be written off. Some of these things fly with tax preparers and subsequently, the Internal Revenue Service, while others, say, a subscription to Playboy, just don ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • For Bankers, the Fix is in at the Justice Depa ...
    Eyal Press wrote an interesting piece this week, comparing the excessive attention that Justice Department prosecutors have directed at whistleblowers in the national security world in recent years to the absolute disinterest with which these same attorneys treat Wall Street whistleblowers. He’ ...
  • GAP & Brennan Center for Justice NYC event on ...
    Dear GAP supporters: GAP & The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law are teaming up to present a special stop of our American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability: To Protect or to Prosecute? National Security Whistleblowers featuring Barton Gellman (moderat ...
  • GAP Conducting Study of UN Internal Justice Sy ...
    With support from the United States Institute of Peace, GAP has launched a "United Nations jurisprudence and personnel in conflict & post-conflict states" project to investigate the influence of the United Nations' (UN) internal justice system on the organization's ability to address corrupt ...
  • 'Pink Slime' in Your Beef?: Daily Whistleblowe ...
    ABC News: 'Pink Slime' Outrage: Tips for Checking Your Beef Summary: GAP client and whistleblower Kit Foshee was interviewed on ABC World News With Diane Sawyer yesterday to discuss concerns regarding ammoniated beef trimmings – popularly known as 'pink slime' – that can be found in ...
  • Jesselyn Radack & Thomas Drake at American Uni ...
    Ralph Nader, Jennifer Harbury, Drake, Radack, Shetterly, and Jane Mayer at the event.With the recent crackdown on whistleblowers, the stories of GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack and National Security Agency whistleblower/GAP client Thomas Drake are all the more p ...

UK Progressive

  • Lanny Davis Defends Limbaugh, Smears Liberals
    Even I reach my limit. I will resist the temptation to opine at any length about Lanny Davis or his recent column, but I take aggressive offense at the way he smears liberals as McCarthyites. First Lanny gratuitously states the obvious, that Rush Limbaugh has a First Amendment right to be a sexi ...
  • When the GOP Tried to Ban Dark Money
    by Justin Elliott, ProPublica Last month, when House Democrats introduced the DISCLOSE 2012 Act to try to stop the flow of secret “dark money” into the electoral process, it marked an ironic twist. A decade ago, it was Republicans who were pushing for disclosure of donors to nonprofi ...
  • Clear Channel’s Discourse Problem Just Doesn’t ...
    Listening to the radio these days is an engagement in naked decorum whereby the listener’s sensibilities are liable to be affronted and confronted. But sometimes we need our sensibilities confronted. There are certainly some things in American society that we need to talk about. However sensitiv ...
  • Under Arrest – For God’s Sake
    March 8, 2012; 7:45 A.M. The FBI is arresting one of my best friends even as I write. Her partner just phoned me in panic. I knew this moment was coming, as did she, but we hoped against all hope it would not. She is not a rapist or murder or even a robber, rather [...]
  • Reid Rocks, Pelosi Rolls
    In the golden days of newspapers, the great columnists, such as Walter Lippmann and James “Scotty” Reston, would step back and assess the panorama of unfolding events. For the first time since November 2010, I now believe the most likely outcome of the 2012 elections is that Barack Obama will be ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Prius drivers behaving badly. Upper class more ...
    Prius drivers may claim they want to help the poor but they are less likely to want to slow down and let them cross the road. You’d think Prius drivers would hold pedestrians, who emit less carbon, in high regard. But alas, roadside tests show about one third of Prius drivers broke crossw ...
  • China finds the odd 200 years worth of fuel
    Who isn’t finding shale gas these days? To whom shall we sell all those super-costly solar units, that we will supposedly be “world leaders” in? China reveals 25tn cu metres of shale gas Financial Times China announced the results of its most extensive official appraisal of sha ...
  • Finkelstein — Yes please. Just try it…
    Welcome to Australistan. I haven’t read the whole 400 page Finklestein report, but Mark Steyn tells me that the Chinese government likes it. What more do you need to know? As Steyn says, this is not a left-right thing, it’s a free-unfree thing. Tim Andrews at Menzies House launches ...
  • Monbiot — Steal things and be a “d ...
    Showing the intellectual depth we’ve come to expect from progressives, Monbiot argues that the public debate on atmospheric dynamics would be improved by knowing who-funds-those-who dare speak against the government experts. It’s as if the truth of future tropospheric warming comes n ...
  • The Moons influence on the atmosphere over Aus ...
    We know the moon changes our tides, but can it also change our rainfall? Could the moon also cause tides in the atmosphere? Some researchers have found such periodic movements in air above 3000m. Some have suggested that the moon drives the cyclical shifts in the Length of Day (LOD) that occur o ...

ReNew America

  • Narcissism and the culture war
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - The culture war might be likened to fighting a war against a coalition of powers. Imagine WWI-style trench warfare on a long front. In the center of the enemy lines are the forces of moral relativism. These forces oppose the idea that there is a universal moral law ...
  • RomneyCare now funding FREE abortions
    (Amy Contrada) - RomneyCare now offers free elective surgical abortions. Mitt Romney was the enabler. This is how his government-dictated health plan is playing out...
  • Will the 'war on women' kill Limbaugh's radio ...
    (Cliff Kincaid) - Rush Limbaugh claims that MSNBC is hyping an alleged "Republican War on Women," stemming from the controversy caused by his vicious attacks on feminist Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, for which he has apologized...
  • Secret to Santorum's success found in one word
    (Bryan Fischer) - The general consensus among the political punditry from Super Tuesday, both left and right, is that Romney is a very weak frontrunner. He failed to close the deal, didn't deliver the knockout punch, eked out a win in Ohio, etc. So even though he won six states to Rick Santorum' ...
  • Santorum assails Romney's health care stances
    (Washington Times) - While Mitt Romney squeaked out a narrow victory in Ohio's Republican primary, chief opponent Rick Santorum peeled away the scab and drew new blood over the former Massachusetts governor's history on health care, resurrecting the chief obstacle between Mr. Romney and the nomi ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Survivalist Magazine / More Apocalyptic TV
    2012 is the year of 2012! Issue six of Survivalist magazine is a special 2012 issue. You can buy single copies and the first two issues are now also available on Kindle. To my knowledge this is the only survivalist magazine in existence. Please let me know if you are aware of any others. &#8 ...
  • Doomsday Preppers: Highest Ratings
    According to National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers is the most popular show the network has ever aired. This week on National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers continues its amazing run on the channel, the #1, 3, 6 and 11 most viewed shows of the week.  Doomsday Preppers has become ...
  • Another Solar Flare Alert
    As you can see, this X5 flare is much bigger than the X1 flare that occurred just 20 hours ago. As a comparison, last August we had an X6.9. The major storm of 2003 had an X17.2 flare, whilst the 1989 flare that took out a power grid in Canada was an X15. The biggest recorded in modern times was ...
  • Seed Bank Insurance / Korean Doomsday Movie
    Seed banks are incredibly valuable resources, and an acknowledgement that sometimes there SHTF events that require emergency backups. Seed banks can help restart horticulture in the event of a natural disaster or spread of a disease. But what if harm comes to the seed bank itself? Wars have dest ...
  • Asteroid 2012 DA14: Earth Impact in 2013?
    An article has been appearing in blogs and at forums. It says, in part: To avert a possible catastrophe – this time set for February 2013 – scientists suggest confronting asteroid 2012 DA14 with either paint or big guns. The stickler is that time has long run out to build a spaceship to carr ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Trio arrested with drugs worth Rs 4 cr
    Delhi Police claimed to have smashed a drug syndicate, with the arrest of 3 youths and recovery of heroin and Phenobarbital worth around Rs 4 crore. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • ‘Suchitra`s husband a Trinamool Congress wor ...
    WB Leader of the Opposition Surya Kanta Mishra claimed that the present husband of top woman Maoist Suchitra Mahato was a Trinamool Congress worker. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago
  • Mild tremor in Idukki district
    A mild tremor was experienced at Venjurmedu, about 10 km from Idukki Dam site, in neighbouring Idukki district early today, police said. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago
  • SAD seeks early LS polls, says NDA best altern ...
    All are so fed up because not a single decision is being taken by the government of India, SAD(B) president Sukhbir Singh Badal said. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • HC moved for action against DMK leader Chinnasamy
    A criminal petition has been filed in the Madras High Court bench here by a Karur-based land owner, seeking to register a case against DMK functionary Chinnasamy. Reported by Zee News 4 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • 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 ...
  • The BRICs and the Construction of the Multipol ...
    Ten years ago, the acronym BRIC entered the lexicon of international economics and finance. Since then, cooperation among the emerging countries contained in that acronym has taken on an increasingly marked geo-economic and geopolitical record. The consolidation of relations among Brazil, Russia ...
  • Two Worlds, Two Truths
    The Vladimir Putin’s election for a new term means the major foreign policy guidelines outlined in his article called Russia and the Changing World are going to be further implemented. The article calls for the resurrection of the bipolar world order when no one involved in confrontation could a ...
  • Russia’s National Interests and Foreign ...
    On February 27, with Russia’s presidential poll already in sight, Moskovskie Novosti daily featured an international politics opinion piece by Vladimir Putin, which came as the seventh in a series of programmatic papers by the Russian prime minister and March 4 elections front-runner. The ...
  • Russia’s New President And the Transforming World
    Many events of the year 2011 have explicitly demonstrated that the world has entered a phase of profound change and transformation with regard to politics, ideology, finance and economy. As the economic situation and social standards in the United States and Europe continue to deteriorate, the N ...

BlogHer

  • Peyton, Peyton, Peyton...
    The Colts decided to end their run with Peyton Manning. It was emotional. It was depressing. And while all the fans grieve their beloved 18 moving on in the world, the rest of the league is excited, waiting for their opportunity to scoop him up. It's not unlike going through a divorce. Both part ...
  • Kony: Suffer the Little Children
    After seeing a clip of the infamous viral video KONY 2012, I was intrigued and wanted to learn more about the group behind its success. The group is called the Invisible Children, Inc. The group's main focus, stated in the film: "make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise suppor ...
  • Brooke Moreland is Changing How We Dress
    Game Changers is a series of interviews with awesome women who are changing the landscape of the web. Does this look good on me? We've all asked ourselves that question. And, if you're like me, you spend minutes (okay, let me be honest, hours) in stuffy dressing rooms pondering this question. I ...
  • St. Patrick's Day Mason Jar Vases
    [Editor's Note: St. Patrick’s Day is next week, is you house decorated in green and pantry stocked with boxes of Lucky Charms? Never fear it is not too late to do a little green themed crafting. I realize painted Mason Jars are nothing new, but this is the first time I have seen them with a new ...
  • Interview with Pemo Theodore: Women-Owned Star ...
    I recently had the pleasure of connecting with start up coach Pemo Theodore of EZ Biz and Pitch Perfect for a personal interview. Theodore recently teamed up with the Startup Genome to help get a greater number of women to participate in the Startup Genome Compass so that women's voices could b ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Meat Grown in Lab Poised to Enter Food Industry
    A scientist in Maastricht University has grown the world’s first synthetic meat in hopes to keep animal protein accessible and inexpensive in the face of growing demand.  Dr. Mark Post explains: “Meat demand is going to double ...
  • Be Reminded of What it Means to Resist!
    This speech from Charlie Chaplin comes from a movie created at the end of the Nazi era as a satire against the evil regime.  A comedian for all intensive purposes, Charlie Chaplin was also wise, the ...
  • Occasional Fasting Offers Boost in Mental Heal ...
    Longevity is not only rooted in what we put in our bodies but also how we regulate our intake.  There is a Japanese proverb, “hara hachi bunme” or “Stop eating when you are 80% full”. ...
  • Get Dirty to Get Joy- Bacteria in Soil Acts as ...
    A bacteria found in soil called Mycobacterium has been found to effect the same neurons as Prozac, offering people a natural lift in mood.  This is just one more great reason to get out in ...
  • Why do 53% of autistic children have rh negati ...
    One of the most misinterpreted terms out there is “rhesus disease”. It is not a disease, but rather an incompatibility causing danger to the rh positive child in the rh negative mother’s body. The common remedy ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 9, 2012
    Coal miners march outside Petrosani, Romania, Thursday, March 8, 2012. Several thousands coal miners have marched in western Romania, refusing to go down the mines for the fourth day in row to protest over low salaries and work conditions, they were threatening to continue to Bucharest, but were ...
  • Breaking: Mine operator charged with two crimi ...
    We’ve just posted online a copy of the federal criminal charges filed a few minutes ago against Genwal Resources, the Murray Energy company that operated the Crandall Canyon Mine where six miners and three rescue workers died in that terrible disaster back in 2007. Federal prosecutors in U ...
  • W.Va. House resolution attacks EPA
    My buddy Jared Hunt over at the Daily Mail was kind enough to point out to me on Twitter this morning a new resolution introduced this morning in the West Virginia House of Delegates attacking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to make our state’s coal operators and p ...
  • News coming in Crandall Canyon criminal probe
    UPDATED: I’ve just posted a copy of the charging document, just filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. Here’s the word from my friend Mike Gorrell at The Salt Lake Tribune: U.S. Attorney for Utah David Barlow has scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference [THAT'S UTAH TIME] to talk about his ...
  • 9 miners die in flood, mine collapse in Colombia
    Yency Munoz, left, wife of dead miner Victor Bustamante, and a relative, cry outside the “El Desespero” coal mine in Angelopolis, Colombia, Thursday March 8, 2012. Victor and his brother Robinson are among 9 miners who were killed when water flooded and collapsed the small mine on We ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Getting Real IP Addresses Using CloudFlare, Ng ...
    Logs from Splunk CloudFlare is a great service that proxies your site’s traffic in order to offer performance gains and filtering options. It can compress and cache static content such as CSS files, JavaScript, and image files and then geographically optimize how they’re given to you ...
  • Thoughts on Sam Harris’ Book on Free Will
    Sam Harris’s book on free will came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s what I had to say about the book back in December when he announced it: I basically anticipate an extremely high-quality summary of my numerous articles, posts, and debate inte ...
  • iOS-based Square Headed To New York City Taxi ...
    As we heard last week, mobile payments platform Square pitched the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission to replace the current taxi TVs and payments technology in 50 cabs. The company says today that the pilot has been approved, and Square will be tested in up to 30 cabs in the test. AllThings ...
  • Dunning-Kruger and the End of Democracy
    The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them ...
  • Give it five minutes | 37signals
    There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea. Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy. The hard thing to [...]

Fitwatch

  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...
  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Five new judges of International Criminal Cour ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN - New ICC judges from left: Robert Fremr Anthony T. Carmona Howard Morrison, Olga Herrera Carbuccia and Chile Eboe-Osuji. Photo: ICC Five new judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) weresworn in today following their election last December at the last session of the ...
  • Hippie Health Digest
    Turn On, Tune In, Quit Drinking: LSD May Help Cure Alcoholism By Ian Landau,everydayhealth.com – A Gallup poll released in October 2010 found that 70 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana for medical use. Now two Norwegian neuroscientists are questioning whether LSD should be giv ...
  • United State of Emergency: Outlawing Dissent
    By Zakk Flash,pressaction.com - During the 1967 Six Day War, a series of strict emergency laws were enacted across the Arab World, most notably in Egypt and Syria. Police powers became absolute while constitutional rights were suspended; any non-governmental political activity such as street dem ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Israel kills more Gaza gunmen, rockets fired into Israel GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed two more Gaza militants on Saturday, raising the death toll in two days of violence to 12 and dozens of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel injured at least four people, Israeli and Palestinian official ...
  • Orthodox Believers Stand Up For Jailed Anti-Pu ...
    By RFE/RL’s By Claire Bigg - Public outrage is mounting over the jailing of two Russian women accused of staging an illegal anti-Kremlin performance in Moscow’s largest church. Investigators claim the pair belong to the all-girl dissident punk group Pussy Riot that broke into Christ ...

reference frame

  • Tevatron insists on top-antitop forward-backwa ...
    Fourteen months ago, we talked about remarkable claims by the Tevatron's CDF collaboration that the top quarks born in their now-defunct accelerator were excessively biased, preferring to move in the direction of the proton beam, while the antitops prefer to move in the direction of the antip ...
  • Poland vetoes the 2050 EU carbon misplanning
    The European Union's anti-carbon-dioxide ideologues have decided to become 10 times better Stalinists than Stalin. While the ex-Soviet leader organized the life in his country (including the production of coal) according to 5-year plans, the EU wanted to codify a 50-year plan and prescri ...
  • Study: climate alarmists represent 30% of OCD ...
    A large fraction of the most notorious climate alarmists are "only in it for the gold", if I use the self-description of one of them, Dr Michael Tobis. However, there certainly exist people who have genuinely been brainwashed and who believe that a dangerous climate change is right behin ...
  • Aroma of 665 GeV stop and 830 GeV gluino
    In November 2011, I discussed a paper about Profumo di SUSY, i.e. the Scent of a Woman Called Susy, a woman whom four playful physicists started to smell in the LHC data. They continued to train their noses and brought us a new aromatic preprint today: A Multi-Axis Best Fit to the Coll ...
  • Solar storm a dud so far
    The media seem to be full of reports on the ongoing solar storm and solar flares and their hypothetical amazing impact on the Earth and its inhabitants. The hypothetical events we should expect are frequent heart attacks, dysfunctional GPS devices and maybe whole computer networks ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I wonder if TSA Agents know what long term exp ...
    People have been wondering what long term exposure to naked body scanners will do to the human body. Wonder no more. Here is a photo of an ex TSA Employee. I hear she now works as a tanning bed operator. Click image to enlarge   Any questions? Homeland Security Job Guide: How to get an [... ...
  • Giabo George is a ‘MADe’ Dog. Seen by over 200 ...
    I don’t know how I forgot this one. My Pug, Giabo George, was featured on the Keiser Report over the Christmas holidays. I must be losing it, as the little guy was made famous by Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser. The Keiser Report is seen by over 200 million viewers from around the world each ...
  • Chris Duane: As long as you play by the Elite’ ...
    This video just about sums up what I have been saying for the past 5 or so years. The Heretic is back with a plan for us to destroy the paradigm of evil, fraud, corruption. and tyranny that has been built up by the Elite. If you do not own physical silver then may God [...] Related posts: The ...
  • Heist The Movie – Who Stole the American Dream?
    Please watch the newly updated trailer for “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?,” the new, explosive documentary from Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher exposing the roots of the American economic crisis and the destruction of the American dream. Visit Heist-TheMovie.com for more ...
  • The subtle art of mind control in the media: T ...
    So I have been listening,watching, and reading with fascination, intrigue, and disgust at how the media is conditioning the minds of the masses by reporting on Andrew Briebart’s death by stating that ‘he was ‘known to have heart problems’ or ‘he was known to have a ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • FDA Warns Of Mercury in Skin Creams
    By: Etan Yeshua, Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week that more than 35 imported skin creams, antiseptic soaps and anti-aging lotions have recently been tied to mercury poisoning that in some instances sent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG to FDA: Step It Up on Formaldehyde-Laced H ...
    By: Robert Katsnelson, legal intern The maker of Brazilian Blowout -- one of numerous hair straighteners on the market containing formaldehyde, a known carcinogen -- is now required to provide health warnings on its product's packaging and website,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Don't let the lights go out on environmental j ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations A few days ago two California-based environmental reporters for the Associated Press who had made major contributions to the issue and their profession were taken off the beat. In the entire state... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • California: The Wild West of Fracking
    In some states, oil and gas companies have begun to face (gasp!) some basic regulations, such as required reporting of where and when they hydraulically fracture (or "frack") wells, and even disclosure of the chemicals they use. But in California,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • California: The Wild West of Fracking
    In some states, oil and gas companies have begun to face (gasp!) some basic regulations, such as required reporting of where and when they hydraulically fracture (or "frack") wells, and even disclosure of the chemicals they use. But in California,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Food prices rise as border trade soars
    Food prices in Norway rose again from January to February, reported state statistics bureau SSB on Friday. The news comes as legions of Norwegians would likely drive over the border during the weekend to do their shopping in Sweden, where prices are much lower and selection much higher. SSB repo ...
  • Economic refugees face tough market
    Economic refugees from crisis-ridden countries in southern Europe continue to stream into Norway, but they face a hard time finding work despite Norway’s strong economy and low unemployment rate. New statistics have unveiled the fields where foreign workers are least needed. Labour Ministe ...
  • ‘Kollen’ aims to earn money in the summer, too
    Oslo’s famed Holmenkollen Ski Jump and surrounding winter sports arenas, popularly known as “Kollen,” will be the site of the largest summer music festival in the country this year. Organizers hope 60,000 people will attend during the course of the festival weekend. Officials a ...
  • Thousands head for Holmenkollen
    Organizers aren’t expecting as many spectators as in years past, but  thousands of winter sports fans will once again head for the hills above Oslo this weekend for the annual World Cup competitions in Nordic skiing and ski jumping. Around 25,000 are expected on Sunday, when the world&#821 ...
  • Swedes clear Nobel Committee
    Sweden’s Nobel Foundation, which oversees the awarding of all the Nobel prizes, has determined that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has not violated the foundation’s rules regarding the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oslo lawyer who has complained for years that it has, doesn&# ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Surveying Commons Activism on the Internationa ...
    The following is an adaptation of my notes for my talk at the Occupy Wall Street “Making Worlds” conference on February 16-18, 2012. I am so pleased that the Occupy and Commons movements are finding each other and starting a new conversation. Occupy is an incredible force for change. It has a ...
  • Time for a FRESH Start
    Editor’s Note: For background on the FRESH project ("the world’s wildest supermarket"), please see this previous post. From: Sepp Holzer’s Permakultur, Leopold Stocker Verlag, 2008 Danish food revolutionaries take matters into their own hands in order to do what needs to be ...
  • Update on Sociocracy Workshop, Brisbane (March ...
    What: Sociocracy Workshop When: March 16-17, with an additional, optional Advanced Training day on March 19 (1.1mb PDF flyer) Where: Synapse Conference Room, Level 1, 262 Montague Rd., West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia This is an update on a previous advert for the Sococracy workshop ...
  • An Innovative Approach to Water Storage at a S ...
    Just outside of Arusha, Tanzania, is ‘Kesho Leo’– a sustainable home for vulnerable women and children operated by FoodWaterShelter. The principles of permaculture underpin the daily lives of the Kesho Leo residents. It is currently the home of seven families, each headed by ...
  • Sail Power Reborn – Transporting Local Goods b ...
    Peak Moment host Janaia Donaldson joins Fulvio Casali, Kathy Pelish and Alex Tokar, co-founders of the Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, on the deck of the sailboat Soliton, docked in Ballard, near Seattle, Washington. The Salish Sea Trading Cooperative have teamed up with Nash’s organic pr ...

Pointman's

  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...
  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education, By Diane Ra ...
    Below is an excerpt from a post by Diane Ravitch that originally appeared on the Education Week blog: I went to Lafayette, La., last week to speak to the Louisiana School Boards Association. These men and women, representing their local schools from across the state, are trying to preserve pu ...
  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...
  • Message to Occupy Prisons Protests, By Robert King
    The below message, from Robert King, a former New Orleans Black Panther and member of Angola Three, was recently published in the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three newsletter. First of all I would like to applaud and salute those in the Occupy movement for focusing on the hideou ...
  • Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist An ...
    I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I learned about the incredibly egregious law HB 56 and I l ...
  • What Does Gender Have To Do With Housing? By S ...
    From the Bridge The Gulf website: This article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork: Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housi ...

Information Underground

  • Historical Events • Re: Why Killing Is Essenti ...
    The other side of the story, use your own discretion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Gellone In 1972 historian Arthur Zuckerman published A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, a book about the dynasty of Makhir of Narbonne published by Columbia University Press. In that book Zuckerman ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Why Killing Is Essenti ...
    I didn't yet use the internet when the following post was published. Having just discovered it today I thought it best to give credit where it was due. http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/151926 'The Seed of the Royal House of David' from Frankland to Babylon By: Crack_Smoke_Republican on ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I am so very proud to present to you my latest dramatic-narration, and it is a very special and TIMELESS one: Gen. Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACvW7fUZY9Y I will do another later. Thank you, and enjoy this AND WATCH THE SLIDE-SHOW that is in-se ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Great! Love it! Lindsay if this your voice? You should consider reading more of the essential books. If i may wish one, i would recommend e. michael jones. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History Or books that demonstrate jewish racist supremacy,modern entanglements i ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Great show Lindsey! Reminds me of Bangkok in 1995 living as an expat for a few months. Life is short and Thailand for better or for worse is a great place to see it all. Good to see the ole'American spirit getting reawakened at the most unusual times. Lord knows it has happened to me a few t ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Some Shale Formations Impervious To Fracking, ...
    Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson says that a drilling method that has made vast natural gas resources accessible across the U.S. has been unable to crack some shale rock formations in Europe and China. Speaking to energy analysts, Tillerson said two attempts to tap gas-rich shale fields in Poland t ...
  • Thoreau’s Notebooks Reveal Details of Earlier ...
    A comparison of detailed notes taken by naturalist Henry David Thoreau with current weather and flower-blooming data has enabled scientists to document the earlier arrival of spring in eastern Massachusetts over Henry David Thoreau the past 150 years. After studying Thoreau’s records and ...
  • Herbicides May Be Lethal For Endangered Butter ...
    Common herbicides used to maintain the habitat of the endangered Lange’s metalmark butterfly may actually pose a lethal threat to the species, according to a new study. In tests requested by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which uses the herbicides to combat invasive plants in a California w ...
  • New York City Roof Study Shows Drastic Cooling ...
    A New York City roof covered in a white synthetic membrane was on average 43 degrees F cooler than surrounding black tar and asphalt roofs during times of peak heat last summer, according to a study by scientists from Columbia University and NASA. On the CoolRoofs.org hottest day of the s ...
  • California Takes the Lead With New Climate Ini ...
    Long ahead of the rest of the U.S. on environmental policy, California is taking bold steps to tackle climate change — from committing to dramatic reductions in emissions, to establishing a cap-and-trade system, to mandating an increase in zero-emission vehicles. The bottom line, say state offic ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Jaycee Dugard’s New Life
    Held captive for 18 years, Dugard accepts a DVF Award, along with Oprah and others, and describes her future plans.
  • The Week’s Best Reads
    The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.
  • The GOP Courts Guam and Saipan
    Guam, Saipan, and their convention delegates are courted hard by GOP candidates.
  • National Geographic Tackles Tuna
    Call it conservation reality TV. In a new series, National Geographic takes on the thrill, drama, and drawbacks of the high-stakes hunt for bluefin tuna. Daniel Stone reports.
  • Mitt’s Math Mojo
    Eleanor Clift on why, despite expected losses in the next few days, Romney’s closing in on the nomination.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • If you really need a seat, say so
    Regarding the March 4 Kyodo article "Elderly force subway to rethink 'all priority seats' policy": The policy of setting aside priority seats on trains is often criticized for reinforcing discriminatory attitudes toward the elderly and pregnant women, as the system literally demarcates and even ...
  • Catastrophe revisited 12 months on
    The Ground Self-Defense Force troops have gone. So too the old blackboard with sheets of paper taped to it. I still remember a few of the names written in long lists there — the names of those whose muddied bodies could be identified after they were brought on military trucks to the makesh ...
  • The power of bad news
    Weekly Playboy magazine discerns among young people a rising interest in Buddhism. This is surprising, given Japan's well-known "religion allergy" — or not, given that troubled times often inspire spiritual quests. "Buddhism is often considered a doctrine of resignation, but it isn't," e ...
  • Kimigayo rule leaves bad taste
    Regarding the March 1 Jiji Press article "Osaka passes 'Kimigayo' ordinance": It is quite right to expect public schoolteachers to stand at attention when the national anthem is played. Showing proper respect for a nation's flag and other symbols of state should be expected. But should it be a c ...
  • Equal access to specialized care
    Regarding the March 3 article, "Cancer, heart disease, stroke deaths plunge to 50-year low": People's accessibility to specialized medical resources is essential. We have to pay more attention to regional disparities, which are partly caused by uneven distribution of clinical specialists. A vari ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

  • ‘Nylons and rum’
    Bob Rae’s speech during this week’s debate on expanding the investigative powers of Elections...
  • The Kony 2012 Vanity Project
    Watching the first four minutes of Kony 2012, the viral online video by Jason...
  • The Cullen spin
    Jamey Heath, co-manager of Nathan Cullen’s campaign, sets his candidate’s outlook against those of...
  • Kate’s supporting role to the real Winds ...
    All eyes were on the Queen, pretty in pink, as her Diamond Jubilee tour of Britain officially starts
  • The list
    York Centre is the 40th riding with reports of suspicious calls about polling station...

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Women’s economics
    You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Women are not only getting more and more educated, they also represent the majority of university students, both in undergraduate and in Master’s programmes. In the coming years, you doctor is very likely to be a woman, so will the lawyer that will def ...
  • Labour Force Exodus
    Statistics Canada reported this morning that 38,000 people gave up looking for work in February. The official unemployment rate fell because these Canadians were no longer counted as being unemployed. However, this huge withdrawal from the labour force is a sign of weakness in the job market. Mo ...
  • The Loonie’s Stagnant Purchasing Power
    The following note also appears on Business Insider: When Ontario’s Premier recently complained that Canada’s petro-dollar undermines manufacturing exports, many economists tripped over each other to counter that a strong loonie benefits all Canadians through cheaper imports. In theory, that mak ...
  • Increasing number of migrant labourers in Nova ...
    According to a Citizenship and Immigration Canada report, the number of migrant labourers in Canada increased from 177,781 to 432,682 between 2000 and 2010.  Immigrant Settlement Integration Services says the number of foreign workers entering Nova Scotia has almost doubled in the last five year ...
  • Tilting at Windmills: What to do about Dutch D ...
    In response to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complaint about oil and the exchange rate, several (conservative) commentators argued that this “Dutch disease” is not what ails Ontario manufacturing. Andrew Coyne took a different tack yesterday, agreeing that petroleum development drives up the ...

ReDress

  • America gone stupid over Iran
    Lawrence Davidson argues that, as with the war on Iraq in 2003, the USA is drifting towards aggression against Iran propelled not by evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons programme, but by the lies and obsessions of a foreign state, Israel, and its American stooges.
  • Flying into Tel Aviv? Then it's "Welcome to Pa ...
    Stuart Littlewood explains why people of conscience, principle and respect for justice and the truth will always see Palestine as Palestine and will not forget that what is known as "Israel" is an extraneous implant build on the blood and ruins of a nation.
  • Barack Obama prostrates himself before America ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that Binyamin Netanyahu's and Ariel Sharon's ominous assertions that Israel controls the US were demonstrated once again this week by Barack Obama's humiliating pledges of loyalty to Israel in a speech to America's leading pro-Israel lobby and in a magazine interview.
  • Ignore the intelligence reports, let's make wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA's intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington's and London's clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and i ...
  • Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian c ...
    Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.

Physics Today

  • Japan's nuclear energy industry in danger of s ...
    New York Times: The loss of public confidence in nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster may lead to an energy crisis in Japan. Of that nation's 54 commercial nuclear reactors, all but two have been shut down over this past year, and by next month they may all be. By law, Jap ...
  • Film director to attempt deep diving record
    New York Times: Yesterday, when movie director James Cameron took his Deepsea Challenger 8 kilometers down into the New Britain Trench off Papua New Guinea, he broke the world depth record for modern vehicles. The trip was a practice run for a much deeper dive he plans to make later this mo ...
  • Daya Bay experiment measures final neutrino mi ...
    Science: At a seminar today at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the team behind the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment presented the results of its campaign to measure θ13, one of three so-called mixing angles that characterize how the three neu ...
  • FCC reminder: Cell phone jammers are illegal
    Los Angeles Times: A commuter in Philadelphia recently confessed to using a cell phone jammer on his daily bus ride when he felt his fellow bus riders were being too disruptive with their cell phone conversations. His confession sparked a storm of sympathetic commentary in US media last week. No ...
  • Robotic cheetah breaks running record
    BBC: The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released video of a four-legged robot designed to move like fast-running animals in the wild. Called Cheetah, the robot will be able to "more effectively assist war fighters across a greater range of missions," according to DARPA. ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Myitsone Dam Continues: Kachin NGO
    “The Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) claims that work at the Myitsone Dam is continuing, despite a presidential statement last September suspending construction on the controversial Chinese-backed megadam project in Burma’s restive north. “The Myitsone dam project continue ...
  • A Damming Assessment Of Mekong Development
    “With a watershed of 800,000 square kilometres, the Mekong River basin supports the world’s largest inland fishery and is home to 65 million people in six countries: China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. “Most of the people are poor and get 81% of their protein from subsist ...
  • World Water Forum Attendance Reportedly Down a ...
    “Critics of the triennial World Water Forum are encouraged by the failure on the part of forum organizers to attract large numbers to this year’s event taking place March 12-17 in Marseille. “Forum organizers announced at a press conference last week that only 2,000 people had fully ...
  • Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis
    “Numerous communities where fracking has occurred in the U.S. have had their public water resources contaminated as a result of fracking. One community the report highlights is Dimock, Pennsylvania: In 2009, Pennsylvania regulators ordered the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation to cease all fra ...
  • Brash SJV congressman shifts California water wars
    “After 20 years under CVPIA (Central Valley Project Improvement Act), Congress can conclude one thing: flushing fresh water into the San Francisco Bay is not helping to recover species and people are suffering needlessly.” “That’s how Republican Nunes introduced H.R 1837, the Sacramento-Sa ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Calls for Stronger Rules to Protect C ...
    Fifteen to thirty dollars in the price of a barrel of oil is attributable to oil speculators.  At $106 a barrel, the price of oil is leading to increased gas prices for consumers.  Consumers in the Cleveland area are now paying $3.74 a gallon for gasoline and the price is expected to r ...
  • Kucinich to Clinic: Cash Needed at Home
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the leading advocate for a fair distribution of uncompensated care in Cuyahoga County, released the following statement in response to Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove’s “State of the Clinic” address: “Though poverty in and around the Cleveland area is d ...
  • Kucinich: No More Excuses: Justice for “Underw ...
    Washington D.C. (February 29, 2012) -- Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), today reiterated his call to Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (F.H.F.A.), which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write down principal amounts for struggling homeowners. Kucinich, who ...
  • Kucinich Addresses Great Lakes Day
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed a gathering of more than 100 at the Great Lakes Commission’s Great Lakes Day in Washington D.C. Kucinich discussed the need to protect federal funding to strengthen and restore the Great Lakes. He also called attention to the threat to the Great ...
  • Kucinich Delivers Results: Local Communities E ...
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today unveiled its Section 205 Flood Risk Management Project Status Update for Independence and Valley View in Ohio's 10th Congressional District.  The study was requested by Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) on behalf of affected communities after major floods in ...

Authentically Wired

  • Cute Baby Otters
    … Check out these photos   FOLLOW LINK …  Cute Baby Otters Filed under: Blogroll
  • … When do “we” say enough &# ...
    …  When do “we” say enough … ! The Criminalization of Protest: Say Goodbye To Free Speech in America 03-09-2012  •  http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Devon DB   A new bill, HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as the “Trespas ...
  • California is not in the mood to be overly gen ...
    … Anyone living in the “west” especially – Nevada – Arizona – Utah – New Mexico and NOT seeing CALIFORNIA as the “big-kuhuna” respecting WATER lives in dream land … and California is not in the mood to be overly generous … Some see California water settlement as bad sign for Nevada & ...
  • WHISTLEBLOWER as pariah
    … What don’t you understand “we” are programmed to treat any WHISTLEBLOWER as pariah … Corporate Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment What’s worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing—or to be ignored for doing so? Whistleblowers have been under ...
  • … This is ARIZONA the author is writing ...
    … This is ARIZONA the author is writing about and you know, he’s right on… Fear and loathing in Arizona   Neil LaRubbio | Mar 01, 2012 10:20 AM  …  http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/fear-and-loathing-in-arizona?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email   Though I can’t ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Matt Miller: don't oversimplify issues in envi ...
    Matt Miller is director of communications for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, a position he’s held for ten years. He is responsible for the chapter’s publications and digital media. He writes for the Conservancy’s blogs Cool Green Science and Idaho Nature Notes. He has also co ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • World-leading Kiwi scientist tells of search f ...
    Few people know what complete darkness is, Professor Charles Alcock announces to his audience.The New Zealand-raised, world-leading astrophysicist tells a University of Auckland crowd that the concept of an absolute absence of light...
  • Shuttered LHC rivals 'close to confirming God ...
    More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet.In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to...
  • TV Pick of the Week: The making of Frozen Planet
    For the past two months many of us have been transfixed by the high-rating Frozen Planet . The BBC-Discovery Channel co-production has gone to the icy ends of the Earth to film what - and who - lives there, and to look at the effects...
  • Team back on 'emotional' search for lost terraces
    A team of scientists has resumed an "emotional" mission to digitally resurrect New Zealand's long-lost eighth natural wonder of the world - the famous Pink and White Terraces.By the end of the week, the team from GNS Science, Niwa...
  • University's death toll - 25,000 animals in tw ...
    More than 25,000 animals including fish have died during research and teaching at the University of Otago since 2009, and the figures are expected to increase significantly when statistics are collated for 2011.About 53,334 animals...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Romney Beats Obama 48%-43% In New Rasmussen Poll
    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for today has former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama by five percentage points:  With the perception growing that he will be the GOP nominee, Romney leads President Obama by five points in a h ...
  • Ron Paul Campaign: Reports of Its Death Exagge ...
    The American Conservative's Phil Giraldi reported this morning--with no citation of names or numbers--that he's heard reports that "the Ron Paul campaign laid off most of its staff nationwide yesterday." Paul campaign chair Jesse Benton responds to me this morning that what in fact ...
  • Kennedy on Why Atheism Is a Religion
    In a recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, former MTV VJ and current LA radio host Kennedy declared, “atheism is a religion.” In response to that comment, she has been called names and insulted in ways not heard since the first Clinton administration, when leading scientists ...
  • 90-pound Ohio Woman Who Was Tasered by Police ...
    Akron college student Chelsea Garrett, 23, told Fox 8 Cleveland that footage of her reckless driving last November 5 is disturbing. "I would never deny that, I was scared watching the video, seeing myself drive like that, ” she said. But Garrett, a diabetic who media describe as 5' ...
  • California Convulses Over Dead Mountain Lion I ...
    The Orange County Register's Brian Joseph takes a Golden State safari:  Once again, California faces a budget crisis. Revenues are projected to come in lower than anticipated. The governor and special interest groups are sparring over competing tax measures. Angry college st ...

Mercury Rising

Reality Sandwich

  • Feeling is Rational
    The prevalent attitude towards emotion is that they are obstacles to be overcome, irrational and therefore not conducive to making good decisions. But what if emotion actually trumps reason--what if our emotions are better than our logical faculties at making complex decisions and tackling cogni ...
  • DMT RMX Experience
    Since it’s 2010 premiere, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, and its Director, Mitch Schultz, have inspired countless individuals, from all corners of the globe. Those inspired have  formed a community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, thinkers, travelers, and many other agents working towards an elevat ...
  • Isis Aquarian -- On the High Road With Father Yod
      Introduction by Caroline Ryder read more
  • Cleaning Space
    The Swiss have a plan to launch CleanSpace One, an $11m "janitor satellite" to clean up debris in Earth's orbit, within the next five years. read more
  • Anti-Pipeline Petition
    The saga of North America's Keystone XL pipeline continues.   On November 10, 2011, four days after twelve thousand people encircled the White House, the culmination of months of protests, President Obama announced "the decision on the pipeline permit would be delayed until at leas ...

Desertification

  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • Brits protest against govt. nuclear plans
    Anti-nuclear activists from across Britain are surrounding EDF Energy-owned power station to stop the development of Hinkley Point and to urge the government to put an end to its nuclear power.
  • Over 100 killed in Somalia clashes
    In southwestern Somalia, more than 100 have been killed as al-Shabab militants have launched a fresh attack on the Somali government and Ethiopian troops, Press TV reports.
  • ‘Israel not equipped for Iran attack’
    As Israeli officials escalate war rhetoric against Iran, a retired American air force general says Tel Aviv lacks the adequate military equipment, including suitable warplanes, to attack Iranian nuclear sites.
  • World seabird numbers in rapid decline
    A new study has revealed that 47 percent of the world’s seabird population is considered to be in the high categories of decline risk.
  • Scandinavian trees survived Ice Age
    Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that some of the Scandinavian trees survived the harsh climate of the last Ice Age.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...
  • A Diode for light
    For many years engineers have wanted to use light instead of electricity to build circuits with. It moves slightly faster, but more importantly signals can pass one another without interfering. This l...
  • The coldest point water can remain a liquid ha ...
    If you ask any group of school children what temperature does pure water freeze at and you will normally get the answer 0 degrees celsius, which is the standard answer and it is the temperature below ...

Nick Turse

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    (via Matt Wuerker)
  • Syrian rebel fighters are seen during an excha ...
    Syrian rebel fighters are seen during an exchange of fire with army troops, unseen, in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposi ...
  • A collection of weapons in the house of Mohamm ...
    A collection of weapons in the house of Mohammed Ali Sheh, 26, who fought and was injured in Misurata, Libya.
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    (via Signe Wilkinson)
  • kateoplis:International Women’s Day: Women i ...
    kateoplis: International Women’s Day: Women in Politics 2012 map (full screen) There are currently 17 countries with women as head of government, head of state or both, which according to Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women has more than doubled since 2005. [However] The report marks slow ...
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