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Monday, March 12, 2012

12 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Fisk: Condemn me, but get your facts right
    "Robert Fisk is the most anti-Semitic, rabid, prejudiced, blithering fool in Britain, if not the world – he is a non-journalist, in fact he's a raving idiot with a very small mind and a very large ego. He stops at nothing to put his personal anti-Semitic message across, which he gets sent to him ...
  • No military solution in Syria: EU ministers
    “Syria is not Libya,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said at the close of a two-day informal meeting of the bloc's foreign policy chiefs, referring to last year's NATO-led air campaign in Libya. “What concerns us most is the risk of a civil war between Syria's communities and it will be ...
  • The reality of losing your job in middle age
    My dad is a creature of habit, and his early morning routine was the same throughout my childhood: up at half six, quick shave, a cup of coffee, and he was out the door by quarter past 7. It stopped abruptly. After a lifetime of work, spending weeks sitting around at home is as disorientating as ...
  • Rinehart loses appeal to suppress details of f ...
    Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, told her children they could be bankrupted unless they agreed to let her continue to control the family's multibillion-dollar trust. Mrs Rinehart, who is worth $17.1 billion, emailed her son and three daughters just days before the trust was to vest, ...
  • Fifty injured in attack on female Saudi protesters
    Over 50 female Saudi students were injured when security guards and Saudi police attacked a peaceful protest in a university, a local newspaper has claimed. The 1,000-strong all-women protest, which was calling for an end to corruption and ill-treatment at the King Khaled University (KKU) in ...

Independent - London

  • Israeli air strikes kill five Palestinians
    Israeli air strikes today killed five Palestinians, including a father and his daughter, as Gaza-based militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel’s south for a fourth consecutive day.Related StoriesAnnan fails to kickstart peace talks in SyriaSurge in brutal killings of gay and 'Emo' youthKof ...
  • US and Russia clash over Syria at UN
    The United States and Russia clashed over Syria at the U.N. today after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the divided Security Council to speak with one voice and help the Middle Eastern nation "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe." Related StoriesAnnan fails to kickstart peace ta ...
  • Ban Ki-moon 'deeply concerned' at human rights ...
    Illegal arrests, revenge attacks and deaths following torture in secret prisons are continuing in Libya by armed militias with the new government failing to establish an effective judicial system, according to the Secretary General of the United Nations.Related StoriesThe expats: 'No bills, no ...
  • Libyan human rights abuses 'deeply concerns' B ...
    Illegal arrests, revenge attacks and deaths following torture in secret prisons are continuing in Libya by armed militias with the new government failing to establish an effective judicial system, according to the Secretary General of the United Nations.Related StoriesThe expats: 'No bills, no ...
  • How 'peace provocateurs' are defusing religiou ...
    A Christian girl has her arm hacked off in a Muslim neighbourhood, and everyone in this tropical island city expects more trouble to follow.Related StoriesA year on from Japan's day of disaster: 'I still can't believe we lived through it'Left out in the cold: the man who would be KimBomber kills ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Lost Da Vinci Found? Mona Lisa Paint Lends Clue
    Researchers struggling to solve a longstanding Leonardo da Vinci mystery -- the fate of a lost masterpiece known as the "Battle of Anghiari -- have found intriguing traces of paint hidden behind a 5-inch-thick frescoed wall in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence's 14th-century city hall. The color is con ...
  • Valuable Space Rock Crashes Into Oslo Cabin
    A family in Oslo got a surprise when they visited their allotment garden cabin for the first time this season and found that a 585-gram (20 oz.) meteorite had ripped a hole through the roof. The space rock was discovered "lying five or six metres away," the cabin's owner, Rune Thomassen, told th ...
  • Single Gene May Drive Men's Aggressive Stress ...
    When men get stressed, their bodies get more revved up than women's. Now, two Australian researchers have a theory as to why - and it all boils down to a single gene. The classic "fight-or-fight" response to stress is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system - the part of our nervous sy ...
  • Israel-Gaza violence rages into fourth day
    Israel launched more air strikes in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians kept up rocket fire against southern Israel on Monday in a fourth day of hostilities in which 23 Palestinians have been killed. Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire appeared to be stuck over a demand by the Islamic Jihad mili ...
  • U.S. Soldier - Deadly Rampage: Taliban Vow Revenge
    video platform video management video solutions video player A rogue sergeant reportedly killed 16 innocent Afghan villagers. The Taliban has vowed revenge against "sick-minded American savages" after a U.S. soldier was accused of going on a deadly shooting ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Harper's World Stage: Defined
    That "tweet" was from Kady O'Malley who was reporting on the activities at the Manning Conservative Self-Stimulation event in Ottawa. At the time one Daniel Hannen was speaking. His relevance will be made apparent in a moment. Since Harper came to government he has made a point of prattling on ...
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  • The Peter Principle . . .
    THE WALRUS. AIRSHOW augers-in, as Chuck would say. Worthy of note. Written by Jason Sherman and drawn by David Parkins. Check out the Laughs section.
  • If you facebook . . .
    "This is an automated phone call to tell you that your voting station has been moved" OCCUPY CANADA is a Facebook group of pissed-off Canucks. Just so's ya know.
  • Republicans without borders
    You might recall the occasion, one week ago, where a Columbus, Ohio firm, Front Porch Strategies was mentioned as having worked for the campaign of Dean del Masto. You might also recall that Front Porch Strategies appeared to have played a limited role in the Conservative campaign by hosting a C ...

Media Matters for America

  • "Feminazi": The History Of Limbaugh's Trademar ...
    When Rush Limbaugh first began using the term "feminazi" in the 1990s, he said that it described "a specific type of feminist" and that there were "probably no more than 25 of them." However, since then, he has used the term as a broader slur to attack feminists, pro-choice activists, and progr ...
  • Experts Commend North Korea Deal That Right-Wi ...
    Experts on Korea and U.S. national security have commended a recent deal between the United States and North Korea on nuclear testing as "a positive development" and an indication that the U.S. has "turned a new page with the North Koreans." Nevertheless, conservative media are attacking the de ...
  • Fox's New Scapegoat For Gas Prices: The EPA
    Fox News is calling for President Obama to somehow require a single national blend of gasoline instead of the multiple blends tailored for seasonal and local pollution conditions in accordance with the Clean Air Act Amendments and state regulations. But doing so would lead to increased pollutio ...
  • NRA's Cox Pushes Tennessee Legislation That Wo ...
    National Rifle Association chief lobbyist, Townhall.com columnist, and Daily Caller contributor Chris Cox is currently pushing for Tennessee state legislation that would prevent employers from banning their employees from storing guns in their vehicles in company parking lots while opposing ...
  • Energy Experts Debunk Right-Wing Defense Of Oi ...
    Conservative media are claiming that President Obama's proposal to eliminate $4 billion in annual tax subsidies enjoyed by oil and gas companies would raise gasoline prices. But energy experts say that rolling back the subsidies would have an "extremely small" or "imperceptible" effect on the p ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Video: What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks!
    What Rush Limbaugh REALLY thinks! Why Rush Limbaugh really apologized to Sandra Fluke.
  • Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
    I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...
  • But What Exactly Is Green Manufacturing?
    When most people think of green manufacturing jobs, they think of multi-billion-dollar investments in plants making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars or photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines for smartening grids. They fear, not without reason, that jobs in such plants will star ...
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  • In Afghanistan, American Conservatives Threw P ...
    The stunning murders of two senior American officers within the high-security command and control center of the Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, followed by the wounding of other American soldiers by a grenade thrown into a camp in Kunduz, is a bitter disgrace for the counter-insurgency strategy ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • "Mowing the lawn": On Israel's latest massacre ...
    By this Sunday evening in Gaza, a weekend of relentless Israeli bombing has left 18 people dead and dozens wounded. Israeli propaganda insists that the attacks are about preventing "ter ...
  • West Bank protests Israeli attacks on Gaza (M ...
    Dozens of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday to protest Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip which have killed 18 people since Friday. Demonstrators calle ...
  • Israeli airstrikes kill 3 in Gaza (Ma'an News ...
    Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed three people in the Gaza Strip, including a 12-year-old boy, as cross-border violence continued for a third day. Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham Abu ...
  • Israel Attacks On Gaza Target Head Injuries ( ...
    In August the Israeli military used prohibited weapons to target lower and upper limbs of Palestinians, leaving surviving victims severely disabled from amputations; now they are targeting the head. There are no survivors from these attacks. As Dr Ayman Al-Sahbani, of Al Shifa Hospital Emergency ...
  • UN urged to act over Gaza (Al Jazeera)
    The Palestinians and Israelis have made rival calls for the UN Security Council to act as Israel hit back against rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip with deadly air strikes that left at ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • US Senate rejects GOP measure to build Keyston ...
    According to CNN, the Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure Thursday that would have bypassed the Obama administration’s current objections to the Keystone XL pipeline and allowed construction on the controversial project to move forward immediately. Fifty-six senators vo ...
  • Fukushima Anniversary Action in Austin, TX
    This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Our thoughts and prayers will be with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese still living in contaminated areas. There are anniversary actions across the U.S. and entire world this weekend. You can find a list of many of ...
  • Tell TCEQ grading polluters on a curve doesn’t ...
    The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality is the second largest environmental agency in the world—with a budget to match. Help hold TCEQ accountable for taxpayer’s interests and stop them from implementing rules that favor polluting businesses. Read our press release (Press Release – ...
  • Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hear ...
    Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections.  In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affect ...
  • Tar Sands by Any Other Name
    This post was reprinted from a press statement by Trevor Lovell in response to TransCanada’s announcement yesterday, February 27th regarding their plans to pursue the building of a pipeline from Cushing, OK to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast while pursuing a new application for the ...

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  • Quantifying the corporate value of ecosystems
    For those trying to save ecosystems, it would help to know how much they're really worth -- in terms of tangible commodities like timber and clean water -- to corporations and economies that depend on them. This month, groups conclude a five-year effort to value the ecosystems in Eastern Arc ...
  • Hearst Tower in NYC, Perkins+Will in Atlanta e ...
    The world headquarters for the Hearst media company, the Perkins+Will Atlanta office and a vast Office Depot distribution center are among the eye-catching projects to earn LEED green building certification.  
  • Adobe launches new software to cut printing by 40%
    Adobe launches new software to cut printing costs and paper consumption. Here's how you can cut into the $217 billion that companies are estimated to spend on documents annually, all while saving trees and water.
  • Are Green Buildings Also Safer Buildings?
    Looking for shelter from a storm? Head to a green building. Greener buildings can be more resilient, according to a new study, which includes tips on how pros can make them even safer.
  • How eBay's Data Center Makes e-Commerce More E ...
    By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.

Duly Noted

  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
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  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
  • Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
    A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Booman Tribune

  • Black Teen Killed for Carrying Skittles
    If you are a young black male, such as Trayvon Martin and you make the mistake of walking home in a gated community in Orlando, FL, with bags of skittles concealed in your pockets, you will be shot and killed. Not by the police, mind you, but by the Captain of a Neighborhood Watch program, who ...
  • Casual Observations
    I have arrived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I see that there has been a little eruption of stupidity and buffoonishness in my absence. They really ought to stop polling Republicans about the president's birth certificate and religion and evolution and start polling them about really basic quest ...
  • Is This How Medicare Starts to Wither and Die?
    Mitt Romney isn't exactly the right's ideal messenger in this case, but I think he's setting a dangerous precedent, and I bet others will follow it: Romney to forgo Medicare Mitt Romney is celebrating his 65th birthday. But unlike many seniors who reach that age, the GOP presidential candi ...
  • The Milk Curdled
    I'm still a little disconcerted that Little Green Footballs, which I used to consider the biggest cesspool on the intertubz, is now an oasis of sanity compared to Fox News. There is a moment in the movie Game Change when John McCain nobly rejects the advice of his advisers that he utilize the R ...
  • On the Road
    I'm traveling this morning. So, talk among yourselves and try not to shoot anybody in the face. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • Lithuania’s Haunting Hill of Crosses
    At first glance, this memorial site in the Baltics looks like a surreal, overcrowded graveyard. Read on to find out more about this remarkable place... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Japan Still Recovering One Year After Tragic E ...
    Earthquakes strike Japan often, and they are prepared. What they are not prepared for is the unknowns, such as the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 12 Amazing Recycled Dragons
    Twelve incredible, majestic dragons, resurrected from the trash pile.... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 25 Vertigo-Inducing Views From the Highest Atr ...
    Atriums, or atria, are often-stunning central spaces inside modern buildings. Here are some vertigo-inducing bird's-eye views of the very tallest! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Incredible Praying Mantis Pictures
    The praying mantis is one of nature’s most captivating creatures. Find out more about this fascinating insect while enjoying some awesome praying mantis pictures. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
    IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
  • Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
    I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
  • Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
    IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
    EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
  • New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
    BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...

Daily Censored

  • “Workers rights are human rights and nat ...
    Picture of University of Maryland worker at a forum to protest racial and sexual harrassment of workers   The following is from Diamondback, the campus newspaper for the University of Maryland.  Dailycensored.com has continuously covered this controversy for some years.  Promoting solidarit ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: heroism to end US economic an ...
    A great member of Congress had the intellectual integrity and moral courage to rightly call the US president a treaty-violating, war-murdering liar, and who should face Congress to account for a criminal War of Aggression. Both parties’ “leadership” and media responded with lies of omission and ...
  • Impeachment for Libyan War of Aggression; 2-mi ...
    video here Activist Post documents and asks the question if enough Americans are prepared to state “emperor has no clothes” facts to impeach a US president in an important step to recognize and end US Wars of Aggression. Importantly, war law prohibits the use of force, or armed attack by a natio ...
  • Benjamin Franklin and William Jennings Bryan o ...
    This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, relate ...
  • Rally to stop the closing of School for the De ...
     Picture of abandoned Detroit school DFT Rally March 12  Detroit deserves a public school in every neighborhood. Don’t stand for the closing of more Detroit Public Schools. Please come out for a march and rally on Monday, March 12 at 4 p.m. at the Day School for the Deaf (an important Detr ...

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  • News you may have missed #692
    Mole theory over MI6 codebreaker's death. Pakistan picks new director for spy agency. Russian diplomat alleges 15,000 foreign fighters in Syria.
  • Spies seen behind fake Facebook profile of sen ...
    A Facebook account bearing the name of a senior commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was set up by Chinese spies to siphon information from unsuspecting Western military officials, according to a British newspaper.
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    NSA whistleblower says Obama worse than Bush. Australian spies reportedly buying computer bugs. Refugees in Finland face spying threats.
  • Analysis: US spy agencies stil in the dark abo ...
    It has been almost a year since the ongoing anti-government uprising erupted in Syria. But intelligence agencies in the United States are still struggling to make sense of most aspects of the spiraling conflict.
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    Indian army accused of spying on government officials. US Special Ops in Afghanistan to transfer to CIA. Interview with Katya Zatuliveter.

War is a Crime.org

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  • Afghan Mass Murderer Had Traumatic Brain Injur ...
    Here's that report. There has long been a campaign among veterans and active-duty troops to end redeployments of those with PTSD and brain injuries.  Will it now gain more support?
  • UK to face legal challenge over drones policy
    From Reprieve: Reprieve and solicitors Leigh Day & Co have announced that they will be issuing formal legal proceedings this week against the UK Foreign Secretary on behalf of Noor Khan, whose father was killed last year in a drone strike on a Jirga – or council of elders – in North West Pak ...
  • Join Us in DC on the 19th
    A number of organizations have gathered to mark the tenth year of the Iraq invasion on March 19 at 6:30 pm at the 14th and V St Busboys & Poets. You can find out details for the event here: http://washingtonpeacecenter.net/node/6912.   RSVP via Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/ ...
  • Alleged Photos of "Clean-up" at Iran's Parchin ...
    By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Mar 12, 2012 (IPS) - News stories about satellite photographs suggesting efforts by Iran to "sanitise" a military site that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said may have been used to test nuclear weapons have added yet another layer to widely ...

Grist - News

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

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    This new view of the Orion Nebula highlights fledgling stars hidden in the gas and clouds. It shows infrared observations taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Herschel mission, in which NASA plays an important role. Stars form as clumps of this gas and dust col ...
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Invisible Opportunity

  • Fundamentalist Christian Crocodiles in Heat
    By Les Visible All these politicians that claim to be good religious people in order to get really stupid religious people to vote for them make me sick. I still remember Bush the Younger making fun of Karla Faye Tucker and his lie about taking a walk with Billy Graham who actually said it was [...]
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    By Les Visible There’s crack cocaine and then there’s crack cocaine. The most deadly, destructive and addictive crack is Christian fundamentalism. You’ve heard that bullshit anti-drug, pro alcohol, advertising line; “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”? It’s ...
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    By Ezra Klein, The Washington Post 06 March 12 There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. That may sound obvious. But it is, in fact, key to understanding one of the most pressing problems facing our economy. In 2009, A ...
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    by Dave Bohon Tuesday, 06 March 2012 15:59 A Detroit mother is fighting mad after school officials defied her specific instructions and gave her daughter four vaccinations, including one that has been linked to adverse physical reactions and even death in its recipients. Sighle Kinney told Detro ...

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat is Looking for Writers for the 2012 ...
    Heads up Milan Furniture Fair fans and Europe-based writers! The 2012 Milan Furniture Fair is coming up next month from April 17th-22nd and Inhabitat is looking for a few great writers and photographers who are planning to attend the fair to report on the hottest green products and furnishings a ...
  • Coal Accounts for Less than 40% of U.S. Electr ...
    The Energy Information Administration has released data to show that in 2011, coal power made up less than 40% of all U.S. electricity. As coal-fueled electric dropped to 30 year lows last year, the profoundly dirty fuel rounded out its year in decline by providing its lowest monthly rates of po ...
  • Sipho Mabona’s Swarming Origami Locusts Are Ma ...
    Read the rest of Sipho Mabona’s Swarming Origami Locusts Are Made of Money! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, folded dollar bills, Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, green design, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, money ...
  • Eco E-Trike is a Futuristic Electric Vehicle C ...
    Stephen Reon Francisco‘s Eco E-Trike is a concept for an electric vehicle that allows people to get around the city with ease. Looking a bit like a streamlined golf-cart, the E-Trike is more convenient than a regular bike but uses less materials than a typical car. Because of its small sta ...
  • True North Log Homes Unveils a New Wall System ...
    Log homes are much beloved for their nostalgic appeal but one downside is that they typically form leaks between the timbers. Luckily, True North Log Homes has come up with a couple of nice tricks to keep their logs homes from coming apart at the seams and avoid the issue and cost of chinking ev ...

Pogue's Posts

  • The New iPad: It's in the Apps
    The new iPad's hardware keeps Apple ahead of its tablet rivals - there's no other tablet, yet, with anything like these specs - but it's the software that really makes the iPad shine.
  • Place Your Emphasis HERE, Not THERE
    When graphic designers use their computers to fool around with typography, sometimes they get the emphasis all wrong.
  • A Review of the Windows 8 Beta
    Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public. It's an imaginative and successful rethinking of an operating system. The Start screen, for example, is like a Lego kit for your life's control panel.
  • More on OnLive Desktop – Readers' Questi ...
    Following Thursday's column, more information about OnLive Desktop, the app that turns an iPad into a blazing-fast Windows machine.
  • What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
    ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Condor Cam Update: Chick Has Hatched
    A pair of condors at the San Diego zoo have hatched a new chick. Watch them raise their new baby on the zoo's live condor cam.
  • Indy Goes Geek: Laser Mapping Helps Archaeologists
    Archeology may be an old profession, but it's not one hesitant about using the latest gizmos to uncover the past. LiDAR, or "light detection and ranging," is a relatively new tool archeologists use that can pull off non-destructive 3-D scans of rooms and objects.
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Aircraft Carrier Enterprise Sets Off On Final ...
    Today at noon Eastern, the storied aircraft carrier Enterprise, aka CVN-65, left its home port of Naval Station Norfolk one final time for its final voyage with a heading: Arabian Sea, aka Iran. There in a week it will join CVN 72 Lincoln and CVN 70 Vinson, as well as LHD 8 Makin Island, all of ...
  • Largest solar flare in five years hits Earth… ...
    Earth braced itself for the worst this evening as the largest solar flare in five years sent charged particles speeding towards us at 600 miles per second. As the 'X-class' flare - the most powerful of its kind - bombarded our planet's magnetic field for most of the day, it was feared the act ...
  • Obama Promises Bunker Busters To Israel If Net ...
    Two days ago Obama held a press conference in which he openly prevaricated and disinformed the world about the true nature of his meeting with Israel PM Netanyahu. Today we find what was truly discussed, courtesy of Israel's Maariv newspaper, Spiegel and Reuters, which all tell us that it was a ...
  • Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill
    Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing protest in the States. RT broke the news last month that H.R. 347, the Fe ...
  • US soldier on SEAL team shoots dead nine sleep ...
    Sixteen innocent Afghan civilians - including nine children and three women - were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a 'mental breakdown' early this morning.

Andy Worthington

  • UN Torture Rapporteur Accuses US Government of ...
    Last week, at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Professor Juan MĆ©ndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, spoke about the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower, telling the news agency ...
  • Petition to Free Shaker Aamer from GuantĆ”namo ...
    Please sign the Care 2 petition, which can be signed by anyone anywhere in the world, including the US and the UK. Last week, I drew readers’ attention to the urgent and ongoing e-petition on the British government’s website designed to secure the release from GuantĆ”namo of Shaker Aa ...
  • Save the NHS: The Need to Scrap the Tories&#82 ...
    Last week appeared to be another good week for those opposing the Tory-led coalition government’s disastrous and entirely unwanted NHS reform bill, although no one should be fooled, as the government is still determined to press ahead with its terrible plans, even though wrecking the NHS w ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 5: Still Seeking $120 ...
    Please support my work! Thanks to the generosity of 16 friends and supporters, I have raised $800 to help support my research and writing about GuantĆ”namo and related issues over the next three months, and I’m enormously grateful for the support. However, as the week comes to an end, I&#82 ...
  • Were Two Prisoners Killed at GuantĆ”namo in 200 ...
    My friend and colleague Jeff Kaye, a full-time psychologist who somehow also finds time to conduct research into GuantĆ”namo and America’s post-9/11 torture program, had a fascinating — and disturbing — article published last week on Truthout, in which, after stumbling upon the ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Afghan Massacre: Just a PR Problem for U.S. Oc ...
    The massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, by a US soldier near Kandahar has not led to questions over the U.S. war on Afghanistan. Rather, corporate media have framed it as a "public relations disaster" for the continued occupation of Afghanistan. FAIR (Fairness &am ...
  • Reporters Without Borders: Bahrain, Belarus ad ...
    Reporters without Borders, the Paris-based organization devoted to media freedom,  released its annual "Enemies of the Internet" report today. The report is released to commemorate the World Day Against Cyber Censorship.  ...
  • Water Rights Groups Blast Corporate-Dominated ...
    As the World Water Forum gathers in Marseille, France, for its 6th meeting since 1997, water rights activists are criticizing the corporate-led, profit-motivated gathering as a move for global control of water. Shayda Naficy, senior organizer of Corporate Accountability International's Chall ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Protesters Concerned about ...
    Protesters from Occupy Wall Street continue to report troubling incidents of excessive police surveillance. read more
  • UN Torture Chief Slams Bradley Manning's Treat ...
    The U. N. Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan Méndez, has formally accused the U.S. government of harsh treatment of Bradley Manning that may amount to torture. The Guardian reports: ...

Lifehacker

  • Phoenix Launcher Brings Android's Ice Cream Sa ...
    Android: A lot of phones are getting Ice Cream Sandwich eventually, but we all know that could take awhile. If you can't wait, Phoenix Launcher reproduces Ice Cream Sandwich's smooth, good-looking launcher and app drawer on any device running ...
  • Getting Started Is Everything [Procrastination]
    Nothing's better than sinking your teeth into a satisfying after-hours side project—or what I guess most people may just call a hobby. But after 10 hours at work, it's not always easy to muster the energy to switch off your TV and go to ...
  • Chalkboards, Wine Bottles, and Analog Tech: Th ...
    Sometimes a little bit of the past goes well with the future, like in this workspace by Polygon Homes. The very contemporary iMac sits against a chalkboard backdrop with choice wines from recent years mounted and labeled. Even the little rot ...
  • The New New: Apple Gadgets, Repurposed Smartph ...
    This week on Ask Lifehacker we're talking about the new iPad and Apple TV, Google's rebranding, a creative new Android keyboard, and an awesome iPhone camera app. We'll also be showing off an incredible charging cable and answering questions ...
  • Ask and Answer Questions About Using News Feed ...
    Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hi ...

Water Privatization

  • Media Advisory - Council of Canadians to chall ...
    OTTAWA , March 12, 2012 /CNW/ - The Council of Canadians will be challenging the 6th World Water Forum that will take place March 12-17 in Marseille , France , just days before World Water Day. The Council ...
  • Media Advisory: CUPE members in France to chal ...
    OTTAWA, ONTARIO-- - A delegation from Canada's largest union is in Marseille this week, joining workers and non-governmental organizations from around the world in challenging a global gathering that's ...
  • Students renew call to end sale of water
    OTTAWA , March 12, 2012 /CNW/ - Students are calling to end the sale and consumption of bottled water on campuses, workplaces, and communities across the country. Over the past three years, over 22 campuses ...
  • Group bucks privatization of water districts
    THE Philippine Association of Water District is opposing the proposed bills in both chambers of Congress that would privatize water districts in the country and establish a Water and Sanitation Regulatory Authority.
  • Privatization decision nears
    The mayor got a round of applause from members of the Sanger Woman's Club Tuesday when he outlined the benefits of privatizing the city's disposal services.

Guardian

  • Arsenal v Newcastle United! | Rob Bagchi
    • Hit F5 or auto-refresh for the latest news • >Email your thoughts to rob.bagchi@guardian.co.uk • Subscribe to our free email, The Fiver • Live, in-running league tables in our Stats Centre39 min: Gutierrez gets past Sagna and whacks a cross into the box but Ba hadn't made the run and Szczesny ...
  • Syrian activists claim 16 people killed in Hom ...
    Pro-government militia accused of killing civilians – some of them children – in area recaptured from rebelsSyrian pro-government gunmen have killed at least 16 people, including some children, in an area recaptured from rebels, according to opposition activists.State media in Damascus, which o ...
  • Budget negotiations go to wire as Clegg and Ca ...
    Senior ministers will hold final budget meeting 48 hours before chancellor unveils plans in CommonsDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg are to take their negotiations on next week's budget down to the wire after they failed to reach agreement at a meeting of the "quad" group of senior ministers on Mond ...
  • Gaddafi 'contributed €50m to Sarkozy's 2007 pr ...
    French president hit by new claims as confidential note suggests ex-Libyan leader helped finance his election campaignDamaging new claims have emerged about the funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign and his links with former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi emerged.The French investig ...
  • Eric Joyce gives up Labour membership after ba ...
    MP for Falkirk offers unreserved apology over incident and tenders his resignation as member of Labour partyEric Joyce has tendered his resignation as a member of the Labour party and apologised to colleagues for a bar brawl in parliament.The MP for Falkirk was suspended from the party last mont ...

McClatchey

  • Economic, political pressures redo dream of ho ...
    Despite all that has crashed down in recent years, Americans by their nature still want to be owners, not renters. Opinion polls make that clear. And homeowners with equity do…Click to Continue »
  • Names of black veterans omitted from Florida W ...
    The Florida Memory, which archives state records, has 160 World War I service cards of Palmetto residents and natives who enlisted or were inducted for service. Of those 160, 55…Click to Continue »
  • Synthetic marijuana still causing heartache in ...
    When Jan Froelich noticed her 16-year-old son's anxiety and mood swings were getting worse around Christmas, she knew she couldn't attribute them just to adolescence. And when he complained of…Click to Continue »
  • Tax refund services can take bite out of benefit
    Cash-in-a-flash, refer-a-friend, refund anticipation loans and "free" filing. The list of programs that promise to put tax refunds into your hands faster and with less hassle can be especially appealing…Click to Continue »
  • Syria plants anti-personnel mines on Turkish b ...
    The Syrian military in the past month planted a band of anti-personnel mines along stretches of the border with Turkey, where last year more than 10,000 Syrian refugees fled the…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
  • Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
      The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • DC Circuit Judges understand Convertino's appeal
    Attorney Stephen Kohn today presented oral argument on behalf of former federal prosecutor and whistleblower Richard Convertino (pictured).  Convertino is seeking reversal of an order issued last year by Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, DC.  That order dismissed ...
  • IRS resists using whistleblowers
    Whistleblower disclosures have helped the federal government make some of its biggest recoveries from fraudsters. In the Obama administration alone, the government recovered over $21 billion thanks to whistleblowers using the “qui tam” procedure under the False Claims Act. The govern ...
  • DC high court says there is no "safe harbor" f ...
    In a long-awaited ground-breaking decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals today held that an employer engages in unlawful retaliation when it adds a new demand for a release as a condition for concluding a consulting agreement. The case is Propp v. Counterpart International and LeLau ...
  • Whistleblower Leyla Wydler suffered to bring S ...
    Yesterday's conviction of Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford generated much news.  Most of the coverage, however, is missing the role of whistleblower Leyla Wydler.  Two weeks ago on Honesty Without Fear, I interviewed Eyal Press about his new book, Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks ...
  • Congress Questions Federal E-mail Surveillance ...
    Yesterday, Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa released a letter asking the Obama Administration for assistance in assessing the e-mail monitoring policies of all federal agencies. This letter was sent in light of Congressional and Office of Special Counsel investigations in ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Author's Guild Boss On E-Book Price Fixing All ...
    No sooner had the Department of Justice announced its plan to investigate Apple and five of the Big Six publishers for e-book price-fixing than a representative of those benefiting most from this (alleged) collusion boldly stepped into the fray. Scott Turow, bestselling author and president of t ...
  • Putting Lives Before Patents: India Says Price ...
    India has an interesting relationship with pharmaceutical patents. In 1970, India did away with drug patents entirely, believing it would help create a domestic drug industry. And it worked. As we discussed in the past: 2,237 licensed drug manufacturers in 1969-1970 grew to 16,000 by 1991- ...
  • Why It's Mathematically Impossible To Avoid In ...
    In 2008 James Bessen and Michael Meurer came out with a truly excellent book, Patent Failure. It's chock full of excellent information and a pretty wide survey of the research showing just how much patents harm innovation. While I don't necessarily agree with the "solutions" proposed, the key ...
  • Help Fund A 'Don't Mess With The Internet' Bil ...
    Lamar Smith has really become the enemy of the internet. He's the main sponsor behind both SOPA and the very dangerous data retention bill that he disguised as an anti-child porn bill, even though it does nothing to stop child porn. Don't think the internet hasn't noticed. With lots of intern ...
  • Sorry Ron Paul, You Don't Get To Abuse Tradema ...
    Back in January, we wrote about the bizarre decision by Ron Paul to file a lawsuit to unmask some anonymous internet users, who had created a controversial anti-John Huntsman video. At the end of the video, the anonymous videomakers had endorsed Paul, but some conspiracy-minded folks insisted t ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
    I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]
  • More Revolutionary Than Thou
    On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The video is now up from our protest for the National Day for Prisoners. You can check it out here. Last Friday, anonymous took down The Geo Group’s website and replaced it with a picture of Mumia. I am so incredibly creeped out that corporations have been patenting the human genome. Excel ...
  • On Porn Stars and Seamstresses
    I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview.  It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • A deal with the Taliban is the only way out
    Ahmed Rashid writes: The Afghan people are exhausted by a war that has gone on in one form or other since 1979, when most US soldiers now in Afghanistan were not even born. Increasing numbers of Afghans would agree with what the Taliban have been arguing for almost a decade: that the western pre ...
  • Report says soldier conducted massacre during ...
    According to an Afghan guard at the base who spoke to the BBC, the soldier who conducted a massacre outside Kandahar last night, left his base twice, returning for an hour and a half after the first stage in his killing spree only to head out again for another two hours. An official told ABC [.. ...
  • Kandahar massacre may be turning point in Afgh ...
    David Axe reports: At 3:00 in the morning on Sunday a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant reportedly sneaked out of a coalition outpost in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, walked at least 500 yards to a cluster of home compounds known as khalats and began forcing o ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: War as the president’s private ...
    The 0% doctrine Obama breaks new ground when it comes to war with IranBy Tom Engelhardt When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from an outdoor clock.  There would always be people all around hi ...
  • Video: Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan on Iran’ ...
    Before this interview aired, the snippets that were being used to promote it focused on two points: that Dagan was attempting to slow down Netanyahu’s rush to war and that he recognizes the Iranians as rational actors. It turns out he has a much more mixed message. Dagan’s is like Gi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climate modeling turkey shoot, western style
    Western U.S. Precipitation Extremes—How Did This Turkey Get Published? By Dr. Patrick Michaels When it comes to changes in future precipitation across the United States, climate models projections are all over the map. In other words, they provide no useful … Continue reading →
  • Strong Storm Strikes Pacific Northwest – ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Steve Pierce President, Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society Vancouver, Washington (March 12th 2012) - “A strong late season storm is making landfall this afternoon along the Oregon and Washington coast. Winds have gusted to as … Continue readin ...
  • Snow White Takes a Walk In The Park
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wrote a post called I Used To Be Snow White (… but then I drifted) a week or so ago about a study titled “Impact of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Winter Snowfall” (PDF) that … Continue reading →
  • I wonder if Gleick is invited?
    Dr. Peter Gleick recently resurfaced at another water conference acting as if nothing had or is about to happen just 17 days after admitting he apparently engaged in wire fraud. One wonders if he’ll be seen at this big event … Continue reading →
  • Newsbytes: Anti-Green Rollback Begins in UK
    From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF The UK government wants nuclear power to be given parity with renewables in Europe, in a move that would significantly boost atomic energy in Britain but downgrade investment in renewable generation, according to … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lo ...
    As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, MIT News examines manufacturing’s role in the country’s economic future through this series on work at the Institute around manufacturing. Traditional drug manufacturing is a time-consuming process. Activ ...
  • Discovery of brain’s natural resistance ...
    A single injection of cocaine or methamphetamine in mice caused their brains to put the brakes on neurons that generate sensations of pleasure, and these cellular changes lasted for at least a week, according to research by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings, ...
  • A new approach to treating type I diabetes? Gu ...
    A study by Columbia researchers suggests that cells in the patient’s intestine could be coaxed into making insulin, circumventing the need for a stem cell transplant. Until now, stem cell transplants have been seen by many researchers as the ideal way to replace cells lost in type I diabet ...
  • Antidepressant shows promise as cancer treatment
    A retinoid called all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), which is a vitamin A-derivative, is already used successfully to treat a rare sub-type of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), however this drug has not been effective for the more common types of AMLs. Team leader Arthur Zelent, Ph.D., and colleagues a ...
  • Berries Boost Brain Function
    Making berries a part of your daily diet may help keep your memory sharp, a new review shows. The review shows there’s strong evidence that eating berries boosts brain function and may prevent age-related memory loss. “In addition to their now well-known antioxidant effects, dietary supplementat ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...
  • Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
    Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country.  Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
  • Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
  • Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
    Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
  • Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I&#8 ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Other Terrorist Threats
    Sometimes everything just falls together in the news. Here`s the rundown on corporate war on the environment - and us Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What Nasty Surprises Await Our Warmongers in t ...
    Irans Sunburn missiles, acquired from Russia and China over the last 10 years, have the capability of creating a world of hurt for the US Navys 5th Fleet. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    The real causes of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Unsurprisingly, the story had been squelched. Submitted by Jo Patterson to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Talk to Action Digest
    I subscribe to an emailed weekly synopsis of the misuse of religion in politics. With the AlterNet story on subversion of public schools ( and Texas textbooks by the GOP ) by Dominionists ( there's a wild backstory on Palin ) remember the Brotherhood also Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Obama Administration: ACTA Is Binding & Don't ...
    Under international law, the ACTA is a legally binding international agreement.ACTA dangerously restricts Congress from passing new laws that could push back on some of the worst aspects of copyright law. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. alert as Taliban vows to avenge Afghan deaths
    ShareThisU.S. alert as Taliban vows to avenge Afghan deaths --Official: Soldier was assigned to assist special operations unit of either Green Berets or Navy SEALs 12 Mar 2012 U.S. forces are on alert, after the Taliban vowed to exact revenge for the U.S. soldier who went on a shooting spree Sun ...
  • 'Doonesbury': Next week's abortion-law strips ...
    ShareThis'Doonesbury': Next week's abortion-law strips pulled by at least several papers 09 Mar 2012 Next week, "Doonesbury" will tackle the ultrasound-before-abortion debate that has roiled Texas and Virginia and the nation in recent weeks, as lawmakers fought over a procedure deemed physically ...
  • US military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon
    ShareThisUS military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon --Weapon was deployed briefly in Afghanistan in 2010 11 Mar 2012 A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere -- this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military th ...
  • Fukushima radiation measured in Ireland
    ShareThisFukushima radiation measured in Ireland 08 Mar 2012 Radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear reactor accident in Japan reached Ireland in the weeks after the event. The radioactive particles that reached Ireland were similar to those arriving as nuclear fallout here after the Chernobyl ...
  • Santorum captures Kansas caucuses, Romney wins ...
    ShareThisSantorum captures Kansas caucuses, Romney wins Wyoming in GOP presidential race 10 Mar 2012 Rick Santorum won the Kansas caucuses in a rout on Saturday and Mitt Romney countered in Wyoming, a weekend prelude to suddenly pivotal Southern GOP primary showdowns in the week ahead. Final ret ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Curses
    Austin Prince, about 12 years, with cobra 12 March 2012 Under my dispatch from Bangladesh: Tigers, Crocodiles, Korans and Superstitions was this comment: Michael, We have friends who are missionaries in the Congo. So far this year, they've killed 72 Cobras in their home. The wife told me; "I ...
  • Purple Heart
    PFC Leah Bartlett awarded Purple Heart 09 March 2012 Reaction to the recent Koran burnings led to dozens of killings.  Some of the attacks were obviously related to the burnings, while others may have been normal background noise of war.  Whatever the specific motivations, bombs stil ...
  • Senator Levin on MEDEVAC
    07 March 2012 Senator Carl Levin has been sending a form letter to his constituents.  Key parts of the letter seem to be have been written by the Army.  At minimum, Senator Levin’s responses are a rewrite of Army releases.   His statement perpetuates numerous myths and outri ...
  • MEDEVAC Momentum: Senate Armed Services Commit ...
    01 March 2012 The MEDEVAC issue continues with increasing seriousness.  Numerous Generals, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of Defense (through General Dempsey, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs) have all weighed into the fight.  Seventeen members of Congress have joined, and m ...
  • Sisters at War
    29 February 2012 This is a small tribute to our women in harm’s way. We constantly argue about whether or not women should be allowed in combat.  Reality is that they have been in combat for longer than anyone reading this has been alive, and they were in combat before any of our great gr ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UK court allows right to die case to proceed
    [JURIST] A UK High Court justice decided Monday to let a right to die case proceed, the first to be allowed in British court. Justice William Charles ruled [judgment, PDF] that a case brought by Tony Nicklinson, age 57, could proceed to hearing. Nicklinson is the victim of a paralyzing stroke an ...
  • Federal appeals court overturns terrorist sentence
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Monday overturned [opinion, PDF] the 22-year prison sentence for the "Millennium Bomber," Ahmed Rassam [PBS profile], imposed by the lower court after he was convicted by a jury of nine counts of criminal activity by pl ...
  • DOJ objects to Texas voter ID law
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] objected Monday to the recently passed Texas voter identification law [SB 14 materials]. In a letter [text] from Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the DOJ claimed that the changes requiring voters to present a valid photo iden ...
  • Switzerland referendum supports law regulating ...
    [JURIST] Swiss voters in a referendum on Sunday supported proposed changes to a Swiss law that imposes heavy fines for people who protest without prior governmental authorization. About 55 percent of voters [Expatica report] in Geneva agreed to allow the government to impose a fine of 100,000 Sw ...
  • Support JURIST - 2012 fundraising drive is und ...
    [JURIST announcement] How much is JURIST worth to you? Please let us know by donating today. For as little as $10, you can show you believe in JURIST. We greatly appreciate your support! If you value JURIST, please consider donating so that we can continue to bring you the substantive legal news ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • David Grossman on Israeli Attack Against Iran: ...
    TweetIn an interview in The Nation, David Grossman, Israel’s leading novelist and moral conscience, expresses the conviction that Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak want a war against Iran: …He said he had “a very bad feeling” that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Eh ...
  • Iran: Israel’s Concocted World Threat
    TweetScott Peterson recently published a comprehensive timeline for Iran’s nuclear program that charted not so much the actual progress of Iran’s supposed quest for a weapon, but the west’s, and in particular Israel’s shifting and endless series of revelations and predict ...
  • Tikun Olam: Discover the Social Networks
    TweetThe post title is a tweak of David Horowitz’s slightly paranoiac, Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left.  My intent, however, was to remind all of you that I spend quite a bit of time social networking in order to promote the work of this blog and its political mission. ...
  • Dershowitz: from Israel Firster to MEK Firster ...
    Tweet Alan Dershowitz and his 1% hedge fund manager friends at the Emergency Committee of Israel recently declared war on the Center for American Progress and Media Matters because M.J. Rosenberg has called some of Israel’s American Jewish supporters, “America Firsters.” Phil W ...
  • Obama Plays Dangerous Game, Offers Israel Bunk ...
    Barack Obama is playing a very dangerous game regarding Iran.  He speaks to Israeli leaders like Bibi Netanyahu and his pro-Israel supporters in Aipac like an Iran hawk, placating them with suitably hawkish rhetoric.  While the very next day, he tells a White House press conference those who lob ...

If Americans Knew

  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • The Faces Behind Public Lab's Grassroots Resea ...
    This post was co-authored by Sara Wylie, a a Public Laboratory co-founder. Public Laboratory is an open-source software and hardware development community dedicated to producing low-cost tools for environmental research. The nonprofit portion of Public Lab grew out of using aerial mapping to ...
  • At SXSW: Poderopedia, Others Spotlight Civic M ...
    Citizen heroes who are recognized by their fellow citizens in JuƔrez City; how people from Panama fight corruption and denounce violence and crime; what we're building in Chile to show you who's who among the elite and their possible conflicts of interest -- all of these are part of the Latin Am ...
  • How Designers Can Imagine Innovative Technolog ...
    A version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog. How can designers imagine innovative technologies for news and journalism? I think I know one answer. In this post, I propose the Journalism Innovation Spiral and demonstrate it by picking apart the "profile articl ...
  • How the State Decoded Makes Sense of Messy Rea ...
    Those of us who deal with big data have a tendency to describe working with it in cavalier terms. "Oh, I just grabbed the XML file, wrote a quick parser to turn it into CSV, bulk loaded it into MySQL, laid an API on top of it, and I was done." The truth is that things very rarely go so well. ...
  • iWitness Aims to Aggregate News By Time and Place
    Let's face it: The great promise of citizen media has not really been fulfilled. News organizations have struggled to find ways to supplement their coverage of news events with contributions from citizens -- and finding citizen media related to a news event is currently difficult at best. Key ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Oil Addiction - Uneven Exchange with Saudis
    Since the discovery of oil in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia has literally had us over a barrel. Though the Saudis need the United States more than we need them, they have succeeded in coercing every American administration to look the other way while they undermine our values, our interest ...
  • Bahrain on Edge - In Bahrain, Effective Diplom ...
    Effective American diplomacy toward Bahrain can blend interest and principle. Doing so requires acknowledging that our base is critical; understanding the IslandĆ¢€™s communal divisions; and recognizing how support for the monarchy can coincide with reform.BahrainĆ¢€™s repeated demonstrations are ...
  • Edge of the Mideast - Netanyahu Explains to Ob ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Obama at the White House on March 5 to discuss Iran's nuclear program. The two-hour meeting, which took place in the Oval Office, came amid rising concerns in the international community that Israel will launch a preemptive military st ...
  • The Battle for Egypt - Egypt's Government Cont ...
    Cairo lifted its travel ban on 17 foreign democracy activists working at NGOs, including Americans, allowing them to leave Egypt on March 1 via a U.S. military plane to Cyprus. The activists are on trial in Cairo for allegedly receiving illegal foreign funding, inciting protests against the inte ...
  • The Race for Nuclear - Uncertainty Reigns over ...
    One year ago on March 11, an earthquake off the coast of Japan and the resulting tsunami triggered a month-long partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. In the days leading up to the anniversary of the crisis, advocates and opponents of nuclear power are squaring off in a ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Arlen Specter Whines "The Democrats Didn't Kee ...
    Arlen Specter is not a happy man.  In his new book he writes that after he switched parties and voted for Obamacare the Democrats threw him out like an old shoe. According to the Hill which obtained an advanced copy of Specter's new book “Life Among the Cannibals” Specter la ...
  • Israel Under Attack But Media Portrays Her As ...
    OK, Where is Allen Funt?  After reading the media reports describing four days of Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza into Israel I expect the late Candid Camera host to pop out of the shadows exclaiming his signature "Smile You're on Candid Camera."  Since Friday over 160 rocke ...
  • Buffet Rule? ANOTHER Warren Buffet Company Sue ...
    Once again Warren Buffet is revealed to be nothing but a hypocrite. On one hand he is a proponent of higher government taxes on successful people,  on the other hand companies under his control are refusing to pay their fair share of taxes. Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company which h ...
  • Newsbusters: Scientists Prove Brain Eating Amo ...
    Every wonder why, in the face of all the facts, the destruction of the economy, etc., people vote for Democrats?  Well thanks to Jodi Miller of Newsbusted we now know--brain eating amoebas. Apparently these strange microscopic creatures not only cause people to vote for the ...
  • Will The Arab Spring Lead to Shari’a Law or Sh ...
    A liberal member of Tunisia’s parliament, discussing the writing of that country’s new constitution, brilliantly defines the entire issue of Islam and politics in one sentence. But before telling you the sentence, here’s the background. The debate, as in Egypt and Libya, is over whether to mak ...

The Real Agenda

  • Does Germany Intend to Leave the Eurozone?
    The Economic Collapse March 12, 2012 For a long time, most analysts have believed that if someone was going to leave the euro, it would be a weak nation such as Greece or Portugal.  But the truth is that financially troubled nations such as Greece and Portugal don’t want to leave the euro. ...
  • ‘Bombing Iran now is the Stupidest Idea ...
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 12, 2012 It doesn’t get any clearer than that. “An attack on Iran without exploring all available options is not the right way how to do it.” These is the assessment of the former chief of Mossad, Meir Dagan, Israel’s top intellige ...
  • Ohio State Congresswoman wants to Regulate Men ...
    by Jackie Borchardt Dayton Daily News March 12, 2012 Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency, if state Sen. Nina ...
  • Why did the BP Oil Spill Event have to Happen?
    by BK Lim The Real Agenda March 11, 2012 This the 3rd part of the series BP’s Deception in the Gulf. Without deception, there will be no planned disaster. Deception works best with a pinch willful blindness and ignorance. Educate yourself, trust no one. Dedicated to all victims of planned ...
  • EconomĆ­a EspaƱola en Camino hacia el Abismo
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 09 de marzo 2012 El continuo aumento en el gasto pĆŗblico en EspaƱa estĆ” minando la capacidad del paĆ­s para salir de una de las situaciones econĆ³micas mĆ”s graves de la zona euro. En los Ćŗltimos 4 aƱos, EspaƱa no ha sido capaz de hacer frente a una [...]

Wind Watch

  • Windfarm fears raised by study
    Scots communities living in the shadow of windfarms have been warned that the threat to their health may have been underestimated. A new study has found that the effects of so-called “wind turbine syndrome” (WTS) can be far greater than that recorded by previous studies conducted within Europe. ...
  • Wind energy set to grow six-fold in California ...
    Wind power produces electricity from a renewable resource without generating greenhouse gas emissions. But wind turbines also generate controversies over bird kills, health impacts, visual blight, maintenance costs and who takes responsibility if turbines are damaged or abandoned. For better or ...
  • Resident on Pinnacle wind turbine noise: &#821 ...
    CROSS, W.Va. — Tasker Road resident Richard Braithwaite hopes his complaint filed with the West Virginia Public Service Commission recently will eventually help him get some sleep. “I can’t take it,” Braithwaite said, speaking of the noise from wind turbines that he said sounds like an airplane ...
  • Billions blown away on wind power, says Britis ...
    Governments are squandering billions of dollars on “uneconomic” wind farms, according to a landmark study that undermines the case for Labor’s huge renewable energy subsidies. Investment in wind turbines will fail to cut enough greenhouse gas emissions to justify their cost, ec ...
  • Alexander attacks tax break for wind power
    A top Republican lawmaker said Wednesday that long-standing federal subsidies on the wind farm industry should be allowed to expire at the end of the year, calling wind energy unreliable, too expensive and damaging to the environment. While wind energy interests have launched a concerted campaig ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Student Anger Over Education Cuts Puts Heat On ...
    “California has prided itself on its network of fine, affordable public universities. But money for higher education, one of the biggest chunks of the state budget, is easier to cut than some other large expenses, such as public schools and healthcare programs. For example, the California consti ...
  • NASA May Need to Use Russian Flights Longer
    “Congress cut this year’s funding for commercial-crew initiatives to $400 million, less than 50% of NASA’s request. House and Senate leaders are expected to repeat that budget pattern for the next fiscal year. . . NASA is expected to pick companies to receive the next phase of fundin ...
  • Unemployment Rate Unmoved in February
    “U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recession began. The unemployment rate was unchanged, largely because more people streamed into the work force.” (Associated Press) As Robert Higgs notes, labor-force growth is in ...
  • White House Gears Up Campaign for Health Care Law
    “The White House has begun an aggressive campaign to use approaching Supreme Court arguments on the new health care law as a moment to build support for the measure seen as President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, hoping to shape public opinion on an issue at the center of the ...
  • Adam Smith versus Business
    Advocates of the freed market should embrace Smith’s understanding of political economy: that a powerful force against freedom emanates from where they might least expect to find it.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

  • It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
    I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
  • On Stratfor
    Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
  • Justified Pessimism
    is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
  • Justified Pessimism
    is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
  • Sewage
    Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Ultimate Houston Strategy
    Last week was the 7th anniversary of my blog, Houston Strategies. After 947 posts (cream of the crop here), almost half a million visitors, and thousands of comments in an epic dialogue about Houston, I thought this would be a good time stand back, look at the big picture, and ask "W ...
  • Mapping the College Culture Gap
    Although the television series “Mad Men” has yet to take up the subject of college applications, I could well imagine an episode in which ad man Don Draper spends his day consuming vast quantities of Scotch and cigarettes, only to come home and have his wife say (while ignoring the lipstick on h ...
  • Time for Real Solutions to Vancouver's Housing ...
    Vancouver is in desperate need of new solutions to ease its worsening housing affordability crisis. The 8th annual Demographia housing affordability survey released by the Frontier Centre found that Vancouver has the second least affordable housing market next to Hong Kong. On average, and a ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Hong Kong
    Hong Kong has experienced its slowest decadal growth in at least 70 years, according to the results of the recently released 2011 census. Between 2001 and 2011, Hong Kong added only 5.4 percent to its population, a decline of more than two-thirds from its 1991-2001 rate. Hong Kong's slowest ...
  • Foreign Industrial Investment Is Reshaping America
    Declinism may be all the rage in intellectual salons from Beijing to Barcelona and Boston, but decisions being made in corporate boardrooms suggest that the United States is emerging the world’s biggest winner. Long the world leader as a destination for overseas investment, the U.S. is ext ...

GM Watch

  • Farmers fear fallout from GM trials
    Negative externality: Farmers fear fallout as Bt corn trial allowed Zafar Bhutta The Express Tribune (Pakistan), March 10 2012 http://tribune.com.pk/story/347930/negative-externality-farmers-fear-fallout-as-bt-corn-trial-allowed/ “BT corn can be successful on large land holdings elsewhere, but ...
  • South Africa's biotech 'boom' a flop
    SA Biotech 'Boom' a flop for farmers, consumers AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIOSAFETY, 11 March 2012  Johannesburg South Africa - On the 9 March 2012, the chief lobbyist for the biotech industry, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), presented findings from ...
  • WWF beds with Monsanto
    WWF beds with Monsanto to steal public lands, promote GM crops Rady Ananda Living Green Magazine, March 8 2012 http://livinggreenmag.com/2012/03/08/green-business/new-film-wwf-beds-with-monsanto-to-steal-public-lands-promote-gm-crops/ A 2011 film by Wilfried Huismann, The Silence of the Pandas, ...
  • Danes fail to win EU majority for GM crop ban ...
    1.Danes fail to win EU majority for GM crop ban rules 2.Greenpeace praises EU ministers’ rejection of GM law compromise --- --- 1.Danes fail to win EU majority for GM crop ban rules Reuters, March 9 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/09/eu-gmo-cultivation-idUSL5E8E9AJ420120309?irpc=43 ...
  • Scientists warn EPA on Monsanto corn rootworm
    Scientists warn EPA on Monsanto corn rootworm Carey Gillam Reuters, March 9 2012 http://whtc.com/news/articles/2012/mar/09/scientists-warn-epa-on-monsanto-corn-rootworm/ A group of plant scientists is warning federal regulators that action is needed to mitigate a growing problem with biotech co ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are ...
    How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely?  Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going ...
  • Is Germany Actually Preparing To Leave The Euro?
    For a long time, most analysts have believed that if someone was going to leave the euro, it would be a weak nation such as Greece or Portugal.  But the truth is that financially troubled nations such as Greece and Portugal don't want to leave the euro.  The leaders of those nati ...
  • Greece Has Defaulted – Which Country In ...
    Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts.  The ISDA is saying that ther ...
  • Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing
    Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the sto ...
  • Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
    Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...

Desertification

  • INCREASING DEMAND AND CLIMATE CHANGE THREATEN ...
    New York, Mar 12 2012 12:05PM An unprecedented rise in the demand for food, rapid urbanization and climate change are significantly threatening global water supplies, according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses that a radical new approach … Continue reading →
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    VIDEO : http://youtu.be/BF61QrZmeQU 1988-12 BURKINA FASO – Reboisement Ć  Arbolle Projet de reboisement Ć  Arbolle avec application du conditionneur de sol TERRACOTTEM, mĆ©lange hydroabsorbant qui facilite la croissance des plantes en rĆ©gion aride. GrĆ¢ce au TERRACOTTEM ce projet a connu &#823 ...
  • Los pequeƱos huertos familiares en los campame ...
    Insostenibilidad de las Naciones Unidas en los campos de refugiados de Tinduf Escrito por Peter Kenworthy de marzo 11, 2012. Guardado bajo Noticias del mundo Tags: Saharauis, Los campamentos de refugiados de Tinduf, Naciones Unidas Tinduf jardĆ­n de la familia … Continue reading →
  • Jardins familiaux pour les rĆ©fugiĆ©s Ć  Tindouf ...
    InsoutenabilitĆ© de l’ONU dans les camps de rĆ©fugiĆ©s de Tindouf Ɖcrit par Peter Kenworthy sur Mars 11, 2012. EnregistrĆ© sous Nouvelles du monde Tags: Sahraouis, Les camps de rĆ©fugiĆ©s de Tindouf, Nations unies Jardin de la famille de Tindouf L’ONU … Continue reading →
  • Fulfilling every child’s right to adequate nut ...
    Read at : http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/24607 UN unsustainability in the Tindouf Refugee Camps Written by Peter Kenworthy on March 11, 2012. Saved under World News Tags: Saharawis, Tindouf Refugee Camps, united nations Tindouf family garden The UN says that it seeks sustainability &#823 ...

The Paper Trail

  • Audit cites risk in DOE loan program
    A new audit of the Department of Energy’s $34 billion loan guarantee program said the agency doesn’t always follows its own rules in awarding the highly coveted funding, creating risk in an effort already hindered by breakdowns.The audit by the Government Accountability Office carries fresh rele ...
  • FACT CHECK: Wrestling with the truth on Santor ...
    The Mitt Romney campaign lifts a Rick Santorum quote out of context to level a charge that Santorum is being untruthful about his lobbying history.The Romney campaign claims to have caught Santorum being “at odds with the facts” when he told CNN, “I was not a lobbyist.” The Romney camp points to ...
  • ANALYSIS: Ripple effect of 'cost-shifting' unc ...
    If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of ...
  • Donors to conservative super PAC masked by non ...
    Super PACs are the perceived demons of the 2012 campaign, with the law allowing them to raise and spend unlimited amounts of dough.
  • Fugitive Catholic priest sought for alleged se ...
    Accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Chicago girl, the Rev.

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – Who you gonna Robo-call?
    As I’m sure most of you have heard, the Conservatives are in a little bit of a hot spot (and I’m not just talking about the prairies). It seems that Harps and his conservatives are being accused of a placing phone calls during the last election, giving out the wrong address’ for polling stations ...
  • How the Sun helped post the Vancouver Playhous ...
    By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after a ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Report on the recent South African miner's strike
    freesouthafrica.jpg Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a timeline and a bit of background info ...
  • Poland: Jola was Murdered one Year Ago
    jola.JPG Housing activist Jolanta Brzeska was murdered one year ago, burned alive in the Kabacki Forest. She had been fighting against the landlords, notorious slumlords Mossakowski and Massalski and was the only old tenant left in the bui ...
  • Poland: Jola was Murdered one Year Ago
    Housing activist Jolanta Brzeska was murdered one year ago, burned alive in the Kabacki Forest. She had been fighting against the landlords, notorious slumlords Mossakowski and Massalski and was the only old tenant left in the building. She was abducted from her apartment and murdered violently ...
  • Casualisation on the docks: a ship we all don' ...
    Auckland_workers.jpg Workers at the Ports of Auckland have been on strike this week, with solidarity actions spreading nationally and internationally. Workers at the Ports of Au ...
  • Spain: The CNT calls for a nationwide general ...
    web_imagen_29Mcnt.png March 10 - The CNT, Spain's anarchist labor union, issued a statement yesterday announcing that they will be convoking a nation-wide general strike for March 29 against the ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Scotts Contracting

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

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Iranian.com

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  • 'Shahs of Sunset' reality show: Is this what I ...
    Some, though, are also asking whether the show trades in one stereotype for another, and whether it presents a face of the community that Iranian-Americans want to show.
  • Only a Restoration can guarantee a peaceful se ...
    The only hope the world may have of a peaceful settlement of the Iranian Nuclear crisis may well be the return of the Shah of Iran, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the formerImperial State of Iran and current head of theread more
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Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Seven Year Brouhaha over Gene Sharp
    Thierry Meyssan (This is the second of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) The current brouhaha over Gene Sharp was initially triggered by ...
  • Why the CIA Funds Nonviolence Training
    Nonviolent guru Gene Sharp (This is the first of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) One important aspect of the debate over  “ ...
  • The Female Face of Poverty
    Happy International Women's Day Today (March 8th) is International Women’s Day. This year the UN has declared the theme “Empower Rural Women: End Hunger and Poverty.” According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), women comprise 43 percent of agricultural wor ...
  • Wyoming Prepares for Dollar Collapse
        2012 STATE OF WYOMING 12LSO-00441 HB0085 HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085 Government continuity Sponsored by: Representative(s) Miller, Burkhart, Davison, Edmonds, Jaggi, Kroeker, McKim, Peasley, Quarberg and Teeters and Senator(s) Jennings and Peterson A BILL for 1 AN ACT relating to go ...
  • Korangate 3: An Ingenious Taliban Psy-ops?
    Afghans burn Obama in effigy A bizarre random thought occurred to me last night. What if the alleged February 21st Koran burning at Bagram prison in Afghanistan never actually happened? Or if it happened, but without the involvement of any US troops? What if the whole thing was an ingenious Tali ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
  • Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
    Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
  • THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
    RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
  • 'Gratitude'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...

Salon

  • Too simple, too dumb
    In Syria, fighting continues with a drastic toll on human life. In Libya, thousands remain imprisoned as allegations of torture conducted against former pro-Gadhafi fighters proliferate. Israel and the United States continue to debate the possibility of attacking Iran, which has pressed on with ...
  • The trouble with “crowd-sourced interven ...
    Invisible Children has recently raised the global profile of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army through its hugely successful #K0NY2012 media campaign. The Kings of War blog calls the campaign "crowd sourced intervention." Like Mark Kertsen, I do not intend to take aim at Invisible Child ...
  • Just another civilian massacre
    The news could hardly be worse: a soldier in Kandahar went on a shooting spree, killing 16 civilians, mostly women and children. The outpouring of shock and anger has been tremendous and, to diplomats still reeling from the violent aftermath of a Quran-burning incident, extremely disheartening.A ...
  • Should we fear a cashless society?
    Why are those grimy green slips of paper in your wallet infused with such value? Will they always be valuable? Or will they become relics? David Wolman's new book "The End of Money" answers all of these questions. A contributing editor at Wired magazine, he spent a year reporting on how money is ...
  • The Taliban vows revenge
    The Taliban has vowed revenge against the U.S. after an American soldier allegedly went on a house-to-house shooting rampage in Kandahar province, killing 16 Afghan civilians — including children — on Sunday.In a statement Monday on their website, the militant group pledged to "take revenge" aga ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • What’s Missing In Smart Grid Roadmaps
    Smart Grid technology roadmaps help utilities plan for grid modernization.  At the recent Grid ComForum conference, senior utility executives noted that their roadmaps are adjusting to address organizational realignments – particularly in managing the convergence of Information Technologies ...
  • Did Fracking Cause 12 Earthquakes in Ohio?
    State officials have determined that at least 12 earthquakes that occurred in Ohio were caused by the injection of brine into hydraulic fracturing disposal wells.  As a result of its findings [pdf], the state has established, what it calls, the "nation's toughest regulations" for the frac ...
  • Whos' Really to Blame for Fukushima Health Imp ...
    As is often the case, the passage of time yields clarity about events, and the nuclear power plant accident at Fukushima is no different.  It has become clear that the misinformation and hysterics by anti-nuclear groups and individuals were mostly wrong.  Their doomsday prophesizing ac ...
  • Ubiquitous Energy: A Solar Game-Changer?
    Anyone who knew Miles C. Barr as a kid no doubt realized he’d go far. His early childhood “inventions” included a robotic walking monkey built using a windshield-wiper motor from an abandoned school bus and a hovercraft he’d assembled with parts from a vacuum cleaner and a porch table. Like ...
  • Direct air capture of CO2 is becoming a busine ...
      Klaus Lackner

EU Times

  • Five Common Diet Mistakes
    Those who diet, but do not lose weight, should be aware. See what might be causing the failure of the system…The complaint is often recurrent and can often be resolved with an adjustment here or there. Check out the list of five common mistakes made by those who want to lose weight. To go ...
  • Israel will continue its campaign against Gaza
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue its campaign against Gaza “as long as necessary,” despite the fact that a recent air strike killed a 12-year-old boy in a refugee camp, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 17. ­“We extracted a high price from them and will continue t ...
  • Poll: 73% of all Arabs consider Israel and US ...
    A shocking survey, representing 85 percent of the Arab world population, reveals that 73 out of every 100 respondents see Israel and the US as jointly posing the largest threat to the security of their countries. The poll, conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in t ...
  • US soldier opens fire on Afghan civilians kill ...
    A US soldier has killed at least 17 civilians after opening fire on them near a US military base in Kandahar. There are nine children among the victims, Afghan authorities say. Afghan President Hamid Karzai qualified the incident as an “assassination” and demanded an explanation from Washington, ...
  • Iran smart concrete to protect N-sites from US ...
    As tension escalates between the US and Iran, American officials are increasingly concerned that the use of “smart concrete” may render Iranian nuclear sites impervious to US bunker-buster bombs. An article published by Aggravate Research website, which represents Aggravate Industries, stated th ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Eva Longoria Injured On Desperate Housewives Set!
    Oh no! This isn’t good. Poor thing! While on the set for Desperate Housewives , Eva Longoria injured her foot in the most surprising way: Dancing! She tweeted a photo (above) and an explanation shortly after, saying: “Resting on set putting ice on foot, hurt it dancing on set.” She didn’t go in ...
  • Afghanistan soldier rampage
    Tragedy vs. terrorism Afghanistan’s president describes the murder of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier as “an act of terrorism” [“Lewis-McChord soldier held in Afghan rampage,” page one, March 12]. But Americans describe it as a “tragedy.” In these two perspectives lies the whole story of America ...
  • Invisible Children/Kony 2012 campaign's far-ri ...
    The Young Turks ' Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian on 03/09/2012 gave a somewhat critical but nevertheless, too-credulous report on the Kony 2012 campaign by the Invisible Children group that advocates for continued US military involvement with the Ugandan military. Too credulous, despite its title ...
  • Peyton Manning: Broncos’ only salvation
    ESPN reports that Peyton Manning has narrowed his choice to Denver and Arizona. The Cardinals seem the most likely. Arizona has an indoor stadium, Denver does not. But if Manning could somehow be enticed to Denver, it would rescue the Broncos from a profound problem. The Broncos have created a ...
  • YHOO Sues Facebook for Infringing 10 Patents, ...
    Reuters’s Dan Levine this afternoon reports that Yahoo! ( YHOO ) has filed suit against Facebook regarding infringement on 10 Yahoo! patents pertaining to online advertising, citing a court document filed in San Jose. Yahoo! shares are up 6 cents, or 0.4%, at $14.55 in late trading. The authors ...

Groklaw

  • Putting Lives Before Patents: India Says Price ...
    However, one key point in TRIPS that developing countries such as India and Brazil have paid close attention to is the fact that they can force a compulsory license on a drug patent holder in the interest of public health. For the first time since re-instating patents on pharmaceuticals, India ...
  • Keynote - Karen Sandler - LinuxConfAU 2012
    [This is an incredibly interesting talks. She in essence uses her own experience with a MedTronic heart-assistive device to explain the free software purpose, namely freedom. This leads to her explanation of the Gnome desktop, and trust me, there are even more themes in this talk. So be patie ...
  • EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful
    The PC BIOS is a dreadful thing. Poorly standardised and often poorly implemented, it has one job to do and frequently does it badly. The kernel and bootloaders are obliged to devote extensive sections of code to working around issues present in the BIOS, code and time that could have been bette ...
  • Geek Time with Andrew Tridgell
    Andrew Tridgell is a creator of Samba and rsync. Jeremy Allison, Samba co-creator and part of the Google Open Source Programs Office interviewed Andrew at the SambaXP 2011 conference for some quality Geek Time. The two have known each other for many years so there was plenty to talk about. Here ...
  • Koch brothers vs. Cato: Cato Chairman Bob Levy ...
    David Koch and chief Koch lieutenant Rich Fink expressly announced their intentions at a meeting with me in November. The Kochs want Cato's work to be more closely coordinated with Koch-allied groups such as Americans for Prosperity, a 501(c)(4) grassroots activist organization committed to free ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Big win for handgun owners. States can not blo ...
    Wikimedia CommonsA federal district court says states can not require citizens to show why they want to carry a concealed weapon.U.S. District Court Judge Benson Everett Legg asserted: “A citizen may not be required to offer a ‘good and substantial reason’ why he should be perm ...
  • Censoring a cartoon
    Local “newspapers” The Bend Bulletin and The Portland Oregonian are censoring this week’s Doonesbury cartoon strip about Texas’ (and other’s) state enforced rape pre-abortion ultrasound laws.And yawl’ thought we were just a bunch of mamby-pamby liberals around here.Here’s what’ ...
  • Afghanistan slaughter
    Yet another rogue soldier in an isolated incident of regrettable violence. Seems to be a lot of that going around.The sergeant’s name has not been released, which seems odd to me. Afghanis say there must have been more than one shooter. The base is described as most troubled and was home t ...
  • Urban farming. Glasgow to Detroit
    Glasgow2Detroit Trailer from Away Ye Grow on Vimeo.Don McKeen, an Amercian expat in Glasgow mailed me about his documentary Detroit to Glasgow, which is about urban gardening and creating new futures in post-industrial cities.Just came across your website tonight – your Saul Alinsky articl ...
  • How to create financial content
    The Big Picture has a fun post on how to write for different financial sites. Read the whole thing.How to write for the Business Insider: Post title should ask a question you have no intention or ability to answer. Bonus points for making it into a list, for including a well-known person and for ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Bus review needs to electrify Wellington
    Big changes are ahead for our buses and the regional council wants to know what you think. Today I launched our easy electronic submission guide alongside 11 barrels of oil — the amount of oil our electric trolley bus fleet saves Wellington each day. The regional council’s bus review is proposin ...
  • Kiwi music loses if New Zealand gives up copyr ...
    With the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations having just occurred in Melbourne I’m urging the Government not to surrender New Zealand’s sovereignty on copyright so we can keep enjoying Kiwi Music in the public domain.
  • Give the shark’s tale a happy ending
    Last night, 60 Minutes ran an interesting piece on shark finning in New Zealand. It was fantastic to see this issue receiving such prominent attention, and great that it covered many of the points I've been making for the past year, and reaffirmed the urgency of the plight of our sharks.
  • General debate, March 11, 2012
  • Inquiry into election includes low voter turnout
    The regular inquiry into the conduct of the General Election will this time address voter turnout out in its terms of reference, and is seeking submissions from the public. 2011 had the lowest voter turnout in over 100 years. How can we turn that around, especially amongst young people?

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How Honest Is Your Doctor?
    By Dr. Mercola A U.S. telephone survey found that 79 percent of Americans trust their doctor.i Only 8 percent said they do not … But can your doctor really be trusted? Doctors are human, after all, and though most would certainly expect that their doctor is being upfront when it comes to he ...
  • The Hidden Perpetrator of Sinus Infections - F ...
    By Dr. Mercola Nasal congestion is usually caused by infection or allergy, and is one of the most frequent medical complaints in the United States. A common belief is that nasal congestion or "stuffy nose" is due to a buildup of mucus. However, congestion is more often due to swelling of ...
  • Do This - or You Could Soon be Eating an "Agen ...
    By Dr. Mercola Mark Kastel, founder of the farm policy research group Cornucopia, is deeply dedicated to making sure we have high-quality food and that we're not being deceived about what we're eating. Here, we discuss Agent Orange, and one of its active ingredients, which is now creeping in ...
  • The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This Is Your Br ...
    By Dr. Mercola You sprinkle it on your cereal. Add it to your morning cup of coffee. Lovingly bake it into your children's birthday cakes... And then, of course, it's a key part of some of our most favorite "treats" and comfort foods -- cookies, candy, soda pop, ice cream, all those "yumm ...
  • The Prescribed 'Preventive' That Labs Use to I ...
    By Dr. Mercola 2011 was the first year in more than two decades during which there were no deaths from B. pertussis whooping cough in the state of California, the Los Angeles Times recently reportedi. In 2010, 10 infants reportedly died from the disease.  The number of reported cases ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Why did the health minister kill li ...
    It has come to light that federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq torpedoed a government plan to impose strict limits on unhealthy trans fats in Canadian food products.
  • An Aislin contest: party animals
    Thanks to 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast, the notion of a donkey representing the Democratic Party and an elephant the Republican Party has long been a part of the U.S. political consciousness. Now The Gazette's Aislin (Terry Mosher) wants to know: what animal would be a good repr ...
  • Protesting students could use a lesson in demo ...
    Students protesting the provincial government's planned tuition increases appear significantly lacking in understanding of legitimate democratic practice.
  • Editorial Cartoon
    " Re: "Student protesters clash with police" (Gazette, March 8).
  • The mayor of Huntingdon and the language law
    Huntingdon Mayor StƩphane Gendron is seeking to affirm the town's right to serve the sizable minority of its anglophone residents in their own language.

Food World Order

  • Better supplies to drive world food prices low ...
    from reuters: Improved grain supplies will help lower food prices this year after sharp rises in 2011 and take the wind out of price volatility, easing inflation concerns, a senior official at the United Nations' food agency told Reuters on Monday. Over the next decade, however, prices are set t ...
  • Uphill Struggle for Food Exporters on Fukushim ...
    Tokyo food radiation safety: It's personal* from japantimes.co.jp: For many people around the world, food from Japan used to have an image of being among the healthiest around, let alone safe to consume. That changed after March 11, 2011, when the massive earthquake and tsunami triggered the ...
  • US Scientists Warn EPA About Monsanto Corn Roo ...
    from dawn.com: A group of US 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. The stakes are high – US corn production is critical for food, animal feed and ethanol produc ...
  • Coke, Pepsi Change Recipe to Avoid Caramel-Col ...
    from news.sky.com: Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their soft drinks to avoid being forced by law to put a cancer warning on the label. The caramel colouring in the drinks will contain lower levels of 4-methylimidazole, which has been added to the list of carcinogens in Californ ...
  • #Video: Episode012 - Monsanto, Lorax, Bird Flu
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Monsanto, the Lorax, bird flu and more... Previous Audio: Episode011 - Nukes, Books, Sy ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are ...
    How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely?  Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going ...
  • Is Germany Actually Preparing To Leave The Euro?
    For a long time, most analysts have believed that if someone was going to leave the euro, it would be a weak nation such as Greece or Portugal.  But the truth is that financially troubled nations such as Greece and Portugal don't want to leave the euro.  The leaders of those nati ...
  • Greece Has Defaulted – Which Country In ...
    Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts.  The ISDA is saying that ther ...
  • Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing
    Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the sto ...
  • Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
    Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • 'British Bill of Rights' scam: Commissioner re ...
    We hate to say we told you so but... how do we put this to you gently? We told you so. The 'British Bill of Rights' scam - designed to muddy the waters regarding our existing English Bill of Rights and drive us towards governance by the European Union - is exposed as a Parliamentary sovere ...
  • Obama facing impeachment for alleged "high cri ...
    An attempt at the impeachment of President Obama has begun in the U.S. after Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina filed a resolution which alleges that Obama has engaged in: "...the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress" which " ...
  • Oh joy! Come celebrate the wonderful disaster!
    Seems most mainstream media sources are spinning the line of the 'successful' Greek debt swap. Amidst complex financial shenanigans that seem fishier than fresh Greek bacalao, only the bravest dared attempt any interpretation or explanation as last night's deadline to voluntarily call the Gr ...
  • Ken Clarke's Charter To Bump Off Anti-Landmine ...
    Much fuss has been made over the last few days, quite rightly too, about Bilderberg attending Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans for "secret justice". Faced with widespread criticism, the Bilderberger has today - according to The Independent - "attempted to quell growing concerns over propo ...
  • Pritchard Quits: Principles Over Personal Posi ...
    Those wondering whether Roger Helmer MEP's weekend defection from the Conservatives to UKIP would open the floodgates did not have to wait too long. Yesterday we learnt through the Sunday newspapers that Steve Hilton walked from his Downing Street job, apparently privately citing frustrations ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Fundamentalist Christian Crocodiles in Heat
    By Les Visible All these politicians that claim to be good religious people in order to get really stupid religious people to vote for them make me sick. I still remember Bush the Younger making fun of Karla Faye Tucker and his lie about taking a walk with Billy Graham who actually said it was [...]
  • Monsanto’s Roundup threatens stability o ...
    by: Anthony Gucciardi (NaturalNews) Monsanto’s reckless disregard for public health and the agricultural stability of the planet may be even more significant than previously thought. A shocking new report reveals how Monsanto’s Roundup is actually threatening the crop-yielding potent ...
  • The Great Schmoo Army of Mindless Zombie Chris ...
    By Les Visible There’s crack cocaine and then there’s crack cocaine. The most deadly, destructive and addictive crack is Christian fundamentalism. You’ve heard that bullshit anti-drug, pro alcohol, advertising line; “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”? It’s ...
  • Why an MRI Costs $1,080 in America and $280 in ...
    By Ezra Klein, The Washington Post 06 March 12 There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. That may sound obvious. But it is, in fact, key to understanding one of the most pressing problems facing our economy. In 2009, A ...
  • Parents Fighting Against Gov’t. Vaccinat ...
    by Dave Bohon Tuesday, 06 March 2012 15:59 A Detroit mother is fighting mad after school officials defied her specific instructions and gave her daughter four vaccinations, including one that has been linked to adverse physical reactions and even death in its recipients. Sighle Kinney told Detro ...

Veterans Today

  • Why Hate Gilad Atzmon Pt. 2: “He’ ...
    "Don't even go there!" they scream. Atzmon goes there. So they lynch him.
  • 60 MINUTES, Mossad, AEROSMITH and Stupid is as ...
    Last Sunday's "60 Minutes", featured a Lesley Stahl interview with Meir Dagan, who admitted that bombing Iran now is "the stupidest idea" he'd ever heard. A few other ‘stupid ideas’ out of Israel follow...
  • Electioneering Continues to Spite!
    Media whores keep on analyzing the screwy election process to death while ignoring the facts of life—our country is dissolving into a pile of feces because the masses have failed to pay attention and allowed this corporate agenda free rein.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News ...
    The case of Katherine Glover, a Navy veteran who suffers from PTSD and was turned down for every request for disability benefits until the VA started using "a revised set of guidelines for handling claims involving sexual trauma."
  • The New World Order Zeitgeist
    The "spirit of the times" for the New World Order worshipers is essentially anti-God sentiment. There is no longer an issue if the NWO is real.

electric politics

  • The Taiping Civil War
    In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
  • It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
    In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
  • America Agonistes
    The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
  • The Color of Authority
    We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
  • How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
    Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Laws Versus Color Revolutions In Latin America
    Strategic Culture Foundation March 12, 2012 Laws vs. Color Revolutions in Latin America Nil Nikandrov ==== While Latin American populist leaders Rafael Correa, Evo Morales, and Hugo Chavez strictly abide by their countries’ constitutions, the camp challenging them does not recognize legal ...
  • Russia Warns Of NATO Exploiting UN, Misleading ...
    Itar-Tass March 12, 2012 Lavrov warns against misleading international community UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against misleading the international community and manipulating U.N. Security Council decisions. “Whatever goals are set, they cannot be ...
  • CSTO, Russia Oppose Foreign Military Aggressio ...
    Itar-Tass March 12, 2012 CSTO Sec-Gen considers inexpedient to interfere in Syrian events YEREVAN: Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation Nikolai Bordyuzha said it is inexpedient to interfere in the events in Syria. “We consider inexpedient to actively interfere in the ...
  • BRICS: New Rules For Global Governance Needed
    China Daily March 12, 2012 New rules for global governance needed By Mukul Sanwal* ==== At present the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have half the world’s population and one-third of the global GDP. By 2030 their economies will be larger than ...
  • Sri Lanka Could Join Global Bloc Challenging U ...
    Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2012 Sri Lanka threatens to join anti-America allies ==== Sri Lanka: Next U.S., NATO “Humanitarian Intervention”? ====               COLOMBO: Sri Lanka threatens to join international allies against the United States if it [the ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Ron Paul Tells Reporters He Is Suspicious Abou ...
    Congressman says he has “theories” that foul play may be involved Steve Watson Infowars.com March 12, 2012 In a conversation with reporters in Missouri this weekend, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul said that he and his supporters were suspicious about the outcomes of several caucuses because ...
  • Ron Paul: I’m Not the Goldman Sachs Cand ...
    The Intel Hub March 12, 2012 Ron Paul delivers a speech to a HUGE crowd and makes it clear that he is NOT the Goldman Sachs handpicked candidate.
  • Military Plans to Barbecue Civil Dissidents to ...
    The Intel Hub | The military has Less Than Lethal Weapons readied for future civil unrest on the streets of America.
  • Scientists Warn EPA Over Monsanto’s GMO Crop F ...
    Anthony Gucciardi | Scientists are calling for major federal action in order to deal with the threat posed by Monsanto’s GMO crops.
  • What Caused Tila Tequila’s Brain Aneurysm Afte ...
    FederalJack.com March 12, 2012 It was all over the MSM this week, the near-fatal brain aneurysm and drug overdose of reality TV host Tia Tequila. Regardless of her wild lifestyle and likely abuse of substance, you may remember that a couple of years ago she spilled the beans about the Illuminati ...

FRS

  • ABC News: “U.S. Soldier Accused of Kill ...
    By MUHAMMAD LILA (@muhammadlila) and MARTHA RADDATZ (@martharaddatz) March 11, 2012 Investigators are trying to learn what set off an Army veteran of three tours in Iraq who left his base in the middle of the night and methodically massacred 16 Afghan civilians — most of them children and ...
  • Artists use graffiti to tell Egypt revolution’ ...
    AlJazeeraEnglish Running south from Tahrir Square toward Egypt’s interior ministry in central Cairo, Mohamed Mahmoud street has become one of the revolution’s most violent battlegrounds. Twelve people died in the area during February street battles between protesters and police stemm ...
  • Artists use graffiti to tell Egypt revolution’ ...
    AlJazeeraEnglish Running south from Tahrir Square toward Egypt’s interior ministry in central Cairo, Mohamed Mahmoud street has become one of the revolution’s most violent battlegrounds. Twelve people died in the area during February street battles between protesters and police stemm ...
  • Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza Strip
    EuroNews, March 10, 2012 GAZA CITY — Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed up to 12 Palestinians, mostly militants, in the worst flare-up of violence along the restive border in months. The leader of a militant group is among the dead. Israel said it struck after Palestinians ha ...
  • Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza Strip
    EuroNews, March 10, 2012 GAZA CITY — Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed up to 12 Palestinians, mostly militants, in the worst flare-up of violence along the restive border in months. The leader of a militant group is among the dead. Israel said it struck after Palestinians ha ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
  • For Love
    I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...
  • The Criminal UK Police Looking to Arrest Me fo ...
    The mass murdering criminal UK Government and its equally corrupt police, the ones who are happy to protect Israeli war criminals in the UK by destroying universal jurisdiction. The same UK that is home to the worlds biggest fraudsters and financial terrorists, otherwise known as the banksters. ...
  • Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
    Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
  • Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
    Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • MIT Laser Fibers Could Be Woven Together to Ma ...
    The trick to any good 3-D tech is creating a system in which the viewer’s eyes receive two slightly different images, creating the kind of dual perspective that gives imagery depth--and hence the illusion of three-dimensions even within a flat space like a television display. With most light emi ...
  • The Mars Experiment
    NASA's newest Mars project is the most ambitious of its kind ever undertaken On August 5, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will reach the outer edge of the Martian atmosphere. The 8,500-pound craft will have traveled 352 million miles at speeds of up to 13,200 mph, but its real work will have onl ...
  • This Week in the Future, March 5-9, 2012
    A pink violin strung with spider silk, and a brand-new iPad upon which, of course, one types with one's right hand. That's this week in the future. Want to win this Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the ...
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, March 5-9 ...
  • How Do You Tell Time On Mars?
    Synchronizing rovers on Mars with their drivers on Earth is a bit of a challenge When NASA’s new Mars rover lands on the Red Planet this summer, it’s safe to assume it’ll be sometime in the morning or early afternoon at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, home of the rover science and ...

Veterans Today

  • Why Hate Gilad Atzmon Pt. 2: “He’ ...
    "Don't even go there!" they scream. Atzmon goes there. So they lynch him.
  • 60 MINUTES, Mossad, AEROSMITH and Stupid is as ...
    Last Sunday's "60 Minutes", featured a Lesley Stahl interview with Meir Dagan, who admitted that bombing Iran now is "the stupidest idea" he'd ever heard. A few other ‘stupid ideas’ out of Israel follow...
  • Electioneering Continues to Spite!
    Media whores keep on analyzing the screwy election process to death while ignoring the facts of life—our country is dissolving into a pile of feces because the masses have failed to pay attention and allowed this corporate agenda free rein.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News ...
    The case of Katherine Glover, a Navy veteran who suffers from PTSD and was turned down for every request for disability benefits until the VA started using "a revised set of guidelines for handling claims involving sexual trauma."
  • The New World Order Zeitgeist
    The "spirit of the times" for the New World Order worshipers is essentially anti-God sentiment. There is no longer an issue if the NWO is real.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
  • Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
    Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
  • February's huge temperature contrast
    Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
  • Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
    The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...
  • Risk of drought restrictions spread
    Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Boeing Flies High With Chinese Over EU Emissions
    For all the trade conflicts going on between China and the US, here's something that goes against the grain.Think of the US being a beneficiary of a trade conflict involving China and some other country.. That is exactly the sort of thing going on here. To be sure, China and the EU have at least ...
  • Yanks Never Learn: US Imports Hit Record High
    This has to be the most ridiculous story I've seen all week long. One that once again demonstrates that you don't have to go much further than the Yahoo! News front page for IPE-relevant material. For all the hot air about "global rebalancing," the Yanks seem to be repeating the Bushite formula ...
  • India Isn't a Superpower (and May Never Be)
    It's once again time to feature an LSE IDEAS publication as I sometimes do. Although hosting Niall Ferguson was something of an event for us--he is in many respects a one-man travelling circus of his own--we now have another Phillip Roman chairholder in Ramachandra Guha. Although he is somewhat ...
  • The Kids Ain't Alright: Bahrain GP On In 2012?
    With the Formula One circus about to commence in 2012, I though it would be interesting to revisit the plight of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Famously cancelled, rescheduled, and then recancelled due to public uproar over holding an event in an "Arab Spring" state--the ruling regime survived anyway-- ...
  • Masters of the Game: Vatican Diplomacy in Cuba
    By far one of the most underresearched areas in IPE I would argue is the role played by religious institutions as diplomatic actors. Not only were the imperial conquests of earlier European colonizers usually phrased in terms of enlightening the unwashed masses, but religion remains a very signi ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are ...
    How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely?  Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going ...
  • Is Germany Actually Preparing To Leave The Euro?
    For a long time, most analysts have believed that if someone was going to leave the euro, it would be a weak nation such as Greece or Portugal.  But the truth is that financially troubled nations such as Greece and Portugal don't want to leave the euro.  The leaders of those nati ...
  • Greece Has Defaulted – Which Country In ...
    Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts.  The ISDA is saying that ther ...
  • Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing
    Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the sto ...
  • Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate W ...
    Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Five Common Diet Mistakes
    Those who diet, but do not lose weight, should be aware. See what might be causing the failure of the system…The complaint is often recurrent and can often be resolved with an adjustment here or there. Check out the list of five common mistakes made by those who want to lose weight. To go ...
  • Israel will continue its campaign against Gaza
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue its campaign against Gaza “as long as necessary,” despite the fact that a recent air strike killed a 12-year-old boy in a refugee camp, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 17. ­“We extracted a high price from them and will continue t ...
  • Poll: 73% of all Arabs consider Israel and US ...
    A shocking survey, representing 85 percent of the Arab world population, reveals that 73 out of every 100 respondents see Israel and the US as jointly posing the largest threat to the security of their countries. The poll, conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in t ...
  • US soldier opens fire on Afghan civilians kill ...
    A US soldier has killed at least 17 civilians after opening fire on them near a US military base in Kandahar. There are nine children among the victims, Afghan authorities say. Afghan President Hamid Karzai qualified the incident as an “assassination” and demanded an explanation from Washington, ...
  • Iran smart concrete to protect N-sites from US ...
    As tension escalates between the US and Iran, American officials are increasingly concerned that the use of “smart concrete” may render Iranian nuclear sites impervious to US bunker-buster bombs. An article published by Aggravate Research website, which represents Aggravate Industries, stated th ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Catholic Church has no business policing itself
    Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
  • How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
    An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
  • Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
    The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
  • Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
    Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...
  • Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality &#821 ...
    Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...

WL Central

  • 2012-03-10 Interview with Chase Madar, journal ...
    TweetChase Madar is the author of the recently published book, The Passion of Bradley Manning. Madar is a civil rights attorney, who also writes for the London Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique, The American Conservative (where he is a contributing editor), CounterPunch and TomDispatch. H ...
  • 2012-03-10 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles co ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 462 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 459 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 656 days. WikiLeaks News: Image from WikiLeaks WikiLeaks continues to release more G.I. F ...
  • 2012-03-07 Press Release for Motion Hearing at ...
    TweetBelow is a March 1, 2012 United States Department of Defense Press Release for an upcoming Motion Hearing in the legal proceedings for U.S. Government vs. PFC Bradley Manning: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians o ...
  • To Whom It May Concern
    TweetI, Heather Marsh, have decided to no longer act as editor-in-chief, administrator or domain holder of wlcentral.org. From this point forward, I accept no legal, moral or other responsibility for the content of this site. WL Central has been one of the most enjoyable volunteer efforts I have ...
  • 2012-03-06 #WikiLeaks News Update: #GIFiles; U ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 458 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 455 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 652 days. WikiLeaks News: Image from WikiLeaks WikiLeaks continues to release more G.I. F ...

U N News

  • Police reform vital to improve security situat ...
    The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) stressed today that although the security situation in Haiti has improved in recent years, there is still an urgent need for police reform to ensure peace and stability in the country.
  • Guatemala: UN welcomes judge's decision to den ...
    The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the news that a Guatemalan judge rejected the claim that a former dictator is protected under an amnesty law from being tried on genocide charges.
  • Haiti: First mobile phone cash transfers facil ...
    Survivors of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti have this week started receiving cash subsidies through the first-ever mobile money transfer system in support of post-disaster housing reconstruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported today.
  • UN launches new guidelines in fight against ch ...
    United Nations health officials have unveiled new guidelines to help countries throughout the Americas detect and prevent transmission of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus - a disease which has already infected more than two million people around the world.
  • Drug-related violence has reached alarming lev ...
    Escalating violence involving drug trafficking organizations in Central America has reached "alarming and unprecedented levels," making it one of the most violent areas in the world, the United Nations anti-narcotics panel stressed in its annual report which was launched today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The 'Fake Victims' of 911?...
      We all know that 9/11 was a complete hoax! I have done two posts on it which can be found Here and Here. Please read the first link because that has all the facts about this false flag attack on America by our own government. ~ Many Photos - Videos read more
  • Alex Jones Exposed As Possible STRATFOR Double ...
      Alex Jones cancels American speaking tour after revelations that he may be working for Israeli intelligence agency STRATFOR! ~ Related articles read more
  • Facebook... Begining April 2, 2012 Your Social ...
      February seemed to be the month of Facebook, with new updates and new privacy settings. Today, Facebook announced a new procedure to address the recent wave of spam that has plagued the website. Starting April 2nd, users will be required to enter their social security numbers to log ...
  • Shocking Video... Wait Until You See What Happ ...
      If there was any doubt left in your mind over the health devastating effects of processed foods, this may be the final nail in the coffin. ~ Anthony Gucciardi - Video read more
  • Disney's 'Lab Rats'... Genetically Engineered ...
      The Disney channel has a new show called Lab Rats. Three of the main characters are teenagers that according to the promotional material are super-human kids genetically engineered by a billionaire investor to "save the world." Each kid has a special enhancement. Chase has been alter ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Flour Storage Best With Mylar Bags
    Reader Question: I am interested in Mylar bags. My question is if we could store flour because I know the flour goes bad in 6 months to a year. Another thing I want to know, I don’t have any food grade buckets so could I store it in can buckets? Or could I store the [...]
  • Americas Worst Nightmare: Inflation And WW3
    Prices: 10 years ago (2002) oil ($22 / barrel) gasoline ($1.45 / gallon) bread  ($2.00 / loaf) milk ($2.00 / gallon) gold ($300 / ounce) Prices: today (2012) oil ($110 / barrel) gasoline ($4.00 / gallon) bread  ($3.75 / loaf) milk ($3.75 / gallon) gold ($1,700 / ounce) Prices: percentage increas ...
  • Pole Shift Data Coverup – 2012
    The NOAA National Geophysical Data Center has updated (revised – massaged) their magnetic north pole-shift positional data and has projected the location of the pole through 2015. The pole shift, if you will, continues to race along in the same direction since it dramatically accelerated b ...
  • Shopping Groceries – Saving Money
    One thing I have noticed lately and it’s really nice to see, is how people are really trying their best to shop wisely in this terrible recession. Grocery shopping is literally getting harder and harder to do as jobs are lost and prices just rise and rise. I have talked to people who will ...
  • Power Outage – How Will You Deal Long Term?
    I think we have all had to deal with a power outage for a day or two. Some of us have had the experience of being without power for 5 to 7 days. What if you had to survive and adapt to a power outage for 3 weeks or longer? Can you imagine that? Can [...]

Fast Company

  • Microsoft Wants To Put Your Face On A Universa ...
    Universal translators are something of a holy grail in mobile tech trends--and Microsoft's just revealed its latest effort at its own TechFest show. It's real-time. And it uses your own voice and face. Microsoft's new universal translation system is called Monolingual TTS, and though it's been i ...
  • TED Targets Impressionable Young Minds With In ...
    TED, the conference dedicated to "Ideas Worth Spreading," took a step forward in its educational mission today by launching a TEDEd video channel on YouTube. Shorter than the 18-minute TED talks that have racked up 500 million views, these videos feature a combination of talking heads from TED s ...
  • Instagram For Android Coming Soon, Gowalla Now ...
    Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Apple iPad Pre-orders Sell Out. Less than a week after Apple announced its new iPad, pre-order stock of the new device has run out. The earliest shipping date for web-bought iPads has been pushed back to March 19, and online p ...
  • Is Your Memory Good Enough To Remember That Yo ...
    You know your device's memory will one day fail or not be enough, but how well do you know the faults of your onboard wetware?The best memory system may not be the one inside your head. Scientists are learning more every day about the fragile nature of memories, including the rather sci-fi fact ...
  • Why Small Businesses Should Scrap Strategic Pl ...
    What fast-growing companies need is strategic thinking--not strategic planning. Here are three things smaller companies can do to develop an adaptive, opportunistic approach to strategy. If you want to witness true cultural diversity, watch Dubai International Airport come to life one morning. E ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt Media Roundup (March 12)
    “MB says to sack members who support Abol Fotoh” The Brotherhood is intent on dismissing members who support Abol Fotoh’s candidacy for president. “Rights activists appalled by doctor's acquittal in virginity tests case” Cairo court declares innocent the doctor who conducted virgini ...
  • Those Who Lie on Behalf of the Military (video)
    The following video was released by Askar Kazeboon (“military liars”) campaign in commemoration of the forty-day anniversary of the Port Said massacre and the events that followed it. At least seventy-four individuals died in the clashes that ensued in Port Said stadium on 1 February 201 ...
  • ‘Virginity Test’ Doctor Acquittal Reveals Mili ...
    Disappointed but not surprised, lawyers and supporters of Samira Ibrahim blamed a verdict issued Sunday acquitting the military doctor that Ibrahim accused of carrying out a so-called “virginity test” on her and six other women last year on the fact that the case was heard in the militar ...
  • "A Separation" Buried Under the Dust of Politics
    “A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar winning film, gave Iranians a reason to come together and celebrate this moment, which could have potentially taken the focus away from war and nuclear program. The media on both sides, however, missed the moment. On Sunday, 26 February, Asgha ...
  • An Emerging Memorial Space? In Praise of Moham ...
    Mohammed Mahmud Street, also known as sharei’ uyuun al-hurriyyah (the street of the eyes of freedom), is becoming an iconic space. The street has been recently discovered by numerous photographers and passersby not only for its mesmerizing graffiti, but also for the curiosity i ...

mediagazer

  • 'NYT Magazine' editor Hugo Lindgren thinks he ...
    Dan Rosenblum / Capital New York: ‘NYT Magazine’ editor Hugo Lindgren thinks he possibly ‘blew it’ by not building his own iPad app; wants to lure advertisers back from sibling mag, ‘T’  —  Hugo Lindgren.  Dan Rosenblum  — Bill ...
  • Bahrain and Belarus added to the list of Enemi ...
    Nancy Messieh / The Next Web: Bahrain and Belarus added to the list of Enemies of the Internet, Libya and Venezuela are dropped  —  Today is World Day Against Cyber Censorship, and international watchdog, Reporters without Borders (RWB), has released a new report, updating its & ...
  • Netflix Quietly Launches TV Network-Branded Pa ...
    Jeanine Poggi / AdAge: Netflix Quietly Launches TV Network-Branded Pages  —  Could Complicate Stance as Complementary to TV Distributors  —  Comcast, cablevision, cox and ... Netflix?  —  Netflix has been careful to describe itself as a complement ...
  • 'Doonesbury' abortion story arc moves to Op-Ed ...
    Reed Johnson / Los Angeles Times: ‘Doonesbury’ abortion story arc moves to Op-Ed page  —  A story line about a woman seeking an abortion in Texas prompts Times editors to relocate the strip from the comics pages for the arc's six-day run.  —  “D ...
  • A call for leadership: Newspaper execs deserve ...
    Nieman Journalism Lab: A call for leadership: Newspaper execs deserve the blame for not changing the culture  —  Last week's report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism uncovered some much needed data for making sense of the search for a new newspaper business model.&nbsp ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Capello rules out Inter March 12, 2012
    Fabio Capello insists there is no possibility he could take charge of Inter Milan. GettyImagesFabio Capello remains unemployed after leaving the England job • • • Capello had been linked with Inter even before his resignation as England...
  • Barcelona coach Guardiola wants to avoid ...
    The two clubs were paired together in the group stages, with Barca only managing a draw at home to the Rossoneri before defeating the Italians 3-2 in an epic tussle at San Siro Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Parma £47.50 Draw £35.00 Milan £16.50 Bet ...
  • On the trail of Boko Haram
    This apparently confusing observation about the Nigerian militant Islamist group from one local expert is actually more helpful than it seems. Responsible for a string of violent attacks in Nigeria that have killed some one thousand people over the last two years, Boko Haram, which means “We ...
  • iPhone Still in Fifth Place in China
    Apple may be the largest smartphone vendor in the world, but in China it remains an upstart. There — in the world’s most populous country, which recently topped 1 billion mobile subscribers — that market-leading title is worth only a...
  • Messi says Guardiola is key to Barcelona' ...
    On the verge of becoming Barcelona's all-time leading goal scorer, Lionel Messi says the club's recent run of success has more to do with coach Pep Guardiola's arrival than performances like his five-goal game last week. Messi followed his five-goal outburst in the Champions League on Wednes ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The QWERTY Effect
    How Typing May Shape the Meaning of Words Dave Mosher A keyboard’s arrangement could have a small but significant impact on how we perceive the meaning of words we type. Specifically, the QWERTY keyboard may gradually attach more positive meanings to words with more letters located on the right ...
  • The myth of Chinese exceptionalism
    Yuan-kang Wang All nations tend to see their history as exceptional, and these beliefs usually continue a heavy dose of fiction. Here are the top three myths of contemporary Chinese exceptionalism. Myth #1: China did not expand when it was strong. Myth 2: The Seven Voyages of Zheng He demonstrat ...
  • Why moralism spoils the appetite
    Adam Gopnik makes a powerful and entertaining case for why we shouldn’t ruin the aesthetic pleasure of food by adding a side order of moralism. Kirk Leech Gopnik believes that, ‘Having made food a more fashionable object, we have ended by making eating a smaller subject.’ When ‘gastronomy’ was o ...
  • The God wars
    To hardline atheists, it is now unreasonable and “dramatically peculiar” to argue that religion is not altogether evil. How did such intolerance become acceptable to rational minds? Bryan Appleyard Two atheists – John Gray and Alain de Botton – and two agnostics – Nassim Nichol ...
  • Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
    (*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia’s greatest literary classics. THOMAS DE WAAL Twenty years ago, 15 new states emerged from the wreck of the Soviet Union, uneven shards from a broken monolith. One story turned into 15. Most Soviet watchers have been struggling ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
  • Revolutionary science
    This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
  • Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
    In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
  • Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
    FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Victory! Alibaba.com Stops Selling Manta Ray P ...
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. We have great news to share with you today! We recently asked you to help us protect manta rays from being made into leather by asking Alibaba.com to take manta ray products off their website. Nearly 40,000 of you responded by signing our petition, and Alibaba lis ...
  • Securing the Future of Filipino Fishers
    Rare fellow Marybeth Rita leads a meeting with fishers. Editor's note: This is part 4 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. The last site we visited was overseen by Rare conservation fellow Marybeth Rita. Marybeth has a tough job because her campaign covers three towns separated by ...
  • Oceana Celebrates SeaBlue in Florida
    Martin Stepanek, Alexandra Cousteau, Wyland, Jim Simon. ©Oceana/Steven Shires After recently joining Oceana as a senior advisor, I traveled with the team to Fort Lauderdale last week where we hosted our first major South Florida event, SeaBlue. We had a great time and let me say, it was a hug ...
  • Stop the Sale of Manta Ray Leather
    Manta ray. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Manta rays are one of the most fascinating and unique ocean creatures. As the largest of all the rays, giant manta rays can reach up to 22 feet. But we have been shocked to discover that Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business-to-business commerce ...
  • Fish as a Lifeline for Filipinos
    Ayoke Island, Philippines. © Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is part 3 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. Ayoke Island may be the most idyllic place I’ve ever seen. It’s a small island in the northern part of Lanuza Bay covered with a riot of coconut and palm trees. The town ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The T-13 Beano Grenade
      Most of us are familiar with the M2 “Pin and Pineapple” Grenade. The problem with the Pineapple Grenade is that it is so oddly shaped that it was difficult to throw accurately. It had characteristic grid patterned grooves to aid it in fragmenting and to help hold it.   The problem th ...
  • Politics Of The Vietnam War.
        In 1954, North and South Vietnam received their official borders at a conference called the 1954 Geneva Accords. Ngo Dinh Diem pushed international powers to formally recognize the Republic of Vietnam. Like many power brokers before him in the treacherous intrigues that skeined thr ...
  • Hitler’s Flatulence.
      We know from films and excerpts from diaries of those around him that Hitler had Parkinson’s Disease. He had pain and tremors in his left arm.     We also know that he had severe gastrointestinal problems, most of which manifested as constipation, diarrhea and flatulence. The pr ...
  • The Mons Meg Super Cannon.
      This is the Mons Meg, a super cannon forged in the 15th century as a gift from Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy to the James II, King of Scotland. The history of this cannon is actually clouded and there are several competing stories about it. Some historians claim it was used to lay [...]
  • The First Super Weapon.
      It weighed almost 20 tons and was 17 feet long. Cast in bronze by Munir Ali, and brought to the Ottoman Turk Army in Constantinople by Urban, a 15th century Hungarian gunfounder, the gun was used to attack Byzantines who laid siege to the city. The Dardanelles Gun was partly responsible f ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Occupy springs forward
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. It’s apparently impossible for some, a real stretch for others, to have to wait more than a few months for a decisive “win.” The Occupy / 99% movement made its public appearance on September 17, 2011. That’s about six ...
  • Women Obama’s Line Against Gas Prices Taking H ...
    Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the situation at the pump, where rising prices have already hit hard. Just 26 percent approve of his work on the issue, his lowest rating in the poll. Most Americans say higher prices are already taking a tol ...
  • If Afghanistan Massacre Isn’t the Tipping Poin ...
    “We have to either make the decision to make a full commitment, which this president hasn’t done, or we have to decide to get out and probably get out sooner.” – Rick Santorum In recent polling cited across the morning shows today, 60% of the American people don’t t ...
  • Viagra Legislation: We’re All Concerned About ...
    Sen. Nina Turner of Ohio is concerned about men. If you think about it, she’s right. The FDA believes it’s important to find out why men need Viagra before dispensing the little blue pill. It’s important to be sure the cure fits what ails them. From Dayton Daily News (h/t Think ...
  • Obama Calls Karzai,Expresses ‘Shock and Sadness’
    Sixteen dead, including 9 children. Imagine if the circumstances were reversed and this happened in America. Can you just hear Rush Limbaugh now? Pres. Karzai is an untrustworthy man, so giving him any moral authority while our troops are dug in makes me shudder. Obama has called Karzai and expr ...

Hudson New York

  • The Pro-Palestinian Bias of Europe's Foreign P ...
    It does not often happen that a cabinet minister loses his temper and starts scolding a parliamentarian of his own party. Last week, however, William Hague, the normally even-tempered British Foreign Secretary and one of the most influential politicians
  • The Big Lie: "Israel Apartheid"
    Campuses across Canada engaged in Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) events last week amid justified rebukes by the federal government. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney linked IAW to anti-Semitism and accused organizers of using "the cover of academic freedom
  • Infiltrating Pakistan's ISI
    Although the United States faces a serious espionage threat from the Russian FSB agency and the Chinese spies of the MSS, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has proven itself to be the most challenging intelligence opponent since the end of the
  • Murder in Bangladesh
    A Saudi diplomat, Khalaf Bin Mohammed Salem Al-Ali, was killed at two a.m. on March 6. in the elegant section of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The 45-year-old Al-Ali received single shot in his chest at an intersection just two buildings away from
  • Explosives Discovered in Cities Hint at PKK's ...
    Large amounts of explosives found across Turkish cities over the past few days were being stored for use in violent attacks staged by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, during this year's annual spring festival of Nevruz, mainly celebrated

Urban Survival

  • Waiting for the Game to Change
    Have to admit it, I’m only semi-convinced the web bot project’s window for the world to begin changing happened in the March 2-9 timeframe, although there are a lot of big deals that have gotten rolling for sure.  Among some … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Daylight Savings Joke
    I’m tired and for me (unusually) cranky:  My sleep cycle is all screwed up and those Panavision dreams I normally enjoy which give me odd hints as to how my life will be going in the immediate future has been … Continue reading →
  • Unemployment: Level for Now
    The unemployment rate didn’t improve in the current period, and this was in spite of the economy recording an additional 227-thousand news jobs.  Her’es how this somewhat unexpected outcome occurred: Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 227,000 in February, and the … Continu ...
  • Coping: As GlobalRev Be Happ’nin
    A long-time reader has caught our often-discussed GlobalRev in his headlights.., explain more articulately than I ever could in this email: Hi George, I’m sure you’ve read about it, but have you actually watched the full Kony video?  KONY 2012. … Continue reading →
  • The Still Cloudy Jobs Picture
    We note that yesterday’s numbers on jobs were pretty encouraging, but it’s not exactly summertime for job-seekers yet.  This morning we got the Challenger job report and while it was somewhat better (by three percent, or so) there are still … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Japan cuts whaling season short at 70% below q ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Co-written with Marine Mammals Program Assistant Lauren Packard Recent reports from the Japanese Fisheries Agency confirm that Japanese whaling ships have retu ...
  • NRDC in the News 3/12: Fracking concerns, tran ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In an interview with CNN.com and CNN Radio, Kate Sinding expressed concerns about the environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracturing in New York state, saying “what we've seen in stat ...
  • Tuesday's Senate Votes Must Not Derail Transpo ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. The vote-a-rama on the Senate's transportation bill, which got underway last Thursday, continues tomorrow. The good news is that several harmful amendments were deflected last we ...
  • Sen. Roberts' Amendment Is Just a Wish List fo ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC Tomorrow, the Senate is scheduled to vote on amendment #1826 to the Senate Transportation bill (S. 1813).  Introduced by Sen. Roberts (R-KS), this wish list for Big Oil would mandate drilling of ...
  • Guest Blog by Harald Winkler: South Africa to ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC This is a guest post from Harald Winkler, on staff at the Energy Research Center of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.  He is a leading researcher on climate change a ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-10 ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 10-11, 2012: Readstown WI police chief who was arrested while on the run in Nebraska for using badge to sexually abuse women is now accused of molesting a young boy and will ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 9, 2012: California Hwy patrol officer sentenced to 50yrs for murdering her husband & driving body to her parents [0] nyp.st/y4WNsX Mount Sterling OH police dept shut down ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry folks, it was a hectic day yesterday and I fell asleep before I could publish the day’s report. Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct I was able to track for this Thursday, March 8, 2012: New Orleans LA undercover cop under investigation after shooting unarmed man to death dur ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Sorry these are in short format, but here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, March 7, 2012: Stow OH cop sued by 90lb diabetic girl punched in the stomach then tasered 2x on ground at traffic stop [4] bit.ly/zSVO1G Colum ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 6, 2012: Pittsburgh PA settles suit for $75k to teen beaten by cops who claim they mistook a soda bottle he had in his pocket for a gun. [1] bit.ly/xYaw6k Milford CT finalizes ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Climate Spectator: Stifling a FiT Aussie solar ...
    Germany now has over 30 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic panels on its rooftops. The sheer scale of deployment means that over 4 per cent of the nation's electricity will come from rooftop solar power this year. This industrial-scale solar rollout, created by Germany's innovative policy support s ...
  • Cairns and Brisbane, QLD: Two-Speed Economy - ...
    Everyone has heard how good the mining industry is for Queensland but is this actually the case? The world’s largest coal mine is being developed 400km inland from Cairns, with a proposal to ship coal through the Whitsundays. There is no doubt that it will destroy existing jobs in tourism and a ...
  • Australian Climate Leadership - Volunteer Oppo ...
    Are you sick of hearing that “Australia is only a small part of the climate problem”, that “we shouldn’t act before the rest of the world”, and that “our actions won’t make any difference anyway”? BZE is challenging these excuses for inaction with a new report that aims to expose the true extent ...
  • Hans-Josef Fell at ANU
    German member of parliament Hans-Josef Fell, the key architect of the world's most successful renewable energy policies (feed-in tariffs) spoke at the Australian National University in Canberra last week. Below is a recording of his talk.  
  • Brace for an electric shock
    Germany's 37 million households will soon be paying half as much on their annual electricity bills as Australian households. An average German household pays just $1060, or about $88 a month, for electricity to run their computers, lights and other household appliances, while an Austral ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Without data, fate of great apes unknown
    Our closest nonhuman relatives, the great apes, are in mortal danger. Every one of the six great ape species is endangered, and without more effective conservation measures, they may be extinct in the wild within a human generation. The four African great ape species (bonobos, chimpanzees and tw ...
  • Camera traps go under the ocean, seeking sharks
    Remote camera traps, which have become a hugely important conservation tool on land during the past decade, have now gone underwater. Marine biologists have used underwater video camera traps to compare the population of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezii) in Belize's protected areas ve ...
  • Tar sands emit more carbon than previously est ...
    Environmentalists have targeted the oil-producing tar sands in Canada in part because its crude comes with heftier carbon emissions than conventional sources. Now, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found an additional source of carbon that has been una ...
  • Animal photos of the day: the most elusive bir ...
    Few people have ever laid eyes on the Junin rail (Laterallus tuerosi). Located in a single lake in Peru, the well-camouflaged bird hides spends its time deep in marshes to avoid predators. This behavior has also allowed to largely avoid human onlookers, making it one of the world's most difficul ...
  • Alaskan fishermen tell government to focus on ...
    Alaskan fishermen and tour operators visited Washington D.C. last week to urge the federal government to shift the focus from logging to conservation in the Tongass rainforest. Local Alaskans along with NGOs Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program, and Sitka Conservation Society, made the case that cons ...

Sierra Express

  • Traditional Healers declare no more killing
    Sierra Leone’s only recognized union of traditional healers met over the weekend on Saturday to reecho their no killing campaign. The union’s president, Alhaji Dr. Sulaiman Kabba revolves their transformation history in the past when herbalists were known only as killers, reserved in the enclave ...
  • Child abductors dragged to court
    Marie Kpaua and Aminata Bangura were arraigned before Magistrate Stevens of Court No 2, on charges of felony and conspiracy to steal a two year old child (name withheld) contrary to Section 56 of1861 Larceny of persons Act. Testifying in court, parents of the stolen child, Kadiatu Bangura and Ab ...
  • Ghanaians boost healthcare
    The Association of Ghanaian professionals in Sierra Leone on Thursday 8th March 2012 donated to the Ola During Children’s Hospital medical equipment for children as part of their country’s 55th independence celebration. Donating the items on behalf of the association, the Ghanaian High Commissio ...
  • Musa Tarawallie’s ICC radar
    From the look of things – considering the former Resident Minister South’s contribution in the upheavals that did characterise various unrests in the country – from masterminding a bye-elections chaos in Pujehun, to a President Koroma’s portrait row in the Southern city of Bo, which led to ransa ...
  • Airtel offers free 116 toll lines to Don Bosco ...
    Airtel, a leading telecommunication network company in Sierra Leone has donated a free 116 toll line to the Don Bosco Fambul establishment on Friday March 9, over the weekend.  The donation ceremony took place at the Don Bosco’s Forte Street offices in Freetown. Speaking during the ceremony, Don ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra cuts dairy forecast by $200m
    A strong dollar, more global supply and uncertainty in markets has wiped about $200 million off the forecast payout by dairy giant Fonterra.The country's biggest company yesterday cut its forecast payout for the 2011/12 season by...
  • Dollar dips as Fonterra cuts dairy payout forecast
    The New Zealand dollar dipped slightly after Fonterra announced a 15c per kg reduction in its forecast payout for 2011/12, but financial markets mostly took the news in their stride.The currency dipped to US81.74c on news, down...
  • Fonterra cuts payout forecast
    Fonterra has cut its forecast payout for the 2011/12 season, citing the rising New Zealand dollar, declining global prices of commodities and increased production from Northern Hemisphere rivals.The world's biggest exporter...
  • Dairy prices dip but still at 'pretty good levels'
    International dairy prices continue to drop in Fonterra's online auction but are still at "pretty good levels" says BNZ economist Doug Steel.The average price for a basket of products in the latest online auction dropped 0.9 per...
  • Dairy prices fall at global auction
    Prices of dairy products fell for the third straight sale on the GlobalDairyTrade platform in a week in which China lowered its target for economic growth and figures confirmed Europe's economy contracted.The GDT-TWI Price Index...

The Bovine

  • Protecting the grey rat snake in Ontario
    From “letters” section Frontenac News  8 March 2012: Recently, the Ontario Ministry of Natural resources (MNR) proposed new regulations to protect the gray rat snake. These regulations include three levels of exclusion zones around the snakes’ habitat reaching out as … Continue ...
  • In Europe raw milk vending machines; in Americ ...
    From Nicholas Tomasi, on “Death Rattle Sports”: “The raw milk debate (not sure why there is one in the first place) has been heating up, with several media outlets taking an interest in the latest health food trend and studies being … Continue reading →
  • Bureaucrats and Other Pesky Critters on the Ro ...
    From Michael McCarty, in the Activist Post: “For a couple of years or so I have been investigating the legal issues that relate to the rights of an individual to grow and sell meat, poultry, and other homegrown farm products directly to consumers. What … Continue reading →
  • James Stewart, 65 yr old Rawsome manager, tort ...
    Health Ranger Mike Adams has the whole story at Natural News.com: “(NaturalNews) NaturalNews exclusive report, please credit with link. NaturalNews can now report that 65-year-old senior citizen James Stewart, a raw milk farmer with no criminal history, was nearly tortured … Continue ...
  • Rawsome accused tortured in custody
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “James Stewart was feeling “disoriented” when I caught him on his phone this morning in Los Angeles. He had just been released from a Ventura County jail last evening, finally, on … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Brussels Presses Spain for Budget Details on H ...
    EMU officials in Brussels want to see specific details on how Spain will reduce its budget deficit to 3% of GDP in 2013. Given Spain's 2011 deficit was 8.5% of GDP, EMU officials do not believe Spain can meet a goal of 3%, nor should anyone else. The targets will not be met. Moreover, some ...
  • Sarkozy Threatens to Limit Immigration, Delive ...
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered an ultimatum to the EU on immigration, complete with a "Buy European Act" and a threat to suspend the Schengen Agreement that allows passport-free travel among 25 European nations. Hollow Threat for Political Reasons or the Real Deal? Given h ...
  • ECB Calls for "Naming and Shaming" of EMU Budg ...
    After years of violating the 3 percent maximum budget deficit restriction as stated in the Maastricht Treaty, Germany is finally a solid citizen. The Spiegel Online notes German Budget Deficit Plunges to 1 Percent of GDP. Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain may hog most of the negative pres ...
  • Congressman Norm Dicks, Ranking member of Hous ...
    I am pleased to report that Republican candidate Doug Cloud has finally brought down Democrat Congressman Norm Dicks, ranking Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Scandals surrounding Norm Dicks are long, and deep. However, it was a Freedom on Information request by Doug ...
  • Spain's Two Largest Unions Call for General St ...
    The Spanish economy is deteriorating rapidly, and a general strike will not help matter any. Nonetheless, strikes, and I am willing to bet increasing violence, will soon befall Spain. Please consider Spain’s new government faces first strike Spain’s two largest unions, Comisiones Obreras ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil
    “One of the Greatest Material Prizes in World History” In the midst of World War II, Saudi Arabia secured a position of enormous significance to the rising world power, America. With its oil reserves essentially untapped, the House of Saud became a strategic ally of immense importance, “a matter ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our b ...
  • Podcast Show #78- US Government Mandatory Vacc ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Barbara Loe Fisher   Is it in the best interests of the citizens of this free society, or of public health officials in positions of authority in federal or state government, to use the heel of the boot of the state to crush all dissent to mandatory vaccination la ...
  • Media Sleepwalks, While History Is In the Making
    Re-Burying the Recently Unearthed 9/11 Reports In the last week, three important new articles have added to our understanding and raised new questions about the crimes of September 11, 2001.   As of today, Friday morning, there is nary a peep about their contents in the U.S.mainstream media.  Th ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.” – Daniel Webster International Newsworthy Iran: Convoluted Fuse to Bangkok Bombs I ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • China’s Shipbuilding Industry Shoots for the S ...
    SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–China aims to increase annual sales by domestic shipbuilders to CNY1.2 trillion (US$189.7 billion) by 2015 as it works toward its goal of becoming the world’s leading shipbuilding [...]
  • Ship Finance International’s CFO Eirik Eide De ...
    (Dow Jones) Ship Finance International Ltd. (SFL) said its chief financial officer plans to step down in the second quarter to join another shipping company. The departure of Eirik Eide [...]
  • Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Launches Solar Hybrid Car ...
      Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) announced the launching of the hybrid car carrier Emerald Ace at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd, Kobe shipyard.  The Emerald Ace, designed to generate zero emissions while berthed, was [...]
  • Orient Overseas CFO: Industry to “Head Back to ...
    HONG KONG (Dow Jones)–Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. (0316.HK) said Monday it expects trading conditions in 2012 to remain tough as high fuel costs and oversupply of capacity continue to weigh [...]
  • Brazil’s Kingfish Places $732 Million Newbuild ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Brazilian oil field services company OSX Brasil S/A (OSXB3.BR), part of Brazilian businessman Eike Batista’s industrial empire, said Monday that it had received a $732 million [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • Bread and Butter Canadians
    The Manning Centre for Building Democracy (bit grandiose there Preston) is having their annual conference in Ottawa.  This Conservative think tank apparently has a conference every year and for only $349 dollars you too can go and listen to how Conservatives view themselves   ...
  • Americans can win back world respect by electi ...
    I spent a bit of time growing up in the United States.  I attended kindergarten and grades one to three and a bit of four in NJ and all of grade six near Portland Oregon.  It is probably for that reason that I have enormous respect for our southern neighbours.  With that ...
  • Think Ron Paul is nuts? Good, the MSM is doin ...
    Ron Paul could easily drop out of the GOP race and coporate media would be very happy.  They've built up candidates like Rick Santorum, while working very hard at avoiding the Texas doctor and service vertran. Don't believe me?  Check out John Stewart.  Pretty telling when Comedy ...
  • It Should Be By-Election Time In Eglington Law ...
    Hundreds of questionable votes were cast in Eglington Lawrence Riding in Toronto.
  • Billions And Billions In Corporate Tax Cuts Fr ...
    Stephen Harper's ideologically driven corporate tax cuts have been a complete failure. After stoking the engines of big business with Billions and Billions of dollars in tax cuts, Canada has seen a decrease in jobs. The Canadian Corporate world is sitting on hundreds of Billions of 'Retained Ear ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Al-Jazeera staff resign over over bias
    Many employees at Al-Jazeera news channel are resigning over the Qatari-based news network's biased coverage of events taking place in the Middle East.
  • Russia raps misleading moves on Syria
    The Russian Foreign Minister has condemned efforts by certain Western countries for a regime change in Syria by misleading the international community and manipulating the UN Security Council.
  • Saudi activists to go on hunger strike
    Saudi activists are planning to stage a hunger strike in the capital, Riyadh, to protest against the detention of prominent rights activist Mohammad Al Bajadi.
  • Syria: Terrorists behind Homs massacre
    Syria's information minister has blamed "terrorist gangs" for the massacre in the central city of Homs, describing the killings as part of plans to increase international pressure on the Damascus government.
  • Fresh Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills 2
    Two more Palestinians have been killed in a fresh Israeli airstrike on the besieged Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll from the Israeli air raids in the past few days to 23.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
  • Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
    Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
  • Get ready, get set, go!
    2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
  • Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
    I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...

Dissident Voice

  • That’s Progressivist Media
    In answering a viewer’s query, Paul Jay, senior editor of The Real News Network, goes to the heart of what genuine journalism is.
  • Holding Governments to Account: The Trial of G ...
    It is fitting, and yet unfortunate, that only one former head of state is having to stand trial in a special court of impeachment for his financial misdemeanours and horrors.  The former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde faces charges of gross negligence in failing to take appropriate measure ...
  • Economic Leverage Beats Sending Letters to the ...
    Comedian Bill Maher recently took some unexpected flak from activists on his side of the political spectrum.  They were critical of Maher for failing to rejoice at the spectacle of more than 40 advertisers withdrawing their sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in response to an insulting co ...
  • As “Blockbuster Drug” Bubble Burst ...
    It is no consolation to the roughly one out of 600 families who lost their homes in the U.S. but Wall Street made a lot of money slicing and dicing mortgages it knew would implode, while hiding risks. Financial giants, like AIG, are still buzzing along and neither penalties or new laws will prev ...
  • Sparks and Wildfires
    It was about a year ago that the protests against the anti-worker legislation in Wisconsin were reaching their zenith. What had begun as a concerted effort by the Teaching Assistants Association at University of Wisconsin, their supporters and some other activists grew into the largest pro-union ...

Destructionist

  • Ron Paul Tells Reporters He Is Suspicious Abou ...
    In a conversation with reporters in Missouri this weekend, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul said that he and his supporters were suspicious about the outcomes of several caucuses because the crowds and volumes of support have been much bigger for him than for any other candidate. “Quite fr ...
  • Announcing Veterans for Liberty Super PAC: Vet ...
    Fellow Americans, If you care about this country, if you care about our Constitution, if you care about freedom, then you already understand the imperative of ensuring that Ron Paul is our next President, and that is the mission that we, Veterans for Liberty Super PAC, have taken on. Mission ...
  • No Paul = No Vote in November
    Ron Holland The Daily Bell March 10, 2012 “I would also say of Ron Paul – he doesn’t need to win. In his view he is winning already. This is an ideological point he is making. But here’s why it’s electorally significant – a lot of people, I mean 41 percent in Virginia, only two people on th ...
  • No Paul = No Vote in November
    Ron Holland The Daily Bell March 10, 2012 “I would also say of Ron Paul – he doesn’t need to win. In his view he is winning already. This is an ideological point he is making. But here’s why it’s electorally significant – a lot of people, I mean 41 percent in Virginia, only two people on th ...
  • Breaking: Obama Signs Anti-Free Speech Bill in ...
    Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing protest in the States.

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    Reid: State must act to 'realize its renewable energy potential'
    Las Vegas Sun
    Harry Reid issued a report today noting Nevada's renewable energy accomplishments and highlighting where he thinks the state industry can go. The 18-page report is mostly a review of facts and figures, and synopses about each of the six major, ...
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    Biomass power plant operational at Savannah River Site
    Power Engineering Magazine
    The Department of Energy (DOE) and Ameresco Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) on March 12 said a new $795 million renewable energy fueled facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is now operational. The 34-acre SRS Biomass Cogeneration Facility is the single largest ...
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    Renewables industry urges government to clarify post-2020 targets
    Business Green
    By James Murray The renewables energy industry has again called on the government to urgently clarify its plans for low-carbon energy development after 2020, following the release of a controversial submission to the EU, which argues the bloc should ...
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    Allylix Raises $13.5M for Renewable Production of Aroma Chemicals
    Xconomy
    Germany's BASF Venture Capital has led a $13.5 million investment round in Allylix, the San Diego-based renewable chemicals startup that uses fermentation technology and genetically engineered yeast to produce specialized flavor and fragrance chemicals ...
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    Ecology modifies WSDOT stormwater permit
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA – The Department of Ecology (Ecology) has finalized modifications to the state Department of Transportation (WSDOT) stormwater permit. The permit regulates stormwater flows from state highways and other transportation facilities in urbanized ...
    Ecologist Thomas W. Schoener to deliver 27th Odum Lecture
    Online Athens
    By Beth Gavrilles Thomas W. Schoener, a Distinguished Professor in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis, will deliver the 27th Eugene P. Odum Lecture at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology on March 27.
    Ask About Raptors in New York City
    New York Times (blog)
    This week, New York City Audubon's director of conservation and science, Susan Elbin, will be responding to readers' questions about the behavior, habitat, ecology and conservation of hawks and other birds of prey that live in the city.
    Ecology Coatings and Whitlam Label develop green initiatives
    Labels and Labeling
    Ecology Coatings is working with Michigan, USA-based Whitlam Label Company on the development of a sustainable labels program. Whitlam's customers include leading brands such as Chrysler, ePrize, Ford, GM, General Electric and Garden Fresh Gourmet.
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    Water Pollution From Farming Is Worsening, Costing Billions
    Bloomberg
    Water pollution from agriculture is costing billions of dollars a year in developed countries and is set to rise in China and India as farmers race to increase food production, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.
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    FEATURE-Olympics-Water polo's Gyarmati recalls last London Games
    Reuters
    By Marton Dunai | BUDAPEST, March 12 (Reuters) - The first time Dezso Gyarmati got into the pool to play a game of Olympic water polo, London still bore the marks of devastation from the Second World War and the field was missing Germany, Japan and the ...
    Thirst for bottled water strong despite prices: Nestle
    Reuters
    By Martinne Geller and Carey Gillam | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Consumers are shunning carbonated soft drinks in favor of bottled water, even in the face of recent price increases caused by commodity inflation, Nestle Waters North America's top executive ...
    Drought to spread across more UK regions-agency
    Reuters
    * Severe drought expected in spring, summer * Seven water companies impose restrictions By Nina Chestney LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - Drought could spread to more regions of Britain if dry weather continues this spring, the UK's Environment Agency ...
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