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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, March 12, 2012

12 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: More Bad News on the Afghan Front
    While U.S. officials insisted their counterinsurgency strategy is still working, Sunday's pre-dawn massacre by a U.S. staff sergeant of 16 people, including nine children, in their homes in Kandahar province has dealt yet another body blow to Washington's hopes to sustain a significant m ...
  • Argentine Dictatorship's Economic Crimes Comin ...
    While the trials against members of the military and police for human rights abuses committed during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship move ahead, the regime's economic crimes have also begun to come to light.
  • Mesoamerica Ignores Its Water Footprint
    It takes 1,600 litres of water to produce one kilo of bread. This is the type of calculation used to measure a water footprint, the total volume of freshwater used to produce the goods and services consumed by people and communities.
  • The Sound of Peace in Kenya's Kibera Slum
    In a Kibera-bound mini-bus taxi, the driver changes the station just as he turns onto Ngong Road, kilometres away from the Kenyan slum. He tunes into Pamoja Radio 99.9 FM, a local community radio station that broadcasts only in Kibera.
  • For Caribbean Bloc, It's Adapt or Perish
    More than a decade of efforts to promote closer socioeconomic cooperation among the 15 nations of the Caribbean Community are threatened by stagnant funding and a grim global financial situation, experts warned here.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Azerbaijan Says Strikes on Iran ‘Impossible’ F ...
    Summary: Azerbaijan, which shares a 618- kilometer (384-mile) border with Iran, vowed to prevent the use of its territory to carry out attacks against its southern neighbor, President Ilham Aliyev’s aide said. source: Bloombergread more
  • Who Are the ‘Terrorists’?
    Summary: In the early morning hours of March 11, a US soldier assigned to “special ops” in Afghanistan, stationed near Kandahar, went into a local village and gunned down 16 people – including nine women and three children. At least three others were wounded. He went from house to house, in t ...
  • Outcome of Obama and Netanyahu talks
    Summary: Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist specializing in U.S. national security policy, discusses President Obama’s speech and the AIPAC convention’s creepy atmosphere; how Benjamin Netanyahu’s leverage on Obama increases as the presidential election nears; why the AIPAC ...
  • Mazari hails NAM's position on Iran at IAEA me ...
    Summary: Pakistani political and defence analyst Dr Shireen Mazari has said that Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) states have taken a principled position at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors meeting by supporting Iranian nuclear program. NAM’s statement has welcomed I ...
  • Lessons From Another War
    Summary: Among the criticisms are that The Times has given too much space to Israeli proponents of an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities; has failed to mention often enough that Israel itself has nuclear arms; has sometimes overstated the findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency; ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Space Ships as 'Death Stars"? --Leading Space ...
    Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Geraint Lewis and colleagues from the University of Sydney. The Alcubierre warp drive is a theoretical tool...
  • Hacking the Cosmos --"Quantum Computers Will ...
    "Quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature," according to David Deutch, an Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford...
  • The Observable Universe: Seven Trillion Dwarfs ...
    The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and opened a new...
  • Hacking the Cosmos --"Quantum Computers Will S ...
    "Quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature," according to David Deutch, an Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford...
  • BOK Globules --Leading Scientists Ask: "Could ...
    If AI-powered machines evolved, we would be more likely to spot signals from them than from the "biological" life that invented them. "But having now looked for signals for 50 years, we are going through a process of realizing the...

Natural News

  • Groups push for FDA to require specific labeli ...
    A coalition of consumer advocacy groups, health organizations, and food and nutrition groups has officially called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enact new labeling requirements for foods that contain added sugars. The Environmental Working Group ...
  • Welfare recipients trade in food stamps for ca ...
    The Department of Agriculture's (USDA) inspector general told a House panel recently that some of the 46.3 million Americans currently enrolled in the federal food stamp program traded their benefits for cash so they could then purchase drugs and guns, among other contraband...
  • Heard about the colloidal silver 'Blue Man?' H ...
    The case of the legendary "Blue Man" whose entire body turned blue after taking a liquid concoction that the mainstream media continues to refer to as "colloidal silver" is a fraud. Contrary to what you may have heard about the incident, 57-year-old Paul Karason from...
  • Los Angeles museum director unveils brilliant ...
    When a Los Angeles museum spent $10 million to move a large boulder across California and use it as a museum attraction, museum director Michael Govan told Reuters the activity was a tremendous boon to the economy. "You couldn't ask for a better gift to the economy right...
  • Monsanto's Roundup threatens stability of glob ...
    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 potential of the entire biosphere...

Threat Level

  • UN Torture Chief: Bradley Manning Treatment Wa ...
    The U.S. government’s treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning was cruel, inhuman and degrading, according to a report from the United Nations special rapporteur on torture.
  • It’s Time to Take Cybersecurity Seriously
    Identifying a need for better cybersecurity is the easy part. Getting the relevant parties to agree on what to do, and getting that done, is like the proverbial sausage factory. It will take legislation, and laws that accomplish anything meaningful will require a public/private partnership of hi ...
  • Teen Exploits Three Zero-Day Vulns for $60K Wi ...
    A teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie pokes a hole in Google's Chrome browser, an unlikely winner who's taking home $60K and a possible job at the search giant.
  • How to Pwn the Pwn2Own Contest
    Finding zero-day exploits to win a hacking contest can be really hard work these days. So sometimes the better strategy is just to game the game.
  • Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy
    Just in case you haven't seen the memo: Drones are coming to a city near you. Why now? Under a fresh mandate from Congress, the FAA will begin to relax its restrictions around the domestic use of "unmanned aerial systems," leading to greater use of drones by public agencies and, eventually, the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Did Bush Jawbone Gas Prices Down? That's a Big No
    The President was getting hammered on gas prices. Under increasing pressure from the press and the other party, administration officials repeatedly insisted there is no "magic bullet" or "magic wand" to bring prices down at the pump. Making matters worse, the President was embarrassed during a ...
  • Ann Romney Makes Mitt Seem More Human - and Mo ...
    By all indications, Ann Romney is a warm, engaging and, judging by her public battle with MS, courageous person. Which is why she is a constant presence on the campaign trail. As months of headlines suggest ("Romney Using Wife's Story to Connect with Voters", "Ann Romney Adds Personal Touch to ...
  • Republicans Threaten the "Doctor-Patient Relat ...
    For two decades, Republicans opponents of health care reform have turned to a tried if untrue talking point. In 1994, GOP strategist Bill Kristol warned that "the Clinton Plan is damaging to the quality of American medicine and to the relationship between the patient and the doctor." Twelve ye ...
  • Expanding Catholic Hospitals Put Reproductive ...
    For the last several weeks, all eyes have been focused on the high-profile clash between Catholic bishops (if not their parishioners) and the Obama administration over mandated insurance coverage for contraception at their non-church institutions. But in cities and towns across the country, a s ...
  • Romney Admits He Has No "Bold" New Tax Plan
    Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney unveiled what he has repeatedly deemed a "bold" plan to deliver a 20 percent across the board tax cut. As it turns out, the plan isn't so bold after all. For starters, it's largely a retread of the 15 percent tax cut scheme Bob Dole rode to defeat in 1996. And after ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Chris Hedges: NDAA is a decimation of our civi ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 12, 2012 RTAmerica on Mar 12, 2012 This year was kicked off with a highly controversial bill: the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA, now law, gives the US military the power to legally detain individuals without charge or trial. ...
  • The Prohibition of Ideas: Latin America's Rapi ...
    Amid a dramatic turn of events in the drug policy debate, the challenge will be to sustain this momentum, even as the U.S. government works desperately to suppress it.
  • Drone Porn And The New Aesthetic Sleepbot
    In an epic speculative post about commercial home-mapping services, Jan Chipchase drops this lovely idea bomb: After seeing the nano-quadcopter presentation at TED 2012 – including this, but with a lot more background, insights into their capabilities, and a video of a quadcopter entering and ma ...
  • The Real Existential Threat to Israel: Itself
    Iran is no existential threat. Israel should look in the mirror to find out what is.
  • HALF MOON: One Year Later
    A year ago, Mike Avon Oeming and I started talking about a new comic.  And then we both got busy with other things. We’re still picking at it.  I need to rethink the middle sequence.  The thing kind of expanded beyond its original parameters.  But progress is happening, slowl ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Pop-Up Public Spaces (Cool)
      Well, public space is public space, but if it is bland and relatively unwelcoming, most people will pass it by without noticing. In an effort to help people make more use of their spaces, the NYC Department of Transportation created the Pop-up Café Program about two [...]
  • DIY, Crowdsourced Bike Map in Moscow
    I’m not sure, technically, if something can be DIY and crowdsourced, but those seemed like the best adjectives for this bike map for Moscow… other than Awesome! Bicyclist, activist, and artist Anton Polsky has apparently triggered a ”movement to create a participatory, informa ...
  • Google Conference Bike for 7 People (Video of ...
      How would you like to have a conference on a 7-person bike? Well, if that sounds like a dream conference, you might like to look into a job at Google. The ConferenceBike it uses actually has its own website (conferencebike.com),.. a rather retro-looking website. As the website [...] ...
  • Kony & Invisible Children
      By now, you might have seen the name ‘Kony’ popping up everywhere you go (on the internet, at least). It took me awhile to get to looking into the story behind this name, but a good friend over on WV Outpost urged me to look into who this is [...]
  • Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, & Fukushima Nuclear ...
      Tomorrow, March 11, is my birthday, which makes the date of one of the worst disasters the world has ever seen quite easy to remember. On March 11, 2011, a tremendous earthquake and series of aftershocks struck the country of Japan. For days to follow, but especially that entire birthday, ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "There But f ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by cschoon1213 on Aug 13, 2009 Show me the prison, show me the jail Show me the prisoner whose face is growin' pale And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or go I You and I. Show me the alley, show me the train Show me ...
  • The Trudeau Treatment: part 1
    By the way -- kudos to the @KCStar for not being gutless and cowardly. Kansas City is blue, but we're an island in a sea of red and ignorance, so I'm certain that it took more than a little courage to decide to face the storm and weather it instead of precapitulating to the misogynistic freaks ...
  • Mitt Romney_A Prick For All Seasons
    I keep saying that I think I may have reached  some kind of breaking point finally, a point at which the racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, theophobia... if that's not a word, someone needs to make it one... and just plain old unadulterated hate being spewed on a daily basis by those ...
  • That's gaffe-tastic
    By @BGinKC You know what a gaffe is. It's when a politician slips up and tells the truth. This counts. Rick Santorum deviated from the party line this weekend when he suggested that an improving economy could damage Republicans' chances in November. Santorum, whose campaign has helped bring soci ...
  • Why Single-Payer is Closer and More Inevitable ...
    By @KYYellowDog The not-even-close-to-socialist Obamacare is not destroying the private health insurance industry anywhere near fast enough. But scientific progress is. Zandar: Ezra Klein makes the convincing argument that sub-$1,000 human genome sequencing procedures means the end of the health ...

Care 2

  • **PLEASE SIGN - Tell Governor Perry: Stop play ...
    The witch hunt against Planned Parenthood continues, and the latest battleground is Texas. Please read and sign this petition. Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop Georgia From Displacing Villages With Dam ...
    Dont allow Georgian President Saakashvilis plan to build a massive dam destroy Georgias environment and submerge helpless villages under water. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Ever ...
    As Rick Santorum has emerged to become Mitt Romney's leading opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, the American electorate said Monday it had slowly begun to realize that the former Pennsylvania senator sincerely believes every deranged--> Submitted by Kit B. to Offbeat  |&n ...
  • Protect The Peruvian Amazon From Illegal Gold ...
    The Peruvian government is cracking down on illegal gold mining in the countrys south-eastern Amazon region. Miners in the region say thousands will be out of work. However, if gold mining continues at the scale it is, the immense biodiversity of the Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  | ...
  • 100 Coal Plants down -- Take the Beyond Coal P ...
    The End of the Coal Era is here - Help us Move to a Clean Energy Future Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • It is all in the math…
    At this point, by most accounts, Romney will secure the Republican nomination by continuing to win a plurality and occasional majority of votes in the remaining contents. Santorum, on the other hand, needs to win two-thirds and Gingrich nearly three-quarters of the remaining delegates. MSM would ...
  • Obama’s ME Policies: Abandon Israel, Coddle Iran
    No Quarter’s owner, Larry Johnson, an expert on foreign affairs who is often called upon by national media for his observations, has written here recently that the drum beat for war with Iran has been increasing lately, and the ramifications and possible outcomes are covered from his expert pers ...
  • Damn, Not Another Identity Crisis
     Just when I was content in my new identity as an Independent I read an article that suggests that I am no such thing. I am instead a “swing” voter. Whatever the hell that is. Cause to tell you the truth, even in my younger days; I wasn’t a “swinger.” Evidently some ...
  • More Economic Delusions
    The dire circumstances of our weak economic recovery were fully revealed yesterday (Friday) by the over-the-top celebration of news that only 227,000 jobs were created in February. While this is a positive number, it is very weak and is not going to put a dent in the millions of unemployed Ameri ...
  • Note to Obama: Puffery and Pandering on Israel ...
    The President sounded emotionally ‘needy’, …      [W]hat Obama seems not to understand in the well-meaning description of his attempted Iran strategy is that he is actually creating a railroad track to disaster. He conveys … a disinterest in containment, sugg ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Senate delays vote on mountaintop removal ban ...
    Senate delays vote on mountaintop removal ban WVLT (AP) -- The Senate has voted to delay for three weeks a vote on a proposal to halt mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee. The decision came despite the objections of the bill's sponsor, Democratic Sen. Eric Stewart of Winchester, who ...
  • Reader: Ramsey caves in to coal companies - El ...
    Reader: Ramsey caves in to coal companies Elizabethton Star Now, after adding an amendment written by coal industry lobbyists that says “No mountaintop removal mining (unless it is done like all the other mountaintop removal mining that has ever been done,)!” it's being rushed through so qui ...
  • Can shale bail out Ohio? - The Seattle Times
    Can shale bail out Ohio? The Seattle Times (March 11, 2012, by bigx1) MORE Can Mountain Top Removal "bail out" West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky ? (March 11, 2012, by Emmanuel Goldstein) MORE The rich Utica shale that runs beneath eastern Ohio holds vast quantities of natural gas, ... ...
  • Governor Curiously Silent on Tennessee Mountai ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Governor Curiously Silent on Tennessee Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Tennessee is headed toward a historic state Senate decision on whether to ban mountaintop removal mining. Passing the Scenic Vistas Protection Act* would m ...
  • Man of Action - Philadelphia Citypaper
    Man of Action Philadelphia Citypaper After all, Lakey — an activist, Swarthmore peace-studies professor and civil-disobedience trainer who, at age 74, is about to walk across Pennsylvania to protest PNC Bank's financing of mountaintop-removal coal mining — has a bio that reads like a ... ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama Approval Rating Shows Serious Slip in Ne ...
    New York Times: Obama Approval Rating Shows Serious Slip in New Poll  —  Despite improving job growth and an extended Republican primary fight dividing his would-be opponents, President Obama is heading into the general election season on treacherous political ground, according ...
  • Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pig ...
    Adam Peck / ThinkProgress: Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pigs, And Chickens  —  Republican Georgia State Representative Terry England  —  A speech from a Georgia Republican state representative surfaced last week in which he compared women seeking ab ...
  • Justice Department files objection to Texas vo ...
    Fox News: Justice Department files objection to Texas voter ID law  —  The Justice Department is objecting to a new photo ID law in Texas for voters, saying the state has failed to demonstrate that the the law is not discriminatory by design against Hispanic voters.  &mdash ...
  • Palestinian Terrorists Strike Gaza Border Cros ...
    Idfspokesperson / Israel Defense Forces: Palestinian Terrorists Strike Gaza Border Crossing  —  This morning, Palestinian terrorists fired three mortars on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.  The mortars struck a truck and a van on their way to deliver goods ...
  • Romney: NFL owners 'friends of mine' (Cameron ...
    Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Romney: NFL owners ‘friends of mine’  —  Mitt Romney described two National Football League owners as “friends” during a Monday evening radio show, a comment that echoed one made earlier that he has “some friends who are ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Revisiting our limits
    It’s 40 years since the publication of The Limits to Growth. In Europe and in China, writes Patrick Schroeder, a new wave of thinkers and decision-makers are beginning to revisit its core message.This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Club of Rome’s famous report The Limits to G ...
  • Fighting India’s mega-dams
    Popular protests against the construction of a vast network of dams in the Brahmaputra valley have gathered impressive momentum. Tanmoy Sharma reports from Assam.In demonstrations barely reported in the media, people in the north-east Indian state of Assam have been fighting for several years ag ...
  • Design tips for a carbon market
    China is planning emission-trading trials in key spots including Beijing and Shanghai. Alvin Lin and Yang Fuqiang have some words of advice.China’s decision to launch a group of city and provincial-level carbon-trading trials is widely considered to be preparation for an absolute cap on em ...
  • Full circle for bikes in Beijing?
    Shannon Bufton promotes two-wheeled travel as an aspirational pastime. New Chinese riders are as interested in bicycles as cool objects as they are in where cycling can take them, he tells Olivia Boyd.Australian bike enthusiast Shannon Bufton is the founder of Smarter Than Car, an NGO that promo ...
  • How China can decarbonise by 2050
    China needs a long-term emissions reduction goal. Ajay Gambhir introduces one such target and how the country could reach it.The recent “breakthrough” at UN-led climate negotiations at Durban, in South Africa, involved all countries, developed and developing, for the first time agree ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • UN Torture Chief: Bradley Manning Treatment Wa ...
    The U.S. government’s treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning was cruel, inhuman and degrading, according to a report from the United Nations special rapporteur on torture.
  • It’s Time to Take Cybersecurity Seriously
    Identifying a need for better cybersecurity is the easy part. Getting the relevant parties to agree on what to do, and getting that done, is like the proverbial sausage factory. It will take legislation, and laws that accomplish anything meaningful will require a public/private partnership of hi ...
  • Teen Exploits Three Zero-Day Vulns for $60K Wi ...
    A teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie pokes a hole in Google's Chrome browser, an unlikely winner who's taking home $60K and a possible job at the search giant.
  • How to Pwn the Pwn2Own Contest
    Finding zero-day exploits to win a hacking contest can be really hard work these days. So sometimes the better strategy is just to game the game.
  • Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy
    Just in case you haven't seen the memo: Drones are coming to a city near you. Why now? Under a fresh mandate from Congress, the FAA will begin to relax its restrictions around the domestic use of "unmanned aerial systems," leading to greater use of drones by public agencies and, eventually, the ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • GAO suggests USDA could be more aggressive on ...
    The GAO – U.S. Government Accountability Office, an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, released a report this week that calls into question what the USDA/FSIS is doing (not doing) presently to reduce the risk of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in cattle. ...
  • Outbreak of E. coli O26 Infections Linked to R ...
    A total of 25 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from 8 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Michigan (9), Arkansas (1), Ohio (3), and Wisconsin (1). Six ill persons have ...
  • Vibrio fulvialsis Death Linked to Martin's Sup ...
    The St. Joseph County Health Department is investigating the death of a South Bend Indiana man related to recently recalled shrimp from Martin's Super Markets. On February 17, Memorial Hospital alerted the county health department it had a patient with Vibrio fulvialsis. Vibrio fulvialsis is f ...
  • Food Safety Lawyer Bill Marler On Sprouts, Raw ...
    By Blisstree’s Hanna Brooks Olsen: Based on the cases he’s tried and the amount of blogging he’s done on the subject, it’s amazing that Seattle-based food safety lawyer Bill Marler can eat anything he hasn’t grown or raised himself. But instead of being repu ...
  • They need to hear our stories - A Broken Syste ...
    Over the weekend I penned for Food Safety News, “Excluding Consumers a Bad Idea.” It was based upon reports that the cantaloupe industry was planning a series of meeting across the United States to develop a “new cantaloupe guidance document.” The report also made it cle ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Ford Focus Electric qualifies for Ca ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Hatchback, Ford, Electric Following in the footsteps of the Chevrolet Volt and the Honda Civic Natural Gas, the 105-MPGe 2012 Ford Focus Electric has been granted HOV lane access in California by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). CARB not only gave the ...
  • Official: Ford, Odyne introduce monster F-750 ...
    Odyne Systems is known for making big honking hybrid vehicles, things like the Dueco work truck we first saw in 2008. At the 2012 Work Truck Show in Indianapolis this week, Ford is showcasing the biggest plug-in hybrid vehicle with a J1772 connector that we know of: a PHEV F-750. Yes, that's ...
  • Report: Fisker Karma owned by Consumer Rep ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Like pretty much any driver, we've had our share of car trouble over the years, both with vehicles loaned to us for review by automakers and our own private rides. What we haven't experienced is being the first media outlet to plunk down over $100 ...
  • Geneva: Valmet Dawn gets its Tron on in Geneva
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Electric There are a lot of ways to describe the Valmet Dawn you see pictured above, but our favorite could be mouthed by Keanu Reeves: Whoa. And then we would expand it to WTF? As in, "Whoa the F?" That's because Valmet Automotive - the makers ...
  • Report: White House annouces $4.7B effort for ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Electric It's a big week for compressed natural gas vehicles, thanks to President Obama's announcement today that his administration wants to increase federal support for CNG automobiles by introducing a tax credit similar to the one in place for plug-in vehicle ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

  • 98 Advertisers Pull Ads from Sean Hannity, Gle ...
    Saturday, March 10, 2012 Politicususa  By: Jason Easley The toxic environment that right wing talk radio has created is now destroying it as Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who don’t want their ads to appear on Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh. Taylor on Radio-Info had this n ...
  • Gas Prices: Obama Strikes Back At GOP Critics ...
    By ANNE GEARAN  03/10/12 06:03 AM ET WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to underscore his administration’s work to de ...
  • Sarah Palin Says President Obama Wants America ...
    March 9, 2012 Addicting Info-  By Stephen D. Foster Jr. During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity that President Obama wants America to be as it is was before the Civil War. This comment was part of an overall conservation about the not-so controversial “secret ...
  • Tom Hanks Narrates Pro-Obama Film, Trailer Rel ...
    The Huffington Post | By Sam Stein Posted: 03/ 8/2012  8:50 am Updated: 03/ 8/2012 12:10 pm The Obama campaign on Thursday morning released the trailer for the 17-minute-long infomercial/biopic that it will unveil later this month. The trailer doesn’t reveal much, save that the film & ...
  • Obama to Romney: Make Your Case For War With I ...
    March 07, 2012 05:00 PM Crooks and Liars- By karoli Mitt Romney’s pathetic efforts to stain the President’s track record when it comes to foreign policy ring hollow and are actually dangerous, or could be. During his news conference yesterday, President Obama addressed Mitt Romney&#8 ...

Solari

  • Apple Patent Paves Way for Next iPhone to Be a ...
    Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock for last 5 years [click on the image for a larger version] By Anthony Wing Kosner, Contributor As reported in PatentlyApple, “Apple has received a major Granted Patent that generally relates to establishing financial transaction rules for controlling a subsidiary finan ...
  • US Military Unveils Ray Beam as Latest Non-let ...
    Quantico Us Marine Corps Base, Virginia By Staff Writers 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 this week. “You’re not gonna see it, you’re ...
  • Coup D’etat: Pentagon & Obama Declare Congress ...
    By Paul Joseph Watson Obama Admin Cites ‘Int’l Permission,’ Not Congress, As ‘Legal Basis’ For Action In Syria YouTube (7 March 12) [CAF Note: There is a more complex story. For operations requiring ally action, those allies need legal air cover which we can not ...
  • The Face of Gold and Silver Price Volatility
    By: Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: On February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That’s quite the fall for one day. We’ve seen prices that have risen that much, too. But as I’m about to show, these ain’t nothin’, bab ...
  • Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo are Spying Tools
    JULIAN ASSANGE RT EXCLUSIVE – FULL INTERVIEW (PART 1 of 2) YouTube (8 May 11) Watch the full documentary now (playlist – 42 minutes) In Julian Assange’s exclusive interview with RT he discusses everything from the uprisings in MENA, to his extradition fight, the Guantanamo and US Cabl ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The Obama Doctrine: we will attack and destro ...
    Summary:  Obama announced a new grand strategy for America, and we didn’t notice (being in a deep stupor).  It’s a logical evolution of our increasinlgly aggressive strategy since 9-11.  It’s almost certain to end badly for us.  Today Tom Engelhardt explains the path our leader ...
  • What China Wants Us to Understand about China’ ...
    Summary:  Today we have another guest post by Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired), where he provides some perspective on one of the most important developments of the 21st century.  Correctly understanding and reacting to this is essential for American to have a successful grand strategy. Contents ...
  • Ask the mineshaft: how to make America angry a ...
    Summary:   A long series of posts have described the stupor into which the American people has fallen.  The only path to reform requires an aroused citizenry.  How can we arouse ourselves?   Here we ask the mineshaft.   {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipedia} The ...
  • The hidden dynamics of the 2012 campaign, and ...
    Summary:  John Robb’s open source insurgency nicely describes the quiet coup underway in America.  Like-minded rich people work together, and finance others to help them.  The 2012 election shows several of the mechanisms by which they’re doing so.  Solidarity works for them. Content ...
  • Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. O ...
    Summary:  Sharks often use the ”bump and bite” attack:  The shark tests its prey by repeatedly bumping it.  If the prey gives no dangerous response, the shark begins its attack — biting the prey repeatedly and viciously.  It works for sharks, as it has worked for our leaders.  ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Nigeria Hostage Rescue Attempt: Tough But Corr ...
    The 7 March attempt to free Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamonilara from Nigerian kidnappers by Britain's Special Boat Service (SBS) and Royal Marine Commandos British ended in failure. Tragically, both men were killed by their captors. The Italian President has attacked London for ...
  • One Civilian, One Year in Afghanistan: $570,000
    Less than 24 hours ago, a U.S. soldier went on a killing spree in southern Afghanistan, leaving 16 dead. The shooting will certainly shake Americans’ confidence in the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan—and public support for the war is already at record lows. In fact, according to a recent poll, 60 ...
  • America Recalibrates Its Israeli Alliance
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home without receiving an American endorsement for an Israeli attack on Iran. Neither did he find much support for the Israeli government's assertion that the window to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons is about to slam shut. In f ...
  • US Targeted Killings: Official Confusion
    Last Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a policy speech at Northwestern University Law School, reportedly intended to “reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind [the Obama administration’s] decision to kill the American-born leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Awlaki.” ...
  • An LRA Victim Turned Peacebuilder’s Mixed Reac ...
    When the Kony 2012 video went viral, I immediately thought of my friend Victor Ochen. Victor grew up in IDP camps in Northern Uganda during the height of the LRA conflict. His own brother was abducted by the group, never to be seen again. Today, Victor is a social entrepreneur and peace builder ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • This Station is Non-Operational
    The Wall Street Journal explains why President Obama does not have any control over gas prices. Talking Points Memo dismantles Mitt Romney’s latest rhetoric Medicare, where he simultaneously accuses Obama of cutting Medicare and not doing anything about the program’s long-term finances. In a ve ...
  • Voter ID Laws Face Major Roadblocks
    Texas Republicans have been trying for years to pass a law that would require state voters to show identification before hitting the polls—and state Democrats have been equally determined to stop such a measure. The Rs came close in 2009, but the House Democrats, only two seats away from a majo ...
  • Mitt Romney Will Bury You
    That Mitt Romney has a massive war chest is obvious at this point, but on occasion, it still comes as a surprise to see how much he outspends his opponents. This chart from Buzzfeed shows the extent to which Romney has buried his competitors: This is one reason I’ve always been reluctant to ...
  • Six Portraits of Mitt
    Steve Brodner
  • Halftime
    At The Washington Post, Brad Plumer challenges the notion that higher gas prices will sway the 2012 election. Just because the Republican Party is about to nominate Mitt Romney doesn’t mean that it has somehow become reasonable. I completely agree with Jonathan Bernstein that a blowout is still ...

Buzzflash

  • Right-Wing Pundits Make Excuses for a Weak Fie ...
    Body In the process of dumbing down our intellectually fragile national ethos, recent events are an indication of the further mindless assault on anything resembling logic. Rush Limbaugh's trash talk, the retelling of the 2008 election saga or the insults enmeshed in rhetorical Repu ...
  • Woman Who is Lead Plaintiff Against Requiring ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Sometimes the hypocrisy and tragic irony of opponents of healthcare reform is so rich that it would cause diabetes to flare up so badly that it might cause - well - hospitalization. Let's take the case of the lead plaintiff in the legal effort to hav ...
  • Foreclosing on God: When Banks Seize Churches
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Oh dear me, what a divine train wreck it is when the free market economy kicks God out of house and home. According to a March 8 Reuters article: Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience wit ...
  • Did Taxpayer Bailout Money Fund Heartland Inst ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Unless you've followed the development of state-based right wing think tanks over the years, you probably never heard of the Heartland Institute. Founded in 1984 by Joseph L. Bast and David H. Padden, Heartland, until a few weeks ago, was another free mar ...
  • Limbaugh May Get Fitting New Sponsors: Website ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Yesterday BuzzFlash at Truthout posted a commentary on Rush Limbaugh's misogynist rants, but journalist Amanda Marcotte gets to the heart of his sleazy hypocrisy. In a caustic article in Slate, Marcotte points out the sordid irony that Limbaugh may b ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Following Kandahar Massacre, International For ...
    International forces in Afghanistan need to ensure greater accountability for civilian casualties, Amnesty International said in the wake of the killing of more than a dozen people, among them nine children, by a U.S. serviceman.read more
  • No Amount of Troops, Training or Money will Re ...
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich today released the following statement after an American soldier killed at least 16 Afghan civilians, including children:read more
  • Statement: Challenging the World Water Forum t ...
    This week, the World Water Forum (WWF) will convene representatives of the water industry, other major corporations and government officials in Marseilles to shape international water policy such that it to prioritizes for-profit models of water delivery, and profit-oriented allocation of the wo ...
  • Killings in Afganistan
    KATHY KELLY, kathy.vcnv at gmail.comread more
  • Prominent Water Activists Refuse to Debate Pri ...
    Today Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Europe executive director Wenonah Hauter declined an invitation to debate World Water Forum participants on the merits of public versus private involvement in the water sector, encouraging them to involve a Philippine water activist who could tes ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Santorum Strategy: Why the Right Wins Even ...
    George Lakoff The Santorum Strategy is not just about Santorum. It is about pounding the most radical conservative ideas into the public mind by constant repetition during the Republican presidential campaign, whether by Santorum himself, b ...
  • Alleged Photos of "Clean-up" at Iran's Parchin ...
    Gareth Porter 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 ...
  • Americans to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
    George Zornick The talk of Washington this morning is a new Washington Post/ABC News poll showing strong disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy, which appears to be tied to increasing gas prices.read more
  • Slovakia Defies the Kochs and Cato
    Mark Ames On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The center-left party Smer, derisively described as “populist” in the American media, won in a ...
  • Kansas to Pregnant Women: "A Little Lie from Y ...
    Jennifer Dalven It's what every pregnant woman I know dreads. Going into that big ultrasound, having the ultrasound tech, who had been so chatty, suddenly go silent. Having her do sweep after sweep across your belly without saying anoth ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Rethink needed to avoid water wars and famine, ...
    Conservation and rights groups used the opening of the World Water Forum in the French port city of Marseilles on Monday to highlight the role scarce water resources now plays in conflict and famine around the world.
  • Water crunch looms without action on waste: UN ...
    Water problems in many parts of the world are chronic and without a crackdown on waste will worsen as demand for food rises and climate change intensifies, the UN warned on Sunday.
  • Water Wars: Silver Lake Reservoir Replacement ...
    The LA DWP officially breaks ground today on the Headworks Reservoir project, which will put huge underground reservoirs and a power plant at the north end of Griffith Park, between Forest Lawn Drive and the LA River. The project...
  • VAN ZANT: Fred Hall Show fights to save 'o ...
    This year's Fred Hall Show, which runs through Sunday, is dedicated to "Save California Fishing." The goal of the show is to get 5,000 anglers to sign up.
  • Financial woes shake the DRBC
    The financial noose is tightening for the Delaware River Basin Commission, the arbiter of whether natural gas drilling will occur in the watershed.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

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

The Wonk Room

  • BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Syndicator Suspends Na ...
    Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. Rush Limbaugh is normally provided to afflilates for free in return for running several minutes of national adver ...
  • Ken Caldeira: Natural Gas Is ‘A Bridge T ...
    Earlier, I wrote about a paper co-authored by climatologist Ken Caldeira.  A key point of the study is that we can’t slow projected warming with natural gas, you need “rapid and massive deployment” of carbon-free power. I asked Caldeira about the implications of his work for the righ ...
  • VIEWPOINT: Focusing Solely On Syrian Humanitar ...
    By Sarah Margon The news from Syria is bad and doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Most recently, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan left Damascus without making any progress on the political front, U.N. Humanitarian chief Valerie Amos was unable to secure more than an agreement for a “ ...
  • Citizens United Has Already Doubled The Amount ...
    Election law scholar Rick Hasen offers a truly stunning visual representation of the impact of Citizens United on our elections: As his chart shows, spending by outside groups seeking to change the result of the 2012 presidential election is just under $90 million — or more than double the ...
  • Greenhouse Goal Has Disappeared From Obama&#82 ...
    “Few challenges facing America, and the world, are more urgent than combating climate change,” President-elect Barack Obama said on November 19, 2008. “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and cr ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Cheaters
    Imagine if you lost a fair chunk of change at a neighbourhood poker game. To the asshole neighbour who nobody really likes. The guy who blatantly lies to your face about pretty much everything. Then it starts to turn out that there's a marked card. "It's not a marked card! It's an old deck and ...
  • International Women's Day
    Ever hear of Lee Miller? Here's her Wikipedia page too! While we're at it, here's Kay Sage as well.
  • Why I've Been Blogging About Trolls
    Because I'm busy. The big story, ... the HUGE story is the harpercon assault on the integrity of our electoral process. And that story requires serious attention which I don't have the time for, but which Dr. Dawg, Montreal Simon, Alison at Creekside and Sixth Estate (among others) are doing. B ...
  • A Blast From The Past
    Read this for shits n' giggles.
  • How a "conservative"/troll thinks ....
    Sane person: "Electoral fraud is a stab at the heart of democracy. It looks like the Conservative Party of Canada engaged in it. We need to find out. We need to get to the bottom of it. We need a public inquiry." Conservative/Troll: "Ha! Stupid lefties can't take it! Sore losers! It's a smear j ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Survey: Who will lead the NDP for peace?
    Vote now for the NDP leadership candidate that you think should lead the party.
  • Veterans on the chopping block?
    It looks like Veteran's Affairs will not be spared from the cuts planned by the Harper government
  • Government lacks credibility on F-35
    The government’s inability to produce a credible cost estimate for the F-35 purchase is undercutting its credibility on the overall F-35 issue
  • Call for nuclear divestment
    Each year, the nine nuclear-armed nations spend a combined total of more than US$100 billion on their nuclear forces – assembling new warheads, modernizing old ones, and building ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them. Much of this work is being carried out by private companies.
  • Be Heard – No Stealth Fighters!
    Tell Stephen Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that you do not support the F-35 Stealth Fighters. Send your letter, right away.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • U.S. Closer To Arming Syrian Rebels
    February 22, 2012 Associated Press By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore the possibility of ...
  • Mars Rocks Indicate Relatively Recent Quakes, ...
    February 22, 2012 Psysorg By Psysorg “Mars is NOT dead. It’s never been dead. It is alive and well. It used to be beaming with life. It had huge oceans. It was warm. The red planet has BLUE SKIES. Mars was the original Earth.” –KTRN Images of a martian landscape offer evi ...
  • Ron Paul Is Being Cheated Out Of The Republica ...
    February 22, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “Ron Paul is winning! Yet, the Republican elite want nothing to do with him. Why? They are afraid of the truth.” –KTRN Despite his runaway success in terms of straw poll victories, campaign contributions and grass roots energy, ...
  • Google Caught Violating Browser Privacy Settin ...
    February 22, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “Google is spying on you and the government loves it.”  –KTRN Following the revelation that Google had been tracking the surfing habits of iPhone users via a code that disables the Safari browser’s privacy settings, Microsoft ha ...
  • Ron Paul, ‘The Only Candidate Speaking Of Lost ...
    February 22, 2012 RT By RT “Like Obi Wan Kenobi, Ron Paul is our only hope.”  –KTRN United States presidential contender Ron Paul has warned that his country is slipping into a twenty-first century fascist system with a broke government ruled by big business. RT asked some expe ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Fed takes wait-and-see approach on U.S. economy
    A third straight month of strong US job creation is unlikely enough to budge the Federal Reserve’s policy makers from their easy-money stance when they meet Tuesday, analysts said. Even if Friday’s February jobs numbers suggest a firming of the US economy, the central bank’s le ...
  • Electioneering Continues to Spite!
    By Tom ValentineMonday, March 12th, 2012 by Tom Valentine 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 f ...
  • Why Is The US And NATO Backing Extremist Musli ...
    Video Shows Libyan Rebels Desecrating Christian Graveyard Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, March 12, 2012 A shocking video appears to show Libyan rebels desecrating Christian and Jewish graves at a cemetery, further evidence that the same forces who helped NATO overthrow Gaddafi and ...
  • RICK SANTORUM: I Admit It, I Can’t Win
    Michael Brendan Dougherty Business Insider March 12, 2012 Rick Santorum’s campaign has admitted–to itself at least– that it can’t win the Republican nomination outright. Zeke Miller of Buzzfeed has obtained an internal memo to be circulated around the Santorum campaign today with the ...
  • That’s Progressivist Media
    Dissident Voice Article By The Real News Network (TRNN) In answering a viewer’s query, Paul Jay, senior editor of The Real News Network, goes to the heart of what genuine journalism is. View the original article at dissidentvoice.org Link to this post!

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: NDAA is a decimation of our civi ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 12, 2012 RTAmerica on Mar 12, 2012 This year was kicked off with a highly controversial bill: the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA, now law, gives the US military the power to legally detain individuals without charge or trial. ...
  • Peace Groups Call For U.S. Withdrawal After Ar ...
    with Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com Mar. 12, 2012 photo by Hakim used with permission © All rights reserved democracynow on Mar 12, 2012 democracynow.org – We go to Kabul to speak with an Afghan peace activist about the shooting spree by an U.S. Army sergea ...
  • Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig March 12, 2012 Totalitarian systems disempower an unsuspecting population by gradually making legal what was once illegal. They incrementally corrupt and distort law to exclusively serve the goals of the inner sanctums of power and strip p ...
  • Baloney 2012: Imperialist Propaging Waves on Y ...
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything March 10, 2012 Uganda is undoubtedly rife with resources for Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron, et. al. to plunder, otherwise why would a viral film like Kony 2012 be popping up on YouTube? And the unwitting, or perhaps even duplicito ...
  • Occupy Boston Student Summit: Noam Chomsky
    Dandelion Salad Chomskyan on Mar 8, 2012 Occupy Boston Student Summit Feb. 12th, 2012 Harvard University Sam Roberts Christiansen, Instructor, Northeastern University Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, Mass. Institute of Technology Video produced by Charngchi Way, Boston IWW Prof. Chomsky starts ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Yitzhak Laor: The people demand some blood
    This hooligan-like logic turns into part of a totally uninhibited language. We are allowed to assassinate, but you aren't allowed to respond: For the little, if any, of our blood spilled, you will... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel to delay strike on Iran until after US ...
    White House tells Sunday Times Obama pressed Netanyahu to postpone Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities until after November, adding president 'might visit Israel in summer' The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Palestinian academic Ahmad Qatamesh receives t ...
    It is Amnesty International’s assessment that the reasons for Ahmad Qatamesh’s arrest and continued administrative detention are his peaceful expression, in his writing and teaching, of non-violent... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Auschwitz complex
    Having trapped themselves in a death struggle with Palestinians that they cannot acknowledge or untangle, Israelis have psychologically displaced the source of their anxiety onto a more distant... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian film breaks groun ...
    Abeer Zeibak Hadad is a Palestinian filmmaker living in the Israeli mixed city of Jaffa. This year her first feature film – Dum’a – was released in Israeli theaters. The film is the first in the Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • U.S. Military Unveils New Non-Lethal Weapon
    The U.S. military has developed a new non-lethal, directed-energy weapon that makes people feel like they are burning when struck by the beam it emits, the DailyTech portal reported on Monday.
  • Russian Experts Inspect Italian 'Future Soldie ...
    A Russian military delegation will attend a presentation of the Italian version of “future soldier” gear during a three-day visit to Italy, Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Sergei Vlasov said on Monday.
  • Russian Air Force to Receive Six Su-35 Fighter ...
    The Russian Air Force will receive the first six Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E multirole fighter jets by the end of 2012, spokesman Col. Vladimir Drik said on Monday.
  • Russia to Join DANEX-2012 Naval Drills
    Warships of Russia’s Baltic Fleet will take part for the first time in large-scale international naval drills in the Baltic Sea in September 2012, a spokesman for the Western military district said on Monday.
  • U.S. May Disclose Missile Defense Data to Russia
    The U.S. has said it is willing to disclose classified information to Russia on the missile defense shield to be deployed in Europe, a move that a military analyst said could solve the impasse over the American program.

NewsWise

  • Increased Honey Bee Diversity Means Fewer Path ...
    A novel study of honey bee genetic diversity co-authored by an Indiana University biologist has for the first time found that greater diversity in worker bees leads to colonies with fewer pathogens and more abundant helpful bacteria like probiotic species.
  • AIP's Physics News Highlights: March 12, 2012
    Detecting Clouds from Both Sides Now; Laser Lightning Rod: Guiding bursts of electricity with a flash of light; Artificially Structured Metamaterials May Boost Wireless Power Transfer.
  • The Shape of Things to Come:Mathematical Met ...
    McGill engineering professor has been working for years on ways to better understand patterns in the seemingly chaotic motion of oceans and air. Working with geophysicist Josefina Olascoaga in Miami he has developed methods of predicting the movement of oil and ash following environmental disas ...
  • Study Looks at Impact of Neighborhood, Family ...
    Research has shown that youth violence is a major cause of injury and death among Latinos. However, there is little understanding of violent behaviors of youths within various Latino ethnic subgroups such as Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans. Lorena Estrada-Martinez, PhD, assistant professor at ...
  • Study Reports Steady Increases in Long-term Su ...
    Summary of a study being published online March 12, 2012 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, reporting that five- and 10-year survival increased steadily among children and teenagers treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (the most common type of pediatric cancer) between 1990 and 2005, as pa ...

Natural Health News

  • Chinese Put the Brakes on Genetically Engineer ...
    The growing controversy over genetically engineered (GE) rice in China has led to that country's State Council releasing a new Draft Food Law that, if passed, would restrict the application of GE technology in its main food crops. However, the Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Centre (PEAC) argued th ...
  • Working Out More Than 45 Minutes? STOP IT!
    Most people in the U.S. are in a constant state of worry about getting enough exercise. But for most adults, exercising between 30 and 45 minutes a day is enough to gain the benefits. Many fitness newcomers succumb to the lure of overtraining, but at best, your body will hit a plateau, and at w ...
  • Insect Experts Issue 'Urgent' Warning On Using ...
    Corn rootworm is turning into a nightmare for America's agricultural biotech companies.  These insects have developed resistance to an inserted gene in GM corn crops that is supposed to kill them.  In a letter to the EPA, 22 of the nation's top experts on corn pests are calling for the ...
  • How Exercise Can Spice Up Your Sex Life
    Starting an exercise program is an excellent way to give a boost to your sex life.  The better your endurance levels, the better you’ll be able to sustain your performance and keep up with your partner.  In addition, people who exercise on a regular basis have a superior body image and ...
  • Is This the New Sunscreen for Your Eyes?
    Acute exposure to ultraviolet B (UVB) light can be damaging to your eyes, causing photokeratitis and inducing apoptosis in corneal cells. The antioxidant carotenoid astaxanthin has been shown in a recent study to have both preventive and therapeutic effects on UV-photokeratitis. The research, c ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Cheng Book Roundtable: How to Assess the Value ...
    by Julian Ku I agree with Professor Cheng that legal theory does not have to be predictive to be successful.  But I wonder if he sets the bar a bit too low. In his previous post, he writes: Providing a framework of analysis to address international problems, to guide but not control, is perhap ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Should International Le ...
    by Tai-Heng Cheng by Tai-Heng Cheng Professor Ku’s review of When International Law Works is most insightful. I thank him for it. His “short bloggish description” of its thesis is as clear a summary of my book as I’ve been able to muster in two sentences. I confess I will probably appropriate ...
  • Peter Berkowitz’s Unconvincing Justifica ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller In a previous post, I noted that Peter Berkowitz defended the legality of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program by invoking U.S. practice -- and only U.S. practice.  He now has offered another defense of such an attack in response to an ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: When Should Internation ...
    by Julian Ku As I intimated in my introduction to this Roundtable, I was deeply impressed by When International Law Works (WILW).  Professor Cheng’s accomplishment is to make legal theory -- even international legal theory – seem accessible, relevant and important.  This may not sound like muc ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Why International Legal ...
    by Tai-Heng Cheng by Tai-Heng Cheng Americans are furious.  Officials are out of touch with the rest of us.  If we thought about it, we should be angry that officials do not take international law more seriously.  That is just another way that the people we send to Washington do not understand ...

Public News Service

  • Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever ...
    Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever for Arizonans PHOENIX - Dozens of products are recalled every month because they could cause injuries or death, but keeping up on the latest recalls is easier than ever. So says attorney Paul Shively, although he adds that it does take initiative. ...
  • Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposit ...
    Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposite Sex at Risk of Abuse PHOENIX, Ariz. - Boys who act like girls and girls who act like boys are at risk of abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The researchers polled adults about c ...
  • Many Rural Arizonans Find Themselves Living in ...
    Many Rural Arizonans Find Themselves Living in a "Food Desert" PHOENIX - If your weekly trip to the grocery store is quite a trek, you are not alone. A new study finds that Arizonans often experience "food deserts" - meaning residents have to travel 10 miles or more to find a supermarket. The ...
  • Consumer Alert: Beware of Rapid Tax Refunds
    Consumer Alert: Beware of Rapid Tax Refunds PHOENIX - The April 17 tax deadline is looming over the heads of hundreds of thousands of Arizonans. The silver lining to that cloud for many is their tax refund - and every year, businesses offer rapid refunds or refund-anticipation loans. While it ma ...
  • More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborh ...
    More Arizona Kids Growing up in Poor Neighborhoods PHOENIX, Ariz. - A new KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released today shows the number of children living in high-poverty communities has increased by 25 percent over the last decade. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

  • Fifty-Five Members Of Congress Call On FDA To ...
    Led by Boxer and DeFazio, Bicameral Letter Calls for Reversal of Two Decade-Old Labeling Policy, Supports CFS Legal Petition In Only 6 Months, Already 850,000+ Public Comments To FDA In Support Of Labeling This morning a bicameral letter signed by 55 Members of Congress was sent to U.S. Food and ...
  • Tell Walmart to Reject GE Sweet Corn!
    CFS has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health and Food and Water Watch to urge major food companies and grocers to reject Monsanto’s GE sweet corn, and we need your help to tell leading retailer Walmart to reject this new GMO corn. General Mills (Green Giant, Cascadian Farms), Trade ...
  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • ‘Democracy’ In Iraq – Kids w ...
      BAGHDAD (AP) — Young people who identify themselves as so-called Emos are being brutally killed at an alarming rate in Iraq, where militias have distributed hit lists of victims and security forces say they are unable to stop crimes against the subculture that is widely perceived in ...
  • Wall Street Protesters Complain of Police Surv ...
      NYT On Nov. 17, Kira Moyer-Sims was near the Manhattan Bridge, buying coffee while three friends waited nearby in a car. More than a dozen blocks away, protesters gathered for an Occupy Wall Street“day of action,” which organizers had described as an attempt to block the streets around th ...
  • Obama impeachment bill now in Congress
    Declares president’s use of military without approval ‘high crime, misdemeanor’ WND Let the president be duly warned. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act o ...
  • Former Mossad Chief – We have at least 3 ...
        The Spymaster: Meir Dagan on Iran’s threat (CBS News) Meir Dagan has been described as “hard-charging” and “stops at nothing.” For more than eight years, Dagan made full use of those qualities as chief of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, whe ...
  • BREAKING: Vice President Joe Biden Moves with ...
    The first half of this video gives the context of what the major news media has NOT been reporting to you. North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones filed a House Resolution for the initial stages of impeaching President Obama due to the President’s dictator-like actions of going to war and ...

The Air Vent

  • Sea Ice – Overlapping Satellite Record A ...
    Despite criticisms from the super warmist advocacy guild (aka SWAG), this post is a continuation of our investigation into  sea ice from the satellite data.  I have never thoroughly vetted the knitting of satellite data from the 5 satellites which form the curves “n07″,”f08&#82 ...
  • Sea Ice – Overlapping Satellite Record A ...
    Despite criticisms from the super warmist advocacy guild (aka SWAG), this post is a continuation of our investigation into  sea ice from the satellite data.  I have never thoroughly vetted the knitting of satellite data from the 5 satellites which form the curves “n07″,”f08&#82 ...
  • Craig Loehle – 10 US Climate Disasters W ...
    We all know the media constantly reports the standard climate change mantra of increased storms, droughts, flooding, warming, cooling and basically anything they can find and attribute it to climate change – by man.  Craig Loehle wrote an interesting post on WUWT which calls out what I des ...
  • Craig Loehle – 10 US Climate Disasters W ...
    We all know the media constantly reports the standard climate change mantra of increased storms, droughts, flooding, warming, cooling and basically anything they can find and attribute it to climate change – by man.  Craig Loehle wrote an interesting post on WUWT which calls out what I des ...
  • Hu McCulloch – Climate Audit
    I finally had time to read Hu McCulloch’s guest post at CA on Mann’s fancy new book. His reveiw shows more of that Mannian honesty we’ve all come to know and love.  My reading of it brings up some of my favorite history at Climate Audit. Good stuff

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents ...
    Yahoo has decided to sue Facebook over patent infringement, filing a 19-page lawsuit in San Jose federal court today. The suit concerns 10 patents Yahoo holds related to advertising, privacy, customization, messaging and social networking. Last week Yahoo threatened to … Continue reading & ...
  • Facebook surveys users about Timeline, duplica ...
    Some Facebook users are being prompted to take a 16-question survey about their experience with the social network. The survey includes questions about Timeline and whether users have duplicate profiles, in addition to asking about about site reliability and usefulness. … Continue reading ...
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Buddy Me ...
    Buddy Media brought on a new president, Susan St. Ledger, who will work in the company’s San Francisco office. Clickable hired a COO, CRO and Senior Director of Engineering this week, and Pagelever and Kontagent hired engineering staff. If your … Continue reading →
  • Facebook event ads now have simpler RSVP, allo ...
    Facebook has updated the look and functionality of its event ads, eliminating RSVP options with a single “join” button followed by a new ability to invite friends directly from the ad. Previously, event ads included an RSVP button that presented ”attending,” … Conti ...
  • Facebook redesigns mobile feed to make liking, ...
    Facebook updated the mobile version of News Feed this weekend so users can like and comment on posts with one tap instead of two. Previously, users of Facebook’s iOS app, Android app and mobile touch site had to tap a … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The New Mediterranean Oil & Gas Bonanza: Part II
    Rising Energy Tensions in the Aegean—Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria By William Engdahl The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire ...
  • Podcast Show #79
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Van Buren This is Part VII of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here. Peter Van Buren joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 2, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg.” — Anonymous International Newsworthy Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire US to Refuel Israeli Planes Striking Iran India Cancels Iran Oil Shipment Due to Sanctions Iran Votes in Test  for Ahmadinejad Afghanis ...
  • Impotence in the Face of Impunity?
    The Phenomenon of the ‘Red Tops’ By William Bowles A fellow writer tells me that she feels overwhelmed by events and I feel the same way. An awful sense of déjà  vu that we have as much chance of stopping the march to total war as they had in the 1930s. Except that this time [...]
  • What the Heck is a “Prevailing Wage,” and Why ...
    Getting Out the Vote, at Public Expense Prevailing wage laws govern worker compensation on government-funded construction projects.  They direct that workers be paid “prevailing wages.” This may not sound like such an evil thing, but these laws end up boosting construction costs significantly, a ...

Afro Spear

  • The Negro Pseudo-intellectual and Social Media ...
    “That Kony2012 video is one of the most effective pro-imperialism, pro-militarism pieces of propaganda ever produced.” Anson Asaka “It’s a sad commentary on affairs when white people are the ones constantly and consistently advocating for the safety and security of Africa ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Blogtalkradio: The Promotion of Homosexuality in Africa Farm life of African family in Russia is “beyond bad dream” The Great African Scandal
  • Kony 2012
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  • sat’day riddymz
  • A piece of heaven in a world of hell
    As I was watching this documentary on Liberia, I though to myself: “here we go again, white people showing the worst of Africa, disease, death, crime, corruption, prostitution, cannibalism, civil war, dirt, filth, despair, hopelessness etc.” I almost turned it off but as I continued ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Crime of Truth: Obama's Persecution of the ...
    Every scrap of evidence presented about Manning's alleged crimes makes it clear that he was acting from rational, well-considered motives, based on the highest ideals. If Manning had committed war crimes in Iraq instead of exposing them, he would be a free man today.
  • The Fukushima Story You Didn't Hear on CNN
    I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant,
  • Should Meat and Milk From Clones Be Labeled? E ...
    Europe's food safety groups are insisting that meat or milk products from the offspring of clones be labeled and traceable. The FDA says they should not be labeled.
  • End Game?
    Wouldn't you like to know where these candidates stand on real issues of life and death? Are they with that segment of their ultra-right constituents that believes it's okay to kill innocent Muslim children in other countries (in the name of "liberating" them, literally to death) -- but not okay ...
  • No Jobs For Americans
    The US has nothing to export to reduce its massive trade deficit, which has, sooner or later, disastrous implications for the US dollar. Middle class income jobs are declining, with polarization at the two extremes. America is no longer the land of the free and independent. It is the land of the ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 is even worse than the Vi ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Federal Battery Charger Standard Welcome But F ...
    Pierre Delforge, Senior Engineer, San Francisco Last week, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a proposed federal energy efficiency standard for battery charger systems. These products and gadgets such as cordless phones and cell phones, laptop ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Traffic in Souls
    Given the day’s rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film promoting the white slavery fears dominant in America during these years, is available for streaming. The film follows 2 Swed ...
  • But What About Her Countertops? Does She Own ...
    The idiocy never stops. See also.
  • Responses to sex trafficking
    Elevating a comment from the Erik’s post:   The scholarship on sex trafficking portrays a much more complex picture of the sex industry. Pointing to this complexity is not a rationalization of human rights abuses. But it is necessary both for understanding what the problem of the sex ...
  • Pathetic
    Good luck with this fellas: Newt Gingrich has a crazy idea. Sources close to his dwindling campaign say he is in talks with Rick Perry in hopes of getting him on a ticket before the Republican convention in August. “Gingrich insiders hope forming a predetermined ticket with Perry will unit ...
  • Obama’s Education Policy Failures
    Diane Ravitch rips Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the New York Review of Books, grading him an F on every front: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan loves evaluation. He insists that everyone should willingly submit to public grading of the work they do. The Race to the Top program he crea ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Envoy Kofi Annan Urges Assad to Embrace Change
    Mr. Annan said his discussions with Mr. Assad on Sunday focused on putting an urgent halt to the escalating violence, giving access to humanitarian agencies, and starting a political dialogue.
  • NASA Announces Newest 'Angry Birds Space' Game
    'We focused on every detail in development of Angry Birds Space to build a special experience for our fans,' said Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer and mighty eagle of Rovio Entertainment.
  • Deadly Avalanche Kills 50 Afghans
    A deadly avalanche in Norther Afghanistan has killed 50 people and wounding four others.
  • Peter 'Kid Chocolate' Quillin Talks About His ...
    The 28-year-old bi-coastal resident of Los Angeles and New York City has been busy continuing to hone his skills, pushing his conditioning to the maximum, and marketing himself from coast to coast.
  • Somalia Welcomes the Return Of Powerful Footba ...
    The club's technical director Abdi Hakim Osman Dirie told the participants of the recreation ceremony that the idea of the reestablishment of the old club came from its former players and fans who have been working on how to re-launch it for the pa

environment 360

  • Some Shale Formations Impervious To Fracking, ...
    Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson says that a drilling method that has made vast natural gas resources accessible across the U.S. has been unable to crack some shale rock formations in Europe and China. Speaking to energy analysts, Tillerson said two attempts to tap gas-rich shale fields in Poland t ...
  • Thoreau’s Notebooks Reveal Details of Earlier ...
    A comparison of detailed notes taken by naturalist Henry David Thoreau with current weather and flower-blooming data has enabled scientists to document the earlier arrival of spring in eastern Massachusetts over Henry David Thoreau the past 150 years. After studying Thoreau’s records and ...
  • Herbicides May Be Lethal For Endangered Butter ...
    Common herbicides used to maintain the habitat of the endangered Lange’s metalmark butterfly may actually pose a lethal threat to the species, according to a new study. In tests requested by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — which uses the herbicides to combat invasive plants inside a norther ...
  • New York City Roof Study Shows Drastic Cooling ...
    A New York City roof covered in a white synthetic membrane was on average 43 degrees F cooler than surrounding black tar and asphalt roofs during times of peak heat last summer, according to a study by scientists from Columbia University and NASA. On the CoolRoofs.org hottest day of the s ...
  • Alien Seed Invasion Poses Threat to Antarctic ...
    The tens of thousands of tourists, scientists, and support personnel who visit Antarctica every year are carrying with them large numbers of seeds from alien plants that could one day pose a threat to Antarctica’s limited array of native plant species. A team of scientists vacuumed the clothes a ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Many Syria solutions but little agreement in o ...
    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pleaded for a divided Security Council to "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe" over Syria. But as war continues to tear apart the Middle Eastern country, diplomatic... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israelis and Palestinians call on UN to act
    The Middle East Quartet has discussed the escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions, after both sides called on the UN to mediate in the conflict. But there will be no result until a “strong power” condemns the violence,... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Concrete message: Iran 'supershield' to thwart ...
    Pentagon’s joy at getting tons of money for a bigger, badder bomb was, apparently, premature. Iran claims to have invented “super concrete” – of a type that will stop the Massive Ordnance Penetrator from... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Yellow light enough’ for Israel to attack Iran
    There is no doubt that Israel is ready to carry out a first strike against Iran, Shlomo Gazit, former head of Israeli intelligence, told RT. And Israel will not seek any approval from the US or even its own citizens to... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Several drunk Marines behind bloodbath, laugh ...
    New gruesome details are surfacing as fury builds up over the shooting spree which resulted in deaths 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children. Witnesses say several drunk American soldiers were involved in the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Another Fort Carson soldier in the news for hi ...
    As the local Colorado Springs Occupy has to contend with Right Wing soldiers from Fort Carson trying to shut our Movement down and shut us antiwar activists up, another local Fort Carson soldier made the news today. See The Gazette story Soldier sentenced to 90 days for fracturing 8-month-old so ...
  • Pentagon is trying to stage manage storyline a ...
    “It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base, kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and kill civilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, kill civilians and burn them,” said Abdul Rahim Ayubi, ...
  • Without women there is no revolution!
    I believe it, don’t you? No patronizing flattery here –but also IMO what’s behind the diversionary War On Women with its ready- made astroturf battle stations.
  • Spinning US atrocities, words matter: shooting ...
    Headlines about Sunday’s midnight massacre in Kandahar transformed quickly from NATO FORCES RAID to become LONE GUNMAN KILLS 16, as the attributed sources shifted from Afghan locals on the scene to US military spokesmen. It might be argued it’s in our national security interest to at ...
  • “Safe” Fracking is a Fairy Tale, & ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Responding to JREF
    My last post wasn't really intended as a debunking article. It was intended as a neutral guide for people to help them understand the debate between the two reports on the red/gray chips. It did, however, get posted on JREF as a "response" to Dr Millette. Kent1 writes: I love the claims about ...
  • Millette Versus Harrit et al: The MEK Test
    Since the Active Thermitic Material... paper was published, debunkers have asserted that the red/gray chips are simply a form of paint. To support this claim, they note that the plate-like particles in the red layer look a lot like kaolinite - an aluminosilicate clay mineral that is used as a p ...
  • Some initial thoughts on Dr Millette's study...
    The red/gray chips are not nanothermite! So say Chris Mohr and Dr James Millette. I've had a quick look at the study, and here are my initial thoughts. Adam has informed me that Harrit et al are preparing their own response which I'm sure will be available shortly. I'm not interested in Dr Mil ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came acrossdebunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildingswithout explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collaps ...
  • Kurt Haskell's Awakening
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF2F6AA5408C443F

Fooducate

  • Some Interesting Food Trends from Expo West
    We spent Friday and Saturday at the Anaheim Convention Center, which was jam packed for the Expo West Natural Food Show. The show brings together manufacturers, buyers, foodies, and everyone else interested in a slightly healthier alternative to standard grocery fare. Alongside stalwart establis ...
  • Pink Slime, Rejected by McDonald’s, Goes to Sc ...
    How’s this for taking care of our kids? McDonald’s refuses to put a dubious meat by product into its burgers, but the government orders 7 million  pounds of “Pink Slime” for its school lunch program. The pink slime is a mix of fat trimmings and ammonia-hydroxide that is a ...
  • Give The Healthiest Vegetable on The Planet So ...
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Yes! You know the vegetable that I am referring to – KALE. Kale is on every list for “healthiest vegetable”. One cup of kale contains 36 calories, 5 grams of fiber, and 15% of the daily requirement of calcium and vitamin ...
  • The Oreo Cookie Celebrates 100 Years
    This week marks the 100th birthday of the Oreo Cookie. Originally created and sold in New York by National Biscuit Company, the brand is now owned by mega-processed-food giant Kraft Foods. The brand tagline is “Milk’s Favorite Cookie,” and indeed Oreos have become an American i ...
  • GMO Labels – Coming Soon?
    We often get requests by Fooducate app users to provide GMO (genetically modified organism) information on products. We respond that our analysis is based on information presented on the products package. And product packages do not have this info to offer. We also tell people to assume that the ...

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle the nets you get ar ...
    Long time Recycle This friend (and very frequent commenter!) Anna has a question about the protective sleeves slipped around wine bottles: Any ideas what to do with the plastic nets they put for wine bottles for protecting them when you buy one? I don’t drink wine so I had to turn to my fr ...
  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an acrylic sweater/ ...
    We’ve covered wool jumpers/sweaters on the site before now – what to do with them when you accidentally shrink your most favourite jumper ever in the wash. But what about acrylic jumpers? They don’t get ruined in the same way but cheaper ones tend to lose their shape and look a ...
  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...
  • How can I revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...

Age of Autism

  • Autism File Presents Article on Camel Milk by ...
    Thank you to Christina Adams and Autism File Magazine for allowing us to share this article on Camel Milk and autism with you. Published bi-monthly, Autism File is available nationwide at Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, and several other...
  • Letter in Portland Tribune: Only trusted resea ...
    Only trusted research will quell vaccine fears MY VIEW. Parents, others worry that the next bad drug is being used now By Michael Framson Mar 8, 2012 Problems that plague medicine, medical science and research have created an enter-at-your-own-risk system...
  • No Rest for the Weary
    By Cathy Jameson Ring. Ring. Of all days. Ronan was up at some ridiculous hour the last two mornings in a row. All I wanted was some peace, a whole lot of sleep and for it to please come soon....
  • “Something New Was Coming”: Walker-Smith, Wake ...
    By Dan Olmsted Now that Professor John Walker-Smith has been cleared of charges brought against him by Britain’s General Medical Council – with an admonition by the appeals judge that such a travesty must never happen again – his testimony...
  • Sammy's Gold Stars Helps Kids on Special Diets
    We invite you to check out Sammy's Gold Stars. Sammy's Gold Stars is a children's book about one boy who found a special diet helped him feel and behave better. Many children with food sensitivities, Autism, Celiac Disease, ADHD, Lyme...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – ACLU war ...
    The Hill – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is warning that a cybersecurity bill from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and other Republicans would give spy agencies unprecedented powers to snoop through people’s personal information. McCain’s bill, the Secure IT Act, would encoura ...
  • Surgeon general declares youth smoking an &#82 ...
    Reuters – Smoking among America’s youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the U.S. surgeon general’s office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994. Among U.S. high school seniors, one in four is a regular cigar ...
  • Slovakia election: Robert Fico’s Smer wins
    BBC – The social democrat opposition in Slovakia has won the general election outright, taking 84 out of 150 seats. Read article
  • Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal spec ...
    RT – Undercover NATO troops are already in Syria despite denials from their parent governments, according to a leaked brief from a highly-placed analyst. The information comes from a hacked email from leading private US intelligence agency Stratfor, whose correspondence has been released b ...
  • New evidence casts doubt in Lockerbie case
    Al-Jazeera – Fresh scientific evidence unearthed by a Scottish legal review undermines the case against the man convicted of being responsible for the Lockerbie aircraft bombing, an investigation for Al Jazeera has found. The Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC) report details ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Gaza escalation: dress rehearsal for Iran
    At the end of the same week, he is setting the Gaza Strip border on fire with an act of "iquidation which was certain to precipitate a barrage of rockets at the communities of southern Israel & make their children huddle in air-raid shelters on Purim." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &nbsp ...
  • Way to go, IDF!
    The cyclical ritual of bloodletting between Israel and Gaza always prompts two questions: 'Who started it?' and 'Whose is bigger?' Here we go again - a targeted killing; retaliation; retaliation to the retaliation. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • Open Letter To The Critics
    The Kony 2012 campaign is solely to bring attention to Joseph Kony. It has also brought the attention of the plight of the Ugandan people to the forefront bringing necessary aid to these people. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • UNGEI Podcast: What does it take to educate a ...
    'To Educate a Girl' follows the lives of girls in Nepal and Uganda. Significant progress has been made towards providing education for all, yet according to UNESCO an estimated 67 million children still remain out of school and over half of them are girls Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World &n ...
  • "Israel killed at least 2,969 unarmed Palestin ...
    "U.S. weapons provided to Israel at taxpayer expense make the U.S. complicit in Israel's human rights abuses of Palestinians living under Israel's 44-year military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip" Submitted by Christine Linley to World  |   Note-it! & ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Envoy Kofi Annan Urges Assad to Embrace Change
    Mr. Annan said his discussions with Mr. Assad on Sunday focused on putting an urgent halt to the escalating violence, giving access to humanitarian agencies, and starting a political dialogue.
  • NASA Announces Newest 'Angry Birds Space' Game
    'We focused on every detail in development of Angry Birds Space to build a special experience for our fans,' said Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer and mighty eagle of Rovio Entertainment.
  • Deadly Avalanche Kills 50 Afghans
    A deadly avalanche in Norther Afghanistan has killed 50 people and wounding four others.
  • Peter 'Kid Chocolate' Quillin Talks About His ...
    The 28-year-old bi-coastal resident of Los Angeles and New York City has been busy continuing to hone his skills, pushing his conditioning to the maximum, and marketing himself from coast to coast.
  • Somalia Welcomes the Return Of Powerful Footba ...
    The club's technical director Abdi Hakim Osman Dirie told the participants of the recreation ceremony that the idea of the reestablishment of the old club came from its former players and fans who have been working on how to re-launch it for the pa

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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: ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Bug docs warn EPA that non-GMO corn best solut ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Last week, 22 corn entomologists sent a letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency warning that insect resistance to genetically modified corn can be halted by planting non-GMO seed. Increasing pesticide use or buffer zone size will not solve the growing prob ...
  • America's Afghanistan Legacy
    by Stephen Lendman In his book titled, "Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire," John Pilger discussed Afghanistan, saying: "Through all the humanitarian crises in living memory, no country has been abused and suffered more, and none has been helped less than Afghanistan." He descr ...
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN "Co ...
    by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems tha ...
  • America: Land of the Poor
    by Stephen Lendman Years ago, who could have imagined the appalling growing poverty level in the world's richest country? Various reports confirm it, including a new one by the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center (NPC), titled “Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2 ...
  • 2012 is not the End of the World, it’s 2023!
    Nostradamus did not predict the End-of-the-World in 2012 By Robert Singer Unless you are living under a rock you have heard about Nostradamas, the man who, 500 years ago, made an estimated 6,338 predictions/prophecies. Followers claim he predicted everything from Hitler to 9/11, the death of ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Nova Scotian workers need improved standards
    “Workers in Nova Scotia are worse off economically than they were a quarter century ago.  For the most part, this deterioration in wages happened at the same time that the economy of the province vigorously increased the wealth it generated.”  A new report released by CCPA-NS Research ...
  • Inequality: The role of unions and race
    The University of Toronto's Richard Florida has an important two-part series in The Atlantic focusing on what is driving the growing income gap in American cities. In particular, he and colleague Charlotta Mellander look at what is driving the differences in income inequality, since it's not a ...
  • Toxic spill and communications chill
    Last August, a pipeline broke near Fort St John, spilling toxic liquid that killed at least one cow and sickened other cattle. The Oil and Gas Commission has refused to release any details about the spill, citing its ongoing investigation. But our researcher Ben Parfitt questions the OGC's loyal ...
  • Shared Futures: Big Institutions and their Inn ...
    In a new report from CCPA-MB, Valerie Shantz examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg's inner city. Download the full report: Shared Futures: Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours.
  • Nova Scotia doubles number of temporary foreig ...
    The number of migrant labourers working in Nova Scotia has doubled over the past five years.  While such rapid increases benefit the Canadian economy, they pose difficult questions for policymakers.  Recent immigrants are often  used as an exploitable working population and are si ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Bruce Springsteen’s Call to Battle
    By Richard Pithouse,sacsis.org.za - In 1975 Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s magnificent third album, crashed on to American radio with a dramatic lyrical intensity riding a rushing wall of rock and soul. Time andNewsweek put him on their covers in the same week and at 26 he found himself, ...
  • What’s in a name? Free Gear from WorldWi ...
     By  Sandy Auriene Sullivan,Worldwidehippies - Here’s your chance to win cool stuff from WWH. Tell us in 10 words or less what the word, “Hippie” means to you. “Common goals for a better future globally.” Bam! Did that in seven words. There is no registration requir ...
  • Life At Jefferson’s Monticello, As His S ...
    by KAREN GRIGSBY BATES,NPR -Thomas Jefferson’s very existence was shaped and enabled by slavery. Slaves placed newborn Thomas in his cradle, and slaves comforted the former president on his deathbed. People often wonder aloud how a man who dedicated his life to liberty on the one hand coul ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: IDEAFEST 2012 From Occup ...
    Reported by Rachel Goldsworthy, Coordinator, Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business,ring.uvic.ca – Occupy Wall Street didn’t end in Manhattan; in fact, it didn’t even start there. To a standing-room-only audience on March 8, Dr. Basma Majerbi, f ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Taliban vow revenge for Afghans killed by US troop KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban vowed revenge Monday after an American soldier allegedly shot to death 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan and burned their bodies, an attack that has fueled anger still simmering after U.S. troops burned Q ...

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Professor Who Knew Too Little
    It is clear that many people have a very simplistic — but wrong — view of the energy markets. This extends to politicians who believe they can usher in a return to $2 gasoline, as well as those who underestimate the difficulty of replacing oil with renewable energy. For the average p ...
  • Gas Prices & Keystone Pipeline — R-Squared Ene ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer more questions about gas prices, and discuss the Keystone XL pipeline and future development of Canada’s oil sands. Some of the topics discussed are: The EROEI for producing oil sands The emissions profile of shipping the oil sa ...
  • Ethanol Exports and the Future of the Ethanol ...
    Were U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing Ethanol Exports? Over the past couple of years, U.S. ethanol exports have soared. Last year a news article in Financial Times charged that these exports were being subsidized with U.S. tax dollars. The U.S. ethanol industry strongly denied this, but I wrote severa ...
  • Study: Eliminating Coal-Fired Power is Worth 0 ...
    Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy? A new paper in Environmental Research Letters called “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity” concludes that replacement of all of the world’s currently operating coal-fired pow ...
  • Follow-up to Alan Colmes’ Interview
    During my interview last week with Alan Colmes (embedded below), a few points were discussed that warrant some elaboration. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The first is the conversion from winter to summer gasoline, which I have written about in more detail at Why Summer Gasoline Mea ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • How Companies Are Coping With Arsenic in Rice
    Last month, researchers from Dartmouth University discovered that brown rice syrup, a popular sweetener used as a replacement for calorie-dense high-fructose corn syrup, was highly contaminated with arsenic, with some samples containing up to 17 times the legal limit for drinking water. Read Mo ...
  • Paper or Plastic? Both are Now Illegal in Aust ...
    Everything is bigger in Texas, so the saying goes. And that doesn't apply just to steers and Stetson hats. Late last week, the city council of Austin, the state's capitol, passed one of the most comprehensive bans on disposable shopping bags in the country. Starting in March 2013, all retailers ...
  • USDA "Compass" Points Toward Strengthening Loc ...
    It's getting easier to Know Your Farmer and Know Your Food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) two-year-old program took a technological leap last week with a new interactive map called the "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" Compass that highlights the thousands of rural and small-sc ...
  • Study: Plastic Chemicals May Up Miscarriage Risk
    Chemicals that mess with your hormones have long been suspected of keeping couples from having children. By interfering with both men's and women's estrogen levels, these hormone-disrupting chemicals, found in plastics, pesticides, and other household goods, can lower sperm counts and increase ...
  • The Easiest Way to Get Duped in the Meat Aisle
    The sluggish economic rebound hasn't stopped more people from ditching dirty factory-farmed meat for organic and "natural" alternatives, according to a new report from the American Meat Institute and the Food Marketing Institute. Based on surveys of 1,340 people, the annual "Power of Meat" repo ...

big think

  • Does China Do Capitalism Better than America?
    Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) will hold a debate to hash out and answer the question: Does China do capitalism better than America? "China seems to have emerged unscathed from the global economic crisis, in stark contrast to its biggest debtor, America." according to the website ...
  • A Vegetarian Diet and Its Effect On Your Mood
    What is the Big Idea? Eating meat or fish can make a crab out of you, according to  a study published by Nutrition Journal. Omnivorous diets are high in arachidonic acid (AA) which changes the brain in a way that affects mood. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid ...
  • What to Do About the Growing Class Divide
    What's the Latest Development? Coming Apart, a new book by Charles Murphy, cites statistics which suggest that opportunity, i.e. economic mobility, is increasingly a poorly distributed good in society. In other words, children of successful parents are more likely to succeed, relative to ...
  • Right Wing Rings The Wrong Bell
    They should just rename Fox News the “Black Presidents Scare The Shit Out Of Us” network. If nothing else, Sean Hannity is consistent—he inundates the airwaves every day with the exact same “ObamaisaCommunistMarxistSocialistSecretMuslim", practically every time he is on the air. The video Hannit ...
  • FU Asks: How Would You Invest $100,000?
    Welcome to an ongoing feature on the Floating University blog, FU Asks, where we open up the academic debate on our e-learning platform to the Big Think community.  This week we're featuring a discussion prompt from William Ackman, Activist Investor and CEO of Pershing Square Capital ... ...

Information Liberation

  • Take a Bite Out of Crime: Abolish the Local Police
    Mount Sterling, Ohio -- population 1,800 -- recently disbanded its entire police force following an incident in which a police officer assaulted a child with a deadly weapon. Officer Scott O'Neil was called to deal with a 9-year-old who refused to...
  • Why Are Police In America Treating Women Like ...
    When I was growing up, police in America generally treated women with gentleness and respect.* It was generally understood that women were not to be thrown around or mistreated by police unless they were being openly violent.* But in most areas of th...
  • The DC Gang: Dictators Without Borders
    As an anarchist, I have little use for "national sovereignty" as a political concept. Boiled down, "national sovereignty" is simply the assertion that mutual recognition of turf lines on the part of various overgrown street gangs ("states") is sacros...
  • New South Park Episode Mocks Overbearing Polic ...
    "Randy gets a ticket from for not wearing his seat belt."...
  • They Knew EXACTLY What They Were Doing. (Geez, ...
    The newest twist in the "excuse-Our-Rulers-for-any-and-all-atrocities" comes in the claim that "many members of Congress seem to be unaware of what they were actually voting for" with respect to the NDAA and its provisions for kidnapping us because "...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • A Bit of Progress: Diamonds Shatter Quantum In ...
    BOSTON--The quantum world and the everyday world of human experience are supposed to be two different realms. Quantum effects, as demonstrated in the lab, are usually confined to the tiniest scales. They last for imperceptibly brief instants. And they appear mostly in highly controlled systems o ...
  • South Africa Wins Panel's Backing to Host Squa ...
    A scientific panel has narrowly recommended South Africa over Australia as the best site for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an enormous radio telescope (see " Astronomy in South Africa: The long shot "). But the project's member states have yet to make a final decisio ...
  • 'Chum Cam' Helps Catalog Endangered Sharks
    Scientists have been trying to answer the question of whether marine protected areas, where sharks and their prey are off-limits to fishermen, are indeed home to more sharks than non-protected areas of the ocean. [More]
  • NASA Crushes 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Claims
    Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a new video to address false claims about the "Mayan apocalypse," a non-event that some people believe will bring the world to an end on Dec. 21.  [More]
  • Flavor of the Ray: Neutrino Measurement May He ...
    Neutrinos are devious little particles. Only in the late 1990s were they shown to have mass, after decades of head-scratching hints to that effect. They can oscillate between three neutrino types, or "flavors," changing their identity on the fly. And, perhaps most famously, they were a ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Musqueam Block Destruction of Ancient Burial Site
    MUSQUEAM TERRITORY - Musqueam First Nation members and supporters have blocked condo construction at the site of an ancient burial ground.  Construction at the site, on Vancouver's west side, was slated to start this morning. Workers and the 'owner' of the property were turned a ...
  • Touring Canada's Complicity in Torture
    Caravan visits site in Toronto area to protest torture On Thursday March 8th, a "Torture Tour" brought a roving protest of 50 people who traveled in Caravan to a variety of sites in the Toronto area that are complicit in torture. ...
  • Halifax Rallies Against the Robocall Scandal
    About 90 people gathered at Halifax Grand Parade on March 11th to protest the ongoing robocall scandal. In February it was discovered that tens of thousands of people across Canada had received misleading automated phone calls during the last federal election, directing them to voting locations ...
  • Innu Blockade of the 138 Moved by SQ
    The blockade of highway 138 erected by members of the Innu community protesting against the construction of hydro transmission lines across ancestral lands was forcefully cleared from the roadway Friday night as 13 of the resisters were arrested.  The blockade against the $6.5 billion La Ro ...
  • PINAY - 20 Years of continued struggle and emp ...
    Evelyn Calugay - PINAY Chairperson On Saturday, March 10, at the restaurant Ruby Rouge, was celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Filipino Women's Organization of Quebec. PINAY: Filipino Women's Organization in Quebec / Organi ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Save the Children
    David Seaton's News Links  Over six million children die of hunger every year, according to the World Health Organization... Is there anything more that must be said? What is going to be done? DS
  • Netanyahu's target is Obama, not Iran
    David Seaton's News LinksIt cannot be denied that the Holocaust theme has served Netanyahu well politically. As many commentators have pointed out, Netanyahu has succeeded in reframing political discourse on the Middle East: this visit to the U.S. was the first in a long time in which the Palest ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - III
    David Seaton's News LinksObserving the pantagruelian expense and listening to and reading about the nauseating, sociopathic babble of the seemingly endless Republican primaries in the United States; people all over the world are questioning the democratic process and wondering if China's authori ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - II
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholy" Domenico Feti We are living in quite special times. The crisis in the system hasn’t been this evident to “everyman” since the 1930s. The United States is rather special in one respect in facing the crisis. The idea of personal responsibility for everyth ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to?
    David Seaton's News LinksIf Mitt Romney takes the nomination and then loses to Obama, the extremists who’ve taken over the party will surely say the problem was Romney’s lack of ideological purity.  Joe Nocera - New York Times Here’s what I think may happen. Romney gets the nomination and ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Justice Department Blocks Texas Photo ID Law
    The state of Texas recently adopted a law that requires residents to present photo ID at the polling place before voting. These kinds of laws are problematic even in the best cases, but Texas being Texas, their law is almost laughably brazen in its intentions. For example, in addition to drive ...
  • On Third Thought, the Economy is Recovering Fa ...
    Today is my day for publishing charts that I find interesting but don't quite know what to think of. As you all know, government estimates of job losses and gains each month are released a few days after the end of the month. Then they're revised, and then, two months after the initial estimat ...
  • Quote of the Day: Lowering the Bar on Sympathetic
    From Erica Grieder on Game Change, the HBO movie about the 2008 presidential campaign: Some early reviews have suggested that the movie offers a sympathetic portrayal of Sarah Palin. Considering that she's portrayed as stupid, self-absorbed, shallow, stubborn, volatile, delusional, hysteric ...
  • Credit Conditions are Still a Headwind Against ...
    I don't even quite know what to make of this chart from Karl Smith, but here it is anyway for everyone to ponder. The red line represents employment by the government and by goods-producing sectors. Kablooey! The blue line represents employment by everyone else. Not bad! Karl's take is that ...
  • When Is a Terrorist Group Not a Terrorist Group?
    The People's Mujahedin of Iran, aka MEK, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the State Department. However, it was removed from the EU's terrorist list in 2009, and there's considerable controversy over whether MEK should continue to receive that designation from the United States ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Researcher uses medical imaging technology to ...
    University of Rhode Island marine biologist Jacqueline Webb gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to the Orthopedics Research Lab at Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically used to study bone density and diseases like osteoporosis, it is also provi ...
  • Scientists document first consumption of abund ...
    A team of scientists has documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea -- a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the most abundant life forms on Earth. read more
  • Statue, chapels and animal mummies found in Eg ...
    A wooden statue of a king, a private offering chapel, a monumental building and remains of over 80 animal mummies found by a University of Toronto-led team in Abydos, Egypt reveal intriguing information about ritual activity associated with the great gods. read more
  • Circumcision may help protect against prostate ...
    A new analysis led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that circumcision before a male's first sexual intercourse may help protect against prostate cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests ...
  • Greenland ice sheet may melt completely with 1 ...
    The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold for melting the ice sheet completely is in the range of 0.8 to 3.2 degrees Celsius of global warming, with a best estimate of 1.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels, show ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • IFR FaD 11 – sodium coolant and pool design
    This is the second of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the I ...
  • Purpose and target audience of BraveNewClimate.com
    Before I write a scientific paper, I always try to identify: (1) my main message [MM], in 25 words or less, and (2) my target audience [TA]. Doing this helps focus the ‘story’ of the manuscript on a key point. Papers that try to present multiple messages are typically confusing and/or too long f ...
  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...
  • 100% Renewable Electricity for Australia: Resp ...
    Guest post by Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. Click here for a printable 6-page PDF version of this response. ——————– This is a personal response to Lang’s (2012) article critiquing the peer-reviewed paper Elliston, Diesendo ...
  • IFR FaD 10 – Metal fuel and plutonium
    Over the next few months I will publish four extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • J’accuse: Israeli youth headed towards p ...
    Noam Gur was just another teenage girl from the northern town of Nahariya. She grew up in a family that was not politically involved, went to the same school as everyone else, and still doesn’t understand why she’s the only one who sees what her peers are missing. In a month’s ...
  • In propaganda battle, PM Spokesperson tweets o ...
    The IDF is recently putting a lot of effort into propaganda campaigns, and especially new media ones. The army has a blog, a Flickr account, a Facebook page and a Youtube channel; officers from IDF spokesperson unit are very active on social networks, where they argue with journalists and activi ...
  • Israel initiates escalation, Gazans pay the price
    The stronger Israel gets, the less it seems willing to search for diplomatic initiatives that would ease tension around its southern border You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist in order to wonder what led Israel to initiate the current military escalation, which has taken the lives o ...
  • Dearth of coverage in Israeli media on Gaza ca ...
    The Israeli media once again fails to show the impact of Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip. I personally think it’s insane that on the Haaretz website there is not a single headline or article that even refers to what the Israeli military is wreaking on Gaza, where 23 have been ki ...
  • Polls: Israelis fear unilateral strike more th ...
    A new survey confirms that a clear majority of Israelis are opposed to a unilateral Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Only 31 percent of all Israelis, Arabs and Jews, favor this option. Twice as many – 63 percent – are opposed. Over one-quarter are strongly opposed, which is more tha ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Tripling It Up
    The kind folks at Harrison Pensa, a prominent London legal firm, came up with an interesting concept. Anyone who clicked …Continue reading »
  • Now We Know Kony – Or Do We?
    Here’s a link to my feature article on Kony2012 – http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/glen-pearson/kony-2012_b_1337839.html - and the video phenomenon that has swept the world, …Continue reading »
  • Click Here to Care
    In the last 48 hours, my wife and I have field endless requests for guidance on the Kony 2012 phenomenon. …Continue reading »
  • We Found Love In A Hopeless Place
    Jane and I weren’t prepared for the sheer number of well wishes pouring in through various venues yesterday regarding my …Continue reading »
  • With Respect
    Try as hard as I might, I just can’t seem to get out of politics. Strange, considering that I lost …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • A “regrettable incident”
    A "rogue" US soldier in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five after entering their homes in Kandahar province and firing indiscriminately. Women and children are among the dead.
  • One year on from the Great Tohoku earthquake a ...
    It is one year today since the Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11th, 2011
  • Solar cycles and the Landscheidt minimum
    Theodor Landscheidt predicted in 1989 that the next solar minima leading to cool periods on earth would occur in 2030 and 2200.
  • South Africa could join the shale gas band-wagon
    South Africa has vast resources of gas bearing shale in the Karoo region which could amount to 14 trillion cubic metres (compared to 25tcm in China and 13tcm in the US) which - if exploited - could fuel economic growth and provide energy independence.
  • When senior scientists in India condone &#8220 ...
    The prevailing paradigm in India of senior scientists merely appending their names to research papers without contributing to the work and without taking responsibility for any wrongdoing has to change. It is hardly surprising that research students indulge in "cut and paste" science when their ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Report: Info For 73,000 Porn Subscribers Has B ...
    A group of hackers has announced they've dipped into the personal info of 73,000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground, tapping usernames, email addresses and passwords, as well as credit card information for 40,000 cards. Subscribers have been notified of the breach, and the site isn't a ...
  • Kroger Clarifies Which Of Its Ground Beef Prod ...
    Following last week's ABC News report which found that ammonia-treated beef trimmings, affectionately known as "pink slime," are in about 70% of the ground beef Americans buy at the grocery store, supermarket chain Kroger has issued a statement to list which of its ground meats do not contain t ...
  • Stitch Up Holes In Your Networking Skills
    If you want to get ahead in the business world, you'll need skill, luck and connections. And the latter is arguably the most important of your assets. The amount of career success you find will probably be a function of your ability to make helpful connections and use them to your advantage. I ...
  • Government To Banks In Mortgage Settlement: We ...
    Lest they turn around act like the jerky big banks that they are, federal officials say they're going to keep a watchful eye on five major banks as the final terms of a mortgage settlement were filed today in federal court. The $25 billion deal was announced in February and the government wants ...
  • Have New Domain Names Outed U.S. Airways & Ame ...
    This is like finding out your friend is getting married because you inadvertently see them browsing for reception halls or wedding DJs. If a slew of recently registered website domain names are to be believed, the much-hinted merger between American Airlines and U.S. Airways might be closer to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Former DOJ Spokesman Defends War on Intelligen ...
    Politico: Ex-DOJ Spokesman Defends Leaks Probes Summary: A former spokesman for the Department of Justice, Matthew Miller, is publicly defending the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on national security/intelligence whistleblowers. The spokesman claims that the “leakers” are not ...
  • For Bankers, the Fix is in at the Justice Depa ...
    Eyal Press wrote an interesting piece this week, comparing the excessive attention that Justice Department prosecutors have directed at whistleblowers in the national security world in recent years to the absolute disinterest with which these same attorneys treat Wall Street whistleblowers. He’ ...
  • GAP & Brennan Center for Justice NYC event on ...
    Dear GAP supporters: GAP & The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law are teaming up to present a special stop of our American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability: To Protect or to Prosecute? National Security Whistleblowers featuring Barton Gellman (moderat ...
  • GAP Conducting Study of UN Internal Justice Sy ...
    With support from the United States Institute of Peace, GAP has launched a "United Nations jurisprudence and personnel in conflict & post-conflict states" project to investigate the influence of the United Nations' (UN) internal justice system on the organization's ability to address corrupt ...
  • 'Pink Slime' in Your Beef?: Daily Whistleblowe ...
    ABC News: 'Pink Slime' Outrage: Tips for Checking Your Beef Summary: GAP client and whistleblower Kit Foshee was interviewed on ABC World News With Diane Sawyer yesterday to discuss concerns regarding ammoniated beef trimmings – popularly known as 'pink slime' – that can be found in ...

UK Progressive

  • Cardiff Airport at UK Passenger Table Bottom
    Britain’s top airports 2011 UK airports handled 219m passengers during 2011 according to figures published by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), an increase of 4.1% (8.6m) on 2010. The recovery comes on the back of three consecutive years of falling passenger numbers, and left 2011 at the same ...
  • The Precarious Jobs Recovery
    February’s  227,000 net new jobs – the third month in a row of job gains well in excess of 200,000 – is good news for President Obama and bad news for Mitt Romney. Jobs are coming back fast enough to blunt Republican attacks against Obama on the economy and to rob Romney of the issue [...]
  • The Monday Line: GOP Fuzzy Math and How it Hur ...
    On Saturday, Mitt Romney won the Mariana Islands and Guam’s 9 delegates each to the GOP convention in Tampa. Rick Santorum won the majority of Kansas’ 40 delegates. The delegate count stands today ‘roughly’ at Romney 424, Santorum 212, Gingrich 103 and Paul 45… with 82 uncommitted, 100+ kingmake ...
  • Top MuckReads: Aging Reactors and Summer Camp ...
    by Blair Hickman, ProPublica Here are this week’s top must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica’s ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism. Anyone can contribute by tweeting a link to a story and just including the hashtag #MuckReads or by sending an email to MuckReads@ ...
  • One Year After Fukushima Japanese Fear Their G ...
    The March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, left thousands dead and caused extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure in northeastern Japan. “Many individuals and companies from around the world sent donations after the [March 11, 2011 tsunami] disaster. The people who know Japan are ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Climate Coup — The Politics
    How the regulating class is using bogus claims about climate change to entrench and extend their economic privileges and political control. Guest Post: Dr David M.W. Evans, 29 Feb 2012, last updated 13 Mar 2012, latest pdf here The Science The sister article Climate Coup—The Science (a more mai ...
  • A GONGO idea – a government funded job d ...
    For pure, circular destruction of wealth, happiness and prosperity, it doesn’t get much better than this. Not long back Greenpeace and co were busted for planning a six million dollar campaign to disrupt and delay the coal industry — and today The Australian reports that three of the ...
  • Prius drivers behaving badly. Upper class more ...
    Prius drivers may claim they want to help the poor but they are less likely to want to slow down and let them cross the road. You’d think Prius drivers would hold pedestrians, who emit less carbon, in high regard. But alas, roadside tests show about one third of Prius drivers broke crossw ...
  • China finds the odd 200 years worth of fuel
    Who isn’t finding shale gas these days? To whom shall we sell all those super-costly solar units, that we will supposedly be “world leaders” in? China reveals 25tn cu metres of shale gas Financial Times China announced the results of its most extensive official appraisal of sha ...
  • Finkelstein — Yes please. Just try it…
    Welcome to Australistan. I haven’t read the whole 400 page Finklestein report, but Mark Steyn tells me that the Chinese government likes it. What more do you need to know? As Steyn says, this is not a left-right thing, it’s a free-unfree thing. Tim Andrews at Menzies House launches ...

ReNew America

  • The conspiracy that motivated Breitbart's crus ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - You may have heard the late Andrew Breitbart was initially alerted to the Democrat/media complex when that collaboration smeared Clarence Thomas as it fought to block the latter's Supreme Court confirmation in 1991. There is, of course, more to Breitbart's venture into ...
  • Obama impeachment bill introduced in Congress
    (Fox News) - Let the president be duly warned. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act of Congress, "it is the sense of Congress" that such an act would be "an impeachable high ...
  • Constitutional analyst: Detention now legal
    (WorldNetDaily) - A retired attorney who has taught constitutional law and now is an author and radio host says America is duplicating with the new National Defense Authorization Act its mistakes that landed hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans in Wyoming and Colorado internment camps dur ...
  • Will high court adopt the coercion test?
    (Robert Knight) - As the American Civil Liberties Union prowls the land to muzzle public prayers, rip out Ten Commandments monuments and terrify small towns over Nativity scenes, help may be on the way from the U.S. Supreme Court...
  • Santorum: Romney pushed for Obamacare
    (Newsmax) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum blasted former Gov. Mitt Romney Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" for what he described as repeated untruths about his role in pushing the state healthcare plan that became the model for Obamacare...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Lake Cuitzeo: Smoking Gun Crater for Comet Theory
    Lake Cuitzeo is the second largest freshwater lake in Mexico. Located in Michoacán State, it is just north of Morelia city. The idea that a comet caused a global catastrophe 13,000 years ago was popularized by the 2006 book The Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith. ...
  • Survivalist Magazine / More Apocalyptic TV
    2012 is the year of 2012! Issue six of Survivalist magazine is a special 2012 issue. You can buy single copies and the first two issues are now also available on Kindle. To my knowledge this is the only survivalist magazine in existence. Please let me know if you are aware of any others. &#8 ...
  • Doomsday Preppers: Highest Ratings
    According to National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers is the most popular show the network has ever aired. This week on National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers continues its amazing run on the channel, the #1, 3, 6 and 11 most viewed shows of the week.  Doomsday Preppers has become ...
  • Another Solar Flare Alert
    As you can see, this X5 flare is much bigger than the X1 flare that occurred just 20 hours ago. As a comparison, last August we had an X6.9. The major storm of 2003 had an X17.2 flare, whilst the 1989 flare that took out a power grid in Canada was an X15. The biggest recorded in modern times was ...
  • Seed Bank Insurance / Korean Doomsday Movie
    Seed banks are incredibly valuable resources, and an acknowledgement that sometimes there SHTF events that require emergency backups. Seed banks can help restart horticulture in the event of a natural disaster or spread of a disease. But what if harm comes to the seed bank itself? Wars have dest ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Arab World: In Search of “Subjectivi ...
    The greater irritation shown by the countries that currently are the Arab world’s chief “integrators” — Saudi Arabia and Qatar — during and after the “Group of Friends of Syria” conference in Tunisia points to growing problems in the Wahhabi integration project that ...
  • Why Putin Is Driving Washington Nuts
    Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington’s top bogeyman – and also for its rogue North Atlantic Treaty O ...
  • The BRICs and the Construction of the Multipol ...
    Ten years ago, the acronym BRIC entered the lexicon of international economics and finance. Since then, cooperation among the emerging countries contained in that acronym has taken on an increasingly marked geo-economic and geopolitical record. The consolidation of relations among Brazil, Russia ...
  • Two Worlds, Two Truths
    The Vladimir Putin’s election for a new term means the major foreign policy guidelines outlined in his article called Russia and the Changing World are going to be further implemented. The article calls for the resurrection of the bipolar world order when no one involved in confrontation could a ...
  • Russia’s National Interests and Foreign ...
    On February 27, with Russia’s presidential poll already in sight, Moskovskie Novosti daily featured an international politics opinion piece by Vladimir Putin, which came as the seventh in a series of programmatic papers by the Russian prime minister and March 4 elections front-runner. The ...

BlogHer

  • Maher: As Misogynist as Limbaugh and as Free t ...
    Editor's Note: The Cute Conservative shared a video released last week by ShePAC which contrasts the comments in the media and by politicians on the misogynist language by Rush Limbaugh with that on the misogynist language of comedian and Obama supporter Bill Maher. Here's what she has to say. - ...
  • What makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Join us ...
    Visionary Voices is a partnership between Kaplan University and top thought leaders to bring great ideas and the lived experience of established experts to the world. Thus far, the Visionary Voices team has interviewed over 150+ industry leaders such as Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, Deborah ...
  • Lifelong Learning: The Benefits of School After 50
    People over 50 are some of the most enthusiastic seekers of postsecondary education and lifelong learning. There's nothing to stop them from inventing new ways of doing things, especially at Kaplan University. Hear what influential thinkers and students 50+ are saying. _________________________ ...
  • Learning To Keep Cooking Fun With The Naptime Chef
    If you're a mother who loves to cook but struggles with how to fit time in the kitchen on your daily agenda, you might want to get to know Kelsey Banfield a little better. Banfield, who blogs at The Naptime Chef has a just-released cookbook on the shelves that focuses on techniques like batch co ...
  • http://www.blogher.com/snippets/video-life-without-whitney-bobbi-kristina-talks-oprah
    One month after Whitney Houston‘s untimely passing that shook the music industry and her billions of fans, her 19-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown got on “Oprah‘s Next Chapter” for her exclusive interview and tells her about how she’s been hanging on in spite of the late singer leavin ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • MSHA releases statements from UBB mine managers
    Emergency vehicles leave the entrance to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Coal Mine Monday, April 5, 2010 in Montcoal, W.Va. after an explosion at the underground coal mine. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) As mentioned last week, the release of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’ ...
  • Another W.Va. miner dies on the job
    Over the weekend, West Virginia recorded its first coal-mining death of 2012 — with a rib roll at an Alpha Natural Resources operation in Fayette County. All the talk from our state’s political leaders about passage of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s mine safety bill didn’t do mu ...
  • Friday roundup, March 9, 2012
    Coal miners march outside Petrosani, Romania, Thursday, March 8, 2012. Several thousands coal miners have marched in western Romania, refusing to go down the mines for the fourth day in row to protest over low salaries and work conditions, they were threatening to continue to Bucharest, but were ...
  • Breaking: Mine operator charged with two crimi ...
    We’ve just posted online a copy of the federal criminal charges filed a few minutes ago against Genwal Resources, the Murray Energy company that operated the Crandall Canyon Mine where six miners and three rescue workers died in that terrible disaster back in 2007. Federal prosecutors in U ...
  • W.Va. House resolution attacks EPA
    My buddy Jared Hunt over at the Daily Mail was kind enough to point out to me on Twitter this morning a new resolution introduced this morning in the West Virginia House of Delegates attacking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to make our state’s coal operators and p ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Sam Harris on the Joe Rogan Show
    JRE #192 – Sam Harris, Brian Redban from JoeRogan on Vimeo. Related ContentDODOCASEMichael Smith @rybolov DDoS TalkA Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISSLandscapes, by Garry TanEvil Evangelists
  • Getting Real IP Addresses Using CloudFlare, Ng ...
    Logs from Splunk CloudFlare is a great service that proxies your site’s traffic in order to offer performance gains and filtering options. It can compress and cache static content such as CSS files, JavaScript, and image files and then geographically optimize how they’re given to you ...
  • Thoughts on Sam Harris’ Book on Free Will
    Sam Harris’s book on free will came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s what I had to say about the book back in December when he announced it: I basically anticipate an extremely high-quality summary of my numerous articles, posts, and debate inte ...
  • iOS-based Square Headed To New York City Taxi ...
    As we heard last week, mobile payments platform Square pitched the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission to replace the current taxi TVs and payments technology in 50 cabs. The company says today that the pilot has been approved, and Square will be tested in up to 30 cabs in the test. AllThings ...
  • Dunning-Kruger and the End of Democracy
    The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Hippie TV News and Stuff w/the WWH News Team ( ...
    In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs Windy Star Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Ed Croft; Mikel K. Poet Mikel K Minute Nibiru Magick This week; Give up booze you must be trippin, Corruption the Butterfly affect The Docs all a tw ...
  • Bruce Springsteen’s Call to Battle
    By Richard Pithouse,sacsis.org.za - In 1975 Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s magnificent third album, crashed on to American radio with a dramatic lyrical intensity riding a rushing wall of rock and soul. Time andNewsweek put him on their covers in the same week and at 26 he found himself, ...
  • What’s in a name? Free Gear from WorldWi ...
     By  Sandy Auriene Sullivan,Worldwidehippies - Here’s your chance to win cool stuff from WWH. Tell us in 10 words or less what the word, “Hippie” means to you. “Common goals for a better future globally.” Bam! Did that in seven words. There is no registration requir ...
  • Life At Jefferson’s Monticello, As His S ...
    by KAREN GRIGSBY BATES,NPR -Thomas Jefferson’s very existence was shaped and enabled by slavery. Slaves placed newborn Thomas in his cradle, and slaves comforted the former president on his deathbed. People often wonder aloud how a man who dedicated his life to liberty on the one hand coul ...
  • Revolution 99 Update: IDEAFEST 2012 From Occup ...
    Reported by Rachel Goldsworthy, Coordinator, Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business,ring.uvic.ca – Occupy Wall Street didn’t end in Manhattan; in fact, it didn’t even start there. To a standing-room-only audience on March 8, Dr. Basma Majerbi, f ...

reference frame

  • NYU, Oxford will produce shorter humans to fig ...
    Climate activists start to realize that carbon trading won't work. For example, Airbus and six European airlines have informed Ms Connie Hedegaard, the European Climate Holy War Czar, about a very surprising finding: the carbon trade war against foreign airlines will lead to lost contrac ...
  • Einstein's box and the triumph of Bohr
    Postmodern revisionism of Bohr's answer to Einstein's box is deeply flawed The Physics arXiv Blog discusses a recent preprint EPR before EPR: a 1930 Einstein-Bohr thought experiment revisitedby Croatia's Hrvoje Nikolić. The paper talks about what Nikolić considers a "modern interp ...
  • Brian Cox and lunar phases
    Prof Brian Cox is a physicist who was the main presenter of the one-hour-long 2011 BBC special, "Guide to the Moon", among many other programs. You may expect him to know something about the Moon; you may also be wrong. How does it work in practice? Steve Davis pointed out the following cute ...
  • Strange \(m_{eff}=1600\GeV\) ATLAS events
    Perhaps I should call them "beautiful events" because they involve the beauty quark and not just ordinary strange quarks. ;-) On Friday, Antoine Marzin of Oklahoma gave a Moriond talk about the ATLAS search for the third-generation superpartners. At the end, we didn't learn anything that ...
  • Krásna Hôrka: a burning Slovak castle
    This is how Krásna Hôrka, a castle in Eastern Slovakia, was known to the world for nearly 7 centuries: The castle (whose literal name is "beautiful little hill") has survived conflicts between Turks and the Austrian empire and many other events. However, if something survives for 6 ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • FDA Warns Of Mercury in Skin Creams
    By: Etan Yeshua, Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week that more than 35 imported skin creams, antiseptic soaps and anti-aging lotions have recently been tied to mercury poisoning that in some instances sent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG to FDA: Step It Up on Formaldehyde-Laced H ...
    By: Robert Katsnelson, legal intern The maker of Brazilian Blowout -- one of numerous hair straighteners on the market containing formaldehyde, a known carcinogen -- is now required to provide health warnings on its product's packaging and website,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Don't let the lights go out on environmental j ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations A few days ago two California-based environmental reporters for the Associated Press who had made major contributions to the issue and their profession were taken off the beat. In the entire state... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Berger beat biathlon rivals and cancer
    Tora Berger could claim the title of World Champion over the weekend, when she won her first individual gold medal in the International Biathlon Union’s competition at Ruhpolding in Germany. She also revealed that she won an even more important battle three years ago, against skin cancer. ...
  • Ship grounded off Måløy
    A German-owned container ship that grounded just before the weekend off the west coast of Norway near Måløy, in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, remained stuck on its rocky perch Monday but salvage operations were underway. “Things take time,” Rune Bergstrøm of the Norwegian Coastal A ...
  • Author wins over Afghan subject
    Åsne Seierstad, the Norwegian author who enjoyed international success with her book about a bookseller in Kabul, has finally won a long drawn-out lawsuit filed by one of the bookseller’s wives. Suraia Rais had sued Seierstad in an Oslo court, claiming Seierstad had defamed her family and ...
  • Meteorite smashed through Oslo roof
    The owners of a small cabin in an urban holiday garden called a kolonihage in Oslo got quite a surprise when they visited the cabin for the first time in a long time over the weekend. First they discovered a hole in the cabin’s roof, and then what looked like a stone nearby. It turned out ...
  • Budget conference tougher than usual
    They were all smiles on Sunday, as Norway’s 19 government ministers gathered in rural Hadeland, just north of Oslo, for their annual budget conference. They all face tough negotiations over the next two days, though, which have been known to leave some ministers angry or even in tears. Thi ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • William Kamkwamba – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    When we think of wind power, we most likely think either of the huge wind farms now dotted across the globe, or the good ol’ country windmills that have been the backbone of our outback stations’ water supply. But how often do we hear of windmills being built from scratch, let alone ...
  • A Permaculture Farm in Wales – Zoning 101 (Videos)
    If you are new to permaculture, these three videos provide a delightful living introduction to the topic. As Angie takes you through the different zones on her farm in Wales, UK, you can try to spot how many concepts are integrated into her enthusiastic, holistic descriptions of how permacultur ...
  • The Konohana Family Farm – Successful Sustaina ...
    This micro-documentary about the Konohana Family Farm will take you to the heart of a successful intentional community flourishing about three hours from Tokyo. Their farm was established on the foothills of Mount Fuji, about 18 years ago, by a handful of people who sought an alternative lif ...
  • APC11 – A Conference to Radically Rethink New ...
    Permaculturists have created forests in the desert, provided free emergency water and hygiene facilities in international emergencies and are revolutionising farming in small pockets of land all over the world. Now a major international event aims to spread permaculture thinking and practise thr ...
  • Surveying Commons Activism on the Internationa ...
    The following is an adaptation of my notes for my talk at the Occupy Wall Street “Making Worlds” conference on February 16-18, 2012. I am so pleased that the Occupy and Commons movements are finding each other and starting a new conversation. Occupy is an incredible force for change. It has a ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Next show
    Was in Ireland over the weekend and was feeling poorly, am home but still under the weather Soon as I'm better, will record a new show Lots of info out there call suba a snitch, what about this shite http://news.softpedia.com/news/TeaMp0is ... 0409.shtml facebook money http://portalsandrails.f ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: UK ZOG: Christians ha ...
    He is no jew, but he is an atheist. I see this as the jewish attempt to FURTHER destroy Christianity and strengthen the divide-and-conquer strategy of the heebie-jeebies. It is an complete out-rage, but until the people realize who the creatures are TRULY DOING ALL OF THIS SHIT TO THEM, noth ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Who is to say the antichrist hasn't already come and gone? The majority of Christianity believes the anti-Christ figure has come and gone already. American Evangelicals, based on a mis-rendering of Daniel 9:27, believe he is yet to come. Evangelicals are most likely wrong; however, perhaps th ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: UK ZOG: Christians ha ...
    bluejelly wrote: More judeo crap, can't you see that all this is designed to prop up Christianity, they put these bs articles out, it is designed to get people to join Christianity. The jews have been masters of selling Christianity to the goy since roman times. Imagine if the story was slightly ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: UK ZOG: Christians ha ...
    More judeo crap, can't you see that all this is designed to prop up Christianity, they put these bs articles out, it is designed to get people to join Christianity. The jews have been masters of selling Christianity to the goy since roman times. Imagine if the story was slightly different? &quot ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Some Shale Formations Impervious To Fracking, ...
    Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson says that a drilling method that has made vast natural gas resources accessible across the U.S. has been unable to crack some shale rock formations in Europe and China. Speaking to energy analysts, Tillerson said two attempts to tap gas-rich shale fields in Poland t ...
  • Thoreau’s Notebooks Reveal Details of Earlier ...
    A comparison of detailed notes taken by naturalist Henry David Thoreau with current weather and flower-blooming data has enabled scientists to document the earlier arrival of spring in eastern Massachusetts over Henry David Thoreau the past 150 years. After studying Thoreau’s records and ...
  • Herbicides May Be Lethal For Endangered Butter ...
    Common herbicides used to maintain the habitat of the endangered Lange’s metalmark butterfly may actually pose a lethal threat to the species, according to a new study. In tests requested by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — which uses the herbicides to combat invasive plants inside a norther ...
  • New York City Roof Study Shows Drastic Cooling ...
    A New York City roof covered in a white synthetic membrane was on average 43 degrees F cooler than surrounding black tar and asphalt roofs during times of peak heat last summer, according to a study by scientists from Columbia University and NASA. On the CoolRoofs.org hottest day of the s ...
  • Alien Seed Invasion Poses Threat to Antarctic ...
    The tens of thousands of tourists, scientists, and support personnel who visit Antarctica every year are carrying with them large numbers of seeds from alien plants that could one day pose a threat to Antarctica’s limited array of native plant species. A team of scientists vacuumed the clothes a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • United jumps to top of table
    Manchester United seized the lead in the Premier League for the first time in five months on Sunday after beating West Bromwich Albion 2-0 on the same day neighbor Manchester City slumped to a surprise 1-0 loss at Swansea. In a significant day in this season's title race, in-form England strik ...
  • Import tax: a complex, seemingly arbitrary min ...
    Paula writes: "What are the rules regarding taxes placed on imported purchases — for example, a pair of boots? I live in Kobe and had to pay taxes of ¥5,400 for a ¥9,000 purchase. I paid more than half the cost of what I bought in taxes." Japan's import taxes can be a bit trick ...
  • Tokyo: How has Japan changed since the disaste ...
    Fumie YoshihiroOffice worker, 29 (Japanese)Young people have become more aware of government. They no longer keep their opinions to themselves and have found a voice through demonstrations, etc. Small communities have become vocal. Martin LerouxMusician, 25 (French/Filipino)Japan seems to have ...
  • Polaris puts money to use in private equity funds
    Yuji Kimura does not want to end up being just another fund manager — he wants to make pioneer business arrangements between Japan and the rest of Asia. Since Kimura, 50, founded Polaris Capital Group Co., a company managing private equity funds, in September 2004, his company has inves ...
  • China in need of new Deng
    Where is the new Deng Xiaoping, a man of vision for China's new times as it struggles to become the once and future economic megapower? I thought of this when I saw the gray suits at China's National People's Congress robotically applauding premier Wen Jiabao as he announced the target of 7.5 ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Nova Scotian Workers Need Improved Standards
    “Workers in Nova Scotia are worse off economically than they were a quarter century ago.  For the most part, this deterioration in wages happened at the same time that the economy of the province vigorously increased the wealth it generated.”  Now, Nova Scotia has the second-lowest average weekl ...
  • Women’s economics
    You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Women are not only getting more and more educated, they also represent the majority of university students, both in undergraduate and in Master’s programmes. In the coming years, you doctor is very likely to be a woman, so will the lawyer that will def ...
  • Labour Force Exodus
    Statistics Canada reported this morning that 38,000 people gave up looking for work in February. The official unemployment rate fell because these Canadians were no longer counted as being unemployed. However, this huge withdrawal from the labour force is a sign of weakness in the job market. Mo ...
  • The Loonie’s Stagnant Purchasing Power
    The following note also appears on Business Insider: When Ontario’s Premier recently complained that Canada’s petro-dollar undermines manufacturing exports, many economists tripped over each other to counter that a strong loonie benefits all Canadians through cheaper imports. In theory, that mak ...
  • Increasing number of migrant labourers in Nova ...
    According to a Citizenship and Immigration Canada report, the number of migrant labourers in Canada increased from 177,781 to 432,682 between 2000 and 2010.  Immigrant Settlement Integration Services says the number of foreign workers entering Nova Scotia has almost doubled in the last five year ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Recharging phones remotely
    New York Times: WiTricity Corp in Massachusetts is developing technology that would allow smart phones, tablet computers, and similar small electronics to recharge wirelessly. The technology is based on magnetic induction, the process used to recharge electric toothbrushes, writes Anne Eisenberg ...
  • Japan's nuclear energy industry in danger of s ...
    New York Times: The loss of public confidence in nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster may lead to an energy crisis in Japan. Of that nation's 54 commercial nuclear reactors, all but two have been shut down over this past year, and by next month they may all be. By law, Jap ...
  • Film director to attempt deep diving record
    New York Times: Yesterday, when movie director James Cameron took his Deepsea Challenger 8 kilometers down into the New Britain Trench off Papua New Guinea, he broke the world depth record for modern vehicles. The trip was a practice run for a much deeper dive he plans to make later this mo ...
  • Daya Bay experiment measures final neutrino mi ...
    Science: At a seminar today at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the team behind the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment presented the results of its campaign to measure θ13, one of three so-called mixing angles that characterize how the three neu ...
  • FCC reminder: Cell phone jammers are illegal
    Los Angeles Times: A commuter in Philadelphia recently confessed to using a cell phone jammer on his daily bus ride when he felt his fellow bus riders were being too disruptive with their cell phone conversations. His confession sparked a storm of sympathetic commentary in US media last week. No ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Private water suppliers hit pay dirt as water ...
    “Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) officials say they are helpless as they are not empowered to monitor private suppliers. K. Lakshminarasimhan, a resident of Anugraha Layout in Akashnagar of Mahadevpura, spends nothing less than Rs. 2,000 a month on the five to six tanker ...
  • Ethiopia Pursues Controversial Dam Project
    “The government embarked on the project – expected to be the largest hydropower plant in Africa – to help solve a national energy crisis and to help turn Ethiopia’s economy around. “The rural population will get electricity, the amount of megawatts we are going to p ...
  • The Prem Rawat Foundation Partnership Brings C ...
    “Residents of Ebagueye in the parched Azawak region of Niger danced in celebration last month as the first water gushed from a borehole that will provide them with a reliable source of clean water year-round. TPRF has contributed $40,000 to the nonprofit Amman Imman Water is Life to help f ...
  • Foreign Minister Proposes Banning Water Privat ...
    “Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca has proposed prohibiting the privatization of water and land to avoid “minority groups” controlling the resource. The official travelled to Washington this week to present the proposal to 34 delegates from the Organization of Americ ...
  • Senate rejects expediting Keystone pipeline
    “Republicans–along with the oil industry, which is running a nationwide advertising campaign about energy supplies — have been attacking Obama on the campaign trail for failing to fully exploit traditional oil and gas resources while Americans are financially stretched. Democra ...

D. Kucinich

  • No Amount of Troops, Training or Money will Re ...
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich today released the following statement after an American soldier killed at least 16 Afghan civilians, including children: “Yesterday’s shooting in Afghanistan which left at least 16 civilians dead is a tipping point.  This shooting follows days of deadly rio ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Stronger Rules to Protect C ...
    Fifteen to thirty dollars in the price of a barrel of oil is attributable to oil speculators.  At $106 a barrel, the price of oil is leading to increased gas prices for consumers.  Consumers in the Cleveland area are now paying $3.74 a gallon for gasoline and the price is expected to r ...
  • Kucinich to Clinic: Cash Needed at Home
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the leading advocate for a fair distribution of uncompensated care in Cuyahoga County, released the following statement in response to Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove’s “State of the Clinic” address: “Though poverty in and around the Cleveland area is d ...
  • Kucinich: No More Excuses: Justice for “Underw ...
    Washington D.C. (February 29, 2012) -- Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), today reiterated his call to Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (F.H.F.A.), which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write down principal amounts for struggling homeowners. Kucinich, who ...
  • Kucinich Addresses Great Lakes Day
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed a gathering of more than 100 at the Great Lakes Commission’s Great Lakes Day in Washington D.C. Kucinich discussed the need to protect federal funding to strengthen and restore the Great Lakes. He also called attention to the threat to the Great ...

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientist who warned of thinning ozone layer dies
    F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer, has died. He was 84.Rowland died Saturday at his home of complications from Parkinson's disease, the dean of...
  • NZ misses out on $2.5b project
    New Zealand has failed to convince a scientific panel it is best suited to host the world's largest radio telescope, after the panel recommended the $2.5 billion project be awarded to a rival consortium led by South Africa.A joint...
  • World-leading Kiwi scientist tells of search f ...
    Few people know what complete darkness is, Professor Charles Alcock announces to his audience.The New Zealand-raised, world-leading astrophysicist tells a University of Auckland crowd that the concept of an absolute absence of light...
  • Shuttered LHC rivals 'close to confirming God ...
    More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet.In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to...
  • TV Pick of the Week: The making of Frozen Planet
    For the past two months many of us have been transfixed by the high-rating Frozen Planet . The BBC-Discovery Channel co-production has gone to the icy ends of the Earth to film what - and who - lives there, and to look at the effects...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Ira Stoll on Why Bureaucrats Shouldn't Set Int ...
    Personal interest income received by Americans in 2011 was $997.5 billion. That’s down 28% from the $1.382 trillion in interest Americans earned in 2008. Now, if President Obama or Congress announced that they were going to raise taxes in a way that would take $384.5 billion a year ou ...
  • More Unintended Consequences from Libya: Gadda ...
    Since January 2012, over 172,000 Malians have been displaced because of attacks by Tuareg fighters. Of those displaced, 90,000 are  refugees in neighboring Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Amnesty International even declared this is the "worst human rights crisis" in 20 years ...
  • Koch/Cato Update: Charles G. Koch Speaks, Bob ...
    There have been two substantial developments in the Cato Institute's bitter ownership dispute (which I previously blogged about here and here). The first is that on Thursday Cato co-founder Charles G. Koch, who initiated the suit against Cato, Cato President Ed Crane, and the wi ...
  • Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth A ...
    Writing in The New York Times, Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, ponders what might happen if a substantial percentage of criminal defendants suddenly started insisting on their Sixth Amendment rights. It would "crash t ...
  • Newspaper Lead of the Month: “Orange County de ...
    Great news from the Orlando Sentinel: Cops in Orange County, Florida, will be trained to think before firing 130 rounds in the parking lot of an apartment complex, as they did in January 2010 while trying to apprehend/obliterate car-jacking suspect Torey Breedlove after he rammed i ...

Mercury Rising

  • What “Invisible Children” Doesn&#8 ...
    Thinking of donating to Invisible Children after seeing their “Kony2012″ video? Think again: What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting “Intelligent Design”, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate ...
  • Occupy Little Rock ROCKS!
    Occupy Little Rock, the Little Occupy Camp That Could, provides its own electricity, water and waste services — the only thing it doesn’t yet supply is its own food, and I suspect that if they were to offer to do some bioremediation on a vacant lot for the city, they could acquire th ...
  • Christians Being Christian
    Here in southeastern Michigan, an Evangelical church is producing a play with a message of compassion for gays. The play will be a fundraiser for The Trevor Project, which provides a 24-hour suicide prevention hotline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. [The church's pastor, the R ...
  • Some Sweet, Wholesome Ladies Have A Message Fo ...
    Here they are are and here it is: They must be elitists — they can spell!
  • Rush, Breitbart, And Corporate Taxes Truths
    It feels like a whole bunch of things may be coming to a head. We may be about to face a paradigm shift. Item. Rush Limbaugh’s implosion is not just crippling Rush, but the entire right-wing puke funnel: Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing ta ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Evolver Spores: Come Together
    Evolver Spores: Come Together Wed, March 21 read more
  • Trudie Styler on Rainforest Preservation and H ...
      The following originally appeared in Organic Spa Magazine. read more
  • Feeling is Rational
    The prevalent attitude towards emotion is that they are obstacles to be overcome, irrational and therefore not conducive to making good decisions. But what if emotion actually trumps reason--what if our emotions are better than our logical faculties at making complex decisions and tackling cogni ...
  • Rebuilding Sacred Circle
    On February 13th, a beloved community center in New Jersey, Sacred Circle, burnt to the ground in a tragic fire. A cultural hub along New Jersey's coast, Sacred Circle was more than a New Age and Metaphysics shop, it served as a community figurehead, offering healing services, classes, an ...
  • DMT RMX Experience
    Since it’s 2010 premiere, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, and its Director, Mitch Schultz, have inspired countless individuals, from all corners of the globe. Those inspired have  formed a community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, thinkers, travelers, and many other agents working towards an elevat ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • 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.
  • ‘Iran, world pioneer in human rights’
    Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights says the country is a pioneer of human rights in the world and supports any kind of international cooperation in the area of human rights.
  • Syria: Toward a middle solution
    In a recent analysis, an Arab journalist had noted that the United Nations’ and Arab League’s special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, is actually representing the US, and had advised the Syrian opposition to take this reality into account.
  • International aid convoy arrives in Gaza
    The ‘Miles of Smiles aid convoy 10’ comprising more than 100 international activists from different countries has arrived in Gaza, Press TV reported.
  • 'US-led forces must leave Afghanistan'
    A former Afghan Prime Minister says President Hamid Karzai must demand the departure of foreign forces, in light of a US soldier intentionally killing 17 civilians.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Protesters clash with riot police outside the ...
    Protesters clash with riot police outside the Greek parliament in Athens on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the square outside Parliament as a parliamentary debate began, with more arriving constantly. (Thanassis Stavrakis)
  • A protester holds a Greek flag during clashes ...
    A protester holds a Greek flag during clashes with riot police outside the Greek Parliament in Athens on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the square outside Parliament as a parliamentary debate on further austerity cuts began, with more arr ...
  • Syrian soldiers, who have defected to join the ...
    Syrian soldiers, who have defected to join the Free Syrian Army, hold up their rifles as they secure a street in Saqba, in Damascus suburbs, January 27, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
  • Syrian rebels walk in an alley in Idlib, Syria ...
    Syrian rebels walk in an alley in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Activists say Syrian troops have continued shelling residential neighborhoods in the central city of Homs for the fifth straight day, killing scores of people. (AP Photo)
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