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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.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

14 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Xenophobia Rises from Ashes of Greek Economy
    Last January, several pupils coming out of a high school in Kallithea, a central residential neigbourhood in Athens, attacked a Pakistani passer-by.
  • Seoul Summit Aims at Nuclear Safety Amidst Ris ...
    Against the backdrop of a politically-waffling, nuclear-armed North Korea as its unpredictable neighbour, South Korea is hosting a nuclear security summit later this month to be attended by over 40 heads of state and government.
  • Frustrated by the Euro, Greece Turns to Altern ...
    "Watch out! The caustic soda is dangerous," shouts Rea Pigiaki, while she blends the soda with lavender to prepare her scented soaps, which are very famous in Ierapetra, a small town in Southeast Crete.
  • Q&A: "Cuba's Presence at OAS Summit Would Have ...
    Colombian diplomat Clara Nieto says President Juan Manuel Santos managed to work out in his favour the boycott that was looming over the sixth Summit of the Americas, after several countries threatened to stay away if Cuba was not invited.
  • Lessons in Democracy on South Sudan's Airwaves
    It is late afternoon and a group of men and women begin to converge under the shade of a huge mango tree in Yambio town, the capital of South Sudan's western Equatoria state. The group is not gathering for an ethnic, political or religious meeting. They are here to listen to the radio.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • To avoid war with Iran, Obama must change his ...
    Summary: Israel warns time is running out to stop Iran's nuclear program. If the US wants to avoid military strikes on Iran, it must stop talking out of both sides of its mouth – offering carrots and sticks. As new talks are planned, its policy must instead acknowledge Iran's culture and poli ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Colossal Coronal Hole Blasti ...
    The image takeny by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a large triangular hole in the Sun's corona on March 13 shows an enormous triangular hole in the Sun’s corona allowing more charged solar particles to stream out into the Solar...
  • 200 Earth-Sized Planets --The Latest Kepler Mi ...
    The most recent Kepler news release from February 28 reveals that the total count of Kepler planet candidates has reached 2321 and 1790 host stars, with 1091 planets emerging in the new analysis. The headline of the findings is profound:...
  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site --Now Seen in ...
    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera snapped its best look yet of the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon. The image, which was released on March 7, 2012, even shows the remnants of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic first...
  • Strange Alien Matter Observed at Neutron Star Core
    Evidence for a bizarre state of matter has been found in the dense core of the star left behind, a so-called neutron star, based on cooling observed over a decade of Chandra observations. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first...
  • The Luminous Hearts of Distant Galaxies --New ...
    Spacecraft aims to expose violent hearts of galaxies: the NuSTAR telescope that NASA plans to launch as early as this month will be sensitive to the high-energy photons produced at the turbulent thresholds of supermassive black holes like one shown...

Natural News

  • Whey protein and lactose intolerance
    Many people are interested in shedding fat and building lean muscle essentially sculpting their bodies into works of art or maybe looking for a slimmed down version of their current selves. The benefits of being a little leaner these days help with many conditions such...
  • Vitamin D found to shrink fibroid tumors
    Each year, roughly 200,000 women undergo a surgical procedure that involves the removal of their uteruses due to the growth of non-cancerous tumors known as uterine fibroids, which commonly develop in and around the walls of the uterus. But a new study published online...
  • Find out why you're vitiamin B12 deficient and ...
    Awareness of vitamin B12's importance is getting more attention lately. Every cell in our body uses vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 deficiency is more common than previously considered, and low B12 levels mimic many symptoms of other diseases. Most professional health practitioners...
  • "After the shudder": The medical community rea ...
    Amidst back-peddling and protestations of "minuscule risk" by many in the medical community, the Food and Drug Administration announced its decision to add diabetes and memory loss to the list of side effects to some of the most widely prescribed statins. The recent...
  • Statins can cause muscle damage without necess ...
    If you take statin drugs to lower your cholesterol levels, these medications could be damaging your muscles without you even knowing it. Several studies not typically mentioned by the pro-statin drug lobby reveal that HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors can cause skeletal muscle...

Threat Level

  • Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Sur ...
    In 2010 the FBI issued more than 24,000 national security letters to ISPs and other companies, demanding they hand over information on more than 14,000 customers. The letters come with a built-in gag order that prohibits the company from disclosing to customers or anyone else that it has even re ...
  • Judge Orders Failed Copyright Troll to Forfeit ...
    Righthaven, a copyright-troll law firm that failed in its attempt to make money for newspapers by suing people for sharing stories online, was dealt a death blow Tuesday by a federal judge who ordered the Las Vegas company to forfeit "all of" its intellectual property and other "intangible prope ...
  • 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.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Oregon, Massachusetts Gains Bolster Obama Heal ...
    The Affordable Care Act is working. 2.5 million more young adults ages 19 to 26 now have health insurance. The shrinking of the Medicare "donut hole" allowed 3.6 million seniors to save $2.1 billion on their prescription drugs last year. And the ban on insurers refusing to cover pre-existing ...
  • In Mississippi, the Republican Future is Now
    Republicans have seen the future and it is in Mississippi. But the GOP's Magnolia State crystal ball has little to do with whether today's primary shows that Mitt Romney's cheesy grit eating sealed his nomination, ends Newt Gingrich's viability as a "credible candidate" or even aborts Rick Sant ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • GUEST INFORMANT: Leah Moore
        Yeah, it is a really creepy song, isn’t it?  Sorry, the title just seemed to fit, to be honest.   Normally I steer a wide path away from the personal blog, just because I am likely to bore you all to tears about my son’s milk allergy, or needlecraft techniques (I shit ye ...
  • How Netenyahu Seeks to Change US Elections By ...
    Bolstered by a Tea Party-oriented Mid East Canadian foreign policy and a record of using war to win election at home, Israel's PM hits the campaign trail to change US politics.
  • Michael Klare: GOP Promises of Lower Gas Costs ...
    We look at rising fuel costs, one of the major issues raised by the Republican contenders in the 2012 presidential campaign. Since the beginning of the year, the average of price of a gallon of regular gasoline has jumped 16 percent to more than $3.80. Earlier this week, President Obama partiall ...
  • Behind the Afghan Massacre: Accused Soldier Su ...
    U.S. lawmakers want the Pentagon to explain why the soldier accused in the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers was sent back into combat after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Iraq. We look at whether soldiers are receiving the mental health treatment they need with Kevin Baker, an Iraq War vet ...
  • Afghan Massacre: After Losing Homes in NATO At ...
    As President Obama vowed to "spare no effort" to fully investigate the Afghan massacre on Tuesday, hundreds of students in eastern Afghanistan protested against the United States. Many called for an end to the U.S. occupation in their country. We go to Kabul to speak with New York Times correspo ...

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

  • 100% Local, Clean, Cheap Power Is Possible in ...
      I’ve written in the past about the fact that 100% of the world could be power from clean, renewable energy. But to get to that 100% target, you need a lot of small 100% targets (i.e. 100% renewable energy for Scotland, 100% renewable energy for Tokelau, etc.). [...]
  • What I (Don’t) Hate about Wind Power
      One of our readers over on CleanTechnica shared this awesome post below with us in the comments of an article about community wind power last week. I thought you all might enjoy it, so here it is (the post was originally published on Neil Blanchard Designs’ blog): You know [...]
  • New York’s 1st Underground Park
      A group in New York City is looking “to transform an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into the world’s first underground park.” It has been raising funds for the project on Kickstarter and already has $34,500 more than the $100,000 it was aiming ...
  • Bicycles & Progress (& Putting Bike Signs & Sy ...
      This post below by Copenhagenize is a really interesting one — it’s about bicycles and how they are linked to progress; subliminal reading of bicycle symbols and signs; and more. I can’t really do it better justice without reposting it in full, I think, so here’s ...
  • Science is ‘Magical’ – John Boswell Remixes TE ...
    We can be more, we can be much more… From the earliest literary ‘cut up’ experiments of Gyson and Burroughs to more recent, musical ‘sampling’ pastiches by turn-tablists and hip-hoppers, the ‘remix’ trend has surely reached its full blossoming in our mo ...

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Axis of Logic

  • India – and a visit to ‘Little Tibet’ - India
    The trip to Dharamsala to see the Dalai Lama’s own town McLeod Ganj, which became the seat of the Tibetan government in exile in the fifties, had been planned for many months. My husband John and I, had visited several Buddhist monasteries in other parts of India, such as Sarnath,...
  • The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Allian ...
    Introduction There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peacefu ...
  • 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 ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • It's time for a fundraiser
    By @BGinKC It's time to pass the hat, and this time it's personal. Once or twice every year we raise a few bucks to pay the expenses for the blog and buy more broadband when we need it, and indeed we do have a few bills coming due in the next few weeks that will be covered off the top, but frank ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Blowin' in ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by BoboGuimaraes on May 8, 2011
  • The Trudeau Treatment: part 3
    By @BGinKC
  • Income Inequality Made Easy
    By @KYYellowDog
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD And they get two Senators, too, just like we do. Voters in Alabama and Mississippi saddled up their dinosaurs and headed to the polls to make their presidential preferences known. Since we both know poor southerners -- but there is something about those two places that just defies m ...

Care 2

  • The Evolution of Open Source
    Open source is used to describe any software that has made its source codes readily available to the public to be sub-licensed, changed, distributed, copied, and used. The term can actually apply to any product that has been openly shared with the public. Submitted by John Tomas to Science & ...
  • TAKE ACTION: Tell Petland USA to Stop Using Pu ...
    Petland, a chain of international retail pet stores, acquires many of the pets they sell from commercial puppy mills. Commercial puppy mills are barbaric. They place profit above animal welfare. Puppy mills keep the dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary Submitted by Jim Jaston to Animals  |& ...
  • UCS: Surging demand for vegetable oil drives ...
    Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in some of the world's most critical forest areas, warns Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
  • Why Republicans Need Remedial Math: Their Budg ...
    It is an irony of our current national malaise that Republican politicians consider themselves, and tend to be uncritically regarded by the media, as "strong" on issues like national security and fiscal responsibility. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note ...
  • Sifaka Birth Season: Itâs a Wrap! | Duke Lem ...
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Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Santorum Victory?
    Santorum is welcome to celebrate his moral victory in Alabama and Mississippi but, in the long run, these wins don’t change the trajectory of the march to the Republican nomination. It is all about the delegates and, despite Saint Rick’s wishful thinking, Romney wrapped up more deleg ...
  • If it’s Tuesday there must be a primary. Somep ...
    State/ Territory PollingSchedule Delegate Numbers Alabama Closes 8pm ET 47 American Samoa Begins 11pm ET 9 Hawaii Closes 2am ET 17 Mississippi Closes 8pm ET 37 Note: Some news sites list Alabama, Hawaii and Mississippi with 50, 20, and 40 delegates; other sources use 47, 17, and 37. There are fo ...
  • What’s Wrong With Missouri???
    I live in Kansas, just barely.  Kansas City straddles the border with Missouri, but it was founded and flourished on the Missouri side.  Those of us in Kansas City, KS live in “KCK.”  On the Missouri side, they live in “Kansas City.” But lately, I keep asking myself this same question over and o ...
  • Oh Canada! Open Thread
    First, lest I forget, I have to share a couple prize comments from the quick wits at CNN’s Outfront. That’d be host Erin Burnett and her frequent guest John Avlon, a delightful guest and substitute host on The John Batchelor Show, and an avowed moderate active in “No Labels.&#8 ...
  • Limbaugh, Maher and Boyz on the Left All Have ...
    The frenzied Rush Limbaugh bash-fest that resulted from his disgusting description of Sandra Fluke – calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute” – have led women on both sides of the aisle to demand that men on the left get held equally accountable for their misogynist rhetoric. It’s about time. Whi ...

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

  • Though the mountains may fall: The cost of mou ...
    Though the mountains may fall: The cost of mountain top removal U.S. Catholic magazine (blog) Mountaintop removal produces coal with 10 to 25 percent less expense than underground mining. Coal mined in this way seems cheap, however, only if “you think that people's lives are cheap,” says Eri ...
  • Mountain Top Removal Ban Still Alive in Senate ...
    Mountain Top Removal Ban Still Alive in Senate Nashville Public Radio That's down by about 200 jobs since 2008, even though permits have increased by more than 150 percent. If mountain-top removal creates jobs, then why are the jobs declining as the permits are increasing? Because mountainto ...
  • Activists sit-in at Board of Trustees session ...
    Activists sit-in at Board of Trustees session Temple News ABI REIMOLD TTN Student-activists with Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal staged a sit-in at yesterday's Board of Trustees meeting. Members said they wanted to bring their cause and concerns about student voices at the unive ...
  • 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 ...
  • Senate delays vote on mountaintop removal ban ...
    Senate delays vote on mountaintop removal ban Wausau Daily Herald (WTW) — 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 W ...

Memeorandum

  • President Obama Gives UK Prime Minister Camero ...
    Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS: President Obama Gives UK Prime Minister Cameron a Custom-Made 100% Made in America Grill  —  President and First Lady Obama gifted UK Prime Minister and Mrs. Cameron a one-of-a-kind Braten 1000 Series Grill hand made by Engelbrecht Grills and Cookers of Pa ...
  • Times nixes anti-Islam ad, runs anti-Catholic ...
    Neil Munro / The Daily Caller: Times nixes anti-Islam ad, runs anti-Catholic ad  —  Executives at The New York Times have rejected a full-page anti-Islam advertisement that mimicked a controversial anti-Catholic advertisement they published on March 9.  —  Accord ...
  • NY Suicide Caucus Votes Down Cuomo Pension Ref ...
    Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: NY Suicide Caucus Votes Down Cuomo Pension Reform  —  If you needed more proof that arithmetic-deficient politicians and dysfunctional government are largely to blame for the disastrous state of New York's finances, Albany Democrats have just su ...
  • NBC pulls Ron Paul's last embed (Dylan Byers/P ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: NBC pulls Ron Paul's last embed  —  A couple weeks back I noted that Ron Paul, the lonely delegate hunter, had only one full-time, embedded reporter on his trail: Anthony Terrell of NBC News.  Other reporters have provided some coverage of the candid ...
  • Marines, Afghans Disarmed Before Panetta Appea ...
    Muhammad Lila / ABCNEWS: Marines, Afghans Disarmed Before Panetta Appearance  —  In a sign of possible frayed nerves in the military, U.S. Marines were asked to lay down their weapons today before entering a tent where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was scheduled to speak.  ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • People at congress?
    As Beijing closes its yearly conference season, Chen Yuanyuan reports on new ways civil society is getting ideas across.China’s parliamentary season – the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC ...
  • A dream of blue skies
    Writing from his smog-enveloped home city, Ma Jun dares to imagine a China free of urban air pollution – and invites others to join him.The day I turned my attention to this article, Beijing had once again disappeared under a shroud of smog. Distant buildings loomed in and out of the mist, ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Should Joining a Union Be a Civil Right?
    A new book proposes amending the Civil Rights Act to cover labor organizing, so workers can press for real penalties against bosses who fire them for trying to unionize.
  • How to Honor Rush Limbaugh on International Wo ...
    Co-Authored by Jesse Lava As of this writing, 49 sponsors have pulled out of the Rush Limbaugh show after his repeated demeaning remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. But of course, this isn’t the first time Rush has slandered women. Or the second. Or the fifth. Or the tenth. ...
  • Forced Ultrasound, “Informed Consent,&#8 ...
    Written by Andrea Grimes for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Last month, when news spread that Virginia legislators were considering a forced trans-vaginal ultrasound bill, the uproar was loud, ...
  • "Invisible Children" Co-founder Jason Russell ...
    “We feel like God calls us to be joyful in the work that we’re doing, no matter what we’re doing. [...] A lot of people fear Christians, they fear Liberty University, they fear Invisible Children – because they feel like we have an agenda. They see us and they go, “ ...
  • MSNBC won’t run ad against hate group le ...
    For the longest time, many of us have been raising hell over the fact that MSNBC hosts hate group leader Tony Perkins (the Family Research Council) as authoritative voice without asking him about his organization’s history of lying in order to demonize the lgbtq community. Well now Faithfu ...

Threat Level

  • Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Sur ...
    In 2010 the FBI issued more than 24,000 national security letters to ISPs and other companies, demanding they hand over information on more than 14,000 customers. The letters come with a built-in gag order that prohibits the company from disclosing to customers or anyone else that it has even re ...
  • Judge Orders Failed Copyright Troll to Forfeit ...
    Righthaven, a copyright-troll law firm that failed in its attempt to make money for newspapers by suing people for sharing stories online, was dealt a death blow Tuesday by a federal judge who ordered the Las Vegas company to forfeit "all of" its intellectual property and other "intangible prope ...
  • 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.

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

Marler Blog

  • "Pink Slime" and Food Safety
    BPI (without asking) has put out a quote of mine (from a newspaper months ago on a diferent topic): "BPI has demonstrated a commitment to food safety. I see it as a big step in the right direction." I admit, I said it.  I said it, however, in the context of BPI’s move to test for E. ...
  • Jimmy John's Sued over E. coli Sprouts in Mich ...
    To borrow a phase from a song from the 60's - "when will they ever learn?" Download Complaint.
  • What the Grave of a Listeria Cantaloupe Victim ...
    Someone from our "greatest generation" - a hero in war - killed by a cantaloupe.  What a country he fought for. Rest in peace Mr. Schwarz - Section 51 Row 1 Grave 3.  From one of his sons: Today Paul A Schwarz Jr would have turned 93! The last time I was there was on the 23rd of De ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Super PAC Backlash: Washington Post/ABC News P ...
    Huff Post  By Benjamin Hart Posted: 03/13/2012  3:31 pm Updated: 03/13/2012  7:24 pm A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that super PACs, the political organizations that allow donors to contribute unlimited amounts of money in support of candidates, are extremely unpopular among American ...
  • 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 & ...

Solari

  • National Foreclosure Settlement Documents Fina ...
    Complaint:     National Foreclosure Settlement Complaint (PDF) Complaint (PDF)     Individual Bank Agreements:     Ally/GMAC Settlement (PDF) Bank of America Settlement (PDF) Citi Settlement (PDF) JPMorgan Chase Settlement (PDF)
  • Derek Paravicini
    Lesley Stahl profiles British musical savant Derek Paravicini, whose computer-like memory for music is matched by his creative abilities to play it in any style. YouTube (1 Aug 10)
  • 13 Years After Leaving Treasury, Rubin Says He ...
    By Nina Mehta New York — Robert Rubin, who as U.S. Treasury secretary in the 1990s promoted a stronger dollar, said he has too much of his personal investments in the currency. A “disproportionate amount” of his assets is in cash and he “should be more allocated away fro ...
  • The Comfort Calls Story: Organizing the Legal ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Nearly every week, I have a subscriber or client tell me that they, a family member or someone they may help finance is starting a new business.  Almost all of them are uncertain about how to create a legal structure for their business, one that reflects an effective g ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • News You Can Use to understand the New America
    Summary:  The news media saturate us with news, which can make understand more difficult — not less.  At the FM website we help you sort through that flow to see the patterns important to you as a citizen.  Today we show two examples, illustrations of powerful trends shaping America about ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mass Slaughter in Afghanistan Shocking, but No ...
    The shocking murder last weekend of 16 Afghan civilians -- 9 of them children -- by a US soldier is raising many questions about the war. Coming right after the accidental burning of several Qurans at a US base last month, which sparked mass protests across the country, it seems reasonable to as ...
  • Assessing the Nuclear Security Summit: Progres ...
    The Arms Control Association and the Partnership for Global Security released a report today that tracks the progress countries have made toward completion of the national commitments made at the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit. The report concludes that approximately 80 percent of these commitment ...
  • Is Syria 2011 the Same As Spain 1936?
    Is Syria's civil war a prelude to a larger Mideast conflict that would involve Israel, Iran, the Arab Gulf countries minus Oman (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain) and Israel? Some knowledgeable military observers who have served or are serving in the Middle East say tha ...
  • The Pacific Pivot
    On November 12, 2011, I listened as President Barack Obama told business leaders attending the Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Honolulu that “we’ve turned our attention back to the Asia Pacific region” and announced two vehicles for that return. These were the Trans-Paci ...
  • The Reality of War
    I know it is a cliche, but war is hell. It is messy and brutal. It has a corrosive effect on all involved. And atrocities are inevitable. There has been a lot of handwringing recently about developments in Afghanistan — Koran burnings, unprovoked massacres — and how those development ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Other Glass Ceiling
    “A divide that existed between the political fortunes of black and white Americans has just been erased, and I guess it’s been erased for all time.” That was the assessment of Julian Bond, the legendary civil-rights leader and former NAACP chair, after Barack Obama won the presidency. It was ec ...
  • Texans Fight Back Against Cuts
    It's hard to overstate just how dire the situation is around women's healthcare in Texas. The state has the third highest rate of cervical cancer in the country and one in four women are uninsured. After cutting family planning funding by around two-thirds last legislative session, conservative ...
  • Santorum Is More Electable than He Looks
    Unemployment has declined nationwide, but as Reuters reports, the change has been greatest in swing states: Over the three years Obama has been in office, North Carolina and Florida also hit record high jobless rates, both reaching 11.4 percent two years ago. But in January 2012, North Carolina ...
  • 2012 Is a Real Big Deal
    Ruth Marcus is bored by the 2012 presidential election and wants us to turn our attention to 2016 which, she argues, will be a lot more interesting: Enough about the 2012 election already. Let’s talk 2016, which promises to be far more interesting — and consequential. The precise contours of th ...
  • Wall Street Agonistes
    So the op-ed of the day is "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" in the New York Times, by an executive named Greg Smith, explaining that he's leaving the firm after 12 years because its culture—which previously "revolved around teamwork, integrity, a spirit of humility, and always doing right by ou ...

Buzzflash

  • Bring Out the Dinosaurs: 66 Percent of Likely ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTA columnist for "The Atlantic" chastised a Democratic-affiliated polling firm for asking likely Southern GOP primary voters if they thought Obama was a Muslim.  Isn't this just reinforcing the idea that the president is Islamic, the writer asks? There ...
  • Inside the Mind of a Conservative. Got a Minute?
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Unfortunately, a little well-placed progressive sarcasm can't compete with the ongoing 40-year right-wing campaign to capture the sympathies of an impressionable public. It's a remarkable accomplishment on their part. Even though just about every thinking ...
  • Filtered Transparency: The Freedom of Informat ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite its repeated promises of transparency, the Obama Administration has been slow to befriend the Freedom of Information Act. As this year's celebration of Sunshine Week unfolds (March 11-17), which according to sunshineweek.com "is a national initiat ...
  • 94 House Members Send Letter to Secretary Clin ...
    The following is a news release from the office of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky WASHINGTON, DC (March 12, 2012) - Today Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and 93 fellow House members sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to raise the alarm over human rights violations in Honduras where hum ...
  • 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...
  • Carbon emissions and reproductive health
    Is there a link between carbon emissions in the developing world and reproductive health? High carbon emissions correlate with poorer reproductive health among women in nine countries of 74 assessed, according to US researchers. Conversely, economic development seems to have no significant assoc ...
  • The moon hour by hour for 2012
    NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio created this animation of the Moon, showing how its phases will wax and wane over the course of 2012. Time resolution is down to the hour. The tipping and rocking are a manifestation of the Moon’s elliptical orbit coupled with its tilt. The video i ...
  • 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) ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • California Drinking Water Pollution Traced to ...
    Animal waste and fertilizer from farming operations in California’s Salinas Valley and Tulare Lake Basin are the source of 96 percent of the nitrate contamination in the area’s groundwater, a new study commissioned by the State Water Resources Control Board found.read more
  • Senate Votes to Protect Arctic National Wildli ...
    Summary: In its first vote on the issue since 2008, the U.S. Senate today decisively voted down an amendment to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration (vote count 41-57).read more
  • CCR Supports House and Senate Letters to Secre ...
    Members of the House and Senate sent two letters to Secretary of State Clinton urging the State Department to address the worsening human rights crisis in Honduras and ensure that U.S. aid is not used to support police and military personnel involved in these abuses.  read more
  • Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Defended in Co ...
    Arizona’s Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups filed legal papers on Monday to defend the U.S. Department of the Interior’s 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims across 1 million acres of public lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon.read more
  • Watchdog Groups Ask Presidential Candidates to ...
    Nine government watchdog organizations today asked Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, as well as President Barack Obama, to reveal more details about fundraisers for their presidential campaigns who "bundle" contributions in amoun ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Drone Secrecy Farse
    Scott Horton Following Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech at Northwestern, publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times responded with renewed demands for the release read more
  • Labor Politics and the Captive Electorate of 2012
    Brian Tierney Back in 2010, Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.5 million-member American Federation of Teachers (AFT), lashed out at President Obama who she said was part of the “blame the teacher crowd” of education reform.re ...
  • Gritty Defeats Highlight Romney's Authenticity ...
    John Nichols On the eve of Tuesday’s Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Newt Gingrich referred to Mitt Romney as a “weak front-runner.” Romney should have let it go.read more
  • Goodbye, Texas Women's Health Program
    Andrea Grimes On March 14th, 2012, at least 300,000 low-income and uninsured Texas women will have no or greatly-reduced access to basic preventive and reproductive health care due to the loss of federal funding for the Medicaid Women's ...
  • Reclaiming The Commons: Human Lessons in the E ...
    Phil Rockstroh With increasing velocity, since the advent of the post-Second World War national security state, then gaining speed with the incessant search and destroy mission waged on the U.S. Constitution known as the War on Drugs, and k ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Better Resource Management Needed to Avert Wat ...
    MARSEILLE, FRANCE-- - On the eve of the sixth World Water Forum, the global conservation organization WWF has released new analysis of the reality of water conflicts and necessary actions to avoid a future ...
  • 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.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • "I can't take part in these crimes": Israeli r ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 14 March 2012 Eighteen-year-old Noam Gur, the first Israeli to reject mandatory military service this year, speaks out about refusing to partake in Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity even if it means jail time.
  • Palestinian Christians attacked for challengin ...
    Emily Lawrence Bethlehem 12 March 2012 Christian theologians, academics and church leaders recently converged in Bethlehem to meet with the local Palestinian church and challenge the Christian Zionist influence within the evangelical movement.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • VIDEO: Cliff Stearns Calls For Elimination Of ...
    Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) supports eliminating the Department of Energy (DOE), because the employees get to take off holidays like Presidents’ Day. Leader of an expensive witch hunt of the department’s support for renewable energy, Stearns has previously called for the firing of the ...
  • Obama On Iran: ‘The Window For Solving T ...
    President Obama has said in recent weeks that diplomacy is his preferred option to solve the crisis surrounding Iran’s nuclear program but stressed, “I will take no options off the table,” referring to military action. Today during a press conference with British Prime Minister ...
  • Goldman Sachs’ $1 Million Man: Mitt Romn ...
    Republican presidential primary frontrunner Mitt Romney (R) is taking a break from the campaign trail a day after finishing third in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, stopping in New York City for multiple fundraisers and a visit with campaign surrogate Donald Trump. Romney will attend thre ...
  • George Allen Rejects Kaine Proposal To Curb Se ...
    Former Sen. George Allen (R-VA), who is now running for his old senate seat, rejected a proposal by likely Democratic nominee former Gov. Tim Kaine aimed at eliminating secret money from the 2012 Virginia senate race arising from 501(c)(4) groups like Crossroads GPS. Allen, who had earlier endor ...
  • Uganda Gay Rights Group Sues American Homophobe
    Sexual Minorities Uganda, a gay rights group, filed suit today against anti-gay activist and evangelist Scott Lively today for inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda in violation of international law. Lively, who blamed the Holocaust on gays in his notorious book The Pink Swastika, ma ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Awesome!!! Shitty actually.
    I decided to go to "progressive bloggers.ca" to see whether or not one specific blogger had anything new and insightful to say about the harpercon electoral fraud scandal. Instead I had to endure this: Gordon is speaking great language for Liberals. Gordon is speaking the language of empathy, co ...
  • Dear USA: You Can Still Torture Canadians
    Thanks go to pogge for sharing this article from Prism Magazine: "Secret Cable Reveals How Ottawa Colluded with Washington to Blunt Fallout From a Security Case Gone Horribly Wrong". It's based on information from Wikileaks (who might have blood on their hands says the blood-soaked Obama adminis ...
  • Dear EnMasse: Fuck Off
    Note: My response to the harpercons' voter suppression sleaze is going to occupy my work in the 3-d world. It is too important for the scatter-shot ranting and overall uselessness that is blogging. POST I left a message at my old discussion board EnMasse. Discussion boards had been a big part ...
  • 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.

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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

  • Kony 2012
    A video about the decades of atrocities carried out by African warlord Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army went viral this month, sparking both acclaim and criticism.
  • Fisher: Get out of Afghanistan
    Afghanistan war cheerleader Matthew Fisher calls for Canada to speed up its withdrawal from the country.
  • 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

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

  • Video: Shocking Swiss bus crash kills 28, most ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com A bus carrying Belgian students crashed into a tunnel wall in Switzerland, killing 28 people, 22 of which were children. ­Another 24 students were taken to hospital with injuries, local police say. RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com RT on Facebook http://www.facebook ...
  • Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners
    Orlando Sanford International could prompt stampede of other opt-outs Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, March 14, 2012 One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threa ...
  • Indian guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar wants the Tal ...
    He travels widely and in 2007 took his message of peace and meditation to Iraq, where he urged Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to give peace a chance and was invited to introduce his Art of Living rehabilitation programme in prisons. His centres teach breathing practices and techniques to help people ...
  • Source for False Iraq WMD Intel Targets Iran
    By Gordon DuffTuesday, March 13th, 2012 New Discovery in Iranian Basement May Lead to WW3 Israeli Membership, Wall Street Money, Neocon “Lie Factory” Stresses War…Again By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor His name is David Albright. He is the big news today on Reuters, claiming he fo ...
  • Charles Lindbergh Sr., 86% of Great Depression ...
    Charles Lindbergh’Sr., 86% of Great Depression economists on monetary reform By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The war on WikiLeaks is now trial by media in ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger www.johnpilger.com, 10 March 2012 Global Research March 12, 2012 War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an u ...
  • Alleged Photos of “Clean-up” at Ir ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP March 13, 2012 WASHINGTON, Mar 12, 2012 (IPS) – News stories about satellite photographs suggesting efforts by Iran to “sanitise” a military site that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said may ...
  • 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 ...

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Awad Abdelfattah: Risk of unrest grows as Isra ...
    Israel sees its Arab citizens as a security threat, and their leaders are increasingly under attack. While cooperation and political participation once seemed feasible, systematic discrimination has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • 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, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russia to Get First 57 Italian Armored Vehicle ...
    The Russian Armed Forces will take delivery of the first 57 Italian Lince (Lynx) light multirole armored vehicles (LMV) before the end of the current year, Defense Ministry press secretary Irina Kovalchuk said on Wednesday.
  • Russia to Deploy Three S-400 Battalions in 2012
    Russia will accept into service three battalions of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems in 2012, Air Force chief of staff Major General Viktor Bondarev said on Wednesday.
  • Gov't Yet to Decide on Ulyanovsk NATO Transit ...
    The Russian government has not yet considered whether it will fulfil an agreement to set up a logistics transit hub in the Russian Volga city of Ulyanovsk for NATO operations in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
  • April Talks Last Chance for Iran to Avoid U.S. ...
    The United States has warned that the six-nation negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program in April would be the last chance for Tehran to prevent a U.S. attack, the Kommersant daily newspaper said on Wednesday.
  • Russian Military to Dispose of 4 Mln Guns by 2 ...
    The Russian Defense Ministry is planning to dispose of four million obsolete guns, mainly Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, by 2015, the Russian daily Izvestia reported on Wednesday.

NewsWise

  • New Study Examines Stair-Related Injuries Amon ...
    A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that from 1999 through 2008, more than 93,000 children younger than 5 years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments for stair-related injuries. On a ...
  • Preemies Still Receive Inhaled Nitric Oxide De ...
    Many premature infants throughout the United States continue to receive inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) during their NICU stay, despite the lack of evidence to support its use. Whether or not a preemie will receive iNO treatment, when and for how long, varies greatly throughout the country, as its us ...
  • Community Health Centers Essential Points of C ...
    A new report titled, "Role of Community Health Centers in Providing Services to Low-income Women," released today by the Geiger Gibson /RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Healt ...
  • Gene Chip Invented by CHOP Scientist Pinpoints ...
    The Cardiochip, a gene array designed by a scientist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, helped an international research consortium discover that anti-inflammatory drugs may offer a novel treatment to prevent heart disease.
  • Penn-Developed Online Cancer Resource Launches ...
    OncoLink(r), a free cancer information website developed by experts at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center has launched a redesigned website based on the search habits and feedback from patients, caregivers and health care providers who use the site. Enhanced, interactive fea ...

Natural Health News

  • Will Love Become a Pharma Drug One Day?
    Popular myths often survive long after they have been disproven.  One such myth is the idea that mental illnesses are caused solely by genes and chemicals. In fact, mental illness has as much, if not more, to do with environment as with physical factors. And the single most powerful environ ...
  • Eating too Much of this Fat Linked to Greater ...
    Researchers have shown that consumption of dietary trans fats is associated with irritability and aggression. A study of nearly 1,000 men and women has provided the first evidence linking trans fats with adverse behaviors that range from impatience to overt aggression. Dietary trans fats are th ...
  • Healthy Sleep 101: Why We Need Sleep
    Sleep is not a luxury; it is as essential to your physical and mental health as food and water.  But understanding the need for sleep is a relatively new research field. It is known that sleep is necessary to maintain critical body functions, restore energy, repair muscle tissue, and allow ...
  • 13,000 Times Sweeter Than Sugar and Even More ...
    Neotame is a deadly artificial sweetener.  It’s in your foods, but you'll never see it on a label.  Neotame is made by NutraSweet (a former division of Monsanto and the original manufacturer of aspartame.)  And neotame, which is 13,000 times sweeter than table sugar, is based on t ...
  • How Factory Farmers Use the Media To Distort R ...
    A ridiculous video from the Ohio Pork Producers Council attempts to explain why factory pig farming is a wonderful thing.  Of course, the rosy picture it paints fails to mention that modern pig barns were created to cram as many pigs as possible into unsanitary spaces in order to maximize ...

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: Morality and Legalism i ...
    by Tai-Heng Cheng by Tai-Heng Cheng My thanks to Professor Howse for his comments on When International Law Works. We have debated our respective views on state succession in our published scholarship for half a decade. Those exchanges have been intellectually rewarding to me, and so it is a p ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Professor Howse Respond ...
    by Robert Howse by Robert Howse [Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law] When International Law Works is a wide-ranging work with many important and original claims and arguments. Particularly congenial is the approach that the real world effect ...
  • Breaking: Lubanga Convicted by the ICC
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller From AllAfrica.com: Today, International Criminal Court (ICC) judges in The Hague delivered the Court’s first verdict—a finding of guilt against former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. Prosecutors accused Lubanga of the war crimes of conscripting, ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Are There Universal Values?
    by Tai-Heng Cheng by Tai-Heng Cheng Professor Wilde’s comments are, as always, most thoughtful. If I understand the thrust of his post correctly, Professor Wilde is concerned that if I am to present a theory built on universal values, then I should examine carefully if the values I identify ar ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Predicting, Explaining ...
    by Tai-Heng Cheng by Tai-Heng Cheng I am glad that there is very little distance between me and Professor Ku. We both agree that legal theory does not have to be predictive to be successful. In this regard, Professor Ku finds my theory compelling “as a matter of politics and policy.” Professor ...

Public News Service

  • Older Arizonans Can Participate in 17th Annual ...
    Older Arizonans Can Participate in 17th Annual AARP Spelling Bee PHOENIX - Those age 50 or older who fancy themselves to be a good speller might want to give AARP's 17th annual National Spelling Bee a try. Brian Greene went to school in the Midwest but now lives and works in Cheyenne, Wyo., and ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The eternal dream of the socialist mind
    It’s a fun poster. Yet socialists have been predicting the imminent end of capitalism for, oh, about 150 years now and it has yet to happen. Like the T-1000 in Terminator II which reassembled itself after being seemingly destroyed, capitalism can also instantly morph into new forms. This i ...
  • For Prince Harry
    Peter and the Test Tube Babies – Banned from the Pubs
  • About that Southern poll where people think Ob ...
    Please keep in mind there is a fine and long-standing tradition in the South (and Texas) of saying outrageous things in hopes of watching the heads of Yankee liberals explode.As for the primary results tonight, Plastic Mann Mitt may be the most inept “front runner” ever.
  • Jesus wept
    Catholic Church files case against Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
  • If the “Broken Windows” Theory were applied to ...
    Then we might have Rule of Law again. And that would just be so wrong. 

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

  • Aussie Scientist warns ‘All the warming ...
      World has entered a sharp cooling period due to lower solar activity…Sea level now falling’ Visit Site Archibald’s PDF report: (Global cooling section begins on page 36): ‘Carbon dioxide’s heating effect is real but minuscule…Carbon dioxide is tuckered ...
  • 9/11/01: FDNY Fire Boat Marine 6 Reports Secon ...
    New 911 development! More Eyewitness reports that cannot be easily explained by “official story” pushers… as far as we know this is not a hoax! We are working to confirm the origins of these tapes now… stay TUNED (and stay BOLD)
  • U.S Soldiers Against “The Banksters War& ...
    Soldiers Exposing The Truth about wants really going on.. in the 2 illegal Wars – Afghanistan for the Opium & Iraq for the Oil   U.S Soldiers Against “The Banksters War” pt.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1YitwID4w U.S Soldiers Against “The Banksters War&#8221 ...
  • Alabama Election Fraud -Video Proof?
      Ron Paul 2012 Daily Paul Saw this on Ben Swann’s facebook page!! I understand this is not 100% hard proof, but it is the video evidence we need more of, both at the primaries and the caucases. It just makes you wonder after everthing that’s happened up to this point. Thank you ...
  • RON PAUL HAS GOT THE BIGGEST CAUCUS!
    March 13, 2012 Russia Today News http://MOXNews.com  

The Air Vent

  • High gas prices have always been part of the plan
    For those with short memories. Obama – “energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.” While cap and trade auto-corruption scheme didn’t make the cut, gutting production doesn’t do terribly badly either. I recently heard the stat that the US used to produce 10 million ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook adds recommendations box to Timeline ...
    Pages that switch to the new Timeline format will now display user recommendations in a box beneath friend activity and include a prompt for people to write their own recommendations. This was a feature on the old version of pages, … Continue reading →
  • 8M pages switch to Timeline; Facebook offers e ...
    More than 8 million pages have adopted the new Timeline format ahead of the March 30 deadline when all pages will be converted automatically, Facebook says. There were more than 37 million pages with 10 or more Likes as of … Continue reading →
  • Draw Something, birthdays, Formspring, Microso ...
    The game Draw Something topped our list of growing Facebook applications by daily active users this week. There were also a pair of apps by Microsoft, some birthday apps, Timeline apps and more. The titles below grew between 230,000 and … Continue reading →
  • Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: S ...
    If 2011 is remembered as the year that games on mobile platforms grew quickly and games on social networks continued to mature, 2012 is quickly becoming the year that mobile games ecosystems are beginning to mature as well. Given massive changes … Continue reading →
  • Invisible Children, Louis Vuitton, Nike, more ...
    International voices made a big appearance on our list of the fastest growing Facebook pages this week. The “Invisible Children” documentary and organization that gained attention through social and traditional media for a viral video saw the most new fans … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Zionist "Price Tag" mirrors Hitler's Youth
    Jamal Kanj sees similarities between Israel's Price Tag organization and Hitler's Youth, and calls on the world to take note before it is too late. "Price Tag membership is currently around 3,000, proportionally larger than Hitler"s Youth, who numbered less than 5,000 in 1925. Ignored by world p ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Our first Boiling Frogs Post DVD is now available!
    Truths about Boiling Frogs Post The first truth is what we do…We try to bring to our readers and subscribers the truth with our News and Editorial Round Ups, Investigative Video Reports, Podcast Interviews, Weekly Podcast Series, Editorials & Analyses by Independent and Nonpartisan Exp ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 13 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.” – Gore Vidal International Newsworthy Ir ...
  • The EyeOpener- Stratfor and the Privatization ...
    Late last year, hackers with the anonymous hacking group LulzSec raided the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or Stratfor, a private intelligence company in Austin, Texas, coming away with some 5 million emails. Last month, Wikileaks began publishing the emails as “The Global Intelligence ...
  • Double Standards on ‘Terrorism’: Don’t Terrori ...
    Mental State Appears to be Only Relevant to Great White Men of the West I was sipping my first morning coffee while staring at the headlines on the latest massacre committed by our military in Afghanistan. The phrase of the day to describe this latest massacre which resulted in more than a dozen ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 12 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. ...

Afro Spear

  • “Will Wade make it this time?” by ...
    Some people are lucky, others are not. Senegalese strong man, Abdulaye Wade is among the luckiest old men even though he behaves like an adolescent. Had it been not for divided and ever-greedy opposition, Wade would have been history now. Voters gave him a very heavy blow in the first round. He ...
  • 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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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

  • Afghanistan's My Lai
    The stench of Vietnam, the greatest-ever defeat of American imperialism, now hangs over the whole US-NATO intervention in Afghanistan. The puppet regime in Kabul, like its predecessor in South Vietnam, is the creation of a vast influx of American troops and American dollars. Anyone familiar with ...
  • My Laughter Story
    Laughter Yoga is a new health craze sweeping the world, where anyone can laugh for no reason. We don't need to rely on jokes, comedies and sense of humor. We laugh in a group and initiate laughter as group exercise. Very quickly fake laughter turns into real one. It has many health benefits and ...
  • The Difference Between Private and Public Morality
    There is moral rot in America but it's not found in the private behavior of ordinary people. It's located in the public behavior of people who control our economy and are turning our democracy into a financial slush pump. It's found in Wall Street fraud, exorbitant pay of top executives, financi ...
  • Israel will not attack
    The United States will not attack. Not this year, nor in years to come. For a reason far more important than electoral considerations or military limitations. The United States will not attack, because an attack would spell a national disaster for itself and a sweeping disaster for the whole world.
  • The President I Want in Office (and that I thi ...
    A few minutes of your time that may well change your future for the better--and that of your lineage too. This is a short article and, imho, a MOST VALUABLE video. Brought to you by David Swanson.

Switchboard

  • We're Going to Court to Cut Dead Zone Pollution
    Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. One of the things I like best about working at NRDC is that I can call things as I see them, even when that means confronting people and institutions that we often trust and support.  For instance, ...
  • A high-tech corporate giant strengthens a walk ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC          Despite being all-in with blogging and social media, I’ll confess to some ambivalence toward electronic media that displace bricks-and-mort ...
  • Chicago and the Gulf Dead Zone: NRDC Lawsuit ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago The popular legend  is that Chicago’s jazz tradition arose from a migration of musicians from New Orleans up the Mississippi River in the 19th century.  It seems Chicago is now returning scat t ...
  • Missing a Chance to Build our Clean Energy Eco ...
    Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation An important vote took place today on a critical bill to extend renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives in the Senate today.  Many of these policies either have ...
  • Report; Keystone XL Pipeline Economic Risks Ig ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC For all the pompous prognostications by Keystone XL tar sands pipeline boosters in Congress about jobs and economic impacts, you don’t have to look much further than the devastated commun ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Accountability!
    For reasons that I’m sure were not at all self-interested, Graham Spanier fought hard against the application of the state’s Right to Know Law to his particular public institution: The law presumes that virtually all records of an agency are public. State and local government agencie ...
  • Pearls for swine
    The New York Times has published an interesting op-ed by Greg Smith, a soon to be former director of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. The gist of the piece is that the bank has fallen away from its historical roots to become dominated by what Smith believes is a corrupt culture, which at every ...
  • The Federalism Amendments
    A commenter raises the perennial question of whether it is possible to interpret the commerce clause in a way that would allow us to argue that, say, the enforcement of drug laws against individuals growing under a state license would be unconstitutional without undermining other New Deal progra ...
  • But with the Gingrich-Perry and the Santoro-br ...
    I am shocked, shocked by the lack of a Mississippi-Alabama-Hawaii results thread.  Do the readers of LGM not deserve the sort of close analysis of Mississippi regional politics that only the commenters of LGM can provide? I mean, what else is there to do? Watch the NIT? Drink? Sob quietly in a d ...
  • The words-next-to-each-other argument hops to ...
    Ben Shapiro’s fully embracing the words-close-to-each-other mode of argument, but he’s doing so without any indication that it’s not actually a serious mode of argumentation. Let me break it down for Ben: when Scott and I make that “argument,” we’re actually m ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Litigation Boutiques Hot List
    Our first Litigation Boutiques Hot List features 10 small firms that take second place to no one in courtroom skill. These are the firms important clients turn to for state-of-the-art advocacy in bet-the-company cases.
  • Environmental center director named dean at Ve ...
    Professor Marc Mihaly, the director of Vermont Law School's highly regarded Environmental Law Center, will become the school's president and dean in August.
  • Life insurance broker sues to stop Mass. AG's ...
    A life insurance brokerage company has asked a Massachusetts state court to quash an investigative demand by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's office.
  • Despite quibbles, plaintiffs' firms like estim ...
    Plaintiffs' attorneys in the Motorola Bluetooth headset litigation, whose fees a federal appeals court last year deemed potentially excessive, have agreed to a revised calculation submitted by defense attorneys that actually boosts the original award.
  • Obama makes it clear: China will pay for trade ...
    Overturning a recent appellate court decision, President Obama on March 13 signed legislation that clarifies that countervailing duties can be applied to goods from non-market economies like China and Vietnam.

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

  • Deadly Outbreak of Measles Engulfs Yemen
    According to reports, the disease is spreading quickly to highly populated areas as well as areas suffering from high levels of acute malnutrition.
  • Rogan Will Sink Fury, Says Coach Checa
    Checa was the head coach for legendary Irish promoter Barney Eastwood when he was churning out numerous champions from his Belfast gym in the 1980s and 1990s, including former World featherweight champion Paul Hodkinson, former World welterweight ch
  • EPA Adds Nine Hazardous Waste Sites
    Since 1983, 1,661 sites have been listed on the NPL. Of these sites, 359 sites have been cleaned up resulting in 1,302 sites currently on the NPL (including the nine sites added today). There are 62 proposed sites (including the 10 announced today)
  • Drug Dependence Claims Some 250,000 Lives Annually
    In his remarks at the opening in Vienna of the 55th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), Mr. Fedotov said prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, reintegration and health have to be recognized as key elements in their strategy.
  • Quartet Calls on Israel and Palestine to Resum ...
    The group expressed its serious concern for the recent escalation and called for calm.

environment 360

  • China’s Wind Energy Capacity Reached Record Le ...
    China installed a record 18,000 megawatts of new wind energy in 2011, boosting its total capacity to nearly 63,000 megawatts and widening its lead in the global wind energy sector, according to the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). The U.S., which was passed by China for total wind capacity, install ...
  • Rising Seas, Coastal Flooding Threaten 3.7 Mil ...
    Roughly 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide and will face more frequent coastal floodingin the coming decades as a result of steadily rising seas, according to new research. Using improved estimates of land elevation near coastlines and tidal levels Click to enlarge Cl ...
  • India’s Tata Group to Favor Green Energy Over ...
    The power unit of the India-based Tata Group conglomerate has said it will favor solar and wind projects over coal-fired plants in future global energy investments, citing the increasing difficulty of developing coal projects. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Tata Power Executive Director S. ...
  • U.S. Biotechnology Firm Plans First Commercial ...
    A U.S. biotechnology company is planning to build the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels plant in Mississippi, where it will be able to use wood chips and other plant matter as an alternative to corn in the production of ethanol. Virdia, a California-based company formerly know ...
  • Campbell’s To Stop Using BPA in Linings of Sou ...
    Bowing to pressure from consumer and health advocacy groups, Campbell’s Soup Co. says it will stop using the synthetic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the lining of its cans. The compound, which is found in thousands of everyday products, has been shown to interfere with hormone product ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The myth of the eight-hour sleep
    We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
  • Holder gives ’legal defense’ for al-Awlaki killing
    Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among the gravest that government leaders can face," but justified lethal action as legal and sometimes necessary in the war on terror.
  • Anwar al-Awlaki Was A FBI Asset, Triple Agent ...
    The killing of an American citizen, al-Awlaki, in a joint CIA-U.S. military drone strike on a convoy in Yemen sparked a public debate over whether the President should have the authority to kill an American without a trial or conviction and in breach of an executive order banning assassinations. ...
  • Fraud claims cloud Putin election triumph
    "Vladimir Putin on Monday prepared to reoccupy the Kremlin after a crushing presidential election victory that Russian and foreign observers said had been skewed in his favour from the start." Video from: YouTube.com Vladimir Putin’s critics cry foul over alleged voter fraud in Russian election ...
  • 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 ...

Russia Today

  • Strong quake rocks Tokyo region hours after 6. ...
    A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit the Tokyo region. There are no reports of damages yet following the recent quake. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Crowd control: CS gas & water cannons on Londo ...
    London Police may soon get access to water cannons, CS gas and even more Tasers as a means to tackle pesky troublemakers. The demand for a stronger force was unveiled in a Scotland Yard report analyzing the police... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Sanctions and force against Iran illogical an ...
    The West should accept Iran as a legitimate ‘regional superpower’ and drop ‘yesterdays’ rehashed policies of sanctions and military force, a British MP told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Tsunami alert as 6.8 earthquake hits Japan
    A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck off the northeastern coast of Japan almost exactly one year after a devastating tsunami killed thousands. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Pentagon probe: Troops burning Korans not an i ...
    A joint NATO-Afghan probe into the burning of Korans at an American base found no malicious intent behind the act. The mistreatment of the Muslim holy books sparked riots across Afghanistan, which left hundreds wounded... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Birds of a feather laugh at doggy sex jokes to ...
    LOVE IT. There are the names in one webshot, laughing as one of them offers to contract for an illegal act. Freedom of Speech doesn’t protect making threats and menacing, you dopes. Further along Clifton suggests that the dog sex jokes are surrogates for the politically incorrect laughs th ...
  • Surveillance cameras for downtown Colorado Spr ...
    The problem with our lack of security and public protection is certainly not that we don’t have enough public surveillance of the Poor already, because we do. The problem is that we don’t have enough public surveillance of the well to do class, and 24 hr/ day video cameras downtown d ...
  • Afghan Massacre Coverup now at Day 3
    When will the Obama Administration and the Pentagon get around to releasing the names of ALL those involved in the latest massacre by US soldiers of Afghan civilians? It’s Day 3 afterwards and time is ticking away… Afghans express skepticism over shooting account. Also see- The price ...
  • Government lies about US military operations i ...
    Today’s Lies- US drone strikes have killed 15 suspected ‘US drone strikes have killed 15 suspected 'MILITANTS' in the volatile tribal areas of north-west Pakistan, say Pakistani officials. And Next- the Truth… The Truth- A new report (Aug, 2011) from a team of British ...
  • We support the troops when we bear responsibil ...
    TROOPS KILL KIDS- You’d think the statement was so obvious it didn’t need saying, but it does, everyone is in such denial about it. Other people’s kids die everyday by airstrike or at the hands of our marauding soldiers, yet Americans still pretend no one’s done it.

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

  • Study: Red Meat not Only Leads to Disease, It ...
    For decades we have been taught that excess consumption of red meat leads to heart disease and other chronic health issues. That’s what gave rise to the poultry industry in this country. And now, new evidence shows that mortality rates are significantly higher in people who consume high am ...
  • Why is Coke Changing its Product Formulation?
    Last year The State of California updated its list of known carcinogens to include 4-methylimidazole (4-MI). Studies have shown it to cause leukemia as well as cancerous tumors in the respiratory system. Why are we mentioning 4-MI? Well, its found in every can of Coke (an Pepsi). 4-MI is part of ...
  • 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 ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle little paint tester ...
    We covered old leftover paint on the site many, many moons ago (roughly 66-67 moons ago apparently) but these last few weeks, we’ve been rather overrun with little tester pots of paint here. I hate tester pots from an environmental point of view – usually plastic pots, sometimes with ...
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Action Alert: Vermont To Lose Philosophical Va ...
    Managing editor's note: Good morning. If you live in Vermont, your healthcare rights are under attack. Even if you currently are in favor of the full vaccination schedule for children and the growing booster shot recommendations for adults and teens,...
  • Vermont Seeks to Terminate Parental Vaccinatio ...
    By Robert Schecter According to Vermont's Bennington Banner [1] The Vermont Senate on Friday passed and sent to the House a bill that would end the philosophical exemption from the requirement that parents get their children a series of vaccinations...
  • CA Senator Wolk Receives $58K from Vaccine Man ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Seems there's a new trend to affect your rights as a citizen to partake or refrain from healthcare procedures. Just as there is a push to pass laws requiring a woman receive an ultrasound prior to an...
  • What Letter?
    By Dan Olmsted It is entertaining to watch Brian Deer try to wriggle out of trouble and end up slithering into even more of it. In what strikes me as a highly unusual move, Deer has not contented himself with...
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Screams
    By LJ Goes It's a scream like no other. You know something is wrong. You search for the cause. No teeth coming in, no picky fabric irritating her skin, nothing to be afraid of. In fact you say that over...

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

  • Secret SAS squadron sent to spy in Africa
    The Age – A secret squadron of Australian SAS soldiers has been operating at large in Africa, performing work normally done by spies, in an unannounced and possibly dangerous expansion of Australia’s foreign military engagement. The deployment of the SAS’s 4 Squadron – th ...
  • Drug-free organ transplants without tissue mat ...
    Nature – Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a common and often deadly complication of bone-marrow transplantation that occurs when immune cells from an unrelated donor attack the transplant recipient’s tissue. Now, researchers have for the first time managed to completely replace people’s ...
  • Child-Proofing Drugs
    The Scientist – In 2005, a mother who had just given birth received codeine to dull the pain associated with childbirth. In her body, the codeine was converted into morphine by a drug-metabolizing enzyme called CYP2D6. Although people carry many variations in the gene for this enzyme, this ...
  • Nicolas Sarkozy ‘received £42 million fr ...
    Telegraph – At the time Mr Sarkozy was France’s interior minister with well-documented ambitions to succeed Jacques Chirac. Political financing laws ban candidates from receiving cash payments above €7,500 (£6,300) but Mediapart claims that €50?million mentioned in the memo were laundered ...
  • China Boosts Naval Presence Near Korean Peninsula
    Chosun – Alarm bells are ringing in some quarters here as China becomes more assertive in waters near the Korean Peninsula. Beijing reportedly wants to include a submerged rock effectively controlled by Korea in regular maritime patrols near the peninsula and deploy its first aircraft carr ...

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

  • How the News Media Doesn't Give Peace a Chance
    Once again, we are being presented with war as a fait accompli. But does such reporting function as a self-fulfilling prophecy? Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • WATCH: YouTube video purports to show Israeli ...
    In the video shot by freelance photographer, a tear gas grenade is tossed out of a Border Police jeep at a group of Palestinians who were apparently not involved in demonstrations; Border Police claims clip was staged. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |&n ...
  • Critiques
    We have never claimed a desire to "save Africa," but, instead, an intent to inspire Western youth to "do more than just watch." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 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!  |& ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Deadly Outbreak of Measles Engulfs Yemen
    According to reports, the disease is spreading quickly to highly populated areas as well as areas suffering from high levels of acute malnutrition.
  • Rogan Will Sink Fury, Says Coach Checa
    Checa was the head coach for legendary Irish promoter Barney Eastwood when he was churning out numerous champions from his Belfast gym in the 1980s and 1990s, including former World featherweight champion Paul Hodkinson, former World welterweight ch
  • EPA Adds Nine Hazardous Waste Sites
    Since 1983, 1,661 sites have been listed on the NPL. Of these sites, 359 sites have been cleaned up resulting in 1,302 sites currently on the NPL (including the nine sites added today). There are 62 proposed sites (including the 10 announced today)
  • Drug Dependence Claims Some 250,000 Lives Annually
    In his remarks at the opening in Vienna of the 55th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), Mr. Fedotov said prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, reintegration and health have to be recognized as key elements in their strategy.
  • Quartet Calls on Israel and Palestine to Resum ...
    The group expressed its serious concern for the recent escalation and called for calm.

Worldnews

  • Arsenal Close In On £40.9m Duo as Lukas P ...
    Emirates Stadium side set to spend. JLS Tickets LUKAS PODOLSKI had a medical yesterday, paving the way for Arsenal to snap up the £10.9m striker. Gunners officials travelled to Germany following talks with Podolski’s Cologne club. But Arsenal won’t stop there and are ready to spl ...
  • Clooney makes quiet visit to volatile Sud ...
    Nairobi: Actor and human rights activist George Clooney made a quiet visit to a volatile border region between Sudan and South Sudan last week ahead of testimony he's giving before a US Senate committee on Wednesday. Clooney made the dangerous crossing from South Sudan into Sudan's Nuba Moun ...
  • Jaypee Group to foray into dairy biz
    After making a mark in almost all areas it has touched so far, diversified conglomerate Jaypee Group has now set its eyes on the dairy sector, where the growing demand-supply gap is only set to widen further. The group, founded by Mr Jaiprakash Gaur, initially plans to set up a one million l ...
  • John Terry admits Chelsea cannot afford t ...
    The next 10 weeks will define Chelsea's future, not just their campaign, captain John Terry said last night. With Chelsea facing a huge challenge this evening to stay in this season's Champions League, Terry admitted that failure to qualify for the competition again would severely damage the ...
  • A bittersweet vegetable for diabetics
    Though harsh in taste, bitter gourd has an important place in traditional cuisine and medicine. Known as bitter melon in many countries, it belongs to the family of cucurbitaceae, like squash and cucumber. Bitter gourds can be divided into three basic groups — the small triangular one, ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Stroke symptoms? Ambulance = Brain
    When it comes to stroke, neurologists are fond of reminding us that "time equals brain." What they mean is that, if you are experiencing any of the warning signs of stroke, the faster you get to the hospital, the more often physicians can take measures that limit the brain damage and  long- ...
  • ENALAPRIL MALEATE AND HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDEtable ...
    Updated Date: Mar 12, 2012 EST
  • Beliefs About Genes, God, Can Change Health Co ...
    Beliefs about nature and nurture can affect how patients and their families respond to news about their diagnosis, according to Penn State health communication researchers. Understanding how people might respond to a health problem, especially when the recommendations for adapting to the conditi ...
  • Worries About Quality Of Colon Cancer Screenin ...
    Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that 92 percent of more than 1,000 gastroenterologists responding to a survey believed that pressures to increase the volume of colonoscopies adversely impacted how they performed their procedures, which could potentially affect the qualit ...
  • Letters: Battling Nature (1 Letter)
    Letter to the editor.

Common Dreams

  • Pakistan to US: Drone Flights Must End
    Pakistan on Tuesday told the United States it will no longer permit US drones to use Pakistan's airspace to launch attacks or collect intelligence, a media report said. Pakistan Ambassador to Washington Sherry Rehman met Vice President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Antony Blink ...
  • "You're Gonna Feel It:" U.S. Military Unveils ...
    The U.S. military has unveiled its newest approach to crowd control, the Active Denial System, a heat ray that sends out a high-frequency electromagnetic ray. People hit with the ray feel an intense, unbearable heat.  The military touts the ray's "far-ranging" capabilities and ...
  • Republican Congressman Wants to 'Sell Off Some ...
    A video showing Rep. Cliff Stearns (R, Florida) announcing his desire to "sell off some of our national parks" has surfaced on the Internet. In a speech given at a town hall meeting in Belleview Florida, Stearns explained his position. ...
  • Wisconsin Voter ID Law Struck Down by Court
    A Wisconsin law that requires voters present a photo ID when voting, was struck down by a Wisconsin Court today.  Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess ruled that the law, signed by Walker in May of 2011, violated the Constitution. ...
  • Earthquake, Tsunami Hit Japan
    A 6.9-magnitude earthquake and small tsunami struck Japan today, nearly one year after the deadly tsunami hit the region. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the 6.9 quake was off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.6 kilometers. Agence France-Presse reports: ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Biofuels and climate: a simple but troubling view
    If biofuels benefit the climate, it's not when they're burned; those CO2 emissions are the same as from the fossil fuels they replace. Any potential benefit is due to the CO2 uptake when plants are grown.
  • Clean Energy Investments Hit Record Highs in 2011
  • How Fukushima Led to a Radiation Panic
    One year after Fukushima, independent scientists working for the UN say bluntly that irrational fears of radiation poisoning will cause far more harm than the radiation itself. Not a single individual from the Japanese public received a dangerous dose, according to the early and informal analyse ...
  • A Cleantech Trade War with China?
    While we wait to see whether the next big move in oil prices--and hence gasoline prices--is up or down from today's level of around $125 per barrel, two stories in today's Wall St. Journal highlight some of the challenges facing manufacturers of equipment used to produce renewable energy.
  • Looking back at Fukushima one year later
    It's been a year now since the Great Tōhoku Earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan, leaving over twenty thousand dead and tens of thousands more homeless and displaced. On top of this was the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility brought about by the tsunami itself.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties
    by Stephen Lendman International law permits justifiable self-defense. Targeted killings are prohibited, especially premeditated ones like America and Israel repeatedly commit for reasons other than claimed. These incidents constitute cold-blooded murder. US drone killings and rampaging death ...
  • Washington Plans War on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman On March 11, Assad repeated what he's said numerous times. He's "ready to support any honest effort to solve the situation." He told former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (Ban Ki-moon's envoy appointed with Washington's approval) that doing so depends on accurately assessin ...
  • New York Times Wages War on Palestine
    by Stephen Lendman Like all US major media scoundrels, longstanding New York Times policy features one-sided pro-Israeli reports, commentaries, and opinions. Its coverage of Israel's latest Gaza aggression is one of many examples. More on that below. On June 1, 2010, in response to Israeli c ...
  • Is Kony 2012 the right thing to do?
    Mary Shaw By now, most people who pay attention to the news are likely aware of the Kony 2012 film and campaign. Launched by the non-profit organization Invisible Children (IC), the campaign shines a light on Joseph Kony, a leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group that has ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Bus crash in Swiss tunnel kills 28 people GENEVA (AP) — A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults, police said Wednesday. Another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal ...
  • As the Cookie Crumbles: Something Fishy In Lak ...
    By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies – Lately, the blogosphere, as well as the CorpoRat/SCUM “press,” has been abuzz with comment and opinion about a video about ‘exploited, child soldiers’ in Uganda and efforts by a whitre/western missionary group with shadowy connections ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird by Mikel K (Has anyb ...
    You are beautifulYou are beautiful as you are, wherever you are, however you are; if the sun is shining, if the moon is out, upon waking, and before you fall asleep. You are beautiful when you are pouting. You are beautiful when you smile. You are beautiful when you are here. You are beautiful w ...
  • Plant Connection Installs Living Wall That Hel ...
    Riverhead, NY., (March 11, 2012) - Plant Connection had the wonderful privilege and honor to create a living wall at the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Jerome L. Greene Family Center in Manhattan. Hope Lodge offers cancer patients lodging at no cost, allowing them to focus on healing and re ...
  • Indian mothers hold mass wedding in ‘village o ...
    By Philip Caulfield / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS –  Women in west India hamlet have been sold in sex trade for generations A human rights group held a mass wedding ceremony in a village in western India where all the women are sex workers in a ploy to rescue the young brides from the skin trade, ...

FourWinds10

  • Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico
    BP Spill Released Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material Into the Gulf Cross posted here. It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from L ...
  • Revealed: the secret battle for the riches of ...
    Leaked cables show how nations are carving up pristine wilderness By Shaun Walker in Moscow   The melting of the polar ice has been disastrous for wildlife but opens up new opportunities to exploit natural resources .firstcolumn { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; border-bottom: 5px so ...
  • THE GARBAGE PATCH
  • STUDYING HOW PLASTIC POLLUTION ENTERS OCEAN FO ...
  • Your help needed to pass FRAC Act and hold dri ...
    (NaturalNews) In response to massive public outcry, the US Senate has finally reintroduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, or S. 587, which will once again hold natural gas drilling companies responsible for the environmental pollution they cause when fractur ...

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

  • Global Warming Primer & Natural Gas Vehicles — ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed are: The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-deri ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Top Ways to Talk Natural Medicine with Your Doc
    Nearly 40 percent of people living in the United States turn to herbs and other natural remedies to deal with everything from colds to cancer. Not all share those alternative treatment details with conventional doctors, though, and that can actually put the brakes on their recovery. For example ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Happy Birthday, Einstein. But What Have You Do ...
    Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist of all time, was born on this day in 1879 in the village of Ulm, located in the southwestern corner of the German Empire.  Einstein spent 20 years teaching at Princeton University, where his birthday will be celebrated today, along with math tea ...
  • How a Nuclear Bomb Would Stop an Asteroid
    What's the Latest Development? The Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the nuclear weapon was first engineered, is running complex computer software to hedge against a worst case scenario for our planet: The discovery of an asteroid with an Earth-bound trajectory just months away from ...
  • Paradise Lost: What if Manhattan is the Next M ...
    The latest climate change catastrophe scenario is now out: rising sea levels over the next century could flood 3.7 million people in over 500 U.S. cities, including New York, New Orleans and Miami. This scenario from Climate Central follows other reports, such as one this week by the Asian ... ...
  • John Stuart Mill And The Dangers Of Silencing
    John Stuart Mill's argument against silencing dissent highlights important reasons we should never silence any view or idea, because of mere outrage or offence. Yesterday, I discussed the importance of John Stuart Mill and his idea of thinking for oneself. The primary idea lies in Mill’s ...
  • Culture of Greed and Client Manipulation Drive ...
    In an extraordinary move, a prominent executive at Goldman Sachs has resigned on grounds of ethical discomfort with a company culture of maximizing profits at clients' expense. Greg Smith – a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives busine ...

Information Liberation

  • UK Decides Hollywood, US Gov't's Interests Mor ...
    In January, a judge said that the UK could extradite student Richard O'Dwyer to the US to face criminal copyright infringement charges for the "crime" of linking to streaming videos hosted elsewhere -- something that had already been found legal in ...
  • The First Amendment Needs a Rape Kit
    The newest attack of vague language is aimed at your 1st Amendment rights of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly and Freedom to Petition. It is found in the pending legislation of H.R. 347.* As currently worded, it might as well have been called ...
  • Junk Science: "Red meat is blamed for one in 1 ...
    Small quantities of processed meat such as bacon, sausages or salami can increase the likelihood of dying early by a fifth, researchers from Harvard School of Medicine found. Eating steak increases the risk of early death by 12%. [...]Scientists a...
  • Girl, 12, 'interrogated' by school staff until ...
    A 12-year-old girl is suing her school district after staff at Minnesota middle school searched her Facebook and e-mail accounts. The sixth-grade Minnewaska Area Middle School student, named in court documents as R.S., claims she twice suffered h...
  • Fox News Tests New $10mil Military Crowd Tortu ...
    Don't worry, the government says it's totally safe. They're here to help....

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

  • More red meat risk analysis
    NHS Choices finally published its critique of the Harvard red meat research that had the tabloids screaming that meat kills earlier this week. I provided some commentary on Sciencebase soon after. Anyway, this is what NHS Choices concludes: “This study had several strengths including its s ...
  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...
  • Carbon emissions and reproductive health
    Is there a link between carbon emissions in the developing world and reproductive health? High carbon emissions correlate with poorer reproductive health among women in nine countries of 74 assessed, according to US researchers. Conversely, economic development seems to have no significant assoc ...
  • The moon hour by hour for 2012
    NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio created this animation of the Moon, showing how its phases will wax and wane over the course of 2012. Time resolution is down to the hour. The tipping and rocking are a manifestation of the Moon’s elliptical orbit coupled with its tilt. The video i ...

RFF Library

  • The Impact of Tar Sands Pipeline Spills on Emp ...
    Cornell University, Global Land Institute / by Lara Skinner and Sean Sweeney http://bit.ly/wLeLd5 State Dept. testimony (video): http://cs.pn/ADJ55C [From an Energy Wire article by Pamela King, sub req'd]   The controversial Keystone XL pipeline would destroy agriculture and tourism jobs in the ...
  • Bay Area Smart Energy 2020
    Powers Engineering for Pacific Environment / by Bill Powers http://pacificenvironment.org/BASE2020 [Press Release]  Pacific Environment released a report today, “Bay Area Smart Energy 2020” (BASE 2020), which details how the San Francisco Bay Area can move to a locally-based, clean energy econom ...
  • Growing Trends in Corporate Sustainability
    Ernst & Young | GreenBiz Group http://bit.ly/yvzQDD [From an article in Climate Wire by Daniel Cusick , sub. req'd]  More than three-fourths of executives and thought leaders surveyed for a new report on environmental sustainability in business say they expect natural resource shortages ...
  • Oil Sands Mining and Reclamation Cause Massive ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 12, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1117693108 ) / by Rebecca C. Rooney, Suzanne E. Bayley, and David W. Schindler [Open access article] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/06/1117693108 [Abstract] We quantified the wholesale transformation of ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

  • 9-Year-Old Boy's Shrinking Brain Disorder Baff ...
    Jason Egan does not walk, talk or eat like most nine-year-olds. He gets around in a wheelchair and depends on a feeding tube threaded into his stomach. He makes signs with his hands to communicate and has mustered the word "mom" on occasion. Although he cannot always articulate his fee ...
  • 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]

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

  • Airport Commissionaires Hope to Avoid, But are ...
    Members of PSAC local 851000, employed by Commissionaires Nova Scotia (CNS) at the Halifax International Airport, today undertook an afternoon information picket. The 175 member local has voted 90% to strike,& ...
  • Bassam Haddad: The Syrian Uprisings and the Qu ...
    In this presentation, Bassam Haddad, professor and editor with the Jadaliyya Ezine, discusses the structural causes for the emergence of the Syrian uprising and the factors that explain the stalemate thus far. He specifically speaks about critical questions of regional politics, particularly tho ...
  • Montréal: manifestation de solidarité avec les ...
      À Montréal, près de 200 personnes ont participé aujourd'hui, 12 mars 2012, à une marche de solidarité avec les Innus de la Côte-Nord. Elles se sont rendues devant l'édifice d'Hydro-Québec pour dire leur opposition au Plan Nord du gouvernement Charest qui sera une catastrophe ...
  • To Protect Our Ancestors
    Musqueam First Nation members, supporters halt condo construction threatening c̓əsnaʔəm village and midden site in Marpole At sunrise this morning, dozens of Musqueam First Nation Band members and supporters gathered to halt condominium con ...
  • Témoignage de Maude Chalvin du Projet Accompag ...
    Complément audio du compte-rendu "Journée de solidarité avec les femmes, organiser un Plan des Femmes face à l’offensive des minières canadiennes"   Implication de l'Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI ...

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

  • The Republican War on Teleprompters Backfires
    Jon Chait comments on recent polling showing that residents of Alabama and Mississippi mostly don't believe that Barack Obama is a Christian: My good friend Michelle Cottle, a southern expatriate, took umbrage that this was “cultural profiling.” Okay, but why are these states th ...
  • The Weird Politics of Simpson-Bowles
    Steve Benen is amused at renewed conservative love for the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan: Perhaps now would be a good time to note a relevant detail that's gone largely down the memory hole: Republicans used to hate the Simpson-Bowles plan. In fact, the reason it's called the "Simps ...
  • Is it Science or Is it Bullshit?
    Someone at Modeled Behavior — they like to coyly keep us guessing who — tweeted this today:  Yeah, probably. But that reminds me. Apropos of something I posted a few days ago but don't remember, as well as a recent blog conversation with Matt Yglesias about the value of emp ...
  • Greg Smith Tells Goldman Sachs to Take Their J ...
    Greg Smith quit his job at Goldman Sachs today, and he quit in a way that most of us can only dream of: by giving his firm a gigantic middle finger on the op-ed pages of the New York Times. Goldman, he says, just isn't the hardworking, principled firm it used to be: What are three quick way ...
  • Finally, California Might Actually Matter
    John Holbo muses over tonight's razor-close election results: One of the many, many reasons to hope the unusually silly primary season stretches on and on is that eventually we get to New York (April 24). Maybe all the way to California (June 5). What if California actually matters? If Newt ...

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

  • Research reveals carbon footprint caused by Ch ...
    China’s groundwater irrigation system is responsible for polluting the atmosphere with more than 30 million tonnes of CO2 per year – according to research from the University of East Anglia. read more
  • Barrier to faster graphene devices identified ...
    These days graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel: It is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment. read more
  • Scientists tap the cognitive genius of tots to ...
    People often wonder if computers make children smarter. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? And the answer appears to be 'yes.' read more
  • Research shows 50 years of motherhood manuals ...
    New research at the University of Warwick into 50 years of motherhood manuals has revealed how despite their differences they have always issued advice as orders and set unattainably high standards for new mums and babies. read more
  • More trans fat consumption linked to greater a ...
    Might the "Twinkie defense" have a scientific foundation after all? Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown -- by each of a range of measures, in men and women of all ages, in Caucasians and minorities -- that consumption of dietary trans fa ...

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

  • Leaving Goldman Sachs
    A top executive at Goldman Sachs has a lot to say about the “new” Goldman Sachs. Let’s just say his love for the company has left. Read More About Goldman Sachs Culture
  • Don’t Ever Forget Who Is The Head Of The ...
  • What Are Republicans Trying To Destroy Now?
    Why does hearing the word Republican make me want to vomit? Maybe it is because of what they stand for. Our friends at Daily Kos have a poll up on their website asking “Which issue below concerns you most in terms of the Republican assault on it?” Destroying these things listed below ...
  • 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.

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

  • Clarification
    Last week, +972 Magazine has posted an article regarding a campaign by Solidarity movement against the settlement of Migron, consisting of a couple of posters that included visual and textual images of rape. The campaign was further analyzed in another article, published this week. Although the ...
  • WATCH: Edward Said documentary revisits Oslo p ...
    A documentary from Edward Said and the BBC that illustrates life in the occupied territories after Oslo but before the Second Intifada. I came across this great documentary called “In Search of Palestine” from a friend that was aired on the BBC in 1998. It is about the return of Edwa ...
  • Quick, what’s the score? Israel: 25 – Pa ...
    If there’s anything I hate, it’s when somebody says “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and then says more words about that picture. Unfortunately, I won’t be practicing what I preach and will ultimately annoy myself today. I agree with the assessment of my colleague, Omar Rahman, on the lack ...
  • J Street and Zion Square engage ‘Pro-Isr ...
    I write a lot about the term “pro-Israel,” since it is a highly-charged and problematic term used often with impunity. Regardless of what I think it means, it is clear that it is a subjective term that is often attempted to be passed off as an objective one. Even just saying that a w ...
  • Palestinian activists disavow former Israeli J ...
    The US Palestinian Community Network and Electronic Intifada are circulating this public letter, which is not only about Gilad Atzmon – the former Israeli turned conspiracy-theorist and anti-Semite – but more importantly, makes the distinction between criticism of Zionism and relatio ...

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 ...
  • LIVE! WATCH FLORIDA SENATE BANKING AND INSURAN ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • More Important Than Bagging Kony
    This week the Huffington Post asked that I write a few pieces on the Kony 2012 phenomenon. This – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glen-pearson/the-end-game-isnt-kony-bu_b_1339793.html - …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – At The Table
    I recall talking to an urban planner who was advising the Federal of Canadian Municipalities during the time I was …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
  • 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, ...

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 Science Is Clear: Antibiotic Resistance an ...
    As a panel of scientific experts spoke at Thursday’s Congressional briefings on the misuse of antibiotics in food animal production, a theme emerged: There is no longer any debate. With evidence that is now irrefutable, the panelists addressed more than 120 Congressional staff and others in the ...
  • 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.

k2p blog

  • Indian Census: Access to electricity progresse ...
    The 2011 Indian Census shows that the joint family system (multiple couples in a household) is giving way to nuclear families. The urban-rural divide is still very strong and electricity is becoming more accessible but mobile phones are penetrating faster than toilets.
  • Update on Matsubara
    The American Heart Association, which publishes a number of journals, has issued an Expression of Concern about five papers in three of their publications, following allegations of image manipulation. All of the papers include Hiroaki Matsubara, of Kyoto Prefectural University, as a co-author.
  • Does any academic or corporate body actually s ...
    The allegedly fake Worldcomp12 conference website has removed all logos of corporate co-sponsors and no longer has any names of the members of its organising committee.
  • Solar Cycle 24 NASA forecast update
    The latest forecast for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 59 in early 2013.
  • Climate Eugenics
    A New York University Pofessor suggests that human engineering deserves further consideration in the debate about climate change. Genetic engineering or hormone therapy could be used in order to birth smaller, less resource-intensive children.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Walmart Will Turn Your DVDs & Blu-Rays Into Di ...
    If your shelves are getting cluttered with DVD and Blu-Ray boxes, Walmart has a (legal) solution: Starting April 16, customers can bring in their physical copies of movies and get a digital version stored in the UltraViolet cloud for $2 each. The cloud storage system will offer access from a v ...
  • How To Turn Off A PlayStation Vita When It Doe ...
    When most electronic devices freeze up and won't restart or turn off, one option is to pull out the battery. But that's not a choice when dealing with Sony's new PlayStation Vita, which has an internal power source you can't access without violating the warranty. When the Vita freezes up, it wo ...
  • Build Your College Fund With Your Kid, Not Jus ...
    If you harbor a dream of your child graduating from college without being buried in student loan debt, you're probably going to have to save up a heck of a lot of money for the cause. The earlier you start saving, the more you'll be able to contribute. But it's important that you get your kid i ...
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Stops Printing Encyclo ...
    If you came of age in the 1980s or early 1990s, your internet was called the encyclopedia. You probably haven't touched one in decades, and apparently neither has anyone else because they pretty much no longer exist in their old form. Encyclopedia Britannica drove a long-overdue stake into the ...
  • AOL Guts Instant Messenger Staff, Speeding Dea ...
    AOL Instant Messenger has been circling the drain of social irrelevance for a while now, and now it's gotten to the point that the company apparently no longer believes in the future of AIM. AOL laid off 40 workers at its West Coast office, shedding seemingly all critical staff in the Instant M ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Public Health Service Officers Have No Whistle ...
    Washington Post: For Public Health Service Officers, No Protection for Whistleblowing Summary: As part of the uniformed service, members of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHS) are not covered under normal federal government employee whistleblower protections. As they are also ...
  • Bill Arkin Gets It Way Wrong on Drake
    I have a great respect for Bill Arkin, especially his reporting on Top Secret America. He is known for being a thorough investigator and researcher, hence, my surprise and confusion that someone way too smart for such carelessness makes so many careless errors about a case as widely-re ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour Coming to Seattle ...
    Tour Stop features Citigroup, Hanford, Beef Whistleblowers (Washington, DC) – On March 23, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) brings its program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, to the Seattle University School of Law. The stop will feature pr ...
  • Illinois Ag Gag Bill Dies: Daily Whistleblower ...
    Illinois Ag Gag Bill Dies in House Committee Summary: Last week, the Illinois House Judiciary Committee tabled the state's Ag Gag bill, which would have criminalized whistleblowers who record undercover video at animal facilities, including agricultural operations. This action essentially remo ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Op Ed: HR347 & S1794 aka The ‘Trespass Bill’ o ...
    As I write this op-ed, I primp for the mirror–looking for the most flattering pose–for my mug shot.  Now, don’t get the wrong impression; I haven’t been arrested and charged with a federal felony–yet.  Nor is the preparation done in anticipation of a guest stint on ...
  • United States is an “Empire in Decline” says T ...
    The U.S. is “an empire in decline,” making its record levels of defense spending “simply unsustainable,” an editorial in “The Nation” magazine charges. Even though Defense Secy. Leon Panetta announced billions in military cuts last January, “the bloated Pentagon budget isn’t shrinking,” the maga ...
  • Law School Clinic for Pardons Planned
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica This story was co-published with The Washington Post. For years, lawyers, faith-based groups and students have helped file petitions for inmates seeking to cut short lengthy prison sentences. But there have been no comparable resources for felons who sought pardons af ...
  • Rocky Versus the Capitalists
    Rocky Anderson is one of the most appealing, and accomplished, progressive politicians in the history of the United States of America, and he’s running for president. However, the only widely recognized ‘Rocky’ amongst American voters is Rocky Balboa. Thus, Rocky Anderson can only compete for th ...
  • 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 ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Jennifer Marohasy and ABC’s MediaWatch t ...
    Jennifer Marohasy has extraordinary influence. She’s so powerful that the ABC’s Media Watch program has singled her out, asking questions about her income and disclosures that they don’t even bother to ask Tim Flannery. Presumably they don’t think anyone still takes Tim s ...
  • Richard Black — the fastest apologist fo ...
    Black thinks the BBC reported on ClimateGate, instead they rushed to report a “hacking” that may not even have been a hack… Richard Black thinks the BBC was the first to “report” Climategate in the mainstream press. @BBCRBlackvia TwitterTired old meme that BBC was s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • More Debunking from NASA
    I feel like running a contest… how many more articles and videos debunking 2012 will NASA release? I’ve lost count of how many they’ve made to date. Here’s the latest: More Debunking from NASA is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Re ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Having fled, immigrants again trickle back to ...
    Nearly a year since Alabama passed the nation's toughest anti-immigrant law, community members say some immigrants are beginning to return.
    Nearly a year ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The money behind Americans fo ...
    The leading conservative advocacy group and its affiliated foundation have spent tens of millions of dollars attacking Democrats over the past couple of years, and now AFP is pledging to spen ...
  • BP under fire for contradictory statements on ...
    Watchdog groups want answers as to why the company told the public that chemical dispersants used during the Gulf oil disaster were not dangerous when its own manual for cleanup workers said ...
  • Southern Super PAC Tuesday: Who got the most f ...
    Super PACs supporting three Republican presidential hopefuls spent more than $5 million in three Southern states heading into Super Tuesday. But some got more bang for their buck.
    ...
  • Watering down the STOCK Act
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would not allow his colleagues to vote on a stronger version of a law banning insider trading by members of Congress, instead offering a substitute t ...

One News Page

  • Indian guru wants Taliban to de-stress
    An Indian Hindu guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar would love to teach inner peace to the world`s most notorious Islamist insurgents. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Dinesh Trivedi expected to resign shortly; rol ...
    Mamata Banerjee has proved that in its current state, the Congress cannot refuse any demand she presents. The Prime Minster will agree, say sources, that her own party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, will ... Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 1 hour ago
  • CAG Report Questions Delayed Artillery Guns P ...
    New Delhi (ABC Live): The CAG report for the year 2011-12 (Defence Services) has made certain observations that modern technology Artillery Guns could not be made available to Artillery troops for certain reasons as explained in its Report. As part of modernization, the Regiment of Artillery ...
  • India to provide 2Mbps Speed Internet to 600 M ...
    New Delhi (ABC Live): The numbers of Broadband connections provided by the end of December 2011 are 13.35 million in India. As per the objectives contained in draft National Telecom Policy 2012, it is proposed to Provide affordable and reliable broadband on demand by the year 2015 and ... Re ...
  • Make sanitation issue a national obsession: Ramesh
    Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday urged the Planning Commission to make the issue 'a national obsession' otherwise it would remain as a 'scourge' on the society. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • John McCain Beats the Drum of War
    On March 5 Republican Senator John McCain urged the United States to launch airstrikes against Syria to force the government out of power. The Senator called for military intervention without further delay. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and the GOP’s senior member on the Se ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Revival of the Ladies Bridge Luncheon
      The Revival of Ladies Bridge Lunch     I have two “bucket list” causes that keep me engaged and (so far) dementia-free.  One is political, but I’m not here to write about that. The other is to bring back the ladies-only bridge-lunch club of the 50s to the thriving social st ...
  • Transitions: Career to SAHM to WAHM
    Until 18 months ago I didn’t think I could ever be defined by an acronym. Then all of a sudden, SAHM! There it was. Maternity leave was over and I became a Stay-At-Home-Mother. I originally planned to go back to work part-time when my baby reached six months. Once born there was no way I was pu ...
  • Santorum's Big Night: The March 13 Primaries i ...
    Surprising pollsters who had him in third place, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum won the nomination for the Republican candidate for the presidency in the Alabama and Mississippi primary elections Tuesday night. Gingrich finished close on Santorum's heels in second, and Romney -- who o ...
  • http://www.blogher.com/video-sht-broke-folks-say
    After owning an accounting & bookkeeping biz for 10 years I’ve heard (and used) it all when it comes to “brokeness”. And it’s pretty hilarious how many broke folks say the same stuff about why they’re broke. I know when I was broke I used every excuse in the book ... and at the time I believ ...
  • Tweeting While Watching: Where Twitter Meets T ...
    Raise your hand if you like to watch television with the rest of the Twitterverse? Is the answer different if it's a weekly show vs. a one-time event such as the Oscars? Do you have a standing date to tweet through House? Does reading what other people are saying about the thing you're watchi ...

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

  • Interior Dept. to move forward with OSM merger
    Here’s the announcement just out from the U.S. Department of Interior: The Department of the Interior today announced that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) will pursue administrative and program consolidations with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that are ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • President, British PM Table Tennis
    via youtube.com Watching Obama play my sport is entertaining. Cameron, not so much. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentWicked Table Tennis Points from Recent TournamentsNew Headz Up App | SNLObama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of Gay Soldier at Debate ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Bus crash in Swiss tunnel kills 28 people GENEVA (AP) — A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults, police said Wednesday. Another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal ...
  • As the Cookie Crumbles: Something Fishy In Lak ...
    By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies – Lately, the blogosphere, as well as the CorpoRat/SCUM “press,” has been abuzz with comment and opinion about a video about ‘exploited, child soldiers’ in Uganda and efforts by a whitre/western missionary group with shadowy connections ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird by Mikel K (Has anyb ...
    You are beautifulYou are beautiful as you are, wherever you are, however you are; if the sun is shining, if the moon is out, upon waking, and before you fall asleep. You are beautiful when you are pouting. You are beautiful when you smile. You are beautiful when you are here. You are beautiful w ...
  • Plant Connection Installs Living Wall That Hel ...
    Riverhead, NY., (March 11, 2012) - Plant Connection had the wonderful privilege and honor to create a living wall at the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Jerome L. Greene Family Center in Manhattan. Hope Lodge offers cancer patients lodging at no cost, allowing them to focus on healing and re ...
  • Indian mothers hold mass wedding in ‘village o ...
    By Philip Caulfield / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS –  Women in west India hamlet have been sold in sex trade for generations A human rights group held a mass wedding ceremony in a village in western India where all the women are sex workers in a ploy to rescue the young brides from the skin trade, ...

reference frame

  • Czech president vetoes a biomethane bill
    Via klaus.cz Dear Ms [Miroslava Němcová] Chairwoman of the Parliament, I am using my authority given to me by the article 50 of the Constitution of the Czech Republic and I am returning the bill drafted on January 31st, 2012 about the supported energy sources and about the amendment ...
  • Is the neutrino mixing matrix an involution?
    Off-topic and sad: Ray Munroe died. You may remember one of 42 comments, mostly on particle physics, he left on this blog. RIP. Let me begin with the quarks. There are three generations of quarks. The up-type quarks, \(u,c,t\), have three different Dirac masses which are well-defined f ...
  • Dr Steven Chu fixes sign error: gasoline price ...
    Off-topic and sad: Ray Munroe died. You may remember one of 42 comments, mostly on particle physics, he left on this blog. RIP. In September 2008, the 1997 physics Nobel prize winner Dr Steven Chu has made a calculation of the optimal gasoline price in the U.S. He published his findings in ...
  • Energy measurements in a two-fermion double-we ...
    Twistor59 asked via Physics Stack Exchange: This question is related but my question here is much more elementary than discussions of the Pauli principle across the universe. There has been a fair amount of discussion around at the moment on the double well potential model in quantu ...
  • Amino acids born on an artificial comet
    A Franco-German team, Cornelia Meinert et al., has performed an interesting experiment: N-(2-Aminoethyl)glycine and Amino Acids from Interstellar Ice Analogues (ChemPLUSchem, an expert journal) The molecular building blocks of primitive life discovered in an artificial comet (Invest in th ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

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

  • Another meteorite found in Oslo
    A woman out walking her dog on the large grassy hilltop plateau known as Ekebergsletta in Oslo found the second meteorite in as many days in Norway’s capital on Tuesday. She said it was better that winning the local lottery. “I laid awake several hours last night and thought about ho ...
  • Even more landslides in Trøndelag
    The popular Dovrebanen train line between Trondheim and Oslo faced more disruption on Wednesday after another landslide washed out the ground under the tracks. The new landslide also cut off the E6 highway in the same area, while two more slides hit elsewhere. Emergency crews managed to get the ...
  • Central bank cuts interest rates again
    Three weeks ago, the head of Norway’s central bank told a group of foreign correspondents in Oslo that while the bank’s key interest rate was very low, “it’s not zero.” That proved to be strong hint that the bank’s executive board could still cut rates and the ...
  • Immigration drives Oslo’s growth
    Oslo now ranks as the fastest-growing city in Europe, as Norway’s strong economy attracts thousands of new immigrants looking for work. While politicians grapple with the need to accommodate a rapidly growing population and tackle integration issues, many immigrants have already proven the ...
  • Restaurants win new Michelin stars
    An Oslo restaurant specializing in organic food has become the first in the entire Nordic region to go directly into the prestigious Guide Michelin with two stars. Meanwhile, Norwegian restaurant owner Christen Sveaas made a triumphant return to Michelin’s guide with not only his re-opened ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Permaculture Neighborhood Center, California
    Three years ago, here in California, we bought an asphalt/gravel lot with a satisfactory house and decided to call it home. We had hoped to purchase a property in the country, but that was too expensive and felt too isolated for our young family. The first place we looked at in town [...]
  • Seeds from the Kitchen Cupboard
    by Emma Crameri Seeds from the kitchen cupboard As an experiment, I wondered if I could grow any plants for free from our kitchen cupboards. I raided the spice rack and found anise stars, cumin seeds, coriander seeds and two types of mustard seeds. If you have them, you could also use [...]
  • World Wind Power Climbs to New Record in 2011
    by J. Matthew Roney Wind energy developers installed a record 41,000 megawatts of electricity-generating capacity in 2011, bringing the world total to 238,000 megawatts. With more than 80 countries now harnessing the wind, there is enough installed wind power capacity worldwide to meet the resid ...
  • Turning Garbage into Gas
    I’m far from being an engineer, but to my untrained eye this looks interesting. "In a matter of months" the invention featured in the video below, created by Bulgarian scientists, might be in production — a household-scaled incinerator that can turn most household waste into ...
  • 12th Annual Pan-Hellenic Festival for the Exch ...
    If you’re in Europe this April, consider a trip to the Peliti Seedbank in Mesochori, Greece. On April 21st – 23rd Peliti will be hosting the 12th Pan-Hellenic Festival for the Exchange of Local Seed Varieties. This annual festival, organized by Peliti (www.peliti.gr) since 1999, in ...

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

  • Coalition Gathers to Demand Action on NOPD Sho ...
    NEWS RELEASE: Non-Profits, Attorneys, and Community Members Unite to Demand Information from and Action by Local and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, the District Attorney, Mayor Landrieu, and the Local Press concerning NOPD Police-Involved Shootings One week after the tragic NOPD police of ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Mind Bl ...
    It is an amino acid with a unique structure naturally produced by microorganisms that exist in soil, and only found in very small quantities in certain exotic mushrooms, oat bran, beans and a few other foods. Now I am doubly thankful that I have been adding oat bran to my morning smoothies.Sta ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I forgot where I found this. I'll just post the Introduction to the paper: The Test and Training Enabling Architecture, TENA, Offers Range Interoperability and Resource Reuse Solutions By Gene Hudgins (Primary) TENA Software Development Activity (SDA) 557 Mary Esther Cut-Off Ft Walton Beach F ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The more that I read from this article, the more my passion grew and I simply was COMPELLLED to come-out and say what needed to be said. If you ever felt the need to have something get-out to the ears of the people that I have ever done, then this is it. I could not have said what I NEEDED to ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ognir wrote: I opened a new thread, spelling stratfor with a space Banned IP oh well Now back to Alex Jones and Stratfor Yeah, no doubt AJ was on the payroll. He could get sued also...big time.Statistics: Posted by Whaler — Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:34 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ognir wrote: Confirmed SORRY - YOUR IP ADDRESS xxx.xxx.xx.xxx HAS BEEN BANNED FROM VIEWING THIS WEBSITE Talking serious shill site haha, you get banned also! I didn't know they gave an auto ban hammer! Holy shite. Defo 150% a rotten shill site. Statistics: Posted by Whaler — Wed Mar 14 ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • China’s Wind Energy Capacity Reached Record Le ...
    China installed a record 18,000 megawatts of new wind energy in 2011, boosting its total capacity to nearly 63,000 megawatts and widening its lead in the global wind energy sector, according to the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). The U.S., which was passed by China for total wind capacity, install ...
  • Rising Seas, Coastal Flooding Threaten 3.7 Mil ...
    Roughly 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide and will face more frequent coastal floodingin the coming decades as a result of steadily rising seas, according to new research. Using improved estimates of land elevation near coastlines and tidal levels Click to enlarge Cl ...
  • India’s Tata Group to Favor Green Energy Over ...
    The power unit of the India-based Tata Group conglomerate has said it will favor solar and wind projects over coal-fired plants in future global energy investments, citing the increasing difficulty of developing coal projects. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Tata Power Executive Director S. ...
  • U.S. Biotechnology Firm Plans First Commercial ...
    A U.S. biotechnology company is planning to build the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels plant in Mississippi, where it will be able to use wood chips and other plant matter as an alternative to corn in the production of ethanol. Virdia, a California-based company formerly know ...
  • Campbell’s To Stop Using BPA in Linings of Sou ...
    Bowing to pressure from consumer and health advocacy groups, Campbell’s Soup Co. says it will stop using the synthetic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in the lining of its cans. The compound, which is found in thousands of everyday products, has been shown to interfere with hormone product ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Robocalls and Republicons
    By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch's Canadi ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • A Journalist's Battle with Hamas
    At least two prominent critics of Hamas have departed the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, relocating abroad nearly one year since grassroots activists launched a popular movement to democratize Palestinian politics and re-unite the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
  • Toxic, Callous, and Lacking Leadership. Welcom ...
    Our daily poll today was inspired by Greg Smith's resignation from his position at Goldman Sachs. Smith was a former executive director at Goldman and head of its derivatives business on three continents. In his resignation letter, he had nothing kind to say about his former employers, desc ...
  • Is Assassination Tikkun Olam?
    For most of us, the phrase “tikkun olam”—Hebrew for “fixing the world”—conjures youth group soup-kitchen volunteering or hackneyed Bar Mitzvah speeches. Shlocky, but basically decent.
  • Poll Question: If You Had Money to Invest, Wou ...
  • Upcoming Public Appearance
    I'll be speaking tomorrow, Thursday March 15, at 8 pm at Shriver Hall on the Johns Hopkins University campus.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • "The Inca Empire Revealed: Century After the M ...
    Built in the 15th century by the Inca emperor Pachacuti, Machu Picchu in Peru is often referred to as "the lost city of the Incas." This exhibition introduces visitors to the history of the Inca civilization through roughly 160 artifacts, most of which are being shown in Japan for the first time ...
  • Seaport construction is priority
    I found Sunday's (March 11) editorial, "Moving forward with reconstruction," very interesting because I am from a seaport city in Miyagi Prefecture and my relative in Onagawa, Miyagi, was a tsunami victim. I didn't realize this loss until a year had passed. On Sunday, a lot of TV programs on t ...
  • Stamkos hits 50th goal in big win over Bruins
    Once Steven Stamkos scored, there was no stopping him from doing it again. The NHL goals leader scored twice to reach 50 in a season for the second time, and the Tampa Bay Lightning jumped out to a big early lead before coasting to a 6-1 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.
  • Ocean acidification: another problem with CO&# ...
    We tend to measure time by the span of a human life, making a century seem like an era and a millennium a mega-stretch of time. In this perspective, a million years is an eternity. So it can be revealing to consider our place in geologic history measured in hundreds of millions of years. This ...
  • Okinawa court bans heliport protester
    The Naha District Court on Wednesday ordered an Okinawa resident to stop staging sit-ins and other activities aimed at blocking the construction of a U.S. military heliport, in a lawsuit filed by the central government against two protesters. But the court, presided over by Judge Ryosuke Sakai ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

  • Disclosure contest
    The Liberals say they have now “proactively” provided Elections Canada with documentation of its...
  • Whodunit
    The hunt for Pierre Poutine now includes a phoney YouTube video and anonymous senior...
  • In and out of order
    Twice last week—here and here—the Speaker seemed to fret that questions asked by the...
  • By the numbers
    Elections Canada says the majority of the 31,000 complaints it reported two weeks ago...
  • 283 to 0
    The House unanimously passed the NDP’s motion on Elections Canada, including an amendment that...

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Attention Boomers! Six Tips for Managing Mille ...
    Judging by the recent proliferation of ‘tips’ on managing young workers, as well as the number of management consultants who now specialize in ‘multi-generational workplaces’, there’s a burgeoning market for advice on how to deal with ‘Millennials’ and & ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Zionist "Price Tag" mirrors Hitler's Youth
    Jamal Kanj sees similarities between Israel's Price Tag organization and Hitler's Youth, and calls on the world to take note before it is too late. "Price Tag membership is currently around 3,000, proportionally larger than Hitler"s Youth, who numbered less than 5,000 in 1925. Ignored by world p ...
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Prehistoric eel-like vertebrate had world's sh ...
    Nature: Conodonts, extinct jawless marine vertebrates that lived from the Precambrian to some time in the Triassic, were the first animals to evolve teeth—and they had the sharpest teeth ever known. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Philip Donoghue of the Univ ...
  • US, EU, and Japan file case against China over ...
    BBC: The US, Japan, and the European Union have challenged China's restrictions on rare-earth exports in the first case ever filed jointly by the three entities at the World Trade Organization; the complaint follows a WTO finding earlier this year that China had illegally restricted exports of o ...
  • Using imaging techniques to detect a hidden Re ...
    Los Angeles Times: With the help of ultrasound, infrared, ultraviolet, microwave, and other imaging technologies, Maurizio Seracini and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, may have found a missing masterpiece by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. In the early 1500s, ...
  • Satellite traces Earth's crust-mantle boundary
    BBC: Launched in 2009, the European Space Agency's Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), the lowest Earth-orbiting research satellite, has provided new insight into Earth's so-called Moho boundary. Named for Croatian geophysicist Andrija Mohorovičić, the Moho marks th ...
  • Some Corals May Adapt to Warmer Seas
    Science: Fast-growing coral species in colonies that have been previously bleached by high sea temperatures may be able to adapt or evolve to elevated water temperatures in a single generation. Corals rely on symbiotic algae, called zooxanthellae, to produce nutrients through photosynthesis; whe ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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  • The great fuel fail: ethanol from corn
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Peakwater

  • Countries sign pact to address water issues
    “China has established a minister level cooperation mechanism with Japan and the Republic of Korea as the three countries aim to tackle water problems together, officials announced onTuesday. “The three countries signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Mechanism of Ministerial Me ...
  • Israel says it backs Gaza Strip desalination plant
    “Israel said Tuesday it backed Palestinian plans to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip and was willing if requested to provide its skills for the project. “Asked by AFP on the sidelines of the World Water Forum if Israel supported the scheme, Energy and Water Minister Uzi L ...
  • Scientists Warn of Catastrophe for Food Securi ...
    “So far 51 dams have been built or are being built on tributaries to the Mekong River, mostly in Laos. At least 27 more could begin construction between 2015 and 2030. The PNAS study found that “the completion of 78 dams on tributaries, which have not previously been subject to strategic a ...
  • 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 ofCorporate Accountability International&#8216 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • … $mart $$$ $ay$ Key$tone will be built ...
    … $mart $$$ $ay$ Key$tone will be built … anyone want to challenge this projection …   Senate falls four votes short of overturning Obama’s Keystone pipeline rejection   POSTED AT 5:25 PM ON MARCH 8, 2012 BY ALLAHPUNDIT…http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/08/senate-falls-four-vote ...
  • Stop being an ostrich
    … So what you expect your water purveyor is going to provide you with a list of all the chemicals they choose to leave in the water they deliver to you which they define as SAFE …   … Stop being an ostrich …   What the Frack is in That Water?   by Lena Groeger…ProPublica, [...]
  • This song is getting damn boring … immun ...
    … This song is getting damn boring … immunity … Hell NO … Rep. Patterson charged with domestic violence, argues legislative immunity By Dennis Welch …The Arizona Guardian … Read More State Rep. Daniel Patterson was charged in court Thursday with four counts of domestic violence despite arg ...
  • Something tells me the late Congressman Rep &# ...
    … Something tells me the late Congressman Rep “Mo” Udall of Arizona would have stood up long ago and fought tooth and toenail to make sure this type of heinous action was never allowed … How did we ever allow this to become law in the first place…?   Indefinite Detention Targeted In D ...
  • How to Cut Corporate Power
    Bill Quigley | Occupying Corporations: … How to Cut Corporate Power … Bill Quigley, Truthout:   "Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is correct in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important p ...

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 ...
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Jacob Sullum on Why Rich Super PAC Donors Are ...
    In the two weeks before this month's Super Tuesday primaries, The Wall Street Journal reports, "outside political action committees supporting the Republican presidential hopefuls spent three times as much as the candidates themselves." Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) says the "undue infl ...
  • Santo Hits a Double! Mitt's Third, Twice! Newt ...
    Alabama and Mississippi have spoken, and the beat goes on. Overnight comments debate topic: What makes more sense, the GOP presidential race, or this?
  • ObamaCare and Employers
    Yesterday I looked at how the 2010 health care law might discourage employers from hiring. Today, Scott Gottlieb of The American Enterprise Institute notes a new report on how ObamaCare will affect employers. The Willis Group surveyed over 2,300 employers about what they expect ...
  • Wind Energy Tax Credits Defeated in Senate
    The Senate defeated the Stabenow Amendment that would have among other things, extended the Production Tax Credit for wind energy one year and revived the expired 1603 Treasury grant. The Production Tax Credit (PTC) [PDF] provides an income tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour ...
  • I Don't Think Doonesbury Should be Censored, B ...
    Ziiing! That's one of the controversial Doonesbury abortion/contraceptive mandate strips that many outlets are deciding not to run this week. And by controversial, I mean about as funny and insightful as a daily Crankshaft strip or a Mary Worth peregrination on milk of magnesia. ...

Mercury Rising

  • Does the Limbaugh boycott matter?
    I think it does. Michael Wolff, who knows a thing or two about media, thinks it does not: There is an argument to make here, and I wish someone would make it, about the terrible precedent of encouraging advertisers to stampede away from controversial and ornery speech. They are skittish enough, ...
  • Alabama’s HB 56 Follies: US Citizen Fals ...
    One can’t help but wonder if incidents like this one are an intended result of the new anti-voter and anti-brown-person laws coming out of ALEC’s legislative shop and passed on to Republican state legislatures for minor edits and rubberstamping: When Carmen Vélez tried to renew her c ...
  • One of the higher mysteries
    Duff McDonald, Fortune (via Ritholtz): To readers of the business press, the story is a familiar one: fifteen months ago, superstar analyst Meredith Whitney rocked the world of municipal finance with a December 2010 prediction on 60 Minutes that a wave of municipal debt defaults was headed our w ...
  • Something strange
    There is pretty good economic news at the moment, so it’s not really a surprise to see that the VIX, which is supposedly a measure of volatility is falling–and the trading volume of a proxy for VIX, called VIXY, has risen substantially. A chart below shows the situation, with VIX sho ...
  • Murdoch phone hacking scandal: Brooks in the pokey
    Vikram Dodd and Josh Halliday, The Guardian: Rebekah Brooks is among six people arrested by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, as part of the investigation into phone hacking. The former News International chief executive was arrested at her hom ...

Reality Sandwich

  • City of Secrets: An interview with Patrice Chaplin
      "The Grail is a living force, it will never die; it may indeed sink out of sight, and for centuries even, disappear...but it will rise to the surface again and become once more a theme of vital importance." --‘From Ritual to Romance' by Jesse Weston.   read more
  • Ayahuasca, Aliens & Ancient Mysteries
    Sunday, April 15th, 2012, take part in an exclusive one-off Evolver Intensive interactive video salon with Evolver co-founder Jonathan Talat Philips and renowned author and truth-seeker, Graham Hancock entitled, "Ayahuasca, Aliens and The Ancient Mysteries:  Rites of Passage for the Modern ...
  • No Fly Zone
    While it's obvious that zebras' stripes help them blend in with tall savanna grasses, a recent study offers compelling evidence that the stripes serve a secondary evolutionary function: scrambling the vision of bloodsucking horseflies. read more
  • Answer to Henry Baum
      Henry Baum writes: "Until you offer some practical ideas about how the transition will work, much of this is an intellectual exercise. Invigorating, thought-provoking, but of limited utilitarian value to the 6 billion other people who don't have the time, resources, or incli ...
  • Evolver Spores: Come Together
    Evolver Spores: Come Together Wed, March 21 read more

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

  • US extends illegal sanctions against Iran
    Barack Obama once again signs a presidential order to extend for another year American sanctions, dating back to 1995, against Iran, as he considers the Iranian government a threat to US national security, foreign policy and economy.
  • Libyans release captive reporters’ clip
    A militant group in Libya that is illegally holding captive two British freelance journalists working for Iran’s Press TV network has released a video of the two reporters.
  • UK David Willetts must go: students
    Members of University of London Union (ULU) will take part in students’ national walkout to defend their education and urge the coalition government to fire universities minister David Willetts.
  • Turkish protesters condemn US, Israel
    Thousands of Turkish people have taken to streets of the city of Istanbul to condemn the recent deadly Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and the killings of Afghan civilians by a US soldier.
  • PA takes Israel's deadly attacks to UN
    The Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to the United Nations has filed a complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council, following the killing of 26 Palestinians in four days of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Powering up radiotherapy
    A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts fromthe effects of radiation exposure has been discovered by scientists at Oslo University. Radiothera...
  • Bringing Together Brain Scientists
    Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference, which included over 16,000 presentations! Here are just a...

Nick Turse

  • An Afghan woman, right, is interviewed as she ...
    An Afghan woman, right, is interviewed as she sits next to the body of a child allegedly killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. A U.S. service member walked out of a base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and s ...
  • Riot police officers throw missiles at protest ...
    Riot police officers throw missiles at protesters as cars burn during clashes in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Protesters and police fought running battles in central Athens Sunday, as Greek lawmakers debated legislation that would introduce severe austerity measures to st ...
  • A Starbucks coffee shop burns, right, as firef ...
    A Starbucks coffee shop burns, right, as firefighters try to cut open the locked truck to get out the fire hose after protesters took the keys, during clashes in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Protesters and police fought running battles in central Athens Sunday, as Greek l ...
  • A man sits in the back of a truck with the bod ...
    A man sits in the back of a truck with the bodies of several men and a child allegedly killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. A U.S. service member walked out of a base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and sta ...
  • A villager points to a spot where a family was ...
    A villager points to a spot where a family was allegedly shot in their residence by a rogue US soldier in Alkozai village of Panjwayi district, Kandahar province on March 11, 2012. An AFP reporter counted 16 bodies — including women and children — in three Afghan houses after a rogue US soldier ...
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