- "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 ...
- 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 & ...
- 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 ...
- 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 »
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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) ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- .: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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
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 ...
- 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″,”f08R ...
- 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″,”f08R ...
- 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 ...
- 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 . ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, ...
- 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: ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Five Awesome Virtual Field Trips for Students ...
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- Khan Academy - Watch. Practice. Learn almost a ...
Tags: ipad, ios, math, khan, academy, app, application, education, maths, mathematicsby: Fred Delventhal
- Chartle.net - interactive charts online!
Tags: charts, graphs, tools, visualization, graph, graphing, Mathby: Fred Delventhal
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- PicMonkey free online photo editing
Comments:From the makers of Picnik - congerjan CongerBeen missing Picnki? Want to edit photos online for free? Check out PicMonkey! - congerjan CongerTags: photo, photo-editing, photo_editingby: congerjan Conger
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 … ...
- 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 →
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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]
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- .: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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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 →
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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:
- 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.  ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- "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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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- 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‘ ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
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- AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
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- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
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- 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 →
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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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