- Safety haven
If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
- Small tools, big impact
Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
- Innovative, naturally
For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
- A very gourd idea
It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
- Johne’s happens
Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
- Baby Love May Be Hard-Wired in Human Brain
An infant's doting eyes and chubby cheeks can send many people into a heartwarming swoon. Turns out, rather than the heart, that lure of tots may stem from specific brain circuits, new research suggests. The results, detailed in the journal NeuroImage, suggest such brain-activity patterns may r ...
- Lasers Can Be Used to Steer Lightning In Mid-S ...
Laser light can not only trigger lightning but redirect it, causing it to strike in the same place over and over, according to new research. This means lasers could serve as lightning rods. Because that would be awesome. Laser lightning rods have been a research subject for several decades, be ...
- Google Gives Search a Refresh
Google Inc. is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today's technology and maintain its dominant market share. Over the next few months, Google's search engine will begin spitting out more than a list of blue Web links. It will also pre ...
- Sarkozy Challenger Lucks Into Election Bid
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest paved the way for a goal that had long eluded the political career of 57-year-old French Socialist Francois Hollande: to square off against President Nicolas Sarkozy in next month's election. PARIS - The break that had long eluded the political career of 57-year ...
- State Sponsored "Pre-emptive Murder": US and I ...
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 squads, as well as I ...
- Toto. I don't think we're in Guelph anymore.
A short summary (with links). Where are we? Well, right across the country. Only now, instead of just watching the TV news and wondering about the veracity of the reports, you can go look for yourself at archived comments that were posted one and two days before the last federal election. Star ...
- More pretty dots. More evidence
Go over to The Gazetteer and watch the video of the CBC report. Then go down and read the first comment from the very diligent North Van Grumps. On the video a Lori Bruce is interviewed and stated that she had a call from the Conservative Party telling her that her voting place had moved. She g ...
- Watch the Auditor General on April 3rd
Watch very closely. The AG zeroed in on the F-35 Lightning II project and draft of the Spring report to Parliament was delivered to departments and ministries. Today, sackcloth and ashes were being issued at 101 Colonel By Drive and some people were falling on their swords. Auditor General Mich ...
- Marc Mayrand: With Much Pleasure - Now please ...
The Chief Electoral Officer has something to say, and he'd like to say it to a parliamentary committee. Immediately following the 2011 general election, the Commissioner of Canada Elections deployed resources to investigate complaints of fraudulent or improper calls. Since then, over 700 Canadia ...
- Stephen Woodworth provides the best case for a ...
Himself! This is what happens when an election gets stolen by a bunch of superstitious authoritarian pukes. H/T Dented Blue Mercedes
- Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Cost Of Health ...
Right-wing media are falsely claiming that a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the cost of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has doubled since CBO's estimate in 2010. In fact, CBO's analysis actually showed that the insurance coverage provisions of the health care la ...
- Ignoring Critics, Right-Wing Media Defend NYPD ...
Right-wing media have defended the New York Police Department's (NYPD) surveillance of American Muslims throughout the Northeast, engaging in anti-Muslim rhetoric and dismissing concerns of civil rights groups while doing so. But law enforcement experts have said that the program has a "negativ ...
- Fox Defends Texas' Voter ID Law With Fraud
Fox News and Fox Business have leaped to the defense of Texas' voter ID law after the Justice Department moved to prevent its implementation, saying that the legislation violated the Voting Rights Act. Fox's coverage has been filled with false and misleading claims. To learn about how Fox simi ...
- "Feminazi": The History Of Limbaugh's Trademar ...
When Rush Limbaugh first began using the term "feminazi" in the 1990s, he said that it described "a specific type of feminist" and that there were "probably no more than 25 of them." However, since then, he has used the term as a broader slur to attack feminists, pro-choice activists, and progr ...
- Experts Commend North Korea Deal That Right-Wi ...
Experts on Korea and U.S. national security have commended a recent deal between the United States and North Korea on nuclear testing as "a positive development" and an indication that the U.S. has "turned a new page with the North Koreans." Nevertheless, conservative media are attacking the de ...
- ACT and other organizations sign on to comment ...
Last week, Public Citizen filed comments that had been developed with other Alliance for Clean Texas (ACT) partners. Since we filed our comments, the TCEQ agreed to extend the comment period. We have simple comments in an earlier blog for citizens to submit, but if you want more detailed com ...
- US Senate rejects GOP measure to build Keyston ...
According to CNN, the Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure Thursday that would have bypassed the Obama administration’s current objections to the Keystone XL pipeline and allowed construction on the controversial project to move forward immediately. Fifty-six senators vo ...
- Fukushima Anniversary Action in Austin, TX
This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Our thoughts and prayers will be with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese still living in contaminated areas. There are anniversary actions across the U.S. and entire world this weekend. You can find a list of many of ...
- Tell TCEQ grading polluters on a curve doesn’t ...
The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality is the second largest environmental agency in the world—with a budget to match. Help hold TCEQ accountable for taxpayer’s interests and stop them from implementing rules that favor polluting businesses. Read our press release (Press Release – ...
- Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hear ...
Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections. In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affect ...
- Voices from International Women’s Day
haiti-womens-march.jpg Waiting for my visa interview on a dusty embroidered couch at the Afghan Embassy in Cairo, minutes turned into hours. I had recently decided to spend International Women’s Day in the countryside outside of Kabul, to l ...
- A Darker Shade of Green Documents Critical Per ...
Subheadline: Video reveals global resistance to forest-carbon projects Our friends at Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the ...
- Brazil’s water and energy mega-grab
2012_02_banner-14marco12.jpg “Anytime a new wall is built, hundreds of acres of forest and fertile land for food production is flooded. Anytime a new wall is built, a river dies. The death of the rivers is the end of our livelihood” - ...
- Nicaragua’s peasant women reach another milestone
156.jpg After a successful campaign to protect women’s land rights, Nicaragua’s peasant women achieved another policy milestone. Along with urban-based women’s organizations, they lobbied the National Congress to pass a new women’s rights l ...
- Women in Africa and Asia Take the Lead to Addr ...
women_and_climate_change.jpg By Alicia TozourToday, Grassroots International honors International Women’s Day by celebrating the ongoing victories of our partners, grantees and allies in their promotion of a global social movement for women ...
- Feel the Socialism
Well, of course you always have to take it to the next level. So now private businessmen are suing the government because they don't want to provide health insurance to their employees if it has no co-pay or deductible for birth control pills. Frank R. OBrien and OBrien Industrial Holdings are ...
- Why Are We Learning This Now?
I read everything the Intelligence Community, or even the administration, spoon-feeds to David Ignatius with a giant shaker of salt. Ignatius is too credulous and, as a consequence, he serves as little more than a stenographer. When he speaks, it's because the Intelligence Community wants him ...
- In the Real World Cheney's a Criminal
Imagine buying a ticket to see Dick Cheney speak and winding up having to listen to Mark Steyn. That's what happened to a bunch of crazy Canadians when Cheney cancelled a scheduled appearance in Toronto because it was too dangerous. You see, in more polite countries, the only difference betwee ...
- That Stupid Went to Eleven
Ordinarily, I'd be inclined to assign the win to whomever can cite Allison Porchnik appropriately in an argument. However, in this case, I have to go with the following Lawyers, Gun$ and Money commenter. scanner says: March 14, 2012 at 11:02 pm Its astonishing how Jewish socialism is s ...
- Casual Thought
I've had my differences with some of the things Obama has done in office, especially in civil liberties. But the invitation his campaign extended to Republicans to launch their War on Women ought to rank as one of his greatest achievements. It's penetrating now even to the lowest-information Am ...
- Russia's Breathtaking Valley of Geysers
In Russia's far east, on the Kamchatka Peninsula, lies a true gem: the remote Valley of Geysers, home to dozens of the active springs that lend the place its name. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 10 Fun and Fascinating Facts About Food!
Food is definitely something the whole world is interested in – so here are some fun and fascinating facts all about it! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- How Philadelphia's Transit System Is Built for ...
Regional and local railways intersect at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. A tower next to the station provides convenient office space for commuters. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Linus the Long Haired Wonder Horse
If you've ever seen the 1960s TV show Mr. Ed, you definitely know that a "horse is a horse, of course, of course." But we bet you've never seen a horse like Linus... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Burlington Acts to Protect the Jefferson Salam ...
The Jefferson salamander received some much-needed protection in Burlington, Ontario when King Road was closed especially for its three-week mating migration. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...
- First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
- Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
- Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
- EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
- New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...
- The Reality Behind Invisible Children, the LRA ...
By John Reimann Within 2 weeks of the first showing of Invisible Children’s Kony2012 video, some 80 million people had watched it and students in over 1200 schools across the US raised over $1 million for Invisible Children. Such icons as
P Diddy, Angelina Jolie and Oprah pumped it and US ...
- New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’r ...
An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on Twitter. “Are you f**king kidding me?” she wrote. “I may just quit my job and home-school my daughter.” I wondered what on earth could be so terrible. I soon found out: the New York City Department of Education’s “Common Core–ali ...
- Will the Greek economic collapse lead to priva ...
Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in Greece has seen a steady rise within the last dozen years. Below are some of the numbers. Prisoners in Greece Year Capacity Population 1998 4,332 6,150 2005 5,584 8,72 2008 7,543 11,243 2009 9,103 ...
- Some questions about the Obama – Cameron ...
By Michael Collins What a lovely photo of the two well-heeled leaders of the free world. Previously, it was the American cowboy president and the supposedly left leaning Prime Minister Tony Blair. That buddy act helped drag United States into the worst foreign policy disaster in its history. (Im ...
- HOW THE U.S. MILITARY SPAWNS MASSACRES AND DAI ...
By Kathleen Barry, Ph.D. ‘Are our soldiers seeing too much combat?’ as one retired military general asked after the most recent Afghan massacre of 16 civilians. How much combat – organized and spontaneous killing, destruction – is too much? Enough so that US killing in Afghanistan ...
- The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
- Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
- What environmental policy could we expect from ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
- Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
- Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
- Bioethics Professor: Drug The Population Into ...
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, March 13, 2012 A new paper to be published in Ethics, Policy & Environment argues that serious consideration should be given to mass drugging the population to make them more environmentally conscious while also proposing that babies should be ge ...
- Flu Vaccine Causes Death Of 7 Year Old Kaylynn ...
By Alexander Higgins Even though many of studies link the disease that killed little Kaylynne Matten to the Flu vaccine, information about her death is being suppressed. While the fight against the industrial medical complexes forced medication of children maybe an abstract idea for most the sto ...
- Conned 2012: Joseph Kony Is A CIA Contractor
By Saman Mohammadi According to former European MP, journalist, and author Richard Cottrell, the Lord Resistance Army is backed by the CIA and Mossad. The author of the blog aangirfan writes: “In Uganda, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, ‘which is a US an ...
- The Dostoyevsky Pause on the Doubt Couch
By Les Visible Day by day it is becoming more and more apparent to me that things are exactly what they are supposed to be. That doesn’t mean what they could be. It means that what is, is the logical result of the total contribution. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can [...]
- Breaking! Las Vegas, Nevada. Ron Paul Delegate ...
by bobspirit Chairman Gibbs brought the meeting to order by asking for any Santorum supporters to please raise their hands. A handful of people raised their hands. Then he asked for Gingrich. He got 2 handfuls. When he asked for Romney, his people clustered near the front of the main room raised ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...
- Environmental Groups Sue EPA over Gulf of Mexi ...
The Oil Industry isn’t the only culprit in the slow destruction of the Gulf of Mexico — environmental groups claim that an area the size of Massachusetts is now a “dead zone due to Mississippi River pollution. A dead zone is an area with such low levels of oxygen that the waters are ...
- Showcase Your DIY Project at San Francisco’s E ...
Do you know how to build solar panels? Convert a motorcycle to electric? Breed an endangered species? Make a house more earth-friendly? Earth Day San Francisco is seeking cool DIY projects that save energy, wildlife, or the earth. Exhibitors will be able to showcase a working demo, a hands-on ac ...
- Wind and Solar Powered Cronos Yacht is Made of ...
Read the rest of Wind and Solar Powered Cronos Yacht is Made of Bamboo Panels Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "wind power", Aeolian Harmp, bamboo, Chin Ua Solar Glass, Cronos, eco design, green design, Halite, Lorenzo Berselli, luxury design, renewable energy, Simone M ...
- New Study Reveals Any Amount of Red Meat Incre ...
Livestock production is one of the leading contributors to climate change — some studies have shown that it produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars — but have you considered the affect that red meat is having on your body? It has long been known that a diet too rich in red m ...
- 28,000 Blooming Flowers Breathe Life Into a De ...
Read the rest of 28,000 Blooming Flowers Breathe Life Into a Derelict Mental Health Center Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: anna schuleit, BLOOM, celebratory artwork, flower installation, living artwork, Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC), memorial artwork, publi ...
- Robotic Aircraft Controlled by Human Hand Gestures
Aircraft carrier crews already use a set of hand gestures and body positions to guide pilots around the deck. With an increase in unmanned planes, MIT researchers are setting out to do the same with the autonomous robots.
- Not So Fast: More Evidence Neutrinos Aren’t De ...
We now have yet another indication that neutrinos cannot travel faster than the speed of light after all, provided by a neighbor of the OPERA detector that set off the fuss in the first place.
- New NASA Video Depicts the Moon’s Fiery History
The man in the moon might not change from month to month but the lunar surface didn't always look this way. A new NASA video depicts the fiery history of the moon, showing how the familiar shapes we see each night were actually caused by barrages of asteroids and blazing flows of magma.
- Supersized Squid Eyes Likely Evolved to See Whales
A giant squid's soccer ball-sized eyeballs are three times wider than any other animal's, but explaining why has kept squid researchers busy. Now, thanks to a rare well-preserved squid specimen, they have an idea: The enormous peepers likely evolved to see bioluminescent trails of light left by ...
- NASA Unveils Solar System Atlas
NASA has released a new atlas of more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many never seen before. The more than 18,000 images were taken by the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE), NASA’s infrared space telescope. With WISE, scientists discovered Y Dwarf stars, the dimmest stars ...
- President Barack Obama Signs Bill that Ends Fr ...
After last year’s tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona that killed six people and wounded twelve others including Rep Gabrielle Giffords, Congress started work on a bill that would help protect politicians. With little fanfare, HR 347 was passed by the House and Senate and signed into law this we ...
- Ice Age, Supervolcano Could Topple US Government
As more evidence mounts that the world is slipping faster into the next Ice Age, Washington insiders are scurrying to solidify their new power base for centralized government operations. Fears that the US capital might be struck by another more deadly terrorist attack—or other disasters—prompted ...
- Monsanto’s Roundup is Killing Human Kidney Cells
Monsanto’s ‘biopesticide’ known as Bt is not only developing mutated insects and requiring excessive pesticide use, but new findings show that it is also killing human kidney cells — even in low doses. Amazingly, Monsanto’s superweed-breeding Roundup also has the same effect. Scientists have dem ...
- How a Nuclear Bomb Could Save Earth From an As ...
A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid hurtling toward Earth, just like in the movies, a new study suggests. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility in New Mexico, used a supercomputer to model nukes ...
- US threatens sanctions against India over Iran oil
The Obama administration is threatening to impose sanctions on India over its continued economic ties with Iran amid disagreements between Washington and New Delhi over how much and how soon the latter is reducing oil imports from the (in US eyes) pariah nation.
- The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
- Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the US-UK Sp ...
Yesterday, I was pleased to be invited to discuss the “special relationship” between the US and the UK on Russia Today, which was timely, of course, as David Cameron was visiting Barack Obama, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to discuss how the “special relationship,&# ...
- Four Days Left to Save the NHS: Petitions, Pro ...
Time is running out. As I have been explaining throughout this week, it would be great if there was a huge turnout at Saturday’s protest against the Tory-led coalition’s butchering of the NHS. which may be on the statute books by Tuesday without further concerted effort. So please, i ...
- Guantánamo and Recidivism: The Media’s O ...
Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the CIA and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, issued a two-page unclassified summary, entitled, “Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba” (PDF) ...
- Killing the NHS: Why Are The Tories Getting Aw ...
In the US, because of that country’s notorious fetishization of self-reliance, it has been appallingly easy for would-be exploiters to portray anything cooperative as being Communist, with the result that the gulf between the rich and the poor is horrendous, healthcare is a privilege and n ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- ‘God Hates Fags’ Church Preparing Ad for Limba ...
Guess who’s knocking on Rush Limbaugh’s door as his advertisers flee like rats from a sinking ship? It’s the people behind the infamous GodHatesFags website — the Westboro Baptist Church, the most notorious gay-bashing group in America — and they’re ready to step in to keep the embattled Limbaug ...
- Extremist Who Once Led SCV Accused of Violatin ...
Ron G. Wilson, a former national commander of the Southern heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) who appointed several extremists to the group’s governing boards and oversaw a purge of anti-racist members, has been accused by the South Carolina attorney general of defrauding investor ...
- Tennessee House Falls Victim to ‘Agenda ...
In a new sign of antigovernment extremism creeping into the political mainstream, the Tennessee House of Representatives will vote tomorrow on a resolution condemning Agenda 21, a non-binding United Nations plan for sustainable development. In the world of far-right extremists, Agenda 21 is demo ...
- Ugandan LGBT Group Sues Anti-Gay Activist Scot ...
A gay rights group in Uganda filed suit today against longtime anti-gay activist Scott Lively, according to The New York Times. The lawsuit, filed by Sexual Minorities Uganda, claims that, beginning in 2002, Lively conspired with Ugandan political and religious leaders to increase anti-gay fervo ...
- YWC Members Chalk ‘White Pride’ on ...
A few eyebrows and a few hackles were raised at Towson University last week when members of the campus Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) chapter chalked messages on university sidewalks that included the words “white pride” at several locations. The messages were left March 3, a S ...
- If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
- Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
- Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
- Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
- Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...
- Water Justice: 'We Are the Movement Whose Time ...
At the Alternative World Water Forum, the Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau (FAME) in French, water justice activists are providing a counter-narrative to the corporate-dominated World Water Forum, which "refuses to acknowledge" the recognized right to water and sanitation. ...
- Kony 2012/Invisible Children Leader Arrested f ...
The mastermind behind the viral phenomenom "Kony 2012" video was arrested last night in San Diego, California for being drunk in public, vandalizing cars and public masturbation. Jason Russell was "acting very strange" when he was arrested by the San Diego police. Russell is ...
- Bloody Week in Afghanistan Continues; 16 Die i ...
A violent and chaotic week in Afghanistan continued today as a Turkish military helicopter, on a NATO mission, crashed into a house, leaving 4 Afghan civilians and 12 Turkish soldiers dead. Military officials are investigating the cause of the crash. Turkey soldiers are serving in a "non-co ...
- 'Non!': France Bans Monsanto's Genetically Mod ...
France has announced today that it is imposing a new temporary ban on Monsanto's MON810 maize in the interests of protecting the environment. The announcement comes from French Agricultural Minister Bruno Le Maire who said the decision was a "precautionary measure." The move restat ...
- Senators Attack Government's Use of Patriot Act
Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have expressed concerns that the US Justice Department is abusing provisions in the Patriot Act. read more
- Poster collection stolen by Nazis is returned ...
Court rules German History Museum must give back collection of 4,000 art posters worth almost £4mMore than 4,000 art posters are to be returned to their owner's family more than 74 years after they were looted by the Nazi regime.The Gestapo seized the valuable collection of artworks from the Ber ...
- George Clooney arrested in planned protest at ...
Actor intended to be arrested in Washington, DC demonstration to plea for action against human rights abuses in SudanActor and activist George Clooney has been arrested while protesting in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC. Clooney was protesting against human rights abuses by the ...
- UN-backed Congolese army drive could displace ...
Push by 5,400 DRC troops into remote areas targets Rwandan Hutu rebel group and remnants of Joseph Kony's LRAUN peacekeeping troops are backing a Congolese army drive against jungle-based rebel groups that is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and trigger a new wave of instability and ...
- Ethiopian raid on Eritrean bases raises fears ...
Ethiopia says military assault targeted 'subversive groups' that had carried out attacks on its territoryFears of renewed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea have intensified after Addis Ababa announced it had sent troops into its sworn enemy's territory for the first time in more than a decad ...
- Santander UK chief Ana Botín takes home £4m in ...
Botín becomes one of UK's highest paid female executives despite bank recently reporting 40% fall in profitsAna Botín collected a pay and perks package worth more than £4m in her first full year in charge of Santander UK, part of the Spanish banking group built up by her father Emilio.Details of ...
- Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
- The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
- Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
- The Future Always Wins
Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
- New Economies
Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
- Occupy EPA protest planned for March 30
Occupy EPA is marching again. On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 12 noon, they will march from Franklin Square Park (13th & I Sts NW in Washington, DC) to the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (12th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Federal Triangle, Washington DC). There, at 1: ...
- Washington Post's Joe Davidson asks federal ma ...
The commissioned corps of the Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work on the cutting edge of federal research and policy on diseases, medical devices, public health, global warming and our environment. Yet, they fall into an exclusion from ...
- DC Circuit Judges understand Convertino's appeal
Attorney Stephen Kohn today presented oral argument on behalf of former federal prosecutor and whistleblower Richard Convertino (pictured). Convertino is seeking reversal of an order issued last year by Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, DC. That order dismissed ...
- IRS resists using whistleblowers
Whistleblower disclosures have helped the federal government make some of its biggest recoveries from fraudsters. In the Obama administration alone, the government recovered over $21 billion thanks to whistleblowers using the “qui tam” procedure under the False Claims Act. The govern ...
- DC high court says there is no "safe harbor" f ...
In a long-awaited ground-breaking decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals today held that an employer engages in unlawful retaliation when it adds a new demand for a release as a condition for concluding a consulting agreement. The case is Propp v. Counterpart International and LeLau ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Elected Officials Get An Average 1,452% Salary ...
A few months ago, in writing about a fascinating interview between Jack Abramoff and Larry Lessig, we talked about Abramoff's admission that the best way to "buy" a Congressional staffer was to merely let them know that they had a lobbying job waiting for them "whenever they wanted it." He note ...
- Strange: Vote Against Freeing Up Orphan Works ...
One of the unresolved problems of copyright is how to deal with huge numbers of orphan works -- creations still in copyright, but whose owners can't be traced to give permissions that may be necessary for re-use. The European Parliament's JURI committee met recently to vote on a new report on p ...
- No, Saying Musicians Must 'Add Value' Does Not ...
Music lawyer Chris Castle has a talent for totally missing the point and then failing to make one of his own. In a recent blog post, he launches an attack on Michael Geist based on a completely incorrect interpretation of a statement he made to a parliamentary committee in 2010. Geist's position ...
- Copying Leads To Competition, Competition Lead ...
Marco Arment, the creator of the popular read-it-later tool Instapaper, has an excellent blog post discussing copying, innovation, and the best ways to react to competition. Arment discusses a new Instapaper competitor called Readability, which launched last week and received a lot of praise for ...
- New Ruling In Old Righthaven Case Makes Two Im ...
One of the key cases in the Righthaven saga is the case against the Democratic Underground. While it seemed to take a backseat to the Hoehn case, the Democratic Underground case was one of Righthaven's first big overreaches, and was rather important for revealing that the copyright transfer bet ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...
- Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]
- More Revolutionary Than Thou
On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
The video is now up from our protest for the National Day for Prisoners. You can check it out here. Last Friday, anonymous took down The Geo Group’s website and replaced it with a picture of Mumia. I am so incredibly creeped out that corporations have been patenting the human genome. Excel ...
- Los Angeles TV station pans California’s ...
This is a surprise, a major TV station in Los Angeles pushes back against the California Air Resources Board AB32 bill aka California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. I urge readers to drop him a letter of support at the email address … Continue reading →
- Volcanic Disruptions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The claim is often made that volcanoes support the theory that forcing rules temperature. The aerosols from the eruptions are injected into the stratosphere. This reflects additional sunlight, and cuts the amount of sunshine that … Continue reading →
- The End Holocene, or How to Make Out Like a &# ...
Guest post by William F. McClenney This post is essentially an update to The Antithesis and On “Trap Speed”, the ACC and the SNR. The entire non-debate on anthropogenic climate effects has always struck me “as two fleas arguing over … Continue reading →
- Seven Building Blocks To Fairness and Equity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an article in the latest issue of Science magazine, called “Strengthening the UN Agencies In Order To Protect The Authors’ Paychecks” … just kidding, that would be the title if they enforced the “Truth in … Continu ...
- DeSmog Blog headed back to obscurity
The blog that broke created the Fakegate story, only to have it blow up in their faces when skeptics fingered Peter Gleick as the culprit, forcing him to admit that he’d been the one to steal the documents from Heartland, … Continue reading →
- Cancer’s Many Faces of Resistance
The big push in cancer treatment these days is to sample a person’s tumor, test it for mutations, and give the patient a drug tailored to a genetic weak spot in the tumor. A new study suggests one reason why this targeted drug strategy doesn’t always work. A solid tumor, it turns out ...
- Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lo ...
As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, MIT News examines manufacturing’s role in the country’s economic future through this series on work at the Institute around manufacturing. Traditional drug manufacturing is a time-consuming process. Activ ...
- Discovery of brain’s natural resistance ...
A single injection of cocaine or methamphetamine in mice caused their brains to put the brakes on neurons that generate sensations of pleasure, and these cellular changes lasted for at least a week, according to research by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings, ...
- Aging of Eyes Is Blamed in Circadian Rhythm Di ...
For decades, scientists have looked for explanations as to why certain conditions occur with age, among them memory loss, slower reaction time, insomnia and even depression. They have scrupulously investigated such suspects as high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and an inactive lifestyle. N ...
- Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill
Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]
- Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...
- Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country. Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
- Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
- Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
- Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I ...
- Incubating Public Health: Proposed Ban on Batt ...
In the United States, for every citizen, there is roughly one laying hen. The majority of these birds are confined in battery cages, wire enclosures that typically afford each bird a space smaller than a single sheet of letter-sized paper. This system is poised to undergo several major changes. ...
- 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.
- LulzSec-linked STRATFOR hacker appears in court
ShareThisLulzSec-linked STRATFOR hacker appears in court 15 Mar 2012 The Chicago-based hacker who took credit for a devastating computer attack on intelligence company Stratfor made his first appearance in a New York federal courtroom, after his March 5 arrest. Hammond, 27, faces federal charges ...
- Defendant in Rutgers Spying Case Guilty of Hat ...
ShareThisDefendant in Rutgers Spying Case Guilty of Hate Crimes 16 Mar 2012 A jury on Friday convicted a former Rutgers University student, Dharun Ravi, of hate crimes for using a webcam to spy on his roommate kissing another man in their dorm room. The jury also found Mr. Ravi guilty of t ...
- Pentagon: Afghan security breach 'much more se ...
ShareThisPentagon: Afghan security breach 'much more serious' than reported --U.S. military officials withheld news of the attack for 10 hours from reporters who were traveling on the same plane with Panetta, releasing sketchy information about it only after British news media broke the story. 1 ...
- Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About ...
ShareThisDemocratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Use of the Patriot Act 16 Mar 2012 For more than two years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the Patriot Act in a way that wou ...
- Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
ShareThisWhy I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs By Greg Smith 14 Mar 2012 I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. If you were an alien from Mars and sat ...
- VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
- VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
- VRM: The Flu Report
The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
- VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
- Sir Petraeus
16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago. The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague. I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
- Major RED FLAG: Military Cover-up in Afghanistan
16 March 2012 Info just coming out that a 22-year-old Marine was murdered on 01 Feb, about 6 weeks ago, in another insider attack. The military covered it up as if it were combat operations. Lance Cpl. Edward J. Dycus of Greenville, Mississippi was shot in the back of the head by an ...
- Libya Spot Report
16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place. I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...
- Insurgents Used Cell Phone Geotags to Destroy ...
15 March 2012 Here’s a battlefield safety issue that some people have been warning about –and others have been ignoring — for a while now; an enemy using social media and cellphone geotagging to identify the precise location of troops on a battlefield. When you take a photo with your cel ...
- More Mass Murders in Afghanistan
15 March 2012 Got this message from former Marine Tim Lynch, in Afghanistan. Tim's not always polite, but he's a former infantry officer and I listen to him very closely: "The Taliban killed 13 women and children today with an IED in Uruzgan and I think they got 8 yesterday - but that's ...
- Professionals and Torturers
The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
- The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
[This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
- An interview for occupy Toronto
Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
- Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
- The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
- UN rights experts concerned over Mexico enforc ...
[JURIST] The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances [official website] expressed concern [press release] on Wednesday over the state of enforced disappearances in Mexico. The Working Group, a panel of five independent human rights experts, found a "chronic pattern of impunity ...
- Sri Lanka government threatens peace with mino ...
[JURIST] The Sri Lankan government is threatening peace with the minority Tamils in the Northern Province, the International Crisis Group [advocacy website] reported [text, PDF] Friday. The report states that the Sinhala majority is encroaching on Tamil land, and the government maintains an exce ...
- Mississippi lawmakers approve controversial im ...
[JURIST] The Mississippi House of Representatives voted 70-47 Thursday to approve a controversial immigration reform bill [HB 488 materials]. The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" is based off of Arizona's SB 1070 [text, PDF], which has been the subject of national debate ...
- UN joins regional experts in urging countries ...
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Wednesday joined special rapporteurs from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) [official websites] in urging governments around the wo ...
- ICC prosecutor to seek maximum sentence for Co ...
[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] said Thursday that he would seek the maximum sentence for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo [ICC materials]. Lubanga was found guilty [JURIST ...
- Liberal Zionism on the March
TweetThose of you of a certain age will remember seeing old movie newsreels like the March of Time, in which narrators would intone solemnly: “The Allies are on the march!” That’s what today’s news from the world of liberal Zionism reminds me. Later this month, J Street ...
- To War, To War, Fredonia Goes to War!
TweetProbably an inapt title, as a war against Iran will not be a comedy. But I love Marx Brothers films and gag lines and couldn’t help myself. Personally, I also believe that such a war is so ill-advised that I can’t see it as anything but as hapless as Fredonia’s war again ...
- Maariv Reports Cabinet Favors Iran Attack, U.S ...
TweetJust when you thought it was safe to come out from your air raid shelter after Bibi returned from his U.S. foray to stoke up war fever, Maariv raises the temperature to a boiling point. Ben Caspit reports (Hebrew) that the cabinet now has, for the first time, a majority (eight votes for, s ...
- Justice Department Investigating Whether MEK S ...
TweetDid Alan Dershowitz accept blood money (aka speaker’s fee) from the MEK, a designated terror group? If so, he may’ve violated federal law. For the past several years, prominent public figures including leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have accepted hundreds ...
- Israel: the Permanent-War State
TweetIt’s no accident that as soon as Bibi Netanyahu returned from Washington DC, where he apparently was rebuffed yet again in his attempts to wage war on Iran, Israel decided to wage war on Gaza instead. Gaza serves as a punching bag for Israeli leaders when they need some two-bit countr ...
- The Eye On Citrus Show
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
- Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
- What side are you on?
As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
- Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
- Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
- The Unsuitablog Archive
The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
- The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
- You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
- Strikes vs Royal Weddings
There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
- WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
- Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
- Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- LocalWiki Launches TriangleWiki
LocalWiki is incredibly excited to announce that our second focus community, the TriangleWiki, has just launched. Check it out! The TriangleWiki launches with over 1,000 pages -- more than three times the amount that the Davis Wiki had at its launch. Interestingly, the TriangleWiki wasn ...
- Introducing MapBox Streets, a New World Map Po ...
We recently released MapBox Streets, a zoomable web map of the world that's powered entirely by open data through the OpenStreetMap project. Our main focus with MapBox Streets was to provide a beautiful street map alternative to the ones normally seen online, primarily Google Maps, and to make i ...
- How SourceMap Reveals the Backbone of Civilization
A longer version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media's blog. A recent lunch at the Center for Civic Media and MIT Media Lab featured a graduate of the program, Leo Bonanni, and his beloved SourceMap project. He channeled professor Hiroshi Ishii's description of the i ...
- The Faces Behind Public Lab's Grassroots Resea ...
This post was co-authored by Sara Wylie, a a Public Laboratory co-founder. Public Laboratory is an open-source software and hardware development community dedicated to producing low-cost tools for environmental research. The nonprofit portion of Public Lab grew out of using aerial mapping to ...
- At SXSW: Poderopedia, Others Spotlight Civic M ...
Citizen heroes who are recognized by their fellow citizens in Juárez City; how people from Panama fight corruption and denounce violence and crime; what we're building in Chile to show you who's who among the elite and their possible conflicts of interest -- all of these are part of the Latin Am ...
- Afghanistan on Edge - Afghan President Slams U ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is accusing the United States of failing to cooperate in the probe of a massacre of 16 Afghan villagers, allegedly by a U.S. soldier. President Karzai met with tribal elders and family members of those killed in Sunday's shooting spree in Kandahar province. He said ...
- Federal Budget: What Congress Must Do to Contr ...
As the national debt races toward $17 trillion and nearly 13 million Americans search fruitlessly for work, America needs bold changes from its leaders. Congress must get federal spending and borrowing under control and get out of the way of job creation in the private sector. Congress should dr ...
- Russia on Edge - How the U.S. Should Respond t ...
The U.S. and Russia have come to diplomatic blows in the U.N. Security Council over Syria as political upheavals and transformations irrevocably alter the strategic landscape in the Middle East and North Africa. In an unprecedented rhetorical escalation, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice announced that ...
- The Digital Edge - Belfast Summit Important in ...
One of the world's leading Internet security experts, Eugene Kaspersky, has described the World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit at Queen's University Belfast as key in preventing a Cyber World War. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of the largest antivirus company in Europe, Kaspers ...
- IBM Now Stands For International Brutal Murderers
A stunner indeed to learn of the accusations--firmly back up, contained in the book IBM and the Holocaust (see IBM’s Role in the Holocaust—What the New Documents Reveal, Page One, February 28, 2012). How is it this escaped the notice of so many? It appears that IBM's long and arduous relatio ...
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
- CBO Report on 2013 Obama Budget:WE'RE SCREWED!
The deficit in 2009 was $1.4 trillion. Technically that year falls under George Bush's administration, but $800 billion was the stimulus plan passed by Obama and the Democrats. So to be fair, let us assume that what Obama meant by cutting the budget in half by the end o ...
- Newsbusted Exclusive: Obamacare Nominated for ...
In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that two Obama signature programs have been nominated for major awards; Obamacare has been nominated for five awards and the stimulus for three. So cross your fingers and watch Comedy Central's Second Annual Comedy awards to see ...
- MASS MURDER!! Wind Farms Killing Thousands of ...
If there is ever a CSI for birds, the wind farms and solar panel arrays will be in big trouble Grassroots environmental groups, such as Save Western Ohio, are expressing serious concerns about the negative environmental impacts of wind power. The groups emphasize seve ...
- An Interview with Thomas Sowell
Economist, social critic, political commentator and author, Thomas Sowell is one of today's leading libertarian voices. A reformed Marxist, Sowell is a strong believer in limited government. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and his ...
- If Israel Was Under Attack How Come No Israeli ...
Cross-posted from The IDF Site One of the most popular yet misleading arguments made during the escalation is that Israel was not actually under attack, as proven by the low number of Israeli casualties. “If Gaza was truly a threat,” goes the reasoning, “there would be more ...
- Lost Principles and Social Destruction
“…we are here dealing with a totalitarian state of which the philosophy included an utter contempt for the individual… any freedom of thought or action was inconceivable in the Aztec world… dependence and instability were absolute, fear reigned. Death lurked ceaselessly everywh ...
- The Student Debt Bubble
By BRIAN KOENIG | THE NEW AMERICAN | MARCH 13 2012 As more and more young people graduate from college with mounds of unresolved loan debt, financial experts and bankruptcy attorneys are calling the progressively worsening dilemma the “next debt bomb.” According to a new su ...
- US approves Monsanto’s massive biotech e ...
GMO corn variant threatens to infest the continental US and beyond with transgenic organisms RT | MARCH 16, 2012 The US government has for the first time signed off on a large-scale experiment involving genetically modified crops, which will lead to biotech big shot Monsanto introducing an ...
- ISP’s to start policing the web July 12
RUSSIA TODAY | MARCH 15, 2012 Some of the biggest Internet service providers in America plan to adopt policies that will punish customers for copyright infringement, and one of the top trade groups in the music biz announced this week that it could begin as soon as this summer. The chief ex ...
- Homo Evolutis: The Demise of Humanity
Can there be evolution when humans will turn into robotic beings without the capacity to reproduce or to have free will? The problem is, this process has already begun, and no one seems to notice. by LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 15, 2012 The most effective tactics for inva ...
- Town of Wilmington appeals Deerfield wind turb ...
WILMINGTON- The town has appealed the US Forest Service’s decision to approve the construction of 15 wind turbines on two ridgelines on Green Mountain National Forest land in Searsburg and Readsboro. In an appeal filed on February 24, the town claims the Forest Service failed to consider impacts ...
- Howard County schools scrap wind turbine plan
Howard County School officials say they will lose out on nearly $3 million after parents petitioned against building a wind turbine in the area. About 250 residents presented the Eastern Howard School Corporation school board with a petition this week opposing installation of the turbine, which ...
- Residents insist on being heard; Crowd overflo ...
The Planning Board of the Town of Madison held its regularly scheduled meeting on March 7 at the Town Hall. Planning Board members are Roger Williams (Chair), Paul Crovella, Bruce Tanner, Mitch Hoffmeister, John Mancino, James Finch, and Ted Modrzejewski. Town Attorney William Gettman also atten ...
- Senate dumps wind energy tax break renewal
An attempt to extend a federal tax break for wind energy production beyond the end of the year in Wyoming and elsewhere failed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. While supporters of the tax break will likely try to bring the extension back to life, its most recent death likely counts as a blow to de ...
- Renewable energy will cost grid more: MIT
Researchers found that, even now, increasing amounts of intermittent renewables are forcing grid operators to order cycling of fossil fuel thermal plants in order to keep the grid balanced. While natural gas combustion turbines can start and stop fairly quickly, coal and nuclear plants were desi ...
- Definition: Social media
I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
- Resources for learning about social media
I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
- Resources for learning about social media
I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
- People see value in curation
I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
- People see value in curation
I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
- It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
- On Stratfor
Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous. Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs. After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
- Justified Pessimism
is not, in fact, pressimism. It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd. We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes. We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
- Justified Pessimism
is not, in fact, pressimism. It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd. We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes. We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
- Sewage
Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual? Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
- Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
- US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
- NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
- Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
- Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...
- Rick Santorum’s Ugly Appeal to Rural Voters
Not all of them are “clinging to guns and religion,” as Barack Obama famously said in 2008, but Rick Santorum has catapulted to the top of the Republican field by connecting with a bitter streak among rural voters. This is bad news for the Republican party and for rural America, which in ...
- The Sorry State of American Transport
We constantly read about the infrastructure crisis in America. I’ll have more to say on this at a future date, but it is pretty clear that we need to spend more money in a whole lot of areas: airports, roads and bridges, public transportation, and more. Yet it’s very easy to see that so ...
- The Republican Party's Fatal Attraction To Rur ...
Rick Santorum’s big wins in Alabama and Mississippi place the Republican Party in ever greater danger of becoming hostage to what has become its predominate geographic base: rural and small town America. This base, not so much conservatives per se, has kept Santorum’s unlikely campaign a ...
- Measuring the Impact of Apple and the App Economy
We all know about the explosion of Apple tech products, the ever-expanding number of mobile applications in the App Store — and the near $100 billion in cash that Apple is hoarding. Yet one question that has gone mostly unanswered is how many jobs Apple has generated (and supported) with its ...
- Honolulu’s Money Train
Honolulu is set to construct an ambitious urban rail project. It’s a $5.125 billion behemoth that this metropolitan area with less than a million residents may not be able to afford. Honolulu's Beleaguered Residents Critically, there is plenty of competition for the scarce dollars that Hon ...
- GM cotton touted for West Africa
Is genetically modified cotton really the new "white gold"? Peter Dörrie http://www.peter-doerrie.de/2012/03/16/is-genetically-modified-cotton-really-the-new-white-gold/ In an interview with Jeune Afrique (French) Jean-Paul Sawadogo, the head of the national textile association of Burkina Faso, ...
- Rajasthan bans GM trials
Rajasthan bans GM trials Latha Jishnu Down to Earth, March 31 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/rajasthan-bans-gm-trials *Bureaucrats sit on file, while GM mustard sails through RAJASTHAN is in the eye of a storm over its policy on genetically manipulated (GM) crops. Questions are bei ...
- New report damns India's GM crop regulation
NOTE: An explosive new report on the safety assessment of Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) by Prof. Jack Heinemann has been submitted to India's Minister of Environment and Forests. Its findings suggest the regulation and official expertise brought to bear on GM crops are either grossly incompete ...
- Monsanto funding the Science Media Centre
1.Extracts from new article on the SMC 3.Fiona Fox - a profile 3.Fiona Fox - a hoax call 4.Submission to the Board of the SMC NOTE: Monsanto is now among the funders of the UK's Science Media Centre. http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm More information about the SMC can ...
- Monsanto stooge supports GM crops
1.Sharad Joshi supports Bt cotton 2.Sharad Joshi - a profile EXTRACT: ...although Shetkari Sanghatna and KCC are presented as 'mainstream' farmers' movements, in reality Joshi and his organisations have had an increasingly small constituency and typically represent only large local landowners g ...
- The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
Rampant silver manipulation? Rampant gold manipulation? Rampant LIBOR manipulation? Hiding MF Global client assets? These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm. The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...
- 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not ...
Are you better off today than you were four years ago? If not, then you are just like most other Americans. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today" than it was ...
- 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place ...
Would America be a better place without Goldman Sachs? Of course it would. The "vampire squid" of Wall Street does not care about the future of America. Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients. What Goldman Sachs is all about is making ...
- Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Do ...
All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday. They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are takin ...
- Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are ...
How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely? Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going ...
- Combating desertification in Burkina Faso (Vid ...
My newest video / Ma vidéo la plus récente : http://youtu.be/qF8AXyJDYiE 1988-12 BURKINA FASO – PROJET DE REBOISEMENT Mission d’évaluation du projet de reboisement du Comité Maastricht-Niou (Pays-Bas). Trois volets de plantations aux alentours des écoles de Goabga, Tabsega et … ...
- Strong candidates for the production of advanc ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314101245.htm Fragrant New Biofuel: Researchers Develop a New Candidate for a Cleaner, Greener and Renewable Diesel Fuel ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2012) — A class of chemical compounds best known today for fragrance and flavor may one day &# ...
- Development of crops better able to withstand ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315094457.htm Plants ‘Remember’ Drought, Change Responses to Survive ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2012) — Plants subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks to their memories of the experience, new ...
- We are all small farmers (IRIN News / UN News ...
Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95080/GLOBAL-Joined-up-thinking-on-water-energy-and-food Joined-up thinking on water, energy and food and http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41553&Cr=food+security&Cr1= Unleash potential of small farmers to improve food security, says Ba ...
- Interconnections between various sectors or di ...
Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95080/GLOBAL-Joined-up-thinking-on-water-energy-and-food GLOBAL: Joined-up thinking on water, energy and food JOHANNESBURG, 15 March 2012 (IRIN) – Africa’s third longest river, the Niger, is a source of water, food and energy for nine West African c ...
- FACT CHECK: President Obama's fake quote from ...
President Obama unjustly criticized a dead Republican president — Rutherford B. Hayes — by putting words in Hayes’ mouth that he never uttered.Obama, speaking about his energy policies at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md.,said:Obama, March 15: "There always have been folks who are ...
- Grim torture tales from Syria
Many reports of violence by pro-Government forces in Syria have been at arms length, and rarely given in detail.
- Colombia vows to clean up coltan mining
After an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists expose about paramilitaries involvement in the coltan trade, Colombia is moving to curb illegal mining of the highly sought after mineral.Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, travelled to the lawless southeastern corner of ...
- GOP super PAC men seek to overturn donation limits
As unlimited contributions flow into super PACs this year, one man is at the center of a new effort to allow people to donate more money, to more candidates, at the national stage.“I don’t believe government is there to limit us,” Shaun McCutcheon told iWatch News.McCutcheon is a 44-year-old gen ...
- Options for cervical cancer check depend on age
Forget one-size-fits-all advice: Guidelines out yesterday give women choices for cervical cancer testing that depend on their age.Once recommended every year, many major medical groups have long said that a Pap test every three years is the best way to screen most women, starting at age 21 and e ...
- 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 ...
- Italy: NO TAV against fascism!
18629209_forza-nuova-notav-la-strategia-dell-0.jpg Last Friday 9th March, a small number of militants from the neofascist group Forza Nuova (“New Force”) protested outside the offices of the newspaper ...
- White Supremacist Rally Shut Down!!!
tumblr_m0ivhf3Rsj1qz8zwdo2_500.jpg On March 3rd, a white supremacist group tried to hold a rally in Duluth, MN to spread their message of hate. Anti-fascists locally and from around the state, along with members of the American Indian Move ...
- Report on the recent South African miner's strike
freesouthafrica.jpg Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a timeline and a bit of background info ...
- Poland: Jola was Murdered one Year Ago
jola.JPG Housing activist Jolanta Brzeska was murdered one year ago, burned alive in the Kabacki Forest. She had been fighting against the landlords, notorious slumlords Mossakowski and Massalski and was the only old tenant left in the bui ...
- Poland: Jola was Murdered one Year Ago
Housing activist Jolanta Brzeska was murdered one year ago, burned alive in the Kabacki Forest. She had been fighting against the landlords, notorious slumlords Mossakowski and Massalski and was the only old tenant left in the building. She was abducted from her apartment and murdered violently ...
- Back in the USSA
I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write. That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
- The Gladiators
Editors Note: B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch. At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
- War Groupies
This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program. The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B. Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well. As I deal with agen ...
- THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
Editors Note: This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...
- EFP’s
During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home. The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines. EFP’s were a big prob ...
- Election Process is RIGGED – There is no ...
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin - Original Eomite Master of the Vote Hoax! See http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm They have to make it “look official” – they want the  ...
- Christian TRUTH AND LOVE Shining Through in Ed ...
Say hello to Miko Peled – a true Israeli HERO in so many ways!!! If only his voice could be heard all over Israel and America. If only he were Israel’s Prime Minister. If only his honor and integrity could be contagious to all Edomite Zionists!! If only!! The Middle East, Ir ...
- Christian TRUTH AND LOVE Shining Through in Ed ...
Say hello to Miko Peled – a true Israeli HERO in so many ways!!! If only his voice could be heard all over Israel and America. If only he were Israel’s Prime Minister. If only his honor and integrity could be contagious to all Edomite Zionists!! If only!! The Middle East, Ir ...
- Netanyahu Speech at AIPAC – Sounds Like ...
Listen to this blatant Edomite PROPAGANDA!!!! Indeed, it is time to call a Duck a Duck Sir!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GnDbA5r0pc What the esteemed Prime Minister fails to mention, of course are these most salient facts: 1. Israel has nukes – reportedly the 5th largest arsenal in ...
- Netanyahu Speech at AIPAC – Sounds Like ...
Listen to this blatant Edomite PROPAGANDA!!!! Indeed, it is time to call a Duck a Duck Sir!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GnDbA5r0pc What the esteemed Prime Minister fails to mention, of course are these most salient facts: 1. Israel has nukes – reportedly the 5th largest arsenal in ...
- HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren UE Bailout
Learn the Issues, Get the Facts Missouri Nuclear Agenda and Fair Energy Rates HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren Bailout Ameren is asking Missouri businesses and residents to bail them out for costs they have already incurred and plan to incur in the future which do nothing to produce energy or pr ...
- Reduced Solar Prices-March Madness Solar Prices!
March Madness Solar Prices! On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: March Madness Solar Prices!Our BEST PRICING EVER is now available for our industry leading Westinghouse Solar AC 235watt module, complete with an in ...
- New Policy Brief- Middle Income Financing for ...
Increasing Middle America’s Access to Capital for Energy Improvements While middle income Americans have historically invested in improvements that maintain and increase the value of their homes, they have seen an important source of financing – the equity in their properties – evaporate at the ...
- Health Benefits of Plants in the Work Place
Introducing living plants into your work place can actually have a large positive effect on your psychological and physical health. Keywords: Flowers, Bouquet, Volatile Organic Compounds, Pollution, Office Having plants in your work place does more for you than simply providing something pretty ...
- CAD Deck Design
Features: Pergola, Bench Seat, Topiary, and Hot Tub Computer Aided Drawing- Deck design by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy
- A Close Look at Gene Sharp’s Past
(This is the fourth of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) There is no question that Thierry Meyssan’s 2005 article on Gene Sharp&# ...
- Why the Government Funds the Peace Movement
Stephen Gowans (This is the third of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) In my last blog I discussed Stephen Zunes’ strongly wor ...
- The Seven Year Brouhaha over Gene Sharp
Thierry Meyssan (This is the second of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) The current brouhaha over Gene Sharp was initially triggered by ...
- Why the CIA Funds Nonviolence Training
Nonviolent guru Gene Sharp (This is the first of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) One important aspect of the debate over “ ...
- The Female Face of Poverty
Happy International Women's Day Today (March 8th) is International Women’s Day. This year the UN has declared the theme “Empower Rural Women: End Hunger and Poverty.” According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), women comprise 43 percent of agricultural wor ...
- The End of Men
Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
- Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
- Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
- THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
- 'Gratitude'
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...
- Marriage problems? PTSD?
The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians Sunday was drinking and stressed from a failing marriage the night he went on his alleged rampage, The New York Times reported. Quoting an anonymous U.S. government source, The Times said the 38-year-old staff sergeant was on his fourth to ...
- Occupy, furniture unwelcome at BofA
Five arrests, furniture impounded, anti-capitalist sentiment, street theater and vast police accompaniment: All in a day's work for Occupy Wall Street as it builds back up regular actions for a spring resurgence.On Wednesday around 100 Occupy supporters, matched by at least as many police, met b ...
- Syria’s year of revolution
The Syrian revolt is now one year old.Activists say more than 8,500 people have died while the Syrian regime continues to blame foreign-backed terrorists and gangs for the unrest. In the major population centers of the country, including Damascus and Aleppo, however, life remains largely calm.Gl ...
- Those mean Dems are tricking the GOP again
I left for vacation a few hours after wrapping Super Tuesday coverage on Salon and MSNBC. I came back to Groundhog Day in March: Rick Santorum won more states on the latest primary night, Mitt Romney kept racking up delegates, Ron Paul chugged along, and Newt Gingrich refused drop out, even thou ...
- Our immoral drone war
One news story last month generated two distinct headlines: "AP investigation Finds Drones Kill Far Fewer Civilians Than Many Pakistanis Are Led to Believe" and "Fresh Evidence of CIA Civilian Deaths in Pakistan Revealed."Both headlines rely on the same data, but reach entirely different conclus ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Students clash with police during Chile protest
Chilean students calling for education reforms in the South American country have clashed with police during a protest rally in the capital Santiago. Thousands of high school students marched in downtown Santiago on Thursday to demand a better and equitable education system, including free educa ...
- US could punish India for buying Iranian oil
The White House could impose sanctions on India if the country fails to meet the US demand to cut oil imports from Iran. As the US is trying to deprive Tehran of its leading source of revenue, India continues to resist US pressure. President Obama could be forced to bar access to the US banking ...
- SWIFT financial service cuts Iran off
SWIFT, the Brussels based transaction provider, announced it has been instructed to cut services to Iranian financial institutions that are subject to European sanctions, in order to comply with the EU Council directive. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, ...
- British MP: Iran regional superpower
A British Conservative MP has admitted saber rattling and sanctions are “having no effect whatsoever” on Iran saying everyone should quit “yesterday’s policies and recognize “Iran’s status as a regional superpower.” “The policy of saber rattling and sanctions has not worked. They are yesterday’s ...
- US extends unilateral sanctions against Iran
Barack Obama once again signs a presidential order to extend for another year American sanctions, dating back to 1995, against Iran, as he considers the Iranian government a threat to US national security, foreign policy and economy. “Because the actions and policies of the government of Iran co ...
- Report: Osama Ordered Obama Assassination Forc ...
As if Obama was prepared to run a lemonade stand… Osama Bin Laden ordered a hit on Barack Obama forcing “totally unprepared” Joe Biden into the presidency. The Washington Post reported: Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and P ...
- Peyton Manning Will Take Part In A 'Workout" F ...
It seems we may be finally nearing the end of the Peyton Manning Free Agent Derby. Maybe. According to ESPN, Manning will take part in a "workout" for the Denver Broncos . Broncos officials are traveling to North Carolina today, where Manning is rehabbing at Duke University. The traveling staff ...
- Yankees Sign Andy Pettitte Out of Retirement
Andy Pettitte has come out of retirement to sign a minor league deal with the Yankees , tweets Jack Curry of YES . The 39-year-old left hander, who retired following a 2010 season in which he went 11-3 with a 3.28 ERA in 21 starts, has signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract with his old club. ...
- Fridaygram: observing origami, beaming neutrin ...
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Google provides many different services and products, but the ones I hear about most from my non-technical friends and family are search (of course) and Google doodles . This week’s cool doodle celebrated the work of origami master Akira Yoshizawa ...
- Movie Review: '21 Jump Street'
21 Jump Street Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube Directed by Phil Lord, Chris Miller Rated R The title 21 Jump Street is a throwback to the show in basically name only; there's very little here to remind you of the drama starring a young Johnny Depp that aired over 20 years ago. Th ...
- Open Source Comes to Textbooks
College professors are ready to reinvent the textbook. The new price: $0...One of the most serious efforts is a project called OpenStax College, based out of Rice University. Later this month, it will release two textbooks: College Physics and Introduction to Sociology. The textbooks will r ...
- Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. - TED
- A new target for tech patent trolls: cash-stra ...
Patent holders will file a lawsuit about anything under the sun these days, but a man named Martin Jones has embraced an alarming new strategy-suing cash-strapped American cities over their bus-tracking systems. The most recent suit was filed last week, claiming that Portland's TransitTracker s ...
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated. Our wor ...
- Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial int ...
Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. The annual Association for Computing Machinery ( ...
- California university system is crumbling
Steve Lopez of the LA Times relays the sad news that the once univerally admired California college and university system has fallen apart so much that parent’s are sending their children out of state, and current college students sometimes can’t graduate because so many classes have ...
- Afghanistan sergeant shooter
The government is going to great lengths to imply the atrocity shootings of civilians in Afghanistan were the work of a deranged lone gunman. The spin is, as always, that the mission of our wars are sacrosanct and must not be questioned. Thus any derangement must only be due to the sad actions o ...
- TSA: your theater review for the week
Published as headpiece for: "In Quarantine" by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Collier's weekly, July 27, 1907. ( Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. )Over at the TSA, another week, another edition of what they’re now calling Week in Review. Here’ ...
- Are student loans the next debt crisis?
How much money goes to paying off student loan debt that could be used to buy a house, and how many seek high paying jobs so they can pay off the loan? And then of course they become debt slaves living in fear of losing their jobs and not be able to make payments on [...]
- Girlschool – Yeah right
- Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
- Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
- What's new in the publishing biz!
... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
- Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
- The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
- Fukushima II
As I posted earlier, I was able to spend a day in Fukushima on Wednesday. I was able to talk with a couple of the local Mayors as well as a number of locals known to the MP I was travelling with. It was illuminating and I’d like to record a few observations. The first is at [...]
- Industrial disputes explained…
This one goes out to all the workers in Oceania rest homes, AFFCO meat works across the country, and at the Ports of Auckland where the legacy of Rodney Hide’s Superpoopercity is now doing you over: Fight the good fight for decent wages and conditions. The Green Party will back you all th ...
- Education that Works for Students
This week John Key and David Shearer made key note speeches which included references to education. The rhetoric around education flowed freely but I couldn’t hear any depth or real excitement in either speech. Setting targets for NCEA improvement (which is the Government’s plan) and getting of ...
- Nanny Goat Gruff does employment prep – Part 4 ...
Among the changes proposed for sole parent benefits is the ability for Work and Income to require a parent to engage in preparation for work once their child is three or four. Exactly what this might mean is somewhat unclear. It appears to include work experience, budgeting, short courses as wel ...
- Fukushima Diary
Photos and tweets from my March 14th trip to the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, where they are still feeling the devastating effects of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear accident one year on.
- Eating Canned Food Shown to be Linked to Heart ...
By Dr. Mercola If you have high levels of the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in your urine, you may be at an increased risk of heart disease, according to new data from a long-running British health survey. People who developed heart disease also tended to have higher urinary concentrations of B ...
- Ignore This Deficiency... And Become 3 Times M ...
By Dr. Mercola This is a really important study as it is one of the first large trials that examined the relationship of vitamin D supplementation on that of overall death rate. Previous studies have correlated vitamin D levels but most of that was related to vitamin D levels raised n ...
- This Vitamin Might Ease Menstrual Cramps
By Dr. Mercola At least half of reproductive-age women suffer from painful menstrual cramps that begin shortly before the start of menstrual flow and continue for several days. For some the pain is a mild annoyance, but for others it can be so severe that it interferes with daily activities ...
- Doctors Prove This Test Can Give Healthy Peopl ...
By Dr. Mercola The Nordic Cochrane Center has put out a leaflet that every woman should read, explaining the potential benefits and potential harms of mammographyi. They point out that recent studies suggest mammography screening is not effective in reducing your risk of dying from breast c ...
- The "Safe" Garden Product that Can Destroy You ...
By Dr. Mercola Have you ever used Roundup to kill weeds in your lawn or garden? As the most widely used herbicide in the United States, there's a good chance you have. In fact, millions of pounds are used every year on U.S. gardens, lawns and, extensively on farms growing genetically modi ...
- Amazon road spells disaster for Indians
The proposed road threatens some of the world's last uncontacted tribes in Brazil and Peru. © Survival Peru’s largest protected area is on the verge of being invaded by a road, which threatens to destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people. The proposed project would cut throu ...
- Leaked map reveals Ethiopia’s mass evictions plan
Two Dassanach girls in the Omo Valley. They are one of many tribes under threat. © Survival Ethiopian authorities have inadvertently revealed the existence of highly ambitious plans to resettle Lower Omo Valley tribes who stand in the way of a massive plantations scheme. The map was includ ...
- 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 ...
- #BingeAndPurge: Teen Tics, Viral Picks, Hunger ...
#Audio: The Curious Case of Teen Tics In Le Roy, NY - The Mystery of 18 Twitching Teenagers in Le Roy* Push to make Australia Asia's food bowl* Bad Food: Illnesses from Imported Food Are on the Rise, CDC Says* How do we avoid 'pink slime' in our ground beef?* Why Americans Are Ang ...
- SXSW Chronicles: 'Food Porn' Goes Digital
from huffingtonpost.com: In a foodie town like Austin where food truck masters rival BBQ venues, it would be a missed opportunity if SXSWi didn't place a spotlight on a national obsession: the digital sharing of food. You know what I mean, whether it's on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Pinteres ...
- Still a 'Fast Food Nation': Author Eric Schlos ...
from thedailybeast.com: More than a decade has passed since Fast Food Nation was published, and I’d love to report that the book is out of date, that the many problems it describes have been solved, and that the Golden Arches are now the symbol of a fallen empire, like the pyramids at Giza. Sadl ...
- Nitrate Contamination Threatens California's D ...
from civileats.com: Today, the Food & Environment Reporting Network–the first and only independent, non-profit, non-partisan news organization that produces investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health in partnership with local and national media outlets–published i ...
- Better supplies to drive world food prices low ...
from reuters: Improved grain supplies will help lower food prices this year after sharp rises in 2011 and take the wind out of price volatility, easing inflation concerns, a senior official at the United Nations' food agency told Reuters on Monday. Over the next decade, however, prices are set t ...
- The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
source: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
- Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
- Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
- The changing face of the church
source: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
- Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
- The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
Rampant silver manipulation? Rampant gold manipulation? Rampant LIBOR manipulation? Hiding MF Global client assets? These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm. The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...
- 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not ...
Are you better off today than you were four years ago? If not, then you are just like most other Americans. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today" than it was ...
- 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place ...
Would America be a better place without Goldman Sachs? Of course it would. The "vampire squid" of Wall Street does not care about the future of America. Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients. What Goldman Sachs is all about is making ...
- Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Do ...
All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday. They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are takin ...
- Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are ...
How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely? Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going ...
- Quote of the Day: 13th March 2012
"Today, yet another British citizen is being sold down the river by the British Government. The US is coming for the young, the old and the ill and our Government is paving the way." - The mother of 23-year-old Richard O'Dwyer speaks out as Theresa May and David Cameron continue to subvert th ...
- 'British Bill of Rights' scam: Commissioner re ...
We hate to say we told you so but... how do we put this to you gently? We told you so. The 'British Bill of Rights' scam - designed to muddy the waters regarding our existing English Bill of Rights and drive us towards governance by the European Union - is exposed as a Parliamentary sovere ...
- Obama facing impeachment for alleged "high cri ...
An attempt at the impeachment of President Obama has begun in the U.S. after Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina filed a resolution which alleges that Obama has engaged in: "...the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress" which " ...
- Oh joy! Come celebrate the wonderful disaster!
Seems most mainstream media sources are spinning the line of the 'successful' Greek debt swap. Amidst complex financial shenanigans that seem fishier than fresh Greek bacalao, only the bravest dared attempt any interpretation or explanation as last night's deadline to voluntarily call the Gr ...
- Ken Clarke's Charter To Bump Off Anti-Landmine ...
Much fuss has been made over the last few days, quite rightly too, about Bilderberg attending Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans for "secret justice". Faced with widespread criticism, the Bilderberger has today - according to The Independent - "attempted to quell growing concerns over propo ...
- Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- Oil Rush RTS Game Becomes Ubuntu's Most Downlo ...
Linux is no stranger to high value paid apps. But gaming has always been Linux's Achilles heel. Things are slowly changing with the arrival of a number of top-notch games into Linux through Ubuntu Software Center. Software Center may not be an Android Market in terms of quality or quant ...
- 10 Most Creatively Designed Apps for Android: ...
Android Market aka Google Play is growing exponentially. Over 600,000 apps of all sizes and shapes already. But what are the apps that really stand out from a design stand point? Which all are the Android apps that comes with the most beautiful UI? Let's take a peek at 15 of the most innov ...
- MComix: Really Good Comic Book Reader for Ubuntu
MComix is a fork of now defunct Comix project. MComix aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements to Comix project since its development came to a halt in late 2009. MComix is basically a highly customizable image viewer designed specifically to handle comic bo ...
- N7 Music Player for Android is a Thing of Beauty
There are plenty of music player apps for Android. But one of the issues that plague most of the popular Android music players is the fact that, they all look more or less the same. There is virtually zero innovation on the UI front. N7 Music Player changes everything. It has got a unique, use ...
- Android Market is Now Google Play, Play Shop A ...
Ever since the Larry Page became the CEO, Google is on an aggressive consolidation mode. Google Play is the latest in a serious of such moves. Google intends to bring its movies, music, books and android apps under one umbrella via Google Play. Having said that, Google Movies, Music and Books ...
- Oil is pretext for the USA to go to war with I ...
*Canada is the USA’s largest exporter of oil, supplying 25% of all US oil imports, admits EIA *49% of all US oil imports come from the western hemisphere *Only 18% comes from the Persian Gulf, Straits of Hormuz almost irrelevant to US oil imports *12% of US oil imports come from Saudi Arab ...
- MORE TWISTS IN KAMPUSCH PAEDOPHILE RING COVER UP
*Vienna State Prosecutors try to smear Werner Amon ahead of key report highly likely to recommend new investigation into Kampusch paedophile ring *Amon hits back, accusing state prosecutors of political justice, and threatening to sue them *Kampush’s father to bring civil case against Erns ...
- Why do the Globalists keep trying?
*Globalists latest ploy against me fails as miserably as all the others *Vienna state prosecutors forced to drop charges for embezzlement and harrassment against me because absolutely no evidence – something that should have been noticed at the start of the investigation, allowing me to su ...
- Irish students suffering from narcolepsy face ...
Students suffering from narcolepsy face into exams without back-up By Evelyn Ring Friday, March 09, 2012, Irish Examiner Children who developed narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine are facing exams with no supports in place, it has emerged. Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ire ...
- Irish parents call for report on swine flu jab ...
Irish Times – Friday, March 9, 2012 Parents call for report on sleeping disorder PAMELA DUNCAN and FIONA GARTLAND PARENTS OF children who have contracted the sleeping disorder narcolepsy through, they believe, receipt of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, have called on the Government to fur ...
- Bioethics Professor: Drug The Population Into ...
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, March 13, 2012 A new paper to be published in Ethics, Policy & Environment argues that serious consideration should be given to mass drugging the population to make them more environmentally conscious while also proposing that babies should be ge ...
- Flu Vaccine Causes Death Of 7 Year Old Kaylynn ...
By Alexander Higgins Even though many of studies link the disease that killed little Kaylynne Matten to the Flu vaccine, information about her death is being suppressed. While the fight against the industrial medical complexes forced medication of children maybe an abstract idea for most the sto ...
- Conned 2012: Joseph Kony Is A CIA Contractor
By Saman Mohammadi According to former European MP, journalist, and author Richard Cottrell, the Lord Resistance Army is backed by the CIA and Mossad. The author of the blog aangirfan writes: “In Uganda, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, ‘which is a US an ...
- The Dostoyevsky Pause on the Doubt Couch
By Les Visible Day by day it is becoming more and more apparent to me that things are exactly what they are supposed to be. That doesn’t mean what they could be. It means that what is, is the logical result of the total contribution. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can [...]
- Breaking! Las Vegas, Nevada. Ron Paul Delegate ...
by bobspirit Chairman Gibbs brought the meeting to order by asking for any Santorum supporters to please raise their hands. A handful of people raised their hands. Then he asked for Gingrich. He got 2 handfuls. When he asked for Romney, his people clustered near the front of the main room raised ...
- Washington's Warlords
When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
- The Taiping Civil War
In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
- It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
- America Agonistes
The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
- The Color of Authority
We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...
- United States: The Great Reconciliator
Voice of Russia March 16, 2012 U.S. – the Great Reconciliator Boris Volkhonsky Edited by RR ==== One can only wonder how long all this will last, and how many more deaths among Afghan civilians and U.S. servicemen are needed for the U.S. authorities to realize that the war has been lost irrevers ...
- Afghan Women, Children Killed In NATO Chopper ...
RT March 16, 2012 Afghan women and children killed in NATO chopper crash (VIDEO, PHOTOS) http://on.rt.com/s/iframe1.htmlGet short URL http://rt.com/s/swf/player5.4.swf The wreckage of a Turkish helicopter is seen after it crashed in to a residential neighborhood of Kabul on March 16, 2012 ...
- Stop NATO news: March 16, 2012
==== NATO Arctic War Games: Norwegian Military Aircraft Goes Missing NATO Attack Kills Pakistani Civilian; Four Others Arrested NATO Enhances Interceptor Missile System From One End Of Europe To The Other Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Two-Week War Games Afghanistan: Pentagon Chief Inspects Georgian ...
- Up To 20 U.S. Troops Executed Afghan Massacre: ...
Pajhwok Afghan News March 15, 2012 Up to 20 US troops executed Panjwai massacre: probe By Bashir Ahmad Naadimon KANDAHAR CITY: A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday’s killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province. The probing delegat ...
- Current Crisis: New Multipolar World Or More U ...
Voice of Russia March 15, 2012 Current crisis as a test for a multi-polar world Alexey Pilko ==== t is enough to recall the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999…The principle of might is right prevailed. None of the NATO countries even bothered to call a meeting of the Security Counc ...
- Standing Army – A Journey Into The World ...
[For 100 years, revolutionaries have identified imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism -- marked by the domination, and export, of finance capital, thereby dominating and controlling economic, political, military, and cultural affairs on a global scale. Earlier forms were characterized ...
- Anti-COINTELPRO demonstration at Nebraska Stat ...
By Michael Richardson, COINTELPRO Examiner http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/anti-cointelpro-demonstration-at-nebraska-state-capitol-for-the-omaha-two March 15, 2012 | Omaha — Several dozen demonstrators spread a 30 foot banner across the entrance to the Nebraska State Ca ...
- Infiltration Of Political Movements In USA (Pa ...
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers 15 March, 2012 This is Part II of a three part series “Infiltration of Political Movements is the Norm, Not the Exception in the United States” on infiltration of Occupy and what the movement can do about limiting the damage of those who seek to de ...
- InfiltrationTo Disrupt, Divide And Mis-direct ...
By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers 25 February, 2012 This is Part I of a three part series “Infiltration of Political Movements is the Norm, Not the Exception in the United States” on infiltration of Occupy and what the movement can do about limiting the damage of those who seek t ...
- Justice for Afghan victims “… as if it w ...
by Paul Woodward, writing in War in Context, on March 13, 2012 “The United States takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens, and our children, who were murdered,” President Obama said today, referring to the 16 Afghan citizens who were apparently killed by a single American soldier b ...
- Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
- Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
- No Fly Zone Over Palestine
As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
- No Fly Zone Over Palestine
As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
- For Love
I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...
- Life is change and change is life
And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
- Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
- De-pinkifying breast cancer
There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
- Why the occupation?
You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
- Cleansing after Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
- Burger King Announces Home Delivery
The No. 2 in fast food burger chains, Burger King, has just announced that they will be delivering hot and fresh food straight to your doorstep in a few locations in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. This is a test for these areas.Contributor: K. Luane Holt Published: Jan 18, 2012
- Occupy Gathers in West Portland
Occupy Portland held neighborhood meetings around the city last weekend, bringing activism into the heart of West Portland and reaching a new audience.Contributor: Cate Patricolo Published: Jan 18, 2012
- Factbox: Costa Concordia, Titanic, Eerie Paral ...
A comparison factbox look on two luxury cruise ships in the news with striking parallels. One suffered a recent disaster on January 13 hitting a reef. The other famous ship struck an iceberg and will celebrate its centenary this year on April 14-15.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jan 17, 2012
- Zappos.Com Hack Affects 24 Million Customers
Zappos.com was hacked and this has left 24 million customers vulnerable. Payment data, such as full credit card numbers, are said to not be affected, but other critical personal information may have been.Contributor: R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen Published: Jan 16, 2012
- 'The Artist' Wins Three at the 69th Annual Gol ...
"The Artist" dominates the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, with three wins. The award show presented awards to newcomers and veterans taking on different roles.Contributor: Cicely A. Richard Published: Jan 16, 2012
- The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
It's a gloomy March day outside, but this week's image roundup is a particularly cheerful one. Look at that colorful, wet little guy up top! Also this week: Japanese tourists try to drive to an island without the benefit of a bridge or tunnel and get stuck in the mud, a man buys an iPad and is a ...
- Images of the Week, March 12-16, 2012
- Video: The First Living Animal Ever Imaged Wit ...
Bombarded with electrons and sealed in a vacuum, the noble tick survived the ordeal You didn’t wake up this morning thinking that a tick under a scanning electron microscope was going to be the coolest thing you saw all day, and yet here you are. After discovering some ticks alive inside a vacu ...
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A milestone in personalized medicine For more than two years, Stanford University geneticist Michael Snyder donated his living body to science. He and fellow researchers examined his DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites, creating an incredibly detailed profile of his personal “omics.” They watch ...
- Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Ov ...
It’s long been known that birds have a sense for the Earth’s magnetic field and can use it to aid in navigating their long migratory routes across the continents, but researchers at Oxford University and the National University of Singapore think their innate navigation tools are even cooler tha ...
- Drought order update
The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
- Global temperature update
Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
- Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
- February's huge temperature contrast
Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
- Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...
- Mobile Phones 4 Everything, Water Security Edn
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- Iceland Considers Dollarization (Canadian $ Th ...
More so in years long past, many countries used to adopt the US dollar as their own to assume the benefits conferred by the world's standard currency. Among other things, these included liquidity, price stability and being a reasonable store of value. While an independent monetary policy was for ...
- Jackson-Vanik, Cold War US-Russia Trade Irritant
I recently visited Singapore and was given a quaint reminder of days gone by when, while checking into my hotel, I noticed a separate registration section needed to be filled by unmarried guests sharing the same room. Quibble if you will with the moralistic tone of this practice, but it's defini ...
- Boeing Flies High With Chinese Over EU Emissions
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- Yanks Never Learn: US Imports Hit Record High
This has to be the most ridiculous story I've seen all week long. One that once again demonstrates that you don't have to go much further than the Yahoo! News front page for IPE-relevant material. For all the hot air about "global rebalancing," the Yanks seem to be repeating the Bushite formula ...
- The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
Rampant silver manipulation? Rampant gold manipulation? Rampant LIBOR manipulation? Hiding MF Global client assets? These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm. The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...
- 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not ...
Are you better off today than you were four years ago? If not, then you are just like most other Americans. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today" than it was ...
- 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place ...
Would America be a better place without Goldman Sachs? Of course it would. The "vampire squid" of Wall Street does not care about the future of America. Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients. What Goldman Sachs is all about is making ...
- Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Do ...
All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday. They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are takin ...
- Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are ...
How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely? Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going ...
- Students clash with police during Chile protest
Chilean students calling for education reforms in the South American country have clashed with police during a protest rally in the capital Santiago. Thousands of high school students marched in downtown Santiago on Thursday to demand a better and equitable education system, including free educa ...
- US could punish India for buying Iranian oil
The White House could impose sanctions on India if the country fails to meet the US demand to cut oil imports from Iran. As the US is trying to deprive Tehran of its leading source of revenue, India continues to resist US pressure. President Obama could be forced to bar access to the US banking ...
- SWIFT financial service cuts Iran off
SWIFT, the Brussels based transaction provider, announced it has been instructed to cut services to Iranian financial institutions that are subject to European sanctions, in order to comply with the EU Council directive. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, ...
- British MP: Iran regional superpower
A British Conservative MP has admitted saber rattling and sanctions are “having no effect whatsoever” on Iran saying everyone should quit “yesterday’s policies and recognize “Iran’s status as a regional superpower.” “The policy of saber rattling and sanctions has not worked. They are yesterday’s ...
- US extends unilateral sanctions against Iran
Barack Obama once again signs a presidential order to extend for another year American sanctions, dating back to 1995, against Iran, as he considers the Iranian government a threat to US national security, foreign policy and economy. “Because the actions and policies of the government of Iran co ...
- Taste of justice at last for state victims, bu ...
The most horrifying evidence in recent weeks from a West Australian inquiry into the reign of terror of convicted serial child rapist Dennis McKenna at the head of a state run hostel at Katanning is not about the abuse itself, but about the complete and utter betrayal of dozens, possibly hundred ...
- Catholic Church has no business policing itself
Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
- How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
- Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
- Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...
- 2012-03-15 #WikiLeaks News Update: #Manning's ...
Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 468 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 464 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 662 days. Bradley Manning News: Bradley Manning's motion hearing began today. Here are some ...
- 2012-03-15 Denver Nicks about his upcoming #Ma ...
TweetI recently spoke with journalist and author, Denver Nicks, about his upcoming book, Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History. Nicks says that he has an agreement with one of his sources to publish the book after the verdict, and ...
- 2012-03-15 Live Blog and Transcript in Process ...
TweetLive Blog March 15, 2012 9:05 a.m. I am situated in the press pool at Fort Meade, MD, preparing to transcribe a live transcript of Bradley Manning's Motion Hearing. WiFi is not allowed during proceedings. I will compose throughout and post, when I am able. 9:38 a.m. proceedings begin. L ...
- 2012-03-12 #WikiLeaks News Update: MP speaks o ...
Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 465 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 462 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 659 days. WikiLeaks News: Australian MP Jamie Parker gave a speech to the Parliament of New ...
- 2012-03-10 Interview with Chase Madar, journal ...
TweetChase Madar is the author of the recently published book, The Passion of Bradley Manning. Madar is a civil rights attorney, who also writes for the London Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique, The American Conservative (where he is a contributing editor), CounterPunch and TomDispatch. H ...
- The Magic Weed
Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
- Blood Coltan
Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
- CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
- Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
- HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
- Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.
- NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
- Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
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- Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona̵ ...
- Agenda 21... United Nations Slave Treaty
The Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development is Agenda 21 on steroids. If you take the word 'Environment' out of the title (which seems to be thrown in to placate you), and call this the International Covenant on Development, you will more clearly see the intent of ...
- Confirmed... Ohio Earthquakes Caused by Fracki ...
In addition to drinking water contamination, earthquakes can now be added to the harmful consequences of the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to the Ohio state government. read more
- GASLAND
The film begins in rural Pennsylvania... Josh Fox, writer and director of this documentary received a letter from a gas drilling company interested in leasing his land for $100,000.00 to extract natural gas... ~ Full Length Documentary read more
- Pennsylvania - Act 13... The Nation's Worst Co ...
Pennsylvania, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed and where the U.S. coal, oil and nuclear industries began, has adopted what may be the most anti-democratic, anti-environmental law in the country, giving gas companies the right to drill anywhere, ...
- Dying Banned!... Italian Mayor Bans Dying Due ...
The mayor of small town in Italy’s south has surprised residents with an order that seems impossible to obey... Don't die, the local cemetery is short of space! read more
- First Aid Kits
First aid kits can be made up of a wide variation of contents, a collection of supplies and equipment, all for use in giving first aid. First aid kits may be made up of different contents based on purpose and the knowledge and experience of those putting it together and the requirements of the a ...
- TSA Gropers Show Compassion?
Does the TSA have a heart? Is the TSA finally coming to their senses regarding the groping of passengers? Well, I will let you decide after you read about what we heard on the CBS news the other night. Have these gropers developed compassion? I doubt it! So, on the CBS news was a little [...]
- J.P.Morgan Chase Whistleblower – Cascadi ...
There was a stunning comment (letter) left today on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission website that ‘apparently’ verifies from a JPMorgan Chase employee what many people already believe regarding the conspiratorial aspect of the relationships and manipulations between the ...
- Security Lighting – Tips and Considerations
In the field of home security, security lighting is usually effective as a preventive measure against burglary, intrusions or other criminal activity on a piece of property. Security lighting will provide detection of intruders, it will deter intruders, and will provide a sense of security and t ...
- The Best Way To Store Fuel?
Reader question: What is the best way to store fuel, gasoline or kerosene? I was thinking of burring a 55 gallon drum with the top at ground level, with a hand pump for access. Do you paint the drum with tar? What do you suggest on both issues? Gasoline is probably the hardest fuel to store [...]
- Fast Talk: When Is A Startup Like An Attack Su ...
Meet Roy Gilbert, a former Googler and the CEO of "social learning" company Grockit, who finds similarities between his experience aboard a nuclear attack sub and the world of Silicon Valley.Roy Gilbert is the CEO of Grockit, a 3-year-old social learning company that aims to make test prep more ...
- Good Bosses Are The Same Today As They Were In ...
In a world of near-constant innovation and disruption, the definition of a great boss (or leader or manager) may be the one thing that doesn't require reinvention. This is the fourth in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss, a New York Times best-s ...
- TEDTalks Now On Netflix, Security Companies Ig ...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.TEDTalks Now On Netflix. Netflix and TED are partnering up to stream a selection of TEDTalks Shows in 14 categories. Shows consist of mini episodes that can each be played separately. --NS--Updated 9:15 a.m. Security ...
- Life Or Death Decision-Making: What Businesses ...
Gail McGovern, the president and CEO of the American Red Cross, assumed leadership of this iconic organization at a particularly tough time. In 2008, when she was chosen from among 170 candidates, the institution’s reputation had been tarnished by the response to Hurricane Katrina and by a strin ...
- The Key To Austin's Success
Susan Davenport, senior vice president of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, tells Fast Company how the city--home to the uber-popular SXSW festival--stays vibrant. [twistage a61f4ef0faa88]Want more great ideas from top entrepreneurs? Our cameras were at SXSW; check out more videos on 30SecondMBA.& ...
- Investigations Around Libya: NATO's Craven Cov ...
Ten days into the uprising in Benghazi, Libya, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council established the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. The purpose of the Commission was to “investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in Libya.” The broad agenda was ...
- What's Left of Tahrir Today
A little over a year after becoming a national symbol of unity, Tahrir Square has become a very lonely place. Amid the complete absence of the state in the iconic square, those who chose to continue residing in it feel abandoned and isolated. The public often blames the square’s residen ...
- Syria Media Roundup (March 15)
[Media Roundups" on Jadaliyya are intended to showcase some of what is being written in the English and Arabic media. The content does not reflect the views of the respective page editors. Please send suggested links to post@jadaliyya.com] “The film festival in exile: Dox Box Globa ...
- New Texts Out Now: Stephen Day, Regionalism an ...
Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Stephen Day (SD): This book had a long gestation period, so answering this question is a bit complicated. I ...
- On Israeli Attacks and Gaza Ceasefires: Democr ...
As Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip reportedly agree to a ceasefire after four days of cross-border violence, we speak with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the online publication, “The Electronic Intifada.” Earlier today, an Egyptian official said both sides have pledged to ...
- Obama fundraising blitz stars Tyler Perry ...
President Barack Obama makes a two-city, five-stop reelection fundraising blitz on Friday, jetting to his hometown of Chicago for a pair of events and then on to Atlanta for three more, including one featuring R&B star Cee-Lo Green and another at the home of actor and director Tyler Perr ...
- Toyota announces hike in car prices
Toyota Kirloskar Motors Pvt Ltd has announced a hike in car prices across its entire line-up for India, following the hike of excise duty by up to 27 per cent. The average increase in price ranges from 2 to 4 per cent. ...
- 10 Most common potential poisons for your ...
In 2011, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) in Urbana, IL, fielded more than 165,900 phone calls about pets exposed to poisonous substances. Sunday, March 18 marks the 50th anniversary of National Poison Prevention Week. Now is the perfect time to learn about the ten most common p ...
- President Obama to breeze in and out of C ...
This weekend, as Republican presidential candidates inundate Chicago and its suburbs prior to next Tuesday’s primary, President Barack Obama will be coming to his hometown for about three hours on Friday afternoon to do some campaigning and fundraising of his own. According to the president’ ...
- Why Obama shouldn't bother to woo Georgia ...
Typically, a presidential candidate wants to get the most votes for his fundraising dollars. On Friday, President Obama will arrive in Atlanta, GA to attempt to woo the state's pop culture voters and others. But it would take a lot of his campaign money to accomplish that feat, especially si ...
- Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
- 10 Best British Open Performances
Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
- Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- 3/13/12 - ProCon.org has been used by teachers ...
www.procon.org - - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and administrators in 2,522 schools in all 50 states and 45 countries. Thank you to the educators in those 508 elementary and middle schools, 1,295 high schools, and 719 colleges and universities who benefit from our free educa ...
- 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
- 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...
- 2/28/12 - NL MVP Ryan Braun Successfully Appea ...
sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Ryan Braun Becomes First MLB Player to Successfully Appeal a Positive Drug Test - National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned on Feb. 23, 2012 because of a delay transferring his sample to the testing lab. His testosteron ...
- 2/17/12 - "Did You Know?” Little Known Facts a ...
2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...
- Bulgur: Natural Weight-Loss Food
This Middle Eastern staple sounds more exotic than it is; bulgur is what’s left after wheat kernels have been steamed, dried, and crushed. This cereal grain has been a food staple for years because it offers an inexpensive source of low-fat protein, making it a wonderfully nutritious addit ...
- Sex-Deprived Flies Seek Swig Solace
Sexually frustrated fruit flies preferred alcohol-laced food more than their satisfied compatriots did. Cynthia Graber You know the scene—it’s a Friday night, and your date just canceled. You’re bummed, maybe a little hurt. You think now might be a good time for a beer, maybe a bourbon. And you ...
- Why Finish Books?
Tim Parks “Sir—” remarked Samuel Johnson with droll incredulity to someone too eager to know whether he had finished a certain book—“Sir, do you read books through?” Well, do we? Right through to the end? And if we do, are we the suckers Johnson supposed one must be to make a habit of finishing ...
- Tips from John Steinbeck
On the value of unconscious association, or why the best advice is no advice. Maria Popova “If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to … Read& ...
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Michael Wood There are texts that seem to require a certain craziness of us, a mismeasure of response to match the extravagance of their expression. But can a mismeasure be a match? All we know is that we don’t want to lose or reduce the extravagance but can’t quite fall for it either. An exampl ...
- Human enhancement and the future of work
Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work. It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
- New Trends in Think Tanks in China
Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
- UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
- Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy. Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
- Revolutionary science
This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...
- TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...
- TSA responds to viral video about body scanners
A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology). I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures. For obvious se ...
- STOP ACTA: things you can do right now
This document and video presentation outlines steps you can take right now to help put a stop to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which poses a serious threat to our freedom and national sovereignty. For additional information and links on ACTA, please click here. We need a new appr ...
- TSA Tacitly Admits $1 Billion Dollar Body Scan ...
The Transportation Security Administration has tacitly admitted that the critical flaws brought to light in a viral You Tube video yesterday which exposed how airport body scanners could easily be beaten are accurate, rendering the entire $1 billion dollar program virtually worthless. Engineer ...
- Mom With Breast Pump ‘Humiliated’ ...
A mother in Hawaii was "humiliated" when she felt she needed to pump breast milk in the open area of an airport bathroom in order for a TSA agent to permit her to get through security with her breast pumping equipment. "I'm in a dress, in heels and I find myself in front of ...
- Exploring a Filipino Fish Market
© Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is fifth and final part in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. After meeting with Marybeth in Lanuza, our crew headed back to Butuan City, where we split up – Paul to Manila on his way back to the UK, and Fel, Lito and myself to Cebu. Fel, a prid ...
- Victory! Alibaba.com Stops Selling Manta Ray P ...
Image via Wikimedia Commons. We have great news to share with you today! We recently asked you to help us protect manta rays from being made into leather by asking Alibaba.com to take manta ray products off their website. Nearly 40,000 of you responded by signing our petition, and Alibaba lis ...
- Securing the Future of Filipino Fishers
Rare fellow Marybeth Rita leads a meeting with fishers. Editor's note: This is part 4 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. The last site we visited was overseen by Rare conservation fellow Marybeth Rita. Marybeth has a tough job because her campaign covers three towns separated by ...
- Oceana Celebrates SeaBlue in Florida
Martin Stepanek, Alexandra Cousteau, Wyland, Jim Simon. ©Oceana/Steven Shires After recently joining Oceana as a senior advisor, I traveled with the team to Fort Lauderdale last week where we hosted our first major South Florida event, SeaBlue. We had a great time and let me say, it was a hug ...
- Stop the Sale of Manta Ray Leather
Manta ray. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Manta rays are one of the most fascinating and unique ocean creatures. As the largest of all the rays, giant manta rays can reach up to 22 feet. But we have been shocked to discover that Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business-to-business commerce ...
- Romney Blasts Maher After Giving Limbaugh a Pass
I’m officially sick of this subject, but some details matter. Sean Hannity served up the quote from Mitt Romney, which the National Journal reported: In an appearance on the Sean Hannity radio show, Romney said, “Frankly, what Bill Maher said, and I finally read the transcripts, I was offe ...
- Like Reagan, Obama Cites False History Quoting ...
“One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: ‘It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?’ That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore.” – Pres. Obama Talk about gafferiffic. New York Magazine‘ ...
- “Early Start” on CNN
At the crack of dawn, I’m booked to be on CNN’s “Early Start,” hosted by Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin. Two segments during the 5-7 a.m., with other panelists, which are scheduled for the bottom of both hours.
- Pennsylvania’s Gov. Corbett on Ultrasound Mand ...
- “Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader,” ...
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Two, semi-related stories caught my eye, both using big doses of irony and satire. I’ll start with some suggestions for the Democratic party. It’s remarkable how many of us harbor the myth that elections engage core i ...
- Angry Turk's Message for Europe: "We are Coming"
A second-generation Muslim immigrant in Austria has authored a provocative new book in which he argues that Europe's future is Turkish, whether Europeans like it or not. The book's short, sharp and confrontational title says it all: "We are Coming." The
- Muslim Persecution of Christians: February 2012
Half of Iraq's indigenous Christians are gone, due to the unleashed forces of jihad [holy war]. Many Christians fled to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack from al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians
- Assad Regime Gains Momentum As Opposition Show ...
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by their recapture of most of the opposition stronghold Idlib, attacked opposition hotbeds in different parts of Syria on Wednesday as the opposition began to show signs of fracture with the
- How to Get Elected in the Palestinian Territories
It is not clear at this stage when and if new presidential and parliamentary elections will ever be held in the Palestinian territories: The two major Palestinian parties, Fatah and Hamas, have yet to end their power struggle and agree on the formation
- Democracy Has Failed, "Caliphate is the Answer"
Even though in Tunisia the Islamist party Hizb-ut-Tahrir [HuT] -- Party of Liberation -- is officially banned, it was able to organize a large international conference, entitled "The Caliphate, Bright Example for the Rights and Political Role of Women."
- NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
- AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...
I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
- AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
- RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
- FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...
Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
- Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
- Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
- New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
- BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
- Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
- NRDC in the News 3/15: NY fracking regs, food ...
NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In an Associated Press piece carried by the Wall Street Journal, Eric Goldstein predicted that it will take the New York Department of Environmental Conservation many months to review the proposed re ...
- Oil and gas industry--increasingly out of touc ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest oil and gas trade association, announced its opposition to new Clean Air rules proposed by the U.S. EPA. As I discussed in a bl ...
- Natural gas supply need not be adversely affec ...
Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York We disagree with the recent report from the American Petroleum Institute (API) claiming that the upcoming finalization of EPA’s proposed rule will stifle natural gas production, due t ...
- Restoring Parity Between Public-Transit Users ...
Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. One of the pieces of good news about the transportation bill passed by the Senate this week is that it restored the tax break for employees who commute by public transportation. ...
- The Memo That Wasn't: Chemical Industry "Dirty ...
Phil Gutis, Director of Communications, New York City The calls started coming in late in the day Monday. Curious. Concerned. Angry. People wanting to know about that damning “leaked memo” that had posted on the Web. My colleagues and I ...
- Downtime
Hi folks, apologies for there not being anything in the news feed yesterday and no daily update today. My new job’s demands on my time made it impossible for me to work on the news feed. I hope to capture the reports we missed and fold them into today’s reports. If you see anything [...]
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, March 14, 2012: Washington Co OR SWAT team shoots neighbor of suspect during raid when he mistook the cops for intruders [0] http://bit.ly/x94V03 Bullhead City AZ cops, including ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct we were able to gather in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 13, 2012: Joliet IL cop arrested after fired for repeatedly punching a woman in the face on video during a domestic dispute call [0] http://bit.ly/zCg2old Fulle ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 12, 2012: Chicago IL settles suit for $3.6mil to man who falsely confessed to murder after tortured by cops for 30hrs [0] bit.ly/zTkWfe Louisiana state trooper sentenced to 9yr ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-10 ...
Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 10-11, 2012: Readstown WI police chief who was arrested while on the run in Nebraska for using badge to sexually abuse women is now accused of molesting a young boy and will ...
- Iran to fire 11,000 missiles at US, Israel if ...
The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon says his country has the capability to fire thousands of missiles at enemy bases in case of an attack against the Islamic Republic. Ghazanfar Roknabadi said Iran is keeping a watchful eye on the slightest possibility of a military threat, and would fire 11,000 m ...
- US bunker-busters, aerial refueling for Israel ...
American sources disclosed Tuesday March 6, that President Barack Obama had decided to let Israel have weapons systems suitable for long-range military operations and strikes against fortified underground targets. They include four KC-35 aerial refueling aircraft, doubling the number already in ...
- Israeli spies oppose Iran war: Former US envoy
Former US ambassador to Tel-Aviv says Israel’s intelligence agencies do not suggest a military strike on Iran, despite the fact that Israeli politicians push for it. “The really interesting thing about the Israeli situation is…that the heads of the three Israeli intelligence services do not seem ...
- Eastern Libya declares autonomy
Cyrenaica, the eastern region of Libya, has elected a regional congress and declared semi-autonomy from the capital Tripoli. The “blatant call for fragmentation” of the country was condemned by Libya’s ruling NTC. Thousands of major tribal leaders and militia commanders attended a celebrat ...
- US Defense Secretary: US will take Military Ac ...
US defense secretary Panetta says US will take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons if all else fails Source.
- Australia's twist in the wind
Denmark's renewable energy achievements and its ambitious targets demonstrate a serious plan to lead the world in tackling global climate and energy security. Wind turbine technology will power half of its plan. At the end of last year, Denmark announced that it will increase its shar ...
- Climate Spectator: Stifling a FiT Aussie solar ...
Germany now has over 30 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic panels on its rooftops. The sheer scale of deployment means that over 4 per cent of the nation's electricity will come from rooftop solar power this year. This industrial-scale solar rollout, created by Germany's innovative policy support s ...
- Cairns and Brisbane, QLD: Two-Speed Economy - ...
Everyone has heard how good the mining industry is for Queensland but is this actually the case? The world’s largest coal mine is being developed 400km inland from Cairns, with a proposal to ship coal through the Whitsundays. There is no doubt that it will destroy existing jobs in tourism and a ...
- Australian Climate Leadership - Volunteer Oppo ...
Are you sick of hearing that “Australia is only a small part of the climate problem”, that “we shouldn’t act before the rest of the world”, and that “our actions won’t make any difference anyway”? BZE is challenging these excuses for inaction with a new report that aims to expose the true extent ...
- Hans-Josef Fell at ANU
German member of parliament Hans-Josef Fell, the key architect of the world's most successful renewable energy policies (feed-in tariffs) spoke at the Australian National University in Canberra last week. Below is a recording of his talk.
- Scientists say massive palm oil plantation wil ...
Eleven top scientists have slammed a proposed palm oil plantation in a Cameroonian rainforest surrounded by five protected areas. In an open letter, the researchers allege that Herakles Farm, which proposes the 70,000 hectare plantation in southwest Cameroon, has misled the government about the ...
- Ministry of Forestry signed off on clearing of ...
Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry signed off on a plan by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers to log areas of forest that contained protected ramin species, according to documents released by Greenomics-Indonesia, an activist group. The micro-delineation documents, which are required to win approv ...
- Investigation links APP to illegal logging of ...
A year-long undercover investigation has found evidence of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) companies cutting and pulping legally protected ramin trees, a practice that violates both Indonesian and international law. Found largely in Sumatra's peatswamp forests, the logging of ramin trees (in the genus ...
- Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainfo ...
Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in some of the world's most critical forest areas, warns a report published last week by the Unio ...
- Climate change could increase fires, logging, ...
The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Drying rainforests due to climate change could lead to previously inaccessible forests falling to loggers, burnin ...
- Musa Tarawally blasts VP Sam Sumana
Musa Tarawally, Minister of Internal Affairs has come out in an open attack on the personality of Vice President Sam Sumana (in photo)whom he described as his enemy. According to sources close to the Internal Affairs Minister, the Vice President is engaged in defaming him and that he is a victim ...
- Theo Nicol – I will be the best Mayor for Freetown
Theo Nicol is a veteran journalist who has served in various media houses. He has also been one of the most prolific writers and has contributed to important issues affecting Sierra Leone. In this interview, Mr. Theo Nicol (in photo) talked with Sierra Express Media about his commitment, his po ...
- Ernest Bai Koroma’s divided government!
In the world of politics in Sierra Leone, innuendoes, rumours and other underhand tricks form part of the intrigues in political affairs. The same with the situation that is seemingly occurring in the corridors of power at State House, and this brings me to the issue of Musa Tarawally and the cl ...
- Airtel Friendzy ends this Sunday
Leading mobile telecommunications company Airtel will end their ‘Friendzy’ promotion on Sunday 18th March at the Alafia Beach Bar, Lumley. The Friendzy promotion started mid December with a float parade at Lumley beach. Speaking with the Corporate Affairs Manager June Rose Johnson (i ...
- Uman Tok with Princetta Williams
The case of women continues to be a matter for concern in all parts of the world, but more especially in Africa, and specifically in Sierra Leone. Here in Sierra Leone, we can say that we are moving from a position of disbelief to that of trust with our men folk. Office of the 1st [...]
- Wall Street Pimps and Whores Story Extends Far ...
Much has been written these past few days about allegations of impropriety at Goldman Sachs. For example, I commented on the Parasitic Behavior of Goldman to Its Clients. Some defended Goldman, however, there really is no defense. Worse yet, the problem goes far beyond Goldman to Merrill Ly ...
- California Tax Revenues Plunge; Businesses Exi ...
California Tax Revenue Plunges Inquiring minds have noticed a huge plunge in California Tax Revenue for the month of February compared to February 2011. That is a 22.55% plunge in spite of the fact that this February was a leap year adding a day to the calendar. Madeline Sc ...
- "Curbs Needed to Avoid China Property Chaos" S ...
JPMorgan analyst Adrian Mowat says Chinese Economy Already in 'Hard Landing' “If you look at the Chinese data, you should stop debating about a hard landing,” Mowat, who is based in Hong Kong, said at a conference in Singapore yesterday. “China is in a hard landing. Car sales are down, cement ...
- Executive Director of Goldman Sachs Resigns Ov ...
Greg Smith's op-ed in the New York Times "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" is precisely the catalyst that will eventually bring reform to the securities industry. Denial Coming Up Unfortunately, neither the Fed nor the SEC has any inclination to do anything about industry-wide fraud ...
- "Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb Cheers Ron Pa ...
Inquiring minds are listening to a CNBC video interview with Nassim Taleb, author of the book "The Black Swan". Link if video does not play: Nassim Taleb Cheers Ron Paul's Economic Platform on CNBC This quote says it all: "Only one candidate, Ron Paul, seems to have grasped the ...
- 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 15 ...
BFP Nightly Quote “But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” – Adolf Hitler International ...
- 9/11 in the Courtroom: Heads or Tails?
What Will Happen Today? A hearing is scheduled today in a federal district court in New York City in a 9/11 case still winding its way through the court system. The case was brought by thousands of relatives of people killed on 9/11, as well as insurance companies exposed to heavy losses. The ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 14 ...
BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...
- Afghan Heroin & How to Add Up the Numbers
The Big Guys’ Share vs. the Little Guys Share’ According to news reports the Turkish government seized 4.6 Tons of Afghan heroin and 46 Tons of Hashish in the year 2011 alone: Turkish police seized 46.9 tons of hashish and 6.4 tons of heroin in 2011, the semi-official Anatolia news agency report ...
- Is Obama a Fraud?
The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
- The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
- Silently Waiting
The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
- Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
- Get ready, get set, go!
2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia. As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
- Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
- A Call for the Disavowal of Splittism
When someone within the broad framework of social justice espouses views that are repugnant to others within a social justice movement, disavowal of such views is fair.1 Attacking the holder of the repugnant views would be overstepping the lines of decency. Nevertheless, it is bizarre that mass ...
- War: The Larger Atrocity
I went to turn her over and there was a little baby with her that I had also killed. The baby’s face was half gone. My mind just went. The training came to me and I just started killing. Old men, women, children, water buffaloes, everything. We were told to leave nothing standing. We did [...]
- Does Labor Have Any Real Friends?
Despite well-meaning attempts at mitigating or sugar-coating it, organized labor has always known, deep-down, that the only true friend it had was labor itself. Yes, the Democrats have thrown a few crumbs its way, and yes, academics have eloquently given voice to the Movement, and yes, non-unio ...
- Barack Obama is a One-Term President
You would certainly know Yvonne Ridley or at least heard her name if you have been a regular follower of Press TV, especially in Britain, albeit before the state-run media regulator Ofcom took the news network off the Sky platform, depriving millions of Britons of the opportunity to watch a TV c ...
- Censoring the Netizen: The Enemies of the Internet
What a fabulous world we live in. Reporters without Borders has been busy putting together a list of international outcasts who have violated the sanctity of internet freedom, and come up with a decent gaggle. 2011, the organisation claims, was the ‘deadliest year’ for ‘netizens’. Hop onto th ...
- Ron Paul Draws Massive Crowd Of 5000 In Illino ...
GOP presidential contender Ron Paul continues to draw massive crowds as he campaigns across the country. Yesterday saw almost five thousand people turn out in Illinois to see the Congressman, while his rivals can only draw crowds in and below the hundreds. Paul’s supporters will once again be ...
- U.S. Soldiers asked to disarm during Leon Pane ...
[The Destructionist: Panetta tells U.S. troops to lay down their arms under the guise of safety? Who's safety...his? (I gather he knows that the troops saw his testimony the other day before the Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing where he declared that he and President ...
- DARPA Unveils Drone-Slaying War Laser
DARPA is unveiling a portable laser weapons system, HELLADS, which seems like something out of a sci-fi movie. The new laser application, created by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems with a custom power system from Saft Batteries, will help change the way the American military fights future w ...
- Nigel Farage On Europe: Determined But Delusional
In one of his most vociferous speeches (which is saying something for the eloquent Englishman), UKIP’s Nigel Farage takes his peers in the European Parliament to task on their “determined yet delusional” attempt to keep the Euro propped up (as they desperately avoid using the ‘D’-word – default) ...
- Mmm…Yum…. Pink Slime (beef paste ...
In perhaps the most amazing display of unmitigated gall since the Journal of Beef Products Inc., simmers the trimmings in low heat, separates fat and tissue by spinning it at high speed, sprays it with an ammonia compound to kill germs and then freezes it. Pediatrics declared mercury ‘ ...
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