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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, March 16, 2012

16 March - RSS SnapShot! Part II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Spain's Jobless Unite for Solutions and Survival
    Unemployed people's movements and associations in Spain are proposing alternatives to official job seeking channels, in the midst of an economic crisis that so far has left more than five million people out of work.
  • Q&A: Expo 2012 to Focus on Protecting World's ...
    The United Nations, which is hosting a major international summit on the global environment in Brazil in late June, points out that while the world's oceans account for 70 percent of the earth's surface, only one percent of this area is protected.
  • Brazilian Prosecutors Try to Bypass Amnesty to ...
    A group of young lawyers in Brazil's public prosecutor's office are seeking to break through the wall created by the amnesty law that blocks the investigation and prosecution of serious human rights violations committed during the country's 21-year military dictatorship.
  • Urban Chicken-Keeping Movement Spreads Its Wings
    With increasing concerns about the economy and environmental sustainability on the minds of many U.S. citizens, leaders in the grassroots movement to promote urban chicken-keeping report a renewed interest in their cause.
  • Helping Child Cancer Patients Reintegrate in C ...
    The days of doctors, needles and uncertainty seem far-off to Elián Acosta, a Cuban boy who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006 and is in remission. Now the challenge is for him to be reintegrated into the community without being seen as "different."

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Former Bush official warns against Iran attack
    Summary: Another voice against war in Iran is heard and from perhaps an unexpected source. Former Bush administration National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley warned against an attack on the Islamic Republic yesterday. “If something needs to be done, it is not military action,” said Hadley ...
  • The Illusion of Attacking Iran
    Summary: War is where illusions go to die. This was true of Vietnam and the war in Iraq. It is being ground into us every day in Afghanistan. At this moment, those who want Israel to mount an air attack on Iran's nuclear facilities are counting on mass amnesia. But forgetting the lessons of ...
  • The "Existential Threat" to Israel Is Israel
    Summary: The nearly complete mastery of U.S. politics that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again displayed in Washington last week belies a dark reality for the Jewish State. That is the startling prospect that it has sown the seeds of its own destruction, one which will come to its ...
  • Top ten media failures in the Iran war debate
    Summary: Although failures haven't been as egregious as the New York Times and Washington Post's wholesale swallowing of the Bush administration's sales pitch for war in 2002, on the whole the high-end media coverage has been disappointing. Here are my Top Ten Media Failures in the 2012 Iran ...
  • Hollywood in Homs and Idlib?
    Summary: Do people want to go behind the velvet curtain and see the strings – or are they content to be simply led by the entertainment? source: Veterans Todayread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Star Cluster at ...
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see with the naked...
  • New NASA Discovery: "Alien Life can Use Many T ...
    New NASA research has just answered a huge question: will alien photosynthesis use the same pigment--the same wavelength of light-- as on Earth? Everyone knows that we as humans literally owe the air we breathe to the greenery around us....
  • "Is Our Solar System in a Region of the Univer ...
    A currently popular idea is that many universes exist, each having its own set of physical laws. A 2011 study suggests that even a slight change in the laws of nature means they weren't ‘set in stone' when our Universe...
  • Enigma of the 1987 Supernova Explosion
    Supernova 1987A exploded on February 23, 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Because of its relative proximity to us (a mere 168,000 light years) SN 1987A is by far the best-studied supernova of all time. Immediately after the discovery was...
  • View Today's Hot Tech News on Twitter, Yahoo, ...
    'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by our major sponsor, IDG News Service. We hope you enjoy their video presentation, above right,...

Natural News

  • USDA plans to keep feeding 'pink slime' to you ...
    After garnering nationwide attention for being secretly added to processed hamburgers and beef products, including those served in school lunchrooms, "lean finely textured beef," aka "pink slime," is reportedly on its way out from the menu offerings of McDonald's, Taco...
  • Doctor from MMR controversy wins High Court ap ...
    The U.K. General Medical Council's (GMC) rash and unfounded decision to strike Professor John Walker-Smith, who had helped Dr. Andrew Wakefield in treating desperately-ill children with regressive autism symptoms and severe gastrointestinal problems, off the medical...
  • Dr. Russell Blaylock reveals secrets of MSG to ...
    Health Ranger Mike Adams sat down recently with Dr. Russell Blaylock, noted neurosurgeon, author and foremost authority on excitoxins such as MSG and aspartame, to discuss the dangers of these substances for NaturalNews TV. In the interview, Blaylock talks about monosodium...
  • Hemp Can Save the World - new music video rock ...
    Here on NaturalNews, we often spend so much time talking about what's wrong with the world that we sometimes neglect to give sufficient attention to the real solutions that exist right in front of our eyes. One of the most powerful solutions for sustainability, abundance...
  • Afghanistan massacre by U.S. sergeant reveals ...
    The recent massacre of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a rampaging U.S. military sergeant has something in common with nearly every school shooting in the USA -- something the mainstream media typically refuses to report: These shooters frequently have a history of psychiatric...

Threat Level

  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    The National Security Agency's immensely secret project in the Utah desert will intercept, analyze, and store yottabytes of the world's communications—including yours.
  • Senators Demand DOJ Release Secret Spy Court R ...
    Two Democratic senators urged the Obama administration Thursday to declassify secret court rulings that provide broader interpretations of the domestic spy law known as the USA Patriot. A secret tribunal known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court has issued classified rulings about ...
  • Real-Name Registration Threatens the Lively Wo ...
    Twitter-like services are hugely popular in China, and though there is much censorship, people have found clever ways to speak out. But that may change in the face of a new, more stringent policy designed to clamp down on free expression where other methods have been less successful. In a move ...
  • FBI Can’t Crack Android Pattern-Screen Lock
    Pattern-screen locks on Android phones are secure, apparently so much so that they have stumped the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau claims in federal court documents that forensics experts performed "multiple attempts" to access the contents of a Samsung Exhibit II handset, but faile ...
  • Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Sur ...
    In 2010 the FBI issued more than 24,000 national security letters to ISPs and other companies, demanding they hand over information on more than 14,000 customers. The letters come with a built-in gag order that prohibits the company from disclosing to customers or anyone else that it has even re ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Drops "Obama Bear Market" Myth as Dow Hits ...
    Despite a mountain of data and the overwhelming consensus of economists to the contrary, Republican leaders including House Speaker John Boehner and would-be President Mitt Romney continue to falsely claim "Obama made the economy worse." But another tried and untrue GOP talking point about the ...
  • Oregon, Massachusetts Gains Bolster Obama Heal ...
    The Affordable Care Act is working. 2.5 million more young adults ages 19 to 26 now have health insurance. The shrinking of the Medicare "donut hole" allowed 3.6 million seniors to save $2.1 billion on their prescription drugs last year. And the ban on insurers refusing to cover pre-existing ...
  • In Mississippi, the Republican Future is Now
    Republicans have seen the future and it is in Mississippi. But the GOP's Magnolia State crystal ball has little to do with whether today's primary shows that Mitt Romney's cheesy grit eating sealed his nomination, ends Newt Gingrich's viability as a "credible candidate" or even aborts Rick Sant ...
  • Did Bush Jawbone Gas Prices Down? That's a Big No
    The President was getting hammered on gas prices. Under increasing pressure from the press and the other party, administration officials repeatedly insisted there is no "magic bullet" or "magic wand" to bring prices down at the pump. Making matters worse, the President was embarrassed during a ...
  • Ann Romney Makes Mitt Seem More Human - and Mo ...
    By all indications, Ann Romney is a warm, engaging and, judging by her public battle with MS, courageous person. Which is why she is a constant presence on the campaign trail. As months of headlines suggest ("Romney Using Wife's Story to Connect with Voters", "Ann Romney Adds Personal Touch to ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • GUEST INFORMANTS: Is Magazine Publishing Reall ...
    So, every now and then, I ask my friends and acquaintances, all of whom are eight times smarter than me, a very obvious, general, linkbaity kind of question, so that I can get a broad spectrum of their thinking.  A couple of weeks ago, I asked a few people this: Is magazine publishing reall ...
  • Why Are All the Rich Kids Sitting Together on ...
    Still think of college as the great equalizer? Think again. Today, income differences are dividing college campuses like never before.
  • State Dept. Seeks Firing of Peter Van Buren, W ...
    The U.S. State Department has taken steps to fire Peter Van Buren, a longtime employee who publicly criticized the Pentagon's so-called "reconstruction efforts" in Iraq. In 2009 and 2010, he headed two Provincial Reconstruction Teams in rural Iraq. After returning from Iraq, he wrote a book, "We ...
  • "Mind Zone": New Film Tracks Therapists Guidin ...
    In a new film, psychologist and filmmaker Jan Haaken embeds with military therapists in Afghanistan and at their training at Joint Base Lewis-McChord -- where the alleged U.S. shooter of Afghan civilians is from. Lewis-McChord has a controversial record of addressing mental health problems, incl ...
  • Paula Lerner Remembered: Emmy Award-Winning Ph ...
    Afghan businesswoman Rangina Hamidi remembers the late award-winning photographer Paula Lerner, who has died of breast cancer at the age of 52. Lerner was the principal photographer for the Emmy Award-winning project, "Behind the Veil: An Intimate Journey into the Lives of Kandahar's Women Featu ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Noway’s Nonviolent Example, A Happy Note in Co ...
      Human Potential For Peace Pursuing economic justice with nonviolent protest is not new, not an invention of the present Occupy movement. It has been around probably as long as economic injustice has been around. One relatively recent example is that it effectively produced change in the 1 ...
  • The Uninvited Bed Bug
    Bed bugs are making a resurgence and with them a rise in the use of toxic pesticides. But there are greener alternatives...
  • iZen Bamboo Keyboard (Needs a Kickstart)
    Someone stopped by Planetsave this week to drop a comment about a pretty cool-looking bamboo keyboard that’s looking for some help on Kickstarter. Since it looks so sweet, I decided to give it some time and a post. You can see an image of the iZen bamboo keyboard above, of course, [...] ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: S Africa Death Toll Abo ...
    Here we are, not quite three months into 2012, and already more than 100 rhinos have been massacred in South Africa. The Independent Online says the 100-plus figure was verified by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA). Earlier this week, South Africa National Parks (SANparks) [...] ...
  • Eco-Love (Environment Matters to 52% of Americ ...
      I received this graphic above a little before Valentine’s Day, but I’m just getting around to sharing it . Nonetheless, I figured it’s as relevant every day as on February 14, and I think it’s something worth paying attention to. The basic finding is that approxi ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change - Cr ...
    István Mészáros is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. His book, Marx’s Theory of Alienation, was awarded the Isaac Deutscher Prize in 1970. He is also author of Beyond Capital, Socialism or Barbarism, The Structural Crisis of ...
  • Canadian-owned Mine Fuels Violence in Mexico - ...
    SAN JOSE DEL PROGRESO, MEXICO—It's been almost three years since hundreds of people took direct action to temporarily shut down Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver's gold and silver mine near Oaxaca City, Mexico. Since then, the neighbouring community of San Jose del Progreso has been deeply divided ...
  • The Dirty War on WikiLeaks is Now Trial by Med ...
    War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an unpopular colonial war. Like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Iran and S ...
  • Cover-up and “State-sponsored Terror” on Run: ...
    The American soldier accused of shooting 16 Afghan villagers in a pre-dawn killing spree was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday to an undisclosed location, even as many Afghans called for him to face justice in their country. Afghan government officials did not immediately respond to cal ...
  • New bid for UN resolution aimed at Syrian regi ...
    On Monday, Russia and China refused to sign a new draft resolution put before the United Nations Security Council condemning the regime of Bashir al-Assad, on the grounds that it could be used to justify military intervention in support of the Syrian opposition. This was despite private t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Shock and Awe"
    By @KYYellowDog A reminder that the same always-wrong warmongers who started the Iraq clusterfuck are now beating the drums for war in Iran. For the same un-American, war-profiteering reasons, but to far, far worse effect. Uploaded by sdg33 on Mar 31, 2008 Shock And Awe is the fith track on Blow ...
  • The Trudeau Treatment: part 5
    By @BGinKC Did I say something about Trudeau never pulling punches? This goes beyond that. This time, he has a roll of quarters in his fist.
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD We knew as soon as we saw the headline that it was cherrypicked, we just didn't have time to comb through the report to find what they did to get their everybody-freak-out!!! numbers. Fortunately, while we were stalling, Jonathan Cohn was explaining what sort of dishonest nonsense t ...
  • Employer-Approved Sex Only
    By @KYYellowDog Like I wrote on Saturday, this is why it is stupid and self-destructive to use the "women's health" argument about contraception. Digby: From Jezebel, the latest attempted assault on women's rights in the great "laboratory of democracy" called Arizona: A proposed new law in Arizo ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Oh Fannie Mae"
    By @KYYellowDog From Down with Tyranny: Ariel Zevon is Warren's daughter. And she's done a great job in putting the foreclosure crisis to song. The more I watch it, the more I love this video! Spring is almost here and that means the Occupy Movement will be back in full force. Tomorrow they'll b ...

Care 2

  • Help Protect Farm Animals in RI ! PLEASE TAKE ...
    An anti-confinement bill that would prohibit the use of veal crates and sow gestation crates has been introduced in the Rhode Island Legislature. You can help by contacting your state senator and asking that he or she support the bill when it comes up Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Right now, we have the opportunity to curb climate pollution that is threatening sea turtles by harnessing the enormous offshore wind potential in the Atlantic Ocean--which would produce clean energy for decades. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!   ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Help Unite Two Heroes Again!
    Marine Corporal Megan Leavey served as a handler for Military Working Dog Sgt. Rex during her two deployments in Iraq in 2005 and 2006. Both were severely injured in 2006 when insurgents detonated an IED at the side of the road they were patrolling Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  | ...
  • FELONY CHARGES FOR ANIMAL TORTURE IN WINGO, KY ...
    In February, over 100 starving and sick dogs were removed by the Animal Rescue Corps of Kentucky from Shannon Lacewell's home. The rescue group says the dogs were starving and dehydrated and in need of immediate medical attention. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! &n ...
  • Halo The Pool Playing Dog! Awesome Video!
    Had to share this one. This adorable dog can actually, REALLY, play pool. Must see for yourself. Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • I’m not fair anymore
    I’m not fair, I’m not even-handed, I don’t give the benefit of the doubt, I don’t suffer fools gladly any longer – I’m way past that these days. I’m angry and outraged at the cowardice, venality and stupidity I see in the political sphere, I’m frustrated ...
  • Stone Age Republicans Like Santorum and Rick P ...
    Larry Johnson wrote a description of Afghan men that I can’t get out of my head: They wipe their asses with a rock. Talk about living in the Stone Age! Sometimes I feel the same way about Republican men — or, more particularly, the battles that they choose to wage, which mostly cente ...
  • Santorum Exposed * Open Thread
    Just spotted this in a Tweet. Below the video is a short commentary by the videographer: First, Santorum wanted to raise the retirement age. Then, in 2005 he said it had to be an option. In 2006, he came out against raising the retirement age. Which Santorum do you believe? Visit Santorum Expose ...
  • Groundhog Primaries
    Groundhog Day for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, in which Santorum scores best in Alabama and Mississippi but the other candidates gain delegates at the same pace as the winner. Adding American Samoa and Hawaii, am told by Salena Zito that Romney will likely lead the evenin ...
  • Obama Administration Tap Dances on Oil
    The Obama team, especially his aloof, detached Secretary of Energy, are dropping the ball and failing to act decisively to produce more oil, improve oil refinery and lower the price of gas. Nope. The Obama policies are driving the price of gas up. What proof do we need? I’ve got the video: ...

Futurismic

  • 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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • New Life For Mountaintop Removal Land in Kentu ...
    New Life For Mountaintop Removal Land in Kentucky Public News Service From the deep trenches where mountaintop removal mining once took place in Kentucky, trees will take root by the end of the weekend. Over a two-day period, this Saturday and next, close to 145000 trees are being planted in Pik ...
  • RepRisk Releases Its New Report on the Most Co ...
    RepRisk Releases Its New Report on the Most Controversial Mining Companies of 2011 Business Wire (press release) In 2011 Mining giants Alpha Natural Resources, Newmont Mining, and Glencore International made the top ranks for issues related to mountaintop removal mining and impacts on indigenous ...
  • RepRisk Releases Its New Report on the Most Co ...
    RepRisk Releases Its New Report on the Most Controversial Mining Companies of 2011 MarketWatch (press release) In 2011 Mining giants Alpha Natural Resources, Newmont Mining, and Glencore International made the top ranks for issues related to mountaintop removal mining and impacts on indigenous p ...
  • Sierra Club to host 'Last Mountain' screening ...
    Sierra Club to host 'Last Mountain' screening Seacoastonline.com KENNEBUNK — "The Last Mountain," a documentary film on the fight to stop Mountain Top Removal in West Virginia's Coal River Valley, will be shown at 7 pm Friday, March 23, at First Parish Unitarian Universalis ...
  • Haslam neutral on mountaintop mining bill - Ki ...
    Haslam neutral on mountaintop mining bill Kingsport Times News Mike Bell of Riceville tacked on an amendment adopting the US Department of Interior's definition of mountaintop removal mining. GOP lawmakers, including Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey of Blountville, believe the Bell amendment bans mountai ...

Memeorandum

  • Morning Jay: The Calendar Hurts Romney (Jay Co ...
    Jay Cost / Weekly Standard: Morning Jay: The Calendar Hurts Romney  —  It is true that Mitt Romney is a weak frontrunner who simply cannot close the deal against two opponents who have both little money and organizational support.  (After all, even Bob Dole and John McCain ...
  • Romney Will Back Puerto Ricans' Desire for Sta ...
    ABCNEWS: Romney Will Back Puerto Ricans' Desire for Statehood, Won't Make English a Precondition  —  SAN JUAN - Landing in Puerto Rico on the eve of the island's weekend primary, Mitt Romney reiterated his stance on its quest for statehood, saying he would support whatever the m ...
  • Mitt Romney Lies a Lot, But He's Not a Liar (J ...
    Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Mitt Romney Lies a Lot, But He's Not a Liar  —  Psychologists have a concept called “the fundamental attribution error.”  Essentially it means that people tend to view their own behavior as a result of circumstances, while vie ...
  • Social Security Battle: AARP Plans Secret 'Sal ...
    Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post: Social Security Battle: AARP Plans Secret ‘Salon’ With Social Security Opponents … FOLLOW:  —  Social Security, Aarp, Video, Entitlement Reform, Entitlements, Social Security Battle, Social Security Cuts, Social Security Refo ...
  • Sen. Hatch's Team Claims Good Night in Fight t ...
    Naftali Bendavid / Washington Wire: Sen. Hatch's Team Claims Good Night in Fight to Keep His Seat  —  Sen. Orrin Hatch, targeted by primary challengers and tea party-aligned groups, has apparently won a healthy share of delegates to the Utah Republican convention.  That giv ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Swan song at Poyang Lake
    Volunteers and officials have stepped up the fight against bird poaching on China’s largest freshwater lake. But it's a losing battle, writes Yang Xiaohong.At 4,000 square kilometres, Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake and one of the world’s most important wetlands. ...
  • Shocks to the earth’s system
    Climate change isn’t just about floods, droughts and heatwaves, writes Bill McGuire. It also will awaken the geological “sleeping giant” beneath our feet, rocking the planet with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis.The idea that a changing climate can persu ...
  • People at congress?
    As Beijing closes its yearly conference season, Chen Yuanyuan reports on new ways civil society is getting ideas across.China’s parliamentary season – the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC ...
  • A dream of blue skies
    Writing from his smog-enveloped home city, Ma Jun dares to imagine a China free of urban air pollution – and invites others to join him.The day I turned my attention to this article, Beijing had once again disappeared under a shroud of smog. Distant buildings loomed in and out of the mist, ...
  • Revisiting our limits
    It’s 40 years since the publication of The Limits to Growth. In Europe and in China, writes Patrick Schroeder, a new wave of thinkers and decision-makers are beginning to revisit its core message.This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Club of Rome’s famous report The Limits to G ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • How Netanyahu Seeks to Change US Elections By ...
    Bolstered by a Tea Party-oriented Mid East Canadian foreign policy and a record of using war to win election at home, Israel's PM hits the campaign trail to change US politics.
  • Anti-gay pundits need more scrutiny by the media
    When it comes to discussing gay issues, the media  sometimes handles anti-gay pundits with kid gloves. It’s not because of any bias, really. I think that a lot of it has to do with these pundits having the ability to disguise their anti-gay animus. When they speak on news programs, ...
  • Keep Your Stigma: Latina/o Youth Need Real Support
    Written by Marisol Franco for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Published in partnership with California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ). What comes to mind when the words “pregnan ...
  • How an Anti-Democratic, Corporate-Friendly Pen ...
    The upcoming legal fight over Pennsylvania's pro-fracking law, Act 13, pits the civil rights of people against the economic rights of corporations.
  • Does Meat Kill More Americans Than Cigarettes Do?
    The West's three biggest killers -- heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- are linked to excessive animal product consumption.

Threat Level

  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    The National Security Agency's immensely secret project in the Utah desert will intercept, analyze, and store yottabytes of the world's communications—including yours.
  • Senators Demand DOJ Release Secret Spy Court R ...
    Two Democratic senators urged the Obama administration Thursday to declassify secret court rulings that provide broader interpretations of the domestic spy law known as the USA Patriot. A secret tribunal known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court has issued classified rulings about ...
  • Real-Name Registration Threatens the Lively Wo ...
    Twitter-like services are hugely popular in China, and though there is much censorship, people have found clever ways to speak out. But that may change in the face of a new, more stringent policy designed to clamp down on free expression where other methods have been less successful. In a move ...
  • FBI Can’t Crack Android Pattern-Screen Lock
    Pattern-screen locks on Android phones are secure, apparently so much so that they have stumped the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau claims in federal court documents that forensics experts performed "multiple attempts" to access the contents of a Samsung Exhibit II handset, but faile ...
  • Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Sur ...
    In 2010 the FBI issued more than 24,000 national security letters to ISPs and other companies, demanding they hand over information on more than 14,000 customers. The letters come with a built-in gag order that prohibits the company from disclosing to customers or anyone else that it has even re ...

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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Del Monte Fresh Produce Drops Frivolous Lawsui ...
    Del Monte Fresh Produce, linked to prior cantaloupe outbreaks, has dropped its frivolous lawsuit against the Oregon Public Health Division and its senior epidemiologist, William Keene, who with other public health officials from nine other states and the CDC last year traced a multistate ou ...
  • El Ranchero del Sur Cheese Linked to Listeria ...
    The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) Food and Drug Safety Program (FDSP) is warning the public not to consume any cheese products produced by El Ranchero del Sur, LLC of South River, NJ. On March 2, 2012, a 38-week pregnant woman was diagnosed with Listeria monocytoge ...
  • "Pink Slime" is now a choice in your school lunch
    Thanks to Bettina Siegel, whose blog “The Lunch Tray,” and her online petition on Change.org asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to “put an immediate end to the use of “pink slime” in our children’s school food,” she has now, according to breaking A ...
  • CDC - Foodborne Disease Outbreaks Due To Impor ...
    According to a recently released CDC Report, foodborne disease outbreaks caused by imported food appeared to rise in 2009 and 2010, and nearly half of the outbreaks implicated foods imported from areas which previously had not been associated with outbreaks. CDC experts reviewed outbreaks repor ...
  • Final Report - Organic Pastures Raw Milk Linke ...
    I just received a copy of the State of California Report.  Here is the summary: In November 2011, a cluster of five young children with Escherichia coli (E. coli) 0157:H7 infection with matching pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns was identified. Illness onsets were from August ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Toyota Prius C outsells monthly tota ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota Toyota is pretty sure that its expanded Prius family will drive up sales of the world's best-selling hybrid, and the early sales returns indicate that the company is right, right, right. After the Prius V sold about 8,400 units in ...
  • Report: Honda Civic Hybrid small claims lawsui ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Government/Legal, Honda, Earnings/Financials Heather Peters really, really doesn't want anyone to settle with Honda. Peters is the woman who went her own way earlier this year, suing Honda in small claims court in Torrance, CA instead of joining a class-action laws ...
  • Report: Volkswagen confirms late 2013 launch d ...
    Filed under: Hatchback, Volkswagen, Electric As we said when we first drove the Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion, Volkswagen is taking its time getting into the all-electric game. Given the tremendous ups and downs that electric vehicles and EV start-up companies are going through, maybe making ...
  • Report: The Saga Continues: Consumer Report ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Etc., Technology, Fisker, Electric Send a $107,000 Fisker Karma to the dealer - after an incredibly public breakdown - and get a new battery pack in return. That's the lesson that Consumer Reports learned over the weekend and the repaired vehicle is now "operating ...
  • Official: Ford Focus Electric qualifies for Ca ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, Hatchback, Ford, Electric Following in the footsteps of the Chevrolet Volt and the Honda Civic Natural Gas, the 105-MPGe 2012 Ford Focus Electric has been granted HOV lane access in California by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). CARB not only gave the ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Paula Lerner, 52, Dies, Photographer of Afghan ...
    The award-winning photographer Paula Lerner has died at the age of 52. She was the principal photographer for the Emmy Award-winning project, "Behind The Veil: An Intimate Journey Into The Lives of Kandahar’s Women Featuring Photography." It appeared in the Toronto Globe &amp ...
  • Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan We may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women. The massacre near Belambai, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, has shocked ...
  • "The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout"
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Super Tuesday demonstrated the rancor rife in Republican ranks, as the four remaining major candidates slug it out to see how far to the right of President Barack Obama they can go. While attacking him daily for the high cost of gasoline, both sides are tra ...
  • Read an Excerpt from Anthony Shadid's New Memo ...
    On Thursday, we will interview reporter, Nada Bakri, wife of recently deceased, New York Times foreign correspondent, Anthony Shadid. Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the conflict in Syria. His newly published memoir, "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a ...
  • Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for obtaining more than 5 milli ...

Suzie-Q

  • Firm Romney Founded Is Tied To Chinese Surveil ...
  • Bain’s China Ties Draw Scrutiny
    Politico By ALEXANDER BURNS| 3/16/12 6:19 AM EDT The Times takes a look this morning at Bain Capital’s role in expanding Chinese government surveillance programs, in another instance of the private equity fund linking Mitt Romney – however indirectly – to some politically undesirable activi ...
  • Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveil ...
    The New York Times By ANDREW JACOBS and PENN BULLOCK Published: March 15, 2012 BEIJING — As the Chinese government forges ahead on a multibillion-dollar effort to blanket the country with surveillance cameras, one American company stands to profit: Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded b ...
  • The Road We’ve Traveled.. (VIDEO)
  • ‘The Road We’ve Traveled’ Do ...
    The Road We’ve Traveled is screening TONIGHT at 8pm ET. You can view it live at: www.barackobama.com Starting 8pm David Axelrod will also be answering questions live. To submit a question, just use the hashtag #RoadTraveled on twitter.

Solari

  • You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
    Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements,Stress Tests, and Vampire Squid Whistle-Blowers By L. Randall Wray No Hollywood scriptwriter could plot a more implausible story. Here is the plotline sequencing: 1. Bankers make NINJA loans, securitize them, and sell on to government GSEs   2. Banke ...
  • More Out There Car Ads
    YouTube (13 March 12) Continue reading the article . . .
  • Transcript of the 3.8.12 Precious Metals Marke ...
    A transcript of the March 8, 2012 Precious Metals Market Report is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Franklin: Well, you know, Bernanke had that press conference on the 27th, in which he crashed the gold and silver markets merely by suggesting that he wasn’t going ...
  • Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
    By Greg Smith Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, [...]
  • A Quick Reminder That Higher Oil Prices Are DE ...
    By Joe Weisenthal Sectoral Excess returns [click on the image for a larger version Continue reading the article . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Why Republicans Need Remedial Math: Their Budg ...
    Summary:  Mike Lofgren provides more analysis of the Republican Party’s obsessions with reducing taxes on the rich and massive military spending — paid for by massive sustained borrowing.  The last period of balanced budget (at least on a cash accounting basis) under President Clinto ...
  • Four important articles. More opportunities t ...
    Summary:  While the news media lulls us into a stupor, the world moves on.  Two Three Four (updates) articles from the front lines deserve your attention.   Every day we slide towards ruin and tyranny, an ugly combination. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human f ...
  • News You Can Use to understand the New America
    Summary:  The news media saturate us with news, which can make understand more difficult — not less.  At the FM website we help you sort through that flow to see the patterns important to you as a citizen.  Today we show two examples, illustrations of powerful trends shaping America about ...
  • The Obama Doctrine: we will attack and destro ...
    Summary:  Obama announced a new grand strategy for America, and we didn’t notice (being in a deep stupor).  It’s a logical evolution of our increasinlgly aggressive strategy since 9-11.  It’s almost certain to end badly for us.  Today Tom Engelhardt explains the path our leader ...
  • What China Wants Us to Understand about China’ ...
    Summary:  Today we have another guest post by Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired), where he provides some perspective on one of the most important developments of the 21st century.  Correctly understanding and reacting to this is essential for American to have a successful grand strategy. Contents ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Lindsey Graham Clown Show
    Over the last three years I've read some pretty clownish things about the war in Afghanistan, but yesterday's comments by Lindsay Graham should win some kind of award. When explaining why he is against a faster withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, which is opposed by the US commander there G ...
  • Subtle Signs Obama Diplomacy May Work on Iran
    After months of increasingly ominous war talk by the United States, Israel and Iran, there are intriguing signs of potential diplomatic progress over Iran’s nuclear program.   A series of events – both internal and external – have improved the odds for fruitful neg ...
  • 5 Reasons to be Hopeful for the Future of Afgh ...
    While the backlash against expanded rights and freedoms for Afghan women has been gathering momentum in recent years, so too have efforts to create more opportunities for women in Afghan society. Here are a five reasons to be hopeful about the future of Afghan women. 1. Progressive urban youth ...
  • The US Will Not "Pivot" Much to Asia: We Can’t ...
    Here are parts one and two, where I argued that there is no constituency in the US for the pivot, and that Asia is so culturally distant from the US, that Americans are unlikely to care enough to sustain the pivot. But we also don’t really need to pivot, nor do we have the money for it: read more
  • Intervention and (Not) Learning from History
    Last summer, Jonathan Chait tried to argue that America “over learns” the lessons of prior wars. Why bring it up now? Well, firstly, it was brought to my attention by Shadi Hamid, who wished to use it as a criticism of those who were “over learning” the lessons of Iraq an ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • "Dumb and Obnoxious"
    One thing that has gone unremarked upon in the continuing story of Latino disdain for the Republican Party—and its desperate attempt at damage control—is the degree to which Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court was a pivotal event for the GOP’s relationship to the Latino community. ...
  • Encyclopedia of Silly Walks
    Here’s a little something to enjoy, posted in honor of the final print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica:
  • State of the Week
    This week's state of the week is ... Texas! The Lone Star State has been in the headlines a lot this week—and not just because South by Southwest is here. First there was the news that the Department of Justice blocked enforcement of the state's stringent and controversial voter ID measure. Acc ...
  • Halftime
    What do you get when you combine Mitt Romney and Lucille Bluth? Hilarity.. I haven’t played the new Mass Effect (I don’t have a device that can run it!), but I have heard a lot about the controversy surrounding the ending. Here is a quick thought: It seems clear to me that the entire game is “t ...
  • Pennsylvania Shouldn't Have Any Senators
    Earlier this week Rick Santorum decided he didn't want to win Puerto Rico's upcoming GOP primary. "They'd have to speak English, that would be a requirement." Santorum said as a stipulation for Puerto Rico attaining statehood. "That's a requirement we put on other states. It's a condition for e ...

Buzzflash

  • In the Absence of New Ideas and Intelligent Th ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It is a monumental task to disengage from false, not to mention, silly right-wing rhetoric no matter how often purveyors of popular tripe are exposed. It is a distressing feature of the day's political dialogue that there seems to be an endless supply of non ...
  • Is "Deceased" the Average Age of a Typical Whi ...
    As more than 140 sponsors have fled the Rush Limbaugh show, Rushbo is determined to put his game face on. That may explain why Limbaugh's spokesperson boasted to the Sacramento Bee that Rushbo had turned down the alleged appeal of one of his the first advertisers to exit the show - Sleep Train ...
  • Talking Back to Rush
    LINDA GIBSON FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Dear me, the idea of voicing an opinion critical of such a big, important man, a well-known expert on absolutely everything, has my heart going all pitter-patter! Please don't think I'm one of those aggressive, man-hating feminazis, but I've got to say just ...
  • Death in Afghanistan: The Spiritual Cancer of ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The killer was in his fourth deployment. He walked from his base to one village, then another, leaving behind the lunacy and spiritual wreckage of American foreign policy. Then he walked back to his base and calmly turned himself in. I've been staring ...
  • Dick "The Torturer" Cheney Is Afraid of Protes ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Dick "The Torturer" Cheney, who is a tireless champion of war despite having evaded service in the military during the Vietnam war (through five deferments), apparently has more roar than bite in him. read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 1
    Regular readers will know that I was recruited via my GP to take part in the Fenland Study. The study is taking a sample of the population born between 1950 and 1975, and carrying out a raft of blood tests, body stature measurements, DEXA body fat and bone density and tests for diabetes, cholest ...
  • Planetary landers, caffeine, sulfa drugs and c ...
    The latest issue of my SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This weeK: US researchers are developing the next generation of laser ablation technology, which might one day be used in a future planetary lander to carry out isotopic analysis of a planets surface, for instance, and so allow precise & ...
  • More red meat risk analysis
    NHS Choices finally published its critique of the Harvard red meat research that had the tabloids screaming that meat kills earlier this week. I provided some commentary on Sciencebase soon after. Anyway, this is what NHS Choices concludes: “This study had several strengths including its s ...
  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • BLM to Approve Disastrous Development Project ...
    The Obama administration’s decision today authorizing nearly 1,300 new natural gas wells in Utah’s Desolation Canyon wilderness and other remote areas will degrade the pristine region’s air quality and hurt the state’s tourism industry, according to a coalition of environ ...
  • Egyptian Aid Plan Should Be Linked to Reform M ...
    Human Rights First is concerned by reports that the Obama administration is planning to resume military aid to Egypt despite Egypt’s failure to meet human rights conditions attached to the aid package by Congress. “Now is not the time for giving Egypt’s current rulers, who are ...
  • Friends of the Earth Demands Public Disclosure ...
    Nuclear watchdog Friends of the Earth is filing a public records request today with the California Public Utilities Commission calling for the urgent release of information regarding the serious safety problems at the troubled San Onofre nuclear reactors. Seriously damaged tubes in the steam gen ...
  • Foreign Companies Paid Billions to Run U.S. Cr ...
    Twenty insurance companies in Bermuda, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the U.S. were paid $7.1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds from 2007 to 2011 to sell American farmers crop insurance policies, an Environmental Working Group analysis shows. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Ri ...
  • Sunshine Week: EFF's Current Freedom of Inform ...
    In honor of Sunshine Week, yesterday we reviewed what EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests revealed in the past year. Today, we’ll take a look at the FOIA lawsuits we filed last year and the information we hope the suits will provide. Secret Interpretation and Use of the Patriot ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Giving Jailed Juveniles A Second Chance at Life
    Marian Wright Edelman Edwin Desamour was driving with his 3-year-old son in their Philadelphia neighborhood recently when the little boy looked up and said, “Daddy, look at the moon!read more
  • Silencing Occupy: Big Protests Are Planned. Wi ...
    Lance Tapley Get ready for the protests. Get ready for the warm American spring — and maybe a hot summer and fall. Vast economic inequality has not disappeared and, in a presidential election year, the supremacy of money in politics w ...
  • Women's Rights, Another Round of Defensive Vic ...
    Emily Douglas In recent months, a bubbling stew of Republican extremism, tone-deafness and rank misogyny aimed at a series of poorly chosen targets (Planned Parenthood, Sandra Fluke, breast cancer activists who also use birth control) have ...
  • ‘Sick-Minded American Savages’ at War
    John LaForge The U.S. Army Staff Sgt. who walked through two villages in Afghanistan around 3 a.m. March 11 is reported to have methodically killed, using single shots to the head, 16 civilians that he’d dragged from their beds. Eleve ...
  • Occupy! and Make Them Do It
    Frances Fox Piven The spring months are likely to see the expansion of the Occupy movement. Evicted from the little parks where they were encamped, the activists are joining housing occupations and other protests against predatory banks, st ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Why did Israel stop me from visiting the West ...
    Patrick Keddie 15 March 2012 What kind of liberal democracy bars human rights activists in an attempt to stifle the truth about its behavior?
  • "I can't take part in these crimes": Israeli r ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 14 March 2012 Eighteen-year-old Noam Gur, the first Israeli to reject mandatory military service this year, speaks out about refusing to partake in Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity even if it means jail time.
  • Palestinian Christians attacked for challengin ...
    Emily Lawrence Bethlehem 12 March 2012 Christian theologians, academics and church leaders recently converged in Bethlehem to meet with the local Palestinian church and challenge the Christian Zionist influence within the evangelical movement.
  • Canada's Zionist lobby exposed in new book
    Andrew Stevens 9 March 2012 The Canadian government’s close relationship with the Israel lobby is the topic of a new book on academic freedom.
  • Parents of Hana al-Shalabi plead for urgent ac ...
    Sophie Crowe 9 March 2012 The parents of Hana al-Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike since 16 February to protest Israel’s holding her without charge or trial, are pleading for action to save their daughter’s life.

The Wonk Room

  • Growing Grassroots Political Support for a Pri ...
    by Erica Flock In July 2011, the Brisbane Times reported that Australia’s carbon price was dead in the water. Polling revealed that support for the legislation was low and that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had done a poor job explaining the bill. Down in the trenches, mud was flying: a politicia ...
  • ‘Bully’ Filmmaker: MPAA Rating Sil ...
    Filmmaker Lee Hirsch talked with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts yesterday about his new documentary Bully, which has been given an “R” rating by the MPAA for the language it portrays. Calling the judgment “odd,” “heartbreaking,” and “infuriating,” Hi ...
  • Gov. Corbett Defends Pennsylvania Ultrasound B ...
    As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) expressed callous indifference with a bill mandating that women receive an ultrasound before choosing to have abortion because they could just close their eyes. “I’m not making anybody watch, OK,” he explained. &# ...
  • The Recession on Television
    James Poniewozik points out that, because of how television production works, the economy characters have to work with in television shows will always lag behind where we actually are: Does TV have some sort of agenda to talk down the economy? Do programmers realize that average Americans are hu ...
  • Fox Polls On Gas Prices, And Gets Results It D ...
    Fox polled registered voters on whether they believe the claim President Obama purposely wants higher gas prices, and gets an answer it wouldn’t expect — Americans aren’t buying conservative spin. Fifty percent said that price spikes make President Barack Obama “unhappy” “becau ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Electoral Fraud Food For Thought
    Just drawing your attention to this: There is also a question of what an inquiry will uncover and, importantly, what recommendations it could possibly make. At the very least the Elections Canada investigation should be allowed to come to completion and, at that time, the RCMP and the legal s ...
  • Awesome!!! Shitty actually.
    I decided to go to "progressive bloggers.ca" to see whether or not one specific blogger had anything new and insightful to say about the harpercon electoral fraud scandal. Instead I had to endure this: Gordon is speaking great language for Liberals. Gordon is speaking the language of empathy, co ...
  • Dear USA: You Can Still Torture Canadians
    Thanks go to pogge for sharing this article from Prism Magazine: "Secret Cable Reveals How Ottawa Colluded with Washington to Blunt Fallout From a Security Case Gone Horribly Wrong". It's based on information from Wikileaks (who might have blood on their hands says the blood-soaked Obama adminis ...
  • Dear EnMasse: Fuck Off
    Note: My response to the harpercons' voter suppression sleaze is going to occupy my work in the 3-d world. It is too important for the scatter-shot ranting and overall uselessness that is blogging. POST I left a message at my old discussion board EnMasse. Discussion boards had been a big part ...
  • Cheaters
    Imagine if you lost a fair chunk of change at a neighbourhood poker game. To the asshole neighbour who nobody really likes. The guy who blatantly lies to your face about pretty much everything. Then it starts to turn out that there's a marked card. "It's not a marked card! It's an old deck and ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Did the Independent candidates win final Toron ...
    Did the Independent and minor political party candidates win Thursday night's final Toronto-Danforth by-election debate? Although they most likely won't win the by-election, the Independents brought forth applause and innovative ideas.
  • Conservatives invited to check their values be ...
    Just when the Harper government readies himself to announce big cuts in social spending, the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives comes in with its own budget and asks Conservatives to scrap their prisons and fighter jets.
  • Canadian police find something fishy in tuna c ...
    Police in Windsor, Ont. have busted what may be a two person operation whereby marijuana was packaged, and it seems likely, distributed in tuna cans. Police thought something was fishy when they pulled over a couple.
  • Bell of sunken Italian cruise ship Costa Conco ...
    To add insult to injury, the Costa Concordia, the sunken cruise ship off the Italian island of Giglio, had it's bell stolen. Whoever managed the theft evaded an elaborate system of lasers to make off with the bell.
  • Lady Gaga to eschew print and film media and g ...
    If you like hearing about Lady Gaga it may soon get harder to do so. The Fame Monster told Oprah Winfrey that she's gonna stop talking to media and go into a reclusive period. She doesn't, she said, read what's written about her anyways.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Alternative Budget calls for cuts at DND
    A Budget for the Rest of Us, the 2012 Alternative Federal Budget, provides a road map for Canadians to combat income inequality and avoid a "lost decade" of high unemployment and environmental mismanagement.
  • Kony 2012
    A video about the decades of atrocities carried out by African warlord Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army went viral this month, sparking both acclaim and criticism.
  • Fisher: Get out of Afghanistan
    Afghanistan war cheerleader Matthew Fisher calls for Canada to speed up its withdrawal from the country.
  • Survey: Who will lead the NDP for peace?
    Vote now for the NDP leadership candidate that you think should lead the party.
  • Veterans on the chopping block?
    It looks like Veteran's Affairs will not be spared from the cuts planned by the Harper government

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • 10 Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
    February 22, 2012 Washington’s Blog By David Swanson “Here is a great ‘tongue in cheek’ list of just how crazy the US would be if they attacked Iran. This shows just how absurd it all really is. Click the link below for the full list.” –KTRN 1. Iran has threat ...
  • Ron Paul Highlights from 2/22/2012 Debate
    February 23, 2012 CNN
  • The Enduring Popularity of Gold
    February 23, 2012 321 Gold By Frank Holmes The World Gold Council (WGC) reaffirmed the power of the Love Trade in its 2011 Gold Demand Trends report released this week. Gold demand grew 0.4 percent in 2011 despite a 28 percent year-over-year increase in bullion’s average price. After flirting wi ...
  • Gold Futures Edge Higher As Dollar Pulls Back
    February 23, 2012 Market Watch By Claudia Assis and Barbara Kollmeyer Gold futures rose Thursday, boosted by a weaker dollar and expectations that central banks will maintain loose monetary policies for some time to come. Gold for April delivery GCJ2 +0.84% advanced $4.90, or 0.3%, to $1,776.40 ...
  • Three Strange Theories You Might Believe After ...
    February 23, 2012 Phoenix New Times By Bob Beard “If you can make it to Phoenix for the UFO Congress – do it. It’s the biggest UFO event of the year.” –KTRN If you can, you should sneak away from your comparatively corporate gig sometime this week for the 2012 meeti ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • George Clooney arrested protesting outside Sud ...
    ITN News Friday, March 16, 2012 Actor George Clooney has been arrested following a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington DC. Report by Katie Lamborn.
  • Tell me again – why are we still fightin ...
    By Dark Politricks Afghan Police and local residents stand around a mini van carrying the bodies of the victims who were killed by a US soldier The question needs to be asked again and again and almost on a weekly if not daily basis – “why are we still fighting in Afghanistan?” ...
  • A Call for the Disavowal of Splittism
    Dissident Voice Article By Kim Petersen 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 ...
  • Male fruit flies rejected by females turn to a ...
    Much like males of our own species, male fruit flies, when spurned by females, drink to numb the pain of rejection. According to a study outlined in the New York Times, fruit flies who are unable to mate prefer food laced with alcohol to regular food. Humans may like to think that our urge to [...]
  • Hopeless Err: ‘Manning punished before t ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com US private Bradley Manning, who’s accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling website Wikileaks, has called on the judge to dismiss the charges. His attorney accused the government of bungling the handover of certain docum ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky: Elections Today – Uninform ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky DanielJSchneider on Mar 8, 2012 Chomsky Interview Part 1 * * *** IntelligentChannel on Mar 12, 2012 MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Noam Chomsky on the electoral process in America. ENLIGHTENMENT MINUTES – with Noam Chomsky see Occupy Boston Student ...
  • The war on WikiLeaks is now trial by media in ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger www.johnpilger.com, 10 March 2012 Global Research March 12, 2012 War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an u ...
  • Alleged Photos of “Clean-up” at Ir ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP March 13, 2012 WASHINGTON, Mar 12, 2012 (IPS) – News stories about satellite photographs suggesting efforts by Iran to “sanitise” a military site that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said may ...
  • Chris Hedges: NDAA is a decimation of our civi ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 12, 2012 RTAmerica on Mar 12, 2012 This year was kicked off with a highly controversial bill: the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA, now law, gives the US military the power to legally detain individuals without charge or trial. ...
  • Peace Groups Call For U.S. Withdrawal After Ar ...
    Updated: March 13, 2012 with Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com Mar. 12, 2012 photo by Hakim used with permission © All rights reserved democracynow on Mar 12, 2012 democracynow.org – We go to Kabul to speak with an Afghan peace activist about the shooting spre ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Awad Abdelfattah: Risk of unrest grows as Isra ...
    Israel sees its Arab citizens as a security threat, and their leaders are increasingly under attack. While cooperation and political participation once seemed feasible, systematic discrimination has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Yitzhak Laor: The people demand some blood
    This hooligan-like logic turns into part of a totally uninhibited language. We are allowed to assassinate, but you aren't allowed to respond: For the little, if any, of our blood spilled, you will... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel to delay strike on Iran until after US ...
    White House tells Sunday Times Obama pressed Netanyahu to postpone Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities until after November, adding president 'might visit Israel in summer' The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Palestinian academic Ahmad Qatamesh receives t ...
    It is Amnesty International’s assessment that the reasons for Ahmad Qatamesh’s arrest and continued administrative detention are his peaceful expression, in his writing and teaching, of non-violent... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Auschwitz complex
    Having trapped themselves in a death struggle with Palestinians that they cannot acknowledge or untangle, Israelis have psychologically displaced the source of their anxiety onto a more distant... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • International Collaboration the Focus of Scien ...
    More than 200 faculty, postdocs and students from Max Planck Florida Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Scripps Florida and other universities attended a neuroscience symposium March 6-7, designed to promote collaboration among neuroscientists in Florida, Germany and Latin America and launc ...
  • Tufts Medical Students Match in Record-High Nu ...
    Tufts School of Medicine (TUSM) matched 22 medical school students, or 12% percent of its graduating class, to residency programs in family medicine. This is the largest number of matches ever in family medicine at Tufts and more than double the average percentage of the previous three years.
  • QB3, Pfizer Expand Support for Translational R ...
    The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has renewed and expanded a three-year agreement with Pfizer Inc. to collaborate on research projects at the University of California with the potential to transform world-class science into better medicine.
  • The Greening of Chemistry
    Cleaner! Faster! Cheaper! is a rallying cry for chemists working to limit the impact of their work on the environment. Here are a few examples of how chemists funded by NIH are going green by improving the chemical processes used to make medicines, plastics and other products.
  • Used Water Bottles Become Caps and Gowns
    Commencement at Michigan Technological University is going green. Michigan Tech will use caps and gowns made from recycled plastic water bottles at its April 28, 2012, commencement ceremony. Twenty-seven bottles make one gown.

Natural Health News

  • New Study Finds Too Much Exercise Delays Pregn ...
    Working out too much can make it harder for a woman to conceive, unless that woman is overweight, according to new research. Women of normal weight who performed more intense workouts were found to be more likely to experience delays becoming pregnant.  The effect was not seen in overweigh ...
  • Which Toxic Chemical is Found in 99 Percent of ...
    New research has detected the presence of parabens in 99% of breast cancer tissues sampled.  The study examined 40 women who were being treated for primary breast cancer. Parabens, which are often used as a component of deodorant, shampoo, shaving gel, toothpaste, spray tans, make-up, phar ...
  • Annual Pap Smears NOT Recommended Any More Acc ...
    CNN conditions expert Dr. Otis Webb Brawley is a world-renowned cancer expert and a practicing oncologist.  In a CNN interview, he discusses the implications of the tremendous decline in the death rate from cervical cancer because of improvements in treatment and screening. As a result of ...
  • How to Save 89% on Your Organic Food
    A new study shows that shoppers can save an average of 89 percent by purchasing natural and organic foods in the bulk foods aisle. Researchers made cost comparisons between organic bulk foods and organic packaged foods.  The percentage of savings differed among various food categories, but ...
  • How Genetically Engineered Foods Can Destroy Y ...
    A new study shows that low doses of the Bt biopesticide CryA1b, and also the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, kill human kidney cells. The Bt biopesticide, which confers insect resistance, and the glyphosate tolerance trait tied to the use of glyphosate herbicides, can be found in nearly all ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Cheng Book Roundtable: The Importance of Persp ...
    by Hari Osofsky [Hari M. Osofsky is Associate Professor and 2011 Lampert Fesler Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Law School and Associate Director of Law, Geography & Environment, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences] I am grateful for the opp ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: When Should a Court Not ...
    by Tai-Heng Cheng by Tai-Heng Cheng I thank Professor Brown for his further application of the justificatory theory to the ICJ’s advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, another incident not covered in my book. I am glad he finds the justificatory theory ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Should ICJ Judgments Be ...
    by Chester Brown by Chester Brown [Chester Brown is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney] Thanks to Professor Cheng for his thoughtful response. As a follow-up comment, this discussion should not conclude without mention of another hard case, being the International ...
  • Lubanga Decision Roundtable: Lubanga and the C ...
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin [Jens Ohlin is Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School] Cross-posted at LieberCode. So the ICC has released its first verdict and it only took 10 years.  Most media reports are concentrating on the substantive crime – the use of child soldiers – because tha ...
  • Cheng Book Roundtable: Should ICJ Judgments Be ...
    by Tai-Heng Cheng I am grateful to Professor Brown’s careful summary of the thesis of When International Law Works. I should, however, make a few clarifying points about my analysis of some international incidents. Professor Brown, with gentlemanly understatement, notes that “some will have th ...

Public News Service

  • Health Care Reform Shows Signs of Saving Medic ...
    Health Care Reform Shows Signs of Saving Medicare Budget PHOENIX – According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, healthcare reform is already slowing the growth in the cost of Medicare, a crucial change that could save the program from bankruptcy. Researchers crunched nu ...
  • Hazardous Chemicals Found in Children's Jewelry
    Hazardous Chemicals Found in Children's Jewelry PHOENIX - A new study has found high levels of hazardous chemicals in a majority of children's jewelry purchased in a handful of states. Kathleen Schuler, co-director of the group Healthy Legacy, says about 100 pieces of jewelry were tested for va ...
  • Older Arizonans Can Participate in 17th Annual ...
    Older Arizonans Can Participate in 17th Annual AARP Spelling Bee PHOENIX - Those age 50 or older who fancy themselves to be a good speller might want to give AARP's 17th annual National Spelling Bee a try. Brian Greene went to school in the Midwest but now lives and works in Cheyenne, Wyo., and ...
  • Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever ...
    Keeping Up on Product Recalls Easier than Ever for Arizonans PHOENIX - Dozens of products are recalled every month because they could cause injuries or death, but keeping up on the latest recalls is easier than ever. So says attorney Paul Shively, although he adds that it does take initiative. ...
  • Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposit ...
    Study: Girls and Boys Who Act Like the Opposite Sex at Risk of Abuse PHOENIX, Ariz. - Boys who act like girls and girls who act like boys are at risk of abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The researchers polled adults about c ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Pressure on Walmart to Rebuff GE Sweet Corn In ...
    Consumer Allies Collect Nearly Half a Million Petition Signatures and Plan Protests at Stores Across the Country Today the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action, SumOfUs, Center for Environmental Health, and Corporate Accountability International announced they have collec ...
  • Food Safety Update: Pink Slime–A Symptom ...
    By Michele Simon This past week, the media woke up to the shocking reality that our meat supply is in fact industrialized. Long gone are the days of your friendly local butcher grinding meat for your kids’ hamburgers. Taking its place is a corporate behemoth you probably never heard of called Be ...
  • Fifty-Five Members Of Congress Call On FDA To ...
    Led by Boxer and DeFazio, Bicameral Letter Calls for Reversal of Two Decade-Old Labeling Policy, Supports CFS Legal Petition In Only 6 Months, Already 850,000+ Public Comments To FDA In Support Of Labeling This morning a bicameral letter signed by 55 Members of Congress was sent to U.S. Food and ...
  • Tell Walmart to Reject GE Sweet Corn!
    CFS has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health and Food and Water Watch to urge major food companies and grocers to reject Monsanto’s GE sweet corn, and we need your help to tell leading retailer Walmart to reject this new GMO corn. General Mills (Green Giant, Cascadian Farms), Trade ...
  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Evil Gas
    What that koala said! No more gas mining, there are other ways to get gas and energy! Check these websites for more info:Stop CSG Illawarra (http://stop-csg-illawarra.org/)No Gas Mining Sydney (http://www.nogasmininginsydney.com/) Photo by: Suze Chalmers  
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    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • What's On 13 February 2012
    It's time to SHOW YOUR LOVE! Lovers of our oceans, on this Valentine’s Day, show your love for the beautiful Coral Sea by asking Mr Burke to better protect the coral reefs in our Coal Sea!
  • Grizzly Peak
    This is the Grizzly Peak in Yosemite National Park, USA. Yosemite National Park is one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, and is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast w ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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&#8217 ...
  • 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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Austin TX Cop SUES victim of police shooting
    Yes this is a preemptive legal assault on the victim to head off the counter lawsuit coming from the family. Still – this takes some balls.   Officer Sues Teenager Who Hit Him During Deadly Austin Shooting An Austin police officer has sued the driver who hit him during a May incident ...
  • Afghan leader blasts US over coverup of shooti ...
      KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the United States on Friday, saying he is at the “end of the rope” because of the lack of U.S. cooperation into a probe of a killing spree allegedly carried out by an American soldier. In a meeting wit ...
  • Is Rick even Eligible to BE President? Is Mitt?
    WE HAVE SANTORUM WITH A FOREIGN BORN FATHER–WE HAVE ROMNEY WITH A FOREIGN BORN FATHER AND OBAMA WITH A FOREIGN FATHER—WE NEED BACKROUND CHECKS DONE ON ALL THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES NOW BEFORE THE ELECTION. (see comments to view the various “technicalities” involved)   Rick San ...
  • Santorum says he will move on Internet freedom ...
    OK Bad (accidental) pun… The Phoney conservatives focus on taking our freedoms to “protect” us from ourselves. Whether you agree with someone’s right to view erotica, porn, or whether ART becomes the target… It is all a gateway to LESS freedom. Oh, and if history is ...
  • This Day In History – March 16
    1751 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836) was born. 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the ...

The Air Vent

  • High gas prices have always been part of the plan
    For those with short memories. Obama – “energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.” While cap and trade auto-corruption scheme didn’t make the cut, gutting production doesn’t do terribly badly either. I recently heard the stat that the US used to produce 10 million ...
  • Sea Ice – Overlapping Satellite Record A ...
    Despite criticisms from the super warmist advocacy guild (aka SWAG), this post is a continuation of our investigation into  sea ice from the satellite data.  I have never thoroughly vetted the knitting of satellite data from the 5 satellites which form the curves “n07″,”f08&#82 ...
  • Sea Ice – Overlapping Satellite Record A ...
    Despite criticisms from the super warmist advocacy guild (aka SWAG), this post is a continuation of our investigation into  sea ice from the satellite data.  I have never thoroughly vetted the knitting of satellite data from the 5 satellites which form the curves “n07″,”f08&#82 ...
  • Craig Loehle – 10 US Climate Disasters W ...
    We all know the media constantly reports the standard climate change mantra of increased storms, droughts, flooding, warming, cooling and basically anything they can find and attribute it to climate change – by man.  Craig Loehle wrote an interesting post on WUWT which calls out what I des ...
  • Craig Loehle – 10 US Climate Disasters W ...
    We all know the media constantly reports the standard climate change mantra of increased storms, droughts, flooding, warming, cooling and basically anything they can find and attribute it to climate change – by man.  Craig Loehle wrote an interesting post on WUWT which calls out what I des ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Friends, Solitaire Blitz, calendars, Amazon, g ...
    A trio of applications highlighting friend interactions, as well as a few games, calendars and greeting apps made up our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The apps grew from between 180,000 and 530,000 MAU, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook reaches 10M in Japan, doubles users i ...
    Facebook is 10 million monthly active users strong in Japan, the company announced today at a marketing conference in Tokyo. This figure indicates Facebook has about 10 percent penetration among Japanese Internet users and is quickly gaining on Mixi, Japan’s … Continue reading →
  • Santorum sees post-primary gain; Romney switch ...
    Rick Santorum gained more than 2,300 new Facebook fans following wins in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries on Tuesday, briefly surpassing Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, who typically gain more Likes each day. This is according to the Inside Facebook … Continue reading →
  • Conversocial adds Facebook pages’ direct messa ...
    Social customer service software company Conversocial now integrates pages’ direct messages, less than a day after Facebook released the API enabling the feature. With Conversocial, companies can view and respond to incoming messages from users directly from the platform where … Continue r ...
  • Facebook platform update: page tabs, payments, ...
    Facebook shared a number of updates on its developer blog today, including new features, API changes and bug fixes. New link makes apps easier to add – Tab application pages now include an “Add App to Page” option to make … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Netanyahu versus Obama: what next?
    Alan Hart assesses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's options as he tries to sabotage the prospect of a second term for Barack Obama by dragging the US into a war with Iran, and argues that the real danger is that Netanyahu's anti-Iran rhetoric - "a combination of wretchedness and megal ...
  • US editor’s lament for Israel overlooks Zionis ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel's anti-democratic and racist traits are not recent phenomena, located mainly among the settlers on the West Bank, but "flow from structural problems that were built into the Zionist experiment that ultimately resulted in the Israeli state. They were built in ...
  • Misrepresentation and moral cowardice: Gilad A ...
    Gilad Atzmon debunks a statement signed by Ali Abunimah and others in which they misrepresent his critique of Jewish identity politics, and he vows to continue his fight for the truth. By publishing this, we reiterate our support for Mr Atzmon and hope that the signatories of the statement will ...
  • Zionist "Price Tag" mirrors Hitler's Youth
    Jamal Kanj sees similarities between Israel's Price Tag organization and Hitler's Youth, and calls on the world to take note before it is too late. "Price Tag membership is currently around 3,000, proportionally larger than Hitler"s Youth, who numbered less than 5,000 in 1925. Ignored by world p ...
  • America gone stupid over Iran
    Lawrence Davidson argues that, as with the war on Iraq in 2003, the USA is drifting towards aggression against Iran propelled not by evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons programme, but by the lies and obsessions of a foreign state, Israel, and its American stooges.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street ...
    ‘The Key Oil Derivatives Insiders are Laughing All the Way to the Bank’ By William Engdahl Since around October last year, the price of crude oil on world futures markets has exploded. Different people have different explanations. The most common one is the belief in financial markets that a war ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • The Miseducation of the Negro Pseudo-intellectual
    “I stated that Kony 2012 is pro-imperialism, pro-militarism propaganda.  Again, here is the link to the article explaining my position.  http://new-possibilities.blogspot.com/2012/03/kony-2012-is-imperialistic-propaganda.html Most of you have not provided any logical arguments refuting tha ...
  • “Will Wade make it this time?” by ...
    Some people are lucky, others are not. Senegalese strong man, Abdulaye Wade is among the luckiest old men even though he behaves like an adolescent. Had it been not for divided and ever-greedy opposition, Wade would have been history now. Voters gave him a very heavy blow in the first round. He ...
  • The Negro Pseudo-intellectual and Social Media ...
    “That Kony2012 video is one of the most effective pro-imperialism, pro-militarism pieces of propaganda ever produced.” Anson Asaka “It’s a sad commentary on affairs when white people are the ones constantly and consistently advocating for the safety and security of Africa ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Blogtalkradio: The Promotion of Homosexuality in Africa Farm life of African family in Russia is “beyond bad dream” The Great African Scandal
  • Kony 2012
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Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Afghanistan: The Wheels Are Coming Off
    It's one thing after another. Now a soldier runs amok and kills 16 Afghans. What's going on? It's simple: The mission in Afghanistan is bankrupt and going down the tubes. It's time to be adults and recognize wed need to leave.
  • D--j- vu in Afghanistan?
    Going forward into the past with President Obama
  • The Crumbling American Presence in Afganistan
    As to the continuation of our disastrous war in Afghanistan; the Taliban hold all the winning cards. They see the American presence crumbling; atrocities committed by the American military on innocent Afghans; drone attacks that kill innocents, our burning Korans. But politics rules the day in A ...
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  • Is Your Child Really Reading, or Just Guessing?
    This article describes a simple test that parents can use to see whether their children are really reading, or are simply guessing. Unless children can accurately identify the words that were actually written, they aren't reading.

Switchboard

  • Senate Finally Passes a Bill to Address the BP ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The Senate has finally passed its first piece of legislation responding to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico—one that places a welcome emphasis on reviving the wetlands, fishing ground ...
  • Texans to Future Tar Sands Refineries: Do The ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Gloria Trevino doesn’t need a Washington politician to tell her that a daily gusher of Canadian tar sands crude won’t do her air in south Houston any favors. Surrounded by mass ...
  • New York City Commits to Green Solution for Se ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City With a landmark announcement this week, New York City has officially joined a growing number of cities around the country in embracing a smarter--and paradigm-shifting--approach to reducing water pollu ...
  • The greening of Guinness
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Guinness Stout is one of the world’s great beverages.  It is the darkest of beers, as hearty and full-bodied as they come, with a characteristic cream-colored head ...
  • West Coast gets big, and growing, boost from c ...
    Noah Long, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco In 2008, the leaders of the States of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, and the Province of British Columbia, signed the Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) Agreement.  This week, the co ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Well, No Rush
    The technology exists to exonerate innocent people. But that doesn’t mean that states are using it effectively.
  • That Freeloading Bitch Believes That You Shoul ...
    Submitted without further comment. …for those who have already had their fill of mangos for the day, the cartoon in question portrays various Democratic women as literal bitches being held on a leash by a shiny Barack Obama (who, in fairness, is not wearing a pimp outfit.) The drawing make ...
  • Friday Linkage
    Some random Friday linkage: I like Max Fisher; I have nothing against his family. He stands between me and Eli Lake, and that means he’s gonna get paved over. Luck is gone. I really, really tried to get into it; there’s obviously a lot of talent, and perhaps they would have kept it a ...
  • Hayes
    I’m not really inclined to defend Rutherford B. Hayes. But I’m annoyed that Obama repeated the stupid apocryphal tale about Hayes rejecting the telephone. This isn’t because I care all that much about Hayes or even our presidents knowing all that much about their predecessors. ...
  • Are Conservatives Any Crazier Today Than 50 Ye ...
    Rick Perlstein suggests not in an excellent essay placing today’s wingnuts in context. A choice passage: Over fifteen years of studying the American right professionally — especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s — I have yet to find ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Civil rights advocates fear judicial nominatio ...
    Backed by a panel of prominent attorneys and a civil rights advocate, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) urged the Senate on March 15 to forego political maneuvering to clear a backlog of federal judicial nominees in a timely manner.
  • Guess founder's lawyers accused of bringing me ...
    A Los Angeles company that ships fine art for Christie's auction house has filed a malicious prosecution claim against former attorneys for Georges Marciano, co-founder of Guess Inc., alleging "meritless, corrupt and false allegations" of theft.
  • U.S. government subject to suit for patent inf ...
    The U.S. government is subject to patent infringement claims for products made outside the United States using patented processes and then imported into the country for use by a government contractor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled.
  • After Senate deal, two district court nominees ...
    The Senate overwhelmingly voted to confirm a pair of federal district court judges March 15, the day after congressional leaders moved past months of partisan bickering that had bogged down judicial nominees for months.
  • Law school's ranking might be based on faulty data
    The University of St. Thomas School of Law was ranked the No. 116 law school in the country by U.S. News and World Report this year, up 16 spots from last year. But that increase may be due to an error the Minneapolis school made when reporting its employment rate.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Plants Exposed to Drought Adapt Response to Su ...
    Plants that have endured drought conditions are able to “remember” the stress of dehydration and to adapt responses to future dry conditions, a new study says. Working with Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family, scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found that plants for which w ...
  • Africa Could Produce More E-Waste Than Europe ...
    Africa, typically a dumping ground for electronic waste from other nations, could produce more e-waste than the European Union by 2017, experts say. Across Africa, a combination of population growth and increased access to mobile phones and other technology will produce a surge in e-waste over t ...
  • Digital Defenders: Tribal People Use GPS to Pr ...
    From the rainforests of central Africa to the Australian outback, indigenous people armed with GPS devices are surveying their territories and producing maps they can use to protect them from logging and other outside development. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Nitrates Pose Threat to California Farming Reg ...
    Nearly 10 percent of the people living in California’s most productive agricultural areas may be drinking water contaminated with nitrates, according to a new study. In an analysis of water quality in the Tulare Lake Basin and the Salinas Valley, a rural region of about 2.6 million people, resea ...
  • Thinner Silicon Wafers Could Cut Cost of Solar ...
    A U.S. company has developed a new manufacturing technique that it says could cut the cost of producing solar cells in half by producing silicon wafers that are about one-tenth as thick as conventional wafers. Twin Creeks Technologies, a San Jose-based company, says it can produce crystalline si ...

Red Ice Creations

  • UK Approves Website Host O’Dwyer’s Extradition ...
    The mother of a student who will be extradited to the US to face copyright charges has accused the government of selling him "down the river" as Theresa May approved his extradition. Richard O’Dwyer’s mother Julia said the government was "paving the way" for UK citizens to be extradited to the US.
  • Rebekah Brooks arrested in News International ...
    Rebekah Brooks and her husband are among six people who have been arrested by police investigating phone hacking. A police spokesperson said: "All six - five men and one woman - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. A nu ...
  • Art sleuths believe long-lost Da Vinci found i ...
    Art sleuths said on Monday they believe they have found traces of a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece on a hidden wall in a palace in Florence that has not been seen in over four centuries. The traces were collected using tiny probes introduced into a wall covering the original surface in a lavish h ...
  • NASA specialist says he was fired over belief ...
    Its latest mission is defending itself in a workplace lawsuit filed by a former computer specialist who claims he was demoted - and then let go - for promoting his views on intelligent design, the belief that a higher power must have had a hand in creation because life is too complex to have dev ...
  • Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012
    From Kampala, the Kony 2012 hysteria was easy to miss. I’m not on Facebook or Twitter. I don’t watch YouTube and the Ugandan papers didn’t pick up the story for several days. But what I could not avoid were the hundreds of emails from friends, colleagues, and students in the US about the video b ...

Russia Today

  • Annan urges UN to unite for Syria peace
    The UN-Arab League's Special Envoy to Syria urges UN Security Council to overcome a deadlock for the sake of ending violence in Syria. It comes ahead of the deployment of Kofi Annan’s technical mission to Damascus to... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Afghan massacre suspect on flight to US
    An American soldier suspected of shooting 16 civilians in Afghanistan on Sunday is being moved to a military base in Kansas, US officials say. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Karzai blasts US over massacre probe: 'I'm at ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai slams Washington for its lack of cooperation over the probe into the killing of 16 Afghan civilians who were shot by at least one US soldier on Sunday. Karzai says the US stance has put him... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • US Navy in military build-up to battle Strait ...
    The US Navy has confirmed it is doubling the number of minesweepers in the Persian Gulf in an apparent move to prepare for a possible standoff with Iran over the crucial oil export route. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Riga hosts SS veteran march amid anti-fascist ...
    MPs & Nazi Waffen SS veterans marched through Latvia’s capital Riga accompanied by about 700 supporters and ‘All for Latvia’ political party members in a controversial annual ‘memorial’ procession that commemorates the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Pentagon coverup continues, but up to 20 US tr ...
    by Bashir Ahmad NaadimonMar 15, 2012 KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): 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 team spent two days in the province, interviewing the bereaved families, tribal elde ...
  • What good is a ‘Peace’ group when ...
    ‘Jorge Gonzalez, executive director of Coffee Strong in Lakewood (South Tacoma, Washington area) , called for a congressional investigation into why Fort Lewis-McChord’s leadership is failing its soldiers. The shop, located near the sewing center, provides counseling and other outreach to ...
  • Occupier vs The People, how they lie about &#8 ...
    Just the name Occupy Wall Street is an antiwar statement. The US military is an Occupier military against The People for the 1% Super Rich, and we are the exact opposite of such. We would Occupy the lands of the Rich and give to the Poor instead. The pro militarism people always say that they [...]
  • Ron Paul is a hopey change bubble for white pe ...
    RPtard – An American voter who’s peeing himself silly at the prospect of Ron Paul snatching the democracy movement for the Fascists, but who shortly will be rolled into the Republican Party like every other Teabag Libertarian antisocial supremacist before him.
  • US military still trains Guatemalan squad infa ...
    Not only do US soldiers have a mission to kill kids themselves, they also train other countries’ soldiers to kill kids. That’s right, and every American should know the truth about US armed forces and the training they give worldwide to other military units also killing children. See ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Buying Organic in Bulk can Save You 89%
    Earlier this week, the Bulk is Green Council (BIG) published a press release with interesting findings about the value of purchasing in bulk. Apparently, buying in bulk is not just healthier for the planet, it is much more cost effective for consumers. According to the study – up to 89% ch ...
  • Food and the Brain: Is Sugar Addictive?
    This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Lee, Ph.D. We’ve all heard of “sugar-highs” and informal theories that foods, especially sweets, can act like drugs in our system. But how much truth lies in such rumors? If food can be addictive, how so, and why? And what are we supposed to do about it [...]
  • Study: Red Meat not Only Leads to Disease, It ...
    For decades we have been taught that excess consumption of red meat leads to heart disease and other chronic health issues. That’s what gave rise to the poultry industry in this country. And now, new evidence shows that mortality rates are significantly higher in people who consume high am ...
  • Why is Coke Changing its Product Formulation?
    Last year The State of California updated its list of known carcinogens to include 4-methylimidazole (4-MI). Studies have shown it to cause leukemia as well as cancerous tumors in the respiratory system. Why are we mentioning 4-MI? Well, its found in every can of Coke (an Pepsi). 4-MI is part of ...
  • Some Interesting Food Trends from Expo West
    We spent Friday and Saturday at the Anaheim Convention Center, which was jam packed for the Expo West Natural Food Show. The show brings together manufacturers, buyers, foodies, and everyone else interested in a slightly healthier alternative to standard grocery fare. Alongside stalwart establis ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle little paint tester ...
    We covered old leftover paint on the site many, many moons ago (roughly 66-67 moons ago apparently) but these last few weeks, we’ve been rather overrun with little tester pots of paint here. I hate tester pots from an environmental point of view – usually plastic pots, sometimes with ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle the nets you get ar ...
    Long time Recycle This friend (and very frequent commenter!) Anna has a question about the protective sleeves slipped around wine bottles: Any ideas what to do with the plastic nets they put for wine bottles for protecting them when you buy one? I don’t drink wine so I had to turn to my fr ...
  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an acrylic sweater/ ...
    We’ve covered wool jumpers/sweaters on the site before now – what to do with them when you accidentally shrink your most favourite jumper ever in the wash. But what about acrylic jumpers? They don’t get ruined in the same way but cheaper ones tend to lose their shape and look a ...
  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...

Age of Autism

  • Brian Deer’s BMJ Series Not Peer Reviewed
    By Jake Crosby It’s been quite a month. Along with the clearing of Professor John Walker-Smith’s name, the discrediting of the Lancet’s retraction of Wakefield et al. for which he was senior author and the subsequent evisceration of most of...
  • Dr. Ian Lipkin of Columbia - A Scientist on th ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. There is a most curious interview with Dr. Ian Lipkin in the April 2012 issue of Discover magazine entitled "In the Lab with the World's Greatest Virus Hunter". I can't help but notice that Dr. Lipkin,...
  • Action Alert: Vermont To Lose Philosophical Va ...
    Managing editor's note: Good morning. If you live in Vermont, your healthcare rights are under attack. Even if you currently are in favor of the full vaccination schedule for children and the growing booster shot recommendations for adults and teens,...
  • Vermont Seeks to Terminate Parental Vaccinatio ...
    By Robert Schecter According to Vermont's Bennington Banner [1] The Vermont Senate on Friday passed and sent to the House a bill that would end the philosophical exemption from the requirement that parents get their children a series of vaccinations...
  • CA Senator Wolk Receives $58K from Vaccine Man ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Seems there's a new trend to affect your rights as a citizen to partake or refrain from healthcare procedures. Just as there is a push to pass laws requiring a woman receive an ultrasound prior to an...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Chinese Companies Forced to Falsify Economic D ...
    Bloomberg – China’s statistics bureau said local officials forced some hotels, coal miners and aluminum makers to report false numbers, highlighting flaws in data tracking the world’s second-largest economy. Statistics officials in Hejin city in northern Shanxi province gave companies “ser ...
  • Police justified in Tasering of mentally ill m ...
    LA Times – San Bernardino police officers who used a Taser on a mentally ill man shortly before he died were justified in their actions, the San Bernardino County district attorney’s office said Thursday. Sgts. Eric Fyvie and Travis Walker and Officers Von Verbanic and Joey Zinkand acted i ...
  • Big Pharma: Heart disease combats racism
    The Telegraph – Volunteers given the beta-blocker, used to treat chest pains and lower heart rates, scored lower on a standard psychological test of “implicit” racist attitudes. They appeared to be less racially prejudiced at a subconscious level than another group treated with ...
  • Saudi Arabia closes embassy in Syria
    Independent – Saudi Arabia says it has closed its embassy in Damascus and pulled out its diplomats and staff as Syrian President Bashar Assad steps up attacks against the opposition. The kingdom has become one of the leading Arab supporters of the Syrian rebels and has appealed for interna ...
  • US: Isle Royale wolves may go extinct
    PhysOrg – Isle Royale National Park’s gray wolves, one of the world’s most closely monitored predator populations, are at their lowest ebb in more than a half-century and could die out within a few years, scientists said Friday. Only nine wolves still wander the wilderness isla ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Gearing up for World Water Day
    For the past few years, these 20,000 women have come together from all over rural India on March 22 to celebrate water. As their colorful saris fill the giant tents, they spend World Water Day listening to speakers, watching dancers, and talking about the importance of water in their lives.
  • Water Day Film Festival: Winner
    Film Festival Winner: "Refresh", dir. Sean Cruse
  • Water Day Film Festival: Runners-Up
    Thanks to all who entered! Please join us again for next year's festival.
  • Mar 2012 Conference Call
    Water.org’s Senior Manager of International Programs, Heather Arney, talked about our work with WaterCredit in India, and Water.org’s Marketing Programs Manager, Erin Swanson, spoke about the many ways to get involved with World Water Day, March 22nd. The call ends with an open question and answ ...
  • Conference Call: March
    Hear about India and World Water Day

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Good news! ICC finds Congo warlord Thomas Luba ...
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has found the Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga, guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers between 2002 and 2003. Submitted by Annick Letourneau to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Condemn Egyptian Virginity Tests On Female Pro ...
    One brave woman named Samira Ibrahim filed a case against the military for sexual assault. While virginity tests have since been declared illegal, the doctor who conducted the tests has been cleared of all charges. Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  • Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties
    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 killing Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World ...
  • American Morlocks: Monsters of a murderous Afg ...
    By Nima Shirazi, Salon The latest killing of civilians by an American soldier isn't an outlier -- it's a reflection of our war policies (and the long term logic of war for control and dominance and slow genocide) Submitted by Wild Thang to World  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • THE FORBIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT ECONOMICS & HISTORY ...
    Ever wonder why our economy is in trouble? How can so many people can be in so much debt at the same time? Does it seem strange to you no matter how hard one works, and in spite of all the advances in society, most hard working people cannot escape debt. Submitted by Henriette Matthijssen to Wor ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • New Oil Spill in Brazil
       Photo: NASA
  • Tom Friedman’s False Narrative On Oil Dependence
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the point he ...
  • UK Greens Divided on Nuclear Power
    Prominent environmentalists in the United Kingdom are at loggerheads over whether Britain should pursue new nuclear power plants, in a clash that has revealed sharply divergent approaches to energy and climate change. Five leading environmentalists said abandoning plans for nuclear power would b ...
  • ‘Green Button’: how long before adoptions matc ...
    The White House wants it. Some California utilities get it. But will more than a few U.S. utilities sign on to help ratepayers better understand how they use electricity with one-click access to their data? One year after the Obama Administration began talking about the idea, and in the roughly ...
  • Hot topic: Rethinking climate security
    Corinne Schoch asks if militarizing climate change might harm those communities most affected by the problem ***

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Occupy Monsanto Genetic Crimes Unit invades Co ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom North America’s largest trade show for natural products learned a dramatic lesson in hypocrisy last week when Occupy Monsanto members of the “Genetic Crimes Unit” showed up in biohazard suits, to highlight the hidden GMOs in most “natural&#82 ...
  • Occupy WalMart on March 17: Don’t sell G ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom In addition to the global Occupy Monsanto action on March 16-17, organizers are asking folks to gather outside their local WalMart store urging it not to sell genetically modified corn. The health consequences will be catastrophic. Gilles-Eric Seralini, named 2011 ...
  • Some questions about the Obama - Cameron meeting
    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. ...
  • Buried Alive Cruel and Unusual Punishment
    by Stephen Lendman What America's Eighth Amendment and international law prohibit, US federal, state and local prisons permit. reports "news from a nation in lockdown" to bring America's widespread use of barbaric "solitary confinement and other forms of torture in U.S. prisons out of the sha ...
  • Israeli-Style Ceasefires
    by Stephen Lendman International laws are clear and unequivocal. Fourth Geneva's Article 146 requires "the High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances." They're required to prosecute offenders committing grave breaches, i ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2012
    Today, the CCPA releases the Alternative Federal Budget 2012: A Budget for the Rest of Us. This year's AFB presents a public investment plan that promotes a better quality of life for all Canadians, not just an elite few. The AFB is designed to: tackle poverty and income inequality by inves ...
  • Nova Scotian workers need improved standards
    “Workers in Nova Scotia are worse off economically than they were a quarter century ago.  For the most part, this deterioration in wages happened at the same time that the economy of the province vigorously increased the wealth it generated.”  A new report released by CCPA-NS Research ...
  • Inequality: The role of unions and race
    The University of Toronto's Richard Florida has an important two-part series in The Atlantic focusing on what is driving the growing income gap in American cities. In particular, he and colleague Charlotta Mellander look at what is driving the differences in income inequality, since it's not a ...
  • Toxic spill and communications chill
    Last August, a pipeline broke near Fort St John, spilling toxic liquid that killed at least one cow and sickened other cattle. The Oil and Gas Commission has refused to release any details about the spill, citing its ongoing investigation. But our researcher Ben Parfitt questions the OGC's loyal ...
  • Shared Futures: Big Institutions and their Inn ...
    In a new report from CCPA-MB, Valerie Shantz examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg's inner city. Download the full report: Shared Futures: Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours.

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Friday
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Springtime, when an act ...
    Wall Street’s Latest Campus Recruiting Crisis BY KEVIN ROOSE Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times Cory Finley has written a play called “The Private Sector” that is set at a hedge fund corporate retreat. Wall Street, once a magnet for America’s best and brightest, is facing a recruiting problem ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    Lawyer: Afghan suspect’s friend had leg blown off SEATTLE (AP) — The day before the rampage that killed 16 Afghan villagers, the U.S. soldier accused of the mass killings saw his friend’s leg blown off, his lawyer said. Seattle attorney John Henry Browne told The Associated Press tha ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) When Life Give You Lemons…
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies.com – Yeah, but what if life gives you SANTORUM? What in the world is going on? The foolishness of last night’s southern primary is just breathtaking. Three guys running, well four if you count Paul. But these three, the cream of the republican party ...
  • Make room for the rich: Leaked map reveals Eth ...
      survivalinternational - 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 included in an internal report by the country’s Wildlife Conservation Aut ...

FourWinds10

  • STORMTROOPER: THE MILITARY'S WAR ON THE EARTH
  • The BP spill in the Gulf: One year later
      (NaturalNews.com) - It's been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and rightfully so, if for no other reason than because, one year later, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmare gift that keeps on giving, some experts are saying. The Deepwater ...
  • US space junk falls in South America
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
  • CDFA Pest PEIR Must Not Be Allowed
      This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safegua ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Oil Dependence — Tom Friedman’s False Narrative
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the poi ...
  • Global Warming Primer & Natural Gas Vehicles — ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed are: The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-deri ...
  • The Professor Who Knew Too Little
    It is clear that many people have a very simplistic — but wrong — view of the energy markets. This extends to politicians who believe they can usher in a return to $2 gasoline, as well as those who underestimate the difficulty of replacing oil with renewable energy. For the average p ...
  • Gas Prices & Keystone Pipeline — R-Squared Ene ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer more questions about gas prices, and discuss the Keystone XL pipeline and future development of Canada’s oil sands. Some of the topics discussed are: The EROEI for producing oil sands The emissions profile of shipping the oil sa ...
  • Ethanol Exports and the Future of the Ethanol ...
    Were U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing Ethanol Exports? Over the past couple of years, U.S. ethanol exports have soared. Last year a news article in Financial Times charged that these exports were being subsidized with U.S. tax dollars. The U.S. ethanol industry strongly denied this, but I wrote severa ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Why You Can't Trust the "Natural" Label
    "Natural" is a meaningless term on food product labels, and it's even more meaningless on personal care products, which are subject to lax regulations as it is. A recent study from the nonprofit Silent Spring Institute shows just how little you really can trust that seemingly reassuring term on ...
  • Bye-Bye BPA? It Could Happen Within Weeks
    Faced with a growing list of lawsuits from consumer-protection, health, and environmental groups, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to announce its decision to continue to allow—or ban—the use of bisphenol A, or BPA, from food packaging. Chemical manufacturers produce about 3 m ...
  • Unexpected Food Source Boosts Breast Cancer Risk
    We've all heard that mammograms can help detect the early stages of breast cancer, and that being obese or regularly eating red or processed meats are some of the causes of breast cancer. But what about actually preventing it in the first place? Scientists have clearly shown that exercising reg ...
  • Top Ways to Talk Natural Medicine with Your Doc
    Nearly 40 percent of people living in the United States turn to herbs and other natural remedies to deal with everything from colds to cancer. Not all share those alternative treatment details with conventional doctors, though, and that can actually put the brakes on their recovery. For example ...
  • How Companies Are Coping With Arsenic in Rice
    Last month, researchers from Dartmouth University discovered that brown rice syrup, a popular sweetener used as a replacement for calorie-dense high-fructose corn syrup, was highly contaminated with arsenic, with some samples containing up to 17 times the legal limit for drinking water. Read Mo ...

big think

  • No Idea? No Problem. Start a Company!
    What's the Latest Development? The San Francisco start up incubator Y Combinator is now accepting applications for its next funding round and has opened the applicant pool to groups and individuals who—wait for it—have no actual business idea. Groups and individuals who are nonetheless . ...
  • How to Use Graphic Design for Social Change
    What's the Latest Development? A new book outlines the steps you can take to make your design project socially relevant, presuming you want to use your abilities to change the world for the better. In Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design, author Andr ...
  • How to Pursue the Career You Really Want
    What's the Latest Development? Amber Rae, who is passionate about getting other people to follow their passions, believes a little down time can help you focus on what you really want to achieve. Once you've achieved a moment of self-reflection, rather than asking yourself directly what ...
  • Response to James Inhofe's Statements to Rache ...
    Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) appeared on the March 15, 2012 MSNBC Rachel Maddow program to discuss his book "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future." On the program, Inhofe cited findings from the April 2011 Climate Shift report comparing 2009 revenue and spend ...
  • Ben Way: How an Entrepreneur Bounces Back
    What's the Latest Development? When Ben Way lost the 33 million dollars he had secured as part of a dot com project, he also lost his house, his car and his girlfriend. But he has come through the experience to shine in the world of solar energy, proving himself a capable (and tested ... ...

Information Liberation

  • Jeremy Scahill: Obama insists to keep journali ...
    Before Barack Obama was President Obama, he promised the most transparent administration ever. But it seems transparency doesn't seem to apply to recent US activities - from drone wars, torture and secret prisons, Americans have been left in the da...
  • Filmmaker Releases Video Breakdown Of Illegal ...
    An award winning filmmaker and self-desribed StarTrek fan got dash-cam video of an illegal traffic stop carried out against him by a criminal police officer who was intent on harassing him. He produced this 17 minute video to document the incident...
  • Nine Things That Happen When You Film Police E ...
    Anyone who has ever filmed a police encounter and put it on YouTube has received some, or a lot, of negative comments for their actions. This is mostly due to a lack of understanding among the general public as to why someone would want to film polic...
  • The Antiwar Facebook Comment Which Got A 19 Ye ...
    This tame Facebook comment got a 19-year-old student arrested in the United Kingdom. Azhar Ahmed, 19, is said to have posted the comments on his profile page and has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence. A West Yorkshir...
  • Why They Hate Free Speech
    Sometimes * why not now? * you just have to reflect on what an amazing man Thomas Jefferson was. I mean, he really got the whole idea of liberty, maybe better than anyone before him, and far better than most people today. What a man! What a dream he ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →
  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →
  • A Servitude Of Convenience
    Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 1
    Regular readers will know that I was recruited via my GP to take part in the Fenland Study. The study is taking a sample of the population born between 1950 and 1975, and carrying out a raft of blood tests, body stature measurements, DEXA body fat and bone density and tests for diabetes, cholest ...
  • Planetary landers, caffeine, sulfa drugs and c ...
    The latest issue of my SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This weeK: US researchers are developing the next generation of laser ablation technology, which might one day be used in a future planetary lander to carry out isotopic analysis of a planets surface, for instance, and so allow precise & ...
  • More red meat risk analysis
    NHS Choices finally published its critique of the Harvard red meat research that had the tabloids screaming that meat kills earlier this week. I provided some commentary on Sciencebase soon after. Anyway, this is what NHS Choices concludes: “This study had several strengths including its s ...
  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...

RFF Library

  • Innovation Under Cap-and-trade Programs
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print March 12, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1113462109 PNAS March 12, 2012) / by Margaret R. Taylor http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/08/1113462109.full.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Debra Kahn, sub. req'd] Cap-and- ...
  • California Public Utilities Commission Risk As ...
    California Public Utilities Commission Risk Assessment Unit (RAU) http://1.usa.gov/AnP8a3 Following the 2010 Pacific gas and Electric pipeline explosion that killed several people and destroyed a neighborhood in San Bruno, California, the regulator identified over 550 potential trouble spots, th ...
  • The Impact of Tar Sands Pipeline Spills on Emp ...
    Cornell University, Global Land Institute / by Lara Skinner and Sean Sweeney http://bit.ly/wLeLd5 State Dept. testimony (video): http://cs.pn/ADJ55C [From an Energy Wire article by Pamela King, sub req'd]   The controversial Keystone XL pipeline would destroy agriculture and tourism jobs in the ...
  • Bay Area Smart Energy 2020
    Powers Engineering for Pacific Environment / by Bill Powers http://pacificenvironment.org/BASE2020 [Press Release]  Pacific Environment released a report today, “Bay Area Smart Energy 2020” (BASE 2020), which details how the San Francisco Bay Area can move to a locally-based, clean energy econom ...
  • Growing Trends in Corporate Sustainability
    Ernst & Young | GreenBiz Group http://bit.ly/yvzQDD [From an article in Climate Wire by Daniel Cusick , sub. req'd]  More than three-fourths of executives and thought leaders surveyed for a new report on environmental sustainability in business say they expect natural resource shortages ...

Scientific American - News

  • Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled for the ...
    Windswept from cloud to cloud until they flutter to Earth, snowflakes assume a seemingly endless variety of shapes. Some have the perfect symmetry of a six-pointed star, some are hexagons adorned with hollow columns, whereas others resemble needles, prisms or the branches of a Christmas tree. ...
  • Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have B ...
    That is a main finding of a report , three years in the making, published Wednesday by a team of 12 scientists who study hormone-altering chemicals. [More]
  • Worm Discovery Illuminates How Our Brains Migh ...
    Our earliest invertebrate ancestors did not have brains. Yet, over hundreds of millions of years, we and other vertebrates have developed amazingly complicated mental machinery. "It must have evolutionary roots somewhere, but where?" wrote Henry Gee, an editor at Nature, in an ess ...
  • Jawless Vertebrate Had World's Sharpest Teeth
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • 9-Year-Old Boy's Shrinking Brain Disorder Baff ...
    Jason Egan does not walk, talk or eat like most nine-year-olds. He gets around in a wheelchair and depends on a feeding tube threaded into his stomach. He makes signs with his hands to communicate and has mustered the word "mom" on occasion. Although he cannot always articulate his fee ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Another Activist Murdered for Resisting a Cana ...
    Bernardo Vásquez killed in Oaxaca, two others wounded Tonight, we lost a comrade. Someone who understood very well that it was cheaper for Fortuna Silver to divide his people and for paramilitaries and police to repress them than it was for ...
  • Enough is Enough!
    Downtown Eastside community rallies against police brutality DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE - A lively community rally occupied the intersection of Main and Hastings earlier this evening, as part of the International Day Against Police Brutality. Close ...
  • Dick Cheney scared away from Canada by Vancouv ...
    Former US Vice President cancels Toronto visit War criminal and self-confessed torturer Dick Cheney has canceled a Toronto speaking appearance due to 'security concerns' caused by the lively resistance to a visit he made to Vancouve ...
  • CKUT: Live Update from Montreal Anti-Police Br ...
    CKUT's Stefan Christoff reports from downtown Montreal March 15 marks the International Day of Action Against Police Brutality, and each year, a large demonstration against police brutality and repression takes place in Montreal. Indep ...
  • UPDATE: Musqueam Burial Site
    Three-day blockade leads to three-week construction halt MUSQUEAM TERRITORY - Excavation for a condo project has been halted at an ancient Musqueam burial site. Members of the Musqueam First Nation packed up their around-the-clock blockade ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...
  • Save the Children
    David Seaton's News Links  Over six million children die of hunger every year, according to the World Health Organization... Is there anything more that must be said? What is going to be done? DS
  • Netanyahu's target is Obama, not Iran
    David Seaton's News LinksIt cannot be denied that the Holocaust theme has served Netanyahu well politically. As many commentators have pointed out, Netanyahu has succeeded in reframing political discourse on the Middle East: this visit to the U.S. was the first in a long time in which the Palest ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - III
    David Seaton's News LinksObserving the pantagruelian expense and listening to and reading about the nauseating, sociopathic babble of the seemingly endless Republican primaries in the United States; people all over the world are questioning the democratic process and wondering if China's authori ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - II
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholy" Domenico Feti We are living in quite special times. The crisis in the system hasn’t been this evident to “everyman” since the 1930s. The United States is rather special in one respect in facing the crisis. The idea of personal responsibility for everyth ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 16 March 2012
    On the left, Inkblot is giving us his sad face because the food bowl is empty and it's getting close to dinner time. Don't worry: his hunger was assuaged a few minutes later. On the right, Domino is batting away at a piece of string. You'll have to take my word for it, since the string isn't i ...
  • Will We Ever Close the Output Gap?
    "Potential GDP" is the size of the American economy if it's running at full steam. "Actual GDP" is, as you'd expect, the actual size of the American economy. During the Great Recession, actual GDP fell, and since then it's grown at roughly the same rate as it used to. In other words, it hasn't ...
  • Balancing the Budget the Obama Way
    In case you're curious, here's CBO's take on President Obama's proposed budget. The light blue line is their "baseline projection" which assumes that all current laws stay in effect forever and the Bush tax cuts all expire at the end of the year. It shows the federal deficit nearly disappearin ...
  • Chart of the Day: The Housing Bubble Increased ...
    Via Suzy Khimm, here's an interesting bit of research from Amine Ouazad and Romain Rancière. During the housing boom of the aughts, it became easier for low-income families to buy more expensive homes. Since African-American families have lower incomes than average, this suggests that ...
  • Rebranding is the Last Refuge of Terrorists
    Washington Post columnist David Ignatius was recently given an early look at captured documents from Osama bin Laden's compound that will be publicly released shortly, and he reports that near the end bin Laden was apparently obsessed with the last resort of failed CEOs everywhere: rebranding. ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 309: I Hate NYC
    Topics: Comcast, the Jehovah Witnesses of Cable companies Kriss & Kev hate NYC Kwame Kilpatrick has a movie Black people feeling the need to support other black people just cause they’re black The Trayvon Martin case and how absurd it is The uproar over the Mass Effect 3 ending *spoil ...
  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...
  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:
  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • First-ever integrative 'Omics' profile lets St ...
    Geneticist Michael Snyder, PhD, has almost no privacy. For more than two years, he and his lab members at the Stanford University School of Medicine pored over his body's most intimate secrets: the sequence of his DNA, the RNA and proteins produced by his cells, the metabolites and signaling mol ...
  • Glacier-fed river systems threatened by climat ...
    Glacial meltwater increases biodiversity in mountainous freshwater ecosystems. As glaciers vanish due to global warming, so will those species dependent upon the icy runoff. This is the conclusion of a study authored by researchers from, among other institutions, the University of Copenhagen. r ...
  • Early spring drives butterfly population declines
    Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in the number of flowers, which, in turn, decreases available nectar. The result is decline in a population of the Mormon Fritillary butterfly, Speyeria mormonia. read more
  • Lyme disease surge predicted for the northeast ...
    The northeastern U.S. should prepare for a surge in Lyme disease this spring. And we can blame fluctuations in acorns and mouse populations, not the mild winter. So reports Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. read more
  • European grasslands challenge rainforests as t ...
    The city of Manila holds the human world record for the most densely populated space and now an international team of ecologists are seeking the natural equivalent, the most species rich area on earth. The team's findings, published in the Journal of Vegetation Science, reveal the record is cont ...

unEarthed

  • Why The Cod Is Sacred
    A symbol of Earthjustice victory protecting marine ecosystems The "Sacred Cod" In Massachusetts, a wooden carving of a 5-foot long codfish known as the &ldquo ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: “Charleston, We Have A Problem”
    McKinley's “urgent” request to view leaks at nation’s largest coal ash pond Aerial view of the Little Blue Run coal ash storage reservoir in Beaver County ...
  • Friday Finds: Return Of The Pink Slime Meat!
    Toxic ships, BPA-free soup, bicycle buses Photo courtesy of fox_kiyo U.S. schools buying McDonald’s pink slime rejects It’s baaaaack. Last mont ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Risky Retirement
    Closure of old coal plants raises cleanup issues Coal ash ponds in Nevada. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice) Across the country, communities near retiring c ...
  • Friday Finds: Lorax Speaks for the SUVs
    Google oceans, cutting oil subsidies, beach-bound tsunami debris (Photo courtesy of B Rosen) The Lorax peddles SUVs to elementary kids The main character fr ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Leaving Goldman Sachs
    A top executive at Goldman Sachs has a lot to say about the “new” Goldman Sachs. Let’s just say his love for the company has left. Read More About Goldman Sachs Culture
  • Don’t Ever Forget Who Is The Head Of The ...
  • What Are Republicans Trying To Destroy Now?
    Why does hearing the word Republican make me want to vomit? Maybe it is because of what they stand for. Our friends at Daily Kos have a poll up on their website asking “Which issue below concerns you most in terms of the Republican assault on it?” Destroying these things listed below ...
  • I Want To Be On Armed Forces Radio
    I promise not to call people sluts for the crime of testifying before congress, and this alone makes me more qualified than Rush The Liar Limbaugh. I don’t have a radio show, bit I am sure there is millions of Americans who agree that Republicans are a Disease, and would love to hear my vo ...
  • So Rush Limbaugh Is A Piece Of Slime
    Who knew…. How dare anyone testify that doing stuff that keeps people from dying might be necessary! How dare they. They should just sit down, shut up, and let Rush’s friends run the world.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Ben Harper and Tom Morello: There’s A Be ...
    Performed live at an InterOccupy meetup hosted by Occupy LA in MacArthur Park:
  • Greedy Bastards Antidote: Lawrence Lessig on “ ...
    In a discussion on money, politics, and the growth of organic political reform movements in America over the last few years, Dylan Ratigan talks with Lawrence Lessig about his new book, One Way Forward: An Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic. You can read Lessig's book here.
  • Obama’s Lobbying Ban Leads To More Corru ...
    When Republic Report launched Sell Out Of The Week, our initial winner was President Obama, who earned the prize for embracing his super PAC, essentially endorsing unlimited corporate cash invading the democratic process, after having failed to take some critical steps to clean up the system. We ...
  • This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Crimina ...
    If laws like the new Trespass Bill (HR 347) had been in effect during the Civil Rights movement, there would have been no March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists would have been rendered criminals. And King's call for "militant nonviolent resistance" would have been ...
  • Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; ...
    Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats | #Occupy News Roundup | How to Fund an American Police State | Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts | "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks | Tech Firms Help Arab Dictators | Vermont Town Meet ...

+972

  • Image: Israeli shot in head with rubber bullet ...
    The Israeli army used rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas against protesters in the village of Nabi Saleh today (Friday). Naomi Laet, An Israeli protester aged 22, seen below, was hit with a rubber bullet in her head. According to reports, another Palestinian was injured from a rubber bulle ...
  • IDF soldiers release attack dog on unarmed Pal ...
    An attack dog released on unarmed Palestinians by Israeli security forces sank its teeth into the arm of a Palestinian man and refused to release it for several minutes. Soldiers released an attack dog on unarmed Palestinians at a Friday anti-occupation demonstration in the West Bank village of ...
  • Separated at birth: Visiting Armenia as an Israeli
    How can a nation that seems to share Israel’s history be friends with Iran? How can it not. I’ve heard it said that if there is one thing Israel would enjoy, it would be to have another Hebrew-speaking country somewhere in the world to break its loneliness. The exchange of ideas and ...
  • And the peace camp stood silent
    Polls say most Israelis oppose Netanyahu on Iran, but there hasn’t been a protest, a press conference or even a bumper sticker to give them a voice The world is worried more and more that Israel is going to attack Iran and start a Middle Eastern war, yet the Israeli peace camp, which used ...
  • U.S. embassy alarmed by ‘missile’ ...
    Creators of “Iran – The Exhibition,” a new art project at The Spaceship gallery in Tel Aviv, wanted to examine “Israeli hysteria and fear of destruction, and the never-ending quest for a new Hitler-Nasser-Saddam.” Among other works, the exhibition includes a miniatu ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Right to Community – It’s Time
    “Dull, inert cities … contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain …Continue reading »
  • Kony, Dallaire, and the Future of Child Soldiers
    As the KONY 2012 phenomenon slowly abates, lingering questions remain as to its effectiveness and the deeper issues that lie …Continue reading »
  • More Important Than Bagging Kony
    This week the Huffington Post asked that I write a few pieces on the Kony 2012 phenomenon. This – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glen-pearson/the-end-game-isnt-kony-bu_b_1339793.html - …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – At The Table
    I recall talking to an urban planner who was advising the Federal of Canadian Municipalities during the time I was …Continue reading »
  • Tripling It Up
    The kind folks at Harrison Pensa, a prominent London legal firm, came up with an interesting concept. Anyone who clicked …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

  • The scale of the Universe: from yoctometres to ...
    A journey of sixty powers of ten from where neutrinos are like suns to where galaxies are like dust.
  • Chinese Government tries to get to grips with ...
    The Chinese Ministry of Education has issued new tougher rules to counter misconduct in science.
  • Tohoku University struggles to handle transgre ...
    Akihisa Inoue, the president of Tohoku University has had seven papers retracted and 3 investigations so far. But without any established procedures or standards for what constitutes ethics in research Tohoku University and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency are struggling with how to pr ...
  • Indian Census: Access to electricity progresse ...
    The 2011 Indian Census shows that the joint family system (multiple couples in a household) is giving way to nuclear families. The urban-rural divide is still very strong and electricity is becoming more accessible but mobile phones are penetrating faster than toilets.
  • Update on Matsubara
    The American Heart Association, which publishes a number of journals, has issued an Expression of Concern about five papers in three of their publications, following allegations of image manipulation. All of the papers include Hiroaki Matsubara, of Kyoto Prefectural University, as a co-author.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • "This American Life" Retracts Story On Foxconn ...
    Many listeners of American Public Media's This American Life radio program were shocked during the broadcast of an excerpt from comedian Mike Daisey's one-man-show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," where he visits a factory in China owned by Foxconn that makes Apple products, and enco ...
  • Worst Company In America Round One: Comcast Vs ...
    Finishing off this week of blood-drenched business battles is a pairing between two of the largest -- and two of the least-favorite -- cable companies in the country. The fight is scheduled to begin anywhere between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. Two years ago, Comcast rolled through the WCIA brackets lik ...
  • Attention, Men Of Cape Cod: Get A Free Pizza W ...
    Urologists in Cap Cod think they've figured out the solution for a wonderful recovery after that vasectomy -- a free pizza to chow down on while watching the NCAA basketball tournament. Because nothing lifts your spirits about ending your reproductive possibilities like hot cheese. Mmm. Urolog ...
  • Worst Company In America Round One: Netflix Vs ...
    Everyone else might be thanking God it's Friday, but not the companies that had to start off their weekend by beating the ever-loving crud out of each other in the Worst Company America Thunderdome. To get things started off the right way, here's a match between two companies that seem to be ...
  • Worst Company In America Round One: UPS Vs. USPS
    We hope these two parcel-punting pugilists know how to deliver the punches, because they both seem to have a problem delivering your packages. Given the sheer volume that both of these companies deal with, even a very small percentage of errors adds up to an awful lot of ticked-off customers e ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • "Pink Slime" Whistleblower's Feb. 2011 Video P ...
    Grist: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on 'Pink Slime' Summary: Public health advocate and Appetite for Profit author Michele Simon recapped the presentation of GAP client Kit Foshee at our Food Integrity Campaign whistleblower conference last year. At the event, Foshee shared his experience b ...
  • Bradley Manning Hearing: Government Foiled By ...
    Bradley Manning's attorney (David Coombs) requested that charges against Manning be dismissed because the prosecution had so badly bungled discovery obligations. Josh Gerstein of Politico reported in detail: At a hearing last month, prosecutors in the case against Pfc. Brad ...
  • From Whistleblower to Crime Fighter?
    It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s… Robert MacLean? That’s right. GAP client and TSA whistleblower Robert MacLean was being celebrated as a hero yesterday in local Nashville news. While it would, at first glance, make sense for MacLean to be celebrated for his important disclosures, this story ...
  • Whistleblower Advocates Concerned With Obama; ...
    Washington Post: White House Making Whistleblower Advocates Nervous Summary: Numerous whistleblower advocacy and good-government groups are concerned with the recent Obama administration attack on intelligence whistleblowers from the president who once promised the most transparent administrat ...
  • WaPo: State Proposes Firing Whistleblower Pete ...
    The Washington Post reports that the State Department has proposed firing whistleblower Peter Van Buren. Van Buren wrote a book (We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People) that exposed massive fraud, waste, and abuse associated with the State ...

UK Progressive

  • 13 Reasons Goldman’s Quitting Exec May Have a ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahead of clients. Greg Smith started as an intern 12 years ago and last headed a derivatives department. Not surprisingly ...
  • The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a ...
    Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who will cut taxes on the wealthy the most and shred the public services everyone else depends on. The rest of us ought to be having a serious discussion about a wealth tax. Because if you really want to know what’s happening to the American economy you [. ...
  • How The South Can Rise Again: Immigrants
    In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina members of the media noticed there was widespread devastation in the South. Watching it on television, as a person of Southern heritage, to me it was clear: “Some of that was like that before the storm.” And it was. And it still is years later. Now ...
  • How to Win Facebook Friends and Influence People
    by Lois Beckett, ProPublica Instead of picketing outside company headquarters, an advocacy group is using Facebook ads to try to influence people whose profiles identify them as employees of Freddie Mac or JPMorgan Chase. The anti-foreclosure ad campaign, which launches today, asks Freddie and C ...
  • Israel Facing “Existential Threat” from Within ...
    Israel is facing an “acute” existential threat from reactionary elements within as “a profoundly anti-democratic, even racist, political culture has become endemic among much of the Jewish population in the West Bank, and jeopardizes Israel proper,” The New Yorker magazine asserts in its March 1 ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

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  • Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccur ...
    The BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a report showing that as many as 85 -95% of all Australian sites in the pre-Celsius era (before 1972) did not comply with the BOM’s own stipulations. The audit shows 20-30% of all the measur ...
  • Jennifer Marohasy and ABC’s MediaWatch t ...
    Jennifer Marohasy has extraordinary influence. She’s so powerful that the ABC’s Media Watch program has singled her out, asking questions about her income and disclosures that they don’t even bother to ask Tim Flannery. Presumably they don’t think anyone still takes Tim s ...
  • Richard Black — the fastest apologist fo ...
    Black thinks the BBC reported on ClimateGate, instead they rushed to report a “hacking” that may not even have been a hack… Richard Black thinks the BBC was the first to “report” Climategate in the mainstream press. @BBCRBlackvia TwitterTired old meme that BBC was s ...
  • Climate Coup — The Politics
    How the regulating class is using bogus claims about climate change to entrench and extend their economic privileges and political control. Guest Post: Dr David M.W. Evans, 29 Feb 2012, last updated 13 Mar 2012, latest pdf here The Science The sister article Climate Coup—The Science (a more mai ...

ReNew America

  • The spirit of the laws
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - Baron Montesquieu (Mahn-tes'-kyoo) De Secondat (French political philosopher, 1689 1755) wrote The Spirit of the Laws (l'Espirit des Lois, 1750), which is esteemed by some as the most important work of political philosophy of the 18th century...
  • Why Romney can't win
    (Joseph Farah) - The media and Republican political establishment have sold the lie that Mitt Romney is the GOP's best hope for beating Barack Obama in November. Truthfully, Romney doesn't stand a chance of defeating Obama. In fact, he's the only Republican candidate for president who will pract ...
  • What's the matter with Soledad O'Brien?
    (Michelle Malkin) - CNN's Soledad O'Brien isn't used to criticism. In the world of media elites, she's a beloved figure and an award-winning news anchor. But last week, she revealed her true, decidedly non-neutral colors. And she's not happy about the hoi polloi questioning her hallowed journali ...
  • Complex societies need simple laws
    (John Stossel) - "If you have 10,000 regulations," Winston Churchill said, "you destroy all respect for law." He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That's what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone...
  • Soldiers asked to disarm during Leon Panetta s ...
    (London Telegraph) - Less than a week after a US staff sergeant allegedly massacred 16 civilians in Kandahar, American soldiers were banned from bringing guns into a talk by Mr Panetta at a base in Helmand province...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Now That’s What I Call A Bunker!
    I’ve shown this pic before… …but not the inside pics: Here’s two, the rest are at Digital Trends, along with the story. Now That’s What I Call A Bunker! is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Related posts:Why call it an &# ...
  • More Debunking from NASA
    I feel like running a contest… how many more articles and videos debunking 2012 will NASA release? I’ve lost count of how many they’ve made to date. Here’s the latest: More Debunking from NASA is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Re ...
  • Lake Cuitzeo: Smoking Gun Crater for Comet Theory
    Lake Cuitzeo is the second largest freshwater lake in Mexico. Located in Michoacán State, it is just north of Morelia city. The idea that a comet caused a global catastrophe 13,000 years ago was popularized by the 2006 book The Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith. ...
  • Survivalist Magazine / More Apocalyptic TV
    2012 is the year of 2012! Issue six of Survivalist magazine is a special 2012 issue. You can buy single copies and the first two issues are now also available on Kindle. To my knowledge this is the only survivalist magazine in existence. Please let me know if you are aware of any others. &#8 ...
  • Doomsday Preppers: Highest Ratings
    According to National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers is the most popular show the network has ever aired. This week on National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers continues its amazing run on the channel, the #1, 3, 6 and 11 most viewed shows of the week.  Doomsday Preppers has become ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • How Sachin Tendulkar achieved the historic feat
    The 100 that had been one year in waiting finally came about as Sachin Tendulkar completed his century of tons but showed minimal emotion after reaching a milestone that is unlikely to be emulated in the near or distant future. Reported by Rediff.com 52 minutes ago
  • Salman Rushdie to speak in Delhi despite Musli ...
    British author Salman Rushdie will speak at a conference in India on Saturday, organisers have confirmed, two months after protests by Islamic activists forced him to cancel a trip to the country. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
  • Sachin’s circle of centuries: Where and when
    Here is the list of centuries that Sachin Tendulkar scored in Test and ODI matches. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Steps to Control Unaccounted Money in Indian E ...
    New Delhi (ABC Live) To deter the generation and use of unaccounted money, a series of measures have been proposed by the Union Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee in the General Budget 2012-13 presented by him in the LokSabha here today. The measures include: *   Introduction ... Reported ...
  • Bail to IAS officer in Emaar-APIIC township co ...
    After remaining behind the bars for one-and-half months, IAS officer B.P. Acharya came out of jail Friday following the grant of bail by a special court here hearing the Emaar-APIIC township corruption case. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Defeated and the Opportunity of the Russia ...
    The statements of UN Envoy Mr. Kofi Anan clarified the content of the transformation affecting the American assessment of the situation in Syria and the general headlines of the new plan that was drawn up following the qualitative and decisive failure which affected the colonial project to destr ...
  • War, Pipelineistan-style
    United States Secretary of State Hillary “We came, we saw, he died” Clinton’s message to Pakistan was stark; try to go ahead with the IP (Iran-Pakistan) gas pipeline, and we’re going to take you out financially. Islamabad, its economy in tatters, living in power-cut land, ...
  • John McCain Beats the Drum of War
    On March 5 Republican Senator John McCain urged the United States to launch airstrikes against Syria to force the government out of power. The Senator called for military intervention without further delay. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and the GOP’s senior member on the Se ...
  • The Arab World: In Search of “Subjectivi ...
    The greater irritation shown by the countries that currently are the Arab world’s chief “integrators” — Saudi Arabia and Qatar — during and after the “Group of Friends of Syria” conference in Tunisia points to growing problems in the Wahhabi integration project that ...
  • Why Putin Is Driving Washington Nuts
    Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington’s top bogeyman – and also for its rogue North Atlantic Treaty O ...

BlogHer

  • George Clooney Arrested During Protest at Suda ...
    George Clooney has been arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington during a protest against food and aid being blocked from entering the country.Clooney was protesting on private property and was led away in handcuffs. The actor said, “This is for the government in Khartoum to stop rand ...
  • Monif Clarke is Changing the Plus Size Fashion ...
    The "fashion" industry doesn't want plus size women. The above is a harsh, but unfortunately true, statement. The industry, because of its own neurosis (psychosis?) around body issues (Council on Fashion Designers had to release guidelines telling models to eat), has a real problem with the ide ...
  • [Video Review] Stefanie Alleyne and Yahaira Pu ...
    A classic tale of cause and effect, it's easy to understand why the Iranian film, A Separation has had endless global accolades (46 wins and 20 nominations) bestowed upon it in the past year. And, as this year's Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, this masterpiece's dexterity to mesmeriz ...
  • Make Homemade "Shamrock Shakes" for St. Patric ...
    [Editor's Note: Though I am mostly in the anti-fast food camp, I will admit to having a bit of a weakness, earlier in my life, for the McDonald's Shamrock Shake. There's something compelling about its seasonal greenness, after all. But they don't sell said shake in their German franchises, which ...
  • Roadmap to Self-Employment: Are You Cut Out fo ...
    Do you have what it takes to be self-employed?  It can look so easy from the outside looking in, but that is a total mirage because it barely provides a peek into what it really takes to run a successful business. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about “How Do I Get There?” and the path I ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Why coal miners die on the job
    Here’s the description from MSHA of what happened in one recent coal-mining death out west: On Thursday, September 1, 2011, at approximately 10:36 a.m., Cody A. Brown (victim), a contract well driller with approximately 17 months of drilling experience, was killed when a restraining wrench ...
  • Judge ‘outraged’ by Crandall Canyo ...
    Here’s the story from my buddy Mike Gorrell, the great coal reporter at the Salt Lake Tribune: U.S. District Judge David Sam said Wednesday he felt “outrage” that a Murray Energy Corp. subsidiary will pay only $500,000 to settle a criminal case stemming from the 2007 Crandall C ...
  • Alpha listed among ‘most controversial&# ...
    An interesting news release from earlier this week happened to cross my desk this morning. It’s from an outfit called RepRisk, which describes itself as “a leading provider of dynamic data on environmental and social risks for an unlimited universe of companies and projects.” H ...
  • Interior Dept. to move forward with OSM merger
    Here’s the announcement just out from the U.S. Department of Interior: The Department of the Interior today announced that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) will pursue administrative and program consolidations with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that are ...
  • MSHA releases statements from UBB mine managers
    Emergency vehicles leave the entrance to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Coal Mine Monday, April 5, 2010 in Montcoal, W.Va. after an explosion at the underground coal mine. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) As mentioned last week, the release of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’ ...

Daniel Miessler

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    I wrote a few years ago about the only way I knew of to become immortal. Basically, it was the simple concept of understanding the brain well enough to transfer its characteristics to a digital form before dying. Check it out if you have a moment. But perhaps there’s another way. What if y ...
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    I had a significant public speaking experience yesterday. I did a full talk in front of around 80 people at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. For some reason I wasn’t very nervous at all. I then did a panel with three other people, speaking ad-hoc on random qu ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • UK illegal immigrants stuck in poverty cycle ( ...
    RT . London, UK  - It looks like nothing more than a dumping ground – the squalor plain to see. Harder to spot are the signs of life. But this is what 40 illegal immigrants call home – under a motorway bridge in London’s outskirts. Penniless and without sanitation, the place is infes ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest Friday
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Springtime, when an act ...
    Wall Street’s Latest Campus Recruiting Crisis BY KEVIN ROOSE Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times Cory Finley has written a play called “The Private Sector” that is set at a hedge fund corporate retreat. Wall Street, once a magnet for America’s best and brightest, is facing a recruiting problem ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    Lawyer: Afghan suspect’s friend had leg blown off SEATTLE (AP) — The day before the rampage that killed 16 Afghan villagers, the U.S. soldier accused of the mass killings saw his friend’s leg blown off, his lawyer said. Seattle attorney John Henry Browne told The Associated Press tha ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) When Life Give You Lemons…
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies.com – Yeah, but what if life gives you SANTORUM? What in the world is going on? The foolishness of last night’s southern primary is just breathtaking. Three guys running, well four if you count Paul. But these three, the cream of the republican party ...

reference frame

  • What the “skeptics” of climate catastrophe are ...
    By Eric Dennis The most frustrating thing about being a scientist skeptical of catastrophic global warming is that the other side is continually distorting what I am skeptical of. In his immodestly titled New York Review of Books article “Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong,”& ...
  • ICARUS: the neutrino speed discrepancy is 0, n ...
    The OPERA detector originally detected neutrinos that were arriving to the Gran Sasso cavern (or tavern) in central Italy 60±10 nanoseconds too early after their 730-kilometer (2.4 nanoseconds) trip from CERN. If that were so, they would have been 0.0025% (25 ppm) faster than light in the vac ...
  • Who should be celebrated for the God particle?
    Jester has ignited intense discussions about the proper name of what is usually called the "Higgs boson": Higgs or BEEEH boson?Jester essentially criticizes the participants of the recent Moriond conference for using the term "BEH boson" because it sounds like singing sheep and because Pete ...
  • Stephen Hawking will visit Sheldon Cooper
    Many of us have already heard about a physicist guest star of The Big Bang Theory, my most favorite sitcom (or TV program, for that matter: let's not hide things), who may be even more famous than Brian Greene or George Smoot. (Last night, Czech TV Prima Cool aired the George Smoot/Summ ...
  • 97% of DailyKos readers: Mann is dishonest
    DailyKos has brought us a nice example showing how problematic it is to rely on majorities and how the counting depends on the ways how the poll is engineered. In the article called Michael Mann is a Modern Hero and we need to acknowledge that!,comrade Mr Don Mikulecký (yes, it is a Cz ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Birkebeiner skiers defy warm weather
    More than 16,000 skiers registered to take part in this weekend’s annual Birkebeinerrennet, a traditional ski race that goes over the mountains between the valleys of Østerdalen and Gudbrandsdalen. Unseasonably warm temperatures, though, caused concern about the condition of the ski tracks ...
  • Couple charged with human trafficking of Filip ...
    A Norwegian man and his Filipina wife have been arrested and charged with human trafficking, in a case involving their recruitment of three nurses from the Philippines to work at Oslo University Hospital. The three women wound up heavily in debt to the man after feeling forced to borrow NOK 300, ...
  • Farmers’ income up 8 percent
    The average income of a Norwegian farmer rose by 8 percent in 2010, the most recent reporting year, reports state statistics bureau SSB. The news comes just as the powerful farmers’ lobby in Norway starts negotiations with the government regarding subsidies and tariffs that protect their p ...
  • Hercules plane missing, five on board
    Five experienced Norwegian Air Force officers were missing Thursday night after a Hercules military transport plane disappeared while participating in the international military exercises called “Cold Response” in northern Norway and Sweden.  The Hercules C-130 J is feared to have cr ...
  • Justice minister, PST also admit flaws
    Norway’s police intelligence unit PST and Justice Minister Grete Faremo are both admitting that sharp criticism of their work in connection with the terrorist attacks of July 22 has been justified. Faremo also apologized that Norway’s worst mass-murderer ever wasn’t stopped ear ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

  • The Climate Wars revisited or no truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...
  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...
  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Coalition Gathers to Demand Action on NOPD Sho ...
    NEWS RELEASE: Non-Profits, Attorneys, and Community Members Unite to Demand Information from and Action by Local and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, the District Attorney, Mayor Landrieu, and the Local Press concerning NOPD Police-Involved Shootings One week after the tragic NOPD police of ...
  • Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education, By Diane Ra ...
    Below is an excerpt from a post by Diane Ravitch that originally appeared on the Education Week blog: I went to Lafayette, La., last week to speak to the Louisiana School Boards Association. These men and women, representing their local schools from across the state, are trying to preserve pu ...
  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...
  • Message to Occupy Prisons Protests, By Robert King
    The below message, from Robert King, a former New Orleans Black Panther and member of Angola Three, was recently published in the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three newsletter. First of all I would like to applaud and salute those in the Occupy movement for focusing on the hideou ...
  • Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist An ...
    I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I learned about the incredibly egregious law HB 56 and I l ...

Information Underground

  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: N ...
    Ognir can you give a good bash to ray please. I have been reading his blog. He has gone into full attack nazis mode with his new book. I doubt anyone would buy it so he has been posting chapter by chapter on his blog. http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com.au/ Almost every part of Germany’s bu ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timmy control that mouth of your, piss off an Admin, if you get banned .....Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:53 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Rockclimber wrote:Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote:Can you blame them, MK? They don't have Jesus Christ, so naturally they are going to cling to worldly powers. That is the great divide between authentic anti-Judaics and crude racial supremacists. And I agree with you that Na ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Make what you will of this, but I see a foot in the door for the Noahide Laws under the guise of "Ethical Monotheism" already: http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=193 POPE AFFIRMS JEWISH NOAHIDE LAWS By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2008-20111 JEWS HAVE FOUND AN ALLY in Pope Benedi ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Yeah, the Noahide Laws. The perfect pagan religion. But Rome won't be heading it.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:12 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Plants Exposed to Drought Adapt Response to Su ...
    Plants that have endured drought conditions are able to “remember” the stress of dehydration and to adapt responses to future dry conditions, a new study says. Working with Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family, scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found that plants for which w ...
  • Africa Could Produce More E-Waste Than Europe ...
    Africa, typically a dumping ground for electronic waste from other nations, could produce more e-waste than the European Union by 2017, experts say. Across Africa, a combination of population growth and increased access to mobile phones and other technology will produce a surge in e-waste over t ...
  • Digital Defenders: Tribal People Use GPS to Pr ...
    From the rainforests of central Africa to the Australian outback, indigenous people armed with GPS devices are surveying their territories and producing maps they can use to protect them from logging and other outside development. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Nitrates Pose Threat to California Farming Reg ...
    Nearly 10 percent of the people living in California’s most productive agricultural areas may be drinking water contaminated with nitrates, according to a new study. In an analysis of water quality in the Tulare Lake Basin and the Salinas Valley, a rural region of about 2.6 million people, resea ...
  • Thinner Silicon Wafers Could Cut Cost of Solar ...
    A U.S. company has developed a new manufacturing technique that it says could cut the cost of producing solar cells in half by producing silicon wafers that are about one-tenth as thick as conventional wafers. Twin Creeks Technologies, a San Jose-based company, says it can produce crystalline si ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Robocalls and Republicons
    By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch's Canadi ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Who you gonna Robo-call?
    As I’m sure most of you have heard, the Conservatives are in a little bit of a hot spot (and I’m not just talking about the prairies). It seems that Harps and his conservatives are being accused of a placing phone calls during the last election, giving out the wrong address’ for polling stations ...
  • How the Sun helped post the Vancouver Playhous ...
    By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after a ...
  • Ohi – uh-oh
    By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Da ...
  • Robocalls, Vikileaks: One of these things is n ...
    By Montreal Simon When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks.  “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Bills allow autopsies by cops, kin OK or no
    The ruling and opposition parties plan to submit two bills to the Diet that will enable police to conduct autopsies without having to obtain the consent of relatives when it is uncertain whether a person died naturally or was the victim of foul play, lawmakers said Thursday. If enacted, they w ...
  • Knicks roll after D'Antoni quits
    Maybe there's a big-name coach out there who can bring out the best in Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks. Mike D'Antoni decided Wednesday he wasn't that guy. And so, he resigned, surprising even his bosses.
  • Jockeying for playoff positions gets serious
    Like high tide or low tide, as the season enters its stretch run, teams will rise and fall, and playoff aspirations will be realized or go unfulfilled. Take the Yokohama B-Corsairs, for instance. The first-year club, led by coach Reggie Geary, is in sixth place in the Eastern Conference with a ...
  • Futenma move will stick to script: U.S. forces ...
    Lt. Gen. Burton Field, commander of U.S. forces in Japan, said Thursday the plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko remains valid. The people of Okinawa are bitterly opposed to what they call the world's most dangerous base staying on Okinawa Island — especially ...
  • New condo supply up 13% in Tokyo
    The supply of new condominiums in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures in February increased 13.0 percent from a year earlier to 3,918 units for the fourth straight month of gain, a research agency said Thursday. Of the new supply, 75.3 percent found buyers within the month, down 9.5 percen ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Canadian Deindustrialization
    I thought I knew all about the manufacturing crisis, but I was was still kind of stunned when I did a quick stat check to respond  to a comment on my earlier post on globalization and unions. In 2000, manufacturing output (in constant 2002 dollar terms) amounted to $188.9 Billion. In 2010, manuf ...
  • Cuts Transparency—well, not really
    The detail on the federal government cut backs is going from bad to worse.  The Ottawa Citizen today reported that there will essentially be no details of budget cuts in the March 29th budget. The government maintains that transparency  is desirable…unless it applies to a major policy thru ...
  • Alternative Federal Budget 2012: A budget for ...
    Canada’s job market remains stalled and Canadians are understandably anxious about their future, and increasingly question whether their children and grandchildren will do better than they did.  In fact, the latest job numbers have revealed that tens of thousands of Canadians have lost hope and ...
  • Attention Boomers! Six Tips for Managing Mille ...
    Judging by the recent proliferation of ‘tips’ on managing young workers, as well as the number of management consultants who now specialize in ‘multi-generational workplaces’, there’s a burgeoning market for advice on how to deal with ‘Millennials’ and & ...
  • Nova Scotian Workers Need Improved Standards
    “Workers in Nova Scotia are worse off economically than they were a quarter century ago.  For the most part, this deterioration in wages happened at the same time that the economy of the province vigorously increased the wealth it generated.”  Now, Nova Scotia has the second-lowest average weekl ...

ReDress

  • Netanyahu versus Obama: what next?
    Alan Hart assesses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's options as he tries to sabotage the prospect of a second term for Barack Obama by dragging the US into a war with Iran, and argues that the real danger is that Netanyahu's anti-Iran rhetoric - "a combination of wretchedness and megal ...
  • US editor’s lament for Israel overlooks Zionis ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel's anti-democratic and racist traits are not recent phenomena, located mainly among the settlers on the West Bank, but "flow from structural problems that were built into the Zionist experiment that ultimately resulted in the Israeli state. They were built in ...
  • Misrepresentation and moral cowardice: Gilad A ...
    Gilad Atzmon debunks a statement signed by Ali Abunimah and others in which they misrepresent his critique of Jewish identity politics, and he vows to continue his fight for the truth. By publishing this, we reiterate our support for Mr Atzmon and hope that the signatories of the statement will ...
  • Zionist "Price Tag" mirrors Hitler's Youth
    Jamal Kanj sees similarities between Israel's Price Tag organization and Hitler's Youth, and calls on the world to take note before it is too late. "Price Tag membership is currently around 3,000, proportionally larger than Hitler"s Youth, who numbered less than 5,000 in 1925. Ignored by world p ...
  • America gone stupid over Iran
    Lawrence Davidson argues that, as with the war on Iraq in 2003, the USA is drifting towards aggression against Iran propelled not by evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons programme, but by the lies and obsessions of a foreign state, Israel, and its American stooges.

Physics Today

  • Putin promises funding boost for Russian science
    Nature: Before his victory in Russia's presidential election last week, Vladimir Putin outlined his plans for boosting Russian research in an article published in Vedomosti, a Russian-language business daily. As Nature's Quirin Schiermeier reports, Russia's scientific output has fallen since the ...
  • India Joins European Neutron Facility in Grenoble
    Science: India is the first non-European country to join the international neutron research facility at the Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Indian scientists will have about 50 days of beam time at ILL and will also be able to initiate about 15 new independent materials s ...
  • Crocs' bite force depends on body size, not sn ...
    New York Times: The species that make up the order Crocodilia feature snouts that range in aspect ratio from the gharials' long and thin to the alligators' short and broard. It's reasonable to expect that after correcting for size, the powerful-looking jaws of an alligator would deliver a strong ...
  • Prehistoric eel-like vertebrate had world's sh ...
    Nature: Conodonts, extinct jawless marine vertebrates that lived from the Precambrian to some time in the Triassic, were the first animals to evolve teeth—and they had the sharpest teeth ever known. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Philip Donoghue of the Univ ...
  • US, EU, and Japan file case against China over ...
    BBC: The US, Japan, and the European Union have challenged China's restrictions on rare-earth exports in the first case ever filed jointly by the three entities at the World Trade Organization; the complaint follows a WTO finding earlier this year that China had illegally restricted exports of o ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • INDIAN WATER RIGHTS: PROMOTING THE NEGOTIATION ...
    “The Obama Administration recognizes that water is a sacred and valuable resource for Indian people and therefore has re-energized the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing the water needs of Native American communities through Indian water rights settlements. Water settlements not ...
  • The Dusty Limpopo River
    “The Limpopo River Basin is one of the most water stressed and, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, extreme droughts occur in the basin every 10 to 20 years. The basin has a catchment area of around 413,000 km² that covers four countries – Botswa ...
  • Clean Water America Alliance’s Grumbles ...
    “Is wastewater recycling the solution to the United States’ water supply challenge? During today’s OnPoint, Ben Grumbles, president of the Clean Water America Alliance and a former assistant administrator for water at the U.S. EPA, discusses new research on wastewater recycling ...
  • Time to tackle water crisis, global forum told
    “A global meeting on water opened in France on Monday with demands to provide billions of poor people with clean water and decent sanitation and address the spiralling demands of the future. “The challenges are huge and the problems are deep-rooted,” French Prime Minister François Fillon s ...
  • Countries sign pact to address water issues
    “China has established a minister level cooperation mechanism with Japan and the Republic of Korea as the three countries aim to tackle water problems together, officials announced onTuesday. “The three countries signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Mechanism of Ministerial Me ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Make Public Secret Patriot Act Legal ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led opposition to the PATRIOT Act since its inception, today released the following statement after the Justice Department confirmed it maintains classified legal interpretations of the Act. “In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed ...
  • No Amount of Troops, Training or Money will Re ...
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich today released the following statement after an American soldier killed at least 16 Afghan civilians, including children: “Yesterday’s shooting in Afghanistan which left at least 16 civilians dead is a tipping point.  This shooting follows days of deadly rio ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Stronger Rules to Protect C ...
    Fifteen to thirty dollars in the price of a barrel of oil is attributable to oil speculators.  At $106 a barrel, the price of oil is leading to increased gas prices for consumers.  Consumers in the Cleveland area are now paying $3.74 a gallon for gasoline and the price is expected to r ...
  • Kucinich to Clinic: Cash Needed at Home
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the leading advocate for a fair distribution of uncompensated care in Cuyahoga County, released the following statement in response to Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove’s “State of the Clinic” address: “Though poverty in and around the Cleveland area is d ...
  • Kucinich: No More Excuses: Justice for “Underw ...
    Washington D.C. (February 29, 2012) -- Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), today reiterated his call to Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (F.H.F.A.), which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write down principal amounts for struggling homeowners. Kucinich, who ...

Authentically Wired

  • THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take
    THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take Thrive Movie …  An unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Filed under: Blogroll
  • newest twist in the “excuse-Our-Rulers-f ...
    They Knew EXACTLY What They Were Doing. (Geez, How Naive Can You Be?)   Posted by Becky Akers on March 12, 2012 08:21 AM …http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/107302.html The newest twist in the “excuse-Our-Rulers-for-any-and-all-atrocities” comes in the claim that “many ...
  • history is most often written by the victor
    … Remember history is most often written by the victor … history is not necessary truth … and it is doubtful Scalia would ever tell the truth about this court debacle …   Scalia Rewrites History, Claims 5-4 Bush v. Gore Decision ‘Wasn’t Even Close’   By Ian Millhiser on ...
  • hardly seems the least bit
    … This hardly seems the least bit surprising as corporate owned media has made MUSLIM synonymous with “terrorist” … evil doer …     Legal or not, New Yorkers happy with police surveillance of Muslim 03-14-2012  •  http://rt.com  A new poll shows that New York ...
  • Might that same question be asked
    … Might that same question be asked of Billy “boy” Gates(Microsoft) … and Phil Knight (NIKE) …. Warrren Buffet … and a host of others…?   Does Mark Zuckerberg Really Deserve All That Money…?   Facebook’s founder is about to be worth $21 billion — thanks to the American publ ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Sex-starved fruit flies turn to booze (+video)
    Fellas, when your sweetheart says "No thanks'' to sex, do you knock back a few stiff drinks to feel better? Turns out fruit flies do pretty much the same thing.That's the word from a
  • James Cameron's trip into real life Abyss
    Earth's lost frontier is about to be explored firsthand after more than half a century. It's a mission to the deepest part of the ocean, so deep that the pressure is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.And it is being...
  • Scientist who warned of thinning ozone layer dies
    F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer, has died. He was 84.Rowland died Saturday at his home of complications from Parkinson's disease, the dean of...
  • NZ misses out on $2.5b project
    New Zealand has failed to convince a scientific panel it is best suited to host the world's largest radio telescope, after the panel recommended the $2.5 billion project be awarded to a rival consortium led by South Africa.A joint...
  • World-leading Kiwi scientist tells of search f ...
    Few people know what complete darkness is, Professor Charles Alcock announces to his audience.The New Zealand-raised, world-leading astrophysicist tells a University of Auckland crowd that the concept of an absolute absence of light...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason.tv: Ilya Somin on Why The Individual Ma ...
    A Supreme Court ruling upholding the individual mandate "will really be, if not a death blow, then certainly a very severe blow to the whole idea that the federal government's powers are limited and that it's not the case that the federal government can do pretty much w ...
  • Steven Greenhut on How Budget Cutbacks Are Hel ...
    For a state that prides itself on innovation and alternative ideas, California remains stuck in a rut of outdated thinking when it comes to the provision of government services. But thanks to budget cutbacks, California officials might be open to some original thinking, as they wrestl ...
  • Friday Fun Headline Self-Parody: Joe Biden Is ...
    From Timothy Noah, in the freshly Obama-Facebooked New Republic: Second Thoughts The surprising non-embarrassment that is Joe Biden. I'm so glad I don't live on that planet. Some Reason skepticism about our Real Veep of Genius: "Biden Opens His Government Apertu ...
  • A. Barton Hinkle on the Right to Due Process
    Too many conservatives feel complacent about soldiers arresting citizens without charges and holding them indefinitely on the mere suspicion of cooperating with al-Qaida. Perhaps they do not remember Madison’s warning that “the means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always t ...
  • Dramatic Wonk Walk! Paul Ryan Previews His Upc ...
    These days even budget proposals have teaser trailers. Here's Paul Ryan's: So will it be a blockbuster? Hard to say. There's not a lot of information about what's actually in his budget (I suspect it will include a variation on the Medicare reform he recently proposed ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Alex enjoys an open window for the first time this year.
  • Churn, Baby, Churn: Minnesota’s Republic ...
    You know that scene near the end of The Wrath of Khan where the dying Khan, in full Ahab mode, sets his commandeered ship to be a time bomb intended to take out the Good Ship Enterprise, whose warp engines he knows to be disabled? That’s what I’m thinking of when I hear the latest [...]
  • America’s Richest 0.01% Got 37% Of 2010 ...
    From David Cay Johnston (h/t Jay Ackroyd): National income gained overall in 2010, but all of the gains were among the top 10 percent. Even within those 15.6 million households, the gains were extraordinarily concentrated among the super-rich, the top one percent of the top one percent. Just 15, ...
  • Does the Limbaugh boycott matter?
    I think it does. Michael Wolff, who knows a thing or two about media, thinks it does not: There is an argument to make here, and I wish someone would make it, about the terrible precedent of encouraging advertisers to stampede away from controversial and ornery speech. They are skittish enough, ...
  • Alabama’s HB 56 Follies: US Citizen Fals ...
    One can’t help but wonder if incidents like this one are an intended result of the new anti-voter and anti-brown-person laws coming out of ALEC’s legislative shop and passed on to Republican state legislatures for minor edits and rubberstamping: When Carmen Vélez tried to renew her c ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Drug War: The Horror of Peter Hitchens
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  • The Future of Money
    Green Festival, a joint project of Green America and Global Exchange, is a two-day festival in which visionary thinkers, social and environmental activists, and thousands of other community members come together to exchange ideas, commerce, and movement building fun. There will be workshops, org ...
  • City of Secrets: An interview with Patrice Chaplin
      "The Grail is a living force, it will never die; it may indeed sink out of sight, and for centuries even, disappear...but it will rise to the surface again and become once more a theme of vital importance." --‘From Ritual to Romance' by Jesse Weston.   read more
  • Ayahuasca, Aliens & Ancient Mysteries
    Sunday, April 15th, 2012, take part in an exclusive one-off Evolver Intensive interactive video salon with Evolver co-founder Jonathan Talat Philips and renowned author and truth-seeker, Graham Hancock entitled, "Ayahuasca, Aliens and The Ancient Mysteries:  Rites of Passage for the Modern ...
  • No Fly Zone
    While it's obvious that zebras' stripes help them blend in with tall savanna grasses, a recent study offers compelling evidence that the stripes serve a secondary evolutionary function: scrambling the vision of bloodsucking horseflies. read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • Afghan protestors shout anti-US slogans as the ...
    Afghan protestors shout anti-US slogans as they carry an effigy of US President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province on March 13, 2012. Hundreds of university students took to the streets in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad to protest a rampage ...
  • An anti-riot vehicle is hit by a molotov cockt ...
    An anti-riot vehicle is hit by a molotov cocktail during a protest in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama February 17, 2012. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
  • Journalists and Government Media ControlAs so ...
    Journalists and Government Media Control As someone who has been waiting for a public affairs officer to tell me “yeah” or “nay” on an interview for the last nine weeks, at least I know I’m not alone. The Society of Professional Journalists conducted a survey of nearly 150 journalists who cover ...
  • Random Acts of Chaos: Afghanistan in 2012 (so ...
    Random Acts of Chaos: Afghanistan in 2012 (so far): A Summary: thepoliticalnotebook: Most notable...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:Today is the anniversar ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: Today is the anniversary of the beginning of Syria’s revolution. So far eight to nine thousand people have been killed and countless wounded. 230,000 have fled their homes. The opposition has planned rallies to mark the day, although the Syrian army is bolste ...
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