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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, March 19, 2012

19 March - RSS SnapShot! Part II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • The Lost Innocence of Cote d'Ivoire's Children
    At first sight the group of children playing in a shaded courtyard in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan seem carefree. But when a defunct car exhaust blasts, they tremble. When a soldier walks past, they shudder. And they become anxious when an unknown adult approaches them.
  • New Threat Looms Over South Sudan Refugees
    Thousands of African refugees in Israel face expulsion to dangerous conditions in their countries of origin as Israel hardens its policies. The refugees are increasingly turning to protest.
  • As the Taps Run Dry in Mauritius
    Rani Murthy, a public officer who lives in Plaines Wilhems, central Mauritius, wakes at three every morning to wait for the water tanker from the Central Water Authority so that she can collect water for cooking and household chores.
  • Living on a Meal a Day in Swaziland
    Margaret Gamedze earns a living doing laundry for people in her community in Msunduza Township, which lies about a kilometre outside Swaziland's capital city of Mbabane. But since the country's fiscal crisis began, she no longer earns enough to pay the rent for her one-roomed mud shack, wh ...
  • Saving Kenya's Maize Crop
    While some maize farmers in Kenya's Western Province are stilling living off the produce from last season's harvest, Robert Oduor is counting his losses after the deadly Striga weed infested his one-hectare maize field.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Israeli threats against Iran illegal: Japan en ...
    Summary: Japanese Ambassador to Iran Kinichi Kumano has lashed out at the Israeli regime's warmongering rhetoric against the Islamic Republic, dismissing Tel Aviv's escalating threats as “illegal.” source: PressTVread more
  • Burman: Why diplomacy is still America’s best ...
    Summary: The high-stakes nuclear drama involving Israel, Iran and the United States is being fuelled by familiar fears of national vulnerability. A besieged country surrounded by hostile forces committed to its demise, with outsiders actively fomenting internal revolt and chaos. source: Th ...
  • Top Iran official calls for cooperation from W ...
    Summary: Iran says it wants more clarity from the IAEA before it allows inspectors into the Parchin military complex south of Tehran, one of Iran's most influential officials said Wednesday. source: CNNread more
  • The MEK’s Useful Idiots
    Summary: Given the history of the MEK as a terrorist organization and the deliberately broad wording of the relevant U.S. statute, it would seem that speaking on behalf of the group amounts to material support of terrorism. So I have to ask why is it that the numerous prominent MEK supporters ...
  • 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 Daily Galaxy

  • New Quantum Discovery --Links to Gravitational ...
    University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems of vastly different scales, offering potential insights into links between the atomic realm and...
  • View This Week's Hot Tech News on Twitter & NA ...
    '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 (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). We hope...
  • Discovering Your Inner Fish --Human DNA Traced ...
    Have you ever felt like you're really a fish? That you love the water, you want to swim forever, that you should don an artificial tail and eat kelp for the rest of your life? Then congratulations, you're crazy. But...
  • Planck-Mass Mirrors Provide New Way to Probe P ...
    Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale is so remote from current experimental capabilities...
  • EcoAlert: "Gravity is Climate" --10 years of N ...
    For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space. Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) a sharp image has...

Natural News

  • Doctors at several Canadian hospitals routinel ...
    One of the major pitfalls of government-run universal health care is long waiting lists for patients who require involved procedures, a situation that often devolves into a "black market" of medical care where patients willing and able to fork over large cash sums are...
  • UK researchers push heart drug as potential 'c ...
    There is no doubt that soon there will be a pharmaceutical drug for every condition, feeling, emotion, and sentiment, as drugs that supposedly treat perceived notions of racism or racial preference are already in the works. Researchers from Oxford University in the U...
  • New study: Radiation treatments create cancer ...
    In a groundbreaking new study just published in the peer reviewed journal Stem Cells, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Oncology found that, despite killing half of all tumor cells per treatment, radiation treatments on breast cancer...
  • Medical terrorism in Michigan? Parents forced ...
    Government is not merely denying parents and families the right to consume healthful whole foods such as raw milk; now rule-by-force government authorities are threatening a Michigan family with criminal prosecution if they do not poison their child with chemotherapy...
  • Exposed: Lobbyist who helped kill California p ...
    The federal government's illegal war on drugs is big business for lobbyists who profit on making sure you never have access to marijuana, whether for recreational or medicinal purposes. And one such lobbyist, John Lovell, reportedly raked in nearly $400,000 from the...

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, Media Mislead on President Obama's Health ...
    As the battle over health care raged in the summer of 2009, President Obama made a very specific promise about what would become the Affordable Care Act. "When I say if you have your plan and you like it," Obama explained that June, "or you have a doctor and you like your doctor, that you don't ...
  • China Joins Iran as the Bain of Romney's Existence
    Mitt Romney likes to talk tough about China. In an op-ed last month, Romney charged that "President Obama came into office as a near supplicant to Beijing," adding, "his administration demurred from raising issues of human rights." Unfortunately for the former Massachusetts Governor, that tough ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Elizabeth Warren on “Does Washington Work for ...
      Love this video of Elizabeth Warren talking about politics in the U.S. today, oil company subsidies, and more. Check her out: h/t MoveOn
  • Boston Tree Party (FTW!)
      I wrote about the Boston Tree Party last year on sister site Eat Drink Better. If you haven’t heard of the ‘party’ yet, here’s a quick run-down (via Civil Eats) before getting to the news of the month: Imagine our cities filled with fruit trees and I don’t mean [. ...
  • Ford Focus Electric Barely Tops Nissan Leaf wi ...
      According to Ford, the EPA declared the 2012 Ford Focus Electric the most fuel-efficient 5-passenger vehicle in America, due to the fact that it achieves 110 MPGe equivalent during city driving, and 105-MPGe combined (partially city and partially highway) driving. It achieves 99 MPGe on t ...
  • 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...

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Axis of Logic

  • Growing apples in Canada - Featured
    In order to educate the children properly we must separate them from their families. Some people may say that this is hard but if we want to civilize them we must do that.   Hector Langevin, Public Works Minister of Canada, 1883   Take a C ...
  • Aaron Neville - With God on Our Side (subtitul ...
    From the Editors: We've republished this song in the past by different artists. This time, Axis of Logic reader, contributor and friend, Ed Dake, sent this to us from California - guaranteed to slow us all down to do some important pondering on this Sunday evening. Ed sent it with the following...
  • In wake of Afghan massacre, tensions mount bet ...
    In public statements Friday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai denounced the US military in connection with last Sunday’s massacre of 16 civilians, but President Barack Obama made it clear in a telephone conversation that Washington had no intention of ceding to his demand that it immediately turn o ...
  • Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street ...
    While the drop in oil demand and enhaced production should be pulling prices down, fuel has never been more expensive. Engdahl dismisses explanations linked to saber-rattling and the peak oil theory. He points instead an accusing finger at oil price speculation and manipulation by Wall Street ba ...
  • "STOP! STOP AND FRISK!"- RDACBX - Music and En ...
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They Gave Us a Republic

  • Don't Let This Murderer Get Away
    By @KYYellowDog This is as blatant a racist killing as any lynching from 100 years ago. It's been covered by many, but for my money @PZMeyers says it best: Trayvon Martin went to a convenience store in his family's neighborhood to buy some candy. He was 17. He was unarmed. He was black. George Z ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Saltwater"
    By @KYYellowDog From Great Protest Songs: In a haunting song that echos John Lennon's music, Julian contrasts the many accomplishments of modernity with world poverty and environmental decimation. 'Time is not a friend/'cos friends we're out of time' states the awful truth facing us in the early ...
  • Those Damn Poor Brown People Causing Global Wa ...
    By @KYYellowDog This is the same despicable lie coal and chemical companies use to deny compensation to victims of their toxic materials because they also smoke and therefore are really to blame. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: I'm not minimizing the fact that inefficient cookstoves in t ...
  • Repug Religious "Freedom" - Theocracy
    By @KYYellowDog Add Kentucky to the list of states proposing unnecessary laws purporting to address non-existent problems but having the real purpose of building a foundation for theocracy. John Cheves at the Herald: The Kentucky Senate on Thursday approved three proposed amendments to the state ...
  • Bread & Circuses Redux
    by @TomBales1 If you've read my little thing here at all, from time to time you've probably noticed me ranting about the bread and circuses aspect of the Fascist takeover which has resulted mainly from the corporate take over of not only professional sports but... at least to a certain degree a ...

Care 2

  • Stop War Crimes in Sudan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p89OuPODBMM Please add your voice by signing this petition - please forward to all your friends. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Towards an EU without dolphinariums ! PLEASE S ...
    Ask the representatives to the European Parliament and the EU Commission to act now and work for a correct implementation of the EU Zoo Directive, and for a long-term withdrawal from the dolphin entertainment Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Digging up 9,000 years
    Evidence from 60 excavations on sites identified by archaeological assessment is presented. The challenge of covering, as the subtitle of the book puts it, 9,000 years of human activity for a diverse readership has been met by placing a lot of the Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech ...
  • FEMA has refused financial and any aid to the ...
    FEMA is refusing to help U.S. citizens with low interest loans after they were completely wiped out by tornadoes. One town Harrisburg, Illinois was leveled by a tornado, there is nothing left there. Yet FEMA is refusing financial assistance due to.... Submitted by Evelyn J. to Business  |& ...
  • Massive Chicken Rescue Urgent Help Needed NOW…
    Pasados Safe Haven is gearing up to rescue as many hens as we can find sanctuary for from a local egg farm containing 40,000 hens. The farm is contaminated and a major rat infestation an estimated 10,000 20,000 rats.) Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |& ...

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No Quarter

  • The Bullshit Osama Plot to Whack Obama
    Desperation must be reaching epidemic levels at the White House if they are counting on a bogus threat and cheap smear of Joe Biden to save the political career of Barky Obama. How else to explain the White House leak to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius of the so-called bin Laden plot ...
  • When Men Do Good Things
    How refreshing! Men rushing to the aid of stranded dolphins. What an amamzing video. Now, if we could only be that good to our stranded humans in the world… Note: This is on the coast of Brazil.
  • Romney’s Executive Talents – Exemplified
    Every time I stop in at Staples — although I didn’t know until recently — I have Mitt Romney to thank for its existence. I don’t know what I’d do without Staples in the small town where I live – from the array of printer cartridges to the choice of mice. My ne ...
  • It’s St. Patrick’s Day
    Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone. I thought I’d share a little Irish music, some personal info and a little history of the day. There are so many things including jokes and traditions that this day brings to my mind. Do you have traditions for St. Patricks day? To begin with I don& ...
  • Neo Con Cheerleading for War in Syria
    Op-ed today (Friday) by Max Boot illustrates why the neocons are an amazing group of dangerous buffoons. Not a one of these clowns have ever served in the military and none actually understand the process of assessing risk and military planning. Boot presents his madness in the Washington Post a ...

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

  • Divest from mountaintop removal coal mining - ...
    Divest from mountaintop removal coal mining The Daily Tar Heel Mountaintop removal coal mining has literally blown up sections of the mountain range to find the thin seams of coal underneath, pushing the “over-burden” — a coal industry word for the rest of the mountain — into the valleys below. ...
  • 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 ...

Memeorandum

  • How 'Hunger Games' Built Up Must-See Fever (Br ...
    Brooks Barnes / New York Times: How ‘Hunger Games’ Built Up Must-See Fever  —  SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Selling a movie used to be a snap.  You printed a poster, ran trailers in theaters and carpet-bombed NBC's Thursday night lineup with ads.  —&n ...
  • Apple Conference Call (Steve Dowling/Apple)
    Steve Dowling / Apple: Apple Conference Call  —  WHAT: Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO, will host a conference call to announce the outcome of the Company's discussions concerning its cash balance.  Apple® will not be providing an update on the ...
  • Idaho 1st Congressional District candidate cha ...
    Idaho Statesman: Idaho 1st Congressional District candidate charged with aggravated assault  —  Boise Police arrested Cynthia Clinkingbeard, 58, Boise, on Friday after she reportedly walked into a store at Eagle Road and Chinden Boulevard and threatened employees with a gun.
  • Pro-Israeli Groups Differ on Approaches Toward ...
    New York Times: Pro-Israeli Groups Differ on Approaches Toward Iran  —  WASHINGTON — Even before President Obama declared this month that “I have Israel's back” in its escalating confrontation with Iran, pro-Israel figures like the evangelical Christian leader ...
  • Obama's high-dollar donations lagging (T.W. Fa ...
    T.W. Farnam / Washington Post: Obama's high-dollar donations lagging  —  President Obama is struggling to draw in big-dollar donations, with half as many people writing large checks to his campaign than at this point four years ago.  —  Obama is outpacing his Rep ...

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

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  • 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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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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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

  • Putting me out the beef business
    I am sitting in my office in Seattle watching the snowfall on this St. Patrick’s Day while working on one of the latest food disasters – Listeria in cantaloupe.  I was reminded by the staff at Food Safety News that my “Publisher’s Platform” was due.  After ...
  • Kansas Reports 18 Ill with Campylobacter in 20 ...
    According to a press release form the Kansas State Department of Agriculture, since 2007; there have been three outbreaks of disease associated with consumption of raw milk in Kansas.  In October 2007, 68 people became ill due to consuming cheese made from raw milk at a Kansas community cel ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Sy Hersh on the My Lai Massacre Anniversary
    Friday March 16th marked the 44th anniversary of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. troops killed hundreds of civilians. Journalist Sy Hersh won the Pulitzer for exposing the massacre and the subsequent Pentagon cover-up. This segment features Hersh from 2008, the 40th anniversary of th ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • Dems See ‘Ammunition’ Against Wall Street In G ...
    The Hill By Peter Schroeder - 03/18/12 05:30 AM ET Democrats have co-opted a fiery resignation letter from a Goldman Sachs employee to argue for rigid rules on the financial sector. Lawmakers say the letter from Greg Smith, published in The New York Times, is evidence that the reforms Congress p ...
  • 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)

Solari

  • Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Netw ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Families and communities are struggling with significant currency debasement and ever more complex regulation which function as capital controls,  shutting off opportunity and liquidity to the average person.  What to do? Individually, we can reposition our personal an ...
  • Michigan DNR Going Hog Wild
    By Pete Kennedy, Esq. In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to expand its jurisdiction beyond hunting and fishing to farming operations. On April 1, 2012 an Invas ...
  • Banker Left Speechless By Irish Journalist
    YouTube (28 Feb 12) Continue reading the article . . .
  • President Obama Issues Executive Order Friday
    Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness [Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However, why now? L ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • “COIN of the Realm” – review ...
    Summary:  Before amnesia clouds our memories of Iraq and Afghanistan, as it has erased the lessons of Vietnam, we should review the books that guided us to the long disaster of serial interventions after 9-11.  Today we have a cheery mid-war look at one such.  Historians will look at this book a ...
  • Bleak news, but vital for us to understand: Am ...
    Summary:  The Allies, led by the USA, hoped that WWII was the last great tribal war — or at least the last tribal war waged by great powers.  The dream has been betrayed by its creators.  Our guilt.  Closing our eyes to these terrible events only increases the damage — to those whom ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • It’s Time to De-Russianize the BRICS
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  • It’ll Do You Damage: Proxies & Covert War in Syria
    Recently, several members of the Syrian National Council threatened or began the process of resignation from the body, marking new fractures as government forces continue their bloody, brutal crackdown against Syrian rebels in Hama, Idlib, and Deraa. Notably, Idlib, located along the Turkish bor ...
  • On China, Romney’s Money, Mouth in Different P ...
    The New York Times reported earlier this week that a company owned by Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former private equity firm, has significant investments in surveillance equipment makers that cater to the Chinese government: In December, a Bain-run fund in which a Romney family blind trust h ...
  • Economic Growth and the Survival of New Democr ...
    Last month, a senior official in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood warned the U.S. against cutting aid to his country at a time when Egypt is, he suggested, on the brink of economic collapse. In an interview with the Washington Post, Khairat Al-Shater said that reductions in Western aid would exa ...
  • Cybersecurity Legislation Should Force US Gove ...
    To defend itself from the onslaughts of online crime and espionage backed by China and other nations, America's private sector needs the capabilities of the US government. These tax-paying companies are on the new front lines of the cyber conflict, in which private enterprise is facing nation-st ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • SuperObama
    Aside from the fans who still faint at his events, the thrill is long gone for most of those who were enraptured by Barack Obama in 2008. The Road We’ve Traveled, the Obama campaign video released last night, is a glossy, high-production effort to rekindle the flame. The story it weaves is insp ...
  • "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 ...

Buzzflash

  • GOP Presidential Freak-a-thon Set to Move to C ...
    JANE STILLWATER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Now that my state is about to be invaded by the Republican circus, the only advice I can offer California voters right now is, "Shelter in place!" But as the GOP electoral freak show prepares to hit the Golden State really hard between now and ...
  • Mississippi Freeloads on the Back of Blue Stat ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Yes, it's true, as BuzzFlash at Truthout documented a short time ago, the State of Mississippi (MS) "sucks up $2.73 in federal support for every dollar its residents pay in national taxes." In the dog-whistle language of the right wing, that makes t ...
  • Netanyahu's Real Goal is Not Bombing Iran; It' ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The sage Israeli commentator and activist Uri Avnery recently published an excellent analysis of the Israel/Iran situation on The Planetary Movement (1). Mr. Avnery presents the full list of strategic reasons why it is highly unlikely that Netanya ...
  • Christians Bilking Christians
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Welcome to the world of the "prosperity gospel," where the only people we know for sure are prospering are the ministers running the show. Just a few years ago, during the height of the recession, his organization froze wages, stopped contributing to emp ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • World Water Forum Paves the Way to Privatize N ...
    “The 6th World Water Forum this week, despite lagging attendance and Sarkozy reneging on his promise to attend, has still been an opportunity for multinational water corporations to solidify their plans to further privatize nature at Rio+20.read more
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Will the Afghan Parliament, the U.S. Public or ...
    Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers In Afghanistan, the tragic Kandahar killing spree has prompted renewed talk about the proposed U.S. Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement. At stake in these discussions is the security of Afghanistan, the U.S. ...
  • Will the Afghan Parliament, the U.S. Public or ...
    Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers In Afghanistan, the tragic Kandahar killing spree has prompted renewed talk about the proposed U.S. Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement. At stake in these discussions is the security of Afghanistan, the U.S. ...
  • Remembering Bayard Rustin at 100
    Matt Meyer One hundred years after the birth of human rights icon Bayard Rustin, his complicated legacy pushes us to analyze our own complicated times. Vilified in the 1950s for his open homosexuality and again in the 1960s for “selli ...
  • Remembering Bayard Rustin at 100
    Matt Meyer One hundred years after the birth of human rights icon Bayard Rustin, his complicated legacy pushes us to analyze our own complicated times. Vilified in the 1950s for his open homosexuality and again in the 1960s for “selli ...
  • Massacre of Emos in Iraq Goes to Core of a Dam ...
    Scott Long Hassan – it's not his real name – had a heavy metal band with two other twentysomethings. The raucous music represented rebellion, and in Iraq there was plenty to rebel against: occupation, poverty, patriarchal fa ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • UN body "appalled" by Israel's racial segregat ...
    Adri Nieuwhof and Mireille Fanon Mendès-France 16 March 2012 Israel is severely criticized for violating the right to equality in a new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
  • Factual errors undermine new book on Hamas
    Asa Winstanley 16 March 2012 A new book on the Palestinian political party Hamas fails to accurately analyze the policies of the Islamic resistance movement.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • Morning CheckUp: March 19, 2012
    GOP prepares new Medicare reform plan: “Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), is fashioning a sequel to last year’s “Path to Prosperity” manifesto that ignited a firestorm over Medicare.” Ryan is scheduled to release the new Path on Tuesday. [AP] AARP la ...
  • How To Get 1 Million Clean Economy Jobs On The ...
    by Jorge Madrid With a regional GDP contribution of $47 billion and over half a million jobs created in 2010, the clean energy economy is alive and well on the West Coast. And the potential for continued growth in jobs and investment is enormous with more regional collaboration, according to a r ...
  • What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin ...
    On February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense. Three weeks after Martin’s death, no arre ...
  • After Backing Anti-Birth Control Blunt Amendme ...
    Earlier this week, an Arizona state senate committee backed a “tell your boss why you’re on the pill bill” that would allow employers to demand proof that their employees are not using birth control for contraceptive purposes before their insurance will cover the pills. In an intervi ...
  • The Glass House Effect: Heartland Institute Tr ...
    People who live in glass houses heat up faster than the rest of us By Richard Littlemore, via Desmogblog A Heartland Institute front man phoned a Greenpeace activist and lied about his identity in an effort to get her to turn over UN climate conference documents to which he had no legitimate acc ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Patrick Ross Isn't "Depressed"
    As part of my ongoing campaign of posting any sort of shit that comes to mind just to make a post (because responding to the Conservative Party of Canada's electoral fraud CRIMES are too important for my paltry blogging efforts) I'm just going to talk about Canadian Cynic's failed nemesis Patric ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Racist tweeter arrested in U.K., ill Fabrice M ...
    South Wales police issued a statement on Sunday, March 18, 2012 saying they arrested a 21-year-old man for publishing "racially offensive" remarks on twitter. It is widely believed in the U.K. the remarks were directed at ill footballer, Fabrice Muamba.
  • Margaret Atwood discusses her book Payback in ...
    Author Margaret Atwood appeared at the Manulife Centre Indigo Bookstore in Toronto to discuss the feature documentary based on her bestselling book, "Payback".
  • Rufus Wainwright on Lady Gaga: 'Not one good s ...
    The somewhat eccentric Rufus Wainwright has put the kibosh on the very eccentric Lady Gaga. It seems the openly gay, 38-year-old singer Wainwright doesn't like The Fame Monster's music and finds her "disingenuous."
  • Police in Canadian city battle 'mob' at St. Pa ...
    Police in London, Ontario had to deal with 'mob mentality" when St. Patrick's Day celebrations turned ugly in the streets. Over 1,000 rioters overturned and burned vehicles and battled London's police force.
  • Dutch salvage company says it can refloat sunk ...
    The Dutch maritime company that is removing the oil from the sunken Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, says it can refloat the huge ship and has put in a bid to do so. But the operation cannot be done cheaply.

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

  • Fantino casts doubt on F-35 plan
    Faced with ballooning costs, a series of damning studies, the possibility of a bombshell Auditor-General's report, and a large public outcry, the Harper government has finally admitted that buying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter might not be such a good idea.
  • “Mission Accomplished”
    More details are emerging about the costs for the Roman-style triumph in Ottawa that marked the end of the recent Libya campaign. If the goal was runaway military spending, then the mission was certainly accomplished. The success of the Libya mission itself, on the other hand, remains in doubt.
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Insider Says Talk of Paul-Romney Alliance is “ ...
    February 24, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “People are speculating that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are now in cahoots. Lew Rockwell thinks otherwise.” –KTRN Former Ron Paul staffer Lew Rockwell says that talk of an alliance between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul is an “establish ...
  • CIA-NATO Front Group Drafts “Humanitarian Aid” ...
    February 24, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo An effort to impose the sort of “humanitarian aid” on Syria that ultimately killed around 30,000 people in Libya is underway in Tunisia. CNN reports that “world powers” – corrupt states belonging to the Arab League and ultimately members of the European ...
  • The Gold Transformers
    February 24, 2012 321 Gold By Morris Hubbartt The world has an excess of fiat currency, yet world bankers seem ready to prove that the creation of yet more money will stimulate our economy. The more likely outcome is devalued currencies and a much lower standard of living. The currency with the ...
  • The “Battle of LA,” 70 Years Ago Today: 5 Irre ...
    February 24, 2012 Houston Press By Richard Connelly “The Battle Of LA is one of the most amazing UFO events in history. Just look at the pictures. The idea that the military opened fire on a weather balloon is laughable.” –KTRN Seventy years ago today, the Battle of Los Angeles ...
  • Oil Price Surges To Highest Since May On Iran ...
    February 24th, 2012 MSNBC By: Reuters U.S. crude futures rose for a seventh day on Friday, ending with their best weekly performance since December, as a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog that Iran had stepped up work on nuclear enrichment was seen further inflaming tensions between Tehran and ...

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

  • Santorum to GOP: Don’t nominate ‘Tweedledum’ l ...
    Presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that Republicans can’t win if they nominate a “Tweedledum” like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In an Monday interview on CBS, Santorum told host Charlie Rose that if he could stay in the race until the convention, delegates woul ...
  • Bombs & Blame: Syria accuses Saudis, Qatar of ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com The Syrian regime has pointed the finger at Saudi Arabia and Qatar, saying the Arab states were involved in the chain of weekend terror blasts in Syria‘s largest cities. The Gulf nations have been accused by Assad’s government of arming whoever carried out the ...
  • Body Scanners To Be Used At Events During Olympics
    “Sealed site” security lockdown; Organizers say they “hope” staff will not be as thuggish as TSA Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 19, 2012 Radiation firing body scanners are set to be used by events organizers during the Olympics in London as part of a huge security lo ...
  • Outlaw Occupy: US set to strangle protests wit ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com New York City police are investigating death threats made against staff through the phone and on twitter. This after officers forcibly arrested more than 70 people during an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since the start of the movement, nationwide protests have faced numero ...
  • Greece on the breadline: cashless currency tak ...
    Jon Henley London Guardian March 19, 2012 In recent weeks, Theodoros Mavridis has bought fresh eggs, tsipourou(the local brandy: beware), fruit, olives, olive oil, jam, and soap. He has also had some legal advice, and enjoyed the services of an accountant to help fill in his tax return. None of ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Michel Chossudovsky: Al Qaeda and US-NATO Spec ...
    Dandelion Salad GlobalResearchTV on Mar 16, 2012 Thousands have taken to the streets of the Syrian capital Damascus to support the country’s embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration comes on the year anniversary of the anti-Assad uprising that has left scores dead and injured. T ...
  • Michael Hudson: Geithner Turfed Out by EU Bank ...
    by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com March 13, 2012 Prof Hudson appears on the Renegade Economists radio show to discuss the economic growth trap, compound interest, Sumeria, the corruption of economics and how US interests are flexing in the debate over wh ...
  • Make Public Secret Patriot Act Legal Interpret ...
    Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Mar. 16, 2012 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 interp ...
  • Rick Rozoff: U.S. Lied About Number Of Soldier ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 15, 2012 Press TV March 15, 2012 Rick Rozoff, manager of Stop NATO, commented on the recent massacre of Afghan civilians and said, “The rampage included more than one soldier and the U.S. fra ...
  • How Many Violations of US Arms Laws are Too Ma ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon March 18, 2012 On March 6, 2012, the US Congressional Research Service released a report to the US Congress concerning Restrictions on the use of American weapons by recipient countries. For those who have followed the subject ther ...

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

  • On the Moons of Mighty Jupiter (1970)
    In early 1970, engineers revealed plans to land robot spacecraft on Jupiter four's largest moons - plans which, more than 40 years later, have yet to reach fruition. Space Historian and Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree describes these far-sighted plans for Jupiter moon exploration.
  • Great Balls of Fire: Apollo Rocket Explosions ...
    No Apollo Saturn rocket ever failed, but NASA and contractor engineers had to plan for the worst. Space historian and Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree explains how they calculated the effects of massive Saturn rocket explosions so they could design an effective Apollo crew escape system.
  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • International Crisis Group: Back to basics – I ...
    Simultaneous Arab marginalisation and revitalisation also has manifested itself in initial efforts by its leadership to define the community’s political aspirations. The so-called “Vision Documents”... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • India World’s Top Arms Importer – SIPRI
    India has topped a rating of the world's largest heavy arms importers, released on Monday by the independent Stockholm-based International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), researching into conflicts, arms control and disarmament.
  • Japan Can Crash Down N.Korea Satellite If Nece ...
    The Japanese Armed Forces could shoot down North Korea’s satellite, planned to be launched next month, as the need arises, Japan's Sankei newspaper reported on Saturday quoting Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka as saying.
  • Russian Warship to Join Blackseafor Drills
    Russia will send the Caesar Kunikov amphibious landing ship to the international Black Sea Naval Force (Blackseafor) naval exercise, Black Sea Fleet press secretary Vyacheslav Trukhachev said on Friday.
  • Communists Want Referendum Over Russia NATO Base
    The Russian Communist Party has demanded that two referendums, an all-Russian and a regional one, be held over the projected deployment of a NATO transit base in the Volga city of Ulyanovsk, the party’s press service said on Friday.
  • Russia to Develop New Arms Program to 2025
    Russia’s new state arms procurement program through to 2025 will be developed by 2015, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Maj. Gen. Igor Sheremet said on Thursday.

NewsWise

  • Physicists Simulate Strongly Correlated Fermions
    Combining known factors in a new way, physicists have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to accurately predict their properties. It could lead to superconductor applications and solving high-energy physics and ultra-cold atoms problems.
  • Meeting Greater Number of Recommended Cardiova ...
    In a study that included a nationally representative sample of nearly 45,000 adults, participants who met more of seven recommended cardiovascular health behaviors or factors (such as not smoking, having normal cholesterol levels, eating a healthy diet), had a lower risk of death compared to par ...
  • Fundamental Steps Needed Now in Global Redesig ...
    Some 32 social scientists and researchers from around the world, including a Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University, have concluded that fundamental reforms of global environmental governance are needed to avoid dangerous changes in the Earth system. The scientists argued in t ...
  • Ultracold Experiments Heat Up Quantum Research
    University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems of vastly different scales, offering potential insights into links between the atomic realm and deep ques ...
  • Food Stamps and Farmers' Markets
    Penn Nursing research finds that point-of-sale system encourages food stamp customers to buy more at farmers' markets.

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

  • Lubanga Decision Roundtable: Lubanga in Context
    by James Stewart by James Stewart [James G. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia]   The first judgment of the International Criminal Court is cause for real celebration, but we must not let our justifiable elation overshadow all that work the judgmen ...
  • Lubanga Decision Roundtable: Lubanga, Sexual V ...
    by dov jacobs by dov jacobs [Dov Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University.]   The Lubanga trial was not only being scrutinized for the charges that were included (the use of child soldiers in armed conflict). The charges that were not included always loom ...
  • Lubanga Decision Roundtable: The Participation ...
    by Cecile Aptel by Cecile Aptel [Cecile Aptel is Associate Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School, Tufts University] Among the many legal and factual issues raised by the landmark Lubanga judgment rendered by the ICC this week, a central one concerns the definition of “the use [ ...
  • Is Peace the Victim of the ICC’s Justice?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I don’t have any particular insights to add on the very interesting and detailed roundtable discussion folks are having on the Lubanga judgment.  But I can’t resist pointing out this op-ed by Ian Paisley (the son of a leading figure on the Northern Irish s ...
  • The Other Side of Chevron
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In his recent guest post, Doug Cassel attempts to portray Chevron as the innocent victim of illegal and unethical conduct by the lawyers for the plaintiffs harmed by its predecessor’s dumping of 16.8 million gallons of crude oil and 20 billion gall ...

Public News Service

  • Family PLZ! (Please) Arizonans Urged to Talk F ...
    Family PLZ! (Please) Arizonans Urged to Talk Family Medical History PHOENIX - Over 90 percent of people diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer are over 50, but when the disease runs in a family, it can strike earlier. Tom Rich, regional director, Comprehensive Cancer Control, for The American Cance ...
  • 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 ...
  • Report: AHCCCS Crucial for Rural Arizonans
    Report: AHCCCS Crucial for Rural Arizonans PHOENIX - A new analysis of health care across the country finds that Medicaid, known as AHCCCS in Arizona, plays an especially vital role in rural America. Report author Jon Bailey, director of research and analysis with the Center for Rural Affairs, ...

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  
  • Environmental News 28/02/2012
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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

  • Romneyizing Los Angeles
    Along with a team of my colleagues I’ve shifted to high gear for the last couple of weeks in an effort to prevent the Romneyization of Los Angeles by a company founded by ex-Goldman-Sachs operatives known as “Mount Kellett.”Read the rest
  • Is there even such a thing?
    Though it may much ado of nothing, but why is it we never hear of the “Second World”. It’s always third world this third world that, and of late “first world slipping to third world”. If we’re first world, wouldn’t we be slipping to “second world&# ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg. Champion of the 1%
    Big shout out to Mayor Bloomberg who this week ordered police to attack OWS and personally defended Goldman Sachs. What a guy….
  • Pacifica hires notorious union-buster law firm ...
    KPFA’s parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, has hired Jackson Lewis, a notorious anti-union law firm which the AFL-CIO calls “America’s number one union-buster.”Pacifica, an independent radio station chain owns stations in five major markets. They have a decades long traditi ...
  • The power of blogging
    Recently I posted about Glasgow to Detroit, a documentary by Don MacKeen concerning urban farming in these two post-industrial cities. Don is an American expat living in Glasgow and had emailed me about the film. After the post appeared here, Scottish Televison in Glasgow emailed me asking how t ...

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

  • The Navy Is Sending Everything It Needs For A ...
    The global signs of a coming military conflict with Iran continue to build, and today the U.S. Navy made clear its intentions by announcing it’s sending four additional mine countermeasure shipsto the Strait of Hormuz. Stars and Stripes reports the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan G ...
  • Study: 8 states get ‘F’ on corruption
    Eight state governments received a failing F grade when it comes to transparency, accountability and anti-corruption efforts, while not a single state earned an A, according to a comprehensive new study released Monday. Michigan, North Dakota, South Carolina, Maine, Virginia, Wyoming, South Dako ...
  • Outlaw Occupy: US set to strangle protests wit ...
    New York City police are investigating death threats made against staff through the phone and on twitter. This after officers forcibly arrested more than 70 people during an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since the start of the movement, nationwide protests have faced numerous cases of police bruta ...
  • This Day In History – March 19
    1848 – Wyatt Earp, American marshall (d. 1929), was born. 1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle ...
  • Medical tattoos marking a new mark
    They’ve long-served as fashion-statements, or a form of personal expression but now – tattoos are making their mark in an entirely different way. Jessica Baldwin reports.

The Air Vent

  • Conservative Fantasy World
    On the last thread Kevin O’Neill left this post. Conservatives live in a fantasy world. Their myths are etched in stone and actual facts can never sway them from their beliefs. For instance: “Per Capita Government Spending by President: Ranking since Johnson (starting in 1968), and using t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at PowerReviews, Offerpop, Planned Parenthood, Mob Science, Checkpoint ...
  • Facebook roundup: Gowalla, Walmart, GLAAD, Men ...
    Gowalla closes down – Gowalla officially shut down its location-based service this week. The company was acquired by Facebook for its talent in December. Facebook honored by GLAAD – Facebook is set to receive a special recognition award at the Gay & … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • 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 ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Candy Dulfer Candy Dulfer is a Dutch alto saxophonist who is, imho, outstanding. Her band Funky Stuff is noted for just that…serious funk. In this song, ‘Don’t Go’, Candy tones it down a little. On top of her sweet sax, there’s an amazing guitar solo by band member Ulco Bed. Th ...
  • Barack Obama: the World Establishment’s Uncle ...
    The Right Man to Pacify ‘Crying Race’ while Terrorizing & Colonizing Africa Only three years under the Obama presidency and we have had several covert and overt wars in Africa with the sole purpose of the re-colonization of Africa and its rich oil-mineral resources, while posing under the gu ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 16 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless and the spirit of ruthlessness will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on ...
  • Podcast Show #80: The Massive Propaganda on Syria
    The Boiling Frogs Presents William Bowles William Bowles joins us to discuss the latest on Syria, the massive propaganda campaign that has been unleashed on the Western public, and the real motives behind a rapacious imperial power in supporting, encouraging and arming groups like the FSA and th ...

Afro Spear

  • Hunting Season is open!
  • 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

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

  • Washington Preparing for More War
    Already embroiled in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and numerous proxy wars in Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, central Africa, and elsewhere, evidence suggests Obama's preparing for more.
  • Rape and Murder in Afghanistan
    On March 11, up to 20 US forces murdered 16 Afghan men, women, and nine children, aged two to 12. Children were massacred while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them.
  • Nine Years Out of Government and Pinning Hopes ...
    The US Government is still running scared. It is scared of everything and everyone, including Americans who are trying valiantly to turn our country and government from a fear-based society to a rational society looking at the good and the bad and how we fix the challenges.
  • War, Pipelineistan-style
    So as Washington has been impotent to disrupt Pipelineistan moves in Central Asia -- by isolating Iran and bypassing Russia -- it's now going ballistic to prevent by all means the crucial integration of Southwest Asia and South Asia, from Iran's giant South Pars gas field to Pakistan's Balochist ...
  • The Abyss of Tyranny
    Obama has made it very clear he intends to continue the extrajudicial killings. The question isn't whether America has stepped into an abyss, but rather whether there is any return. History suggests there isn't. History suggests we become what we hate.

Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Positive news for the non-conventional renewable energy sector made headlines this week in Chile. At a solar energy conference, a senior vice-president of the international company F ...
  • Obama Administration Endorses Plans to Drill i ...
    Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC   The Obama administration decided today to back a proposal to allow nearly 1,300 new oil and gas drilling wells in Utah’s Desolation Canyon region, impacting over 200,000 acres of wildlands. The ...
  • NRDC in the News 3/15: NY fracking regs, food ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In an Associated Press piece carried by the Wall Street Journal, Eric Goldstein predicted that it will take the New York Department of Environmental Conservation many months to review the proposed re ...
  • Oil and gas industry--increasingly out of touc ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest oil and gas trade association, announced its opposition to new Clean Air rules proposed by the U.S. EPA. As I discussed in a bl ...
  • Natural gas supply need not be adversely affec ...
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York We disagree with the recent report from the American Petroleum Institute (API) claiming that the upcoming finalization of EPA’s proposed rule will stifle natural gas production, due t ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Seapower in Culture: The Riddle of the Sands
    A British civil servant receives a cryptic request from an old friend, and immediately heads to Germany. The two embark on the tiny yacht Dulcibella to explore the north German coast. The stakes are uncertain; both suspect that there may be military and political happenings afoot, but neither ha ...
  • Weekend Linkage
    Whenever there’s a possibility that the United States might engage in another stupid military adventure, Leon Wiseltier will be there to burn some straw. And, yes, a steadfast supporter of the Iraq War is accusing opponents of military action in Syria and Iran of being reflexive and not en ...
  • The Battle
    Just because George Jones is awesome. This is not stated often enough.
  • Demjanjuk
    I’m not sure a RIP is exactly in order here, but let it be known that John Demjanjuk, one of the last (possible?) links to Nazism and the Holocaust is no more.
  • Scenes From Postracial America
    I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that if the race of the perpetrator and victim were reversed, the police would have actually charged the perpetrator appropriately. Although, in fairness, the menacing youth in question was armed with Skittles. Skittles! Better shoot first and ask ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • 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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • COURTSIDE: Big cases, out of the spotlight
    Fascinating cases that aren't healthcare-related; remembering Dan Popeo; Clarence Thomas' byline in Bloomberg Businessweek; and grooming the next generation of Supreme Court aficionados in this week's column.
  • THE GO-TO SCHOOLS: It's tough out there
    Our annual report on the 50 law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied upon the most to fill their first-year associate classes during 2011. Plus, the law schools that saw the most alumni promoted to partner at NLJ 250 firms in 2011.
  • THE CAREERIST: Study on the rich husband effect
    Well-educated women tend to drop out of the workforce when their husbands make big bucks, says a recent study. So much for quitting because of work/life balance struggles.
  • OPINION: Legal argument matters
    In his speech seeking to justify targeted killing, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. failed to adhere to established methods of inquiry relied upon by our courts and legal institutions.
  • Podium: The government as ventriloquist
    Mandatory 'disclosure' regimes represent governmental attempts to make private parties their message boards. This compelled speech raises serious First Amendment concerns, and business interests are fighting back.

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

  • Two Decisive Gun-Rights Hearings Scheduled on ...
    The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will meet in Denver Colorado on Monday to decide whether or not the city and county of Denver can deny the right to carry a handgun in public by not issuing permits.
  • President Obama Bolsters Efforts to Curb US De ...
    We are also producing more oil at home than at any time in the last eight years, but with only 2% of the world's proven oil reserves, drilling alone is not a solution.
  • Ethiopia's Troops Attack Military Bases in Eritrea
    After the deadly encounter, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to avoid any action that could escalate tensions between the Horn of Africa neighbours.
  • Team Kovalev Upset With Square Ring for 'Potec ...
    Kovalev (17-0-1, 15 KOs), born in Chelyabinsk but now living in Big Bear, California, was a highly-decorated Russian amateur boxer (193-22). Trained by Abel Sanchez, Sergey is the reigning WBC Asian Boxing Council 175-pound champion, rated No. 12
  • New Initiative Harnesses Partnerships to Solve ...
    The Global Water Solidarity Platform was launched on Wednesday at the World Water Forum in Marseille, France, where 20,000 participants from the private, public and non-profit sectors gathered this week to address global water challenges.

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 ...
  • Unusual Pine Beetle Breeding Could Explain Tre ...
    A new study has found that some populations of mountain pine beetles are producing two generations of tree-killing offspring each year, a phenomenon that may help explain the scale of damage being done to vast tracts of lodgepole and ponderosa pines across western North America. After observing ...
  • Young People Showing Less Interest in Green Is ...
    A new study says that young people have become increasingly less interested in the environment and conservation issues over the last four decades. In an analysis of two longstanding surveys of U.S. high school seniors and college freshmen, researchers found that today’s generation of so-called M ...
  • China’s Wind Energy Capacity Reached Record Le ...
    China installed a record 18,000 megawatts of new wind energy in 2011, boosting its total capacity to nearly 63,000 megawatts and widening its lead in the global wind energy sector, according to the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). The U.S., which was passed by China for total wind capacity, install ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Two massive blasts rock Syria’s capital
    Two "terrorist explosions" struck security targets in the Syrian capital Saturday morning, killing at least 27 people and wounding 140, the state-run news agency said. SANA said many of the dead were civilians, including children and senior citizens. CBS News’ George Baghdadi, who’s in Damascus, ...
  • Norwegian military plane wreckage found in Sweden
    The hopes of finding survivors among the five-member crew aboard a Norwegian military plane that crashed into Sweden’s highest peak during a training exercise dimmed Saturday amid worsening weather conditions. The wreckage was found scattered across two glaciers. In a sign of the devastating imp ...
  • The Jewish Influence on American Entertainment
    As we all know, the Jewish race has been persecuted throughout history. And that it is a complete understatement. While that is not news to anyone, there is an amazing fact that peripherally I always knew, but it wasn’t until this week it become obvious. An earth-shaking discovery like the endin ...
  • DARPA Director Leaves Pentagon, Moves to Google
    Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was "offered and accepted at senior executive position" with the internet ...
  • "Kony 2012" filmmaker arrested in San Diego
    The co-founder of the San Diego-based advocacy group Invisible Children was detained on San Diego’s Pacific Beach "acting very strange" the NBC report said. Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of someth ...

Russia Today

  • Heavy firefights erupt in Damascus – witness r ...
    Fighting has broken out between opposition groups and regime security forces in the Syrian capital according to witness reports. Residents say that rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire could be heard from the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Afghan slaughter suspect had criminal record
    Reports are emerging that the American soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghans in a nighttime rampage has a criminal record. The man identified as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales remains locked up in solitary confinement in... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • My turn! Libya, France, ICC battle over Gaddaf ...
    Libya is sending a delegation to Mauritania for the extradition of Abdallah al-Senussi, intelligence chief to Muammar Gaddafi. France has filed a competing extradition request, while the ICC is also seeking to bring him... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Critical review: Documentary sparks protest an ...
    About 100 protesters were detained in an unsanctioned rally outside the Ostankino television and radio tower in Moscow Sunday. The protest was a response to a controversial documentary shown on the state news channel... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Militia and Gaddafi loyalists clash outside Tr ...
    At least one person was killed outside Tripoli in a fight between a powerful militia group from Zintan and local residents loyal to slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, reports the Associated Press. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • This American Life caves to Apple Corp, swaps ...
    This American Life host Ira Glass tried to pull an Oprah on playwright Mike Daisey, to dress him down on creative license Daisey took with an excerpt of a monolog aired on TAL titled Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory. The debunking came courtesy of American Public Media’s laughable “M ...
  • Wanna occupy? Sorry Colorado Springs but your ...
    Nobody likes to draw the short straw, but isn’t that already our lot living in Colorado Springs? Yeah, it’s easy to protest Wall Street from the safety of a provincial backwater, our city even backed us with a permit, but is that really grabbing the imperial bull by the horns? The Oc ...
  • Oops. Add two rapes to the feat of Staff Sgt. ...
    An Afghan parliamentary fact-finding mission reports that two women were raped before being killed in the US NATO night raid on Panjwaii. Yeah, Americans still can’t pronounce My Lai. The same US corporate press is raping Afghanistan.
  • Pentagon backed terrorists continue deadly att ...
    The US government and Israel have declared war on Syria and the Pentagon backed terrorists continued their series of bombings directed against Syria today. Bomb Explodes in Aleppo One Day After Deadly Damascus Attacks. The following is an interesting and informative film- [INFocus] What Is Reall ...
  • Reformist US Labor Unions move to suck life ou ...
    Here it is, the big push this spring by ‘Labor’ to try to suck the life out of the US Occupy Movement and push us all back into the Democratic Party behind Barack O’bomber man and a second term of Republican Lite NOTHINGNESS. The 99% Spring , a big blob of empty rhetoric by the ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Eating Too Much? You May Be Sleeping Too Little
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Mayo clinic ran a small study on 17 adults over the course of 8 nights. They were split into 2 groups. One group slept 80 minutes less than the other. The subjects’ activity and food intake was recor ...
  • Today: Go Irish with Your Oatmeal
    Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! If you’re not familiar with Irish Oatmeal, treat yourself to some steel cut goodness this morning. Unlike regular oatmeal, steel cut oats are not rolled or flattened. They maintain a very high amount of the nutrients found in whole oats, unlike quick or inst ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Failing our Autistic Children: What if Your Ch ...
    Managing Editor's Note: This article struck me as incredibly important - I hope you agree. Peter Gerhardt nails the importance of daily living skills in addtion to academics. From The Record in Stockton, CA. Thank you to Roger Phillips. By...
  • Current TV to Air The Greater Good Vaccine Doc ...
    Our friends at Canary Party have posted an open letter from a California School district that encourages watching Leslie Manookian's balanced vaccine debate documentary titled Greater Good on Current TV March 24th. We invite you to do the same. Understanding...
  • Temporarily Burned Out
    By Cathy Jameson So, the house is a mess. The kids are hungry again (didn’t I just make them a meal?!). I missed fifteen phone calls and haven’t bothered to return several messages. I’m not focusing on whatever task I...
  • Age of Autism Contest: Lee Silsby OurKidsASD E ...
    Our good friends from Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD are offering you a chance to try two popular and useful products for back to school for free in this latest contest. Leave a comment to win a bottle Enhansa...
  • Idaho Mountain Express Reviews Leslie Manookia ...
    Pondering ‘The Greater Good’ Local filmmaker Leslie Manookian explores the highly controversial vaccine safety issue Read the full story at Idaho Mountain Express. In 2001, Ketchum-raised Leslie Manookian was working in finance in London when she had a conversation that...

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

  • Obama’s Legalization of Slavery and Systematic ...
    This executive order is particularly draconian in that it eliminates the private ownership of everything and Obama has delegated the complete control of the nation's resources to his cabinet level department heads (i.e. Czars). The delegation of control of the nation's resources and people is p ...
  • New Executive Order Seizes Total Control over ...
    A new Executive Order signed on March 16, 2012, gives Obama the power to seize all forms of transportation, food, and any other civilian services including health care, for national defense, as well as to conscript necessary persons for a National Defense Executive Reserve. This is an all-inclus ...
  • A Message from Our Criminal Government: “We Go ...
    To date, the Stanford victims have managed to reclaim about $150,000 from elected officials who accepted this stolen money. However, almost two million dollars of political donations are still missing. President Obama took his money and donated it to charity. Someone should explain to Obama that ...
  • GMO Toxicity: Bt Toxin Kills Human Kidney Cells
    A new study shows that low doses of Bt biopesticide CryA1b as well as the glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, kill human kidney cells.
  • Hemp – The Real Green Revolution!
    Hemp can save the world - Music Video.

Open Your Eyes News

  • FEATURE PAGE – Problem, Reaction, Solution
    How can you sell the seeming unsellable? How can you pursuade the public that Iran has WMD’s when clearly you were caught lying less than a decade ago over Iraq? Welcome to the twisted logic of Problem, Reaction, Solution. To find out more CLICK HERE
  • Central banks pounce on falling gold
    Financial Times – A sharp fall in gold prices has triggered large purchases of bullion by central banks in recent weeks, according to several traders with knowledge of the transactions. The buying activity highlights the trend among central banks in emerging economies to buy gold, even as ...
  • Daily News Archive In Focus – Europe (4, ...
    From antimatter to zoology and finance to farming, we look at the news coming out of Europe. Police, protests, politics… we view it all. What will happen with the Euro? What will happen with Greece and Italy? Keep up to date with a look at our Europe news archive of 4,987 articles on the t ...
  • Opinion – Carbon War erupts in Europe
    In a hard hitting opinion piece Viv Forbes, President of the Carbon Sense Coalition, demonstrates that the green consensus in Europe is starting to crumble and the battle lines are being drawn. To read CLICK HERE
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Monthly Sunspo ...
    Cycle 24 so far is on par with cycle 12 and cycle 6 in amplitude.

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

  • Shanty Shower - #24HoursOfWater
    For many in the developing world, this is the only sort of "shower" that exists: a small bit of fabric privacy, and some potentially disease-laden laden water. For still others, bathing means stripping bare and dunking into a dirty stream. Help us bring clean, healthy water to all by donating ...
  • Shared Water Source - #24HoursOfWater
    Even before the earthquake, conditions in Haiti were quite desperate. Just behind our hotel in Port-au-Prince, but nothing prepared us for this: animals using the same creeks that Haitians drink from everyday. When you live in the city and don't have access to water in Haiti you either get water ...
  • Girls Collecting Water - #24HoursOfWater
    In countries like Ethiopia, the responsibility of collecting and bringing water home all too often falls entirely at the feet of women and children. Children, like those depicted in this clip, are saddled at a very early age with this responsibility, which usually results in little or no time fo ...
  • Cleaning Water Vessels - #24HoursOfWater
    Here, women start the water collection process by cleaning their hands and vessels prior to taking the water. This simple hygiene education is becoming quite commonplace throughout the developing world. In fact in many cases, the incremental health benefits for communities who have simple educat ...
  • A Hand Dug Well - #24HoursOfWater
    Open air, hand dug wells such as the one seen here represent the only source of water available to millions living in Africa. These wells often come with a host of health hazards, and to make matters worse, the women who use these wells might travel as much as 3-hours round-trip, twice daily, si ...

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

  • Israel is fighting a losing battle over victimhood
    If it's permissible for this country to bomb Iran to free itself from a nuclear threat, then why are the Palestinians forbidden to launch rockets against Israel to free themselves of the occupation? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu's contempt for the Holocaust
    Netanyahu received Dimona ready made. Contrary to Israel's former leaders, Netanyahu's political use of the Holocaust is a tactic; it is demagoguery and it is a bluff. By scaring people about a future Holocaust, he breaks the vow and detracts from the uni Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &n ...
  • Iranians respond to Israeli Facebook initiativ ...
    The 'Israel loves Iran' Facebook campaign has begun to receive numerous responses from Iranians, who stared responding to the Israeli initiative that calls on people to announce their love for the Iranians by posting pictures on Facebook. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |  &n ...
  • Four killed in shooting at Jewish school in France
    The gunman then abandoned the motorcycle, entered the school and began shooting at the students and faculty, killing four students and one adult, and seriously wounding another student. The slain adult killed was reported to be a Jewish studies teacher. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &nbs ...
  • Re-Occupation and Police Raid of Zuccotti Park ...
    The brief re-occupation of Zuccotti Park and its swift re-eviction are both previews of the season to come. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Two Decisive Gun-Rights Hearings Scheduled on ...
    The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will meet in Denver Colorado on Monday to decide whether or not the city and county of Denver can deny the right to carry a handgun in public by not issuing permits.
  • President Obama Bolsters Efforts to Curb US De ...
    We are also producing more oil at home than at any time in the last eight years, but with only 2% of the world's proven oil reserves, drilling alone is not a solution.
  • Ethiopia's Troops Attack Military Bases in Eritrea
    After the deadly encounter, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to avoid any action that could escalate tensions between the Horn of Africa neighbours.
  • Team Kovalev Upset With Square Ring for 'Potec ...
    Kovalev (17-0-1, 15 KOs), born in Chelyabinsk but now living in Big Bear, California, was a highly-decorated Russian amateur boxer (193-22). Trained by Abel Sanchez, Sergey is the reigning WBC Asian Boxing Council 175-pound champion, rated No. 12
  • New Initiative Harnesses Partnerships to Solve ...
    The Global Water Solidarity Platform was launched on Wednesday at the World Water Forum in Marseille, France, where 20,000 participants from the private, public and non-profit sectors gathered this week to address global water challenges.

Worldnews

  • 2013 Ford Mustang: First Drive
    PORTLAND, Ore. — Last Thursday morning, Al Roker crooned about summerlike temperatures across the country: 82 degrees in Washington, D.C., 72 in Chicago, 67 in Minneapolis. NBC’s telecast then segued to the local forecast: Forties and rain on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Not the ...
  • Yasin wants to face Pak panel
    Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik has petitioned a Pakistani panel probing the memo scandal that he should be given an opportunity to refute claims by a controversial American businessman about his contact with a former senior RAW official. Mr Malik’s application to be made a party...
  • Thunder back on track at home, beat Blaze ...
    OKLAHOMA CITY -- Russell Westbrook scored 28 points, Kevin Durant had 26 points, seven rebounds and six assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder began work on restoring their home-court dominance, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 111-95 on Sunday night. James Harden added 14 points for Oklah ...
  • Paul Millsap scores 24, Jazz stun Lakers
    Paul Millsap scored 24 points, Enes Kanter added 17 points and eight rebounds, and the Utah Jazz handed the Los Angeles Lakers just their second home loss since Christmas, 103-99 on Sunday night. Rookie Alec Burks scored 13 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter for the Jazz, who snapped the ...
  • Wide range at Lepakshi exhibition
    This summer, women in the city can beat the heat with traditional cotton attires like Gadwal, Venkatagiri, Mangalagiri, Naranyanpet Uppada sarees and many more. The Lepakshi Cotton...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • The Media Equation: Theater, Disguised Up as R ...
    Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” was a fine bit of theater, but it worked less well as journalism, which was how it was represented in January on “This American Life.”
  • Apple to Say Monday How It Will Use Cash Hoard
    As Apple’s cash balance has piled up, analysts and investors have begun to call more loudly for it to return some of the money to shareholders as dividends.
  • Op-Ed Columnist: Hurray for Health Reform
    Despite some imperfections, the Affordable Care Act would do a lot of good and must be defended.
  • Older People With Poorer Reading Skills Have H ...
    Approximately one third of older individuals with poor literacy skills appear to have a higher chance of dying over a five-year period, compared to others of the same age, researchers from University College, London, reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) today. Poor literacy skills means ...
  • The Fear Premium
    Today’s fragile global economy faces many risks: the risk of another flare-up of the eurozone crisis, the risk of a worse-than-expected slowdown in China, and the risk that economic recovery in the United States will fizzle (yet again). But no risk is more serious than that posed by a furt ...

Common Dreams

  • Executives from Chevron, Transocean Held in Br ...
    Brazil has barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving the country while an investigation over charges for an oil spill is underway. A Brazilian federal judge has required the executives to submit their passports to police within 24 hours. Chevron is facing a lawsuit over an oi ...
  • Police Crackdown, Arrests at Occupy's Six-Mont ...
    The Occupy movement gathered in Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) in New York yesterday to mark six months since the movement began. Police responded to the peaceful gathering with arrests and beatings. "This is our spring offensive. People think the Occupy movement has gone away. It's impo ...
  • Blood Money: US Well-Practiced in 'Apologizing ...
    Media reports in the days since the massacre of 16 civilians in Aghanistan have indirectly shed light on the callous realities of warfare: that the military has quantified the price of a life and believes that death can be compensated with blood money, and that the U.S. has "had a lot of pr ...
  • California Sends over 20,000 Pink Slips to Tea ...
    California has sent nearly 20,000 pink slips to educators to indicate that they may not have a job come fall. Tom Torlakson, California's Superintendent of Public Instruction, says the notices reflect a financial emergency. But unions the pink slips are a scare tactic to push austere measure ...
  • Whistleblower: BP Oil Platform Faces 'Present ...
    A whistleblower who has a standing lawsuit against BP has argued this week that the company's Atlantis Project, located 150 miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, faces "present and imminent danger." The whistleblower, Kenneth Abbott, is a former BP contractor on the Atl ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Texans to Future Tar Sands Refineries: Do They ...
    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 massive petrochemical plants, she and her neighbors in this industrial community already breathe some of the ...
  • Seeing Past the Bad News
    In short, while some recent news has been discouraging, the energy challenges of the world have not changed and the smart money, or at least a good bit of it, is still betting on batteries. After what was certainly some irrational exuberance in the last few years about the short term prospects ...
  • 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 House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Test killing
    Khaled Amayreh Israel's unprovoked attack on Gaza had several aims. The latest round of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which started on 9 April and lasted for five days, began with the assassination of Sheikh Zuheir El-Qaisi, chief of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). El-Qaisi ...
  • The American Spring: A Time for Occupy To Blossom
    By Kevin Zeese National Occupation of Washington, DC Will Bring Occupiers Together to Share Experiences, Educate Each Other and Build an Independent Movement to Shift Power from Concentrated Wealth Many in the corporate media like to think the Occupy is over, but those of us involved know bett ...
  • Goldman Sachs: Making Money by Stealing It
    by Stephen Lendman Money power in private hands and democracy can't co-exist. Wall Street crooks transformed America into an unprecedented money making racket. Goldman symbolizes master of the universe manipulative fraud. It's been involved in nearly all financial scandals since the 19th centu ...
  • Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Inv ...
    James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya Introduction: A Week of National Humiliation: From March 4th to March 9th, 2012, 13,000 militant Israel Firsters, took over “political Washington”[1] and imposed a foreign regime’s (Israel) political agenda to the rousing appl ...
  • Heading for War with Iran
    by Stephen Lendman Israel wants it. So does Obama, but not until after November elections. Policy now focuses on winning. Waging more wars can wait, except for Syria, despite strong public support for Assad's reform agenda promising real change. On March 15, marking one year since Western-gene ...

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

  • Revolution 99 Update: US extols the virtues of ...
    RT news – US anti-protest laws could land Occupy activists in jail It’s a country that extols the virtues of liberty like no other. But since September, some 6,700 Americans protesting against economic inequality and corporate greed have been arrested and silenced. A police offensive ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Three killed in shooting at Jewish school in France Updated at 5:45 a.m ET: A man opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, killing one adult and two children, officials said. French TV channel BFM reported on its website (in French) that the dead were a profe ...
  • Tilting Against the Wind
    By Ed Croft,Worldwidehippies –  About fifteen years ago, I started an amazing journey.  I had run into some difficulty and had a break down. In working with the psych, we started to take apart who I thought I was and start looking at who I really was. I was later to find some parallels wit ...
  • Now more than ever; Worldwide Hippies needs yo ...
    Support Independent Media. Fly Your Freak Flag                    (Yes Send Me Mine)
  • How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent ...
    by: Gareth Porter, Truthout | News Analysis - On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering student named Darioush Rezaeinejad was gunned down as he and his wife, who was also wounded in the attack, waited for their child in front of a kindergarten in Tehran. Israel has nev ...

FourWinds10

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

  • Nanopills Deliver Drugs from Inside Cells
    What's the Latest Development? Medical researchers in Barcelona, Spain, have engineered a new microscopic vehicle capable of delivering therapeutic proteins directly from the inside of cells. The vehicles, known as 'bacteria-inclusion bodies', are typically found in recombinant bacteria ...
  • Doctor's Self-Experiments Pioneer Personalized ...
    What's the Latest Development? Over two-and-a-half years, Stanford genetics professor Michael Snyder tracked the movement of 40,000 different molecules within his body's cells, from hormones to blood sugar. The DNA tests revealed that Snyder had a genetic predisposition to type-2 diabete ...
  • Exercise Changes How Genes Work
    What's the Latest Development? A study of over 12,000 men and women reveals that a brisk daily walk can change how the DNA your mother and father gave you affects your body, particularly the 32 genes that have been linked to a person's body mass index, or BMI, a ratio of height and weigh ...
  • Getting Past the Past: Healing the Suffering H ...
    Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Dr. Francine Shapiro, a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, director of the EMDR Institute, and founder of the non-profit EMDR-Humanitarian Assistance Programs. Shapiro was a recipient of the International ... ...
  • Medical Devices Plug into Your Nervous System
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers have tested medical devices in animals which connect directly to the nervous system, transmitting data to external wireless health monitors without invasive procedures. Other advancements include bionic devices which, by plugging into the body's ...

Information Liberation

  • NZ Police court order Dotwrong
    Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom's cash, cars and property were seized using a court order which should never have been granted. A judgment from Justice Judith Potter on Friday declared the restraining order "null and void" and having "no legal effect"....
  • 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...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • More Dollars Than Sense
    Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE. Actually, it’s printing money to you and me, but that can be misleading, … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • Rising Gasoline Prices 2012
    Congressional Research Service www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42382.pdf Average national gasoline prices have increased by $0.46 to $3.78 per gallon between the end of December 2011 and the end of February 2012. This is $0.20 higher than the 2011 average annual gasoline price of $3.58 per gallon. In ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

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

  • TMC at Left Forum
    Interview with Selma James - Activist and Author New York - The TMC interviews Selma James, activist and author with Global Women’s Strike.  She's currently based in London, UK. Toronto Media Co-op: Why are you here? Selma J ...
  • TMC at Left Forum
    Interview with Frances Fox Piven - Professor, Actvist, Left Forum Board Member New York - Note:  This interview took place a few hours before the reoccupation of Zuccotti Park, the site of the original Occupy Wall Street, by hundreds ...
  • TMC: Live at Left Forum
    Interviews and coverage live from the New York Conference New York - The Toronto Media Co-op has set up shop at Left Forum doing interviews and coverage of the hundreds of different workshops and panels at this years massive leftist confer ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Chart of the Day: Employer-Based Health Insura ...
    Via Paul Krugman and Reed Abelson, here's a chart from the National Institute for Health Care Reform. Over the past decade, the number of Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance has dropped from about 70% down to nearly 50%. Note that this is for the non-elderly only, so it's not du ...
  • Our Financial Stockholm Syndrome
    Felix Salmon writes today that the power of the financial industry goes beyond mere lobbying: One of the themes running through Noam Scheiber’s new book is the idea that professional technocrats have a tendency to take at face value much of what they’re told by Wall Street. Bank ...
  • Quote of the Day: Cupcakes and Class Warfare
    From Jeffrey Henig, a professor of political science at Teachers College in New York City: It's never just about the cupcake. This might become my favorite new catchphrase to describe fights ostensibly about X that everyone knows are really about Y. Click the link for context.  & ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Need for speed
    Like any law-abiding train passenger, a molecule called oskar RNA carries a stamped ticket detailing its destination and form of transport, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have found. They show that for this molecule, moving in the right dir ...
  • A surprising new kind of proton transfer
    When a proton -- the bare nucleus of a hydrogen atom -- transfers from one molecule to another, or moves within a molecule, the result is a hydrogen bond, in which the proton and another atom like nitrogen or oxygen share electrons. Conventional wisdom has it that proton transfers can only happe ...
  • UMass Amherst theoretical physicists find a wa ...
    Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof'ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to allow accurate ...
  • Cell phone use in pregnancy may cause behavior ...
    Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of offspring, potentially leading to hyperactivity, Yale School of Medicine researchers have determined. read more
  • Scientists map hotspots for genetic exchange i ...
    Scientists at the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago have constructed the world's first genetic map in chimpanzees of recombination -- the exchange of genetic material within a chromosome that makes us all unique. The study, published March 15 in Science Express, shows surprising ...

unEarthed

  • Uranium Industry Attack on Grand Canyon
    Yet another toxic mining threat A uranium mine near the Grand Canyon's North Rim. Photo: Don Bills, USGS. At the beginning of the last century, Ralph H. Came ...
  • 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 ...
  • Friday Finds: Death by a Thousand Doses
    Dog-gone oil spill cleanups, coastal city wipeouts, leaded bullets Is your baby getting its daily dose of hormone-disrupting chemicals? (photo courtesy of pfly) ...
  • 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 ...

Brave New Climate

  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...
  • 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 ...

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

+972

  • Peter Beinart calls on American Jews, governme ...
    In an op-ed in the New York Times, Jewish author and journalist Peter Beinart calls on American Jews to boycott the settlements, while at the same time, rejects the Boycott, Divestments and Sandctions (BDS) campaign. According to Beinart, this is the only way to save the two-state solution. By e ...
  • South Sudanese protest their slated deportation
    Around 1,000 South Sudanese and Israelis held a rally in front of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque Saturday night to ask the Israeli government to allow them to remain in the country longer.  Since South Sudan gained independence on July 9, 2011, the Israel Population, Immigration and Borders Authority ...
  • One more response to Goldberg’s praise o ...
    In his response to Jeffrey Goldberg’s enthusiastic description of Ben Gurion Airport’s security procedures, my colleague Noam Sheizaf makes some salient points about historical accuracy and racial profiling. Particularly resonant is the final point – that Jeffrey Goldberg, a Je ...
  • On Jewish fears of Egyptian anti-Semitism in t ...
    The Arab Spring presents a conundrum for many liberal Jews. As liberals they feel compelled to advocate self-determination over tyranny and democracy over dictatorship. But as Jews they worry that the Arab dictators, particularly Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, held down the lid on a seething Pandora’s B ...
  • Racial profiling is just racism: A response to ...
    Jeffery Goldberg, one of the most well know Jewish American journalists, had an entry in his blog raving about Israeli security procedures at Ben Gurion airport. Ben Gurion (TLV)  has no naked-scanning machines and you don’t have to take off you shoes. Instead, security personal use racial ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Great Barrier Reef shipping impacts to be con ...
    Impacts on the Great Barrier Reef will be considered as part of an Australian Government assessment of whether or not Rio Tinto Weipa Pty Ltd’s proposed South of Embley Bauxite Mine and Port Development in Queensland can progress under national environment law.
  • Federal environment approval for extension of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today approved an extension at the existing Springvale Mine north of Lithgow in NSW under national environmental law, with more than 30 strict conditions to ensure protection of the environment and ongoing monitoring arrangements.
  • Gillard government extends national water com ...
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell today announced that the Government proposes to continue the National Water Commission to oversee the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) national water reform agenda.
  • Drought proofing Tumbarumba
    Tumbarumba residents will enjoy an increased supply of high-quality drinking water with a $4 million upgrade to the shire's water treatment plant.
  • New Meteorology Office for Geraldton
    A new purpose-built Bureau of Meteorology weather observation office has been opened today in Geraldton.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • George Clooney’s Arrest
    Last week famed actor George Clooney, along with his father, was arrested for demonstrated outside the Sudanese embassy gates in …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

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

  • Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
    Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can pr ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovation
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

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

  • How To Save On Laundry Without Having To Steal ...
    Tide has become a hot commodity lately. Law enforcement officials from around the nation say there has been an outbreak of thefts of the pricey-but-well-regarded detergent. One guy allegedly stole $25,000 worth of Tide before Minnesota police nabbed him. Why? Tide can be pricey (up to $20 a bot ...
  • The Luck Of The Irish Doesn't Extend To Leadin ...
    It might not matter to the masses which alcohol they're dumping green dye into tomorrow on their annual celebration of St. Patrick, but it likely won't be Irish beer anyway. Samuel Adams leads the best-perceived brand in the country, while Guinness comes in far down the line at sixth. Faith and ...
  • Huggies Pulls Ads Featuring Dads Somehow Manag ...
    Wouldn't it be completely crazy to put five dads and five babies in a house for five whole days? asked Huggies in a recent ad campaign. No, it wouldn't, complained dads (and moms) around the country, because believe it or not -- dads are quite capable of parenting, much less putting on a diaper ...
  • "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 ...
  • Heroic Walgreens Clerk Puts Out Beef Jerky Fir ...
    Who would want to burn beef jerky? Sure, it's dry, but it's not the best tinder and besides, it's delicious and arson is bad. A clerk at Walgreens recently saved the store from a fire when he discovered burning bags of beef and put out the fire. It all went down in Waterloo, Iowa, according to ...

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

  • Assange: Pentagon Attempts to Stifle Reportin ...
    The Pentagon is attempting to quash coverage of its activities by alleging that any reporter seeking classified information is collaborating with the source and guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says. In an interview published in “Rolling Stone” magazine, ...
  • FLOTUS and SECSTATE – Ultimate Weapons in GOP ...
    “Why extremists always focus on women, remains a mystery to me.  But they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim, they all want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control decisi ...
  • The Difference Between Private and Public Morality
    Republicans have morality upside down. Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are barnstorming across the land condemning gay marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, access to contraception, and the wall separating church and state. But America’s problem isn’t a breakdown in private morality. It ...
  • Why Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cau ...
    Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic drilling; the super PAC behind Rick Santorum just released a new ad in Louisiana blasting the President on gas prices; and the GOP is attacking the White House ...
  • 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 ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • “Conspiracy theorist” – just ...
    “Conspiracy Theorist” – the taunt you use when you want to “win” the debate without having to argue your point. When someone points out that the Regulating Class want to bring on a world government, they’re called a “conspiracy theorist”. When the ...
  • The Ground Zero of Global Corruption – i ...
    The scale of the rot is something to behold.  Something is grossly, wantonly wrong with Western Civilization, and lots of people know it, but they don’t know why (and for the next blind rebellion, see, “Occupy”). But a head of the hydra popped into view last week. First a high ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
    Plenty to discuss… Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Breitbart's example: get on offense and stay there
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - This column here, now, and forever rejects any and all invitations for membership in a Denounce Club. That is...where we are pressured to denounce fellow pro-Americans, a classic divide-and-conquer scenario inscribed in the strategy bible of those who take a dim view o ...
  • 'Destroy all churches'
    (Washington Times) - If the pope called for the destruction of all the mosques in Europe, the uproar would be cataclysmic. Pundits would lambaste the church, the White House would rush out a statement of deep concern, and rioters in the Middle East would kill each other in their grief. But when ...
  • Santorum has backing of conservative group
    (Newsmax) - The Council for National Policy, a publicity-shy conservative group, is working hard to support Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. The group raised $1.8 million for the former Pennsylvania senator's campaign and the super PAC supporting him at its meeting last weekend, ...
  • Dare to Mediscare
    (Emily Miller) - The conventional wisdom in Washington is that nothing significant will be done until after the November election. As the country racks up debt at a pace faster than ever in history, a few lawmakers refuse to just sit back, avoiding controversy. They want to tackle the biggest dr ...
  • End Obamacare, don't mend it
    (Rep. Steve King and Sen. Jim DeMint) - Every election, voters are told that this election is the most important of our lifetimes. In most elections, it's not really true. In 2012, though, it probably is true, for one reason: Obamacare...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • 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

  • Vikram Cement,Ashok Leyland Winners in Rajiv G ...
    New Delhi (ABC Live) The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has announced the annual awards and commendation certificates for the seventeenth prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards for the year 2010.   The Best of All Awards has been won by Vikram Cement . ...
  • Subramanian Swamy's Twitter bomb hits Manmohan ...
    Bangalore, Mar 19: When it comes to sense of humour, very few people would come in the competition with Subramanian Swamy. The chief of Janata Party always mocks and criticises UPA and Congress leaders and this time he hurled his attack Reported by Oneindia 2 hours ago
  • PM regrets Trivedi's departure as railway minister
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said he regretted the departure of Dinesh Trivedi as railway minister and signalled that the new incumbent will have the duty of carrying forward the task of modernising the railways. Reported by IndiaVision 2 hours ago
  • Was Dharun Ravi denied a fundamental right? In ...
    With a US jury handing down a guilty verdict in the trial of Dharun Ravi, Indian-Americans in Washington have launched a White House petition campaign, saying the boy has been robbed of a fundamental right: 'presumption of innocence'. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Ex-coach tears apart 'ill-mannered' Tiger Wood ...
    Tiger Woods's ex-coach Hank Haney has painted a less than flattering image of one of the most successful golfers of all time in an explosive tell-all book, depicting Woods's as ill-mannered, cheap and a lover of pornography and potty-humour. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • A NATO Transit Center in Russia for Cargos or ...
    The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to sign an agreement with the USA to establish a return “trans-shipment center” in Ulyanovsk for goods going from Afghanistan has attracted public attention. A discussion on financial, political and military aspects of the issue has flared up. The issue of d ...
  • NGOs: Missionaries of Empire
    Non-governmental organizations are an increasingly important part of the 21st century international landscape performing a variety of humanitarian tasks pertaining inter alia to issues of poverty, the environment and civil liberties. However, there is a dark side to NGOs. They have been and are ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • How to Help Diversify Conferences you Attend
    The recent SXSW Interactive Conference has been in the tech news all week. It's a conference famous for its diversity. But there are other tech conferences that are definitely not famous for their diversity. Corvida Raven from SheGeeks attends SXSW regularly, as well as many other conferences. S ...
  • Take Me Out To The Ballgame
    I love baseball. Currently, this would seem obvious – as a Gamecock fan, it’s easy to proclaim the awesomeness of baseball while riding the wave of back to back National Championships. (We closed down Rosenblatt, in case you hadn’t heard) And, as usual per this woefully neglected blog, I am only ...
  • How To Make Cajun-Spiced Sweet Potato Hummus
    [Editor's Note: I make a lot of hummus, but have never tried to incorporate sweet potatoes into the mix. This recipe is likely to get me to change my ways—everything about it sounds delicious and awfully healthy. It's a great appetizer for any party as the winter winds down and Spring appro ...
  • Nie Asks: What Do You Do With Your Little Kid?
    What are your favorite things to do with your pre-kindergarten child? Mr. Nielson and I take him everywhere we go: Errands, appointments, in the car, and for walks around the neighborhood. It will be sad when he is in school this fall. Now your turn: What do you do with your little kid or kids?
  • 2012 NCAA Bracket Busters
    Madness, I tell you. They call the NCAA basketball tournament March Madness for a reason. I have never seen a tournament with the kinds of upsets that we saw yesterday.Yesterday morning a total of four 15 seeds had beaten the 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Ever. It hadn't been done since Hampton ...

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

  • Friday roundup, March 16, 2012
    A plane flies in the distance above the Soviet-era Monument to Coal Miners in the central Kazakhstan city of Karaganda, Thursday, March 15, 2012. The economy of Karaganda, an industrial city of around 470,000 inhabitants, is heavily dependant on nearby coal mines operated by Luxembourg-based min ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Are jobs obsolete? | CNN.com
    New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures — from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually doe ...
  • Islam and the Future of Liberalism | Sam Harris
    Should people be free to draw cartoons of the Prophet? There must be at least 300 million Muslims spread over a hundred countries who think that a person should be put to death for doing so. (This is based on every poll assessing Muslim opinion I have seen over the past ten years.) Should Ayaan ...
  • Writing and Speaking | Paul Graham
    Having good ideas is most of writing well. If you know what you’re talking about, you can say it in the plainest words and you’ll be perceived as having a good style. With speaking it’s the opposite: having good ideas is an alarmingly small component of being a good speaker. vi ...
  • Looking for an iPhone News Application
    I’m looking for a new, primary application for reading news on my iPhone while taking breaks during the day (see, on the toilet). Yes, the toilet for me is a place for reading news, and apparently I am not alone. Anyway, I’m wondering what those of you on iOS use for catching the lat ...
  • Posterous Finds A Home In The Arms Of Twitter ...
    Twitter just announced that it has acquired Posterous, the Y Combinator-backed blogging and sharing platform that competed early on with Tumblr. via techcrunch.com I hope they don’t friendfeed it. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentOpenTable Finds An O ...

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

  • Tilting Against the Wind
    By Ed Croft,Worldwidehippies –  About fifteen years ago, I started an amazing journey.  I had run into some difficulty and had a break down. In working with the psych, we started to take apart who I thought I was and start looking at who I really was. I was later to find some parallels wit ...
  • Now more than ever; Worldwide Hippies needs yo ...
    Support Independent Media. Fly Your Freak Flag                    (Yes Send Me Mine)
  • How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent ...
    by: Gareth Porter, Truthout | News Analysis - On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering student named Darioush Rezaeinejad was gunned down as he and his wife, who was also wounded in the attack, waited for their child in front of a kindergarten in Tehran. Israel has nev ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Facts, Freaks and Groovy Things
    Dr. Woody’s Fascinating Factoid, #3 – It’s not a sin to tell a lie. Cosmic Cowboys & Redneck Rockers: The 40-Year Reunion By John T. Davis,austin360.com – Forty years ago today, the Dripping Springs Reunion festival near Austin brought out hippies and rednecks alike, inaugu ...
  • What’s in a name? Free Gear from WorldWi ...
    Worldwide Hippies would like to thank all who took the time to enter our contest. Your responses were as varied and diverse as the Hippie community is at large. There was one definition that just seemed to fit perfectly. From Alice (Last name unpublished.) Her definition… “ME” ...

reference frame

  • EU chief scientist urges people to AGW panic
    Before Willie Soon sent me an article about the climate hysteria, I didn't know that the EU already had its own "chief scientist". But it's true. Her name is Anne Glover, she is a bacteriologist, she's been a science in adviser in Scotland, and her modest new job since the end of 2011 is To ...
  • How to prevent Blogspot and Google redirect to ...
    Google began to redirect the blogspot.com traffic to specific national locations. So far, dozens of nations are affected, aside from the original three, especially: Australia: motls.blogspot.com.au New Zealand: motls.blogspot.co.nz India: motls.blogspot.in Canada: motls.blogspot.ca ...
  • 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 ...

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

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

  • Jumping for joy over World Cup(s)
    Anders Bardal, who’s been ski jumping for the Norwegian national men’s team since 2001, finally won his first overall World Cup during the weekend after 11 years of trying. Norwegian cross-country ski racer Marit Bjørgen, on the other hand, brought home her third World Cup victory af ...
  • Norwegians now number 5 million
    It’s official: As of Monday, March 19, Norway’s population stands at 5 million persons because of record-high growth rates fueled by longer life-spans, the highest fertility rate in Europe and immigration. New residents from Poland and Sweden are accounting for much of Norway’s ...
  • Moo-ving into a sunny spring
    PHOTO FEATURE: A sunny Sunday drive through the hills of Hadeland, north of Oslo, suddenly yielded this group of bovine buddies, soaking up some rays from their barn door as they breathed in the promise of spring. Their view was rather nice as well. The scene was just off one of the narrow count ...
  • Hope ran out, officers declared dead
    Swedish police continued searching for and collecting the remains of a Norwegian military cargo plane and its crew of five Norwegian officers on Sunday, after wreckage was discovered earlier in the weekend and the aircraft was confirmed to have crashed into a mountainside in northern Sweden. All ...
  • 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 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Flinders Ranges in the Spotlight – Autumn Seas ...
    Twice a year, over the school holidays in the Australian states of South Australia and Victoria, the Flinders Ranges comes alive, with a series of activities aimed to provide an insight into this majestic, yet environmentally sensitive area. Originally, the seasonal events were organised by the ...
  • 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 ...

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& ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    after the attack!! they look calmStatistics: Posted by superzebra — Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:36 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Prosecutor Michel Valet said the father, a teacher aged 30, was shot dead along with his sons aged just three and six. He said another child aged between eight and 10 years old was also killed, while a 17-year-old was seriously injured. Mr Valet described a chilling scene. "He shot at every ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    bluejelly wrote: I disagree with most of the article. I think Charles runs the best show out there. There is nothing the author of the article was able to pin directly on Charles, instead he used labels such as nihilism to categorize him and then brought up negative connotations about them hopi ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Christian scholar Michael Hoffman's reply to Dr. Asaf Yedidya's lecture at Oxford University, "Nazi Attacks on the Talmud: Anti-Semitic Readings of Jewish Texts." A video of this lecture was online as of March 18, 2012 on the website: http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_ ... -the- ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Zimmerman probably thought that the boy was a Palestinian, and that no one would care. Also Katusha rockets and holocaust. And did you check out Mary Cutcher, that anti-semitic witness with the short blond hair? I would like her to ID my perp, if you know what I mean...Statistics: Posted by C ...

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 ...
  • Unusual Pine Beetle Breeding Could Explain Tre ...
    A new study has found that some populations of mountain pine beetles are producing two generations of tree-killing offspring each year, a phenomenon that may help explain the scale of damage being done to vast tracts of lodgepole and ponderosa pines across western North America. After observing ...
  • Young People Showing Less Interest in Green Is ...
    A new study says that young people have become increasingly less interested in the environment and conservation issues over the last four decades. In an analysis of two longstanding surveys of U.S. high school seniors and college freshmen, researchers found that today’s generation of so-called M ...
  • China’s Wind Energy Capacity Reached Record Le ...
    China installed a record 18,000 megawatts of new wind energy in 2011, boosting its total capacity to nearly 63,000 megawatts and widening its lead in the global wind energy sector, according to the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). The U.S., which was passed by China for total wind capacity, install ...

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

  • Kepco faces demand to exit nuclear power
    The city of Osaka should issue a demand at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s June shareholders' meeting that the utility get out of the nuclear power business and rely instead on renewable energy sources, a joint prefectural-municipal committee has recommended. The proposal made Sunday by the joint ...
  • Noda tells Maehara to gain DPJ nod for tax hike
    Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Monday allowed Democratic Party of Japan executives to revise part of a bill to hike the sales tax, aiming to draw an intraparty consensus on the issue, lawmakers said. During a meeting with DPJ Policy Research Committee Chairman Seiji Maehara, Noda asked him t ...
  • Chief executive falls on Hong Kong's reputation
    Chief Executive Donald Tsang, chastened by the disclosure that he had accepted favors from Hong Kong and mainland tycoons, was on the verge of tears when he appeared March 1 before the Legislative Council and pleaded: "No matter whether you still trust me or not, don't lose faith in Hong Kong's ...
  • Thousands drill for nuke plant disasters in Fukui
    A nuclear disaster drill was held Sunday near Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga power plant in Fukui Prefecture to simulate public responses to reactor damage caused by an earthquake-triggered blackout. The drill was based on a scenario in which the plant suffers a serious accident that robs it ...
  • Diet told of interceptor response to N.K. launch
    Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka said Monday he may order the Self-Defense Forces to shoot down the North Korean rocket purportedly carrying a satellite next month if it passes over Japan. Tanaka said this in a Diet session, referring to actions the SDF may take in the event the rocket passes thr ...

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

  • IBM develops superfast optical computer chip
    Talking Points Memo: IBM has developed an optical microchip that can transmit data at an incredibly fast rate. The Holey Optochip, which is a standard silicon CMOS chip with 48 strategically placed holes for channeling light, can transmit 1 terabit of information per second. "That's fast enough ...
  • Parachutist prepares for record-setting jump
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Yesterday Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, jumped from a helium balloon at an altitude of some 21 kilometers over the New Mexico desert. In so doing, he became only the third person ever to free fall from such a high altitude, and the first to do so in 50 y ...
  • 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 ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Drought risks killing off British wildlife
    “Following the driest 18 months on record for some parts of the country, streams and rivers are drying up leaving insects, fish, mammals and amphibians fighting for survival. Newly hatched tadpoles of frogs, toads and newts are under threat while wading birds such as snipe, curlew and lapw ...
  • Olympics kept from going brown by watering can ...
    “Gardeners are also preparing to use “grey water” – domestic waste water – to help irrigate the million square meters of meadows, wetland and woods at the East London site. The emergency measures are being drawn up ahead of Thames Water’s hosepipe ban, which c ...
  • Water firms banning hosepipes lose 300m gallon ...
    “The seven water firms due to impose hosepipe bans are losing almost 300million gallons a day through leaks. The huge volume disappearing down the drain would be enough to supply the daily needs of 11million people. Two of the biggest companies involved, Anglian and Southern, are introduci ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • joined at the hip
    … What … you didn’t know America’ military industrial corporate congressional complex and “high-tech” were joined at the hip … HELLO … what cave have you been living in …?   DARPA director leaving the Pentagon for Google     Published: 13 March, 2012, 23:46…Reuters / Kr ...
  • America targets them in turn they target us
    … It’s all part and parcel to the “game” … America targets them in turn they target us … come on … get real …                                ...
  • WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THE MILITARY TO SAY …
    … Who is to say he was NOT ordered to KILL them … we don’t want to believe that is possible…why…?   What Led The American Staff Sergeant To Kill Innocent Civilians 03-16-2012  •  www.businessinsider.com  No one will be able to pinpoint exactly what made an American staf ...
  • if you have never seen this pyramid … wa ...
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  • given the enormous power exerted by corporate
    … And given the enormous power exerted by corporate interests … we expect EPA to do what…?   Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Lawsuit Brought Against EPA By Environmental Groups READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/gulf-dead-zone-lawsuit-epa_n_1346333.html ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Scott Reeder on One Woman's Fight Against Bloo ...
    Julie Crowe’s dream of starting her own business was stifled when a group of potential competitors pressured Bloomington City Hall not to give her a taxi license. In this small central-Illinois college town, Crowe perceived a need for the services she could provide driving drunken col ...
  • Atlas Shrugged: Part II Greenlighted, In Theat ...
    "It's a poetic moment that today [February 2, 2012] Ayn Rand was born 107 years ago and we are greenlighting Atlas Shrugged: Part II," announced producer John Aglialoro at Reason Weekend 2012, which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Aglialoro was joined by his partner ...
  • Five Ways Citizens United Is Making P ...
    After the U.S. Supreme struck down a host of free speech restrictions with its 2010 ruling in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, incumbent politicians, The New York Times, a crash of tenured law professors, and even President Barack Obama denounced the decision a ...
  • Nick Gillespie Discusses New ADA Pool Regulati ...
    Reason.tv editor in chief Nick Gillespie appeared on CNN's OutFront with Erin Burnett to debate trial lawyer Justin Leto about new regulations requiring private companies to install handicap lifts into pools, and whether this regulation would help bring equality to Amer ...
  • Is Jason Russell’s Hysterical Naked Madness Go ...
    Invisible Children activist Jason Russell’s butt-naked meltdown in San Diego doesn’t just give new meaning to the phrase "exposing child soldiers." It raises the question of how an obscure-to-most-Americans political issue will play after its most prominent spokesman has flamed out.  ...

Mercury Rising

  • Ray Kelly Prefers Beating OWS Protesters To Po ...
    Gregg Levine attended the six-month semi-anniversary of Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park yesterday. It was a day filled with fun, dancing, music and peaceful frolic — until the cops arrived (see also the videos he took, posted above): The mood in the park was light and celebratory when ...
  • Are the tips of those ears blushing? (Spocko ...
    Via bo in comments at Eschaton, Spocko gets named. Joe Garofoli, SanFranChon: The campaign to pressure advertisers to leave conservative Rush Limbaugh’s radio show after his misogynistic comments about a college student looks familiar – it was presaged six years ago in a similar effo ...
  • First Paragraph Of Florida GOP Legislator&#821 ...
    Even as ALEC’s legislators in Minnesota are pretending that ALEC’s just this poor little old impotent debating society, ALEC’s legislators in Florida are going beyond merely cribbing from ALEC’s model bills to dropping ALEC’s mission statement into them. Seriously, ...
  • Closer to home: The Mexican election
    Speaking of Upside Down World, there’s an article there by Paul Imison about the Mexican election that speaks to the problem we face in the US: Although over half of Mexico’s population lives in poverty (at least 55 million people) – with an estimated 12% in extreme poverty – it’s always b ...
  • Upside Down World: The Colony Strikes Back
    Thanks to Rights Action -> Quotha -> Honduras Culture and Politics for noting that Jan Schakowsky had gained over co-signers of a letter stating (in part) that: We are concerned with the grave human rights abuses in the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras and ask the State Department to take e ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Creating Social Synergy
      The following is from the new book Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity's Great Shift Toward the Age of Conscious Evolution, available from Shift books.   read more
  • Power to the People: Daniel Pinchbeck and Nass ...
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  • 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

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • Greek finance minister heads Socialist
    Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has announced that he will resign from his post after being elected to lead the Socialist party PASOK, as Greece heads into early general elections.
  • ‘Turkish troops must leave Afghanistan’
    The Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have called for the withdrawal of Turkish soldiers from Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
  • 'Israel using Gaza as military guinea pig’
    Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal has underscored the movement’s commitment to fighting Israel, saying the Zionist regime is using Gaza as a “guinea pig” for testing its missile capabilities.
  • ‘Israelis accept Iran not after N-bomb’
    Despite their saber-rattling, Israeli officials have generally accepted the US intelligence assessment that Tehran is not building a nuclear bomb, a report says.
  • France’s far-left stages mass rally
    Tens of Thousands of people have rallied in Paris to support France’s far-left, as their presidential candidate of the Left Front coalition, Jean-Luc Melenchon, gains popularity, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Nerve transplants wire themselves into host brains
    Embryonic nerve cells transplanted into a recipient brain survive, wire themselves up and can even correct a metabolic disorder in vulnerable individuals, scientists have discovered. Successful brai...
  • First seafaring fisherman
    The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East Timor. Early human migrants, including those who first set foot in Australia 50,000...

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