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Monday, March 19, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • The death of football in France ?
    Like warzone refugees, the best and therefore richest footballers in France fled as fast as their sports cars would carry them, pockets stuffed with cash from hurriedly emptied bank accounts and trailing agents and tax lawyers gleefully rubbing their hands. Quite a doomsday scenario, eh? Yet ...
  • Starvation in Japan
    On February 20, three bodies were discovered by the police in an apartment in Saitama city, just north of Tokyo. They were believed to be an elderly couple in their 60s and their son in his 30s. Each had apparently died of starvation, two months earlier. The rent had not been paid for six months ...
  • German clothing company names store after Breivik
    German clothing brand, which is understood to be famous with neo-Nazis, has caused indignation among officials in the city of Chemnitz in eastern Germany, after it opened a store with a name similar to the Norwegian fanatic, who killed scores of people in a callous attack last summer. The Tho ...
  • Sharp rise in people sleeping rough in UK
    The Communities and Local Government department (CLG) has reported a 20 percent increase in the numbers of people sleeping rough on the streets of the UK. There have been increases in rough sleeping in eight out of nine regions. In autumn 2011 when the last count took place, there were 2,181 re ...
  • Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine po ...
    In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. "Such an appointee would not stay young and attractive forever [because] a spinster lady can, and very often does, turn into something of a battleaxe with the pas ...

Independent - London

  • Five terror suspects killed in Bali
    Police have shot dead five men who were allegedly planning to rob money changers, jewellers and other targets on Indonesia's resort island of Bali in a suspected bid to fund terrorist attacks, officials said today. Related StoriesOrange crush: monks take over BangkokMost Japanese favour phasing ...
  • 'Four dead' in shooting at Jewish school in France
    A gunman burst into a Jewish school in Toulouse today, killing a teacher, his two sons and another child.Related StoriesPastor elected as German President'Several dead' in shooting at French Jewish schoolGerman public sector workers strike'Four dead' in shooting at French Jewish schoolSpain: 11 ...
  • Spain: 11 arrested in pimping crackdown
    Spanish police say they have made 11 arrests as they broke up two gangs that allegedly forced young Romanian women to work as prostitutes and arranged marriages for them to non-EU citizens. Related StoriesPastor elected as German President'Several dead' in shooting at French Jewish schoolGerman ...
  • Tonga's King George Tupou V dies
    Tonga's King George Tupou V, who gave up most of his powers to bring a more democratic government to his Pacific island nation, has died at a Hong Kong hospital.
  • Syria troops fight rebels in rare Damascus clashes
    At least three people were killed today in Damascus as Syrian security forces clashed with gunmen in an upscale neighbourhood of the capital that is home to embassies and senior officials.Related StoriesSuicide bombers kill 27 in double strike on DamascusCaptors free former US soldier – but no o ...

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Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Chavez Returns to Venezuela After Cancer Surge ...
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home almost three weeks after he underwent an operation in Cuba to have a lesion containing cancerous cells removed. Chavez arrived in Caracas on Friday night, the Associated Press reported. Surgeons at Havana's Cimeq Hospital operated on the 57-ye ...
  • Ex-US officials investigated over speeches to ...
    Speaking firms representing ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh Shelton have received federal subpoenas as part of an expanding investigation into the source of payments to former top government officials who have publicly advocated removing an ...
  • Israel Takes Iran Nuclear Concern to Partner China
    Beijing - Israel Friday took its concern about Iran's nuclear program to one of Iran's main partners, China, and hinted it could launch a pre-emptive attack on the Islamic Republic despite repeated calls by China to allow diplomacy to take its course. China, which has close energy and trade tie ...
  • King of Tonga dies in Hong Kong
    King George Tupou V of Tonga, who introduced democracy to the South Pacific archipelago after riots following his ascension in 2006, died in a Hong Kong hospital on Sunday, the Tongan government said on Monday. He was 63. Tupou V's younger brother and the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Tupout ...
  • Manitoba Heat Melts More Weather Records
    Canada - A spring-like heat wave is melting what remains of winter across southern Manitoba, breaking even more weather records on Sunday. It was 20 C in Winnipeg as of 1 p.m. CT on Sunday, well above Environment Canada's previous record high for this day - 8.8 C - that was set in 2000. In ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • About those US Republicans who campaign for Ca ...
    Something about this post by Alison has been bugging me. Front Porch Technologies president Matthew D. Parker was photographed working in the campaign office of Julian Fantino (Vaughan). And then, by his own hand on 20 April, 2011, in a Twitter thing: Knocking on doors for MP Rick Dykstra. Peopl ...
  • Who are minds behind the curtain?
    The anatomy of the Conservative's voter suppression campaign finds me asking some questions. I started wondering what sort of mind conceives of a massive voter suppression campaign designed to influence the outcome of an election, but remain semi-hidden within the fabric of campaign politics. W ...
  • And the attempt to repair the break
    As RossK points out, there is a serious attempt on the part of Conservative party operatives (and their selected tame journalists) to contain the election fraud issue to Guelph. In short, the theory that it was a "rogue" caller and nothing else happened. From comments in this post Alison reminds ...
  • The Shattering
    You could make book that there are a lot of phones busy and nobody is sending anybody to a non-existent voting place. But that's what's being discussed. Ian Brodie, Harpers chief of staff from 2006 to 2008, had this to add to the voter suppression file: Something seems to have gone on, on a sca ...
  • Concern is spreading . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Cost Of Health ...
    Right-wing media are falsely claiming that a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the cost of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has doubled since CBO's estimate in 2010. In fact, CBO's analysis actually showed that the insurance coverage provisions of the health care la ...
  • Ignoring Critics, Right-Wing Media Defend NYPD ...
    Right-wing media have defended the New York Police Department's (NYPD) surveillance of American Muslims throughout the Northeast, engaging in anti-Muslim rhetoric and dismissing concerns of civil rights groups while doing so. But law enforcement experts have said that the program has a "negativ ...
  • Fox Defends Texas' Voter ID Law With Fraud
    Fox News and Fox Business have leaped to the defense of Texas' voter ID law after the Justice Department moved to prevent its implementation, saying that the legislation violated the Voting Rights Act. Fox's coverage has been filled with false and misleading claims. To learn about how Fox simi ...
  • "Feminazi": The History Of Limbaugh's Trademar ...
    When Rush Limbaugh first began using the term "feminazi" in the 1990s, he said that it described "a specific type of feminist" and that there were "probably no more than 25 of them." However, since then, he has used the term as a broader slur to attack feminists, pro-choice activists, and progr ...
  • Experts Commend North Korea Deal That Right-Wi ...
    Experts on Korea and U.S. national security have commended a recent deal between the United States and North Korea on nuclear testing as "a positive development" and an indication that the U.S. has "turned a new page with the North Koreans." Nevertheless, conservative media are attacking the de ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Will Yale's Singapore Venture Advance Liberal ...
    Some societies in Asia may be receptive to a seed of liberal education being sown by universities such as Yale. Some Asian societies might nourish liberal education's understandings of ordered liberty and democratic deliberation better than we're doing in the United States. But that's preci ...
  • Video: What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks!
    What Rush Limbaugh REALLY thinks! Why Rush Limbaugh really apologized to Sandra Fluke.
  • Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
    I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...
  • But What Exactly Is Green Manufacturing?
    When most people think of green manufacturing jobs, they think of multi-billion-dollar investments in plants making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars or photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines for smartening grids. They fear, not without reason, that jobs in such plants will star ...
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  • ACT and other organizations sign on to comment ...
    Last week, Public Citizen filed comments that had been developed with other Alliance for Clean Texas (ACT) partners.  Since we filed our comments, the TCEQ agreed to  extend the  comment period.  We have simple comments in an earlier blog for citizens to submit, but if you want more detailed com ...
  • US Senate rejects GOP measure to build Keyston ...
    According to CNN, the Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure Thursday that would have bypassed the Obama administration’s current objections to the Keystone XL pipeline and allowed construction on the controversial project to move forward immediately. Fifty-six senators vo ...
  • Fukushima Anniversary Action in Austin, TX
    This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Our thoughts and prayers will be with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese still living in contaminated areas. There are anniversary actions across the U.S. and entire world this weekend. You can find a list of many of ...
  • Tell TCEQ grading polluters on a curve doesn’t ...
    The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality is the second largest environmental agency in the world—with a budget to match. Help hold TCEQ accountable for taxpayer’s interests and stop them from implementing rules that favor polluting businesses. Read our press release (Press Release – ...
  • Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hear ...
    Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections.  In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affect ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO filmed at air show in Chile
    A strange fast-moving object is seen in the background during an acrobatic display at an air show. The footage taken at El Bosque Air Force Base promp...
  • Flower blooms once in 40 years
    The Agave franzosinii takes four decades to produce a flower and then dies shortly afterwards. Staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew were intrigue...
  • Homeopathy 'biologically implausible'
    Leading researchers have warned that homeopathy is not only ineffective but potentially dangerous. Homeopathy involves the use of remedies produced by...
  • The end of modern medicine as we know it ?
    The World Health Organisation has claimed that antibiotic resistant bacteria could cause a global crisis. The warning centers around concerns that bac...
  • Man unable to stop laughing for two years
    Huug Bosse from Denmark was unable to stop laughing after undergoing a hip operation two years ago. His long suffering wife has found his non-stop hys...

Grassroots

  • Voices from International Women’s Day
    haiti-womens-march.jpg Waiting for my visa interview on a dusty embroidered couch at the Afghan Embassy in Cairo, minutes turned into hours. I had recently decided to spend International Women’s Day in the countryside outside of Kabul, to l ...
  • A Darker Shade of Green Documents Critical Per ...
    Subheadline:  Video reveals global resistance to forest-carbon projects Our friends at Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the ...
  • Brazil’s water and energy mega-grab
    2012_02_banner-14marco12.jpg “Anytime a new wall is built, hundreds of acres of forest and fertile land for food production is flooded. Anytime a new wall is built, a river dies. The death of the rivers is the end of our livelihood” -  ...
  • Nicaragua’s peasant women reach another milestone
    156.jpg After a successful campaign to protect women’s land rights, Nicaragua’s peasant women achieved another policy milestone. Along with urban-based women’s organizations, they lobbied the National Congress to pass a new women’s rights l ...
  • Women in Africa and Asia Take the Lead to Addr ...
    women_and_climate_change.jpg By Alicia TozourToday, Grassroots International honors International Women’s Day by celebrating the ongoing victories of our partners, grantees and allies in their promotion of a global social movement for women ...

Climate

  • Unusual Pine Beetle Breeding Could Explain Tre ...
    (Yale Environment 360) 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 tr ...
  • Use Nuclear Waste to Power UK, Says Top Scientist
    (Guardian) It will be impossible for the UK to meet its long-term carbon reduction target without reusing the nation's stockpile of plutonium, the former government chief scientist has warned.
  • Miss. Supreme Court Reverses Southern Co. Coal ...
    (Reuters) The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed approval for a Southern Co. $2.8 billion coal gasification project, saying the earlier approval failed to satisfy state law that it would benefit customers.
  • OECD Demands Immediate Green Action to Avoid ' ...
    (BusinessGreen) World leaders must take immediate and coordinated action, or risk locking the world into a calamitous temperature rise of up to six degrees, according to a new report published today by the OECD.
  • Met Office: Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Linked to Cold ...
    (Guardian) The reduction in Arctic sea ice caused by climate change is playing a role in the UK's recent colder and drier winter weather, according to the Met Office.

GreenBiz

  • Quantifying the corporate value of ecosystems
    For those trying to save ecosystems, it would help to know how much they're really worth -- in terms of tangible commodities like timber and clean water -- to corporations and economies that depend on them. This month, groups conclude a five-year effort to value the ecosystems in Eastern Arc ...
  • Hearst Tower in NYC, Perkins+Will in Atlanta e ...
    The world headquarters for the Hearst media company, the Perkins+Will Atlanta office and a vast Office Depot distribution center are among the eye-catching projects to earn LEED green building certification.  
  • Adobe launches new software to cut printing by 40%
    Adobe launches new software to cut printing costs and paper consumption. Here's how you can cut into the $217 billion that companies are estimated to spend on documents annually, all while saving trees and water.
  • Are Green Buildings Also Safer Buildings?
    Looking for shelter from a storm? Head to a green building. Greener buildings can be more resilient, according to a new study, which includes tips on how pros can make them even safer.
  • How eBay's Data Center Makes e-Commerce More E ...
    By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.

Duly Noted

  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
    Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
  • Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
    A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Booman Tribune

  • Get Ready for an Ugly Fight
    You heard it here first, about a year ago. Now the New York Times is coming around: For the first time in a generation, Republicans are preparing for the possibility that their presidential nomination could be decided at their national convention rather than on the campaign trail, a prospect ...
  • PA Primary is a Fraud
    I wonder what Republican voters will think when they learn that their votes in the Pennsylvania primaries mean nothing to the Republican establishment. "The Republican Party needs to put forward a ticket which allows us to attract swing voters, attract Democrats," [Republican Rep. Phil] Engl ...
  • Romney, Inc.: Here Comes the I.P.O.
    Philip Rucker of The Washington Post reports that Mitt Romney's campaign is making deals: ... Senior aides and surrogates -- hoping to seize a moment when even some unfriendly Republicans are beginning to see Romney as inevitable -- have spent the past several weeks making calls and visits t ...
  • We Can't Protect Ourselves Forever
    I've been thinking along the same lines as Rick Perlstein lately. It's not that conservatives are getting crazier; it's that they're getting more powerful. But I don't think Perlstein is all that convincing in his rebuttal. All we have to do is change the terms. The Republican Party has beco ...
  • Smug, Arrogant, Imbeciles
    When he said that the 9/11 hijackers weren't cowards, he lost his network television show. So, I can understand his sensitivity, but Bill Maher is making an ass of himself here: "I dont think Rush Limbaugh should be stifled. I dont agree with him, but he has every right to his opinion no mat ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Russia's Breathtaking Valley of Geysers
    In Russia's far east, on the Kamchatka Peninsula, lies a true gem: the remote Valley of Geysers, home to dozens of the active springs that lend the place its name. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Fun and Fascinating Facts About Food!
    Food is definitely something the whole world is interested in – so here are some fun and fascinating facts all about it! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Philadelphia's Transit System Is Built for ...
    Regional and local railways intersect at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. A tower next to the station provides convenient office space for commuters. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Linus the Long Haired Wonder Horse
    If you've ever seen the 1960s TV show Mr. Ed, you definitely know that a "horse is a horse, of course, of course." But we bet you've never seen a horse like Linus... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Burlington Acts to Protect the Jefferson Salam ...
    The Jefferson salamander received some much-needed protection in Burlington, Ontario when King Road was closed especially for its three-week mating migration. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • First warm day of 2012 = Days 1&2: OccupyMinne ...
    IN an entirely unexpected and spontaneous emergence of lulz, the first dry, warm evening of spring led to an impromptu occupation of Peavey Plaza on Nicollet Mall, with OccupyMpls (occupyminneapolis.mn) regulars holding it down into the night with two tents, sleeping gear, hot tea and snacks. Ex ...
  • Report: Simcity 5 finally under development fo ...
    I have been very, very into SimCity ever since I was little. Now, finally SimCity 5 is getting a proper treatment. PLEASE send me any beta builds, i will debug the shizzle out of them :D Until you can get your hands on this, use the Network Addon Mod in SimCity 4 for much more fluid road&rai ...
  • Let them eat cake! Republican State Representa ...
    IN an astoundingly offensive display of casual Malthusian freestyling, Representative Mary Franson compared supporting poor people with food stamps to feeding wild animals. The Republicans pulled the YouTube once the magnitude of their irresponsibility hit the intertubes. But the usual suspects ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Po ...
    EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC "Terrorism Enterprise" for great "statistical accomplishment" BY DAN FEIDT -- Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists ...
  • New Filez! BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the ...
    BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...

Daily Censored

  • All facts prove US War Crimes, there is no ref ...
    with 2-minute video here. War law and Constitutional Rights are central to competence in government, citizenry, and military. The US Constitution provides multiple protections of the first Unalienable Right of Life from government murder. The US Constitution is the very definition of what it mea ...
  • The Reality Behind Invisible Children, the LRA ...
    By John Reimann   Within 2 weeks of the first showing of Invisible Children’s Kony2012 video, some 80 million people had watched it and students in over 1200 schools across the US raised over $1 million for Invisible Children. Such icons as P Diddy, Angelina Jolie and Oprah pumped it and US ...
  • New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’r ...
    An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on Twitter. “Are you f**king kidding me?” she wrote. “I may just quit my job and home-school my daughter.” I wondered what on earth could be so terrible. I soon found out: the New York City Department of Education’s “Common Core–ali ...
  • Will the Greek economic collapse lead to priva ...
     Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in Greece has seen a steady rise within the last dozen years.  Below are some of the numbers. Prisoners in Greece Year   Capacity Population 1998 4,332        6,150 2005 5,584        8,72 2008 7,543        11,243 2009 9,103       ...
  • Some questions about the Obama – Cameron ...
    By Michael Collins What a lovely photo of the two well-heeled leaders of the free world. Previously, it was the American cowboy president and the supposedly left leaning Prime Minister Tony Blair. That buddy act helped drag United States into the worst foreign policy disaster in its history. (Im ...

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  • News you may have missed #696
    French spies to stage labor protest. James Bamford on the NSA's new spy center in Utah. Author of unauthorized CIA book gave proceeds to charity.
  • State prosecutors probe alleged plot to kill G ...
    Government prosecutors in Athens have opened a criminal investigation into an alleged plot to kill the Prime Minister of Greece in 2008, which was reportedly uncovered by Russian intelligence.
  • News you may have missed #695
    Spies meet over Syrian crisis. Gaddafi contributed €50m to Sarkozy election fund. US relations on the agenda for Pakistan's new spy chief.
  • Irish government ‘refused cooperation’ with pr ...
    The government of the Republic of Ireland allegedly ordered senior police officials not to assist an investigation into a 1979 attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army that killed 18 British soldiers in the UK province of Northern Ireland.
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    India's spy satellite to be launched in April. GCHQ staff could risk prosecution for war crimes. Turf war between Turkey's top spy and police commander?

War is a Crime.org

  • Washington Preparing for More War
      Washington Preparing for More War   by Stephen Lendman   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.   read more
  • Rape and Murder in Afghanistan
      Rape and Murder in Afghanistan   by Stephen Lendman   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.   read more
  • Thanks for Nothing
    By Waliullah Khan   I just want to thank United States Of America_ The Land Of Free_ and Mr. P. Barack Obama for each bullet you shot in my country, each child or woman or man you killed.  You bomb our weddings and you were sorry.  You pissed on our dead bodies and again you wer ...
  • D.P Lindorff Sr. Dies: Radar Pioneer, Engineer ...
      By Dave Lindorff, Jr.   David Plimpton Lindorff, an occasional contributor to ThisCantBeHappening! and perhaps the last survivor of the Radiation Lab, a top-secret World War II project in Cambridge, MA that led to the placing of radar on aircraft, died March 15 in Storrs, CT at the a ...
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Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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  • ‘Mossad, CIA agree Iran has yet to decid ...
    Israel’s intelligence services agree with American intelligence assessments that there is not enough proof to determine whether Iran is building a nuclear bomb, according to a report published Sunday in the New York Times. The newspaper said that senior American officials believe there is little ...
  • The Whistle-Blower Raphsody in Asia Minor
    By Les Visible The most powerful weapon in the hand of the villains de jour, is leverage. It’s leverage that has made these recent wars possible and what is fueling the drive for what is planned. It is leverage that accounts for the emergent police state; the ongoing economic crises, the b ...
  • Obama agency rules Pepsi’s use of aborte ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff The Obama Administration has given its blessing to PepsiCo to continue utilizing the services of a company that produces flavor chemicals for the beverage giant using aborted human fetal tissue. LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Obama Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ...
  • Kony 2012 Cuts the Chuck E. Cheese
    By Les Visible The gates of Hell seem to have opened and cartoon devils are tripping all over the landscape looking for banker booty and backdoor, politician romance. They had it all where they wanted it. They have never in the history of the world had such a large body of terminally stupid, del ...
  • Don’t want to be groped by the TSA or go throu ...
    Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Sturmabteilung-like Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is run by the atrocious Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is arguably one of the single most destructive plagues on America. With their thoroughly reprehensible “gr ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Kengo Kuma & Associates’ Outdoor Training Cent ...
    Read the rest of Kengo Kuma & Associates’ Outdoor Training Center Melds Into the Japanese Hillside Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: a-frame, Ando Momofuku Centre, eco center, Japan green building, Kengo Kuma + Associates, Koromo, natural cooling, outdoor cente ...
  • 10 Must-See Design Destinations Around The World
    If you’re daydreaming about your next vacation, and looking for something a little off the beaten path, why not consider embarking on a global design tour? The world is full of inspiring destinations for travelers wanting to recharge in the face of human creativity, and you only need to do ...
  • Lies About Apple Factory Abuse Leads to This A ...
    On Friday This American Life, a popular public radio show show, announced a retraction after details about a story on Apple factory abuse in China turned out to be full of fabrications. In January, the show, hosted by Ira Glass, broadcast a story narrated by performance artist and monologuist Mi ...
  • Designs Unveiled for Section 3 of the High Line!
    Initial design plans have been revealed for the third and final section of everyone’s favorite elevated park, New York City’s High Line! At a community meeting last night, Friends of the High Line unveiled several colorful renderings from architects James Corner Field Operations and  ...
  • Follow Ecouterre on Pinterest for Eco Fashion ...
    Eco fashionistas have been able to get their fill of the latest green fashions on Inhabitat’s “Sustainable Style” Pinterest board, but now our eco-fashion sister site Ecouterre has launched a Pinterest account to call its own. From cruelty-free clothing and sustainable textiles to all-natu ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | 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.

PakAlert

  • Obama Executive Order: Peacetime Martial Law!
    This Executive Order was posted on the WhiteHouse.gov web site on Friday, March 16, 2012, under the name National Defense Resources Preparedness. In a nutshell, it's the blueprint for Peacetime Martial Law and it gives the president the power to take just about anything deemed necessary for "N ...
  • Brent At $126 As Israel Security Cabinet Votes ...
    Looking at the tranquil sea that is the S&P one may be forgiven to ignore the rapid intraday surge in Brent which was up over $3 in a few hours, approaching $126 once again. But why? After all the FOMC minutes were oh so very slightly hawkish, and not to mention that the Fed's scribe Hilsen ...
  • The Vetting – Holder 1995: We Must ‘Brainwash’ ...
    Breitbart has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."
  • This Is The Video Obama Banned Mainstream Medi ...
    This is HUGE! I believe this story is on the level of the JFK Assassination, and even 9/11. This...is...HUGE! Obama is clearly destroying our nation, our civil rights, and even leading us into multiple Wars. Essentially, he's finishing what Bush started. I'm a fan of neither one of these guys. T ...
  • Unites States freezes $7.5M of Hezbollah, Hama ...
    The United States' economic war against terror intensifies:A recent report submitted to Congress reveals the US Treasury has frozen assets and accounts worth millions belonging to countries and organizations on the State Department's terror list.

Andy Worthington

  • As Armed Police Turn Up At A Peaceful Protest ...
    Is this really necessary? On Saturday afternoon, during a peaceful protest by several hundred people who had braved the poor weather to campaign outside the Department of Health on Whitehall against the Tory-led coalition government’s despised NHS reform bill, armed police — with mac ...
  • The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the US-UK Sp ...
    Yesterday, I was pleased to be invited to discuss the “special relationship” between the US and the UK on Russia Today, which was timely, of course, as David Cameron was visiting Barack Obama, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to discuss how the “special relationship,&# ...
  • Four Days Left to Save the NHS: Petitions, Pro ...
    Time is running out. As I have been explaining throughout this week, it would be great if there was a huge turnout at Saturday’s protest against the Tory-led coalition’s butchering of the NHS. which may be on the statute books by Tuesday without further concerted effort. So please, i ...
  • Guantánamo and Recidivism: The Media’s O ...
    Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the CIA and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, issued a two-page unclassified summary, entitled, “Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba” (PDF) ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Kentucky Supreme Court Upholds SPLC’s Verdict ...
    Ron Edwards has seen his once-sprawling Imperial Klans of America (IKA) dwindle to nearly nothing since the Southern Poverty Law Center won a $2.5 million verdict against him and a lieutenant in 2008. Now, Edwards sits in a federal prison on unrelated gun and drug charges. This week, he got more ...
  • Extremist Former SCV Commander’s Business Raid ...
    Yesterday evening, Secret Service agents raided former Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Commander Ron Wilson’s business. They seized silver, files and computers from Atlantic Bullion & Coin, according to the Anderson, S.C., Independent Mail. The agents also seized items from his daughter A ...
  • ‘God Hates Fags’ Church Preparing Ad for Limba ...
    Guess who’s knocking on Rush Limbaugh’s door as his advertisers flee like rats from a sinking ship? It’s the people behind the infamous GodHatesFags website — the Westboro Baptist Church, the most notorious gay-bashing group in America — and they’re ready to step in to keep the embattled Limbaug ...
  • Extremist Who Once Led SCV Accused of Violatin ...
    Ron G. Wilson, a former national commander of the Southern heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) who appointed several extremists to the group’s governing boards and oversaw a purge of anti-racist members, has been accused by the South Carolina attorney general of defrauding investor ...
  • Tennessee House Falls Victim to ‘Agenda ...
    In a new sign of antigovernment extremism creeping into the political mainstream, the Tennessee House of Representatives will vote tomorrow on a resolution condemning Agenda 21, a non-binding United Nations plan for sustainable development. In the world of far-right extremists, Agenda 21 is demo ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • The Hidden Benefits of DIY [DIY]
    When we repair or make our own items there are obvious benefits such as money we didn't have to shell out to repairmen or skilled artisans, but there are also many hidden benefits such as transferable skills, inspiring your children to try pro ...
  • DIY Overhead Camera Stand [Photography]
    If you take lots of photographs of small items, you mind find it easier if you had a stand to take steady overhead shots. Instructables user vkoudymov designed this wooden unipod to inexpensive do the job which is easy to make as long as you h ...
  • Is there a free way to watch the NCAA tourname ...
    Is there a free way to watch the NCAA tournament on an iPad? Anyone know of any good free sites that will help with studying/practicing EMT skills? I am considering getting a smart phone, but not sure I really want an iPhone. I'm on the ...
  • Replicate Broken Appliance Parts with a 3D Pri ...
    If you repair your own appliances you know that success or failure can often hinge on whether or not you can find small plastic or metal parts that may no longer be produced. Finnish hacklab site P0RV00 H4CKLAB was able to successfuly replicat ...
  • Blend a Whole Lemon Into Lemonade
    One of summer's favorite tastes is homemade freshly squeezed lemonade. You can make an easy and quick lemonade by cutting a lemon into eight slices, removing the seeds, and then add the lemon slices, some water, and the sweetener of your choi ...

Water Privatization

  • Water sector reforms will not be the end of wa ...
    March 14, 2012. Senator Edgardo J. Angara underscored that proposed reforms to the water sector will not result in the outright dismantling or blanket privatization of the country's water districts. Angara, Chair of the Senate sub-Committee on Water, said that these reforms will in fact bols ...
  • Renewed Students Protest in Chile's Capita ...
    SANTIAGO DE CHILE: Special Police Forces (Carabineros) attacked with water cannons and teargas at thousands of students demonstrating in the capital here against the privatization of education.
  • Richwood eyes utility privatization By LINDSAY ...
    Looks at selling water, sewer operations Richwood Village Council members unanimously approved a letter of intent to investigate the possible sale of the village water and sewer systems to Aqua Ohio Inc.
  • Lawmakers mum as Asheville water decision nears
    RALEIGH — State legislators set to make a key decision on control of Asheville’s water system kept opinions guarded Wednesday — though one member said it was important that Buncombe County had a stake in the waterworks that serve 125,000 people in and around the city.
  • Lawmakers mum as Asheville water decision nears
    RALEIGH — State legislators set to make a key decision on control of Asheville’s water system kept opinions guarded Wednesday — though one member said it was important that Buncombe County had a stake in the waterworks that serve 125,000 people in and around the city.

Guardian

  • Apple plans $10bn share buyback: live coverage
    First time the company has paid a dividend since 1995, and marks turning point for Apple, which has argued it needed its cash to fund supplies for its latest gadgets10.19am: So we are wrapping this up now. To sum up Apple has announced a $10 billion share buyback and its first dividend since 199 ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Portugal bailout fears grow
    • Pimco claims Portugal will need a second aid deal • Evangelos Venizelos elected Pasok leader • Greek PM: 'silent majority' support euro membership • Greek debt insurance auction underway • How the CDS auction works • Today's agenda2.14pm: The big question now in Greece is who will replace Veni ...
  • NHS reforms live: crunch day in the House of Lords
    Live coverage as peers get their last chance to scrutinise the health bill, which has been in parliament for more than a year2.09pm: Andy Burnham has been given three minutes at 330pm to make the case before fellow parliamentarians over whether tomorrow's Commons debates can include a discussion ...
  • News of the World 'jeopardised Ipswich murder ...
    Leveson inquiry told paper hired former special forces soldiers to follow police surveillance team hunting for serial killerThe News of the World "jeopardised" the hunt for the Ipswich serial killer in 2006 after it hired former special forces soldiers to follow a police surveillance team tracki ...
  • Cameron faces battles on two fronts over infra ...
    Plans to simplify planning laws and consult on new airport in south-east set to anger both Tory traditionalists and Lib DemsDavid Cameron has set the scene for battles with both Tory traditionalists and Liberal Democrats by pledging to take bold action to build up Britain's infrastructure.In a s ...

McClatchey

  • Report: South Carolina government is ripe for ...
    Government is ripe for corruption, according to 50-state assessment. South Carolina is among the states most ripe for corruption because of government secrecy, weak ethics enforcement, little disclosure of legislators'Click to Continue »
  • Former Lewis-McChord soldiers weigh in on Bales
    Two former Stryker soldiers who've gone on multiple combat deployments and dealt with the trauma that can follow them offer divergent perspectives about whether such experiences could have played a…Click to Continue »
  • Mourning Pope Shenouda III, Egypt's Coptic Chr ...
    Thousands of Egyptian Christians converged on a landmark cathedral here Sunday to bid farewell to Coptic Pope Shenouda III, a protector and father figure to an ancient minority that's now…Click to Continue »
  • Is Lewis-McChord really 'most troubled base in ...
    Some have connected the March 11 massacre by a U.S. soldier to other problems at the base south: a record number of suicides, several investigations into the treatment of soldiers…Click to Continue »
  • Massachusetts Senate hopefuls Brown and Warren ...
    Massachusetts's hotly contested U.S. Senate race ? between a former Obama administration appointee and the Republican who won the late Ted Kennedy's seat ? took a comedic turn as the…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Osama wanted Obama assassinated so 'unpre ...
    Before being killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden ordered his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of US President Barack Obama as it would throw Ameri
  • Obama calls Karzai, reaffirms transition by 2014
    US President Barack Obama called up his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai Friday to discuss the process of transition to Afghan-led security while reaffirming its timetable would be completed by 2014, t
  • Tribute Paid to British Soldiers Killed in Afg ...
    Soldiers and well-wishers poured into the streets of an English town Friday in a pre-deployment parade for the latest unit of British soldiers going to Afghanistan. The deployment comes as NATO forces
  • Afghan-US Relationship Strained by Recent Events
    For 10 years the U.S. and its NATO allies have worked to establish good will as it battled insurgents in a country that has long been ravaged by war and seen foreign troops on its soil. But analysts s
  • Afghan Suspect Was Upset About Comrade's ...
    The civilian lawyer for the U.S. soldier accused of carrying out a deadly shooting rampage in Afghanistan says his client was likely suffering from stress after witnessing the grave injury of one of h

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Occupy EPA protest planned for March 30
    Occupy EPA is marching again. On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 12 noon, they will march from Franklin Square Park (13th & I Sts NW in Washington, DC) to the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (12th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Federal Triangle, Washington DC). There, at 1: ...
  • Washington Post's Joe Davidson asks federal ma ...
    The commissioned corps of the Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work on the cutting edge of federal research and policy on diseases, medical devices, public health, global warming and our environment. Yet, they fall into an exclusion from ...
  • DC Circuit Judges understand Convertino's appeal
    Attorney Stephen Kohn today presented oral argument on behalf of former federal prosecutor and whistleblower Richard Convertino (pictured).  Convertino is seeking reversal of an order issued last year by Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, DC.  That order dismissed ...
  • IRS resists using whistleblowers
    Whistleblower disclosures have helped the federal government make some of its biggest recoveries from fraudsters. In the Obama administration alone, the government recovered over $21 billion thanks to whistleblowers using the “qui tam” procedure under the False Claims Act. The govern ...
  • DC high court says there is no "safe harbor" f ...
    In a long-awaited ground-breaking decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals today held that an employer engages in unlawful retaliation when it adds a new demand for a release as a condition for concluding a consulting agreement. The case is Propp v. Counterpart International and LeLau ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Topping this week's "most insightful comments" list (by a large margin of votes, too) was an Anonymous Coward, responding to one of our usual critics making the bizarre claim that commenters who agree with Techdirt are really Google "shills." The AC took exception to that ridiculous claim: W ...
  • Tim K's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Normally I try to avoid writing, which was one of the benefits of going into computer science. However, I figured I'd give it a go for this week's favorite posts article. So first off, I wanted to start out with the post from Leigh bringing our attention to the great clip of Rob Reid. Rob does a ...
  • Bruce Springsteen, Another Pirate Remixer!
    We recently wrote about the fact that Michael Jackson copied the bass line for his famous song Billy Jean from Hall & Oates, who then admitted to having copied it themselves. Now, reader gort-o-matic points us to another legendary musician with a similar story. Bruce Springsteen, in his key ...
  • Maine Demands That The US Be More Open And Tra ...
    As the administration continues to be ridiculously secretive about negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, it seems that even various state governments are growing concerned about the process. The Maine state legislature issued a joint resolution demanding that the admini ...
  • UK Parliament Asks For Public Comment On Six I ...
    It appears that the UK Parliament is asking for thoughts from the public on six key policy questions around intellectual property. You can be assured that the large lobbying organizations will make their voices heard, but it would be great if others in the UK, who have a more modern and nuanced ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccines and Autism?
    The link Is undeniable. Parents researching the topic are discovering what these two words have in common.
  • How I Met Jenny McCarthy
    Jenny McCarthy’s Twitter account is named “mommywarrior” for a reason. She encourages parents to “do absolutely everything you can for your child, no matter what anyone tells you.” Here's how I met her...
  • The Ultimate Gamble: Do Childhood Vaccines Res ...
    Vaccine contamination includes Human DNA and Animal DNA. The big question is what does it do to your child?
  • Dr. Wakefield Comments After the GMC Recants; ...
    The General Medical Council (GMC) of the United Kingdom has cleared the medical flack surrounding one of Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s medical colleagues, Professor John Walker-Smith, and recanted their censure against him. Here is what Dr. Wakefield had to say...
  • Schoolgirl Suffers Adverse Reaction After Four ...
    A 14 year girl had an adverse reaction to one of four vaccines that she received against her mothers wishes.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...
  • Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
    I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]
  • More Revolutionary Than Thou
    On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The video is now up from our protest for the National Day for Prisoners. You can check it out here. Last Friday, anonymous took down The Geo Group’s website and replaced it with a picture of Mumia. I am so incredibly creeped out that corporations have been patenting the human genome. Excel ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Geomagnetic data reveal unusual nature of rece ...
    From the American Geophysical Union weekly highlights: Key Points Minimum 23-24 showed recurrence intervals of 9.0 and 6.7-d Historical geomagnetic activity data show that minimum 23-24 was unusual The heliosphere during minimum 23-24 had unusual sectorial structure Since the mid-1800s, … ...
  • Finally somebody comes right out and says it: ...
    To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers. Skeptics get scoffed at when we say the burdensome regulations that have been and have been sought to be imposed by the … Continue reading →
  • ‘Cap and Trade’ fails for lack of ...
    Well, duh. From the DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory New research suggests cap and trade programs do not provide sufficient incentives for innovation Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to … Continue reading ...
  • Sea Ice News Volume 3, #2
    In today’s report Arctic Sea Ice on the rise again, presently in the range of normal levels Antarctic Sea Ice is at slightly above normal levels Why is early satellite data for Arctic and Antarctic Ice extent referenced in the … Continue reading →
  • The climate of history – condemned to re ...
    Are you now or have you ever been a global warming denier? Guest post by David Ross Some have suggested that the Fakegate affair has been discussed enough. They are wrong. Peter Gleick is a minor figure in climate science … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Incredible 3D Medical Animations
  • Tortoise and the hare: New drug stops rushing ...
    The American Cancer Society estimates that 44,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed this year and that 37,000 people will die from the disease. These are not strong odds. A new drug, rigosertib, allows pancreatic cancer cells to rush through replication – and then stops them cold, ...
  • Gene therapy cures life-threatening lung infec ...
    A 16-year-old boy who was born with a life-threatening immune disorder has become the first patient to benefit from a new form of gene therapy. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London said the treatment had only a temporary effect but was sufficient to help the boy overcome a lung infe ...
  • Skin-Deep Immunity
    he smallpox vaccine was the first, and arguably most successful, vaccine ever put into practice, and it was scratched into the skin of individuals. With the invention of syringes and hypodermic needles, vaccination shifted toward administration directly into the muscle, under the assumption that ...
  • Immortal worms defy ageing
    Researchers from the University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is part of a project funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Scie ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Ruling Party Loses Vote in ‘Russian Detroit’
    A regional official who ran as an independent trounced a candidate from the ruling United Russia party during runoff mayoral elections in the city of Togliatti, a stronghold of the Russian working class.
  • Three Killed in Jewish School Shooting in France
    Three people were killed and two seriously injured on Monday when a gunman opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, French media reported.
  • Second Russian Custody Death in 2 Weeks
    A man held by police in Russia’s Far East was found dead on Friday without any traces of injury on his body, in the second custody death in the country in the past two weeks, a local investigation committee spokesman said on Monday.
  • Anzhi Urge Punishment for Samba Banana-Thrower
    Anzhi Makhachkala are urging Lokomotiv Moscow to find and punish the fan who threw a banana at Congolese defender Christopher Samba after their Russian Premier League clash on the weekend.
  • International air show in India
    The Third International Air Show, India Aviation 2012, is being held in Hyderabad, India with the participation of civil aircraft and aircraft equipment manufacturers from 18 countries.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...
  • Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
    Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country.  Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
  • Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
  • Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
    Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”
  • Concerning violence advocates and nailing jell ...
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I&#8 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Wisconsin Legislation May Strip Towns of Autho ...
    One of the few tools for Wisconsin citizens to protect their health and land from the hazards of expanded frac sand mining across the state could be weakened by a newly introduced bill in the state legislature.Click here to read this article
  • Tell WalMart to Reject Monsanto's GMO Corn
    There is growing evidence of health hazards associated with genetically modified (GM) food and feed, which ISIS has reviewed extensively over the years.Click here to read this article
  • Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Gulf Dead Zone
    Several environmental groups are suing the government to curb pollution of the Mississippi River with fertilizers and other contaminants blamed with creating a "dead zone" the size of Massachusetts in the Gulf of Mexico.Click here to read this article
  • GE Mosquito Makes Floridians Part of Oxitec's ...
    "The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District meets tomorrow to discuss the application from British firm Oxitec to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.Click here to read this article
  • California Farms Get Testy Over Water Quality
    California row-crop farmers may be required to test their private wells for nitrate, a widespread groundwater contaminant linked to over-fertilization. Click here to read this article

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Persian Gulf Militarization
    Military bases and Contingency Sites surrounding Iran. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is the U.S.Supreme Court going to give the Pre ...
    What say you? Submitted by Jaime Dough to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Other Terrorist Threats
    Sometimes everything just falls together in the news. Here`s the rundown on corporate war on the environment - and us Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What Nasty Surprises Await Our Warmongers in t ...
    Irans Sunburn missiles, acquired from Russia and China over the last 10 years, have the capability of creating a world of hurt for the US Navys 5th Fleet. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    The real causes of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Unsurprisingly, the story had been squelched. Submitted by Jo Patterson to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
    Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
    Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
    Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbia ...
    Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Fukushima Face Decades of Tainted Crops
    ShareThisFukushima Face Decades of Tainted Crops 18 Mar 2012 Farmers in Japan's Fukushima face years of additional losses as consumers continue to doubt the safety of produce from the region devastated a year ago by nuclear fallout, which may taint crops for decades. Almost 100,000 farmers lost ...
  • McCain suggests US not to quit Afghan war
    ShareThisMcCain suggests US not to quit Afghan war 19 Mar 2012 Republican Senator John McCain has suggested that Washington has no intention of leaving Afghanistan -- where it has been waging a so-called war on terror for more than a decade. McCain, a vociferous supporter of a large and long-dra ...
  • Executive Order -- National Defense Resources ...
    ShareThisExecutive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness (whitehouse.gov) 16 Mar 2012 Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contra ...
  • Afghan government questions one-soldier role i ...
    ShareThisAfghan government questions one-soldier role in massacre 17 Mar 2012 The US soldier who allegedly shot dead 16 Afghan civilians in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, have been repatriated to a US military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Sergeant Robert Bales has been acc ...
  • Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park
    ShareThisScores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti Park 17 Mar 2012 Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday night as police officers swept Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan and closed it. Dozens of demonstrators sat down and locked arms as officers moved in about 11:3 ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Alcohol in Afghanistan
    19 March 2012 There are reports that alcohol was involved in the Panjway 16.  There are also reports that alcohol was not involved. Since 2005, I've only seen two Soldiers truly drunk on missions during about three years with combat troops.  Both were in Iraq.  One Soldier was e ...
  • Sir Petraeus
    16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
  • Major RED FLAG: Military Cover-up in Afghanistan
    16 March 2012 Info just coming out that a 22-year-old Marine was murdered on 01 Feb, about 6 weeks ago, in another insider attack.  The military covered it up as if it were combat operations.  Lance Cpl. Edward J. Dycus of Greenville, Mississippi was shot in the back of the head by an ...
  • Libya Spot Report
    16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place.  I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...
  • Insurgents Used Cell Phone Geotags to Destroy ...
    15 March 2012 Here’s a battlefield safety issue that some people have been warning about –and others have been ignoring —  for a while now; an enemy using social media and cellphone geotagging to identify the precise location of troops on a battlefield. When you take a photo with your cel ...

The Killing Train

  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
  • An interview for occupy Toronto
    Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • US concerned as polling stations scrapped
    US officials are pushing Burmese officials to hold free and fair elections come April amid reports that polling stations are being closed in Kachin state
  • Suu Kyi says Chinese ‘threatened’ ...
    Opposition candidate reaches out to ethnic minority communities in northern Shan state and warns of attempts to stir animosity
  • KNU leader granted amnesty
    After being imprisoned last week, a Karen National Union senior official has been released from prison after being pardoned by Burma's president.
  • Donors and the development trap
    Burma's isolation from international development experiences means that donors approaching the country could struggle to build comprehensive, prioritised strategies
  • Karen border forces clash, officer killed
    A senior ranking commander belonging to a Border Guard Force was shot dead after being mistaken for a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army officer

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Report: US sending Afghan detainees to prisons ...
    [JURIST] The US has sent at least 11 detainees to a facility in Afghanistan that has been shown to torture prisoners, two human rights groups reported Saturday. The Open Society Institute of New York and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission [advocacy websites] alleged [AP report] that ...
  • Convicted Nazi guard Demjanjuk dies at 91
    [JURIST] John Demjanjuk [JURIST news archive], a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of being an accessory to over 28,000 murders as a guard at a Nazi extermination camp, died in a nursing home Saturday at the age of 91. Demjanjuk, who was born in Ukraine and later became a US citizen, was convict ...
  • ECHR: Ukraine must assure Tymoshenko receives ...
    [JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] on Friday urged the Ukrainian government to ensure that former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [official profile] receive adequate medical treatment [statement]. Tymoshenko, who was convicted [JURIST report] of abusing her pow ...
  • Protesters rally against Morocco rape-marriage ...
    [JURIST] Protesters in Morocco rallied Saturday to call for reform of a law that prohibits punishing rapists of minors if they marry their victims. Moroccan Penal Code [text, French] Article 475, along with provisions that allow judges to require marriage in situations of rape, has been the subj ...
  • Libya intelligence chief arrested
    [JURIST] Mauritania announced on Saturday that they have arrested former Libyan chief of intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi, who served under Muammar Gaddafi [JURIST news archive]. Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website, in Arabic], the International Criminal Court (ICC) [of ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israel Says ‘No’ to Iran War
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  • Beinart’s Buy Israel, ‘Zionist BDS’ Reverse Bo ...
    TweetThe NY Times op-ed staff has offered Peter Beinart a gift on a silver platter, with his very own essay marking the launch of Zion Square project at the Daily Beast.  As far as liberal Zionism is concerned, the pages of the New York Times are the gift that keeps on giving.  Naturally, there ...
  • Hebrew Wikipedia Caves to Threats, Deletes Rot ...
    TweetUPDATE: An Israeli reader notes that the Wikipedia “takedown” was preceded by an editing flame war between Rabbi Rotter and other editors.  After they refused to allow him to edit the article in the manner he saw fit, he threatened legal action.  They then took the article down ...
  • Speaking Tonight to Seattle’s Fellowship of Re ...
    TweetI’ll be speaking later today to the Fellowship of Reconciliation on the threat of an Israeli attack against Iran.  The event will be at Seattle ‘s Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 North 70th Street at 6:30PM.  If you’re in town, please join us.  I’ll be joined ...
  • Liberal Zionism on the March
    TweetThose of you of a certain age will remember seeing old movie newsreels like the March of Time, in which narrators would intone solemnly: “The Allies are on the march!”  That’s what today’s news from the world of liberal Zionism reminds me. Later this month, J Street ...

If Americans Knew

  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...

David J. Gregory

  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • LocalWiki Launches TriangleWiki
    LocalWiki is incredibly excited to announce that our second focus community, the TriangleWiki, has just launched. Check it out! The TriangleWiki launches with over 1,000 pages -- more than three times the amount that the Davis Wiki had at its launch. Interestingly, the TriangleWiki wasn ...
  • Introducing MapBox Streets, a New World Map Po ...
    We recently released MapBox Streets, a zoomable web map of the world that's powered entirely by open data through the OpenStreetMap project. Our main focus with MapBox Streets was to provide a beautiful street map alternative to the ones normally seen online, primarily Google Maps, and to make i ...
  • How SourceMap Reveals the Backbone of Civilization
    A longer version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media's blog. A recent lunch at the Center for Civic Media and MIT Media Lab featured a graduate of the program, Leo Bonanni, and his beloved SourceMap project. He channeled professor Hiroshi Ishii's description of the i ...
  • The Faces Behind Public Lab's Grassroots Resea ...
    This post was co-authored by Sara Wylie, a a Public Laboratory co-founder. Public Laboratory is an open-source software and hardware development community dedicated to producing low-cost tools for environmental research. The nonprofit portion of Public Lab grew out of using aerial mapping to ...
  • At SXSW: Poderopedia, Others Spotlight Civic M ...
    Citizen heroes who are recognized by their fellow citizens in Juárez City; how people from Panama fight corruption and denounce violence and crime; what we're building in Chile to show you who's who among the elite and their possible conflicts of interest -- all of these are part of the Latin Am ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Washington on Edge - Defanging the Lacey Act: ...
    No one likes a perennial naysayer. Or an inveterate complainer. Or a killjoy. Critics of the Overcriminalization Project at The Heritage Foundation—a project that enjoys support from organizations across the political and policy spectrums, such as the National Association of Criminal Defense L ...
  • Edge of Medicine - Cancer Cells Alert Neighbor ...
    Brain-tumor cells that are infected with a cancer-killing virus release a protein “alarm bell� that warns other tumor cells of the impending infection and enables them to mount a defense against the virus, according to a study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Can ...
  • North Korea's Nukes - North Korea Missile Anno ...
    North Korea announced that it would launch a satellite in mid-April, a provocative move that jeopardizes a recent diplomatic agreement with the United States. Despite Pyongyang’s attempts to portray the launch as a peaceful civilian satellite program, it would be an unequivocal violation of U. ...
  • China and the US - What China’s Leadership T ...
    While most sessions of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) have been little-noticed affairs, the same will not be said of the 2012 session. As this year’s session came to a close, outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao warned of the potential for chaos and cited the Cultural Revolution of 1966†...
  • Labor on Edge - Plan to Cut Benefits for Injur ...
    In the space of a minute, federal prison worker Jason Unwin was twice attacked by a furious, muscle-bound inmate on Dec. 21, 2010.Agitated after a disciplinary hearing, the inmate first punched one of Unwin’s colleagues in the face, knocking him unconscious. He then turned to Unwin, a correcti ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Obama Administration’s Pro-Islamist Syrian Opp ...
    By Barry Rubin Five months ago, I wrote here and here detailing how the U.S. government collaborated in creating an anti-American, Islamist-dominated leadership for the Syrian revolution. This leadership group, assembled by the Islamist Turkish regime as the Obama government’s subcontractor ...
  • CBO Report on 2013 Obama Budget:WE'RE SCREWED!
    The deficit in 2009 was $1.4 trillion.  Technically that year falls under George Bush's administration, but $800 billion was the stimulus plan passed by Obama and the Democrats. So to be fair, let us assume that what Obama meant by cutting the budget in half by the end o ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Obamacare Nominated for ...
    In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that two Obama signature programs have been nominated for major awards; Obamacare has been nominated for five awards and the stimulus for three. So cross your fingers and watch Comedy Central's Second Annual Comedy awards to see ...
  • MASS MURDER!! Wind Farms Killing Thousands of ...
    If there is ever a CSI for birds, the wind farms and solar panel arrays will be in big trouble Grassroots environmental groups, such as Save Western Ohio, are expressing serious concerns about the negative environmental impacts of wind power. The groups emphasize seve ...
  • An Interview with Thomas Sowell
    Economist, social critic, political commentator and author, Thomas Sowell is one of today's leading libertarian voices. A reformed Marxist, Sowell is a strong believer in limited government. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and his ...

The Real Agenda

  • Eric Holder: We Must ‘Brainwash’ P ...
    By JOEL B. POLLAK | BREITBART.COM | MARCH 18, 2012 Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to ”really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.” Holder was addressing the Woman&#82 ...
  • Why The Huge Spike in Oil Prices? “Peak ...
    By F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL | GLOBAL RESEARCH | MARCH 19, 2012 Since around October last year, the price of crude oil on world futures markets has exploded. Different people have different explanations. The most common one is the belief in financial markets that a war between either Israel a ...
  • Mossad & CIA: No Proof Iran is Producing Nucle ...
    RUSSIA TODAY | MARCH 18, 2012 Israel’s intelligence service Mossad has acknowledged, just like their American counterparts, there is no proof Tehran is carrying out a nuclear weapons program, a source in US intelligence told the New York Times. ­An unnamed former senior US intelligence offi ...
  • New Obama Executive Order Ensures Government P ...
    The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 16, 2012 Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United Sta ...
  • The CIA to use Home Appliances as Spies
    Agency director says it will ‘transform’ surveillance By ROB WAUGH | MAIL ONLINE | MARCH 17, 2012 When people download a film from Netflix to a flat screen, or turn on web radio, they could be alerting unwanted watchers to exactly what they are doing and where they are. Spi ...

Wind Watch

  • Federal renewable energy advisor told not to d ...
    Steve Black, the Interior secretary’s alternative energy advisor, must recuse himself from matters involving NextEra Energy because of a romantic relationship with the company’s Washington lobbyist. The chief architect of the Obama administration’s renewable energy policy has b ...
  • ‘Noise nuisance’ farmhouse is sold
    The farmhouse at the heart of a High Court battle over an alleged noise nuisance created by the wind farm at Deeping St Nicholas has been sold. The sale of the property at Grays Farm, on North Drove Bank, Spalding, has been revealed in Land Registry documents more than three months after a secre ...
  • Town of Wilmington appeals Deerfield wind turb ...
    WILMINGTON- The town has appealed the US Forest Service’s decision to approve the construction of 15 wind turbines on two ridgelines on Green Mountain National Forest land in Searsburg and Readsboro. In an appeal filed on February 24, the town claims the Forest Service failed to consider impacts ...
  • Gulf shore residents continue opposition to wi ...
    PUGWASH – Nearly 200 Pugwash area residents have registered complaints with Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau through the Gulf Shore Preservation Association’s website. Association chairwoman Lisa Betts said many more have sent letters of opposition directly to the minister, the premier an ...
  • Howard County schools scrap wind turbine plan
    Howard County School officials say they will lose out on nearly $3 million after parents petitioned against building a wind turbine in the area. About 250 residents presented the Eastern Howard School Corporation school board with a petition this week opposing installation of the turbine, which ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
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    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • No Deal Cut on Oil Reserves, White House Says
    “The White House disputes a news report that the Obama administration and Great Britain have struck a deal for a joint release of oil reserves to help keep down the price of gas.” (USA Today) What incentive do they have to free the market? FEE Timely Classic “Planning for an Em ...
  • Supreme Court to Ponder Limits of Mandates
    “Can Congress require Americans to buy broccoli? How about gym memberships? Or Chevy Volts? Those or similar questions are likely to be posed to the Supreme Court later this month as it considers whether requiring Americans to buy health insurance is a law with a ‘limiting principle.’&#822 ...
  • The 99% and the 1%
    The 1 percent as we know it is not purely the result of the freed market.
  • Paul Samuelson’s Hazlittian Origins
    Click to enlarge. Henry Hazlitt’s influence is easily seen in Austrian and other free-market circles. Reminiscent of the saying “It usually begins with Ayn Rand,” Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is usually one of the first economics books free-market economists pick up and truly absorb. But Ha ...
  • Foreclosures Surge Across U.S.
    “Foreclosure activity surged last month across about half of the nation’s states, as banks tackled a backlog of homes with mortgages that had gone unpaid yet remained in limbo due to delays stemming from foreclosure-abuse claims.” (Associated Press) The government gift that kee ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Definition: Social media
    I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...
  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

  • PM and President discussed possibility of tapp ...
    Prime Minister David Cameron said release of strategic oil reserves is "worth looking at" to quell rising fuel prices.
  • David Ross loses shareholder vote to take Cosa ...
    David Ross, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur, has lost the vote to take Cosalt private and declared the company will remain publicly listed following a shareholder revolt.
  • BP trial: in numbers
    As the "trial of the century" gets under way in New Orleans, with BP and some of its suppliers in the dock over its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, here are some of the numbers.
  • London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hija ...
    A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.
  • September 11: A Saudi family, a Florida villa ...
    Whether the September 11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they received support from a network of co-conspirators in the United States, remains one of the unanswered questions of the world's most devastating terrorist attack.

Ian Welsh

  • It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
    I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
  • On Stratfor
    Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
  • Justified Pessimism
    is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
  • Justified Pessimism
    is not, in fact, pressimism.  It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd.  We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes.  We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...
  • Sewage
    Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual?  Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
    An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
  • US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
    Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
  • NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
    A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
  • Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
    More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
  • Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
    Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

  • Floribec : Quebec in the Tropics
    Floribec has been part of the collective imagination of the Quebecois for nearly 50 years. Over time, a movie, a novel, advertisements and news reports played an important part in establishing the greater Miami region as the destination of choice for Quebec tourists. Floribec began as a res ...
  • The Use and Misuse of Glaeser's Triumph of the ...
    Appeals to authority are now the stock-in-trade of progressive pundits across a range of public controversies. In the face of popular discontent bubbling up from forums on the net and elsewhere, their fall-back posture is heavy-handed ‘expertism’. Policymaking is the prerogative of th ...
  • Rick Santorum’s Ugly Appeal to Rural Voters
    Not all of them are “clinging to guns and religion,” as Barack Obama famously said in 2008, but Rick Santorum has catapulted to the top of the Republican field by connecting with a bitter streak among rural voters. This is bad news for the Republican party and for rural America, which in ...
  • The Sorry State of American Transport
    We constantly read about the infrastructure crisis in America. I’ll have more to say on this at a future date, but it is pretty clear that we need to spend more money in a whole lot of areas: airports, roads and bridges, public transportation, and more. Yet it’s very easy to see that so ...
  • The Republican Party's Fatal Attraction To Rur ...
    Rick Santorum’s big wins in Alabama and Mississippi place the Republican Party in ever greater danger of becoming hostage to what has become its predominate geographic base: rural and small town America. This base, not so much conservatives per se, has kept Santorum’s unlikely campaign a ...

GM Watch

  • 'Green' economy or greed economy? Rio+20
    1.'Green' Economy or Greed Economy? Rio+20 Teach-in - London 2.Global coalition calls for oversight of synthetic biology 3.SynBioWatch to Hold Public Discussion on Synthetic Biology Risks - Berkeley --- --- 1.'Green' Economy or Greed Economy? Rio+20 Teach-in https://network23.org/invite/ Saturd ...
  • 'Green' economy or greed economy? Rio+20
    1.'Green' Economy or Greed Economy? Rio+20 Teach-in - London 2.Global coalition calls for oversight of synthetic biology 3.SynBioWatch to Hold Public Discussion on Synthetic Biology Risks - Berkeley --- --- 1.'Green' Economy or Greed Economy? Rio+20 Teach-in https://network23.org/invite/ Saturd ...
  • Resistant weeds according to Monsanto
    1.Resistant Weeds According to Monsanto-Less than Half the Story 2.How NPR Got It Wrong on Monsanto's Superweeds NOTE: Here are two responses - the first by Doug Gurian-Sherman and the second by Tom Philpott - to the recent Dan Charles piece for NPR: 'Why Monsanto thought weeds would never defe ...
  • Resistant weeds according to Monsanto
    1.Resistant Weeds According to Monsanto-Less than Half the Story 2.How NPR Got It Wrong on Monsanto's Superweeds NOTE: Here are two responses - the first by Doug Gurian-Sherman and the second by Tom Philpott - to the recent Dan Charles piece for NPR: 'Why Monsanto thought weeds would never defe ...
  • GM drought-tolerant corn over-promises
    NOTE: Despite all the hyperbole about the promise of GM drought resistant crops, it took until December 2011 for the first GM drought resistant crop to be approved for marketing anywhere in the world. That crop is a Monsanto GM drought resistant maize for cultivation in the United States.  By c ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • China: 30 Million People Live in Caves
    One for your Doomstead Ideas file folder. Via: Los Angeles Times: Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house. His progression made sense as he strove to improve his lif ...
  • Greece: Euro Free Alternative Currency Takes Off
    I just helped out some people here in New Zealand recover from a bad computer virus situation. They paid me with a one year old heifer that we’re going to eat! In terms of the time I spent on the job and the tangible value of that heifer, this represent the best compensation that I [...]
  • Scientists Create New Materials by Manipulatin ...
    Via: Stanford University: Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the first-ever system of “designer electrons” – exotic variants of ordinary electrons with tunable properties that may ultimately ...
  • Google Takes Down Russia Today YouTube Channel
    Update: RT Back Up on YouTube —End Update— Update: RT Tweeting: RT’s YouTube channel taken offline by YT administration, appears to be a mistake so far, follow updates here and on FB http://www.facebook.com/RTnews —End Update— Via: Russia Today YouTube Channel: This ...
  • Microsoft: Data Mining Your Digital Effluvia
    People seem to be cracking up and looking for technological fixes to what amounts to mental illness that was caused by their technology in the first place. Here’s how Becky chronicles milestones and other pleasant moments with our children. She pastes photographs to sheets of paper and han ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...
  • The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
    Rampant silver manipulation?  Rampant gold manipulation?  Rampant LIBOR manipulation?  Hiding MF Global client assets?  These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm.  The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...
  • 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not ...
    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  If not, then you are just like most other Americans.  According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today" than it was ...
  • 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place ...
    Would America be a better place without Goldman Sachs?  Of course it would.  The "vampire squid" of Wall Street does not care about the future of America.  Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients.  What Goldman Sachs is all about is making ...
  • Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Do ...
    All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday.  They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are takin ...

Desertification

  • Turning Deserts Into Forests (paper.li)
    Read at : http://paper.li/f-1318161034?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub A Hot Idea: Turning Deserts Into Forests by Al Bredenberg Every once in awhile, I like to devote this space to a way-out-there “green” idea that’s so mad it just might turn out to be a ...
  • Many thousands of people running out of food i ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95068/CHAD-Alarm-rung-late-food-running-out CHAD: Alarm rung late, food running out MAO, 13 March 2012 (IRIN) – Late Chadian government recognition of a food crisis, a slow build-up from aid agencies, and severe pipeline constraints due to closed Li ...
  • Combating desertification in Burkina Faso (Vid ...
    My newest video / Ma vidéo la plus récente : http://youtu.be/qF8AXyJDYiE 1988-12 BURKINA FASO – PROJET DE REBOISEMENT Mission d’évaluation du projet de reboisement du Comité Maastricht-Niou (Pays-Bas). Trois volets de plantations aux alentours des écoles de Goabga, Tabsega et … ...
  • Strong candidates for the production of advanc ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314101245.htm Fragrant New Biofuel: Researchers Develop a New Candidate for a Cleaner, Greener and Renewable Diesel Fuel ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2012) — A class of chemical compounds best known today for fragrance and flavor may one day &# ...
  • Development of crops better able to withstand ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315094457.htm Plants ‘Remember’ Drought, Change Responses to Survive ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2012) — Plants subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks to their memories of the experience, new ...

The Paper Trail

  • ANALYSIS: Lack of leadership at the top of cor ...
    As I was reading former Wall Street executive Greg Smith’s bombshell of an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, I mentally inserted the names of the big for-profit health insurers — two of which I worked for — in place of Goldman Sachs, where Smith worked until resigning on the day his column ...
  • Grading the nation: How accountable is your state?
    The tales are sadly familiar to even the most casual observer of state politics.In Georgia, more than 650 government employees accepted gifts from vendors doing business with the state in 2007 and 2008, clearly violating state ethics law. The last time the state issued a penalty on a vendor was ...
  • About the State Integrity Investigation
    The State Integrity Investigation is a first-of-its kind, data-driven assessment of transparency, accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms in the states. The result is a grade and score for each, and a ranking of all 50 states, along with analytical pieces about every state.     Unlike prev ...
  • New Jersey: Best score in the country
    New Jersey, contrary to its national reputation, is not all concrete and blacktop; nor is the Garden State one giant, toxic waste dump; and the majority of its 8.8 million residents are not bed-hopping, scantily-clad, tough-talking beach bums.And neither, then, is New Jersey the most corrupt sta ...
  • Georgia: Worst score in the country
    Georgia law books are chock-full of statutes written to curtail undue influence on political activity and public policy.So utilities and insurance companies can’t give to a candidate seeking an office that regulates them. Legislators can’t take political donations while in session. Politicians c ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Wear off from the bag, dressed chloe on sale i ...
    Wear off from the bag, dressed in a narrow lapels sleeve tight robes, trousers, foot waist boots up. read more
  • The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw
    JOBS d-sided 6 front A5.jpg Greenwich council's latest plans for the riverside from West Greenwich (by the Millenium dome) to Woolwich were published in February. It is no big surprise that devel ...
  • Italy: NO TAV against fascism!
    18629209_forza-nuova-notav-la-strategia-dell-0.jpg Last Friday 9th March, a small number of militants from the neofascist group Forza Nuova (“New Force”) protested outside the offices of the newspaper ...
  • White Supremacist Rally Shut Down!!!
    tumblr_m0ivhf3Rsj1qz8zwdo2_500.jpg On March 3rd, a white supremacist group tried to hold a rally in Duluth, MN to spread their message of hate. Anti-fascists locally and from around the state, along with members of the American Indian Move ...
  • Report on the recent South African miner's strike
    freesouthafrica.jpg Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a timeline and a bit of background info ...

Free Range International

  • Back in the USSA
    I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
  • The Gladiators
    Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
  • War Groupies
    This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...
  • THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
    Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...
  • EFP’s
    During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home.  The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines.  EFP’s were a big prob ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Election Process is RIGGED – There is no ...
    “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin -  Original Eomite Master of the Vote Hoax!   See http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm They have to make it “look official” – they want the &#8 ...
  • Election Process is RIGGED – There is no ...
    “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin -  Original Eomite Master of the Vote Hoax!   See http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm They have to make it “look official” – they want the &#8 ...
  • Christian TRUTH AND LOVE Shining Through in Ed ...
    Say hello to Miko Peled – a true Israeli HERO in so many ways!!!   If only his voice could be heard all over Israel and America.  If only he were Israel’s Prime Minister.   If only his honor and integrity could be contagious to all Edomite Zionists!!   If only!!   The Middle East, Ir ...
  • Christian TRUTH AND LOVE Shining Through in Ed ...
    Say hello to Miko Peled – a true Israeli HERO in so many ways!!!   If only his voice could be heard all over Israel and America.  If only he were Israel’s Prime Minister.   If only his honor and integrity could be contagious to all Edomite Zionists!!   If only!!   The Middle East, Ir ...
  • Netanyahu Speech at AIPAC – Sounds Like ...
    Listen to this blatant Edomite PROPAGANDA!!!!  Indeed, it is time to call a Duck a Duck Sir!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GnDbA5r0pc What the esteemed Prime Minister fails to mention, of course are these most salient facts: 1. Israel has nukes – reportedly the 5th largest arsenal in ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

  • HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren UE Bailout
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts Missouri Nuclear Agenda and Fair Energy Rates HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren Bailout Ameren is asking Missouri businesses and residents to bail them out for costs they have already incurred and plan to incur in the future which do nothing to produce energy or pr ...
  • Reduced Solar Prices-March Madness Solar Prices!
    March Madness Solar Prices! On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: March Madness Solar Prices!Our BEST PRICING EVER is now available for our industry leading Westinghouse Solar AC 235watt module, complete with an in ...
  • New Policy Brief- Middle Income Financing for ...
    Increasing Middle America’s Access to Capital for Energy Improvements While middle income Americans have historically invested in improvements that maintain and increase the value of their homes, they have seen an important source of financing – the equity in their properties – evaporate at the ...
  • Health Benefits of Plants in the Work Place
    Introducing living plants into your work place can actually have a large positive effect on your psychological and physical health. Keywords: Flowers, Bouquet, Volatile Organic Compounds, Pollution, Office Having plants in your work place does more for you than simply providing something pretty ...
  • CAD Deck Design
    Features: Pergola, Bench Seat, Topiary, and Hot Tub                           Computer Aided Drawing- Deck design by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The ICNC Role in the Arab Spring
    ICNC Founder Peter Ackerman (This is the last of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) In the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, Sharp and the ...
  • A Close Look at Gene Sharp’s Past
    (This is the fourth of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) There is no question that Thierry Meyssan’s 2005 article on Gene Sharp&# ...
  • Why the Government Funds the Peace Movement
    Stephen Gowans (This is the third of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) In my last blog I discussed Stephen Zunes’ strongly wor ...
  • The Seven Year Brouhaha over Gene Sharp
    Thierry Meyssan (This is the second of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) The current brouhaha over Gene Sharp was initially triggered by ...
  • Why the CIA Funds Nonviolence Training
    Nonviolent guru Gene Sharp (This is the first of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) One important aspect of the debate over  “ ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
  • Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
    Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
  • THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
    RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...
  • 'Gratitude'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...

Salon

  • Lessons from Sgt. Robert Bales
    BOSTON — The gates of Fort Leavenworth, Kan. behind which Sgt. Robert Bales is now being held are heavily guarded.Thick 19th century concrete walls, barbed wire and gun turrets protect not only the sprawling, historic military base and the prison where Bales sits in solitary confinement, but als ...
  • Arrests galvanize Occupy
    It's been six months since Occupy Wall Street inserted itself into public space and consciousness, so writers and pundits this past week have clamored to quantify and assess the movement: What has Occupy achieved? What next for Occupy? This semi-anniversary has prompted a demand for Occupy's Gre ...
  • The Illinois ties Santorum doesn’t promote
    One of the nominal "mysteries" of the 2012 GOP primaries is why ultra-Catholic Rick Santorum has lost the Catholic vote to Mormon Mitt Romney in almost every primary, while cleaning up among Protestant evangelicals. It's possible some of it reflects evangelicals' distaste for Mormonism. But it's ...
  • Occupy’s heiress
    “For Aristotle,” says Leah Hunt-Hendrix, “ethics is not a question about right and wrong, it’s a question about who you are. It doesn’t come down to a decision in an instant. It comes down to what kind of life you live, and what kind of life you live as a community.”That question is an essential ...
  • Surprise: Bush backs Keystone pipeline
    Unemployment is down, consumer confidence is up, the GOP is waging a crazy, unpopular jihad against contraception, and its presidential candidates get less popular as the primary season continues. So blaming President Obama for rising gas prices has become the party's new strategy.The problem is ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

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 ...

EU Times

  • US Test Of Massive “UFO” Sparks Panic In Washi ...
    An interesting report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) states that a test launching of a “massive” and “highly secretive” space-type aircraft by the US Navy sparked a panic in Washington State this past week after this crafts Magnetoplasma ...
  • Argentina thanks Chileans for supporting its M ...
    Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez has expressed appreciation to the people of Chile for their support in her country’s bid over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands. During a recent visit to Chile’s capital city, Santiago, on Friday, Fernandez expressed her gratitude to the Chile ...
  • Russians Beating Demographics With Polygamy
    When it comes to the dating game in Russia, it really is a man’s world. There are 10 million more women than men in the country, forcing some to turn to unconventional methods to find love. Even if that means a sharing and compromise. Andrey is a father of three. And a husband of three. [...]
  • Rick Santorum wants War on Porn Industry
    Land of the free and home of the brave, indeed — but if Rick Santorum has his way, America will soon have another assertion to stand by. The GOP hopeful is running for president and, if he wins, he’s pursuing an end to pornography in the US. If Rick Santorum wins the race to the [...]
  • Massive peace marches across Syria
    After one year of the crisis that has afflicted this country due to armed violence and terror, further added to by foreign reprisals, hundreds of thousands of Syrians across the country joined peace marches on Thursday (15th). Convened by youth organizations, students, social and political organ ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Apple’s $100 Billion In the Bank to be Discuss ...
    At some point in April Apple will most likely announce a new second quarter earnings record – it probably won’t be an all time record as Q2 FY2012 will not beat the Christmas quarter (Q1 FY2012) when it comes to sales and profits . But before that happens, the company will make an interesting c ...
  • Bryce Harper Assigned to Triple-A, Will Play C ...
    March 14, 2012; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; Washington Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper (34) runs in from the outfield after the third inning of the game against the Atlanta Braves at Champion Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Shirey-US PRESSWIRE One of the biggest debates for the Nationals ...
  • Syria tells UN envoy that armed opposition gro ...
    NOVANEWS ed noteâknowing a little bit about small arms myself, let me fill in a few details here that are relevant. Assuming this indeed is a Syrian rebel, what he has in his hands is an M16 AI, originally made by the US for its armed forces, but which is also used in other countries, NAMELY ...
  • Que viva Mitt Romney! Mitt takes Puerto Rico P ...
    In the land of my fathers, Mitt Romney snatched the Puerto Rican Primary away from Rick Santorum to further solidify his lead as the GOP front-runner. The Wall Street Journal reports Mitt Romney won the Puerto Rico Republican presidential primary contest on Sunday, winning all of the island's 2 ...
  • Trade Madness
    How about that Walking Dead season finale?  The first half of the season was terrible, and still not wild about all the inconsistencies and random changing of the rules on the fly, but at least we got a nice action packed ending. Oh, right.  Cards.  This is going to be a big one.  Get ready. I ...

Groklaw

  • Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
    Could someone hack your pacemaker? At TEDxMidAtlantic, Avi Rubin explains how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us about the dangers of an increasingly hack-able world. - Avi Rubin, TED Talks
  • oh the irony - creativity vs. GEMA
    lessig: The German rights agency GEMA has blocked my TED Talk in Germany cl.ly/222d2H0E1S1n2L... Hey GEMA: LAß MICH LOS! ted.com/talks/larry_le... - Larry Lessig, Twitter
  • Defriending Facebook: Intellectual Property An ...
    On March 12, 2012, Yahoo! filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. In the complaint, Yahoo! alleges that "Facebook's entire social networking model ... is based on Yahoo!'s patent social networking technology." A bold statement, since all but one of the asserted patents underwent exte ...
  • Danish trade minister and ACTA booster apologi ...
    Here's a clip of a Danish TV show discussing ACTA, which Denmark has fiercely advocated in favor of. It starts with the head of a rightsholder society and the Danish trade minister quoting dodgy statistics about the extent and cost of piracy, and then demonstrates that these statistics are paten ...
  • Disruptions: Time to Review F.A.A. Policy on G ...
    When I called the F.A.A. last week to pester them about this regulation - citing experts and research that says these devices could not harm a plane - the F.A.A. responded differently that it usually does. Laura J. Brown, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs for the F.A.A., said tha ...

WideShut

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
    The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
  • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
    It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...
  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...

frogblog

  • The Court and the Council: Interfacing Power a ...
    Last week I gave a presentation at a conference in London on the relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council. The meeting was jointly convened by Chatham House and Parliamentarians for Global Action. The reputed British think-thank and the global parliamenta ...
  • New (private) prisons for old?
    The Government’s announcements about prisons old and new are becoming more and more difficult to comprehend. We recently heard that despite a levelling off of the prison muster, and the government’s professed confidence that they have in place strategies to reduce offending and recid ...
  • Green Party urges moratorium on Fracking
    The Green Party is renewing its calls for a moratorium on fracking following a recently released European Union report ‘Impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction on the environment and on human health’
  • General debate, March 19, 2012
  • Nanny Goat Gruff does coercion, corruption, an ...
    In the confidence and supply agreement with Act, the Government agreed to open up employment services to non-governmental organisations (NGO). Usually NGOs are not-for-profit organisations. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett talked last month about the likely providers of these employment ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...
  • The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Be ...
    Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...
  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why are Kids Getting Pink Slime for Lunches?
    By Dr. Mercola What do you get when you combine ground up beef "trimmings" -- which are various beef scraps and cow connective tissues -- with ammonium hydroxide (basically a solution of ammonia in water)? Its formal name is "Lean Beef Trimmings," but it's being more aptly referred to as "pi ...
  • One of the Worst Ways to Eat Eggs
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  • Why this Single Organ Powerfully Dictates Whet ...
    Download Interview TranscriptBy Dr. Mercola The interview above features Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a Russian-trained neurologist with a full-time medical practice in the UK. She treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric diso ...
  • People Who Failed… and Then Succeeded Beyond T ...
    Some of the most famous names across the globe were once considered failures. Good thing they never stopped trying …
  • Fix These 3 Things and Most Health Problems Ca ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Robert Rowenis a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University. He also attended the University of California in San Francisco. He was originally board certified in both family practice and emergency medicine, as well as the American Board of Clinic ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • 'Police-state tactics.' 'Bunch of punks.' Read ...
    The demonstration against police violence that took place in Montreal Thursday night has elicited an enormous number of comments from Gazette readers online. Here are a few of them; you can read all the comments and post yours at montrealgazette.com.
  • 10 reasons to support the students' strike
    Two weeks ago, the undergraduate students in our school voted to go on strike; last week, our graduate students joined the ranks. This week students have been boycotting classes. As Concordia faculty, we fully support the strike. Here are the top 10 reasons why.
  • The halal affair: a shameless play on prejudice
    Mario Dumont is certainly no Pierre Trudeau, of whom it was more famously said, but it seems that he too haunts us still.
  • Readers tip chapeaux to Stéphane Gendron
    Wednesday's Opinion article by the mayor of the town of Huntingdon, Stéphane Gendron ("Outsmarting the language law") got a huge response from readers at montrealgazette.com. Almost all said they were gratified by Gendron's commitment to serving English-speaking citizens in their own langua ...
  • The universities must spend our money wisely
    Against a background of student protest over increased tuition fees, the Quebec government last week hit the university with a $2-million fine for paying a total of $3.1 million in severance packages to six employees. Education Minister Line Beauchamp said Concordia needed to be reminded that th ...

Food World Order

  • Sweet Victory: When The Science Says The Farm ...
    from activistpost.com: Some of the most powerful medicines provided to us are actually in our kitchen cupboard, “pretending” to be condiments, spices or foods. Some we are too familiar with to readily recognize them for their astounding health benefits, even though we may be consuming them dail ...
  • Billboard Dispenses Free Cakes To London Commu ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: First came the cupcake ATM, now there's a cake dispensing billboard.  With just a touch of a button the automated fixture distributes up to 500 Mr. Kipling cakes per day, along with a sweetened aroma to tempt London commuters, reports Ad Age.  The novel publici ...
  • Agricultural Markets Still Unbalanced and Unfa ...
    from http://civileats.com: Two years ago this week, the USDA and U.S. Justice Department began a series of joint workshops on anti-trust issues in agriculture. More than 4,000 farmers participated, and 16,000 people submitted comments. (Civil Eats reported on these hearings here and here.) Yet a ...
  • Monsanto Company Donates $100,000 on Behalf of ...
    from monsanto.mediaroom.com: On behalf of the National Black Growers Council (NBGC), Monsanto Company donated $100,000 to the Washington DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation Project, Inc. in support of the recently dedicated Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National M ...
  • How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Cl ...
    from theatlantic.com: From drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change.

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...
  • The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
    Rampant silver manipulation?  Rampant gold manipulation?  Rampant LIBOR manipulation?  Hiding MF Global client assets?  These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm.  The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...
  • 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not ...
    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  If not, then you are just like most other Americans.  According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today" than it was ...
  • 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place ...
    Would America be a better place without Goldman Sachs?  Of course it would.  The "vampire squid" of Wall Street does not care about the future of America.  Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients.  What Goldman Sachs is all about is making ...
  • Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Do ...
    All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday.  They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are takin ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • It's a Puppet! Cameron Revives Rothschild Road ...
    If it walks like a puppet and talks like a puppet, it's a puppet. Virtually every single corporate newspaper front page carries the story of Cameron plans to introduce private sector involvement in Britain's road network. Here it is in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the Dail ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 18th March 2012
    Apologies for a quiet few days here at the Clock Tower. We've been busy fending off the powers that be who want to allow all kinds of riff-raff to explore our back passages at £15 a go. They can shove off. Anyway, frivolity aside... There's an excellent, must-read piece in the Mail on Sund ...
  • Quote of the Day: 13th March 2012
    "Today, yet another British citizen is being sold down the river by the British Government. The US is coming for the young, the old and the ill and our Government is paving the way." - The mother of 23-year-old Richard O'Dwyer speaks out as Theresa May and David Cameron continue to subvert th ...
  • 'British Bill of Rights' scam: Commissioner re ...
    We hate to say we told you so but... how do we put this to you gently? We told you so. The 'British Bill of Rights' scam - designed to muddy the waters regarding our existing English Bill of Rights and drive us towards governance by the European Union - is exposed as a Parliamentary sovere ...
  • Obama facing impeachment for alleged "high cri ...
    An attempt at the impeachment of President Obama has begun in the U.S. after Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina filed a resolution which alleges that Obama has engaged in: "...the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress" which " ...

Facing South

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 15 Most Creatively Designed Android Apps: Part 2
    As I did promised earlier on, here is the sequel for the post that introduced you to some of most innovatively designed apps for Android. 15 more of them to be precise. Official TED app for Android was released just a day ago. It is a cleverly designed app with ingenious additions l ...
  • Oil Rush RTS Game Becomes Ubuntu's Most Downlo ...
    Linux is no stranger to high value paid apps. But gaming has always been Linux's Achilles heel. Things are slowly changing with the arrival of a number of top-notch games into Linux through Ubuntu Software Center. Software Center may not be an Android Market in terms of quality or quant ...
  • 10 Most Creatively Designed Apps for Android: ...
    Android Market aka Google Play is growing exponentially. Over 600,000 apps of all sizes and shapes already. But what are the apps that really stand out from a design stand point? Which all are the Android apps that comes with the most beautiful UI? Let's take a peek at 15 of the most innov ...
  • MComix: Really Good Comic Book Reader for Ubuntu
    MComix is a fork of now defunct Comix project. MComix aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements to Comix project since its development came to a halt in late 2009. MComix is basically a highly customizable image viewer designed specifically to handle comic bo ...
  • N7 Music Player for Android is a Thing of Beauty
    There are plenty of music player apps for Android. But one of the issues that plague most of the popular Android music players is the fact that, they all look more or less the same. There is virtually zero innovation on the UI front. N7 Music Player changes everything. It has got a unique, use ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Oil is pretext for the USA to go to war with I ...
    *Canada is the USA’s largest exporter of oil, supplying 25% of all US oil imports, admits EIA *49% of all US oil imports come from the western hemisphere *Only 18% comes from the Persian Gulf, Straits of Hormuz almost irrelevant to US oil imports *12% of US oil imports come from Saudi Arab ...
  • MORE TWISTS IN KAMPUSCH PAEDOPHILE RING COVER UP
    *Vienna State Prosecutors try to smear Werner Amon ahead of key report highly likely to recommend new investigation into Kampusch paedophile ring *Amon hits back, accusing state prosecutors of political justice, and threatening to sue them *Kampush’s father to bring civil case against Erns ...
  • Why do the Globalists keep trying?
    *Globalists latest ploy against me fails as miserably as all the others *Vienna state prosecutors forced to drop charges for embezzlement and harrassment against me because absolutely no evidence – something that should have been noticed at the start of the investigation, allowing me to su ...
  • Irish students suffering from narcolepsy face ...
    Students suffering from narcolepsy face into exams without back-up By Evelyn Ring Friday, March 09, 2012, Irish Examiner Children who developed narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine are facing exams with no supports in place, it has emerged. Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ire ...
  • Irish parents call for report on swine flu jab ...
    Irish Times – Friday, March 9, 2012 Parents call for report on sleeping disorder PAMELA DUNCAN and FIONA GARTLAND PARENTS OF children who have contracted the sleeping disorder narcolepsy through, they believe, receipt of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, have called on the Government to fur ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • ‘Mossad, CIA agree Iran has yet to decid ...
    Israel’s intelligence services agree with American intelligence assessments that there is not enough proof to determine whether Iran is building a nuclear bomb, according to a report published Sunday in the New York Times. The newspaper said that senior American officials believe there is little ...
  • The Whistle-Blower Raphsody in Asia Minor
    By Les Visible The most powerful weapon in the hand of the villains de jour, is leverage. It’s leverage that has made these recent wars possible and what is fueling the drive for what is planned. It is leverage that accounts for the emergent police state; the ongoing economic crises, the b ...
  • Obama agency rules Pepsi’s use of aborte ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff The Obama Administration has given its blessing to PepsiCo to continue utilizing the services of a company that produces flavor chemicals for the beverage giant using aborted human fetal tissue. LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Obama Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ...
  • Kony 2012 Cuts the Chuck E. Cheese
    By Les Visible The gates of Hell seem to have opened and cartoon devils are tripping all over the landscape looking for banker booty and backdoor, politician romance. They had it all where they wanted it. They have never in the history of the world had such a large body of terminally stupid, del ...
  • Don’t want to be groped by the TSA or go throu ...
    Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Sturmabteilung-like Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is run by the atrocious Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is arguably one of the single most destructive plagues on America. With their thoroughly reprehensible “gr ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Washington's Warlords
    When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
  • The Taiping Civil War
    In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
  • It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
    In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
  • America Agonistes
    The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...
  • The Color of Authority
    We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Flexes Military Muscle In South China Sea
    China Daily March 19, 2012 Actions louder than words ==== It is the US that is deploying additional warships in the South China Sea, and holding joint military exercises with countries bordering the South China Sea in an attempt to flex its military muscle. It is the US, which, like a playground ...
  • Gunboat Diplomacy: America Launches Persian Gu ...
    RT March 18, 2012   Gunboat diplomacy: America launches Persian Gulf surge The USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier is seen as it allegedly went “inside the manoeuvre zone” where Iranian ships are conducting 10 days of wargames in the Gulf, accoridng to Iranian officials. (AFP P ...
  • Herbert Read: Bombing Casualties
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Herbert Read Bombing Casualties: Spain Dolls’ faces are rosier but these were children their eyes not glass but gleaming gristle dark lenses in whose quick silvery glances the sunlight quivered. These blenched lips were warm once ...
  • Afghanistan: Defeated NATO Expeditionary Force ...
    The Citizen March 17, 2012 NATO-allied forces are losing the fight in Afghanistan By Evarist Kagaruki ==== It is inconceivable that unarmed young boys aged between 8 and 14 years, walking in a valley, would be any threat to heavily armed and experienced Nato troops. No apologies for the incident ...
  • Stop NATO news: March 17, 2012
    ==== Probe Team: Afghan Women Sexually Assaulted Before Being Killed Russia Calls For UNSC Probe Into Kosovo Organ Trade NATO Views South Caucasus As Its Territory Iran Crisis Growing U.S. Navy To Bolster Capabilities In Persian Gulf NATO Parliamentary Assembly President To Visit Azerbaijan ==== ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Bob Tuskin and Larken Rose Discuss Obama Marti ...
    The Intel Hub March 18, 2012 Bob Tuskin and Larken Rose take on the new executive order recently signed by Obama that many have claimed amounts to peace time martial law.
  • NRC Dispatches Augmented Inspection Team After ...
    Madison Ruppert | After a safety test at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, California (which we discussed in this episode of End the Lie Radio), resulted in a “significant issue,” the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has moved to send out a so-called Augmented ...
  • Executive Doomsday Order: Obama Authorizes Gov ...
    By Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com March 18th, 2012 “In a nutshell, it’s the blueprint for Peacetime Martial Law and it gives the president the power to take just about anything deemed necessary for “National Defense”, whatever they decide that is.” (The Intel Hub) While millions of people have been prep ...
  • Obama Implementing Martial Law Coup!
    The Intel Hub March 18, 2012 Alex Jones explains exactly how the new Obama executive order is different than and expands upon older orders. The new executive order now includes anything economic and is the beginning of the implementation of martial law. Video Description: Obama is a puppet of th ...
  • Suicide by Chainsaw? Huuummmm…
    The Intel Hub | From what it looks like this was classified as a murder and then retracted due to a 'suicide note' found.

FRS

  • “A Place in the City” — Docu ...
    journeymanpictureson Jun 14, 2010 More than a decade after apartheid ended millions of South Africans still live in basic home-made shacks. We hear from the inhabitants as they eloquently argue their case for real citizenship rights. The shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, began in 2 ...
  • “A Place in the City” — Docu ...
    journeymanpictureson Jun 14, 2010 More than a decade after apartheid ended millions of South Africans still live in basic home-made shacks. We hear from the inhabitants as they eloquently argue their case for real citizenship rights. The shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, began in 2 ...
  • Torture in America–The Gray Box
    http://vimeo.com/35551708
  • Torture in America–The Gray Box
    http://vimeo.com/35551708
  • “Capitalism: A Ghost Story” by Aru ...
     Outlook India MAGAZINE | MAR 26, 2012 edition Antilla the Hun Mukesh Ambani’s 27-storey home on Altamont Road. Its bright lights, say the neighbours, have stolen the night. Rockefeller to Mandela, Vedanta to Anna Hazare…. How long can the cardinals of corporate gospel buy up our prot ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
    I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
  • Thought Police within the so-called ‘Pal ...
    I depart by saying that any group of people, whether it is the disciples of Hitler, the Christian Zionists of America or the Jewish supporters of Israel, or the brainwashed false Muslims, I say loud and clear, any group that believes they are “chosen” by God and thus superior to anyone else, is ...
  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
  • No Fly Zone Over Palestine
    As Israel once again flexes its psychopathic tendencies, I feel the need to expose the hypocrisy of the west once more in the form of a picture.
  • For Love
    I just want to say, need to say, for the record, that I want what is best for all people, and I mean all people. I want no retribution, I feel no hate, I want truth and justice. When I see my children, who deserve a good father, just like all children, I only hope that they, like all other chi ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
    For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
    A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Does Mitt Romney Have a Commercial Space Vision?
    While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012
  • Ron Paul Packs Them In In Maine
    Ron Paul may be missing in Florida, but Maine knows he's around. For 2 days, despite bad weather, huge crowds have turned out to listen to Paul. Can Maine give Paul a win?Contributor: Sherry Tomfeld Published: Jan 28, 2012
  • Demi Moore Call -- Example of 911 System Succe ...
    The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    It's a gloomy March day outside, but this week's image roundup is a particularly cheerful one. Look at that colorful, wet little guy up top! Also this week: Japanese tourists try to drive to an island without the benefit of a bridge or tunnel and get stuck in the mud, a man buys an iPad and is a ...
  • Images of the Week, March 12-16, 2012
  • Video: The First Living Animal Ever Imaged Wit ...
    Bombarded with electrons and sealed in a vacuum, the noble tick survived the ordeal You didn’t wake up this morning thinking that a tick under a scanning electron microscope was going to be the coolest thing you saw all day, and yet here you are. After discovering some ticks alive inside a vacu ...
  • During Two-Year Personal Study, Doctor Watches ...
    A milestone in personalized medicine For more than two years, Stanford University geneticist Michael Snyder donated his living body to science. He and fellow researchers examined his DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites, creating an incredibly detailed profile of his personal “omics.” They watch ...
  • Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Ov ...
    It’s long been known that birds have a sense for the Earth’s magnetic field and can use it to aid in navigating their long migratory routes across the continents, but researchers at Oxford University and the National University of Singapore think their innate navigation tools are even cooler tha ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Drought order update
    The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
  • Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
    Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
  • February's huge temperature contrast
    Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...
  • Drax axes plans to build new biomass power sta ...
    The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Where's the Pork? US, Taiwan Fight Over Additives
    I am generally sympathetic to American agricultural techniques that others are squeamish about, but not with heavy-handed US trade advocacy that gives such techniques a bad name. Today we have another case in point in Taiwan .For one reason or another, erstwhile allies of the United States in th ...
  • Mobile Phones 4 Everything, Water Security Edn
    By now I'm probably known to longtime readers as the information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) skeptic guy due to my Foreign Affairs contribution casting doubt on the US state department's digital diplomacy efforts as well as the MIT Media Labs' One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) ...
  • Iceland Considers Dollarization (Canadian $ Th ...
    More so in years long past, many countries used to adopt the US dollar as their own to assume the benefits conferred by the world's standard currency. Among other things, these included liquidity, price stability and being a reasonable store of value. While an independent monetary policy was for ...
  • Jackson-Vanik, Cold War US-Russia Trade Irritant
    I recently visited Singapore and was given a quaint reminder of days gone by when, while checking into my hotel, I noticed a separate registration section needed to be filled by unmarried guests sharing the same room. Quibble if you will with the moralistic tone of this practice, but it's defini ...
  • Boeing Flies High With Chinese Over EU Emissions
    For all the trade conflicts going on between China and the US, here's something that goes against the grain.Think of the US being a beneficiary of a trade conflict involving China and some other country.. That is exactly the sort of thing going on here. To be sure, China and the EU have at least ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...
  • The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
    Rampant silver manipulation?  Rampant gold manipulation?  Rampant LIBOR manipulation?  Hiding MF Global client assets?  These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm.  The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...
  • 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not ...
    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  If not, then you are just like most other Americans.  According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today" than it was ...
  • 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place ...
    Would America be a better place without Goldman Sachs?  Of course it would.  The "vampire squid" of Wall Street does not care about the future of America.  Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients.  What Goldman Sachs is all about is making ...
  • Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Do ...
    All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday.  They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are takin ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US Test Of Massive “UFO” Sparks Panic In Washi ...
    An interesting report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) states that a test launching of a “massive” and “highly secretive” space-type aircraft by the US Navy sparked a panic in Washington State this past week after this crafts Magnetoplasma ...
  • Argentina thanks Chileans for supporting its M ...
    Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez has expressed appreciation to the people of Chile for their support in her country’s bid over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands. During a recent visit to Chile’s capital city, Santiago, on Friday, Fernandez expressed her gratitude to the Chile ...
  • Russians Beating Demographics With Polygamy
    When it comes to the dating game in Russia, it really is a man’s world. There are 10 million more women than men in the country, forcing some to turn to unconventional methods to find love. Even if that means a sharing and compromise. Andrey is a father of three. And a husband of three. [...]
  • Rick Santorum wants War on Porn Industry
    Land of the free and home of the brave, indeed — but if Rick Santorum has his way, America will soon have another assertion to stand by. The GOP hopeful is running for president and, if he wins, he’s pursuing an end to pornography in the US. If Rick Santorum wins the race to the [...]
  • Massive peace marches across Syria
    After one year of the crisis that has afflicted this country due to armed violence and terror, further added to by foreign reprisals, hundreds of thousands of Syrians across the country joined peace marches on Thursday (15th). Convened by youth organizations, students, social and political organ ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Taste of justice at last for state victims, bu ...
    The most horrifying evidence in recent weeks from a West Australian inquiry into the reign of terror of convicted serial child rapist Dennis McKenna at the head of a state run hostel at Katanning is not about the abuse itself, but about the complete and utter betrayal of dozens, possibly hundred ...
  • Catholic Church has no business policing itself
    Below are some excerpts from this week’s Report of the Inquiry into Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children (Australia) demolishing some of the Catholic Church’s favourite excuses for its appalling record on child endangerment. Thankfully the inquiry refused to be fooled by t ...
  • How Many Dead Children Are Too Many?
    An average of 50 children die from drowning in Australia every year. This figure is considered unacceptably high. Generously funded multi million dollar public education campaigns called Swim and Survive and Swim Kids aim to teach children about water safety in order to bring that shocking numbe ...
  • Italy acknowledges Vatican unworthy of unfair ...
    The new Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, has responded to a petition by 130,000 citizens to end unfair tax-free perks for the Catholic Church’s commercial enterprises. Promising to reverse the trend which in the past saw anti-competitive and possibly illegal special privileges for the ...
  • Aspiring Aussie PM Sacrifices Truth and Church ...
    Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...

WL Central

  • 2012-03-18 The word as virus: Myth-making in t ...
    TweetHow a virus spreads My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host ... the Word clearly bears the single identifying feature of virus: ...
  • 2012-03-18 Interview with Kevin Gozstola, Is m ...
    TweetI recently spoke with Kevin Gosztola, journalist and blogger at The Dissenter at FDL. We spoke about media coverage of Bradley Manning's legal proceedings, as well as the recent demand by a coalition of 46 media organizations for access to Court records. You can find Kevin on twitter @kg ...
  • 2012-03-18 Interview w Naomi Colvin on UN Rpt ...
    TweetI recently spoke with Naomi Colvin of the UK Friends of Bradley Manning and Occupy London about the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Torture as it concerns Bradley Manning, as well as European sentiment and advocacy for the U.S. political prisoner and alleged whistleblower. You can find Na ...
  • 2012-03-17 #WikiLeaks News Update: #Assange4Se ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 470 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 467 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 665 days. WikiLeaks News: Mainstream Media organizations have been misquoting and misinterpr ...
  • 'Old media' striking out and tripping up again
    TweetIt has come to our attention that members of the mainstream media are both misquoting this site and misunderstanding what this site represents. In a piece published 17 March 2012 at Adelaide Now, Samantha Maiden states the following. An article posted on the WikiLeaks website predicted that ...

U N News

  • Haiti receives advice from UN economists on at ...
    United Nations economists have provided the Haitian Government with advice on a new investment strategy to help the country attract financing to rebuild infrastructure and boost economic development.
  • Guatemala: UN rights chief underlines need to ...
    Guatemala has made progress in the fight against impunity and human rights abuses, but the country must tackle the tremendous challenges that remain to become a State based on democracy and the rule of law, says the United Nations human right chief.
  • Brazil: UN welcomes prosecution of retired col ...
    The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the prosecution of a retired Brazilian army colonel for disappearances during the country's military dictatorship as a "first and crucial step" in fighting the impunity that surrounds that period.
  • Mexico: UN experts concerned over impunity in ...
    A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today called on the Mexican Government to develop effective measures to combat impunity in cases of enforced disappearances, which continue to take place in the country.
  • Haiti: Three UN peacekeepers repatriated for s ...
    Three United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti have been repatriated following a Pakistani military hearing on the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old Haitian male, a spokesman for the world body said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Root o ...
    Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...
  • Don’t Flush Tiger Forests
    The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.    
  • NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    NASA – NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record.
  • Open Pipes Are Killing Birds and Other Wildlife
    This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...
  • Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Ecologist: Colleag ...
    Seven science colleagues present tributes to Paul S. Martin, 1928 – 2010: Jim King, Geoff Spaulding, Gary Haynes, Alberto Burquez, Tom Van Devender, David Burney, and Connie Barlow (plus, Paul’s son, Tom Martin). The outdoor memorial service was held on the University of Arizona&#821 ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Another Hidden Secret in Obamacare 'RFID Chip ...
      On Sunday March 21, 2010 the Senate Healthcare bill HR3200 was passed and signed into law the following Tuesday. Like I said before, there are a legion of horrible and just plain evil aspects to this bill and I’m sure you’ve heard a lot them by now. I don’t want to discount them but ...
  • Agenda 21... ALERT!... Obama Implementing Agen ...
      On March 15, 2012, President Obama has released Executive Order – Establishing a White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities in accord with the United Nation’s Agenda 21 objective to turn America into a controlled country under their global governance. ~ Susanne Posel - Vi ...
  • War on Drugs... Pentagon Transfers 'Dirty Work ...
      Since the drug war has become so unpopular with the electorate, instead of politicians actually changing the drug laws, the Department of Defense seeks to reduce and conceal the real costs by transferring the “dirty work” to private contractors to do what “U.S. military forces are no ...
  • Is Santorum Even Eligible to Be President?... ...
      Santorum has a foreign born father... Romney has a foreign born father... Obama has a foreign born father... ALL presidential candidates need to have background checks NOW before the election! read more
  • Several Former U.S. Officials Accepted Bribe M ...
      Former PA Governor Ed Rendell The US Treasury Department is investigating a former American politician for accepting money from the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Tornadoes in 2012
    Map of 2012 tornadoes through 3/18 (I hope to keep this updated throughout the year) The number of tornadoes during 2012 is continuing to increase, and is increasing rapidly as of the middle of March as the U.S. is experiencing a very warm early Spring. We have had an incredible number of tornad ...
  • Aloe Vera – For Your First Aid Kit
    The Aloe Vera plant is a great supplement item to have in addition to your first aid kit. It has been used since centuries ago during Cleopatra’s time when Aloe was used to treat burns. The healing properties of Aloe Vera as well as the moisturizing properties of Aloe Vera helped it to bec ...
  • Dehydrated Food: Testing Dryness
    Dehydrated food is a simple way to store your excess bounty from your garden for future use for your family, and it stores well with a typical shelf life up to one year. What is dehydrated food? Simply put, dehydrated food has most of the water removed so it can be stored for a long [...]
  • New Utah NSA Spy Center – Stores EVERYTHING
    The following are excerpts from a Wired.com article titled, The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say), an article stating that the NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever, as it details what we know about th ...
  • First Aid Kits
    First aid kits can be made up of a wide variation of contents, a collection of supplies and equipment, all for use in giving first aid. First aid kits may be made up of different contents based on purpose and the knowledge and experience of those putting it together and the requirements of the a ...

Fast Company

  • 6 Ways Apple Could Spend $100 Billion [Update: ...
    Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer will take the stage this morning to talk about Apple's cash reserves and reveal what plans Apple has for the money. At last count the reserves were nearing $100 billion, and actually growing at a rate that defies belief despite the already impressive stash. During S ...
  • "Boy CEO" Mark Zuckerberg's Two Smartest Proje ...
    Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook--and himself--for success.From studying leaders he admired to taking elocution lessons, Zuckerberg made his evolution into a world-class CEO a personal proj ...
  • Tim Cook To Talk Apple Cash, Foxconn Responds ...
    Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.New iPad Is Apple's Costliest Yet. A teardown of the new iPad has revealed that Apple likely spent more on this new device than it spent building the second gen iPad 2. Considering Apple hasn't upped the price of the (basic ve ...
  • Fast Talk: How The Kindness Of Strangers (And ...
    Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe tells Fast Company about the frightening early days of his now hugely successful retail company. A few years ago, he was borrowing from family just to make payroll.Greg Selkoe is CEO of Karmaloop, the world’s largest online retailer of streetwear. In recent years, Karma ...
  • Why B2B Companies Need To Up Their Communicati ...
    B2Bs may never enjoy millions of Facebook fans and Twitter followers, but the more they do to build brands rooted in consumer value and social responsibility, the better positioned they will be. Businesses that sell only to other businesses (B2Bs) have ventured past the cozy confines of LinkedIn ...

Jadaliyya

  • The City of Images by Luay Hamza Abbas
    [Madinat al-Suwar (The City of Images, Amman: Dar Azmina, 2011) is the latest novel by Iraqi author Luay Hamza Abbas (b. 1965). It is narrated in flashback by a boy growing up in Basra through the seventies and eighties before and during the rule of Saddam Hussein with memories of his ch ...
  • "Attention! At Ease!" by Salma Idilbi
    [Salma Idilbi is a Syrian writer. This text was written in Arabic and published on Jadaliyya. It is translated by Fatima Fettar] I spent every moment of my entire education, from age four to eighteen at “Dar al-Salam” School at the center Al-Najma Square in the heart of Damascus, It was ...
  • Area Code for the Heart
    It was a stupid idea. I woke up after a short sporadic sleep and decided that the smell of shaving cream might lessen the bitterness of yesterday’s news. How stupid! I was trembling in fear of what the process would entail: looking abject helplessness straight in the face. There, where ...
  • "Beirut: Ornament of Our World" Faiz's 1982 Po ...
    [For my comrades and poetry aficionados: Fawwaz Trabulsi and Mayssun Sukarieh, and for Raza Mir.] Reading Faiz in Beirut. Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) is one of the greatest Urdu poets of the 20th century. Born in Sialkot, Punjab, Faiz came of age under colonial rule and in the throes o ...
  • The Pope's Predicament
    Just over ten years ago, before the illness that took his life today had sapped his body’s strength, I had the opportunity to meet with Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. It was September 2001, only a matter of days after the September 11 attacks, and I ...

mediagazer

  • Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood ...
    Jeff Roberts / paidContent: Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood The Zone?  —  The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) has embraced video with gusto.  The venerable paper is pumping out hours of live news clips and splashing them onto everything from the iPhone to the ...
  • Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much N ...
    Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think  —  We've heard that social media is a great source of traffic for news outlets so often that it's close to textbook.  Yes, Facebook, Twitter and the rest are important, according ...
  • What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News (state ...
    stateofthemedia.org: What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News  —  Perhaps no topic in technology attracted more attention in 2011 than the rise of social media and its potential impact on news.  “If searching for news was the most important development of the last deca ...
  • YouTube Plans More Investment in Original 'Cha ...
    Michael Learmonth / AdAge: YouTube Plans More Investment in Original ‘Channels’  —  Site Will Fund and Launch New Content Plays, May Increase Backing of Existing Ones  —  YouTube's $100 million investment in new premium “channels”?  C ...
  • Theater, Disguised as Real Journalism (David C ...
    David Carr / New York Times: Theater, Disguised as Real Journalism  —  Is it O.K. to lie on the way to telling a greater truth?  The short answer is also the right one.  —  No.  —  It's worth examining that question now that we have learned a ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • 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...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/13/12 - ProCon.org has been used by teachers ...
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and administrators in 2,522 schools in all 50 states and 45 countries. Thank you to the educators in those 508 elementary and middle schools, 1,295 high schools, and 719 colleges and universities who benefit from our free educa ...
  • 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
  • 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...
  • 2/28/12 - NL MVP Ryan Braun Successfully Appea ...
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Ryan Braun Becomes First MLB Player to Successfully Appeal a Positive Drug Test - National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned on Feb. 23, 2012 because of a delay transferring his sample to the testing lab. His testosteron ...
  • 2/17/12 - "Did You Know?” Little Known Facts a ...
    2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • How to have a conversation
    It’s a dying art, struck down by text, email and messaging. So can we be taught how to talk to each other? John McDermott Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”. The poet “swept at once&#16 ...
  • Hemingway
    How the great American novelist became the literary equivalent of the Nike swoosh. Nathan Heller Ernest Hemingway would be aghast to see what has become of Ernest Hemingway. Against the gray obscurity that awaits most writers in death, his image, 50 years later, has become the literary equivalen ...
  • Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Britannica
    Windows Did Tim Carmody First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Photo: Courtesy Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. The encyclopedia in the living room wasn’t a reference tool so much as aspirational furniture, a sign to visitors but mostly ourselves that our living room wasn’t dedicated in its ...
  • Where’s _why? Ruby
    What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared. Annie Lowrey In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programmer known to the ...
  • Bulgur: Natural Weight-Loss Food
    This Middle Eastern staple sounds more exotic than it is; bulgur is what’s left after wheat kernels have been steamed, dried, and crushed. This cereal grain has been a food staple for years because it offers an inexpensive source of low-fat protein, making it a wonderfully nutritious addit ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
  • New Trends in Think Tanks in China
    Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...
  • Revolutionary science
    This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Stop CSG Rally video report - Government fails ...
    Truth News covers the stop CSG Rally at Parliament House NSW, 15 March 2012. In the morning a motion was put to the NSW Upper House by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens – to place a moratorium on all coal seam gas (CSG) projects in the state, other than the Camden production field. It w ...
  • How Facebook is exterminating communities
    Ladies and gentlemen, I have been struggling (unsuccesfully) to get the new facebook timeline features to work in a reasonable way which suit the needs of this website, and I just want to let you all know that I've had enough! I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more! I've com ...
  • The CSG Exploration Permit that covers Sydney
    In 2008, the NSW government under Labor granted Dart Energy a Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL 463) to explore for CSG across 2400sqkm of the Sydney Basin - from Gosford on the Central Coast to Coalcliff south of Sydney. The first exploration well has been approved was for the inner city Sydne ...
  • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
    The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...
  • TSA responds to viral video about body scanners
    A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology).   I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.   For obvious se ...

Beacon

  • Exploring a Filipino Fish Market
    © Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is fifth and final part in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. After meeting with Marybeth in Lanuza, our crew headed back to Butuan City, where we split up – Paul to Manila on his way back to the UK, and Fel, Lito and myself to Cebu. Fel, a prid ...
  • Victory! Alibaba.com Stops Selling Manta Ray P ...
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. We have great news to share with you today! We recently asked you to help us protect manta rays from being made into leather by asking Alibaba.com to take manta ray products off their website. Nearly 40,000 of you responded by signing our petition, and Alibaba lis ...
  • Securing the Future of Filipino Fishers
    Rare fellow Marybeth Rita leads a meeting with fishers. Editor's note: This is part 4 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. The last site we visited was overseen by Rare conservation fellow Marybeth Rita. Marybeth has a tough job because her campaign covers three towns separated by ...
  • Oceana Celebrates SeaBlue in Florida
    Martin Stepanek, Alexandra Cousteau, Wyland, Jim Simon. ©Oceana/Steven Shires After recently joining Oceana as a senior advisor, I traveled with the team to Fort Lauderdale last week where we hosted our first major South Florida event, SeaBlue. We had a great time and let me say, it was a hug ...
  • Stop the Sale of Manta Ray Leather
    Manta ray. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Manta rays are one of the most fascinating and unique ocean creatures. As the largest of all the rays, giant manta rays can reach up to 22 feet. But we have been shocked to discover that Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business-to-business commerce ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • UFOs Have Been An Elusive Phenomenon Since Ant ...
            I have been reading about UFOs rather copiously the last few years and have some thoughts about them. First of all I highly recommend that you grab a copy of Jacques Valle and Chris Aubeck’s book Wonders In The Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern ...
  • Various Government Memos, Real Or Faked Regard ...
              Those who read this blog know that I am fascinated by UFOs, especially where they intersect with government or science or military concerns. I pulled these off of the Internet.   Source: http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy, Wiki
  • Alexis Casdagli’s Secret Message For Hitler.
    79 year old Tony Casdagli spoke of his father, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Major Alexis Casdagli, who was taken prisoner in combat by Nazi troops between 1941 and 1945 in four separate camps. You see, his father taught himself embroidery just to keep his mind active. “He would say after the war th ...
  • The Iraq We Left Behind
    (This article written before the massacre and I leave it alone because Afghanistan is not Iraq.) An Afghan soldier trained by western forces suddenly turns his weapon on French troops fighting with ISAF, killing four of them. In four years, 58 Western service members were shot and killed by Afgh ...
  • Cold War Magazine Articles On Weapon Technology.
                        Source: Modern Mechanix

Taylor Marsh

  • Washington Post: Grand Bargain on Entitlements ...
    White House officials said this week that the offer is still on the table. – Obama’s evolution: Behind the failed ‘grand bargain’ on the debt How quickly people forget. A 2010 Gallup poll serves as a reality backdrop to this tale. The report in the Washington Post over the weekend gives yo ...
  • John McCain: ‘Respect the Right for Women to M ...
    It’s so very basic, but yet it made news when Sen. John McCain said it on Sunday in his conversation with David Gregory. “There’s a perception out there because of the way that this whole contraception issue played out.. We need to get off of that issue. In my view, I think we ...
  • Oprah Should Spend Capital to Put OWN in the P ...
    It’s one thing to have a network vision, it’s quite another to make it marketable, watchable and profitable, let alone hip. And if there is one thing OWN is not it’s relevant. OWN seems sleepy and quaint at a moment when women are flexing their power. OWN is missing history. Th ...
  • Cinematherapy in Feminist Perspective: Youtube ...
    Hello TM.com Readers! It’s time for a new Wonk-the-(Women’s)-Vote installment. This time I’ve rounded up a few must-see youtubes from February AND March for you. There were a lot of brilliant and unabashedly feminist picks to choose from over the past two months, and I had grea ...
  • Mitt Romney Minute: New York Times Reports Bai ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Mitt Romney‘s Bain woes continue. Bain is reportedly pumping millions in investment with the Chinese government. Doing what? Why spying camera technology of course. The New York Times does the digging on this big story: In Dece ...

Hudson New York

  • PKK Encryption Team Caught in Northern Iraq
    Turkish security forces captured five encryption specialists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, during a cross-border raid about 10 kilometers over the border with northern Iraq on March 11. Turkish forces tracked the militants for
  • Angry Turk's Message for Europe: "We are Coming"
    A second-generation Muslim immigrant in Austria has authored a provocative new book in which he argues that Europe's future is Turkish, whether Europeans like it or not. The book's short, sharp and confrontational title says it all: "We are Coming." The
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: February 2012
    Half of Iraq's indigenous Christians are gone, due to the unleashed forces of jihad [holy war]. Many Christians fled to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack from al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians
  • Assad Regime Gains Momentum As Opposition Show ...
    Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by their recapture of most of the opposition stronghold Idlib, attacked opposition hotbeds in different parts of Syria on Wednesday as the opposition began to show signs of fracture with the
  • How to Get Elected in the Palestinian Territories
    It is not clear at this stage when and if new presidential and parliamentary elections will ever be held in the Palestinian territories: The two major Palestinian parties, Fatah and Hamas, have yet to end their power struggle and agree on the formation

Urban Survival

  • Inflation Returneth?
    OK, we have some serious data to look at this morning as the CPI is just out since it gives us a current bead on how the Fed’s “gas pedal and brake on” stratgegy is working to muddle us through … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Friday’s at the WuJo
    “Make sure your seatbelts are securely fastened and that your tray tables are up and your seats in the upright and locked position…as we could be in for a bumpy ride.”  Especially this morning as we fly into the pile … Continue reading →
  • Producer Prices Holding
    First this out of the hopper this morning – and a lead-in to the Consumer Price Index due out at this time tomorrow – is the Produce Price report which is sometimes, though not always, a kind of pointer toward … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Latest Computer Scam
    I have to admit a kind of grudging admiration for the people who cook up ways to get people’s money from them.  Not that I like crooks, but they oftentimes will come up with new and interesting ways of doing … Continue reading →
  • Hole Digging Lessons
    My son (G2) called yesterday to warn me that the whole world is on an economically unsustainable path and that he’d never consider putting any money in the stock market, since now that he has recently become debt-free, he’s beginning … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-17 ...
    Here are the 19 (21) reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 17-18, 2012: Orlando FL cops faulted in autopsy of man who died after being subjected to 4 taser burts while he was restrained, one of which lasted 31 seconds which is ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 33 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday and Friday, March 15-16, 2012: Covington LA police sued by man claiming 7 witnesses saw cops randomly grab him out of a crowd then repeatedly beat and tasered him while responding t ...
  • Downtime
    Hi folks, apologies for there not being anything in the news feed yesterday and no daily update today. My new job’s demands on my time made it impossible for me to work on the news feed. I hope to capture the reports we missed and fold them into today’s reports. If you see anything [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, March 14, 2012: Washington Co OR SWAT team shoots neighbor of suspect during raid when he mistook the cops for intruders [0] http://bit.ly/x94V03 Bullhead City AZ cops, including ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct we were able to gather in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 13, 2012: Joliet IL cop arrested after fired for repeatedly punching a woman in the face on video during a domestic dispute call [0] http://bit.ly/zCg2old Fulle ...

Total Collapse

  • Sustainability in Perspective
    “There are only two options: Humanity’s leaders take responsibility to manage evolution in a sustainable manner, or the failures and systemic fissures will crush mankind and the planet will degenerate until humanity chokes from no air.” All the following systems of societies are in a complex int ...
  • Millions Of Americans Preparing For Doomsday
    All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday.  They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are taking self-defense c ...
  • Israel will not “play with its destiny” by att ...
    Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi warned on Thursday that any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear installations would lead to the annihilation of the regime in a week. “If Israel ever, ever makes this mistake – that will set the time for the end of Israel. The Israelis are well aware ...
  • At least 27 dead in Damascus bombings. Russian ...
    Syrian State TV reported two car bombing attacks on Air Force Intelligence and Security Police Headquarters killing at least 27 people and wounding 97 Saturday morning, March 17, accusing “terrorist gangs.” In a third attack, a bomb was planted on a bus carrying members of the Palestinian Libera ...
  • Scientists warn of Planetary Emergency
    Scientists told UK MPs this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting Arctic ice constitutes a “planetary emergency”. The Arctic could be sea-ice free each September within a few years. Wave energy pioneer Stephen Salter has shown that pumping seawater ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • ABC Environment: Two-faced climate policy
      Credit: Mick Tsikas (Reuters) It's ironic that Australia is moving toward a 'cap' on carbon emissions because while we've got this paper target for a five per cent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2020 we've also got the foot on the accelerator and running in overdrive expa ...
  • Media Release: Solar: IPART recommends NSW pow ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 March 2012 Failing to recognize the contribution that rooftop solar systems have on the national energy supply, is ripping off all Australians, says leading renewable think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. BZE’s Executive Director Mathew Wright, urges the NSW gove ...
  • Australia's twist in the wind
      Denmark's renewable energy achievements and its ambitious targets demonstrate a serious plan to lead the world in tackling global climate and energy security. Wind turbine technology will power half of its plan. At the end of last year, Denmark announced that it will increase its shar ...
  • Climate Spectator: Stifling a FiT Aussie solar ...
    Germany now has over 30 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic panels on its rooftops. The sheer scale of deployment means that over 4 per cent of the nation's electricity will come from rooftop solar power this year. This industrial-scale solar rollout, created by Germany's innovative policy support s ...
  • Australian Climate Leadership - Volunteer Oppo ...
    Are you sick of hearing that “Australia is only a small part of the climate problem”, that “we shouldn’t act before the rest of the world”, and that “our actions won’t make any difference anyway”? BZE is challenging these excuses for inaction with a new report that aims to expose the true extent ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Global rainforest carbon map released online
    Researchers have posted carbon stock data for the world's tropical forests on ArcGIS Online, a web-based mapping platform developed by Esri.
  • Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainfo ...
    Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in some of the world's most critical forest areas, warns a report published last week by the Unio ...
  • Scientists say massive palm oil plantation wil ...
    Eleven top scientists have slammed a proposed palm oil plantation in a Cameroonian rainforest surrounded by five protected areas. In an open letter, the researchers allege that Herakles Farm, which proposes the 70,000 hectare plantation in southwest Cameroon, has misled the government about the ...
  • Ministry of Forestry signed off on clearing of ...
    Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry signed off on a plan by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers to log areas of forest that contained protected ramin species, according to documents released by Greenomics-Indonesia, an activist group. The micro-delineation documents, which are required to win approv ...
  • Investigation links APP to illegal logging of ...
    A year-long undercover investigation has found evidence of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) companies cutting and pulping legally protected ramin trees, a practice that violates both Indonesian and international law. Found largely in Sumatra's peatswamp forests, the logging of ramin trees (in the genus ...

Sierra Express

  • As ICC plants its radar on Sierra Leone… Presi ...
    Sierra Express Media can authoritatively reveal that President Koroma has sacked his bodyguard, Idrissa Kamara popularly known as Leather Boot. The president took the decision barely days after a series of allegations pointed out that the bodyguard is actually involved in a series of violent cri ...
  • Chinese to construct market in Freetown
    The Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone his Excellency Kuang Weilin has promised that his government will build a market for Freetown. The Chinese envoy made this statement on a courtesy visit to the Acting Mayor of the Freetown Municipality His worship Alhaji Ibrahim Gabriel Kanu on Thursday of ...
  • HRCSL holds one day training for staff
    Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone (HRCSL) on Friday 16th March held a one day training workshop for staff members based on gender based advocacy for the promotion of women’s rights. According to Madam Gloria Bawoh, Women and Child Officer of the Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone, the train ...
  • Juju politics is smiting politicians
    Our Monday March 12th edition featured the Sierra Leone indigenous Traditional Healers Union in a policy statement which denounced the unjustified killings by spiritualists in the country.  We also went at length covering an interview with the union’s president Alhaji Dr. Sulaiman Kabba who spok ...
  • Mohamed Bangura emerges as UDM flag bearer
    Pulling 259 votes, Mohamed Bangura held a slide in the flag bearer contest over his title contender Madam Doreen Jimmy who scored 32 votes. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) now stands a chance with its emerging third presidential flag bearer to challenge the incumbent President Koroma. The U ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • School milk making a comeback in a carton
    Newly appointed "milk monitors" will help to distribute a carton of free, chilled milk to all pupils at Northland's Manaia View School this morning, in the rebirth of an iconic nutrition scheme.The school, in a low-income area of...
  • Supreme Court rejects Fonterra rival milk supp ...
    The Supreme Court has turned down Fonterra's appeal against a ruling it must supply raw milk to rivals even if they don't process it themselves.The top court's bench was unanimous in upholding the lower court decisions,...
  • PM woos Chinese on $3.5m yacht
    Prime Minister John Key held a meeting with a group of Chinese businessmen on board a $3.5 million superyacht during which he urged them to invest in a multimillion-dollar milk processing venture in New Zealand.Key was invited to...
  • Bottling bid aims to keep (some) NZ milk cheap
    A boutique grocery has called for help to bottle its own milk in a bid to keep prices at $1 a litre.Last month Nosh Food Market cut the price of milk to $2 for two litres in what it said was a protest against steep industry mark-ups.The...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra can't keep putting c ...
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings is selling dairy farmers the proposition that the company's growth plans will not be met unless it first secures its capital base.When Fonterra launched its capital restructuring plan 18 months...

The Bovine

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Is There a Bubble in Treasuries? Both Sides of ...
    People have been calling a bubble in treasuries for at least a decade. The shocking result, especially to hyperinflationists, has been a stair-step decline in yields for 30 years. That's quite a long time. Here is a chart going back 20 years from Steen Jakobsen at Saxo bank in Denmark. ...
  • Raucous Caucus: Largest Missouri Caucus Shut D ...
    Those awaiting complete returns from the Missouri caucus may be in for a long wait. The St. Charles County caucus was shut down before delegates were even chosen. St. Louis Today reports Raucous GOP caucus in St. Peters is shut down In St. Charles County, which was to have been the bigges ...
  • China Halts 10 More Airbus Orders; Global Trad ...
    In retaliation for the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, China Halts 10 More Airbus Orders China has suspended the purchase of 10 more Airbus jets, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday, raising the stakes in a potentially damaging trade row over European Union airline emissions ch ...
  • Stress Test Farce Shows Bank Shares Still Are ...
    Last week the Fed conducted yet another "Stress-Free" test purposely designed to conclude banks are in better shape than they really are. The parameters seemed strict. US recession marked by a 50 percent drop in stock prices 21 percent drop in housing prices Joblessness soaring to 13 perc ...
  • Public Union Wage Bargaining Ends at National ...
    I am pleased to report the end of collective bargaining at the national level. Unfortunately, I am talking about the UK, not the US, and also unfortunately, local wage bargaining will remain in place. The Telegraph reports National pay rates will be scrapped in budget. Millions of teache ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 8, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.” — Adolf Hitler International Newsworthy Banks in Front Line of Nuclear Arms Campaign ...
  • China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global ...
    Some Lessons from the Past By James Petras The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Fighting the “Rising Tide” of Arab Nationalism
    The Eisenhower Doctrine & the Syrian Crisis Following the Suez Crisis, Nasser’s influence and reputation was enormously strengthened in the Arab, Muslim, and wider decolonizing world, while those of Britain and France were in decline. Nasser’s support for nationalist movements in North Afric ...
  • The EyeOpener- The “Twitter Revolution&# ...
    Another weapon in the arsenal of the Western powers to destabilize “uncooperative” governments around the world As anyone who has logged on to the internet in the last five years is all too aware, social media websites have exploded in popularity to the point where they are virtually impossible ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Dockworker Pensions in Jeopardy While Greek Fe ...
    ATHENS (Dow Jones)–Greece’s ferries remained anchored at the country’s ports Monday as dockworkers launched rolling 48-hour strike action in opposition to social security reforms and deregulation of the industry. The [...]
  • Island Offshore Sends Contract to STX OSV for ...
    SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–STX OSV Holdings Ltd. (MS7.SG) Monday said it had got a new contract for the construction of an advanced subsea support vessel for Island Offshore, worth more than [...]
  • Maritime Monday for March 19, 2012: Whaling, ...
    Classic Comics: Cutaway of the Pequod – Boston Globe Found: The Pequod! (Almost) Marine archaeologists at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have found the sunken wreck of the Two [...]
  • St. Paddy’s Day was Good for Austal Shipbuildi ...
    Austal Shipbuilding had plenty of reason to drink green beer this weekend following the US Navy’s confirmation of two more orders for Austal USA-built Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The US$691 million contract [...]
  • MSC Cruises Buys Ex-Gaddafi Ship, Sans Man-Eat ...
    MSC Cruises says that it has finalized contract negotiations with STX France to take over a 140,000 ton cruise ship after the termination of an agreement with its original owner, [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • Dutch Disease and Oil
    CBC’s the Current had an excellent segment on Dutch Disease and what to do about it.  The set-up was quite good.  First they interviewed an economist about what Dutch disease actually is and to what extent it applies to Canada.  … Continue reading →
  • Dépanneur owner whose store was vandalized sho ...
    The owner of a Verdun depanneur had his store vanadalized after a series of events resulting from his inability or unwillingness to speak French. CTV is reporting (HERE) that Anthony Williams, owner of a convenience store east of Montreal, has seen a drop in his business after a confrontat ...
  • "A Fundamentally Immoral and Unjust System"
    Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. by Michelle Alexander As originally posted: The New York Times March 10, 2012 AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I kno ...
  • The Fundamental Irony of Civilization
    I'm part way through reading Thomas Sowell's 1980 classic, Knowledge and Decisions, and I'm enjoying it.  One of the many brilliant insights in this book is that we can look at civilization as a tool for economizing on knowledge. For instance, a cave man living without the benefit of civil ...
  • "U"
    Y U NO LOVE ME? by "Mr. YUNO" As originally posted on: Y U NO (Y_U_NOOO) on Twitter March 12, 2012

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...
  • Choices and Trade-offs…Why I Chose CUNY ...
    Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...
  • Get ready, get set, go!
    2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia.  As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...
  • Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
    I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...

Dissident Voice

  • Social or Anti-Social Media?
    If we want to save life and humanity, we are obliged to end the capitalist system. — Bolivian President Evo Morales We hear and read that the economy is rebounding – again – and this during a multi billion dollar presidential campaign. Gee. Threats of more foreign wars are also unrelated to poli ...
  • Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades W ...
    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 applause and appreciation of their captive vassal US legislators and executives who crowded ...
  • Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
    A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the controversial method ...
  • Should We Celebrate a Decline in Global Poverty?
    You may be forgiven for missing the good news recently reported by the World Bank: that the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined in almost every region of the developing world. According to the latest global poverty estimates, both the percentage of people living on less than ...
  • Over 500 Students and Staff Protest Suspension ...
    On 16 March, over five hundred Cambridge students and staff protested against the 2 1/2 year suspension of a student. The student was suspended by a private university court – the “Court of Discipline” – after reading a poem in November 2011 at a peaceful protest against David Willetts, Minister ...

Destructionist

  • Martial Law? Obama Issues Executive Order: ‘Na ...
    [It seems something is about to happen for Obama to issue an Executive Order for National Defense Resources Preparedness... (Could this be a prelude to a "false flag" terrorist attack?)] EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President b ...
  • Martial Law? Obama Issues Executive Order: ‘Na ...
    [It seems something is about to happen for Obama to issue an Executive Order for National Defense Resources Preparedness... (Could this be a prelude to a "false flag" terrorist attack?)] EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President b ...
  • Police Intervene, Arrest Ron Paul Backers at M ...
    Reblogged from 2012: What's the 'real' truth?: By Chris Good | ABC OTUS News – 3 hrs ago (ABC News) Police and organizers shut down proceedings at one of Missouri’s largest caucuses today, as Ron Paul supporters feuded with localGOP leaders. “It’s like the H ...
  • Police Intervene, Arrest Ron Paul Backers at M ...
    Reblogged from 2012: What's the 'real' truth?: By Chris Good | ABC OTUS News – 3 hrs ago (ABC News) Police and organizers shut down proceedings at one of Missouri’s largest caucuses today, as Ron Paul supporters feuded with localGOP leaders. “It’s like the H ...
  • Video: Ron Paul supporters say GOP cheated the ...
    Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are complaining that other Clarke County Republicans shut out their slate of delegates at the county convention Saturday. They claim the Clarke County GOP broke its own rules by electing a slate of delegates that excluded Paul supporters over thei ...

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Obama defends renewable energy
    Philadelphia Inquirer
    By Nancy Benac AP LARGO, Md. - Vigorously defending his policies, President Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear. Obama did not mention his detractors ...
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    COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- At a meeting of the Board of Directors of Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC ("SIRE" or the "Company") on March 16, 2012, the Board declared a dividend to be paid to its members in the ...
    Senate panel approves renewable energy legislation
    East Valley Tribune
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    Better wind forecasts? That's not just a lot of hot air
    msnbc.com
    One of the biggest strikes against renewable energy is its unpredictability. The vagaries of wind and sunshine makes it tough for utilities to plan when these forms of green power will be available to customers on the electric grid, so they often need ...
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    Ecology responding to oil spill at Lummi Island
    Access Washington
    BELLINGHAM – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is responding to an oil spill from a sunken barge at the south end of Lummi Island. Ecology discovered the spill early this afternoon at the Lummi Rock LLC (Lummi Rock) quarry.
    FOREST ECOLOGY NETWORK v. LAND USE REGULATION COMMISSION
    Leagle.com
    Forest Ecology Network and RESTORE: The North Woods (collectively, Forest Ecology Network) and the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) cross-appeal, arguing primarily that LURC erred in approving the petition because several aspects of the ...
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    The Sounders Ecology
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    Ecology: Various sources of pollution in Port Angeles Harbor
    Peninsula Daily
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    Coast Guard orders ships to cleanse ballast water to protect against foreign ...
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    eWeek
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