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Scoop - NZ

• Stratfor credibility takes a hit
  Papic is still Stratfor’s expert on Russia (for the BBC, he is the expert on all of Europe). In addition to his broadcasts and byte-sized commentaries in publicly accessible sources, it is now possible to read Papic’s internal reports to Friedman on what has been happening inside Russia. Here is ...
• Nth. Korea agrees to curb nuclear work
  North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex, a step that raised the possibility of ending a diplomatic impasse that has allowed the country’s nuclear pr ...
• Saudi Silent Spring
  Real journalism does not take sides. But it does try and accurately cover everything that is going on—not just those examples that serve one particular agenda. Some time back, we told you about the uprising in Saudi Arabia that the media ignores. That continues. Another is in Bahrain. And ano ...
• Chamber: NSW Losing Optimistic Outlook
  NSW businesses are continuing to experience the worst levels in business confidence in two years and that is now spreading to their previously optimistic view of the future, according to the latest NSW Business Chamber and Commonwealth Bank Business Conditions Survey.   “Businesses we’ve surve ...
• Spanish revolt as Fiscal Calvinism grows
  Though he swept into office as an apostle of orthodoxy, Mariano Rajoy has since delved into Madrid’s ghastly accounts and concluded that it would be "suicidal" to try to slash the budget deficit from 8pc of GDP to 4.4pc of GDP this year, as demanded by Europe's fiscal Calvinists. Such a policy ...

Independent - London

• Iranians urged to defy opposition call for boycott
  Iranians go to the polls today for the first time since the controversial 2009 presidential elections that were mired in accusations of fraud, setting off huge protests and a bloody crackdown. Related StoriesUK diplomats withdrawn from SyriaRebels pull back from Baba AmrSyrian rebels retreat fro ...
• Robert Fisk: Jailed in Geneva - the colonel wh ...
  He is 54 but looks 70 – "like an Indian yogi with a long white beard," as ex-Colonel Mohamed el-Ghanem's Swiss lawyer puts it. "I entered his cell – I had a Swiss official next to me who formally introduced me. Colonel Ghanem was sitting on his bed with his feet on the floor. Then he lay on the ...
• Pronunciation: Make a speech purist cry – try ...
  Will you be frying tonight? Britney, Kim Kardashian and her coven and K$sha (her keyboard clumsiness, not mine) will be. I'm not talking about the oil-based cooking technique. Instead, I refer to the "vocal fry", a non-fattening and newly identified way of speaking that is, apparently, big with ...
• Defence Secretary meets Uzbek dictator
  The British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has met with Islam Karimov, the President of Uzbekistan and one of the world's most ruthless dictators, in Tashkent to discuss closer military co-operation.Related StoriesBomb injures 15 police near Turkey ruling party HQEurozone unemployment hits ne ...
• Obama banks on gathering economic recovery as ...
  Converting what was meant to be his main weakness into what may turn out to be his strength Barack Obama is touting the gathering economic recovery in the United States as his ticket to a second term.Related StoriesRomney gains momentum from Michigan – but can it carry him through Super Tuesday ...

Rogue Government.com

• Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
  Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
  The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
• Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
  Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
• China aims high with space program ambitions
  As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.

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

• Investors buying homes by the dozen
  When Vena Jones-Cox entered the foyer of the once-grand Colonial-style home in downtown Columbus, Ohio, she stepped onto a wood floor that was so moldy and mushy that it actually wiggled. As Cox proceeded down the basement stairs, they disappeared from underneath her. "I found myself lying on t ...
• Planned Regime Change in Syria
  Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria had peace and calm until Washington intervened belligerently. Strategies and tactics vary. Objectives are consistent. They involve replacing independent regimes with pro-Western ones by any means, including war. Three unwinnable ones rage. Nonetheless, O ...
• Russia and the changing world
  In the run-up to Russia's presidential elections, prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has published his seventh article in which he defined Russia's niche in a "changing world." In my articles I have already mentioned the key challenges that Russia is facing internationally ...
• Israeli officials: Starve Iranians to stop nukes
  West should adopt North Korean model vis-à-vis Tehran, hunger in Iran could prompt regime to 'consider whether nuclear adventure is worthwhile', Jerusalem official says Iran's citizens should be starved in order to curb Tehran's nuclear program, officials in Jerusalem said Wednesday ahead ...
• Video: Sarkozy, booed by protesters, hides in bar
  Campaigning in Bayonne, a town in France's southwestern Basque region, President Nicolas Sarkozy was booed by hundreds of protesters. The French leader escaped to a café under the protection of riot police. ­The president was jeered as he got out of his car heading, to a bar to meet w ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Hey Elections Canada!
  You might want to check your complaints registry regarding polling station staff in the 2008 election. It is hearsay on my part, but I trust the source, that conservative operatives were boasting about infiltrating polling station staff in the Kitchener-Waterloo area in order to turn away voters ...
• Con-Air
  TGB Newswire, 12 July 2012: Concern among Canadians is growing after the entire body of Conservative MPs appears to have vanished. RCMP yesterday finally confirmed rumours that the prime minister and his family haven't been seen at 24 Sussex Drive in more than a week. Phone calls and emails to M ...
• About those 31 000 calls
  If they contain anything like this, Elections Canada will need respirators to find the guns through the smoke. Astrid Dimond said she had been called six times for Conservative donations during the last election. After a seventh call, she said she did an internet search on the caller’s phone n ...
• Aislin's perspective . . .
• That's a lot of sour grapes
  Via Kady. Elections Canada has received a high volume of complaints in recent days as a result of MPs and political parties calling on the public to send information to the agency. More than 31,000 contacts have been initiated with Elections Canada by Canadians. Elections Canada is reviewing th ...

Media Matters for America

• Young Women's Health Care Needs Are No Laughin ...
  Right-wing media are now resorting to mocking female college students' health care needs and their call that religiously affiliated colleges and universities provide access to contraceptives. But studies have found that numerous benefits (medical, social, and economic) exist in providing colleg ...
• John Bolton's Default Setting: When In Doubt, ...
  Fox News contributor and former Bush administration official John Bolton has used Fox News and print media to relentlessly push for first-strike military interventions in Iran. His advocacy of force is only the latest attempt by Bolton to push for the United States to engage in military operati ...
• Conservative Media Promote Bogus Chart On Nati ...
  Fox News and right-wing blogs have promoted a chart that purports to show the "alarming" fact that national debt per person is higher in the United States than in several crisis-stricken European countries. This comparison is flawed because these countries' economies are fundamentally different ...
• Against Innovation: Right-Wing Media Mock Obam ...
  Following their long tradition of attacking renewable energy, right-wing media have mocked President Obama for supporting production of algae biofuels. Yet several companies already produce biofuel made from algae, recent scientific advances have increased the fuel's potential, and the industry ...
• Conservative Experts Say That Obama Was Right ...
  Several conservative foreign policy and military experts have agreed with President Obama's decision to apologize to Afghanistan for the burning of Qurans by U.S. military personnel. Ignoring these experts, Fox News' conservative hosts and pundits have tried to flame outrage over Obama's apolog ...

Global Research.ca

• WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling th ...
  GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve nuclear weapons and the collision of global powers...
• SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
  ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the "Libya Model": it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces...
• The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadma ...
  The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
• The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing t ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US Media Rigged Ahead of Russian Elections
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• 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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• In Afghanistan, American Conservatives Threw P ...
  The stunning murders of two senior American officers within the high-security command and control center of the Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, followed by the wounding of other American soldiers by a grenade thrown into a camp in Kunduz, is a bitter disgrace for the counter-insurgency strategy ...
• The Unapologetic Republicans
  I'm sorry, but the apology controversy is a sorry-**sed sorry affair (latest coverage here and here). If this is going to be taken seriously as campaign issue, it needs to be looked at from both directions. The Republicans shouldn't get a free pass to put the president on the defensive. We need ...
• Smothering Iran Diplomacy With Support
  When you boil it down, much of the recent right-wing commentary on Iran consists of variations on the theme of just how futile diplomacy is. President Obama's handling of Iran has been subject to intense cross-pressures --and plenty of second-guessing -- at every step along the way. And now, hav ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Palestinian woman in Israeli jail enters 15th ...
  Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman currently being held in administrative detention by Israel, entered the 15th day of her hunger strike today in protest of the maltreatment she suffered ...
• Rights group: Israel set to release prisoners ...
  Israel is set to release at least a dozen Palestinian prisoners on Friday, a human rights group said. Ahmad al-Beitawy, a researcher with International Solidarity for Human Rights, said ...
• Palestinian prisoners boycott military courts ...
  Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank have begun a boycott of the controversial military courts.
• Israeli military court postpones Shalabi heari ...
  The Ofer military court has decided to postpone the hearing of Hana Shalabi, a prisoner on hunger strike, until the judge examines secret evidence with the intelligence services on Marc ...
• Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel ...
  In a recent and highly controversial interview, Norman Finkelstein, long a scourge of Israel, turned his guns on Palestinians and their supporters. He accused the boycott, divestment an ...

Water - AlterNet

• Successful Anti-Fracking Organization Damascus ...
  The grassroots organization is widening their scope in order to help the watershed of the Susquehanna River.
• How Private Water Companies Are Fleecing Their ...
  Private companies are aggressively trying to expand their share of the water service market, and too often we're getting a raw deal.
• How Private Water Companies Are Fleecing its C ...
  Private companies are aggressively trying to expand their share of the water service market, and too often we're getting a raw deal.
• Is the Era of Nuclear Power Coming to an End i ...
  A battle raging in Vermont over an aging plant may be an important indicator of whether nuclear has had its day.
• 7 Dangerous Lies About Plastic
  Big Plastic is big money and survives regulatory scrutiny by creating big spin. Here's what you need to know.

Public Citizen in Texas

• 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 ...
• Tar Sands by Any Other Name
  This post was reprinted from a press statement by Trevor Lovell in response to TransCanada’s announcement yesterday, February 27th regarding their plans to pursue the building of a pipeline from Cushing, OK to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast while pursuing a new application for the ...
• 2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts bo ...
  While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out pow ...
• A temporary victory for private property rights
  Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline ...
• TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Desp ...
  Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to b ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Extinct 'tree lobster' found after 80 years
  A species of insect thought to be extinct has been found on a sea stack in the middle of the ocean. The 'tree lobster' is a large flightless stick ins...
• Children at risk from 'witch finders'
  Police have warned of a rise in cases involving people being tortured due to being branded as witches. The warning follows the case of Kristy Bamu who...
• Theory of American migration reviewed
  New evidence has being found indicating America was populated far earlier than previously thought. The research has suggested that Stone Age Europeans...
• 'Dog-headed pig monster' terrorizes Africa
  Residents in Namibia have reported being terrorised by a strange half-dog, half-pig hybrid creature. The bizarre report has generated considerable fea...
• DNA reveals secrets of Oetzi the Iceman
  Scientists have been investigating what some are calling the world's oldest ever murder case. The 5,300-year-old remains of Oetzi were found frozen in...

Grassroots

• Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Anna Lappé is author of Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork (Bloomsbury USA) and a board member of Rainforest Action Network. Willie Nelson is founder and president of Farm Aid ...
• Successful Steps toward Food Sovereignty
  mozambique200811-small.jpg From all corners of the world, small farmers, indigenous peoples and human rights activists have been percolating solutions upward to advance their rights to land, water and food. With 2011 behind us, Grassroots I ...
• Haitian leaders call for land and housing rights
  639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...
• Ex-Haitian Dictator will not be tried for huma ...
  2785349288_8fd8b11a14_m.jpg Since returning from exile last year, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been treated like an old friend by Haitian President Michel Martelly, rather than a brutal dictator responsible for the de ...
• Violence continues in Honduras, agro-fuels pla ...
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Climate

• Oceans Acidifying Fastest in 300 Million Years ...
  (Bloomberg) The Earth's oceans may be acidifying faster than at any point during the last 300 million years due to industrial emissions, endangering marine life, researchers said.
• Va. Supreme Court Likely to Rule Today on Glob ...
  (AP) The Virginia Supreme Court is expected to rule on the attorney general's demand for documents related to the work of a former University of Virginia climate change researcher.
• Governments Embrace Carbon Voluntary Market: R ...
  (Reuters) A growing number of national and regional governments are likely to use voluntary carbon credits to meet mandatory climate targets, a report by U.S. research company Ecosystem Marketplace said on Thursday.
• Another Indiana Company Abandons Electric Vehi ...
  (Chicago Tribune) Bright Automotive, based in Anderson, Ind., announced this week that it will wind down operations after withdrawing an application for a loan from the DOE's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program.
• Gingrich Calls for Energy Secretary Chu’s Resi ...
  (The Hill) Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is again calling for the resignation of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, saying that the president’s support for Chu signals a commitment to "his radical ideology, which wants to ...

GreenBiz

• 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.
• 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.
• Helping Social Intrapreneurs Enhance Their Imp ...
  Ford Motor Company's manager of Social Sustainability explains why his work has expanded beyond not just environmental issues, but to reach out far beyond the company's own factories and into the community.
• The Benefits of Building Efficiency Go Far Bey ...
  Today, improving buildings' energy efficiency is a rapidly growing industry blossoming with new business ideas and models. Here are some ways business can profit.
• 5 Ways Leading Companies Dive into Water Manag ...
  Verdantix takes a look at the state of global corporate water strategies and what it will take for them to mature.  

Duly Noted

• 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.
• India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
  A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.

Booman Tribune

• Are You Serious? Really?
  I know for a fact that Assrocket lived through the Bush years and yet he writes this: WHY CANT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MAKE ITS CASE WITHOUT DISSEMINATING HATE? Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obamas? An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against on ...
• I'd Call This Peak Wingnut, but I Bet We'll To ...
  For those who are still in denial about the extremism of modern-day Republicans, the past week -- hell, the past 24 hours -- should have been a cold slap in the face, a big jolt of reality. Rush Limbaugh, praised for years by Republicans, declared an honorary member of the House freshman class ...
• Does Romney Have a Puncher's Chance?
  I'm modestly disappointed that Obama is only polling slightly better against Romney than he actually did against McCain. A dead heat in Arizona is about what I would expect, considering that McCain carried more votes in his home state than Romney will. Arizona and Missouri are the two McCain-ca ...
• A Cruel Joke
  Yes, it was a racist email/joke, but I didn't even take it that way when I first read it. My immediate reaction was that it was an attack on the president's mother and that it was a cruel thing to say. So, here's the joke: The subject line of the email, which [U.S. District Court Judge ...
• A Matter of Taste
  My general attitude is that it's polite to set out a little time after someone loathsome dies before you say bad things about them. This is a matter of personal taste. I may think "good riddance" to myself, but I'm just going to refrain from saying it for a day or two, or maybe until they've b ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Harrowing Lives of Child Miners in the Ear ...
  Coal mining in the early 1900s was backbreaking and dangerous work, and mine bosses didn't shy away from employing young boys down in the pits. Far from it. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Thousands of Pilgrims Praying in Front of the ...
  Images of thousands of devotees praying together in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India on the occasion of Eid. Unforgettable... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Incredible Secret Language of Plants
  New research shows that plants may not be the passive species we thought they were. Rather, they can actively communicate with their neighbors... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Urban Hiking: Adventure and Exercise Right On ...
  Urban hiking is gaining popularity worldwide. It's a great way to explore, get some exercise and even challenge your mind – and it doesn't cost a penny! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How to Make Your Own Walking Stick Out of Recy ...
  Save your pruned branches from the dump. Turn them into walking sticks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Questioning Intervention in Syria: A Response ...
  Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for the Obama administration, advises bypassing the U.N. Security Council and intervening in Syria.
• How The Media Got The Parchin Access Story Wrong
  Access to an Iranian military test facility wan't explicitly denied to nuclear inspectors, just subject to bargaining.
• To the Valley in the Morning with Blood and Gu ...
  When there's war all the time, there's no such thing as after the war anymore.
• Review: Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959
  A new book on Cuba is a thoughtful treatment of a topic that has usually generated more heat than light.
• Crusade 2.0: The Rise of Islamophobia
  John Feffer will share the topic of his new book with Knowledge Commons DC.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Red Crescent blocked from Homs district
  ICRC president calls obstruction of emergency mission to Bab Amr "unacceptable" as reports of violence continue.
• Putin brushes off protests ahead of vote
  Russian prime minister expected to win Sunday's presidential elections, as opposition plans demonstration in Moscow.
• EU leaders sign new fiscal treaty
  Agreement, signed by all but two European Union members, seeks to control budget deficits and impose fiscal discipline.
• African leaders launch 'super port' project
  Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan launch $25bn joint project to build port, refinery and railway near UNESCO-listed island.
• Pakistan Taliban claim deadly Khyber attack
  At least four fighters killed in assault on rival group, while an earlier attack on Pakistan army killed 33 people.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: 'The Lorax'
  A critic suggests that the new animated film is blind to the Seussian environmental fable "and to everything else that is interesting or true in the story it tries to tell."
• When It Rains, It Will Really Pour
  Two new studies indicate that climate change will produce increasingly severe storms in the western United States. But it will be many years before scientists can definitively link the severity of those events to human-driven global warming.
• Sizing Up Health Impacts a Year After Fukushima
  While the earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 20,000 people, radiation from the nuclear plant has not killed anyone so far, and experts suggest that the doses were too small to have much effect.
• What Next for Gas Prices?
  If President Obama gets tougher on Iran, gas prices could rise even further, especially since prices normally go up in the spring and summer driving season anyway
• On Our Radar: Forest Service Is Scaling Back Fees
  Twenty-five forest areas charging fees would remain nationally.

Dot Earth News

• Alan Alda Asks, What is a Flame?
  A master science communicator unveils a competition to explain fire to kids.
• A CO2 Warning Etched in Stone and Sediment
  Geologists find ample evidence etched in rock of momentous environmental changes driven by carbon dioxide.
• A Fresh Scientific Defense of the Merits of Mo ...
  A round in a scientific debate over the climate implications of shale gas.
• Songs of this Fossil Age: A Coal Miner's Death ...
  A contemporary ballad recalls a mining death foretold.
• Why We Often Worry Too Much, and Sometimes Not ...
  A look at the fear factors that cause humans to overreact to some risks and miss others.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• 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 ...
• Rise of the Facebook Killers! SocialNetwork-in ...
  Rise of the Facebook-Killers by Nick Pinto- New York - Village Voice: .... Moglen said, Mark Zuckerberg had harnessed the energy of our social desires to talk us into a swindle. "Everybody needs to get laid," Moglen said. "He turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human per ...
• Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
  It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
• Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
  Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...

Daily Censored

• The Education Games: Reform as Doublespeak
  Although we currently live in a world informed by George Orwell’s dystopian unmasking-as-novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, we seem unable to acknowledge that the Ministry of Peace is actually waging war. In our current education reform debate, educators must come to terms with Orwell’s re ...
• Two 30-second MTV ads warn Americans what NDAA ...
  video here. MTV created two public service announcements to encourage young Americans to understand and stand for their civil rights. The 2006 Military Commissions Act and 2012 NDAA ”legislated” dictatorial authority to declare any person a “terrorist supporter,” seize su ...
• President Rick Santorum
  By Saul Landau The media’s ability to confuse celebrity “news” with war and economic disaster grows stronger. “As North Korea ramped up its threats to attack South Korea, CNN reassured its viewers that a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula would have “no effect whatsoever” on its Whitney Houston ...
• Public banks can expose MERS fraud, claim hous ...
  with video interview here. Leading author Ellen Brown explains in the video under ten minutes with Jeff Rense, and writes how public banks (and here) can expose the big banks as having destroyed legal title to mortgaged homes when they gambled with so-called “mortgage backed securities,” then ta ...
• U.S. House votes to deregulate for-profit colleges
  American Legislative Exchange Council member and wind-up politician and arch-conservative, Virginia Foxx on the congressional floor       A recently submitted House Bill, H.R. 2117, would repeal a regulation commonly known as the “state authorization rule.” This rule is a mechanism des ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Afghan clerics demand public trial for Koran b ...
• Assad's 'days are numbered' says Obama
• Obama warns Iran would 'play victim' if attacked
• Continental, United Go To Single Computer System
• Dentist Wins Bin For Elvis Presley's Crown

Institute for Policy Studies

• Crikey! Australia Shocks Corporate America on ...
  U.S. corporate lobby groups bash Australia for refusing to give foreign investors powerful new rights in the Trans-Pacific trade deal.
• North Korea's Pivot
  North Korea is executing a pivot of its own.
• Is Now the Time for Countries to Legalize Stre ...
  In the last edition of the Latin American Advisor, Sanho Tree lent his opinion to the ongoing hemispheric debate over drug legalization.
• Corporations Commit Atrocities, My Friend
  The Supreme Court is weighing a case with major ramifications for corporate accountability.
• Another Wealthy Executive Seeks To Dodge Prison
  Last week, in a New York courtroom, memories of a forgotten tragedy edged back onto the public stage.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #688
  StratFor email leaks offer frightening view of government intelligence. US still using U-2 to spy on North Korea. Thin line separates cyberspies from cybercriminals.
• CIA joins hunt for white British woman who joi ...
  American intelligence officials are said to be actively cooperating with Kenyan authorities in the hunt for a white British woman believed to have joined a Somali group that is part of al-Qaeda in East Africa.
• News you may have missed #687
  Is Obama abusing the US Espionage Act? Ex-head admits IAEA does work with spies. Afghanistan arrests diplomat on spying charges.
• Israel ‘not to warn US’ on Iran attack, says U ...
  The Israeli government has reportedly decided not to forewarn the United States if and when it decides to launch military strikes against Iran’s nuclear energy program.
• News you may have missed #686
  WikiLeaks to publish 5 million StatFor emails. Analysis: Blurred line between espionage and truth under Obama. Nazis had spy in MI5 but failed to use him.

War is a Crime.org

• Petition Launched to Investigate Betrayal of N ...
   -----------PRESS  RELEASE------------ Since awarding US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, an award that showed just how greatly the Norwegian parliamentarians’ selection process had degenerated and departed from Alfred Nobel’s will, Nobel Secretary Geir Lundestad h ...
• Video of Stop Suppression of Occupy Rally
• Bradley Manning Headed to Court Martial
  By David Eberhardt   On 2/23/12, Bradley Manning was arraigned at Fort Meade, Maryland- meaning his case will proceed to court martial in June or August and he will be tried on 20 + counts- including leaking classified documents (to wikileaks) , unauthorized use of these documents, theft of ...
• Obama Tells Jodie Evans He Hasn't Started a Wa ...
• Bradley Manning Formally Charged, Still No Trial
  The Manning prosecution is a tragic miscarriage of justice.  US officials are highly embarrassed by what Manning exposed and are shooting the messenger.  As Glen Greenwald, the terrific Salon writer, has observed, President Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers for espionage than al ...

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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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Time - Top Stories

• 'Childist' Nation: Does America Hate Kids?
  There is a sense that children's needs have become too prominent, but the targets of that backlash--its victims--are kids
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Digg Green

• For the first time, researchers at MIT and els ...
  Researchers find the first neutron star that bursts as predicted.
• Humans Living Without A Pulse
  Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in March of 2011 successfully replaced a dying man's heart with a 'continuous flow' device they developed, proving that life was possible...
• A Brief History of the Parachute
  One hundred years ago, an Army daredevil completed the first parachute jump from a plane. But the history of the chute goes all the way back to Leonardo da Vinci, and all the way up to today's advanced military air drops.
• The Pale Red Dot - 13.2 Billion Years Old: The ...
  A deep optical image of the afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB 090429B, arguably the most distant object known in the universe.The light from this object has been traveling towards us for about 13.2 billion years, or 96% of the age of the universe. Since the universe is not static but expandin ...
• Structured Unlearning: Marijuana May Impair Me ...
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Invisible Opportunity

• Murdoch Jr flies away from trouble – but it ma ...
  By Ian Burrell James Murdoch severed ties with his father’s stable of British newspapers yesterday as he resigned from News International following fresh revelations of a corporate cover-up of the company’s involvement in phone hacking and bribery of public officials. Mr Murdoch gave ...
• 81% of Israelis Oppose Strike on Iran
  Only 19% of Israelis Support a Unilateral Strike on Iran Despite all of the warmongering hysteria, the overwhelming majority of all Israelis oppose a unilateral strike on Iran. The Jerusalem Post reports: Only 19 percent of Israelis support an attack against Iran without the backing of the Unite ...
• UK Politician Resigns After Saying Israel &#82 ...
  By Keith Edkins “It will not go on for ever, it will not go on for ever. Israel will lose support and then they will reap what they have sown.” These words, spoken by a member of the UK’s House of Lords, have sparked a huge amount of controversy in the UK. The Guardian reports ...
• Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics: How one of ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this s ...
• ‘Euthanasia Rollercoaster’ Hailed by Anti-Huma ...
  Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post With the designated purpose of ‘euthanasia and execution,’ the “Euthanasia Coaster” is a concept for a real steel roller coaster that has been created to “show the future of humans and technology.” The creator of the coaster, Julijonas Urbonas, says th ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Kentucky and Oklahoma Reject "Anti-Meth& ...
  This week, prescription-only bills were killed in Oklahoma and withdrawn in Kentucky, and unhappy police and prosecutors are blaming the over-the-counter industry.
• Kentucky and Oklahoma Reject Ridiculous &quot ...
  This week, prescription-only bills were killed in Oklahoma and withdrawn in Kentucky, and unhappy police and prosecutors are blaming the over-the-counter industry.
• Eliot Spitzer: Spending Money on Prosecuting P ...
  Former New York governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer says he not only supports medical marijuana, but thinks we should replace marijuana prohibition with legalization.
• Eliot Spitzer: "Legalizing Pot is The Rig ...
  Former New York governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer says he not only supports medical marijuana, but thinks we should replace marijuana prohibition with legalization.
• Whites More Likely to Be Drug Addicts Than Bla ...
  The racial undertones that permeate the discussion of Whitney Houston’s death are trading on the stereotype that most drug abusers are black -- which simply isn't true.

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

• 100 Mile House Competition Challenges Architec ...
  Prior to the widespread use of polluting fossil fuels, most buildings were made from local materials, using techniques that made sense for the local climate and lifestyle. Now the Architecture Foundation of BC has issued an open challenge to the world: design a house using only materia ...
• French Vending Machine Dispenses Fresh Local M ...
  Imagine being able to pick up fresh, locally produced milk right from a vending machine? Well that’s exactly how some farmers in south-west France will be selling their milk going forward. Dairy farmer Michel Cantaloube is the brains behind the venture, which provides unpasteurized milk 24 ...
• Bloom Energy Rumored to be Behind Apple’s Mass ...
  Apple recently announced that they are planning to build a massive solar array at their data center in Maiden, North Carolina that will be complemented by a pretty sizable fuel cell installation. According to Katie Fehrenbacher over at GigaOm, Bloom Energy — a Sunnyvale, California-based r ...
• 3M’s New Nanoparticle Technology Could Make Na ...
  Gas prices have increased at record levels this month, with prices climbing for 20 days in a row, and as gas prices rise, interest in more fuel efficient vehicles go up as well. Automakers have continued to focus on hybrids, electric vehicles and more efficient gasoline and diesel engines, but o ...
• 6 High-Flying New Treetop Abodes by O2 Treehouses
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Pogue's Posts

• A Review of the Windows 8 Beta
  Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public. It's an imaginative and successful rethinking of an operating system. The Start screen, for example, is like a Lego kit for your life's control panel.
• More on OnLive Desktop – Readers' Questi ...
  Following Thursday's column, more information about OnLive Desktop, the app that turns an iPad into a blazing-fast Windows machine.
• What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found
  ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.
• Apple's Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like ...
  Apple's Mountain Lion operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what's on the iPhone/iPad. Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly a ...
• The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
  If consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Ocean Acidification to Hit 300 Million Year Max
  The current rate of ocean acidification puts Earth on a track that, if continued, would likely be unprecedented in last 300 million years.
• Eagle Cam Update: 3 Eggs in the Nest
  Wired Science readers are again tuning in to watch the surprisingly addictive saga unfold as a pair of eagles hatch and raise their chicks on a live webcam. Last year, millions of people from 184 different countries watched as three eaglets grew. Wired readers formed their own eagle-watching com ...
• Book of Germs: The Quest for a Field Guide to ...
  Germ lovers rejoice! A proposal to build an electronic field guide to microbes could put everything you need to know about these microscopic bugs at your fingertips. The project would rely on scientists and citizens alike to contribute information about microbes, including their appearance, beha ...
• 120-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost Dragon’ Pterosaur ...
  Paleontologists in northeast China have discovered a wildly snaggle-toothed skull that belonged to a previously unknown, 120-million-year-old flying reptile.
• How Dolphins Say Hello
  Bottlenose dolphins have a knack for language, but humans are just beginning to understand dolphin language as more than just a cacophony of clicks, pulses and whistles. The dolphins might use unique calls, known as signature whistles, to introduce themselves to others when meeting at sea.

PakAlert

• Pentagon prepares “aerial refueling” for Israe ...
  In a dramatic U-turn to show Israel that Washington is serious about its military option against Iran’s nuclear program, Pentagon officials disclosed Thursday, March 1, that “military options being prepared start with providing refueling for Israeli planes and include attacking the pillars of th ...
• Chess game: U.S. radar site monitoring Iran ‘o ...
  U.S. Army’s commander in Europe Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling said in an interview at Montenegro’s main military airport in its capital that the U.S. has the forces in place at a radar site in eastern city of Malatya, Turkey. It is the first time a senior U.S. commander has confirmed that the NATO defe ...
• U.S. Threatens Pakistan: Drop Iran Pipeline
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has threatened Pakistan with sanctions if the country continues with plans to build a natural gas pipeline to Iran. The U.S. is moving to squeeze Iran financially in a bid to force it to drop its nuclear program. But Pakistan has been unwilling to line ...
• Are we wrong about Pakistan?
  When Peter Oborne first arrived in Pakistan, he expected a 'savage' back water scarred by terrorism. Years later, he describes the Pakistan that is barely documented - and that he came to fall in love with
• Virginia declares “emperor has no clothes”: ND ...
  Virginia's Senate voted today (39-1) to nullify NDAA 2012 provisions to seize American citizens at the dictate of the federal executive branch. They joined the House's 96-4 vote.

Andy Worthington

• Save the NHS: The Battle Is Not Yet Won, But t ...
  So much for promises. David Cameron and his government are notorious, to those who are awake and paying attention, for implementing policies that they never mentioned on the election trail two years ago, and for not having a mandate for their swingeing cuts to the British state that are dispropo ...
• Lying Bully David Cameron Hails Passage of Wel ...
  Ever since the Tories sneaked into power nearly two years ago, having failed to convince a majority of voters to trust them, and having had to construct an unlikely coalition with the Liberal Democrats, my country has become an unrecognisable place: mean-spirited above all, as the tiresome David ...
• Justice Denied: The Unacceptable 10-Year Deten ...
  Originally posted on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Last week, the attorney Tom Wilner and the journalist Andy Worthington (the steering committee of the “Close Guantánamo” project) were in Kuwait to raise awareness of the ongoing detention of Fayiz Al-Kandari and Fawzi Al-Odah, the ...
• To Mark 10 Years of Guantánamo, Stern Magazine ...
  Last week, when I cross-posted an article written for the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo by my friend Todd Pierce, I also noted that when I visited the US in January to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy that I did not have time to cross-post other articles ...
• Video (in Arabic): On Kuwaiti TV, Tom Wilner a ...
  Following up on my visit to Kuwait last week, to assist the lawyers and activists and family members pushing for the release from Guantánamo of the last two Kuwaiti prisoners, Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah, I’m pleased to make available below a series of videos of the 70-minute progra ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Rare Night Tornadoes This Week Fueled By Warm ...
  The unusual nighttime outbreak of tornadoes in the U.S. Midwest Wednesday morning may have been triggered by a warm winter.
• Estimates Clash for How Much Natural Gas in th ...
  As U.S. policymakers contemplate a new era as the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas," a new government analysis slashes estimates for unproved shale gas reserves.
• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind unusually snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged ...
  Scientists have created a new 3-D picture of a giant swarm of tiny gelatinous sea creatures off Australia.
• Concern Over Rare Rhino Rouses Clean Energy Dr ...
  After a fight against a coal-fired power plant that threatened one of the last sanctuaries of the Sumatran rhino, a struggle for cleaner energy continues in east Malaysia.

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

• Alabama ‘Sovereign’ Kingpin Loses Land, Prompt ...
  Not even antigovernment “sovereign citizen” James Timothy Turner, who has made a living teaching people sovereign tactics he claims will allow them to beat the banks, can save himself when it comes right down to it. On Feb. 22, Hatewatch has learned, the People’s South Bank in Ozark, Ala., ...
• Nevada Neo-Nazis Charged in Double Murder of A ...
  Contents of a cell phone found two years ago by federal investigators may have provided key information to the unraveling of a racially motivated, brutal double murder that took place 14 years ago in the Nevada desert. Melissa Hack, 37, her brother, Ross Hack, 40, and Leland Jones, 31, are charg ...
• Anti-‘Genocide’ Protests Around Nation Were Or ...
  Small protests against the “genocide” of white South Africans took place in 11 states Monday, drawing a smattering of media accounts that noted that some leftist counter-protesters accused the demonstrators of being white supremacists. But the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee quoted Michael Myers, a coor ...
• Mental Exam Ordered for Arizona ‘Soverei ...
  Arizona officials say a murder suspect who used language reminiscent of that employed by antigovernment “sovereign” citizens during court appearances must undergo a mental competency exam before returning to court, the Arizona Republic reported yesterday. Michael Lee Crane, 31, of Mesa, Ariz., p ...
• Mental Exam Ordered for Arizona ‘Soverei ...
  Arizona officials say a murder suspect who used language reminiscent of that employed by antigovernment “sovereign” citizens during court appearances must undergo a mental competency exam before returning to court, the Arizona Republic reported yesterday. Michael Lee Crane, 31, of Mesa, Ariz., p ...

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

• Obama's 'Oil Speculation Task Force' Missing i ...
  In April of 2011, with an attempt to address soaring gas prices and public concern, President Obama announced the creation of a special task force that would, according to the Justice Dept., "focus specifically on fraud in the energy markets." The Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group ...
• EU Unemployment Soaring
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is soaring, with the rate now at 10.7% for euro-using countries. Spain and Greece have the highest rates. read more
• Pandora's Box: Digging the Earth, Killing the ...
  The extent and the scale of the increase in world mineral extraction over the last 10 years is staggering, according to a new report. Across Latin America, Asia and Africa, more and more community lands, rivers and ecosystems are being despoiled, displaced and devoured by mining activities. The ...
• Obama Told at Fundraiser: "No War on Iran!"
  Barack Obama was in New York City last night to deliver a speech to several hundred Democrat donors.  One woman who attended decided to use the fundraising event to offer the President one unsolicited piece of advice.  read more
• Netanyahu Coming to Washington to Demand Obama ...
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Washington next week for the annual meeting of the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. While in town, Netanyahu will meet on Monday with President Obama to demand that the President commits to milit ...

Lifehacker

• Decide on a Purpose Before Working a Room to H ...
  Whether it's for career networking, social gatherings, or job events, working a room is often a daunting task, especially for shy people. To help you get out and make the connections you need to have a good time, Forbes suggests coming up with ...
• Label Paint Cans with the Name of What They Pa ...
  After a big painting or staining project it's easy to shuffle away and hide the paint cans in storage, but before you do that, Make Magazine user Craig Smith suggests you label the cans with the name of whatever you painted. More &raqu ...
• Grovo Offers Video Tutorials and Tips for Some ...
  The next time someone asks you "Why should I use Twitter," or "How would I get started with Evernote," instead of sighing deeply and writing a massive email to them or directing them to a useless help page, send them over to Grovo. Grovo is a ...
• Things You Should Expect If You Start Freelanc ...
  There's no better way to scrape up a few bucks in this economy or free yourself from a boss you dislike, or makes you sick with stress than doing some freelancing or starting your own business on the side. If you're thinking about taking the ...
• Test Drive the Windows 8 Consumer Preview by R ...
  If you're on the fence about the new Windows 8 consumer preview and you're not sure whether all of the new features are enough to make you want to upgrade, or whether you'd like the new Metro interface, here's a safe way to give the preview a ...

Water Privatization

• Aquino’s planned privatization of 38,000 fores ...
  By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) recently protested against reports that President Benigno Aquino III’s public-private partnership (PPP) schemes have included the privatization of 38,000 he ...
• Bottled water costly for us and the planet
  I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).
• SGA Bill Supports Plastic Reduction
  The Student Government Association (SGA) voted to support a water coalition initiative calling for the reduction of plastic bottle sales on campus, particularly at Cox Hall, during a legislative session Monday evening.
• Aquino wants water sector master plan by April
  A MASTER plan for the water sector is expected to be finalized by April to improve the development and use of the resource, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III said yesterday.
• Manila Water sets P10B capex
  EAST Zone concessionaire Manila Water Co. Inc. yesterday said it would maintain a capital expenditure of P10 billion this year to finance priority projects and investments particularly in wastewater treatment plants.

Guardian

• Men guilty of stealing from Malaysian student ...
  John Kafunda put arm around student and Reece Donovan rifled through his bag in incident caught on camera in LondonTwo men have been convicted of stealing from an injured Malaysian student after pretending to help him during the London riots.Mobile phone footage of Ashraf Rossli being attacked d ...
• Former NoW journalist denies ordering surveill ...
  Alex Marunchak rejects allegations made at Leveson inquiry that he arranged for policeman leading investigation to be trailedThe former News of the World journalist alleged to have put the police officer running the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry under surveillance has dismissed the allegations.Al ...
• EU summit: David Cameron claims Britain's voic ...
  British prime minister – who sat out signing of fiscal compact – claims success as EU communique is 'fundamentally rewritten'Britain has secured a number of key demands at the European Union to boost jobs and growth across the continent, David Cameron has said.The prime minister declared himself ...
• Syria: Red Cross prepares to enter Baba Amr - ...
  • Seven-truck relief convoy reaches Homs • Syrian regime forces control Baba Amr • Iranians vote in parliamentary election • Read the latest summary11.53am: More developments at the EU summit in Brussels, where the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has announced that France will close its emb ...
• Petrol prices hit record high with further ris ...
  Petrol rises to 137.44p a litre while diesel hits 144.60p, according to the AA, and the 'prospects don't look great'Petrol prices are at record levels, with the price of a litre of unleaded fuel hitting 137.44p, according to the AA.It will now cost drivers more than £68 to fill up a typical 50 l ...

McClatchey

• School prayer bill passes with bipartisan supp ...
  After winning the overwhelming approval of the Florida House on Thursday, a bill that would allow student-led prayer in public schools seems all but certain to become law.Click to Continue »
• Giant new plant shows coal power isn't going away
  The Prairie State power plant, set amid farm fields and woods in southwestern Illinois, will start producing power soon, beginning a life of burning local coal that's expected to last…Click to Continue »
• New reports detail discontent, fear in Venezue ...
  President Hugo Chávezs illness has deepened the internal fissures of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, an institution that never integrated into one unique block of support of the Bolivarian Revolution and…Click to Continue »
• Student kills teacher at Christian school in n ...
  An Iraqi student shot his American gym teacher to death and then killed himself Thursday at a private Christian school in the usually peaceful Kurdish north of Iraq. The shooting…Click to Continue »
• Gingrich pursues Southern strategy to break ba ...
  While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum flew to Washington state ahead of its Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, Newt Gingrich tended to business in his old stomping ground of Georgia.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Two more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  On 1 March, two American soldiers were killed in a shooting by an Afghan troop and civilian at a joint base in southern Afghanistan, according to local officials. Amid heightened tension over the ...
• Attacks on U.S. soldiers continue in Afghanistan
  Asia News: KABUL, In the second such incident in a week and one likely to deepen doubts about Afghanistan's security forces, two U.S. soldiers were shot and killed on Thursday in an attack ...
• U.S. NATO ambassador says Afghan policy intact
  US News: CHICAGO, The U.S. ambassador to NATO said on Thursday the alliance is committed to its policy in Afghanistan despite recent attacks on military advisers and U.S. soldiers in a violent ...
• Kyrgyzstan, UK discuss northern route for supp ...
  BISHKEK, March 2 (Itar-Tass) - Kyrgyzstan and Britain discussed opportunities to expand the so-called northern route for supplies to enter and leave Afghanistan during UK Armed Forces Minister Nick ...
• Rare Afghan Sheep Survives Despite Poachers
  By Nur Agha Nuri FAYZABAD, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, March 1, 2012 (ENS) - Counting sheep in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province may be difficult, but shooting them is easy enough when the ...

Futurismic

• 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 ...
• Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
    The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
• Out of Destruction, Transformation?
  Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
• Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
  My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• FBI's PSA Excludes Key Information for Whistle ...
  This week, the FBI released a public service announcement by actor Michael Douglas encouraging the public to report financial fraud. On its face this sounds like a good thing. However, the FBI left out some key information, namely other avenues of reporting that are likely better for whistleblow ...
• Supreme Court ducks conflict on Garcetti
  This morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear two cases that raise a conflict among the circuits about whether the First Amendment protects government employees who refuse to make false statements.  The Court denied petitions for certiorari by David Bowie, a former official of the Distri ...
• No SOX protection for contractor's employees, ...
    On February 3, 2012, two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the SOX whistleblower claims of Jackie Lawson and Jonathan Zang. The case is Lawson v. FMR, LLC, Case No. 10-2240 (1st Cir. 2012). To justify this dismissal, the two judge majority held that the ...
• NWC amicus brief urges broad protection under SOX
  Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center filed an amicus, or fiend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its case of Wiest v. Lynch, Case No. 11-4257. The main issue is whether the Court should adopt the ARB's broad "reasonable belief" standar ...
• New York Times editorial supports FDA whistleb ...
  In today's editorial, the New York Times expresses concerns about the targeted surveillance of whistleblowers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The editorial recounts the claims made by six scientists and physicians who raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of devices appro ...

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

• Kim Dotcom Gives TV Interview Where He Insists ...
  While Kim Dotcom is out on bail in New Zealand, he gave an interview to a New Zealand TV station. You can watch it below or read the transcript at the previous link: Generally speaking, if you're facing criminal charges, it's probably not a wise idea to give public interviews to the pres ...
• Time To Go: Why EU Commissioner De Gucht Has D ...
  Even though the European Commission has referred ACTA to the European Court of Justice, the European Parliament continues to examine the treaty in its various committees. Earlier this week, the one dealing with International Trade met for a preliminary discussion. One of the key speakers was t ...
• Intellectual Ventures Sues AT&T, Sprint And T- ...
  After years of not suing anyone (but always threatening that it might, someday), Intellectual Ventures has become more and more aggressive of late in suing lots of companies. A few weeks ago it sued AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile over a bunch of patents that (of course) involved some of IV's fa ...
• And This Little Piggy Went Viral
  BoingBoing recently highlighted this entertaining commercial for The Guardian, which neatly captures the state of modern news by having some fun with a fairy tale: It's a great little production, because not only does it effectively portray the potential of what is variou ...
• One Cent Friends: Another Attempt To Quantify ...
  We've talked before about services that attempt to measure someone's social media "influence" and the inherent silliness of the concept. Although the numerical values assigned by services like Klout are, at best, weak indicators of a person's actual influence, it's not surprising that people are ...

VacTruth

• The Public Is Kept in the Dark About Many Medi ...
  There is no issue that the public has been kept in the dark about more than vaccines, the ‘sacred cash cow’ of modern pharmacology—not medicine.
• ‘Legal’ Kidnapping By The State To ...
  Vaccine injured children are being taken from their parents. Authorities take the children under the pretense of child abuse.
• Horse Contraceptive Vaccine: Is Human Immunoco ...
  Several entities began working on a contraceptive vaccine to control wild horse populations. Is human immunocontracption Next?
• Autism – and a Different Vaccine
  If a relatively uncontroversial vaccine like the rabies vaccine can cause autism, isn’t it just possible that shooting tiny babies and young children full of vaccines—many at the same time when no one has ever conducted a study to prove that it’s safe to do so—could also cause autism?
• 3 Powerful Facts Discovered About Suppressed C ...
  Vaccines with a cancer-causing virus were left on the shelf because YOU, the person into whom they would be injected, would lose confidence in the vaccine program!

BroadSnark

• 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 ...
• On Porn Stars and Seamstresses
  I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview.  It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Holy crap. How have I not put up a TYMHM since January 10th. I seem to have lost a month of my life somewhere along the way. As you must have gathered from the couple posts I have put up, one of the things keeping me busy is the Criminal INjustice Committee of occupy. We [...]
• Natl Day in Support of Prisoners
  Apologies for falling off the map again. I have just about dug myself out of a hole and should be back on a posting schedule (fingers crossed) next week. In the meantime, one of the things keeping me busy has been the Criminal Injustice Committee of Occupy. Our Wells Fargo boycott website is up ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Officer Risks Career: ‘I Knew Too Much To Rema ...
  By Carl Osgood Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 24, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 8
• U.S. Military’s Efforts Alone Can’t Stop Empir ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 24, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 8
• An Appeal to the Peoples of Europe
  By Mikos Theodorakis and Manolis Glezos Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 24, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 8
• Mikos Theodorakis: The Truth about Greece
  By Mikos Theodorakis Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 24, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 8
• Greek Elder Statesmen Issue Appeal To Save The ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 24, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 8

War in Context

• Israel Firsters run NYT ad attacking critics
  In a January op-ed for the Tablet, Spencer Ackerman rebuked MJ Rosenberg at Media Matters and others for their use of the phrase Israel Firster: “Israel Firster” has a nasty anti-Semitic pedigree, one that many Jews will intuitively understand without knowing its specific history. It turns out w ...
• Consequences of an attack on Iran are no joke
  Marsha B Cohen writes: The ever-smirking Israeli Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, has calculated that the casualties of a war with Iran could be limited to fewer than 500. “There won’t be 100,000 dead, not 10,000 dead nor 1,000 dead. Israel will not be destroyed,” Barak said reassuringly during ...
• Music: Emilio Santigo & Marcos Valle – “Até o Fim”
• Saudi Arabia may be tied to 9/11, 2 ex-senator ...
  The New York Times reports: For more than a decade, questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made itself a crucial counterterrorism partner in the eyes of American diplomats. Now, in sworn statements t ...
• AP’s probe into NYPD intelligence operations
  Since August, AP has been publishing stories from its ongoing investigation into secret intelligence operations set up by the New York Police Department following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. AP’s investigation has revealed that the NYPD dispatched undercover officers into minority n ...

Watts Up With That?

• Dust deposition linked to glacier melt
  From the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and the Department of “The Albedo made me do it” comes further proof of what we have been saying before on WUWT about albedo effects of soot and … Continue reading →
• Things About Peter Gleick That “Might Al ...
  Guest post by David Ross According to his own account, Peter Gleick “received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute’s climate program strategy.” http://heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/FORGED%20HEARTLAND%20MEMO.pdf W ...
• UAH global temperature anomaly – still b ...
  UAH Global Temperature Update for February 2012: -0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly cooled a little more in February, 2012, again not unexpected for the current La Nina conditions in the tropical … Continue reading →
• Why CAGW theory is not “settled science”
  In Andi Cockroft’s story yesterday Climate Science and Special Relativity he asked a prescient question: For the general public that does not have an objective scientific bent, how do you tell virtual reality from the real thing? Dr. Brown responded in … Continue reading →
• Virginia AG loses in Mann-UVA litigation — wit ...
  JunkScience reports: The Virginia Supreme Court holds that the University of Virginia is not a “person” subject to a “Civil Investigative Demand” from the attorney general. This means that UVa won’t have to produce Michael Mann’s Climategate e-mails and documents … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Smart Manhole Cover Concept Senses and Display ...
  This interesting design tells pedestrians the current pollution levels, and would collect and store energy.
• Solar-Powered Micro Grids Change Lives of Indi ...
  Entrepreneurs build solar micro grids in India to power lights and charge mobile phones, changing the face of energy in rural areas.
• EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashio ...
  The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.
• Wheelhaus Wedge Is A Different Kind of Park Mo ...
  We have been waiting for the green modern trailer park, and it is finally coming into its own.
• Check Out the Adorable, Fun, and Productivity- ...
  To celebrate the premiere of Frozen Planet, Discovery has teamed up with Sea World San Diego to bring you a round the clock penguin feed.

Biosingularity

• Cool animation of Stem Cells
• What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?
  “What was he thinking?” It’s the familiar cry of bewildered parents trying to understand why their teenagers act the way they do. How does the boy who can thoughtfully explain the reasons never to drink and drive end up in a drunken crash? Why does the girl who knows all about ...
• Stem cells could drive hepatitis research forward
  Hepatitis C, an infectious disease that can cause inflammation and organ failure, has different effects on different people. But no one is sure why some people are very susceptible to the infection, while others are resistant. Scientists believe that if they could study liver cells from differen ...
• Scientists decode ‘internal voices’
  Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words. The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients’ brains. Based on signals from listening patients, a comp ...
• PCOS: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

CFACT

• The clear-cutting facts about the rainforest
  Are we really losing one football field every minute?
• New predictions of warming lack scientific basis
  Worst-case scenairos do not paint accurate picture of climate
• Cloudy days ahead for global climate models
  Computers still not reliable in predicting climate
• Corn dogs: A New Eco-Villain?
  Controversy is latest in biotech battle
• Examining China's emissions claims
  Evidence suggests China not cutting greenhouse emissions

Ria Novosti Online News

• Putin Goes 'All-Out', Zyuganov 'Turns Pink' in ...
• Georgia Reluctant to Restore Diplomatic Ties w ...
  Georgia will not restore diplomatic relations with Russia as long as Moscow recognizes the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Deputy Georgian Foreign Minister Sergei Kapanadze said on Ekho Moskvy radio on Friday.
• No Winners in a War in Iran
  At a meeting with editors of leading Western newspapers Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia will do all it can to prevent war in Iran. But is this war already inevitable?
• Arrested Russian Protest Activist Goes on Hung ...
  A protest activist arrested in the Russian city of Ufa, the republic of Bashkortostan in the Volga Federal District, went on a hunger strike on Friday, his lawyer reported.
• Trendswatcher: Dinosaurs Stalking Moscow Playg ...
  Oh the legendary Moscow playground! That cheerful place where small-time criminals gorge on sunflower seeds, off-duty cops make out with their girlfriends, and political debates between pensioners rage like the wildfires of 2010!

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Next Space Station May be Based on Other Plane ...
  A future international space station (ISS) could be built on another planet rather than in the Earth’s orbit, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
• Space Station Orbit Readjusted for Progress Do ...
  Russian Mission Control specialists on Wednesday readjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2.1 kilometers to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia’s Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft.
• Russian space programs
• Space Station’s Orbit to be Readjusted for Pro ...
  The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) on Wednesday to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia’s Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft with the station, Russian Mission Control spokeswoman said.
• Tunguska-Sized Asteroid Homing on Earth
  An asteroid of the same class as one that allegedly detonated over Tunguska River in 1908 will pass by Earth next year, flying closer than some man-made satellites, according to NASA.

Pruning Shears

• 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 ...
• Concerning violence advocates and the Black Bl ...
  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.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...
• Diversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
  Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...
• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Who is the Biggest "Corporate Fool" of 2012?
  WASHINGTON, DC -- With April Fool's Day a month away, the nonprofit Green America is launching its annual "Corporate Fools' balloting today on Facebook to name the U.S. company with the worst corporate practices. The winner will be determined by votes from the general public as tallied at https: ...
• Victory: Grassroots Pressure Leads to Closure ...
  Marking a grassroots victory, Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of Edison International, will retire two of the oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the nation. Activists have been working for the past ten years to close the two plants located in Chicago.Click here to read this article
• Shut Down the Corporations! Occupy Groups Targ ...
  Over 70 cities are participating today in a national day of action called by Occupy Portland to "Shut Down the Corporations." The group calls for non-violent direct action to "target corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council which is a prime example of the way corpo ...
• Naomi Klein: 'If You Take Climate Change Serio ...
  In an interview with Solutions, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses how market-based solutions are not going to meet the needs required to address climate change and how ideologies have hampered both the left and right in climate action. Click here to read this article
• Occupy DC Protesters Arrested Outside Monsanto
  Occupy DC said 12 of its members were arrested Wednesday while protesting outside the offices of agriculture giant Monsanto as part of a national day to "shut down the corporations."Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• Public Health Reports on Antibiotics in Food A ...
  The good news is that the journal Public Health Reports has published a review article that acknowledges (not in so few words) that agriculture is one of the major drivers of the antibiotic resistance crisis that is unfolding.
• Art Is the Answer
  Metaphors are models that help us understand how different parts of the world fit together. I view novels as models. And they are models that have four dimensions because there is a temporal dimension to a novel, as you are sitting there reading it, you are moving through it, you are watching it ...
• How Do Economics Shape Food, Faith and the Future?
  Last week, Sylvia Nasar, author of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, addressed the issue of economics as it relates to food systems and the future, at the sixth session of the Baltimore Food and Faith Project’s Enoughness series. Complex and massive, the topic garnered a number of div ...
• ‘Superbug’ Transfer: The Jump From Humans, to ...
  News media outlets throughout the nation were abuzz last week with the report of new scientific research showing, for the first time, how a strain of infectious Staph began life in humans, then spread to livestock where it became MRSA, and then jumped back to humans. The study was published Tues ...
• On the Horizon: The Future of Biofuels
  What are the greatest opportunities and challenges right now in moving toward a more bio-based economy? A conversation with Donna Perla, senior advisor at EPA.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Medical ethicists now admit abortion is a form ...
  Medical ethicists now admit abortion is a form of child abuse. Medical ethicists now admit abortion is a form of child abuse
• Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘ha ...
  Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’. Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’
• Another new female witness steps forward in Ta ...
  Another new female witness steps forward in Tamihere case today. Another new female witness steps forward in Tamihere case today
• David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown ope ...
  David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown open by new witness. David Tamihere Swedish tourists case blown open by new witness
• Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland
  Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland. Review: Roger Waters concert in Auckland

My Care2 Picks

• Judge Throws out Organic Farmers Case Against ...
  Between 1997 and 2010, 144 lawsuits were filed by Monsanto against American family farmers, with an additional 700 being settled out of court.The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association was hoping that the judge would disallow the use of Monsantos see Submitted by John Farnham to Science &amp ...
• Monsanto's Bt GMO corn to be sold at Wal-Mart ...
  Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Heal ...
• Political Climate
  You likely know climate change is a political football, even if only from ridiculous seeming pronouncements. And scientists are respected - so they make good cover for politicians to use them as sock puppets. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...
• Thirst
  I was thinking of our drinking water shortage ever increasing and reflecting on an old story about CIDA drilling wells in the Sahel and causing desertification. So I explored as the muse led. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• American Airlines Exposes Bushs Big Lie: Fligh ...
  American Airlines itself is the source for information that AA Flights 11 (North Tower) and 77 (Pentagon) did not fly on 911. ( Len Hart posts at OpEd News, guest blogs at Bluebloggin,: his own Existentialist Cowboy is filled with scholarly research ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &am ...

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

• GMO Krispies – Graphic
  GMO Krispies Graphic - Extra Glyphosate in Every Bite!
• Dairy Farmer is Ready to Go to Jail Over Food ...
  "I am proud of what I am doing. There is nothing wrong with peacefully providing food to members of my community who want it," claims Hershberger. "The state might put me in jail, but they cannot stop people from feeding their neighbors."
• Glyphosate Kills Rat Testis Cells
  A new study finds that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup Bioforce® as well as glyphosate alone reduced testosterone levels in testicular cells at very low concentrations; and at higher concentrations - still 10 times below agricultural use – the cells died in 24-48 hours.
• The Power of RAW Cannabis
  This is a must-watch video featuring some of the top researchers on the healing effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) in it's raw form, eaten or juiced.
• 2012 Seed Lady Calendar
  Download a free, printable 2012 Seed Lady Calendar to help keep track this growing season!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• FBI chief warns cyber crime on par with terrorism
  ShareThisFBI chief warns cyber crime on par with terrorism --'In the future, we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the number one threat to our country.' 02 Feb 2012 FBI director Robert Mueller warned a gathering of Internet security specialists that the threat of cyber attacks rivals te ...
• Internet Outage at Pentagon
  ShareThisInternet Outage at Pentagon 01 Mar 2012 The US military's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on Thursday shut down access to the internet and blackberry service while work was being done to fix an unspecified problem [hopefully caused by Anonymous]. The shutdown, which came aroun ...
• 5 deaths on one street: 'There are no words to ...
  ShareThis5 deaths on one street: 'There are no words to describe this' --The city of 9,000 was caught in the crosshairs of a storm that raked the nation's midsection Wednesday, killing at least 12 people in three states. 01 Mar 2012 (IL) Brady Street stood directly in the path of the deadly torn ...
• U.S. has military plan should Iran conflict er ...
  ShareThisU.S. has military plan should Iran conflict erupt, says Air Force chief --Pentagon officials say U.S. prepared options to provide aerial refueling for IDF planes, as well as plans to attack Iranian military bases 01 Mar 2012 U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz said Wed ...
• Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote
  ShareThisMore GOP election theft: Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote 01 Mar 2012 Michigan GOP officials have raised a ruckus in the presidential race by awarding native son Mitt Romney 16 of the state's delegates rather than the 15 it appeared he won in Tuesday's primary election. St ...

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

• MEDEVAC Momentum: Senate Armed Services Commit ...
  01 March 2012 The MEDEVAC issue continues with increasing seriousness.  Numerous Generals, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of Defense (through General Dempsey, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs) have all weighed into the fight.  Seventeen members of Congress have joined, and m ...
• Sisters at War
  29 February 2012 This is a small tribute to our women in harm’s way. We constantly argue about whether or not women should be allowed in combat.  Reality is that they have been in combat for longer than anyone reading this has been alive, and they were in combat before any of our great gr ...
• Tigers, Crocodiles, Korans and Superstitions
  Tiger eyes of man with fresh scars “The Sundarbans lies in the massive delta between India and Bangladesh. This is one of the most beautiful but most dangerous places in the world, a place of tigers and crocodiles and dangerous seas and canals. Mamata is just one of about 3,000 ‘tiger widows’ i ...
• Our Weak Government Must Stop Apologizing for ...
  27 February 2012 The recent Koran-burning in Afghanistan has again inspired lunacy and murder.  And while the US civilian and military leadership burdened by their oleaginous apologies tumbles down a moral stairwell, Afghan security forces continue to murder American and Coalition troops.& ...
• White Birds in a Red War
  25 February 2012 An Army Dustoff pilot studying his art ran across some interesting passages.  The book DUST OFF: ARMY AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION IN VIETNAM mentions machine guns, missiles, Geneva Conventions, and painting MEDEVAC helicopters white so that the enemy could identify them. Excer ...

The Killing Train

• Professionals and Torturers
  The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
• The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
  [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
• An interview for occupy Toronto
  Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
• Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
  I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
• The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
  The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...

treehugger

• Smart Manhole Cover Concept Senses and Display ...
  This interesting design tells pedestrians the current pollution levels, and would collect and store energy.
• Solar-Powered Micro Grids Change Lives of Indi ...
  Entrepreneurs build solar micro grids in India to power lights and charge mobile phones, changing the face of energy in rural areas.
• EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashio ...
  The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.
• Wheelhaus Wedge Is A Different Kind of Park Mo ...
  We have been waiting for the green modern trailer park, and it is finally coming into its own.
• Check Out the Adorable, Fun, and Productivity- ...
  To celebrate the premiere of Frozen Planet, Discovery has teamed up with Sea World San Diego to bring you a round the clock penguin feed.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• President ‘must go beyond words’: Ko Ko Gyi
  Activist says rule of law will not be realised in Burma until government educates citizens and rids characteristics of former junta
• Work to resume on Death Railway: reports
  Ceasefire deal with Mon rebels could pave the way for work to resume on the infamous route designed to link Bangkok to Rangoon
• Suu Kyi hails effects of sanctions
  Opposition leader says sanctions from western countries have pushed Burma's rulers along the path of democratic reform
• Investing a dubious future in ASEAN
  Allowing ASEAN monitors in for the April by-elections will be a test of how much the government trusts its neighbours, and a key step in Burma's rocky road to democratic transition
• Burma conflict due to ‘misunderstanding& ...
  President says government wants equal rights for minorities 'so our ethnic youths who held guns stand tall holding laptops'

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Oceans acidifying at 'unparalleled' rate
  Scientists have warned of the risk to marine life as climate change causes the oceans to acidify at the fastest rate for 300 million years.
• Grey squirrels blamed for decline in woodland ...
  Grey squirrels could be causing a decline in woodland song birds, according to a new study by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
• The Gleick affair is further proof of the warm ...
  Dr Peter Gleick provides more evidence that the supporters of the Cause will stop at nothing, says Christopher Booker.
• Foreign aid cash spent tackling climate change
  Nearly £1.5 billion has been spent tackling man-made climate change by Government department responsible for fighting poverty abroad, it can be revealed.
• Windfarms: An ill wind of change?
  As the world's biggest windfarm opens off Cumbria, Christopher Middleton investigates the turbine boom.

National Geographic | Environment

• Rare Night Tornadoes This Week Fueled By Warm ...
  The unusual nighttime outbreak of tornadoes in the U.S. Midwest Wednesday morning may have been triggered by a warm winter.
• Estimates Clash for How Much Natural Gas in th ...
  As U.S. policymakers contemplate a new era as the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas," a new government analysis slashes estimates for unproved shale gas reserves.
• Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Win ...
  Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice could be behind unusually snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere, a new model suggests.
• Huge Swarm of Gelatinous Sea Creatures Imaged ...
  Scientists have created a new 3-D picture of a giant swarm of tiny gelatinous sea creatures off Australia.
• Concern Over Rare Rhino Rouses Clean Energy Dr ...
  After a fight against a coal-fired power plant that threatened one of the last sanctuaries of the Sumatran rhino, a struggle for cleaner energy continues in east Malaysia.

Jurist - Legal Research

• US court rules Sri Lanka president immune from ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled on Wednesday that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website; BBC profile] is immune from suit [opinion, PDF] under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA) [text] while he is i ...
• Maryland becomes eighth state to allow same-se ...
  [JURIST] Maryland joined the seven states that allow same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder] when Governor Martin O'Malley (D) [official website] signed the Civil Marriage Protection Act [SB241, PDF] on Thursday. With signing the bill the governor released [official press release] the following ...
• Ninth Circuit upholds Washington immigrant foo ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that the state of Washington did not violate the constitutional rights of certain legal immigrants when it discontinued their food stamp benefits to save approximately $7 million in state ...
• Federal judge rules medical marijuana provider ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California [official website] on Tuesday dismissed [order, PDF] a lawsuit challenging the US Attorney's authority to prosecute medical marijuana [JURIST news archive] providers in the state. The suit was filed by the El Camin ...
• EU official: Google privacy changes are in bre ...
  [JURIST] Google's [corporate website] new privacy policy [text], which took affect Thursday, is in violation of European law according to the EU's Justice Commissioner Vice-President Viviane Reding [official website]. The new policy allows data collection from one Google service to be shared amo ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama Announces Reelection Bid
  The 2012 election is underway
• 5 Advantages for Obama in 2012
  The president's path to reelection
• Obama's Reelection Report Card
  The president's political strengths and weaknesses, as he opens the 2012 campaign
• 5 Disadvantages for Obama in 2012
  A tough economy could make him a one-term president
• Bin Laden's Death: A Pivotal Victory for Obama ...
  The president silences his national-security critics heading into 2012, and the CIA stands tall after the damage of 9/11

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• Polls Indicate No Israeli or U.S. Consensus Fa ...
  As Bibi Netanyahu heads to Washington for yet another in an endless series of consultations of dubious utility with Barack Obama, followed by yet another appeal to the worshipful multitudes at Aipac’s national conference, it’s important to note that opinion polls both in the U.S. and ...
• Israeli Justice Minister Exposes Shin Bet Offi ...
  In Israel, the intelligence apparatus is sacrosanct.  Among the many things you can’t do is publicly name a current or former officer (even after death).  Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman seems to have forgotten that.  Chaim Levinson reports in today’s Haaretz (see accompanying story) ...
• Republican Branch of Pro-Israel Lobby in Attac ...
  The Emergency Committee on Israel published a full-page ad in today’s New York Times denouncing the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for using allegedly anti-Semitic stereotypes in debates about the Israel-Palestine conflict and Iran.  The ad is displayed here for you to judg ...
• Links for 2012-02-29 [Digg]
  Olympia Food Co-Op Wins Anti-SLAPP Motion, Court Dismisses StandWithUs Lawsuit | Truthout
• Ben Smith, Alan Dershowitz’ Continuing ‘Jewish ...
  Flavius Josephus wrote an age-old classic of Jewish history, The War of the Jews (or “Jewish War”), hence my post title. This could get interesting: the last time we left Ben Smith, he was conniving with Josh Block to smear Eli Clifton, Matt Duss, and Ziad Jilani for their forthright ...

If Americans Knew

• US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
  Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
• A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
  With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
• The First Intifada
  It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
• My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
  The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
• AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
  "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."

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

• Triangle Wiki Day a Win for Open Source in Raleigh
  This post is a guest column by Jason Hibbets, chair of Raleigh's South West Citizen Advisory Council (SWCAC). A version of this post first appeared on southwestraleigh.com. Almost 50 people collaborated on Saturday at Red Hat headquarters, currently located on Centennial Campus in Raleigh, ...
• Journo-Coders Take NICAR 12 to a Whole New Level
  I spent a rapid-fire 23 hours in St. Louis this weekend at the NICAR 12 conference. For those who don't know, NICAR stands for "National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting," and, as the slightly antiquated name might suggest, was founded long before the commercial Internet, back in 1989. ...
• As TriangleWiki Gets Ready to Launch, LocalWik ...
  Hey friends! Whew! A lot has happened since our last PBS Idea Lab blog update! Our first focus community, DentonWiki, has been doing great, and several of our other focus communities are close to launching. Just recently, nearly 50 people came together in Raleigh, N.C., to join a mass ...
• How Spending Stories Fact Checks Big Brother, ...
  This piece was co-written with Eric King, human rights and technology adviser at Privacy International, and comes as Privacy International launches a new data release about companies selling surveillance technologies. Today, the global surveillance industry is estimated at around $5 billion a ...
• Knight Lab's Election Project Mines Social Med ...
  CongressionalPrimaries.org, the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, went live officially this week. The site demonstrates several technologies that enhance coverage of this year's congressional primary elections in Illinois -- while also providing components that pub ...

Cutting Edge News

• Edge of Electronics - Computational Sprinting ...
  Computational sprinting is a groundbreaking new approach to smartphone power and cooling that could give users dramatic, brief bursts of computing capability to improve current applications and make new ones possible. Its developers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Mi ...
• Edge of Hunger - See America on $2 Per Day, Li ...
  One in five households with children in poverty are surviving on the cash equivalent of a half gallon of milk per person per day in a given month. The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of households with children ...
• The New Arab Spring - Egyptians Want Democracy ...
  The Egyptian trial of employees of four American groups that were promoting democracy was abruptly postponed earlier this week. But the crisis in U.S.-Egyptian relations continues, for reasons, according to a University of Michigan researcher, that have a lot to do both with domestic Egyptian po ...
• Edge of Geology - A New Wrinkle in the Story o ...
  Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia, a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. India and Eurasia continue to converge today, though at an ever-slowing pace. University of Michigan geomorphologist and geophys ...
• Edge of Bio-Fuel - Leaf-Cutter Ants Munch thei ...
  Leafcutter ants, the tiny red dots known for carrying green leaves as they march through tropical forests, are also talented farmers that cultivate gardens of fungi and bacteria. Ants eat fungi from the so-called fungal gardens, but the bacteria's role has been unclear until now. New resear ...

High Country News

• A fresh focus on frack attacks
  In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.
• Our nuclear legacy should have taught us something
  Utah considers building a nuclear power plant despite the fact that it's still cleaning up the mess left over from the last uranium boom.
• A conversation I look forward to having with t ...
  A lifetime member of the NRA is skeptical of the group's paranoia about President Obama’s gun-control plans.
• This is a winter of snowy owls
  Big, beautiful snowy owls are showing up far outside their usual range, much to the delight of Western birdwatchers.
• Some politicians turn public lands into a poli ...
  The West's vast public lands are under attack by politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as by several of the Republican presidential candidates.

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

• The New Middle East: Arab Versus Non-Arab Musl ...
  By Barry Rubin The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start. It has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with two more serious lines of battle: Arabs versus Persians and Sunni versus Shia Muslims. The Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian disput ...
• David Frum is a Low-Life Scumbag
  Warning: There will be cussing in this post so if you are the type of person who is easily offended please click the next post button at the bottom of this page. Anybody who saw the old Muppet show will remember the two cranky old men (Statler and Waldoff) who safely sat in a balcony critic ...
• I Will Miss You Friend-Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43
  Three years ago I began writing for Andrew Breitbart's "Big" sites. Although I did not get paid for my work and we didn't speak often, Andrew made me feel like I was involved in something bigger than us both, but in truth he was bigger than it all. Andrew urged us to be unafraid and to stand up ...
• When it Comes to Energy Production It’s A Case ...
  Reverend Harper: “Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn’t Teddy Roosevelt?” Abby Brewster: “Oh, no.” Martha Brewster: “Oh, he’s so happy being Teddy Roosevelt.” Abby Brewster: “Do you remember, Martha, once, a long time ago, we thought if he’d be George Washington, it might b ...
• Did MMFA Hire M.J. Rosenberg At The Request of ...
  September 9 2009-WASHINGTON, D.C. - Media Matters Action Network announced that M.J. Rosenberg will serve as a Senior Fellow. Focusing on foreign policy and Middle Eastern affairs, Rosenberg will give the organization an increased capacity to correct misinformation surrounding complex foreign po ...

The Real Agenda

• Was Breitbart Silenced?
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 2, 2012 Anytime someone dies suddenly in an accident or due to natural causes such a death creates a tsunami that shocks relatives, friends an others. When the person who dies is well-known, the shock extends to the public, just as it happened to Whitney ...
• Sheriff Arpaio Confirms it: Obama’s Birt ...
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda March 2, 2012 It wasn’t necessary but Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigation has added more salt and pepper to an issue that only the marginalized “birthers” used to talk about. Them and the alternative media were called kooks and conspiracy ...
• Ireland Passes SOPA-like Bill
  Russia Today March 1. 2012 Ireland has signed a controversial amendment dubbed the “Irish SOPA” which reinforces existing copyright law amid widespread concern that it will encroach on Internet freedom. The new legislation will effectively allow copyright holders to press for legal action agains ...
• Another Mad Scientist Calls for Reducing Numbe ...
  by Jurriaan Maessen Infowars.com February 29, 2012 In a very recent paper by Colorado state university professor Philip Cafaro titled Climate ethics and population policy, “global warming” is fraudulently being portrayed as the earth’s greatest calamity- and once again, the finger is pointed at ...
• Barack Obama: The Arpaio Investigation
  WND March 1, 2012 Poll after poll in recent months has indicated that Americans have a high level of concern over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, with one poll showing fully half of the nation wants Congress to investigate the question. But reporters for the traditional media – netwo ...

Wind Watch

• David Cameron says countryside wind farms have ...
  Wind farms built across the British countryside have been “over subsidised and wasteful of public money”, David Cameron has said. In his strongest ever criticism of green energy, the Prime Minister suggested too much taxpayer cash has been given to on-shore wind farms, which are now highly profi ...
• Study group rejects wind power plans in Lenox
  LENOX — With nearly perfect harmony, a panel assigned to report on the merits of a proposed municipal wind-turbine installation atop Lenox Mountain has issued its verdict: A near-unanimous rejection of the project on grounds of adverse financial, environmental and health impacts. Following ...
• Huron County councillors walk out on McGuinty ...
  TORONTO – More than one hundred municipal politicians – including some from Huron County – walked out on Premier Dalton McGuinty en masse in protest of wind energy development during his opening address at the county’s largest annual conference for rural municipalities. Politicians were gathered ...
• Debate still swirls over effects of wind turbi ...
  Living near wind turbines has changed Sandy Vercauteren’s life forever. “I am exposed to vibration constantly,” the town of Byron resident said. “It rattles the valances right off my windows. The noise, especially in summer, keeps me awake at night. The flickering creates a strobe light in my ho ...
• Blown away
  A German fashion designer who moved to the countryside for the peace and quiet claims he has been forced out of his house and is now sleeping on a friend’s floor after a wind turbine was built in a field nearby. Robert Niebach, 60, is one of a growing number of Germans taking legal action ...

Tippers News

• 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- ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...

The Freeman

• End Oil Favors, Obama Says
  “President Obama reiterated his call for Congress to repeal federal subsidies to the oil industry Thursday, escalating a political skirmish with Republicans over rising gasoline prices amid evidence that much of the public remains uncertain about who is to blame.” (Washington Post) T ...
• Gasoline Price Heads toward $4
  “Pump prices continued to march toward $4 a gallon Thursday, as signs of a stronger U.S. economy helped push benchmark oil past $108 per barrel.” (Christian Science Monitor) And the peak driving season is still to come. FEE Timely Classic “The High Cost of Misunderstanding Gaso ...
• Oil Sanctions and the Pretence of Knowledge
  "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft a-gley."
• Bernanke Says Low Interest Rates to Continue
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said elevated unemployment and subdued inflation mean interest rates are likely to stay low, without offering any sign that the economy needs an additional monetary boost.” (Bloomberg News) Artificially low interest rates have high future cos ...
• FDA Cigarette Labels Knocked Down
  “A federal judge on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a Food and Drug Administration requirement that tobacco companies prominently display graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. Judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court in Washington ruled that forcing the compani ...

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

• Undocumented protesters arrested at NC immigra ...
  Members of the youth-led immigration advocacy group NC DREAM Team interrupted a North Carolina legislative meeting yesterday, shouting "I am undocumented, unafraid and unashamed!&amp ...
  
• North Carolina convenience-store chain targete ...
  The largest independent convenience-store chain in the Southeast, Kangaroo is under fire for refusing to meet with advocates for the farmworkers who pick the tobacco it sells.
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• VOICES: Considering BP's history of violence
  A judge has decided that BP's history of safety problems won't be admissible in the upcoming trial for its Gulf oil spill. While that may be legally justifiable, it's ...
  
• VOICES: Privatizing America for their majesty, ...
  On an island off the coast of Florida, the billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries recently gave an order to push the privatization of schools, prisons and anything else standing in the w ...
  
• Art Pope turns up in climate disinformation exposé
  Internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute, a leading player in the climate disinformation campaign, show that the group is counting on continuing support from the North Carolin ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
  The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
  International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.
• Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
  With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.

Telegraph UK - oil

• 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.
• Charles Hendry: North Sea oil industry in inde ...
  The North Sea oil industry will be at greater risk of "unnecessary and harmful" interference by Europe if Scotland becomes independent, the Government has warned industry leaders.

Ian Welsh

• 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 ...
• 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

• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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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

• Is Energy the Last Good Issue for Republicans?
  With gas prices beginning their summer spike to what could be record highs, President Obama in recent days has gone out of his way to sound reassuring on energy, seeming to approve an oil pipeline to Oklahoma this week after earlier approving leases for drilling in Alaska. Yet few in the ...
• Will Millennials Still be Liberal When They’re ...
  The Millennial Generation (born 1982-2003) is the cohort most in favor of using the federal government to promote economic stability and equality since the GI Generation of the 1930s and 1940s. The attitudes of Millennials were heavily shaped by the protected and group-oriented way in which ...
• Don’t Bet Against The (Single-Family) House
  Nothing more characterizes the current conventional wisdom than the demise of the single-family house. From pundits like Richard Florida to Wall Street investors, the thinking is that the future of America will be characterized increasingly by renters huddling together in small apartments, liv ...
• Housing Affordability: St. Louis’ Competitive ...
  Things are looking better in St. Louis. For decades, St. Louis has been slowest-growing metropolitan areas of the United States. Its historical core city has lost more than 60 percent of its population since 1950, a greater loss than any other major core municipality in the modern era.  Non ...
• Commuting in New York City, 2000-2010
  New York City is infamous for congestion and long commutes. At 34.6 minutes, it has the longest average commute time in the United State. The region is also America's top user of public transportation, with 30.7% of all metro area commutes made by transit. Nearly 40% of all transit commuters ...

GM Watch

• Where is the sceptical Indian scientist?
  EXTRACT: What is unnerving is the imperviousness of our scientists to uncomfortable facts. This is infinitely more dangerous than the activism of Luddites.  --- --- Where is the sceptical Indian scientist? Latha Jishnu Down to Earth, 29 Feb 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/where-scepti ...
• Farm activist wants total ban on Bt cotton
  1.Farm activist wants total ban on Bt cotton 2.Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture to visit Vidarbha --- --- 1.Farm activist wants total ban on Bt cotton The Times of India, March 2 2012 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Farm-activist-wants-total-ban-on-Bt-cotton/article ...
• GM seeds of discontent in India
  NEWS FROM INDIA 1.Manmohan blaming NGOs for Bt brinjal moratorium criticised 2.Seeds of discontent 3.Rajasthan starts field test of much-criticised GM mustard NOTE: According to the trade policy analyst Devinder Sharma, there are now 77 NGOs in India under official investigation. In a witch-hun ...
• Paraquay: land, soy, and boots
  Paraguay: Land, Soy and Boots     Ignacio Cirio  Translation by Jim Rudolf   Upside Down World, 28 February 2012 16:52 http://upsidedownworld.org/main/paraguay-archives-44/3482-paraguay-land-soy-and-boots Conflict in Alto Paraná Source: Sodepaz.org   Eight million hectares, half the surface a ...
• Protesters arrested outside Monsanto offices
  1. US police arrest 12 Occupy DC protesters 2. US police arrest Occupy protesters outside Monsanto offices  3.Monsanto trial verdict leads to protest in Washington, D.C. 4.Monsanto protested after class-action lawsuit is dismissed EXTRACT: On September 17, a group called "Occupy Monsanto" plans ...

spiked

• In defence of the Luddites
  200 years after Lord Byron’s tub-thumping speech about the Luddites, let us distinguish those radicals from today’s eco-miserabilists.
• Why the FA loves gay footballers
  A new campaign against homophobia is more about lecturing footie fans than tackling discrimination.
• Politics and TV: the odd couple
  No modern political chat show, including ITV’s new one The Agenda, has a patch on The Wright Stuff.
• A cult film that won’t be a cult film
  Slow thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene – lauded at Sundance, ignored by the Oscars – isn’t challenging, just vague.
• Smoker or non-smoker, your freedom is at stake
  It doesn’t matter if you’ve never lit up in your life - you should still be agitated by the paternalism of the plan to put fags in plain packets.

Cryptogon

• South Korea: Dr. Smartphone?
  Not The Onion: Check. Not April 1: Check. Via: Reuters: Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer. A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institu ...
• James Cameron Buys Farms, Plans to Move Family ...
  Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to a ...
• Pay Fee to Jump to Front of Line at San Franci ...
  Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Frequent travelers who use San Francisco International Airport once again will be able to get through security a little faster with the return of a fee-based pre-screening program approved by the Airport Commission Tuesday. The CLEAR program, operated by a private c ...
• Surveillance Video Becomes a Tool for Studying ...
  Via: Technology Review: Software mines security footage to help business owners see what people do once they’re inside the store. The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pag ...
• Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
  Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech ...

The Economic Collapse

• 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news ...
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Inflatio ...
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...

Desertification

• Hunger in a world of wealth (Willem Van Cotthem)
  I can’t resist re-posting this photo found at the Facebook page of Judit VERWEEN.  Although our Western world feels the effects of the economic crisis and a growung number of people are living in deepening poverty, most of us are … Continue reading →
• Fear of desertification in Spain (Google / Fre ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=93439 Spain: Fear of desertification after agreement with Morocco The president of the agricultural food cooperative Alimer, Julián Díaz, said he fears that the agricultural agreement subscribed by the Eu ...
• An anti-desertification program in northwest C ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.chinamedia.com/news/2012/02/24/anti-desertification-program-to-start-in-ningxia/ Anti-desertification program to start in Ningxia February 24, 2012 An anti-desertification program powered by an investment of 700 million yuan (US$111 milli ...
• Mitigating desertification and drought hazards ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/news/emergency-update/31203-mitigating-desertification-and-drought-hazards- Youths for Public Safety By Abubakar Jimoh abujimoh01@yahoo.com Desertification and drought are two related disasters which have over the ...
• Vatican Aid to sub-Saharan Africa (Google / St ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.starafrica.com/en/news/detail-news/view/more-than-two-million-dollars-in-aid-to-220577.html More than two million dollars in aid to sub-Saharan Africa VATICAN, Holy See, February 29, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The admi ...

The Paper Trail

• L.A. kids' daytime curfew story on NPR's 'Morn ...
  National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” has aired a version of the Center for Public Integrity look into aggressive ticketing of students in Los Angeles for violating a daytime curfew.
• FACT CHECK: Obama White House ‘full of Wall St ...
  A conservative 501(c)(4) exaggerates the number of “Wall Street executives” in the Obama White House. In a major TV ad buy, the American Future Fund lists 27 people it claims are part of “Obama’s Wall Street Inner Circle.” But the ad is either flat wrong or greatly exaggerated in more than half ...
• Lawrence Lessig on campaign finance reform: Ov ...
  In contrast with many other campaign finance reformers, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig believes fixing the U.S. election system will require more than just overturning the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission Supreme Court ruling, which removed many restrictions on independent poli ...
• CORRECTED: States pushing efforts to require c ...
  Correction, Feb. 29, 1:09pm: Due to incorrect information received from contributors to two bills before the New York State Assembly, the Center for Public Integrity inaccurately described a labor union’s opposition to requiring certification for central sterile processing workers. The bills wou ...
• Unions fighting efforts to require certificati ...
  Reused surgical instruments are often dangerously dirty, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has revealed, but the workers charged with the high-stakes task of cleaning these complex devices face almost no state-mandated professional licensing or certification requirements.Only New Jerse ...

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...
• More gravy on my Poutine, please
  By Montreal Simon You know it takes a certain kind of mentality to pay cash for a disposable cellphone, like criminals do,  and call the phony owner Pierre Poutine. A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal ...
• A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
  All right, it’s been about three months since I offered up my first batch of suggestions on how we can fix the world, and it appears none of them have been implemented. (Seriously ABC, Charlie’s Angels is the next … Charlie’s Angels. It’ll spawn five seasons, two movies, and a reboot series if y ...
• Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape
  By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have emerged over the last day to defend his “interview” of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a pile of ironic quotation marks beside me when I write about SUN TV.) Some of them arrived here ...
• Harper’s implausible deniability
  By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election ...

libcom

• Barcelona student strike against austerity met ...
  barca.jpg A report for libcom.org from Barcelona, as thousands of young people march in cities across Spain to protest austerity measures for the 29F: Vaga General d'Universitats ...
• 100,000,000 workers grind India to a halt in o ...
  india3.jpg One of the world's largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at midnight tonight. Up to 100,000,000 Indian workers from different sectors and industries ar ...
• Not mentioned in Dispatches
  pissy pants.jpg Review of the piss poor Dispatches documentary on the English Defence League! Well the Dispatches documentary on Mr Tommy and the radical Islamicists was a prett ...
• Incident on the dancefloor – pre-history of th ...
  13th of February, a known Moscow anti-fascist Alexey Olesinov was arrested in St. Petersburg with charges of “hooliganism”, related to incident in Moscow club “Vozdukh” 17th of December. The following statement (http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/2 ...
• The CNT mobilises across the country against l ...
  cnt-(2).jpg Statement from the Secretariat of the CNT on the recent demonstrations and protests against the government's new labour reforms. The Confederation believes that ...

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

• Mitten’s Massive Mormon Myths – My ...
  In the immortal words of Sir Walter Scott:  “Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!!” Indeed!  I would submit that the biggest problem with promoting a massive lie to millions of trusting people, is the need to employ a full time Public Relations firm (the ...
• The EXTRAORDINARY Properties of Water! Viktor ...
  What was the REAL REASON for the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden Germany in February, 1945?   Could it have been due to the fact that Dresden was the planet’s research heart of Homeopathy and Naturopathy/Cellular Nutrition?   Could it be that during the 30′s Dresden was unlocking the ...
• The Biggest Hidden Problem of Election 2012
  Wake Up America!!!! Why is the Controlled Media so quiet about discussing what will happen in 2013 if Obama is still in the White House?   Do you realize that Mittens Romney will implement OBAMACARE COMMUNISM as well? Instead of harping about the NDAA (of which the final version was sanitized of ...
• Are Mormons “Christian”??
  Are Mormons (aka Latter-day Saints) Christians?   According to the standards set by The Holy Bible – they absolutely are not!! I know, I can hear the screaming now from the LDS faithful – of COURSE we are “Christians” – we are the “Church of JESUS CHRIST of La ...
• USS Liberty – OPERATION CYANIDE – ...
  This BBC documentary on the USS Liberty attack BY EDOMITE ISRAEL in 1967 is incredible.   It is a must-watch, for if ever there was a “high crime” of treason against America – this was it!!!!! As you watch this video, take note.  This was not an American-made documentary.   As ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
  Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.
• Rt. Hon. John Turner (Former PM and Liberal Le ...
  Canada's 17th Prime Minister and former leader of the Liberal Party joins Peter to talk about his legacy and the challenges facing his party today.
• Samantha Nutt, doctor and author (Oct 22, 2011)
  Dr. Nutt discusses the challenges of delivering aid effectively.
• Dr. Ann McKee, Neuropathologist, Bedford VA Me ...
  Peter is in the lab with Dr. Ann McKee, one of the key researchers in degenerative brain disease, and finds out what she's learning from the head trauma suffered by fallen former athletes.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (O ...
  Peter sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney about the growing concern over the financial crisis in Europe and what it could mean for Canada.

Scotts Contracting

• Saving a Deck from the Landfill – Part 1
  Deck Repair by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Because the Deck was not built to current Building Codes the St Louis Building Code Department required: Structural Site Inspection and Documentation of Needed Repairs of the Deck by an Architectural Engineer, Obtain a Repair Pe ...
• Roy Blunt R MO Dirty Energy Voting Record
  Dirty Energy Voting Record for Roy Blunt aka:"Big Oil Roy Blunt" Roy Blunts Dirty Dollar Image via:http://dirtyenergymoney.org While searching for what company (Big Oil and Big Coal) was giving to the Politicians from Missouri aka: "Big Oil Roy Blunt", who is also in favor of the ...
• Adding Support for Deck Rail
  Fixing Deck Rails on Porches, Decks, etc One of my latest repair projects: The 2nd Floor deck support rail was leaning away from the building creating a Safety Issue for anyone who leaned on the Support Rail. I used a Ratcheting Tie Down Strap to pull the deck support rail straight.  (In the fol ...
• Spray Insulation~Deal of the Week
  If you have ever wanted to super insulate your home or business against the cold and heat and protect the bank account from the rising costs of our Electricity Rates – Ameren UE and New Gas Rate Hikes – Laclede Gas. The following offer I received from a couple of my Spray Insulation ...
• Rock Wall Foundation Repair and Waterproofing
  Rock Foundation Repair Suggestions for Water Proofing a Stone Foundation Always Inspect for Mold Growth on the Foundation Wall Close Up View of Mold Growth After Treatment See Photo Below Find the Bad Spots Gently Remove any loose materials. Paying close attention to leave any Structural Rocks i ...

The View From Abroad

• Just Who is a Threat to Whom?
  If you look beyond the war propaganda against Iran, it is clear who the real threat to peace is.
• Romney is Focusing on the Wrong Mechanism
  To help the working poor Mitt Romney should propose something other than indexing the minimum wage for inflation.
• Is Obama Attempting to Buy Votes from College ...
  The president is playing politics with the high cost of college.
• Ron Paul is Nibbling at Romney’s Heels
  The Republican race for president is a two man contest between Romney and Paul.
• We Can't Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
  It is crazy to extend the payroll tax cut at this time.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• To the Valley in the Morning with Blood and Gu ...
  When there's war all the time, there's no such thing as after the war anymore.
• North Korea's Pivot
  North Korea is executing a pivot of its own.
• Unlocking the Holocaust's Hidden History
  The United Nations War Crimes Commission's records documenting the birth of modern international criminal law have been neglected for nearly 70 years.
• Why Does the U.S. Think Iran Would Attack It i ...
  American officials believe that Iran would retaliate against the United States even if the U.S. doesn't take part.
• UK Takes the Lead in Somalia
  The international community should accept that a centralized state structure cannot be reconstituted within the borders of what used to be Somalia.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• A Swift End for the Innocent: The Sanctions Hi ...
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• Exiled Crown Prince campaigns to bring 'Arab S ...
  Irans's exiled Crown Prince has launched a campaign to rally political exiles behind an 'Arab Spring'-style demand for free elections and a new constitution.   read more
• جمعه گردی های اسماعيل نوری علا: فهرست دم افزون ...
  بخود مژده می دهم که، با پايان گرفتن زمستان و فرا رسيدن بهار نو، بهار آزادی کشور و ملت ما نيز از راه خواهد رسيد؛ البته اگر عاقل باشيم و درست عمل کنيم.read more
• AUDIO: Iran vote 'not pointless' but the regi ...
  The people of Iran are going to the polls to vote for a new parliament in the first elections since 2009, when the country erupted in violence. read more
• Why Iran's Election is a Farce
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Most Revolutionary Act

• The People Under the Black Masks
  Pink black bloc (This is the third of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) As Nihilo Zero, Don Gato and others point out, the major problem w ...
• Demonizing the Black Bloc
  Greek black bloc (This is the second of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement and Chris Hedges inflammatory February 6th article on Truthdig entitled The Cancer in Occupy) Nearly all the on-line critiques (rightly, in my view) accuse He ...
• Debating Violence in the Occupy Movement
  Occupy Oakland protestor (This is the first of three posts regarding the “diversity of tactics” debate raging in the Occupy movement. Contrary to the myth promoted by the corporate media, the Occupy movement is alive and well and engaged in a multiplicity of creative movement buildin ...
• The Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill
  (This is the last of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) Hemp as a Tobacco Replacement Crop With recent the recent anti-smoking movement and declining cigarette use among Americans, many tobacco f ...
• Killing the Hemp Industry: Another Corporate C ...
  Henry Ford in his hemp plantation (This is the second of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill, sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) The Decline of Hemp Hemp first began losing ground in 1850 to cheaper substitutes made of cotton, ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• 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 ...
• 'Gratitude' Audio
• Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...

Salon

• Santorum’s “snobbery” red he ...
  Say what you will about this era’s Republican presidential candidates, they at least have chutzpah.Millionaire blue-blood George W. Bush pretended to be a down-home cowboy. Two-time divorcee and longtime Washington influence peddler Newt Gingrich struts around preaching about traditional family ...
• Occupy invades “America’s storage ...
  Spilling out below the snow-dusted San Bernardino Mountains, California’s Inland Empire in Southern California is America’s storage shed. Its economy is a key link in the global supply chain. Goods from Asia funnel through the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports that handle more than one-quarter of ...
• Where murder may as well be legal
  American journalists love to write about the violence that afflicts Ciudad Juárez, the sprawling city of 1.3 million just across the river from El Paso, Texas. It’s a quick jaunt across the Rio Grande, after all, and a guaranteed story. Thanks to a ghastly combination of warring drug cartels, po ...
• The end of the Blunt amendment
  This morning's Senate floor speeches on the Blunt amendment -- which would have allowed employers to deny their employees insurance coverage for anything they objected to on religious grounds, and which failed 51-48 -- featured David Vitter lecturing about religious liberty and moral values, and ...
• The hypocrisy of Wall Street “capitalism ...
  The phrase “Wall Street” is evocative in American culture. For generations, it has referred to the showcase of American capitalism: our financial services system that ensured the efficient use of funds by channeling capital to its most productive use. Indeed, the governing ethos in America is th ...

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

• Native education must be funded equally with p ...
  MPs voted unanimously this week to properly fund native education but unless there is money in March 29 federal budget for it their resolution will change nothing.
• Elections Canada fails to prove it is doing it ...
  Elections Canada does not provide evidence that it is upholding electoral laws in an unbiased way.
• Alberta needs to earn national support for oil ...
  Premier Dalton McGuinty sounded ungracious about Alberta’s success, but he was right to bring the Ontario perspective to Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s demand that everyone jump on ...
• Civic-minded Toronto residents are voluntarily ...
  Most people try to dodge the taxman but thousands of community-minded Torontonians are voluntarily paying more in support of municipal government. Good for them.
• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is wrong to the public ...
  Message to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: It turns out the public doesn’t overwhelmingly support subways over light rail.

Energy Collective

• Will SREC Prices Affect Solar Leasing?
   Several forums, including this one, covering residential solar developments have commented on the volatility of SREC markets in some states. But few have yet to note the potentially tremendous impact on solar leasing, and residential solar adoption in general, in those SREC states experien ...
• Why Smart Grid Technology-testing Standards ar ...
  In the last four years, a great deal of time, creativity, engineering and sweat have been invested in jumpstarting Smart Grid rollout in the United States. A lot of money, too.
• Cleantech Leaders Put Their Heads Together In D.C.
  The recently concluded U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, of which EarthTechling was a media partner, brought together some of the best and brightest minds over the course of several days to discuss cleantech innovations.
• What Would It Take for Gas to Hit $5 per Gallon?
  After returning from a business trip to California, I don't find media speculation concerning the possibility of $5 gasoline later this year quite as far-fetched as I might have last week.
• Far from DC, Michigan Residents Fight Their Ow ...
  As TransCanada announced it would begin building the southern leg of its Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas—setting the stage for a new Congressional battle over the transnational pipeline—Michigan residents are worried about a massive tar sands oil spill that pe ...

EU Times

• Stone Age Tools found on East Coast prove the ...
  Tools belonging to stone age hunters found on U.S. east coast prove the first Americans came from Europe NOT Asia. America was first discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe, according to new archaeological evidence. Across six locations on the U.S. east coast, several dozen stone tools have ...
• Libyan Rebels Destroy WWII Commonwealth Cemete ...
  Islamic extremists have attacked one of the Commonwealth war graves in Libya, a country holding the graves of Allied troops killed in World War Two. Here is the true face of the people NATO helped, desecrating and destroying Christian and Jewish head stones in the commonwealth war cemetery in Be ...
• Russian premier vows to ward off attack on Iran
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned of the dire consequences of a military conflict with the Islamic Republic, saying Moscow will do its utmost to avert a war on Iran. “We will do everything possible to prevent a military conflict either in Iran or around it,” Putin told the chief e ...
• Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, forc ...
  A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag. ­“Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” sc ...
• Evacuate Tokyo and All US Forces From Japan
  Widely known Physicist Dr Paolo Scampa, the publisher of the EU AIPRI Blog and an eminent chemical physicist, announced today his latest calculations of deadly radioactivity in Tokyo itself. Both the nuclear regulatory and media responses have been missing in action. However, the outrageous stat ...

Stonecipher News

• Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
  Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
• Natural Acne Remedies
  There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
• Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
  Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Scarlett Johansson, James D’Arcy Join Making o ...
  Scarlett Johansson may get stabbed in the shower. Note the “making of” in the title of the post–this is NOT a remake of “Psycho,” like the bizarre and disastrous Gus Van Sant attempt most of you have probably forgotten (okay, I”ll refresh–a shot by shot remake starring Vince Vaughn in the Antho ...
• Liverpool v Arsenal – Match preview
  Arsenal will be looking to build on their 5-2 victory over Spurs last Sunday as they face Carling Cup winners Liverpool at Anfield tomorrow afternoon. Kenny Daglish ’s side have only managed to pick up just five points in their last five Premier League outings, scoring seven goals whilst conced ...
• Andrew Breitbart Dead Website Lives On
  Colleagues who worked with Andrew Breitbart on his conservative websites said they were stunned by his death at age 43 but said his Web empire will continue. “It was sudden,” Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief of breitbart.com told Current TV. “It was a shock.” Pollak said Breitbart’s websites will c ...
• Scarlett Johansson & James D’Arcy To Star in ‘ ...
  Say the name “Alfred Hitchcock” to people and the first thing they think of is Psycho . Everything about the 1960 thriller has become iconic: the actors, the shots, the plot twists. More than any of the director’s other films, it’s the most often referenced and talked about. Which is why Fox Se ...
• Heckler interrupts Obama: âNo war with Iran!â
  Saw this live last night on MSNBC. From Raw Story: While speaking at a fundraising event on Thursday, President Barack Obama was briefly interrupted by a supporter who urged him not to go to war with Iran. âWe promoted human rights,â Obama said. âWe made it clear that America is a Pacific power. ...

Groklaw

• Reflections on My Freshman Year on the Bench b ...
  I certainly have not been surprised that cases on my docket generate occasional discovery disputes. What attorneys, however, may not fully appreciate is that unless I have heard the parties on a preliminary injunction, motion to dismiss or other substantive motion early in the life of the case, ...
• Blogger Breitbart's Death Will Not Affect Defe ...
  Big Journalism editor and in-house counsel Joel Pollack said in a phone interview this morning that Breitbart's death will not affect the defense against a defamation lawsuit brought against Breitbart and a colleague by former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. - BLT
• Japanese researchers develop speech-suppressio ...
  A Japanese research team has developed a device that can compel the overly talkative to shut their mouths and let somebody else get a word in edgewise. Before you start pulling out your pocket Bill of Rights, understand that researchers Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada haven't developed a weap ...
• Broadcasters sue to stop another online TV service
  That didn't take long. Eight television networks and local broadcasters in New York filed suit Thursday against Aereo, a company that announced plans two weeks ago to deliver live local television programming online. The lawsuit seeks to block Aereo from launching its service, which it had plan ...
• Apple Wins German Patent Case Against Motorola ...
  Apple Inc. (AAPL) won a Munich court ruling against Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. in a case over patents protecting photo-management on mobile devices. The ruling held that only the "zoomed in" mode in viewing photos on mobile devices infringed a patent, not the "zoomed out" mode, Motorola Mo ...

WideShut

• Cancer Patient Told He Can’t Have Liver ...
  Cancer patient who takes medically prescribed Marijuana is rejected liver transplant because of "substance abuse".
• Lockerbie Bomber Was Innocent; New Documents S ...
  New documents and a re-examination of the case prove Lockerbie bomber was innocent, the evidence was fraudulent, and he was released under a secret deal.
• Psychological Trauma Coming To A Primary Schoo ...
  Children across the UK being subjected to fake alien invasions, shootings, teacher assaults and holocaust simulations, leaving them upset and traumatized.
• Debunking Iran Nuclear Threat: Feb 27, 2012, W ...
  On this week's WideShut Webcast Keelan systematically debunks the alleged Iran nuclear threat.
• UK Recognise Syrian Opposition As Sole Represe ...
  Despite hundreds of thousands of vocal pro-Assad citizens, UK now officially recognises Syrian Opposition as the only representatives of the people, an opposition that houses Al Qaeda terrorists.

Politics in the Zeros

• Bradley Manning motion hearing scheduled for M ...
  The dry language of the US Army press release is onimous for Bradely Manning.Pfc. Manning is charged with aiding the enemy; wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet knowing that it is accessible to the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense inform ...
• Unhappy with your bank? You’re not alone
  Bank Window, La Pryor, Texas 1939. Russell Lee, American (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC)J.D. Power just released a study that found that nearly 10% of bank customers switched banks last year:The 9.6% who moved their money compared to 8.7% in 2010 and 7.7% in ...
• ATT throttles speed for heavy unlimited iPhone ...
  AT&T on Thursday put limits on its Unlimited Data plans, slowing speeds for 3G and 4G customers who exceed 3 GB in a billing cycle and capping 4G LTE customers at 5 GB.They will slow down the speed for heavy iPhone users but still allow unlimited data.I figured I must be a heavy [...]
• The rich are very different from us, they’re m ...
  Are rich folks more likely to zoom their costly cars through crosswalks, cut off drivers, cheat on games of dice and take candy from the children’s jar?Yup.
• Google’s driverless car coming to California too
  A California state senator plans to arrive at a press conference at the Sacramento capitol today in a Google Inc.-modified Toyota Prius that drives itself.The announcement of new legislation by Senator Alex Padilla, written with Google’s input, is timed to coincide with new regulations allowing ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

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

• Justice for the Jayapura 5
  This week I went to Canberra to join the Greens at the Australian launch of the Internationals Parliamentarians for West Papua. We were joined by Ralph Regenvanu Mp from Vanuatu, Jen Robinson from International Lawyers for West Papua(and lawyer for Wikileaks) and a number of West Papuan leaders. ...
• Conservation staff banned from participating i ...
  I’m heading down to the Denniston Plateau this weekend for Forest and Bird’s BioBlitz of the area, as part of their wider campaign to Save the Denniston Plateau. The Denniston Plateau is a upland wonderland of wetlands, streams and ancient rock, home to many unique native species including the g ...
• Ports of Auckland workers and their families s ...
  There has been a lot of disinformation put out by Ports of Auckland Ltd and its sychophantic right wing bloggers over the last few weeks. In this video, Maritime Workers’ Union members and their families talk about how the company (wholly owned by the Auckland Council – give Mayor Le ...
• Stratford public meeting: unanimous support fo ...
  Last night I attended a public meeting in Stratford, Taranaki to discuss the local hydraulic fracturing or fracking occurring in the region. The community passed a unanimous motion to call on the Taranaki Councils to place an immediate moratorium on fracking, and to call for an independent inqui ...
• Welfare Reform goes nanny goat gruff – Part 2 ...
  When the Government announced their reform plans this week we were hoping to see a reinstatement of the Training Incentive Allowance for higher level courses, as suggested by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett in a Cabinet paper signed off in October last year. It is very disappointing no ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• 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 ...
• The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
  The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• 300mg of This May Reduce Pain and Stiffness in ...
  By Dr. Mercola More than 1.5 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. To put it simply, IBD is an autoimmune condition that involves inflammation in your digestive tract that can cause cramps, bloody diarrhea, ...
• Pork: Did Leviticus 11:7 Have It Right?
  By Dr. Mercola Levitical guidelines label the pig an "unclean" animal, and prohibit the consumption of pork. Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, there may be good reason to carefully consider your decision to include pork as part of your diet, as despite advertising campaigns trying to pai ...
• The Potato Project -- Why Organic is Important
  A third-grader demonstrates clearly what happens when your food is poisoned with chemicals.
• What Mystery Disease is Killing Thousands in C ...
  By Dr. Mercola The United States imports one-fourth of its raw sugar from Central America, a region known as much for its sandy beaches and lush rainforests as its many acres of sugar plantations. In Central American countries like Nicaragua, finding employment is a challenge, and many resid ...
• The One and Only Way You Can Tell if a Food is ...
  By Dr. Mercola A bill has recently been introduced in the Vermont state legislature that would require food to be labeled as genetically engineered if it is entirely or partially produced with genetically engineered ingredients. If passed, the bill, H.722, also known as the 'VT Right to Kno ...

JAMA

• Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatr ...
• Cirrhosis [JAMA Patient Page]
• Patient With a Rash, Abdominal Pain, and Weigh ...
• To JAMA Peer Reviewers and Authors--Thank You ...
• Prevention of Pneumococcal Infection With Vacc ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Official report confirms presence of “hiding t ...
  Ayoreo woman. Her uncontacted relatives are under threat from logging. © Survival In an official report, Paraguay’s Department of Indian Affairs INDI has confirmed that an uncontacted tribe is living on farmland in the northern Chaco region owned by a controversial ranching company. Signs ...
• Spread of ‘human safaris’ threatens Peru’s unc ...
  Uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians have been seen in the area on several occasions. © G. Galli/uncontactedtribes.org Peru’s uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe is facing the very real threat of being exploited by ‘human safaris’, according to British newspaper The Observer. Last month, Survival rel ...
• Guard post to protect Peru’s uncontacted Mashc ...
  Today's photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera © D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.org Residents living close to the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe – whose photos went viral last month – will build a guard post to protect both the Indians and locals fr ...
• Clampdown on sacred ritual as Vedanta mine app ...
  A Dongria boy stands in front of Niyamgiri, where the tribe will hold its festival. © Lewis Davids/Survival Security forces are cracking down on the Dongria Kondh tribe as they prepare for a religious festival this weekend at the top of India’s most contentious mountain. Hundreds are deter ...
• Survival uncovers shocking human rights abuses ...
  Two Karo by Ethiopia's Omo River. It is crucial to their way of life. © Survival Survival has uncovered shocking new evidence of human rights abuses against tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, as government efforts to develop lucrative sugar cane plantations in the region intensify. Bull ...

Montreal Gazette

• No sympathy for student strikers
  " The vote at Dawson College on whether students should go on strike is not a fair, democratic vote.
• Hail to the police chief for standing up for o ...
  Since his appointment the year before last, Montreal police chief Marc Parent has shown an encouraging preoccupation with improving relations between the police and the public they serve.
• Welcome to Canada - unless we change our mind
  A refugee bill introduced last week in Parliament might well help streamline Canada's cumbersome refugee-determination process, but along with the bill's positive measures are some potentially worrisome changes.
• No sympathy for student strikers
  " The vote at Dawson College on whether students should go on strike is not a fair, democratic vote.
• Hail to the police chief for standing up for o ...
  Since his appointment the year before last, Montreal police chief Marc Parent has shown an encouraging preoccupation with improving relations between the police and the public they serve.

Food World Order

• #BingeAndPurge: Official Dismissal, Doomsday, ...
  Food Safety Official's Monsanto Ties Spur Petition for Ouster* Help stop former Monsanto VP from attaining top position at the FDA* Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers' Case Against Monsanto* Syria Crops Sheltered in Arctic Doomsday Vault* Calif. Food Truck Ban Cooks Up Growing Oppositio ...
• North Korea to Freeze Nuclear Work, US to Give ...
  from nytimes.com: North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend its nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex. The surprise announcement raised the possibility of ending a diplomatic impasse that ...
• Church-Turned-Restaurant Leaves Diners In a St ...
  from faithworld: A passerby seeing the imposing church building with its massive, red doors bearing the word “Grace” and a mysterious triangular logo could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled upon some kind of new-age congregation. In a way that’s true, for Grace – the restaurant, house ...
• New York Public Library Starts Serving Up 'wic ...
  from dnainfo.com: The New York Public Library is teaming up with food vendor ‘wichcraft to offer snacks and drinks to readers inside the Fifth Avenue main branch for the first time in the library’s 117-year history. Under the partnership, ‘wichcraft will operate two carts serving hand-made ...
• #Occupy Targets Industrial Food System #Feb27
  Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat* from sustainablebusiness.com: Occupy, environmental and food justice organizations are joining in a global day of action on February 27 to end corporate control of the food system and steer back society from the stranglehold ...

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

• 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news ...
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Inflatio ...
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...

CASSE

• Economic Growth, Obesity, and the Creed of Greed
  Society has reached a tipping point where further economic growth is causing serious health problems.
• Cheater Economics
  They say cheaters never prosper, but the cheaters seem to be doing just fine in an economy that condones their fraudulent ways.
• Rescuing Obama from the Slippery Slope
  Is anyone else ready for some refreshing honesty from the President regarding economic growth and the environment?
• Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still ...
  Of course, it's better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich -- GDP growth and free trade -- no longer apply.
• The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons
  Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior -- assumptions familiar to students of economics.

The Talking Clock

• Nigel Farage: Social Unrest could spell the en ...
  UKIP's Nigel Farage has clearly been watching the same news reports as us - social unrest, all over Europe, and it seems to be spreading week-by-week. Nowhere is this unrest more painful to watch than in Greece - which is now clearly the ground zero of the bankster-led, EU-jackbooted take dow ...
• Viral Video: Irish journalist takes down EU ba ...
  Remember the days where journalists did some actual journalism? Where they investigated, interrogated and reported rather than - as is the case today in Britain - merely repeated what was on an official press release? Take a look at this. This is Irish journalist Vincent Browne, taking on ...
• Cor Blimey, Guv'nor! The BBC give broadcast ti ...
  Well, I never! This will fuel suspicion. In a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don't as far as they're concerned, the BBC today gave a platform to the English Democrats leader, Robin Tilbrook, who discussed his belief in the need for an English Parliament o ...
• European Disunion: Now it's the Italians in vi ...
  Not to be broadcast on the BBC or Sky News who prefer keeping British people ignorant about most things, here's the latest spot in Europe to have erupted into violent clashes... Turin, Italy. With some resonance for the people of England, these clashes - RT informs us - are over a proposed hi ...
• Bad news for Alex Salmond: Only England gives ...
  So, throughout February, we were asking visitors one version of the proposed referendum question for north of the border... namely: "Should Scotland be an independent country?". For Alex Salmond and the SNP, a bit of a worrying result - by a huge margin, the only people wishing to see a dis-U ...

Facing South

• Undocumented protesters arrested at NC immigra ...
  Members of the youth-led immigration advocacy group NC DREAM Team interrupted a North Carolina legislative meeting yesterday, shouting "I am undocumented, unafraid and unashamed!&amp ...
  
• North Carolina convenience-store chain targete ...
  The largest independent convenience-store chain in the Southeast, Kangaroo is under fire for refusing to meet with advocates for the farmworkers who pick the tobacco it sells.
  ...
  
• VOICES: Considering BP's history of violence
  A judge has decided that BP's history of safety problems won't be admissible in the upcoming trial for its Gulf oil spill. While that may be legally justifiable, it's ...
  
• VOICES: Privatizing America for their majesty, ...
  On an island off the coast of Florida, the billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries recently gave an order to push the privatization of schools, prisons and anything else standing in the w ...
  
• Art Pope turns up in climate disinformation exposé
  Internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute, a leading player in the climate disinformation campaign, show that the group is counting on continuing support from the North Carolin ...
  

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

• Today on New Scientist: 1 March 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: lifelogging, a quake-proof megatower, a swarm of robot helicopters and suspending a raindrop in mid-air
• Quake-proof megatower tops out in Tokyo
  Tokyo's 634-metre-high Sky Tree incorporates some of the most advanced earthquake and typhoon-resistant technology
• A giant among moths
  The atlas moth dwarfs others of its kind, with a wingspan known to reach 25 centimetres, as Sandesh Kadur's spectacular image shows
• Today on New Scientist: 29 February 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Neanderthals were ancient mariners and vaccine for deadly sheep virus is on its way
• Spacecraft assembled for first private shot to ISS
  SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule and Falcon 9 rocket have been assembled for a probable launch in late April

Tech Drive In

• TSF Shell 3D Released: Lots of Surprises in Store!
  Surprise No.1: Jaw-dropping price tag. I mean, how often do you see an app in Android Market priced at a staggering $17 USD apiece! I have been very eagerly waiting for the release of TSF Shell 3D Android launcher ever since it was officially announced nearly 2 months ago. So I decided to gi ...
• Android Makes Huge Inroads in the Indian Marke ...
  About an year ago, I went to a local retail store and asked about the availability of Android phones. He said they don't have 'Android' phones, but they have LG, Samsung, and Nokia phones (he also referred me to a barrage of local brands like Karbonn, Maxx and what-not). That's right ...
• How to Install Elementary Luna OS in Ubuntu 12 ...
  Elementary OS Luna is far from a finished product. The final release is going to happen only after the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin since Luna is supposed to be based on Precise. Just yesterday, I found out that there is a simple script to install latest development ...
• Unofficial VLC for Android Ready to Download
  Let me be clear, VLC for Android has NOT yet been officially released. VLC for Android is an open source project and is licensed under GPLv2 License (like all other VLC projects). This means, you can build VLC from source and use it the way you want. And that's exactly what XDA Forum mem ...
• Unofficial r/Linux Distro Survey 2012 Puts Ubu ...
  'Which is the most popular Linux distro' is a question that has been raging like for ever. Ubuntu remained on top of the charts ever since its official launch in 2004. But the resurgence of Linux Mint as DistroWatch's most popular distro has stirred up a lot of debates. Redditor TyIzaeL conduc ...

Case About Bird Flu

• GREEKS FIRST TO GET SWINE FLU JAB AND TROIKA A ...
  As the media in Sweden discusses the damage done by the mass swine flu vaccine campaign in 2009, it is worth remembering that Greece was the first country to annouce mandatory swine flu jabs for all 12 million citizens . “We decided that the entire population, all citizens and residents, w ...
• SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NARCOLEPSY IN SWEDEN
  Thirty-three cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Skåne in Sweden after Sweden’s massive vaccination campaign against swine flu in 2009. http://www.thelocal.se/39192/20120219/ Swedish doctor Steffan Sylvan said that themass swine flu vaccine campaign had led only to side effects, call ...
• Sodium bicarbonate: a cure for cancer and othe ...
   Cancer is one the most deadly diseases, and yet a simple cure for cancer identified by Italian doctor Tulio Simoncini has been buried by the medical establishment. Simoncini discovered that sodium bicarbonate can prevent cancer. Soda neutralizes high levels of acidity in our body and so creates ...
• HOPES GROW OF GREEK COUP TO OVERTHROW BANKSTERS
  *Shock and consternation after German Finance Minister calls for Greece to postpone elections in April and install a technocratic government *Greek President rejects aggressive German power grab over country; “default better than a German pistol at head” *Hopes grow that the Greek army will over ...
• Check this blog every Friday
  Please check this blog on Fridays for a  regular update from now on.

Invisible Opportunity

• Murdoch Jr flies away from trouble – but it ma ...
  By Ian Burrell James Murdoch severed ties with his father’s stable of British newspapers yesterday as he resigned from News International following fresh revelations of a corporate cover-up of the company’s involvement in phone hacking and bribery of public officials. Mr Murdoch gave ...
• 81% of Israelis Oppose Strike on Iran
  Only 19% of Israelis Support a Unilateral Strike on Iran Despite all of the warmongering hysteria, the overwhelming majority of all Israelis oppose a unilateral strike on Iran. The Jerusalem Post reports: Only 19 percent of Israelis support an attack against Iran without the backing of the Unite ...
• UK Politician Resigns After Saying Israel &#82 ...
  By Keith Edkins “It will not go on for ever, it will not go on for ever. Israel will lose support and then they will reap what they have sown.” These words, spoken by a member of the UK’s House of Lords, have sparked a huge amount of controversy in the UK. The Guardian reports ...
• Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics: How one of ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this s ...
• ‘Euthanasia Rollercoaster’ Hailed by Anti-Huma ...
  Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post With the designated purpose of ‘euthanasia and execution,’ the “Euthanasia Coaster” is a concept for a real steel roller coaster that has been created to “show the future of humans and technology.” The creator of the coaster, Julijonas Urbonas, says th ...

Veterans Today

• Murray Rothbard, Much Needed Civilized Discourse
  A brief memoir by Murray Rothbard found via archives at LewRockwell. com triggered so much deep thought and remembrance in me, I am forced to review it out of gratitude for the lessons.
• Readying the Greek Corpse for Burial
  Greece is being systematically raped, pillaged and destroyed. Bankers demand it. What they want, they get, no matter the human toll and economic ruin.
• Will Bibi Break Obama?
  White House sources say that when Obama meets Netanyahu Tuesday, he will reject the prime minister’s demands.
• Philadelphia VA Tells Marine to ‘Take a ...
  (PHILADELPHIA, PA) – The letter from the Philadelphia VA Regional Office was thick. It wasn’t a love letter. The package was received on my daughter’s birthday, February 28, 2012. It contained the VA’s denial of my pending disability compensation claim. The denial runs a total of 66 single space ...
• HR 347: How did another assault on our rights ...
  Congress Passes Bill Severely Curtailing First Amendment Liberties

electric politics

• 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 ...
• How To Think About Iran's Nuclear Program
  Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...
• Whither Korea?
  The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...

PR News

• PRWeek Awards salute industry's best
  PRWeek toasted the best of the PR industry Thursday night at the PRWeek Awards, held at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.
• PR Professional of the Year: Barby Siegel, Zen ...
  PRWeek awarded Zeno Group CEO Barby Siegel its "PR Professional of the Year" award, recognizing her leadership both inside and outside her agency.
• PR Agency of the Year: Ketchum
  Judges awarded Ketchum one of the PRWeek Awards' highest honors for its continued excellence and phenomenal growth.
• Campaign of the Year: IBM
  IBM earned this year's top campaign honor for its effort to promote Watson's appearance on Jeopardy!
• Havas reports 5.9% 2011 revenue growth
  PUTEAUX, FRANCE: Havas reported $2.2 billion in revenue in 2011, representing 5.9% organic growth compared with the previous year.

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

• Summer Student Positions with the Red Deer Riv ...
  Position:  Watershed Education and Stewardship Outreach Assistant Organization:  Red Deer River Watershed Alliance ...
• ELC comments on Proposed Recovery Strategy for ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted their comments on Recovery Strategy for Woodland Caribou (Rangifer terandus caribou) Boreal Population, In Canada to the ELC website. ...
• Conservation groups take Environment Minister ...
  Ecojustice Alberta Wilderness Association Pembina Institute 23 Feb 2012 EDMONTON — T ...
• Pembina Institute backgrounder on the proposed ...
  Pembina Institute In advance of the February 23 European Commission vote on the European Union's proposed fuel-quality directive, the Pembina Institute has released a backgrounder to answer "some frequently asked questions about ...
• Alberta Government Kills 145 Bears at Oilsands ...
  No Charges Laid Alberta Wilderness Association 22 Feb 2012 Last year, the Alberta government killed 145 garbage-habituated b ...

Stop NATO

• Top NATO Military Commander Mulls Partnerships ...
  Press Trust of India March 2, 2012 Worth exploring NATO partnership with India: Pentagon Edited by RR ==== “I would look first and foremost at building on the coalition in Afghanistan. Twenty eight NATO nations, but we have 22 other nations who are partnering with NATO in Afghanistan. This are m ...
• Syria: U.S. Regime Change Plans Threaten Stabi ...
  Jiefang Daily March 2, 2012 U.S. solution to Syria issue doomed to failure ==== Faced with Syria’s divided opposition, the basic approach of the United States is to integrate the various opposition groups and establish a unified body centered around the Syrian National Council to replace t ...
• China Refutes “Groundless” Critici ...
  Xinhua News Agency March 2, 2012 China refutes “groundless” criticism regarding Syrian resolution veto     BEIJING: China on Friday refuted “groundless” criticism of its veto against a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Syria. Foreign ...
• Video: Libyan Regime Cages, Abuses Black Africans
  RT March 2, 2012 Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, force feed them flags VIDEO A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the ...
• Stop NATO news: March 2, 2012
  ==== Strongest Military In The World: After Iraqi, Afghan, Libyan “Successes,” Pentagon To Maintain Might, Expand Global Partnerships Libyan War And Beyond: NATO Praises Qatar As Key Ally NATO Shelling Critically Wounds Six In Pakistan Armenia: NATO Delegation Oversees Further Integr ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Senator Jay Rockefeller Throws Fundraiser At H ...
  Zaid Jilani | Senator Jay Rockefeller throws fundraiser at his mansion full of lobbyists.
• Sorry Gates: GMO Crops Proven to be Ineffectiv ...
  Anthony Gucciardi | Monsanto shareholder Bill Gates knows that GMO foods do not help world hunger.
• Protesters Occupying Monsanto Corp. Arrested
  Anthony Gucciardi | A group of Occupy DC members were arrested after occupying the evil company known as Monsanto.
• Americans Will Need “Black Markets” To Survive
  Brandon Smith | The need for a barter based black market will soon be very real.
• The Unofficial Ron Paul Voters Guide
  Tony Muga | First, they tried to convince you that there was every reason not to vote and/or not to vote for Ron Paul: Voting is a waste of time, the elections are rigged. Ron Paul has no chance of winning. Ron Paul won't talk about 9/11. Ron Paul is a Mason or Illuminati puppet. Voting is ...

FRS

• The imperialist threat and the Islamic Republi ...
  27 February 2012,  A World to Win News Service. By N. Peyman The threats against Iran, the sanctions and other economic pressures and the military movements and manoeuvres all testify to the intensification of the contradictions between the US and Iranian regime, 33 years after its foundation. T ...
• Grasping the Lessons of a Year of Struggle
  The Lessons of 2011: Transcending the Old, Fostering the New, and Settling Outstanding Accounts Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Friday, February 24, 2012 The militant working class struggles of 2011 – from the strikes and occupation in Wisconsin, to the countless demonstrations a ...
• Grasping the Lessons of a Year of Struggle
  The Lessons of 2011: Transcending the Old, Fostering the New, and Settling Outstanding Accounts Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Friday, February 24, 2012 The militant working class struggles of 2011 – from the strikes and occupation in Wisconsin, to the countless demonstrations a ...
• Out of the public eye, China cracks down on an ...
  Tom Lasseter – McClatchy Newspapers, February 26, 2012 PANHE, China — The old woman walked over to the door and peeked out from behind a blue curtain, looking slowly from one side of the street to other. She muttered to those huddled in the room behind her, “the police will come.&#82 ...
• Out of the public eye, China cracks down on an ...
  Tom Lasseter – McClatchy Newspapers, February 26, 2012 PANHE, China — The old woman walked over to the door and peeked out from behind a blue curtain, looking slowly from one side of the street to other. She muttered to those huddled in the room behind her, “the police will come.&#82 ...

Ken O'Keefe

• The Criminal UK Police Looking to Arrest Me fo ...
  The mass murdering criminal UK Government and its equally corrupt police, the ones who are happy to protect Israeli war criminals in the UK by destroying universal jurisdiction. The same UK that is home to the worlds biggest fraudsters and financial terrorists, otherwise known as the banksters. ...
• Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
  Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
• Lecture at Middlesex University – Israel ...
  Here is my lecture last week at Middlesex University. The one with our friendly Zionists. Watch the video to see what they reckon I should be jailed for; 'incitement' they call it. I would have to agree that telling the truth is the mostrevolutionary activity of our time and the UK police have a ...
• Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
  This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...
• Memo to all Christians – The Heretic & M ...
  This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...

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

• Obama: No Easy Fixes or Silver Bullet for High ...
  President Obama Gives Energy Speech in New HampshireContributor: Jon C. Hopwood Published: Mar 01, 2012
• Michigan State University to Offer Course on S ...
  Students at Michigan State University will soon be able to study the ramifications of a potential 'zombie apocalypse' in a new course offered by the University's School of Social Work.Contributor: C.W. Burgers Published: Feb 29, 2012
• North Korea Curtails Nuclear Program in Exchan ...
  North Korea strikes a deal with the United States to to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in exchange for receiving food aid.Contributor: John Coon Published: Feb 29, 2012
• Davy Jones, Singer for the Monkees, Dies at Age 66
  The Marin County medical examiner's office in Florida has confirmed Davy Jones, singer of The Monkees, died of a heart attack at age 66.Contributor: Frank Stegall Published: Feb 29, 2012
• Korean War Vet Receives Purple Heart 3 Hours A ...
  Richard Morrison went more than a half century without telling anyone he had earned a Purple Heart in Korea, in the end he missed receiving his medal by three hours.Contributor: Kent Lister Published: Feb 29, 2012

Popsci - Science

• PopSci Q&A: Kate Findlay Talks About the Confl ...
  How a quilter ended up in the pages of a particle physics publication We first became aware of Kate Findlay's work thanks to Symmetry Magazine, which publishes articles relating to particle physics. Kate isn't a particle physicist; in fact, she's not even a scientist. She works as an art teacher ...
• Gallery: The LHC, Quilted
• Storm Watch: Driven By Warm Air, Massive Torna ...
  A storm system brewing in the Rockies today might trigger an outbreak of deadly tornadoes in the nation's midsection on Friday, according to meteorologists. In case you missed it, read PopSci senior editor Seth Fletcher's piece about how tornadoes form — and how climate change may be making them ...
• Virgin Oceanic Wants to Send Humans Back Down ...
  If you thought space was the only frontier Virgin has an interest in tackling, you’ve been missing out on Virgin Oceanic’s drive to pilot the first manned submersible all the way to the very bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench--and thus dive deeper than any solo human has ever dived bef ...
• Remote Aliens Could Detect Life On Earth By Lo ...
  New detection method could help spot signs of life on exoplanets So many exoplanets may hold water, atmospheres, just-right temperatures and a rocky surface for life to flourish — we just need to know where to look. Once astronomers have pinpointed a good candidate, we also need to know how to ...

Veterans Today

• Murray Rothbard, Much Needed Civilized Discourse
  A brief memoir by Murray Rothbard found via archives at LewRockwell. com triggered so much deep thought and remembrance in me, I am forced to review it out of gratitude for the lessons.
• Readying the Greek Corpse for Burial
  Greece is being systematically raped, pillaged and destroyed. Bankers demand it. What they want, they get, no matter the human toll and economic ruin.
• Will Bibi Break Obama?
  White House sources say that when Obama meets Netanyahu Tuesday, he will reject the prime minister’s demands.
• Philadelphia VA Tells Marine to ‘Take a ...
  (PHILADELPHIA, PA) – The letter from the Philadelphia VA Regional Office was thick. It wasn’t a love letter. The package was received on my daughter’s birthday, February 28, 2012. It contained the VA’s denial of my pending disability compensation claim. The denial runs a total of 66 single space ...
• HR 347: How did another assault on our rights ...
  Congress Passes Bill Severely Curtailing First Amendment Liberties

War is Business

• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
• New U.S. Nuke Facility Shows One Way Military ...
  Aren't nuclear weapons, after all, the constant preoccupation of all foreign and national security thought—not just within the U.S., but around the world?
• U.S. Military Manufacturers Move South Of The ...
  Buy maquiladora Buy maquiladora • Read more at The World
• U.S. Activists Sue For Info On Private Drones ...
  Buy private registration Buy private registration • Read more at EFF

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• 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 ...
• Risk of drought restrictions spread
  Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...
• Met Office global forecasts too warm in 11 out ...
  Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• 'The DNA of Human Rights'
  Here's an interesting counterpoint to the "Asian values" argument that prioritizes collective well-being over individual rights. While I to a certain extent buy into that argument, it is at this point in time largely due to objections to how Western nations that are usually loudest about blather ...
• German Apprenticeship vs US/UK Uni-Jobless System
  It is no big secret that youth unemployment is especially high in Anglo-Saxon economies at the present time.* As I have illustrated, wages for US college graduates have been on a steady downward trend. At the same time, tuition fees are rising at a rate far outstripping the rate of inflatio ...
• Government Motors, Peugeot's Would-Be "Saviour"
  Here comes a knight in rusted armour. It is unfortunate that GM Europe--the only part of General Motors whose vehicles I would remotely consider buying--is also unprofitable. Let's just say that the European auto market is quite competitive aside from being stagnant. Take, for instance, French a ...
• Thou Shalt Obey Thy Lord Mandy on Globalization
  On paper, I am not supposed to favourably regard Peter Mandelson, the third architect of the UK's third way along with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. While I regard the latter two as rather odious at this point in time, I have yet to definitively suss why I remain a Lord Mandelson fan. Perhaps it' ...
• I [Heart] Empire: "Hong Kong Better Under Brits"
  Niall Ferguson probably cemented the fashion of extolling the virtues of British empire with his bestselling book from a few years back. While the British empire had its downsides alike slavery earlier on and occasional massacres of various peoples supposedly under the crown, it was, on the bala ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news ...
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is ...
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Inflatio ...
• 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple ...
  The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astoun ...
• 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon R ...
  For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world.  Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.  The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return.  There are a couple of major reasons for this.  Number o ...
• America 1950 vs. America 2012
  Would you rather live in the America of 1950 or the America of 2012?  Has the United States changed for the better over the last 62 years?  Many fondly remember the 1950s and the 1960s as the "golden age" of America.  We emerged from World War II as the wealthiest and most powerf ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Fifth Estate's Spring 2012 issue (#386) now av ...
  The Fifth Estate has always proudly displayed the FBI’s description of this publication as “supporting revolution everywhere.”...
• Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
  When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
• October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
• New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
  June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
• November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
  Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...

E U Times

• Stone Age Tools found on East Coast prove the ...
  Tools belonging to stone age hunters found on U.S. east coast prove the first Americans came from Europe NOT Asia. America was first discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe, according to new archaeological evidence. Across six locations on the U.S. east coast, several dozen stone tools have ...
• Libyan Rebels Destroy WWII Commonwealth Cemete ...
  Islamic extremists have attacked one of the Commonwealth war graves in Libya, a country holding the graves of Allied troops killed in World War Two. Here is the true face of the people NATO helped, desecrating and destroying Christian and Jewish head stones in the commonwealth war cemetery in Be ...
• Russian premier vows to ward off attack on Iran
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned of the dire consequences of a military conflict with the Islamic Republic, saying Moscow will do its utmost to avert a war on Iran. “We will do everything possible to prevent a military conflict either in Iran or around it,” Putin told the chief e ...
• Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, forc ...
  A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag. ­“Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” sc ...
• Evacuate Tokyo and All US Forces From Japan
  Widely known Physicist Dr Paolo Scampa, the publisher of the EU AIPRI Blog and an eminent chemical physicist, announced today his latest calculations of deadly radioactivity in Tokyo itself. Both the nuclear regulatory and media responses have been missing in action. However, the outrageous stat ...

Voiceless Victim

• 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 ...
• Even Thief Gives Pope Lesson in Morality &#821 ...
  Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...

WL Central

• 2012-02-29 Anonymous & WikiLeaks Unite to expo ...
  TweetOffense Monday, February 27th, 2012 WikiLeaks and Anonymous collaborate in releasing The Global Intelligence Files of the global intelligence company Stratfor. This is huge, like another Cablegate dump, Stratfor is known as the private CIA. From the WikiLeaks site: On Monday February 27th, ...
• Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
  TweetAuthored By: Nikolas Kozloff I have always been a bit skeptical about some of the more salacious claims made in John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the story of one man’s life working for the secretive National Security Agency or NSA. When he was a young man, NSA interrogator ...
• Global Intelligence Gate: From Confessions of ...
  TweetAuthored By: Nikolas Kozloff I have always been a bit skeptical about some of the more salacious claims made in John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the story of one man’s life working for the secretive National Security Agency or NSA. When he was a young man, NSA interrogator ...
• 2012-02-27 African Spring continues in Senegal
  TweetWhen Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was booed by hundreds of voters as he cast his ballot Sunday in an election the controversial incumbent hopes will elect him to serve a third term in office, it capped more than a month of popular protests by opposition candidates and their supporters ...
• 2012-02-27 African Spring continues in Senegal
  TweetWhen Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was booed by hundreds of voters as he cast his ballot Sunday in an election the controversial incumbent hopes will elect him to serve a third term in office, it capped more than a month of popular protests by opposition candidates and their supporters ...

U N News

• Guatemala: UN welcomes judge's decision to den ...
  The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the news that a Guatemalan judge rejected the claim that a former dictator is protected under an amnesty law from being tried on genocide charges.
• Haiti: First mobile phone cash transfers facil ...
  Survivors of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti have this week started receiving cash subsidies through the first-ever mobile money transfer system in support of post-disaster housing reconstruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported today.
• UN launches new guidelines in fight against ch ...
  United Nations health officials have unveiled new guidelines to help countries throughout the Americas detect and prevent transmission of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus - a disease which has already infected more than two million people around the world.
• Drug-related violence has reached alarming lev ...
  Escalating violence involving drug trafficking organizations in Central America has reached "alarming and unprecedented levels," making it one of the most violent areas in the world, the United Nations anti-narcotics panel stressed in its annual report which was launched today.
• Haitian premier's resignation sparks concern f ...
  The chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) today expressed his deep concern following the resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, just four months after his appointment.

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

• Best New Restaurant in Singapore
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Our Wandering Palate finds his comfort zone in Luke's Oyster Bar and Chop House of Singapore
• Myanmar's Leaders face a New Environmental Dilemma
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Protesters want to shut down the Shwe gas pipeline, the potential source of vast revenues
• India's Delayed Trilateral Highway
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New Delhi’s highway plan to draw Southeast Asia into its orbit hits snags
• Vietnam's Communist Party Ponders Change
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The party is living on borrowed time as it drifts aimlessly
• Indonesia Scandal Snares Another Top Official
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Head of SBY’s party accused of being behind a shell company to win government contracts

We Know the Lies

• Euthanasia Squads Offer 'Death by Delivery' to ...
    A highly controversial mobile euthanasia programme launched in the Netherlands yesterday, sending six specialised roving medical teams door-to-door to help patients end their lives free of charge in their own homes. ~ Jenny Stevens read more
• NASA Lost Command Code for International Space ...
    Four dozen high-tech computing devices disappeared from the offices of NASA over a two-year span, including one laptop that contained the code needed to command the International Space Station. read more
• Andrew Breitbart... The Internet Blames Obama ...
    It was, to say the least, inevitable. Hours after the death of Andrew Breitbart was announced on Thursday, his passing gave birth to the newest conspiracy theory. If you couldn’t guess who many are already blaming for his death - it's Barack Obama. ~ Video read more
• 'Killing Newborn Babies Should Be Allowed'... ...
    A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics argues that abortion should be extended to make the killing of newborn babies permissible, even if the baby is perfectly healthy, in a shocking example of how the medical establishment is still dominated by a eugenicist mindset. ~ Pau ...
• The Secret Media War of 2012
    “See this room? Two-thirds of us laid off when Ron Paul is president.” – A hot microphone picked up a reporter attacking Ron Paul recently before a Pentagon briefing began. ~ Ron Holland read more

Tarpley

• Reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democr ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Atlantic Television News February 27, 2012 — recorded on February 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• One-Candidate Presidential Election Mockery in ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 27, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington about the potential for real change and stabilization in Yemen now that UK-trained army officer Abd-Rabbu Mansour Had ...
• Russia, China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Top US officials have called for the urgent provision of weapons, intelligence and funds to the Syrian opposition for use against President Bashar al-Assad. Press TV has interviewed Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpl ...
• Hillary Clinton’s “Enemies of Syri ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A political analyst says the Friends of Syria conference expected to be held in Tunisia’s capital Tunis aims at creating a scenario in Syria similar to the one, which materialized in Libya. What follows is a ...
• FALSE FLAG ALERT – Syrian Sources Warn: ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 23, 2012 A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad’s forces. These children are already dead, and ...

Modern Survivalism

• Disaster Planning: USB Flash Drive
  Emergency preparedness requires disaster planning. Part of your disaster plan for some of you should include a USB flash drive, specifically purposed for an emergency situation. I said, “some of you” because I know that not everyone is into high-tech/PC’s/laptops/electronic rec ...
• Emergency Preparedness for Your Dog
  Let’s say you live in an area that is prone to hurricanes, floods or even wildfires, and you suddenly need to evacuate your home due to an evacuation order for a few days or more. Are you ready to evacuate your dog? Emergency preparedness for your dog should be part of your prepping invent ...
• Will An EMP Fry The Electronic Lock On My Safe?
  Reader Question: Saw the two articles on EMP (my biggest fear). In a moment of stupidity I bought a gun safe with a electronic lock instead of a dial lock. I just can’t get it out of my head that this will be a epic disaster if an EMP hits. I was looking to place [...]
• Weekly Menu Planning Helps You Save
  Planning out a weekly menu will help you save money and time. It will help you to be more organized with the food that you have in your house and will help you to quickly determine what you may need during your weekly grocery store visit. In today’s terrible economy, and with so many peopl ...
• Survival Medicine Handbook
  I have recently received a copy of The Doom and Bloom ‘Survival Medicine Handbook’, a guide to staying healthy in an uncertain future, written by Joseph Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P., also known as Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy of http://www.doomandbloom.net/. “There may come a ...

Fast Company

• Apple To Launch TV Service By Christmas?, 10 S ...
  Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Apple To Launch TV Service By Christmas? Apple may be muscling into the TV arena by this holiday season, and despite obstinate resistance from cable providers, may launch a service before the year is out. Apple is rumored to h ...
• Why Comcast Will Crush Netflix
  I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San Francisco. I’m about to step into my second day delivering an Outthinker workshop to group of technology execs from various companies. Television news here centers on the rapidly reorganizing technology landscape: th ...
• How To Lose Friends And Alienate Twitter Follo ...
  When I interviewed entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki recently, I chatted with him at great lengths about his Twitter publishing habits. Take a look at his feed, and every few minutes you'll see a new post, from why videos go viral to Playboy's plans for a strip club. With ...
• With "Versus" Debate Series, Google Attempts T ...
  Does the world need more telegenic talent shouting opinions at one another? Google thinks it does.In a blogpost today, Google's YouTube team announces "Versus," which it says is all about "liberating opinion with Google+ Hangouts." The company notes that Google+ Hangouts are being used in amazin ...
• Andrew Breitbart Dead At 43, SETI Crowdsources ...
  Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Apple Wins Injunction Against Motorola. In the tit-for-tat battle between Apple and numerous companies over IP, Apple's just one a biggish fight--it's been awarded an injunciton against Motorola in Germany, over a tiny detail ...

Jadaliyya

• The End of Taking the Syrian Revolution at Fac ...
  Those interested in a revolution that would be considered a significant step forward from the existing Syrian regime, might want to take pause as they steadfastly support some of its main anchors. In particular, months after its establishment, the Syrian National Council (SNC) has failed ...
• Finding Bayt Across Borders of Stone
  No roads, not a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.*  I “met” Anthony Shadid the only way someone like me, a mere reader, can meet a journalist she admires: I emailed him a fan letter. I sent him my short note through the New York Times website and didn’t e ...
• Egypt's Judges in a Revolutionary Age
  Egypt’s tumultuous uprising of 2011 was about many things, but among the most central was a demand by legions of political activists and large crowds of mobilized citizens that public authority in the country be reconstructed to operate in a clearly accountable manner, fully governed by ...
• Syria Media Roundup (February 29)
  “The dilemma for Syria’s neighbours” analysis by George Joffe and Alia Brahimi “Syrian casualty lists” how are we counting the dead? “The Syrian Arab Red Crescent refutes allegations it is not working in a neutral and impartial manner“ Abdulrahman Attar responds to allegations in the m ...
• Sargon Boulus: The Dream of Houses
    [“Hulm al-Buyut” was published in Sargon Boulus’ posthumous collection “`Azma Ukhra li-Kalb al-Qabila” (Another Bone for the Tribe’s Dog) (Baghdad and Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2008)]   The Dream of Houses   There is a street somewhere lined with houses Washed by the ...

mediagazer

• The Economist partners with Penguin Shorts to ...
  Lucy Tesseras / NMA: The Economist partners with Penguin Shorts to extend reach  —  The Economist has struck up a partnership with Penguin Shorts, the publisher's digital short-form content brand, to publish a series of reports to attract new customers and provide existing subsc ...
• Mitt Romney's Drudge Report Connection Pays Of ...
  Sam Stein / The Huffington Post: Mitt Romney's Drudge Report Connection Pays Off  —  WASHINGTON — As Ann Romney took the stage in Michigan on Tuesday night, gleefully ginning up the crowd that had gathered to celebrate her husband's victory in the state's primary, her thou ...
• Is a Blog Post Without a Link Still a Blog Pos ...
  Matthew Creamer / AdAge: Is a Blog Post Without a Link Still a Blog Post?  —  How Vanity Fair Balances Newsstand Needs With Social-Media Demands  —  Here's something you don't usually see near the top of a blog item: “Sorry, readers, no link.”  T ...
• David Cameron: I did ride ex-police horse (Gua ...
  Guardian: David Cameron: I did ride ex-police horse  —  Prime minister confirms he rode horse lent by police to former News International chief executive before 2010 election  —  David Cameron has confirmed that he did ride the horse lent by police to the former ...
• Ryan Giggs loses battle for Sun damages (John ...
  John Plunkett / Guardian: Ryan Giggs loses battle for Sun damages  —  High court throws out Giggs' claim for payout and injunction, following paper's article on alleged affair with Imogen Thomas  —  Ryan Giggs has failed in a high court bid for damages and a perm ...

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

• LIVERPOOL v Arsenal: Hamstrung Gerrard in ...
  Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is awaiting an update on captain Steven Gerrard's fitness ahead of Saturday's visit of Arsenal. The midfielder injured a hamstring in England's friendly defeat against Holland on Wednesday while defender Glen Johnson is expected to be fit after pulling out of ...
• Guardiola closes in on Barcelona contract ...
  The 41-year-old coach and his right-hand man are believed to have met with club officials on Thursday and have taken a big step towards signing an extension Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Barcelona £10.83 Draw £100.00 Sporting G £210.00 Bet: £5 ...
• Van Persie and Vermaelen doubtful for Ars ...
  LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Arsenal captain Robin van Persie and defender Thomas Vermaelen are both doubtful for Saturday's Premier League match at Liverpool, manager Arsene Wenger said as he criticised international friendlies. Van Persie played for Netherlands in their 3-2 win over England ...
• Nasa finds sea ice decline driving rise i ...
  The connection between changes in the Arctic Ocean's ice cover and bromine chemical processes is determined by the interaction between the salt in sea ice, frigid temperatures and sunlight. When these mix, the salty ice releases bromine into the air and starts a cascade of chemical reactions ...
• Durant leads Thunder win
  ORLANDO, Fla. - Kevin Durant scored 38 points, including 18 in the fourth quarter, and Russell Westbrook added 29 points and 10 rebounds as the Oklahoma City Thunder erased a 14-point deficit to hold on to beat the Orlando Magic 105-102 on Thursday night. The Magic had a chance to tie it in ...

no frakking consensus

• Where Do Gleick’s Apologists Draw the Line?
  If it's OK for scientists to lie to advance the fight against climate change what other bad behaviour is acceptable?
• Peter Gleick – Then and Now
  Eleven years ago Peter Gleick was declaring that the debate is over. Now he says other people are preventing it from taking place.
• Opinion Disguised as Science
  Iowa scientists have signed a letter about climate change. News reports don’t mention their activist leanings.
• Gleick Speak
  Peter Gleick issues a statement about the Heartland documents.
• Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee
  The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri's sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?

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

• 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 ...
• 2/17/12 - Embargo against Cuba
  2012election.procon.org - Should the US continue to support the embargo against Cuba? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Paul is Con. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, and Obama are Pro, and Johnson is Not Clearly Pro or Con.

Truth About Our World

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• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Gyrovague's Raves

• The brainstorming myth
  Jonah Lehrer In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was widely regarded as the most innovative firm on Madison Avenue. Born in 1888, Osborn had spent much of h ...
• Judging Books by Their Covers
  C. Max Magee … we thought it might be fun to compare the U.S. and U.K. book cover designs of this year’s Morning News Tournament of Books contenders. Book cover design never seems to garner much discussion in the literary world, but, as readers, we are undoubtedly swayed by the little bill ...
• Christian Jihad
  Patrick Allitt Is it true that the Bible teaches peace and the Koran war? Only if you approach the books selectively, taking the gentlest of Jesus’ teachings and setting them against the harshest of Muhammad’s. Philip Jenkins’s challenging new book Laying Down the Sword shows that the Bible cont ...
• What the Dickens
  Sales of Charles Dickens’s books in his lifetime ON THE death of Charles Dickens in 1870 the Times lamented, “The loss of such a man is an event which makes ordinary expressions of regret seem cold and conventional”. It was the prodigious popularity of his work that went furthest to explai ...
• The Tenth Man
  The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy|December 19 By the time Christopher Hitchens died last week at the age of 62, the arc of his intellectual career was so notorious, ingrained ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• 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 ...
• Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
  In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
• Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
  FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
• Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
  The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...

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

• Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
  WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
• Katie Holmes
  more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
• Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
  more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
• Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
  more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
• VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
  AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

• Silencing The Critics
  In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were ...
• The $28m pantomime of airport body scanners
  No cost-benefit analysis was conducted before the government’s decision to impose body scanning on international passengers departing the country, the government has revealed. On Sunday Transport Minister Anthony Albanese announced that a $28 million program to install scanners at intern ...
• Debunking the real 9/11 myths
  Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other plac ...
• We Will Not Be Scanned requests your feedback ...
  Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means ...
• Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
  Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...

Beacon

• Fishy Business: Can You Trust Your Seafood?
  Can you trust that the seafood you bought is actually what it claims to be? In a new report titled, “Fishy Business: Do You Know What You Are Really Eating?” Oceana explains how seafood mislabeling and species substitution can have dangerous consequences for public health and ocean ecosystems. ...
• A Carbon Footprint that Isn’t Shrimpy
  Image via Wikimedia Commons. According to new estimates, farmed shrimp from Asia may have one of the highest carbon footprints of any food. More than half of all shrimp farms are located in Asia, primarily in areas that used to be mangrove forests. Mangroves are trees that grow in salt water ...
• Protecting Penguins and More in Antarctica
  Penguins hunting. © John Weller Oceana has joined the Antarctic Ocean Alliance, an international collective of environmental organizations and high-profile supporters that have come together to call for the world’s largest network of marine protected areas and no-take marine reserves to be es ...
• Oceana Wins TravelShark Charity Hunt
  We have been selected as one of three charities winners for the TravelShark Charity Hunt -- and we owe you a huge thanks for nominating and voting for us!  Thanks to your effort, the online travel network TravelShark will support Oceana – along with the Cheetah Conservation Fund and People ...
• House Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Fight Ille ...
  Congress took a strong step forward today in the fight against illegal fishing, as Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) introduced legislation to fight this growing global problem that threatens our oceans, honest fishermen and seafood consumers worldwide.  The bill is cosponsored by ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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• Every Once In A While, An Incredible Artist De ...
    I discovered these watercolors on a BBC website. These are the sketches of Matthew Cook, UK Soldier in Afghanistan, in 2009               Source: BBC  
• Creamed Chipped Beef, Or SOS
    My father mentioned this to me even though he said it was really good. Creamed Chipped Beef. Or for some reason it took on the moniker of SOS or Shit On Shingle You take chipped beef, air dried slivers of beef and cover it with a creamy white sauce.   Here is one of [...]
• The Chinese Civil War Was One Of The Largest, ...
        This war was far too long and complicated to cover here in one article. What is interesting is that the war itself was in motion before the Japanese invaded and occupied China, and it picked up with deadly intensity afterwards. The weapons purloined and copied from occupiers ...

Taylor Marsh

• Mitt Romney Minute: Just a Couple of Cadillacs ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I think we can use Britney Spear’s anthem “Oops I did it again” as Mitt Romney’s theme song. Mitt was declared the “winner” of the nasty Wednesday debate but as usual Mitt creates a self-inflicted ...
• Queer Talk: Obama administration and “gay righ ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Before getting to the Obama administration: Thursday, the Maryland Senate followed the House’s earlier approval of a bill making marriage of same gender couples legal. From Keen News: The Maryland Senate … gave ...
• Dash of Dan: Mini Chocolate Oreo Cheesecakes
  Cheesecake. One of my favorite shows (ever) is the “Golden Girls.” Whenever the girls reminisce or have a group pow-wow, cheesecake is the immediate vicinity. And just like that, problems were solved and good times ensued. But you don’t always have the time to make a cheesecake ...
• Political Junky Fun, with Amy and Seth
  How was your week? Have some fun this weekend. Anyone planning to watch the Oscars? I fell in love with “Hugo.” …out of the love between a father and his daughter, quite lovely.
• SuperPACs and “dancing with the devil”
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intac ...

Hudson New York

• The Hate Business
  The fact that thousands of Palestinian patients receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year did not stop Palestinians from voicing opposition to a visit by Israeli physicians to Ramallah last week. The Israeli physicians arrived in Ramallah
• Turkish, Azerbaijani, Iranian Foreign Minister ...
  The Turkish, Azerbaijani and Iranian foreign ministers are planning to meet on March 7 in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan as part of a series of meetings regularly held between the three states. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu,
• The "Apartheid State" That Minorities Keep Str ...
  Prominent PLO spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi is demanding that the international community declare Israel an "Apartheid State." Her demand was included in a statement she published in Ramallah this week: she accused Israel of incitement against Arabs and of
• Tunisia: From One Dictatorship To Another
  Voices of concern have been growing louder in Tunisia as the Islamist party, Ennahda, which won a relative majority and is presently leading the interim government coalition, is acting as though it is planning to stay a while longer than its allotted one
• Syrian Regime Wants to Save Itself by Pledging ...
  The Syrian regime is trying to absolve itself of its sins against its own people by pledging democratic change, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Tuesday. "The Syrian regime did not keep any of their promises to the Syrian people or international

Urban Survival

• Nervously Waiting & Watching
  With Libya arguably taken down for that rabble-rouser talk of backing an African gold-back currency, several readers have noted that leave only a couple of countries not hooked up to the corporate life support system: Central banks.  Since those two … Continue reading →
• Coping: Riding the DigiDollar Juggernaut
  Got an interesting email overnight, from a dude in the bankstering biz who is not pleased with how things are going in his field… “I wrote you maybe 6 months back after attending a conference put on by BAE Systems … Continue reading →
• Cold Case Posse Report on Obama Due
  Is this economics?  Well, sort of, if the president has anything to do with the economy, since later on today unconventional Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Maricopa Country, Arizona) will hold a press conference to report on what his “cold case posse” … Continue reading →
• Coping: Wok on Buy
  Sometimes it’s revealing to go through the inbox around here.  Take our discussion of building a wok station: “George, Instead of spending all that hard earned money on woks, make one. Go to the farm store and get a disk … Continue reading →
• The One Number that Matters
  Conspiracy types are not particularly trusting of government numbers, particularly, when like this morning’s Durables report, which we will get to next, they don’t seem to square with reality, most of the time.  Especially when it comes to reports like … Continue reading & ...

Trends & Forecasts

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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

• The Magic of "the Friendly Gray Whale"
  Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California I just returned from a magical place where gray whales still reign supreme. Imagine the sight of hundreds of whales dotting the ocean as far as the eye can see. ...
• A Victory for Central Valley Salmon
  Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Today, the Ninth Circuit ruled, once again, that Westlands Water District and other junior Central Valley Project (CVP) water users in the San Joaquin Valley are only entitled to “surplus” water ...
• Mountaintop Removal Ban Forges Ahead in Tennessee
  Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC As promised, the Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act came to a vote in the state Senate Environment Committee earlier this week. The good--and history-making--news is that the bill passed in commit ...
• Pruitt-Igoe and lessons from the failure of po ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC     Like the equally infamous Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, the Pruitt-Igoe towers in St. Louis were once seen as beacons of hope, a way to bring quali ...
• NRDC in the News 2/29: Renewable energy projec ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In The New York Times, Kit Kennedy discussed the potential for new wind and solar energy projects in New York City… Susan Casey-Lefkowitz commented in The Montreal Gazette on the absurdity of ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, March 1, 2012: St Louis MO police sued after 9 witnesses claim cop shot an unarmed man and continued to shoot him to death while he laid on the ground bleeding then planted a gun [...]
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, February 29, 2012: Milwaukee WI settles suit for $2mil to man badly beaten by cops at a cop party in a high profile racially-charged case. [0] post.cr/yPjNmj Baltimore MD settles ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, February 28, 2012: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is accused of opening fire on an unarmed innocent man without warning in front of a school in an allege ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, February 27, 2012: Providence RI cop ordered by jury to pay $17k civil judgment to gas station clerk he assaulted while on duty [0] bit.ly/wrZqxa Denver CO sheriff’s dept sued ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 02-25 ...
  Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 25-26, 2012: Chicago IL police are being sued on allegations that an unspecified number of officers spent several minutes trying to concoct a story to cover up how they s ...

Total Collapse

• Obama Promises Israel Use Of Bases For Iran At ...
  There have been endless recent visits to Israel from high-ranking U.S. officials regarding the Iran issue, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and most recently National Security Advisor Tom Donilon. The AP reports that during the last set of meetings the Israelis defiantly told the U.S. th ...
• Putin Offers to Save Europe From Decline and I ...
  If Vladimir V. Putin, as he claims, seeks a closer relationship with the rest of Europe, he is going about achieving it in a funny way. The Russian prime minister, apparently headed for a return to the presidency according to polls ahead of the first round of elections scheduled for Sunday, has ...
• China: US has no moral right to ‘protect’ Arabs
  China says the US has no right to “protect” Arab peoples, questioning “the sincerity and efficacy of US policy.” The country’s top newspaper replied to Hillary Clinton after she called China’s and Russia’s veto of a UN Syrian resolution “despicable”. The People’s Daily commentary say ...
• Russia upgrades Syria-based electronic station ...
  The Russians have upgraded their Jabal Al Harrah electronic and surveillance station south of Damascus opposite Israel’s Sea of Galilee, adding resources especially tailored to give Tehran early warning of an oncoming US or Israeli attack, DEBKAfile’s US military sources report. Before it was bo ...
• Mysterious Siberian Blasts Warned Point To Rap ...
  An unsettling report prepared by Viktor Seleznyov, director of the Geophysical Institute at the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), on the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Tyva Republic in Russia’s East Siberia earlier today warns that more seismic activity shoul ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Chrome loses market share while IE gains for the 2nd month in a row. A new Apple TV could come right after the iPad 3 announcement. Japan warns Google about...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
  Microsoft releases the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, Facebook begins rolling out Timeline for Pages, and ads are coming to your timeline in Twitter’s official iPhone and Android apps. It’s...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple’s iPad 3 announcement is coming next week. Once you snag your new iPad, you need to get TNW Magazine. Users are spending a mere 3 minutes per month on...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Mobile World Co ...
  Today we bring you a round-up of all the biggest stories from Mobile World Congress so far. So, press ‘play’ below and catch up in 3 minutes. You can read...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple acquires Chomp to improve app discovery, Google sells its stake in 4G firm Clearwire, and MATTER clearly matters as it raises money on Kickstarter to support long-form journalism. It’s...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Hans-Josef Fell at ANU
  German member of parliament Hans-Josef Fell, the key architect of the world's most successful renewable energy policies (feed-in tariffs) spoke at the Australian National University in Canberra last week. Below is a recording of his talk.  
• House swap: I’ll take wind turbines over a coa ...
  Wind turbines. You either love them (like 75 per cent of us), or hate them (15 per cent). Or, you couldn’t care less. Coal mines: you either love them, like those who reap their profits (20 per cent), or you hate them (80 per cent), like those who have to live near them. The problem of differing ...
• Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan n ...
  The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...
• Alcoa: seeing through the carbon tax doomsday ...
  When Alcoa's Point Henry workers met the Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday they should have advised her to call the aluminium company's bluff and dismiss its blatant rent seeking tactics. Just over 12 months ago, the company's majority owner, Alcoa Inc of the US, declared the Australian ope ...
• Renewistan or Carbonopia: where would you rath ...
  Matthew Wright Published last November, Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and the planet made some fundamentally important points: that solutions to climate change must allow for economic development in poorer countries; that a large part of the soluti ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Madagascar lifts rosewood ban. Or does it?
  Madagascar's transitional government lifted its ban on exports of rosewood, ebony and other precious wood last month, but the decision is now under review due to concerns about foreign dominance of the trade, say local sources. Environmentalists are nonetheless concerned that a loosening of res ...
• Possible embezzlement halts WWF-run REDD proje ...
  Two conservation and community projects in Tanzania have been halted after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reported possible corruption. WWF is running the projects with funds from the Norwegian government. One of the projects is a pilot REDD project, a program to reduce greenhouse gas emis ...
• Over 450 wolves shot dead in Idaho, Montana to ...
  Less than a year after being pulled off the Endangered Species Act (ESA), gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the western U.S. are facing an onslaught of hunting. The hunting season for wolves has just closed in Montana with 160 individuals killed, around 75 percent of 220-wolf kill quota for the state ...
• Thai king: punish corrupt officials who allowe ...
  Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej urged the Thai government to punish officials who allowed illegal logging which he blamed for worsening floods last year that left more than 1,000 people dead.
• Palm oil firm pays 'precedent-setting' fine fo ...
  A subsidiary of agribusiness giant Cargill has paid a $1 million fine for clearing land for oil palm outside its concession, a move that could set an important precedent for palm oil developers operating in Indonesia, according to Greenomics-Indonesia, a Jakarta-based environmental group.

Sierra Express

• Chinese company to invest in Sierra Leone’s media
  With comprehensive Digital Television in over 8 African countries, StarTimes Communication Network Technology, established in 1988 in China and which has also been playing the role of the most influential system integrator, technology provider and network operator in China’s broadcasting and tel ...
• Security commentary by APC NA Chairman
  As a Sierra Leonean and the current Chairman of the APC North America branch, I want to once again share with you all some security issues regarding our beloved country Sierra Leone.  Since my teenage days to present, I have seen the same security lapses, previous Presidents/heads of state have ...
• SLBC staff leave for AYV
  African Young Voices (AYV), one of Sierra Leone`s newest media institutions which is fast edging towards a multimedia status, continues to attract big names in the country’s media landscape.  Popular Disc Jockey Mamaja Jalloh, aka DJ Base of ‘Night Line’ fame, and famous actor/broadcaster/produc ...
• AU Calls for Great Mobilization Ahead of Afric ...
  Addis Ababa 1st March 2012 - March 3 is celebrated every year as Africa Environment Day. This emanated from 2000 Durban Summit of the then Organisation of African Unity (OUA) as a way of creating awareness about the environmental issues and the challenges facing the continent. This year, the Gov ...
• NDA – a force to reckon with Bah tells SLBC
  One of the aspirants for the leadership of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) party, Mohamed C. Bah on Tuesday February 28, 2012 told the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) that his party is a force to reckon with for the November 17th Presidential, Parliamentary and local council ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Commodity prices hold steady in February
  The ANZ commodity price index of New Zealand exports was unchanged during February, with declines in some areas balanced by gains in others.Dairy prices in aggregate fell 1 per cent, seafood dropped 4 per cent and the price of skins...
• Flood of European milk to hit market
  Billions of litres of extra milk are expected to hit the global market once restrictions on European production are fully lifted, says Rabobank.It said its forecasts indicated when dairy quotas were fully lifted in 2015 an additional...
• The lousy summer that saved NZ
  It put a dampener on the holidays but all this rain is pumping much-needed millions into the economy. From his office window, Bruce Wills sees the ears of sheep poking above a paddock of grass growing faster than it can be eaten....
• Dairy investors seek $25m to buy big SI farms
  Pastoral Dairy Investments, a specialist investment fund led by New Zealand's dairy industry and investment figures, launched an initial public offer yesterday aimed at raising a minimum of $25 million for the purchase of South Island...
• $75m dairy IPO launched, Unlisted listing flagged
  Pastoral Dairy Investments, a company associated with farm management firm MyFarm, plans to raise at least $75 million by selling shares to the public and tapping high-wealth individuals to invest in dairy farms.PDI will offer 25...

The Bovine

• From the Vernon Herschberger rights workshop & ...
  David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “If Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger goes to jail Friday, he can take comfort that his farm will be well tended to. First, there is his family, including his wife and nine … Continue reading →
• Windsor utilities commission votes to stop add ...
  From CBC News Windsor: “The much debated fluoride issue is now on the collective lap of Windsor’s city councillors. After two hours spent listening to 11 delegations Wednesday night, the Windsor Utilities Commission passed a motion recommending the city stop … Continue reading ...
• Vaccination rights attorney Patricia Finn thre ...
  From Mike Adams on Natural News: (NaturalNews) Vaccine rights attorney Patricia Finn is being targeted by the Ninth Judicial District of New York State, which has threatened to strip her of her license to practice law and even file criminal … Continue reading →
• The may be crazy but they’re not stupid
  From the blog of Councilman Jess Fields, of the municipality of College Station: Introduction: College Station Withdrawing from ICLEI At last Thursday’s council meeting, I proposed to the council to withdraw College Station’s membership in the International Council for Local … Continue rea ...
• The Vernon Herschberger story — raw milk ...
  From Kimberly Hartke, on her Hartke is Online blog: U.S. Government is Out to Destroy this Family Farm Vernon Hershberger is one of 18 children of an organic dairy farmer. His father was organic in the 1970’s, before organic was … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• President Obama's Lies Regarding U.S. Dependen ...
  The Los Angeles times notes Obama, chart in hand, presses his case on gas prices As rising gas prices are putting pressure on politicians to act, President Obama called on Congress to vote quickly to eliminate subsidies for the oil industry, returning to a favorite target the president. O ...
• Huge Problem With Bernanke's 2% Inflation Targ ...
  Ben Bernanke wants prices to rise 2%. There are numerous problems with such a proposal, the first being increases in money supply sometimes lead to asset bubbles and not increases in prices of consumer goods. Indeed the Fed completely ignored (if not encouraged) the housing bubble because h ...
• Unbelievable Stress of Making "Only" $200,000 ...
  People who have nothing to eat, no job, and are about to be tossed out of their homes in foreclosure, really do not know what stress is. To fully appreciate stress, please consider the sorry "plights" of Andrew Schiff, marketing director for Euro Pacific Capital, Daniel Arbeeny, a Wall Str ...
• Gold Plunges Over $100; Some Blame Bernanke; W ...
  It was a wild ride in gold today with a top to bottom over $100 as show in the following chart. Some Blame Bernanke For "Committing to Nothing" Bloomberg reports Gold Falls in ’Manic’ Plunge as Bernanke Damps Stimulus Bets Gold futures fell as much as $100 to below $1,700 an ou ...
• Economy Grew 3.0% Annualized, Faster Than Expe ...
  Reuters reports Economy grew faster than expected in fourth quarter Gross domestic product expanded at a 3 percent annual rate, the quickest pace since the second quarter of 2010, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday in its second estimate. The reading, which was up from the 2.8 perc ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “Look at the tyranny of party — at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty — a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes — and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are s ...
• Podcast Show #77
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Jon Eisenberg This is Part V of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to previous segments here. Jon Eisenberg joins us to discuss al-Haramain v. Bush/Obama, the only case against the government’s illegal wiretapping that was permitted t ...
• Fixing Your State Budget — With a Steady ...
  If a state were to liberalize its drug laws where will it come up with needed inmates? By Bill Bergman State and local government finances have been sorely tested by the worst recession since the Great Depression.  The recession’s effect on tax revenue and expenses amplified longer-term structur ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  Every weekday evening we bring you a comprehensive collection of news and views that are carefully selected from reliable sources. Every day we spend hours researching the most significant developments around the world, weeding out the propaganda elements, taking out those sourced to long-known ...
• The ‘Accessory’ Allies in the War on Iran: Wha ...
  The Key US Ally in Operation “Disintegrate Iran” Intentionally Put in US Media’s Blind-Spot With every passing day since the beginning of US operations in preparing the ground for invading its ultimate prize, Iran, Azerbaijan’s status as the key accessory has been rising. Of course, the mainstre ...

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

• New Zealand’s North Island Braces for a Nasty ...
  Salvors have removed a total of 566 containers from Rena by Svitzer, and a further 72  have been recovered from the shore or sea by Braemar Howells container recovery teams, [...]
• Shell Sues the Sierra Club, and a Dozen Others ...
  HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN, RDSB.LN, RDSB) is suing in federal court more than a dozen environmental organizations that are likely to challenge its plans for drilling [...]
• Weekly Piracy Update: Nigerian kidnapping, Som ...
  Monthly Piracy Incidents by Region – FEB 23-29 West Africa NIGERIA: Refrigerated cargo ship boarded on 28 February while anchored at position 04:12 N – 006:56 E, 3 nm from [...]
• High Seas Hit ‘n’ Run – Search is on for merch ...
  The search is on for an unidentified merchant ship that collided with an Indian fishing trawler off the coast of Kerala, India, leaving 2 fisherman dead and 3 missing 1 [...]
• Car Carrier Detained After Power Loss Off Oreg ...
  The Coast Guard has ordered the 648-foot car carrier Morning Spruce to remain in Portland, Ore., after inspections of the vessel revealed numerous safety hazards Tuesday. The detention comes after [...]

Blogging Canadians

• Are The Conservatives Being Devious or Incompe ...
  "OTTAWA — As debate over the sustainability of the country's Old Age Security system continues, new figures show the Conservative government has overestimated the cost of the system by hundreds of millions of dollars in three of the past four years. While the government says the differences are ...
• FLASHBACK One Year Ago - Four Senior Conservat ...
  Guess what we were talking about exactly one year ago ..... The Globe & Mail - Feb 25, 2011
• Canadians don't care about the 'Robocall' scam....
  When is a scandal not a scandal?  When nobody gives a rip.  Sorry for the trailer park answer to that question, but I'm thinking some conservatives might read this...and well, I like to pander.  If I tossed in a word like dichotomy their eyes would glaze over and their ...
• Robocall scam provided employment...in Canada!!!
  Canadians upset over the RoboCall scandal need to look at this another way.  With our sputtering economy and record high levels of debt, a strategy like this provides jobs.  Sure, call centre jobs aren't the highest paying or most secure....but at least the CPC didn't hire a ...
• Conservative Peter Mckay Says Robo Calls Were ...
  -Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 2011 election say call centre staff -Deputy Conservative Leader, Peter McKay caught trying to minimize illegal Robo call scandal

Press TV - Middle East

• Blast hits anti-US rally in Yemen
  A bomb explosion has hit an anti-US protest rally in northern Yemen, injuring at least 22 people, Houthi fighters reported.
• ‘Syrian army finds journalists' bodies’
  A Syrian foreign ministry official has said that the bodies of two Western journalists killed in the flashpoint city of Homs have been recovered by Syrian troops.
• Israel to test-fire anti-missile system
  Israel will test-fire for the first time an advanced anti-missile system developed in cooperation with the United States to bring down ballistic missiles in space.
• Israel legalizes illegal WB settlement
  The Israeli regime has legalized an old settler enclave in the West Bank, stepping up efforts to Judaize occupied Palestinian territories.
• US plans ready for Syria attack: Report
  The Pentagon has prepared “detailed plans” for a military strike against Syria in case President Barack Obama issues an attack order.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• 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 ...
• What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
  One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...

Dissident Voice

• How the Media Got the Parchin Access Story Wrong
  News media reported last week that Iran had flatly refused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to its Parchin military test facility, based on a statement to reporters by IAEA Deputy Director General, Herman Nackaerts, that “We could not get access”. Now, however, explicit state ...
• Syria: A Conspiracy Revealed
  We have met the enemy and he is us. — Walt Kelly, 1913-1973 It was political analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, in November 2006, who wrote in detail of US plans for the Middle East. “The term ‘New Middle East’, was introduced to the world in June 2006, in Tel Aviv,†by U.S. Secretary of State Cond ...
• On Regaining a Spirit of Defiance
  The course of action taken by the present-day U.S. political class in addressing the era’s rising tide of economic hardship and ecological peril has proven as helpful as tossing an anvil to a drowning man. The following two axiomatic headlines reveal much about the dovetailing mindsets manifeste ...
• Canada’s Defrocked Prince of Peace
  Lester Pearson enjoys iconic status in Canada as a former prime minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and particular acclaim as the father of peacekeeping. The Nobel Prize site notes “his diplomatic sensitivity, his political acumen, and his personal popularity.”1 The myth of Pearson is so ingrain ...
• No Public Education, No Democracy!
  I teach English at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California.  I love my school, my amazing colleagues, and the kids who enter my classroom each year.  But I hate what is happening to public education. From the national to the local level, our public schools are under attack, and that mea ...

Destructionist

• Breitbart: “Wait ‘Til They See What Happens Ma ...
  In a stunning coincidence, It appears Andrew Breitbart suffered his untimely death just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have sunk Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Around three weeks ago on February 9 during the ‘Blog Bash’ event in Washington DC, B ...
• The Startling Disconnect of Humanity: How Corr ...
  First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. ...
• Google privacy changes March 1: How to clear y ...
  Users can turn off the setting that allows Google to record their search history. To get to this menu, go to www.google.com/history or head to the “Account Settings” menu from the top navigation bar you see when signed in to your Google account. Scroll down to the “Services” section. From here, ...
  
  

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  State Renewable Energy Rankings Place California In The Top Spot

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  The US led the world in clean energy investment in 2011, but China retained the top spot in the latest Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index [PDF] from Ernst & Young, with the US second and Germany third. The accounting firm added a new twist ...

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  REPREVE(R) Renewables' Freedom(TM) Giant Miscanthus Used by Cool Planet to ...

  MarketWatch (press release)

  SOPERTON, Ga., Mar 2, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Cool Planet Biofuels, a developer of negative and neutral carbon fuels, announced its use of REPREVE(R) Renewables' FREEDOM(TM) giant miscanthus to manufacture tank-ready gasoline.

  SDG&E reaches renewable-energy milestone

  U-T San Diego

  The electric utility serving the San Diego area received more than 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources such as wind-power plants last year, the company informed state regulators on Thursday. California's electricity retailers are required ...

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  Big Investor Trims Stake in Green Plains Renewable

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  (AP) — Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. said Thursday that the Irish investment firm that has been its biggest shareholder is reducing its stake in the ethanol and corn oil producer. The Omaha-based company said that the shareholder, NTR PLC, ...

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  Ecology awards $2.2 million to help local stormwater programs

  Access Washington

  OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is finalizing grant agreements with 12 local governments that will share $2.2 million to support stormwater programs. Polluted runoff – or stormwater – is the leading pollution threat to urban ...

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  Barrick names human rights, ecology advisory panel

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  | TORONTO, March 2 (Reuters) - Barrick Gold named a corporate social responsibility board on Friday, which will advise the world's top gold producer on community relations, sustainable development and human rights, as miners around the globe face ...

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  Fire Ecologists Speak on Fighting Fire With Fire

  Firehouse.com

  By Staci Matlock Fire ecologists met with fire and land managers from several Western states to share their thoughts on lessons learned from last year's historic fire season and talk about what's to come. Plenty of Southwestern forests and grasslands ...

  Governor: 'Water is the lifeblood of our state'

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  OF ECOLOGY NEWS RELEASE -- Gov. Chris Gregoire is urging Congressional and state support for a plan that bolsters water supplies in the Yakima basin and implements one of the most significant ecological restoration projects undertaken in the West.

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  Skiers heading to slopes won't be disappointed

  Wall Street Journal

  The heavy snow was also welcome in a state hit by an especially dry winter, but officials say much more precipitation is needed to replenish water supplies and avoid reducing allotments to farmers. Light snow showers lingered but the powerful weather ...

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  California water bill now flows to uncertain future in Senate

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  By Michael Doyle WASHINGTON — A big California water bill passed by the House this week might be brilliant political hardball that puts Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the spot. Or, maybe it's a blown opportunity that's poisoned the well.

  US researchers build 'waste water generator'

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  By Neil Bowdler Science and health reporter, BBC News Researchers in the US have built a prototype device which they say can generate electricity from waste water. The team at Pennsylvania State University says the technology would simultaneously treat ...

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