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Friday, March 2, 2012

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Stop War, Sanctions, Intervention and Assassin ...
    Summary: Friday, March 2nd - 7pm An Evening of Music, Food, and Politics A fundraiser featuring Duo Orfeo and Vijay Prashad Plus special presentation on Iran by Dr. Jamshid Marvasti Jamshid A. Marvasti, MD, is a child and adult psychiatrist who has practiced for more than 30 years in the U ...
  • Amano’s New Report on Iran's Nuclear Program
    Summary: Two days after the high-ranking delegation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) returned from their second trip to Tehran within the past month, Yukiya Amano, the agency’s director general, released his official 11-page report. In this report, which unlike the previous one is ...
  • Saturday 3 March: Stop the War Coalition Annua ...
    Summary: The conference is open to all Stop the War members and delegates from local groups and affiliated organisations. Stop the War members who joined before 1 Jauary 2012 will have full voting rights in the debates. Anyone who has joined since then can attend as an observer. If you are n ...
  • US Media Hypes Iran Inspection Flap
    Summary: answers.Major U.S. news outlets spin any event regarding Iran’s nuclear program in the most negative way, now hyping a dispute about conditions for visiting a military site as supposed proof that Iran has something to hide. But Gareth Porter points out that the media is missing key n ...
  • Poll: Little support in Israel for solo strike ...
    Summary: A wide majority of Israelis either oppose an Israeli strike on Iran or would favor an attack only if it was carried out with U.S. agreement, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. The survey by the University of Maryland and the Israeli Dahaf Institute was released before talks next wee ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Oxygen Discovered on Saturn's Dione --Joins Rh ...
    Dione, one of Saturn’s 62 moons, has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen, joining Rhea and the main rings in Saturn's system in having an oxygen rich exosphere, as well as Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto -...
  • Friday's 'Comment of the Day' --"Advanced Extr ...
    "My theory is that the type of intelligence exhibited by Homo Sapiens is NOT stable. Being unstable it is likely to become something that does not successfully promote the life form it inhabits. Perhaps intelligence is more of a short...
  • Friday's Debate: "Are Humans the Limit of Evol ...
    "I certainly think that humans are not the limit of evolutionary complexity. There may indeed be post–human entities, either organic or silicon–based, which can in some respects surpass what a human can do. I think it would be rather surprising...
  • "Dark-Matter Mystery" --Core of One of the Lar ...
    Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge current theories about dark matter that predict galaxies...
  • "The Pale Red Dot" --13.2 Billion Years Old: T ...
    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...

Natural News

  • Sports drinks are sometimes better than water, ...
    Sports drinks are a favorite of athletes and some exercisers to quench their thirst and replenish lost nutrients. These drinks contain calcium, sodium and other minerals called electrolytes. An imbalance of electrolytes may be harmful. Sports drinks can help prevent...
  • Indian tobacco helps smokers kick the habit an ...
    Before the American Indian culture was shattered, the Indians used an unprocessed tobacco in pipes ceremoniously and for healing. Yes, healing lung disorders. Indian tobacco is known as Lobelia inflate or lobelia, which some herbalists, unafraid of being politically...
  • SaneVax writes open letter to medical journal ...
    On February 22, 2012, SANEVAX, INC. wrote an open letter to the Journal of Internal Medicine editor. It is reprinted here in its entirety: 22 February 2012 Dr. Ulf de Faire Editor-in-Chief Journal of Internal Medicine e-mail: edit.off@jim.se Open Letter to...
  • PEER sues White House for withholding document ...
    The non-profit advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has filed a lawsuit against the Obama White House for refusing to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that would potentially unearth the administration's direct...
  • Not all calcium supplements are equal - Preven ...
    At least half of Americans over the age of 50 are at risk of developing osteoporosis, according to the Surgeon General of the United States. Ten million people already have the disease, and another 34 million are at risk, notes the same report. Calcium and other minerals...

Threat Level

  • Tiny Antennas Don’t Prevent Copyright Suit
    Fox Television, PBS and Univision Television and others Thursday asked a federal judge to halt an impending subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device. The suit targets Aereo, a $12 monthly subscription service set to debut in New York ...
  • Report: Hackers Seized Control of Computers in ...
    Hackers seized control of networks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last November, gaining the ability to install malware, delete or steal sensitive data, and hijack the accounts of users in order to gain their privileged access, according to a report from the National Aeronautics and Space A ...
  • DHS, Not NSA, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Penta ...
    In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense Department official asserted on Wednesday that the military’s controversial intelligence agency should take a backseat to the Department ...
  • Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt L ...
      Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her. The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether ...
  • Kim Dotcom Remains Free on Bail As US Appeal Fails
    Kim Dotcom remains free on bail after United States authorities lost an appeal of an earlier decision by a New Zealand court to grant him bail. Justice Brewer dismissed the appeal, which was put forward by New Zealand Crown lawyers on behalf of the U.S. government, in the Auckland High Court lat ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Netanyahu Comes to Romney's Rescue
    GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu go way back. Their friendship dates back to the 1980's when, as Governor Romney pointed out during a December GOP debate, "We worked together at Boston Consulting Group." And from his aborted campaign for state p ...
  • The GOP's Dynamic Deception on Debt and Tax Cuts
    You can fool some of the people all the time, and that's our target market. On no issue has that time-tested Republican strategy been more consistently applied than the impact of tax cuts on the national debt. But even after oceans of red ink washed away George W. Bush's bogus contention that ...
  • Obama's Affordable Care Act to the Rescue for ...
    By almost any measure, Texas has one of the worst health care systems in the nation. Its 26 percent uninsured rate - no other state is even close - put its dead last. Overall, health care in the Lone Star State is ranked 44th by America's Health Rankings and 46th by the Commonwealth Fund. Two ...
  • Two Headlines Say It All About GOP Field's Eco ...
    Everything you need to know about the economic plans of the Republican White House hopefuls is conveniently contained in two headlines. In October, the McClatchy Newspapers revealed, "GOP presidential candidates' tax plans would benefit the rich." Last week, the Washington Post bookended that ...
  • Romney Crashes and Burns Pandering at NASCAR's ...
    Just two days out from the all-critical Michigan primary, Mitt Romney headed to Florida Sunday to make a pre-race appearance at the Daytona 500. But for Romney, the trip wasn't just an obligatory pilgrimage to woo the conservative fans who booed Michele Obama and Jill Biden at another event las ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Despite Rep for Integration, TV's Iconic "Amer ...
    Last month the pioneering TV broadcaster Don Cornelius died at the age of 75. As the host of "Soul Train," many obituaries described Cornelius as the “African-American Dick Clark,” the legendary host of the popular TV show, “American Bandstand,” from 1956 to 1989. Clark claimed the show, which w ...
  • One Billion Rising: V-Day's Eve Ensler Launche ...
    As the debate over reproductive rights rages in the House, and Senate Republicans have tried to thwart the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, we speak with Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, the global movement to end domestic violence, and the playwright behind "The Vagina Monologue ...
  • Senate Narrowly Defeats Anti-Contraception Bil ...
    The U.S. Senate has narrowly rejected an effort to vastly expand conscience exemptions in President Obama's new birth control coverage rule that already allows exemptions for religiously affiliated institutions. The Blunt Amendment, sponsored by Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, would have ...
  • Headlines for March 2, 2012
    Syrian Forces Seize Rebel Neighborhood as Red Cross Enters Homs, Obama Renews Call on Congress to End Oil Subsidies, Obama Heckled Over Possible Military Action Against Iran, Afghans Kill 2 U.S. Soldiers in 2nd Attack This Week, Foreign NGO Workers Leave Egypt, Charges Remain, Bahrain Blocks Int ...
  • Free Market Health Care: True Stories by Micha ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org 2 March 2012 I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account“). In response, ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Obama: End Oil Subsidies NOW
      Obama wants Congress to vote yes or no on extending $4 billion in oil company subsidies within the next few weeks (video below).   Obama has stepped up to the plate big time with this portion of a recent speech on energy below. First is the video, followed by some of the key [...] ...
  • Economist Nordhaus Corrects WSJ Global Warming ...
      In my Green News roundup yesterday, I quickly linked to a piece on economist William Nordhaus’ recent response to yet another horrid Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed on global warming (another global warming denier piece chock full of myths and lies). However, I now see that Skeptic ...
  • Clean Energy Needed (NOW) to Stop Global Warmi ...
      A couple days ago, over on sister site CleanTechnica, I reposted a Grist piece on a new study by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and climate scientist Ken Caldeira. The post and new study were about what energy transition is needed to address global warming this century. The b ...
  • Justin Bieber’s 18th Birthday Present: $100,00 ...
      A $100,000 electric car (actually, plug-in hybrid) with super style, the Fisker Karma — it’s not the worst present you could receive on your 18th present, and I’m sure (somewhat) greenie Justin Bieber isn’t complaining, after receiving it from his campaign manager ...
  • Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Looks on ...
    American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity President of 17 years, Stephen L. Miller, is stepping down from that role. Some funny green activists from the Sierra Club decided to help the organization out by posting an ad for a new president on Craigslist. Here’s the humorous ad (h/t Cli ...

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Axis of Logic

  • The End in Afghanistan? Radical Change Is in t ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting -- and the killing?  Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and y ...
  • Colombia’s Quest for Peace and Justice: The In ...
    Introduction Between April 21 -23, the National Patriotic Council will convoke thousands of activists from most of the major urban and rural social movements and trade unions, human rights groups and indigenous, afro-colombian movements, who will meet to unify forces and launch, what promises ...
  • Britain Threatens Nuclear Attack on Argentina: ...
    Editor's Comment: The English, joined at the hip with the United States have been pushing the imperial agenda with their warships in Las Islas Malvinas just off the coast of Argentina - again - and they're drilling oil there. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez imposed controls on shipping in ...
  • All-India strike poses fresh challenge to gove ...
    NEW DELHI — A nationwide strike called by trade unions including those affiliated with the government hit Indian cities Tuesday, as millions joined the call for tighter labour laws and a minimum wage. Eleven central trade unions backed the strike call, posing a fresh challenge to Prime Minist ...
  • President Hugo Chávez Is Recovering Satisfacto ...
    Statement President Hugo Chávez Is Recovering Satisfactorily As is publicly known, in recent days, during a medical check-up of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, doctors detected a lesion requiring corrective surgery. In that sense, the medical team, af ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • HT Deal With Corrupt Contractors: Exempt Them ...
    By @KYYellowDog It's the logical next step after outsourcing public services to private contractors who charge twice as much to do a half-assed job: let them escape any accountability to the public whose money they steal. And it's just so embarrassing when some legislator's idiot nephew with a s ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    "Pollutocrats" -- that has to be the best neologism since "obstreperating" The Koch brothers have filed a lawsuit to gain control of the Cato Institute. Founded in the mid-seventies as "The Charles Koch Foundation" as a libertarian "think tank" to provide a veneer of credibility and scholarship ...
  • Congratulations, Michelle Malkin!
    By @BGinKC With the passing of Andrew Breitbart, she has once more reclaimed the title of Most Loathesome Asshole of the American political right. I doubt very much that he is in a better place, but the rest of us certainly are. [I realize the competition is fierce for the Most Loathsome Assho ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "The Strang ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by BenDuvallIrwin on Dec 24, 2010: The Almanac Singers - The Strange Death of John Doe. This song was the inspiration for Bob Dylan's "Man on the Street"
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We're back! Not only is the Newswrap back, but today is it's fourth birthday. The very first Nightowl Newswrap appeared four years ago, on Feb. 29, 2008 at the old Blue Girl, Red State blog, and the recent three-week hiatus is the first time it's ever been missing for more than two or three days ...

Care 2

  • FOUR PAWS saves Ukrainian brown bear
    Three year old brown bear Potap has had a sad life so far. His first year he spent in a circus. After that, he carved out a miserable existence on bare concrete within a little eight-square-meters-cage on the premises of a private sports club in the Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |  ...
  • Be a Responsible Owner, Spay or Neuter Your Pe ...
    Don't subject cats and dogs to a homeless life or untimely deaths! Pledge to spay or neuter your pet (or help spread the word!) Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • List African Lion as Endangered Species ! PLEA ...
    In just a few decades, the African lion population fell from more than 75,000 to fewer than 40,000. Despite the decline in number, African lions are still being hunted as trophies. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop Mass Killing of Romanian Dogs ! PLEASE SI ...
    Three Million stray dogs in Romanian dogs face death as a form of population control while it is more humane, and economically logical, to spay and neuter the animals Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 3/2/2012
    Personal news, 5 Jig Zone puzzles, 3 short takes, including an Ed Schultz video, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Andrew Breitbart, Payback is a Bitch?
    The right weeps and the left rejoices. Me? Really could care less. I mourn for Andrew’s young family and wife. It is shitty when anyone at the ripe young age of 43 cashes it in. Just another reminder that life is short and fleeting and we should seize the day each morning we climb out [...]
  • Huge News: Romney rises as Santorum’s support ...
    So much for the MSM’s favorite claim that Romney couldn’t break out of his 25% spot! FIRST, to emphasize just how HUGE this poll is, read this from Rasmussen Reports: “Two weeks ago, it was Santorum 39%, Romney 27%.” What a shift. I can’t quite get over how GOP vote ...
  • Andrew Breitbart
    I awakened to the news that the 43-year-old Andrew Breitbart, a major figure in conservative media, died of natural causes around midnight. (See the tribute to Breitbart at one of his popular sites, Big Hollywood.) Fox News Network has been full of calls by so many people who knew Breitbart well ...
  • You Hit It, KenoshaMarge & Open Thread
    KenoshaMarge penned a comment that I wish Mitt Romney could read himself: The frantic anti-Romney media will play this as a bad “win” because it was so close in Michigan. Romney had the best answer for that when he said, “We didn’t win by much, but we won by enough.&#8221 ...
  • Ultimate “Insider Trading” Is a Job for Serpico
    Have you seen this FBI PSA on your TV recently? Below, NoQuarterUSA contributor Larry Doyle comments on the FBI’s effort to warn Americans about insider trading and the dangers of white-collar crimes. Michael Douglas? Have we gone totally soft? Does America need to call on Michael Douglas, ...

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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Ban Forges Ahead in Tennes ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop Removal Ban Forges Ahead in Tennessee Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Now the full Tennessee Senate will, for the first time, consider a ban on mountaintop removal mining in the state. But the coal industry is hardly backing down and ...
  • March down Broad Street calls attention to Pa. ...
    March down Broad Street calls attention to Pa. education funding Temple News Participating groups included Occupy Temple, Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal and Temple Democratic Socialists. CHRIS MONTGOMERY TTN | Evan Hoskins, president of Temple Democratic Socialists, speaks to the c ...
  • Ramsey says bill stops mountaintop removal; no ...
    Nashville Scene Ramsey says bill stops mountaintop removal; not so, advocates say The Tennessean Ron Ramsey has praised action taken on a bill that he said now clarifies Tennessee's prohibition on mountaintop removal for coal mining. While advocates for banning the blowing up of the state&#3 ...
  • Quakers join protest over PNC-financed mountai ...
    Quakers join protest over PNC-financed mountaintop removal Newsworks.org By Emma Jacobs A man signs a pledge, made by the Chestnut Hill Quaker Meeting, to withdraw money from PNC Bank to protest its financing of mountaintop-removal mining. (Courtesy of Earth Quaker Action Team) A group of Quaker ...
  • Environmental Bill Moves Through Tennessee Sen ...
    Environmental Bill Moves Through Tennessee Senate NewsChannel5.com A controversial environmental bill that seeks to ban mountain top removal of coal is moving through the Senate. There has been a great deal of debate about the bill, which many find quite confusing. Environmentalists and the coal ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney: 'I am big believer in getting money' f ...
    David Edwards / The Raw Story: Romney: ‘I am big believer in getting money’ from Washington  —  In a 2002 video recently uncovered by ABC News, then-Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney bragged about being able to get taxpayer dollars from Washington, D. ...
  • Why Obama might raise taxes on the middle clas ...
    James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog: Why Obama might raise taxes on the middle class if he's reelected  —  All the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts.  —  Gone.  —  It would have been the Mother of All Tax Hikes, a $3 trillion tax increase during sha ...
  • TRENDING: First on CNN: Boehner hits Limbaugh' ...
    John Boehner / CNN: TRENDING: First on CNN: Boehner hits Limbaugh's comments as ‘inappropriate’  —  (CNN) - A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said the top Republican condemns a controversial comment made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh ...
  • Gingrich blasts Santorum as 'pal' of unions in ...
    Justin Sink / The Hill: Gingrich blasts Santorum as ‘pal’ of unions in new robocall  —  Newt Gingrich has turned his sights on Rick Santorum in a new robocall going out to Oklahoma and Tennessee voters, bashing the former Pennsylvania senator as having “cozied ...
  • Will Wall Street Ever Face Justice? (Phil Ange ...
    Phil Angelides / New York Times: Will Wall Street Ever Face Justice?  —  LAST week, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. proclaimed in a speech that when it comes to fighting financial fraud, the Obama administration's “record of success has been nothing less than historic. ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Central Asia’s dam debacle
    Grand engineering schemes have failed to address the political problems of water management. As climate change dries up the rivers, regional tensions will escalate, warns Eelke Kraak.The Toktogul Dam in Kyrgyzstan is an imposing structure. The dam guards the largest and only multi-annual water r ...
  • Briefing: greener driving
    Why do governments want us to buy them? What’s on the market? And where are the road-bumps ahead? Paul Carsten looks at the state of play for electric cars.Since Japanese auto giant Toyota introduced the second-generation Prius in 2004, perceptions of “eco-friendly cars” have e ...
  • Could China redefine the car?
    Beijing’s plan to flood the nation’s roads with electric cars has hit a bump: consumers don’t want them. But e-bikes – already a success story – could trigger a transport revolution, argues David Tyfield.One of the most significant single developments for the global ...
  • Lonely death of the river pig
    Students in search of the endangered finless porpoise found indifference to its future on the banks of the Yangtze. Wang Tao reports.Despite earning the nickname “river-pig” for its rotund appearance, the finless porpoise is also revered as a river god. When a storm is brewing, these ...
  • Drunks, lampposts and champions
    When celebrating responsible business, media and campaign groups focus too narrowly on a small group of big brands. Their horizons must expand to match the new world order, writes John Elkington.Enthusiasts for corporate-responsibility rankings will have no doubt spotted the same names routinely ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Is the Blunt Amendment Constitutional?
    Written by Annamarya Scaccia for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The Obama Administration’s recently-announced accommodation to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate sho ...
  • BREAKING: Historic Victory: Coal Free Chicago ...
    In a move that should electrify the clean energy movement across the country, the tireless champions with the Chicago Clean Power Coalition have announced that Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of multinational giant Edison International, will soon shut down the Windy City’s two Model-T-era ...
  • The 11 Dumbest Things Conservatives Have Said ...
    From Rush Limbaugh to the Pope, it's been one of the worst months ever for verbalized sexism.
  • Sorry’s Not Good Enough in Afghanistan. ...
    This article was co-authored by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe As violence continues following the burning of Korans by ISAF in Afghanistan, insiders in Washington, D.C. and in the media are wasting quite a bit of breath asking the rhetorical question, “Why aren’t the apologies w ...
  • Stalled Out No More: Appalachian Community Hea ...
    Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop removal crisis in the central Appalachian coalfields are descending on Washington, DC today, as part of a new emergency health campaign calling for an immediate moratorium on “the toxic coal acquisition process that has been sho ...

Threat Level

  • Tiny Antennas Don’t Prevent Copyright Suit
    Fox Television, PBS and Univision Television and others Thursday asked a federal judge to halt an impending subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device. The suit targets Aereo, a $12 monthly subscription service set to debut in New York ...
  • Report: Hackers Seized Control of Computers in ...
    Hackers seized control of networks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last November, gaining the ability to install malware, delete or steal sensitive data, and hijack the accounts of users in order to gain their privileged access, according to a report from the National Aeronautics and Space A ...
  • DHS, Not NSA, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Penta ...
    In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense Department official asserted on Wednesday that the military’s controversial intelligence agency should take a backseat to the Department ...
  • Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt L ...
      Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her. The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether ...
  • Kim Dotcom Remains Free on Bail As US Appeal Fails
    Kim Dotcom remains free on bail after United States authorities lost an appeal of an earlier decision by a New Zealand court to grant him bail. Justice Brewer dismissed the appeal, which was put forward by New Zealand Crown lawyers on behalf of the U.S. government, in the Auckland High Court lat ...

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Victims of Listeria Outbreak to be excluded fr ...
    Appalling seems to be the right word. I was hopefully reading Joan Murphy’s article in Produce News Daily, “Dates set for industry meetings on new cantaloupe guidance document,” until I read the last line of the article: The meetings are open to growers, buyers, auditors, aca ...
  • Hey, would you like some Salmonella and Campyl ...
    Well, for Ground Beef and Pork Chops, not so much, but for Chicken Breasts and Ground Turkey, not so good.  And, there is E. coli too, but they do not say what kind. The 2010 NARMS (National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System) Report (FULL REPORT PDF) fell into my inbox today. Ac ...
  • The Family Cow now Linked to 80 with Campyloba ...
    From the Pennsylvania Department of Health 80 total cases 70 in PA 5 in MD 2 in NJ 3 in WV
  • 11th Listeria Cantaloupe Lawsuit filed against ...
    Michael Hauser died last week after a heroic struggle against Listeria. He left his loving wife and family. PDF Complaint.
  • With three Jimmy John's near Michigan State Un ...
    In past Jimmy John’s sprout E. coli and Salmonella cases, young people – especially college students – seem to have been disproportionately hit. With at least three Jimmy John’s in East Lansing, and one student sick, I wonder how many of the 2, or 7, will be part of the ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Ford Focus Electric officially rated ...
    Filed under: Ford, Electric Coming soon to select Ford dealers, at least those on the coasts, is the most efficient five-passenger car in America, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, which the EPA has certified gets 105 miles per gallon equivalent, combined. This is better than what the Blue Oval w ...
  • Official: Nissan Leaf available nationwide in ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric The wait is over. After the initial launch in limited markets at the end of 2010 and a methodical rollout in 2011, the Nissan Leaf will finally be available to order all around the U.S. starting pretty much immediately. Nissan recently sent ...
  • Mazda under fire for "crass commercialization" ...
    Filed under: Budget, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Crossover, Mazda Over on Twitter, we recently had a discussion over whether or not it was fair for the cinematic version of Dr. Seuss' Lorax to be out shilling for the Mazda CX-5. Turns out, we're not the only ones who question the log ...
  • Report: Newt Gingrich: "You cannot put a gun r ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Government/Legal, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Looks like Newt Gingrich is getting into the right-wing, "let's-all-hate-on-the-Chevrolet-Volt" bandwagon. During a campaign stop at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, the trailing Republican candidate s ...
  • Report: Tesla Roadster facing 'brick' battery ...
    Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Safety, Technology, Tesla, Electric Here's a new worry for electric car owners: bricking your new, expensive ride. Using a word taken from the computer world, to "brick" an EV means to make your electronic device inoperable. In the case of an EV, it w ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for obtaining more than 5 milli ...
  • Redefining Black Power: Pacifica Archives & Ci ...
    In this web exclusive interview, Amy Goodman interviews Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, a new which was inspired by historic recordings preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. She also speaks with Archives directo ...
  • Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Wins Iz ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous , along with the Center for Media and Democracy, are co-winners of this year’s Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media . The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F. Stone’s ...
  • Jazz Legend Randy Weston: The Complete Democra ...
    Our full 78-minute interview with pianist and composer Randy Weston. Includes extended performances of many of Weston’s most famous songs: "High Fly," "Blue Moses," "African Cookbook," "In Memory Of," "The Healers," "African Lady,&quo ...
  • "New Obama Campaign Co-Chair: 'The President I ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Those four words headline the website of the organization Progressives United, founded by former U.S. Sen., and now Obama campaign ad ...

Suzie-Q

  • Andy Is No More
    I am assuming that this isn’t one of Andy’s lies. If it is, I apologize in advance for falling for it. Those of us who have watched Breitbart for a long time have seen his personal appearance worsen noticeably over the last year or so. He’s also been much more lunatic in his pu ...
  • Mitt Romney Wins: Michigan Primary Results 2012
    Posted: 02/28/12 10:14 PM ET  |  Updated: 02/28/12 10:46 PM ET Huff Post Mitt Romney was projected the winner in the Michigan primary on Tuesday night by NBC. Going into the contest, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum was hoping to pull off an upset win over the former Massachusetts governor. S ...
  • President Obama Slams Republicans In Defense O ...
    February 28, 2012 Addicting Info- By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Ever since the US Government saved the American auto industry from the abyss through a bail out that kept millions of jobs from being lost, the Republican Party has bitterly bashed the action, especially since President Obama took over t ...
  • Indefinite Military Detention: President Obama ...
    Posted: 02/28/12 07:28 PM ET  |  Updated: 02/28/12 07:41 PM ET Huff Post  By- Michael McAuliff WASHINGTON — The White House released rules Tuesday evening waiving the most controversial piece of the new military detention law, and exempting U.S. citizens, as well as other broad catego ...
  • Santorum: Separation Of Church And State &#821 ...
    The Huffington Post Alana Horowitz First Posted: 02/26/2012 11:12 am Updated: 02/26/2012 12:40 pm Rick Santorum on Sunday took on of separation of church and state. “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute,” he told ‘This Week&# ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “Be watchful — the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.” - Rumi Related reading: Rumi From Wikipedia Mowlana, Poet of Life’s Dance (1 Dec 11)
  • Morgan Stanley Details Effect of Possible Down ...
    Source : Reuters Morgan Stanley said it will have to post another USD 6.52 billion in collateral to counterparties and clearinghouses if Moody’s follows through on a warning that it might cut the Wall Street bank’s long-term debt rating by up to three notches. A one-notch downgrade ...
  • Super-powerful Rail Gun in Development for U.S ...
    By Brock Vergakis A super-powerful gun that shoots rounds more than 160 kilometres away — at several times the speed of sound — is being developed for Navy warships. YouTube (27 Feb 12) The weapon is known as an electromagnetic rail gun. It consists of parallel rails and uses a [...]
  • Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
    Hi Catherine I’m a home owner in California. My wife and I are trying to refinance our house. Since the housing market has collapse right after we have purchased our home, the value has gone down compared to the other homes in our neighborhood that are the same model. We would like to get [...]
  • Accounting Brothel Opens Doors for Banker Fiesta
    By Jonathan Weil The banks demanded that the accountants give them leeway in how they report losses to investors. The accountants responded by giving away their souls. This week, the Financial Accounting Standards Board unveiled what may be the dumbest, most bankrupt proposal in its 36-year his ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Ask the mineshaft: what’s gone wrong wit ...
    Summary:  We have reached the point in the “s” curve where the trend — the decay of our political regime — accelerates.  When the decay spreads throughout the system.  When the cancer metastasizes.  The cure does not lie beyond our grasp.  But first we must understand whe ...
  • A note from Athens: Feeling on the ground has ...
    Summary:  The Greek people have locked themselves into a no-win dilemma since the first bailout in May 2010.  They want to stay in the Eurozone, but hate the pressures applied by EZ leaders as the necessary price for the aid that keeps them in the Eurozone.  Eventually the resulting damage will ...
  • The end nears for our expedition to Afghanista ...
    Summary:  After writing over 100 posts since September 2003 about our war in Afghanistan, I faced the grim task of writing about its ugly end.  Fortunately, here are two articles that do it better than I could.  They deserve your attention, as we walk away from a project for which we borrowed so ...
  • More milestones for the FM website
    This week the FM website crosses two milestones: 500 subscribers on WordPress, 2 million visitors since opening on WordPress in November 2007, and Post #2000, counting from the first one at Defense and the National Interest in September 2003 Other stats: Aprox 3.2 million pageviews (does not cou ...
  • More milestones for the FM website
    This week the FM website crosses two milestones: 500 subscribers on WordPress 2 million visitors since opening on WordPress in November 2007 Post #2000, counting from the first one at Defense and the National Interest in September 2003 Other stats: Aprox 3.2 million pageviews (does not count WP ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Syria: The Exile or Justice Ultimatum
    Reuters Marc Lynch's policy brief for the Center for a New American Security, titled "Pressure Not War:" A Pragmatic and Principled Policy Towards Syria" raises a provocative possibility for ICC judicial intervention. Lynch argues that pressure should be put on Assad and his officials to e ...
  • The Ambiguous Morality of Foreign Intervention ...
    As the atrocious violence in Syria intensifies, more and more people seem to be saying that the outside world–the United States, the United Nations, the Arab League, the “West,” the “international community”–has a moral obligation to intervene, with force if n ...
  • Behind the Human Rights Council Vote on Syria
    Despite overwhelming pressure from the rest of the international community, the Russian Federation and China today voted against the Human Rights Council’s resolution condemning Syrian atrocities. The two were only joined in their objection by Cuba, making the vote a lopsided 37-3, with three ab ...
  • Ukraine, Like Russia, Is Becoming a ‘Virtual M ...
    Yuriy Lutsenko, former Interior Minister in two governments led by Yulia Tymoshenko, was sentenced this week to four years imprisonment and given a three years ban from public office. The sentence prevents Lutsenko from participating in the 2015 presidential elections, where Viktor Yanukovych wi ...
  • Top of the Morning: Details on North Korea Dea ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Sign up to receive the full digest of global humanitarian news delivered to your inbox each morning. When Food Aid Becomes A Political Tool… By now, you have probably heard that North Korea has agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment and permit the IAEA to i ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Emerging Sotomayor-Muppet Axis of Evil
    Can’t you take a joke? In the time and place where I grew up, as I have written before, Federal judges were figures of awe. They were men (all men) of rather severe probity, following unpopular mandates from the Supreme Court even when those decisions cost them friends and put their lives in da ...
  • Halftime
    Scott Lemieux explains why the bully pulpit isn’t nearly as effective as everyone thinks. President Obama: “I recommend you watch the recent debates. I’m thinking about just running those as advertisements. Without commentary; here you go.” The real concern, for Democrats at least, isn’t that L ...
  • Is It Springtime for the Economy?
    Wages and salaries rose in January by 0.4 percent—up 5 percent from last year—but that extra money has yet to leave consumers' pockets and get back into the economy. Other good economic news was released yesterday, too: Filings for unemployment benefits are at a four-year low. Usually, when wag ...
  • How Olympia Snowe's "Moderation" Hurt the Economy
    One of the big stories of this recession is the massive decline in public-sector employment. In order to weather the economic storm, states and localities have cut jobs for teachers, firefighters, police, and other public servants. As The New York Times reports, this has also trickled down to h ...
  • Ken Mehlman's Regrets
    In 2005, the chairman of the Republican National Committee went before the NAACP and told them that the "Southern Strategy" the GOP had been employing for the previous few decades was, for all its political benefits, a moral misjudgment. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you w ...

Buzzflash

  • FOX News is Rooting Against the Economic Inter ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT FOX is rooting against the United States. Jon Stewart made a pretty air tight case proving that Roger Ailes's FOX propaganda channel is basically a 5th column cheerleading for economic failure in America - as long as a Democrat is president.read more
  • Who Should Decide Your Health Care Choices, Yo ...
    MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It just blows my mind that the Republicans thing the your employer should get to choose what kind of medical coverage you should get based on the boss's religious or moral beliefs. Does one have to defer one's own religion or morality to your boss? I can't b ...
  • Guatemala's Former Leader Charged with Genocid ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Nearly thirty years ago, Guatemala's ruthless dictator, José Efraín Ríos Montt and televangelist Pat Robertson were practically tied at the hip. Now, Guatemala's judicial system is debating how to handle charges of genocide against the former military dic ...
  • Will Sensible Gun Laws Ever Prevail in This Co ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What will it take for a new vision regarding the kinds of weaponry, the sorts of ammunition and sensible gun laws to become infused into our culture? We get the part about the second amendment and the recent Supreme Court interpretation of it, but where are ...
  • Obama the "Socialist" Saved Capitalism by Givi ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Wall Street must be effusively thankful for what the Tea Party, the Right Wing and FOX News claim: Obama is a "socialist." After all, that must be the reason that the stock market climbed to the highest level in five years on February 28, according t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Twitter Top 10 of science by The Independent
    1. Brian Cox 2. Ben Goldacre 3. Richard Dawkins 4. Neil DeGrasse Tyson 5. David Bradley 6. Robin Ince 7=. Andy Lewis 7=. Mo Costandi 9. Roger Highfield 10. Tim Berners-Lee You can subscribe to them via my Twitter list. via The Twitter 100: Top 10 science – News – People – The I ...
  • Sardines for fertility, a red herring?
    Odd search phrase popped up in the Sciencebase logs today. Unfortunately, there isn’t an item in the archives that’s particularly relevant other than a story about a baseline analytical study that looked at arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury content of tinned sardines using spectrosc ...
  • Can LED earbuds brighten up your winter?
    Finnish company Valkee has promoted a device that looks like an mp3 player but where the earbuds have bright LED lights that are there to allegedly stimulate the brain via the ear canal. The company suggests that the light simulates the mood-elevating effects of the sun, by channeling safe brigh ...
  • Uncharted, unfashionable, but unavoidably wond ...
    The exploration of our solar system is one of humanity′s greatest scientific achievements. The last half century has seen huge steps forward in our understanding of the planets, the sun, and the countless other objects in the solar system. Some would say that planetary science is a mature discip ...
  • Delivering healthcare electronically
    The evaluation of e-health services seems not to be high on the research agenda and yet finding ways to evaluate such initiatives and provide feedback to developers could support existing e-health projects and lead to better quality and efficiency in future initiatives. The outcome would hopeful ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Virginia Supreme Court Rejects Subpoenas of Cl ...
    Today, the Virginia Supreme Court rejected Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s Civil Investigative Demands (CID) -- essentially subpoenas -- that would have required the University of Virginia (UVA) to turn over emails and other private correspondence  among former university c ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Stronger Rules to Protect C ...
    Fifteen to thirty dollars in the price of a barrel of oil is attributable to oil speculators. At $106 a barrel, the price of oil is leading to increased gas prices for consumers. Consumers in the Cleveland area are now paying $3.74 a gallon for gasoline and the price is expected to rise further. ...
  • ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Block Anti-Immigran ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups today urged a federal appeals court to block key components of anti-immigration laws in Georgia and Alabama they said endanger public safety and invite racial profiling. A panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
  • ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Block Anti-Immigran ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups today urged a federal appeals court to block key components of anti-immigration laws in Georgia and Alabama they said endanger public safety and invite racial profiling. A panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
  • Clean Energy Legislation Is Important Step in ...
    Legislation introduced today by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is a long overdue step toward reducing life-threatening carbon pollution and expediting our progress toward a cleaner energy future, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. The following is a statement from Franz Matzner, as ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Pro ...
    Robert Reich Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4th quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – although still way too slow to get us back on track given ...
  • Hunger—Where We Are, Where We Need to Be
    Greg Kaufmann There were over 46 million Americans on food stamps (SNAP) last year, and in 2010 the program kept 3.9 million people from falling into poverty. Nearly half of all recipients are children, and 76 percent of participating ...
  • A World Bank for a New World
    Jeffrey D. Sachs The world is at a crossroads. Either the global community will join together to fight poverty, resource depletion and climate change, or it will face a generation of resource wars, political instability and environmental ru ...
  • Obama’s Broken Resolutions
    Mark Engler In June 2007, on a warm Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, presidential candidate Barack Obama rolled up his white shirtsleeves and addressed a crowd of 1,000: ‘We’re going to close Guantánamo. And we’re goin ...
  • Olympia Snowe and Andrew Breitbart: Is It The ...
    Danny Schechter There was an eerie synchronicity between the pending resignation of veteran Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican who had more than she could take of hyper-partisan “conservative” correct-lineism in Congress ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • House Passes Bill to Reverse Water Diversions ...
    Farmers have been fighting water shortages in the valley as a result of water diversions to the San Francisco Bay to protect the endangered minnow the Delta smelt with the Endangered Species Act.
  • Chinook salmon run on Klamath River expected t ...
    The once-legendary salmon streams of the Pacific Northwest have been battling steep declines in the celebrated fish for years, and nowhere has the challenge been tougher than on the Klamath River – with the fish struggling to survive the perils of dams, drought and water wars as the river flows ...
  • Big fall salmon run forecast for Klamath River
    Nearly 1.6 million chinook salmon are expected to try to make their way into and up the Klamath River during the fall 2012 run, a sixfold increase over 2011. The once-legendary salmon streams of the Pacific Northwest have been battling steep declines in the celebrated fish for years, and nowhere ...
  • Big fall salmon run forecast for Klamath River
    Nearly 1.6 million chinook salmon are expected to try to make their way into and up the Klamath River during the fall 2012 run, a sixfold increase over 2011.
  • In The UK, A Terrifying Glimpse Of Future Wate ...
    It seems that Welsh politicians have begun demanding that Wales be paid better by England for its greatest natural resource — water.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
    Rana Baker and Joe Catron Gaza Strip 1 March 2012 Students across the occupied Gaza strip prepare for the third consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week events, structured around strengthening the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and bridging global struggles for liberation.
  • Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hun ...
    Asa Winstanley London 1 March 2012 Mourad Jadallah discusses the case of Khader Adnan, the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoner who made administrative detention an international issue.
  • Interview: Palestinian rights defender banned ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 1 March 2012 For most of the past six years, Israel has forbidden prominent human rights defender Shawan Jabarin from leaving the occupied West Bank. On exception, he was allowed travel to Geneva this week.
  • Transforming Finkelstein BDS attack into oppor ...
    David Letwin 28 February 2012 Norman Finkelstein’s attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is an opportunity — particularly for those of us who are Jewish — to affirm our unequivocal support for Palestinians’ fundamental rights.
  • Rebuilt Gaza Music School hopes to reach more ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 28 February 2012 Sarah, Abdelaziz and Anda have found a welcome distraction from Palestine’s troubles: music. They and 120 other girls and boys are enrolled in the Gaza Music School, a program of the A.M. Qattan Foundation launched in 2008.

The Wonk Room

  • Rush Limbaugh’s Advertisers Facing Socia ...
    Rush Limbaugh’s latest misogynistic tirade against Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke may be the last straw for many of the shock jock’s corporate sponsors. Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh’s corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with th ...
  • How The Kochs Are Fracking America
    At the Republic Report, Lee Fang details how the Koch Industries petrochemical empire is involved in the boom in natural gas hydrofracturing. The right-wing Koch brothers have developed a vertical empire designed to extract wealth from every point in the hydrocarbon lifecycle. A small fraction o ...
  • GOP Rep: ‘One Of The Points Of Providing ...
    After the White House announced a rule mandating employers to offer contraception as part of their health insurance plans, officials added an accommodation permitting religiously affiliated institutions to opt out of the requirement. Under the rule, insurance companies would offer the benefit di ...
  • Hispanic Workers Face Enormous Income Gap In E ...
    White workers earn at least 35 percent more than Hispanics in 95 of America’s major metropolitan areas, according to an analysis by The Business Journals. Whites earn at least 50 percent more in 429 markets, regardless of size. Los Angeles is the worst major market for Hispanic workers &#8 ...
  • Mississippi Governor Endorses Alabama-Style An ...
    Over and over, the damage from HB 56, Alabama’s extreme immigration law, has been documented. But the clear warning signs against the policy that targets undocumented immigrants have not stopped Mississippip lawamkers from supporting a proposed bill that would implement a harmful immigrati ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Hey harper! If It's Just a Smear You Got Nothi ...
    Dear stephen harper, You must admit that it's a serious thing that so many ridings have reported confusing or misleading phone calls from people claiming to represent one or the other of Canada's leading political parties right? This smells like widespread voter suppression efforts. You can, ...
  • Quick Thought on Harpercon Sense of Entitlement
    Idiot right-wing trolls (is there any other kind?) occasionally resort to the Godwinist-like accusations of "Stalinism" against me because, ... um, ... well, I'm not exactly sure really. Something about saying we should enforce environmental legislation or supporting public health care causes th ...
  • Two Great Posts
    Impolitical has a valuable contribution to make. After describing the latest harpercon's stammering attempt to explain evidence of their sleaze and the RCMP's unsurprising total failure to do anything about it* she sets her sights on useless fuckwad John Ibbittson who first spoke out of turn abo ...
  • Tell Everyone
    I just wrote an email to my MP. He's a Conservative but he's one of the non-entities and in all honesty, seems like a decent enough guy. I've asked him his explanation for the electoral fraud and for him to repudiate such disgraceful behaviour. I'm going to write a letter to every national news ...
  • There is NO Justification for Voting "Conserva ...
    You are either stupid, ignorant, deluded or greedy. Here's why ... Across the board -- whether it's using dirty tricks to get elected in the first place, smear attacks on opponents and critics, or legislation that will completely undermine human rights and civil liberties -- the Conservative ...

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Digital Journal

  • Council of Canadians plans lawsuit in robocall ...
    Together with investigations by Elections Canada and calls for a public inquiry, the council is seeking complainants in order to initiate legal action against those who purportedly tried to discourage voters from exercising their franchise.
  • IndyCar: Rubens Barrichello is ready to go racing
    Rubens Barrichello is starting his learning curve all over again after landing a seat to go racing in Izod IndyCar Series this season.
  • Pregnant Snooki looking to make cash from kid: ...
    The New York Post has published a report that says that pint-sized 'Jersey Shore' superstar Snooki Polizzi is pregnant and intends to make some coin from her kid. She's looking, the Post said, to becoming the next Kourtney Kardashian.
  • Why do we have Leap Years? Millions celebrate ...
    With only a few million celebrating Leap Day birthdays, the question that must be asked is: what exactly is a leap year and why do we have them? It isn't just human phenomena, but rather for scientific purposes.
  • Maple Leafs hit bottom, time for Ron Wilson to ...
    The Toronto Maple Leaf players clearly like GM Brian Burke, to a man they were grateful he had faith in them after leaving the team intact during the yearly sideshow known as the NHL trade deadline. But, it would seem, they don't like coach Ron Wilson.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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Kevin Trudeau Show

  • It’s Hard To Cheat When You Don’t Eat Meat
    February 9, 2012 KTRadioNetwork.Com By William Kitner (KTRN Exclusive)   I have friends who are true meat lovers – they are experts in smoking meat, making sausage, and roasting pigs.  So when I arrived at this year’s Super Bowl party, I wasn’t surprised to see an entire table of meat – pulled p ...
  • Outbreak Sickens Dozens at New Jersey University
    February 9th, 2012 CNN By: Josh Levs About 40 students at a university in New Jersey have been taken to hospitals for treatment after an outbreak of what authorities believe is the norovirus. The Rider University students, at the school’s campus in Lawrenceville, were brought to hospitals ...
  • Paul Campaign: We’re Winning The Battle For De ...
    February 10, 2012 Prison Planet By Steve Watson “Ron Paul still needs to win some states outright, and when he does, watch out.” –KTRN The Ron Paul campaign issued a press release yesterday announcing that the Congressman was winning the battle for delegates in the lead up to t ...
  • Mars Express Radar Gives Strong Evidence For F ...
    February 10, 2012 ESA News By ESA “More evidence that Mars might have been the original Earth.” –KTRN ESA’s Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the b ...
  • 4 Ways The FDA Proves It Doesn’t Care About Yo ...
    February 10, 2012 Activist Post By Mike Barrett “Everyone should know by now that the FDA protects profits for big pharma and big food. They do not care about you or your family.” –KTRN The stated mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to protect and promote publi ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Scientists create ‘gun’ that disrupts speech
    Japanese scientists with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology claimed this week that they have developed a novel new weapon by combining two specialized technologies in such a way that they are now capable of rendering someone unable to speak. While it’s not ...
  • Ron Paul Campaign Announces New Ad Buys, Attac ...
    Congressman re-airs ad labeling Romney “flip flopper” Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 1, 2012 The Ron Paul 2012 campaign has announced new ad buys in Washington and Vermont ahead of Super Tuesday, and plans to air an ad attacking Mitt Romney, dispelling suggestions that he and Pa ...
  • Back Homs: Rebels flee, French troops captured ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Syrian opposition forces say they’ve withdrawn from a key neighborhood in the embattled city of Homs. Government forces have been trying to take over the area, saying it’s used as a base by armed militants. All this while the country waits for the arrival of K ...
  • Media Trailblazer Andrew Breitbart Dies Aged 43
    Breitbart was a fearless crusader against the leftist establishment Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Thursday, March 1, 2012 Media trailblazer Andrew Breitbart, who single-handedly declared war on the establishment left and won numerous political battles, unexpectedly died t ...
  • New Litvinenko suspect wanted in Britain
    Britain has issued an international arrest warrant for a second Russian man suspected over the murder of ex-agent turned dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London, the suspect and security sources said Thursday. Britain has already demanded the extradition from Russia of former agent Andrei Lugov ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Free Market Health Care: True Stories by Micha ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org 2 March 2012 I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account“). In response, ...
  • #OWS Teach-In: What to Say to the Police
    Dandelion Salad “Am I free to go? Am I being detained? I do not consent to this search.” nothingofficial on Feb 29, 2012 New York, Feb. 26– The first part of a smart, lively and well-grounded training session on the fine points of dealing with the NYPD during an actual or poten ...
  • Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qa ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 February 2012 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition. Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of ...
  • Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant by Felicity Arbu ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 27 February 2012 “The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” (J. Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972) Smelt any proverbial rats, lately? If not, you have n ...
  • Nader to Occupy: Help Raise the Minimum Wage b ...
    Happy Birthday, Ralph Nader! ~ DS by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Feb. 27, 2012 The Occupy movement may be able to forge a powerful alliance with millions of working men and women around a national call to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. The drive to establish new ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Haneen Zoabi’s Channel 2 TV [Israel] interview
    Haneen Zoabi in a highly biased interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV. Her courage stands out, rising above the abrupt Israeli interviewing style: she keeps to her principled positions. (Hebrew with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Arab justice’s refusal to sing Israel’s nation ...
    Israeli-Palestinian Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran refused to sing 'Hatikva' at retirement ceremony of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, prompting calls for his removal. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fift ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Finkelstein, BDS and the destruc ...
    Norman Finkelstein: "They don't want Israel... They think they're being very clever. They call it their three tiers... We want the end of the occupation, we want the right of return, and we want... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Why I Call Myself a Socialist
    On Thursday, 8 March 2012, Barnard College [New York] will be hosting the event "Why I Call Myself a Socialist: A Reading and Book Signing" with playwright, actor, and essayist Wallace Shawn. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s “New West Bank”
    In recent years, the government has adopted the so-called Prawer Plan, reversing several earlier decisions to recognize unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert. The new plan, explained by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Ukraine Spring Military Draft Will Not Affect ...
    The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reassured worried parents that high-school students graduating a month earlier this year, due to preparations for the Euro-2012 football championship, will not be drafted straight into the military and will not be hindered from going to university in 2012.
  • Upgraded Il-76 Plane to Make Maiden Flight in ...
    Russia’s modernized Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A aircraft, also known as the Il-476, will conduct its maiden flight by the end of June, Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar aircraft maker said on Friday.
  • Russian Warship Visits Seychelles
    An Udaloy class destroyer from the Russian Pacific Fleet has arrived at the port of Victoria in Seychelles on a goodwill visit, the fleet’s spokesman said.
  • Putin Blames U.S. for Failed Missile Defense Talks
    Washington’s talks with Moscow on European missile defense failed because U.S. negotiators were unwilling to put their oral proposals to Moscow on paper, Russian prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has said.
  • Russian Defense Ministry to Buy 92 Su-34 Fighters
    The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a deal for 92 Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers from the Sukhoi aircraft maker, the ministry said on Thursday.

NewsWise

  • Student Innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic I ...
    Christopher Rivet has successfully married two powerful bioengineering technologies to develop a new method for delivering drugs directly to an injury site and jumpstarting the process of tissue regeneration. His innovation could be an important new tool in preventing paralysis resulting from sp ...
  • One Year Later, Impact of 'Great Tohoku' Quake ...
    On March 11, 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck about 40 miles off Japan. Cornell University researchers who work in fields from anthropology and law to geology, soil science and the auto industry are available to talk with the media about the evolving understanding ...
  • Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation in NASA Hu ...
    Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge current theories about dark matter that predict galaxies should be anchored to the invisible subst ...
  • Restorative Practices Work Against Bullying, K ...
    The new social science of restorative practices is effective in preventing and dealing with bullying problems in schools, says the keynote speaker at a conference on bullying at Southern Connecticut. State U.
  • Parkinson's Disease Stopped in Animal Model
    Researchers at UCLA have used specific molecular "tweezers" they developed to break-up aggregates of toxic proteins that are thought to cause Parkinson's disease. For the first time, they stopped progression of the disease in a living animal model.

Natural Health News

  • Germany Decides Genetically Modified Foods Are ...
    Science News by NewsLook In Germany, massive resistance to genetically modified foods, both among politicians and the general public, has caused chemical giant BASF to close its German biotech division.  Opponents of GM foods are jubilant.
  • 'Natural' -- The Most Meaningless Word on Your ...
    When many people see the word “natural” on a food label, they perceive it as being equivalent in meaning to “organic” or “healthy”.  But it isn’t.  “Natural” has no regulatory meaning. The FDA has even stated that it is difficult to define any processed food product that could still b ...
  • Why Do Pediatricians Now Recommend HPV Vaccina ...
    The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that all boys between the ages of 11 and 12 should receive the HPV vaccine -- the same vaccine that has already harmed so many girls.  Last October, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made a similar recommendation. ...
  • Can Fasting for Two Days Each Week Stop Dementia?
    Fasting for two days a week could prevent age-related brain shrinkage, heart disease, diabetes, and possibly even cancer.  New research suggests that fasting triggers a variety of healthy hormonal and metabolic changes.  Fasting -- consuming somewhere between 500 and 800 calories in a ...
  • This Vitamin Might Ease Menstrual Cramps
    A small study has suggested that vitamin D3 could provide relief for women suffering from menstrual cramps.  The treatment examined in the study involved large doses of the vitamin. The current most common remedies for menstrual cramps are over-the-counter painkillers and oral contraceptiv ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • FP Misdescribes TVPA Lawsuit Against Mahinda R ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Like many readers, I never miss FP’s online “Morning Brief,” which provides links to numerous interesting international developments.  It’s an incredibly useful and erudite feature — which is why I was so surprised to see th ...
  • One More Almost Forgotten Argument Against Cor ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Anton Metlitsky, an attorney that is defending Rio Tinto from a similar ATS lawsuit as Kiobel’s, drops me this useful reminder about another hurdle facing the Kiobel plaintiffs. In a recent post, you say that “the only way plaintiffs will prevail is if they conv ...
  • This Year in Sudan and South Sudan: CSIS Brief ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan have featured in many news stories over the last several years; a headline in today’s Washington Post, for example, reads “South Sudan: Sudan bombed 2 oil wells in South Sudan, is massing troops near disputed borde ...
  • VJIL’s New Online Digest
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein For those interested in expanding their international law reading and/or writing horizons, the Virginia Journal of International Law is now welcoming submissions to its new online companion, the Virginia Journal of International Law Digest (VJIL Dige ...
  • Oxford Accepting Applications for Chichele Pro ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Here’s something you don’t see every day: Oxford University is seeking applicants for the Chichele Professorship of Public International Law. Oxford’s announcement begins as follows: The Oxford Faculty of Law is a major centre for the study of ...

Public News Service

  • One of the Last Big Battles Over Global Warmin ...
    One of the Last Big Battles Over Global Warming Rules? PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, a federal appeals court has been hearing a consolidated lawsuit led by large coal companies such as Arizona's Peabody Energy and some energy-producing states. It is one of the last remaining legal challenges to an ...
  • Report: Wilderness "Under Siege"
    Report: Wilderness "Under Siege" PHOENIX - A vast area of the United States, totaling a half-billion acres of federal lands, is at risk of losing federal safekeeping from development, according to the new report by The Wilderness Society, titled "Wilderness Under Siege." The report finds that Co ...
  • Study: Spanking May Do More Harm than Good
    Study: Spanking May Do More Harm than Good PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona parents who struggle with difficult behavior in their children may cause more harm than good by resorting to spanking. A new report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal analyzed 20 years of research. ...(Read More)
  • Forum Finds Rural Arizona Hurting for Health Care
    Forum Finds Rural Arizona Hurting for Health Care PHOENIX – Obtaining health care is increasingly difficult in rural Arizona, and state budget cuts are making the situation worse. That was the conclusion at a community health forum in Marana. Tara Plese with the Arizona Association of Com ...
  • Report: Consumer Info At Risk in Overseas Call ...
    Report: Consumer Info At Risk in Overseas Call Centers PHOENIX - A new report links overseas call centers with a lack of protection for the personal information of American consumers. The report from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) calls for new federal legislation to address overse ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Food Safety Update: A Budget Cut Only the Prod ...
    By Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Food Policy Consultant with the Center for Food Safety You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million a ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    UPDATE: Today (2/22/12), the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until April 27, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is re ...
  • USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agen ...
    Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Farms  Biotech Companies Only Winners in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the F ...
  • Consumer Groups Petition FDA to Ban GE Salmon ...
    Groups say fish couldn’t pass proper review Today consumer groups Food & Water Watch, Consumers Union, and the Center for Food Safety submitted a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to classify and evaluate AquaBounty’s “AquAdvantage” genetically engineered (GE) sal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Valerie Taylor Urges Protection of Coral Sea
    The Coral Sea may be the world's last great tropical ocean ecosystem where a highly protected marine national park on a very large scale could be established and effectively managed.
  • Skipjack Tuna caught from 'Free Schools' more ...
    As a result of the free school fishery’s certification, 30% of the skipjack caught in the PNA fishery, and 16% of the skipjack caught in the WCPFC convention area is eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel.
  • Bright Coloured Lorikeet
    The Lorikeet is a small parrot and can be found in the Australasian region. Most of these birds have bright rainbow coloured plumage, which makes them beautiful to look at! Photo by: Alexandra Meusel
  • What's on 16 January 2012
    20 January is Chinese New Year! This day is being celebrated everywhere across most cities in Australia. In Sydney, Belmore Park becomes a feast of colours and flavours as the Lunar New Year celebrations begin. Get out and revel in the entertainment, parades and the array of flavours to enjoy ...
  • Blooming Tree
    After being burned, this tree is regenerating life, showing off these beautiful little bright red flowers. Isn't nature amazing?!  Photo by: Alexandra Meusel

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • More on Khader Adnan: Video from “Democr ...
    Originally posted on the “Democracy Now!” website
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Strike ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...
  • A Plea to the World from the Principal of a Pa ...
    In November we reported with joy about the new school structure at Susiya (Susya). (see also an earlier report here). Only a few weeks later, the Occupation regime’s fraudulently named “Civil Administration” handed down demolition orders to the school. In a rare direct expres ...
  • Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Se ...
    Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – March 2
    1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes. 1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country. 1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – March 1 2012
    Thursday – Rise Up and Shine with Jack Blood. Get the latest news and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Jacks’s Special guest in the second hour was Geo-Political expert William Engdahl.
  • Andrew Breitbart’s Unfinished Quest for ...
      The Atlantic Wire To understand Andrew Breitbart’s legacy, you first need to understand what he set out to do. If you happened to encounter him in Los Angeles during the middle of the last decade, when he was transitioning from Matt Drudge’s anonymous No. 2 to building his own ...
  • Assassinated? Breitbart on Obama: I’ve G ...
    Was Right wing Blogger Andy Breitbart murdered by FOB’s (Friends of Obama?) Chicago Style? Certainly the key elements were there – Motive? Opportunity? Cui Bono… Strange That Brietbart’s death coincided with a press conf by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s revealing his investi ...
  • Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qa ...
      by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham Global Research, February 27, 2012 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition. Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of actors ...

The Air Vent

  • The Concentric Blackbody Problem – Nick ...
    I have not had a chance to see Tallbloke’s guest post but Nick Stokes wrote a nice rebuttal to it.   It discusses basic equations for a sphere in a sphere for blackbody calcs.   I’ve been arguing over at Tallbloke’s. It’s one of those posts where a sceptic does an el ...
  • Sea Ice Annual vs Polar
    No time to write much but these plots are of the Northern Hemisphere sea ice above and below 72 latitude.  The split between the area is 50/50.   My anomaly timeframe is from about 1988 to present, I think I will address that in future posts. Reader Chuckles linked to a register article which li ...
  • Single Year Global Sea Ice Shows Minimal Trend
    As regular readers know, we have been using daily gridded sea ice data from satellite microwave sounders published by the NSIDC to discover what we can learn both from and about the data.  With Layman Lurker’s help we recently discovered that nearly 100% of the sea ice to the South of 72 d ...
  • An Interview with Dr. Curry on the Fat Cat&#82 ...
    James Stafford contacted me by email to ask me to call attention to his interview with Judith Curry. The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness – An Interview with Judith Curry “The IPCC might have outlived its usefulness. Let’s see what the next assessment report comes up with. ...
  • Skeptic Weblogs Sweep Global Award Categories ...
    This is more than a little telling about the basic state of climate science.  Images below are copied from Anthony Watts site.  In case you are wondering whether the public is buying into the constant attacks on scientific skeptic blogs by the main stream media and overpaid government scientists ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Vevo to require users to have Facebook account ...
    Music video website Vevo sent an email to its users today announcing that they will soon be required to log into Vevo.com using Facebook, The Next Web reports. The news brings back speculation that Vevo could move from YouTube to Facebook. … Continue reading →
  • Viddy, tabs, horoscopes, calendars, greetings, ...
    There was an interesting mix of applications on our list of emerging apps by monthly active users this week. Aside from the usual mix of games, there was a phone video app, a few tabs, horoscopes and calendars, then greeting … Continue reading →
  • New Wildfire templates optimize Facebook conte ...
    Social media software company Wildfire Interactive announced a new class of responsive design templates that enable brands to create Facebook campaigns that work across mobile and other devices. Tab applications continue to lose relevance as users increasingly access the social … Continue ...
  • Facebook career postings: California policy ma ...
    Facebook posted a very interesting position on its Careers page this week: Manager, State and Local Public Policy, California. The company is looking for someone “to develop support among key audiences in state and local governments in California for our plans, products … Continue re ...
  • Facebook hires and departures: engineering, Wa ...
    Facebook’s Careers page notes that a position for Policy Advisor, Privacy in Washington, D.C., was removed this week, and that several engineering positions appear to be filled. Additionally, according to Facebook’s LinkedIn feed, an engineer, a few engineering interns and a platform operations ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • What nasty surprises await our warmongers in t ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain's Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should "don uniform and flak-jacket" and go play ...
  • The not-so-hidden limits to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that although superficially Western societies are free, in reality people in the West are enslaved to debt through a relationship with financial institutions that "mirrors many of the attributes of an oppressive master-slave relationship: ownership, obedience, burden and seve ...
  • A vision of harmony in Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon outlines a vision of Palestinian-Jewish reconciliation in Palestine where Jews, freed of their Zionist state and its ideology of oppression, exclusiveness, exceptionalism, and racial supremacy and segregation, live side by side with Palestinians as citizens of one state with equal ...
  • Gaza's race car students "inspirational"
    Stuart Littlewood tells the remarkable story of Palestinian students from Gaza who are competing in an international competition to design and build a racing car, which thanks to the medieval Israeli siege they are doing using domestic water pipes and parts scavenged from disused vehicles.
  • The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Ameri ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Pale ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    “Understanding the Arab Spring” Seeking to place the Arab Spring within a wider geopolitical and social context, this episode draws a thread through the middle of many critical interpretations of the events in the Arab world, those which view the uprisings as authentic and organic democrat ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • A piece of heaven in a world of hell
    As I was watching this documentary on Liberia, I though to myself: “here we go again, white people showing the worst of Africa, disease, death, crime, corruption, prostitution, cannibalism, civil war, dirt, filth, despair, hopelessness etc.” I almost turned it off but as I continued ...
  • A Thought on Abortion
    “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It h ...
  • “Africa needs to sign a new social contr ...
    Jean Russeau wrote in Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” To free himself, Russeau suggests that man must gain security and a measure of freedom from action, in exchange for surrender of rights and property to the general will. This is not the language of complian ...
  • Happy Valentine’s Day
  • The Day My Heart Broke
    Rest in Peace My Beautiful Diva!

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Stepford Pundits?
    Can a 1940 film be relevant today?
  • Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Pro ...
    Many of the gains are distributed narrowly in the form of profits to owners, and fat compensation packages to the "talent." The share of the gains going to everyone else in the form of wages and salaries has been shrinking. It's now the smallest since the government began keeping track in 1947. ...
  • Why I've Refused to Endorse the Protests of Ei ...
    Don't get me wrong. I want the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Tampa and Charlotte protested, denounced, shamed, nonviolently occupied, and ideally prevented from occurring, at least until they credibly support peace, justice, and democracy -- or pigs fly, whichever comes first.
  • Racist Montana Judge Hardly Is the Only Rogue ...
    Racism is just one of many problems among the federal judiciary.
  • SES Providers: Notes from the Bottom
    A SES provider is expected to correct the failure of public education. These companies and this industry were created by the "No Child Left Behind" legislation that was enacted in 2002. In the United States today, there are thousands of these companies operating door-to-door from border to borde ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • NRDC in the News 3/1: Sustainable capitalism, ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Huffington Post published a piece co-authored by Peter Malik about sustainable capitalism and how the business community needs to join an ongoing dialogue to make the global economy truly su ...
  • Extreme Weather: Lots of Bad News In, Let's Ge ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York There’s been a fair amount of wacky weather recently, in the small chance you haven’t noticed. People walking around in tee shirts in the Northeast marveling at flowers that don&rsq ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Clinton and Health Care: On Deaf Ears
    I’ve been meaning to say more George Edwards’s masterwork On Deaf Ears, and since in a recent thread we had someone articulating the full-on bully pulpit myth in this thread, now is as good a time as any. To expand a bit on what I’ve said before, On Deaf Ears evaluates the evid ...
  • Gimme some money
    The most arresting thesis in Brian Tamanaha’s forthcoming book is captured by this quote: “Law schools have raised their tuition to obscene levels because they can.” What he means is that explanations for the rising cost of law school that focus on rising expenditures — m ...
  • Fighting the Exploitative Nature of Tipping Cu ...
    There’s been a lot of discussion lately about tipping culture and the awfulness of it all. It gives customers tremendous power over the people who wait on them, often dooming waitstaff to lives of poverty. It’s another way to steal wages from the paychecks of workers, helping employe ...
  • Backlash: Still Substantive, Not Procedural
    Remember all the assertions that same-sex marriage would be easily preserved as long as the rights were declared by legislatures rather than courts? Well, there was never any actual evidence for the theory, and New Hampshire provides us with yet another dis-confirming data point. To state the ob ...
  • Ron Carter
    It’s not like we don’t already know that the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter is amazing. But he’s also super cool for playing a big role in the American Federation of Musicians attempt to get jazz club owners to pay into a retirement fund for aging jazz musicians. Of course t ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Law students: Get blogging
    There has been a rising controversy about the utility of a traditional law school education. Lawyers finish school prepared to think like lawyers, but are they prepared to develop business and survive in a competitive economy?
  • Wisconsin will leverage $2.5M donation to reta ...
    The University of Wisconsin Law School will have more resources to offer faculty members due to a $2.5 million donation from a Chicago utility company. The school announced the gift on March 1.
  • Monsanto wins over Pioneer as first to invent ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a determination that Monsanto Technology LLC beat out Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. as the first to invent a type of genetically modified corn.
  • Federal judge files complaint over his own e-m ...
    Richard Cebull, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Montana, has initiated a disciplinary investigation into his own behavior after acknowledging he sent a racist e-mail to friends and family about President Obama.
  • Veteran political hand to lead New York Law School
    New York Law School on Feb. 29 named Anthony Crowell, counselor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as its next dean and president. Crowell is no stranger to the law school; he has taught a course on New York City law as an adjunct professor since 2003.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Some Scandinavian Conifers Survived the Last I ...
    A new study has found that some Scandinavian conifers were able to survive the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age, a finding that upends the long-held view that the region’s landscape was wiped clean by a massive blanket of ice. While scientists have long believed contemporary University of ...
  • Ocean Acidifying Faster Than Any Time in 300 M ...
    The world’s oceans may be acidifying faster today than during any period over the last 300 million years, a phenomenon that could have dire consequences for many marine species and ecosystems, according to a new study. In a review of hundreds of paleoceanographic studies, a team of scientists fo ...
  • NASA Images Depict Rapid Loss of Thick Arctic ...
    A new comparison of satellite images from 1980 and 2012 vividly depicts the rapid disappearance of thick, multi-year Arctic Ocean ice in winter. Over the past three decades, the extent of the Arctic’s thickest ice has declined by 15 to 17 percent per decade, according to Click to enlarge NA ...
  • How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children ...
    It is a pattern seen in various parts of the world — children being sickened from exposure to lead from mining activities. But the scale of the problem in Nigeria’s gold-mining region of Zamfara is unprecedented: More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely poisoned by ...
  • Chinese Leaders Impose New Rules to Reduce Air ...
    Bowing to increasing public concern about poor air quality, the Chinese government has approved strict new air pollution standards, including tougher rules for ozone and for particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. The new rules, approved during an executive meeting of the St ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Fake Meat Grown In Lab: Recipe For Disaster?
    The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort. [It] will be created by growing bovine stem cells in a vat, transforming them into thousands ...
  • The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
    On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin s ...
  • Free Robert Green
    Robert Green was sentenced to 12 months in prison. This is Robert Green’s last interview before being sentenced to one year in prison with no jury. Please write to Robert to show him your support.
  • Massive European network of Stone Age tunnels ...
    Evidence of tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements. That so many tunnels have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original network must have been enormous. Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, ...
  • Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie ...
    Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target. If you’ve got Danger Room’s taste in movies, you’ve probably seen both ideas o ...

Russia Today

  • Red Cross in Homs after FSA 'ambulance blockade'
    A Red Cross aid mission has arrived in the Baba Amr area of Homs which has been besieged for almost a month. The mission became possible after Free Syrian Army fighters, who had been disrupting the work of the Red Cross... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Up in smoke: Eurozone crisis pushes Spanish to ...
    A “dying” Spanish town suffering from massive unemployment is trying to stem the tide of economic decay the only way they can: by farming pot. Are the desperate measures being taken in Spain a sign of things to come as... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Any .com a target? US takes down 'illegal' web ...
    The conviction of Canadian billionaire Calvin Ayre in the US on charges of online gambling and money laundering has sparked fears that anyone owning an Internet .com domain could fall under US jurisdiction. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • FBI: Cyber attacks – America’s top terror threat
    Organized cyber crime is replacing terrorism as the number one threat to the American nation, says the FBI chief. The bureau is preparing to battle internet-based aggressors with recently created cyber-squads policing... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 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... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • The American ‘squatter’s rent&#821 ...
    Mortgages not paid; banks unhappy with property they now can’t unload through a sale; tenants now staying in housing units for free months and years after they default; welcome to the American ‘squatter’s rent’ economy! Yes, there is an INCREASE IN SQUATTER-RENT AND FOREC ...
  • Did Kyle Lawrence represent Occupy CS, as its ...
    COLO. SPRINGS– Poor Kyle. Not only is the newly suspected-arsonist in a hospital burn unit with third degree burns, but his until-recent colleagues are now laughing at his clumsiness and are belittling his motives. “What did his vandalism accomplish?” –his advice-givers a ...
  • Right wing blogger asshole Andrew Breitbart di ...
    More likely gout. Obviously Breitbart’s body lacked the bilious elasticity of Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. Speaking of which, were you in the loop on this email joke? A young black Limbaugh asks his mom; “Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?” To which his mother ...
  • Building Cross Border Solidarity would lead to ...
    An interesting PDF report from those helping to build some Labor Solidarity between workers in Mexico and the US- Cross Border Solidarity. Some excerpts: INTRODUCTION In the period since the North American Free Trade Agreement has come into effect, the economies of the United States and Mexico h ...
  • Newmont Mining- Denver’s major menace to ...
    Andean people protest against Newmont Mining’s Conga gold project during a march near the Cortada lagoon at Peru’s region of Cajamarca, November 24, 2011. Protests have continued including a national march for clean Water in Peru during February 2012. Newmont pollutes air and water a ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came acrossdebunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildingswithout explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collaps ...
  • Kurt Haskell's Awakening
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF2F6AA5408C443F
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • Evidence Based "Conspiracy Theories" Beat Auth ...
    Considering the documentation of corruption in political, corporate and military (intelligence) circles it is irrational to exclude the consideration of high level conspiracy when evaluating the causes of recent conflicts. To a priori exclude a conspiracy hypothesis is naive and illogical. Inde ...
  • "Strange Sounds" DEBUNKED and EXPLAINED

Fooducate

  • Everyone Needs 3 Ds: Doctor, Dentist, and Diet ...
    March is National Nutrition Month (NNM) . The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly known as the American Dietetic Association), created this holiday month to: .. focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. NN ...
  • Two Healthy Games for School Kids
                  This is a guest blog post by Emily Kleiman, University of Maryland Seventeen percent of children are currently obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and childhood obesity has become a dangerous national epidemic. Mission:FITPossible ...
  • 9 Ways to Reduce Your Salt Intake
    There’s a war going on now in the food/health space. In the last few years, excess salt consumption has been identified by leading health organizations as a contributor to various diseases including hypertension, stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, stomach cancer, and osteoporosis. The ...
  • Study: Convenience, Not Price, Limits Veggie C ...
    A research paper published in Public Health Nutrition posits that price is less of a factor in deciding to buy vegetables and fruits. Rather, it’s the convenient access to quality produce that increased purchases. The research was conducted in low income neighborhoods in Chicago, where you ...
  • Wonderful Walnuts
    Did you know that less than 10% of Americans consume tree nuts in their raw form?  Tree nuts include walnuts, brazil nuts, hazelnuts,cashews, pecans, pine nuts, almonds and pistachios.  Today we’ll talk about walnuts. Walnuts are simply wonderful. They’re tasty, affordable and health ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...
  • The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention
    by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September. That flopped, ...
  • Queen of Angels' Condoms
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny. Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital. Dr. Kolodny was Jewish. Last night, I heard Sena ...
  • Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the G ...
    The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultur ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What green product do you wish someone would i ...
    We’ve had an email from Mel asking for a bit of help with a university assignment about green things and I thought it might make an interesting discussion: I have a uni assignment where I need to market an ‘imaginary’ green product – I believe my time would be better spent marketing an ‘ac ...
  • How can I revamp some plain curtains with recy ...
    Following on from my recent “how can I revamp a kitchen so I don’t need a new one?” question, Janet has asked a similar (smaller scale!) question about curtains: I have ordinary plain curtains that need to look snazzy. I like the “wacky” type of design,whether it&#8 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle poker/betting chips?
    Inma has emailed us about betting chips: Hi! I’ve found a lot of chips to bet, and I wonder if anyone has some use for them. There was a fad for playing poker with betting chips a few years ago and all the shops were stacked full of them as cheap/easy Christmas presents – so [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a unwanted solid de ...
    Kathryn has emailed us asking about reuses for a solid deodorant bar: I recently bought a solid deodorant from Lush (this one). It smells nice, but it’s not right for me. Other than using it to keep my sock drawer fresh, could I do anything else with it? The ingredients are listed as inclu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old PVC pipes?
    We’ve had an email from Madhvi asking : how can I creatively recycle old PVC pipes? We’ve covered some reuses for guttering and drainpipes – which are increasingly plastic these days – but I thought it was worth asking Madhvi’s question because PVC pipes come in all ...

Age of Autism

  • My Mood Ring: The Joy of Being Spared a Medio ...
    By LJ Goes Recently my daughter Mads and I headed off to the neighborhood mani pedi place for a day Fancy Nancy would have considered the ultimate in posh (that’s a fancy word for ritzy!). The Daddy Daughter Dance sponsored...
  • LeRoy, PANDAS, Autism and EL - Will the real " ...
    By Teresa Conrick I have always thought that the best research looks not only at the evidence in front of you but takes a look back into the past to see if history holds a key. It is true with...
  • Party in Long Beach!
    Join us! When: Friday, March 2, 7:00 - 10:30pm Where: Hyatt Regency, 200 South Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA Attire: Casual Come mix, mingle, eat and drink with old friends and new, along with leaders in both the autism and...
  • Age of Autism Science Summary: Conflicts of In ...
    Abstract: Conflicts of interest (COIs) cloud vaccine safety research. Sponsors of research have competing interests that may impede the objective study of vaccine side effects. Vaccine manufacturers, health officials, and medical journals may have financial and bureaucratic reasons for not...
  • And So the Anger Against Autism Begins
    Managing Editor's Note: I'm noticing a trend in articles about autism, like the one below in the LA Times" of condescension and dismissal. Look at the words of this psych expert below, 'children with autism "know how to push every...

Global BDS Movement

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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • EU leaders set to make Serbia candidate
    BBC – EU leaders meeting in Brussels “granted candidate status to Serbia”, a draft of the EU summit conclusions says. The EU summit came two days after foreign ministers from the 27-member bloc recommended accepting Serbia. Belgrade has made a series of democratic reforms and c ...
  • A tale of two cities: Anger as Manchester is c ...
    Daily Mail – British cities have lawless  ‘no-go areas’ comparable with the most dangerous parts of Brazil, Mexico and the U.S., according to a United Nations drugs chief. Professor Hamid Ghodse claimed Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester are on a par with the drug and murder capitals of ...
  • Join Our Mailing List
    Send an e-mail to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com with the subject heading “Mailing List” to receive our periodical newsletter summarising the biggest stories of the previous weeks, and also receive other updates on developments at Open Your Eyes News.
  • Skilled migrants to lose right to settle in UK
    Guardian – More than 40,000 skilled migrants a year are to lose their right to work beyond five years in Britain, in a move towards creating a temporary “guestworker” migrant labour force in the UK. The home secretary, Theresa May, will tell MPs on Wednesday that she is breakin ...
  • Increased export orders lift China PMI
    Financial Times – Chinese manufacturing growth sped up last month, powered by a rise in export orders as global economic conditions improved, according to a survey. China’s official purchasing managers’ index rose to 51.0 in February from 50.5 in January, marking a five-month high. In risi ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • More Americans now believe in global warming
    After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change, pollsters are now finding that belief is on the uptick.
  • California wolf trek shows importance of wilde ...
    The incredible ramble of California’s only wolf shows more than determination, as OR7 has trotted more than 1,000 miles to look for a mate and a new home. It also demonstrates the necessity of wilderness areas that serve as safe corridors for migrating wildlife.
  • Organic farmers' case against Monsanto thrown ...
    U.S. Federal Dist. Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled Friday to dismiss the case brought by organic farmers to stop patent infringement lawsuits brought by seed giant Monsanto. The suit, called OSGATA et al. vs. Monsanto , was brought by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn. (OSGATA), as well as 82 ...
  • Enviros petition to protect wolf as endangered ...
    Environmental groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission on Monday to protect the gray wolf as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. If determined to have merit, it would require the state to put together a recovery plan for the wolves.
  • Global warming feeds bark beetles: Are they un ...
    Hear the sound of chewing out in our vast forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and fir, the chewing that’s already destroyed half the commercial timber in important regions like British Columbia? That’s the sound of climate change, says biologist Reese Halter. Global warming in the form ...

water.org

  • Gearing up for World Water Day
    For the past few years, these 20,000 women have come together from all over rural India on March 22 to celebrate water. As their colorful saris fill the giant tents, they spend World Water Day listening to speakers, watching dancers, and talking about the importance of water in their lives.
  • Conference Call: March
    Hear about India and World Water Day
  • Loan Buys Time with Family
    With the encouragement of a local self help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water connection. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.
  • Sanitation Eases Burden for the Family
    Managing without access to personal sanitation is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole cascade of problems. Now, one courageous family has improved their situation, and their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
  • Luxury with an ecosan toilet
    Sudha, her husband, and three kids are happy with their new ecosan toilet. They no longer have to use the restroom out in the open, and instead have the safety, health, privacy, and dignity that a toilet brings.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Help Stop Attacks on Civil RIghts Activists
    Two weeks after we were targeted in the West Bank village of Nilin, Tristan Anderson, a 37-year-old from California was shot with a high-velocity tear gas canister Submitted by Abdessalam Diab to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu will urge Obama to publicly back att ...
    The talks with the Americans are like porcupines having sex: slowly and carefully," he said. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Please Sign: Tell Prime Minister Harper to Coo ...
    Something is very fishy about how Conservative Party phone calls misdirected voters to bogus polling stations before the 2011 election. Liberal leader Bob Rae say the dirty tricks used rival those in the Nixon campaign. Tell Harper: Cooperate with probe. Submitted by Susan V. to World  |&n ...
  • Girls are the Answer... And so are YOU - The P ...
    Canada's Because I am a Girl initiative seeks to unleash the power of Canadian girls, women -- and everyone who matters to them -- to claim a brighter, safer future for girls in the developing world. Submitted by Thubten Chokyi to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! TELL Canada, Stop Censoring ...
    Tell Canada that you support the right of scientists to talk directly to the media about important issues that affect the lives of Canada's citizens without the government dictating what they say,as they do now.. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |  & ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Stimulation of natural killer cells with a CD1 ...
    Trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; also known as HER-2/neu), is indicated for the treatment of women with either early stage or metastatic HER2+ breast cancer. It kills tumor cells by several mechanisms, including antibody-dependent cellu ...
  • [Book Review] Contemplating Some Big Shifts
    Biologists and philosophers explore the implications of major transitions for our understanding of evolution, development, and individuality. Author: Douglas H. Erwin
  • [Case Report] Syncope: a rare manifestation of ...
    A previously active, fit, well 71-year-old man, presented to our cardiology department in January, 2011, with a recent history of syncope. This occurred suddenly on two separate occasions, with rapid recovery after a few seconds, but resulting in injury. There were no associated symptoms. Both e ...
  • Taking it up a notch in MCL
  • Clear up this fuzzy thinking on brain scans
    France has banned commercial applications of brain imaging. So why approve its use in court, asks Olivier Oullier.

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israeli Torture: Accountability Denied
    by Stephen Lendman The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI) "believes that torture and ill-treatment of any kind and under all circumstances is incompatible with the moral values of democracy and the rule of law." Yet it's systematically practiced by Israel's Police, Israel Secu ...
  • Israel tests international patience on Jerusalem
    by Khaled Amayreh Israeli police forces used tear gas and rubber bullets against Palestinian demonstrators in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya (photo: AFP)The results of the Likud leadership elections and continuing provocation at the Haram Al-Sharif signal growing extremism in ...
  • THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012: Oba ...
    By Michel Chossudovsky With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones, the “National Defense Authorization Act " H.R. 1540 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The actual signing took place in Hawaii on the 31st of Decembe ...
  • Libya’s La Terreur Metastasizes
    Franklin Lamb France’s early September 1793 to late July 1794 Reign of Terror, the period of violence following the initial “success” of the French Revolution was incited by conflict between rival political factions and was marked by mass executions including “disappeara ...
  • ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA
    by Stephen Lendman Internet freedom's on the line. SOPA and PIPA threatened Net Neutrality and free expression. So does ACTA. More on it below. For now, the largest online protest in Internet history got Congress to abandon SOPA and PIPA for now but not permanently. Expect resurrection in mod ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences
    Today, March 1, 2012  at 1:30 at the John Howard Society of Manitoba (3rd Floor, 583 ElliceAvenue), The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Mb. and the John HowardSociety of Manitoba, Inc. will release their report: Bill C-10: The Truth About Consequences. This report was produced wit ...
  • New Brunswick needs to change direction
    A new study from UNB-SJ economist Roderick Hill and CCPA-NS researcher Jason Edwards outlines why New Brunswick should move toward a more progressive tax structure.  The report, titled New Brunswick at a Crossroads: Progressive Income Tax, a Clear Choice, estimates that the province could g ...
  • America or Sweden: Which would you choose?
    Ask Americans, as Micheal I. Norton and Daniel Ariely did in this study, to build their ideal system of wealth distribution and they choose something that looks very different than the United States. They build a system that looks a lot more like Sweden. See this interactive infographic. Perhaps ...
  • Deconstructing Drummond
    In response to the February 15 Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services report – widely referred to as the Drummond report after its author, retired banker Don Drummond – the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted a public meeting, entitled Deconstructing Drummond, in Toro ...
  • Iglika Ivanova dissects BC Budget 2012
    The BC budget was released today, and Iglika Ivanova posted her analysis on Policy Note as soon as she got out of the budget lockup. The government claims it had no choice but to present an austerity budget. Iglika begs to differ.

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    Andrew Breitbart dead: Outspoken conservative was 43 Andrew Breitbart, the outspoken conservative writer, activist and website operator, has died unexpectedly in Los Angeles, where he lived with a wife and four young children. He was 43. Breitbart, who may have been best known as the conservativ ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Before Your Very Eyes
    By Dr.Woody, Worldwidehippies – Dr. Woody was shocked…SHOCKED, I tell you…to discover, here in the all-new, hopefully changed, post-racial AMERICA, home of Americas First Black President (“AFBP,” hereafter), such an egregious example of blatant judicial bias and dis ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) Can you say “RANT” boys ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello< ,Worldwidehippies- I knew you could. Yes, I know the Burgh is the home of Mr. Rogers. He has always been a genuine hero of mine but I fall far short of his gentle spirit a lot of the time. THIS is one of those times. I want to say, “ No shit [...]
  • Official report confirms presence of “hiding t ...
    SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL  - 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 of the uncontacted Ayoreo Indians have been found on land owne ...
  • Can You Identify Me?
      Worldwidehippies - For now you can call me Charlie T. I think that’s a cool name, at least until a cyber sleuth or some cop, pins a real name on me. My story is this — on November 19, 1993, in a wooded area off the 1-95 near Hwy 327 someone found me. Well [...]

FourWinds10

  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
  • CDFA Pest PEIR Must Not Be Allowed
      This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safegua ...
  • Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; ...
    Blackfeet Oil Ravine.m4v http://youtu.be/VG6eJvq0UI8   Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; Significant Volume of Oil Floods Cut Bank River, Montana (Video) Destini Vaile and Reed Perry http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/oil-pipeline-breaks-on-blackfeet.
  • INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can ...

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Natural Gas Liquids and Algae as Fuel — R-Squa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about natural gas liquids and algal fuel. Some of the topics discussed are: The difference between natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil How NGLs and “all-liquids” contribute to oil supplies How “double- ...
  • President Obama’s Role in Current Gas Prices
    Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most ...
  • Why Bill O’Reilly’s Gasoline Price Solution Do ...
    Today’s column was supposed to be about what has happened with ethanol exports following the expiration of the ethanol tax credit. That is an interesting story (and exactly what I felt would happen once the credit expired), but it will have to wait until next week, because there is a story ...
  • How To Kill The Global Warming Cause
    First There Was Climategate, Now There’s Gleickgate In 2009, shortly before the Copenhagen summit on climate change, a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. was hacked. Numerous communications from climate scientists were released to the public, ...
  • Welcome to the New and Improved Design
    Recent visitors to R-Squared will notice a distinct new look to the site that impacts all of Consumer Energy Report. This is a result of some long overdue upgrades, and I would like to detail some of the changes for readers. Some of the code in the previous site was unnecessarily complex. This m ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Could You Give Up Your Car for Lent?
    Consider this: Half of all car trips in the United States are for distances of less than 2.5 miles. That's a short bike ride skipped for the sake of circling the parking lot to find an open space. Cycle those trips instead and you don't have to get religion to see the benefits, including weight ...
  • Prevent Pet Poisonings: Eliminate the 10 Bigge ...
    In many ways, our pets are like little children—curious, adventurous, and sometimes even mischievous. The difference is, we wouldn't leave our kids home alone all day, the way we do our pets. Just as we baby-proof our home to keep little ones safe, pet parents need to take steps to protect our ...
  • Want Healthy, Safe Seafood? Consult the Superf ...
    In his book Oceana, Ted Danson, the actor and oceans advocate, writes that one-third of the world's fisheries are currently in collapse, "unable to regenerate their populations fast enough to keep pace with the rate at which they are being caught or killed." In an interview with Rodale.com, he ...
  • Why Women Shouldn't Eat Factory Farmed Chicken
    Tests from the nonprofit Consumers Union have found that grocery store shelves are littered with contaminated meat. Their tests regularly show that as much as two-thirds of grocery-store chicken contains bacteria resistant to some of the most common classes of antibiotics. While those tests hav ...
  • Trio of Chemicals Responsible for Major U.S. B ...
    Premature births and ADHD have long been known causes of low IQ in children, but a new study recently found that exposure to common environmental contaminants could be even bigger causes behind a societal brain drain. Previous studies have shown that mercury, lead, and organophosphate pesticid ...

big think

  • A Further Defence of Giubilini and Minerva
    Francesca Minerva has been receiving death threats. Did she harm anyone? Did she stab, mutilate, or otherwise physically incite people to violence? No: instead she fulfilled her duty as a medical ethicist, in testing our convictions concerning our treatment of what I’ll call pre-person people (P ...
  • Rahm Emanuel's Innovative Plans to Grow Chicago
    What's the Latest Development? A refreshingly long-term economic growth strategy, too often curtailed by term limits and political favors, is emerging from the mayor's office in Chicago. As President Obama's former chief of staff, Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel knows a thing or two about p ...
  • Increasing and Diversifying Public Demand for ...
    --Guest post by Erin Brett, American University student. Although the great majority of climate scientists believe that climate change is a serious threat, only two percent of Americans mentioned the environment when asked to identify the most important issues facing the country today (N ...
  • Can Tech Start Ups Save Detroit?
    What's the Latest Development? During a start up weekend held recently in downtown Detroit, the 120 places allotted for participants quickly ran out. The event, which sought to connect entrepreneurs with venture capitalists, is part of a new groundwork being laid in Detroit, encouraging ...
  • What Do You Mean by 'Love'?
    Have you ever considered for yourself what love actually is?  Or do you assume you know what love is, based on what others may have said about this all-important topic? Because I’m a spiritual teacher, I’m asked about love all the time, and what I always find interesting is that people use the s ...

Information Liberation

  • Peter Schiff on American Citizenship
    You have probably seen Peter Schiff on television, not once, but many times. Among the legions of indistinguishable talking heads out there, he stands out. He makes sense. He draws attention to reality. He is disregarding of the opinions and conventi...
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Denarius
    History repeats itself, so the scholars say. But according to Mark Twain it just rhymes. Literary quips and hair-splitting aside, I've found that one of the most valuable things anyone can do to advance their knowledge and understanding of ...
  • Turns Out, They Had Nothing To Hide
    Good reporting by Lucy Steigerwald on an outrageous 13-man SWAT raid, with flashbangs, on a home suspected of illegally growing medical marijuana. It*s of course legal to grow the stuff in Colorado if you have a patient card and stay under the state ...
  • 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 ab...
  • Treasuries, Gold Fall, Stocks Flat on Bernanke
    Treasuries and gold slid while the dollar rose and U.S. equities were little changed after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke*s remarks to Congress damped speculation of more quantitative easing to help the economy. The 10-year U.S. Treasury...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →
  • A Servitude Of Convenience
    Quite often while I’m explaining the meaning of Libertarianism to friends or acquaintances, I’m met with a response which runs along the lines of but Ozboy, government can do so many things for us more efficiently than we can do … Continue reading →
  • And So Say All Of Us
    I’m currently looking at GE’s recent thread at the DT, lamenting the rise of the Welfare State and the normalization of welfare dependency, helplessness, and self-righteous mendicancy; a subject LibertyGibbert has previously visited in detail. The general tone of the comments … ...
  • Ugly Australia
    This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →
  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Social X-ray specs
    You’ve heard of rose-tinted spectacles, red lenses as it were., but how about a pair of glasses that gives you the edge on assessing a person’s inner emotions or helps medics work out who is truly ill. A rosy blush or the sickly green colour of one’s skin can reveal different a ...
  • Twitter Top 10 of science by The Independent
    1. Brian Cox 2. Ben Goldacre 3. Richard Dawkins 4. Neil DeGrasse Tyson 5. David Bradley 6. Robin Ince 7=. Andy Lewis 7=. Mo Costandi 9. Roger Highfield 10. Tim Berners-Lee You can subscribe to them via my Twitter list. via The Twitter 100: Top 10 science – News – People – The I ...
  • Sardines for fertility, a red herring?
    Odd search phrase popped up in the Sciencebase logs today. Unfortunately, there isn’t an item in the archives that’s particularly relevant other than a story about a baseline analytical study that looked at arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury content of tinned sardines using spectrosc ...
  • Can LED earbuds brighten up your winter?
    Finnish company Valkee has promoted a device that looks like an mp3 player but where the earbuds have bright LED lights that are there to allegedly stimulate the brain via the ear canal. The company suggests that the light simulates the mood-elevating effects of the sun, by channeling safe brigh ...
  • Uncharted, unfashionable, but unavoidably wond ...
    The exploration of our solar system is one of humanity′s greatest scientific achievements. The last half century has seen huge steps forward in our understanding of the planets, the sun, and the countless other objects in the solar system. Some would say that planetary science is a mature discip ...

RFF Library

  • 2010 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysi ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/tri/NationalAnalysis/index.htm [From Press Release]  …The 2010 TRI data show that 3.93 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide, a 16 percent increase from 2009. The increase is mainly due to changes in the metal mining secto ...
  • Critical Materials Strategy
    US DOE http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/DOE_CMS_2011.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Joel Kirkland] “In general, global (rare earths) material supply has been slow to respond to the rise in demand over the past decade due to a lack of available capital, long lead times, trade policies ...
  • EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterial Risks More Ef ...
    US EPA Office of the Inspector General http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2012/20121229-12-P-0162.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jeremy Jacobs]  U.S. EPA lacks an effective program to collect information and monitor the possible health risks posed by nanomaterials, according to a new report by the a ...
  • Saving a National Treasure: Debunking the &#82 ...
    Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1023 [From a story in the Suffolk News-Herald] Extensive government regulation of Chesapeake Bay pollution would create jobs, rather than kill them, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims in a new report… In December 2010, the U.S. ...
  • Phase 1 Report: Formation of Stakeholder Proce ...
    Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) for DOE http://www.eipconline.com/uploads/Phase_1_Report_Final_12-15-2011.pdf [From an E&E Daily story by Paul Behr]  Utility executives and state regulators from 39 states will study three widely different scenarios for the future of the ...

Scientific American - News

  • Caffeine Disrupts Sleep for Morning People But ...
    Caffeine will get you going during the day but could leave you tossing and turning at night unless you're  a "night owl" to begin with, a new study suggests. [More]
  • Structured Unlearning: Marijuana May Impair Me ...
    In a 2006, season 2 episode of The Office entitled "Drug Testing," Dwight Schrute interrogates his fellow employees about the partially smoked joint he found in the parking lot. Dwight is determined to identify the culprit, but Jim Halpert turns the tables: [More]
  • It's Not Just Fukushima: Mass Disaster Evacuat ...
    On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami that destroyed roads, bridges, and buildings; killed nearly 16,000 people; and critically disabled three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. By March 12, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ...
  • A Tour of the U.S.'s Clean Energy Future [Slid ...
    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. At least three forms of security depend on inventing a future of cheap, clean energy national, economic and environmental. President Barack Obama launched the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy ( ARPA-e ) in 2009 to fund innovative research in the hopes of deliveri ...
  • Gene Therapy Could Help Corals Survive Climate ...
    Editor's note: Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting short Q&A's with players large and small in the climate arena. Read others in the series at http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/climate-queries . [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • OPEN LETTER: The Institut du Nouveau Monde and ...
    Public consultations about Quebec's mining future... funded entirely by Minalliance. There are times when credulousness becomes guilty and there are times when false pretense looses its ability to convince. The collaboration announced ...
  • OPEN LETTER: The Institut du Nouveau Monde and ...
    Public consultations about Quebec's mining future... funded entirely by Minalliance. There are times when credulousness becomes guilty and there are times when false pretense looses its ability to convince. The collaboration announced ...
  • LETTRE OUVERTE - Minalliance et l’Institut du ...
    Il est des moments où la naïveté devient coupable, il est des moments où les fausses prétentions ne convainquent plus. La collaboration annoncée entre l’Institut du Nouveau Monde et Minalliance pour l’organisation de « conversations » publiques sur la question des mines a ...
  • LETTRE OUVERTE - Minalliance et l’Institut du ...
    Il est des moments où la naïveté devient coupable, il est des moments où les fausses prétentions ne convainquent plus. La collaboration annoncée entre l’Institut du Nouveau Monde et Minalliance pour l’organisation de « conversations » publiques sur la question des mines a ...
  • Thousands to march in Quebec City as strike mo ...
    Momentum gaining at English schools, amid possible admin foul play As thousands of students prepare to demonstrate in Quebec City this afternoon, the strike against tuition fee increases continues to grow: As of today, 84,500 students are o ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Are we looking at a possible intellectual and ...
    David Seaton's News LinksBank concentration: Graph - Mother Jones, (click though to view)Low genetic variation can make a species less resilient to changes in its environment, and place it at increased risk of extinction. BBC NewsEcologists say that when the gene-pool of a species is reduced be ...
  • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
    David Seaton's News LinksBetween the civil war in Syria, for that is what it is, and the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran, which would set the region -- at the very least -- ablaze, and probably start off a chain of events that could tip the whole world into full-scale depression, we have ple ...
  • Meditations on America and the the Flight of t ...
    David Seaton's News LinksJust the other day I saw a well-known documentary, "Food Inc", which shines a light on the physically and morally toxic American food industry. I found myself getting very depressed about all the young people, especially poor, young people developing diabetes. Full ...
  • Homage to the people of Greece - Αφιέρωμα στου ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, on Wednesday went so far as to suggest Greece might postpone its elections and install a technocratic government free of all political parties, similar to Italy, to ensure that the bail-out programme is implemented. Financi ...
  • A Valentine story
    David Seaton's News Links I thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz.This all happened when I was a little kid.  My stepfather was a docto ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • 20 Percent of Military Fatalities in Afghanist ...
    Domestic politics has absorbed most of my attention lately, so this came as more of a surprise to me than it probably should have: Hours before dawn Thursday, Afghan assailants, including a man hired to teach Afghan soldiers to read, shot and killed two U.S. troops and wounded a third, Afgh ...
  • Unfortunately, Obama Probably Isn't Going to R ...
    Noam Scheiber says that deep in his heart, President Obama doesn't just want to let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire, he wants to let all of the Bush tax cuts expire: In the fall of 2009, Obama’s chief congressional lobbyist, Phil Schiliro, touted a clever idea for dealing with t ...
  • Obama: "We've Got Israel's Back"
    President Obama sat down with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg to talk about Iran and nukes in a more sustained way than I've ever seen before. Here's a snippet: GOLDBERG: Go back to this language, 'All options on the table.'....The impression we get is that the Israeli government thinks thi ...
  • Q&A: What's Going on With Gasoline Prices?
    Gasoline prices are on the rise! How come? And what does it mean? Let's do a Q&A. Q: How much has the price of gasoline increased recently? A: Since the beginning of the year, the average price of gasoline has increased by 42 cents, from $3.36 to $3.78 per gallon. That's from the US Ener ...
  • Sometimes In-Kind Aid Really is Better Than Cash
    Ed Glaeser is unhappy that we provide so much in-kind aid to the poor instead of simply giving them cash. The following is a mouthful, but bear with me: Over the past 40 years, in-kind programs have grown steadily more important than cash transfers. In 1968, the last year of Lyndon Johnson& ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:
  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Lou Dobbs Thinks The Lo ...
    Lou Dobbs has a long history of being an idiot.  From race-baiting to flat out bigoted statements, particularly aimed at Latinos to his ridiculous attacks against the “Liberal media” and Liberals “War on America”.  I mean he’s become a cornucopia of ratchet rightwin ...
  • IC 305: Team Rick vs Team Shane
    Topics: Kriss & Kev take sides on The Walking Dead Team Rick vs Team Shane Poor Worf Ben Sisko, one of the greatest starship captains ever Lent and what we’re giving up Sharing too much on the Internet Don’t want your grieving judged, don’t put your grief on display Frankl ...
  • IC 304: Yall Ain’t Shit
    Topics: Batman & Robin could have been worse Fuck Cyclops & Superman Kinect Porn Linsanity & Tebow Time Black people can’t be racist Reexamining the Roland Martin issue Fuck hypocrites Twitter…sometimes I don’t have time for this shit Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Climate change causes chipmunks hidden damage
    By comparing DNA from alpine chipmunks preserved for 96 years with samples from those living today Emily Rubidge from University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues reveal a threatening, climate-change driven, shrinking of their gene pool.
  • Population and climate raise tropical cyclone ...
    Higher population will mean more people and property are in the way of tropical cyclones made more intense but less frequent by climate change, say Bruno Chatenoux from the Global Change and Vulnerability Unit at the United Nations Environment Program and colleagues.
  • Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears
    Sudden cooling caused by volcanoes stopped trees growing, introducing error into tree ring temperature records, find Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, which could impact estimates of how sensitive the world's temperature is to CO2 emissions.
  • Building climate adaptation on flooded fields
    Emma Tompkins from the University of Southampton, UK, and Hallie Eakin from Arizona State University have found examples where people and organisations are helping their communities adapt to climate change without financial support. They hope to discover how more of us can be encouraged to follo ...
  • If you question the numbers, ask the plants
    While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.

e!Science News

  • UC Davis research shows how the body senses a ...
    The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the body to sense several different temperatures. Now scientists have discovered how just a few of these proteins, called ion channels, distingu ...
  • Pasta-shaped radio waves beamed across Venice
    A group of Italian and Swedish researchers appears to have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be broadcast and received. read more
  • Unique salt allows energy production to move i ...
    Production of energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate salt solution, Penn State researchers can combine bacterial degradation of waste water with energy extracted from the salt-water fresh-water grad ...
  • Pioneering research reveals bacterium's secrets
    Ground-breaking research by an international team of scientists will help to make one of the most versatile of bacteria even more useful to society and the environment. read more
  • Sturdy Scandinavian conifers survived Ice Age
    Until now, it was presumed that the last glacial period denuded the Scandinavian landscape of trees until a gradual return of milder weather began and melted away the ice cover some 9000 years ago. That perspective is now disproved by research headed by Professor Eske Willerslev from the Centre ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...
  • 100% Renewable Electricity for Australia: Resp ...
    Guest post by Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. Click here for a printable 6-page PDF version of this response. ——————– This is a personal response to Lang’s (2012) article critiquing the peer-reviewed paper Elliston, Diesendo ...
  • IFR FaD 10 – Metal fuel and plutonium
    Over the next few months I will publish four extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the ...
  • The Grattan Report on low-emissions energy tec ...
    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). Wood, A, T. Ellis, D. Mulloworth, and H. Morrow (2012) No Easy Choices: Which Way to Australia’s Energy Future. Technology Analysis. Grattan Institute, Melbourne. This report is a valuable addition to the litera ...
  • 100% renewable electricity for Australia – the ...
    Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE. For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE. By Peter Lang. Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 4 ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Psycho CPAC Anyone?
    Man, I watched clips of the freak show at this year’s CPAC. Why don’t they just call it the Obama hatefest? Where is Politifact anyway? I don’t think one single fake conservative said one single thing that was true from all the coverage I watched. Man, what a bunch of lying cry ...
  • Romney Zero % Tax Rate? Really?
    Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...
  • Smeagol Gives Tonight’s Republican Respo ...
    How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]
  • Met A Wonderful Republican Yesterday – Not!
    Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]
  • The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
    No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • The 99% Are Not For Sale – AmpedStatus S ...
    Given our role in building the 99% Movement, A99 and Occupy, we have had several offers from people who are interested in buying the site from us. While we believe some of the people making offers have the best intentions and want to help keep our “readers” engaged, selling the site would ultima ...
  • Greedy Bastards Antidote: Occupy & Tea Party F ...
    Will Occupy and the Tea Party unite on common ground? Dylan Ratigan talks with Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots and David DeGraw of AmpedStatus.com.
  • Overturning ‘Citizens United’ Isn& ...
    Overturning the Citizens United ruling "terrifies" Lessig because "it imagines somehow that on January 20, 2010 – the day before Citizens United was decided – our democracy was fine and Citizens United broke it. But of course, the democracy was already broken." Lessig elaborated on how to get ba ...
  • Occupy Our Homes Calls for National Week of Ba ...
    In solidarity with families across the U.S. resisting foreclosures and evictions, the Occupy Our Homes movement is announcing that March 13th-16th will be a National Week of Action to protest the criminal foreclosure practices of the nation’s largest banks.
  • The National Occupation of Washington, DC: Occ ...
    On March 30, 2012, people from across the country will gather for an American Spring in Washington, DC. The National Occupation of Washington, DC (NOW DC) opposes the corruption of both parties. The reign of money in government has fostered policies that throw people out of their homes and dri ...

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  • The myth of the Osirak bombing and the march t ...
    Israeli security god Amos Yadlin’s NY Times op-ed yesterday is an example of why Obama should not believe Netanyahu’s case for war The 1981 attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor is believed by Israelis (and not just them)  to have been a historic success, a precedent for the ...
  • Is Netanyahu misleading his ministers on Iran?
    Former National Security Advisor Uzi Arad claims Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered him to refrain from providing ministers with contradictory data. Yedioth Ahronoth’s weekend supplement published a very long and equally stunning interview with disgraced National Security Advisor Uzi Arad. Arad, w ...
  • Poll: Huge majority opposes unilateral Israeli ...
    This is the best news on the antiwar front since Meir Dagan went public – a poll published today by Dahaf, Israel’s leading public opinion surveying firm, found that only 19 percent of Israelis are in favor of Israel bombing Iran on its own, which is what most everyone, myself includ ...
  • 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 during her arrest. Her elderly parents and two Palestinian prisoners have joined her hunger strike. According ...
  • ‘We are engaged in a continuous intifada ...
    By Alexis Thiry Sometimes accused of being an apparatus composed only of old figures, Yasser Arafat’s political formation, Fatah, also includes young personalities. Husam Zomlot, the executive deputy commissioner for Fatah’s Commission for International Affairs, embodies the party’s new ge ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Recycling plant to improve Victorian surf coa ...
    Construction began today on the $42 million Black Rock Recycled Water Plant, which will significantly improve the Victorian surf coast growth corridor long-term water security.
  • Targeted Water Purchase Initiative in Southern ...
    A new, strategic water purchase initiative will be conducted by the Gillard Government in the southern connected system of the Murray Darling Basin from 27 February, 2012.
  • Government thanks outgoing Bureau of Meteorol ...
    The Australian Government has thanked Dr Greg Ayers for the major national and international contributions he has made as Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, following the announcement of his intention to resign due to ill health.
  • Development pressures on Great Barrier Reef t ...
    One of the world's most treasured icons - the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - will undergo a joint assessment to ensure future development along Queensland's coastline is well-planned and its unique values are protected.
  • Further extension to koala threatened species ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced a further 10 week extension to the due date for his decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • I Earned Them
    The call came from one of those trendy American magazines that have found their niche and built a solid base …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Perils of Political ...
    I learned in my five years in politics that most MPs are privileged to see the best of our communities …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Against Our Wishes
    The American Revolution didn’t start out as anything of the kind. Its eventual leaders were believers in the principles that …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Our Turn
    It wasn’t expected. Just returning from a meeting, my cellphone rang. The caller ID was blocked, but upon answering I …Continue reading »
  • Are We Channeling Lincoln or Darwin?
    Note: Below is a piece I wrote for the Huffington Post about the growing philosophy of right-wing government. You can …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Package Vanishes Into Thin Air Inside The Post ...
    Anthony's faith in the U.S. Postal service was clearly misplaced. He dropped off a package with a prepaid label at a local post office, with the misguided belief that it would enter the shipping system, and that the delivery confirmation barcode on the label would show the package's path throug ...
  • Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
    Here are nine of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or just plain neatness. (#2 - MeneerDijk) (#3 - Michelle Rick) (#4 - photographynatalia) (#5 - David Blackwell.) (#6 - Photos in the Sunset) Yes, ...
  • Cat Naps On Router, ISP Provides Decoy Router ...
    Liam lives in England and has a cat. As all people owned by cats know, warm, feline-posterior-sized electronic devices are irresistible to cats worldwide, and the DSL modem/router thingy provided by his Internet service provider, Be, is no exception. The problem is that this particular router ...
  • Universal, Redbox Cut Deal To Maintain 28-Day ...
    Universal will not follow the lead of Warner Bros. by restricting sales of DVDs to rental services for 56 days. Instead, the studio worked out an extension of its current deal with Redbox that will continue to keep Universal's discs out of renters' hands for 28 days. Engadget reports the deal ...
  • Ben & Jerry's Apologizes For Fortune Cookie "T ...
    Journalists aren't the only ones finding it difficult to deal with the success of New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. Ben & Jerry's released a limited edition frozen yogurt dubbed "Taste the Lin-sanity" at a store in the Boston area, flavored with crumbled fortune cookies and lychee honey. Custome ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Petition: No International Bank Bailouts witho ...
    Dear GAP Supporter: Last December, while US taxpayers were doing their holiday shopping, Congress quietly approved more than $35 billion in bailouts to international development banks. These multilateral development banks (MDBs) are immune from national oversight and laws, both here and abroad. ...
  • The USDA's Terrible Food Industry 'Self-Polici ...
    Westside Gazette: The USDA Has a Dirty Little Secret, and It Can Literally Make You Sick Summary: The USDA's plan to expand HIMP – a poultry inspection program that would enable the industry to "monitor and ultimately regulate itself" – is heavily, and rightfully, critiqued in this piece. GAP ...
  • Manning Charged with Espionage, Leaker of SEAL ...
    Thanks to Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, we have another example of hypocrisy and disparate treatment associated with the Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers. Hamsher analyzes an e-mail exchange that suggests that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official Ja ...
  • OSHA Sues Postal Service for Whistleblower Ret ...
    Government Executive: Labor Sues Postal Service over Whistleblower Mistreatment Summary: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has filed suit against the Postal Service for retaliating against a safety specialist who urged a colleague to file a safety complaint with OSHA. Th ...
  • Iowa Legislature Approves 'Ag Gag' Bill: Daily ...
    The Gazette (IA): Iowa Senate Approves Measure to Protect Agriculture from ‘Gotcha’ Videotaping Summary: Yesterday the Iowa Senate approved the "Ag Gag" bill that would have a chilling effect on agricultural whistleblowers. The Iowa House quickly approved the Senate changes and sent the bill t ...

UK Progressive

  • Another California Knightmare
    In July 2011, SB 48, The FAIR Education Act (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful) was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The bill compels “the inclusion of the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people ...
  • Maid in America
    When Viola Davis lost the Oscar for best actress portraying an African American maid in Katherine Stockett’s The Help to Meryl Streep portraying former Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, there was a collective sigh of relief from many o ...
  • Oil vs. ‘Morning in America’
    President Obama can boldly reshape American politics and decisively revive the American economy by challenging oil speculators with an aggressive drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Riyadh to urge a dramatic increase in Saudi oil production, ...
  • War Lords – For Gods’ Sake
    I sent this to the President just before he caved on the Issue. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mr. President URGENT [SUGGESTED RESPONSE ON THE CONTRACEPTIVE ISSUE] Those of us acquainted with history know there is often a conflict between religious institutions and the established state. A current cas ...
  • New Report Likely to Fuel Debate Over TSA Scanners
    by Michael Grabell, ProPublica A new report from the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security is likely to fan rather than extinguish the debate over the safety of X-ray body scanners deployed at airports across the country. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other lawmakers have c ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • FakeGate beats DenierGate in google war: DeSmo ...
    In the big battle for the meme-of-the-moment, Fakegate has won. DeSmog can’t be too happy about this. Google “DenierGate” and get 67,000 results, but google “Fakegate” and get 168,000. What do you know? Stealing things, breaching privacy, and exposing nothing but ti ...
  • The Guardian: CO2 Apocalypse Now! Volcanoes, e ...
    The Guardian “Climate change will shake the Earth” (parroted by the SMH)  is feeding the pagan masses who worship The God CO2. Which would be fine, except they pretend that it’s science when it’s the “hell” part of any religion. If you drive your SUV too far y ...
  • Australian teachers — pick up your free ...
     The Education Department and the CSIRO push their propaganda and scare our children with apocalyptic, unscientific scenarios. They are even trying to target pre-schoolers. The ABC has accepted grants from the Climate Change Foundation to work the Climate Change message into ‘DirtGirl’, an ABC4 ...
  • 2012 bloggies winner :-)
    thank you to everyone who nominated and voted and for me. Cheers! Jo Rating: 9.0/10 (17 votes cast) Rating: 9.0/10 (17 votes cast)
  • Unthreaded (updated)
    There is much to say this weekend and I’m still at the beach… so here’s the Sunday thread. Jo Rating: 7.6/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 7.6/10 (5 votes cast)

ReNew America

  • Santorum, Romney tie for delegates in Michigan
    (Newsmax) - Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will each get half of Michigan's 30 delegates, CNN reported Wednesday. Romney won the popular vote in Tuesday's Michigan Republican presidential primary. However, Michigan's delegates are distributed proportionally...
  • Santorum: Michigan was a 'remarkable accomplis ...
    (Newsmax) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that the tie in the number of delegates he achieved in his main rival's home state was a "remarkable accomplishment" and if he spends as much in Pennsylvania as Mitt Romney did in Michigan "we're going to smoke him"...
  • Paul returns to DC to assail Bernanke
    (The Hill) - Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) took a break from his presidential bid to pursue one of his favorite pastimes -- criticizing the Federal Reserve. Paul returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to question Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who was appearing before the House Financial Services Committee ...
  • Santorum raises $9 million in February
    (Associated Press) - Rick Santorum's presidential campaign raised $9 million in February as he emerged the chief rival to Republican Mitt Romney. Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley on Wednesday said more than 100,000 donors gave online to the former Pennsylvania senator...
  • Judgment day for Barack Obama
    (Joseph Farah) - "My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?" -- Proverbs 24:21-22. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Futuristic Mayan Imagery
    This is a bit like steam punk – where something is old and futuristic at the same time. Raul Cruz from Mexico City has envisioned a distant future where Aztec / Mayan stylings are applied to technologies more akin to Japanese Anime. More images are at the excellent io9 and they link to hi ...
  • A New Type of Portable Charger
    Your survival equipment might include something that charges over USB. For example, an iPad with hundreds of survival books stored on it. When the SHTF and there’s no electricity and/or you are on the road, how will you recharge your device? You’ll be OK if you have a car and the rig ...
  • NASA: Catastrophic Floods Happen
    When NASA say catastrophic floods they are not talking about Hurricane Katrina. Check this out: Geologists would learn that the waters could have drowned a 40-story skyscraper, making them 20 times deeper than the Hurricane-Katrina-triggered flooding that destroyed swaths of New Orleans and the ...
  • Crazy EOTW Video in Russian
    When researching 2012 stuff, every now and then something poking fun at the meme lightens the doom for me. I found this video on a Ukranian 2012 site. Take a look, it’s only 52 seconds in length: In case you don’t understand Russian, the reporter is initially discussing the price ...
  • Tortuguero Monument 6 – The Full Story
    For a very long time the Mayan doomsday meme revolved around the extraordinary idea that an ancient culture would have a calendar that ended in the distant future. A future we live in… In recent months archaeologists and the media have spun the attention towards Tortuguero Monument 6, t ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Sri Lanka beat Australia by nine runs in Tri-s ...
    REUTERS - Sri Lanka beat Australia by nine runs in a triangular series one day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday. Reported by Reuters India 1 hour ago
  • Scolded by father, girl sets herself on fire in TN
    A 13-year-old girl set herself on fire reportedly after her father scolded her for poor marks in an exam. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • Congress faces BJP charge in Goa
    As Goa votes Saturday, vying for the attention of over a million voters in 40 constituencies will be 215 candidates. The real faceoff will be between the ruling Congress-NCP alliance and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-MGP combine. Reported by IndiaVision 3 hours ago
  • Petition filed in Allahabad HC challenging sub ...
    A petition challenging the Centre's decision to carve out a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities within the 27 per cent reservation given to OBCs was on Friday filed in the Allahabad high court. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • Slap heard in Pakistan`s Supreme Court
    Pak`s SC began hearing an incident in which a political party`s woman candidate slapped a polling officer during voting in an assembly by-poll. Reported by Zee News 5 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • A “Democratic” Scenario for Syria
    On February 26, 2012, the Syrian Arab Republic held a referendum to adopt a new constitution that is reasonably democratic. It was proposed that the president be chosen in a general election (previously this was done through a referendum), that his time in office be limited to two terms, that th ...
  • BRICS Flame Continues To Shine
    Just as the fizz seems to be going out of the BRICS grouping, the member countries have scrambled to put their act together. Apropos the crisis in Syria, which is arguably, the “hottest” issue in international politics today, the BRICS showed up worrying signs of an identity crisis of its own. R ...
  • Russia and the Changing World
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the latest article by Vladimir Putin, Russian PM and front-runner of the presidential campaign due to culminate next Sunday, March 4, 2012. The article focuses on different aspects of the Russian foreign policy. In my previous articles I have discussed some of the key ...
  • Russia and US Clash Over Afghan Drug Trafficking
    This month Washington whose commitment to fighting drug production in the US occupied Afghanistan is widely called into question rolled out a new plan of coordinating the activities of Central Asian republic’s anti-narcotic agencies. The initiative was, however, promptly blocked as potenti ...
  • Churchill’s Shadow in the UN
    In his time then Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill proved the fact that a gap between a public politician and a public call girl could be narrowed to minimum. Winston himself often deserted one party for another watching how the wind was blowing and trusting his own feelings. He ...

BlogHer

  • I Don't Know What to Do About My Daughter's Bully
    I don’t think I’d be making myself out as being terribly unique if I shared that I struggle with abusive behavior. We all do, right? No one likes people who are mean, duplicitous or unpredictable. It’s tough to know when to let it roll off your back and when to stand your ground. Which idiot ha ...
  • Becoming a Teacher (By Accident)
    [Editor's Note: When we're young we think we choose a college major or career path and that is it, forever. As this story shows...we morph and change in many ways over time. Sometimes to follow a passion and sometimes out of necessity. See how she became a teacher by accident. - Paula G] The A ...
  • I've Got the Chicken Nugget Mama Blues
    Honestly, I LOVE cooking. Back when I lived in L.A., I even started my own small-scale catering business, which was more successful than I had ever thought it would be. I gave it up after just a short while because, frankly, I was a little too young and a little too “green” to run my own busine ...
  • Have a Very Seussical Read Across America Day!
    It is not merely a coincidence that Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss' birthday both fall on March 2. Back in 1997, when the National Education Association came up with the idea of a day to celebrate reading, they decided that they could not think of a better date to celebrate it than on the ...
  • I Made My Blog Pretty So Visit It
    I still remember exactly where I was when I decided that I needed a custom header. I was on my third year with Blogger's free Rounders template, dismissing all the people who told me that my blog looked like... dreck. We were driving back from a day of hiking when I turned to my husband and sa ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Is West Virginia coal paying its fair share of ...
    The good folks over at the West Virginia Center for Budget Policy continue their work on coal and natural gas tax policy, with a new report out today called Major Tax Responsibilities of Coal and Natura lGas Producers in Wyoming and West Virginia. It concludes: – In 2008, Wyoming collected ...
  • MSHA releasing UBB ‘internal review&#821 ...
    This just in: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration will hold a teleconference for members of the media on Tuesday, March 6, to announce the results of an internal review of agency enforcement activities that occurred prior to the deadly April 2010 Upper Big Branch ...
  • Is Stover sentence setback for UBB criminal probe?
    BECKLEY, W.Va. — When U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin stepped before the microphones outside the federal courthouse earlier this afternoon, the first question for him seemed pretty clear to me:  Was U.S. District Judge Irene Berger’s decision to reject Goodwin’s recommendation and ...
  • What happened to ‘do all we can’ t ...
    So, West Virginia Democrats are citing the House passage of a mine safety bill as evidence that the Tomblin administration and their party’s legislative leadership are “getting the job done.” But it’s interesting to see how their rhetoric about coal-mine safety has evolve ...
  • Prosecutors face test in UBB security chief se ...
    I’ll be heading down to Beckley in a little while, to cover this morning’s scheduled sentencing for Hughie Elbert Stover, the former Massey Energy security chief convicted last October of lying to investigators and trying to destroy evidence in the federal probe of the Upper Big Bran ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Disqus vs. CloudFlare: Comments Fixed
    It appears commenting has been broken here for quite some time and I finally found time to track the issue down this morning. It was a particular beta-level feature of CloudFlare (RocketLoader) that was the culprit. Everything should be fine now; let me know if that’s not the case. Related ...
  • Life Correction | Reddit
    When I arrived at her wedding, her mom greeted me. “Oh, are you THE Conc?” she said. I was a bit shocked. “I don’t think so” I replied. Her mom said “Yes, you’re her friend from college. She talks about you all the time! She would LOVE to see you before ...
  • How Exercise Fuels the Brain | NYT
    After the single session on the treadmill, the animals were allowed to rest and feed, and then their brain glycogen levels were studied. The food, it appeared, had gone directly to their heads; their brain levels of glycogen not only had been restored to what they had been before the workout, bu ...
  • The Miura-ori
    via wheatpond.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentTry a BookA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatThe Problem Decision TreeDon’t Be a Cryptic Ass
  • Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired.com
    A new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, and led by Jason Moser at Michigan State University, expands on this important concept. The question at the heart of the paper is simple: Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? After all, everybody screws up. ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Revolution 99 Updates: Homeland Security &#822 ...
    Department of Homeland Security Gives Occupy Wall Street the “Rightwing Extremist” Treatment By Mike Riggs,reason.com – Occupy Wall Street and its sympathizers are livid over a five-page report found in the massive cache of Stratfor emails recently published by Wikileaks. Circu ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    Andrew Breitbart dead: Outspoken conservative was 43 Andrew Breitbart, the outspoken conservative writer, activist and website operator, has died unexpectedly in Los Angeles, where he lived with a wife and four young children. He was 43. Breitbart, who may have been best known as the conservativ ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Before Your Very Eyes
    By Dr.Woody, Worldwidehippies – Dr. Woody was shocked…SHOCKED, I tell you…to discover, here in the all-new, hopefully changed, post-racial AMERICA, home of Americas First Black President (“AFBP,” hereafter), such an egregious example of blatant judicial bias and dis ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) Can you say “RANT” boys ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello< ,Worldwidehippies- I knew you could. Yes, I know the Burgh is the home of Mr. Rogers. He has always been a genuine hero of mine but I fall far short of his gentle spirit a lot of the time. THIS is one of those times. I want to say, “ No shit [...]
  • Official report confirms presence of “hiding t ...
    SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL  - 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 of the uncontacted Ayoreo Indians have been found on land owne ...

reference frame

  • Asteroid collision in 2040: 1 in 600 odds
    Years ago, we would discuss a potential collision of the Earth with the 2004 MN 4 asteroid – also known as 99942 Apophis – on Friday, 13th of April, 2029. The estimated diameter of this rock was 270 meters. The collision was first delayed to April 13th, 2036, and then it was deemed very unlik ...
  • Yet another trick of cosmic rays
    In the climax to the Danes’ experiments, cloud seeds flout the theories Guest blog by Nigel Calder, a veteran science writer Near to the end of the story that starts with stars exploding in the Galaxy and ends with extra clouds gathering, a small but important paragraph was missing ...
  • A protest: President Klaus may return the Konr ...
    Konrad Adenauer was the West German chancellor who oversaw the post-war German economic miracle. The Konrad Adenauer Prize – linked to the CDU – has been given to various scientists, journalists, and politicians. Czech president Václav Klaus – then our prime minister – received ...
  • Bill Clinton: embrace Keystone XL
    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox News analyzes Bill Clinton's monologue above. The pipeline will clearly be beneficial, the expenses are infinitesimal, so let's just build it on any other route. The Fox News commentators say that he wants to subtly outsmart Obama – s ...
  • Fred Singer and skeptics vs deniers
    American Thinker and Anthony Watts' blog published an essay by Fred Singer, Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name.Fred says that when it comes to the climate debate, the people are divided into three groups, warmistas, skeptics, and deniers, and he considers himself a skeptic. I ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Bilderberger Brzezinksi: USA will not support ...
    These are strong words coming from Bilderberger, Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission Mouthpiece Zbigniew Brzezinksi. I am sure that Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu will be soiling his depends over this bold statement. Brzezinksi pulls no punches in this short rant, clai ...
  • Anticipation of a fail – White Hats Report #37 ...
    The much anticipated and hyped pending release of The White Hats Report #37 in terms of stud or dud, was a dud, a stinker, a real let down. They said on numerous occasions that the wait would be worth it and then when I read it I said WTF. They released a scanned document as [...] Related posts ...
  • Wikileaks Announcement: The Global Intelligenc ...
    Via BNO News Wire Service: WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED EMBARGOED EMBARGOED DO NOT DISCLOSE THE EXISTANCE OF THIS RELEASE OR ANY INFORMATION DERIVED FROM IT BEFORE Monday 27 February 00:01 GMT 2012 The Global Intelligence Files [link to wikileaks.org] Twitter tag: #gifiles OFFICAL PRESS CON ...
  • Webster Tarpley, Ph.D. – NATO Death Squad kill ...
    According to Webster Tarpley a false flag is about to be undertaken by British MI6 Front Group Al Jazeera to blame the deaths of 17 Syrian children on Assad forces when it was NATO death squads that did the heinous act. How are we to know for sure? But Tarpley is usually spot on in [...] Relate ...
  • Nature’s Art in Cymatic Experiments, Harmonics ...
    Nature’s hidden art. Real the real Rembrandt please stand up! Another example of the consciousness of the Universe.   Good interview detailing the HOW and WHY of energy, magnets and more: Atomic Feng Shui – Aetheric Diodes and Magnetization: http://www.scribd.com/doc/77264199/At ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

  • Concerned about Drilling in New York? So are s ...
    By Leeann Brown, press secretary New York is considering lifting its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas drilling technology in which large volumes of water, sand and chemicals are injected into the ground at high pressure. Drillers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Study: Toxic Chemicals Play Are Lowering Child ...
    By Alex Formuzis: Vice President of Media Relations I spend more time than most people reading about scientific studies on the environmental and public health effects of exposure to toxic chemicals. Last week I came across one report that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • The Enemy Within: EPA's War with the White House
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Since she assumed the position of administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency early in 2009, Lisa P. Jackson has done more than any previous EPA chief to reform how the government... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Don't Let Your Child Be a Back Seat Smoker
    By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Media Relations Many parents who don't smoke - and have raised their kids to do the same - might be surprised to learn that their offspring could be secondhand-smoking a pack a week. Roughly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  • Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Northern Lights rival Midnight Sun
    The prospect of seeing the Northern Lights is drawing increasing numbers of tourists to northern Norway in winter, making the phenomenon almost as popular as the Midnight Sun during the summer. Thousands are arriving regularly, from as far away as Japan and Taiwan. The coastal voyage line Hurtig ...
  • Former spy boss let off the hook
    The Norwegian agency that investigates possible criminal offenses by on-duty police has dropped its case against Janne Kristiansen, the former head of state police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste). She had faced fines and a jail term for revealing that Norway has intelligence ...
  • Fighter jet base landed at Ørland
    After months of rivalry and lobbying, Norway’s defense ministry will set up new bases for the country’s new fleet of F35 fighter jets at Ørland and Evenes instead of at Bodø, where the F16 fleet has been based for years. Bodø will continue as the F16 base at least until 2020, but cit ...
  • Women bared their breasts in protest
    Several hundred Norwegian women gathered in front of the Norwegian Parliament on Thursday to protest long delays in receiving reconstructive surgery after undergoing a mastectomy. Some of the cancer survivors bared their scarred breasts in protest. The women are angry that it can take as long as ...
  • Labour clamps down on executive pay
    Norway’s Labour-led government and the head of the country’s trade union federation LO are both warning the management and boards of large Norwegian companies not to reward themselves with big pay raises. That, they argue, would ruin efforts to keep overall salary hikes moderate. The ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Innovative New Irrigation System Could Help So ...
    Measured irrigation at Prospect Community Garden In developed nations, at least in the cities and most towns, we take it for granted that when we turn on a tap, water will flow…. When we flip a switch, electricity springs to our command. However this is not the reality for many communit ...
  • Grow your own Drugs
    Pharmaceutical companies have been raiding nature’s larder for years and isolating ingredients to make high cost, patented, chemical drugs to cure our ails. My friend Florence who is 99 tells me that there is a plant for every ailment and James Wong agrees. An ethno-botanist and gardene ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture Workshops, March 2012
    Mental Health First Aid Course There will be a mental heath first aid course run over two Saturdays on 10 and 31 March from 10am — 4pm on 10 March, and 10am — 3pm on Saturday 31 March. It is sponsored by Gold Coast Permaculture and will be held at Griffith University Gold Coast Camp ...
  • Stabilizing the Climate with “Permanent Agricu ...
    Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil for long-term storage. This is why reforestation and protecting intact forests are such important parts of plans to address climate change. Conventional climate change science tells us that t ...
  • A Forest of Food in the Center of Seattle
    Click for larger view In the Beacon Hill community of Seattle a revolutionary community garden is being developed to feed her people. The Beacon Food Forest is transforming a previously unused piece of public land into a vibrant food forest filled with hundreds of different varieties of edible ...

Pointman's

  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...
  • Fakegate claims its first scalp.
    The prominent climate alarmist Peter Gleick, has just admitted obtaining by identity theft the Heartland material and emailing it anonymously to journalists sympathetic to “the cause”. There are some things to be noted when reading his confession. It was obviously drafted with legal help and a v ...
  • Fakegate and post-modern journalism.
    Fakegate has been a very public reverse for climate alarmism. Instead of being a successful smear of the Heartland Institute and other parties, it’s likely to be viewed in retrospect as a turning point in the manner in which the mainstream and online media covers dissenting institutions and voic ...
  • Fakegate.
    I’ve been watching the developments following the publication of the Heartland documents, what’s now very appropriately become known as Fakegate. As usual, the propaganda organ of climate alarmism, otherwise known as the mainstream media, has been very quick off the mark to circulate any materia ...
  • Being you.
    We all have this need to fit in. It’s natural and it’s a good thing. We’re encouraged to do it from the year dot. Nobody wants the “doesn’t play well with other kids” label, so you sort of go along with the thing and anyway, you get to play a few games of football if … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...
  • Message to Occupy Prisons Protests, By Robert King
    The below message, from Robert King, a former New Orleans Black Panther and member of Angola Three, was recently published in the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three newsletter. First of all I would like to applaud and salute those in the Occupy movement for focusing on the hideou ...
  • Report From Resistance in Alabama to Racist An ...
    I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I learned about the incredibly egregious law HB 56 and I l ...
  • What Does Gender Have To Do With Housing? By S ...
    From the Bridge The Gulf website: This article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork: Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housi ...
  • For Volunteers in New Orleans: Principles of P ...
    More than six years after Hurricane Katrina, volunteers are still coming to New Orleans from across the US. We appreciate the solidarity, but we also think it is important to be conscious of the limits of volunteerism. In that spirit, we believe it is useful to republish this 2007 letter, origin ...

Information Underground

  • Historical Events • Re: 200 Years Together-- S ...
    Dear CSR-- Great read above. Very well timed to elaborate on the background of the "Russia" we see today conspiring with the Zionist Entity. The shocking double standard applied by Jews in defending their role in the Russian Revolution's atrocities, by blaming the congenitally evil ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvSAKjXxGkQ My latest creation!!! I am SERIOUSLY getting the hang of producing high-quality videos, and not just slide-show presentations with audio-files. This wasn't too difficult, but I had to cut out unnecessary parts and put all of the separate files toge ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The "proof" at this point is just circumstantial, and fairly weak, IMHO. But it makes sense. I hope we hear more about this. If this story is true, then there are probably a lot of papers being shredded and hard drives getting wiped.Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Thu Ma ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I tried to find out who the judge was, and discovered that this was not the result of a court decision, but rather only the threat of an imminent lawsuit. Sabbath saved: Lawsuit forces TAPPS to allow Jewish school to play in state semifinals By Chris Baldwin 03.01.12 | 12:30 pm The hoops drea ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Well surprise surprise, the team got a temporary restraining order to play on a day that doesn't conflict with The Sabbath. I wonder who the judge(s) were that granted this, huh? And once again, on the front page of the 4 Letter Network, to stick it to the masses of what they refer to as &q ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Some Scandinavian Conifers Survived the Last I ...
    A new study has found that some Scandinavian conifers were able to survive the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age, a finding that upends the long-held view that the region’s landscape was wiped clean by a massive blanket of ice. While scientists have long believed contemporary University of ...
  • Ocean Acidifying Faster Than Any Time in 300 M ...
    The world’s oceans may be acidifying faster today than during any period over the last 300 million years, a phenomenon that could have dire consequences for many marine species and ecosystems, according to a new study. In a review of hundreds of paleoceanographic studies, a team of scientists fo ...
  • NASA Images Depict Rapid Loss of Thick Arctic ...
    A new comparison of satellite images from 1980 and 2012 vividly depicts the rapid disappearance of thick, multi-year Arctic Ocean ice in winter. Over the past three decades, the extent of the Arctic’s thickest ice has declined by 15 to 17 percent per decade, according to Click to enlarge NA ...
  • How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children ...
    It is a pattern seen in various parts of the world — children being sickened from exposure to lead from mining activities. But the scale of the problem in Nigeria’s gold-mining region of Zamfara is unprecedented: More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely poisoned by ...
  • Chinese Leaders Impose New Rules to Reduce Air ...
    Bowing to increasing public concern about poor air quality, the Chinese government has approved strict new air pollution standards, including tougher rules for ozone and for particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. The new rules, approved during an executive meeting of the St ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • How Ron Paul's Minions Plan to Hijack the GOP ...
    Ron Paul is orchestrating a highly unusual, yet precisely organized, grassroots effort to bring as many loyal delegates as possible to the Republican National Convention. Romney's campaign has some mass appeal but invites little passion. Paul's might have even fewer supporters than Rom ...
  • Are You Better Off Than You Were Two Months Ago?
    The national jobs reports for January and February showed strong economic improvement and increasing employment. As we get ready for the next report this week, we're wondering if this improving economy has made a difference to you personally. Has your personal financial situation impro ...
  • Obamacare Is Like a Superbug—the More You Resi ...
    The most controversial aspect of the new healthcare law is the individual mandate, but the mandate is only the means to an end. The end is to make sure everyone can buy health insurance and to achieve that goal, the new healthcare law requires that each state sets up an insurance exchange where ...
  • Even Obama's Economist Loves Milton Friedman
    Christina Romer served as chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2010 and was one of the most important members of the Obama economic team. In an interview with The Browser, she gives an overview of the most important books which discuss economic depression. ...
  • On Your Bike, Boris
    The Queen seemed unimpressed by London Mayor's bike rental scheme, but kept her criticism guarded. At least her husband wasn't there.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Cut-rate carrier Peach starts flights
    Low-cost carrier Peach Aviation Ltd. started operations Thursday, a move sure to intensify competition among air and ground transportation companies. Describing its flights as "flying trains," the budget airline is aiming to attract passengers by offering low-priced tickets while cutting costs ...
  • Chinese students cook 'gyoza' for disaster eva ...
    Former Chinese exchange students on Tuesday cooked "gyoza" dumplings for evacuees still living in temporary housing units in Fukushima Prefecture. The students were among about 50 people from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology who visited the temporary housing in Koriyama to ...
  • FTA with Peru comes into effect
    Japan's free-trade agreement with Peru took effect Thursday, enabling Japanese auto and electrical appliance makers to keep up with their South Korean competitors there. Under the pact, Japan and Peru will scrap tariffs on more than 99 percent of the value of goods traded between the two natio ...
  • Colombian foreign minister voices optimism ove ...
    Following a meeting last September with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda referred to the South American country as "a neighbor" of Japan only separated by the Pacific. Now the countries are working to further shrink the distance by strengthening bilateral t ...
  • River tour quits over fatal accident
    The Tenryu River boat tours in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, will end after 60 years because of a capsizing last August that killed five people, including the helmsman. Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Co. on Thursday filed papers with the transport ministry's Chubu District Transport Bureau in Nago ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Santa Claus Delivers a Positive Quarter Despit ...
    The Month: Christmas Gift Canada’s economy was buoyed by Christmas cheer as a December bounce more than offset slight declines in October and November to turn the fourth quarter positive. Unfortunately, one month does not make a trend. The key question is whether December’s strength continued in ...
  • What Obama’s Corporate Tax Proposal Means for ...
    The following commentary also appears on The Globe and Mail’s Global Exchange blog: Last week, there was much consternation in Canada’s business press that some modest reversals of provincial corporate tax cuts and President Obama’s proposed corporate tax changes could erode our competitiveness. ...
  • Debunking Drummond
    The Drummond report claims that Ontario is headed for a $30-billion deficit. This figure has been widely and uncritically reported. For example, The Globe and Mail printed four articles featuring this number in its February 18 edition. The Ontario government projected a balanced budget with a $1 ...
  • Québec Students Strike Over Tuition-Fee Hikes
    This morning, there are more than 65 000 students on strike in Québec. University students, but also college-level students, are walking out of classrooms to reverse the 75% raise in tuition fees over five years announced in the last provincial budget. In the space of a single week, the number o ...
  • New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, In ...
    This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English http://bit.ly/z4GQx5  and in French http://bit.ly/yabiK2) What do the Occupy Movement and Ca ...

ReDress

  • What nasty surprises await our warmongers in t ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel's bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain's Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should "don uniform and flak-jacket" and go play ...
  • The not-so-hidden limits to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that although superficially Western societies are free, in reality people in the West are enslaved to debt through a relationship with financial institutions that "mirrors many of the attributes of an oppressive master-slave relationship: ownership, obedience, burden and seve ...
  • A vision of harmony in Palestine
    Gilad Atzmon outlines a vision of Palestinian-Jewish reconciliation in Palestine where Jews, freed of their Zionist state and its ideology of oppression, exclusiveness, exceptionalism, and racial supremacy and segregation, live side by side with Palestinians as citizens of one state with equal ...
  • Gaza's race car students "inspirational"
    Stuart Littlewood tells the remarkable story of Palestinian students from Gaza who are competing in an international competition to design and build a racing car, which thanks to the medieval Israeli siege they are doing using domestic water pipes and parts scavenged from disused vehicles.
  • The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Ameri ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Pale ...

Physics Today

  • North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear testing
    Nature: North Korea will suspend uranium enrichment, long-range ballistic-missile development, and nuclear testing in exchange for 240 000 tons of food aid from the US. North Korea will also allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enter the Yongbyon nuclear ...
  • Urban coconut plantation wins European student ...
    Guardian: As part of his final course work for the UK's Sheffield Hallam University last year, Jacob Szikora designed a coconut growing facility for Sheffield's London Road. His Concrete Orchard went on to win the EDUCATE Prize, an international award that recognizes students for innovative idea ...
  • Canada renews its support of the International ...
    Huffington Post: Canada has decided to extend its commitment to the International Space Station from 2015 to 2020. It's the last of the five ISS partners to commit to supporting the station through its current projected life span. The announcement came as the heads of the major space agencies we ...
  • High-speed outflow keeps black holes in check
    Daily Mail: The puzzling correlation between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and the number of stars in the galaxy may be explained by streams of fast-moving, highly ionized gas emitted from the black hole's accretion disk. Francesco Tombesi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center examin ...
  • T. rex bite strongest of all land animals
    BBC: Contrary to previous estimates, which suggested that the bite of a Tyrannosaurus rex was comparable to that of modern predators, the dinosaur's bite exerted 3–6 tons of force, or 10 times the force of an alligator bite. Karl Bates of the University of Liverpool and Peter Falkingham of ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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  • Central Banks Expand Gold Reserves With $6 Bil ...
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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Desal Opponents Vow To Press On With Ballot Me ...
    “SANTA CRUZ – Despite a move by the city to let voters decide the fate of a proposed seawater desalination plant, opponents pledged Thursday to charge “full-speed ahead” on gathering signatures for a November ballot measure also designed to give voters a say. Paul Gratz, ...
  • Encroaching Deserts Threaten Life Along Tibet& ...
    “Rising temperatures, reduced rainfall and excessive numbers of grazing animals are worsening desertification and drying up grasslands in western Tibet, says a Chinese geologist who has explored one of the region’s uncharted rivers. Yang Yong said he had observed desertification in parts o ...
  • Thailand Defies Neighbors on Contentious Xayab ...
    “Bangkok, Thailand – As the governments of the Mekong region continue to deliberate on the proposed Xayaburi Dam in Laos, the Thai government has defied the regional decision-making process and pushed ahead with the project’s implementation. Recent oversight hearings by the Thai Senate and ...
  • What’s Inside: Tap Water
    “The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry calls it oxidane. You probably know it as H20. Essential for all life, it’s the universal solvent as well as a biological lubricant and coolant. But when it comes out of your tap, this simple combination of hydrogen and oxygen atoms is ...
  • Girl shot in dad’s water war
    “Trouble had been brewing in Katlamari village ever since a water pump to irrigate paddy fields belonging to a prominent Congress leader Basir Shiekh was stolen. Basir accused Ali, whose farmland is adjacent to his, of stealing the pump. The police said Basir and his supporters had been pr ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Calls for Stronger Rules to Protect C ...
    Fifteen to thirty dollars in the price of a barrel of oil is attributable to oil speculators.  At $106 a barrel, the price of oil is leading to increased gas prices for consumers.  Consumers in the Cleveland area are now paying $3.74 a gallon for gasoline and the price is expected to r ...
  • Kucinich to Clinic: Cash Needed at Home
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the leading advocate for a fair distribution of uncompensated care in Cuyahoga County, released the following statement in response to Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove’s “State of the Clinic” address: “Though poverty in and around the Cleveland area is d ...
  • Kucinich: No More Excuses: Justice for “Underw ...
    Washington D.C. (February 29, 2012) -- Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), today reiterated his call to Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (F.H.F.A.), which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write down principal amounts for struggling homeowners. Kucinich, who ...
  • Kucinich Addresses Great Lakes Day
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed a gathering of more than 100 at the Great Lakes Commission’s Great Lakes Day in Washington D.C. Kucinich discussed the need to protect federal funding to strengthen and restore the Great Lakes. He also called attention to the threat to the Great ...
  • Kucinich Delivers Results: Local Communities E ...
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today unveiled its Section 205 Flood Risk Management Project Status Update for Independence and Valley View in Ohio's 10th Congressional District.  The study was requested by Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) on behalf of affected communities after major floods in ...

Authentically Wired

  • … this nut case could win big in Arizona
        … Guess what … this nut case could win big in Arizona … he’d fit right in with Joe Arpaio … “red queen” Jan Brewer … “honest” Johnny McCain … SB1070 King Russell Pearce …     Republican Congressional Candidate Says ‘Holocaust Never Happened’ · &#160 ...
  • Not exactly a secret
        … Not exactly a secret but certainly not well known to anyone listening only to corporate owned mass media … Anyone not aware of the “teapublican” agenda to oust any sitting Democratic President is deaf, dumb or blind …   Fox News Is Rooting Against the Economic Interest ...
  • but then don’t bitch about getting screwed
    … There is no doubt that WATER will become more expensive in the near future as “we” have allowed our nation’s delivery system (infrastructure) to deteriorate to the point where making it once again viable will be a costly proposition …   … Here’s the kicker … it will be even more exp ...
  • opening the piggybank
    … You really have to see the humor in this … our RED state   “teapublican” controlled legislature lead by our red queen – Jan Brewer – thwart all effort by “we” the people in form of “organized-labor” to make demands of our legislators to act in a particular manner …. BUT … we open [...]
  • It has to be the dry heat …!
        … Let’s see … all 3 state university presidents … all 3 university campus law enforcement personnel … a majority of students are opposed to  … GUNS  ON CAMPUS … but  our “teapublican” controlled state legislators would sooner allow the chamber’s Lori Klein “cut ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Recession forces plant and food research cuts
    Up to 25 scientists are likely to lose their jobs at government-owned Plant and Food Research and another 18 could be forced to move cities to keep their positions.The Crown Research Institute has struggled in the last year because...
  • Mighty fossil fleas nearly 25mm long
    In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared with its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly 25mm long.New fossils found in China are evidence of the oldest fleas - from 125 million to 165...
  • Enhancing human mind raises six million dollar ...
    Forty years ago, the first bionic human featured in the hit United States TV science-fiction series The Six Million Dollar Man. Today, he has become science fact.New technologies that "intervene" in the brain, building superhuman...
  • Flu medicine speeds brain injury recovery: Study
    Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago.Severely injured patients...
  • Rawiri Taonui: Holocaust or not, indigenous ha ...
    Semantic arguments are a sideshow when the subject is the destruction of peoples, writes Rawiri Taonui, adjunct professor of indigenous studies at AUT. Jewish Council president Stephen Goodman's criticism of Keri Opai's view that...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • A.M. Links: Obama Wants to Deal With Iran "Per ...
    Obama on Iran: "It is important for us to see if we can solve this thing permanently, as opposed to temporarily." Sen. Olympia Snowe on her retirment: "Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship." Afghans on the U.S. troops who burned Korans: "Brin ...
  • Read Our Entire March 2012 Issue
    Our complete March 2012 issue is now available online. Don’t miss Matt Welch on why voters who keep fleeing the two major parties are giving libertarianism a try, Peter Suderman on how Mitt Romney is just repackaging the same old Republicanism, and Brian Doherty on how mainstream econ ...
  • Henry Payne on Why Romney Won Michigan
    In today's Friday Funny, Henry Payne takes a crack at why Romney won Michigan.  View this article.
  • Does H.R. 347 Change Anything About Your Right ...
    As Brian Doherty noted below, on Tuesday the House passed H.R. 347 [pdf], officially known as The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. Now all it needs to become law is President Obama's approving signage. Contrarian standbys Congressmen Justin Amash ( ...
  • Kurt Loder on Being Flynn
    The story at the heart of Being Flynn—troubled young wannabe writer takes a job in a homeless shelter and one night comes face-to-face with the father he never knew—would seem hopelessly contrived if it weren’t true. The movie’s great achievement, writes Kurt Loder, is that it so ef ...

Mercury Rising

  • Market thoughts
    It’s been a long time since I did a post on the stock market. This is not because I think that it’s ok or that it’s less important than other developments. In terms of understanding where the fall election is likely to go, it’s one of the ten leading economic indicators, ...
  • The art of rhetoric
    I do not understand why, in discussing Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of Sandra Fluke as a “slut” because she wanted health insurance to include birth control (Limbaugh called this “being paid to have sex”) that almost none of those who spoke in opposition to Limb ...
  • Maybe Joe Arpaio should break up this Kochfight
    Via Avedon. Matt Pearce, LAT: …Charles and David Koch are taking to the courts to solve an ownership dispute involving the Cato Institute. The president of the institute, a longtime pillar of free-market thinking in Washington — calls the move an attempt “to transform Cato from an in ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Do you detect a pattern here?
  • I have never heard of anything like this in th ...
    Lorraine Swanson, Oaklawn Patch (via t/o): Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressiona ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Checkmated by My Love
      The following is excerpted from The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Planets: Keeping the Seeds Alive by Martín Prechtel, published by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • Ancient History Rocks - Again!
    Can a revised, more accurate and imaginative view of ancient history help us expand our consciousness, rewrite our modern global myths and kickstart the earth into a brighter cycle in 2012? read more
  • Perilous Passage: An Artifact of The Third Mind
      The following is excerpted from Terry Wilson's Perilous Passage: the Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words, published by Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM, with an appended introduction by Ian MacFadyen and Phil Wood.   Introduction read more
  • iVoting
    A new app with a political bent has hit the cyber streets. "Voterfriendly is a voter education app that shows you who is in Congress, how they have voted, and allows you to weigh in with a Yay or Nay vote on the same items that have appeared before elected reps." "It shows you ...
  • Leap Into Conscious Evolution Now
    There is still time to join the discussion and discover how we can transform our society to build a new planetary culture, when the "grandmother of the consciousness movement" Barbara Marx Hubbard meets Daniel Pinchbeck for a real-time, intimate and interactive Evolver Intensive vide ...

Desertification

  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
  • 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More t ...
    The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and rela ...
  • ARGENTINA: Drought Threat Looms Again
    The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.

Automatic Earth

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

Press TV

  • 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.
  • ‘US to refuel Israeli planes striking Iran’
    Following Israeli calls on the US to toughen its stance on Iran’s nuclear energy program, Pentagon officials have announced preparations for the aerial refueling of Tel Aviv planes that may strike Iran.
  • No oil flow disruption claims Greek Min.
    A high-ranking Greek official has claimed that despite previous reports about Iran cutting its crude oil exports to Greece, there has been no disruption in Iranian oil flow to the Mediterranean country.
  • Violence claims over 70 in NW Pakistan
    Violence has claimed the lives of more than 70 people in separate incidents across Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the border with Afghanistan.
  • Italian refiner charters tanker for Iran oil
    Italian refiner Iplom SpA plans to import 80,000 metric tons of Iranian crude despite the European Union (EU) sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s oil sector, a report says.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...

Nick Turse

  • Afghan demonstrators shout anti-US slogans at ...
    Afghan demonstrators shout anti-US slogans at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military base ...
  • A wounded Afghan boy stands at the gate of Bag ...
    A wounded Afghan boy stands at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanista ...
  • From TomDispatch:  Jonathan Schell’s incisive ...
    From TomDispatch:  Jonathan Schell’s incisive view of our world of toppling empires and growing protest — Andy Kroll, “How Empires Fall (Including the American One), A TomDispatch Interview With Jonathan Schell”  Jonathan Schell, who has a remarkable record when it comes to making sense of Amer ...
  • China’s ‘occupy’ toilet protests spread...
    China’s ‘occupy’ toilet protests spread “A Chinese student is hoping to become a heroine for women around the world by launching an Occupy movement of her own – in the men’s lavatory – in protest at waiting times.” Read the rest here
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