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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

21 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • INHABITAT INTERVIEW: 8 Questions with Starbuck ...
    Read the rest of INHABITAT INTERVIEW: 8 Questions with Starbucks Global Responsibility VP Ben Packard Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: ben packard, coffee farming, coffee house, corporate social responsibility, ethical farming sustainable agriculture, leed certified sto ...
  • Ocean Climate Change Damage Could Cost $2 Tril ...
    If the world’s governments are truly looking at ways to reduce expenditure, then they would do well to look at a new study from the Stockholm Environment Institute. The new report, called “Valuing the Oceans”, reveals that if the rise of greenhouse gases continues to go uncheck ...
  • Solar Cooker Could Provide for Hot Water and F ...
    In disaster zones, emergency rescue services need reliable appliances to help provide the basics to victims who may suddenly be without provisions. As a quick-response to emergency situations, Cheng-Tsung Feng has come up with an amazing solar cooker that could help meet the needs of those less ...
  • Limited Edition “Listen Closely” Lamp Shades a ...
    Designers at Large has produced 75 limited edition ‘Listen | Closely’ lamp shades made with the legacy sails fabric from Canada Place. The title of the project is meant to encourage individuals to stop and reconsider the people and objects they encounter in their daily lives. “Only wh ...
  • Urban Algae Farms Could Heat Buildings While T ...
    Macro of Ulva Algae photo from Shutterstock Pardon the potty talk, but wouldn’t it be great if every time you flushed the toilet you were actually generating heat for your home? That’s exactly what a Los Angeles-based startup is hoping to accomplish. OriginOil, a company that special ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Obama seizes control over all food, farms, liv ...
    We told ya so" just doesn't quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America.
  • Researcher Finds Proof Of Area 51 Flying Saucers
    Intrepid researcher Scott C. Waring—author of UFO Sightings of 2006-2009 and Dragons of Asgard—followed in the sometimes circuitous footsteps of controversial UFO personality Bob Lazar and uncovered amazing proof of disc and V-shaped craft both airborne and hangared at the test base. Waring has ...
  • Poisoning Americans Daily: Genetically-Modifie ...
    Americans are eating genetically-engineered foods every day and they don’t know it. That’s why they don’t know they’re poisoning themselves. In the United States, 88 percent of the corn, 93 percent of the canola, and 94 percent of the soybeans are genetically-modified. Genetically modifi ...
  • Ron Paul blasts Obama for killing Americans
    Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has publically attacked the Obama administration’s abolishment of due process in a new editorial, calling the move a turning point in American history.
  • Hundreds die: Pentagon secret war game runs Is ...
    An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites may quickly spiral out of control and result in a large regional war, a Pentagon war game predicts. American casualties would be counted in hundreds at least. The two-week game held by Central Command called Internal Look played on a scenario in whic ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos: The “Austerity Isn’t Worki ...
    UK Uncut, the organisers of the “Austerity Isn’t Working” Dole Queue outside Downing Street this morning advised supporters to turn up for 11 am prompt for a recreation of the notorious “Labour Isn’t Working” poster from 1979 as a protest on Budget Day — ...
  • The Privatisation of the NHS: Why It Will Be t ...
    With the failure of the last challenge to Andrew Lansley’s wretched NHS reform bill in the House of Commons, where Labour’s emergency debate was defeated by 328 votes to 246, I have to ask: how is it possible, in a so-called democracy, for a government without a mandate to ignore the ...
  • Austerity Isn’t Working: UK Uncut Protes ...
    Tomorrow morning, please join me as I help the campaigning group UK Uncut cause a stir on Budget Day by lining up with hundreds of other people outside Downing Street to declare that “Austerity Isn’t Working,” recreating the Tories’ notorious “Labour Isn’t Wor ...
  • As the House of Lords Passes the NHS Privatisa ...
    Despite high hopes that members of the House of Lords would recognise their place in the history books on the side of the people, rather than on the side of David Cameron, Andrew Lansley, their Lib Dem stooges and the corporations who plan to make a killing out of the privatisation of the NHS, t ...
  • Last Chance to Save the NHS: Will the House of ...
    How did we end up in this mess? A majority of those who work for the NHS, at every level, and a majority of the public, believe that Andrew Lansley’s wretched NHS reform bill — technically, the Health and Social Care Bill, but more colloquially, and accurately, known as the NHS priva ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Sentenced to Life, White Supremacist Faces Mor ...
    It now appears likely that confessed hate killer David “Joey” Pedersen will next face federal charges in connection with a West Coast killing spree that left his father, stepmother and two strangers dead. The 31-year-old Pedersen, whose body is decorated with white supremacy tattoos,  was senten ...
  • What’s the Matter with Working for Kansas, Kris?
    Anti-immigrant activist Kris Kobach draws a paycheck as the duly elected secretary of state in Kansas. But he sure spends a lot of time meddling in the business of other states. Kansans Count, a coalition of civil and voting rights groups, recently obtained copies of Kobach’s calendars, schedule ...
  • Extremist Former SCV Commander’s Business Raid ...
    Yesterday evening, Secret Service agents raided former Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Commander Ron Wilson’s business. They seized silver, files and computers from Atlantic Bullion & Coin, according to the Anderson, S.C., Independent Mail. The agents also seized items from his daughter A ...
  • Man Indicted in Firebomb Attacks Aimed at NYC ...
    Federal authorities in New York today unsealed an indictment accusing a 40-year-old man dubbed the “Frappucino firebomber” with hate crimes for New Year’s Day Molotov-cocktail attacks on a mosque and a Hindu temple in Queens. Ray Lazier Lengend, also known as Suraj Poonai, told police he intende ...
  • Kentucky Supreme Court Upholds SPLC’s Verdict ...
    Ron Edwards has seen his once-sprawling Imperial Klans of America (IKA) dwindle to nearly nothing since the Southern Poverty Law Center won a $2.5 million verdict against him and a lieutenant in 2008. Now, Edwards sits in a federal prison on unrelated gun and drug charges. This week, he got more ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • FCC Decision on Local Community Radio Act a Bo ...
    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released decisions on Monday to implement the Local Community Radio Act passed by Congress in December 2010, opening the airwaves for community radio. The move gets rid of pending applications for FM translators, which are repeater stations that rebroa ...
  • Afghan Villagers: Massacre of Civilians Fueled ...
    Afghan villagers near the site where US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is alleged to have murdered 16 civilians, including nine children, claim US troops -- just days before the shooting -- lined them up against a wall after a roadside bombing and told them that they, and even their children, woul ...
  • 'Drill Baby Drill' Will Never Curb Gas Prices: ...
    An AP report released today states that increases in US domestic oil production have never decreased gas prices, nor will they ever. Rather, gas prices have often actually increased alongside domestic oil production. The new report evidences that U.S. production and demand have little to do with ...
  • "Your Time Is Up:" Activists Plan Non-Violent ...
    Outraged at a federal ruling on Monday allowing the continued operation of the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, anti-nuclear activists are planning civil disobedience calling for the closure of the plant. In Monday's ruling, a federal judge blocked Vermont from closing the pla ...
  • Obama Set to Speed Up Approval of Tar Sands Pi ...
    Although President Obama denied a permit for the main Keystone XL pipeline from Canada's tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico in January, it is expected that he will announce on Thursday on a visit to Cushing, Oklahoma, a plan to speed up the permit for the southern section of the Keystone XL pip ...

Lifehacker

  • Red, Black, and Star Wars All Over: The Geeky ...
    Today's featured workspace is bold in red and black furniture and doesn't hold back in its epic space film memorabilia and other collectibles. More »
  • Yet Another Reason To Buy Your Apps: Free, Ad- ...
    Recently we learned that ads in free apps are killing mobile battery life. If that's not enough reason to buy the app's paid version, consider this research on the added privacy and security threats found in many free apps, due to their in-app ...
  • Get Up, Dressed for Work, and Eat Breakfast in ...
    Japanese TV game shows are always entertaining and this one is no exception. You'll find a few hacks for your morning routine, including brushing your teeth while you shimmy into your pants and using a safety pin to button your collar. Mo ...
  • 10 Stubborn Exercise Myths that Won’t Die, Deb ...
    "No pain, no gain!" "You'll never bulk up without supplements." "Crunches are the key to six-pack abs!" It seems there are more questions and half-truths in the market about healthy exercise than there are clear, definitive facts—but th ...
  • Coat Screws with Soap to Help Them Turn Easily ...
    If you've ever put together a large set of IKEA furniture (or something similar) you know the fabricated holes and screws don't always fit together well. Hidden inside the massive Popular Mechanics list of the best DIY tips is a trick from way ...

Water Privatization

  • Severn Trent gives annual report on wastewater ...
    Some people likely do not give a second thought to Safford's wastewater treatment facility, and that is a good thing, according to plant manager Jeremy Samuels, because most people don't think about i
  • Listen Now! AFGE Pushes Back Against Privatiza ...
    Listen Now! http://www.federalnewsradio.com/216/2786679/Largest-federal-employee-union-pushes-back-against-privatization--March-16th-2012
  • La Grange League of Women Voters hosts water r ...
    The La Grange Area League of Women Voters hosts a forum Chicago’s water rate increases and options for the suburbs from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the La Grange Public Library, 10 W. Cossit Ave. Emily Carol from the Illinois Office of Food and Water Watch will present a segment defining water priv ...
  • La Grange League of Women Voters hosts water r ...
    The La Grange Area League of Women Voters hosts a forum Chicago’s water rate increases and options for the suburbs from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the La Grange Public Library, 10 W. Cossit Ave. Emily Carol from the Illinois Office of Food and Water Watch will present a segment defining water priv ...
  • Water sector reforms will not be the end of wa ...
    March 14, 2012. Senator Edgardo J. Angara underscored that proposed reforms to the water sector will not result in the outright dismantling or blanket privatization of the country's water districts. Angara, Chair of the Senate sub-Committee on Water, said that these reforms will in fact bols ...

Guardian

  • Mitt Romney wins Illinois primary: live reaction
    • GOP dynast Jeb Bush endorses Romney as party nominee • Santorum camp struggles for message after Illinois rout • Live blogging now: Tom McCarthy 12.29pm:Heh. I wonder if we can expect more of these Etch A Sketch chuckles.Seamus Romney drawn on an Etch A Sketch. twitpic.com/8zducq— Andre ...
  • Toulouse shootings: suspect was preparing to k ...
    • Mohammed Merah had identified target, say prosecutors • Three police wounded trying to arrest gunman • French authorities believe suspect had trained in Pakistan • Siege could continue into evening4.20pm: The French prosecutor, Francois Molins, has been giving more information on gunman Merah. ...
  • Syria: UN security council agree to back Kofi ...
    • Full text of statement includes talks and ceasefire • Threats against Syria diluted to appease Russia and China • White House 'sickened' by Assad emails • Mauritania agrees to extradite Senussi to Libya • Read the latest summary 4pm: Here's a summary of developments on the Syria crisis:• The ...
  • Budget 2012: Pensioners hit by loss of income ...
    • Personal allowance now close to £10,000 • Tax breaks for pensioners scrapped: #grannytax trending • Ed Miliband: 'Millions pay more while millionaires pay less' • Stamp duty rate of 7% for £2m houses • Economic growth forecast to be 0.8% this year • Child benefit cut-off point raised to £50,00 ...
  • Groom jailed for starting fire at his wedding
    Max Kay sentenced to six years for setting fire to reception venue after row over bar bill and other expensesA property developer who set fire to a country house on his wedding night, causing more than £5m of damage, has been sentenced to six years in prison.Max Kay had just got married when he ...

McClatchey

  • Trayvon Martin's shooter should likely be char ...
    The authors of Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law say the killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin probably should be arrested and doesn't deserve immunity under the statute.Click to Continue »
  • Congress airs differences on when to exit from ...
    Leaders of the House Armed Services Committee differed Tuesday on how quickly to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan, while the top commander of forces there said the U.S. campaign remains…Click to Continue »
  • Have background checks for job candidates gone ...
    Justin D'Heilly never saw it coming. He was working as a Domino's Pizza delivery driver in St. Paul, Minn., in 2009 when he pulled over to take a call from…Click to Continue »
  • Murder case against U.S. soldier presents chal ...
    the United States, a murder case can be pretty straightforward: the victim dies, police collect evidence and use it to pursue suspects. But as U.S. military prosecutors prepare to charge…Click to Continue »
  • Bombings in Iraq kill 50, heighten security co ...
    Fifty people died and more than 200 were wounded Tuesday in Iraq in a series of bombings and small-arms attacks that heightened worries about the safety of Arab leaders scheduled…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • New adviser teams key to US exit from Afghanistan
    This Feb. 22, 2012, photo shows Col. Michael Kasales, commander of the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, who will be deploying to Afghanistan for one of the advisory teams, at Fort Polk, La. For ...
  • Neighboring Countries Scramble To Be NATO&#039 ...
    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If ...
  • The Afghan Public Protection Force
    A Blue Hackle officer (left) hands over a gun to a soldier from the Afghan Public Protection Forces during a ceremony on the outskirts of Kabul in ...
  • Congress airs differences on when to exit from ...
    WASHINGTON - Leaders of the House Armed Services Committee differed Tuesday on how quickly to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan, while the top commander of forces there said the U.S. campaign ...
  • Afghan villagers convinced slayings were act o ...
    Asia News: Afghanistan, Residents have given similar accounts to both The Associated Press and to Afghan government officials about an alleged bombing in the vicinity, which they said occurred March ...

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA issues new manual for whistleblower inves ...
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Whistleblower Investigations Manual last year.  The new manual includes some improvements for whistleblowers, such as accepting oral complaints (which is particularly helpful in meeting the short 30-day time limits for en ...
  • Occupy EPA protest planned for March 30
    Occupy EPA is marching again. On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 12 noon, they will march from Franklin Square Park (13th & I Sts NW in Washington, DC) to the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (12th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Federal Triangle, Washington DC). There, at 1: ...
  • Washington Post's Joe Davidson asks federal ma ...
    The commissioned corps of the Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work on the cutting edge of federal research and policy on diseases, medical devices, public health, global warming and our environment. Yet, they fall into an exclusion from ...
  • DC Circuit Judges understand Convertino's appeal
    Attorney Stephen Kohn today presented oral argument on behalf of former federal prosecutor and whistleblower Richard Convertino (pictured).  Convertino is seeking reversal of an order issued last year by Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, DC.  That order dismissed ...
  • IRS resists using whistleblowers
    Whistleblower disclosures have helped the federal government make some of its biggest recoveries from fraudsters. In the Obama administration alone, the government recovered over $21 billion thanks to whistleblowers using the “qui tam” procedure under the False Claims Act. The govern ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • NSA Insists It Doesn't Have 'The Ability' To S ...
    Earlier this week, we wrote about an excellent and detailed article in Wired about the efforts by the NSA to collect and store pretty much all communications data they could get their hands on -- whether originating in the US or not (despite clear rules that the NSA is only supposed to deal with ...
  • Yet Another Attempt To Place Warning Labels On ...
    Last year, we reported on the bill presented by Representatives Joe Baca and Frank Wolf that would require video games in the U.S. to carry a vague (and untrue) warning about their link to violence. At the time, the proposed message was: WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and ...
  • ICANN Confirms That It's Going To Make It Easi ...
    This just gets worse and worse. After pointing out that ICANN was missing a big (and important) opportunity by not speaking out against governments seizing domain names, we were disappointed to see ICANN release a white paper that was more of a how-to manual for governments on seizing domains. ...
  • Fear-Induced Foolishness: Entertainment Indust ...
    Last month, we wrote about how the RIAA was backing a version of the .music top level domain that would only allow "accredited" musicians to get domains with a .music suffix. Their key concern, as always, was that .music would be used for infringement. It appears that it's not just the RIAA wh ...
  • Huge Ruling: Court Rejects Medical Diagnostic ...
    We've been covering the Prometheus Laboratories v. Mayo Labs case for a few years now, as it was a key case involving whether or not you could patent basic medial diagnostics -- i.e., can you patent basic science and limit doctors from doing such science without paying up. Tragically, in a seri ...

VacTruth

  • 7 Marketing Lies in a Vaccination Campaign Exposed
    Many advertising campaigns over the years promoting vaccinations are intended to scare parents into vaccinating their children... This is one of the worst that I have ever seen.
  • The New Bioethics—Hopefully Not!
    This may upset you in more ways than you think, so please be prepared for the utmost of shocking new medical ethics proposals. Are you ready?
  • Vaccines and Autism?
    The link Is undeniable. Parents researching the topic are discovering what these two words have in common.
  • How I Met Jenny McCarthy
    Jenny McCarthy’s Twitter account is named “mommywarrior” for a reason. She encourages parents to “do absolutely everything you can for your child, no matter what anyone tells you.” Here's how I met her...
  • The Ultimate Gamble: Do Childhood Vaccines Res ...
    Vaccine contamination includes Human DNA and Animal DNA. The big question is what does it do to your child?

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A wee bit late with this post as I was at the march last night. I have comments, but I think I am going to ruminate on them a bit more. You should check out CD’s latest, Foreclosing on the Commons. And what amazing photography. Would liberals who like to quote Warren Buffett talking about ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...
  • Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
    I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]
  • More Revolutionary Than Thou
    On one of the videos from the recent Occupy4Prisoners action in DC, somebody spots a guy on the roof of the jail. At first they think it is a sniper. But when they zoom in on them, they see that it is someone working on the camera. The protester starts to heckle the guy, telling [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Ambler’s rebuttal to Mann in the Wall St ...
    Guest post by Harold Ambler The reasons that climatologist Michael Mann is as successful as he is are multiple: 1. He told the United Nations something that it was dying to hear (he offered certainty when all else saw uncertainty) 2. … Continue reading →
  • Monckton addresses California
    Live Blogging Maintenance guy adjusting thermostat down to keep people from keeling over in packed room. Hansen would have turned it up like 1988 Monckton has arrived shaking hands in a packed room Lots of people handing out Eco flyers … Continue reading →
  • The heavy cost of a non-problem
    Testimony of The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley California State Assembly 21 March 2012 IN the 6 decades since 1950 the world has warmed at a rate equivalent to 2 F°/century. The IPCC’s central estimate is that in the 9 decades … Continue reading →
  • Scafetta’s new paper attempts to link cl ...
    Nicola Scafetta sent me this paper yesterday, and I read it with interest, but I have a number of reservations about it, not the least of which is that it is partially based on the work of Landscheidt and the … Continue reading →
  • Study: it takes 10 units of alternative electr ...
    From the University of Oregon a clue as to why green energy isn’t making much inroads. For example, compare these findings to what we learned recently from Matt Ridley about the big fat zero of wind power in the bigger … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Potential Breakthrough in Pancreas Cancer Trea ...
    Scientists in Seattle are reporting a potential breakthrough in the treatment of pancreas cancer, a disease which stubbornly resists most therapies. Pancreas cancer tumors are resistent to chemotherapy partly because they form a biological barrier around themselves. Researchers at the Fred Hutch ...
  • Should Science Pull the Trigger on Antiviral Drugs
    There’s a moment in the history of medicine that’s so cinematic it’s a wonder no one has put it in a Hollywood film. The scene is a London laboratory. The year is 1928. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, is back from a vacation and is cleaning up his work space. He notices that a spec ...
  • Daily aspirin could help prevent and treat cancer
    The case for using aspirin to prevent cancer continues to build, particularly if people are at increased risk of the disease. Three new studies led by researchers at Oxford University also raise the possibility that a daily low dose of the drug could be effective, not just as a preventative meas ...
  • Nerve cells grow on nanocellulose
    Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional model of the brain. Such a model could elevate brain research to totally new levels, with regard to Alz ...
  • Obesity gene’s role revealed in mice study
    In studies on mice which had been genetically modified to have the mutation, the mice consumed up to 80% more food than normal. After a meal, hormones such as insulin and leptin should tell the brain that the body is full and should stop eating. The researchers showed that in the mutated mice th ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Obama seizes control over all food, farms, liv ...
    "We told ya so" just doesn't quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America.Click here to read this article
  • Will Fracking Destroy Colorado’s Rivers?
    Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado's Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat, private property rights and landscape health. These impacts are generally similar wherever drilling ...
  • Re-Occupation and Police Raid of Zuccotti Park ...
    The brief re-occupation of Zuccotti Park and its swift re-eviction are both previews of the season to come. With numbers augmented by warm weather, St. Patrick's Day's festive atmosphere and the Left Forum conference (the hundreds of panels of which took place at nearby Pace University), the pro ...
  • Word on the Street: What Do You Think About th ...
    It seems like every trip to the grocery store includes an invitation to sign initiatives. As a reminder, initiatives are ballot propositions where a minimum number of petition signatures will force a ballot vote.Click here to read this article
  • Video: Shut Down Monsanto Protest at the Gates ...
    As part of the Global Day of Action to Shut Down Monsanto on Saturday, this action was co-organized by AGRA Watch/Community Alliance for Global Justice, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, Washington Biotechnology Action Council, and GMO-Free Washington. The protest was directed at the Gates Found ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Congressman Roscoe Bartlett: Peak Oil and the ...
    In a talk at the Bloomberg School last week, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R–MD) asked the audience: “I’m not a perfect fit for the Republican mold, am I?” The talk was about peak oil, a concept that he’s been stumping in Congress for over a decade. A modern-day Cassandra, he’s been “on the floor ...
  • Will Allen: Gentleman farmer, grand thinker
    But Allen is not just growing food, he is helping to grow community—that feeling of being connected to each other, as well as to the natural world that sustains us. Community is the very ingredient that is most painfully lacking in the industrialized food system that is at once so productive and ...
  • Incubating Public Health: Proposed Ban on Batt ...
    In the United States, for every citizen, there is roughly one laying hen. The majority of these birds are confined in battery cages, wire enclosures that typically afford each bird a space smaller than a single sheet of letter-sized paper. This system is poised to undergo several major changes. ...
  • The Science Is Clear: Antibiotic Resistance an ...
    As a panel of scientific experts spoke at Thursday’s Congressional briefings on the misuse of antibiotics in food animal production, a theme emerged: There is no longer any debate. With evidence that is now irrefutable, the panelists addressed more than 120 Congressional staff and others in the ...
  • The Will Allen Index: Growing Power to the People
    Incredibly, Growing Power uses zero chemicals and fossil fuels to grow, and they are constantly researching new and better technologies for sustainable food production. The organization also provides a “living wage” for its 100+ employees. In farm work, a living wage is nothing to sneeze at.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Latest Study Confirms No Atmospheric Warming f ...
    PSI think tank publishes more evidence refuting man-made global warming and announces ambitious expansion plans in war against government-sponsored junk science http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2012/03/my-years-of-experience-with-public-discourse Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Persian Gulf Militarization
    Military bases and Contingency Sites surrounding Iran. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is the U.S.Supreme Court going to give the Pre ...
    What say you? Submitted by Jaime Dough to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Other Terrorist Threats
    Sometimes everything just falls together in the news. Here`s the rundown on corporate war on the environment - and us Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What Nasty Surprises Await Our Warmongers in t ...
    Irans Sunburn missiles, acquired from Russia and China over the last 10 years, have the capability of creating a world of hurt for the US Navys 5th Fleet. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Too High to Fail
    What I discovered amidst the Northern California redwoods is what both a majority of Americans and Pat Robertson already sense (according to a 2011 Gallup poll): beyond its obviously valuable medicinal properties, taxing cannabis like alcohol for adult use will bring a half-trillion dollars into ...
  • Obama’s Legalization of Slavery and Systematic ...
    This executive order is particularly draconian in that it eliminates the private ownership of everything and Obama has delegated the complete control of the nation's resources to his cabinet level department heads (i.e. Czars). The delegation of control of the nation's resources and people is p ...
  • New Executive Order Seizes Total Control over ...
    A new Executive Order signed on March 16, 2012, gives Obama the power to seize all forms of transportation, food, and any other civilian services including health care, for national defense, as well as to conscript necessary persons for a National Defense Executive Reserve. This is an all-inclus ...
  • A Message from Our Criminal Government: “We Go ...
    To date, the Stanford victims have managed to reclaim about $150,000 from elected officials who accepted this stolen money. However, almost two million dollars of political donations are still missing. President Obama took his money and donated it to charity. Someone should explain to Obama that ...
  • GMO Toxicity: Bt Toxin Kills Human Kidney Cells
    A new study shows that low doses of Bt biopesticide CryA1b as well as the glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, kill human kidney cells.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Blueprint on global plan for TB vaccine unveiled
    ShareThisBlueprint on global plan for TB vaccine unveiled 20 Mar 2012 Top scientific experts Tuesday unveiled a global action plan for developing tuberculosis vaccines that are seen as critical to eliminating the disease that afflicts millions every year kill as many minorities and poor people a ...
  • Ex-FBI informant on terror traps: 'There is no ...
    ShareThisEx-FBI informant on terror traps: 'There is no real hunt. It's fixed' 20 Mar 2012 Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pi ...
  • US Mercenary 'Took Part' in Gaddafi Killing; S ...
    ShareThisUS Mercenary 'Took Part' in Gaddafi Killing; Sent to Assist Syrian opposition 19 Mar 2012 US government officials requested that an American private security firm contact Syrian opposition figures in Turkey to see "how they can help in regime change," the CEO of one of these firms told ...
  • Printed Ballots Were Too Wide for Scanners in ...
    ShareThisPrinted Ballots Were Too Wide for Scanners in Some Illinois Precincts 20 Mar 2012 Some of the printed ballots in 25 of 110 Illinois jurisdictions were slightly too wide to fit into the optical scanners and will have to be trimmed or hand counted, officials said Tuesday afternoon. The ba ...
  • Romney Projected Winner of Illinois GOP Primar ...
    ShareThisKarl Rove buys another state for Mitt Romney and the 1%: CBS News: Romney to win Illinois primary 20 Mar 2012 CBS News projects that Mitt Romney will defeat Rick Santorum and his other rivals to take the Republican presidential primary in Illinois. The estimate is based on early exit po ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Alcohol in Afghanistan
    19 March 2012 There are reports that alcohol was involved in the Panjway 16.  There are also reports that alcohol was not involved. Since 2005, I've only seen two Soldiers truly drunk on missions during about three years with combat troops.  Both were in Iraq.  One Soldier was e ...
  • Sir Petraeus
    16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
  • Libya Spot Report
    16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place.  I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...
  • More Mass Murders in Afghanistan
    15 March 2012 Got this message from former Marine Tim Lynch, in Afghanistan.  Tim's not always polite, but he's a former infantry officer and I listen to him very closely: "The Taliban killed 13 women and children today with an IED in Uruzgan and I think they got 8 yesterday - but that's ...
  • The Panjway 16
    15 March 2012 The New York Daily News asked for an op-ed on the mass murder in Afghanistan.  I invested several hours writing and they took it as is. As per normal, they changed the title.  Practically every publication does this to suit their specific readership, and that’s fine.&n ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Suriname lawmakers propose amnesty bill to end ...
    [JURIST] Lawmakers in Suriname [official website, in Dutch] on Wednesday proposed a bill that would amend the country's current amnesty law and extend amnesty to alleged offenses committed in defense of the state. The proposed amendment would effectively end the trial of President Desi Bouterse ...
  • Federal appeals court allows class action for ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that victims of the $7 million Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Allen Stanford [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] may pursue a class action lawsuit. Stanford was convicted of defrauding victims in A ...
  • UN rights office concerned over Bahrain violence
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] Tuesday expressed concern over reports of excessive force [press release] used by Bahraini security forces against citizen protesters. The alleged disproportionate use of force [UPI report] has involved birdshot ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments on life sentence ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] Tuesday in the cases of Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs [transcripts; JURIST report] on whether the imposition of a life-without-parole sentence on a 14-year-old child convicted of homicide violates the ...
  • Myanmar violence continues in northern Kachin ...
    [JURIST] Violence and rights abuses continue in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [text, PDF] Tuesday. HRW claims that a significant number of civilians are subject to abuses due to the conflict between Myanmar's armed forces and the Kachin ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israelis Say ‘No’ to Iran War
    TweetIsraelis have begun intensive social networking efforts to promote the notion that their country does not want war with Iran.  There will be a mass rally on Friday, March 24th at 7PM in HaBima Square in Tel Aviv.  There is also a Facebook event page, Israelis Against War with Iran.  It has ...
  • Lieberman Calls Prospect of Iran War ‘Nightmare’
    Tweet War, like politics, has a habit of making strange bedfellows.  Just when we’d heard that Bibi Netanyahu had a clear 8-6 majority in the cabinet favoring a war against Iran, we hear a new report that Avigdor Lieberman and his two Yisrael Beitenu ministers may join other opponents of a ...
  • Iran War Game Predicts Dire Consequences for U ...
    TweetThe NY Times reports that a U.S. military war game simulation found that an Israeli attack on Iran drew a massive U.S. response after a U.S. warship was attacked and sunk by Iranian forces: The two-week war game, called Internal Look, played out a narrative in which the United States found ...
  • Israel Says ‘No’ to Iran War
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  • Beinart’s Buy Israel, ‘Zionist BDS’ Reverse Bo ...
    TweetThe NY Times op-ed staff has offered Peter Beinart a gift on a silver platter, with his very own essay marking the launch of Zion Square project at the Daily Beast.  As far as liberal Zionism is concerned, the pages of the New York Times are the gift that keeps on giving.  Naturally, there ...

If Americans Knew

  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How Overview Visualized 4,500 Pages of Declass ...
    Reporting on an incident where private security contractors fired at civilians in Iraq is one thing, but reporting on all such incidents is something else entirely. That's the situation we were faced with when, in reporting on the role of private security firms in Iraq, we wanted to analyze ...
  • Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules in Favor of ...
    The highest court in Massachusetts has just ruled in favor of OpenCourt's ability to video record, stream and archive public court proceedings online, writing that restricting rights to publish would violate First Amendment press protections. The decision arrived during Sunshine Week, a n ...
  • LocalWiki Launches TriangleWiki
    LocalWiki is incredibly excited to announce that our second focus community, the TriangleWiki, has just launched. Check it out! The TriangleWiki launches with over 1,000 pages -- more than three times the amount that the Davis Wiki had at its launch. Interestingly, the TriangleWiki wasn ...
  • Introducing MapBox Streets, a New World Map Po ...
    We recently released MapBox Streets, a zoomable web map of the world that's powered entirely by open data through the OpenStreetMap project. Our main focus with MapBox Streets was to provide a beautiful street map alternative to the ones normally seen online, primarily Google Maps, and to make i ...
  • How SourceMap Reveals the Backbone of Civilization
    A longer version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media's blog. A recent lunch at the Center for Civic Media and MIT Media Lab featured a graduate of the program, Leo Bonanni, and his beloved SourceMap project. He channeled professor Hiroshi Ishii's description of the i ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Obama on Edge - Presidents, Emperors, and Volu ...
    Some things should be difficult—like sending your sons and daughters to war. The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, separated the commander in chief of the force from the war-making authority; it was designed to keep the president—who is not the king or the emperor—from seeing America’s ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Islamic Jihad’s Attac ...
    In by far the sharpest escalation since late 2008, scores of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel during recent days, following Israel’s killing of the Gaza-based leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) Zuhair al-Qaisi and one of his lieutenants. Al-Qaisi was in th ...
  • Israel on Edge - Candidly Speaking from Jerusa ...
    I must confess I rubbed my eyes in disbelief when I read that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the J Street Conference Gala dinner on March 26.By doing so, Olmert has sunk to an all-time low, not only destroying whatever remained of his ba ...
  • Inside Myanmar - The Opening Up of Myanmar May ...
    Myanmar's ongoing liberalization and its normalization of relations with the outside world have the possibility of profoundly affecting geopolitics in Asia – and all for the better.Geographically, Myanmar dominates the Bay of Bengal. It is where the spheres of influence of China and India over ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - French Muslim Terrorist is ...
    The gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of Al-Qaeda, including three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school, is expected to give himself up to police on March 21 in the French city of Toulouse, thus ending an hours-long siege in the southwestern French city.Gas service and othe ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Oklahoma Oil Town to Protest Hypocritical Obam ...
    With recent polls indicating that Americans feel the President is not doing enough to bring down energy prices, Obama has gone on the offensive.Tomorrow President Obama plans to bring his "I don't have anything to do with high gas prices" tour to the rural town of Cushing Oklahoma (population ...
  • Aaron Klein Offers $50,000 Challenge To ‘Anti- ...
     On his WABC Radio show, Aaron Klein offered $50,000 to an organizer of the upcoming Global March to Jerusalem if the activist could name one city in the Middle East outside of Israel that has more freedom than Jerusalem.  Following in the footsteps of recent flotilla events, t ...
  • A Look At Ryan's Budget Plan: Bold Steps to Sa ...
    By now, the Mainstream Liberal media has begun to label Congressman Ryan's fiscal 2013 budget as extreme and the progressives are making new commercials showing the Wisconsin Rep. pushing his grandmother off the cliff. Liberal hyperbole aside, this plan takes bold and necessary steps to get thi ...
  • In Memoriam-US Importance In The Middle East.
    “This is the end… Of our elaborate plans, the end, Of everything that stands…. No safety or surprise…. There’s danger on the edge of town…. And all the children are insane…. The West is the best…. But you will never follow me.” --“This is the End,” The Doors By Barry Rubin Here’s your ...
  • Obama To Classify Corned Beef and Cabbage As B ...
    In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that two that President Obama and his EPA are at it again.  This time in an obvious political stunt to get the Iris vote, the President has decided to name the St. Patrick's day staple, corned beef and cabbage as a bio fue ...

The Real Agenda

  • America and Israel: Modern Day Spartas
    By STEPHEN LENDMAN | PRAVDA.RU | MARCH 20, 2012 America and Israel live by the sword. One day they’ll perish by it. The more belligerence they pursue, the more enemies they make. They also lose influence. Eventually homeland support will erode, decay, and fade. What can’t g ...
  • Central Banking Caused 2008 Financial Debacle
    DAILY BELL | MARCH 21, 2012 The meltdown explanation that melts away … Although our understanding of what instigated the 2008 global financial crisis remains at best incomplete, there are a few widely agreed upon contributing factors. One of them is a 2004 rule change by the U.S. Secu ...
  • US State Department exempts 11 Countries from ...
    By JOSH ROGIN | FOREIGN POLICY | MARCH 21, 2012 The State Department announced on Tuesday that it would exempt 10 European countries and Japan from penalties for doing business with Iran’s central bank, because those countries are making significant progress toward weaning themse ...
  • Chemtrails: Beyond Geo-engineering Planetary W ...
    By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 20, 2012 Geo-engineering is in essence the artificial and deliberate manipulation of the weather by applying existent technologies to change weather and weather patterns over an area of planet Earth. But what if Geo-engineering was being use ...
  • La Radiación Crea Células Cancerosas 30 veces ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 19 DE MARZO 2012 En un estudio innovador que acaba de publicarse en la revista Stem Cells, investigadores del Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Oncology concluyeron que, a pesar de matar la mitad de todas las células tumorales, los ...

Wind Watch

  • Tribes fight green energy wind project in desert
    SAN DIEGO — Several Native American tribes in the Southwest are fighting a large wind farm planned near the town of Ocotillo, in Imperial County, CA. The tribes say there are more than 400 archeological sites on the land where the turbines would be located. The Ocotillo Wind Express Energy Proje ...
  • Federal renewable energy advisor told not to d ...
    Steve Black, the Interior secretary’s alternative energy advisor, must recuse himself from matters involving NextEra Energy because of a romantic relationship with the company’s Washington lobbyist. The chief architect of the Obama administration’s renewable energy policy has b ...
  • ‘Noise nuisance’ farmhouse is sold
    The farmhouse at the heart of a High Court battle over an alleged noise nuisance created by the wind farm at Deeping St Nicholas has been sold. The sale of the property at Grays Farm, on North Drove Bank, Spalding, has been revealed in Land Registry documents more than three months after a secre ...
  • Town of Wilmington appeals Deerfield wind turb ...
    WILMINGTON- The town has appealed the US Forest Service’s decision to approve the construction of 15 wind turbines on two ridgelines on Green Mountain National Forest land in Searsburg and Readsboro. In an appeal filed on February 24, the town claims the Forest Service failed to consider impacts ...
  • Gulf shore residents continue opposition to wi ...
    PUGWASH – Nearly 200 Pugwash area residents have registered complaints with Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau through the Gulf Shore Preservation Association’s website. Association chairwoman Lisa Betts said many more have sent letters of opposition directly to the minister, the premier an ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Ex-Marine From Indiana Takes Deal on Gun Charge
    “Mr. Jerome, who was arrested on a felony charge after trying to check his pistol with security guards, had resisted for months the offer he eventually accepted in a standoff with the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. . . . The case came to light in January as part of ...
  • Mayoral Hopefuls All Make Time for Teachers’ U ...
    “[Michael] Mulgrew [the president of the New York teachers’ union] is a coveted friend for the people who hope to become mayor. His union, the United Federation of Teachers, has 200,000 members: they are highly organized, and they vote. And at a time when education is a major issue for the city, ...
  • House Republicans Propose to Overhaul Tax Code
    “House Republicans on Tuesday will propose a dramatic reshuffling of the tax code, suggesting collapsing individual tax brackets into two brackets with lower tax rates and slashing the top corporate tax rate. The plan also would slash trillions of dollars in federal spending, a move likely ...
  • Obamacare Returns to Center Stage
    “From a Zumba fitness class in Las Vegas to Tea Party rallies on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, health care is about to take the political stage it left two years ago. Proponents and critics of the law signed by President Obama in 2010 will hold rallies and other events, run TV ads, floo ...
  • Donald Shoup Takes San Francisco
    Street parking is zero-priced because those streets, and the curbs and sidewalks that abut them, are not privately owned.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Social Media and Journalists
    This is a presentation I gave to several groups of TV and print journalists in Singapore. Download the PPT to get the notes and the URLs (March 19–23, 2012). It’s in four parts because it’s long. Part 1 covers concepts and definitions. Part 2 covers Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. Pa ...
  • Definition: Social media
    I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...
  • People see value in curation
    I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Data Spotlight: Ranking States by Their Depend ...
    A recent Brookings paper makes a clear case from the start: “Manufacturing matters to the United States …” Other economists and econ bloggers aren’t so sure. What’s clear, however, is certain states (think Indiana, Wisconsin, and Arkansas) depend on manufacturing to fuel their economies more ...
  • The Expanding Wealth Of Washington
    Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last year grew faster in population than any major region in the country, up a remarkable 2.7 perce ...
  • Floribec : Quebec in the Tropics
    Floribec has been part of the collective imagination of the Quebecois for nearly 50 years. Over time, a movie, a novel, advertisements and news reports played an important part in establishing the greater Miami region as the destination of choice for Quebec tourists. Floribec began as a res ...
  • The Use and Misuse of Glaeser's Triumph of the ...
    Appeals to authority are now the stock-in-trade of progressive pundits across a range of public controversies. In the face of popular discontent bubbling up from forums on the net and elsewhere, their fall-back posture is heavy-handed ‘expertism’. Policymaking is the prerogative of th ...
  • Rick Santorum’s Ugly Appeal to Rural Voters
    Not all of them are “clinging to guns and religion,” as Barack Obama famously said in 2008, but Rick Santorum has catapulted to the top of the Republican field by connecting with a bitter streak among rural voters. This is bad news for the Republican party and for rural America, which in ...

GM Watch

  • New report slams Bt cotton's failed promises
    NOTE: The new report is here: http://indiagminfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Bt-Cotton-False-Hype-and-Failed-Promises-Final.pdf  --- --- 10 years of Bt Cotton – False Hype and Failed Promises Exposed Coalition for a GM-Free India, March 21 2012 http://indiagminfo.org/?p=393 The false hype an ...
  • Price hit on GM growers
    Price hit on GM growers Kim Woods Weekly Times, March 21 2012  http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2012/03/21/457751_grain-and-hay.html [image caption: Conventional preference - Growers are getting about $25-$50 a tonne less for their genetically modified canola] GROWERS of genetically mo ...
  • Independence of EFSA's GMO risk assessment cha ...
    NOTE: Lots of useful links at end. --- --- Independence of EFSA's GMO risk assessment challenged Test Biotech, 21 March 2012 http://www.testbiotech.org/en/node/638 *Complaint filed with the EU Ombudsman Munich/ Brussels - Testbiotech, supported by Corporate Observatory Europe (CEO), is today f ...
  • GMO watchdog to lodge complaint
    NOTE: Check out the African Centre for Biosafety's excellent FaceBook page. http://www.facebook.com/AfricanCentreforBiosafety --- --- GMO Watchdog to Lodge Complaint African Centre for Biosafety [South Africa], 20 March 2012 http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/media/64-media-releases/374-gmo-watch ...
  • Meet David Runyon...and understand Monsanto
    EXTRACT: "You know, there is much mistrust in the countryside today. You never know who might report on you. It is a sad state of affairs in that part of the world", he said, bemoaning the fact that farmers don't trust each other anymore. "You could actually willfully leave or plant unauthorized ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...
  • 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Ar ...
    In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that "weird" is always bad.  Sometimes "weird" can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts ab ...
  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...
  • The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
    Rampant silver manipulation?  Rampant gold manipulation?  Rampant LIBOR manipulation?  Hiding MF Global client assets?  These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm.  The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...

Desertification

  • La planète a soif car le monde a faim (French) ...
    Read at : http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/index_fr.html Il faut aujourd’hui nourrir sept milliards de personnes à travers le monde, et probablement deux milliards de plus d’ici 2050. Selon les statistiques, nous consommons de 2 à 4 litres d’eau par jour.  La majeure partie … Continue ...
  • Great Green Wall (Luc GNACADJA / UNCCD)
    Luc Gnacadja on Twitter I welcome the tripartite Africa-Brazil-France initiative for action oriented science & knowledge management for the Great Green Wall.
  • Intense dust storm over Iran, Afghanistan and ...
    Read at : http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77450 Dust storm An intense dust storm spanned hundreds of kilometers over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan on March 19, 2012. The dust spread southward over the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, and swept northeastward along & ...
  • Environmentalists are mourning the loss of the ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/03/dr-mohamed-kassas-dies-egypt/ Environmentalists Mourn the Passing of Egypt’s Patriarch of Environment Tafline Laylin Dr. Mohamed Kassas was a leading pioneer of Egypt’s environmental movement and a beloved mentor.  Dr. Mohamed Kassas was active until ...
  • France : external action against land degradat ...
    Read at : http://paper.li/f-1318161034?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub France’s external action against land degradation and desertification diplomatie.gouv.fr – This document addresses land degradation and desertification (LDD), extreme weather even ...

The Paper Trail

  • State Integrity Investigation turning heads
    In just its first two days, our State Integrity Investigation — a corruption-risk grade card for every state — has been quoted, praised, assailed or otherwise cited by more than 100 media organizations.
  • Tea Party-aligned Sen. Jim DeMint donates $500 ...
    In his quest to remake the Senate Republican caucus in his own image, Tea Party kingmaker Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has thrown some serious cash at a conservative super PAC that has attacked a Republican House member and other GOP candidates for office.Last month, DeMint’s campaign committee dona ...
  • Racial profiling blamed for black teen's shoot ...
    It’s any parent’s nightmare: Getting a call with the news that your child has been killed. So it’s not hard to imagine the anguish being experienced by the parents of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.   Deeply disturbing information is emerging about the course of events leading up to a man’s Feb. 26 ...
  • Pro-Romney super PAC returns donation from charity
    The Citizens United case opened up a whole new way of giving for nonprofit corporations, but there are still some lines that can’t be crossed.Last July, the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC “Restore Our Future” accepted a check for $100,000 from the Rod and Leslie Aycox Foundation, a nonprofit with the ...
  • FACT CHECK: Santorum says English before state ...
    Rick Santorum greatly overreached when he claimed that Congress required “English be the principal language and that it be taught and spoken universally” in several Southwest territories, Oklahoma and Hawaii as preconditions for them attaining statehood.Congress did require in some cases that ne ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • RIGHTEOUS BLOOD PART X: Mordecai Vanunu &#8211 ...
    The year was 1986.   For the previous decade, a man named Mordecai Vanunu had been employed as a “plant technician” at a highly secure “top secret” facility located deep in the desolate Negev Desert region of southern “Israel’, roughly 7 miles southeast of the ...
  • New Executive Order – WAY OVER THE TOP!!
    This is DEEPLY TROUBLING, Friends.  Unlike the FALSE BLATHERING about the NDAA, this “executive order” is self-evident that Americans are in deep kimshe. This Orwellian double-speak is amazing.  Peace-time “martial law” is a complete oxy-moron – so it obviously has ...
  • Election Process is RIGGED – There is no ...
    “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin -  Original Eomite Master of the Vote Hoax!   See http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm They have to make it “look official” – they want the &#8 ...
  • Election Process is RIGGED – There is no ...
    “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin -  Original Eomite Master of the Vote Hoax!   See http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm They have to make it “look official” – they want the &#8 ...
  • Christian TRUTH AND LOVE Shining Through in Ed ...
    Say hello to Miko Peled – a true Israeli HERO in so many ways!!!   If only his voice could be heard all over Israel and America.  If only he were Israel’s Prime Minister.   If only his honor and integrity could be contagious to all Edomite Zionists!!   If only!!   The Middle East, Ir ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
    Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Conditions First Plants to Germinate Ma ...
  • Help Support Renewable Energy in St Louis
    Because, it’s healthier for the environment and people than pollution from power plants? Because a diverse energy portfolio protects ratepayers from steep rate hikes and fosters competition that keeps electric rates low? Or because installing solar panels and wind turbines creates good jobs that ...
  • HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren UE Bailout
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts Missouri Nuclear Agenda and Fair Energy Rates HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren Bailout Ameren is asking Missouri businesses and residents to bail them out for costs they have already incurred and plan to incur in the future which do nothing to produce energy or pr ...
  • Reduced Solar Prices-March Madness Solar Prices!
    March Madness Solar Prices! On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: March Madness Solar Prices!Our BEST PRICING EVER is now available for our industry leading Westinghouse Solar AC 235watt module, complete with an in ...
  • New Policy Brief- Middle Income Financing for ...
    Increasing Middle America’s Access to Capital for Energy Improvements While middle income Americans have historically invested in improvements that maintain and increase the value of their homes, they have seen an important source of financing – the equity in their properties – evaporate at the ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • New Zealand’s First “Terrorism&# ...
    2007 Police Raid on Ruatoki The US and its English-speaking allies have embarked on a dangerous trend of arresting (or targeting for assassination) political activists on the basis of what they allegedly say or intend or who they associate with, as opposed to actual criminal acts. Anwar al-Awlak ...
  • The ICNC Role in the Arab Spring
    ICNC Founder Peter Ackerman (This is the last of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) In the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, Sharp and the ...
  • A Close Look at Gene Sharp’s Past
    (This is the fourth of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) There is no question that Thierry Meyssan’s 2005 article on Gene Sharp&# ...
  • Why the Government Funds the Peace Movement
    Stephen Gowans (This is the third of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) In my last blog I discussed Stephen Zunes’ strongly wor ...
  • The Seven Year Brouhaha over Gene Sharp
    Thierry Meyssan (This is the second of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) The current brouhaha over Gene Sharp was initially triggered by ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • The end of the euro crisis?
    BRUSSELS, Belgium – Remember the euro crisis?In the past two weeks, the seemingly endless prophesies of doom for the European economy have fallen eerily silent.European stocks climbed to an eight-month high Friday, pressure is easing on Italian bonds, Greece has disappeared from front pages.“The ...
  • NYPD raid burgeoning Union Square occupation
    The game of cat and mouse between the NYPD and Occupy supporters over New York space continues. Early Wednesday morning, police ousted around 300 people from the Southern end of Union Square Park, where an occupation had been gathering numbers since the weekend after Occupy Wall Street was once ...
  • Did Sgt. Bales have help?
    It's a familiar argument in the annals of American violence: is some specific heinous deed the work of a disturbed individual acting alone? Or is it the work of unidentified conspirators? That's the question hanging over the case of Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians last ...
  • Can Tebow find salvation?
    You don't need to be an evangelical Christian to care about the future of Tim Tebow. I’m a lapsed atheist myself. But with the resurrection of quarterback Peyton Manning in Denver, I wonder most about the future of the spiritual scrambler, who led the Broncos to the playoffs last year.The Bronco ...
  • Toulouse suspect under siege
    PARIS, France – French police have surrounded an apartment block in Toulouse where a man suspected of shooting dead seven people, including four at a nearby Jewish school, is barricaded on the fourth floor.The man has been identified as 24-year-old Mohammed Merah, a French citizen of Algerian or ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Hungry for Data: LEED Targets Data Centers
    Quick: How did you get to our blog? Did you click on a link via Twitter, or see the article pop up in your RSS reader? However you arrived here, you probably used around 180 KB of data to load this webpage. Recently, there’s been a surge of LEED-certified data centers.
  • Soldiers Get Solar Training Before Heading To War
    For the first time, U.S. Army soldiers are receiving specialized training on how to use generators with solar-power capability before heading to Afghanistan. The Army says these generators save lives by reducing the amount of fuel that needs to be trucked to troops over dangerous roadways.
  • The dash (for gas) isn't over yet
    Over the weekend the UK Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, announced plans to secure a continuing role for natural gas in the UK power generation sector. So continues the rollout of a comprehensive policy framework designed to decarbonise the UK power sector, ensure security of s ...
  • Further critique of ’100% renewable electricit ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution).
  • Is Solar Leasing More Expensive Than Necessary?
    Before solar leasing came along, installing PV on a residential rooftop was expensive. The approach to achieving the allusive breaking point of “grid parity”, or when solar PV is the same cost or cheaper than fossil fuel generation, was to chip away at the expenses with government incentives. Re ...

EU Times

  • NASA unveils new atlas of the entire infrared sky
    NASA has released a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky with more than a half billion stars and galaxies many of which have never been seen before. Scientists used the images taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, which was launched in 2009. “Today, W ...
  • New processors open new era of IT technologies
    Last week, Intel introduced to the public in Russia and other CIS countries a family of processors Intel Xeon E5-2600. They are more powerful and reliable and, importantly, are very economical in terms of energy consumption. Their presence opens a new era in the field of IT technologies and mean ...
  • Radiation reaches alarming levels in Britain
    Maybe all the people that live within an area from Birmingham across to Norwich and down to Bristol, Bournmouth and across to Dover and back up to Norwich were not aware that they may have been exposed, on more than one occasion, to extremely high levels of radiation from the weapons used by the ...
  • Syria: Attack leaves 27 dead 140 injured
    Two terrorist attacks rocked the capital of Damascus Saturday morning. The first took place in the Rotunda of Customs while the second occurred in the area between Baghdad Avenue and the neighborhood al-Kassa’a. The Interior Ministry said in a statement: “Damascus on Saturday saw two ...
  • Jewish school shooting: 3 children among kille ...
    A teacher and three students were killed when a man opened fire on parents and children waiting outside a school in Toulouse. Two incidents of “striking similarity” left three French soldiers dead last week. Local prosecutor Michael Valet said that children aged three, six, and ten were among th ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • PHOTOS: Raise A Pinkie To 'Downton Abbey' In LA
    This story comes courtesy of Marpop . By Mar Yvette It's going to be a dreadfully long time until the third season of Downton Abbey returns to PBS next year. So what's a fan of this absolutely smashing posh period drama to do? Why, take a stroll through English rose gardens finished with a spot ...
  • BioWare’s Ray Muzyka pens open letter to addre ...
    BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka has taken the time address critics of how Mass Effect 3 ended. There is a hell of a lot of them to address, as I have seen 20,000 post threads on message boards. People are crazy! If you feel like reading the whole 700+ word letter, then head over here. If
  • Instagram and Hipstamatic to announce photo-sh ...
    Historically, Instagram has been the definition of closed. It's only available on one platform (iOS), and no third-party services were allowed to port content in via an API. According to Fast Company , that's changing today. It's bruited that Instagram will be opening its doors ever-so-slightly ...
  • Saints coach Sean Payton suspended for one year
    Saints head coach Sean Payton will be suspended for all of the 2012 season. Reports are saying that Payton will face a one-year suspension for his role in the bounty system of former Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams. For his role, Williams, now the DC in St. Louis, has been suspended indefi ...
  • Neutral No Longer, Jeb Bush Backs Romney for P ...
    Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush stepped off the sidelines and endorsed Mitt Romney for president Wednesday, abandoning his studied neutrality in the race and calling on fellow Republicans to rally behind the front runner. Associated Press Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gestures as he speaks at the H ...

Groklaw

  • The Cops Show You a Picture of Yourself
    This happens every day, so let's deal with it. The police come to your house or a detective calls you into the police station, and they show you a photo. It's a photo of you, but you're not doing anything bad, just walking down the street, let's say. The police officer asks you, "Is t ...
  • Internet economy: World's fifth biggest in fou ...
    "The economic impact of the Internet] demonstrates that no one-individual, business or government - can afford to ignore the ability of the Internet to deliver more value and wealth to more consumers and citizens more broadly than any economic development since the Industrial Revolution," Boston ...
  • Google takes aim at MPAA in Hotfile case
    Google has filed an amicus brief [PDF] in support of cyberlocker service Hotfile in its legal battle for survival against the MPAA. - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet
  • HP releases Nyx
    HP releases Nyx, OSS platform portability layer github.com/openwebos/nyx-... Maybe useful for Mozilla's Boot to Gecko? - Carlo Daffara, Twitter
  • NY Times cuts free stories by half
    The company will still allow free access beyond the 10 article limit for users following links from search engines, social media sites, blogs and emails, keeping a cap of five free links per day from some search engines. It is also keeping free digital access for subscribers who take home delive ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Water wars. Nevada wants federal help on Lake ...
    The Southern Nevada Water Authority will appeal to the federal government for funding, low-cost loans, anything really, to help with a proposed $800 million third pipeline from Lake Mead.Water levels have dropped so precipitously due to sustained drought that a new pipeline is needed to get wate ...
  • U.S. imposes tariffs on Chinese solar companies
    The tariffs, which are quite low, are based on the amount of subsidies the Chinese companies get from their government. The second tariff, an anti-dumping duty, is coming soon.I guess by that logic, China could put a tariff on products for any US company that gets financial help from our governm ...
  • CalPERS ignores own advice, will bill state $3 ...
    The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has quite the cushy deal. If they have a shortfall, they can simply tell the state and municipalities to make up the difference. This year that will cost the state $3.7 billion.Plus, they just ignored the advice of their own chief actu ...
  • CatCam. A Short Film About the Adventures of a ...
    Official Selection of SXSW Film Festival. Mr. Lee, an adopted stray cat, routinely disappeared from his South Carolina home for days on end. Intrigued by Mr. Lee’s whereabouts, his owner Juergen, a German engineer, created a camera designed to fit around the feline’s neck. Engineered ...
  • Fast & Furious prime suspect was let go
    If Mexican border patrol stopped someone, found he had an AK in his truck, was under investigaton for firearms trafficking, then they let him go after he promised to inform, might you not think that either terminal stupidity or corruption was involved?PS He never did inform.PPS This didn’t ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • ACC: what we really need to ask
    There’s nothing quite like a ministerial resignation to send political insiders and journalists into a frenzy. There are big issues arising from Nick Smith’s interference in Bronwyn Pullar’s ACC claim. Such as: Are the four letters that Nick Smith wrote concerning Ms Pullar&#82 ...
  • Women in Politics in Pictures
    Women’s Futures Month was inspired by this year’s International Women’s Day theme ‘connecting girls, inspiring futures.’ While Women’s Futures Month events are Christchurch based, Zo and Erin hope to generate widespread discussion on their Facebook page. The panel discussion held last week at Ca ...
  • Time for a coordinated child poverty strategy
    The Children's Commissioner has announced a new Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty. While it's great to see a focus on solutions, there are now so many processes looking into the issues of child poverty and vulnerable children, we risk botching the opportunity to address the cri ...
  • When Nanny Goat Gruff gets a whipping: Domesti ...
    According to research, one in three women in New Zealand will experience physical intimate partner violence in their lifetime. There is an incident reported to the police every 7 minutes and only 18% of cases are reported. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to suggest this is an epidemic, and t ...
  • The Court and the Council: Interfacing Power a ...
    Last week I gave a presentation at a conference in London on the relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council. The meeting was jointly convened by Chatham House and Parliamentarians for Global Action. The reputed British think-thank and the global parliamenta ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why You Need More of this Crucial Vitamin if Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamin D is a fat-soluble, hormone-like vitamin, and many therefore believe that if you're obese you need more of it because body fat acts as a "sink" by collecting it. However, muscle and fat may well act the same when it comes to storing vitamin D for future use. New resea ...
  • 17 Micrograms of This in Your Body Lowers Your ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Brian Clement is the medical director of the Hippocrates Health Institute, which is one of the world's oldest complimentary health centers. Dr. Clement started with the organization in 1975, and has been a director since 1980. Here he shares his considerable knowledge o ...
  • Booted Out of Germany - the Ignorance that Cou ...
    Science News by NewsLook By Dr. Mercola In Germany, massive resistance to genetically engineered (GE) foods, both among politicians and the general public, has caused chemical giant BASF to close its German biotech division. European opponents of GE foods are jubilant. A reported 75 ...
  • The Worst of Both Worlds -- Genetically Engine ...
    By Dr. Mercola Goats are being genetically engineered to become "pharm animals" that carry vaccines in their milk. Current experiments being conducted by researchers from Texas A&M are geared toward producing an "edible" malaria vaccine, with the ultimate goal being that children drinki ...
  • Why are Kids Getting Pink Slime for Lunches?
    By Dr. Mercola What do you get when you combine ground up beef "trimmings" -- which are various beef scraps and cow connective tissues -- with ammonium hydroxide (basically a solution of ammonia in water)? Its formal name is "Lean Beef Trimmings," but it's being more aptly referred to as "pi ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Genocide’ risk in Brazil despite UN push to e ...
    Illegal logging could destroy the Awá, who are the world's most threatened tribe. © Fiona Watson/Survival Calls are growing to stop ‘a real situation of genocide’ inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Experts warn Brazi ...
  • Bushmen make a splash on World Water Day
    Bushman girls enjoy water from the well at Mothomelo © Vox United/Survival For the first time in ten years, Botswana’s Bushmen are celebrating World Water Day as they enjoy unobstructed access to the life-giving substance. Their main desert well was capped shut by the government in 2002 in ...
  • Amazon road spells disaster for Indians
    The proposed road threatens some of the world's last uncontacted tribes in Brazil and Peru. © Survival Peru’s largest protected area is on the verge of being invaded by a road, which threatens to destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people. The proposed project would cut throu ...
  • Leaked map reveals Ethiopia’s mass evictions plan
    Two Dassanach girls in the Omo Valley. They are one of many tribes under threat. © Survival Ethiopian authorities have inadvertently revealed the existence of highly ambitious plans to resettle Lower Omo Valley tribes who stand in the way of a massive plantations scheme. The map was includ ...
  • Yanomami spokesman warns UN of mining threat
    Yanomami Indians, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami shaman and spokesman Davi Kopenawa warned the UN in Geneva this week of the dangers illegal gold mining is bringing to his people. Davi stated that thousands of illegal miners are currently working in the Yanomami territory, destroy ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The Liberals stake their claim as fiscal managers
    The best news from the new provincial budget brought down by Finance Minister Raymond Bachand is that it's not much of a newsmaker.
  • The RCMP in unco-operative mode
    It took an inordinately long time to get a commission of inquiry set up to investigate corruption in Quebec's construction industry, which available evidence suggests is rampant.
  • 'Police-state tactics.' 'Bunch of punks.' Read ...
    The demonstration against police violence that took place in Montreal Thursday night has elicited an enormous number of comments from Gazette readers online. Here are a few of them; you can read all the comments and post yours at montrealgazette.com.
  • 10 reasons to support the students' strike
    Two weeks ago, the undergraduate students in our school voted to go on strike; last week, our graduate students joined the ranks. This week students have been boycotting classes. As Concordia faculty, we fully support the strike. Here are the top 10 reasons why.
  • The halal affair: a shameless play on prejudice
    Mario Dumont is certainly no Pierre Trudeau, of whom it was more famously said, but it seems that he too haunts us still.

Food World Order

  • Glow in the dark sushi made from genetically m ...
    from dailymail.co.uk: Sushi that glows in the dark has become the latest must try food craze across America. Inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. The recipes use glofish, a brand of g ...
  • At Center of Health Care Fight, a Farmer’s 194 ...
    from nytimes.com: If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe C. Filburn. Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him how much wh ...
  • Sweet Victory: When The Science Says The Farm ...
    from activistpost.com: Some of the most powerful medicines provided to us are actually in our kitchen cupboard, “pretending” to be condiments, spices or foods. Some we are too familiar with to readily recognize them for their astounding health benefits, even though we may be consuming them dail ...
  • Billboard Dispenses Free Cakes To London Commu ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: First came the cupcake ATM, now there's a cake dispensing billboard.  With just a touch of a button the automated fixture distributes up to 500 Mr. Kipling cakes per day, along with a sweetened aroma to tempt London commuters, reports Ad Age.  The novel publici ...
  • Agricultural Markets Still Unbalanced and Unfa ...
    from http://civileats.com: Two years ago this week, the USDA and U.S. Justice Department began a series of joint workshops on anti-trust issues in agriculture. More than 4,000 farmers participated, and 16,000 people submitted comments. (Civil Eats reported on these hearings here and here.) Yet a ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...
  • 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Ar ...
    In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that "weird" is always bad.  Sometimes "weird" can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts ab ...
  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...
  • The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
    Rampant silver manipulation?  Rampant gold manipulation?  Rampant LIBOR manipulation?  Hiding MF Global client assets?  These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm.  The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Her Majesty's Speech: As if the Lisbon Treason ...
    Many seem to have commented today on the fact that Her Majesty The Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament today to mark her Diamond Jubilee as our Monarch. However, is there any reading between the lines to be found in what she actually said? Looking at the text of Her Majesty's speech, ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th March 2012
    "The primary duty of Government is to defend the realm. In the case of Britain that includes overseas territories like the Falklands and protecting our trade routes, which stretch around the world. We are being betrayed from within. We have a Government which has decommissioned our aircraft c ...
  • It's a Puppet! Cameron Revives Rothschild Road ...
    If it walks like a puppet and talks like a puppet, it's a puppet. Virtually every single corporate newspaper front page carries the story of Cameron plans to introduce private sector involvement in Britain's road network. Here it is in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the Dail ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 18th March 2012
    Apologies for a quiet few days here at the Clock Tower. We've been busy fending off the powers that be who want to allow all kinds of riff-raff to explore our back passages at £15 a go. They can shove off. Anyway, frivolity aside... There's an excellent, must-read piece in the Mail on Sund ...
  • Quote of the Day: 13th March 2012
    "Today, yet another British citizen is being sold down the river by the British Government. The US is coming for the young, the old and the ill and our Government is paving the way." - The mother of 23-year-old Richard O'Dwyer speaks out as Theresa May and David Cameron continue to subvert th ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 9/11/01: Truck Full Of Explosives & Two Suspec ...
  • The US Is Sitting On A 200-Year Supply Of Oil
    Rob Wile President Obama has said the U.S. possesses just 3 percent of the world’s oil reserves, or about 22.3 billion barrels, writes Investor’s Business Daily’s John Merline. However, this figure represents just proven reserves. But one analyst believes he could be off by alm ...
  • Study Proves Bee Decline Linked to Top Insecti ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Already being ravaged by pesticides that are ignored by the USDA, a new study confirms that the bee population decline is also linked to corn insecticides that are among the most widely used in the world. The study sheds more light on the rampant downfall of the b ...
  • Serenity and Calamity on The River
    By Les Visible I don’t behave like Jackson Pollock, William Burroughs, Hunter Thompson or quite some number of other examples. I tend to catch more shit than they do, for less than they do, because other things are expected of me. However, you are getting those other things. They just don& ...
  • Activist Post: Tennessee Joins Texas in Fight ...
    Joe Wright Activist Post I wrote yesterday about encouraging news coming out of Irving, Texas, where Mayor Beth Van Duyne and city manager Tommy Gonzalez pushed back against the globalist takeover of local communities by withdrawing membership from ICLEI, the action division of Agenda 21. Today, ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya: NATO&#82 ...
    Voice of Russia March 21, 2012 NATO suffers from amnesia? ==== “War psychosis, war weariness, and the horrors of death shatter people when they see their comrades in arms pass away. For how long can a person make war? Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and an indirect involvement in Libya. Wars ...
  • Russia To Expose Threats Posed By U.S.-NATO Mi ...
    RosBusinessConsulting March 21, 2012 Moscow to reveal threats of U.S. anti-missile system ==== SM-3 missile interceptors, which will be stationed in Poland and the Baltic Sea area, and which will be the backbone of the U.S. missile shield, if they develop a speed of 4 kilometers per second will ...
  • U.S.–Pakistan: Containment Or Engagement?
    Voice of Russia March 21, 2012 U.S.–Pakistan: containment or engagement? Boris Volkhonsky Edited by RR On Tuesday, a Pakistani parliamentary commission hotly debated the issue of renewing the strained relationship with the U.S. Its conclusion was unequivocal – the U.S. should unconditionally apo ...
  • After Libya, NATO Intervention Threatens To De ...
    Frontline March 24-April 6, 2012 Slipping into chaos John Cherian One year after the NATO intervention, Libya faces disintegration as the oil-rich eastern region seeks semi-autonomy Libya seems to be on the verge of disintegration one year after the military intervention by the North Atlantic Tr ...
  • Georgia: U.S. Marines Conduct Drills As Civil ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia March 20, 2012   Opening day of the Agile Spirit 2012 in Vaziani   The opening day of “Agile Spirit 2012” has been held at the Vaziani military firing-ground. Along with military servicemen of Georgia’s 4th Infantry Brigade, more than 300 Marines from the ...

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Intel Hub

  • Plume-Gate Tales from the Script: Inside the N ...
    Tony Muga | Chernobyl, a single reactor core meltdown, spread radioactive contamination across the Northern Hemisphere: by some accounts, causing the deaths of an estimated 985,000 people worldwide. To arrive at this seemingly impossible figure, scientists studied data between the years 19 ...
  • Asteroid to Miss Earth Next Year, But Not By Much
    Homeland Security Newswire | Asteroid 2012 DA14 is set to make a very close pass to Earth in 2013.
  • Burnsville Minnesota Man Harassed, Jailed, and ...
    The Intel Hub | In what can only be described as a disgusting display of the ever evolving police state in America, a Burnsville, Minnesota man was repeatedly harassed, jailed without bond, and placed under electronic monitoring for a simple code violation.
  • From Earthquakes to Volcanos Mother Earth is P ...
    The Intel Hub | March 21, 2012 marks another tragic date in which several earth changing events took place.
  • Industrial Wind and the Production Tax Credit
    James Hall | "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1) allows taxpayers eligible for the federal renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC) to take the federal business energy investment tax credit (ITC) or to receive a grant from the U.S. Treasury Department inste ...

FRS

  • Odisha: Italian hostage crisis sparks mass to ...
    Rajaram Satapathy, March 21, 2012 Bhubaneswar: Panic gripped Odisha’s fledgling tourism industry following mass cancellations of visit to the state in the backdrop of the Italian hostage crisis. Tour operators said they received a spate of communications from their counterparts in other st ...
  • UN Torture Rapporteur Accuses US Government of ...
    [Professor Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, was once a victim of torture by the brutal Argentine dictatorship.  In his duties as a special investigator and rapporteur for the UN, he was alerted to the treatment of ac ...
  • What Maoists Say–”Orissa: Imperial ...
    CPI (Maoist)–Odisha State Organizing Committee–Statement, 16 March 2012 The government – both at the Centre and the state (Odisha) – has reduced adivasis into mere exhibition items in attempts to lure domestic and foreign tourists. On one hand, the government while inviting multinati ...
  • What Maoists Say–”Orissa: Imperial ...
    CPI (Maoist)–Odisha State Organizing Committee–Statement, 16 March 2012 The government – both at the Centre and the state (Odisha) – has reduced adivasis into mere exhibition items in attempts to lure domestic and foreign tourists. On one hand, the government while inviting multinati ...
  • Talking about Justice–”Orissa: Imp ...
    Italians abducted: Maoists name three mediators CNN-IBN, New Delhi, March 20, 2012: The Maoists responsible for the abduction of two Italian nationals in Odisha on Monday named three mediators for holding talks with the government. Some sections of the local media said that the three interlocute ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

Popsci - Science

  • A Mouse Made Just For You Will Model Your Medi ...
    When you check in to a hospital in the future, along with checking your vitals and ordering a blood panel, your doctors may assign you a personal mouse. The immune-deficient creature will receive a transplant of your tissue, which will allow it to mimic your immune system, or maybe your specific ...
  • Book Review: Can Science Determine Which Foods ...
    In Taste Buds And Molecules, François Chartier concocts some unexpected pairings The idea that Canadian sommellier François Chartier presents in his book Taste Buds and Molecules: The Art and Science of Food, Wine, and Flavor is a very intriguing one. Look at the aroma molecules that give foods ...
  • National Ignition Facility Fires Record-Settin ...
    The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab designed its super laser to fire powerful laser shots at intensities up to 1.8 megajoules, but researchers aren’t stopping there. This week the NIF combined 192 lasers to fire a single 1.875-megajoule shot into a test chamber, and ...
  • Photographed: the Yellowish, Blistery Volcano ...
    This oozy, pockmarked image is the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, from the first complete geologic map of the turbulent orb. Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system, so it’s of great interest to geologists because its surface is continually refreshing and renewing. It’s the o ...
  • Hillary Clinton Begins New Search for Amelia E ...
    An aviation history society plans to launch a new search for Amelia Earhart's lost airplane, and it’s apparently piqued the interest of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She was set to meet today with historians and scientists from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Recovery in Arctic sea ice continues
    Arctic sea ice has staged a strong recovery in the last few weeks, reaching levels not far from normal for this time of the year. The rise is all the more impressive, since February saw the 5th lowest ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, and until recently ice extent has been ...
  • Drought order update
    The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
  • Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
    Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...
  • February's huge temperature contrast
    Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...
  • 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Ar ...
    In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that "weird" is always bad.  Sometimes "weird" can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts ab ...
  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...
  • The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says A ...
    Rampant silver manipulation?  Rampant gold manipulation?  Rampant LIBOR manipulation?  Hiding MF Global client assets?  These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm.  The whistleblower also warns of a "ca ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • NASA unveils new atlas of the entire infrared sky
    NASA has released a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky with more than a half billion stars and galaxies many of which have never been seen before. Scientists used the images taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, which was launched in 2009. “Today, W ...
  • New processors open new era of IT technologies
    Last week, Intel introduced to the public in Russia and other CIS countries a family of processors Intel Xeon E5-2600. They are more powerful and reliable and, importantly, are very economical in terms of energy consumption. Their presence opens a new era in the field of IT technologies and mean ...
  • Radiation reaches alarming levels in Britain
    Maybe all the people that live within an area from Birmingham across to Norwich and down to Bristol, Bournmouth and across to Dover and back up to Norwich were not aware that they may have been exposed, on more than one occasion, to extremely high levels of radiation from the weapons used by the ...
  • Syria: Attack leaves 27 dead 140 injured
    Two terrorist attacks rocked the capital of Damascus Saturday morning. The first took place in the Rotunda of Customs while the second occurred in the area between Baghdad Avenue and the neighborhood al-Kassa’a. The Interior Ministry said in a statement: “Damascus on Saturday saw two ...
  • Jewish school shooting: 3 children among kille ...
    A teacher and three students were killed when a man opened fire on parents and children waiting outside a school in Toulouse. Two incidents of “striking similarity” left three French soldiers dead last week. Local prosecutor Michael Valet said that children aged three, six, and ten were among th ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-03-16 Full Transcript #Manning Motion Hea ...
    TweetFull Transcript March 16, 2012 This transcript was typed from the press pool at Bradley Manning's motion hearing on March 16, 2012 at Fort Meade, MD. This transcript may have errors and is incomplete in that there was no way for me to capture every word, or every sentence. Please send corre ...
  • 2012-03-18 Worldwide Rallies after Assange SC ...
    TweetThis is a list of all rallies scheduled after Julian Assange receives the verdict on his Supreme Court appeal against extradition to Sweden. These rallies are taking place regardless of the outcome. This page will be updated as more rallies are planned. Please email any unlisted rallies, ...
  • 2012-03-18 The word as virus: Myth-making in t ...
    TweetHow a virus spreads My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host ... the Word clearly bears the single identifying feature of virus: ...
  • 2012-03-18 Interview with Kevin Gozstola, Is m ...
    TweetI recently spoke with Kevin Gosztola, journalist and blogger at The Dissenter at FDL. We spoke about media coverage of Bradley Manning's legal proceedings, as well as the recent demand by a coalition of 46 media organizations for access to Court records. You can find Kevin on twitter @kg ...
  • 2012-03-18 Interview w Naomi Colvin on UN Rpt ...
    TweetI recently spoke with Naomi Colvin of the UK Friends of Bradley Manning and Occupy London about the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Torture as it concerns Bradley Manning, as well as European sentiment and advocacy for the U.S. political prisoner and alleged whistleblower. You can find Na ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Hollywood Producer Bettina Viviano... 'Bill Cl ...
      Bettina Viviano, Executive Producer of Adam Sandler's 'Jack and Jill' Movie... Bill Clinton directly told me 'Obama is not eligible to be president... 2008 and 2012 Election Fraud... Bill Ayers... Gloria Allred... Black Panthers and Acorn ~ Listen to  FULL Audio - related ar ...
  • Michelle Flips Out Over Birth Certificate Find ...
      When Sheriff Joe Arpaio‘s Cold Case Posse released its findings and announced that there is “probable cause” to believe that the “birth certificate” released by Team Obama in April is a “computer generated forgery,” the liberal media yawned, but allegations are now surfacing that at l ...
  • FOUND!... Genuine Birth Certificate Surfaces.. ...
      Americans have been led to believe otherwise, revelation to change the political landscape...  Obama will be forced by circumstances to apologise. ~ See Documents and related article read more
  • Hillary Clinton Agrees to 2012 Timetable for U ...
    The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving forward with their plan to confiscate your guns! read more
  • Ayers Family Put 'Foreigner' Obama Through Sch ...
      Did the parents of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers help finance Barack Obama’s Harvard education?... Did Ayers’ mother believe Obama was a foreign student?... Was the young Obama convinced at the time – long before he even entered politics – that he was going to become p ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Booms In Wisconsin – EarthQuake In Mexico
    Sunday and Monday night in the small town of Clintonville, about 140 miles northwest of Milwaukee, BOOMs have been shaking awake startled residents, many of them thinking that they were being jolted by earthquakes. Investigations have ruled out everything so far as the town of 4,200 is asking fo ...
  • Geomagnetic Storm Power System Transformer EMP ...
    North America’s electricity infrastructure is clearly one of our society’s most important assets. As reliance on digital technology and ‘just in time delivery’ distribution systems has increased, many North Americans have come to depend on the reliable delivery of electricity to thei ...
  • America’s National Parks Under Seige
    What is going on in our ‘land of the free’, here in the United States? Our lives, as Americans are going through many, many changes. Changes that appear to have become the new normal! It is often shocking, the complacency, which seems to have infected most Americans, most of whom are ...
  • TSA Nabs Boy In Wheelchair
    While it is unclear if this video titled, TSA Nabs Suspected Al Queda Terrorist At Chicago Airport – A toddler in a wheelchair , was originally filmed at an earlier date, the indication is that it is new or newly updated. It is yet another glaring example of the state of decay we are livin ...
  • Made In America – Hypocritical Support
    So many of us will complain about how you can only find things made in China (or other foreign countries) these days, in nearly all stores across America. We complain about how manufacturing has left the U.S. for the most part, and how it is so greedy of the corporations to have moved their manu ...

Fast Company

  • The 2-Minute Move That Will Elevate Your Perso ...
    When it comes to building your own personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our digital love. However, for the majority of business professionals, the hundreds of people you're emailing day in and day out make up the most important social network you have.    Tools like ...
  • Walmart To Host Angry Birds Clue Hunt, Aziz An ...
    Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Walmart To Host Angry Birds Clue Hunt. Angry Birds Space is all set to launch this Thursday. To make the kickoff extra special, Rovio and Wally World are hosting a treasure hunt of sorts--clues to unlock bonus game levels will ...
  • How To Create Socially Engaging Products That ...
    [twistage 8369d92277f1f] Want more great ideas from top entrepreneurs? Our cameras were at SXSW; check out more videos on 30SecondMBA.
  • Exclusive: Hipstamatic, Instagram To Unveil Ph ...
    Last week, Instagram hit 27 million users, solidifying it not only as one of the most popular photo-sharing services on the market, but as one of the world's fastest-growing social networks. What's especially remarkable about Instagram's rocketing growth--its user base has tripled in the last si ...
  • Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom On Hipstamatic Par ...
    Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom talks to Fast Company about opening up his API to Hipstamatic and the risks and rewards of opening up to even more photo apps in the near future. Today, Hipstamatic is set to unveil a partnership with Instagram that allows photos from the camera app to be directly por ...

Jadaliyya

  • انتخابات الرئاسة القادمة: فى معنى التوافق وأزماته
    تُعدّ معركة الانتخابات الرئاسية القادمة تجسيداً نادر المثال لأزمة كلٍ من النظام الآخذ فى الاحتضار منذ 25 يناير 2011 والقوى الساعية لوراثته. تتمثل هذه الأزمة فى انهيار الطبقة السياسية التى اعتمدت عليها الطُغمة الأمنية-العسكرية الحاكمة فى إعادة انتاج هيمنتها خلال الستين عاماً الماضية، وعجز ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Re ...
    Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. Winner of the 2011 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice, and Honorable Mention in the Biography & Autobiography category in the 2011 PROSE Aw ...
  • Reflections on Ideology After the Arab Uprisings
    A key conceptual problem for observers of the Arab uprisings–academics and journalists alike–continues to be how to classify and assess the ideological transformations taking place. “The people want the downfall of the regime,” the central slogan of the uprisings, has been interpreted as ...
  • A Barbarian in Rome
    [The following are excerpts from a longer text in the form of a diary kept during the war] “ I have freed millions from barbarism.” George W. Bush, The Guardian, Sunday, June 15, 2008. i. “Are you going home for the holidays?” asked a colleague of mine some years ago in the elevator. ...
  • The Myth of Middle East Reporting
    The tragic death of Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin, two celebrated American reporters in chaotic Syria last month, has generated due tributes from colleagues and readers who admired their Middle East coverage over more than two decades. Shadid, a New York Times reporter, who died of an ...

mediagazer

  • Lessons learned from a period of intense newsp ...
    Amanda Bennett / Nieman Watchdog: Lessons learned from a period of intense newspaper turmoil  —  Between September 2001 and November 2006, I was editor of two Knight Ridder papers, first the Lexington Herald-Leader and then The Philadelphia Inquirer.  It was a period of int ...
  • Social predicted to overtake search as Guardia ...
    Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk: Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver  —  The Guardian's Facebook app has been downloaded eight million times since it was launched six months ago, seeing around 40,000 downloads a day.  —  Speaking at t ...
  • There Is No Such Thing as a 'Larger Truth': Th ...
    John Cook / Gawker: There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Larger Truth’: This American Life's Rich History of Embellishment  —  Mike Daisey has been roundly and justly castigated for selling his bulls**t stories about visiting the Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, China, to This A ...
  • Jason Mattera interviews someone - is it Bono? ...
    Erik Wemple: Jason Mattera interviews someone — is it Bono?  —  Jason Mattera, editor at large at Human Events, is famous for rough-and-tumble journalism.  Last year he created a sensation when he pulled something of a fast one on Vice President Biden.  He distra ...
  • Responding to Village Voice on Sex Trafficking ...
    Nicholas Kristof / On The Ground: Responding to Village Voice on Sex Trafficking  —  After my Sunday column criticizing Village Voice Media for providing a forum for sex traffickers on its Backpage.com websites, Village Voice has struck back.  It has just gone on line with ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Radio City Music Hall gives kids who have ...
    NEW YORK — In a packed rehearsal room a few floors above the massive stage at Radio City Music Hall, 13-year-old Alyssa Casson walked to a spot in front of a panel of judges and paused, preparing to sing. How hard could this be? After all, she had already battled cancer. She had alread ...
  • Record pushes magic Messi to a new level
    Who's number one … Lionel Messi celebrates his milestone against Granada. Photo: Reuters BARCELONA: Lionel Messi has a prized record to show he is arguably the best player to ever don Barcelona's famous shirt. The forward wrote his name into the club's history in emphatic fashion on Tu ...
  • Calling Israel's bluff
    Benjamin Netanyahu, the arrogant Israeli prime minister, is always tempted to repeat — erroneously — to foreign audiences that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. All he has to do is look around his country and see how some Israeli citizens, Jews and non-Jews, includ ...
  • Did LiLo pay to sleep with porn star Alex ...
    Porn star Alex Torres has claimed to have had sex with actress Lindsay Lohan. The actor said he slept with Lohan while her father Michael Lohan was sleeping in the same building. He has even indicated she may have paid him for his services, reported femalefirst.co.uk. "Ask him [Michael ...
  • JPMorgan Chase Reaches Settlement on $150 ...
    Print this page Tweet JPMorgan Chase has agreed to settle a $150 million lawsuit by the AFTRA retirement fund, the investment bank revealed Tuesday in court filings and on its website. The suit centered on losses sustained from the bank's securities lending program. AFTRA, the American ...

no frakking consensus

  • Fairy Tales on the Road to Rio
    Nine papers are being distributed by an upcoming save-the-world conference. They're explicitly intended to influence the behaviour of world leaders at the Rio summit in June. But the claim that they represent the latest scientific thinking is a gross distortion.
  • Where Is Ground Zero for Climate Change?
    Everyone thinks ground zero for climate change effects is somewhere different. Most of these claims, therefore, must be wrong.
  • The Authoritarian Impulse and Climate Change
    People who want to save the planet are fond of more laws and more red tape. They talk of silencing their opponents and sending people to prison.
  • 17 Days Later, Peter Gleick is Back in the Saddle
    Peter Gleick confessed to lying and stealing less than three weeks ago, but that didn’t prevent him from delivering a keynote speech to the California Water Policy Conference yesterday.
  • UN Climate Chief’s ‘Green Crusader ...
    The head of what is supposed to be a neutral scientific body saw no impropriety recently in accepting an award that applauds his environmental activism.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/20/12 - Are Jewish settlements in the Palest ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Are Jewish settlements in the Palestinian Territories an obstacle to the peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (pro), Prime Minister of Israel Benyamin Netanyahu (con), Americans for Peace Now (pro), St ...
  • 3/13/12 - ProCon.org has been used by teachers ...
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and administrators in 2,522 schools in all 50 states and 45 countries. Thank you to the educators in those 508 elementary and middle schools, 1,295 high schools, and 719 colleges and universities who benefit from our free educa ...
  • 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
  • 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...
  • 2/28/12 - NL MVP Ryan Braun Successfully Appea ...
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Ryan Braun Becomes First MLB Player to Successfully Appeal a Positive Drug Test - National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned on Feb. 23, 2012 because of a delay transferring his sample to the testing lab. His testosteron ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • How to have a conversation
    It’s a dying art, struck down by text, email and messaging. So can we be taught how to talk to each other? John McDermott Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”. The poet “swept at once&#16 ...
  • Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Britannica
    Windows Did Tim Carmody First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Photo: Courtesy Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. The encyclopedia in the living room wasn’t a reference tool so much as aspirational furniture, a sign to visitors but mostly ourselves that our living room wasn’t dedicated in its ...
  • Where’s _why? Ruby
    What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared. Annie Lowrey In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programmer known to the ...
  • Teaching and Students
    CHARLES KENNY The bad news is that many of the billion-plus kids in school today aren’t learning very much. In fact, in public schools in the developing world, many are learning close to nothing — many kids leave school unable to read or do simple sums. If we’re going to conver ...
  • Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
    (*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia’s greatest literary classics. THOMAS DE WAAL Twenty years ago, 15 new states emerged from the wreck of the Soviet Union, uneven shards from a broken monolith. One story turned into 15. Most Soviet watchers have been struggling ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Pay the TSA $100 protection money to avoid sca ...
    Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called "Precheck." It has special lanes for background-checke ...
  • We will not be scanned!
    In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...
  • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
    The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...
  • TSA responds to viral video about body scanners
    A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology).   I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.   For obvious se ...
  • STOP ACTA: things you can do right now
    This document and video presentation outlines steps you can take right now to help put a stop to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which poses a serious threat to our freedom and national sovereignty. For additional information and links on ACTA, please click here. We need a new appr ...

Beacon

  • BBC Interviews Andy Sharpless at World Oceans ...
    Last month our CEO Andy Sharpless attended the Economist's World Oceans Summit in Singapore. He spoke to the BBC about the importance of sustainable fishing to the future of global food security, check out the interview and pass it on:
  • Exploring a Filipino Fish Market
    © Suzannah Evans Editor's note: This is fifth and final part in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. After meeting with Marybeth in Lanuza, our crew headed back to Butuan City, where we split up – Paul to Manila on his way back to the UK, and Fel, Lito and myself to Cebu. Fel, a prid ...
  • Victory! Alibaba.com Stops Selling Manta Ray P ...
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. We have great news to share with you today! We recently asked you to help us protect manta rays from being made into leather by asking Alibaba.com to take manta ray products off their website. Nearly 40,000 of you responded by signing our petition, and Alibaba lis ...
  • Securing the Future of Filipino Fishers
    Rare fellow Marybeth Rita leads a meeting with fishers. Editor's note: This is part 4 in a series of dispatches from the Philippines. The last site we visited was overseen by Rare conservation fellow Marybeth Rita. Marybeth has a tough job because her campaign covers three towns separated by ...
  • Oceana Celebrates SeaBlue in Florida
    Martin Stepanek, Alexandra Cousteau, Wyland, Jim Simon. ©Oceana/Steven Shires After recently joining Oceana as a senior advisor, I traveled with the team to Fort Lauderdale last week where we hosted our first major South Florida event, SeaBlue. We had a great time and let me say, it was a hug ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Even More Political Posters
                 
  • Victory Gardens Produced Over A Billion Dollar ...
          In 1917 Charles Lathrop Pack established the National War Garden Commission. The idea was to take pressure off of the farmers and growers in America to provide food while we fought, and to help our allies as well. Remember that the mechanized food industry didn’t exist back ...
  • More Facebook Political Posters.
                               
  • UFOs Have Been An Elusive Phenomenon Since Ant ...
            I have been reading about UFOs rather copiously the last few years and have some thoughts about them. First of all I highly recommend that you grab a copy of Jacques Valle and Chris Aubeck’s book Wonders In The Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern ...
  • Various Government Memos, Real Or Faked Regard ...
              Those who read this blog know that I am fascinated by UFOs, especially where they intersect with government or science or military concerns. I pulled these off of the Internet.   Source: http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy, Wiki

Taylor Marsh

  • Rick Santorum Hits Obama on Malia’s Spring Bre ...
    There’s been an unprecedented blizzard of action surrounding Malia Obama’s Mexico vacation. When Agence France Press posted on it the story took off, with Huffington Post, Politico and many other new-media outlets doing reports. Then parts of the story started disappearing across the ...
  • Another Republican Goes Birther
    This time it’s “a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,” Rep. Cliff Stearns, who said Tuesday he’s not convinced the President’s birth certificate “is legitimate.” Someone should tell Republicans this isn’t going to help Mitt Romne ...
  • Mitt Romney Gets Big Delegate Win in Illinois
    **updated** (CBS News) More than four in ten of the people who voted for Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s GOP primary in Illinois “have reservations” about their choice, according to early CBS News exit polls. – CBS News Early exit polls hint at a good night in ...
  • Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law, Trayvon Mar ...
    From an op-ed in the Orlando-Sentinel: Prodded by their NRA masters, lawmakers waved off those predictions as exaggerations. Then they overwhelmingly passed a bill that took the “castle doctrine” to infinity and beyond. The “castle doctrine” used to mean you could use dea ...
  • Romney-Santorum-Gingrich Not Doing Scott Brown ...
    It wasn’t an accident that Sen. Scott Brown decided to steal a joke from Conan O’Brien to hit conservative extremist Rick Santorum. During the opening monologue of his Feb. 27 show on TBS, O’Brien, a Massachusetts native, used the same double entendre: “As of tomorrow, Rick Santorum ...

Hudson New York

  • The Case Against the Left and Right One-State ...
    Both the extreme left and the extreme right are now calling for a one state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of course the one state solution each seeks is completely different: the left wants yet another Arab state in place of Israel; the
  • UNRWA: The Palestinians' Worst Enemy
    Since its establishment, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency [UNRWA] has received billions in international aid, including more than $4 billion dollars of US taxpayers' money. While UNRWA's mission is to "relieve" and "support" the Palestinians,
  • Islam: The Eighth Wonder of the World?
    Translation and Postface by Raymond Ibrahim As we know, the wonders of the world are seven; but there is an eighth "wonder -of-wonders" not counted among the seven: this is the "Muslim nation [umma]." I specifically did not say the "Islamic nation," for
  • Islam: The Eighth Wonder of the World?
    Translation and Postface by Raymond Ibrahim As we know, the wonders of the world are seven; but there is an eighth "wonder -of-wonders" not counted among the seven: this is the "Muslim nation [umma]." I specifically did not say the "Islamic nation," for
  • Tunisia: Thousands of Salafists Rally for Shar ...
    Thousands of Salafists calling to include Sharia Law in the new Tunisian Constitution gathered in front of the National Constituent Assembly on March 16. As reported by the Agence France-Presse, the slogans called to have the Koran as the country's only

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Aspiring to be second (or third) best?
    Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago There are competing theories as to where Chicago’s “Second City” nickname originated. Some trace the moniker to a New Yorker story by A.J. Liebling; others frame the nickname in a more po ...
  • EPA's sewer overflow settlement: not the wors ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago The settlement deal that the U.S. EPA has cut with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District over the District’s Chicago River sewage dumps is not the worst deal in the world.  For instance, that ...
  • Texans Say No to the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pip ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC With news that President Obama will fast track the building of the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Texans in its path say their health and property rights are ...
  • FACT: U.S. Drilling Doesn't Lower Gas Prices
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City The ‘drill, baby, drill’ approach to energy won’t ease your pain at the pump according to an analysis by the Associated Press. In an article running in papers across the country, AP pu ...
  • Leftovers are Catching On
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco The Wall Street Journal published a great piece today about leftovers—how much we create, how much we toss, how much it costs us, and how we can do better.  They even ha ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • RenewEconomy: South Australia’s big win with wind
    Wind Power in South Australia has been a howling success; it now provides more electricity in the state than coal and in just a decade the wind industry has developed into one of the world’s leaders – and all to the benefit of South Australians. Back in 1998 when the National Electricity Market ...
  • BZE submission to the Draft Energy White Paper ...
    To download the submission click here. Introduction: Australia must rapidly decarbonise its economy if it is to play a constructive role in global efforts to address the climate change challenge. Present atmospheric levels of CO2 are at 390ppm1 and must be brought down to 350ppm to stay within t ...
  • BZE submission to the Victorian Feed-in Tariff ...
    To download the submission click here. (Please note: the file sometimes has trouble loading in Firefox, if it doesn't work please try pasting the link into the Chrome browser) Overview: Beyond Zero Emissions recognises the importance and efficacy of Feed in Tariffs and distributed renewable gen ...
  • Gas: not a transition fuel, more a fossil fuel ...
    I'd much rather see a fleet of dirty old coal plants spewing out CO2 emissions than one newly built combined cycle gas plant. Transition Coal should be a new uniting catch-cry of environmentalists. Transition Coal's time is now, following on from the success of Transition Gas ...
  • ABC Environment: Two-faced climate policy
      Credit: Mick Tsikas (Reuters) It's ironic that Australia is moving toward a 'cap' on carbon emissions because while we've got this paper target for a five per cent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2020 we've also got the foot on the accelerator and running in overdrive expa ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Legal case against Serengeti road moves forward
    A regional case against the construction of a proposed road through Serengeti National Park has moved to trial after a judge with the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) threw out concerns by Tanzania reports the Daily Nation. The government of Tanzania has proposed a controversial highway that ...
  • Featured Video: FEVER, the climate change chal ...
    Four short films have been produced highlighting the challenges of climate change for indigenous people in the tropics. Produced by LifeMosaic, the indigenous right organization says the films are "designed to inform and empower indigenous communities."
  • Russia, South Korea sign agreement to resurrec ...
    Last week Russian and South Korean educational facilities signed an agreement to work together to bring back the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from extinction. The project will be headed by Hwang Sooam of South Korea's Bioengineering Research Institute and will involve implanting a wool ...
  • Cambodia sells off national park for city-size ...
    The Cambodian government has handed over nearly 20 percent of Botum Sakor National Park to a Chinese real-estate firm building a massive casino and resorts in the middle of pristine rainforest, reports Reuters. The city-sized resorts, costing $3.8 billion, will include a 64 kilometers highway, a ...
  • Invasive primates threaten Atlantic Forest natives
    Scientists have called for the removal of eight invasive primates from Brazil's imperiled Atlantic Forest in a new study published in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Society. The researchers fear that the eight alien monkeys could hurt other species due to increased comp ...

Sierra Express

  • For visionary power… Kono students adore Presi ...
    Like their counterparts in other parts of the country the students of Kono Town have unreservedly revered President Ernest Bai Koroma for being a leader whom they said has laid formidable foundations that guaranty them better lives in the not distance moment in time.  (Photo: Students of Koidu S ...
  • ‘Identify yourselves…’ Murtala tells Nigerian ...
    Award winning journalist, Murtala Mohamed Kamara, has appealed to a gathering of mostly young people in Nigeria’s largest city Ibadan for them to identify themselves first and foremost if they want to succeed in life. Kamara was speaking as a guest on ‘Dreams Come True’ with Jazzyb, an informati ...
  • IOM/SLeCAD capacitate farmers in Sierra Leone
    The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) in collaboration with IOM Netherlands has concluded a three weeks training in Business Development, Communication Management and Web Management skills for farmer organizations in the Western Area on Thursday 15thMarch 2012.  (Photo: L ...
  • 1st Birthday Greetings – Master Sulaiman Saidu Bah
    Happy Birthday to our dear son Master Sulaiman Saidu Bah, of 6 Genet Lane, Kingtom. March 21, marks your first birthday.  May Allah guide and protect you as you grow up to be a responsible man in society. From your Father Saidu Bah (Journalist, Awoko newspaper), Mother Chernor Jarieu Bah, and th ...
  • Salone Premier League signs MOU with AYV Radio
    Newly established radio station, AYV Radio 88.4 FM, has secured the right to live commentary of all Sierra Leone Premier League matches.  (Director AYV Radio, Mrs. Fatmata Jalloh, signing MOU) According to a Memorandum of Understanding signed under the watchful eyes of sports journalists on Tues ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • White fright as dairy prices fall again at auction
    International dairy prices fell again in Fonterra's online auction, just a week after the dairy giant sliced about $200 million off its forecast payout to farmers.The average price for a basket of products in Fonterra's latest online...
  • World dairy prices fall 4.5pc, biggest drop in ...
    Prices of dairy products fell by the most in eight months on Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform amid concern demand for commodities may be slowing with China's growth outlook.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 4.5 per cent...
  • School milk making a comeback in a carton
    Newly appointed "milk monitors" will help to distribute a carton of free, chilled milk to all pupils at Northland's Manaia View School this morning, in the rebirth of an iconic nutrition scheme.The school, in a low-income area of...
  • Supreme Court rejects Fonterra rival milk supp ...
    The Supreme Court has turned down Fonterra's appeal against a ruling it must supply raw milk to rivals even if they don't process it themselves.The top court's bench was unanimous in upholding the lower court decisions,...
  • PM woos Chinese on $3.5m yacht
    Prime Minister John Key held a meeting with a group of Chinese businessmen on board a $3.5 million superyacht during which he urged them to invest in a multimillion-dollar milk processing venture in New Zealand.Key was invited to...

The Bovine

  • Recent victories for raw milk freedom
    From Heather Callaghan on The Activist Post: “Things can seem really grim in the world of food freedom when farmers and food club members are jailed and squashed for providing fresh milk, while the media continues to spread outright lies … Continue reading →
  • “Don’t be evil” — cens ...
  • Collapse spawns economic innovation
    The gradual collapse of the world as we know it is inspiring people to come with new ways to share value with each other in a more equitable way than seemed possible under the old system. In the article excerpted … Continue reading →
  • Doctors on raw milk — YMMV
    That’s right, your mileage may vary. Meaning that contrary to some people’s belief, not all doctors are agreed when it comes to the dangers and or benefits of raw milk. Although most North American doctors, to be sure, toe the … Continue reading →
  • The absurdity of raw milk prohibition
    This Carolina Journal Online columnist gives voice to a sentiment that seems to be growing across North America these days in regard to raw milk. Continued prohibition is just not making any sense. Why should governments be cutting back on … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Saudi Arabia Aims to Deliver "Wall of Oil" to ...
    Wall of Supertankers Heads For US Brent crude at $125, US Crude at $110, and soaring gasoline prices everywhere have caused quite a stir. See Highest Price Ever of Gasoline in March; State-by-State Gas Price and Gas Tax Comparison for a discussion. In response to high prices, Saudi Ar ...
  • Highest Price Ever of Gasoline in March; State ...
    Highest Gas Price Recorded in March An ABC consumer report shows Highest Gas Price Recorded in March The average price of a gallon of regular is now $3.87, the highest recorded price in March. The average price is up nearly 4 cents from a week ago, and over 30 cents from a year ago, accor ...
  • IMF and ECB Bailouts "Created" Huge Bondholder ...
    It's hard to have too much sympathy for those buying Greek bonds. Then again, one should always want a fair market, not a rigged one in which certain players can never lose. Please consider the question How much did the IMF, ECB and EU bailouts harm Greek bondholders? The Greek CDS auctio ...
  • Reflections on Buying Time: Did the ECB Buy Ti ...
    Wolfgang Münchau, Financial Times columnist says There is no Spanish siesta for the eurozone If you think the European Central Bank’s policies have “bought time”, you should ask yourself: time for what? Greece’s debt situation is as unsustainable as ever; so is Portugal’s; so is the European b ...
  • Carmageddon: European New Car Sales Crash, Wor ...
    Carmageddon Truth About Cars reports European New Car Sales Have Worst February Of The Millennium The European new car market crashed in February. According to data released by the European manufacturers’ association ACEA, new car sales were down 9.7 percent in February. Two months ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Nigerian Navy Collides with Total-Owned Vessel
    One person is still missing after a Nigerian warship, NNS Thunder, collided with a Total-owned vessel on Nigeria’s Bonny River.  According to local Nigerian news Oyibosonline, the incident happened at 3PM [...]
  • American Offshore Managers Detained By Brazil
    Chevron’s George Buck and Transocean’s Michael Legrand top the list of offshore managers banned last Friday by Judge Vlamir Costa Magalhaes from leaving Brazil, according to a local prosecutor in [...]
  • Cairn Puts the Brakes on Arctic Drilling After ...
    LONDON (Dow Jones)–Cairn Energy PLC (CNE.LN) Tuesday shrugged off the disappointment of a $1.19 billion full-year loss, insisting that there were sufficient “transformational” opportunities in its oil exploration and development portfolio [...]
  • Dockwise Vanguard Booked to Transport Statoil’ ...
    How might you get a 45,000 ton, 193-meter long steel tube from one side of the planet to the other?  The world’s largest transport ship of course, however neither has [...]
  • Return Of The Space Race? Yes, But Less Exciting
    For nearly three decades GPS has been the primary navigation method for ships. Other systems have been attempted but either failed to launch or, like the Russian system GLONASS, failed [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • "A Five-Year Veteran of the Force"
    Squad car mic broadcasts cop's alleged sexual tryst by Douglas Stanglin As originally posted on: On Deadline March 18, 2012 The Memphis Police Department has suspended an officer whose alleged sexual escapade inside a squad car was picked up by a microphone and broadcast on an open channel, ...
  • The ubiquitous economist, the media, and Plato
    It is odd.  No other discipline in the social science gets away with being considered by the media as a jack of all trades as the economist does.  Think about it.  If you go to a neurosurgeon with a question … Continue reading →
  • Enough with the attack ads already, we get it....
    Okay, okay...Canadians from coast to coast to coast should finally understand by now.  There is one, and only one person who is fit to serve as this nation's Prime Minister.  That person is Stephen Harper, message received. Stephane Dion wasn't worth the risk, Michael Ignatieff was on ...
  • "Any Power Structure"
    embrace your inner anarchist. be skeptical of ALL explanations, outcomes, methods, etc, emanating from any power structure by Richard Fortunato As originally posted on: Richard Fortunato (rjFortunato) on Twitter March 16, 2012
  • Does Canada Need Air Canada?
    Air Canada is going down. They've been losing money hand-over-fist, and now their unions are demanding a raise. Of course, the federal government has stepped in to stop the unions' job action, but that hasn't stopped pilots from calling in 'sick'. None of this would be happening right now if ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Yemenis demand Saleh loyalists’ removal
    Yemenis have held another protest rally in the southern city of Taizz to demand the removal of officials loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
  • Syria pushes rebels out of Deir al-Zour
    The Syrian army has cleared the eastern city of Deir el-Zour of armed groups after heavy clashes with terrorists operating in the area near the Iraqi border.
  • UN-AL envoy to return to Syria soon
    The United Nations secretary-general says the UN-Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan, is set to return to Syria "very soon" to find a way to end the ongoing unrest in the Middle Eastern country.
  • Anti-regime protests endure in Bahrain
    Fresh clashes have erupted between the Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces and anti-government protesters in the Persian Gulf country as the popular uprising continues in the Arab state, Press TV reports.
  • Bahrain pushes ahead with medics trial
    The Bahraini regime says it will go ahead with the prosecution of 20 medics over their treatment of wounded anti-government protesters during last year’s demonstrations.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran R ...
    IPS — The first detailed account of negotiations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran last month belies earlier statements by unnamed Western officials portraying Iran as refusing to cooperate with the IAEA in allaying concerns about alleged nuclear weaponisation work. T ...
  • Unveiling Canada’s Role in Chile’s Envir ...
    A new report reveals the Canadian mining industrial complex’s responsibility for social discord and environmentally-destructive policies in Chile’s Patagonia region. “Far away, on the southern cone of South America in Chilean Patagonia, exists one of the most beautiful, still-virgin ...
  • Everyone Loves “Got Milk” Ads, but ...
    Selling milk looks easy and even fun when you see the celebrity “milk mustache” ads. “Got Milk?” ads may be the most recognizable and spoofed of all ad campaigns but they are probably also the least successful: milk sales have actually fallen every year since the ads bega ...
  • Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
    In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, one of the arguments you heard Republican economists and Wall Street executives repeatedly use to defend the obscene amounts of money being paid investment bankers and hedge fund managers was that if these guys didn’t receive exorbitant salaries and bo ...
  • Fracking: Health, Environmental Impact Greate ...
    The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry non-profit organization, claims fracking has been “a widely deployed as safe extraction technique,” dating back t ...

Destructionist

  • Ron Paul On Leno: We Will Win Conscience Votes ...
    Gop presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night and said that he will not waver on the road to the GOP national convention, despite calls from the establishment and the media for him to quit the race. The Congressman discussed his strategy of gaining ...
  • Obama’s Latest Executive Order: Martial Law, C ...
    On Friday, March 16, Obama issued another unconstitutional executive order. The National Defense Resources Preparedness EO allows the government to confiscate your property without due process under the direction of Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security. Obama’s EO allows t ...
  • Martial Law? Obama Issues Executive Order: ‘Na ...
    [It seems something is about to happen for Obama to issue an Executive Order for National Defense Resources Preparedness... (Could this be a prelude to a "false flag" terrorist attack?)] EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President b ...
  • Martial Law? Obama Issues Executive Order: ‘Na ...
    [It seems something is about to happen for Obama to issue an Executive Order for National Defense Resources Preparedness... (Could this be a prelude to a "false flag" terrorist attack?)] EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS By the authority vested in me as President b ...
  • Police Intervene, Arrest Ron Paul Backers at M ...
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