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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

21 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Anti-Discrimination Bill Fast-Tracked After Br ...
    "We shouldn't have to live in fear. We're citizens and voters of Chile, we have jobs, and yet we live in daily fear of being attacked," said 33-year-old Carla Oviedo, a victim of discrimination on the grounds of her sexual orientation.
  • Karzai's Team Clashes over Relations With U.S.
    The increasing influence of a conservative circle within President Hamid Karzai's palace has impeded progress in signing a crucial strategic agreement with the U.S. to chart the relationship beyond 2014, officials and analysts have said.
  • More Transparent Forest Governance in Peruvian ...
    In Peru, where over half of the national territory is covered by forests and the logging industry is marred by corruption, transparency and good forest management are closely linked.
  • Red Tape Mutes Community Radio in India
    Security concerns appear to have stymied the growth of community radio (CR) in India, a vast and diverse country of 1.2 billion people, the bulk of them living in remote, rural areas.
  • Palestinian Children Learn the Brazilian Way
    Standing under a canopy just inside Jerusalem's Old City walls, a group of 20 Palestinian children are banging drums, clapping their hands and singing in Portuguese. This is capoeira, the traditional Afro-Brazilian sport that mixes dance, music and martial arts, and it is sweeping through ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran R ...
    Summary: VIENNA — 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 weaponizatio ...
  • Nowruz No War
    Summary: Nowruz No War NOWRUZ NO WAR is an event to celebrate the Persian New Year & learn about Iranian culture and its links to our own. Saturday 24th March, 3-11pm: The first evening of many which will promote Persian culture and Iranian people. Expect Film, Comedy, Live Music, Poetry ...
  • US exempts 10 EU states plus Japan from Iran s ...
    Summary: The United States says it has exempted 11 nations including 10 European Union members and Japan from tough new sanctions on Iran as they have reduced oil purchase from Tehran. source: PressTVread more
  • Iran supply disruption may push crude oil pric ...
    Summary: IMF chief Christine Lagarde cautioned that supply disruptions from Iran could push global crude prices by up to 30 per cent, at a time when the price is hovering at $125 a barrel. source: NDTVread more
  • Stop the War Coalition National Conference 2012
    Summary: More than 250 delegates and activists from across the country came together in London on Saturday 3 March 2012 for the Stop the War Coalition annual conference. A session on Western interventions in the Middle East, Asia and North Africa included discussion of Afghanistan, Somalia, S ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NewsFlash: ISS May Serve as Site for a Simula ...
    NASA said Tuesday that plans are under way to use the space station as a dry run for a simulated trip to and from Mars patterned after Russia’s mock flight to Mars that lasted 520 days at a Moscow research...
  • New Deep Images of the Universe --200,000 Gala ...
    Seen in in the Hubble deep background above are ubiquitous bright blue sources, presumably extremely hot ultraviolet before redshifting, 1 to a dozen or so pixels, as single or short lines of spots, and a few irregular tiny blobs, probably,...
  • New NASA Discoveries Alter Understanding of Me ...
    On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The wealth of surprises from the mission has completely altered our understanding of the solar system's innermost planet. The...
  • Strange '1st-of-Its-Kind' Galaxy Discovered -- ...
    A unique galaxy, dubbed Speca by its discoverers, holds clues to the evolution of galaxies billions of years ago. The galaxy has a combination of characteristics never seen before, giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key...
  • This Week's Debate: "40,000 Years of Human-Dom ...
    Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperforming humans. Artificial intelligence expert Jürgen Schmidhuber isn’t able to...

Natural News

  • What happened to our government? (opinion)
    When I was a little kid growing up in Newark and going to Bergen Street elementary school, I remember a teacher reading something to us in class one day. It went something like this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they...
  • Vitamin E tocotrienols work through multiple p ...
    The result of several new research bodies that have been published all point to the powerful effect of vitamin E tocotrienols to prevent stomach cancer, reduce fatty liver disease incidences and prevent disease mechanisms that can extend natural lifespan in humans. Over...
  • French pine bark contains powerful antioxidant ...
    An antioxidant-rich nutrient with powerful anti-inflammatory properties, French pine bark extract, also commonly known as Pycnogenol, is hailed by many as an effective treatment for asthma, osteoarthritis, chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), attention deficit hyperactivity...
  • The hidden cause of unexplained weight gain ma ...
    The issue of weight is a prevalent source of discontent especially in western cultures. It seems that we havewoken upand realized that weight control is about much more than keeping up appearances. Obesity rates have skyrocketed along with the associated adverse health...
  • Health professionals anticipate extremely dang ...
    Beginning March 1, 2012, the controversial painkiller drug OxyContin (oxycodone) will no longer be available for prescription in Canada. Numerous media sources report that Health Canada has officially nixed the drug, which is an opioid-based drug similar to heroin, because...

Threat Level

  • NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying But Whistlebl ...
    James Bamford, the author of Wired's cover story on the NSA's growing domestic spying powers, responds to a carefully worded and odd denial by the NSA's top general.
  • MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for L ...
    Hollywood studios are mulling a massive copyright litigation campaign that entails suing individual users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations of facilitating wanton infringement. The site had ...
  • NSA Chief Denies, Denies, Denies Wired’s Domes ...
    NSA head general Keith Alexander faced questioning from Congress Tuesday over a Wired cover story on NSA's expansion into the United States. But his denials raise as many questions as they answer.
  • Copyright Treaty Requires Congressional Suppor ...
    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has proposed legislation requiring the Obama administration to secure congressional legislative approval for the United States to participate in an international anti-piracy treaty, a position at odds with the Obama administration.
  • DuQu Mystery Language Solved With the Help of ...
    A group of researchers who recently asked the public for help in figuring out a mysterious language used in the DuQu virus have solved the puzzle, thanks to crowdsourcing help from programmers who wrote in to offer suggestions and clues.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Introducing the Ryan-Romney Budget
    If the new House GOP budget unveiled Tuesday by Paul Ryan sounds familiar, it should. And not just because Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" is essentially the same scheme he's been pushing for two years. As it turns out, Mitt Romney is offering the same disastrous recipe for America's future. Both ...
  • GOP Talking Points Don't Apply to Women's Health
    For a brief moment on Sunday, John McCain made sense. Lamenting the growing backlash against the GOP's crusade to turn back the clock on contraception and reproductive rights, McCain told Meet the Press, "I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make tha ...
  • GOP, Media Mislead on President Obama's Health ...
    As the battle over health care raged in the summer of 2009, President Obama made a very specific promise about what would become the Affordable Care Act. "When I say if you have your plan and you like it," Obama explained that June, "or you have a doctor and you like your doctor, that you don't ...
  • China Joins Iran as the Bain of Romney's Existence
    Mitt Romney likes to talk tough about China. In an op-ed last month, Romney charged that "President Obama came into office as a near supplicant to Beijing," adding, "his administration demurred from raising issues of human rights." Unfortunately for the former Massachusetts Governor, that tough ...
  • GOP Drops "Obama Bear Market" Myth as Dow Hits ...
    Despite a mountain of data and the overwhelming consensus of economists to the contrary, Republican leaders including House Speaker John Boehner and would-be President Mitt Romney continue to falsely claim "Obama made the economy worse." But another tried and untrue GOP talking point about the ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Breaking News: Earth is Still Warming…. A LOT
      Another great post from Skeptical Science that I’m just going to go ahead and repost in full. Thought global warming was over? Of course you didn’t, and this post can back you up: In a previous post we discussed how the argument that the Earth has stopped warming doesn’ ...
  • Bill McKibben on 350.org’s Next Move: Take Dow ...
      You may have seen this by now, but if not, this is Bill McKibben and 350.org’s next move on trying to stop global warming: Yep, boils down to: let’s cut oil subsidies! I think, personally, the effort could be directed to something even more worthwhile: better support for clea ...
  • GOP & Climate Change Evidence Cartoon
      This a great one on how Republican politicians try to respond to climate change evidence — enjoy:
  • Meat Kills (& Killing Meat)
    I’ve been wanting to write about two recent studies for a couple weeks now. This sort of fun, sort of sad, and sort of controversial billboard from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) — now up in Chicago — seemed to offer a nice segway into finally getting ...
  • Obama on Romney, Santorum, & Gingrich: ‘Would ...
      Echoing Colbert’s mocking of Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich last week, Obama also nailed these GOP presidential nominee candidates for their anti-science, stuck-in-the-past thinking. The video is above, and here’s the text courtesy of Think Progress: If some of these folks we ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Honduran Resistance celebrates the birth of LI ...
    Red Morazanica de Información Tegucigalpa. March 15, 2012. An authentic people’s party was seen near the Electoral Supreme Court (TSE) on Thursday where militants and supporters of the National Front of People's Resistance (FNRP) gathered to cheer and celebrate the birth of its polit ...
  • US Coverup. Probe Finds Not One - But up to 20 ...
    Yesterday we reported that U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales now has a legal team to defend him in the United States against widely published charges that he alone killed the 16 Afghan civilians including 9 children and 3 women in their sleep on March 11, 2012. Later last night we received...
  • Trayvon Martin was shot dead on his way home f ...
    Three weeks ago, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was gunned down by self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Despite Zimmerman admitting to following, confronting, and killing Trayvon, he has yet to be arrested or charged with any crime.1 Just minutes before Trayv ...
  • US soldier who killed Afghan civilians in thei ...
    Editor's Note: Staff Sergeant and member of a US Seal Team, Robert Bales now has a team of lawyers defending him in the U.S. after his methodical murder of 16 sleeping Afghan civilians, including 9 children and 3 women and wounded 5 others. Bales entered the homes of 3 Afghan...
  • China’s military spending surpasses $100 billi ...
    19 March 2012 This year’s Chinese military budget, approved by the National People’s Congress, is 670 billion yuan ($US106.4 billion), an 11.2 percent increase from 2011 and a doubling from 2006. As a result, China is only the second country, after the US, to have a defence budget of ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Being right about two issues in thirty-five ye ...
    By @BGinKC A lot of liberals find Ron Paul quirky and amusing and harmless. I call these liberals "fools." Ron Paul is not quirky, he is not amusing, he is not charming, and he sure as hell isn't "harmless." Hell, he's far from that descriptive, but I know a couple that do fit..."Hypocrite" spri ...
  • Because a picture is truly worth a thousand words
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  • Gas Prices Are Global
    By @KYYellowDog And the New York Times has the graphs to prove it. Joe Romm at Think Progress: America produces 200 times as much oil as Germany, but our gas prices rise and fall in tandem (we pay far lower gas taxes). Source:  Energy Information Administration and NY Times. The public und ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD Let's make sure we have this straight...the audacious, verbose, vituperative, bilious and hyperbolic Newt Gingrich, the man who has said of the President that he is a "secular socialist" with a "Kenyan, anti-colonial worldview" and the "most radical president in history" is offended ...
  • Kill the NCAA. Do It Now
    By @KYYellowDog I bleed UK Wildcat Blue. Here in Kentucky, March Madness is the only reason we force ourselves to suffer through four months of drizzly gray skies and no sun. But this bullshit by the NCAA is inexcusable. Dave Zirin at The Nation, on The Persecution of Jamar Samuels. Then came ug ...

Care 2

  • Near-Death Experiences are Lucid Dreams, Exper ...
    In a new exercise by a California organization that studies lucid dreaming, volunteers have been conditioned to dream near-death experiences, including the classic scenario of flying toward a light at the end of a tunnel. The researchers say their experi Submitted by Agnes N. to Offbeat  | ...
  • Tell Obama to Protect Whales in Arctic ! PLEAS ...
    The bowhead whale is only whale that spends its entire life in Arctic waters. It is one of the oldest mammals on earth and with one of the longest life spans, more than 100 years. Its population was severely reduced before a 1966 moritorium on whaling Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Canada Geese Cull: A HUMANE SOLUTION OFFERED
    Wildlife experts submitted a proposal to the Lake District National Park Authority, and to its partners on the Geese Management Group, offering a humane alternative to the mass cull of Canada geese that is due to take place in the coming weeks. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |&nb ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Halt Ethekwini Municipality's pl ...
    The Ethekwini Municipality has proposed a plan to establish a plant that will convert sewage into tap water. Apparently a notice was published on the 8 February 2012 requesting the public to comment.The Deadline for comments is on the 23 March 2012. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle &n ...
  • Tell the EPA: Americans Want Industrial Carbon ...
    For the first time ever, our government is on the verge of proposing federal limits on industrial carbon pollution. Not only is carbon pollution linked to climate disruption, but also to significant health hazards like asthma inducing smog. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |  &nb ...

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No Quarter

  • Low Turnout My Ass
    The media, desperate to promote the candidacy of Barack Obama, is spreading a bullshit lie. Here’s the CBS Chicago Headline: Voter Turnout Extremely Low For Illinois Primary Turnout for Tuesday’s Illinois primary in Chicago was a meager 24 percent, officials said. It was the lowest turnout ...
  • Illinois Returns + 69 Precious Delegates
    CNN EXIT POLL at 8;00 p.m.: Romney 45%, Santorum 35%, Gingrich 12%, Paul 8% (more returns to come) 5:38 p.m.: Romney 54%; Santorum 28%; Paul 10%; Gingrich 7% For the scoop on the Illinois primary, see Politico’s “Illinois primary: 5 things to watch.” In the meantime, … &# ...
  • DeNiro Plays the NIGGAH Card
    Great news. The only qualification for being the President’s wife is skin color. Per Robert DeNiro, speaking at an Obama fundraiser last night: “Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white First Lady?” De Niro asked, to which the ...
  • Obamacare No Cure * Open Thread
    There’s an important op-ed today at Politico by physicians-turned-senators, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), “Two years of ‘Obamacare’ not helping patients“: [...] … We have compiled our findings into a new oversight report about the law’s nega ...
  • Afghanistan: We’re Going
    Let me state up front that we can conquer and control Afghanistan. Only one little problem. We will need about 1 million men on the ground and should expect to spend 2 trillion dollars. So, let’s stop kidding ourselves and admit we are not willing or able to pay the price required to contr ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Counting the cost: the hidden price of coal po ...
    Counting the cost: the hidden price of coal power Ars Technica Melissa Ahern of Washington State University described some of the environmental impacts that have resulted from the mountaintop removal process in Appalachia: over 500 peaks gone, 2000 miles of streams eliminated, and over 140 billi ...
  • An issue worth the attention - The Daily Tar Heel
    An issue worth the attention The Daily Tar Heel Mountaintop removal mining has demolished more than 500 mountains, polluted the headwaters of the Southeast and dramatically increased cancer and chronic disease among those living in coalfields. Relentless blasting has turned central Appalachia in ...
  • MJ Recounts Spring Break in Appalachia - The D ...
    MJ Recounts Spring Break in Appalachia The Daily Gazette Although I've been heavily involved in MJ for about a year and a half now, I had never been down to Appalachia or seen an mountain top removal (MTR) site firsthand. I've seen a lot of pictures, but none of them conveyed the spectac ...
  • Tennessee Appalachian Hero Eric Stewart Appeal ...
    Tennessee Appalachian Hero Eric Stewart Appeals To Save The Mountains ThinkProgress Tennessee State Senator Eric Stewart (D-TN) recently spoke on behalf of the Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act, which would ban mountaintop removal on Tennessee peaks over 2000 feet in Tennessee: When a man b ...
  • Divest from mountaintop removal coal mining - ...
    Divest from mountaintop removal coal mining The Daily Tar Heel Mountaintop removal coal mining has literally blown up sections of the mountain range to find the thin seams of coal underneath, pushing the “over-burden” — a coal industry word for the rest of the mountain — into the valleys below. ...

Memeorandum

  • Europe's Sovereign Debt Crisis: Causes, Conseq ...
    House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform: Europe's Sovereign Debt Crisis: Causes, Consequences for the United States and Lessons Learned  —  Chairman's Preview Statement  —  Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement  —  The United States ...
  • Sanders bill would force CFTC's hand in effort ...
    Andrew Restuccia / The Hill: Sanders bill would force CFTC's hand in effort to lower gas prices  —  A handful of liberal senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would force federal regulators to curb “excessive” market speculation that they say is responsible fo ...
  • JPMorgan Employees Join Goldman Sachs Among To ...
    Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg: JPMorgan Employees Join Goldman Sachs Among Top Obama Donors  —  President Barack Obama's largest campaign donors last month included employees of Wells Fargo & Co., (WFC) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), accor ...
  • More See "Too Much" Religious Talk by Politici ...
    Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: More See “Too Much” Religious Talk by Politicians  —  Santorum Voters Disagree  —  A new survey finds signs of public uneasiness with the mixing of religion and politics.  The number of people who say ther ...
  • Newt, Santorum debut Etch A Sketch props on th ...
    Emily Schultheis / Politico: Newt, Santorum debut Etch A Sketch props on the trail (Updated)  —  Newt Gingrich gleefully seized on Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom's “Etch A Sketch” comments from this morning, bringing out an Etch A Sketch as a prop on the campaign tra ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Guerrero, Mexico
    Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:36:15 UTC Wednesday, March 21, 2012 05:36:15 AM at epicenterDepth: 20.00 km (12.43 mi)
  • M 5.0, Guerrero, Mexico
    Wednesday, March 21, 2012 02:54:39 UTC Tuesday, March 20, 2012 08:54:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.90 km (12.99 mi)
  • M 5.0, Guerrero, Mexico
    Tuesday, March 20, 2012 22:25:43 UTC Tuesday, March 20, 2012 04:25:43 PM at epicenterDepth: 21.30 km (13.24 mi)
  • M 5.2, Tonga region
    Tuesday, March 20, 2012 21:07:09 UTC Wednesday, March 21, 2012 09:07:09 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.40 km (21.38 mi)
  • M 5.1, Oaxaca, Mexico
    Tuesday, March 20, 2012 20:14:38 UTC Tuesday, March 20, 2012 02:14:38 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.90 km (6.77 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Sizing the carbon bubble
    Financial markets are in denial, backing both the winners and losers of climate change and stocking up more fossil fuels than they can burn, writes James Leaton.How much “unburnable” carbon is there on the world’s stock exchanges? Last year, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) ...
  • High yields in south China
    Farmers – led by women – and professional plant breeders have joined forces in remote Guangxi to find novel ways of boosting food security. Ronnie Vernooy reports.China’s recent economic growth has been extraordinary but uneven. Vulnerable groups, such as smallholder farmers, a ...
  • The shrinking depths below
    Fixing the water crisis in China's arid north begins with a proper understanding of the threats to underground supplies, says Matt Currell.Water stress in northern China is driving some of the biggest engineering projects in human history: pipelines to transfer billions of cubic metres of water ...
  • Swan song at Poyang Lake
    Volunteers and officials have stepped up the fight against bird poaching on China’s largest freshwater lake. But it's a losing battle, writes Yang Xiaohong.At 4,000 square kilometres, Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake and one of the world’s most important wetlands. ...
  • Shocks to the earth’s system
    Climate change isn’t just about floods, droughts and heatwaves, writes Bill McGuire. It also will awaken the geological “sleeping giant” beneath our feet, rocking the planet with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis.The idea that a changing climate can persu ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying But Whistlebl ...
    James Bamford, the author of Wired's cover story on the NSA's growing domestic spying powers, responds to a carefully worded and odd denial by the NSA's top general.
  • MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for L ...
    Hollywood studios are mulling a massive copyright litigation campaign that entails suing individual users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations of facilitating wanton infringement. The site had ...
  • NSA Chief Denies, Denies, Denies Wired’s Domes ...
    NSA head general Keith Alexander faced questioning from Congress Tuesday over a Wired cover story on NSA's expansion into the United States. But his denials raise as many questions as they answer.
  • Copyright Treaty Requires Congressional Suppor ...
    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has proposed legislation requiring the Obama administration to secure congressional legislative approval for the United States to participate in an international anti-piracy treaty, a position at odds with the Obama administration.
  • DuQu Mystery Language Solved With the Help of ...
    A group of researchers who recently asked the public for help in figuring out a mysterious language used in the DuQu virus have solved the puzzle, thanks to crowdsourcing help from programmers who wrote in to offer suggestions and clues.

Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • I am glad to have my own nine chickens
    In the last month the “girls” have been producing 8-9 eggs a day. They add up quickly and my neighbors are enjoying the extras. So I was thankful for our eggs this evening when today the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) recommended against eating any eggs produced ...
  • I really do love my job
    I got this email this morning - she was commenting on my post over the weekend about putting me out of the beef business: Good Morning! Hi I am DK, again Thank-You for this long, sad, but truly brilliant blog! As I have written before. I was one of the Jack-in- Box E-Coli victims that was pregn ...
  • Putting me out the beef business
    I am sitting in my office in Seattle watching the snowfall on this St. Patrick’s Day while working on one of the latest food disasters – Listeria in cantaloupe.  I was reminded by the staff at Food Safety News that my “Publisher’s Platform” was due.  After ...
  • Kansas Reports 18 Ill with Campylobacter in 20 ...
    According to a press release form the Kansas State Department of Agriculture, since 2007; there have been three outbreaks of disease associated with consumption of raw milk in Kansas.  In October 2007, 68 people became ill due to consuming cheese made from raw milk at a Kansas community cel ...
  • Del Monte Fresh Produce Drops Frivolous Lawsui ...
    Del Monte Fresh Produce, linked to prior cantaloupe outbreaks, has dropped its frivolous lawsuit against the Oregon Public Health Division and its senior epidemiologist, William Keene, who with other public health officials from nine other states and the CDC last year traced a multistate ou ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Miami Toyota dealer tacks $7,000 onto price of ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Earnings/Financials A Twitter user with the handle miami4me2c discovered something interesting at a Toyota dealer in Miami and thankfully shared pictures of this unusual Prius C Two window sticker. Remember, the base Prius C starts ...
  • Report: Toyota increasing Prius C production t ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Japan, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota When we last asked Toyota representatives about the production capacity of the 2012 Prius C, we were told the company's Iwate, Japan plant could make up to 30,000 units each month. That sounds like a lot, but Toyo ...
  • Report: 2013 Nissan Leaf update will add new h ...
    Filed under: Technology, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric From what we know today, pretty much everything about the all-electric Nissan Leaf is getting bigger and/or better in 2012. From availability in Europe to 50-state availability and production in the States, it's clear Nissan is planning big ...
  • Video: Consumer Reports finally posts F ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Fisker, Electric, Luxury You can buy a bunch of information for $107,000. Consumer Reports is learning all sorts of things about the Fisker Karma now that it has purchased one for testing, only to have it die with less than 200 miles on the odometer. After 48 h ...
  • Official: Toyota Prius C outsells monthly tota ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota Toyota is pretty sure that its expanded Prius family will drive up sales of the world's best-selling hybrid, and the early sales returns indicate that the company is right, right, right. After the Prius V sold about 8,400 units in ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street & Police Brutality V ...
    Occupy Wall Street activists and their supporters decried violent tactics used during a police crackdown on Saturday’s re-occupation of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square, that led to 73 arrests. During a press conference outside police headquarters, they called for New York Police Dep ...
  • Ina May Gaskin and the Safe Motherhood Quilt P ...
    In part two of our interview with pioneering midwife Ina May Gaskin she describes the women who died of pregnancy-related causes and are commemorated in squares of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project. Gaskin argues midwifery is about helping the woman and her child, but is also key to shaping ...
  • Sy Hersh on the My Lai Massacre Anniversary
    Friday March 16th marked the 44th anniversary of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. troops killed hundreds of civilians. Journalist Sy Hersh won the Pulitzer for exposing the massacre and the subsequent Pentagon cover-up. This segment features Hersh from 2008, the 40th anniversary of th ...
  • Paula Lerner, 52, Dies, Photographer of Afghan ...
    The award-winning photographer Paula Lerner has died at the age of 52. She was the principal photographer for the Emmy Award-winning project, "Behind The Veil: An Intimate Journey Into The Lives of Kandahar’s Women Featuring Photography." It appeared in the Toronto Globe &amp ...
  • Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan We may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women. The massacre near Belambai, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, has shocked ...

Suzie-Q

  • Virginia Poll: 52% Oppose Ultrasound Law
    Politico By TIM MAK | 3/21/12 8:04  AM EDT A majority of Virginians stand against the state’s new law that requires  women seeking an abortion to  undergo an ultrasound before the procedure, a new survey shows. Fifty-two percent of voters said they opposed the law, compared with 41  percent ...
  • Paul Ryan’s Dangerous, And Intentionally Vague ...
    The Washingon Post By Editorial Board, Published: March 20 The Washington Post THERE IS NO credible path to deficit reduction without a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases. This is the fundamental conclusion of every responsible group that has examined the issue, most prominently ...
  • Mitt Romney Platform ‘Like An Etch A Ske ...
    Huff Post Sam Stein Posted: 03/21/2012 11:10 am Updated: 03/21/2012 11:19 am WASHINGTON — It’s hardly a secret that presidential candidates tack toward their base over the course of a primary and shift toward moderation once that primary is over. What’s rare is when a campaign ...
  • Romney Econ Adviser Posts Deport-Seniors Joke ...
    Politico By GLENN THRUSH| 3/20/12 7:17 PM EDT Greg Mankiw, the Harvard professor who serves as one of Mitt Romney’s top economic advisers, has managed to take a shot at two key constituencies – Hispanics and seniors – in a single linked post on his popular economics blog. Under the header “ ...
  • Fox News Lies; An Elderly Woman Dies
    Crooks and Liars By karoli March 20, 2012 09:00 AM When I first saw this image on Facebook, I wasn’t sure how on earth Fox News could have killed someone’s mother. And then I read the message that went with the photo. Tracy Knauss posted it on his Facebook page along with a message w ...

Solari

  • The Human Project – Barrie Trower Interview
    Part 1 – YouTube Interview playlist (Parts 1-13)
  • Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Netw ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Families and communities are struggling with significant currency debasement and ever more complex regulation which function as capital controls,  shutting off opportunity and liquidity to the average person.  What to do? Individually, we can reposition our personal an ...
  • Michigan DNR Going Hog Wild
    By Pete Kennedy, Esq. In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to expand its jurisdiction beyond hunting and fishing to farming operations. On April 1, 2012 an Invas ...
  • Banker Left Speechless By Irish Journalist
    YouTube (28 Feb 12) Continue reading the article . . .
  • President Obama Issues Executive Order Friday
    Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness [Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However, why now? L ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • We ask the mineshaft: what went wrong with th ...
    Summary:   The Tea Party Movement began with such hope and enthusiasm, and evolved into GOP shock troops — in effect supporting what they opposed.  Such as bank-friendly policies.   We ask the mineshaft what went wrong?   {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipe ...
  • We ask the mineshaft: what went wrong with th ...
    Summary:   The Tea Party Movement began with such hope and enthusiasm, and evolved into GOP shock troops — in effect supporting what they opposed.  Such as bank-friendly policies.   We ask the mineshaft what went wrong?   {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipe ...
  • With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Ch ...
    Summary:  A series of Executive Orders during the past century has slowly expanded the authority of the Executive Branch.  Now President Hope and Change takes a large step forward toward a new order, issuing a blueprint for tyranny.  Don’t worry, it will be implemented slowly.  One cannot ...
  • With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Ch ...
    Summary:  A series of Executive Orders during the past century has slowly expanded the authority of the Executive Branch.  Now President Hope and Change takes a large step forward toward a new order, issuing a blueprint for tyranny.  Don’t worry, it will be implemented slowly.  One cannot ...
  • “COIN of the Realm” – review ...
    Summary:  Before amnesia clouds our memories of Iraq and Afghanistan, as it has erased the lessons of Vietnam, we should review the books that guided us to the long disaster of serial interventions after 9-11.  Today we have a cheery mid-war look at one such.  Historians will look at this book a ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • A Victory for the UN…In Oklahoma!
    As you probably were not aware, a member of the Oklahoma state legislature introduced a resolution last month to call on the U.S. Congress to withdraw from the United Nations. The Oklahoma state legislature has no authority over American relations with the United Nations, so the bill simply enco ...
  • Not Just Islam
    One attitude I often see is that Muslims are somehow uniquely intolerant of other religions. A Get Religion blogger named Mollie said in the context of the Saudi mufti’s call for mosque destruction: “Can you imagine the coverage if, say, the Pope or some other major religious leader ...
  • Interests, Not Morals, Explain China’s Isolation
    Minxin Pei has an interesting article out in Foreign Policy on China’s diplomatic isolation. At first, his article has solid argumentation: China is in a fiercely competitive neighborhood, and as a centrally-located rising power with presumably revisionist intentions, it has a geographically log ...
  • Top of the Morning: Gaddafi’s Spy Chief to be ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service — DAWNS Digest. Gaddafi’s Former Spy Chief to be tried in Libya The ICC wants him. France Wants Him. But it looks like Libya will get first crack at trying Gadhafi’s former spy chief Abdullah al Senussi. You may recall that ...
  • Strong Quakes Rock Mexico City and Papua, Indo ...
    A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s capital; separately, a magnitude 6.2 tremor hit Indonesia’s Papua province. No reports of casualties or damage are available, but Mexican authorities said the water system and other “strategic services” were not affected by the qu ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Is the Blunt Amendment a Wedge to Bring Down ACA?
    You’ve been reading me go on and on. Now you get to see for yourself exactly how much fun I have talking about the contraception wars, et al. Sarah Posner had me on her Bloggingheads.tv show, which was posted last night. This particular excerpt starts close to the end, but if you want more of o ...
  • Georgia's War Over Charter Schools Heads to th ...
    For months, the Georgia Legislature has served as a key battleground for the charter schools debate. Now the fight goes to the voters who will ultimately decide the fate of a constitutional amendment to allow 'state-chartered" schools over the objection of local school boards. The measure, whi ...
  • More on Tyler Clementi
    Richard Kim at The Nation has the smartest take on the conviction that I’ve seen, combing carefully through the evidence and thinking about the conclusions. Please do pop over and read it (and then come back here, of course!). Some excerpts: The cell phone and social media evidence … suggests a ...
  • Baseless 2016 Speculation
    I try to avoid speculation about the next election—especially when we’re still eight months away from the current one—but this is too interesting to pass up: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Hillary Clinton’s protegee and replacement in the Senate, says she’ll ask the Secretary of State to run for P ...
  • Things Done Changed
    The thing to remember about Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is that his political popularity depends on his ability to keep social issues away from the agenda. As long has he can portray himself as a technocratic, jobs oriented governor—and as long as Virginia maintains its steady rate of econo ...

Buzzflash

  • Pastor John Hagee’s Christian Zionist Enterpri ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The controversial Pastor whose Christians United for Israel has become a major player in U.S.-Israeli politics, has been pushing for a more muscular response to Iran and is trying to re-emerge as a player in Republican Party presidential politics. Pastor ...
  • The GOP Body Count
    PATRICIA WELLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Republicans are leaving so many dead bodies along the road to the White House, that one would think they were bounty hunters instead of public servants committed to creating a better world for one and all. The war on women continues unabated, with one st ...
  • Grassroots Citizen Action is Shutting Down the ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In the wake of Fukushima, grassroots citizen action is shutting the worldwide nuclear power industry. A Solartopian tipping point is upon us in the US, Europe and Japan which will re-define how the human race gets its energy. States rights and local dem ...
  • The Rich Evade Taxes and We End Up Paying Thei ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTThe other day I helped my son with his taxes. He was doing them for the first time, after spending a year with his new college degree looking for a job and managing his student loan account. We found out that he would be paying more in federal taxes than a ...
  • Why Didn't Rick Santorum Denounce the Immoral ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Rick Santorum is now on a full-fledged campaign to make the presidency -- should he be nominated and elected -- a major force in fighting a war on pornography. Say what?  Is he running to govern a nation in need of jobs, economic and energy inno ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • The evolving, revolving of the Moon
    Still, lifeless, unchanging…how did the Moon get so boring? Here’s what a few billion years of volcanic activity and meteoric bombardment did for the old guy…you’d want a rest after all that too… Related Posts:The moon hour by hour for 2012 NASA GSFC Scientific Visu ...
  • Unweaving the rainbow, that’s a good thing
    I posted a photo of a rather melancholic sunset on Facebook and Google+ earlier this week and captioned it:  ”just photons being scattered by atmospheric water vapour and dust…but still…” I think most viewers did with Trish Parnell suggesting that, ‘The whole is gre ...
  • Chemists work evenings, weekends and take no v ...
    I hope things have changed a little since the bad old days when professors suggested that members of their research team ought to work all day, every day, including evenings and weekends, public holidays and could only have time off for a vacation if it had been well earned. It’s possible ...
  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 2
    To be frank, I’ve decided that you really don’t need to know my detailed waist-to-hip ratio, my weight, body fat percentage or any of the other details I am now poring over thanks to the good people at the MRC Epidemiology Unit. None of them are particularly bad…none of them ar ...
  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 1
    Regular readers will know that I was recruited via my GP to take part in the Fenland Study. The study is taking a sample of the population born between 1950 and 1975, and carrying out a raft of blood tests, body stature measurements, DEXA body fat and bone density and tests for diabetes, cholest ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Progressive Caucus Announces the Budget for All
    Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Rep. Michael Honda, the CPC Budget Taskforce Chairman and principal author of the CPC 2013 Budget, today announced the CPC’s alternative budget, the Budget ...
  • Cancer-Causing Pesticide Pulled from U.S. Agri ...
    The battle over a cancer-causing pesticide often applied to California strawberry fields is over. The maker of the highly toxic methyl iodide has pulled the agriculture pesticide from the American marketplace in the face of mounting opposition from the public, leading scientific and public healt ...
  • Sen. Whitehouse Reintroduces DISCLOSE Act to S ...
    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today introduced a straightforward DISCLOSE Act that would shine light on the sources of secretive corporate slush funds flooding into the 2012 federal elections. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) already has introduced a companion measure in the House. Public Citize ...
  • Common Cause Files IRS Complaint Against Liber ...
    Extensive political activity in the 2010 elections by a nonprofit group founded and formerly run by lobbyist and Tea Party activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas appears to have violated federal tax laws, Common Cause said today.  “As the Internal Revenue Service examines how so ...
  • Thirty Companies Contribute $41 Million to 524 ...
    A new report to be released Wednesday, March 21 by U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) and Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) found that thirty unusually aggressive tax dodging corporations have made campaign contributions to 524 (98 percent) sitting members of Congress, and disproportio ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Enemies of Campaign Ad Transparency
    Bill Moyers Sometimes in a dumbfounded moment the only response to the news is to rub your eyes in disbelief. Both of mine are quite irritated today at the audacity of corporate broadcasters as reported in a story online at The Washington P ...
  • Greece's Austerity Doesn't Extend to Its Arms ...
    Paul Haydon In the wake of the private sector debt swap agreed last week, European leaders have continued to call for major structural reforms to Greece's economy and society. The current EU-IMF bailout remains conditional on furth ...
  • Fact: US Drilling Doesn't Lower Gas Prices
    Luke Tonachel 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 puts it simply: “&h ...
  • Obama Picks Sides on Tar Sands: TransCanada Wi ...
    Mijin Cha A lesson in how not to reduce gas prices: the White House is backing TransCanada’s bid to build the southern portion of the controversial pipeline Keystone XL pipeline.read more
  • As Supreme Court Listens, Here’s a Look at Wha ...
    Hatty Lee On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court revisited the question of whether juveniles convicted of murder should be given mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. This is the Court’s latest review ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Winning The Water Wars
    Tucked into canyons on the eastern flank of Mount San Jacinto, in Southern California, the palm spri ...
  • Mayor lobs 1st shell in water wars
    An angry Mayor Gabriel J. Campana said he is prepared to challenge the Williamsport Municipal Water and Sanitary Authority in court over whether he holds the power to by-pass City Council and self-appoint authority members.
  • Farmers gain ground in California water wars a ...
    San Joaquin Valley farmers, desperate for a more stable water supply, may have finally hit a gusher.
  • Better Resource Management Needed to Avert Wat ...
    MARSEILLE, FRANCE-- - On the eve of the sixth World Water Forum, the global conservation organization WWF has released new analysis of the reality of water conflicts and necessary actions to avoid a future ...
  • Rethink needed to avoid water wars and famine, ...
    Conservation and rights groups used the opening of the World Water Forum in the French port city of Marseilles on Monday to highlight the role scarce water resources now plays in conflict and famine around the world.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Athlete abused by Israeli soldier for carrying ...
    Emily Lawrence Jerusalem 20 March 2012 An activist running the Jerusalem Marathon sought to bring attention to Israel’s rights abuses at the event.
  • What Palestinian political prisoners are fight ...
    Ameer Makhoul Gilboa Prison 20 March 2012 Khader Adnan’s hunger strike was not in protest of administrative detention but against Israel’s entire colonial system, argues Ameer Makhoul, writing from Gilboa prison.
  • "The house is dark without them": Israel kills ...
    Rami Almeghari Beit Lahiya 19 March 2012 Muhammad al-Hisoumi and his daughter Fayza were killed in an Israeli missile attack as they tended their land in the Gaza Strip on 12 March 2012, leaving behind a devastated family and a darkened house. Rami Almeghari profiles them.
  • Israel actively supports theft of Palestinian ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 19 March 2012 The Israeli government has turned a blind eye — and often actively supported — the illegal takeover of water springs located on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, according to a new report. ...
  • UN body "appalled" by Israel's racial segregat ...
    Adri Nieuwhof and Mireille Fanon Mendès-France 16 March 2012 Israel is severely criticized for violating the right to equality in a new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The Wonk Room

  • Santorum: Climate Scientists Are ‘Pharis ...
    “Climate change’s Pharisees reassure us that the global-warming science is still settled,” conspiracy theorist and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum writes in a Philly.com op-ed. Santorum also attacks the “High Priests of Darwinism” who have been &#822 ...
  • Marlo Thomas on ‘That Girl,’ Women ...
    Marlo Thomas has an essay up at the Huffington Post on the evolution of the single woman on television since the days when she was getting That Girl off the ground. And it’s got an incredibly revealing insight into how behind the curve Hollywood is when it comes to recognizing the realitie ...
  • Winter That Wasn’t Fuels Deadly Spring O ...
    The winter that wasn’t is bleeding into a spring of fire, with freakish warmth and dry ground breeding a disturbingly early start to wildfire season across the nation: ALABAMA: A wildfire burned 70 to 100 acres of land in Tuscaloosa County before being contained. [WBRC] Firefighters are st ...
  • FLASHBACK: In September, Cantor Pushed To Hono ...
    The House Republican budget, as the GOP has been hinting it would, reneges on the deal made to avoid a debt ceiling calamity back in August. The bill to raise the debt ceiling, known as the Budget Control Act, set a level for discretionary spending for 2013. However, the GOP budget cuts $19 bill ...
  • Senate Democrats File New Bill To Require Disc ...
    Justice Anthony Kennedy’s controversial 5-4 majority opinion in the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case specifically endorsed the idea of campaign finance disclosure. “Disclosure is the less-restrictive alternative to more comprehensive speech regulations,” ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Circle is Tightening on the harpercons
    Don't forget that people. This cabal of criminal scum would presume to have the RIGHT to rule over us even if their entire government was elected by fraud. THAT is how little regard they have for democracy. This Rae attack-ad stupidity is just a sign of their desperation. A bunch of still photo ...
  • Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Afghan ...
    When will North American fall for the next installment of beneficial imperialism? Syria? Sudan? The reason why we shouldn't implore our governments to "do something" about an atrocity somewhere is that our governments are comprised of evil men (with a smattering of evil women - You've still got ...
  • A Friend From Europe
    I met up with a long-time friend of mine who has been living in Europe for the past decade or so. She's been living in Denmark, which, despite not being part of the peninsula, is apparently a Scandinavian democracy. Of the Danes, she says they're very insular and cold. She says that coming home ...
  • Patrick Ross Isn't "Depressed"
    As part of my ongoing campaign of posting any sort of shit that comes to mind just to make a post (because responding to the Conservative Party of Canada's electoral fraud CRIMES are too important for my paltry blogging efforts) I'm just going to talk about Canadian Cynic's failed nemesis Patric ...
  • Electoral Fraud Food For Thought
    Just drawing your attention to this: There is also a question of what an inquiry will uncover and, importantly, what recommendations it could possibly make. At the very least the Elections Canada investigation should be allowed to come to completion and, at that time, the RCMP and the legal s ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • ICC celebrates first verdict
    The International Criminal Court issued its first verdict in its 10 years of existence on March 14th when it found Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga guilty of conscripting child soldiers for his private army.
  • No stealth fghters! Responses from MPs
    Ceasefire.ca supporters have sent more than 3500 letters opposing the government's plan to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Some Members of Parliament have responded.
  • Fantino casts doubt on F-35 plan
    Faced with ballooning costs, a series of damning studies, the possibility of a bombshell Auditor-General's report, and a large public outcry, the Harper government has finally admitted that buying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter might not be such a good idea.
  • “Mission Accomplished”
    More details are emerging about the costs for the Roman-style triumph in Ottawa that marked the end of the recent Libya campaign. If the goal was runaway military spending, then the mission was certainly accomplished. The success of the Libya mission itself, on the other hand, remains in doubt.
  • Alternative Budget calls for cuts at DND
    A Budget for the Rest of Us, the 2012 Alternative Federal Budget, provides a road map for Canadians to combat income inequality and avoid a "lost decade" of high unemployment and environmental mismanagement.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Cola and Cancer: Linked Again
    March 6, 2012 Take Part By Khari Johnson “Why is anyone still drinking cola? An organic Blue Sky can of pop isn’t going to kill you now and again, but Diet Coke? Really? You’re still drinking Diet Coke? That’s gross.” –KTRN Remember when the “cola wars&# ...
  • Unvaccinated People A Public Health Threat? No ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “The idea that vaccinated people are in a danger from the unvaccinated is a hilarious concept.  If the vaccines work, shouldn’t they be immune?”  –KTRN Vaccine pushers often resort to an interesting fear tactic to try to mandate va ...
  • Common Pesticides Double Children’s Risk Of ADHD
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Sharon Heller Many people think organic fruits and vegetables are too expensive to buy for family meals. But those who have a hyperactive child should think again. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 4.5 million children ages 5 ...
  • Sleeping Pills Linked To 460 Percent Increase ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Jonathan Benson “There are many natural remedies for insomnia. Why not try those before reaching for a dangerous pharmaceutical drug?” –KTRN If you take pharmaceutical sleeping pills to help alleviate insomnia, you are very likely putting yourself ...
  • Sleeping Pills Linked To 460 Percent Increase ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Jonathan Benson If you take pharmaceutical sleeping pills to help alleviate insomnia, you are very likely putting yourself at serious risk of developing cancer or even dying. A new study published inBMJ Open, an open-access journal that is part of theBritish Medical ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • ‘Buffalo Bill’ Blankfein’s F ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Follow Max Keiser on Twitter: http://twitter.com/maxkeiser Watch the full Keiser Report 265 on Thursday. In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the great ‘unbanked’ masses dumping gold believing in a ‘recovering economy’ an ...
  • Hawaii Senate Passes Legislation To Curb TSA
    Push continues for other States to introduce “Traveler’s Bill of Rights” Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 21, 2012 Hawaii Senators this week passed a resolution for a “Traveler’s Bill of Rights”, aimed at making the TSA more accountable and putting a stop to over reach and abuses. Minority Le ...
  • Stepped-Up Pressure on Assad
    By Stephen Lendman Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also urged greater political and diplomatic pressure on Washington to stop supporting terrorist gangs committing sabotage, murder and other forms of violence. Mansou ...
  • Obama Executive Order: Preparation For War Wit ...
    EO is designed to combat imminent interruption in oil supplies Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Some analysts fear that the Obama administration’s recently passed executive order represents more than just a power grab and could in fact be part of preparations for a ...
  • Iran oil ban to break EU faster than Euro?
    Russia Today youtube.com It’s turmoil in the Arab world that’s now threatening a bigger blow to the global economy, than the crisis in the Eurozone. The IMF Chief Christine Lagarde has warned that escalation of the situation with Iran, for example, could drive oil prices above 160 do ...

Dandelion Salad

  • James Bamford: Inside the NSA’s Largest ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Mar 21, 2012 democracynow.org – A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program code-named &#8220 ...
  • U.S. plots takeover of Syria and Iran by Joyce ...
    Dandelion Salad by Joyce Chediac www.workers.org March 20, 2012 The first heavy fighting is taking place in Syria’s capital, Damascus, between alleged “defectors” and the Syrian security forces. Four days earlier, two huge explosions ripped through intelligence and security buildings ...
  • U.S. plots takeover of Syria and Iran by Joyce ...
    Dandelion Salad by Joyce Chediac www.workers.org March 20, 2012 The first heavy fighting is taking place in Syria’s capital, Damascus, between alleged “defectors” and the Syrian security forces. Four days earlier, two huge explosions ripped through intelligence and security buildings ...
  • Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran R ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP March 20, 2012 VIENNA, Mar 20, 2012 (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 Ir ...
  • Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran R ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP March 20, 2012 VIENNA, Mar 20, 2012 (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 Ir ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Address inequalities facing Arabs, says ICG
    Judith Ilani, Jaffa’s Popular Housing Committee: “In Palestinian Jaffa, the poorest people live on the most expensive piece of soil in the country... Even if I have a doghouse close to the sea, the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Chris Hedges: Murder is not an anomaly in war
    The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • International Crisis Group: Back to basics – I ...
    Simultaneous Arab marginalisation and revitalisation also has manifested itself in initial efforts by its leadership to define the community’s political aspirations. The so-called “Vision Documents”... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Awad Abdelfattah: Risk of unrest grows as Isra ...
    Israel sees its Arab citizens as a security threat, and their leaders are increasingly under attack. While cooperation and political participation once seemed feasible, systematic discrimination has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Yitzhak Laor: The people demand some blood
    This hooligan-like logic turns into part of a totally uninhibited language. We are allowed to assassinate, but you aren't allowed to respond: For the little, if any, of our blood spilled, you will... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russia Considering Cyber-Security Command
    The Russian government is considering setting up a dedicated cyber-security command, responsible for protecting the armed forces' information systems, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.
  • NATO Base in Russia 'Pragmatic Decision' – Ana ...
    The Kremlin's intention to allow NATO to set up a hub for Afghan transit operations in the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk has triggered protests amid claims the deal would undermine Russia's national interests and security.
  • U.S. Never Disclosed Missile Defense Data to R ...
    The United States has never provided Russia with a secret information concerning the deployment of its missile shield elements in Europe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
  • Bulava Missile in for More Tests
    A series of test launches for the Bulava intercontinental missile are planned for the summer, a source at the Russian Navy said on Tuesday.
  • Russian Air Force Adopts New Cruise Missile
    A new cruise missile has entered service with the Russian Air Force’s strategic long-range arms division, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

  • Structure of 'Salvia' Receptor Solved
    A research team has determined the structure of the kappa-opioid receptor--site of action of the widely abused hallucinogen Salvia divinorum - solving longstanding scientific mysteries and offering new insights for treating drug addiction, chronic pain and depression.
  • Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Helps Control Pai ...
    An peripheral nerve stimulation technique may be a valuable new approach for relief of severe neuropathic (nerve-related) pain in injured soldiers, reports an article in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
  • Missouri S&T Students to Test CPR in Microgravity
    While talk of space tourism continues to skyrocket, students at Missouri University of Science and Technology are working to improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - a crucial emergency procedure - in a microgravity environment. Their tests could lead to greater safety for future space trav ...
  • Patient Experience Improves with New Approach ...
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering is the first and only hospital in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to offer a new, more patient-friendly approach for doctors to precisely pinpoint and remove very small breast cancers that can be seen on a mammogram but not felt in the breast.
  • Gender Gaps Discovered in Overall Use of Presc ...
    Women use more prescription drugs than men; yet they are not prescribed proper amounts. In a new study presented at Women's Health 2012: The 20th Annual Congress by Medco Health Solutions, Inc. and the Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR) women are prescribed more drugs than men, have poor ...

Natural Health News

  • The Heart Disease Scam That Generates Billions ...
    If you have stable heart disease, research shows that your initial treatment should usually be lifestyle changes. But that isn’t the way doctors treat most heart disease patients.  Instead, they often opt for angioplasty, an invasive procedure in which a doctor inflates a thin balloon in a ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Found in West Coast Water ...
    Recent high radiation readings on the American west coast could be the result of uranium rich, nanoscale-sized spheres formed in the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and transported across the Pacific Ocean by currents. Research shows that such spheres likely formed when the Fukushima-Dai ...
  • Women Report that Exercise Triggers Orgasm
    According to researchers, some women experience exercise-triggered orgasms.  The phenomenon has been dubbed “coregasm” because abdominal exercises tend to be the cause. The findings come from an in-depth survey that asked women if they’d ever experienced exercise-induced orgasms (EIO) or e ...
  • Exercising Your Mind to Prevent Alzheimer's
    In recent years, there has been a growing interest in non-drug intervention for memory difficulties.  Drug therapies tend to have limited efficacy, and more and more evidence is showing that the connections in your brain are not fixed, but retain the capacity to change with learning. A new ...
  • Coffee May Not Be So Bad After All
    Some studies have suggested that coffee consumption might increase your risk of chronic disease.  But a new study that investigated the association between coffee and type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, and cancer found otherwise. Researchers used data from more than 42,000 peo ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • LJIL Symposium: James Stewart responds to Darr ...
    by James Stewart by James Stewart [James G. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia] I mean no false praise to Darryl Robinson when I describe his article The Identity Crisis in International Criminal Justice as one of the very best in the discipline. Many y ...
  • LJIL Symposium: Darryl Robinson comments on Ja ...
    by Darryl Robinson by Darryl Robinson [Darryl Robinson is Assistant Professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law] James Stewart’s article “The End of ‘Modes of Liability’ for International Crimes” is an impressive piece of scholarship.  It is one of the most sophisticated works to date in br ...
  • The Broken Windows Theory of Corruption
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Kudos to Daniel Chow and Mike Koehler for a wonderful conference last week at Ohio State Law School addressing the FCPA at thirty-five. It’s always a risk to hold a conference that mingles hard-core practitioners with soft and fuzzy academics, but this one seeme ...
  • LJIL Symposium: Introduction to the “End of Mo ...
    by James Stewart by James Stewart [James G. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia] My article argues for an end to modes of liability in international criminal justice. It uses complicity, also known as aiding and abetting or accomplice liability, to show ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Mauritania has agreed to extradite ex-Libyan chief-of-intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya. The Economist outlines the world’s biggest arms exporters based on a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. US President Barack Ob ...

Public News Service

  • Lawsuit Alleges EPA Foot-Dragging on Power Pla ...
    Lawsuit Alleges EPA Foot-Dragging on Power Plant Clean-Up PHOENIX - Skies over several National Parks will be clearer and people in the Four Corners region will be healthier if a federal lawsuit filed Monday is successful. The National Parks Conservation Association and the Navajo environmental ...
  • Family PLZ! (Please) Arizonans Urged to Talk F ...
    Family PLZ! (Please) Arizonans Urged to Talk Family Medical History PHOENIX - Over 90 percent of people diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer are over 50, but when the disease runs in a family, it can strike earlier. Tom Rich, regional director, Comprehensive Cancer Control, for The American Cance ...
  • Health Care Reform Shows Signs of Saving Medic ...
    Health Care Reform Shows Signs of Saving Medicare Budget PHOENIX – According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, healthcare reform is already slowing the growth in the cost of Medicare, a crucial change that could save the program from bankruptcy. Researchers crunched nu ...
  • Hazardous Chemicals Found in Children's Jewelry
    Hazardous Chemicals Found in Children's Jewelry PHOENIX - A new study has found high levels of hazardous chemicals in a majority of children's jewelry purchased in a handful of states. Kathleen Schuler, co-director of the group Healthy Legacy, says about 100 pieces of jewelry were tested for va ...
  • Older Arizonans Can Participate in 17th Annual ...
    Older Arizonans Can Participate in 17th Annual AARP Spelling Bee PHOENIX - Those age 50 or older who fancy themselves to be a good speller might want to give AARP's 17th annual National Spelling Bee a try. Brian Greene went to school in the Midwest but now lives and works in Cheyenne, Wyo., and ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Beekeepers & Environmental Groups to EPA: Pest ...
    Over 1 million urge EPA to suspend use of pesticide harmful to bees, fix broken regulatory system Today, commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an urgent legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend further use of a pesticide the agency knows ...
  • 6 Days Left to Comment on CFS’s Legal Pe ...
    We’re less than 10,000 comments shy of our goal of one million comments, and we need your help to reach it! In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to genetically engineered (GE) ...
  • Pressure on Walmart to Rebuff GE Sweet Corn In ...
    Consumer Allies Collect Nearly Half a Million Petition Signatures and Plan Protests at Stores Across the Country Today the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action, SumOfUs, Center for Environmental Health, and Corporate Accountability International announced they have collec ...
  • Food Safety Update: Pink Slime–A Symptom ...
    By Michele Simon This past week, the media woke up to the shocking reality that our meat supply is in fact industrialized. Long gone are the days of your friendly local butcher grinding meat for your kids’ hamburgers. Taking its place is a corporate behemoth you probably never heard of called Be ...
  • Fifty-Five Members Of Congress Call On FDA To ...
    Led by Boxer and DeFazio, Bicameral Letter Calls for Reversal of Two Decade-Old Labeling Policy, Supports CFS Legal Petition In Only 6 Months, Already 850,000+ Public Comments To FDA In Support Of Labeling This morning a bicameral letter signed by 55 Members of Congress was sent to U.S. Food and ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Evil Gas
    What that koala said! No more gas mining, there are other ways to get gas and energy! Check these websites for more info:Stop CSG Illawarra (http://stop-csg-illawarra.org/)No Gas Mining Sydney (http://www.nogasmininginsydney.com/) Photo by: Suze Chalmers  
  • Environmental News 28/02/2012
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    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • What's On 13 February 2012
    It's time to SHOW YOUR LOVE! Lovers of our oceans, on this Valentine’s Day, show your love for the beautiful Coral Sea by asking Mr Burke to better protect the coral reefs in our Coal Sea!
  • Grizzly Peak
    This is the Grizzly Peak in Yosemite National Park, USA. Yosemite National Park is one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, and is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast w ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Help save solar and wind power in the West Bank
    Ed’s Note: The Only Democracy? does not usually feature action alerts, but we have highlighted work of Comet-ME in the past and are proud to come to their defense. Watch Elad’s action alert Israel is threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems in rural communities in the W ...
  • Settler Group Presses Israeli Government to Ac ...
    We previously reported on the worrisome escalation in demolition of Palestinian structures in South Hebron Hills. The body issuing the demolition orders is the deceptively-named “Civil Administration”. Contrary to its name (invented in the 1980′s by Ariel Sharon to mislead the ...
  • Why/ Who Died?
    By David Grossman, Translated by Sol Salbe All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such ...
  • More on Khader Adnan: Video from “Democr ...
    Originally posted on the “Democracy Now!” website
  • Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan Stops Hunger ...
    Ma’an: The Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs said Tuesday that Israel intends to release hunger striking prisoner Khader Adnan after he completes his current administrative detention term. In return, Adnan agreed to end his strike, according to Issa Qaraqe, the prisoners ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: &#821 ...
      Craig Monteilh describes how he pretended to be a radical Muslim in order to root out potential threats, shining a light on some of the bureau’s more ethically murky practices. Guardian UK Craig Monteilh: ‘It is all about entrapment.’ Photograph: The Washington Post Crai ...
  • “Brokered Convention?” – Ron ...
    … And the crowd goes Wild! Thanks Jay! lol – Ron Paul is in better shape than Rick InSanitorum…
  • IRS forms ‘SWAT team’ for tax dodg ...
      * Tax evasion by ‘transfer pricing’ a top target for IRS * Talent comes from Big Four audit, law, consulting firms * ‘The deck is stacked against them’ – academic on IRS By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue S ...
  • Selective Enforcement: State Department exemp ...
      Foreign Policy 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 themselves off of Iranian oil. “I am ...
  • Ron Paul: Secret Service is welfare
    And in light of Obama’s new laws against protesting while the SS is present, its not only “welfare” – it’s anti 1st amendment to have your SS guards present. – Regardless, Dr Paul does need security! Politico Ron Paul said Tuesday he doesn’t want any Secret Se ...

The Air Vent

  • Capitalsim, Probability, and The Second Law o ...
    Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” is in sharp contrast to, “all men are created equal.” Both concepts are inherently similar, yet have stark differences. Both pre ...
  • Conservative Fantasy World
    On the last thread Kevin O’Neill left this post. Conservatives live in a fantasy world. Their myths are etched in stone and actual facts can never sway them from their beliefs. For instance: “Per Capita Government Spending by President: Ranking since Johnson (starting in 1968), and using t ...
  • High gas prices have always been part of the plan
    For those with short memories. Obama – “energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.” While cap and trade auto-corruption scheme didn’t make the cut, gutting production doesn’t do terribly badly either. I recently heard the stat that the US used to produce 10 million ...
  • Sea Ice – Overlapping Satellite Record A ...
    Despite criticisms from the super warmist advocacy guild (aka SWAG), this post is a continuation of our investigation into  sea ice from the satellite data.  I have never thoroughly vetted the knitting of satellite data from the 5 satellites which form the curves “n07″,”f08&#82 ...
  • Craig Loehle – 10 US Climate Disasters W ...
    We all know the media constantly reports the standard climate change mantra of increased storms, droughts, flooding, warming, cooling and basically anything they can find and attribute it to climate change – by man.  Craig Loehle wrote an interesting post on WUWT which calls out what I des ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Will Twitter integrate Facebook Open Graph?
    Six years since Twitter founders sent the first tweet, we wonder how the microblogging network might build on Facebook’s Open Graph. As Facebook encroaches on Twitter’s territory with the subscribe feature and interest lists, Twitter should consider ways to use … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Environmental Defense Fund, SponsorPay, Symphony Publishing Group, ...
  • Facebook faces another patent suit
    Canadian telecommunications company Mitel Networks is suing Facebook over patents for “pro-active features for telephony” and an “automatic web page generator,” according to a filing. The challenge comes a week after Yahoo filed suit over 10 patents it claims the social network violated. These & ...
  • Draw Something, WashPo, Yahoo, Rotten Tomatoes ...
    Mobile game Draw Something continues to dominate our lists of top Facebook apps, this time by daily active users. There were several other games on the list. The Washington Post Social Reader and Yahoo’s news integration continue to grow. Then … Continue reading →
  • Adele, Kakà, Thailand, Intel, Jeremy Lin, Will ...
    There was a interesting mix of Facebook pages that made our list of the top 20 growing by the number of Likes this week, principally because it appeared as though several consolidations took place. Nonetheless, sports and music were popular, … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Britain's "bother-boy" Hague loves putting the ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that British Foreign Secretary William Hague's determination to condemn the Iranian people to economic hardship, his keenness to escalate tension with Iran, and his eagerness to do Israel's bidding by creating an environment conducive to aggression against Iran, mean tha ...
  • Social fear as an obstacle to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that freedom in Western societies is seriously compromised by people's fear of crime, and that the post-9/11 fear of terror, which has been grossly exaggerated by the media, appears to suit some governments as it pushes the public to consent to more surveillance and social co ...
  • Netanyahu versus Obama: what next?
    Alan Hart assesses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's options as he tries to sabotage the prospect of a second term for Barack Obama by dragging the US into a war with Iran, and argues that the real danger is that Netanyahu's anti-Iran rhetoric - "a combination of wretchedness and megal ...
  • US editor’s lament for Israel overlooks Zionis ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel's anti-democratic and racist traits are not recent phenomena, located mainly among the settlers on the West Bank, but "flow from structural problems that were built into the Zionist experiment that ultimately resulted in the Israeli state. They were built in ...
  • Misrepresentation and moral cowardice: Gilad A ...
    Gilad Atzmon debunks a statement signed by Ali Abunimah and others in which they misrepresent his critique of Jewish identity politics, and he vows to continue his fight for the truth. By publishing this, we reiterate our support for Mr Atzmon and hope that the signatories of the statement will ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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 ...
  • Who is Ken, or Kenneth, Wainstein?
    9/11 Questions Bubble Up in the Media On Friday February 24, Boiling Frogs posted an article titled “Media Sleepwalks, While History is in the Making.”  Three articles had come out the week before, one in the London Daily Telegraph and two in the Florida-based Broward Bulldog, raising important ...
  • The New Mediterranean Oil & Gas Bonanza: Part II
    Rising Energy Tensions in the Aegean—Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria By William Engdahl The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire ...
  • The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil
    “One of the Greatest Material Prizes in World History” In the midst of World War II, Saudi Arabia secured a position of enormous significance to the rising world power, America. With its oil reserves essentially untapped, the House of Saud became a strategic ally of immense importance, “a matter ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Chaka Khan The reason for this 8th BFP/Jamiol music pick is pretty succinct…I love Chaka Khan! So kick back and enjoy “Ain’t Nobody” by Chaka Khan: This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by subscribing .

Afro Spear

  • Hunting Season is open!
  • The Miseducation of the Negro Pseudo-intellectual
    “I stated that Kony 2012 is pro-imperialism, pro-militarism propaganda.  Again, here is the link to the article explaining my position.  http://new-possibilities.blogspot.com/2012/03/kony-2012-is-imperialistic-propaganda.html Most of you have not provided any logical arguments refuting tha ...
  • “Will Wade make it this time?” by ...
    Some people are lucky, others are not. Senegalese strong man, Abdulaye Wade is among the luckiest old men even though he behaves like an adolescent. Had it been not for divided and ever-greedy opposition, Wade would have been history now. Voters gave him a very heavy blow in the first round. He ...
  • The Negro Pseudo-intellectual and Social Media ...
    “That Kony2012 video is one of the most effective pro-imperialism, pro-militarism pieces of propaganda ever produced.” Anson Asaka “It’s a sad commentary on affairs when white people are the ones constantly and consistently advocating for the safety and security of Africa ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Blogtalkradio: The Promotion of Homosexuality in Africa Farm life of African family in Russia is “beyond bad dream” The Great African Scandal

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Small Business Owners and Labor: The Backbone ...
    Small business owners and workers are not represented by either political party, and the Voters' Rights Amendment will give them a voice in their government.
  • Police State Blues: "Our rights do not end whe ...
    To express indifference or to be an apologist for the quotidian evils of our time is reprehensible. Like the "good Germans" of the 1930s, you might believe your codified hatreds and commodified longings, manifested by the industrial and military power of the state, will deliver and preserve free ...
  • Waxman: Clean Energy Solution to Federal Deficit
    Congressman Henry Waxman and former Congressman Wayne Gilcrest were guests at a panel today at the Center for American Progress on legislation being written to reduce the deficit by requiring a set fee from industries that pollute the environment with hydrocarbons.
  • Spring Equinox and Aries New Moon 2012
    We begin the astrological new year with the Sun going into Aries at the Spring Equinox. Springtime is a season of renewal - new life bursts forth in Nature, sending up crocuses, tulips, daffodils and hyacinths and unfurling new leaves and blossoms on trees. It is a time of hope and optimism, o ...
  • Obama Has No Apologies For His Own Massacres
    When President Obama signs off on a drone strike he assumes a personal responsibility for the outcome. Sgt. Robert Bales is imprisoned for his alleged role in the Kandahar massacre but President Obama has killed many more than 16---in fact, many hundreds----through his drone strikes.

Switchboard

  • Fin Bans in New York and Illinois Would Protec ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco In the last past month New York and Illinois have taken important steps towards joining states like Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, and California in banning the trade of shark fins. On Februa ...
  • Bipartisan HOMES Act is the Perfect Trifecta: ...
    Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, Washington, DC How can we create jobs, cut pollution and put more money in consumers’ pockets? The Home Owner Managing Energy Savings Act (HOMES Act), introduced today by Reps. McKinley (R-WV) and Welch ...
  • 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 ...
  • Will the real green colleges please stand up? ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Today’s post is guest-authored by my friend and frequent collaborator, Lee Epstein.  Lee is an attorney and land use planner working for sustainability in the mid-A ...
  • One Law is Saving Fish Species from Collapse - ...
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York For the first time in a generation, fish populations are getting healthier – science-based management and rebuilding requirements have led to the recovery of 23 fish species since 2000, according ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • It Gets Funnier!
    Apparently, the Jets might be saved from their incompetence by their own incompetence.
  • Tebow to Sin City
    Traded to the Jets for a fourth round pick fourth and sixth round pick, plus the Jets get a seventh. At least he and Rex Ryan can reprise The Odd Couple. This has got to be one of the most inexplicable moves ever. The Jets just signed the Sanchise to a huge extension, although given [...]
  • Foreign Entanglements: Aircraft Carriers and Such
    Andrew Erickson and I chat aircraft carriers and ASBMs, spurred by his latest edited volume:
  • The Federalism Fairy
    I think Yglesias correctly identifies the very most annoying part of zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan’s budget. It’s not just that he portrays his destroy-the-safety-net-to-fund-upper-class-tax-cuts-and-runaway-defense-spending budget as a measure to preserve the safety net, alth ...
  • Kristol is Very Sad
    Doesn’t this just make you feel bad for poor Bill Kristol? Looking back at the day’s news, I must admit I’m having trouble maintaining my customary good cheer. Watching Mitt Romney’s victory speech in Illinois didn’t reassure me about his chances against President O ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DoE/NNSA Contract Extension
    DRI secured a new Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration. The contract extends until October 31, 2016 and has a ceiling value of $35,926,593. DRI supports the nationally important missions of ...
  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • BOOSTING YOUR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OR JOB PROS ...
    We all must take calculated risks to generate the momentum necessary to move forward. Looking for a job, building a business or creating any opportunity requires making a call and hoping that expectations align. You will be correct more often than you might initially believe.
  • 7th Circuit criticizes injury-log regulation i ...
    A Department of Labor regulation requiring companies to log work-related injuries, deaths and illnesses is a "garbage in, garbage out" system that poorly detects workplace hazards, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has ruled.
  • Unanimous Court finds diagnostic process not p ...
    In a decision with important implications for the evolving field of personalized medicine, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated two patents on a diagnostic test used in connection with the treatment of autoimmune diseases.
  • Little consensus among justices over life with ...
    Arguments over the constitutionality of a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for juveniles provoked strong comments but no clear consensus at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
  • Litigator O'Donnell cast out of Central Distri ...
    Prominent litigator Pierce O'Donnell continues to fight for his ability to practice law, despite having recently agreed to a plea deal designed to prevent immediate suspension of his California bar license.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

  • Mortar Attacks Kill Six Somalis in Mogadishu
    The attacks mark the first attack of its kind since August when anti-government forces withdrew from the majority of districts in the capital.
  • US Values Relationship With Jamaica
    The United States also cooperates with the Jamaica Constabulary and with the Jamaica Defense Force.
  • Why Act 10 Was Necessary for Financial Health ...
    But few fully understand the necessity of the law, particularly for cash-strapped public schools. Walker admitted as much last summer during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, when he said, 'We had not built enough of the case.'
  • Amelia Earhart Embodies Spirit of an America C ...
    It has been 75 years since Amelia Earhart set out in that twin-engine Lockheed Electra to be the first pilot, man or woman, to fly around the world along the longest equatorial route, Ms. Clinton said
  • Swift Satellite Provides New Insight on Origin ...
    Swift data on SN 2011fe also figure prominently in unpublished studies led by Alicia Soderberg at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. Preliminary results suggest that the explosion was caused by merging white dwarfs.

environment 360

  • Proposed UK Plant Would Capture 90 Percent of ...
    A U.S.-led consortium has announced plans to build a new coal plant in Scotland that it says will be able to capture 90 percent of its carbon emissions. The so-called Caledonia Clean Energy Project, which would be built near Edinburgh, is perhaps the most ambitious carbon capture and storage (CC ...
  • NASA Map Depicts Unusual Warm Stretch Across M ...
    A new NASA map of temperature anomalies recorded across the U.S. in mid-March illustrates just how unusual the recent stretch of warm weather has been, particularly in Midwestern states where thousands of Click to enlarge NASA U.S. temperature anomalies, March, 2012 sites have reported ...
  • Nitrates Pose Threat to California Farming Reg ...
    Nearly 10 percent of the people living in California’s most productive agricultural areas may be drinking water contaminated with nitrates, according to a new study. In an analysis of water quality in the Tulare Lake Basin and the Salinas Valley, a rural region of about 2.6 million people, resea ...
  • Thinner Silicon Wafers Could Cut Cost of Solar ...
    A U.S. company has developed a new manufacturing technique that it says could cut the cost of producing solar cells in half by producing silicon wafers that are about one-tenth as thick as conventional wafers. Twin Creeks Technologies, a San Jose-based company, says it can produce crystalline si ...
  • Interview: Finding Strategies to Save the Worl ...
    In her four decades as a marine biologist, Nancy Knowlton has played an important role in helping document the biodiversity of the planet’s coral reefs — and the threats they increasingly face. Knowlton, a Christian Ziegler/Smithsonian Nancy Knowlton scientist at the Smithsonian Institu ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Unidentified space object falls from the sky ( ...
    A mysterious cylinder has fallen on a tiny village in Siberia, causing widespread speculation as to what it is. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Hubbard ban: Scientology books officially extr ...
    If next time celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise comes to Moscow for a premiere he gives someone one of his religious texts, he will be spreading extremism. At least according to the Moscow Regional Court. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Reports Toulouse 'serial killer' held denied b ...
    Conflicting reports are coming in about the reported arrest of the gunman suspected of murdering three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • War with Iran to cause 30% oil price shock – IMF
    A sudden cut of oil flow from Iran may cause a surge of crude prices of up to 30 per cent, dealing a blow to the world economy, warns IMF chief Christine Lagarde. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Over a barrel: UK clings to Falklands colony
    As the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War nears, the dispute over the islands is being fueled by British plans for oil exploration in the region. The end of the conflict seems even farther as Argentina claims the UK... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Ex Colorado Springs Gazette reporter has a new ...
    ‘Overseas in Iraq for several months, these (Lethal Warrior’ unit) soldiers were exposed to the same dangerous scenarios on a regular basis. So much, Philipps said, that the soldiers never knew who the enemy was and would shoot random citizens and place guns on them to legitimize the ...
  • Is the US military now torturing the jailed ch ...
    The US government and its military have a long history of torturing and murdering POWs held by its soldiers and their allies, and 14 of Osama bin Laden’s family are now being held incognito in a Pakistani military jail. Are these three women plus their eight children and the other three re ...
  • Robert Bales, US military war criminal, was a ...
    Info is now beginning to leak out about the criminal background of Robert Bales when he signed into the US military to be put into a command position. See Afghan Murder Suspect Joined Army During Fraud Probe …What a seedy guy this Sgt. Robert Bales is, defrauding a couple out of $1 and a h ...
  • Wake up Colorado Springs only YOU can stop fra ...
    Heads up Colorado Springs environmentalists! If you’re thinking that among your colleagues, someone’s got your back on hydraulic fracturing, your count is off by one. NOT ONE SINGLE local organization or leader has taken the position that oil and gas fracking must be stopped, or even ...
  • The ‘problem’ of illegal immigrati ...
    We live in a world society and we need to come to some grips with it, My Fellow Gringos …without always going into hysterics like little spoiled USA raised brats. American 'illegals' in Mexico

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...
  • What Does it Mean for the 9/11 Truth Movement ...
    It was announced recently that Chris Mohr is spearheading an investigation by James R. Millette, Ph.D. of MVA Scientific Consultants, looking into the peer-reviewed findings of Harrit et al, that the explosive/incediary nano-thermite was used to take down the WTC Towers on 9/11. This begs the q ...
  • WTC Physical Evidence
  • Responding to JREF
    My last post wasn't really intended as a debunking article. It was intended as a neutral guide for people to help them understand the debate between the two reports on the red/gray chips. It did, however, get posted on JREF as a "response" to Dr Millette. Kent1 writes: I love the claims about ...

Fooducate

  • Spring is Here, Sun is Shining, Do We Need Vit ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Spring is here! Starting today, days are getting longer, and we can spend more time in the sun. One of the benefits is that our body, cool factory that it is, can manufacture a very important vitamin just fro ...
  • Food Processing – Why Do We Need It?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! The term “processed food” has gotten a bad rap in the last few years. We are told to buy unprocessed foods because they contain less chemicals, because they are natural and healthy for us. At worst ...
  • Review: Special K Protein Meal Bars
      New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! At a recent layover between flights, we had the munchies. This Special K Protein Meal Bar caught our eye near the checkout counter of an airport book shop. Seems delish. Promises lots of health. We scan ...
  • Eating Too Much? You May Be Sleeping Too Little
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Mayo clinic ran a small study on 17 adults over the course of 8 nights. They were split into 2 groups. One group slept 80 minutes less than the other. The subjects’ activity and food intake was recor ...
  • Today: Go Irish with Your Oatmeal
    Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! If you’re not familiar with Irish Oatmeal, treat yourself to some steel cut goodness this morning. Unlike regular oatmeal, steel cut oats are not rolled or flattened. They maintain a very high amount of the nutrients found in whole oats, unlike quick or inst ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • ‘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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
    [New York 1 a.m Sunday]   Our photographer ZD Roberts was just beaten by cops @OWS. Thrown down, hair grabbed and slammed with nightsticks - while Zach yelling "I'm PRESS!" trying to show badge. Cops berserk. Zach following protest path tho I'm trying to get him to come in with film. He cannot b ...
  • The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. V ...
  • BP Settlement Sells Out VictimsDeal buries evi ...
    by Greg Palast for TheMudflats Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain's television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska Native villag ...
  • Billionaire Ballot Bandits
    They're stealing it again. In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls. In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election. In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, ...
  • Romney's Auto Bail-out Billionaires
    Top funders made billions from US Treasury by Greg Palast for NationOfChange [Thursday February 23] Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style... a reward for his big donors t ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle as moulds for maki ...
    We asked about stuff to reuse/recycle as homemade soup moulds not too long ago but Danell has messaged with a variation on that theme: I want to melt old crayon stubs together to make new crayons for kids. I know I could use old muffin tins or ice cube trays, neither of which I have, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle vertical blinds mat ...
    Someone on my Twitter feed yesterday – I can’t remember who, sorry – asking about ways to recycle or reuse the material from vertical track blinds. My first – instinctive – reaction was “bleugh!” because I hate the feel of those blinds ;) My second thoug ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle little paint tester ...
    We covered old leftover paint on the site many, many moons ago (roughly 66-67 moons ago apparently) but these last few weeks, we’ve been rather overrun with little tester pots of paint here. I hate tester pots from an environmental point of view – usually plastic pots, sometimes with ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle the nets you get ar ...
    Long time Recycle This friend (and very frequent commenter!) Anna has a question about the protective sleeves slipped around wine bottles: Any ideas what to do with the plastic nets they put for wine bottles for protecting them when you buy one? I don’t drink wine so I had to turn to my fr ...
  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...

Age of Autism

  • The Phoenicians: Autism Recovery Denial, Drug ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Here's yet another updated version of this post by Adriana Gamondes. Last May we told you that there was a new hire by Autism Speaks of a Pfizer Executive. This week AS made an announcement from the...
  • New CDC Autism Numbers Coming Soon; Rate Incre ...
    Looks like there's going to be a new way to become part of the "1%" and it doesn't look good. From The Canary Party: Officials at the Centers for Disease Control have promised to release their most recent autism prevalence...
  • Uganda’s Children are Dying! Are Pharmaceutica ...
    By Mary Romaniec Grace is a friend of mine from Uganda, a country with a mixture of cultures carved out in part by a long line of civil and territorial wars. In our many conversations about life in Uganda, Grace...
  • Act Now: Vermont PediaPolitician Seeks to Deny ...
    Vermont, there will be a public hearing this Wednesday, March 21 in Montpelier held by Health Care Committee of the Vermont House of Representatives on S. 199, a bill that if passed will eliminate the right to a philosophical exemption...
  • Tell President Obama Removing Mercury is a "Br ...
    Ask President Obama to Support UN Treaty Banning Mercury Action Alert HERE United Methodist Women and CoMed Issue Appeal This week the United Methodist Women and the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMed) issued an open letter calling for the immediate...

Global BDS Movement

  • Policy Paper – U.S. Military Aid To Israel
    About the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is a national coalition of nearly 400 organizations working to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality. … Continue reading&#160 ...
  • Israel sponsors Polish soap opera in ‘image im ...
    Polish and Israeli activists have called on the makers of a Polish medical drama to abandon plans to film two episodes in Israel under the sponsorship of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
    For the 3rd consecutive year, students in Gaza are holding a series of events to mark Israeli Apartheid Week. Gaza’s contribution to this international on-campus initiative is largely the work of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel.
  • Israel ‘charity’ accused of racism suffers ano ...
    Green Party of England and Wales members voted overwhelmingly to support an international campaign for action against JNF practices in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and to revoke its charity status in the UK.
  • Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel
    Norman Finkelstein's views on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement may be somewhat shortsighted.

Farm Wars

  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Oil drops on Saudi supply promise
    Bloomberg – Oil fell after Saudi Arabia promised to keep markets well-stocked with petroleum. Concerns about economic growth and fuel demand in China also weighed on prices. Oil has risen more than 9 percent this year as a standoff over Iran’s nuclear program has threatened to disrup ...
  • Beijing Calm as Cost of Insuring Chinese Gover ...
    Bloomberg – Beijing was calm today, with no evidence of increased police presence or interruption to government business, after a report of unrest published in a U.S.-based paper linked with a banned Chinese spiritual group. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan greeted U.S. guests at the Zhong ...
  • Low-Calorie Diet May Be Harmful for Bowel Dise ...
    ScienceDaily — In a surprising result, Michigan State University researchers looking at the effects of diet on bowel disease found that mice on a calorie-restricted diet were more likely to die after being infected with an inflammation-causing bacterial pathogen in the colon. While research sugg ...
  • US imposes solar duties on China
    BBC – The US has imposed duties on Chinese solar panel manufacturers after it said that they received unfair subsidies. Read article
  • Russia Deploying Troops for Temporary Dagestan ...
    Bloomberg – Russia is sending a “temporary detachment” of troops into the southern region of Dagestan, whose border lies about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Iran, to combat terrorism, the Interior Ministry said. “We are talking about a temporary deployment and coordination to prevent ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Study: 'Fracking' may increase air pollution h ...
    Air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing, a controversial oil and gas drilling method, may contribute to “acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites,” according to a new study from the  Colorado School of Public Health .
  • Poll: More Americans now back domestic drilling
    Struggling with rising prices at the pump, Americans are voicing a greater willingness to develop domestic fossil fuels than they did just a year ago, according to a new poll.
  • Animals: Iowa, first state to criminalize unde ...
    On Friday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law a bill designed to thwart activists who go undercover to report animal abuse. This makes Iowa the first state in the country to pass such a law; Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Utah are considering them.
  • Federal court rejects delay of N.M. power plan ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that the owners of the San Juan Generating Station, a huge coal-fired power plant near Farmington, N.M., must continue with plans to install strong pollution controls. Several California cities purchase electricity from the plant.
  • More Americans now believe in global warming
    After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change, pollsters are now finding that belief is on the uptick.

water.org

  • Make Progress on Sanitation
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
  • Matt Damon and Gary White Ask For Your Help
    On a recent trip to the field in Haiti, Water.org Co-Founders Matt Damon and Gary White took a brief moment to talk about this year's World Water Day, and they want you to get involved!
  • Worms and Leeches Gone Forever
    A stream full of worms, leeches and waterborne disease used to be their only option for Mezegaguf in rural Ethiopia. This community of 350, walked day to collect dirty water. Thanks to the generosity of people like you, they recently got a new well! Now, moms like Akberet Naizgi no longer have t ...
  • #24HoursOfWater: Full Playlist
    On March 19th, in celebration of World Water Week, Water.org featured a new, short clip every hour on Twitter illustrating life in the middle of the water crisis - before and after intervention. Here, you can watch all twenty-four clips, which feature footage from all around the world: Ethiopia, ...
  • Filling Up With Health - #24HoursOfWater
    A new well such as this one makes for a drastically healthier community - currently, a child dies every twenty seconds from a water-related disease. This is a marked improvement over two years ago when the figure was closer to one child every fifteen seconds, but we believe that with your help w ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...
  • Israel is fighting a losing battle over victimhood
    If it's permissible for this country to bomb Iran to free itself from a nuclear threat, then why are the Palestinians forbidden to launch rockets against Israel to free themselves of the occupation? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu's contempt for the Holocaust
    Netanyahu received Dimona ready made. Contrary to Israel's former leaders, Netanyahu's political use of the Holocaust is a tactic; it is demagoguery and it is a bluff. By scaring people about a future Holocaust, he breaks the vow and detracts from the uni Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &n ...
  • Iranians respond to Israeli Facebook initiativ ...
    The 'Israel loves Iran' Facebook campaign has begun to receive numerous responses from Iranians, who stared responding to the Israeli initiative that calls on people to announce their love for the Iranians by posting pictures on Facebook. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |  &n ...
  • Four killed in shooting at Jewish school in France
    The gunman then abandoned the motorcycle, entered the school and began shooting at the students and faculty, killing four students and one adult, and seriously wounding another student. The slain adult killed was reported to be a Jewish studies teacher. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Mortar Attacks Kill Six Somalis in Mogadishu
    The attacks mark the first attack of its kind since August when anti-government forces withdrew from the majority of districts in the capital.
  • US Values Relationship With Jamaica
    The United States also cooperates with the Jamaica Constabulary and with the Jamaica Defense Force.
  • Why Act 10 Was Necessary for Financial Health ...
    But few fully understand the necessity of the law, particularly for cash-strapped public schools. Walker admitted as much last summer during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, when he said, 'We had not built enough of the case.'
  • Amelia Earhart Embodies Spirit of an America C ...
    It has been 75 years since Amelia Earhart set out in that twin-engine Lockheed Electra to be the first pilot, man or woman, to fly around the world along the longest equatorial route, Ms. Clinton said
  • Swift Satellite Provides New Insight on Origin ...
    Swift data on SN 2011fe also figure prominently in unpublished studies led by Alicia Soderberg at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. Preliminary results suggest that the explosion was caused by merging white dwarfs.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Green Blog: Bike Hour Is Nigh
    Organizers call for a global cycling rally to encourage more people -- especially city dwellers -- to push for greater bike safety.
  • When James Cameron Hits Bottom, We Will Hear Him
    What do you say when you've just done a dangerous, remarkable deed? When people first saw the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, they didn't say anything: "I'm afraid we didn't have any profound words that could be written down somewhere," a diver recalls.
  • Brilliant Blue G Recalled Because of Fungal Co ...
    A pharmacy in Florida is recalling lots of Brilliant Blue G ophthalmic solution because of the development of fungal endophthalmitis in some patients. News Alerts (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
  • Varicose Veins Keep Some in Long Pants All Year
    Title: Varicose Veins Keep Some in Long Pants All Year Category: Health News Created: 3/18/2012 10:05:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/19/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • [Comment] Prediction of haematoma expansion wi ...
    The high cost, long duration, and complexity of randomised clinical trials of treatments for stroke, combined with the frequent failure of many new compounds, has fuelled interest in biomarkers to detect early drug response. Haemorrhagic stroke, the cause of up to 15% of all strokes, is no excep ...

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Netanyahu's pretext for war - Islamic Jihad mi ...
    By Michael Collins Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has his pretext for an attack on Iran. He left Washington disappointed by President Obama's reluctance to saddle up for Armageddon. Now he's got the formula. Haaretz (daily news), one of Israel's few liberal media voices, linked Gaza based mis ...
  • Asking the Wrong Questions About War
    by Stephen Lendman Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller now writes Times op-eds on alternate Mondays, as well as articles for The New York Times Magazine. Too bad his columns get failing grades. Scoundrel journalism is featured. Truth and full disclosure are excluded. His M ...
  • Rape and Murder in Afghanistan
    by Stephen Lendman On March 11, up to 20 US forces murdered 16 Afghan men, women, and nine children, aged two to 12. Children were massacred while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Major media scoundrels whitewashed the crimes by shamelessly blaming one soldier ...
  • Global Peace and Conflict Management: Man in S ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD In its search for change and movement to progressive future-making, the global mankind is oppressed by systematic ignorance, intransigence and arrogance of the few affluent class of people managing the global institutions, militarization and governance - the perverted in ...
  • Test killing
    Khaled Amayreh Israel's unprovoked attack on Gaza had several aims. The latest round of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which started on 9 April and lasted for five days, began with the assassination of Sheikh Zuheir El-Qaisi, chief of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). El-Qaisi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Waking up from the Enbridge pipe dream: how ma ...
    Supporters of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline claim that the project will create many thousands of jobs for Canadians, and have attempted to polarize public discussion into a "jobs vs environment" debate. But in our latest study, Marc Lee takes a close look at Enbridge's job creati ...
  • Ontario Budget Watch: A Post-Drummond, Pre-Bud ...
    In his new report, Ontario's Fiscal Reality: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?, economist Hugh Mackenzie takes a critical look at the assumptions that drive the Drummond report's claim that Ontario is in a fiscal crisis that can only be resolved through unprecedented austerity. He finds that the pr ...
  • Winnipeg Operating Budget Goes Off in All Dire ...
    Judging by the preliminary operating budget, it looks like this year’s operating budget will not offer Winnipeg a clear course of action that will allow it to meet the goals stated in OurWinnipeg. Instead it goes madly off in all directions, pitting public transit against cars; businesses agains ...
  • CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2012
    Today, the CCPA releases the Alternative Federal Budget 2012: A Budget for the Rest of Us. This year's AFB presents a public investment plan that promotes a better quality of life for all Canadians, not just an elite few. The AFB is designed to: tackle poverty and income inequality by inves ...
  • Nova Scotian workers need improved standards
    “Workers in Nova Scotia are worse off economically than they were a quarter century ago.  For the most part, this deterioration in wages happened at the same time that the economy of the province vigorously increased the wealth it generated.”  A new report released by CCPA-NS Research ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    ByJames Bamford, Wired.com - The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the hear ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Bloomberg had sex with ...
    Worldwidehippies – Main Stream Corporate Media has been placing this story in all their Occupy Coverage. “NYPD probing apparent threat after Occupy protest” AP give authorship of this information to no one. Three days they have been misleading readers and viewers with this. The ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Big earthquake rattles Mexico, no major damage MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like “trampolines”. Office workers fled into the street when the 7. ...
  • You have to be fu**#ng kidding me! Seniors urg ...
    By MINORU MATSUTANI,.japantimes.co.jp –  A Tokyo senior is waging an individual effort to get elderly people to eat rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture to help local farmers struggling with rumors that their crops are radioactive, and to make sure the grain isn’t consumed by more vuln ...
  • “Channeling” Worldwide Hippies &#8 ...
     Get Empowered with Worldwidehippies Subscribe to our You Tube Channel Theworldwidehippies If you are interested in working with us, let us know. We have openings for Citizen Reporters, Writers, Artists, Public Relations Director, Web-masters and much needed support staff.  Contact joe@worldwide ...

FourWinds10

  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...
  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Are You Looking to Invest in the Google of Bio ...
    The Big Names in Biofuels So you’re hoping to strike it rich by investing in LanzaTech. Or Solazyme. Or KiOR. Or Gevo. After all, these companies have all recently had high-profile IPOs, and they are clearly “hot” given all of the press coverage devoted to them. So perhaps you ...
  • Oil Dependence — Tom Friedman’s False Narrative
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the poi ...
  • Global Warming Primer & Natural Gas Vehicles — ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed are: The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-deri ...
  • The Professor Who Knew Too Little
    It is clear that many people have a very simplistic — but wrong — view of the energy markets. This extends to politicians who believe they can usher in a return to $2 gasoline, as well as those who underestimate the difficulty of replacing oil with renewable energy. For the average p ...
  • Gas Prices & Keystone Pipeline — R-Squared Ene ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer more questions about gas prices, and discuss the Keystone XL pipeline and future development of Canada’s oil sands. Some of the topics discussed are: The EROEI for producing oil sands The emissions profile of shipping the oil sa ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Hackasaurus
    Comments:Hackasaurus makes it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser. - Fred DelventhalTags: webdesign, programming, Hackasaurus, remix, design, education, Web, hackingby: Fred Delventhal
  • Learn to Glog - Student Tutorial - Google Docs
    Tags: glog, tutorial, glogs, Glogster, tutorialsby: Carolyn Rains
  • http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2010_FS ...
    Comments:#beyondthetextbook - Dean MantzTags: report, Florida, textbooks, studentsurveys, learning, educationby: Dean Mantz
  • Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor
    Tags: photoshop, paint, editor, image, web2.0, tools, tool, photos, edit, educationby: Fred Delventhal
  • Microsoft news and personal reflections after ...
    Comments:If you want to discover the power of Curation, Follow https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - LUCIAN DUMATags: Innovative, Education, Forum, Microsoft, eSafety4eTwinners, social, media, web, 2.0by: LUCIAN DUMA

Rodale News

  • New Rule: Don't Take Antibiotics for This Comm ...
    Your family doctor knows best, right? Not always. Many physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for a common springtime ailment that cannot effectively be wiped out with drugs. And dishing out these antibiotics doesn't just threaten patients with side effects, but also leads to the creation o ...
  • Unlikely Partnership Could End Animal Testing ...
    Generally, animal testing in cosmetics is not something most of us like to think about when we're applying lipstick, anti-wrinkle cream, or eye makeup in the morning. But as undercover investigations have recently pointed out, animal testing is still alive and well, partly because companies ar ...
  • Top Tips to Avoid Wireless Radiation
    Last year, the World Health Organization named cellphone radiation a possible carcinogen, putting it in a class with DDT, lead, and tailpipe exhaust in terms of potential to cause cancer. Because the technology is still relatively new and cancers could take decades to develop, researchers haven ...
  • Kissing Bug Disease Expected to Spread to U.S.
    A kissing bug may sound cute, but these members of the Reduviid family of insects can carry a not-so-sweet disease that's expected to make its way from South America into the United States, a fact scientists say is inevitable because of climate change. Kissing bugs—whose name stems from the fa ...
  • Why You Can't Trust the "Natural" Label
    "Natural" is a meaningless term on food product labels, and it's even more meaningless on personal care products, which are subject to lax regulations as it is. A recent study from the nonprofit Silent Spring Institute shows just how little you really can trust that seemingly reassuring term on ...

big think

  • Astronomers' New Tricks for Finding Alien Life
    What's the Latest Development? Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have come up with some clever tricks to know if there is life on one of the thousands of recently discovered exoplanets, i.e. planets outside our solar system. One technique, called Earthshine, looks at how s ...
  • Climate Shift: Green Groups Rebrand Global War ...
    Following the demise of cap and trade legislation, green group leaders acknowledged that despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pass the bill, they lacked the ability to create public demand for action in key Midwest Congressional districts and states.  "The community that t ...
  • How To Succeed In China: The Boom and Bust of ...
    What is the Big Idea? Best Buy, Pepsi, General Electric, Intel, Phillips and Nestle. What do these multinational companies have in common? They've all penetrated China's retail market, but that is where their similarities end. General Electric, Intel and Phillips have fou ...
  • Nuclear Fusion: Limitless Energy From Seawater
    What's the Latest Development? A new computer simulation out of the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, represents a major advance in fusion science, which by modeling the nuclear reactions in the sun’s core, is a potential source of limitless energy for the planet. ...
  • Kadam Morten: How Buddhism Differs From the Ju ...
    Kadam Morten Clausen is a Buddhist teacher in the New Kadampa tradition, a modern, Western tradition grounded in Tibetan Buddhism.  Here he discusses how Buddhism differs from the Judeo-Christian religions.   Read More

Information Liberation

  • Obama Apologizes For Kandahar Massacre But Not ...
    How shall the world view the apology by President Obama for the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers allegedly by a lone U.S. serviceman in Kandahar Province when the President is himself personally responsible for the extra-judicial killing of hundreds o...
  • Did One Man Massacre and Burn 16 Afghan Civili ...
    My first blog on this is here. I was hoping for reports of forensic evidence, but we do not have new information of that quality. We do not even know if such evidence was even collected. We do not know what sort of investigation of the crime scene wa...
  • The Lorax: An Allegory on IP
    Anyone who read Dr. Suess's "The Lorax" as a kid might dread the movie version. No one really needs another moralizing, hectoring lecture from environmentalists on the need to save the trees from extinction, especially since that once-fashionable cau...
  • Hank Hill vs. the Bureaucrats
    Thanks to Adult Swim re-airing King of the Hill five nights a week I recently caught an old episode that has expanded my list of approved politicians to now feature two: Ron Paul and Hank Hill. The episode is "Flush with Power" from season four. I...
  • Chamber of Corporatism
    US Chamber of Commerce building Recently, the US Chamber of Commerce claimed through its spokesman that it supports candidates who support "free enterprise policies that will fuel America's economic recovery." The US Chamber of Commerce has a rather ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Only In America
    I’m exaggerating. It’s de rigeur an any dictatorship worthy of the name. But the Executive Order of President Barack Hussein Obama, signed last Friday, is gob-smacking in its scope and abandonment of all pretence of congressional democracy. Go have a … Continue reading →
  • More Dollars Than Sense
    Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE. Actually, it’s printing money to you and me, but that can be misleading, … Continue reading →
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • The Darkest Debate
    In this thread, LibertyGibbert will look at the topic which, more than any other, divides Libertarians. It’s a topic I have been reluctant to raise on this forum till now; indeed, I have been advised by some of you that … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 1
    Regular readers will know that I was recruited via my GP to take part in the Fenland Study. The study is taking a sample of the population born between 1950 and 1975, and carrying out a raft of blood tests, body stature measurements, DEXA body fat and bone density and tests for diabetes, cholest ...
  • Planetary landers, caffeine, sulfa drugs and c ...
    The latest issue of my SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This weeK: US researchers are developing the next generation of laser ablation technology, which might one day be used in a future planetary lander to carry out isotopic analysis of a planets surface, for instance, and so allow precise & ...
  • More red meat risk analysis
    NHS Choices finally published its critique of the Harvard red meat research that had the tabloids screaming that meat kills earlier this week. I provided some commentary on Sciencebase soon after. Anyway, this is what NHS Choices concludes: “This study had several strengths including its s ...
  • Can you see the Man in the Moon?
    Quite coincidentally, given the moon hour-by-hour video I posted earlier today, a press release just arrived waxing lyrical about gazing up at the night sky and seeing the familiar face of the “Man in the Moon”. The synchronous rotation of the Moon means it takes about the same amoun ...
  • Processed meat, fillet steak and death
    I was planning to write an “appraisal” of the Harvard study on meat and risk of death that hit the news today, but have been so busy procrastinating lately that another blog has beaten me to it. Apparently, we should all be eating less meat, particularly processed meat like sausages, ...

RFF Library

  • Human Health Risk Assessment of Air Emissions ...
    Accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment / by by Lisa M. McKenzie, Roxana Z. Witter, Lee S. Newman and John L. Adgate http://bit.ly/GzoMdW [From an article in Colorado Energy News]   The report, based on three years of monitoring, found a number of potentially toxic petroleum ...
  • Energy-Water Nexus: Information on the Quantit ...
    US Government Accountability Office www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-156 [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd]  A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, which found that produced water associated with natural gas development widely varies according to region, could bolster indu ...
  • Rising Gasoline Prices 2012
    Congressional Research Service www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42382.pdf Average national gasoline prices have increased by $0.46 to $3.78 per gallon between the end of December 2011 and the end of February 2012. This is $0.20 higher than the 2011 average annual gasoline price of $3.58 per gallon. In ...
  • Innovation Under Cap-and-trade Programs
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print March 12, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1113462109 PNAS March 12, 2012) / by Margaret R. Taylor http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/08/1113462109.full.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Debra Kahn, sub. req'd] Cap-and- ...
  • California Public Utilities Commission Risk As ...
    California Public Utilities Commission Risk Assessment Unit (RAU) http://1.usa.gov/AnP8a3 Following the 2010 Pacific gas and Electric pipeline explosion that killed several people and destroyed a neighborhood in San Bruno, California, the regulator identified over 550 potential trouble spots, th ...

Scientific American - News

  • Can Fast Reactors Speedily Solve Plutonium Pro ...
    The U.K. has nearly 100 metric tons of plutonium--dubbed " the element from hell " by some--that it doesn't know what to do with. The island nation does not need the potent powder to construct more nuclear weapons, and spends billions of British pounds to ensure that others don&#39 ...
  • How to See Around Corners
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Something to Chew On: Healthier Hot Dogs Subst ...
    Not all fats are created equal. Scientists have known since the 1950s that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated ones can have profound health benefits . Diets that are high in solid fats, such as butter and animal fat, lead to elevated risks of cardiovascular disease and high cholesterol. ...
  • Sound Barrier: Can High-Power Ultrasound Prote ...
    Perfectly sanitized dimpled spinach leaves or tender greens like baby lettuce has been high on the wish list of the $3.1-billion bagged salad industry since its inception. The race to develop better wash systems for cleaning took off in earnest in 2006, after the high profile E. coli O157:H7 o ...
  • 'Horizontal Tornado' Captured By Amateur Video ...
    New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfaced from Richland, Miss. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Over 200,000 students on strike against tuitio ...
    The student strike across Quebec is gaining momentum, with a growing number of daily actions and a record 215,000 students on strike. As of today, according to the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité sydicale étudiante ...
  • Over 200,000 students on strike against tuitio ...
    The student strike across Quebec is gaining momentum, with a growing number of daily actions and a record 215,000 students on strike. As of today, according to the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité sydicale étudiante ...
  • Two Eyes Are Better Than One
    Dr. Heather Castleden and Team to Use Tradition and Science to Examine Effects of Boat Harbour Halifax - Dr. Heather Castleden, in conjunction with the Pictou Landing Native Women's Association, will be undertaking a three year research ...
  • Two Eyes Are Better Than One
    Dr. Heather Castleden and Team to Use Tradition and Science to Examine Effects of Boat Harbour Halifax - Dr. Heather Castleden, in conjunction with the Pictou Landing Native Women's Association, will be undertaking a three year research ...
  • Hunger Games Hypocrisy
    First, my sister; then, the 11-year-old girl I babysit; and finally, my mother-in-law: "the Hunger Games trilogy is a MUST read." Finally, I dove into the series, read all three books twice and back-to-back, and emerged on the o ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...
  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...
  • Save the Children
    David Seaton's News Links  Over six million children die of hunger every year, according to the World Health Organization... Is there anything more that must be said? What is going to be done? DS
  • Netanyahu's target is Obama, not Iran
    David Seaton's News LinksIt cannot be denied that the Holocaust theme has served Netanyahu well politically. As many commentators have pointed out, Netanyahu has succeeded in reframing political discourse on the Middle East: this visit to the U.S. was the first in a long time in which the Palest ...
  • What has the Republican Party come to? - III
    David Seaton's News LinksObserving the pantagruelian expense and listening to and reading about the nauseating, sociopathic babble of the seemingly endless Republican primaries in the United States; people all over the world are questioning the democratic process and wondering if China's authori ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Can We Please Stop Making Excuses for Paul Ryan?
    Ezra Klein writes this today about Paul Ryan's budget roadmap: I don't think Paul Ryan intended to write a budget that concentrated its cuts on the poorest Americans. Similarly, I don't think Mitt Romney intended to write a budget that concentrated its cuts on the poorest Americans. But the ...
  • Healthcare Might be in Healthier Shape Than We ...
    Austin Frakt posts a chart today showing that productivity growth in the healthcare sector sucks. In the durable goods sector, for example, productivity doubled between 1995-2005. In the healthcare sector, it went down by a few percent. In the middle of an economic boom, healthcare actually go ...
  • Wall Street Rolls Merrily Along
    Felix Salmon writes something peculiar today. He's not too keen on the JOBS Act, a bill designed to loosen securities regulations on small businesses, and yet it's gotten wide bipartisan support anyway: I don’t fully understand the political dynamics here. A bill which was essent ...
  • Chart of the Day: Fox News and Trayvon Martin
    I've noted on several occasions that Fox News spent pretty much the entire summer of 2010 fanning the flames of xenophobia and racial resentment, and a few days ago I wondered if the ridiculous Derrick Bell incident foreshadowed a reprise during this year's election summer. We'll have to wait ...
  • Romney Changing His Economic Tune
    Last month I noticed that Mitt Romney seemed to be changing his economic message. Instead of the economy sucks and it's Obama's fault, it had morphed into the economy's recovering but it would be recovering even faster if not for Obama. Today, Mark Barabak and Paul West of the LA Times sug ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 309: I Hate NYC
    Topics: Comcast, the Jehovah Witnesses of Cable companies Kriss & Kev hate NYC Kwame Kilpatrick has a movie Black people feeling the need to support other black people just cause they’re black The Trayvon Martin case and how absurd it is The uproar over the Mass Effect 3 ending *spoil ...
  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...
  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:
  • IC 306: Ratchet
    Topics: UFC commentary Making racial jokes around white people 2 racist white girls make a Youtube video There are no blacks in the north Standing in line for shoes Jaheim gets roasted Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.
  • Thick ice decline could advance watery Arctic ...
    NASA scientist Joey Comiso reveals a faster loss of supposedly less vulnerable “multiyear” ice that could see summer Northern polar ice melt into history, bringing further climate and food chain problems.
  • Melting sea ice plays critical role in winter ...
    Georgia Institute of Technology's Jiping Liu and colleagues have revealed evidence that shrinking Arctic ice is allowing more water into the atmosphere and slowing the jet stream so the moisture can move southward and fall as snow.
  • Climate change causes chipmunks hidden damage
    By comparing DNA from alpine chipmunks preserved for 96 years with samples from those living today Emily Rubidge from University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues reveal a threatening, climate-change driven, shrinking of their gene pool.
  • Population and climate raise tropical cyclone ...
    Higher population will mean more people and property are in the way of tropical cyclones made more intense but less frequent by climate change, say Bruno Chatenoux from the Global Change and Vulnerability Unit at the United Nations Environment Program and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Alzheimer's disease spreads through linked ner ...
    Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according to researchers who report the finding in the March 22 e ...
  • Marijuana-like chemicals inhibit human immunod ...
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have discovered that marijuana-like chemicals trigger receptors on human immune cells that can directly inhibit a type of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) found in late-stage AIDS, according to new findings published online in the journal PLoS ONE. r ...
  • Chemical pollution in Europe's seas: The monit ...
    According to a recent poll* of more than 10,000 citizens from ten European countries, pollution is the primary concern of the public at large among all issues that threaten the marine environment. A new position paper of the Marine Board-ESF shows that such public concern is not misplaced and is ...
  • Mercury's surprising core and landscape curios ...
    On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has completely altered our understanding of the solar system's innermost planet. As reported in one of two papers publishe ...
  • Contact with 'rivals' changes male behavior
    Males consistently change their mating behaviour depending on whether they have spent time with other males before mating, according to new findings by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA). read more

unEarthed

  • Uranium Industry Attack on Grand Canyon
    Yet another toxic mining threat A uranium mine near the Grand Canyon's North Rim. Photo: Don Bills, USGS. At the beginning of the last century, Ralph H. Came ...
  • Why The Cod Is Sacred
    A symbol of Earthjustice victory protecting marine ecosystems The "Sacred Cod" In Massachusetts, a wooden carving of a 5-foot long codfish known as the &ldquo ...
  • Friday Finds: Death by a Thousand Doses
    Dog-gone oil spill cleanups, coastal city wipeouts, leaded bullets Is your baby getting its daily dose of hormone-disrupting chemicals? (photo courtesy of pfly) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: “Charleston, We Have A Problem”
    McKinley's “urgent” request to view leaks at nation’s largest coal ash pond Aerial view of the Little Blue Run coal ash storage reservoir in Beaver County ...
  • Friday Finds: Return Of The Pink Slime Meat!
    Toxic ships, BPA-free soup, bicycle buses Photo courtesy of fox_kiyo U.S. schools buying McDonald’s pink slime rejects It’s baaaaack. Last mont ...

Brave New Climate

  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    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). The case study was the ...
  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...
  • IFR FaD 11 – sodium coolant and pool design
    This is the second of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the I ...
  • Purpose and target audience of BraveNewClimate.com
    Before I write a scientific paper, I always try to identify: (1) my main message [MM], in 25 words or less, and (2) my target audience [TA]. Doing this helps focus the ‘story’ of the manuscript on a key point. Papers that try to present multiple messages are typically confusing and/or too long f ...
  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Leaving Goldman Sachs
    A top executive at Goldman Sachs has a lot to say about the “new” Goldman Sachs. Let’s just say his love for the company has left. Read More About Goldman Sachs Culture
  • Don’t Ever Forget Who Is The Head Of The ...
  • What Are Republicans Trying To Destroy Now?
    Why does hearing the word Republican make me want to vomit? Maybe it is because of what they stand for. Our friends at Daily Kos have a poll up on their website asking “Which issue below concerns you most in terms of the Republican assault on it?” Destroying these things listed below ...
  • I Want To Be On Armed Forces Radio
    I promise not to call people sluts for the crime of testifying before congress, and this alone makes me more qualified than Rush The Liar Limbaugh. I don’t have a radio show, bit I am sure there is millions of Americans who agree that Republicans are a Disease, and would love to hear my vo ...
  • So Rush Limbaugh Is A Piece Of Slime
    Who knew…. How dare anyone testify that doing stuff that keeps people from dying might be necessary! How dare they. They should just sit down, shut up, and let Rush’s friends run the world.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills
    Two universities, Tel Aviv and Haifa, now offer programs in Hasbara. Both feature Neal Lazarus, the man behind the fake “gay flotilla” video. Two Israeli universities, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, now offer programs in Hasbara. The Haifa course is meant for Israeli stude ...
  • Spitting at the dead: Nationalist leader invok ...
    Im Tirtzu, the ultra-nationalist organization whose main activity has involved witch-hunt campaigns against Israeli civil society and academia, has hit upon a new angle that it believes will save Israel, which one of its leaders unveiled in an op ed in Haaretz on Monday (Hebrew): expose human ri ...
  • WATCH: Officer in Nabi Saleh night raid blames ...
    For the past two weeks the army has been raiding the village of Nabi Saleh almost every night. Last night’s highlights: armed soldiers surround children’s beds, and confiscate computers and school notebooks. It’s little after 2:00 a.m. Soldiers are once again in the streets of ...
  • Watch: The Checkpoint
    A Short film by Porter Speakman, Jr.
  • Israelis set to demonstrate against Iran war a ...
    Following a growing number of online grassroots peace initiatives, activists are calling for the first significant demonstration against the sounding war drums. First came the Iranian women, with a series of video clips made especially for International Women’s Day, speaking out against wa ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • The Australian Government Welcomes the Withdr ...
    The Australian Government welcomes Japan's decision to recall its whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean.
  • Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan
    The Gillard Government's commitment to build a network of national wildlife corridors is moving ahead with the release today of the Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan.
  • First approved arrangement announced for Nati ...
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today announced that DHL Supply Chain (Australia) Pty Ltd has been approved as the first organisation able to deliver services under the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme.
  • Australia welcomes World Heritage Centre dele ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today welcomed to Australia a delegation from the World Heritage Centre and the International Union for Conservation of Nature which will assess conservation of the world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
  • Many hands make light work this Clean Up Aust ...
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability, Senator Don Farrell encourages all Australians to get involved in the 22nd annual Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday, March 4, 2012.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Right to Community – From Manipulation t ...
    Canadian democracy, like most advanced democracies around the world, displays the strong tendency to be concerned over what people believe …Continue reading »
  • Not As It Used To Be
      This past week the family and I spent a delightful dinner with someone who had been one of the …Continue reading »
  • George Clooney’s Arrest
    Last week famed actor George Clooney, along with his father, was arrested for demonstrated outside the Sudanese embassy gates in …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – It’s Time
    “Dull, inert cities … contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain …Continue reading »
  • Kony, Dallaire, and the Future of Child Soldiers
    As the KONY 2012 phenomenon slowly abates, lingering questions remain as to its effectiveness and the deeper issues that lie …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Poor America: 'Some Kids Are Making Ketchup Soup'
    Intro: "Panorama's Hilary Andersson travelled to Whitney Elementary School in Las Vegas to meet some of America's youngest poor. Children told of going to bed hungry and worrying about their families, while school officials said some children were resorting to eating 'ketchup soup.'" Leslie, ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.

k2p blog

  • The scale of the Universe: from yoctometres to ...
    A journey of sixty powers of ten from where neutrinos are like suns to where galaxies are like dust.
  • Chinese Government tries to get to grips with ...
    The Chinese Ministry of Education has issued new tougher rules to counter misconduct in science.
  • Tohoku University struggles to handle transgre ...
    Akihisa Inoue, the president of Tohoku University has had seven papers retracted and 3 investigations so far. But without any established procedures or standards for what constitutes ethics in research Tohoku University and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency are struggling with how to pr ...
  • Indian Census: Access to electricity progresse ...
    The 2011 Indian Census shows that the joint family system (multiple couples in a household) is giving way to nuclear families. The urban-rural divide is still very strong and electricity is becoming more accessible but mobile phones are penetrating faster than toilets.
  • Update on Matsubara
    The American Heart Association, which publishes a number of journals, has issued an Expression of Concern about five papers in three of their publications, following allegations of image manipulation. All of the papers include Hiroaki Matsubara, of Kyoto Prefectural University, as a co-author.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Safeway To Stop Selling Ground Beef That Conta ...
    It's been a bad year for "lean finely textured beef," better known by the less-tasty moniker "pink slime." The ammonia-treated beef trimmings that have been used as ground beef filler for decades is quickly becoming a pariah at U.S. grocery stores like Safeway, which has announced it will no lo ...
  • Should Restaurants Be Able To Restrict Diners ...
    Getting a great deal using online deal sites that issue vouchers for local businesses can be pretty sweet. But by now, many customers are finding out that there are plenty of trials and tribulations involved when it comes to redeeming deal vouchers, as businesses scramble to keep up with the on ...
  • Condo Association Puts Lien On Woman's Townhou ...
    After feeling bullied by her condo association about her wee front yard flower garden, a New Hampshire woman says she recently looked into selling her townhouse, only to find out the association has placed a lien on the property. See, even though the condo bylaws neither forbid nor expressly p ...
  • Supreme Court Limits EPA's Ability To Enforce ...
    Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case that has been a hot-button topic for both environmentalists and advocates for the rights of land owners. In the end, the Supremes came down on the side of landowners, allowing them to take legal steps to void Environmental Protection Ag ...
  • Kraft Announces Their Snack Business Will Be S ...
    Wouldn't it be fun to be in the boardroom meetings at big corporations when they're brainstorming names with whatever consultants they've hired to insure a big impact? We'd have been stifling giggles if Kraft had let us in on the process of naming their snack spinoff business Mondelez. You know ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • The Vatican Should Embrace Whistleblowers, Not ...
     ‘Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet’ Isaiah 58.v.1. Surely these are the words that should be ringing out from the Vatican when questions about corruption and nepotism have been leaked to the Italian press, rather than the threat of criminal proceedings. It defies beli ...
  • Jesselyn Radack & Thomas Drake Discuss NSA War ...
    I appeared on Democracy Now! this morning with National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower, fellow Kossack, and my client Thomas Drake discussing the NSA's spying on American citizens, Drake's experience as the fourth person in history prosecuted under the Espionage Act ...
  • More Countrywide Whistleblowers Speak Out: Dai ...
    NPR's Planet Money: A Former Mortgage Exec Speaks Out Summary: More coverage of financial whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork to reveal the corruption and fraud happening at Countrywide, including outrageous pre-payment plans, unnecessary fees, and document alteration. GAP client and Ba ...
  • American's Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld Heard ...
    Legal Times: DC Circuit Weighs US Citizen’s Torture Case Against Rumsfeld Summary: A federal court in Washington is currently deciding whether a torture suit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld can proceed. The suit has been brought by GAP and another firm (Loevy & Loevy) o ...
  • BP, GAP's Back-and-Forth on Resource Manual Wa ...
    GAP has been conducting an investigation into the cover up of medical problems associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill since last fall. We are working with over 25 whistleblowers involving public health and safety threats that sharply contrast with BP and government denials and reassuran ...

UK Progressive

  • Gore Occupies, Soros Opines
    This week, former Vice President Al Gore called for an Occupy Democracy movement using the Internet to escalate the battle against the corruption of democracy. Meanwhile, The New York Times ran a major story describing how GOP super-PAC mega-donors are far surpassing their Democratic competitors ...
  • Op Ed: The Nation: Obama Moving US Closer to W ...
    Although President Obama says “now is not the time for bluster” about Iran, his administration “has adopted a strategic approach that is moving the United States closer to war,” “The Nation” magazine warns in a March 26th editorial. While Iran has the right to enrich uranium under international ...
  • Four Whistleblowers Who Sounded the Alarm on B ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica Buried in the sweeping mortgage settlementwith banks, for which final documents were filed this week, are five whistleblower casesthat shed light on the litany of foreclosure abuses by the banks. According to one suit, Bank of America allegedly passed bad loans on to ...
  • UK Progressive Road Trip!
    Twenty years ago Disneyland Paris, (also known as Euro-Disney) opened and they are getting ready for a year long Party starting next month. We’ll give you a look at how the park is getting ready, it’s growth over those twenty years and plans for the future We’re back next Thurs ...
  • Bulls, Bears, and Bailouts: The Top 10 Questio ...
    by Blair Hickman, ProPublica ProPublica Wall Street reporter Jesse Eisinger hosted a Reddit chat to answer readers’ questions. We rounded up 10 of the best – on everything from the roots of the financial crisis, to investigating a “notoriously nebulous and secretive” industry, to where Jesse wea ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Media Watch witch hunt
    “In the old days they would have just bound her, thrown her into the lake, and waited to see if she floated. Though a primitive method of witch-hunting, it would surely be far more effective than Jonathan’s, and would require much less in taxpayer funding.”  [MediaWatch comme ...
  • “Conspiracy theorist” – just ...
    “Conspiracy Theorist” – the taunt you use when you want to “win” the debate without having to argue your point. When someone points out that the Regulating Class want to bring on a world government, they’re called a “conspiracy theorist”. When the ...
  • The Ground Zero of Global Corruption – i ...
    The scale of the rot is something to behold.  Something is grossly, wantonly wrong with Western Civilization, and lots of people know it, but they don’t know why (and for the next blind rebellion, see, “Occupy”). But a head of the hydra popped into view last week. First a high ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
    Plenty to discuss… Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)
  • Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccur ...
    The BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a report showing that as many as 85 -95% of all Australian sites in the pre-Celsius era (before 1972) did not comply with the BOM’s own stipulations. The audit shows 20-30% of all the measur ...

ReNew America

  • Breitbart's example: get on offense and stay there
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - This column here, now, and forever rejects any and all invitations for membership in a Denounce Club. That is...where we are pressured to denounce fellow pro-Americans, a classic divide-and-conquer scenario inscribed in the strategy bible of those who take a dim view o ...
  • The 'inevitability' vote
    (Thomas Sowell) - Many people may be voting for Mitt Romney because of the view in some quarters that he is the inevitable Republican candidate for president of the United States, and the candidate with the best chance of beating Barack Obama, rather than because they actually prefer Romney to t ...
  • Romney in Puerto Rico: a case study in politic ...
    (Daily Caller) - In Puerto Rico, for the price of 20 delegates, Mitt Romney sold out his conservative principles. There is a long history of Congress requiring English to be the language of government and schools for territories seeking to be admitted to the Union -- e.g., Louisiana, Arizona, Ne ...
  • Presidential power to kill?
    (Stephanie Hessler) - For the first time, President Obama's Justice Department has attempted to explain the administration's policy on targeted killings of U.S. citizens. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s speech earlier this month came five months after an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, ...
  • Obama's healthcare claims unravel
    (David Limbaugh) - President Barack Obama said, "The package we've put together" will "start bending the cost curve on healthcare" and "cut the deficit by a trillion dollars." Even a sympathetic Congressional Budget Office has finally put the nail in the coffin of that howler. At the time Obama ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • 188 Day Earthquake Cycle?
    I’m actually on vacation (my last for perhaps a very long time…), so I’ve not been able to fully investigate this, but here goes: Chile — February 27, 2010 — 8.8-magnitude New Zealand — September 4, 2010 — 7.1-magnitude Japan — March 11, 2011 — 9.1-magnitude Fiji — Septembe ...
  • Prophetic Card Game
    Illuminati — New World Order was a card game released in 1995. When Steve Jackson was designing the game in 1990, without warning, a force of armed Secret Service agents – accompanied by Austin police and at least one civilian ‘expert’ from the phone company – occup ...
  • Now That’s What I Call A Bunker!
    I’ve shown this pic before… …but not the inside pics: Here’s two, the rest are at Digital Trends, along with the story. Now That’s What I Call A Bunker! is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Related posts:Why call it an &# ...
  • More Debunking from NASA
    I feel like running a contest… how many more articles and videos debunking 2012 will NASA release? I’ve lost count of how many they’ve made to date. Here’s the latest: More Debunking from NASA is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Re ...
  • Lake Cuitzeo: Smoking Gun Crater for Comet Theory
    Lake Cuitzeo is the second largest freshwater lake in Mexico. Located in Michoacán State, it is just north of Morelia city. The idea that a comet caused a global catastrophe 13,000 years ago was popularized by the 2006 book The Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith. ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Turkish Solitaire
    After Syrian security forces liberated first the area west of Homs and then the area northwest of Idlib, it became obvious that now only a foreign invasion can overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. And Damascus is doing its best to exploit its advantage as quickly as possible: It got a new consti ...
  • Libya: Revolutionary Brigades and the UN
    For the first time the UN Security Council viewed the results of the Mission in Libya operation after it was established in September last year. The report of UN Secretary General was submitted for the Council’s consideration to convince its members that the prolongation of the Mission’s activit ...
  • Britain to Take Off the Cross
    The news that the British cabinet upholds the ban on wearing Christian symbols at work appears surreal at first glance, but, upon scrutiny, incidents in which Christian believers face discrimination from their employers over their religious practices mirror a profound global trend. On the Surfac ...
  • A NATO Transit Center in Russia for Cargos or ...
    The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to sign an agreement with the USA to establish a return “trans-shipment center” in Ulyanovsk for goods going from Afghanistan has attracted public attention. A discussion on financial, political and military aspects of the issue has flared up. The issue of d ...
  • NGOs: Missionaries of Empire
    Non-governmental organizations are an increasingly important part of the 21st century international landscape performing a variety of humanitarian tasks pertaining inter alia to issues of poverty, the environment and civil liberties. However, there is a dark side to NGOs. They have been and are ...

BlogHer

  • Communing with Trees
    I grew up traipsing through the woods. We called them "woods," my friends and I, but really, they were just a dense strip of trees big enough to hide in when the leaves were full in the summer, and small enough to see to the other side in the winter. I loved those woods with its Maples, Birches ...
  • God Connections in Playing Music
    There is a song I grew up hearing throughout my childhood.  If someone was to ask my family what ballad stood out the most to them, what melody was most frequently played, it would be this song.The sheet music of the composer has traveled with me from place to place.  It is so ratty an ...
  • Dollar Shave Club: How to Launch a Startup wit ...
    I absolutely love hearing about startups, businesses, and work that people do that comes from them owning who they are and doing it with a sense of style and humor. Today my husband shared a new advertising video that one of our best friends sent him that was released this past Tuesday by a star ...
  • On the Gunman at the French Preschool: For Tou ...
    Toutes mes condoléances. Toutes mes condoléances.  Please accept my deepest condolences. A few days ago, a gunman in Toulouse, France opened fire on a Jewish day school. A preschool. An elementary school. A safe place for parents to bring their children to learn, and worship. A place wher ...
  • Spring is Here - Time to Trim Your Perennial Herbs
    Salt Lake has been having spring-like weather lately, so on one of those warm days I went out in the garden and trimmed most of my perennial herbs, making way for the green shoots to appear.  When I mentioned on Twitter that I'd been trimming herbs, a few people asked about how to do it, s ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Report: Alpha tops coal industry in MSHA fines
    This just in from SNL Financial’s website: Coal mines operated by Alpha Natural Resources Inc. were assessed more proposed fines for federal safety and health violations in 2011 than all major public coal companies combined, evidence that the company continues to struggle to bring former M ...
  • New report: Coal power is not cheap power
    Over on Twitter, the State Journal’s Taylor Kuykendall pointed out this morning an interesting new report from an Alaska non-profit group called Ground Truth Trekking. The report concludes: How can ratepayers and utilities best keep electricity prices affordable? Coal is often touted as a ...
  • Why doesn’t Sen. Rockefeller hold a comm ...
    There was an incredible moment during the flurry of congressional hearings that followed the Sago Mine Disaster in 2006. Mine safety advocates were pushing for legislation to require a variety of new mine rescue devices — everything from additional emergency oxygen, to wireless communicati ...
  • Friday roundup, March 16, 2012
    A plane flies in the distance above the Soviet-era Monument to Coal Miners in the central Kazakhstan city of Karaganda, Thursday, March 15, 2012. The economy of Karaganda, an industrial city of around 470,000 inhabitants, is heavily dependant on nearby coal mines operated by Luxembourg-based min ...
  • Why coal miners die on the job
    Here’s the description from MSHA of what happened in one recent coal-mining death out west: On Thursday, September 1, 2011, at approximately 10:36 a.m., Cody A. Brown (victim), a contract well driller with approximately 17 months of drilling experience, was killed when a restraining wrench ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Voting Republican
    And yes, I do understand that this doesn’t apply to all conservatives, or all people who identify as Republican. But I would say that, based on my observations at least, it applies to most. An essay by Christopher Hitchens called America the Banana Republic is the best encapsulation of thi ...
  • The New Wheelchair
    Related ContentNoah’s Ark Theory OwnedAn Unbelievable Football GoalApplying Pressure to People’s Religious BeliefsNoam Chomsky Owns Israeli InterviewerCarl Sagan Talks Politics [40 Seconds]
  • DARPA seeks to free the world from passwords | ...
    The research arm of the US military is putting a call out to developers to begin work on software applications that will allow a computer system to identify a user by analyzing the way they type, instead of using the traditional password method. via extremetech.com I’ve been working with v ...
  • Are jobs obsolete? | CNN.com
    New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures — from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually doe ...
  • Islam and the Future of Liberalism | Sam Harris
    Should people be free to draw cartoons of the Prophet? There must be at least 300 million Muslims spread over a hundred countries who think that a person should be put to death for doing so. (This is based on every poll assessing Muslim opinion I have seen over the past ten years.) Should Ayaan ...

Fitwatch

  • FITwatch: The Open Public Meeting
    We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...
  • Questioning the tactic of “questioning t ...
    The following article, originally posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op website, has been reproduced here by FITwatch as we believe it is of relevance in the ongoing debate around the wearing of masks on demonstrations. FITwatch always has, and always will, encourage the wearing of masks on demons ...
  • ‘Extremist’ policing of Leicester ...
    The remarkable ambivalence with which the police treat right wing groups was clearly evident in the policing of the EDL demonstration this week in Leicester. Leicestershire constabulary were clearly happy with facilitating the EDL demonstration, while being equally clearly committed to clamping ...
  • HMIC report into domestic extremist units disg ...
    Well, we always knew HMIC’s ludicrously named ‘review of national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest’ was going to be a farce, and we haven’t been disappointed. The 48 page report published today fails to address any of the concerns addressed by activi ...
  • Student Centre Branded Terrorist
    London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    ByJames Bamford, Wired.com - The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the hear ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Bloomberg had sex with ...
    Worldwidehippies – Main Stream Corporate Media has been placing this story in all their Occupy Coverage. “NYPD probing apparent threat after Occupy protest” AP give authorship of this information to no one. Three days they have been misleading readers and viewers with this. The ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Big earthquake rattles Mexico, no major damage MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like “trampolines”. Office workers fled into the street when the 7. ...
  • You have to be fu**#ng kidding me! Seniors urg ...
    By MINORU MATSUTANI,.japantimes.co.jp –  A Tokyo senior is waging an individual effort to get elderly people to eat rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture to help local farmers struggling with rumors that their crops are radioactive, and to make sure the grain isn’t consumed by more vuln ...
  • “Channeling” Worldwide Hippies &#8 ...
     Get Empowered with Worldwidehippies Subscribe to our You Tube Channel Theworldwidehippies If you are interested in volunteering to working with us, let us know. We have openings for Citizen Reporters, Writers, Artists, Public Relations Director, Web-masters and much needed support staff.  Conta ...

reference frame

  • TRF guest blogger Paul Frampton arrested
    Off-topic, digitized Einstein: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has put thousands of scanned Einstein documents to AlbertEinstein.INFO Yesterday, Fox News brought us some news that were surprising to many of us: North Carolina physics professor in Argentine jail on drug charges (Fox New ...
  • Most of research of "nonlocality" is pseudoscience
    In June, Sabine Hossenfelder is organizing a workshop on nonlocality: Workshop on Nonlocality, June 27-29 (Backreaction) Current registrants (Workshop's website)So far, 10 people have shared their intent to attend. Some of them are just Mr or Ms. George Musser belongs to the best that Sci ...
  • Test TeX, LaTeX in MathJax
    \(\rm\TeX\) or \(\rm\LaTeX\) is the leading system for writing mathematical equations via computers. That's how mathematicians and physicists write their papers, e.g. for arxiv.org. See a 4-page summary of its commands or a 157-page not so short introduction to \(\rm\LaTeX\). MathJax – s ...
  • James Hansen's religious TED talk
    Around March 7th, James Hansen gave this 18-minute TED talk about the climate apocalypse: I believe that just a few years ago, TED talks were high-brow events that featured elite speakers. But if you check what kind of nuts and pseudointellectuals have given TED talks in recent yea ...
  • Equinox: spring usually begins on March 20th
    Even though you were probably taught that the spring begins on March 21st Greenwich Winter Time (UTC), the last beginning of a spring on that day was in 2007. At least for 84 following years, the equinox will take place on March 20th. A dogma of the Christian churches is that sprin ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I wonder if TSA Agents know what long term exp ...
    People have been wondering what long term exposure to naked body scanners will do to the human body. Wonder no more. Here is a photo of an ex TSA Employee. I hear she now works as a tanning bed operator. Click image to enlarge   Any questions? Homeland Security Job Guide: How to get an [... ...
  • Giabo George is a ‘MADe’ Dog. Seen by over 200 ...
    I don’t know how I forgot this one. My Pug, Giabo George, was featured on the Keiser Report over the Christmas holidays. I must be losing it, as the little guy was made famous by Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser. The Keiser Report is seen by over 200 million viewers from around the world each ...
  • Chris Duane: As long as you play by the Elite’ ...
    This video just about sums up what I have been saying for the past 5 or so years. The Heretic is back with a plan for us to destroy the paradigm of evil, fraud, corruption. and tyranny that has been built up by the Elite. If you do not own physical silver then may God [...] Related posts: The ...
  • Heist The Movie – Who Stole the American Dream?
    Please watch the newly updated trailer for “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?,” the new, explosive documentary from Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher exposing the roots of the American economic crisis and the destruction of the American dream. Visit Heist-TheMovie.com for more ...
  • The subtle art of mind control in the media: T ...
    So I have been listening,watching, and reading with fascination, intrigue, and disgust at how the media is conditioning the minds of the masses by reporting on Andrew Briebart’s death by stating that ‘he was ‘known to have heart problems’ or ‘he was known to have a ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • FDA Warns Of Mercury in Skin Creams
    By: Etan Yeshua, Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week that more than 35 imported skin creams, antiseptic soaps and anti-aging lotions have recently been tied to mercury poisoning that in some instances sent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Nobel Prize winner rejects gay rights
    Three months ago, the president of Liberia received her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and was hailed as a champion of women’s rights. Now she’s made it clear that human rights don’t extend to homosexuals, and that’s sparked some outrage in Norway. Liberian President Ellen Joh ...
  • Politician believes he was cursed by Sami opponent
    The acting mayor of a town in northern Norway claims another politician from the Sami Parliament put a curse on him because he’d voted to close a local school and make cuts at another. Thorvald Aspenes of the conservative Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) in Porsanger told local new ...
  • Hate crimes not reported to police
    Several persons with immigrant background in Norway were subjected to hate crimes and harassment right after the terrorist attacks on July 22 last year, before it became known that the attacker was a white ethnic Norwegian and not a Muslim terrorist. A new report ordered by the state commission ...
  • Rutgers professor wins Abel Prize
    Endre Szemerédi, a professor of computer sciences at Rutgers University in the US, has won this year’s Abel Prize, awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Vitenskaps-akademi). The prize, which carries with it a cash award of NOK 6 million (around USD 1 ...
  • Goebbels wins Ibsen Award
    Heiner Goebbels is described as a composer, director, teacher, festival programmer and also has created operas, radio drama and combinations of music and theater. All that won him this year’s International Ibsen Award, for his innovation and influence on the performing arts. Goebbels, age ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Integrating Garbage in the Landscape
    Filling tyres with trash bricks We recently spent a month volunteering in Indonesia, on the beautiful and luxurious island of Samosir. We lent our hands to a small but emerging eco-village situated right on the shore of Lake Toba. At Eco-Village Samosir there are many projects underway, from m ...
  • Establishing a Permaculture Project in Souther ...
    Having been a self-sufficient farmer in the Northern Isles of Scotland and having worked for ecological charities that have helped to build permaculture gardens in arid lands around the world, I have now been living in Southern Portugal for the past fifteen years. Here we have witnessed the we ...
  • Permaculture Earthworks and Rainwater Harvesti ...
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh When: April 30th – May 4th 2012 Where: Zaytuna Farm, NSW Australia Who: Taught by Geoff Lawton Price: $1,100 AUD (GST, camping & food included) Do you want to learn the theory and practice of Permaculture Earthworks? Do you want to learn how [...]
  • 72h Permaculture Design Course: Permaculture f ...
    This 13-day practical and demonstrative PDC will take place in Konso, south Ethiopia, from 7th – 22nd 2012, at Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge. It will have a special focus on the application of permaculture to communities in the developing world. It will involve practical demonstrations both ...
  • Flinders Ranges in the Spotlight – Autumn Seas ...
    Twice a year, over the school holidays in the Australian states of South Australia and Victoria, the Flinders Ranges comes alive, with a series of activities aimed to provide an insight into this majestic, yet environmentally sensitive area. Originally, the seasonal events were organised by the ...

Pointman's

  • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or no truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...
  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...
  • The Climate Wars.
    If you’ve ever fought someone much bigger and stronger than you, then you learn some lessons quickly or you perish. If you stand your ground, they’ll destroy you, because they’re just so much more powerful than you, so you give ground. You’ve still got to fight them, so you jab at them as you gi ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Race, Gender, and Occupy By Sweta Vohra and Jo ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera website. At a recent panel discussion on the Occupy movement, a left-leaning professor from New York University speculated that identity politics - the prioritizing of issues of race and gender in movements for justice - could be ...
  • Two New Documentaries Explore Occupy Wall Stre ...
    The Al Jazeera English television network has just released two new documentaries on the Occupy Wall Street Movement, produced by the award-winning current affairs program Fault Lines. The films can be seen on the Al Jazeera website. Below are the full credits for the films. Fault Lines: Occupy ...
  • Coalition Gathers to Demand Action on NOPD Sho ...
    NEWS RELEASE: Non-Profits, Attorneys, and Community Members Unite to Demand Information from and Action by Local and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, the District Attorney, Mayor Landrieu, and the Local Press concerning NOPD Police-Involved Shootings One week after the tragic NOPD police of ...
  • Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education, By Diane Ra ...
    Below is an excerpt from a post by Diane Ravitch that originally appeared on the Education Week blog: I went to Lafayette, La., last week to speak to the Louisiana School Boards Association. These men and women, representing their local schools from across the state, are trying to preserve pu ...
  • Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occu ...
    Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/neighborhood-w ... 2smTNnKors By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC) and SENI TIENABESO (@senijr_abc) SANFORD, Fla., March 20, 2012 The Florida police department handling the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a self-appointed neighborhood watch leader admitted to AB ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yes but in all of this, don't draw any conclusions about killing 3 jewish kids and Israel killing children in GazaStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:18 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    By JPOST.COM STAFF 20/03/2012 Levels of anti-Semitism up in 9 out of 10 European countries, poll shows; nearly half those polled believe Jews more loyal to Israel. Nearly a quarter of French citizens still show anti-Semitic attitudes, the Anti-Defamation League revealed in a new poll publishe ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    This seems so staged to me, 'he'll give himself up by the afternoon' what!? Did he promise this or something? If 300 cops cant arrest him yet what basis are they going off of to say he will be arrested this afternoon? How many cops does it take to unscrew a dimly lit light bulb? They are draggin ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Story just don't add up Guy is a 24 year French Algerian He went to Afghanistan and Pakistan Was put in prison for planting bombs but escaped Come back to France He knows he is on secret service files His lawyer said he never did drugs He stole the motorbike he used He gave his name, as in real ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Proposed UK Plant Would Capture 90 Percent of ...
    A U.S.-led consortium has announced plans to build a new coal plant in Scotland that it says will be able to capture 90 percent of its carbon emissions. The so-called Caledonia Clean Energy Project, which would be built near Edinburgh, is perhaps the most ambitious carbon capture and storage (CC ...
  • NASA Map Depicts Unusual Warm Stretch Across M ...
    A new NASA map of temperature anomalies recorded across the U.S. in mid-March illustrates just how unusual the recent stretch of warm weather has been, particularly in Midwestern states where thousands of Click to enlarge NASA U.S. temperature anomalies, March, 2012 sites have reported ...
  • Nitrates Pose Threat to California Farming Reg ...
    Nearly 10 percent of the people living in California’s most productive agricultural areas may be drinking water contaminated with nitrates, according to a new study. In an analysis of water quality in the Tulare Lake Basin and the Salinas Valley, a rural region of about 2.6 million people, resea ...
  • Thinner Silicon Wafers Could Cut Cost of Solar ...
    A U.S. company has developed a new manufacturing technique that it says could cut the cost of producing solar cells in half by producing silicon wafers that are about one-tenth as thick as conventional wafers. Twin Creeks Technologies, a San Jose-based company, says it can produce crystalline si ...
  • Interview: Finding Strategies to Save the Worl ...
    In her four decades as a marine biologist, Nancy Knowlton has played an important role in helping document the biodiversity of the planet’s coral reefs — and the threats they increasingly face. Knowlton, a Christian Ziegler/Smithsonian Nancy Knowlton scientist at the Smithsonian Institu ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • British Hostage Rescued From Somali Pirates
    Margot Kiser reports from Nairobi on the successful ransom of British citizen Judith Tebbutt.
  • Allah in the Cafeteria
    What does it take for a school to endorse a practice that many consider to be sexually discriminating? Natasha Fatah reports in Toronto Life about a public school which has allowed its cafeteria space to be used for conservative Muslim prayers. During prayer sessions in this public school, girls ...
  • ebekah Brooks’s New Trouble
    Rupert Murdoch’s former deputy was back at a police station today, answering her bail.
  • Sketching a Shapeless Romney
    Top Aide's 'Etch-a-Sketch' Remark Unleashes a Wave of Mockery
  • So What Do YOU Want to Talk About?
    Let's unabashedly steal an idea from Andrew Sullivan and set aside time this Friday for reader questions.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Mie may accept debris
    Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki said Wednesday he is considering helping to process and dispose of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The work would be done in the city of Inabe.
  • Aoki steals spotlight from Darvish
    Milwaukee's Norichika Aoki upstaged fellow Japanese newcomer Yu Darvish on Monday afternoon. Aoki had three hits, including a triple, and drove in three runs Monday as the Brewers rallied past the Texas Rangers 5-3.
  • Restarting reactors key topic in new energy po ...
    Since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began a year ago, Japan's energy supply mix has undergone a shakeup, with only two out of the nation's 54 commercial nuclear reactors currently online and thermal power filling the gap. The government is reviewing its overall energy policy, but a panel of exp ...
  • Kyushu pileup kills three, hurts nine
    Three people were killed and nine were injured Tuesday in an expressway collision involving five vehicles in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, police said. The collision occurred at around 2:10 a.m. about 1 km south of the Yame interchange on the Kyushu Expressway. The police said the pileup began whe ...
  • Vietnam to stick buying two reactors from Japa ...
    Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung assured Japan on Tuesday that his country will stand by its decision to buy two nuclear reactors from Japanese companies and called for Tokyo's continued cooperation in Vietnam's nuclear power program. Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Dung mad ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Enbridge Pipe Dreams and Nightmares
    We released today a report by yours truly on the economic costs and benefits of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. In particular, I take aim at the outrageous claims about jobs made by the feds and Enbridge as part of their sales pitch. The report takes a closer look at the input-o ...
  • Cue the Bleeding Heart Response from SunMedia
    I know it’s not considered “politically correct” to talk about this. But I, for one, am sick of these welfare types taking my hard-earned money and spending it on whatever they please. I mean, do they really need a membership at the Embassy Club? It doesn’t make them look so destitute to me. In ...
  • The Crime Omnibus Bill: What is to be done?
    On March 12, despite months of protest across the country, the federal government’s Omnibus Crime Bill (euphemistically known as the “the safe streets and communities act”), cleared its final Parliamentary hurdle when the Harper Conservatives voted 154–129 in the House of Commo ...
  • Canadian Deindustrialization
    I thought I knew all about the manufacturing crisis, but I was was still kind of stunned when I did a quick stat check to respond  to a comment on my earlier post on globalization and unions. In 2000, manufacturing output (in constant 2002 dollar terms) amounted to $188.9 Billion. In 2010, manuf ...
  • Cuts Transparency—well, not really
    The detail on the federal government cut backs is going from bad to worse.  The Ottawa Citizen today reported that there will essentially be no details of budget cuts in the March 29th budget. The government maintains that transparency  is desirable…unless it applies to a major policy thru ...

ReDress

  • Britain's "bother-boy" Hague loves putting the ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that British Foreign Secretary William Hague's determination to condemn the Iranian people to economic hardship, his keenness to escalate tension with Iran, and his eagerness to do Israel's bidding by creating an environment conducive to aggression against Iran, mean tha ...
  • Social fear as an obstacle to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that freedom in Western societies is seriously compromised by people's fear of crime, and that the post-9/11 fear of terror, which has been grossly exaggerated by the media, appears to suit some governments as it pushes the public to consent to more surveillance and social co ...
  • Netanyahu versus Obama: what next?
    Alan Hart assesses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's options as he tries to sabotage the prospect of a second term for Barack Obama by dragging the US into a war with Iran, and argues that the real danger is that Netanyahu's anti-Iran rhetoric - "a combination of wretchedness and megal ...
  • US editor’s lament for Israel overlooks Zionis ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel's anti-democratic and racist traits are not recent phenomena, located mainly among the settlers on the West Bank, but "flow from structural problems that were built into the Zionist experiment that ultimately resulted in the Israeli state. They were built in ...
  • Misrepresentation and moral cowardice: Gilad A ...
    Gilad Atzmon debunks a statement signed by Ali Abunimah and others in which they misrepresent his critique of Jewish identity politics, and he vows to continue his fight for the truth. By publishing this, we reiterate our support for Mr Atzmon and hope that the signatories of the statement will ...

Physics Today

  • Aerial archaeology reaches new heights
    BBC: Over the past three years, Jason Ur of Harvard University and Björn Menze of MIT have developed a computer program to scan satellite images of Earth for early human settlements. Among the signs of prehistoric civilization are soil discoloration and mounds caused by the collapse of mud- ...
  • Japan and the UK to connect via subsea fiber o ...
    New Scientist: Construction on fiber-optic cables beneath the Arctic Ocean is scheduled to begin this August, with two cables planned to run through the Northwest Passage above North America and a third along the Russian coast. Although the project is possible due to the melting of Arctic sea ic ...
  • Scientists study the dynamics of language
    Wall Street Journal: A team of physicists used Google's collection of more than 5 million scanned books published from 1800 to 2008 to analyze the dynamic properties of words in English, Spanish, and Hebrew. "It's an inherently competitive, evolutionary environment," said Joel Tenenbaum, one of ...
  • Humans beat computer at crossword solving
    New York Times: This past weekend, Dr. Fill—a crossword-solving computer program—finished 141st out of some 600 human contestants at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn, New York. Written by Matthew Ginsberg, a mathematician and CEO of On Time Systems in Eugene, Oreg ...
  • Sushi that glows in the dark
    Daily Mail: Glowing sushi is reportedly a growing fad in the US. The novelties are made with genetically modified zebrafish, called GloFish, sold by Yorktown Technologies in Austin, Texas. Available in an array of colors, including Electric Green, Starfire Red, and Cosmic Blue, the fish were fir ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Israelis and Palestinians in West Bank water wars
    “Settlers have taken over 30 springs and are trying to take control of another 26 – most of which are located on land privately owned by Palestinians, the UN’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. The takeover appears to reflect Israel’s efforts to exert ...
  • Water Sector Options for India in a Changing C ...
    “On the eve of the World Water Day 2012, the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) is happy to publish its new report: Water Sector Options for India in a Changing Climate. The report highlights that for the poorest sections, also most vulnerable in the climate change co ...
  • Children of the Salween River
    “At least 20 dams have been proposed for the mainstream Salween River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau in China, through Burma and Thailand to its delta in the Andaman Sea. 13 are located in China, with two sites already undergoing preparatory work (Songta and Maji); none have been ap ...
  • Dozens of dead cows found buried in manure pil ...
    “California state water regulators found more than 50 decomposing cow carcasses at a Merced County dairy, and the operator could face fines and a referral to the California attorney general’s office. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a cleanup order this week t ...
  • Are We Running Out of Water?
    “Early in 2001, the Rio Grande River failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. With that nefarious event the Rio Grande joined a growing list of once-mighty rivers that are running dry from overuse:  the Colorado River in the U.S., the Yaqui in Mexico, the Indus in Pakistan, t ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Welcomes Cleveland, Midwest Steel Ind ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, today welcomed the President and CEO’s of Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources at a hearing examining the state of the steel industry in the United States. Kucinich discussed the importance of ...
  • Kucinich Joins President Obama, Vice President ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who is both Irish and Croatian, today attended a St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the United States Capitol Building with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny of Ireland, upon the invitation of House Speake ...
  • As Budget Fight Heats Up, Support for Kucinich ...
    As Congress braces for an expected struggle over the FY 2013 federal budget, support for the National Emergency Employment Defense (N.E.E.D.) Act is gaining momentum. Last week, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (Chicago area Local 126) Executive Board voted to jo ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes Maritime Investment in Cleveland
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced a $1,068,474 grant from the Small Shipyard Grant Program for the Great Lakes Towing Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The grant from the Maritime Administration will provide Great Lakes Shipyard, which is operated by Great Lakes Towing Company, with ...
  • Kucinich: Make Public Secret Patriot Act Legal ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led opposition to the PATRIOT Act since its inception, today released the following statement after the Justice Department confirmed it maintains classified legal interpretations of the Act. “In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed ...

Authentically Wired

  • Hey … what’s the big deal
    … Hey … what’s the big deal … our American government has done the same to those of “color” and if those married to EUGENICS get their way … this could become SOP … for those NOT meeting someone’s criteria …     Dutch Roman Catholic Church ‘castrated at least 10 boys’ ...
  • Whatever gave you the idea that
    … Whatever gave you the idea that corporate or the military was going to allow you and me to know … disclosure is NOT part of their vocabulary …   Army Threatens to Fire Whistleblower for Talking to McClatchy Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers: "The military’s embattled cri ...
  • Come on the boys need to somehow work off all
    …What you say you expected a different result … HELLO … how can that be as after all “water-boarding” is NOT torture … just ask “W” Bush and his cronies … Come on the boys need to somehow work off all that anger, hatred and aggression our military/police instill in them…     Beat ...
  • … But trust us the water provided to you ...
    … But trust us the water provided to you is SAFE …   New Toxic Sludge PR and Lobbying Effort Gets Underway Sara Jerving, PR Watch: "A trade association known for using the terms ‘compost,’ ‘organic,’ and ‘biosolids’ to describe sewage sludge is ...
  • it’s cheaper for them to keep using
    …  Why because as long as their buddies like ConAgra … Mon$anto/XE … DuPont …Pfizer control our Congre$$ it’s cheaper for them to keep using BPA in the food they produce and sell to us … Why Is It So Difficult for Food Companies to Go BPA-Free? March 7, 2012 • 3:00 am PST…ht ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Big trees, like the old-growth forests they in ...
    Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. Reviewing research from forests around the world, Will ...
  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Jewish-Arab peace one Einstein couldn't crack
    Given that she had had a two-year affair with the married Albert Einstein when she was 23 and he was 44, and that she was a Jew desperate to escape an Austria overrun by the Nazis, what resounds down the years about the letter Betty...
  • LanzaTech picked as top energy innovator
    New Zealand bio-fuel company LanzaTech has been recognised as a world-leader in energy innovation. The company is one of ten from around the world to be selected as a 2012 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer.Jennifer Holmgren,...
  • LanzaTech strikes deal with NZSteel to extend ...
    An agreement struck by LanzaTech with New Zealand Steel reflects the biofuels company's move from development to commercialisation, says chief executive Jennifer Holmgren.LanzaTech has its scientific base in Parnell and develops...
  • Sex-starved fruit flies turn to booze (+video)
    Fellas, when your sweetheart says "No thanks'' to sex, do you knock back a few stiff drinks to feel better? Turns out fruit flies do pretty much the same thing.That's the word from a
  • James Cameron's trip into real life Abyss
    Earth's lost frontier is about to be explored firsthand after more than half a century. It's a mission to the deepest part of the ocean, so deep that the pressure is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.And it is being...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Mitt Romney, the Unloved Frontrunner
    Mitt Romney snagged another win in the GOP primary last night, picking up at least 41 of the 54 electoral votes in Illinois. His campaign continues to sell a message of electability, arguing that Romney is the primary contender with the best shot at beating President Obama in the gene ...
  • David Harsanyi on Why Barack Obama and Congres ...
    The administration isn't serious about the debt, because like most politicians, Barack Obama doesn't care. Not a whit. Democrats are willing to move heaven and earth for the things they do care about. They were prepared to whip up political turmoil and put the presidency and Congress ...
  • Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against EPA “S ...
    The Supreme Court handed down a major win for both property rights and due process rights today in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. At issue was the EPA’s use of so-called administrative compliance orders, which are government commands that allowed the agency to ...
  • Brickbat: Now Breathe Out
    Under department policy and the manufacturer's guidelines, San Francisco police are supposed to test the accuracy of their breathalyzer devices every 10 days. But the public defender's office has found that the department hasn't tested those devices in six years. The district attor ...
  • Why the new GOP/Paul Ryan Budget is Better Tha ...
    The new Paul Ryan/congressional GOP budget has been released. As a starting point, consider this: The Ryan plan says that we will spend $3.6 trillion this year while bringing in $2.4 trillion in FY2012. In contrast, President Obama's budget says that we will shell out $3.8 trillion ...

Mercury Rising

  • Why All Minnesotans Should Read Bluestem Prairie
    It’s because Sally Jo Sorensen has a lot on the ball. For example, remember the tale of Michael “Arthur Dimmesdale” Brodkorb? The guy who is now suing for wrongful termination and is holding up the state senate for $500,000 in what no less a person than Secretary of the Senate ...
  • Murdoch’s Media: Bollixing Manhunts, Pus ...
    Charles has already brought up how Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has added to its long list of atrocities by messing up the 2006 search for a serial killer in the UK. I’m here to mention how a Murdoch employee is trying, in My Lai fashion, to destroy American public education under t ...
  • Starving at the corporate trough
    Citizens for Tax Justice: The latest monthly statement by the Treasury Department contains a startling revelation: the amount that Treasury expects to collect in corporate taxes in 2012 has been slashed by more than 28 percent, from $333 down to $237 billion. With such a dramatic revision, one m ...
  • Murdoch allstar scandal: mucking up a hunt for ...
    Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian: The News of the World jeopardised the hunt for the Ipswich serial killer in 2006 after it hired former special forces soldiers to follow a police surveillance team tracking suspects, the Leveson inquiry into press standards has heard. Dave Harrison, a retired ...
  • Minnesota Firefighters: Looking Good While Doi ...
    The central Minnesota town of Padua held a Saint Patrick’s Day parade this past weekend, and as the firefighters from the nearby town of Sedan were coming to take part, they encountered a truck fire.  They were the first on the scene, so they jumped to it and soon had the fire dealt handil ...

Reality Sandwich

  • You Are Only As Old As You Are: The Six Noble ...
      The following originally appeared on ZapOracle.   read more
  • Parent Patients
    On September 7, 2011, two Butte County Sheriff's deputies trespassed onto private property for a "compliance check" to see whether or not Daisy Bram and her husband Jayme Walsh were in compliance with medical marijuana legislation.read more
  • A Child of God in Misery: On the Origins of Sp ...
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  • This Week in Tech
    In This Week in Tech, Amber Case headlines at SXSW, the Peter Joseph at TED Ojai video finally goes up, the continued militarization of robots and AI, Quantic Dream reveals 'Kara', mechanical engineers tackle design and motion in nature, and Old Maps Online is launched. read more
  • Creating Social Synergy
      The following is from the new book Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity's Great Shift Toward the Age of Conscious Evolution, available from Shift books.   read more

Desertification

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

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Press TV

  • Kenyan jets kill 37 al-Shabab fighters
    Kenyan fighter jets have killed at least 37 al-Shabab fighters in southern Somali town of Diff along the Somalia-Kenya border, Press TV reports.
  • 'HRW must report crimes by Syria gangs'
    The Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the armed gangs in Syria are carrying out serious human rights abuses.
  • ‘Iran attack will not stop N-program’
    Former head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says a military attack on Iran may delay the country’s nuclear energy program, but will never be able to stop it forever.
  • China slams US anti-Iran sanctions
    Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman has criticized the US unilateral sanctions against the Iranian oil sector, saying Beijing’s crude import from the Islamic Republic is “legal.”
  • 'US, puppets play dirty tricks 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.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • theatlantic:laphamsquarterly:“I am very c ...
    theatlantic: laphamsquarterly: “I am very cold” “The parchment is very hairy.” “Oh, my hand.” —Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out!  This is awesome. 
  • Six arrested in immigration protest against Sh ...
    univisionnews: A student-led protest against Sheriff Arpaio’s immigration policies resulted in the...
  • Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (L) leaves the court ...
    Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (L) leaves the courthouse after his motion hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland March 15, 2012. Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst accused of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, deferred pleading guilty or not guilty in a military court arraignm ...
  • From TomDispatch: Here’s the math on what it w ...
    From TomDispatch: Here’s the math on what it would mean if any of the three leading Republican candidates were to enter the Oval Office and run the U.S. military; in a word, break-the-bank spending — William J. Hartung, “Throwing Money at the Pentagon, A Lesson in Republican Math”  “If you’v ...
  • newsflick:No one asked their names | By Qais ...
    newsflick: No one asked their names | By Qais Azimy AJE In the days following the rogue US soldier’s shooting spree in Kandahar, most of the media, us included, focused on the “backlash” and how it might further strain the relations with the US. Many mainstream media outlets channelled a sign ...

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