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Friday, March 23, 2012

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Scoop - NZ

  • Legal skull-duggery in Greece may doom Portugal
    Europe has ring-fenced Greece's debt crisis for now but its escalating recourse to legal legerdemain has shattered the trust of global bond markets and may ultimately expose Portugal, Spain, and Italy to greater danger.
  • Wikileaks on Trial by Media in Sweden
    Assange will soon know if the Supreme Court in London is to allow his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual misconduct most of which were dismissed by a senior prosecutor in Stockholm and do not constitute a crime in Britain. On bail for 16 months, tagged and ...
  • The Anger of A Fukushima Farmer Poet
    A farmer’s poem, "Amid Invisible Terror, We Were Witnesses", first appeared in the July 18 edition of Shimbun Nomin (Newspaper “Farmer”), a publication of the Japan Family Farmers Movement “Nominren,” and was immediately recited at anti-nuclear rallies across the nation. Maeda Arata, a seventy-f ...
  • Gaza air assaults "as long as necessary": Israel
    Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned that Israeli air assaults against Gaza would go on "as long as it is necessary", as the death toll in renewed violence in the Palestinian coastal territory rose to 18. "We have exacted from them a very high price. We will continue to operate ...
  • Gina: My Kids Are Not Up To It
    Decades of poisonous infighting within Australia's wealthiest family culminated in claims by Gina Rinehart that her three oldest children lacked the skill and work ethic to take charge of their multi-billion-dollar trust fund. While her three eldest children - John Hancock, Bianca Rinehart an ...

Independent - London

  • Bashar Assad's wife banned from entering EU
    Foreign Secretary William Hague today welcomed "another tightening of the screw" against the regime of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad as his wife was banned from travelling to the EU. Related StoriesUN Security Council backs Kofi Annan's Syria peace planUN finally agrees peace plan for Syria ...
  • Court told of phone call by Florida British to ...
    A teenager accused of killing two British tourists called his half brother from prison saying police had found bullet casings which could "f*** him up", a court heard today. Related StoriesBritons killed in Florida were 'shot dead over robbery'British scientist 'caught with 2kg of cocaine' held ...
  • 'No evidence' of Mohamed Merah terror link, sa ...
    There is no evidence that gunman Mohamed Merah had links with al-Qa'ida or other terror groups, a French official says.Related StoriesAhern failed to tell truth over mystery €165,000How a 'polite and courteous boy' became counter-terror officers' worst nightmareIntent on killing to the last: sco ...
  • Falklands oil exploration is 'illegal' says Ar ...
    Argentina has asked stock markets in New York and London to warn investors of its claim that five oil exploration companies are working illegally off the Falkland Islands, which Argentina contends were stolen by Britain more than a century ago.Related StoriesCocaine use contributed to Houston’s ...
  • Bashar Assad's wife 'to face EU sanctions'
    An EU official says the wife of Syrian president Bashar Assad will be hit with a travel ban and have her assets in the EU frozen.Related StoriesUN Security Council backs Kofi Annan's Syria peace planUN finally agrees peace plan for Syria – but will it end bloodshed?Al-Qa'ida says it killed 46 i ...

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

Signs of the times

  • Arkansas bird death mystery solved?
    Remember New Year's Eve 2010 when thousands of birds mysteriously dropped from the sky over Beebe, Arkansas? Well, the mystery has been solved. Last May, a crew from the National Geographic Channel dropped by the NewsChannel5 Weather Office. They wanted to see what important information we had ...
  • French Bloodthirst: Sarkozy wants Syria
    Syria now faces punishing sanctions from the Arab League, as a diplomat from the body says Damascus ignored Friday's deadline to accept foreign observers. Meanwhile, France is actively seeking international support for a humanitarian corridor to be set up in the crisis-torn country. This is also ...
  • Why It's Time To Stop Buying ALL Watermelon an ...
    This is definitely a consumer alert that all should be aware of. You may have noticed some unusually large watermelons and kiwi fruit on the shelves lately. China's largest base of these fruits has fallen into scandal as farmers are overusing growth chemicals in an attempt to make extra money fo ...
  • French Teacher Urges Minute's Silence For Murd ...
    A French teacher faced disciplinary proceedings Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute's silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot by police. Education Minister Luc Chatel called for the teacher to be suspended after her class reported she had called ...
  • CIA Control of France - Operation Sarkozy
    Thierry Meyssan has written "Operation Sarkozy". (Mr Sarkozy and the CIA. Based on Thierry Meyssan's "Operation Sarkozy" ) Here are some of the points Meyssan makes about Sarkozy and his government: 1. The CIA planned Sarkozy's rise to power and has influence on his government. 2. When Sark ...

The Galloping Beaver

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  • Vancouver Island North again
    On Feb 28th CHEK TV in Victoria reported a voter suppression call in the riding of Vancouver Island North. At that time it was a live call made in the town of Woss and it appeared to be the only incident. Now it seems to have spread and this report is indicating there may have been automated ro ...
  • This airline seems to have it right
    Their livery is an absolute blast. The above is their "Camo" plane.   Then, there is "flying 101". Check out the rest of Kulula airlines' funky fleet here.
  • You measure twice
    Cut once.  Air Canada baggage handlers were staging a wildcat walkout at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport early Friday, causing some flights to be delayed. The job action began Thursday evening and left hundreds of passengers in limbo after they had to disembark from several flight ...
  • Brilliant invention . . .
    BRILLIANT! A life-changing device for paraplegics has been invented by a Turkish company that allows users to move around far more independently than a wheelchair.

Media Matters for America

  • Wash. Post's Cohen's Misguided Push F ...
    In a Washington Post column, Richard Cohen justified a potential Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by claiming that it would delay Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, as evidenced by Israel's 1981 strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor. But experts say that the Osirak reactor strike did ...
  • The Limbaugh "Slut" Firestorm
    On February 23, 2012, Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee regarding the impact of new health care regulations on expanding contraception coverage. Her point - that a prescription medication used to treat a wide variety of women ...
  • "Final Nail In The Coffin Of This Country": An ...
    After waging an epic misinformation campaign during the debate over the Affordable Care Act and throughout the year following its signing, right-wing media have continued attacking the health care law, claiming that it is the "final nail in the coffin of this country" and that it "makes everyon ...
  • "Courage": Fox Lauds Ryan For Budget That Econ ...
    Fox News figures have hailed GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's "courage" for "heroically and gutsily tak[ing] on these enormous entitlement programs" in his most recent budget proposal. But economic experts have said that Ryan's plan is "grossly irresponsible" and "all smoke and mirrors." Fox's praise for R ...
  • CNN's Dana Loesch And The Bullying Campaign Ag ...
    Amid the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's misogynistic attacks on Sandra Fluke, CNN contributor Dana Loesch has aggressively pursued the right-wing campaign to bully the Georgetown law student. After announcing that she would call Fluke "whatever I want," Loesch has called Fluke a "nympho" and ...

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  • Will Yale's Singapore Venture Advance Liberal ...
    Some societies in Asia may be receptive to a seed of liberal education being sown by universities such as Yale. Some Asian societies might nourish liberal education's understandings of ordered liberty and democratic deliberation better than we're doing in the United States. But that's preci ...
  • Video: What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks!
    What Rush Limbaugh REALLY thinks! Why Rush Limbaugh really apologized to Sandra Fluke.
  • Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
    I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...
  • But What Exactly Is Green Manufacturing?
    When most people think of green manufacturing jobs, they think of multi-billion-dollar investments in plants making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars or photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines for smartening grids. They fear, not without reason, that jobs in such plants will star ...
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  • President Obama Sacrifices Gas Policy for Gas ...
    Statement of Trevor Lovell, Environmental Program Coordinator,  Public Citizen’s Texas Office It is unfortunate that President Barack Obama has decided to ignore news stories in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Financial Post, among others, explaining in simple terms ho ...
  • Native Americans Will Protest Keystone XL From ...
    Native Americans protesting the Keystone XL pipeline will be compelled to stay in enclosure located miles from President’s pro-oil event Native American’s gathering in Cushing, OK today to protest President Obama’s words of praise for the Keystone XL pipeline were forced by local authorities to ...
  • What good are rules if they are not enforced?
    The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has a proposal to pardon as many as 3,000 environmental rule breakers. Tell the TCEQ that pardoning polluters is no way to make the air and water in Texas cleaner. The TCEQ is changing the rules to allow those with a “poor” record of complying ...
  • TLLRWDCC could have trucks carrying radioactiv ...
    Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states could start rolling down Texas highways bound forburial at a dump in Andrews County on the Texas / New Mexico border as early as April,. The state’s commission (Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission) oversee ...
  • Comment Period for TCEQ Compliance History rul ...
    The comment period for the proposed new TCEQ Compliance History rules was extended in large part due to Public Citizen making the public aware that the TCEQ had run test scores on their data from the previous year’s posting but were not willing to release that information to us, the Austin ...

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  • Are eyes really a window to the soul ?
    A new study conducted by Yale University psychologists suggests that most people think so. Researchers conducted three experiments that involved showi...
  • Ticket to Mars could someday cost $500,000
    SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk is aiming for a future in which tickets to Mars cost $500,000 per person. Even though a manned mission to Mars is likely...
  • Flashing UFO filmed over UK
    The unusual object was picked up on a time-lapse video of the night sky by UK Skywatch. Unlike the stars in the background the object draws immediate ...
  • Mystery sounds reported in Wisconsin
    Residents have been left perplexed by a series of strange noises and rumblings in Clintonville. Exact descriptions of the sounds vary from person to p...
  • Experts examine Russian 'UFO fragment'
    Space experts have been investigating a strange metallic object that fell from the sky over Siberia. The six-foot object resembles a large dustbin lid...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Drought Spreads to Brazil, Crop Yields Hit
    (UPI) Drought has spread from Argentina and Paraguay to Brazil and is hitting soy yields at a time of concerns that regional economic growth may suffer as pressures mount on commodity prices.
  • Exxon Valdez Sold, Likely Destined for Scrap Heap
    (AP) The notorious Exxon Valdez tanker, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has been bought by an Indian company almost certainly to be scrapped for its steel and spare parts.
  • Gamesa Picks Scottish Port for Offshore Wind F ...
    (Reuters) Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa said on Friday it had signed a preliminary contract with the Port of Leith near Edinburgh for $197.9 million investment to build two new offshore wind manufacturing plants on the site. ...
  • Mississippi Court Ends Global-Warming Suit
    (Forbes) A federal judge in Mississippi has ended a long-running suit that attempted to hold a selection of U.S. utilities and coal and oil companies responsible for flooding damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
  • Green Groups Go to Court to Challenge Ontario’ ...
    (Toronto Star) A group of environmentalists has gone to court to challenge Ontario's plan to build new nuclear reactors, arguing the environmental risks and costs involved haven’t been properly assessed.

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The GOP Nomination Was Rigged
    If the Republican nominating contest were truly over, would Rick Santorum be cruising towards a big victory in Louisiana this Saturday? The truth is that Mitt Romney hasn't wrapped anything up, but the cable networks don't think there is any more money to be made by covering the primaries. How ...
  • Nice Choice for the World Bank
    Remember when George W. Bush rewarded Paul Wolfowitz for his prescience on Iraq by naming him to head the World Bank? Yeah, that was awesome. And remember when, after Wolfowitz proved to be a total disaster and massive embarrassment, Bush appointed a managing director of Goldman Sachs to be hi ...
  • Serious Question
    It's comforting that women hate Mitt Romney, but it's strange that men don't show the president more love. It's true that men would rather vote for Obama than Romney, but they don't give him high favorables. Meanwhile, women under 50 give Obama a 31% advantage. It's almost two-to-one. Imagin ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Allen West
    It appears that Rep. Allen West (R-FL) finally remembered that he is a black man living in the South. Good for him. He thinks the Sanford, Florida police chief should be relieved of his duties (which he has been) and that their investigation was an outrage. Good for him. Of course, if it is ...
  • Romney's Record Unpopularity
    Andrew Romano has pored over polling data and news-clippings from the last 36 years and discovered that favorable/unfavorable numbers are the best predictor of who will win a presidential election. He's also discovered that Mitt Romney's favorable/unfavorable numbers are the worst in modern his ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Staggering Beauty of Iceland's Glacier Lagoon
    The awe-inspiring beauty of Iceland's spectacular Jökulsárlón lagoon is something no one should miss seeing... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Climate Change Affects Migrating Birds
    Some birds are adapting to climate change by altering their migration schedules. Other birds are migrating at their usual times. What can we learn from these examples? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Awesome Fences Created From Recycled Sports Gear
    These seven types of fences will definitely turn your head – because they've all been created using recycled and repurposed sports equipment! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • A Peek Inside the Incredible 10,000 Year Clock
    In an age when few things are made to last, a giant clock is being built inside a mountain whose aim is to count time for 10,000 years. Enter the Clock of the Long Now... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 15 Ridiculously Adorable Baby Owls
    Check out these lovable owlets – with their big round eyes and soft fluffy down – while learning some interesting facts about owls and the way they rear their young. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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

Daily Censored

  • Upcoming Cuts
    Someone at NPR finally noticed the connection between the 18,000 jobs/0.1% rise in unemployment and all of the government budget slashing that has been going on.  For a real heads-up, take a look at NASA.  Pretend that the government is shutting down the space program as part of the trillions of ...
  • Our Broken Government
    In order for our government to work, the political parties  (in our case both) must believe in a common good.  They have different ways to get there, but they must, for the good of the country, be willing to compromise and work together to get there. The stakes are getting much higher.  The worl ...
  • 2-minute video: US War Criminal 1%: Surrender ...
    video here. The Nuremberg Trials established legal precedent for War Criminals exactly in kind to US 1% “leaders” today. Both are cases to prosecute Wars of Aggression that had nothing to do with “self-defense.” Nazi leadership claimed that national “self-defense” was whatever they said. US and ...
  • ON TO THE NEXT WAR!
    Saul Landau Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) want war with Iran and refuse to learn lessons from the futile wars this country has perpetrated since US troops landed in Korea in 1950. They begin with “facts not in evidence,” as lawyers say. “The prospect of a nuclear-armed ...
  • Occupy the Department of Education
       Picture of Ceresta Smith At the Education Week, Teacher — a blog, Ceresta Smith and Tim Slekar are interviewed by Oakland teacher, Anthony Cody.  the blog can be found at: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/03/teachers_and_parents_prepare_t.html?utm_source=twi ...

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  • Libya’s spy chief was lured by French-Mauritan ...
    The arrest of Muammar al-Gaddafi’s spy chief in Mauritania last week was the culmination of a carefully planned French intelligence operation, which was secretly aided by the Mauritanian government, according to informed insiders.
  • US denies arms dealer’s release is part of swa ...
    The United States government has denied that the quiet release and deportation of an Iranian arms dealer is part of a secret deal to swap imprisoned agents with Iran.
  • News you may have missed #699
    Diplomatic war over the arrest of Gaddafi's spy chief. Azerbaijan arrests 22 in alleged Iran spy plot. Was there MI5 link to murder of UK nuclear activist?
  • News you may have missed #698
    Swedish official sent top-secret intel briefing via Hotmail. Russian diplomat won't deny espionage activity in Canada. New Taiwan spy case raises concerns.
  • Breaking News: Russian troops land in Syria
    The Russian service of the BBC has confirmed that a contingent of Russian “antiterrorist special forces” have landed in Syria.

War is a Crime.org

  • Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life
      Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life   by Stephen Lendman   Besides persecution, repression, and injustice, deprivation defines life in Occupied Palestine. Essentials fall way below minimum standards.    Shortages and crises affect water, sanitation, electricity ...
  • Governor of Maine Sticks Out Tongue at Constit ...
    Gov. Paul LePage of Maine sticks out his tongue at his constituents. Photo credit: Peter Woodruff Here's why: read more
  • Why I'm Now Endorsing Occupy the RNC
    Three weeks ago I blogged that I would not endorse Occupy the RNC or DNC because both groups were refusing to state that they opposed violence. Occupy the RNC has now put this on its website: "We are not organizing actions, especially violent ones. That would just be stupid. We exist to provide ...
  • Protest War Criminal Gen. Stanley McChrystal i ...
    Join us for an important demonstration on Tuesday, March 27 in Baltimore, Md. in front of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to protest war criminal Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who will be there for a speaking engagement. People will be mobilizing from around the area to attend this protest and tra ...
  • Stopping the US Drone War: A Chilling Feature ...
    Under the US global war of terror, 40% of the US budget goes to preserve and expand the US empire, killing people in the Middle East to protect a global system of exploitation. As an integral part of the terror program, drones are a weapon of choice. The Obama administration is coordinating dron ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Judge to FDA: Remove Superbug-Breeding Antibio ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Contributing Writer Activist Post A federal judge has stepped up to the plate and is now ordering FDA regulators to start proceedings to revoke the approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, stating that the excessive overuse of antibiotics is threatening publi ...
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  • David Wolfe speaks out about Sunfood, Monsanto ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) What do Sunfood and New Chapter both have in common? They have been taken over by corporate people with ties to Monsanto. In the case of Sunfood, the takeover was a “betrayal,” says David Wolfe in this exclusive interview (see below). Wh ...
  • New Chapter sells out to Procter & Gamble, par ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Procter & Gamble, the global corporate conglomerate that sells a vast array of consumer products containing cancer-causing chemicals and petroleum derivatives, is now the proud owner of New Chapter, one of the more promising nutritional suppleme ...
  • Mercury in flu vaccine is linked to autism
    by BEEZY MARSH, Daily Mail ShareMillions of flu jabs issued by the Government contain a mercury-based preservative which is being phased out in Europe and the United States amid fears over autism and brain damage. Four out of seven flu vaccine brands approved for NHS use contain thiomersal, a me ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Get Fast Cash for Used Gadgets with eBay’s Ins ...
    OK, early adopters: You want to spring for the latest phone or tablet, but your old one is still in great condition. What to do? Instead of holding onto those old electronics, or trying to pawn them off on friends or family, you can sell them back to an electronics wholesaler for cold, hard cash ...
  • uShip Connects Customers to Couriers for Effic ...
    uShip is an online transport marketplace that provides people with customer-reviewed courier services that can move hard-to-ship items. Transporters place competing quotes to win a customer’s business, which brings down delivery costs and makes transport more affordable and efficient. ...
  • Amsterdam Footbridge-Cafe Concept Blends the T ...
    Architect Laurent Sain Val and his team developed this incredible footbridge and cafe as an entry for a design competition calling for new bridge ideas for Amsterdam. Designed to be built in wood and steel, the architecture of the project is a site-sensitive form with an adjustable roof and faca ...
  • New Study Reports Man-made Noise Pollution Aff ...
    Noise pollution is certainly annoying, but does it actually cause any real harm? Several studies have shown that urban noise can have adverse effects on bird populations, causing them to change their songs and otherwise alter their behavior. Now researchers have learned that man-made noise can a ...
  • Magical OLED Installation by Torafu Architects ...
    Torafu Architects designed a magical installation inspired by Yozakura, a traditional Japanese custom of enjoying flowering cherry blossoms during the night. Commissioned by Kaneka for last year’s edition of the Milano Saloni, the twinkling installation exposed OLED (organic light-emitting ...

Pogue's Posts

  • The Disruptive Power of iMessage
    Apple has changed the way we buy music, use our phones, operate our computers and so on. Let's not overlook one of Apple's greatest ideas yet: messages.
  • A Few Questions (and Answers) About the New iPad
    David Pogue answer's readers' questions about the new iPad.
  • The New iPad: It's in the Apps
    The new iPad's hardware keeps Apple ahead of its tablet rivals - there's no other tablet, yet, with anything like these specs - but it's the software that really makes the iPad shine.
  • Place Your Emphasis HERE, Not THERE
    When graphic designers use their computers to fool around with typography, sometimes they get the emphasis all wrong.
  • A Review of the Windows 8 Beta
    Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public. It's an imaginative and successful rethinking of an operating system. The Start screen, for example, is like a Lego kit for your life's control panel.

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Obama’s Kenyan Birth Certificate Surfaces In A ...
    Now it is here and places the president in the African continent. The debate surrounding it will now end after the revelation, and those who have not been telling the truth will have to be made answerable one way or another.
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live. Sadly, feeding the hom ...
  • What Is President Obama So Afraid Of?
    Quietly, and with little fanfare, President Obama signed a “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Executive Order on Friday. As the name suggests, the order intends to shore up the country’s national defense resources in advance of a national emergency.
  • Mysterious Booms, Strange Noises In The Sky Be ...
    During the second half of 2011, a lot of people all over the planet started reporting hearing really strange noises coming from the sky. In some instances the noises produced a loud rumbling such as a train, a thunderstorm or the slamming of a heavy door would make. In other instances, the noi ...
  • They’re Watching: Homeland Security Tracking V ...
    If there ever existed individuals and groups that threatened the status quo it’s now, and they can often be found congregating at alternative news web sites, forums and preparedness oriented online communities. Government officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have done eve ...

Andy Worthington

  • The “Taliban Five” and the Forgott ...
    In the last three months, much discussion has focused on the possibility that, as part of negotiations aimed at securing peace in Afghanistan, the US would release five high-level Taliban prisoners in Guantánamo. Almost entirely forgotten are 12 other Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo, who are most ...
  • The Case of Shawali Khan, an Afghan in Guantán ...
    As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. Here at “Close Guantánamo,” we have been watching with interest the ongoing negotiations regarding five of the 17 remaining Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo. In December, ...
  • The Baleful Effects of NHS Privatisation Are A ...
    As the NHS is opened up to a tsunami of privatisation, the first alarming revelations about the potential disaster it will cause have already been revealed, in a number of articles in the Guardian over the last week — one dealing with “an assessment by the Faculty of Public Health (F ...
  • Photos: The “Austerity Isn’t Worki ...
    UK Uncut, the organisers of the “Austerity Isn’t Working” Dole Queue outside Downing Street this morning advised supporters to turn up for 11 am prompt for a recreation of the notorious “Labour Isn’t Working” poster from 1979 as a protest on Budget Day — ...
  • The Privatisation of the NHS: Why It Will Be t ...
    With the failure of the last challenge to Andrew Lansley’s wretched NHS reform bill in the House of Commons, where Labour’s emergency debate was defeated by 328 votes to 246, I have to ask: how is it possible, in a so-called democracy, for a government without a mandate to ignore the ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Faith and Freedom Coalition: Is Obama Greater ...
    OK, time for a survey. First question: How much danger do you think liberty is in right now as a result of President Obama’s policies, actions and agenda for America’s future? More serious that the threats we faced in World War II from Nazi Germany and the [...]
  • Sentenced to Life, White Supremacist Faces Mor ...
    It now appears likely that confessed hate killer David “Joey” Pedersen will next face federal charges in connection with a West Coast killing spree that left his father, stepmother and two strangers dead. The 31-year-old Pedersen, whose body is decorated with white supremacy tattoos,  was senten ...
  • What’s the Matter with Working for Kansas, Kris?
    Anti-immigrant activist Kris Kobach draws a paycheck as the duly elected secretary of state in Kansas. But he sure spends a lot of time meddling in the business of other states. Kansans Count, a coalition of civil and voting rights groups, recently obtained copies of Kobach’s calendars, schedule ...
  • Extremist Former SCV Commander’s Business Raid ...
    Yesterday evening, Secret Service agents raided former Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Commander Ron Wilson’s business. They seized silver, files and computers from Atlantic Bullion & Coin, according to the Anderson, S.C., Independent Mail. The agents also seized items from his daughter A ...
  • Man Indicted in Firebomb Attacks Aimed at NYC ...
    Federal authorities in New York today unsealed an indictment accusing a 40-year-old man dubbed the “Frappucino firebomber” with hate crimes for New Year’s Day Molotov-cocktail attacks on a mosque and a Hindu temple in Queens. Ray Lazier Lengend, also known as Suraj Poonai, told police he intende ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Public Health Victory: FDA Must Act to Stem A ...
    Yesterday a federal judge in New York ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to act on the growing human health threats caused by the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed. The FDA had started proceedings in 1977 over concerns that antibiotics, including commonly used tetracyclines ...
  • California Moves Towards Overturning Citizens ...
    The California state Assembly endorsed yesterday a constitutional amendment to repeal Citizens United.  The amendment, which passed by a 48-22 vote, calls on Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decisio ...
  • Buy Local Blitz: Local Businesses Hit by 'Cas ...
    Move over, flash mobs. "Cash mobs" are coming.  The idea behind cash mobs is to get a group of people to flood a local business and spend a suggested set amount in order to give the local business an economic boost. The first cash mobs were organized back in 2011 in Buffalo, NY an ...
  • Over a Thousand Protest, Scores Arrested as An ...
    Yesterday was the first day Vermont Yankee nuclear plant began operating without a license. Over a thousand anti-nuclear activists used the day to stage protests and engage in civil disobedience at the nuclear power plant and at Entergy, the plant owner's, offices. ...
  • Intel: Iran Is Not a Nuclear Threat
    "Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead," states a Reuters special report released today. The report, citing breaking intelligence from current and former US officials, outlines the less than drama ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • City pursues privatization of abattoir
    THE City Government will pursue the privatization of the city slaughterhouse in Sto. Niño barangay. Mayor Mauricio Domogan created last week a technical working group to prepare the terms of reference (TOR) to realize the venture. The mayor will chair the group with city veterinarian Dr.
  • 'Michigan In Transition' Symposium To ...
    Organizers of a Friday event at Wayne State University in Detroit say state lawmakers have responded to the recent wave of economic hardship facing Michigan cities and schools with a controversial agenda that has transformed local governments and allowed for the transfer of public assets into pr ...
  • CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: "Keep it Local, K ...
    RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The following press release replaces that which was disseminated today at 2:08 PM ET. The date in the first paragraph has been revised to April 10.CUPE, Council of Canadians and the Richmond Food Security Society will host a free screening of the film "Water M ...
  • "Keep it Local, Keep it Public" even ...
    RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - CUPE, Council of Canadians and the Richmond Food Security Society will host a free screening of the film "Water Makes Money", April 7 at the Chinese Bunkhouse . This free community event focused on keeping public services public, is part of a series of &q ...
  • Severn Trent gives annual report on wastewater ...
    Some people likely do not give a second thought to Safford's wastewater treatment facility, and that is a good thing, according to plant manager Jeremy Samuels, because most people don't think about i

Guardian

  • Rick Santorum leads the race for Louisiana – l ...
    • Santorum ahead in polls for Saturday's Louisiana primary • Michele Bachmann ended campaign with $1m debt • Obama nominates Jim Yong Kim to head World Bank • Live blogging now: Tom McCarthy2.17pm: Is President Obama a Muslim? We posed the question earlier this week in a post about a poll that ...
  • Government IT contractors hire staff in India ...
    Disclosure appears to contradict minister's assurances that department's major IT projects would not go abroadHundreds of computer technicians in India are being hired to help develop an IT system for the government's universal credit welfare programme, work potentially worth hundreds of million ...
  • Obama: Trayvon Martin death a tragedy that mus ...
    President urges authorities to look into 'every aspect' of teen's death and says: 'If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon'Barack Obama made his first public remarks on the killing of Trayvon Martin, saying that the Florida teenager's death was a "tragedy" that needed to be fully investigated ...
  • World's largest Christian TV channel 'funds ow ...
    Lawsuit brought by family members claims Trinity Broadcasting Network founder and his wife bought their jets with sham loanThe world's largest Christian TV channel, the California-based Trinity Broadcasting Network, has become embroiled in a multimillion dollar financial scandal after members of ...
  • Mali coup draws wide condemnation
    EU suspends development operations in Mali as west African regional body criticises 'military adventurism'The military coup in Mali has been widely condemned, with the west African regional body Ecowas describing it as "military adventurism" and the African Union calling an emergency meeting in ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Will Justice Be Found and Done
    March 22, 2012 No one has yet been charged for the recent night time murder of 16 Afghan villagers. A suspect, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, is in custody in the U.S., after having been removed from ...
  • Army Health Care In Spotlight After Afghan Sho ...
    March 22, 2012 As officials prepare charges against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for his alleged killing spree in Afghanistan, concerns are growing about mental health screening for soldiers. The Army ...
  • Afgahnistan war being prolonged to save face
    The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation.
  • Pak rejects Afghan demand for in-kind payments ...
    Pakistan has rejected Afghanistan's demand for transit fees payment in the form of gas under the 7.6 billion dollars Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project.
  • Afghanistan avalanche 'kills 22'
    At least 22 people from one extended family have been killed in an avalanche in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province, officials say. They say that the avalanche took place in the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • The Sky Has Not Yet Fallen
    (The First Seven Months of the SEC Dodd Frank Whistleblower Program) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash So far, the sky has not fallen. That’s not to say there isn’t some curious weather activ ...
  • OSHA issues new manual for whistleblower inves ...
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Whistleblower Investigations Manual last year.  The new manual includes some improvements for whistleblowers, such as accepting oral complaints (which is particularly helpful in meeting the short 30-day time limits for en ...
  • Occupy EPA protest planned for March 30
    Occupy EPA is marching again. On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 12 noon, they will march from Franklin Square Park (13th & I Sts NW in Washington, DC) to the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (12th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Federal Triangle, Washington DC). There, at 1: ...
  • Washington Post's Joe Davidson asks federal ma ...
    The commissioned corps of the Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work on the cutting edge of federal research and policy on diseases, medical devices, public health, global warming and our environment. Yet, they fall into an exclusion from ...
  • DC Circuit Judges understand Convertino's appeal
    Attorney Stephen Kohn today presented oral argument on behalf of former federal prosecutor and whistleblower Richard Convertino (pictured).  Convertino is seeking reversal of an order issued last year by Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, DC.  That order dismissed ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • FBI Turns Back On 2,750 Of The 3,000 GPS Devic ...
    In January, we wrote about the Supreme Court's somewhat surprising ruling on GPS monitoring by law enforcement, in which it suggested (but didn't fully say) that putting a GPS device on a car might need a warrant -- a pretty easy process that the FBI just didn't want to go through. Following th ...
  • Feds Finally Realize That AT&T Has Been Enabli ...
    We first wrote about IP Relay fraud all the way back in 2004, when it was pointed out that a huge percentage of calls using this system were fraudulent, and the telcos were doing nothing to stop it, because they were profiting at the taxpayer's expense. If you're unfamiliar with the system, IP ...
  • Hollywood, Once Again, Sets A Record At The Bo ...
    Considering how much time the MPAA has spent arguing that the sky is falling, that jobs are disappearing and the movie industry is collapsing, you'd have to imagine that its PR people had to think long and hard about how they "spin" the news that global box-office receipts set yet another new re ...
  • Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer's Loopy Legal Argument ...
    Now here's a weird one. THResq has a report concerning Lindsay Lohan's lawyer in her ridiculous case against the rapper Pitbull. That lawyer has now been accused of plagiarizing most of a recent filing which tried to argue that Pitbull's First Amendment rights weren't an issue in the case. If ...
  • Wanted: The Truck Driver Who Lost His Job Due ...
    Capitol File Magazine has a bit of a puff piece on the MPAA's Chris Dodd one year into his job at the lobbying organization (a job he took just months after promising he'd never work as a lobbyist). The piece isn't really that enlightening, other than an admission from Dodd that he didn't know ...

VacTruth

  • Antibiotics Declared a Disaster; Should Vaccin ...
    “We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care unit.”
  • 7 Marketing Lies in a Vaccination Campaign Exposed
    Many advertising campaigns over the years promoting vaccinations are intended to scare parents into vaccinating their children... This is one of the worst that I have ever seen.
  • The New Bioethics—Hopefully Not!
    This may upset you in more ways than you think, so please be prepared for the utmost of shocking new medical ethics proposals. Are you ready?
  • Vaccines and Autism?
    The link Is undeniable. Parents researching the topic are discovering what these two words have in common.
  • How I Met Jenny McCarthy
    Jenny McCarthy’s Twitter account is named “mommywarrior” for a reason. She encourages parents to “do absolutely everything you can for your child, no matter what anyone tells you.” Here's how I met her...

BroadSnark

  • Using Prejudice
    I’ve been watching the fall of Rush Limbaugh with a certain amount of glee, but also with some ambivalence. I’m perfectly happy for him to get shit for calling Sandra Fluke a slut after testifying about contraceptives. But I am wondering why all his other equally offensive comments d ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A wee bit late with this post as I was at the march last night. I have comments, but I think I am going to ruminate on them a bit more. You should check out CD’s latest, Foreclosing on the Commons. And what amazing photography. Would liberals who like to quote Warren Buffett talking about ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...
  • Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
    I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If the G8 want to hide themselves as far away from protesters as possible, I propose we shoot them off into space and leave them there. James calls out rich people hypocrisy over on Cubik’s Rube. The more I read (and read about) Steven Pinker, the more I truly hate that man. There is a [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Sgt. Bales burned one child alive, father says
    The Wall Street Journal reports: Mohammed Wazir says he was having breakfast with his brother in the town of Spin Boldak when he received the phone call from his village three hours away. “All your family members are martyred,” a neighbor told him. When Mr. Wazir, a 33-year-old farme ...
  • U.S. to keep intelligence data on Americans wi ...
    The Associated Press reports: The U.S. intelligence community will now be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years under new Obama administration guidelines. Until now, the National Counterterrorism Center had to immediately destroy information abo ...
  • NSA chief denies domestic spying but whistlebl ...
    James Bamford writes: In a rare break from the NSA’s tradition of listening but not speaking, NSA chief General Keith Alexander was grilled Tuesday on the topic of eavesdropping on Americans in front of a House subcommittee. The questioning from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) was prompted by Wire ...
  • Syria’s refugees remind us of the price of rev ...
    Jonathan Jones writes: Here is the truth about revolution, war, dictatorship and resistance. It is a simple truth and it is crushing: people suffer. In this powerful picture by Greek photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis a refugee family in Janoudia in north-western Syria wait for rebels to help them ...
  • Democrats press Obama over U.S. complicity wit ...
    Mark Weisbrot writes: Hondurans are still suffering from the effects of the June 2009 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya. The coup has unleashed a wave of violence against political opposition, journalists, small farmers and others, with ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Friday Funny – a glass half hot or half ...
    Gordon Fulks writes in about this humorous headline showing how the media catastrophises even simple things like a pleasant weekend forecast: Hello Everyone: Just to provide a little balance to the story about snow and cold in the Pacific Northwest … Continue reading →
  • More fakery from “Forecast The Facts”
    (Note: I can back Mike up on this, I’ve been getting several letters like this from my TV Meteorologist friends from around the country, all nearly identically worded. – Anthony) Guest post by Mike Alger If you thought the dishonest … Continue reading →
  • Diminished Climate Alarmism: Lessons from L’Af ...
    Guest post by Robert Murphy, reposted from Master Resource with permission “Without being a trained climate scientist, I can read the various blogs and try to parse the academic papers, but ultimately I have to rely a lot on the … Continue reading →
  • Monckton’s Slide Presentation to the Cal ...
    As readers have seen here and here, Monckton presented a presentation to committee members of the California Assembly yesterday at the invitation of Assemblywoman Shannon Grove of Bakersfield. There were no Democratic members present during the presentation that I was … Continue reading &# ...
  • Whole lotta watts added to the atmosphere
    I loved the way James Russell described CO2 molecules as “natural thermostats” Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles.  NASA-funded researchers say … Continue re ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • How Pot, Cocaine, and Hunger Intersect in the ...
    In June 2006 pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis began selling a new weight-loss drug called rimonabant in Europe. Rimonabant worked in part by reducing appetite, and the company claimed it could also treat addiction, harmful cholesterol, and diabetes. Lab tests even suggested the drug produced ...
  • Opinion | Investment in medical research saves ...
    WITH the nation’s economy in poor health, the congressional “super” committee appointed to propose areas for cuts to reduce the national deficit offered the promise of a cure. But when it ended deliberations without a proposal, it provided instead a bitter pill — $1.2 trillion ...
  • Freeze-tolerant Flies
    Organisms that live at the frigid poles of our planet have evolved strategies to withstand temperatures that would kill most species instantly. Some secrete ice-nucleating substances that control the freezing process, for example, while others accumulate anti-freeze proteins that allow their cel ...
  • Successful human tests for first wirelessly co ...
    About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient’s body. This week, the MIT researchers and scientists from MicroCHIPS Inc. reported that they have su ...
  • Printing Muscle
    In a small clean room tucked into the back of San Diego–based startup Organovo, Chirag Khatiwala is building a thin layer of human skeletal muscle. He inserts a cartridge of specially prepared muscle cells into a 3-D printer, which then deposits them in uniform, closely spaced lines in a petri d ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • What to Look for in Obama's 'Keystone Lite' En ...
    President Obama is set to make a big speech about energy tomorrow in Oklahoma. If advance press reports are correct, he will use his visit to the town of Cushing - a major hub in the nation's oil pipeline network - to announce his support for the southern leg of the Keystone pipeline, aka "Keys ...
  • Genetically Modified Food Serves up a Host of Ills
    Amid mounting evidence of the dangers genetically modified crops pose to humans, animals, our soils and biodiversity, the corporate-controlled U.S. government continues to ignore the dangers and actively promote GM crops.Click here to read this article
  • Thich Nhat Hanh: Maybe in 100 Years There Will ...
    The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair aboutClick here to read this article
  • Humanity Has Already Had Four Major Ecological ...
    Theologian Martin Palmer tells Tom Levitt how we can learn from previous man-made ecological collapses in Britain and create a 'new narrative' that challenges our dominant consumer cultureClick here to read this article
  • Can Reforming the Farm Bill Help Change U.S. A ...
    More than ever, U.S. corn is king. Across the Midwest, farmers are expanding their corn acreage to take advantage of record high prices. More corn will be planted this year than any since World War II, with 94 million acres under cultivation, up from 78 million in 2006.Click here to read this ar ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • FDA Enters Withdrawal: Agency Must Pursue Limi ...
    Yesterday, a federal magistrate ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move ahead with a decades-old effort to withdraw approvals for several uses of antibiotics considered “critically important” to human health by the World Health Organization.  This is a solid win for public health ...
  • 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 ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • What the skeptics of climate catastrophe are s ...
    The most frustrating thing about being a scientist skeptical of catastrophic global warming is that the other side is continually distorting what I am skeptical of. ( Note 'side' :climate scientist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. makes similar observation re GIGO) Submitted by John Farnham to Science &amp ...
  • Persian Gulf Militarization
    Military bases and Contingency Sites surrounding Iran. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is the U.S.Supreme Court going to give the Pre ...
    What say you? Submitted by Jaime Dough to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Other Terrorist Threats
    Sometimes everything just falls together in the news. Here`s the rundown on corporate war on the environment - and us Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What Nasty Surprises Await Our Warmongers in t ...
    Irans Sunburn missiles, acquired from Russia and China over the last 10 years, have the capability of creating a world of hurt for the US Navys 5th Fleet. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • ‘Confined’ field releases of Eucalyptus neithe ...
    An application from ArborGen has taken a sinister turn in declaring most, if not all of the genetically modified (GM) constructs in a Eucalyptus hybrid clone to be tested in environmental release ‘Confidential Business information’, thereby precluding any meaningful independent safety and enviro ...
  • 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 ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • More Trayvon Martin Walkouts at Miami Schools
    ShareThisMore Trayvon Martin Walkouts at Miami Schools --Students at several Miami high schools stage walkouts for slain teen 23 Mar 2012 Hundreds of students at several South Florida high schools staged walkouts Friday morning in a massive protest against the lack of an arrest in the Trayvon Ma ...
  • US: Journalist fired after calling Israeli occ ...
    ShareThisUS: Journalist fired after calling Israeli occupation 'brutal' 23 Mar 2012 A veteran American journalist has been fired after referring to Israel's occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land as "brutal." Sunni Khalid, managing news editor at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, was dropped by the publi ...
  • Obama Signs 'Thank You' to Deaf Supporter
    ShareThisObama Signs 'Thank You' to Deaf Supporter 21 Mar 2012 President Obama didn't miss a beat last week when he encountered a group of deaf students along a rope line after his speech at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland. "I am proud of you," signed Stephon, a 26-year-old college ...
  • 'Etch A Sketch' stocks soar after Romney gaffe
    ShareThis'Etch A Sketch' stocks soar after Romney gaffe 22 Mar 2012 Shares in a company that makes Etch A Sketch nearly tripled in value on Thursday, a day after the humble toy was thrust into the center of US politics. The Ohio Art Company, which makes the children's iconic drawing device, saw ...
  • Outrage over Trayvon Martin shooting spreads
    ShareThisOutrage over Trayvon Martin shooting spreads 22 Mar 2012 Fury over the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is spreading. Marchers took to the streets in New York City and Miami Wednesday, demanding the arrest of the shooter, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. And he ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Panjway, Afghanistan: Amphitheater of War
    For a larger view please click on image or one of the links below. 23 March 2012 This panorama was made in the general area where the Panjway 17 massacre unfolded.  The view is over the Arghandab River Valley, a place that Canadian and many US forces know well.  The Arghandab can be ...
  • Sir Petraeus
    16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
  • Libya Spot Report
    16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place.  I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...
  • The Panjway 16
    15 March 2012 The New York Daily News asked for an op-ed on the mass murder in Afghanistan.  I invested several hours writing and they took it as is. As per normal, they changed the title.  Practically every publication does this to suit their specific readership, and that’s fine.&n ...
  • Senator Levin on MEDEVAC
    07 March 2012 Senator Carl Levin has been sending a form letter to his constituents.  Key parts of the letter seem to be have been written by the Army.  At minimum, Senator Levin’s responses are a rewrite of Army releases.   His statement perpetuates numerous myths and outri ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Holder expands use of data in terrorism invest ...
    [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] signed new guidelines [text] on Thursday for the use of information not related to terrorism activities by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) [official website]. The NCTC is permitted to gather data on American citizens to sear ...
  • US soldier charged with 17 counts of murder in ...
    [JURIST] US Army Sgt. Robert Bales was charged with 17 counts of murder Friday for the alleged shooting of Afghan civilians, including women and children, in a Kandahar village almost two weeks ago. He will also be charged with six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault. ...
  • FDA ordered to continue proceedings that could ...
    [JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] issued an order [text, PDF] to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official website] on Thursday requiring the agency to initiate withdrawal proceedings that could lead to the removal of broad spectrum an ...
  • Nigeria villages sue Shell in UK court over oi ...
    [JURIST] Thirty-five Nigerian villages brought a suit against Shell [corporate website] Friday in a London court alleging Shell's slow response in cleaning up two oil spills in a neighboring river ruined their livelihoods. The lawsuit [Reuters report] claims Shell is responsible for unspecified ...
  • UN rights chief warns Sri Lanka against retrib ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] expressed concern Friday over the harassment of Sri Lankan rights activists [press release] following the adoption of a UN resolution [JURIST report] regarding the investigation of war crimes committed during the count ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Universities Cave to Pressure from Far ...
    TweetOver the past several years, the Israeli far-right think tank, the Institute for Zionist Strategies, has accused Tel Aviv University (TAU) and other academic institutions of being hotbeds of anti-Zionism.  Here is how I described the campaign waged by IZS in a 2010 post: [IZS is] demanding ...
  • Former IDF Pilot Arrested Smuggling $2.5-Milli ...
    TweetThis promises to be an interesting story.  The Telegraph reports that former IDF pilot, Shmuel Kainan Klein was arrested in Harare’s international airport while trying to smuggle $2.5-million worth of local diamonds out of the country in his luggage: Shmuel Kainan Klein, 55, was detai ...
  • Leading Settler Rabbi Tells Barak, Bibi: ‘No t ...
    TweetIt’s not every day you read an article like this (Hebrew) in the Israeli press.  Leading settler Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, one of the most senior of the religious Zionist rabbis, attacks the idea of an Israeli assault on Iran and rejects the notion that a nuclear Iran is an existential t ...
  • Terror and the Murder of the Good
    TweetThe series of terror attacks in Toulouse over the past two weeks have proven several truths. First, that terror is the enemy of reason, tolerance, childhood, and almost everything that allows human civilization to flourish. It’s important to note that Al Qaeda, whom the French terrori ...
  • Israelis Say ‘No’ to Iran War
    TweetIsraelis have begun intensive social networking efforts to promote the notion that their country does not want war with Iran.  There will be a mass rally on Friday, March 24th at 7PM in HaBima Square in Tel Aviv.  There is also a Facebook event page, Israelis Against War with Iran.  It has ...

If Americans Knew

  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • New Knight Lab Tool Makes Great-Looking Timeli ...
    A timeline is one of the most useful and versatile storytelling forms, suitable for everything from "tick tock" accounts that unfold over a short period of time to events that unfold over decades, centuries or millennia. But the tools available to journalists to create online, interactive timeli ...
  • How Overview Visualized 4,500 Pages of Declass ...
    Reporting on an incident where private security contractors fired at civilians in Iraq is one thing, but reporting on all such incidents is something else entirely. That's the situation we were faced with when, in reporting on the role of private security firms in Iraq, we wanted to analyze ...
  • Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules in Favor of ...
    The highest court in Massachusetts has just ruled in favor of OpenCourt's ability to video record, stream and archive public court proceedings online, writing that restricting rights to publish would violate First Amendment press protections. The decision arrived during Sunshine Week, a n ...
  • LocalWiki Launches TriangleWiki
    LocalWiki is incredibly excited to announce that our second focus community, the TriangleWiki, has just launched. Check it out! The TriangleWiki launches with over 1,000 pages -- more than three times the amount that the Davis Wiki had at its launch. Interestingly, the TriangleWiki wasn ...
  • Introducing MapBox Streets, a New World Map Po ...
    We recently released MapBox Streets, a zoomable web map of the world that's powered entirely by open data through the OpenStreetMap project. Our main focus with MapBox Streets was to provide a beautiful street map alternative to the ones normally seen online, primarily Google Maps, and to make i ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Iran - 5 Million Goldfish Die for Nowru ...
    A longstanding Zoroastrian tradition, the Iranian New Year known as Nowruz is a time for spring cleaning, visiting friends, banishing the old, and preparing for the new. Beginning at the exact moment that the sun lies over the equator on the spring equinox, when light is spread evenly across the ...
  • Ethnic Tolerance - A Parent's Nightmare Sparks ...
    It’s any parent’s nightmare: Getting a call with the news that your child has been killed. So it’s not hard to imagine the anguish being experienced by the parents of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.   Deeply disturbing information is emerging about the course of events leading up to ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Time to Stop Incitemen ...
    This week, after a young rabbi and three children were shot to death at a Jewish school in France, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas cabled condolences to French president Nicolas Sarkozy. In that brief cable, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abbas claimed that ...
  • Edge of Government Transparency - South Caroli ...
    In response to South Carolina’s failing grade from the State Integrity Investigation, House Democrats there have proposed historic ethics reforms. South Carolina was ranked 45th out of 50 states, with a score of 57 percent. “It is time for South Carolina to get serious about ethics reform,†...
  • The Arab Winter in Egypt - Caught in Egypt's P ...
    The Egyptian government's prosecution this winter of seven American democracy workers catalyzed a two-month crisis in American-Egyptian relations. But after Washington threatened to withhold $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt, the standoff swiftly subsided. The presiding judge resigned ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Withdrawing My Endorsement of Rick Santorum
    Almost two months ago (and for the first time ever on this site) I made an endorsement in a GOP primary campaign.  Though sure of the  endorsement itself it was a concern if readers would be interested in reading about my support for  Rick Santorum (or anyone's support for an ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Alan Grayson Has Mental ...
    In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that former Florida Congressman Alan Grayson is showing signs of mental duress. The party "hit-man" who once held the title of nastiest man in congress (both houses...in fact any legislature across the world), has been accusing ...
  • Gallup Poll: Americans Want Obama to Approve K ...
    Today, the President travels to Oklahoma where he will announce he supports constructing the final segment of the Keystone pipeline (the segment going from mid-Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico). What he wont mention is, to build this part of the pipeline no federal permission is needed.  Fede ...
  • Antisemitic Attacks in Toulouse and Elsewhere ...
    By Barry Rubin What a tragic, evil joke. A drive-by shooter in the beautiful, almost magical, city of Toulouse, France, murders three Jewish children and a teacher in front of their school. Various VIPs issue statements about how terrible is this deed, how unspeakable. And yet at t ...
  • Oklahoma Oil Town to Protest Hypocritical Obam ...
    With recent polls indicating that Americans feel the President is not doing enough to bring down energy prices, Obama has gone on the offensive.Tomorrow President Obama plans to bring his "I don't have anything to do with high gas prices" tour to the rural town of Cushing Oklahoma (population ...

The Real Agenda

  • Google’s ‘Ambient Background’ Spy Tech
    By PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | INFOWARS.COM | MARCH 23, 2012 Six years ago we warned readers that Google was planning to use the ambient background noise of a person’s environment to spy on their activities in order to direct targeted advertising at them through technological devices. That ha ...
  • Get Your Hands off My Water
    Prepare for the ‘Water Wars’ says intelligence analysis By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 23, 2012 A report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) warns about a new kind of wars to come in a decade’s time. The report released on T ...
  • Hunting for Obama: Arpaio Warns of More Revela ...
    By JOE KOVACS | WND | MARCH 22, 2012 “America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression of his findings of a likely forged presidenti ...
  • “World Government Will Be Needed to Stav ...
    By GARY STIX | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | MARCH 17, 2012 Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University’s Robert Socolow that set out a well-reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon di ...
  • September 11, 2001 Insider Trading – Here are ...
    By LARS SCHALL | GLOBAL RESEARCH | MARCH 21, 2012 Is there any truth in the allegations that informed circles made substantial profits in the financial markets in connection to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States? Arguably, the best place to start is by exami ...

Wind Watch

  • Study finds wind turbines may be bad for your ...
    Everything from vertigo to sleep deprivation, migraines, heart disease, stress and tinnitus has been blamed on wind farms. The Oregon Health Authority Office of Environmental Public Health spent more than a year investigating whether living close to wind turbines damages personal health or bring ...
  • Clifton farmers file complaint against Pisgah ...
    BANGOR, Maine — After exhausting all of their local options for halting an industrial wind farm proposed for Pisgah Mountain, the owners of Rebel Hill Farm in Clifton are taking the matter to court. In a complaint filed at Penobscot County Superior Court, Peter and Julie Beckford allege that tow ...
  • Wind farm delay could affect Orangeville taxes
    ORANGEVILLE — Invenergy’s problem may also be the town’s. The Chicago-based company has delayed major work on the proposed Stony Creek Wind Farm, as it awaits renewal of the federal Production Tax Credit that supports renewable energy. If the work doesn’t proceed, the Town Board may need to enac ...
  • Tribes fight green energy wind project in desert
    SAN DIEGO — Several Native American tribes in the Southwest are fighting a large wind farm planned near the town of Ocotillo, in Imperial County, CA. The tribes say there are more than 400 archeological sites on the land where the turbines would be located. The Ocotillo Wind Express Energy Proje ...
  • Xcel: EnXco wind farm settlement failed
    The utility dropped out of the N.D. project amid concern about two endangered birds: the piping plover and the whooping crane. Two months of settlement talks have failed to end a legal dispute over Xcel Energy’s cancellation of a $400 million wind farm in North Dakota, the Minneapolis-base ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...

The Freeman

  • Philip Wicksteed on the Scope of Economics
    Today’s TGIF, “The Ubiquity of Economic Phenomena,” credits Philip Wicksteed, the “British Austrian,” for being one of the first thinkers to realize that economics applies to all purposeful action, not just the pursuit of material wealth. Here is a section of the in ...
  • NY Police Spied on Lawful Groups
    “Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities.& ...
  • U.S. Energy Imports Fall to Under 50 Percent
    “Taken together, the increasing production and declining consumption have unexpectedly brought the United States markedly closer to a goal that has tantalized presidents since Richard Nixon: independence from foreign energy sources, a milestone that could reconfigure American foreign polic ...
  • Insider Trading Ban for Congress Heads to Pres ...
    “The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to an ethics bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, clearing the measure for President Obama, who called for such legislation in his State of the Union address two months ago.” (New York Times) The ultimate insiders. FEE Tim ...
  • The Ubiquity of Economic Phenomena
    At the center of libertarianism and free-market economics lies not wealth but liberty -- the freedom of people to cooperate in the pursuit of diverse values, some “self-regarding,” some not. Wealth is merely one part of a much larger story.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
    An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
  • US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
  • NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
    A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
  • Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
    More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
  • Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
    Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

  • Addressing Workforce Shortages in the Dakotas
    While not immune to the recession, the upper Great Plains is in a different economic situation from the rest of the nation. Growth coupled with low unemployment means more strain on the region’s workforce, making it tougher for employers to find the workers they need. It's not so much about ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
    Vietnam may be the next China. With a nominally communist government, Vietnam has liberalized its markets and is prospering from an increased reliance on exports. Vietnam's gross domestic product per capita is still only about $3000, but has been among the faster growing economies over the pa ...
  • Data Spotlight: Ranking States by Their Depend ...
    A recent Brookings paper makes a clear case from the start: “Manufacturing matters to the United States …” Other economists and econ bloggers aren’t so sure. What’s clear, however, is certain states (think Indiana, Wisconsin, and Arkansas) depend on manufacturing to fuel their economies more ...
  • The Expanding Wealth Of Washington
    Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last year grew faster in population than any major region in the country, up a remarkable 2.7 perce ...
  • Floribec : Quebec in the Tropics
    Floribec has been part of the collective imagination of the Quebecois for nearly 50 years. Over time, a movie, a novel, advertisements and news reports played an important part in establishing the greater Miami region as the destination of choice for Quebec tourists. Floribec began as a res ...

GM Watch

  • Morrison's drops GM-free poultry policy
    NOTE: Some very bad news on the UK supermarket front. Morrisons are breaking ranks with other supermarkets and are dropping their GM-free poultry policy: "We are moving to permit the use of GM feed in the poultry supply chain." ASDA, owned by Walmart, broke ranks some time ago according to this ...
  • Morrison's drops GM-free poultry policy
    NOTE: Some very bad news on the UK supermarket front. Morrisons are breaking ranks with other supermarkets and are dropping their GM-free poultry policy: "We are moving to permit the use of GM feed in the poultry supply chain." ASDA, owned by Walmart, broke ranks some time ago according to this ...
  • Monsanto and friends target schoolchildren
    NOTE: Sadly GM propaganda campaigns targeting schoolchildren are nothing new. http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/8385 http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Clare_Robinson http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/8618 --- --- Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying ...
  • Monsanto and friends target schoolchildren
    NOTE: Sadly GM propaganda campaigns targeting schoolchildren are nothing new. http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/8385 http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Clare_Robinson http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/8618 --- --- Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying ...
  • New report slams Bt cotton's failed promises
    NOTE: The new report is here: http://indiagminfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Bt-Cotton-False-Hype-and-Failed-Promises-Final.pdf  --- --- 10 years of Bt Cotton – False Hype and Failed Promises Exposed Coalition for a GM-Free India, March 21 2012 http://indiagminfo.org/?p=393 The false hype an ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Giga ...
    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it.  This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be full ...
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...
  • 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Ar ...
    In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that "weird" is always bad.  Sometimes "weird" can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts ab ...
  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...

Desertification

  • UN: $50 MILLION URGENTLY NEEDED WITHIN 90 DAYS ...
    New York, Mar 23 2012 11:05AM The United Nations food agency today urgently appealed for $50 million within the next 90 days to help farmers in the Horn of Africa with priority agricultural and pastoral activities, ahead of the region’s … Continue reading →
  • UN SPOTLIGHTS ROLE OF WEATHER AND WATER SERVIC ...
    New York, Mar 23 2012  2:05PM The role of weather, climate and water services to help countries achieve sustainable development is being highlighted today by the United Nations during this year’s <”http://www.wmo.int/worldmetday/”>World Meteorological Day. “Knowledge about ou ...
  • Urban gardening and container gardening (Googl ...
    Read at : Google Alert – container gardening http://www.goodfoodworld.com/2012/03/urban-gardens-for-health-solidarity-and-sustainability/ Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Urban Gardens for Health, Solidarity, and Sustainability Nicholas Parkinson, In the hills above Addis Ababa, among the tra ...
  • The Incredible Edible program in Todmorden : f ...
    Read at : http://www.naturalnews.com/034412_home_gardening_vegetables_civic_buildings.html British town grows all of its own vegetables, witnesses improved civic life and reduced crime as a result by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) When the small British mill town of Todmorden, tucked ...
  • ‘OMG’ for ‘oh my god’ : Space-friendly techniq ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95140/PHILIPPINES-OMG-Eat-your-vegetables-campaign PHILIPPINES: OMG! Eat-your-vegetables campaign Celebrities are working with the Philippines government in a recently launched nationwide media campaign to lift the consumption of fresh produce and fight m ...

The Paper Trail

  • Weekly Watchdog 3/22/12
    State transparency and accountabilityIn just four days our State Integrity Investigation — a corruption-risk grade card for every state — has been quoted, praised, assailed or otherwise cited by more than 200 media organizations, from The New York Times to NPR and dozens of public radio stations ...
  • Grading the nation: How accountable is your state?
    The tales are sadly familiar to even the most casual observer of state politics.In Georgia, more than 650 government employees accepted gifts from vendors doing business with the state in 2007 and 2008, clearly violating state ethics law. The last time the state issued a penalty on a vendor was ...
  • IMPACT: A call for ethics reform in South Caro ...
    In response to South Carolina’s failing grade from the State Integrity Investigation, House Democrats there have proposed historic ethics reforms. South Carolina was ranked 45th out of 50 states, with a score of 57 percent.“It is time for South Carolina to get serious about ethics reform,” said ...
  • State Integrity Investigation turning heads
    In just its first two days, our State Integrity Investigation — a corruption-risk grade card for every state — has been quoted, praised, assailed or otherwise cited by more than 100 media organizations. The investigation has been featured in outlets such as The Washington Post, the Atlanta ...
  • Pro-Romney super PAC reports more cash on hand ...
    A February increase in financial support for underdog Rick Santorum was too little and too late to slow the far-better financed Mitt Romney, who coasted to an easy victory in the Illinois Republican presidential primary Tuesday.Santorum’s campaign raised $9 million in February compared with $4.5 ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Rob the rich!
    A call to arms to the working class from Jason Brannigan in The Leveller as the crisis bites and the rich continue to rob us blind. We are told repeatedly that we must all pay for the ongoing crisis that capitalism finds itself in... ...
  • Occupy Wall Street meets the Million Hoodie March
    141676955_10_0.jpg On March 21st in New York City, a large, raucous march from Union Square set out to confront police harassment and the murder of black youth at the hands of cops and racist thugs. ...
  • Wear off from the bag, dressed chloe on sale i ...
    Wear off from the bag, dressed in a narrow lapels sleeve tight robes, trousers, foot waist boots up. read more
  • The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw
    JOBS d-sided 6 front A5.jpg Greenwich council's latest plans for the riverside from West Greenwich (by the Millenium dome) to Woolwich were published in February. It is no big surprise that devel ...
  • Italy: NO TAV against fascism!
    18629209_forza-nuova-notav-la-strategia-dell-0.jpg Last Friday 9th March, a small number of militants from the neofascist group Forza Nuova (“New Force”) protested outside the offices of the newspaper ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
    Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.

Scotts Contracting

  • 2012 Election Poll-What are the Issues that re ...
    What are the 5 most Important Issues in the upcoming election to you and your family. Created March 23, 2012 Compare the Results of the 2010 Election Poll to the Issues of today- Poll Results from 2010 Election Issues 2010 Election (created Oct 28, 2010)-What issues are most important to you and ...
  • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
    Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Conditions First Plants to Germinate Ma ...
  • Help Support Renewable Energy in St Louis
    Because, it’s healthier for the environment and people than pollution from power plants? Because a diverse energy portfolio protects ratepayers from steep rate hikes and fosters competition that keeps electric rates low? Or because installing solar panels and wind turbines creates good jobs that ...
  • HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren UE Bailout
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts Missouri Nuclear Agenda and Fair Energy Rates HB 1316: The $115 Million Ameren Bailout Ameren is asking Missouri businesses and residents to bail them out for costs they have already incurred and plan to incur in the future which do nothing to produce energy or pr ...
  • Reduced Solar Prices-March Madness Solar Prices!
    March Madness Solar Prices! On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: March Madness Solar Prices!Our BEST PRICING EVER is now available for our industry leading Westinghouse Solar AC 235watt module, complete with an in ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Farmers of Forty Centuries
    Farmers of Forty Century: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan By F.H. King (1911, reprinted in 2004 by Dover Publications) Book Review I don’t typically review (or read) 100 year old books. Farmers of Forty Centuries is an important exception. It has become a classic of the permacult ...
  • New Zealand’s First “Terrorism&# ...
    2007 Police Raid on Ruatoki The US and its English-speaking allies have embarked on a dangerous trend of arresting (or targeting for assassination) political activists on the basis of what they allegedly say or intend or who they associate with, as opposed to actual criminal acts. Anwar al-Awlak ...
  • The ICNC Role in the Arab Spring
    ICNC Founder Peter Ackerman (This is the last of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) In the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, Sharp and the ...
  • A Close Look at Gene Sharp’s Past
    (This is the fourth of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) There is no question that Thierry Meyssan’s 2005 article on Gene Sharp&# ...
  • Why the Government Funds the Peace Movement
    Stephen Gowans (This is the third of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) In my last blog I discussed Stephen Zunes’ strongly wor ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Lessons from Israel’s Occupy
    Last fall, a series of articles in outlets ranging from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz to Time and the New Republic examined the exploding Occupy Wall Street movement in light of what the authors recognized as similar phenomena in Israel. The New York-Israel connection seemed obvious, and Haaretz ...
  • “If I had a son, he’d look like Tr ...
    Grief and outrage over the Trayvon Martin killing has been reassuringly universal, uniting people of all races. You have to wade deep into the muck of comments sections on right-wing Web sites to find anyone who expresses anything but horror at an innocent 17-year-old boy in a hoodie being gunne ...
  • Matt Ortega: the man behind Mitt Romney memes
    What began as an unintentionally revealing analogy at 8:09 am Wednesday needed just six hours to become a full-blown meme. It started with Eric Fehrnstrom on CNN, deadly serious as he explained that his boss Mitt Romney’s campaign was like an Etch a Sketch that could be shaken and reset for the ...
  • The conflicting Afghan shooting reports
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Conflicting reports from eyewitnesses, U.S. officials and local leaders show, if anything, how little is known for certain about what happened in the early morning hours of March 11, when Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine wome ...
  • Are unmarried women the key to the election?
    For all the recent hand-wringing over women voters, we still don't have much of a sense of how they intend to cast their ballots in November. Or maybe we just can't decide which group of women deserves our focus. Some polls show that Republican women support Rick Santorum more than ever, despite ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The US and Saudi Arabia: A Renewed Partnership ...
    On gasoline prices, President Obama is starting to learn the lesson of his predecessors. The quickest way to lower gasoline prices is by calling on Saudi Arabia.
  • "A Substantial Failure" Of Energy Education
    It is a curious thing when a mindset develops. Thoughts, data interpretation, reactions, and behaviors become solidified into expectations about what is normal and what is to come as that sense of normal changes. It's an important process of human development, and it is a particularly interestin ...
  • Green Groups Embrace Climate Pragmatism
    Leading green groups, including the National Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club, are
  • One Small Button for Man, One Giant Leap for D ...
    Today the White House launched the Green Button Initiative, which connects more than 15 million Americans with their utility providers for streamlined access to their energy data. Nine utilities and electricity suppliers initially signed up for this landmark program designed to enable consumers ...
  • What's new for nuclear in Florida?
    The utility Progress Energy is still in hot water over repairs for Crystal River in Florida. This is my updated coverage from Fuel Cycle Week V11:N464 March 15, 2012, published by International Nuclear Associates, Washington, DC.

EU Times

  • Scientists decode key to spider web strength
    Imagine a cloth that gets stronger after it is damaged. That is what scientists recently discovered when probing the strength of garden spider webs. A research team tested the resistance of a spider web’s supporting radial threads and compared that with the thinner spiral threads. They fou ...
  • Obama Seizes Control Over All Farms and Food P ...
    “We told ya so” just doesn’t quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America. On March 16, 2012, President Obama is ...
  • France’s gunman shot in head, falls to d ...
    Mohamed Merah, the man behind the Toulouse killing spree, is dead after a 32 hour siege ended in grenade explosions and gunfire. ­He jumped out of his bathroom window blazing an automatic pistol as police broke through, and was found dead where he fell. Two police commandos were wounded in the r ...
  • Israel insists on curves on catwalk
    Skinny models in Israel are to be brought under weight control. A recently adopted law aimed at blocking the spread of eating disorders in the country doesn’t allow underweight beauties to appear in local ad campaigns. ­On top of this, local Israeli magazines also have to make it clear when they ...
  • India to continue purchasing Iranian crude oil
    The Indian government has announced that it is working to continue crude oil purchase from Iran, resisting renewed pressure from the United States to halt buying Iranian oil. The announcement was made by Indian Foreign Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna on Thursday in a written letter to the ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Cuba replaces senior revolutionary figure
    HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba replaced one of the most senior officials in Raul Castro’s Cabinet yesterday, an 88-year-old ex-general who helped mold the communist country’s new army and commanded defenses at the Bay of Pigs invasion. Jose Ramon Fernandez, a long-time member of the Communist Party o ...
  • Qaddafi and Al Qaeda: What’s Behind the Coup i ...
    Residents of Bamako, the capital of Mali, say that they didn’t see the coup coming. After a long night of gunfire in a battle between young, low-ranking government soldiers (most under the rank of captain) who had staged a mutiny and Presidential palace guards, the country underwent a radical r ...
  • The great Elements 2 text editor for iPad gets ...
    Elements 2 is a Markdown enabled text editor for iPad and iPhone that syncs with dropbox and it’s just received a nice update that adds Retina support. We reviewed Elements late last year and found it to be one of the best text editors out there for the iPad. The latest version of Elements fo ...
  • Joakim Soria Will Have Tommy John Surgery
    Royals closer Joakim Soria was having a bad spring, then he said he was injured. Examinations of the injury revealed damage to the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. Damage to the ulnar collateral ligament is usually repaired with Tommy John surgery. Soria took a little time to mull his op ...
  • Rihanna On The Set Of ‘Princess Of China’ Musi ...
    Rihanna is a fierce kitty in black hair. Last night, she shared a few photos from the set of the ‘Princess of China’ music video that she is currently filming with ColdPlay.  The song was first performed by Rihanna and ColdPlay at this year’s Grammy Awards and now the collab will have an intere ...

Groklaw

  • Open Rights Group's Submission to the IPO's Co ...
    March 22, 2012 | Peter Bradwell Submission to the IPO's Copyright Consultation Context In 2010 the Prime Minister asked Professor Ian Hargreaves to review the intellectual property law and its impact on growth and innovation. The subsequent review led to a report [PDF] published in May 2011, i ...
  • Trademark Office Warns of Unscrupulous Compani ...
    The United States Patent and Trademark Office has just released a warning that unscrupulous companies are attempting to deceive trademark owners into paying unnecessary trademark fees. Using confusing names, like "United States Trademark Registration Office," these companies send out thousands o ...
  • Who Is Jim Yong Kim? The Guy Singing the Black ...
    Internet, you are awesome. Because not that long ago, it would have taken quite some time for to track down this video of Jim Yong Kim, who may be the next president of the World Bank. Instead, this one took me about 90 seconds: From this tweet to this Forbes article to this post from Dartmo ...
  • Criminal Conviction Upheld for Threatening 1st ...
    First Circuit affirms criminal conviction for threatening employees of First Circuit Clerk's Office: You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link [PDF]. - Howard Bashman, How Appealing
  • BATS Swings Lower At IPO Open; Having Technica ...
    There appears to be a technical issue ongoing, with some quotes of BATS showing it trading at 4 cents a share. Apple shares also suffered what appeared to be a bad trade. UPDATE: BATS shares are now halted at $15.25 for a news release. - David Benoit, WSJ

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Texas drought. Towns struggle for water
    PBS reports on the continuing Texas drought and its impact on small towns.Some areas don’t have enough water to fight fires, and last year the fire season was the worst ever. The town of Robert Lee is building a pipeline to another water source and twownspeople are volunteering to help bui ...
  • TSA: since last week
    The Suitcase (detail), 1990. Michel Potage, French (artsuggest.com) TSA wants you to know they’re still on the job and here’s what they found (fewer guns and more “artfully concealed” stuff) during the period between March 9th and 15th, 2012: Firearms: 16 loaded; 3 unload ...
  • Chastity Beltway. Greeting Card from CaraScissoria
    Cara Scissoria is back, with thirteen new greeting cards, some of them political like this one.  Be sure to check all of them out!(I’m webmaster at her old-school site which is about to get a WordPress makeover.)
  • Angry Birds Space review
    It’s too easy. I want harder levels!
  • Mount Kellett’s war on workers
    One characteristic of the so-called 1% that are the new economic royalists of the world is that they can afford to kick in serious amounts of money to politicians who they believe will support their economic interests and social agendas. Mark Edward McGoldrick of Mount Kellett Capital Management ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • JWB's fab titles--in C'ville Saturday, and glo ...
    For all JWN readers in the Greater Charlottesville area-- do come by the VaBook book fair that runs tomorrow, 9am-4pm, at the Omni Hotel. Tell your friends to come, as well! You can see and buy copies of all the fabulous titles published by my company, Just World Books, including the two latest: ...
  • Powerful, intimate memoir from Israeli peace a ...
    The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...
  • Quick notes from Penn BDS conference
    The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...
  • What's new in the publishing biz!
    ... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...
  • Pro-Israeli discourse suppressors desperately ...
    It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...

frogblog

  • The link between environmentalism and social j ...
    I've been doing some thinking about the links between the environment, the economy, and social justice. So have Ban Ki-moon and Tim Flannery.
  • General debate, March 24, 2012
  • Creating debt to justify privatisation
    The National Government has consistently used the argument of government debt and the budget deficit as the primary reason for partially privatising our state-owned energy companies: Genesis, Mighty River Power, Meridian, and Solid Energy. Yet the debt and deficit have been made much worse as a ...
  • Don’t frack up our health
    Yesterday new research was released by the Colorado School of Public Health in the US linking air pollution from fracking with serious health problems for those who live near wells.
  • Christchurch housing crisis needs Govt action
    A rental housing crisis in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes came to a head this week. The Government's response? Let the market sort it out. Not good enough!

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Use This Japanese Trick to "Amp Up" the Antiox ...
    By Dr. Mercola Krill are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans that live in the ocean.  They are plentiful; packed with nutrients, and, according to some, might be a possible fix for world hunger.  A U.N. report has predicted worldwide starvation by the year 2050 if we do not alter how an ...
  • Gov. Dept. Works With Major Corporation to Hid ...
    video platform video management video solutions video player By Dr. Mercola Following allegations of animal abuse, police raided a North Carolina Butterball turkey farm in December 2011, inspecting nearly 3,000 birds. The investigation, which is stil ...
  • Why You Need More of this Crucial Vitamin if Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamin D is a fat-soluble, hormone-like vitamin, and many therefore believe that if you're obese you need more of it because body fat acts as a "sink" by collecting it. However, muscle and fat may well act the same when it comes to storing vitamin D for future use. New resea ...
  • 17 Micrograms of This in Your Body Lowers Your ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Brian Clement is the medical director of the Hippocrates Health Institute, which is one of the world's oldest complimentary health centers. Dr. Clement started with the organization in 1975, and has been a director since 1980. Here he shares his considerable knowledge o ...
  • Booted Out of Germany - the Ignorance that Cou ...
    Science News by NewsLook By Dr. Mercola In Germany, massive resistance to genetically engineered (GE) foods, both among politicians and the general public, has caused chemical giant BASF to close its German biotech division. European opponents of GE foods are jubilant. A reported 75 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
    Erui pictured in 2012, and his wife Bajo photographed just after she was captured in 1986. © Survival Ayoreo Indians have publicly marked the 25th anniversary of Paraguay’s last manhunt, in which over two dozen of the tribe’s members were captured, and five killed. The US-based fundamental ...
  • Papuan leaders imprisoned for treason
    Indonesia's brutal crackdown on last October's peaceful rally claimed many victims. © Tapol/Down to Earth/West Papua Media Five Papuan leaders have been found guilty of treason and sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Papua’s capital, Jayapura. Forkorus Yaboisembut, E ...
  • ‘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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Voices of reason on Quebec's police shootings bill
    Now that hearings by a National Assembly committee on the proposed legislation on investigations into police shootings have wrapped up, the government should have heard enough to persuade it to make substantial changes to the bill.
  • Hydro's new meters aren't as smart as they cou ...
    At their outset, public hearings that opened this week on Hydro-Québec's proposed implementation of "smart meters" were framed in terms of largely anecdotal health concerns over radio-frequency radiation associated with wireless transmission of data about consumption of electricity.
  • The Liberals stake their claim as fiscal managers
    The best news from the new provincial budget brought down by Finance Minister Raymond Bachand is that it's not much of a newsmaker.
  • The RCMP in unco-operative mode
    It took an inordinately long time to get a commission of inquiry set up to investigate corruption in Quebec's construction industry, which available evidence suggests is rampant.
  • 'Police-state tactics.' 'Bunch of punks.' Read ...
    The demonstration against police violence that took place in Montreal Thursday night has elicited an enormous number of comments from Gazette readers online. Here are a few of them; you can read all the comments and post yours at montrealgazette.com.

Food World Order

  • Neurosurgeon issues public challenge to vaccin ...
    from naturalnews.com: Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, author and expert on "excitotoxins," has issued a public challenge to vaccine pushers everywhere to put their money where their mouths are. During a recent interview with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about the fraudulent science of th ...
  • #Audio: Episode014 - Climate Change, New Chapter
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Climate Change, New Chapter and more... Episode014: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Cinnamon and Slime With Your G ...
    Cinnamon Challenge YouTube Craze Gains Millions of Viewers, Frightens Health Professionals as the Copycat Effect Kicks In* USDA to Americans: You'll Eat Pink Slime Whether You Want It or Not* Obama agency rules Pepsi's use of aborted fetal cells in soft drinks constitutes 'ordinary busin ...
  • New Chapter sells out to Procter & Gamble, par ...
    from naturalnews.com : Procter & Gamble, the global corporate conglomerate that sells a vast array of consumer products containing cancer-causing chemicals and petroleum derivatives, is now the proud owner of New Chapter, one of the more promising nutritional supplement companies we've seen ...
  • Glow in the dark sushi made from genetically m ...
    from dailymail.co.uk: Sushi that glows in the dark has become the latest must try food craze across America. Inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. The recipes use glofish, a brand of g ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Giga ...
    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it.  This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be full ...
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...
  • 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Ar ...
    In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that "weird" is always bad.  Sometimes "weird" can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts ab ...
  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Monckton Does It Again: Asserts Obama Birth Ce ...
    Our Lord Monckton has taken coal to Newcastle... or in this case, a President to the American people. Never one to fear speaking his mind, he has asserted his conclusion that the Obama birth certificate - issued by the White House to dismiss the crescendo in the U.S. over the alleged 'birth ...
  • Her Majesty's Speech: As if the Lisbon Treason ...
    Many seem to have commented today on the fact that Her Majesty The Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament today to mark her Diamond Jubilee as our Monarch. However, is there any reading between the lines to be found in what she actually said? Looking at the text of Her Majesty's speech, ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th March 2012
    "The primary duty of Government is to defend the realm. In the case of Britain that includes overseas territories like the Falklands and protecting our trade routes, which stretch around the world. We are being betrayed from within. We have a Government which has decommissioned our aircraft c ...
  • It's a Puppet! Cameron Revives Rothschild Road ...
    If it walks like a puppet and talks like a puppet, it's a puppet. Virtually every single corporate newspaper front page carries the story of Cameron plans to introduce private sector involvement in Britain's road network. Here it is in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the Dail ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 18th March 2012
    Apologies for a quiet few days here at the Clock Tower. We've been busy fending off the powers that be who want to allow all kinds of riff-raff to explore our back passages at £15 a go. They can shove off. Anyway, frivolity aside... There's an excellent, must-read piece in the Mail on Sund ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • IT IS TIME TO END OUR PRIVATISED MONEY SYSTEM
    As the eurozone faces financial meltdown, it’s important to recall there is a solution. A really simple one. The eurozone just needs a central bank or a state bank which creates money and puts it into circulation without charging interest. 97% of the money currently put into circulation in the e ...
  • NEW! The Stauffenberg and Hitler Assassination ...
    Have you had a stressful day at the office/home?  Have you made a plan that has run into trouble? Have you had to deal with intense fear, guilt and uncertainty and the prospect of the total collapse of your country, the loss of your job, your savings, your pension and even your life? Yes? Then y ...
  • New Kampusch probe expected soon: parliamentar ...
    The Natascha Kampusch kidnapping scandal could soon be the subject of a new probe after it was announced that  a  report by an Austrian parliamentary committee is to be published at the end of March. http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/742006/Fall-Kampusch_Bericht-fuer-Ende-Maerz-ange ...
  • UK doctor issued reports for money to get chil ...
    The doctor who broke up families: Psychiatrist who damned hundreds as ‘unfit parents’ faces GMC probe Dr George Hibbert could be struck off over his conclusions that hundreds of parents had ‘personality disorders’ Millionaire is now being investigated over shocking suggestions he dis ...
  • Sarkozy: Prosecute and Imprison Readers of “Ex ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 23, 2012 French president Nicolas Sarkozy didn’t wait long to exploit the terror rampage of Mohammed Merah. Soon after Merah’s death in a stand-off with police, Sarkozy said French citizens who visit “extremist” websites should be treated the same way as those who l ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Judge to FDA: Remove Superbug-Breeding Antibio ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Contributing Writer Activist Post A federal judge has stepped up to the plate and is now ordering FDA regulators to start proceedings to revoke the approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, stating that the excessive overuse of antibiotics is threatening publi ...
  • HIDDEN MESSAGES IN WATER – Dr. Masaru Em ...
  • David Wolfe speaks out about Sunfood, Monsanto ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) What do Sunfood and New Chapter both have in common? They have been taken over by corporate people with ties to Monsanto. In the case of Sunfood, the takeover was a “betrayal,” says David Wolfe in this exclusive interview (see below). Wh ...
  • New Chapter sells out to Procter & Gamble, par ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Procter & Gamble, the global corporate conglomerate that sells a vast array of consumer products containing cancer-causing chemicals and petroleum derivatives, is now the proud owner of New Chapter, one of the more promising nutritional suppleme ...
  • Mercury in flu vaccine is linked to autism
    by BEEZY MARSH, Daily Mail ShareMillions of flu jabs issued by the Government contain a mercury-based preservative which is being phased out in Europe and the United States amid fears over autism and brain damage. Four out of seven flu vaccine brands approved for NHS use contain thiomersal, a me ...

Veterans Today

  • “Al Qaeda” Killer’s Extensiv ...
    The man accused of killing seven people during recent gun attacks in Toulouse has been killed, following a 32 hour standoff with police - as more information has come to light about his extensive links to the French authorities. Mohammed Merah, a self-proclaimed Al Qaeda operative, was reportedl ...
  • Hana Shalabi – Freedom or Death
    On March 22, Hana Shalabi's 36th hunger strike day began. After examining her, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) said she's in imminent danger of death.
  • Deception By Prosecutors May Lead to Mistrial ...
    In the latest twist in the Hutaree Militia trial in Detroit’s Federal Court, on Wednesday, defense attorneys made a motion for a mistrial based on the prosecution failing to turn over information concerning the undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the group.
  • Zimmerman does NOT represent all Jews!
    We cannot repeat too often that Judaism is a religion of peace.
  • Obama Bluffs Netanyahu
    Is the poker game between USA, Iran and Israel nearing its end?, Netanyahu is now afraid that the USA will sign a deal with Iran.

electric politics

  • The NUMEC Affair
    No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...
  • Washington's Warlords
    When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
  • The Taiping Civil War
    In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
  • It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
    In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...
  • America Agonistes
    The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...

PR News

  • Comms execs receive Page Society framework as ...
    The framework released this week by the Arthur W. Page Society is not a corporate reputation panacea, but a positive step for dealing with the challenges posed by social media and transparency demands.
  • Wilson exits Chamber to join National Retail F ...
    WASHINGTON: The National Retail Federation has hired Katie Wilson as VP of communications. She will exit her role as senior director of communications and strategy at the US Chamber of Commerce to take the position.
  • Social engagement results in marketing, sales ...
    NEW YORK: Corporate leadership in social media engagement results in better marketing and sales initiatives, according to a study released Friday at the Arthur W. Page Spring Seminar by PulsePoint Group and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
  • Social engagement results in marketing, sales ...
    NEW YORK: Corporate leadership in social media engagement results in better marketing and sales initiatives, according to a study released Friday at the Arthur W. Page Spring Seminar by PusePoint Group and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
  • Imre expands social practice with 5Loom launch
    BALTIMORE: Imre has expanded its social media practice and offering through the launch of 5Loom.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Mongolia: NATO’s New Strategic Partner B ...
    ***** Mongolia: Pentagon Trojan Horse Wedged Between China And Russia ***** North Atlantic Treaty Organization March 22, 2012 NATO and Mongolia Agree Programme of Cooperation ==== This is the first Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme to be agreed under NATO’s new partnerships policy ...
  • Syria: China And Russia Slow Down West’s ...
    Global Times March 23, 2012 West realizes at last bypassing UN is futile ==== The West has dominated the evolution of the Arab Spring. The change of tone is good for China and Russia. If this trend continues, it may break the tradition of the West dominating Middle Eastern affairs. Politics has ...
  • NATO’s Murderous Assault On Yugoslavia P ...
    Tanjug News Agency March 23, 2012 “NATO’s military intervention paved way for separatism” ==== “The Kosovo issue is still open, and Kosovo has become a testing range for illegal political meddling in internal affairs of sovereign countries with the use of force,” [R ...
  • Bullying World Nations On Iranian Oil: U.S.&#8 ...
    China Daily March 23, 2012 US’ double standards Once again the United States is trying to throw its weight around and impose its unilateral vision on other countries. The US imposed tough new sanctions at the turn of the year, aimed at preventing other countries from importing Iranian oil ...
  • U.S.-NATO Missile System: Russia’s Nucle ...
    Voice of Russia March 23, 2012   Russia’s nuclear forces in danger? John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff AUDIO: Download   Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile launch: U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command   What do you think will be some of the evidence that Minist ...

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Intel Hub

FRS

  • Nepal: Revolutionary Maoists launching strugg ...
    Nepal Maoists hardliner Baidya rejects Chairman Dahal CC meet offer Telegraph Nepal, March 23, 2012 Senior Vice Chairman Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ of Unified Maoists’ Party has out rightly rejected Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s request to call for a central committee meeting. Baidya and Dahal met at ...
  • Nepal: Revolutionary Maoists launching strugg ...
    Nepal Maoists hardliner Baidya rejects Chairman Dahal CC meet offer Telegraph Nepal, March 23, 2012 Senior Vice Chairman Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ of Unified Maoists’ Party has out rightly rejected Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s request to call for a central committee meeting. Baidya and Dahal met at ...
  • We are all Trayvon Martin!!
  • We are all Trayvon Martin!!
  • Odisha: Italian hostage crisis sparks mass to ...
    Rajaram Satapathy, March 21, 2012 Bhubaneswar: Panic gripped Odisha’s fledgling tourism industry following mass cancellations of visit to the state in the backdrop of the Italian hostage crisis. Tour operators said they received a spate of communications from their counterparts in other st ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Virgin Fathers 15 Kids; More on the Way
    Trent Arsenault is a 35-year-old virgin who is the father of 15 children. He has been offering his free services as a do-it-yourself sperm donor since 2006. The FDA isn't happy.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Feb 08, 2012
  • Mitt Romney Takes Nevada Caucus Victory
    The Republican is running for the GOP presidential nomination.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Feb 05, 2012
  • Groundhog Day 2012: Punxsutawney Phil Has Comp ...
    The Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce announces that Groundhog Day 2012 is a bust for spring lovers. Punxsutawney Phil was coaxed out of its burrow at 7:25 a.m. and delivered a wintery prediction. Do fellow groundhogs concur?Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Feb 02, 2012
  • Susan G. Komen Foundation Quits Planned Parent ...
    Since 2005, the breast cancer charity donated money to Planned Parenthood. On Jan. 31, the Susan G. Komen Foundation ended the alliance.Contributor: Alethea Pape Published: Feb 01, 2012
  • Burger King Announces Home Delivery
    The No. 2 in fast food burger chains, Burger King, has just announced that they will be delivering hot and fresh food straight to your doorstep in a few locations in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. This is a test for these areas.Contributor: K. Luane Holt Published: Jan 18, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    Good stuff this week! There's a baby elephant face-planting into a beach, there's a 3-D printable set of connectors that'll connect Lego to K'Nex (or any combination of childhood building toys), there's a tray full of eyeballs, and, as always, pretty space pics. Enjoy your weekend! Click to laun ...
  • When, Why, and How You Should Harpoon a Comet
    How do you get a core sample from a comet? There’s so little gravity that if you used a scoop or a drill, you’d push yourself right off the surface. To solve this problem, we came up with a harpoon that collects samples. The concept is that the spacecraft flies next to the moving comet and fires ...
  • Images of the Week, March 19-23, 2012
  • The 2012 Heat Wave: "Almost Like Science Fiction"
    Today is World Meteorological Day, and there's no better time to take a serious look at our meteorological surroundings than right now, here in North America. All across the continent, records have been smashed: from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, a heat wave like nothing we've ever seen befor ...
  • Climate Experts Weigh In on Our Record Heat Wave
    In honor of World Meteorological Day, it makes sense to take a closer look at the highly unusual winter and spring we've had so far. Mother Jones has a roundup of these experts--and some regular folks (with hefty Twitter followings) being wowed and amazed by the warmth of the season, which has ...

Veterans Today

  • “Al Qaeda” Killer’s Extensiv ...
    The man accused of killing seven people during recent gun attacks in Toulouse has been killed, following a 32 hour standoff with police - as more information has come to light about his extensive links to the French authorities. Mohammed Merah, a self-proclaimed Al Qaeda operative, was reportedl ...
  • Hana Shalabi – Freedom or Death
    On March 22, Hana Shalabi's 36th hunger strike day began. After examining her, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) said she's in imminent danger of death.
  • Deception By Prosecutors May Lead to Mistrial ...
    In the latest twist in the Hutaree Militia trial in Detroit’s Federal Court, on Wednesday, defense attorneys made a motion for a mistrial based on the prosecution failing to turn over information concerning the undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the group.
  • Zimmerman does NOT represent all Jews!
    We cannot repeat too often that Judaism is a religion of peace.
  • Obama Bluffs Netanyahu
    Is the poker game between USA, Iran and Israel nearing its end?, Netanyahu is now afraid that the USA will sign a deal with Iran.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • 'The World Economy Reeks Again, So Buy Yen'
    I have an avowed love-hate relationship with newswire coverage of various financial markets. With regard to currencies, one of the things I am most cautious about is the need to constantly provide explanations of why currency movements occur. I suppose having to provide a laundry list of reasons ...
  • Why the US Ain't in the Inter-Parliamentary Union
    Here's another factoid you can use to embarrass even the most vaunted international relations gurus alike my blogging colleagues (especially of the garden-variety American sort): Ask them whether the United States is a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union composed of nations that have legisla ...
  • Tracing Chinese (Linguistic) Hegemony in Asia
    For all the debate we have around here and practically everybody else especially those in policy circles about the meaning of China's rise--is it peaceful, is it developmentally beneficial for others, is it rising in such a way that it will eventually eclipse Western powers, etc--this sort of ta ...
  • Where's the Pork? US, Taiwan Fight Over Additives
    I am generally sympathetic to American agricultural techniques that others are squeamish about, but not with heavy-handed US trade advocacy that gives such techniques a bad name. Today we have another case in point in Taiwan .For one reason or another, erstwhile allies of the United States in th ...
  • Mobile Phones 4 Everything, Water Security Edn
    By now I'm probably known to longtime readers as the information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) skeptic guy due to my Foreign Affairs contribution casting doubt on the US state department's digital diplomacy efforts as well as the MIT Media Labs' One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Giga ...
    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it.  This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be full ...
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...
  • 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Ar ...
    In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that "weird" is always bad.  Sometimes "weird" can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts ab ...
  • The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System F ...
    No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn't going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are going through right now.  The stock market may have gotten back to where it was in 2008, bu ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Scientists decode key to spider web strength
    Imagine a cloth that gets stronger after it is damaged. That is what scientists recently discovered when probing the strength of garden spider webs. A research team tested the resistance of a spider web’s supporting radial threads and compared that with the thinner spiral threads. They fou ...
  • Obama Seizes Control Over All Farms and Food P ...
    “We told ya so” just doesn’t quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America. On March 16, 2012, President Obama is ...
  • France’s gunman shot in head, falls to d ...
    Mohamed Merah, the man behind the Toulouse killing spree, is dead after a 32 hour siege ended in grenade explosions and gunfire. ­He jumped out of his bathroom window blazing an automatic pistol as police broke through, and was found dead where he fell. Two police commandos were wounded in the r ...
  • Israel insists on curves on catwalk
    Skinny models in Israel are to be brought under weight control. A recently adopted law aimed at blocking the spread of eating disorders in the country doesn’t allow underweight beauties to appear in local ad campaigns. ­On top of this, local Israeli magazines also have to make it clear when they ...
  • India to continue purchasing Iranian crude oil
    The Indian government has announced that it is working to continue crude oil purchase from Iran, resisting renewed pressure from the United States to halt buying Iranian oil. The announcement was made by Indian Foreign Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna on Thursday in a written letter to the ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-03-22 #WikiLeaks News Update
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 474 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 471 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 669 days. WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks issued a press release offering to host a discussion on ...
  • 2012-03-22 WikiLeaks Truck artist Clark Stoeck ...
    TweetBelow is a series of drawings sketched by artist, Clark Stoeckley, at the Motion Hearing for U.S. v. PFC Bradley Manning on March 15 and 16, 2012 at Fort Meade, MD. Stoeckley was situated either in the courtroom gallery or in the media operations center, where a live video feed of the proce ...
  • 2011-03-16 Full Transcript #Manning Motion Hea ...
    TweetFull Transcript March 16, 2012 This transcript was typed from the press pool at Bradley Manning's motion hearing on March 16, 2012 at Fort Meade, MD. This transcript may have errors and is incomplete in that there was no way for me to capture every word, or every sentence. Please send corre ...
  • 2012-03-18 Worldwide Rallies after Assange SC ...
    TweetThis is a list of all rallies scheduled after Julian Assange receives the verdict on his Supreme Court appeal against extradition to Sweden. These rallies are taking place regardless of the outcome. This page will be updated as more rallies are planned. Please email any unlisted rallies, ...
  • 2012-03-18 The word as virus: Myth-making in t ...
    TweetHow a virus spreads My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host ... the Word clearly bears the single identifying feature of virus: ...

U N News

  • UN development chief hails Haiti's progress tw ...
    The United Nations development chief today commended Haiti's progress in rebuilding its capital, Port-au-Prince, two years after a devastating earthquake rocked the country killing 200,000 people.
  • Haiti receives advice from UN economists on at ...
    United Nations economists have provided the Haitian Government with advice on a new investment strategy to help the country attract financing to rebuild infrastructure and boost economic development.
  • Guatemala: UN rights chief underlines need to ...
    Guatemala has made progress in the fight against impunity and human rights abuses, but the country must tackle the tremendous challenges that remain to become a State based on democracy and the rule of law, says the United Nations human right chief.
  • Brazil: UN welcomes prosecution of retired col ...
    The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the prosecution of a retired Brazilian army colonel for disappearances during the country's military dictatorship as a "first and crucial step" in fighting the impunity that surrounds that period.
  • Mexico: UN experts concerned over impunity in ...
    A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today called on the Mexican Government to develop effective measures to combat impunity in cases of enforced disappearances, which continue to take place in the country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • New Cancer Study Finds Radiation Treatments Ac ...
      In a groundbreaking new study just published in the peer reviewed journal Stem Cells, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Oncology found that, despite killing half of all tumor cells per treatment, radiation treatments on breast cancer transforms ot ...
  • The Top Ten Worst Sources of Aspartame
      Millions of Americans still have no idea that many of the beverages and foods they eat on a regular basis are contaminated with a neurotoxin posing as a sugar substitute. ~ Ethan A Huff read more
  • New Samsung TVs Have Built-In HD Camera, Micro ...
      Here’s a bit of context that most people won’t consider when purchasing these quasi telescreens ~ Video read more
  • VERIFIED!... Mexico Earthquake - March 20th - ...
      "State System for Civil (public) Protection Mega Simulation" read more
  • Hollywood Producer Bettina Viviano... 'Bill Cl ...
      Bettina Viviano, Executive Producer of Adam Sandler's 'Jack and Jill' Movie... Bill Clinton directly told me 'Obama is not eligible to be president... 2008 and 2012 Election Fraud... Bill Ayers... Gloria Allred... Black Panthers and Acorn ~ Listen to  FULL Audio - related ar ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
    In today’s world I am sure many of you have heard of diseases/infections that have become drug resistant. The ‘White Plague’ a.k.a. tuberculosis (TB), is also becoming multi – drug resistant. For most people, you may have heard of TB by the term ‘consumption’ ...
  • Gov’t to Americans: Total Information Aw ...
    Here we go again… This time, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) based in a modern complex in McLean, Virginia called Liberty Crossing, now has the green light to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years. That means, you. The origins of what ...
  • Do-It-Yourself Olive Oil Lamp
    An olive oil lamp is a surprisingly safe and simple lamp that you can do-it-yourself. It is produces light, as much as, or more than, an ordinary candle, and is an alternative to kerosene-style oil lamps. The concept of burning oil from vegetables (olive oil) in the home rather than petroleum ba ...
  • Booms In Wisconsin – EarthQuake In Mexico
    Sunday and Monday night in the small town of Clintonville, about 140 miles northwest of Milwaukee, BOOMs have been shaking awake startled residents, many of them thinking that they were being jolted by earthquakes. Investigations have ruled out everything so far as the town of 4,200 is asking fo ...
  • Geomagnetic Storm Power System Transformer EMP ...
    North America’s electricity infrastructure is clearly one of our society’s most important assets. As reliance on digital technology and ‘just in time delivery’ distribution systems has increased, many North Americans have come to depend on the reliable delivery of electricity to thei ...

Fast Company

  • Apple Stock Flash-Crashes, Facebook Buys 750 P ...
    Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Facebook Says Employers Shouldn't Request Passwords. Some fuss this week arose when it was suggested more and more companies are requiring access to potential employees Facebook accounts as part of the interview process. Faceb ...
  • Can TheyFit's 95 Condom Sizes Make Sex Better?
    Meet Joe Nelson, a former Goldman Sachs trader who believes custom-fitted condoms are the key to making safe sex more pleasurable.Last month, Fast Talk spoke with Richard Pessall, a British entrepreneur experimenting with new ways to sell condoms through his company, Forplay. Soon after we ran t ...
  • "The Hunger Games" Takes Cue From Hitchcock An ...
    Liam Hemsworth will send Jennifer Lawrence to battle her peers in The Hunger Games. Nothing makes moviegoers squirm like watching children die on the big screen. As The Hunger Games--in which 24 children are forced to fight to the death--hits theaters today, will it prove too much for viewers ...
  • If Apple Opened An iBank It Could Have 37 Mill ...
    According to a new survey from research consultancy KAE, about 10% of U.K. and U.S. citizens questioned would actually lodge their precious money with Apple, were the firm to spend some of its $100 billion in cash to build an iBank. Financial institutions of the world: commence quivering in your ...
  • StumbleUpon Wants To Buy You Dinner
    StumbleUpon is offering to cover the bill for your next dinner party, as long as you use their site to find the recipes. Throwing a dinner party? Get in touch with StumbleUpon first--they might just bankroll it for you. StumbleUpon, one of the earliest content discovery engines on the we ...

Jadaliyya

  • After the Arab Spring in Palestine: Contesting ...
     Over the past year, as Arab peoples in surrounding countries erupted in protest against dictators, security regimes, and failed social and economic policies, the Palestinian people living in their occupied homeland have remained quiescent. Neither have mass protests targeted the Pa ...
  • The Problem of Privilege
    “To believe in a democratic Jewish state today is to be caught between the jaws of a pincer,” writes Peter Beinart in his widely circulated and hotly debated op-ed. Indeed -- but it was ever thus. Today the pincer is not, as Beinart would have it, the incongruity of the “democratic ...
  • مقاطعة انتخابات الرئاسة واجب
    تعلن الجبهة القومية للعدالة والديمقراطية رفضها التام لما تم إقراره من ترتيبات بخصوص انتخابات الرئاسة. فلا يمكن لأي شعب يبتغي الحرية أن يقبل بترتيبات تسلبه حقه في اختيار من يحكمه طبقاً لنظام اختيار شفاف، ومعايير حكم واضحة، وأسس حكم متفق عليها ومحددة قبل اختيار الحاكم، وأمانة وكفاءة في إدا ...
  • The Syrian Regime's Business Backbone
    Nearly one year into the Syrian uprising, with more than 7,500 Syrians dead, the protracted conflict is not very well understood or reported despite a deluge of writings. Most track fast-moving events without pausing for sober analysis of Syrian politics and society. Early on, the domina ...
  • So What If Iran Has The Bomb?
    Whether it is simply a product of political jockeying associated with the US presidential election season or a "real" concern of the institutional networks that constitute the US foreign policy establishment, there has been a marked increase in the rhetorical—and even the pract ...

mediagazer

  • WSJ Can Change Digital Subscriber Price On The ...
    Jeff Roberts / paidContent: WSJ Can Change Digital Subscriber Price On The Fly Says Court  —  In 2006, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) spun off financial magazine Barron's Online and required subscribers to pay more if they wanted to keep reading Barron's.&n ...
  • The AP's Weak Coverage of Its New Boss (Ryan C ...
    Ryan Chittum / CJR: The AP's Weak Coverage of Its New Boss  —  The Associated Press has a new CEO.  So how does the AP cover it?  Not very well.  —  AP hired McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt to be its new CEO, which raises a couple of obvious questions.  ...
  • Variety up for sale - Reed Business Informatio ...
    Variety: Variety up for sale  —  Reed Business Information ("RBI") today announced it is beginning a process to sell Variety, the leading title for the entertainment industry.  This follows the divestment by RBI of its other US business magazines over the past three years.
  • Geraldo's hoodie comments: Definitely not a ho ...
    Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Geraldo's hoodie comments: Definitely not a hoax  —  Despite my hopes, the Fox News segment this morning in which Geraldo Rivera blamed the hoodie for the death of Trayvon Martin is no hoax.  Here's the stuff that I figured was phony: … ...
  • Reporter Murray Weiss sticks by his story abou ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Reporter Murray Weiss sticks by his story about John Edwards and the soccer-mom madam as former senator's attorneys threaten  —  John Edwards' attorneys have threatened litigation against local news website DNAinfo after the site published a report ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Chelsea May Pay Guardiola $64 Million to ...
    The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable links to the Web. Pep Offer Chelsea’s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich may pay Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola as much as 40 million pounds ($64 million) to quit the Spanish champion and join the Blues, the Sun ...
  • World stocks mixed ahead of US housing da ...
    BANGKOK — Fears of an intensifying global economic slowdown pushed markets lower on Friday, when new surveys showed a contraction in the manufacturing sector in China, a bellwether for world demand as it produces and exports a huge amount of consumer goods. An index compiled by HSBC of ...
  • Hard to believe things Sachin Tendulkar h ...
    New Delhi: Mar 23, 2012 Australian pacer Brett Lee has paid rich tributes to retired Rahul Dravid and iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar, describing them as "brilliant cricketers and extremely great guys off the field." Lee feels Dravid, who recently retired from international...
  • Real Madrid cancel press conference follo ...
    After conceding a late equaliser at the Madrigal, coach Jose Mourinho, defender Sergio Ramos and midfielder Mesut Ozil were all sent off, and will be suspended for Saturday. "We share the indignation of the team," Real sports...
  • Italy roundup-Del Piero set for bench aga ...
    March 23 (Reuters) - Brief news ahead of this weekend's soccer matches in Serie A (times GMT): * Juventus forward Alessandro Del Piero is likely to return to the bench for the home game against Inter Milan on Sunday (1845) despite scoring in the Turin's side's Italian Cup semi-final triumph ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/21/12 - Born Gay Historical Timeline
    borngay.procon.org - NEW: Born Gay Historical Timeline - From the practice of same-sex relations in ancient Greece in 2900 BC to religious attempts to convert homosexuals to heterosexuals in 2011, our timeline uses 75+ sources to chronicle 100+ major events in the debate about the origin of sexu ...
  • 3/20/12 - Are Jewish settlements in the Palest ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Are Jewish settlements in the Palestinian Territories an obstacle to the peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (pro), Prime Minister of Israel Benyamin Netanyahu (con), Americans for Peace Now (pro), St ...
  • 3/13/12 - ProCon.org has been used by teachers ...
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and administrators in 2,522 schools in all 50 states and 45 countries. Thank you to the educators in those 508 elementary and middle schools, 1,295 high schools, and 719 colleges and universities who benefit from our free educa ...
  • 2/28/12 - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - What is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier? - Learn more about the history, route, and construction status of the roughly 440 mile Israeli fence/wall/barrier.
  • 2/28/12 - Is the Isreali fence/wall/barrier go ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is the Israeli fence/wall/barrier good for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? - Read pro and con arguments from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pro), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (con), Editor in Chief of US News and World Report ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • A cloaking device from off-the-shelf supercond ...
    Matthew Francis This artist’s depiction shows how to make a magnetic cloaking device. Ferromagnetic materials attract magnetic fields (left), while superconductors expel magnetic fields (middle). Combining the two in a particular way cancels out the individual effects, l The dream of turni ...
  • Drug resistant malaria takes new ground
    Robert Fortner A resident of Myanmar with a severe case of malaria. In Southeast Asia, drug-resistant malaria may have evolved resistance to another frontline therapy and established itself in new territory in western Thailand, according to the World Health Organization. The new area in Thailand ...
  • The Birth and Death of Words?
    CHRISTOPHER SHEA Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google’s massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identifi ...
  • Angry Words
    Will one researcher’s discovery deep in the Amazon destroy the foundation of modern linguistics? By Tom Bartlett A Christian missionary sets out to convert a remote Amazonian tribe. He lives with them for years in primitive conditions, learns their extremely difficult language, risks his l ...
  • Word for Word
    Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Peter Mark Roget I can see my own copy up on a high shelf. I rarely open it, because I know there is no such thing as a synonym and because I get nervous around people who always assemble with their own kind, forming clubs and nailing signs to … ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Dual use education in neuroscience
    The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...
  • New Trends in Think Tanks in China
    Xufeng Zhu is currently Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Director of the Centre of Chinese Policy Science, and Associate Director of the Centre for MPA Education, Nankai University. He has published extensively, including on China’s Think Tanks (Tsinghua University Press, ...
  • UK and China, comparing notes on science and p ...
      For a science policy nerd like me, meeting with international counterparts is like taking a holiday or meeting old friends in the pub at Christmas; there are many fresh things to explore but you can quickly get down to  business. Friday’s small but perfectly-formed gathering in Beijing of abou ...
  • Neuroscience, conflict and security: a dual us ...
     The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy.  Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • We will not be scanned!
    In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...
  • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
    The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...
  • TSA responds to viral video about body scanners
    A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology).   I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.   For obvious se ...
  • STOP ACTA: things you can do right now
    This document and video presentation outlines steps you can take right now to help put a stop to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which poses a serious threat to our freedom and national sovereignty. For additional information and links on ACTA, please click here. We need a new appr ...
  • TSA Tacitly Admits $1 Billion Dollar Body Scan ...
    The Transportation Security Administration has tacitly admitted that the critical flaws brought to light in a viral You Tube video yesterday which exposed how airport body scanners could easily be beaten are accurate, rendering the entire $1 billion dollar program virtually worthless. Engineer ...

Beacon

  • Bill O'Reilly Preaches Conservation to Lower G ...
    With gas prices on the rise, the blame game is in full swing. Some in the media and in the government are saying increased drilling will lower gas prices. It turns out this isn’t the first time we have heard this argument, and liberals and conservatives alike agree that it is just not true. But ...
  • Happy World Water Day!
    © Oceana/Carlos Suarez All around the world, people are struggling to get access to clean water for drinking and growing crops. As the climate changes, many farmlands are drying and people are finding it harder and harder to keep their crops watered and still have enough to drink. Here at Oc ...
  • Shark Fin Soup Minus the Sharks
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. Every year, tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins alone. Shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, a popular and expensive dish that is a symbol of wealth and status primarily in Asian cultures. The demand for fins can lead to cruel and wasteful ...
  • The Real Reason for High Gas Prices, Redux
    Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Soledad Esnaola Editor's note: This post by Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless was originally posted last May on Politico.com. We think it couldn't be more relevant right now, especially considering that many media outlets are now making similar arguments to th ...
  • BBC Interviews Andy Sharpless at World Oceans ...
    Last month our CEO Andy Sharpless attended the Economist's World Oceans Summit in Singapore. He spoke to the BBC about the importance of sustainable fishing to the future of global food security, check out the interview and pass it on:

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Parthian Shot.
        The Parthians were a people whose origin began in what is now northwest Iran about 100 BC. They were a subset of the Seleucids, or remnants of the Macedonian empire that rose out of the fall of the Achamenids.  Tiridates, a leader of the Parthis led his band into this Central Asian ...
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  • Victory Gardens Produced Over A Billion Dollar ...
          In 1917 Charles Lathrop Pack established the National War Garden Commission. The idea was to take pressure off of the farmers and growers in America to provide food while we fought, and to help our allies as well. Remember that the mechanized food industry didn’t exist back ...
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Taylor Marsh

  • Pres. Obama: ‘If I had a son, he’d look like T ...
    During remarks from Pres. Obama on his announcement to nominate Jim Yong Kim to the World Bank, he was asked about the murder of Trayvon Martin. From the White House:: Question: Mr. President, may I ask you about this current case in Florida, very controversial, allegations of lingering racism w ...
  • ‘Etch A Sketch’ Palooza
    “I was disappointed to hear that Rick Santorum would rather have Barack Obama as president than a Republican.” – Romney campaign via Twitter The media loves this framing for Mitt Romney, and Democrats are jubilant. Republicans should be soul searching, because it’s one of ...
  • From The Hill: Women are the Real Game Changers
    I wrote a piece for The Hill yesterday. Here’s a snippet: HBO’s “Game Change,” adapted from the blockbuster book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, couldn’t have been better timed. It reminded everyone of the history made in 2008 and how the earth shook when the Hillary Effect pushed a w ...
  • Karl Rove’s Sour Grapes that Obama Got OBL
    As for the killing of Osama bin Laden, Mr. Obama did what virtually any commander in chief would have done in the same situation. Even President Bill Clinton says in the film “I hope that’s the call I would have made.” For this to be portrayed as the epic achievement of the fir ...
  • ‘The 99% Spring,’ brought to you by … MoveOn.org?
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. If you wanted to promote an Occupy-sounding message, and wanted to do it from within the existing political system, what would you do? Maybe it would be “The 99% Spring.” I mentioned this in an earlier post, but it’s ...

Hudson New York

  • "I Will Make London a Beacon of Islam"
    Ken Livingstone, the British Labour Party's candidate for mayor of London, says he wants to turn the capital city into a "beacon" of Islam. Speaking to Muslim worshippers on March 16 at the North London Central Mosque, one of the most hardline mosques in
  • European, U.S. Billions to Gaza Go Poof!, Keep ...
    The Palestinian Authority announced this week that it has spent nearly $7 billion on the Gaza Strip since 2007, when Hamas violently seized control of the regional coast. This means that since 2007, according to Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf, about $120
  • U.S. Exempts 11 Nations From Iran Sanctions, B ...
    Turkey could still get a waiver regarding the sanctions the United States plans to implement on countries buying oil from Iran, despite not being named on a list of exempted nations released by Washington, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said on Wednesday.
  • Report Slams Turkey On Religious Rights
    An annual United States government report is adding Turkey, as well as Tajikistan, to a list of the worst violators of religious rights. The report, to be released Tuesday by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, cites Turkey for
  • The Case Against the Left and Right One-State ...
    Both the extreme left and the extreme right are now calling for a one state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of course the one state solution each seeks is completely different: the left wants yet another Arab state in place of Israel; the

Urban Survival

  • Blind Eye of Justice
    Several readers have send in emails pointing out how there may be something of a double-standard in American military justice staring us in the face which is not being given voice in the MainStreamMedia (MSM) which is off running some … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Monday’s Headline, Revisited
    When the US stock market didn’t promptly enter a massive collapse on Tuesday of this week, after my Monday headline “Time for a Global Pause?” I had a number of neener-neener emails. Yet, as of the close last night, the … Continue reading →
  • Watching the Derivatives Bubble
    Another quarterly report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is out and the executive summary goes like this: Executive Summary Insured U.S. commercial banks reported trading revenues of $2.5 billion in the fourth quarter, 70% lower than … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Periodic Quake Risks
    In Peoplenomics Wednesday, we discussed the possibility of a 188.5 day earthquake cycle as posited by Patrick Geryl (and others).  For example, a reader contributed this: “Hello George, The earthquake yesterday, the 20th, was two days off the 188 day … Continue reading →
  • Inflation Returneth?
    OK, we have some serious data to look at this morning as the CPI is just out since it gives us a current bead on how the Fed’s “gas pedal and brake on” stratgegy is working to muddle us through … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Maryland House passes bill to fund environment ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Today the Maryland House of Delegates passed legislation that requires oil and gas companies to pay a small fee to fund a study regarding the short-term, long-term and cumulative ...
  • Gigatons of fertilizer bypass crops to contami ...
    Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist, San Francisco  Two thirds of all applied nitrogen became groundwater pollution instead of crop nutrient Farmers are losing costly plant nutrients while we gain a groundwater pollutant.  That was ...
  • An update on BPA science
    Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health As the end-of-the-month decision from the Food and Drug Administration on the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) draws closer, the chemical industry is trying hard to paint NRDC’s advocacy against the endocrine ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Only 7% of approved non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) projects in Chile are currently under construction. Chile currently has 720 MW of NCRE already installed. An additional 3,4000 ...
  • Trade in Endangered Species Threatened with Ex ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) -- the world's oldest and largest environmental network -- "Climate change is set to be one of the major drive ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, March 22, 2012: 2 Kern Co CA deputies under investigation after alleged excessive force incident caught on helicopter video that left a man with serious leg injuries. ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct that we were able to track so far for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20-21, 2012: Los Angeles CA loses $3.2mil judgment to family of man beaten to death by cops who then dragged him into station [0] http://lat.ms/GDXw0Y Philadelphia PA settles suit for ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 19, 2012: Lincoln RI cop gets a suspended sentence on his felony assault conviction for kicking a cuffed woman in head [0] http://bit.ly/GzVrpN Atlanta GA settles 4 public stri ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-17 ...
    Here are the 19 (21) reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 17-18, 2012: Orlando FL cops faulted in autopsy of man who died after being subjected to 4 taser burts while he was restrained, one of which lasted 31 seconds which is ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 33 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday and Friday, March 15-16, 2012: Covington LA police sued by man claiming 7 witnesses saw cops randomly grab him out of a crowd then repeatedly beat and tasered him while responding t ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Feature: Learning from Spain’s HSR success
    Australia has much to learn from the success of Spain’s Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) high-speed rail network, writes Matthew Wright, executive director, Beyond Zero Emissions. The Spanish know how to get around in style and at speed. The country can boast it has the most comfortable, fa ...
  • RenewEconomy: South Australia’s big win with wind
    Wind Power in South Australia has been a howling success; it now provides more electricity in the state than coal and in just a decade the wind industry has developed into one of the world’s leaders – and all to the benefit of South Australians. Back in 1998 when the National Electricity Market ...
  • BZE submission to the Draft Energy White Paper ...
    To download the submission click here. Introduction: Australia must rapidly decarbonise its economy if it is to play a constructive role in global efforts to address the climate change challenge. Present atmospheric levels of CO2 are at 390ppm1 and must be brought down to 350ppm to stay within t ...
  • BZE submission to the Victorian Feed-in Tariff ...
    To download the submission click here. (Please note: the file sometimes has trouble loading in Firefox, if it doesn't work please try pasting the link into the Chrome browser) Overview: Beyond Zero Emissions recognises the importance and efficacy of Feed in Tariffs and distributed renewable gen ...
  • Gas: not a transition fuel, more a fossil fuel ...
    I'd much rather see a fleet of dirty old coal plants spewing out CO2 emissions than one newly built combined cycle gas plant. Transition Coal should be a new uniting catch-cry of environmentalists. Transition Coal's time is now, following on from the success of Transition Gas ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Belo Monte Dam: A spearhead for Brazil’s ...
    Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River is now under construction despite its many controversies. The Brazilian government has launched an unprecedented drive to dam the Amazon’s tributaries, and Belo Monte is the spearhead for its efforts. Brazil’s 2011-2020 energy-expansio ...
  • Greenpeace calls for zero deforestation global ...
    Greenpeace reiterated its call for an end to deforestation in Brazil by 2015 and globally by 2020 during its launch of an awareness-raising expedition down the Amazon River aboard the Rainbow Warrior.
  • Google brings Street View, Maps to the Amazon ...
    Google has posted images of a stretch of rainforest and communities along the Amazon river on its Street View product available via Google Maps. The addition makes it possible to virtually explore communities and ecosystems in Earth's largest tropical forest.
  • World's smallest dolphin: only 55 left, but co ...
    The world's smallest dolphin is also the closest to extinction. New Zealand government figures show that Maui's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) are down to just 55 mature individuals, falling from 111 in 2005. The small cetaceans, measuring up to 1.7 meters (5.5 feet), are imperiled due t ...
  • Madagascar originally colonized by small group ...
    Madagascar was first colonized by a small group of Indonesians who crossed the Indian Ocean some 1,200 years ago, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Sierra Express

  • Jamiru is inaugurated for a second term – Tegl ...
    Tegloma Federation International will hold its president’s summit and inaugurate the newly elected executive officers of the Jamiru administration in Indianapolis this weekend.  (Photo: Chairman Alfred Moi Jamiru) Tegloma Federation International will converge on the Hoosier city of Indianapolis ...
  • American twins join General Sfano
    American born twins Abdul Hakim Allie and Abdul Kareem Allie who are known to be great dancers and singers and lovers of the late King of Pop Michael Joseph Jackson, have disclosed their loyalty and support for the Sierra Leonean born pop star General Sfano (in photo) in the launching and establ ...
  • PMDC Acting National Chairman confused
    PMDC Acting national Chairman of the People’s Movement Democratic Change (PMDC) Alhaji Bai Sama Sankoh has said in Freetown that he is confused because time is no longer in the party’s favour as district constituency regional elections are yet to be conducted. Adding that seven candidates ...
  • Double-L, Not Double-U
    I have just listened to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer deliver his latest annual Budget speech to Parliament, a ritual with which Mr Tony Blair is familiar.  Chancellor Osborne spoke of creating the right infrastructure, enterprise, working people, training for young people, and enterpr ...
  • FC Kallon to Host Warri Wolves in CAF Encounte ...
    Sierra Leone’s Premier League defending runners-up FC Kallon will take on their Nigerian Counterparts, Warri Wolves FC in their first leg encounter of the African Confederation Cup at the National Stadium on Saturday 24th March. FC Kallon who eliminated Union De Douala of Cameroon in their first ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • An Atheist Billboard in Brooklyn
    American Atheists have unveiled a billboard directed at Williamsburg, Brooklyn's extremely devout Hasidic Jewish community with the provocative statement, "You know it's a myth. And you have a choice." Reason TV correspondent Kennedy braved the 'Burg to ask the locals ...
  • Hate Is All You Need to Federalize a Crime
    Yesterday three white men from Mississippi, ranging in age from 18 to 20, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges in connection with the June 2011 murder of James C. Anderson, a black man whom they beat and ran over with a Ford F-250 pickup truck in a Jackson parking lot. Unli ...
  • A. Barton Hinkle on Democrats' Hypocritical Em ...
    It’s a safe bet that when many Democrats heard a new super-PAC had been created last week to help Virginia senatorial candidate Tim Kaine, they chalked it up to circumstances: A super-PAC supporting Kaine’s likely GOP opponent, George Allen, had just been unveiled. So Kaine was simply ...
  • Nancy Pelosi Once Sneered At Questions About O ...
    How strong is the case for the constitutionality ObamaCare’s individual mandate? So strong that Slate legal columnist Dahlia Lithwick barely feels the need to need to make a case at all. How does she know it’s so strong? Because Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi once mad ...
  • Geraldo Rivera: Wearing a Hooded Sweatshirt Is ...
    Next week: Wearing a skirt is like asking to get raped. 

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Bolivia Ignores “Washington Consensus&#8 ...
    Yet another bit of news you won’t see in most establishment US media: n the past six years, Bolivia has become one of the Latin American countries most successful at improving its citizens’ standard of living. Economic indicators such as low unemployment and decreased poverty, as wel ...
  • Santorum endorses Obama
    It’s very hard to read this comment any differently. And I think it makes sense. As Rachel has been showing very effectively, Romney is a pathological liar. Whatever one’s political ideology, better the devil one knows.\ Will Weissert, Huffington Post: “You win by giving people ...
  • Thanks for connecting the last remaining dot
    Lucia Graves, HuffPo After months of investigations into Solyndra and other Department of Energy loans failed to produce a smoking gun, one Republican lawmaker let slip why House Republicans have kept up the charge. In an interview following yet another hearing in which Energy Secretary Steven C ...
  • 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 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Let These Waters Pour Back to the Ocean: Reth ...
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  • Nothing and Everything
    RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART In association with EVOLVER presents Nothing & Everything Ellen Pearlman in conversation with Vincent Katz to mark the publication of Pearlman’s examination of the influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde: 1942 - 1962 Wednesday, May 16 7:00 PM $15* 150 W ...
  • Atomic Flash
    Researchers at Ohio State University have captured images of an atom moving within a molecule for the first time ever, using an ultrafast laser and an interesting new technique. read more
  • The LSD Cure?
    According to a recent study by Krebs (a neuroscientist) and Johansen (a clinical psychologist), LSD may help treat alcoholism. This study was the first-ever quantitative and clinical meta-analysis of the efficacy of LSD in treating alcoholism. Krebs and Johansen performed thousands of random, do ...
  • Anonymous, and His International Fame
    Figure with bow, lightning arrow, and big feet, 2004   1 Genetic engineering of the planetary rulers has projected each subject's character as his/her fate. We are not natural. If we were to add up all of the experiences that define us, we would note, upon closer scrutiny, that i ...

Desertification

  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • 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.

Blogging Canadians

  • Apple, Inc.
    NEWLY RELEASED IPAD JAILBROKEN ALREADY As originally posted on: The Security Ray (TSR) March 21, 2012 The new iPad, which was released on last Friday, the 16th has been jailbroken. It is usual that hackers would try to jailbreak the device. But being jailbroken in just 3 hours after release o ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: Sallying Forth
    Tent pegging is a sport of swift horses, razor sharp swords, and riders who really should know better. I have arrived in Delhi to ride for Canada at the 2012 Asian Championships.
  • Why become like Tony Blair when we can stay so ...
    I'm getting really disturbed by the vision of now already dozens of political journalists, advisers and "pundits" claiming that the only way for Canada's New Democrats to move forward is to become a "Third Way" party of the Blair type, thus abandoning effectively their adherence to social democr ...
  • "A Five-Year Veteran of the Force"
    Squad car mic broadcasts cop's alleged sexual tryst by Douglas Stanglin As originally posted on: On Deadline March 18, 2012 The Memphis Police Department has suspended an officer whose alleged sexual escapade inside a squad car was picked up by a microphone and broadcast on an open channel, ...
  • The ubiquitous economist, the media, and Plato
    It is odd.  No other discipline in the social science gets away with being considered by the media as a jack of all trades as the economist does.  Think about it.  If you go to a neurosurgeon with a question … Continue reading →

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Another Uneven Human Rights Council Conclusion ...
    The United Nations Human Rights Council voted yesterday (March 22) to criticize the Sri Lankan government for “not adequately address[ing] serious allegations of violations of international law” when conducting its final phases of war against the liberation guerrilla army LTTE (Liberation Tigers ...
  • Journalists Rock! Journalism Sucks!
    At an antiwar conference with predominantly left/progressive activists, I began a talk on the failures of contemporary news media by asking how the group felt about teachers. There was a resounding cheer and calls to support teachers. Then I asked how they felt about journalists — and the ...
  • Occupy’s Disrupt Dirty Power Earth Month
    From New York to St. Louis to Los Angeles, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) buzzes with the awakening of spring activities throughout the United States. One of its many pending actions is to join forces with the environmental movement to launch Earth Month on March 24. Disrupt Dirty Power will support d ...
  • Wall Street Confidence Trick
    Far from reducing risk, derivatives increase risk, often with catastrophic results. — Derivatives expert Satyajit Das, Extreme Money (2011) The “toxic culture of greed” on Wall Street was highlighted again last week, when Greg Smith went public with his resignation from Goldman Sachs in a scathi ...
  • White Sheets Surround Florida Teen’s Slaying
    In March 1799 authorities in North Carolina found no fault in a teen fatally shooting a black man after confronting that man about his being on a public road. In February 2012 authorities in Florida found no fault in a man fatally shooting a black teen after confronting that teen about his being ...

Destructionist

  • Sarkozy: Prosecute and Imprison Readers of “Ex ...
    French president Nicolas Sarkozy didn’t wait long to exploit the terror rampage of Mohammed Merah. Soon after Merah’s death in a stand-off with police, Sarkozy said French citizens who visit “extremist” websites should be treated the same way as those who look at child pornography. “Anyone wh ...
  • Marine charged for criticizing Obama on Facebook
    On Wednesday Marine Sgt. Gary Stein was notified by the Marine Corps that he was in violation of the Pentagon’s policy for blatantly condemning President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Stein’s actions could now lead to his dismissal and a possible downgrade in ranking. The Marin ...
  • Santorum: Might As Well Have Obama Over Romney
    SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn’t the GOP nominee and for a second day compared rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy.
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    The Economic Collapse Thursday, March 22, 2012 What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed t ...


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    Ontario FIT Review: More Renewable Energy Means Smart Grid Opportunities
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    US Ecology Idaho Facility Receives Esteemed OSHA "Star" Recertification
    MarketWatch (press release)
    BOISE, ID, Mar 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- US Ecology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECOL) , a leading provider of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal services, announced today that its subsidiary, US Ecology Idaho, Inc., located in Grand View, ...
    Ecology starts review of Clark County shoreline program update
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on Clark County's recently updated shoreline master program. The updated shoreline master program will guide construction and development along the County's nearly 300 miles ...
    Ecology oil spill rule advisory group meets March 22 in Lacey
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    OLYMPIA – The special advisory committee providing informal comment and recommendations to help the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) update and improve the state's oil spill readiness – or contingency – plan rule will meet in Lacey on ...
    Shell and Ecology extend multi-site cleanup agreement
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    BELLEVUE – The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) and Shell Oil Products US (Shell), an energy and petrochemical company, have agreed to extend the state's first agreement to clean up contamination at multiple current and former gas ...
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    US intel: water a cause for war in coming decades
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    WASHINGTON — Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades, as developing countries scramble to meet demand from exploding populations while dealing with the effects of climate ...
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