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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, March 23, 2012

23 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Dominica Seeks Millions for Climate Change Str ...
    Dominica presented its "2012-2020 Low Carbon Climate Resilient Development Strategy" to donors including the World Bank on Wednesday in a bid to gain wider access to funding and position itself as a regional leader in renewable energy.
  • Rights Groups Slam Renewed U.S. Military Aid t ...
    The U.S. State Department announced on Friday that military aid to Egypt will resume, citing a national security waiver that was included in the most resent appropriations legislation on foreign assistance.
  • Mali Junta Courts Civil Society
    A majority of political representatives have so far maintained their distance from the leaders of a coup that toppled the government earlier this week, but several religious and political personalities have already shown a willingness to work with the new regime.
  • U.S. Urged to Leverage Security Cooperation wi ...
    As government crackdowns continue, Bahrain is attracting more international visitors than just those coming in preparation for next month's Forumla One Grand Prix.
  • Locals Don't Want Cell Phone Towers Next to Se ...
    "You see? That's where they were going to put the antenna," says Alicia Suncín, pointing to a spot in the middle of a park in the Salvadoran capital where a private company was planning to erect a cell phone tower, 10 metres away from swings and see-saws where children play.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Exercise boosts healthy DNA expression within ...
    Exercise truly is a vital component of good health, as was once again illustrated in a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and Dublin...
  • Vitamin D3 and curcumin synergistically clear ...
    New diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease cases continue to mount at an unprecedented rate, threatening both the lives of those suffering from this dreaded illness and the health care system itself, as billions are spent to care for the millions suffering from this lifestyle...
  • Seven more tricks your brain is playing on you
    After several interesting responses from readers on the original seven tricks article, here are seven more tricks your brain may be playing on you. Beware of these assumptions that, for one reason or another, your brain cannot help but make. 1. You just need to...
  • TSA terrorizes wheelchair-bound three-year-old ...
    Serving as yet another reminder of just how ridiculous the "national security" theater is in America today, a U.S. Transportation Security Administration screener at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago has been caught on tape patting down a three-year-old in a wheelchair...
  • Soldiers still suffer from drug addictions or ...
    It was a report that shocked most Americans: A senior noncommissioned officer walked out of his base in southern Afghanistan well before dawn, armed with his M-4 carbine and a mind full of ill-intent. Before the sun rose, 16 Afghan civilians, many of them women and children...

Threat Level

  • Facebook Asserts Trademark on Word ‘Book’ in N ...
    Facebook might not have the trademark on the word "book," but it's pretending to in its terms of service, and that might actually work.
  • Belarusian Sentenced for Rent-a-Fraudster Scam
    A Belarusian who operated an elaborate rent-a-fraudster site for bank and identity thieves has been sentenced to 33 months in prison.
  • Report: Hacktivists Out-Stole Cybercriminals i ...
    Just two years ago, cybercriminal gangs were behind record-breaking data breaches that resulted in the theft of millions of customer records. But the year 2011 will be remembered as the year hacktivists out-stole cybercriminals to take the top data breach award, according to a new report release ...
  • NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying But Whistlebl ...
    James Bamford, the author of Wired's cover story on the NSA's growing domestic spying powers, responds to a carefully worded and odd denial by the NSA's top general.
  • MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for L ...
    Hollywood studios are mulling a massive copyright litigation campaign that entails suing individual users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations of facilitating wanton infringement. The site had ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Deploys Wife to Reassure Women Voters
    If you think Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney aren't worried about the growing blowback from the GOP's nationwide crusade against women's reproductive rights, just ask their wives. This week, Karen Santorum emerged from her low-profile (and ironic past) to declare her husband is "completely suppor ...
  • Ryan, Like Romney, Piles Up Massive New Debt
    In the wake of Mitt Romney's solid victory in Illinois, conservative columnist Fred Barnes proposed a Romney-Ryan ticket for the fall. That would be altogether fitting. After all, Romney didn't merely endorse the catastrophic GOP budget plan Paul Ryan unveiled Tuesday; he already laid out an a ...
  • Introducing the Ryan-Romney Budget
    If the new House GOP budget unveiled Tuesday by Paul Ryan sounds familiar, it should. And not just because Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" is essentially the same scheme he's been pushing for two years. As it turns out, Mitt Romney is offering the same disastrous recipe for America's future. Both ...
  • GOP Talking Points Don't Apply to Women's Health
    For a brief moment on Sunday, John McCain made sense. Lamenting the growing backlash against the GOP's crusade to turn back the clock on contraception and reproductive rights, McCain told Meet the Press, "I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make tha ...
  • GOP, Media Mislead on President Obama's Health ...
    As the battle over health care raged in the summer of 2009, President Obama made a very specific promise about what would become the Affordable Care Act. "When I say if you have your plan and you like it," Obama explained that June, "or you have a doctor and you like your doctor, that you don't ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Fracking: Health, Environmental Impact Greater ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com March 20, 2012 The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry non-profit organization, cla ...
  • Joy Division by Ryan Kelly
    Ryan Kelly is the artist on the new DC Vertigo comics release SAUCER COUNTRY and the webcomic COCOTTE.  Oh, and here’s the Flickr link for this image. And that’s it for me this week.  I’m going to go away and see if I can remember how to emblog, because I do seem to have totally [...]
  • Exclusive: OWS Activist Cecily McMillan Descri ...
    Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan suffered a seizure when New York City police officers pulled her from the crowd and arrested her as hundreds attempted to re-occupy Zuccotti Park on Saturday to mark six months since the launch of the movement. In her first interview since her arrest, ...
  • "How to Survive a Plague": As ACT UP Turns 25, ...
    This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — an international direct action advocacy group formed by a coalition of activists outraged over the government's mismanagement of the AIDS crisis. We speak with ACT UP founding member Peter Staley, one of th ...
  • Palestinian on Hunger Strike "in Mortal Danger"
    Hanaa Shalabi, a Palestinian prisoner under Administrative Detention without charge or trial enters 36th day of her hunger strike

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • A Spring that Can’t Wait
      As the corruption in our system continues unabated and the interminable Republican primary season continues its buffoonery of ‘solutions’ for our failing state, there is some highly unusual behavior taking place independent of either. It’s the behavior of the weather for most of the cou ...
  • Energy Mullahs on Rampage in Alaska and Pennsy ...
    In Iran, the Political Mulhas have explicitly “banned  from discussion in the media” when it comes to specific topics, including Iran’s economic troubles, foreign policy controversies, social taboos, and the unrest among Iran’s Azeri, among other things. Here in the U.S., ...
  • We Don’t Need Another Oil Disaster
    This month marks the 23rd anniversary of the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. When the Valdez ran aground, more than 11 million gallons of oil gushed out into the fragile eco-system of the sound and onto the nearby beaches. The oil covered 1,300 [...]
  • Obama — Doesn’t Seem to Get True Threat of Glo ...
    Maybe he’s just playing political games, as extremist Republicans contend and many liberals hope. Maybe he’s promoting drilling for oil in speeches (and in practice) in order to make sure he remains president and can do a ton to advance clean energy and energy efficiency in the U.S. ...
  • Americans Split on Whether to Prioritize Envir ...
    Unlike last year, Americans are about as likely to say they want to protect energy production as they are to say they want to protect the environment, according to new results provided by Gallup. In the results based on phone interviews conducted over the weekend of March 8 to 11, 47% of America ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Tryin ...
    It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds. In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CB ...
  • 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...
  • Gunman kills four at Jewish school in Toulouse ...
    Editor's Note: Many questions surround the tragic killing of children and one teacher at the Jewish school in Toulouse, France. It has been widely published in the corporate media. Writing for WSWS, Alex Lantier cites the facts and puts this terrible attack on innocents into a quasi-socio/politi ...
  • Gustavo Dudamel conducting the world-renowned ...
    Gustavo Dudamel conducts the world-renowned Simon Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. For several years now, Gustavo Dudamel and the young musicians of the Venezuelan youth orchestra Simon Bolívar have been causing a furor on the international music scene. More than anything else, it i ...
  • What's to Come for the "99% Spring" - World News
    During the week of April 9-15, more than 60 progressive groups throughout the country are converging to host the "99% Spring," where they plan to train 100,000 young activists in non-violent direct action and civil disobedience. The goal of the trainings is to give young activists from across th ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "The Battle ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by masterofacdcsuckaS on Feb 21, 2008: Rage Against The Machine Mic Check The Battle Of Los Angeles Lyrics: To tha young R to tha E tha B to tha E tha L Never give up just live up Fed upon America We be spittin' it up Rippin' it up For an even amount in each cup ...
  • Hartzler's Confusion
  • Occupy the Racist Censorship
    By @KYYellowDog "Librotraficantes."  I love it. Students and activists set up 'Underground Libraries' of books prohibited in suspended Mexican American Studies classrooms. Watch the video here.
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD Fetch the smelling salts and help us to the fainting couch, we agree with Allen West about something. The way the authorities handled the Trayvon Martin murder has been an outrage, and his killer "should have been held in custody and certainly should not be walking free, still havin ...
  • QOTD
    By @KYYellowDog The Rude Pundit, on guns, Trayvon Martin and the NRA: Seriously, if the ACLU were as deranged in defending the First Amendment as the NRA is in defending its distorted version of the Second, you'd be able to walk up to a crucifixion statue in the middle of St. Boyrape's Cathedral ...

Care 2

  • Does holding a gun make you think others are too?
    No one knows what led a Florida neighborhood watch captain to shoot Trayvon Martin, a teenager carrying no weapon. But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the watch captain have been fooled into thinking the youth was armed in part because Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & ...
  • The Invisible Poverty of "The Other America" o ...
    "The fate of the poor," he concluded, "hangs upon the decision of the better-off. If this anger and shame are not forthcoming, someone can write a book about the other America a generation from now and it will be the same or worse." Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  | ...
  • Construction workers rescue ferret all at sea
    Construction workers in North Wales were recently surprised to find a ferret floating around on a pallet on the water at the end of Beaumaris Pier. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Thank President Obama for Making Rivers a Budg ...
    Through the Rivers Initiative, the Presidents 2013 budget prioritizes river restoration and recreation projects in all 50 states. It also supports the development of a National Water Trails System to recognize communities which rediscover, restore, and Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
  • False Killer Whales Use Acoustic Squint to Tar ...
    Hunting in the ocean's murky depths, vision is of little use, so toothed whales and dolphins (odontocetes) rely on echolocation to locate tasty morsels with incredible precision. Laura Kloepper from the University of Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! &nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Life In Hyperbolea
    Memo to Veep Joe Biden: Hyperbole (  /haɪˈpɜrbəliː/ hy-PUR-bə-lee;[1] Greek: ὑπερβολή, ‘exaggeration’) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literal ...
  • Killing Bin Laden No Special Feat * Open Thread
    Obama is trying to hang an award on his wall for the death of Osama Bin Laden. Thing is: It’s always struck me that ANY Commander In Chief would have given the thumbs up to an operation painstakingly planned by the U.S. special forces’ elite. Wouldn’t it have been a no-brainer? ...
  • Reviewing My NQ Comrade-in-Arms
    Over the years No Quarter has been home to a cadre of top notch bloggers and writers!  For some, No Quarter was a first foray into public writing and/or the wonders of blogging where our work was read and commented on by a large audience. It is a real testament to the caliber of the [...]
  • Is Sandra Fluke Really Up for Rhyming with Fuck?
    I don’t claim to be an English scholar, but I do understand basic conventions about spelling and pronouning English words. Why is the media and most pundits insisting on pronouncing Sandra Fluke’s last name as “FLUCK.” What the fluck is going on? Let’s do a simple t ...
  • More on the Myth of Low Turnout Republican Voters
    I love the frenzied, hysterical reaction of the crazed Obama supporters to my earlier post. They were crawling over my post about the Bullshit Meme that Republican Voter turnout is low. I realize those brain-dead, nitwits are beyond the reach of reason, but for the rest of you here are the full ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Spruce Mine Reversal Signals Mountaintop Remov ...
    Politico Spruce Mine Reversal Signals Mountaintop Removal Permits Are Not Slowing to a ... Huffington Post In an alarming rebuke to fledgling EPA efforts to regulate devastating mountaintop removal mining operations today, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Obama administration ...
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Imperiled Crayfish ...
    Lawsuit Launched to Protect Imperiled Crayfish in Kentucky, Virginia and West ... eNews Park Forest “Mountaintop-removal coal mining is ruining the water — both for wildlife and for people. If we protect streams for the crayfish, then we'll also be protecting public health and water for drin ...
  • Opposition to Scenic Vistas is indefensible - ...
    Opposition to Scenic Vistas is indefensible The Tennessean The answer should be an emphatic “none,” because there is no reason for lawmakers in good conscience to oppose the Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act, which would ban future mountaintop removal mining. Even though bill sponsors have ...
  • College Students Spend Spring Break in Doddrid ...
    College Students Spend Spring Break in Doddridge County WBOY-TV The unifying idea of mountain justice is to oppose the mountain top removal of coal mining and other dangerous destructive forms of surface mining for coal," Blevies said. "Protest mountain top removal. It's something ...
  • Counting the cost: the hidden price of coal po ...
    Counting the cost: the hidden price of coal power Ars Technica Melissa Ahern of Washington State University described some of the environmental impacts that have resulted from the mountaintop removal process in Appalachia: over 500 peaks gone, 2000 miles of streams eliminated, and over 140 billi ...

Memeorandum

  • CNN's GUT CHECK for March 23, 2012 (CNN)
    CNN: CNN's GUT CHECK for March 23, 2012  — n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle  —  BREAKING: NEW GALLUP POLL SHOWS ROMNEY WITH DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD OVER SANTORUM: “Mitt Romney's national support among Republican voters ...
  • Toomey: Republicans Can Trust Romney to Govern ...
    Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com: Toomey: Republicans Can Trust Romney to Govern as a Conservative  —  He's the second conservative senator in two days to praise Romney.  DeMint had kind words for him on Thursday.  —  HARRISBURG, Pa.—Sen. Pat Toomey o ...
  • POLITICO Influence: Anti-Obama PAC (Dave Levin ...
    Dave Levinthaland Anna Palmer / Politico: POLITICO Influence: Anti-Obama PAC  —  PI SCOOP ... CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT BARACK OBAMA MAY GO SUPER PAC: Political action committee Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, which has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars this election cycl ...
  • Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tap ...
    Washington Post: Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank  —  President Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a move that would turn the organization over to a physician and development exp ...
  • Newt Gingrich: 'Elite Media' Is Covering Up Ob ...
    Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich: ‘Elite Media’ Is Covering Up Obama's ‘Muslim Friends’ … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  2012 Election, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich 2012, Obama Muslim, Elections 2012, Islam, Newt Ging ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.6, South Australia
    Friday, March 23, 2012 09:25:16 UTC Friday, March 23, 2012 07:55:16 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.70 km (6.65 mi)
  • M 5.2, Oaxaca, Mexico
    Thursday, March 22, 2012 16:46:46 UTC Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:46:46 AM at epicenterDepth: 12.20 km (7.58 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:59:29 UTC Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:59:29 PM at epicenterDepth: 149.00 km (92.58 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kepulauan Sangihe, Indonesia
    Thursday, March 22, 2012 00:21:34 UTC Thursday, March 22, 2012 08:21:34 AM at epicenterDepth: 92.40 km (57.41 mi)
  • M 6.6, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
    Wednesday, March 21, 2012 22:15:05 UTC Thursday, March 22, 2012 08:15:05 AM at epicenterDepth: 105.90 km (65.80 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Another water battle looming
    Pakistan is gearing up for a new fight with India, reports Athar Parvaiz from Ladakh. At the centre of the latest row is a dam funded by international efforts to tackle global warming. The never-ending war over water resources between India and Pakistan has taken a new twist. Paki ...
  • A new conscience?
    China’s visible embrace of corporate responsibility is a necessary step on the path to a greener economy, writes Simon Zadek, introducing a report by the US Chamber of Commerce.On February 24, the China Banking Regulatory Commission released its Green Credit Guidelines, securing China&rsqu ...
  • Sizing the carbon bubble
    Financial markets are in denial, backing both the winners and losers of climate change and stocking up more fossil fuels than they can burn, writes James Leaton.How much “unburnable” carbon is there on the world’s stock exchanges? Last year, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) ...
  • High yields in south China
    Farmers – led by women – and professional plant breeders have joined forces in remote Guangxi to find novel ways of boosting food security. Ronnie Vernooy reports.China’s recent economic growth has been extraordinary but uneven. Vulnerable groups, such as smallholder farmers, a ...
  • The shrinking depths below
    Fixing the water crisis in China's arid north begins with a proper understanding of the threats to underground supplies, says Matt Currell.Water stress in northern China is driving some of the biggest engineering projects in human history: pipelines to transfer billions of cubic metres of water ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The United Nations' Disappointing Failure to A ...
    Despite a historic shift in drug policy debate, alternatives to prohibition were not discussed at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs last week.
  • Breaking: Spruce Mine Reversal Signals Mountai ...
    In an alarming rebuke to fledgling EPA efforts to regulate devastating mountaintop removal mining operations today, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Obama administration overstepped its authority in revoking a permit last year for the largest proposed strip-mining operation ...
  • United Nations Commission on the Status of Wom ...
    Written by Alex Garita for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth ...
  • Black Market Birth Control? How Undocumented I ...
    Undocumented immigrant women must travel to Mexico, where no prescription is required, or buy them from the underground market in Phoenix, without seeing a doctor first.
  • “Monumental” Lies – Kirk Cam ...
    Child star turned fundamentalist Christian activist Kirk Cameron’s pseudo-documentary Monumental is coming to over 500 theaters across the country on March 27, and from the clips available online, it’s clear that Cameron’s movie promises to be packed with the same Christia ...

Threat Level

  • Facebook Asserts Trademark on Word ‘Book’ in N ...
    Facebook might not have the trademark on the word "book," but it's pretending to in its terms of service, and that might actually work.
  • Belarusian Sentenced for Rent-a-Fraudster Scam
    A Belarusian who operated an elaborate rent-a-fraudster site for bank and identity thieves has been sentenced to 33 months in prison.
  • Report: Hacktivists Out-Stole Cybercriminals i ...
    Just two years ago, cybercriminal gangs were behind record-breaking data breaches that resulted in the theft of millions of customer records. But the year 2011 will be remembered as the year hacktivists out-stole cybercriminals to take the top data breach award, according to a new report release ...
  • NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying But Whistlebl ...
    James Bamford, the author of Wired's cover story on the NSA's growing domestic spying powers, responds to a carefully worded and odd denial by the NSA's top general.
  • MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for L ...
    Hollywood studios are mulling a massive copyright litigation campaign that entails suing individual users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations of facilitating wanton infringement. The site had ...

Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • CDC, stop being silly! Grocery Store Chain A i ...
    The CDC reports as of March 21, 2012, 58 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 were reported from 9 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: Arizona (1), Arkansas (2), Illinois (9), Indiana (2), Kansas (2), Kentucky (1), Minnesota (2), Mis ...
  • The 2011 Wegmans and Sunrise Commodities Pine ...
    The Outbreak In late October 2011 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis. The outbreak was identified through routine surveillance of reported salmonellosis conducted by the ...
  • Texas Sausage Recalled Due to Listeria Risk
    Southside Market & BBQ, an Elgin, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 2,373 pounds of ready-to-eat beef sausage products that may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. T ...
  • I am glad to have my own nine chickens
    In the last month the “girls” have been producing 8-9 eggs a day. They add up quickly and my neighbors are enjoying the extras. So I was thankful for our eggs this evening when today the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) recommended against eating any eggs produced ...
  • I really do love my job
    I got this email this morning - she was commenting on my post over the weekend about putting me out of the beef business: Good Morning! Hi I am DK, again Thank-You for this long, sad, but truly brilliant blog! As I have written before. I was one of the Jack-in- Box E-Coli victims that was pregn ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Teased: Fisker teases Nina plug-in hybrid, ful ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Design/Style, Electric, Luxury There's not a whole lot to say about the Fisker Nina teaser image that the company just dropped into our inboxes, it's largely just a way to say the real thing will be unveiled at the New York Auto Show in a ...
  • Miami Toyota dealer tacks $7,000 onto price of ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Earnings/Financials A Twitter user with the handle miami4me2c discovered something interesting at a Toyota dealer in Miami and thankfully shared pictures of this unusual Prius C Two window sticker. Remember, the base Prius C starts ...
  • Report: Toyota increasing Prius C production t ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Japan, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota When we last asked Toyota representatives about the production capacity of the 2012 Prius C, we were told the company's Iwate, Japan plant could make up to 30,000 units each month. That sounds like a lot, but Toyo ...
  • Report: 2013 Nissan Leaf update will add new h ...
    Filed under: Technology, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric From what we know today, pretty much everything about the all-electric Nissan Leaf is getting bigger and/or better in 2012. From availability in Europe to 50-state availability and production in the States, it's clear Nissan is planning big ...
  • Video: Consumer Reports finally posts F ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Fisker, Electric, Luxury You can buy a bunch of information for $107,000. Consumer Reports is learning all sorts of things about the Fisker Karma now that it has purchased one for testing, only to have it die with less than 200 miles on the odometer. After 48 h ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • New Yorkers Call for Justice at Million Hoodie ...
    Thousands of New Yorkers chanted "we want arrests" as Trayvon Martin’s parents joined them for a protest calling on police to arrest George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed their unarmed 17-year-old son but has yet to be arrested. These are some of the voices of the protes ...
  • Walking While Black: The Killing of Trayvon Martin
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan On the rainy night of Sunday, Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked to a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. On his way home, with his Skittles and iced tea, the African-American teenager was shot and killed. The gunman, George Zimmerman, didn’t run. He ...
  • Part 2: Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack on Ob ...
    In an excerpt from our extended interview, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented targeting of government employees who expose illegal behavior, fraud and abuse. Drake describes how he challe ...
  • VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street & Police Brutality V ...
    Occupy Wall Street activists and their supporters decried violent tactics used during a police crackdown on Saturday’s re-occupation of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square, that led to 73 arrests. During a press conference outside police headquarters, they called for New York Police Dep ...
  • Ina May Gaskin and the Safe Motherhood Quilt P ...
    In part two of our interview with pioneering midwife Ina May Gaskin she describes the women who died of pregnancy-related causes and are commemorated in squares of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project. Gaskin argues midwifery is about helping the woman and her child, but is also key to shaping ...

Suzie-Q

  • INFOGRAPHIC: The Affordable Care Act Turns Two
    Think Progress By Adam Peck  on Mar 23, 2012 at 8:30 am Two years ago today, President Obama affixed his signature to the Affordable Care Act, the first major piece of federal healthcare legislation since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. The bill was the end result of months of careful neg ...
  • Shocker! Karl Rove Endorses Obama in WSJ Op-Ed ...
    Forbes Jeff Bercovici, Forbes Staff 3/22/2012 @ 2:49PM In his fight for re-election this fall, President Barack Obama will have support from the unlikeliest of quarters: Karl Rove, former top aide to George W. Bush. Writing on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal today, Rove, normally a sta ...
  • Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor: ‘War O ...
    Huff Post Laura Bassett Posted: 03/21/2012  4:19 pm Updated: 03/21/2012  4:29 pm Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has drastically slipped in the polls after backing two controversial anti-abortion measures over the past several weeks: the fetal personhood bill and the mandatory ultrasound bill. B ...
  • Even Mitt Romney Knows an Etch A Sketch Can&#8 ...
  • Virginia Poll: 52% Oppose Ultrasound Law
    Politico By TIM MAK | 3/21/12 8:04  AM EDT A majority of Virginians stand against the state’s new law that requires  women seeking an abortion to  undergo an ultrasound before the procedure, a new survey shows. Fifty-two percent of voters said they opposed the law, compared with 41  percent ...

Solari

  • Laundered Money
    By Joseph T. Salerno Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom of the war is that the largest denomination of US currency is the $100 note, whose ever-eroding pu ...
  • Transcript of the 3.15.12 Comfort Calls Solari ...
    A transcript of the March 15, 2012 Solari Report on “The Comfort Calls Story: Organizing the Legal Structure For Your Start Up” is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: I can’t tell you how many people over the last year, both subscribers and cli ...
  • U.S. Exempts 11 States From Iran Sanctions; Ch ...
    By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew Quinn The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top customers China and India exposed to the possibility of such steps. The decision means banks i ...
  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    By James Bamford The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon ...
  • Town in Australia “Kickstarts” Gro ...
    Dennett’s IGA supermarket in Mullumbimby is FOR SALE Could the people of Mullumbimby own their own supermarket…? Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: A community-owned Mullumbimby IGA ECHO (22 March 12)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • We have an economic recovery. It costs $1.1 t ...
    Summary:  Many economists and pseudo-experts forecast not just the long-anticipated “v” recovery, but an acceleration of the current good news into a boom.  Before we pop the corks, let’s look at the recovery, what the recovery cost us,  and how we’ve spent this expensive ...
  • America enters the dreamland, part of our cult ...
    Summary:   America peaked in 2000.  Events since then have sent us on downward trajectory, accelerated by our bad decisions in response.  Now the grim reality of future geopolitical and economic problems presses on our imaginations, the end of our hegemonic delusions of power founded on unlimite ...
  • We ask the mineshaft: what went wrong with th ...
    Summary:   The Tea Party Movement began with such hope and enthusiasm, and evolved into GOP shock troops — in effect supporting what they opposed.  Such as bank-friendly policies.   We ask the mineshaft what went wrong?   {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipe ...
  • We ask the mineshaft: what went wrong with th ...
    Summary:   The Tea Party Movement began with such hope and enthusiasm, and evolved into GOP shock troops — in effect supporting what they opposed.  Such as bank-friendly policies.   We ask the mineshaft what went wrong?   {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipe ...
  • With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Ch ...
    Summary:  A series of Executive Orders during the past century has slowly expanded the authority of the Executive Branch.  Now President Hope and Change takes a large step forward toward a new order, issuing a blueprint for tyranny.  Don’t worry, it will be implemented slowly.  One cannot ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • A Surprise World Bank Pick
    President Barack Obama startled handicappers by selecting Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as the U.S. candidate to lead the World Bank rather than the reported front-runner Larry Summers, Obama's former National Economic Council director. The Korean-born Kim is a medical doctor, anthropologist, ...
  • An Exchange with Jeffrey Goldberg on "Bluffing ...
    Here is round two of the online exchange with Jeffrey Goldberg that began here. ___ Dear Jeff: Thank you very much for this reply. For our second round - which will be the last round for a while, as I'll explain - I'd like to shift from asking about the reporting you've been in the middle ...
  • Meet Your Next President of the World Bank
    President Obama is set to nominate Partners in Health co-founder and Dartmouth College President Jim yong-Kim as president of the World Bank. This is a pretty bold move by President Obama. Tradition holds that World Bank presidents are American (and IMF leaders are from Europe). But it is more t ...
  • Time Frame Shifts on Iran War Threat
    Chances for a US or Israeli strike on Iran are minimal before US presidential elections but increase early next year, according to an adviser to the US government. Suzanne Maloney, a former State Department official who still briefs US policymakers on Iran, told an audience Monday at the Atla ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Counterterroris ...
    Report of the Pakistani Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Guidelines for Revised Terms of Engagement with USA/NATO/ISAF, March 2012. The government needs to ensure that the principles of an independent foreign policy must be grounded in strict adherence to the Principles of Polic ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Party Planning
    Mitt Romney is ready to shake off the GOP primary and move on to the general election, and so is most of his party. He picked up Jeb Bush’s endorsement this week, and even the Tea Party has been tepidly giving its OK to the front-runner. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee is taking a ...
  • Friday Music Break
    This week marks the 50th anniversary (!) of the release of Bob Dylan's first album, so I've chosen "Senor," from Dylan's underrated 1978 album Street Legal. It's the pregnant pause before the line "I'm ready when you are, Senor" that makes it so great.
  • Friday Miscellany
    With Passover approaching, it’s time to ask the White House: which haggadah will you use? #Obama #MaxwellHouse Speaking of which, my father had a theory that so many Jews are intellectually limber because they learn Hebrew—an extremely foreign language for English speakers—at such a young age. ...
  • A Surprise World Bank Pick
    President Barack Obama startled handicappers by selecting Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as the U.S. candidate to lead the World Bank rather than the reported front-runner Larry Summers, Obama's former National Economic Council director. The Korean-born Kim is a medical doctor, anthropologist ...
  • Kinder, Gentler Secularists
    Tomorrow, a coalition of non-believers is gathering for a rally on the Mall in Washington, an event that is mercifully not being called the Million Atheist March, but rather the Reason Rally. I predict it will be almost completely ignored by the press. That might be justified if turnout is smal ...

Buzzflash

  • Corporate Goliaths: Have They Now Become Unsto ...
    JANE STILLWATER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When David went up against Goliath back in the Bible, Goliath was really truly HUGE. But just how did this guy manage to get that big in the first place? I'm assuming that he started out by eating up everything in sight. At first his mommy probably fe ...
  • ALEC, the NRA, and the Murder of Trayvon Martin
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC) prefers to do its business in secret. And since ALEC's founding in 1973 by Paul Weyrich (who co-founded the Heritage Foundation and is widely considered to be one of the Godfathers of the New Right); forme ...
  • If Zimmerman Were Black and Trayvon Martin a W ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Let's face the racial politics simmering in the Trayvon Martin murder head-on: if Zimmerman were black and Martin a white teenager, then Zimmerman would be in jail facing a homicide rap, regardless of Florida's license to kill. read more
  • Republicans Must Get Over Their False Equivale ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There's a tendency among some media outlets and various critics, especially Republican partisans, to suggest that all comments must be applied even-handedly across the entire spectrum of opinion in order to be valid. No matter how vast the differences or how ...
  • The NRA and Florida Legislators Gave George Zi ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The so-called "Stand Your Ground" law in Florida is nothing more than a license to murder. Passed in 2005 in the Sunshine State, the law was pushed by the National Rifle Association's (NRA) lobbyist in Tallahassee, Marion Hammer (who was also the fir ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Liver disease kills
    Given my slightly worrying feedback from the Fenland Study, my neurotic brain latched on to the headlines today in which male 40-somethings seem to be dropping like flies, jaundiced and with failed livers. The BBC reports: “Deaths from liver disease in England have reached record levels, r ...
  • The evolving, revolving of the Moon
    Still, lifeless, unchanging…how did the Moon get so boring? Here’s what a few billion years of volcanic activity and meteoric bombardment did for the old guy…you’d want a rest after all that too… Related Posts:The moon hour by hour for 2012 NASA GSFC Scientific Visu ...
  • Unweaving the rainbow, that’s a good thing
    I posted a photo of a rather melancholic sunset on Facebook and Google+ earlier this week and captioned it:  ”just photons being scattered by atmospheric water vapour and dust…but still…” I think most viewers did with Trish Parnell suggesting that, ‘The whole is gre ...
  • Chemists work evenings, weekends and take no v ...
    I hope things have changed a little since the bad old days when professors suggested that members of their research team ought to work all day, every day, including evenings and weekends, public holidays and could only have time off for a vacation if it had been well earned. It’s possible ...
  • Fenland Study follow-up – part 2
    To be frank, I’ve decided that you really don’t need to know my detailed waist-to-hip ratio, my weight, body fat percentage or any of the other details I am now poring over thanks to the good people at the MRC Epidemiology Unit. None of them are particularly bad…none of them ar ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CMD/PRWatch Asks Ethics Board to Examine Corpo ...
    The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed a complaint today with the Government Accountability Board (GAB) based on newly discovered documents revealing that numerous Wisconsin legislators have received corporate-funded gifts through their connections to the American Legislative Exchange Co ...
  • ACLU Statement on Extension of Time U.S. Can R ...
    The Obama administration has extended the time the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) can collect and hold on to records on U.S. citizens and residents from 180 days to five years, even where those people have no suspected ties to terrorism. The new NCTC guidelines, which were approved by A ...
  • The Affordable Care Act: An Appeal to the Repe ...
    Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), representing more than 2.1 million working families dedicated to quality, affordable healthcare for all issued the follow statement today on the two-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. read more
  • Court Orders FDA to Address Antibiotic Overuse ...
    The Food and Drug Administration must act to address the growing human health threats resulting from the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed, according to a federal court ruling issued last night. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Scie ...
  • Malawi: Arrests Signal Deteriorating Rights En ...
    The Malawi government’s recent surge of arrests and threats against critics reflects its broader crackdown on free speech and other basic rights, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 9, 2012, Malawi’s State House, the President's office, issued a statement warning journalists ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Breaking Up the Banks - The Dallas Fed Weighs In
    Wallace Turbeville The Federal Reserve Board of Dallas released a report from its chief researcher, Harvey Rosenblum, which has caused quite a stir. The report cites Fed statistics showing that the five largest US banks hold a remarkable 5 ...
  • Early Spring: A Not-So-Early Warning
    Elliott Negin March used to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. Now it comes in like a lamb and goes out like a mouse. Although the vernal equinox occurred last Tuesday, some parts of the country have been experiencing spring-like, ...
  • Paul Ryan's "Focus on Dignity" is a Spectacle ...
    Greg Kaufmann “Promoting the natural rights and the inherent dignity of the individual must be the central focus of all government.”House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of his budget plan entit ...
  • 'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Le ...
    Ruth Ann Dandrea Dear 8th Graders, I’m sorry.(llustration: David McLiman) I didn’t know.read more
  • Marco Rubio Stands His Ground for Deadly 'Stan ...
    John Nichols Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was not the only prominent Florida official to back Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, despite repeated warnings that it would be seen as a "license to kill" by gunmen li ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • The Global Note: Charging Sgt. Bales…Asma Assa ...
    AFGHAN MASSACRE -CHARGING SGT. BALES…Luis MARTINEZ reports that Criminal charges against Sgt. Robert Bales in the deaths of 17 Afghan civilians are expected today. Bales will continue to be held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, but it’s expected that the proceedings will be held at...
  • Terror warning on global water wars
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of the risk of terrorism, political instability and conflict over competition for scarce water.
  • Water wars inevitable - US
    Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades.
  • Morning Report: Five Takeways From the Water Wars
    Water war, explained. A funny Twitter exchange ends with the backhanded compliment of the month. A meter maid fact check and more.
  • International World Water Day 2012
    International World Water Day is held annually. The Institute for Sustainability invited CSUN to attend Water Day on Tuesday, March 20 at the Northridge Center. There was a film screening of “Blue Gold: World Water Wars”, followed by a discussion with CSUN faculty.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Book review: "Patriot Acts" tells shocking sto ...
    Maureen Clare Murphy 22 March 2012 Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice tells the stories of individuals in the United States whose rights have been abused as a result of the racist, Islamophobic backlash and the so-called War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001. ...
  • Athlete abused by Israeli soldier for carrying ...
    Emily Lawrence Jerusalem 20 March 2012 An activist running the Jerusalem Marathon sought to bring attention to Israel’s rights abuses at the event.
  • What Palestinian political prisoners are fight ...
    Ameer Makhoul Gilboa Prison 20 March 2012 Khader Adnan’s hunger strike was not in protest of administrative detention but against Israel’s entire colonial system, argues Ameer Makhoul, writing from Gilboa prison.
  • "The house is dark without them": Israel kills ...
    Rami Almeghari Beit Lahiya 19 March 2012 Muhammad al-Hisoumi and his daughter Fayza were killed in an Israeli missile attack as they tended their land in the Gaza Strip on 12 March 2012, leaving behind a devastated family and a darkened house. Rami Almeghari profiles them.
  • Israel actively supports theft of Palestinian ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 19 March 2012 The Israeli government has turned a blind eye — and often actively supported — the illegal takeover of water springs located on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, according to a new report. ...

The Wonk Room

  • How Far Will ‘Mad Men’ Move Into t ...
    I’ve always been vocal about the fact that Mad Men is not precisely my cup of tea—I’m not overly compelled by the acting, but most importantly, the show has covered the half of the sixties I’m less interested in. I can understand why it’s interesting to observe, and even ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Sanford City Commissioner Concerned ...
    ORLANDO, FL — Sanford City Commissioner Velma Williams is concerned that George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin last month but has not been arrested or charged with any crime, may try to leave the country. In an interview with ThinkProgress, Williams said that Zimmerman’ ...
  • MIT Economist: Income Inequality In The U.S. I ...
    Thanks in large part to the Occupy Wall Street movement, the debilitating effects of income inequality have been hoisted into the national spotlight. But in addition to killing economic growth and economic mobility, income inequality also exacerbates political inequality. Today, ThinkProgress sp ...
  • LeBron on Trayvon
    LeBron James tweets this powerful picture of the Miami Heat donning hoodies in memory of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin: And with it, the precise, efficient, and very sad phrases: #WeAreTrayvonMartin #Hoodies #Stereotyped #WeWantJustice.
  • Why Seniors Could Pay $5,900 More for Health C ...
    Our guest blogger is Topher Spiro, the Managing Director of Health Policy at the Center for American Progress. Earlier this week the Center for American Progress released an analysis of the Republican budget’s Medicare plan, which would provide vouchers to beneficiaries to purchase either a priv ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • E-Health, ORNGE: AdScam Ontario?
    Just saying that if you wanted to funnel public money to your friends in order to create a well-funded political base who would support you at election time in return for further contracts, the swag so liberally dispersed via E-Health and ORNGE (around $1.7 billion) would be the way to do it ...
  • No Majority? That's It Then. Time For Oppositi ...
    From Alison at Creekside (via a whole whack of great people) we get this bombshell. Ain't that something? Now, given the fact that the harpercons are using their bullshit majority to ram through any and all of their garbage legislation, and are ignoring Parliament, and are forcing all parliame ...
  • The Circle is Tightening on the harpercons
    Don't forget that people. This cabal of criminal scum would presume to have the RIGHT to rule over us even if their entire government was elected by fraud. THAT is how little regard they have for democracy. This Rae attack-ad stupidity is just a sign of their desperation. A bunch of still photo ...
  • Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Afghan ...
    When will North American fall for the next installment of beneficial imperialism? Syria? Sudan? The reason why we shouldn't implore our governments to "do something" about an atrocity somewhere is that our governments are comprised of evil men (with a smattering of evil women - You've still got ...
  • A Friend From Europe
    I met up with a long-time friend of mine who has been living in Europe for the past decade or so. She's been living in Denmark, which, despite not being part of the peninsula, is apparently a Scandinavian democracy. Of the Danes, she says they're very insular and cold. She says that coming home ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • NDP tied with Tories for top spot
    According to a survey conducted by the polling firm Environics, the New Democratic Party is tied with the Conservatives for first place in voter support.
  • F-35: And the hits keep coming!
    A U.S. Government Accountability Office report, media investigations of DND disingenuousness, and a forthcoming Auditor-General's report keep the F-35 hilarity coming.
  • NDP and defence policy
    Many defence watchers hope the NDP will be much clearer on national defence than it has been in the past.
  • Search and Rescue needs rescue
    Canada needs new fixed-wing search-and-rescue (FWSAR) aircraft. But the Department of National Defence keeps on bungling the procurement process.
  • ICC celebrates first verdict
    The International Criminal Court issued its first verdict in its 10 years of existence on March 14th when it found Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga guilty of conscripting child soldiers for his private army.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Pink Slime: It’s What’s for Lunch in America’s ...
    March 6, 2012 Take Part By Megan Bedard “If you have kids, they should never be buying school lunches. Brown bag it and give them healthy food.” –KTRN Forget the corn dog and pizza quarrels. Healthy school lunch advocates have a bigger problem on their plates: a 7 million-pound ...
  • Cola and Cancer: Linked Again
    March 6, 2012 Take Part By Khari Johnson “Why is anyone still drinking cola? An organic Blue Sky can of pop isn’t going to kill you now and again, but Diet Coke? Really? You’re still drinking Diet Coke? That’s gross.” –KTRN Remember when the “cola wars&# ...
  • Unvaccinated People A Public Health Threat? No ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “The idea that vaccinated people are in a danger from the unvaccinated is a hilarious concept.  If the vaccines work, shouldn’t they be immune?”  –KTRN Vaccine pushers often resort to an interesting fear tactic to try to mandate va ...
  • Common Pesticides Double Children’s Risk Of ADHD
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Sharon Heller Many people think organic fruits and vegetables are too expensive to buy for family meals. But those who have a hyperactive child should think again. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 4.5 million children ages 5 ...
  • Sleeping Pills Linked To 460 Percent Increase ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Jonathan Benson “There are many natural remedies for insomnia. Why not try those before reaching for a dangerous pharmaceutical drug?” –KTRN If you take pharmaceutical sleeping pills to help alleviate insomnia, you are very likely putting yourself ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Obama Installs New Guidelines To Aid Spying On ...
    National Counterterrorism Center given new privacy busting power Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 23, 2012 New guidelines put forth by the Obama administration will allow US spy agencies to keep records on innocent Americans without oversight for up to five years. As the AP reports, previousl ...
  • You Read It Here First: Google’s ‘Ambient Back ...
    ‘Internet of things’ also a surveillance tool for authorities Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, 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 t ...
  • Obama: ‘If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon’
    President Barack Obama on Friday carefully weighed in on the case of a 17-year-old unarmed African American boy who was gunned down in February by a neighborhood watch leader. At a White House event announcing the nomination of Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, NBC ...
  • Arab TV Wars: Truth drive thrives as revolts b ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Much of the unrest in the Arab world has been played out on TV screens around the globe. It seems war is good for ratings, but some networks are being accused of affecting rather than reflecting the conflict. RT’s Oksana Boyko reports. RT on Twitter http://twitter.c ...
  • Ron Paul Launches “Give Me Liberty” Money Bomb ...
    New poll reveals Congressman is most competitive of all candidates against Obama Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 23, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul kicks off a much needed fundraising effort today on the back of a revealing poll that gives his campaign fresh impetus. Paul is ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Fracking: Health, Environmental Impact Greater ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com March 20, 2012 The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry non-profit organization, cla ...
  • John Pilger: Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)
    Dandelion Salad with John Pilger xerojreffaj on May 31, 2011 BAFTA nominated 2002 film, written and reported by John Pilger. “In the special report John Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a documentary with the same title, about the same is ...
  • Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians, Part 1 ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com March 18, 2012 A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturi ...
  • Chris Hedges: Our True Power Comes From Our Po ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 21, 2012 DustyHinz on Mar 20, 2012 On Sunday March 18th, Chris Hedges gave one of the four keynote speeches at the closing plenary of Left Forum. I took this video from where I was sitting. He was concise and to the point, and the audience ...
  • James Bamford: Inside the NSA’s Largest ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Mar 21, 2012 democracynow.org – A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program code-named &#8220 ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jamie Levin: Israel’s economy will pay heavy p ...
    Economic war of attrition: "Each Iron Dome system costs $50,000,000 and each Tamir interceptor it employs has a price tag of no less than $62,000. In contrast, each of the Qassam rockets that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • UN human rights body to probe Israel’s settlem ...
    Human Rights Council votes to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of Israel's settlements on Palestinians; Netanyahu calls council 'hypocritical' and out of touch with reality. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Address inequalities facing Arabs, says ICG
    Judith Ilani, Jaffa’s Popular Housing Committee: “In Palestinian Jaffa, the poorest people live on the most expensive piece of soil in the country... Even if I have a doghouse close to the sea, the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Chris Hedges: Murder is not an anomaly in war
    The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • International Crisis Group: Back to basics – I ...
    Simultaneous Arab marginalisation and revitalisation also has manifested itself in initial efforts by its leadership to define the community’s political aspirations. The so-called “Vision Documents”... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Researchers Link Stigma to Depression Among Lu ...
    Studying the role of social stigma in depression for lung cancer patients, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found that depression can be heightened by a lung cancer patient's sense of social rejection, internalized shame and social isolation. These factors may contribute ...
  • Beyond the Hospital Walls: Occuptional Therapy ...
    Occupational therapy field placements are going beyond the traditional hospital or school setting to include special service programs, community care sites, and other unique aspects of care. Keuka College, in upstate New York, is making great strides in these non-traditional placements, creating ...
  • Johns Hopkins Bioethicist: "Individual Mandate ...
    Johns Hopkins bioethicist and legal expert Leslie Meltzer Henry is co-author of an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun on March 23, 2012, outlining the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, to be argued before the Supreme Court beginning on Monday, March 26. Henry w ...
  • Paul H. Crandall, 89, UCLA Physician Pioneered ...
    Dr. Paul H. Crandall, who co-founded the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery and pioneered surgical approaches still used today to treat stubborn epileptic seizures, died March 15 from complications related to pneumonia at UCLA Medical Center-Santa Monica. He was 89.
  • Supreme Court's Health-Care Decision to Shape ...
    The Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a major impact on the presidential campaign, says Timothy D. McBride, PhD, health economist and associate dean for public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. "The health reform legislation was the ...

Natural Health News

  • Could this Natural Plant be an Alternative for ...
    An extract of the pitcher plant, an old native American herbal remedy for treating smallpox, has been rediscovered and found to kill the poxvirus. This offers a possible treatment for poxvirus in the event of a bioterror attack or increased incidence of similar poxviruses such as monkey pox.&nbs ...
  • Can This Trick Help When You've Had a Bit Too ...
    Alcohol abuse and insufficient ingestion of antioxidants are both factors that can alter your brain electrophysiology.  New research examined the relationship between alcohol and the excitability-related brain electrophysiological phenomenon known as cortical spreading depression (CSD) in r ...
  • How Big Companies are Making You Unwitting Acc ...
    Greenpeace International has recently released a report called Dirty Laundry: Reloaded.  This is a landmark research investigation that explores the amount of the hazardous nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) that are released as a result of washing clothes that contain such chemicals. The rese ...
  • Has the FDA Officially Gone Mad?
    The FDA recently announced, “Exposure to mercury can have serious health consequences,” says Charles Lee, M.D., a senior medical advisor at FDA. “It can damage the kidneys and the nervous system, and interfere with the development of the brain in unborn children and very young children.” At 135 ...
  • 10 Stubborn Exercise Myths that Won’t Die, Deb ...
    The exercise industry is a multi-billion dollar business built partially on selling gadgets and DVDs.  This results in a ton of misinformation about exercise.  Lifehacker has collected ten of the most stubborn exercise myths.  Here are a few of them: No Pain, No Gain:  You s ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • LJIL Symposium: The Debate Continues at ASIL o ...
    by dov jacobs by dov jacobs We hope you enjoyed this first Opinio Juris/LJIL Online Symposium. For those who want to prolong these debates in real life, while waiting for the next online symposium, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 30 March 2 ...
  • LJIL Symposium: James Stewart Responds to Jens ...
    by James Stewart by James Stewart [James G. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia] Jens Ohlin, with George Fletcher and in his own right, has been a pioneer in bringing criminal theory to bear on international criminal justice. His earlier work warned us t ...
  • LJIL Symposium: Names, Labels, and Roses
    by Jens Ohlin by Jens Ohlin [Jens David Ohlin is Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; he blogs at LieberCode] In his excellent essay, James Stewart advocates for a unitary model of perpetration. To the extent that this means the end of modes of liability, so be it says Stewart. We ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, March 23, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The International Court of Justice issued two press releases about upcoming hearings in both the Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Niger), scheduled for October 8-17, 2012; and the Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile), scheduled for December 3-14, 2012. Reuters rep ...
  • Should We Resist the “White Savior Industrial ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I found much to like and dislike in this essay by Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole discussing his widely shared tweets on the Invisible Children Kony 2012 video. Here is one: Teju Cole@tejucole 1- From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growt ...

Public News Service

  • Strawberry Pesticide Abruptly Pulled from Market
    Strawberry Pesticide Abruptly Pulled from Market PHOENIX – It's the end of the line for methyl iodide. The maker of the controversial pesticide used on strawberry crops says it is pulling out of United States markets, including California, which produces more than 80 percent of the nation' ...
  • Lawsuit Alleges EPA Foot-Dragging on Power Pla ...
    Lawsuit Alleges EPA Foot-Dragging on Power Plant Clean-Up PHOENIX - Skies over several National Parks will be clearer and people in the Four Corners region will be healthier if a federal lawsuit filed Monday is successful. The National Parks Conservation Association and the Navajo environmental ...
  • Family PLZ! (Please) Arizonans Urged to Talk F ...
    Family PLZ! (Please) Arizonans Urged to Talk Family Medical History PHOENIX - Over 90 percent of people diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer are over 50, but when the disease runs in a family, it can strike earlier. Tom Rich, regional director, Comprehensive Cancer Control, for The American Cance ...
  • Health Care Reform Shows Signs of Saving Medic ...
    Health Care Reform Shows Signs of Saving Medicare Budget PHOENIX – According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, healthcare reform is already slowing the growth in the cost of Medicare, a crucial change that could save the program from bankruptcy. Researchers crunched nu ...
  • Hazardous Chemicals Found in Children's Jewelry
    Hazardous Chemicals Found in Children's Jewelry PHOENIX - A new study has found high levels of hazardous chemicals in a majority of children's jewelry purchased in a handful of states. Kathleen Schuler, co-director of the group Healthy Legacy, says about 100 pieces of jewelry were tested for va ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Iz al-deen and Trayvon
    Two young men, a few weeks apart, attacked by adult men. Both names exotic to white American ears.  Iz al-deen Tamemi was not killed, “only” shot in the face. His attackers wore uniforms, while Trayvon Martin’s murderer was vigilante acting alone, though his behavior was sancti ...
  • Queers Say No Pinkwashing in the Pacific Northwest
    ed’s note: Unusual for TOD? we are focusing on domestic activism in this post by new contributor Wendy. By Wendy Elisheva Somerson My friend Selma and I were gripping each other’s hands tightly last Thursday night, March 15th, as Seattle’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Com ...
  • Help save solar and wind power in the West Bank
    Ed’s Note: The Only Democracy? does not usually feature action alerts, but we have highlighted work of Comet-ME in the past and are proud to come to their defense. Watch Elad’s action alert Israel is threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems in rural communities in the W ...
  • Settler Group Presses Israeli Government to Ac ...
    We previously reported on the worrisome escalation in demolition of Palestinian structures in South Hebron Hills. The body issuing the demolition orders is the deceptively-named “Civil Administration”. Contrary to its name (invented in the 1980′s by Ariel Sharon to mislead the ...
  • Why/ Who Died?
    By David Grossman, Translated by Sol Salbe All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Lord Monckton: ‘I’m no birther,’ but Obama bir ...
    Also See: Obama Asks Woman: ‘Do You Have YOUR Birth Certificate?’
  • Mr Kucinich goes to Washington… State &# ...
      Daily Caller Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is traveling to Washington state next month, making a trip destined to stoke speculation that the eight-term congressman is again considering a run for Congress in that state. Kucinich will speak about Social Security at Highline Community ...
  • Japan Prepares Missile Defense Systems Ahead O ...
  • Government to keep data on citizens with no te ...
    WASHINGTON— — The U.S. intelligence community will 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 about Americans that wa ...
  • This Day In History – March 23
    1645 – William “Captain” Kidd, Scottish sailor (d. 1701), was born. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with ...

The Air Vent

  • Green Climate Fund Deserves Double 0 Status
    You have to wonder why Fox News would make a big deal about a UN created international fund of a hundred billion dollars per year, having complete immunity from national law.  This shouldn’t even be news IMHO. The fund is to protect the Earth, it shouldn’t have to pay taxes, or opera ...
  • No Time
    Sorry folks but I am way to busy for blogging right now.   Perhaps I will get something useful up tonight but political venting is boring now and I want to work more with sea ice  – sorry to all SWAG members for both points.    
  • Capitalsim, Probability, and The Second Law o ...
    Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” is in sharp contrast to, “all men are created equal.” Both concepts are inherently similar, yet have stark differences. Both pre ...
  • Conservative Fantasy World
    On the last thread Kevin O’Neill left this post. Conservatives live in a fantasy world. Their myths are etched in stone and actual facts can never sway them from their beliefs. For instance: “Per Capita Government Spending by President: Ranking since Johnson (starting in 1968), and using t ...
  • High gas prices have always been part of the plan
    For those with short memories. Obama – “energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.” While cap and trade auto-corruption scheme didn’t make the cut, gutting production doesn’t do terribly badly either. I recently heard the stat that the US used to produce 10 million ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • The Facebook Marketing Bible: New and Improved ...
    The new Timeline format for Facebook pages brings new opportunities for marketers and advertisers on the platform. Optimize your Facebook page for the new format with the March 2012 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Leading Resource for Marketing … Continue reading →
  • Facebook logout ad price equal to takeovers on ...
    Facebook’s initial asking price for premium ads including placement on the logout page was $700,000 per day in the U.S., according to an Ad Age source who was briefed before the product announcement at the end of February. The figure … Continue reading →
  • Friends, Digg, Gogobot, Hey Tell, tabs, games, ...
    Friend and calendar applications, as well as games, and Timeline apps comprised our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The apps grew from between 170,000 and 370,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering … Continue reading →
  • Facebook pushes Credits promotion with in-game ...
    Facebook developers can now display Facebook-sponsored promotions in their games to encourage players to make a first-time purchase, according to a post on Facebook’s developer blog. “New payer promotions,” which the social network created in February, give users who haven’t … Contin ...
  • Confirmed: Facebook buys patents from IBM
    Facebook tells us it purchased patents from IBM, corroborating a report from Bloomberg citing anonymous sources. Facebook did not provide details about the purchase, but according to Bloomberg, the company acquired 750 software and networking patents for an undisclosed sum. … Continue read ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.
  • Kony 2012's invisible Christian fanaticism
    Mamoon Alabbasi questions why mention of the self-proclaimed Christianity of Ugandan-based Joseph Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army was omitted from the "Kony 2012" video, which seeks to make Kony better known so that he could be brought to justice for his crimes.
  • Britain's "bother-boy" Hague loves putting the ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that British Foreign Secretary William Hague's determination to condemn the Iranian people to economic hardship, his keenness to escalate tension with Iran, and his eagerness to do Israel's bidding by creating an environment conducive to aggression against Iran, mean tha ...
  • Social fear as an obstacle to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that freedom in Western societies is seriously compromised by people's fear of crime, and that the post-9/11 fear of terror, which has been grossly exaggerated by the media, appears to suit some governments as it pushes the public to consent to more surveillance and social co ...
  • Netanyahu versus Obama: what next?
    Alan Hart assesses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's options as he tries to sabotage the prospect of a second term for Barack Obama by dragging the US into a war with Iran, and argues that the real danger is that Netanyahu's anti-Iran rhetoric - "a combination of wretchedness and megal ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Stratfor and the Privatization ...
    Late last year, hackers with the anonymous hacking group LulzSec raided the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or Stratfor, a private intelligence company in Austin, Texas, coming away with some 5 million emails. Last month, Wikileaks began publishing the emails as “The Global Intelligence ...
  • Double Standards on ‘Terrorism’: Don’t Terrori ...
    Mental State Appears to be Only Relevant to Great White Men of the West I was sipping my first morning coffee while staring at the headlines on the latest massacre committed by our military in Afghanistan. The phrase of the day to describe this latest massacre which resulted in more than a dozen ...
  • Insiders ‘Out’ Al Jazeera Propaganda Machine o ...
    Time to ‘Out’ Others as Well During the last few days I have been watching events unfold on the Al Jazeera front, and I must say, despite the exposé coming out way too late, I am delighted to see this propaganda machine exposed. The headlines read: Key staffs from Al Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau have ...
  • The Bloody Road to Damascus
    The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State By James Petras There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilian ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 8, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.” — Adolf Hitler International Newsworthy Banks in Front Line of Nuclear Arms Campaign ...

Afro Spear

  • Republican Presidential Hopefuls Should Call T ...
    The world of American politics, especially presidential politics is blatantly and unashamedly opportunistic. It’s all about hype, slogans and who can capitalize on the latest story capturing the short attention span of the fickle public in the 48 hour news cycle, and/or trending within the ...
  • Hunting Season is open!
  • The Miseducation of the Negro Pseudo-intellectual
    “I stated that Kony 2012 is pro-imperialism, pro-militarism propaganda.  Again, here is the link to the article explaining my position.  http://new-possibilities.blogspot.com/2012/03/kony-2012-is-imperialistic-propaganda.html Most of you have not provided any logical arguments refuting tha ...
  • “Will Wade make it this time?” by ...
    Some people are lucky, others are not. Senegalese strong man, Abdulaye Wade is among the luckiest old men even though he behaves like an adolescent. Had it been not for divided and ever-greedy opposition, Wade would have been history now. Voters gave him a very heavy blow in the first round. He ...
  • The Negro Pseudo-intellectual and Social Media ...
    “That Kony2012 video is one of the most effective pro-imperialism, pro-militarism pieces of propaganda ever produced.” Anson Asaka “It’s a sad commentary on affairs when white people are the ones constantly and consistently advocating for the safety and security of Africa ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Governor Vaginal Probe or How I Learned to Sto ...
    Our illustrious governor and not ready for primetime former Presidential candidate declared the Be an a**hole to Pregnant Women Bill an emergency despite Texas being in the midst of a several billion dollar shortfall. I think that any governor who would push for women to be raped by a transvagi ...
  • Even George Orwell Would Feel "Secure"...
    The Rise of the Terror Prison Industrial Information Complex and the Four-Branches of U.S. Government
  • Change--Real Change--Is Coming!
    Assessment of looming multiple crises of civilization andpossible responses.
  • Are You a Worshiper in the Cult of Mac? Have ...
    May I suggest if, instead of going after artists, our journalists would question, scrutinize, fact check, call for accountability from our politicians instead of giving them a free pass we would never have gone into Iraq, or had a global economic melt down, Wall Street crooks would be in jail, p ...
  • Reading the Bible through the eyes of the Equa ...
    It is taken for granted the Bible condemns homosexuality and women Bishops. But re-reading the Bible through the eyes of modern definitions of equality provides support for both. This article discusses how.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • "All of the Above" Can't Deliver All the Benef ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City In a time of soaring gas prices and record-breaking temperatures, Americans are looking for energy solutions that save money, reduce dangerous pollution, and strengthen our country. Yet instead of ...
  • Superbug Suit: Antibiotics Victory Will Preser ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Last night, a federal court ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on the practice of giving antibiotics to livestock through animal feed. This victory will help protect American famil ...
  • West Virginia: woman finds out her water is co ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Another alarming news report from West Virginia, where Harrison County resident Leann Kiner found out that her water was contaminated with arsenic from her neighbor. After nearby fracking ended, her ...
  • Every One Is Talking About the Weather; Time t ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. If you live anywhere in the Midwest or the eastern United States you have to be wondering what’s up with the weather. The year without a winter has been followed by summer ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Tragedy of John Edwards
    Charlie Pierce is right-on, as usual: My track record on this guy is pretty clear — and, occasionally, the topic of some hilarity around the home office. This is what I do know about him. John Edwards was the only Democratic presidential candidate since Jesse Jackson who went out of his way to t ...
  • Predetermined Reviews
    I feel like this Alessandra Stanley preview of the upcoming first episode of Season 5 of Mad Men is a predictable as a Pitchfork review of a band’s 4th album after album 3 hit is big–it reflexively can’t be as good because we’ve moved on to something else. The downside of ...
  • The myth of the “reasonable consumer”
    Here’s the key passage in Judge Melvin Schweitzer’s decision, granting New York Law School’s motion to the dismiss the class action suit brought against it by nine graduates for publishing misleading employment and salary data: The court does not view these post-graduate employ ...
  • The Florida GOP Would Like to Buy Your Rock
    The Homer Simpson school of logic finds another Republican adherent, in this case an apologist for racist vigilante killings of people who aren’t even guilty of anything. Apropos to my related point, I submit these metaphorical 2×4 blows on behalf of the exoneration of said racist mur ...
  • Bruni
    Who knew that gluttony on the scale of 18th century royalty would lead to major health problems?

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Legal community mourns passing of John Payton, ...
    Celebrated civil rights attorney John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, died late March 22 following a brief illness. Payton's career spanned more than three decades in private practice, where he was one of the first African-American partners a ...
  • Give marketing a seat at the table
    Don't just declare that your firm is entrepreneurial — truly be entrepreneurial. That means taking risks and allowing your marketing director to take risks.
  • 1st Circuit affirms retainer amount as fee awa ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has affirmed a bankruptcy judge's determination that a lawyer's fee in a Chapter 13 case be limited to the amount of his retainer. In so doing, the court stressed that a bankruptcy court's explanation of a fee award "need not proceed line by line thr ...
  • Justice Department accuses AT&T of being compl ...
    AT&T Corp. is accused of wrongly collecting millions of dollars from a government fund intended to bankroll telephone service for hearing and speech-impaired people, but was instead overwhelmingly used by Nigerian scammers, the Department of Justice alleged in a False Claims Act suit announced M ...
  • St. John's launches LL.M. programs in internat ...
    St. John's University School of Law announced plans for two new master of laws programs, one in International and Comparative Sports Law and the other in Transnational Legal Practice.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Iran's Recent Cases of Reported Violations Unv ...
    Iran's nuclear programme has been under scrunitization of the international community. The country's offcials have stated it is for peaceful purposes, but some other countries contend is driven by military ambitions.
  • World Forestry Day Commemorates Importance and ...
    In addition to FSIP, the testimony also pushed for full funding of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Multinational Species Conservation Funds (MSCF), which are key bipartisan programs that are effective, targeted investments in global priority s
  • UN Maintains Zero Tolerance for Peacekeepers G ...
    Ms. Orler also called on Member States to ensure that peacekeeping personnel found guilty of sexual exploitation and abuse are prosecuted and that everything possible is done to prevent such crimes from being committed in the first place.
  • Afghanistan Makes Remarkable Gains in Empoweri ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underlines that even as the U.S. role in Afghanistan changes during the next few years of transition, the United States will continue to stand with and work closely with Afghan women.
  • SHU Names New Student Commons in Honor of Lind ...
    Linda E. McMahon is widely recognized as one of the country's top business executives, helping WWE, headquartered in Stamford, CT, grow from a modest, 13-person company to a global enterprise with more than 600 employees.

environment 360

  • Google Street View Offers Virtual Tour of Amaz ...
    Google this week expanded its popular Street View feature to the forests of the Amazon basin, posting more than 50,000 photos that allow online users a virtual tour of the world’s largest tropical region. The photos,
  • Australian Mammal Extinctions Tied to Human Hu ...
    The disappearance roughly 40,000 years ago of dozens of large mammals in Australia — including rhinoceros-sized wombats and tapir-like marsupials — was caused by human hunting and not by climate change, according to a new study by Australian scientists. © Science/AAAS/Drawing by Peter Murray ...
  • India’s Wind Energy Potential 30 Times Greater ...
    A new report says that the wind energy potential in India may be 30 times greater than previous government estimates, a finding that the authors say could provide a critical solution for a country facing chronic electricity shortages. In an analysis of land actually suitable to wind power develo ...
  • Beekeepers Urge U.S. Ban On Pesticide Toxic to ...
    A coalition of commercial beekeepers and environmental groups is urging U.S. regulators to suspend the use of a pesticide they say may be contributing to a sharp decline in honeybee populations. In a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the group called for a ban on clothianidin ...
  • Can Reforming the Farm Bill Help Change U.S. A ...
    For decades, farm bills in the U.S. Congress have supported large-scale agriculture. But with the 2012 Farm Bill now up for debate, advocates say seismic shifts in the way the nation views food production may lead to new policies that tilt more toward local, sustainable agriculture. BY JIM ROBBINS

Red Ice Creations

  • World’s First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action
    A few days ago The Pirate Bay announced that in future parts of its site could be hosted on GPS controlled drones. To many this may have sounded like a joke, but in fact these pirate drones already exist. Project "Electronic Countermeasures" has built a swarm of five fully operational drones whi ...
  • CIA & Rockefeller Foundation funding Greenpeac ...
    Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the United States government of funding environmental group Greenpeace via the CIA to undermine Australia’s coal mining sector. Mr Palmer made the extraordinary claim over Greenpeace’s plan to use the court system to tie up coal mining applications. He is ...
  • How Israel Created Hamas
    Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago. "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who wo ...
  • GMO and Chemical Giant BASF Kicked Out of Germany
    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 percent of Germans oppose genetically engineered foo ...
  • The Pork Eating Templar Crusader Patch Is A Hu ...
    With tensions at an all time high in Afghanistan following the Koran burnings, the urination video, and the killing of 16 civilians, attention is now falling on a long line of "Infidel" apparel and gear. Exhausted from how they feel they’re being perceived, troops have taken to wearing patches a ...

Russia Today

  • Toulouse gunman turned his den into ‘combat zone’
    Mohamed Merah launched a real ‘counter assault’ on fifteen elite French police officers who stormed his premises armed with only non-lethal weaponry, RAID chief Amaury de Hautecloque, said in an interview with Le Monde. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Brazilian schoolchildren forced to wear tracki ...
    Those who worry about technology eroding human rights have long predicted that it’s only a matter of time until a person’s every movement is tracked by the authorities. Now that time has come – with 20,000 Brazilian... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Collateral murder: ‘Toulouse gunman didn’t pla ...
    The attack on a Jewish school that left three young children and a rabbi dead was an “opportunistic” outburst, French spy chief Ange Mancini has said. The Toulouse gunman had been planning to kill another French soldier... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • US oil sanctions failed – Iran’s VP
    The Iranian Vice President has downplayed sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying an embargo on Tehran’s oil sector has been defeated “in practice.” The remark came a few days after the US exempted 11 countries... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bahrain cop crackdown: Woman dies, boy alleged ...
    An elderly woman has died after Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at opposition rallies. Meanwhile, activists claim a young boy was beaten and sexually harassed by police during the latest... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Down the Merry Dead End path of crappy credent ...
    ‘Well, What would you do with a brain if you had one?’ …said Dorothy to the Scarecrow. Thus began the Scarecrow’s quest for proper credentialing///! They were off and headed down the merry dead end path of the yellow brick road in search of crappy credentialing for hire s ...
  • MoJo is next to throw Mike Daisey under the bu ...
    Mother Jones is next to discredit Playwright Mike Daisey for his dramatization of Apple’s supply line abuses in China, right in the byline of Andy Kroll’s piece on Walmart’s shadow factory system in China, which they call a “fiction-free investigation”. THEN THEY FA ...
  • Crime versus American Football- Where in the H ...
    Oh American pro football! What warlock/ warlike glory! Gotta root for the home team we all do! But what if it degenerates down into criminal activity, where would the police be? Well now we have the answer…. They will be totally ABSENT from the scene of the crime, although they seem to hav ...
  • Ex Colorado Springs Gazette reporter has a new ...
    ‘Overseas in Iraq for several months, these (Lethal Warrior’ unit) soldiers were exposed to the same dangerous scenarios on a regular basis. So much, Philipps said, that the soldiers never knew who the enemy was and would shoot random citizens and place guns on them to legitimize the ...
  • Is the US military now torturing the jailed ch ...
    The US government and its military have a long history of torturing and murdering POWs held by its soldiers and their allies, and 14 of Osama bin Laden’s family are now being held incognito in a Pakistani military jail. Are these three women plus their eight children and the other three re ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Oystein's Contamination Denial
    The MEK test in the Active Thermitic Material ... paper was important in that it established that the aluminium in the red/gray chips is in elemental form consistent with the thermite hypothesis, rather than aluminosilicate form consistent with the paint hypothesis. JREFer Oystein is skeptical. ...
  • Tangled Webs - NIST and WTC7
    ------------------------------------------------ According to the official explanation the collapse of WTC7 came about from the expansion of a steel beam leading to the progressive failure of the entire structure. However, analysis of the building plans show that this already dubious explanati ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - Sip 2.5 Cognitive Dissonance
    Related: Cognitive Dissonance Meets 9/11 Truth AE911Truth - Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth. Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this c ...
  • Reflecting on the Verinage demolition method
    I recently came across debunker vids on YouTube, such as this that boast of the Verinage demolition technique used to bring down buildings without explosives. According to Wikipedia, “The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collapse o ...
  • What Does it Mean for the 9/11 Truth Movement ...
    It was announced recently that Chris Mohr is spearheading an investigation by James R. Millette, Ph.D. of MVA Scientific Consultants, looking into the peer-reviewed findings of Harrit et al, that the explosive/incediary nano-thermite was used to take down the WTC Towers on 9/11. This begs the q ...

Fooducate

  • 5 Tips for Surviving the Supermarket with Your ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Aviva Goldfarb, founder of  The Six O’Clock Scramble Recently I was at the supermarket without my kids on a weekday morning. I had a long list and was flying through the aisles pr ...
  • United Grazers of America
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Consider these 2 factoids, from a recent USA Today article by Ellie Krieger, RD: 1) Every day, 90% of Americans eat at least one snack between meals 2) We now eat twice the daily snacks that we did just 30 ye ...
  • Spring is Here, Sun is Shining, Do We Need Vit ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Spring is here! Starting today, days are getting longer, and we can spend more time in the sun. One of the benefits is that our body, cool factory that it is, can manufacture a very important vitamin just fro ...
  • Food Processing – Why Do We Need It?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! The term “processed food” has gotten a bad rap in the last few years. We are told to buy unprocessed foods because they contain less chemicals, because they are natural and healthy for us. At worst ...
  • Review: Special K Protein Meal Bars
      New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! At a recent layover between flights, we had the munchies. This Special K Protein Meal Bar caught our eye near the checkout counter of an airport book shop. Seems delish. Promises lots of health. We scan ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle as moulds for maki ...
    We asked about stuff to reuse/recycle as homemade soup moulds not too long ago but Danell has messaged with a variation on that theme: I want to melt old crayon stubs together to make new crayons for kids. I know I could use old muffin tins or ice cube trays, neither of which I have, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle vertical blinds mat ...
    Someone on my Twitter feed yesterday – I can’t remember who, sorry – asking about ways to recycle or reuse the material from vertical track blinds. My first – instinctive – reaction was “bleugh!” because I hate the feel of those blinds ;) My second thoug ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle little paint tester ...
    We covered old leftover paint on the site many, many moons ago (roughly 66-67 moons ago apparently) but these last few weeks, we’ve been rather overrun with little tester pots of paint here. I hate tester pots from an environmental point of view – usually plastic pots, sometimes with ...
  • What food packaging & other household waste do ...
    It’s seed-starting time here in the northern hemisphere and my Twitter feed is full of exciting stories about what fruit & veg people are going to be growing this year. I’ve added half a dozen more fruit bushes to our garden this year but I’ve not sown any seeds yet &#8212 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an acrylic sweater/ ...
    We’ve covered wool jumpers/sweaters on the site before now – what to do with them when you accidentally shrink your most favourite jumper ever in the wash. But what about acrylic jumpers? They don’t get ruined in the same way but cheaper ones tend to lose their shape and look a ...

Age of Autism

  • World Autism Awareness Day
    Managing Editor's Note: April is Autism Action Month and we consider it a month of somber observance and respectful thought on how to help our friends and family who are on the spectrum. Awareness is not enough. Do we love,...
  • The Other 1%
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to Melissa and The Canary Party for sharing this post with us. By Melissa Christopher It is not a partisan issue; it is more than a political issue; it is great moral issue. If we...
  • School Nurse Talks About The Greater Good Vacc ...
    From our friends at Canary Party. On Monday we brought you a letter by Greg Marvel, School Board President, encouraging parents to watch, "The Greater Good." It seems that his letter has inspired another endorsement, this time by a school...
  • The Phoenicians: Autism Recovery Denial, Drug ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Here's yet another updated version of this post by Adriana Gamondes. Last May we told you that there was a new hire by Autism Speaks of a Pfizer Executive. This week AS made an announcement from the...
  • New CDC Autism Numbers Coming Soon; Rate Incre ...
    Looks like there's going to be a new way to become part of the "1%" and it doesn't look good. From The Canary Party: Officials at the Centers for Disease Control have promised to release their most recent autism prevalence...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • ‘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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Beware the Fog
    In horror movies, fog often provides creepy atmospherics, hiding threats from hideous creatures, bandits, ax murderers, and the like. Now, a new study suggests that fog can harbor real-life horrors. Researchers have found that coastal mists may carry toxic mercury that can harm ecosystems and hu ...
  • U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence
    NY Times – The desolate stretch of West Texas desert known as the Permian Basin is still the lonely domain of scurrying roadrunners by day and howling coyotes by night. But the roar of scores of new oil rigs and the distinctive acrid fumes of drilling equipment are unmistakable signs that ...
  • 1984: Brazilian schools microchip T-shirts to ...
    BBC – Schools in Brazil have started to place computer chips in school uniforms to keep track of pupils and reduce truancy. Some 20,000 pupils in the north-eastern city of Vitoria da Conquista will have microchips embedded in their school T-shirts. The parents will get a text message when ...
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    Send an e-mail to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com with the subject heading “Mailing List” to receive our periodical newsletter summarising the biggest stories of the previous weeks, and also receive other updates on developments at Open Your Eyes News.
  • Republic of Ireland falls back into recession
    BBC – The data from the Central Statistics Office showed that the weakness in the global economy had hit Irish exports, while its domestic consumer spending had continued to recover. The country needed an international bailout in 2010. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Clouded readings of EPA study of Dimock water, ...
    Environmental Protection Agency reports recently obtained by several Pennsylvania families who feared their well water was polluted by natural gas drilling appear to contradict the agency’s original statement late last week that the water was safe to drink, according to the investigative w ...
  • Study: 'Fracking' may increase air pollution h ...
    Air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing, a controversial oil and gas drilling method, may contribute to “acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites,” according to a new study from the  Colorado School of Public Health .
  • Poll: More Americans now back domestic drilling
    Struggling with rising prices at the pump, Americans are voicing a greater willingness to develop domestic fossil fuels than they did just a year ago, according to a new poll.
  • Animals: Iowa, first state to criminalize unde ...
    On Friday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law a bill designed to thwart activists who go undercover to report animal abuse. This makes Iowa the first state in the country to pass such a law; Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Utah are considering them.
  • Federal court rejects delay of N.M. power plan ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that the owners of the San Juan Generating Station, a huge coal-fired power plant near Farmington, N.M., must continue with plans to install strong pollution controls. Several California cities purchase electricity from the plant.

water.org

  • Bringing joy with clean water
    "The pond water I was forced to get water from was very dirty and had a bad smell. Due to my distant walks to collect water, sometimes I was late to work. My daughters and I would also suffer from diarrhea, jaundice, dysentery and skin diseases because of the dirty pomd water. We are able to ge ...
  • Levi's Water
    Water.org and Levi's® Launch Water
  • Make Progress on Sanitation
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
  • Project4India: Vlogger Videos
    When we visited the field in India this February, we brought three of YouTube's most popular vloggers with us so that they could share their experiences with the world and tell their audience all about the water crisis. In celebration of World Water Day, they've each just released their first vi ...
  • Matt Damon and Gary White Ask For Your Help
    On a recent trip to the field in Haiti, Water.org Co-Founders Matt Damon and Gary White took a brief moment to talk about this year's World Water Day, and they want you to get involved!

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Friends of the Congo
    Raising consciousness about the challenge of the Congo and supporting Congolese institutions as they strive to bring about peaceful and lasting change. Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Throwing Out the Free Market Playbook
    Perhaps one of the most well-known voices for the Left, Canadian Naomi Klein is an activist and author of several nonfiction works critical of consumerism and corporate activity, including the best sellers No Logo (2000) and Shock Doctrine (2007). Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |&n ...
  • The systemic atrocity of Afghanistan's occupation
    Is there a morally significant difference between murder, like the Panjwai massacre, and collateral damage? Ask Afghan civilians Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell your Congressperson: Support the Sudan Pe ...
    The lives of half a million people in Sudan are now at risk. Many could starve to death from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's blockade of food and humanitarian aid or die from his relentless bombing of villages and refugee camps similar tactics... Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |&nbsp ...
  • US Fed Reserve Is The Chief Debt Enabler
    Many european nations going to Greece, more euro crises on the way, a production slowdown is happening, Keynsian bromide one of many solutions, big banks buyers of debt, treasury bills soaking up an ever increasing wave of debt. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Iran's Recent Cases of Reported Violations Unv ...
    Iran's nuclear programme has been under scrunitization of the international community. The country's offcials have stated it is for peaceful purposes, but some other countries contend is driven by military ambitions.
  • World Forestry Day Commemorates Importance and ...
    In addition to FSIP, the testimony also pushed for full funding of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Multinational Species Conservation Funds (MSCF), which are key bipartisan programs that are effective, targeted investments in global priority s
  • UN Maintains Zero Tolerance for Peacekeepers G ...
    Ms. Orler also called on Member States to ensure that peacekeeping personnel found guilty of sexual exploitation and abuse are prosecuted and that everything possible is done to prevent such crimes from being committed in the first place.
  • Afghanistan Makes Remarkable Gains in Empoweri ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underlines that even as the U.S. role in Afghanistan changes during the next few years of transition, the United States will continue to stand with and work closely with Afghan women.
  • SHU Names New Student Commons in Honor of Lind ...
    Linda E. McMahon is widely recognized as one of the country's top business executives, helping WWE, headquartered in Stamford, CT, grow from a modest, 13-person company to a global enterprise with more than 600 employees.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Poland's Monsanto action lays 1000s of dead be ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Ag Ministry begins process to ban MON810 On March 15, over 1,500 beekeepers and their allies marched thru the streets of Warsaw, depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of Agriculture, in protest of genetically modified foods and their requis ...
  • Dying for Justice
    by Stephen Lendman Hanaa ShalabiOn March 20, Hana's 34th hunger strike day began. The previous day, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) said she's in imminent danger of dying. After examining her, its doctor "determined that she must be hospitalized immediately." More on that below. ...
  • The Future is Ours if We Want It
    By Timothy V. Gatto One thing should be obviously apparent to everyone; the Republicans don’t stand a chance of defeating Obama, no matter who the eventual nominee is. If the GOP ends up with a brokered convention and becomes deadlocked, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jeb Bush draft ...
  • Netanyahu's pretext for war - Islamic Jihad mi ...
    By Michael Collins Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has his pretext for an attack on Iran. He left Washington disappointed by President Obama's reluctance to saddle up for Armageddon. Now he's got the formula. Haaretz (daily news), one of Israel's few liberal media voices, linked Gaza based mis ...
  • Asking the Wrong Questions About War
    by Stephen Lendman Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller now writes Times op-eds on alternate Mondays, as well as articles for The New York Times Magazine. Too bad his columns get failing grades. Scoundrel journalism is featured. Truth and full disclosure are excluded. His M ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Tuition fees and accessibility to higher education
    This week, three hundred thousand students from 178 associations are boycotting their classes in Quebec to protest the provincial government's decision to raise tuition fees $325 a year for the next five years. CBC radio in Quebec City interviewed Erika Shaker, director of the CCPA's Education P ...
  • Jets and Jails or Jobs and Justice?
    Saskatchewan Director Simon Enoch discusses the upcoming federal budget and the CCPA's Alternative Budget with Prairie Dog's Gregory Beatty. Read more here. 
  • Forward to Fairness: Nova Scotia Alternative B ...
    CCPA-NS brings together academics and community partners to assemble its Alternative Budget for 2012. This document shows Nova Scotians that minor changes in government spending could have a major impact on the health and wellness of its population. Putting the welfare of the province's citize ...
  • CCPA Saskatchewan 2012 Budget Response
    See the Saskatchewan office's response to Minister Krawetz's "Austerity for Prosperity" 2012 budget here. 
  • Waking up from the Enbridge pipe dream: how ma ...
    Supporters of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline claim that the project will create many thousands of jobs for Canadians, and have attempted to polarize public discussion into a "jobs vs environment" debate. But in our latest study, Marc Lee takes a close look at Enbridge's job creati ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
    Worldwidehippies,survivalinternational.org - 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 fundamentalist missionary organization the New Tribes Mission was closely ...
  • Hippie Digest Friday: It’s Stuff for Hip ...
    Communal Living Attracting More 60-Something Women healthnewsdigest.com (HealthNewsDigest.com) – Some say the ‘60s hippies are going back to the commune. Others call the growing number of female Baby Boomers rooming together “‘The Golden Girls’ phenomenon.” Author Martha Nelson, who at 65 ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Not just for Hippies an ...
    Worldwide Hippies – It seems the ‘Media’ has stopped using comparisons to ‘Hippie’s’. At least they have cut the hippie bashing down some. What label will they use next to mislead, distract and misinform?  -  Socialists? Communists? Terrorists? The French ? Ci ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    ‘Hell no, we won’t glow’: Dozens of anti-nuclear activists arrested at Vermont Yankee protest BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A 93-year-old anti-nuclear activist was among more than 130 protesters arrested at the corporate headquarters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Thursda ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) SPRING
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – Spring is here. The burgh looks fantastic. It’s more like late April or early May. Though, here in Pittsburgh we know not to breathe easy just yet. One of the biggest snowstorms we ever had was on a St. Patrick’s day. We had the parade anyway! That ...

FourWinds10

  • US space junk falls in South America
  • Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
    Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

  • Smithsonian Wild
    Comments:Welcome to Smithsonian WILD! This site is designed to showcase some of the exciting research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and its collaborators around the world, and to highlight the incredible diversity of wildlife that exists in a range of habitats across the globe.  T ...
  • PLEASE share , vote , comment CRED Project ht ...
    Comments:CURATION RESTART EDUCATION project http://on.fb.me/credfacebook  want to bring a new dimmension and restart romanian education . For this reason we must vote ( you can register on the website using your facebook account ) , to share using Social Media ( twitter with the hastag #credchat ...
  • 7 Ways To Use The iPad To Help Students Excel ...
    Tags: study_smarterby: tracie belt
  • Einstein Archives Online
    Tags: science, einstein, history, physics, archives, reference, manuscripts, galleryby: Dean Mantz
  • Buffer Review – My Favorite Time Saving Twitte ...
    Tags: buffer, review, tutorial, app, socialnetworkingby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • The Worst Shoes for Summer
    What's not to love about spring and summer? Warm weather, lots of sun, bare feet, and… foot fungus? Depending on the kind of shoes you wear, you could find yourself with a nasty, soil-borne fungal infection that could leave your feet in an unappealing—and painful—state. Researchers in India fou ...
  • "Superbugs" Prompt Urgent Warning From Scientists
    Call it ironic, call it scary—call it urgent, is what America's leading agriculture scientists are saying about a new variety of superbug invading American farms. Thanks to the heavy reliance on genetically modified crops, a tiny worm has overtaken fields, outsmarting the genetic engineering th ...
  • New Rule: Don't Take Antibiotics for This Comm ...
    Your family doctor knows best, right? Not always. Many physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for a common springtime ailment that cannot effectively be wiped out with drugs. And dishing out these antibiotics doesn't just threaten patients with side effects, but also leads to the creation o ...
  • Unlikely Partnership Could End Animal Testing ...
    Generally, animal testing in cosmetics is not something most of us like to think about when we're applying lipstick, anti-wrinkle cream, or eye makeup in the morning. But as undercover investigations have recently pointed out, animal testing is still alive and well, partly because companies ar ...
  • Top Tips to Avoid Wireless Radiation
    Last year, the World Health Organization named cellphone radiation a possible carcinogen, putting it in a class with DDT, lead, and tailpipe exhaust in terms of potential to cause cancer. Because the technology is still relatively new and cancers could take decades to develop, researchers haven ...

big think

  • Jim Yong Kim: Superstar Pragmatist
    Call me a proud alum.  If you haven't yet heard of Jim Yong Kim, the Dartmouth College president nominated by Obama today to head the World Bank, then welcome to a galactic superstar in the making.  Only three years into his tenure at Dartmouth, I am disappointed to potentially see Kim go, but h ...
  • Laughter Guru Treats His Followers With The Be ...
    What is the Big Idea? Belachew Girma was once a school teacher, store owner and hotel owner. It seemed like he had it all. But after a series of bad choices, his life took a turn for the worse when both his wife and lover died after they contracted H.I.V. from him. His hotel and store bu ...
  • Is Free Will An Illusion?
    Free will has long been a fraught concept among philosophers and theologians. Now neuroscience is entering the fray. For centuries, the idea that we are the authors of our own actions, beliefs, and desires has remained central to our sense of self. We choose whom to love, what thoughts t ...
  • 5 Kinds of Innovators: Which One Are You?
    What's the Latest Development? When Forbes surveyed over 1,200 European business executives about their attitudes, beliefs, priorities and behaviors, five general personality types emerged, all showing strong innovative qualities. Do you see yourself in one? Movers and Shakers have a str ...
  • How to Get an Idea for a New Business
    What's the Latest Development? When entrepreneur Jason Nazar wanted a new idea for his business, he turned to the method which produced the idea for Twitter, a website you may have heard of. But before there was Twitter, there was Odeo. And when its founder, Evan Williams, decided the co ...

Information Liberation

  • AP Story Says That Threats Preceded the Afghan ...
    Sgt. Bales claims to have lost his memory of his alleged killings of 16 Afghans. I don't believe that, not unless he was drunk out of his mind or under the influence of some drug that causes blackouts. But there is now evidence that U.S. soldiers thr...
  • Governments Can't Resist
    The old adage that we don*t learn from history is true enough, but it needs amendment. Governments, in particular, don*t learn from history. That*s the conclusion I reach after a wild weekend ride with Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls, a de...
  • You Call This a War? I'll Show You a War
    In light of Obama*s *National Defense Resources Preparedness* Order, I*d like to comment on a troubling trend I*ve seen in American discourse about war since 9/11. From left to right, it was often said that the U.S. government*s interventions abroad ...
  • Mexico Presidential Candidate Vows to End Drug War
    Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), the candidate-in-waiting of the center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), said last week that he would end the US-backed war on drugs in Mexico if he is elected president. He said his government would instead...
  • Private vs. Public Barbershop
    The Supreme Court is going to consider the constitutionality of ObamaCare in the coming weeks, but the government takeover of healthcare didn*t start with the current president, but with Harry Truman decades ago. We*re told the nation*s health car...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Addendum to Potential Supply and Cost Impacts ...
    Baker and O’Brien Inc. for the American Petroleum Institute http://bit.ly/GKjcF2 [From an article in E&E News PM by Nick Juliano, sub. req'd]   An upcoming rule to lower the sulfur content of gasoline and diesel will not force any refineries to shut down but will increase their operati ...
  • Annual Energy Outlook 2011 Retrospective Revie ...
    US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/retrospective/ [Website] The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 Retrospective Review provides a yearly comparison between realized energy outcomes and the Reference case projections included in previous AEOs beginning with 1982. This edi ...
  • American Public Favors Natural Gas Drilling De ...
    Harris Poll http://bit.ly/GPQFzD … two-thirds of Americans (66%) say they believe the benefits of natural gas outweigh the risks while 17% say the risks outweigh the benefits… These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 2,056 adults surveyed online between February 6 and 13, ...
  • Human Health Risk Assessment of Air Emissions ...
    Accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment / by by Lisa M. McKenzie, Roxana Z. Witter, Lee S. Newman and John L. Adgate http://bit.ly/GzoMdW [From an article in Colorado Energy News]   The report, based on three years of monitoring, found a number of potentially toxic petroleum ...
  • Energy-Water Nexus: Information on the Quantit ...
    US Government Accountability Office www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-156 [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd]  A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, which found that produced water associated with natural gas development widely varies according to region, could bolster indu ...

Scientific American - News

  • Health Care Reform on Trial: What's at Stake i ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is a busy place this time of year. So when the justices announced that, starting March 26, they would hear six hours of arguments on the health care reform law --the most time it has dedicated to any one case in decades--the gravitas of the issue became clear to all. [Mor ...
  • The Ballooning Brain: Defective Genes May Expl ...
    As a baby grows inside the womb, its brain does not simply expand like a dehydrated sponge dropped in water. Early brain development is an elaborate procession. Every minute some 250,000 neurons bloom, squirming past one another like so many schoolchildren rushing to their seats at the sound of ...
  • Big Kill, Not Big Chill, Finished Off Giant Ka ...
    Around 40,000 years ago, the giant kangaroo disappeared from Australia. So did Diprotodon ( rhinoceros-size wombats ) and Palorchestes ( tapirlike marsupials ) as well as supersize birds, reptiles and some 50 other so-called megafauna--big animals. And now a record of fungal spores pulled fr ...
  • Power Plants: Could a Rechargeable Battery Be ...
    Despite decades of predictions that a fully electronic, paperless society is almost upon us, we still live in a world populated with printed documents. This insatiable demand for plant cellulose –based writing and packaging materials may end up having a silver lining: a component for a ...
  • Reign Check: Abundant Rainfall May Have Spurre ...
    The Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan carved out the largest contiguous land empire history has ever witnessed, reaching at its apex from Asia's Pacific coast to eastern Europe and down into Persia and southeastern Asia. Although conventional wisdom suggests drought may have pushed them ac ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • CKUT radio: Mass Montréal protest for accessib ...
    audio report recorded on the streets of downtown Montreal 22/03 Listen to a radio report on the massive student protest today in downtown Montreal, a demonstration that completely filled large parts of the downtown area. Many estimate that ...
  • CKUT radio: Mass Montréal protest for accessib ...
    audio report recorded on the streets of downtown Montreal 22/03 Listen to a radio report on the massive student protest today in downtown Montreal, a demonstration that completely filled large parts of the downtown area. Many estimate that ...
  • Live: Quebec national day of action against tu ...
    CUTV broadcasts from the streets of Montreal at 300,000 go on strike CUTV, Concordia University students' campus-community TV station, is broadcasting live from today's massive action against tuition fee increases. Watch it live below, or t ...
  • Live: Quebec national day of action against tu ...
    CUTV broadcasts from the streets of Montreal at 300,000 go on strike CUTV, Concordia University students' campus-community TV station, is broadcasting live from today's massive action against tuition fee increases. Watch it live below, or t ...
  • CSIS: A Memo from Dick to Vic
    I requested information on Lawful Access back in November from CSIS from the period of September 2011 until November 30, 2011. Once again, the use of Cabinet Confidences to amend the request to near uselessness didn't help much, nor did the waiting period. My request reads "All briefing ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...
  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...
  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...
  • Save the Children
    David Seaton's News Links  Over six million children die of hunger every year, according to the World Health Organization... Is there anything more that must be said? What is going to be done? DS
  • Netanyahu's target is Obama, not Iran
    David Seaton's News LinksIt cannot be denied that the Holocaust theme has served Netanyahu well politically. As many commentators have pointed out, Netanyahu has succeeded in reframing political discourse on the Middle East: this visit to the U.S. was the first in a long time in which the Palest ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 23 March 2012
    This week's feline melodrama: Inkblot decided yesterday morning that Domino had possession of the only place in the entire backyard that was suitable for a post-breakfast snooze. THE. ONLY. PLACE. Much hissing ensued and Domino ceded the territory. Inkblot moved in, sniffed the flowers with a ...
  • Feds Sue AT&T for Aiding and Abetting Nigerian ...
    From the National Law Journal: AT&T Corp. is accused of wrongly collecting millions of dollars from a government fund intended to bankroll telephone service for hearing and speech-impaired people, but was instead overwhelmingly used by Nigerian scammers, the Department of Justice allege ...
  • Paul Ryan's 2012 Budget Slightly Less Appallin ...
    Sorry. Turns out I was totally wrong about Paul Ryan's budget. It really is different from last year's. As you can see from the chart on the right, his 2012 budget gets 62% of its cuts from programs intended to help those with low-incomes. According to CBPP, this includes $2.4 trillion i ...
  • Paul Krugman is Uncharacteristically Optimisti ...
    Paul Krugman says he misjudged the way Paul Ryan's latest budget proposal would be received: Where I was at least somewhat wrong was in my expectations about how the Very Serious People would treat his latest outing. I thought they would still treat him as a heroic deficit hawk, never mind ...
  • California Cracking Down on Latest Health Insu ...
    As you may recall, the health insurance market doesn't work well if companies are allowed to cherry pick their customers. If that's allowed, companies will all chase after the youngest, healthiest customers, leaving the older ones high and dry — and there are plenty of ways of doing this ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 310: The Stop Michael Bay Foundation
    Topics: Movie news Disney bombs with John Carter Why John Carter was doomed from the beginning Michael Bay looks to rape the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legacy Crazy lady goes nuts in class over evolution How to deal with crazy Trayvon Martin updates Larry Elder is a sad excuse for a man Toure ...
  • IC 309: I Hate NYC
    Topics: Comcast, the Jehovah Witnesses of Cable companies Kriss & Kev hate NYC Kwame Kilpatrick has a movie Black people feeling the need to support other black people just cause they’re black The Trayvon Martin case and how absurd it is The uproar over the Mass Effect 3 ending *spoil ...
  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...
  • IC 307: Getting It In Like Stephen Hawking
    Topics: The New Avengers Trailer Stephen Hawking likes to get it in Crazy bitches Being a loner doesn’t give you the right to shoot up a school Parents gotta do better Fuck Virginia The 2012 election Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Standoff sensing enters new realm with dual-la ...
    Identifying chemicals from a distance could take a step forward with the introduction of a two-laser system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. read more
  • New ORNL tool developed to assess global fresh ...
    A new method to make better use of vast amounts of data related to global geography, population and climate may help determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climate change. read more
  • Archaeologists reconstruct diet of Nelson's Na ...
    Salt beef, sea biscuits and the occasional weevil; the food endured by sailors during the Napoleonic wars is seldom imagined to be appealing. Now a new chemical analysis technique has allowed archaeologists to find out just how dour the diet of Georgian sailors really was. The team's findings, p ...
  • An extinct species of scops owl has been disco ...
    An international team of scientists, including some from Majorca and the Canary Islands, have described a new type of fossil scops owl, the first extinct bird on the archipelago of Madeira (Portugal). Otus mauli, which was also the first nocturnal bird of prey described in the area, lived on lan ...
  • Dense breasts can nearly double the risk of br ...
    Women aged 50 and over with breasts that have a high percentage of dense tissue are at greater risk of their breast cancer recurring, according to Swedish research presented at the eighth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-8) in Vienna on March 21. read more

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: The Clean Air Diet
    Gas price lies, “safe” fracking water, BPA bans Dirty air, not eating all those chips, may cause obesity, so munch on! (Photo courtesy of loop_oh) Forget Fri ...
  • On World Water Day, Take a Sip, Take a Moment
    Water is life, so let's keep our fight for clean water alive One billion people around the world don’t have access to clean, safe water. (Getty) It ...
  • Breathing is Popular
    New public survey shows broad support for clean air standards Breathing isn’t just a physiological necessity, relegated to the unconscious functioning of o ...
  • Big Victory For Strawberry Lovers
    Earthjustice lawsuit pressures agro-chemical company to pull the plug on toxic fumigant methyl iodide Photo: USDA Do you like to eat strawberries grown withou ...
  • Daily No-Brainer: Cutting Coal Plant Pollution ...
    In the Senate, public health is up for debate That coal- and oil-fired power plants are big air polluters is beyond question—they emit hundreds of thousand ...

Brave New Climate

  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution). The case study was the ...
  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...
  • IFR FaD 11 – sodium coolant and pool design
    This is the second of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the I ...
  • Purpose and target audience of BraveNewClimate.com
    Before I write a scientific paper, I always try to identify: (1) my main message [MM], in 25 words or less, and (2) my target audience [TA]. Doing this helps focus the ‘story’ of the manuscript on a key point. Papers that try to present multiple messages are typically confusing and/or too long f ...
  • The Fukushima Question How close did Japan rea ...
    I think The Breakthrough Institute guys, led by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are doing great working in environmental policy and thought leadership, which is why I was delighted to become a 2012 Senior Fellow. Below I reproduce an important article published today in Slate.com, on Fuk ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • What is the status of the illegal West Bank ou ...
    There are approximately 50 outposts – essentially baby settlements - in the West Bank, all illegal according to Israeli law. Migron, established in 2002, is supposed to be dismantled by the end of March, 2012. So why isn’t that going to happen?  I joined a tour of the West Bank hoste ...
  • The rise of the Sheikh Jarrah protest movement ...
    Israeli Solidarity activist Daniel Dukarevitch-Argo, who first got to know Sheikh Jarrah almost a decade ago, tells the story of the protest movement  from the ground up.  A new film by Just Vision about the struggle in Sheikh Jarrah will soon be released around the world. Simultaneously, opinio ...
  • Big Brother is drugging you: Knesset meets rea ...
    The Israeli parliament has a lot on its plate. Homeland security, the potential threat from Iran, an occupation and a smorgasbord of domestic issues. However, that doesn’t mean that local politicians don’t have time to consider what’s going on on television. That is, they make time for TV in the ...
  • Four young Israelis refuse army draft in new r ...
    In the coming weeks, three young Israelis are expected to go to prison for their refusal to enlist in the Israeli army, and a forth conscientious objector received an exemption from service yesterday. Together they form the first group of refuseniks in Israel in the past three years. These are t ...
  • Catherine Ashton can only blame herself: A res ...
    There is no doubt in my mind that Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman made political use of the statement made by the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton – getting back at her for her positions regarding the settlemen ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • Public Defacement
    Our town hasn’t been used to such exposure in a long time. The ElectroMotive plant closing of a few weeks …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Breaking Out
    It’s in the nature of living that we grow accustomed to thinking of our daily activities in cyclical fashion. Given …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – From Manipulation t ...
    Canadian democracy, like most advanced democracies around the world, displays the strong tendency to be concerned over what people believe …Continue reading »
  • Not As It Used To Be
      This past week the family and I spent a delightful dinner with someone who had been one of the …Continue reading »
  • George Clooney’s Arrest
    Last week famed actor George Clooney, along with his father, was arrested for demonstrated outside the Sudanese embassy gates in …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • NSA Building Foreign/Domestic Spying Supercent ...
    Excerpt: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.'" Wasatch Range in Bluffdale, Utah. (photo: Jesse ...
  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
  • Why 49 Advertisers Dropped Limbaugh, in Their ...
    Excerpt: "Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. ... Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show." Corporate sponsors are dropping Ru ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Calls for May Day General S ...
    Schneider reports: "At the General Assembly meeting last night, Occupy Wall Street's dreamer contingent got a very special valentine: the GA endorsed the Direct Action Working Group's proposal to call for a general strike on May Day - May 1, 2012." An Italian worker participates in a general ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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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Consumerist

  • Cops Bust Tide Detergent Theft Ring Operating ...
    The wave of Tide detergent crime keeps on rolling, sweeping through the country like some bizarre scene out of a neurotically clean person's dream. Cops in Maryland say they've busted a theft ring peddling Tide on the black market. Come on, people. We told you how to save so you don't need to b ...
  • Spirit Airlines Says It Doesn't Belong In Wors ...
    In spite of Spirit Airlines' hilarious belief that it is the "most consumer-friendly airline," it beat out the much-bigger Delta to make it through the first round of the Consumerist Worst Company In America tournament. But the airline says the people voting for Spirit have obviously not flown ...
  • CFPB Now Answering Your Finance Questions
    Want to know who you need to call when disputing an error on your credit report? Are you curious about what a "reverse mortgage" is? Well, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has just launched a new interactive service that fields questions like these and provides answers without all the u ...
  • Ally Bank Finds My Lifelong Nickname Totally U ...
    Some of us were born with one name, and whether through deliberate choice or the tendencies of friends and families, end up being known by a nickname. Our reader Nicholas found out recently that apparently some nicknames are just unacceptable -- according to Ally Bank, "Cole," the name he's gon ...
  • T-Mobile Layoffs Mean 1,900 Fewer Call Center ...
    Struggling T-Mobile continues to limp along in fourth place among U.S. wireless carriers, announcing today that they're making some major restructuring measures to try to slash costs. The company will be eliminating an overall 1,900 call center positions, reducing call centers from 24 to 17 ove ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Cummings, Kucinich, Maloney Present Amicus on ...
    This week the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals accepted a "friend of the court" or amicus curiae brief in support of Federal Air Marshals (FAM) whistleblower Robert MacLean from three Members of Congress who long have been champions of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA). Representatives Elij ...
  • Geithner to Testify before Congress about Whis ...
    Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is scheduled to testify before the House Committee on Appropriations (State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee) next Tuesday, March 27. His testimony is likely to focus on the proposed General Capital Increases at the Multilateral Development Ba ...
  • National Security Secrecy and Surveillance: An ...
    If you have been following any of GAP’s recent activities, you are likely aware of the current expansion of the national security state. From the latest Espionage Act prosecution by the Obama administration of an intelligence whistleblower (that’s six so far!) to the newly revised rules for ...
  • Whistleblower Tour at Seattle University Today ...
    KUOW's Weekday (WA): American Whistleblower Tour Stops in Seattle Summary: GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour will stop at Seattle University this evening. The stop features prominent whistleblowers Richard Bowen (Citigroup), Walt Tamosaitis (Hanford nuclear site), and John ...
  • DOJ Expanding Spy Powers Despite Whistleblower ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder has issued new guidelines that permit the federal terrorism investigators to collect, search and store data about Americans who are not suspected of terrorism, or any crime. This is beyond even the "pre-crime" world of Minority Report - now the government is admitted ...

UK Progressive

  • An Open Letter to the GOP: Transvaginally Speaking
    Hi guys… The Los Angeles Times ran strips by the brilliant cartoonist Garry Trudeau, creator of “Doonesbury,” in the paper’s Opinion section. Not the comic section. Culminating on March 17, the strips depict a young woman at an abortion clinic being chastised by a male legislator who calls her a ...
  • One of the Tallest Trees in our Forest: Bayard ...
    This month around the country LGBTQ communities will be celebrating Bayard Rustin’s 100th birthday anniversary. Next month, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts will have their annual Bayard Rustin Breakfast. And, last month, “State of the Re:Union,” a nationally aired radio show d ...
  • If You Took the Greed Out of Wall Street, All ...
    Why Goldman’s Greg Smith’s Critique Is Way Too Narrow Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs vice president, resigned his post Wednesday with a stinging public rebuke of the firm on the oped page of the New York Times — accusing it of no longer putting its clients before its own pecuniary goals. But ...
  • Mitt: We’re No Longer in an Etch-a-Sketch World
    Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom couldn’t have said it better – or worse. When asked by CNN Wednesday morning whether Mitt was being pushed so far to the right by Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich that he’d be handicapped in the general election, Fehrnstrom said “you hit a reset button for the fal ...
  • Purpose Driven Lies and Gender Equality
    What does a government bureaucrat being between you and your doctor look like? That was the go-to canard to scare Americans away from the health care reform bill (or single payer for that matter). So, imagine your doctor decides he or she doesn’t want you to get a procedure. They don’t agree wit ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and ...
    Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that corre ...
  • Media Watch witch hunt
    “In the old days they would have just bound her, thrown her into the lake, and waited to see if she floated. Though a primitive method of witch-hunting, it would surely be far more effective than Jonathan’s, and would require much less in taxpayer funding.”  [MediaWatch comme ...
  • “Conspiracy theorist” – just ...
    “Conspiracy Theorist” – the taunt you use when you want to “win” the debate without having to argue your point. When someone points out that the Regulating Class want to bring on a world government, they’re called a “conspiracy theorist”. When the ...
  • The Ground Zero of Global Corruption – i ...
    The scale of the rot is something to behold.  Something is grossly, wantonly wrong with Western Civilization, and lots of people know it, but they don’t know why (and for the next blind rebellion, see, “Occupy”). But a head of the hydra popped into view last week. First a high ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
    Plenty to discuss… Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)

ReNew America

  • The dark, intolerant, and abusive nature of th ...
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - Over twenty years ago, I had an intermittent conversation about homosexuality with a gay man at work. Although he persistently brought up the subject, he would periodically fly into a rage and call me a bigot when I disagreed with him. That man went on to become a ...
  • Santorum and the RNC
    (National Review) - A year ago, Kim Lehman, a Republican National Committee member from Iowa, paced across the ballroom at the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor, Md., hunting for votes. The race for the party chairmanship had reached an unprecedented seventh ballot and her candidate, Wisconsin Re ...
  • Top Romney aide: we'll 'Etch-A-Sketch' his con ...
    (Newsmax) - There's no problem about Mitt Romney taking conservative positions during the primary that may upset the liberal media; come this fall, he can erase them and start all over again. That's the word from Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior campaign aide to Romney, who told CNN Wednesday that afte ...
  • Armey's FreedomWorks still not supporting Romney
    (Newsmax) - The conservative grass-roots FreedomWorks organization still is playing hard to get for an endorsement, an official of the organization told The Daily Caller...
  • Sheriff Joe: 'Tons' more shocking Obama info
    (WorldNetDaily) - "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 presidential birth certificate and Sele ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Homeland Security Tracking Preppers?
    Survivalist and Prepper websites have been reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has been paying them a visit – for example Off Grid Survival: So of course I went and checked some of my sites, here are the totals since Jan 1, 2011: 2012 Connect   16 2012 Base    21 Survi ...
  • 188 Day Earthquake Cycle?
    I’m actually on vacation (my last for perhaps a very long time…), so I’ve not been able to fully investigate this, but here goes: Chile — February 27, 2010 — 8.8-magnitude New Zealand — September 4, 2010 — 7.1-magnitude Japan — March 11, 2011 — 9.1-magnitude Fiji — Septembe ...
  • Prophetic Card Game
    Illuminati — New World Order was a card game released in 1995. When Steve Jackson was designing the game in 1990, without warning, a force of armed Secret Service agents – accompanied by Austin police and at least one civilian ‘expert’ from the phone company – occup ...
  • Now That’s What I Call A Bunker!
    I’ve shown this pic before… …but not the inside pics: Here’s two, the rest are at Digital Trends, along with the story. Now That’s What I Call A Bunker! is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Related posts:Why call it an &# ...
  • More Debunking from NASA
    I feel like running a contest… how many more articles and videos debunking 2012 will NASA release? I’ve lost count of how many they’ve made to date. Here’s the latest: More Debunking from NASA is a post from: 2012 Blog ©2012 2012 Blog. All Rights Reserved.. Re ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Punjab: BKI targeting religious leaders
    A suspected member of the banned BKI, who was arrested on Monday here, had been plotting with the outfit chief to target religious leaders in Punjab. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Six Bangladeshi infiltrators arrested
    Six Bangladeshi infiltrators have been arrested by security forces from two separate places in Assam, official sources said today. Reported by IndiaTimes 5 hours ago
  • Google Chrome top browser for first time
    Google's Chrome became world's top internet browser for one day, however, it could not retain its position for long as Explorer, which has been the most popular web browser since 1999 replaced it again. Reported by Firstpost 5 hours ago
  • SP supremo Mulayam hints at mid-term polls
    Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday hinted at possible mid-term general elections. Reported by Zee News 6 hours ago
  • No faith in trial of Robert Bales: Afghan Taliban
    Afghanistan`s Taliban vowed to take revenge on NATO forces for the killing of 17 civilians. Reported by Zee News 6 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Cyrenaica and the Scuffle for Libyan Heritage
    A failing state The decision by the so-called “Congress of the People of Cyrenaica” held near Benghazi to establish a unified federal region of Barq has again attracted the attention of the media to Libya. Of course, the main reason for this decision by the Cyrenaicans was the desire to take cha ...
  • After a Failed Revolution
    The socio-political phenomenon of revolution in an individual country isn’t a new phenomenon in the modern era. The revolutionary wave hitting a number of countries is nothing new either. We might recall the events that shook Europe in 1848-1849 and the events of 1917-1918 that rocked the ...
  • Turkish Solitaire
    After Syrian security forces liberated first the area west of Homs and then the area northwest of Idlib, it became obvious that now only a foreign invasion can overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. And Damascus is doing its best to exploit its advantage as quickly as possible: It got a new consti ...
  • Libya: Revolutionary Brigades and the UN
    For the first time the UN Security Council viewed the results of the Mission in Libya operation after it was established in September last year. The report of UN Secretary General was submitted for the Council’s consideration to convince its members that the prolongation of the Mission’s activit ...
  • Britain to Take Off the Cross
    The news that the British cabinet upholds the ban on wearing Christian symbols at work appears surreal at first glance, but, upon scrutiny, incidents in which Christian believers face discrimination from their employers over their religious practices mirror a profound global trend. On the Surfac ...

BlogHer

  • Your Goals Are As Important As Your Qualifications
    After obtaining my A+ certification I, like all my other classmates, flooded the internet with resumes touting our qualifications.  As forewarned by the instructor, the first job I was offered had little to do with my brand new certification and it paid much less than I expected but, as a n ...
  • Elizabeth Smart Supports Kids in Memory of Jor ...
    In December, blogger Brooke Bernard of Mamas Against Drama shared with us how the loss of Jorelys Rivera affected her town. Since then, local mom Bianca Cummings started a group called radKIDS which teaches kids to say "stop" and defend themselves against would-be attackers. At the dedication of ...
  • Better Marketing & Branding Tips: 10 Ways How ...
    Truth be told, I go to a lot of conferences and events throughout the year and have been a regular attendee atSXSW (South-by-Southwest Festival) for about a decade. One of my favorite things to do at conferences is observe what vendors do well (rarely are my socks knocked off) and of course ...
  • Is It The Way He Walks? Or the Color of His Skin?
    You see him approach. You become uneasy. You wonder if he has a gun or a knife or will he simply hit you upside the head with his fist and snatch your purse or wallet. You take stock of how much cash you have, whether your credit card company reimburses for fraudulent charges. As he approaches, ...
  • 2012 Republican Primary: What Comes After the ...
    Can you all please stop playing with your Etch-A-Sketch for just a few minutes and let's take a look at what's happened in literally the last 48 hours since the Illinois Republican primary and what's coming in the next 48 hours? To get caught up, read Erica Holloway's impressions of former Mass ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Breaking news: NIOSH panel says proper MSHA in ...
    Huge news today, with the conclusions of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health panel’s report that provides critical context within which everyone should view the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s actions — and the agency’s public stateme ...
  • All of the above: Obama doesn’t mention coal
    President Barack Obama at TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla., Thursday, March, 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama gave three major speeches this week about energy policy, all part of an energy tour that finished up today with this: Standing in front of ...
  • Gov. Tomblin signs mine safety bill — again
    Gov. Tomblin signs H.B. 4351, joined by the Speaker of the House of Delegates Rick Thompson, Dalton Thompson, Del. Mike Caputo, and State Police Chaplain Jim Mitchell. Photo Courtesy of the Governor’s Office West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin already signed the state’s new mine safe ...
  • Report: Alpha tops coal industry in MSHA fines
    This just in from SNL Financial’s website: Coal mines operated by Alpha Natural Resources Inc. were assessed more proposed fines for federal safety and health violations in 2011 than all major public coal companies combined, evidence that the company continues to struggle to bring former M ...
  • New report: Coal power is not cheap power
    Over on Twitter, the State Journal’s Taylor Kuykendall pointed out this morning an interesting new report from an Alaska non-profit group called Ground Truth Trekking. The report concludes: How can ratepayers and utilities best keep electricity prices affordable? Coal is often touted as a ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How to Get a Raise | The Register
    You’re not getting paid as well as you should. I know this not only because you’re bothering to read this, but also because most techies are crap at extracting cash from their employers. It shouldn’t shock you too much to learn that I, as a City headhunter and former contractor, focus quite hard ...
  • Tennessee legislature boldly sets the science ...
    Basically, the bill will make sure teachers can discuss creationism in the classroom, as well as global warming denialism. The House version states, This bill prohibits the state board of education and any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school sys ...
  • The Innate Nature of Sexuality
    I find the whole cloud of hush around the origins of sexuality to be fascinating, as it reeks to me of political correctness (see: sensitivity-based truth avoidance). Basically, because it’s such a charged topic (and therefore obscured from direct study) I continue to try to model the matt ...
  • Female Chimps Play With Stick Dolls | Discover ...
    Female chimpanzees treat sticks and small logs as dolls by cuddling them, creating games and even putting them to bed, new research finds. Since young male chimps were less inclined to play dollies, the authors say their study presents the first evidence of an animal species in the wild in which ...
  • Tube Plane | Scott Adams
    My idea is that the entire passenger cabin would be separate from the rest of the plane, like a shotgun shell waiting to be put in the shotgun. Passengers would take their seats in the cabin “tube,” located in the airport terminal. When the airplane arrives, it lines up with the term ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
    Worldwidehippies,survivalinternational.org - 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 fundamentalist missionary organization the New Tribes Mission was closely ...
  • Hippie Digest Friday: It’s Stuff for Hip ...
    Communal Living Attracting More 60-Something Women healthnewsdigest.com (HealthNewsDigest.com) – Some say the ‘60s hippies are going back to the commune. Others call the growing number of female Baby Boomers rooming together “‘The Golden Girls’ phenomenon.” Author Martha Nelson, who at 65 ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Not just for Hippies an ...
    Worldwide Hippies – It seems the ‘Media’ has stopped using comparisons to ‘Hippie’s’. At least they have cut the hippie bashing down some. What label will they use next to mislead, distract and misinform?  -  Socialists? Communists? Terrorists? The French ? Ci ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    ‘Hell no, we won’t glow’: Dozens of anti-nuclear activists arrested at Vermont Yankee protest BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A 93-year-old anti-nuclear activist was among more than 130 protesters arrested at the corporate headquarters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Thursda ...
  • (Pittsburgh in my 60s) SPRING
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies – Spring is here. The burgh looks fantastic. It’s more like late April or early May. Though, here in Pittsburgh we know not to breathe easy just yet. One of the biggest snowstorms we ever had was on a St. Patrick’s day. We had the parade anyway! That ...

reference frame

  • Paper: Antarctica did experience both MWP and LIA
    The Medieval Warm Period was apparently global Before "the cause" started to contaminate climatology about two decades ago, climate scientists realized that around the years 950-1250 AD or so, the Earth experienced warmer temperatures than in some later centuries, e.g. 1550-1850 AD. The ...
  • Which superparticles may have already been dis ...
    In this text, I want to discuss a particular supersymmetric search that hasn't been published yet. According to some super-secret information, this search for some cool signatures of the sbottom squark will be published in 2-3 months. However, I want to use this opportunity to describe t ...
  • Has Anton Zeilinger created a time machine?
    Abstract of this blog entry: No. I am convinced that Anton Zeilinger understands quantum mechanics, the new rules according to which the world works. However, he has become famous for being a magician of a sort – someone who benefits out of fooling people – and it seems to me that he enj ...
  • Cartoonists, alarmists, linguists attack Dyson ...
    This story began with the following cartoon by Zachary Alexander Weinersteinsmitherson-Grossman, or Zach Weiner for short, a rather well-known Internet cartoonist: This old pet physicist has to be euthanized (SMBC comics)Spoilers: A couple brings their ill pet to the doctor. They complain t ...
  • Jarno Smeets: flying like a bird
    Many people have thought that using their own muscle power, humans can't fly just like birds. Jarno Smeets, a Flying Dutchman whom no one knows and who falsified his CV, has just proved otherwise, unless he has falsified the video and/or the technical information behind it as well: ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Ohio Regulators: Link Between Recent Quakes an ...
    By Thomas Cluderay, Assistant General Counsel Polluted water resources. Compromised housing values. And now, earthquakes? As companies increasingly rely on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to expand U.S. oil and gas operations, regulators are finally... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • New ministers step into the sunlight
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg marched out of the weekly Council of State at the Royal Palace on Friday with three new members of the coalition government he leads. The brilliant sunshine seemed to reflect at least the chance of a political spring for the new members’ Socialist Left party ...
  • Floods drench Trøndelag counties
    More than a dozen roads were closed on Friday, a train line was blocked and several rural areas were isolated after heavy rain and rapidly melting snow set off major flooding in the counties of Nor- and Sør-Trøndelag. The Fosen area was among the hardest hit. Officials at the Norwegian Water Res ...
  • Spring has sprung, in record warmth
    The crocus is in full bloom in many places around southern Norway, like here on the grounds of the Royal Palace in Oslo. Record warm temperatures for the past two weeks have led to early blossoming, and the weather is predicted to stay mild. While it’s raining heavily in some areas, the su ...
  • Conservatives’ MP reveals stroke
    Per-Kristian Foss, a Member of Parliament and one of the Norwegian Conservative Party’s most high-profile politicians over the past three decades, has revealed that he suffered a stroke just after New Year. The veteran politician said he’d never been sick before, and it was a very fr ...
  • Cold War echoes at Belarus meeting
    Just as a major conference on the the dictatorship in Belarus was getting underway in Oslo on Thursday, came an ominous echo from the Cold War past: All those in attendance were warned from the podium that a spy was among them. “We have had a spying surveillance warning,” conference ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Let’s Explore Ridley Grove Community Garden! ( ...
    What do you do with an old church car park? Turn it into a community garden, of course! And that’s how the Ridley Grove Community Garden — a child, pet and disabled person friendly garden in the Adelaide suburb of Woodville Gardens — came into being. The first thing they di ...
  • A Small-scale, Traditional, Sustainable Way to ...
    Indigenous peoples have employed various sustainable ways of obtaining food. Using a fish trap is just one of them. by Claudette Fleming The Kingfisher and indigenous people methods of fishing have one commonality — they are sustainable. No fish is wasted and there is always fish for to ...
  • Community Buys Own Supermarket – Mullumbimby N ...
    The small community of Mullumbimby in the Byron Shire of northern NSW, Australia, is currently in the process of determining their own food supply future by purchasing their local supermarket. This movement, which is gaining momentum daily at an amazing rate, began by chance, fate, serendipity ...
  • A Recipe for a Hugelkultur Raised Bed
    I’ve been wanting to do a hugelkultur bed ever since I saw an article about a village store garden where people could walk around these really tall raised beds picking their veggies without bending. Hugelkultur is a Central European-style raised bed which uses rotting wood as its foundati ...
  • Pietro Zucchetti Interviews Rob Hopkins
    This is an interview with Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Town movement founded in Totnes, United Kingdom. The interview is about what Transition Towns mean, and how he came up with this idea as a permaculture teacher. The interview also covers how is this concept important now, duri ...

Pointman's

  • Job opportunity, with lots of money to be made.
    You know those Huey helicopters that you see in all those old Vietnam war movies. They had this single bolt sticking out of the cabin, connecting it to the rotor blades. The troopers used to call it the Jesus Bolt, because if it failed, everyone on board was going home to Jesus. Well, the equiva ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or No truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • The Climate Wars revisited or no truce with kings.
    This is a quiet little island of the internet. I write an article and it floats off into the blogosphere to end up Lord knows where. Some pieces sink without trace, foundering even before they’ve cleared the reef but others seem to take on a life of their own. There’s no way of predicting their& ...
  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...
  • Internet Security 4 : I’d like to ask a favour ...
    Pointman’s is an analysis and opinion piece blog, primarily aimed at fighting climate alarmism. When there’s something big in the news on that front and I think I have something to offer on it, I may go into blog overdrive and put out a few pieces on it but that’s the exception rather than the&# ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    EXCLUSIVE: French police were alerted about Toulouse shooter and did NOTHING! March 22, 2012 by supermario By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info March 22, 2012 - How much did French authorities know about Mohamed Merah, the confessed author of the Toulouse and Montauban shootings? After the cold b ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Is it an Israeli False Flag Again? Israeli press reported this evening that French gunman Mohamed Merah had been on a trip to Israel in the past. According to the report, Merah's passport had Israeli stamps in it. The purpose of his visit is unknown. Israeli analysts suspect he was either tryi ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    I read RC's challenge last night, and that someone had already taken it up. Now I see it is Michael. God Bless you Michael.Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:17 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Hmm...... Interesting. I just heard about this on Giuliani's show. I'm sure we were all hoping for http://youtu.be/FZy24xVPe_0. But this should be interesting. Gotta give some respect to Michael K. for having the balls to step up.Statistics: Posted by VikingSails — Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:04 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The shooter has neither tattoos nor big muscles, great catch. He seems too happy to be a deranged killer.Statistics: Posted by filosophia — Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:03 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Google Street View Offers Virtual Tour of Amaz ...
    Google this week expanded its popular Street View feature to the forests of the Amazon basin, posting more than 50,000 photos that allow online users a virtual tour of the world’s largest tropical region. The photos,
  • Australian Mammal Extinctions Tied to Human Hu ...
    The disappearance roughly 40,000 years ago of dozens of large mammals in Australia — including rhinoceros-sized wombats and tapir-like marsupials — was caused by human hunting and not by climate change, according to a new study by Australian scientists. © Science/AAAS/Drawing by Peter Murray ...
  • India’s Wind Energy Potential 30 Times Greater ...
    A new report says that the wind energy potential in India may be 30 times greater than previous government estimates, a finding that the authors say could provide a critical solution for a country facing chronic electricity shortages. In an analysis of land actually suitable to wind power develo ...
  • Beekeepers Urge U.S. Ban On Pesticide Toxic to ...
    A coalition of commercial beekeepers and environmental groups is urging U.S. regulators to suspend the use of a pesticide they say may be contributing to a sharp decline in honeybee populations. In a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the group called for a ban on clothianidin ...
  • Can Reforming the Farm Bill Help Change U.S. A ...
    For decades, farm bills in the U.S. Congress have supported large-scale agriculture. But with the 2012 Farm Bill now up for debate, advocates say seismic shifts in the way the nation views food production may lead to new policies that tilt more toward local, sustainable agriculture. BY JIM ROBBINS

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • Answering Your Questions
    Earlier this week, I invited readers of the blog to send me questions via Facebook on any topic they wanted me to write about. Here are some of my answers:
  • Geraldo's Self-Inflicted Wound
    Blaming the hoodie for Trayvon Martin's death
  • ‘Neighborhood Watch,’ the Comedy?
    A Ben Stiller movie doesn’t look so funny now. Marlow Stern on 11 films with the worst possible timing.
  • Zionism's Been Stolen
    "Look at him," said the tall skinny settler to his six years old brother, as my friends and I were standing in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on the last Jerusalem Day celebrations, serving as a human barrier to prevent him and his friends from attacking a group of Pales ...
  • Unseen Photos of Queen and Family From March 1952
    Newly released pictures offer informal insight into the royal family

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Looking for work in all the wrong places
    "Know of any jobs? Anything at all?" So . . . I swallow some beer and give him my list.
  • Back in Bayou, Paul, Clips fall
    Chris Kaman scored 20 points and the Hornets rallied for a 97-90 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night, spoiling Chris Paul's return to New Orleans. The Clippers were held to 11 points in the fourth quarter as they shot 4-for-23 from the field. Los Angeles also missed its las ...
  • Malkin nets pair as streaking Penguins clinch ...
    Alexander Radulov bailed on the Nashville Predators four years ago to become the best player in his native Russia. In Radulov's return to the NHL, countryman Evgeni Malkin left little doubt who's the best player in the world.
  • Outpouring for Muamba unusual
    Patrice Muamba appears to be making steady progress after the Bolton midfielder's cardiac arrest during last Saturday's F.A. Cup tie against Tottenham. Let us hope Muamba, and anyone in a similar position, makes a full recovery. Muamba's situation has united the football world in a manner few ...
  • Kuwait pact, first accord with Gulf council st ...
    Japan has signed an accord with Kuwait to facilitate bilateral investments, the country's first investment treaty with a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The pact, signed in the presence of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Kuwaiti Emir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah on Thursday, aims to creat ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • 2012 Québec Budget: timidity and omissions
    On March 20th, Québec’s Finance Minister, Raymond Bachand, tabled his third budget. This budget year follows in the wake of those of the last few years. The government is still insisting on transforming public service funding in accordance with the user-fee revolution logic (so dear to Mr. Bacha ...
  • Brad Wall’s Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    In the wake of Wednesday’s Saskatchewan budget which saw the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and with it the almost certain demise of the industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall tweeted: “If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsi ...
  • Inflation Central
    Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices edged up by 0.1% in February on a seasonally-adjusted basis, bringing the annual inflation rate to 2.6% and the core inflation rate to 2.3%. These rates are within the Bank of Canada’s target range and should allow it to keep interest rates l ...
  • Below 40% of the Unemployed Get EI
    Statistics Canada reported today that 12,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) regular benefits in January. The increase in recipients reflected higher unemployment. Indeed, the proportion of jobless workers receiving benefits remained 39% (i.e. 561,060 beneficiaries out of 1,421 ...
  • Enduring Austerity to Ensure Prosperity: The S ...
    Budgets’ rarely capture the imagination of the electorate, and today’s Saskatchewan budget was certainly no exception.  This is unfortunate due to the very real choices for the future direction of our province that lay beneath the more mundane economic statements contained in today’s budget spee ...

ReDress

  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.
  • Kony 2012's invisible Christian fanaticism
    Mamoon Alabbasi questions why mention of the self-proclaimed Christianity of Ugandan-based Joseph Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army was omitted from the "Kony 2012" video, which seeks to make Kony better known so that he could be brought to justice for his crimes.
  • Britain's "bother-boy" Hague loves putting the ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that British Foreign Secretary William Hague's determination to condemn the Iranian people to economic hardship, his keenness to escalate tension with Iran, and his eagerness to do Israel's bidding by creating an environment conducive to aggression against Iran, mean tha ...
  • Social fear as an obstacle to freedom in the West
    Ziad El-Hady argues that freedom in Western societies is seriously compromised by people's fear of crime, and that the post-9/11 fear of terror, which has been grossly exaggerated by the media, appears to suit some governments as it pushes the public to consent to more surveillance and social co ...
  • Netanyahu versus Obama: what next?
    Alan Hart assesses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's options as he tries to sabotage the prospect of a second term for Barack Obama by dragging the US into a war with Iran, and argues that the real danger is that Netanyahu's anti-Iran rhetoric - "a combination of wretchedness and megal ...

Physics Today

  • Mathematicians model snowflakes using physical ...
    Scientific American: A group of researchers in Germany has succeeded in using computer modeling to simulate the faceted pattern of snowflake formation. Using basic conservation laws and thermodynamics, Harald Garcke of the University of Regensburg and colleagues were able to model the way the cr ...
  • China to work with Shell to extract shale gas
    BBC: On Tuesday Shell announced that it had signed the first-ever production-sharing contract for shale gas exploration in China with state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation. "Shell will apply its advanced technology, operational expertise and global experience in the project to jointly ...
  • SESAME participants put politics aside to fund ...
    Nature: Israel and Iran have put aside their differences to join Jordan and Turkey in providing a combined total of US$20 million for the construction of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME). The project, located in Al Balq’a, Jordan, ...
  • MESSENGER sheds new light on Mercury
    Physics Today: Data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft have led to a number of new findings regarding Mercury, including possible water ice, unusual tectonic forces, and a massive core. Paul Rincon reports for the BBC that at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week, Nancy Chabot ...
  • US imposes moderate tariffs on Chinese solar p ...
    New York Times: After the US Commerce Department concluded that China gave illegal export subsidies to its solar panel manufacturers, the US decided to impose tariffs of 2.9–4.73% on all solar panels imported from China. Chinese solar panels control about half of the current US market; US ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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  • The great fuel fail: ethanol from corn
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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • US Intelligence Report: Expect Water Wars Soon
    “A report released today on global water security from the Defense Intelligence Agency assesses that in next 10 years, water instability will be likely in “nations important to the United States”, and says that in the next decades, the use of water as a weapon will become more ...
  • 5 Deadly Threats to Our Precious Drinking Wate ...
      “Here in the US, clean, affordable, safe drinking water faces five threats: 1. Racial and Economic Inequalities While an international law recognizes the human right to water, unfortunately there is no binding enforcement and in the US there are no laws guaranteeing that you’l ...
  • Israelis and Palestinians in West Bank water wars
    “Settlers have taken over 30 springs and are trying to take control of another 26 – most of which are located on land privately owned by Palestinians, the UN’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. The takeover appears to reflect Israel’s efforts to exert ...
  • Water Sector Options for India in a Changing C ...
    “On the eve of the World Water Day 2012, the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) is happy to publish its new report: Water Sector Options for India in a Changing Climate. The report highlights that for the poorest sections, also most vulnerable in the climate change co ...
  • Children of the Salween River
    “At least 20 dams have been proposed for the mainstream Salween River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau in China, through Burma and Thailand to its delta in the Andaman Sea. 13 are located in China, with two sites already undergoing preparatory work (Songta and Maji); none have been ap ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Calls for SEC Investigation of Potent ...
    Provides Detailed Analysis of Discrepancies Which Could Constitute “Material Misrepresentations” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today requested that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair ...
  • Kucinich Analysis: Fast-Tracking Southern Segm ...
    Upon reports that the Obama Administration will “fast-track” the southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following analysis: “Americans need relief from high gas prices. However, approval of th ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes Cleveland, Midwest Steel Ind ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, today welcomed the President and CEO’s of Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources at a hearing examining the state of the steel industry in the United States. Kucinich discussed the importance of ...
  • Kucinich Joins President Obama, Vice President ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who is both Irish and Croatian, today attended a St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the United States Capitol Building with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny of Ireland, upon the invitation of House Speake ...
  • As Budget Fight Heats Up, Support for Kucinich ...
    As Congress braces for an expected struggle over the FY 2013 federal budget, support for the National Emergency Employment Defense (N.E.E.D.) Act is gaining momentum. Last week, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (Chicago area Local 126) Executive Board voted to jo ...

Authentically Wired

  • should stop – look – listen –
    … Whenever any health issue gets place before America’s   U S  Supreme Court … now corporate owned … Americans of all color, creed, sex should stop – look – listen – as this court is focused on one thing only … providing profit$ to those manipulating their puppet strings… &# ...
  • They are all part of the same “cabal”
    … What does the World Water Forum … Bechtel … World Bank … IMF … World Health Organization … Water Privatization … SUEZ… Veolia all have in common … They are all part of the same “cabal” …   World Water Forum- Marseille       Thursday, March 15, 2012… http://www.wateref ...
  • No surprise here to learn the military industr ...
          No surprise here to learn the military industrial complex employs most of the world’s population … We love War ..     Amazing Chart: World’s Largest Employers I don’t know what’s more amazing:  that the US Dept of Defense is first with 3.2 mi ...
  • Demolishing Due Process
    …Due Process like so much of the “rights” we took for granted have been under attack by Republicans and Democrats for decades … what we are witnessing today are the falling of the final dominos … Demolishing Due Process 03-21-2012  •  http://lewrockwell.com, by Ron Paul  &#1 ...
  • One snip here, one there, and there goes the C ...
    What a profound analogy and “we” have sat and watched and did nothing to prevent it … no shots need be fired to take control of the United States of America as “we” will gladly and willingly participate in its demise …   One snip here, one there, and there goes the Constitution 03/17/2012&# ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Good early interest in IT precinct, says Akl C ...
    Auckland Council is reporting good early interest in its plans for an "Innovation Precinct" at the newly developed Wynyard Quarter. An initial space of about 50,000 square metres has been set aside for the precinct at Auckland's...
  • Psychology behind holding a gun
    No one knows what led a US neighbourhood watch captain to shoot an unarmed teenager carrying no weapon.But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the man have been fooled into thinking the youth was armed in part because...
  • Jewish-Arab peace one Einstein couldn't crack
    Given that she had had a two-year affair with the married Albert Einstein when she was 23 and he was 44, and that she was a Jew desperate to escape an Austria overrun by the Nazis, what resounds down the years about the letter Betty...
  • LanzaTech picked as top energy innovator
    New Zealand bio-fuel company LanzaTech has been recognised as a world-leader in energy innovation. The company is one of ten from around the world to be selected as a 2012 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer.Jennifer Holmgren,...
  • LanzaTech strikes deal with NZSteel to extend ...
    An agreement struck by LanzaTech with New Zealand Steel reflects the biofuels company's move from development to commercialisation, says chief executive Jennifer Holmgren.LanzaTech has its scientific base in Parnell and develops...

The Bovine

  • Spreading raw milk as cultural “meme”
    From Wikipedia: A meme ( /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1]) is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, &#82 ...
  • Food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler raises his o ...
    From his unique vantage point as a prosecutor of food poisoning cases, Bill Marler has a greater than normal awareness of deficiencies in the American industrial food system. So it’s really no big surprise that he chooses to raise a … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt on CFRB today 2 pm
    Yes, raw milk farmer and food rights advocate Michael Schmidt will be taking to the airwaves again this afternoon to spread the word to radio listeners in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Tune in to the show on CFRB … Continue reading →
  • Recent victories for raw milk freedom
    From Heather Callaghan on The Activist Post: “Things can seem really grim in the world of food freedom when farmers and food club members are jailed and squashed for providing fresh milk, while the media continues to spread outright lies … Continue reading →
  • “Don’t be evil” — cens ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Excellent Document on Decoupling and Global Su ...
    Lakshman Achuthan, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer, of ECRI just released an exceptional 9-page document on supply chains and decoupling called The Yo-Yo Years. Here are a few snips but those bullish on emerging markets, commodity producers, as well as those who think the US is go ...
  • Where is the Unemployment Rate Headed? Interac ...
    I have a pretty cool interactive map below that will let you graph the unemployment rates based on parameters that you can choose. First let's take a look at the current unemployment rate and a discussion of the parameters that define it. The BLS says the unemployment rate is 8.3%. Th ...
  • Atlantic Magazine Cover Proclaims Ben Bernanke ...
    If you are looking for the most nauseating cover possible on Ben Bernanke, please consider the April 2012 issue of the Atlantic. The cover asks the question "Ben Bernanke saved the global economy. So why does everyone hate him?" For starters Ben Bernanke did not save the global e ...
  • "Eurozone Slides Back Into Recession" Says Mar ...
    Inquiring minds are digging into details of the latest Eurozone releases. The Markit Flash Eurozone PMI® says Eurozone slides back into recession as output falls at stronger rate in March Both manufacturing output and service sector activity contracted in March, showing the worst performances ...
  • FedEx Lowers Outlook Due to Tepid Economic Growth
    All is not well in the global economy and FedEx knows it. Reuters reports FedEx global economic view darker, shares drop A strong holiday season and mild winter helped FedEx Corp beat Wall Street's profit forecast, but the world's No. 2 package delivery company warned that it had lowered its o ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 12 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. ...
  • Insiders ‘Out’ Al Jazeera Propaganda Machine o ...
    Time to ‘Out’ Others as Well During the last few days I have been watching events unfold on the Al Jazeera front, and I must say, despite the exposé coming out way too late, I am delighted to see this propaganda machine exposed. The headlines read: Key staffs from Al Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau have ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 9, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.” – ...
  • Economic Warfare & Strangling Sanctions: Punis ...
    Punishing the Population into Hunger The economic sanctions imposed upon Iran are having the desired effect of punishing the population through hunger and economic strangulation, making life miserable for the many. As tensions increase between the “international community” (the West) and Iran, t ...
  • Who is Ken, or Kenneth, Wainstein? Part II
    Banking on Washington Kenneth Wainstein earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1984, and went on to receive a law degree from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988.  He began working for the U.S. Justice Department in 1989 as an assistant U.S. attorney, with hi ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • “Hauling the Mail” – The Volvo Ocean Race Rock ...
    The Southern Ocean is the most challenging place on earth to sail in and for the past quarter century, incredible video gathered from Volvo Ocean and past Whitbread Races through [...]
  • Maersk Increases Container Shipping Operations ...
    COPENHAGEN (Dow Jones)–Danish shipping and oil company A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S (MAERSK-B.KO) has ramped up its intra-Asia shipping operations significantly to benefit from strong growth in the region, reports Danish daily Berlingske Friday. [...]
  • BG Group to Supply India’s West Coast with LNG
    NEW DELHI (Dow Jones)–BG Group PLC (BG.LN) expects to sign a final agreement with GSPC Ltd. in mid-2012 to supply 2.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year, a company executive [...]
  • Danger of Pressing Up Ballast Tanks
    - George Radu, Thomas Miller (Americas) on behalf of the UK P&I Club In a recent case an entered vessel pressed up its ballast tanks in order to optimize trim [...]
  • Ship Photo of The Week – Vessels Ready to Depa ...
    The Soo Locks, also spelled the Sault Locks, will open Sunday, March 25, traditionally marking the start of major Great Lakes shipping efforts, with seven ore carriers scheduled to depart [...]

Press TV

  • Spain workers hold anti-austerity demo
    Spanish workers in the industrial sector have staged a demonstration in Madrid to protest against the government’s tough austerity measures amid mounting fears of the country's economic meltdown.
  • Petrol breaks 140p-a-litre barrier in UK
    The price of petrol has broken through the 140p-a-litre barrier for the first time in Britain, according to media reports.
  • Consumer confidence drops in Britain
    Consumer confidence fell back last month in Britain as fears over the economic climate took hold, mortgage provider Nationwide has said.
  • 'Anti-Assad gangs serve Israeli agenda'
    Syria has been scene of armed rebellion for almost over a year, where West and Saudi backed gangs do terrorist acts in order to destabilize the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad.
  • ‘India warns US over sanction threats’
    India has reportedly warned the US over Washington’s recent threats of imposing sanctions against New Delhi unless it significantly reduces imports of Iranian oil by June 28.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...

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