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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.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

25 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Pilger on QANTAS
    One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia. Growing up in a country far from everywhere (except, as my father would say, "where you come from"), I was led to believe that Australia's honour was at risk unless a well-known person from Over Th ...
  • Iran as the New 'Dope, Incorporated'
    How many memes does it take to stitch-up a war? As Israel, the United States and their NATO allies set their sights on the "prize," Iran's vast petrochemical wealth, multiple themes have been floated by corporate media to make the case for war. Since the 1980s, nuclear proliferation, terro ...
  • Behind the Toulouse Shootings
    In the midst of continuous and intense media coverage and political crisis management our response to the Toulouse killings must be put in proper perspective. As in any situation of war or violence, compassion for the victims, adults and children alike, is our first obligation. Grief and despair ...
  • Legal skull-duggery in Greece may doom Portugal
    Europe has ring-fenced Greece's debt crisis for now but its escalating recourse to legal legerdemain has shattered the trust of global bond markets and may ultimately expose Portugal, Spain, and Italy to greater danger.
  • Wikileaks on Trial by Media in Sweden
    Assange will soon know if the Supreme Court in London is to allow his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual misconduct most of which were dismissed by a senior prosecutor in Stockholm and do not constitute a crime in Britain. On bail for 16 months, tagged and ...

Independent - London

  • Obama warns North Korea over long-range rocket ...
    Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch.Related StoriesDon't marry foreigners, men toldOrgan donations from executed prisoners to be scrapped w ...
  • Obama visits Korean border facility as tension ...
    President Barack Obama made a symbolic visit to the world's most militarised border, striding into the surreal Demilitarised Zone separating North and South Korea and telling US forces stationed along the DMZ they serve on “freedom's frontier”.Related StoriesVietnam police seize five tonnes of i ...
  • At least 8 killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
    An Afghan official says a bomb exploded near a foot patrol of Afghan and Nato forces in the south of the country, killing eight Afghans and one international service member. Related StoriesVietnam police seize five tonnes of iguanasDon't marry foreigners, men toldOrgan donations from executed pr ...
  • Rick Santorum beats Mitt Romney in Louisiana p ...
    Rick Santorum won the Louisiana Republican presidential primary, beating front-runner Mitt Romney in the race to challenge President Barack Obama. Related Stories'It gets worse as you get older': Falklands survivors reveal how they deal with the memories'Dracula' poster fetches $143,000 at auct ...
  • 'It gets worse as you get older': Falklands su ...
    On a bleak, misty spring morning in Staffordshire, two stonemasons work silently on the country's newest war memorial – the serenity of the scene in marked contrast to the pounding artillery and searing screams of the battlefields they are commemorating.Related Stories'Dracula' poster fetches $ ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Mystery of strange cloud formations over Marti ...
    An amateur astronomer has managed to capture recent images of Mars which appear to show cloud like formations on Mars. Wayne Jaeschke, from West Chester, Pennsylvania, noticed the formations which can be seen rising up from the edge of the Martian disk after he took the pictures on March 20. S ...
  • Paleo Diet: Got acne? Go primal
    Acne is unheard of in populations eating a 'primal' or 'paleolithic' diet. This has caused some researchers, for example Loren Cordain (author of The Paleo Diet), to question what factors might be at play here. One prominent theory concerns the impact of eating carbohydrates that tend to be disr ...
  • Science and UFOs: Part 2 - Occam's Rusty Razor
    As noted in Part 1, the late Dr. James E. McDonald - who held the title "Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics" at the University of Arizona - also holds the distinction of being one of the very few scientists to actually study the UFO phenomenon. In a prepared statement before the ...
  • 5,000-strong African Union army to hunt down J ...
    The African Union says it will create a special force to track down notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony in the heart of central Africa. The announcement follows a viral video campaign that courted controversy around the world. ­The Uganda-led mission will commence in South Sudan on Saturday ...
  • Dozens of Frenchmen sent (by state) to train w ...
    As France recovers from the deadly shootings committed by homegrown jihadist Mohamed Merah, Pakistani intelligence say dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in north-western Pakistan. Merah, who was shot in the head in a standoff with police, killed three Jewish children, a rab ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • High on life . . .
    THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT proclaims itself tasked with impact journalism in the Public Interest. Scot Kersgaard has a fascinating report, worthy of your attention: "Study: suicide rates fall when states legalize medical marijuana". A University of Colorado economics professor has co-authored a s ...
  • A strange scattering of dots
    Very strange. It all started with a quick search. I was looking for a link between two ridings for not-so-obvious reasons. For the time being, they'll probably remain that way but I'll toss out the items and perhaps the sharper minds of others can make some further connections. (Click on all ima ...
  • Goppers got slaveholder minds . . .
    THE NATION has an article by JoAnn Wypijewski that you have got to read, "Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding". Simply, the misogyny of today's Goppers has its roots in the American slave-owning experience. We don’t commonly recognize that American slaveholders supported clo ...
  • The struggle continues . . .
    THE MAYLAY MAIL has a disturbing report about intolerance in Malaysia. According to Ram Anand, Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender (LBGT) lifestyles have been equated to social ills like prostitution and drug abuse by Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Mashitah Ibrahim. ...
  • Uneasy lies . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Suggest ICE Should Devote Res ...
    Right-wing media criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for declining to deport six undocumented students who were arrested while participating in a non-violent protest against the immigration policies of controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. However, ICE has limi ...
  • Wash. Post's Cohen's Misguided Push F ...
    In a Washington Post column, Richard Cohen justified a potential Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by claiming that it would delay Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, as evidenced by Israel's 1981 strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor. But experts say that the Osirak reactor strike did ...
  • The Limbaugh "Slut" Firestorm
    On February 23, 2012, Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee regarding the impact of new health care regulations on expanding contraception coverage. Her point - that a prescription medication used to treat a wide variety of women ...
  • "Final Nail In The Coffin Of This Country": An ...
    After waging an epic misinformation campaign during the debate over the Affordable Care Act and throughout the year following its signing, right-wing media have continued attacking the health care law, claiming that it is the "final nail in the coffin of this country" and that it "makes everyon ...
  • "Courage": Fox Lauds Ryan For Budget That Econ ...
    Fox News figures have hailed GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's "courage" for "heroically and gutsily tak[ing] on these enormous entitlement programs" in his most recent budget proposal. But economic experts have said that Ryan's plan is "grossly irresponsible" and "all smoke and mirrors." Fox's praise for R ...

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TPM Cafe

  • How the Supreme Court Permits Government-Contr ...
    This short, troubling PBS NewsHour segment on the Chinese-government's new American TV News network, CCTV, must be causing some sleepless afternoons at the Supreme Court for conservative justices who opened the door to this with the Citizens United ruling. As I showed here at the time, the ru ...
  • How 'Citizens United' Has Strengthened Governm ...
    This short PBS NewsHour segment on the Chinese-government's new American TV News network, CCTV, must be causing some sleepless afternoons for conservative Supreme Court justices like Antonin Scalia, who opened the door to this with the Citizens United ruling. In that ruling, as I showed here ...
  • Will Yale's Singapore Venture Advance Liberal ...
    Some societies in Asia may be receptive to a seed of liberal education being sown by universities such as Yale. Some Asian societies might nourish liberal education's understandings of ordered liberty and democratic deliberation better than we're doing in the United States. But that's preci ...
  • Video: What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks!
    What Rush Limbaugh REALLY thinks! Why Rush Limbaugh really apologized to Sandra Fluke.
  • Obama's Peace Speech At AIPAC
    I was happily surprised by the President's AIPAC speech. I say this as someone who absolutely opposes the use of force to stop Iran's nuclear program and who favors containment, not war, if the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. I understand that Obama did not deliver a traditional "peace" spe ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • President Obama Sacrifices Gas Policy for Gas ...
    Statement of Trevor Lovell, Environmental Program Coordinator,  Public Citizen’s Texas Office It is unfortunate that President Barack Obama has decided to ignore news stories in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Financial Post, among others, explaining in simple terms ho ...
  • Native Americans Will Protest Keystone XL From ...
    Native Americans protesting the Keystone XL pipeline will be compelled to stay in enclosure located miles from President’s pro-oil event Native American’s gathering in Cushing, OK today to protest President Obama’s words of praise for the Keystone XL pipeline were forced by local authorities to ...
  • What good are rules if they are not enforced?
    The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has a proposal to pardon as many as 3,000 environmental rule breakers. Tell the TCEQ that pardoning polluters is no way to make the air and water in Texas cleaner. The TCEQ is changing the rules to allow those with a “poor” record of complying ...
  • TLLRWDCC could have trucks carrying radioactiv ...
    Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states could start rolling down Texas highways bound forburial at a dump in Andrews County on the Texas / New Mexico border as early as April,. The state’s commission (Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission) oversee ...
  • Comment Period for TCEQ Compliance History rul ...
    The comment period for the proposed new TCEQ Compliance History rules was extended in large part due to Public Citizen making the public aware that the TCEQ had run test scores on their data from the previous year’s posting but were not willing to release that information to us, the Austin ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Pain-free needle in development
    British inventor Oliver Blackwell may have come up with a needle that can give painless injections. The 29-year-old industrial design graduate has bas...
  • Borat theme played at medal ceremony
    Organisers were mortified to discover they'd downloaded the wrong song for the Kazakhstan anthem. When Kazakh shooter Maria Dmitrienko stood on the pe...
  • ISS crew take refuge in escape capsules
    The crew of the International Space Station took shelter when space debris was detected nearby. The exercise was mostly a safety precaution and has ha...
  • Poltergeist activity filmed in Australia
    Security footage shows a box of sweets being inexplicably flung from one of the shelves on to the floor. Filmed at an IGA store in Brompton, South Aus...
  • Do you believe in Bigfoot ?
    Opinion poll results suggest that 30 percent of Americans believe that Bigfoot is 'probably' real. Sightings of the elusive hominid continue to be rep...

Grassroots

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

Climate

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

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Romney's Lukewarm Santorum Supporters
    Mitt Romney cost crushed in Louisiana last night, losing in every parish except Orleans. Here's an example of why Romney did so badly: Jules Richard, 67, an accountant, used a backhanded compliment to describe his feelings about Romney. I think hes the best politician in the race, Richard ...
  • Romney's Locked In
    The Etch A Sketch fiasco was especially damaging because it fed into a pre-existing narrative about Romney's lack of core convictions, and because Romney's Republican opponents picked it up and ran with it. But I don't think it has the indelible power of Dukakis riding in the tank with a big-as ...
  • Heartless Observation
    News that the 71 year-old Dick Cheney has received a heart transplant practically begs for incivility, or at least snark of all kinds. I want to use a little self-restraint. The only thing I'm willing to say publicly about this is that they really ought to have a had a box to check on organ do ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Kathleen Parker
    I wish Kathleen Parker would stop prattling on about "moderation." At least she realizes that moderation is a state of mind and not a location on the ideological spectrum. But she never reacts accordingly. There are plenty of Democrats and even a handful of Republicans in Congress who are cap ...
  • Odd Thoughts
    We just went and saw The Lorax, and I can understand why the right-wingers are up in arms about it being environmentalist propaganda. It's basically one long advertisement against deforestation, corporatism, and greed. It was even a bit insufferable for my tastes, although Finn really enjoyed ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • What should average citizens know about US war ...
    This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery:Epic proponents, related ...
  • A Full Length Documentary About Green Anarchism
    END:CIV Resist or Die 2011, directed by Franklin Lopez Free (Creative Commons) download at: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-civ-resist-or-die/ Film Review END:CIV, according to the promo, “examines our culture’s systemic addiction to violence and environmental exploitation.” The title is draw ...
  • John Carter’s shape-shifting inter-dimensional ...
    1-minute movie trailer here. John Carter is a movie about inter-dimensional and shape-shifting aliens, few in number and near-immortal in lifespan, who manipulate willing “leaders” for endless wars. They portend to be legendary gods, and live for psychopathic esoteric domination. In the story, a ...
  • 6 months later: no White House, DOJ explanatio ...
    The NY Times and independent writer Madison Ruppert both point-out that the White House and DOJ have both failed to provide after six months any legal justification for assassinating American citizens in general legal principle, or specifically to American citizens Anwar al-Alwaki and two weeks ...
  • Upcoming Cuts
    Someone at NPR finally noticed the connection between the 18,000 jobs/0.1% rise in unemployment and all of the government budget slashing that has been going on.  For a real heads-up, take a look at NASA.  Pretend that the government is shutting down the space program as part of the trillions of ...

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  • News you may have missed #700: analysis edition
    Egypt struggles to advance spy satellite program. China spying on Taiwan despite thaw. US intel says water shortages threaten stability.
  • Libya’s spy chief was lured by French-Mauritan ...
    The arrest of Muammar al-Gaddafi’s spy chief in Mauritania last week was the culmination of a carefully planned French intelligence operation, which was secretly aided by the Mauritanian government, according to informed insiders.
  • US denies arms dealer’s release is part of swa ...
    The United States government has denied that the quiet release and deportation of an Iranian arms dealer is part of a secret deal to swap imprisoned agents with Iran.
  • News you may have missed #699
    Diplomatic war over the arrest of Gaddafi's spy chief. Azerbaijan arrests 22 in alleged Iran spy plot. Was there MI5 link to murder of UK nuclear activist?
  • News you may have missed #698
    Swedish official sent top-secret intel briefing via Hotmail. Russian diplomat won't deny espionage activity in Canada. New Taiwan spy case raises concerns.

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Grist - News

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

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  • The Teenage Brain
    Ever wonder why some teens do not seem very competent at long-term planning, empathy, or in-depth conversation? Ever feel like you are asking for some introspection and quizzing your child about how they feel and getting a blank stare? If so, it will not help to nag or worse, scream, just blame ...
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    The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has bestowed its highest group honor, the Trophy for Current Achievement, on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn.
  • Largest Hailstone Confirmed in Hawaii
    The grapefruit-size chunk of ice pummeled Oahu this month.
  • NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day
    Premiering on New York's Times Square today to mark World Water Day: a new visualization of global groundwater depletion created using data from NASA's GRACE mission.
  • Confirmed: vitamin pills can cause sudden death
    Dietary supplements containing vitamin A, E and beta-carotene increase mortality significantly, new research shows. A medical consultant says healthy people shouldn’t take them.

Invisible Opportunity

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Calling All Moms: Share Your Mom-Wisdom To Be ...
    Nobody knows how to multi-task like the mother of young kids, and in the spirit of sharing the mom-wisdom, our sister site Inhabitots is partnering with Clorox in a project to help moms share their time-saving tips with each another. Working with Karen Kauffman Orloff, writer of the children’s b ...
  • Students at NYU Launch “Sloth,” a Campus Thrif ...
    If you love scouring thrift stores as much as we do, you’ll find Sloth and the ideas driving it genius. Inspired by their studies, two students at New York University are launching a secondhand store in Washington Square that they are going to make into a community experience. With the hel ...
  • INTERVIEW: 8 Questions with Starbucks Global R ...
    Read the rest of INTERVIEW: 8 Questions with Starbucks Global Responsibility VP Ben Packard Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: ben packard, coffee farming, coffee house, corporate social responsibility, ethical farming sustainable agriculture, leed certified stores, leed ...
  • Gorgeous Wood-Wrapped Alesia Museum Opens in B ...
    Read the rest of Gorgeous Wood-Wrapped Alesia Museum Opens in Burgundy, France Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Alesia Museum, battle museum, battle of Alesia, Burgundy, double skinned facade, eco design, france, green design, green roof, Julius Caesar, sustainable desi ...
  • Postojna Concert Hall Boasts the World’s First ...
    Read the rest of Postojna Concert Hall Boasts the World’s First Post Office Inside a Cave Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: concert hall, eco design, green design, green renovation, Postojna Cave, Slovenia, Studio Stratum, sustainable design, sustainable upgrade, Undergr ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
    An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...
  • About Geomagnetic reversal and Poleshift
    A growing number of scientists are starting to worry that it is the magnetic pole shift that seems to be underway that is the real culprit behind climate change. Not man made air pollution, not the sun, not the underground volcanic activity heating up the oceans, but the slow beginning of a pole ...
  • Geo-Engineering: System Agenda
    U.N. Agenda 21 is encyclopedic in its Plan to presumed “Godhood” using “Think Tanks”. “Belief”, their Achilles heel, “Sanguinary Disorder”, their disease. Simplistic homogeneous, menially possessed of substance and “They”? Are in charge of subsidiary Corporate/Military actions?… Do not feed them ...
  • New Big Brother facial recognition system scan ...
    A new system has emerged to process surveillance footage for facial recognition, and it makes much of the previous technology seem like it belongs in the Stone Age, further empowering the Big Brother surveillance state.
  • ‘Don’t attack Iran!’ Anti-war protests hit UK ...
    UK activists from the ‘Stop the War Coalition’ have held a day of action to speak out against war with Iran. Protesters took to the streets of 15 major British cities. In Israel, hundreds marched in Tel Aviv protesting the war.

Andy Worthington

  • The Syrian People’s Revolution, One Year ...
    A year ago, when the Arab Spring began — or, as the events were then called, the revolutionary movements in the Middle East (which had already toppled two western-backed dictators in Tunisia and Egypt) — I remember being surprised, and also worried, when Syrian activists held a &#822 ...
  • The “Taliban Five” and the Forgott ...
    In the last three months, much discussion has focused on the possibility that, as part of negotiations aimed at securing peace in Afghanistan, the US would release five high-level Taliban prisoners in Guantánamo. Almost entirely forgotten are 12 other Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo, who are most ...
  • The Case of Shawali Khan, an Afghan in Guantán ...
    As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. Here at “Close Guantánamo,” we have been watching with interest the ongoing negotiations regarding five of the 17 remaining Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo. In December, ...
  • The Baleful Effects of NHS Privatisation Are A ...
    As the NHS is opened up to a tsunami of privatisation, the first alarming revelations about the potential disaster it will cause have already been revealed, in a number of articles in the Guardian over the last week — one dealing with “an assessment by the Faculty of Public Health (F ...
  • Photos: The “Austerity Isn’t Worki ...
    UK Uncut, the organisers of the “Austerity Isn’t Working” Dole Queue outside Downing Street this morning advised supporters to turn up for 11 am prompt for a recreation of the notorious “Labour Isn’t Working” poster from 1979 as a protest on Budget Day — ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Anti-War Israelis March in Tel Aviv: 'Don't At ...
    On Saturday, Israelis against a military strike on Iran marched in Tel Aviv to tell their government, and the world, that a majority of Israeli citizens do no want military action. They held signs with such captions as "No to War with Iran," and "Talks, not Bombs," as well as ...
  • Cash for Carnage: US Pays Afghan Families for ...
    The families of 16 Afghan villagers killed earlier this month by an American soldier were given $50,000 by the United States for each of their slain relatives, Afghan and American officials said Sunday.  The total payout is estimated at about $900,000. The announcement of the payment was ac ...
  • Atheists Gather to Profess Belief in 'Life Bef ...
    Neither wind nor rain could dissuade roughly 10,000 American atheists, secularists, humanists, free-thinkers and non-believers from 'coming out' on Saturday to express their reason-based belief systems on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The turnout at the 'Reason Rally' was ...
  • Murder of Iraqi Woman in California Appears Mo ...
    Shaima Alawadi, 32 and a mother of five, has died after being taken off life support Saturday at a hospital in San Diego County, various media report today. She had be discovered severely beaten in her home by her daughter, 17 year old ..., on Wednesday. A note was discovered nearby that said &q ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Continues to Take Aim at NY ...
    Occupy protesters marched from Liberty Square in lower Manhattan to Union Square in midtown on Saturday to call for the resignation of NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and speak out about police brutality in the city.  Of the many hundreds that marched, a handful were arrested by the riot ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Store Fresh Basil
    If you have a bunch of fresh basil that looks like a flower bouquet culinary site Chow.com recommends that you snip the ends of the leaves and put them in a jar of water just like flowers. Cover with a plastic bag and put in the fridge for up ...
  • Repurpose an Ikea Shelf Into a Sliding Pantry ...
    One of the authors at Ikea modification weblog Ikea Hackers had a 10" gap between their refrigerator and the wall. The author's house didn't have a pantry so he added casters to Ikea Kilby Bookshelves, added a bit of moulding to cover the cast ...
  • How to Waterproof Matches [DIY]
    If you don't have any commercial waterproof matches on hand for your outdoor adventures you can make your using shellac or clear nail polish. You'll just want to have a way to dip the top half of the match including the head and letting it dry ...
  • Five Best Headsets with Attached Microphones [ ...
    Whether you work at home and do a lot of video conferencing, or you love multiplayer games and want to hear your teammates as well as the background music and the ambient sounds, you need a good headset that can provide great audio and delive ...
  • Add a C-Clamp to Hold Tools While on a Ladder ...
    If you're working on your roof or other high area and don't have a toolbelt, you can easily use a c-clamp to keep a hammer or other tool handy. Popular Mechanics weblog notes that this method can keep a hammer safely at hand when working up hi ...

Water Privatization

  • Leading Business Intelligence on the Middle Ea ...
    JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia's water desalination capacity is expected to peak at 200,000 cubic meters by 2015 as the Kingdom rushes to meet demand from public consumers and private sector projects and comply with the water requirements of government-led infrastructure development.
  • Legislature swimming in unfinished business
    Celebration of legislation converted into Kansas law during the 2012 session takes little time. And it has more to do with flow of clean, abundant water than beer, wine or liquor associated with party time. Gov.
  • City pursues privatization of abattoir
    THE City Government will pursue the privatization of the city slaughterhouse in Sto. Niño barangay. Mayor Mauricio Domogan created last week a technical working group to prepare the terms of reference (TOR) to realize the venture. The mayor will chair the group with city veterinarian Dr. Brigit ...
  • Privatization Not Always The Solution For City ...
    In the long run, cities will not save the money they think they will by steering toward privatization, says one university professor.
  • City pursues privatization of abattoir
    THE City Government will pursue the privatization of the city slaughterhouse in Sto. Niño barangay. Mayor Mauricio Domogan created last week a technical working group to prepare the terms of reference (TOR) to realize the venture. The mayor will chair the group with city veterinarian Dr.

Guardian

  • Scotland basks in its highest March temperatur ...
    Weather in Aberdeenshire breaks 1957 record, while continuing spring heatwave could set new high in Northern IrelandBritain is set for more spring sunshine after a record-breaking weekend which saw Scotland log its highest March temperature. At Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, on Sunday afternoon, t ...
  • School leaving age should be raised to 18, say ...
    Former Bank of England adviser calls for measure to help combat rising youth unemploymentThe school leaving age should be raised to 18 to combat rising youth unemployment, a former economic adviser to the Bank of England has demanded.David Blanchflower also suggests that firms in depressed regio ...
  • 'Mission impossible' for Spain's PM – another ...
    Mariano Rajoy expected to win Andalucia regional elections, then order further austerity measuresSpain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, faces the toughest week of his three months in office as he is forced to announce up to €40bn (£33.45bn) in spending cuts and taxes in a budget on 30 March, th ...
  • Russian punk band were doing devil's work, say ...
    Patriarch Kirill condemns calls for leniency after Pussy Riot performed unsanctioned show in Moscow's main cathedralA feminist punk band who staged an unsanctioned performance in Moscow's principal cathedral were doing the work of the devil, according to the head of the Russian Orthodox church.P ...
  • Aung San Suu Kyi suspends Burma election tour ...
    Exhaustion forces pro-democracy leader to cancel stops on campaign trail a week before Burmese by-electionBurma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has fallen ill while campaigning for forthcoming by-elections and has suspended her extensive tour of the country a week before the polls, her p ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Death penalty not likely for U.S. soldier accu ...
    WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the death penalty is possible if a U.S. military court finds an Army staff sergeant guilty of gunning down Afghan children and family members. But it ...
  • Turkish PM Defends Country's Military Pre ...
    3/22/2012 2:52 AM ET (RTTNews) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended the stationing of his country's soldiers in Afghanistan and other nations. "You can be a great ...
  • Massacre of Civilians Fueled by 'Revenge& ...
    Afghan villagers near the site where US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is alleged to have murdered 16 civilians, including nine children, claim US troops -- just days before the shooting -- lined them ...
  • "Uncle Chang" Funding $10B-a-Month W ...
    Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C., left) asked Tuesday when Congress might hear that it's time for Americans to come home from the war "Uncle Chang" is funding in Afghanistan. "As ...
  • Pilots escape Afghan chopper crash
    The Apache AH-64 chopper is shown taking off from the Sar Howzah district in the Paktika province.In the incredible footage it flies over buildings before doubling back on itself.But somehow it ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Another week, another batch of comments. This week on the insightful side, the top three votegetters were so close that I'm just going to post all three. Eking out the narrow victory to the top spot was an Anonymous Coward who compared the situation of Bernie Madoff to Kim Dotcom (who had all ...
  • David Muir's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    The favorite posts we choose are undoubtedly influenced by our experience. So here's a quick rundown of my background: I'm Canadian. I went to school for Radio and Television Arts and briefly worked in print and radio journalism. I was involved in and managed software development at IBM for tw ...
  • We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Wan ...
    Recently, I gave a Sita Sings the Blues talk to a roomful of 15-to-17-year-olds. Near the end I explained Free Culture and my stance against copyright, which led to some interesting discussion. Turns out most of them are manga fans, and familiar with publishers’ complaints about scanned an ...
  • Finding Success In A Wasteland By Being Open, ...
    If there is one sure way to succeed in the modern age, it is by being open, human and awesome. This is something that we are learning over and over again in the entertainment world, and it is especially true for those running successful Kickstarter campaigns. What started with the success of Dou ...
  • Facebook Says That If You Use The Site You Agr ...
    We've discussed in the past Facebook's aggressive claims of trademarks on pretty much any use of "face" as a prefix or "book" as suffix. The company did eventually get a registered trademark on some uses of "Face", but the "book" part has proven more difficult. That said, you really don't have ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Afghan father tries to cope with rampage that ...
    The Associated Press reports: Mohammad Wazir can barely take a sip of water because it reminds him of his 7-year-old daughter, who brought him a glass three days before she was killed with 10 other loved ones in a shooting spree allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan. Wa ...
  • U.S. plans no charges over deadly strike in Pa ...
    The New York Times reports: The United States military has decided that no service members will face disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, an accident that plunged relations between the two countries to new depths and has gr ...
  • Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood push for Palestinia ...
    The New York Times reports: As it prepares to take power in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is overhauling its relations with the two main Palestinian factions in an effort to put new pressure on Israel for an independent Palestinian state. Officials of the Brotherhood, Egypt’s dominant Islamist m ...
  • Will Democrats strip civil liberties from thei ...
    Conor Friedersdorf writes: Four years ago, the last time the Democrats adopted a platform, their presidential candidate championed civil liberties, insisted that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay would make us safer from terrorists, and righteously denounced the expansive Bush-Cheney understa ...
  • The new antisemitism in America
    For over a decade, Americans have been told that the threat of terrorism lurks everywhere — that it is the preeminent threat to security across the globe and that, if politicians and other public figures are to be taken seriously, it poses an even greater threat to life on this planet than ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Royal Blatherfest
    Ray G writes: Donna Laframboise has a post up on the upcoming Royal Society-sponsored meeting with 2,500 attendees expected. the topic is climate change. Donna holds up the ridicule the list of attendees, singers, bureaucrats, song writers, PR professionals. The … Continue reading →
  • Letters I get letters – show me a sign & ...
    I got some email exchanges earlier today from Gordon Fulks regarding Sherri Quammen and interaction with her, which I posted, and in that comment thread she said: Please remove from you page. I feel a little harrassed and am uncomfortable … Continue reading →
  • Eco-rout down under: ‘A mini-van will ha ...
    Australians come to their senses – March 24th will be remembered as the day they collectively said “we’re tired of this sh**” Commenter “truthseeker” writes in comments: ============================================================ Anthony, You may want to refer to Jo Nova ...
  • Where there’s a need for immunity, there ...
    It seems to me, that if you are asking for immunity up-front, you already know that something has been done that without immunity, would land somebody in the slammer. From Fox News: Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – a glass half hot or half ...
    Gordon Fulks writes in about this humorous headline showing how the media catastrophises even simple things like a pleasant weekend forecast: Hello Everyone: Just to provide a little balance to the story about snow and cold in the Pacific Northwest … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Abraham Verghese: A doctor’s touch
  • Almonds are the new red
    The American Heart Association (AHA) recently certified almonds based on their nutrient profile to display the signature Heart-Check mark . The Heart-Check mark is overseen by AHA to help make it easier for shoppers to identify and choose heart-healthy foods. This symbol is the most consumer-tru ...
  • Researchers discover how vitamin D inhibits in ...
    Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered specific molecular and signaling events by which vitamin D inhibits inflammation. In their experiments, they showed that low levels of Vitamin D, comparable to levels found in millions of people, failed to inhibit the inflammatory cascade, wh ...
  • Citrus Fruits May Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
    Researchers have identified a compound found in oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits that may lower a woman’s stroke risk. Previous studies suggest that eating fruits and vegetables helps protect against strokes, and many believe that antioxidant compounds known as flavonoids may explai ...
  • Cool animation of Stem Cells

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia Launches Proton-M Carrier Rocket
    Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecoms satellite was launched early on Sunday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
  • Russia’s Proton-M Rocket with U.S. Intelsat-22 ...
    Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecoms satellite, Intelsat-22, will be launched on late Sunday afternoon from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan
  • Space Junk Misses ISS
    A piece of space debris missed the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, forcing its crew members to take shelter in rescue craft.
  • Investigators Check GLONASS Spending Amid Spac ...
    Investigators have been brought in to look into alleged misuse of federal funding, following a high-profile public row between the Russian space agency and a manufacturing subsidiary, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday.
  • Russian Eyes Mariana Trench as Cameron Prepare ...
    Russia is joining the race to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest ocean crevice on Earth, famous explorer Artur Chilingarov has said.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Mutated Trout Raise New Concerns Over Selenium
    It was the two-headed baby trout the got everyone's attention.Click here to read this article
  • New Chapter's New Owner (P&G) Steeped in Anima ...
    NaturalNews has never really taken much of an interest in Procter & Gamble -- until now. Having acquired New Chapter, a once-promising supplier of high-end herbal supplements such as Zyflamend, P&G now demands some honest scrutiny. Who are these people that New Chapter has decided to cozy up to? ...
  • Methyl Iodide: On Verge of Court Defeat, Fumig ...
    When Arysta LifeScience abruptly pulled methyl iodide off the market this week, it cited the "economic viability" of the controversial fumigant, which is used to sterilize soil before crops are planted.Click here to read this article
  • FDA Must Act to Remove Antibiotics from Animal ...
    NEW YORK, March 22 - A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. regulators to start proceedings to withdraw approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, citing concerns that overuse is endangering human health by creating antibiotic-resistant "superbugs".Click here to read this article
  • Even Food Industry Admits: GM Food Labeling Re ...
    Something you will not hear any large retailer or produce marketer say: Government mandated labeling of genetically modified fruits and vegetables is not needed.Click here to read this article

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Fight against Solitary Confinement in Californ ...
    Lawyers working with prisoner advocates and community organizations filed a petition to the United Nations calllng for UN action against California's prison administration for treatment that may be considered torture of world's largest isolated population Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Dr. Walter Willett on red meat
    Willett and colleagues published a study : we did see a linear, step-wise increase in risk of dying prematurely with higher red meat consumption. Low risk : one serving of meat or less per week Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • The BBC Film That Exposed Israel's Secret Ille ...
    This documentary tells us that Israel has the 6th largest nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in the World. Israel is the only piece of land on Earth where UN Inspectors do not go to inspect their nuclear sites. WHY NOT?? Submitted by Barbara W. to World  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Judge says FDA must act on rule to prevent ove ...
    Factory farming rule from 1977 Part of concerns of http://factoryfarmingconference.org/ Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Feeding The Homeless Banned In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless Submitted by Evelyn J. to Society & C ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effec ...
    On 1 September 2011, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) admitted, that for Finnish children and youngsters age 4-19, there was a new and obvious connection between Pandemrix and narcolepsy. As stated in THL's press release, "The increased risk associated with vaccination ...
  • ‘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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Hundreds of Israelis march in Tel Aviv to prot ...
    ShareThisHundreds of Israelis march in Tel Aviv to protest war with Iran 24 Mar 2012 Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The protest came amid a recent Facebook campaign linking Israeli and Iranian citize ...
  • 'No US-led trooper will face charges over Paki ...
    ShareThis'No US-led trooper will face charges over Pakistan killings' 25 Mar 2012 The US military says no American soldier will face disciplinary charges for the US-led airstrikes that killed 24 soldiers in northwestern Pakistan last November. A second investigation into the incident carried out ...
  • Santorum picks up delegates with win in Louisiana
    ShareThisSantorum picks up delegates with win in Louisiana 25 Mar 2012 Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum picked up 10 convention delegates by winning Louisiana's Republican presidential primary Saturday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won five delegates and five will be designated as ...
  • Justice Dept. Broadens Investigations of Terro ...
    ShareThisJustice Dept. Broadens Investigations of Terrorism in Private Records 23 Mar 2012 The U.S. Justice Department plans to extend the length of time intelligence agencies can retain records on private citizens, even if there is no evidence they are involved in terrorism. The guidelines Atto ...
  • Dick Cheney Recovers From Heart Transplant
    ShareThisBreaking: Dick Cheney Recovers From Heart Transplant 24 Mar 2012 Former US Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant and is recovering in hospital. The 71-year-old, who was a controversial figure in the George W Bush administration, has had a long history of heart trou ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Panjway, Afghanistan: Amphitheater of War
    For a larger view please click on image or one of the links below. 23 March 2012 This panorama was made in the general area where the Panjway 17 massacre unfolded.  The view is over the Arghandab River Valley, a place that Canadian and many US forces know well.  The Arghandab can be ...
  • Alcohol in Afghanistan
    19 March 2012 There are reports that alcohol was involved in the Panjway 16.  There are also reports that alcohol was not involved. Since 2005, I've only seen two Soldiers truly drunk on missions during about three years with combat troops.  Both were in Iraq.  One Soldier was e ...
  • Sir Petraeus
    16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
  • Libya Spot Report
    16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place.  I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...
  • More Mass Murders in Afghanistan
    15 March 2012 Got this message from former Marine Tim Lynch, in Afghanistan.  Tim's not always polite, but he's a former infantry officer and I listen to him very closely: "The Taliban killed 13 women and children today with an IED in Uruzgan and I think they got 8 yesterday - but that's ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • HRW: Syria government using civilians as human ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported on Sunday that Syrian government officials are rounding up civilians [press release] and forcing them to walk in front of the army during arrests, troop movements and attacks on villages in order to shield the army from opposition for ...
  • China to end organ donations from executed pri ...
    [JURIST] Chinese Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said on Thursday that China will stop taking organs from executed prisoners in the next three to five years. The Ministry of Health [official website, in Chinese] and the Red Cross Society of China [advocacy website] have been working together ...
  • US pays compensation to families of shooting s ...
    [JURIST] The US government has paid compensation to the families of the victims of a shooting spree [JURIST report] allegedly committed by a US soldier, according to statements made by an Afghan elder. The families of the victims killed [AP report] in the incident received $50,000 and the famili ...
  • Russia simplifies political party registration ...
    [JURIST] The Russian legislature on Friday passed a bill [bill profile, in Russian] that will make it easier for political parties to register with the government. The bill was introduced in response to widely disputed [France 24 report] and heavily protested [RIA Novosti] elections, which were ...
  • SEC files subpoena enforcement action against ...
    [JURIST] The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website] announced [press release] on Friday that it filed a subpoena enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] against Wells Fargo & Company [corporate website] to force th ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Follows the Netwo ...
    TweetI posted some time ago when the Southern Poverty Law Center designated Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs as an Islamophobic hate blog along with her Stop the Islamization of America group, which invented the “Ground Zero Mosque” and ensuring Muslim-bashing controversy.  Recently, ...
  • Petition Campaign Against Iran War
    TweetA local activist friend has created a new petition campaign against an Israeli attack on Iran.  He asks signers to commit to divesting from Israel in their personal and political lives if it launches a pre-emptive assault on Iran. In all honesty, there is one element of the text with which ...
  • Seattle Rejects StandWithUs Pro-Israel Pinkwas ...
    TweetPhan Nguyen exposed a good deal of the seamy underside of the StandWithUs-Ministry of Foreign Affairs pinkwashing campaign here in the Pacific NW that ended with the Seattle city LGBT Commission cancelling a gala reception it had planned with an Israeli LGBT delegation brought here to showc ...
  • Israeli Universities Cave to Pressure from Far ...
    TweetOver the past several years, the Israeli far-right think tank, the Institute for Zionist Strategies, has accused Tel Aviv University (TAU) and other academic institutions of being hotbeds of anti-Zionism.  Here is how I described the campaign waged by IZS in a 2010 post: [IZS is] demanding ...
  • Former IDF Pilot Arrested Smuggling $2.5-Milli ...
    TweetThis promises to be an interesting story.  The Telegraph reports that former IDF pilot, Shmuel Kainan Klein was arrested in Harare’s international airport while trying to smuggle $2.5-million worth of local diamonds out of the country in his luggage: Shmuel Kainan Klein, 55, was detai ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Russia on Edge - Russia 2012: Increased Repres ...
    Among the very top priorities of U.S. foreign and security policies, I doubt there are many – if any – objectives more important than a free, democratic, stable, and prosperous Russia, at peace, in the long last, with its own people, its neighbors and the world. Assisting the emergence of su ...
  • The Edge of Health - Can Our Genes Be Making U ...
    While high-fat foods are thought to be of universal appeal, there is actually a lot of variation in the extent to which people like and consume fat. A new study in the March issue of the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists, reported that two specific genes ( ...
  • The Edge of Health - Biomarkers for Autism Dis ...
    An important step towards developing a rapid, inexpensive diagnostic method for autism has been take by Uppsala University, among other universities. Through advanced mass spectrometry the researchers managed to capture promising biomarkers from a tiny blood sample. The study has just been publi ...
  • The Nano Edge - Swarming and Transporting
    The orange-colored vehicle begins moving with a quiet whirr. Soon afterwards the next shuttles begin to move, and before long there are dozens of mini-transporters rolling around in the hall. As if by magic, they head for the high-rack storage shelves or spin around their own axis. But the Multi ...
  • The Nanotech Edge - Diatom Biosensor Could Shi ...
    A glow coming from the glassy shells of microscopic marine algae called diatoms could someday help us detect chemicals and other substances in water samples. And the fact that this diatom can glow in response to an external substance could also help researchers develop a variety of new, diatom-i ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The French Whitewash of Muslim on Jew Violence
    By Barry Rubin The murders in Toulouse should be a wake-up call for France. True, the assaults on Jews and French soldiers were three individual terror attacks perpetrated. Yet they are among dozens of antisemitic incidents that happen daily in France and throughout Europe. A ...
  • Obamacare: Nancy Pelosi Was the Only Honest De ...
    Growing up , my friends used to tell me that the worlds biggest lie was "the check is in the mail." Since the election of Barack Obama my friends were proven wrong many times over and most of those lies were told in defense of the President's signature program; Obamacare. ...
  • Withdrawing My Endorsement of Rick Santorum
    Almost two months ago (and for the first time ever on this site) I made an endorsement in a GOP primary campaign.  Though sure of the  endorsement itself it was a concern if readers would be interested in reading about my support for  Rick Santorum (or anyone's support for an ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Alan Grayson Has Mental ...
    In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that former Florida Congressman Alan Grayson is showing signs of mental duress. The party "hit-man" who once held the title of nastiest man in congress (both houses...in fact any legislature across the world), has been accusing ...
  • Gallup Poll: Americans Want Obama to Approve K ...
    Today, the President travels to Oklahoma where he will announce he supports constructing the final segment of the Keystone pipeline (the segment going from mid-Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico). What he wont mention is, to build this part of the pipeline no federal permission is needed.  Fede ...

The Real Agenda

  • A Free and Independent Man
    By JOHN F. KENNEDY | The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted conc ...
  • Quita tus Manos de mi Agua
    Prepárese para las ‘guerras del agua “, dice análisis de inteligencia POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 24 DE MARZO 2012 Un informe publicado por la Oficina del Director de Inteligencia Nacional de los Estados Unidos (ODNI) advierte sobre un nuevo tipo de guerras por ven ...
  • Monsanto Trying to Indoctrinate Kids about GMO ...
    By ANTHONY GUCCIARDI | NATURAL SOCIETY | MARCH 23, 2012 Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propagan ...
  • Future Global Environmental Entity seeks Immun ...
    By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 24, 2012 The Green Climate Fund, an entity created during the last Climate Change meeting in Durban, South Africa, is seeking diplomatic style immunity, just as the United Nations itself has it. Although the UN is the organization that spons ...
  • Google’s ‘Ambient Background’ Spy Tech
    By PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | INFOWARS.COM | MARCH 23, 2012 Six years ago we warned readers that Google was planning to use the ambient background noise of a person’s environment to spy on their activities in order to direct targeted advertising at them through technological devices. That ha ...

Wind Watch

  • Banning turbines in Litchfield maintains town& ...
    LITCHFIELD — After a week on vacation, Litchfield resident Pat Christensen cherishes the moment she can step through the door and breathe a sigh of relief — she’s home. “That feeling has to stay here,” said Christensen, spokeswoman for Litchfield United. If industrial wind turbines set up shop i ...
  • Study finds wind turbines may be bad for your ...
    Everything from vertigo to sleep deprivation, migraines, heart disease, stress and tinnitus has been blamed on wind farms. The Oregon Health Authority Office of Environmental Public Health spent more than a year investigating whether living close to wind turbines damages personal health or bring ...
  • Clifton farmers file complaint against Pisgah ...
    BANGOR, Maine — After exhausting all of their local options for halting an industrial wind farm proposed for Pisgah Mountain, the owners of Rebel Hill Farm in Clifton are taking the matter to court. In a complaint filed at Penobscot County Superior Court, Peter and Julie Beckford allege that tow ...
  • Wind farm delay could affect Orangeville taxes
    ORANGEVILLE — Invenergy’s problem may also be the town’s. The Chicago-based company has delayed major work on the proposed Stony Creek Wind Farm, as it awaits renewal of the federal Production Tax Credit that supports renewable energy. If the work doesn’t proceed, the Town Board may need to enac ...
  • Tribes fight green energy wind project in desert
    SAN DIEGO — Several Native American tribes in the Southwest are fighting a large wind farm planned near the town of Ocotillo, in Imperial County, CA. The tribes say there are more than 400 archeological sites on the land where the turbines would be located. The Ocotillo Wind Express Energy Proje ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Leveraged Buyout of the GDR
    Until the European Central Bank purchased a call option on the future assets of the Greek government (which remains out-of-the-money), the largest leveraged buyout of a sovereign state had taken place in 1990, when the West German government acquired the German Democratic Republic (GDR), thought ...
  • Addressing Workforce Shortages in the Dakotas
    While not immune to the recession, the upper Great Plains is in a different economic situation from the rest of the nation. Growth coupled with low unemployment means more strain on the region’s workforce, making it tougher for employers to find the workers they need. It's not so much about ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
    Vietnam may be the next China. With a nominally communist government, Vietnam has liberalized its markets and is prospering from an increased reliance on exports. Vietnam's gross domestic product per capita is still only about $3000, but has been among the faster growing economies over the pa ...
  • Data Spotlight: Ranking States by Their Depend ...
    A recent Brookings paper makes a clear case from the start: “Manufacturing matters to the United States …” Other economists and econ bloggers aren’t so sure. What’s clear, however, is certain states (think Indiana, Wisconsin, and Arkansas) depend on manufacturing to fuel their economies more ...
  • The Expanding Wealth Of Washington
    Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last year grew faster in population than any major region in the country, up a remarkable 2.7 perce ...

GM Watch

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

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

  • Review of the “Container Gardening Project in ...
    LATEST NEWS FROM MALAWI (Patrick HARRY – March 14, 2012) Nyassa Forest Garden to b installed After almost five years of hard work for the Container Gardening Project in Malawi, the project is setting up new plans to introduce a … Continue reading →
  • Fires and Dust (Google / Earth Snapshot)
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.eosnap.com/fires/fires-and-dust-in-drought-stricken-west-africa/ Fires and Dust in Drought-Stricken West Africa Dust and smoke mix together over West Africa, creating a hazy veil that obscures much of the ground below. Click  ...
  • Unscrupulous politicians and contractors were ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/africa/food-aid-ripe-corruption-reports-transparency-international Food aid ripe for corruption reports Transparency International Food deliveries are the riskiest and food voucher p ...
  • Hints for predicting future long-term droughts ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://iedro.com/blog/articles/africa-drought African Drought and Data Rescue By Gavin Roy Drought in Africa has been a destructive force to life and property since the beginning of recorded time. Most recently, … Continue reading ...
  • UN: $50 MILLION URGENTLY NEEDED WITHIN 90 DAYS ...
    New York, Mar 23 2012 11:05AM The United Nations food agency today urgently appealed for $50 million within the next 90 days to help farmers in the Horn of Africa with priority agricultural and pastoral activities, ahead of the region’s … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Looking for interplanetary defense work?
    We were shocked to read on Discover magazine’s website last week that an asteroid 450 feet across, lurking just now on the other side of the sun, stands a (remote) chance of smacking us — or someone else on earth — in about 29 years. Scientists presently judge the probability to be around 1 in 6 ...
  • Hiding at the back of the budget book
    Some vexing news about the Obama administration’s military contracting practices was well-hidden in the Pentagon’s budget briefing materials this year, appearing near the back of the Defense Department Comptroller’s overview presentation of the 2013 budget. There, amid generally positive self-gr ...
  • Grim torture tales from Syria
    Many reports of violence by pro-Government forces in Syria have been at arms length, and rarely given in detail. That changed today when Amnesty International released a disturbing new report detailing the almost invariable violence adult protestors — as well as some children below the age of 18 ...
  • ANALYSIS: Lack of leadership at the top of cor ...
    As I was reading former Wall Street executive Greg Smith’s bombshell of an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, I mentally inserted the names of the big for-profit health insurers — two of which I worked for — in place of Goldman Sachs, where Smith worked until resigning on the day his column ...
  • ANALYSIS: Ripple effect of 'cost-shifting' unc ...
    If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Anarchists, Comrades and the Public Send Nazis ...
    Nazis attempted to rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and were sent "fleeing" by anti-racist activists. EDMONTON - A white supremacist rally in Edmonton's downtown lasted only minutes when the demonstrators fled into a ...
  • 2012 Newroz riots in Turkey
    In defiance of government's ban on Newroz, the day the coming of the spring is celebrated in the Kurdish culture hundreds of thousands took to the streets. Violent clashes occurred. AKP government rejected the BDP* demand to cel ...
  • Rob the rich!
    A call to arms to the working class from Jason Brannigan in The Leveller as the crisis bites and the rich continue to rob us blind. We are told repeatedly that we must all pay for the ongoing crisis that capitalism finds itself in... ...
  • Occupy Wall Street meets the Million Hoodie March
    141676955_10_0.jpg On March 21st in New York City, a large, raucous march from Union Square set out to confront police harassment and the murder of black youth at the hands of cops and racist thugs. ...
  • Wear off from the bag, dressed chloe on sale i ...
    Wear off from the bag, dressed in a narrow lapels sleeve tight robes, trousers, foot waist boots up. read more

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • I took the Energy Star Pledge Have You?
    Twitter <—- Find Me —> Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog Related articles New Company Website for St Louis Renewable Energy (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (sco ...
  • Garden Screen Protector-City Garden
    How I plan to protect the back-yard vegetable garden from the Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, and other malicious garden destroying animals. Deer Block Mesh supported by: 1/2 Metal Conduit Related articles Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden? (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) New vegetable ga ...
  • 2012 Election Poll-What are the Issues that re ...
    What are the 5 most Important Issues in the upcoming election to you and your family. Created March 23, 2012 Compare the Results of the 2010 Election Poll to the Issues of today- Poll Results from 2010 Election Issues 2010 Election (created Oct 28, 2010)-What issues are most important to you and ...
  • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
    Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Conditions First Plants to Germinate Ma ...
  • Help Support Renewable Energy in St Louis
    Because, it’s healthier for the environment and people than pollution from power plants? Because a diverse energy portfolio protects ratepayers from steep rate hikes and fosters competition that keeps electric rates low? Or because installing solar panels and wind turbines creates good jobs that ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • گفتگوی اختصاصی مهر ایران با دکتر احمد شهید
    در پی درخواست سازمانهای فعال در زمینه حقوق بشر از اعضای شورای حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد ، روز پنج شنبه، سوم فروردین ۱۳۹۱، شورای حقوق بشر با صدور قطعنامه ای برای یک سال دیگر ماموریت دکتر احمد شهید گزارشگر ویژه حقوق بشر ایران را تمدید کرد [The actual interview starts at minute 5] read more
  • How to Handle Iran Nuclear Talks
    The immediate aim of the upcoming talks is to build confidence that Iran will not be able to make a quick sprint to build nuclear weapons.
  • Netanyahu: The Man Who Won't Take "Yes" For an ...
    Things are bad. The prime minister is a gloomy man, a man without hope, a weak man, trapped in the hands of others, carrying childhood memories of a somber, subdued home, where the study of the Inquisition set the tone (his father was a historian who specialized in medieval Spanish Jewry). Forev ...
  • تمدید ماموریت احمد شهید و ناکامی دیپلماسی انکار
    تمدید ماموریت احمد شهید که جواد لاریجانی او را در یک برنامه تلویزیونی شبکه دوم صداوسیما «کودن» نامید و در جلسه شورا نیز دو هفته پیش او را «مغرض» و «نادان» خطاب کرد، موقعیت بسیار دشواری را پیش روی دستگاه دیپلماسی ایرانی قرار می دهد.read more
  • Escape from Iran: One Man's Journey From Riche ...
    The story of how an Iranian businessman helped his country develop the world's largest natural gas field, got involved with the president's depraved son, and ended up fighting for his life.  read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • END:CIV Resist or Die
    END:CIV Resist or Die 2011, directed by Franklin Lopez Free (Creative Commons) download at: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-civ-resist-or-die/ Film Review END:CIV, according to the promo, “examines our culture’s systemic addiction to violence and environmental exploitation.& ...
  • Farmers of Forty Centuries
    Farmers of Forty Century: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan By F.H. King (1911, reprinted in 2004 by Dover Publications) Book Review I don’t typically review (or read) 100 year old books. Farmers of Forty Centuries is an important exception. It has become a classic of the permacult ...
  • New Zealand’s First “Terrorism&# ...
    2007 Police Raid on Ruatoki The US and its English-speaking allies have embarked on a dangerous trend of arresting (or targeting for assassination) political activists on the basis of what they allegedly say or intend or who they associate with, as opposed to actual criminal acts. Anwar al-Awlak ...
  • The ICNC Role in the Arab Spring
    ICNC Founder Peter Ackerman (This is the last of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) In the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, Sharp and the ...
  • A Close Look at Gene Sharp’s Past
    (This is the fourth of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance.) There is no question that Thierry Meyssan’s 2005 article on Gene Sharp&# ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • All for none and none for all
    My March 4 post "What's the matter with white people?" was Salon's top story that week, and it got a lot of comments and online attention. I went on vacation a few days later, but I've wanted to address a few arguments, if belatedly.I asked "What's the matter with white people?" because my peopl ...
  • In Iraq and on “The Wire,” it&#821 ...
    Benjamin Busch's "Dust to Dust" is a remarkable book -- part military memoir, part childhood reminiscence, and also an effort to explain his relationship with his father, the celebrated novelist Frederick Busch.And yet it is also more than all of those things. Busch is filled with complicated an ...
  • Mexican drug cartel calls truce for pope&#8217 ...
    Late last week, residents of Michoacán received some of the best news the dangerous Mexican state has gotten in months. Friday afternoon, the powerful drug cartel the Knights Templar (Los caballeros templarios) announced a three-day truega, or truce, on violent action. The reason? Not the pleas ...
  • The pope’s controversial visit
    LEON, GUANAJUATO, Mexico — The arrival of Pope Benedict XVI here is being celebrated by many, but not by all.Guanajuato is one of Mexico’s most religious, conservative states, and the birthplace of President Felipe Calderon’s center-right National Action Party. The pope’s decision to visit this ...
  • Teacher calls Toulouse shooter a “victim ...
    A French high school teacher faces disciplinary action after she urged students to observe a minute of silence for Mohammed Merah, the man who shot and killed three students outside a Jewish school in Toulouse this week, AFP reported.On a day when France observed a minute of silence for the chil ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Global ‘water war’ threat by 2030 ...
    Nations will cut off rivers to prevent their enemies having access to water downstream, terrorists will blow up dams, and states that cannot provide water for their citizens will collapse. This is the future – as painted by a top US security report. ­The Office of the Director of National ...
  • Mysterious child disease hits Uganda
    Mysterious disease that affects children devastates northeastern Uganda. Health officials have been researching the possible causes of the disease since 2009, without success… Nancy Lamwaka has bruises all over her body because she lost the ability to recognize danger. Most mornings, Micha ...
  • Russia finally has Bulava ICBM, after 14 years ...
    It seems that the longest spic story in the history of Russian missile technologies is drawing to an end. Defense Ministry officials stated that the Bulava ballistic missile would be passed into service for the Russian Navy in October 2012. Nuclear submarines of Project 955 Borei – Yury Do ...
  • Iran war will be worst mistake in US history: ...
    Cuba’s revolution leader Fidel Castro has warned Washington against a military attack on Iran, describing such a move as the worst mistake in US history. In an article titled “The Roads Leading to Disaster,” published in the official daily Granma on Thursday, Castro said there is no ...
  • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
    An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Did The AP Tag Alleged Iraqi Hate Crime To Dic ...
    This is strange , though I can't rule out some plausible and innocent explanation for it. But I've never observed it via Memeorandum before. The programming that drives Memeorandum always seems to pick up the author of a news report. EL CAJON, Calif. — A woman from Iraq who was found beaten nex ...
  • Jennifer Lawrence Had An Interesting Childhood
    Apparently Jennifer Lawrence could have used a pre- Hunger Games exercise plan just to get through her childhood. Her two big brothers had the run-of-the-mill sibling torture down, but also proved they could get creative with their childhood wrath. Jennifer explained to David Letterman , while ...
  • Detroit 6, Philadelphia 3: Verlander goes six ...
    Final - 3.25.2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Philadelphia Phillies 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 0 Detroit Tigers 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 6 7 0 WP: Phil Coke (1 - 0) LP: Joe Savery (1 - 1) Complete Coverage > Justin Verlander went six innings of two-run ball, but ultimately Phil Coke got the win when the Tig ...
  • NFL Owner Meetings 2012: Injured Reserve Rule ...
    Starting tomorrow, the NFL owners will begin their annual pre-draft meetings, this year in Palm Beach, Florida. This particular meeting is where the owners will consider a variety of potential rule changes . There are numerous possible changes on the table, but two of the most pertinent revolve ...
  • US Pays $50,000 Per Shooting Death In Afghanis ...
    When Staff Sgt. Robert Bales opened fire on innocent Afghanistan civilians in two villages an international crisis began and to help quell the anger being felt the United States government has handed over nearly $50,000 in compensation to each family that lost loved ones to the shootings. When ...

Groklaw

  • USPTO: Recruiting for Innovation
    USPTO is on the move. The enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act has allowed the USPTO to launch several transformative initiatives that are not only making it easier for businesses to navigate the patenting and trademark processes-but also helping the U.S. usher groundbreaking innovat ...
  • Hitler reacts to Mayo v. Prometheus
    Robert Sachs of Fenwick was able to transalate this from the original German. [PJ: Hitler apparently thinks one would have to be a dummkopf to agree with the US Supreme Court decision. "All I ever wanted to be is a patent lawyer... Now what is there for me?"] - Patently O
  • Firefox switching to HTTPS Google search by de ...
    A few days ago, Mozilla's developers quietly enabled Google's HTTPS encrypted search as the default search service for the "nightly" developer trunk of the Firefox browser (it will actually use the SPDY protocol). This change should reach regular users at some point in the next few months. Th ...
  • Show Me the Money: States, ABA Try to Figure O ...
    Of special concern is an emerging small group of "super spenders" that are drowning out small contributors. In 29 of the last decade's most expensive elections, the top five spenders shelled out $473,000 on average for each one to seat their chosen judicial candidates, while other donors ave ...
  • Sign of the Times
    Stephon stood just a few feet away from Barack Obama. The president, busy shaking hands, looked right at him. "It was like he was waiting for me to say something," he said later. So the 26-year-old Prince George's Community College student took his cue and spoke to President Obama in his first ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Connecticut goes Orwellian. Wants to track all ...
    The Connecticut Legislature is considering a bill mandating RFIDs be atttached to all vehicles so they can be tracked continually.“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.”– Dilemma for Winston Smith and others, George Orwell, 1984
  • Dion Dimucci recalls that fateful plane flight
    In a closed dressing room, we flipped a coin to see who was going to fly. The Big Bopper and I won the toss.Then Buddy told us what the flight would cost: $36.Thirty-six bucks. That figure set off an alarm in my brain.All my childhood, I had listened to my parents [...]
  • Tiny houseboat home
    Dominque Brown in Britain built an amazing little floating home for herself by restoring and refurbishing a 70′s narrow boat. It’s 6 feet wide and 30 feet long.Read about it on Tiny House Blog, where they have lots more photos.
  • A tempting target for hackers, no doubt
    The White House might go wireless.
  • Light in homes from plastic bottles filled wit ...
    MIT developed the idea and it’s now being implemented in poor homes in the Phillipines. Fill a plastic bottle with water and stick it in the roof. It provides a surprising amount of light.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Tell Your Doctor: If You Don't Show Me This, Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola All across the United States, people are fighting for their right not to be injected with vaccines against their will. Currently, the Colorado Board of Health has been holding hearings on whether or not to adopt a new rule that would mandate healthcare workers get an annual f ...
  • Addictive and Toxic: Found in Bread, Pasta Sau ...
    By Dr. Mercola Hungry for Change is a 90-minute film from the creators of Food Matters, the documentary that expertly showed the basics of how food is your true medicine and the key to good health. Hungry for Change continues the story about how you can create vibrant health, abundant energy ...
  • Is This FDA-Approved Sweetener Causing Brain D ...
    By Dr. Mercola Aspartame is the most popular artificial sweetener in the United States, but I think a more apt description would be the most dangerous food additive on the U.S. market. Used in more than 6,000 products (often sugar-free or "diet" versions), millions of people consume this tox ...
  • Use This Japanese Trick to "Amp Up" the Antiox ...
    By Dr. Mercola Krill are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans that live in the ocean.  They are plentiful; packed with nutrients, and, according to some, might be a possible fix for world hunger.  A U.N. report has predicted worldwide starvation by the year 2050 if we do not alter how an ...
  • Gov. Dept. Works With Major Corporation to Hid ...
    video platform video management video solutions video player By Dr. Mercola Following allegations of animal abuse, police raided a North Carolina Butterball turkey farm in December 2011, inspecting nearly 3,000 birds. The investigation, which is stil ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
    Erui pictured in 2012, and his wife Bajo photographed just after she was captured in 1986. © Survival Ayoreo Indians have publicly marked the 25th anniversary of Paraguay’s last manhunt, in which over two dozen of the tribe’s members were captured, and five killed. The US-based fundamental ...
  • Papuan leaders imprisoned for treason
    Indonesia's brutal crackdown on last October's peaceful rally claimed many victims. © Tapol/Down to Earth/West Papua Media Five Papuan leaders have been found guilty of treason and sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Papua’s capital, Jayapura. Forkorus Yaboisembut, E ...
  • ‘Genocide’ risk in Brazil despite UN push to e ...
    Illegal logging could destroy the Awá, who are the world's most threatened tribe. © Fiona Watson/Survival Calls are growing to stop ‘a real situation of genocide’ inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Experts warn Brazi ...
  • Bushmen make a splash on World Water Day
    Bushman girls enjoy water from the well at Mothomelo © Vox United/Survival Qoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the borehole was disabled. © Survival
  • Amazon road spells disaster for Indians
    The proposed road threatens some of the world's last uncontacted tribes in Brazil and Peru. © Survival Peru’s largest protected area is on the verge of being invaded by a road, which threatens to destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people. The proposed project would cut throu ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Aislin's party animals: some of our favourite ...
    Last week, The Gazette's editorial cartoonist, Aislin (Terry Mosher), gave readers a challenge: suggest an animal that could represent each of Canada's federal political parties, as the donkey represents the Democrats and the elephant the Republicans in the United States. This week Aislin has do ...
  • Assisted dying: it's time for a discussion
    Whether to allow people with terminal illnesses to die at a time of their choosing with the assistance of a doctor is a thorny issue in which Canadian politicians have been reluctant to engage, even as it becomes more pressing.
  • Voices of reason on Quebec's police shootings bill
    Now that hearings by a National Assembly committee on the proposed legislation on investigations into police shootings have wrapped up, the government should have heard enough to persuade it to make substantial changes to the bill.
  • Hydro's new meters aren't as smart as they cou ...
    At their outset, public hearings that opened this week on Hydro-Québec's proposed implementation of "smart meters" were framed in terms of largely anecdotal health concerns over radio-frequency radiation associated with wireless transmission of data about consumption of electricity.
  • The Liberals stake their claim as fiscal managers
    The best news from the new provincial budget brought down by Finance Minister Raymond Bachand is that it's not much of a newsmaker.

Food World Order

  • Vintage Weight Loss Ads: A Look At The Health ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: Would Don Draper approve these messages? With Mad Men's season five premiere bringing everyone's favorite vintage show back to television on Sunday, we decided to take a look back at the ads that influenced our dieting styles and body images over the years. It's eas ...
  • Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Tryin ...
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are laughable. But these blatant lies are passed off as ‘science’ for schoolchildren.  It’s not enough that the biotech industry — led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and ...
  • Neurosurgeon issues public challenge to vaccin ...
    from naturalnews.com: Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, author and expert on "excitotoxins," has issued a public challenge to vaccine pushers everywhere to put their money where their mouths are. During a recent interview with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about the fraudulent science of th ...
  • #Video: Episode014 - Climate Change, New Chapter
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Climate Change, New Chapter and more... Feed/Archive Previous Video: Episode013 - C ...
  • #Audio: Episode014 - Climate Change, New Chapter
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Climate Change, New Chapter and more... Episode014: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Bizarre alternative realities play out on Athe ...
    An important date in the calendar of Greece today, a date normally set aside for Independence Day celebrations. Yet in a frightening display which seemed to have been taken from the pages of an Orwell novel, two very differing realities played out on the streets of Athens and elsewhere across ...
  • Monckton Does It Again: Asserts Obama Birth Ce ...
    Our Lord Monckton has taken coal to Newcastle... or in this case, a President to the American people. Never one to fear speaking his mind, he has asserted his conclusion that the Obama birth certificate - issued by the White House to dismiss the crescendo in the U.S. over the alleged 'birth ...
  • Her Majesty's Speech: As if the Lisbon Treason ...
    Many seem to have commented today on the fact that Her Majesty The Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament today to mark her Diamond Jubilee as our Monarch. However, is there any reading between the lines to be found in what she actually said? Looking at the text of Her Majesty's speech, ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th March 2012
    "The primary duty of Government is to defend the realm. In the case of Britain that includes overseas territories like the Falklands and protecting our trade routes, which stretch around the world. We are being betrayed from within. We have a Government which has decommissioned our aircraft c ...
  • It's a Puppet! Cameron Revives Rothschild Road ...
    If it walks like a puppet and talks like a puppet, it's a puppet. Virtually every single corporate newspaper front page carries the story of Cameron plans to introduce private sector involvement in Britain's road network. Here it is in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, the Dail ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • IT IS TIME TO END OUR PRIVATISED MONEY SYSTEM
    As the eurozone faces financial meltdown, it’s important to recall there is a solution. A really simple one. The eurozone just needs a central bank or a state bank which creates money and puts it into circulation without charging interest. 97% of the money currently put into circulation in the e ...
  • IT IS TIME TO END OUR PRIVATISED MONEY SYSTEM
    As the eurozone faces financial meltdown, it’s important to recall there is a solution. A really simple one. The eurozone just needs a central bank or a state bank which creates money and puts it into circulation without charging interest. 97% of the money currently put into circulation in the e ...
  • NEW! The Stauffenberg and Hitler Assassination ...
    Have you had a stressful day at the office/home?  Have you made a plan that has run into trouble? Have you had to deal with intense fear, guilt and uncertainty and the prospect of the total collapse of your country, the loss of your job, your savings, your pension and even your life? Yes? Then y ...
  • NEW! The Stauffenberg and Hitler Assassination ...
    Have you had a stressful day at the office/home?  Have you made a plan that has run into trouble? Have you had to deal with intense fear, guilt and uncertainty and the prospect of the total collapse of your country, the loss of your job, your savings, your pension and even your life? Yes? Then y ...
  • New Kampusch probe expected soon: parliamentar ...
    The Natascha Kampusch kidnapping scandal could soon be the subject of a new probe after it was announced that  a  report by an Austrian parliamentary committee is to be published at the end of March. http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/742006/Fall-Kampusch_Bericht-fuer-Ende-Maerz-ange ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Not only have the Zionists colonized Palestine and subjected them to a permanent campaign of genocide, but as anyone who has been paying attention knows, they have colonized the Western democracies, turning them into obedient puppets. Now it appears that they have also colonized the Palestine so ...
  • Israel’s Nuclear Triggers: Secret files reveal ...
    FBI files detailing Israel’s stealth acquisition of U.S. nuclear triggers were declassified and released on Dec. 28, 2011. The FBI’s secret Portland and Los Angeles inter-office communications were originally scheduled for release in the year 2036. Their availability today reveals how Israel’s e ...
  • A Tin Foil Hat Day, We All Need More of These
    Like most Americans, I work to make a living though technically at what used to be "retirement age." I think retirement is overrated. For years my boss was a World War II vet who knew half the leaders in the world. Without him and his patience, I would be a different person. If you aren't at ...
  • To the NYPD Officers Reading My Emails
    On Thursday I was on a train to New York and received an email announcing a protest at the offices of New York's two U.S. Senators over their cosponsorship of an AIPAC-driven bill that would move the United States closer to war on Iran.
  • Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life
    Besides persecution, repression, and injustice, deprivation defines life in Occupied Palestine. Essentials fall way below minimum standards.

electric politics

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

PR News

  • Pulmuone Foods selects Current as US AOR
    CHICAGO: All-natural food company Pulmuone Foods has named Current Lifestyle Marketing its PR AOR in the US.
  • Gap, Target create insider view with owned media
    NEW YORK: Both Gap Inc. and Target are using owned media to give consumers an inside look into their companies, said Target PR VP Dustee Tucker Jenkins and chief editor and director of digital media at Gap Inc. Sue Kwon on Friday at the Arthur W. Page Society's Spring Seminar.
  • Comms execs receive Page Society framework as ...
    The framework released this week by the Arthur W. Page Society is not a corporate reputation panacea, but a positive step for dealing with the challenges posed by social media and transparency demands.
  • Companies give marcomms teams the keys to social
    NEW YORK: Business leaders are giving communications and marketing teams ownership of social media, said Justine Thody, the Economist Intelligence Unit's editorial director for the Americas, at the Arthur W. Page Society Spring Seminar on Friday.
  • Wilson exits Chamber to join National Retail F ...
    WASHINGTON: The National Retail Federation has hired Katie Wilson as VP of communications. She will exit her role as senior director of communications and strategy at the US Chamber of Commerce to take the position.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Be Wary Of The West’s New Global Interve ...
    Global Times March 25, 2012 Be wary of West’s new interventionism By Xin Jianqiang ==== By using UN Resolution 1973, which allowed the enforcement of a no-fly zone in Libya, the US-led NATO countries launched an array of military attacks, under the slogans of safeguarding humanitarianism and pro ...
  • Stop NATO news: March 25, 2012
    ==== Ottawa: First Joint Meeting Of U.S., Canadian, Mexican Defense Leaders Clinton Approves $1.3 Billion In Military Aid To Egyptian Junta Three NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan Italian Soldier Killed, Five Injured In Afghanistan NATO Helicopter Violates Pakistani Air Space U.S. Ambassador-D ...
  • Interview: The Current Global War Cycle
    Progressive Radio Network March 24, 2012 Host: Stephen Lendman Guest: Rick Rozoff Rozoff’s an activist, anti-war supporter, and editor of the website Stop NATO, which ”document(s) and oppose(s) global militarist trends and an expanding theater of war that began” by balkanizing Yugoslavia in the ...
  • Thirteenth Anniversary Of NATO As Global War M ...
    Emg.rs March 24, 2012 Nis pays tribute to bombing victims NATO victim in Nis (Reuters) NATO bombing victim in Nis NATO cluster bomb victim in Nis Wreaths were laid at memorials Saturday as a tribute paid to the victims of the 1999 NATO bombing in the city of Nis, southern Serbia, where 56 people ...
  • Mali Coup Led By U.S. Africa Command-Trained O ...
    RT March 24, 2012 Mali coup led by US-trained captain Mali: U.S. Africa Command’s New War? Africa: Battleground For NATO’s 21st Century Strategic Concept From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa Threatened With Western Military Subjugation U.S.-led Operation Flintlock exercise in Mali A US A ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups
    The Intel Hub By Stephen Lendman March 25, 2012 Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing “the supreme international crime against peace.” Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with ...
  • Obama Asks to See Hawaiian Woman’s Birth ...
    Activist Post | President Barack Obama makes fun of his birth certificate controversy by asking a women if he can see hers.
  • Drones Take-Off in Idaho
    Epoch Times | Research into unmanned drones is on the rise in Idaho, and the technology is being used in a number of ways.
  • Hong Kong, Divided Over Future, Gets a New Leader
    New York times | Crowds of pro-democracy protesters tried to march into the convention center where the voting was held.
  • TSA Totally Redeems Itself; Baby Laden with Ex ...
    The Intel Hub By Tony Muga March 23, 2012 Satire In a surprising turn of events the TSA has not only intercepted an Al-Qaeda infant ‘stroller-bomber‘ and de-fused the explosives, but totally redeemed itself in the process by proving that such things actually exist: thus justifying its controvers ...

FRS

  • Why those in power will not say that Trayvon M ...
    [After millions took to the streets in protest, President Obama, and Republican candidates Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum, all agreed: Trayvon Martin's death was a "tragedy" which "needs investigation" -- and no mention of race, racial, or racism will be made. The language used (and avoided) rev ...
  • New York Police stalking, harassing, and snoop ...
    [Under the umbrella of "Homeland Security", over the last decade layer upon layer of repressive measures, technologies, and "inter-agency" coordinations have constructed an ever-present police state.  Repressing dissent, actively suppressing and jailing activist protests, intensifying racial pro ...
  • India: Human rights activists urged to unite t ...
    Release political prisoners unconditionally: CRPP By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad, 24 March 2012: ‘Human rights activists should work together in cooperation, not in competition like different sects’, said well-known writer and human rights activist Arundhati Roy. She was speaking ...
  • NBA: Miami Heat players make ‘hoodie&#8 ...
    By TIM REYNOLDS, Huffington Post,  03/23/12 LeBron James tweeted an image of the Miami Heat players wearing hoodies along with the message #WeAreTrayvonMartin #Hoodies #Stereotyped #WeWantJustice MIAMI — Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat has posted a photo of himself wearing a hooded sweat shirt to ...
  • Nepal: Disqualified fighters occupy party office
    Disqualified fighters wage war against party –  Capture Maoist offices in Surkhet ; Say their protest in last stage HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE,  2012-03-22 SURKHET: Maoist PLA fighters, who were disqualified during a verification carried out by the United Nations Mission in Nepal, today besieg ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Virgin Fathers 15 Kids; More on the Way
    Trent Arsenault is a 35-year-old virgin who is the father of 15 children. He has been offering his free services as a do-it-yourself sperm donor since 2006. The FDA isn't happy.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Feb 08, 2012
  • Mitt Romney Takes Nevada Caucus Victory
    The Republican is running for the GOP presidential nomination.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Feb 05, 2012
  • Is Romney’s Nomination All but Assured?
    Why Mitt Romney is on track for the GOP nomination.Contributor: Jared Feldman Published: Feb 04, 2012
  • President Obama Piles on Another Trillion Doll ...
    For the fourth year in a row President Obama will run a one Trillion dollar budget deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO also predicts continued high unemployment and slow economic growth.Contributor: Matthew Smith Published: Jan 31, 2012
  • Healthcare Mandate on Contraceptives Creates O ...
    A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

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

Veterans Today

  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Not only have the Zionists colonized Palestine and subjected them to a permanent campaign of genocide, but as anyone who has been paying attention knows, they have colonized the Western democracies, turning them into obedient puppets. Now it appears that they have also colonized the Palestine so ...
  • Israel’s Nuclear Triggers: Secret files reveal ...
    FBI files detailing Israel’s stealth acquisition of U.S. nuclear triggers were declassified and released on Dec. 28, 2011. The FBI’s secret Portland and Los Angeles inter-office communications were originally scheduled for release in the year 2036. Their availability today reveals how Israel’s e ...
  • A Tin Foil Hat Day, We All Need More of These
    Like most Americans, I work to make a living though technically at what used to be "retirement age." I think retirement is overrated. For years my boss was a World War II vet who knew half the leaders in the world. Without him and his patience, I would be a different person. If you aren't at ...
  • To the NYPD Officers Reading My Emails
    On Thursday I was on a train to New York and received an email announcing a protest at the offices of New York's two U.S. Senators over their cosponsorship of an AIPAC-driven bill that would move the United States closer to war on Iran.
  • Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life
    Besides persecution, repression, and injustice, deprivation defines life in Occupied Palestine. Essentials fall way below minimum standards.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Global ‘water war’ threat by 2030 ...
    Nations will cut off rivers to prevent their enemies having access to water downstream, terrorists will blow up dams, and states that cannot provide water for their citizens will collapse. This is the future – as painted by a top US security report. ­The Office of the Director of National ...
  • Mysterious child disease hits Uganda
    Mysterious disease that affects children devastates northeastern Uganda. Health officials have been researching the possible causes of the disease since 2009, without success… Nancy Lamwaka has bruises all over her body because she lost the ability to recognize danger. Most mornings, Micha ...
  • Russia finally has Bulava ICBM, after 14 years ...
    It seems that the longest spic story in the history of Russian missile technologies is drawing to an end. Defense Ministry officials stated that the Bulava ballistic missile would be passed into service for the Russian Navy in October 2012. Nuclear submarines of Project 955 Borei – Yury Do ...
  • Iran war will be worst mistake in US history: ...
    Cuba’s revolution leader Fidel Castro has warned Washington against a military attack on Iran, describing such a move as the worst mistake in US history. In an article titled “The Roads Leading to Disaster,” published in the official daily Granma on Thursday, Castro said there is no ...
  • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
    An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • On financial blockades as a political tool for ...
    TweetIn an interview published this week in Law.Com, general counsel for the Washington DC based nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, David Sohn, discusses the protests against SOPA and PIPA, including the January 18 internet blackout action. In general, he disparages the methods pr ...
  • 2012-03-22 #WikiLeaks News Update
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 474 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 471 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 669 days. WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks issued a press release offering to host a discussion on ...
  • 2012-03-22 WikiLeaks Truck artist Clark Stoeck ...
    TweetBelow is a series of drawings sketched by artist, Clark Stoeckley, at the Motion Hearing for U.S. v. PFC Bradley Manning on March 15 and 16, 2012 at Fort Meade, MD. Stoeckley was situated either in the courtroom gallery or in the media operations center, where a live video feed of the proce ...
  • 2011-03-16 Full Transcript #Manning Motion Hea ...
    TweetFull Transcript March 16, 2012 This transcript was typed from the press pool at Bradley Manning's motion hearing on March 16, 2012 at Fort Meade, MD. This transcript may have errors and is incomplete in that there was no way for me to capture every word, or every sentence. Please send corre ...
  • 2012-03-18 Worldwide Rallies after Assange SC ...
    TweetThis is a list of all rallies scheduled after Julian Assange receives the verdict on his Supreme Court appeal against extradition to Sweden. These rallies are taking place regardless of the outcome. This page will be updated as more rallies are planned. Please email any unlisted rallies, ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Missouri... St. Charles Caucus Conspiracy Conf ...
      Check out this strapping young patriot spilling his guts about fan-dangling the St. Charles caucus to make sure "everyone's vote was heard" and "The Ron Paul" didn't take over the meeting! ~ See Update read more
  • 'Heartless' Dick Cheney Recovering at Hospital ...
      Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering Saturday at a Virginia hospital after receiving a heart transplant, his office said. ~ Video read more
  • Rare INS Document Found! ... U.S. Certificate ...
      IMPLICATIVE DISCOVERY... A government document found buried in the online reference section of a Boston Public Library archive bolsters a growing mountain of evidentiary data against Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility to be president. ~ Documents - related articles read more
  • The Myths About Homeschooling...
      Most people seem to have many misconceptions and assumptions about homeschooled kids and their education. The truth is... homeschooled kids wouldn't have it any other way and neither would their parents! ~ Videos read more
  • Obama's Education Department Partners Up With ...
      The Department of Education has partnered with billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute to promote a global education initiative that seeks “a world where each and every person on Earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.” ~ Aaron Klein read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Candles: Lowest Cost Per Hour
    Ever wondered what it costs to burn a candle? Ever wondered what is the cheapest candle to burn for light in a power outage emergency? Well, having recently posted about a do-it-yourself Olive Oil Lamp, and having calculated the approximate cost per hour to burn it, I was curious how close it wa ...
  • Walking: Survival Fitness and Exercise
    You may have all of your supplies and extra food on hand, but are you in good physical shape to be able to survive? You may have 3 years worth of food stored for you and your family, but if you have to, can you walk for 10 or 20 miles? Do you have the [...]
  • Pink Slime: Reality and Survival
    I know that this pink slime in the food supply is all over the news, but there were several topics in this one article I read this morning that I felt warranted more discussion. I believe these topics focus on the reasons why you, as a survivalist/prepper, must use common-sense, be skeptical and ...
  • Geo-Engineering: System Agenda
    Guest post: by “Otter Walks on Two Feet” 1st Nation Iroquois, and Member Mohawk Longhouse Medicine Council… A Glimpse of Geo-Engineering Methodology… With configurative premonitory introduction… U.N. Agenda 21 is encyclopedic in its Plan to presumed “Godhood” using &#8220 ...
  • Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
    In today’s world I am sure many of you have heard of diseases/infections that have become drug resistant. The ‘White Plague’ a.k.a. tuberculosis (TB), is also becoming multi – drug resistant. For most people, you may have heard of TB by the term ‘consumption’ ...

Fast Company

  • Email Is Crushing Us, Can Activity Streams Fre ...
    Activity streams promise to alleviate the email overload we've all come to know and dread. But we've got a ways to go before they can truly replace email as our main mode of electronic communication. If you're struggling to keep your email box from overflowing, you are not alone--this morning, m ...
  • 6 Ultra HD Videos Test Your New iPad's Retina ...
    Pictures are neat on Apple's new Retina display, but super-high-def video is the real magic. Since cameras haven't caught up to displays, clips in 2048p are scarce, but we found some--from NASA and others. If you brought your iPad 3 home raring to exploit the potential of its fantastic Retina di ...
  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s stories had an unquestionably nostalgic theme. Read on to catch up on everything from business building strategies to lightsabers capable of doing actual damage. Our April cover story about Facebook tops the list o ...
  • 4 Storified Reasons SXSW Was Worth The Hassle ...
    How SXSW attendees used Storify to capture the festival's most-talked about events in real-timeThe social curation tool Storify was a big winner at the interactive portion of this year’s South by Southwest festival, having received the award for excellence in social media. Founded in 2010 by Xav ...
  • This Week In Bots: Robots, They're Just Like Us!
    Bot Vid: Robo-barberFor charity a chap named Tim subjected himself to an interesting treat: He got his head shaved by a remote-controlled robot. Tim did it for the St Baldrick's Foundation, which searches for cures for leukemia. The device was a Multi-Arm Unmanned Ground Vehicle from IAI, which ...

Jadaliyya

  • Threads of Narrating the Arab Spring
    “Narrating the Arab Spring,” Cairo University, 18-20 February 2012 Many of us have spoken and thought about those who we wished would have been present to witness—and perhaps participate in—the revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woma ...
  • الأزمة السورية والطريق المسدود
     1- تتفاقم الأزمة الوطنية في سورية منذ حوالي السنة، ولا تلوح، في المدى المنظور، بارقة أمل في الوصول الى حلّ لها. البلاد تعيش حالة أقرب ما تكون لحالة الحرب، بل أصعب مما كانت عليه أيام الحروب التي عرفتها في الماضي. فالجيش ينتشر على مساحة الوطن وفي المدن ويقيم الحواجز على الطرقات العام ...
  • Qalandia: The Potential to Transform Palestini ...
    In the past year or so, the infamous Qalandia checkpoint located on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah—indeed, separating ‘Jerusalem’ from ‘Ramallah’—has become a focal point of protest. I believe this has tremendous transformative potential to create the critical mass of nonviolent ...
  • Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report ...
    PULL OF THE POSSIBLE Are the upheavals in the Arab world revolutions? Uprisings? Perhaps all such terms are misnomers, in that they imply an end point to processes that may not have a terminus. Regimes may fall or stand; movements may sputter or succeed in establishing a more democratic ...
  • Notes from Western Sahara: An Interview with F ...
    As the Arab Spring spread across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, American philosopher Noam Chomsky argued that it did not originate in Tunisia, as is commonly understood. “In fact, the current wave of protests actually began last November in Western Sahara, which i ...

mediagazer

  • Some Thoughts After The Storm (Mike Daisey)
    Mike Daisey: Some Thoughts After The Storm  —  Here is an excerpt from an interview I gave to Seattle radio host Luke Burbank about a year ago: … Thanks to Chris Hayes for finding this exchange.  I'm putting it out here because I think it very succinctly sums up the ...
  • Wisconsin journalists signed Gov. Walker recal ...
    Jim Romenesko: Wisconsin journalists signed Gov. Walker recall petitions  —  It's “disheartening” that 25 news employees of Gannett newspapers in Wisconsin signed Gov. Scott Walker recall petitions, says Green Bay Press-Gazette publisher Kevin Corrado.  “I ...
  • Rusbridger: Guardian paywall 'has not been rul ...
    Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk: Rusbridger: Guardian paywall ‘has not been ruled out’  —  Part of a cartoon wall being created at the Guardian Open Weekend  —  Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, today asked readers what they were prepared to ...
  • Only 1 in 5 Americans believe journalists are ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Only 1 in 5 Americans believe journalists are “friendly” toward religion  —  19 percent of Americans feel like “reporters and the news media” are “friendly” to religion, a Pew study finds. 38 percent of the respondent ...
  • Student journalism is f**ked (or is it?): Ass ...
    Ethan Long / Phlog: Student journalism is f**ked (or is it?):  Associated Collegiate Press Conference tackles censorship issues  —  From the Associated Collegiate Press Con panel “How to handle controversial topics,” featuring Jeff Fish, current Editor-In-Chief ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Taliban threaten Pakistani lawmakers who ...
    DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — The Taliban have threatened to attack Pakistani lawmakers and their families if they support allowing NATO to resume shipping supplies through the country to troops in...
  • Assam wildlife group protests removal of ...
    Tweet GUWAHATI: An Assam-based wildlife conservation group has questioned the legality behind the Assam forest department's recent move of 'dehorning' a one-horned rhino. "Nature's Beckon", a leading wildlife conservation group of Assam Sunday not only questioned the legalities of 'dehorning ...
  • Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups
    Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing "the supreme international crime against peace." Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity. On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trai ...
  • Hyundai Sponsors Endurance Athlete Jenn S ...
    It's not surprising to hear that Hyundai is sponsoring an endurance athlete like Jenn Shelton for two reasons: the company worldwide is involved in scores of athletic events and Hyundai Motor America's CEO is an enthusiastic runner. Hyundai Motor America announced that renowned ultramarathon ...
  • Codes of human settlement would make safe ...
    We need guidelines based on geo-science to tell us where to build our townships, EDWARD BLAKELY writes Queensland has just issued its second flood report, on March 16, 2012. This most recent report is a longer and a more carefully crafted document than the last one. It is similar to the repo ...

no frakking consensus

  • The Royal Society’s Blatherfest
    A Royal Society-hosted conference is being billed as a gathering of scientists. I guess that's why politicians, bureaucrats, musicians & political activists will be there in full force.
  • Canada’s Senate, David Suzuki & The Deli ...
    My book is discussed in the Canadian Senate - and the David Suzuki Foundation behaves like a rabid dog.
  • Fairy Tales on the Road to Rio
    Nine papers are being distributed by an upcoming save-the-world conference. They're explicitly intended to influence the behaviour of world leaders at the Rio summit in June. But the claim that they represent the latest scientific thinking is a gross distortion.
  • Where Is Ground Zero for Climate Change?
    Everyone thinks ground zero for climate change effects is somewhere different. Most of these claims, therefore, must be wrong.
  • The Authoritarian Impulse and Climate Change
    People who want to save the planet are fond of more laws and more red tape. They talk of silencing their opponents and sending people to prison.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Comes the Comer
    LEON WIESELTIER A history of Jewish literacy remains to be written. It will be a colorful and complicated work, as befits the variegated linguistic history of the Jews, and for American Jewish readers of our day, I mean the honest ones, it will be a disturbing work. Whereas the Jews have always ...
  • China’s monopoly on rare earths
    Michael Marshall It’s a rare fight. The US, Europe and Japan have lodged a formal complaintwith the World Trade Organization over China’s export of rare earths – or lack of it. China produces 95 per cent of the global supply of the 17 metals, which are used in technologies from cellp ...
  • Screening for heart problems?
    Andy Coghlan The collapse of footballer Fabrice Muamba on live television on 17 March has sparked a debate about how often athletes should be screened for heart abnormalities. Could regular screening prevent sudden cardiac arrests?   What abnormalities actually cause sudden cardiac death? T ...
  • Green tea could mask testosterone doping
    Peter Aldous ATHLETES who cheat by doping themselves with testosterone may be able to mask their actions by drinking green tea. Large quantities might even provide a legal performance boost by raising levels of testosterone in the blood. Abuse of testosterone is hard to spot because the steroid ...
  • The Big Lesson of a Little Prince
    Maria Konnikova  My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be … Read more

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Insider trading 9/11 ... the facts laid bare
    Is there any truth in the allegations that informed circles made substantial profits in the financial markets in connection to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States? Arguably, the best place to start is by examining put options, which occurred around Tuesday, September ...
  • How Full-Body Scanners Work – and Fail
    TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they ...
  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and freed ...
    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 cor ...
  • We will not be scanned!
    In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go ...
  • TSA threatens media not to cover story exposin ...
    The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida rep ...

Beacon

  • Sick Dolphins in the Gulf
    © Oceana/Jesus Renedo Sad news from the Gulf of Mexico: At least 32 dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, one of the hardest hit spots by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have been given physicals and are reported as severely ill according to NOAA officials. The dolphins are reporting a rang ...
  • Bill O'Reilly Preaches Conservation to Lower G ...
    With gas prices on the rise, the blame game is in full swing. Some in the media and in the government are saying increased drilling will lower gas prices. It turns out this isn’t the first time we have heard this argument, and liberals and conservatives alike agree that it is just not true. But ...
  • Happy World Water Day!
    © Oceana/Carlos Suarez All around the world, people are struggling to get access to clean water for drinking and growing crops. As the climate changes, many farmlands are drying and people are finding it harder and harder to keep their crops watered and still have enough to drink. Here at Oc ...
  • Shark Fin Soup Minus the Sharks
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. Every year, tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins alone. Shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, a popular and expensive dish that is a symbol of wealth and status primarily in Asian cultures. The demand for fins can lead to cruel and wasteful ...
  • The Real Reason for High Gas Prices, Redux
    Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Soledad Esnaola Editor's note: This post by Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless was originally posted last May on Politico.com. We think it couldn't be more relevant right now, especially considering that many media outlets are now making similar arguments to th ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • For the Love of Horses, Racing Should Be Inves ...
    A 2-year-old quarter horse named Teller All Gone broke a front leg in a race on Sept. 3 at Ruidoso Downs Race Track in New Mexico and was euthanized. His body was then dumped in a junkyard next to an old toilet at Ruidoso, a short walk from where he had been sold at auction [...]
  • Dash of Dan: Early Sunday Brunch Mad Men Edition
    Invite the boss over for brunch? Trying to keep the cut throat co-workers happy? Nothing freshly baked scones can’t fix! So toss those pearls and grab the whisk! Yes, it’s the 60′s but it doesn’t mean you can’t employ some old school sensibilities to get what you ne ...
  • Dick Cheney has Heart Transplant
    It’s an incredible feat of modern medicine that we can replace a heart. Mr. Cheney is in intensive care at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. From the AP: “Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful ...
  • Progressive Notes: Sheyman’s Big Loss in IL-10 ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The loss of Ilya Sheyman, a 25 year old charismatic progressive community organizer in Illinois’ 10th congressional district primary to Brad Schneider, the establishment favorite backed by Rep. Hoyer, has heads shaking. Schneid ...
  • Gingrich Slams Obama for Trayvon Comments
    Newt Gingrich just couldn’t help himself. The National Journal caught it and Politico picked it up. Of course, it played out during another of Sean Hannity’s Obama hate fest radio hours: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich harshly criticized President Obama for commenting ...

Hudson New York

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

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Change Must Start at Home
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco A dear friend of mine heads a great initiative called Change Starts at Home which encourages women to take simple actions to make positive economic, environmental and ...
  • Maryland House passes bill to fund environment ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Today the Maryland House of Delegates passed legislation that requires oil and gas companies to pay a small fee to fund a study regarding the short-term, long-term and cumulative ...
  • Gigatons of fertilizer bypass crops to contami ...
    Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist, San Francisco  Two thirds of all applied nitrogen became groundwater pollution instead of crop nutrient Farmers are losing costly plant nutrients while we gain a groundwater pollutant.  That was ...
  • An update on BPA science
    Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health As the end-of-the-month decision from the Food and Drug Administration on the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) draws closer, the chemical industry is trying hard to paint NRDC’s advocacy against the endocrine ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Only 7% of approved non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) projects in Chile are currently under construction. Chile currently has 720 MW of NCRE already installed. An additional 3,4000 ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 23, 2012: Huntington Beach CA sued alleging cops entered home w/o warrant, groped a woman while searching under her skirt, then used excessive force while falsely arresting two ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, March 22, 2012: 2 Kern Co CA deputies under investigation after alleged excessive force incident caught on helicopter video that left a man with serious leg injuries. ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct that we were able to track so far for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20-21, 2012: Los Angeles CA loses $3.2mil judgment to family of man beaten to death by cops who then dragged him into station [0] http://lat.ms/GDXw0Y Philadelphia PA settles suit for ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 19, 2012: Lincoln RI cop gets a suspended sentence on his felony assault conviction for kicking a cuffed woman in head [0] http://bit.ly/GzVrpN Atlanta GA settles 4 public stri ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-17 ...
    Here are the 19 (21) reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 17-18, 2012: Orlando FL cops faulted in autopsy of man who died after being subjected to 4 taser burts while he was restrained, one of which lasted 31 seconds which is ...

Total Collapse

  • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
    An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...
  • U.N. Policy Paper Outlines 7 Building Blocks f ...
    The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sus ...
  • Global water war threat by 2030 – US intelligence
    Nations will cut off rivers to prevent their enemies having access to water downstream, terrorists will blow up dams, and states that cannot provide water for their citizens will collapse. This is the future – as painted by a top US security report. The Office of the Director of National I ...
  • Sustainability in Perspective
    “There are only two options: Humanity’s leaders take responsibility to manage evolution in a sustainable manner, or the failures and systemic fissures will crush mankind and the planet will degenerate until humanity chokes from no air.” All the following systems of societies are in a complex int ...
  • Millions Of Americans Preparing For Doomsday
    All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday.  They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, they are taking self-defense c ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

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

Sierra Express

  • ECOWAS emergency meeting on Mali
    The Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) in reaction to the coup d’état in Mali by junior Military Officers has called an Emergency Meeting of all West African Heads of States and Government on Tuesday 27th March 2012 at the Ivorian capital, Abidjan under the new ECOWAS Commissi ...
  • Moseray Fadika donates to Old Edwardians FC
    Old Edwardians FC have been boosted by a donation of jerseys and footballs from Mr. Moseray Fadika.  (Photo: The items were presented by Hon. Bah and Wright on behalf of Mr. Fadika) The items include two complete sets of football jerseys, including hoses and goal keeper’s full kit; and 10 size f ...
  • 13 African countries meet on space science & t ...
    In line with its mandate of building indigenous capacity in Space Science and Technology Application in Africa, the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English {ARCSSTE-E} focuses on four [4] relevant areas which are of immense benefit to the region’s growth and ...
  • How Gaddaffi’s ghost casts its long shadow
    In October last year, I commented on the political ramifications of the downfall of Gaddaffi under the headline “End of an era: Who, what and where next?” Prominent among my concerns was the fear that with the death of Gaddaffi, the impact will not only be felt along  economic lines but I also r ...
  • St. Joseph’s Secondary School Alumni Associati ...
    St. Joseph’s Secondary School Alumni Association is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Thanksgiving Service. When: Sunday May 6, 2012 Where: St Bartholomew’s Parish, Bathesda, Maryland Click on flyer below to read full details ,   People who looked at this item also looked at… St ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • 3 Reasons to End Obamacare Before it Begins!
      As the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - a.k.a. Obamacare - goes before the highest court in the land, here are three reasons to chuck the whole program even before it gets underway. 1. It Represents the End of Limited Government. The Supreme ...
  • Kennedy on a California Law That Would Treat F ...
    The food police division of the California General Assembly is at it again, and this time the fella who knows the least about culture and food in blossoming metropoles is having the loudest say. Assemblyman Bill Monning (D-27) has declared food trucks an enemy of the state, a destroye ...
  • Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on H ...
    Many Supreme Court watchers, including Reason’s very own Damon Root, have pointed out that it would be a mistake to think that the conservative justices in the Supreme Court will overrule ObamaCare just because they think, as they must, that it is anti-freedom. That’s because of conse ...
  • What We Saw at the Reason Rally in Washington, DC
    Reason.tv headed down to the National Mall for the Reason Rally (no affiliation!) in Washington, DC. The March 24 event was billed as the "largest gathering of the secular movement in world history" and drew a several thousand-strong crowd of damp, enthusiastic unbeliever ...
  • The 4 Best Legal Arguments Against ObamaCare
    On Monday March 26, the Supreme Court will begin hearing three days of oral arguments devoted to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including its controversial "requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage." This requirement, also known as t ...

Mercury Rising

  • Tory Bigwig Tried Selling Access To David Came ...
    Looks like the Murdoch Times may be getting a little of its own back against the Tories for ditching NewsCorp in the wake of the phonehacking scandals: Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas offered access to the prime minister and chancellor for £250,000, the Sunday Times has alleged. It ...
  • Funny How Conservatives Aren’t Saying Th ...
    Markos makes a good point: Notice that conservatives aren’t arguing that Trayvon should’ve been packing? I wonder why… Yeah, one would think that these ALEC-crafted “Castle Doctrine” and “Stand Your Ground” laws were meant for both nonwhites and whites, ...
  • Minnesota CSA “Easy Bean” Could Us ...
    Before this week’s rains came and ended the danger, the recent warmup over ground not yet greened up with new vegetation meant that grass fires were a clear and present danger in southeastern Minnesota. And sure enough, a particularly nasty grass fire hit the Easy Bean farm last Monday &#8 ...
  • Minnesota CSA “Easy Bean” Could Us ...
    Before this week’s rains came and ended the danger, the recent warmup over ground not yet greened up with new vegetation meant that grass fires were a clear and present danger in southeastern Minnesota. And sure enough, a particularly nasty grass fire hit the Easy Bean farm last Monday &#8 ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

  • Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Ur ...
    With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday ...
  • Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
    The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
  • ARGENTINA: Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is ...
    How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
  • MAURITANIA: Ravaged by Drought - the Number of ...
    Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished h ...
  • Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico' ...
    As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.

Blogging Canadians

  • Mulcair Wins. Who Looses?
    It is official the NDP now has a former Liberal as the head of their party.  Not so bad.  The Liberals have a former dipper as the head of their party.  I think the looser in all of this is … Continue reading →
  • "The Reality Show Star"
    Kim Kardashian hit by a flour bomb by Alison Maloney As originally posted: The Sun March 23, 2012 KIM Kardashian is hit by a flour bomb as she launches her new fragrance. The reality show star was chatting on the red carpet when a packet of the white powder was dumped on her head. It sp ...
  • Apple, Inc.
    NEWLY RELEASED IPAD JAILBROKEN ALREADY As originally posted on: The Security Ray (TSR) March 21, 2012 The new iPad, which was released on last Friday, the 16th has been jailbroken. It is usual that hackers would try to jailbreak the device. But being jailbroken in just 3 hours after release o ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: Sallying Forth
    Tent pegging is a sport of swift horses, razor sharp swords, and riders who really should know better. I have arrived in Delhi to ride for Canada at the 2012 Asian Championships.
  • Why become like Tony Blair when we can stay so ...
    I'm getting really disturbed by the vision of now already dozens of political journalists, advisers and "pundits" claiming that the only way for Canada's New Democrats to move forward is to become a "Third Way" party of the Blair type, thus abandoning effectively their adherence to social democr ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Bahrainis hold nationwide protests
    Bahrainis have staged nationwide anti-regime protest rallies to call on the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty to relinquish power, saying the British-backed regime has lost legitimacy.
  • Palestinian inmate goes on hunger strike
    Another female Palestinian inmate has gone on hunger strike to protest against her imprisonment by Israel without formal charges.
  • 'Unrest claims 20 lives across Syria'
    The UK-based monitoring group known as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has claimed that at least 20 people were killed across Syria on Saturday.
  • Hezbollah rejects US-Israeli allegations
    Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has rejected allegations made by right-wing Israeli and American activists accusing the movement of involvement in illegal activities, Press TV reports.
  • Iraq nabs guards as inmates escape
    Iraq has arrested 22 guards and policemen working at a temporary prison in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after 19 prisoners, mostly charged with terrorism charges, fled the jail.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Who Is Gilad Atzmon… and, Who Are We?
    Caution! Do not enter this book unless you are prepared for serious self-examination, self-dialogue, and a dialectic with an astute listener, challenger, provocateur and wit. Leave notions, assumptions, biases—positive and negative—at the doors of your perception—which are about to be vigorously ...
  • The Struggle to Save Adult Education in Los An ...
    Using State of California budget shortfalls as an excuse, Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent John Deasy presented the LAUSD Board of Education (BOE) with a draconian budget that effectively cut some of the most crucial programs in the District. With enthusiastic c ...
  • “Stability” Trumps Democracy in Egypt
    Confronted with popular protest, the country’s unelected rulers have doubled down on repression, jailing peaceful activists and killing dozens of civilians who have the gall to exercise their rights. Those who state security forces haven’t killed for demanding democracy have been tea ...
  • This Is Not Syria, Therefore No Western Outcry
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    You have to appreciate how Mr. Change changed the rhetoric from 'the U.S. suspects' to 'time is running out'....without saying what would definitely make the desired change except for bullied  and robbed nations to give up their electrical grid...increasing the numbers of deaths already caused by sanctions
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