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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 II

MOFFETT FIELD, CA - DECEMBER 05: Natalie Bata...MOFFETT FIELD, CA - DECEMBER 05: Natalie Batalha (L), Kepler deputy Sciene team lead at NASA Ames Research Center, speaks as Bill Borucki, Kepler Principal Investigator at NASA Ames Research Center listens during a news conference about the newly discovered planet Kepler-22b during a news conference at the NASA Ames Research Center on December 5, 2011 in Moffett Field, California. Scientsts with NASA's Kepler mission announced that they discoverd a planet in the 'habitable zone' where water could exist on the planet's surface. The newly confirmed planet is being called Kepler-22b and is approximately 2.4 times the radius of earth and orbits a star similar to the earth's sun. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Development Deficit Compounds Indian Sundarban ...
    Sahara Bibi, a 47-year-old poor Muslim woman living on one of the climate- impacted islands of Eastern India's fragile Sundarbans archipelago in West Bengal state, was forced to pull her two young sons out of school and send one of them to the Southern state of Kerala to earn a decent income.
  • Malaysia Weighs Minimum Wage Policy
    Malaysia plans to introduce a national minimum wage for its workers against stiff opposition from employers and manufacturers who warn that such a policy would shut down nearly 200,000 small and medium enterprise (SME) units.
  • Can't Help Helping Refugees
    It's 10 am on Saturday morning and a group of migrants is clustered round the entrance to the Migrant Clothes Association in the Calais city centre, eating breakfast provided by the association. Inside, the warehouse is stacked with blankets, tents, trainers and clothes. Some of these will ...
  • Donors Damaging Palestinian Economy
    The latest Work Bank report on the Palestinian economy fuels the row on institutional viability precisely as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas considers renewing his statehood bid.
  • Debate Rages over U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
    An influential Pakistani journalist appealed this week for Washington to stick to its 2014 timetable for withdrawing its combat forces, instead of accelerating its pullout, as a growing number of voices here are urging.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Hans Blix: Attack on Iran illegal
    Summary: "When I hear [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu saying it’s not a question of days or weeks, but also not years, I think that sounds like a terrible threat," he says. source: Al-Jazeeraread more
  • Preparing Israel for war
    Summary: Recent raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to defence - they were also about war with Iran. source: Al-Jazeeraread more
  • Take a bite out of Iran at your peril
    Summary: The popular denunciation of the Iranian leadership as ''religious fanatics who value martyrdom more than life, [who] cannot be counted on to act rationally, and therefore cannot be deterred'' was at odds with more than 30 years of history that demonstrated Iran's rulers were overwhel ...
  • Barbara Lee Pushes to End U.S.-Iran Silent Tre ...
    Summary: Here is one of those policies that makes you scratch your head and wonder how its taken this long for things to get this bad between the U.S. and Iran: American and Iranian diplomats are actually BANNED from making ANY contact with one another without prior authorization. source: ...
  • The roads leading to disaster
    Summary: Iran does not possess nuclear weapons. It is accused of producing enriched uranium, which serves as fuel for generating energy or as a component for medical use. Like it or not, its possession or production is not equivalent to the production of nuclear weapons. Dozens of countries u ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Nebular Clouds --The 'Engines' of Life in the ...
    Nebular clouds are thought to be most likely environment for synthesizing and promoting the evolution of molecules needed for the origin of life. Giant gas nebulae such as Orion are storehouses of sugars that form ribose -- the backbone of...
  • Sunday's 'Comment of the Day'--"Dead Zones of ...
    The big question, of course, is: among these planets, how common is human-level intelligence? Some think that it's nigh-inevitable. While I tend to agree that it's inevitable given enough time, I think it's an unlikely result in any given ecosystem....
  • Weekend Feature: "Dead Zones of the Universe" ...
    While the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered 3,030 exoplanets with 709 confirmed that revolve around a star, new findings from diverse fields are being brought to bear of the central questions of the 21st century: How common is life in...
  • NewsFlash: Blasting a Mountain Peak in Chile a ...
    Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the world's largest telescope when completed near the end of the decade. The...
  • Saturn's Titan & Earth --"Only Worlds in Solar ...
    In image above, NASAs Cassini spacecraft chronicled the change of seasons as it captured clouds concentrated near the equator of Saturns largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 18, 2010. Dr. Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, gave a talk...

Natural News

  • Special hormone released by bone cells plays a ...
    Most people have viewed bones as inanimate structures within the body that merely play a role in providing structural integrity to the body. New research is revealing just how dynamic bone structure is to the nervous, immune and endocrine system. A bone released hormone...
  • Vitamin D found to help reduce fracture risk i ...
    Healthy bones require a lot more than just calcium intake, and a number of studies over the years have verified that vitamin D also plays a critical role in helping to prevent bone fractures, particularly among the elderly. But a new study published in the journal Archives...
  • Washington Post partners with Chinese governme ...
    It's bad enough with supposedly unbiased news outlets in the U.S. shill for one political ideology over another, but when an American newspaper becomes an advocate for a foreign rival, that's over the line. That's the opinion, at least, of a number of journalists...
  • Whitney Houston cause of death cover-up? Coron ...
    There's something afoot in the changing story about what actually killed Whitney Houston. According to the official coroner's report that was recently released, Whitney Houston died from drowning and cocaine was a "contributing factor." All the other prescription drugs...
  • Study vilifying 'fat' as cause of low sperm co ...
    The myth that all saturated fat is harmful to health continues to make the rounds, as a new study published in the journal Human Reproduction equates saturated fat with "junk food," and claims that eating it reduces men's sperm count. But this study, which is being repeated...

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Health Care is Worst Where Republicans Poll Best
    This week, GOP White House frontrunner Mitt Romney marked the two year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act by declaring the reform law the "national nightmare" he "always predicted." But leaving aside for the moment that Romney repeatedly touted his virtually identical Massachusetts law as a ...
  • Rove's Failed Rewrite: Bush, Romney Opposed Bi ...
    This week, Karl Rove took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal in the feeble attempt to undermine of one of President Obama's signature achievements, the killing of Osama Bin Laden. "Mr. Obama did," Rove sniffed, "what virtually any commander in chief would have done in the same situation." ...
  • Romney Deploys Wife to Reassure Women Voters
    If you think Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney aren't worried about the growing blowback from the GOP's nationwide crusade against women's reproductive rights, just ask their wives. This week, Karen Santorum emerged from her low-profile (and ironic past) to declare her husband is "completely suppor ...
  • Ryan, Like Romney, Piles Up Massive New Debt
    In the wake of Mitt Romney's solid victory in Illinois, conservative columnist Fred Barnes proposed a Romney-Ryan ticket for the fall. That would be altogether fitting. After all, Romney didn't merely endorse the catastrophic GOP budget plan Paul Ryan unveiled Tuesday; he already laid out an a ...
  • Introducing the Ryan-Romney Budget
    If the new House GOP budget unveiled Tuesday by Paul Ryan sounds familiar, it should. And not just because Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" is essentially the same scheme he's been pushing for two years. As it turns out, Mitt Romney is offering the same disastrous recipe for America's future. Both ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Feltman launches Lebanon’s 2013 Parliamentary ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon March 23, 2012 One fellow who works at the Beirut US Embassy tells the story of how, each year around the time of the vernal equinox, since 2005, when Jeffrey Feltman became the American Ambassador—(given Jeff’s domination of US Mi ...
  • Small Business Owners and Labor in America: Th ...
    by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org March 19, 2012 Small business owners and working people constitute the core of the American electorate. They share the same origins and have far more in common than the major political parties would have them believe. Their sh ...
  • Global Tamil Forum on UN resolution on Sri Lanka
    by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com 24 March 2012 Issued for immediate release PRESS STATEMENT 24 March 2012 Global Tamil Forum on UN resolution on Sri Lanka Global Tamil Forum (GTF) commends the passing of the UN resolution on Sri Lanka, at the current ...
  • Obama Picks Sides on Keystone XL: TransCanada ...
    Despite the President's rhetoric on clean energy, it really is business as usual and dirty fossil fuels will continue to receive support and preference.
  • Will Getting Rid of Ads for Escorts Help Stop ...
    Is it possible to rid the online classified site Backpage of child trafficking without shuttering its adult section?

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Obama at Solar Power Project in Nevada (His Su ...
      I wrote about Obama’s seeming lack of understanding when it comes to global warming the other day. While I think his whole “all of the above” energy strategy is a recipe for societal suicide, at least that strategy does involve wind and solar power (something unlikely f ...
  • ‘Doomsday Virus’ Not as Lethal as Feared, Rese ...
    In the continuing controversy over the 2011 experiments with an ‘mutant’ strain of avian flu (H5N1) virus — making it airborne and potentially contagious to humans — lead virus researcher of growing notoriety, Ron Fouchier, told an audience of microbiologists that he did ...
  • Germany: Aiming for 52 GW of Solar PV by 2020. ...
      Germany is leading the world in installed solar power, and it’s actually planning a lot more for the years to come. Here’s more from sister site CleanTechnica on Germany’s solar power goals — to hit 52 GW of installed solar PV by 2020 — and its progress so f ...
  • Solar Power History in 3 Minutes
      Check out this fun and interesting history of solar power below from sister site CleanTechnica — I’ve been covering solar power in depth for years and still learned a ton from this:
  • India Wind Energy Potential 20-30 Times Bigger ...
      India apparently has a TON more wind energy potential than previously thought, according to a new study by the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL). Here’s more from sister site CleanTechnica:

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Axis of Logic

  • Sarkozy: Jail those who browse terror websites ...
    Editor's Note: This "news" article only adds additional evidence that Sarkozy is an idiot and psychopath. We've seen that in his thirst for civilian blood and ultimately for the murder of Col. Muammar Qaddafi in the October, 2011 war in Libya. In this case, Sarkozy would arrest and imprison anyo ...
  • President Hugo Chavez returns to Venezuela, vo ...
    Thousands of government supporters rallied outside the Presidential Palace of Miraflores in Caracas last Saturday to welcome back head of state Hugo Chavez after his return from three weeks of convalescence in Havana, Cuba. T/ COI P/ Presidential Press “Here I am anew, in permane ...
  • 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 ...
  • Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Tryin ...
    It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds. In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CB ...
  • Feeding The Homeless Banned In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocratic Theocracy By: " ...
    By @KYYellowDog As we are having to re-fight battles we thought we had won 35 years ago, we could use some inspiration from the songs that inspired feminists of all sexes back then. Uploaded by saw1110 on Jun 4, 2009
  • Going Organic: Tools for Transition
    By @KYYellowDog If you're still getting pushback from neighbors, farmers and extension agents when you reject chemical additives for your garden and yard, here's an idea to get started in your county. Phoenix woman at Firedoglake: While browsing around the website of Lanesboro Local, a cooperati ...
  • The Unfairness of Child Porn Laws
    By @KYYellowDog On this gorgeous spring Sunday morning, how about something to get you riled up enough to go outside and pull weeds? The Louisville Courier-Journal tackles the question head-on: Born with spina bifida and dependent on a wheelchair, 26-year-old Jon Michael Fox cannot hurt a sou ...
  • How to Hunt Blue Dogs
    By @KYYellowDog If you are still giving money to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee or the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stop right now. All three are sabotaging Democratic efforts all over the country by helping repug-lite Blue Dogs be ...
  • True Barbarism
    By @KYYellowDog When the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act - and they will, Anthony Kennedy made that crystal-clear last week when he denied state employees the protection of federal law - when Obamacare dies, along with millions of suddenly uninsured Americans, remember this from ...

Care 2

  • Tell President Obama: We Need Clean Energy, NO ...
    Tell the President: A tar sands pipeline is not the answer to lowering gas prices. Stay the course on clean energy, stand with Texas landowners, and reduce our dangerous addiction to oil Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protest Judges Decision to Allow Coal Mining i ...
    United States Environmental Protection Agencythe name clearly indicates that this organization is designed to protect the environment. So the EPA was doing its job when it vetoed plans for the Spruce No. 1 coal mine, the largest mountain top removal Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |&n ...
  • Dont Undercut Clean Air Protections ! PLEASE S ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency recently passed new standards that will cut 90% of mercury pollution from coal plants in the United States. However, in an attempt to undermine this triumph for public and environmental health, Oklahoma Senator James Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
  • Help the Vaquita Porpoise ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    With only 150 left, the most criictally endangered cetacean in the world, the Vaquita porpoise, may become extinct by 2015 if the decline rate continues Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop the Seal Massacre ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    March 22nd started Canada's annual, brutal and barbaric seal hunt again. Men slaughtered both baby and adults seals by shooting and clubbing them death in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • No low is too low for Santorum
    Is Santorum out to win the election or destroy the Republican party? As a wanna-be nominee with almost as little chance of getting the nomination as Gingrich, Santorum is proving himself unsuitable in every aspect. Despicable, extreme, and even un-American. The latest stupidity from Santorum is ...
  • No More BFFs?
    Some schools in London are banning kids from having best friends. Why? Because one may want to break up and the other will be upset. We can’t have any of that. We are raising human hothouse plants. That would be OK if children remained in a coddled environment indefinitely. Alas, something inevi ...
  • Specter on Santorum (Man on Dog?) * Open Thread
    In a February debate, Mitt Romney criticized Rick Santorum for twice endorsing Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania’s liberal GOP senator, despite primary challenges by conservative Pat Toomey. In 2009 Specter dumped the GOP and in 2010 the new Democrat cast the 60th vote to pass Obamacare. Both Sa ...
  • Shocker–Republican Voter Turnout Up
    Told you so. Washington Post out with a story today–Republican primary turnout rebounds, is up overall. So a question for Win43, PPAA and all of the other brain dead cheerleaders for Obama–Do you like apples? So how do you like those apples. According to the Washington Post: Reports ...
  • Life In Hyperbolea
    Memo to Veep Joe Biden: Hyperbole (  /haɪˈpɜrbəliː/ hy-PUR-bə-lee;[1] Greek: ὑπερβολή, ‘exaggeration’) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literal ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Judge Overrules EPA Denial of Mountaintop Remo ...
    AllGov Judge Overrules EPA Denial of Mountaintop Removal Coal Permit AllGov Despite a recent study showing that mountaintop removal coal mining—in which coal companies literally remove the tops of mountains, dump the tons of debris into nearby streams and then strip mine the underlying coal—caus ...
  • EPA is too much even for an Obama-appointed ju ...
    EPA is too much even for an Obama-appointed judge Daily Mail - Charleston (blog) Vicki Smith of the Associated Press reported: “The US Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority last year in revoking water pollution permits that another agency had issued for one of West Virginia' ...
  • Court Reverses EPA on Big Mining Project - New ...
    Court Reverses EPA on Big Mining Project New York Times WASHINGTON — In a sharp rebuke, a federal judge on Friday reversed a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to revoke a critical permit for one of the nation's largest mountaintop removal mining projects. The United States Dist ...
  • Judge: EPA overreached in vetoing WV mine perm ...
    Judge: EPA overreached in vetoing WV mine permit BusinessWeek By VICKI SMITH A federal judge says the US Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine. In a ruling Friday, US District Judg ...
  • EPA's veto of Spruce Mine permit overturned - ...
    EPA's veto of Spruce Mine permit overturned Charleston Gazette A federal judge has overturned the Obama administration's veto of the largest mountaintop-removal mining permit in West Virginia history, saying the agency greatly oversteps its authority in blocking the controversial project ...

Memeorandum

  • David Plouffe talks energy, elections; Rep. Pa ...
    Chris Wallace / Fox News: David Plouffe talks energy, elections; Rep. Paul Ryan defends GOP budget plan  —  Special Guests: David Plouffe, Rep. Paul Ryan … CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace.  —  As November draws closer, battle lines are drawn between ...
  • A Bailout by Another Name (Gretchen Morgenson/ ...
    Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times: A Bailout by Another Name  —  ED DeMARCO is a marked man.  —  The acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Mr. DeMarco is a soft-spoken, career public servant — an ...
  • At CIA, a convert to Islam leads the terrorism ...
    Greg Miller / Washington Post: At CIA, a convert to Islam leads the terrorism hunt  —  For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, dozens of smaller plumes can be traced to a gaunt figure standing in a courtyard near the center of the agency's Langley c ...
  • The Outsourced Party - Who speaks for the Repu ...
    Kevin Baker / Campaign Stops: The Outsourced Party  —  Who speaks for the Republican party?  The answer is that everyone does — and therefore, no one does.  —  Much air time and many trees have been wasted trying to explain the division, rancor and let ...
  • France's Jihadist Shooter Was No Lone Wolf (Jy ...
    Jytte Klausen / Wall Street Journal: France's Jihadist Shooter Was No Lone Wolf  —  Mohamed Merah was practically a prince in violent extremist circles.  —  Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman who assassinated three French paratroopers of North African background and th ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

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

AlterNet Top Stories

  • In Afghanistan, the Dam Breaks
    Co-authored by Derrick Crowe The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there were unrealistic and unworkable, and the ability of a handful of bad a ...
  • Beyond Tucson’s Banished Books and Metal ...
    Barnstorming across the country with a caravan of writers and educators, Librotraficante founder Tony Diaz is bringing more than banished books to Tucson students this week. In a city that has been bitterly divided by Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) Superintendent John Pedicone’s exc ...
  • WHOFACTCHECK: New Bill A Protest Clampdown?
    By Russ Baker on Mar 8, 2012 Originally published on WhoWhatWhy.comIs the president being asked to pound yet another nail into the coffin of democratic expression? So say alarmist scenarios concerning HR 347 (the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011), now on the ...
  • Governor Perry, WHP Has Been a Lifeline for My ...
    Written by Rene Resendez for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. For all our coverage of the cuts to the Texas Women’s Health Program, click here. In Texas, a state where more than one-quarte ...
  • Christians Giving Up Carbon For Lent
    Can reducing your carbon footprint be a spiritual quest? Catholics and Protestants join in observing a six-week carbon fast.

Threat Level

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

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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Peanut Proud, but no Justice - Yet
    I was reading Greg Phillip’s piece in the Dothan Eagle about the “Peanut Proud” celebration in Blakely Georgia this weekend.  Peanut Proud even has a web page and a facebook page.  I tried to follow on twitter, but I could not find @peanutproud.  Perhaps they wil ...
  • Sysco brings E. coli Burgers to Seattle
    Sysco Seattle Inc., a Seattle, Wash. firm, is recalling approximately 16,800 pounds of ground beef patties imported from Canada because they may have been contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. &nbsp ...
  • If you think raw milk is in the news a lot - y ...
    Thanks to the folks at Real Raw Milk Facts.  This line list was compiled through searches for government and dairy industry press releases, reports, and newsletters announcing dairy-related outbreaks and recalls. The data precedes official statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
  • New Food Classics Recall Expands to United States
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing a public health alert for ground beef patties imported from Canada because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and may be associated with an illness in Canada. FSIS was notified by the C ...
  • Salmonella Cantaloupe Lawsuit Settled
    Nearly one year ago a Salmonella lawsuit was filed against Del Monte Fresh Produce on behalf of a Colorado family whose 12-year-old daughter was hospitalized after contracting a Salmonella infection from Del Monte brand cantaloupe purchased from Costco.  According to the complaint, the chil ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

  • Warren Takes Center Stage In Obama Campaign Video
    The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen  - Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:01 AM EDT President Obama’s re-election campaign unveiled a new video this morning, which has a similar look and feel to the recent “The Road We’ve Traveled” documentary, but features a different message and messenger. ...
  • INFOGRAPHIC: The Affordable Care Act Turns Two
    Think Progress By Adam Peck  on Mar 23, 2012 at 8:30 am Two years ago today, President Obama affixed his signature to the Affordable Care Act, the first major piece of federal healthcare legislation since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. The bill was the end result of months of careful neg ...
  • Shocker! Karl Rove Endorses Obama in WSJ Op-Ed ...
    Forbes Jeff Bercovici, Forbes Staff 3/22/2012 @ 2:49PM In his fight for re-election this fall, President Barack Obama will have support from the unlikeliest of quarters: Karl Rove, former top aide to George W. Bush. Writing on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal today, Rove, normally a sta ...
  • Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor: ‘War O ...
    Huff Post Laura Bassett Posted: 03/21/2012  4:19 pm Updated: 03/21/2012  4:29 pm Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has drastically slipped in the polls after backing two controversial anti-abortion measures over the past several weeks: the fetal personhood bill and the mandatory ultrasound bill. B ...
  • Even Mitt Romney Knows an Etch A Sketch Can&#8 ...

Solari

  • Guatemalan President Leads Drug Legalization D ...
    Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina By Catherine E. Shoichet On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist. The retired general said he would send troops into the streets to fight drug violence. Analysts summed up his political platform with three words ...
  • Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Tele ...
    From Wikipedia The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financial institutions. SWIFT also markets software and services to financial institutions, muc ...
  • Student-Loan Debt Reaches Record $1 Trillion, ...
    By Janet Lorin U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the initial findings of a government study. The figure, which is higher than the country’s credit-card debt, was probably reached “several months a ...
  • Laundered Money
    By Joseph T. Salerno Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom of the war is that the largest denomination of US currency is the $100 note, whose ever-eroding pu ...
  • Transcript of the 3.15.12 Comfort Calls Solari ...
    A transcript of the March 15, 2012 Solari Report on “The Comfort Calls Story: Organizing the Legal Structure For Your Start Up” is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: I can’t tell you how many people over the last year, both subscribers and cli ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Question time on the FM website
    Summary:  We have entered a period of radical change, the results of which we can only guess at.  To help us understand, brought back by popular demand, is Question Time on the FM website.  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and those reading the FM website — will attempt ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Summary:  We have entered a period of radical change, the results of which we can only guess at.  To help us understand, brought back by popular demand, is Question Time on the FM website.  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and those reading the FM website — will attempt ...
  • We have an economic recovery. It costs $1.1 t ...
    Summary:  Many economists and pseudo-experts forecast not just the long-anticipated “v” recovery, but an acceleration of the current good news into a boom.  Before we pop the corks, let’s look at the recovery, what the recovery cost us,  and how we’ve spent this expensive ...
  • We have an economic recovery. It costs $1.1 t ...
    Summary:  Many economists and pseudo-experts forecast not just the long-anticipated “v” recovery, but an acceleration of the current good news into a boom.  Before we pop the corks, let’s look at the recovery, what the recovery cost us,  and how we’ve spent this expensive ...
  • America enters the dreamland, part of our cult ...
    Summary:   America peaked in 2000.  Events since then have sent us on downward trajectory, accelerated by our bad decisions in response.  Now the grim reality of future geopolitical and economic problems presses on our imaginations, the end of our hegemonic delusions of power founded on unlimite ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Senegal's Election: What's at Stake
    Senegal has long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as something of an exception to the depressing cycle of poor governance, economic mismanagement, military intervention, and flawed strongmen that characterized politics in much of post-independence Africa. Recently, however, a not insignificant ...
  • The Neocons Made Me Do It: Iraq and the Alibi ...
    Looking back on the disaster (or extremely Pyhrric Victory) that was the Iraq War, Stephen Walt reflects: 'The remarkable thing about the Iraq war is how few people it took to engineer. It wasn't promoted by the U.S. military, the CIA, the State Department, or oil companies. Instead, the main ar ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg Replies on Israel, Iran and " ...
    This follows our first round of Q-and-A exchange, and my second-round question earlier today. Jeffrey Goldberg replies, in a message sent on early Friday afternoon but that I saw (while on the road) only now. This is it for a while, but there is a lot to digest here. ___ Dear Jim, That's quit ...
  • Trayvon Martin and Bringing the Global Human R ...
    The nineteenth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is taking place in Geneva this month. The United States is currently a member of the UNHRC, after much bemoaning of how it would be yet another playground of dictators and rights abusers. Joining up was the right choice; it’s hard ...
  • A Surprise World Bank Pick
    President Barack Obama startled handicappers by selecting Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as the U.S. candidate to lead the World Bank rather than the reported front-runner Larry Summers, Obama's former National Economic Council director. The Korean-born Kim is a medical doctor, anthropologist, ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lost Opportunities
    Unlike the last young adult sensation, Twilight, The Hunger Games is actually easy to understand for those who missed the initial hype. The novel, by Suzanne Collins, takes place in a future, post-apocalyptic North America, where war and ecological disaster have left the population under the co ...
  • Party Planning
    Mitt Romney is ready to shake off the GOP primary and move on to the general election, and so is most of his party. He picked up Jeb Bush’s endorsement this week, and even the Tea Party has been tepidly giving its OK to the front-runner. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee is taking a ...
  • Friday Music Break
    This week marks the 50th anniversary (!) of the release of Bob Dylan's first album, so I've chosen "Senor," from Dylan's underrated 1978 album Street Legal. It's the pregnant pause before the line "I'm ready when you are, Senor" that makes it so great.
  • Friday Miscellany
    With Passover approaching, it’s time to ask the White House: which haggadah will you use? #Obama #MaxwellHouse Speaking of which, my father had a theory that so many Jews are intellectually limber because they learn Hebrew—an extremely foreign language for English speakers—at such a young age. ...
  • A Surprise World Bank Pick
    President Barack Obama startled handicappers by selecting Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as the U.S. candidate to lead the World Bank rather than the reported front-runner Larry Summers, Obama's former National Economic Council director. The Korean-born Kim is a medical doctor, anthropologist ...

Buzzflash

  • "Shoot to Kill" May Soon Be Replacing "In God ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT All the white sheets are flying off now, as white males are in open warfare against blacks and women. They've been using code words against Obama for nearly four years (no birth certificate, Muslim, etc.), but now we're just seeing hardcore racism w ...
  • Corporate Goliaths: Have They Now Become Unsto ...
    JANE STILLWATER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When David went up against Goliath back in the Bible, Goliath was really truly HUGE. But just how did this guy manage to get that big in the first place? I'm assuming that he started out by eating up everything in sight. At first his mommy probably fe ...
  • ALEC, the NRA, and the Murder of Trayvon Martin
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC) prefers to do its business in secret. And since ALEC's founding in 1973 by Paul Weyrich (who co-founded the Heritage Foundation and is widely considered to be one of the Godfathers of the New Right); forme ...
  • If Zimmerman Were Black and Trayvon Martin a W ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Let's face the racial politics simmering in the Trayvon Martin murder head-on: if Zimmerman were black and Martin a white teenager, then Zimmerman would be in jail facing a homicide rap, regardless of Florida's license to kill. read more
  • Republicans Must Get Over Their False Equivale ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There's a tendency among some media outlets and various critics, especially Republican partisans, to suggest that all comments must be applied even-handedly across the entire spectrum of opinion in order to be valid. No matter how vast the differences or how ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CMD/PRWatch Asks Ethics Board to Examine Corpo ...
    The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed a complaint today with the Government Accountability Board (GAB) based on newly discovered documents revealing that numerous Wisconsin legislators have received corporate-funded gifts through their connections to the American Legislative Exchange Co ...
  • CMD/PRWatch Asks Ethics Board to Examine Corpo ...
    The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed a complaint today with the Government Accountability Board (GAB) based on newly discovered documents revealing that numerous Wisconsin legislators have received corporate-funded gifts through their connections to the American Legislative Exchange Co ...
  • ACLU Statement on Extension of Time U.S. Can R ...
    The Obama administration has extended the time the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) can collect and hold on to records on U.S. citizens and residents from 180 days to five years, even where those people have no suspected ties to terrorism. The new NCTC guidelines, which were approved by A ...
  • ACLU Statement on Extension of Time U.S. Can R ...
    The Obama administration has extended the time the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) can collect and hold on to records on U.S. citizens and residents from 180 days to five years, even where those people have no suspected ties to terrorism. The new NCTC guidelines, which were approved by A ...
  • The Affordable Care Act: An Appeal to the Repe ...
    Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), representing more than 2.1 million working families dedicated to quality, affordable healthcare for all issued the follow statement today on the two-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Above the Drone of War, Voices for Peace
    David Smith-Ferri In 1876, at the so-called Battle of the Little Bighorn when U.S. Cavalry regiments attacked an Indian village along the Little Bighorn River in Wyoming, the first casualty was a ten-year old Lakota Sioux boy named Deeds. U ...
  • Lessons from Obama's Keystone Cave-In
    Jeff Goodell Last week, President Obama stood in front of a pile of big green pipes – yes, green pipes – in Cushing, Oklahoma, and promised to expedite approval of federal permits for the southern leg of the controversial Keysto ...
  • A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son
    Dyan Watson Dear Caleb, When you were almost 2, we would drop off your cousin, Sydney, at her K-8 elementary school. The ritual went something like this:(Illustration: Gregory Christie) “OK, Syd, have a good day.” “OK,&rdq ...
  • The Dangerous Mess in Syria Grows Murkier
    Eric Margolis Syria’s murky, multi-level conflict continues to grow worse. So does public confusion here in the west as the US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria’s civil war as a simple passion play pitting th ...
  • Living on the Trigger's Edge
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I am always worrying about our vulnerability as individuals living in a contaminated environment, or about the instability of our planetary ecosystem now that global heating is underway. But one thing I don&rsqu ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Imperfect revolution: Palestine's 15 March mov ...
    Linah Alsaafin Ramallah 23 March 2012 One year after the 15 March movement’s call for national unity, what has the youth-led mobilization achieved?
  • Book review: "Patriot Acts" tells shocking sto ...
    Maureen Clare Murphy 22 March 2012 Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice tells the stories of individuals in the United States whose rights have been abused as a result of the racist, Islamophobic backlash and the so-called War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001. ...
  • Athlete abused by Israeli soldier for carrying ...
    Emily Lawrence Jerusalem 20 March 2012 An activist running the Jerusalem Marathon sought to bring attention to Israel’s rights abuses at the event.
  • What Palestinian political prisoners are fight ...
    Ameer Makhoul Gilboa Prison 20 March 2012 Khader Adnan’s hunger strike was not in protest of administrative detention but against Israel’s entire colonial system, argues Ameer Makhoul, writing from Gilboa prison.
  • "The house is dark without them": Israel kills ...
    Rami Almeghari Beit Lahiya 19 March 2012 Muhammad al-Hisoumi and his daughter Fayza were killed in an Israeli missile attack as they tended their land in the Gaza Strip on 12 March 2012, leaving behind a devastated family and a darkened house. Rami Almeghari profiles them.

The Wonk Room

  • Must-Read Trenberth: How To Relate Climate Ext ...
    The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be…. The air is on average warmer and m ...
  • Did Fox News Stop Selling Hoodies After Trayvo ...
    After Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera was pilloried Friday for saying that black and Latino kids are basically asking to get shot if they go outside wearing a hooded sweatshirt, BuzzFeed jokingly noted that FoxNews.com sells branded hoodies. But after their report went up, Fox apparently rem ...
  • Lindsey Graham: ‘We All Know There&#8217 ...
    After President Obama weighed in on the shooting on Trayvon Martin, the GOP presidential candidates also rushed to condemn the African-American teenager’s death. But Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were equally as quick to blame Obama for making it a racial issue after the president said, ...
  • David Plouffe: Gingrich Comments On Travyon Ma ...
    President Obama expressed regret at the death of Trayvon Martin last week, saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” and called for law enforcement officials to “get to the bottom of exactly what happened.” Despite the fact that political leaders from Rick S ...
  • World’s First 6-MW Wind Turbine Construc ...
    by Zachary Shahan, via CleanTechnica The world’s first 6-MW offshore wind turbine went up in the North Sea this week. Wind company REpower and C- Power NV, a Belgian offshore development company, installed the wind turbine, the first of 48 for the Thornton Bank II wind farm, which is being const ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Capitalist Media and the NDP
    Dr Dawg comments on the horrible coverage of the NDP leadership convention by the CBC: Watching the supremely self-satisfied, snickering commentators on CBC tonight should cement the impressions of the media held by those of us who are actually interested in politics in Canada. The CBC continu ...
  • E-Health, ORNGE: AdScam Ontario?
    Just saying that if you wanted to funnel public money to your friends in order to create a well-funded political base who would support you at election time in return for further contracts, the swag so liberally dispersed via E-Health and ORNGE (around $1.7 billion) would be the way to do it ...
  • No Majority? That's It Then. Time For Oppositi ...
    From Alison at Creekside (via a whole whack of great people) we get this bombshell. Ain't that something? Now, given the fact that the harpercons are using their bullshit majority to ram through any and all of their garbage legislation, and are ignoring Parliament, and are forcing all parliame ...
  • The Circle is Tightening on the harpercons
    Don't forget that people. This cabal of criminal scum would presume to have the RIGHT to rule over us even if their entire government was elected by fraud. THAT is how little regard they have for democracy. This Rae attack-ad stupidity is just a sign of their desperation. A bunch of still photo ...
  • Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Afghan ...
    When will North American fall for the next installment of beneficial imperialism? Syria? Sudan? The reason why we shouldn't implore our governments to "do something" about an atrocity somewhere is that our governments are comprised of evil men (with a smattering of evil women - You've still got ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • MLS: TFC blanked 3-0 by Earthquakes in home opener
    “The more things change the more they stay the same.” The famous saying could not be more appropriate for Toronto FC in its short existence in Major League Soccer.
  • Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen on Ellen: A fr ...
    It pays to have friends in high places and nobody knows that axiom better than Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. Jepsen appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show Friday and it was all because of her new friend, Justin Bieber.
  • Canadian NDP — The best candidate to give the ...
    At this historic juncture, Thomas Mulcair was the best choice to lead the New Democratic Party of Canada, but that night, the worst choice for an acceptance speech.
  • Hitler shampoo commercial gets blasted
    In keeping with the adage that there's no such thing as a bad advertisement, an Istanbul ad agency created a truly striking shampoo commercial with the "endorsement" of an historical figure: Adolf Hitler, who was cast as a symbol of virility.
  • Japanese 'ghost ship' fishing vessel spotted a ...
    A Japanese fishing vessel swept away by the tsunami which engulfed the east coast of Japan in March 2011 has been spotted adrift off the west coast of Canada.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Common Pesticides Double Children’s Risk Of ADHD
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Sharon Heller Many people think organic fruits and vegetables are too expensive to buy for family meals. But those who have a hyperactive child should think again. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 4.5 million children ages 5 ...
  • Sleeping Pills Linked To 460 Percent Increase ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Jonathan Benson “There are many natural remedies for insomnia. Why not try those before reaching for a dangerous pharmaceutical drug?” –KTRN If you take pharmaceutical sleeping pills to help alleviate insomnia, you are very likely putting yourself ...
  • Sleeping Pills Linked To 460 Percent Increase ...
    March 6, 2012 Natural News By Jonathan Benson If you take pharmaceutical sleeping pills to help alleviate insomnia, you are very likely putting yourself at serious risk of developing cancer or even dying. A new study published inBMJ Open, an open-access journal that is part of theBritish Medical ...
  • Stratfor VP Wanted US To Show Bin Laden Body P ...
    March 6, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “It’s not that add to think something is fishy about the death of Bin Laden. When you really think about it, the whole thing just doesn’t add up. More lies.” –KTRN The deluge of Stratfor.com emails released a result of t ...
  • Big Sis and DHS Move On Campus
    March 6, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “More brainwashing from the DHS.  They want to indoctrinate college students into the idea that they are not safe.  One thing is for sure, they aren’t safe from their own university and government.”  –KTRN The Department of Homeland S ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • ‘Annan mission last chance for Syria to ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Russia says Kofi Annan’s peace efforts could be the last chance for Syria to avoid plunging into a long-lasting, bloody civil war. The joint UN-Arab special envoy and the Russian President have held talks in Moscow, to discuss ending the violence, and to get both si ...
  • Plouffe says GOP primary a ‘clown show’ for Tr ...
    White House senior advisor David Plouffe on Sunday blasted several Republican presidential candidates after they claimed President Barack Obama was trying to divide America by speaking about an unarmed African American teen in Florida who was gunned down by a neighborhood watch enthusiast. Respo ...
  • Love Syndrome: Overcoming odds for sake of art
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Watch more on RT’s documentary channel http://rtd.rt.com March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day. Get a ticket to the peculiar theatre where people with Down Syndrome perform. Go behind scenes and meet the actors and their families. These kind of people are known as ope ...
  • Whitney Houston cause of death cover-up? Coron ...
    Mike Adams Natural News March 25, 2012 There’s something afoot in the changing story about what actually killed Whitney Houston. According to the official coroner’s report that was recently released, Whitney Houston died from drowning and cocaine was a “contributing factor.&#82 ...
  • Blacklisted: UK workers fighting job market ban
    Russia Todayyoutube.com After years of unsuccessful attempts to find jobs, thousands of UK construction workers have found out why. Skilled engineers have discovered their names were on an "employment blacklist" – an illegal document which shattered their lives. RT on Twitter http: ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Feltman launches Lebanon’s 2013 Parliamentary ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon March 23, 2012 One fellow who works at the Beirut US Embassy tells the story of how, each year around the time of the vernal equinox, since 2005, when Jeffrey Feltman became the American Ambassador—(given Jeff’s domination of US Mi ...
  • Small Business Owners and Labor in America: Th ...
    by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org March 19, 2012 Small business owners and working people constitute the core of the American electorate. They share the same origins and have far more in common than the major political parties would have them believe. Their sh ...
  • Global Tamil Forum on UN resolution on Sri Lanka
    by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com 24 March 2012 Issued for immediate release PRESS STATEMENT 24 March 2012 Global Tamil Forum on UN resolution on Sri Lanka Global Tamil Forum (GTF) commends the passing of the UN resolution on Sri Lanka, at the current ...
  • Strategies of Deception by William T. Hathaway
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 20, 2012 To get a preview of Obama’s strategies for winning a second term, we just need to read the liberal press. They are giving lip-service praise to the current protests while trying to steer them in a direction that serves the ...
  • Greg Palast: US Drops Plan For Extensive Revie ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com RTAmerica on Mar 22, 2012 More controversy this week surrounding the practice of fracking. The US Department of Agriculture has dropped the plan to require an extensive environmental review before handing mortgages to people that ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian on hunger strike ...
    After more than a month on hunger strike, Hanaa Shalabi is in "immediatemortal danger" and at "risk of coma" according to a Physicians for HumanRights doctor. Shalabi's strike came at the heels of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Jamie Levin: Israel’s economy will pay heavy p ...
    Economic war of attrition: "Each Iron Dome system costs $50,000,000 and each Tamir interceptor it employs has a price tag of no less than $62,000. In contrast, each of the Qassam rockets that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • UN human rights body to probe Israel’s settlem ...
    Human Rights Council votes to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of Israel's settlements on Palestinians; Netanyahu calls council 'hypocritical' and out of touch with reality. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Address inequalities facing Arabs, says ICG
    Judith Ilani, Jaffa’s Popular Housing Committee: “In Palestinian Jaffa, the poorest people live on the most expensive piece of soil in the country... Even if I have a doghouse close to the sea, the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Chris Hedges: Murder is not an anomaly in war
    The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Some Scum! Microbe in Pond Scum Enlisted in Ne ...
    Scientists are enlisting the living, self-propelled microbes found in pond scum -- the pea-green surface slicks that form on ponds -- in the development of a long-awaited new test to detect the cells that spread cancer through the bloodstream from the original tumor to new sites in the body. The ...
  • American Chemical Society President Unveils In ...
    Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., president of the American Chemical Society (ACS) -- the world's largest scientific society -- today described initiatives on climate science, the education of future scientists and commemoration of a landmark federal law that engendered some of the nation's greatest ...
  • A Double Ring Ceremony Prepares Telomerase RNA ...
    Few molecules are more interesting than DNA--except of course RNA. After two decades of research, that "other macromolecule" is no longer considered a mere messenger between glamorous DNA and protein-synthesizing machines. We now know that RNA has been leading a secret life, regulating gene expr ...
  • Scientists Identify Novel Pathway for T-Cell A ...
    UCLA scientists have pinpointed a new mechanism that potently activates T-cells to fight leprosy. Specifically, the team studied how immune cells located at the site of infection, called dendritic cells, become more specialized to fight leprosy. Dendritic cells deliver key information about a ...
  • High-Fat, Low-Carb Diets Not for Obese People ...
    Low-carb, high-fat diets led to more damaging, more deadly heart attacks and impaired recovery of heart function in study.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson That’s the title of a new paper in the Stanford Law Review by Columbia Law School’s Matthew Waxman (link is to SSRN).  One highly topical example of national security federalism is raised by the controversy over NYPD surveillance of various Muslim groups ...
  • Why I Went With Hoover Institution Press to Pu ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson My book, Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order, is now in stock and on-sale at the Hoover Institution Press website.  I have a copy in hand and I’m delighted to be holding it.  It’s not quite like holding your new baby – b ...
  • Why I Went With Hoover Institution Press to Pu ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson My book, Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order, is now in stock and on-sale at the Hoover Institution Press website.  I have a copy in hand and I’m delighted to be holding it.  It’s not quite like holding your new baby – b ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 17-23, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen A new feature this week on Opinio Juris is the Weekday News Wrap. The latest edition, with links to the earlier ones, can be found here. At the beginning of the week, we continued last week’s roundtable discussion of the ICC’s Lubanga Judgment. Cecile Aptel discus ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 17-23, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen A new feature this week on Opinio Juris is the Weekday News Wrap. The latest edition, with links to the earlier ones, can be found here. At the beginning of the week, we continued last week’s roundtable discussion of the ICC’s Lubanga Judgment. Cecile Aptel discus ...

Public News Service

  • Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Marks Progress
    Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Marks Progress PHOENIX, Ariz. - Friday marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. The organizer of a national grassroots effort to get the law passed has written a book about the experience. ...(Read More)
  • Threat of Iran War Hurting Weak U.S. Recovery
    Threat of Iran War Hurting Weak U.S. Recovery PHOENIX - Concerned that Iran may be building nuclear weapons, some in Congress are pressing the United States to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, or help Israel do it. However, economists warn that even the threat of war is hurting the economic reco ...
  • Report: AHCCCS Crucial for Rural Arizonans
    Report: AHCCCS Crucial for Rural Arizonans PHOENIX - A new analysis of health care across the country finds that Medicaid, known as AHCCCS in Arizona, plays an especially vital role in rural America. Report author Jon Bailey, director of research and analysis with the Center for Rural Affairs, ...
  • AZ Utilities Propose Major Energy-Efficiency E ...
    AZ Utilities Propose Major Energy-Efficiency Expansion PHOENIX - Arizona's two largest private electric companies would expand their energy-efficiency programs, and add some new ones, under proposals being considered this month by the Arizona Corporation Commission. The first plan from Tucson El ...
  • Cancer-Free? The American Cancer Society Wants You
    Cancer-Free? The American Cancer Society Wants You PHOENIX - The American Cancer Society is looking for men and women from ages 30 to 65 who never have been diagnosed with cancer to help out with a historic study. "Cancer Prevention Study-3" is being launched to better understand the lifestyle, ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Jack Blood ala Gitmo – Days before the 2 ...
    In Austin, at Ruta Maya, excerpts from Jack Blood, talking after film showing of “911 Dust and Deceit”, by filmmaker Penny Little. This film documents the plight of first responders, volunteers at Ground Zero on 9/11, exposes the government lies.
  • Life a Burden? After-birth abortion outrage sp ...
    Two academics have ignited a furious debate in Britain and beyond – after advocating that parents should have the right to end the life of new-born babies in the same way as an abortion before birth. The British medical ethics journal which carried their article says it’s intended to ...
  • Blacklisted: UK workers fighting job market ban
    After years of unsuccessful attempts to find jobs, thousands of UK construction workers have found out why. Skilled engineers have discovered their names were on an “employment blacklist” – an illegal document which shattered their lives.
  • This Day In History – March 25
    1199 – Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6. 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia. 1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland. 1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the Briti ...
  • The men who crashed the world (Film)
    The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that led to financial collapse. In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakne ...

The Air Vent

  • Green Climate Fund
    Does anyone here really think that annually handing four times the GDP of North Korea to a bunch of unelected individuals, who exist completely outside of the law, could cause any problems at all? It sounds like something straight from a science fiction novel. WUWT is covering this now.  — ...
  • Green Climate Fund Deserves Double 0 Status
    You have to wonder why Fox News would make a big deal about a UN created international fund of a hundred billion dollars per year, having complete immunity from national law.  This shouldn’t even be news IMHO. The fund is to protect the Earth, it shouldn’t have to pay taxes, or opera ...
  • No Time
    Sorry folks but I am way to busy for blogging right now.   Perhaps I will get something useful up tonight but political venting is boring now and I want to work more with sea ice  – sorry to all SWAG members for both points.    
  • Capitalsim, Probability, and The Second Law o ...
    Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” is in sharp contrast to, “all men are created equal.” Both concepts are inherently similar, yet have stark differences. Both pre ...
  • Conservative Fantasy World
    On the last thread Kevin O’Neill left this post. Conservatives live in a fantasy world. Their myths are etched in stone and actual facts can never sway them from their beliefs. For instance: “Per Capita Government Spending by President: Ranking since Johnson (starting in 1968), and using t ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Symphony Publishing Group, Nickelodeon, Environmental Defense Fund ...
  • Facebook roundup: password privacy, IPO, engin ...
    Facebook calls out employers asking for user info - Facebook responded to reports that some employers are asking users for their Facebook accounts in order to view private profiles. Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan said this practice may lead to legal liability and the company will &#823 ...
  • The Facebook Marketing Bible: New and Improved ...
    The new Timeline format for Facebook pages brings new opportunities for marketers and advertisers on the platform. Optimize your Facebook page for the new format with the March 2012 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Leading Resource for Marketing … Continue reading →
  • Facebook logout ad price equal to takeovers on ...
    Facebook’s initial asking price for premium ads including placement on the logout page was $700,000 per day in the U.S., according to an Ad Age source who was briefed before the product announcement at the end of February. The figure … Continue reading →
  • Friends, Digg, Gogobot, Hey Tell, tabs, games, ...
    Friend and calendar applications, as well as games, and Timeline apps comprised our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The apps grew from between 170,000 and 370,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.
  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Roger Tucker debunks recent accusations of "anti-Semitism" made by a group of self-styled Palestinian solidarity activists, led by American academic Ali Abunimah, whom he argues are driven not only by economic and professional self-interest, but are arguably shabbas goyim, non-Jewish elements of ...
  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.
  • Kony 2012's invisible Christian fanaticism
    Mamoon Alabbasi questions why mention of the self-proclaimed Christianity of Ugandan-based Joseph Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army was omitted from the "Kony 2012" video, which seeks to make Kony better known so that he could be brought to justice for his crimes.
  • Britain's "bother-boy" Hague loves putting the ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that British Foreign Secretary William Hague's determination to condemn the Iranian people to economic hardship, his keenness to escalate tension with Iran, and his eagerness to do Israel's bidding by creating an environment conducive to aggression against Iran, mean tha ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Heading for Inevitable Disaster
    In 1959, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz liberated Cuba from imperial America, police state rule, and mafia bosses who turned the nation into a casino and brothel.
  • Keeping the Syrian Pot Boiling
    The ink's barely dry on the March 21 Security Council Presidential Statement . It called on both sides "to bring an immediate end to all violence" and engage in conflict resolution diplomacy.
  • Gulag Without End, Amen: Obama's Warm Embrace ...
    Apologists for the current manager of this evil system will say, "Oh, Obama tried to close Guantanamo, but those mean old Republicans wouldn't let him." The truth, of course, is that Obama completely and wholeheartedly embraced the gulag system set up by Bush, extending its reach in Afghanistan ...
  • Marco Rubio Stands His Ground for Deadly 'Stan ...
    Florida Senator Marco Rubio, is now being boomed by Jeb Bush for a place on the Republican ticket as the party's 2012 vice presidential nominee.
  • The Shifting Strategies of Empire
    President Obama this week declared the war on Iraq to be an honorable success that has given us a brighter future. Are you fired up? Ready to go?

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Feral Pigs
    Feral pigs are expanding their range and will probably be across most of North America in the next 20 years. They cause a tremendous amount of damage, not only to farmers but to wildlife and habitat. It seems to me the logical solution is a 365 day hunting season against them. It’s a non-n ...
  • Dan Riehl admits, openly and proudly, that he& ...
    Not that we didn’t know this already, as this is the man who once claimed that all black kids, even when they’re “pretty young [and] not that big,” are “technically thugs,” but his latest statement welds the deal shut in such a way that no excuse or apology will ever be able to escap ...
  • Mad Men Pre-Show Thread
    I think I speak for everyone at LGM when I say this about the new season of Mad Men: OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! 3 hours and 18 minutes until Mad Men!!!!!! I will be spending the hour before the big show watching my favorite episode, “The Jet Set,” from season 2.
  • This Day in Labor History: March 25, 1911
    On March 25, 1911, 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. One of the most important events in American labor history, the Triangle Fire brought attention to the terrible sweatshop conditions of American labor, h ...
  • Fantasy Baseball
    I have 5 spots open in a 20 team MLB fantasy baseball league at ESPN. Among the LGM luminaries you can play against are Dr. Robert Farley, Dr. David Noon and Dr. DJW. And me. Note as well that you can also witness an episode in the multi-decade trash-talking spree between my brother and I. [...]

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE GO-TO SCHOOLS: It's tough out there
    Our annual report on the 50 law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied upon the most to fill their first-year associate classes during 2011. Plus, the law schools that saw the most alumni promoted to partner at NLJ 250 firms in 2011.
  • TOP VERDICTS & WINNING
    Our special report on litigation includes our annual look at the top 100 verdicts of the year and "Winning," which explores successful trial strategies by top litigators.
  • OPINION: Practitioners debate the Affordable C ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider four key issues at oral arguments this week as it reviews the constitutionality of the ­Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law passed by Congress in 2010. The National Law Journal has asked ­practitioners to sound off, pro and con, o ...
  • THE PRACTICE: Using shaming to deter prosecuto ...
    To force prosecutors to assume personal responsibility, judges are writing opinions that refer to offending ones by name.
  • COMING MONDAY: Health Care at the Supreme Court
    An extraordinary three days of arguments begin at the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving the Affordable Care Act -- better known as the Obama administration's health care reform law. Go to NLJ.com/healthcare for substantive, yet lively, coverage of each day's arguments.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Local Fisheries Management Helps Prevent Overf ...
    A new study says that co-management of fisheries at the local level is an effective strategy for curbing overfishing and preserving the world’s dwindling marine resources. In an analysis of 42 coral reef sites where the fisheries are managed by a partnership of local governments, conservation gr ...
  • At MIT Energy Conference, Innovators Make the ...
    MIT’s annual Energy Conference, held last Friday and Saturday, featured an impressive array of young engineers, scientists, and renewable energy entrepreneurs. It also included a sizeable number of more established players in the energy field. And the question left hanging at the end of the conf ...
  • U.S. Monarch Butterfly Decline May Be Linked t ...
    A new study suggests that the increased use of genetically modified (GM) crops across the Midwestern U.S. may be causing a decline in monarch butterfly populations. From 1999 to 2010, a period when GM crops became Wikimedia Commons A monarch butterfly more common on U.S. farms, the number ...
  • Scientists Warn of Low-Dose Risks of Chemical ...
    A new study finds that even low doses of hormone-disrupting chemicals — used in everything from plastics to pesticides – can have serious effects on human health. These findings, the researchers say, point to the need for basic changes in how chemical safety testing is conducted. BY ELIZABETH ...
  • U.S. Startup Develops Process to Convert Plast ...
    A U.S. startup company says it has developed a technology to convert plastic waste into a highly refined, low-sulphur oil, an innovation company officials say could provide a domestic source of fuel and keep untold amounts of plastic out of landfills. Developed by New York-based JBI Inc., the Pl ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Soviet-Swedish Social Services Kidnap and Abus ...
    It’s been called one of the worst cases of government abuse ever committed against a home schooling family: the abduction by Swedish authorities of Domenic Johansson, a happy, healthy, 7-year-old boy taken from his parents Christer and Annie Johansson in 2009 as they waited to leave Sweden on a ...
  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where re ...
  • It’s Robert Green’s Birthday on Tuesday the 27 ...
    Please drop him a line or send him a card to show him your support. Robert wants to say a huge ’thank you’ to everyone who has written to him since he was imprisoned - it has really touched him to know that he is in people’s thoughts. He said that to date he has received letters from 22 countrie ...
  • Sarkozy: Prosecute and Imprison Readers of "Ex ...
    French president Nicolas Sarkozy didn’t wait long to exploit the terror rampage of Mohammed Merah. Soon after Merah’s death in a stand-off with police, Sarkozy said French citizens who visit "extremist" websites should be treated the same way as those who look at child pornography. "Anyone who r ...
  • Inception becomes reality? Two teams of scient ...
    The idea of the surreal film, Inception, where people ’plant’ an idea in someone else’s head may not be so out-there after all. Two teams of scientists have found ways to create false memories, and implant them into the brain at will - although for now, the technique only works in mice. Memories ...

Russia Today

  • Islamists to draft Egypt’s new constitution
    The Islamists have won a clear majority on the panel to draw up the country’s new constitution after the liberal bloc staged a walk-out from the vote on Saturday, calling it a “farce.” Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Scot-free: US says no case to answer over Pak ...
    The US military will not charge or discipline its troops involved in a deadly NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The latest inquiry follows a previous US investigation which exonerated American troops... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Sheksna redemption: Russian killer’s Hollywood ...
    Booking an MI-2 helicopter by a call from prison, getting a girlfriend and a sidekick to draw guns on pilots, climbing onboard by a rope. A new blockbuster plot? Nope – just a runaway from a prison colony near a Russian... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Science journal under fire for newborn termina ...
    An article published in a leading UK medical journal stipulating that killing newborn babies is no different from abortion has triggered uproar. The article argues for after-birth abortion on the basis that newborns are... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Satellite to burn in atmosphere above Pacific
    Russia’s ill-fated multifunctional communication Express-AM4 satellite that was delivered to the wrong orbit last year has started a controllable descent to Earth. The satellite will be destroyed somewhere above the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Occupy chases snakes from Colorado Springs 201 ...
  • Obama is the more effective EVIL of the 1%
    ‘If you believe that what Wall Street does is Evil, then Obama’s service to Wall Street is Evil, and there is nothing lesser about it’ …says Glen Ford, and he’s absolutely right about that. Read his entire commentary about the Obama presidency @ Why Barack Obama is the Mo ...
  • Doesn’t anybody like Mitt Romney?
    I can’t believe how unpopular the Richie Rich guy is. The Counterpunch site is even selling buttons like the above at 3 for $8! Nobody seems to like Mitt Romney and he might not even carry voting members of his own church at this point. Still, as unpopular as he is, perhaps then again he [...]
  • The Idiot (supposedly) exNazi Pope lectures no ...
    The Idiot Pope is on the move once again and is denouncing violence in Mexico! Wow! Like is there anybody other than the jefes of the drug cartels saying that they support violence there? NO. That’s just how stupid the Pope always is as he babbles out his platitudes. And about another coun ...
  • Down the Merry Dead End path of crappy credent ...
    ‘Well, What would you do with a brain if you had one?’ …said Dorothy to the Scarecrow. Thus began the Scarecrow’s quest for proper credentialing///! They were off and headed down the merry dead end path of the yellow brick road in search of crappy credentialing for hire s ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Food and the Brain: Antioxidants
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Lee, Ph.D. Everybody is talking about antioxidants. It’s hard to keep up with all the latest “superfoods” and their supposed antioxidant benefits. But few people can expl ...
  • Public Pressure Works: Grocery Retailers Pulli ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Not two weeks have passed since Americans became familiarized with the pink slime found in our ground beef, and major supermarket chains have publicly come out stating they will not be selling pink slime prod ...
  • 5 Tips for Surviving the Supermarket with Your ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Aviva Goldfarb, founder of  The Six O’Clock Scramble Recently I was at the supermarket without my kids on a weekday morning. I had a long list and was flying through the aisles pr ...
  • United Grazers of America
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Consider these 2 factoids, from a recent USA Today article by Ellie Krieger, RD: 1) Every day, 90% of Americans eat at least one snack between meals 2) We now eat twice the daily snacks that we did just 30 ye ...
  • Spring is Here, Sun is Shining, Do We Need Vit ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Spring is here! Starting today, days are getting longer, and we can spend more time in the sun. One of the benefits is that our body, cool factory that it is, can manufacture a very important vitamin just fro ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
    Erui pictured in 2012, and his wife Bajo photographed just after she was captured in 1986. © Survival Ayoreo Indians have publicly marked the 25th anniversary of Paraguay’s last manhunt, in which over two dozen of the tribe’s members were captured, and five killed. The US-based fundamental ...
  • Papuan leaders imprisoned for treason
    Indonesia's brutal crackdown on last October's peaceful rally claimed many victims. © Tapol/Down to Earth/West Papua Media Five Papuan leaders have been found guilty of treason and sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Papua’s capital, Jayapura. Forkorus Yaboisembut, E ...
  • ‘Genocide’ risk in Brazil despite UN push to e ...
    Illegal logging could destroy the Awá, who are the world's most threatened tribe. © Fiona Watson/Survival Calls are growing to stop ‘a real situation of genocide’ inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Experts warn Brazi ...
  • Bushmen make a splash on World Water Day
    Bushman girls enjoy water from the well at Mothomelo © Vox United/Survival For the first time in ten years, Botswana’s Bushmen are celebrating World Water Day as they enjoy unobstructed access to the life-giving substance. Their main desert well was capped shut by the government in 2002 in ...
  • Amazon road spells disaster for Indians
    The proposed road threatens some of the world's last uncontacted tribes in Brazil and Peru. © Survival Peru’s largest protected area is on the verge of being invaded by a road, which threatens to destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people. The proposed project would cut throu ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Good Mourning
    By Cathy Jameson No, that’s not a typo. And, yes I meant it. Good mourning. I haven’t had a good, ugly cry in awhile. You know the type—heaving sobbing, uncontrollable tears flowing, heart-wrenching emotions. Some days I wish the mourning...
  • Kim Stagliano From the Pew: A Catholic Mom Who ...
    By Kim Stagliano As you know, there's a push nationawide to eliminate healthcare choice when it comes to vaccination. In a parallel universe, there's a push to limit access to birth control and women's reproductive health. Both involve religion as...
  • Pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears on Huffington Post: ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to Dr. Bob Sears for being a pediatrician, not a pedia-politician and speaking out about CA AB2109. Amazing how many on the left are hollering about taking away women's choice in ob/gyn care while remaining...
  • Justification for Philosophical Exemptions to ...
    Justification for Philosophical Exemptions to Vaccines The Coalition for SafeMinds 3/20/2012 Philosophically when it pertains to medical interventions, a parent should not intentionally subject their child to increased risk. Thus if it is reasonable for a parent to think that...
  • World Autism Awareness Day
    Managing Editor's Note: April is Autism Action Month and we consider it a month of somber observance and respectful thought on how to help our friends and family who are on the spectrum. Awareness is not enough. Do we love,...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Somalia pirates: EU approves attacks on land bases
    BBC – In a two-year extension of its mission, EU defence ministers agreed warships could target boats and fuel dumps. The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner says the move is a significant step-up in operations, but one that also risks escalation. Up to 10 EU naval ships are c ...
  • France gunman on U.S. no-fly list
    UPI – The gunman who died Thursday when cornered by French police was on the radar of U.S. authorities as well, sources told The Wall Street Journal. Mohammed Merah, 24, was on the U.S. no-fly list because he had been in custody in Afghanistan in 2010 before being sent back to France, sour ...
  • Greece’s austerity doesn’t extend ...
    Guardian – In the wake of the private sector debt swap agreed last week, European leaders have continued to call for major structural reforms to Greece’s economy and society. The current EU-IMF bailout remains conditional on further austerity measures, including reducing pensions, th ...
  • Families win landmark ruling on £600m asbestos ...
    Independent – Thousands of families whose relatives were killed by asbestos cancers will win a landmark compensation victory this week, sources have told The Independent on Sunday. The Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday that insurers who offered cover at the time victims inhaled the dead ...
  • 1984: Japanese CCTV camera can scan 36 million ...
    Daily Mail – A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it. Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second. The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other or ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Shaima Alawadi Dead: Iraqi Woman Who Was Sever ...
    The daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told KUSI-TV her mother had been beaten on the head repeatedly with a tire iron, and that the note said "go back to your country, you terrorist." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem fans beat up Arab ...
    "I've never seen so many people," said A, a shopkeeper. "They stood on chairs and tables and what have you. They made a terrible noise, screamed 'death to the Arabs,' waved their scarves and sang songs at the top of their voices." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-i ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...
  • Israel is fighting a losing battle over victimhood
    If it's permissible for this country to bomb Iran to free itself from a nuclear threat, then why are the Palestinians forbidden to launch rockets against Israel to free themselves of the occupation? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu's contempt for the Holocaust
    Netanyahu received Dimona ready made. Contrary to Israel's former leaders, Netanyahu's political use of the Holocaust is a tactic; it is demagoguery and it is a bluff. By scaring people about a future Holocaust, he breaks the vow and detracts from the uni Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &n ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Which Country in the World is Preventing World ...
    By Robert Singer World War III: Countdown To Armageddon - U.S. Closes Embassy In Syria And Ayatollah Declares "Kill All Jews, Annihilate Israel"! Update: UK Ambassador Withdrawn From Syria For Talks! February 06, 2012 - The officials said the deterioration of the situation in the country [Syria ...
  • Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups
    by Stephen Lendman 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 S ...
  • Netanyahu v Obama - What next?
    By Alan Hart The headline over an article in Ha-aretz by Bradley Burston on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s poker game with President Obama was If Obama wins in November, is Netanyahu in trouble? That’s a question I’ve had in my own mind for quite some time and it begs anot ...
  • Heading for Inevitable Disaster
    by Stephen Lendman In 1959, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz liberated Cuba from imperial America, police state rule, and mafia bosses who turned the nation into a casino and brothel. Cubans may want change, but won't tolerate recolonization under puppets serving Washington's interests. On August 1 ...
  • Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life
    by Stephen Lendman Besides persecution, repression, and injustice, deprivation defines life in Occupied Palestine. Essentials fall way below minimum standards. Shortages and crises affect water, sanitation, electricity, fuel, and vital healthcare when most needed. On March 14, the Palestinia ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Brad Wall's Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    With the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and the certain demise of the film industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall asked: "If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsidy, should the taxpayers subsidize indefinitely?" The Saskatchewan Off ...
  • Tuition fees and accessibility to higher education
    This week, three hundred thousand students from 178 associations are boycotting their classes in Quebec to protest the provincial government's decision to raise tuition fees $325 a year for the next five years. CBC radio in Quebec City interviewed Erika Shaker, director of the CCPA's Education P ...
  • Jets and Jails or Jobs and Justice?
    Saskatchewan Director Simon Enoch discusses the upcoming federal budget and the CCPA's Alternative Budget with Prairie Dog's Gregory Beatty. Read more here. 
  • Forward to Fairness: Nova Scotia Alternative B ...
    CCPA-NS brings together academics and community partners to assemble its Alternative Budget for 2012. This document shows Nova Scotians that minor changes in government spending could have a major impact on the health and wellness of its population. Putting the welfare of the province's citize ...
  • CCPA Saskatchewan 2012 Budget Response
    See the Saskatchewan office's response to Minister Krawetz's "Austerity for Prosperity" 2012 budget here. 

World Wide Hippies

  • A Worldwide Hippies CITIZEN DISPATCH
    – Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH. News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe. This Edition; Glenn Simpson Leeds, United Kingdom To find out how you can become the voice from your spot on the globe. Contact; joe@worldwidehippies.com News for the People by the People!  
  • Worldwide Hippies Facts, Freaks and Groovy Things
    Dr. Woody’s Fabulous, Fascinating Factiod, #5: Sex is Sex… Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship By OLIVER PICKUP,independent.co.uk – Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December’s apocalypse. A mountain lo ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday. “A boo ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: The 1% monopoly on viol ...
    Hundreds With Occupy Wall Street Rally Against Police Brutality Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, John Collado, Jumaane Williams, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, Police brutality, Union Square, United Nations, Ydanis Rodriguez, Zuccotti Park NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstra ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Dick Cheney recovering at hospital after heart transplant Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering Saturday at a Virginia hospital after receiving a heart transplant, his office said. Cheney was in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, his office said. Cheney ...

FourWinds10

  • Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico
    BP Spill Released Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material Into the Gulf Cross posted here. It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from L ...
  • Revealed: the secret battle for the riches of ...
    Leaked cables show how nations are carving up pristine wilderness By Shaun Walker in Moscow   The melting of the polar ice has been disastrous for wildlife but opens up new opportunities to exploit natural resources .firstcolumn { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; border-bottom: 5px so ...
  • THE GARBAGE PATCH
  • STUDYING HOW PLASTIC POLLUTION ENTERS OCEAN FO ...
  • Your help needed to pass FRAC Act and hold dri ...
    (NaturalNews) In response to massive public outcry, the US Senate has finally reintroduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, or S. 587, which will once again hold natural gas drilling companies responsible for the environmental pollution they cause when fractur ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

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

Rodale News

  • FDA Ordered to Take Action on Antibiotic Use i ...
    In a major court decision that could help protect Americans from potentially fatal superbug infections, a federal judge ruled Thursday night that the Food and Drug Administration must act now to address the dangers involved with overusing antibiotics in livestock production. The move to force ...
  • The Worst Shoes for Summer
    What's not to love about spring and summer? Warm weather, lots of sun, bare feet, and… foot fungus? Depending on the kind of shoes you wear, you could find yourself with a nasty, soil-borne fungal infection that could leave your feet in an unappealing—and painful—state. Researchers in India fou ...
  • "Superbugs" Prompt Urgent Warning From Scientists
    Call it ironic, call it scary—call it urgent, is what America's leading agriculture scientists are saying about a new variety of superbug invading American farms. Thanks to the heavy reliance on genetically modified crops, a tiny worm has overtaken fields, outsmarting the genetic engineering th ...
  • New Rule: Don't Take Antibiotics for This Comm ...
    Your family doctor knows best, right? Not always. Many physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for a common springtime ailment that cannot effectively be wiped out with drugs. And dishing out these antibiotics doesn't just threaten patients with side effects, but also leads to the creation o ...
  • Unlikely Partnership Could End Animal Testing ...
    Generally, animal testing in cosmetics is not something most of us like to think about when we're applying lipstick, anti-wrinkle cream, or eye makeup in the morning. But as undercover investigations have recently pointed out, animal testing is still alive and well, partly because companies ar ...

big think

  • This Is Your Brain on Love
    What's the Latest Development? Thanks to new neuroimaging technology, science understands better than ever how the brain functions while in love. From infancy to adulthood, our loving interpersonal relationships shape our other experiences the most, which in turn influence how our brain ...
  • Where Is Consciousness Located in the Brain?
    What's the Latest Development? Behavioral scientist at York College, Robert Duncan addresses how far neurology has come in finding consciousness by looking closely at the brain's biology. Currently, consciousness is thought to be a result of metacognition, i.e. planning, reasoning and so ...
  • Reason Rally Wrap-Up, Part 1
    It's Sunday morning, and I'm writing this on the train from Washington, D.C. back to New York. I'm exhausted, washed out, and my calves are two knots of pain from all the standing and walking I've been doing these past two days. But I feel like a live wire, buzzing with energy and happiness. I'm ...
  • Tackling 'Information Obesity': Clay Johnson ( ...
    Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet  and co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008, argues that there's no such thing as 'information overload.' The problem, he says, is that people consume informatio ...
  • How Alcohol Inspires Creativity
    What's the Latest Development? In a study of 40 young men, scientists found that those given vodka cranberry drinks performed better on a standard creativity test than those who stayed sober. Published in Consciousness and Cognition, the research looked at alcohol's influence on people's ...

Information Liberation

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

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Power In All The Wrong Hands
    I’m still rather tied up, so I thought as a bit of a change of pace,  I’d direct you to a rather marvellous article from the von Mises Institute: The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy. Had me in stitches at several … Continue reading →
  • Only In America
    I’m exaggerating. It’s de rigeur an any dictatorship worthy of the name. But the Executive Order of President Barack Hussein Obama, signed last Friday, is gob-smacking in its scope and abandonment of all pretence of congressional democracy. Go have a … Continue reading →
  • More Dollars Than Sense
    Still hammering away on my next thread, so I thought I’d ask you about the topic currently doing the rounds over at DT: “Quantitative Easing”, or QE. Actually, it’s printing money to you and me, but that can be misleading, … Continue reading →
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...
  • Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of ...
    Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print &#8230 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Pipeline Safety: Collecting Data and Sharing I ...
    US Government Accountability Office www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-388 [AP/Fuelfix]  Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make sure ...
  • Wasting Our Waterways: 2012 Toxic Industrial P ...
    Environment America http://bit.ly/GJD67u [From a Greenwire article by Paul Quinlan, sub. req'd]  The Ohio River and the Mississippi River top the list of the nation’s most polluted waterways in a report released yesterday by an environmental group. Citing a U.S. EPA discharge inventory, th ...
  • Addendum to Potential Supply and Cost Impacts ...
    Baker and O’Brien Inc. for the American Petroleum Institute http://bit.ly/GKjcF2 [From an article in E&E News PM by Nick Juliano, sub. req'd]   An upcoming rule to lower the sulfur content of gasoline and diesel will not force any refineries to shut down but will increase their operati ...
  • Annual Energy Outlook 2011 Retrospective Revie ...
    US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/retrospective/ [Website] The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 Retrospective Review provides a yearly comparison between realized energy outcomes and the Reference case projections included in previous AEOs beginning with 1982. This edi ...
  • American Public Favors Natural Gas Drilling De ...
    Harris Poll http://bit.ly/GPQFzD … two-thirds of Americans (66%) say they believe the benefits of natural gas outweigh the risks while 17% say the risks outweigh the benefits… These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 2,056 adults surveyed online between February 6 and 13, ...

Scientific American - News

  • Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars Grows Stronger
    THE WOODLANDS, Tex.--Today's Mars is a frigid desert, a place where water--the key to life as we know it--has gone into hiding. Whatever water may have once existed on Mars in rivers, lakes or even oceans is now frozen into ice caps, locked up in hydrated minerals or buried in debris-coated ...
  • Health Care Reform on Trial: What's at Stake i ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is a busy place this time of year. So when the justices announced that, starting March 26, they would hear six hours of arguments on the health care reform law --the most time it has dedicated to any one case in decades--the gravitas of the issue became clear to all. [Mor ...
  • The Ballooning Brain: Defective Genes May Expl ...
    As a baby grows inside the womb, its brain does not simply expand like a dehydrated sponge dropped in water. Early brain development is an elaborate procession. Every minute some 250,000 neurons bloom, squirming past one another like so many schoolchildren rushing to their seats at the sound of ...
  • Big Kill, Not Big Chill, Finished Off Giant Ka ...
    Around 40,000 years ago, the giant kangaroo disappeared from Australia. So did Diprotodon ( rhinoceros-size wombats ) and Palorchestes ( tapirlike marsupials ) as well as supersize birds, reptiles and some 50 other so-called megafauna--big animals. And now a record of fungal spores pulled fr ...
  • Power Plants: Could a Rechargeable Battery Be ...
    Despite decades of predictions that a fully electronic, paperless society is almost upon us, we still live in a world populated with printed documents. This insatiable demand for plant cellulose –based writing and packaging materials may end up having a silver lining: a component for a ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Victoria Activists bring Opposition to Enbridg ...
    On March 23rd 2012 community organizers installed a symbolic pipeline in downtown Victoria BC. This action was in solidarity with all the other folk who also oppose the planned Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. It was an act that ...
  • Not a good year for neo-Nazi 'Blood and Honour ...
    Members charged with hate crimes, rallies smashed, one killed 2012 is turning into very bad year for the neo-Nazi group Blood and Honour in Canada. On March 24, two 'white pride' rallies organized by B & H chapters in Edmonton, ...
  • Seeing the Strings: Iglika Ivanova and Matthew ...
    Capitalism and You teach-in Seeing the Strings started with a discussion addressing: What are the basics of capitalism? How is it connected to different forms of exploitation? How does capitalism shape you? Speakers were Iglika Ivanova and ...
  • Progressive Budget Real Alternative: CCPA
    If you want to govern, not give up Fed a steady diet of tax-cut fetishism and deficit hysteria, Nova Scotians could welcome the N.S. Alternative Budget (NSAB) released March 22 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-N.S (CCPA-NS).&n ...
  • Businesses Start with the CEED of an Idea
    The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development provides unemployed Nova Scotians with an alternative to the labour market Moira Peters and Sam Fraser were unemployed and struggling in the Halifax labour market when they discovere ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Your Favorite Podcasts Revealed!
    Yesterday I asked for podcast recommendations. I got loads of 'em! So now, as a public service, I figure I should provide you with a rough Top Ten list culled from comments and emails. The full comment section has a lot more than just the podcasts below, and you should take a look if you're in ...
  • What Are Your Favorite Podcasts?
    As part of my ongoing effort to join the 21st century, I bought an iPhone several months ago. Now it's finally time to make some use of it. As it happens, I walk up to the market every day to buy food for dinner,1 so I'd like to start downloading podcasts to listen to on the way. Yesterday, for ...
  • Forget Interstate Commerce. It's the "Necessar ...
    On Monday the Supreme Court will hear arguments about the constitutionality of the individual mandate in Obamacare. David Bernstein argues that the key issue is what's become known as the "broccoli test": As I’ve argued several times before, the Supreme Court’s conservative majorit ...
  • Obamacare is Now Officially Obamacare
    Sometime last year I gave up entirely on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Not the act itself, of course, but the name. I gave on PPACA and I gave up on ACA. President Obama himself seemed to be OK with it being called Obamacare, so I decided that's what I'd call it too. So natura ...
  • Stock Exchange Trades Its Own Shares, Plunges ...
    BATS, based in Kansas City, is the third-largest stock exchange in the country. This morning they went public, offering shares in BATS to the public for the first time. Naturally, shares in BATS were traded on BATS itself. So what happened? At 10:45 AM trading opened and was halted immediatel ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 311: More Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: Bioware Mass Effect 3 update Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtles Extra raunchy & sexual comedy isn’t funny Dane Cook sucks President Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin The Trayvon Martin Case & White Privilege George Zimmerman’s friends defend him Racist don’t kil ...
  • IC 310: The Stop Michael Bay Foundation
    Topics: Movie news Disney bombs with John Carter Why John Carter was doomed from the beginning Michael Bay looks to rape the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legacy Crazy lady goes nuts in class over evolution How to deal with crazy Trayvon Martin updates Larry Elder is a sad excuse for a man Toure ...
  • IC 309: I Hate NYC
    Topics: Comcast, the Jehovah Witnesses of Cable companies Kriss & Kev hate NYC Kwame Kilpatrick has a movie Black people feeling the need to support other black people just cause they’re black The Trayvon Martin case and how absurd it is The uproar over the Mass Effect 3 ending *spoil ...
  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...
  • IC 308: The World’s Fattest Cockblocker
    Topics: Mass Effect 3 launch trailer Recognizing the complexity of video games Fuck Chris Brown and fuck Rihanna too Fuck this dirty ass cunt Andrew Breitbart was a piece of shit, don’t white wash it Respect is earned not given Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand how birth control works ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate models pass prehistoric test
    US Geological Survey scientist Harry Dowsett and a worldwide team of expert climate modellers and temperature sleuths show four models can generally describe a 300,000 year warming period 3,000,000 years ago.
  • Complete organic crop switch would raise UK em ...
    Agricultural consultant Rob Carlton and colleagues suggests leaving more plant waste in fields is the best way to cut greenhouse gases produced by arable farming, though he still holds out hope for bringing the best bits of organic and conventional methods together.
  • Thick ice decline could advance watery Arctic ...
    NASA scientist Joey Comiso reveals a faster loss of supposedly less vulnerable “multiyear” ice that could see summer Northern polar ice melt into history, bringing further climate and food chain problems.
  • Melting sea ice plays critical role in winter ...
    Georgia Institute of Technology's Jiping Liu and colleagues have revealed evidence that shrinking Arctic ice is allowing more water into the atmosphere and slowing the jet stream so the moisture can move southward and fall as snow.
  • Climate change causes chipmunks hidden damage
    By comparing DNA from alpine chipmunks preserved for 96 years with samples from those living today Emily Rubidge from University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues reveal a threatening, climate-change driven, shrinking of their gene pool.

e!Science News

  • Magnetic field researchers target 100-tesla goal
    Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have just met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments. The hundred-tesla level is roughly equivalent to 2 million times Earth's magnetic field. read ...
  • Embryonic stem cells shift metabolism in cance ...
    Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, Seattle researchers have reported. These stem cells start using and producing energy like cancer cells. read more
  • Ancient civilizations reveal ways to manage fi ...
    In the search for sustainability of the ocean's fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past. read more
  • A shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules
    At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical signals that can mean life or death. At the heart of this vast cellular signaling network are inte ...
  • Researchers discover why humans began walking ...
    Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us don't question. But an international team of researchers, including Brian Richmond at the George Washington University, have discovered that human bipedalism, or walking upright, ...

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

  • Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate c ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions on a hotter planet (Part III). He also wrote a brilliant recent piece for The ...
  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution). The case study was the ...
  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...
  • IFR FaD 11 – sodium coolant and pool design
    This is the second of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the I ...
  • Purpose and target audience of BraveNewClimate.com
    Before I write a scientific paper, I always try to identify: (1) my main message [MM], in 25 words or less, and (2) my target audience [TA]. Doing this helps focus the ‘story’ of the manuscript on a key point. Papers that try to present multiple messages are typically confusing and/or too long f ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • An Islamophobic ‘voice of the people’
    What does Eitan Haber’s Yedioth Ahronoth column, ’And the president of France will be named Mohammed,’ say about the political mentality in Israel?   Eitan Haber is a consciously ”representative” Israeli. In his Yedioth Ahronoth columns, he’s cultivated himsel ...
  • Is there a new wave of Jew-hatred in Europe?
    While the murders in Toulouse are evidence that anti-Semitism certainly subsists in Europe, there is no reason to believe that European Jews need to be saved. In fact, the reality is that Jews are increasingly open and confident about expressing their Jewish identity. By Dov Waxman Reading much ...
  • Anti-AIPAC signs in Tel Aviv rally against Ira ...
    I missed the small demonstration – around 1,000 people – against the strike on Iran yesterday, but one thing that caught my eye this morning were a couple of pictures of signs denouncing AIPAC that friends shared on Facebook. It seems that more Israelis are becoming aware that AIPAC ...
  • One or two states? The status quo is Israel&#8 ...
    The secret to understanding Israeli political behavior lies in the widespread (and fundamentally evident) notion that any change to the status-quo is likely to bring more harm than good. Even passionate advocates of Israeli policy wonder at times – often in private, but sometimes also in public ...
  • First large Israeli demonstration against war ...
    By Dahlia Scheindlin and Larry Derfner A lively crowd of approximately 1000 people, according to estimates by the Israeli media, gathered at Habima Square in Tel Aviv to voice its opposition to a war between Israel and Iran. Although hoping to capitalize on the energy of a surprisingly successfu ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

  • On Protest and Power
    The rush to the middle is killing the historical political construct – Thomas Mulcair’s victory as the new leader of …Continue reading »
  • Public Defacement
    Our town hasn’t been used to such exposure in a long time. The ElectroMotive plant closing of a few weeks …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – Breaking Out
    It’s in the nature of living that we grow accustomed to thinking of our daily activities in cyclical fashion. Given …Continue reading »
  • Right to Community – From Manipulation t ...
    Canadian democracy, like most advanced democracies around the world, displays the strong tendency to be concerned over what people believe …Continue reading »
  • Not As It Used To Be
      This past week the family and I spent a delightful dinner with someone who had been one of the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • FDA Enters Withdrawal: Agency Must Pursue Limi ...
    Yesterday, a federal magistrate ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move ahead with a decades-old effort to withdraw approvals for several uses of antibiotics considered “critically important” to human health by the World Health Organization.  This is a solid win for public health ...
  • Congressman Roscoe Bartlett: Peak Oil and the ...
    In a talk at the Bloomberg School last week, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R–MD) asked the audience: “I’m not a perfect fit for the Republican mold, am I?” The talk was about peak oil, a concept that he’s been stumping in Congress for over a decade. A modern-day Cassandra, he’s been “on the floor ...
  • Will Allen: Gentleman farmer, grand thinker
    But Allen is not just growing food, he is helping to grow community—that feeling of being connected to each other, as well as to the natural world that sustains us. Community is the very ingredient that is most painfully lacking in the industrialized food system that is at once so productive and ...
  • Incubating Public Health: Proposed Ban on Batt ...
    In the United States, for every citizen, there is roughly one laying hen. The majority of these birds are confined in battery cages, wire enclosures that typically afford each bird a space smaller than a single sheet of letter-sized paper. This system is poised to undergo several major changes. ...
  • The Science Is Clear: Antibiotic Resistance an ...
    As a panel of scientific experts spoke at Thursday’s Congressional briefings on the misuse of antibiotics in food animal production, a theme emerged: There is no longer any debate. With evidence that is now irrefutable, the panelists addressed more than 120 Congressional staff and others in the ...

k2p blog

  • Eurofighter tries to spoil the Indian MMRCA Ra ...
    After Dassault's Rafale was declared the lowest bidder for the Indian MMRCA contract, the losing Eurofighter lobby is stepping up its efforts to block the award to Dassault by claiming that the evaluation was manipulated.
  • Of Mice and Vikings
    Genetic studies of mtDNA from ancient and modern mice match the movement of the Vikings they hitched a ride with to Greenland and Iceland.
  • Surrogate motherhood: The ethics of convenience
    The Swedish Parliament's Social Affairs Committee has voted to investigate whether surrogate motherhood should be allowed. It seems that the convenience of the would-be parents is of more importance than the welfare or the life of the child to be created.
  • Human bird-wings?
    Humn powered flight - maybe.
  • The scale of the Universe: from yoctometres to ...
    A journey of sixty powers of ten from where neutrinos are like suns to where galaxies are like dust.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Ticketmaster Gets Into Spirit Of Worst Company ...
    With a little more than six hours to go before voting closes on the second round Worst Company In America bout between Spirit Airlines and Ticketmaster, a source at Live Nation tells us that senior staff are encouraging employees to vote on the matchup. The insider forwarded us an e-mail claim ...
  • Judge: Towing Co. Should Not Have Sold Deploye ...
    Nearly five years after having his Jeep sold without his knowledge or approval by a towing company while he was deployed on a U.S. Navy ship, an enlisted man is finally getting a bit of justice. Back in 2007, he was transferred to a base in Norfolk, VA, and began renting an apartment in town ...
  • Change In T-Mobile Plan Deletes Deceased Daugh ...
    The parents of a teen girl who died last summer had been hoping to hold on to the last voicemail she recorded before losing her battle with cancer. Unfortunately, when T-Mobile pitched its voicemail-to-text service to them, no one mentioned that it would delete their late daughter's message. " ...
  • Americans Will Shell Out $145 Each To Turn Int ...
    So maybe not everyone is going to strap on a fluffy white tail and don bunny ears, but the average American celebrating Easter this year will be spending around $145 on assorted springtime merchandise. That's up from about $131 at the same time last year. Of course we won't be spending all tha ...
  • Story About TSA Taking Soldier's Nail Clippers ...
    Once again making the rounds on Facebook and in the blogosphere is the story of Indiana National Guard troops traveling home from Afghanistan. In the tale, one soldier was forced by the Transportation Security Administration to yield a pair of nail clippers. Seemed odd, as those soldiers were a ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • The Neoliberal Hoax
    Neoliberalism is the most powerful force in economic history; like a black hole in deep outer space, it consumes everything. The great prophets of neoliberal economic policies like Milton Friedman claim economic freedom is a necessary condition for political freedom, but world events are not coo ...
  • What Would You Do If Your Government Knowingly ...
    Every year, over 10,000 people die from complications related to asbestos exposure in the US alone. Despite everything known about the danger of asbestos, halting its use has been a difficult process in Canada and the United States. In the 1990s, many countries adopted bans on the use and import ...
  • The Nation: Obama Moving US Closer to a War wi ...
    Although President Obama says “now is not the time for bluster” about Iran, his administration “has adopted a strategic approach that is moving the United States closer to war,” “The Nation” magazine warns in a March 26th editorial. While Iran has the right to enrich uranium under international ...
  • What Republicans Argue When They Have Nothing ...
    Republicans are desperate. They can’t attack Obama on jobs because the jobs picture is improving. Their attack on the Administration’s rule requiring insurers to cover contraception has backfired, raising hackles even among many Republican women. Their attack on Obama for raising gas prices has ...
  • An Open Letter to the GOP: Transvaginally Speaking
    Hi guys… The Los Angeles Times ran strips by the brilliant cartoonist Garry Trudeau, creator of “Doonesbury,” in the paper’s Opinion section. Not the comic section. Culminating on March 17, the strips depict a young woman at an abortion clinic being chastised by a male legislator who calls her a ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • $175k to cheer up Department of Energy and Cli ...
    Hey, but this is alright when you are spending someone else’s money isn’t it? Staff at the Australian Department of Climate  Change are so depressed, I can’t think why, so the government is spending $175,000 to cheer them up. Could it be that the poor staff would enjoy their jo ...
  • Those devastating Queensland Election Results: ...
    UPDATE: Is this a record? Has there ever been a loss this bad in Australian history? Conservatives likely to win 74 seats of an 89 seat parliament. Labor was reduced to only 11 seats in 1974, and on latest counting tonight appeared set to retain only nine seats. Some analysts put the figure even ...
  • We are all Austrians now
    The meme is spreading. Rapidly, day after day, I’m meeting more Skeptical-Austrians, and Austrian-Skeptics. I don’t mean the country, but the economics. James Delingpole-the-brilliant enjoyed my post: The Ground Zero of Global Corruption: it starts with The Currency. He’s had ...
  • Total Body Scam? — Taking your money and ...
    Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that corre ...
  • Media Watch witch hunt
    “In the old days they would have just bound her, thrown her into the lake, and waited to see if she floated. Though a primitive method of witch-hunting, it would surely be far more effective than Jonathan’s, and would require much less in taxpayer funding.”  [MediaWatch comme ...

ReNew America

  • Romney: 'The gay community needs more support ...
    (CNSNews.com) - When Mitt Romney first entered the political scene in 1994, running for the U.S. Senate against Teddy Kennedy, he told an LGBT-focused publication in Massachusetts that he would be a more effective advocate for the interests of the "gay community" than Kennedy had been and that g ...
  • Can Romney hijack the Republican convention?
    (Conservative HQ) - In the aftermath of the Illinois Republican presidential primary one thing has become clear -- the delegate counts being bandied about by the Romney campaign and its sympathizers in the Republican establishment are at best wishful thinking and are more likely a ploy to hijack ...
  • Florida AG Bondi to Newsmax: How we'll defeat ...
    (Newsmax) - President Barack Obama's healthcare initiative is the biggest attempt at a government overreach in U.S. history, Pam Bondi, Florida's attorney general, who is leading the fight against the program, tells Newsmax.TV...
  • Obamacare foes pick experienced lawyer for the ...
    (Newsmax) - Paul Clement, who is leading the fight against the Obama healthcare overhaul, is one of the most experienced attorneys in front of the Supreme Court, having argued more than 50 cases before the justices...
  • The Obamacare Hydra
    (Michelle Malkin) - The Hydra was a mythical swamp beast whose multiple heads grew back after being severed. Obamacare is a real Washington monster whose countless hidden bureaucracies keep sprouting forth even after they're rooted out. As soon as combatants lop off one of the law's unconstituti ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Mexico City Earthquake: Predicted!
    “State System for Civil (public) Protection Mega Simulation Setting: Presence and effect of an earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Participants: General Public, Schools and Hospitals, both public and private, businesses, social and private agencies, as well as those dependents of ...
  • Australia: Biggest Quake in 15 Years
    As reported by news.com.au: The earthquake’s epicentre was recorded at shallow depth near Ernabella, 415km north west of Coober Pedy and about 320km south west of Alice Springs, just before 8pm. Geoscience Australia reported the quake could have been felt by people up to 500km away and d ...
  • Homeland Security Tracking Preppers?
    Survivalist and Prepper websites have been reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has been paying them a visit – for example Off Grid Survival: So of course I went and checked some of my sites, here are the totals since Jan 1, 2011: 2012 Connect   16 2012 Base    21 Survi ...
  • 188 Day Earthquake Cycle?
    I’m actually on vacation (my last for perhaps a very long time…), so I’ve not been able to fully investigate this, but here goes: Chile — February 27, 2010 — 8.8-magnitude New Zealand — September 4, 2010 — 7.1-magnitude Japan — March 11, 2011 — 9.1-magnitude Fiji — Septembe ...
  • Prophetic Card Game
    Illuminati — New World Order was a card game released in 1995. When Steve Jackson was designing the game in 1990, without warning, a force of armed Secret Service agents – accompanied by Austin police and at least one civilian ‘expert’ from the phone company – occup ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Shehla Masood murder: CBI recovers weapon used ...
    The CBI today said that the weapon used in the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood has been recovered at the instance of Saqib Ali who is accused of hiring contract killers to murder her. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
  • Balwant Singh Rajoana execution: Prison return ...
    The BJP today steered clear of the controversy surrounding death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana saying the matter was sub judice even as the Patiala Central Jail returned his death warrant for the second time in less than a week. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
  • Telecom links in all Indian villages by 2014: BSNL
    BSNL has undertaken an ambitious Rs 20,000 crore project to establish telecom links in all villages across India in the next two years. Reported by IndiaTimes 6 hours ago
  • BSF being deployed in Punjab before Rajoana's ...
    In the wake of charged atmosphere in Punjab as hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in late CM Beant Singh murder case, is scheduled for March 31 state government has requisitioned BSF for extra vigil. Reported by IndiaTimes 6 hours ago
  • 2 girls help nab alleged child abductor
    Two seven-year-old girls helped arrest an alleged child kidnapper from outside their school in Madhavpura area of the city, police said today. Reported by IndiaTimes 7 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Syria: Way to Peace
    On March 21, 2012 the UN Security Council unanimously (all 15 members) approved a statement on Syria that is to facilitate the crisis solution. The statement is a six point proposal emphasizing a ceasefire by both sides, a pull back of Syrian army from populated areas, the continuation of UN int ...
  • Cyber Security: New Threats, New Opportunities
    As early as 10-15 years ago it seemed that all the apocalypses-like scenarios of the “digital Pearl Harbor”, depicted by some American researchers, would always be not more than a fantasy. But four years ago Barack Obama named cyber threats (alongside with the problem of nuclear disarmament, the ...
  • Cyrenaica and the Scuffle for Libyan Heritage
    A failing state The decision by the so-called “Congress of the People of Cyrenaica” held near Benghazi to establish a unified federal region of Barq has again attracted the attention of the media to Libya. Of course, the main reason for this decision by the Cyrenaicans was the desire to take cha ...
  • After a Failed Revolution
    The socio-political phenomenon of revolution in an individual country isn’t a new phenomenon in the modern era. The revolutionary wave hitting a number of countries is nothing new either. We might recall the events that shook Europe in 1848-1849 and the events of 1917-1918 that rocked the ...
  • Turkish Solitaire
    After Syrian security forces liberated first the area west of Homs and then the area northwest of Idlib, it became obvious that now only a foreign invasion can overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. And Damascus is doing its best to exploit its advantage as quickly as possible: It got a new consti ...

BlogHer

  • Should We Really Call it Food Addiction?
    In her Neurotic Physiology blog, Scicurious takes a long, hard look at overeating and obesity. She questions the idea of food addiction and how it matches up with ideas of substance addition, all from her scientific viewpoint. She suggests, . . . we are dealing with a small portion of the obese ...
  • Do Geotags on Your Photos Reveal Your Home Add ...
    Kitchen Mage reveal the hidden information photographs you take and post online may carry with them. She tells you how to find this hidden info and how to turn it off if you don't want it contained in your photos. Kitchen Mage writes, The maps that show up on photo services like flickr and Inst ...
  • Are You Enjoying the Journey?
    When you think of your current career path - whether employee or entrepreneur - are you enjoying it? Or are you plugging away striving for that next milestone? Because as the wise Ferris Bueller once said - "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you coul ...
  • Celebrate Waffle Day with Lemon Poppyseed Waffles
    Today is Waffle Day, and it's the perfect time to whip up a lazy Sunday breakfast of delicious waffles. I love the sound of this particular recipe, especially at this time of year, when the seasons have just changed and brighter flavors are in order. lemon poppy seed waffles The last time I p ...
  • A Review of Mass Effect 3
    The gaming world is all astir about the release of Mass Effect 3. Part of that stir is over the ending. There is a disagreement among the game's fans as to whether the ending is good or bad. crunchychocobo from Gaming Angels shares her opinions and enthusiams about Mass Effect 3. She points out, ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Our Right to Know: Organizations Take Action f ...
    This past month I’ve found myself neck deep in thinking and talking about genetic engineering. Not about the science, but about the current state of affairs. Recently the unrestricted approval of Round-Up Ready alfalfa, the ...
  • Meat Grown in Lab Poised to Enter Food Industry
    A scientist in Maastricht University has grown the world’s first synthetic meat in hopes to keep animal protein accessible and inexpensive in the face of growing demand.  Dr. Mark Post explains: “Meat demand is going to double ...
  • Be Reminded of What it Means to Resist!
    This speech from Charlie Chaplin comes from a movie created at the end of the Nazi era as a satire against the evil regime.  A comedian for all intensive purposes, Charlie Chaplin was also wise, the ...
  • Occasional Fasting Offers Boost in Mental Heal ...
    Longevity is not only rooted in what we put in our bodies but also how we regulate our intake.  There is a Japanese proverb, “hara hachi bunme” or “Stop eating when you are 80% full”. ...
  • Get Dirty to Get Joy- Bacteria in Soil Acts as ...
    A bacteria found in soil called Mycobacterium has been found to effect the same neurons as Prozac, offering people a natural lift in mood.  This is just one more great reason to get out in ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 23, 2012
    Indian laborers load coal onto trucks at a coal depot on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Friday, March 23, 2012. India’s scandal-plagued government lost hundreds of billions of dollars by selling coalfields to companies without competitive bidding, according to a leaked audit report that th ...
  • Breaking: Judge overturns EPA veto of Spruce Mine
    Here’s the latest, just reported by the AP’s Vicki Smith: A federal judge says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal mine. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge ...
  • Breaking news: NIOSH panel says proper MSHA in ...
    Huge news today, with the conclusions of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health panel’s report that provides critical context within which everyone should view the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s actions — and the agency’s public stateme ...
  • All of the above: Obama doesn’t mention coal
    President Barack Obama at TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla., Thursday, March, 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama gave three major speeches this week about energy policy, all part of an energy tour that finished up today with this: Standing in front of ...
  • Gov. Tomblin signs mine safety bill — again
    Gov. Tomblin signs H.B. 4351, joined by the Speaker of the House of Delegates Rick Thompson, Dalton Thompson, Del. Mike Caputo, and State Police Chaplain Jim Mitchell. Photo Courtesy of the Governor’s Office West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin already signed the state’s new mine safe ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • A Worldwide Hippies CITIZEN DISPATCH
    – Welcome to CITIZEN DISPATCH. News and Commentary from Citizen Journalist around the globe. This Edition; Glenn Simpson Leeds, United Kingdom To find out how you can become the voice from your spot on the globe. Contact; joe@worldwidehippies.com News for the People by the People!  
  • Worldwide Hippies Facts, Freaks and Groovy Things
    Dr. Woody’s Fabulous, Fascinating Factiod, #5: Sex is Sex… Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship By OLIVER PICKUP,independent.co.uk – Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December’s apocalypse. A mountain lo ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday. “A boo ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: The 1% monopoly on viol ...
    Hundreds With Occupy Wall Street Rally Against Police Brutality Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, John Collado, Jumaane Williams, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, Police brutality, Union Square, United Nations, Ydanis Rodriguez, Zuccotti Park NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstra ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Dick Cheney recovering at hospital after heart transplant Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering Saturday at a Virginia hospital after receiving a heart transplant, his office said. Cheney was in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, his office said. Cheney ...

reference frame

  • Obama, Chu kill funding for FNAL's ILC, half o ...
    During two recent days, Science Insider and Chicago Business informed the readers about the Obama administration's and DOE's decision to completely scrap the research funding for the International Linear Collider that would be built by the Fermilab; and cut in half the funds for the Long Base ...
  • Joy Christian, an entanglement denier
    A commenter has pointed out some new battles between Joy Christian and some saner physicists that take place at the arXiv.org preprint server and at fqxi.org, a funding agency mainly for crackpots. If you check Google Scholar or INSPIRE, you will find literally dozens of papers by Joy Ch ...
  • Next peak of ice age: year 60,000 AD
    Glaciation cycles – swings of temperature that change the global mean temperature from a maximum to a minimum that differ almost by 10 °C and back – occur in quasiperiodic cycles with periodicities between 20,000 and 100,000 years or so. They may be reconstructed from the concentration of oxy ...
  • Stephen Hawking will visit Sheldon Cooper
    Update: Via TV Guide: Howard Wolowitz will be helping Stephen Hawking with the wheelchair. Sheldon Cooper will also send Stephen Hawking a paper on the Higgs/BEH/SM_scalar/God boson. Recall that Hawking has made a $100 bet (5 times smaller than John Ramsden, not Holdren, against me) that the ...
  • Paper: Antarctica did experience both MWP and LIA
    The Medieval Warm Period was apparently global Before "the cause" started to contaminate climatology about two decades ago, climate scientists realized that around the years 950-1250 AD or so, the Earth experienced warmer temperatures than in some later centuries, e.g. 1550-1850 AD. The ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Prizes galore and Norwegians win big
    Norwegians have won some major prizes this week for their work within literature and even the kitchen. Among the most prestigious was the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize for 2012, which went to Norwegian author Merethe Lindstrøm. Lindstrøm, born in Bergen in 1963, won for her “gent ...
  • New ministers step into the sunlight
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg marched out of the weekly Council of State at the Royal Palace on Friday with three new members of the coalition government he leads. The brilliant sunshine seemed to reflect at least the chance of a political spring for the new members’ Socialist Left party ...
  • Floods drench Trøndelag counties
    More than a dozen roads were closed on Friday, a train line was blocked and several rural areas were isolated after heavy rain and rapidly melting snow set off major flooding in the counties of Nor- and Sør-Trøndelag. The Fosen area was among the hardest hit. Officials at the Norwegian Water Res ...
  • Spring has sprung, in record warmth
    The crocus is in full bloom in many places around southern Norway, like here on the grounds of the Royal Palace in Oslo. Record warm temperatures for the past two weeks have led to early blossoming, and the weather is predicted to stay mild. While it’s raining heavily in some areas, the su ...
  • Conservatives’ MP reveals stroke
    Per-Kristian Foss, a Member of Parliament and one of the Norwegian Conservative Party’s most high-profile politicians over the past three decades, has revealed that he suffered a stroke just after New Year. The veteran politician said he’d never been sick before, and it was a very fr ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Get Ready for the 11th Australasian Permacultu ...
    Last calls!! We still have some spots left, but be quick if you don’t want to miss Oceania’s premier permaculture experience! Permaculture Aotearoa welcomes you to: Resilience by Design — 11th Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC11) When: Wed 11th to Sun 15th April 2012 ...
  • Reflections on Bringing Permaculture to the Wh ...
    Editor’s Note: I want to congratulate Ryan and the UMass team on this significant milestone, and also wish to thank all of our readers who took a moment to vote to help ensure it came to pass. Onwards! The White House honors five young leaders as Champions of Change for [...]
  • Let’s Explore Ridley Grove Community Garden! ( ...
    What do you do with an old church car park? Turn it into a community garden, of course! And that’s how the Ridley Grove Community Garden — a child, pet and disabled person friendly garden in the Adelaide suburb of Woodville Gardens — came into being. The first thing they di ...
  • A Small-scale, Traditional, Sustainable Way to ...
    Indigenous peoples have employed various sustainable ways of obtaining food. Using a fish trap is just one of them. by Claudette Fleming The Kingfisher and indigenous people methods of fishing have one commonality — they are sustainable. No fish is wasted and there is always fish for to ...
  • Community Buys Own Supermarket – Mullumbimby N ...
    The small community of Mullumbimby in the Byron Shire of northern NSW, Australia, is currently in the process of determining their own food supply future by purchasing their local supermarket. This movement, which is gaining momentum daily at an amazing rate, began by chance, fate, serendipity ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hello!
    Hope you did well on the test and welcome to the forum.Statistics: Posted by maz — Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:27 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    I always was of the opinion that non-religious Gentiles could effectively cooperate with Christians and Muslims but I think now that it was just wishfull thinking on my part. As Cristopher Marlowe expressed in the post above, it's not possible to be honestly critisizing ones religious faith beca ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    I think that if there is going to be a debate, then the question that is being debated needs to be very clearly stated at the outset. There is no point in people arguing if they do not know what they are arguing about. I already stated what I believed Giuliani's false idea to be. I believe th ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I haven't researched the alleged passengers on the planes as much as others, but some of the pictures of the alleged victims on the memorial sites are obvious forgeries, I.E. Elizabeth Wanio.Statistics: Posted by MarkDarragh — Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:00 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It seems true that there could not have been real jets at any rate. The appearance of a jet could have been projected over a small drone carrying an ordnance. And then there is the problem of the transponders on the real flights of record and of fact, they having been turned off precisely in t ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Local Fisheries Management Helps Prevent Overf ...
    A new study says that co-management of fisheries at the local level is an effective strategy for curbing overfishing and preserving the world’s dwindling marine resources. In an analysis of 42 coral reef sites where the fisheries are managed by a partnership of local governments, conservation gr ...
  • At MIT Energy Conference, Innovators Make the ...
    MIT’s annual Energy Conference, held last Friday and Saturday, featured an impressive array of young engineers, scientists, and renewable energy entrepreneurs. It also included a sizeable number of more established players in the energy field. And the question left hanging at the end of the conf ...
  • U.S. Monarch Butterfly Decline May Be Linked t ...
    A new study suggests that the increased use of genetically modified (GM) crops across the Midwestern U.S. may be causing a decline in monarch butterfly populations. From 1999 to 2010, a period when GM crops became Wikimedia Commons A monarch butterfly more common on U.S. farms, the number ...
  • Scientists Warn of Low-Dose Risks of Chemical ...
    A new study finds that even low doses of hormone-disrupting chemicals — used in everything from plastics to pesticides – can have serious effects on human health. These findings, the researchers say, point to the need for basic changes in how chemical safety testing is conducted. BY ELIZABETH ...
  • U.S. Startup Develops Process to Convert Plast ...
    A U.S. startup company says it has developed a technology to convert plastic waste into a highly refined, low-sulphur oil, an innovation company officials say could provide a domestic source of fuel and keep untold amounts of plastic out of landfills. Developed by New York-based JBI Inc., the Pl ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • Feeding Frenzy Over Cookbook Ghostwriters
    The ‘New York Times’ starts a food fight with a hit piece on celebrity chefs’ collaborators. By Regina Schrambling
  • An Iliad of One
    How can the Iliad be performed on stage by one person? In a new production in New York Denis O’Hare gives it a try all in 100 minutes. He speaks to Janice Kaplan.
  • Haunted Arabian Nights
    One of the world’s greatest story collections, “Arabian Nights,” gets a fresh appreciation from scholar Marina Warner. Brad Gooch on how the ghost of Edward Said’s Orientalism.
  • 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk
    Florida’s governor vows ‘justice’ for Trayvon and more. Watch video.
  • Celebs Find Their ‘Roots’
    A new PBS series hosted by Harvard professor Skip Gates tracks the surprising lineage of stars.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Canada and Japan to initiate FTA talks
    Japan and Canada on Sunday agreed to formally launch talks on a bilateral free-trade agreement and boost energy cooperation. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, also said in Tokyo that the two countries will work closely on security issues.
  • Miyazato trails Tseng by nine shots
    Ai Miyazato again saw Yani Tseng pull away Saturday after a 71 in the third round of the Kia Classic. A five-birdie, four-bogey outing left Miyazato trailing Tseng, who beat her at the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup last week, by nine shots going into Sunday's final round at Wildfire Golf Club ...
  • Judah KOs Paris in ninth round
    Zab Judah stopped Vernon Paris at 2:27 of the ninth round on Saturday in an IBF junior welterweight elimination fight. Judah dominated the fight with a methodical punching style. He finally finished off Paris (26-1) by getting him into a corner and unleashing about 15 unanswered punches. ...
  • Happinets secure spot in playoffs
    The Akita Northern Happinets became the bj-league's second Eastern Conference team to clinch a playoff spot this season by defeating the visiting Saitama Broncos 97-87 on Sunday. Kyle Swanston scored a team-high 21 points for Akita (27-17) and Ricky Woods finished with 20 points, 11 assists, e ...
  • Tiger moves toward victory
    Even with a bizarre sequence of events that cost Tiger Woods a comfortable lead Saturday, he walked off the 18th green at the Arnold Palmer Invitational as close as he has ever been to ending 30 months without a PGA Tour victory. He had a one-shot lead, and no one in golf has a more formidable ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.
  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Roger Tucker debunks recent accusations of "anti-Semitism" made by a group of self-styled Palestinian solidarity activists, led by American academic Ali Abunimah, whom he argues are driven not only by economic and professional self-interest, but are arguably shabbas goyim, non-Jewish elements of ...
  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.
  • Kony 2012's invisible Christian fanaticism
    Mamoon Alabbasi questions why mention of the self-proclaimed Christianity of Ugandan-based Joseph Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army was omitted from the "Kony 2012" video, which seeks to make Kony better known so that he could be brought to justice for his crimes.
  • Britain's "bother-boy" Hague loves putting the ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that British Foreign Secretary William Hague's determination to condemn the Iranian people to economic hardship, his keenness to escalate tension with Iran, and his eagerness to do Israel's bidding by creating an environment conducive to aggression against Iran, mean tha ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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  • The great fuel fail: ethanol from corn
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Peakwater

  • Controversy swirls over Canadian plan to build ...
    “There’s already one big hydroelectric dam on the Churchill a couple of hundred miles northwest of here, and now the province’s energy authority, NALCOR, plans to build two more, including one at Muskrat Falls. The two lower Churchill dams together would produce over 3,000 megawatts of pow ...
  • US Intelligence Report: Expect Water Wars Soon
    “A report released today on global water security from the Defense Intelligence Agency assesses that in next 10 years, water instability will be likely in “nations important to the United States”, and says that in the next decades, the use of water as a weapon will become more ...
  • 5 Deadly Threats to Our Precious Drinking Wate ...
      “Here in the US, clean, affordable, safe drinking water faces five threats: 1. Racial and Economic Inequalities While an international law recognizes the human right to water, unfortunately there is no binding enforcement and in the US there are no laws guaranteeing that you’l ...
  • Israelis and Palestinians in West Bank water wars
    “Settlers have taken over 30 springs and are trying to take control of another 26 – most of which are located on land privately owned by Palestinians, the UN’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. The takeover appears to reflect Israel’s efforts to exert ...
  • Water Sector Options for India in a Changing C ...
    “On the eve of the World Water Day 2012, the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) is happy to publish its new report: Water Sector Options for India in a Changing Climate. The report highlights that for the poorest sections, also most vulnerable in the climate change co ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • but it’s OK when you enact
    . . . but it’s OK when you enact Arizona type S.B. 1070 legislation . . . it camouflages the criminal justice system and everyone, oops – except those of “color” – is happy . . .   1 in 3 Black Men Go To Prison? The 10 Most Disturbing Facts About Racial Inequality in [...]
  • but our KILLING machine is OK
    … This show of hypocrisy allows us to sleep better knowing our athletes are protected as we unleash our military industrial corporate congressional complex KILING machine upon innocent civilians Iraq – Afghanistan – and soon they hope on Iran …     NFL hits Saints with harsh pena ...
  • challenging these outlandish lies
    … What is it that prevents us from challenging these outlandish lies promulgated by Mon$anto … Dow … Syngenta … BAS … Dupont and Friend$ …?   Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science …The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are l ...
  • upholding the law as it is interpreted
    … I don’t know that COPS believe they are above the law … I do believe they feel they are upholding the law as it is interpreted for them by their corporate handler$ …   More Evidence Cops Believe They’re Above The law 03-22-2012  •  http://www.prisonplanet.com, YouTube Cops ...
  • never ending war
    … Let us stay as it make us closer to Iran when we start the “next” phase of America’s military industrial corporate congressional complex never ending war … and more war … got it …   U.S. general: Delay cut in Afghan war force -23-2012  •  Washington Post The top U.S. comma ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view fro ...
    On the back of a partially functioning motorcycle I fly down miles of winding footpath at high-speed through the dense Amazon rainforest, the driver never able to see more than several feet ahead. Myriads of bizarre creatures lie camouflaged amongst the dense vines and lush foliage; flocks of p ...
  • Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainfo ...
    Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in some of the world's most critical forest areas, warns a report published last week by the Unio ...
  • Scientists say massive palm oil plantation wil ...
    Eleven top scientists have slammed a proposed palm oil plantation in a Cameroonian rainforest surrounded by five protected areas. In an open letter, the researchers allege that Herakles Farm, which proposes the 70,000 hectare plantation in southwest Cameroon, has misled the government about the ...
  • Some toilet paper production destroys Indonesi ...
    American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF. The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Des ...
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Top NZ scientist's final wish granted
    Top New Zealand scientist Sir Paul Callaghan's dying wish was granted when he had his family from across the world at his side.Sir Paul, 64, passed away comfortably in his Khandallah, Wellington, home at 9am yesterday with his wife...
  • Sir Paul Callaghan passes away
    Tributes are flowing in for one of the country's most high profile scientists who passed away after a long battle with bowel cancer.Sir Paul Callaghan was diagnosed with aggressive bowel cancer in 2008, which then spread widely...
  • Good early interest in IT precinct, says Akl C ...
    Auckland Council is reporting good early interest in its plans for an "Innovation Precinct" at the newly developed Wynyard Quarter. An initial space of about 50,000 square metres has been set aside for the precinct at Auckland's...
  • Psychology behind holding a gun
    No one knows what led a US neighbourhood watch captain to shoot an unarmed teenager carrying no weapon.But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the man have been fooled into thinking the youth was armed in part because...
  • Jewish-Arab peace one Einstein couldn't crack
    Given that she had had a two-year affair with the married Albert Einstein when she was 23 and he was 44, and that she was a Jew desperate to escape an Austria overrun by the Nazis, what resounds down the years about the letter Betty...

The Bovine

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

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Property Tax Revolution in North Dakota, Minne ...
    The granddaddy of property tax revolts is now underway in North Dakota. The North Dakota group, Empower the Taxpayer writes "On June 12, 2012, the voters of North Dakota will have the opportunity to make North Dakota truly 'Legendary', as the first to pass a state constitutional amendment t ...
  • Hero or Goat?
    Here is an exclusive undoctored image of Ben Bernanke as actually taken by the Atlantic Magazine. Via the wonders of Photoshop, Atlantic editors managed to transform the above actual image of Bernanke into the following nauseating cover. Insiders at the Atlantic say the tr ...
  • Trichet Warns of "Behavioral Contagion" and No ...
    The hypocrisy of former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet is in the spotlight today. Who put the spotlight on Trichet? Ironically, he did himself. Please consider Trichet warns of "behavioral contagion" Jean-Claude Trichet, the former president of the European Central Bank, said Saturday ...
  • Ludicrous Taxifornia Healthcare Proposal: Cali ...
    Ludicrous Taxifornia Healthcare Proposal California keeps up its insane attack on businesses of all kinds, this time with a proposal to force small businesses away from money-saving self-insurance plans into the arms of more costly Obama-care plans. The LA Times writes, California see ...
  • Excellent Document on Decoupling and Global Su ...
    Lakshman Achuthan, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer, of ECRI just released an exceptional 9-page document on supply chains and decoupling called The Yo-Yo Years. Here are a few snips but those bullish on emerging markets, commodity producers, as well as those who think the US is go ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • Do not let slip the dogs of war
    British activists from the ‘Stop the War Coalition’ have held a day of action across the streets of 15 major cities and towns to speak out against a possible war with Iran.
  • 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.
  • 'EU follows US footsteps on Iran'
    Eurozone has slid into greater recession with the private sector activity, indicating an unexpected sharp drop, after the EU’s January decision to ban the imports of the Iranian crude, a report says.
  • Sri Lanka gets US waiver on Iran bans
    The United States has given a waiver to Sri Lanka on Washington’s unilateral sanctions against the Iranian oil sector, allowing the island country to continue importing oil from Iran.
  • Yemeni troops attack protesters, kill 2
    Yemeni security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the southern city of Taizz, killing at least two, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • nickturse:From TomDispatch: Here’s the math ...
    nickturse: From TomDispatch: Here’s the math on what it would mean if any of the three leading Republican candidates were to enter the Oval Office and run the U.S. military; in a word, break-the-bank spending — William J. Hartung, “Throwing Money at the Pentagon, A Lesson in Republican Math”  ...
  • Costumed protesters shout slogans outside Toky ...
    Costumed protesters shout slogans outside Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012. Japan marked Sunday the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated the northeast Japan cities and triggered a mass ...
  • (via Ed Stein)
    (via Ed Stein)
  • Rethinking His Religion
    Rethinking His Religion: seriouslyamerica: As a physician, he said, you’re privy to patients’...
  • kateoplis:Damn the Defiant, 1963
    kateoplis: Damn the Defiant, 1963
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