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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

28 March- RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Ayn Rand’s Nightmare is Today’s Wall Street
    Employees for the major Wall Street firms must sign away their right to access the nation’s courts in any dispute with their employer .. One of the largest Wall Street firms requires workers to sign that they have read and understood the following statement in order to remain employed at the fir ...
  • Hollywood studios plan to sue internet users
    Hollywood studios have signalled a global intent to sue internet users who put movies on Kim Dotcom's internet site. They have told the company which owns the servers holding Megaupload's data it has to keep information about members who illegally uploaded movies online in case it wants to su ...
  • US Syrian intervention could cost $300 Billion
    American intervention in Syria involving on-the-ground forces could require between 200,000 and 300,000 troops and cost up to $300 billion per year, a US think tank report said on Monday. The report, from the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, highlighted how US Pres ...
  • Pilger on QANTAS
    One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia. Growing up in a country far from everywhere (except, as my father would say, "where you come from"), I was led to believe that Australia's honour was at risk unless a well-known person from Over Th ...
  • Iran as the New 'Dope, Incorporated'
    How many memes does it take to stitch-up a war? As Israel, the United States and their NATO allies set their sights on the "prize," Iran's vast petrochemical wealth, multiple themes have been floated by corporate media to make the case for war. Since the 1980s, nuclear proliferation, terro ...

Independent - London

  • Switzerland: Steady rise in assisted suicides
    Five out of every 1,000 deaths in Switzerland now involve assisted suicide, with women more likely to die this way than men, according to official figures released yesterday.Related StoriesUS Supreme Court split on health reforms
  • Turkey gets into a lather over 'disgusting' sh ...
    A men's shampoo brand in Turkey has caused outrage by using Adolf Hitler to promote its product.
  • Eurozone needs the 'mother of all firewalls'
    European leaders must erect "the mother of all firewalls" to protect the eurozone from the flames of financial contagion, the secretary of the OECD urged yesterday. Angel Gurria, the head of the economic organisation, urged finance ministers, who are due to meet in Copenhagen on Friday, to come ...
  • Libyan death toll hits 25 as militias clash fo ...
    Clashes between rival militias in southern Libya raged for a third day yesterday and a doctor at the regional hospital said the death toll had risen to 25, highlighting the challenges the government faces in imposing its authority over the country.Related StoriesWade concedes defeat to former pr ...
  • Strauss-Kahn's defence: what's wrong with lust?
    Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief and alleged "pimp", is being persecuted for being a famous and "lustful" man, his lawyers protested yesterday. Related StoriesBerlusconi's €21m villa deal with 'Mafia-linked' friend investigatedL'Oréal heiress 'gave Sarkozy €80 ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • California Democratic Treasurer Perpetrated $7 ...
    US, Sacramento, California - Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee defrauded at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political organizations out of $7 million in a scheme that dates back more than a decade, according to a court filing made Tuesday by federal prosecutors. The U.S. attorne ...
  • Former Mountie Accuses RCMP of Bullying, Discr ...
    Canada: Vancouver, British Columiba - A former Mountie has launched a class-action lawsuit against the RCMP, hoping to purge the "toxic" attitude against women within the male-dominated force, her lawyer says. David Klein says more than 100 current and former female members from across Canada a ...
  • Americans Angry with Obama Over Gas Prices
    US - More than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling high gasoline prices, although most do not blame him for them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Tuesday. Sixty-eight percent disapprove and 24 percent approve of how Obama is resp ...
  • FBI Said to Have Gathered Intelligence on Cali ...
    U.S. civil liberties advocates said on Tuesday the FBI had engaged in secretly collecting intelligence about Muslims in the San Francisco Bay area in recent years, including details about a sermon delivered at a mosque. The American Civil Liberties Union called for an inquiry into the FBI's dat ...
  • Conspiracy charges dropped against Mich. militia
    A federal judge dismissed the most serious charges Tuesday against seven members of a Michigan militia who were rounded up as homegrown extremists accused of plotting war against the U.S., saying their expressed hatred of law enforcement didn't amount to conspiracy against the government. The d ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Harper: The ramming of religious tribalism dow ...
    Consider these seven points: 1. Disdain for the environmental movement 2. Distrust of mainstream science in general 3. Distrust of the mainstream media 4. Loyalty to the party 5. Libertarian economics as God's will 6. Misundertandings of divine sovereignty - God won't let us ruin creation 7. Un ...
  • Awww...
    The poor pilot likes 'is minister? What is he major, your dad? Between this and the F-35 and Chinook rigging nonsense, I do wonder if the gold-ringed numpties currently running the RCAF even understand the concept of professional ethics or strategic thinking? Airshow isn't forever and he and hi ...
  • Just so's ya know . . .
  • F-35 in context I
    You know, this whole F-35 business is absurd to the point of hilarious. Here's the government and air force trying to buy the most expensive warplane ever, sight pretty much unseen, from a company so full of itself that it thought it could start production runs on the prototypes and simply retro ...
  • Toews on Toews
    Via Kady, from his committee theatrics on Anonymous' videos:    "I don't believe Members of Parliament should be held hostage," Toews notes, and praises the speaker for upholding the Lamoureux ruling on intimidation. "The threats of nameless, faceless thugs that seek to intimidate dem ...

Media Matters for America

  • The Post And Courier's 2 Year Attack ...
    Over the past two years the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has benefited millions of Americans nationwide. Despite the successes of the law, South Carolina's The Post and Courier has attacked the ACA more than 27 times in its editorials over the past 2 years -- often regurgitating false conservative ...
  • Right-Wing Media Suggest ICE Should Devote Res ...
    Right-wing media criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for declining to deport six undocumented students who were arrested while participating in a non-violent protest against the immigration policies of controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. However, ICE has limi ...
  • Wash. Post's Cohen's Misguided Push F ...
    In a Washington Post column, Richard Cohen justified a potential Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by claiming that it would delay Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, as evidenced by Israel's 1981 strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor. But experts say that the Osirak reactor strike did ...
  • The Limbaugh "Slut" Firestorm
    On February 23, 2012, Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee regarding the impact of new health care regulations on expanding contraception coverage. Her point - that a prescription medication used to treat a wide variety of women ...
  • "Final Nail In The Coffin Of This Country": An ...
    After waging an epic misinformation campaign during the debate over the Affordable Care Act and throughout the year following its signing, right-wing media have continued attacking the health care law, claiming that it is the "final nail in the coffin of this country" and that it "makes everyon ...

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TPM Cafe

  • A Letter To Congressman Waxman
    The following post is a letter from Reed Hundt to Congress Henry Waxman titled "Re: In re H.R. 3309. Dear Congressman Waxman: You have asked me to share my views on the Federal Communications Process Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 3309, in light of my experience as chairman of the FCC from 1 ...
  • How the Supreme Court Permits Government-Contr ...
    This short, troubling PBS NewsHour segment on the Chinese-government's new American TV News network, CCTV, must be causing some sleepless afternoons at the Supreme Court for conservative justices who opened the door to this with the Citizens United ruling. As I showed here at the time, the ru ...
  • How 'Citizens United' Has Strengthened Governm ...
    This short PBS NewsHour segment on the Chinese-government's new American TV News network, CCTV, must be causing some sleepless afternoons for conservative Supreme Court justices like Antonin Scalia, who opened the door to this with the Citizens United ruling. In that ruling, as I showed here ...
  • Will Yale's Singapore Venture Advance Liberal ...
    Some societies in Asia may be receptive to a seed of liberal education being sown by universities such as Yale. Some Asian societies might nourish liberal education's understandings of ordered liberty and democratic deliberation better than we're doing in the United States. But that's preci ...
  • Video: What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks!
    What Rush Limbaugh REALLY thinks! Why Rush Limbaugh really apologized to Sandra Fluke.

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Human Rights lawyer Michael Sfard on Israeli S ...
    The ongoing battle to dismantle the illegal outpost of Migron took a nosedive on Sunday as Netanyahu's 'solution' of extending the delay for years into the future was rejected by the Is ...
  • Prisoners society: Shalabi in serious conditio ...
    Palestinian hunger-striker Hana Shalabi reiterated Tuesday she will not back down, while a lawyer for a prisoners rights group says the detainee is now in serious condition. Jawad Bulus ...
  • Jailed Palestinian leader calls for new civil ...
    Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader seen as a favoured successor to President Mahmoud Abbas, has declared the death of the peace process and called for a civil revolt and a ...
  • Israel targets Palestinian solar panels in bid ...
    Israel has refused to co-operate with the UN's fact-finding mission, expected to investigate Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It comes after the organization authorized the probe on Thursday. As RT's Paula Slier reports, Israel shows little sign of stopping its policy of expansion in the area.
  • Hospital 'may consider force-feeding' Shalabi ...
    The ethics committee of Meir Hospital may consider force-feeding hunger-striking detainee Hana Shalabi, human rights organizations said Monday. The committee will meet Tuesday to discus ...

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  • EPA Sets First Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. “Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” EPA Administrator Lis ...
  • Governor Perry names Toby Baker to replace Gar ...
    On Friday, Governor Perry announced he is appointing Toby Baker, a former policy and budget advisor to Perry on energy, natural resources and agriculture, to replace Garcia who continues to serve in a TCEQ commissioner’s spot that officially expired in August 31, 2011.  Mr. Baker’s t ...
  • President Obama Sacrifices Gas Policy for Gas ...
    Statement of Trevor Lovell, Environmental Program Coordinator,  Public Citizen’s Texas Office It is unfortunate that President Barack Obama has decided to ignore news stories in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Financial Post, among others, explaining in simple terms ho ...
  • Native Americans Will Protest Keystone XL From ...
    Native Americans protesting the Keystone XL pipeline will be compelled to stay in enclosure located miles from President’s pro-oil event Native American’s gathering in Cushing, OK today to protest President Obama’s words of praise for the Keystone XL pipeline were forced by local authorities to ...
  • What good are rules if they are not enforced?
    The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has a proposal to pardon as many as 3,000 environmental rule breakers. Tell the TCEQ that pardoning polluters is no way to make the air and water in Texas cleaner. The TCEQ is changing the rules to allow those with a “poor” record of complying ...

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

Climate

  • Senate GOP Allows Bill Repealing Tax Breaks fo ...
    (Los Angeles Times) Senate Republicans declined to block a Democratic bill that would repeal tax breaks for oil companies—choosing instead to launch a floor debate on the legislation as a way to showcase the Keystone XL pipeline and ...
  • Oil Industry Launches Full-Court Press Against ...
    (The Hill) The oil industry launched a full-court press Monday in opposition to Democrat-backed legislation that would repeal billions in tax breaks for the largest oil companies.
  • Coalition Launched to Work for NY Fracking Ban
    (AP) Dozens of grassroots environmental groups have joined forces to launch a coordinated campaign to ban natural gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York state.
  • BP Spill Culprit for Heavy Toll on Coral, Stud ...
    (AP) After months of laboratory work, scientists say they can definitively finger oil from BP's blown-out well as the culprit for the slow death of a once brightly colored deep-sea coral community in the Gulf of Mexico that is now b ...
  • EU Push for Ocean Energy Set to Fall Short
    (Reuters) Europe's wave and tidal power technology is likely to disappoint EU expectations for 2020 and take over a decade to contribute to energy supply in a significant way.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Fox News Needs to Clean Up Its Act
    I don't know what's up with the comments at Fox News' website. I rarely visit the site and I had never looked at the comments in any of their articles until the Trayvon Martin case became national news. I have to be honest, though. Their comments aren't just racist. It's like a competition t ...
  • A New Level of Disingenuousness
    I was in favor of a public option for at least three reasons. The first was political. I knew that people would hate being told that they had to buy health insurance from a private for-profit company. Being compelled to spend money is never a good feeling, but being compelled to contribute to ...
  • I Don't Think This Is an Idle Threat
    I really hope the health care law is upheld (though I don't expect that to happen), and yet I'm sure that wouldn't be the end of the fight by any means. I think, once they're back in power, right-wingers really would try to do what Louie Gohmert predicts: Liberals should be concerned about wh ...
  • SCOTUS: All is Not Lost
    I have now listened to the entire presentation before the Supreme Court today and I have a few observations. First, while the Solicitor General was indeed nervous and less than nimble in his responses, he didn't fall on his face as Jeffery Toobin would have you believe. Second, Justice Kennedy ...
  • Explain This To Me
    Normally, I try to understand what's going on in Washington DC so I can give you an informed opinion. But I'm a little flummoxed about what the GOP is doing here. The Senate Republicans changed course and voted overwhelmingly for cloture on a bill that would strip Big Oil of a lot of their tax ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Struggle for Survival in Nigeria's Floatin ...
    The floating slum of Makoko may not look it from the outside, but further investigation shows it to be a place with a vibrant and hopeful community. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Glittering Crystal Caves of Mlynki
    Covered in dazzling gypsum crystals, Ukraine's Mlynki cave is almost stunning enough to make visitors forget the difficulties of exploring the underground complex. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How NASA is Monitoring Solar Storms to Forecas ...
    Giant solar storms have intense effects on our Earth. NASA wants to study these effects to get better at predicting space weather. Find out more... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Debris from Japan Tsunami Threatens to Hit Nor ...
    Debris from the tsunami that struck Japan may be arriving shortly in the northwest Hawaiian Islands. If so, it may pose a serious risk to the region's ecosystem. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Staggering Beauty of Iceland's Glacier Lagoon
    The awe-inspiring beauty of Iceland's spectacular Jökulsárlón lagoon is something no one should miss seeing... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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

Daily Censored

  • What is the leverage point for Occupy victory?
    This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, relate ...
  • Books Banned in Arizona – Latinos Fighti ...
    By Michael Collins Bad things are happening in Arizona … again. Good things too! The extremist Arizona legislature enacted a law that just recently caused the banning of nearly 100 books from Tucson public schools. The list includes prominent Latino authors, plus Shakespeare, Thoreau, and James ...
  • Leading Veterans Groups Endorse Senator Webb’s ...
    Abuses by some for-profit schools put landmark veterans’ education program at risk For-profit colleges and universities are part and parcel of the booming and increasingly accelerating private ownership of the educational means of production in the United States and abroad.  For-profit colleges ...
  • Washington Post closes scandal plagued school ...
        On Feb 28, 2012  The Washington Post Company announced  Kaplan University’s Pembroke Pines, Florida campus will be closing. The Pembroke Pines school made national news in August 2010 when it was one of fifteen for profit college campuses caught engaging in deceptive recruiting practic ...
  • What should average citizens know about US war ...
    This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery:Epic proponents, related ...

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  • French spy agency denies Toulouse gunman was a ...
    France’s domestic intelligence agency has denied allegations, made by its former Director, that it employed as an informant the militant Islamist who recently killed seven people in Toulouse.
  • News you may have missed #702
    NSA chief denies domestic spying allegations. NY police says it monitored Iran operatives taking photos. Major Canadian Cold War era mole hunt operation revealed.
  • News you may have missed #701
    Ex-NASA scientist gets 13 years for spying for Israel. French intel under fire over Toulouse gunman. Ex-Mossad chief says Israel will know when Iran begins producing nukes.
  • Israel ‘conducts espionage incursions into Ira ...
    Israeli intelligence services are routinely using an undisclosed base in Iraqi Kurdistan to launch regular intelligence missions into Iran, according to The Sunday Times.
  • News you may have missed #700: analysis edition
    Egypt struggles to advance spy satellite program. China spying on Taiwan despite thaw. US intel says water shortages threaten stability.

War is a Crime.org

  • The Criminal Class in Washington is Bipartisan
      The Criminal Class in Washington is Bipartisan   by Stephen Lendman   Inside the Beltway, it's evident daily. The political news website Capitol Hill Blue says "Nobody's life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session or the White House is occupied."   r ...
  • Washington Admits Aiding Syrian Opposition
      Washington Admits Aiding Syrian Opposition   On March 25, The New York Times headlined, "US and Turkey to Step Up 'Nonlethal' Aid to Rebels in Turkey," saying:   Other US allies were urged to do the same. Insisting no weapons will be sent belies heavy Western and Israeli on ...
  • Inviting Afghan/U.S./NATO and global citizens ...
    On Saturday, about 1000 Israelis marched in Tel Aviv to tell their government, and the world, that a majority of Israeli citizens do not want military action against Iran. Signs read "No to War with Iran," and "Talks, not Bombs.” The protest followed, though was not endorsed by, an increasingly ...
  • Video: Protesting General Stanley McChrystal & ...
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  • Senator Rand Paul Blocks Bill That Would Have ...
    From Reuters: A U.S. Republican lawmaker on Tuesday blocked Democrats from passing legislation designed to further punish Iran for developing its nuclear program, and each side blamed the other for its failure in a presidential election year that will put extra scrutiny on President Barack Obama ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Bedrock of vaccination theory crumbles as scie ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) While the medical, pharmaceutical, and vaccine industries are busy pushing new vaccines for practically every condition under the sun, a new study published in the journal Immunity completely deconstructs the entire vaccination theory. It turns out t ...
  • Three Blind Men with Mercury in Retrograde
    By Les Visible The problem with the truth is that it’s inconvenient, just like Al Gore. The problem with the truth is that it’s impossible to isolate it unto itself without shape, size and coloration, because it can’t be seen otherwise. It can only be inferred and every inferen ...
  • Judge to FDA: Remove Superbug-Breeding Antibio ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Contributing Writer Activist Post A federal judge has stepped up to the plate and is now ordering FDA regulators to start proceedings to revoke the approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, stating that the excessive overuse of antibiotics is threatening publi ...
  • HIDDEN MESSAGES IN WATER – Dr. Masaru Em ...
  • David Wolfe speaks out about Sunfood, Monsanto ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) What do Sunfood and New Chapter both have in common? They have been taken over by corporate people with ties to Monsanto. In the case of Sunfood, the takeover was a “betrayal,” says David Wolfe in this exclusive interview (see below). Wh ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Lexus May Actually Produce the LF-LC Hybrid Sp ...
    Lexus’s big debut ride at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show was the smoking hot LF-LC hybrid sports coupe concept, which was meant to show off the future design direction of the Lexus brand. The hybrid coupe concept not only gave us a glimpse at future Lexus models, but it displayed to automaker& ...
  • INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Talks to Dwell Editor-in- ...
    Read the rest of INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Talks to Dwell Editor-in-Chief Amanda Dameron About the Light & Energy Issue Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", amanda dameron, dwell, dwell magazine, eco design, green design, green energy, green home, green ...
  • Ortner + Ortner Pavilion in Germany is Wrapped ...
    A pavilion on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany provides shelter behind a wall of solar panels. The visually striking design by Austrian architecture firm Ortner + Ortner demonstrates the design power of using photovoltaics as a core visual element. The one-meter ...
  • MIT Unveils 3D Solar Arrays That Produce Up to ...
    MIT researchers just unveiled a new three-dimensional solar array that can produce up to 20 times more energy per square foot than traditional flat arrays – and it’s potentially more efficient than standard arrays as well. The team tested multiple stacked PV panel configurations and ...
  • Altaeros Energies’ Floating Wind Turbines Tap ...
    In an effort to harness strong high-altitude winds, the company Altaeros Energies has developed a floating wind turbine that’s a cross between a traditional windmill and a blimp. After some successful tests, the Altaeros team is confident that this new levitating wind turbine will be a via ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Obama caught on mic: President Obama Asks Medv ...
    On Monday while President Obama was taking part in a global nuclear security summit in South Korea, he was caught on tape asking for Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for “space.”
  • ObamaCare and “his” new Security Forces replac ...
    The below listed links outlines President Obama’s plan to increase the cost of health care coverage to active duty and retired military personnel following of the November 2012 election, eventually leading to an increase in cost to them of 345%. The President has authorized those massive charges ...
  • Major Discovery in Obama’s LFBC…and It’s in th ...
    Chiyome Fukino (former Director of Hawaii Public Health Department) had this to say about how “birthers” would respond to the release of Obama’s “long-form” birth certificate:
  • Israeli Soldiers Reportedly Already Active in Iran
    According to anonymous Western intelligence sources, Israeli is utilizing a permanent military base in Iraqi Kurdistan as a launching point for cross-border missions into Iran. While this is not all that surprising given that U.S. officials have already confirmed that the Israeli Mossad is ru ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen. For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade. This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. consumers, and it ...

Andy Worthington

  • Life after Guantánamo Bay: Jenifer Fenton Talk ...
    Last month, I was invited to visit Kuwait to try and help raise awareness of the need for the Kuwaiti people to push for their government to demand the release from Guantánamo of the last two Kuwaitis — out of 12 in total — to be held in Guantánamo. These two men are Fayiz al-Kandari ...
  • Early Version of NHS Risk Register Leaked: War ...
    Today, a leaked copy of the first draft of a risk register (PDF) assessing the damage that could follow the Tory-led coalition government’s reckless plans to reform the NHS (which involve devolving 60% of the NHS’s £100bn budget to new GP-led consortia, and introducing more competiti ...
  • As Sleaze Engulfs the Tories, Is This the Begi ...
    No one should be surprised that, as was revealed in secret footage shot by the Sunday Times in an investigation into government sleaze, the Tories’ co-treasurer Peter Cruddas offered access to the Prime Minister David Cameron and the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, in exchange ...
  • The Syrian People’s Revolution, One Year ...
    A year ago, when the Arab Spring began — or, as the events were then called, the revolutionary movements in the Middle East (which had already toppled two western-backed dictators in Tunisia and Egypt) — I remember being surprised, and also worried, when Syrian activists held a &#822 ...
  • The “Taliban Five” and the Forgott ...
    In the last three months, much discussion has focused on the possibility that, as part of negotiations aimed at securing peace in Afghanistan, the US would release five high-level Taliban prisoners in Guantánamo. Almost entirely forgotten are 12 other Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo, who are most ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Most Charges Dismissed Against Hutaree Militia ...
    A federal judge in Detroit today dismissed charges against seven members of the Hutaree militia who have been on trial for allegedly plotting to kill police officers in hopes of igniting a revolution against the government. “The government’s case is built largely of circumstantial evidence,” U.S ...
  • Calling All Black People: NOM Wants to Use You
    Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous! Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and curren ...
  • NOM Lets Others Do Their Dirty Work
    About the worst thing said about gay men, an allegation that is regularly dragged out by certain religious-right organizations, is that they molest children at rates vastly higher than their heterosexual counterparts. It is as devastating a charge as one can make in a country where jailed pedoph ...
  • Trayvon Martin Case Evokes Reaction from Extre ...
    The killing of Trayvon Martin has aroused the passions of extremists on both sides of the racial divide, with some blaming civil rights leaders and the media for the controversy – and black separatist leaders suggesting vigilante justice for the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed ...
  • California Mother Slain in Possible Anti-Musli ...
    The weekend death in California of a 32-year-old Iraqi immigrant – a mother of five children — is drawing worldwide attention as the latest possible U.S. hate crime killing. Shaima Alawadi died Saturday after she was taken off life support, three days after being found unconscious and brutally b ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Reports: US Invoked 'State Secrets' to Hide 9/ ...
    Infighting between US intelligence agencies delayed a secret plan to tap every phone in Afghanistan that could have helped prevent the September 11, 2001 events in New York City and Washington, according to reports in UK media outlets today.  ...
  • New EPA Rules Welcome, But Loopholes Remain Wa ...
    Head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, announced new Clean Air Act standards on Tuesday that will limit the ability, and likely halt, the construction of new coal power plants in the United States.  The new rules place caps on the amount of carbon polution new plants ...
  • On the Brink: Planet Near Irreversible Point ...
    We may have already passed the tipping points on global warming, say scientists at the Planet Under Pressure conference. At the London conference, scientists are giving a bleak view of the future of the planet due to catastrophic damage and growth by humans, saying we are close to the irreversib ...
  • On the Brink: Planet Near Irreversible Point ...
    We may have already passed the tipping points on global warming, say scientists at the Planet Under Pressure conference. At the London conference, scientists are giving a bleak view of the future of the planet due to catastrophic damage and growth by humans, saying we are close to the irreversib ...
  • Report: Executions Increased in 2011 due to Ar ...
    Amnesty International has released its annual report on executions and the death penalty and found that executions were up in 2011. The increase, accoring to the report, is largely due to the reaction of Middle Eastern states to the Arab Spring.  In total there were 678 reported executions ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Activists Challenge Proposal To Bottle Water I ...
    Environmentalists and one of Oregon's public sector unions are challenging the recent approval of new water permits in Cascade Locks, but controversy surrounds a proposal to bottle water in the Columbia Gorge.
  • Media Advisory/Photo-Op - Planet Under Pressur ...
    TORONTO , March 27, 2012 /CNW/ - April is Environment Month! Join Water Brothers hosts Tyler and Alex Mifflin and Environment Minister Jim Bradley this Thursday at the Ontario Science Centre when it participates ...
  • Water quality at Graydon Pool in Ridgewood is ...
    Ridgewood officials are studying pool survey of residents who chose not to renew pool memberships.
  • $6 billion potential if water sector better ma ...
    The spending of Lebanese citizens on water constitutes 1 percent of the national income, equivalent to $306 million, and has the ability to increase with the growth in GDP, said central bank Governor Riad Salameh Tuesday citing World Bank statistics.
  • Leading Business Intelligence on the Middle Ea ...
    JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia's water desalination capacity is expected to peak at 200,000 cubic meters by 2015 as the Kingdom rushes to meet demand from public consumers and private sector projects and comply with the water requirements of government-led infrastructure development.

Guardian

  • Education system could be completely privatise ...
    NUT general secretary Christine Blower says significant campaign is needed to put a halt to government's plansEngland's education system risks being completely privatised within three years, the leader of one of the country's largest teaching unions has predicted.Christine Blower, general s ...
  • Pope in Cuba prays for 'renewal and hope'
    Communist government rebuffs Benedict XVI's call for political change but Fidel Castro willing to meet pontiffPope Benedict XVI has prayed before the nation's patron saint for freedom and renewal "for the greater good of all Cubans", but the island's communist leaders quickly rejected the Roman ...
  • Drought reaches parts of Yorkshire – and river ...
    More areas of the country are now in drought following another dry month that has hit rivers and groundwater suppliesMore areas of the country are now in drought following another dry month which has hit rivers and groundwater supplies, the Environment Agency has said.Swathes of east and south Y ...
  • Murdered PSNI officer's mother says his killer ...
    Mother of Ronan Kerr, who was killed by Real IRA to deter Catholics from joining police, says she feels sorry for killersThe mother of a murdered police recruit has urged young Catholics and nationalists to defy dissident republicans by joining the Police Service of Northern Ireland.As Nuala Ker ...
  • iPad 3 refunds for Australian buyers after App ...
    Competition watchdog takes Apple to court after tablet was sold as 'iPad with WiFi + 4G' but cannot use Australian networkApple has offered refunds to Australians who bought a new iPad 3 after the maker admitted it does not work on the country's 4G network.Australia's consumer watchdog found App ...

McClatchey

  • No title
    Kentucky Power's request for state permission to retrofit its aging coal plant, which is the subject of upcoming public hearings, has surprised some in the industry and led to a…Click to Continue »
  • Rep. Bobby Rush escorted from House floor for ...
    Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., was escorted off the floor of the House of Representatives this morning after he shed his suit jacket and pulled up the hood of the hoodie…Click to Continue »
  • ANALYSIS: Reagan's true heir remains to be seen
    Campaigning in former President Ronald Reagan's hometown before last week's Illinois primary, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum asserted that he was the only candidate "who stands on the pillars of…Click to Continue »
  • Sanford police sought to charge George Zimmerman
    Despite public claims that there wasn't enough probable cause to make a criminal case in the Trayvon Martin killing, early in the investigation the Sanford Police Department requested an arrest…Click to Continue »
  • For a day, Havana's cathedral belonged to a Mi ...
    Standing before a crowd made up primarily of Cuban American pilgrims but that included a smattering of local Cubans, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski celebrated a special Mass in fluent Spanish…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Connecticut jury awards over $1 million in fir ...
    In the first Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA) case to go to a jury trial, the jury awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages, and one million dollars in punitive damages. Andy Barati was working for the Metro North commuter rail on Grand Central Terminal, New York City, in 2008 when a jack failed an ...
  • The Sky Has Not Yet Fallen
    (The First Seven Months of the SEC Dodd Frank Whistleblower Program) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash So far, the sky has not fallen. That’s not to say there isn’t some curious weather activ ...
  • OSHA issues new manual for whistleblower inves ...
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Whistleblower Investigations Manual last year.  The new manual includes some improvements for whistleblowers, such as accepting oral complaints (which is particularly helpful in meeting the short 30-day time limits for en ...
  • Occupy EPA protest planned for March 30
    Occupy EPA is marching again. On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 12 noon, they will march from Franklin Square Park (13th & I Sts NW in Washington, DC) to the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (12th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Federal Triangle, Washington DC). There, at 1: ...
  • Washington Post's Joe Davidson asks federal ma ...
    The commissioned corps of the Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work on the cutting edge of federal research and policy on diseases, medical devices, public health, global warming and our environment. Yet, they fall into an exclusion from ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • How Important Is Attribution In Copyright Issues?
    Many, many people think that attribution is a key part of copyright law, but in the US it's really not a part of the law at all (with a few tiny, nearly meaningless exceptions). Attribution issues may come up in situations of plagiarism, but they have little do with copyright infringement, whic ...
  • Is Comcast Thumbing Its Nose At FCC's Open Int ...
    As was somewhat expected, this week Comcast announced its plans to offer Xfinity video on demand via the Xbox 360... which will require customers to subscribe to both Xfinity TV and the broadband service, meaning that this isn't a solution for getting around your cable subscription (of course, b ...
  • DailyDirt: I Want A New Drug...
    Many mind-altering drugs lead to trouble at some point. But what about treatments that help improve memory or intelligence? Forget those energy drinks, serious scientists are working on ways to improve memory and learning skills. Here are just a few examples. A protein named the brain-deri ...
  • News Corp. Accused Of Hacking Competitors Smar ...
    Four years ago, we wrote about claims that News Corp. had hired hackers to break the encryption on DISH Networks' satellite TV smart cards, and to "flood the market" with those cards, thereby increasing "piracy" of DISH's service. News Corp., of course, owned DISH's main competitor, DirecTV. ...
  • German Pirate Party Scores Another Electoral V ...
    We've discussed in the past the success of the German Pirate party in getting 9% of the vote in the Berlin state Parliamentary elections, giving them a bunch of seats there. Following that, it was noted that the party actually had a similar 9% support level across Germany. So it shouldn't come ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    There are two Positive Force shows coming up. One is a benefit for Jobs With Justice on April 14th. The other is for the DC Trans Coalition on April 27th. Come out if you are in town. On April 24th we will be occupying the justice department. Here is why. The Cooperative Development Institute is ...
  • Using Prejudice
    I’ve been watching the fall of Rush Limbaugh with a certain amount of glee, but also with some ambivalence. I’m perfectly happy for him to get shit for calling Sandra Fluke a slut after testifying about contraceptives. But I am wondering why all his other equally offensive comments d ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A wee bit late with this post as I was at the march last night. I have comments, but I think I am going to ruminate on them a bit more. You should check out CD’s latest, Foreclosing on the Commons. And what amazing photography. Would liberals who like to quote Warren Buffett talking about ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...
  • Kony and the Problem with Advocacy
    I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy the last couple weeks, in large part because that advocacy mindset keeps seeping into the movement building and organizing work that I’m involved in. I wrote a little bit about this in my post on the perils of DC activism. But then a friend sen ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Barghouti calls for Palestinian ‘large-scale p ...
    Reuters reports: From his cell in an Israeli prison, one of the Palestinians’ most revered figures Marwan Barghouti called on Monday for a new wave of civil resistance in their decades-long quest for statehood and for severing all ties with Israel. Barghouti is a leading figure in the Fata ...
  • Israel cuts contact with UN rights council, to ...
    Haaretz reports: Israel decided Monday to sever all contact with the United Nations human rights council and with its chief commissioner Navi Pillay, after the international body decided to establish an international investigative committee on the West Bank settlements. The Foreign Ministry orde ...
  • Support in U.S. for Afghan war drops sharply, ...
    The New York Times reports: After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The survey found that more than two-thirds of those polled — 69 percent ...
  • Pakistan rejects U.S. ‘offer’ on drone strikes
    The Associated Press reports: In a bid to save the CIA’s drone campaign against al-Qaida in Pakistan, US officials offered key concessions to Pakistan’s spy chief that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets. But the offers were flatly rejected, leaving US-Pakistan ...
  • Video: Hans Blix: The Iranian threat

Watts Up With That?

  • New EPA rule will block all new coal-electric ...
    Guest post by Alec Rawls The upcoming rule: … will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to … Continue reading →
  • Crack in the Antarctic!
    From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit. That could be tragic, except, well, sea ice in Antarctica is growing. … Continue reading →
  • Asking a personal favor for my community &#821 ...
    Personal note: I need a little help for my community. Since the State of California is morally and fiscally bankrupt, they have pulled the plug on the treasure of our town, the Bidwell Mansion, a true relic of the California … Continue reading →
  • Ramanathan and Almost-Black Carbon
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My thanks to Nick Stokes and Joel Shore. In the comments to my post on the effects of atmospheric black carbon, Extremely Black Carbon, they brought up and we discussed the results of Ramanathan et … Continue reading →
  • Thank you Senator Kerry, for saying what we al ...
    This just in from The Daily Climate, Kerry tells us we are winning, but the blames the usual suspects rather than the message itself. I love the part about where we “made up our own science“, which is sort of … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia to Build Nuclear Space Engine by 2017
    A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday.
  • Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica
    Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union’s first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
  • Soviet Weather Satellite to Fall to Earth
    Meteor-1, the Soviet Union’s first fully operational weather satellite, will on Monday night re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the U.S. Strategic Command said.
  • Russia Puts U.S. Satellite In Orbit
    Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket successfully put a U.S. telecoms satellite into orbit on Monday, space officials said.
  • Russia Launches Proton-M Carrier Rocket
    Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecoms satellite was launched early on Sunday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • If Monsanto Were a Person
    This video is from the March 16, 2012, action that shut down a Monsanto research facility in Davis, CA. In the video, a young boy, Ci Yin Sun Thunder, a host of Small World Radio, tells Monsanto's story as if, as the Supreme Court has ruled, Monsanto were actually a person. Please watch the vide ...
  • Deepak Chopra and Vandana Shiva Talk Seeds and ...
    When meta-physician, Deepak Chopra and food champion and ecologist, Vandana Shiva met before a live audience at his Love in Action series at DeepakHomeBase, they had a good laugh over the Bullshit Award. Yes, that's right. Monsanto gave a Bullshit Award to Shiva. To Shiva, whom Forbes Magazine c ...
  • Why I Protested at Monsanto
    Although I don't admit this much, technically I am a child. As the U.S. Supreme Court has declared corporations like Monsanto as "people" with the same rights as us, it must mean that Monsanto was once a child, too. His parents clearly had high hopes, as his name implies - Mon Santo, or "My Holy ...
  • Insect Experts Warn Against Genetically Engine ...
    After years of assurance that genetically engineered (GE) crops are the answer to pesky pest problems, corn rootworm is now turning into a nightmare for America's agricultural biotech companies. Click here to read this article
  • Lobbyists, Guns and Money
    Specifically, language virtually identical to Florida's law is featured in a template supplied to legislators in other states by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed organization that has managed to keep a low profile even as it exerts vast influence (only recently, than ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • So-Called Confined field releases of GM Eucaly ...
    Perfunctory environmental assessment is based largely on uninformed prejudice and hides crucial details on gene constructs under Confidential Business Information. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Access to water is a right- not a privilege
    After watching Blue Gold, I think that if we continue polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential rate as our population and technology grows, we may very well end up in a war over water. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world.
    What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. Submitted by Jason S. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What the skeptics of climate catastrophe are s ...
    The most frustrating thing about being a scientist skeptical of catastrophic global warming is that the other side is continually distorting what I am skeptical of. ( Note 'side' :climate scientist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. makes similar observation re GIGO) Submitted by John Farnham to Science &amp ...
  • Persian Gulf Militarization
    Military bases and Contingency Sites surrounding Iran. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Michigan Declares War on Family Pig Farmers
    The state of Michigan has officially declared war on family farmers. Bakers Green Acres raises pigs in a humane way. This evidently creates a competition threat to the pork industry, and the government-sponsored mega-corporations can't have that, so look out small family farmers, here comes the ...
  • Smart meter fire risks?
    Watch the “completely safe” smart meter explode and catch this unfortunate person’s house on fire. Pay no attention to the fire, that smart meter is fail-safe because I SAID SO! Submitted by Annie DeRiso
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Dominican judge sends 4 suspected Anonymous ha ...
    ShareThisDominican judge sends 4 suspected Anonymous hackers to jail for 3 months; no charges filed 27 Mar 2012 A judge in the Dominican Republic has ordered four suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement held in jail for three months during an investigation of their activiti ...
  • Gingrich cuts staff, aims at Tampa
    ShareThisGingrich cuts staff, aims at Tampa 27 Mar 2012 Newt Gingrich is cutting back his campaign schedule, will lay off about a third of his cash-strapped campaign's full-time staff, and has replaced his manager as part of what aides are calling a "big-choice convention" strategy, communicatio ...
  • Japan nuclear reactor has fatally high radiati ...
    ShareThisJapan nuclear reactor has fatally high radiation, no water --Tuesday's examination with an industrial endoscope detected radiation levels up to 10 times the fatal dose inside the chamber. 27 Mar 2012 One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and ha ...
  • Feds: San Onofre nuclear plant can't reopen un ...
    ShareThisFeds: San Onofre nuclear plant can't reopen until problems fixed 27 Mar 2012 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, citing serious concerns about equipment failures at the San Onofre nuclear plant, on Tuesday prohibited plant operator Southern California Edison from restarting the plan ...
  • Trayvon Martin Investigator Wanted Manslaughte ...
    ShareThisTrayvon Martin Investigator Wanted Manslaughter Charge 27 Mar 2012 The lead homicide investigator in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin recommended that neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter the night of the shooting, multiple sources told ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Sergeant Godsmack vs. Nazar
    27 March 2012 PTSD is a serious problem.  Suicides by veterans happen many times per day, every day.  At best, PTSD can degrade the quality of life of veterans and their families.  At worst, unmanaged, the human toll is incalculable. Other problems with “military PTSD:” 1) PTSD ...
  • Panjway, Afghanistan: Amphitheater of War
    For a larger view please click on image or one of the links below. 23 March 2012 This panorama was made in the general area where the Panjway 17 massacre unfolded.  The view is over the Arghandab River Valley, a place that Canadian and many US forces know well.  The Arghandab can be ...
  • Alcohol in Afghanistan
    19 March 2012 There are reports that alcohol was involved in the Panjway 16.  There are also reports that alcohol was not involved. Since 2005, I've only seen two Soldiers truly drunk on missions during about three years with combat troops.  Both were in Iraq.  One Soldier was e ...
  • Sir Petraeus
    16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.
  • Libya Spot Report
    16 March 2012 An experienced friend is currently in Tripoli and writes: I’m telling you, you should get your butt over here to Libya - it’s a really interesting place.  I know everyone’s mind is on Afghanistan these days, but there’s really no comparison. The two countries could not be mo ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • JURIST spring fundraising drive - only 4 more ...
    [JURIST announcement] WE NEED YOUR HELP. Our spring fund drive ends on March 31 - that's only four days! Our annual goal is $30,000, so if we can raise another $1,500 during this drive, we'll be 25% funded. . .another $4,000 and we'll be 33% funded. Help make it happen! As previously mentioned, ...
  • EU, UN Security Council call for restoration o ...
    [JURIST] Acting head of the EU delegation in Mali, Bertrand Soret, on Tuesday met with the leader of last week's military coup [JURIST report] urging a quick return to constitutional order in the country. President Amadou Toumani Toure [Al Jazeera profile] was removed from office after Malian so ...
  • Pennsylvania 'Year of the Bible' resolution ch ...
    [JURIST] An organization composed of atheists and agnostics on Monday filed suit [text, PDF] against Pennsylvania representatives over a state House resolution that declares 2012 as "The Year of the Bible," asserting [press release] that the law violates the principle of separation of church and ...
  • Georgia senate eases restrictions in abortion bill
    [JURIST] The Georgia State Senate [official website] approved legislation [voice vote] on Monday that eases the restrictions on abortion imposed by a bill [HB 954] passed by the Georgia House of Representatives [official website] earlier in March. The House bill banned women from obtaining an ab ...
  • ICTR transfers case of former mayor to Rwanda ...
    [JURIST] The referral chamber of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] on Monday transferred the case of Charles Sikubwabo [Hague Justice profile; case materials] to the High Court of Rwanda. The decision was based on ICTR prosecutors' request [press release ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Bibi: First We’ll Take Tehran, Then We’ll Take ...
    TweetYesterday, brought ominous news regarding yet another aggressive Israeli projection of its military power in the Mideast.  Since 1967, with but a few exceptions (Osirak being one), Israel has mainly satisfied itself by retaining dominance over its frontline neighbors and not attempting to m ...
  • Jewish Agency ‘Social Media Guru,’ Invents UN ...
    TweetThe Jewish Agency, led by Israeli neocon darling, Natan Sharansky, is joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IDF by getting into the social media hasbara game.  They’re hired Avi Mayer as their “social media guru,” as the Jewish Agency’s own website calls him.   ...
  • 1,000 Israelis March in Tel Aviv Against Iran War
    TweetYesterday night, 1,000 Israelis marched to protest the prospect of an Israeli military attack on Iran.  The rally was an offshoot of the Israel Loves Iran social network phenomenon which has been sweeping Facebook for the past week.  For me as an American Jew, one of the more interested asp ...
  • Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Follows the Netwo ...
    TweetI posted some time ago when the Southern Poverty Law Center designated Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs as an Islamophobic hate blog along with her Stop the Islamization of America group, which invented the “Ground Zero Mosque” and ensuring Muslim-bashing controversy.  Recently, ...
  • Petition Campaign Against Iran War
    TweetA local activist friend has created a new petition campaign against an Israeli attack on Iran.  He asks signers to commit to divesting from Israel in their personal and political lives if it launches a pre-emptive assault on Iran. In all honesty, there is one element of the text with which ...

If Americans Knew

  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Colorful City Tracking Maps Launch Under Creat ...
    Maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live. These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribu ...
  • A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Developing iWitness
    iWitness, our project to create a tool to aggregate social media by time and place, is now well underway, and we're looking forward to sharing some of our thinking about the design of the tool with you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we've asked our development partners at EdgeCase to ...
  • New Knight Lab Tool Makes Great-Looking Timeli ...
    A timeline is one of the most useful and versatile storytelling forms, suitable for everything from "tick tock" accounts that unfold over a short period of time to events that unfold over decades, centuries or millennia. But the tools available to journalists to create online, interactive timeli ...
  • How Overview Visualized 4,500 Pages of Declass ...
    Reporting on an incident where private security contractors fired at civilians in Iraq is one thing, but reporting on all such incidents is something else entirely. That's the situation we were faced with when, in reporting on the role of private security firms in Iraq, we wanted to analyze ...
  • Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules in Favor of ...
    The highest court in Massachusetts has just ruled in favor of OpenCourt's ability to video record, stream and archive public court proceedings online, writing that restricting rights to publish would violate First Amendment press protections. The decision arrived during Sunshine Week, a n ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Geological Edge - Scientists suggest New A ...
    The Great Rift Valley of East Africa—the birthplace of the human species—may have taken much longer to develop than previously believed, according to a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience that was led by scientists from James Cook University and Ohio University.The team’s fi ...
  • Russia on Edge - Russian Politics Moves Online
    Social media today is becoming such a powerful political force that it might be called the fifth estate. And that fifth estate played an important role in Russia during the run up to the March 4 elections for that country's parliament and presidency. Georgians-who sustained combined Russian kine ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syria Accepts Annan Pea ...
    International peace envoy Kofi Annan says Syria has accepted his plan to end violence in the country.A spokesman for Mr. Annan said Tuesday Syria’s response came in a letter to the U.N.-Arab League envoy.Mr. Annan met with Chinese officials Tuesday in Beijing, including Premier Wen Jiabao, as ...
  • Edge of Islam - Islamic Marriage guide Counsel ...
    An Islamic guide to marriage counsels husbands on the best ways to beat their wives. The book, A Gift for Muslim Couple, advises husbands to beat their wives with “hand or stick or pull her by the ears.â€�  Written by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi, a prominent Muslim scholar, the blurb for th ...
  • The World on Edge - World Leaders Call For Mor ...
    World leaders gathered for a nuclear security summit in Seoul, South Korea, have pledged tough action to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism but have agreed no new concrete measures.A statement at the close of the gathering on March 27 said it was the “fundamental responsibility� of all s ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted: Is Former President "Bubba" Clinto ...
    Former President Bill Clinton has a secret crush on Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly according to a special news report by Newsbusted anchor  Jodi Miller.  In this  Newsbusted exclusive, we learn that the former President secretly entered a contest whose prize was a tour of the Fox N ...
  • The REAL Al Sharpton: Incitement of the 1991 ...
    Al Sharpton is a user.  He exploits tragedy to get headlines for himself.  It's what he is doing in the Trayvon Martin Case--it's what he has done his entire career.  Though this story has been told before, I thought it appropriate to reexamine some the exploitative ...
  • Americans To Obama--Frack Yeah!
    All indications are that Hydraulic fracturing or fracking of shale oil may be the solution to reducing our dependence on foreign oil. A new Rasmussen report reports that Americans are following fracking developments closely, realize it's potential and want the government to move ahead wi ...
  • The Disgusting Exploitation of the Trayvon Mar ...
    As the father of two children, the youngest of which is the same age as Trayvon Martin, I cannot begin to comprehend the horror his parents are feeling. Just the thought of it makes me tear up.  What they have said about the shooting of their son comes from raw emotion and a visceral pa ...
  • Despite Louisiana Its Over-Romney Will Be The ...
    Listen closely. Do you hear that faint singing? What you hear is the proverbial fat lady signaling the GOP race is over and Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Santorum and Gingrich are unlikely to concede the race before early June, which puts the GOP on the same schedule as the Democr ...

The Real Agenda

  • Vaccine-Induced Antibodies not Necessary to Fi ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 28, 2012 Historically, the medical-pharmaceutical establishment have pushed vaccines as the miraculous solution for every single health problem that humans face. The pharmaceutical power houses came to the conclusion that vaccines were necessar ...
  • Sudanese President Wants to ‘Purify&#821 ...
    By MICHAEL CARL | WND | MARCH 27, 2012 Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir says he wants to purify Sudan by driving out the country’s remaining Christians, and aid workers in the Nuba Mountains say that he has begun strategic demonstrations of air power to systematically drive people int ...
  • Chinese Police State Gets More Powers
    Under new legislation, China mimics the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act in the United States, where it is now legal to detain, torture or kill anyone who the president deems as a threat to his government. By TANIA BRANIGAN | GUARDIAN | MARCH 27, 2012 Experts warned t ...
  • Early Exposure to Germs Shows Lasting Benefits
    By HELEN THOMPSON | NATURE | MARCH 27, 2012 Exposure to germs in childhood is thought to help strengthen the immune system and protect children from developing allergies and asthma, but the pathways by which this occurs have been unclear. Now, researchers have identified a mechanism in ...
  • Sterilization to Reduce Population Planned sin ...
    By JURRIAAN MAESSEN | INFOWARS.COM | MARCH 26, 2012 In the course of August and September 2010, I wrote several articles for Infowars on the Rockefeller Foundation’s admitted funding and developing of anti-fertility vaccines intended for “mass-scale distribution.” As the soft-kill depo ...

Wind Watch

  • Groundbreaking law prohibits wind turbines
    ST. HENRY – Council members made history Monday night by passing unique legislation that bans wind turbines in town. The new law, which unanimously passed third reading, prohibits the construction of all types of wind turbines, wind chargers and wind generators. It also outlaws any device, ...
  • Potential risks to residents from 20-square-mi ...
    Ocotillo resident Jim Pelley dreads the prospect of the 456-tall wind turbines that may soon surround his home on three sides-some less than half mile away. Whirling blades, each weighing many tons, would be placed atop an active earthquake fault area capable of a 7.0 quake or more. Fire danger, ...
  • BRSA turbine appeal reaches appellate court
    Construction of a 380-foot-tall industrial wind turbine proposed by the sewerage authority in Union Beach could set a precedent for land use decisions across the state, attorneys argued in the Appellate Division of Superior Court in Trenton last week. Union Beach special counsel Stuart Lieberman ...
  • Prattsburgh against Ecogen appeal, seeks to ne ...
    The Prattsburgh Town Board on Tuesday counter appealed an attempt by a wind farm developer to overturn an order signed by a state Supreme Court justice. Ecogen officials did not give a reason for appealing the order, which they originally submitted. The order – approved by Justice John Ark in Fe ...
  • Banning turbines in Litchfield maintains town& ...
    LITCHFIELD — After a week on vacation, Litchfield resident Pat Christensen cherishes the moment she can step through the door and breathe a sigh of relief — she’s home. “That feeling has to stay here,” said Christensen, spokeswoman for Litchfield United. If industrial wind turbines set up shop i ...

Tippers News

  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |  & ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...

The Freeman

  • Bill to Ease Securities Regulations Faces Inte ...
    “White House allies are in an uproar over pro-business legislation embraced by President Obama, exposing a new rift in his relations with Democratic lawmakers and supporters amid his efforts since the fall to mend those ties. The bill is designed to make it easier for growing companies to ...
  • Government Wants to Protect Consumers from Int ...
    “The government’s chief consumer protection agency said on Monday that it intended to take direct aim at the vast industry that has grown up around the buying and selling of information about American consumers.” (New York Times) The irony of government concern about our privacy! FEE ...
  • But What About the Mail?
    Click to enlarge. What is so special about the mail? Must government be the sole provider? Would a postal system really be so terrible in the hands of a competitive system? We and most other countries have a government monopoly, so maybe it must be that way. Libertarians are often called out for ...
  • Supreme Court Opens Argument on Obamacare Today
    “The Supreme Court on Monday starts three days of hearings on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul law, an epic clash that could recast the very structure of American government.” (New York Times) Can we properly be forced to buy medical insurance? FEE Timely Classi ...
  • Bernanke Says Growth Key to Jobs
    “The U.S. economy needs to grow more quickly if it is to produce enough jobs to bring down the unemployment rate, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.” (Reuters) And sustainable growth, Mr. Chairman, requires sound, market-based money. FEE Timely Classic “Gold ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Data Journalism Examples
      I created a Storify (below) for participants in a recent workshop about data journalism. The purpose is to enable them to explore the subject further on their own. You can compare the original version at the Storify site. To make it appear in this post, I simply exported (to WordPress) f ...
  • Social Media and Journalists
    This is a presentation I gave to several groups of TV and print journalists in Singapore. Download the PPT to get the notes and the URLs (March 19–23, 2012). It’s in four parts because it’s long. Part 1 covers concepts and definitions. Part 2 covers Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. Pa ...
  • Definition: Social media
    I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...
  • Resources for learning about social media
    I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Kony 2012
    The Kony 2012 video has led to increased U.S. pressure on the Ugandan regime to catch the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader.
  • Water and Sanitation in Africa
    Although much more of the world's population has access to clean water than a decade ago, sanitation progress in Africa continues to stagnate.
  • Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
    The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
  • Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
    The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
  • Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up
    International efforts are being made to address Africa's energy deficiencies by developing renewable energy sources on a grand scale.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Evolving Urban Form: Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto
    Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto is Japan's second largest urban area and ranks as the 12th largest urban area in the world. With a population of approximately 17,000,000 and a land area of 1240 square miles (3200 square kilometers), Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto has a population density of 13,700 per square mile (5,200 ...
  • Inequality and Economic Growth
    There has been news and conversation about economic inequality and economic growth lately, mostly because the former is increasing steadily and the latter has been less than stellar. Of course, there is always a tension between economic growth and equality.  Economic growth implies at least ...
  • The Great Reordering of the Urban Hierarchy
    A delegation from Chicago is in Brussels this week to sell the city as a tourist destination in advance of the forthcoming NATO Summit. A Phil Rosenthal column explains that the city has a long way to go: "I don't think most people in the U.K.have any idea where Chicago is," ...
  • The Leveraged Buyout of the GDR
    Until the European Central Bank purchased a call option on the future assets of the Greek government (which remains out-of-the-money), the largest leveraged buyout of a sovereign state had taken place in 1990, when the West German government acquired the German Democratic Republic (GDR), thought ...
  • Addressing Workforce Shortages in the Dakotas
    While not immune to the recession, the upper Great Plains is in a different economic situation from the rest of the nation. Growth coupled with low unemployment means more strain on the region’s workforce, making it tougher for employers to find the workers they need. It's not so much about ...

GM Watch

  • European Parliament cracks down on EFSA
    1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA 2.EU commission: OK for Monsanto lobbyist to run food regulator --- --- 1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA CEO, March 28 2012 http://www.corporateeurope.org/blog/european-parliament-cracks-down-efsa Debates on EFSA's budget and management board i ...
  • 1500 beekeepers protest GM crops in Warsaw
    NOTE: Go to the link for the article below for some great photos. More images at: http://festiwalstopgmo.pl/index.php/321-marsz-pszczelarzy And see the YouTube video of the protesting beekeepers - in Polish but some great images:  bit.ly/HcwznJ!  TAKE ACTION: Contact Poland's Minister of Agricu ...
  • Bill Gates and GM crops
    EXTRACT: GM seeds and AGRA's close economic linking with Monsanto just reinforce to objective observers how much of this "development" agenda is corporate driven, a closed loop between the boardrooms and the billionaire philanthropists. NOTE: For Glenn Ashton's original article which prompted t ...
  • Million signature US petition for GM labeling
    NOTE: New survey shows 91% of US consumers support labeling of GM foods - only 5% oppose. Great infographic: http://justlabelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JLI_infographic_final_march27.jpg --- --- Consumer groups demand GMO labeling, question food safety Carey Gillam Reuters, March 27 2012 h ...
  • Independence of EFSA challenged by European Pa ...
    1.Conflicts of interests within the EU agencies 2.Independence of EFSA's GMO risk assessment challenged --- --- 1.IMPORTANT VICTORY Conflicts of interests within the EU agencies:  Corinne Lepage welcomes postponement of fiscal discharge of budget Brussels, March 27 2012 After the vote, Corinn ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. c ...
  • Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Giga ...
    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it.  This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be full ...
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...

Desertification

  • Global environment degradation (Google / WAD)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/desertification Desertification: a global phenomenon The global environment is a common resource and it is ever becoming clearer that all have responsibility to ensure that current and future generations can kee ...
  • UNCCD video
    UN / DESERTIFICATION VIDEO Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Luc Gnacadja warned today that 75 billion tons of fertile soil are lost forever every year, with “23 hectares of land transformed into man-made desert every … Continue reading →
  • Zimbabwe : stealing from future generations (G ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-03-26-viewpoint-why-steal-from-future-generations/ Viewpoint: Why steal from future generations? Wisdom Mdzungairi The gaping cavity in dense forests and plantations in Chimanimani is one of thousands being goug ...
  • Greater efforts to fight desertification neede ...
    Read at: Google Alert – desertification http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41635&Cr=environment&Cr1=%3ESee UN Drylands Ambassador calls for greater efforts to fight desertification With land degradation and desertification affecting 1.5 billion people across the globe, 75 ...
  • In Danish : UNICEF stopper succes-projekt i Ve ...
    Read at : http://www.arbejderen.dk/artikel/2012-03-23/unicef-stopper-succes-projekt-i-vestsahara UNICEF stopper succes-projekt i Vestsahara Familiehaverne skabte en enorm entusiasme. Alle ministrene i saharawiernes regering, inklusive præsidenten, udtrykte håb om at UNICEF ville fortsætte dette ...

The Paper Trail

  • Children's Defense Fund report on kids' gun de ...
    In a report released this month, the Children’s Defense Fund has analyzed recent national data on gunfire deaths and produced some alarming figures on child casualties.   The report also criticizes a wave of new state gun-rights laws that the Washington D.C.-based advocacy group argues put ...
  • Casino billionaire expected to move millions t ...
    Multibillionaire Sheldon Adelson and his family, who have kept the flagging presidential candidacy of Newt Gingrich alive, seem poised to send millions to Republican-allied groups and possibly a super PAC backing frontrunner Mitt Romney, according to fundraisers with ties to the casino owner.Ade ...
  • John McCain predicts 'huge scandals' in super ...
    Sen. John McCain slammed the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision as “incredibly naïve” on Tuesday, and predicted there would be “huge scandals” in its wake.The Arizona Republican was co-author with then-colleague Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., of the last major attempt by government to re ...
  • EPA proposes first limit on greenhouse gases
    In a rule that could discourage reliance on coal for energy, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.The proposal would “move our nation into an era of American energy that is cleaner and cheaper,” EPA administrat ...
  • GOP super PAC men seek to overturn donation limits
    As unlimited contributions flow into super PACs this year, one man is at the center of a new effort to allow people to donate more money, to more candidates, at the national stage.“I don’t believe government is there to limit us,” Shaun McCutcheon told iWatch News.McCutcheon is a 44-year-old gen ...

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – Retracted
    By Nathaniel Moher Dear worshipping readership: as one of the few remaining hard-hitting investigative journalists out there (see you at the meeting, Seacrest), I obviously pride myself on never making a mistake. Ever. Well, apparently my assumption that I never make a mistake was in fact a mist ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Debt as Money – INCREDIBLE MUST-WATCH VI ...
    This is a tremendously well-done presentation – easy to understand and extremely accurate.   Better yet, it explores SOLUTIONS, rather than just focusing on the problems. Keep in mind as you watch this, that Mariner Eccles, the ARCHITECT of the corrupt and non-sustainable Federal Reserve S ...
  • The Final Judgment – Israel and Organize ...
    Read the book online at:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/47546468/7/Chapter-Fifteen Is it “hate mongering” to simply write the truth?   Are you a “Jew-Hater” simply because you expose the links to Jewish Mafia Kingpin Meyer Lansky and his role in the formation of the modern-da ...
  • RIGHTEOUS BLOOD PART X: Mordecai Vanunu &#8211 ...
    The year was 1986.   For the previous decade, a man named Mordecai Vanunu had been employed as a “plant technician” at a highly secure “top secret” facility located deep in the desolate Negev Desert region of southern “Israel’, roughly 7 miles southeast of the ...
  • New Executive Order – WAY OVER THE TOP!!
    This is DEEPLY TROUBLING, Friends.  Unlike the FALSE BLATHERING about the NDAA, this “executive order” is self-evident that Americans are in deep kimshe. This Orwellian double-speak is amazing.  Peace-time “martial law” is a complete oxy-moron – so it obviously has ...
  • Election Process is RIGGED – There is no ...
    “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin -  Original Eomite Master of the Vote Hoax!   See http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm They have to make it “look official” – they want the &#8 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Giving Capitalism a Feminine Face
    IMF head Christine Lagarde (This is the first of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) Historically the IMF and ...
  • END:CIV Resist or Die
    END:CIV Resist or Die 2011, directed by Franklin Lopez Free (Creative Commons) download at: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-civ-resist-or-die/ Film Review END:CIV, according to the promo, “examines our culture’s systemic addiction to violence and environmental exploitation.& ...
  • Farmers of Forty Centuries
    Farmers of Forty Century: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan By F.H. King (1911, reprinted in 2004 by Dover Publications) Book Review I don’t typically review (or read) 100 year old books. Farmers of Forty Centuries is an important exception. It has become a classic of the permacult ...
  • New Zealand’s First “Terrorism&# ...
    2007 Police Raid on Ruatoki The US and its English-speaking allies have embarked on a dangerous trend of arresting (or targeting for assassination) political activists on the basis of what they allegedly say or intend or who they associate with, as opposed to actual criminal acts. Anwar al-Awlak ...
  • The ICNC Role in the Arab Spring
    ICNC Founder Peter Ackerman (This is the last of five posts about the American godfather of nonviolent resistance, Gene Sharp, and the role of CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance) In the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, Sharp and the ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Worker Ownership for the 99%: The United Steel ...
    For release:     March 26, 2012                                          &nb ...
  • The End of Men
    Excerpted from Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore EARLIER THIS YEAR, my wife and I attended the baptism of our new nephew, Anthony. Our teenage daughter had been asked to be his godmother, a job that would require her to be there for little ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About Rush Limbaugh's "Ap ...
    Rush Limbaugh issues a rare (if ever?) apology: mmflint.me/zvDYzY I didn't know there was anyone on earth who had the power to tell Rush what 2 do. But then there's Bain Capital, financiers of Clear Channel I guess Romney knew that Rush, who made the mistake of saying what most Republicans thi ...
  • Q&A on New Rules for Best Documentary Academy ...
    Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...
  • THOUSANDS OF NURSES & SUPORTERS TO MARCH AT G8 ...
    RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies   Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...

Salon

  • Craziness prevails in Obamacare hearings
    The long-awaited oral argument on the merits in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act makes depressing reading, because so many judges seem to be ready to buy such silly arguments – arguments whose silliness was pointed out on the spot, sometimes even conceded by the challengers, but which no ...
  • The Obamacare tragedy
    Mere seconds after reporters covering the Supreme Court's historic hearing on the healthcare reform law Tuesday morning were free to tweet, the panic started to spread: The harsh, pointed questions asked by a majority of the justices inspired a nearly unanimous insta-analysis: The Affordable Car ...
  • J Street split on Israel’s future
    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was nothing if not passionate in his speech at the J Street Gala Dinner on Monday evening. After asserting that Israel cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran, he argued vociferously that negotiations with the Palestinians over a two-state solution must continue, ...
  • Did Occupy co-opt the Million Hoodie March?
    Following the Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin in New York last week, some have wondered how much Occupy Wall Street actually cares about Martin’s death. Stand-up comedian and commentator Elon James White, writing in News One for Black America, condemned the actions of Occupy participants ...
  • Team Romney’s alleged labor mole
    On Sept. 2, the National Review posted on its website an Op-Ed blasting a new rule requiring companies to inform employees of their union rights. The article condemned the rule as “an unwarranted usurpation” and “regulatory sorcery” that “diminishes” the National Labor Relations Board. None of t ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Young Americans Are Driving Dramatically Less ...
    Americans under 40 are driving dramatically less, according to data from the National Household Travel Survey. The question is: Is car culture in America waning generationally or is this a temporary phenomenon linked to the recession?
  • Cleantech is Seeking Creative Entrepreneurs
    Save for the era of Thomas Edison, it has never been a better time to be an energy entrepreneur, especially in the United States. To successfully bring their energy technology to commercialization, energy entrepreneurs have to be creative in seeking alternative methods of commercialization strat ...
  • Communities Dive In: Local Planning for Energy ...
    This post is the second of three on sustaining local energy efficiency efforts. The first post described trends in local implementation of energy efficiency. The next post will explore sustainable funding sources.
  • Summer in March?
    If you live in the central or eastern United States and have been outside lately, you can attest to the downright summery weather we’ve been experiencing. In fact this March, weather is not just unusual; it is unprecedented. In Detroit, there has not been a comparable spring heat wave since 1886 ...
  • Could the Climate Change Act be used to curb n ...
    DECC's decision to set EPCs at 450gCO2/kWh could be open to legal challenge. It is now fashionable to term natural gas a “transitional" fuel on the road to a low or zero carbon economy at some vague point in the fuzzy future.

EU Times

  • Cassini to make closest pass over Enceladus So ...
    NASA’s Cassini probe is set to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in order to “taste” the icy particles spraying out from its surface. The close approach will be at an altitude of 74km and is scheduled to occur at 19:30 GMT on March 27, 20 ...
  • On the brink of Third World War – 2012
    2012 onwards, the world is on the brink of Third World War. All sane and peace loving men would pray and strive that it is averted. For the horoscope of the times point towards a global catastrophe in the making. The guns of August 1914 – 1st World War paled in front of the Panzer [...]
  • Fear Of Radiation Treated as “Psychiatric Diso ...
    Despite the fact that the Japanese government and TEPCO were caught red-handed underplaying the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a study has found that almost a quarter of Fukushima residents hospitalized in the aftermath of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami were treated as ...
  • “Russia is Public Enemy No. 1″ &#8 ...
    US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has branded Russia as America’s number one geopolitical enemy. He slammed President Obama’s comments to Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev over flexibility concerning US missile defense as alarming and worrying. “This is without question our number on ...
  • North Korea to proceed with satellite launch d ...
    North Korea says it will go ahead with a plan to launch a rocket-powered satellite scheduled for next month despite warnings from the United States and its regional allies. “We will never give up the right to launch a peaceful satellite,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman tol ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Johnson/Kasten Group Agrees To Buy Dodgers
    The Dodgers have reached an agreement to be sold to the Guggenheim Partners - led by Magic Johnson and Stan Kasten - reports MLB.com's Ken Gurnick ( Twitter links ). Dennis Berman of The Wall Street Journal reports that they will pay $2 billion for the team, by far the most ever paid for a Nort ...
  • The technical and legal realities of Comcastâs ...
    Comcast said Monday that the content streamed over Microsoft’s Xbox won’t count against user’s 250 gigabyte monthly usage cap prompting outrage among cap-hating websites and consumer groups . But the reality of the situation is that Comcast is within its rights. While we can lament the FCC’s fa ...
  • Jack of all Trades, Master of⦠The Problem wi ...
    So, it looks like Google is entering the comment system fray . Never mind that it smacks of yet another “let’s copy Facebook” move. Nor that there are already excellent comment systems out there at the minute – the awesome Livefyre (used on this very blog), Disqus and IntenseDebate to name just ...
  • Comcast And HBO GO Come To Xbox Live [Updates]
    Xbox 360 owners will soon find themselves greeted with the âupdate availableâ prompt, and once the update is complete theyâll have access to Comcast on-demand and HBOâs GO streaming service. The partnership with Comcast provides subscribers to the companyâs cable service the ability to watch on ...
  • Rejected twice by Apple, âFind My Facebook Fri ...
    Rejected twice for being too similar to Apple’s “ Find My Friends” app , a new app from developer IZE  called “Find My Facebook Friends” is now live on the App Store. The app essentially works the same as Apple’s, allowing you to see your friend’s location on a Google map. It also provides pri ...

Groklaw

  • Departing DARPA Director Regina Dugans TED Tal ...
    Earlier this month, we learned that DARPA Director Regina Dugan is Google-bound. Before the announcement, she took to the TED stage to deliver "From Mach-20 Glider to Humming Bird Drone." In the 25-minute talk below (rather lengthy by TED standards), Dugan shows off a humming-bird drone and a th ...
  • A Worrisome Revelation (cartoon)
    Hi, I just signed up for your "Ubersoft Social Networking" service. Welcome to USN, the latest technology in online sharing. We hope you enjoy this new and exciting way to reach out to friends and family members online. Well... it's OK. I guess. But I'm a little concerned about my account's pr ...
  • Department of Health and Human Servs. v. Flor ...
    Docket Number: 11-398-Tuesday Oral Argument Date Argued: 03/27/12 MP3, RealAudio, Windows Media Transcript [PDF] - US Supreme Court
  • Apple, Sony, 4 others sued by Graphics Properties
    Apple Inc, Sony Corp and four other companies were sued by Graphics Properties Holdings Inc, formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc, for allegedly infringing a patent through their sale of mobile phones and other electronic devices. The lawsuits against Apple, Japan-based Sony , Taiwan-based HT ...
  • How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent
    According to Linus Torvalds, he was deposed in the case this past fall, and apparently his testimony about a 20-year-old technical discussion - along with a discussion group posting made by an Amiga fan, known only as Natuerlich! - helped convince the Administrative Law Judge that the patent was ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Spike Lee tweeted wrong address for George Zim ...
    The tweet could have potentially put the woman who actually lives at that address in danger.What Geraldo said about hoodies was deeply stupid and idiotic. Spike Lee tweeting the wrong address is even worse.Everyone really needs to chill.
  • Mophie. Reserve battery in shell case for smar ...
    mophie.comMy Mophie just arrived. It’s a reserve battery in a slim durable case for iPhones and other smartphones. The Mophie is well-designed and you can easily move the phone in and out of it.Mophie recommends putting the reserve battery on standby. When the smartphone battery is low, si ...
  • California water wars spotlight. Sacramento Delta
    Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates near Collinsville. Credit: water.ca.govThe Sacramento Delta is ground zero for California water wars. Water from it is pumped to the Central Valley for agriculture and also to southern California. But the Delta needs that water for farming, fishing, and recrea ...
  • More from The Big Thirst
    Don't waste water / Penna Art WPA, 1941-43. Raymond Willcox, American. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. )The Big Thirst is excellent, I read it last year (after hearing an interview with the author by Terry Gross) and highly recommend it. Here’s a b ...
  • Headline of the Day
    Hoodie and the Blowfish: Geraldo calls for crackdown on killer hoodies 

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Serious process failures by ACC: Bronwyn Pulla ...
    As you scan this list, please reflect on the fact that every one of these reminds me of issues other claimants have brought to me, and are endorsed by claimant organisations, lawyers and service providers who deal with ACC on a regular basis. And ask yourself if it is okay for this catalogue of ...
  • All’s not well in Auckland
    Poor Auckland! I hate it when the Government meddles in our city.  It was bad enough that we had a forced amalgamation of our local councils to create the supercity. Now we have the Prime Minister selling our law to increase the number of pokies at SkyCity casino in exchange for a mega conventio ...
  • The Tongan King’s funeral: a photo diary ...
    The plane was full with MPs, Auckland City representatives, Tongan leaders, diplomats from missions based in NZ, Military leaders and Kaumātua.               Got a ride with Councillor Alf Filipaina     We gave our condolences to the Crown Prince on a ...
  • Transport news round-up
    So much is happening in transport that it’s a bit hard to keep up and put out an informed post on each happening, so here’s a round-up: First, the bad news: The Napier—Gisborne line is hanging by a thread after being washed out. This is a huge blow to the regional freight line, which thanks [...]
  • The link between environmentalism and social j ...
    I've been doing some thinking about the links between the environment, the economy, and social justice. So have Ban Ki-moon and Tim Flannery.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Is This More-Dangerous-than-Aspartame Sweetene ...
    By Dr. Mercola One of the more recent toxic additions to our food supply is the artificial sweetener called Neotamei. In the European Union, where it was approved as a flavor enhancer as of November 2010, it is known by its “E number,” E961ii. Made by NutraSweet (a former division of Monsa ...
  • How Factory Farmers Use the Media To Distort R ...
    By Dr. Mercola A ridiculous video from the Pork Producers Council attempts to explain why factory pig farming is a wonderful thing.   They say they put up "modern" barns to protect animals from harsh weather, illness and predators … which when translated to reality means the pigs never ...
  • This Could Give Women Deadly Blood Clots - US ...
    By Dr. Mercola Emerging markets -- primarily in developing countries in Southeast and Central Asia, and Africa -- have been on vaccine makers' radar for quite some time. One reason that vaccine makers are interested in exploring markets in these parts of the world is that that's where most o ...
  • Eating This Common Food Could Damage Your Kidneys
    By Dr. Mercola After years of assurance that genetically engineered (GE) crops are the answer to pesky pest problems, corn rootworm is now turning into a nightmare for America's agricultural biotech companies.  These insects have developed resistance to an inserted gene in the gen ...
  • FDA Considering Making Many Drugs OTC
    By Dr. Mercola If you're an "average" 65-year-old (or older) adult living in the United States, you fill more than 31 prescriptions per year. Those aged 19 to 64 take more than 11 prescription drugs per year, while even children take an average of 4, according to statistics from the Kaiser ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Revealed: how Ethiopia's plantations are killi ...
    Efforts to re-direct the Omo River for irrigation are drying up a key water source for tribes. © Survival New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia’s controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. The Omo River downstream from ...
  • Sri Lankan park guard kills tribal man
    A Wanniyala-Aetto family. The tribe want to return to their land in Maduru Oya National Park. © Survival A Sri Lankan park guard has shot dead a young man from the Wanniyala-Aetto tribe for hunting on his people’s ancestral land. Local sources say Thalawarige Sunila was hunting inside the ...
  • UN body says Brazil violating indigenous rights
    Kayapó Indians dance at an anti-dam protest © Terence Turner The International Labour Organization (ILO), part of the UN, has criticized the Brazilian government for failing to respect indigenous peoples’ rights. The ILO has stated that by failing to consult Indians about the construction ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Ottawa must move carefully on prostitution ruling
    No court in Canada can visit prostitution laws without the spectre of Robert Pickton emerging from the shadows.
  • Clarity Act stand may come back to haunt Mulcair
    In announcing Thomas Mulcair's victory in the New Democratic Party leadership contest, party president Rebecca Blaikie brashly proclaimed the Outremont member of Parliament as "Canada's next prime minister."
  • Aislin's party animals: some of our favourite ...
    Last week, The Gazette's editorial cartoonist, Aislin (Terry Mosher), gave readers a challenge: suggest an animal that could represent each of Canada's federal political parties, as the donkey represents the Democrats and the elephant the Republicans in the United States. This week Aislin has do ...
  • Assisted dying: it's time for a discussion
    Whether to allow people with terminal illnesses to die at a time of their choosing with the assistance of a doctor is a thorny issue in which Canadian politicians have been reluctant to engage, even as it becomes more pressing.
  • Voices of reason on Quebec's police shootings bill
    Now that hearings by a National Assembly committee on the proposed legislation on investigations into police shootings have wrapped up, the government should have heard enough to persuade it to make substantial changes to the bill.

Food World Order

  • Crackdown On Feeding the Homeless Goes Nationwide
    from brasschecktv.com: All over the country, major cities are banning the feeding of homeless people. The excuses they use to ban the feeding of the poor range from assessing the nutritional content of donated food to beautifying downtown areas and neighborhoods. In New York, Mayor Bloomberg i ...
  • Researcher Now Claims 'Doomsday Virus' Not as ...
    from planetsave.com: 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 n ...
  • Vintage Weight Loss Ads: A Look At The Health ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: Would Don Draper approve these messages? With Mad Men's season five premiere bringing everyone's favorite vintage show back to television on Sunday, we decided to take a look back at the ads that influenced our dieting styles and body images over the years. It's eas ...
  • Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Tryin ...
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are laughable. But these blatant lies are passed off as ‘science’ for schoolchildren.  It’s not enough that the biotech industry — led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and ...
  • Neurosurgeon issues public challenge to vaccin ...
    from naturalnews.com: Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, author and expert on "excitotoxins," has issued a public challenge to vaccine pushers everywhere to put their money where their mouths are. During a recent interview with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about the fraudulent science of th ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. c ...
  • Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Giga ...
    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it.  This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be full ...
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu 12.04 Features a New Easily Configurabl ...
    I am not sure if this "new" option was already available from the beginning. I noticed it in my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta only recently and when I checked, it was not available in the previous Ubuntu 11.10 release either. Of all the new features that has been added to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I ...
  • 15 Most Creatively Designed Android Apps: Part 2
    As I did promised earlier on, here is the sequel for the post that introduced you to some of most innovatively designed apps for Android. 15 more of them to be precise. Official TED app for Android was released just a day ago. It is a cleverly designed app with ingenious additions l ...
  • Oil Rush RTS Game Becomes Ubuntu's Most Downlo ...
    Linux is no stranger to high value paid apps. But gaming has always been Linux's Achilles heel. Things are slowly changing with the arrival of a number of top-notch games into Linux through Ubuntu Software Center. Software Center may not be an Android Market in terms of quality or quant ...
  • 10 Most Creatively Designed Apps for Android: ...
    Android Market aka Google Play is growing exponentially. Over 600,000 apps of all sizes and shapes already. But what are the apps that really stand out from a design stand point? Which all are the Android apps that comes with the most beautiful UI? Let's take a peek at 15 of the most innov ...
  • MComix: Really Good Comic Book Reader for Ubuntu
    MComix is a fork of now defunct Comix project. MComix aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements to Comix project since its development came to a halt in late 2009. MComix is basically a highly customizable image viewer designed specifically to handle comic bo ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Bedrock of vaccination theory crumbles as scie ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) While the medical, pharmaceutical, and vaccine industries are busy pushing new vaccines for practically every condition under the sun, a new study published in the journal Immunity completely deconstructs the entire vaccination theory. It turns out t ...
  • Three Blind Men with Mercury in Retrograde
    By Les Visible The problem with the truth is that it’s inconvenient, just like Al Gore. The problem with the truth is that it’s impossible to isolate it unto itself without shape, size and coloration, because it can’t be seen otherwise. It can only be inferred and every inferen ...
  • Judge to FDA: Remove Superbug-Breeding Antibio ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Contributing Writer Activist Post A federal judge has stepped up to the plate and is now ordering FDA regulators to start proceedings to revoke the approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, stating that the excessive overuse of antibiotics is threatening publi ...
  • HIDDEN MESSAGES IN WATER – Dr. Masaru Em ...
  • David Wolfe speaks out about Sunfood, Monsanto ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) What do Sunfood and New Chapter both have in common? They have been taken over by corporate people with ties to Monsanto. In the case of Sunfood, the takeover was a “betrayal,” says David Wolfe in this exclusive interview (see below). Wh ...

Veterans Today

  • Stand Your Ground Laws Legalize Murder
    Across America, institutionalized incidents replicate 17-year old Trayvon Martin's February 26 cold-blooded murder. A Black high-school student, he was shot and killed in predominantly white Sanford, FL.
  • Israeli Court Enforces Hana Shalabi Injustice
    Lawlessly detained without charge, Hana's 40th hunger strike day began. She wants freedom or death, and not just for herself. It's for thousands of wrongfully imprisoned Palestinians.
  • Beware Of The Latest Foreclosure Rescue Scam & ...
    Mortgage Fraud Examiners, the investigative firm who warned the public about the "criminal loan modification trap, useless “forensic loan audits,” the “administrative process” scam, and “pretender defenders” is now warning homeowners and the public of the latest worthless service—Securitization ...
  • RFID Chips and Obamacare Roiling Internet; Wak ...
    Bloggers have been banging away about claims that the ‘Obamacare’ bill contains explicit mandate for jabbing an RFID chip into everybody, starting earlier this week.
  • Martial Law, Karma, Facebook and Vanunu
    On March 16, the White House released the "National Defense Resources Preparedness" which gives the President the ability to impose martial law in case of a war or national emergency and the backdrop to the executive order is the looming showdown with Iran.

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: March 28, 2012
    ==== Pentagon Expands Global Missile Shield To Asia, Middle East “Milestone In Global Missile Defense”: Raytheon Tests New Patriot U.S., Canadian, Mexican Defense Chiefs In Unprecedented Meeting Russia Concerned Over Washington’s Plans To Ship Arms To Georgia Moldova: NATO Inte ...
  • U.S., Western Geostrategic Interests In Afghan ...
    New Eastern Outlook March 27, 2012 The US interests in Afghanistan and Central Asia Leonid Gusev* ==== Senator Richard Lugar spoke his mind about the interests of the United States and NATO in Central Asia during visits he made to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan in 2008. He confirmed tha ...
  • On The Brink Of Third World War
    The Nation March 27, 2012 On the brink of Third World War By Nadir Mir* ==== US geostrategy has been embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq; now it seeks to extend the war to Iran-Pakistan. Of course, the real war is against Russia and China, the opposing alliance. Washington sees China rising, Russi ...
  • U.S.-NATO Assault On Pakistan: Latest Butchery ...
    The Frontier Post March 27, 2012 Not surprising ==== [W]hich irrepressible optimist was it in Islamabad who thought it was going to be any different with the Salala holocaust from what it was with the My Lai massacre by the trigger-happy American soldiers? If anything, at least the way the Ameri ...
  • U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Asia And Midd ...
    RT March 27, 2012   US missile shield branches into Asia, Middle East   VIDEO   The Pentagon has revealed plans to deploy elements of its global antiballistic missile defense system in Asia and the Middle East. A similar project in Europe is one of the key points of conflict betwe ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • Philippines: NDF Press Statement — &#82 ...
    Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid — National Democratic Front of the Philippines PRESS STATEMENT March 27, 2012 Reference: Andres Agtalon, PKM spokesperson With utmost joy, the Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid – National Democratic Front of the Philippines (PKM-NDFP) celebrate a ...
  • Nepal: A “party within the party” ...
    [The line struggle within the UCPN(M) between the "people's revolution" faction vs. the "bourgeois republic" faction has now led to separate organized forms within the overall-dysfunctional party.  While debates have led to organizing separate, and opposing, programmatic paths, the issues remain ...
  • In India, US/Israel adding muscle to the bloat ...
    India: The World’s Biggest Arms Recipient  By Sajjad Shaukat | News Center PK | March 24, 2012 In its report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) disclosed on March 20 this year that volume of international transfers of major weapons was 24 percent higher in th ...
  • In India, US/Israel adding muscle to the bloat ...
    India: The World’s Biggest Arms Recipient  By Sajjad Shaukat | News Center PK | March 24, 2012 In its report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) disclosed on March 20 this year that volume of international transfers of major weapons was 24 percent higher in th ...
  • Nepal: Maoist factions agree on two-pronged policy
    Kathmandu Post: “Factions agree to adopt a ‘one party two tactics’ policy till May 27″  KATHMANDU, MAR 24 - The rival factions within the UCPN (Maoist) led by Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya have reached an informal understanding to move ahead adopting a “o ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

Popsci - Science

  • PopSci Q&A: The Quest for a Male Contraceptive
    John Amory, a doctor at the University of Washington, has been developing a male contraceptive for 15 years. Turns out, it's harder than it sounds. We spoke with him to find out why. PopSci: Why is it taking so long to produce a birth-control pill for men? John Amory: Women make one egg a mon ...
  • PopSci Q&A: The Quest for a Male Contraceptive
    John Amory, a doctor at the University of Washington, has been developing a male contraceptive for 15 years. Turns out, it's harder than it sounds. We spoke with him to find out why. PopSci: Why is it taking so long to produce a birth-control pill for men? John Amory: Women make one egg a mon ...
  • Electric Animals That Aren’t Eels
    Eels aren't the only creatures that can deliver a painful zap of electricity. In fact, not all of them are even marine animals. Here are some others. Deep-sea microbes: At the bottom of the ocean, these “living batteries” move electrons across the metals on which they live. Oriental hornet: Brow ...
  • High Court Rejects Patents on Genes, Sending B ...
    Amid all the hype over the federal health care law before the Supreme Court, you might have missed this even more relevant news: The high court rejected an appeals court ruling allowing genes to be patented. The case involves two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer, patented by Myriad Gene ...
  • Swimming On The Hot Side
    An elite team of nuclear divers are risking their lives to help save a troubled industry I first heard about nuclear diving while I was getting my hair cut in downtown Manhattan. My stylist seemed out of place in an East Village salon, so I asked her where she lived. Brooklyn? Queens? Uptown? ...

Veterans Today

  • Stand Your Ground Laws Legalize Murder
    Across America, institutionalized incidents replicate 17-year old Trayvon Martin's February 26 cold-blooded murder. A Black high-school student, he was shot and killed in predominantly white Sanford, FL.
  • Israeli Court Enforces Hana Shalabi Injustice
    Lawlessly detained without charge, Hana's 40th hunger strike day began. She wants freedom or death, and not just for herself. It's for thousands of wrongfully imprisoned Palestinians.
  • Beware Of The Latest Foreclosure Rescue Scam & ...
    Mortgage Fraud Examiners, the investigative firm who warned the public about the "criminal loan modification trap, useless “forensic loan audits,” the “administrative process” scam, and “pretender defenders” is now warning homeowners and the public of the latest worthless service—Securitization ...
  • RFID Chips and Obamacare Roiling Internet; Wak ...
    Bloggers have been banging away about claims that the ‘Obamacare’ bill contains explicit mandate for jabbing an RFID chip into everybody, starting earlier this week.
  • Martial Law, Karma, Facebook and Vanunu
    On March 16, the White House released the "National Defense Resources Preparedness" which gives the President the ability to impose martial law in case of a war or national emergency and the backdrop to the executive order is the looming showdown with Iran.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Drought order in parts of Yorkshire. Will it a ...
    The Environment Agency has today confirmed that some parts of Yorkshire are now officially in drought.   The drought order applies to some catchments of the Rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent and has been issued because the agency is concerned about the effect of drought on the environme ...
  • Recovery in Arctic sea ice continues
    Arctic sea ice has staged a strong recovery in the last few weeks, reaching levels not far from normal for this time of the year. The rise is all the more impressive, since February saw the 5th lowest ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, and until recently ice extent has been ...
  • Drought order update
    The continued dry weather in parts of our region has led Anglian Water to implement a hosepipe ban for all its customers in Lincolnshire from April 5th. Customers in North Nottinghamshire who are served by Severn Trent for sewerage, but Anglian Water for their water supplies, will also have a h ...
  • Global temperature update
    Average global temperatures remained broadly the same throughout the month of February according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.116C, relative to the 30 year running average, equates to an anomaly of approximately +0.137C above the more standard 1961-1990 average. The decline ...
  • Winter 2011/2012: The final verdict
    Winter this year has confounded most long range forecasts issued last autumn, turning out to be mild, averaged over December, January and February (Climatological winter). Talk of huge snowfalls, and the likelihood of another severe winter which were lapped up by an ever eager media, were wide ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Did Global Financial Crisis Curb Carbon Emissions?
    In a rather disappointing word, no. Intuitively, you may have expected worldwide carbon emissions to drop given a slowdown in global economic activity. However, it is a tale of two different worlds--the Global North (developed nations) and the Global South (the developing nations). While the lik ...
  • World Bank Boss: Kim, Okonjo-Iweala or Ocampo?
    I'd like to say the competition to become the next World bank president is heating up if it weren't for the common understanding that it will be another American stitch-up. While I'd have preferred the term "whitewash," the White House has thrown those of us who are critical of Western dominatio ...
  • 'The World Economy Reeks Again, So Buy Yen'
    I have an avowed love-hate relationship with newswire coverage of various financial markets. With regard to currencies, one of the things I am most cautious about is the need to constantly provide explanations of why currency movements occur. I suppose having to provide a laundry list of reasons ...
  • Why the US Ain't in the Inter-Parliamentary Union
    Here's another factoid you can use to embarrass even the most vaunted international relations gurus alike my blogging colleagues (especially of the garden-variety American sort): Ask them whether the United States is a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union composed of nations that have legisla ...
  • Tracing Chinese (Linguistic) Hegemony in Asia
    For all the debate we have around here and practically everybody else especially those in policy circles about the meaning of China's rise--is it peaceful, is it developmentally beneficial for others, is it rising in such a way that it will eventually eclipse Western powers, etc--this sort of ta ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. c ...
  • Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Giga ...
    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it.  This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be full ...
  • Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities Al ...
    What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days?  Would you give that person some food?  Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live.  Sadly, ...
  • Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That Th ...
    Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lectu ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Cassini to make closest pass over Enceladus So ...
    NASA’s Cassini probe is set to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in order to “taste” the icy particles spraying out from its surface. The close approach will be at an altitude of 74km and is scheduled to occur at 19:30 GMT on March 27, 20 ...
  • On the brink of Third World War – 2012
    2012 onwards, the world is on the brink of Third World War. All sane and peace loving men would pray and strive that it is averted. For the horoscope of the times point towards a global catastrophe in the making. The guns of August 1914 – 1st World War paled in front of the Panzer [...]
  • Fear Of Radiation Treated as “Psychiatric Diso ...
    Despite the fact that the Japanese government and TEPCO were caught red-handed underplaying the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a study has found that almost a quarter of Fukushima residents hospitalized in the aftermath of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami were treated as ...
  • “Russia is Public Enemy No. 1″ &#8 ...
    US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has branded Russia as America’s number one geopolitical enemy. He slammed President Obama’s comments to Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev over flexibility concerning US missile defense as alarming and worrying. “This is without question our number on ...
  • North Korea to proceed with satellite launch d ...
    North Korea says it will go ahead with a plan to launch a rocket-powered satellite scheduled for next month despite warnings from the United States and its regional allies. “We will never give up the right to launch a peaceful satellite,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman tol ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Polish CIA prison: Secret Service reveals file ...
    TweetThis article is solely based on publicly available information. The author of this article is not and never has been affiliated with WikiLeaks, and does not have, and never had inside information on their operations. The article reflects the views of the author only. The former head of the ...
  • Australian Prime Minister Stares Into The Abyss
    Tweet"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche. A cautionary tale from Julian Assange's birthplace of Townsville, where Australian Labour Party (ALP) MP Mandy Johnstone just lost power in the recent Queensland ...
  • On financial blockades as a political tool for ...
    TweetIn an interview published this week in Law.Com, general counsel for the Washington DC based nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, David Sohn, discusses the protests against SOPA and PIPA, including the January 18 internet blackout action. In general, he disparages the methods pr ...
  • 2012-03-22 #WikiLeaks News Update
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 474 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 471 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 669 days. WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks issued a press release offering to host a discussion on ...
  • 2012-03-22 WikiLeaks Truck artist Clark Stoeck ...
    TweetBelow is a series of drawings sketched by artist, Clark Stoeckley, at the Motion Hearing for U.S. v. PFC Bradley Manning on March 15 and 16, 2012 at Fort Meade, MD. Stoeckley was situated either in the courtroom gallery or in the media operations center, where a live video feed of the proce ...

U N News

  • UN concerned over funding for humanitarian ser ...
    The United Nations and the Government of Haiti today voiced concern over a lack of resources to fund humanitarian services that are still required to help people in the Caribbean country recover from recent crises, including the 2010 earthquake and the cholera epidemic, and enhance preparedness ...
  • UN development chief hails Haiti's progress tw ...
    The United Nations development chief today commended Haiti's progress in rebuilding its capital, Port-au-Prince, two years after a devastating earthquake rocked the country killing 200,000 people.
  • Haiti receives advice from UN economists on at ...
    United Nations economists have provided the Haitian Government with advice on a new investment strategy to help the country attract financing to rebuild infrastructure and boost economic development.
  • Guatemala: UN rights chief underlines need to ...
    Guatemala has made progress in the fight against impunity and human rights abuses, but the country must tackle the tremendous challenges that remain to become a State based on democracy and the rule of law, says the United Nations human right chief.
  • Brazil: UN welcomes prosecution of retired col ...
    The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the prosecution of a retired Brazilian army colonel for disappearances during the country's military dictatorship as a "first and crucial step" in fighting the impunity that surrounds that period.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Pennsylvania... State Takes Newborn Baby Over ...
      An organization that routinely deals with homeschooling issues across the U.S. and around the globe is taking on a case of parental rights because the circumstances – a social worker calling police over a newborn’s shots – is just too egregious to let pass. ~ Bob Unruh read more
  • Michigan... Totally Insane Government Plans t ...
      The state of Michigan is only days away from engaging in what can only be called true "animal genocide" -- the mass murder of ranch animals based on the color of their hair! ~ Mike Adams - (THIS IS A MUST READ FOR EVERY RANCHER AND FARMER... EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS ARTICLE... The a ...
  • RELOCATION DRILLS... Kids All Over America are ...
      All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to “alternate locations” during terror drills. These exercises are often called “evacuation drills” or “relocation drills” and they are more than a little disturbing. read more
  • Why Are Mercenaries Replacing Troops... In Iraq?
      Most U.S. troops may have left Iraq, but the occupation continues in ways that are far less transparent to the American people. An army of bureaucrats and mercenaries still occupies the Middle East country, despite claims from the White House that the Iraqis are free. ~ Audio read more
  • U.S. Military Being Replaced With Obama's Own ...
      TAX THE MILITARY... Obama’s plan to increase the cost of health care coverage to active duty and retired military personnel following of the November 2012 election, eventually leading to an increase in cost to them of 345%! The President has authorized those massive charges to ...

Tarpley

  • 9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops: An Evening o ...
    Monday, April 02, 2012 — 6:30pm to 8:30pm Tickets $15 — Buy Now! Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. International Spy Museum March 26, 2012 Briefing The truth may be out there, but when does the search for it turn into a wild goose chase? Canadian journalist and Visiting Fellow at the [...]
  • Can Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood Deliver o ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • How IMF-ECB Austerity is Destroying Greece, an ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio March 17, 2012 [download audio] Guest: Michael Chiotinis, blogger, Athens, Greece A first-person look at how IMF austerity is wrecking the Greek economy with a leading Greek blogger. Other topics include Hillary Clinton’s war ...
  • Egyptian Parliament Votes Anti-Israeli Resolut ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 13, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • To Avoid a Middle East Catastrophe, Support th ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 11, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A major US media cover up of an Israeli plot to assassinate a former congressman demonstrates the influence that Tel Aviv wields in the United States. In February, James Abourezk who represented South Dakota in t ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Ready Made Resources for your Survival
    We have some great sponsors who provide survival products on Modern Survival Blog, and I want to take this opportunity to point out one of them, Ready Made Resources, who have an abundance of survival preparedness gear and supplies. They are a down-to-earth company located in the Smoky Mountains ...
  • A Good Foundation: Your Feet, Socks and Boots
    Guest post: by ‘Tripod XL’ It’s seems really odd to me that people will devote significant resources to things that, in the end, do not contribute to their ability to exist as a functional human being. From reality shows that are anything but, to modes of dress or behaviors that will ...
  • You Are Being Followed
    Is there no privacy anymore? We are losing our rights as American citizens. Our computer activity is being monitored and Americans are being ‘felt’ before getting on an airplane. Now, as an American citizen, I am being followed. I realize that most people probably wouldn’t even ...
  • Four ‘Unique’ Survival Items
    Today I wanted to share with you a few ‘unique’ items that we have in our supplies. When it comes to prepping, everyone usually talks about having food. Plenty of food. And believe me, there is nothing wrong with that at all. In fact it is the first step in a prepping plan. However, ...
  • First Aid: How To Stop Bleeding
    The most common and most practical First Aid skill to know is ‘how to stop bleeding‘. Related to this is bandaging and the possibility of having to use a tourniquet. Bleeding usually looks worse than it really is. Having said that though, when a large blood vessel is cut or torn, the ...

Fast Company

  • 3 Ways That Google Is Searching To Secure Its ...
    Google is apparently poised to launch its own third-party Net commenting platform in direct response to  Facebook, which is increasingly being used as a commenting gateway on many sites. Meanwhile it's also moved to better promote its new consolidated app store "Play" and tie it to its soci ...
  • Desks, Where Creativity Goes To Die
    Along with many thousands of others, I attended SXSW this month. And while there, I learned some important lessons (other than “exercise patience while waiting in line, AGAIN,” and “don’t eat barbecue every meal for 5 days.”). These lessons came from the panels I attended, but they were not from ...
  • Productivity Tip From Google: Working On The Fly
    John Militello, head of creative innovation at Google, hates doing expenses. He gets around it by using his downtime wisely.[twistage fbb4756e3ed2a]For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at 30 Second MBA.
  • Fancy Hands' On-Call Army Of Personal Assistan ...
    You don't have to be a Hollywood mogul to have someone do mind-numbing tasks for you. Just ask Ted Roden. Three years ago, Ted Roden was sitting in a maternity ward with his wife and newborn baby when he came to a realization. Between his full-time job as a New York Times developer, the book he ...
  • The THNK Tank: Why Amsterdam Wants Your (Creat ...
    The city of Amsterdam, the Dutch government, and a host of private sponsors are funding an accelerator for "successful dropouts and Harvard alumni" from around the world. The goal? More talent in Amsterdam.Amsterdam is embarking on an ambitious experiment to attract foreign creatives: An invite- ...

Jadaliyya

  • هوامش سياسية على دفتر أزمة البنزين والسولار
      هامش أول ــ مصر ــ مارس ٢٠١٢: أزمة وقود لا يصاحبها مخطط إسقاط مصر. عادت أزمة النقص الحاد فى البنزين والسولار. وكانت مصر قد شهدت أزمة مماثلة قبل شهرين وتحديداً قبيل مظاهرات الاحتفال بالذكرى السنوية الأولى لثورة يناير، والتى تزامنت وقتها مع إعلان عسكري عن مخطط دولي "لإسقاط مص ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (March 27)
    This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jada ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (March 26)
    This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com ...
  • Threads of Narrating the Arab Spring
    “Narrating the Arab Spring,” Cairo University, 18-20 February 2012 Many of us have spoken and thought about those who we wished would have been present to witness—and perhaps participate in—the revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woma ...
  • الأزمة السورية والطريق المسدود
     1- تتفاقم الأزمة الوطنية في سورية منذ حوالي السنة، ولا تلوح، في المدى المنظور، بارقة أمل في الوصول الى حلّ لها. البلاد تعيش حالة أقرب ما تكون لحالة الحرب، بل أصعب مما كانت عليه أيام الحروب التي عرفتها في الماضي. فالجيش ينتشر على مساحة الوطن وفي المدن ويقيم الحواجز على الطرقات العام ...

mediagazer

  • Mobile and the news media's imploding business ...
    Michael Wolff / Guardian: Mobile and the news media's imploding business model  —  Smartphones will soon be the primary news source for most Americans.  That's if anyone can still make money by reporting  —  Pew research has a new survey showing that tablets ...
  • Bidding war for Smith book could hit $1M (Keit ...
    Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: Bidding war for Smith book could hit $1M  —  Former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith, who resigned this month via a scathing op-ed in the New York Times, has triggered a media bidding war for his memoir of life inside the belly of the Wall Stree ...
  • Thurlbeck: Phone-hacking was rife across Fleet ...
    Press Gazette: Thurlbeck: Phone-hacking was rife across Fleet Street  —  Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has said be believes phone-call interception - or “hacking” - was rife at every national newspaper in the 1980s and early 1990s.  T ...
  • Murdoch's News Ltd. Rejects TV Piracy Claim in ...
    Matt Siegel / New York Times: Murdoch's News Ltd. Rejects TV Piracy Claim in Australia  —  SYDNEY — Rupert Murdoch's embattled media empire found itself facing fresh controversy on Wednesday, after an Australian newspaper published an investigative report alleging that New ...
  • Have two more journalists been killed in Syria ...
    ArabSaga: Have two more journalists been killed in Syria?  —  Syrian security forces reportedly killed Monday two independent journalists of Algerian origin but holding British citizenship in Idlib province, where they were filming a documentary on the Syrian uprising.

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • PDD observing âEarth Hourâ on March 31 in ...
    Srinagar, March 27 (Scoop News) - J&K Power Development Department is observing a global event “Earth Hour” on March 31, 2012 in J&K State. The event is being run by WWF throughout the world inspiring Government business communities and individuals to tak ...
  • Research holds promise of therapeutic app ...
    The discovery could lead to the formulation of a mouth rinse, toothpaste or tooth varnish to prevent the pathogen from establishing itself orally. Donald Demuth, PhD, associate dean for research and enterprise, UofL School of Dentistry, received a patent today for his work to develop peptide ...
  • Philippines AirAsia holds Clark-Davao mai ...
    TOURISM in Davao Region got a major boost anew with the staging of the Clark-Davao inaugural flight by Philippines AirAsia today, Wednesday, and the ceremonial signing of the Clark-Davao sister airport agreement. The Davao City Chamber of...
  • At Seoul summit, Ban outlines steps to de ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) chats with the President of the Republic of Korea Lee Myung-bak at the opening day reception of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. UN/E. Debebe27 March 2012 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined five areas that deserve greater attention a ...
  • PDP for withdrawal of FIRs against 5,000 ...
    Jammu: PDP on Tuesday warned the Jammu and Kashmir government to withdraw cases registered against 5,000 youths for stone pelting during the 2010 summer unrest in Srinagar or else the...

no frakking consensus

  • Earth Hour: Corporations Preaching Morality
    When you dim your lights for Earth Hour, you're protesting in a manner approved by multinational corporations. You're allowing banks and insurance companies to tell you how to spend your Saturday night.
  • The Wealthy Corporations Behind Earth Hour
    Earth Hour was brought into this world by corporations. Fairfax Media Limited - whose newspapers, magazines, and radio stations are supposed to report impartially on environmental issues - owns one-third of this annual green event.
  • The Royal Society’s Blatherfest
    A Royal Society-hosted conference is being billed as a gathering of scientists. I guess that's why politicians, bureaucrats, musicians & political activists will be there in full force.
  • Canada’s Senate, David Suzuki & The Deli ...
    My book is discussed in the Canadian Senate - and the David Suzuki Foundation behaves like a rabid dog.
  • Fairy Tales on the Road to Rio
    Nine papers are being distributed by an upcoming save-the-world conference. They're explicitly intended to influence the behaviour of world leaders at the Rio summit in June. But the claim that they represent the latest scientific thinking is a gross distortion.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Pink Slime, Deconstructed
    See Arr Oh Well, if you come from the meat producers’ camp, you instead refer to “slime” as lean, finely-textured beef, or LFTB. Connective tissue, trimmings, and scraps from industrial butcher plants are mixed in a large steel reactor, where technicians heat the mixture to 100 oF, initiating ti ...
  • Brain drain
    Neuroscience wants to be the answer to everything. It isn’t ROGER SCRUTON There are many reasons for believing the brain is the seat of consciousness. Damage to the brain disrupts our mental processes; specific parts of the brain seem connected to specific mental capacities; and the nervous syst ...
  • Epigenetics
    For decades, our view of heredity has been written in the language of DNA — and genetic mutations and recombinations have driven most descriptions of how phenotypic traits are handed down from one generation to another. Yet, as is amply demonstrated in Science‘sspecial issue of 10 Au ...
  • Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny
    JOHN CLOUD The remote, snow-swept expanses of northern Sweden are an unlikely place to begin a story about cutting-edge genetic science. The kingdom’s northernmost county, Norrbotten, is nearly free of human life; an average of just six people live in each square mile. And yet this tiny po ...
  • Received wisdom
    Average IQ is falling in Britain and beyond, explains Philip Hunter PHILIP HUNTER Back when Britain was brainy: applicants for the Mensa exam gather at the Russell Hotel in 1961 Intelligence quotients (IQs) have risen in developed nations for almost a century. This phenomenon, named the “Flynn e ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • TNRA Goes LIVE on Logos Radio Network!
    Today we bring you our first live broadcast on Logos Radio Network. This will be a regular broadcast, and you can pick it up the live stream at Logos Radio every Thursday. The exact time of the 2 hour broadcast varies a little due to changing daylight saving time zones. Our next broadcast on 29 ...
  • Pay the TSA $100 protection money to avoid sca ...
    Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called "Precheck." It has special lanes for background-checke ...
  • Stop CSG Rally video report - Government fails ...
    Truth News covers the stop CSG Rally at Parliament House NSW, 15 March 2012. In the morning a motion was put to the NSW Upper House by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens – to place a moratorium on all coal seam gas (CSG) projects in the state, other than the Camden production field. It w ...
  • How Facebook is exterminating communities
    Ladies and gentlemen, I have been struggling (unsuccesfully) to get the new facebook timeline features to work in a reasonable way which suit the needs of this website, and I just want to let you all know that I've had enough! I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more! I've com ...
  • The CSG Exploration Permit that covers Sydney
    In 2008, the NSW government under Labor granted Dart Energy a Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL 463) to explore for CSG across 2400sqkm of the Sydney Basin - from Gosford on the Central Coast to Coalcliff south of Sydney. The first exploration well has been approved was for the inner city Sydne ...

Beacon

  • Deep-sea Coral Sickness Linked to Gulf Oil Spill
    Deep-sea corals. © NOAA Even more sad news from the Gulf of Mexico, but this time it runs a mile deep. A new study confirms that the oil that likely caused deepwater coral sickness indeed came from the largest accidental oil spill in history, the Deepwater Horizon. Back in June 2010, deep-s ...
  • Blowout Causes North Sea Gas Leak
    Gas has been leaking into the United Kingdom’s North Sea for three days, after an attempt to close an underwater oil well caused a blowout. Oil drilling accidents happen more often than you might think. Smaller spills and leaks don’t usually make the news, although they can still affect the loc ...
  • ‘To The Arctic’: Sneak Peek
    We’re excited to be a partner of “To the Arctic,” a new IMAX film by MacGillivray Freeman coming out April 20. The film, narrated by Meryl Streep, follows a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. Extraordinary footage b ...
  • Sick Dolphins in the Gulf
    © Oceana/Jesus Renedo Sad news from the Gulf of Mexico: At least 32 dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, one of the hardest hit spots by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have been given physicals and are reported as severely ill according to NOAA officials. The dolphins are reporting a rang ...
  • Bill O'Reilly Preaches Conservation to Lower G ...
    With gas prices on the rise, the blame game is in full swing. Some in the media and in the government are saying increased drilling will lower gas prices. It turns out this isn’t the first time we have heard this argument, and liberals and conservatives alike agree that it is just not true. But ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Phil Warren’s Amazing Matchstick Fleet.
      He’s almost 80 years old now. Yet he has pursued an odd artistic proclivity. He builds 1:13000 model ships entirely out of matchsticks and wooden boxes. In fact, he has assembled a fleet of 432 ships and 12000 aircraft. This Octogenarian Brit uses a razor blade, glue, matchsticks, tweezer ...
  • The Lockheed X-7. The Flying Stove Pipe.
        In 1951 Lockheed built this ramjet test bed for the United States Air Force. The X-7, or Flying Stove Pipe was launched from the bottom of a B-50 or a B-29. The Rocket assist slung under the thin and long fuselage was ignited and that propelled the jet to about Mach 1.5, feeding [...]
  • Letter From A Former Slave To His Former Owner.
    This rediscovered letter is an answer to an offer. The author is former slave Jourdan Anderson. The offer was his former master inviting him to return ro the plantation only to be treated well this time. The thing about the letter is that it is written so well, with such nuance and sarcasm you c ...
  • US Naval Gun Fire Photos.
              Source: Dark Roast Blend
  • Be Careful When Bragging.

Taylor Marsh

  • Virginians Give Republican War on Women a Big ...
    Voters say 72 – 21 percent that government should not make laws which try to convince women seeking an abortion to change their minds. – Quinnipiac As if things couldn’t get any worse for Gov. Bob McDonnell, who’s hoping Mitt Romney isn’t paying attention to how bad ...
  • Queer Talk: NOM’s Strategy Exposed, ‘Drive a W ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Yesterday, March 26, a story broke regarding the strategies used by the National Organization for Marriage. For those who have followed NOM, I don’t think the information is surprising, but when you have an organizati ...
  • CNN’s Toobin: ‘This Was a Train Wreck for the ...
    “This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. I’m telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong.” – Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst The individua ...
  • Dominque Strauss-Kahn Under Investigation for ...
    The sex allegations pile up for the man who could have been president. Oh, the irony. Anne Sinclair, the managing editor of Le Huffington Post, as well as the wife of disgraced ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, asks this question today on Huffington Post’s front ...
  • Trayvon Martin Case Shifts to Confusion and Ac ...
    “They killed my son, now they’re trying to kill his reputation.” – Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sabina Fuller Somebody is trying awfully hard to make 17 year-old Trayvon Martin look like a bad kid. Yesterday, information was released about Martin and marijuana, which led to a school susp ...

Hudson New York

  • Olmert's "Peace Partner" Cannot Deliver and Ha ...
    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted this week that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a "partner for peace." "No one can say to me after hundreds of hours of discussing peace with Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President
  • Turkey Pushes Syrian Dissidents For Unity
    Ankara believes a meeting of Syrian dissidents Tuesya in Istanbul could become a watershed in the Syrian crisis if the divided opposition can unite to create a common vision for a new government, according to a Turkish official. "If they agree on a
  • Europe In Denial Yet Again
    It is a familiar pattern. Whenever a terrorist commits an atrocity, his apologists start blaming society or, even worse, the victims. Hence, it was not surprising that after Mohamed Merah, a French jihadist of Algerian descent, killed a rabbi and three
  • Tunisian Salafists: Who Are They?
    In the following interview, Samir Amghar, a specialist of Islamist movements, states that the ruling Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda and the Tunisian Salafists groups are complementary, with "a sort of implicit division of the political work, between the
  • Arab Spring Mugged by Reality
    In a speech in Istanbul on March 18. 2012, Khaled Meshal, leader of Hamas, heralded the Arab spring as a milestone in the history of Muslims. He saw it, he said, as a fight against corruption, as aimed at honor, in favor of freedom, reform and democracy,

Urban Survival

  • Fresh Housing Data: Continued Weakness
    Hot off the .PDF maker is the new Case Shiller/S&P Housing report: “New York, March 27, 2012 – Data through January 2012, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Mr. Ure’s Junk Food Diet
    We had some dandy emails come in from Monday’s column, which may be attributed to me being in top form since we are about one month from starting one of our “Half Across America” trips, which will take us from … Continue reading →
  • Food-Training North Korea
    A very interesting story has popped up over the weekend.  Seems North Korea is planning to launch a satellite in coming weeks, and this comes on the heels of a food program ironed out with a promise by the NK’s … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Monday at the WuJo
    Say, here’s a nice little mind-bender to start the week off on a shaky track: “George, Last night I was looking at polymers to encourage soil water retention. i found several other articles. One was about getting deserts to regrow … Continue reading →
  • Blind Eye of Justice
    Several readers have send in emails pointing out how there may be something of a double-standard in American military justice staring us in the face which is not being given voice in the MainStreamMedia (MSM) which is off running some … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • 10 technologies can make oil and gas industry ...
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York NRDC today released a new report titled “Leaking Profits: How the U.S. oil and gas industry can reduce pollution, conserve resources, and make money by preventing methane waste” ...
  • Why Would the Illinois General Assembly Want t ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois It is official. Chicago is in the grips of the highest gas prices in its history.  With that reality firmly shoved up our noses, you’d think that lawmakers would do everyt ...
  • Report shows EPA can strengthen oil & gas rule ...
    Meleah Geertsma, Attorney, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. We all know that improving our homes’ insulation and fixing leaky windows and doors can help us save money and the environment, with many investments in home energy eff ...
  • Big Oil gushes big lies to keep socking it to ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Big oil will say anything, spend anything, to protect its profits and government subsidies.  By spending millions of dollars on ad campaign to defend its government subsidies, the oi ...
  • EPA's New Power Plant Rule - How Does It Affec ...
    George Peridas, Scientist, Climate Center – San Francisco Today EPA proposed its Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants. The proposal sets a performance standard that new plants will need to meet. Existing coal-fired generation accounts for ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 26, 2012: Kennett Square PA cop sentenced to 12.5-25yrs prison in plea deal for raping 4 young girls for several years [0] http://bit.ly/GTFc79 Rockaway Beach OR cop gets proba ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-24 ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 24-25, 2012: 2 Niles MI cops are accused of using excessive force on a man who was distraught when paramedics wouldn’t let him ride with them while they took his mothe ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 23, 2012: Huntington Beach CA sued alleging cops entered home w/o warrant, groped a woman while searching under her skirt, then used excessive force while falsely arresting two ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, March 22, 2012: 2 Kern Co CA deputies under investigation after alleged excessive force incident caught on helicopter video that left a man with serious leg injuries. ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct that we were able to track so far for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20-21, 2012: Los Angeles CA loses $3.2mil judgment to family of man beaten to death by cops who then dragged him into station [0] http://lat.ms/GDXw0Y Philadelphia PA settles suit for ...

Total Collapse

  • UK queen accused of drug trafficking
    Britain’s financial regulator has fined the British queen’s bank for money laundering failures as a French presidential candidate has said part of the queen’s fortune “comes from drug trafficking.” The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the British queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 milli ...
  • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
    An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...
  • U.N. Policy Paper Outlines 7 Building Blocks f ...
    The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sus ...
  • Global water war threat by 2030 – US intelligence
    Nations will cut off rivers to prevent their enemies having access to water downstream, terrorists will blow up dams, and states that cannot provide water for their citizens will collapse. This is the future – as painted by a top US security report. The Office of the Director of National I ...
  • Sustainability in Perspective
    “There are only two options: Humanity’s leaders take responsibility to manage evolution in a sustainable manner, or the failures and systemic fissures will crush mankind and the planet will degenerate until humanity chokes from no air.” All the following systems of societies are in a complex int ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Worley base case baseless but coal seam gas st ...
    A new WorleyParsons report states that gas plants can have higher emissions than even the worst coal plants, but under-estimates the problem by relying on misleading assumptions. Understating the true level of coal seam gas (CSG) emissions will lead to massive gas fields being approved erroneous ...
  • Feature: Learning from Spain’s HSR success
    Australia has much to learn from the success of Spain’s Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) high-speed rail network, writes Matthew Wright, executive director, Beyond Zero Emissions. The Spanish know how to get around in style and at speed. The country can boast it has the most comfortable, fa ...
  • RenewEconomy: South Australia’s big win with wind
    Wind Power in South Australia has been a howling success; it now provides more electricity in the state than coal and in just a decade the wind industry has developed into one of the world’s leaders – and all to the benefit of South Australians. Back in 1998 when the National Electricity Market ...
  • BZE submission to the Draft Energy White Paper ...
    To download the submission click here. Introduction: Australia must rapidly decarbonise its economy if it is to play a constructive role in global efforts to address the climate change challenge. Present atmospheric levels of CO2 are at 390ppm1 and must be brought down to 350ppm to stay within t ...
  • BZE submission to the Victorian Feed-in Tariff ...
    To download the submission click here. (Please note: the file sometimes has trouble loading in Firefox, if it doesn't work please try pasting the link into the Chrome browser) Overview: Beyond Zero Emissions recognises the importance and efficacy of Feed in Tariffs and distributed renewable gen ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • NASA image shows decline in maximum sea ice extent
    Data released by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that Arctic sea ice for the winter of 2011-2012 reached its maximum extent on March 18 at 15.24 million square kilometers (5.88 million square miles). The mark is well below the 1979–2000 average, but was above the record ...
  • Photos: the aye-aye of frogs rediscovered afte ...
    A pair of researchers have rediscovered a long-lost frog in the tiny African country of Burundi. Known as the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila), the species hadn't been seen for over 60 years—since the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949—but was re ...
  • Humans killed off magnificent Australian megaf ...
    The theory that humans, and not climate change, was primarily responsible for the extinction of giant marsupials in prehistoric Australia takes another step forward with a new study in Science. Exploring sediment cores for past evidence of big herbivores, researchers found that the arrival of hu ...
  • Hidden animals and new species: over 100 years ...
    Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...
  • Over 5,000 vital biodiversity sites remain unp ...
    A recent study has found that half of the world's Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites remain unprotected, leaving many endangered species, some on the verge of extinction, gravely vulnerable to habitat loss. Published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, the ...

Sierra Express

  • Government should make the Adeliza Showers rep ...
    We are heartened to say that the government’s continued silence on the Adeliza Showers report on the MAPPA/HANCI adoptions issue for which the commission of inquiry was commissioned should be made public. The report was to be processed three months ago and has attracted furious attention of the ...
  • Koidu Holdings boosts education in Tankoro
    Koidu Holdings on Saturday 24th March, 2012 handed over a newly constructed school building to the United Methodist Junior Secondary School at Kimbadu Town.  The program was chaired by Hon. Minister of Political Affairs Alhaji Alpha Kanu.  (Photo: United Methodist Junior Secondary School childre ...
  • Hon Chericoco commissions three dams at Consti ...
    The Honorable Member of Parliament for Constituency 110 Hon. Chernor Maju Bah has commissioned three mini water dams at Yazbeck, back of Hill Station over the weekend. Speaking at the handing over ceremony, Hon Chericoco said he was happy to see smiles on people’s faces. He said he constructed t ...
  • Notice of vacant position – Admin/Personal Ass ...
    African Minerals (SL) Ltd is inviting applications from interested candidates for the position of ADMIN/PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO GENERAL MANAGER MINES This position is open to qualified Sierra Leoneans, and qualified women are especially encouraged to apply. The deadline for all applications is Fri ...
  • JS Keifala “We’re hand in glove with the Minister”
    Acting President of the Sierra Leone Football Association, Mr. Joseph Samba Keifala has told Sierra Express Media Sports that the entire members of the Sierra Leone Football Association have ironed out their differences with the Minister of Youth and Sport, Hon. Paul Kamara. JS Keifala made this ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Milk price bill goes to Parliament
    Legislation aiming to keep milk prices in check has been introduced to Parliament.Primary Industries Minister David Carter today tabled the Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill, which includes proposals to oversee Fonterra's farm gate...
  • Clinton Beuvink: Better to act than cry over p ...
    I am a New Zealander and I feel a strong association with milk. As a child I grew up with milk always being in the fridge.My first job was as a milk delivery boy. From memory milk was 20c a bottle. I got a special HT licence to...
  • White fright as dairy prices fall again at auction
    International dairy prices fell again in Fonterra's online auction, just a week after the dairy giant sliced about $200 million off its forecast payout to farmers.The average price for a basket of products in Fonterra's latest online...
  • World dairy prices fall 4.5pc, biggest drop in ...
    Prices of dairy products fell by the most in eight months on Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform amid concern demand for commodities may be slowing with China's growth outlook.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 4.5 per cent...
  • School milk making a comeback in a carton
    Newly appointed "milk monitors" will help to distribute a carton of free, chilled milk to all pupils at Northland's Manaia View School this morning, in the rebirth of an iconic nutrition scheme.The school, in a low-income area of...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Ronald Bailey on Atheists and Rapists
    This past weekend at the Rally for Reason, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and other assorted godless folks had themselves something of a "coming out" party on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The relatively young crowd of 20,000 or so nonbelievers was treated to talks, rants, ...
  • Kennedy and Roberts Raise Powerful Objections ...
    Washington, D.C.—I walked into the U.S. Supreme Court early Tuesday morning expecting a knock-down, drag-out constitutional showdown over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, which requires all Americans to buy or secure health insurance. I did not leav ...
  • ABC News: Lead Homicide Investigator Did Not B ...
    ABC News has more details about George Zimmerman's description of the fight that ended with Trayvon Martin's death. Zimmerman reportedly told police "he was heading back to his truck when Martin knocked him down with a punch to his nose, jumped on him, repeatedly banged his head on ...
  • Activists Would Like the Feds to Pay a Call to ...
    The Albuquerque police department has been involved in 23 shootings since January 2010, with 18 of those leading to dead suspects. That fact, plus the recent discovery that the police department has a policy of paying several hundred dollars to officers involved in shootings, is ...
  • Another "Domestic Terror" Failure: Hutaree Mil ...
    Detroit News reports: A federal judge acquitted seven members of the Hutaree militia Tuesday of the most serious charges following six weeks of testimony in a high-profile terror case. On the second anniversary of the Hutaree arrests, U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts grant ...

Mercury Rising

  • Voter ID? How About ALEC ID? HF 2972 Would Shi ...
    Hat tip to Sally Jo Sorensen for passing this on: Representative Phyllis Kahn has thrown HF2972 into the hopper, a bill to require legislative meetings: to be open to the public; model legislation lobbyists and principals, and scholarship fund principals and public officials requirements added; ...
  • Dear GlaxoSmithKline: Is Trayvon’s Death ...
    Yeah, yeah, I know, you’re only in it for the deregulation and stuff. But when you sign up with the American Legislative Exchange Council — which was founded by raging Fundie Paul Weyrich and has the John-Birch-Society Kochs among its key backers — you’re not just support ...
  • Nobody could have predicted
    Peter Fonocchiario, HuffPo In a bizarre turn of events, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell interviewed an empty chair on his program Monday night, after scheduled guest Craig Sonner reportedly fled from an MSNBC studio in Orlando just moments before the show began. Sonner represents George Z ...
  • Why I think the market is overvalued (and more ...
    The main reason is that the current price is above the long-term trend. This is the S&P post-war, drawn on a logarithmic scale to reflect the fact that growth compounds over time. The black line is drawn by eye. It shows the S&P going from 21 in 1951 to an predicted 1250 this year (it&#8 ...
  • The NewsCorpse Hits Just Keep on Coming
    A subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is accused of hacking rival firm ITV Digital in order to sabotage its business. ITV Digital folded in 2002, in large part because digital piracy cut into its business — piracy allegedly made possible by a hacker hired by NewsCorp to s ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week on Evolver Planet Radio
    Evolver Planet Radio, where world-changing ideas come together:  this weekly show talks about the shift in consciousness, models and practices for change, experiences with spiritual awakening and how the practical can create the ideal. Evolver Planet Radio is the perfect frequency at which to tr ...
  • You Say You Want an Evolution
    When you support the Evolver Social Movement (E+SM), you play an integral role in accelerating a planetary transformation by spreading a new awareness of our collective, creative potential. E+SM provides a voluntary infrastructure for 40+ local communities around the world who come together in l ...
  • Natural Science and the Mystical Worldview
      The following is excerpted from Entheogens and the Future of Religion, edited by Robert Forte and published by Inner Traditions. read more
  • This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech includes Dr. James S Gates in an NPR interview, Rachel Marone talking about biohacking, the art of video games, Occupy vs iris scans, cyberspy bases, and planets moving at the speed of light. read more
  • E+SM Goes Nonprofit
    Good news, Evolvers.  At your request, we have hurtled over the bureaucratic gatekeepers to make the Evolver Social Movement (E+SM) a nonprofit initiative!  Our new status means that monthly or one-time contributions you make to E+SM can now be tax deductible. read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Discredited economics and the revered economist
    In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 there was much talk from within and without the economics profession about what went wrong.  Many on the outside of the profession viewed the crisis as the result of the slavish … Continue reading →
  • As Harper Prepares Attack Ads To Paint The NDP ...
    Unfortunately there are no 'truth in advertising' regulations when it comes to political attack ads. As I post this, Stephen Harper's propaganda-meisters are preparing TV ads that are going to carry the theme of 'NDP fiscal irresponsibility'. 'New Brunswick delivers spring budget, forecasting ...
  • I can’t spell: the phonetic problem with homonyms
    I can’t, and it has gotten worse.  Sure I used to get my i’s and e’s backwards frequently but the difference between there and their or lose and loose almost never.  It is now a pathological subterfuge on my part.  … Continue reading →
  • Children and politics
    My local PC MLA, Dave Hancock, extensively features the pictures of children in his print materials (to be fair, he has no pictures at all on his website). It is true that Mr. Hancock is the Minister of Human Services (apparently, the other services this government provides are not human...), wh ...
  • Best wishes to the new leader of the NDP
    On behalf of the Edmonton-Leduc NDP riding association, I would like to wish the newly elected Leader of the Official Opposition, Thomas Mulcair, success in bringing the party's work within and outside the House of Commons to a new level as Canada's social democrats confront Stephen Harper's aus ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Assad tours city hardest-hit by unrest
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has visited the Baba Amr neighborhood in the city of Homs, the epicenter of confrontations between government forces and armed gangs in the nearly one-year-old unrest in the country, Press TV reports.
  • Russia boycotts 2nd Friends of Syria
    Russia has announced that it will not attend the second “Friends of Syria” conference which will be held in Turkey on April 1.
  • US activists to boycott Israeli products
    Anti-Israeli activists in Brooklyn, New York City, are holding votes on a proposal to boycott Israeli-made products in a bid to put pressure on Israeli regime to cease violations of Palestinians’ rights.
  • ‘Syrian rebels behead army soldiers’
    Syrian rebels have formed their own laws, courts and death squads in Baba Amr neighborhood in the restive city of Homs and beheaded the captured army soldiers, a report has revealed.
  • Turkish party warns of plot against Syria
    A senior Turkish politician has warned that Turkey’s move against Syria could pave the way for disintegration of Syria with establishment of a Kurdish autonomous region in the country, Press TVreports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Left Takes ObamaCare To Court – Supreme Court
    The struggle over the Affordable Care Act (aka, Obamacare) is facilely cast as a battle between Left and Right. Nothing could be farther from the truth. A tussle between the dominant factions of the Democratic and Republican Parties it certainly is in a superficial and temporary way, until the k ...
  • Frederick Engels on Dühringian vs. Marxian Soc ...
    In this penultimate chapter of Anti-Dühring Engels takes on Dühring’s notions of how the social product will be distributed under his “socialitarian” system: Anti-Dühring, Part Three, Chapter IV. The first thing to recall from the previous discussion on “production” ...
  • The “Crisis of Incompatibility” in Afghanistan
    “Familiarity,” wrote St. Augustine, citing a common saying of his time, “breeds contempt.” This is not always the case of course; sometimes familiarity brings admiration, even affection. But when two very different parties are forced upon one another — especially if one is occupier and the ...
  • The North American Leaders Summit and Reviving ...
    With the demise of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the U.S. has essentially put Canada and Mexico on separate tracks. It has pursued dual-bilateralism with both its NAFTA partners as the primary means of advancing continental integration with regards to trade, regulatory and security in ...
  • Poverty in a Small Town
    The Vermont Council on Rural Development recently held community wide meetings to explore ways of improving life in small town Bennington.  Most of the focus is usually on economic development. This time there was also a meeting focused on the issue of poverty.  Meetings such as this are held ev ...

Destructionist

  • Understanding ‘The Change’
    Four years ago, Americans slipped further into an intellectual coma, helplessly sold on a blank canvas, a political avatar whereby people could project their false hopes for a nation stuggling to maintain its relevant place in a rapidly changing world. This recent short film presentation - fe ...
  • Understanding ‘The Change’
    Four years ago, Americans slipped further into an intellectual coma, helplessly sold on a blank canvas, a political avatar whereby people could project their false hopes for a nation stuggling to maintain its relevant place in a rapidly changing world. This recent short film presentation - fe ...
  • Tokyo Soil: Blanketed with Fukushima Radiation ...
    Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen took 5 random soil samples in Tokyo recently, and found that all 5 were so radioactive that they would be considered radioactive waste in the United States, which would have to be specially disposed of at a facility in Texas:
  • Tokyo Soil: Blanketed with Fukushima Radiation ...
    Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen took 5 random soil samples in Tokyo recently, and found that all 5 were so radioactive that they would be considered radioactive waste in the United States, which would have to be specially disposed of at a facility in Texas:
  • Man Arrested, Charged With Assault For Pointin ...
    David Loveless, who has no criminal record, was arrested and handcuffed last week after he allegedly made a hand gesture at police who had testified against his son in a robbery case. He now faces two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer by way of intimidation and two counts of obst ...

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The Green Elite: The Top 10 States forRenewable Power
The Atlantic
By Jordan Weissmann Nationwide,renewable electricity makes up a tiny share of the economy. But one state generates a whopping 84 percent of its power from green sources. When you step back and look at the country as a whole, the United States only ...
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Renewable waste management markets set for growth
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
By Louisa Spiteri | 2012-03-28 11:30:00.0 London, United Kingdom, 5 March 2012 –Renewable Waste Management industry leaders including Ros Roca and Waste Management have positively talked about the opportunities offered by renewable waste.
French Reactor Halts May Triple RenewablesSpending, BNEF Says
Bloomberg
France will need to almost triple investment in renewable energy if the nation's oldest nuclear reactors are phased out, said Manon Dufour, an analyst in London at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, whose lead over ...
Falling renewable energy costs an opportunity for Africa
Creamer Media's Engineering News
The capital investment costs associated with the deployment of renewable energy technologies were decreasing, creating a material new opportunity for Africa, delegates to this week's Clean Technology World Africa conference in Johannesburg heard.
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HUMAN HABITAT

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Alabama Government Officials Praise GlobalEcology for Creating New Jobs at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTCLAIR, NJ, Mar 28, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- GlobalEcology Corporation (otcqb:GLEC) (pinksheets:GLEC) has received the warm endorsement of city, state and county officials for its investment in a new soil amendment business in Castleberry ...
Ecology works to improve safety of underground storage tanks
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department ofEcology (Ecology) currently is seeking public comments on proposed changes to the state's rule for preventing leaks from underground storage tanks. The Legislature has directedEcology to revise the current rule ...
Ecology Department, Stevens County authorities, monitoring sewage spill in ...
Access Washington
Washington Department of Ecology, Stevens County Sheriff's Office and the Northeast Tri-County Health District in Colville are monitoring the response progress, along with emergency response staff from the British Columbia Ministry of Environment.
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Study: Birds adjusting slowly to climate change
Boston.com
Frank La Sorte, a post-doctoral researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, was lead author of the study published online this month by the Journal of Animal Ecology. He said animals adjust to rising minimum winter temperatures by shifting ...
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Rampant water "pillage" is sucking Yemen dry
Reuters
By Joseph Logan | SANAA (Reuters) - With a belch of acrid, greasy smoke and a jolt that shakes its moorings, the pump on Yemeniwater farmer Jad al-Adhrani's plot of land roars to life, and the race to squeeze the last drop of water out of Yemen's ...
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Boating tragedy recounted: 'Kiss them babies for me'
msnbc.com
HOUSTON — For hours after their boat sank, Ken Henderson and Ed Coen treaded water in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about life and death while struggling to survive. For more than 30 hours, it worked. Then Henderson was forced to make a decision that ...
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Waterborne disease outbreak is traced to Duluth water park
Duluth News Tribune
The Edgewater Resort and Water Park closed Monday after three confirmed cases of diarrheal disease. Guests fill the pools andwater attractions at the Edge Waterpark in Duluth on Tuesday afternoon. ZMC voluntarily shut down the water complex Monday ...
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