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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

28 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Women Lead Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh
    Kalpana Rani Pal's pottery business is modest by any yardstick but it is small enterprises like these that are helping reduce poverty levels in Bangladesh.
  • The Forgotten Emergency in Sudan's Blue Nile State
    Hamid Yussef Bashir said he walked for 17 days with his wife and five children to get to a refugee camp in South Sudan. Here in Jamam, they joined about 37,000 other people who fled from the war across the border in Sudan's Blue Nile state.
  • Learning Lessons From the Khmer Rouge
    For four years, Wan Preung toiled in the fields under the Khmer Rouge, unable to speak his mind. But after the regime fell in 1979, there was still one sensitive subject the teacher could seldom broach with his students: the Khmer Rouge.
  • Former War Zone Produces Plenty
    Most things in Sri Lanka are becoming expensive these days. In early February fuel prices were increased by margins ranging from eight to 49 percent, with the all-important diesel, used widely in commercial transport and power generation, going up by 36 percent. The Sri Lankan rupee that w ...
  • Pope Strikes Moderate Tone in Cuba
    On his three-day visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI has so far struck a moderate tone, although he called on Catholics in this country to fight with the "weapons" of peace and understanding for an "open, renewed society."

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Sanctions Make War More Likely
    Summary: Seeking to sanction a country into capitulation is not a new strategy. It's a proven failed strategy. In the ten past cases where broad sanctions of the kind imposed on Iran were used, only once did the sanctioned country capitulate (in that case, surrender its nuclear program and tr ...
  • Is IAEA Greasing Skids to Iran War?
    Summary: The US press corps has embraced the integrity of the International Atomic Energy Agency as central to the case for bombing Iran. But WikiLeaks documents revealed how the IAEA’s new leader is a pawn of the West, and Gareth Porter explains at Inter Press Service how the IAEA has escala ...
  • Iran sanctions cause new oil shock
    Summary: US President Barack Obama conceded on Friday that tensions over Iran were "adding a US$20 (RM62) or US$30 premium to oil prices", which are up some 20 per cent since December. source: New Straits Timesread more
  • Bomb Iran and it will surely decide to pursue ...
    Summary: If Israel's 1981 bombing of Iraqi nuclear facilities teaches us anything, it's that the quickest way to help the Iranians make up their minds is to attack them source: The Guardian read more
  • Iran Sanctions: A Silent War?
    Summary: Panel Members: - Peter Jenkins: Former British Ambassador to the IAEA - Lord David Hannay: Baron of Chiswick, Former British Ambassador to United Nations - Abbas Edalat: Founder and Head of Campaign Against Sanctions and military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - Paul Ingram (c ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Comets Bombarding Early Earth Delivered the A ...
    Jennifer G. Blank, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at the NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., set out to check whether amino acids could remain intact after a comet's descent through Earth's atmosphere. Previous analyses...
  • Mars' Vast Fields of Volcanic Glass
    The surface of Mars exhibits numerous lava flows and other signs of effusive volcanism. Although models suggest that explosive volcanism should also have produced extensive deposits, direct evidence for large-scale explosive volcanism on Mars has been scarce. A new study...
  • EcoAlert: Grand Canyon Under Siege from Mining
    Under pressure from mining interests, Members of Congress have introduced H.R. 3155, a bill that would overturn federal conservation efforts on publicly owned lands adjacent to the Canyon. And more recently, the National Mining Association and the Nuclear Energy Institute...
  • Oldest Alien Planets Discovered to Date—Born a ...
    Two huge Jupiter-sized planets found orbiting a star 375 light-years away, that will soon transform into a red giant (image above), are the oldest alien worlds yet discovered, reported scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. "The...
  • NewsFlash: Mars 'Curiosity' Spacecraft Adjusts ...
    NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path today for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the base of Mars' Gale Crater in August.Tests completed aboard Curiosity last week confirmed all's well with science instruments...

Natural News

  • FDA to approve obesity drug with significant s ...
    After first denying approval for the obesity drug Qnexa (phentermine and topiramate) back in 2010 because of its harrowing side effects, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now under intense pressure by Big Pharma-backed lawmakers, institutionalized drug pushers...
  • Bogus vitamin E study used single-form, synthe ...
    The Big Pharma-backed pseudoscience brigade is at it again trying to malign natural vitamins as if they were dangerous pharmaceuticals. A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine claims that taking vitamin E is linked to causing bone loss in mice, but fails...
  • Event announcement - Alive New York 2012 to be ...
    This June, the world's largest natural health awards show and fundraiser is slated to take place, featuring celebrity health gurus, alternative doctors, supplement experts and more. From June 29-30, 2012 at The Town Hall in New York City, the cream of the crop in the...
  • Procter & Gamble steeped in cruel animal testi ...
    Procter & Gamble (P&G), the corporate conglomerate which recently bought out organic supplement and vitamin company New Chapter (http://www.naturalnews.com), has a long and extensive history of engaging in cruel animal testing on its portfolio of products. And according...
  • Hep-B shots for infants are crimes against new ...
    Hepatitis-B is a viral attack on the liver that is transmitted through sex, shared hypodermic needles, and iatrogenic (medical) exposure. It's a bodily fluid transmitted virus that often occurs among those engaging in "risky behavior." The Hep-B vaccination (HBV)...

Threat Level

  • How Forensics Claims Facebook Ownership Contra ...
    Backed by forensics, Facebook is asking a federal judge Monday to dismiss a long-running lawsuit brought by entrepreneur Paul Ceglia, who claims he owns half of the social-networking site. Here is Wired's examination of the forensics report submitted to a federal judge presiding over the legal flap.
  • FBI Says CitiBank Gave Paul Allen’s Debit Card ...
    An alleged Army deserter is being charged with bank fraud in connection to the socially engineered hijacking of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's debit card. In a complaint unsealed Monday, federal authorities allege Brandon Price, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obtained the billionaire's debit ca ...
  • NSA Chief: Agency Wants to Provide Malware Sig ...
    The NSA continued to downplay its role in the cyber defense of private networks when Gen. Keith Alexander told a Senate committee that his agency absolutely did not want to be in private networks monitoring data for threats. Instead, he said the NSA should only play a role in providing malware s ...
  • FTC Tells Net: Agree to Stop Invading Privacy ...
    The FTC wants the online world to pledge to start respecting user privacy, which would give the agency a way to crack down on rogue apps, search engines and advertisers. But it stops short of issuing strong rules or calling for legislation, betting yet again on self-regulation.
  • Ahead of IPO, Facebook Demands Dismissal of Ow ...
    Facebook demanded a federal judge Monday dismiss an “extortionate” lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia, an entrepreneur with a shady past who is claiming half ownership of the social-networking service.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney's Number One Enemies List is a Long One
    On Monday, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney blasted President Obama's open mic comment to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he'll have more "flexibility" to deal with issues like missile defense after the November election. Predictably, a "disturbed" Romney denounced Obama's remark as "alarming ...
  • Mitt Romney, Cowardly Lyin'
    That Mitt Romney will lie about anything - no matter how major or mundane - is virtually taken for granted by the press and the public alike. Steve Benen has created a cottage industry cataloguing Romney's lies, an encyclopedic task now up to Volume XI. As Jonathan Chait explained, there's eve ...
  • Ryancare and Obamacare Both Require Individual ...
    As the Supreme Court this week begins to consider the fate of the two-year old Affordable Care Act (ACA), ironies abound. For starters, while health care is worst in Republican red states, its improvement will be underwritten by blue state taxpayers. The virtually identical law in Massachusett ...
  • Health Care is Worst Where Republicans Poll Best
    This week, GOP White House frontrunner Mitt Romney marked the two year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act by declaring the reform law the "national nightmare" he "always predicted." But leaving aside for the moment that Romney repeatedly touted his virtually identical Massachusetts law as a ...
  • Rove's Failed Rewrite: Bush, Romney Opposed Bi ...
    This week, Karl Rove took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal in the feeble attempt to undermine of one of President Obama's signature achievements, the killing of Osama Bin Laden. "Mr. Obama did," Rove sniffed, "what virtually any commander in chief would have done in the same situation." ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • How to Lose Friends yet Influence Elections
    The next edition of this board game hopefully won’t have that card included… More on Citizens United and Super PACs From HuffPo: Citizens United and Contributions to Super PACs: A Little History Is in Order From Salon: The hard truth about Citizens United From Open Secrets: [...] ...
  • Cancer Treatment Breakthrough: A Single Antibo ...
      A biomedical research team at Stanford University School of Medicine reported yesterday the results of mouse  experiments using an antibody molecule to treat various types of tumorous cancer cells — with results showing significant tumor shrinkage and slowed tumor growth in all can ...
  • In Germany, Rooftop & Community Solar is Power ...
      Renewable energy (and especially solar) policies of the last decade or so have turned cloudy, northerly Germany into a country rich in solar power… literally. Millions of individuals benefit from rooftop solar and community-owned solar. Solar is bringing down the price of electrici ...
  • Cheap Solar Energy Threatening Fossil Fuel & N ...
      Yep, times have changed. Aggressive renewable energy (especially solar) policies have made rooftop solar power more competitive than fossil fuels or nuclear energy in Germany. And that has the fossil fuel and nuclear industry pulling all the strings they can to try to kill this democrati ...
  • Obama: Time to End Oil Subsidies
      Obama has been railing on the nonsensical subsidizing of oil companies in every speech I’ve seen or read from the past month or so — that would make about half a dozen. It’s common sense — oil companies getting $4 billion a year in energy subsidies while making r ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Jeffrey Feltman, The Ambassador of Vitriol - L ...
    Feltman Pledges Hezbollah Defeat in 2013 Parliamentary Campaign    One fellow who works at the Beirut US Embassy tells the story of how, each year around the time of the vernal equinox, since 2005 when Jeffrey Feltman became the American Ambassador (given Jeff’s domination of US Mi ...
  • The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Co ...
    The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices of a colonial army engaged in a prolonged (eleven-year) occupation and the character of an imperial state as it commi ...
  • 50 Ways to Leave Your Leader: The answer is ea ...
    (with a nod to Paul Simon) 1. out the back, Jack - Get off the grid. Find ways big or small to lessen dependency, e.g., use low energy mercury-free bulbs or light a candle in the evening instead of using electric lights; cut back on air conditioner usage by using...
  • Dick Cheney undergoes heart transplant - World ...
    Former vice-president Dick Cheney had a heart transplant on Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital, his office has said. An aide to Cheney disclosed that the 71-year-old, who has had a long history of cardiovascular trouble including numerous heart attacks, had been waiting for ...
  • Sarkozy: Jail those who browse terror websites ...
    Editor's Note: This "news" article only adds additional evidence that Sarkozy is an idiot and psychopath. We've seen that in his thirst for civilian blood and ultimately for the murder of Col. Muammar Qaddafi in the October, 2011 war in Libya. In this case, Sarkozy would arrest and imprison anyo ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Biko"
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by 25million on Sep 7, 2006 The final date of the 1986 Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope Tour. This was the set closer, an emotional version of Biko. Great Protest Songs writes of this Peter Gabriel song: Political songs are rarely more powerful than this. Release ...
  • Picture, thousand words, yadda yadda...
    By @BGinKC
  • Why Newspapers Are Dying - Part 8,692
    By @KYYellowDog The corporations that own then are suicidally ignorant of how journalism is supposed to work. Brad Friedman Out of scores of journalists who work for the Gannett Wisconsin Media-owned Green Bay Press-Gazette, just seven were willing to offer their personal, non-business related s ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BG & @YD We fucking knew this would happen. They're trying the case in the press. The lead investigator into the killing of Trayvon Martin filed an affidavit the night of the shooting saying he wanted to arrest Zimmerman and charge him with manslaughter because he didn't believe Zimmerman's ...
  • Buckle Up: Supreme Court Sending This Election ...
    By @KYYellowDog So, all the constitutional experts and former Supreme Court law clerks who were sooooo sure just yesterday morning that no way would the Supreme Court overturn the Affordable Care Act are now dead-certain that health care reform is doomed. My prediction has not changed: the repug ...

Care 2

  • Africa: Oil exploitation, the environment and ...
    "As the incessant spill occurs, it spreads into farmlands and water bodies. The toxic crude seeps into the ground and is taken up by the plants roots.Land is viewed as the abode of our ancestors from where they oversee our lives, it is also a god and we Submitted by Xil L. to Environment   ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Senate Majority Leader ...
    Urge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: FIGHT to stop Republicans from doubling the interest rate on student loans. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Deepwater Horizon Hammered Deep-Water Corals
    A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds BP's oily fingerprints on severely damaged deep-water coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Submitted by Judy C. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Republican Party Is Rotted and Collapsing from ...
    Super PACs are an affront to the democratic process, but they are hastening the Republican Party's fall. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Mining cancellation throws wrench into Sarawak ...
    The world's third largest mining company, Rio Tinto, and a local financial and construction firm, Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), have cancelled plans for a $2 billion aluminum smelter to be constructed in the Malaysian state of Sarawak Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note ...

Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • My CSI Rant
    I’ve known for years that a cop’s life is never easy or glamorous. If it was, all our cases would be solved in one hour and I would arrive at a crime scene with a low cut top, pink Jimmy Choo pumps to match my handcuffs, and long sexy hair streaming down my back. I [...]
  • Let’s Lynch Trayvon’s Whitey Spic Killer
    My title, in case you are terminally retarded, is sarcasm. I can’t say I’m shocked by the tsunami of bullshit being spewed by the media, especially on MSNBC and CNN, that has decided that the shooting death of Trayvon Martin is a race hate crime and that George Zimmerman is a KKK, ni ...
  • Today’s Briefs * Open Thread
    The GOP delegate battle still has plenty of “sound and fury,” but so what? Santorum has won just 27 percent of the primary and caucus delegates. He would need 74 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination before the national convention in August. Gingrich would need ...
  • Barack Obama, Selling Out to Russia?
    Talk about a profile in cowardice. I can’t wait for the Obama team to launch their offensive on Mitt Romney for being a flip flopper and Mr. Etch-a-Sketch. Why? Because we have Obama on tape doing his best Monty Python (wink wink, nudge nudge) in asking the Russians to wait until after the ...
  • Ricky “The Tantrum” Santorum
    Poor St. Rick. He pitched a fit, but has acquired a World Wrestling Federation handle–Rick “THE TANTRUM” Santorum. Although it appears to be nothing more than a contrived bit of political theater on Ricky’s part in order to beg for cash, it still exposes him as a total po ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • MTSU student vows to continue fight to save st ...
    MTSU student vows to continue fight to save state's mountains The Daily News Journal MURFREESBORO — MTSU junior Kayla Connelly says she will continue the battle to save Tennessee's mountain ridges despite a legislative setback Tuesday that killed a measure to stop mountaintop removal coa ...
  • Friends of TN mountains must step up - The Ten ...
    Friends of TN mountains must step up The Tennessean The Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act, banning mountaintop-removal mining of any peak higher than 2000 feet, deserved broad bipartisan support. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Mike McDonald, D-Portland, moved the bill to a summer study commit ...
  • Alpha CEO questions climate change, looks towa ...
    Alpha CEO questions climate change, looks toward election Charleston Gazette Alpha President Kevin Crutchfield said his company wants to find common ground with coalfield residents who oppose mountaintop-removal mining, but is looking toward the November general election to end what he called th ...
  • Legislative Notebook: 'Mountaintop removal' bi ...
    Deseret News Legislative Notebook: 'Mountaintop removal' bill killed, medical marijuana ... Knoxville News Sentinel By Tom Humphrey NASHVILLE — Legislation to prohibit "mountaintop removal" coal mining in Tennessee was killed for a fifth consecutive year Tuesday, this time by a ...
  • Mountaintop coal removal ban killed in Tenness ...
    Kingsport Times News Mountaintop coal removal ban killed in Tennessee House Kingsport Times News By ERIK SCHELZIG, AP Engineer Tim Sloane participates in a rally outside the legislative office complex in Nashville on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, to oppose a bill to ban mountaintop removal in the sta ...

Memeorandum

  • Idaho's forced ultrasound bill is dead (Spokes ...
    Spokesman.com: Idaho's forced ultrasound bill is dead  —  BOISE - Idaho's Senate-passed forced ultrasound bill was killed for good Tuesday, when a House committee chairman said he won't hold a hearing on the bill and anti-abortion activists said they're withdrawing it.  &md ...
  • John Roberts Court on trial (Glenn Thrush/Poli ...
    Glenn Thrush / Politico: John Roberts Court on trial  —  John Roberts is having his Bush v. Gore moment.  —  If the wily chief justice felt squeamish about leading the Supreme Court into an election-year political maelstrom, that was nowhere on display Tuesday, w ...
  • Kennedy: Individual Mandate Fundamentally Chan ...
    RealClearPolitics Video Log: Kennedy: Individual Mandate Fundamentally Changes Relationship Of Gov't  —  During the debate of the Obamacare mandate at the Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says that the mandate fundamentally changes the relationship of a citizen with the government. ...
  • Syria forces 'targeting children' (BBC)
    BBC: Syria forces ‘targeting children’  —  The Syrian authorities' treatment of children is “horrendous”, said the UN rights chief  —  Syrian authorities are deliberately and systematically targeting children, the United Nations' human rig ...
  • Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds ( ...
    Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com: Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds  —  Rick Santorum appeared to be the Republican presidential candidate to beat in Pennsylvania a month ago.  —  With the state primary four weeks away, Santorum now finds himself near ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Behind Myanmar’s suspended dam (1)
    After the decision to shelve a China-funded hydropower plant on the Irrawaddy River caused uproar in Beijing, Qin Hui set off south to learn about the project and its opponents. He opens a three-part article.On a recent trip to Myanmar – also known as Burma – my eyes were opened to t ...
  • Counting the cost of honesty
    Michael Mann’s ocean studies confirmed the reality of global warming. His findings exposed the creator of the “hockey stick” graph – showing rapid temperature rises – to the vitriol of climate-change deniers, writes Robin McKie.The US scientist who has borne the ful ...
  • Another water battle looming
    Pakistan is gearing up for a new fight with India, reports Athar Parvaiz from Ladakh. At the centre of the latest row is a dam funded by international efforts to tackle global warming. The never-ending war over water resources between India and Pakistan has taken a new twist. Paki ...
  • A new conscience?
    China’s visible embrace of corporate responsibility is a necessary step on the path to a greener economy, writes Simon Zadek, introducing a report by the US Chamber of Commerce.On February 24, the China Banking Regulatory Commission released its Green Credit Guidelines, securing China&rsqu ...
  • Sizing the carbon bubble
    Financial markets are in denial, backing both the winners and losers of climate change and stocking up more fossil fuels than they can burn, writes James Leaton.How much “unburnable” carbon is there on the world’s stock exchanges? Last year, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 7 Ways Citizens Are Using Humor and Creativity ...
    While not a new concept, creative activism does seem to be having a "moment" right now as activists look for ways to draw attention to the recent attacks on our rights.
  • GE Unleashes Propaganda Campaign To Hide Its T ...
    GE paid an average of 2.3% in taxes over the last ten years, while slashing its US workforce by 32,000 jobs. But its new ad campaign aims to whitewash all that.
  • Idaho Senate Set to Vote On Forced Ultrasound Bill
    Written by Robin Marty for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. When Idaho Senator Chuck Winder proposed a bill that would force every woman to undergo a mandatory ultrasound prior to an abortion, h ...
  • A Joseph Kony and his Victims Movie That Demon ...
    No, this is not about Invisible Children or Kony 2012! It’s a 2005 movie on Joseph Kony’s victims that is an ongoing part of a global evangelical campaign – an example of ulterior motives and the dangerous ignorance of Americans about charities and “good causes.” An ...
  • Anti-gay pundit speaks with a forked tongue ab ...
    On Sunday during an interview with The Christian Post concerning the Tyler Clementi case, Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins made a comment which should lead many of us gay bloggers to scratch our heads with amazement: “Some have even laid blame not on the actual bullies but on C ...

Threat Level

  • How Forensics Claims Facebook Ownership Contra ...
    Backed by forensics, Facebook is asking a federal judge Monday to dismiss a long-running lawsuit brought by entrepreneur Paul Ceglia, who claims he owns half of the social-networking site. Here is Wired's examination of the forensics report submitted to a federal judge presiding over the legal flap.
  • FBI Says CitiBank Gave Paul Allen’s Debit Card ...
    An alleged Army deserter is being charged with bank fraud in connection to the socially engineered hijacking of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's debit card. In a complaint unsealed Monday, federal authorities allege Brandon Price, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obtained the billionaire's debit ca ...
  • NSA Chief: Agency Wants to Provide Malware Sig ...
    The NSA continued to downplay its role in the cyber defense of private networks when Gen. Keith Alexander told a Senate committee that his agency absolutely did not want to be in private networks monitoring data for threats. Instead, he said the NSA should only play a role in providing malware s ...
  • FTC Tells Net: Agree to Stop Invading Privacy ...
    The FTC wants the online world to pledge to start respecting user privacy, which would give the agency a way to crack down on rogue apps, search engines and advertisers. But it stops short of issuing strong rules or calling for legislation, betting yet again on self-regulation.
  • Ahead of IPO, Facebook Demands Dismissal of Ow ...
    Facebook demanded a federal judge Monday dismiss an “extortionate” lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia, an entrepreneur with a shady past who is claiming half ownership of the social-networking service.

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

Marler Blog

  • 2011 Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak - Four Families
    In September of 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked a Listeria outbreak to cantaloupe produced in the Rocky Ford region of Colorado. On October 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the findings of an investigation at Jensen Farms. The report details u ...
  • Poisoned Author (and Subject) to speak at Wash ...
    In POISONED, Jeff Benedict delivers a jarringly candid narrative of the fast-moving disaster drawing on access to key documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the drama - the families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to ...
  • Settlement Reached in Wright County Egg Outbre ...
    All from eating an egg Before her Salmonella infection, 74 year-old B was a wonder of energy and activity.  She maintained excellent health by playing golf on a weekly basis and exercising with a personal trainer.  In addition, B especially enjoyed participating in her community.&nbsp ...
  • Settlements Reached in Wright County Egg Salmo ...
    The Outbreak Beginning in July, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern JEGX01.0004 on PulseNet.  As of December, 2010, the CD ...
  • Peanut Proud, but no Justice - Yet
    I was reading Greg Phillip’s piece in the Dothan Eagle about the “Peanut Proud” celebration in Blakely Georgia this weekend.  Peanut Proud even has a web page and a facebook page.  I tried to follow on twitter, but I could not find @peanutproud.  Perhaps they wil ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Despite rumors, Volvo not ceasing electric C30 ...
    Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Dutch website NU recently reported that Volvo expects low demand for its C30 Electric, and therefore it decided to stop building the mostly electric car (it has a small, ethanol-burning heater to keep passengers warm). The original ...
  • Teased: Fisker teases Nina plug-in hybrid, ful ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Design/Style, Electric, Luxury There's not a whole lot to say about the Fisker Nina teaser image that the company just dropped into our inboxes, it's largely just a way to say the real thing will be unveiled at the New York Auto Show in a ...
  • Miami Toyota dealer tacks $7,000 onto price of ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Earnings/Financials A Twitter user with the handle miami4me2c discovered something interesting at a Toyota dealer in Miami and thankfully shared pictures of this unusual Prius C Two window sticker. Remember, the base Prius C starts ...
  • Report: Toyota increasing Prius C production t ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Japan, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota When we last asked Toyota representatives about the production capacity of the 2012 Prius C, we were told the company's Iwate, Japan plant could make up to 30,000 units each month. That sounds like a lot, but Toyo ...
  • Report: 2013 Nissan Leaf update will add new h ...
    Filed under: Technology, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric From what we know today, pretty much everything about the all-electric Nissan Leaf is getting bigger and/or better in 2012. From availability in Europe to 50-state availability and production in the States, it's clear Nissan is planning big ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: New Film Examines FBI Link to 1990 Bom ...
    We continue our conversation with Darryl Cherney, the Earth First! activist who was in Judi Bari’s car when a pipe bomb blew up under her seat on May 24, 1990. The two were organizing a national campaign to stop the clear-cutting of old growth redwood forests. Now Cherney has produced a f ...
  • New Yorkers Call for Justice at Million Hoodie ...
    Thousands of New Yorkers chanted "we want arrests" as Trayvon Martin’s parents joined them for a protest calling on police to arrest George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed their unarmed 17-year-old son but has yet to be arrested. These are some of the voices of the protes ...
  • Walking While Black: The Killing of Trayvon Martin
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan On the rainy night of Sunday, Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked to a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. On his way home, with his Skittles and iced tea, the African-American teenager was shot and killed. The gunman, George Zimmerman, didn’t run. He ...
  • Part 2: Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack on Ob ...
    In an excerpt from our extended interview, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented targeting of government employees who expose illegal behavior, fraud and abuse. Drake describes how he challe ...
  • VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street & Police Brutality V ...
    Occupy Wall Street activists and their supporters decried violent tactics used during a police crackdown on Saturday’s re-occupation of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square, that led to 73 arrests. During a press conference outside police headquarters, they called for New York Police Dep ...

Suzie-Q

  • Romney’s Well-Rehearsed Case Against Obama and ...
    Time Swampland By Michael Crowley | @CrowleyTIME | March 27, 2012 For months now, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has overwhelmingly focused on the economy.  But as he geared up his candidacy a couple of years ago, Romney opened with an argument heavy on foreign policy. In March 20 ...
  • Mitt Romney: Russia Is ‘Our Number One G ...
    The Huffington Post | By Luke Johnson Posted: 03/26/2012  5:21 pm Updated: 03/26/2012  6:16 pm Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called Russia “without question our number one geopolitical foe” Monday on CNN. Romney’s comments came in the context of President B ...
  • Rove-Linked Crossroads GPS Launches $650,000 F ...
    Think Progress By Josh Israel  on Mar 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm This week, Crossroads GPS announced a $650,000 nationwide television adcampaign called “Deflect.”  The 30-second spot falsely blames Obama administration actions for the rise in gasoline prices since 2009. Crossroads GPS is a tax-exempt 5 ...
  • Romney Energy Adviser: Cheap Oil ‘A Disa ...
    Politico 44 By GLENN THRUSH| 3/23/12 9:39 AM EDT Mitt Romney has been slamming President Obama over the spike in gas prices, and will (presumably) deliver a Keystone-themed blistering attack on the administration this morning at a Louisiana oil and gas exploration company, QEP Resources. Ro ...
  • Warren Takes Center Stage In Obama Campaign Video
    The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen  - Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:01 AM EDT President Obama’s re-election campaign unveiled a new video this morning, which has a similar look and feel to the recent “The Road We’ve Traveled” documentary, but features a different message and messenger. ...

Solari

  • Former Enron Board Member, Herbert Winokur Ste ...
    By Joe Pompeo Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in 2001, has stepped down from the board of the Columbia Journalism Review and is no longer funding its most highly-traffic ...
  • Conservative Justices Question Insurance Mandate
    By Jesse j. Holland Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. Arguments at the high court Tuesday focused on wh ...
  • Banks Kickback Bailout $ to FHA
    By Bob Ivry The White House submitted a budget plan to Congress this year that would have provided the FHA as much as $688 million from the U.S. Treasury , the first bailout in the agency’s 78- year history. The money wasn’t needed because the FHA will get almost $1 billion from [...]
  • Catherine Austin Fitts – Immense Possib ...
    By Ed Keller Vimeo. Continue reading the article . . .
  • Bron Suchecki: Fake Bars — The Facts
    By C. Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In an essay headlined “Fake Bars — The Facts,” Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint today explains why tungsten-filled and other counterfeit gold bars like the one reported the other day by ABC Bullion are probably exceedingly rare and how ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A status report about the US economy (we party ...
    Summary:  We have the best economic recovery that a trillion dollars per year of Federal borrowing can produce, with enthusastic cheering from Wall Street.  Some people look at the data and believe the great boom has begun.  Some look at the data and see a patient on life-support, slowly fading ...
  • A status report about the US economy (perhaps ...
    The secret about our universities (seldom even whispered among Professors)Summary:  We have the best economic recovery that a trillion dollars per year of Federal borrowing can produce, with enthusastic cheering from Wall Street.  Some people look at the data and believe the great boom has begun ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Summary:  We have entered a period of radical change, the results of which we can only guess at.  To help us understand, brought back by popular demand, is Question Time on the FM website.  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and those reading the FM website — will attempt ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Summary:  We have entered a period of radical change, the results of which we can only guess at.  To help us understand, brought back by popular demand, is Question Time on the FM website.  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and those reading the FM website — will attempt ...
  • We have an economic recovery. It costs $1.1 t ...
    Summary:  Many economists and pseudo-experts forecast not just the long-anticipated “v” recovery, but an acceleration of the current good news into a boom.  Before we pop the corks, let’s look at the recovery, what the recovery cost us,  and how we’ve spent this expensive ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit: Obama’s Work ...
    An edited version of this post originally appeared on CFR.org as a First Take. On his first foreign trip as a U.S. senator in 2005, Barack Obama accompanied Senator Richard Lugar on a week-long tour of WMD facilities in the former Soviet Union. Afterward, Senator Obama often spoke about the trip ...
  • Wars End, but War Costs Continue
    The Afghanistan War will end eventually, the troops will come home, and the United States taxpayer will start saving billions a week. However, U.S. operations in Afghanistan will continue to be a significant expense long after the troops come home. We can look to Iraq as an example. The last U.S ...
  • Can President Obama Live Up to the Arms Contro ...
    This post was written by Nickolas Roth, a policy fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation President Obama was recently overheard saying to Russian President Medvedev that, assuming he prevails in the election this November, he would have more flexibility to negotiate on arms ...
  • Israelis Fear Blame for US-Iran War
    A thread of anxiety ran through a conference of liberal American Jews and Israelis Sunday [March 25]. The worry: that Israel would bear the blame for any military confrontation between the United States and Iran. Retired brigadier general Shlomo Brom, a former director of strategic planning for ...
  • Joint Strike Fighter: How Not to Build an Airc ...
    F-35 Lightning II is a name to conjure with. Otherwise known as Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) ten countries are collaborating under US leadership to build a fifth generation multirole fighter that can apparently do everything and not be seen doing it – whatever it is it does. Last week BaE sy ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Where Hating Liberals Leads
    The Trayvon Martin case is both an individual tragedy and a symbol of a larger problem, the way some people are treated as "suspicious," as George Zimmerman described Martin, and the myriad consequences that suspicion brings. Lots of conservatives don't really think that larger problem is much ...
  • Be Prepared
    Today wasn't a good day for Obamacare. As Mother Jonesreporter—and Prospect alum—Adam Serwer pointed out on Twitter, it was as if "Obama's lawyer brought a butter knife to a bazooka fight." In the aftermath of the second day of hearings on the Affordable Care Act, the fate of the legislation se ...
  • This Station is Non-Operational
    “Colorblindness has nothing to do with eradicating racism. It is about denying its existence and power. And so when faced with actual racism in such stark form, the colorblindness zealots must cast blame on those drawing attention to the racism. There is a significant segment of white opinion t ...
  • Verrilli's Courage Under Fire
    On December 10, 1935, during oral argument before a hostile Supreme Court, then-Solicitor General Stanley Reed collapsed at the lectern. (He recovered and went on to serve on the Court himself.) Let history show that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli did not stagger today under a Four Horseman- ...
  • Brown vs. Mandel
    A poll today from Rasmussen brought big news for those in Ohio, where Senator Sherrod Brown is fighting for his political life against state Treasurer Josh Mandel. The new results show the two men tied, each with 43 percent. The survey asked 500 likely voters and had a 4.5 point margin of error ...

Buzzflash

  • Did the US Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Cheney' ...
    RICHARD A. STITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT After several heart attacks and operations, and now a complete heart transplant, I wish Mr. Cheney well and a speedy recovery. Soon, millions of Americans will find out their fate for the future of health care coverage for themselves and their famili ...
  • Let's Stop Fighting in Afghanistan and Wage a ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In March of 1936 US photographer Dorothea Lange, on her way to San Francisco after searching the countryside for Depression-era photos, passed a sign saying "Pea Picker's Camp" in Nipomo, California. Thinking little of it, she drove on. But a few miles ...
  • Trayvon Martin Shooting Shows That Racism Hasn ...
    Body There was a tremendous outcry when the president commented that the Boston police had acted stupidly by arresting black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he attempted to "break in" to his own house when he was unable to open his front door. Although the police were to ...
  • Geraldo Rivera: Gun's Don't Kill People; Hoodi ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT To call mustachioed Geraldo Rivera a showboating self-aggrandizing buffoon is like calling an tyrannosaurus rex a predator: it's just a fact. "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman," proclaimed Rive ...
  • "Shoot to Kill" May Soon Be Replacing "In God ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT All the white sheets are flying off now, as white males are in open warfare against blacks and women. They've been using code words against Obama for nearly four years (no birth certificate, Muslim, etc.), but now we're just seeing hardcore racism w ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Ph Diva and the Mystery Band
    We already had Ph.Diddy…now we have Ph.Diva – Three weeks left to the conference deadline but on the gel is total mystery band… Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion years of vol ...
  • BBC versus RSC Sherlock Holmes
    The Royal Society of Chemistry once again hits on a novel way to capture media and public attention by drawing attention to a flaw with a recent episode of BBC forensic drama Sherlock. In the episode, a periodic table is seen hanging on Sherlock Holmes’ wall, but it’s a dusty ancient ...
  • Liver disease kills
    Given my slightly worrying feedback from the Fenland Study, my neurotic brain latched on to the headlines today in which male 40-somethings seem to be dropping like flies, jaundiced and with failed livers. The BBC reports: “Deaths from liver disease in England have reached record levels, r ...
  • The evolving, revolving of the Moon
    Still, lifeless, unchanging…how did the Moon get so boring? Here’s what a few billion years of volcanic activity and meteoric bombardment did for the old guy…you’d want a rest after all that too… Related Posts:The moon hour by hour for 2012 NASA GSFC Scientific Visu ...
  • Unweaving the rainbow, that’s a good thing
    I posted a photo of a rather melancholic sunset on Facebook and Google+ earlier this week and captioned it:  ”just photons being scattered by atmospheric water vapour and dust…but still…” I think most viewers did with Trish Parnell suggesting that, ‘The whole is gre ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls Jailed f ...
    The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The United States and other donor countries should press the Afghan government under President Hamid Karzai ...
  • Maldives Must Investigate Sexual Harassment of ...
    Maldives authorities must immediately investigate allegations that police beat and sexually harassed four women detained during an anti-government rally, Amnesty International said. According to testimony gathered by Amnesty International, the women, who were arrested on 19 March, were beaten du ...
  • Planet's Tug-of-War Between Carrying Capacity ...
    The global economy continued to grow last year, world population surpassed 7 billion, and the use of energy and other natural resources generally rose. The Worldwatch Institute captures the impacts of this rising consumption and the increasingly risky state of humanity in Vital Signs 2012, the l ...
  • Over 1000 to Protest Bank of America at Shareh ...
    A thousand-plus people representing the diversity of the 99 percent will converge in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 9 to protest Bank of America policies that are bankrupting our economy and destroying our environment at the company’s annual shareholder meeting.  Rainforest Action N ...
  • New York Assembly Committee Approves Resolutio ...
    The New York Assembly’s Election Law Committee today approved a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence ele ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • From Israel, a Declaration of Interdependence
    Winslow Myers The fond foolishness—or was it?—of the Israeli graphic designer’s recent Youtube video declaring his love for the Iranian people and his pledge not to bomb Iran brought back the almost forgotten Christmas mom ...
  • For Nuclear Security Beyond Seoul, Eradicate L ...
    Daniel Ellsberg David Krieger President Obama and other world leaders gathered at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, this week to address threats posed by unsecured nuclear material ...
  • The Truth About the US Postal Service
    Jim Hightower What does 50 cents buy these days? Not a cuppa joe, a pack of gum or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of deal for a 50-cent piece: a first-class stamp. Plus a nickel in change.read more
  • GOP Justices Clown over Health Care
    Robert Parry The Republican justices on the U.S. Supreme Court behaved more like Fox News pundits than serious jurists weighing the constitutionality of an important law addressing the health of the American people. On Tuesday, they po ...
  • Silencing the Guns
    Drew Westen When Gabrielle Giffords tendered her resignation from the House of Representatives to Speaker John Boehner because she did not feel she could continue to serve at her current level of disability, the entire House erupted in a ra ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • US Intelligence Report Warns of Future Water Wars
    Water. It’s essential to life, and according to a U.S. intelligence report, it may soon be a cause for war.
  • Water Wars Cost $18.7 Million
    The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. read more
  • Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
    Ga. Agencies Spend $18.7 Million on Water Wars
  • Ga. agencies spend $18.7 million on water wars
    ATLANTA (AP) — The state of Georgia and the Atlanta Regional Commission have spent about $18.7 million in outside legal fees during two decades of legal battles involving Florida and Alabama over access to drinking water. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/GRelSy) that the t ...
  • Legal fees add up in tri-state water litigation
    As lawyers speculate whether the U.S. Supreme Court will decide this summer to hear the tri-state water wars case between Florida, Georgia and Alabama, they don't stand idle -- and the meters haven't stopped running.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • South Africans recall their own history during ...
    Adri Nieuwhof Geneva 26 March 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa aimed to reach a wide audience and strengthen the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
  • 8,000 West Bank children arrested since 2000, ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Beit Sahour 26 March 2012 A new report examines the impact of Israeli arrests and detention on Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation.
  • Gaza ambulances stop responding to calls as fu ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 25 March 2012 As a fuel shortage has worsened across the coastal territory, the ambulance service has been forced to stop responding to all calls except the most critical cases. With fuel reserves at zero, medical officials are warning that in case of another large-sca ...
  • Imperfect revolution: Palestine's 15 March mov ...
    Linah Alsaafin Ramallah 23 March 2012 One year after the 15 March movement’s call for national unity, what has the youth-led mobilization achieved?
  • Book review: "Patriot Acts" tells shocking sto ...
    Maureen Clare Murphy 22 March 2012 Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice tells the stories of individuals in the United States whose rights have been abused as a result of the racist, Islamophobic backlash and the so-called War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001. ...

The Wonk Room

  • Eric Cantor’s ‘Small Business&#821 ...
    The House Ways and Means Committee today marked up a bill sponsored by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) that purports to give small businesses a 20 percent tax cut in order to spur hiring. We’ve already noted that the bill’s overly expansive definition of small business means ...
  • GOP Leaders Make Mockery Of ‘Religious Freedom ...
    Yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) each made appointments to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and both chose candidates known for infringing upon others’ religious freedom and fostering hate against minoriti ...
  • Sen. DeMint: People With Pre-Existing Conditio ...
    WASHINGTON, DC — Though one of the key successes — and most popular aspects — of the Affordable Care Act is the provision banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) thinks they were better off before the law ...
  • Rape and Memory in Teju Cole’s ‘Op ...
    My decision in the Morning New’s Tournament of Books is finally live, so I can reveal that I picked Teju Cole’s Open City over Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, and I can finally discuss both books without tipping my hand about what—or how—I’d be judging. There&#8217 ...
  • Fact Sheet: 6 Things You Should Know About The ...
    by Adam James Clean energy should play a central role in revitalizing our economy, putting Americans back to work, and keeping America on the cutting edge of innovation and growth. Recently a slew of misguided attacks on the merits of clean energy have exchanged petty partisanship for hard facts ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • $5,000 AND Five Years in Prison
    Ahem:The maximum penalties for violating these sections of the Elections Act are severe: a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment for up to five years, or both. Moreover, a person convicted of such an offence may also be ordered to compensate anyone who has suffered damages as a consequence ...
  • The Multiverse
    Distracted, busy, insanely busy, working but nothing to show for it. Here's a video:
  • We WERE Robbed
    Never forget. And carry yourselves accordingly.
  • The Spam Filter
    A long weekend with family and friends. Not much time, energy or inclination to post. So, something that I've been meaning to announce: Dear "Full Name" (aka: "Anonymous") ... [you're the dude who imagines you'll somehow drive me to suicide, among other things], "Way, Way Up" and "Wayne" (aka: ...
  • Capitalist Media and the NDP
    Dr Dawg comments on the horrible coverage of the NDP leadership convention by the CBC: Watching the supremely self-satisfied, snickering commentators on CBC tonight should cement the impressions of the media held by those of us who are actually interested in politics in Canada. The CBC continu ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Hancock: Sub purchase “daft”
    A British MP who raised concerns about the sale of dud British subs to Canada back in 1998 has a simple suggestion -- see if you can return them to Britain.
  • Pay pensions or fund fighters?
    The polling firm Ipsos Reid recently asked Canadians about their spending priorities for the upcoming federal budget -- and found some interesting results.
  • NDP tied with Tories for top spot
    According to a survey conducted by the polling firm Environics, the New Democratic Party is tied with the Conservatives for first place in voter support.
  • F-35: And the hits keep coming!
    A U.S. Government Accountability Office report, media investigations of DND disingenuousness, and a forthcoming Auditor-General's report keep the F-35 hilarity coming.
  • NDP and defence policy
    Many defence watchers hope the NDP will be much clearer on national defence than it has been in the past.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Smoking Ban Linked to Drop in Preterm Births, ...
    March 8, 2012 Live Science By My Health News Daily Staff “Isn’t it amazing that people are still smoking cigarettes? Not only is it one of the worst things you could to for your health (because of the chemicals, not necessarily the tobacco) but have you noticed the type of people who ...
  • Forget Sports Drinks: Coconut Water Is The Per ...
    March 8, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “If you are still drinking Gatorade, you are obviously not paying attention.” –KTRN In most cases, the best way to restore your body’s fluids and electrolytes after exercise is simply with water and food, particularly fruit. In cas ...
  • Leaked Email: Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct T ...
    March 8, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “The people of the earth want peace – the governments want war.”  –KTRN A shocking email leaked as part of the Wikileaks Stratfor data dump reveals that the Pentagon is planning to direct terror attacks and assassinations insi ...
  • While California Persecutes Raw Milk Farmers, ...
    March 12, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “Maybe it’s time to move to France. If it’s healthy to consume raw milk there, why is it so bad in the US? Could it possibly be that the cows are horribly unhealthy due to factory farming.” –KTRN Thanks to the extraordinaril ...
  • Scientists And Doctors Falsifying Research Data
    March 12, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “Not all doctors are this evil – some really do care.  But you really need to be careful about who you go see regarding your health.”  –KTRN Medical doctors are nearly revered by many individuals for their medical knowledge a ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Stand Your Ground Laws Legalize Murder
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Stephen LendmanTuesday, March 27th, 2012 by Stephen Lendman Across America, institutionalized incidents replicate 17-year old Trayvon Martin’s February 26 cold-blooded murder. A Black high-school student, he was ...
  • From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By Jordan Flaherty When I heard that my name was featured in a New York City Police Department report, I should have been outraged.  I had followed revelations of NYPD spying, but it hadn’t occurr ...
  • New York Assembly’s election panel approves bi ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe New York Assembly?s Election Law Committee on Tuesday approved a resolution to call upon the United States Congress send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United’v. ...
  • Mariana Trench 1st-ever look: Cameron releases ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com VIDEO COURTESY: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY James Cameron has released the footage of his solo dive to the deepest point in the world’s oceans. The world-famous director said he had visited ...
  • Martial Law, Karma, Facebook and Vanunu
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Eileen FlemingTuesday, March 27th, 2012 by Eileen Fleming On March 16, the White House released the “National Defense Resources Preparedness” which gives the President the ability to impose martial law in ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Is US Sanctimony on the Wane? by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything March 23, 2012 For certain segments of the global population, the United States has, of course, virtually always represented little to nothing good. No doubt, however, many have given credence to the idea of liberal, and dem ...
  • John Pilger: Real Journalism
    Dandelion Salad with John Pilger Abirproduction on Mar 19, 2012 Researched, Produced and Directed by Abir Alsayed A part of Asdekaa Al Arab series http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asdekaa-Al-Arab-%D8%A3%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%… John Pilger: Real Journalism see John Pilger: Palestine Is Still ...
  • In a feverish state of mind, Gulliver enters a ...
    by Helen Cox, used with permission by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad 22 March 2012 My thoughts were feverishly gestating. I here pen a précis of that to which I refer, attempting to bring to reasonable account what in fact was veiled by dark derangements brought on by my fever and a ...
  • Saudi Arabia: House of Saud, Falling House of ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 24 March 2012 Saudi rulers are struggling to contain a new wave of public protests that has erupted across the Arabian kingdom as security forces open fire on unarmed civilians. The big question: is the House of Saud finally beginning ...
  • The Stimulator: Free the Urewera Four!
    Dandelion Salad stimulator on Mar 23, 2012 http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2012/03/23/free-the-urewera-four/ This week a special interview with Tame Iti, a Māori Freedom Fighter who was accused of terrorism during the most expensive trial in New Zealand’s history. Check out ‘Operation 8‘ to learn ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel cuts contact with UN rights council, to ...
    Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al) criticized the move, saying that it amounted to a "boycott of the UN," and asked what "Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu have in common with human rights." MK... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian on hunger strike ...
    After more than a month on hunger strike, Hanaa Shalabi is in "immediatemortal danger" and at "risk of coma" according to a Physicians for HumanRights doctor. Shalabi's strike came at the heels of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Dear Mr. Tzabar
    A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist Shimon Tzabar and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jamie Levin: Israel’s economy will pay heavy p ...
    Economic war of attrition: "Each Iron Dome system costs $50,000,000 and each Tamir interceptor it employs has a price tag of no less than $62,000. In contrast, each of the Qassam rockets that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • UN human rights body to probe Israel’s settlem ...
    Human Rights Council votes to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of Israel's settlements on Palestinians; Netanyahu calls council 'hypocritical' and out of touch with reality. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russia to Tighten Draft Dodging Rules
    A loophole that allowed up to 200,000 Russian youth to evade conscription may be closed if the parliament approves a bill obliging recruits to report for the draft in person, legislators said.
  • Pentagon to Seek More Funds for Israel’s Anti- ...
    The U.S. Department of Defense will request the Congress to provide additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system
  • Russia to Send New Anti-Piracy Force to Gulf o ...
    A task force from Russia’s Northern Fleet, led by the Udaloy class destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov, will soon depart on an new anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast, the fleet’s spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Vadim Serga said on Tuesday.
  • FSB Accuses West over Cyber Security
    Western special services are trying to compromise Russia’s cyber security, Army Gen. Sergei Smirnov, first deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Tuesday.
  • Azerbaijan Spent $1.6 Bln on Israeli Arms in 2011
    Azerbaijan purchased a variety of weaponry, including aerial drones and an advanced anti-missile capable radar, from Israel under a $1.6 bln contract signed in 2011, the APA news agency said on Tuesday, citing data provided by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

NewsWise

  • Researchers Create Molecular Braille to Identi ...
    Researchers at UCLA and New York University have developed a method to detect sequence differences in individual DNA molecules by taking nanoscopic pictures of the molecules themselves.
  • Transparent, Flexible "3-D" Memory Chips May B ...
    New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures -- twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven -- and survive other hostile conditions could usher in the development of next-generation flash-competitive memor ...
  • Reducing Breath Size and Pressure From ICU Ven ...
    Carefully adjusting mechanical ventilator settings in the intensive care unit to pump smaller breaths into very sick lungs can reduce the chances of dying by as much as 8 percent, according to a study by critical care experts at Johns Hopkins. Study participants were evaluated for two years aft ...
  • Testosterone Low, but Responsive to Competitio ...
    Though Tsimane men have a third less baseline testosterone compared with U.S. men, Tsimane show the same increase in testosterone following a soccer game, suggesting that competition-linked bursts of testosterone are a fundamental aspect of human biology.
  • A Capsule for Removing Radioactive Contaminati ...
    Amid concerns about possible terrorist attacks with nuclear materials, and fresh memories of environmental contamination from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, scientists today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) described develop ...

Natural Health News

  • New Study Suggests We Could Derive Benefits fr ...
    In an article scheduled to appear in the March 30th issue of Ecology of Food and Nutrition, neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggest that eating parts of the human placenta may offer certain health benefits. They say this possibility does not warrant the who ...
  • Harvard Reviews How Stress Can Cause Stomach D ...
    It’s not unusual to hear somebody say, “That was a gut-wrenching experience,” or “It just gave me butterflies.” What they’re referring to is the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you’re faced with a variety of emotional experiences. From stress to excitement to fear or dread, it se ...
  • New Ruling May Curb Antibiotics in Meat
    Environmentalists and public health officials have argued with meat industry representatives for years over the use—and overuse—of antibiotics in domestic animals bred for food. Last week they scored a victory when a federal court in New York ruled that it’s time to ban certain antibiotics in fa ...
  • Experts Challenge FDA over Approval for New Do ...
    In the first of a new occasional series that highlights exaggerations, distortions, and selective reporting in news stories, advertising, and medical journals, two experts from the Center for Medicine and the Media at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice are taking on ...
  • How Your Mind Can Reprogram Your Genes
    How much control do we really have over our own lives? And is there anything we can change to do a better job at managing our lives? These questions have puzzled mankind since the beginning of time. And now, the emerging science of epigenetics is offering some answers that put true control withi ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • ICRC-ASIL-WCL Conference on Challenges of IHL ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson If you are already in DC for the ASIL meetings and have some free time today (Wednesday), you might consider coming out to the edges of DC – to Washington College of Law, American University – for a conference sponsored by the ICRC, ASIL&#821 ...
  • Chevron’s Buyers Remorse
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am not going to respond in depth to Professor Cassel’s recent post on Chevron’s responsibility for the “rainforest Chernobyl” caused by its predecessor’s dumping of million gallons of crude oil and billion gallons of toxic ...
  • Taming Globalization Book Tour Kicks Off in NYC
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku John Yoo and I will be discussing our new book, Taming Globalization, tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 from 6-8 p.m., at the The New York Athletic Club, 180 Central Park South New York, New York in an event hosted by the Federalist Society.  Anyone who is int ...
  • Chevron in Ecuador: Doug Cassel Responds to Ke ...
    by Doug Cassel by Doug Cassel [Doug Cassel is Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School] Heller’s reply misses the point of my post, Suing Chevron in Ecuador: Do the Ends Justify the Means? I did not ask whether Chevron is an “innocent victim.” I asked whether the ends pursued by plaintiffs’ l ...
  • The ATS and Extraterritoriality, Part II: Univ ...
    by Anthony Colangelo by Anthony Colangelo [Anthony J. Colangelo is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law] I summarized in a previous post my arguments that the presumption against extraterritoriality should not apply to the ATS to the extent courts use international law inc ...

Public News Service

  • Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Eas ...
    Pain at the Pump? New Fuel Standards Could Ease the Burden PHOENIX - Soaring gas prices are hitting drivers in Arizona and across the nation, and little relief appears to be in sight. Zoe Lipman, senior manager for transportation solutions at the National Wildlife Federation, says part of the l ...
  • AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern?
    AZ Wind Energy Industry in a Holding Pattern? PHOENIX - The American wind energy industry is waiting for a favorable forecast from Congress. The wind-production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, and delayed decisions on its renewal have some sectors of the industry in a holdin ...
  • Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Marks Progress
    Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Marks Progress PHOENIX, Ariz. - Friday marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. The organizer of a national grassroots effort to get the law passed has written a book about the experience. ...(Read More)
  • Threat of Iran War Hurting Weak U.S. Recovery
    Threat of Iran War Hurting Weak U.S. Recovery PHOENIX - Concerned that Iran may be building nuclear weapons, some in Congress are pressing the United States to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, or help Israel do it. However, economists warn that even the threat of war is hurting the economic reco ...
  • Report: AHCCCS Crucial for Rural Arizonans
    Report: AHCCCS Crucial for Rural Arizonans PHOENIX - A new analysis of health care across the country finds that Medicaid, known as AHCCCS in Arizona, plays an especially vital role in rural America. Report author Jon Bailey, director of research and analysis with the Center for Rural Affairs, ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Record-Breaking One Million Public Comments De ...
    Center for Food Safety Legal Petition Spearheads Coalition of Consumers, Public Interest Organizations and Food Companies in Demanding FDA Require Labeling 55 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOIN IN SUPPORT OF CENTER’S LEGAL PETITION Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS or the Center) applauded the submis ...
  • GE Crops On Southeastern Wildlife Refuges Hit ...
    U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Admits Need for Deeper Environmental Review In an effort to deflect a pending federal lawsuit, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has told the court that it will suspend planting genetically engineered (GE) crops in all national wildlife refuges located i ...
  • Beekeepers & Environmental Groups to EPA: Pest ...
    Over 1 million urge EPA to suspend use of pesticide harmful to bees, fix broken regulatory system Today, commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an urgent legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend further use of a pesticide the agency knows ...
  • 6 Days Left to Comment on CFS’s Legal Pe ...
    We’re less than 10,000 comments shy of our goal of one million comments, and we need your help to reach it! In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to genetically engineered (GE) ...
  • Pressure on Walmart to Rebuff GE Sweet Corn In ...
    Consumer Allies Collect Nearly Half a Million Petition Signatures and Plan Protests at Stores Across the Country Today the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action, SumOfUs, Center for Environmental Health, and Corporate Accountability International announced they have collec ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Valerie Taylor Urges Protection of Coral Sea
    The Coral Sea may be the world's last great tropical ocean ecosystem where a highly protected marine national park on a very large scale could be established and effectively managed.
  • Skipjack Tuna caught from 'Free Schools' more ...
    As a result of the free school fishery’s certification, 30% of the skipjack caught in the PNA fishery, and 16% of the skipjack caught in the WCPFC convention area is eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel.
  • Bright Coloured Lorikeet
    The Lorikeet is a small parrot and can be found in the Australasian region. Most of these birds have bright rainbow coloured plumage, which makes them beautiful to look at! Photo by: Alexandra Meusel
  • What's on 16 January 2012
    20 January is Chinese New Year! This day is being celebrated everywhere across most cities in Australia. In Sydney, Belmore Park becomes a feast of colours and flavours as the Lunar New Year celebrations begin. Get out and revel in the entertainment, parades and the array of flavours to enjoy ...
  • Blooming Tree
    After being burned, this tree is regenerating life, showing off these beautiful little bright red flowers. Isn't nature amazing?!  Photo by: Alexandra Meusel

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • New young Israeli Refusers
    For decades hundreds of Israeli youth have declared at different times and for different reasons that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military as they see its actions as immoral. Many times, these conscientious objectors (COs) are imprisoned for refusing to serve in the army, as the mil ...
  • Iz al-deen and Trayvon
    Two young men, a few weeks apart, attacked by adult men. Both names exotic to white American ears.  Iz al-deen Tamemi was not killed, “only” shot in the face. His attackers wore uniforms, while Trayvon Martin’s murderer was vigilante acting alone, though his behavior was sancti ...
  • Queers Say No Pinkwashing in the Pacific Northwest
    ed’s note: Unusual for TOD? we are focusing on domestic activism in this post by new contributor Wendy. By Wendy Elisheva Somerson My friend Selma and I were gripping each other’s hands tightly last Thursday night, March 15th, as Seattle’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Com ...
  • Help save solar and wind power in the West Bank
    Ed’s Note: The Only Democracy? does not usually feature action alerts, but we have highlighted work of Comet-ME in the past and are proud to come to their defense. Watch Elad’s action alert Israel is threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems in rural communities in the W ...
  • Settler Group Presses Israeli Government to Ac ...
    We previously reported on the worrisome escalation in demolition of Palestinian structures in South Hebron Hills. The body issuing the demolition orders is the deceptively-named “Civil Administration”. Contrary to its name (invented in the 1980′s by Ariel Sharon to mislead the ...

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 

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor General on ObamaCa ...
      While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, “We’re not stupid.” Justice Elena Kagan, a former solici ...
  • Elderly Couple Live In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet
    Unmolested Robot radical RAGE can create “unintended consequences”   Smoking Gun MARCH 27–With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home is actually the ...
  • John Stossel’s Broken Window Fallacy (Jo ...
    Uh oh – Stossel nails it again…
  • FOX NEWS LIES – Employees Expose The Spi ...
    Having worked with FOX for the 2004 DNC and RNC national conventions, I can Testify to the “Talking points Memos”. They came out out every morning. IF you were employed by FOX (I was not, I was an affiliate reporter) then you knew you’d better cover the things they wanted you t ...
  • UK Queen Liz 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.” Press TV (Iran) The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the British queen’s bank, ...

The Air Vent

  • Rational Environmenalism
    I’ve had quite a bit of time to consider what I call rational environmentalism. There is a lifestyle that we live that I don’t believe we need to give back even one bit of comfort on. For instance, not showering when you want in order to save energy, cannot save enough energy to be w ...
  • Green Climate Fund
    Does anyone here really think that annually handing four times the GDP of North Korea to a bunch of unelected individuals, who exist completely outside of the law, could cause any problems at all? It sounds like something straight from a science fiction novel. WUWT is covering this now.  — ...
  • Green Climate Fund Deserves Double 0 Status
    You have to wonder why Fox News would make a big deal about a UN created international fund of a hundred billion dollars per year, having complete immunity from national law.  This shouldn’t even be news IMHO. The fund is to protect the Earth, it shouldn’t have to pay taxes, or opera ...
  • No Time
    Sorry folks but I am way to busy for blogging right now.   Perhaps I will get something useful up tonight but political venting is boring now and I want to work more with sea ice  – sorry to all SWAG members for both points.    
  • Capitalsim, Probability, and The Second Law o ...
    Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” is in sharp contrast to, “all men are created equal.” Both concepts are inherently similar, yet have stark differences. Both pre ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook amends S-1 filing to note Yahoo paten ...
    Facebook today made an update to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission to reflect the recent lawsuit Yahoo filed against the social network and the current status of proceedings with Paul Ceglia who claims partial ownership of … Continue reading →
  • Users spent more than 10.5B total minutes per ...
    Facebook users spent more than 10.5 billion total minutes per day on the site from personal computers in January, according to an updated S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. With 845 million monthly active users, that’s an average … Continue reading →
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagen ...
    Social analytics company Kontagent hired an engineer, while TBG Digital and BranchOut hired marketing staff this week. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll … Continue reading →
  • Facebook reminds page owners of pages they hav ...
    Facebook is testing a new notification that seems meant to get page owners to re-engage with pages they have neglected. The notification shows admins how many posts and views their page recently received. Previously, page owners did not see alerts … Continue reading →
  • ‘Hunger Games,’ LMFAO, Miracle-Gro, more on th ...
    Popular films, musicians, sports figures, TV shows and more made our list of the top 20 growing Facebook pages by Likes this week. Pages on our list this week grew from between 331,400 to 1 million Likes. We compile this … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...
  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.
  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Roger Tucker debunks recent accusations of "anti-Semitism" made by a group of self-styled Palestinian solidarity activists, led by American academic Ali Abunimah, whom he argues are driven not only by economic and professional self-interest, but are arguably shabbas goyim, non-Jewish elements of ...
  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.
  • Kony 2012's invisible Christian fanaticism
    Mamoon Alabbasi questions why mention of the self-proclaimed Christianity of Ugandan-based Joseph Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army was omitted from the "Kony 2012" video, which seeks to make Kony better known so that he could be brought to justice for his crimes.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 14 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring g ...
  • The EyeOpener- Stratfor and the Privatization ...
    Late last year, hackers with the anonymous hacking group LulzSec raided the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or Stratfor, a private intelligence company in Austin, Texas, coming away with some 5 million emails. Last month, Wikileaks began publishing the emails as “The Global Intelligence ...
  • Double Standards on ‘Terrorism’: Don’t Terrori ...
    Mental State Appears to be Only Relevant to Great White Men of the West I was sipping my first morning coffee while staring at the headlines on the latest massacre committed by our military in Afghanistan. The phrase of the day to describe this latest massacre which resulted in more than a dozen ...
  • Insiders ‘Out’ Al Jazeera Propaganda Machine o ...
    Time to ‘Out’ Others as Well During the last few days I have been watching events unfold on the Al Jazeera front, and I must say, despite the exposé coming out way too late, I am delighted to see this propaganda machine exposed. The headlines read: Key staffs from Al Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau have ...
  • The Bloody Road to Damascus
    The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State By James Petras There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilian ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • A flat tax porposal that is actually fair
    A fair flat tax
  • Ryan's Medicare Hot Air
    There are plenty of real challenges facing America this election year. Three of the most important are jobs, jobs, and jobs. Potential problems in Medicare and Social Security 50 or 75 years from now just don't measure up. It's not time to hit the panic button just yet.
  • An End to Authoritarianism and Plutocracy: It' ...
    Let us consider the fundamental guiding principles for the United States of America -- freedom, equal opportunity,compassion, and security. Then let us consider how those principles have been severely undermined, and how we, the American people, can restore them so that once again our gover ...
  • We wear the hood but "hood remains unchanged
    A long time "print & ink" journalist celebrates the power of activism influenced by social media. With national response to the shooting of a 17-year-old Florida youth as an example, the writer ponders the downside of protests personified by symbolism and the ramifications of a generation condit ...
  • Resurrection of the Universal Declaration of H ...
    All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood. This is the very first article of the Declaration of Human Rights and all others flow from it. Here I examine the contents and impo ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Southern California City Wants to Build World' ...
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Out in the City of Moreno Valley, which is located in the Inland Empire area east of Los Angeles, local planners and private developers want to build from what I c ...
  • A House Divided: Transportation Law Delayed, Y ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. It's only Tuesday and already it's another disappointing week for transportation law. The House GOP has shelved its 90-day extension due to - surprise! - inability to get the vot ...
  • NRDC & Kyra Sedgwick take Global Call to End P ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco Today, I had the great pleasure to work with Kyra Sedgwick on the launch of a new worldwide campaign: a Global Call to End Plastic Pollution. We started the day on MSNBC’s Morning Joe ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Rand Paul is Very Special
    I love Rand Paul. He’s like his father, but with even fewer principles. This Paul speech about oil companies on the Senate floor is classic: Instead of punishing them, you should want to encourage them. I would think you would want to say to the oil companies, “What obstacles are there to ...
  • The Limiting Principle
    Some thoughts about day 2. The key to Kennedy’s vote, evidently, is whether he can be convinced that there’s a limiting principle. Kennedy, unlike the other conservatives, does seem to understand that the health care market is different: But I think it is true that if most questions ...
  • Jonah Goldberg Pontificates About Race
    Sometimes nightmares do come true!
  • TNR vs. RT
    Jesse Zwick at TNR engages in some policing of the left side of the political discourse: What is surprising, however, are the number of decidedly non-crazy American experts and journalists who appear regularly on the channel’s news programs as guest analysts. Indeed, whether it’s playing host to ...
  • Histories of Tipped Labor I: December 6, 1884
    As I wrote recent my piece on tipped labor, I did a little historical research on tipping. For the sake of length, I had to cut the history out of the article. But I found a lot of cool things and I thought I’d share a few of them with you. The first is from [...]

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • New dean at Arizona State; vacancies loom at M ...
    Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law has tapped faculty member Douglas Sylvester as its new dean, effective immediately. Meanwhile, veteran deans at the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Connecticut School of Law have announced plans to step down.
  • Boston settles with lawyer arrested for videot ...
    The city of Boston has paid lawyer Simon Glik $170,000 to settle his First Amendment case against the city and three police officers over his arrest for videotaping police activity.
  • La Verne wins back its provisional accreditation
    The ABA announced on March 26 that the University of La Verne College of Law regained provisional accreditation, meaning that current 3Ls will be able to sit for the bar examination in any state.
  • Northwestern settles for small tuition hike, b ...
    It still ain't cheap, but officials at Northwestern University School of Law announced on March 27 that they would limit the tuition increase for the J.D. program next year to roughly the rate of inflation.
  • Employers demand access to social media accoun ...
    Bryan Cave's Daniel Prywes speaks to NLJ about the legal risks and legislative backlash involved in the recent trend of employers asking job applicants for access to their Facebook profiles.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...
  • Auction of Ivory in China Spurring Illegal Mar ...
    A new report says that the illegal trade in ivory has risen sharply in China in recent years, with nearly 90 percent of the ivory purchased at “legal” auctions obtained from illegal sources. According to the report, published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a decision by the Con ...
  • Denmark Aims to Achieve 35 Percent Green Energ ...
    The Danish government has approved a series of goals to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and increase its use of green energy by 2020, an “ambitious green transition” officials say will affect all levels of society. The agreement, which was approved by parliament last week, targets cutt ...
  • Shunning Nuclear Power Will Lead to a Warmer World
    A physicist argues that if we allow our overblown and often irrational fears of nuclear energy to block the building of a significant number of new nuclear plants, we will be choosing a far more perilous option: the intensified burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. BY SPENCER R. WEART
  • India’s Wind Energy Potential 30 Times Greater ...
    A new report says that the wind energy potential in India may be 30 times greater than previous government estimates, a finding that the authors say could provide a critical solution for a country facing chronic electricity shortages. In an analysis of land actually suitable to wind power develo ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Afghan bombing plot on Defense Ministry target ...
    Afghan authorities have foiled a bomb plot in the Defense Ministry which had the potential of inflicting massive casualties. As more US troops are killed by “friendly” Afghans, the level of support for the war in US has... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Gone to Holland’? All-out search for Medvedev ...
    Where is Dmitry Medvedev’s beloved cat Dorofey? That is the question which hit the Twitter world trends on Wednesday. The blogosphere is stirred – as well as Moscow police who are claimed to be searching for the cat. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Libya’s ‘non state’: Tribal war claims 50 lives
    50 have been killed and dozens injured in Libya as tribal groups are fighting in the country’s south. After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is left in a condition which some residents call a ‘non state’. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Trial of UK protesters: Student beaten half-de ...
    Some 200 people attended a London demonstration to support Alfie Meadows and four others standing trial for their part in December 9, 2010 student protests. Meadows suffered a near-death blow to his head, allegedly... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Standing disunited? Syrian opposition held up ...
    Syrian opposition activists have met in Istanbul to join forces and conjure up a common declaration on Syria's future. But the meeting was marred with walkouts, proving it was difficult for the groups to overcome their... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Bubbly Right Wing nut Michelle Malkin’s ...
    …I find Michelle Malkin ‘style’ to be so utterly repulsive beyond all imagination! Here is an example of it as she launches her latest media bambazzle 2 weeks ago… ‘Wanted to share an exciting announcement with you all and encourage you to join and support our new w ...
  • Up to 200,000 young people ‘occupied&#82 ...
    Turns out that the Occupy Movement is not so dead after all, it’s just that the corporate media wants you to think that it is. ‘Occupy Montreal’ is not exactly organized in the way that Occupy Wall Street has done up to now, but it was way more successful last week when massive ...
  • Obama’s lying claim to be for world nucl ...
    Only a slime ball like Obama with his Democratic Party-military-industrial complex behind him would be capable of pulling off the pretense of calling for world nuclear disarmament while stoking the flames for a new US Middle East war to be begun at one and the same time! How does he get away wit ...
  • Justice for Trayvon Martin rally held in Acaci ...
    From the Black community of Colorado Springs comes glimmers that intelligent life can be found in Colorado Springs after all! Channel 13 reports… Colorado Springs Call For Justice Hundreds Attend Rally In Honor Of Trayvon Martin …If this rally had been better publicized, one feels su ...
  • Go back to your country, Terrorist?
    US government militarism occupies this woman’s country and kills over a million of its citizens over several decades, and yet it is the Iraqi born woman who is labeled a terrorist by her killer? All decent Americans need to demand Justice for Shaima Al Awadi!   Is this killer of this ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Allergies, Warning Labels, and Dilemmas
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Food allergies affect about 10-15 million Americans today. Interestingly, a similar number of people believe they have an allergy as well! How could this be? To answer, first let’s understand what a foo ...
  • Kids Eat Q&A: Puree Pouches
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Dr. Dina R. Rose Puree pouches are all the rage right now. And not just for little kids either. My almost 11 year old daughter squeezes one into her mouth for snack at least twice ...
  • How Your Nose May Help With Portion Control
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The LA Times Booster Shots blog reports on an interesting study by a trade journal called Flavour. Researchers wanted to see if they could affect the bite size people take, based on a food’s aroma. They ...
  • Food and the Brain: Antioxidants
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Lee, Ph.D. Everybody is talking about antioxidants. It’s hard to keep up with all the latest “superfoods” and their supposed antioxidant benefits. But few people can expl ...
  • Public Pressure Works: Grocery Retailers Pulli ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Not two weeks have passed since Americans became familiarized with the pink slime found in our ground beef, and major supermarket chains have publicly come out stating they will not be selling pink slime prod ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle medical plastic tubing?
    We’ve had an email from Janette asking about medical plastic tubing: I need to know how I might reuse/recycle medical plastic tubing. My husband uses an oxygen tank and the cannula (clear plastic tubing) needs to be changed every two weeks. After the nasal clip is removed, biowaste/garbage ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle as moulds for maki ...
    We asked about stuff to reuse/recycle as homemade soup moulds not too long ago but Danell has messaged with a variation on that theme: I want to melt old crayon stubs together to make new crayons for kids. I know I could use old muffin tins or ice cube trays, neither of which I have, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle vertical blinds mat ...
    Someone on my Twitter feed yesterday – I can’t remember who, sorry – asking about ways to recycle or reuse the material from vertical track blinds. My first – instinctive – reaction was “bleugh!” because I hate the feel of those blinds ;) My second thoug ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle little paint tester ...
    We covered old leftover paint on the site many, many moons ago (roughly 66-67 moons ago apparently) but these last few weeks, we’ve been rather overrun with little tester pots of paint here. I hate tester pots from an environmental point of view – usually plastic pots, sometimes with ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle the nets you get ar ...
    Long time Recycle This friend (and very frequent commenter!) Anna has a question about the protective sleeves slipped around wine bottles: Any ideas what to do with the plastic nets they put for wine bottles for protecting them when you buy one? I don’t drink wine so I had to turn to my fr ...

Age of Autism

  • Best of Age of Autism: Mark Blaxill on Lies, D ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We anticipate new autism prevalence numbers from CDC any moment. As April Fool's day and the cerulean silly season of awareness and celebration approaches, we thought we'd run this post Mark Blaxill: Lies, Damned Lies and CDC...
  • FREE Virtual Autism Conference from MomsFighti ...
    MomsFightingAutism.com Presents its 3rd Online Autism Conference April 9th - April 15th Featuring 40 Speaker Presentations and New Mobile App Irvine, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2012 -- In honor of Autism Awareness month, MomsFightingAutism.com is offering a free virtual conference...
  • Winner Lee Silsby OurKidsASD Autism Treatment ...
    CONTEST IS CLOSED. We'll have another soon from our good friends at Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD. Congrats to RONDA and MANDY who've each won a bottle Enhansa (150mg/150 capsules or 30gm powder) and a bottle of ASD vitamin...
  • The Aluminum Threat: An Interview With Chris Shaw
    By Anne Dachel In 2008, well-known pediatrician, Robert Sears had a story published in Mothering Magazine titled, Is Aluminum the New Thimerosal? Sears had become concerned about the level of aluminum (Al) children were being exposed to in the ever-expanding...
  • Action Alert! Protect Autism Insurance Coverag ...
    Below is a sample letter for an action alert in Illinois. Find your representative and send the letter with a quick cut, paste and click Illinois Action Alert HERE. I am writing to express my support for Senate Bill SB...

Global BDS Movement

  • Major Norwegian retail chain stops sales of oc ...
    The VITA decision comes after a period of active lobbying from Norwegian People’s Aid and the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (Fagforbundet)
  • Policy Paper – U.S. Military Aid To Israel
    About the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is a national coalition of nearly 400 organizations working to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality. … Continue reading&#160 ...
  • Israel sponsors Polish soap opera in ‘image im ...
    Polish and Israeli activists have called on the makers of a Polish medical drama to abandon plans to film two episodes in Israel under the sponsorship of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
    For the 3rd consecutive year, students in Gaza are holding a series of events to mark Israeli Apartheid Week. Gaza’s contribution to this international on-campus initiative is largely the work of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel.
  • Israel ‘charity’ accused of racism suffers ano ...
    Green Party of England and Wales members voted overwhelmingly to support an international campaign for action against JNF practices in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and to revoke its charity status in the UK.

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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Mali Coup Opponents Rally
    VoaNews – Opponents of last week’s military coup in Mali staged a demonstration in the capital, Bamako, on Monday. A new political and civil society front is calling on coup leaders to negotiate a rapid return to civilian rule, as international pressure grows on the junta to step asi ...
  • Eritrea blames US for Ethiopian attacks; US denies
    Huffington Post – Eritrea’s president said Monday that attacks on targets inside his tiny Horn of Africa nation by its archrival Ethiopia was the “handiwork of Washington.” Ethiopia said on March 15 it attacked three military posts inside its northern neighbor Eritrea. Th ...
  • Three foreign soldiers killed by Afghan forces
    Reuters – Three foreign soldiers, including two Britons, were shot dead by Afghan security forces personnel on Monday in the latest round of so-called insider killings which have raised deep concerns about the reliability of NATO’s local allies and their ability to keep the peace. In ...
  • Very high radiation, little water in Japan reactor
    AP – One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and much less water to cool it than officials had estimated, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about the plant’s stability. A tool equipped with a tiny video camera, a th ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – Nuclear Weapons
    “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One…I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.” Nuclear weapons may not be in the news these days as much as they were in the Cold War but they are [...]

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Obama limits carbon dioxide emissions from new ...
    As reported on the Los Angeles Times Politics Now blog, the Obama administration on Tuesday announced stringent rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. Most climate scientists say that carbon dioxide is the principal gas responsible for global warming.
  • NASCAR speeds transition to green
    When NASCAR raced onto the track at Fontana’s Auto Club Speedway on Sunday, it did so accompanied by the distinct whiff of environmentalism. To help neutralize the carbon-dioxide emissions generated from the race, the track’s owners will plant 100 trees around the community as part o ...
  • Clouded readings of EPA study of Dimock water, ...
    Environmental Protection Agency reports recently obtained by several Pennsylvania families who feared their well water was polluted by natural gas drilling appear to contradict the agency’s original statement late last week that the water was safe to drink, according to the investigative w ...
  • Study: 'Fracking' may increase air pollution h ...
    Air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing, a controversial oil and gas drilling method, may contribute to “acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites,” according to a new study from the  Colorado School of Public Health .
  • Poll: More Americans now back domestic drilling
    Struggling with rising prices at the pump, Americans are voicing a greater willingness to develop domestic fossil fuels than they did just a year ago, according to a new poll.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Legislation to Ban Arsenic in Maryland’s ...
    Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch Washington, D.C.—“For the third year in a row, the Maryland State House has failed consumers and their vital resources by undermining groundbreaking legislation that would have banned the use of arsenic in the state’s poul ...
  • Books Banned in Arizona - Latinos Fighting Tho ...
    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, ...
  • Real Health Care Advocates Should Support Repe ...
    By Kevin Zeese It’s Our Economy, the organization I co-direct with Margaret Flowers, MD,Single Payer Actionand 50 doctors filed anamicus brief inHHS v. Florida, the challenge to the Affordable Care Act being heard in the Supreme Court this week. We support health care reform but oppose t ...
  • The world needs public trial of political lead ...
    Arun Shrivastava Yes, public trial for treason, war crimes, and the genocide going on right now. This is part of a very long essay on Depleted Uranium weapons, nuclear reactors and their environmental health impacts. In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from uni ...
  • Israel’s occupation: Who is most “ ...
    By Alan Hart If more proof was needed (some of us think it isn’t) that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu lives in a fantasy world that exists only in his own deluded mind, his latest verbal assault on the UN Human Rights Council for its decision to appoint and despatch an independent inte ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Just Like Mike: Ontario Budget Analysis
    Over on our blog, Behind the Numbers, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shares his devastating critique of the Ontario budget. He suggests that Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth Ontario budget completes the job of cutting government down to size—a job started by the Mike Harris Conservatives ...
  • Brad Wall's Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    With the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and the certain demise of the film industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall asked: "If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsidy, should the taxpayers subsidize indefinitely?" The Saskatchewan Off ...
  • Tuition fees and accessibility to higher education
    This week, three hundred thousand students from 178 associations are boycotting their classes in Quebec to protest the provincial government's decision to raise tuition fees $325 a year for the next five years. CBC radio in Quebec City interviewed Erika Shaker, director of the CCPA's Education P ...
  • Jets and Jails or Jobs and Justice?
    Saskatchewan Director Simon Enoch discusses the upcoming federal budget and the CCPA's Alternative Budget with Prairie Dog's Gregory Beatty. Read more here. 
  • Forward to Fairness: Nova Scotia Alternative B ...
    CCPA-NS brings together academics and community partners to assemble its Alternative Budget for 2012. This document shows Nova Scotians that minor changes in government spending could have a major impact on the health and wellness of its population. Putting the welfare of the province's citize ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The human cost of the Fukushima meltdowns, one ...
    From io9.com – In March 2011, a tumult of natural disasters spurred the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant located near the small rural towns of Okuma and Futaba. In the coming weeks, hundreds of thousands evacuated their homes, likely never to return ...
  • Totalitarian Systems Always Begin by Rewriting ...
    By Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out the questioning as part of the government’s effort to d ...
  • UK 99% Fu@#ed: Healthcare reforms leave many f ...
    By RT.com,London, UK – Already we’re starting to see a number of private health interests starting to look at cherry-picking some of the best, most profitable parts of the national health service. They were just waiting for it go through and are ready to pounce. They’re directors on the bo ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird (Penis)
    “This hotel that I’m working tonight is nothing but people who haven’t seen their toes in two decades and millionaires with no class…geez, how did the gene pool get so shallow?”–Artist Patrick Thorne ————————&#82 ...
  • Hippie Health Digest
    ‘Master growers’ cultivating a higher grade of marijuana By Joe Mozingo,Los Angeles Time – A new breed of connoisseur is producing pot that is potent, tastes smooth and has a pleasing aroma ¿ the kind of product now expected by ever-more discriminating consumers who frequent me ...

FourWinds10

  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
  • California may ban takeout food in foam containers
    (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...
  • China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
    (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Oil Reserves
    The Difference Between Oil Shale and Oil from Shale Formations There has been some confusion lately about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if the Obama Administration will simply ...
  • Are You Looking to Invest in the Google of Bio ...
    The Big Names in Biofuels So you’re hoping to strike it rich by investing in LanzaTech. Or Solazyme. Or KiOR. Or Gevo. After all, these companies have all recently had high-profile IPOs, and they are clearly “hot” given all of the press coverage devoted to them. So perhaps you ...
  • Oil Dependence — Tom Friedman’s False Narrative
    Twisting Facts to Support an Agenda Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, frequently writes on the topic of energy and the environment. One persistent habit he has is to omit certain important facts from a story — facts so important that they would greatly undermine the poi ...
  • Global Warming Primer & Natural Gas Vehicles — ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions about compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed are: The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-deri ...
  • The Professor Who Knew Too Little
    It is clear that many people have a very simplistic — but wrong — view of the energy markets. This extends to politicians who believe they can usher in a return to $2 gasoline, as well as those who underestimate the difficulty of replacing oil with renewable energy. For the average p ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink
    Comments:Take a picture and icons and make them interactive links.  - Dean MantzTags: interactive, ThingLink, engagement, creativity, linksby: Dean Mantz
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    Comments:Partnership between college faculty, elementary teachers, and students.  Based on National Science Foundation  - Dean MantzTags: science, technology, elementary, exploration, learning, creativityby: Dean Mantz
  • Historical Movie Trailers with iMovie - HCSMobile
    Comments:Great use of Discovery Education videos and student creativity for student assessment.  Create video trailers to assess learning.  - Dean MantzTags: history, trailers, socialstudies, imovie, iPadby: Dean Mantz
  • Record mp3: record live audio and get an mp3
    Comments:Record audio via website and have ability to download mp3 file for presentations, movies, etc.  - Dean MantzTags: auio, mp3, record, podcasting, tools, recorderby: Dean Mantz
  • Smithsonian Wild
    Comments:Welcome to Smithsonian WILD! This site is designed to showcase some of the exciting research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and its collaborators around the world, and to highlight the incredible diversity of wildlife that exists in a range of habitats across the globe.  T ...

Rodale News

  • 3 Unexpected Ways the Fish Aisle Could Sicken You
    It's no secret that mercury in fish is bad for your health. Ill effects ranging from low IQ, ADHD, and autism in children have been well documented, but emerging research suggests that eating too many meals of tainted fish could lead to other common, yet unexpected, diseases in adults, too. Au ...
  • FDA Ordered to Take Action on Antibiotic Use i ...
    In a major court decision that could help protect Americans from potentially fatal superbug infections, a federal judge ruled Thursday night that the Food and Drug Administration must act now to address the dangers involved with overusing antibiotics in livestock production. The move to force ...
  • The Worst Shoes for Summer
    What's not to love about spring and summer? Warm weather, lots of sun, bare feet, and… foot fungus? Depending on the kind of shoes you wear, you could find yourself with a nasty, soil-borne fungal infection that could leave your feet in an unappealing—and painful—state. Researchers in India fou ...
  • "Superbugs" Prompt Urgent Warning From Scientists
    Call it ironic, call it scary—call it urgent, is what America's leading agriculture scientists are saying about a new variety of superbug invading American farms. Thanks to the heavy reliance on genetically modified crops, a tiny worm has overtaken fields, outsmarting the genetic engineering th ...
  • New Rule: Don't Take Antibiotics for This Comm ...
    Your family doctor knows best, right? Not always. Many physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for a common springtime ailment that cannot effectively be wiped out with drugs. And dishing out these antibiotics doesn't just threaten patients with side effects, but also leads to the creation o ...

big think

  • George Dyson: How Turing's Cathedral Was Built
    What's the Big Idea? "It is impossible to predict where the digital universe is going," writes technology historian George Dyson in the preface to his new book Turing's Cathedral , "but it id possible to understand how it began." It is from that contention that Dyson sets out to tel ...
  • The Internet's Cult of Now
    There is only one measure of time that matters to the current Internet generation: the here and now. The Cult of Now is influencing everything that we do and every interaction we have on the Internet, especially since providing a live, real-time update is often no more difficult than pressin ...
  • 559 - The World’s Largest Atlas: Cheers Bests ...
      The map is not the territory [1], but this collection gets closer than most [2]. Earth Platinum, published at the end of February in an edition limited to 31 copies, is the world’s largest atlas. The book is 1.8 m (6 ft) high and 1.4 m (4.5 ft) wide. When opened, it spans 2.8 m (9 ft). ...
  • Reason Rally Wrap-Up, Part 3
    Read Part 2 here. I've talked about the weather, the crowds, the protesters and the speakers, and I wanted to end up with some overall impressions. One of the things about the Reason Rally that made me happiest was how young and diverse the crowd was. I've been to atheist conventions ...
  • Google Earth Used As Tool To Rehabilitate Slums
    What is the Big Idea? The slums of Sangli, a city in southwestern India, is nothing more than a patch of blank space on a map. But thanks to Google Earth images, new information about these forgotten dwellings have emerged, according to Le Monde. Distinct borders and other identifying .. ...

Information Liberation

  • Florida Cop Arrests Man for Filming Traffic St ...
    "Sir, it's illegal to videotape us." A lying scumbag police officer placed an innocent citizen under arrest because the cop was under the delusional premise videotaping police is illegal. The state has yet to file any charges against the man,...
  • Man Arrested, Charged With Assault For Pointin ...
    A Fredericksburg man faces two counts of assault for allegedly pointing his finger at police officers, another example of how any behavior except complete subservience to law enforcement is now being treated as a crime. David Loveless, who has n...
  • Trayvon Martin and the Cult of Government Supr ...
    Nineteen days before the killing of Trayvon Martin by self-appointed block "captain" George Zimmerman, Manuel Loggins was murdered by an Orange County Sheriff*s Deputy in the parking lot of San Clemente High School. Loggins, a deeply religious...
  • Insane Michigan government announces plan to d ...
    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. It's all part of a shocking new "Invasive Species Order" (ISO) put in plac...
  • 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. f...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • The Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon F ...
    Report title:  “Analysis of the Economic Impact of a Regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard on Northeast/Mid-Atlantic States: Final Report” From the Consumer Energy Alliance http://bit.ly/H4LJoL (report) http://bit.ly/H9oX1Z (press release) [From a Greenwire article by Amanda Peterka, sub ...
  • EPA Power Plant Standards: A Powerful Catalyst ...
    Union of Concerned Scientists / by Rachel Cleetus http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/solutions/big_picture_solutions/epa-regulations-electicity-reliability.html [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd] The economic viability of coal is steadily eroding, as low natural gas pri ...
  • Poll: Americans Split on Energy vs. Environmen ...
    Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/153404/Americans-Split-Energy-Environment-Trade-Off.aspx [From Website]  Americans are about as likely to say production of energy supplies (47%) should be prioritized as to say environmental protection (44%) should be, a closer division than last year, when ene ...
  • Pipeline Safety: Collecting Data and Sharing I ...
    US Government Accountability Office www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-388 [AP/Fuelfix]  Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make sure ...
  • Wasting Our Waterways: 2012 Toxic Industrial P ...
    Environment America http://bit.ly/GJD67u [From a Greenwire article by Paul Quinlan, sub. req'd]  The Ohio River and the Mississippi River top the list of the nation’s most polluted waterways in a report released yesterday by an environmental group. Citing a U.S. EPA discharge inventory, th ...

Scientific American - News

  • Pupfish, Downfish: Subterranean Tsunami Gives ...
    On March 20 a National Park Service biologist named Jeffrey Goldstein and I descended a rocky incline into the mouth of Devils Hole, a collapsed cave in the Nevada desert 40 miles south of the visitor’s center in Death Valley. Thirty feet down, an arm of water extends out from a deep pool ...
  • Controversy Surrounds Russia's Claim that Cosm ...
    A heartbreaking, out-of-the-gate failure of Russia’s sample return mission early this year created a wide circle of disappointment. For Russia, it was supposed to be a "cavalry charge" toward a hyperambitious goal that would have redeemed a quarter-century of interplanetary imp ...
  • Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars Grows Stronger
    THE WOODLANDS, Tex.--Today's Mars is a frigid desert, a place where water--the key to life as we know it--has gone into hiding. Whatever water may have once existed on Mars in rivers, lakes or even oceans is now frozen into ice caps, locked up in hydrated minerals or buried in debris-coated ...
  • Health Care Reform on Trial: What's at Stake i ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is a busy place this time of year. So when the justices announced that, starting March 26, they would hear six hours of arguments on the health care reform law --the most time it has dedicated to any one case in decades--the gravitas of the issue became clear to all. [Mor ...
  • The Ballooning Brain: Defective Genes May Expl ...
    As a baby grows inside the womb, its brain does not simply expand like a dehydrated sponge dropped in water. Early brain development is an elaborate procession. Every minute some 250,000 neurons bloom, squirming past one another like so many schoolchildren rushing to their seats at the sound of ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • NSGEU Local 22 and Allies in Early Morning Inf ...
    Cuts to Youth Worker Positions Despite No Provincial Mental Health Strategy Halifax - Members of Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU) Local 22, the IWK Health Care Workers, today continued their protest against the rec ...
  • Jackie
    One of the better answer I heard about the prostitution debate
  • "Stand With Us to Fight"
    Hundreds Protest Enbridge Pipeline and Oil Tankers at Heiltsuk-led Rally Hundreds of people from First Nations, environmental and community organizations, and others from Vancouver and beyond rallied against Enbridge's Northern Gateway ...
  • Hundreds Rally Against Enbridge Oil
      Vancouver - On a soggy Monday afternoon, hundreds of people rallied against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline from the tar sands in Alberta to Kitimat, British Columbia.  The protest was lead by the Heiltsuk people, whom proudly describe themselves as the care takers of ...
  • April's Pitches for Pay!
    You write the stories, we pay you money! As we do every month, in April we will pay two contributors for news features to be published in The Dominion.  We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, incl ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why are the Republicans so weird?
    David Seaton's News LinksThis blog post, by the excellent Thomas Edsall, makes some very interesting points about the make-up of the Republican electorate. In the GOP’s South Carolina primary, 98% of those who voted were white: this in a state where nearly 28% of the population is black. Rep ...
  • Mohammed Merah, the monster of Toulouse
    David Seaton's News LinksThe  question we must ask is; was Mohammed Merah really a trained terrorist or simply a nut?We know practically nothing about Mohammed Merah. As far as we can see he acted totally alone, with only a handgun: nothing complicated like explosives was involved.Right n ...
  • When is a conservative not a conservative?
    David Seaton's News LinksAt a Tea Party rally in Troy, Michigan, the GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said this: "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" To rapturous applause, Santorum went on: "There are good, decent men and women who go ...
  • China: capitalism, democracy and sovereignty
    David Seaton's News Links China is an authoritarian state, run in Leninist fashion by a communist party and at the same time a vital player, perhaps, alongside the United States, the key player in the international capitalist system. We wish it were more democratic. Perhaps we should be ca ...
  • Save the Children
    David Seaton's News Links  Over six million children die of hunger every year, according to the World Health Organization... Is there anything more that must be said? What is going to be done? DS

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Mitt Romney's Big Problem: No One Likes Him
    I know it's early days and all that, but this ABC News/Washington Post poll tells you all you need to know about Mitt Romney's November problem: nobody likes him much. I figure he'll make up his relatively poor showing among Republicans once the primaries are over and it's time to sing Ku ...
  • The Supreme Court Shows Its True Colors
    From an attorney friend who's long been more pessimistic than me1 about the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn Obamacare: Dalia Lithwick posted an updated piece after the arguments — the gist of which was that they really might strike it down. She didn't mention h ...
  • Donald Verrilli Makes the Worst Supreme Court ...
    Virtually everyone agrees that today's arguments before the Supreme Court were a disaster for the Obama administration. Adam Serwer sums up the reason: Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the courtroom, because hi ...
  • The Death of the Enclosed Mall
    Dan Malouff reports that enclosed malls are shutting down all over the Washington DC metro area. Atrios comments: There's an absolutely absurd amount of retail floor space in this country, so this isn't all that surprising. But there are two things going on here. First, as the chart ...
  • Coal's Final Hoorah Coming Soon
    Matt Yglesias writes that new EPA rules will soon spell the end of new construction of coal-fired power plants: The new rules will mandate that all new power plants generate no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. That's a standard that your basic r ...

Insanity Report

  • Lawrence O’Donnell Dropping Ether
    I have a general dislike for most of the media, particularly 24 hour cable news networks.  24 hours of non-stop coverage and yet I feel like we’re getting even less real information and becoming less informed the more we watch.  The same stories rehashed from hour to hour, the same guests recycl ...
  • IC 311: More Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: Bioware Mass Effect 3 update Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtles Extra raunchy & sexual comedy isn’t funny Dane Cook sucks President Obama Comments on Trayvon Martin The Trayvon Martin Case & White Privilege George Zimmerman’s friends defend him Racist don’t kil ...
  • IC 310: The Stop Michael Bay Foundation
    Topics: Movie news Disney bombs with John Carter Why John Carter was doomed from the beginning Michael Bay looks to rape the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legacy Crazy lady goes nuts in class over evolution How to deal with crazy Trayvon Martin updates Larry Elder is a sad excuse for a man Toure ...
  • IC 309: I Hate NYC
    Topics: Comcast, the Jehovah Witnesses of Cable companies Kriss & Kev hate NYC Kwame Kilpatrick has a movie Black people feeling the need to support other black people just cause they’re black The Trayvon Martin case and how absurd it is The uproar over the Mass Effect 3 ending *spoil ...
  • What Was More Offensive Than Limbaugh’s “Slut” ...
    Another day, another offensive Rush Limmbaugh segment from his radio show. By know you’ve heard that advertisers are leaving Rush’s show and Rush Limbaugh has even done something I’ve never heard him do before:  “Apologize”. I have “apologize” in quotes ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Testosterone low, but responsive to competitio ...
    It's a rough life for the Tsimane, an isolated indigenous group in Bolivia. They make a living by hunting and foraging in forests, fishing in streams and clearing land by hand to grow crops. Their rugged lifestyle might imply that Tsimane men have elevated testosterone to maintain the physical a ...
  • Nanostarfruits are pure gold for research
    They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing. read more
  • U of Toronto discovery of new catalyst promise ...
    A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally-friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are currently in wide use by the drug, fragrance and food industry. read more
  • Size matters: Large Marine Protected Areas wor ...
    Ecologists in New Zealand have shown for the first time that Marine Protected Areas -- long advocated as a way of protecting threatened marine mammals -- actually work. Their study, based on 21 years' monitoring and published March 27 in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecolog ...
  • Elusive long-fingered frog found after 62 years
    Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Burundi in December 2011. The frog was last seen by scientists in 1949 and was feared ...

unEarthed

  • EPA Proposes Standards For Pollution From New ...
    Part of ongoing effort to curb pollution causing global warming Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed historic new standards to limit industrial ca ...
  • Spruce Court Decision: A Sad Day in West Virginia
    Citizens vow to fight harder against mountaintop removal mining Mountaintop removal mining A federal district court judge overruled the Environmental Pro ...
  • Friday Finds: The Clean Air Diet
    Gas price lies, “safe” fracking water, BPA bans Dirty air, not eating all those chips, may cause obesity, so munch on! (Photo courtesy of loop_oh) Forget Fri ...
  • On World Water Day, Take a Sip, Take a Moment
    Water is life, so let's keep our fight for clean water alive One billion people around the world don’t have access to clean, safe water. (Getty) It ...
  • Breathing is Popular
    New public survey shows broad support for clean air standards Breathing isn’t just a physiological necessity, relegated to the unconscious functioning of o ...

Brave New Climate

  • Environmentalism in the mud: responding to Jim ...
    Guest Post by Ben Heard. Ben is Director of Adelaide-based advisory firm ThinkClimate Consulting, a Masters graduate of Monash University in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, and a member of the TIA Environmental and Sustainability Action Committee. After several years with major consultin ...
  • Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate c ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions on a hotter planet (Part III). He also wrote a brilliant recent piece for The ...
  • Further critique of ’100% renewable elec ...
    Recently on BNC, I ran two guest posts on the economic and technical challenges of supplying an energy-intensive, developed-world market using 100% renewable sources (under a situation where large hydro and/or conventional geothermal can provide little or no contribution). The case study was the ...
  • How realistic is The Economist’s cool vi ...
    Last week, the influential weekly news and international affairs publication, The Economist, ran an essay on the future of nuclear energy – The dream that failed: Nuclear power will not go away, but its role may never be more than marginal. As you might have guessed from the title, it was ...
  • IFR FaD 11 – sodium coolant and pool design
    This is the second of a four-part series of extracts from the book Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor by Chuck Till and Yoon Chang. Reproduced with permission of the authors, these sections describe and justify some of the key design choices that went into the making the I ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • J Street third annual conference marks shift t ...
    By Moriel Rothman I have attended all three J Street conferences since the organization formed in 2008 with the dual objectives of pushing the US government to take an active role in bringing about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and changing the discourse within the ma ...
  • The end of the Sharon dynasty: Five takeaways ...
    Despite positioning itself as the opposition party, estimates are that the hawkish Mofaz will join Netanyahu’s government following the 2013 elections. Shaul Mofaz, 64, won the Kadima primaries decisively yesterday, beating Tzipi Livni 62%-38%. Livni chaired the party since the resignation ...
  • Traces of the Nakba: Book review of ‘Sto ...
    Despite attempts to conceal the memory of stones in the village of Hunin, papers in the kibbutz archives left a trail revealing the hidden war. In his bold book, Stone, Paper, Tomer Gardi places history in its present, as a driving political force, while rejecting the practice of historical writ ...
  • What’s wrong with J Street – an open letter to ...
    By Dr. Naftali Kaminski Dear friends, I was among the founding members of the J Street Chapter of Pittsburgh. I attended the two previous conferences and was very active in organizing and initiating events.  Over the last year, I gradually grew disillusioned and a few months ago I decided not to ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court: Jerusalem is not a foreign ...
    The decision inches Jerusalem another step closer to de jure recognition by America as an undisputed part of sovereign Israel. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 8-1 to reject the appeal by a federal court in Washington stating that the question of whether to register someone born in Jerusa ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

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Consumerist

  • Bernanke: "Far Too Early To Declare Victory" O ...
    For the last two years, all upbeat statements about the economy have been followed with a huge "but," and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben "Feel the" Bernanke isn't going to buck that trend. In an interview airing with Diane Sawyer on tonight's ABC World News, Bernanke says that although things ar ...
  • Study: Pharmacies Lie To Teens About Legal Age ...
    It's legal for 17-year-olds to go to the pharmacy and buy emergency contraception like Plan B, but that isn't stopping pharmacy workers from lying to teens and telling them they're too young for it, says an undercover survey included in a new study. MSNBC says a report in the journal Pediatric ...
  • Harry Potter Series Arrives In E-Book Format T ...
    Perhaps lugging around a thick paper copy of any of the seven books in the Harry Potter series has deterred you from indulging in a re-read, or even attempting a first go at the books. But starting today, J.K. Rowling's novels involving the world of wizards are available in e-book format. The ...
  • Atheist Symbol Rejected By Capital One, But Je ...
    Consumerist reader Mike has a Capital One credit card. He'd hoped to get one of the bank's customizable "Image Cards" printed with a big red "A" for atheism. His initial upload was rejected by Capital One, which sent him a long list of possible reasons. And when he called to appeal, things just ...
  • Worst Company In America Round 3: PayPal Vs. W ...
    Which is mightier: bricks and mortar or bits and bytes? That age-old question will finally be resolved on the blood-soaked ultrasuede floor of the Worst Company In America Ellipse of Evil. For many years, Walmart has been the knee-jerk, go-to brand name to throw out when one needs to referenc ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • American Whistleblower Tour at Mt. Holyoke Tom ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Thomas Drake, Jesselyn Radack to Attend Latest Stop (Washington, DC) – Tomorrow, March 28, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) brings its program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, to Mount Holyoke College. The stop will feature ...
  • JM Center for the Constitution Event on Whistl ...
    We want to alert you to an event happening this Sunday, April 1 and Monday, April 2 at the James Madison Montpelier Center for the Constitution. Today is the last day to RSVP, so make sure to check it out!  The event – Whistleblowers, State Secrets, and National Security – w ...
  • Congress Backs MacLean; Geithner to Testify ab ...
    TSA whistleblower Robert MacLean with NYPD whistleblower Frank SerpicoOrange County Register (CA): Congressfolk – MacLean is Bona Fide Whistleblower, Should be Protected Summary: Three members of Congress – Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) – have filed ...
  • Cummings, Kucinich, Maloney Present Amicus on ...
    This week the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals accepted a "friend of the court" or amicus curiae brief in support of Federal Air Marshals (FAM) whistleblower Robert MacLean from three Members of Congress who long have been champions of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA). Representatives Elij ...
  • Geithner to Testify before Congress about Whis ...
    Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is scheduled to testify before the House Committee on Appropriations (State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee) next Tuesday, March 27. His testimony is likely to focus on the proposed General Capital Increases at the Multilateral Development Ba ...

UK Progressive

  • Fannie and Freddie: Slashing Mortgages Is Good ...
    by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica and Chris Arnold, NPR Update: On Friday (23 March), following the publication of this story by ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers called on the Federal Housing Finance Administration to provide Congress with the new analyses on principal reductions by Fannie Mae and Fred ...
  • C-SPAN Is America
    A century from now, presidents and students will be reflecting on the fate of freedom and the exchange of ideas that unfold on C-SPAN today, and can be viewed on C-SPAN video archives that tell the story of democracy and America in news cycles measured in minutes, hours, years, decades and centu ...
  • Healthcare Jujitsu
    Not surprisingly, yesterday’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” and the question of whether the issue is ripe for review. Behind this judicial fo ...
  • Op-Ed: The War Criminal’s New Heart
    Since the news flashed Saturday night on my iPad that former US Vice President and former Halliburton CEO, Dick Cheney received a donor heart transplant at age 71, I have sat with an uncharacteristic, seething rage. Never wishing to begrudge anyone a chance at life via a medical miracle, this st ...
  • Best of AERBT – Olympic Worries, Lost Aviation ...
    Olympic Worries By The Airlines The heads of the UK’s four major airlines have warned the British Government that there could be chaos at London’s airports during this summer’s Olympic Games, which would cause major embarrassment to the country unless a deal can be reached over their ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • There go those gravy trains in Queensland & Vi ...
    Australia is stepping back from the cliff At last, some real progress. Both Queensland and Victoria are peeling back the warmist bureaucracy. I’m happy. The new premier of Queensland Campbell Newman, is scrapping many state carbon reduction schemes. Who knew that the head of Queensland&#82 ...
  • The people fightback against the ABC (re: Wend ...
    The voice of The Ben Bernank debunks the ABC. This was posted in Sept 2011. I don’t know why I didn’t see it til this week (h/t Jennifer Marohasy’s). “They want to regulate every aspect of your life, and they are prepared to lie to do it…” Great job here from ...
  • This gold bar is worth its weight in … t ...
    A gold bar that should have weighed 1,000 grams, weighed 2 grams too little. The owner had it cut in half to reveal that the certified, stamped bar with serial numbers had tungsten rods inserted all the way through it. Tungsten, has a density of 19.35 g/cm3, so is a near-perfect match for gold ( ...
  • $175k to cheer up Department of Energy and Cli ...
    Hey, but this is alright when you are spending someone else’s money isn’t it? Staff at the Australian Department of Climate  Change are so depressed, I can’t think why, so the government is spending $175,000 to cheer them up. Could it be that the poor staff would enjoy their jo ...
  • Those devastating Queensland Election Results: ...
    UPDATE: Is this a record? Has there ever been a loss this bad in Australian history? Conservatives likely to win 74 seats of an 89 seat parliament. Labor was reduced to only 11 seats in 1974, and on latest counting tonight appeared set to retain only nine seats. Some analysts put the figure even ...

ReNew America

  • RomneyCare inspires ObamaCare, but not America
    (Rick Santorum) - Two years ago, President Obama signed into law ObamaCare, his signature piece of legislation. As a direct result of that law's unpopularity, Congressional Democrats suffered devastating defeats in the midterm election of 2010, losing more than sixty seats in the House. It would ...
  • Conservative justices attack Obamacare mandate ...
    (Newsmax) - Conservative Supreme Court justices pounced on the central issue of Obamacare Tuesday, asking pointed questions about whether the government was overreaching with a mandate forcing all Americans to buy health insurance...
  • Obama: Too big to fail?
    (Joseph Farah) - You remember why we had to bail out those Wall Street firms and those banks and General Motors. They were too big to fail, we were told. And maybe today you're wondering why the entire media establishment, the popular culture, the political establishment and even much of the "al ...
  • Obama's secret plan
    (Brett M. Decker) - There is only one thing scarier for the future of America than all of the debt and bad policies President Obama has built up since his 2008 election: It's what the prospect of an Obama second term would bring. And the president isn't being honest about what his secret plans a ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Taft 2012'
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Let your imagination run wild: What if President William Howard Taft suddenly disappeared nearly 100 years ago on his way out the White House door and was resurrected (as certified by scientists) in 2012? That fantasy would leave intact his previous life's accomplishme ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Fermi Bubbles – Proof of Galactic Core Explosion?
    These two things are certain: Nothing has completely eradicated life on Earth (so far) Natural catastrophes may vary in size, type and location – but they always repeat An explosion from our Galactic Core is certainly survivable, although you might need a bunker and supplies to last ...
  • Mexico City Earthquake: Predicted!
    “State System for Civil (public) Protection Mega Simulation Setting: Presence and effect of an earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Participants: General Public, Schools and Hospitals, both public and private, businesses, social and private agencies, as well as those dependents of ...
  • Australia: Biggest Quake in 15 Years
    As reported by news.com.au: The earthquake’s epicentre was recorded at shallow depth near Ernabella, 415km north west of Coober Pedy and about 320km south west of Alice Springs, just before 8pm. Geoscience Australia reported the quake could have been felt by people up to 500km away and d ...
  • Homeland Security Tracking Preppers?
    Survivalist and Prepper websites have been reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has been paying them a visit – for example Off Grid Survival: So of course I went and checked some of my sites, here are the totals since Jan 1, 2011: 2012 Connect   16 2012 Base    21 Survi ...
  • 188 Day Earthquake Cycle?
    I’m actually on vacation (my last for perhaps a very long time…), so I’ve not been able to fully investigate this, but here goes: Chile — February 27, 2010 — 8.8-magnitude New Zealand — September 4, 2010 — 7.1-magnitude Japan — March 11, 2011 — 9.1-magnitude Fiji — Septembe ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Centre stays hanging of Beant killer Balwant S ...
    The Centre stayed hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa International terrorist facing death sentence for the assassination of then CM Beant Singh. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
  • Sri Lanka set England 340 for victory in first ...
    Sri Lanka's last two wickets made it an even more difficult run chase for England as they added valuable 87 runs. Reported by Firstpost 6 hours ago
  • Memo case: SC to hear Haqqani's plea Thursday
     10-member Pakistani Supreme Court bench would Thursday hear a petition by former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani seeking a video link facility from London for recording his statement in the Memo case, Geo News reported Wednesday. Reported by IndiaVision 6 hours ago
  • Murdoch’s new problem: Accused of hacking Sky ...
    BBC reveals Murdoch-funded hacking operation which took down key UK competitor. Denials ring hollow after Australian newspaper releases 14,000 emails that back up BBC story. Reported by Firstpost 6 hours ago
  • BJP criticises Arunachal budget
    The BJP in Arunachal Pradesh On Wednesday criticised the state budget saying that no major step was taken to increase revenue. Reported by Zee News 6 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Dangerous Mess In Syria Grows Murkier
    Syria’s murky, multi-level conflict continues to grow worse. So does public confusion here in the west as the US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria’s civil war as a simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus against mostly unarmed democratic protestors. We sa ...
  • Syria: Way to Peace
    On March 21, 2012 the UN Security Council unanimously (all 15 members) approved a statement on Syria that is to facilitate the crisis solution. The statement is a six point proposal emphasizing a ceasefire by both sides, a pull back of Syrian army from populated areas, the continuation of UN int ...
  • Cyber Security: New Threats, New Opportunities
    As early as 10-15 years ago it seemed that all the apocalypses-like scenarios of the “digital Pearl Harbor”, depicted by some American researchers, would always be not more than a fantasy. But four years ago Barack Obama named cyber threats (alongside with the problem of nuclear disarmament, the ...
  • Cyrenaica and the Scuffle for Libyan Heritage
    A failing state The decision by the so-called “Congress of the People of Cyrenaica” held near Benghazi to establish a unified federal region of Barq has again attracted the attention of the media to Libya. Of course, the main reason for this decision by the Cyrenaicans was the desire to take cha ...
  • After a Failed Revolution
    The socio-political phenomenon of revolution in an individual country isn’t a new phenomenon in the modern era. The revolutionary wave hitting a number of countries is nothing new either. We might recall the events that shook Europe in 1848-1849 and the events of 1917-1918 that rocked the ...

BlogHer

  • Two Documentaries: BPA Plastics and GM Foods
    I enjoy documentaries, especially ones that actually teach me something new, make me feel empowered and raise my awareness of important issues.  Recently, I watched two that did just that, "Tapped" and "The Future of Food."TAPPEDTapped is probably one of the thorough documentaries I have ev ...
  • Traditional School Does Not Have My Heart
    [Editor's Note: I have been learning this year that the school system, as it exists today, doesn't allow for much variation in the many different ways children learn and need help. It has been frustrating at times and we're not currently dealing with any extreme issues. My heart goes out to thos ...
  • How to Make a Caramelized Pork Bánh Mì
    [Editor's Note: Although I grew up eating a lot of Vietnamese food, I'd never had a bánh mì, or traditional Vietnamese sandwich, before moving to the Bay Area of California in 2008. Once I started, I have been unable to stop. These sandwiches are flavorful, a little bit spicy, and unerringly sat ...
  • U.S. Customs To Recognize Same-Sex Families At ...
    Breaking News: With very little heads-up, there has been a change in policy regarding the processing of same-sex families through United States customs, though I could find no official press release anywhere. Image: CBP Photography via Flickr As ThinkProgress reports:"The Department of Hom ...
  • I Was a Teen Mom
    I prickle when people dis on "teen moms" in my presence. I'm not talking about the faux-celebrity kind, but even then I wonder, "Are they not human? Do they not deserve compassion?" Even so, I think it's important for us to see mothers who started out earlier than what society has deemed appropr ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Another weekend, another coal miner killed
    There’s bad news early this week out of the coalfields of Alabama, as the Birmingham news reports: Harold Ennis, 37, from the Nauvoo area of Walker County, died in the approximately 9:30 p.m. Friday incident, Walker County Coroner J.C. Poe said this morning. Poe said the reports he receive ...
  • Main defends MSHA performance at UBB mine
    This morning’s House committee hearing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster didn’t exactly come at an easy time for MSHA chief Joe Main. Just four days ago, MSHA was forced to release highly critical findings of a NIOSH review that found Labor Department officials and inspectors cou ...
  • Obama EPA reportedly set to limit greenhouse g ...
    Multiple media outlets are reporting this morning that the Obama administration is ready to issue its proposed regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Juliet Eilperin at The Washington Post broke the story last night: The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the fi ...
  • Friday roundup, March 23, 2012
    Indian laborers load coal onto trucks at a coal depot on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Friday, March 23, 2012. India’s scandal-plagued government lost hundreds of billions of dollars by selling coalfields to companies without competitive bidding, according to a leaked audit report that th ...
  • Breaking: Judge overturns EPA veto of Spruce Mine
    Here’s the latest, just reported by the AP’s Vicki Smith: A federal judge says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal mine. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Quotations | The Browser
    We can study cars and all their physical relationships and know exactly how they work. It in no way prepares us to understand traffic via thebrowser.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentURLs vs. URIs: Differences and ExamplesThe Posterous BookmarkletChrome ...
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    via lh6.googleusercontent.com Ouch. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentDucks in WaterThe First Result When Googling SantorumYouTube Downloader | Chrome Web StoreWho the Hell is AirSage?The Happiness Process
  • Robots and Jobs
    This fascinating article explores the very real issue of the rise of robotic technology and how it will effect the job market in coming years and decades. I feel the content rambles a bit, and fails to properly summarize, but it’s great stuff overall. Here’s my summary of the current ...
  • Selling my Previous MacBook Pro
    I am currently selling my previous MacBook Pro that is in great condition with the following specs: 2010 Model 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 256GB SSD Drive I just reformatted it, put 10.7.2 on it, and it’s ready to go. Between the memory upgrade and SSD I put around $3,000 into [...]
  • The Bible is Awesome | Bad Astronomy
    via blogs.discovermagazine.com Bible: 0, Universe: 1 Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentTry a BookThis is my Favorite PictureA Digital IO WorkflowInteractive Animation Brings Starry Night to LifeBrowser Combat

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • The human cost of the Fukushima meltdowns, one ...
    From io9.com – In March 2011, a tumult of natural disasters spurred the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant located near the small rural towns of Okuma and Futaba. In the coming weeks, hundreds of thousands evacuated their homes, likely never to return ...
  • Totalitarian Systems Always Begin by Rewriting ...
    By Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out the questioning as part of the government’s effort to d ...
  • UK 99% Fu@#ed: Healthcare reforms leave many f ...
    By RT.com,London, UK – Already we’re starting to see a number of private health interests starting to look at cherry-picking some of the best, most profitable parts of the national health service. They were just waiting for it go through and are ready to pounce. They’re directors on the bo ...
  • When The Going Gets Weird (Penis) by Mikel K
    “This hotel that I’m working tonight is nothing but people who haven’t seen their toes in two decades and millionaires with no class…geez, how did the gene pool get so shallow?”–Artist Patrick Thorne ————————&#82 ...
  • Hippie Health Digest
    ‘Master growers’ cultivating a higher grade of marijuana By Joe Mozingo,Los Angeles Time – A new breed of connoisseur is producing pot that is potent, tastes smooth and has a pleasing aroma ¿ the kind of product now expected by ever-more discriminating consumers who frequent me ...

reference frame

  • Chinese daily on Pilsen
    Just one funny irrelevant link. The People's Daily, the most important Chinese daily with the circulation of 3-4 million, just posted an amusing description of my hometown, Pilsen - Cold war, cold beer and European capital of culture It's not that far from what I think and w ...
  • Misevaluated murders
    There have been several recent murders in which the media have vigorously propagated something that seems as unjustifiable prejudices right now. In Toulouse, France, they've been witnesses of shootings. Eight people died in total. The casualties in the Jewish school were discuss ...
  • Mass spectrum of all objects in the Universe
    Whenever it makes sense to define the Hamiltonian, i.e. the operator of total energy, this Hamiltonian knows everything about the rules according to which all physical systems and any physical systems evolve in time. That's because the evolution of observables (quantities that may be measured ...
  • Obama, Chu kill funding for FNAL's ILC, half o ...
    During two recent days, Science Insider and Chicago Business informed the readers about the Obama administration's and DOE's decision to completely scrap the research funding for the International Linear Collider that would be built by the Fermilab; and cut in half the funds for the Long Base ...
  • Joy Christian, an entanglement denier
    A commenter has pointed out some new battles between Joy Christian and some saner physicists that take place at the arXiv.org preprint server and at fqxi.org, a funding agency mainly for crackpots. If you check Google Scholar or INSPIRE, you will find literally dozens of papers by Joy Ch ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging Must Go
    By Kenneth A. Cook, EWG President and co-founder Under mounting pressure from consumers, scientists, advocacy groups and lawsuits, the Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether to ban the ubiquitous industrial chemical BPA (bisphenol-A)... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Ohio Regulators: Link Between Recent Quakes an ...
    By Thomas Cluderay, Assistant General Counsel Polluted water resources. Compromised housing values. And now, earthquakes? As companies increasingly rely on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to expand U.S. oil and gas operations, regulators are finally... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • Diapers, Pacifiers, Hazmat Onesies -- Parentin ...
    Last week, the New York Times ran a D-1 story titled "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" on parents working to detoxify their homes, featuring EWG. On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on fracking in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a ...
  • EWG's work on toxics and natural resources
    Here's a look at what the Environmental Working Group staff has been up to lately, and how our research, advocacy and commentary are being covered in the press. We released a letter with 109 signatures of environmental, health and religious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Krekar’s arrest may hike terror threat
    Mullah Krekar is at least temporarily out of action, following his arrest on Tuesday, but he’d already sent out new messages to his followers that police have interpreted as even more threats against Norway and Norwegians including former prime minister and current peace broker Kjell Magne ...
  • Man arrested after shooting near a day care center
    Heavily armed police arrested a man in Larvik, southwest of Oslo, on Tuesday after he fired shots near a day care center and then disappeared into a nearby forest. Petter Aronsen of the Vestfold Police District told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that the man was arrested just before 2pm and was c ...
  • Conservatives reject Labour’s call for a housi ...
    Norway’s Conservative Party (Høyre) rejects a call from Norway’s Labour-led government coalition for creation of a new ministry in charge of housing. Labour thinks housing politics need more attention, not least to address affordability issues. Norway needs at least 30,000 new reside ...
  • Krekar arrested after more threats
    UPDATED: Mullah Krekar remained a free man Tuesday morning, pending appeal of his conviction on Monday for making death threats, but it didn’t last long. Calls had gone out for his immediate arrest, after he reportedly issued more threats over the weekend and even assaulted a TV2 reporter ...
  • Embassy closure sends ‘a political signal’ to ...
    Norway shut its embassy in Syria on Monday in a move mostly based on security reasons but also, according to Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, as an indirect political signal to the regime in Damascus. “When we say that we find it unsafe to be there, that we’re pulling out our peopl ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture Research: The Reality of Food Forests
    A newly established swale food forest at PRI Australia, backdropped by an 8 year old food forest. Photo: Fraser Bliss We have heard about the wonders of permaculture food forests, whereby nature does all the work and we can simply walk around harvesting more food than we can possibly eat. B ...
  • Global Oil Risks in the Early 21st Century
    by Dean Fantazzini, Moscow School of Economics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Abstract: The Deepwater Horizon incident demonstrated that most of the oil left is deep offshore or in other locations difficult to reach. Moreover, to obtain the oil remaining in currently producing reservo ...
  • Geospatial Analysis and Living Urban Geometry
    By Pietro Pagliardini (1), Sergio Porta (2) & Nikos A. Salingaros (3). Chapter 17 in: Bin Jiang and Xiaobai Angela Yao, Editors, Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics, Springer, New York, 2010, pages 331-353. (1) Pagliardini Rupi Andreoni & Gazzabin, Studio d& ...
  • Garden Needs
    Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts
  • New Permaculture Resources in Store
    Our online store is slowly expanding. Please check out our latest additions. If there is a book title or tool you would like to see listed, please feel free to let us know: education (at) permaculture.org.au

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Crime Against Nature Court Hearing This Wednesday
    From our friends at Women With a Vision: As many of you know, last June we had a huge legislative victory in our work to challenge Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature statute, which mandated fifteen years or more of sex offender registration for women who would have otherwise been charged with s ...
  • Eight Anti-Nuclear Activists Arrested at Enter ...
    From a press release from the Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance: Group demands: “No Nuke Business as Usual for March 22nd” and "Shut Down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant" An affinity group of eight anti-nuclear activists with the New England-based Safe And Green Energy (SAGE) Alliance, ...
  • Race, Gender, and Occupy By Sweta Vohra and Jo ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera website. At a recent panel discussion on the Occupy movement, a left-leaning professor from New York University speculated that identity politics - the prioritizing of issues of race and gender in movements for justice - could be ...
  • Two New Documentaries Explore Occupy Wall Stre ...
    The Al Jazeera English television network has just released two new documentaries on the Occupy Wall Street Movement, produced by the award-winning current affairs program Fault Lines. The films can be seen on the Al Jazeera website. Below are the full credits for the films. Fault Lines: Occupy ...
  • “Parents’ Guide” Publisher Aesha Rasheed Talks ...
    From our friends at Bridge The Gulf: As the parent of a New Orleans Public School student I can tell you, the reality of sending your child to school has completely changed from when many of us were growing up. When I was a kid, we went to our local neighborhood schools. In New Orleans, since ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New EPA Rules Will Limit CO2 Emissions from Po ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional coal-fired power plants from being built. In new rules to be announced as soon as Tuesday, the EPA will require ...
  • Auction of Ivory in China Spurring Illegal Mar ...
    A new report says that the illegal trade in ivory has risen sharply in China in recent years, with nearly 90 percent of the ivory purchased at “legal” auctions obtained from illegal sources. According to the report, published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a decision by the Con ...
  • Denmark Aims to Achieve 35 Percent Green Energ ...
    The Danish government has approved a series of goals to significantly reduce its carbon emissions and increase its use of green energy by 2020, an “ambitious green transition” officials say will affect all levels of society. The agreement, which was approved by parliament last week, targets cutt ...
  • Shunning Nuclear Power Will Lead to a Warmer World
    A physicist argues that if we allow our overblown and often irrational fears of nuclear energy to block the building of a significant number of new nuclear plants, we will be choosing a far more perilous option: the intensified burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. BY SPENCER R. WEART
  • India’s Wind Energy Potential 30 Times Greater ...
    A new report says that the wind energy potential in India may be 30 times greater than previous government estimates, a finding that the authors say could provide a critical solution for a country facing chronic electricity shortages. In an analysis of land actually suitable to wind power develo ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • The inexorable march of creative destruction
    In retreat, Sears set to unload stores — The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 24
  • Hon Hai firms to acquire top Sharp stake
    Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it will sell its new shares to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and its three group firms to help boost profitability in the fierce global display rivalry, making the Taiwanese group collectively the largest Sharp shareholder with a stake of about 10 percent. Ho ...
  • Diet poised to pass stopgap budget
    The ruling and opposition parties reached a compromise Tuesday for the Diet to approve later in the week a stopgap budget for fiscal 2012, after the two sides failed to pass a full-scale budget for the year that starts April 1, lawmakers said. The stopgap budget, financing several trillion yen ...
  • Neko to run for Cambodia in games
    Comedian Hiroshi Neko will represent Cambodia in the men's marathon at this year's Olympic Games in London, according to the secretary general of Cambodia's Olympic committee. Vath Chamroeun said Cambodia has received official confirmation that track and field's ruling body, the International ...
  • Sega bags all Phoenix Resort shares
    Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. has acquired all shares in Phoenix Resort K.K. from an investment fund and has made the operator of Seagaia resort facilities in the city of Miyazaki into a wholly owned subsidiary, according to the Tokyo-based company. Sega Sammy, an operator of amusement facilities a ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Workers Earning Minimum Wage in Nova Scotia Ge ...
    Amid the current climate of cutbacks and austerity, there is some good news.  The Government of Nova Scotia, pursuant with the recommendations of the Minimum Wage Review Committee, will be increasing the province’s minimum wage as of April 1st.  The 1.5 percent increase, from $10.00 to $10.15 pe ...
  • Ontario Budget Emulates Drummond
    Perhaps the most striking feature of today’s Ontario budget is how close it comes to last month’s Drummond report. Drummond’s preferred scenario for 2017-18 was $134.7 billion of provincial revenue, $117.5 billion of program spending and $15.3 billion of interest payments. By comparison, today’s ...
  • Completing the job started by Mike Harris
    The crowning irony of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth budget is that it completes the job of cutting government down to size started by the Mike Harris Conservatives in the 1990s. You won’t find the direct attacks on public services and the people who deliver them that featured so prominently in ...
  • 2012 Québec Budget: timidity and omissions
    On March 20th, Québec’s Finance Minister, Raymond Bachand, tabled his third budget. This budget year follows in the wake of those of the last few years. The government is still insisting on transforming public service funding in accordance with the user-fee revolution logic (so dear to Mr. Bacha ...
  • Brad Wall’s Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
    In the wake of Wednesday’s Saskatchewan budget which saw the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and with it the almost certain demise of the industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall tweeted: “If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsi ...

ReDress

  • Israel's occupation: who is most "out of touch ...
    Alan Hart argues that while the UN Human Rights Council may well be a hypocritical body because it chooses to ignore numerous human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attack on it for its decision to investigate the impact of Israeli colonies on the Pal ...
  • Who is normal? The case for "universal standar ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues for the adoption of universal standards of civilized normality based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that basis, he says one would find Israeli society chronically abnormal.
  • Ali Abunimah and Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral
    Roger Tucker debunks recent accusations of "anti-Semitism" made by a group of self-styled Palestinian solidarity activists, led by American academic Ali Abunimah, whom he argues are driven not only by economic and professional self-interest, but are arguably shabbas goyim, non-Jewish elements of ...
  • Israel preparing for war with Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that recent Israeli raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to the defence budget but about preparing for war with Iran.
  • Kony 2012's invisible Christian fanaticism
    Mamoon Alabbasi questions why mention of the self-proclaimed Christianity of Ugandan-based Joseph Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army was omitted from the "Kony 2012" video, which seeks to make Kony better known so that he could be brought to justice for his crimes.

Physics Today

  • Ancient stone monolith may have marked changin ...
    Space.com: A monolith located in Manchester, UK, is thought to have been erected by Neolithic people around 2000 BC as an astronomical tool to mark the changing seasons, writes Clara Moskowitz for Space.com. When Daniel Brown of Nottingham Trent University and colleagues recently surveyed the si ...
  • Avalanche experts help make better ice cream
    BBC: To improve the quality of the Nestlé company's ice cream, its food scientists teamed up with avalanche experts at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Switzerland to study ice crystal formation. Because the temperature does not remain constant in home freezers, ice cream ...
  • Study challenges prevailing theory of Moon's o ...
    Science: The leading theory for the Moon's formation is that Earth and a Mars-sized planet collided some 4.5 billion years ago and produced a disk of magma that orbited Earth and over time coalesced to form the Moon. If so, say researchers, the Moon's chemical composition should reflect that of ...
  • Mexico City's new building code tested by eart ...
    Nature: Mexico City, which was devastated in 1985 by a magnitude-8 earthquake that killed 9500 people, has since become a model for earthquake protection in the developing world. In the wake of the quake, the country changed its building regulations and pushed for better design and materials. Th ...
  • Mathematicians model snowflakes using physical ...
    Scientific American: A group of researchers in Germany has succeeded in using computer modeling to simulate the faceted pattern of snowflake formation. Using basic conservation laws and thermodynamics, Harald Garcke of the University of Regensburg and colleagues were able to model the way the cr ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending f ...
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Peakwater

  • Somalia: Border Town in a Fix Over Water
    “Hargeisa — Water scarcity in Tog-Wajale, a town straddling the border between northwest Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland and Ethiopia, is threatening the health and livelihoods of locals who cannot afford to buy it. “One barrel of water [200 litres] was only 20 [ ...
  • Economic Talks Open Arab League Meeting In Iraq
    “Economic ministers tentatively agreed to cooperate on proposals for tourism and to deal with water shortages and natural disasters. The proposals, put forward at the summit’s opening meeting, still need to be approved by the rulers and heads of government on the final day of the gat ...
  • What Modern Society Can Learn From a 2,800 Yea ...
    “At the third Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies in Ancient Civilizations (WWTAC) held last week in Turkey, attendees from Libya to Australia and Israel revealed technologies used by their respective ancestors that were in many cases far more sustainable than our modern interv ...
  • For Pennsylvania’s Doctors, a Gag Order ...
    “Pennsylvania is at the forefront in the debate over “fracking,” the process by which a high-pressure mixture of chemicals, sand, and water are blasted into rock to tap into the gas. Recent discoveries of great reserves in the Marcellus Shale region of the state prompted a rush ...
  • Controversy swirls over Canadian plan to build ...
    “There’s already one big hydroelectric dam on the Churchill a couple of hundred miles northwest of here, and now the province’s energy authority, NALCOR, plans to build two more, including one at Muskrat Falls. The two lower Churchill dams together would produce over 3,000 megawatts of pow ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Supreme Court Ruling will be the Nex ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who provided the pivotal vote in the House to pass the Affordable Care Act, today explained the Supreme Courts’ ruling will simply be the next step in the inevitable path towards single-payer health care. Today, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments as it ...
  • Kucinich Calls for SEC Investigation of Potent ...
    Provides Detailed Analysis of Discrepancies Which Could Constitute “Material Misrepresentations” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, today requested that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair ...
  • Kucinich Analysis: Fast-Tracking Southern Segm ...
    Upon reports that the Obama Administration will “fast-track” the southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following analysis: “Americans need relief from high gas prices. However, approval of th ...
  • Kucinich Welcomes Cleveland, Midwest Steel Ind ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus, today welcomed the President and CEO’s of Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural Resources at a hearing examining the state of the steel industry in the United States. Kucinich discussed the importance of ...
  • Kucinich Joins President Obama, Vice President ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who is both Irish and Croatian, today attended a St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the United States Capitol Building with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny of Ireland, upon the invitation of House Speake ...

Authentically Wired

  • This will be “prime-time-TV” for s ...
    … This will be “prime-time-TV” for some time to come … this is a game of musical chairs and the various players are all hoping when the music stops they are NOT the one without a chair …   SCOTUS Day 1 on Affordable Care Act Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT… Posted by [...]
  • hold its finger in the wind
    … This court will now hold its finger in the wind testing the direction and intensity of prevailing wind$ … This  decision which if rendered before our election in November will be 5 to 4 and will at best just tweak portions of the law never addressing the heart of the issue …  S ...
  • this BP find will provide about 3 months
    …OK … I did the math and at our current rate of consumption of approx  10 million barrels of oil per day … this BP find will provide about 3 months worth at what environmental cost…   Liberty Project, Alaska, United States of America 03-26-2012  •  www.offshore-technolo ...
  • is this really the face of someone you trust & ...
    is this really the face of someone you trust …?       … And what you think he really cares about happens to you …? Filed under: Blogroll
  • I know I am damn sure I do NOT want the 90 nin ...
      State lawmakers demanding feds handover land   Associated Press  …  PHOENIX (AP) — Another "sagebrush rebellion" is brewing with Arizona possibly laying claim to 25 million acres of federal land. Supporters of the modern day land grab say federal agencies have misma ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view fro ...
    On the back of a partially functioning motorcycle I fly down miles of winding footpath at high-speed through the dense Amazon rainforest, the driver never able to see more than several feet ahead. Myriads of bizarre creatures lie camouflaged amongst the dense vines and lush foliage; flocks of p ...
  • Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainfo ...
    Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in some of the world's most critical forest areas, warns a report published last week by the Unio ...
  • Scientists say massive palm oil plantation wil ...
    Eleven top scientists have slammed a proposed palm oil plantation in a Cameroonian rainforest surrounded by five protected areas. In an open letter, the researchers allege that Herakles Farm, which proposes the 70,000 hectare plantation in southwest Cameroon, has misled the government about the ...
  • Model airplane used to monitor rainforests - c ...
    Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool for conservation. Using seed funding from the National Geographic Society, The Orangutan Conservancy, and the Denver Zoo, Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Sir Paul Callaghan farewelled in Wellington
    It was Sir Paul Callaghan's favourite word, resonance - which he used to describe his life-long work in physics - that was also used to describe his life and legacy, a friend told a packed church at his funeral today.Sir Paul died...
  • Sir Paul Callaghan to be farewelled today
    High-profile New Zealand scientist Sir Paul Callaghan will be farewelled at a funeral in Wellington today.Sir Paul died at his Wellington home on Saturday, aged 64, after a long battle with bowel cancer.The New Zealander of the...
  • Top NZ scientist's final wish granted
    Top New Zealand scientist Sir Paul Callaghan's dying wish was granted when he had his family from across the world at his side.Sir Paul, 64, passed away comfortably in his Khandallah, Wellington, home at 9am yesterday with his wife...
  • Sir Paul Callaghan passes away
    Tributes are flowing in for one of the country's most high profile scientists who passed away after a long battle with bowel cancer.Sir Paul Callaghan was diagnosed with aggressive bowel cancer in 2008, which then spread widely...
  • Good early interest in IT precinct, says Akl C ...
    Auckland Council is reporting good early interest in its plans for an "Innovation Precinct" at the newly developed Wynyard Quarter. An initial space of about 50,000 square metres has been set aside for the precinct at Auckland's...

The Bovine

  • Bakers Green Acres vs Michigan DNR
    For more on the story, see our earlier post.
  • Michigan DNR issues an order to kill specialty ...
    From Mike Adams at Natural News.com: “(NaturalNews) 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. … Continue reading →
  • Canadian Constitution Day March 29th
    From the Canadian Constitution Foundation: TORONTO, ON: With Constitution Day (March 29th) fast approaching, a survey commissioned by the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) has revealed a startling lack of basic knowledge among Canadians about Canada’s Constitution and Charter of Rights &#82 ...
  • Censored? Is the WAPF’s Sally Fallon too ...
    From the Wellington New Zealand chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation Facebook page: “Sally was booked to do an interview on the Kim Hill show this morning at 11:15am. But we hear Kim Hill pulled the pin at the … Continue reading →
  • Videos from the Vernon Herschberger rally and ...
    Thanks to Liz Reitzig and Michael Schmidt:

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Train Wreck for Obama's Healthcare Mandate; Wh ...
    Tuesday was a rough day for the Obama administration in oral arguments in the Supreme Court over mandated insurance. The Illinois Policy Institute comments on What Obama's Lawyers Couldn't Answer. If the government can force you to buy health insurance, what can't they force you to do or ...
  • Mish vs. Jo Weisenthal: Debate on Capital Acco ...
    In response to a Tweet by Capital Account host Lauren Lyster regarding my post Ben Bernanke: Inflationist Jackass, Devoid of Common Sense, and Clueless About Trade, Debt, History, and Gold, Jo Weisenthal at Business Insider proposed a debate. We had that debate yesterday and here is the vi ...
  • US Promotes "Market-Determined Exchange Rates" ...
    In a move that is likely to get general agreement, yet go absolutely nowhere fast, United States Promotes Market-Determined Exchange Rates at World Trade Organization Forum. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Michael Punke and Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Monetary and Fi ...
  • Australia Roundup: 25% of Small to Medium-Size ...
    One sure way to know voters are fed up with the economy is when politicians are thrown out on their asses en masse. That is exactly what happened down under as Australia PM surprised by Labor rout in state election. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday she was surprised at th ...
  • Obama vs. Ryan: Budget Showdown - Deficit and ...
    Inquiring minds are asking How does Paul Ryan's budget plan stack up against president Obama's budget plan, item-by-item? With thanks to Ross Perez and Lori Williams at Tableau Software, let's take a look. <a href="#"&amp ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 9/11 in the Courtroom: Heads or Tails?
    What Will Happen Today? A hearing is scheduled today in a federal district court in New York City in a 9/11 case still winding its way through the court system.  The case was brought by thousands of relatives of people killed on 9/11, as well as insurance companies exposed to heavy losses.  The ...
  • Afghan Heroin & How to Add Up the Numbers
    The Big Guys’ Share vs. the Little Guys Share’ According to news reports the Turkish government seized 4.6 Tons of Afghan heroin and 46 Tons of Hashish in the year 2011 alone: Turkish police seized 46.9 tons of hashish and 6.4 tons of heroin in 2011, the semi-official Anatolia news agency report ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Road to Tehran The Western imperial powers seem intent on regime change in Iran. It has been said that, “the road to Tehran is through Damascus,” and such sentiments have been expressed by the King of Saudi Arabia, a ruthless tyrant who represses his own and neighboring populatio ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 13 ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.” – Gore Vidal International Newsworthy Ir ...
  • The EyeOpener- Stratfor and the Privatization ...
    Late last year, hackers with the anonymous hacking group LulzSec raided the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or Stratfor, a private intelligence company in Austin, Texas, coming away with some 5 million emails. Last month, Wikileaks began publishing the emails as “The Global Intelligence ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • China blast kills 2, wounds 26
    A blast at a food processing plant in central China has left at least two people dead and 26 others injured, state media reports.
  • 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.
  • UK energy bills to soar by 70% by 2020
    A recent research study has revealed that energy bills in Britain would rise by 70% to £2,200 a year by 2020 as half of the country’s coal-fired power stations should be closed by 2015.
  • ‘Iran self-reliant in building naval gear’
    Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Islamic Republic has reached self-sufficiency in manufacturing naval equipment.
  • UK govt. to sell RBS to Abu Dhabi
    The British government is mulling over plans to sell up to a third of its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to Abu Dhabi, one of the seven states of the United Arab Emirates.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

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