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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, March 31, 2012

31 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

A pile of chopped fuelwood in MaliA pile of chopped fuelwood in Mali (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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The Mali Empire at its height under Mansa Musa.The Mali Empire at its height under Mansa Musa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Challenges for new QLD leader
    Newman’s spectacular victory is without precedent in recent Australian political history. Even Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s 1974 victory crushed Labor to a comparatively robust 11 seats (that was in an 82-seat parliament). Total annihilation of one’s competitors can leave any leader prone to hubris.
  • Stan Goff on Bales' Afghan killings
    When I was running the Bayonet Assault Course for West Point plebes back in 1986, we added a bit of verbosity. INSTRUCTOR: What is the spirit of the bayonet? CADETS: To Kill! INSTRUCTOR: What do you want to see? CADETS: Blood! Blood! Blood makes the grass grow!”
  • A Sarkozian Attack on the Net ?
    Collaring readers for ‘visiting’ internet sets? Jailing them for perusing matter accessible through the all pervasive world wide web, where curiosity abounds and internet sites are stumbled across and sampled like novelty gift items? This is the latest desperate law and order thrust of the str ...
  • Afghan Voices for Peace
    .. can we even envision a home-grown nonviolence movement in Afghanistan? And yet, as hard as it may be to imagine, this is exactly what a group of young Afghans is trying to spark. And they are doing it with courage and determination. Calling themselves the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV), ...
  • UK Peers Conflicts of Interest influence Healt ...
    More than one in four Conservative peers - 62 out of the total of 216 - and many other members of the House of Lords have a direct financial interest in the radical re-shaping of the NHS in England that is perilously close to being enacted. These peers have been able to vote on the crucial divis ...

Independent - London

  • Bombs kill nine and wound at least 70 in south ...
    Nine people died and at least 70 were injured in a series of bomb explosions today in Thailand's Muslim south, the latest in a wave of violence blamed on separatists in a region bordering Malaysia, police and officials said. Related StoriesBillionaires questioned on briberyBurmese polls will be ...
  • Drifting cruise ship heading for port after fire
    A cruise ship with reportedly up to 60 Britons on board was drifting in seas south of the Philippines today after a fire in one of the ship's engine rooms.Related StoriesBillionaires questioned on briberyBurmese polls will be neither free nor fair, warns Suu KyiMan paralysed escaping terror hote ...
  • Rebels attack northern Mali town of Gao
    Rebels today attacked Mali's strategic northern city of Gao, a day after they took the provincial capital of Kidal, witnesses and an official said. The move deepens the crisis in the landlocked West African nation after a coup earlier this month. Related StoriesPlea for help from Mali's juntaReb ...
  • Rebels enter northern Mali town of Gao
    Separatist rebels in pick-up trucks loaded with heavy weapons have entered the northern Mali town of Gao, it was reported today.Related StoriesPlea for help from Mali's juntaRebels attack northern Mali town of Gao
  • Diver killed by shark off southwest Australia
    A man was killed by a shark on Saturday while diving with his brother off a beach in southwestern Australia, authorities said. It's the fourth fatal shark attack in Australia since September, all of them off the continent's southwest corner.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Beatles Fans Need Wheelchairs, Judges Rule
    The somewhat disheartening verdict on the rock 'n' roll generation was made as a wheelchair company lost a battle to name one of its electric models the Beatle. The European Court of Justice ordered You-Q, a Dutch company, to stop using the name to promote its mobility aid after a legal challen ...
  • U.S. Drone Strike Kills 4 Militants in North-W ...
    Miranshah, Pakistan - U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants and wounded three others on Friday in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, intelligence officials and militants said. The remotely piloted aircraft targeted a residential compound used by milita ...
  • Nicolas Sarkozy Voters Have Less Sex Than Rivals
    Paris - French voters planning to back centre-right incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in next month's election have sex less often than their left-wing rivals, according to a poll published Friday. The survey, conducted by the respected polling institute Ifop on behalf of the pornographic mag ...
  • Women spend longer in labor now than 50 years ago
    Changes in delivery practices appear to be main contributing factor. Women take longer to give birth today than did women 50 years ago, according to an analysis of nearly 140,000 deliveries conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers could not identify all of ...
  • Sarkozy: Toulouse Shootings Caused 9/11-Like T ...
    French police commandos arrested 19 people and seized weapons in Friday morning swoops on people suspected of radical Islamist activity, in several cities including Toulouse, scene of the killings of four Jews and three soldiers this month. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is waging an uphill bat ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Budget and Gateway
    I can't say it any better than BCL except to say that the smug prick isn't so much Paul Wells as it is Joe Oliver and his master.  
  • Shorter Flaherty to poor...
    ...pensioners future welfare recipients: "Fuck-off and die already." Let's talk about this, shall we? Sixty-five isn't a fun age to finally retire. Me? I've got a haul yet to get there, but looking at my parents generation, born in the 1940s, sitting in their 60s, they've got arthritis, heart c ...
  • Cunning plan?
    Harper's not-near-as-witty-as-the-original Baldrick today insinuating to the Chief Electoral Officer that Elections Canada is somehow the source of election misdeeds: "There are a number of folks in the media that have, in fact, came forward and indicated to me that they feel Elections Canada h ...
  • 800 complaints; 200 ridings
    Go read Kady. Now.
  • Aislin's perspective . . .
    THE OREO might just be around for the next millenium. Over 491 billion Oreo cookies have been sold since they were first introduced in 1912, making them the best selling cookie of the 20th century.

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Biden Called Fo ...
    Right-wing media have distorted recent comments by Vice President Joe Biden by falsely claiming that he called for a "global tax." In fact, while advocating for a reduction in the corporate tax rate, Biden was referring to an Obama administration proposal to ensure that American companies pay a ...
  • Bolling Falsely Claims That The Affordable Car ...
    The right-wing media remains desperate to obscure the fact that the Affordable Care Act lowers the deficit. In the latest iteration of the claim, Eric Bolling teamed up with Fox's "brain room" to inflate the cost of the health care reform law to a whopping $4 trillion.Affordable Care Act Lowers ...
  • NYPost Editorial Attacks Proposed Min ...
    Last week the New York Post penned an op-ed attacking a proposal by NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-64) that would raise NY's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour. The editorial repeated debunked myths that raising the minimum wage would increase unemployment, increase the cost of pro ...
  • Fox's Bream Falsely Suggests "Cornhusker Kickb ...
    Fox News reporter Shannon Bream said that during Supreme Court deliberations on the health care reform law, "some of the different justices talked about the Cornhusker Kickback and other things that were tucked into the law so that votes would be gotten along the way." In fact, the provision in ...
  • Obama Derangement Syndrome: The Wild Attacks O ...
    Right-wing media have attacked President Obama for his recent comments about shooting victim Trayvon Martin and his family, accusing Obama of "inject[ing]" himself into the debate using "racial code" and claiming that his statement is evidence that "he's got it in for this country."Obama Expres ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Not That Complicated
    Justice Alito said that if he didn't buy a Volt, the price of Volts would go up. Where did he learn that? Yale Law School? I hope not; I was there with him and I don't remember learning that if demand falls, then prices go up. It's the other way around: if customers won't buy at a certain price, ...
  • Why Land Day still matters
    By Sam Bahour and Fida Jiryis Every year since 1976, on March 30, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land Day. Though it may sound like an environmental celebration, Land Day marks a bloody day in Israel when security forces gunned down six Palestinians, as they protested Israeli ...
  • Romney's Foreign Policy Fantasies: "Breathtaki ...
    In a blog post at the web site of Foreign Policy magazine, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney attempts to paint the Obama administration as "soft" on Russia, and on security issues more broadly. But Romney's tirade reveals more about his own worldview than it does about Preside ...
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  • A Letter To Congressman Waxman
    The following post is a letter from Reed Hundt to Congress Henry Waxman titled "Re: In re H.R. 3309. Dear Congressman Waxman: You have asked me to share my views on the Federal Communications Process Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 3309, in light of my experience as chairman of the FCC from 1 ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Land Day vs. the "Jewish State" (Elsa Rassbac ...
    Since the 1980s, Palestinians have marked every March 30 with protests to celebrate Land Day. The day commemorates the first widespread struggle of Arab Israelis against processes of l ...
  • BDS and the Park Slope Food Coop: Why the Vote ...
    Tuesday night, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop held a long-anticipated vote on voting: members decided whether to have a Coop-wide referendum on joining the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctio ...
  • Why Land Day still matters (Sam Bahour and Fi ...
    Every year since 1976, on March 30, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land Day. Though it may sound like an environmental celebration, Land Day marks a bloody day in Israe ...
  • Happy Palestine Land Day: Israel Earmarks 10% ...
    It has just come out that the Israeli military has earmarked ten percent of the land in the Occupied West bank for Israeli settlements. In addition, the Israeli government is moving forward with an outrageous plan that will mean the expulsion of tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens in the Negev ...
  • Inside Story- UN Human Rights Council condemns ...
    Israel has cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council after its settlement policy was condemned. How can it violate the human rights of Palestinians and claim to be the only democracy in ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • EHF – going broke. Will Texas declare it “too ...
    The Dallas Observer is reporting that there is a good chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) (or TXU for most of us) the state’s largest power generator, will go broke – click here to read their story. The question now becomes – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for E ...
  • If you build it, they will come
    With the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approving rules that open up of the WCS dump site to out of compact waste, we may soon see low level radioactive waste from Nebraska Public Power District’s nuclear facility heading to Texas. The deal between ...
  • EPA Sets First Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. “Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” EPA Administrator Lis ...
  • Governor Perry names Toby Baker to replace Gar ...
    On Friday, Governor Perry announced he is appointing Toby Baker, a former policy and budget advisor to Perry on energy, natural resources and agriculture, to replace Garcia who continues to serve in a TCEQ commissioner’s spot that officially expired in August 31, 2011.  Mr. Baker’s t ...
  • President Obama Sacrifices Gas Policy for Gas ...
    Statement of Trevor Lovell, Environmental Program Coordinator,  Public Citizen’s Texas Office It is unfortunate that President Barack Obama has decided to ignore news stories in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Financial Post, among others, explaining in simple terms ho ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Batman pulled over by cops in Maryland
    Police pulled over a man in a Batman costume because he had invalid license plates. Officers couldn't believe what they were seeing when they came acr...
  • Giant cat-sized rats invade Florida Keys
    Authorities have been alerted of a new invasion of giant Gambian puched rats in the Florida Keys. Originating in Africa and brought to the United Stat...
  • Cassini photographs Enceladus geysers
    The Cassini spacecraft has captured new images of the geysers on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. The pictures were taken during Cassini's lowest pass yet...
  • Crowds flock to French town for UFO rescue
    Crowds of New Agers have travelled to Bugarach in France awaiting rescue by a UFO on December 21st. Those attending share the believe that the world w...
  • Did dinosaurs explode ?
    Swiss scientists have debunked the widely held belief that some deceased dinosaurs exploded after death. The concept stems from the discovery of fossi...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Cleveland Indians Install Innovative Wind Turb ...
    (AP) The revolutionary turbine, which amplifies airflow around a central cylinder to power four small fans, was designed at Cleveland State by Dr. Majid Rashidi, a professor of mechanical engineering.
  • EU Seeks to Decide Who Gets U.N. Climate Fund ...
    (Reuters) EU ambassadors were due to meet on Wednesday in an effort to settle a dispute over the allocation of seats to member states on the United Nations' Green Climate Fund (GCF) board.
  • Fracking Could Foil Carbon Capture Plans
    (New Scientist) Talk about the law of unintended consequences. Cracking open solid rock in a bid to squeeze out natural gas could spoil future efforts to store the carbon dioxide we release from burning fossil fuels.
  • Small Reactors Make a Bid to Revive Nuclear Power
    (Scientific American) While the U.S. government has not given up on investing in large units that boast conventional designs, the Department of Energy has also announced the availability of $450 million in funds to support engineering ...
  • Mine Exec Pleads Guilty in 2010 Explosion
    (CNN) The man in charge of ensuring the safety of miners at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he helped conceal hazardous conditions from federal inspectors.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Olbermann Let Go
    Not sure what went on with Current TV and Keith Olbermann. Olbermann served a very useful purpose in a very dark time in our nation's history. But he got too full of himself. I don't think we'll be seeing too much of him anymore. Or are their fourth acts in American celebrity? In an ope ...
  • Ryan Budget: Defining the Movement
    Last year, after the House of Representatives passed Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget plan, Democrats accused the Republicans of voting to kill Medicare. That claim was then named Lie of the Year by Politifact. It was a semantic disagreement that was mainly based on different value systems. For ...
  • What Appears to Have Happened to Trayvon
    The funeral director who embalmed Trayvon Martin's body saw no bruising or cuts on his hands or any other evidence that he'd been in some kind of altercation. He saw a bullet wound in his upper chest. That's it. This fits with the video evidence from George Zimmerman's arrival at the police s ...
  • Their Story is Just Falling Apart
    FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier in the Tampa field office and Department of Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa in Washington spoke to the Los Angeles Times about their investigation of the Trayvon Martin case. They made it completely clear that their investigation is not focused on the Sanf ...
  • Meanwhile, in Congress
    Here's the Senate roll call on the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. It got 51 votes. That's a majority of the Senate. It's nine votes short of passing under their screwed up rules. Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Begich of Alaska, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska voted against i ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • When A Waterspout Strikes...
    Though beautiful to look at and less ferocious than tornadoes, waterspouts are serious marine hazards that can wreak havoc on people and boats alike. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Totally Ridiculous Inventions
    A celebration of inventions that do serve a purpose (kinda), but which are just too weird and can make the user look like an utter tool. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Ways to Reduce Your Energy Usage
    There are many steps we as individuals can take, especially when reducing our energy footprint. Here are 10 simple steps. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Most Incredible Siamese Twins in History
    In the 19th and early 20th century, when the chances of surgical separation were low, most conjoined twins ended up as sideshow attractions in touring circuses. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Giant Robot to Invade Mars
    The Rover Curiosity is the largest Mars explorer in history, and the fourth to be launched by NASA since 1997. See how it will land and what phenomena it will explore. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Q and A: North Korea's Choked Environment
    Experts invited to North Korea for a conference on its environmental problems struggled against constraints on open communication with the country's scientists.
  • Upstate vs. Downstate: A Slow Boil Over Water ...
    People all around the Catskills and up and down the Delaware River are complaining about New York City's management of the watershed that supplies the city's drinking water.
  • On Our Radar: Cuts in German Solar Subsidies
    The government says the subsidies have driven up electricity prices for consumers while propping up panel prices for German manufacturers.
  • Making Sense of the Wacky Weather
    Scientists are getting bolder about linking extreme weather patterns, and even specific events, to human-induced global warming. Still, even the boldest acknowledge that it's a difficult exercise.
  • A Very Long Road for Military Nuclear Waste
    The Department of Energy says it has mostly emptied and closed two more of the 51 underground tanks containing liquid nuclear waste from cold-war weapons at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Yet tens of thousands of gallons still potentially remain in those two tanks.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Inconvenient Details About the Afghan 17 Massacres
      Since the appearance of a March 27th article by sociology professor James Petras on numerous websites (see The Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-up), I have been closely following the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration over the number of shooters in the ...
  • My personal history of the 1% killing a millio ...
    This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, relate ...
  • 450 major bank resignations; arrests of econom ...
    A little over three weeks ago, 116 major bank resignations was startling news. Now with over 450 resignations and David Wilcock’s compelling documentation, the question is whether the 1% criminal oligarchy face imminent arrest. I can’t predict the future. I don’t know what the resignations mean. ...
  • Adrienne Rich: Artist of the Possible
    In late November of 2003, I sat on the floor in a crowded luncheon just a few feet and slightly behind Adrienne Rich, speaking and reading her poetry at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, held that year in San Francisco. Appropriately, Rich was reading from her ...
  • Psychiatric Bias and Bigotry in Mainstream Cor ...
    by Don Weitz In a democratic system of thought control…[it is] necessary to take over the entire spectrum of opinion, the entire spectrum of discussion, so that nothing can be thinkable apart from the party line; not just that it be obeyed, but that you can’t even think of anything else. – Noam ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #704: Caught-red-hand ...
    Would be CIA spy uses Tweeter to attack CIA. US ambassador says Russia is spying on him. Poland ex-spy boss charged over CIA prison.
  • Sweden set up front company to secretly export ...
    Long considered as one of the world’s most socially responsible nations, Sweden has stringent laws prohibiting the export of Swedish weapons to countries that fall short of elementary democratic standards. Which is why the Swedish electorate was shocked by news earlier this month that the Swedis ...
  • News you may have missed #703: US edition
    NSA pressed to reveal details on Google deal. US spy agencies can keep data on Americans longer. Islam convert leads CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
  • French spy agency denies Toulouse gunman was a ...
    France’s domestic intelligence agency has denied allegations, made by its former Director, that it employed as an informant the militant Islamist who recently killed seven people in Toulouse.
  • News you may have missed #702
    NSA chief denies domestic spying allegations. NY police says it monitored Iran operatives taking photos. Major Canadian Cold War era mole hunt operation revealed.

War is a Crime.org

  • Imagining the Unthinkable
      Imagining the Unthinkable   by Stephen Lendman   The combination of America's rage for war, its nuclear arsenal, and global delivery systems makes the unthinkable possible - nuclear war.   read more
  • Papering Over Disaster
      Papering Over Disaster   by Stephen Lendman   Fall 2007 began the onset of America's greatest Depression. Europe's in deep trouble. Reckoning day's delayed by bailing out insolvent banks and throwing money at markets like confetti.   read more
  • Take Me Off Your "Bold Progressives" List!
    Dear Adam: If Elizabeth Warren is a “bold progressive” given that she’s announced several times her support for crippling sanctions and this new war on Iran that her colleagues are ginning up, then maybe we ought to start a new party of “timid regressives” to oppose the new rationales and lies.& ...
  • Extorting Alums: Colleges Withhold Transcripts ...
      By Dave Lindorff   (This article originally appeared in The Nation online, where it can be read in full)   read more
  • Occupy New Haven Is Still Standing
    Oh Say Can You Occupy? by Thomas MacMillan | New Haven Independent Thomas MacMillan Photos Occupiers took the steps of federal court. Norm Pattis traveled back centuries in Colonial history, took a theoretical turn as city parks director, and asked if he could force people driving Bethany to ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Moonbathing on the Banks of the River Styx
    By Les Visible There are very strange things going on and figuring out why this is happening, is the job of persons better equipped for the effort than me. Something weird is going on over at Veterans Today. Something weird is going on with longstanding alternative web sites and their level of d ...
  • Studies show how pesticides make bees lose the ...
    By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:42pm BST (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can harm bumblebees and honeybees, interfering with their homing abilities and making them lose their way. In two studies published in the ...
  • CDC: U.S. kids with autism up 78% in past decade
    The number of children with autism in the United States continues to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest data estimate that 1 in 88 American children has some form of autism spectrum disorder. That’s a 78% increase ...
  • Al Qaeda Massacre Nut Was A French Spy
    Further evidence emerges that Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman shot dead during the France Al Qaeda shootings, was working for French intelligence services Brit Dee, Contributor Alexander Higgins Blog French ‘Al Qaeda’ Killer: Intelligence Asset With An Israeli Connection Further evidence has emerge ...
  • Cheap, ‘safe’ drug kills most cancers
    by Andy Coghlan It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Starbucks Admits Its Strawberry Drinks Are Col ...
    Starbucks recently found itself in hot water when news that the red dyes used in their strawberry drinks contained cochineal, a coloring made from crushed parasitic beetles. The ingredient has turned more than a few stomachs as it’s unfriendly to vegetarian customers, carries a few negativ ...
  • Ole Scheeren’s Floating Cinema in Thailand is ...
    Read the rest of Ole Scheeren’s Floating Cinema in Thailand is Made of Recycled Materials Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags:
  • Apple and Foxconn Commit to Improving Safety a ...
    This morning, Apple and Foxconn pledged to reduce working hours, eliminate labor violations and illegal overtime, boost safety and improve housing for the 1.2 million workers in China who make iPads and iPhones. The announcement comes hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Chinese government of ...
  • 6 Incredible Inventions Made Possible by Nanot ...
    From water-purifying tea bags to artificial muscles, there have been a plethora of inventions lately made possible through the science of nanotechnology. You might not be able to actually see the nano-designs, but to prove the difference they’re making in our lives, we’ve made a list ...
  • Coca-Cola’s Grafitti Hits Historic New Orleans ...
    Apparently Coca-Cola is really into New Orleans lassez-faire lifestyle, so much so that they decided to cover the sidewalks of the historic French Quarter and Treme neighborhoods with company logos as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign ahead of this weekend’s Final Four Championship ga ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Genetic Clue to van Gogh’s Mutant Sunflowers D ...
    Dutch impressionist Vincent van Gogh obsessed himself with sunflowers until his death in 1890, later earning avid collectors tens of millions of dollars for single paintings. These days researchers have developed their own sunflower obsession: Solving the genetic origin of mutant "teddy bear" su ...
  • Rainbow Brain Map Reveals Grid-Like Pattern
    The most striking feature of the human brain is its squiggly pattern of bumps and grooves, but within those curves is a lattice of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles. A new map shows off these structures in a rainbow of colors.
  • Controversial Pesticide Linked to Bee Collapse
    A controversial type of pesticide linked to declining global bee populations appears to scramble bees' sense of direction, making it hard for them to find home. Starved of foragers and the pollen they carry, colonies produce fewer queens, and eventually collapse.
  • Mysterious Stone Monolith Likely an Ancient As ...
    A mysterious stone monolith jutting from the ground near Manchester, England probably served as a crude seasonal calendar for Stone Age farmers.
  • Gigantic Solar Tornado Is 5 Times the Size of ...
    This enormous tornado erupting from the surface of the sun could swallow the Earth. In fact, it could swallow five Earths.

PakAlert

  • Micro-Chipping Agenda & RFID Chips Are Being I ...
    Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as ‘natural progre ...
  • Attacking Iran: Did US just torpedo Israeli de ...
    Israel is developing a 'secret staging ground' in Azerbaijan for a possible attack on Iran, reports Foreign Policy magazine. US officials aren't happy with that, and may have leaked the story. The three-way tension between the United States, Israel, and Iran became tenser this week with a wid ...
  • Why Does The Department Of Homeland Security N ...
    Somebody out there has decided that the Department of Homeland Security needs a whole lot of ammunition. Recently it was announced that ATK was awarded a contract to provide up to 450 MILLION hollow point bullets to the Department of Homeland Security over the next five years. Is it just me, o ...
  • March 31: Operation Global Blackout: Hackers I ...
    The hacking group known as Anonymous intends to attack the core servers that control the routing of all internet traffic. DNS, or Domain Name Servers, are a critical backbone of the web and make it possible for internet surfers to reach web site destinations by typing in a domain name in their b ...
  • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
    What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally? Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem. All over America, people appear to ...

Andy Worthington

  • Ten Years of Torture: On Anniversary of Abu Zu ...
    Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its “high-value detainee” program in the “war on terror” that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn ...
  • Rallies Worldwide to Mark the 9th Anniversary ...
    On Saturday, outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, I will be speaking at an event marking the ninth anniversary of the disappearance in Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who vanished for five years and five months, and then mysteriously reappeared in Afghanistan in August 2008, where ...
  • Omar Khadr to Return to Canada from Guantánamo ...
    Finally, five months after the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner Omar Khadr was supposed to leave Guantánamo, to be returned to Canada as a result of a plea deal agreed in October 2010, it appears that he may be back in the country of his birth by the end of May. The delay has [...]
  • News from Albania: One Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner ...
    In the last week, two Guantánamo stories have emerged from Albania, home to ten former Guantánamo prisoners — all prisoners who could not be safely repatriated after being cleared for release from Guantánamo. Four men are Uighurs (Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province) released in M ...
  • Life after Guantánamo Bay: Jenifer Fenton Talk ...
    Last month, I was invited to visit Kuwait to try and help raise awareness of the need for the Kuwaiti people to push for their government to demand the release from Guantánamo of the last two Kuwaitis — out of 12 in total — to be held in Guantánamo. These two men are Fayiz al-Kandari ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Racist Bikers Busted in Undercover Florida Probe
    Six members of a racist motorcycle gang in Florida face drug and bomb-related charges following a three-year undercover investigation, federal and state authorities announced Friday. The suspects are affiliated with the Outlaws motorcycle club and the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Divisio ...
  • Hutaree Case Ends as Two Defendants Plead to W ...
    The two remaining defendants in the government’s case against members of Michigan’s Hutaree Militia pleaded guilty today to federal firearms charges, just two days after a judge dismissed antigovernment conspiracy charges against the pair and five others. David Stone Sr., 47, and his son Joshua ...
  • Faculty Adviser Quits, YWC Loses Official Stat ...
    Nearly two weeks after members of the Towson University chapter of Youth for Western Civilization chalked messages on university sidewalks that included the words “white pride,” the group has lost its campus privileges. The school’s official recognition of the YWC was pulled when the group’s fac ...
  • Most Charges Dismissed Against Hutaree Militia ...
    A federal judge in Detroit today dismissed charges against seven members of the Hutaree militia who have been on trial for allegedly plotting to kill police officers in hopes of igniting a revolution against the government. “The government’s case is built largely of circumstantial evidence,” U.S ...
  • Calling All Black People: NOM Wants to Use You
    Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous! Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and curren ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • FDA Keeps BPA in Food, Fails Public Health Again
    Today the Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will not take steps to bar bisphenol-A, or BPA, a known toxic chemical, from canned food and liquid infant formula containers. Studies show that BPA leaches from epoxy linings of cans into food and drink, and resurfaces in breast milk, ...
  • Obama's Waffling on Gay Marriage Could Create ...
    With President Obama visiting Vermont and Maine today -- two states where gay marriage has been a major issue of late -- concerns about how stance on gay marriage may impact his re-election campaign continue to mount. President Obama has never supported gay marriage, but in 2010 he said he was & ...
  • As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes
    Despite reports this week that the Fukushima nuclear situation may be even worse than previously thought, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given approval today for two combined licenses for two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, only the second time in the last three decades that new ...
  • Study: 'Arctic Cold War' Heats Up
    A new report reports that the Arctic shelf, with its disputed territory and vast energy resources, is becoming increasingly militarized. The study, released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, claims that Russia, Canada, Denmark and Norway are all developing their military i ...
  • Journalists, Activists Challenge NDAA Law
    A group of prominent activists and journalists presented a legal challenge to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday, claiming to a New York City federal judge that the law inhibits their First Amendment Rights. read more

Lifehacker

  • Clean Up Your Mess of Social Networks This Wee ...
    We spend an awful lot of time using social networks to keep up with people, discover news, and bring new functionality to our favorite apps, but they can get cluttered pretty quickly (not to mention destroy your privacy if you aren't careful). ...
  • Remains of the Day: Is Google Drive Really Giv ...
    Google Drive may provide users with 5GB of free space, Anonymous says they never had plans to 'kill the Internet' this weekend, and Bump Pay hopes to 'bump' its way into the mobile payment ring. More »
  • How to Tell If Your Credit Card Was Hacked in ...
    Earlier today, news broke that credit card processor Global Payments suffered a massive security breach, in which intruders made off with thousands—possibly millions—of credit card numbers from hundreds of of card issuers worldwid ...
  • Lifehacker Readers' Custom Chrome Themes [Goog ...
    Google recently released a new tool that lets you create your own custom themes for Chrome, and it's pretty awesome. We asked you to share your custom themes, and a lot of you responded with some pretty snazzy ones. Here are six of our favorit ...
  • TweetDeck Is Down After a Bug Opens Access to ...
    If you're a TweetDeck user, you've probably noticed that you can't log in. TweetDeck announced that they've suspended the serivce while they "look into an issue", though TechCrunch and others are reporting that it's more than just a minor issu ...

Water Privatization

  • Water district theft alleged
    The Mid-Peninsula Water District has sent the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office evidence that one of its former employees may have embezzled the special tax district out of an undisclosed amount of money, board President Matthew Zucca wrote the Daily Journal in an email yesterday.
  • Water documentary to be shown in Salem at benefit
    A special showing of the award-winning documentary “FLOW: For Love of Water” to benefit the BARKA Foundation will be held on Thursday, April 19 at 8:30 p.m. at Cinema Salem, One East India Square.
  • Chicago embarks on $7 billion infrastructure plan
    Chicago is setting off on an ambitious $7 billion program to overhaul the metropolis' aging infrastructure, from replacing crumbling commuter rail stations and century-old water pipes to building new airport runways and parks, its mayor announced Thursday.
  • Chicago embarks on $7 billion infrastructure plan
    Chicago is setting off on an ambitious $7 billion program to overhaul the metropolis' aging infrastructure, from replacing crumbling commuter rail stations and century-old water pipes to building new airport ...
  • /R E PE A T -- Media Advisory/Photo-Op - Plane ...
    TORONTO , March 27, 2012 /CNW/ - April is Environment Month! Join Water Brothers hosts Tyler and Alex Mifflin and Environment Minister Jim Bradley this Thursday at the Ontario Science Centre when it participates ...

Guardian

  • Anti-abortion prayer vigil faces noisy pro-cho ...
    40 Days for Life activists outside British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic in London challenged by demonstratorsIt made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged dr ...
  • I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo ...
    The number of people living alone has skyrocketed. What is driving the phenomenon? And solo dwellers Colm Tóibín, Alex Zane, Carmen Calli and others reflect on life as a singletonHuman societies, at all times and places, have organised themselves around the will to live with others, not alone. B ...
  • Fuel panic: petrol prices rise as demand rocke ...
    • Unite says tanker drivers will not strike over Easter • Labour peer says Maude should resign over burns accident • Balls suggests Maude partly responsible for accident • Lunchtime summary • Afternoon summary7.38pm: I'll bring this blog to a close by referring you to the latest stories on the f ...
  • Women paying the price for Osborne's austerity ...
    Impact on women is more than £11bn out of £15bn savings with working tax credit change set to raise burden, study showsGeorge Osborne's financial policies are hitting women three times as hard as men, according to research on the impact of his budgets seen by the Guardian.An analysis of Treasury ...
  • Spain announces 'extraordinary' €27bn budget cuts
    Prime minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government announced Spain's most austere budget for more than three decadesPrime minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government announced Spain's most austere budget for more than three decades – the day after a million protesters took to Spanish st ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Occupy EPA Rallies for Whistleblowers
    Today's Occupy EPA and NOW DC rally went off with a bang! An eclectic crowd of whistleblower supporters, environmental protectors, and Occupy supporters marched today starting from Franklin Square Park and ending at the EPA offices. Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a member of the National Whistlebl ...
  • Supreme Court Guts Privacy Act
    Whistleblowers beware: this week the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the Privacy Act. David Colapinto, NWC General Counsel and Privacy Act expert, appeared on NPR to talk about the ruling and it's devastating effects for whistleblowers. Full story here Congress originally passed the histo ...
  • Connecticut jury awards over $1 million in fir ...
    In the first Federal Rail Safety Act (FRSA) case to go to a jury trial, the jury awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages, and one million dollars in punitive damages. Andy Barati was working for the Metro North commuter rail on Grand Central Terminal, New York City, in 2008 when a jack failed an ...
  • The Sky Has Not Yet Fallen
    (The First Seven Months of the SEC Dodd Frank Whistleblower Program) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash So far, the sky has not fallen. That’s not to say there isn’t some curious weather activ ...
  • OSHA issues new manual for whistleblower inves ...
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new Whistleblower Investigations Manual last year.  The new manual includes some improvements for whistleblowers, such as accepting oral complaints (which is particularly helpful in meeting the short 30-day time limits for en ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Case Study On How An Indie-Rock Composer Music ...
    We've talked about the Future of Music Coalition's excellent Artist Revenue Streams project for a while now, and over the last few months they've been releasing more and more results from the project. At some point in the future I'll have to dig more into some of the earlier results, but I thou ...
  • NBC Universal Caught Using Infringing Graphic ...
    Copyright infringement is easy. It's so easy that virtually everyone does it sometimes without even realizing—including some of the loudest cheerleaders for stronger copyright enforcement. We've pointed out several examples in the past: France's copyright three-strike agency pirated a font ...
  • EFF Slams Righthaven CEO For Pretending He Can ...
    We recently wrote about Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson's bizarre claim that a court order directed at him is inapplicable because he's just the CEO, and the company's own lawyers (who he blames everything on) won't return his calls. Now the EFF (who is representing Thomas DiBiase in the case) has f ...
  • DailyDirt: Tracking Down Your Food
    Poking through your fridge for a snack doesn't quite count as hunting for food. Not too many of us actually kill what we eat or farm fruits and vegetables, but there are a few online tools that'll help people see where they're food is coming from. Here are just a few examples of food-tracking pr ...
  • No, Telling Customers Why Your Product Is Bett ...
    Every time I read an opinion like this ruling in AR Pillow Inc. v. Cottrell, a little piece of me dies. This is a ridiculously easy case, yet somehow it got all tangled up. The litigants are rival vendors of similar products to combat baby acid reflux. For a slightly similar dispute involvi ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • What’s Different with Trayvon?
    Last week I wrote about how I think that the Rush Limbaugh shit storm was in large part because of who the target was, how people perceived her, and what they thought their role towards her should be.  Now I’m thinking about how much attention the Trayvon Martin murder has gotten and why. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    There are two Positive Force shows coming up. One is a benefit for Jobs With Justice on April 14th. The other is for the DC Trans Coalition on April 27th. Come out if you are in town. On April 24th we will be occupying the justice department. Here is why. The Cooperative Development Institute is ...
  • Using Prejudice
    I’ve been watching the fall of Rush Limbaugh with a certain amount of glee, but also with some ambivalence. I’m perfectly happy for him to get shit for calling Sandra Fluke a slut after testifying about contraceptives. But I am wondering why all his other equally offensive comments d ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A wee bit late with this post as I was at the march last night. I have comments, but I think I am going to ruminate on them a bit more. You should check out CD’s latest, Foreclosing on the Commons. And what amazing photography. Would liberals who like to quote Warren Buffett talking about ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Did you know that we have one third of all the women prisoners in the world? USA! USA! A while back I wrote about collections and how, if everyone actually showed up to court, the whole system would collapse. Well now someone is talking about it related to the criminal (in)justice system. We sho ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Incarceration America
    Fareed Zakaria writes: Something caught my eye the other day. Pat Robertson, the high priest of the religious right, had some startling things to say about drugs. “I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in a recent interview. ...
  • Meet the hackers who sell spies the tools to c ...
    Andy Greenberg writes: At a Google-run competition in ­Vancouver last month, the search giant’s famously secure Chrome Web browser fell to hackers twice. Both of the new methods used a rigged ­website to bypass Chrome’s security protections and completely hijack a target computer. But while thos ...
  • The truth about Keystone
    Alyssa Battistoni writes: When President Obama announced his support for the southern half of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline last week in Cushing, Okla., it was a blow to the environmental groups that had worked to stop the pipeline from going forward and succeeded in delaying approval of it ...
  • What if Israel bombs Iran?
    Gary Sick writes: Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning and discover that during the night. Israeli planes had conducted a bombing raid on Iran. How would your world have changed? Apart from the sensational headlines and breathless reports, the initial change might not be very significant. Y ...
  • Obama to clear way to tighten Iranian oil sanc ...
    The New York Times reports: President Obama said on Friday that there is enough oil in world markets to allow countries to rely less on imports from Iran, a step that could increase Western actions to deter Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr. Obama is required by law to decide by March 30, and every ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Earth Hour 2012 – A dissent and poll
    Every year at Christmas, many newspapers reprint “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus“, this excellent essay by Ross McKittrick should be repeated on every blog on every observance of Earth Hour. Copy, paste, and share it widely. A poll … Continue reading →
  • Open Thread Weekend
    I’m offline this weekend with travel and other projects. Discuss anything with limits of the WUWT site policy. This will remain a “top post” for the weekend. Some auto-scheduled stories will appear below this one. Don’t forget to observe Earth … Continue reading →
  • Al Gore’s ‘Current TV’ even ...
    Readers may recall I reported last year on Al Gore’s attempt to prop up slumping viewership in his mishmash of programming satellite channel Current TV by hiring Keith Olbermann. It seems that idea didn’t work out well and I can’t … Continue reading →
  • Spencer shows compelling evidence of UHI in CR ...
    McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset Guest post by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The supposed gold standard in surface temperature data is that produced by Univ. of East Anglia, … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – screwy thinking for Earth Day
    We’ve known for some time that the eco-minded tend to think that humans are a bad thing. For example, there’s the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: That’s no joke, it is a real organization. What follows is something I thought was … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Potential Breakthrough in Pancreas Cancer Trea ...
    Scientists in Seattle are reporting a potential breakthrough in the treatment of pancreas cancer, a disease which stubbornly resists most therapies. Pancreas cancer tumors are resistent to chemotherapy partly because they form a biological barrier around themselves. Researchers at the Fred Hutch ...
  • Should Science Pull the Trigger on Antiviral Drugs
    There’s a moment in the history of medicine that’s so cinematic it’s a wonder no one has put it in a Hollywood film. The scene is a London laboratory. The year is 1928. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, is back from a vacation and is cleaning up his work space. He notices that a spec ...
  • Daily aspirin could help prevent and treat cancer
    The case for using aspirin to prevent cancer continues to build, particularly if people are at increased risk of the disease. Three new studies led by researchers at Oxford University also raise the possibility that a daily low dose of the drug could be effective, not just as a preventative meas ...
  • Nerve cells grow on nanocellulose
    Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional model of the brain. Such a model could elevate brain research to totally new levels, with regard to Alz ...
  • Obesity gene’s role revealed in mice study
    In studies on mice which had been genetically modified to have the mutation, the mice consumed up to 80% more food than normal. After a meal, hormones such as insulin and leptin should tell the brain that the body is full and should stop eating. The researchers showed that in the mutated mice th ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • How disorganization is damaging Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis, Jasper, JuliaWilliams and lambert. My sincere thanks to them for their help.A few weeks ago Occupy Oakland (OO) began to emphasize secrecy (or security culture) over transparency, which resulted in livestreamers being attacked as snitc ...
  • Provocateur tactics and the subversion of Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from affinis and lambert. My sincere thanks to both of them for their help.The Occupy movement has already had a positive impact in many areas, but potentially the biggest one is rescuing concepts of public rights and the understanding of what is pu ...
  • Scaring the pants off Oscar Mayer
    Last month, Occupy Portland put out a national call to action on February 29 to other Occupies around the country.  Dubbed “Shut Down the Corporations”, the idea was to target corporations that are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with creative, n ...
  • Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy
    This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and s ...
  • Francis - This Must Be Blood EP
    Petter from Francis let me know that their new EP This Must Be Blood is out.Have a listen to the single “Traktor:”

Organic Consumers.org

  • Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Tryin ...
    It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds.Click here to read this article
  • GMO? Let us Know
    "We've reached 500,000 signatures," smiles Eileen Mitro, Ukiah coordinator for the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act initiative.Click here to read this article
  • With Grocery Prices Rising, Here's How Cooking ...
    In an age where the prevailing economic system often requires both parents working full time just to make ends meet, it's no wonder so many families eat out. The Fiscal Times reports that consumers now spend almost 4.5% of their total income on dining out, and now there's even more motivation.Cl ...
  • Nothing Fishy: Whole Foods will Stop Selling F ...
    ALBANY, N.Y. - Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a move that comes as supermarkets nationwide try to make their seafood selections more sustainable.Click here to read this article
  • New Pesticides Linked to Bee Population Collapse
    Worldwide declines in bee colonies, threatening much of global agriculture, may be caused by a new generation of nerve-agent pesticides, two new scientific studies strongly suggest. The findings place a massive question mark over the increasingly controversial compounds, now the fastest growing ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Move to Strike: Amendment to Arsenic Legislati ...
    As introduced, the legislation would have banned the use of Roxarsone and other arsenic-based drugs regardless of what Pfizer decides to do. As amended, the bill will have no effect whatsoever.
  • Next Farm Bill Should Strengthen, Not Threaten ...
    Our future food security requires us to preserve the quantity and quality of a vital natural resource—the topsoil that we need to grow healthy food.
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The FDA, Monsanto, and Soy : the Assault on th ...
    One of america's rising epidemics is obesity.There are several combinationz that contribute to its growth. there's no tellin' what we're actually eatin' because it's camouflaged by the flavor! more Fast Food chainz opening up 2003 movie, 'Super Size Me' Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wel ...
  • Eating This Common Food Could Damage Your Kidn ...
    According to a new study, low doses of the Bt biopesticide CryA1b, and the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, kill human kidney cells. Glyphosate at 57.2 parts per million -- 200 times below agricultural use killed half the cells. Submitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellness  |  &nbsp ...
  • Dancer Walks 500 Miles to Find Coal Mines
    Cassie Meador realized she had no idea where the resources she used came from, or how her resource use impacted the environment.She has decided to take a little walk to trace the source of the energy she uses in her Washington D.C. home. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • Losing my religion for equality
    Jimmy Carter, President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, on his decision to sever ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades due to the misogyny being preached through a "twisted misinterpretation of the word of God". Submitted by Gail G. to Society & Culture   ...
  • Fight against Solitary Confinement in Californ ...
    Lawyers working with prisoner advocates and community organizations filed a petition to the United Nations calllng for UN action against California's prison administration for treatment that may be considered torture of world's largest isolated population Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Secret of Oz Full Movie
    The Ponzi Scheme that is our banking system.
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NORAD to Conduct Training Flights Over DC Area
    ShareThisNORAD to Conduct Training Flights Over DC Area 27 Mar 2012 NORAD is planning a series of training flights over the Washington area this week. The North American Aerospace Defense Command says the flights will begin Wednesday night and continue into early Thursday morning. The exercise i ...
  • Attack on WikiLeaks mounts as cables are withheld
    ShareThisAttack on WikiLeaks mounts as cables are withheld 31 Mar 2012 The Australian government has renewed its attacks on WikiLeaks, condemning the transparency group for "reckless, irresponsible and potentially dangerous" disclosures of secret information. The Department of Foreign Affairs an ...
  • Michigan Militia Members Cleared of Conspiracy
    ShareThisMichigan Militia Members Cleared of Conspiracy 28 Mar 2012 A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government's case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown ...
  • Three GOP governors tour Neb. beef plant to ea ...
    ShareThisMega barf alert: Three GOP governors tour Neb. beef plant to eat 'pink slime' [For them, it was like looking in a mirror.] --The finished product contains only a trace of ammonia, meant to be an additional 'hurdle for the pathogens.' 29 Mar 2012 Republican governors of three states got ...
  • Attorneys could argue Zimmerman was 'arrested, ...
    ShareThisAttorneys could argue Zimmerman was 'arrested,' and start ticking clock to discharge case By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 31 Mar 2012 George Zimmerman was handcuffed the night of the killing of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman's attorneys could argue that since Zimmerman was handcuffed, he was ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Taliban Sends Message about US Prisoner Bowe B ...
    29 March 2012 Several years ago, the Taliban captured a US Soldier named Bowe Bergdahl. Yesterday was Bergdahl’s third birthday in captivity. I’ve asked the Taliban several times to see Bergdahl.  They have declined in the past citing security reasons.  I recently asked the Taliban a ...
  • Sergeant Godsmack vs. Nazar
    27 March 2012 PTSD is a serious problem.  Suicides by veterans happen many times per day, every day.  At best, PTSD can degrade the quality of life of veterans and their families.  At worst, unmanaged, the human toll is incalculable. Other problems with “military PTSD:” 1) PTSD ...
  • Panjway, Afghanistan: Amphitheater of War
    For a larger view please click on image or one of the links below. 23 March 2012 This panorama was made in the general area where the Panjway 17 massacre unfolded.  The view is over the Arghandab River Valley, a place that Canadian and many US forces know well.  The Arghandab can be ...
  • Alcohol in Afghanistan
    19 March 2012 There are reports that alcohol was involved in the Panjway 16.  There are also reports that alcohol was not involved. Since 2005, I've only seen two Soldiers truly drunk on missions during about three years with combat troops.  Both were in Iraq.  One Soldier was e ...
  • Sir Petraeus
    16 March 2012 This has been secret until a few minutes ago.  The Dutch Minister of Defense just knighted General (ret.) Petraeus in the Hague.  I was invited to go but could not make it, unfortunately.

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Last day of JURIST's spring fund drive...only ...
    [JURIST announcement] WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. Our spring fund drive ends in just a few hours! Your response has been phenomenal - we've raised 25% of our annual goal and have eclipsed 100 individual donors. Don't stop now! Another $1,500 means we'll be 30% funded for the coming year. . .another ...
  • Judge strikes down Louisiana law requiring som ...
    [JURIST] Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] on Thursday issued a ruling [text, PDF] striking down the Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation [SB 381 text, PDF] law, which labels persons who are convicted of certain types of solic ...
  • Judge overturns Virginia Tech campus warning s ...
    [JURIST] An administrative judge for the Department of Education [official website] overturned [order, PDF] a $55,000 fine issued against Virginia Tech for its response to the shootings in 2007 [NYT backgrounder]. Judge Ernest Canellos ruled that the university's warning system did not violate t ...
  • New Hampshire House votes to ban abortions aft ...
    [JURIST] The New Hampshire House of Representatives [official website] on Thursday approved [results] a bill [HB 1660 text] that would prohibit abortion [JURIST news archive] procedures to be performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill, formerly titled "The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Pro ...
  • Lawsuit filed against Oklahoma personhood ball ...
    [JURIST] Six Oklahoma voters, along with women's healthcare providers and religious groups, filed a lawsuit [text, PDF] Thursday against an Oklahoma ballot initiative [text, PDF] that would amend the state constitution to redefine "personhood." The amendment would confer "personhood" rights to e ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Seattle Businesses Support Local Public Education
    TweetTonight, it’s small ball for readers used to my brooding on the big picture of war and peace in the Middle East.  We’re going to talk about public education and the wonderful local businesses who support it.  Back in the old days when this blog was searching for its voice, my su ...
  • 100 Iranian Missiles Will Penetrate Defenses, ...
    TweetGareth Porter does some excellent reporting during his current trip to Israel, where he’s meeting Israeli military and intelligence figures concerning a possible Israeli attack on Iran.  He focuses on the lack of Israeli psychological preparation or awareness of the danger they face f ...
  • Under Threat from Oakland Jewish Federation, B ...
    TweetAbout as close as Peter Beinart may ever get to Jewish Voice for Peace, were flyers seen throughout the area advertising his book promotion appearance at the East Bay Jewish Community Center in Berkeley.  The event was to have been co-sponsored by the JCC and KPFA, the local Pacifica radio ...
  • ‘Israel Bought an Airfield Called Azerbaijan’
    TweetMark Perry has published another powerful expose of covert Israeli intelligence activities against Iran.  This segment in his series deals with Azerbaijan, a subject I’ve written about here after the recent announcement of a $1.6 billion arms deal between Israel and that nation.  Perr ...
  • Bibi: First We’ll Take Tehran, Then We’ll Take ...
    TweetYesterday, brought ominous news regarding yet another aggressive Israeli projection of its military power in the Mideast.  Since 1967, with but a few exceptions (Osirak being one), Israel has mainly satisfied itself by retaining dominance over its frontline neighbors and not attempting to m ...

If Americans Knew

  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Religious Tolerance - Chief Rabbinate of Israe ...
    Religious perspectives on the current financial crisis: vision for a just economic order" was the theme of the eleventh meeting of the Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, which was held in Rome. Th ...
  • The Cost of War - Across Borders And Battle Li ...
    There isn’t too much that binds together Ama Gullah, a 45-year-old grandmother from the city of Kandahar, and Dr. Becky Whetstone, a marriage counselor and therapist in Little Rock, Arkansas. But they are two of the tens of thousands of mothers strewn across four continents whose sons and daug ...
  • Colombia on Edge - Colombia's New Counterinsur ...
    Colombian security forces attacked a camp belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on March 26 in Vistahermosa, Meta department, killing 36 members of the guerrilla group and capturing three. The operation, which Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said resulted in the d ...
  • Poisoned Places - EPA Steps in at Iowa Plant†...
    For years, people living in the Mississippi River town of Muscatine, Iowa, have complained about the ash and smoke blowing into their neighborhood from a corn processing plant. State regulators have brought enforcement cases against the company, but the town’s South End neighborhood remains un ...
  • Defense on Edge - More than $2 Billion for Fin ...
    A costly and lengthy effort by the Pentagon to bring its financial ledgers up to modern standards continues to encounter serious problems, according to a new General Accountability Office report that spotlights shortcomings in accounting software now being tested by the Army and the Air Force.Th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted: Obama's 3+ Year Long Preparation F ...
    Two weeks from now is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. That is why the movie is being re-released in 3D and many of the basic cable stations are airing specials about the tragedy. What has not been reported is that President Obama has been spending much of his time as preside ...
  • Is Obama Signaling a Second Administration Eve ...
     Note if you cannot see three videos below, Please click here. Four separate stories mostly unrelated, only one made big news, three were barely covered by the mainstream media.... but when you put them together they tell a frightening story. This narrative should be titled, What I ...
  • The Liberal War on Women: One Day Of Hating Mi ...
    WARNING:EXPLICIT LANGUAGE BELOW My friend John Hawkins can find the most creative ways to get to the truth and below he has done it again... One of latest liberal talking points is that conservatives are waging a “war on women” because they won’t agree that the Pope should be force ...
  • Government is Not a Magic Box-Its a Can of Worms
    By Barry Rubin One of today’s biggest political and intellectual problems is the concept of “government” as an institution outside human logic, society, and reality. We are told that more power to the government is a solution; that more money to the government is an absolut ...
  • When Al Sharpton Incited a Massacre at Freddy' ...
    Angelina Marrero . . . Cynthia Martinez . . . Luz Ramos . . . Mayra Rentas . . . Olga Garcia . . . Garnette Ramautar . . . Kareem Brunner their names will forever be remembered as the seven victims of the massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart.  Their deaths can be traced to the racia ...

The Real Agenda

  • Reporting Suspicious Behavior: Homeland Securi ...
    By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 30, 2012 See something, say something. Suspicious behavior must be denounced immediately to the pertinent authorities. So let’s be patriotic and report what seems to be very concerning events associated with the U.S. Department of Home ...
  • Buy Apple, Support Slavery
    By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 30, 2012 Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past decade or so, it may come as a surprise to learn that large technology corporations such as Apple use and abuse workers in third world nations where governments do not prov ...
  • Autism up 78% in Last Decade
    By MIRIAM FALCO | CNN | MARCH 29, 2012 The number of children with autism in the United States continues to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest data estimate that 1 in 88 American children has some form of auti ...
  • BRICS Denounce Currency Manipulation
    By LUIS R. MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 29, 2012 In the power shift the world is experiencing today, both the rich nations and the supposed emerging economies are making sure they appear as cohesive groups with common goals. While the Anglo-Saxon bloc has governed over the world f ...
  • Science research called ‘dysfunctional&# ...
    UPI | MARCH 28, 2012 The increasing number of retractions in scientific journals is a symptom of dysfunction in the world of biomedical research, a scientist told a U.S. committee. Ferric Fang, editor-in-chief of the journal Infection and Immunity, and Arturo Casadevall, editor-in -chief of ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Lawyers Make Liberty Appeals to Justice Kennedy
    “The way to frame a Supreme Court argument meant to persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is to talk about liberty. It is his touchstone and guiding principle, and his conception of liberty is likely to determine the future of President Obama’s health care law.” (New York Times) Libert ...
  • Consumer Spending Rises, But Income Hardly So
    “U.S. consumers boosted their spending in February by the most in seven months. But Americans’ income barely grew and the saving rate fell to its lowest point in more than two years.” (Washington Post) Does that mean more debt? FEE Timely Classic “Consumer Spending Doesn’t Driv ...
  • Seeing Like a Ruling Class
    In the beginning ruling classes had a problem. It will be familiar to those acquainted with the Austrian critique of central economic planning.
  • Court Considers Fate of Obamacare without Mandate
    “The day after the Supreme Court suggested that President Obama’s health care law might be in danger of being held unconstitutional, the justices on Wednesday turned their attention to the practical consequences and political realities of such a ruling.” (New York Times) The mandate ...
  • Solyndra Risks Were Known to Feds
    “The federal government and private investors knew the risks they were taking when they poured money in Solyndra LLC, the California solar panel manufacturer that went bankrupt two years after winning more than a half-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees, according to the company’s t ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • London Conference on Somalia
    Although it succeeded in shining an international light on Somalia's ongoing conflict, the London conference failed in some respects to address dangerous issues of tribalism.
  • Kony 2012
    The Kony 2012 video has led to increased U.S. pressure on the Ugandan regime to catch the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader.
  • Water and Sanitation in Africa
    Although much more of the world's population has access to clean water than a decade ago, sanitation progress in Africa continues to stagnate.
  • Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
    The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.
  • Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
    The Global Fund has been fighting disease for a decade in 150 countries, but the time is ripe for reform and reassessment of its operations.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair an ...
    Last weekend, the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected a new leader: Thomas Mulcair, an MP from Quebec, who was a minister in the provincial Liberal government there, before he resigned rather than open a park for development. Mulcair was the front runner, and his victory was hardly a surp ...
  • It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
    I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
  • It is in blood that empires, like humans, are ...
    I think we all remember the year before the Iraq war, the drumbeat of propaganda, the horrible certainty that nothing we could do would stop George Bush’s messianic belief that he must have a war with Iraq because he was ordained by God, and all the great presidents were war presidents. We argue ...
  • On Stratfor
    Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...
  • On Stratfor
    Wikileaks has dumped a bunch of internal Stratfor documents, which they presumably received from Anonymous.  Years ago I used to read Stratfor’s briefs.  After a while I stopped, because their economic analysis was absolutely awful, straight up cookie cutter consensus macro, which missed t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Next Public Debt Crisis Has Arrived
    In July of 2009, while the smoke from the global financial bonfire was still thick in the air, I wrote for this website about another crisis of massive proportions just looming on the horizon: the Global Crisis in Public Debt. Three years later, the news of defaults, bankruptcies, debt fo ...
  • How A Baby Bust Will Turn Asia's Tigers Toothless
    For the last two decades, America’s pundit class has been looking for models to correct our numerous national deficiencies. Some of the more deluded have settled on Europe, which, given its persistent low economic growth over the past 20 years and minuscule birth rates, amounts to someth ...
  • What Apple’s Supply Chain Says About US Manufa ...
    In January, The New York Times released a front-page report on the iEconomy, Apple’s vast and rapidly growing empire built on the production of tech devices almost exclusively overseas. The fascinating story created a wave of attention when it was published, and it’s back in the news after ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto
    Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto is Japan's second largest urban area and ranks as the 12th largest urban area in the world. With a population of approximately 17,000,000 and a land area of 1240 square miles (3200 square kilometers), Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto has a population density of 13,700 per square mile (5,200 ...
  • Inequality and Economic Growth
    There has been news and conversation about economic inequality and economic growth lately, mostly because the former is increasing steadily and the latter has been less than stellar. Of course, there is always a tension between economic growth and equality.  Economic growth implies at least ...

GM Watch

  • Tell Morrisons you're off
    NOTE: Lots of great comemnts left here: http://www.facebook.com/MorrisonsWeLoveFood If you're on FaceBook, please leave your comments too, as well as writing to Morrisons Head of Policy - see below. --- --- Tell Morrisons you're off http://gmfreeze.webfactional.com/actions/27/ Let them know if ...
  • End of secrecy on GMOs in Chile
    Alianza por una Mejor Calidad de Vida (RAP-Chile) Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas  de América Latina y el Caribe (RAP-AL) Press release Chilean Citizens win right to know GMO cultures location *Historical decision of Transparency Council  March 23 2012, Santiago, Chile - Marí ...
  • Rothamsted's GM wheat – "A step backwards for ...
    Rothamsted's GM Wheat – "A step backwards for farming" GM Freeze, 29 March 2012 www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/187/  GM Freeze today responded to the announcement that Rothamsted Research has sowed its experimental crop of GM wheat, calling it "a step backwards for farming". The wheat is genet ...
  • European Parliament cracks down on EFSA
    1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA 2.EU commission: OK for Monsanto lobbyist to run food regulator --- --- 1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA CEO, March 28 2012 http://www.corporateeurope.org/blog/european-parliament-cracks-down-efsa Debates on EFSA's budget and management board i ...
  • European Parliament cracks down on EFSA
    1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA 2.EU commission: OK for Monsanto lobbyist to run food regulator --- --- 1.European Parliament cracks down on EFSA CEO, March 28 2012 http://www.corporateeurope.org/blog/european-parliament-cracks-down-efsa Debates on EFSA's budget and management board i ...

spiked

  • No bowing down before Bebe
    American journalist Pamela Druckerman’s fascinating look at how the French bring up their children shows that putting adults first is better for everyone – the kids included.
  • In higher education quality, not equality, matters
    Stefan Collini's new book asks What Are Universities For?, but his relativist view of Truth and Knowledge prevents him from giving a satisfactory answer.
  • Letters from a beaten figure
    A collection of William Burroughs’s letters reveals the Beat writer’s thoughts on everything from Denmark and drugs to ringworm and movie stars.
  • Religious belief is more than an evolutionary ...
    A new book attempts to ground a defence of religious freedom in cognitive science, but in doing so it reveals a lack of faith in freedom itself.
  • A Byronic defence of the Luddites
    200 years after Lord Byron’s tub-thumping speech about the Luddites, let us distinguish those radicals from today’s eco-miserabilists.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
    Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
  • A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
    Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...
  • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
    What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem.  All over America, p ...
  • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. c ...

Desertification

  • Bushes, CO2 and Spirulina (Google / UNCSD 2012)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&nr=1013&type=230&menu=38 Chinese businessman comes to UN with anti-desertification demo Chinese businessman Li Jinglu built a power generating plant in an Inner Mongolia desert and fuele ...
  • Rio Plus 20 Prosêct (Google / Council on Forei ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2012/03/30/rio-plus-20-what-prospects-for-the-next-un-mega-conference/ Rio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference? by Stewart M. Patrick On June 20-21, the world will descend on Rio de Janeiro for the Un ...
  • Desertification in N. Korea (Google / NY Times)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/q-and-a-north-koreas-choked-environment/ Q and A: North Korea’s Choked Environment By JOANNA M. FOSTER   Although it remains one of the world’s most implacably closed societies, North Korea has become more o ...
  • Making drinking water for irrigation and domes ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/1634354509.html Qatar: Solar energy to make drinking water ANSAmed – English March 30, 2012 (ANSAmed) Qatar is looking for ways to make drinking water for irrigation and domestic use with th ...
  • Pakistan : invest more in biotechnology resear ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/29/biotech-solution-to-meet-rising-population-needs.html `Biotech solution to meet rising population needs` According to the report prepared by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (I ...

The Paper Trail

  • Nuclear testers can run but not hide
    Beneath the oceans, on distant islands, in barren deserts, on icy hillsides, and at hundreds of other spots around the globe, special sensors are sniffing the air, measuring ground motion, watching for a particular kind of light, and listening for unique sounds. Their function is to pick up the ...
  • Super donor Friess skips super PAC to help San ...
    Ahead of Tuesday’s GOP presidential primary in Wisconsin, wealthy investor Foster Friess is giving his preferred candidate, Rick Santorum, a boost. This time though, rather than contributing to a pro-Santorum super PAC, he’s taking matters into his own hands.Friess has personally spent $8,675 to ...
  • Illegal ocean dumping persists despite DOJ cra ...
    When a U.S. Coast Guard inspector boarded the M/T Chem Faros, a 21,145-gross-ton cargo ship that pulled into port in Morehead City, N.C., an oiler with the engine crew quietly handed him a note."GOOD MORNING SIR, I WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THIS SHIP DISCHARGING BILGE ILEGALLY USING BY MAGIC PI ...
  • Billions of dollars for fancy software and whe ...
    A costly and lengthy effort by the Pentagon to bring its financial ledgers up to modern standards continues to encounter serious problems, according to a new General Accountability Office report that spotlights shortcomings in accounting software now being tested by the Army and the Air Force.Th ...
  • Department of Energy knew of Solyndra risks, f ...
    The Department of Energy was fully aware of the risks in backing Solyndra Inc., a start-up company that pocketed a half-billion dollar DOE loan but never turned a penny in profit before shutting its doors, concludes a former FBI agent hired to examine the company’s books.The expert’s report, fil ...

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – Retracted
    By Nathaniel Moher Dear worshipping readership: as one of the few remaining hard-hitting investigative journalists out there (see you at the meeting, Seacrest), I obviously pride myself on never making a mistake. Ever. Well, apparently my assumption that I never make a mistake was in fact a mist ...
  • Robocalls and Republicons
    By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch's Canadi ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Who you gonna Robo-call?
    As I’m sure most of you have heard, the Conservatives are in a little bit of a hot spot (and I’m not just talking about the prairies). It seems that Harps and his conservatives are being accused of a placing phone calls during the last election, giving out the wrong address’ for polling stations ...
  • How the Sun helped post the Vancouver Playhous ...
    By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after a ...
  • Ohi – uh-oh
    By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Da ...

libcom

  • California utility to spend $70 million for re ...
    pacific.jpg A gas pipeline exploded in the California town of San Bruno last year. The blast murdered eight individuals. Monday, the utility business responsible for the catastrophe, Pacific Gas and E ...
  • Axed Game staff occupy shops
    game-ireland-protestors-want-fair-deal-3.jpg Former staff at closed Game stores have occupied their workplaces to demand redundancy payouts All the stores in the Republic of Ire ...
  • Successful Fare Strike on New York Subways
    NYC Fare Strike.jpg This morning tens of thousands rode the New York City subways for free in a Fare Strike organized by Occupy Wall Street in coordination with rank-and-file transit workers. ...
  • Scenes from the general strike in Portugal
    general strike.jpg On March 22nd the second general strike in four months took place in Portugal, ending in confrontations with the police in Lisbon, and once again illustrating the shifting landscape ...
  • Anarchists, Comrades and the Public Send Nazis ...
    Nazis attempted to rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and were sent "fleeing" by anti-racist activists. EDMONTON - A white supremacist rally in Edmonton's downtown lasted only minutes when the demonstrators fled into a ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • War With Iran Averted – At Least Until A ...
    http://www.roytov.com/articles/usathwarts.htm According to Edomite-Turned Christian reporter Ro’i (Roy) Tov, the world can breath much easier these days. In a MOST STUNNING EXPOSE, Roy Tov explains what the Main Stream Media has completely ignored: USA Thwarts Israeli Attack on Iran Obama ...
  • The HollyWood Agenda – Truly EYE-OPENING ...
    To really understand who operates “Hollywood” – you have to look at the history of the “motion picture” industry and “television” from its very inception. From an article posted on Rense.com we learn: Walt Disney’s War With Hollywood’s Jews 7 ...
  • Police State Out of Control. This Illinois St ...
    The Truth is Stranger than Fiction. Imagine, facing 75 years in prison, being arrested and HARASSED merely for DARING to record local police in action!  Sound incredible in AMERICA? Think again friends:
  • Debt as Money – INCREDIBLE MUST-WATCH VI ...
    This is a tremendously well-done presentation – easy to understand and extremely accurate.   Better yet, it explores SOLUTIONS, rather than just focusing on the problems. Keep in mind as you watch this, that Mariner Eccles, the ARCHITECT of the corrupt and non-sustainable Federal Reserve S ...
  • The Final Judgment – Israel and Organize ...
    Read the book online at:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/47546468/7/Chapter-Fifteen Is it “hate mongering” to simply write the truth?   Are you a “Jew-Hater” simply because you expose the links to Jewish Mafia Kingpin Meyer Lansky and his role in the formation of the modern-da ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran and the Futility of Denial Diplomacy at t ...
    After a full year of efforts by Iran's human rights diplomats to discredit or ignore the mandate of Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, 22 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to renew the mandate for another year on March 22.read more
  • Where's Ross Mirkarimi's 'official misconduct'?
    I hate to sound like a lawyer, but: There's a big hole in Mayor Ed Lee's suspension of Ross Mirkarimi as sheriff. In written charges that launched a San Francisco Ethics Commission investigation on "official misconduct," Lee asserted that during a New Year's Eve argument, Mirkarimi grabbed his w ...
  • Oil and Gas Industry Poised to Benefit From Im ...
    Reuters reported Iranian oil exports will drop by 300,000 barrels a day this month because of tighter sanctions. As a result Oil prices rallied across the board Friday. Oil futures hit recent highs of $108 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Paragon Report examines the outlook for ...
  • Obama clears sanctions to squeeze Iran
    President Barack Obama is moving ahread more
  • بازدید از یادگاری های اعدام شدگان دهه شصت ایران
    'امید نام من است' نمایشگاهی است از یادگاری های قربانیان اعدام های دهه شصت ایران که از ٢٠ اسفند ماه سال ۹۰ در خانه آنا فرانک شهر فرانکفورت آلمان افتتاح شده است.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Real Source of Greek Debt
    Debtocracy: the Greek documentary (This is the last of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe.) The free Greek docu ...
  • The IMF’s Fairy Tale Princess
    IMF chief Christine Lagarde (This is the second of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) LaGarde isn’t wi ...
  • Giving Capitalism a Feminine Face
    IMF head Christine Lagarde (This is the first of three posts about the new female head of the IMF, which the business press is promoting as a “rock star of the economic world,” and how we are being deceived about the real cause of the debt crisis in Europe) Historically the IMF and ...
  • END:CIV Resist or Die
    END:CIV Resist or Die 2011, directed by Franklin Lopez Free (Creative Commons) download at: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-civ-resist-or-die/ Film Review END:CIV, according to the promo, “examines our culture’s systemic addiction to violence and environmental exploitation.& ...
  • Farmers of Forty Centuries
    Farmers of Forty Century: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan By F.H. King (1911, reprinted in 2004 by Dover Publications) Book Review I don’t typically review (or read) 100 year old books. Farmers of Forty Centuries is an important exception. It has become a classic of the permacult ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Psychotic Air Crews Warned Are Putting US Trav ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Federal Air Transport Agency currently circulating in the Kremlin is warning that Americans traveling on their countries airlines may be in “grave danger” due to an increasing number of “psychotic” air crews allowed by the US government to both pilot and manag ...
  • Australian Labor party nearly wiped out in Que ...
    Australia’s ruling Labor party is reeling from a devastating loss in a state election in Queensland, increasing the pressure of Julia Gillard, the prime minister. The extent of the loss – which left Labor with just seven seats, down from 51 – surprised Ms Gillard, who pledged to listen to ...
  • Behind-the-Scenes Attempt to Stop Arizona&#821 ...
    President Obama will be forced by circumstances to apologise as its Genuine Birth Certificate surfaces. Americans have been led to believe otherwise, revelation to change the political landscape. Arizona’s state legislature is currently pushing through a “Candidate Certification Bill” which will ...
  • Turkish PM backs Iran’s nuclear rights
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his country’s support of Iran’s right to peaceful applications of nuclear technology. In an exclusive interview with IRIB’s channel two TV station on Thursday night, Erdogan emphasized that peaceful nuclear technology is “the natural rig ...
  • China urges Syrian govt., opposition to honor ...
    China has called on the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition to honor their commitments to the UN-Arab League peace proposal. “We hope the Syrian government and relevant parties in Syria will honor their commitments,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei s ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Game Thread: Habs Look To Disrupt Streaking Ra ...
    There haven't been many teams that the Montreal Canadiens have dominated this season. The Ottawa Senators are one, and the surprising other is the New York Rangers who sit atop the Eastern Conference. After a brutally officiated first period in the first meeting between the two teams, the Canad ...
  • A runaway victory for George Galloway – and al ...
    That is the headline to Andrew Gilligan's report for the Daily Telegraph on George Galloway's stunning victory in the Bradford West by-election. Predictably, Gilligan presents his readers with the familiar right-wing narrative about Galloway's campaign being based on a communalist appeal to Mus ...
  • Apple jumps 10 places to No.1 Consumer Brand i ...
    Apple is usually at the top of customer satisfaction surveys in the U.S., taking home its seventh consecutive J.D Power and Associates award for smartphones earlier this month. The same can’t be said for the company among consumers in all countries abroad, but for the first time Apple has ranke ...
  • Barack Obama ratchets up pressure on Iran as h ...
    America moved to ratchet up the economic pressure on Iran after President Barack Obama promised to slap sanctions on foreign banks involved in financing crude oil purchases from Tehran. In a move that risks infuriating China and Russia and punishing even friendly countries that buy oil from Ira ...
  • 2012 MLB Team Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers
    Last season the Los Angeles Dodgers dominated headlines for everything other than baseball. The team was still at the mercy of now ex-owner Frank McCourt, whose divorce was a literal soap opera and the team took the fall too. Still, the team put up an 82-79 record thanks to a great second-half ...

Groklaw

  • OSI Welcomes Debian and CENATIC
    OSI is very pleased to welcome two important new members to the Affiliate scheme for community groups. They are CENATIC and Debian. CENATIC is the Spanish National Reference Center for the Application of Information Technology and Communication based on Open Source, a strategic project of the G ...
  • The Debian Project joins the OSI
    The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it is joining the Open Source Initiative ("OSI") as an affiliate. The OSI was founded in 1998 by Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens, with the aim of explaining, advocating, and protecting the term "open source". Debian shares the OSI's desire to encou ...
  • Apple's War on Android
    Several Asian manufacturers were noodling around with similar-looking rectangular smartphones before the iPhone came to market. Tipping its hat to a fellow Korean manufacturer, Samsung notes that in 2006, nearly a year before the iPhone appeared, LG Electronics (066570) announced the round-corne ...
  • Apple and Samsung look to settle patent wars
    Top executives at Apple and Samsung have met recently about a potential patent settlement, a media report said Thursday. "Apple CEO Tim Cook does not seem to share his predecessor's passion about laying all foes to waste. Cook appears to view litigation as a necessary evil, not a vehicle of cos ...
  • Microsoft Seeks Restraining Order In Patent Case
    Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has asked a U.S. court for a restraining order to prevent Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) from taking action based on a ruling expected from a German court next month, ramping up a year-and-a-half old transatlantic dispute. The motion, filed late Wednesday in U.S. D ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • So you think the Trayvon Martin case is insane?
    The Kissing Case. 1958. NC. Two black boys age 7 and 9 were arrested for rape after a white girl kissed them when they were playing a kissing game.Among the heroes here was NAACP leader Robert Williams, whose armed resistance against Klan terrorism was an inspiration to the Black Panthers. He fo ...
  • Sharing smart meter data
    The White House recently announced an agreement with nine “major electricity suppliers” under which consumers will be able to get access to data about their own energy useHmm, considering that smart meter data also includes when the power was used, I’m guessing one type of elec ...
  • San Jose’s new downtown wifi may pay for itself
    San Jose already has free downtown wifi. Casual users to not have to login or provide a password. Their planned new expanded network will also be used by city employees, satellite fire stations, wireless parking meters, signs that provide real-time information on available parking in city garage ...
  • California water wars spotlight: MWD, the 800 ...
    MWD service area (mwdh2o.com)Even more than Central and Imperial Valley agriculture, the behemoth Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the primary power in the California water wars. They supply 1.7 billion gallons of water a day to 17 million people in several southern Californ ...
  • On arrogance and pine bark beetles
    Pine bark beetle devastation (fs.usda)We oft hear from those who doubt the climate is changing or the world is older than a mere six thousand years that it is arrogant to presume that we mere humans could possibly have an affect upon our planet. It is, after all, a big place that has [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • General debate, March 31, 2012
  • National and Act’s local government agenda is ...
    The decisions councils make, how they invest and spend rates and other revenue and how they control land and water use can help or hinder a sustainable future and a fairer society, and affect our  quality of life – whether  it’s easy to bus or bike to work, to recycle, or use a swimming pool [...]
  • Huawei the real problem.
    The Green Party is calling for an investigation into Huawei, the Chinese corporation that has contracts to supply parts for the Ultra-Fast Broadband and Rural Broadband Initiatives after Australia blocked them from participating in their broadband project.
  • Will privatising energy companies improve the ...
    The National Government has used the government deficit and debt to justify the privatisation of assets. As I pointed out in an earlier blog, the deficit and debt problem has been made much worse as a result of this Government’s very poor revenue and spending decisions. But does privatising the ...
  • MMP review submission guide
    If you're thinking of submitting to the MMP review, and you'd like to be heard in person, look sharp! There’s only a week left to get your submission in (deadline 5 April). If you just want to make a written submission, relax, you've got until 31 May. We’ve created a submission guide that outlin ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Father and Daughter Acoustic Cover
    The song is “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
  • Eating This Fatty Snack Can Protect Your Heart ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you're looking for a nutritious, quick snack, nuts (raw, organic and in moderation) are a near perfect option. With healthy fats, fiber, plant sterols and many vitamins and minerals, nuts pack a powerful nutritional punch, all wrapped up in a tiny bite-sized package. I ...
  • Is This More-Dangerous-than-Aspartame Sweetene ...
    By Dr. Mercola One of the more recent toxic additions to our food supply is the artificial sweetener called Neotamei. In the European Union, where it was approved as a flavor enhancer as of November 2010, it is known by its “E number,” E961ii. Made by NutraSweet (a former division of Monsa ...
  • How Factory Farmers Use the Media To Distort R ...
    By Dr. Mercola A ridiculous video from the Pork Producers Council attempts to explain why factory pig farming is a wonderful thing.   They say they put up "modern" barns to protect animals from harsh weather, illness and predators … which when translated to reality means the pigs never ...
  • This Could Give Women Deadly Blood Clots - US ...
    By Dr. Mercola Emerging markets -- primarily in developing countries in Southeast and Central Asia, and Africa -- have been on vaccine makers' radar for quite some time. One reason that vaccine makers are interested in exploring markets in these parts of the world is that that's where most o ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Revealed: how Ethiopia's plantations are killi ...
    Efforts to re-direct the Omo River for irrigation are drying up a key water source for tribes. © Survival New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia’s controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. The Omo River downstream from ...
  • Sri Lankan park guard kills tribal man
    A Wanniyala-Aetto family. The tribe want to return to their land in Maduru Oya National Park. © Survival A Sri Lankan park guard has shot dead a young man from the Wanniyala-Aetto tribe for hunting on his people’s ancestral land. Local sources say Thalawarige Sunila was hunting inside the ...
  • UN body says Brazil violating indigenous rights
    Kayapó Indians dance at an anti-dam protest © Terence Turner The International Labour Organization (ILO), part of the UN, has criticized the Brazilian government for failing to respect indigenous peoples’ rights. The ILO has stated that by failing to consult Indians about the construction ...
  • Killed by ‘progress’: uncontacted manhunt reme ...
    Erui pictured in 2012, and his wife Bajo photographed just after she was captured in 1986. © Survival Ayoreo Indians have publicly marked the 25th anniversary of Paraguay’s last manhunt, in which over two dozen of the tribe’s members were captured, and five killed. The US-based fundamental ...
  • Papuan leaders imprisoned for treason
    Indonesia's brutal crackdown on last October's peaceful rally claimed many victims. © Tapol/Down to Earth/West Papua Media Five Papuan leaders have been found guilty of treason and sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Papua’s capital, Jayapura. Forkorus Yaboisembut, E ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The Gazette's view, in short
    The legality of putting up a poster in Montreal is currently in a grey zone. In 2010 the Quebec Court of Appeal struck down the city bylaw that forbade postering on public spaces. And yet the very interdiction struck down by the court is upheld in the city's cleanliness bylaw that bans postering ...
  • Public has a right to know how money is spent
    It took seven long years of pressing the issue, but city hall has finally released documentation that The Gazette had been seeking on the financing of the FINA World Aquatics Championships that Montreal hosted in the summer of 2005.
  • A cautious, workmanlike budget with few surprises
    Opposition parties will have a hard time scoring points off the Conservative government's federal budget.
  • The fiscal and economic case against Gentilly 2
    The time is approaching when the provincial government will have to decide whether to proceed with the renovation of Quebec's lone nuclear-power generating station or take the thing down.
  • Ottawa must move carefully on prostitution ruling
    No court in Canada can visit prostitution laws without the spectre of Robert Pickton emerging from the shadows.

Food World Order

  • Maple syrup-pocalypse arrives 20 years early
    from grist.org: Maple syrup farmers have “never seen a season like this,” and as a result, maple syrup production has cratered. If you like the stuff, it’s time to start stockpiling it. Scientists have been saying that maple syrup production could be devastated in 20 to 30 years, but this season ...
  • #Audio: Episode015 - Homeless Virus, Tacocopter
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Homeless Virus, Tacocopter and more... Episode015: MP3/Feed\Archive Previous Audio: ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Pre-Chewed, Tacocopter and Str ...
    Annie's Leaps in IPO As Investors Clamor for Mac And Cheese* Solera Capital-backed Annie’s raises $95m through IPO* US Suspends Food Aid to N. Korea Over Missile Plans* Study: Disorientation from pesticides a clue to bee disorder* CDC sees autism rate rise 25%* SCOTUS throws out h ...
  • Michigan to Destroy Ranch Livestock Based On H ...
    from naturalnews.com: 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 place by Michigan's Department ...
  • Crackdown On Feeding the Homeless Goes Nationwide
    from brasschecktv.com: All over the country, major cities are banning the feeding of homeless people. The excuses they use to ban the feeding of the poor range from assessing the nutritional content of donated food to beautifying downtown areas and neighborhoods. In New York, Mayor Bloomberg i ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
    Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
  • A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
    Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...
  • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
    What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem.  All over America, p ...
  • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. c ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Galloway slays the LibLabCon Giant
    Some might think that a UKIP supporting blog would find little in the politics of George Galloway to make us wish to applaud his electoral victory in Bradford West last night - especially as UKIP polled below their national average with just 3.3% and thus losing their deposit. Indeed, there a ...
  • FAO The Queen's Guard: Traitors Meeting & Plot ...
    Just a tourist attraction or skilled, patriotic fighting men? Get yourselves to Brighton, lads! If any members of The Queen's Guard or The Queen's Armed Guard are reading, if you fancy defending Queen and Country, keep a close scrutiny on Brighton in April when various international conspirato ...
  • Heath & Holy inappropriate: giving the religio ...
    Here at The Talking Clock, we try to leave religion and the supernatural out of things. We kept quiet over the Church of England's views on gay marriage - even though a great many homophobes on Twitter have prayed on the Church of England's name to support their bigoted viewpoints despite the ...
  • Bizarre alternative realities play out on Athe ...
    An important date in the calendar of Greece today, a date normally set aside for Independence Day celebrations. Yet in a frightening display which seemed to have been taken from the pages of an Orwell novel, two very differing realities played out on the streets of Athens and elsewhere across ...
  • Monckton Does It Again: Asserts Obama Birth Ce ...
    Our Lord Monckton has taken coal to Newcastle... or in this case, a President to the American people. Never one to fear speaking his mind, he has asserted his conclusion that the Obama birth certificate - issued by the White House to dismiss the crescendo in the U.S. over the alleged 'birth ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Top 10 Free Apps Designed for Android 4.0+ ICS
    Android 4.0 code named Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) was released more than three months ago. Google's own Galaxy Nexus is perhaps the only device that ships with it at the moment. And because of that, there are only a handful of Android apps available whose design has been updated for Android 4. ...
  • Canonical Integrates Landscape with Ubuntu 12. ...
    Canonical launched Landscape system management tool without much fanfare sometime ago. Now, in a most recent update, they have integrated Landscape with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, again without much hoopla. In line with a recent move by Canonical integrating handy Privacy Management tool into Ubuntu 12 ...
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Features a New Easily Configurabl ...
    I am not sure if this "new" option was already available from the beginning. I noticed it in my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta only recently and when I checked, it was not available in the previous Ubuntu 11.10 release either. Of all the new features that has been added to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I ...
  • 15 Most Creatively Designed Android Apps: Part 2
    As I did promised earlier on, here is the sequel for the post that introduced you to some of most innovatively designed apps for Android. 15 more of them to be precise. Official TED app for Android was released just a day ago. It is a cleverly designed app with ingenious additions l ...
  • Oil Rush RTS Game Becomes Ubuntu's Most Downlo ...
    Linux is no stranger to high value paid apps. But gaming has always been Linux's Achilles heel. Things are slowly changing with the arrival of a number of top-notch games into Linux through Ubuntu Software Center. Software Center may not be an Android Market in terms of quality or quant ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • MAINSTRAM MEDIA REPORTS SWINE FLU JAB LINKED T ...
    The mainstream media has reported on a Finnish study showing that cases of  mnarcolpesy shot up 17 times among children who took the swine flu vaccine. There are reports in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Irish Independent and the Daily Mail. Dr Rebecca Carley predicted just such an autoimmu ...
  • Huge increase in autism in the USA linked to v ...
      PUBLISHED: 19:45 GMT, 29 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:00 GMT, 30 March 2012 Daily Mail Autism cases appear to be on the rise again in the United States, but experts say the country’s highest ever rate could be a result of wider screening and the disorder’s expanding definition. Th ...
  • Court Hears arguments In Lawsuit Against Obama ...
    Judge asks government lawyers if NDAA can be used on ordinary citizens Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com March 30, 2012   A Federal court in New York heard arguments Thursday for a preliminary injunction against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the bill signed by Obama that legisl ...
  • Two thirds of Irish households refuse to pay b ...
    Just over 30% or 600,000 of the 1.8 million eligible households in Ireland have so far paid a new €100 household charge, reports the Irish Independent. The number of people paying the tax is bound to increase before the deadline tomorrow. But the refusal of two thirds of the Irish households to ...
  • IT IS TIME TO END OUR PRIVATISED MONEY SYSTEM
    As the eurozone faces financial meltdown, it’s important to recall there is a solution. A really simple one. The eurozone just needs a central bank or a state bank which creates money and puts it into circulation without charging interest. 97% of the money currently put into circulation in the e ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Moonbathing on the Banks of the River Styx
    By Les Visible There are very strange things going on and figuring out why this is happening, is the job of persons better equipped for the effort than me. Something weird is going on over at Veterans Today. Something weird is going on with longstanding alternative web sites and their level of d ...
  • Studies show how pesticides make bees lose the ...
    By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:42pm BST (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can harm bumblebees and honeybees, interfering with their homing abilities and making them lose their way. In two studies published in the ...
  • CDC: U.S. kids with autism up 78% in past decade
    The number of children with autism in the United States continues to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest data estimate that 1 in 88 American children has some form of autism spectrum disorder. That’s a 78% increase ...
  • Al Qaeda Massacre Nut Was A French Spy
    Further evidence emerges that Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman shot dead during the France Al Qaeda shootings, was working for French intelligence services Brit Dee, Contributor Alexander Higgins Blog French ‘Al Qaeda’ Killer: Intelligence Asset With An Israeli Connection Further evidence has emerge ...
  • Cheap, ‘safe’ drug kills most cancers
    by Andy Coghlan It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. ...

Veterans Today

  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity’s nest
    What does Hagee’s CUfI believe in? The scary US-based Unity Coalition for Israel brings together more than 200 partners claiming to represent more than 40 million Americans in the largest network of Pro-Israel groups in the world.
  • Deadbeat Congressman Joe Walsh Goes Nuts
    Attacks Military Vets, Then Goes Crazy On Video   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   Joe Walsh, who never served in the military, is running against Tammy Duckworth, decorated combat veteran who lost both legs as an Apache pilot in Iraq in 2004.  Walsh has denegrated Duckworth’s ser ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News March ...
    Beware-scam letter! A letter is making the circuit purporting to be from DFAS asking military member's fiancées to register in our system entitling them to benefits in the event of the member's death.
  • Israeli Bases in Azerbaijan, VT from 2010
    Israeli Ruse Allows Use of Turkish Air Corridor A DOOR NOW CLOSED ———————————— Editor’s Note:  Please refer to Phil Giraldi’s follow-up this week.  —————————& ...
  • Monopoly on Hate
    by  Sami Jamil Jadallah   When Mohamed Merha killed three Jewish children and a Rabbi outside a school in Toulouse, France, the murder was immediately dubbed as “Anti-Semitic” crime, but the same was not said of his murder of three “Muslim” North African French soldiers. I guess the backgro ...

electric politics

  • The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
    Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say. Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more i ...
  • The NUMEC Affair
    No charges were ever filed. Nothing was ever proved. But the FBI tried, over the course of several criminal investigations, to ascertain whether, in fact, certain suspect individuals had diverted hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania to Israel, for use in mak ...
  • Washington's Warlords
    When it comes to its spending priorities America seems congenitally unable to focus on reality. Obfuscation being more highly prized than clarity. Nevertheless, we should recognize that as a percentage of GDP this country spends four to five times the money for military purposes as do other indu ...
  • The Taiping Civil War
    In the middle of the 19th century a civil war in China killed at least twenty million people. The war totally changed the course of Chinese history, of Asian history and, indeed, of world history. Just think: if the Taipings had won and followed through with their modernization program, and Chin ...
  • It Takes A Generation To Raise A Prophet
    In theory, churches should be more active than they are these days in pursuing Justice and Peace. So why aren't they? Where were they on Iraq? Where are they now, on Iran? What do churches have to say about universal health care? Or income and wealth inequality? Or, for that matter, out of contr ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • NATO’s New Battlefield: Pakistan
    Dawn March 31, 2012 Salala report Selected and translated by Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui Dozens of Pakistani troops were martyred or injured in a barbaric attack by US-led Nato helicopters on the Salala check post…[T]he US military has obstinately put the entire blame on Pakistani troops in th ...
  • Namibia: NATO, EU Flexing Military Muscles Eve ...
    The Namibian March 28, 2012 China-Country Must Close Ranks – Speaker Gurirab “The world belongs to us all, not only them,” commented National Assembly Speaker Theo-Ben Gurirab, criticising what he called NATO and the European Union (EU) “flexing their muscles everywhere i ...
  • West Blocking Investigation Of NATO Victims In ...
    Itar-Tass March 30, 2012 Western partners in UN try to downplay NATO’s victims in Libya – Churkin UNITED NATIONS: Russia continues to ‘closely address’ the issue of civilian casualties in Libya as a result of NATO bombardments, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin confirmed on Friday. “Regrett ...
  • U.S., NATO Massively Expand Sea-Based Intercep ...
    Strategic Culture Foundation March 29, 2012 The BMD Demands a New Tough Response Vladimir Kozin* Edited by RR ===== The major specific feature of the EPAA first phase was the achievement of the initial capability to hit short, medium and even “intermediate” (including missiles with a range of 3, ...
  • Pentagon: NATO To Use India If Pakistan Contin ...
    Press Trust of India March 30, 2012 ‘US to rely on India if Pak doesn’t open NATO route’ Washington: The US will have to default and rely on India and the Northern Distribution network if Pakistan does not open up its crucial Afghan supply route, a top Pentagon official told la ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Hospital Workers Call Police to Seize Newborn ...
    NaturalNews By Mike Adams March 30, 2012 Another shocking case of tyrannical, overzealous social workers and hospital staff has unfolded in Pennsylvania, where a mom who just gave birth in an ambulance to a healthy baby girl was threatened by a government social worker and accused of not allowin ...
  • Corporate Media Silent On Lawuit Over NDAA Bei ...
    Alexander Higgins | The NDAA could be used to silence journalists throughout the world who simply report on controversial topics.
  • Marine Study Around Fukushima Daiichi Finds Hi ...
    Enformable.com March 30, 2012 No. – Name of sampling point –  Depth ① 1km offshore of Murakami, Odaka Ward 7ｍ ② 2km offshore of Murakami, Odaka Ward 10ｍ ③ 1km offshore of Ukedo, Namie Town 7ｍ ④ 2km offshore of Ukedo, Namie Town 10ｍ ⑤ 3km offshore of Ukedo, Namie Town 20ｍ ⑥ 1km offshore [...]
  • The Kill Shot: Approaching The Moment – The Se ...
    A documentary detailing the secret CIA research program that predicted a solar flare will soon bring the end to life on earth as we know it. The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins March 30th, 2012 The kill shot is a catastrophic event that a secret CIA research program predicted in which a solar fla ...
  • Army Reservist Who Endorsed Ron Paul Receives ...
    Stars and Stripes March 30, 2012 WASHINGTON — An Army reservist who gave a public endorsement of presidential candidate Ron Paul during a televised rally in January will receive only a letter of reprimand for violating military politicking rules. Spc. Jesse Thorsen, who also appeared on CNN spea ...

FRS

  • The Hoodie & The Hijab — Our Common Struggle f ...
    March 25, 2012 Written by: RoyaAziz http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/03/25/the-hoodie-the-hijab-our-common-struggle-for-human-rights/#.T3XNj9WepRT As a good friend prepares to put together a book on the topic of hijab in America I referred her to an incident during then-Senator Barack Obama ...
  • The Hoodie & The Hijab — Our Common Struggle f ...
    March 25, 2012 Written by: RoyaAziz http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/03/25/the-hoodie-the-hijab-our-common-struggle-for-human-rights/#.T3XNj9WepRT As a good friend prepares to put together a book on the topic of hijab in America I referred her to an incident during then-Senator Barack Obama ...
  • Spain burns as strikes bring nation to its knees
    Nine injured and scores are arrested as austerity protest descends into violence by Alasdair Fotheringham, The Independent (UK) Friday, 30 March 2012 — A nationwide general strike fuelled by a groundswell of anger against crippling unemployment levels and severe ongoing austerity cuts culm ...
  • Spain burns as strikes bring nation to its knees
    Nine injured and scores are arrested as austerity protest descends into violence by Alasdair Fotheringham, The Independent (UK) Friday, 30 March 2012 — A nationwide general strike fuelled by a groundswell of anger against crippling unemployment levels and severe ongoing austerity cuts culm ...
  • Ankara, Turkey: Protest and Repression over re ...
    Police, demonstrators clash at education reform bill protests Hurriyet Daily News, Wednesday,March 28 2012 Police clamp down on rally ANKARA – Clashes erupt in Ankara between police and demonstrators protesting a government-led education draft reform. Police use water cannon and tear gas t ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Georgia to Be Home to First Nuclear Reactors S ...
    On Thursday, Feb. 9, the NRC voted to grant the first license for a new nuclear reactor on American soil in more than three decades.Contributor: Lissa Clouser Published: Feb 10, 2012
  • Virgin Fathers 15 Kids; More on the Way
    Trent Arsenault is a 35-year-old virgin who is the father of 15 children. He has been offering his free services as a do-it-yourself sperm donor since 2006. The FDA isn't happy.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Feb 08, 2012
  • What Does the Santorum Sweep Really Mean?
    An analysis of the GOP race after the unexpected results of the February 7th GOP primary.Contributor: CJ Simao Published: Feb 08, 2012
  • Who Works for Minimum Wage?
    There are arguments on both sides of the minimum wage battle. Let’s dig into the real numbers to get the whole story.Contributor: Alex Wibholm Published: Feb 07, 2012
  • Westboro Baptist Church Protesters Are a No Sh ...
    Westboro Baptist Church protesters only show up for one of their two planned protests at St. Louis area high schools Monday morning. Neither darkness nor fog deters nearly 500 counter protesters at Fort Zumwalt East, but the WBC only shows in Clayton.Contributor: Rita Hiscocks Published: Feb 07, ...

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, March 26-30, 2012
    This week's Baarbarian illustration reminds us that just as last week we were up in the air, we've spent the last five days with our heads under the sea. Not as far under as James Cameron, but, you know, nobody's ever been that far under, by themselves, at least. And...segue...have a nice weeken ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, M ...
    A well-rounded lineup of amazing imagery for you guys this week: there's an elephant with a phone and a monkey with a cold (animal requirements: fulfilled). There's a shot of the space shuttle in space, and one of the SpaceX capsule on the ground (space requirements: fulfilled). There are perfum ...
  • Images of the Week, March 26-30, 2012
  • Where Are Henry David Thoreau's Plants Now?
    A literary-scientific project tracks the change in New England plantlife from Thoreau's journals to today It is astonishing how soon and unexpectedly flowers appear, when the fields are scarcely tinged with green. Yesterday, for instance, you observed only the radical leaves of some plants; to- ...
  • Fossilized Raindrop Dimples Add to Mystery of ...
    Pumice-like cratery indents formed by ancient raindrop splats are adding to the mystery of why the adolescent Earth was warm enough to host rivers and oceans, despite the dim sun of the day. Thanks to fossilized impressions from rains that fell down on Africa 2.7 billion years ago, the "Faint Yo ...

Veterans Today

  • The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity’s nest
    What does Hagee’s CUfI believe in? The scary US-based Unity Coalition for Israel brings together more than 200 partners claiming to represent more than 40 million Americans in the largest network of Pro-Israel groups in the world.
  • Deadbeat Congressman Joe Walsh Goes Nuts
    Attacks Military Vets, Then Goes Crazy On Video   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   Joe Walsh, who never served in the military, is running against Tammy Duckworth, decorated combat veteran who lost both legs as an Apache pilot in Iraq in 2004.  Walsh has denegrated Duckworth’s ser ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News March ...
    Beware-scam letter! A letter is making the circuit purporting to be from DFAS asking military member's fiancées to register in our system entitling them to benefits in the event of the member's death.
  • Israeli Bases in Azerbaijan, VT from 2010
    Israeli Ruse Allows Use of Turkish Air Corridor A DOOR NOW CLOSED ———————————— Editor’s Note:  Please refer to Phil Giraldi’s follow-up this week.  —————————& ...
  • Monopoly on Hate
    by  Sami Jamil Jadallah   When Mohamed Merha killed three Jewish children and a Rabbi outside a school in Toulouse, France, the murder was immediately dubbed as “Anti-Semitic” crime, but the same was not said of his murder of three “Muslim” North African French soldiers. I guess the backgro ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Globocop No More: United States After Unipolarity
    LSE IDEAS has been churning out special reports at such a furious pace that I almost forgot to mention this one concerning The United States After Unipolarity. The title pretty much sums up what the contributions here say, although the various contributors do question the extent to which the--pa ...
  • Tired of the World Bank? Enter BRICS Dev't Bank
    You hoped that the IMF and the World Bank would reflect more of the changes in the world economy by giving more input and leadership to major emerging economies. But, as the IMF succession process proved and the current World Bank "search" (stitch-up is the more accurate term) is proving, Wester ...
  • Did Global Financial Crisis Curb Carbon Emissions?
    In a rather disappointing word, no. Intuitively, you may have expected worldwide carbon emissions to drop given a slowdown in global economic activity. However, it is a tale of two different worlds--the Global North (developed nations) and the Global South (the developing nations). While the lik ...
  • World Bank Boss: Kim, Okonjo-Iweala or Ocampo?
    I'd like to say the competition to become the next World bank president is heating up if it weren't for the common understanding that it will be another American stitch-up. While I'd have preferred the term "whitewash," the White House has thrown those of us who are critical of Western dominatio ...
  • 'The World Economy Reeks Again, So Buy Yen'
    I have an avowed love-hate relationship with newswire coverage of various financial markets. With regard to currencies, one of the things I am most cautious about is the need to constantly provide explanations of why currency movements occur. I suppose having to provide a laundry list of reasons ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Everything Is Going To Be Alright?
    Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not ...
  • A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most Peo ...
    Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashl ...
  • 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete C ...
    What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem.  All over America, p ...
  • Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Sec ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street banks during the last financial crisis, and he says that if a similar financial crisis comes along that the correct "policy response" will be ...
  • 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The ...
    The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. c ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Psychotic Air Crews Warned Are Putting US Trav ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Federal Air Transport Agency currently circulating in the Kremlin is warning that Americans traveling on their countries airlines may be in “grave danger” due to an increasing number of “psychotic” air crews allowed by the US government to both pilot and manag ...
  • Australian Labor party nearly wiped out in Que ...
    Australia’s ruling Labor party is reeling from a devastating loss in a state election in Queensland, increasing the pressure of Julia Gillard, the prime minister. The extent of the loss – which left Labor with just seven seats, down from 51 – surprised Ms Gillard, who pledged to listen to ...
  • Behind-the-Scenes Attempt to Stop Arizona&#821 ...
    President Obama will be forced by circumstances to apologise as its Genuine Birth Certificate surfaces. Americans have been led to believe otherwise, revelation to change the political landscape. Arizona’s state legislature is currently pushing through a “Candidate Certification Bill” which will ...
  • Turkish PM backs Iran’s nuclear rights
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his country’s support of Iran’s right to peaceful applications of nuclear technology. In an exclusive interview with IRIB’s channel two TV station on Thursday night, Erdogan emphasized that peaceful nuclear technology is “the natural rig ...
  • China urges Syrian govt., opposition to honor ...
    China has called on the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition to honor their commitments to the UN-Arab League peace proposal. “We hope the Syrian government and relevant parties in Syria will honor their commitments,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei s ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Polish CIA prison: political influence on the ...
    TweetPM Donald Tusk has now commented on the investigation into the CIA black site in Stare Kiejkuty. According to news agency PAP, he is constantly in touch with President Bronisław Komorowski and General Prosecutor Andrzej Seremet regarding the matter. He added that the prosecutors investigat ...
  • Polish CIA prison: Secret Service reveals file ...
    TweetThis article is solely based on publicly available information. The author of this article is not and never has been affiliated with WikiLeaks, and does not have, and never had inside information on their operations. The article reflects the views of the author only. The former head of the ...
  • Australian Prime Minister Stares Into The Abyss
    Tweet"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche. A cautionary tale from Julian Assange's birthplace of Townsville, where Australian Labour Party (ALP) MP Mandy Johnstone just lost power in the recent Queensland ...
  • On financial blockades as a political tool for ...
    TweetIn an interview published this week in Law.Com, general counsel for the Washington DC based nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, David Sohn, discusses the protests against SOPA and PIPA, including the January 18 internet blackout action. In general, he disparages the methods pr ...
  • 2012-03-22 #WikiLeaks News Update
    Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 474 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 471 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 669 days. WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks issued a press release offering to host a discussion on ...

U N News

  • Recent death of gay man highlights need for an ...
    The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Chile to pass a law against discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, following the recent killing of a young gay man in the capital, Santiago.
  • UN concerned over funding for humanitarian ser ...
    The United Nations and the Government of Haiti today voiced concern over a lack of resources to fund humanitarian services that are still required to help people in the Caribbean country recover from recent crises, including the 2010 earthquake and the cholera epidemic, and enhance preparedness ...
  • UN development chief hails Haiti's progress tw ...
    The United Nations development chief today commended Haiti's progress in rebuilding its capital, Port-au-Prince, two years after a devastating earthquake rocked the country killing 200,000 people.
  • Haiti receives advice from UN economists on at ...
    United Nations economists have provided the Haitian Government with advice on a new investment strategy to help the country attract financing to rebuild infrastructure and boost economic development.
  • Guatemala: UN rights chief underlines need to ...
    Guatemala has made progress in the fight against impunity and human rights abuses, but the country must tackle the tremendous challenges that remain to become a State based on democracy and the rule of law, says the United Nations human right chief.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Micro-Chipping Agenda and RFID Chips Are Being ...
      Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented. ~ Eddie Sage read more
  • Agenda 21... UN-Backed Scientists Call For Meg ...
      In a recent statement put out by “Planet Under Pressure” several scientists call for denser cities in order to mitigate worldwide population growth. When in doubt that UN’s Agenda 21 is not the Mein Kampf of our day, one should consider yet another in-your-face confession from yet anothe ...
  • California... Slammed With Fukushima Radiation
      The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”, and that Southern California’s seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive ...
  • The Shocking Face Of China’s Barbaric One Chil ...
      This is the shocking face of China’s brutal one child policy which many academics and pressure groups are now calling to be imposed in the west – the image shows a 9 month old baby lying dead in a bucket, forcibly aborted by Chinese family planning authorities in the town of Moshan, ...
  • Lost Lightning... The Missing Secrets of Nikol ...
      An indepth look into Nikola Tesla's recently de-classified government documents. This newly released information has been sequestered from the public for over sixty years! ~ Documentaryread more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • 100% Inflation – 90% Stock Crash – ...
    Billionaire Donald Trump and best selling author and money manager Robert Wiedemer just predicted the market is going to get much, much worse. “This is no recovery,” he says [Wiedemer]. “And this is no ‘down cycle’ that will soon be followed by a reliable ‘up ...
  • Veggie Chili From Your Food Storage
    I thought I would share with all of you a great chili recipe that you can make by using some of your food storage and either fresh vegetables from your garden or dehydrated vegetables. For those of you that are having tough times during this ‘recession’, this recipe will provide you ...
  • HUGE .40 Caliber Ammo Contract for DHS
    The headline reads, “ATK Secures .40 Caliber Ammunition Contract with Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS, ICE)”. And here’s the real eye-opener… “…Ammunition Contract with 450 Million Round Potential…” Ye ...
  • A Few Uses For Vinegar
    Normal household white vinegar is a prepper’s ‘multitask-er’. Most of you are probably aware of some of the more common uses for white vinegar. For example, white vinegar is used in cooking, or for salad dressings. It’s also a popular ingredient in many household cleaners ...
  • Survival Medicine Handbook – contest winner
    Thanks to all who entered the Survival Medicine Handbook giveaway on Modern Survival Blog. The book is courtesy of DoomAndBloom.net (Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy), who themselves wrote the book. We had a ton of entries and a great list of reasons why you are concerned about survival medicine. We have ...

Fast Company

  • Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
    Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s stories primarily focused on charisma, creativity, breaking norms in the workplace, and stunning design. You will find some great advice and varying perspectives in the articles below. Enjoy. 1. 7 Entrepren ...
  • Post-"Entourage," Adrian Grenier Brews Beer, S ...
    Adrian Grenier doesn't mind if you call him Vince. But he'd also like you to call him a community builder who has some big ideas about turning media culture into a positive way to engage teens. Oh, and he thinks you should try a little of his retro-inspired beer. Let's get a little better acquai ...
  • Sabbaticals Are Nice For Employees, Sure--But ...
    Sabbaticals are a rare perk in corporate America, but they shouldn't be. Here's how to build a program that will benefit both your employees and your company. When we began our careers, we wanted to change the world. Some of us, like my colleague Ryan Martens, had lofty aspirations of starting a ...
  • TEDx Plans To Occupy Wall Street
    Jonathan Ende is bringing the TED brand of futurism to the heart of high finance: the New York Stock Exchange, for TEDx Wall Street.TEDx, the TED-approved "ideas worth spreading" event empire, has landed in an unlikely place--the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE is hosting the first TEDx WallSt ...
  • This Week In Bots: The Making Robots Touchy-Fe ...
    Robots in movies may be evil more often than good, but they're becoming part of our lives. And their tech is evolving so that they "feel" more like we do.This happened recently, and we had to show it to you. NASA's sort of recreated the look of one of the famous parts of Michaelangelo's Sistine ...

Jadaliyya

  • Muzaffar al-Nawwab: Disavowal
    [Today marks the 78th anniversary of the founding of The Iraqi Communist Party (ICP). Its recent history, especially after the 2003 invasion and occupation, notwithstanding, the ICP has a remarkable history of struggling for justice and freedom beginning in the early decades of the 20th ...
  • How the PA Enriched an Elite and Normalized Oc ...
    Khalil Nakhleh, Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland. Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2011. Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-Out of a Homeland explores the rise of a new Palestinian elite that works together with international organizations against the ...
  • شظايا ذاكرة: عن المكان في يوم الأرض
    نعود إلى الأرض مرة كل عام في يومها. منذ عام 76 نعود وكأننا نواسي أنفسنا في هذا اليوم (1) بمظاهرات كي نتذكر أننا ما زلنا على هذه الأرض، التي يسحقنا العيش فيها رغم جمالها.  تضيق بي فلسطين وتتسع في ذات الآن. تضيق عندما أرى عيشنا فيها، وتتسع عندما أرى كم هي غنية وجميلة، هذه البقعة الصغ ...
  • Time for a 'Bourguibist' Comeback? Essebsi But ...
    The dome shaped room was a sea of red and white. It smelled of amber musk and sea. The attendees were mostly well over the age of forty, and the buzz of excitement was impossible to miss. You would think you were attending a Michael Jackson concert. What’s the occasion, you ask? Well, to ...
  • Young Women Demanding Justice and Dignity: By ...
    Amina Filali was a young Moroccan girl who was raped at the age of 15 then forced to marry her rapist. She was battered, bruised, and starved until she committed suicide in March 2012. She was 16 years old. Contributing to Amina’s suicide are her rapist turned husband, article 475 of the ...

mediagazer

  • E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge (Laura H ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge  —  New monthly stats from the Association of American Publishers show strong growth for both print and e-books in January 2012.  —  The AAP is beefing up its monthly reports with data from ma ...
  • 8 great newspaper April Fools' hoaxes (Andrew ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: 8 great newspaper April Fools' hoaxes  —  The Great Wall of China hoax of 1899 was so excellent that it engendered a separate hoax: Some have claimed since that it helped kick off the Boxer Rebellion.  Even better, the hoax was perpetrated in June, ...
  • Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it ...
    Tom Kington / Guardian: Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media  —  Tommaso De Benedetti faked the identities of world leaders and fooled editors into publishing false stories  —  First it was the death of the pope - tweeted to the worl ...
  • Keith Olbermann Out At Current TV, Replaced By ...
    Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: Keith Olbermann Out At Current TV, Replaced By Eliot Spitzer  —  Keith Olbermann has been fired by Current TV, the network announced Friday.  He will be replaced by former New York governor and CNN host Eliot Spitzer.  —&nbsp ...
  • Keith Olbermann to file against Current TV (Ke ...
    Keach Hagey / Politico: Keith Olbermann to file against Current TV  —  I'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.  —  Editorially, Countdown had never been better.  But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore a ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 'Mad Men's Jon Hamm on 'sexy' compliments ...
    Jon Hamm has said that he takes having female fans fancy him with a "pinch of salt". In a new interview with Esquire magazine, the 41-year-old Mad Men star admitted to being surprised by compliments about his looks. "There's a lot of talk about, 'Oooh, you're so sexy!'" he said. "If people p ...
  • Ed Miliband reveals list of dinners with ...
    Ed Miliband today published a list of 43 meetings and dinners with major donors to the Labour Party, including several union bosses, Labour peer Lord Sugar and mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone. Ed Miliband has published a list of 43 meetings and dinners with major donors to the Labour Party ...
  • Rihanna waited for visitors that never ca ...
    Rihanna reveals that she spent much of her childhood gazing at the night sky and waiting for aliens to visit the earth. This wasn’t an obsession of hers, but more something she had to do with her father, Ronald Fenty. Her father was convinced that aliens would visit the earth one day. The po ...
  • Nicki Minaj on being American Idol judge: ...
    After a guest appearance on American Idol Thursday night, Nicki Minaj and J-Lo engaged in a playful, yet somewhat tense, conversation about Minaj possibly joining the show as a guest judge. “I was hoping maybe I could come back and be a guest judge,” joked Minaj. “Hey J-Lo, can you scoot ove ...
  • Lagarde welcomes eurozone decision
    Johannesburg - Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director, on Friday welcomed the decision of euro area ministers to strengthen the European firewall. Eurozone finance ministers on Friday agreed to raise emergency funds to about EUR700 billion. The euro group of f ...

no frakking consensus

  • Earth Hour Organizers Prey on Mexico
    Mexico is crippled by corruption, violence, and poverty. But the World Wildlife Fund wants it to show leadership on climate change.
  • The Enormous CEO Salaries Behind Earth Hour
    Earth Hour isn't a volunteer, grassroots operation. The World Wildlife Fund pays its US and Canadian CEOs so handsomely they are part of the economic elite - the top 1% of income earners.
  • Earth Hour: Corporations Preaching Morality
    When you dim your lights for Earth Hour, you're protesting in a manner approved by multinational corporations. You're allowing banks and insurance companies to tell you how to spend your Saturday night.
  • The Wealthy Corporations Behind Earth Hour
    Earth Hour was brought into this world by corporations. Fairfax Media Limited - whose newspapers, magazines, and radio stations are supposed to report impartially on environmental issues - owns one-third of this annual green event.
  • The Royal Society’s Blatherfest
    A Royal Society-hosted conference is being billed as a gathering of scientists. I guess that's why politicians, bureaucrats, musicians & political activists will be there in full force.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/30/12 - Health Care Reform
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Reform ProCon.org - On Mar. 27, 2012, we updated the core question to include the term "Obamacare" because that label has become widely used to reference the Mar. 2010 health care reform laws by both critics of the health care changes and proponents, ...
  • 3/29/12 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with five new questions on felon voting, the Keystone XL pipeline, oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
  • 3/29/12 - Teaching creationism in schools
    2012election.procon.org - Should creationism and Intelligent Design be taught as science in schools along with evolution? Santorum is Pro, and Gingrich, Obama, Roemer, and Romney are Con.
  • 3/29/12 - Military force against Iran
    2012election.procon.org - Should the US use military force if Iran does not dismantle its nuclear program? Paul is Con, and Gingrich, Obama, Romney, and Santorum are Pro.
  • 3/29/12 - ANWR drilling
    2012election.procon.org - Should drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) be allowed? Obama is Con and Gingrich, Johnson, Paul, Roemer, Romney, and Santorum are Pro.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Writers Replying to Reviewers?
    Arthur Krystal Many writers, especially younger ones, regard other people’s books as an opportunity to enhance their own reputations. What better way to show off one’s own wit, erudition, and verbal artistry than to debunk someone else’s? And if you can look good at some poor w ...
  • Karl Marx
    Capitalism has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities. Capitalism has agglomerated population, centralised means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. Capitalism has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-i ...
  • Originality of the species
    A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Like writers and artists, scientists strive to have their names attached to a work of brilliance, but any breakthrough depends on the efforts of countless predecessors. Ian McEwan reflects on originality and coll ...
  • Green tea could mask testosterone doping
    Peter Aldous ATHLETES who cheat by doping themselves with testosterone may be able to mask their actions by drinking green tea. Large quantities might even provide a legal performance boost by raising levels of testosterone in the blood. Abuse of testosterone is hard to spot because the steroid ...
  • The Big Lesson of a Little Prince
    Maria Konnikova  My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be … Read more

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • A Better Way to Farm Fish
    An aquaculture operation. © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Almost half of the world’s seafood now comes from fish farms, which can have significant environmental effects. Because so many fish are confined to such a small place, aquaculture can lead to high levels of pollution and outbreaks of diseases. ...
  • Arctic Drilling Could Start as Early as July
    The Beaufort Sea. [Image credit: NOAA via Wikimedia Commons.] In the past 60 days Shell Oil, the global oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands, has received two permits from the U.S. government approving their Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea spill response plans. This is shocking b ...
  • Deep-sea Coral Sickness Linked to Gulf Oil Spill
    Deep-sea corals. © NOAA Even more sad news from the Gulf of Mexico, but this time it runs a mile deep. A new study confirms that the oil that likely caused deepwater coral sickness indeed came from the largest accidental oil spill in history, the Deepwater Horizon. Back in June 2010, deep-s ...
  • Blowout Causes North Sea Gas Leak
    Gas has been leaking into the United Kingdom’s North Sea for three days, after an attempt to close an underwater oil well caused a blowout. Oil drilling accidents happen more often than you might think. Smaller spills and leaks don’t usually make the news, although they can still affect the loc ...
  • ‘To The Arctic’: Sneak Peek
    We’re excited to be a partner of “To the Arctic,” a new IMAX film by MacGillivray Freeman coming out April 20. The film, narrated by Meryl Streep, follows a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. Extraordinary footage b ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Nazi Who Refused To Be A Nazi.
      This photo was shot in 1936 in Hamburg, at a Nazi rally. August Landmesser was a soldier who finally could no longer countenance the teachings of the Nazis. His grand children found this photo of him refusing to give the Nazi salute. He had also been in jail for marrying  a Jewish woman. ...
  • UFO Sighting In Japan, 1606 AD
      May 1606, Kyoto, Japan   Near Nijo Castle, Many people, including Samurai warriors watched in amazement as balls of fire were seen flying over Kyoto. One night, a giant ball of light resembling  red wheel appeared and hovered over Nijo Castle.   Source: Micheal Bougard, La Chron ...
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Professional Baseball Pl ...
      He was probably the best educated professional baseball player in history, with degrees from Princeton and Columbia University, which at the time was quite an accomplishment given that he was a poor Jewish kid from the inner city. His expertise lay in Romance Languages and he was fluent i ...
  • Phil Warren’s Amazing Matchstick Fleet.
      He’s almost 80 years old now. Yet he has pursued an odd artistic proclivity. He builds 1:13000 model ships entirely out of matchsticks and wooden boxes. In fact, he has assembled a fleet of 432 ships and 12000 aircraft. This Octogenarian Brit uses a razor blade, glue, matchsticks, tweezer ...
  • The Lockheed X-7. The Flying Stove Pipe.
        In 1951 Lockheed built this ramjet test bed for the United States Air Force. The X-7, or Flying Stove Pipe was launched from the bottom of a B-50 or a B-29. The Rocket assist slung under the thin and long fuselage was ignited and that propelled the jet to about Mach 1.5, feeding [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: Evolving, It Isn’t Just for Democrats
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. “Evolving” isn’t just for Mr. Obama, or looking further back, for the Democratic party in general. When pragmatic politics require an Elected to avoid taking an actual position, “evolving” sounds better than “straddli ...
  • FEATURE: Keith Olbermann Out at CurrentTV, Eli ...
    Current said on Friday afternoon that it had fired Mr. Olbermann — one of the nation’s most prominent progressive speakers — just a year into his five-year, $50 million contract. It was the culmination of months of murky disputes between Mr. Olbermann and the channel that he was supposed to save ...
  • Conservative ‘New Right’ Sees Method to Unscie ...
    Attacking the messenger is nothing new in politics. Conservatives are applying this across the board, utilizing what William F. Buckley once told Charlie Rose was conservatism’s main goal: attacking and fighting against issues. So, if scientific facts don’t promote your political age ...
  • Police State, Part II: The Nation’s ‘Biggest S ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The first post of this three part series, The Bipartisan NDAA, focused on The National Defense Authorization Act, and some of the arguments included in the lawsuit challenging it. To understand the consequences of NDA ...
  • Republicans Breitbart Supreme Court Audio, Tam ...
    Recordings of the court proceedings reviewed by Bloomberg News reveal that the audio has been edited. – Bloomberg In other words, it’s been give the Breitbart treatment. This stunt won’t make the walk into modernity for the Supreme Court any easier, but it is a case for televis ...

Hudson New York

  • Salam Fayyad's Hypocrisy
    The Palestinian Authority government of Salam Fayyad, announcing this week the launching of the 2012 Award for Press Freedom, invited Palestinian journalists to submit their candidacy for the prestigious award, the first if its kind in the Palestinian
  • Assad Makes Tactical Move By Pledging Peace, E ...
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, expressing mistrust of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed Assad has made a tactical move by pledging peace in order to manipulate the results of this weekend's key Syria gathering in his favor. Damascus has
  • The Toulouse Massacre, Why Did It Happen?
    Last week, Mohammed Merah, a Muslim-Frenchman killed three Jewish children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. Merah reportedly held one little girl, Myriam Monsonego, by her hair to shoot her in the head. Three days before that, Merah
  • Syria Accepts Annan Plan To End Strife
    Syria has accepted a proposal crafted by United Nations-Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan, that aims to end bloodshed in the strife-hit country, according to reports, but Annan has cautioned that only the implementation of the measures will produce peace.
  • Olmert's "Peace Partner" Cannot Deliver and Ha ...
    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted this week that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a "partner for peace." "No one can say to me after hundreds of hours of discussing peace with Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President

Urban Survival

  • Lotto Madness
    We’ve had the discussion recently in our Peoplenomics reports about factors that may influence that slippery stuff called “luck.”  Today the Mega Millions jackpot is up over half a billion dollars.  ($540 million) and because of that you can expect … Continue re ...
  • Coping: A Friday Pep Talk
    I don’t get off the ranch much.  Time was, and this was back in “ought two,” people would look at me like I was a crazed nutjob for leaving the six-figure world and heading out.  A return in 2004 – … Continue reading →
  • Supco Mulls Healthcare
    Arguments are over and thinking time for the Supreme Court.  Talking to my consigliore who’s a well-schooled attorney, I think we settled on a 5-4 vote on the healthcare challenge as being the likely outcome on the Healthcare Bill challenge.  … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Ugly Side of Economics
    As I told Peoplenomics readers yesterday, I finally gave up on my long-term short position and called it a loss yesterday and took both cents and invested on the long side of things.  Even though the market is likely to … Continue reading →
  • Fresh Housing Data: Continued Weakness
    Hot off the .PDF maker is the new Case Shiller/S&P Housing report: “New York, March 27, 2012 – Data through January 2012, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Energy Minister Rodrigo Álvarez quit his post unexpectedly, after agreements to settle the protests in Aysén were made without him. (La Tercera 03/27/2012) His deputy, Sergi ...
  • New study: No one knows how many accidents hap ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The following is a guest post from NRDC Legal Fellow Matthew McFeeley: In a previous guest blog, I wrote about the risks posed by the lack of oversight of natural gas “gathering lines” i ...
  • From "Earth Hour" to "Earth Summit": Can we d ...
    Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC This Saturday March 31st, millions of people around the world will observe “Earth Hour” at 8:30 p.m.   As you’ll see in this awesome video, lights will be ...
  • Frugal Feasts recipes!
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Whenever I blog about one of our Frugal Feasts, I’m asked to post the recipes for the various dishes, possibly because it’s hard to believe that a $5 per person budget can turn into a local, se ...
  • FDA to Consumers: We're still thinking about i ...
    Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist, San Francisco FDA is kicking the BPA-lined can further down the road in an announcement today that the Agency plans to keep studying this issue while consumers continue to be exposed. Specifically, the Agency's respon ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • More Downtime
    Sorry folks, but my already substantial workload at my job just got tripled for a while, which means I won’t be able to run the news feed or generate daily reports for a few days. I’m hoping that things settle down by Monday and I can restart the news feed and reports then. Until [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, March 27, 2012: New York NY cop convicted of sexually assaulting school teacher at gunpoint, jury deadlocks on rape charge during what have been described as angry deliberations. [0 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, March 26, 2012: Kennett Square PA cop sentenced to 12.5-25yrs prison in plea deal for raping 4 young girls for several years [0] http://bit.ly/GTFc79 Rockaway Beach OR cop gets proba ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 03-24 ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of March 24-25, 2012: 2 Niles MI cops are accused of using excessive force on a man who was distraught when paramedics wouldn’t let him ride with them while they took his mothe ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, March 23, 2012: Huntington Beach CA sued alleging cops entered home w/o warrant, groped a woman while searching under her skirt, then used excessive force while falsely arresting two ...

Total Collapse

  • North Korea fuelling rocket ahead of banned launch
    North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch seen by the West as a pretext for testing ballistic missile technology banned by the UN. The United States has suspended its food aid plan to the country. The country had begun inserting liquid fuel into the rocket, a diplomatic source told Ja ...
  • China, Russia plan naval war exercises next month
    China says it will join Russia in naval war games starting next month in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun as saying Thursday that the exercise will begin in late April and run into May. The specific locations were n ...
  • UK queen accused of drug trafficking
    Britain’s financial regulator has fined the British queen’s bank for money laundering failures as a French presidential candidate has said part of the queen’s fortune “comes from drug trafficking.” The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the British queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 milli ...
  • Shock Obama Move Gives All Water in America To ...
    An alarming new report prepared by the Federal Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States President Obama has given control over all water in America to his military forces in what Russian officials deem ...
  • U.N. Policy Paper Outlines 7 Building Blocks f ...
    The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sus ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Twitter is encouraging “artful” engagement for TV execs. RIM says that it’s not pulling out of the consumer smartphone market. DuckDuckGo is climbing faster than ever in search queries. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple’s Tim Cook did a Foxconn tour, while in China. Pinterest users are actually buying things, too. Time’s 100 list is a tech-fest this year. You can catch The Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Apple is offering iPad refunds in Australia. Tumblr has hit 20 BILLION posts. A Kuwaiti Twitter user is arrested for “blasphemous” statements. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook might sue employers and others that are demanding your account passwords. Best Buy is rivaling Apple itself in iPhone sales. Congress requests information from iOS developers of social media...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
    Tim Cook is the first Apple CEO to visit China, a Japanese court tells Google to disable auto-complete, and Angry Birds Space gets off to an interstellar start. It’s all...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • The merit order effect – actually, it’s a good ...
    The Merit Order Effect, put simply, means lower electricity bills for consumers. That’s because it means lower-cost electricity in the wholesale market when additional renewables are introduced into the mix. The effect has been demonstrated in Germany, where they have very significant deploym ...
  • Worley base case baseless but coal seam gas st ...
    A new WorleyParsons report states that gas plants can have higher emissions than even the worst coal plants, but under-estimates the problem by relying on misleading assumptions. Understating the true level of coal seam gas (CSG) emissions will lead to massive gas fields being approved erroneous ...
  • Feature: Learning from Spain’s HSR success
    Australia has much to learn from the success of Spain’s Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) high-speed rail network, writes Matthew Wright, executive director, Beyond Zero Emissions. The Spanish know how to get around in style and at speed. The country can boast it has the most comfortable, fa ...
  • RenewEconomy: South Australia’s big win with wind
    Wind Power in South Australia has been a howling success; it now provides more electricity in the state than coal and in just a decade the wind industry has developed into one of the world’s leaders – and all to the benefit of South Australians. Back in 1998 when the National Electricity Market ...
  • BZE submission to the Draft Energy White Paper ...
    To download the submission click here. Introduction: Australia must rapidly decarbonise its economy if it is to play a constructive role in global efforts to address the climate change challenge. Present atmospheric levels of CO2 are at 390ppm1 and must be brought down to 350ppm to stay within t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • As Norway funds rainforest conservation, its p ...
    At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars a year via its pension fund in dozens of companies linked to deforestation, alleges a new report from Rainforest Foundation Norway and Friends ...
  • Researchers launch tool that predicts Amazon d ...
    Researchers have developed a methodology for accurately predicting where deforestation will occur in the Amazon up to a year in advance, enabling law enforcement agencies and officials to take preventative action before trees are actually chopped down, a forestry expert told mongabay.com on the ...
  • Degraded lands hold promise in feeding 9 billi ...
    Making productive use of degraded lands and boosting productivity of small-holder farmers are key to meeting surging global consumption of agricultural products while preserving critical wildlife habitats, said an agricultural expert on the sidelines of the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepren ...
  • 15 million facing food shortages in Africa's S ...
    The UN announced yesterday that food security in the Sahel region is deteriorating, putting over 15 million people at risk. Ongoing drought combined with conflict, has pushed the region into a crisis. The situation appears eerily similar to last year when Somalia was hit by a devastating famine ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: endangered bab ...
    A baby Rothschild's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) was recently born at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Bronx Zoo. The subspecies was classified as Endangered in 2010 with a wild population of less than 700 individuals in Kenya and Uganda.

Sierra Express

  • Patriotic million man march sets out today
    Patriotic Sierra Leoneans are having their procession march this weekend – a procession to show their belonging to Mama Sierra Leone. Their leader Mohamed Kamarainba (in photo) says a show of patriotism is worth celebrating as nationalism is that issue which makes one belong and share the feelin ...
  • Stretching the political tides in Mama Salone
    The atmosphere in Sierra Leone is mixed at the moment with tales of happenings. We just saw the government’s white paper revelation of the Shears Moses report which indicts the Minister of Internal Affairs, Musa Tarawally and two police officers for being perpetrators of political violence in th ...
  • John Leigh attacks Maada Bio
    Former Sierra Leonean ambassador to the United States of America, John Leigh (in photo) said he failed to see reason why he should follow and support the candidature of Julius Maada Bio, a man who he said has blood stains in his hands. John Leigh was responding to interview questions Sierra Expr ...
  • SEM News Brief
    Principals embezzle millions – Teachers verification Exercise across the country has shown that some salaries of head teachers are higher than others noting that it should be flat rate. Vouchers of theses affected Head teachers have been withheld by the ministry until anomalies are address ...
  • Albert G Lavay Trophy, Nations Cup – Sierra Le ...
    Albert Gibao Lavay Nations Cup will climax this weekend, Saturday 31st March 2012 at the Bango Farm playing field between Leone Stars versus Libya. Both teams reached the grand final unbeaten and Leone Stars are the favorite to lift the giant gold trophy worth the sum of one million Leones. The ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Weather helps fatten Fonterra profit
    Highly favourable weather helped drive Fonterra's production up 10 per cent, more than offsetting weaker product prices and helping raise its net profit by 18 per cent to $346 million in the first half, the dairy giant said yesterday.Fonterra...
  • Fonterra boss outlines vision for dairy giant
    New Fonterra boss Theo Spierings has put his hand firmly on the tiller at the farmer co-operative with a strategy aimed at growing volumes and value, including a tighter focus on emerging markets.Dutchman Spierings has a record...
  • Fonterra shareholders slam dairy bill
    Fonterra's shareholders' council says the overhaul of the dairy co-operative's enabling legislation will end up regulating farmers' earnings and sapping the life from New Zealand's biggest export.The Dairy Industry Restructuring...
  • Units for sale by year's end
    The Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which will allow non-farm investors to gain financial exposure to the dairy co-operative, is expected to be up and running by November or December, according to chief financial officer Jonathan Mason.The...
  • Dairy bill thin on numbers
    National's contentious Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill could be in trouble before it has barely surfaced with Act opposing a major aspect of it and no guarantee it has the numbers to pass.The Fonterra Shareholders' Council, representing...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Loan-Modification Scams Only News When There’s ...
    President Obama’s campaign to encourage mortgage modifications by any means necessary hasn’t done much to keep Americans in their homes, but it has had a profound effect on U.S. journalism: It’s provided such a steady stream of loan modification frauds that the loan-mod scam has bec ...
  • SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Prob ...
    This week the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that casts doubt on the routine use of drug-sniffing dogs to generate probable cause for vehicle searches. Despite the potential for false positives due to poorly trained dogs, incompetent handlers, residual odors, subconscious cues, ...
  • Friday Fun Flight Link: TSA T ...
    Reason's favorite security expert Bruce Schneier absolutely destroys the Transportation Security Administration's Kip Hawley in a debate about post-9/11 airline security changes at The Economist.  Schneier's wrap up: Return airport security checkpoints to pre-9/11 levels. Get r ...
  • How Copyright Seems to Keep Books Unavailable ...
    Via the "Offsetting Behavior" blog from Eric Crampton: Crampton explains: Recall that books published through 1922 are in the public domain in the US; those published since then are covered by copyright..... So any arguments about underexploitation of unprotected work ...
  • Walkable Smart-Hub Hollywood Only Dead in Reality
    Proving that even The New York Times understands Los Angeles better than the town’s own politicians do, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tells off Times-man Adam Nagourney for accusing the City of Angels of "being the city of sprawl and…not like New York and other cities that are mo ...

Mercury Rising

  • Comments on the Trayvon Martin case
    I’ve tried to be careful in judging this case, because so much of what we think we know is based on selective leaks, statements by people who do not have any independent knowledge of the case, and judgments reached on the basis of emotion. For example, it is certainly possible, as the righ ...
  • As usual, only one man can summarize the healt ...
    In its entirety: The following message was released today by the National Alliance of Funeral Directors: This week, several Republican Supreme Court Justices have argued that the Affordable Care Act supported by the Obama Administration is unconstitutional. At the National Alliance of Funeral Di ...
  • Preserving the best of white hate for posterit ...
    I feel an obligation to preserve the sayings of Free Republic for posterity. All too many liberals do not know what goes on in Red America and imagine that Congress would somehow magically reform itself if people would vote for Dennis Kucinich for President. The reality is that Congress knows it ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Context is everything: Murdoch, Israeli intell ...
    This is one of those odd little stories that you have to think about to understand why there is probably more to it than a simple payoff to police. Here is the context-free presentation by Cahal Milmo, London Independent: A payment made to Surrey Police by the News Corporation company accused of ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Psychedelics
    A meta-analysis of past studies suggests that a single dose of LSD can help treat alcoholism, newly-released documents shed light on the San Francisco edition of the CIA's MK-ULTRA program, and Evangelical Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson speaks out in favor of marijuana legalization in t ...
  • Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly: The Facts i ...
      Part One: Will the Real Whitley Strieber Please Stand Up? read more
  • Dark Matter Enigma
    Could there be more than one type of dark matter? After observing a strange patch of sky devoid of galaxies, scientists are saying this might be a possibility.read more
  • 2012: The End of Time?
      read more
  • Visionary Nutrition: Appetizers
    We have a transformative experience brewing for you. Thirsty? Hungry? Exhausted? Looking to heighten your senses, energize your spirit, heal that old pain, renew your whole being? Perhaps you simply want to deepen your relationship with this wild, wondrous world--the Earth; her mysteries and g ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Demise Of The Penny Will See An Increase In Mo ...
    At the moment in Canada, pricing of any item or service allows the seller to divide the dollar price into 100 individual units of currency known as a 'penny' or a 'cent'. The federal Conservatives are abolishing the penny and the new minimum unit of Canadian currency will be the 5 Cent 'Nickel'. ...
  • HEY HARPER!! Where's All The Jobs That Your Bi ...
    Federal Budget .... Blah blah blah ... Harper ... you're HORRIBLE! Giving Billions of dollars to Big Corporations = who simply moved the cash off shore or are sitting on it as 'retained earnings'. So now you'll screw with Canada's working people. You'll screw with Old Age Security! You're terr ...
  • Saskatchewan Conservative Member of Parliament ...
    "(Garry Breitkreuz) told a classroom of Ottawa high school students — some as young as 14 — that all Canadians should carry firearms, and girls in particular should be armed to protect themselves from sexual assault." Ottawa Citizen
  • Businessman / Political Activist / Former Unit ...
    al gore was a head of his time .i miss him rest in peace buddy hug for u   by José Canseco [a/k/a José Canseco Capas, Jr.] As originally posted on: Jose Canseco (JoseCanseco) on Twitter March 28, 2012
  • Tar Sands Ads and Start of Protests
    Since Stephen Harper got his majority, by hook or crook, ads on Tar Sands have become very frequent on major US and Canadian T.V networks. It is obvious that this man does not give a hoot to his fellow Canadians or the rest of humanity. This makes him a very dangerous man. Canadians must take a ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Bahraini forces shoot protester dead
    An 18-year-old Bahraini protester has died after being shot in the stomach by Saudi-backed regime forces during a demonstration, Press TV reports.
  • Bahraini forces attack protesters
    Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have attacked peaceful anti-government protesters in the town of Sanad, injuring at least one person, Press TV reports.
  • Saudis hold anti-govt. demos in east
    People in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province have staged fresh protest rallies, chanting slogans against Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, Press TV reports.
  • Yemenis stage anti-regime protests
    Yemeni anti-regime protesters have once again taken to the streets across the country to call for the fulfillment of revolution’s goals.
  • ‘Anti-Syria conspiracies at dead-end’
    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the foreign conspiracies against Syria have reached a dead-end.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

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    Earlier this week, the Syrian government accepted the peace plan proposed by United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan.  Mr. Annan called the development “an important initial step that could bring an end to the violence and the bloodshed.” Importantly, the first two points of the six-point initia ...
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    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, March 30, 2012 An audio engineer has captured on tape the sound of one of the mysterious booms that have been plaguing Clintonville over the last two weeks, and the noise sounds more like an underground explosion than an earthquake. The sound was reco ...
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    Italy Industry Minister: Must Realign Renewable Incentives
    Wall Street Journal
    CERNOBBIO, Italy (Dow Jones)--The Italian government will cut subsidies to the country's fast-growing renewable-energy sector, Industry Minister Corrado Passera said Saturday. Publicly funded incentives for renewable energy have produced "excessive" ...
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    Boston.com
    “We know that it will take a diversified approach using all available renewable resources to meet the state's climate change goals,'' NStar spokeswoman Caroline Pretyman said. “We recognize that renewable energy has a cost associated with it but we see ...
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    San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
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    MidAmerican Renewables Completes Acquisition of Illinois Wind Project from ...
    Power Engineering Magazine
    Today, MidAmerican Renewables, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, announced it has completed the acquisition of the 81-megawatt Bishop Hill II wind project ("Bishop Hill II") from Invenergy Wind LLC ("Invenergy").
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    Costa Rica's Coveted Ecological "Blue Flag" Awarded to Tulemar Beach
    San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
    For the fifth consecutive year, Tulemar Beach has received the prestigious Blue Flag award for water quality and other ecological criteria from the National Blue Flag Commission. Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 Located in Costa Rica's ...
    Ecology gives the go-ahead to remove Mill Pond Dam
    Access Washington
    SPOKANE – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has issued a permit that means the Mill Pond Dam in Pend Oreille County can come down, restoring Sullivan Creek to the mountain stream it once was. The permit is called a “401 Certification,” ...
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    Conway Daily Sun
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    More Ecology, Less Economy For Rio+20
    Eurasia Review
    By Fabíola Ortiz Hundreds of non-governmental organizations and social movements from around the world hope to counter the failure of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), which they consider inevitable, with the success of ...
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    EPA Backpedals on Fracking Contamination
    Wall Street Journal
    By DANIEL GILBERT And RUSSELL GOLD The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in Texas, the third time in recent months that the agency has backtracked on high-profile local allegations ...
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    San Jose Mercury News
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    Water Rates Expected To Rise
    Patch.com
    By Nathan Duke About 200 Stockertown residents may experience disruption in their water service this afternoon after a water main broke Thursday morning along Sullivan Trail, according to Pennsylvania American Water. morguefile/Patch The city's ...
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    Water customers in five towns to see 11 percent rate hike
    Boston Globe
    By Jessica Bartlett Despite vehement protest, 18900 customers in five Massachusetts communities will see their water rates increase an average of 11 percent under a decision released Friday afternoon. The state Department of Public Utilities, ...
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